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14 Wednesday, April 27, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Smith leads Outlaws in softball split The long shadow of Hemingway started to rally with Amanda (Smith) pitching and the Correspondent bats coming alive,” said Junior Amanda Smith col- Smith. “Unfortunately, the lected eight hits and struck game was called due to loss out 27 as the Sisters High of light.” In addition to Smith’s School varsity split a pair of games last week with Cottage four hits in the second game, Grove to kick off the second Savannah Ryan had two hits half of Sky-Em League soft- and McIntosh hit a triple. No other Outlaw had a base hit. ball action. The Outlaws were sched- Smith had four hits and struck out 15 as the Outlaws uled to have played Sweet Home on Friday, but trans- won the opener, 24-12. The Outlaws scored two portation issues postponed the in the first, 12 in the third Sky-Em tilt. Coach Smith said he was and five each in the fourth and fifth in recording the run- pleased with his youthful team’s pro- rule (lead- gression this ing by 10 season. after five We had an outstanding “We had innings) an outstanding victory. practice today. practice today L e a d — Coach Dave Smith (Friday),” by Smith’s said Smith. four base “(Assistant hits and a pair of hits by Leah McIntosh, Coach) Mckibben (Womack) the Outlaws totaled 14 base took them for the first 45 hits. Six other Outlaws had a minutes and put them through a series of Tabatas. They had base hit. Smith had 12 strikeouts eight minutes to complete and four hits in the second four stations, a station per game that ended after four plate (10 push ups, 15 bur- innings with the Outlaws pees, 50 crunches and 20 air losing 12-10. The game was squats). “Then we split them apart, “called” by the umpires due to darkness. The game was McKibben did infield and I did batting practice. After scheduled for seven innings. The Outlaws scored two in that we ran bases and I timed the first and fifth, five in the them running from home second and one in the fourth plate to first,” said Smith. Up next for the Outlaws in the second game, but the hosting Lions scored seven in was a Tuesday twin bill host- their half of the first and took ing Sweet Home, followed by the lead with one in the sec- encounters against Elmira on April 29 and May 2. ond and four in the third. Elmira continues to lead Smith did not start the sec- ond game in the pitching cir- the Sky-Em with a 7-1 record, cle, but relieved after Cottage 17-1 overall. Sweet Home, Grove scored six times in the which handed Elmira’s its lone defeat, is second first inning. Sisters Coach Dave Smith at 5-2 (10-6 overall), fol- felt his team would have been lowed by 5-3 Junction City victorious had the game not (10-8) and the Outlaws tied with Sutherlin at 2-5 (4-10). been called early. “The Outlaws really Cottage Grove is 1-6 (1-12). No writer of the 20th cen- tury looms larger than Ernest Hemingway. That is, in part, because he crafted a larger-than-life persona: Hard drinker, big- game hunter, fisherman, trav- eler, war journalist. Even in his own lifetime, the persona overshadowed his writing. Today, most people know at least vaguely who “Papa” was, but few have actually read him. That’s a shame, for Hemingway truly revo- lutionized literature, with his stripped-down, virile, sharply observed prose. The “stripped-down” aspect is often over-emphasized, for while Hemingway wrote with economy, he also wrote vividly and beautifully, espe- cially about the natural world that he loved to inhabit — and test himself against. He was a masculine writer — to a fault, accord- ing to some of his critics. He plunged into the manly pur- suits with a vigor and enthu- siasm that is entirely out of vogue these days. It’s impos- sible to imagine a celebrity writer in 2016 posing with a giant marlin or with a gazelle on the African plains, much By Tom Mauldin By Jim Cornelius News Editor less writing with passion about bullfighting. His alcoholism, which was also a significant part of his persona, diminished his powers — his physical capa- bilities and his capacity as a writer — and traumatic brain injury from two plane crashes while hunting in Africa con- the ghost of Ernest Hemingway is always somewhere over my shoulder tributed to a steep mental decline that ended in suicide by shotgun in 1961. Any writer, any artist, deserves to be judged by his best work, and Hemingway’s best is very good indeed: “Big Two-Hearted River” “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber”; “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”; “A Moveable Feast”; the Spanish Civil War opus “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” to name but a few. The Hemingway persona will be on full display in the movie “Papa: Hemingway in Cuba,” which plays at Sisters Movie House this week, in which a Miami journal- ist who admires the icon of American letters watches him slide into depression, alcohol- ism and paranoia during the Cuban Revolution. It’s the first American film shot in Cuba in over 50 years. I’ll be there in the theater, drinking it all in, for like every American man who bangs on a keyboard and has thrown back a drink or three and shot birds over a good dog and battled with a big fish on salt water, the ghost of Ernest Hemingway is always somewhere over my shoulder. But that’s not really the way to honor the old bastard. When the lights of the theater come back up and we leave Cuba and a ravaged Papa behind, I’ll go home and read. Because in the end, the writing is all that matters.
