The Daily Times-News from Burlington, North Carolina • Page 42

5D Burlington (N.C.) Timei-Ncws, Wednesday, May II, 1171 Soft Booting Quiz loat A it up. According to tho Ryta of tht Road, which has tho right-of-way? Boat A or Boat OMfftr ZMM: 12 o'clock to "1 4 o'clock. I A When a boat is being backed up, the stern tempo- rarity becomes a bow and normal Rules of the Road apply. In this case, Boat approaching from the right, takes precedence. Ifs up to Boat A to turn right and pass astern of Boat B.

1 BY JIM DEAN THE DAN RIVER WANDERS out of the mountains of western Virginia and never really decides whether it prefers Sorebacks or Tar Heels. After crossing the state line several times, it finally winds up feeding the headwaters of Kerr Lake a huge impoundment which serves both states. It is this final connection with the lake that makes the Dan River of more than passing interest to anglers. Some years back, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission stocked the lake with striped bass (rockfish). The landlocked fish not only grew, but also spawned.

Each spring, huge numbers of large fish run out of the lake up the Dan River, and often the fishing is nothing short of phenomenal. Last week, I drove through the rolling hills of northern Caswell County to the town of Milton. Just west of Milton, the river makes one of its leisurely swings into the Tar Heel State. From Milton west to Danville, the river is likely to be alive with spawning stripers from late April well into May. A 15-pounder is not uncommon, but most range from three or four pounds to more than 20 pounds.

Richard Jarrett, Tommy Williams, Sterling Baker and Gary Maddox had the day off, and they met me at the Wildlife Access Area just west of Milton. "The river is in good shape, and we should take some fish," said Jarrett. I am an inveterate counter of chickens before they hatch, but I should have learned by now that good prospects do not necessarily mean good results. Alas, hope springs eternal in the hearts of anglers. The others followed shortly.

"I just bought a depth-finder this morning," Gary said. "If we can find the holes in the river, we ought to be able to take some fish." Striped Bass Weren't Hitting For an hour or so, we searched for "holes." We never really found one. What we learned was interesting, however. Most of the river seems to. average about six feet deep, though some stretches are closer to eight feet deep.

A "hole" was rarely more than about nine feet deep, and therefore relatively insignificant. Despite our massive assault on the river, the members of our party in four boats two of them equipped with depth-finders caught only three small fish. Another boat, manned by Aaron and Benny Johnson of Gretna, Virginia, had 12 stripers from three to about 12 pounds, but they had caught them in the morning. Their fish were caught on white and yellow bucktails. Other favorite lures include the five a half inch bluc-or purple-backed Rebels.

Some anglers also use bait, but most prefer to cast artificials. A few anglers also troll. One of the most popular methods is to anchor the boat in a likely looking spot usually on the side of the line with a Rebel on the end. The Rebel is left to "wiggle" in the current Big fish are often caught by anglers using this somewhat unorthodox method. Walter Hamlett of Roxboro took one just before dark that was 37 inches long and weighed 26 pounds.

I don't know about you, but I'd settle for one half that size, and before the month of May gets too far advanced, I figure on doing just exactly that. Safe loafing Qaiz SfcwU a skipper fa of the boriaMrriy hotes Talkers Seldom Get The Fish OREGON INLET Two women were standing around joking easily with their charter boat captain and mate, waiting for the cameraman. When he got there, they posed alongside the hulk of a 360 pound marlin, hanging from a rope attached to its tail, that one of the women had caught earlier in the day. After the photo session, goodbyes were in order and the women handled ft nicely. One approached the captain, as heartily as a slender forty- ish woman could, and shook hands manfully.

Then the women got in their station wagon with Virginia plates, and left amid pleasant shouts of "see you in June or July." The fish was still hanging there when the wagon turned onto the highway and headed north. Soon after, another Virginia car pulled in to the parking lot. Two sightseeing couples unloaded. They had their Ko- daks. A 43 pound channel bass had just been taken from a boat and the Kodaks went aclicking and awhirring.

Then the sightseers spotted the marlin hanging there. One of the women, in her forties, dressed nicely for a garden tour, scurried over and exclaimed, unbelieving: "Is this a fish?" "Ah my gawd!" She was very impressed. Click. Click. Whirrrrr.

Her husband stationed himself by the fish, hand on it, and smiled the victor's smile. His wife, still mumbling about their find, was taking his photo. She was shooting face on into the falling sun. The captain of the boat that had brought in the channel bass had a beer bet on the actual weight of the bass, so lowered the marlin to use the scales. The other woman of the Virginia group took advantage of this and approached for a closer look.

Somehow a chunk of flesh was missing from the side of the Marlin. "Look," she said, "it's plugged." And, sure enough it dil look like a plug hole in a watermelon, she paused, frail and sparrow- like and unsmiling by the plugged carcass while her pic- ture was snapped and wMrred onto film. One of the Virginia gentlemen, the one who had posed spendidly by the marlin, knew most everything about fishing and kept busy telling his friends this and that. After the group had finished with the fish gave them a rundown on the boats in the harbor. Then they got into their car and headed south.

Power Lake's Open House May 23 ROXBORO The Person- Caswell Lake Authority has made preparations to hold open house at the Carolina Power Lake on Sunday, May 23, 1971. Free entrance to the sixty- five (65) acre recreation park, and all boating fees will be suspended for the entire day. The public is invited to come to the Carolina Power Lake and observe the recreational facilities that have been established and offered to local residents as well as visitors from distant points. The lake is just off Highway 57 west of Roxboro. Free guide maps and lake regulations will de provided for your tour of the lake area.

There will be no charge for picnicing. swimming, or boating during the entire open house which will last all day. It is most common for new business and new home owners to have open house. It gives the owner a sense of gratitude to show people the accomplishments that have been made. The Person-Caswell Lake Authority with Ihe utmost cooperation from a i a Power 4 Light Company, would like to show the resi- denls of the lake area, as well as far away friends, the facilities that are available in Person and Caswdl County for recreation, as well as the Industrial Developments that have been made.

There are many people, who in many ways, have helped provide a combination ofde- vetopments that will benefit many people in a number of ways in years to come. during the cpen house on May Brd. the Wildlife Resources Commission will have Wikflifc Protectors present inspect boats for safety features upon request Handy Party Addition Taking the sun on one of Florida's famous beaches is Sherrie O'Meara of Miami. A handy addition for any beach party is her sporty outboard runabout, which can be used for water skiing, fishing, or going out for some party snacks. Tar Heels Claim Carmichael Cup CHAPEL HILL, N.C.

(AP) North Carolina has won the overall athletic championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference for the current academic year. Unofficial standings show the Tar Heels edged Maryland by seven points for the Carmichael Cup, awarded annually to the school which piles up the most points in all sports. Eight points are awarded for the first place, seven for second and so on. Twelve varsity sports count equally. Maryland had won the cup for the last four years, and had captured it for seven of the 10 years it has been awarded.

The Tar Heels' tennis championship over the weekend clinched the cup. Other sports in which North Carolina was first were fencing and basketball in the regular season. Five Sports Pages Today (DPI Tsleproto) Marquette Coach AL McGUlRE Is Honored In Charlotte As Coach Of Year New Outdoor Publication Is Readied A new, quarterly publication, HUNTERS ANGLERS WORLD is being published by Marksman Publishers at Knotts Island, N.C. in Currituck County. The publication is edited by (Mrs.) Leona C.

Lilley and Edward Fentress, both natives of the Back Bay, Currituck County, N.C. area, and formerly affiliated with Bay Point Shooting Preserve at Knott's Island. The purpose of the publication, the publishers tell us, is to inform sportsmen of what goes on in the world of hunting and fishing in North Carolina and Virginia. Its contents will include articles, stories, questions and answers, and illustrations, spiced with a bit of humor here and there. The introductory issue, for April May June, the editors explained, is a bit late, but will be out by the middle of May.

It contains only 12 pages and is only a sample of what to expect in future issues. Sample copies may be obtained by sending 25 cents to Marksman Publishers, Box 44-A, Knotts Islnd, N.C. 27950. Shooting Contest Set For Saturday The Alamance Long Rifles will sponsor a muzzle loading gun shoot Saturday, May 22, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Jim Barnwell Farm in Hopedale.

Contests will be held for rifles, muskets, pistols, shotguns, and flintlock rifles. Open sights are required for all entries. Refreshments will be available, and the event will be held regardless of weather. International League Charleston 5-1. Richmond 2-0 Syracuse 6, Winnipeg 5,10 un- nings Louisville 7, Tidewater 4 Rochester 6, Toledo 5, 11 innings In All-Star Go Ryun Says He'll Pass Up Meet They Like Weather Hot In El Paso -So Liquori Anticipates Hot Mile Al McGuire: 'Don't Want S.C.' To Play EL PASO, Tex.

(AP) They like it hot in this border city of 300,000 persons. Summer doesn't arrive until Jhe temperatures reach the mid-90s. So it's appropriate that the country's hottest miler, Marty Liquori, should be on hand Saturday for the inaugural El Paso Invitational track meet. Liquori is fresh from his stirring head-to-head victory over Jim Ryun in last Sunday's Martin Luther King games. Ryun has indicated he won'1 be on hand here for a repeat confrontation with Liquori, bu meet officials were still trying today to change his mind.

Even without Ryun, Liquor could find El Paso's altitude and a field of three sub-four-minute milers a tough only able to run a 4:04.1 mile combination to handle. Only one man has ever run a sub-four-minute mile in Texas. That was Preston Smith, who clocked a 3:59.8 a few years back. Casper Back On Tourney Trail Rock And Bass Contest Slated Billed as the largest of its kind on the Eastern Seaboard the First Annual Northeastern North Carolina Rock and Bass Fishing Tournament gets underway May 22 and 23 in the Gaston Reservoir The Roanoke Rapids Weldon area is known far and wide as the Rockfish Capital of the World, and some lunker stripers as well as plenty of bragging -size black bass are expected. Fishing will be permmitted on Gaston Reservoir, Roanoke Rapids Reservoir, and the Roanoke River down to Halifax.

The big tournament sponsored by the Roanoke Rapids Jaycees and the Roanoke Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce and prizes are really worth trying for. Duplicate outfits of 14-foot boats. 2( boarc and matching boat trailers await the top striper and black bass anglers. And these are only the first place prizes. For complete information write: Fishing Tournament, Post Office Box 519, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina 27870.

Even Ryun in his prime was CHARLOTTE (AP) National basketball Coach of the Year Al McGuire will take his Marquet Warriors to Columbia, in a similar altitude at Albuquerque, N. M. But University of Texas-El Paso track Coach Wayne Vandenburg said Tuesday he thinks Liquori has a "good chance" of dipping under the four-minute mark. The mile field includes John Lawson of the Pacific Coast Track Club, who has a best of Chris Mason, Liquori's teammate at Villanova University, who has run a Leonard Hilton of Houston University, a 3:59.3 miler; and the University of New Mexico's Dave Roberts, who clocked a S.C., next winter South Carolina to play the Gamecocks, whose coach is also a McGuire. "To tell you the truth," Marquette's coach said Tuesday, "I don't really want to go down there." The contest between his earn and that of Frank McGu're--ro relation--will be nationally Al McGuire was in Charlotte to be honored by the city's hamber of Commerce and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as the collegiate coach of the year this past season.

McGuire coached at tiny Belmont Abbey College near 4:02.5 in Albuquerque this Charlotte before moving to spring. Marquette. I Hs said he figures his team The mile overshadows jj "representative" in the could be the finest javelin field 0 i season, ''probably An 4-Urt FORT WORTH (AP) Billy Casper, a mite chunkier but ap- parantly healthy again, returned to the -tournament- trail this weekend says it's good hp haflr "rpfll ffnnrf in acaawii, oe oacK real gooa. assembled since the 1968 Mexi- somewhere in the top 10." Last The man who popularized City Olympics. vear it was nsar the top and swordfish steak flew early 09m nn.

Tuesday, toured the windswept World Chess Go Led Bv Yankee Colonial course and pronounced himself fit for a run at a third National Invitational title. The 26th 125,000 NIT opens Thursday with Casper, defending champion Homero Blancas, Lee Trevino, Master's king Charles Coody and Gary Player among the favorites for the 25,000 first prize. With the exception of superstars Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. most of the top names of the multi-million dollar PGA circuit are on hand to challenge the Colo-i nial course. Quite naturally, much attention is being focused on Ben Hogan, a five time winner here, who was forced out of the first round at Houston last week with a knee injury.

He is listed as a probable starter Thursday. Meanwhile, Casper returns to action after an absence of several weeks dating back to the first round of the Greater New Orleans Open. He withdrew au- er what first was diagnosed as an attack of bursitis. VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) The second game of the world chess championship quarterfinal match between grand- masters Bobby Fischer of th-3 United States and Mark Tfeima- nov of the Soviet Union was adjourned Tuesday night on the 45th move.

Fischer, playing white, was a pawn ahead and in a position where he normally would force a win. The game was to be continued Wednesday. Fischer leads the 10-game match, 1-0. The winner will advance in the challengers' round, with the survivor to meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title in 1972. The roster of the Washington, Senators this spring listed 16 pitchers who had achieved a total of 55 major league victories) last season.

unbeaten through 28 games un- Itil Ohio State won in the NCAA regionals. Others he predicted to be highly ranked are South Carolina, newly independent after withdrawing from the Atlantic Coast Conference: UCLA, Western Kentucky, North Carolina. Jacksonville and Southern California. 'BONE-CHILLING AND FEARSOME! couldn't be better if Hitchcock was leading the way." MAGAZINE the night tfsttor sum Friday TERRACE Russell (NBA WANTED SOMEONE TO TAKE UP PAYMENTS ON THE FOLLOWING MERCHANDISE HOUSTON (AP) Coaches for the National and American Basketball Association all-star game win be Bill Russell, former player-coach of the Boston Celtics, and Larry Brown, a star with the Denver Rockels. Tickets for the May Astrodome game went on sate today as plans for the contest continued despite objections from club owners both the leagues that are seeking legislation which would pave Ihe way for a merger.

Plans for Uw "super game" were announced May 11 by Oscar Robertson of the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks and president of the NBA Players Association. He said it would show that the two leagues can play against each other at the highest tevd of competition without an illegal merger. An Astrodome official announced that Rick Barry had been added again to the ABAj roster. Barry, experienced in both) leagues, had been Quoted earlier as saying he would refuse to participate in the game in that it amounted to opposition to the proposed ABA-NBA I merger which he favored. "As of now, Barry is back on the ABA roster and we anticipate he will the spokesman said.

Some game rules also wer? announced Tuesday. The three-point goal system will bet used for one half but it was determined which The ABA's 90-second clock! will be used throughout game. The NBA operates under a rule. The NBA's official ball was selected over ihej ABA's multi-colored ball. TV Sports plans live television coverage of SS per cert I of the nation with Ire Houston i area blacked out.

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