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il i! i• THE LIFE OF A CATCHER if full of fastballs, pickoffs, and jammed fingers. Here, Shelton's man behind the plate, Don Havens, inspects his phalanges as coach Ed Bac and the umpire look on. Havens plays the position for the local American Legion team. One run in the top of the fifth inning was not enough for Shelton's American Legion team as they lost their second game of the season to Parkland, 2-1 at Franklin Pierce Tuesday evening. The locals had four hits including pitcher Mike Hagan's double, and struck for their run in the fifth when Hagan doubled, a man was hit with a pitch, and two errors were committed by Parkland players. In the first inning, the second batter, Mike Bac, singqted. He was put out trying to steal second and Shelton's threat ended with the el next batter striking out. There was no action until the third, when Jim Densley singled. Two fly outs ended the inning for the visitors. Brad Jones got aboard in the fourth on an error, but was caught steahng at second for the third out. Hagan started out the fifth with his two base hit. His North Mason team mate, Don Havens, was safe on an error and the rally began. Jim Densley was hit by a pitch and earned a free ticket to first. With the bases loaded, Neal White hit into a fielder's choice, TWO - the third inning for Stadium hit a high fly to center field. Shelton's centerfielder could not see the ball in the sun, and in fact ran away from the ball. It rolled into the tall weeds and was ruled a double. A single later scored the man. Mike Nutt got two of Shelton's three hits. He was two for three at the plate. In the first, he tried to get something going with one away when he was the second batter up. He cleanly singled, but a strikeout and a flyout ended the inning for the visiting Shelton team. Jones, who struck out eight in the six innings th/tt he pitched, had no trouble for the first two innings. He retired the first six batters that he faced until the double was hit. In the fourth and fifth, he once again retired six in a row. He hit a man in the sixth, but Stadium did not threaten. They got only one man past second in the game, that was the runner who scored the lone run in the third frame. Jones had double strikeouts in the second, third, and sixth innings. In the second for Shelton, Don Havens blooped a single in the hole behind the shortstop, but his team could not advance him, and the opposing pitcher ended the inning with three strikouts. Bruce Cole, Neal White and Mike Hagan were baserunners for Shelton in the next three innings. Cole and White walked, and Hagan was safe on an error, although he was picked off at first. Nutt singled in the sixth as the leadoff batter, but Shelton stalled again and they could not score. In the seventh, they got Bruce Cole on base with his second walk, and Don Havens on because of an error, but the next three batters went out and the game was over. Box score: By CHARLES GAY Brad Jones pitched a two-hitter, but his Shelton American Legion team still lost to Stadium of Tacoma at Wapato Park in the aromatic city last Thursday, 1-0. Shelton could get only three singles, while the home team got a double and a single, both in the same inninlz. The first batter in Last week was a speed week for the motorcychsts of the Northwest. Thursday, July 9, the midseason championships were held at Graham. Several of the big name riders were at Graham on the national circuit. Friday night at Castle Rock the novice championship of the Northwest was held and time trials for the national "TT" also took place. Saturday night, the national "TT" race was held at Castle Rock. It was a 30 lap event that drew thousands of spectators. The riders for the race came from all over the United States and Canada. Dick Mann from California won the event in a record time. Sunday was the day for the moto-cross race at Graham. This race featured several of the European stars that are touring the country. The local talent made up the rest of the field, and the American riders were given a chance to see how they measured up to the world's best rough course riders. Dave Waite, Charles Travagllone, Dan Kirk and Jim FAnarsson were the local riders from the Trailblazer Club of Shelton that took part in these races. Thursday night, July 16~ at 7 o'clock, is the first of a series of English trials at the Fairgrounds. dl riders are welcome. STANDARD* answer ab r h rbi Stracke, C. 4 0 0 0 Nutt, M. 3 0 2 0 Bac, M. 3 0 0 0 Jones, B. 3 0 0 0 Hagan, M. 3 0 0 0 Cole, B. 1 0 0 0 Havens, D. 3 0 l 0 Nutt, P. 3 0 0 0 White, N. 2 0 0 0 but Hagan scored from third when the shortstop made an error. The next batter whiffed to end the top of the fifth. Shelton's only hit in the next two innings was Pep Nutt's single in the seventh with two out. Up to the seventh, Parkland had one run; the game was ina 1-1 deadlock. With two out in the bottom of the seventh, Parkland's batter hit a fly that the left fielder misjudged~ and the man that was on third base scored to end the game, 2-1 in Parkland's favor. Shelton has four games left on their schedule, and they must also make up two games with Lacey that were ended because of darkness. On Thursday, July 16, they play Lacey on Loop Field in Shelton. Game time is 6:30. Tuesday, July 21, they take on Puyallup at Rogers High School in Puyallup. That game is scheduled for 6:45. Box score: ab r h rbi Stracke, C. 3 0 0 0 Bac, M. 3 0 1 0 Nutt, M. 3 0 0 0 Jones, B. 3 0 0 0 Hagan, M. 3 1 1 0 Havens, D. 3 0 0 0 Nutt, P. 3 0 1 0 Densley, J. 2 0 1 0 White, N. 2 0 0 1 Minor Title Taken By Mike's Mike's McCulloch made a clean sweep of the Minor League this year; ending the season with at 14 and 0 record. Manager Larry Swift along with coaches Rune Langland and Bill Petersen put together a most formidable outfit. The first half of the season was spent batting off the tee, so they had to stress good defense and develop batting. The second half was devoted to pitching. This meant coming up with pitching and catching talent along with teaching players to hit a thrown ball. Mike's pitching aces were Wes Corey, Dick Howard and Ivan Dishon. Dean Skipworth, J. Swift, Ivan Dishon and Was Corey contributed the heavy wood. Every team has its starts, but Larry Swift says: "What made Mike's go, was real team effort." Mike's championship roster: Richard Warren, William Smith, Steven Petersen, Brad Peckham, Tom Nutt, Paul Molenaar, Robert Miljour, Kurt Langeland, Richard Howard, Gregory Helser, Daniel Goodburn, Clint Weaver, J. Swift, Dean Skipworth, Ivan Dishon and Wes Corey. ATHLETE'S 'FOOT GERM TO KILl. IT. IN ONE HOUR, StToall, qukk-drylmll T-4-L ©becks Itch ud burnls/ or lreur ~ l~ck =t aaF drul comster. Tlwn. lit 3-a days witch infected skin sioulrh off. Watch HF.JLLI"HY s]dn appeartNOW at P.vergrun Drug C..enter °nge 10 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 16, 1970 OK Roofers Place Fourth In Tourney Shelton's OK Roofers placed fourth in the Men's Fastpitch Port-O-Fun Invitational in St. Helens, Oregon last weekend. The team won two and lost two in the "B" League tournament. The Roofers lost the first game on Saturday to St. Market, a Grant's Pass team, 12-3. The three runs were home runs by Roger Hoff, Don Andrews and Gene Dunbar. In their second game on. Saturday, the Roofers played Wigwam Tavern of St. Helens, and won 9-2. Two home runs were hit in that game by Gene Ruch, one in the first and another in the sixth frame. They beat Whittier Moulding of Terra Bonne 6-4 for their second victory and their third . game on Saturday. Whittier got two runs in the third inning on errors and two more in the sixth. The Roofers came back in the sixth inning with the help of pinch hitter Don Brown who hit a booming double. It turned into a home run with an error by the catcher. Sunday, the twelfth, OK played St. Market again, hoping to get into the third place bracket. Starting out strong, they held the opposition down for the first four innings. They took the lead by getting two home runs in the fourth. The home runs were back-to-back shots by Roger Hoff and Gene Dunbar. Those homers were the only runs they got in the game. St. Market got 12 runs in the fifth inning, seven off Kauffman and five off Gene Ruch who replaced Kauffman in the fifth. They lost the final game and had to settle for fourth in the tourney. Roger Hoff played outstanding defensive baseball and hit two home runs during the • tournament. He was awarded the All-Star trophy for second base. Alderbrook Lists Winners Two special awards were given after Alderbrook's "two-ball foursome" on July 1 I. Ray Morse of Union and grace Helm of Seattle were the men's and women's high gross winners. First place low gross in the tourney went to Heinie Hilderman of Shelton and Madalyn Overby of Tacoma. Second low gross went to Bud McGuire of Union for Men's, and Virginia Braseth of Longview for the women's. Oscar Krethsmar won the men's low net, with Verna Lyon winning the women's low net. Both are from Tacoma. Second low net was Orville Good of Vancouver for the men and Fannie Bacon of Bremerton for the women's. Third place low net was taken by Frank Rodia of South Shore and Nancy Lynch of Seattle. The next event on Alderbrook's calendar is a "two-ball" on July 25. Pigeon Season Dates Are Set During the recent State Game Commission meeting the 1970 hunting seasons for doves and band-tailed pigeons were established, said the State Game Department. Open season for both dove and pigeons is from September 1 to September 30. The trophy fish of Pacific Northwest streams is the steelhead trout. This fish is actually a rainbow trout, the species familiar to lake fishermen in many parts of the United States, but rather special in that the steelhead spends the growing part of its life in saltwater where rich ocean "pastures" provide a plentiful supply of food and allow the fish to attain a much larger size than the typical lake rainbow trout. Spawned in freshwater streams, growing to maturity at sea, and returning to the streams to spawn as mature fish, the steelhead has all the size, fighting ability, and bit of mystery involved in the catching to make it the angler's darling. At best, steelhead fishing success is comparatively low. Most steelhead anghng is done in winter months when coastal rain and low temperature soaks the fisherman, ices up fishing rod guides, numbs the fingers, and tends to form icicles from the angler's drippy nose. Streamwater conditions are often too low and clear to sneak up on a fish, stream flow too slight to attract fish from saltwater, water too high and muddy for fish to see a lure, weather too wet or cold for a sane man to be at streamside, or the fish just too fussy to take a certain type of lure. Always there are many uncertainties in the catching of a steelhead, but the average Northwest steelheader - once he has caught his first fish - is hooked for life and is no more likely to kick the habit than are fish likely to stop swimming or birds cease flying. But the tough, dedicated army of anglers that seek the sleek steelhead this season in Northwest waters are doing without. The fish are not there in normal abundance. The fishermen don't know why. And the professional fishery biologists really don't know why, but there is a lot of speculation going on in Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia right now. Reduced steelhead production in the saltwater feed areas may be related to current and temperature shifts, increased predation, changes in nutrient levels, and possibly - remote but not illogical -- Russian hake harvests off Pacific shores. Perliminary information from Washington State indicates the lowest catch of December steelhead in several years. Spurts of good fishing have occurred in January, but generally the same slow catch has prevailed. The scarcity of fish is statewide - Puget Sound, Coastal and Columbia tributary streams all being affected. And low numbers of fish are apparent in both planted streams and those dependent upon natural stocks; equally low returns being 'experienced with steelhead of wild stocks; equally low returns Little League All-Star Game Slated July 25 The Mason County Little League All-Stars will play the Redmond All-Stars Saturday, July 25, at Kirkland. Game time 3:00 p.m. The All-Stars are turning out at CaUanan Park each day at 5:00 p.m. Manager of this year's team is Pete Janda; coach is Bert Darners. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~dim~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~i~~HiH~i~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Miii~~H~uu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Two-Ball Foursome will be held Thursday, July 30th starting at 5:30 p.m. The Shelton Golf Club retains possession of the Little Brown Jug defeating Raymond Golf Club in the second game of this year's . series. The cumulative score for the two matches left Shelton 3 points to the good. Service starved? It's free and plentiful with any product in our full line of fuels and lubricants. Omna CALL YOUR STANDARD OIL MAN IN SHELTON C. C. COLE & SONS, 426-4411 *Standard Oil Company of California Members of Bayshore Golf Club were saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Harry Cole, a good friend of long standing. Harry's many friends at Bayshore wish to extend their sympathy to his wife Martha. Dora Wagner had the most points for 18 holes of golf on Tuesday, July 7, at the weekly meeting of the Bayshore Women's Golf Club. Bey Edson and Helen Rice tied for second in the point competition. Tuesday, July 21, the gals are going to Lake Cushman. Tee-off time will be at 9 a.m. 1 "x6"x6' and 8' ROUGH CEDAR SIDING 7'/z¢ lin. ft. 607 S. Ist 426-6612 being experienced with steelhead of wild stock and those of hatchery-origin. Oregon reports sports catch Of December and January steelhead down significantly in all Columbia tributary and coastal streams north of the Umpqua river, located about halfway down the Oregon coast. British Columbia, which has both commercial and sports fisheries for steelhead, reports catch and fish return far below normal so far in the 1969-70 winter season. In all of these areas, steelhead fishing got off to a fairly slow start in November and early December, but there seemed little cause for alarm. Northwest fall weather was drier than usual, and perhaps the fish were just hanging out in the saltchuck waiting for the right water conditions to guide them back to parent streams. The fish did not come. Now in mid-January, all agree that the fish are not coming back in normal numbers this year. Stream returns in previous years have sometimes been weeks late in coming - but never this late. Reduced fish abundance now could be due to increased mortality of outward bound migrants in the spring of 1968, but concensus is that this did not occur. Through elimination, a decline in ocean survival of fish is indicated. No one really knows why this would happen. One Oregon biologist suggests the possibility that perhaps the saltwater "living room" of the steelhead has been discovered. Steelhead are not known as a species of fish that "school"; that is, so far as is known, they do not concentrate in large traveling packs or schools at sea. But then no one really knows where the steelhead spend their time while at sea, other than saying that they largely confine their feeding activity to the continental shelf. There has been some indication that Northwest steelhead may tend to move north in the ocean, and it is not beyond the realm of reason that this fish might concentrate to some extent in feeding grounds in the vicinity of the Aleutian islands. This is in the region where Japanese commercial net fishing is carried out. But so far, Northwest biologists have received no reports from American, Japanese, or Russian high seas fishermen that would confirm that steelhead concentration grounds in the open sea have been located. Somewhat related, but involving a different species of fish, is the fairly recent discovery of Atlantic salmon concentration grounds off Greenland shores. European and American commercial fishermen did make inroads into the Atlantic salmon stocks when this discovery was made a few years ago. The Atlantic salmon is generically a cousin to the Steelhead trout, and both are more distantly related to Pacific coast salmon species. Another remote possibility relates to Russian fishing boat harvest of hake off Pacific coasts. Large Russian vessels have moved decisively into commercial harvest of hake - a saltwater bottom fish largely used as a protein source in fertilizer and fish flour - in the past three years. Intensity of the hake harvest has been such as to affect hake abundance in some saltwater areas already. As related to steelhead, the theory goes that ocean predators, deprived of their normal hake diet, might shift to greater feeding upon steelhead, and so deplete steelhead numbers. In order to fully understand the problem, the dynamics of steelhead life must be known, recognizing that nothing is known about steelhead life at sea. This sea-going trout begins life as an egg deposited in a freshwater stream, or articificaUy cared for in a fish hatchery. In the stream - a "wild" fish - the egg hatches and the young fish spend Too many greases? RPM Multi-Motive Grease in a handy cartridge gun kit greases everything. cALL YOUR STANDARD OIL MAN IN SHELTON C. C. COLE & SONS, 426-4411 "Standard Oil Company of California about two years in the stream growing to a size of around 9 inches at which time the fish is ready to migrate and is termed a migrant - to no one's surprise. A steelhead of hatchery origin, on the otherhand, is reared to this same size and condition in one year and placed in the stream at migrant size. Both hatchery and wild fish go to sea with the spring rains. Fish expected to return to Washington now, would have migrated to sea in the spring of 1968. Spending about 20 months at sea, both wild and hatchery fish return to parent streams to spawn. This means that wild-reared fish are coming back when nearly 4 years old, and hatchery-origin fish when nearly 3 years old. An exception are the "jacks". These are precocious fish, nearly all males, that comes back a year early (wild - 3 year olds; hatchery 2 years old)as sexually mature fish. The average adult steelhead caught by a fisherman runs around 7 pounds, although fish over 30 pounds have been taken, and the average jack steelhead weighs .around 2 pounds. It is extremely im'p~rtant to survival of steelhead rains,that the initial outrun of migrants be favorable. Water conditi6ns mu*t be just right to allow good~ survival until the fish reach the ocean. Once in the ocean, there are many natural mortality factors that act upon steelhead stocks. As a rule of thumb, biologists figure that the fish are doing all right if a 10 per cent of adult steelhead is realized from juvenile migrants sent to sea. Aside from the jacks, this year's steelhead went to sea in the spring of 1968. At that time, and since, Washington State biologists felt that conditions for the migrants were better than average. This view seems to be shared by biologists in the other areas, although the poor return of adults will undoubtedly bring more speculation as to what might have happened on the "outrun". Once at sea - somewhere - the rapidly growing steelhead feed on herring, smelt, squid, and large zooplankton organisms. The steelhead are in turn fed upon by all larger fish and predators. The ocean pasture is not very well understood by biologists. That a "carrying capacity" or maximum nutrient level for supporting fish does exist is a certainty. It is not known whether the level is ever so critical to steelhead as to be a limiting factor in abundance, growth, and survival. Unlike land areas, food "pastures" of the ocean do shift. A change in width or location of prevailing currents can move prey food concentrations about. Prolonged shifts in prevailing winds might accomplish much the same thing. A shift in ocean currents, even slight, with resultant temperature shifts might serve to concentrate feeding fish and make them more susceptible to predation. Another possibility is that several "prey" species might decline at once, causing? a. significant shift in predator feeding habits. Most animal .species fluctuate in numbers from year to year - some on a fairly regular cycle - and it is conceivable that several normal prey species of one particular predator might accidentally coincide in decline in one year, causing a pronounced shift in the predator's feeding. And then there is the "sunspot theorY" some biologists, changes in set promotes a influence upon animals. In moon and considered,• . -(Although blamed by some weather of fishery the most steelheader A polio decline thaCs just As for insufficient conditions affected these have steelhead, is the species to steelhead seas, and the catch in show unusual Coho catches areas were up in the straits areas. There was return of wild returns were This is in where bO returning Steel Washington and far from will continue the cut in returns will total catch Will the as an 3-year year's not. M biologist pause conditions migrants, survival, sunspots and SUNDAY Men's Hi 203. serieS: Men's Hi 577. Hi oar~t: Women's 158. 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