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Show PIRATES MEET MINERS TODAY Bingham's 6-0 win over Murray Mur-ray last Friday lifted the Miners to the ranks of top contenders for the class B crown in Jordan district. Jordan, Granite (A teams) and Murray are at present pres-ent tied for district leads. A soggy field and driving rain combined to give the locals, with their straight running attack, advantage ad-vantage over the Smelterites, who had in previous games been highly successful with a speedy passing attack. Today Cyprus high school travels to Copperton for the last of the Miners' home contests. con-tests. Cyprus lost its third straight game, 19-0, Friday to Granite. Murray has yet to face Granite, Gran-ite, Jordan and Tooele, all rated ra-ted strong competition. Only four fumbles were chalked chalk-ed up in Friday's game, few considering con-sidering the condition of the field and wet ball. Jack Thurmond Thur-mond played a marvelous game. Benny Culbertson drove over center for the game's only score, following a 70 yard march in the second quarter. Thurmond and Culbertson shared spotlight honors. hon-ors. The whole team showed superior su-perior driving power in counting count-ing 9 first downs to Murray's six and totaling 195 yards to 104 for the losers. Murray gained 21 yards through the air in completing com-pleting three of nine passes. Billy Sullenger played a bang-up bang-up defensive game. On several occasions he broke through to throw the speedy Murray boys for a loss. John Susaeta and Tom Panos looked good on both defense de-fense and offense. Jack Gleason at center was a bulwark in the line and did not make one bad pass during the game. Joe Cavazos played a good blocking game and on several occasions broke up Murray plays that looked like they might get in the clear. Bingham and Tooele are tied half-game behind Murray for the B title in Jordan district. Tooele plays host today to Kaysville's Davis gridders. |