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Show IFOUR PEPPERY TEAMS READY FORFAST TILT Warner and Ashton Named to Officiate in All of the Contests POUR STATES will be represented in the Intermountain i tournament which opens at the Dei-eret Dei-eret gymnasium at Salt Lake this evening. eve-ning. Pairings for the opening round n-oro made last night by officials of (he Utah High School Athletic association. associa-tion. The initial game this evening Will start at 7:30 o'clock With the Weston five, champions of Idaho, meeting the Greeley e.agers of Colorado Colo-rado In the second game I .oh I will tangle with tho fast Missoula team, i tuunplona of Montana, OFFICTLS NAMED Homer Warner was named ns referee ref-eree for all of the games while Wid Ashton will act as umpire. These two men worked in the L'tah high school series. Saturday afternoon the. visiting playen and coaches will he the eruests of the high school organization of l'tah at a luncheon. Governor C harles Mabey and Mayor C C. Neslen of Salt I-Ake are to he the speakers. ROUND ROBIN TOI HM V The tournament will be played off by the "round robin" method with the winners of tho first night's game playing on the second night and tho losers doing the same. Then tho winners win-ners will again meet on tho third night and tho team with tho highest average will be declared the winner. In case ol a tic in the average, the tleing teami will meet for the big honors on Monday-The fans expect to see one of the; best basketball spectacles of years when these four teams meet and there h o e -ilraatv honn n havv nrivrinre s:ilel I of tickets. New seats will be Installed in the gymnasium and the teams will all be well supported as most of the fans are not biased and want to see some real basketball played. This week will mark tho close of one of the best basketball seasons in Utah and one that has been full of upsets up-sets in the dope from the start. The fans already know tho ability and strength of the fast Lehi high school five and Coach Josh West's team will be strengthened by tho addition ad-dition of Young Clark, who is now eligible to play In this set of games, as all of his school work has been made np It Is not known it West Will break his combination to put l '..irk into in-to tho fray or not, but one thing is sure. West will have a valuable lo put Into the game .If one of the main Lehl five is forced to Quit ONLY OWE 1 ,1 Coach Jones of the Greeley team has only one of his old player back and he Is coming with a nev. team to try and take away th honors. His' team lost two stralgh' gai to Logan Lo-gan last season but his boys surprised at the Colorado tournament and play-ell play-ell the best brand of hall that thej hav ail year. Ho has the men in Up. top shape and expect"- lo make things hum at this tourney. The Weston high school five has made a remarkable record and ' Decker haft a string of nun that has met and defeated some oi' the best teams of this section, having even d feated the fast B. Y. C. college quint in the Weston hall Hi.-, bo I through the Idaho season without a I defeat. The Missoula High school five under' the able coaching ol Coach Conrad has rnade a great showing and spill dopesters in tho Moutuna tournament His boys played stoma hard game- and hav had plenty of close competition i This tame thing really applies to all of the teams and the boys should be nn their toes at all times for these games are sure to be close and exciting. excit-ing. oo |