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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1957-02-07
Town Team Wins
Three I'm A Row
During Past Week

Bluffton Town Team got off to a
solid start in the second round of
Lima Major league play defeating
Ottoville 1888 last Thursday night.
Down by one point at the end of
the first quarter the local five
finished strong holding Ottoville to
only Ia points in the last half. Bluff.
TONS defense was at its best in the
third quarter when they held their
opponents to only one field goal.
Jim Berry, who hit IL consecutive
free throws topped Bluffton with IA
points. Don Schmidt, steady rebound
er, hit IL, and Keith Kirkland 10.
Continuing very successful week
end the Town five rolled over the
Ohio Northern seconds 1889 Friday
night in the preliminary to the ONU-
Hiram game. Taking an easy 41-2S
halftime lead the Town Team coasted
home to the win.
1t was a potentially costly win for
deadeye guard Keith Kirkland twisted
his ankle on the last play of the
game. Coach Harry Klay is not sure
whether Kirkland will be ready for
Thursday nights league fray with
first-round champion Milano Delica-
lessen or not Milano, unbeaten in
league play this year, has lost only
to the touring group of former Uni
versity of Dayton stars. Bluffton
must beat them to stand any chance
of winning the second round league
title.
Kirkland with Is and Joe Colling-
wood with IL led Bluffton in the ONU
fray.
Saturday night the Town Team
made it a clean sweep as they romp-
ed over the Bluffton college seconds
67-47. Taking an easy lead the local
veterans proved themselves far too
much for the Baby Beavers. Colling-
wood returning to his home college
floor led all scorers with Is points.
Berry and Gardner followed with IL.
Sunday afternoon the Bluffton five
will take part in the drawing for the
annual Bradfield Center invitational
Gold Medal tournament.
Fifteen of the strongest independent
clubs in this area are expected for
the tourney which will be held at
Lima's Bradfield Center.
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Beavers Hit lO2 Points, But Goshen
Goes EN- One Better In Local Spectacle
BY DIVISION OF WilDuEE

Doing things just backwards las
weekend the Bluffton college Beavers
lost their hottest game of the sea
son and then turned around and wor
an eight point victory in one of their
poorer games the following night.
Hitting a near-record 102 points
Friday night the Beavers still went
down as sister college Goshen went
them one better in picking up a 103-
102 victory. 81 points were scored in
the last ten minutes in what was the
widest, wooliest game of basketball
played in Founders Hall since it was
opened four years ago.
Despite scoring 102 points the
Beavers never were ahead in the en-
tire game. Closest they came was the
one point margin at the finish. AT
one point in the third period they
were behind as much as IL points.
Five men hit in double figures with
5-8 sophomore Ron Kalb topping all
with 20 points. Able Mast with IS,
newcomer Harry Garverick n d
Roger Bixel, with 16 and Jim Knox
with IL also boosted the Beaver
attack. Leland Weldy scored &c points
to lead the Indiana five.
Apparently shooting their wads in
a losing effort the Beavers slipped
considerably the following evening
but still managed to deal the visiting
Hiram squad a 1884 loss, tenth
straight for Hiram.
The game was close all the way
with the biggest Beaver margin COM
ing just before the final gun. Kenny
Mast's boys actually won it on free
throws, chalking up % to only 16 for
the visitors The weak Hiram club
actually outscored Bluffton from the
field 24-22.
Freshman Able Mast, one of the
Beavers topnotch floor men led the
Be attack with "a points, IL of them
from the charity stripe. Captain
Roger Bixel, with IL was the only
other Beaver to break into double
figures. Dolan with 16, DeMooy with
IL and Teachout with 10 were the
high scorers for the upstate club.
Beaver understudies had a dreary
weekend of it, dropping both games.
Goshen reserves gave evidence of
what was to come as they scored
66-58 overtime win Friday night.
night the Bluffton team ran
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PAGE FIVE

Van Vert. a team which is coming
hard after getting off to a poor start
this season, is cunning for the Pirate
scalp. Almost the entire Van Vert
squad, which suffered a humiliating
Is point licking on their own home
floor at Bluffton hands last year, is
in uniform again this season.
The Cougars are paced by 6-foot
Don Good, the leading scorer in the
Western Buckeye league. The smooth
senior, who averaged over 20 points
a game last year has pushed that
above Is per game this season. Al
though built around Good the Cou-
gars have been able to function with
out him when he missed several
games this season while sick. When
Good is floored the burden of the
Van Vert attack is usually shifted to
senior Larry Gamble.
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Pirate School Is Midqet
In League Of GOLiaths
And The Situation Won't Improve Much
Next Year In Northwest Conference

have overlooked is that oldtime Class
A rivals such as Ada, Columbus
Grove, Elida, Spencerville and others
are also considerably larger than the
Bluffton school,
In the Western Buckeye league for
example Bluffton pits its 72 boys
against the 300 of Kenton high school.
Even Wapakoneta Blume, smallest of
the other WBL teams with 199, is al
most three times as large as Bluffton.
viii things get much better when
Bluffton enters the Northwest con-
ference next year? Probably not.
Besides Lafayette, which has been
on the Pirate schedule for a number
Continued on page g.
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by Charles HiIty

Concrete proof of what Bluffton
sports fans have been claiming for
years turned up in Bob Harrod' S
column in the January q issue of
the Lima News.
Only one school on the Pirates 18
game basketball schedule has a
smaller enrolment than BIuffton' S.
Until that school, Lafayette, was
divided this year it was almost twice
Bluffton's size.
For twenty years Bluffton has been
competing in the Class A Western
Buckeye league with schools usually
three and four times their enrolment.
What a number of local fans may
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Pirates End Era In Sports
In Final WBL Game Friday

Bluffton--the town, the school and
the team-wiIl reach the end Of an
era tomorrow night when the Pirates
take the floor against the Van Vert
Cougars.
TomoTow's game will mark the
end-forever-of organized Western
Buckeye league competition for Bluff
ton, charter member of the league
which grew too big for its father.
Faced with bigger manpower
squeeze each year Bluffton found the
problem too much and made arrange
ments to move to the smaller North
west conference after this season.
Hopeful of winning the league
championship in their final season,
a feat to match their winning of the
league championship in its first year,
the Pirates now find it necessary to
beat the Cougars to insure their
staying out of the league basement.
Off to fine start the Pirates
suffered when an injury laid veteran
guard Joe Urich low for the final half
of the season. Losing much of their
confidence with the loss of Urich the
potentially good Pirate team fell into
their regular mid-season slump and
have lost five of their last seven
games.
Win or lose the Pirates are assured
they will finish with a winning WBL
record against the Cougars for they
have already defeated them IL times
in 20 games. Only schools in the
larger WBL which the Pirates have
not defeated more often than they
have lost are Bellefontaine, holder of
a 1873 record over the Pirates, and
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St. Marys Too Hot To Handle As Pirates
Drop 70 -73 Thriller In Overtime Period

st. Mary's Roughriders en- d G
BlEffton's hopes of a first division
finish in the Class A Western Buck
eye league with a 1913 overtime
victory on the Bluffton floor last
Saturday.
Once again it was a case of Bluffton
running out of gas in the closing
moments as they lost 63-55 last
quarter lead. ST. Marys, which shot
66 percent for the evening, finished
so hot the Pirates needed last
minute baskets by Dan Gleason and
Don Alspach to tie the game at Il.
However the Roughriders stayed hot
in the final three minutes while only
Gleason could find the basket for
Bluffton.
st. Marys started the game in a
press which the Pirates broke wide
open scoring % points in the eight
minute session. The only trouble was
the :, visitors matched them almost
basket for basket. The score was tied
ten times in this period before Bluff
ton sneaked in the last bucket to hold
a 22-20 lead at the horn.
Bluffton, which shot a very respect
able A percent from the field for
the night, moved further ahead in
the second period when st. Marys
hit only five field goals to the Pirate
nine. The clubs again stayed even
in the third stanza only to have the
Roughriders capitalize on the Pirates
late game tiredness.
Alspach, who had been in the
doldrums for nearly a month, led
the Bluffton scoring with 26 points
Gleason, playing more aggressively
than he is accustomed to, hit % more,
the highest total of his high school
career.
The big st. Marys attack featured
60 points divided among three men
Harner, Burgess and Schamp. Har-
ner, one of the better big men of the
league hit back-breaking two field
goals in the first minute of the over
time to send st. Marys to an unstop-
pable ISL lead.
st. Marys reserves more than
proved their superiority in the opener
with a 64-39 victory over Bluffton
After Bruce Bechtel opened pro-
cedings with basket the visitors ran
off IL straight points and the ball
game. Bechtel with IL and George
Burkholder with II led Bluffton
scores while nine different men
shared in carrying the ST. Marys
load.
Bluffton closes it's regular season
play tomorrow night when the tough
Van Vert Cougars move into town.
Van Vert is still smarting from the
runaway victory the Pirates scored
on their court last February as Bluff
ton was tuning up for its victory in
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Kenton, who needed this years win
to take an 81 margin.
Bluffton will be building up to full
steam as they head for the first tour
nament start next week. Urich, who
has been working out this week, will
be in uniform for the game. If all
goes well he may be able to get in
a little play to loosen him up after
his four week layoff. 1t appears
definite that he will be ready to go
by the time Bluffton meets the
Wapakoneta st. Joseph squad in the
opener of the Non-County event a
week from Saturday.
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the Non-County tournament. The
visitors will have practically the
same team, led by high-scoring Don
Good, who is averaging over 25 points
game.
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up against the Bluffton Town Team
a team with too much court exper-
fence and dropped a STAT decision.
Milt Lee topped baby Beacer scorers
for the weekend trays.
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Read The Classified Ads
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NOTES ON BOATS
BY BOB JONES

that absolute accuracy is pos
sessed by every veteran skipper,
let's recognize right now that
to err is human. Few experts,
if any, can be right all the
time. Glossaries are available
to fill us in on the many fine
points of nautical terminology.
II \
Why Knots Instead Of Miles
Probably the most misunder-
stood and confusing of all terms
is that of KNOTS. The knot is
"a unit measurement of speed.
1t means one nautical mile per
hour.
\ But" our budding mariner
asks, why don't you just say
mile per hour and let it go at
that?" The difference is in the
difference between land and
water. A car doing 80 m. p h. over
a highway is lessening the dis
lance between one point and
another at precisely that rate
because only the car is moving.
Water. of course, is almost al
ways moving in one direction or
another. You may be doing 80
m.p.h. through the water, but
against a current. The rate at
which you are lessening the dis
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Corino Surprises
With EorIy Finish
lin Ocean Race

SANTANDER, Spain, July G
R. Arriving so early that
only the official timekeepel
was on hand for greetings. the
yawl Carina, owned and skip
pered by Ricard 8. Nye, Green
wich Conn.,, today became the
probable winner Of the New
pert Santander Transatlantic
Tacht Race.
The 53-foot yawl crossed the
finish line just after z am
with her American crew. She
made the 3,O00-mile journey in
10 days. Is hours. % minutes
and ATS seconds. The seven.
yacht race began June Is al
Newport, r. /.
With her handicap of IS
hours and Is minutes. the Ca
rina, second craft to arrive
was given q corrected time OF
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Mrs, owings her special
achievement award were
caught BY her on q fabulou,
ls-day trip with her husband
to Cabo Blanco last September
Stuart was their guide.
On October ! occurred one Of
those fishing rarities that usu-
ally happen once in a lifetime
Each hooked q big-eye tuna al
the same time and boatec
them successfully although o.
had rather q hectic time. His
fish, taken on 39-thread line,
weighed 327 pounds. and hers
on 24-thread. $40 pounds.
I'VE were fishing deep lines
when the tuna struck" he said.
Jeanette took the only fight.
ing chair "a chair fastened to
the deck which has harness
aids to battle f1sh) while I tried
unsuccessfully to use an ice
chest for support.
Il called for q fighting belt
but it was too small. BY that
time the crew had pulled up
an extra chair. but there was
no way to attach it to the deck
and it slid as I tried to fight
the fish.
"Crewmen tried to hold the
chair. but Jeanette had by that
time whipped her fish and ]
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Some day in every boatman's
life the hard facts of correct
nautical Technology have to
be faced.
You may recall the first time
you were shipmates with sea
lawyer. He corrected you every
time you said something like
"going up front" instead of
ford" Or just when you
thought you were getting pretty
"hep" on the subject, he caught
you up on dead ahead" when
1t really was broad on the
port bow"
THE heck with it." you said.
But the trouble is you just
can't mess around with boats
without finding yourself getting
that way too. It doesn't take
long to recognize that the Ian
guage of the water differs
radically from that of the
land. After all, language be-
ing a means of communication,
the difference between dead
ahead" and broad on the port
bow" can spell the margin be-
tween going aground and re-
naming safely in the channel,
\ X \
No One Is Perfect
But lest we get the notion
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lance over the water will be
somewhat less.
I recall when a couple OF
shipmates were at loggerheads
over the word ceiling" One
of them did use the term
wrongly when he applied it to
the cabin top. But when he
was corrected. his over-eager
opponent made the fatal error
of stating that there was mo
such thing aboard ship as a
ceiling" All, how wrong he
was!
We got out the book and 1t
was established that ceiling
refers to a light sheathing Of
planks along the inside of the
frames to add appearance and
strength.
~ . q A1IlC BdLlAC AOA passing
time. But take care before
putting your silver on the table
@. Does the word "deeps" or
a chart mean the deepest part?
IT. M.
A. Not necessarily. "Deeps'
are the distances in fathoms
between the soundings that are
marked on the chart when they
occur in too small an area fol
general use.
Of you have any question:
similar to these. mail them tt
Bob Jones, care Of The Evening
Star, and we'll do our best tC
answer them here.)
(Copyright, 1857. Superior Feature
Syndicate. Incl
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was able to take her chair to
finish my aght."
On September Il. each took
e broadbill swordfish early in
the day but were prevented by
. leaking gasoline tank from
n uniting an unprecedented
third.
The first. a 450-pounder, was
boasted by Owings. The leak
was discovered and the boat
had started for shore when the
second hroadbill struck. jean
cite boated her fish. which
weighed 235 pounds.
AND how do you 60 about
catching . broadbill2
The bait, usually q bonito,
Is withheld. 2 he said. "until
the fisherman sees the broadbin
lazing on the surface. The bait
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is trolled BY and the fisherman
takes care to leave slack the
length Of an arm and all drag
on the reel.
The fish first takes the bait
away slowly. He stops and the
angler waits for the second run.
this time q fast one. before
he sets the hook. Then. the ex-
plosioni"
The Owings' score card for
the trip. read four hroadbills.
three for Osbourn and one for
his wife: one striped marlin, Q
l54-pounder taken BY Owings:
two hig-eye tuna and two mako
sharks. Os taking one zoo
FOUNDER on 24-thread line and
his wife. q 27s-pounder on go
thread line.
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OUTDOORS
Rockfish Limit Growing Irksome
WITH BILL LEETcH

Seeing a nice bunch OF
stripers displayed in an adver-
tisement in The Salt Water
Sportsman magazine, all of
which were caught by rod and
reel in Virginia by anglers Of
the Tidewater Anglers Club of
Virginia Beach, brings more
strongly home the fact that
Maryland is backward in set
ting realistic fishing regula-
tons for tidewater species.
Maryland is now the only
State along the Atlantic coast
within easy fishing distance of
local anglers that still has a
l5-pound limit on rockf1Sh
caught in tidal waters. All this
accomplishes is to raise big fish
SO anglers in other States can
catch them.
As Of today we start a two
week vacation period and for
the first time in the no. liam
IL years we have written this
column, 1t will not appear
while we are away. However
we hope to be back by the week
of July 81 and resume it as Of
Friday. July 26. If we can ar
range it. possibly Wen be able
to send in a piece from Gander,
Newfoundland, where we hope
to be tangling with sea-run
salmon the following week
81 y
The vast increase in the dove
population is behind the In
terror Departments move to
liberalize the regulations fol
shooting railbirds, doves and
woodcock. along with SOME
other species Of migratory birds
The data framework on thess
speedsters of the airways ha:
been set from September
through January 10. Within
this framework our neighborinl
States may set a season Of *
straight days; two split seasons
aggregating As days: so con
secutive half days and two spill
seasons aggregating so half
days.
This represents a lengtheninl
Of the dove season by five full
days II the first or second alter
native is chosen or five hal
days II the latter two alterna,
tives are selected. The daily bal
and possession limit is raise
6fom 8 to 10 mourning dovek
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Personally, we hope Maryland
and Virginia elect split seasons
of 80 half days each. That
would really give us a lot of fine
shooting.
Woodcock, within the frame
work of october 1-January 20,
may have a season Of 40 con-
secutive days with a daily bag
limit Of four birds and q posses
sion limit Of eight. We hope our
shooting areas will give us the
benefit of the earlier season
Woodcock as a rule have long
since gone by the time the up
land game season have arrived
in Maryland and Virginia.
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10 days, 2 hours, Is minutes
and ATS seconds. This was
nearly "a hours better thar
the time Of the Cuban yawl
Criollo which arrived shortly
after IL o'clock last night.
| The Criollo, fastest craft In
the race, had no handicap. She
made the crossing In 10 days
5 hours and IS minutes under
the direction Of her owner and
skipper, DR.. Luis H. Vidana Of
Havana.
Both the Criollo and the Ca
rina are Class A yachts.
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many angling honorS Tor
from winning the Bimini
Marlin Tuna Clubs tuna tour
nament in the Bahamas and
will head for Wedgeport, Nova
Scotia, in September to take
part in the International Tuna
Cup Match.
Owings will be a member Of
the American team-the first
big game fisherman from the
Washington area ever to be
named. On famous Soldiers
Rip, the Americans will com.
pete with teams from Chile,
Cuba, Mexico, the British Com :
monwealth. Spain and probably
Italy. Panama and Venezuela
in catching giant tuna.
Captained Ocean City Team
The Washingtonian, chair
man of the light tackle ~tour-
nament. captained the Ocean
City team in its 1855 victory
at Palm Beach, Fla, and
fourth-place finish among 80
teams from all over the West
ern Hemisphere in the event
last year at Mazatlan, Mexico,
In 1856 he tied for high indi-
vidual honors with Gene Fry,
also of Washington.
Sailfish were the quarry then,
but white marlin are being
hunted for the first time in
this years tournament. Owings
is well versed in the art of
catching white marlin. He
boated the seasons first marlin
at Ocean City both in 1854
and 1855, while his expert
angler wife, jeanette, caught
the first fish in 1856.
Owings won a three-way
victory at Bimini when he
hauled in a .548-pound tuna
on the final day. The catch
won him prizes for the largest
fish, the greatest number of
fish "a and the tournaments
biggest point total n,93So
Wife Wins Special Award
Not to be outdone. Mrs.
Owings recently was named for
a special achievement award by
the international Women's
Fishing Association of Palm
Beach for three outstanding
catches she made in 1861
235-pound broadbill swordflsh,
278-pound mako shark and
3l9-pound big-eye tuna.
In the release division
those who catch and release
game fiSh-Mrs. Owings was
honored for releasing 10 white
marlin, all caught on 20-pound
test line.
Owings is a three-year vet
eran of the Bimini tournament.
He won in 1855 and was third
in the mems division last year
This season he got of to q
fast start with a 421H-pound
tuna caught on 39-thread line
after a 50-minute fight the
first day. He fished the tour
nament from the Sea Quest
captained by Red Stuart, whom
Owings considers the worlds
No. big game fishing guide.
Owings actually took seven
big tuna at Bimini for a total
of $3.50 pounds. One was
caught before the tournament
started and two others. weigh
ing 492 and $50 pounds, were
raked by sharks while being
boated and disqualified. Be-
sides those mentioned. the two
which qualified weighed 49,
and 507 pounds.
Os is a member Of the Thou
sand-Pound Club at famou;
Cabo Blanco, Peru, by virtue
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LEISURE
SPORTSMAN
NAMED TO TUNA TEAM
Owings Adds | onors
In Big-Gome Fishing
Ry CHARLES COYELL

Fishing with the Ocean City Light Tackle Club
team in this weeks international Light Tackle Tour
nament at Ocean City, Md, will be Osbourn Owings,
Washington real estate broker
But victory at Ocean City would be only one of
MANY angling honorS for OwingS He is lust back
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of catching a l.o2o-pound
black marlin there in Sep
TENDER. 1855.
All of the fish which earned