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Show IN OUR TOWN ... Del Moine Christiansen ' Here we go again. Somehow, I can't believe that Springville knows Chris well enough to really real-ly appreciate the fine job he is doing. You know he is starting his second year at S. H. S. as basketball coach, ets., and this is the first time that he has had the opportunity of showing the customers cus-tomers what a good coach can do. Last season, his first, he was presented with a fairly good team to begin with and, believe it or not, this is not the gift it seems to be to a new coach. At best he can only carry on with another man's start. Well, we won no championships last year. This season, graduation robbed him of half his experienced men and the Navy now has Ray Miller, one of the school's outstanding athletes. With a lot of coaches, this would be the right time to start treading tread-ing water and alibi straight through 'till Spring. But I'm willing will-ing to bet my little red hat against a sales tax token that Del Christiansen and his boys will surprise the whole darn league and a lot of others as well. To bring you fully up to date on the team status, Chris wasn't satisfied to schedule a string of soft touches for practice games (something most coaches are prone to do.) He lined up at least six or eight games with last year's Class A and B state champions. cham-pions. Consequently, these kids of ours have already learned more about the game in the past six weeks than they would even guess at during the regular season. I've watched these kids in every practice prac-tice game this season and, believe me, they really have something. They have never quit trying in any game, no mattr how outclassed out-classed they might have been. They have the right attitude and, so far, there is only one slight case of swell head and that seems to be responding to treatment. The rest is up to Chris and, with his background and training, he can do it. Chris is an Ephraim boy from good old Sanpete county. Got his book learning at Salina Hi, Snow Jr. College and B. Y. U. and has four years of coaching and teaching teach-ing behind him. As he is only twenty-seven, you can see that he has given little time to picking pick-ing daisies. He must have induced in-duced Dorothy to marry him as soon as he finished college and it is just as well, he's too good-looking to be running around loose. As a last word don't tell me I didn't warn you. This 1944-45 team is something to be watched. THE CATALYST. |