Show Rough Riders Make Creditable Showing In State Tournament Harold Timothy Deseret News First All Star Mont Picked on Tribune Second The Roosevelt Rough representing Eastern Utah in the Utah state high school basketball won for themselves eighth place in the tourney and the admiration and respect or fans and players alike for their clean and lair their smooth team work and their enthusiasm for the The tournament played for the first time in the University oi Utah's big new field house was interesting throughout and some fine exhibitions of basketball wei given by clubs from various of the Ogden won the state championship with no defeats followed by North South Jordan and First Loss The first day's play took the usual toll of fine basketball clubs and first to fall were the Rough Riders beaten in the last of play by South All fans that the tournament management Roosevelt right out of the championship flight at the half time period ol the game when they summoned a caretaker to the floor to replace the basket The Rough had already been signaled In and had to stand and wait while the basket was changed while the opposition team had time to get on to the basKet anu settle their The Rough started k work on the Summit Wildcats the minute the whistle blew and ah during the first half of the game displayed championship ing up a lead at the end or the first quarter and 19 to 11 ai the From this point on the game took a different turn and at j the end of the third the boys held onto their lead only The final quarter ended the Wildcats tucking the game away to the tune of Upsets Upsetting all sportswriters' Roosevelt took a and interesting battle from Spring ville in the first game of the evening session staving i a desperate last-minute rally the Artists to come through with j a four point triumph Wilkins was high man with 17 j points and turned in a great Defeat Delta Again on b prognosticators j dope sheets were upset when the Rough Riders triumphed over tho Delta Rabbits in an easy victory This placed the Rough Riders in the linale of the consolation flight Saturday Mont and Max a classy pair of played a brilliant game and Harold Timothy proved to be one of the best defensive men in the Tight Saturday's game between Roosevelt and North Cache for the consolation championship was perhaps the most unusual game of the entire tournament and although il moved along at snail's il showed the Rough Riders could play anybody's North Cache came into the tournament with one of the best records in the They were the first place team in their with two wins over the new Ogden They were rated the strongest defense team in the tournament and were without question the largest Well acquainted with North Cache's the Rough Riders gave them some of their own medicine and set up so tight a defense thai the Bulldogs made very few attempts to break But it was an night for boil- teams and very few shots were With a struggle for every point with the exception of two beauties tossed by Mont Killian the game ended 22 to a vie tory for North Place The Roosevelt Rough Riders ended tourney play In eighth place which is a creditable showing in any man's language and three of the players were given m Pink was given a guard berth on the state all-star team selected by News sports Mont Killian was given On the Tribune all-state second team Mont Killian was given a guard position and honorable-mention went to Max Wilkins and Harold Much credit goes to the entire each member of which played his heart out during the four to the to Coach Beit Asay and to the many local townspeople who were in attendance at the |