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Show REGION TITLES ARE DECIDED Payson and Hinckley Arc in; West, lioxeldor Loom As Winners. Payson and Hinckley definitely cinched the championships in their respective Utah high school gridiron grid-iron regions Saturday, while today finds West and Boxclder high schools almost certain of title ; laurels in Regions Two and One, respectively, re-spectively, on the Class A competition. competi-tion. Panthers ITpst Leopards West's unexpected victory over East by a 7-6 count was the outstanding out-standing feature of the high school i week. The Panthers, directed by the crafty Oliver Nobles, injured quarterback, played alert football against East, and although out-gained out-gained considerably by the Leopards, Leop-ards, scored a well-earned victory. Passes brought the Panther touchdown, touch-down, while East scored early in the game on a sustained advance, led by Bowers, East's human battering bat-tering ham. Although East threatened threat-ened many times, on flashy runs by Hartenstein and the line crashing of Bowers, West held in emergencies, emergen-cies, with Eikrem's punts keeping East away from the danger zone. Boxelder was too strong for Logan Lo-gan Monday, and ran wild in the second half to chalk up a 25-6 victory, vic-tory, after the first half had closed with the count 7-6 for the Boxelder outfit. Hinckley's victory Saturday in Region Six was unexpected. The Hinckley crew will not oppose Wasatch Wa-satch Academy at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday, November 17, while Pay-son, Pay-son, victorious in Region Three play, journeys to Moab Saturday for a battle with the Region Five victors. Tooclo Going Sti'jng Tooele, recently victorious over North Summit, is idle Saturday, and will be one of three Class B survivors sur-vivors after this week's combats. West must trim Provo to take the Region Two, Class A honors, this week, while Boxelder now seems safe in Region One. ing that the farmers alons the east |