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Show Page Four SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE Friday, March 3, 1944 Anton Peterson Leaves 'Gilbert's Quintet South Battles East Leopards Leaves South High On Deseret Court Tonight; Hilltoppers Seek Tourney Birth With the basketball season for the Big Six almost over, the Darts from Davis seem to have clinched the title with their win over Granite last week. However, Granite still has a chance to tie the Darts for the championship. In the event that Granite wins both of, the games left on its schedule and Davis loses its Anton Peterson, star forward on Gilbert five the past year, has enlisted in the Marines. Good - luck, always, "Pete". w " ?8i "4 - 'l'flellSi fr " H - a ''S ' flv 11 VS one remaining game, both schools - lS will have to share the crown. Last week was a busy one in the Big Six with most teams play-ing two games. The Cubs took on the Jordon and Davis quintets los-ing both contests as well as an-other to Granite the week before. In all three games the Cubs were more than a match for the oppon-ents in the first quarter, but seem-ed to fall apart as the games pro-gressed and finally ended up on the short side of the score. The most thrilling game of the week was Jordan-Ea- st tilt with the Leopards emerging victoriously over Hansen and company by one point, 32-3- 1. The Granite-We- st game was postponed until Tuesday because BIG SIX STANDINGS Won Lost Pet. Davis 8 1 .888 Granite 7 2 .777 East 5 4 .555 West 4 5 ,.444 Jordon 3 5 .333 South 0 9 .000 the Deseret gym was being used for the "M" men tournament. The Cubs looked like the teams of old from South as they match-ed Davis, Granite, and Jordon basket for basket in each of the first quarters in the games with these teams. Thei entire South team consisting of the two Peter-sons, Jones, Kjar, Story, Jenkins, and Carabine were hustling, pas-sing and shooting with the best of any South teams, but they didn't seem able to keep it up for the other three quarters. The game with Davis was An-tho- ne Peterson's last game with the Cubs for he is scheduled to leave for the Navy soon. We want to wish this one swell ath-lete lots of luck and success in his future endeavors. Three of the hight school casa-ba loops will wind up league play this weekend in contests which will decide futher entries in the annual state playoff slat-ed in the Deseret gym on March 16, 17 and 18. Granite and Davis have already won tourney positions and East is expected to clinch the third spot from the Big Six. Frday's schedule for the Big Six will find West at Davis, Jordan at Granite and South meeting East in the Deseret gym. The Scribe SPORTS SCOPE By Grant Woodward Sports Editor It appears that most students and even the athletes have the wrong impression about the Big Six league. It is the opinion of the public that the city schools, East, South and West have done away with the Big Three lea-gue. When the coa-- ches and princi-pals of the six schools met on I Dece mber 14, these decisions; were made. ; "A" teams? of each school to Grant Woodward be made up of the best eligible boys in the school. This means even juniors if they are good enough to make the "A" squad. "B" or reserve teams to be made up of reserve eligible players who may be either junior or senior grade, but mainly juniors. "C" teams are to be made up of juniors and seniors, but on the classification basis. This idea has not been changed and the boys, weigh in according to height, weight and age. "Sophomore" teams are to be made up of eligible boys in the sophomore class of the county schools. Competition is to be between the "A" teams of the six schools, and the "B" or reserve team of the six schools in a preliminary match. "C" teams will play soph- omore teams on a six team basis. The Championship of the Big Six is to be determined on the "A" team basis. The Champion-ship of the three city schools, East, South and West is to be de-termined as heretofore on a three team basis. You can see that the "A" team is in the spotlight because it plays in two leagues; the Big Three and the Big Six. By playing East and West in the Big Six, the school officials kill two birds with one stone and thus two championships are determined. Remember when we play East and West all three games are league games and the hoopsters on the three teams need your sup-port. BIG THREE STANDINGS . Won . Lost Pet. East 9 0 1.000 South 3 6 .333 West 3 9 .250 j South high's highjy praised school spirit has decidely dropped this season to a lower level. Stu-- dents of South have slackened their spirit considerably during the hoop season. Years before, South had to turn away spectators and fans because all seats were taken. Students fill only half of the benches as last year. Those students act like kids when they do come to the "A" games. Many reasons have been given for the small crowds at the bask-etball games. Jobs, duties, dates, etc., are just some of the few rea-sons. One student stated that he didn't want to come and see South ge beat every time but what was he doing to help the matter. Just ii because South hasn't produced a" winning aggregation this season, for the first time in many years, it gives you students no reason for not wanting to come to the games. When the "A" hoopsters are losing, that's the time they need your support most. Let's all turn over a new leaf and give the athletes some sup-- y port for tonights battle and show them that we appreciate what tihey are doing to make our high school days more fun. t Takes Over t Bob Pyper, Junior Takes over Peterson Forward spot. "B" Team Closes League Play Tonight; Ryan Charges Ready For Last Win Over East Jrs. Although Pat Ryan's "B" aggregation meets defeat regularly, fans a.nd local newspaper critics agree that the Southerners will bid high for the Big Six pennant come casaba season next year. Natural athletic talent contributed among the "B" crew and with the added exper-ience contributed by returning varsity players the Cubs will probably see another season like . those I . , (memorable ones of '40 and '41. East Break Offensive The offensive attack featured by the Cub five next year will utilize the speed and deception of Lyle Roller and Bob Pyper in a fast-breaki- ng offensive. Defensively the Cub quintet will use man-toma- n although fans will get an occasional glance at the Jimmie Gilbert zone. In any case the reg-ular Junior Varsity guards, Glenn Palmer and Ronald Grider, will be a major factor contributing to Southerners' success. Cub Juniors Promoted In the recent Jordan-Sout- h con-test the Cubs holding a comforta-ble lead in the fourth frame met with the unexpected opposition of the Jordan "A" squad, who entered the tilt with warm-u- p intentions. This proved to be good experience for the juniors. With this in mind the first string "B" squad was per-mant- ly made part of the varsity club. Mighty Mites Win Again Leading their opponents all the way, the South .high "C" hoop-sters demoralized the Davis soph-omores, 42 to 21 in a one sided affair at Davis, February 24. Functioning smoothly, the Cubs dominated the large end of the score the entire tussle. Every Southerner eager saw action. The Davis sophs were hopelessly out-- ! classed which gave the Southern-ers little opposition. South high's "mighty midgets" are sticking to their tradition of being the best of he 3 teams. Coach Wardell's little gentleman have proven themselves worthy of all the student's praise and have a reputation among other teams that is outstanding. There are not many teams who enjoy tackling Wardell's "C" crew, because they know what a scoring bombardment tlhey carry. The "C" boys have been disap-pointte- d about the student support at their games. You Cubs! get be-hind South's little men and give them something more to fight for. All of the Southerners should feel proud of their "mighty mites." Jerry Dalebout Announces SAM Tourney Finishing up the hoop sea-son as always, Jerry Dalebout, president of South Associated Men has announced that the annual home room tourney will begin Tuesday, March 8. Coach Jimmy Gilbert will de-cide the eligibiity of all the boys. Any hoopster who earned a,n award on either the "A", "B", or "C teams is not eligi-ble to participate in the mam-moth tourney. S A M home room represen-tatives have sent the squad members to Mr. Hale and the playoff will get under way Tuesday. Beetdigger Ace Still Leads Big Six Scoring Shooting with uncanny accuracy, Jay Hansen collected 35 points in two games to go virtually un-challenged as the leading scorer in the Bi,g Six. The big pivot player from Jordan collected 21 points against South and 14 against East in one-ma- n scoring extravaganzas, for a "seasonal" total of 143 counters. Jimmy Cleverly, sharpshooting guard and backbone of the Davis attack, occupies the nftmerup spot 20 points behind. Cleverly falls one short of tieing Hansen in field goals with 51, but places considerably below the league lead-er in foul goals. All-Stat- e forward of last year, Ray Barnes, sparkplug of the Ecider's attack, has swished 97 tallies for third place honors. With 39 field goals, the popular Leopord is one behind Dick Baker, Farmer post player, but accounts for the lead with 19 foul pitches. Baker leads the Granite five defensively and has 88 points to his credit. Meet the Athletes! Football, basketball, returning captain to the baseball team, SAM president, and Associated Sports editor of the Scribe highlighted our, choice in Jerry Dalebout as this issues outstand-ing athlete of South high. "Jake" as he is known to most of his mutual friends, is a third year student at South with an unbeatable record. Starting with his junior year "Jake" played quarterback on the "B" football team. 'ii,t He served his time as manager on the "B" L Jvvf basketball team and in the spring Jerry found ffiK himself at second base on the baseball team. ptfvll Senior activities were almost the same. He feiAiM displayed his talents at center on the "C" team H and again managed a basketball team. By the way he wears that number 3 on his shirt. , v H j Familiar number, isn't it. He was selected cap- - , " tain of the baseball team last spring and still Ly will assume the same duties this coming spring. Jerry turned 18 last December and will re- - Jerry Dalebout port to Uncle Sam, prior to . graduation. Jerry enjoys playing most any sport (yes sports) but ask him what his favrite sport is. He will give you two answers, athletic minded he'll say base-ball, but other than that (you know what that is) he prefers women. Good, solid, plump, baggy, women. "Jake" was selected S A M president in the fall and has done a wonderful job as assistant sports editor of the Scribe. This year, Mr. Dalebout made "All City" on the "A" foot-ball team. He is staring on Gilbert basketball team and will see plenty of action in the spring hitting the "ole" apple around. YOU CAN SPEAK A FOREIGN LANGUAGE in three months, with the aid of LINGUAPHONE Foreign language skill opens opportunities in education, literature, journalism, foreign affairs, business, science, engineering. 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