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Show Dixie College is Host to the Inter - Mountain Jr. College Tournament Today is the day that all basketballites, or whatever you call a real dyed in the wool fol- lower o the casoba wafting sport, have been waiting for. And from the way the tickets to the local fracus, have been selling : everyone in this neck ot tho woods must be a real "ite." Judging from the advance information in-formation of the teams that will take part in the tournament, if heights mean anything, all are on an even basis. Dixie and Ricks each have the same average aver-age with the total of the nine players averaging up to five feet eleven. while Westminster is , right behind with an average ot , five feet ten, leaving B. A. C. last with five feet nine. If these figures are right, we have been I misled in regard to the height of , the "Westminster team. All information in-formation before this was to the effect that they were a short team. In checking the roster we note that their shortest men are Wycherly, Kuchs, and Wolfram, 1 each are listed at five feet eight. 1 Wheat-lake is the tallest with a height of six feet two. Ricks 'has two, Peterson and Watson, which are six feet three while in Benson B. A. C. also has a 1 six foot three player. Six feet one seems to be the best Dixie 1 can do but in Benson, Church and Neagle they have three that have that rating. According to the printed program pro-gram for the tournament, Dixie's ' team averages nineteen and a - half years old, has a height aver-" aver-" age of five feet eleven, averages 171 pounds to the man and has two-thirds of a year college bas-. bas-. ketball experience. Westminster .averages as follows: Ages eigh- - teen and a third, height five feet ten, weight 144 pounds, and has four ninths of a year average in college basketball experience. '. Ricks averages twenty and a half ' years, height five feet eleven, weight 162, and four nineths of .' a year college basketball exper-; exper-; ience. B. A. C. averages nine-' nine-' teen years, is five feet nine in .' height, weight 15 6 punds and ' has an average of one-and-a-half years colege basketball exper-; exper-; ience. This gives Ricks with twenty . and 19 the highest average; f Dixie with an average weight of 171, is nine pounds heavieT than the Ricks and twenty-seven pounds more than Westminster, which has the lightest. So if age ; means anything Ricks has a slight edge, or if weight counts J then Dixie is out in front. However How-ever there might be better ways of picking the winner than this. One of the other favorite ways is to pick the coach and put your money on his team, however, in this case it would probably be a case of each team's supporters believing that their coach wa3 the best so perhaps that doesn't get us anywhere. Bleacher seats have been constructed con-structed and if present indications indica-tions mean anything every one of them will have a wild basketball-ite basketball-ite occupying them. Coach Hafen reports that everything is coming com-ing along in fine shape and the committee is prepared to handle the crowd in splendid fashloD. W'th B. A C. as one of the contenders, con-tenders, ;;iore should hi ?. large influx on wild eyed fans from Cedar. B. A. C. gav Dixie such a close voce for tho southern title, even though Dixie did win ; three out ot four, that anything can happen when they or the ', other teams meet. Representatives of all the schools arp present. . These in-c'ude in-c'ude William G. Barton, president presi-dent of tho league, Charles Wall, secretary, ,-i.nd Oswall Christen-sen, Christen-sen, arbitrator. These fficials with representatives from the other schools in the conference, meet in the Arrowhead Hotel this morning, Thursday, to confer con-fer on the many problems connected con-nected with the staging of the tournament and also to make plans and schedules for the coming com-ing year. It nas been suggested, and many of tlie schools favor the plan, that the league be divided so that all Utah schools will be in one and Idaho teams in another. an-other. This for Uthh would add Westminster and Weber to the present league which has Snow. B. A. C. and Dixie. Those in favor of this plan point out that it would enable each state to have a league of its own and at fhe end of the season a tournament tourna-ment could be arranged between the winners of the two state conferences. The one bad feature fea-ture is that it would require the . Utah teams to make long trips I for their games. Particularly would this be true when the Northern teams and Southern teams had games together. The final standing for each team gives Ricks the edge, they won all six of their league games, gam-es, and in their practice on the local floor Wednesday, they looked look-ed mighty fine. Dixie headed their league with six won and two lost; Westminster is nex with four won and two lost, an'' B. A. C. is last with four wp and five lost. The first night brings Rick-? and B. A. C. together and Dixie and Westminster. Looser? nr thee games will play the winners win-ners on the following night and Saturday night will see the championship game. Under the (Continued on last page) TOURNAMENT I (Continued from first pagel schedule of games as may be necessary to have an Saturday morning tra game on baturaay This was the case last year ui the tournament at Cedar. Jacobs of Ricks college is the leading scorer in the northern Junior college basketball league The Rexburg ace has scored 6 points this season. Watson of Ricks is right behind wu i 62 points. Kauch of Westmii.ste, tops all the guards with 3 3 points. The scoring table follows: FORWARDS G FGFT F P Jacobs R 6 29 11 8 64 Wycherly W -.6 20 36 16 56 Woods R 25 3 3 53 Leavitt W 6 19 11 5 41 Croft A 6 13 20 13 39 Snedacker R 5 17 9 2 36 Snow W 5 16 11 2 34 Brown A 6 15 8 3 i3 Foley W 6 13 8 5 31 CENTERS G FG FT F P Watson R --6 14 8 " two w 6 15 8 4 3 Wheatlake W .-..6 9 17 8 26 Peterson R 6' 10 7 5 25 GUARDS G FGFT F P Kuchs W 6 15 7 3 33 Scoresby R 13 5 2 28 Wilcox W 5 10 14 8 28 Wilhams R 6 10 6 3 23 Prescott A 5 8 7 6 22 Green W 6 8 10 5 21 Final averages released by the southern division of the junior college league show that Nae-gle Nae-gle of Dixie and Christensen of Snow, forwards, tied for scoring honors. Each made 81 points. Naegle made one more 'field goal than his rival, but Christensen Christ-ensen had two more foul tosses. Gardner, B. A. C. guard, in addition to topping the defensive defen-sive players, finished second in the standings. He made 74 points. Schmutz, Dixie, led the centers cen-ters with 6 6. The Dixie ace played guard in two games, which kept him from making a h.'gher total. INDIVIDUAL SCORING Forwards G T F P Neagle D 33 20 15 81 Christensen S 32 23 17 81 Church D 24 24 10 58 , Armstrong S .17 17 7 43 ' Fl. Whicker B.A.C. 10 19 11 31 Peterson B. A. C...12 7 4 28 Adams B. A. C 10 2 1 21 j Centers : G T F P : Schmutz D 26 34 14 66 ; Anderson S 24 22 10 58 ; B. Benson B. A. C. 22 18 8 52 Jones B. A. C. 15 8 7 37? GUARDS i G T F P j Gardner B. A. C 30 22 14 74 I Hal! S IS 22 11 47 ; Garrett S 16 15 10 42 1 (- H. Benson D 18 9 6 42 j . Eyre B. A. C 14 13 10 3S j Pectol D 9 17 13 31 I |