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Show ' Page 7 Tuesday, June 1, 1943 SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE Shine in Season's Play Scribe Photos by Stan Gold Abe Berthold, Cub first baseman (upper left) takes his stance and prepares to clout one for a homer, while Dick Powers (upper right) slaps the ball on Captain Jerry Dalebout during sliding practice... Left, Doug Heiner serves a smashing "ace" over the net during a thrilling gams with the Ecide boys on the Cub courts. All these fellows highlighted the sriMflr sporfs season with exceptionally brilliant playing. Jpjr SBik Swt" r-r- r tc!ar ? s J$W IwSSl (Jllill ' Sll ff ' ww'4P - " llf ' w - - ' ' 11 ""Slr ""v"" - , ''wSiAik ' fW'i ' 4 1 lixff -- I ''''"C ' Htl BVW9m"""M"Mmifzf'Mld '4xVWVVVsMt?SWfA,WrWllS : Eciders Grasp PlPpf:'M!i Twelfth Tennis Crown l$iK:JvS tS''S'i I''"'-- ' By Clyde Oliver Playing host to the Ecide Leop-feSBSLijy. l f 'ol ard seniors, South courtmen ended W'&SmJh this year's edition of city sports PPS 18 He's still the best . . . Virg by bowing to the Hilltoppers after "3 SiPii VaH C o.o n mil lthitele.EasPt riSoirdetoboyths ehamdeestw, epEtastth'se IS&b 'imz out m front ' compe seniors were undefeated in two KfeSTOP tition. Only at the triangular years of "Big Three" play, but the AfC?! meet did South' s superb miler Cubs turned back two -- thirds of m&fMa ai grand sportsman suffer a East's doubles combination, in bowing, 2-- 3. defeat. South's Bill Van Ry and partner f ... : Cub Talk By FRANK JAMES i i There seems to te a very well circulated myth about the campus that there is a super swimming pool in the basement of the school-buildin- g. This fairy tale also states that the pool has been out of order for some time because of the marshy ground around the foun-dations of the building. Even some of the most sen-sible students refuse to doubt the truthfulness of this story, and so for them and for the more gullible ones, THERE IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN A SWIMMING POOL IN THIS BUILDING. Furthermore, there never have been any pools im any of the city schools with the exception of the Washington elementary school and this u an outside pool. Mr. Jackson, school custodian related the following facts to help clarify the situation! Considered Plan There was a time, twelve or thirteen years a,go, when West high was remodeling the boys' gym that Superintendent Childs, Fred K. Keeler, Principal of West at that time and Roy Mc-Inty- re, coach at West, consider-ed constructing a swimming pool, but because of the san-itary conditions that would ex-ist and of the terrific cost of upkeep, the plan was aband-oned. Floating footing for the new South high school building at the time of its construction was noted and so any ideas for a swimming pool would have been considered ridiculous. That is, the entire building would settle deeper in the earth if such a pool had been built. Elaborate Plant South high has an elaborate heating system which heats not only this building, but the Whit-tie-r school as well. Two huge gas boilers are used for this purpose, one of them ample for moderate weather. Natural-ly, all of the hot water used in this school is drawn off tnese boilers by means of a partial vacuum that is established in the pipes leading from this building to the heating plant. When any mishaps occur in this system, all of the water must be drawn off by means of pumps. This accounts for the water sometimes found in the basement. Pumps also draw the water from the basement. We're sorry to disappoint all the faithful believers of Joe Blow, who just loves to tell these tall tales, and we hope that he can cook up something more reasonable next time. Cubs Take Baseball; Four Wins Although they had already clinched the baseball crown, South'a championship team added another ietory over a slightly befuddled East High nine, 17-- 4, May 18, to wind up the '43 season with a clean slate. Thi win was even more pleasing to Coach Gilbert's team since they tarted the second string against East, spotted them three runs in the opening frame, and then pro-ceeded to knock the Leopard's ears down with a blistering 23 hit at-tack in the ensuing ei,ght innings. Dean Christensen started on the mound for the Cubs and after a shaky start, settled down and dur-ing the seven innings that he pitch-ed allowed eight scattered hits and whiffed ten batsmen. Showing a great deal of promise during the time that they were in the game were Kay Greer at first, Bill Thomas at shortshop, Dick Powers behind the plate and Morrie Wat-ers in right field. Jimmy will bank heavily upon these players next spring, especially since they have garnered some experience in their junior year. Lefty Kent Peterson came to the rescue of Chris in the seventh when the Leopards had threatened South's lead by filling the bases, but East could have called the game because of wet grounds since Pete struck out eight of the remaining nine batters that faced him. The pennant - clinching game against West on the Panther dia-mond found pitcher Peterson and the infield slightly erratic, pos-sibly because of the fact that Joe Devine. New York Yankee scout was at the game verifying some reports about Pete's pitching prow- - ess and the lusty hitting ability of Abe Berthold and Jake Dalebout. Despite the numerous misplays they committed the Cubs managed to carve out a nifty 12-- 6 verdict over the Panthers. Peterson was generous with the Weciders, allow-ing them six hits during his nine-inni- ng stint. Members of South's second con-secutive championship nine are : Kent Peterson, pitcher; LaMar Day, pitcher; Dean Christensen, pitcher; Morris Waters, pitcher; Dick Pow-ers, catcher; Bob Story, catcher; Bob Hoffman, catcher; Abe Ber-thold, first base; Kay Greer, first base; Jerry Dalebout, second base (captain); Jack Bale, second base; Glen Standing, shortstop; Bill Thomas, shortstop; Don Shephard, third base; LaMar Erickson, third base; Paul Roberts, outfield; Eldon Story, outfield, Glen Davis, out-field; Leonard Trottier, outfield. Review of Year Shows Two Titles Tucked in Cub Camp last South-Ea- st "B" encounter, where the Cub team sprang an "impossible" by almost beating East. At this point Southerners were beginning to lose, and then came REEL THREE South took the cinder crown for the third consecu-tive year. The Cubs won from Da-vis, then lost to East in dual meets, before conquering in the tri-angular meet. The superior Cub track squad overcame a Leopard lead at the University of Utah and smashed to a 64-49-- 22 victory. The Cub vic-tory was spoiled only by the de-feat of Virgil Van Cott, who went into the channels of dust-eatin- g for the first time in his mile ca-reer. He was nosed out by Roger Bean of East, who set a new city record of 4:46. Van Cott, incidentally, has run the event in practice in 4:44. REEL FOUR It was the Cubs all the way in the diamond sport. Behind the steady flinging of Kent Peterson, Cub elbower de luxe, the Cubs went through an undefeated season. REEL SIX We leave you in the good graces of Clyde Oliver, who will trace the path of the East victory for Cub readers. See column 4. I Here's how South stacked up in athletics in the city "Big Three" prep loop during the sports year of 1942-4- 3: REEL ONE In the gridiron sport, South came nearer than ever before to taking the city title. Pat Ryan's pony backfield ran circles around their opponents, and by the end of the season, they ranked among the top backfields in the state. Kenny Gempler, Russ Graehl, "Hank" Kilbourne and all the other fellows on the team will be remembered for a long time, reversing the adages of "yester-day's heroes." Linemen Child, McGhie and Bott, the all-ci- ty trio, and others on the forward wall, re-ceive our congratulations, also. The "B" team had no trouble when they ran up against the jun-ior squad from West, but when they met East's Leopards it was a different story. The "C" squad had a hard time getting started, but they won two games, tied one and dropped one just the same. REEL TWO If football was a disappointment, basketball broke hearts of the members of the South High Student Association. The Cubs lost their champion-ship to East after retaining it al-most undisputed for four long years. The games were almost a repetition of the football season; all the teams could beat the lowly Panthers, but East was tough mighty tough - tough enough to take the title. Our nod for the most thrilling game goes to the Howard Richardson defeated Wen-dell Winegar and John Bennett, 7-- 5, 3-- 6, 6-- 1. The second winning team was that of Jack Warton and Eddie Anderson, who defeated Buzz Love and Frank Pyke, 6-- 4, 6-- 3. Other battles fell to thee Eci-ders, with Mel Hansen and Lou Dods making a battle in falling to Cal McGillis and Bob Lence of East, 6-- 2, 6-- 2. Dick Brower strong-ly contested every point of East's Bob Lewis, but he fell in defeat as the Lewis boy decisioned him, 6-- 2, 6-- 2. Similarly, Doug Heiner lost to Fred Lewis, 6-- 4, 6-- 4. Thus ended another unsuccessful at-tempt on the part of the Cubs to dethrone the seemingly always vic-torious Leopard tennis machine. Earlier in the week the South juniors invaded the East courts and were wiped out by a 5-- 0 score. 'Nuff said! In so doing, the East boys received their twelfth gon-falon in city tennis by smashing .through all opposition to take the top spot. They received plaudits from their foes, who pressed them all the way. Nice going! Although not all fellows gained wins in net competition, Southern-ers should hail with pride their ten-nis teams. Following is the list of boys who played in the senior division: Doug Heiner, Dick Brower, Joe Bonny, Bill VanRy, Howard Richardson, Eddie Anderson, Jack Wax-ton- , Lou Dods and Mel Hansen. Junior players were Bob Hoff-man, Don Giacomo, Mel Adams, Jack Bolton, Grant Jenkins, Gor-don Milne, Ronald Capener and Hugh Miller, Wallace Jones. Scribe Lists Statistics On Athletes, Spring Sports Schedules Cub athletes notched up envia-ble individual records, as the scorebooks attest, during the spring sports season, to give South the baseball and the track crowns for the second and third consecutive years, respectively. Outstanding on the baseball squad was Southpaw Kent Peter-son, who struck out 64 batsmen from East and West, allowing just nine hits in the three and 2.9 games he twirled for the Cubs. Abe Berthold, stellar first sacker, topped the team's hitters by chocking up 16 hits in 24 trips to the plate for an average of .666, while Eldon Story and Dean Chris-tensen, who batted considerably fewer times each, hit .545 and .500, respectively. Pete batted .473, in contrast to the belief that pitchers can't hit. OTHER BATTING AVERAGES Dalebout 400 Shepherd 400 Standing 378 ) Roberts 307 Trottier 268 Davis - 227 B. Story - 208 High-poi- nt men on the track squad are Jay Childs, dash and relay man, with 29 points, fol-lowed by Ralph Jackson with 28. Gym Classes, Rookies Hold Mass Trackfest The age-ol- d question of how much others besides regular ath-letes can do was settled May 21 when rookies and gym classes con-tested in separate divisions during the annual SAM track meet, with Dean C. Dewey Hale and Nate Long in charge. A glance at the score sheets show that gym classes produced better times and distances in track and field events than did the com-paratively untrained ROTC men. Individual honors for the meet go to Reed Howick, who produced wins in the 10O-ya- rd dash, 220 and the broad jump for the gym boys. Bill Lubben also turned in three wins. The 100 and 120-yar- d hurdles and the pole vault wer taken by the versatile performer. FINAL SPRING SPORTS STANDINGS Baseball W. L. Pet. South 4 0 1.000 East - 1 3 .250 West 1 3 .250 Tennis W. L. Pet. East - 8 0 South 4 4 .500 West 0 8 .000 Clerk (in men's clothing store) : "I assume you are looking for something in men's clothing." Frosh: "I certainly am. Have you seen Glenn Durfee." Off the Record ... Renee Allan: "Sorry I can't go with you, but I have a pre-vious date which I expect to make soon." OTHER POINT TOTALS Kilbourne 19 Roller - Neeley 1 Patterson - lH Van Cott 13 Woolf - - 1J Cannon Palmer -- - 7 |