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WJ Gets Return Match of Fools and Kings Walter Johnson High School is chanlleng ing Blair for County supremacy in basketball this Friday with what the WJ coaches called the “quiet 13” at the start of this cage season. “These boys hustle just as much as any other group we’ve had here,” Coach Allan Swick said last weekend, “but they just don’t say anything.” Possibly there is a relationship, but this year’s Walter Johnson varsity is probably one of the smartest group of athletes that has represented a county school since who knows when. Walt Whitman, for example, was third leading scorer in the County at the start of the week. Along with his court prowess he doubles as president of the WJ Honor Society and is also a member of the math honor society. Bob Wilkes, 6-3 center, is president of the math honor society, Brian McLaughlin, who has made a career of defeating B-CC, is secretary of the math group. Both Wilkes and McLaughlin join Whitman on the general honors group. Dean Kilpatrick, although just a jun ior, is another scholar. “He’s on the honor roll all the time and has almost a straight A average. He should be coming up for membership in the honor society sometime this spring,” Swick said. Warren Price, 6-foot-7 center, is the closest on the team to an average students, and he is a B student according to Swick. Now comes the question. Do the higher grades make the boys any easier to coach? Does it makes them better players? Judging by WJ’s 11-2 record the answer would seem to be yes, but Swick’s not so sure. “They’re a quieter group, more reserved than boys we’ve had in the past, but I wouldn’t want to say that they are any smarter on the floor because they have higher grades in the classroom. I’ve had boys in the past who were pretty smart basketball players, who didn’t have good grades in the classroom," Swick said. • • • Several weeks ago wireservices carried BAY FISHING Copt. Gene Hunt “GAII 0“ Chtsapoako Boaeh. Md. If all of this snow, Ice and freezing weather is getting you down, you can perhaps get some comfort from this important fact All of this business is helping to save us a few rock fish for next year. Before the Chesapeake took on the appear ance of Antarctic, the drift net ters were really throwing it into the rock. Though the indiffer ent legislators at Annapolis have continued to ignore the slaughter of this valuable nat ural resource, it seems Mother Nature has again taken a hand. She has locked most of the net- WEB. A new booklet has been pre pared by The Maryland Game and Inland Fish Commission that illustrates many of the birds local to the Maryland scene. The booklet is in color and costs only 35 cents. If you’d like to have a copy, send to Malcolm King, Director of Public Relations, Maryland Game and Inland Fish Commis sion, Annapolis. Pepco Note In the very near future, a film will be made for the out door show that’s shown over Channel 11 on Monday nights. Approximate date of this partic ular showing of the PEPCO fishing is February 13. How, where and what to fish for, will be the topics of con versation and film. It should be interesting. Birds In Trouble The cover of snow that has lain on the ground the past few weeks is making it increasingly harder on birdlife in general. Many species are able to get food by nipping buds, small twigs and seeds from plants that project above the white stuff. But, gravel forms a critical part of a bird’s diet They must eat a certain amount of it to aid in grinding and digesting food. If you attempt to feed any birds soon, please put a little sand or other fine stone near the feed. Good Buy The Maryland Conservation ist, is the official magazine of the Maryland Game and Inland Fish Commission. It has inter esting articles concerning hunt-1 f* By George Bragaw Sports Editor © Mi ters in the harbor and thereby given a reprieve to the rock who have escaped them so far. Even when the netters can break out of their slips, there is so much flow Ice drifting down the Bay that It is at the least a very risky nuisance to them. This is not the first time that Mother Nature has stepped in to give the rock fish a break. You may remember that Janu ary and February 1960 were un usually warm. During these months the netters couldn’t catch enough fish to keep a sick cat over the week end. So AFIELD in Maryland By Lefty Krch ing, fishing, wildlife and con servation in the Free State. In addition, it gives detailed re ports on the many projects that are carried on by their depart ment Many tips about hunting and fishing, as well as how to han dle the game after it’s taken, are included in this informative little book. Bud Taylor, editor of the magazine is one of the better wildlife artists in the country, and he proves it with many beautiful illustrations. Another point of interest is the fact this book gives an an nual report of every dollar spent by the Commission. It’s the cheapest magazine you can buy. Published bi monthly, it costs $1 for a year or $1.50 for two. Crow Shooting The big American crow, not native to our area comes down with the other migrating birds from the north each fall. They are here now, and roosting in the vicinity of Taneytown. Each morning they leAve the roosting area and travel well-defined fly ways, they return by the same routes that evening. Most experienced gunners construct blinds along these crow roadways, put out decoys, start calling when the crowds appear and wait in ambush. It’s not unusual for gunners who are in the know to shoot 300 or more shells from a single blind in a morning. But, the big black birds will be leaving for Canada and points north about the last of February, or at latest, mid- March. If you want to get in on some of the fastest shotgunning available today, try crow shoot ing this area soon. the story of Frank Funk of Bethesda sign ing his 1961 contract with the Cleveland Indians. “First I’ve heard of it, “Frank relayed to his mother, Mrs. Raymond Funk in Bethesda. “And I’m not budging out of Corpus Christ!, (Texas) without one.” Funk recovered from a sore arm to become the top reliefer in the International League with the Toronto Maple Leafs last season. He was called up to Cleveland on August 30—his 25th birthday—and went on to win four games for the Indians in the last month of the cam paign as the Indians beat out the old Senators for fourth place in the American League. Frank turned in a good winter season for Caracas, Venezuela, as his earned run average was below two per game. • • • Gordon Coleman of Rockville who signed his Cincinnati contract over the weekend tips the scales at 208 pounds these days. This is about the lightest Gordy has weighed since he graduated from Richard Montgomery High School. Several years back, Gordy reported to a Cleveland Indian spring training camp at 235. “I spent the first two weeks of training just running lap after lap. I’ll never do that again,” Coleman said. Coleman can’t explain his inability to hit home runs last summer but it doesn’t worry him. He hit 15, six with the Redlegs and the rest with Seattle on the coast. Despite the fact that he was a rookie, facing big league pitching for the first extended period of his career, Coleman feels he should have done better than his .271 batting average and six homers in the big time. He intends to do something about it this summer. * * * If Gerald Athey doesn’t make it as a big league pitcher he always has his music to fall back on. With three other fellows, Gerry was vocalist and guitarist with the “Blue Ridge Ramblers” a country music group that special izes in Saturday night dances for Elk, Moose and others on the animal circuit. what happened the following spring and summer? The sport fishermen and the commercial netters both had one of the best seasons ever. It doesn't take a mental giant to figure it out. If they continued to take the rock by the ton while the fish are laying dormant during the win ter, then there certainly can’t be plenty of fish around the fol lowing season. Even worse than this is the fact that every fish they take now will mean one less fish to spawn this spring. There is no unlimited supply of rock fish in the Bay. Most men with half a brain would ad mit this. Unfortunately, how ever, there are some few who would drain the Bay and scrape every living creature out tomor row if they could make a few pennies for their effort. The world has always had its few who would exploit any thing or anybody so long as they could pocket a dime in the process. This is not surprising. What is surprising is that men, reasonably straight thinking men, will stand around with their hands in their pocket and permit it to happen. There will be a bill before the Legislature again this year to close the Bay during January, February, and March to all types of fishing. If it gets the usual treatment, Fire* Lightning INSURANCE Extended Coverage HOMEOWNERS POLICIES Your safety and satisfaction are guaranteed by our continuous experience in Montgomery County since 1848 and our surplus of more than $2,500,000 There is an Agent * son near you. Diamond 9-2901 Sethesda Rockville Claude V. Hyson Griffith & Griffith NAtional 8-6690 POplar 2-2636 Chavy Choie Sandy Spring Charles M. Bottler, Jr. Downey Ins. Agency EM 2 8206 SPring 4-3871 Floyd E. Davis, Jr. .. . NAtional 8-0352 SewW^Agency Damascus JUniper 5-8900 C. W. Day & Son Henry A. 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Since then Price and Mc- Laughlin have been benched and only Kilpatrick and Yates remain where they were at the srtart of the season. WJ has junked the man-for-man de fense except on rare occasions. Yates and Whitman are now at the guards with four players, Steve Nelson, Bob Wilkes (both 6-foot-3i, Kilpatrick and Buddy Borror <6-foot-2) working the three front court slots accord ing to their play on a particu lar evening. “We’ve been waiting for this one so long I wouldn’t want to hazard a guess on anything about it.” Swick said last week end. “This is the make or break game,” he said “We’ve got to get by this one to get a chance at the State title.” And that State title is what Swick has had in mind, even during those dark moments in the Blair dressing room after the opening game loss. “We’re not a bad ball ciub,” Swick said that night. “We’il be back.” A WJ victory would also benefit Richard Montgomery, a game behind the Green. If Blair wins, this would just about wrap it up for the Blazers. Mathematically, there is still a long way to go, but Blair can expect serious trouble only from B-CC and Richard Montgomery. A Blair victory would leave both Walter Johnson and Rich ard Montgomery two games back, and put the pressure squarely on them. For Eddie Moffatt, winning tonight’s ball game would be a step toward one of his basket ball goals. In five previous years at Biair, Moffatt has come close but has never won a State championship. In 1957 and 1958 the Blazers the delegates from the Eastern Shore counties will kill it dead er than a door nail while the delegates from the other coun ties look the other way. With Blazers Tomorrow SENTINEL OOUNTY, M MD Y Thursday, February 9, 1961 Injury Slows Austin Hetiel Tops Scorers; Doane Takes 2d Spot Fred Hetzel of Landon and Kenny Doane of Richard Montgomery are pulling away from the field among Coun ty scorers, in games through Saturday, February 6. Hetzel, who led all scorers in total points and average-wise two weeks ago, has increased his margin. The 6-foot-8 senior hit 28 points against St. Steph en’s, 22 against St. Albans, 30 in the Georgetown Prep game, and 24 against Columbian Prep to raise his total to 262 in 11 games. That’s 14 more points than Doane. who has played two more games. In turn, Doane's margin over third place Walt Whitman of Walter Johnson is 71 points. Hetzel’s 23.8 average is 4.7 better than Doane. Leon Taylor of Gaithersburg, who has played only nine games, is close behind with an 18.1 average. Doane. who was third in both points and averages two weeKs ago, scored 20 points in three of the four games he has played since. Ed Austin, of B-CC, who was second in scoring by only four points and fifth in averages, has been slowed with an ankle in jury suffered in the last mo ments of the Blair game, and dropped to seventh in both charts. Taylor, who was second In averages, dropped behind Doane, but moved among the top ten in scoring, taking eighth place with 163 points. went to the finals of the State championship a heavy favorite, but were beaten by Frederick and Fort Hill respectively. Against Frederick, Charley Kel ler, jr„ was too much to handle, and against Fort Hill the Blazers got little service from an injured Tommy Brown, their all-everything that season. This season the loss of one ball player should not have such an adverse effect on the Blazers, who still have not had one player outshine all the others. George Davis is the closest thing to a start the Blazers have, leading the scoring in seven of their 12 games. Every starter has been the leading scorer at least once. ! v 8 Con.cniU* ■ „i n, yfi , n Cup, ■ - p 18 j Imp.. 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Whitman, scoring only one point against Richard Mont gomery, dropped from fourth to eighth. Freund and Neel joined the top ten average men. replacing Ronnie Andre of Wheaton, and Rickie Grimsley and Bill Farm er of North wood. Unlike two weeks ago, wiien 16 players were represented, the two lists are composed of the same ten players. WwA it's a Ea \ ■■ a aim \ fATT kji, Of What Is German Sliver What Was “The Holy Roman Con,posed? K, "P ,re ” ? . . This Is the name given in German silver contains NO history to a loosely jointed T . . .. „ empire that existed in Central ' Europe from 992 to 1806. The of copper, nickel and zinc in Holy Roman Empire, toward proportions that vary with *^ e * as< more lhan a name, was broken up by Na the use intended. poleon in 1806. THE J. L. KING FLOOR C OMPANY . . . RETAIL and CONTRACT SERVICE ... All our work is GUARANTEED to please you and your BUDGET . . . CREDIT TERMS are so convenient . . . Have that SHINY NEW FLOOR installed NOW . . . 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School for Deaf Poolesville 2:00 Tuesday Damascus vs. Woodward Prep Damascus 3:30 Tuesday Good Counsel vs. Wilson Wilson 4:00 Tuesday Sherwood vs. Mackin Sherwood 3:30 Tuesday Bullis School vs. St. Anthony SS Armory 4:00 TOTAI. i-oints TOC TEN rittjrr Mtiiuol IM*. (1. 1. Fred Hetzel Landon 262 1L 2. Kenny Doane RMHS 248 13 3 Walt Whitman WJ 177 13 4. George Davis Blair 376 12 4. Bob Freund B-CC 176 33 6. Dale Neel RMHS 173 13 7 Ed Austin B-CC 365 12 8. Leon Taylor Gaithersburg 168 9 9. Ed Barton Geo. Prep 162 10 9. George Manger Landon 162 11 AVKKAfiEB riaycf School Pts. ft. Avg. 1. Fred Hetzel Landon 262 11 23.8 2. Kenny Doane RMHS 248 13 19.1 3. Leon Taylor G’burg 163 9 18.1 4. Ed Barton G. Prep 362 30 16.2 5. George Manger Landon 162 11 14.73 6. George Davit Blair 176 12 14.67 7. Ed Austin B-CC 165 12 13.75 8. Walt Whitman WJ 377 13 13.70 9. Bob Freund B-CC 176 13 13.5 10. 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