Show ap ur t by A T roberts chronicle sports editor local high school athlete feels no pain in being coiled called the horse in an unwarranted attack aga ast the undersigned a local too ele paper suggests that a local reporter pen an apology to a high school athlete glen rupp and thit tha this apology be published in the salt lake telegram S nee nce I 1 am that local reporter and am hired by the salt lake telegram to report local sporting events in tooele thoele county I 1 assume all responsibility for all sporting news either reported directly or indirectly to the salt lake tete tele gram the incident in m which I 1 was ac aused of calling names and that in the opinion of the local paper which res an apology was printed in the salt lake telegram saturday jan 24 the article was an account of the basketball game between cyprus and tooele thoele high schools played jan 23 in the too ele gym the star of that game as far as scoring honors was concerned was glen rupp in the article glen was referred to as glen horse rupp the nickname horse was penned by me not as an insult or a slur against the boy but as a nickname which could be associate ed with glen rupp and his achieve ments on the basketball floor before using the nickname horse I 1 checked with the boy and received his permission to use it since he has received state wide notice as a result of his bas netball ability and the nickname of horse Is now associated with him I 1 have person nally checked with glen his family and his team mates none of them have any ob ejection to the nickname of horse therefore I 1 am making no apology in my own or any other paper inasmuch as an apology is not in order and I 1 have been called cheap I 1 do feel that perhaps some sort of an explanation would be in order so for the benefit of some people who do not under stane stand why glen is referred to as horse I 1 submit the following I 1 have seen 10 out of the 13 games that tooele thoele high school has played to date in every game glen has given the very best that was in him it has been my impression that glen in order to help his team mates in their quest for vie tory was working like a horse rather than calling the boy cheap names I 1 consider the nickname horse a compliment in spite of what some disinterested and uninformed parties may think in reporting sporting events it is common practice almost to the point of tradition to use nicknames and to associate athletes with de titles perhaps tooele thoele s school identification of 0 buffaloes Is also objectionable and cheap the list of truly great athletes that have cheap monikers is much too long to list in its entirety but just a few that have had nick names associated with them that were derived from animals would be bronko the all time football star he was and still is called the bronc brone or nag an who been picked by many as the great est center in modern day football has been called bulldog for so long that his first name escapes my memory bulldog turner to get a little closer to home I 1 wonder wander if my tormentor has ever heard of the four horsemen of notre dame of utah state states s great I 1 end of a few years back moose MulI eneaux 7 lee brook B Y U s track star and later a high school coach here in utah was always called pony tooele thoele s own george vich was known as mink every one has heard of the all time all american forward john A thomp son probably not as john be cause he was always called cat I 1 in referring to cat thompson of the montana golden bobcats in the field of softball just a j round salt lake city we find mickey mouse westover moose campbell and kong kelly isn t the N Y yank ee left fielder a man named kel ler called king kong 7 9 didn dian t the athletics athletic have an infielder named 1 mule haas and what about the I 1 prof profess ess onal golfer ed porky 01 I 1 iver ivera on and on it goes but now I 1 I 1 all of a sudden some person takes it upon himself to accuse a sports writer write of calling names and state that he is cheap I 1 am a great admirer ol 01 not only the athletes of but of the type of sportsmanship and the quality of sports that is associated with them md cind have attempted to report to the fans an accurate interesting account of tl breir air a achievements chieve ments never hav have I 1 written anything that was intended as a slur or an insult to any athlete if I 1 ever do I 1 shall be the first to apologize but until I 1 do and until I 1 am notified of this by the offended person there will be no apology signed A T roberts sports writer tooele thoele county chronicle salt lake telegram BOX SCORE TOOELE MURRAY P P lee 3 anderson 4 dunn 6 bergen 8 9 rupp 11 II barnett 3 hamilton 4 walker 4 iwami 0 jacobs I 1 Lea leatham thara 6 buzler I 1 bunn 0 woods 4 TOTAL 30 TOTAL 25 score by quarters tooele thoele 5 14 25 30 murray 8 15 20 25 boele sets A scare but hurdles burray Smelter riles fles 30 25 to W will 0 in BY A T ROBERTS fighting back after trailing tailing the murray Smal ites for most of the game at times by as much as 7 points the tooele thoele buffaloes fin ally overcame the murray margin in the third quarter and went on to win a very important game last friday on the losers court by the score of 30 25 a bit nervous our buffs got off to a slow start and with reed walker and wilt wilf bergen of murray showing uncanny ac bracy with the long ones th Smelt entes rites jumped to an early lead of 8 5 at the end of the first quarter tooele thoele kept on plugging aw away ay and by the half the margin had been trimmed to a sl in one point coming back on the floor after the rest murray found that their long shots were just a shade off and without this deapen they just coulden couldn t cope with tooele thoele s height afI advantage vantage Leat leatham harn furnishes spark the boy that seemed to furnish the spark to get the buffs rolling was dale leatham dale came into the game when tooele thoele was five points behind but soon after his entry the scoring lead had chang ed hands thanks to the ball hawk ing tactics of this boy he ile was all over the floor and it was his blinding speed coupled with the brilliant ball handling of nifty nobuko iwami that had the amel baffled A large larger delegation of tooele thoele I 1 rooters traveled to murray and were treated to the most exciting 32 minutes of basketball of the season coach clarke John johnsen sens s charges are acquiring more polish with every passing game the 11 fouls that were called against tooele thoele was a far cry from the us ual 20 that tooele thoele has been pen in their previous games tooele thoele under pressure another encouraging phase of the game was the cool calculating type of ball tooele thoele played when they were behind and a defeat was more than a possibility iwami as always furnished the fans with some top notch ball handling fan cy dribbling and clever passing glen bones hamilton was a tower of strength from the other guard slot as te teamed up with charlie lee to take good care of the it was bone s two pointer just after the second half started that put the buffs out in front to stay glen horse rupp copped ing honors for the night with elev en points and played a bang up game from the floor loren dunn was effective during his stay in the game and shared second place scoring honors for tooele thoele with 6 counters lose their first tooele thoele s baby buffs lost their first game this season to the amel coach johnny S boys just had an off night and t seem to get clicking second half next friday feb 6 tooele thoele will attempt to keep its unblemished record intact when the buffs travel to salt lake city to play judge memorial in the first meeting of these two clubs tooele thoele ran rough shod over the bulldogs to the tune of 46 41 26 21 as hamilton and iwami teamed up to stop the judge one two scoring punch jim and bob hill this time the game will take os fa for sportsmen fishing tackle tooele thoele mere co 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sportsmen s club 2 ib lb box choc safeway stores groceries white service 2 00 credit place on the bulldogs home floor and judge memorial is expected to offer a much sterner test however tooele thoele with its height advantage should come through with another victory Grants grantsville ville finds going tough grantsville Grants ville plays host to murray and even though the cowboys will be fighting for victory no 1 they 11 have to wait another week cause they 11 be catching murray on the rebound from their loss at the hands of tooele thoele and murray has too many big guns for the cow boy boys s six shooters topics prognostications have been holding up in fine style and our first miss in seven games was when we picked grantsville Grants ville to stop bingham however our six out of seven is still pretty good so this week we like tooele thoele over judge memorial and murray over grants ville recreation league leaders maintain perfect records in lopsided wins three teams the eagles TOD no I 1 and new town preserved their unblemished records in the tooele thoele county recreation basketball lea gue thursday jan 29 as they a all 11 recorded overwhelming victories these classy cage aggregations appear to be the pick of the corn com petition as they continue to completely dominate the play for fun league but s sooner or later they are going to crash head long into each other and when they do the vibrations will be heard all over toodie tooele county the first of these cage clashes seems to be scheduled feb 12 when the eagles tangle with new town at Q 30 p in keep that date and time in mind and plan on be ing at the tooele thoele gym cause that game should be a thing of beauty new town tramples C Y 0 61 38 new town coached by red del papa continued to run up imbres sive scores in their ball games as they ran roughshod over the game C Y 0 team to the tune of 61 38 33 johnny remained at the top of the scoring heap as he equalled equal led the loop scoring record for bals by pouring 31 points through the hoop clarke johnsen spelled with an E turned in another outstanding game as he controlled both backboards served as balance wheel for new town and 1 u cited a round 20 points to the new town total for C Y 0 john was the big gun as he broke loose for a total of 15 points as well as play ing a bang up game all the way through tony busico was a busy little bee out there adding 12 tal lies to the youths losing cause TOD no I 1 wins over american legion 59 26 in the game that featured some classy under the basket passing and close team work TOD no 1 had a fairly easy time with the A merican legion quintet and slap ped the second straight loss on the leg onn aires by the score of 59 26 ken johnson and dick john son put on a nifty display of clever ball handling candling to set up the scoring plays for jim palmer and joe nel son who racked up 13 and 20 points respectively the game was fairly close for the first 8 minutes then the ord nance boys settled down and for the remainder of the game had the legion team completely baffled for the legion team erb john son played the part of the big wheel tanking 12 markers mac dow looked good at time from his 9 guard slot and dougherty proved to be one of the best ball hand lers on the legion team st john bows to En glands 35 29 in the closest game of the night En glands collected their first win as they fought their way to a 35 29 victory over st john this game was even closer than the score in dicatos and it was only in the last few minutes odthe of the game that eng land was able to enjoy a safe mar gin griffith led the En glands scoring with 10 markers and played a cred liable game from the floor sado vich turned in a nice performance from the guard line and lyman lee also played a good game for the st john boys jack evans was the booy that kept his mates in the game with his timely bas bets dan russell one of the rus sell boys played a fine game from his guard position and was largely responsible for keeping the score as close as it was eagles collect 3rd win As TOD no 2 bows 56 22 the powerful eagles once more stamped themselves as one of the teams to beat as they ran up an impressive total of 56 points in defeating TOD no 2 56 22 johnny paulos was high scorer in this game with 23 points but a quick checkup check up of the box score shows that any one of the eagles is capable of collecting points keever jankovich once again turn ed in ln the best guarding job of the night as he dominated control of the ball all during the game that should be some personnel pers onnal duel when jankovich and clarke johnsen of the new town squad tangle in a battle of the wing feet these two boys can really get up in the air when they go after the ball Blickens derfer led no as scoring with 9 points and was just about the only bright spot in TOD s showing TOD needs lots of practice from the guard line as time after time the eagles had men all alone down un under der the eagle s nest with jankovich controlling the ball off the boards it was a simple ale matter to throw the ball down the floor and bingo two points the tooele thoele county recreational league has some fine teams and some outstanding individual stars but slowly there is an undesirable I 1 element creeping into the play all teams are guilty and team managers should take immediate steps to correct the conduct that is being displayed A total of 6 technical fouls were cal led by the officials during the four games played last thursday and all six of them were for remarks directed at the officials need more be said 5 LEADING SCORERS Q 3 games new town 73 johnsen new town 55 paulos eagles 41 allred eagles 34 nelson TOD no 1 29 2 games STANDINGS of the TEAMS new town 3 0 1000 eagles 3 0 1000 TOD no 1 2 0 1000 deseret 1 I 1 TOD no 2 1 2 C Y 0 1 2 england 1 2 st john 0 3 american legion 0 2 |