1% 4 Z 7) i / 7 i. 7 7, f v vey 77) 2 72140 Ww a, i) ALAR 5777. Y// Mr /// nz 7 7 ’ EDITORIALS --- Short season, bad weather, few pitch- ers and jumbled scheduling take their toll in high school baseball. With fewer than 20 games in the sea- son, the pressure is on every time the team takes the field. In hot competition, there are not enough games to drop one now and then and still keep up the aver- age. One loss and the average takes a nose dive and there just isn’t enough time or elbow room to make it up. By the time a loss is overcome statistically, the sea- gon is over and someone else won the championship. Bad weather — especially a late spring ——can put the clamps oa a high school baseball team. Baseball, essentially, is a hot weather sport and when bad weather keeps the youngsters inside without actual work on the diamond, their game suffers. The game is an outdoor sport and un- less you're an Astro, the play is outside— good or bad, hot or cold. The name of the game in high school is If You Would Write - - Would you like to write to your stale or federal representatives in Har- risburg or Washington? Here are their addresses: FEDERAL Sen. Hugh D. Scott, Room 260, Sen- ate Office Building, Washington, D. C. 20515. Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, Room 4317, Senate Office Building, Washington D. C. 20515. Rep. Edwin ID. Eshleman, 416 Cannon House Office Bldg., Washington, D. C 20515.. STATE Senator Richard A. Snyder, Box 21, State Senate, Harrisburg, Pa. 17120. Sen. Clarence F. Manbeck, Freder- icksburg R1, Pa. 17026. Rep. Harry H. Gring, Reinholds, Pa. 17569. Rep. Sherman L. Hill, 201 Manor Av., Millersville 17551. Rep. Jack B. Horner , 23-A S. Market St., Elizabethtown 17022. Rep. Marvin E. Miiler, 501 Valley Rd., Lancaster 17601. Rep. Harvey C. Nitrauer, 125 South Street, Myerstown, Pa., 17067. Rep. John C. Pittenger, N. West End Ave. Lancaster 17603. Or, Call the Mayor - MAYOR Henry R. Zerphey Call 653-2289 , pitching. Few high school teams can come up with two good pitchers and even fewer can ever put a good man on the hill and keep two more strong boys in the bull pen. And, without pitchers — pitchers who can throw something except a fast ball— a high school ball club might just as weil send its athletes out for track, as far as winning is concerned. It’s good to have some heavy hitters— boys with keen eyes which can follow the ball, boys with reflexes to take a healthy cut at the ball. Technique is im- portant, but unless there is a pitcher who can handle a curve, a changeup, etc. a high school team is going to meet, even- tually, another team which has and then the jig is up. Jumbled schedules ponements are a source of major lems for high schools. In some sports. which are played in- doors, a schedule means a schedule unless there is a major emergency. But, in base- ball, the sport is at best on an uncertain schedule because of the weather. A few bad days and what was a schedule is left in shambles. A routine for pitchers, a “turn” of pitchers, a juggling of pitchers to fit speci- fic game needs is out when suddenly a game is cancelled and a couple of extra games are pushed into the system on quick notice. It’s true that all ball teams face the same problem, but the problem is magni- fied when a high school outfit finds itself as a championship contender. In the 1st place, the pressure is always building inside the ball club. The need to win becomes more and more urgent. Secondly, every team the “winning” club meets has a special incentive to cut down the likely champion. There is more honor and satisfaction in trimming the title candidate than in humbling, again, an oft-beaten last-runner. Donegal high school finds itself in this situation this spring — a front runner, hot on the trail for a championship. Ev- ery team the Indians meet is charged up to “Beat Donegal.” Tuesday afternoon the Tribe racked up victory number nine for the season— a remarkable record of which fans, the ball players, coach and school can bz very proud. They have conditions. But, because they have played togeth- er for years since they were grade school boys, because they have a lot of baseball savvy and because they have a coach who has the know-how and the competitive na- ture, the 1970 ball club has been doing very well. Congratulations, wn Donegal, on Nine-in-a-row! because of post- prob- done it under pressure The Mount Joy BULLETIN MOUNT JOY, PENNA. 17552 Published Weekly on Wednesdays Except Fourth of July Week and Christmas Week (50 Issues Per Year) 11 EAST MAIN STREET, MOUNT JOY, PENNA , 17552 In the heart of fabulous Lancaster County Richard A. Rainbolt Editor and Publisher Subscription Rate—$3.00 per year by mail $3.50 Outside Lancaster County Advertising Rates upon request. Entered at the post office at Mount Joy, Penna., as second class mail under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1970 WASHINGTON REPORT Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman 16th District—Pennsylvania The anti-pornography can:- paign has long been in need of some legislative action. As I pointed out in a column not too long ago, the Nixon Ad- ministration has launched an intensified campaign against obscene mail. But adminis- trative activity has needed some new legislative authori- ty to make it really effective. I am pleased to report that just last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that would aid the efforts to eurb the flood of filth in this country. The House-passed bill is not as tough as the two bills that I introduced earlier in this Congress. Nor does it grant all of the crack-dewn authori- ey which the Nixon Adminis- tration had originally reques- ted. But it isa good bill which should do much to stop the growth of an insidious indus- try—mail-order trade in smut materials. Basically, what this legisla- tion says to the smut peddlers is that while they have ‘“free- dom of the press’ the public also has a freedom—ifreedom of rejection. From now on, an American citizen will have the privilege of determining whether or not he wants to receive what the pornograph- ers print. The anti-smut bill has two general provisions. First, it provides for the maintenance by the Postmaster General of a register of the names and addresses of those presons (and minors they are respon- sible for) who object to re- ceiving sexually oriented ad- vertising through the mail. The people on that register would be legally protected from pornagraphic mail. A heavy burden of responsibili- ty is placed right where it be- longs; that is, on the filth peddler who would be re- quired to check with the Postmaster General’s list be- fore making a mailing. Viola- tion of the law would result in prosecution by the Attorn- ey General of the United States. The second provision is designed to protect those under age 17 from mailings of obscene material. A spec- ial category of nonmailable matter is established which prohibits carefully defned materials from being sent to minors. This provision con- forms to President Nixon's re- quest of last year for Con- gress to make mailing sexu- ally-oriented material to the young people a Federal crime. I must caution that this House-passed bill is not yet law. It must be considered by the Senate and signed by the President before it can ge into effect. I would hope that the Senators will not take too long to complete their delib- erations. And, I am confident that this legislative action a- gainst pornography will be signed quickly by the Presi- dent once it leaves Capitol Hill. ® Main Street (From page 1) police department to begin studying the situation in de- tail, looking to the best plan for handling the added school bus and other traffic which will be necessary to transport the students. - Drive Carefully COMEDY CORNER “Your honer, will you please have the defendant sit correctly while 1 present my cose?”
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