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Show BASKETBALL TEAMS ARESHAPING UP Tha fact thai th local high school has never won a baktball championship Is beginning to worry several students of lh west slds Institution snd although Ihe chances of coming lo the front this year are not of the brightest, they Intend to try and make 1013 a banner year In all four branches of snort. Coach "llelns" Richardson bas been working hard with a squad of twenty-five and expects to have a small but fast te.in In tli field. The average height of the whole squad Is lee Ihalk U feet I Inches. The L. D, 8. team will average t feet or more In height. With these odda "Heine" ran aee that he will hnve to prepare his men In s new style of game, an that Ihey will h able to play aruund their rangier oppuneiila. Th Uranlte utilnlell will h exceedingly exceed-ingly eirong llus year. It win be composed com-posed entirety of old experienced men and although they ure more nearly Ilie sixe of Ihe Red and Black live, they expect ex-pect to make things "hum" this year. Besides Ihe aid men of last yeur's squad Coach "Vvld" Ashlon bus several prmn-Irlng prmn-Irlng new men In lllcll. Jones. Dyke. McDonald. Mc-Donald. Ashtnn and Reed. Ths (iranli learn win play the Hist gania of Ihs season with- v'oarh Richardson's men on the 14th of this month al the Kalon gym. The U D. H. squsd has not been doing do-ing much hard work this week. I'oach Miller . has promised them plenty of II next, however, and any of Ihe men who have broken lb training rules beyond a moderate degree will be required o work double ihlfl until Ihey gel bark Into per feet shape. 1 lien Smith. Ihv old mainstay main-stay of the "Halm a" la having serious troubls villi hla eyes and Coach Miller fears -that bs will not be able to play his regular tame tbls seiiaon. Smith stats Uit hla eyes will aot bother him. |