Show q r 3 ty e i c c t ty y w wE E Z k b Now F n In With Swell Little Nadine Cooper Provo high sports editor ponders for a better descriptive word I Provo Gal Takes Over As Prep Sports Editor i iI I Special to The Telegram PROVO May 12 Roses 12 Roses are red violets are blue Theres There's a score for them and one for tor for U us too It was inevitable but with the theman theman man power shortage becoming more and more acute it was a cinch someone would crop up with witha a girl sports editor And come next fall tall Provo high schools school's gallant Bulldogs will do door door door or die on the field of ot battle and andin andin andin in the press box a petite damsel damel will chronicle the laurels and disappointments dIsappointments disappointments dis dIs- dis- dis appointments reaped on the field of athletic combat She's 16 years old pretty and strictly feminine in jn every way with filth light brown wavy hair and pale blue eyes But come next fall she will hold down a position that is fir usually considered reserved for tor the masculine sex For Nadine Cooper daughter of oC Mr and Mrs Fred Cooper South Fourth Vest West street was re recently recently recently re- re named sports editor of or the biweekly newspaper at Provo high school for the 45 1944 school year However Miss Cooper who is a junior wont won't be too green when she assumes her duties with the start starl of the next football season She has been working as assistant to Joel Perkins sports editor for tor the past school year And in her book Joel is tops as a sports editor and writer He can tan write a story out of oC practically nothing she remarked I only wish I could do half as well Although an avid sports fan Miss Cooper has never gone into athletics as a participant to any great extent In fact tennis is about the only game she has ever played at all she conf confesses ses Soft Soft- ball ban holds no playing interest and and I she admits she cant can't swim a stroke J in fact water even frightens herThe herThe her The lowest grade I lever ever got In in I school came in gym last year she said rather sheepishly I felt bad about it and it was one s I of ot the black spots in my school career Not only does she care little about participating in sports herself herself herself her her- self but she doesn't care to see sec other girls in action I was was supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be girl sports editor for forthe forthe forthe the school this year Nadine said but I did not care enough chough about girl sports to accept the position But when it comes to watching the boys participate that is a horse of ot a different color I get a thrill when I watch them out on the basketball court or en on the baseball or football field she said No I dont don't believe its it's because they th-cy are boys either elther I just believe be be- believe lieve boys fit fIl Into sports better than girls My dad who is a great sports fan used to take me to all the track meets and baseball football and basketball games so I grew grew up lip watching the fellows play There were no boys in the family only two girls and my dad tried to make a tomboy out of or me But Buthe Buthe Buthe he was not too successful All An I Ican Ican Ican can do is write I like basketball the best besl of all sports but bul I think football Ismore is ismore ismore more colorful and ang baseball the easiest to lo report Although sports writing is her hermain hermain hermain main interest in newspaper work at the present time Nadine said she had not progressed far enough in the field of oC journalism to know whether she would like to make a career of sports writing and editing edit edit edit- ing |