The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 24 February 1982 — Page 9

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Swimmers headed for state Wawasee’s swim team qualified five swimmers for competition in the state swim meet by winning at sectional Saturday. The team placed third in the competition which was held at Elkhart Central. Wawasee's Andy Wysong was sectional champion in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:51.6. Other Warrior swimmers qualifying for the state meet at Ball State, by meeting predetermined cut off times, are the relay team of Tony Boyer, Kent Butcher. Tim Crum and Wysong. Greg Day also qualified for state in diving. The Warrior relay team broke a school record with a time of 3:23.20. The state cutoff time was 3:24.5. Another school record was broken by Day, who placed third in diving. Day’s score, based on 11 dives, was 416.75. The first three place finishers in diving advance to state finals. The state final meet begins Friday afternoon with preliminary swimming. Preliminary diving is scheduled for Saturday morning and finals at Ball State will be Saturday afternoon. The team, overall, had 141 points. First place went to Goshen, with 263, and Elkhart Central placed second with 200. Warsaw was fourth with 134 points.

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Gymnastics team defeats Plymouth

Members of the Wawasee High School gymnastics team hosted Plymouth last night (Tuesday) with the intermediate team winning 86.55 to 76.75. Beth Walker won first in vaulting and first in floor for the Wawasee team with Michelle Berger winning the beam event and Deb Haab taking first in bars and first all around with seconds in beam and vault. Four teams unbeaten The state's list of undefeated boys’ high school basketball teams has been narrowed down to four with two of the undefeated teams being ranked first and third in the state. Those undefeated teams include Plymouth, who was named number one this week and number three ranked Evansville Bosse, as well as number eight ranked Loogootee and number 18 ranked Cloverdale. Fifth ranked Lafayette Harrison was undefeated until falling to McCutcheon Friday evening. Feb. 19.

Lori Berger was second on bars and Marcia Taylor was third. Plymouth did not have an optional team but Wawasee competed anyway with the girls receiving their highest score. 89.2. Jill Haab won first in all events and took first all around. Carol Meier tied Jill for first in vaulting and was second in beam and bars. Angie Rich was second in vaulting and third on the bars Angie Mock was second in floor and third on the beam. Stacy Kline was third on the floor METRK77] MEASURES Helpful Information J From The U.S. Metric Board g Q. Will everything eventually go metric? C A. Conversion is expected to occur only when it is convenient and economically advantageous. For example, it would make little sense to convert the size of a football field from yards to meters. On the other hand, track and field events are already measured more often in metric units because the U.S. competes internationally in these sports. The ‘‘rule of reason” applied to metric usage means that the metric system will be adopted only in cases where it provides a benefit. The U.S. Metric Board it a government agency which does planning, research and coordination in connection with voluntary usage of the metric system.

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Sports

/ VOICE OF THE V] / PRO TOUR W B By Chuck Pezzano r Chris Schenkel has been the voice of pro bowling for almost 20 years. Long one of the outstanding broadcasters in the world, he has won many honors from many areas, including election to the National Sportscasters Hall of Fame. When pro bowling was a mere baby. virtually struggling for life, for acceptance as a sport, the ABC-TV series was started. At that time Schenkel was on the top of the mountain, the best tn his business. He didn't treat bowling as an upstart or a minor sport, one that he could take for granted. He worked just as hard on bowling as he did on all the other major sports he covered, assignments that took him more than 250,000 miles a year around the world. The thin, always immaculately dressed Schenkel. the man with the golden voice, has always been a man of class and sophistication, yet he is as down to earth as can be. And he traces that to his early roots. “I'm a native of Bippus. Indiana, and 1 don't think the population ever topped 500 people, and I spent plenty of time on the farm, and one of the things we could do. was to bowl, so I bowled a little when 1 was a kid. When I had the opportunity to do some bowling, first in a syndicated filmed show .and then the Pro Bowlers Tour, 1 found it enjoyable because the people in the sport and the bowlers are both talented and dedicated." Schenkel has seen all the best bowlers in the past 20 years under the most trying of circumstances shooting for big money with the added pressure of TV. “hv all the great athletes 1 have ever covered and had contact with in my many years of sportscasting, the will and hunger to win has been apparent, the mark of the best of the best. Mark Roth, Earl Anthony, Dick Weber and all the other big names in bowling have all had the same yearning to win. and 1 place them in the same class with Jack Nicholas." In addition to his work on the bowling show, Schenkel serves as the honorary chairman of the National Bowling Hall of Fame and Museum, and lends his voice and person to the many activities now involved with the building of what will be one of the premier sports showplaces. Construction in St. Louis will get underway in 1982. And in 1982 Schenkel wi’l again be behind the mike in one of TV's longest lasting and most popular shows, Pro Bowlers Tour, nominated for an Emmy. The live action is beamed every Saturday afternoon for 21 weeks and viewers, bowlers and non bowlers alike, look forward to it, the quick one game action, the big money, and of course, the familiar, comfortable, and informative voice of Chris Schenkel. He's already won more Emmy awards than he can count, at least in the minds and hearts of his bowling viewer fans. A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE WITH A PREDICTION OF THE PAST By Jim Dressel WHAT WILL THE BOWLING GAME be like m the year 2008'’ That’s what two experts of an earlier era talked about. The Year was 1908 and Bill Cordes, president of something called the Eastern Alley Owners Association, took a peek 100 years into the future with John Camann. a New York proprietor. Their prophecies were carried in the New York Bowler’s Journal of that time, a clipping of which was sent us by Bob Tkacz, Connecticut Bowling Historian. The predictions seemed mixed with an equal measure of insight and idealism. For instance. Camann said, “You will be able-to take an elevator to the 50th story of some monster skyscraper where a man can bowl on the hottest of days with nan a drop of sweat to soil the starch in his shirt-if he wears one of those things then.” Cordes predicted outlandish gates- “You will pay a five dollar bill for a mere seat!"-high scores and “professional bowlers galore." Many lanes of that time were located m basements, and it was predicted that there would be many sprawling street-level establishments Cordes seemed to have a pretty prophetic mind until he came up with this one “1 might even see a huge airship hanging over the Hudson River and in letters of mammoth proportions have it announced that the Oxygens would meet the Aerials that evening on alleys 45 and 46 in a special match for a million a side, and that accommodations were made for ten thousand people if the gas holds out.” Rejoindered Camann “You will be havmg bowhng alley owners millionaires if the gas holds out. Bally.” DISA AND DATA Guppy Troup won the 523.000 title in the Miller High Life Classic in .Anaheim. Cal., to open the Professional Bowlers Association's 20th season on ABC-TV.. .26-time PBA champion Don Johnson. Las Vegas, Nev , was voted into the American Bowling Congress Hall of Fame -on the second ballot.. .Former Women's International Bowling Congress president Alberta Crowe. Liverpool. N.Y.. and Donna Zimmerman, a former national champion from Huntington Beach. Cal., were elected to the WIBC Hall of Fame.. .Californians Earl Anthony. Dublin, and Donna Adamek. Duarte, were easily proclaimed 1981 Bowlers of the Year by the Bowling Writers Association of America, both earning the honor for the fourth time.

Wed.. February 24.1982 —THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Sports Calendar Week Os February 24 To March 3 WEDNESDAY I Intramurals 7 p.m. at Wawasee THURSDAY Milford wrestling 3:45 p.m , vs North Webster at Milford * North Webster junior high wrestling 3:45p.m . at Milford Syracuse junior high wrestling 4:15 p.m .vs Pierceton at Syracuse FRIDAY Lakeland wrestling tournament 9 a.mat Wawasee Wawasee basketball 6:15 p.m ,at Bremen

Comment On Sports

FOOTBALL * * * * By Pete Fritchie WASHINGTON. D. C. - The favorite lost once again in the 1982 Superbowl, number 16. Jimmy the Greek was confident before the game the Bengals would win. Most of the pro coaches picked Cincinnati. Most of the players asked chose Cincinnati. And maybe Cincinnati would have won too. had they not made all those mistakes in the first half. But one had the feeling, except in the third quarter, that San Francisco’s offensive and defensive line was stronger. And when the Bengals got to the five yard line twice with a first down and didn’t get a point, in the first half, that was hard to overcome in a Superbowl game. Anderson didn't get the pass protection he needed. Johnson did very little on the ground-after so much had been expected of his rushing. And the Bengals’ offensive line didn't move the bodies out when they had to. The Bengal running game, where they supposedly had the edge, didn't develop. But to the Bengals' credit. they came out in the second half trailing 20-0 and made it a ball game. The Forty Niners didn't get a first down in the third quarter. And actually the first one they made in the last half was from a catch that appeared to be out of bounds, and that got them out of a hole. That was a key call, and a turning point. Another was when Cincinnati lost the ball in the opening minutes while on San Francisco's doorstep, via an interception. That, right then, was the omen of Superbowl XVI.

BASttAU. • • • * By Pete Fritchie WASHINGTON, D. C. - By the time you read this, baseball players will be in action in Florida, California and Arizona, training for the opening of 1982‘s season. And Major League baseball, because so many games are played, is still relatively cheap for fans. For example, a press release just out from the Detroit Tigers gives these seat prices: $8 for a box', $7 for a reserved seat, $4.50 for a grandstand seat and S 3 for a bleacher seat. In addition, there are special days, doubleheaders, and giveaways for ladies or kids, etc. Some teams are moving up starting times this year, the Tigers among them, beginning their 50 night performances at 7:35. (This will save energy in summer.) Spring training games begin the first week in March and continue until the first week in April-and cost less. Counting some 25 or 30 spring training games and 162 regular games. Major League teams play about 190 games in a 365 day year, more if playoffs and a World Series are included. That's why fans can get into Major League stadiums as cheaply as two or three dollars, and usually get in even if they arrive at the ball park at the last minute. Talks <K»Ub Many golfers wonder if they should round out their sets of dubs with some highnumber, or utility, woods. So let’s take a look at what those 7, 8 and 9 woods da But because most golfen are more familiar with the 5 wood, we'll use it as an example of the advantages of utility woods even though it doesn't fall into the utilitywood category. The 5 wood, with loft of 21’, has almost replaced the 2 iron in most standard sets of dubs bought by the average golfer. For one thing, it's easier to get out of the rough with a 5 wood than with an iron. Hus, most golfen feel they can control woods better than irons. That’s probably because woods are lighter than comparable irons: static weight of a 5 wood is 13-3/4 ounces or less, while a 2 iron weighs about 14-7/8 ounces. And there’s more resilience in woods than in irons, so they give you more loft. As a result, you get more distance—especially when you’re hitting with the wind. Haying into the wind, though, you’re better off using an iron to keep the ball lower. Generally, the high-number woods —7 and up —are considered “senior” clubs. But they seem also to give* younger players more confidence. Which is mostly psychological, because there's more hitting area on the face of an iron than on that of a wood: about 2-1/4” wide for a 2 iron compared with 1-1/8" U> 1-1/4” for a 5 wood. Mr. Penna, a former leading tour and club pro, it the detigner of the widely imitated MT irone and head of A T-O Inc.'« Toney Penna Company, maker of cuttom golf chiba.

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