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Show BINGHAM TREKS TO GRANITE FOR TONIGHT'S GAME District Standings Won Lost Pet-Granite Pet-Granite 6 1 .857 Davis 5 2 .714 Cyprus 4 3 .571 Jordan 4 3 .571 Murray 4 3 .571 Grantsville 3 4 .3331 Bingham 2 5 .286 ! Tooele 0 7 .000 Pingham high school's cagers travel to Granite tonight to meet the high team of Jordan district. Last Friday the Farmers suffered suffer-ed their first setback to date, a 54-32 trouncing at the hands of the Davis Darts. Granite, still smarting from a first upset ,is anxious to lengthen their lead in Jordan district. And will likely to demonstrate that Farmers can top Miners by a bigger big-ger margin than the 29-28 victory gained here last January 3. This year's Miners' squad will go down in school history as a team that could hold their own with the best in the state for three-quarters of a game. In the final few minutes of play the Miners Mi-ners have bowed to Granite, Jordan, Jor-dan, Murray, Grantsville, Cyprus. Cy-prus. None of these opponents has found easy victory over the game and fighting Miners. Last Friday in Copperton gymnasium, gym-nasium, Jordan raised their standing stan-ding a notch and improved possibilities pos-sibilities of entering tournament play by defeating Bingham 34-26. 34-26. The score was tied 26-26 and three minutes remained for play when the Beetdiggers jumped a-head a-head for a decisive win. The Beetdiggers have improved improv-ed greatly since early season. The Miners won 36-26 at the Sandy San-dy gymnasium on January 23. Don PouLsen was high for the Miners with seven points and Bob Nichols next with six counters. coun-ters. Jack Gleason played a good all-around game. Absent from Bingham's squad tonight because of illness will be Jack Thurmond, who has the flu; Bob Nichols, down with a kidney infection; and Don Poulsen, quarantined quar-antined with measles. Coach Warren War-ren G. Allsop plans to play Noel Copenhaver, Rollo Bianchi, Don Crump and Billy Sullenger, along with Regulars Jack Gleason, Glenn Sheen and George Furgis. An outstanding feature of the game here last Friday was presentation pre-sentation of an Americanism week stunt during the half by the Minerette club under direction direc-tion of Miss Virginia Harris. The girls formed a red, white and blue airplane and marched down the gym floor. The audience joined join-ed in singing "The Star Spangled Banner" as the girls stood at attention at-tention and saluted the flag. o |