Show Sp Sports orts Spotlight By aY D n Coach Ed Jacobs wasted no notime notime nOI time in getting to the business o of basketball and preparing hit his Red Rec Devil for the early De De- December cember comber game against Carbon The squad has been blen cut and twelve men are running drills at the the thi local high school We promised a run down on the prospects fo for this year as soon as the talent could be displayed so here Is Isome I some ome of the straight stuff This ball club will have more height than any in the past few years but will be shorter than most of the teams it will meet The experience is not with the bigger boys Dee bee Palmer the thO teams team's hottest gunner stands only 5 59 Larry and Gary Day are as good at rebounding as any on the squad and they are only 9 5 and 5 S. Somerville and Lance both regulars at least part of last season are good sized boys but neither was any great threat on the boards Lance Is still slowed by a football Injury and probably ll not be ready for action for another week Keith Robertson can rebound but he did not get the amount of experience he should have last year Keith is 61 6 and has the weight to move In the post Five new faces are on the A Au squad Howard Haak who Is a 62 6 Junior may help as the year rolls on Haak is a lefty letty John Evans another junior has tremendous tremendous tre tre- speed but is not exper exper- experienced The same can be said of Roger Dick Bailey nalley a soph and Dave Gillespie Gilles Gilles- pie are the remainder of the newcomers Only Haak has much height Bailey nalley will probably grow In to a good sized boy As it stands now this bail ball club doesn't look like it will scare Blanding the favorite to repeat last years year's championship I Dixie high school had some Moab rooters as they faced Millard In Inthe inthe Inthe the state finals last week Some of the players who fell before the Flyers in the quarterfinals no doubt gained some solace from the fact that Dixie handed Pleasant Grove and Millard as as' as easily as they did the tho Devils If anything Dixie had more of a fright in the first half of the Moab game than they did in any other Coach Darrel Crawford is still getting plaudits for lor the Job he did in getting the Devils ready for the quarterfinals Moab came up off the floor after being beaten by the low man on the tho totem pole Notre Dame of PI Price ce After that game it looked as if Dixie's toughest opposition I would be the distance from there thereto therel to here Some new spirit and I new offense prevented embarras embarrassment I embarras-I both for the team and the traditions of the school Millard high an easy victor over Moab I Ifor for two wo straight years got its its its' comeuppance hooray from the II Dixie club A golf course cour for Moab is not nota I a dead issue The lack of publicity PubU t city resulted from the hope that the course could be kept out of politics It didn't but it wasn't hurt A survey of the proposed site Is in the hands of the pros responsible for the designing Mick Riley RAley and Bill Johnston A meeting Is planned when their work wok is finished What about water water wa wa- water ter for the course Read the water wa water ter picture on page one of your Times Independent The line carrying car tying water from the Somerville ranch cannot carry all the water that can be gained at the ranch Th There re will be water available The second part of the deer hunt has been good according to the results g given ven us by the hunters hunt hunters ers themselves Due to the time of the season that the hunt was started hunters have b been n taking a large number of deer Some big bucks have been brought out that were In Rood good shape Some were rutting and will end up in the chill chili pot The harvest should help the over overgrazed overgrazed overgrazed grazed areas Last year snows fell feU during the lato late hunt keeping hunters hunter away from the hills hUls This year the snow fell before the I hunt and the weather wea her et stayed C- C cold coid Id and clear after the first damp day Where are the ducks Bob Mclee Mckee Mekee Mc Me- kee lee told this gunner that he saw taw nearly five hundred on true tone of the lak lake bottoms down the Co Co- lorado Even allowing for the natural nimrod exaggeration that thatIs Is a lot of ducks The foul waterfowl waterfowl water water- waterfowl fowl are arc hanging out along he the river apparently The geese have returned to the valley but where The elusive birds have landed in pairs and six at a time in the lower valley several times this year according to stockmen who spotted them I A whole herd of them landed on the river the other day also Have at em and good luck I II |