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April 10, 1969     Shelton Mason County Journal
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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, . ftr four and  alf iIngs, " .............................  -------------_-=---:. ,. 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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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. 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