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Show FIFTY HIGH SCHOOLS TO COMPETE IN UTAH BASKETBALL LEAGUE Most Successful Hoop Season in History of Athletic Association Expected; Eight Teams Will Go to State Tourney in March; Eurekans Indefinitely Suspended for Violations of By-laws. D UKSKN'T indications point to a banner ban-ner season in high school basketball basket-ball riivlcs. At no time in the history his-tory of the I'tah High School Athletic Ath-letic nssocfution liava na many s :hoolM br'-n pntt-red for active competition competi-tion as will prevail this season. No fewer i than firry state ' institutions have declared de-clared their intention to carry out hoop fehedules. Previous to this year forty-two forty-two schools were the most who ever en-r: en-r: tired in competition for the state hiyh school cha mpionship. At the unnuai meeting of the U. H. S. A. A. I:ist .Monday, held in conjunction with the t'tah durational association, Jitnins K. Moss and C. Oren Wilson were respectively reelected president and secretary-treasurer of the association. Both men have been actively connected with state athletics for a number of years, and it has been largely due to their unceasing un-ceasing effort h that basketball is now-one now-one of the most popular sports in Utah. Ashton Named Arbitrator. The following" members were elected to the board of control for the present season: sea-son: A. M. Merrill. Salt Lake division; Ahlous Di xon, northern division ; L. H. Peterson. Xeho division; J. TI. Wnlker, Alpine division; "). Morgan. Sanpete-Sevier division, and IX. F. Homer, southern division. When the board of control met on Tuesday in its , annual session, Wid Ashton of Salt Lake was chosen to fill the position of eligibility arbitrator. This will be the first season that such an arbitrator has been appointed, although al-though tire need for one has long" been felt, It will be his duty to see that every athlete in the state who participates in Bthletic contests connected with the U. S. A. A. is reglsered. nnd keep their records, in order that eligibility disputes may be settled easily and quickly. The members of the board decided to have eight teams go to the annual hoop tourney in March. Two aggregations will come from the Salt Lake division, two t from the northern and one each from the . southern. Sanpete-Sevier. Alpine and Nebo. The new plan of having so many teams in the annual tourney is expected ! to increase the players' interest1 in their ga.mes and permit of faster and better contests in the playing out of section and division schedules. The Magna high school wna admitted to membership in the V. H. S. A. A. Permission Per-mission was given the Oneida Stake academy, acad-emy, of Preston, Idaho, to enter a team in the Cache Vallev section of the northern north-ern division. If the Idahoans come out on top iti tha t section, the title will nu-tomatically nu-tomatically be awarded the team finishing fin-ishing second. The Preston school, al-thouuh al-thouuh but a mile or so out of the state, C'li'd not be considered as contenders for the I'tah title, but there is no objection whatever to their playing thee teams for the sake of the practice afforded. Tintic Hish Suspended. Pi the Xeho division, the Tir.tfc high school of Kureka was suspended by the board for an indefinite period. The school has neglected to maintain the proper eligibility list, as well as being" delln-(-tueut in the paying of assessment dues levied last year. The Xephi high school was taken from the southern county section of the Nebo division and placed in the northern section sec-tion of the Sanpete-Sevier division. With the admission of the Magna school into the Sait Lake division, it brought the total number of schools entered en-tered in this district to fifteen. The division di-vision was, therefore, divided into four sections. The winners of section one will play the victorious aggregation in section three. The winner of that game will go to the tournament. In the same way, it will be decided which team out of sections two and four will make the trip. The schools in each section of the ; local division follow: I Section one West high, East high, L. I D. S. U., University Preps. - Section two Granite, Jordan, Bingham, Murray. Section three Kamas, Park City, Coalville, Coal-ville, Morgan. Section four Tooele, Grants ville, Magna. In order to do away with all squabbles concerning officials, the board decided that the high school coaches hand in a list of officials satisfactory to them to their division representative. The latter hns been given the authority to appoint officials for all games in his division. Because of the large number of teams in the Salt Lake division, James E. Moss was appointed to help Representative Merrill select officials. Coaches Plan Organization. A number of state coaches and officials met Tuesday morning and went over the rules together. In cases where more than one interpretation could be given, the coaches voted on the ones they wished followed. A plan to organize a state league of coaches was proposed by Ott Kumney of the East high school. His idea made a hit with most of the coaches, and a committee composed of Ott Rom-ney, Rom-ney, Earl Holmstead and Alvin Tvvitchell was appointed to draw up a constitution. It will be presented to the coaches some time before the track season begins. A scheme adopted by Salt Lake high school coaches last Wednesday, whereby hoop leagues were formed for second and third team players only is one which, if successful, will no doubt become popular all over the state. The arrangement will furnish more school athletes plenty of good, healthy exercise, and not limit games to half a dozen members of first-team first-team squads. |