Show L. L 1 L D. S t EO CAPTURES STATE HOOP TITLE fROM OGDEN OE IN THRILLING FINIS Saints s p Pass s Tigers Tiger in Final 1 Period of Tourney i Ogden Loses Game by Failure on Foul Pitches By Lon Richardson Far Into the wee hours of the morning the streets of Salt Lake City echoed and re-echoed re the shouts of 1000 enthusiastic Latter- Latter day Saint high school students who had Just cheered their team to the state scholastic basketball championship ham cham by a a. sensational sensational sen sen- 17 to 16 ic victory over the Tiger hoop machine machine ma ma- chine front from Og Og- den It was a av v victory f c tor y well web t earned for that i little Saint quintet quintet quin quin- tet fighting with its back to the wall overcame a point five lend lead to triumph in the fInal fi final final fi- fi nal two minutes of ot play It was the work of Jerry Terry Smith S all and lean Saint Ria center who was individually re responsible re- re for the victory Although he was ably assisted by four mates it was Smith who carried the brunt of ot the attack and scored fourteen of his teams team's seventeen points After three d days days- ys of tireless tireless tireless tire tire- less trying without success Smith finally got his eye eye ese on op the hoop Joop and shot the ball into the basket from all positions on the floor and Under under under un un- der all aU conditions He was simply simply sim sim- ply th the marvel of ot the game the one man who brought the title The victory gives the Saints the title tithe for which they have so long hoped for their sixth state cham charn- the first since 1910 In 1924 the Saints gained the crown only to lose it because of ot The victory also sends the Saints to Chicago to take tak part in inthe inthe inthe the annual national high school basketball tournament the first week in April It was the inability to shoot foul pl pitches ches that really cost Ogden the game Out of thirteen free shots at the hoop the Tigers Tigers' registered but four tallies The Saints nade three out of five which along with their seven goals gave them vic vic- tory The burden of ot the Ogden team Smith of Saints Makes I of Teams Team's 17 Points was carried by Earl Midget Rot floe ers era forward This little lad ae the Tigers into an early lead wit wI three beautiful shots In the thet fir half of play But In the second half halt he lost bet accurate eye for the basket ma mai shots rolling around the ho hoop pl couple of times and finally fallk falU o off The other outstanding player playe e l the game was Mark Og guard This man played a fa less esa game intercepting numero numer passes and doing wonderful icon wo ic on the defense Evans the little D. D S 5 S. S guard who has shone so past games played well but i ion on ona a par with Smith Rogers Bailiff GOOD DEFENSE It was a great defensive ga ga both teams using the five m machine at all times The maj ity of shots were long range torn n with very few coming from ups The play was the fastest the tournament both sides aides De beW ei forced to shoot from front all an ang ang without time for accuracy T Saints led slightly in the offer offe taking sixty one shots at the theto li lito to the fifty of ot the losers fI M Jacobson of ot L. L D D. S. S drew fI fl blood scoring a foul pitch j have Toone even things up t i another free shot Rogers final fina broke through the Saint defense defens J score the only basket In the period and giving the Tigers a tw 1 point lead I ROGERS SCORES i Rogers opened the second perl erl eni with a counter followed by bv T Toon- Toon ri foul which put Ogden In iT the the frol 6 That was the biggest le either team had Smith made foul pitch followed by a Io goal l. l boost the Saints' Saints total to six Ro Re ers era made another basket putt the Tigers the Tigers four points ahead at aID t half haIr ended f Rogers again opened the seen in the third period with a. a pitch only to have hae Smith his rampage to score three Jn n n successionS succession Irvine in the mea time had put over a long sh t ti Toone registered another Jf ft pitch to o put the Ogden t points to the good only to lbs sha Smith score a foul and a long si to put the Saints in the the h first frs time However was short lived as Rogers ball spinning through the hoo the center center- of ot the floor Jacobs Jacob gave the Saints the lead with as up shot and Smith followed followed w w another With a minute half toji Irvine e registered from the side ce ter tel and the gun went ot off end endl the game V OGDEN I L. L D S S. SilOS O. O T. T FP I G. G TI 2 1 4 0 4 4 0 0 01 C f lf 4 3 1 1 2 21 I 1 no 0 2 0 0 0 01 6 3 1 31 Toon rg 0 4 3 rg 0 0 1 I C 0 0 5 0 0 0 01 t C 0 0 0 0 0 OJ C I Totals s C 13 4 16 ic Totals 7 Sli I Referee Romney umpire Warner |