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Show 1ST. GEORGE SCHOOL ! WINS STATE TITLE i SOUTHERN UTAH HAS BRILLIANT RECORD LAST FOUR YEARSi i Dixie high school of St. George won the state basketball championship champion-ship by taking- the final game of the state tournament at Salt Lake City Saturday night. The Dixie Flyers-went Flyers-went through the tournament with a series of monotous wins, taking the last game with Pleasant Grove in nonchalant fashion, and being only forced to really extend themselves in but one game, that with Bingham. They will go to Chicago soon to represent rep-resent Utah at the national tournament.' tourna-ment.' Utah has a worthy representative, represen-tative, and they are expected to give their opponents a hot time in the 'Windy City.' . A favorite to win was the L. D. S. high school of Salt Lake City. However, How-ever, this team pulled its cork early in the tournament, and after loosing to Pleasant Grove in the semi-finals, was shoved down to seventh place in the final ranking. People of southern Utah may well be proud of the type of game played by our high schools down here in this popular winter sport. In the past four years, three state championships have gone to high schools right around this section. In 1925, Pan-guitch Pan-guitch copped the honors; in 192G the powerful L. D. S. team swept things; but Minersville and St. George came back strong the last two years to bring honors again to the south. In doing this, these small schools have faced determined opposition from the big schools of the state, such as the high schools of Salt Lake, Ogden, and Provo. Incidently, the Branch Agricultural College of Cedar City won the Junior College championship this year of Idaho and Utah schools, with the omnipresent Dixie Junior College second. Milford's share in bringing these laurels to . the south has been small but it can readily be seen what Milford Mil-ford is up against in tying into the classy teams of southern Utah. There were sectional champions at the state tournament this year who failed to display any better brand of ball that Milford can put up. |