Pleasant Grove Review | 1941-03-07 | Page 5 | Fourth Ward M Men Team Takes Third Place Honors in District Tournament

Fourth Ward M Men Team Takes Third Place Honors In District Tournament Playing some of the best basketball basket-ball seen at the tournament, the American Fork Fourth ward M. Men took ttiird place in the district competition at Springville last week. The Alpine stake champions sailed through their first two games, winning win-ning from Payson First ward the first night, 27 to 18; and from Pleasant Grove Third ward the second night, 47 to 21. Advancing to the semifinals the Fourth warders experienced one of their off nights and dropped a game to Springville First ward, 28 to 38- However, they came back strong in the final playoff for third cmri sixth olaces. winning from Pleasant View to take the third position. po-sition. Score of the last game was 53 to 28. The Fourth ward also won outstanding out-standing recognition with the selection se-lection of one of their forwards, Melvin Anderson, on the all-star team; and another, Gordon Lee, for honorable mention. The team roster ros-ter includes Melvin Anderson, Jay Christensen, John Durrant, Gordon Lee, Don Parduhn, Alma Watkins, Sherman Greenwood, and Lynn, Robinson. Warren T. Anderson is the coach. Manavu ward and Springville First ward won the births in the church M. Men tournament, finishing fin-ishing in that order in the district competition. o