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Show DOPE SHEET IS Gi'E'I , 1 BE1IIFUL UPSET HEN LOGAHITES MEET DEFEAT I Wildcats Perform in Championship Form, X;in- W ning Handily; Weber, L. D. S., American i V Fork and Lehi Picked to Play in 1 Semi-finals Friday Night I BY AL WARDEN WL SALT LAKE, March 2. More than 3.000 basketball fans crowded W Deserel gymnasium aere Weduesda; afternoon and - to M ' itnea thi opening games in the twelfth annual hoop tournament B of the Utah Ilili School Athlctir ;isM.i-iation. Kirht games weie played during the afternoon and evening, the fans being treated to Ih;iiks pf the hoop tfaii"-. with tVnluiv nlavs pndominatiiie. kw Coach Malcolrh Watson's Weber Normal hoopsters of Ogden played "rinKs" around the Panjgufl.cn fie In the contest which is of particular Interest In-terest to the fans of Ogrlcn and Weber county. The Wildcats simply sim-ply waded in from the vh title and caged at will. The battle ended to i for the Olenites. In this game the v-oric of Budge, Jones and Couch predominated i-i" the Weberltes. Jone.-;. a: center, tipped In five field baskets from directly di-rectly under the loop, his ability to score being one. of the features of tho firt day's games. 'ouch and lbidk'-- noil . the floor well and were both HsIkI with the high scorers. These two men performed per-formed In brilliant style and are an-dldatss an-dldatss for all-state honors. II M i ll) M SCORJ S The work of the Weber guards was also of the first order, And rson : nd Flalllday playing .rack ball. Although Al-though Halllda) played in ; games in the ctgden division and failed to score s point, he broke the ice ves-terday ves-terday by caging a field goal from the comer of the floor. Weber started tho scoring early and rolled up a score of 30 to 0 In the fir.-t half. 1 miring the final part of the second sec-ond period Coach Watson used three of his substitutes and they performed creditably. Id i OKD l PSB1 - Several upsets were recorded. Tho big surprise of the clay's play was the defeat of the .Logan quint, Bfate champions and Intermountain title holders of 1921. They wero eliminated eliminat-ed by the Parowan five, over-confl-denco playing a big role in the defeat i of the Loganltes. The Box Elder five of Brlgham alro met .i snag in the Lehi warriors. Huntington, favored to trim Sprlngville, Sprlng-ville, lost out in the final second of play Aside from these upsets the dope! Sheet ran true to form. Coach "Josh" West of Lehi has one! of the best teams in the tourney. In Coming from behind in the first period pe-riod after the box BlderltOs had tallied tal-lied a y to I score and leading at the half 17 to 14, the Lehi warriors! displayed exceptional team work. In iiiu Liuai iei iou nic- were neiu to within two points by the Brlgham It 6S but onco they hit their stride they were never headed. The final score was 4 3 to 31. Smuln. Baker and Roberts twinkled for the winners. Boothe and Eliason were the best performers for tho Brlghamltcs. The Brlgham players lacked the necessary condition and Iheir caging was of a poor character, the players missing manv easy shols. LCKiA.N TROUNCED. Piling up a lead of .'7 to 14 In tho j first half. the Parowan hoopsters, managed to trounce the touted Logan five, although Logan staged a brilliant bril-liant rally in the second half. This4 game ended 34 to 31 for the Parowan Paro-wan players. The winners tallied bu; seven points in the second period while the Loganltes tallied 17. Nlbley was the mainspring in the offensive play of the state title holders of 1921, ' I . erman starred for 1 '. rox i 1 D Sprlngville came through fri th" fi- H ' ngl ... and tallied a 88 to 3G vie- R Thorm for Springvilli Irw D P 3 was the best player for the lowers. R SAINTS RUN LOCO. ttjfl The L. D. S. cagcrs, one of the fa- H easily i j '. : H ed the Miiiar.i hiu-ii school five, wh.- RRJH substituted for the Snow Academy hi RJ i r tilt. The Saints ran "loco" on the RRH floor, winning 69 lo S. At tin end HI of the first half the Saints were on HI the long end of a 2G to 2 score. D. HI Pett. Service and Vincent were tho HI best players for the Saints while Day H shone for the losers. This tilt way HR interesting. LL American Fork nosed out Jordan H in one of the afternoon contests, ';-' to HI J4 The Beet I Hggera w f I in all depart mi nts bj the who played nifty ball. Ingersoll and -JB Chipman featured for American Fork WW while Boborg md Floward were 'he K j, PASSING l I n in h li EtfVsj ..m h mi, hi, fi ..n. wTRI . -n I H J ijS wen unanimous In stating hvHI (' ssa Carmen and Maekay were the big HHV stars for the winners while Brooks worked in sole for the Miners. In the final game of the evening H the Bingham five won from the Prove HHV high J B to This game- was closely RH contested during the early play in HHJ the first ieIod and until late In th HHH second period when th I'B spurted, never to be headed. The H work of Stlllman and Williams was H noticeable for the winners. These HHH two performed like seusoned veterans R und arc in a class with the bes i'or- . H ward- in the tourney. Nixon i H RRD M I HP ' ; opens at Salt Lake tonight, should ii provide the "customers" some real W mfUM Sprlngville warriors, while the Saints JH i -i to -dmm w tjm American Fork game should be a 'RH thriller. If the Panthers pass and H play like they did last night they II returned the winner.;, oft D R HRHJ j Lehi should have easy "pickings" HHHJ H SUCCi r"rDj tH the American Fork-West High game H i Friday night. The Saints. If winners HHH I 'H From every viewpoint the tourney HHHJ opened with a remarkable crowd and RhHJ .iiso of shattering all roc- i pHRH |