Show Remember em Christensen Anderson Ashby No 10 Way Plenty Lucky for Utah High I School Player Just a last fleeting look at the 1949 prep cage season The biggest surprise of the season sea sen- son on was Davis Davis' winning the class classA A state championship And coach of the year honors must go goto goto goto to reserved Lynn Wilcox Dart mentor Biggest disappointment was the failure of East to look Jook good in the tournament after alter winning winning win win- ning the Bi Big Eight in convincing fashion 4 1 And tourney fans never ne saw the Leopards at their I best I Most consistent team was B. B Y high The Wildcats fooled absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab no one bY oy winning the I Jack JackStraws JackStraws 4 Straws r By Jack Jock Schroeder Schroeder af R I state class B championship I Most pleasant surprise was the very ery fine showing by American Fork The Cavemen under the expert of Don Overly O lost Jost out in the finals again That marked the fourth time In Inthe Inthe Inthe the past five years under Overly's s direction that the Cavemen have reached the finals I Mused fused that ma maybe be the answer to a n a n successful basketball season season sea sea- cn- cn son Is the wearing of No Xo 10 Was Vas especially convinced after noting that David Anderson Ander Ander- son of Bear ear River Glen Ashby of Davis vis and Harold Christensen Christen ChrIsten- sen of B. B Y 1 high all wore that same 10 0 That might not bo ho bothe hethe the total reason but it is coin coin- Good athletes are quite often versatile Its It's evidenced by bv the fact act that the first five i on the Davis high school basketball team compose compose compose com com- pose the infield in baseball for the Darts Just as an afterthought if the Davis kids can hit the horse horse- rr xa s e eBb Bb Bess Granites Granite's hard working guard who looks to Rood good season hide like they did the hoop in the state tourney then the rest of oC the league may as well go home I However Johnny Dawson Lowell Taylor Neil Hance Hancey Hance Junior Hill Hilland Hilland Hilland I and Glen Ashby will ill be the diamond diamond diamond dia dia- dia- dia mond stalwarts for or the Darts Same Old Argument The season came and went and anda I a lot of people are arc definitely dissatisfied dissatIsfied dissatisfied dis dis- satisfied with the current basketball basketball basketball basket basket- ball setup We Ve should have one state champion they say say They're opposed to having two I but no one wants to do anything about it Therefore It will I re remain remain re- re main mam the same for man many years we believe belie Well We'll always have two i I state state champs and well we'll always have havethe the argument as to which Is better The worst tournament showing was unquestionably made by hy Emlin tho the Gremlin who discarded ills dis I carded his fanc fancy season pason a average and dipped fo to new depths Barely hit over o for tor state slate class A Ameet Ameet Ameet meet His Hii true ability was never ne realized in the tourney tourne either Still sorry that Pleasant Grove didn't get set to the state tourney The Vikings could have beaten practically every team in the meet and Alpine coaches will tell you the same As a matter of oC fact the Pee Gee lads knocked over o B. B Y high and American Fork I within a tour del four day period Too bad they had to oe ne in the same league Fame the Hard Way McKay Jewkes of oC South Sum- Sum ro i q C Cat M I e. e e at y e E Lw rw rN J Bob Boh Hill cock cocky Judge Memorial guard bi bids s for lor glory lor in 1950 mit is the example of a kid who rose to prep fame tame the hard way McKay has attended four high schools beginning at Delta and then to Milford then to East in Salt Lake C City ty and finally to South Summit Jewkes might have remained at the Leopard school if If It had been possible for him to tobe tobe t be graduated graduate but when he learned I such was impossible he transferred to Kamas Ramas where his uncle Hue Jewkes is coaching coaching- basketball The big G 6 ca eager r became one I of the best collegiate prospects of I Ithe the entire bunch The most pressure was unleashed unleashed un un- leashed upon Harold Christensen Christen- Christen sen sen B B. B 1 Y high center who was wis the only 1948 state all cu eager er to tobo he bo name named uJ again in this season Proving Pro to be a real champion Christensen carried the brunt of the attack a again ain this season and did elid another remarkable job joh Pressure we 5 say a ny doesn't mean a n thing if the kid is humble hum hum- I hie ble And Christensen is just that And it might he nice nico niceto niceto nicoto I to ho bo such an around all-around athlete r r r F r rJ A R K R. Watchorn West Vest high guard JUard with good possibilities for 50 O. O as Harold excelling in basketball basketball basket hasket- ball hall football fo baseball tennis and andt t track There are a lot of juniors In this 1949 year who will be heard from I later Take Carl Hamann of Pleasant Grove Fans and re re- re i porters watching the junior A A tourney came back back with glows glow reports of Hamann's Hamann s ability r I It It t stuck out all season T Th Tb there are Nell Hancey Hance and I I Bess of Granite These t mites should be set for ag a g I season Cocky Bob Hill HilJ Ju Ju Memorials Memorial's last of the Hills I capable of ot having a great sea seas Ralph Watchorn of West Vest m be due for a good year A dont don't forget Tom Karren of or B high and Max Pierce of Ameri Fork Pierce Incidentally just a sophomore Milt Varner of East is already g tc As Is Cal Drecksel of South Bingham Loaded Steve warns us tl will Bingham be loaded for tor n season The didn't lose game says Smiley and the junI are a good lookin looking hunch bunch I 1 But so much for or 1949 It Ita Ita v va a great year but it must cl clo sometime If it had last las longer we would have taken t tl 11 along with Emlin EmUn t 11 Gremlin j r |