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Show 8A Sun Advocate. Price, Utah Thursday, August 17. 1995 From the me the position of right guard on offense, though I'm not sute why. For those of you who don't know who or what the right guard is, that is by Scott Niendorf the person who gets smashed beSun Advocate Sports Editor tween the tackle and center as they rush to block, then gets plowed over by raging mad defensive linemen a com ing from the other direction, and There's always two ways you may possibly be run over by a runcan look at things- - from a positive ning back from the rear and typically or negative point of view. is getting squished at the bottom of a In sports, there are advantages bloody pile of thinly padded bodies. and disadvantages in any given Needless to say, my football casituation. Again, its all in how in reer did not blossom. But that, too, how you look at them. could be looked at as an advantage. For example in team sports, do My father got me a set of golf cl ubs throw a zone defense against and I went on to play on a championyou another team or do you play them ship team in junior high. I had a lot fewer bruises to show for it and I still In a zone, everyone theoretically golf a lot to this day. Another sport I enjoy particularly helps each other out, throwing more help to trouble areas. is bowling. Being from Idaho, But you can also open yourself though, 1 suffered from the Double-Jointe- d to Thumb Syndrome (DJTS)-a- n with situations up one of your guys trying to cover affliction passed from generation two different players if they overto generation of potato eaters. My load an area of your zone or throw kids are one-ha- lf Idahoan and they a pick at you. still have DJTS. There's no known cure for DJTS It usually depends on who the disadvantage works against the because research funding is scarce, most for the coach to decide which competing with other maladies. defense to run. The Gem State once tried a DJTS But in individual sports competelethon, calling it Helping to Imone there's where no to help pact Cecil's Kids Yet (HICK Y). But tition, you when the going gets rough, unfortunately, the telethon, hosted the advantages or disadvantages by Governor Cecil Andrus, was are often measured by mere inches scheduled for Labor Day Weekend and earned all of $2.34. or even scant pounds. Because of DJTS, the only bowlI've had several experiences where I was able to turn disadvaning ball I could ever find that I could times fit my thumb into at the bowling into and tages advantages, black monhouse was a where the reverse was true. I grew up eating tons of spuds in ster. But even with the disadvantage of Idaho for many year- s- mashed, and throwing the heavy black beast at scalloped, baked, french-friea multitudinous number of other the pins, I knocked more pins over varieties, a fact I strongly credit and developed a strong bicep in the for helping me to eventually grow process. Unfortunately, having one bicep barely taller than both my parents. I But when the bunch hung stronger than the other when I tried around with found out my little out for the swim team caused me to circles. After swim in brother was bigger and taller than me, I was promptly tabbed with the coach watched me do five belly the moniker of "Shorty." flops off the diving board, he denickname lasted for My many cided that was to be the end of my some where even of the swimming career. years to So I played soccer. Obviously not original gang members couldn't remember why they called me gifted with explosive speed, I was placed on defense, where I thrived. I Shorty. But it stood to reason. My little even played goalkeeper a couple of first times. brother and future That goalkeeping experience paid team defensive end sat next to dad and the dinner table off when I unexpectedly found my- at every night got first chance at, and a much self living in southern South America for a couple of years. larger helping of, the evening's I quickly found that was the only offering of the terrific tuber. Now football was very popular position I could play well against the futbol-craz- y Chileans. with young kids in Boise, and still The moral, I believe then, to life's is with the youth football leagues, and when Shorty showed up to experiences, as in sports, is to look at the negatives as future positives, then play for some insurance company roll with the punches. team, the coach promptly assigned Sidelines Mantle encounter has Ironic ending Looking at paydirt Overcoming challenge positive adventure By WALT BORLA Sports correspondent Mickey Mantle was buried in Dallas Tuesday, undoubtedly the greatest switch hitter in the history of major league baseball. He could hit the ball with equal effectiveness from both sides of the plate and his world series records for homers will probably stand well into the next century, if not longer. The death of the former Yankee slugger revived the memory of this writer of an experience long ago with Mickey Mangle and his A September Saturday afternooon, 1954, 1 was in Commisky Park in Chicago to witness my very first major league game, the New York Yankees vs. the Chicago White Sox. Our seats were high in the bleachers off left field. Not satisfied with the distant view from there, I wandered around the stadium before the game began, looking for a better seat. I spotted four on the front row right behind the Yankee dugout and sat in one of them as the game began. During the second inning, a man in an army uniform came down to sit next to me. Striking up a conversation, I mentioned that I was expecting to be evicted from the choice seat at any time. Quit your worrying, he replied. These are my seats, all four of them, Mickey Mantle is my brother and he got these seats for me, you dont have to move. The fellow went on to explain the reason for being late. He was stationed near Milwaukee and while driving into Chicago the night before he was picked up for have an open container of liquor in his car. As a result, he went on to say, he had spent the night in jail, being late for the game because he had just been released. He told me his name was Ted Davis, a name I remembered years later because my wife had an uncle by the very same name. An unlikely story, I surmised. But 21 years later in Vernal, I had an opportunity to verify it just as the man told me. It was now June, 1975. My youngest son, John, had been selected on the team to participate in the annual high school teams. game for Class The celebrity guest at the game and banquet speaker was none other than the great Mickey Mantle. The dinner was at Uintah High School and we went in early to see the legend and found Mantle was already sitting at the head table. I approached him and asked if he had a brother by the name of Ted Davis. How did you know that, he asked? I related the experience of many years before. Yes, I do, Mantle replied. Ill bet he was drunk as a skunk, wasnt he? He went on to explain that the man actually was a from his mothers first marriage. If Ted was anywhere near whereever I was playing ball, he would leave this message at the hotel where Yankees happened to be staying, Mickey, I need four tickets to the game. He is my brother, Mantle went on to say, and I never denied him the tickets. I would never see him. He would pick up the tickets, sell three of them to buy a bottle of booze and come to the game drunk. He was a career Army man who is now discharged and working on a golf course in Las Vegas, an alcoholic who recently had part of his stomach removed because of his drinking, Mantle disclosed as we concluded that conversation. How ironic it is today when we read about the cause of Mantles health problems. two-on-o- left-hand- I all-sta- te Utah junior quarterback Brandon Jones looks downfield for a receiver during practice T uesday at the College of Eastern Utah field during Camp Carbon drills. Jones is in a tight race for the starting quarterback position for the Utes this fall. Utah will continue practices from 9:30 a.m. to 1 1 :30 a.m each morning and 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. each afternoon, culminating in an 1 1 a.m. scrimmage Sunday morning at the CEU field. all-sta- all-st- council seeks local mangement input Wildlife On Tuesday, Aug. 22, southeastern Utahs regional wildlife advisory council will take public input on future harvest regulations for cougars, furbearers and water-fow- l. The meeting will con- vene at 6:30 p.m. at the old Reeves School (now the Business and Technical Assistance Center) at 375 S. Carbon Avenue in Price. The public is cordially invited to attend. Cougars have been especially controversial, being blamed by sportsmen for low DWR deer numbers across the state. Stockgrowers too have complained about high cat populations and resulting depredation losses. Season dates for both cougar pursuit and harvest will be proposed as well as numbers of permits for each cougar management unit. The waterfowl agenda will include the setting of duck and goose season dates, zone boundaries Joes Valley get Scofield treatment? Since February, Division of Wildlife Resources creel survey technicians have been interviewing Joes Valley Reservoir anglers, asking the question Would you prefer the experimental biological control of chubs with i restricted harvest of splake or rotenone (poison) treatment to start over and have no fishing for a period of time? Whats this all about? In 1993, DWR fisheries biologists discovered a number of Utah chubs in their gill nets. These fish were illegally introduced. Big problem! Utah chubs became the nemesis of Strawberrys trout fishery before its treatment. In Joes Valley, these reservoir, if that became leaving Joes necessary. The survey question has given rise to the rumor that DWR in fact intends to poison Joes Valley Reservoir. Whats the likelihood? Kevin Christopherson, DWRs regional aquatic wildlife manager, responded, I would rather have a root canal than rotenone Joes Valley Reservoir! Christopherson, the mastermind ofthe Scofield Reservoir poisoning and veteran of many other reservoir treatments, knows firsthand just how much of a headache such a project can be. In order to combat the chub threat, the Utah Wildlife h Board approved a minimum size limit for Joes Valley splake. The new regulation to aims to leave With some luck, the splake harvest restriction will solve the matter. If not, more drastic steps may be called for. But only as a last resort will poisoning be considered. We will do what it takes to maintain trout-competi- f the regulation, biologists have been studying the effects on both fishermen and fishery. Part of the survey is an angler opinion survey. From the survey, DWR biologists hope to determine the degreen of public support for the favor of wholesale treatment of the nuisances had apparently come in with anglers using live bait. Some chubs multiplied y appa-rentl- escaped and Valley Reservoir with a time bomb. 16-inc- enough large, piscivorous splake in the reservoir to eat their way through the chub problem. Since implementation Take Stock 4T syc in America 4 of the best fishing possible, says Christopherson. We encourage anglers to heed the splake size restriction to give this action plan a chance to Work. SAVINGS BONDS public service of his newspaper t I I l i if t i i r r l i ; I i j te 3-- A ar half-broth- and shooting hours on opening day. posts regional angling conditions g Fishing has should look for pools with been slow from shore, where most anglers water. Shrimp has been a preferred bait. have been using Powerbait or night crawGreen River Conservation officer lers and marshmallows, floated 4 feet Kim Olson reports good fishing near the off the bottom. Boaters have had somewhat better success, trolling with pop town of Green River. Catfish are up to 18 gear and nighbt crawlers or Powerbait. inches long. Best baits have been chicken Those trolling with lead line (3-- 4 colors livers or baby frogs. deep) have often reported good luck with Lake Powell Boiling stripers can be spoons, triple teasers, Krocodiles, found 4 in the mornings with inches. a.m. trout Most flatfish. or range The limit for all tributaries is four trout. being the most productive time period. Good fly patterns include midge and may Best boil locations have been Warm Creek Bay (on the shoreline directly east of fly imitations. creek was The Creek Wahweap Marina), the extreme back of Huntington stocked during the week of Aug. 7 and will Bullfrog Bay, in the Red Canyon portion of Good Hope Bay, and the Piute Canyon be restocked after Aug. 21. Reservoir Fishing area of the San Juan arm. Wayne Joes Valley Lake Powell fisheries biologist, is better from but slow remains shore, recommends with who troll for those boat from a pop cruising promising locations In flatfish or or a worm and during prime time 0 a.m.) and looking Rapala. gear for splashes. Once a boil is sighted, with was the reservoir 5,400 planted July, albino brood trout. one- - to anglers should coast to a stop within castbeen has Colorado River Fishing ing range and then throw a surface lure 5 catfish. inch for Nighttime into the frenzy. Stick baits that resemble good action. best Anglers injured or fleeing shad are the most effec fishing provides Scofield Reservoir Will i half-brothe-r. one-on-on- d, t i slow-movin- tive. Wayne recommends the Zara Spook. For more information call FISH. 3-- 12-1- 8-- 10 Gus-taveso- (8-1- two-poun- 12-1- d LaSal Mountains Fishing success has been downgraded to fair at most LaSal Mountain lakes, according to conservation officer, Brett Johnson. No further restocking will occur for the balance of the summer. Due to moss build up at Dons and Hidden lakes, a fly and bubble or bait and bubble is recommended. Trout have been rising for flies at Oowah. The best lure for all lakes has been the Jakes Salmon eggs have been the preferred bait. Spina-Lu- re. n, Manti-LaS- National Forest al (in Carbon and Emery counties) Most lakes were stocked in late July. No further stocking is anticipated this year. Fishing success has been fair at most reservoirs. Stream fishing Straight Canyon has been good reports conservation officer, Roger Kerstetter. Golf, on spaghetti tap at CEU The University of Utah Crimson Club and Carbon County Ute football fans will gather at a fundraising spaghetti dinner after a nine-hol- e golf tournament Saturday to cap off a week of drills at Camp Carbon. The golf tournament is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. followed by the dinner at 7:30 p.m. Contact CEU for more info. Money generated at the fundraisers will be put directly into the CEU general scholarship fund to benefit Carbon-Emer- y students. "5 & American Heart Association W I jjf f |