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Show BASKETBALL AT DEAF SCHOOL WEBER ACADEMY WINS BY SCORE OF 54 TO 36. Winning Team In Line for Pennant-Granite Pennant-Granite Team Plays Brlgham City Tonight. Tho.baeketball team of the Weber academy, played the team from tho state school for the deaf, yesterday afternoon, winning by a score of 51 to 36. Mr. Metcalf of'forestry service refereed the game and he pronounced it a good, clean game, free from rough playing. Tho result of this game places the academy team in an enviable envi-able position with tho northern league. They have lost but one game in tho series for the year, that being lost to the Granite high school of Salt Lake. The Granite team will play the Brlgham tonight, and if they lose to the Brighamltes, It leaves tho Weber academy champions of the northern league. If the Granite team succeeds In defeating the Brlgham high school boys, the academy team and the Granites Gran-ites will have to play another game to decide tho championship, the winner of which will play the Lehl team, which holds the championship for the southern league of tho stato, Utah Is divided this year into two basketball leagues, one known as the northern and the other as the southern league, and according to the regulations, regula-tions, the champion team of each divi-v. slon plays for the high school championship cham-pionship of the state. The academy team feel confident that they will win the stato championship whether Gran- lte wins or loses to Brlgham. They feel quite assured that they can defeat the Granite boys in a return game and are etpaally confldent that they can defeat Lehi In the final contest. |