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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett The high school team didn't do so well against Cyprus losing by 38 to 56, but last Friday night Cyprus looked like the best team in the league. I thought Tooele had the team but as of now I say it is between these two. We play Grantsville tonight, Friday, and up to now the Cowboys have been hard to take on their own floor. Utah beat BYU in the Cougars' new field house 51-48 before the largest crowd ever to see a basketball bas-ketball game in Utah, 8500, with plenty of people turned away. The Aggies had already beat BYU at Logan on Friday night as Bert Cook went wild with 27 points. So the Cougars have their work cut out for them now, if they are to retain their title. Wyoming has gone along at a winning pace since their loss to the Aggies, and they look like the team to beat. Jordan high in the A division of Utah high schools, has come up with one of the truly great high school teams of past few years. Two of the boys are sons of former great athletes. Joe Vranes is a son of John Vranes, a former Bingham and Aggies star and Pete Dow Jr. is a son of Pete Dow, a former Utah football foot-ball and baseball star. I am writing this Thursday so we will know tonight if Rex Layne can again reach the top. He and his manager, Marv Jensen, Jen-sen, resented some of the things said about Rex after his fight with Garner in Salt Lake. So instead of fighting Conlon Chavez Cha-vez in Salt Lake they took a Boston shot against Willie James, Jam-es, a young heavyweight from New England. I understand they had already gave their word to Jim Downing, the local promo-tor, promo-tor, but then called his match maker to tell him the Salt Lake fight was off. Not a good way to win friends or influence people. peo-ple. If Rex makes the same kind of showing against James as he did against Garner, when those Eastern writers get through with him the local boys will sound like they were his press agents. We have a number of boys working out at the club now with the AAU tournament in mind. Will tell you more about them after I see them a couple of more times. See you next week. AL |