Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-03 | Page 6 | Church Tourney Gets Start Tonight

TOURNEY GETS HS- START I Three Games Scheduled I in First Round of M. M I. I A. A Hoop Meet Three games are on schedule for fori forthe forthe the opening round of play in the i I annual basketball taurI tournament tournament tour tour- I which opens tonight at the I Deseret gymnasium at 7 o'clock the Twentieth and Syracuse I wards tangle in the first encounter The Poplar Grove and Garfield I wards are listed listed to to play at 8 o'clock with the Whittier and Twenty- Twenty eighth wards scheduled to play the final game at 9 A silver sUver trophy donated by a local jewelry company and all the honors that go with It are the prize of the tourney In which the eleven stake winners winner's are entered Forest Dale ward won the Granite Granite Granite Gran Gran- ite stake championship last year and sprang a big surprise by taking the honors in the tournament This year the 1925 champions failed to qualify for championship play as the Nibley Park nosed them out for top rung Tung honors The play in the tourney this year is expected to be exceedingly close The few games that were played this year indicate the teams are on an equal level JudgIng Judging Judging Judg Judg- ing from the past records the Twentieth Twentieth Twentieth Whittler Whittier Syracuse and ty-eighth ty wards are listed as the strongest teams in the meet A committee of Homer Warner Varner Art Gaeth D. D Lowry Joe Barney and Irwin Clawson met last night and passed on the eligibility of all players entered in the tourney The committee also passed on the list of officials Th following men were selected to work the games Mickey Oswald Bob Richardson Vadal Peterson Peterson Peterson Pe Pe- Pe- Pe terson C. C O. O Wilson and Lee Sim Sim- mons It was was- agreed last night that the winner of the Salt Lake hoop meet would tangle with the I winner of ot the Ogden meet sometime next week