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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Our basketball team showed the lack of practice in their game against Pleasant Grove and they lost. Coach Allsop used almost every man on his squad and as a result is beginning to get a pretty fair line on the material-He material-He has picked his squad to go on the trip to the southern part of the state and I am sure when they get back we will see a different dif-ferent team. The other teams in the district dis-trict are playing pre-season games, gam-es, and some of them look pretty good. Grantsville, Tooele and Cyprus have good looking squads. So at long last the Slate High Sschool Athletic association associa-tion has divided the state tournament tour-nament into an A and B division. divis-ion. The B tournament will be held in Salt Lake and the A division in Ogden. The only bad feature of this set up is that they are being played at the same time. The B division starts one day ahead so it is still possible to see all of the teams in both tournaments. The decision to separate the two divisions has long been an issue, but uniil the A division schools showed such a superiority super-iority in the last few years, they were reluctant to make the change. J for one think it is the only fair way to have the tournament, because in late years the big high schools have had a monopoly- They still have to take care of Provo and Carbon but that shouldn't be too hard. I am sure we will see closer races in every league and the B schools showing a great deal more interest. The Salt Lake entry in the New American league is busy signing outstanding players. The last is Jim Turner, he is a all-! Pacific coast center with Idaho. Jim is a big boy 6' 5" and 200 pounds. Here is what looks like their starting line up. Laddie Gale 6' 3" and high point scorer in the nation while playing with; Oregon state at forward. Morse 6' 4" from Utah state or Skinny Fullmer 6' 4" from BYU at the other forward post. "Stretch" Duncan 6' 7" from William and Mary and a sensation while playing play-ing with Camp Kearns great team- On the guard line they will have two of the best in the Rocky mountains, Ralph Crowton 6' 6" j and Alquest 6' 5". You can see j they have plenty of height and most of them over 200 pounds and fast. Their first game will be against the San Diego Dons on the 18th of this month. All of the Salt Lake games will be held i in the Deseret gym. A great j many Bingham fans fare planning plan-ning on being there. The Bingham bowlers did right well in the city tournament held last week-end at the Ritz alleys. Bill Ablett and George Sluga won the doubles title. The Ritz ! Classic team won the team title j of which I am lucky enough to ' be a member, and Bill Ablett. 1 Frank Zaccaria and yours truly finished in the money in the singles- I believe Zac had high game with a 258 in his second game in the singles. In the Gemmell major league the Bingham Merchants went into in-to the lead by taking three points from Uinta Club, while BDAA was taking three from Princess theatre. Dan Delaney had high series of the week with a fine 599. Dan had a new ball and it looks like it was what he needed. Jim Abplanalp Ab-planalp is one of the toughest , in the roll offs. When they beat , Jim they are over 200. See you next week. So until then a good buy is a Victory Bond. AL |