European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sinday january 6, 1991 the stars and stripes a a a Page 21outdoor adv6ntar.esmost-pleasant Hunts recalled i caught myself looking Back during the Holiday season. This can be a Good Way to enjoy old experiences As Long As you done to look Back too hard and conjure up a lot of a a ifs or a wish 1 had done this. Instead of a a so i avoided the old sinking feelings that can come front being too nostalgic and stuck to my old Hunting experiences. I thought about the first time 1 went Hunting. I must have been around 8 years old. I went with my dad to our Duck Blind Early one cold november morning in Northeast Missouri. Our Blind was Shore of the City Lake a few Miles South of town. I remember the Gray of the Dawn and the decoys spread directly in front of us. There was a Light wind that made Small Waves water and whispered through the cattails around the Blind. In no time a flight of about a dozen mallards circled several times and made their final approach to our decoys. I was excited and tried to remember what my dad had told me about Safe shooting. I took off the safety As i lifted my .410 up Over the front Board of the Blind. I squeezed the trigger and got my first Duck. My dad was As excited As i was. I still remember him saying a you got one a i also remember a Small error i made or perhaps better said i can still feel it. I concentrated hard on my aim and got my face too close to the shoulder of the receiver. When i fired it gave my cheekbone quite a bump. A few years later i began using a 20-gauge, and i hunted on that Lake during my High school years. It was never overcrowded with ducks. Wed Only get our limit now and then and we almost never saw geese. I enjoyed going to the Lake just to be outdoors. There was something about those gentle Waves and Are v1 colors of the Midwest skies that soothed the soul. I had a Chesapeake Bay retriever who often went with me. We did a lot of grow ing up together. In my last year of is Bool i hunted in Cornfields w est of town w Ith Elose never had much Luck but we sure had fun. I hunted Quail once or twice in my younger Days but it never really caught on w Ith me. Then came College in 1958 and the at my. 1 hardly Ever considered Hunting again until 1974 when i became interested in the Hunting courses offered by the Rod and gun club in Germany. I got my German Hunting License that year and went pheasant Hunting with a German Friend. That did it. I had a great time Athirst Hunt a few Miles North of Speyer and from then on i went Hunting at every Opportunity. Eventually i we it on Hunts for Roe Buck red Deer Stag and Chamois Iii Germany and made two tips to a Scotland for red Deer Stag. I be spent countless Houis in fall and Winter forests and seen just about every kind of wild animal and Bird that lives in Germany s outdoors. One of my. Most memorable Hunts in Gei Many w As for a Hirsch in the Alps near bad re Chenhall. This was in september 1976 during the rutting season and Stags could be heard roaring and snorting throughout the Mountain Forest. We were successful the first afternoon about an hour before guide prepared to to Grid coaches knew no. 1 Georgia tech by Furman bisher Atlanta journal sports editor Atlanta a this is no time to Rise up in a dudgeon and become the Selt a. Pointed prosecutor of territorial Pride. Georgia techs Case for no. 1 needs no pleading. They should be used to it by now out on Bobby Dodd Way. It happened before in 1952. Georgia tech did no to lose a game. Michigan state won the associated press poll. Besides whom am i going to put my football Faith in a Bunch of coaches or a Bunch of sports writers and sports speakers whom am 1 going to believe slim Smith of Biloxi miss., Paul Bowker of Rock Hill s.c., Phil Stukenberg of Memphis tenn., and one so righteously named As Ron Christ of Harrisburg pa., or Joe Paterno Ken Hatfield Don Neh Len or Dick Macpherson and their kind the coaches cast the ballots that decide the United press Champion in this Case Georgia tech the writers speakers vote the a Champion and you know How that came out. You could really have expected nothing else. You had to watch the Orange bowl game to get w hat i mean. I Haven to seen a worse bowl game since Vanderbilt and a Texas tech played a 6-6 tie in the peach bowl. Colorado did no twin it notre Dame lost it by a Point. Three times Field Golf blocked Field goal hits upright then the worst when whats Hisame Ismail made a Down payment on next seasons Heisman trophy and had it called Back Tor some bumbling Block that had no influence on what would have been the winning touchdown. A. Colorado wears a Golden Horseshoe in its pants. That Missouri game was a disgrace and we wont go into that anymore. Barely beat Stanford As Well tied by ten a Ness be and lost to Illinois and this is your nations no.-1 football Quot team commentary does no to wanning them All count anymore and i done to want to hear further lofty oration about schedule. What is so All fired mighty about Kansas state Kansas Iowa state Stanford and yes Missouri these Are High spots in Colorado a Date Book. Never mind Washington Oklahoma and Texas which has to contend in that hazardous Southwest conference. 7. A a. A a a a a a a a a i find Little to apologize for . State Maryland Clemson and Virginia All bowl teams. Remember people make a lot of that bowl team stuff Virginia was leading the nation when Georgia tech took the wahoos Down also took South Carolina out of the ratings and Georgia is not exactly Emory amp Henry year in year out. Done to sit out in Provo Utah or Corvallis ore., and try to judge football strength for me. All lean say is when the men who really know football stood up they stood up for Georgia tech and i la buy that. I did no to expect them to ill have to say that. An evening watching the Orange bowl game was enough to bring the average citizen to his senses. It does no to mean that much Bobby Ross has said and you know what he just Happy to be front Row. What does mean something to me is that this is Georgia tech and not Miami. When you have to Start apologizing for the Home team you get at the stomach and apparently those manner less creatures fouled the air in the Cotton bowl. They re Good at that. If. The University of Miami has no More Pride than to allow guerrilla behaviour it deserves the consequences. You Point at one Man a the coach first. Jimmy Johnson now. Dennis Erickson i the head coach has no More control Over his xxv Morozc student athletics than that yellow jacket Mike Mooney. The Best Wasny to Colorado he needs to find another line of work. 7 Florida newspapers roasted Miami players after the game in Dallas. A the a canes were Back in full strut As bad Wili ambassadors of College football a Brian Schmitz wrote in Orlando. Quot spare me coach. Grow up. Have some Georgia tech is far from perfect. Willie Clay can disturb with his hot dogging now and then and the Tacker who leaps to his feet Amis upraised to identify himself soliciting approval from the stands. But that is As it goes and that a too far. But these Miami dudes should make a Miami alumnus sorry to admit he Ever crossed the Campus. I m surprised that football couches exercise no More control Over their athletes than they do. When Georgia tech was courting no. 1 in the Days of Dodd Slu boaters would have been escorted to the City liar its. So while not a unanimous no 1 this Lime Bobby Ross s team is no. 1 in the Eves of those who count nit>-4. Ins Peers. His Home in the Valley and gave me the Choice of going with him of alone in the hut ovoid night High. In the mountains. I chose to spend the night in the hut. I la never Torget that night. I built a fire in the Wood stove cooked supper and read by Light from a Gas tamp. A a a a. a a a a a a a -. A. A 1 outside to fool the cold Mountain air and Loo i across the Valley. 1 his w As a picture beyond description there were no signs of civilization. 1 could see Only the stars in the ski and the peaks of mountains. I heard Only the sounds of the wilderness gentle winds and the Roar of a met lower in the Valley 1 eur Oyid it so much i did no to w ant to go to bed. I finally tinned in slept Well and woke up the next morning to it the first Light and sounds of Birds. In be been fortunate to have experiences and to learn a lot about european wildlife and Bunting. German Hunting customs have been especially enjoy Able to learn and practice. Hunting has created fond memories and some of the Best reflections ate of times when 1 did t get anything. 1 can to discount the hours in be spent. Teaching Hunting classes or writing stories about Hunting either. The study the teaching the writing have been just As much fun As Hunting. 1 see allot these things when i look at the few Deer Antlers i have . Wall at Home and its comforting. My dad and i got a total of Lour ducks that inst Day we went Hunting. Today there a Only one picture in our House that relates to my Hunting from the past 40 years. Its a picture of tie two of us with those join cd ticks. A . A. A the Star and strip Rose going free May miss Hall York a Pete Rose gets out of prison this week hut lie May find he wont he eligible Lor the 1 Lall of 1.mie. A special com in it tee of the Lylall of lame meets thursday to review election rules i he baseball writers association of Amer Lea believes the panel is specifically trying to keep Rose off the ballot because lie was kicked out of baseball Tor betting. Quot after trusting us for 55 years Why tin they think Uliey can t Trust us with an Inch Gible player potentially ballot a a Baa executive Secretary Jack Fang said. Y 7 Rose was placed permanent ineligible list by than commissioner a. Bartlett Giamatti on aug. 2.1, 1689. Rose is scheduled to be released from prison monday alter serving a five Finith sentence for income tax crimes etl stack president of the Lylall of Fame said. Thursday v meet ing w an t of the Rose situation. Rose would be eligible for. The ballot next current rules. A. "historically,.every five years or so we in a More formal Way have taken a look at our rules of election a stack said. A a i his just happened to be a time i thought we needed to do that i really did no to think of the Rose Issue in retrospect maybe i should have held Oft of it Lor a scar. The 12-Man panel consists of american Fea Irue. President Bobby Brown National Feague president Bill White termer of president fee Macphail former of president Chub Feeney stack fangs n Vav York daily news columnist Phi Pepe former Montreal expos president Reffale. Hall of Fame Pitcher Robin rot Veris former baseball executive Char-1 o Seinar and former Nezio Star in. Buck o n
