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Show Scribe SPORT SCOPE By Grant Woodward In the final issue of the Scribe on the sports page it is customary to discuss the past seasons. War conditions have made South high's athletic c o n di- tions drop from past years. All high schools in. the state have been hurt from the war, but most athletes in high school are below 18 years of age. What may be said of this story is just pure fact -"-""---"-- ana it is not Grant Woodwardmeant 1to lk all over the athletes and coaches. It is merely stating where the axhletes and coaches have failed and what they can do to better themselves). Remember, this is not the opinion opin-ion of the Scribe Sports staff alone but is a census of oponion among the students, athletes and coaches. Two years ago South high school took three of the five sports among the city schools. They were basketball, bas-ketball, baseball and track in chat order. East high took one ana tied with West in one. Last year South took two sports , baseball and track. This year everyone knows what sports South has been vie- . torious in. Yes, baseball. The baseball team and Jimmy Gilbert should be praised highly for their championship. It has been the opinion of the athletes, coaches and students that the athletes of South this year have been too much on the "BIG BOY" side. By that it is to mean that certain athletics have wanted to be the "one man team." Pat Ryan had the best prospects in many years in the fall sport. If the "A" football gridders had bucklers down instead of fighting among themselves who was going to be the "star" everything could have turned out a lot better. It is not being said that South high "A" team of football could have stopped the powerful East high team, but it is certain that the "A" footballers could have made a better showinf. The "C" football team went undefeated because be-cause they were fighting together. rni n in a 1 i . i j. uie r ieaiu met one ueieai, uui they were green juniors ana there isn't a football player in tne school who wasn't scared when they first met East high's team. Every student in the school knows what the South high basketball basket-ball team did in the winter. Not a game was won in league competition. competi-tion. They finished last. It is true that all Coach Gilbert had to work with was one junior squad of the year before. Gilbert has built his team around third years, in previous prev-ious seasons but that is no excuse. East hight's basketball team consisted con-sisted of their junior squad of the year before. South high juniors almost beat them last year. It wasn't until the last few seconds of play that East beat the juniors. This year the two teams met again. Almost the same lineup. What happened ? East- high walked all over the poor kids. So did every team in the Big Six. Why? Because Be-cause there wasn't the unity among the players. In nearly every ev-ery game South high matched point for point against their opponents, op-ponents, but shortly after the first half was over South high gave up. Some one on the team who they didn't like had scored too many points. They weren't going to pass the basketball to him anymore. any-more. Let someone else make the points. "It was an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth spirit that prevailed among the boys." If a team doesn't go into a ball game with the spirit of victory in their hearts then there is no need of bringing up a schedule for the boys to just play for fun. It is true that in hig-h schools the coaches don't need a winning team every few years to keep their jobs, but just the same it is no fun losing continually. |