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Show Page Four SOUH HIGH SCRIBE Friday, March 31, 1944 Southerners Sweep Big -- Six Grown Cubs Outplay Davis In Fast Contest To Remain Undefeated Wanting no part of a tie with Davis, the South high Cubs snatched two games from the Darts last night to go unchalleng-ed as the classiest scoring machine in Big Six competition. The Cubs, in taking their third straight title, added to Wednesday's "C" team victory, a colorful pre-clima- tic "B" con-test and a thrilling 52-2- 8 varsity victory. Over 3000 casaba fans, a recorl crowd to witness a Big Six championship tussle, jammed South's spacious plant to watch the Cubs continue superiority on the courts. South won the title with an un-defeated season. The second-plac- e Davis five finished with seven wins and three defeats, lost two having to the Southerners and one to the Granite high quintet. The Granite Farmers suffered a tragic season, being outsmarted by the Cubs twice, Davis once and dropping an upset at the hands of the Jordan Beetdiggers, the dark horse squad of the season. The Leopards, traditional rivals of the State street sharpshooters, offered little in the way of hoop competition this season, which compensates somewhat for the gridiron thrashings the Cub eleven took from, the Eciders. Playing on their home court, . the Cubs were expected to take the final tilt. But when the junior varsity came through in flying colors, there was nothing for the inspired Cub quintet to do but finish the season in traditional South high style. The Cub "B" quintet's firey at-titude can be contributed to two factors. First, that grand fellow Pat Rvan, the junior varsity men-tor, imparted to his charges in traditional fashion the desire to add to the "glories of South." Secondly, the junior five was out for appeasement for the one-poi- nt setback it received in Bountiful on the Dart court. Commendable for their offen-- ; sive performances were: lanky Larry Smith, the most improved member of the squad; Bob Pyper, . flashy forward; and Lyle Koller, the Cubs most constant scoring threat. The junior guards exper-- ienced a field day. Consistently t Ronald Grider a,nd Glenn Palmer dunked long shots over the heads of apposing forwards in the frst half. At the beginning of the third frame the powerful Cub attack necessitated a change to man-toma- n in the Dart defense. Having worked against this defense al-most entirely all week, the Cubs felt little increase in pressure. Having clinched the title the previous week, the Southerners felt little of the "last game jit- ters" that usually predominates at such affairs. The boys in blue were truly a credit to their school, coach and themselves, per-forming as smoothly and confi-dently as a well-rehears- ed show. Highlighting an evening of fine hoop exhibition was uncanny shooting among the entire squad. Particular scoring ease was dem-onstrated by Wallace (Dorf) Jones, the Cub's lanky center. Dorf bagged a total of 14 points to snatch the scoring honors of the evening. With a total of 12 counters, Anton Peterson took the , runnerup honors. Anton played a brilliant floor game, passing and faking the Davis defense into easy scoring opportunities for his teammates. A running score of the South high attack shows that the few times the Darts threatened the Cubs, Morris Kjar, scoring almost at will, threw in a total of 10 ringers, to keep the Cubs well out in front. Equally praiseworthy for inspir-ed performances were Kent Pet-erson, whose fast driving for the basket made the Cub quick break effective, and Bob Story, whose long passes to Kent played an important role in the South high victory. Fans unanimously agreed that South high has never before pro-duced a team with so much nat-ural basketball ability. Scribe Honors Star Athlete plugging holes in the line from one end to the other. Offen-sively Dick's heroic plunging through the forward wall gain-ed him the title "the human battering ram." Highlighting his gridiron career is the 80-ya- rd run for a touchdown, Dick The old adage "the last's the best of all the game" is certain-ly true in the case of the pre-sentation of athletes in this col-u- Undoubtedly there is no athlete at South that is more deserving of press notices than the robust, rugged youth we present to you in this issue. By now we feel that your cur-iosity has been sufficiently aroused so without waste of this valuable space we (the sports staff)' present to you our candidate for the athletic award, DICK WEGGELAND. (Surprised? we thought so. Our reasons for this choice are contained in the following resume of his athletic career at South. One look at that huge muscle-covere- d body of Dick reveals that Dick could lick twice his weight in wildcats. Among his fellow classmates, "Muscles" is credited with having the most perfectly - developed physiques in the school. The South high coaching staff unanimously agreed, in a recent conference, that in com-merati- on of Dick's vaunted ath-letic achievements locker no. 132 would hencefourth remain unused. In the fall of his junior year, Bick donned a foitball suit not knowing that he was destined to become a school hero almost overnight. Defensively Dick was indispensible, constantly In the spring Dick again found himself flowered with tempting proposals from each of the coaches. Deciding to play no favorites, Dick played on all three teams. While on the diamond he batted .560 and fielded .999. As a track man he broke all state records in every event. As a net player Dick was never known to give his op-ponent a point. These truly as-tounding feats drew nationwide acclaim. Dick's senior activities have been limited (by Dick). It seems that being a ..amous athlete gave Dick little time for himself and so he thought it best to draw as little atten-tion to himself as possible. Dick staged a return performance of his 80-ya- rd run of last year against West. Backing up the line Dick interceptetd an at-tempted field goal in his own end zone and ran through the hapless West eleven for a touchdown. Space does not per-mit further comment on the al-ready widely - known facts of Dick Weggeland's amazing feats. The real story of Dick's ath-letic interests has not as yet been revealed. This is probably because Dick is Ihe silent type. At any rate few people would have guessed that when asked what games Dick preferred to play most he would reply, "ping - pong, pocker, billiards, and craps." made in the final seconds of the game with East, which gave the Cubs a 7-- 0 victory. When the casaba season roll-ed around all three coaches made a bid for Dick's services. After a heated discussion it was finally decided that despite his ability, Dick should remain on the "B" squad. He wore the No. 1733 on the back of his shirt, (familiar isn't it). I SPORTS SCOPE By Grant Woodward It was a near perfect season for Big Six high school athletic teams in the basketball campaign. The city schools need a, basketball au-ditorium large enough to accom-modate all the fans that desire to attend their games. Thousands of patrons were turned away from the state tournament and it might just as well be like that in the big regional contests. Summing up the first season of football and basketball under the Big Six regime, it seems to be the concensus of opinion that this was positively the best move these schools could have made. The city schools, especially East high, did all right by themselves in the en-larged circuit. The Hilltoppers fin-ished third in the regional basket-ball race and shared the football title with Davis. That's a fine rec-ord in the fast competition the Big Six requires. It has been a good thing for the city schools in another way, too, Heretofore, with class A, B and C teams competing for the same title, and each game, regard-Jes- s of class, counting the same, there has been a tendency for coach or one team to pass the buck to the other. If an A team should lose, it has been the re-action ofttimes that the B team would make it up. Then if the B team should slip, coaches or fans could be heard to say, "Oh well, our C team is better and we'll get that game, anyway." Under the Big Six setup, this easy-go-eas- y attitude cannot long prevail. The teams of all three schools have got to be big-ger, tougher and smarter. The competition from Granite, Da-vis and Jordan is going to act as a spur. Baseball, Tennis, Track Headline Spring Sports By Cliff Miller South high's hopes for a victorious team this season rests' largely with Jimmie Gilbert's diamond squad, although Tate Wardell's charges as well as Pat Ryan's net crew look promis-ing. With almost a month of pre-seas- on practice ahead of them, all three squads should show well for themselves come Big Six petition this sport takes on an even greater meaning than before. Because of the laxity of baseball in the country schools, it left track to lead in their spring ac-tivities. That leaves South a large responsibility in developing a good track team. Mentor Wardell must start from scratch to produce his track aggregation this season. Few let-term- en are . returning to bolster Souths prospects. But if Wardell can continue his stride in building up winning teams as he did in "C" football and basketball, South will have nothing to worry about in track. Tennis Tennis will be coached by Pat Ryan. Tennis looks favorable for the Cubs this season with several lettermen back for a crack at East high's experienced netters. A single elimination tournament was started last Monday, to pick the tennis squad. Lou Dods no doubt will be one of the men who will predominate on the senior crew. competition. Coach Gilbert .has a top-notc- h bunch of fellows competing for positions on his squad. He has several returning lettermen, fea-turing Kent Peterson, South's king of chuckers. Peterson hurl-ed himself a record that was out-standing last season, winning every game of league play. Jerry Daleaibout, returning captain of the baseball team, turned in a first-rat- e performance at second base. Bob Story is the guy who backed up Peterson throughout last year's tussels and handed in an out-standing reputation as a catcher. Returning from the outfield is Glen Davis, a junior last year and one of the few who earned a position on the regulars. 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