Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-27 | Page 9 | Pace-Setters Find Rough Trail in Quest of Berths to Annual State High School Tournament

Setters Pace-Setters Find Rough Trail In Quest of f Berths Berths' to Annual ual State High School Tournament Only Springville Lohi Lehi and Richfield Succeed in Repulsing Repulsing Re Re- pulsing Challenge of Fo Foes s From Ranks Five Northern Clubs Tie for Top Spot The specter of defeat stalked through the high school basketball race Friday toppling leaders from thrones creating new kings kin and generally generally gen- gen rally upsetting the dope bucket Five teams kams are tied for first place In region eglon 1 i Lehi Leht Springville and Richfield clung to their thrones but Kanab found Its pedestal rocking and nd Heber went tumbling down in the general landslide that saw Granite beat Jordan to tie tic its victim for first place In tile the Jordan district S Central high school of ot Castle astle Dale which climbed into a tie with Carbon Carlon Car Car- bon lon for first place in the Carbon district by spilling the erstwhile leading quintet was In turn defeated by the surprising Ferron Ferron Fer Fer- ron outfit Carbon clung to the coveted place Davis completely upset the dope bucket by handing Cyprus a 26 to 18 defeat and nd nd Bingham surprised most fans by spilling Murray 22 to 21 Tooele defeated Grantsville 33 to 31 31 in a game which was unexpectedly unexpectedly unexpectedly edly close Third Place Knot C Cyprus Murra Murray Davis Bingham and Tooele now all have a chance to reach the tournament since all five are tied for third place with two victories and two defeats each Next Fridays Friday's games will do much to straighten this tan tangle le with Tooele playing at Granite Bingham at Davis at Jordan and Murray at Cyprus Ogden tipped Logan 25 to 21 to throw region 1 into a way five-way tic tie as Box Elder Weber and South Cache came through with victories as expected The tie is sure to be broken next Friday when Box Elder plays plas at Logan North Summit spilled Wasatch from first place by winning its it opening open ing league game from the Heber lads 26 to 16 South Summit tied with the losers for second place by defeat defeating ng Morgan 27 to 25 Lehi Holds Lead Lohl Lehl clung to undefeated leadership leadership leader leader- ship in the Alpine group by downing down down- ing irig Lincoln 44 to 20 and Provo took tooka a firm grip on second place by defeating defeating defeating de de- de- de Pleasant Grove 55 to 19 as Brigham Young high downed American Amer ican Fork 29 to 25 Springville Is undefeated leader of the Nebo district by virtue of a 36 to 27 win over Tintic Spanish Fork downed Payson Pason 18 to 13 as pre pre- dieted Gunnison took undisputed pl possession posses posses- ses sion slon of first place in the Sa Sanpete pete race by nosing out Wasatch academy 33 to 31 as Ephraim surprised by defeating Manti ManU 35 to 24 Richfield held to the northern Sevier Sevier Sevier Se- Se vier top spot by turning back Bickell Bicknell Bick Bick- nell neIl ell 20 to 25 and Monroe broke into nto the win column with a 34 3 to 31 triumph over Salina SaUna In the ruth em ern rn Sevier group Escalante leads by virtue of a 35 to 25 win over l Marys- Marys s vale ale Carbon Grabs Throne Carbon rules its district having defeated 31 to 26 while Castle astle Dale Daic after pulling the from the throne Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day ay went down before Ferron 18 to o 16 It was Ferron's first victoryA victory A 32 to 27 victory over Beaver gave ave Fillmore undisputed of f first place in jn the Millard race as expected but Valley high tossed the dope lope bucket aside by handing I Kanab KanabIs its Is first defeat 33 to 20 20 in the Dixie district Hurricane climbed into a aie atie atie tie ie for or the coveted throne by defeating defeat defeat- ing ng Parowan 34 to 24 and Dixie remained close behind with a 38 to 32 2 win over Enterprise