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Show 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 auditorium au-ditorium large enough to accommodate 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 enlarged en-larged circuit. The Hilltoppers finished fin-ished third in the regional basketball basket-ball race and shared the football title with Davis. That's a fine record 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-Jess regard-Jess of class, counting the same, there has been a tendency for one coach or one team to pass the buck to the other. If an A team should lose, it has been the reaction 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-easy attitude cannot long prevail. The teams of all three schools have got to be bigger, big-ger, tougher and smarter. The competition from Granite, Davis Da-vis and Jordan is going to act as a spur. |