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Show 1ESPITE WAR, BASKETBALL IS ) HEREFOR FANS Bingham high school basket-fa basket-fa ill team will meet Murray this u ening (Friday) for an opening 'me in Jordan district. To be sfiged at Copperton gymnasium, .Me second team game will com-n com-n ince at 7 p.m. and the feature f ntest gets underway at eight : lock. Until Wednesday, when Princi-i Princi-i il T. H. McMullin announced ! at the Miners' home games will played at night there was lit-hope lit-hope that basketball play uld be enjoyed by the student . dy and fans alike. Ruling of the Office of Dense De-nse Transportation prohibits : t use of school buses to haul idents or players to athletic ntests. Two alternatives pre-nted pre-nted themselves to school offi- iils: the games could be played u the afternoon or school hours r uld be altered to permit stu- l nts and townspeople to attend i games. By beginning school at noon ; the days of basketball games I the Copperton gymnasium, students will be able to at-id at-id and will be taken home by ! s after the game. Officials feel it by changing school hours on .se few days the best interests students, team and townspeo-. townspeo-. will be served. Dpening games on the Jordan trict sjate include: Murray at J ngham, Jordan at Grantsville, )i vis at Cyprus, Granite at Too- The Miners have played six season games, winning three -p losing three. West won the L$t two from Bingham. The Mi-is Mi-is turned around and took m o from Judge Memorial and : er split two games with Plea- rJit Grove, while the preseason record is oi too impressive, the team has hewn driving power and a hap- iJ ability to pass the ball in for ;core. In the first game with st. Bingham held the lead to 10 at the half, soother bright tpot Judge morial suffered a 45 to 17 de-t de-t that the BHS crew dished At Pleasant Grove Decem-30, Decem-30, Bingham was behind 22 338 at half time and came back zkhe second half to tie the score t 32-all. With 10 seconds re-i re-i ining to play, the score was 4 all. Pleasant Grove won the a ne on a foul pitch. :o-Captain George Furgis, the " y returning regular, has gain-weight gain-weight and strength since last c ir and is showing promise of a ng a good performer around -1 basket. He should score con-i con-i ently. ... . . )on Crump, co-captain, is do-'j do-'j a fine job on guard line but u;ht be shifted to forward for 11 Murray game, since Ray e t, who entered the University f Utah last Monday, has been Ii ying forward. 1 elso Sanchez at forward is a t ie erratic with the ball, alii al-ii ugh once in a while he looks a real "ball. hawk", lurton Durnford, a junior, and cijglas Reed, a sophomore, are 2 iting it out with Howard y ain, a senior, for guard po-t po-t uns. Eugene Thomas, a sen-qand sen-qand nice tall boy, shows much nfrovement over last year. He "-: idles the ball well and should ?; 1 real help if he continues to - rove. like Leventis, Jimmy Brown, Mi Katis, Carl Bnrrett, George 1 ignostakis, Nick Vardakis and yd Cox are juniors that were t on the . squad, all of them uld see action this year. J Ipward Hausknecht, Gordon kle and Delmar Schick are :ue more sophomores on the : ad. i obert Siddoway, a senior, is : 'ing forward and pushing" '- so Sanchez with his shooting nty. These boys and Coach iiny Allsop are determined t basketball will be continued-ify continued-ify say the last thing a man m is quit. |