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(our Guess Is As Good . . .
UCLA may be a shoo-in for Pacific well on such a record, have only one re-
bast, regional and national 9ollege cage turning starter from last year's champs
rowns, but there's no prep counterpart of (Bernie Fryer, a good one), lack experi-
he Bruins in the Olympic AA basketball
ague this year.
You have about as good a chance of pre-
licting the league champion at this me-
sent by hauling names out of a skypiece
by trying to "reason" it out. The truth
s, Very likelY, there isn't a stand-out club
n the circuit.
At this writing North Kitsap's seven
successes in seven trips to the tip-off
circle has many casting covetous eyes
at the Vikings, but careful perusal of
North's schedule so far shows five of
those triumphs have come over Class
A teams. But, again, further comb-
ing of who the Vikings have beaten
shores up the contention North could
be "the team".
HK has beaten two highly-rated Class
A rivals, Port Townsend 76-47 and 61-56
and Bainbridge 56-45. Port Townsend has
split with both Port Angeles and South and
beaten highly-regarded Central. Bain-
bridge split with Central (losing in 3 over-
times), lost by one to PA, beat South 60-56.
North's victories over AA clubs were
by 48-46 over Hoquiam and 54-49 over West
Bremerton. Sequim was twice a victim,
58-44 and 66-41. Hoquiam trounced South
51-28 and East Bremerton 53-36. West
hasn't won in five starts. North also won
its jamboree crown. "
All of which leaves the Vikings sitting
on a pretty pedestal.
Central and Port Angeles followed
up their jamboree titles with so-so pre-
season records going into this Friday's
league openers. The Cougars are 3-5
at this writing, their wins coming over
West 48-38, O'Dea 54-46, and that
triple overtime with Bainbridge 76-75.
They've lost twice to Lynden, regard-
ed as a Class A power, to PT 66-64,
Bainbridge 50-39. and O'Dea 59-51.
CK so far has lacked consistency but
seems to have, otherwise, great potential--
size, experience, firepower.
Defending league champion Port Azi-
geles stands a. .3 alter its jamboree suc-
cess, with twin losses to Kelso and a split
with Port Townsend, two dukes over
Sequim, and a one-point squeeze past Bain-
bridge. The Roughriders don't rate too
ence.
South, pooh-poohed in pro-season figur-
ing, could be the league's dusky stallion
this year. After three straight losses fol-
lowing the jamboree, the Wolves have turn-
ed mean, won three of their last four --
over West 62-51, Vashon 66-42, and Port
Townsend 47-42. That last one is signifi-
cant, for PT won an earlier decision 56-47.
Other losses were to Aberdeen 75-45, Ho-
quiam 51-28, and Bainbridge 60-56.
This club, if it keeps improving (Coach
Orv Anderson has a history of strong-fin-
ishing clubs), could make North look to its
hole-card.
East Bremerton, again sporting its
error-causing pressing defense, and
always small, is smaller than usual this
year. The Kni=hts will trouble some
clubs with that defense but not all and
doesn't figure to be capable of stick-
ing with the upper division in 1967.
East rests at 3-3 (including a win over
an alumni team 71-56), but its three
successes have come in succession
after three short-end openers. Most
significant of the three Knight wins
was a 59-56 conquest of Mt. Tahoma,
which beat the Knights 69.62 earlier.
Hoquiam (53-36) and Aberdeen (77-
53) also toppled East. Mount Rainier
fell, 73-63, to the Bremertonians.
Shelton (3-5) doesn't figure as a title
contender, yet the Climbers are going to
give some of their league brothers trouble,
more so as the season develops. Climber
victories were over weak Vashon twice and
Montesano, losses to good Bellarmine and
Elma, twice each and Centralia. Coach
Jack Wright's club lacks experience but
hustles and shoots pretty well, will improve
as the season moves on.
To summarize, the Sideliner would lump
North, South and Central in the upper di-
vision with North holding a slight edge;
East, Port Angeles and Shelton in the low-
er division. This is a year when the sus-
picion is strong that the title winner may
finish with a 7-3 league record, the tall-
ender at 3-7, the other four jammed be-
tween 6-4 and 4-6 marks. A title-tie is an
, excellent possibility this even-Steven sea-
son.
Sfan Wyatt S÷irs Memories
Among the many pleasures of the holi-
day season must };efisted the bull sessions
with athletes of by-gone days returning to
the old t-.omc ailiwick for yuletide visits.
Such was the case when Stan Wyatt sip-
pod a cup of coffee at, Nita's with this
crivener and a couple of his Highclimber.
tammates of the class of '37, Don White-
ner and Jim Bariekman, last week.
Stan was involved in several mem-
orable sports m,oments of Highclimber
history. He was big as a boy (215
pounds of prep tackle) and is a behe-
moth as a man (he wouldn't confess
exactly but we'd judge 275 pounds at
least.) Now working for the Red
Cross out of San Francisco, he was in
Shelton for the first time since 1952,
Stun was an accomplished place-kicker
ia his prep days, but it was a field goal he
didn't kick which is etched most vividly in
this sports scribe's mind. The play beat
Tacoma's Lincoln in the Armistice Day
game of 1936 on Loop Field. The game
was scoreless with Shelton owning a 4th-
and-goal-to-go on the Abes' six, the ball
directly in front of the uprights. Stun
stepped back with Pat Smith in the place-
kicking formation, only Smith flipped the
ball to Stun instead of setting it up for the
kick and Stan heaved a perfect pass to full-
back Don Drake in the end zone. When
Stun booted the try-for-point to give Shel-
ton a ?-0 lead he had won the game, for the
final score wound up 14-6 in one of the most
delectable victories in Highclimber football
history, especially since it came on Coach
Jim Jonson's 37th birthday.
Jonson, incidentally, lives only ten miles
from Stan's home now, at Atascadero,
where he raises show horses. He teaches
health education at California Polytechnic
College (Roy Scialabba's alma mater) and
formerly was head track coach but is now
retired from all coaching responsibilities.
Wyatt lives at Millbrae. Another one-time
limber track coach whom Wyatt sees oc-
casionally, Walt Lunsford, is also a nearby
neighbor at San Jose.
Just to jog your memories, how many
sports fans of today remember the 13
Climber players who took part in that sig-
nal victory.
The snap from center for that fake
field goal was propelled by Newt
Towhead, probably the lightest high
school cetter ,you over saw. Smith,
e
though an end, called the signals, and
that particular play. Bariekman was
the other end, Max Schmidt (now top
Simpson Timber official in the Shel-
ton Working Circle) and Harry Trout
(manager of a Bellevue bank now)
were the tackles, Jack Dennis and
Gone Wolden the guards. Bill Vigor,
Chuck Hanson and Whitener were in
the backfield with Drake (a World War
II casualty). Wyatt was the only line-
man and Harold Bell the only back
who came off the bench to relieve the
starters.
A couple of weeks later Stan and his
teammates engaged in probably the fog-
giest grid game the Climbers ever played,
on Thanksgiving Day in Olympia. Only
this one didn't turn out so happily, Olym-
pia winning 13-0.
Later that same winter, as a member of
the Shelton basketball team, Stun was
party to another unique Highclimber ex-
perience, happily without precedence or
repetition. Returning from a game at
Port Townsend, the roads icy from freez-
ing temperatures, the bus slid off the U
curve at Wichetiche Creek and overturned
in the ditch. Luckily no one was injured
and the bus was not even seriously dam-
ged, but the Climber hoop team of '36-'37
(coached by Cliff Cannon, who now teaches
but doesn't coach at Olympia) had some-
thing to remember which probably tran-
scends anything they did on the maple
court that season.
$ $ i $ i $
SPORTS SPLI NTERS--I am grate-
fully indebted to Maury Stackhouse
and Ernie Wagner for bringing me a
souvenir program from the 1966 Man-
of.the-Year Sports Award Banquet
sponsored by the P.I., which they at-
tended in Seattle last week. It is not
their first time at thin event, but an
experience I have yet to enjoy.
Another ex-Climber athlete of long-ago
vintage home for a Christmas. visit was
Bill McComb, one of the many fine" catch-
era who have graced Shelton's baseball
lineups over the years. Bill is now a top
forester for the Simpson Timber Company's
redwood operations and lives just out of
Arcata, California. Sometime soon let's
go into the business of fine catchers in
Highclimber history, in greater depth in
this column!
L 6 - 8helton-Muon County Journal- Thurlsy: January S, 1967
JERRY SPARKS of Shelton's Highclinfl)ers, goes way up to
lay one in against Be]larmine in last lri(lay's nonlcague
game in Tacoma.
Jayvees FalITo Bells
• Shelton's junior varsity bas-
ketball team was outclassed by
Bellarmine's reserves 56-34' last
Friday 'night in the Lion's gym.
The Little Climbers were 'out-
gunned during each quarter, but
the Bell's 24-point splurge in the
fourth quarter, compared to Shel-
ton's 5, proved to be the (tovn-
fall of the Climbers.
Bcllarmine took a 11.-7 first
quarter lead, and lengthened it
to 21-12 at the half. They doubled
their half-time score in the third
quarter 42-27, and shot well in
the fourth quarter also to make
34 points.
The loss puts Shtdtoo's record
as four wins, fot, r losses. They
meet East Bremcrton tomom'ow
night at (;:30in the Shellon gym-
nasium.
Shclton (3t)
Flower (4}, Tuson (7), Schmidt
(7), ]3anicls (4), Austin (7).
Subs: Hoard, Howe (7), Burficnd
McDowell, Allen, Lannlan, Ad-
,ms (1).
Night Game
the final score 56-34.
Three Little Climbers shared Sef For Blazers
• Shelton Junior lti/h School's
Bazers Ilskclball Team will
travel to Centralia tonight for
one of their two night games of
the season, a ('l;tsh with Cent:ral-
ia Jmior Iiigh's Ycllowjackets.
scoring honors. Gary Austin,
Frank Schmidt and Bud Tuson
each had seven points a piece.
Ron Howe, Bill, Daniels and
Jolm Flower each had four points
with Ed Adams' one point, mak-
ing up the Little Climbers' total
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Bellarmine Beats
In Hard-Fought Contest
Y BleelllaK:minH:I:ok a first quart- ttd' wO;era:l iImpt:vPeaedet h einadnseoth;edfisr'St q?ntatse:g
er lead of 18-10, and the Shelton
Highclimbers couldn't overcome
the deficit as the Lions won their
sixth straight victory 71-61.
Shelton coach Jack Wright sta-
last time we played them, but
we turned the ball over a few
too many times."
Bellarmine forward Craig Hil-
den scored 15 of the 18 Lion
lack Jayne Is rap
City League Scorer
• Jack Jaynes has pumped 104 Peterson 10, Dave Rogers 9,
points through the hoop in three Johnson 6.
games for Wolden's team to lead Gott Oil 56, Eclls & Valley 55
all scorers in the Shelton City Gott Oil -- Andrews 9, Cole-
Basketball League. man 10, Heft L% Clary 9, Cry 2,
JSighlight of Jaynes' early-sea- Tournquist 5, B. Bryant 9; Eells
son play was a 39-point effort & Valley -- Dean 26, Brown 2,
against Beckwith's which Wold- Wilson 7, Sell 8, Moore 4, G. Jay
en's won 106-54. 6.
Results of games played so Eells & Valley 68, 20th Century
far in the league are: 62
Eells & Valley 91, WoldeJa.'s 71 Eells & Valley -- Dean 27,
Eells & Valley -- G. Wilson 10, Brown 13, Sell 8, DeshaTxJ 8,
t4. Dean 28, J. Deshago 14, B. Wilson 10, Jay 2; 20th Con-
Brown 21, C. Sell 3, Clarke Moore tury Clinton 2, Jerry Westland
15; Wolden's -- Bob Miller 10, 4, Schmidt 14, Mills 16, White 6,
Guy Miller 8, Jack Jaynes 35, Jerry Mallory 18.
Gott Oil 78; Beckwith's & Hooda-
Tom Baze 8, Herb Baze 4, Herb port Texaco 44
Baze, Jr) 4, Jim Cross 2.
Gott Oil -- Clary 8, Andrews
Wolden's 80, 20th Century 59 16, Antella 11, Coleman 14, Bry-
Wolden's -- H. Baze 7, T. Baze ant 2, Tornquist 8, Young 8,
3, B. 1Willer 32, G. Miller 4, J. Cory 11; B & HT -- Stan John-
Jaynes 30, J. Cross 4; 20th Con- ston 4, Rogers 4, J. Collins 18,
fury -- Steve Clinton 10, Jim D. Collins 1, Larry Brown 2,
Olson 231 Mark Schmidt 18, Mike Gene 5, Notenbaum 10.
Mills 4, Gene White 2, Vie Bailey Gott Oil 83, Wolden's 79 !
2. Gott Oil Andrews 21, Antel-
Wolden's 106, Beckwith's 54 la 9, Coleman 4, Tornquist 1,
Wolden's -- Jaynes 39, B. Mill- Young 5, Wilson 4, Cory 5, Clary
er 31, T. Baze 10, H. Baze 6, 19, Hoff 13,; Wolden's- B. Mill-
G. Miller 20; Beckwith's -- Jim er 21, H. Baze 3, T. Baze, 6, S.
Collins 16, Dutch Notenbaum 6, Swisher 18, H. Baze Jr. 1, G.
Steve Martin 4, Larry 2, Pete Miller 28.
the Climbers in their last ski rul
ish. He ended up with 21 for t
night. . e
Chris Closes' a/]
seven points
Jerry Sparks' six brought Sh.'
ton within striking distance m
the half ended 35-29. Closes' fl@ol
goal and free throw late in
second quarter brought the cle
bers within one point, but Belli
mine guard Pat Smith and Cr ro
Hilden dumped in six points IV
tween them to bolster their"le de
The third quarter started
the Climber's attempt to
Hilden and possibly make
foul out of the game. He
three personals in the first
Hiklen was successfully
pod but the scoring was
up by ldlarmine center J i
Saybe and guardu Dave
and Jn Jilhr.
*ltarrnj oLtcored the
t.,r.s -l i the flird quarter
rnaln, a r.-43 third
I,.'ad.
(?i:l (yttm, Sparks
Sve l./rmey each had
p,Ants a piece U kep
hopes up in the fourth
They outscored the Bells
in the final period, but the
point margin wasn't enough
the game ended 71-61.
Reboundwise Bellarmine
bed 46 to Shelton's 40. The Lit
shot 65 times to the Climbe
64 shots.
Craig Hilden took scoring h
ors with 21 points, followed
John Miller with 18.
Clayton and Sparks had 17
16 respectively. '
Shelton (61)
Donaldson (2), Sparks (16)
ley (4), Clayton (17),
(11.
Subs: La iVIarsh (2), Close
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