Show communication some few weeks ago an article unauthorized by duchesne high school appeared I 1 in the roosevelt standard this article gave ar an entirely wrong impression US as to 4 the lie attitude of the faculty and students relative to the hospitality of vernal citizens i I 1 cannot say too strongly i that all of us highly their care for us in their we heartily appreciated i on all our visits to Ver vernal rial and I 1 am sure I 1 express only the stand of the roosevelt in saying I 1 that we are very grateful to i themi believe the banquet tendered the glines basket ball team by roosevelt on their recent visit here he re bespeaks the attitude of go good od will of the whole reservation town to our eastern neighbor we took the initiative in arranging both last apar yearl and this year for triangular trian gulan ri meets with the vernal schools with a view to increasing good fellowship between schools be here and there and after royal hospitality pita lity vernal extended to us it would be the height of inconsistency not to appreciate their effort to entertain us the chief objects to our meet on our part were to educates pur our boys and girls and to promote good feeling among the three schools concerned to win w in in the contest is only a secondary consideration it often takes more strength to take defeat gracefully than to win a victory the other schools no doubt had these prime objects in mind but in spite of this some of the partisans seem entirely devoted to the lesser object they seem to consider that the winning of a basket ball game is of more importance than the strength of character to be de in the contest in view of these objects and of the further fact that the high school at roosevelt the youngest and probably thelah eak est in numbers of the three schools took the first steps both last year and this year to arrange a triangular league in debating and in basket ball playing we feel that the charge that we are afraid to play the vernal teams again is is uncalled for we feel that their stand to claim the championship unless we play off what they consider a tie is in view of con editions to begin with in most places the basket ball season closed fully a month ago this is an indoor cold weather game because of the peculiar conditions of slow travel in this section every basket ball contest means three days lost one of these being of necessity a school day the parents need the boys particularly ticul arly at this time of the year several days of school have been lost by the duchesne high school because of the need for the students to help lay water pipe to the high school building another day or two will be needed to do some grading of the campus whether done on school days or not it takes the boys from the farms it is a very difficult matter to get teams even to take the contestants away to another town we can not therefore see our way clear consistently to go away from home this year for any more contests in the basinas we I 1 now stand in the basket ballf ball series and as we have understood all along that any school in the league in a similar position woud have done we consider our school as the champion of the schools in basket ball the duchesne high school boys team have won three games and lost one likewise the girls team have won three and lost one the school has thus won six games and lost only two the uintah academy has won three boys games and lost one and lost four of the girls games the wilcox academy has lost all four of its boys games and won three girls games and lost one girls game thus at the close of the series both the wilcox and the uintah schools has each one won three games and lost five against our six victories and two defeats no games outside of this league are considered as they havid hareno fio bearing on league leadership |