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Show Sporting Scribble By "TASH" South-Davis Meet In their first non-league game, South's powerful cinder squad trounced the state track champions, the Davis Darts, by a close score of 66.5 to 56.5. Although hampered by rain, the two schools put up a bitter fight to the finish. The Cubs were trailing trail-ing the Darts by fifteen points and with only the three relays left, the blue and white shirted boys gave everything they had to captured cap-tured first in all three races. South high school is very proud of the fine bunch of tracksters, whose fighting spirit and fine sportsmanship brought glory and recognition to the school not only by downing the Darts but also for their remarkable performance in the invitational meet at Provo last week. Davis Men Outstanding Coach Linford rolled into the Cub campus with a fine bunch of tracksters. It seems that the Darts have always boasted a strong squad every year, always walking off the field with top honors. hon-ors. The Cubs have accomplished a neat feat in defeating the Darts., Any team that can topple a Davis crew truly deserves all the praise, cheer and the hearty congratua-tion congratua-tion of any spots fan. Track fans had the opportunity of watching two outstanding trackmen. track-men. Lloyd Page and Fred Sheffield. Shef-field. Sheffield now holds the Provo invitational meet record for high jumping, 6 feet 2'j inches. Also he holds the junior high record rec-ord of 5 feet 8 inches... Although hampered by mud and rain, he cleared the bar at 5 feet 8 inches in the meet against the Cubs. He took first in the high hurdles and second in the broad jump and low hurdles. Also an outstanding basketball bas-ketball player, he gained all-state recognition this year in the state tourney. Page won the admiration of the fans in clearing the hurdles. A poor start in the high hurdles prevented pre-vented him from finishing in his first start. However, in running for third place, his time was faster than his team mates. Incidentally, it was the first hur die race that Lloyd has ever lost in his high school career. Track fans are looking ahead and once again anticipating another anoth-er meet against the Davis Darts. |