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Show WESTON GRABS FINAL BATTLE IN CAGE MEET Lehi Goes Down to 28 27 Defeat in Fast Indoor Game i I i i i Special Dispatch i SALT UKE, March 18 The Weston Wes-ton high eohcol hoop team won the undisputed championship of the In- ' terniountaln region last night a: the Deasret gymnasium, defeating the fast lehl five. L'8 to 27, in one of the most spectacular games ever played on tho j Deserct floor. Coach Ivan Decker brought dOwn I team of players from the little town of Weston. Idaho, iwhere there are about 55 boys and girls In the school and the fans Immediately Im-mediately picked the Weston boys as the losers during the Brst night, but the Idaho champs put up some real basketball and fought It out all the way through the tournament. The boys hm:i tho hearts of all tho fans 'in tho game last nighi and won the 'title without an alibi coming from any angle. STAR1 lUGUi IN. Weston started right after the ic-tory ic-tory in tho first of the gume and piled up a 21 to 13 score at the half. The fans then thought that there would be nothing in it. but Westot; However, How-ever, the clever Work of Captain Smuin of tho Lehi team brought tire Utah chaihplpn "P tigain and tied the count. With three minutes to go, Ih! led by a basket und looked like the winner. unWl Ousxmun, the classiest classi-est man of the tournament, received the ball and dribbled down under his , basket ahd threw in the goal that tied It up for Weston. In doing this j G ass, man was knocked unconscious, i but the foul escaped the officials and no trials were allowed at the goal from the foul line However, the plucky little, star came to In lime to I keep his men together' and fight It ! rnf ti-i ul, A doublo dribble was called on Bk-i Bk-i or and Merrill made this count with what proved to be the winning point of the game. After throwing thld foul. Merrill was called for holding as tho gun went bfl md the foul trial waJ permitted, but Captain Smuln missed the chance to tie the game up und the championship went to the Weston i boys by a one point margin. II was not due to any poor work on the part of Captain Smuln that he missed the goal and both ho and Merrill must be given credit for working well on the foul line in such a close game. OLSEN SHINES, I Captain Olscn, of the winners, plaped a wonderful game, but tho tricky playing of the fnst little guard. Gassrnan. was the outstanding work of the tournament games This lad wis into everything and made more points from tho guard position than any other oth-er man in the tournamont. Ho was handled roughly in lu-st night's game, but came through In great shape. The Weston boys and especially Coach Ivan Decker are to b congratulated on tho work they have dono this year and now have an honor that they can well be proud of. The Greley basketball team played Its best brand of ball last night and won third place over the fust Missoula Mis-soula team Al to 28 Greeley outplayed out-played the Montana boys, who Seemed tired and failed to play the fast ball they did on Cue openlg nlfht. lllman and Kelly were the only men in Mu-game Mu-game for the Montana boy-, while Jnmes Enright and Dauth played fast ball for the winners Greeley handled the ball well last night and tho sports-munshlp sports-munshlp honors of the tournamont were gin to the Colorado ehumplons, because of their lean playing and also their clean attitude on tho floor. The tournament was one of ' the elggest successes that have ever been I put over and too much credit cannot , be given James E- Moss and Secre-I Secre-I tury C O Wilson for the wot k they ! did In bringing the. four winners together to-gether for thiB big title scrap. The 'crowd last night was larger than on any of tho other nights and tho teams were all given tho best of support in ' the flnnl games. WESTON" f2S a. t. f. p. L. Olson, if A 0 0 0 Merrill, rf I 1 ' 10 12 E. Olson, c 1 0 0 ! Nelson, rg 0 0 0 0 Gassmann. lg ... I 0 0 8 Totals 9 15 10 2S LEHI (27) G. T. F. P. ; Roberts. If . . . . , t 0 0 1 1 . Clark, rf o n 0 0 j , Turner, rf 2 0 j ' Merrill. C Q o Q 0 1 Baker, lg 2 u 0 I I Smuln, rg 2 16 11 1'j Totals 8 1 11 27 GREELEY i4H G. t. r. p. E. James, f .... 4 s .1 11 I J King, rf '-' " u Douth. c . 5 0 0 10 Poague. c 4 0 d 8 Smith, rg . 1 o 0 2 Enright, lg 3 o u G Totals 19 9 3 41 MISSOCLA 28 . Q. T. V. P. Kelly. If . . 5 0 ( 10 Anderson, rf . . . .1 0 0 ti rilman, c A t 4 12 McHalfie. rg . - . . 0 0 0 0 Sterling, lg . . . 0 0 0 o Total5 12 8 i 2S Referee Warner, j Umpire Ashton. - no |