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Show ' Summit Loop Rivals Play Vital Game Traditional rivals wha last met In the championship game of the 1M1 state high school basketball tournament. tourna-ment. Granite and Davis clash tonight to-night at t o'clock in the Granite gymnasium for possession of the Jordan district top rung. Second teams wiU play a prelim at 7 p. m. Unbeaten In four starts. Granite holds the lead, while Davis, recently tripped by Cyprus, Is In second spot. A Davis win would tie Friday's rivals, but Granite will take the floor heavily favored becauee of the smooth manner in which Its famed defense works on the home floor. Homer Wade and Milo Rupp are key performers for the Granulans, Reed Stayner and LeGrande Gregory Greg-ory are expected to spark the Dart attack. Summit Teams Play When South Summit high school cagers invads North Summit's gymnasium gym-nasium at Coalville Friday to battle for the top rung of the Summit district, dis-trict, they will bs seeking their school's fifth victory over ' the Braves in the 12 years Clarence (Silky) Knudsen has been coaching coach-ing North Summit. In that time, the South Summit wins were 23-14 and 31-24 in 131, 35-29 In 133 and J 21-17 in 1937, while Knudien's boys wera chalking up IS triumpha with scores ranging from 29-t in 1928 and 55-11 in 1937 ta 15-14 In 1932. Both teams are unbeaten after four 9 starts thjj year. Other Vital Gamee Other Important prep basketball games Friday match Bear River mwA tha nKulAn Oyinlh Parh, lm which leads tha Logan-Ogdea district. dis-trict. Pleasant Grove and the 'j Alpine district's unbeaten Lehl J crew. Saline and Monroe for the V North Sevier top rung, Hinckley V and the Milford squad which is J seeking victory No. 5 In the Millard I race, and Parowan and Dixie for the S1 ' Dixie district lead. Dldjn know , . . t'lntah high af Vernal, which haa won 44 consecutive con-secutive district games since hark In the 1933 aeaaon, had all ita flrat half games (four) at home, and now must play Its second half eon-, eon-, teats away from home , . . that ' ' Tooele, aa weatern division win-' win-' ner with throe vietortea in fnor starts back In 1916. before the etata tournament waa sponsored by the Utah Ulgh School Athletic naaoriation, attended tha (then Invitation) In-vitation) affair, but loot the first game to Box Elder . . . that Taff Watts, then of Fillmore, led the Millard district scoring In 1936 With 111 points In seven games T Splendid Record Granits, defending the state cage championship, haa won 114 games and lost only 31 in 12 years under Oach Cecil Baker, and only once during that period has failed to gain one of the eight places awarded . In the state oaaaba tournament. In ' the Jordan district, the Granitians have placed first five times, second I twice, thirJ four times, and pace the field so far this year. Floyd Hotter, former Monroe high and Brig ham Young uni-vrralty uni-vrralty athletic star, haa coached pre paters to 19 vietortea against thret defeats In four years. After graduating from the "V In 1934, - he piloted Sallna to the North Sevier district title three yeara In ' n row, five games being won and one lost In each aeaaon. Now at Milford, his ehargee have recorded record-ed four straight vtctorlee. Mall orden for t&U baskttball tournament tickets are being ac- cepted by D. R. Mitchell, aecre-I aecre-I tary of the itate prep association, j,' at hii office in American Fork i high achool. The ducat a will be on - sale at the Deseret gymnasium in Salt Lake City site of the tourney March 6, from 4 to 6:30 p. m.; March 11, from It a. m. to 5 p. m., and March 13, 14 and 15. from 4 to 6 p. m. The four-day event opens March 15. The Lincoln-Brig ham Young high I school game of the Alpine district, originally scheduled at 8 p. m. In the B. Y. V, women's gymnasium, has been advanced to 7 o'clock, ac- t ; cording to Coach Dave Crowton of ) the "Y" prepsters. A preliminary i" game will start at 6 p. m. |