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lllllllllllllnll Bill Dickie's SIDELINE SLANTS Climbers Lose.Squeaker To Wolves ,++ |H No Aunt Kisser! Maybe it cost the Highclimbers undeserved defeat, but I, for one, am glad Jack Stark elected to go for that two-point conversion Friday night. What good, what pleasure, can you wring from stalemate? At times, granted, scoreboard equality with a superior opponent can be meaningful, possess the taste of triumph, conceive joy for the underdog; even, on odd occasions, equate with victory where a tie can wrap up a championship, defeat lose it. In that instance, gambling on the longer chance is foolhardy. None of these elements bracketed the situation at Loop Field Friday night. South Kitsap was not a superior opponent; quite the contrary. Neither team is a title threat, by any stretch" of tile immagination, in this year's Olympic League grid picture. A standoff offered absolutely nothing to either. The two teams were on the field of combat to produce a winner, which they accomplished. Jack Stark did his level best to hoist his Highclimbers into that role. He took the supposedly longer chance of going for the two-point conversion against the possibly surer (but is it in high school tbotball?) one, point kick for the designless deadlock. In reality, were the odds actually longer on the two-point effort? Argument rears here. Even lhough the Climbers have a reasonable reliable place-kicker in Curt Stracke, who has a field goal to his credit this season but mi,sed one Friday, it would be difficult to mount a case for the kick any stronger than for the running play the Climbers were unable to consummate. Shelton had been moving the ball well against South on the ground, not at all in the air. The Climbers needed two points to take the lead. With the lead, that late in the game, Stark could shift strategy, have his Climbers play a protective technic. Behind, or alongside, he had to be bolder, riskier. His gamble (if it was that) was right, even in failure. I cannot agree with the harping hindsightcrs who would tie the knot. It shows Jack Stark gets no joy out of kissing his aunt, and I salute him for that. " SPLINTERS ...... Speaking of Stark, here's hoping the man has patience, it must be djslJp+cfly discouraging for a new coach to step into the kind of situation he discovered ball rnentor b.... an extremely skimpy ntlclctls o1 rehlrning letlermen, many of the btrst athletes and potentially most helpful material refraining from turning out, compelling him to build his first Climber tean around sophomores and 1968 B squad reserves whose principa! asset, and it's a good arm, is their desire.. t° play football. But if .lack Stark has stJtHctent patience to wait it ()tit. better days seem to lie dead ahead. Fh+rlan Builenveld is grooming quite a passel of fine looking football players down on the junior high level, both on the freshman and 8th grade teams. In another couple of years these kids may be transferring today's pain in to the joys reminiscent of 1964. Jim Pauley's 9th annual punt, pass and k;ok party last Saturday proved two points ratner clearly. First, entries who could place kick best wound up at the top of their divisions; second, those with coaching and practice behind them did likewise. By far the weakest point in the 3-pronged aspect of the competition was the place kick. Four out of five aspirants fell down woefully in this one category. Time after time boys who got off to splendid starts with a strong punt and a long pass blew a prize ivinning score w/th a weak place kick. Lack of practice was readily evident in this case. The benefit of knowledgeable coaching and practice showed up in the performance of Jeff Pill, whose 242 points in the 12-year,old division was the day's best performance and far out-distanced the winning effort in the 13-year-old group. Jeff is the son of former Blazer football coach, John Pill, now superintendent of Hood Canal School district. Another 12-year-old, • Larry Wood, with 238 points, was vastly superior to the winning 13-year-old mark of 201 points, while the third place winner among the 12s, Dave Whitener, had 200 points. Two of the I l-year-aids had better marks than the third place trophy winner in the 13-year-old group. Tip for all kids still eligible for future PP&K contests - work on that place kicking. It will pay off in precious points. Just when everyone thought Chief Clayton's athletic career had been reduced to such unstrained activities as golf and gin rummy by that major knee injury inflicted last year while he played for Olympic College, up he comes with news that just maybe he'll turn out at Washington State next fall. Chief has been rtmning a lot recently and playing much handball, to which the damaged hinge seems to have responded with remarkable recuperation. "If it keeps on getting stronger I just might see if they can use me as a kicking specialist," Chief told his dad, junior high counselor Walt Clayton. The Cougars could have pulled out that Oregon game two weeks ago with someone like Chief kicking their conversions. The !o66 Highclimber grad (athlete of the year, football, basketball and track letterman) had a remarkable place kicking record his senior year with the Climbers. lllness has upset college sports and education plans mapped by Jody Campbell, Hood Canal Junior High's most illustrious graduate to date. Jody enrolled at Treasure Valley Junior College in Eastern Oregon in September, where he had an athletic grant-in-aid. He turned out for football hoping to earn varsity playing time as a quarterback. However, illness set him back and he decided to drop out of school and work, after his recovery, to preserve eligibility for the future. He now is employed in a sugar beet factory ai Nampa, from Napa Jody hit the sports scene here a half dozen years ago, as an entry in the county grade school track meet representing Hood Canal as a sixth grader. After a spectacular career at Hood Canal Junior high, he entered Nampa Christian, where he earned varsity letters in the school's four recognized sports .... football (quarterback ), basketball (leading scorer and play-maker), baseball (pitcher and shortstop)+ and track (quarter mile, plus other events), as well as an unofficial school sport, boxing, where he was school champion as a protege of his brother, Cecil, a graduate of Shelton high in the early 1950's and a talented performer in the same four sports. Cec has been a coach and instructor at Nampa Christian for a number By CHARLES GAY South Kitsap's Wolves scored on a 75-yard pass interception return in the second quarter of their game with the Sheiton Highclimbers and were not threatened pointwise for the rest of the game as they went on to win, 7-6. The Climbers had plenty of opportunities and threats, but none materialized into points except a touchdown in the third quarter by senior halfback Mike Neau on a seven yard run. The Climbers went for the win when they did score, but the two point conversion attempt failed and they were left with only six points. Later in the quarter, a field goal that could have put HIGHCLIMBER DON COX (with ball) only pass completed in the entire game and caught this Brad Bransford pass in last got the Climbers eight yards downfield. Friday's game with South Kitsap. It was the Blazers Continue Streak With Conquest Of Reeves Shelton Junior High gridders continued their winning streak last Thursday when they routed Reeves Junior ttigh in Olympia, 22-8. The game was highlighted for the Blazers by a 70-yard punt return for a touchdown by Terry Knight. in the first quarter, the Blazers drove to Reeves' six yard line, but ,led and ,tJae hosts recovered., "+'+ rftoeh re happend in the first half until Shelton sustained a long drive just before the end of the half and scored on an eight yard jaunt by Ace LeGault. The extra polnt try failed, making it 6-0 in favor of the Blazers at half-time. It was in the third quarter that Knight made his long runback of a Reeves' punt to make the score 14-0 after the Blazers made the extra points. Bob Crume made it 20-0 late in the third quarter when he scored Shelton's other touchdown. The two point conversion was made again to make it 22-0 at the end of the of years and recently accepted the additional Hunters who plan to take guns responsibilities of vice-principal. Jody played into Canada or to any other American Legion baseball for Shelton the foreign country should be aware past three summers. Jody and Cecil are Sons of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Campbell, life-long residents of Mason County, mostly in Skokomish Valley, but planned future residents of Nampa when Keith retires from a SimpsonTimber Company affiliation spanning most of his adult life. TERRY KNIGHT, quarterback of the Shelton Junior High Blazers, ran back a punt 70 yards for a touchdown against Reeves Junior High last week. third period of play. The Blazers did not score any more points in the last quarter, but Reeves got on the scoreboard with a touchdown against the Blazers' reserves with about two minutes to go in the game. Bob Crume had another good day of running as he has all year, getting 101 yards on the ground. Steve Settle got 14 more for the Blazers as did Ace LeGault Dan Morgan picked up 9 yards and Terry Knight lost seven yards in three attempts. In the passing department, Knight threw five times and completed two for 20 yards. Coach Harlen Buitenveld added that Doug Long, a defensive back, had his best day for the Blazers, and that he had a tremendous showing. Buitenveld, who lost five games and tied one in his first year of coaching last season, finds himself now in the middle of a very successful season, having gone three games without a defeat. Gun Permit Needed To Cross Border that, before leaving the United States, they should fill out Form 4457 and display each gun to a Customs officer at the time they leave the United States. To prevent delays at the 'border, hunters can obtain the form in advance and fill it out before they reach the border. The form allows the registration of three guns. Ammunition for these guns must also be registered on leaving and re-entering the United States. The number of rounds brought into the United States for each gun may not exceed the number listed by the hunter when he left the United States. The Form 4457 is available from any U.S. Customs Office. There is no charge for the form or the registration. Failure ..to comply with these requirements will mean automatic confiscation of the guns upon the owner's return to the United States. This requirement is part of the Gun Control Act that became law last winter, and its purpose is to prevent importation of guns and ammunition into the United States. HHHjHBHBHHHHHlllllHlllllHllll Globe-Trotting Hunter Bags Big Bear Near Grisdale MARSHALL JOHNSON of Wharton, Texas animals he has collected from all over the :bagged this beauty last week north of globe. Grisdale. It was one of more than 100 7, I I i , i ,i ,ll i age 10. Shelton.Mason County Journal- Thursday, October 16, 1969 By CHARLES GAY A multi-millionaire Texan found what he was looking for on Big Creek north of Grisdale last week. Marshall Johnson, a hunter who has been all over the world collecting trophies for his huge trophy room in Wharton, Texas, shot a male black bear that squared out to six feet, three inches. Johnson, who will be 70 next month, bagged the animal with a .300 Magnum Winchester from 200 yards. It was the second black bear of his trip to the Northwest. A few days earlier, he got a smaller bear in Idaho on the Kootenai River. Johnson was the guest on the trip of Bob Morton of World Wide Trophy Outfitters of Spokane. Morton, the brother of Richard Morton of Shelton, arranges many of Johnson's hunts and has the official title of hunting + consultant. The bear will be sent to Boone and Crockett in Spokane to be officially measured for possible publication in Knopp Brothers Taxidermy, the official record of the largest bears ever shot.. The measurements of the monster were six and a half feet from the head to tail, and six feet from elbow to elbow. Johnson was impressed by the ruggedness of the Olympic Peninsula, as well as the scenery and the vast timberlands. This isa compliment to the Peninsula, since Johnson has been to Africa five times. Asia once, and Alaska three times. He plans to go back to Africa in April and to India in March. The purpose of this trili was to get a black bear and black-tailed deer, which would almost complete his collection of North American game. lie has hunted all over the United States, North America, and Latin America, as well as across the seas. His trophy room is an entire building of eight sides, with life size trophies of polar bear, brown bear, stone sheep, tiger, and ocelot, as well as trophy ,heads and rugs of over 100 animals collected throughout the world. The' trophy room has zebra furniture, and a fireplace made of brass. On either side of the fireplace are elephant tusks of 64 and 66 pounds. Also in the room is a collection of Winchester rifles, 12 with scopes and two without, which represent all calibers of Winchester rifles manufactured in the last several years. He also displays five Winchester shotguns with the rifles. The trophy room is visited by school children around Wharton - which is a small town about 60 miles southwest of Houston - and other interested groups, as well as tourists. When not hunting, Johnson is a ranchman, in his own words, "Well, really retired, but actually I'm just tired." Johnson, who made his fortune in real estate and oil, recently donated nine million dollars to the Lutheran Church. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. -Wilde them ahead was blocked, and in the fourth quarter when they started to move well offensively, they were stopped by a fumble. The Climbers moved the ball better in this game than any other, and were blessed with a couple of good breaks that they could not capitalize on. Don Neth, sophomore fullback of Sheltou, was smeared at his 22 yard line when he ran back the opening kickoff. He followed this with a good gain, but the Climbers could not get moving and Brad Bransford punted. This was the beginning of one of the Climbers' breaks. A penalty against the Wolves put the ball back on the 18 yard line. They could not push the ball forward for any first downs, either, so they punted. It turned out to be an eight yard boomer that ended up on South's 28. Despite excellent field position, the Climbers could only muster short gains and South Kitsap took over on their 22 when the Climbers went for it on Fourth down. Craig Gibson, who gained good yardage all night, carried for seven yards on first down. On several occasions during the game, Gibson would run an end sweep, running slowly behind his blockers until there was a hole, and jumped through it for a sizeable gain. On the next play, South made a first down to their 39. llowever, Shelton's Bill Gray recovered a South fumble on the 43 of the Wolves to give it to the Climbers. Neth got five on first down, Cox added four on second, and Neth made the first down on his second carry of the series. After two plays made little yards, Neau broke open for a big ten yard gain. The quarter ended with a scoreless tie. On the first play of the second quarter, the Climbers came out of the huddle too late and when the.y walked up to the line of scrimmage, were penalized for taking too much time. Bransford wanted to get the yardage back with a pass on first and fifteen, but it was in this situation that he threw his interception. It was run all the way back for a touchdown and the extra point kick was good, making it 7-0. Neth made it to his 25 on the kickoff. He carried for a first down, and then Neau made eight yards. The attack sputtered there and Bransford punted to South's nine yard line. Gibson got the Wolves out of the hole by running to the 21. A penalty for clipping put them back to the 11. The Climbers' second break was to come now. Tracy Armstrong, a sophomore defensive back, intercepted a South aerial nd made it to the 3 I. Bransford made his only completion of the night to Don Cox who ran out of bounds at the 23 yard line. It was not enough for the first down and South took over. A draw play got it to their 43 yard line as time was running out. The next play was a halfback option that turned into a bomb, but the pass was underthrown. Don Darling,'who ran the previous draw, ran the same play, which turned out to be the last scrimmage of the half. South led, 7-0. The Wolves got back to their 30 on Curt Stracke's kickoff. They had one big gain to their 43, but had to punt. The punter dropped to one knee and the ball was marked dead at the South 39, , giving the Climbers another good field position. This time they made it, putting it all together for the first offensive touchdown of the Climbers' season. They made it to the 29 for one first "down and Neth made another when he bulled his way to the 16. Bransford made good on a fourth and three situation to the seven and on the next play, Neau scored. At this point, they elected to go for the go ahead points, figuring that they could score later with over a quarter to go. They missed and were down, 7-6. Bill Gray, a sophomore defensive lineman, gave the Climbers another break when he recovered a South fumble on the Wolves' 20. Neau got a first down to the 10, and there'the Climbers stayed until fourth down when Stracke tried a field goal from the 15. It was blocked. South recovered, but had to punt. They made one first down, then a 15 yard penalty put them on South's 30; Bransford could not handle the ball, and fumbled, only to have a Wolf fall on it on his 30. South could not move offensively and punted it away to the Climbers. Time was now running out. The punt had to be kicked over because of a penalty, but even when they got it, the Climbers could not move it. On fourth down with about a minute left, they had to go for it, but lost possession because they didn't mae the first down. South took over on Shelton's 40 and two' plays later the game 111111111111 Highdimber Of The Senior Mike of the Week, Friday for 68 Climbers in yardag€ South He is secant to Don Cox. has packed the 142 yards, for a also places high tackle charts. Neau. a hall linebacker, sc touchdown for the South Kitsal was only the Shelton has broke loose seven yard line end zone for his lllllllllllllllllllll was over, SOU handing th loss ill league losS, Shelton's two yea to 13. (;round g Climbers in game of the Neau, 68 Cox, 66 yards • Neth, 52 and Curt in one carry. five timeS and net. Bransford put for a 31.5 three times having one Climbers outpl all categories. downs to outrushed South's passer had one pass t Sheiton to the Wolves lost two one. Climbers 154, High Trcy Arms Curt Stracke ' This Friday Port look for try to snap streak. 24 against Coach Climbers co Shelton South's terr experienCe could not more scoreS. Climbers pr and now they can and have hopes that they are against the who have already that his Friday. Other Ic interesting. had not b n previous fourth in to beat the Cougars • weeks. The crO Bremerton one year high off Shelton, Lakeside extend the The score l@llllllllllll 12:30 W Huisingh Women' Huisingl" Col 10-14, Ne