| Show A raw deal it if the officials of lie e state amateur basketball league have lave a notion that they can hand the box elder high school champion hoop arid and the loyal fans of this community a raw raiv deal and get by without a protest they have reckoned entirely without their lost host to say that we ol of this neck ot of the woods think tila action of the league officials about the most inconsistent and biased of anything that has ever happened in the history of tile the game in this county is putting it vey mildly rotten is s the more appropriate term and it is expressed with a good deal of heat too box fider has been true to every principle of sportsmanship and his hai elevated ted the game in a way that hs he been rarely equalled equal led and never surpassed the local tans fans have supported not only the home team but the game throughout and this city lias ai ways given one of the very iery biggest if not the largest gate receipts of 0 ani am I 1 city in the division our bubines businessmen luen 1 have supported the game with their dollars and their presence they nave ibave stood by the team in victory and de e teat feat but because of the magnificence of 0 playing skill which the bo box eldr eld five have haie always developed the do de feats have been mighty few and far between when the state tournament was held in this city the attendance was a record breaker up to that tima tim and the league officials had their eyes opened because of the loyalty of the tans fans of this community for the bast number of years the box elder team has won the division championship and given a splendid account of itself in the state tournament Al members embers a 0 the local team have hane been selected upon numerous occasions for place on the all state team these are just a few of the accomplishments of the be box elder high school in basketball basKel ball and after making this splendid record ohp th school very naturally feels that it is entitled to at least a fair deal tt it asks no oora nom and certainly expects no less but the action of 0 the president of the league in first voluntarily ruling ill that at the winne the north halt half of the northern division N bould be declared the champion of the division because of the disqualification of ct the the south half of tile the division and then at the last moment reversing himself and ruling that th winners of vie the two halves of the division must play a game to decide the championship bears all the earmarks of partisanship and it if it were not for the fact that the box elder high would rather tie be true to the high standards of which it has es than to resent a wrong it bould be justified in telling vie the league officials they could simply po go hang and this team would drop out of the game the whole affair looks as tho it had been premeditated for the purpose of bleeding gox box elder to the limit and leaving no tone stone unturned to lessen its chances in the tourney the basketball fraternity of this community are not only licensed incensed at but dis with and disappointed in the head of tile the state basketball league |
