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Show , : Pleasant Grove High School Coaches Begin Training of Boys in Track, Tennis, Baseball Where there was only one coach who got out the crying towel at the start of the basketball season, there are three coaches at Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School who got out three towels when they were asked the school's chances in track, tennis and baseball. The trio. Coaches Earl Giles, track; Max Shifrer, tennis; and Guy Hillman, baseball, all allowed as how they are going to use their squads this year to build on for next year. And well might they build; for in the three sports, as in basketball, basket-ball, the three will have to depend on sophomores and juniors to carry car-ry the colors of the Vikings , this year. i Coach Giles said that he has issued uniforms to approximately 25 track prospects. Of these men only Perry Walker, who won the county meet in the high jump, and placed in the broad jump last year, is the only veteran. j However, Dee Louder, in the discus and 440; Kayle Kirk in the 440 and 220; Kay West, in the 440; Rex Fowles, In the 880, and Irvin, Baxter in the javelin, may develop into key men. Giles must build in the sprints in fact build a whole i nucleus for next year. Coach Shifrer said that all of his tennis squad is back from last i year with the exception of Stan- ! ford Jarvis. David Newman and David Harvey, who constituted the I doubles team last year may be used on singles. He related, however, how-ever, that they intimated that they would like to form a doubles team again this year. How they stack up will be determined whet-1 her they will play singles or doubles. In addition there will be Jimmy Harvey, Gary Jense, and Bruce Chipman, juniors, and Dick Page, the only senior, to' pick from last year's team. Shifrer said he would carry a seven-man squad, and that he hoped a couple of sophomores sop-homores would break into the lineup. Coach Hillman said that 25 boys had reported for baseball. Only two boys played last year on I the team that tied for first place 1 in the Alpine division. The year before last, the first year of organized or-ganized baseball in the Alpine dis- j trict, the Vikings took first place, i The returning veterans are Leo ' Johnson, pitcher, and Merlin All- red, catcher or first baseman. Hill-1 man badly needs another pitcher ' to go with Johnson, but can't see . anything in sight at the present time. He also reported that Lynn Saul, fielder, is spotty in the out-garden, out-garden, but is a better than aver-' age hitter. Only one senior, Rex ' Fowles, outfielder, is expected to make the team. "My other boys are juniors, sop-"homores sop-"homores and ninth graders coming up for next year. And they are going to look good," Hillman com- j mented. |