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Show Sixth Warders Win Kolob Title; Will Enter District Tourney Mapleton Places Second, Third Places Third; M Men District Tourney Opens Wednesday, February 21-21 At Payson Gym Tin: Sixth Ward M Men basketball team, the first club of the tiewly formed ward, will represent Kolob stake in the District Six M Men tournament, to be he-Id in Payson beginning next Wednesday, Wednes-day, Feb. 21 through the 24th. Sixth won the tourney birth by virtue of their 58-25 win over Third lust Thursday night in one of two final contests. First fell short just two points of winning its game with Mapleton, 25-27, in the other contest. The M Men tournament, which was .shifted to Payson when the Springville gym was refused M Men leaders for the event, which has been successfully held here for the past four years, will open Wednesday at 2 p. m., and will exhibit ex-hibit 16 winning M Men clubs, announces an-nounces Don Fuller, secretary of the district. In case some of the outlying stakes are unable to send a team to the meet, Kolob may get two clubs in the meet. Mapleton Maple-ton would be the other representa- Playing one of its best games of the year last Thursday, the winning Sixth ward club completely com-pletely dominated play throughout the entire game against Third. Sixth held a 29-10 lead at halftime and increased its margin to 46-20 at the third quarter. Bissell counted count-ed 10 points for the losers to lead his teammates in the score column. col-umn. First pi a y e d bang-up ball against Mapleton and although Mapleton led most of the game, First was never far behind them. Pierce and Fullmer looked good for the losers while Bills and Mower Mow-er counted high for the winners. The concluding games drew clown the curtain on one of the most successful M Men basket- ball leagues for many years here. Although attendance by stake officials of-ficials was practically nil, other loyal supporters were always present, giving the competing clubs more enthusiasm and spirit to play. Competition was not confined to merely two "strong" clubs this year, but every team was capable of tipping the best clubs. The district tourney at Payson will be followed by the All-Church tournament March 7 to 10. Box Scores for the two final M Men tilts: MAPLETON G T F P B. Jensen, f 2 0 0 4 1 |