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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett The Miners finished the season in a blaze of glory by taking Judge in easy fashion 71 to 38. jit wasn't the score that impressed, impress-ed, it was the way the team play ed together, and the perform-ance perform-ance of the understudies. Coach Wankier played everyone on the club and they all looked plenty good, especially this boy English ! who was not only high point man with 19 but was a whale of ja player in every department of I the game. This was a very encouraging en-couraging performance for Coach Wankier to know that he has a boy that can go into the line-up and in no way weaken it in any way. The team will spend their time in practicing and keeping in condition from now until tournament time. Who they will meet on the opening day will be decided this Sunday when the schedule is drawn up. Now going to the tournament! is nothing new to the fans of Bingham, for in years past there has been many a team from this hotbed of high school basketball in the big meet. For thirteen straight years Coach Tommy McMullin who is now our high school principal, took a team to the state meet to represent our town. Most of them good and a couple of them classed great but somewhere along the line lady luck would desert them and they were unable to bring home a championship, but in every case they were a credit to our community com-munity and their coach. After Tommy there was Sunny Allsop. He had a number of teams in the classic but he too had something happen along the way that barred barr-ed his path to the throne room. So now it is Udell Wankier who leads the Miners in their quest of, the crown and with the best wishes of every man, woman and child in the district goes the hope that his efforts will be crowned with success. This year's team has everything every-thing that it takes to make a champ. In Mannion they have the big boy to play the boards and take charge in the picot, and in Robertson they have not only a good scorer but a player that ' every tournament team must i have. A fellow that can supply the spark. Peterson is a great scorer and great help for Mannion Man-nion in playing the boards. Larry Stillman is the play maker and the ball handler and this little fellow can hit from outside when they clog up the middle to stop our big boy. Niksich is the kind of player that every great team has to have. He is rugged and he takes the load off of the fellows fel-lows that are inclined to tire. As I said English is just reaching his peak as a high school player and don't be surprised if he don't come out of this tournament as the dark horse for the Miners. The other understudys are all hustlers and if they have to go into the line-up, they will be trying all the time. So there they (Continued on page six) i ' into a cafe and saw a couple of : fight fans having a cup of coffee land one of the judges asked if I they had seen the fight, one of ithe fans said yes, did you? Too ;bad these things have to happen ljust when it looked as though j boxing wR3 beginning to see the light in our state. Don't know how many of you seen the Gil Turner-Bobby Jones j fight on TV Wednesday night. .Those of you who missed this ,one missed the scrap of the year. ! These two went after each other ifrom the opening round and ' there wasn't a let up in the entire en-tire ten. rounds. Jones was the underdog but he evidently forgot for-got to read the papers because I he at no time looked the part. First one then the other would i throw a flurry of punches but m the end Jones would take charge, j It was a split decision and it was I just that close. The majority of I a big crowd at the club gave Jones the nod but by a very small margin. This has been a great month for the shortenders because Jones Jon-es was the second one to win in a week. Last Friday Paddy De-Marco De-Marco beat Jimmy Carter for the i lightweight chumpionship in a fight where he was a 4 to 1 underdog. un-derdog. Turner fought as though he was under the impression that he could take Paddy anytime any-time he got ready but when he was ready it was too late. I have i seen Carter when he was a lol sharper than he was in this one i I think he took the Brooklyn i boy a way too light. They have I a 110-day clause in the contract and my guess is in the next one Carter will bo ready and Paddy J won't be around long. Next week at this time we should be able to tell you whal Bingham's chances are at Provo . So until then, this is 30. AL SPORTS HERE ! AND THERE ! (Continued from Dage one) jare folks and my belief is thai ; given an even break in luck, this will be Bingham's year, but 1 I also know that without that lit-I lit-I tie bit of luck that Ls so neces-'sary neces-'sary in a sudden death affair ol itliis kind that no matter how I good you are you just can't win i So I am going to say like th : colored boy shooting dice, lad) I luck please don't desert me now I I understand that the Wood- worth-Malone fight left a bac taste with the Salt Lake fans i The golden boy from Provo wor !but I understand the fans ar j wondering how. After the fighi I I heard that the judges walkec |