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Bill Dickie "s SIDELINE SLANTS
No Rocks On The Field!
If you don't mind some non-athletic talk
about an athlete, how about a little disser-
tation today on the way the ball bounced
for Morley Preppernau while he served his
military hitch for Uncle Sam.
Morley, usually called Rile by his folks,
more often just Prepp by his friends, re-
turned to Shelton last week with his wife,
Pat {Booth), after a transatlantic flight
and transcontinental drive which brought
them all the way from Germany.
Sports fans may recall that Morley was
a Highclimber track letterman who accept-
ed his high school diploma with the class
of 1961 and went on to Olympic College at
Bremerton for a couple of years before be-
ing_drafted by the Army. Lack of size (not
of heart) was his principal handicap ath-
letically, but he was an expert on the art
of baton handoffs in the relays and scored
a bundle of points for Bob Sund's cinder
squads on winning relay teams, occasional
firsts and lots of seconds and thirds in the
sprints and boad jump.
After his graduation he matured phys-
ically and wound up with both the honor-
cry captaincy and the inspirational award
in the same season at Olympic, where he
competed in a flock of events, including
the triple jump, and was the all-season
point leader. In January, 1965, the Army
beckoned.
He was assigned to a Combat Engi-
neer outfit, not exactly a prize package
with a war going on in Vietnam, but right
there the ball started bouncing right into
Morley's mitt and never did a bad hop fol-
low. The first good hop, in May, sent him
to a beautiful region of central Germany,
between Frankfurt and Heidelberg, called
Darmstadt, where Pat joined him in Sep-
tember. They loved it so much they
wouldn't mind going back there to live.
Pat got a well-paying, tax-deductible job
with the Red Cross and Morley was assign-
ed to the commanding officer's staff.
Within a year he was wearing sergeant's
stripes, almost unheard of in that short a
time. They bought a car and on weekends
took tours into Italy, Switzerland, France
and all the readily accessible areas of Eu-
rope. They lived in a nice home where the
landlady cooked so well Morley ballooned
Brother Brian, class of '64, is stationed at
Fort Bliss, Texas, where his SP4 rating is
being employed on gas engines with the
U. S. Army. He, too, has two years of ac-
tive duty ahead, with good chances it'll be
all at Fort Bliss.
Sports history of a unique brand was
written when Rich Holmes and his Pacific
Lutheran crewmates successfully carried
out their historic transfer of a rowing shell
from Seattle to Tacoma to American Lake,
almost entirely, but not quite all, by water
last weekend. The University of Wash-
ington, you recall, gave PLU's orphaned,
unsponsored, unfinanced crew the 27-year-
old shell, the Dr. Loyal Shoudy, which had
won three Poughkeepsie Regatta cham-
pionships during the 1940s. With no funds
to pay for commercial transportation of
the 61-foot frail craft to Tacoma, the
doughty PLU oarsmen determined to row
it and carry it and row it and carry it
they did, during a day-long saga perhaps
never recorded in sports history before, or
will be again. Holmes, a 1965 Shelton
high grad, and 13 other PLU crewmen ac-
cepted the shell at the Green Lake boat-
house in Seattle, hoisted it to their shoul-
ders for a l l/_-mile portage to the Lake
Washington Ship Canal in two inches of
snow and set it in the water at 7:30 a.m.
It was well after dark when they finally
and safely beached it at Steilacoom, al-
most 12 hours later, after paddling through
the busy canal, busier Elliott Bay with all
its ferry and deep-sea freighter traffic,
and down Puget Sound.
At times the eight nowers had to divide
into oar-pulling and bailing teams when
waves from passing boats or the wind ship-
ped water into the shell. Part of the time
it snowed. No one rowed the full distance,
relays of four sweepsters relieving half the
crew at two points along the way, and a 2-
hour lunch and drying-out stop was made
at Saltwater State Park. Shortly after
dusk, at Owen Beach in Point Defiance
Park, a mechanized 73-foot A'rmy landing
craft offered a welcome lift through the
Narrows to Steilacoom, where the shell was
left until Monday while the exhausted, froz-
en crewmen recuperated for the 4-mile
overland hike to the PLU rowing base on
American Lake. The non-rowing crew-
men, plus relatives, acoompanied the shell
from his normal 155 pounds to 185. The in
landlady wept when they left. "
Morley's tour of duty sped to its inev-
itable end and his discharge from the Army
rolled around last month. In anticipation
of the event, Morley and Pat shipped their
Fiat on ahead by boat, then flew to the
U. S. when Morley's outfit was rotated
home. The Fiat was supposed o be wait-
ing at Fort Dix, N.J., but when they arrived
they discovered it had been put on the
wrong ship and had been unloaded at Fort
Hamilton, N.Y., instead. Morley had the
option of taking his separatlon papers at
either Dix or Hamilton, so chose to d,o so
at Hamilton since the car was there. It
was a lucky choice.
He got his discharge papers on sched-
ule at Hamilton. His buddies didn't at Dix
Orders to extend their enlistments another
six months reached Dix before the separa-
tion processing was finished but didn't
reach Hamilton before Morley was a bona
fide civilian again and was on his way
across country bound for Shelton in the
Brickert Bits: Mike, the younger, class
of '66 at Shelton, has been assigned to the
U. S. Navy submarine Ramora based at
Pearl Harbor, where, in all likelihood, he'll
finish out his 2-year active duty hitch.
He's been in the Navy Reserves a year,
holds an E4 rating, and is a lot of young
masculine muscle to be sqeezing through
those tiny hatches, narrow passages and
low ceilings typical of submarine life.
kicker boats while other relatives, in-
cluding Rich's mother,'Mrs; Rudy Holmes,
kept abreast by auto, waiting at various
vantage points along the route and setting
up the lunch at Saltwater Park. Mrs.
Holmes asked the group at the end of the
43-mile odyssey if they'd do it again. Only
one said no. The fellow apparently just
doesn't have any stomach for rowing.
1;ttle Fiat.
The ball made one more good hop for
Morley. A half hour after he and Pat had
crossed the pass on the Idaho-Oregon bor-
der between Boise and Baker it was closed
because of a raging snowstorm, saving
them a day or two lay-over or a long de-
tour. The day after Christmas Pat goes
back to her old job in Simpson's purchas-
ing office, Morley to his former employer,
Sears in Olympia, on a path aimed at man-
agement.
@ @ @ @
SPORTS SPLINTERS--As long as we
have the Preppernaus on stage, let's swing
the spotlight to Morley's younger brother,
Reid, a sophomore at .Central Washington
State College. Reid organized, manages
and plays for a team in the Ellensburg city
basketball league for which he's been av-
eraging just under 20 points a game. This
should make Climber cage coach Jack
Wright drool a bit because he never could
get Reid to shoot more than four or five
times a game when he was play,making for
the Red and Black two seasons ago.
Golf Club Calendar
A _ - A - _ _ _ _ - _ _ _
MEETING JANUARY 15 Buck Price has submitted a rec- INVITATIONS OUT SOON
• The annual business meeting 0mmended officers slate consist- Invitations will be mailed soon
of the Shelton-Bayshore Golf ,ing of Jack Kimbel for president, to golf club members for the
Club is scheduled for January 15 Donald "Bean" Daniels for vice club's annual New Years Eve
in the Bayshore clubhouse, Presi- president, Jim McComb for re- Party.
JERRY SPARKS, Shelton
senior cager, grabs a re-
bound during Friday night's
game with Hoquiam, while
his sophomore brother,
Mike, looks on.
Hoquiam Fourth-Quarters Shelton In 60-45 Win
By JAN DONALDSON
• The Shclton Highclimbers suf-
fered their third straight loss, a
60-45 defeat to the Hoquiam Griz-
zlies, in a game played at Shel-
ton Saturday evening.
Shelton started the season with
two wins. but has played badly,
and lost badly, in two of its last
three games. One of the Shelton
losses was by only one point to
Centralia.
Hoquiam took a 18-13 lead in
the first period, led by the shoot-
ing and rebounding of John
Quigg. Quigg scored nine points
in the first quarter for Hoquiam.
In the second period, with High-
climber coach Jack Wright keep-
ing fresh players in the game,
Shelton cut down on the Hoquiam
lead, and trailed by only two
points 29-27 at the half.
The Shelton rally was led by
Jerry Sparks and Jan Donaldson.
Sparks and Donaldson scored
five and four points, respectively,
to lead the second quarter Shel-
ton spurt.
Sparks had twelve points at the
half to lead Shelton scorers. Ho-
quiam's John Quigg had 13
points at halftime to lead all
scorers.
During the third quarter Shel-
Junior High
Hoop Schedule
Dec. 21 - Shelton at Hoquiam
Jan. 4 Shelton at Centralia
(Night)
Jan. 11 - Shelton - Bye
Jan. 18 Hopkins at Shelton
Jan, 25 - Shelton at Washington
Jan. 29 - Miller at Shelton
Feb. 1 Shelton at Jefferson
Feb. 8 - Hoquiam at Shelton
Feb. 15 Centralia at Shelton
(Night)
Feb. 21 - Shelton - Bye
ton suffered a serious setback
when they lost Mike Swisher.
Swisher received a recurring
ankle injury, which has hamp-
ered him throughout his basket-
ball career. Before leaving the
game Swisher contributed great-
ly to the Shelton attack, with
gcod passing and ball handling.
It was a bad fourth quarter for
1967-68 Shelfon Hicjh School
Basketball Schedule
Wednesday, December 27Montesano ...................... There
Friday, January 5--East Bremerton ............................ There
Saturday, January 6---North Thurston ...................... There
Tuesday, January 9West Bremerton ........................ Here
Friday, January 12Port Angeles .................................. Here
Friday, January 19North Kitsap .............................. There
Saturday, January 20Central Kitsap .......................... Here
Friday, January 26---South Kitsap ................................ There
Friday, February 2East Bremerton ............................ Here
Saturday, February 3---Port Angeles .......................... There
Friday, February 9North Kitsap ................................ Here
Friday, February 16---Central Kitsap ............................ There
Tuesday, February 20South Kitsap ............................ Here
the Highclimbers that caused the
defeat. Shelton began to make
costly turnovers, which Hoquiam
eagerly turned into points.
Meanwhile Hoquiam had a
fine 19-point fourth quarter, to
pull away to the final score of
60-45. John Quigg scored 11
points during the quarter for Ho-
quiam, seven which came from
the foul line.
John Quigg led all scorers with
30 points, plus a lot of rebounds,
and an occasional checked shot,
Jerry Sparks topped Shelton
scorers with a 22 point effort.
SHELTON-45
Close, 4; Swisher, 1; Schmidt,
6; J. Sparks, 22; Donaldson. 4.
Sub: M. Sparks, 8.
Fra÷ League
Da÷e Change
• Fraternal Bowling League will
bowl next Tuesday and Thursday
at 6:45 p.m. at the Timbers to
Inake up for Christmas and New
Years when there will be no
meeting.
Shelfon Jayvees Suffer Firsf Loss Of Season
• The Shelton junior varsity
basketball squad suffered its first
loss of the season 56-42 to Ho-
quiam last Saturday night at
Shelton. The loss gave the Shel-
ton squad a 4-1 mark in their
first five games so far this sea-
son.
In the first half play was real
close, with Hoquiam leading at
halftime by the score of 28-27,
Shelton's Bud Tuson led all
scorers with 12 points at the half.
Play remained equally close
during the third quarter, with
dent Rocky Hembroff has bulle- election as treasurer, Larry Lar- Reservations will be limited to Feb. 29 - Shelton at Hopkins Hoquiam leading at the end of
tined the membership, son and Jean Nicloy for 2-year avoid over-crowding. Live music
Election of 1968 officers and re- terms on the board of directors, is scheduled and noise-makers
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the period by the score of 42-39.
As in the varsity game, the
fourth quarter was the cause of
defeat for Shelton. Shelton's ju-
nior varsity fell-apart during the
final period, scoring only three
points, all by Jim Corey. The
final score was 56-42 Hoquiam.
For Shelton Bud Tuson was the
top scorer with 19 points. Jim
Corey added 14 points to the Shel-
ton cause. Paul Quigg and Ed
Bitar scored 19 and 14 points re-
spectively to lead the Hoquiam
scoring.
SHELTON-42
Hoard, 2; Tuson, 19; Burfiend,
2; Adams, 1; Corey, 14. Subs:
Austin 2, Flower 2.
HOQUIAM-56
Quigg, 19; Martinson, 3; Ellen,
9; Bitar, 14; Backholm, 10. Sub:
Carter 1.
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Page 12 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 21, 1967
NM B,
Nip Cowbo00
By RICK BURRELL
• The North Mason
team had a full schedule
week with four games.
Last Friday night the
travelled to Chimacum
they defeated the Cowboys by
5348 margin in a tight game
the finish.
Mason's Landram brothers
most of the scoring action
game with sophomore Drew
dram scoring 22 points and
Landram bringing home 11.
On Saturday the Mason
played their first home game
the season against Quilcene
handed the Bulldogs their
defeat "by a 74-61 count.
Top point honors went to
cene's John Newman with
Drew Landram again led
Bulldogs with 25 points.
Monday the Bulldogs
their third win in a home
against Charles Wright
with a 59-49 count.
This time the
went to NM's Richard
who was good for 21
Friday, Mason again
the Chimacum Cowboys in
NM gym where Chimacum
teated the Bulldogs by a
count.
Jeff Allen of the Mason
was top scorer of the game
19 points to his credit.
Saturday night the
have a rematch with Quilcene 0
the Quilcene court.
Jefferson
Hands Loss
To Blazers
By JAN DONALDSON
• The Shelton Junior High
zers suffered their first
the season, in a close 48-44
to the Jefferson Jaguars
game played at Shelton
afternoon.
Shelton led most of the
but Jefferson put together
fourth quarter to take the
Both teams used what
peared to be half-court
in the first half. Defense on
part of each team looked
excluding some unneceSS
fouls. The score at the end of
first quarter was 11-11.
Play remained the same i nt
second quarter, with tough
tense and little scoring.
held a one-point lead 23-22
half.
Steve Richey led Shelton
ers in the first half with
points. Mike Bac and Bob
each added five points to
Shelton total. Dave
led Jefferson scorers with
points, and Allen Meredith
six points.
Shelton came out fired
the third quarter led by
Dorcy and took a 38-33
the end of the third period, i
scored nine points in this
for Shelton.
Shelton seemed to lose
overall effort in the final
and before they knew it
had eliminated the five
lead which Shelton had
end of the third quarter.
With the score 45-42
leading, and 1:03 left to
Shelton's Bob Turner was
Turner made both foul
making the score 45-44.
Jefferson's Fred Stohl was
with just 55 seconds
and he made one of two
making the score 46-44.
Shelton tried desperately
the ball, and with only
seconds to play Stohl was
fouled. This time Stohl
both foul shots, to give JE
the victory by the score
Jefferson's John Betran
scorers with 15 points.
cy scored 12, and Steve
II points to lead Shelton s¢
SHELTON-44
Dorcy, 12; Turner, 9; t3c'
Richey, 11; Tim 6.
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