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Show ! Saturday's Game 'Dirty' Editor:. ff congratulations on the win over i jjew Mexico. I must admit, how- ' eVer, that only the most cowardly i eXhibition of basketball I have ever seen did the job for Coach Gardner. I We play rough ball. Yesterday 6- your squad was not rough it was ddrty. But it got the job done. '1 jyfCW it has been shown that 4,661 Utah backers (with knives, ice and 5f milk cartons to throw) are as much ej "inspiration" as our 15,000 vigorous ' but unmalicious fans. I'm afraid !; to think what may happen next ! time you have to come here !i: nothing I hope. ;! Just You Wait Coach Gardner, you won, and by the way have earned my contempt for your permissiveness. After seeing see-ing the brand of basketball and kind of atmosphere you bludgeoned us with, I don't think you deserve your position. You beat us Saturday. Too bad you won't win enough remaining games to play us again on a neutral court. Thomas Stuart Albuquerque, New Mexico Editor: The University of Utah fans show ed their true colors last Saturday afternoon. I've seen many close, hard fought games, but never have I witnessed such a crowd reaction. Booing the referees when your team is playing poorly is acceptable accept-able though certainly not justifiable. Throwing objects onto the floor in the heat cf battle may be very tempting but is unthinkable. One of the fans had a better shooting night than Utah he hit New Mexico's Mex-ico's Ron Sanford in the eye. Planned Discourtesy Yet I feel the worst display of poor sportsmanship came before the game ever started when one of Utah's cheerleaders decided to greet New Mexico's "Stretch" Howard How-ard with a "Welcome Slugger" yell from the studentbody. Anyone with a sense of fair play could see that such a yell would be in very poor taste. Still the studentbody blurted it out with the enthusiasm of a victory vic-tory yell. It was bush league. After that ill-conceived cheer I really wasn't surprised at the crowd antics an-tics that followed. I thought it rather ironic that slugging honors last Saturday went to Utah's game captain who rather convincingly floored Howard. John Cipriano Editor: The National Geographic Society reports that the Emperor Nero was winner of four first medals at the Olympics in 66 A.D. The paunchy 29 year old emperor went to Greece accompanied by a bodyguard of 5,000 men and won all four events he entered. He fell in the chariot race, but rivals were nice enough to halt, let him reboard and eventually win. Hew To Win Friends The judges let themselves be cowed by his bodyguards so he also won best singer, best musician and best herald. I am sure Nero was very proud of his medals, but just as sure that there were better athletes and singers sing-ers at the contest. No one will ever know who really was the best and this is the sad part of the story. The purpose of the Olympics, finding find-ing the best in the world, was frustrated. frus-trated. Some of you may find a striking parallel in our own time, especially those who were in attendance at the basketball game Saturday afternoon. after-noon. The tragedy is that no one will ever know which team is better. Wayne C. Hansen |
