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Show I Pleasant Grove I District Champions HI Wins ('rent (.'nine I'rom I'rowi After fl liming llefcutcd IIutj Team In the HI League. HB Out? of 11k. greatest crowds, that Bfl ever bow u basket ball game In Utah HH County, witnessed one of tho greatest HH gamcB, tluit was ever pulled off In HH these parts, at tlu Apollo In American Bfl Fork, Inst Monday evenhiKt when tin HH Pleasant drove high school team HH snatched lctory from defeat, and won HH the district clinmplouslilp from tile HH Provo iiulntette with a score or 23 to HB About 2U0 people cntiio from I'rovo HH niid as many more from Pleasant HB drove, three hundred from HH American Fork and Lehl making up- HB proximately 700 lieople who saw the Bfl ' game, (!17 of whom paid admission HH at 25 cents each. I'rovo brought the HH Kppersou band with them, and came BH full of cotiflilenco because, of their HH ono sld(,d victory over American Fork HH last Friday, when they won with a BB score of C2 to "I, l'roo had defeat- Bfl cd every team In the league, and lout HH but two games. Pleasant Grove had HH also defeated every team In the league HH and lost but two games. HH From the time the whistle blew the HH fans got the worth of their money. HH I'rovo scored first on a foul, and HH next on a basket. Their lead, how BH over, was short lived, as Pleasant BH Urovu soon was one ahead, and the B two teams alternated several times In BJ their leadership. When tho whistle B blew for Intermission, the, score stooC B 12 to 10 In favor of I'rovo, but the B gamo was so close that Pleasant Bl Grove wad In no way dlscourugcd. Bb In the second half I'rovo held the fl lead up until eight minutes beforo the B end, when West mixed with a I'rovo B nmn and was npparently out of tho B game. However, after ten minutes of HH being rubbed, ho limped back Into the H game, and from the" n tho game H was simply furious. Three, minutes H beforo tho end I'rovo was six ahead H and things looked pretty blue, with H I'rovo dancing up and down like a lot of wild lieople. Pleasant Grove H then made a dllllcult Held basket, and H tho 200 rooters, assisted by many H from American Fork and l.ehl, com fl menced cheering, Two by two I'rovo's H lead was reduced, and when the hcoi H was Med, paudeinonluli reigned hii- B preme. Proo seemed bewlldeied H Pleasant Grove put forth every effort B and when tho whhitle blew the wholi B house seemed to be dancing on th fl floor, and old men wero hugging each B other Intoxicated with joy. Tho vie B tors wero picked up and carried about B tho hall. Victory had been snatched B out of tho very J.iws of defeat. Plea B unlit Groe had won the champlui B B Pleasant Grove, Is now In I'rovo fl playing with the other teams who won B district championships, and stands fl first class chance or winning tho Htat. B champlniishlp. B The lino up and summary: B Pleasant Grove (23) I'rovo (21) H Wilson If Boshnid fl West if Henry M II. Walker c Kggertson Clark Ib "llo P Walker rg Bulled B piclil baskctH Wilson 2, West : m II Wnlker 1, P. Walker 3, Boshurd 2, h Henry 2, Kggortsou 3, llullock 1. M Wilson pitched 7 out of 18 fouls B and Doshnrd and Halle C out of 13 |
