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Show Gunnison Cagers Lose In Openers Friday's game Monroe, 26. Gunnison, Gun-nison, 18. Saturday's game Bicknell 29. Gunnison, Gun-nison, 25. Gunnison cagers failed in two attempts at-tempts with the opening- of the winter win-ter schedule of the Sevier division of basketball, losing to Monroe Friday night and to Bicknell Saturday even-ng. even-ng. It was a streak of "hard luck" in one instance and superior generalship general-ship on the other. At the opening-game opening-game played in Gunnison Friday night, Monroe brought a lucky "rabbit "rab-bit foot" and some fast floormen and when they returned to their home town, they carried victory, the scoio being 26 while the Gunnison lads eno ed the game with 18 points. Air-tigh;, defensive work by Monroe guards, and the clever work of Koeter, center for the visiters, who clouted out 12 points during the game, was the evident." that caused the defeat of the Gunnison Gunni-son Valley high school quint. Gledhill, Gled-hill, right forward for Gunnison, and who was severely injured in a practice prac-tice game at Manti early in December, Decem-ber, was high man for the locals. Gledhill got six points. Others scoring scor-ing for the locals were Bauer, 2; Nelson 4; Villardj 5 and Tollestrup, 1. The opening game in Gunnison was well attended, many local citizens turning out to see the big boys "scrap." Monroe was well represented, represent-ed, also, and while the Gunnison boys took a "licking" the fans were well paid, as they witnessed some real playing. Saturday night the locals motored to Bicknell and got a whipping, the x score being 29-25. It might have been .v the long arduous trip over the mountains moun-tains that beat the locals, or it may have been something else. At any rate,Gunnison held the Wayne county lads evenly and was leading until the last quarter when the Bicknell quint "spurted" and closed the performance by winning. Preceding the main game Friday evening, the second team of Gunnison Gunni-son had a "tilt" and Monroe was victorious, vic-torious, winning by a score of 12-7. |