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Show TIGERS AND RAMS TO COLLIDE HERE FRIDAY NIGHT Th!. official 1S5S basket-ball season opens Friday night, with Milford entertaining entertain-ing the Parowan Rams. The game won't be a walkaway, walk-away, but the Tigers should win it, to start the season off in the win column, for a change. According to up-state sports writers, Millard is the f m in this district, with Delu..' second sec-ond choice and Milford the dark horse. Mel Heslington, Beaver principal, prin-cipal, says Beaver "hasen't even a prayer this year," with no returning re-turning first stringers, but in Beaver's favor is the fact that winning is a tradition with them, with or without a prayer, and their well-filled trophy case tabs them as always dangerous. dan-gerous. Milford, with the potentially best team in many years, enters the casaba wars with their perennial per-ennial handicap of having been the 'floor mat of the district too long they aren't used to winning, win-ning, and apparently have entered en-tered all their important games with the mental handicap of past defeats. If this squad can forget the past and decide to win ball games, they can upskt the dope in the Millard district. dis-trict. Last week, in the final preseason pre-season game, they played at Wayne High, and dropped at 60- dicision, but three regulars were out of the lineup and the score does not reflect the ability abil-ity of the Milford squad. Boyd Horton, a sophomore suiting up for the first time tills year,,vent in to sink two field goals (tieing for tops on the Milford squad) against the hotshot hot-shot Wayne High aggregation. The Wayne box: |