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Show Baseball, Tennis, Track Headline Spring Sports By Cliff Miller South high's hopes for a victorious team this season rests' largely with Jimmie Gilbert's diamond squad, although Tate Wardell's charges as well as Pat Ryan's net crew look promising. promis-ing. With almost a month of pre-season practice ahead of them, all three squads should show well for themselves come Big Six petition this sport takes on an even greater meaning than before. Because of the laxity of baseball in the country schools, it left track to lead in their spring activities. ac-tivities. That leaves South a large responsibility in developing a good track team. Mentor Wardell must start from scratch to produce his track aggregation this season. Few let-termen let-termen are . returning to bolster Souths prospects. But if Wardell can continue his stride in building up winning teams as he did in "C" football and basketball, South will have nothing to worry about in track. Tennis Tennis will be coached by Pat Ryan. Tennis looks favorable for the Cubs this season with several lettermen back for a crack at East high's experienced netters. A single elimination tournament was started last Monday, to pick the tennis squad. Lou Dods no doubt will be one of the men who will , predominate on the senior crew. competition. Coach Gilbert .has a top-notch bunch of fellows competing for positions on his squad. He has several returning lettermen, featuring fea-turing Kent Peterson, South's king of chuckers. Peterson hurled hurl-ed himself a record that was outstanding out-standing last season, winning every game of league play. Jerry Daleaibout, returning captain of the baseball team, turned in a first-rate first-rate performance at second base. Bob Story is the guy who backed up Peterson throughout last year's tussels and handed in an outstanding out-standing reputation as a catcher. Returning from the outfield is Glen Davis, a junior last year and one of the few who earned a position on the regulars. Another aspirant is Dick Powers a dependable depend-able man at catch. Be sure to watch Don Brewer in the outfield. He brought a good reputation from California and much is expected ex-pected of him. Holding down the initial sack will be Kay Greer. ' Looking good at third base is Jack Bail, another returning player. play-er. Helping out on the pitching staff wrill be Sonny Pratt. Track Outlook Of all the spring sports, track dominates them all, from the high school point of view. Now that the city schools are in state com- |