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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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