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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1969
THE PHARR PRESS, PHARR (HIDALGO COUNTY), TEXAS
PAGE 3
Bears Win First 4-A Game of Season With
Hard 14-6 Victory Over Kingsville
The PSJA Bears won their
first 4-A game of the year last
Friday night over the Kingsville
Brahmas by the score of 14-6.
It was a hard defensive game
most of the time, with neither
team making very many scoring
threats. The statistics were very
even with the Bears having a
slight edge on passing.
The first quarter was scoreless
with neither team getting inside
the 25 yard line but midway of
the second quarter, the Bears
got on the scoreboard early by
THE STATISTICS
KINGS-
PSJA VILLE
First Downs .....
. 12
13
Net Yds. Rushing .
.125
124
Net Yds. Passing .
.121
79
Passes Attempted
. 8
14
Passes Completed .
. 5
7
Passes Intercepted
1
1
Avg. Yds. Pts. ...
5-33
2-45
Yds. Punts Ret. ..
. 15
13
Yds. K. O.’s Ret. .
.2-32
3-54
Penalties ......----
.4-40
2-20
Ball Lost Fumbles
0
0
a long pass. The Bears stopped
the most serious threat of the
Brahmas of the game on their
own 16. Two plays made 5 yards
and then Quarterback Edgar
Ruiz tossed a long pass to Ma-
rio Romero who was up near
mid-field. He caught it on the run
and then outran the Kingsville
safety to the goal line diving in.
just over the double stripe. The
pass and run was good for 79
yards which is the longest touch-
down play from scrimmage the
Bears have had this season. Juan
Garza kicked the extra point and
the Bears had a 7-0 lead with
6:25 left in the 2nd quarter.
PSJA got another scoring drive
going in the third quarter that
went 59 yards in 10 plays with
Archie Cisneros crashing over
from the 1 on 4th down for the
score. Garza kicked the point.
Two passes of 11 and 18 yards
from Ruiz to Moreno accounted
far half the yardage.
After the Bears kicked off, the
Brahmas made a touchdown
•drive of 70 yards. The Brahmas
used some passing of their own
in the drive, completing three,
the last for 12 yards for the
score. Q. B. Luis Montemayor
was the tosser and Ernie Tre-
vino caught the pass in the end
zone for the score. The Brahmas
tried a pass for the bonus two
points and failed and this left
the score 14-6 with 9 minutes left
in the game.
Kingsville had another scoring
chance a few plays later when
Luke Womack intercepted a pass
intended for Moreno and return-
it 20 yards to the PSJA 37. After
the play the Bears drew a 15-
yard penalty that put the ball
on the 23. Here the drive stalled,
however, and PSJA took over on
downs on their own 18. This waS
the last chance the visitors had.
Both teams had good defen-
sive efforts. During the first half,
PSJA made only 41 yards from
rushing, while Kingsville made
45. In the second half, PSJA
made 85 net yards, while Kings-
ville had 79. PSJA had a little ad-
vantage on passing, with 5 com-
pleted for 121 yards, while Kings-
ville completed 7 for 79 yards.
PSJA Football
Schedule -1969
*24—McAllen — There
*31—Brownsville — Here.
Nov. * 7—San Benito — There
*14—Edinburg — There
(*) Denotes Conference Games.
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
PSJA 14, KINGSVILLE 6.
Brownsville 27, Harlingen 0.
McAllen 20, San Benito 13.
Alice 40, Edinburg 13.
Mercedes 17, Mission 7.
Donna 14, EdcouchElsa 0.
Weslaco 18, Rio Grande City 2.
Lyford 34. Los Fresnos 6.
Rio Hondo 21, Port Isabel 0.
Raymondville 38, Falfurrias 22.
La Joya 8, La Feria 7.
Santa Rosa 13, Orange Grove
2.
Sharyland 8, San Isidro 8.
QUAIL SEASON SET
NOV. 1 — JAN. 31
The Texas Game Commission
has officially set the forthcoming
quail season in the regulatory
counties from Nov. 1st through
Jan. 31st, which is the same as
the last two years. The bag lim-
it was left the same, 12 per day.
ANNUAL
ST. JUDE’S CHURCH
BEEF and SAUSAGE
BARBECUE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1969
AT THE CHURCH ~ 505 S. IR0NW00D
PHARR
— SERVING HOURS —
11:30 A. M. to 2:30 P. M.
4:30 to 7 P. M.
ADULTS $1.50 ■ • ■ CHILDREN 75c
PLATES TO GO
— GAMES DURING THE DAY
EVERYONE CORDIALLY INYITED
SPORTS
.....ROUND-UP
THE NEW YORK METS ARE
THE WORLD CHAMPIONS in
baseball — an impossible, incred-
ible, fantastic sporting upset! The
Mets have proved something for
every individual, every team that
competes in a sporting event—
that no matter how sorry you
you have been, there is a new
day tomorrow. You can rise from
the bottom to the top by im-
provement in personnel, desire
and will to win, maturity, and
good managing. It would be just
like the Mets to let “success’’ go
to their heads and they may
and could flop badly next sea-
son. If they do, it will also prove
they are not supermen—that you
can’t stay on top by reading your
press clippings!
Long live the Mets! They have
been a great tonic for baseball
and sports generally. And a great
tonic for the nation too — that
needed something to ease the di-
visions over the war in Vietnam.
* * *
EVERY DAY, SOME ONE
ASKS, where are the doves?
There have been some south of
Pharr since the very first day,
but they have been shot pretty
heavily and are getting scattered
and gun shy. There are more
doves coming in now. With each
change of weather, a new crop
should come in. There is ample
time to bag a few doves as the
season continues until Nov. 16th
in the white wing counties—1;he i
18th in others. \
* * *
NOTICE TO DEER HUNTERS
Sight in your gun again before
the deer season. Just because it
was shooting fine last year
doesn’t mean it will do the same
this year. A new box of ammuni-
tion. will not shoot the same as
an old one, and that sounds im-
possible to the novice, but every
gun nut, or ammo loader will
tell you the same thing. Also, hu-
man beings change. Your vision
changes a little. You may hold
the gun differently and not real-
ize it. Also, scopes have a way
of getting hit when you don’t
know it, causing a change in
alignment. Don’t use different
brands of ammunition in your
gun after sighting in. When you
buy a different brand, then sight
the gun in again. There are so
many “don’ts” you are better off
if you sight your gun in every
year.
* * *
FORECASTS—Some tough ones
this week. Jjast week, our fore-
casting was on the money, even
picking the Bears! Here is the
way they look this week!
PSJA 22, McALLEN 15. (Other
teams have made a lot of points
on the Bulldogs, even San Beni-
to. This may be closer, only a
point or a field goal.)
Harlingen over San Benito,
Brownsville over Alice. (This
is the big one for both teams.)
Kingsville over Edinburg.
Weslaco over Mercedes. (The
Tigers seem to' have been under-
estimated and they may win this
one.)
Raymondville over R.G.C.
Edcouch-Elsa over Mission.
Donna over Falfurrias.
Los Fresnos over La Feria.
La Joya over Rio Hondo.
Lyrord over Port Isabel.
Santa Rosa over Sharyland.
SOUTHWEST
Texas over Rice.
SMU over Texas Tech.
A & M over Baylor.
Arkansas over Wichita State.
TCU over Miami.
ODDS & ENDS PICKED UP
here and there in the world of
sports — Baseball will never be
the same, now that the Mets
have won a World Championship.
Now we hope the Astros win it
next year. . . Has anyone bagged
a goose (wild one) yet? Accord*
ing to reports, there are some
near the Arroyo, Santa Monica
and Willamar. . . If Texas and
Arkansas had played last week,
as they have in previous years,
Texas would have won going a-
way, as Arkansas has two of its
first stringers on the injury list.
Arkansas has THREE open dates
this season. How about that? . . j
Kingsville was not as powerful a '
team as expected. . . A team that J
THE VALLEY
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VAliCY SPORTSMEN CLOl
». e. MI IMS * MlUlfSI, USA*
By HARRY FOEHNER
Some of our readers may be
getting tired of reading about
whitewings and grackles just a-
bout every week but Bill Kiel,
King Ranch Wildlife biologist,
expressed some thoughts at the
Vailley Sportsmen Club’s annual
meeting we would like to pass on
to you.
He held out hope for a white-
wing comeback saying that popu-
lations of this bird have deter-
iorated at various times in the
past only to recover but this
time there are some disturbing
handicaps. One is the lack of
food that used to be here. Farm-
ers started planting earlier var-
ieties of grain in order to keep
whitewings from eating up
crops. Worse yet they plowed
under the stubble which Kiel
said would help.
Mexican farmers have gone
from cotton to grain and birds
raised in this country are going
south as any whitewing hunter
knows.
Kiel said whitewing nesting
areas need to be restored or in-
creased, grackles controlled, food
provided in the Texas Valley
and a cooperative arrangement
made with Mexico for managing
whitewings in the Mexican Rio
Grande Valley as is done with
Canada on ducks. He says shoot-
ing whitewings within 30 miles
of the river is just like shooting
them on this side. Hunting ac-
counts for as many doves south
of the river, perhaps even more,
than are taken in the Texas Val-
ley..
He advised against tampering
with the treaty protecting grack-
les saying that once it was open
to amendment, some undesirable
changes also might be made.
He said it might be entirely
possible to have supervised
shooting of grackles in the seven
or eight major whitewing nesting
areas under special permit and
the Valley Sportsmen Club is
looking into that possibility.
The Valley Sportsmen Club
elected Don Abbott, of Browns-
\—.
vilie president. He is retiring
president of the Brownsville Club
and succeeds Grant Klopfenstein
of Harlingen. Re-elected were
Fred Erickson of Raymondville,
vice president from Willacy Coun-
ty, C. W. Williamson of Pharr,
vice president from Hidalgo
County; Gene Nations of Harlin-
gen, vice -president from Camer-
on County; and J. L. Head of
Harlingen, secretary-treasurer.
The club’s 1969 award was pre-
sented to Gene Nations of Har-
lingen for his work in behalf of
the club and conservation since
becoming a charter member 20
years ago with special apprecia-
tion of his work in behalf of op-
eration Orphan, gun safety and
grackle control in recent years.
* * *
Big game hunting prospects in
has been over-rated is Mission
and a team under rated is Mer-
cedes. . . BILL KIEL, the biolo-
gist, gave some excellent sug-
gestions on how to bring back
the white wing here in the Val-
ley at the Valley Sportsmen’s
Club meeting. Some of these
points are publicized in the
Sportsmen’s Club col. by Harry
Fochner so we will not repeat
them. He put in a pitch for the
“White Wing Stamp” saying that
was one means of assuring reve^
nue to buy habitat, plant feed,
etc. He also made one point that
has not been publicized, but
we are not afra’d to do. He said
the business interests in the Val-
ley who benefit so much from
the white wing hunts have not
contributed anything to make
hunting better. So if the shoe
fits, wear it, or do something a-
•bout it. . . Kingsville had ad-
vance ticket sales of only $70 fo.r
the PSJA game. They certainly
don’t support their team away
from home. From a financial
standpoint, PSJA will be glad
they will not play them next
year.
INSURANCE
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COMPERE INSURANCE AGENCY
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Alaska and Canada are excellent
this year with generally good
numbers of bear, moose, deer
sheep, goats and caribou in their
primary ranges, according to a
release from Winchester’s Nilo
division.
They sent us a 24-page com-
pilation of game availability, sea-
sons, conditions, etc. for the en-
tire U. S. We do not have extra
copies but would be glad to an-
swer questions about game in
given localities provided a self-
addressed, stampsd envelope is
enclosed. Inquiries may be mail-
ed to Valley Sportsmen Club, Box
1882, Harlingen, Texas 78550.
• * *
T h e Brownsville Sportsmen
Club had a very successful tur-
key shoot Sunday, Oct. 12 and
will have a repeat performance
all day Sunday, Oct. 26. There
will be skeet, .22 caliber, big bore,
archery and shot gun divisions.
The public is welcome. The range
is located on the Old Port Isabel
Road out of Brownsville.
Hunting Calendar
MOURNING DOVE — Sept. 20
Nov. 16th inclusive. Shooting
hours: 12 noon until sunset. Bag
limit 10 per day.
DEER—Nov. 8th through Jan.
1st., regulatory authority coun-
ties only. Other counties: Nov.
16th through Dec. 31st. (Some ex-
ceptions). Doe deer by special
permit only.
GEESE — Oct. 18th through
January 11th. Bag limit 1 Cana-
dian goose, or 1 white front, or
5 of whites and blues, singly or
in aggregate. (No more than 1
Canadian goose any one day.)
Shooting hours: 1-2 hour before
sunrise to sunset.
DUCKS — Nov. 18th through
January 11th. Bag limit 4 per
day. Shooting hours: Same as for
geese.
QUAIL — Nov. 1st through
Jan. 31st in Hidalgo, Starr, Cam-
eron, Willacy Counties and other
regulatory counties. Bag limit 12
per day.
JAVELINAS—Nov. 8th through
January 1st, regulatory counties
only. No closed season in some
cbunties. Bag limit of two in most
counties.
TURKEYS—No open season in
Hidalgo and Starr Counties. Wil-
lacy and Brooks Counties: Nov.
16th through Dec. 31st.
Pan Am Has Seven
Cage Lettermen
Seven veteran basketball play-
ers and four sophomores began
practice last week at Pan Ameri-
can College.
The Broncs work out at 3:30
p.m, daily. They open the new
5,000 seat Pan American College
Field House against Texas A&I
on Monday, Dec. 1.
Coach Sam Williams greeted
three seniors—6-514 Fred Taylor,
6 5 Ed Mathis and 6-1 Billy Ri-
vas. Pan Am’s height comes in
the junior class, due to 6-8 Frank
Lorthridge, 6-7 Calvin Oliver and
6 2 Gilbert Walker.
New sophomores are 6-8 Dick
Backfish, 6-6 Dick Tate, 6-0 Stan
Bane and 5TO Robert Flores.
Mike Tackett, a 6-0 sophomore,
returns as a squadman with
some varsity experience last sea-
son.
Marty Urand welcomed nine
freshman players. They are 6-10
John Phillips, 5-11 Rick Roca-
montes, 6-5 John Struthers, 6 3
Steve York, 6-1 Tim Reilly, 6-2
Ken Mitchem, 6 0 Adan Rendon,
5-10 Oscar Luna and 5-10 Doug
Kaup.
Season tickets for the new
PAC Field House will not go on
sale until November.
New 1969 Hunting
Guide Available
The 1969-70 Texas Hunting
Guide is now in the mail to
license deputies and regional,
district, and field offices of the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept.
The Dept, printed 600,000 of
the guides which contain hunt-
ing season information on deer,
turkey, javelina, squirrel, and
quail.
Quail season and bag limit in-
Pharr Rifle Club
Range Open To
Public Oct. 25-26
Sighting in days for the pub-
lic will be Saturday and Sunday,
October 25-26, at the Pharr Rifle
Club range, Pres. C. W. William-
son, announces.
All who want to sight in their
rifles will be welcome to come
and shoot at the range without
charge. Hours will be 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. each day.
Members of the rifle club will
be present to assist the shooters.
Spotting scopes and targets will
be furnished.
Shooters may fire at 50 feet,
100 yards, 200 yards or 300 yards.
No shotguns, pistols or ,22s-
will be allowed on these twcr
days.
The range is south of Pharr
on Highway 281 and 3/4’s mile'1
east on first road north of the
floodway.
During the past decade or so,
many of the biggest whitetail
bucks have been bagged on ther
fringes of agricultural lands.
—SPORTS AFIELD*
formation in the guides is far
general law counties only. Sea-
sons and bag limits for regul-
atory counties will be set at
the next Parks and Wilflife Com-
mission meeting sometimes in
October. Regulatory county in-
formation on quail will be
published in a supplemental
guide.
This year’s guide also con-
tains information concering the
special archery season which be-
gins in many counties October
1.
The guides are available from
the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Dept. John H. Reagan Building,
Austin, Texas 78701.
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