Show I i. i Can n Coach Fitzpat Fitzpatrick i k Duplicate licate N Norgren's o r g r e n's ns I I I ck of 5 Q Y Years e Ago 1 I. I i East t Sending Practically Fresh B Basket Basket- Basket j I f c ball Team Back to National Cham- Cham ChamA A I IC J C V c plon Tournament Tournament T I I 4 t J f 1 I f j Coach TOI Tommy Fitzpatrick of the University l v of of Ut Utah h. h be bc b bv v able to pack home the bacon from the national basketball i at Atlanta V I i This question is one of the paramount interrogations t in local j I now JIOW that the Crimson mentor has lias raised the where to tb take liis his stalwarts gold medal hunti hunting 1 National titles were somewhat some some- I what what of of- ofa a a dream in ill these until l' l Nels Norgren invaded Chic Chicago go hk his past east bench warriors a. a few years ago azo and Jack Dempsey t plighted Jess Willard at Toledo Nels Nets Norgren headed Chicago way he had a much more formidable I quint than Tommy Is carrying with him into Georgia for the simple reason that 1 Norgren's team Steam had completed a full run schedule of or games and was a seasoned hardened aggregation The scrappy I Irishman has practically a fresh lineup the only games of the season being two this week He lie will wilt pit Ill five fl against winning l teams in the various sections of the he c country It would v Vl n not t be fair Cair to the present Crimson athletes to compare them with the Utah team that w won n the champion champlon- of of the United States in the windy metropolis as they have had no chance this year ear to display their talents It Is Isa isa a afe safe afe bet however that the present da day clay pla are not any better than Hap Van f Pelt Lowell ell Romney and oth others others rs of litja d the old guard Some fans are criticising Coach Fitzpatrick Fitz- Fitz patrick for Jumping In and taking his quint to the big tournament after a wrecked season but It is a good boost for tor the state slate for or the University of Utah and Salt Lake to dabble in national Jt It Is pickings the east benchers bench bench- ers era will finish up close around the top when the big fuss has ended Jt It was Just five years ago the Chicago tourney was won von which made Utah a reputation in the hoop sport that it should con continue to keep alive and not let It die a slow and natural death The Atlanta people have offered 1000 guarantee to Utah as an inducement to get that quint at the tournament thinking thinking think think- ing that the Mormon team and one world champs will be a great drawing card in the East which no doubt they will i This will be the longest trip a Utah team has ever taken and outside pt of the I Los Angeles Athletic club team I Patrick will travel the greatest number I of oi miles of oC any quint in the tournament i Business men and merry pedestrians I yesterday loyally to the cause piling up a pot of or While it is Is a bad precedent to set set this sending University of Utah coeds coedo and students among the business section of the city I to raise athletic funds the donations were gladly given It is hoped however that the authorities on the east bench benc I infill get financial matters adjusted soo soon that It will be unnecessary to as' as ask I t s. s but put dish up uP the sort rt of C I that will attract enough people 0 to toI athletic thle lc contests at the university to v- v nii nike hoOt t ds me t. t I I Will ViiI Will he bring home another world championship to Utah His chances are slimmer than were were Coach Nels Norgren's In in 1 1915 16 when that trick was turned I ft 1 ts s t 1 r t Coach Tommy of the University of of Utah t h |