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Show ARTHUR MfLLMEN mm ONE Apex. Quintet Noses Out Fast Valley Men 32 to 29, in Game Featured by Long Distance Shooting on Both Sides. The Utah Apex quintet maintained Its place at the top of the Independent Indepen-dent basketball league Wednesday evening when it won a bitterly contested con-tested game 32 to 29 from the fast Arthur team on the Garfield high school floor before a large crowd of enthusiastic fans. Playing with a team made up of sick men and cripples, Paul Kansoin, manager of the Apex team urged his men to bring home the bacon, and although al-though they narrowly escaped defeat, they won, and that is all that was asked of them. Lolo Spencer, stellar forward of the Apex team was the big noise Wednesday Wednes-day evening, with 7 field goals. With his shoulder again in tip top shape, the flashy Lolo was easily the out-; out-; . , standing performer, making baskets from every part of the floor, besides playing a great floor game. To Sid Spencer goes the honor of playing one of the classiest - floor games ever witnessed in this section. Finding himself a trifle off color locating lo-cating the hoop, Sid confined himself to watching the Arthur lads , and keep them from making baskets, and that he did his work well is shown in the . fact that but three short baskets were made by the home team during the contest. Chiara and Anderson also played a great guarding game, the Arthur ;ncn having considerable trouble passing - the center of the floor. Bill Day Larsen, who got out of a ; sick bed to participate, played the best game of his career, watching the fleet-footed Clark with the eye of an ; eagle. The entire Arthur team - showed marked improvement, and contrary to expectations will not be in the cellar when the' season ends. The team is showing better form in every game, and ere the second half starts will bear watching. .. - ' In the first few seconds of play, Larson caged a counter, and . from then on the Apex maintained the lead, the first quarter ending 10 to .1, and the half showed the underground men leading 20 to 14. Arthur made. 7 in the third period, and Apex made 6. In the last session ArtlfUr again led their opponents by making 8 as to 6 for the Apexers. The Apex showed much of their old time passing game, completely baffling baff-ling the Arthur team at times with their dazzling passes. Following is the story of the game in figures: Apex, 32 PlayerPos. FG FT FP F Total L. Spencer, rf 7 2 1 i IS S. Spencer, If 2 4 0 3 4 Larsen, c 4 0 0 1 8 Chiara, rg 1 2 10 3 Porter, rg . 0 0 0 0 0 Anderson, lg 1 6 0 2 2 Totals 15 14 2 7 32 Arthur, 29 PlayerPos. FG FT FP F Total - Roberts, rf 3 2 117 Facer, If ; 2 3 2 1 6 Clark, c 3 0 0 2 6 Stnuin, rg 3 2 0 3 6 Archibald, lg 1 3 2 2 4 V tmmm Totals 12 lo' 5 9 29 Score by quarters 1 2 3 4 Total Apex '. 10 10 6-6 32 Arthur . 5 9 7 8 29 |