THE DALLAS POST/Wednesday, June 12, 1985
‘All-Star Game set ]
Rodgers on sports
Going back in time
played first base. Anyone with a
bat got to hit anywhere they felt
like in the line-up and so forth.
As one gentleman put it, some of
their folks didn’t allow them to
play for fear of their getting hurt
and if they got caught, they
would get the caddy nine tail,
and get it good!
When they got a little older,
things were a little more organ-
ized. They had neighborhood
teams with coaches -even. Some
By JOHN RODGERS
Sports Columnist
What ever did happen to old-
time sports? Old time in the way
games are played and the atti-
tude among players. There is
and always will be the typical
gripes like which athletes are
better, modern day or yester-
years. That I won’t get into,
there is no real way of proving
anything there. represented different coal break-
Let’s start ers, some churches, some just
pl AV bs Sen the street they lived on. There
approach of were some big crowds at those
sports. Talk- games and some darn good play-
ers. Some went on to the pros.
I think what they were trying
to tell me, was they played for
the love of sports, no matter
what the circumstances were.
ing to some
elderly men; I
was told, there
were no Little
Leagues when
they were To advance a few years now, I
y oung. : 4 recall my early days. Things
Instead. the “ were a lot more organized and
kids in the RODGERS everyone had a glove. I'll never
neighborhood forget my first year in the Little
(after a day of League. I was given my first
school uniform. It was about six years
old and four sizes to big, but I
felt like Babe Ruth. I would get
dressed three hours early and
just wait for the game. We had
some fine coaches who taught us
(See RODGERS, page 18)
and then chores) would get
together in the field and chal-
lenge a neighboring team. The
one lucky enough to have a ball
was the pitcher and the one
fortunate enough to have a glove
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
. Not one, not two, but three Back
Mountain coaches will be working
with the Keystone Games this
summer,
Lake-Lehman softball coach Flos-
sie Finn, Dallas hockey coach
Robyn Jones and Dallas girls’ bas-
ketball coach Kit Karuza have been
selected by Keystone officials to
assist in their respective fields.
Mrs. Finn, Lake-Lehman guid-
ance counselor and girls’ varsity
softball coach, was requested by
Keystone Games officials to coordi-
nate and select a team of girls
representing five counties in Region
2 to go to Bloomsburg just as David
Adomiak, Riverside’s softball
coach,. was requested to select a
team of 15 from five counties to go
to Bloomsburg.
The plan is that these two teams
will play two other teams in a
Round Robin competition and from
the 60 girls on these four teams, 15
will be chosen to go to Penn State to
play in the finals. Finn and Adom-
iak will accompany the final team.
Coach Finn held tryouts in Ber-
wick, Saturday, June 1, at Coal
Street, Wilkes-Barre, Sunday morn-
ing, June 2, and in Tunkhannock,
Sunday afternoon, June 2. Following
each of these tryouts, she made
some cuts and following tryouts on
Saturday, June 8, Coach Finn made
the final cuts, thus selecting the
team of 15 that will go to Blooms-
burg forthe Regional Round-Robin.
Assisting Finn are Marge Kelly,
Cheryl Travis and Sally Galka.
Coach Finn has a’ wide back-
ground of experience in softball
having coached at Lake-Lehman for
11 years and in a summer softball
league for eight years. She has
always had a winning seson never
having a team that ended with .500
or below.
Her summer team, the Rebels,
has never finished lower than
second place and last year, they
were fifth in National Playoffs and
finished first in the local league.
Coach Robyn Jones, Dallas var-
sity field hockey coach for the past
four years, is coordinator for the
(See COACHES, page 18)
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