Show pom eos by A T roberts chronicle sports editor buffs biffs su suffer fer first loss when they A are re hu mIl by hil y cyprus 42 to 20 one oi of those n gats when every i f went wrong a night when we should have stayed in bed took place in the cyprus gym last friday n one when the gun s DL ending the game cyprus boasted of the first win over the tooele thoele buffaloes by the over whelming score of 42 20 the f quarter was a tight defensive b battle bittle ittle with both teams keyed up and playing a tight gabie tooele thoele managed to stay pret ty close to the r impaling pirates thanks to three charity tosses and the per od ended 5 3 in f favor avor of the blue and gold cold clad in the second period the roof caved in on the loop leading buffs and the pirates led by dave coffey and stan johnson beat a steady tattoo on the hoop to rack un ut 17 points while holding the buffs to 4 points A field goal by charlie lee and a pair of free throws when the gun ended the first half cyprus had a huge 22 7 margin Everl everything thing went wrong it was more of the same in the third and fourth periods and it seemed that no matter what the buffs tried or how hard they play ed everything they did went wrong and while lady luck was frowning on the buffs she seemed to take special delight in touch ing the pirates with her magic wand as everything they did turn ed out perfectly not that we mean to infer er that the pirates victory was lucky far from it but it just the buffs night remembering glen horse rupp s 28 points in their first meet ing coach Su minner hale assign ed boyce dimick the task of wat ching mr rupp and watch him he did holding rupp to absolutely NO counters two starters watch game with rupp held in check and glen bones Hamil hamilton toTi and no buro iwami watching most of the game from the bench because of illness the pirates could roam up and down the floor almost as they pleased stan johnson played the part of the ball hawk and set up the plays for jack fraser and dave coffey these three boys split the string for 33 points lee leathern leatham outstanding for tooele thoele there was no ex auses or no alibis alibi s offered visibly weakened by the loss of hamilton and iwami they literally fought their hearts out but it was just no soap charl chad e lee and dale leatham turned in the best games for tooele thoele with bantom billy griffith going like a whirling der vish during his stay in the fracas now the big question in tooele thoele is what is wrong with the buffs and what happened over in mag na first of all there s nothing wrong with the buffaloes tooele thoele plays in the fastest class B league BOX SCORE TOOELE CYPHUS P P I 1 dunn coffey 16 8 lee johnson 10 0 bupp rupp dimich dimick 2 b Leui tiam fras fraser er 7 0 bleazard simo simons ns 4 0 hamilton roberts I 1 2 iwami thurman 2 4 griffith orton L a 0 0 gillespie rushton 0 0 bunn 0 20 TOTALS 42 score by quarters tooele thoele 3 7 12 20 cyprus 5 22 34 42 in the state its it s almost humanly impossible to expect a team of high school kids to go through this league without suffering at least one or two set backs the fact t that hat coach clarke johnsen has S steered his charges through eight consecutive victories is ample proof that he has a fine cage squad under his wing and just because they took it on the chin from a really inspired and good cyprus quintet mean that they arent aren t a powerful club coach johnsen praised then the law of averages just caught up with them and like all teams of athletes they had an off night when nothing they tried seemed to do any good coach johnsen has taken a young gang of kids and has mold ed together a team that depends upon close team work and fine co ordination ord nation to collect their wins the team is dependant on no one individual for its success but when two of the vital cogs in that machinery watch the game from the bench because they are not up to par thanks to a recent 11 ness it just doesn doean t make sense that the team is going to function as smoothly murray vs tooele thoele friday this friday is the season finale the powerful and vastly improve ed murray Smelt entes rites invade the home stamping grounds of the buffs in a game that has all the earmarks of a battle that no fan would want to miss murray can grab a share of the jordan league championship by defeating the buffs and thereby gain a berth in the state tournament tooele thoele on the other hand can clinch buted first place and go to the tournament as champions of the loop by turning back the smelter ites murray will be out to avenge a 30 25 loss they suffered earlier in the season while the buffs will be trying to recapture some of their lost prestige and rebound from the humiliating loss of last week five will play last game so there 9 the build up for the buffs last game of the season and the fans last chance to see too eles first entry in the state champ tournament ament in 31 years playing their last game for the purple and white in regular league play will be captain charlie lee dale leatham gordon bunn bil ly griffith and george bleazard mrs la var adams a student at the spent the weekend at the home of his parents mr and land mrs norval adams JOD I 1 defeats new town to remain as only unbeaten team iia in rec bop loop in as classy a basketball exhibition as you would want to see TOD no I 1 sent the new town ca gerg down to their first defeat last thursday night by the score of 46 42 and thereby remained the only unbeaten team in the recreational league before a large and enthusiastic crowd these two teams fought it out tooth and toe nail with the lead changing hands seven times and the score deadlocked on no less than four d efferent occasions or the b agest part of the game it looked ilk like red D dl DI I pana s squad would be able to collect the vie tory as otto graham amazed the fans fan with his uncanny long shots but these very same long shots proved to be the difference be t beeri the two clubs when with tale sor all fed tied UD ut at 42 42 john palmer planted his brogans to oether f red at the hoop and the ball arl t the strings with less than one minute to go then just for good measure jim palmer ad ded another field goal for the four po ito nt victory coach major poudre s charges took the first half of the ball game to get into high gear and for the biggest part of the initial canto they were behind the high flying new towners downers the half time score was wag new T town own 23 TOD no 1 21 as bob DOS wassom and clarke johnsen led the way wiy in the sec ond half TOD with J m palmer and johnny nelson finding the rang pulled up even and the two clubs matched basket for basket it was during the late stages of this frac as period that graham fired three consecutive long shots to put the new towners downers out in front the win for TOD just about clinches the league championship with only one tough game remain ing in their schedule and that one is to take place march 11 when they meet the once beaten eagles tourney conflicts with schedule inasmuch as the tooele thoele high school team has cinched a berth in the state tournament it might be a good idea for the powers that be of the rec ree league to see it if something couldn coulden t be done to have the schedule of march 11 moved up so that the fans of the league as well as the players would be able to get in to salt lake to see fi tb stat tourne it s i tc rich that there will be some conflict eagles post 74 33 win over american legion the eagles flew h gh wide and handsome to hang up the most lop sided score of the evening as they defeated the american leg on team by the score of 74 33 bill paulos playing his first game for the eagle quintet turned in a sparkling performance and his 14 b g points were largely responsible for the eagle win dave fernau cont aued to play an outstanding brand of ball controlling both and racking up 18 points to help in the cause angelo er also played a great game I 1 and bill mckendrick was a thorn in the side of the Legion aires as i his defensive work was ing for the american legion the work of erb johnson and dough erty looked the best as they scored 12 counters each oh yes keith allred copped high scoring honors for this game with 29 points TIPS deseret 33 25 26 when the league closes the top four teams will meet in a round robin play off for a trophy and looks 1 ke it will join TOD no I 1 new town and the eagles to forme that foursome served notice that it is out for that spot when the catholics turned back deseret by the score of 33 26 paul and john bezal and tony busico all got 8 points for while leon gates was high scorer for deseret with 6 points TOD no 2 downs Eng En glands londs a close 42 38 TOD no 2 collected its second win of the season turning back the england quintet by the score of 42 38 frank erickson and Blickens der fer proved to be too much for eng lands as they racked up 12 and 16 points respectively to lead the scoring and even though griffith of england got 14 po ants the ov er all scoring punch of TOD 2 was just too much to over come league standings TOD no 1 5 0 1000 new town 5 1 eagles 4 1 3 2 deseret 2 3 TOD no 2 2 4 am legion 1 I 4 st john 1 I 4 england s 1 1 5 individual scoring iame name team G T TP P AV new town 6 nelson TOD 1 5 83 16 6 johnsen new town 6 90 15 0 allred eagles 5 70 14 0 griffith england 5 60 mr and mrs vern leech re turned to their home last saturday atter after spending a delightful vaca tion visiting their friends and rel atiles in north and south dakota and dmn mr don cameron a student of the U of U and a son of mr and mrs 0 D cameron spent the weekend in tooele thoele |