Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 28 | Miller Upsets Wasatch

BaggsLeadsr: Scoring in FirsHtound Eighteenth ward opened defense of Its Salt Lais. Interatako basket-ball basket-ball title Monday with a 35-23 vic- tory over Richards, while Miller eagera upset the favored Wasatch crew la a bitterly fought 23-2 gams at the Deaeret gymnasium. In Wednesday's second round games. Miller plays Third, 84-27 winner win-ner over Twenty-sixth, while Eighteenth Eight-eenth opposes the powerful Murray Second crew, which Monday downed Tale 54-23. ' Fifteenth nosed out Bingham 46-44 after the Bingham-Ites Bingham-Ites staged an exciting last-quarter rally, and Wednesday wlH play the Granger crew, 47-22 winner over Grantsville Second. Cottonwood Wins SoutH-Cottonwood handed' Bountiful Boun-tiful Second a 66-22 defeat to remain re-main in the title race, and Wednesday Wednes-day will play Mldvale, S-2t victor over Waterloo. Championship flight games will start at 4 p. m. Wednesday. Wednes-day. Brilliant shooting by Winchester and fine floor play by Doug Leg-groan Leg-groan marked the surprising Miller triumph. The victors hsld a three-point three-point margin in the first and third periods and limited the losers to seven field goals, but conversion of 10 of 11 free tosses kept the veteran vet-eran Wasatch crew In the race until the closing minutes, when a goal by Leggroan clinched this feature battle. Ray Baggs paced Fifteenth with 23 points and the favored crew jumped to a (-0 lead in the first minute of play. Tom Carrigan and Hurley led Bingham in a rally to forge ahead 22-18 at half time, but Macka Kendall, Bingham ace, was stopped by Fifteenth's defense, and Baggs resumed his bombing tactics to, pace a winning spurt. Johnson Seta Pace) Bill Johnson and Dells totaled 32 points in leading Murray Second. The victors gained a 18-3 advantage in the first period and were never in danger. Laurey Piatt, Chick Wade and Benson scored from all over the forecourt as Eighteenth held a commanding lead throughout Its game. South Cottonwood gained an early lead and held a comfortable margin all the way as Ereksoa caged 28 points and McDonald scored 18 toward a 27-goal total. Ben Labrum led the smooth-passing attack. Ed Bennlon rang up 23 points and Frank Mackay scored 12 as Granger downed Grantsville, while Paul Ma-xuran Ma-xuran and Parish led Mldvale in its triumph over Waterloo after trailing trail-ing 8-11 in the first period. The clever shooting of Davis, who scored 12 points, paced the attack of Third In one of the day's beat games. Charles Cedarstrom was best for the Pioneer champions.