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Show : mm mmm ?lm& as wfi:. ' . : , , i Mutual Hoop; Meet Opens In Gym With Cowley, Wyo, 183 chamo plona, out of the tournament, a new ruler will be crowned In the M Moa basketball leegue aext Saturday night at th Deseret gym at th conclusion of play ia the all-church meet. - . Competition opened ' Wednesdsy afternoon, with St. Johns, Aria, playing Elysian Park of Loa An-geies, An-geies, Beaver West of Beaver, Utah, met Lovell West of LoveU, Wyo, Oakley Second of Oakley, Idaho, tangled with Manavu of Prove and Wasatch of Salt Lake City played Oakland, CaL , k At a p. m. th Foeateh die- vri-C-k ' ' 1 cltaTJltpkHMp McOeMI WW Oil, Idaho, will pat eei a battle with) , tha -strong Ogdea Fourth, wh era at th Ofrdea trtt, t pea ' th vniag eessisa. An. hour later tha fast-passing Bennion team will oppose Circleville, Utah, Richfield division kings, ia what should be a close contest. . Beanion's two sharp-eheoting for- wards, , Stern Woods and Dick Blanck, along with Ua stellar guard, Johnny Labrum, . are expected te pull tha gam out at th fir for the champions of th southern division di-vision sf. the Salt Lake district. . Feature Battle At I fc. m. comes what should be the feature tilt of th day, when the two runnera-up from the Bait Lake division tangle with Eight-eenth, Eight-eenth, ropreeentlng th north, and South Jordan battling for the south la a typical civil war encounter. On comparative scores, South Jordan should be given th edge, but with Ralph Tucker lanky crew of veterans, led by Ray Guyman, AM Deri and Bill Vanderwerff, playing their best ball under fire, th Oakasoa brothers, Russ and Warren, War-ren, will have to hustle all the way for South Jordan. ; Th day- activities will doe with another topaetoh battle oa th eard whoa tha popular Logaa Fourth team, run Mr-op met year, plashes with tha BpringvtUs First five. Although th Spring-villa auint mum ta aa the oeeead-.plaes oeeead-.plaes team front Prove dtvtaloa, they mast hav something ia their favor, aa they took th aseaeur of Booth Jordan ta a playoff bastes bas-tes t aaaars themselves a Beta la th tournament. ; On of th moat colorful spectacles spec-tacles of th event will be staged Juat prior to the Eightoenth-Bouth Jordan game, when tha flag ceremony cere-mony will take place. Flags of th United States, Canada and Mexico, Mex-ico, the three' nations which had teams participating In M Msa be-' ketball this season, will be carried I around th gym at th bead of a I procession of all players from all team. , Nattoaal Aatasae National anthems of all thro countries will be aung and the participants par-ticipants la th games will each be awarded a medal ia honor of their splendid work which placed them In the tournament. Th tourney will continue through Thursday, Friday and Saturday. |