Show I tee Fine Games amps Played At t Manti Mant anti Three games of basketball have haye been played at Manti since the last issue of the Messenger 1 Two were lost and one won In the first game the High School was defeated by Snow B team 33 23 In this game Elliot Cox tied with Chatwin Chauvin for high point honors each making 1 12 p Showing marked superiority Jensen's Jensens Jensens Jensen's Jensens Jensen's Jen Jen- sens sen's Inc smarted out-smarted and outplayed outplayed out out- played the Snow College A squad to the tune tuile of 42 to 29 In this game the passing of the locals was much better than that done by the visitors The victory was well de- de served man scored Luke was wasu wasa u II sh gh h point man with lj 14 counters Undoubtedly the most interesting game hr-ame of the week was the one Christmas Christmas Christ Christmas mas night when the ManU Manti High went down in glorious defeat before the wonderful Lovell Lovell team of ot i Wyoming 18 jo o 35 35 the score indicates a sided one-sided game the play was much closer and the contest much much more evenly matched than the score in in- in Every point was the result re of snort ellort both teams putting forth every effort to win Mantis Manti's defensive work was par particularly strong but the tho driving power and speed of tho offense necessary necessary necessary essary to win against strong teams was lacking The strength of Lovells Lovell's offensive was very ery notice able Led by their unassuming but brilliant center the visitors cut Mantis Manti's defence for the necessary points to win by 17 points paints who was alII all all- I state center last year in the high school division scored IS 18 points holding his opponent to 5 In spite of the fact that the local boys lost the tho game their supporters are proud of them The sportsmanship sportsman- sportsman ship displayed by them theirs was all that It could be their pass passing J g was good I and their defensive work was very good Coach Luke is doing a n fine piece ie e of work with the material he has Games like th the one Christmas i I night do much to raise ralso the standards standards standards stand stand- ards and ideals of basket ball I |