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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt With the exception of a few scattered games next week end, football is in moth balls until the Bowl games. Basketball is king. Our high school team has already started by playing besides a few inter-squad inter-squad games, they met and defeated de-feated Juab high at Nephi Wednesday Wed-nesday night 54 to 42 with all-stater all-stater Jack Mannion scoring 20 points. Coach Wankier started Bobby Peterson and Larry Stillman as the guards, Larry Johnson and Harold Yates as the forwards with Jack Mannion at the post position. This squad has good speed and ball handling ability but it sadly lacks height. With the exception of Mannion there isn't a six footer in the bunch. Peterson makes up for some of this by having good spring, but Jack must have more help on the boards. I think before the season is too far along he may get this needed help from Jerry Crellin. Jerry is well over six feet and has excellent coordination coordina-tion for a boy. All he needs is experience. Now these are the boys that started and saw most of the service in the opener but this is by no means the set line up, as there are a number of boys out for the team that may work their way into the starting line up. George Goris is one and Dick Susaeta is a good shot that may develop into a real ball player. Johnnv Arritola hne onma atnno real fast in the last year and he! has height in his favor. Russell Ritter is a boy I've watched since he has been big enough to throw a basketball and he has impressed me as a boy that would make a whizz and I stlil think so. Dave Cun-liffe Cun-liffe is another good prospect. There are a number of other boys that are coming along fast so the line up now may be all together different than the one that will open the season. The one thing I am satisfied about is that Coach Wankier will have the line up that will be the best of the lot. Local fans will have an opportunity oppor-tunity to see the boys in action today, Friday, at 2:30 p.m. when they entertain the Lehi five at the Copperton gym. The rest of Jordan Division will be rough as usual with big schools like Murray, Cyprus and Tooele having plenty of man. power. In the colleges it looks like Coach Gardner up at Utah has the horses this year to go all the way. The two big boys that transferred tran-sferred here with Gardner namely name-ly Bergen of Kansas and Bunte of Colorado proved their worth the other night in the Varsity vs Freshmen. Both of these boys came up with the kind of performance per-formance that has been expected expect-ed of them. The Aggies under Baker will again have a typical Baker team well grounded m the fundamentals of the game but handicapped as usual by a lack ui majipuwer. is. i. u. iinas uoacn Watts with more height than usual but lacking the big scorer of other years, such as he had in Ritchie and Olsen of recent years Wyoming again will be the team to beat. Coach Shelton will be hard to take. I think that this will be the year that one of the Utah schools will do it. See you next week. Al o. . WOMEN'S CIVIC CLUB XMAS PARTY DEC. 8TH Annual Christmas party of the Bingham Women's Civic Club is slated to be held Wednesday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Civic Centex. All members are invited. Hostesses for the evening even-ing will be Mabel Jenson, chair- j man, assisted by Ruth Jacques, ! Jennie Zampos, Lola English and 1 Hermine Feraco. I |