The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 23

HIGH; MUDDY-BUT ANGLERS LUCKY WITH TROUT By ELMER PANOC (Mercu-y Sports Editor) High, awift, muddy streams, temperatures under 50 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy skies are supposed to keep trout away from baited hooks, but 19 local anglers overcame the weather jinx yesterday by hooking the limit 1 0 as the season officially opened. After four consecutive davs of ram, only the mo.st optimistic climbed out of bed eaily jesterclay to dip their lines the numeious tiout sti earns in the Pott stown aiea. These optimistic anglers, however, were the ones telling the fish stones last while the fishermen who thought the weather wasn't good for the opening day were doing the listening. When the season opened at five o'clock yesterday morning, the weather was far from favorable. As the hours passed, the temperature started to climb and the clouds disappeared from the skies.

A warm sun made fishing enjovable during the afternoon. Fair and warmer weather Is piedicted today, which will probably have those anglers who missed the first dav packing the banks of the local streams seeking trout. REPORTS from various local fishermen revealed that Pine creek was clear and a little above noimal yesterday. Beaver Run was clear but high, while French creek was high and muddy. Manatawny creek was also high and muddv.

Manv anglers also said that lines Boy, What a Sucker! --Mercury Staff Photo Chester Freeh, veteran angler, laughs as he looks at the sucker which he caught while fishing for trout in the Ironstone creek at Tine Forge yesterday. Freeh, however, wasn't a "sucker" for going fishing yesterday, because he returned home with the limit (ten trout) despite the fact that streams were above normal and muddy. Also shown laughing at Freeh's catch is Carl Endy, 338 North York Street, who also caught ten trout yesterday. VACATION Fish In streams that never been fished beforai Swim in tingling pine- rimmed lakes -or canoe on the trail that Champlain blazed -see wild (but friendly) animals in native Or you can LOAF at gay report and let Ontario sunshine toast yon! No required fof U.S. Cimens-- Canada's finest roads and yoor dollar goes farther.

Write today for FREE information. EXHIBITION BASEBALL with lead sinkers and hooks with wonns as bait were good for fUh- ing yesterday. It seems as though most of the trout stayed near the bottom of the streams and waited for food to come. No accidents on opening dav were reported up to a late hour last night, but one funny incident happened alonir Ironstone creek in Pine ForRC where many anglers tried their luck. Chester Freeh, veteran angler from Stowe.

picked out a good spot to drop his line with his companion. Carl Endy. 338 York street After a few minutes. Freeh felt a pull on his line and reeled it in only to find a laige "sucker" hanging on the hook. AFTER A GOOD LAUGH.

Freeh got serious and started looking for trout. Last nuzht on his return home, Freeh was carrying the limit, ten trout. Endy also returned home with the limit of brook and rainbow trout French creek, Rock. Run, lion- stone creek and the East branch of the Perkiomen were crowded with fishermen throughout the day. Some of the anglers were hooking trout measuring over 12 inches in length, but (Mte a few reported that many fish were under ten inches.

A party of five young fishermen went to the upper part of Rock Run yesterday morning to test their skill, and after two hours of fishing each angler had the limit. Irvm Fredericks Jr. hooked eight brook and two rainbow trout and Ken Hanley caught nine brook and one rainbow Walter Carroll, Ed Giebs and Mel Newman each hooked ten brook trout, ranging from 74 to 12 inches in length. FREDERICKS SAID some of the Ixn-s uM'd worms for IJH and others used Da speir fir.st day fishiiiK in lionstoni i PUIP Foivc He rc'tuinfi norm- i i the limit in btook and i nbov i Sinner i Cdlchmg the limit in the i part of Rock Run -md the i a of French deck He retU'nccl home with biook i i rainbow trout Among Georgo Kiltenhouse's -atch of seven trout was a 13- iruh lirook trout which he hooked in i creek. Carl Beihtel got trout, three browns and two rainbows.

One of the brown trout measured 18 inches in length, largest trout reported -vpsterdav. Bill Reitnauer uas onlv one-half inch behind Be(htel catching an 18-inch rainoov, French creek esteraay mourns Al Rhjmei and his son Bill, each returned home with ten trout fiom French creek Some weie 14 arid 15 Inches in length. HARRY, LESTER and Dick Thompson tried then luc' in French creek Hany hooked trout Lester caught eight and Dick returned home with six David wads- worth got a 12-incher in Maiuitauny creek moinmg, while "Buck" Mooie pulled a 14-mcher from French (ieek. Gerald Boyle, veteran Queen street anglci hooked MX brook and four in Beaver Run One of the fish measured 13 inches in length and weighed three-fourths of a pound While fishing in Beaver Run and French creek, Bob Matthew's got the limit in brook and rainbows. Amos Jones reported catching five trout in his Brit Attempt, and Tom Nagle reported hooking four in tbe Mana tawny.

Two trout were pulled from the Manatawny by Sam Garber Jr, and another pulled out by Danny Ludwig The West branch of the Perkiomen provided good fishing for Dan Rothenberger, Boyertown He returned from a day of fishing with the limit, while Harold Hartman orought back thiee trout. JAMES BECKER telling the story of tne 15-inch brown trout ne hooked the Perkiomen yesterday and Frank Keim's showing friends how he hooked seven brown trout the West branch of the Perkiomen. The poor weather didn bother Bill Bohner as he caught flve brown trout in the Perkiomen jester dav. Jim Petrowicz. president of ibf Boyertown Bod and Gun club, caught five trout day but ntlll claimed that finn- ing was "very poor." Lloyd Koch.

John Koren, Hun Seeders and Ralph Bush each hooked the limit of ten trout In the French creek yesterday, but Dick Antrim was only lucky enough to catch two. Richard. Cleaver came back from his fishing trip with only one trout. Other lucky fishermen were Joe Basilr, Leonard Mmotto, James Minotto and Tom Mlnotto. This party tried their skill in hooking trout at French creek.

Basile hooked five, Leonard Minotto caught, four, Jim Minotto got one and Tom Minotto got four. Al Basile's luck stopped at four Tout after a few hours at Forge- dale. John Minotto reported hooking f.ve rrout in French creek and oornoanion, Lou Vanore, reported catching oCPTlflil 0 I I Wet Grounds Force Bears, Trojans to Postpone Games FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1948 PAGE TWENTY-THREE 2 More Teams Admitted Into Softball Loop Two more teams entered the Pottstown City-Industrial Softball league last night, bringing the total of clubs in the new Softball circuit to ten. Francis Donnon, Pottstown Recreation commission official, announced last night that no more teams will be taken into the league. Plans call for ten teams, and now officials will start working out plans for the 1948 season.

The two teams entering the league at last night's meeting in the recreation commission office were the Carlini AC and the New York store. The league constitution and by-laws were drawn up at last night's meeting, and the teams are now awaiting the schedule lor the season. Recreation commission officials said all league games will be played on The Hill far fields unless another field can be acquired. The season is scheduled to start Monday, May 3. Other teams in the circuit are East End, champions of the YMCA-Industrial circuit--4he past- year; St John's Falcons.

Mana Assunta, El Chico AC, Spicer's Supervisors, West Pottsgrove Rod and Gun club, Spicer's Cafe and the Pottstown Redbirds. New Entries Boost Field for 500-Mile Race INDIANAPOLIS. April 15 (IP) -Eleven new entries today boosted the field to 51 cars for the 32nd annual 500-mile race at Indianapolis Motor speedway, May 31. Speedway President Wilbur Shaw said he expected eight or nine more nominations post-marked before the deadline at midnight tonight. Shaw, himself a three-time winner of the Memorial Day race, said at least 40 of the cars are capable of sustained speed above 120 miles per hour and he believed it would take a qualifying -speed of 123 mph to earn one of the 33 starting positions.

The field includes 10 brand new American cars, all of the faster cars from the 1947 race and several race-tested chassis with new engines. Tiere are 31 four-cylinder cars, 14 eights, three sixes, one twelve, one sixteen, and a two-cylinder steamer. No foreign drivers or car owners included in the entry MsVbut six foreign-build racers will compete. Best regarded of the imports are the yeteran Maserati in which Shaw won two speedway victories and the Don Lee Mercedes special. Pottstown High Racquetmen Drop First Match to Lancaster Foe, 6-3 After losing two of the first three singles matches, Lancaster's McCaskey High tennis team came back to win five of the next six matches to hand the Trojans of Pottstown High a 6-3 defeat yesterday afternoon on the Lancaster courts.

It was the first match of the year because Although the rains to a halt and the sun's rays reached the earth for the first time this week, baseball fields remained in bad condition yesterday, and Pottstown and Boyertown were forced to postpone their games. The Trojans, scheduled to open their season with Coatesville. pushed the game back to May 14. Boyertown postponed its tussle with Amity COACH WARREN FRY, of Boyertown, said yesterday that he still intends to use Paul Moatz on the mound for the Bears this week. The southpaw will probably get the starting assignment for today's The Panzers Defeat Mercer's Wrestlers READING, April 15--The Panzers, making their first appearance Reading, defeated Man in Mercer's top-notch wrestling team here tonight at the Armory.

The No 3 Panzer opened the match by tossing Joe Steffano in 32 minutes. 33 seconds of the bout. Mercer then came back to square matters with the black hooded wrestlers by flattening the No. 1 Panzer in nine minutes, 19 seconds. No.

2 Panzer followed with a victory over Miquelt In 14r nunutes, 33 seconds only to have Mercer square things again--this tame flattening the No 2 Panzer in eight minutes, 44 seconds. Milo Steinborn put up a game fight but lost to the No. 6 Panzer in seven minutes. 28 seconds, and the No. 3 Panzer put an end to the match by trouncing Mercer in three minutes, 53 seconds.

for both teams Pottstown's three points came on victories in the No. 2 and No. 3 singles matches and in the No. 1 doubles match. Don Zieg- 4 ler was the only player to win twice for the Trojans.

Ziegler, who starred on the basketball court during the Winter, put the Trojans in front by winning in the No. 3 singles match in straight sets. The tall, blond Ziegler defeated Alan Newcomer. 6-0. 6-2.

Dick Scheffey was the other Pottstown winner in the singles, defeating Lancaster's Jack Qraybill, 6-2, 6-1. SINGLES XJrove. defeated Emery, 6-2 7-5 --Scneffej, defeated Graybill, 6-2, 6-1. Ziegler, P. defeated Newcomer, 6-0 6-2 Slauga, defeated Jones 6-1.

6-4 Conlin, defeated VonBracfc, 6-4. 6-4. Pinfcerton, defeated Wanner, 6-1. 6-0. DOUBLES Emery and Ziegler.

defeated Grove and Slaugh. 3-6. 6-0, 6-2 Graybill and Conlin. defeated Shelley and Jones. 4-6, 6-0.

6-1. Buckwalter and Kohler. defeated VoaDrach and Wanner, 6-2, 6-4. until next week. Coach Ed Good's Trojans will now open tbe season Monday afternoon against Downingtown on the Whippets' field.

Boyertown, already with two games hi the record book, get back into action this afternoon --facing Mohnton in a game that was postponed from Monday afternoon. Good said yesterday that it the skies would have cleared a little sooner and there woud have been a little more sunshine, ths field would have dried enough for a game. The Trojan mentor also post- poned practice yesterday of the wet grounds. game with Mohnton at feur o'clock, Spring City, rained ont. twice this week, will get back into action against Downingtown in a non-league tussle this afternoon at Spring City.

Game time is set for two o'clock. Charles Wise, Spring City coach, said he plans to send Dick Mull, of no-hit fame, to the hill this afternoon. Larry Davis will be ready for relief duty if Mull needs help. AT WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.

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Fanovich (4), Schultz (9) and Bosiak. AT BALTIMORE. MD. Boston A) 000 110 100--3 5 2 Baltimore Tnt 000 010 000--1 7 1 Ferris and Tebbetts: Center. Groth (5), Melhs (8) and Ruszowski.

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AT KANSAS CITY, MO. Cleveland A 000 000 000--0 4 0 New York 'N) 200 000 OOx--2 4 0 Feller and Tipton; Jones and Cooper. Pitt Steelers Name Michelosen As Successor to Sutherland PITTSBURGH, April 15 (AP)--Johnny Michelosen has agreed to succeed his late friend and mentor, the late Dr. John B. (Jock) Sutherland, as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

At 32, Jock's former first assistant, will be the youngest head tutor in the National Football league. He said he would sign a two-year contract, terms of which were not revealed. Sutherland died Sunday following two emergency operations for removal of a brain tv- mor. His death climaxed one of the most successful football coaching careers on the American gridiron. Micheiosen.

as a player and as Sutherland's top assistant, helped the taciturn Scot achieve some of has most outstanding successes--in both collegiate and pro ranks. THE NEW COACH played varsity football at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1935-36-37 season The next year. Sutherland's last season at Pitt, he was an assistant coach. Sutherland quit after the university adopted a "de-emphasis" program. Michelosen followed suit.

Two years later Sutherland entered pro football as coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers, then in the National Football league. Michelosen joined him both staying in Brooklyn two seasons. Both joined the Navy in World War II. Michelosen served as an athletic instructor and was not discharged until 1945. A year later.

when Sutherland accepted the head coaching post of the Steelers. MI- BASEBALL MEETING CALLED Paul Gatta. manager of the Pottstown Amvets baseball team. has called a meeting of all baseball candidates tonight in the Am- vets headquarters at 8 "30 o'clock CESSPOOLS and SEPTIC TANKS CLEANED H. PhmixviHt OS SINCE ill" Ontario Dfpt of Trrrd Pabbon-.

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Pa Married, he is the father of two children. ALLEY CATS TRIUMPH The Alley Cats and the Hepcats moved ahead in the Pottstown Junior High Volleyball tournament yesterday afternoon. The Alley Cats defeated the Jolly Jesters, 2021, 21-17, 21-8, while the Hepcats were eliminating the Volleyball Jets, 21-8, 21-19. FLYING SCHOOL Approved Government Flight Training LUSCOMBE SILYAIRE and CESSNA 1201 USED DURING TRAINING For Information, Phone 1635-J or Call at Pottstown Municipal Airport BASCO'S FLYING SERVICE STOWE, NEW CUSHMAN MOTOR SCOOTERS Immediate Delivery Cash or Terms SANATOGA GARAGE Sanatoga Phone 2334 Get started now in this popular vocational program! Depending OB your you CJUB choose basic flyinc an flight course or commercial instruction. GI Bill of covers instruction for women as -well as men veterans of World War II.

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