Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-02-07 | Page 14 | Casaba Lead at Stake in Six Prep Contest

Casaba Lead at Stake In Six Prep Contests By TOMMIE PORTER A half dozen spotlights will be necessary Friday evening if vital feature games of the high school basketball campaign are to get their share of the well known illumination from that I triple tie for third place, Including Murray. Roosevelt, with five straight wins including one at home over Uintah's defending state championsinvades cham-pionsinvades Vernal to meet Uintah a'galn in what may be the deciding game of tha Uintah district dis-trict race. A home team win would tie the rivals for first place. Unbeaten Leaders Clash Hurricane and Dixie have each won six In a row in tha Dixie district, dis-trict, so leadership will be at stsks in the St. George gsme. Dixie, with what seems to be one of the strongest teams in the history of the Fliers, is favored to take snd hold the top. - Milford, defending Millard district dis-trict champion, spilled last week by Beaver from unbeaten kingship king-ship to a tie for the lead with Delta, will have quits a tims remaining re-maining on top sgainst this traditional tra-ditional foe. apparatus. For the North Cache at Ogden, Murray at Bingham, Roosevelt at Uintah, Hurricane at Dixie, Mil-ford Mil-ford -at Hinckley and Montlcello at Blending games share top billing bill-ing in Frldsy night's casaba program. pro-gram. North Cache will be defending leadership of the Logan-Ogden district, where It has won seven of eight gsmes. It was beaten at home six weeks sgo by Ogden, 30-28, 30-28, so Friday s game takes on added add-ed attraction. Ogden has since lost at South Cache, 30-31, and at Logan, 33-34. Murray Needa Victory Murray, sharing the top In the Jordan district with Granite and Jordan, has won four in a row after dropping the season's opener, 26-30, to Tooele on the Murray floor, seeks Its second win over Bingham. The Miners won at home last season, 36-16, after losing los-ing two games annually to Murray Mur-ray since 1934. Since Jordan should win at Cyprus, snd Granite is favored over Davis, Murray must win to continue sharing the lead. A Bingham Bing-ham win would probably create a