The Monte Vista journal., 1917-02-24

the Monte Vista high school team.
While the score netted a triumph for
the home boys, all reported hardly
score was 3S to "a Another inter
esting game is promised for tonight,
Friday.
as whole.
While the team was here in Colo
RADIO Springs l did not hear single
word of complaint nor have l since
from any member of the team. l do
know that naturally the team re-
GREETED to think that they had to re-
turn home without a single victory,
and apparently they seemed to think
that thei friends at home did not
care very much whether they
brought home victory or not. They
seemed to have the attitude that
they had come over here without
any encouragement from any one
and that if they should win they
would receive plenty of praise, but
that if they lost they would be greet
ed on their return with an II told
one minute that some one in Monte
Vista was so unloyal as to tell them
that they were foolish for even hav-
ing faint idea that they could
bring home victory. And I say this
because of the fact that one Monte
Vistan went down to the train on
the evening the team departed and
made the remark that he would bet
hundred dollars that the team
would be defeated. Is such a "send
off" as this a display of loyalty? I
should call this display of coward
ice on the part of the offender Yet
that individual together with some
half dozen or so others deserve
credit for having gone to the depot
to see the team make its departure.
But that was not enough to show
those basketball men that they
were really representing high
school. And they had to depart
with that idea on their minds. Is
this being loyal? Do you think that
Woodrow Wilson, our worthy presi-
dent, could be victorious if in be-
half OF the United States he should
have to declare war on some foreign
country and fight that country alone
without the support of the people
he Is serving? Certainly not.
How
been if the entire student body had
assembled at the depot on the even
ing of January % and had given
that team some cheers, wished them
success, had encouraged them in
every way possible and had then
given them final We're behind
you we're behind you" as the train
began moving. We certainly can
never lose anything by being Ioyal
to things that are worth while.
Lets not allow this to happen
again. 1t will not injure your dig
nifty in the least bit to go down to
the train or out on the athletic field
and cheer your team to victory. You
will enjoy it, the team will enjoy it
and you will all feel better after the
athletic contest is over. The most
OF the cheerers of course ought to
be high school students, but town
people are not barred and If you can
only realize how much advertising
your own high school gives you
through the medium of its athletic
teams that go outside the valley and
win their games or at least give their
opponents good run for their
money, as the expression is used.
then you too will f1nd great pleasure
in being loyal to your teams. Lets
hang out Monte Vista flag along
side our flag of stars and stripes
Allow me to thank you dear editor
Tor granting me the privilege of ex-
pressing my thoughts in your col
umns. The space is solicited by me
Tor the purpose of expressing nv
opinions because of loyalty to nv
home town and Alma Mater and in
the spirit of booster" rather than
In the spirit OF "knocker."
w. MACK DAVIS.