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Show I LEADERS EFFECT 5 ME FOR IS. CAGE PLAY la Change Divides State Schools Into Class A and B For Basketball Competition Kenneth E. Weight, Utah High V School Athletic President, and D. ' R. Mitchell of Lehi, Secretary, an- I tour.ced Saturday that the state I athletic committee voted to hold a jj I separate high school basektball I tournament, dividing the state ; I s:hools into an A and B class as . I is done in football competition. i j He new change, first of its kind j I in the annals of the hoop sport in I tie state, will hope to satisty those ; I mailer schools who previously ; I ave had to compete with the I ii-Tw schools under the old set- I P, and also make competition I E'Jch keener for larger schools. ; I A detailed program will be worked I t by the first of the year by the state basketball committee. I The tournament, which will be j hid in Salt Lake City on March I . 18 and 19 probably in the I Deseret Gym will be an eight-I eight-I am event, with eight teams play-I play-I H for the B championship and I W competing for the A champ-I champ-I unship. j Utah has 76 high schools. Of .,ese' on'y 15 are A schools and I are B schools. Under the present I !r up' eght, more than half of r16 A schools, will have a chance I 01 the state tournament, but only J trill Ut f 6Very seven B Sools j re f 1 a toumey position. Past h . f tournaments show that a ut seven A schools to nine B rads have been represented. For thaMeaSnS' B mentors contend I hL B divisin meet should made a 16-team tourney. How- I EPtt- W'th the new system just wting started for this season, it W? l 6ly that a 16-team event tZ Stag:ed without an initial S nt With the - eight-team |
