Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-02-07 | Page 15 | Third Ward Shares First Spot

Third Ward Shares . First Spot ly CARLISLE STOUT Diminutive Gene Ludlow, the southpaw who pitches baseball, Softball and baskets with equal eaae, chalked up 14 points Monday to pace Third ward In a 35-5 victory vic-tory ever Tenth aa his team retained re-tained a tie with First ward for the lead In the Liberty stake M Men hoop race. Ludlow, who plays forward, standa about five feet six. He plays one of the finest floor games la the stake, and la a strong eon-tender eon-tender for top acortng honors In the league. But next Monday, he'U have his biggest lob of the season when his team plays First ward, . Will Mam Dsnseaa For the game will decide the stake championship, and from all reports, rt will be the hardest bet-tie bet-tie of the season for each squad. The teams are pretty evenly matched now, as First lost one of Its regular players, John Duncan, to the University of Utah freshman fresh-man squad. This leaves First ward Bob Thayer, Thay-er, Treagagle, Jack SUM. Ray Stahl and Phil Son tag as forwards; Bob Tadje and Lan Stone as guards, and Roy Csmpbeli, center. Son tag paced First to a 41-33 win over Thirty-first Monday with 14 points, although he played only part of the game. Stone, tall guard who la also a Softball pitcher, counted 11 points for the winners. . Flay at Psssrsl Oyaa Besides Ludlow, Third ward has Grant Snarr, Fred Aste, Wayne Tucker and Joe Lundskog in Its regular lineup. Each one of these players Is a master at his position, snd they're given a slight edgeto win ever First next Monday. They play at the Deseret gym In the second sec-ond game of a four-game slate that winds up the regular schedule. The four top teams in the stake will enter round robin play February Feb-ruary 19, to decide a berth in the Interstake tourney In March. The runner-up In the Liberty stake round robin will most the Wells stake runner-up later, and the winner of that contest alee goes to the interstake meet. . Twessty-flfth Wins Twenty-fifth ward captured first half honors In the Pioneer stake race by a final period rally that netted It a 32-21 victory over Thirty-second. The winners trailed 16-18 to start the final quarter, but Abe Hollenbeck sank an ever-head ever-head toss that marked the starting point of a 16-polnt rally. Larry Cowan chalked up 14 counters for the winners, while Truman Little also peppered the hoop. Twenty-fifth Is favored to finish the round robin with a clean slate after that victory, and if It does It will win a berth tn the Interstake tournament. Thirty-second, on the other hand, recently dropped a decision de-cision to Sixth-Seventh, and will have to sweep the rest of Its round robin games to finish In the running. Wednesday Games Wednesday finds some excitement excite-ment In Bonneville stake, The leading LaCrand crew meets Thirty-third, which la tied with Yale for second place In the stake standings. LeGrand la favored to win. but If It doesnt It still has a berth In the big meet. Yale ward should boat Yslscrest In another Bonneville clash. And about February 14 Yale and Thirty-third Thirty-third will play off a protested game which should decide the entry to the interstake meet