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Show BINGHAM'S BASKET BALL TEAM ? 7 ill ) -ri rr. i . - - -'yr;r?i' ZZ' Back row (left to right) Walter Rimby, William Greathouse, Coach McMullen, Lamaure Marriott, Lawrence Stillman; Front row Adolph Chira, James Siddoway, Bryon Thomas, Myles Gaithwaite. j all the fans. The floor work was far u-! u-! perior to that of Jordan and the team work was the best the local team put out this year. The final score of the game was 20 to 37 for Bingham. The following Friday the Bingham team defeated the Murray five in the Murray Gym and by winning that game won their undisputed place in the tournament. There is but one more game for the locals, that is March ihi 2nd with Tooele. March the 7th the team goes to tha ttate tournament where evtry loyal supporter expect ti sre them bid strong for the championship. By Tom McMullen, their Coach With the High School basket ball tournament only two short weeks distant, Bingham's prospects pros-pects are once more looking good for a championship race. The Bingham quint have played play-ed a total of fourteen game:', and have lost but one of these. They have played seven league games and have won all of these with the exception of the first one which dropped to Jordan Jor-dan on the Bingham floor. This of course, was a great disappointment disap-pointment to the Bingham fans as well as the team. But the team was not the kind to quit in the face of defeat but immediately immed-iately began to patch up theii weak spots which were so clearly clear-ly defined in the Jordan game, they defeated - Tooele and Grantsville on their own floor and Murray on the Bingham floor. Then came the crucia' game of the year that was with the Jordan on the latter's Jio -r. If Jordan beat Bingham it was proof enough that they were the better team , but if Bingham Bing-ham beat Jordan it was sufficient suffi-cient proof that Bingham was asleep when Jordan beat them earlier in the season- As each day passed away be-for be-for the game each moment grew more tense and finally the night of the game found such a continuous string of cars leaving the canyon that it remined one of the French troops entering Rhur. At last the first whistle blew and with it came such an enthusiastic cry for victory from the many fans that it thrilled the players play-ers to the core; defeat in their minds was impossible, because, they knew how much confidence confi-dence every fan had in them so with determination that could not be stopped, every man took his respective place on the floor. For the first few minute! cf o'ay neither team scored but o"oc when the Bingham teim eot started they were never hended by their rivals. The bar.ket shooting of nil the team was indeed a treat to |