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Show FUNDUS MISTERS TO VISIT IT LIE San Francisco Olympic Club's Basketball Team Will Play Game With Utah University. San Francisco, Feb. 23. The San Francisco Olympic club's basketball team, holders of the national title, won last year at the Panama-Pacific exposition tournament, will leave here Sunday, it was announced today, for a tour of the east and middle west. They will defend their title at Chi-cago, Chi-cago, March 15, 16 and 17. Their first game will be at Salt Lake March 12, with the University of Utah. hnnm?6, Feb 24--Utah basketball basket-ball will be given a real test against ,- the best hoop aggregation America I has ever produced when the Univer- l S'ty of Utah is pitted against the (Continued on Pase 9 (Continued from Page 2) Olympic Athletic club next Wednesday Wednes-day night In the Deseret gymnasium. Tho San Francisco quint last year won an undisputed titlo to the championship cham-pionship of America and has exactly the same combination this year. The management of athletics at the university succeeded in persuading persuad-ing the Olympic hoopsters to stop off In Salt Lake for the first game ot its proposed tour of the country. The Golden Gate basketeers will meet the winning quints both collegiate and independent organizations of the various sections of the middle west a.id cast. It Is said to bo the greatest great-est basketball machine over developed. devel-oped. It has been contended here for several sev-eral years that basketball in Utah is equal to that played in any other section sec-tion of the country. Several years ago local quints succeeded In winning championship games with teams ot sections In the east, but this lh the first instance in the history of ath-lotlcs ath-lotlcs of any sort here in tho state that a local college team has had a crack at the championship crown of America. |