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Show i Sperry Seniors Take Senior Top Spot The most successful Westminster Westmin-ster Junior Basketball League ended Saturday when Granite Furniture and Sperry Senior topped topp-ed sixteen teams consisting of about 200 young players. Sperry Junior wer the champions of the 1939 season; this team became the Sperry Seniors this year and again walked off with the laurels, this time for the senior division. Granite Furniture started the season as just another ball club but finished up as the most polished pol-ished junior team in the league and really deserved their decisive decis-ive triumph in the junior bracket, GRANITE ZONE DEFENSE AGAIN COMES THROUGH Granite Furniture fell back on their shifting zone defense in their win over Harry's Garage Saturday. Satur-day. The first half was all Granite; Gran-ite; the score at the half was 12-2 In the third period, however, Harry's Har-ry's Garage started rushing the Furniture five and the third quarter quar-ter ended 12-12. The last quarter was again Granit's and the score ended 19-14. Earl Fillmore, Granite Gran-ite forward, carried off scoring honors with 7 points while Wayne Bringhurst for the losers match-j match-j ed him. Glenn Dodge of Harry's i tossed in 6 counters. Merrill Davis Bob Smith, and Lee Petty each i registered 4 for the champions. "Blacky" Walton was again the pep in the Garage attack, playing play-ing a fast and effective floor game. In the other games played Saturday, Sat-urday, Parley's took third place i in the Junior division by defeat- i ing Bryan 25-14. Dick Brower tanked 11 points while Fairclough came through with 7 For the losers Cal Riggs led with 7 points In the final game Sperry Juniors i took fourth place by barely squeezing out a 3129 win over Highland Park. Ted -Saul and Allen Al-len Cornwall with -a io and 9 points paced the scorers, GRANITE FURVITURE HAS IMPRESSIVE RECORD Granite Furniture, champions of the Junior Division, consists of Merrill Davis, forward; Earl Fillmore, forward; Ken Higgins. forward; Bob Smith, center; Carl Paulson, guard; Lee Petty, guard 1 Grant Pendleton, guard.; Paul Hansen, coach. The Furniture re- i cord for this season is as follows: Granite Furniture 24 Parleys i Granite Furniture 37 Monarchs 6. Granite Furniture 15 Harry's Garage 19. : Granite Furniture 39 Southeast 8. Granite Furniture 32 Dodgers 6. Granite Furniture 9 Sperry Jun-! Jun-! iors 15. i Granite Furniture 19 Bryan 17. Granite Furniture 23 Wasatch 12. Granite Furniture 16 Highland Park 14. Granite Furniture 27 Wasatch 17. Qranite Furniture 37 Parleys23. Granite Furniture 29 Harry's Garage Gar-age 13. i Granite Furniture 23 Highland Park 20. Granite Furniture 31 Sperry Jun-! Jun-! iors 10 i Granite Furniture 29 Bryan 10. Granite Furniture 19 Harry's i Garage 14. This all sums to Granite Furniture Furn-iture 400 opponents, 208 which j shows an unusual record for de- ; fense and offense. ! SPERRY SENIORS DISPIAY j POWER ! The Senior division was not as i close as the Junior. Sperry Scn- I iors coached by Don Sperry held j an uper hand throughout the seas on. Their record shows 260 points against 100 for their opponents. Members of the chamuionship Sperry club are :Glenn Jones.Bill Saul, Lester Haymore, Jay Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, Ray Jones, Douglas Lind-ley, Lind-ley, and Harold Smith. ' LIST OF .JUNIOR CHAMPIONS 1934: First Presbyterian, First . Wasatch, Second. 1935: Seventeenth Ward, Seniors Sen-iors Edgehill, Juniors. 1936: Highland Park, Seniors. Hilltops, Juniors. 1937: Wirthlins, First. East Bench, Second. . 1938: No Junior League. 1939: Brooklawn Creamery, Sen iors. . Sperry Juniors. 1940: Sperry Seniors. Granite Furniture, Juniors. it |
