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Show Midgets Take Up Challenge Of Fourth Straight Year A fast and clever C basketball team from South which will take the floor against "Big Three" rivals this year has commenced i practice in an attempt to record their fourth straight undefeated year. Coach Nate Long has chosen 15 boys to weather the hoop wars in the midget division this year. Picked to preserve the team's long victory string are Howard Smith, Paul Roberts, George Bradshaw, Joe Brammer, Max Ingram, Jimmy Corbett, Dick Davis, Clyde Oliver, Bob Crookston, Phil Rasmussen, Bob Storey, Cal Hathenbrook, Bill Demke, Dean Piatt, and Darrell Morgan. Return of Hathenbrook, Corbett, Brammer, Davis, Piatt, and '40-'41 Captain Howard Smith are expected expect-ed to be valuable to the squad. Loss of all-city Stan Clawson, and Dick North, Harold Smith and Kay Spackman, all of whom are returning, return-ing, but failed to get under the midget size limit, will be made less conspicuous with the addition of promising juniors. Roberts, Storey, Stor-ey, and Demke are among those who show talent. In former years, the midget squad, under tutorship of mentor Long, has been a large factor in keeping South high school's standing. stand-ing. With cooperation of B and A squads, now rounding out rosters, The basketeers are looking forward to bringing the city's newest high school its fourth consecutive title. Nate Long's gridiron aggregation aggrega-tion finally broke its victory string this year, and East and West are hoping this will continue to be a jinx year through basketball. However, How-ever, in spite of this optimism in the opponents, the Midget, chances of extending their line ofwins look very strong. The newly made rule that an athlete can participate in basketball basket-ball or any other sport for three, years seems to do the team virtually virtu-ally no good. For the boys who would have been coming back for their third year in the hoop game can't make the age, height, and Weight limits. One or two were lucky enough to slip under the limits. It is an ironic thing that every member of last year's first string is returning but none can make the limits except Howard Smith. i |