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Show Friday 13th, Too Much For A.C. I Unlucky Combination Caused them to - fl Lose to L.D.S. Basketball Team. The A. 0. of U, basketball team ought to havo won that game with the L. D. S. U. team Friday night, but It didn't. At tho end of the 'steenih round, with tho visitors but one ahead and a foul called on them,, Sister Rvans was unable to deliver tho goods and tho blow almost killed father. Tho final score was 3.1 to 32, the Salt Lakers winning bv the skin of their teeth, as It were, and that's what makes us all unhappy. But what more could liac been reasonably expected on Friday not only Friday, but Friday tho Thirteenth? Thirteen-th? Thirteen Is considered unlucky for most people but It has ever been an extraordinary hoodoo for' everything every-thing connepted with the A. 0. For Instance, John U. Culler was born on the 13th; the big Are there happened on the 13th; the famous male cow that died there recently was born on the 13th and died on the 13th, and several of the best men connected 'with the Institution during recent years left on the 13th. As for the A. C. of U. basketball team, the game on Friday, the 13th, was the thirteenth game played (Including practice games); the boys rushed onto the floor at exactly thirteen minutes after eight and time was called at 0:13; Holslngton, the referee, was exactly Cfect thirteen Inches in height; then, one of the team ate supper with thirteen thir-teen at the table; the timekeepers wero born on the 13th,and It is almost too bad that they didn't croak on the 13th, just beforo calling time. Last, but not least, each of the A. C. team was thirteen years old once. Now, what on earth, In tho heavens above or the arid regions below could overcome such a combination as that? All tho totem poles In Alaska, all tho voodoolsm of the Hindus, all the temples tem-ples In Zarahemla, all the paternosters, paternos-ters, beads and crucifixes in Catholicism, Catholic-ism, all the sacred bulls In China, all the gods of mythology and modern politics, including the Invincible Teddy Ted-dy and tho Smoot machine, all the ITarrlmans, Rockefellers, and Morgans Mor-gans In a bunch couldn't have prevailed pre-vailed against such a handicap, so the Aggies may be excused. The game was a fierce ono and a delight to tho spectator except when the A. C. boys would pitch the ball over, on top, around, behind and actually act-ually Into the basket and then And that It had not staid there. During H the first half, out of 4D.t superb oppcr- iflH tunltles for the ball to roll Into tho flBJ A. C. basket It went In but 13 times : sec that THIRTEEN again? The L. jlfl D. S. team would take long shots at flflj their basket with absolutely no chance flVj or hope of making It, but the ball H landed and stuck 21 times tho tlrst half. When the Aggies came onto the floor In the second half they lcok- cd anything but discouraged and started In like whirlwinds and they H kept It up Their team work went H better and though luck was still against them they ran the score to 32 'flfl before time was called, the L, D. S. having 33 tallies to their credit. A second before the whistle blew a fatal " had been called on the visitors and it ,H was'up to Evans to pitch a basket and lH even the score. But he didn't do It M tho unlucky thirteen combination had hoodooed him, and ho threw the ball thirteen Inches too high. U This gave the L. D. S. team second H place in the-State A. A. A., and the ' Aggies lost those sliver watch fobs ' given as a prUc. The gamo attracted fully 1300 people. IloUlogtoo, a mem- flfl ber of the Y. M. O. A.lteura refereed fll In a fairly satisfactory way. SI |