The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17

FULLY l.NN rOOterS. about evenly divided
came from Logan and Provo. and this
crowd was augmented by another nearly
as large composed Of disinterested fans
from Salt Lake and the surrounding
towns II was the crowd Of Provo and
Logan. in which "A college spirit carried
TO the limit showed the intense feeling
between the two schools founded years
ago by Brigham Young.
Provo Won the Moral Fight.
The Logan institution won the game of
basketball, but the Provo school won in
the moral fight which was behind the
scene being enacted on the gymnasium
floor. At one time when Provo was well
in the lead and victory seemed certain.
the leader of the Provo rooters walked
over To the crowd of 3. Y. {. students
and laughingly hurled taunts at the dis
comfited and down-hearted rooters of the
r. Y. c. His words were met with yells
all of which were proper. Then the Provo
man gave the Provo donkey yell initiating
a donkey both in sound and appearance
80 clever WAS the act that the diSinter-
ested persons could not help laughing
Here the leader OF the Logan roOters
who from appearance might be the heavy
slugger of the college. stepped up and
with menaClng look ordered the Provo
man to the other side of the hall. For a
moment it looked as If trouble would sure
Is come about and on either side of the
hall rival rooters appeared ready to mix
The Provo man. however, equal TO the
occasion, smilingly allowed himself TO be
led away and after reaching the side of
the hall reserved for Provo. drew an i'm
aginary line across the floor and wildly
waved his arms at the LOganite. who
was posed as Ajax defying the light
ming. 1t took with the crowd and the ac-
ton OF the ProvOites at this juncture
threw good feeling into the entire crowu
which remained until the last
Logan Won Game Twice
The Logan players won the game of
basketball twice before it was finally
given to them At the end of time for
the second half a dispute arose over the
score and the official scorer finally called
the game a tie by score of "A to "a.
Extra time was called TO finish the game
and a long hitch resulted over who should
be the proper referee and umpire. 1t was
finally decided TO allow Coach Pinkley Of
the Illinois university basketball team to
finish the game as referee George Tay-
Tor was agreed upon as umpire. In a
few seconds after play was resumed
basket from free throw gave Logan one
point and a couple of seconds aftefward
a good throw from Wangsgaard scored
two more points. giving Logan the game
for the second time.
3. Y. U. Makes Better Start.
When time was first called the Provo
team rapidly forged TO the front and Lo-
gan was apparently outciassed. The
northern players did not score d single
field goal in the first half, which re-
suited in a score of 10 to 8 against them.
In the second half they came back strong
er and picked up in their work until about
half time, when they were playing Provo
off its feet. In the second half Provo
scored a single field goal against four
scored by Logan, not including the win
ming throw made after play had been re-
sumed.
Provo played by far the rOugher game
OF the two. but played with far more con-
ffdence. While the team work of Logan
showed a higher degree Of perfection. the
desire of the individual players to star
instead OF playing a zone for all game
cost them many points Provo was not
So active on the floor, but the men will
ingly sacrificed their chances to give some
closer man a try for a basket. Logans
passing and handling of the ball was bet
ter and its work i'm the back field far
superior. but too many long shots for
baskets were tried when closer attention
10 under basket team work would have
scored more points.
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