Show The Utes point the way Yesterday marked the opening of the Annual Ute Recreation Department's Basketball Tournament of Tribal which this year has been expanded to a sixteen-team IN THE RECREATION leaders and officials of the Ute Indian Tribe conceived the idea of an invitational tournament which would bring together basketball teams from various Indian reservations throughout the So it was and it proved most successful from the standpoint of participation interest and The next year they tried and with the benefit or their previous the meet was even more This has been the case each year since REALIZING THAT NOT ALL Indian Tribes and reservations were having the opportunity to the Fort Duchesne Ute group voted to expand their colorful tournament to a This required much more planning and more preparation to double the capacity of their sports they felt capable of doing the and their plans began toward that They first secured assurance that sixteen teams would be and when twenty-one made the success from a participation standpoint was THE STANDARD EXTENDS a word of praise and to the men and women who make up the personnel of the committees for the tireless way they have brought things to this To take care of fourteen outside teams i two of the entries are from the Uintah-Ouray Reservation requires a lot of doing They are set to feed them and furnish sleeping quarters for the approximately visitors who are here to make this basketball affair a May the 1960 Annual Tournament of Tribal Champions be all that is hoped |