| Show moab Is slipped a cold deck ruled out of state tournament one of the most unfair and unk principled dob deals that wax was ever pulled off in the history of echol schol antic athletics in thin this state wa was perpetrated thie this week when the moab loab high school football team after decisively winning the easta e rn utah wax nipped a cold deck and pro vented from further participating irr the state tournament by a de cislon of the athletic board in salt lake yesterday which ruled that the local neal team wax wan in inerd eligi ble just why the team wan was declared ineligible haa has never been siren riven out the bbate board simply canceled the elimination kame tame between moab moah and ML pleasent Ilea gant sent which was to hare have been played here tomorrow and did rot tot so much ai as give the local school a hearing the pricel team which was wa whipped so go soundly by moab during the sea eaon non hae ban been declared the east em ern utah entrant in the tourney and nd price will tomorrow play in the elimination game which whick by all the rule rules of de tency should hare have been awarded to moab it appears that price unable to defeat moab on an the gridiron has his adopted more certain and nd effective means of disposing of the local rival rivals for football honors in eastern utah moab upset the dope by soundly trouncing the he carbon county teams team therefore moab iloah Is thrown out on her neck price all through the season had een adjudged easy victors in 10 eastern utah moab won the first game and that it as a team to be reckoned with but the carbon coun ty school cooked up a little deal vt whereby hereby it figured it could readily oust OUA the local team from the head of the division through prices mem on oft the state athletic board which is the final authority on high school athletics two games between moab and price were arranged to bei be played on the ance grid to decide he the eastern utah championship the clever carbon county fixers no doubt figured that their team could win if etyen the right kind of a referee therefore for the first game they waly lindly selected the officials and the moab team was given such a rotten rotta deal oeal that it never had a chance even I 1 though it far outplayed ag gregat fon this deal was so s palpably raw that the moab coach and team insisted on a disinterested referee for the final and deciding game and price was forced to accede to this request the result was wa that moab romped I 1 away with the contest from the first kickoff kick lick off and emphatically proved its superiority in every branch of the game the moab team returned from price tuesday under the impression that it had disposed of carbon and after arrangements had been made with the state board to play either th the mt ML pleasant or richfield team winner of the sanpete sevier divisions at moab friday all preparations for this game were made moab agreeing to post to cover trans 1 por tation expenses and also pay the visiting teams hotel expenses while here af at this stage of the proceedings it t appears that the sa same in a little fixers up in carbon had again started their activities A tory telegram was received yesterday from moss the slate state athletic board chairman arbitrarily arbit declaring the moab team was ineligible and canceling fridays game here As grounds for this unusual edict he stated that eligibility cards for the moab players bad had not been filed with the board coach R W evans superintendent perin D S L Yc mccoale Corkle and president C C A robertson of the school board immediately got bu busy on the telegraph wires they called attention to the fact that the state board had amr sent the local school the proper football eligibility blank blanks although the school wan was a member of the association and had paid all duea dues they further called attention to the fact that when the football blank blanks were not received coach eans ent sent in n the eligibility record records of the moab players on last year years blank blanks that these blanki blanks were held hold by the state board two weeks and nd were ere then returned to the chool school with a supply of this cars ears blanki blanks and the request that the records be bo copied on the new blanks and be again submitted to the board the cards ue were returned to moab only a few days apo ago and it was a physical im possibility to pet get tho the new cards back to bait salt lake in time for yesterdays meeting K of the athletic board the local school officials in n their tele grams further offered to pay all the expenses of the state arbiter if he would come to moab and examine into the eligibility of the moab players and agreed to forfeit a deposit of cash if the arbiter could find that a single man on the moab team waa WAX III n any way ineligible these telegrams elmyram ele yram were sent out yesterday evening but up to the time of going to press MISS with this issue of the times independent the state authorities author itle had not so much as shown the cour testy of ot replying to any of the wire wires this mornings salt lake paper announces that moab has been ruled out and that price the runner up in this division has been awarded the privilege lege of representing eastern utah in the state tournament mt pleasant the winner in the sanpete Sac San pete sevier divisions has also been ruled ou and richfield the runner up in tatt that division divis fon will play carbon al at vows ri tomorrow 1113 it Is inconceivable that the athlea 1 ic board which was organized to fos te ter clean sports in the high schools of the state would arbitrarily rule moab out of the touma without a hearing or a chance to prove its it ease case it is therefore quite apparent that the state board haa hats been influenced to take this step a and nd that there have been a great deal of mis representations as to th the facts in the matter it is significant that the principal of the carbon county high school Is 18 astern eastern re presenta five tive on the board and it appears pears very platts plata ible sible thit be he has U haaf something some to do towards misadvising the board as to the statue status of conditions in this division the me idea of questioning the allx lif ability of any moab player is 4 inos low every boy on the team is 6 a bins bona fide high chool school student is taking a full course of study and li is s far below wow the age limit for athletic play era ers it would be a very simple nl mat ter for the state board to ascertain these facts if it cared to do so the arbitrary action of the board boata haa has dealt a body blow to athletics in grand county instead of encouraging and fostering scholastic sports the board by its action has killed all incentive for competition in this dis it far is to be hoped that price derf derives yes the full measure of satisfaction out 0 being adjudged the champi champions onit of eastern utah after its strenuous efforts to win from doab by unfair tactics of its refe the moab team robbed of the first game abc came back buk for the deciding struggle and whipped the everlasting tar out of kozl dig diggs after the tho moab team 1 haa has so emphatically proven ita its superiority rio rity it would seem that the fair minded people of carbon county would blush for very shame in the light of this latest development truly price deserves all the honora honors that can be show showered erea upon her she is unmistakably out of babs class we cannot hope to compete with her in manipulating the cards wherefore au 41 honor bonor to price the defeated but nevertheless the champion cham football leam team of eastern utah |
