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
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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
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“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!
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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
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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.
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