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Show SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE Friday, March 5, 1943. page Four Spring Athletic Teams Start Practice Baseball Squad Begins Drills For All-Ou- t Defense Of 1942 Diamond Crown Gilbert Looks To Veterans to Bolster Championship Crew With uncertain weather prevail-ing and the promise of muddy grounds, spring baseball at South once again is coming into form. The first tryouts were held Wednesday with many of last year's men their arms in preparation for the coming season. Missing from last year's title squad will, be such men as "Slug-ger" Willie Stewart at the hot corner, Dick North at short, Ginny Earl at first, Don Davis and Bill Northrup in the outer gardens, and Macoy MacMurray, stellar pitcher. Southpaw Kent Peterson will again lead the mound squad, but the catcher's spot is wide open. Bob Story announced he wouldn't play. Jake Dalebout will be back at second and Leonard Trottier and "Spider" Woodward probably will be in the outfield. Two transfers from East fill m two vital spots in the Cub infield. Glen Standing will probably be in North's place at shortstop and Abe Berthold may hold down the first To round out the "mythical" starting nine we add the name of Paul Roberts in the outfield. Rob-erts is a fast man with plenty of promise. He has a good arm and can cover plenty of ground. As always, some promising jun-iors will spring up and may give those confident of starting positions a run for their money. Coach Gi-lbert keeps a weather eye out for those men. They form the nucleus of next year's team. In fact, they form the whole team, since few seniors will return. Since South has yet to win a Coach Jimmy Gilbert . . . He'll attempt to get his baseball team in shape to bowl over East and West in the title chase this year. Vital statistics: Above pix, taken some years ago, once showed Gil-bert sporting foliage on his upper lip. Through the courtesy of the Tribune staff photographer, the moustache was removed and here's Jimmy, minus the moustache but still very happy about the whole thing. title of any kind this year the effort will be very great to produce a second championship diamond squad. The prospects are bright at this early moment and "rookie-bookies- " will wage even money that South will take the cham-pionship in baseball. Home Rooms Swing Into Intramural Tourney S A M's annual intra - mural basketball tournament, designed to encourage every boy in the school to play, opened first round compe-tition Wednesday. The annual hoop classic is one of the physical culture events spon-sored by S A M, but also has an aim of developing sportsmanship and in giving the boys a "lot of fun." All non-lett- er basketeers are eli-gible to enter the contests between advisory groups. Games are played after school. Only 29 teams entered the tour-ney this year, as compared with 37 last year and 42 the year before. The decline was laid to the fact that more boys are now working and that enrollment has slumped somewhat. But even so, the abun-dance of skill among the non-lett- er players should make some very interesting contests. The tournament is in the form of an elimination contest. Four games are played each night, two games progressing across the width of the boys' gymnasium. The mechanical drawing class, composed of almost all boys, took the event last year for 227. Glen Davis, SAM vice prexy and Phil Eckersley, secretary, are in charge of the tournament. Jim-my Gilbert and Dean Hale handle the faculty end of it and Gilbert appoints officials. Nate's Trackmen Seek Third Straight Crown South high thinclads this week tested the cinders in practice ses-sions designed to again lift the track crown for the blue and white school. Cubs last year garnered the title at the triangular meet at the University of Utah. Leading the returning tracksters are Stan Kilbourne and Dave McLelland in the dashes and Virgil VanCott and Ralph Jackson in the distance events. Chick Woolf should enjoy a good year in the high jump events and Clair Empey and Carl Childs should make East and West very unhappy by again throwing the weights. Among newcomers who will be in Nate Long's title-boun- d crew are Walt Thompson, flashy "C" for-ward who has speed to burn, and Dale Thomson, from Lincoln high. If Reid Keddington can live up to his brother's reputation, South will have an excellent 440 man and perhaps a hurdler. Jay Child also is looking for points around the 440 lap. Other possibilities are vested in Don McGhie, Kenneth Gempler, Charlie Patterson, Clyde Oliver, and some promising juniors. The four aforementioned hopefuls were members of last year's track team. The possibility that Deeber Low-de- r may run and thereby bolster the team has been voiced, but Dee hasn't yet responded. Some other members of the team have been practicing since the fall, however. It is reported that VanCott has developed a nine foot stride to carry him to his victories in the mile run. Virg was undefeated last year, running the event well under five minutes, and with a better stride, real training and coaching, and more experience, he has his eye on breaking some long-standing records. At any rate, Coach Long will probably line up some pre-seaso- n opponents to bring out the real worth of his boys. Following will be dual meets with the hilltop and cross-tow- n rivals and the South-East-We- st triangular meet at the "U". Leopards or Not, Ryanmen Gird For First Tennis Title for School should hold up their share of the burden. South has through the years since its inception gradually be-come stronger in each one of the athletic events and has failed to win only two of these events, foot-ball and tennis. The gridders came within a hair's breadth of taking the nod in football and weren't given more than a fifty-fift- y chance to even muss the Leopard's hair, so why shouldn't the netters pull a surprse by downing East? Let's go to it, South! Flock of Nelters Vie For Places On 1943 Team Net mentor Pat Ryan received enough applications for this year's tennis teams to field several grid squads, and he hopes that out of this assortment he can pick some real talent, good enough to de-throne the Leopards. East has taken tennis for so long that whole generations have passed through the institution, each son living up to tradition by helping to win the crown in tennis. It's about time that the Leopard domination came to an end and we're just the ones to do it! With such men as Dick Brower, Doug Heiner, Joe Bonney, Bill Van Ry, Clyde Oliver, Lou Dods, Jim Neeley, and Howard Richardson in there swinging mean rackets for the Cubs, our chances seem better than ever to take the honors. The juniors, although untried, South Skiers Flaunt Warm Weather Keep Rollin' Along "What are the skiers of South doing now?" everyone asks. Does this changeable weather bother them? Despite the fact that no one knows how far away summer is, skiing may or may not be far from gone. The men of South still keep their skis ready for action and their hopes high. When the sun shines bright the only thing these skiers think is that the sun is clearing the way for the next snowfall. Incidentally, these boys would just love to teach the girls how to ski! Of course the best skiing honors still go to that swell coach, Jimmie Gilbert, who masters about every sport worth playing, and shop tea-cher George Hess. Ask these boys how they get time to ski where they go and how ? Cub fB' Finishes Disappointing Basketball Season By "Jake" Dalebout The Cub juniors finished a rather disappointing season by giv-ing a fine exhibition of the power of their quintet in the final game with the potent East high team. The Cubs led until the closing minutes of the contest and then the hilltoppers bombarded the hoop to take the hardest fought game of the year from a heart-broken South team. This game was typical of all the "B" team encounters. Most games were lost by more than two or three points. West Wins South was first beaten by West juniors 25-2- East then bowled over the hapless Cubs to the tune of 36-1- 9. Again South came back, determined to break into the win column with a win over West, but were turned away again, by the disappointing score of 22-2- Then came the game all the fel-lo- s wanted and were ready to win. They at last saw their dream come true because the Cubs were leading all the way until shortly before the final gun. Then the Leopards, after three of South's key men ousted from the game on fouls, found the range and put on a last minute scoring spree which netted them the game. Many Fouls Called Most fans believe, however, that too many fouls wTere called on the Cubs. There were nearly twenty, This is not an excuse because our fellows don't need one, they gave a good account of themselves. The Leopards can verify that. Morris Kjar lead the team in the scoring department. He had a total of 25 points. Anthon (Pete) Peterson kept the team scrapping at all times. His cool-heade- d floor play was invaluable to the team. Grant (Mac) Jenkins couldn't miss from way out and Reed (T.B.) Keddington controlled both back-boards as well as intercepting many passes. Wallace (Dorf) Jones was superb in the final game with his "swishers" from the corners. Reid Schofield and Bob Carabine played a fine brand of ball while they were in. 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The boys really displayed championship brand of ball in the final series. Despite the "B" team's final loss, many can truthfully say that it is a team of outstanding quality. A word of explanation as to South's dominating the Scribe All-Cit- y teams. The Cub teams worked at a disadvantage this year, play-ing five out of their first six games away from home. They lost four, and with the games some of their incentive to fight. On their home floor, however, the Cubs proved to be the smoother team, with better all-arou- players. South's mighty "A" team will have a chance to show beyond a shadow of a doubt how it ranks with other top notch teams in the state in the junior AAU tourna-ment which is set for March 16 to 20. South, East, West, Davis, Gran-ite, Jordan and other high school teams will play under business sponsorship but the teams will be essentially the same. It won't be long now until the spring sports will be in high gear. Winning the cinder or diamond title is as much a credit to the school as football and basketball. We're even hopin' for a share of that tennis championship. When these meets are held, let's support our players as we do in winter and fall. There's nothing more exciting in the field of sports than a trackfest or as enjoyable as a baseball game. 1 |