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Show at in the airage and Caught They matched his white hair, which looked like it had long ago given up trying to cover his head. He wore his mustache Clark Gable style thin like maybe a kid had drawn a line across his face The men were gathered in a circle in the garage, which acted as a bunker aganist incoming chores, while the women cleaned the mess that 50 people had made at the Fourth of July party. Avoiding work wasnt the only r reason the men gathered in the garage. They were there to shoot the breeze and they brought in their limit of fishing stories that day. There are few pleasures in life that dont cost a person money, time or I like to catch fish like that," Hank told Bob. I dont like to walk to go fishing either, just drive my truck up to the lake and fish off the tailgate. Hank liked the easy fishing all right. In fact, he had bought himself and Ray fishing alarms. When the fish would bite, an alarm would sound. The little device gave Ray a chance to drink his with a crayon. Ray slumped in his lawn chair, the and continued his backyard story. Id run over to one pole, bring the fish in, bait it up, throw it out, and Id have to run and take care of another pole. I didnt even have time to drink my beer. Apparently Ray didnt have time to read is fishing regulations either. The other men smiled, listening but not interrupting. Rule One in Shooting the Breeze Etiquette: Dont horn in on a mans fishing story. I dont care much for fishing when its that easy, said Bob, a retired golf coach. I like to work a little for my two-ca- y, patience. Fishing isnt one of them. Talking about fishing is. I sat and listened. You dont butt in old mens fishing coversations. ' Ill tell you, those fish were biting so good, I didnt have time to pick up my beer, said Ray, an undertaker who looked like he was in his late sixties or early seventies. He looked like no undertaker Ive ever seen. (Ive seen three). He was overweight and wore brown brown boots brown color shirt and brown slacks.-Th- tyeer. Damn thing works too," said Ray, who looked like he had pounded a few Budweisers in his day. Hank said he had caught his share of fish in his 70 years, but remembered one day when someone else caught the fish. "We were up in Washington when I was working up there, and we went out on a boat one day to do some fishing. A bunch of damn drunks were about 30 yards away from us. We didnt have a bite all day and those damn drunks were just hauling em in. And thats probably why they were which were poking out of a knit shirt with an animal on the pocket, were tanned. Other than being built like a young Jack Nicklaus, Bob looked as well kept as a sand trap in short-sleev- e the morning. Hank, a retired engineer who built dams in the Western United States, gray hair was thick, and his armst4. said he enjoyed an easy day of fishing. fish. Bob looked like a golf coach. His e Their Limits i ,v'' ' - catching them," Ray said. The were too drunk to know what they were Rule Two in Shooting the doing. Breeze Etiquette: If you can add a anecdote, do it. And they continued talking that night about equipment, fishing holes, high water, low water and their next trips. The women were almost through with the work inside. Ray the undertaker said he had to be taking off, had to start planning the next day for a fishing trip with the Boy Scouts. He had to call a source in the Division of Wildlife to see where the fishing was semi-humoro- hot. The flow was gone from the conversation, which usually happens when the first man leaves for more pressing, if not more important, duties. The men left the garage. Rule Three in Shooting the Breeze Etiquette: Never kill a fishing conversation. Let it die easily, like it began. , . V . , , ' y :. 7, Page 1C North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday , July 13, 1983 1 Colt League Teams Infer Tournaments CLEARFIELD Lets say youre managing a professional baseball team. And, just for fun, lets say you lose your top starting pitcher and your best reliever. Its the kind of thing that ends you fired. But that wasnt the case for the Clearfield Colt League team, made up of future sophomores and juniors. The Clearfield team, coached by Jess Perez lost Ryan Fisher, the reliever, and Danny Richardson, the starter, to the winless Clearfield American Legion team three weeks ago, but still managed to ish near the top of its league with a 2 record. That record is good enough to earn Clearfield a bye in the 17-- district tournament this week in Payson. The team will begin play in the state tournament next week in Springville. Clearfields only two regu-la- r season losses this year . have come from Tooele: The young Falconjs also lost to the Viewmont Astros in the league tournament last week, - but beat Viewmont later in the week to advance to the championship game against Tooele Saturday. That game was Trained out and no deci- been made about making the game up. According to Perez, Clearfield is a strong hitting club led by third baseman-pitche- r ' Sion-ha- s g Gregg Boseman, Bruce Browning and catcher Mike Archuleta. The Viewmont Astros also won their division in the Colt record League with a and will enter a district tournament in Roosevelt this week. The winner of that 16-- 6 tourney will advance to Springville. The Astros are coached by Joe Martinez,, who has received good play from Chad Ford, Paul Goodwin, Travis White, Travis Holbrook, Kelly Martinez and Billy Bagley. The Bountiful High team, coached by John Arntz, ished behind Viewmont with a 13-- record and will also play in the Roosevelt tournament. . . ' 5; t - A , A, - Staff Photo by Dan Miller ' , AftCHULEtA of the Clearfield Colt League team, prepares tag q runner at home plate. Archuleta is a MIKE leading hitter for Clearfield, season with a 17-- 2 record. which finished the regular 1A ATcpScttball Player Ward Could Play 'What's My Line' - By BARRY KAWA Raviaw Staff ROY If Roy resident Randy Ward were to appear as a contestant on televisions Whats My Line?, panelists would have their work cut out guessing his sports specialty. A thin, and softspoken, Ward could be anything from a bocce player, to a fisherman. But .anyone watching his play on the h softball diamond in the Utah Travel League would know instantly what Ward does best. In a, tryout Jast month in Colorado Games, Springs for the Ward came up only one hit short of qualifying for the United States team. In the recent Rational Sports Festival held at the Olympic training site there, Ward led his Salt Lake Page Brake league team to a fourth place finish. Some feel that Ward, who is an alter-- , nate for the U.S. team, should have been selected for the games to be held in Caracas, Venezuela on Aug. Bountiful resident Ken Hackmeister, who serves as president of the Travel League, says three things kept Ward off the team, even though he had better game stats than the three outfielders chosen. According to Hackmeister, Ward was a relatively unknown player, he was from an unheraled Utah league, and he did not get the chance to show his speed in the qualifying game. As the organizer of the league, which is the Utah major league of softball,, he has watched him play over the last 155-poun- ds fast-pitc- Pan-Americ- - 14-2- 9. ' three years. , Hes what we call a slapper, said Hackmeister. His plan of attack is to hit a ground ball and with his speed hell beat it out 99 times out of a 100. His whole strategy is not to hit a long ball, but get it on the ground to the infield. Staff Photo by Rodney W. WrioM says he came up of hit short one making the U.S. softball team that will enter the RANDY WARD , Pan-Americ- an Games, Ward plays an average of four league games a week for Page Brake, a Salt Lake h team. City fast-pitc- - Hackmeister evaluates Wards defensive play in the outfield as always ' getting a good jump on the ball and possessing a strong arm. For Ward, not making the team was not devastating. It wasnt a big disappointment to me, Ward said of the qualifying game in which he went one for two with a walk. If Id played well, I would have made it for sure. But I didnt play a very good game that day. In the National Sports Festival, with the top four teams from last years Amateur Softball Association (ASA) 7 the tourney to qualify for the National Sports Festival and Wards performance earned him a spot on the tournateam. If softball ment should- become an Olympic Sport in 1988, then Ward hopes to try for a berth with the U.S. team. His other goal is to be on a team that wins a national tournament such as the ASA or International Softball Conference. Softball is a hobby with me, Ward said. Once 'you start playing, its hard to quit. h Ward said in softball, the or a drop. a throws either rise pitcher The rise pitch starts out about belt high and comes up about a foot in the strike zone as it nears the plate. The drop pitch drops about the same distance. Ward said pitchers .know his reputation as a contact hitter and are throwpitchers hand. , mostly drop pitches on the outside Ward was born and raised in ing corner to him. Tremonton and graduated from Bear Ward compared hitting a baseball to I havent seen the larger softball. enough real good baseball pitching but I guess both are equally tough, he He's chat see call a slapper said. A baseball comes in from a said Hackmeister, His plan of higher trajectory and you have, to swing level with your arms extended. attack is to hit aground ball and You hit a softball with a more compact swing since you dont get as much time with his speed hell beat it out 99 to see the pitch. When asked about the image of a times out of a 100. softball player as a player who only swings for home-runWard replied that this type of player was play River High School in 1970. Like most more common in slow-pitc- h than in fast pitch. In h softball players, he was a rather home-runs dont come into effect former high school baseball star letteras he When you get on said. much, a as and outfielder. ing shortstop first base its an automatic thing that When not playing for Page Brake, the next hitter will try to bunt you over. Ward works as a manager for Spectra The fastpitch makes you try to use the Sonics Audio in Riverdale. He and his whole field and just make contact. wife, Debra, have five children. Their The softball season runs from Feboldest daughter, Tish, is 12 and plays in ruary to September and the average the Roy City Softball league and sons team plays about 70 games a season. Jeremy, 9, and Landon, 7, play in the Ward plays church basketball in the city baseball leagues also. winter and skiis to get his legs in shape team Ward has been playing in area soft-ba- ll ' for the upcoming season. The Febin begins spring early training leagues since he graduated in 1970. In the league, players are paid only for ruary by hitting ground balls and in a gymnasium. their travel expenses. Companies such pitching The will be playing July 9 team as Page Brake recruit the best avail- in 'N the Pak Invitational to be . Pay able players in the area to play for held in Wash. Then the team Seattle, their team. In the three years with to Canada on July 1 travels Victoria, Page Brake, Ward has played in five to play against the Canadian Nationnational tournaments. , al Team. Page Brake is currently in a race for two positions to the In last years nationals held in Mid- three-wa- y land, Mich., his team placed fourth in ASA Nationals in September. competing, Ward said Page Brake led in four of its six games but were unable to hold its leads. As the center fielder and lead-of- f hitter for Page Brake in its weekly e league play, Ward is bata ting respectable .300. Last season, he hit a sizzling .429 h In softball, the pitcher stands 46 feet from home plate instead of the 606 in baseball. Add that to mph pitchers who throw at about and it is obvious why the games are noted for their Other differences from baseball include bases are set 60 feet apart rather than 90 feet, fences are about 250 feet to center, pitchers must throw underhand, and a base runner cannot leave his base until the ball has left the - four-gam- fast-pitc- 85-9- 0 low-scorin- g. fast-pitc- . , 1 beer-bellie- d s, fast-pitc- fast-pitc- . 28-2- 30-3- , 1 h, |