Show rOB 4 CATS TIGERS TIGER'S COWBOYS OREO FAVORED IN ROCKY ML 1 HOOP CHASE CHAE c NEW COACHES WILL DIRECT TITLE DEFENDING TEAMS AT I MONTANA STATE WYOMING Ott Romney Takes Over Reins at t Provo I Stewart Clark Goes to Western State DENVER DENVEn Dee Dec 22 AP AP Basket Basketball ball Is at th the front of ot the Ro Rocky ki Mountain conference once more prom promising to be on a n. high h plane again In 1929 Montana State Slate college colle with virtually vir all aU its 1928 roster Intact threatens to retain the championship champion champlon ship which It won last year oar for th tt 5 second time in succession in a three game playoff with the Uni of Wyoming S The Bobcats have Cat Thomp Thompson son their great forward Frank Yard Ward giant center Brick Breeden Breeden Bree- Bree den guard and all others of tb the championship outfit save sate the late Greenie Greenle Worden Vorden guard Ma wUl hold down a a. guard Suard position alongside Breeden DIVIDED INTO TWO CIRCUITS J The Rocky Mountain conference is Ia split pUt into eastern castern and western divisions for basketball with provision pro s vision for foUr a playoff between the best quintets from each zone Utah university Utah gies Young university and Montana Montan State are in the western division The castern eastern includes Wyoming Colorado college Colorado Teach Teach- ers era Colorado Aggles Colorado Mine lInes Western State Colorado university university university uni uni- and Denver university 0 Ernest Simpson Colorado college forward who set a conference e record record rec- rec ord for scoring last season will bs bl missing when the teams go on th the boards January 4 4 Ho lie scored points for an average of 15 points q game Thompson Thompson-of Montana State Stat average 15 5 3 points a game but was under Simpson for the seasons Season total 4 Wo Wyoming and Colorado coU appear as favorites for the eastern division championship Wyoming's material Is exceptionally good with Coughlin as the pivotal man fo for both the Cowboy attack and d de S CLARK STAR OF C. C C. C TEAM Dutch Clark Rocky all-Rocky mountain moun tam tain center will be the mainspring of the Colorado college five lie Is is' isa a forceful fellow on the floor aswell as aswell as a's aswell well as s the football field and a ft leading scorer in both sports II lie II lieIs Is captain of ot the basketball team Beresford of ot Colorado university Da Day of the Colorado Aggles and j Willett of ot the tho Colorado Teachers ar are arti among the individual stars whom critics consider big factors in th the disposition of the 1929 title The titular teams of the two divisions di divisions dl- dl visions Wyoming and Montana State are without the coaches who Rho led them to the top Ott Romney has gone from Montana State to W Brigham Toung Young while Stewart Clark left Wyoming for fol Western State college These coaches may moy maybe maybe be able ablo to upset what appears now as a more or less prosaic race |