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Show Page Four SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE Wednesday, April 1, 1942. Cubs Swing . Into Final Lap of Sports Parade i i : Long Drills Cindermen For Defense of Grown South-Eas- t Tied For 1941 Title Determined to keep within the walls of South the city track championship, Cub cindermen are training vigorously and earnestly in an effort u take away the tracK title held by East. EXPERIENCED MEN RETURN In looking ever his display of track material, Nate Long has found it to be very satisfactory. Topnotch performers from last year's championship squad have returned. Men such as Jack Low-de-r, Stan Kilbourne, Virgil Van Cctt Chaiiie Patterson on the re-lay teams; Cale Cotton and Sid Faldmo on the hurdles ; Reed John-ston, Joe Lewis, Ray Ecker on the high jumps, are all worthy track-ster- s who played a great part in copping the title last year. PALMER, KELLY SHOW PROMISE Returning this year, Grant Kel-ly and Lawrence Palmer are sure of winning a pile of points as well as capturing glory for South. Palmer made track history last year at the Triangle meet by cop-ping indwiaual honors as well as practically winning South the ti-tle by making that heroic spec-tacular sprint which defeated East in the last event, the 880 relay, to tie for the track crown. He also took first in the 200-yar- d dash, and in the pole vault. Kelly aiso will be expected to do much this year. He is hot after the 440 record set by Ralph Ked-dingt- on of South. He was a valua-ble man on the relay teams and also the broad jump. Fans can de-pend on Grant that he'll do all he can for South high glory. Do a good job, you tracksters. And keep that title. Support Three Spring Sports Support of South's teams par-ticipating in outdoor spring sports is just as necessary for victory as in the fall and winter sports, football and basketball. Students are urged to con-tinue the fine attendance and sportsmanship exhibited in the past. Attend tennis matches, track meets and baseball games. Remember that baseball is the Ail-Americ- an sport. We have a winning team and with your support another championship will be chalked up for South high school. 327 Wins Triple Victory in '42! SAM ER Tourney SAM's torrid home room casaba tournament finally came to a close last week with 327 walking victoriously off the floor with a well - earned, hard - fought victory over 305, by a score of 17 to 13. The entire tournament provided all the thrills, excitement and tenseness that were characteristic of the many thrilling games during the Big Three campaign. Forty-tw- o home rooms entered the tourney as each room gamely sport. All casabans who participat-wo- n by 206, last year's champions. TROPHY WON BY CHAMPS A beautiful trophy was captured by the newly-crowne- d champs. This tournament was an oppor-tunity for all would-b- e hoopsters to try their mettle at the court sport. All casabans who participat-ed in the Big Three race were in-eligible. 327-30- 5 GAME HARD FOUGHT The championship tilt was a toss-u- p as both teams vainly tried to surge ahead. Slowly but surely 305 steadily pulled away to a 12 to 6 score at the half. Bill Ncrth-ru-p lead the attack for 305 by tanking two field goals and two foul goals. The tide of battle turned at the last half. A high-spirite- d, deter-mined quintet, although trailing by six points, put forth everything it had as the boys from 32,7 gained rapidly on the faltering boys of 305. The tight defensive and the deadly offensive work of the champs clamped down on their foes as the final score read 17 to 13 in their favor. Veterans, Rookies Begin Baseball Training Period m tion will come at the hands of LaMar Erickson. Loss of Bill and Bob Dodge left the team weak in the battery de- - i partment this year, but others have fitted in well. Kent Peterson has plenty on the ball he delivers from the portside, and Jack Wigren looks like a substaining right hand er. Other lefthanders who are back from last year to lend assistance to the championship cause is Gus Funtas. Gerald "Smokey" Wolff and McCoy MacMurray are other experienced righthanders. Behind the plate, Vernon Sceili is developing into an efficient player. Bob Storey, and Bill Grainger are also doing good work at backing up the pitching department. With an outlook for the cham-pionship brighter than it has been for several years, 33 Cubs are bid-ding for positions on this season's baseball squad in a stroke intended to end West's reign on the "Big 3" diamonds. South, should open up with the most thoroughly seasoned squad in school history. All positions on the team hold at least one experienced player. With virtually the same team last year, Coach Jimmy Gil-bert barely missed grasping the crown. v Brightest spot on the team is the outfield. Holding the inside lane on three positions are Lawrence Palmer, Bill Northrup, and Don Davis, all third year men who pack bats loaded wth dynamite. Gilbert has little to worry about in the infield. Dave Cooper and Dick West shine at first base, with the nod likely to go to Cooper. Second base has drawn bids from six men. Only one of last year's players, Kay Spackman, has re-turned to the baseball fold, but promising juniors are erasing doubt as to the strength of the keystone sack. Jerry Dalebout and Fred Weidner looked impressive in practice Unchallenged except for one man, Willie Stewart seems a cer-tain crioice for the third sack. Ste-wart held down the hot corner well in his junior year, but was even more valuable at bat. His competi- - Kelly Grabs 1354b Title In AA U Meet Grant Kelly, South's lone per-former in the annual AAU boxing tournament held in Salt Lake City, smashed his way through all op-position to become King of the 135-pou- nd class in the junior divi-sion for 1942. Grant, a smooth, clever fighter, gave everything he had as he com-pletely overwhelmed all rivals. His first encounter was against a USAC fighter, Gerald Duncan. His final opponent was Raymond Mon-toy- a. Gemmel club. Both boys tried hard to down the clever boxer from South. However, Kelly proved to be a far superior scrapper as he decisioned Montoya and Duncan to cop the crown. A top-notc- h athlete here at South, Grant has shown his ability as an all-rou- nd performer. Intra-Mur-al Contests Planned Coach Gilbert has announced plans for holding contests along these events: softball, track and tennis. Another great intramural tournament willl be held with the senior tracksters competing against the junior cindermen. This meet will be under the supervision of Coach Long. These various tournaments will be open to all boys now enrolled at South. Dates for these tournaments will be announced by Nate and Jimmy at a later period. Here's Spring Sports Data BASEBALL TENNIS April 16 West at South. April 14 West B at South B. April 23 South at East. April 16 South A at West A. jyiay 7 South at West. April 21 East B at South B. May 14 East at South. April 21 East B at South B. TRACK April 23 South A at East A. April 17 South at West. April 24-2- 5 BYU Meet, Prov April 24-2- 5 BYU Meet, Prom May 5 South B at West B. May 1 East at South. May 7 West A at South A. May 15 Triangular meet at May 12 South B at East B. IX of II. May 14 East A at South A. May 22 City mass meet. SAM's All-St- ar Squad Player Home Room Position Player Home Room Position Hugh Wiley 104 --...Forward Bill Northrup 309 Forward Grant Kelly 209 Forward Stan Kilbourne 206 Forward Bill Brown 327 .....Forward Bill Grainger 204 Forward Jack Richards 327 Center Jack Wigren 305 Center Willie Stewart 209 Center Bill Earl 206 .....Center Ted Saul 305 Guard Phil Rasmussen 305 Guard Don Davis 104 Guard Ray Jones 305 Guard Girls Anticipate Outdoor Sports With the coming of spring, ju-nior and senior teams are being or-ganized for baseball with tourna-ments to follow. However, basketball hasn't been forgotten, for the juniors' tourna-ment is forthcoming with Leaders referereeing. Speaking- - of Leaders two weeks ago they played best to East and West at the traditional an-nual get-togethe- r. Basketball games were played and later, were served. Beth Adele Jenson and Gloria Hancock of South and girls from East and West contributed. The masculine priority to the tennis courts is slowly being un-dermined by the slow infiltra-tion of dainty damsels, for with the completion of the Dance Drama, regular classes will be held to teach the fundamentals of "whamming" and volleying the poor little tennis ball around. Patronize Our Advertisers . . . They Patronize Us! y CENTURY PRINTING COMPANY " (INCORPORATED) Q Commercia I Printers Phone 3-41- 03 11 231-3- 5 Edison Street Salt Lake City DIAL South State Street Auto Wreckage Company WE BUY AND SELL ALL KINDS OF AUTO PARTS AND USED CARS OF ANY MAKE 1624 South State St. Salt Lake City, Utah ! IF ANYONE CAN j I FIX IT I I PAG1&CS THE JEWELER j CAN j 25 W. SO. TEMPLE j Bill Johnson Coach Tate Wardell has been re-placed by Bill Johnsen, recent graduate of the University of Utah. Mr. Johnsen majored in Physical Development at the "U." He is a veteran basketeer, having played oi the Ute basketball squad in 1939,, '40, and '41. He also played on the brilliant Murray high school teams that played in the State High School Basketball tourna-ment in 1935 .and '36. He is such a recent graduate that he was even taking final ex-ams when he started to drill South's tennis squad in the art of beating East and West. Courtmen Drill Under New Coach Under the watchful eye of South's new mentor, Billy Johnson, Cub racqueteers are now diligently training in an eager effort to round out a team capable of sweep-ing the city net series this season. With the initial Big Three en-counter set for April 14, with the junior squads of South and West clashing, all net fans may well ex-pect an exciting campaign with keen competition throughout the entire race. Last year the Cubs just couldn't keep in step with Lady Luck and landed in the cellar position. How-ever, the Cubs are more deter-mined than ever to bring to an end the long reign of the Eciders. This year fans will see the ab-sence of many netters whose val-uable services will be greatly missed. Such notable players as Carl Hulbert, Mark Caffal and Stan Clawson will be hard to re-place. However, Southerners can expect a great deal from Frank Davidson, Doug Heiner, Deane Christenseri, Jack Richards, Har-vey Schmidt, Gordon Nelson to name only a few, to make a great showing in the "A" division. A fine crop of rookie netters show promise of developing into ton-notc- h players. Men such as Dick . Brower, Eddie Anderson, Jimmy Neely, all-rou- nd athlete, Dave McClelland, and many more juniors, will offer stiff competi-tion to the two cross-tow- n rivals, East and West. In the war future, Billy John-son will pick a singles and dou-bles team to represent Socth at the Invitational meet. Last year Cub netters Carl Hulbert ond Frank Davidson the number one senior and junior men blasted their way to the finals in the dou-- bles. But the team from East de-feated the Cubs. Frank will, in all probability, go again this year. April 24-2- 5 Set For Provo Meet Track mentor Nate Long has an-nounced that South's cindermen along with the tennis teams will again compete in the annual Invi-tation-meet on the 24 and 25 of April in the Brigham Young uni-versity stadium. A picked group of standout per-formers will be selected by Coach Long to represent South's track team. Also, mixed and singles tennis will jaunt down to Provo to compete in the court event. |