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THE NYSSA GAtE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON
PAGE TWELVE
SANDLOT NOTES and COMMENTS
By Stan Thompson
I have a story to tell. Most of '] “Baseball is over!”
“Football is here!”
you may not believe it. Others I
“Why don't you forget baseball
will because the same thing has i
undoubtedly happened to them. and realize that football season
Read on, sports fan, and let your • is here?"
I then realized I was being put
imagination feel free rein.
The other night I was returning before a jury to answer for my
from an errand downtown, still , thoughts in sports.
The noise died down, and in the
grumbling about having to leave
the late show, and was about to complete silence a clear and un
pull off Main street when I no restrained voice spoke forth from
ticed the high school baseball the stands.
“I am the Spirit of Football.
field lights were on. Dam, it was
awful late for any games, and I Beside me on either side sit the
couldn't recall any scheduled for Spirit of Basketball, the Spirit of
Track, and the Spirit of Baseball.
that night
"You are accused of thinking
Curiosity got the best of me. I
decided to drive by and maybe entirely of baseball and not tak
ing into consideration that the
see the last part of a game.
I could hear cheering and all season is over and football has
sorts of commotion as I rounded begun. The audience here to
the bend by the school bus gar- night is made up of football
fans. They have patiently wait
age.
ed for the baseball season to
end, but you insist on reviving
it in your column.
I then received the shock of
my life, There was not a soul
in the stands, and the field was
empty. Yet I could distinctly
hear a crowd — the noise and
atmosphere was unmistakable.
I parked my car behind the
backstop and got out. Clearing
my eyes and feeling a fuzziness in
my head, I looked again to the
illuminated field. If I couldn't
see with my own eyes that there
was no person or living thing
present, I would have sworn I
was in the midst of a large crowd.
Suddenly without warning I
was swept up as if onto someones
shoulders and carried to the mid
dle of the baseball diamond and
left on an invisible perch above
the pitcher’s mound.
Thsre. in the middle of the
night, dumbfounded by this
fantastic happening. I sat about
four feet above the ground, fac
ing empty stands. And though
I could see the stands were
empty. I felt as if there were
hundreds of people there, and
all staring right at me.
“Football fans in the stands, do
you find the accused guilty of
persisting in baseball and ne
glecting football?”
“YES!” the shouts thundered in
unison.
The voice spoke again.
“You are found guilty and must
consent to begin news of the foot
ball season or forfeit your power
of ‘second guessing’.”
I began to speak up in protest,
but found my throat paralyzed
and could not utter a word.
A one-sided jury had pronounc
ed sentence on me, and I was
helpless for my own defense. All
this was happening in an empty
dimly lit ball field. I couldn’t be
lieve it was actually happening.
A second voice broke the night.
NYSSA
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Big Game Pack
Area in Oregon
Opens Saturday
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SUNDAY and MONDAY
Sept 4 and 5
YUL BRYNNER
KAY KENDALL
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"Once More
With Feeling
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In Technicolor
TUESDAY-Sept. 6
SPANISH NTTE
"Rebelion De
Adolescentes"
Oregon rifle hunters possessing
controlled hunt big game tags for
the Wallowa and Snake River
Pack areas will get in the first
licks of the big game seasons
Saturday, Sept. 3, when these two
areas are scheduled to open for
deer hunting.
The early season will run
through Sept. 7 in the Snake riv
er area and through Sept. 11 in
the Wallowa area. In addition to
the early controlled season, un
successful hunters may also use
their controlled tags in the areas
throughout the general deer sea
son, Oct. 1 through 23.
During the early and general
seasons, controlled hunt tag hold
ers have the privilege of hunting
for two deer within the prescrib
ed areas, a buck deer on the gen
eral deer tag and a doe deer on
the controlled tag.
Hunters who would like to get
in on the controlled deer hunts in
the Wallowa and Snake Pack
areas are advised surplus tags are
still available and are being is
sued on a first come, first served
basis. A fee of $5 is charged for
the controlled tag.
Hunters are cautioned that both
the Snake river and Wallowa are
pack areas requiring horses to get
into the back country. No roads
enter the Snake River Pack area,
and only two or three roads enter
the Wallowa Pack area, and these
only on the outer fringes. Both
areas are steep and rugged
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Sept 7 and 8
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OF SHRINE ALL-STAR GAME
Payette Association
Schedules Labor Day
Snake River Regatta
Don Walker returned last week
Scattergunners can begin to from a trip to Pendleton and
sharpen their shooting eyes today Portland. He was a member of
Snake River Water Sports as
on two of the most elusive wing the eastern squad of the Shrine
targets in the annals of upland A-2 all-star football game at Pen sociation at Payette is sponsoring
bird gunning. These two erratic dleton Aug. 20. The eastern team i a regatta on Labor day, Sept. 5,I
at the association grounds located
flying targets are the mourning won by a score of 13-0.
dove and band - tailed pigeon,
He also went to Portland where on the Snake river at the north
with the gunning season schedul he saw the Shrine A-l all-star city limits, according to Carol
ed to open Sept. 1 extending to game and visited the Shriner’s McNutt, secretary.
Time trials will begin at 10 a.m. ;
Sept. 30.
hospital.
with actual races starting prompt
Bag limit on these feathered
ly at 2 p.m. Entry fee is $2 per '
bombshells is set for 10 doves R. E. CAPPER RECEIVES
boat. Anyone with a boat and
daily, 20 in possession and eight WORD OF SISTER S DEATH
motor is invited to enter the races
pigeons daily or in possession.
R. E. Capper received word yes and will have an equal chance
Dove hunters should find excel
lent shooting throughout the terday that his sister, Mrs. Grace since entries will be grouped by
state. Reports indicate dove popu Johnson of Gering, Neb., suc time trials.
Entertainment will be provided ■
lations high, especially in the cumbed that morning. Funeral
during the afternoon by local
grain sections of eastern Oregon, services will be held Saturday.
water ski acts and a concession I
the high desert water hole coun
try, and along the canyons of the springs, tide flat areas, regular stand will be in operation.
There will be no admission
Snake, Malheur, John Day and flyways and feeding areas.
Good gunning is expected to charge for spectators and parking
Deschutes rivers. The Willamette
valley is also expected to provide continue through at least mid space will be provided.
some fair to good dove shooting. September and then ease off as
Trophies will be presented by
Band - tailed pigeon hunters j doves and pigeons begin their the association to the first three
should do the best around mineral ' southward migrations.
winners in each race.
From where 1 sit...
Joe
Marsh
Whitey's a Man With
Both Feet on the Ground
Whitey Fisher and his missus
got back from their first Euro
pean vacation the other day.
But before they left, Mrs.
Fisher tells us. Whitey had
some pretty strong feeling
about their transportation — a
new jet plane.
"Should go by boat,” Whitey
complained as they boarded
the jet. When they were seated
Whitey murmured, "1’11 get
air-sick on this thing for sure.”
And a few minutes later, he
added, “Course I’m all right
now, but wait until we take
off.” Just then the pilot an
nounced, “Folks, we’re now
cruising at an altitude of
26,000 feet!"
From where I sit, sometimes
we all jump to conclusions
without knowinr the facta.
For instance, some people are
like that about my favorite
beverage—beer. They insist
that coffee or tea goes best at
dinnertime, when actually it's
a matter of choice. We ought
to be tolerant—and know be
fore we take off on our opin
ions.
Copyright, 1960. United Statet Breuiert Foundation
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STOCK UP for the long LABOR DAY week-end !
Libby's—Delicious
"I am the Spirit of Baseball,
and I must bow out each year
to permit my colleagues to have |
their seasons. I will have my
turn again next year. So you > |
must bend to their will as I do."
The lights grew dimmer and
Noise from this unseen crowd suddenly extinguished, leaving
became more audible, and I could me in quiet darkness. I realized
catch fragments of the shouts.
I was alone now with only my
thoughts. Barely visible was my
car tiehind the bleachers. I drove
away from the field, not looking
back.
Pulling up to a gas station, I
casually asked the attendant if he
had noticed the high school base-
ball lights on. He said they hadn't
Dial FR 2-3932 214 Main been on that night. Then he ask-
ed me when Q was going to start
some football in my column.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
You know, I wonder if maybe
his thoughts were part of that
Sept. 2 and 3
crowd ...
30-Day Dove, Pigeon
Season Opens Today
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I. 1960
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