Show MONROE HIGH SCHOOL ON ATHLETIC TRIP coach fonton fenton reeves and his monroe high school basketball team champions of the sevier district and third place winners at the utah athletic association tournament left monroe last sunday morning for greeley colo coach reeves only took seven men in order to cut down on expenses all clifford ifford forbush elson hall leonard williams rulon Alag magleby leby rulon winget and dolph asay make up the squad the other two boys who took part in the state tournament are aaron parsons and victor magleby the teams participating at greeley represent five rocky mountain states namely montana wyoming idaho colorado and utah each stat state cwill will be represented by two teams the first games of the tournament were played tuesday further elimination games will be played tonight and tomorrow night and the finals will be played friday night the winners 0 of f the series whether they are state champions or not will receive an invitation vi to enter the national tournament at chicago the invitation to participate in the greeley tournament came as a surprise it seems that the dixie team had declined to taking part and as a consequence murray and monroe were invited principal C A white received the he invitation from james E moss president of the U A A last friday morning only of the expenses were guaranteed while the trip with eight men inen will cost at least GOO after conferring with a number of the towns people at monroe mr air white accepted the invitation preparations preparation for sending the team tea rn 1 were immediately begun the biggest problem seemed seamed to be that of raising the money however the people of monroe and other supporters have been generous and the bill is almost paid the night before the boys left a game was staged with the alumni team the final score was 40 to 25 in favor of the high school the score shows that we still haye a team even though they had been out of the harness for a week the game was well attended by supporters of the sevier division champions and some contributions were made to help send the team for more honors the game saturday night was followed by a free dance given by the town board in honor of the high school team these boys made a splendid showing for themselves at the state tournament they won third place by defeating the fast provo team tea in the finals by a score of ag to 24 the dixie team which w won on the championship had defeated provo by a score of 19 to 17 in the semi finals A comparison of these scores shows how the monroe team measures up with the state champions champion the only defeat monroe suffered was at the hands of the mm ray team this seems to have been an unusual game due to the fact that the murray boys made most of their counters from the center of the floor the game which was game bame during the lat quarter ended 22 to 21 in murray murrays Mur rays s favor we hope these teams will have the opportunity of meeting again at greeley numerous compliments have come to monroe and the sevier division on n the splendid work and behavior 0 of their team at salt lake may we hope for a dacree of success at greeley |