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10 THE GRANTONIAN December 16, 1966 Scuba diving gains popularity by Paul Muir Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, better known as Scuba, is becoming a popular sport, according to sen ior Jay Smith. “It is still young but quite advanced,” stated Alex A. Maleski, chairman of the Conference for Co-operation in Aquatics here in Port land. Seniors Cynthia Evans, Jay Smith, Gaye Pearson, and juniors Ray Elder and Duane Wallace are interested in scuba diving. “It’s a fabulous sport and opens up a whole new world,” stated Cynthia. “It’s freedom from the noise of the World,” commented Jay. “I really love it,” says Gaye. Cynthia does most of her div ing at Newport, Puget Sound, or Lake Tahoe. Jay does most of his diving in the Columbia and Lake Chamberlin. Gaye does her diving with the Portland Sea Searchers at Buck Mountain or Hood Canal. Ray’s diving is done at Pacific City and Indian Beach. Duane doesn’t scuba dive yet, but he is going to take lessons in the near future. The essential equipment consists of tank, regulator, mask, weight belt, and swim fins. A wet suit which keeps you warm is optional along with the depth gauge. In this part of the country, a wet suit is almost necessary because of weather, while in other parts where the weather is warmer none is needed. Their cost is about $250. If a person doesn’t know what he is doing while under water, serious complications could oc cur. The two basic things to know are the proedure for ditch ing the equipment in case of trouble and to never dive alone; always have at least one partner with you, according to Mr. Ma leski. “It is foolish to dive with out the proper training,” stated Jay. A person can have a humor ous time if he knows what he is doing. There is spear fishing, treasure hunting, or just look ing around for scenery and much more. You must take lessons before trying to dive. Most diving equipment shops give them dur ing the fall and spring. After graduating, a license is given to the people entitling them to dive. If the person is not physically fit and mentally awake, he will not pass the course. J— (^itationô Girls' team begins Frosh wrestlers down Roosevelt morning practice With returning senior players and a month of practice ahead, the varsity girls’ basketball team is planning a “busy” season. Under the direction of Miss Joan Egbers, team members in clude seniors Gwen Stone, Cindy Barrett and Kathy Callahan. Juniors participating are Hedda Klimp, Kellie Brrett, Karen Richey and Sylvia Bond. Sopho mores include Betty Woodward and Toni Schlinkmeier. The team came in third in the Park league last year. Miss Eg bers commented, “Marshall will be a tough opponent, as will a non-school team, the Junior Rosebuds.” by Mike Hoffman Next year’s divisional league selections have been made, and we are in the “Green” division along with Benson, Cleveland, Franklin, Marshall, and Washington. The football team will play each of these teams once, the basketball team will meet each team in its division twice. As of now the baseball team will continue its 22 game schedule. What is the outlook for next year in this division? It looks pretty good for the Generals according to our previous battles against these teams. Against Benson in football our 4 year record is 3-0. In basketball during the last three years it is 5-1. Baseball for the past six years is 10-2. Total—18 wins, 3 losses. Cleveland is the next team and We arq 2-0 in football, 6-0 in basketball, and 8-4 in baseball for a total of 16 wins, 4 losses. Against Franklin it is 3-lin football, 6-0 in basketball, and 8-5 in baseball for a 17 win, 6 loss record. Against Marshall we have excelled with a 4-0 record in football, 6-0 in basketball, 9-3 in baseball—19 wins, 8 losses. Wshington is the last member of our division, and has been the toughest competition. We are 3-0 in football, 3-3 in basketball, 7-5 in baseball for a 13 win, 8 loss total. In football and basketball alone against these 5 schools, the com bined total is 41 wiiis, 5 losses. According to our past record, we are solid favorites to win our division next year in both sports in opening meet by Mike Cochrane Taking over the reins as the new frosh wrestling coach, Bill White engineered his Privates to a 55-8 throttling of Roose velt’s frosh in their opener last Thursday as the junior varsity continue training. A small turnout on the side of the Roosevelt team plus a good effort by the Privates accounted for the lopsided score, according to Coach White. With a turnout of approxi mately 45 boys for the sport, Coach White expects to have a fairly strong team. He cited Ray Denfield, Dave Powell and Ward Bruner as looking real good so far this season. Next Thursday the frosh grapplers will wrestle Washing ton there at 4 p.m. in their third league meet in a season that will see the frosh meet each PIL school once. Composed mainly of sopho mores, the junior varsity wres tling squad is a program used primarily for those boys need ing more work on fundamentals and with the weights to build their strength. Coached by Lanny Sparks, the J.V. team follows no set sched ule as such. Instead, they will follow either the varsity sched ule or the frosh schedule. “The schools we wrestle de pends a lot on their turnout,” said Coach Sparks. “If they have a lack of sophomores we usually don’t wrestle them. Thus we’ll meet mostly the larger schools.” Once a week wrestlers on the J.V. level are allowed to chal lenge the second man at the var sity level. Consequently any good prospeictve wrestler Coach Sparks may have can move up to varsity. Bates, Cole chosen for Invitational meet Senior Onia Bates and Chris Cole have been invited to com pete in the Oregon Invitational indoor track meet January 28 at Memorial Coliseum. Theeta Moore is an alternate. Bates will not compete in the high school division, but will en ter the open class in the 60-yard dash and long jump. Chris will enter the 440-yard dash for girls, and Theeta is an alternate in the 60-yard dash. Junior Varsity Basketball Schedule Games at 5:30 or 8:00 FIRST HALF December 6—at Madison, 5:30 December 9—Washington, 6:00 December 13—Jefferson, 5:30 December 16—at Franklin, 6:00 December 20—Jackson, 5:30 January 6—Marshall, 6:00 Jannary 10—at Benson, 5:30 January 13—Lincoln, 6:00 January 17—Roosevelt, 5:30 January 20—at Cleveland, 6:00 January 24—at Wilson, 5:30 SECOND HALF January 27—Madison, 6:00 January 31—at Washington, 5:30 February 3—at Jefferson, 6:00 February 7—Franklin, 5:30 February 10—at Jackson, 6:00 February 14—-at Marshall, 5:30 February 17—Benson, 6:00 February 21—at Lincoln, 5:30 February 24—at Roosevelt, 6:00 February 28—Cleveland, 5:30 March 3—WUson, 6:00 Christmas Ideas! Car Stereo Tapes Car Stereo Machines Stereos • Records Transistor Radios HUNTER'S Video Sonic 282-3327 4059 N.E. Sandy