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Show Liberty Five Beats Third Ward Quint By GLEN C ANDERSON Bryant High Coach Liberty ward of Liberty stake upset up-set the powerful Third combination in last week's play, to gain a place among the four team now deadlocked dead-locked for leadership there. It is th first defeat Third ha suffered this season. Liberty, with a group of ball hawk led by Roldo Call and Levi Hunt, is now at even money with the champion to take second half honors. Although West Jordan ha practically practi-cally cinched th West Jordan stake raoe, by trouncing it nearest contender, Bingham, in last week's play, they are by no mean secure as th interstate entry from this area yet A round robin between best teams of this league will be staged and it will be necessary for West Jordan to emerge victorious to gain this berth. C McKay of Granger acored S3 point In last week' encounter with Spencer, to make th best Individual scoring record this season In District Dis-trict tea play. Fifteenth's B squad want down fighting, for it's first defeat since entering regular league competition, at th hand of th leading and undefeated un-defeated Nineteenth team, 3S to 25. Bruce Hanks went wild for the winner win-ner and couldn't be (topped. South Cottonwood, present leaden In Cottonwood staks. squeesed through to a victory over Bennior in on of th most thrilling gamei seen in this league to date. Not mor than thro point separated thew opponent at any time during thi last thre quarters. The cvor wai 27 to 18. Ben Labrum' foul pitching was th deciding factor. A crucial gam to decide the second sec-ond half leadership In Highland staks will tak place Thursday between be-tween Waaatch and Edgehill, both undefeated. The Utter has demanded de-manded great respect of late with 1U brilliant play and Is rated equal to th task of upsetting Wasatch and running off with second half honors. A special game was played In Grant stake last week to decide the first half winner between Miller and Grandview. They war deadlocked dead-locked with five victories and one defeat Grandview, weakened by th recent loss of Dick Iverson to the "U" freshman team, wa defeated de-feated n to 12. The Miller combination, with Roy Simpson and Harry Leggroan sotting sot-ting th pace, 1 now expected to enter th lnterstake tourney without with-out further trouble. The University ward aggregation, paced by Monty Toronto, won their fifth straight gam In Ensign stake last week to keep their standing with Eighteenth, at the top of the league. They have Improved their game to auch an extent that with a littl luck they may prov capable of toppling th lntrtak champions. |