The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-19
GRANITE HIGH
DISPUTES TITLE
Farmer Boys Think Another
: Game Is Necessary to Set
tie Championship.

: The following communication in ref
erence to- the state high school cham
pionship was received yesterday by The
Herald from the student body of the
Granite school:
Inasmuch as many people in this vicin-
ity have asked US about our position
relative to the high school championship,
and inasmuch as the Salt Lake High
school intends sending their team 10
Spokane as the state champions, we beg
leave TO present our side of the question
AS Is well known, the Granite team has
one victory and one defeat TO it's credit,
both coming from the local High
school. The claim is made. on the other
hand that whereas Ogden and All Hal
lows were defeated by Salt Lake. that
entities them to the championship. IL
must not be forgotten that Salt Lake re-
fuses TO play All Hallows again, although
they at first agreed TO. Why shouldn't
the sch edule be played out2 Ask Salt
Lake and you will find no reasonable
answer. Again, why should the Granite
team be judged by the league consisting
of three teams-Ogden, All Hallows. and
Salt Lake-when admittance TO that
league was denied Granite? And. by the
way Ogden and All HallOws were per-
fectiy willing to let Granite into their
schedule, but Salt Lake refused. conse-
aUently we were forced to take any date
that we could find. when the Granite
manager sought game with Salt Lake.
Two dates were given him, Sept. 26 or
oct. 8. Otherwise no game would be
Sept "a. just two days before the pro-
posed game and then not until the man
ager had visited Mr.. Stout five different
times. Oct. was accepted. the other
date being too near.
The day set was very stormy and Salt
Lake asked to have the day postponed.
We refused because Salt Lake would not
sign for a new date. Had We not played
the game undoubtedly We would have
been shut out entirely. thing we did
not propose to have done After the
game however. Salt Lake had any num-
Der OF dates open for us, not because she
wanted as in the league, but just because
wa had beaten her.
Now in regard TO Salt Lakes claims.
Granite played Ogden tie game-0 to O.
Likewise Granite tied All Hallows-6 TO
ed both Ogden and All Hallows. and as
a result claims the championship. We
admit that Salt Lake has won the cham
pionship of the three-school league 1--WE
call 1t league for want of better name),
but what has that to do with us? We were
denied admission to that league princi-
pally on Salt Lakes objection and yet
Salt Lake viii judge US by a standard
that does not apply to us. They Will
have the public believe that the cham
pion OF a league means the champion Of
the state. and upon that they base their
claims. but in reality, then. Salt Lake
j. the champion of the three school
teams. but is not the champion Of the
state. Granite and Salt Lake have lost
and won one game each. and must neces-
sarily be tied for the state championship.
Another game would settle that matter.
a thing Salt Lake apparently avoids.
So. then. in conclusion. we say that in
asmuch as Salt Lake has won the cham
plonship of the so-called league. in
which Granite had no part, and inasmuch
as Salt Lake has lost game to Granite
and has won one from Granite. we dis
pute their claim to the state champion
ship.
We therefore ask for another game to
settle the matter.
tSigned) MILTON LOVE.
President OF Student Body. Granite High
School