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Show , Spohickt en Spcr.s By Don Robinson Confucious lives and is writing sports copy for The Times-Independent. I don't know where Sam got that pictures that he ran with the column last week, but I'm inclined to sue the photographer.. " "East is East and West is West . and never the twain shall meet." ' - 4 f "Well, almost never." But, the North ' ,V ' A ' ' and South shall meet in meaning- ' less encounters for four straight j 4 weeks on the gridiron. They are r . -' v .1 running this football all-star bit into ' , 4 the ground. Counting the Blue-Gray vuiJ ' ifa :'- game, there were four games held on a north-south basis this year. The final score was North 4, South 0. You know, when Lee and Grant met in April of 1865, that's the way the score came out. I don't object to the cry, "The South shall rise again." But, again and again and again and again? The Junior High basketball teams are having a frustrating season. San Juan and Dove Creek both have cancelled games, leaving the T-Birds idle for long periods. per-iods. On the high school level contracts are signed to prevent spur-of-the-moment cancellations. Might be an idea to do the same at the junior high level. The crusher, of course, was the day Moab traveled to . Dove Creek only to find that Dove Creek had traveled to Moab. The suggestions of the daily sports columnist in Salt Lake constitute flaying a dead horse. Some of the suggestions have already been acted upon and approved approv-ed and reported here. Some of the others have already al-ready been voted on and settled. They just have not been announced. Sounds like the High School Activities Association has a communications gap with some of the media. The planting of antelope in the Hatch Point area of San Juan County is a real boost for the future of hunting in this area. Spectators said, the graceful (somewhat (some-what wobbly) animals lost no time in evaporating into the plateau lands. We fervently hope that the poachers will leave the antelope alone and give them a chance to multiply. There are unconfirmed reports that antelope in other parts of the state have fallen victim to poachers, i Not only does that wipe out the herd, it also frustrates : any study by the Fish and Game Commission as to what they might expect in the way of natural increases among the transplanted animals. |