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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1977)
PAGE 10 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON MAY 13, 1977 SPORTS Husbands and Wives Gather For Golf Vernon Tanewasha -displays the style that helped him bowl a perfect game CD* i noio The Mother’s Day weekend found sixty couples engaged in the fifth annual Kah-Nee-Ta Teepee Golf Chapman. Golfers who suffered through a cold rainy first day were rewarded by warm sunshine on the sec ond day as they vied for such prizes as clothing and equip ment from Kah-Nee-Ta’s pro shop. The annual tradition, which was started by General Mana ger Ken Smith and is now carried on by Norma and Zane Jackson, attracts players from all over central Oregon and the Valley, as well as southern Washington. Couples played in three divisions and local golfers took two of them. The Jacksons earned low gross in the C Division with a score of 182. Les and Barbara Yaw tied with the Vicortines from Mad ras for low gross (171) in the B Division. A banquet was held at the Lodge Saturday night May 7 for the golfing couples. Special awards were given based on the first day’s performances. And as a special treat Andy Lucas sang to the piano ac companiment of Louise Jack- son, Zane’s sister-in-law. The Kah-Nee-Ta Men’s Golf Association played host by providing two staples: golf balls and hamburgers. Warm Springs Man Bowls Perfect Game Tanewasha Makes 300 A score of 300 is every bowler’s dream. It is a perfect game. For the first time in the thirteen year history of Pelton Lanes in Madras, a bowler hit that top figure. Vernon Tane washa made it look easy while he was bowling in the Erv Allen Memorial Tournament May 7-8.. His achievement has earned him a diamond studded ring from the ABC (American Bowling Congress) — and a lot of attention from fellow bowl ers at the next practice. In fact Vernon felt so many eyes upon him Tuesday night that he found it difficult to perform. Shouts of “300, eh Vernon?” drew sheepish grins from the bowler .who pro ceeded to throw his first gutter ball in months. But the previous Saturday he was the model of “cool.” “The condition of the lanes was ideal,” Tanewasha re marked. They were “slick” from being waxed for the tour nament and he was able to throw his ball harder and faster. “Somehow I held my com- posure till the end,” he said, and pointed to a couple of lucky hits in the last frames. “It’s not so hard,” he joked. But it did take him by surprise. In league and tour nament play he “never came close” to a perfect game. His top score was 233, although in practice he was known to bowl an occasional 265. In the few weeks before the tournament Vernon said his “ball had been working really good.” He noted improvement as he brought his average up 11 pins over a nine week period. Tanewasha hasn’t been bowling very long. He took up the sport four years ago be cause “it was something my friends were doing and I felt out of it.” Now he practices serious ly, about 10-12 lines per week, and has been getting used to his own 15 lb. ball. Vernon has Norma Jackson scoops up the golfball she sunk on the last hole in the Husband-Wife Tournament at been working recently on Kah-Nee-Ta May 8. Zane stands by, unaware that this shot made them winners of the C Division in “picking up spares” but CDS Photo “otherwise I concentrate on the weekend tourney. my delivery.” He prefers a curve throw to a hook. Vernon is sufficiently in spired by his recent success so that instead of putting his ball away at the end of bowling season he plans to stay with it all summer. As for winning the Erv Allen Mixed Doubles Tourna ment, which is in memory of the late Pelton Lanes operator, Tanewasha doesn’t hold much hope. Other than his 300 game, he and his partner (who is playing “scratch”) have not come up with a lot of winning scores. There are two more week ends in the tournament. Per haps if they keep the lanes waxed and people stop staring Vernon will do it again! r % w Grade School Girls Keep Pace With Blazers While everyone else is swinging bats and tennis rack ets, the Trailblazers and the grade school girls in Warm Springs are still hard at it on the basketball courts. And they’re both bent on victory. The only competition that the two Warm Springs teams have is each other. The fifth and sixth grade teams have both won all their games with Madras and Metolius but lost a game each when they battled among themselves at home. With the two teams tied for first place and only one game left, there will clearly be a fight to the finish. Warm Springs I has a ve teran coach in first grade teacher Dawn Squiemhen. She has nothing but positive re marks to make about her team Annette Holliday jumps a little bit higher than Jolene Johnson at a recent basketball game between the two Warm Springs grade school teams. sports, enjoy playing together this year. and have an easygoing attitude “Everybody’s improving so competition. much,” Ms. Squiemhen com about Members of Warm Springs mented. “They’re dribbling I are: Ellen Colwash, Jamie better and getting more ag Smith, Judy Williams, Allie gressive — stealing the ball Smith, Missy Still, Marissa more.” Wolfe, Marva Meanus, Annette The girls are not only de Holliday, Anita Bryant, Sonya veloping better skills but they Bryant, and Ray dine Spino. are' growing in the social as Afternoon practice will find pects of the game. According the two teams scrimmaging to their coach they are good CDS Photo with referees recruited from their own ranks arid coaches hollering encouragingly from the sidelines. The other team, Warm Springs II, is a match for Team I in skills and attitude. Their coach, fifth grade tea- cher Carol McClelland, is a rookie coach, claiming to be a swimmer, not a ball player. (Con’t on Page 11)
