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New Year Slow for Bi-County Contenders Fail To Meet in First Half of January By George Bragaw Sport* Editor A New Year may burst forth in all its brilliance amid midnight hoopla and midday football on January 1, but it will be several weeks before the New Year adds much to the Bi-County basketball league. Of course, on a given night any team can be had, but unless the pattern set up before the holidays is altered sharply, it will be weeks before the league contenders go to it Walter Johnson Journeys to Bladensburg Tuesday, but the Spartan machine is still green. WJ may give a few teams trouble later in the season, but the Spartans haven't been hit ting consistently from any where. It looks as though the high-flying Mustangs might be too tough to make it much of a contest, especially on Bladens burg’s own court Although neither is considered a contender, the Wheaton-North western tussle on Tuesday could be the turning point for either team. The Wildcats were .off to a good start before meeting their first real test In Bladens burg. Wheaton has lost two by fair margins and another to B-CC in overtime. The mighty mites could lose or gain a great deal of incentive by the game Tuesday. A win would put them on the .500 mark. Northwood plays Gaithers burg and Richard Montgomery meets High Point in other games. Bethesda plays Walter John son and Wheaton meets North wood in contests which will fill houses and strain the emotion, If not the record books. Aside from these games, the Bi-County, from the Montgom ery County standpoint, will have to wait until the middle of the month when Bladensburg, Blair and Bethesda tangle in what is likely to be a round-robbin for the title. Northwood shouldn’t be counted out, however, despite a fairly good beating last week at Bethesda. The Indians have the Barons back again on the Northwood court in February— and this year Northwood doesn’t play the big boys from Bladens burg. MJC Meets Baltimore Jan. 5 Montgomery Junior College takes on Baltimore Junior Col lege Tuesday, January 5, at 8 p.m. in what promises to be one of the Knights’ toughest games of the season. Baltimore was the only team In the Tri-State JC Conference to stop the Knights last season and Baltimore would, no doubt, like to duplicate the feat Tues day. MJC broke for the holidays with a 3-1 record, 2-0 in the con ference. Coach Don Comer’s squad lacks the over-all height it had last season but still can get the rebounds with 6-foot-5 Roger Richards doing most of the board work. It was while Richards was on the mend from a knee operation .last winter that Baltimore got the best of MJC in a dose con- J 1 test on the Baltimore court. MJC took Baltimore by a fair margin on the second meeting. The Knights had little trouble with usually strong Hagerstown JC before the break. Don Di maggio, football quarterback, his biggest day on the court as he stuffed in 19 points to lead a 104-62 rout Aftei*-Baltimore, Montgomery meets PNnce Georges Thurs day, and t)tree more conference opponents in St Mary’s, Wesley and Potomac State. Lost Hunting Dogs Milton Naylor, JU. 9-3517, is offering a reward for the return of two hunting dogs last Mon day, December 21, west of the police pistol range near Dames town. One, a blade and tan hound, answers to the name of Driver. The other, a tri-color beagle, \ answers to Lucky. Both are \ i**ged. Naylor and friends \ were hunting rabbits when the \ bogs apparently flushed a deer. Ed Lubanski Shows Championship Bowling Form "v'sSl- WMMAyWixMm jjMffSf*#--- dRg*HHBk EM m K hHHmI wtF M. ■ HpO’il ■ jrr ED LUBANSKI, picked as “Bowler of the Year” by the Bowling Writer’s Association, demonstrates the perfect bowling form that brought the Detroit bowler the ABC All-Events and ABC singles titles is well as last season’s “World’s” Championship: (1) On your first step, push the ball away from your body and start it on the downward swing . . . elbows in at your sides ... take a small shuffling step with the right foot. (2) As you step out with the left foot, the ball is at the low est point in the pendulum swing . . . right arms is straight ... shoulders and hips are parallel to the foul line. of anal Kings By George Bragaw ***w*w*>ww**j<**< Sport* Editor Frantic Frank Lane may have made one of his worst deals in trading off a big winning pitcher in Cal McLish, lighthitting Billy Mar tin, and the top minor league of last season, Gordon Coleman. It may seem strange to be talking about baseball in the winter even before the first good snow fall, but since Gordy is a local boy it is in order. Lane telegraphed Coleman to the ef fect that since both Tito Francono and Vic Power were ahead of him, the Indians were dealing him off. In the same breath Lane admitted Gordy was a hell of a ball player, and wished him well, saying that he hoped that Coleman would live up to his great potential in the National League . . . Lane thereby deals off a top prospect for what he wants and doesn’t have to worry about his club facing Coleman’s menacing bat except at World Series time. Coleman could flop, of course, and enhance Lane’s reputation as a horse trader, but the thought here is that Coleman will make It big and the National League opponents of Cincinnati will rue the day they opened the inter-league trading door that let Coleman in. Lane’s deals and their histories have been thrashed out too many times by better brains than these, to bother going through them again here. But the fact remains that many of his deeds have been the long gambles of a cooky counter-puncher and his success has often times resulted from fast footwork rather than grey matter. Coleman Is the type of free-swinger who needs to be out there taking his cuts everyday to be most effective. He’s the Harmon Kiilebrew sort (perish the strike outs) who loses his timing by benchwork. It happened to him this winter playing three days a week in Cuba and it happened to him last spring in Arizona. Cleveland has two regular first basemen. One more who needs to play every day, not just when he’s hot, is two too many. How- Imports —-Tuesday, Ductmbcr 29. 1959 8 fishing 0, Capt. Gene Hunt Chesapeake Beach, Md. ||y£j|X The end of the year and although there are still some hardy souls putting out for Rock and Perch, it is prob ably fair to say that this fish ing season has Just about had It Looking back, it appears that this one will have to be classed as not so hot. We started off in grand style with plenty of good Rock hitting early in May and everyone looking forward to an exceptional year. By the end of June, however, it was obvious that the bottom fishing was going to be poor, and that’s exactly what it was for most of the upper and middle bay. True, we had a few hardheads of good size, but they were as Week's Basketball Games Saturday Walter Johnson vs. Wakefield WJ 8:30 p.m. Richard Montgomery vs. Alumni R’kville 8:30 p.m. Tuesday Richard Montgomer yvs. High Point High Pt 2:00 p.m. B CC vs. Oxon Hill Oxon H. 2:00 p.m. Wheaton vs. Northwestern Whe’ton 4:00 p.m. Sherwood vs. Poolesville P’sville 4:00 p.m. Walter Johnson vs. Bladensburg Bl’d’b’g 2:00 p.m. Damascus va. Laurel Dam’cua 3:30 p.m. Gaithersburg va. North G’burg 3:30 p.m. ever, if Coleman can do half the things the writers along the southern circuit seem to think he can, Lane will have not only dealt off a potentially great hitter, but an extremely colorful fellow the type which crowds the park with as many people waiting for him to miss the ball as to hit it. Some folks around, including this writ er, thought at first that the Lions Club banquet for Richard Montgomery’s unde feated Co-Bi-County champions was under playing the issue. To some, the unbeaten team was the great est thing that had happened to Rockville since the reluctant introduction of bath water in the old days of the Hungerford Tavern. However, taking the word from a large Lion at the feed put on at the Washingtonian Motel early this month, the Lions give the big banquet every year not just when they have a winner. They put on a fine banquet for the boys as they always have in the past, and it would have been a shame if the Lion who did so well in the lean years, had been allowed to go hungry in the time of plenty. Dwight Hurley stole the show at the banquet Mo Selgei, who had been adver tised as the show stopper, stopped it only once when, in beginning his remarks, he thanked the Rockville Lions for inviting him to the Dwight Hurley testimonial din ner. • • • No matter how the coaches try to im press the boys of the importance’ of early season basketball games, it still seems as if all games before the first of the new year are exhibition games. The Christmas season sometimes operflows onto the court and coaches find that their players are presenting the opponents with the ball, sometimes a basket This Christmas spirit extends so deeply at times, that entire games are generally presented to the opponents. But then, coaching is not the only occupation that produces ulcers. fickle as a grade school sweet heart. One night you might catch a nice mess and then for the next two or three, you would shoot a blank. The Spot, normally the main stay of the bottom fishing clan, were a dismal disappointment. In a good year it is no trouble from late May through Septem ber to fill a washtub with good, pan-sized Spot in a few hours of fishing. This year, however, all we had were the little six-to-eight inch specks, at least up until two weeks before Labor Day. We did have a couple of weeks at the tail end of the season when good sized Spot showed. But this was not enough to (3) At the end of the third step, the ball is at the highest point in the backswing ... at shoulder height, but no higher . . . weight on the ball is supported by the palm of the hand. (4) The fourth step is really a long slide with the left foot. .. it should arrive at the foul line simultaneously with the ball ... body and left knee are bent. (5) After releasing the ball over the foul line on the lane, your arm should come up at least eye level in the follow through ... be sure to reach out with your arm over the foul line. make up for the poor beginning. The Bluefish were late com ing in and not too plentiful. However, those that were here were nice ones. We caught blue fish over three pounds this year and for our waters, this is a good Blue. The trout have been scarce for the past three years but this year they did pick up both in size and in numbers. Next season should be a good one for trout. After the good Spring run of Rock, the summer trolling sea son really fell off. Everywhere you looked, there were literally millions of small Rock but very few keepers. In the Fall, the good Rock were about three weeks late showing up, but once they did show, we enjoyed a good Fall season and they car ried over long enough to more than make up for being late. To put the whole thing In a nutshell, you could say the Rock fishing Spring and Fall was good and the bottom fishing and Summer trolling was very poor. What’s ahead for 1960? I j have no crystal ball and lay no claims to be able to forecast the movement of fish, but this much is obvious: all those mil lions of small Rock we were pestered with this year will be legal size next season and we j should enjoy an exceptionally good year. As for the bottom fishing, one thing is certain: it could hardly be worse than this year and the odds are in favor that it will be better. McDonogh Tests Examinations for scholarships to McDonogh School, McDon ogh, will be given February 27, Dr. Robert L. Lamborn, head master, announced. The tests will begin at 9 a.m. Requests for applications for the examinations, which are open to boys in the sixth and seventh grades, can be made to the director of admissions at i the school Be at the rail— not on the road when the bugle blows - 'ln M'll Coaches and Refreshment Car §j|| lv. HyottivilU 11.10 AM Lv. University, D.C. . . 11.15 AM (Michigan Ava. & 7th St. f N.E.) lv. Silver Spring 11.25 AM lv. Rockville . 1 1.35 AM ROUND $075 " TRIP Inc. tax from all point! thown obov. Returning after last race 60 BY TRAIN FOR ALL-WEATHER COMFORT BALTIMORE A OHIO RAILROAD Formal Wear COMPLETE 9 tuxedos ftjff • Full Dress * Cutaways m FORMAL WEAR VyLyH RENTAL and SALE Mjjfl ACCESSORIES IHflarry m alaiVs Rockville Center PO. 2-6726 Announcing FRANCIS H. BARBER FUNERAL HOME LAYTONSVILLE, MD. SUCCESSOR TO ROY W. 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