Show rh JACK STRAWS r By Jack Schroeder t A Well-Planned Well Peculiar Twist Well VeIl the state slate class B basketball tournament has taken a peculiar twist twist but but perhaps not so peculiar when you ou figure it was designed this way I All four teams representing rc region ion three three those tough Nebo and Alpine divisions make divisions make up the semifinal round of play I Its It's Juab Payson American Fork and B. B Y high Where are the rest you ou may ask Well ell the people who set this thing up decided that they didn't want one of those Alpine all-Alpine division finals such as last year when American Fork played j B. B Y high for the title So they decided they'd rather put them in the same bracket so they couldn't come out that way i iCan i ii Can See These Anytime Whatever er the talking point point for this may be we have as yet yetto to see it But the fact remains that the Ute tournament is now narrowed to those four our Alpine teams which maybe is a little littlemore littlemore more than the group had bargained for So Fridays Friday's game could be seen as regular league ue tilts tilL during the season in those leagues Something must be done that will liven the thing up Its It's far better than the A we agree abrec but if such persistency is made to reduce the field to such a state then its it's time that something something some some- thing thinS is done The teams could be seeded This may sound a little far fetched to some but it isn't any worse than the present arrangement The tournament needs some kind of natural rivalry or some game that everyone would look forward to seeing played If It theres there's anything anything- it doesn't need is to have two semifinal games seem I nothing more than league tilts j Likes New Position Garth Belliston the conscientious young young- coach who moved from Morgan to St. St George Georbe for Dixie's basketball hopes is enjoying enjoying enjoying enjoy enjoy- ing his new job although he finds that the switch involves considerably considerably con con- more work The biggest tiling thing of all Coach Sonny Allsop is looking says ays Garth is to get a junior forward to 1951 when with basketball program started so another years year's experience be behind be- be that when the high school hind them the Miners should coach gets of the kids be tough to handle they will be somewhat versed in fundamentals Watch Alma Mater Two of Beavers Beaver's more faThey faey famous fa fa- fa- fa Th All All All' Juniors They They're ey re alumni Ray alumni Ray Pearce and Fans had better keep an eye Jack are are interested inter inter- on that Bingham ba basketball ested spectators at the games team for the coming seas season season n. n that the Beavers play Pearce In spite of the fact that the who was 1 an state all-state on the Miners bowed out of the meet semifinal team in 1918 is a aon on two straight losses things student at the Ute University of wont won't be quite so 50 black in the Utah while another an an- future other stater all-stater has returned All of the starting lineup to Beaver cr after a stint in the theis Is c composed of juniors and arm army We Ve have heard many strange things come over the P. P A A. system at the University of Utah field house but the other night when someone lost losta a set of uppers and they were turned in at the lost and found department nt it caused a slight turmoil A Monotonous Position Should American Fork get past B. B Y high and move into the state semifinals it would be the fourth time in five years that the Cavemen have been In that particular position Tommy ny Karren of B. B Y high looks to us to b be one of the finest players player in the state this season In addition Val Labrum of Park City and Ed of Bingham have caught our oure e eye e Dave Bird of Juab is areal hustler and a good long shot in addition Stan Gleave the brilliant passing center for Monroe doesn't make too many points but certainly can throw that ball around when its it's needed |