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Show Page Four SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE ; Friday, January 28, 1944 Granite Farmers Take Over Big Six Race West High Knocked From Undefeated Ranks; South Cubs Sit in Back Seat By GRANT WOODWARD Displaying a two way fight for the Big Six Crown, Granite and Davis have knocked over all opponents except when the two teams met. Granite slipped through a 26-2- 5 hard fought battle last Friday, at the hands of Davis on the Farmer court to lead the Big Six race. East high knocked West off their high horse and from the un-defeated ranks last Friday, 26-2- 1 in a close contest. Ray Barnes, ace for the Leopards held the upper hand with 14 tallies. South again found tough going at the hands of Jordan at Jordan, 52-3- 0. It's been almost a month since the last Scrime came out. This is the first chance to review the Big Six hoop battles. . Starting with the league leader, Granite. In their opening battle East high gave them a big scare, Dick Baker saved the day with 6 points in the last frame and brought the score to 26-2- 4 final. BIG SIX STANDINGS W. L. Tot. Granite 3 0 1.000 Davis 2 1 .666 West 2 1 .6.66 Jordan 1 2 .333 East 1 2 .333 South 0 3 .000 A week later they had no trouble in humbling the cellar team, South. The Davis-Grani- te battle a week later found the final score favoring Granite, 26-- 2 5. Boyce Jacobs, substitute guard led the Farmers to victory with four swishers from mid-cour- t. Davis Campaign The Davis campaign found them blasting Jordan first in the open-er and then knocking down the East Leopards a week later. You know about last week at Granite. West high's pride and joy of many years started like a real champ by blasting South in their opener and then a week later beat Jordan on the Jordan floor. It must have been the jinks but Os-wald's Leopards upset the Pan-thers from the West side last Fri-day. Jordan has a record of one win and two losses, but boast a scoring ace in Jay Hansen. They lost their opener to Davis and West knocked them down again a week later. The Beetdiggers came to life last week when they shocked all scor-ing records in the last half to drub South, 52-3- 0. East high also has the same av-erage as Jordan in the win and lost column. What can anyone ex-pect of a school when their sched-ule started off with a bang. First Granite then Davis and now is the surprise team in the Big Six when they upset West. South in Cellar Last but not least to South fans are Gilbert's lowly Cubs. They boast scoring threats and a fast squad but somehow their schedule should have stayed in the Big Three where they would have had a chance. They've lost three straight games to West, Granite and Jordan respectively. This week's schedule finds the fourth round of league play. West at Granite, South at Davis and Jordan against East in the Deseret Gym. Jordan and East highlight the week's battles. Davis Dart ( 3Mb S 'f Courtesy Salt Lake Tribune Jim Cleveriy, Davis ace will be seen in action Friday against the Cubs at Kaysville. He has an aver-age of 18 points per game, i . Sports a la Femme Gym Classes Play Basketball By Aline James In the past few weeks the girls' gym classes have been busy pre-paring to repeat the Christmas as-sembly for the teachers of the city schools. This program was pre- - sented last Friday and so now the girls can devote class time to that popular game-- : basketball. Those not participating in the dances have had ideal opportunity for practice. Next week class teams will be organized and though basketball will be off to a late start, this season should prove to be very active. The inner-clas- s games should prove to be stiff competi-tion. Junior Stars Both seniors and juniors are go-ing out strong for basketball this year. Some of the juniors show outstanding floor and hoop skill. Rozanne Hennager is one of the outstanding forwards from the junior class. Dorothy Jeffries, Au-drey Madsen, Maxine Rino also play a good game. But the seniors with a year's work to look back upon can be surer of foul throws, team plays, judging of distance, etc., because they are up on the rules. La Rue Howell, the star forward and Beverly Barker, an outstanding guard, are both real competition. The Woodward twins can play either position with ease. Marilyn Rasmussen, Betty Jean McMurray, Irene Reynolds and Helen Hunt all hold positions as forwards. And even with an in-jured leg Helen is on the floor at every possible opportunity. After intra-perio- d games have been played off the winning teams will then play the after-scho- ol tournament. This will be under-way in about three or four weeks. Leaders Practice The feminine hoop stars of the season are the members of the Leaders Club. These forty-fiv-e girls should prove to be a really promising group as they have been chosen the outstanding girl lead-ers of the school. Lately they have been practicing several nights a week after school and at all other opportunities. These girls will participate in class games but will not be eligible for the inter-cla- ss tournament. They have dut-ies more important than playing they will referee and score the games played off. The club has been meeting lately to prepare the girls for this activity. Midgets Only Undefeated Cub Outfit Proving to South high students of being the best of the three teams in the school, Tate War- - j, dell's "Mighty Midgets" have yet to be beaten in league play. Led by Co-Capt- John Green-i- g who recently has been suffer-in- g from a leg injury but keeps f on plugging the "C" team has yet to find a team who can put up a good match. They have played four junior high schools and have gained valu-able experience when they face East and West on their courts. East and West have small hoop floors and South "C" quintet will have some tough battles after playing on their regulation court. Reviewing over the "Mighty Mites" schedule so far, they open-ed against West on their own floor. Well, West high's little "C" team went home with heads bow-ed, 38-1- 9. A week later Granite Sophomores in the Farmer field house and again the "C" team proved to have too much scoring power and turned them away, 33-2- 9. Last week they edged the Jordan Sophs 36-3- 1. Starting births have been jumb-led so far but Greening and Davis are Warden's choice at forwards while Hammond and Woodward substitute frequently. Carter has cinched the pivot post. Guards are weak but Pratt, Milne and Matern have done the work in this post. The Scribe SPORTS SCOPE By jl.: ivJ& J Grant Woodward Jerry Dalebout This issue of the Scribe Sports Scope will be directed to the ever popular winter sport, skiing. This sport is becoming more popular all the time and although skiing has no direct ' bearing with school sports we are fortunate to have a Ski Club for those interested, under the leadership of Jimmy Gilbert. Utah has one of the best skiing terrains in the .entire world at Alta. It is the center of skiing America, and is the most beautiful, romantic winter spot in the country. This popular resort is situated in Little Cottonwood Canyon and at the present time, it is the scene of several sporting movies. Pathe News and Twentieth-Centur- y Fox Studios are filming the picturesque alpine terrain, featuring many of the nation's top skiers as well as many local ski enthusiasts. Heading the array of famous skiers who will participate in filming the sport shorts is Otto Lang, former European ski instructor and Sun Valley ski coach. Others accompanying Lang will be Ann Cook, former European skier, Gretchen Fraser from Hollywood, Doris Post from Keno, Nevada, and Jack Reddish and Dick Movitz, both are young ski stars of Salt Lake. Army personnel from all the near by camps are also en-joying skiing at this resort. Many groups of Army skiers are receiving practice on the slopes of Alta where they are being taught by very competent instructors. On the other hand Alta is not the only skiing resort to be found in these parts because we have other fine ski slopes at Brighton. In the past, many have enjoyed Brighton for its wonderful skiing and they may continue to do so because ski-ing there is excellent. Although gas rationing is in effect, it doesn't seem to be putting the "crimp" on skiers. Now that we no longer have all the gas we would like, skiers are either saving their gas coupons for their skiing expeditions or they are doubling up and pooling their cars so as to be able to participate in this winderf ul sport. Persons who have never tried skiing should do so if pos-sible. It is a good, clean, healthy sport, well worth trying. The operators of these resorts are doing everything in their power to make conditions safe for skiers. At Alta, the forest service has control over the slopes and when one of them get in a bad condition, skiing on that slope will be restricted until a heavy snowfall again puts the hill in top shape. The road commission plans to keep all the roads to these resorts open despite heavy snow storms. You can readily see that steps are being taken to make skiing more enjoyable and safe. Bob Smith of South high school placed first in the tryouts last Sunday for the annual Snow Cup race to be held January 30, at Alta. Good luck "Bob," on January 30. Women are appreciating the winter sport more every day. A few years back South high didn't know what a woman skier was. Anne Neilson, Audrey Ostler, Dorothy Buxton, Bonnie Prince, Barbara Ehlers, Lucille Madsen and Darlene Snarr head South high this year as women enthusiasts for the winter sport while such noted skiers as Bob Carabine, Doug Wag-staf- f, Rene Rigby, Buddy Morrison Joe Cartensen, Dick Palmer, Lou Dods, Grant Woodward and Don Glaittli are just some of the few of the boy students who ski. Jay Hansen Leads Big Six Scoring Jay Hansen, tall, lanky, center for the Jordan Beetdiggers leads the individual scoring race with 55 total tallies. This is an average of 18.1 points per game. Jim Cleverly, Dart ace led the scoring up until last week. He has 54 total points which is an average of 18 total counters per game. Hansen tallied 21 points last Friday against South high while Granite held Cleverly to 14 total. Cleverly had a 20 point average until last Friday. Third place scoring honors goes to Ray Barnes, mainstay for the Esiders. He got 15 tallies last Fri-day and sets his total to 41. Wil-kinson of West has fourth place tied up with his total being 31. Antone Peterson is South high representative to the "Big Ten Scoring," in ninth place with 19 points. This deadeye should bring his average up soon. The Leading Scorers: Total Jay Hansen, Jordan 55 im Cleverly, Davis 54 Ray Barnes, East 41 Tom Wilkinson, West 31 Dick Collett, Jordan 30 Dick Baker, Granite 27 Ernie Smith, Granite 22 Marvin Hess, Davis 21 Antone Peterson, South 19 Spike Heywood, Davis 18 Meet the Athletes! Bob Carabine, tall, dark and handsome lad here at South high is the Scribe's Sports Department pick as the fourth outstanding athlete. Bob is a senior at South. He earned three athletic awards last year, football, basketball and track. In his junior year he played regular end for Jimmy Gilbert's eleven and displayed some fine grid talent. $ Basketball he plays very well. He enjoyed first string berth last year on the "B" quintet at center and gained some valuable experience on the hoop squad. As a junior he fTyjj was unexcelled on Nate Long's track squad. I ; y He ig a 40 man Thjs brings out Bob's junior r fi"1 athtetic endeavors but you'd be surprised about P - ' what he is doing this year to those of you pPf "iff, who haven't followed this talented athlete. iX&Sfffiy Bob favors skiing very much. He is a IlftT vJim member of the Advanced Social Dance Club of the scho1 which Proves to Cubs that he i l likes to dance. Senior Activities Bob's senior activities have been excellent .L , !VCZSgl up to date. He received the honor of being Bob Carabine selected on the Scribes' All City at end during the football campaign last fall. Pat Ryan was very pleased at his style of football. He tackles hard and is a good pass snagger. Keeping an up to date account of Bob, he is on the "A" squad of basketball and has seen plenty of action at center. That is all that can be said about him until the hoop season is over. He should enjoy a colorful spring with track and baseball. Al-though he didn't play the diamond sport last year he likes it very s much. Bob hasn't revealed to South high students whether he plans i on taking a third year course but he plans on entering the Univer-sity after his high school days. Jordan Quintet Win From Cub Juniors, 26-2- 1 After getting off to a splendid start by taking three out of five preseason games and their first two games of league play, South's mighty 'B" squad met a 18-2- 6 de-feat at the hands of the Jordan junior team last Friday. The Cub junior quintet, built around Lyle Koller and Bob Py-pe- r, fast and aggressive forwards, definitely outclassed the Jordan five but found themselves on the short end' of the score. Jordan held a comfortable 18-- 7 lead at halftime and seemed too much for Pat Ryan's hoopsters to overtake. Ryan pulled a man to man de-fense on the Jordan quint in the third frame. The Beetdiggers didn't get a single point in the third quarter and the Cubs closed the gap to 22-1- 8. The entire con-test, particularly the fourth peri-od, was a fouling extravaganza which sent four of the Jordan first stringers to the bench via the per-sonal foul route. The Cubs closed the gap to three points in the last minutes of the batle but the Jordan quintet rallied with a foul pitch and a field goal that ended the night for the Cub juniors. |