Show Sports Spotlight By DON ROBINSON Cage uniforms go back to the lockers this week at Grand county county county coun coun- ty high school following the final game Friday against Notre Dame By Dy edging Monticello and trompIng trompIng tromping tromp- tromp Ing Notre Dame the Devils finished finished fin fin- with four tour victories in 12 league starts They looked about that good at the first of the season season season seas seas- on despite better than average speed and some shooting ability Finesse and hel height ht were the Items lacking along with a lack of any aty great talent Blanding as was expected won the Ule league crown Coach Neldon Cochran had the horses to run I and after a slow start they ran If Jf they maintain their thel hot pace of the last few games gams they might surprise a few people at the Provo tournament Otherwise it will be bea a nice ride up and back South Emery in the one game played here looked like the smoothest club in the league Their own awn fans tans touted them as as' as too Inconsistent Judging from the class A tourney being inconsistent ent is the normal course in high school play The golf pro from Nevada we mentioned a few gew weeks ago turn ed out to be Ray Bouty of Elko Eiko He apparently is interested In assisting as in the construction of a course here with the eventual aim of becoming the pro We Intend to contact him and see when he will be back also what he pro pro- poses Utah high school coaches met metIn metin metin in Salt Lake City last Saturday to discuss the coming year and the signing of contracts Coach DarreI Darrel Darrel Dar- Dar rel reI Crawford attended from here Activity in the sports spotlight during the first part of this week has been practically nil The dearth of sports news shouldn't last long because coaches have called for baseball players to turnout turnout turn turnout out and also for track team candi candI- dates Prospects of good teams i in both track and baseball look Jook pretty good if it the hitters and point getters of last year return Some ardent fishermen have been trying for Colorado cats since the good weather started No one has reported catching any as yet but who cares As long longas as the sun and the sand are warm and the wind Isn't blowing too hard along the river catching fish is secondary Passing along the highway to Logan the other day I saw two hardy souls seeking trout in a portion of the Little Bear Dear river river riv er that is open The next day the same road was blocked by a land slide and it was snowing like crazy Their is nothing quite so crazy as a fisherman I caught a four lour pound German Getman Drown Brown trout In the same spot once breaking my toe In the process so who's crazy In case you have wondered how much the uranium boom affected the sports picture at the high school here is an Interesting note Of the eleven boys on the A squad this year eight of them are nat nat- ive lye e to Moab or have been here I more than five years Rusty Donoghue Donoghue Don Don- Dee Palmer and Howard Haak are the newcomers Palmer Palmer Pal Pal- mer having been here the longest Haak Is just starting in athletics Dee and Rusty got their start here The effect of the boom is yet yetto yetto yetto to be really felt When the large classes now in junior high reach the age of physical maturity there should be some good sized teams at Grand county high school The junior class of this year is the first large class to come along Inthe Inthe in inthe the senior high Sixteen of them played football last fall There have been years when sixteen players was about the cw extent nt oi or of orthe the football squad A couple of years ears during the past five the coaches and manager have donned yellow shirts so that the starting eleven could have eleven men to play against in scrimmage They had some fine teams at that One reason that the boom has meant so little to the high school teams Is that money and jobs were easier to come by and still are Five years ago the few students students' students students' stu stu- stu- stu dents dents' that could afford cars were to the extent of the traditional Model A Ford Today the high school looks like a Hollywood used car lot Its It's kind of tough to make car payments payment J Jand and miss the two hours of work that practicing with the team takes out of the working day As Asa Asi a result more and more boys are graduating from high school or quitting with the net accomplishment accomplish accomplish- ment of a used car and a low pay pay- ing Job Playing cabby for a group of howling rooters is a poor substitute substitute sub sub- for learning the true spirit of competition and teamwork Its It's being reflected in the entire country's country's country's coun coun- try's moral standards and sense of value also I Climbing off the soap box a moment I wonder if anyone is Js Interested In collecting rocks Instead in instead instead In- In stead of throwing them Its It's not awfully sporty but rock collecting collect collect- Ing ng Is a wonderful spring time tune activity Let us know if you are Interested |