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Show Review of Year Shows Two Titles Tucked in Cub Camp last South-East "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 consecutive consecu-tive year. The Cubs won from Davis, Da-vis, then lost to East in dual meets, before conquering in the triangular 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 victory vic-tory was spoiled only by the defeat de-feat of Virgil Van Cott, who went into the channels of dust-eating for the first time in his mile career. 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 1942-43: 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 "yesterday's "yester-day's heroes." Linemen Child, McGhie and Bott, the all-city trio, and others on the forward wall, receive re-ceive our congratulations, also. The "B" team had no trouble when they ran up against the junior 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 championship champion-ship to East after retaining it almost 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 |