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Show . iagna fins First Half The Manna basketball team finished finish-ed the first half of the current split season by defeating their traditional rivals, the Arthur team Monday eve-niug eve-niug by the score of 42 to 25. This victory gives to Magna the undisputed undisput-ed title for the loop for the first half . of the season and assures them of being be-ing one of the contenders of the post season tournament which will be . played at the close of the regular season sea-son to determine the championship of the league. . The skillful direction of Hal White and Bill Edmans, has developed a team which upset all of the dope and outplayed, outfought and outscored a ' team which everybody thought was - invincible as far as Copper League ball was concerned. Magna won two of the three con- ' tests of the first half of the season from Arthur and In the game Monday evening for the title, they beat the Arthur prides by a decisive and overwhelming over-whelming score. Arthur by winning all of their Bingham Bing-ham games, and by beating Magna on the previous game had stayed right on the heels of the Magna team and had they won the contest would have won the first half. So the early prediction pre-diction that Arthur would easily cop the bunting and win the league without with-out difficulty has gone awry. Bingham has strengthened considerably consi-derably for the second half and as 'Magna has progressed with unlimited leaps and bounds for the race for 4 second half honors will be as thrilling thril-ling as the race for the first half bunting. The schedule for the second half of the league competition will commence com-mence sometime this week with Magna Mag-na and Bingham being the likely opening contenders. The outcome of this game should be interesting and the game will show the real calibre of Vaugh Chrlstensen's new men. Regardless, however, of the outcome out-come of any particular game or any particular series. Copper league athletic ath-letic has grown and came to be interior inter-ior to none in Utah and superior to all. The greatest entertainment to the greatest number, at the smallest possible cost to the public has been the scheme of Copper League action since the inception of the league a few short years ago. Those of us who are merely interested inter-ested spectator of the great contests should get our money's worth in what we see. We certainly are not indebted indebt-ed to the Copper league or to Its officials offi-cials to such an extent that it requires our advice to repay the debt. The Copper league has reached for greater great-er success at tMs time than has any other Utah organization of like na-turp na-turp ever attained. So we might suggest sug-gest to those who are causing the publicity that can do nothing but reflect re-flect on the league to "Stop biting the hand that's feeding you." |