Show M 0 E OU quintet T E T IS BACK FRO TOUR NA am ENT olson olin brought bi ought back hi his team sunday evening contributed by ye scribe ot of south sevier high school we were happy to greet mr 01 son and our basketball team on their return from the state high school basket ball tournament last sunday night tile the boys return witt with the championship pennant but they certainly made a creditable showing and we are justly proud of them N wi congratulate mr olson for the training of these boys which made possible this degree of success our boys left for salt lake monday march ath the state association had made provisions for accommodations for all the boys at the wilson hotel there were sixteen squads of eight men each all staying at the wilson vilson this was a wonderful get together our boys had many a friendly chat with the follows fellows from other parts of the state tuesday afternoon our boys were admitted to the deseret gym tor for a little practice with the dixie team without making it at all egotistical we may say that our fellows were a fair match in practice for the dixie team wednesday afternoon our boys were lined up with the weber te team im the teams were somewhat evenly matched monroe INI onroe led until the third quarter during this period weber gained a six point lead which they managed to hold until the end of the game each team made eight field goals our boys were called often for progression which gave weber the b ball aai and worked a hardship on the courage of our team the game was won on the foul line the crowd proved themselves good sports and cheered for us as much or more thau than they did for our opponents thursday I 1 monroe drew as their opponents the west side high this proved to be a fast game our team was in the lead throughout most of the game which ended on point in our favor christensen of the west side uio naho had made seven field goals in the game with dixie tuesday was held to one field goal by winget who scored two field goals forbush played his usual good game making tour four field goals besides caging seven out of eight foul pitches friday our boys met the carbon team our fellows led until the last few seconds of the game when the carbon boys forged ahead due to some extraordinary good luck the basket that won the game was ninde made when there was only a second to go the final score was 33 to 32 in tavor layor of carbon the team returns well satisfied the boys feel that they were treated right by the crowd the officials and the association the officiating was beyond criticism the crowd and the losing teams showed e exceptional sportsmanship in their attitude with the exception of the habit of progression our boys had termed the type of officiating thai thae it has as been done in this division proved to have been good training for our fellows the repeated check on our boys for progression had bad considerable to do with our losing in general sentiment seems to be unanimous in declaring this a very successful tournament the two game elimination feature is a considerable improvement over the old system the association paid the expenses of eight players from each division our basketball team has had some va valuable experience they are a already looking f forward arward to next years year tournament at which they expect t to make a better bertei showing than the on one they hey made this year |