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Show Home Rooms Swing Into Intramural Tourney S A M's annual intra - mural basketball tournament, designed to encourage every boy in the school to play, opened first round competition compe-tition Wednesday. The annual hoop classic is one of the physical culture events sponsored spon-sored by S A M, but also has an aim of developing sportsmanship and in giving the boys a "lot of fun." All non-letter basketeers are eligible eli-gible to enter the contests between advisory groups. Games are played after school. Only 29 teams entered the tourney tour-ney this year, as compared with 37 last year and 42 the year before. The decline was laid to the fact that more boys are now working and that enrollment has slumped somewhat. But even so, the abundance abun-dance of skill among the non-letter players should make some very interesting contests. The tournament is in the form of an elimination contest. Four games are played each night, two games progressing across the width of the boys' gymnasium. The mechanical drawing class, composed of almost all boys, took the event last year for 227. Glen Davis, SAM vice prexy and Phil Eckersley, secretary, are in charge of the tournament. Jimmy Jim-my Gilbert and Dean Hale handle the faculty end of it and Gilbert appoints officials. |