Sports fans in the
Mountaintop area
remember Mike Williams
as one of the best baseball
players to ever graduate
from Old Fairview High
School. He was also the
founder of the Mountaintop
Area Basketball League.
Now Mike lives in
Shavertown, still loves
sports and is aiding a new
organization for the young
people of the area.
Mike’s idea is a ‘‘sports
for youth” program which
will provide fundamental
instruction and programs
in various sports for youth
age 5 to 16. Youngsters
would be divided into age
groups, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, and
have the opportunity to
participate in sports
clinics, field trips,
officiating schools, and
fundamental training in
such pasttimes as football,
Wyoming Seminary’s
field hockey coach has a
problem all coaches should
have. Karen Klassner’s
teann is five and six girls
dec{ii®n some positions, and
any one of those could
start. Her problem will be
to ® the group that plays
together best.
The seminary squad
started the season Sept. 22,
with a 2-0 ‘win over Nan-
ticoke. Coach Klassner
feels she is fielding the best
seminary team she has
seen since coming to the
school ir. 1971.
From 1971 to the present
Seminary hockey teams
have compiled a 6-5-2
record. Last year’s squad
was 11-1-1 on the season,
and 9-1 in the Wyoming
Valley- League. Their sole
loss was at the hands of
Lake-Lehman’s excellent
1974 squad.
Although seven seniors
were lost, including their
hustling captain, Debbie
Murray, of Wilkes-Barre,
and Mary Shafer,
Kingston, who scored 26
season goals,
Klassner feels her young
team has already taken up
the slack and more.
Janet Murray, Wilkes-
Barre, and Tracy Innes,
Shavertown, should supply
most of this year’s scoring
punch.
Sem’s second and third
contests of the season
should decide the whole
campaign. An away
contest with Lackawanna
Trail, Sept. 26, and another
at Wyoming Valley West,
Sept. 30, should make for
their toughest competition
of the season.
Sportsmen and other
interested persons are
invited to participate in an
automobile caravan tour of
State Game Lands No. 57
on Oct. 5. All vehicles to
assemble at the
Pennsylvania Game
Commission’s ~~ Northeast
Division office by noon.
The office is located’ at the
intersection of Routes 415
and 118 near Dallas.
District Game Protector
Edward Gdosky, who will
be in charge of the tour,
states that the tour will
traverse an area of State
Game Lands No. 57 which
is normally closed to
vehicular traffic.
Participants are
requested to double up in
transportation rather than
have one or two individuals
in a vehicle. Since the tour
will © last until late
afternoon, it might be
advisable to take some
refreshments along.
flag football, volleyball,
tennis, bowling field
hockey, arts and crafts,
baton, cheerleading, cross
country, wrestling and
golf, baseball, softball and
basketball.
The program would be
developed by a non-profit
volunteer organization
Mike proposes to call
“Sports for Youth.” The
organization would provide
youngster with
membership card, colored
tee-shirt and insurance
coverage for the program.
There would be a small
membership fee to cover
the costs of the program.
Mike hopes to finance the
remainder of the project
with a baseball calendar he
has just developed for the
year 1976.
He hopes the new project
will reach 300-500 children
with the year-round sports
emphasis, which he said
would be similar to boys
and girls clubs in larger
metropolitan areas. The
new program would be
designated to avoid conflict
with existing youth sports
programs.
A former PIAA football
and basketball official,
Mike is presently
employed by the U.S.
Postal Service in Dallas.
He has served as
commissioner of the Back
Mountain Girls Softball
Program and works with
the Back Mountain
Baseball for Boys and
girls.
Mike graduated from
Fairview High School in
1960, with four years of
varsity experience in both
baseball and basketball. At
one point'in his career he
took spring training with
the Boston Red Sox
organization and appeared
to be about to win third or
fourth spot in the batting
order for the Red Sox
minor league club in
Winston-Salem, N.C. when
a management change
passed him by.
Mike is inviting persons
interested in the ‘Sports
ofr Youth’’ concept to
contact him for further
information at his home at
61 Grace Ave.,
Shavertown.
“Meyers will be a tough
game,” said Coach Jack
Jones of Dallas High
School. “They are a young
team but quick and
strong.”
It is their swiftness and
speed which are of most
concern to Jones. He is im-
pressed by two of the
Mohawks’ running backs,
Lavan and DeGraffenreid.
He also told the Post that
Meyers’ quarterback Jerry
Goss throws well and has a
good receiver at split end.
Although Meyers does
not have an unusually
large defense, they are
husky and strong which
Jones feels is a tribute to
their off-season weight lift-
ing program.
The Dallas coach is more
concerned about the out-
come of the game this week
than he was earlier.
“I don’t know what the
week’s layoff will do to my
boys. There was also a lot
of nervous tension in school
the early part of the week
over the Pittston situation.
Tension takes a lot out of a
boy...I hope it hasn’t done
any harm. But I am count-
ing on the team being up
for Saturday’s game.”
Where does Jones place
the blame for cancellation
of the Pittston game? In
several areas. Just how
strong is the Wyoming
Valley Conference, he
wonders, when the presi-
dent of the conference can-
not make a decision.
He feels passing it to Bob
Thomas, league secretary,
who is at Valley West, put
Thomas on the spot. Jones
said he felt that no matter
how hard one tries to be
neutral it is difficult to
remain so when someone
close to you is involved.
Jones said he believed the
president had an obligation
to settle the problem of
scheduling instead of pass-
ing it to the schools.
He criticized Valley West
to the extent that they
could move their game to
Saturday without doing
themselves harm. He ex-
plained that the Spartans
forget the favors done by
Pittston in moving a
basketball game, and the
generosity of Dallas in lett-
ing them use the Mountain-
At the second annual
Western Horsemen’s Club
Jamboree, the Club
members surprised
President, Frank Redmond
and Secretary, Joyce
Redmond by presenting
them with a plaque for
outstanding service in
organizing and
maintaining- the Western
Horsemen's Club.
They organized the club
on Nov. 19, 1974 with a
membership of 21. The club
has grown in one year to
145 members conducting
and taking part in many
activities throughout the
year of its existence.
The Western Horsemen's
Club will hold a rummage
sale on Oct. 25 and 26 at the
Harding Fire Co. on Rt. 92.
On Oct. 5 the club is
holding its third horse show
of the year, at the club’s
horse show ring on Sutton
Creak Road in Harding.
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Jones said he also feels
Pittston had a contract to
play and should have lived
up to the contract. He cited
Hanover who played
Meyers Monday night and
will play Coughlin Friday
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