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Show Page Four SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE Friday, April 17, 1942. Cindermen Collide With West in First Trackfest Cubs Declare Open Season On Championship Efforts; . 4 Field Events Are Weak Spots . I, . hi. mwmmmmmmmmmmm'mMmm'mm",m Dashmen Look Strong In Practice Palmer, Lowder Will Lend .Valuable Aid Opening the track and field sea- - son tonight, the Cub cindermen compete with West in an all-o- ut effort to take the '42 city track title in an undisputed manner. Observers and cindermen are both confident of a victory, al-though some say the fieldmen look weak. At any rate just what they can do remains to be seen. Upholding the half-mil- e and usual weak spot this year are Ralph Jackson and Reed Johnson. JIMMY Popular mentor, aiding in direct-ing SAM tourney. Milers Look Good I Some runners for the mile that look especially good are Blaine Smith and Virgil Van Cott. Cale Cotton and Douglas Burgess are holding the Cub lanes for' the hur-dles. Sid Faldmo will not compete on advice of his doctor as he has 4 temporarily crippled himself with a leg injury. Quarter milers are Grant Kelly and Le Roy Swingle. Dave Mc- - 1 Lelland, Lawrence Palmer and Jack Lowder, school record hold-er, will probably very satisfactor-ily gain honors in the 220 and 10O yard dash. Hugh Wiley, "Whitey" Bullock, and Ray Adamson will join those sprinters for the relays. Palmer Is Vault Star Last year's winner, Lawrence Palmer, will try again to top Ralph Hall, of East, for pole vaulting honors. For next year's vaulting, "Nate" has Rex Ballard, a very promising jumper. Husky Ray Adamson will sail the platter toward records and points. Hugh Wiley and Grant Kelly from the relay and quarter mile respectively, will join forces to make for powerful broad jump-ing. Having trained valiantly for . many weeks under the able coach-ing of Nate Long, the Cubs are fa-vored to add this year's title to those of former years. West Outsiugs South Baseball Clan, 23-1- 6 In Diamond Marathon A tired group of South baseball players trailed off the West high diamond after losing to the "Big 3" champions last night, 23-1- 6, in one of the longest slugfests ever witnessed in city circles. . The game lasted 3 hours and 15 min-utes. Starting on the mound for the Southerners was right-hand- er MacCoy McMurray, who found go-ing rocky during the fifth inning. Up until that time he had held the West crew to seven runs, which was relatively good. He was re-lieved during the hectic fifth, how-ever, by another right-hande- r, Jack Wigren. Jack finished the inning after the two hurlers had allowed the Panthers to batter the Cub nine for eight runs. Peterson Takes Over Kent Peterson took over for the Southerners in the seventh. His pitching was good until he tired in the final frame and let the West nine bash out seven counters. West used three pitchers during the struggle, also. Parsons start-ed on the firing line, but was quickly replaced by Cornea, who moved in from left field. Final flinger for the home team was Ta-shir- o, who proved to be a most capable pitcher for the eleven. He was wild in his early innings, but recovered and set the Cubs down with the loss. Defense of both sides was ex-ceptionally spotty with the battling department doing the best job. South committed nine errors as compared with West high school's five, hit 14 times as against West's 26, and thus finished the game seven runs behind the Pan-ther squad. Dick North played a stellar game at shortstop, although he ac-counted for three of the Blue and White errors. A beautiful stab at a difficult grounder netted him an assist in the eighth inning, for which he deserves recognition. Al-so on the honorable mention list are Willie Stewart and the entire outfield of Northrup, Dick Law-rence and Don Davis. Stewart Contributes Homers Willie Stewart was the big gun at bat for South as he hit three times in five official trips to the plate. Two of his hits were long homers. Home runs were also turned in by Caputo, Bagley and Tashiro of West high school. Shindler," West shortstop, collected a triple. - Although beaten in their first encounter, Coach Gilbert's crew is nevertheless far from discouraged, and the Cubs are looking forward to their next fling with the Leo-pards and final game with West. Provo Meet Challenges Cub Teams Rapidly swinging into shape is Nate Long's flashy cinder squad, which is seeking to retain the track title once again this year. With the "Big" Three track meets off to a start today between the Cubs and the Panthers, the next big event is the Invitational track and field meet annually held at Brigham Young University with many high schools throughout the Intermountain region competing. Track, Tennis Teams Trek to Provo With a great three day event planned, sports fans may well ex-pect keen comptition from the vari-ous tennis teams as well as the track teams. April 24, 25 and 26 are t1!e dates for the meet. Preparations for the jaunt down to Provo are now underway. Coach Long and racquet mentor Johnson are watching for bright prospects to represent South. No one has been definitely picked for the re-spective squads, however. In the net division, Frank Dav-idson is almost sure for the trip, for he is the Cubs' number one man. Fred Weidner, Doug Heiner and Joe Lewis are likely candi-dates. Cindermen Prolific As for the track representatives, Nate has an abundant supply to choose from. Probable cindermen for the team are: Jack Lowder, Lawrence Palmer, Stan Kilbourne. and Dave McLelland in the relays. Leroy Swingle, Charlie Patterson, Russell Grael and two others are touted for another relay team. Grant Kelly will, in all probability, compete in the 440. In the distant races, Virgil Van Cott and Ralph Jackson are good choices. Cale Cotton and Sid Fald-m- o are strong in clearing the nurd-- , les. High jumping chores will be handled by Reed Johnston, Joe Lewis and Chick Woolf. Heaving the shot and discus rests with the husky muscles of Ray Adamson, Dick Anderson, and Carl Childs. Netters Sweep Series With West Courtmen Starting the tennis season off with a bang, the South netters won both the "A" and the "B" matches. The "A" game was played last night, while the "B" tilt clicked off Tuesday. Scores for the A duels are: Doubles: 6-- 3, 8-- 6. Davidson-Cob- b match: 6-- 3, 6-- 2. Weidner-Gehrk- e match: 62, 1-- 6, 5-- 7. Playing against stiff wind, both teams made expert showings. Cobb of West was out of condition and Davidson took that match without difficulty. Cobb broke his racquet in the middle of the game, but after borrowing Fred Weid-ner- 's he did considerably better. Davidson Excels Davidson was placing the ball all over the court, and Cobb could-n't see to return them. In the Gehrke-Weidn- er matches, first game was practically given to Weidner. Gehrke gained consid-erable confidence after the' first set, and gave Weidner a run for his money. The first and second sets proceeded in a normal manner with Weidner taking the first and Gehrke taking the second. Both players did some spectacular playing, although Gehrke, after getting started, seemed to play a better game than either of his fel-low weserners. Third Set Slow Breaking into the third set, the game proceeded in a slow manner. Weidner began slowing down and Gehrke began playing good tennis. The end seemed very near when Weidner was holding the lead in games, 5--3. However, Gehrke won the next two games and placed the score at 5 all. Throughout the game, Weidner made some smashing kills that bounced clear out of the court. Game Goes Slow During the phase of the battle, Gehrke and Weidner stood for an abnormally long period of time smashing the balls at one another, Gehrke playing the net beautifully. Scores for that match are: 6-- 2, 1-- 6, and 5-- 7 against Weidner. Harvey Schmidt and Jack Rich-ards provided the doubles combin-ation for South. The Junior matches carried smoothly, South winning them all. Dick Brower and Joe Bonny played extra well to best their rivals by wide margins. Jimmy Neeley also set down his opponent in a quick manner to polish off junior efforts against West in the initial series. Cub GROWLS On the Sportspath By MILT An opportunity to add three more crowns to South high school's growing collection seems unlikely to slip away this year. Off to a fly-ing start with a clean victory in tennis, the track team is also bid-ding for a high rating. Coaches Nate, Jimmy and Bill are getting support needed. Keep it up, Cubs. It's a sure way to see that East does litle crowing in her hilltop nest, and a safe bet to keep our titles from "going West," young man. Sorry Sid : That you can't help win that track crown for South. It's a tough break for a grand sport, but "Remember B Y U." Open Letter: : It's time that the student bodies of the three city high schools got a break! For a number of years, even powerful athletic teams of these schools have been squeezed into a tiny tri-scho- ol schedule. Three of the largest schools' in the state are being throttled ath-letically, just "because". Anyone who saw the State Bas-ketb- al tournament at the Univer-sity of Utah fieldhouse this year will agree that it was an inspiring sight, and a real spectacle for American youth. Why were we kept out of it? Fellow students, let us arise and do something about widening our field of play. Soon, YOU will have ! a chance to help. Watch for it and cooperate. Signed, BLAINE SMITH. We received a letter from Bill Saul recently. Bill, a faithful second string gridder on the "A" squad last fall, is right up on the forward wall of events at the Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, Michigan. Congratulations, Bill, keep plugging like you did at your guard spot on the Cub team. -i-i Remaining Schedule BASEBALL April 23 South at East. May 7 South at West. May 14 East at South. TRACK April 17 South at West. April 24-2- 5 EYU meet. May 1 East at South. May 15 Triangular meet at University of Utah. May 22 City mass meet. TENNIS April 21 East B at South B. April 23 South A at East A. April 24-2- 5 BYU meet. May 5 South B at West B. May 7 West A at South A. May 12 South B at East B. May 14 East A at South A. Raqueteers Begin Play In Tourney With the home room basketball tournament completed successfully, SAM is again sponsoring an-other contest for would-b- e netter.3 in the home rooms. Any Boy Eligible The contest is expected to be in full swing by the middle of next week with six home rooms clash-ing on the three courts. All games are expected to be played after school. However, there is a possi-bility that these games will hinder the training of the netters on the regular net squad. If so, the games may be played only when the John-son men are not using it. and may-be one court may be used by the home rooms. Many to Compete Although nothing defiinte has been planned concerning the use of the courts, many home room rac-quet wie'lders have entered the SAM event in hones of capturing honors for their home rooms, and also to win the trophy. All net fans may well expect keen com- -, petition and hair-raisin- g thrillers all throughout the tourney. Other Contests Planned SAM officers are again planinng for other home room contests, the softball and track. Dates for these meets have not been sche-duled but will be released at a lat-er date. 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