Show I 1 an answer to the letter in the vernal express communicated lir reuben rcuben A mcconkie defender of the uintah and wilcox academies dear sir your apt and classic comma cation which appeared in the vernal express issue of march j reached us and was read i with the utmost pleasure and with a scene of profound sympathy we take it for granted that 0 no o motive of a mean degree can prompt such an outpouring out pouring of ln and excellent mental poise your article we take it was no doubt written r in a spirit of fair play and broad sportsman sportsmanship saip nothing else L could we expect of you but if uby by dint of either stupidity or lack 5 of clear vision we are unable to comprehend your meaning then j lay the blame to the ine inevitable bitable 11 irony of fate and face us on whatever such a communication may brin bring to pass friendship rivalry is no reflection on the parties involved and we trust therefore that you are willing to lace th tha music and look with F both eyes at the facts in the case you begin with a short and apparently ly con concise else discourse on the legibility of mr beagley to act as referee and in so doing placed 3 J jl 1 aced an armor of defence around your principals mob rule remarks and justified your stand by an appeal to the contract araca signed between us and there you made t he assertion that the contract prohibits any officer of one school acting as ref brein the game where the team from that school is playing the first we have to say the honorable gentleman himself can answer that to the satisfaction of his own conscience but bat regarding the second we h aabye ave some few words to say and amith ith all due regards to your geue e of fair play and seemingly dedire to tell nothing but the truth we beg to differ from vow yar interpretation and say that you lave have either not read the contract or else you purposely misconstrued the same saine if you but ta take ke the pains to look at the yocum document ent you win will find that it reads ds something like this each school is to furnish a referee for one half of the game and an umpire for one half of the game notice that the words prohibit and officer do not in the contract those are p purely fabrications of Yo your own and hence your puny interpretation pre Pre tation of t the he contract under which the two schools have attached their signatures has no P bearing earing whatever on the rela j lions of the two schools i Furt furthermore e did you ever I 1 know that mr Be beadley ayley act acted e ld as 1 r 4 l aree in two of the t previous io us to i b ii dames inas of the series dont you ya think unit mr mcconkie that a prost i joe test at this late hour of the ses ries is 18 un sportsman like and indicates bafo di cates practically nothing but all admission that you are wildly rambling for the prize do i with that high mindedness which prompted you to appear in the press really think that you acted in good part thatchat that what you support to be right can withstand the test of interschool inter school decorum and what is there considered si to be honorable dont you think mr mcconkie that the place for the protest was at the time the contracts were drawn up you certainly did not sign the contract with your eye shut and the very fact that you consented to mr beag leys acting as referee in the previous games shows that the te contract did not exclude him then why was your change of attitude plainly it was not because of the contract that instrument st ment is the same your information bureau for another ex after thus emptying out your wrath upon those who are connected with the athletics of our schools you plunged headlong into the field of the forensic art here you spared no rules of honor or what is considered the unwritten law of gentlemen your eagerness to show your mental calibre rather betrayed your better self you summarized you case with these cowardly words they defeated us once but some things or irregularities in the proceeding proc ceding have never been ex the duchesne high school cannot afford to lay claim to a title to which there is a cloud of suspicion attached we are unable to ascertain the meaning of the above remark will you kindly inform us mr mcconkie do you refer to the judges or you think this quotation squares up with the brag you made at the beginning beg innig of your enlightening epistle did you not boast of how you took the defeat with the spirit of good sports now how about it havet you shown with your own pen that you acted hypocritically and to your boastful challenge we appreciate preci ate very much your fighting spirit but mr mcconkie the serial debates are not yet at a an end we do other things here besides debating furthermore the duchesne high school does docs not believe in professionalism if these activities are to be enjoyed by certain students only then the aim for which these activities were established is far from being real eted equal opportunities to all and a fair chance to all should be the purpose for all inter interschool competition again we realize that you could not do anything else but want to fight us again that is no more than natural we always I 1 think afterwards that we ican can lick the other fellow we trust that you read this over carefully you know that lit it name that can get into the p papers apers we appreciate chate your suggestion but we rather wait until we are sure the public wishes our names spread oui out before their eyes |