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Show Page T lour VID H E CAT Friday, January 24, 1947 SPORTS ON PARADE Under the TICKET TYPES 23 aset Dick Boyle guess you vc all seen the person (or indi;dual as Dave would say) who buys a ticket for a game about three weeks early and by the time ;he game rolls around he can't :ind the ticket. Undaunted he shmvs up for the next game trying to use the old ticket. Then there's the other extreme, the guy who rustics through the door, and makes for the window, shouldering evcrone out of the way, saying, Excuse me but I have to get a ticket. Thats a sure way to end up with no teeth. The seat stealer is the best known and the least liked. Hes the one who has you lead him to a seat spots one he likes better and even though it is reserved he plants himself on it like a leech. You can't move him with anything less than a bonfire. (Just ask the Fauvines. Many of you have had experience with the fullback type. His seat is invariably on the top row. He starts up stepping on laps, fingers, and toes, as he goes. (Poetry from Beddy-By- e Poetry Book.) John Mangum and Joe Dell Benson are living proof of the action of this animal. Of course the Basketball type just dribbles in any old time. (Authors not: This last type was contributed by Joan and Lavon.) Just thinking about this strange race known as Basketball Fans has reawakened old aches and pains of previous games, so Ill leave you and go find some I Glayton McGonkie State Tournament Still in Siyht Region Three, considered about the hottest and toughest region in the state this year, is about to end its first month of league play. With Springville and Spanish Fork taking the lead in the Nebo division and Pleasant Grove and American Fork in the Alpine, things are beginning to take shape mighty fast. Every school has a good team this year, the weakest of them are strong and the strongest are z just plain T.N.T. At I. V. High the outlook is a little on the dark side. When a team loses two games in a row, as the Wildcats have, things arent as good as they could be. Maybe its just because Im an optimist but I think there is still a good chance for B. Y. to come out on top of the Alpine standings when the li.v firing stops. To do this, unless several upsets occur, B. Y. will have to win the next six games remaining to be played. When I say this I am assuming that A. F. will beat P. G. in both of their tilts. Of course if A. F. should happen to lose a game to P. G., then the latter would more than likely end up in first place unless that game was the only one A. F. lost. Right now the two main aims in the Alpine division are P. G. and A. F. If my predictions come true A. F. will beat P. G. twice because in my opinion P. G. hasnt got too good a team. If the Wildcats win the remainder of their games they will more than likely end up in first place along with A. F. Of course there is always that word if but this time I dont believe it will make any difference. I think that the Wildcats will snap out of this slump theyre in and start a winning streak which will surprise everyone . . . even themselves. ) Stars of the Month During the last few weeks several players from the Wildcat squad have been outstanding in both offensive and defensive play. Among these are such boys as Broadhead, Whatcott, Bills, Collard, and Christensen all of which are Each, in his own way, usually found in the starting line-uhas earned the honor of being named the Star of the Month. Don Broadhead is one of the best players the Wildcats have when it comes to shooting. He never gets excited and is always the coolest man on the floor which you may have noticed during the last quarter of the Pleasant Grove - B.Y. game. Vern. Whatcott is another both under the basket and out around the fould circle. He has been high scorer in overhalf the games and is always a strong man on defense. Karol Bills has his off days when it comes to scoring but always makes up for it in defense and setting up plays. Although he has been high scorer in several games, his usual style of playing is to fake a shot and then quickly toss it to someone else who is in an easy position to make a basket. George Collard, improving in every game, is liable to turn into one of the best pivot men in the state. His hook shots are becoming more accurate and his height is a big factor in the teams defense especially against tall oponents. Harold Christensen is rapidly developing into the most dependable players on the team. His ability to make shots at long distances without the ball ever touching the rim is one of the biggest offensive threats the Wildcats have. His baskets are usually made when his team is in a tight spot and this is about the best habit a player can develop. It has been a tough job for me to name one of these players as this months star in fact it has been impossible. Out of the five candidates listed above I have selected two, this months honors being shared between them. They are Vern Whatcott and Harold Christensen, forward and guard respectively, whom I class as Stars of the Month. STARS OF THE MONTH p. sharp-shoote- r, Qlean Up Sports In a recent nation wide campaign sports men from all over the nation have met with one idea to clean up sports. They are mostly concerned in professionalized players in college and the bettin on sports in general. Some people are not yet aware of the place of the high schools and the high school students in this nation wide campaign. It is the duty of the high school and the athletic minded people of the school to protect their sports by keeping them clean and under the sportsman code. Sports as it stands now is the results of many years of development and changes to make it the game it is. People have tried to make foot ball, basketball and all the other sports a game of skill and precision where the thinking person has the advantage. We all have made rules and selected officials to enforce and judge these rules while the game is in session. We all should be behind our team and the officials to make the game at its best. As the team can not survive without the support of the students, the officials must have our support. As it is our duty to support these men who we have set up, it is also their duty to live up to the rules which we have set up. In supporting our officials it is not just team loyalty we want, where we are right and everyone else is wrong but a demand for fair and impartial officiating. A good example of how a game can get out of hand occured two weeks ago in the game with P. G. when small fouls went uncalled, the game progressed slowly, gaining in ruffness until the second half of the game was reduced to a scrap more closely related to football than basketball. When the officials refused to call fouls and tie-upromptly and efficiently, our team was forced to lower their standards of basketball in order to stay in the game. Putting skill at a minimum, unchecked ruffness ran at its maximum. Both teams trying to play basketball at its best, yet unable to, because of the lack of enforcement of rules. The week before in one of our region games the dangers of such play came to life. One boy lost two teeth, another was forced to leave the game when knocked out and still another was taken out because of a leg injury. In the two games put together not one man was sent out of the game via the foul route. This can only mean one thing, laxness in the officiating. It is our duty as members of B. Y. High to stand behind our standards and let it be known that we want our games in a clean way and not the ruff and tumble way that it is being conducted at the present time. Let us all call on the officials to clean up our basketball games. Robert Hales. ps Wildcats Drop Pages From A Girls Diary Opener to Vikings In the first game of the season the fighting Wildcats met a bitter defeat in a hard fought battle with P. G. High. The Viking came back in the second half of the game ten points behind and staged a rugged rally to pull a four point victory of 5 out of their hats. The game was a rough and tumble affair in which both teams pulled down 17 field goals. The boys from P. G. hit five out of eleven free throws to win the game over the Wildcats who made only one in ten tries. For B. Y. Christensen, Whatcott and Bills looked good while Hilton and Westover were best for Pleasant Grove. 39-3- THE FAUVINES Prediction of Region Three Final Standings. The predicting ability of the staff of this column is nothing to brag about but with a little imagination and guesswork it will attempt to make a forecast or two. Outcome of Region Three games: MARCH ON Pioneers Tip Wildcats In the second game of the seathe fighting Wildcats dropped a hard fought game to the Lehi Pioneers. Paced by the shooting of Moyers the underdog 4 team pulled a victory out Game Statistics of their slev Rolling up an Here is this months data up to early lead in the first quarter 20. January the Total points during league games purple and white clad boys B Y 69; out in front with their 13 were ponents, 86 ; victory margin at the half. point High scorers for B. Y. game they 26; Collard, 17; Playing a offensive came out on top of the Wildcat Christensen, 18. five that couldnt seem to find the High scorers in league games up to date Pleasant hoop. Meyers and Roberts were B. Y. Grove game Whatcott, 15; Christensen, 10. "Lehi outstanding for Lehi while What" C0 cott and Christensen were best bollard, Hi Christensen, 8. When the Wildcats started the first half of their for the Wildcats. son 47-3- Op-Whatc- ott, game with Pleasant Grove they introduced a new kind of offense that just couldn t be stopped. It kept their opponents runnJunior: Where do bugs circles and m no in winter time? time the the Cats had racked up a good ing Search me. sized score. It is this kind of offense and Sophomore: will that No I spirit thanks, Junior: snap B. Y. s losing streak and start things rolling again. wanted to know. Every year our Pep club wins the reputation of having some of the most outstanding uniforms and marches in the region, and this year is no exception. They have accomplished two successful marches so far, and the whole school should be proud of them. But the Fauvines dont get enough cooperation from the student-body. Students dont realize how much time, effort, and money it takes to make a success of the marching. No one understands the fact that these girls spend their noon hours and many hours in the evening practicing for the marches they do at every game. To say nothing of the expense involved in the uniforms. Many of the girls are beginning to wonder if its worth all the troubles, when no one appreciates their efforts. (Continued from page 3) November 22 was a bright spot alThats the night of the first Thespian dance. The theme was Fun After Supper. That was the naime of the play they put on in asthat and sembly morning, although the play was a tragedy, the title made an effective dance theme. At the height of the evening, the crowd disappeared, and the Thespians were left to play games by themselves. But we had fun. so. About the next big event was the Christmas dance on December 20, and Diary, a four piece rhythm section sounds good in 250-A- . Then on January the Thespians threw their big New Year s Night Ball. I hear its going to become a tradition. The club worked hard at making the arrangements, and they did a lot of successful inadvertising. Everyone, cluding the band, enjoyed themselves, and it turned out to be one of the nicest dances the Banquet Hall has ever seen. That brings me up to the latest big event, the skating party on the lake. Three buses took the crowd down, ancf finally brought us back, when they didnt have anything else to do. It was really a very lively party. Dick Bigelow and his camera added much to the excitement of the day, and Diary, youd be amazed at the velocity you attain on the end of a line. You really sail over the ice and into the snow. But it doesnt matter how many times von fall down, if you can get up again. And last, but not least, you cant imagine how cute Bob' Smith looks with a girls scarf his head. 1 semi-form- crack-the-wh- al ip Richard Bigelow: Well what kind of marks are you Paul petThe march the Fauvines did at ting now? Paul Breebairn: Theyre under go in our first game, here with Pleasant Grove, and the one over in water marks. Richard: Lehi, were something to be proud What do you mean of, so lets tell the girls we think under water marks? so. Paul: Theyre below C level. |
