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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1970
rnE PHARR PRESS, PHARR (HIDmLGO COUNTY). TEXAS
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Baseball Coacing
Clinic Scheduled
At Pan Am Feb. 21
Five major league baseball
scouts and the University of Tex-
as trainer will participate in the
Second Annual High School Base-
ball Coaching Clinic at Pan
American College Saturday, Feb.
21.
James A. (Jim) Brooks, direc-
tor of athletics at Pan Am, said
he expects many baseball coaches
from throughout South Texas to
attend.
Frank Medina, athletic trainer
at the University of Texas, will
speak on “Care of the Pitcher’s
Arm.”
Bobby Cannon, — former UT
sports great, baseball coach at
Pan Am and Ednburg High, and
a member of the Texas Hall of
Fame — will speak on “Base
Running and Bunting.”
The scouts and their subjects
are Jack Bloomfield, San Diego
Padres, hitting; Red Murff, Mon-
treal Expos, pitching; Rex Carr,
California Angels, catching; Bus-
ter Mills, New York Yankees, out-
field; and Red Conner, Houston
Astros, infield.
David Mosquedo will speak on
umpiring.
A1 Ogletree, Pan American
baseball coach and clinic chair-
man, will speak on “Play Situa-
tions, Rundowns and Sliding.”
Tom Esparza, Pan Am director
of intramurals, will speak on
“Organizations and Public Rela-
tions.”
The $5 registration fee includes
lunch and dinner at the Pan Am
cafeteria. Registration is between
7:30 and 8 a.m. Saturday at Pan
Am.
Bears Upset Favored
Cards 69-54
The PSJA Bears won their 4th
conference game of the cage sea-
son when they upset the favored
Harlingen Cards 69-54 on the
home court of the Cards last
week.
Juan Garza was the hottest
shot artist for the Bears, soaring
20 points, the first time he scored
in double figures this season.
The Bears won the game in
the final quarter when they
scored 16 points to only 5 for
the Cards.
Harlingen lost two of their
i players by the foul route in the
final minutes.
In the first game, Harlingen
won on the PSJA court.
Game Dept. Has 17
New Officers
The Texas Parks & Wildlife
Dept, has 17 newly commissioned
game management officers: and
•they have been assigned to coun-
ties in various parts of the state.
The 17 were selected from 436
applicants and this group brings
the Game Management staff up
to 289.
— TRADE IN PHARR —
MANAGING MAJOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL teams is the most
hazardous job in the United
States — much worse than a
politician. A politician is elected
for a definite number of years,
usually 2, 4 or 6, and cannot be
replaced ((except by recall elec-
tion) unless he dies in office. A
major league baseball manager
sometimes has more than a one-
year contract but that doesn’t
mean anything as many get fired
before their contracts are up. The
baseball owners do not seem to
think anything of it. They fire
him, give him a minor job in the
organization, and forget him.
Wouldn’t that be great if the peo-
ple could do that with some of
their politicians?
Out of the 20 managers in the
two major leagues this year,
eight will be new. Five of them
are in the American League.
They are Bill Rigney at Min-
nesota, succeeding Billy Martin;
Charley Metro at Kansas City,
replacing Joe Gordon; DaVe Bris-
tol at Seattle, succeeding Joe
Schultz, John McNamara replaces
Hank Bauer at Oakland, and Ed-
die Kaska goes to Boston for
Dick Williams.
Over in the National League,
the tum-overs have not been so
great. Sparky Anderson is at the
helm for Cincinnati, replacing
Dave Bristol; Frank Lucchesi is
at Philadelphia and Danny Mur-
taugh is at Pittsburgh for the
third time in his baseball career.
It is a “safe” bet that there
will be another change of faces
when the 1971 baseball season
begins. Some of these eight new
ones of 1970 may not be around.
* * *
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE
TEXAS BASEBALL LEAGUE is
82 years old? How about that?
The league is a far cry from
what it used to be, with teams
from New Mexico, Arkansas, Lou-
isiana and Tennessee now in-
cluded.
Here are the managers and
their teams: Andrew Gilbert,
Amarillo; Joe Altobelli, Dallas-Ft.
Worth; Del Crandall, Albuquer-
que; Del Rice, El Paso; Jim
Marshall, San Antonio; Lou Fitz-
gerald, Shreveport; Ken Boyer,
Arkansas; and Johnny Antonelli,
Memphis. Do you recognize any
of these? Many were major
league stars just a few years ago.
Most of these fellows have been
in baseball all of their lives and
know nothing else. They are
managing these minor league
teams hoping that they will get
a “shot” at a major league job
before they hang up their spikes.
And we are sure that many of
these would do just as good a
job in the majors as those that
are there now. There are far mare
qualified people in baseball than
there are jobs available. That is
true of so many professions
throughout the country. (Some
exceptions, of course.)
* * *
THIS HAS TURNED INTO A
BASEBALL COLUMN this week
so will continue for another
thought or two, and that is that
the major league super stars have
so many outside interssts that
baseball is a sideline, instead of
a major enterprise with them.
Two that immediately come to
mind are Tom Seaver, the star
of the World Champion New
York Mets, and Denny McLain,
the one-time 30-game winner of
the Detroit Tigers. Both make
more money outside of baseball
now than in baseball. Seaver has
started something new — a tele-
vision show once each week,
with his wife as the added at-
traction. It will be interesting
to see how this works out dur-
ing the baseball season.
In the twilight of his career,
Mickey Mantle had many out-
side interests. Baseball was a
■‘minor” money maker the last
few years'of his career.
* * *
ODDS & ENDS PICKED UP
here and there in the world of
sports. . . . One of the Audubon
series films will be shown at the
McAllen Civic Center Friday
night, Feb. 20th, with two show-
ings — 6:30 and 8:30. Tickets may
be purchased at the door. . . .
BILL GOOCH, the game manage-
ment officer in Willacy Co.
showed his wildlife films which
he had personally shot here in
the Valley at the last meeting of
the Valley Sportsmen’s Club and
he has quite a collection of many
species of wild life, probably one
of the most unusual is two bucks
with locked antlers, which he
fnade just a few years ago. He
had a series of shots on snakes
that was excellent. He also com-
mented that the longest rattler
he ever measured was seven and
one-half feet. And that reminds
us of the large rattlesnake that
is mounted in a tavern on U. S.
Highway 281 about one mile
north of Faysville. Some time
when you are driving by, stop
and have a look. We have for-
gotten the exact measurements
but it was something like 84 or
86 inches. The size of the head
on this snake is fantastic. ... A
few weeks ago, this column men-
tioned that WALTER ANDER-
SON of Weslaco had bagged a
giant whitetail deer in Starr Co.
with an antler spread of 2.9%
inches. He entered that head in
the widest antler contest of thr
San Antonio Light and won Is4
place, a Winchester 30-06 rifl,
Incidentally, he could have en
tered the deer in the heaviest
deer division and won that event
as this deer field dressed 170
pounds. However, you cannot er
the valley
matt*
VALLEY SPORTSMEN CLUE
•« ft. Ml 1111 • MIU1M1. KIM
By HARRY FOEHNER
Shooting sportsmen have long
contended, in their opposition to
gun registration and licensing
laws, that the lawful owner of
firearms, not the criminal, suf-
fers most of the penalty.
They have pointed out that
persons bent upon committing
crimes while in illegal possession
of a gun are not apt to be con-
cerne d about the illegality when <
the criminal act involved carries
a more severe penalty. Neither
are they going to register guns
prior to using them illegally.
Two cases of gun possession
violations came to light illustrat-
ing that point. One involved the
arrest of a Wyoming gun collec-
tor in Denver on charges of vio-
lating the Gun Control Act of
1968. The other involved the ar-
rest of a suspect in Detroit,
Mich., on charges of possession
and sale of marijuana.
In the drug case, investigating
officers found a sawed-off shot-
gun and a .38 caliber revolver in
U51rin---y-ptaoa-oin
addition to the marijuana. The
fact that the suspect was not
charged with violation of the
National Firearms Act (passed
in 1968) has created considerable
controversy between Michigan
sportsmen and law enforcement
officials.
The Wyoming gun collector ap-
parently had failed to comply
with potrions of the Act. The
collector had set up his firearms
display at a show in Denver
when officers of the Alcohol, To-
bacco and Firearms Division
made the arrest and confiscated
167 guns valued at $3 816.50. They
subsequently returned 84 antique
nieces which are exempt.
Granted, the man should have
ter one deer in two contests, and
he would have had to take the
complete deer to San Antonio to
enter the weight division. For
the antler division, all he had to
take was the antlers . . . ROY
STOCKSTILL has found some
good bass fishing in some stock
ponds in Starr . Co. . . . The nu-
tria or beaver are still in the
RIO GRANDE on the east bank
of the Santa Ana Game Refuge.
known the law and acted ac-
cordingly. His mistake could cost
him a five-year prison term and
$5,000 on each of three counts.
On the other hand, the drug
suspect, in violating another fed-
eral law which prohibits posses-
sion of unregistered weapons
such as sawed-off shotguns, did
not have to worry about break-
ing the law regarding guns.
That’s the way it’s been with
gun laws. We’ve had them for
the last 30 years. Trouble is,
they haven’t been enforced as
rigidly as they should be. So now
we have mare and more gun
laws that are enforced less and
less.
When will the gun law hypoc-
risy cease? Not until the law-
makers realize that crime is a
social disease, not gun prob-
lem, and act accordingly.
* * *
Here is a savory way to bake
drumfish:
Two pounds black drum fillets
ar other fish fillets, fresh or
fresh-frozen
Two teaspoons lemon juice
Dash pepper
Six slices bacon, chopped
Half cup soft bread crumbs
Two tablespoons chopped pars-
ley
Three-fourths cup thinly sliced
onion
Two tablespoons bacon fat
Skin fillets and place in single
layer in a greased baking dish,
12x8x2 inches. Sprinkle with lem-
on juice and pepper. Fry bacon
until crisp. Remove bacon from
fat. Add to bread crumbs and
parsley. Cook onion in bacon fat
until tender. Spread onion over
fish. Sprinkle crumb mixture
over top of onion. Bake in mod-
erate oven 350 degrees for 25 to
30 minutes or until fish flakes
easily when tested with a fork.
Serves six. Approximately 170
calories per serving.
Other seafood recipes can be
obtained by sending a postcard
with name and address to Sea-
food, Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department, Austin, Texas 78701.
♦ «
When “Upland Gunner”, a new
movie, was being shown to the
Brownsville Sportsmen Club it
Austin Gagers
End Season With
10-8 Record
The Austin Jr. Hi Bruins,
coached by Ward Smith, com-
pleted their first winning bas-
ketball season since the forma-
tion of the Junior Highs about
10 years ago. The team finished
with a 10-8 record, last year win-
ning only one game.
The Bruins closed out the sea-
son with a win over rival Jeffer-
son, 31-17. Individually speaking,
Coach Smith said, the season
probably ended as it should have
with the teams’ hardest working
player being high point man for
the first time. Lupe Almanza, off
and on the bench at times, fin-
ished the season a strong starter.
High point man for most of
the games was Tommie Whit-
lock, who was also elected team
captain by his teammates. Also
high point man a few times was
Kirk Garfield. Completing the
mainstay of the team were Leo
Saldana and Any DeLeon, with
DeLeon often leading the team
in both rebounds and assists.
Also starting many games were
Balde Montalvo and J. B. Cantu.
Other eighth graders helping
out were Steven Chappell, Man-
uel Balderas, Andy Arcaute and
Noel Ysaguirre. Those seventh
graders making the traveling
squad, and forming the basis of
next year’s squad (along with.
Cantu), were Ricky Mang, Clay
Airington and Dwight Myers.
revealed that some dogs will not
retrieve woodcocks. However, we
have talked with hunters who
said that their dogs retrieved
this interesting game bird read-
ily.
The Bols Woodcock Club, P. O.
Box 1575, Amsterdam, the Neth-
erlands, is trying to run down
the old story about woodcocks
transporting their young while
in flight. An illustration by Ar-
chibald Thorburn showing a
woodcock in flight holding a
chick between its legs has re-
opened the old controversy and
the club is anxious for photo-
graphs or eyewitness reports
from those who may have seen
this happen.
PSJA Whips McA.
51-48 For First
Victory in Years
The PSJA Bears edged out the-
favored McAllen Bulldogs by a
score of 51-48 at the Osodome
Tuesday night before at very en-
thusiastic home crowd.
It was the first time PSJA has
defeated McAllen in basketball
in so long that no one at PSJA
High School could remember the
year or the time for sure.
The victory knocked McAllen
out of any hopes for a tie for
the District championship.
It was the third consecutive
victory by the Bears and lifted
their record to 5-9 for the year.
McAllen is 9-4.
The game was close all the
way, with PSJA ahead 21-20 at
half and was tied at 38-38 at the
end of the third quarter.
Mark Hall led PSJA in points
with 14.
PSJ9 was hot at the foul iine
hitting 16 out of 23.
Two Bulldog regulars fouled
out in the final minutes—Jim
Merryman and Doug Schneider.
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OPEN FROM 7 A.M. TILL 2 A.M.
trouble
And we go out of our way to find it.
Hopefully, before you do. We keep
our telephone cables under air
pressure to protect them from water,
and we’re constantly checking for
leaks. We’re testing your
telephone line regularly to discover
any potential problem before it
occurs. But if you do notice trouble
on your line before we do, just give
us a call. We’ll fix it... at no
extra charge to you. We may be the
only phone company in town,
but we try not to act like it.
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