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Show Tournament Side-Lights The Intermountain Junior College Col-lege basketball tournament last wees tasketball tounxment kt wees end proved that Cedar City Is still the best tournament town In the conference, and should be named as the permanent site for the annual an-nual event. The 1943 tournament was the most successful since the last one held here several yeais ago. Cedar City people supporteJ the meet so well that the revenue collected more than doubled that taken In at the tournament in Ogden Og-den last year. . When the B. A. C. team won the conference championship Saturday night at least six members of the team were playing their last ball game for the duration, since they will enter the armed services on March 18th. The players who will report on the 16th. are Elliott Cameron, Les Mathews, Don Phillips, Phil-lips, Wayne Uobblns, Bob Cook and Leonard Mickelson. Other members of the championship team are in the reserves and will undoubtedly be called to duty soon. ... iWo members of the amazing Cedar City Eagles, Kent Dover and Con Hatch, are also expected to report on March 16th. ... Arland Petersen, who played on the Reserves and who has been on the B. A. C. squad all season is also among tlione called to duty. Clair Rosenberg, diminutive forward for-ward on the Snow College team was one of the most popular players play-ers In the tournament. He wa3 probably the smallest man In the meet, but he didn't let It interfere with his playing. was an enthusiastic en-thusiastic and colorfu' player. Probably the most unappreciated player in the tournament was Roger Nellson, Snow guard; He received very little notoriety, but was one of the best men in the meet. He was quiet and unassuming, but was a smart and consistent player and was In there plugging all the time. Carl Bcuhler, Weber guard, wa3 one of the best sports In the tourney. tour-ney. He seemed to be one boy who was playing "for the fun of It," bit at the same time did a "whale of a job." ' ' Gene "Strawberry" Walker won the plaudits of the fans. He had played but little before the meet opened, but went Into the B. A. C- Webor and B. A. C.-Dlxle games at critical times an Ideal spot to 'blow up", but he came through with cool, steady performances, and really sparked the Farmers to greater efforts. Reed Swenson, the Weber conrn. stirred up a big stink about the schedule but after it was changed it reacted against his team, and he ran Into the two toughest teams In the tourney B. A. C. and Cedar City Eagles. Swenson thought the Eagles would be a soft touch for any team. And speaking of the Eagles they Just about stole the show. Especially Espec-ially when they trimmed the pre- tournament favorites from Ogden. The Carbon team was eliminated from competition early but they showed the fans some of the best all-round 'hot-shot" shooting of the meet. The reforeelng, done by Don. Barney of Ogden, Red Osborne of Cedar City, George Beal of Eph-ralm, Eph-ralm, and George Snow of St. George, was consistently good. In some games It was very technical. Tills was especially true of the championship game, handled by Barney and Beal.' . The foul pitch rule which permits a team to take the ball out or bounds and thus keep possession rather than take a free shot, was used frequently In the tournament. The B. A. C. and the Eagles, the two outstanding teams of the meet, used it the most frequently. |