Show I Leaders to Tumble In Vital Battles Of Prep Cage Race By TOl ll TOMMIE E PORTER Leading teams of five distri districts ts will clash Friday in games which will be beof of vital importance to the outcome of the seasons season's state high school basketball campaign These games should provide pro pro- I vide one of the most interesting week end schedules of the entire P season Seven prep teams suffered defeat for the first time this season last Friday and at least three others are certain to tumble this week with unbeaten leaders meeting in three of next Fridays Friday's feature games Additional spice to the seasons season's play pIa is found b by fans watching the activities of t the states state's three Tooele Tintic and North Sanpete These schools kept their re respective respective re- re slates clean last week anc and For the first time in the history oJ of the state cage chase are arc being seriously seriously seri zen considered as contenders for lor places in the annual state ment mente Selection of a single feature game will be particularly difficult this week with Ogden battling Logan Logan Logan Lo Lo- Lo- Lo gan for first place in the northern part pant of the state Tooele meeting its traditional rivals from Grantsville Granite and Jordan scrapping to stay in the Jordan race Morgan and Wasatch clashing to determine which shall remain tied with North Summit for their district lead North Sanpete and Moroni fighting it out at Moroni and Richfield meeting Salina Sauna for the North SevIer lead Tooele Looks Good Tooele which has has' never before ranked as a serious contender fo for Jordan district laurels should find fine itself in a nice spot this week by defeating Grantsville while either elthe Granite or Jordan is downed for the second time After this week T Tooele ocle will have games at Granite Murray Davis Davi and Grantsville with Jordan anc and Cyprus appearing at Tooele Meanwhile Meanwhile Mean Mean- while Jordan plays Davis Grants Grants- yule villa and Bingham at Jordan anc and goes to Murray Tooele and Granite Murray which may run into a asnag asnag asnag snag at Bingham Friday will have ha home games with Jordan Tooele and Bingham and amI scraps at Cyprus Cyprus Cyp Cyp- rus Granite and Da Davis Das s remaining att after r this week Granite will follow Fridays Friday's battIe battie bat bat- tie with games at Bingham anc and Grantsville and home tilts against Tooele Cyprus Murray and Jordan which would indicate the Farmers Farmer as one of the outstanding contenders contend contend- ers ens for a tournament berth if they can trip Jordan this week Logan will have four games a ahome at home and two two two-at at Bear River an and South Cache Cache away away after this week while Ogden has three at home anc and three with three with Preston North Cache Cach and Weber Weber away away after Friday South Cache will probably give th the loser of the Ogden Logan game a good race for second place but will wil face a severe test in when the Trojans play at Ogden Wasatch Stands Out 1 Wasatch seems in the best spot just now in the Summit race fo for forthe forthe the Wasps play at home against Morgan this week end and will b be hosts to North Summit next we week k when they may build up enough o oa of ofa ofa a lead to not be seriously troubled if Il defeated later when playing those thos strong teams on their floors Provos Provo's leadership will be seriously seriously seriously seri seri- threatened in the Alpine group during the next two weeks with the Bulldogs playing at Lehi this Friday Friday Fri Fri- day and entertaining American Fork the following week weekend Nephi and Tintic undefeated Nebo leaders will be idle this week There is no real harbor at Joppa Barcelona is Spain's commercial I capital |