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Show i Third Ward Win On Monday Gives Them Best Chance To Win Second Half Third ward looked good to cop the second half crown in M-Men basketball after they won out over ov-er Grove last Monday to give them a 3-0 lead in the second half with two games to go, last night I against Second and Monday ag- j ainst Manila. First ward finally won a game, j after three consecutive defeats,! defeating the hard luck Lindon crew, by outlasting them, 52-48, in a game which was close all the way. In the opener Monday night, Second ward came from behind to defeat Manila, making up a ton point deficit and winning 44-4 44-4 2. This loaves Grove and Second Sec-ond tied for second spot with 1 loss and 2 wins in this half. The standings of the teams before be-fore the games last night were as follows. W L Third Ward 3 0 Grove Ward 2 1 Second Ward 2 1 j Manila Ward 1 2 First Ward 1 2 Lindon Ward 0 3 By splitting their two remaining remain-ing games, Third ward can do no w'orse than a tie for iirst place, and two wins place thorn atop the heap. Playoffs are scheduled for Thursday. February 10 in case Third wins outright in this half I and if not, the half playoff will !bo on that date with the winner tangling with First on Monday, Feb. 1!. I Leaders in the scoring race in the league moved around a little with about the same names in differed dif-fered spots. Doyle Harris racked up a few more points to strengthen strength-en his lead, while Harry Hall, who leads in total points scored dropped drop-ped a few points in average, but still retained his second place spot. Leaders are as follows with results re-sults included to last Monday's games. P G Av. 1. Harris, Lindon 84 6 11.0 2. Hall, Second 102 8 12.8 3. Gillman, Lindon 94 8 11.8 4. Peay, Second 91 8 11.1 5. E. Adamson, Third - 89 8 11.1 6. Larsen, First 86 8 10.8 7. Harvey, Manila J 82 8 10.3 8. Bezzant, Grove 81 8 10.1 9. Bezzant. First 81 8 10.1 10. Atwood. Third 70 7 10.0 It would be hard to find six j moic evenly matched teams in any league than we have had this I year. Most of the teams, even in I defeat look good enough to rep- resent us as a stake in regional play. The teams seem to be playing play-ing this year without the usual locker room aftermath 'Of accusations accus-ations and fault finding. Only a j few hardy souls cling to the belief that a game is not won or lost without a show of poor sportsmanship. sports-manship. Perhaps in time M-Men j basketball will assume its true purpose, the building of character 1 and sportsmanship in our young men. not the winning or losing of i file game. |
