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Show Hooseelf Host To Third Annual Region ilA Men BasEiefball Jesi Ten Teams Represent Five Stakes, LDS Mission In Play-offs; Winners Enter All-Church Tourney - The Roosevelt Stake Mutual Improvement Association will again be hosts to the third annual Region 14, Sub-division "B", M-Men M-Men basketball tournament which will open next Tuesday, Feb. 1 at Union High School gym and continue con-tinue through Wednesday and Thursday. Four stakes, an instute of religion relig-ion and the Western States Mission Mis-sion will each be sending teams into the senior division play-off, while only two stakes, Uintah and Roosevelt have carried on a junior league during the - past two and one half months, and will be sending send-ing two teams each into the tournament. tourn-ament. Neola and Roosevelt 4th are playing off a tie tonight to determine the winner and runner-up. runner-up. Both teams will play in the tourney. According to Devan Fenn, athletic ath-letic director of the Roosevelt stake MIA Stakes participating will be Denver, Duchesrie, Roosevelt, Roose-velt, and Uintah, with a team coming com-ing from Laramie, Wyoming to represent the institute of religion in that part of the Region 14. Colorado Springs Branch and Albuqurque, New Mexico Branch will be representing the Denver Stake and Western States Mission. Roosevelt Second and Vernal 3rd wards will be representing the Roosevelt and Uintah Stakes, while Duchesne stake will send either Duchesne or Tabiona into the fray. Back to defend the title they won last year is the Third ward of Vernal who again is bringing a top flight ball club that will be favored to defend their title. Little is known of the strength of any of the teams coming from outside the Basin, but Roosevelt Second1 and both of the potential Duchesne stake entries boast weri balanced teams. SCHEDULES ANNOUNCED Uintah stake's No. 1 Junior Division team will meet Roosevelt stake's No. 2 team in the opening game on Tuesday which is scheduled sched-uled to begin at 6:30 At" 7:45 Vernal Third will meet Laramie, Wyoming with Duchesne stake meeting Colorado Springs Branch at 9 o'clock in the final game of the first day. Wednesday the No. 2 Junior team from Uintah will start the night off by meeting Roosevelt's No. 1 team. At 7:45 Roosevelt Second plays Albuquerque, N. M., with the final game that night being between the winners of the Vernal-Laramie playing the winner in the Colorado Springs-Duchesne stake contest on Tuesday. Only two games are scheduled for Thur- (Continued On Back Page) I l ; J I - I ' j A HALE HOLGATE, who presides over the Duchesne stake, has announced various sessions of their first 1955 stake conference, Jan. 29 and 30. ! ' ' : Vn L v. V : WM. N. BROTHERSON, president pres-ident of the Moon Lake stake," and state legislator, will return home to preside over the conference con-ference this weekend. M Men Tourney . . . (Continued from page one) sday, the first one bringing the Junior teams of the first two nights together, and the 2 squads who survive the first two nights will meet for the title. Game time is 7:30 and 9 o'clock. COMMITTEES NAMED Although Mr. Fenn and his stake assistant, Grover Dye, will be acting act-ing as tournament directors, the presidency of the stake YMMIA, George Hacking, E. Floyd Ross and A. B. Christensen, is acting as the general committee in charge of arrangements. They report the usual all-tournament teams will be chosen, and trophies for sportsmanship sports-manship and those winning the tournament titles will be presented. Assignments have been made for selecting the honor teams, but their identity was not announced. Mr. Christensen is in charge of officials. Winners in both the Junior and Senior divisions will represent the region in the forth-coming all-church all-church tournament. DANCE NUMBERS EACH NIGHT Various stakes in the Uintah Basin are sending dancing talent from among their young people who will give dance exhibitions each of the three nights. This is an additional activity receiving much emphasis by the LDS Church program, and is something done each year during the tournament for the past two years. |