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Show B. Y. C. DEFEATS ST. LOUIS TEAM: Score Is 52 to 21 Squad From U. of Chicago Root for Provo Team. CHICAGO, March 14 Playing a fast, short passing game the Alva Rangers basketball team, representing Northwestern formal school of Alva' Okla , defeated Hamlin Park Trian gles of Chicago, 49 to 29. and looms as one of the formidable quintets in the national A. A. U. basketball chain- j pionships ar tne second regiment armory. ar-mory. Brigham Young university of I Provo. Utah, cami through to the sat-j lsfaction of Coach Nelson Norgren's! friends and administered a decisive! defeat to Browning-Kings of St. Louis, 52 to 21. The two out-of-town fives played the best brand of ball in the first batch of four preliminary games in' the afternoon. Chicago teams were' successful in two contests. West Side Browns beating Kansas City All-Stars, composed mainly of Kansas City A. C. players, 25 to 22, and Seward Park Blues winning from West Side Y. M. The Sewards' victory came after the hardest fought clash of the prelims The Tigers led. 9 to 5. in the Hrst half and the Park players had to fiqht hard to overcome the lead. Carlson of the winners and Stillwell of the losers each gathered seven baskets. The Alva players with a team averaging aver-aging about 145 pounds baffled their Hamlin Park opponents in the first half, when they ran up a lead of 28 to 7. In the second half the southwest-erners southwest-erners slackened and wrre outBCored by the Chicago boys, who made a game effort to win. Wilke, center of the Alva team, had his elbow badly wrenched, but played out the game MlchHs of Hamlin received a gash over the left eye in a collision with Wilke, but the wound resulted from eagerness In following the ball and not from the desire to mix things, as the game was cleanly fought. Playing fast and spectacular basketball, basket-ball, the Montana State college team of Boseman, Mont , and the Kalamazoo college five of Kalamazoo, Mich., easily eas-ily won their games in the preliminary round. Montana eliminated the Waterloo, Iowa. Y. M. C. A. team, winning. 26 to 15, Kalamazoo buried the Berwin, 111., Comets under a 57 to 18 score. A squad of rooters, some of them from the University of Chicago, Coach Norgren's alma mater, followed the Provo team. The team was led here by Head Coach Roberts, but th former for-mer Maroon is in charge of the tournament. tour-nament. The husky Utah players towered over the St. Loulaans and grabbed the lead Trom the start. They played short passes all the way and ran in substitutes in the second half. The score: B. Y. U. (52) B. F. P. T. Pts. Simmons, rf 5 0 0 1 10 McDonald. If 3 0 1 0 6 Eggertson, c 5 0 A 0 10 Balle. rg 6 i 0 0 16 Andrus, lg 3 0 4 2 6 oberhiley, lg 0 0 0 0 Bowman. If 0 0 0 0 0 Hales, c 2 0 2 2 4 Totals 24 4 11 5 52 ; BROWNING-KING (21). B. F P. T. Pts. Marting. rf 3 7 0 0 13 Vandach, If 1 ft 3 0 2 Mesloh. c 3 0 1 0 6 Meinzer, rg 0 0 0 1 0 Althaus. lg 0 0 0 0 0 Hodge, lg 0 0 0 2 0 Conzelman, lg 0 0 0 0 01 Totals 7 7 4 3 21 1 i rue happiness is a reflection of the happiness you have given to others. oth-ers. 1 |