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-;" .... Shelton Catholic Quintet Is Tourney Bound [ -Bill Oickie's SIDELINE SLANTS ! .... - : , i i': ( Thus far this season the CYO FO ITI leader Jerry Spark ' Jhs Surprises s and the fif+ .. .... i l team have used the fuse break r to balance their attack: They've starter, sophomor,, Lilris Close, an excel- tourney in Seattle. Olsen who has led the Catho- quintet as they possess the mat- yet to run into a team that had East And South Olympic League basketball entries'made a middling-type prognosticator out of th Sideliner this season just ended. East Bremerton and South Kitsar) wrecked an otherwise accurate forecast by performing upside-down to what this cor- ner predicted in Sideline Slants last Janu- ary 5, one day prior to the opening of the 1967 conference schedule. On record at that writing Slants said: "... North, South and Central in the up- per division with North holding a slight edge; East, Port Angeles and Shelton in the lower division. Suspicion is strong the title winner may finish with a 7-3 league record, the tailender at 3-7, the otk- er four jammed between 6-4 and 4-6. A title-tie is an excellent possibility this even- Steven season." Now note the actual finish when the regular seaon closed last Friday: Central Kitsap ........ 8-2 East Bremerton ...... 8-2 North Kitsap ............ 7-3 Port Angeles ............ 4-6 Shelton ...................... 3-7 South Kitsap ............. 1-9 The title-tie possibility became reality and would have been a triumvirate except for the strange fact that mystifying South's sole success of the titular competi- tion was wrought over title-favorite North. East was the big surprise of the sea- son. The Knights semed like middle-of- the-standings material going into confer- ence play (said Slants Jan. 5: "the Knights will trouble some clubs with that error- causing, pressing defense but not all and don't figure to be capable of sticking with the upper division"). Coach Eathorne's battling midgets fooled a lot of people, and so did, in reverse, South's Wolves. The Lobes figured as the league dark-hor:-e after a pre-conference winning streak but something soured in Port Orchard and the Wolves followed in the footsteps of their forlorn football fraternity of last fall. The remaining four clubs lived up to the patterns from which they were molded so let's dismiss them except for Shelton. Of the Highclimbers that Jan. 5 forecast said: "Shelton doesn't figure as a title con- tender, yet the Climbers are going to give some of their league brothers trouble, more so as the season develops . . . Coach Jack Wright's club lacks experience but hustles and shoots pretty well, will improve as the season moves on." How true! The Climbers beat only mysterious South in the first round but finished with victories in their last two games, one of which snatched the undisputed champion- ship away from Central. A distress- ing tendency to fold in the fourth quarter barred from the Climber rec- ord several victories which seemed headed for the success oolumn. Which brings us to the point, what's in store a year hence for the hooping High- climbers? Graduation erases starters Chief Clayton, Dave Bayley, and Steve Looney, reserve Mike Hays. Returning are scoring lent pair of hole cards for Coach Wright to draw to. Close figures to take up the scoring p:mch Clayton provided this season. Mus- cular sophomore Mike LaMarsh has the potential to replace Bayley's rebounding strength, and Looney's floor-play should be adequately shouldered by Mike Swisher or sophomore Bill Daniels. Somewhere in the thick of the battle for starting caps next December will be Jan Donaldson, n excellent shot and the other letter-winner of this year who's returning for the 1967- 68 battles. Jan was a frequent starter this season, usually alternating with Close. Another returnee who suited up with the varsity briefly this year is sophomore Frank Schmidt. Keep your eye, too, on another sophomore, Bud Tuson. Bud probably improved as much as any B squad member this year except Schmidt and Daniels. Bud didn't ever suit up with the var- sity this season but if you want a dark-h,orse possibility for next year this is mine. Look for John Flower, Gary Austin (both sophomores), Ron Howe and Mike McDowell (both juniors) to wear varsity uniforms next December unless either a couple of awkward, unpolished sophs from the lower echelons of this year's B squad suddenly find coordination in the next nine months or Jim Corey or Mike Sparks man- ages to make the big jump from junior high ball. All of which doesn't answer the ques- tion:how will this body of cagelings fare ? From this distance it looks promising, a winning season, certainly a strong improve- ment over this year's 6-13 mark. Not a reversal, completely, but the ledger should be in the black on the basis of the person- nel listed here. Any additions by way of transfer could spice up the stew, deple- tions by the same route flatten the taste. With that we lay the 1967 basketball season to rest. SPORTS SPLINTERS -- Larry Ether- ton, one of the fine fullbacks of Highcliml;- er football history (circa 1959) has become a "prodigal son" by returning to Mason County as manager of Alderbrook Inn. Since his graduation from Shelton high Larry has gotten into the field of hotel and restaurant management after college preparation and has done stints at several Seattle hotels and at the New York World's Fair before being tapped by Alderbrook owner Wes Johnson. Recent hiring of George Mikan as high commissioner of the new American Profes- sional Basketball League brings back mem- ories when the Sideliner saw him, then a gangling, skinny, bespectacled, awkwar.fl freshman, as the first of the near-seven- footers in college basketball playing for DePaul University varsity in the Chicago Auditorium in 1943, war years when fresh- men were eligible for varsity play by NCAA rules. Mikan developed ultimately into one of the pro game's super stars with the Minneapolis Lakers (now Los Angeles Lakers). Undefeated this year with nine lie team for two years now feels straight wins and a District that he might have to work and Title under their belts. The fullfill has pm-t of a contract Notice To Little Leaguers ] Boys planning to register for Nfason County Little I_/eague baseball tryouts this spring are rem,inde(l that hospital birth cer- tificates will not be acceptable as proof of age. Only those is- sued by governmental offices may be used. ;P, irth certificates recorded in Washington State may be ob- tained by writing to: Public Health Statistics Dept, State Dept. of Health, Public Health Bldg., Olympia. The fee of $2 must accompany the certificate request. Registration is scheduled at the Mt. View gym, March 17, and at Evergreen School audi- lorium Mlrch 18. To be eligible boys must have been born from Aug. 1, 1954 to July 31, 1959, inclusive. erial for any highschool team. He states in the District Tour- narnent last week he had Rick Marshall and Tom iV[alloy pull- ing rebounds off the rim they were :jumping so high. Along with his inside men Mar- shall and Malloy he has a fine outside shooter in the likes of Rick McComb who scored 29 points in the District Tourney. He feels if he had a team at full strength he could go all the way to the nationals, if the had to. For speed and agressiveness the Tigers have a real Lion on their team in the likes of Rollie Duckham who can give them the this speed and mobility so if the situation arose chances are they could find themselves in a real tough situation. Junior League Statistics Told . Mrv's Tire Cap team won the first half of the Junior Bowl- ing League with a record of 35 wins and 21 losses. Other highs during first-half play were: High Team' Series -- Joslin Insurance, 2405; High Team Game -- Trailblazers II, 851; High Individual Series--Ran- dy Churchill, 588; High Individ- ual game--Dave Clark, 225. Teams in the league, which is sponsored by the Shelton Jay- cees, and bowlers with the high- est averages are as follows: Beckwith Jewelry, Rick Peck- ham 144; VFW, Bill Schuffen- hauer 126; Hembroff Insurance, Tom Demmon 134; Shelton Jay- cees, Dave Clark 159; Trailblaz- ers I, Chuck Thompson 158; Trailblazers II, Randy Churchill 1.52; 1Verv's Tire Cap, Bruce Murr 141; Joslin's Insurance, Gary Robinson 154. Final standings in the first-half play are : Won Lost Merv's Tirecap 35 21 Joslin's Insurance 34V2 211/, Beckwith'8 Jewelry 27 29 VFW 26 3O Henbroff Insurance 26 30 Shelton Jaycees 25 31 Trailblazers I 25 31 Trailblazers II 23' 32] ABOVE LEFT: Dave Clark shows the form that has contributed to his 151 aver- age in Junior League platy. ABOVE RIGHT: Linda Wit- craft, secretary of the league, is shown with L. L. Mclnelly, bowling impres- saxio. LEFT: Three young howl- ers who are league regulars are (left to right) Dale White, average 130; Bruce Murr, 141, md Dave Graft% 135. 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