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Show Wasatch Trimmed By Gunnison Quint The Gunnison Giant basketball quint added more feathers to their caps and incidentally climed a step higher in the art of the fascinating game last Friday night when they took the Wasatch academy players to a trimming in a fast game at Mt." Pleasant. The final score ended with Gunnison's team credited with 31 points while their opponents succeeded suc-ceeded only in landing 18. Insofar as players are concerned both teams were pretty . evenly matched. The five-man defense of the Gunnison quint, however, proved the undoing of the college boys, and try as the losers may, hey could not break the "strong bunch." Morten-sen Morten-sen and Childs of the locals played superior basket ball, and with the splendid support of the fellow players, play-ers, the victory was easy. Desch-ner, Desch-ner, Long and Williams were the outstanding players for the Wasatch boys. The score was as follows: Gunnison G. T. F. P. Childs, rf .. .. 3 5 4 10 Bartholomew, If 3 0 0 6 Modeen, c 0 0 0 0 Mortensen, rg . . .. .. 6 5 3 15 Collins, lg . . . . , 0 0 .0 0 Totals . . .... . , .12 10 7 31' Wasatch Academy v G. T. F. P. Deschner, rf . . 4 11 9 Nielson, If 13 0 2 Owens, If .0 0 0 0 Edman, c 0 0 0 0 Simmons, c 10 0 2 Williams, rg . 0 0 0 0 Long, lg .......... 2 2 1 5 Totals . . 8 6 2 18 Referee, Madsen; umpire, Deschner. Desch-ner. Big Double Header : Saturday evening basket ball fans will be afforded a big entertainment at the Gunnison Valley high school, when a big double-header engagement engage-ment will be staged. Through the activities of the local . school fans two teams will contest here in preseason pre-season games, the contestants being Manti, Bicknell, Ephraim and Sa-lina. Sa-lina. In the first bout Manti and Bicknell will compete and the second number will be between Ephraim and Salina. Rumors has it that all four teams are fast and fans are promised some real entertainment . The first game opens at- seven prompt. A big crowd is expected here from Ephraim, Manti and Salina Sa-lina and each contender will' have "side-line-rooters" yelling for their respective teams. ' " |