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Show Woods X Takes Top Honors In Davis Cup "55 S3Ti a? tea By TOM BLSSELBERG SALT LAKE CITY The fourth attempt at supremacy proved successful for the Woods Cross High School Marching Band, last Wednesday, Wednes-day, as it took top honors in the ninth annual Davis Cup. HELD AMID crisp tempera-tures tempera-tures but with the skies cooperating by withholding rain, in a rare gesture last week, the University of Utah's Rice Stadium played host to 12 bands, including four from Davis County. Woods Cross came in third in 1978, second in the following follow-ing year and repeated that performance per-formance last year, losing out to Cache County's Skyview. Davis High took second this year with Tooele coming in third followed by Bountiful. NINE SCHOOLS participated partici-pated in the "large school" division, di-vision, or those with more than 600 students in the upper three grades. They also included Brighton, Cottonwood and Olympus in Salt Lake County, Roy, Weber County. Only three schools were entered en-tered in the "small school" category, or those having under 600 students in grades 10-12. Lehi, garnered first place honors for the third year in a row. Delta, Millard County, Coun-ty, took second and Morgan led up the rear. AN ESTIMATED 1. 000-plus participants filled the field with color and precision-moves, including in-cluding a guest appearance by the University of Utah's Marching Mar-ching Band. Davis District music supervisor and "cup" coordinator Wayne James estimated 3.000 spectators braved the cold to observe the action. "They really put on a great show it's amazing what they do." he said, adding, "I certainly cer-tainly think the bands get better bet-ter every year. There's nothing petitions where competition is equally divided between performance, per-formance, dress, etc. NOTING insistence on discipline dis-cipline both to earn maximum points on and off the field, Mr. James added, "one of the most amazing things to me in this day of loose control is that many (students) will hold still." i like competition (to foster improvement)." im-provement)." HE SAID band performance techniques have changed considerably con-siderably in the past decade, leaning more to spectator appeal. Instead of military-type military-type action, such as flanking and rear march, "all the stops are pulled" w hen a band turns to the audience, for instance, with more decoration displayed, display-ed, including several tall flags and a rifle squad of 6-10 people, peo-ple, Mr. James explained. The Davis Cup is "unique" in several aspects, he said, including in-cluding more than one-third rating based on musical performance, per-formance, vs. other stale com- |