Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-14 | Page 6 | Intermountain Hoop Tourney Opens Here Tomorrow

INTERMOUNTAIN HOOP TOURNEY OPENS HERE i. i O O O O- O Ao UTAH fIVES TU TO MAKE TRIP TAm TAmI I TU TO CHICAGO Five State Champion T Teams earns to Clash in Local Local Local Lo Lo- Lo- Lo cal Tourney Six of ot the best developed high school o between the h Mississippi Pr h li and the Sierra Nevadas i a will clash In Inthe n the opening games of the second an annual annual annual an- an nual Intermountain hoop tournament In the Deseret gymnasium tomorrow night The teams team's teams entered are art Weston Weston Wes Wes- Veston ton high intermountain champs Windsor high Colorado champs CUI Cueter Custer Cue Cus- ter high Montana champs high Utah champs Elko high Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- evada e vada champs and Dixie Normal r run run- state tour tour- up ner-up team in the Utah I ney The entrance of ot Dile was heralded with enthusiasm by bv hundreds of or local fans tans who were ere disappointed when the little cotton cetton pickers were beaten out I of or the state title by a lone field goal last Saturday night When hen Dixie plays again this week end it will probably draw the largest crowd that ever attended a hoop contest in the Deseret gym gym- CLASSIC IS BIGGEST IN YEARS The schedule of ot play for the Intermountain intermountain intermountain inter- inter mountain tourne tourney has not been arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged and will not be announced until In the morning It has been vIrtually virtually vir vIr- decided however to stage three games ea each eath h evening starting at 7 Before the tourney is over o nearly ever every team will ill have had a chance to meet each ach other The classic will far surpass the tha state high school meet In type of p play Je Jeb W es 1 re and b brilliance of basketball b In or order order or- or der to take care re of ot the record crow crowd that has already rushed the early early- seat sale every even available place in tho the gymnasium will be stacked with seats seals it is announced this morning C. C Oren Wilson secretary of the Utah High School Athletic association received receive a telegram from the national hoop committee committee com com- at Chicago today stating that both DIxie and would ouM be w welcome wel l- l come In the national tournament bp beginning begin tn ning on April 4 Wilson lIson said Raid that bulb teams would make the trip WI-STON WI ASKS FOR roi tot high has also aleo a ked for a an ac In In- to the lice national meet said 1 tais nt morning It has not ye yet et r rC I td cv d 4 da a reply but it Is III a certainty that It LI will II milks make the tho trip he lie said sal 1 The rH of tho Intermountain tourney will be Hsk sk d to go to the Chicago tourney Wilton stated The Tho West will be well represented at atthe atthe atthe the Chicago hoop tournament With Dixie and already assure anure 1 of the trip and Weston Veston Windsor and nd Custer seeking admission it Is practically practical practical- ly certain that five lve of the six teams that will clash here e will uphold d the honor honorof I tl of the h West Vet In tile Eastern n meet e The Weston high team arrived In Salt Lake Lako last night and held a short workout workout work work- out at the Deseret gymnasium this morn- morn log Ing Gassman the tho Intermountain all guard of last year ear appears to be faster than he was In the tho first tournament Windsor Custer Elko Efko and S teams will arrive this afternoon and to to- to night Dixie has haa remained In Salt Sail Lako Lake since the state stat tournament