Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1910-04-22
MORE WAYS THAN ONE IN
TAKING DEFEAT.

Under the headlng More ways
Than One of Winning Ball
Game" the Murdoch Academy peo-
pie recently made in the Beaver
Press, a scurrilous attack on the
Branch Normal athletic director,
his aids, the principal of the
school, and everyone in general
connected with athletics at the Nor
NAL. An ordinary reader who saw
that article would be very much in
clined to place the Normal athletes
on a level with highwaymen, or
some other class utterly devoid of |
moral principles. Had this attack |
appeared only in the Beaver Press,
we might, Notwithstanding the
fact that it was directed from the
Murdoch Academy, have viewed it
as the frantic ebullitions of an over
enthusiastic partisan who had
rushed into print without authority
from the Murdoch school. But
when an article smacking of the
same spirit is given a place in the
official organ of that school, the
Lever, we feel that we would be
recreant to our interests, and would,
moreover, be allowing an injustice
to go unrebuked if we did not set
the public mind right in respect to
this matter.
We do not take very seriously
either of the articles that have ap-
peared. We are inclined to think
that they were published more for
effect than anything else-to create
axpirit of sympathy for the north
ern school, and to reflect discredit
on the Normal. But whatever the
object, we cannot help but feel that
the conduct of our friends as a re-
suit of their defeat was anything
but sportsmanlike; and we are sin
cerely sorry to think that they
would attack our principles of fair
ness in order to bolster up an ex-
cuse for their defeat. 1t reminds
us of the cheapest kind of sports.
manship- rampant twenty years
ago, but very exceptional today -
that whines over defeat and excuses
itself by attacking the motives o
an opponent. We would remind on
friends that there are more way
than one of taking defeat, and tina
the one most detested by all clean
vigorous sportsmen is that in which
one party impugns bad motives Of
the part of its opponent.
To show that the Murdoch peopl
are guilty of this offense we nee
only to quote from their own article
published broadcast. Here are som
spceimens: THE Branch Norma
identity keener for victory tina
equation. I'VE take it tina
Z only victory they could hope t
90 over their Murdoch opponent
- been won unfairly"
O.. But Principal Decker refused
/. any change in the court as, G
., that would have given tn
I RS an equal chance with tn
I a team"
Z Sc are not the only reference
J early insinuate base motive
I Z part, but they are a fe'
7 es clipped here and ther
7 heir articles.
I ulI let us look to their con
o. for a moment. They max
c, a. rable out of the fact that OF
ba. ' ball court was not the exa,
size 1t should have been. And y,
for two weeks before they left Be-
yer they knew the exact measure
ments of our court, and the a
rangements of the same; so that
they had any objections on thu
score they should have indicate
them earlier, 1t will be remen
bered, too, that our team had Il
same objection to the Murdoch bas
ct ball court when they played Il
Murdoch team at the Fort. Indee
the disadvantages under which o.
team labored there were far great
that the disadvantages that co
fronted the Murdoch players her
From every standpoint. except siz
our court was official But that W
not true with respect to the cou
they compelled our team to play j
They neglected toinform us as to d
size Of their court: and when '
arrived there we discovered all sor
of Objectionable features. II
beams exposed in that room in t
Fort were so low that it was ne
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