| OCR Text |
Show Game Cancellation Gives Broncos Two-week Layoff Basketball fans of Cedar City, the members of he Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural college team and Coach Cleo Petty were disappointed this week when two scheduled games with the San Bernardino junior college were conceled. The California team was scheduled to play two practice games here, meeting the Broncos on Monday and Tuesday nights. The games were canceled when the San Bernardino team ran into travel difficulties while on I a tour of Arizona. The bus in which the team was traveling, was reported to ' have broken down making it impossible for the players to get back to their home campus and then make the trip to Cedar City. The fans were disappointed in not getting a chance to see the Broncos in action again before the opening of the conference race in January. The most serious seri-ous result of the cancelation, however, it that it leaves the team without any practice games before the race opens, and leaves the players inactive for two weeks. The first conference game will be played on Jan. 9. Coach Petty has released his players for the holidays, but will begin practice again on Jan. 2. The layoff may be damaging, but there was nothing much the coach could do about it. Just to hold practice drills for the full two weeks, particularly during the holiday season, may have had an even more damaging effect. ef-fect. The Broncos will meet the Carbon Car-bon Eagles in the first two games of the conference season, the games to be played in the BAC memorial fieldhouse on Friday Fri-day and Saturday nights, Jan. 9 and 10. The Snow Badgers will play the Dixie kebels at St. George on te same tw nights. mirviifHiri(i' |
