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Sand In The Gears
Monkey wrenches toMed into the trans-
mission have not halted the machinery
grinding out the pattern for the proposed
new athletic league Shelton is committed
to enter for the 1970-71 school term.
Although the cogs still turn, the ulti-
mate model apparently will display devia-
tion from the one originally fed into the
machine's maw.
To jog memories, coaches and principals
of Shelton, Tumwater, North Thurston,
Chehaiis and Centralla, with speculative in-
terest indicated at Elms and Hoquiam, pro-
posed formation of a new league composed
of their schools for the two-fold purpose
of eliminating clashing clmifications and
phasing out burdensome travel distances
woven into the fabric of the conferences
(Olympic, Seamount and Southwest Wash-
ington) in which their schools were afflli.
ated.
A still-to-be-constructed new high
school in the North Thurston distrlct Tim.
berline, was to be included, as was another
new high school in the Olympia district at
such time as it became a reality, possibly
by 1972 or 73. With the exception of
Class A Elms, all would be Class AA In size
on the supposition Timberline would siphon
off enough enrollment to pull North Thur-
ston down from its Triple A designation.
But you know what happens to the best
laid plans...
Some Southwest Washington superin.
tendents started casting monkey wrenches
with the result that as the pattern emerges
right now Aberdeen and Olympia, a pair of
Triple A giants, have been injected into the
framework of the proposed league and
Elma has been emasculated from it. Ho-
quiam, a Double A school which was cool
to the original supposition because of a re-
luetanee to disturb its close affinity with
Aberdeen, would be part and parcel of the
new alignment,
Elms never did have any business being
considered because of its smaller enroll-
ment, but, inversely, neither do Aberdeen
and Olympia because of their elephantine
proportions, Inclusion of Aberdeen and
Olympia throws the proposal badly out of
balance, just as embracement of Elma
would have on the other flank. The sug-
bodied was tempered by the proposition
that the Bobcats and the Bears would look
elsewhere for football competition but
would compete in all other sports with the
new league members.
For my two-bits worth this largely de-
feats the purpose of forming the new
league. Most school figures and sports
fans understandably look askance at sep-
arate league alignments for different sports.
Long travel distances in the Southwest
Washington league, just as in the original
thinking, fathered the Aberdeen-Olympia-
Hoquiam embodiment blueprint of the su-
perintendents. Coaches and principals
don't cater to it, however. They don't han-
ker much for the mixed classifications and
f-agmented sports setups.
Prom this veiwpoint, the ideal league
considering equality of enrollment and
minimum mileage would be the stg-school
association of Shelton, Tumwater, Cheha-
lis, Centralia, North Thtwston and Timber-
line, with Hoquiam perfectly acceptable if
it cares to cast off from its self-chosen
Triple A identification. ThiH league could
expand when the new Olympia school comes
into being and at such time aa St. Martin's
Prep might feel muscular enough to fit in.
Right now Prep is considering dropping
back from its present AA designation to A.
Let Olympia and Aberdeen play in their
own traffic.
@ • • •
SPORTS SPLINTERS My dog's emo-
tional outburst one recent late aternoon
heralded a pleasant but all too brief bull
session with one of my favorite former
Junior Legion ball players and Highclimb-
er pitchers. The barking was primarily for
the benefit of Clancy but on the other end
of the 4-month-old Irish setter's leash was
a leaner and lankier Ken Droscher than the
last time I'd laid eyes on him. On a hur-
ried spring vacation trip with his wife,
Janet, to see his mother and other kin in
these parts, Ken divulged the interesting
information that he plans to attend the
University of Alberta next fall to work on
his master's degree in physical education
and social science. He completed his bach-
elor's studies at Southern Oregon College
last quarter and kept his hand on the ath-
letic pulse as assistant basketball coach and
now is helping tutor the SOC baseball team
with which he spent the four previous
springs as one of its pitchers, mostly as a
starter.
Ken left Shelton high school with the
Class of 1962 after a 3-year career marred
by a broken foot which wiped out one sea-
son of baseball competition. He spent his
last year of Junior Legion eligibility in
Oregon playing for the team his brother
still coaches, a team which had a 49-11 rec-
ord that year with its last two defeats add-
ed in the Junior Legion western regionais
in Arizona. Never at a loss for words, Ken
still is not, and the moments sped by all too
rapidly. His next visit cannot come too
soon,
Having added 20 pounds to the weight
at which he played as a Highclimber de-
fensive back three seasons ago, chiefly in
the shoulders and chest, By Debban is
working now under a weight.lifting pro-
gram designed to supplement his legs with
at least 15 more before he returns for his
senior season at George Fox College in Ore-
gon next fail. If he succeeds, By will be a
190-pounder, and quite feasibly a substan-
t/ally finer performer than the one which
won all-league honors in the Oregon Col,
The note said "Frank Tobin was here,
tried to call you." It was my misfortune
to have been out of town that day, for a
chat with the fellow who coached Shelton's
Junior Legion baseball team to its one and
only State championship in 1938 and man-
aged the old Shelton Loggers in their hey-
day in the Northwest League would have
been refreshing and wonderful. Tobin has
lived in Tacoma since leaving 8helton some
30 years ago and little I've seen of him in
the interim, although word got through
occasionally. When he hit Shelton in 1937
he was coming off the exit ramp on a pro-
fessional diamond career of moderate dis-
tinctlon, mostly in the minor leagues and
much of that with the old Seattle Indlans
as a muscular, thinklng.type catcher with
a rifle hanging from his right shoulder.
He and Homer Taylor taught Shelton's klds
--the Armstronge (Buck and Start), Don
Satra, Bill MoComb, Elmer Mateon, Dan
Cormier, Bill Taylor, Ken Latham, Jack
Cole, Ralph LeDrew, Norm H(Lrrlo, Joe
Olafson, Bill Levett, Omer Dlon and others
of those yeare---a lot of baseball. Yap, It
would have been quite a bullfet, had I
been around.
Climber Thinclads Show Power In Squeaker Over East
HIGHCLIMBER John Flower beat the field by a wide margin in the 180 low hurdles.
JOHN LaMARSH anchored Shelton's mile relay
which won the event by one-tenth of a second.
team,
....
GENE PURVIS picked up a third in the discus and also
placed first in the shotput.
Shor+ Game Golf Club Calendar , o,
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a
game
between
the
Remits
She]ton
JUNIOIg mOH ATHITE duo swing from the port side. DOWllnCJ
HIghc_ii.mbers and East Bremer. BANGS HOLE'IN-ONE After his big thrill on the third,
ton Km. ghts was called in East's ............. Mike went on to card a 47 for
favor vecause o rain. The Kni- lrtn Hole faun members mzu- the -in- k.t, +....,. ,.. a ...... .ffi....--.....
grim lu . wlwn me game was - -, .-- ...... .--w- .._._ ,._..__ .L ..... , ........
• " ' " -'-In-one at the o._.__ aKnty vector man Lma s ogaz, I,-'AGU
CUT OH, g a '- ouetun- l
.... .... hore =olt course ,.,--- --- M ke has been playing golf three Hi Game: Tyynlsmaa 221
The t:nmers had one run on .-.. ...... ..,,. ,ue years. He also holds down third Hi Serles: Bob Funkhoser 560
five hits and corn i instead o t:nuo ur aces me base
• .. m tied seven third hol Mnna,, o,,,,., on the Blazer baseball team, Staadings: Burr City 69A.38;
errors wnne the Knights had "'. - -- .: ..... : ....... s" and won his Blazer varsity let- Mills 60b-47%; Lathes 59%-48%;
tour runs on four hits and made NllKe, a n grader at Shelton tars as an end in football and Stairlffters 56-52; Morays 55-53;
three errors. Jim Corey, Shelton junior high, popped hfs 9-iron tee forward in basketball this school Inspectors 54%-53%; Aero-Stands
pitcher, was sick on game day shot into the sup on the 125-yard year. 45-62; Profilers 31-76.
and Sophomore Kevin Dorcy third hole while playing with Cub ..............
started at the pitching spot, He his father. Had Cub holed the r ...... -- ...... =7 = ,s
had five strikeouts and three shot the celebration would have | €IIUUI=D IIA/-Ill=€ /,
walk, been on as he i a 19th Holer and I[BNa-I m,-TVl;;; ]
, a paid-up participant in the hole. j MIN00 |
Only one of the Knights rur in-one dlvi
e sion of that body. Mike
wa, arned. The Cl/mbers made is not. due to Ida tender years. NOW FOR
seven errors. Boh memben ot this tather-so j j
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Page 10.8helton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 10, 1969
By CHARLES GAY
I Down by ten points with two
events to go, the Shelton High-
climbers took five out of six pla-
ces in the high jump and discus
to beat East Bremerton 69-67 on
Loop F'eld last Wednesday.
In the high jump, no Knight
could make the qualifying height,
five feet, four inches, and three
Climbers made it over the bar.
Rocky Nutt and Randy Lewis
were eliminated at 5'6", but they
still got second and third place
points.
Dick Shrum went more than
six inches higher than the other
Climbers in the competition.
SaiLing over the bar placed six
feet, three quarters of an inch
high, he grabbed first place to
complete the Climbers' sweep of
that event. He tried three times
at 6'2", but failed.
RANDY LEWIS, Highclimber vaulter, placed first in his
specialty at 11' 6".
BILL RICHARDS, Shelton weight man, took first in the
discus, second in the shotput and second in the javelin.
Each team shut
of three events. East
ly hy winning a
them ahead 20-12.
the shot. which
swept, Shelton
lead. Then the
18 point lead on
mile run domination.
The Climbers took
third in the
first in the last
make their
successful, It was
dual meet win for
Brickert's
look for a third
a meet on Loop
Kitsap's Wolves. .
Weightman helped
cause as did
ers. Gene Purvis
third in the shot
Richards
and a first in
and discus, and
placed first in the
tied for second
Senior John
man behind him
low hurdles by ore
Another senior.
had to come from
high hurdles event.
,ready when
went off, and
of his poorer
John Lamarsh,
ran to firsts in
mile relay,
hundred yard
the mile relay
got some
came from what
possible deficit
by one tenth of a
East's BratordS
jump in the long
tion. He flew 21
giving Shelton
they may be
Invitational on
Here is how
HH-Grubb(S)
(S), 17.2
100-Bratonla ()
Knott (E), 10.7
Mile-Jarstad
dinbah (E), 4:1
88O
Shelton 1:41.6
440 -Lamarsh ($)
Clark (E), 55.2
180
Fitzgerald (S),
880-McKeever
Looney (S), 2:
Shot-Purvis
Workman {S),
LJ-Bratonia
Miller (E), 21':
220-Knott
ler (E), 24.6
2 Mile-Bere i
Shruel (El, 1108
Javelin-Madlid,
(S) Wright
Mile
wet, Lamarsh
3:43.7
PV-Lewis (S
Spllseth (S),
Purvls (S),
HJ-Shrum (
Lewis (S)
second and
for Shelton,
of total poi,
|
height, 6'3/4"'". ,J I
- :i00t '
PickuPS
won the high Jump for Shelton's Dick Shrum.
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