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Show Bowen Lashes Out: John, Hack Blasted Editor: I have folowed with interest and some disgust the slaverings of a fringe of jackals in the local press at a fine gentleman and, judging from his record before coming to Utah, a more than competent coach, Mike Giddings. Let me make plain that my acquaintance ac-quaintance with Coach Giddings is, unfortunately, not extensive. He has been on my show "Public Pulse" twice, I have played golf with him once and I have run into him socially once or twice. I grind no axe for a friend, and of course KSL carries the games of the other team. Not Unbiased Unbased But the attacks on Giddings and his team have been venomous, cowardly and most often not based on fact. Utah's team this year was unlucky un-lucky to lose by one point, to Minnesota Min-nesota a team which may go to the Rose Bowl, to Army, considered consid-ered a top choice for the Lambert Trophy as the finest team in t h e East. Wyoming soundly beat Utah, but that is no disgrace. The Cowboys Cow-boys on a given day could probably to his suggestions (always offered when they are most useful the Monday Mon-day after the game) much as he would an attack on his daughter's virtue, His occasional homilies on sportsmanship would come with better grace had he a sufficient acquaintance with the nature of it to support a team which has never quit, though given enough discouragement discour-agement from him to have an excuse ex-cuse to. As for Hack Miller, when he starts reporting such incidents as what happened in the scuffle of BYU backetball players with an official, or a Y football player, guilty of a public indiscretion, when Miller has the courage to report those facts as scrupulously as he has seemed disposed to attack the Ute team he may be worth reading. read-ing. Utes Should Demonstrate Forgive my wordiness but the situation is rank. It takes no great courage or loyalty to support a team which is winning. It is when the ball bounces for the other guy that you find out who has guts, who will stick win or lose, and who knows how to lose without being a crybaby. I hope the Utah student-body student-body will find a way to demonstrate demon-strate to Coach Giddings and his team which side of that issue they elect to stand on. Wes Bowen |