Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-03 | Page 10 | East High Enters Powerful Quint in Salt Lake Division Hoop Race

lEAST I rP EAST HIGH HIG ENTERS POWERFUL POWERFUL v QUI QUINT T N IN SALT SALT LAKE L KE DIVISION HOOP HOOP RACE R c VETERAN TEAM I TO Tl BE TITLE CONTENDER R Inexperienced Players Show U Up p Well at Hilltop Hilltop Hilltop Hill- Hill top School With the opening of the Salt Lake division hoop race only three weeks a ay prospects for a strong hoop quintet at East high school are b becoming coming exceed exceedingly bright Four l lettermen and a strong array cf l promising new talent are working out out ut with Co Coach ch Lee Simmons and Assistant Coach Arch Thurman daily ally and when the first c contest w with th the L. L D. D S. S Saints on January 22 rolls roUs around the Leopards should tie De in perfect shape In practice ce combats during the past two weeks the Leopards showed a clever team with neat passing fast floor work fair shooting shoot shoot- ing g g and strong guarding East smothered Ogden Lehi and Murray twice In practices and arid also an ana alumni a combination but Grantsville Provo and another alumni quintet jounced t the Leopards At Provo Prove nd Grantsville the squad was sp split it and neither of the two teams were 1 ry strong The L Leopards were strong against Ogden Lehi Leh ana and Murray urray and put up a game gume fight against both alumni One f live fre ve composed of graduates n nosed sed t re J ers out 36 to 34 4 This team was comp composed sed of Be Bevo Leers ers Babe Myers Vic Tauter I Floyd oyd Romney Dan Hicke Hickey and Harold Sweet S all former stars r rhe ryThe r rhe he Leopards showed good form against a quint composed of Ham Snarr Hank Lewis Buck Kirkham Frank Fjrank Jonas and Leonard Chytraus and beat them For or his first team Coach Coach Simmons Sim Sim- mons mens has the four lettermen G George or e eWatkins Watkins Bob Davis Ken Gardner End nd Art Potts along with the felIng fol- fol ving Ing promising pla players els Art Kine Kin- Kin e d. d Milt Frank Dave Quigley J Joe Je u uT T Taylor Kent Shipp Ted Aldous and Reid Id Beers forwards Lynn Barker inter ter Marvin Jonas Rush Christ Chris- Chris t and Dan Moyle ole guards Other OthI Oth Oth- I er candidates not quite so fast are being drilled on the second team ile there are ale other reserves on ont the t e sophomore quint some of whom are Se e fair tall play players r but with little ittle ex ex- ex In Ken Gardner and Art Potts th the Leopard mentor can boast o of ofa a cl classy pair One must recognize Potts Potts' puzzling style of dribbling and nd floor work while his eye ere for forb b gaskets Is keen Ken Gardner is one oneo o the the slickest of basket shooters ht at times rimes slackens in rustling the ball Art KIncaid and Milt Frank Franke e dependable Kincaid's floor work works s good while Frank Prank is last fast and possesses a neat eye for the loop Dave Quigley Kent Shipp and Joe Taylor aylor could all be injected in a f fay ay ar and hold down the forward positions well Ted Aldous and Reid Boers Bjers flashy young juniors ha have ve proved to be the fastest forward combination out of the bunch outs outside out out- s side e of Gardner and arid Potts Aldous' Aldous e e for the basket is extremely acte ac- ac crate te but his floor game is some some- ties weak Beers is a game scrapper scrapper scrapper scrap scrap- per and can cage the oval as well veIl here may be some trouble at center enter in case Lynn Barker is forced out George Watkins trades off with B Barker but seems to be a a. much b better guard Barker Is new nev at the position as showed up everybody his way He Is an all all- allaround allaround around player but seems unable to tor r frain from fouling his opponent a and d Is ejected from the game on r However with a a. little i seasoning he should overcome this fault twIt There is little doubt but what the position will be well taken c care re of George Watkins and Bob avis vis mate together well and look Ike ilie the prospective regulars However How How- ever ever Marvin Jonas and Rush ChrIst Christensen ChrIs ChrIs- t sen are hard sluggers and knock J 3 wn own everything their way Two fel- fel ws along with Dan Moyle give the a strong reserve on the defense line Moyle reported for r Lattice late but his fine showing jh las as already made him a candidate tor or s a position