Show Losing U super sportsmen By MARION DUNN We Utes praise our championship basketball and football teams to the and rightly said that our Blitz Kids brought Utah a million dollars worth of and rightly But what happens when one of our teams finishes last in the They are and rightly We think ITte Walt Harris and Bill Johnston pooled expenses for We're not going to use this column to preach on the evils of winning the world loves a but we are reminded of the high school coach we know who has a large copy of Played The by George framed and hanging on the wall of his boy's dressing The line that slicks with us isn't whether you won that but how vou played the THIS PARTICULAR coach has that sentence underlined so that his boys can look at it before they go onto the you we'd agree with but once this same coach gets his boys onto the field he harps on one thing win and keep on Once the kids catch their moral code goes out window and play to win in the Present day athletes seem to have- borrowed a slogan from I he To the victor belongs the It is a relief to find a couple of topnotch athletes right here on hill w ho victory didn't Our golf team composed of Hill Walt Harris Don Glenn L. Joseph Jones and won the western half of the Skyline Six this spring and finished second to Denver in the conference Then when the held their annual tournament last month the powers that be chose our two best Bill Johnston and Walt to be the official standard bearers of the Red and White in the BOTH BILL and Walt are great competitors who love to win and naturally they were pleased with the prospects of representing the As official representatives they would have their expenses taken care of by the but there was a drawback to the set up a drawback that would have been easily overlooked by They had been playing as a team all season and this would eliminate four of the members from playing in the big With that in mind Bill and Walt decided how they wanted to the They decided to split the expense money with the other four members of the team and then foot the rest of the expenses sharing the the six men went to The results were We finished an ignoble in a The six Utes who took defeat as gracefully as have certainly defined Baron Pierre de outlook toward important thing in life is not triumph but the The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought To spread these precepts is to build up a stronger and more valiant and above all more scrupulous and more |