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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Basketball has reached the tournament stage. Bingham High School won the Jordan division as expected and will be a representative repre-sentative in the Class B tournament tourna-ment at Provo. This is one year that I think their chances are good. The people of Bingham Canyon have waited a long time for a state champion and I think ' this could be the year. , University of Utah has won the Skyline Conference championship champ-ionship and will represent the. k mountain states in the N.C.A.A. playoffs at Corvallis, Ore. ! Let's face it, they have to meet San Francisco in this one, and I don't think they have either the height or the ability to take this one. University of San Francisco has one of the real great college teams with two All-Americans on it, in Russell and Jones. Rus- sell has been picked as the player play-er of the year. I understand Jones will be ineligible to play in the playoffs. If that is the case Utah has a chance. I don't think that will be enough to stop S.FAJ., but one man. especially Jones, can make a big difference. All we can do now is hope and pray. Of course they have to win one (of their games this week end. On the local scene there isn't much news outside of the high school basketball. Everything takes a back seat until after, the tournament. On the fight scene, Gene Fullmer Full-mer has signed for a fight in 1 New York. Layne has gone into semi-retirement. At least he hasn't has-n't anything on the fire at the present time. Another Utah middleweight, Garth Panter is in Africa. Garth is under new management. His i former manager Pete Guacombe and Chick Oliver turned him loose. Garth should quit but he is trying to pick up a fast buck. Hope he makes it. See you later. |