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Show Delta and Beaver Meet Friday; Delta Tops Eagles Basketball season is now in full swing with the Delta Rabbits playing play-ing the Beaver team this Friday in the Delta hall. Many people think that Beaver is going to be easy to beat and according to the score at the Hinckley-Beaver game we should be able to do so. We have a fast basektball string this year and Fillmore found that out. All the games this season are going to be good and fast. We invite in-vite everyone to them even tho the reserved seats are very hard to find now. Seats were put on sale Monday morning and by Monday noon there wasn't a seat left of the 950 available. All games that are to be played in Delta will be held in the big stake hall. Approximately 1300 people attended the game with Fillmore. FILLMORE- DELTA GAME The game with Fillmore was played last Friday night at 8 p.m. Both teams were cheered as they came onto the floor. It was hard to get the people quieted down. If you did not attend these games, you certainly missed an ear-breaking, throat- cracking, leg-aching, eyestraining, and thrilling evening. eve-ning. The first point was scored by the Rabbits in a foul pitch. The two teams tied three times during the game. D Ray helped build the tight defense around Day of Fillmore. Fill-more. Last week Day tallied 24 points. Christensen doing stellar work limited Day to six points. The Pep club did a stunt during the half. It was cleverly worked out. The band was there also and furnished music during the game. The Rabbits were playing a defensive de-fensive game against the Eagles, rather than an offensive one as was played a year ago. There were 1300 peoole in attendance. at-tendance. The Big hall only has seating room for 950 persons. That mean't 350 people wre standing. They saw the game and enjoyed is as much as those with seats. Merlin Christensen does not think any team will go through the year without a loss. HINCKLEY WINS AT BEAVER . After a thrilling and exciUng game at Beaver on Friday, Jan. 11, the Mustangs of the Hinckley high school pranced to a victory over the Beaver Beavers. The score was 33 to 31. Heppler, of Beaver, was high point man of the evening, making a total of 12 points. Sheldon Western, West-ern, with 11 points to his credit, was high point man for the charging charg-ing Mustangs. Delta G T F P Knight, f, 4 0 0 8 Fullmer, f, 16 4 6 Fullmer, c, 4 2 0 8 Moody, g, 0 10 0 Christensen, g, 2 115 11 10 5 27 Fillmore G T F P George, f, 16 2 4 Huntsman, f, 2 3 15 Petersen, c, 0 3 2 2 Hansen, g, . 110 2 Beckstrand, g, 0 0 0 0 Day, 2 4 2 6 6 17 7 19 Score by quarters: Delta 7 11 19 27 Fillmore 5 9 16 19 , |