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Show Heavy Schedule mails H lien During the Coining Week' Three Games Are Scheduled For Saturday, , Jan. 8 and Wednesday, Jan. 12; Second Holds League Leadership . Stake M Men basketball fans will have a busy week in league warfare with six contests on the docket. Saturday. Jan. 8, Fourth will play the Sixth warders in LOOK! SKATING! ,j Want to go skating? Don your warmest wraps, clamp on your skates and hie to the newly-made skating rink on First West between Center and First South. The pond is lighted for your brisk evening's skating. The pond is guaranteed to hold you up, since it occupies the entire street west of the city park. Another safety feature: No cars or vehicles are allowed to cross your path safe skating skat-ing all eveniifg, unless you are $the opening game, ai a p. m. Eighth and Mapleton will play the feature game of the evening. Eighth is given a slight edge over the Mapleton club, but only after a hard fought battle. Second should win handily over the Seventh Sev-enth in the nightcap. Wednesday, Jan. 12, three vitally vital-ly important games are scheduled between the leading teams of the league. At 7 p. m. an important game between the First and Fifth will start the evening's schedule. This game is a must for the Fifth, since they must win to keep in the running for the round robin at the end of the regular league schedule. one of those who, by misfortune, misfor-tune, are not able to skate on , your two steel blades. , Who fixed the pond? The Lions club! Tell them thanks by participating nightly at the "skating pond." A Great Cotton State The state of Mississippi ranks third in the TJ. S. in the production of cotton. Its mineral production is valuable; its agricultural assets, other than cotton, are large and varied. Top game of the evening will pit Coach Harold Christensen's undefeated unde-feated Second ward veterans against the challenging Eighth ward club at 8 p. m. While Second is the heavy favorite, Eighth is expecting to give them a stiff battle. bat-tle. Final battle. of the evening should be another good game between be-tween the Sixth and Ninth wards. Both teams badly need the win to keep in the running. Ninth will be the favorite to walk off the floor on the long end of the score because of their more versatile squad. t , |