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Show Legion Team Opens Season With Three Decisive Victories , Jianner Year Anticipated With Several Returning Veterans From Last Year and New Recruits Looking Good The Springville American Legion basketball team, under the coaching of Jay Nielson, is again in hot competitor! competi-tor! for the District Four championship), Iiavino- ApfprtPA Payson, American Fork and Span- i.sh Fork to date. In their Monday night game at Spanish Fork, the local post whipped whip-ped out a decisive 33-12 win. with Hansen counting 10 points for the winners. Jarvis, Sargent and Stone with 7, 6 and 6 points, respectively, respective-ly, assisted in the score column. A. Olsen, for Spanish, counted 8 points. Springville defeated Pay- An 1C of Uoironn in thnir first game, and then followed up with a 43-25 victory over American Fork last week here. Playing on the Springville club are Leonard James, Dick Jarvis, Leonard Stone, Reed Bennett, Paul Hansen, all veterans of last year's team, and newcomers Blair Sargent, Sar-gent, Melvin Teasdale, Kelly Jensen, Jen-sen, Edwin Johnson. Earl Child, Creed Weight and Piatt Wats. The District 4 schedule of games for Springville follows: Thursday, Jan. 13 Nephi at Springville. Thursday. Jan. 20 Payson at Springville. Tuesday, Jan. 25 , Springville at American Fork. Thursday, Feb. 3 Spanish Fork at Springville. Monday, Feb. 7 Springville at Nephi. Thursday, Feb. 10 Pleasant Grove at Springville. All games played on the Springville Spring-ville floor will begin at 8 p. m., and are free to the public. The state tournament will be played in the Payson gym at the conclusion of district play. Box score for Springville-Span-ish Fork game follows: SPRINGVILLE ' G. T. F. P. Hansen, f 4 3 2 10 Weight, f 0 0 0 0 Jarvis 3 117 Teasdale 2 0 0 4 Sargent 3 0 0 6 Bennett 0 0 0 0 Stone 3 0 0 6 Jensen 0 0 0 0 Child 0 0 0 0 Johnson 0 0 0 0 Watta 0 0 0 0 Totals 15 4 3 33 SP. FORK G. T. F. P. Allred 110 2 Powell .- 0 0 0 0 Christensen 10 0 2 Neilson 0 10 0 A. Olsen 4 10 8 Thomas 0 0 0 0 G. Olsen 0 0 0 0 Totals 6 3 0 12 Quarter scores: Springville 9 21 30 33 Spanish Fork 5 7 11 12 Officials: Jones and Hamilton. SIGN OF THE TIMES The U. S. Dept. of Commerce, annaly-zing annaly-zing business figures for 1948, stated that Americans are spending spend-ing from income now. For the first time since pre-war, person-al person-al spending failed to top income. |