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Show Harbertson Supplied 'A' Punch who looks to be a good college col-lege prospect, fought and hustled as much an any of th smaller players and aank some mighty important buckets for the Class A squad. Then there waa Bob Sim- It's really quit interesting to review th circumstances surrounding th brilliant performance per-formance of Bob Harbertson. who still has th fans talking after aparkplugging the Class A squad to a sensational 48-46 win in the second annual all-star all-star contest. Th Claaa A aquad was to employ a fut-break offense, and this waa an unusual development, de-velopment, inasmuch aa most all the bigger schools in th state used a aet offense. Actually Ac-tually Harbertson, who did his prepplng for Ogden high, waa th only boy used to the faat-break faat-break offense consistently In prep ranks, and best -equipped for th taak. He upheld his end, too. Harbertson Har-bertson waa th smallest player play-er on the Claaa A aquad, but he dribbled, cut and suddenly broke through th middle of th Claaa B defense to rack up th Important baskets that wer indicative of victory. During th week he suffered from a painful ankle. He limped badly after th game. Aa little Bob Harbertaon ' racked up hia individual mo- ment of glory, there were . many othera. too. Good Hustler Take Sherman Crump, for Instance. Th big Jordan boy, I tified his rating as one of th finest to com out of prep ranks in many a season. Two Factors There are two factors that made Karren'a performance even better. A few short weeks before the graceful cen- . ter left Canada to join the Class B squad, he had been operated on lor appendicitis. There was some doubt as to whether he had regained his full strength for the tilt. But he came along fast and the coaches were in general agreement agree-ment that he waa in good ahape. Then, aa practice progressed, pro-gressed, Karren incurred a painful charleyhorse that alowed him down again. Immediately Im-mediately Clais B coaches expressed ex-pressed great concern over Tommy, but he played anyway. any-way. And how he played. Wally Beck Take the case of Wally Beck. The scrappy North Sanpete guard had never really had a chance to display dis-play his warea before a big crowd. . Hia team had never got in the class B tournament, tourna-ment, but Wallv racked up scoring marks for his school that are still something to shoot at. Friday before a big field house crowd Beck showed his stuff. And he waa good, there was no doubt about It. The victory by the Class A achools now evens the series at one apiece, as the Class B boys won the first tilt by s 27-21 score. Crowd Plraaer The 1950 game was s much better crowd pleaser and th kind that should be played every year. There wer no stalling tactics, and th two teams battled right down to the wire in a aensational nip-and-tuck struggle that was really something to 'see. Friday's gam also proved another contention. It's aim-ply aim-ply that th defensive player hasn't too much of a chance on th floor. When the boy with the ball starts dribbling, the whole show belongs to him. He can almost ride th defensive man off the court without Incurring any liability . on hia part. There'a no good reason why offensive charging isn't called more often. Perhap w ahould let this argument wait -until the real basketball season sea-son opens, but it always irks us the way the offensive player play-er is given all the breaks. |