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County High-Lights By JOE BOUCHARD Sport* Editor The disciplinary action taken recently by Jim DeMoss, North wood High School’s football coach, proves beyond a doubt that he’s a courageous, sincere and dedicated instructor of the sport. DeMoss, who is in his second season as Northwood’s head football coach, was forced to dismiss eight boys from the team for breaking training rules. And this action took place prior to two important games that had a direct bearing on Northwood’s chances of winning the Montgomery County grid title. In the eight boys cut from the squad, four were members of the starting 11 and four were top-flight reserves with plenty of game time to their credit The incident all came to light three days before the game with Montgomery Blair, which, incidently, wound up in a scoreless tie. DeMoss was Informed that several of his boys had broken training rules earlier in the week. The bad news was broken to DeMoss by athletic director, Kyle Wilson. A meeting was immediately called with Harold Packard, school principal, Wilson and DeMoss in attendance. It was decided at that meeting that the evidence showed the boys had broken training rules established prior to the season. “We had no choice,” DeMoss reported. “It was clear that a flagrant and deliberate violation of training rules had taken place. The boys had to be punished.” The dismissal waa immediate. The boys missed the Blair game and would be absent from the lineup for the important Walter Johnson contest. It was at this point that DeMoss identified himself as a man of excellent qualities. Knowing that the absence of egiht key players would weaken his chance for a shot at the title, DeMoss never faltered and administered the full punishment—dismissal from the squad. How easy it would have been to reprimand the players for breaking the rules and hushing the incident. And how tempting it must have been to just let the entire affair pass unnoticed— especially with such important games coming up and Northwood In need of every game-worthy player. Undoubtedly the action taken by DeMoss will draw a great amount of criticism from some parents and be ruled too harsh by many others. However, these same people who do the most criticizing are the ones who fail to look past their noses. While the youngsters hit by the action are hurt and em barrassed today, these same boys will return later and thank their coach for his stern and necessary ruling. Rules, be they pertaining to sports, politics or religion, are made for a specific reason. It does a youngster of high school age more harm to know he can break a rule and get away with it. The seven boys were dealt a severe blow by their coach, but at the same time the coach was dealt an even more severe blow by the boys. All concerned knew the penalty for breaking training rules, but ignored the consequences resulting from being caught. This lesson will undoubtedly prove valuable to all concerned in later iife. Being a fair-minded coach. DeMoss limited the penal ty to Hie football season. All the boys will be permitted to participate in other sports following the grid campaign. Let’s hope the example is followed by other men in the coach ing ranks— when punishment is necessary, think of the boys and not of personal achievements. Three cheers for Jim DeMoss for being a man capable of sticking to his rules and convictions. Adult Cage Loop Seeking Teams The Montgomery County j Adult Basketball Leagues have \ openings for teams interested in playing on Wednesday and Sun day nights. There are three leagues available. The “A” league is for the better teams, j The “B” league is for the teams not quite so good. The “C” I league is for teams whose play ers are over 30 years old. Prac-1 tice games begin December 2 [ COLD WEATHER ] mm I || HUNTING GEAR \ 1 ■j Red & Black Plaid [I K Insulated Hunting Coat Uj I QUILTED INSULATED UNDERWEAR I pr. 2 Piece Suit Q INSULATED HUNTING SOCKS 98° HUNTING GLOVES from 69 c $0.25 ORANGE SAFETY VESTS L f|| I hooded red I I SWEATSHIRTS I $0.75 ■ NYLON WINPEREAKER 0 I HUNTING l SPORT CAPS I up I#. >4 l I TRA&INB TOST I 117 N. WASHINGTON ST. (in the Rockville Shopping Center) I POplar 2-3946 I I and league games begin Jan. 2. i Anyone interested in entering ' a team should contact the Rec reation Department at PO. 2- 2121, ext. 366, 'Skins' Ace Talks Bobby Mitchell, star halfback iof the Washington Redskins, recently lectured on football to jthe students of Takoma Park Junior High School. WHO OF J Y GALS 1H ROCKVILLE /iL I WILL RO6N OVER W* ’ > I THE FESTIVITIES 13 / THANKSGIVING BAY 'pv.j / WHERE TWO BIG GRIDIRON CLASHES WILL TAKE PLACE... Spartans Down Northwood 19-6 (Continued from Page 8) his aeriel bombs. And the dis tance apparently meant little. Several of his tosses were for long yardage, while the rest were flankers and over the middle. Miller reports that during practice sessions Blomquist finds little difficulty in heaving a 50 or 60-yard pass and he dis played this ability during the Indian contest. Lending Blomquist great sup port in the backfield were Irwin, Tom McGann and ’ Bob Gerrie. Finishing right behind Walter Johnson for the league diadem was Wheaton, while B-CC fin ished in the third position. Northwood took the fourth spot with Richard Montgomery tak ing fifth. Dethroned Blair was tied with Fishing Season Closes Nov. 20 The 1962 fishing season will | close at the Washington Sub urban Sanitary Commission’s Triadelphia and Rocky Gorge Reservoirs at sundown on Nov. 30. Opening date for 1963 will be March 1. The Commission annually closes its two lakes from Dec. 1 through the end of February for safety reasons and to permit maintenance operations which cannot be carried out during the fishing season. A record number of anglers used the WSSC water supply Impoundment reservoirs for ALL RAILROADERS... I J Have your electric trains repaired If and put in order now! M B ■■■ ■ ■ 11 ■ ■■■ ■ ■ Order your fill-in* now for Christmas! LIONEL M attention moor m. Sales and Service Jm TRA,N buildbk JHm Our fine, complete stock of kits, parts end accessories is available for your browsing fun—our advice la free—so la our kibitsing! I MODEL RAILROAD CENTER 211 East Montgomery Avenue POplar 2-4499 Lay-Away NOW for Christmas ! little Gaithersburg for the ' seventh position just In front of I Sherwood. This season’s finish was the closest in a number of years and was not decided until the final contest. Had Walter Johnson lost, Wheaton would have won all the marbles. Had both Walter Johnson and Wheaton lost then Northwood would have taken the title. And even adding to the con- I fusion —a four-way tie could ; have developed. Had the Spar tans and Wheaton lost and B-CC and Northwood won—all would have finished with 4-2 records. The final league standings: W. 1. T. Wilier Jmliiimid 5 j | Wheaton 4 12 H*tiiPMJa~< hevjr Glia** 4 2 I Northwood 3 3 | Richard Montgomery 3 4 1 j Blair 2 4 J Gaithersburg 2 4 1 ! Hhrrwood j ft | sport fishing this year. Top j catches Included several Large mouth Bass weighing in at ■ better than seven pounds. A-1 Smallmouth Bass weighing six pounds, one ounce, was taken at j Triadelphia Lake during the season. For fishermen who like “to plan ahead," a small map of the Commission’s reservoir fishing and picnicking areas and a digest of regulations governing their use may be obtained free of charge from the WSSC Pub lic Information Office, 4017 Hamilton St., Hyattsville, Md. Tenpin Trail by Paul O. Mohn Little change occurred in the very tight Inner Maryland Division of the Triple A MW BPA Traveling League. Only five games separate seventh place and first place. Much credit should be given the team captains for their hard work in forming teams and as a result the competition is very close. Seven of the 10 teams are averaging between 888 and 880. The eighth is 876. This is the kind of league that engenders the greatest competition. Back on the West Coast sev eral scratch leagues are reform ed each year to match each team within 10 points of one another. While I do not advo cate copying many of the Ideas of other areas it does appear that any good ideas could be used. I believe that to a limited extent a reshuffle of a scratch league or two in our area to accomplish closely matched teams would be desirable. IN THE .METRO Merchants League at Congressional, Ag news Inn still leads and in fact increased their lead by winning 3 from Heindl Printers. Ed Foose led the winners with a 647. Gary Mason almost kept up by rolling 638 for Heindl's. Al’s Texaco, led by Paul King’s 622, won three from the Six teeners and moved into second place. Paul King leads In aver age with 190. In a position night hey-day the old pros faced the young stars in the Congressional Classic. This was the battle for first. Going into the match the youngsters, Super Giant team, led the oldsters. Good and Ruff Crab House, by half a game. I After the night was over the i boys found that their mentors 1 still could teach some lessons. Today the Super Giant team Is in third place having made no progress against the Good ’n Ruff men. Actually It was a matter of pressure when the chips were down the pros came through and understandably the youngsters were a bit tight and, while not missing did not get the needed double* and turkeys in the tenth frame. Here are the scores — Ist game, 932 to 909; 2nd game, 835 to 874; and the 3rd game, 942 to 936. It is no disgrace to lose to the pros and assuredly the other teams must be shuddering think what this young team will be | like next year and the many years ahead of them. This is i the first year that they have bowled together. Team mem : bers Include Jim Wooten, Dick ; Martin, Ron Asbury, Buddy Engleman, and Gary Mason. Oh yes, the oldsters, Jimmy Moore, Ira Hand, George Rykoskey, Michael Fremming, Vernon Ash bacher. and Gordon Bonnette— recognize them? Sports Rosin moved Into sec ond place by taking three from Trailways Bus. Blue Ridge took three from Filsingers to move into fourth. I HAVE WAITED about six j weeks to write about a great i guy for fear of jinxing him— | but he is still going and I doubt j If any comments at this time will jinx him. The bowler Is Mike Fremming. Mike is off to his best start ever. In the Congressional Classic he Just keeps chucking those 600's. His average is now 206. He has been doing almost as well up in the Friday night league in Frederick. Mike bowled on the Silver Spring Sports team the three previous years in the Congressional Classic. He serves as secretary treasurer of the league. In the Emerton Mixed League that bowls at Silver Spring Bowl on Thursday nights the Inspec tors are leading by two games. Shirley Nord had a game of 209 and a set of 502. This gave her three first place spots on the weekly standing sheet. Lead in average are Bill Hampstead and Erv Rltz with 175. They both bowl for the Timber Tumblers. Gllck’s Opticians are still minimizing their losses —Ken Toda led them to another four points over Capital Savings with his 603. Larry Hale shot his third consecutive 600 with a 633. Matt Pangbum, secretary treasurer, Coca Cola League that bowls at Wheaton Triangle, had a 700 locked up, or did he? In the tenth frame of the last game all he needed was a mark. He confidently made his ap proach, smoothly lifted the ball, forgot to follow-through and drew the 8-10 split. He had 688. In the Wednesday Night Men’s Commercial at Silver Spring the Goetz Co. moved Into the lead by two games over the Vitro Lab. High for the last ac tion was Jack Poole of Lou’s Place with 611. Upon completion of the first round, the Wheaton Plaza Ladies Classic League finds Jack Blank Pontiac in first place. Bette Snyder is the cap tain has led her team to a six game margin over runner-up Charcoal House. Third is Oxley Realty, last season’s league champs. Claire Kozel has high series of 586. Esther Rothen buhler has high game, 221, and somebody must have high aver age but the publicity director failed to provide me with the Information. Get the hint, Esther? WASHINGTON DIVISION NO. 46 is making a run away in the Nation’s Capital Deaf Bowling Association that bowls as Silver Spring Bowl. They lead Cooper-Trent, Inc. by seven games. Jimes Crites, captain of the Graphic Arts team, roll ed a new league high game of 221 the last time out. The Congressional teams In the Double AA MWBPA and Single A MWBPA and Triple A MWBPA Women Traveling leagues are doing much better than the Triple A men. Con gressional-Brown are In first place in the Double A men’s and the Congressional Old- Timers are in second in the Single A men. The Major men and women, and the Triple A j men we will not discuss because j of security precautions. Maryland N ational Bank does so much ... Special or Regular . . Checking Accounts for so many people Savings Accounts Full Service i Christmas or DANK Vacation Club Consumer Banking with your interest Loans IN MIND Safe Deposit Maryland?* Largest Bank Boxes Will Grow With Montgomery County Trust Services Mortgage & Commercial Wm Foreign Exchange—Wire Transfer —Collections 201 E. Montgomery Ave. • Rockville • 401 N. Washington St. Dial 762-3997 MEMBER rtDEBAT, DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Tar Heels High On Ex-Blazer CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Hugh Eagleton, 6-foot-4, 225-pound tackle from Montgomery Blair High School, has a bright foot ball future ahead of him here at tlie University of North Caro lina, according to freshman THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER J PARTIAL BILL OP PARE I Roast Young Maryland Turkey $3.95 Saked Tender Virginia Ham $3.50 f ; Roast Long Island Duck $4.25 A- Children's Dinners (under 12 yrs. eld) sl.9s 7711 Eastern Ave, Silver Spring Hi For Reservations: JU. 8-1688 Do you Jrj know what FULLK pi HOUSEPOWER j|f#i means? asks TV star Ka BEVERLY STARK A If your Home is like 4 oat of 5 American homes, yUH probably know what LOW houeepower means. Ik means too few Electrical outlets, dimming light*, slow-heating appliances and blown fuses. It takes aft least 150-amp Electrical service to enjoy Electrical living at its best and moat efficient —freezer, air conditioning units, dishwasher, range, clothes dryer and the other Electrical oonvenienoss you have today plus those you’ll want to add tomorrow. 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