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Show First Wins Opening Games In All --Church Tourney Jones 1 2 n Hatfield 1 2 j TOTALS 17 Z. TT - SAN FRANCISCO 1U ,( Denning 5 l o .. Hogan 1 J 1 Rockwood 2 0 n Blackhurst n n n ' Smith Z.l S Griffin 4u )-l TOTALS Score by quarters: M Springville. 1st 8 18 27 4. San Francisco 6 lfi 2c 51 Springville First Ward's M Men team won their opening game i m the huge All-Church basketball tournament now being played m the spacious BYU fieldhouse First defeated San Francisco 3&-44 with Vern Young leading the winners with a brilliant 20-point performance. perform-ance. The game was a thriller from the very beginning with the First warders holding a slight edge at each of the quarters. In a thrilling comeback, First ward wiped out a 13 point deficit to chalk up its second win of the tournament Wed. afternoon by defeating de-feating a good Ogden 5th ward 57-54. Vern Young and Carl San-ford San-ford led the winners with a brilliant brill-iant hsooting performance which netted them 17 and 16 points respectively.-First fought an uphill battle to gain the victory. First will play in the championship champion-ship bracket again today as the big tournament swings into its third day. The Championship game will wind up the meet Saturday night. Box score for the first night's game follows: SPRINGVILLE 1st G T F P Reed -. 0 0 0 0 Warren 2 8 4 8 Sanford 3 4 2 Young :..-9 4 2 20 Olsen - 10 0 2 |