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Show 2C Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1983 Wrestlers Have a That Disappears on the Mat said that his favorite thing about wrestling is winning and "having CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Correspondent the crowd cheer really loud for On the surface it appears Clint Lewis and Jim Cabrey dont have anything special in common. Both are teenagers with older brothers who encouraged them to participate in sports. No big deal. A lot of kids experience that. Both Clint and Jim are junior high wrestlers. Again, no big deal. Lots of kids wrestle. But what sets Clint' and Jim apart, and it will take you awhile to recognize it when they wrestle, is that both of them are legally blind. And theyre not too bad at the sport either. Clint, a ninth grader at South Davis Junior High, finished the regular season this year with a 1 record, four pins, and placed second in the district meet in the weight you. He has a1 good rapport with his teammates and said that if the coach, Glen Orme, is demonstrating a hold, one of the boys on his team will grab a hold of me and show me what the coach is doing. Orme gave some of the credit for Clints success to Clints father, Rex Lewis. As Clint himself put it, My' mom and dad have given me the best help and encouragement. My dad is proud of me all the time, even if I THESE TWO junior high wrestlers, Jim Cabrey, above, and Clint Lewis, below, fTSr ) . v. ' i f, t , ,r ? i 4t $'- n. years. 7 They experimented Jims brother, Mike Cabrey, was instrumental in Jims joining the Central Junior wrestling .. team. Mike, now at the West Point Academy in New York, S? Military for wrestled Layton High School. , Although Jim has to. be shown some of the holds at practice, he knew most of! them from his brother, who taught him the ba- '"0 if er grade. J - eighth-grad- sic holds,, he said. He tried out for the team at his brothers urging, and said that the first three days were the ' hardest $ ' . But he now wrestles, in the weight division and claims that the practices are the funnest part. Clint, who was bom with glaucoma and can see only shadows, Sv nd XWM&.-X.W- al methods year they tried directing him by riding in front of Jim with a radio, and another time they tied cans of rocks to his fathers bike. They finally settled on the clock method whereby Mr. Cabrey would direct Jim using 12 oclock for straight ahead, 11 oclock for turn left, and one oclock right and so pn. They went to Antelope Island and back that way. Jim' is the first blind student ever to attend Central Junior, and he. had no problems at school, according to his coach, for-tur- Lynn Foxely. But he has to work harder than the other wrestlers because he relies on sense and feel, Foxely said. 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