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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.
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°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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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