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Show B.A.C. GETS DIRTY DEAL IN TOURNEY Voifeits Empty Honor Rather Than Submit to Manifestly Unfair Oflieial Ruling. WERE ASKED TO PLAY DEFEATED TEAM TWICE Unprecedented Demand Fvidontly t Prompted hy jMitewwy Mealtmw Utah Tram. Which Han Won Too i Often Bin Ovation is Planned for. As soon as the members of the It, A. C. basket ball team are released from quarantine, they will he shown one of the biggest ovations ever tendered tend-ered to a victorious local team, by the business men of the town, an I the students and faculty of the : ehool, for' it is the concensus of qii.iion here that the team is just as much the winners of the state tournament as if they had brought home with them another trophy in the form of the official pennant. pen-nant. The team defeated and eliminated elim-inated the strongest teams arrayed against them Weber nnd Sprint' ville, but because th'ey refused to play Weber a second time, and give them another chance at the championship, cham-pionship, (something never before heard of in athletic tournaments) they were declared out of the contest, by the bunch of noodles who unfortunately unfortu-nately were placed in charge of the tournament. The B. A. C. was ready and willing to meet and play any team present which they had not already defeated, but rebelled when they were asked to "chaw their terhaccer over twice" to satisfy the whim of two or three biased and unreal nablo o"ic-ials. o"ic-ials. At first glance it might appear to one not initiated into the game and unfamiliar with the circumstances, Miat the best way out would have been I for the B. A. C. to have waived their ; objections and played against Weber team a second time Some one says, "If the B. A. C. team was the strong.. i, and had defeated Weber before,1 they certainly could do it again." But we must not fail to take all the point! into consideration. Weber was rep recanted by 18 players, the it. A. c. by 8. Tle officials, by their demand inprecentod In the annals of basket ball contests, that the B. A. C. play a defeated and eliminated team a second time, showed plainly that they were jealous, of the southern Utah team, which hail come up out of the Mge-orush, Mge-orush, so to speak, and carried off the honors to a sparsely settled district dis-trict already on more than one ocea ion In a rough bout, the Weber team could have sacrificed half a doi in men and still had plenty left lo keep their ranks full and to spare, while had two of the B. A. C. men beea knocked out, they would have (Continued on page four.) H H. A. ( . (JETS DIRTY DEAL IN TOURNAMENT H n out of the playinjr. Ajrain, the M Weber team would havj siezed upon H a second chare to contest with the B. H A. C. just like it was found money. H They would have gone in with noth- H iny to lose and everything to win, H while the B. A. C. would have had H nothing to win and everything to H lose. This could not have failed to I strongly affect the niorule of the M players. And with a liased referee m it is plain to see what muht have H lieen done to the southern Utahns. H But Jack Christensen has not been A following the (jatne for ten years for H nothing- He scented the rat, and took H the best and only means of protecting H his team against a glaring injustice M and of showing up the corrupt of-' H ticinls who tried to put over the dirty M play- Everybody recognizes the jus- i H lice of the It. A. C.'a position. Even H tfie Welter conch frankly admited the M justice of our stand, and ndmittod to H Coach Christensen that he would do H the same under like circumstances. M .1. lv Moss, of the I.. I). S. at Salt H Lake, W. Ashton nnd L. II. Peterson H constituted the committee in charge of H the tournament, were responsible for M (In- filurof i )! i..ui iwuii..iii. When, H the H. A. C. refused to give the Weber H team a second chnnce at the champion- 1 ship, Mr. Moss announced that It. A. M C. having withdrawn form the con- ; m test, there were "four teams tied for H SECOND place." Thus freely admit- H ting thnt B. A. C. had won first place. H The action of the committee will do H more to discourage clean honorable H school athletics than anything thnt m has come up in many years, but the officials responsible will be taught a mt wholesome lesson nnd MM B, A. C. was H in a lieiin position to do it than any 1 other team in the state. H The It. A. ('. will go into the tour- H '.am. -lit. from present indications, H with a more formidable line-up than H ever before, and will be bringing back 1 championship pennants after Messrs. HI Moss, Ashton and Peterson hnve been HH relegated to the athletic bone-yard m and ure foi gotten. H The It. A. C. in the minds of all fair H thinking people is the winner of the B statu tournament this year, even if M a designing and jealous committee did M see tit to award the pennant to a M WBOol which had been defeated by, M the II. A. C. on a score of ",( to 42, j B and by playing which was commended M by these same officials for its cleanli- M The committee was given the pow- M er to arrange the contests in the op-1 M .ning game arbitrarily, but were not ! fl empowered to interfere with the sub- j B sequent arrangements, which would B automatically take cure of themselves. B That there might be no misuudcr B standing regarding the position of the B H ranch Agricultural College in with- H drawing from the state basket ball B title race, Conch Christensen issued HB the following statement through the B Deserct News to the officials of the mt tourney before leaving Salt Lake with H his team: J "If Weber college, according to your B league officials, is the only logical and m roper team for us to play the last B night of the tournament, then in that WM ry ruling you acknowledge wc won B the state title. B "Brighnm is the only school that M had a chance to tie us for state honors B and you arbitrarily denied them the H privilege. H "We cannot conceive of any hifh H school so unxious for a little honor B that they will stoop to accept the ver- HH bal championship and no matter how M you officials arrange it you cannot this B year give them anything other than B (Signed) "JACK CHRISTENSKN." H |