last year to the great disappointment of the entire student body due to sheer misfortune rather than lack of skill we fell short by three points of landing the high school championship of the northern division of the state after tying granite for the title the defeat was rather severe the thoughts of this defeat had not entirely lost their sting when the basket-ball season came around once more and it was with tremendous determination that our boys entered the league we lost two games in the entire league series and they were lost on our opponents floors at the close of the series by actual points we were in the lead but by a game having been forfeited to the team from the school for the deaf it was necessary to play a tie game on a neutral floor this was a decisive victory for us the score being 22 to 36 the result of the game made our representatives champions of the northern division one more game remained to be played that with heber champion team of the southern division the game was called for april 2 at the y m c a gymnasium in salt lake at 8:30 both teams were on the floor at the first sound of the referee's whistle our boys began to play ball in earnest a bold start with a score of five was made before heber's team realized that the game had started as soon however as they did so the situation of the game began to grow exciting the score was soon made even ; first one side was ahead and then the other the rooters were in continuous suspense until the first half ended with a score of 12-12 our boys had evidently become used to the environment by the time the second half began for they played with twice the speed and precision they had manifested before the entire half was an exhibi tion of clean clear-cut fast and almost perfect playing the ball simply mew from one side of the hall to the other as it made its way is toward our basket never touching the floor and to all appearances never seen by heber the swift and absolute passing accomplished by our team certainly showed the effect of earnest and systematic training the game ended with a score of 17 to 31 at last the goal had been reached and the reward of continued work and training real ized a clear and unquestioned title to the state high school basket ball championship was established for the w a the following is the line-up of the team and comparative score of ill games played : center burton right forward watson left forward clark right guard roberts left guard harris substitute ingles substitute wiggins preliminary games weber 31 paris 43 weber 57 pocatello y m c a 19 weber 37 salt lake y m c a 1st team 52 weber 73 salt lake y m c a 2d team 26 weber 25 university of colorado 45 weber 76 huntsville 17 total weber weber weber weber weber weber weber weber 202 28 32 17 36 36 25 22 17 207 total points 587 it has now become a known fact that we will have our gym nasium in a very short time universal interest is in evidence the class 12 has voted to give the money left in their treasury at the end of the year to the gym fund at the beginning of the year the class 10 voted to give all their surplus to the gymnasium they have also got out neat little celluloid buttons as a means of boosting and promise to do some thing very much more substantial in the near future