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Show 'RED DEVILS' DHOP FIRST LEAGUE GAME TO PAYSON ' 'LIONS' IN HARD STRUGGLE Winners Capitalize on Bad Punt To Score J Touchdown In Second Period; McBeth Is Sensation J. Wilson scored seemed to have Ihe Springville ends completely bewildered. be-wildered. Coach Ledingham's team showed a complete reversal in the second half, making their first down of the game just after the resumption of play. Brilliant returns by Bill Paxman and steady gains by Childs, plunging fullback, in the fourth quarter started the team on a slow march towards the enemy goal in a way that looked for a time like a score. Payson fought back gamely and Springville lost the ball on the 12-yard line, which proved to be their best bid for a score during the game. Linemen Break Through . McBeth Is Sensation By ERNEST RASMXJSON A fighting Payson team upset the dope in Region Three football competition com-petition by trouncing the Springville Spring-ville Red Devils in the .opening encounter of the league season at Payson Friday to the tune of 6 to O. The teams were evenly matched, the victory coming as a result of Payson's ability to capitalize on the only break of the game, which occurred oc-curred in the second quarter. J. Wilson Scores A bad punt by Childs, Springville fullback, gave the Lions the ball on the Springville 21-yard line late in the second quarter. J. Wilson, clever clev-er Payson quarterback, scored a few minutes later on a delayed criss-cross around his right end from the 17-yard line. His try for the point after touchdown went wide. McBeth, speedy halfback, was a sensation for the winners, evading his opponents time and time again -for 15-yard gains. J. Wilson also starred. Dimmick was a tower of strength on the line, breaking through to get his man continually. Childs and Bill Paxman were the Springville stars. Gudmundsen made some good gains. The Springville Spring-ville line had its hands full in taking tak-ing care of the speedy Paysonites. Lineup and summary: SPRINGVILLE : PAYSON : Harwood I.e. ... D. Scherrer Mendenhall I.t I. Scherrer Everett l.g Larsen Law c L. Simmons Nielsen r.g Boyle Blanchard . . . .r.t Dimmick Spafford r.e Jensen Thorn q.b J. Wilson Gudmundsen ...l.h Okelberry Paxman r.h... McBeth Childs f.b H. Wilson Substitutions Springville M. Hay-mond Hay-mond for Mendenhall; P. Haymond for Nielsen; Hughes for Blanchard; Blanchard for Hughes. Payson, none. Score by periods: Springville 0 0 0 0 0, Payson 0 6 0 0 6j Referee, Swenson; umpire, Kline. I Both teams fought bitterly during the remainder of the game for another an-other chance to score, but. to no i avail. Payson played a safe game after its lone tally, holding the advantage ad-vantage gained with grim, determination. deter-mination. Coach Stan Wilson's Paysonites played like men inspired during the first half of the game, taking the surprised Red Devils completely off their feet in this canto by ripping off four first downs on clever end runs by J. Wilson and McBeth. The winners displayed their strength by taking the ball straight down the field to the Springville 8-yard line in the first quarter before the Red Devils braced and Childs punted out of danger when the Lions lost the ball on downs. Childs' poor punt previously referred re-ferred to paved the way for the lone score of the game. Payson linesmen lines-men filtered through on Spring-; ville's punt formation, rushing the fullback, with the result that the punt was straight up in the air. The Paysonites were on their toes, ready for the break that came their tvay. The fake criss-cross on which |