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7W PiritSCg FOST-CAKLTlfct SUNDAY, APRIL KL V7- ft dootr (1 1 Scenes Like These Await Trout Anglers Next Friday Season on Trout in tali i urn g(ta5," a. i hiiii ebmm I Will Pack 1 JMWE 1 By HAL H. HARRISON To Buy the Angler Since running a note here recently advising those who want to know where to fish for trout to get hold of a copy, of the March issue of The Angler, I have been deluged with the question "Where can I buy it The Angler is for sale at the Fish Commission office in Harrisburg at 10 cents a I In State Friday Waters Have Been Stocked With Near-Record Number WJf-Tjf ft Of Legal-Sized Game Fish By HAL H. HARRISON Post-Gazette Outdoor Writer Pennsylvania wives may prepare for widowhood! children may resign themselves to neglect! For next Friday is the day of days for thousands of Keystone State anglers. Next Friday is the opening of the Brooks the same as those released in 1948 which numbered 2,113,843 legal-size and 2,295,500 finger-lings.

Most Fishermen Sot Fishermen What makes a trout fisher man? Why does this great army of men, and some women, wade into April's muddy, swollen 'creeks to cast a line on swift xvith the mnstant pectancy that a speckled fish will nab the. lure? Perhaps my age is beginning to tell on me, but I view the motives with more and more cynicism as years pass by. I be lieve that a great many will be on those streams next Friday morning because "it is the thing to do." I think some of these fishermen will wonder to them selves of course, "Is this sport or torture?" It just isn't human nature for all' of them to leave their warm offices and homes i MMMMMMMwgiWwwiwtiiw'i 1 -T i POPtXAR SPOT Little Scrub Grass Creek in Venango county is always a popular trout fishing spot. CDauilaDaDaoD ILeittleir UCao: What's Your Gripe? Or, What Do You Like? trout season. Little does it matter that fish ing has been egal for many species" every day this year.

Suckers, catfish carp, bluegills and sun fish have been "in sea son" right but to the trout fisherman, April 15 opens the angling season in Pennsylvania. And what of the prospects? mat is tne word that comes irom tne Pennsylvania Fish Commission. A note from C. Ross Buller, chief fish culturist at Bellefonte, contains the following optimistic note: "In so far as the streams are concerned, we have had a fairly open winter throughout the state with ample rainfall. Very little or no snow is on the ground at the present time.

The streams are, and have been, in ideal con dition during the early spring and, barring any unforeseen conditions, should be in very good shape for the opening of iroui season on io. J00.000 Trout Available mhich J. ana April rr ttieiand suddenlv strike out on a cold r. '1W Some "poor sportsman who have to have someone tie up their game so that they can shoot and be heroes, crease a farmer's palm and he posts his land for those select few. To the farmers who make a practice of tlus sort of tie.

I say cry and I'll furnish the cry- towels. FRANK ROLISII Veterans Hospital, Butler, Pa. niinLfVl Stage Trials The Butler County Coon Hunters association is conducting federation coon hound field trial Sunday on the Paul Brown farm, north of Butler on Route near Baker's Inn. The trial starts at 11 a. rn.

Senior and junior dogs will run in separate heats but will run together in the finals. Mt. Oliver District Sportsmen's association will meet Sunday at 8:39 p. m. In St.

Joseph's Lyceum, ave nue, Mt. Oliver Woods Run Hunting and Fishing association will hold a busi ness meeting Tuesday evening, April 12, at 7 o'clock, in the Woods Run Settlement, 3033 Petosky street, Northside. Wilkinsburg Sportsmen's club will hold Fishermen's Get Together evening, April 11, in the club rooms, 707 Wood street, Wilkinsburg. Announcement of a meeting of the Marianna Field and Stream club for Sunday, April 10, was made by Secretary Arthur E. Briee.

-v. -5 15, the commission's fleet of 19jthe opening dav as just a good trucks will have planted 4,042 tn mv from a verv "'1-' -Hnw Hi mim if 1'H i Close Trout Streams I think Fish Commissioner French's idea of closing the streams a month prior to thfvit opening of the trout season is a step in the right direction, but nhV nnt en th w-hnlp wav anrl ask that authority be granted the! commission to designate certain Istreams as trout streams and keep them closed except in trout season. Unless it would be Big Sandy. a tributary of the Cheat river, I do not know of a trout stream in Fayette county that carries suckers to any extent. I can prove nothing, but stories are current in many places, similiar to the one quoted from Reading.

In cases like this, the wardens are powerless, but closed except in trout season their work would be greatly improved. It works well in West Virginia. JOHN J. FOLEY Connellsville, Pa. Doesn't Smell Good! In reply to your article on the "Sacred Doe," I think vour ver sion stinks.

Hunting buck is a real sport but shooting a doe is like shoot-J ing a farmer's cow penned up in a pasture. In open season, I've jknown men to hunt buck until the last day, then shoot a doe as a last resort. This type of hunter does not take human life by mistaking a man for a deer and in my eyes he is a real sportsman. As for the farmer, well I have a beef there too. During the 1938 doe season and the 1941 open season the farmers were so enraged at the thought of a doe slaughter that they patroled their grounds with high powered rifles to make sure no doe was killed on their grounds.

ling il a 8, Photo by Hal H. Harrison BIG PANFUIX Grant Center, of Millvale, landed eight trout on opening day last year, including a 13-in. Rainbow. Froggy Chorus to Greet Trout Fishermen Friday That Noise They'll Hear Won't Be Tune About a Big One That Got Away Trout fishermen who line ing with the peepers is the wood 1 i i. 4 .1 '4 4 if 'i r.

rT. copy or 50 cents a year. You might as weir have it for a year since you are going to write for the one issue that I lists all the trout streams in sfl-vania six full pages of information! I cidental-ly, star ting with the Hal H. Harrison April issue, the author of this column will do a monthly picture story for The Angler on "Reptiles and Amphibians of Pennsylvania." When the series, is completed, if you have saved these pages, you will have photographs of all the snakes, turtles, lizards, frogs, toads and salamanders of Pennsylvania. Bridgeville Club The recently org anized-Bridgeville District Gun Club is busy with plans for an indoor small arms target range with club rooms, and an outdoor range of 300 yards, according to Secretary L.

F. Ludwig, 644 Bank street, Bridgeville. The club is open for memberships, and an invitation to join is extended to all sportsmen. Officers of the club are: president. Joseph Washington; vice president, Frank Zarf el; treasurer, Eugene Collavo; secretary, L.

F. Ludwiar. and trustees, 31. Vosel, J. Vosel and F.

Zuiger. Bedford Banquet Tom Frye. executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, will top a two-hour program at the annual banquet of the Bedford County Federation of Sportsmen's clubs to be held in the Robert P. Smith Vocational School, Yellow Creek, Thursday, April 28, starting at 5 p. m.

Tickets may be obtained from Secretary Lloyd E. Aldstadt, Bedford, at $1.50. The quarterly meeting of the Bedford Federation will be held Friday, April 22, at 8 p. m. in the club house at Wolfsburg.

Baby Muskies My recent plea for the whereabouts of baby muskies had a quick answer. 3Iatt Woessner of the North-side Sportsmen's Club phoned to tell me that he and Kent Neiderst and Porkey White found them, from six to 12 Inches long, in Cussewago Creek near Albion. Crawford county on the Fourth of July last year. He said a school of them was in the riffles. Then, came a- letter from Scott Turnbull telling me that he and Al Banks, Ambridge, and Joe Wineskey, Coraopolis, caught a muskie 16 inches long In Lake Le Beouf.

The same day (August 30, 1947) an angler from Waterford caught one in the same lake. That one weighed ,16 pounds; one pound for every inch of Turn-bull's "baby." Split License After January 1, 1930, resident statewide hunting and licenses in West Virginia will be issued separately with the hunting license sell Diebold Cup To Field Club Gellatly Top Gun, Breaking 49x50 The Pittsburgh Field Club skeet shooters won the first leg on the A. J. Diebold, Trophy Saturday as the Country Club Skeet League brought its season to a close. Shooting over their own traps he champions totaled 2162 points to head the league race.

Long Vue Club totaled 206 '2 points, Oakmont Country Club 144, Fox Chapel Golf Club, 110 and Sewicklev Hunt. Club 70 points for. the season. John H. Gellatly, Pennsylvania State skeet champion, had the high score with a 49x50 total.

He shot for Long Vue. His team mate, J. D. VanDenabeele broke 46x50. J.

Rogers Flannery, Field Club, broke 46. Three netted 45 broken clays, these being William Rodgers, Long Vue; Earl F. Reed, Oakmont and Dr. Rupert Friday, Field Club. High gun for Fox Chapel was S.

A. Hartwell with 44x50. Gene Moore led the Sewickley shooters with 44x50. Peabody High Wins Volley Ball Title STATE COLLEGE, April 9 Peabody High school won itsj fourth PIA A volley ball title in six years defeating; North York in straight sets to supplant Homestead High as mate champjon. 1 Notice Sports Clubs News of your activities and announcements of your meetings are welcome on this page.

Just be sure that you mail them at least ONE WEEK in advance of publication. Address your mail to LIFE AFIELD, The Sunday Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh 30. ing at $2 and the fishing license at $2. They are now sold combined at $2. The combined form will be $3 after January 1.

Non-resident hunting and fishing fees go from S15 to S25 while the non-resident fishing license jumps from $5 to $10. Study Doe Problem Naturally, those who" are loud in their condemnation of a doe season in Pennsylvania are students of wildlife management or they would have no basis for judgment. Thus, they will welcome my suggestion that they investigate thoroughly how the big-game states of 3Iaine and 3Iinnesota have done such a good job of managing their deer. They shoot both sexes and their herds have held up in good balance. Indeed, Minnesota had the country's highest 1947 deer take an official 102,879.

The Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters has announced that its new Shawnee. Dam. near Bedford, will be completed during the summer of 1950. The dam is one of six scheduled 'under Governpr Duffs flood control and recreational program. It is located on the Shawnee branch of the Juniata river nine miles west of Bedford.

It will have a depth of 26 feet and will be about 900 feet long. Cost of construction is estimated at about $550,000. A dam across Traverse Creek in Raccoon Creek State Park is another flood control-recreation project for this area. This one is within 30 miles of downtown Pittsburgh. Pot Shots; Short Casts West Virginia has taken a forward step in its decision to stop -importing Western cottontail rabbits and to concentrate its efforts on habitat improvement for the benefit of the native cottontails.

Mrs. M. W. Leech, 6693 Kinsman road, has been awarded a trophy by the Sailfish Conservation Club, West Palm Beach, for releasing a seven-and-a-half-foot sailfish after an exciting 23-minute battle. Thanks to North Boroughs Sportsmen's Association for an honorary membership and to their secretary, Jim Hodge, for his kind words.

Thanks also for the same from Armstrong County Hunting and Fishing Club. One-third of the waterfowl wintering in the United States are mallards with the pintail second, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. The "encouraging increase" in the continent's duck and goose population, reported by the F. W. service in January is now estimated at 12 per cent for ducks and 32 per cent for geese.

The "schedule of Solunar Peri ods, as printed below, has been taken from John Alden Knight's SOLUNAR TABLES. Plan your days so that you will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover during these times, if you wish to find the best sport that each day has to offer. The Major Periods are shown in boldface type. These begin at the times shown and last for an hour and a half or two hours thereafter. The Minor shown in regular type, are of somewhat shorter duration.

A. M. Minor Major 3:25 10:00 4:20 10:55 5:15 11:50 6:05 12:10 6:55 5 7:45 2:00 8:40 2:53 9:40 3:55 P. M. Minor 3:45 10: 11:2 5:35 7:25 1: 8:15 2: 9:10 4:2 April Day 10 Snnday.

1 1 Monday 1 2 Tuesday 13 Wednesday. 14 Thursday 15 Friday 1 6 Saturday -1? Mike Michalske Signs With Baltimore Colts BALTIMORE, April 9 UP) -Mike Michalske, former coach and National Fool ball League player, signed Satu: day as assistant coach of th Baltimore Colts in the All-Amei ica Conference. After graduation from Pen State in 1927, Michalske play three years with the New Yc Yankees and 10 seasons with 1 Green Bay Packers. He was All-League guard several seaso with the Packers. Pennsylvania's streams next Friday morning for the opening day are going to hear some singing.

And I don't mean the fellow across the creek who just lost a 15-inch brownie either. I mean that April is the time for frogs and toads to sing their love songs, and in some areas, the chorus will be deafening. If you would like to know what you are listening to, here are some tips from Carnegie Mu- seums expert on the subject, M. Graham Netting: Spring peepers are the com monest spring songsters and their utterances sound like pierc ing bird-like whistles. An en semble sounds like sleigh bells.

This little frog is so small that it takes about 300 males to weigh a pound. Another frog that may be sing frog. The repeated 'clack' of the wood frog reminds many persons of the quacking of ducks. Chorus frogs are not much larger than spring peepers. Their calls are louder but do not cart as far as the peepers.

The call of a single male reminds of an ungreased wagon wheel complaining of every revolution. Nowr the song of the American toad, the common toad of your garden, is a pleasing rendition. The males give forth with mel- odius trillings, which work wonders in enticing females to the ponds. It's a bit early for the familiar "jug-a-rum" of the bullfrog or the banjo-like utterance of the green frog, but there are millions of other amphibian songsters tuning up right now. See if you can name, them It Anril morninsr to wade in ice 'call it pleasure! ThPrP srP nthPrc uhn wpHhip boring routine.

Rain or shine, cold or warm, at least it is dif ferent. Forget the trout! They're out in the open for a day and that is all that matters. Gadgeteers In Force Then, there are the gadgeteers, These are the fellow-s with a ton of equipment, including 2,000 flies. All winter they have enjoyed these playthings and now, at last, they can try them out. Just let a trout strike one of those new inventions, and the day will go down in history.

Somewhere in the minority, I suspect, are the real trout fishermen. Those into whose blood the sport lias really caught on. I iVinnf 4 i ftir IIICV Will gU IJUICUJ OWUl infill angling with joy and satisfac- tion. oblivious to everything else. I Want to tell these fellows apart? Just check to see how-many are back again next week and the next week.

They are the real trout anglers! Pitt Tennis Team Trips Bethany, 8-1 The Pitt tennis team opened its season Saturday by sweeping eight matches with Bethany college at the Arsenal Courts. The score of the meeting was 8-1, when Pitt was forced to de fault in the final doubles match after Walt Schoenberger sprain ed an ankle. Summaries: Sinsles: John 'Lohstoeter. rut. defeated Ed Kulawiec.

6-0, 6-0; Stan Weil. Pitt, beat John McKinney. 6-0. Wait Schoenberger. Pitt, beat Phil Espnsito.

6-3. 6-1; Joe Pau-tTKus, Pitt, beat Neil Feinstein, 6-0, 6-2: Ralph Mason, Pitt, deieatea jerry Levy. -o. 6-2: Dick Hostan, Pitt, defeated Dick Murphy, 6-1. 6-1.

Doubles: Weil. and Lohstoeter beat McKinney and Esposito. 6-1. 8-6: Hogan and Rauterkus beat Kulawiec and Feinstein. 7-5, 1-6, 6-4.

Munhall Cops Rifle Match County School Keeps PIAA Championship STATE COLLEGE, April 9 Munhall High school, paced by Ann Lewis, won another PIAA rifle title Saturday as Upper Darby and Clymer bowed to the defending champions in the annual renewal of this statewide competition. Sharing individual honors with Miss Lewis, each with a perfect score, were Anna Mae Super, of Clymer, and Jamison Swarts, of Upper Darby. Munhall 995i Ann Lewis. 200: Audrey Pearson, 199: William Nordoski. 199; Kenneth Baiog, 199: Chester Sikora.

198. Clvmer (985 Anna Mae Super. 200; Patricia Widdowson. 1 97: Georgetta Davis, 197; Joan Daniels. 196: Rosetta Rose.

195. Upper Darbr 991 Jamison Swarts, 200: Ray Oster. 198: Ted Hasle, 19S; Fred Forsythe, 198; Virginia Hounsell. Aero Gun Club Helen Rieher Team 1 Eddie Rkkenbacker Georsetta Dix lSOfGeonte H- Kiages 162 Edward Ferguson. 178 Michael 152 Helen S.

Girins 148 Bernice Wolberts. 146 Total 658; Total 608 Amelia Earhart Louise Tnadea Team Blanche Ferguson 182 Eugenie 145 Veronica 148tM. H. 145 Ann Krajci Allen 136 Dorothy 138.George Luft. 116 Total Total 542 Francis Ctabreski Jimmie Doolittle John B.

Hancock F. Kratovel 18C Don 145'Keith L. Nickell. 157 Robert A. Daszv.

Kuscnel 15f jLarry Miller 127IE. Kenneth Long 13f Total 5561 Total 621 STANDING OF THE TEAMS Lost 3 4 5 6 Fc .80" .40 Helen Jtkher Itmmie Doolittle Eddie Rica en backer Aacllk Emrhart Francis Gabreakt 6 i 4 4 4 .400 I miles of streams approved for stocking with takable trout. This distribution will total about 1,200,000 trout of legal size or over. Later in the season, many of the streams will receive additional stockings. Trout are being shipped from six of the commission's 10 hatch eries: Corry, Tionesta, Revnolds- dale, Huntsdale, Bellefonte and Pleasant Mount.

While the average size of trout being stocked this: spring is somewhat smaller than the record-breaking average distributed in 1948, they are still sat isfactory, ranging from six to 15 inches. The yearlings will aver age between six and 10 inches; the two-year-olds from 10 to 14 inches and the brood stock up to 20 inches. It is the commission's policy to ship mixed loads in an effort to evenly distribute all sizes to all parts of the state. The total number of trout stocked this year will be about Area Sandlot Teams Ready For Openers New Circuit Added While County Loop Changes Name With the start of the sandlot baseball season less than a month away, activity among District leagues is increasing and only favorable weather is awaited until daily practice sessions will be in order. An old standby operating under a new name and an entirely new-circuit will tempt the fans.

The former County League will be known as the Wagner City Base ball League with four teams of last season and three new clubs. An eighth team may be added. Immaculate Heart, Kollar Club. LawTenceville Tigers and End are back in the fold. An nunciation, of last year's North side Twilight League; East Lib erty DeStouts and Bloomfield St.

Johns are the new additions. The Greater Pittsburgh League is set to operate with eight teams McDonald, defending champion; Carrick, North Pittsburgh and Dormont are holdovers, with Melees Rocks, Southside Business Vi'en, Turtle Creek AOH and the Pittsburgh Ralphs as new teams. To date the Ralphs have been un ble to get a permanent location ut expect to have 'a playing eld by late next wreek. The Tri-County League is the 'ew circuit being added to the emi-pro ranKs w-itn uahmoiu Vspinwail and Wilkinsburg, all of ast season's Greater Pittsburgh League, joining the new loop.j Verona, Spnngdale, New Ken sington, Indianola and Jfreeport omplete the roster of teams. The Aliegheny-Kiski League vill be starting its twentieth sea-on on the diamond.

Honus Wager originated the circuit in the 'sh days of sandlot baseball, his circuit is made up of licora, West Kittanning, Apollo, st Vandergrift, Natrona, Mar- Yatesboro and Ford City, icora had the champion team the Butler County League last son and East Vandergrift was champ and leader in the eater Valley League. Throaty Frog Croons of Love mt Famous Long Wearing COOGBs fJ I MJi 11 1 mm" 11 1 mJl still 0 w. SPARKLING BEAUTY FOR TOUR CAR! WEAR LIKE IRON RESIST SUN, WEATHER AND GREASE it CLEAN WITH SOAP -AND WATER Includes Both Front and Back Seats for Coach and Sedan Coupes or Front Seats 11.95 IUDGET TERMS AVAILAILE, PAY ONLY 1.25 A WEEK Mail Ordn Receptee. Sfof Mote, Mod and Ytor of Cor. BAUM BLVD.

AT NEGLEY (E. LIBERTY) MO. 5700 Photo by Hal H. Harrison SWAMPLAND SINATRA From the inflated sac on the throat of this American male frog comes his thrilling love song, which makes the lady frogs swoon with delight. Trout fishermen will hear it when they go astream next Friday..