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Show Eight Tilts on Wednesday Title Slato Expected to Narrow Competition In Divisions 9 and 1 Of or Big Tourney; By CARLISLE STOUT After day's respite, M Men cage squads in Salt Lake's division tournament were to wheel into action Wednesday afternoon as second round play opened at the Deseret gyro. But it'll be the night games that will draw the most attention and create the most excitement in the battle for a berth in the all-church meet T Thrt tmm m ,h ehmP00- i i I. I ship flight are en Up Wednesday - evenlnc while only one title coo ! test was to be i played In the I afternoon. Twenty eighth was to - open the I seoond round at I 1 p. m. in a con-solaUon con-solaUon battle I a g a hut Bonn-j Bonn-j 1 1 I I stake's j T h I r t y-tnlrd 'ward. : la what are expected ex-pected to. be the t w e feature games of the evening, the up- jj seiung ufcnm ' crew meets Sixth-Seventh at t p. m.; and the powerful Harvard squad squares off against Eighteenth South. Play in the tournament was suspended sus-pended ' Tuesday and will also cease Thursday, but will resume Friday, with finals slsted Saturday Satur-day night ' . ' Close Osnse The Harvard vs. Eighteenth South promises to be the closest of the two features. The former squed upset Twenty-eighth la the opening round Mondsy. And behind be-hind the brilliant floor games snd shooting ability of Ray Olaea and Harold Short, Harvard stands a fine chance of toppling the Southerners. South-erners. But Itll be close game. Eighteenth's Eight-eenth's passing attack Is one of the finest end smoothest m the tourney. - Each player knows and plays his part well, and,- consequently, conse-quently, the . team play ranks sbove par. Bob Benson Is the biggest of the big guns In the Eighteenth stuck. st-uck. Monday he tossed in 23 points against Thirty-third, snd he's expected to turn In another brilliant performance Wednesday, High Scoring When Edgehill battles Sixth-Seventh Sixth-Seventh It'll be a smooth-working machine against a squad of high-scoring high-scoring tosssrs. Edgehill ground out a 23-21 victory over the touted tout-ed Forest Dels club la the opening open-ing round, and Its defanslvs play is superb. . Edgehill depends en Rex Geary to mark up the points. Geary, a high-scoring guard, is also the 1940 University of UUh football captain. cap-tain. ' Flee Besksteers Sparking the Sixth-Seventh attack at-tack will be Mark Tolieh, former All-City center from West high. Forward Don Msyne is the other scoring threat on the squad. The final game Wednesday pits Thirteenth against South Bountiful, Boun-tiful, and the contest should be a classic, also. Second round play In Division 10 opens at Jordan high with Winder playing Crandvlew In a consolation consola-tion battle at p. m. Grandvlew Is a heavy favorite to win this game, having beaten Winder la league play this season. Play In Division 10 trill continue through Saturday without a rest, ss only five gam as are being played each night. The Union-Pleasant Green contest con-test at 10 p. m. should be the feature fea-ture game of the evening. Union tripped Winder, 37-23, on the opening night, Monday, and Pless-snt Pless-snt Greea edged out Grandvlew, 31-29, In the last few seconds of play after the losers hsd led during dur-ing most of the game. |