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Show v^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^£S«30i -IUtahâ€"MontanaTRY and beat 'em! That same warning was hurled at every outfit that tried to stand in the path of the championship Montana State Bobcat machine and that same yell still goes heralded to this day. When you bring five such phenoms together as Frank Ward, Orland Ward, Ashworth Thompson, John Breeden, and Max Worthington, you're simply plugging against great odds.Wellâ€"if you can't expect to win, there's only one alternative, and that's to try. Trying almost did more than one hurt to the Cats this year. They almost lost to someone other than the Aggies, and this time they had their entire force on the floor. They didn't start a list of subs.Cat Thompson missed about thirty-steen shots without scoring, and in that lies the story for the late, almost too late start, of the Dyche outfit in the first tussle against the Utes at the Deseret gym. Montana winning, 40-28. Until the last few minutes, the Cats were barely clawing to a 2 and 3 point lead, but Frank Ward and the Cat sank a few in the dusky hours, and the score rolled up a few points. That total of only 40, certainly looked sick alongside the all-season average of 60 some-odd points per game for the greatest court five in the country.Another hot tussle ensued the second night, this time the Cats taking a 51-43 win, imagineâ€"only by 8 points. But one was as good as a million, and it was just one more chalk in the left-hand column for the Bozeman flashes.In the final series at Bozeman, the Montanas' flashed through with some of the real stuff and subdued Utah, 69-35, and 63-47. At that the home folks were surprised the second night. The Dyche men couldn't ever double the score.BUTLERForward$t*Ti ICHARLES LARSON CenterRAY SKIDMORE ForwardPRATT KESLER Guard^<mmm&^f£m*:@Wt@i£fiaS^C5»5*&*â- i^One hundred thirty-three |