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Show I FIVE STATES WILL ENTER TEAMS IN HOOP TOURNEY 1 ILEHI CHAMPS ! TO REPRESENT UTAH SCHOOLS State Interscholastic Meetj Was Great Success From All Standpoints (.Special Dispatch " QALT LAKE. -March 6. With the O Lehl High school h0 . rowned state lnter5Cholntl. b isket-rall isket-rall title holders for 1022. plans for tho staging of the Rocky Mountain conferenre hlsh school tourney have been started by President James Mo:-s and ScTCtary C. Oren Wilson of thc-ruh thc-ruh High School Athletic aaaocla-tlon. aaaocla-tlon. Under the present plans the tournament will open Into next week with champions from Colorado. I1 ho, Wyoming, Montana and Utah in The tourney will b staged under the "Round Robin" system, each team to battle the other, the aggregation aggre-gation gaining the highest percentage percent-age to be declared the champions. RECORD niOWPS. The state tourney, tho twelfth to be held under the auspices of the state high school athletic association. I was a big success. .More man iupto people witnessed the games during the four days of the tourney, eft te f9tlmate. From a financial standpoint stand-point the tournament was more than a success, while the grade of ball played by all of the teams was superior su-perior to that of other seasons. With 16 teams entered for the opening day and two o( this number battling It on the final da. the Interest In-terest of the fans was at a high pitch t all times. Several surprise featured the tourney. tour-ney. On the opening day the Logan high echool cagers were .sent down to defeat by the Parowan t The next day the Weber eager trounced by the Sprtngville five. On the third day the L. D. S. five of Salt LaJie mot their first defeat ut the hands of the Lehl warriors. 3". -B This game was the third upset in tne tourney and came as i big surprise The final panic for the title Saturday Satur-day night was a whirlwind A.1 od feature of this game was the fs !l that the Lehl warriors, second place winnors in tho Alpine division, had been trounced three tlmec In fore by the American Fork team, which lost to Lehl in the final encounter. Coach Josh West, however, hoc nifty scoring machine and his team deserved to win as they played hi. grade ball. Tho performances of Robert-s. Smuin and Baker in ti nal game were noticeable. Robei and Smuin especially were th stars, these two youngsters leading the Lehl warriors all through. Complete details for the final tourney tour-ney of the year will be d out this week by representatives of the state high school nthlftlr ass clatio Officials will bo nan6d and other matters attended to. invitations have already been telegraphed to Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming and Mpntan high school officials to have repre-! repre-! aentatives at the tournament. The Lehl warriors Will hold light workouts at their gymnasium during the present week to keep the mi n In shape. |