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Show - Spotlight on Sports (by Don Robinson) Carbon High School Principal, Loman Hutchings takes office today as President of the Utah High School Activities Association, which should hearten southeast Utah. This is the first time this area of the state has been eo represented. If nothing else, the Carbon High administrator knows that the state does not end within the confines of Utah Valley at Provo. That's not intended as a criticism of outgoing president, Marion Tree, of Wasatch High. Marion is a fine man and, and under him, the association moved forward for the first time in several years. One thing he did was to get the new classification underway. Mr. Hutchings faces some tough questions. The three classification system, AA, A and B, was set up as a Itwo year experiment. The experiment terminates 'duping his tenure. The play-off system that was originally or-iginally arranged has to be looked at again. A team could go 0-10 in league play and still go into the playoffs, play-offs, and into the state tourney. Moaib made the tourney tour-ney last year with a 'team that didn't bring any credit to the school or the state. Eewarding mediocrity i3 not one of the assets of education. It's also time to .unlock, the vault and recognize that costs ' have increased, . but financial assistance and individuals that were given .'five years ago will not meet today's expenses. Example Moab played Cedar City at Spanish Fork in football, by edict of the UHSSA. The result was a financial disaster for Moab which must support its program from what the take is at the gate. The state takes the gate for quarterfinals quar-terfinals and on up to the championship and has done well. The state determines gate prices and will not accept any student body cards, free passes, broadcasting broadcast-ing rights or the press. As a result the association has grown fat and the schools especially the small schools with long travel problems . have grown thin. It is time for some adjustment. . Some other things to be considered for the new President might be a long overdue revamping of the track and field program, a transfusion for baseball, including a state-wide league, a resumption of the high school all-star game in August for football and the establishment of physical standards for facilities used in regional and state competition. The horse and buggy days were great, but they and this state are passe. Colorado sportswriters are decrying the public attitude toward fishing that demands that trout stocking stock-ing insure everyone a limit of fish everytime they go fishing. Amen. I tirink the true fisherman would like some quality fishing instead of quantity fishing. With four licenses in the family, we can't eat all we could catch. A fishing trip is a good trip if you catch one good fish, I feel. Instead of screaming for more stackers, maybe we ought to try for more holdovers and fisfi in better condition. condi-tion. We are limited in the number of waters we can fish and the number of fishi they can hold. Hom albout some biological biolog-ical studies of the local waters? How about the planting or some fresh water shrimp and other food? How about the amount am-ount of money that comes com-es to the state from hunting hunt-ing locally It is being done elsewhere. Why not here? |