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Show y. m. c. a. team i BEATS B. Y. C. Score 26 to 24 When; , Time Was Called. I A Fencing Match Furn-i ishes Pleasure. ' H Salt Lake City's Y. M. C. A team BJ proved top much for tlic 15 Y C boys' H Monday owning and the llnal score In ; H the big game at the collect- gynusliim H resulted I'd to 21 in fax or of the xlsit- Jn. Though the score does not hull I catc lr.lt is a fact that the It Y. ( I team was hardly equal to the oinoi- genoy, for In the last half at least the I vlsliois clearly outplayed them at I every point. However, H must be I taken into consideration that the I coach of -the Y. M. C. A. team was I permitted to play as a substitute for a I disabled Salt Laker, and to him was I duo much of ttic effectiveness of the I visiting aggregation. During the past I few months the Y. M. C. A. team has I been in the hands of the same gentle-I gentle-I man who coached tha famous Wheaton J team, which took second place in the I great basketball tournament at the I St. Louis World's Fair two years ago, I and he it was who In the game Monday Mon-day night hcoicd eight points and threw three baskets for the vlsltois. The game itself developed into a sort of Itugcy football contest. It was a rough and tumble alfah in which at times cool headedncss and science were thiown away. Fouls- werc.yu-merous werc.yu-merous on both sides, but those of th! local team were more numeious. During the liist half the local team went into the game hammer and tongs, all lire and energy, and before the vlsltois iealled that they were really up against something woith the wlille, the half was ended and the ' orc stood II to t In favoi of the II. t ")n the second hah, however, the visitors not down to busineos, did very superior team work, while the li. Y. O. boys apparently Lecamc bewildered and apathy seemed to exist. They lost all their inteiest in the game, while the visitors, taking advantage of their opponents' condition, scored basket after basket They made up their lost tallies, and when the game ended the score stood 20 to 21 In the Y. M. 0. A.'sfaxor. Foreffcctlvo individual work, mention men-tion may be made of Jensen and Hill, of the local team, and Wright, of the Y. M. C. A., who practically won the game for his team. Fencing Contest. Hcfore the basketball game, Messrs. Itichards and Schneider, of the college, col-lege, gave a fencing contest of three bouts, the result of which was a scorej or s to." In favor of the latter. The! boys gave a fair exhibition, In which I Prof. A It. Wright referecd to the satisfaction of the contestants and' the spectators j Following the fencing bout there; was a short basketball game between ' two scrub teams of the college, the Hcds and Whites. This game was won by the former- :i to 0. Next Saturday the regular I! Y. C. team goes to Salt Lake City to play the Y M. 0. A. team, and the boys have contidence that they will put up a game that will be no discredit to themselves or the school. Naturally enough, enthusiasts and friends hope the local team will win. |