The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 October 1968 — Page 4
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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Thursday, October 31, 1968
Tigers need win
BAINBRIDGE POINTERS - Open their 1968-69 basketball season Saturday night at Rosedale. Coaches and members of the team are (left to right), Don Shahan, ass't coach, Gary Richard, Steve Judv, Mike Miller, Sam Lasley, Dug
Summers, Mike Elliott, Dennis O'Hair, Larry Wilson, Marty Evens, Dale Steele, Jay Gerald and coach Pat Rady. Managers kneeling (left to right) Steve Sanders, Gary Nelson
and Steve Miller.
Hunters take stock
By Chuck Griffith After studying wildlife for several decades, game managers admit that an important gap in their knowledge still exists. That gray area involves hunter behavior rather than the wildlife resource itself. In short, “market research” on the wildlife consumer has lagged several decades behind wildlife research. The professional wildlife managers are the first to admit that they need to know more about the hunter’s behavior, attitudes, motivations and proficiency if the wildlife resource is to be managed properly. Why does modern man hunt? Desmond Morris, zoologistauthor of the best selling book, “The Naked Ape,” says man hunts to answer a persistent ancestral urge. Although man no longer needs to hunt to eat and has substituted work for hunting, he has not completely eliminated this basic urge. Big game hunting, grouse hunting, fox hunting, falconry, wildfowling and the hide-and-seek hunting play of children are all manifestations of the ancient hunting urge, Morris says. Man has tempered the hunting urge with sophisticated, selfimposed limitations which give the prey a fair chance of escaping. Sport hunting imvolves deliberately contrived handicaps and inefficiency on the hunter’s part. Far more lethal weapons are available than are used but, as the zoologist says, that would not be “playing the hunting game.” It is the challenge and the chase that counts, with the complexities and the subtle maneuvers providing the rewards. The late Aldo Leopold, father of modern game management, wrote that no one can weigh or measure the cultural aspects of sport hunting. He assigned three values to hunting: to remind us of our distinctive national origins and evolution; to remind us of our dependency on the soil-plant-an-imal-man food chain; and to exercise those ethical restraints collectively called “sportsmanship.” “Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife impove faster than we do, and sportsmanship is a voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments,” Leopold wrote. An expert outdoorsman and skilled wingshot himself, Leopold decried the use of gadgets which give the hunter unequal advantages over the game. His confidence in the ethical behavior of the hunter was at least partially justified; witness the self-imposed restrictions on the use of electronic game calls, snowmobiles and live decoys. These and many other gadgets were outlawed by hunters so that the game would have more chance to escape. Gadgets which make the hunter too proficient have a negative cultural value and pose a threat to the sport. These cultural H,Tenpin Tales J'' ir BY SAM LEVINE ^ Editor, The Keyler THE HUNGARIAN Businessmen’s Club on Cleveland's east side has four bowling lanes, which are sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress. For many years, on Saturday nights, the lanes were covered with a wooden floor and the members of the club danced to the music of a Hungarian orchestra. On Sundays, the floor was j-emoved and the bowlers again fired the balls down the lanes. It is probably the only dance hall in the country which is sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress.
values, he added, are not indestructible. Voluntary disregard of the hunter’s code of ethics degenerates and depraves the hunter, he concluded. It also makes wildlife management a headache, since wildlife administrators must cope with some hunters who obey no code of ethics. But Leopold was not completely enamored with the average duck hunter, either. He characterized the hunter sky-busting high - flying flocks as “feeding the minks rather than absorbing culture.” His pessimism would have been strengthened had he lived long enough to learn that the Federal Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife had to cancel an early teal-shooting season to give duck hunters a recreational bonus partly because of their poor hunting behavior. About 44 per cent of all the hunting parties observed during the experimental teal seasons violated regulations by shooting at protected species. This, the Bureau said, was due to their inability to distinguish teal from other ducks as well as to a disregard for the regulations of this special season. Either way, the hunter lost out. If sport hunting is the name of the game, then who is the hunter? Ohio’s Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit attempted in 1961 to develop a hunter profile, to identify the “average hunter” if such a creature exists. The unit used Ohio hunting license buyers to give them a crosssection look at this faceless being. The average Ohio hunter was 35 years old. Only one in 100 was female. More than threefourths were married and twothirds had families. Craftsmen and foremen made up a third, 15 per cent were laborers, 12 per cent were students, and farmers and professional people each made up 6 per cent of the total. Half had attended some high school classes but only 6 per cent were college graduates. Only 8 per cent earned more than $9,000 a year and 17 per cent were unemployed. About half were born on farms but only an eighth in large cities. About half were veterans. Hunting is a social experience
and 92 per cent interviewed said all or some of their friends hunted, while 85 per cent said they hunt with the same companions year after year. Some 90 per cent started hunting before the age of 18 and two-thirds first hunted with their dad or a brother. More than half were not members of any conservation group. Although Dr. Morris said most hunters come from the high and low income brackets, the Ohio hunters had high participation from the middle income brackets. Dr. Morris said low income persons turn to hunting to relieve the monotony of unemployment or dull, repetitive jobs. The wealthy do so because of ample leisure time and money. The Ohio study showed rabbit and raccoon hunters to be the youngest and grouse hunters to be the oldest, wealthiest and best-educated. The Ohio hunters professed to have at least some appreciation for the esthetics of hunting, half saying they’d be satisfied with the experience of hunting even if they bagged no game. Even so, other studies often show hunters, as a group, to be openly suspicious of birdwatchers and other non-hunters who have an interest in the outdoors. Even though sportsmen have been the severest critics of professional game management for decades, they also have been almost the sole support of management programs responsible for bringing back fish and game in abundance. The Ohio study indicated most would accept higher hunting license fees if the extra funds were used for scientific game and fish management programs. The frequent paradoxes encountered as one studies the hunter are never more apparent than in the case of the duck hunter. As a starter, studies have shown that a fourth of the duck hunters consistently bag threefourths of the ducks taken each year. The studies also show that successful duck hunters remain successful year after year,while the less successful waterfowler seldom improves his proficiency. Duck hunters also waste a substantial portion of the ducks they knock down. Unretrieved cripples make up nearly a third of the
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total duck kill. Sky-busting, failure to retrieve downed birds and the all-too-common habit of shooting at everything that flies over contribute to wasteful crippling losses each year. Sticking to the killing range of the gun used and the use of retrieving dogs, common sense and self-discipline could greatly improve the quality of the sport, add days to the annual seasons and ducks to the daily bag. But only the hunter himself can do these things. Roland S. Clement of the National Audubon Society suggests that money being spent to educate hunters might better be used to find out more about hunter ability and motivation. Dr. Clement asks if it wouldn’t be fairer to the hunter to close the season than to allow him only a bird or two a day. Offering him a very limited daily bag places his instincts into direct conflict with restrictive regulations, however wellmeaning the regulations may be. On the credit side, the hunter is among the leaders in the world fight to preserve an environment worth living in. He lias matured to the point where he has adopted a new scale of values. He recognizes that threats to the environments from air and water pollution, poor land and forest management, ill-advised use of chemical pesticides and the destruction of natural areas and wild creatures are more important subjects than the length of the quail season or the daily bag limit on pheasants. As wildlife author John Madson says, ‘The modern hunter has declared open war on the broad cultural and economic factors that threaten wildlife today.’ Madson adds that the condition of wildlife is only a symptom of the condition of our total environment. If the hunter’s dedication to winning these battles is as strong as his ancestral urge to hunt, then he has a lot going for him.
"Coach Tom Mont says Saturday’s ICC football game here is going to be another “typical De-Pauw-Butler dogfight.” That ought to be exciting news to the anticipated Dads’ Daythrong of 4,000, ‘cause the two old foes haven’t been able to resolve any of their last eight battles by more than six points. The slightly one-sided seventy eight-year-old series will be renewed at 2 p.m. (CDT) in Blackstock Stadium. Butler has a 3213 edge in the rivalry with three games ending in ties. What DePauw has going for it, Mont believes, is a new perspecBig Ten Outlook CHICAGO (UPI) - Michigan and Ohio State were neck and neck going into the Big Ten stretch but Indiana, Purdue and Minnesota trailed by a mere game as preparation for the final month of action neared conclusion. Michigan and Ohio State each sport league-leading conference records of 3-0 while the Hoosiers, Boilermakers and Gophers each boast 2-1 marks. Michigan State, like Northwestern, has a 1-2 record, but the Spartans will be trying to stage a second straight upset when they take on the Buckeyes Saturday. The Spartans defeated Notre Dame, 21-17, last Saturday while the Wildcats defeated winless Wisconsin, 13-10, for their first win. “It scares me to watch Northwestern’s game films,” said Michigan Coach Bump Elliott Wednesday. “It’s amazing how some of those teams, especially Purdue, managed to beat them as badly as they did.” The Wildcats will be missing defensive tackle Bob Hecker and linebacker Ray Forsthoffer for the Saturday game. Michigan will be at full strength. Wisconsin’s Coach John Coatta, without a victory in six games this season, expressed pleasure at the Badgers’ latest workout for the coming game with Indiana. Meanwhile, the Hoosiers announced they will be at full strength when they resume their follow-the-leader chase Saturday. Acting coach Bob DeMoss took full control in his second day as stand-in for hospitalized Coach Jack Mollenkopf. DeMoss said he didn’t know who would start at quarterback, regular Mike Phipps or substi. tute Don Kiepert who led the Boilermakers’ to victory over Iowa last Saturday. Purdue meets Illinois and, as the sixthranked team in the country, will be the favorite. Head Coach Murray Warmath worked his Gophers on ball control and handling in preparation for Saturday’s game with Iowa. Iowa will be 100 per cent healthy when the two teams clash, says Coach Ray Nagel, who was suffering the flu. Nagel is expected to be ready for the game.
tive on the whole thing. Though doing it precariously, the Tigers last year chewed a 41-year losing string in two and won, 21-20, in Indianapolis. DePauw comes into its final ICC match with a 4-2 mark, including a 22-21 victory over Evansville which beat Butler 447. Both clubs lost to Valparaiso by a handful of points, and both whipped St. Joe, though Butler did it much more convincingly. The rest of Butler’s losses in its unremarkable but deceptive 1-6 record are entirely pardonable. The ‘Dogs have dropped games to Ball State (so did DePauw) on a last gasp field goal, to Indiana State, to Akron, and to Western Kentucky extraordinarily fast company. DePauw will enter the game in good physical shape considering two-thirds of the season is in the record book. Even Ron McBride, who started at quarterback against Ball State but was later burned in a fire, will be ready to go, according to Mont. “I don’t know just what we’ll do about who starts,” Mont said. “It depends on field position. Of course, Roy Pottenger (Indanapolis Northwest) has earned a shot at the spot because of his good passing at Centre.” In that 17-10 win at Centre Pottenger hit 21 of 34 for 227 yards — the best throwing effort of the Tigers’ season. Pottenger all season long has been DePauw’s throwing threat, while McBride has posed problems for defenders when he runs. McBride, know’ as Twiggy, has shimmied for a 6.4 rushing average in 21 carries — fourth best in the ICC. His season throwing average is .450 (9-20) while Pottenger’s is .512 (44-86). The Tigers also will pick up the services of Stu Sharp, LaPorte halfback, out with a knee sprain since the Evansville game, plus defensive back Frank Hussey, who was hurt in the 7-3 Valpo loss. It probably will be a busy day for Hussey and his defensive associates Bill Crist, Don Schulte, Mark Dinwiddle, Larry Horning, and Bill Scaife. Butler’s quarterback Dick Reed has a fat .611 completion mark in the ICC )33-54). The ‘Dogs like to throw the short pass and the pass into the flat. The Tigers remember they like the occasional bomb too, like the one that went off the last time Butler visited in 1966 when a 45yard TD pass gave the Hinklemen a 14-7 win in the last 90 seconds. (Butler back Jim Wallace is currently leading the ICC in pass receiving with 14 catches for 138 yards and one TD). So... that means Mont has been putting his defensive backs through their pacesthis week. All he has to do is look at the stats to see that the Tigers have been the most successfully passedagainst team this year in the ICC, allowing 217.3 yards per game in the air. “We’re trying to sharpen up our running game too,” Mont added. “We haven’t been hitting the hole sharply and we haven’t been able to control the ball. We haven’t had one long sustained drive all year. Maybe that will
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change Saturday, though I don’t know how well we’ll be able to run the ball against the big Butler line.” Actually, both teams have demonstrated they’re rather generous with yards. DePauw ranks last in total ICC defense (320.0) and Butler is fourth, giving up 318.7. For DePauw the game is crucial to its ICC title hopes. The Tigers must win to finish 3-1. Then they’ll have to wait and hope Evansville defeats 3-0 Valparaiso on Nov. 9. Butler, at best, will finish 2-2, a mark that might earn them a tie for second.
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