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Show Jimmy Gilbert Praised By Students By Bruce Goates In many articles carried in today's sports pages credit i3 almost always given to the men who brought home the athletic bacon. That, of course, is the right thing to do. But it is seldom sel-dom the coach or person behind those feats that is acknowledged. Generally the boys who performed perform-ed get all the credit, and the men who taught them and developed their skill are left out entirely. Successful Season Jimmy Gilbert has just finished a very successful season as mentor men-tor of South high's baseball team, guiding the Cubs to the state championship. Considering that Gilbert started his coaching profession pro-fession at South high four years ago, he has done very well. I At South Gilbert coaches three sports in the prep season, in the fall "B" football, in winter "A" basketball and in the spring he handles baseball. Looking over his record the past four years, you find he helped bring the basketball championship to South for three years with the "A" team .. goin,gundefeated one of those seasons. sea-sons. Of course the city schools were not in the state setup .at that time. Therefore one team did not do all the work. It was divided divid-ed between the three teams in the school. But just the same he did a very fine job. Gilbert brought the baseball title to South three out of four years, which included the Southerners first state championship. cham-pionship. In the baseball situation the team did not have to depend on another team to help them through the season, like the basketball bas-ketball and football squads. They were on their own. Need "Big Six" Gilbert experssed his desire for a "Big Six" baseball league similar simi-lar to the football and basketball setup now, stating that as long as there was a six-school league already, the schools should go the whole way and compete in all sports. When the "Big Six" was formed it was agreed that all sports would be recognized. When asked his preference out of the three activities activi-ties he coaches, he remarked that it did not make the least bit of difference, they were all in separate sepa-rate seasons and meant the same to him. Winning the state baseball championship recenty has brought him to the foreground. The Cubs were defeated ony once this past season, by Bingham the second time they played. The state title was the first one to have ever been bestowed on the Southerners, which is quite an honor for the Cubs and for Coach Gilbert. As coaches go, Gilbert must be classed as a "character." His chattering chat-tering from the bench is in direct contrast to the more staid members mem-bers of the profession, who stolidly stol-idly survey the field, keeping to themselves on and off the field. But if Gilbert is a "character," South high fans hope he builds plenty of the same type of character charac-ter in the years to come. |