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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Basketball as far as Utah schools are concerned is over. BY high of Provo won the class B championship by defeating Beaver in the final game 31-26. Beaver was strictly a dark horse, but they came north with about as scrappy a team as one would care to watch in action. BY high was led by Christensen at center and he was the outstanding boy in the meet. Not too big a boy, standing around the six foot mark he could do everything a good ball player is supposed to do. Dribble, shoot, guard and a whiz under the basket. Another one on the-BY team was Christiansen, Chris-tiansen, a little fellow that was all over the floor. On the Beaver team Pearce was the outstanding outstand-ing boy. The old time baseball fans of Bingham will remember his dad as a catcher on the U. S. Mines team. The Jordan division didn't do too well in this tournament Tooele losing the first night and Murray the second. There may have been tournaments where there were better teams, but there never was one that had more close games. For example BY high wqn three games by six points, one of them in an overtime over-time period. So we of Bingham give out with the old Brooklyn yell "wait until next year". Eckers Studio team of Salt Lake are making a swell showing show-ing in the National AAU tournament tourna-ment being held in Denver. They have signed Gardner, Smuin and Woodward of the Utah team and Nelson of BYU. They are now ranked up there with the favorites, favor-ites, Phillips, Denver Nuggets and the Oakland Bittners. Arnie Ferrin, Utah's all American, Amer-ican, has left to play in the East vs West all star game to be held in Madison Square Garden. Arnie Ar-nie willjbe a star in this one. There isn't any wonder that amateur sports get into a muddle every so often, because their governing bodies can be the most inconsistent of any group of men in the country. For instance Brady Walker of BYU had played play-ed five years so they tell the Y you can't play in the NCAA tournament. tour-nament. Washington university has a five year man, but they can play. No explanation, nothing. noth-ing. Just Washington can play, BYU can't. Why? Your guess is as good as anyones. Boxing has ' been banned in Illinois until April the seventh, in the meantime the commission is going to give a thorough investigation. in-vestigation. Now if the other commissions around the country would do the same and mean it maybe they could do something about cleaning it up. Because it stinks and I mean in every state commission or not. I understand there is to-be an athletic show at the club Wednesday, Wed-nesday, March 31. It will be the first one since before the war so we hope it will be a good one. See you next week. AL |