The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-07
SCHOOL ATHLETICS
TURN TO HOOP GAME
Indications Are That B. Y. U.
Will Not Lose Single Bat
tie This Year.

Among amateur athletics the past
week has been one Of little action. The
time has been spent largely in resting
and In passing comment by way OF post
mortem on the recently passed football
season. The football season is now
duly buried and, beginning with this
week, all the colleges and high schools
in the state which have not already
begun will start earnest basketball
training In the hopes of winning the
state championship in their respective
divisions. :,
her Stake academy Of Ogden won the
state championship last year, while the
collegiate bunting went to the state
university. From present indications
II looks very much as though the state
champs would end the coming season
at the bottom, Captain Shdmore is
the only man in the school this winter
who played On the regular varsity line
up last winter, and as yet ne has been
unable to get into the practice because
of an injury be received In the early
part of the football season.
The most promising material to be
unearthed In the past week was Roger
Van Pelt and Lee Simmons. Van Pelt
is decidedly a dark-horse proposition.
He PLAYED little with the props last
winter. but he WAS 30 slow and awk'
ward that the principal reason for his
playing was to furnish amusement for
the crowd. This year he has .unwound
around anyone else who has yet been
out for the center position. Loren
Briggs. who played for the freshmen
four years ago, was expected TO Land
this place without any competition this
year, but in the game between the jun
Iors and the 1reshies these two men
were pitted against one another, and
Van Pelt not only outjumPed Briggs,
but he Gagged SIX field baskets IN the
course Of the. game.
speed and versatility mark him as an.
other player Of the type of Happy
Holmstead. Other men who are e1'
pected to get out and make the boys
! hustle, but who have not yet showed
any signs Of life, are Roy Mcintyre
lNpisgy" Ward, Jack Travers, Marsh
) Abbott, Rex Sutherland and Leslie
Paul.
The B. 7. q. and the Aggies are
| blessed with half a dozen stars each
| from which to make team. It is the
| B, Y. u. in particular that is strong
| and the indications are at present thai
the Provo team win not lose game
| this season.
To begin with they heve both OF the
\ Greenwood boys. This win be the third
| year for one and tho fourth year 70,
the other, and both are players Of the
classiest type. One Is q center and tht
other guard. Besides these two wor
| thy veterans, they have two othel
equally fast and experienced men II
Bowen and Halverson. Both of these
men are forwards and play the gam,
fast and furiouslY all the time. Coacl
Roberts also has Jones and Taylor, tive
Of last years substitutes, who, wher
given an opportunity, played the gsm'
In nice style.
It was practically this team which
for the two years preceding last yea,
| swept everything In the state hefor,
them and failed to lose a single gam,
TO either Utah or the Aggies.
The Aggies do not have quito as ia
vorable an outlook, but they have sev
4 eraI old men back and they possess Z
fighting spirit which goes far towart
| victory. They cannot be whipped b.
being told so and they can always b
figured as a strong possibility until tn.
battle Is all over, and they have beer
Defeated. Owen, the big Football scen
ter, is captain of ihe basketball team
! and with the help of Hugh Peterson
the two Brossards, Jones and Lauren
aon, he will have something hard /,
beat when he comes down this way t,
play the varsity or the B. Y. q.