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Show Tigers Open Season Against Millard Here The MilfoM High Tigers will be "under pressure" all the way Friday night when they meet the Millard Eagles in the Milford Mil-ford High gym, to pry the lid off the official 1950 basketball season. Millard and Beaver are on top of the pre-season dope, with Delta and Hinckley rated as the teams most likely to pull upsets, but Tiger fans who don't mind going out on a limb with their predictions rate the home town lads as most likely to produce pro-duce the upsets, and list Hinck-' ley as a definite favorite to win the district title. Messrs. Jones and Buys, two gentlemen from Payson who have been officiating at basketball basket-ball games for a good many years, will call the game. Jones, according to reports, has officiated offi-ciated at the state tournament and has been working with Mr. Buys for several years, and the two referees have worked into a competent, -smooth-operating pair of off icals. !see BASKETBALL, Page Five cause they didn't keep up their scholastic standing. Included among these are boys with ability abil-ity who are potential first-stringers first-stringers in the years to come, but they cannot of course make the team in one year, and these early years are most important at learning the fundamentals of the game. L & B Cafe last summer. Farrell Fotheringham, 5 ft 8 nch Senior, returned to Milford after a stay in California. He was employed at a grocery store, and is playing his first ear. Roland Fowles, another groc-?ry groc-?ry clerk playing his first year, is a 5 ft 8 in Junior. Fowles could turn into an outstanding player if he got interested enough to really put his mind and heart into the game. Ray Mclntyre, 6 ft 1 inch Sophomdre playing- his first year, will have a big future as a basketball player. A forward, for-ward, rangy and shifty, he appears ap-pears awkward at times but will polish up with experience 1 and willrack up an impressive point total before the season is over . Phil Rex, a 5 ft 9 inch Sophomore, Sopho-more, is playing his first year. Phil is still an "unknown quantity," quan-tity," but appears to have the ability and should develop into a regular in his Junior year. Paul Rhodes is a 6 ft Junior playing his first year. He is husky, and might have been a first-stringer had he taken an interest in athletics earlier in his school life. He worked on the U P last summer. Paul can advance in athletics about as far as he really wants to. Gerald Stoker, another 6-footer 6-footer who spent the summer as a U P employee, is a senior with one year of experience. He has proved a valuable player in preseason pre-season contests, and should hold his regular berth all season. sea-son. Clyde Turner, 5 ft 6 inch Junior, has been a hustler and rustler for two seasons. He is a mainstay on the squad, and although small he is fast, and rugged, and will hold his starting start-ing post next year as well as this. Clyde can always be depended de-pended on for needed points. LeRoy Griffiths is another farm worker, who is a newcomer newcom-er to the squad. He is a 5 ft 8 inch freshman. Tommy Bradfield, 5 ft 6 in Sophomore, is playing his first year of basketball. ' Six freshmen and sophomores who have turned out for basketball basket-ball are at present ineligible be- Here's More About BASKETBALL Continued from Page One Coach . Perry Neal, Tiger Mentor who has been working hard with the 1950 Tiger edition, edi-tion, has his fingers crossed on j this opening game. "A win , r '' over Millard would be about the swellest present the boys could hand me," Coach Neal said, "but I dunno. They're sure loaded with talent this year. Did you notice how they handled some of those northern teams?" There's no question that Millard Mil-lard has excellent talent, and they're out to win the district But the Tigers are all in good shape and anxious for action. As Coach Neal pointed out, they will have to "play over their heads" to win Friday's game, but Tiger fans have seen the squad go to work to win games before. Following is a thumbnail sketch of each of the basketball Tigers of 1950: Dick Bracken, 5 ft 5 in Junior Jun-ior is playing his first year as a squad member. He spent the past summer working at the L & B Cafe, and played on a soft-ball soft-ball team. Dale Brimberry is a Sophomore, Sopho-more, 5 ft 8 in tall. He carried a paper route during the summer. sum-mer. This is his first year of basketball competition . Herb Coon, 6 ft Senior with, two years experience, worked on the U P last summer, and played softball. Herb was a regular last year, and is expected expect-ed to rustle a good many points for the Tigers this year. Bob Crane, 6 ft Junior, also has two years of experience under un-der his belt, and is expected to be the "wheelhorse" for the 1950 Tigers. He was employed by the Utah State Highway De. partment last summer. Dick Fisher is a 5 ft 10 inch Sophomore, playing his first year. He was employed at the |