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Show Locals Divide Hoop Openers Innaugurating the opening of the 1934 Sanpete hoop season, the two Mt. Pleasant fives this evening came out fifty-fifty, one winning, one losing. los-ing. Wa.oatch downed Ephraim on the Tiger floor, the tally being 40 to 28, while North Sanpete dropped drop-ped her tilt with Manti at Manti, the score being 47 - 26. Gunnison meantime downed Moroni Mo-roni by the decisive count of 40 to 23. The relative scores would seem to indicate, therefore, that Manti, Guunison and Wasatch in the top bracket are about on a par, and that the abilities of North Sanpete, Moroni and Ephraim are also comparable. com-parable. Not that such observations mean much at this stage in the race. In Sanpete's set-to with the Temple Tem-ple City boys. Thompson at Center and Cox and Kjar at forwards proved themselves too fast for the locals to overtake. They amassed the lion's share of points for their team, two of them garnering sixteen six-teen counters apiece. Hansen, playing play-ing guard for Sanpete, found the hoop for 12 points. The Wasatch - Ephraim combat was an exciting spectacle from beginning be-ginning to end, including the mid-game mid-game flashlight and tap-dancing antic-, performed by the Wasatch pep girls and Miss Dorothy Walker from California. Wasatch led the parade at the end of every canto, but she had to fight for all the favors she got. The opening quarter ended 6-4; the alf, 14 to 11; the third period, 30 - 14. Ephraim's be"t scoring was done in the final period, when her huskies ringed a half dozen or so field goals. Wasatch was most dan-geroir, dan-geroir, in the third canto, at which time she piled up eight field goals. Neither team was much to write home about when it came to foul tosses, though (Ephraim had the edge there. The best w& can make out of our semi-legible noteji is that the Carrot-Eaters netted six points out of sixteen free tries, as compared with three out of twelve for the Tigers. E. Peterson led Ephraim's scoring with 10 points. For Wasatch, Captain Cap-tain Cherry at guard tallied 14 points, Johnston at forward 12 and a boy by the name of Brown who has color in his playing as well as hi-, hair was good for 9 points, and ' he played" only" iri the "second and third periods, according to our aforementioned hieroglyphics. |