Show TOOElE WINS NIMS EXTRA PERIOD HOOP CONTEST By Special News New Service Dec 22 The The Tooele high school basketball team barely nosed out I the fast Pleasant Grove team here last I Inight night by the tile score of 45 to 42 An extra I five minute period was required to play playoff playoff playoff off the tile tie at the end of the game and then five minutes more had to be given the players to go at it again as the game gamEs was tied up again In the final play playoff off the tile locals showed their good I condition and were luckier than the visitors via vis Hors in locating the hoops I Wilson and Thorne played good ball for the P. P G. G team while Harris Kirk and Cooper pla played ed classy ball bali for the tile Tooele boys The local team will meet Pleasant Gr Grove ve in a return game at Pleasant Grove on mas eve and will play at American Fork Font Christmas night nl The lineup Pleasant Grove 42 Tooele 4 43 45 Wilson If Staples t Thorne rf rf i. i Kirk l Smith c c c. c Harris Frampton Ig Jg Droubay Gillespie Houston 1 rg Cooper Referee Referee Referee-Goodwin Goodwin U. U of ULOS U U. I LOS ANGELES NGEL S. S Cal Ca Dec 22 Man Manual Ian Ian- ual Arts Ants of Los Angeles yesterday esterday won the Southern California Prep school school- football football foot foot- ball bait championship by defeating Pomona High 27 to 0 O. Manual Arts Arts' m made de 13 points in the first halt half and 14 in the tho second T 1 T TAKES ES twelve years to build up upa IT I a championship ban ball club That's Charley Charity Comiskey Comiskey Comis- Comis key ey figures it out and ought to know Jenow as he has built up several of them It takes about ten minutes to break up upa a winning organization if f the man who owns it can make male a deal that Quickly William F. F Baker pulled the foundation from front under his blockhouse with the stroke of a pen the tho other day Baker had a near champion ball club in the tile Phillies a pennant winner In 1915 1916 and a up runner-up in 1916 and 1917 The chief reason Baker had a pennant winner and contender was Grover Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land Alexander the tile greatest pitcher In baseball and Bill Killifer one of the greatest catchers When he lost them he lost more than Alexanders Alexander's ability to win more than thirty games a season and Killifer's ability to catch more games than any other receiver in the National league league league-he he lost the winning confidence of the rest of his ills players and without that his club dub should finish somewhere between sixth and eighth Theres There's a a lot a-lot lot of psychology In baseball Imagine if you rou ou will the confidence of a ball club going Into the field with Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander in top form in ill the box and Killifer Killi- Killi fer behind the tile bat Figures FigurE's do not lie and they show that Alexander wins Wills three games out of four he pitches These ball bali players know that they have only one chance in four of losIng losIng los los- ing Ing- with him and play up to the confidence confidence dence that knowledge breeds So aside from losing a pitcher who would add in the tile neighborhood of thirty victories to the clubs club's t season eason totals Baker has taken away a confidence that would bring other victories This fact Is one of baseballs baseball's first axioms In 1914 Connie Mack Macl stripped his American league champions of or half a dozen stars Since then the tho Athletics have finished a poor last The great Cub machine was broken into pitiful selling plater after winning a pennant The rhe loss Joss of ot one star Bill Carrigan cost the Red Sox a n pennant And now Baker will have twelve years to build up what he tore down in a few minutes S Of course there was some extenuation for Bakers Baker's action His Hia ball ban club has about reached the end of ot the road any any- way Cravath Luderus Bancroft Bancroft Ban Ban- croft Rixey and several others have been een up there for many years and have started to slip Baker Baiter undoubtedly figures figures fig fig- ures that he lIe will be able to buy a lot of new material with the money he obtained from the tho sale of his star battery with which he can replace his old stars as they fade S |