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20 ASBURY PARK SUNDAY PRESS, Od. 18, 1959 Bahe Ruth League Elects New Slate 1 OCEAN TOWNSHIP-The local Babe Ruth League recently elected the following slate of effr cers for the coming year-Jack Hauser, Wanamassa, president; Ralph Stark, Wanamassa, vice president; Marvin Klayton, Deal Park, treasurer, and Herb Bennett. Deal Park, secretary. YOV'RE THE SKIPPER jBy John Bohannan Nick Merli Was Star Back, Track Sprinter I I 1 MolbQD i I 5 Mobil heat SPRING LAKE HEIGHTS -Nick Merli, Asbury Park High School's genial track coach, was one of many talented athletes to come out of the Scranton, section in the pre-World War II era. Merli was born in Scranton but graduated from little Blakely High School, a suburb of Scranton, in 1940.

Merli earned six letters, three each in football and track. Blakely was such a small high school that it did not support a basketball team. Despite the lack of boys, Blakely is annually a football power in northeast Pennsylvania. Blakely lost only one game in the three seasons that Merli placed halfback. Blakely rolled up a scoring record in 1938 then it won the Northeast Pennsylvania championship.

Merli accounted for 62 of the record total of 307 points that campaign. Merli, 5-8, weighed 137 pounds, but he was exceptionally swift. In addition to being the team's breakaway runner, Merli handled some of the punting. Merli's coach, John Henzes, is still turn- FUEL OIL Time to Check Your Lines A boat's life doesn't hang by a single thread, but often it depends, on the individual fibers in the yams and strands of your dock or anchor lines. How much does your boat weigh 500 pounds? Or perhaps 1,000 pounds, or several tons? Now, consider this weight in motion, a surging force propelled by the waves of a storm or even the wake of a passing craft.

It's important that your lines hold! When new, good quality manila line has a breaking strength of 1,350 pounds in the three-eighths size, 2.650 in the half-inch, and 4,400 pounds for the five-eighths. But with the commonly-accepted safety margin of five-to-one, the regular load limit for three-eighths comes down to 270 pounds, the half-inch 530 pounds, and the five-eighths 880 pounds. Right now is a good time to check your lines and see if they show evidence of retaining enough strength to keep your boat from piling up on the rocks. New rope has been treated by the manufacturer with an oily substance to lubricate the internal fibers and to retain the natural oil of the manila itself. As long as this oil is retained, the rope remains springy and strong.

Causes of Rope Deterioration But the alternate wetting and drying of boat lines has a tendency to dry out the rope until the fibers become brittle and break easily. The line then has a limp, dead characteristic. Other causes of deterioration are internal abrasion from mud and sand, external chafe from sharp post corners, rails, poorly-designed checks, undersized blocks and slipping on winches; also battery acid burns, and rot caused from stowing the line wet in hot, poorly ventilated lockers. First check your line for external wear. Look for dark spots where it has been chafing, broken fibers, yarns, or strands.

Now NICK MERLI Then New manila line in in comparison with way it looks after sea-Note discoloration and broken fibers from H-in. size is shown os bow dock lint. FILL UP NOW! GET GREEN STAMPS TOOlt CallMU 1-1900 STERN ERS INC. 12th R.R., BELMAR use on-and-a-half dock chart. Gravy Bowl Draws Top Jet Sailors Duck Hunting Brings Nostalgia 5 PIECE DINETTE 15 Boid Games Get RED BANK More than 20 Jet 14 sailboats are expected to enter the second annual Gravy Bowl Regatta to be held next Sunday Vf A A 1 14 4.

1 V- M. J. -M. IS m. Thus a fine line of fact or at least credulity must be observed.

And the nostalgia for the good old days must be carried to foolhardy extremes. It is all right, for instance, to recall how you traversed a mile of quaking marsh on skis to reach the duck boat of your youth, but at the Monmouth Boat Club. Now twist the line apart and examine the surfaces of the strands. NEW YORK WV-The opening of If there is any white, powdered fiber it's a sign of excessive internal another duck season brings a re-wear. I minder: there is still a little magic Note particularly whether any of the internal yarns have a dry, in tM fogsy world.

A little damp brittle feel, combined with loss of lustre. on the. "ttom. maybe, and chilly around the edges, but still magic For a final test, unlay about a foot of one yarn and try breaking knw QW to look forsu it with your hands. If it parts easily you have convincing evidence A'n(J the best way to look jg that the line should no longer be trusted.

through the eyes of a youngster Bi suspicious of any line which has had a knot in one place for jn the blind with you. This is a The three-race series will get NEW YORK UP) Five new under way at a.m. with bowl f00tball games have been the Lars I. Olsen perpetual trophy approved by National Colle-going to the first place skipper. I eiate AthleUc Assn.

(NCAA), ing out great teams for Blakely. Nick did equally as well in the spring as was the star sprinter for Blakely. Merli won the 60-yard indoor sprint championship and the 100-yard outdoor championship of northeastern Pennsylvania. Merli also was a consistent point winner in the pole vault at 10-6. Merli received an athletic scholarship to Scranton University based upon his fabulous high school record.

He was a member of Scranton's varsity 11 for three years a quarterback. Nick, who weighed 148 pounds, was the smallest member of Coach Pete Carlesimo's varsity 11. 3 Years in Army After three years at Scranton, Nick enlisted in the Army in 1943 and was discharged in 1946 after attaining the rank of sergeant. Merli was an interpreter for the Italian prisoners at Ft. Dix.

Merli returned to Scranton and graduated in 1947. Nick played years of soft-ball in the Mid-Valley Softball League. Merli, a speedy flychaser, was noted for being a good hunter. Merli received his master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in history but now teaches Italian and English at Asbury Park High School. During his 10-year tenure at Asbury Park High School, Nick coached freshman football for sev en years, assisted Gus Villapiano in track for three years, and has been the head track coach for the past five years.

Nick has men-tored the indoor track squad for eight years and has been the bowling coach for two years. Top Bowler Merli rates as one of the top bowlers at the Shore with an average of 185 for the last two years in the Monmouth County Teachers' League, which he helped organize, and served as president until this year. In addition to being the high average roller of the Teachers League, Nick's 189 average was-the second highest in the Asbury Park Businessman's League. Some of the track champions whom Merli developed were Frank Budd, Karl Mayer, Steve Scheck, Charlie Smith Dave Ta-born, Jack Duval, and Bob Bunting. Nick resides here with his wife, the former Edith Diggory, of Philadelphia, and four children Chris, Susan, Steve, 3Vi, and Donna, 2.

Merli is director of the Junior Holy Name Bowling League of Monmouth County, president of i the Asbury Park Businessmen's Bowling League, and was president of the Asbury Park Teachers' Assn. for four years. Nick's principal hobbies are bowling and reading. i by all means continue to park David Siddons of Island Heights making a total of 15 at the end of the season. a long time.

The sharp bends will break fibers time, mis is wny secret passed on to the Old Duck your present station wagon 25 Yacht Club, last year's winner, feet from the dock. Call it a con-; will have stiff competition from The NCAA said it is the larg- a good boatman will always use a splice instead oi a Knot wnerever possible, and jnsert a thimble to take the wear in a small eye splice rn art anchor line. cession to age. Art Lange of Lavallette, National fist number 0f sucn post-season And by all means recall, as you Jet 14 champion, and Gus since the icoUegiate body Table and 4 chain, Hunters Assn. many years ago bx the bird dog and bourbon tasting society.

i Let it be noted, however, that, since this is a basically selfish' project, it is fraught with a cer-1 out the decoys, how in the Choice of pill adopted rigid legislation in 1951 regulatings the games. At one vera of Lake Hopatcong, runner-up in the Nationals. Two other former national Jet i I I I Tl 1 Chroma $49 time" there were as many as 31 or Block 11 tlldIIl)lUIIS, Ml Ul l.MdllU Heights and Max Culpepper of P1! 'n u5 EASY TERMS Five new bowl games were ap old days each block was laboriously whittled out with a jack knife and painted feather by feather over a period of months, instead of picked up at the corner gun shop. But don't mention that the new ones are not only easier to come by, but better as well. Lecture at Length Beachwood, also are slated to sail in the event.

The regatta is open to all Jet 14 skippers and participants are expected from Virginia, Maryland, 'S BANKER provedthe Aluminum, Flower, Bluebonnet, Liberty, and Santa. Here are the bowl games approved for this season: Nov. 21 Mineral Water, Excelsior Springs, Mo. Dec. 12 Flower, New Orleans.

Dec. 12 Bluegrass, Louisville. Dec. 19 Bluebonnett, Houston, You lecture at length on the New York, Pennsylvania and Con-the necticut. MAIN ST.

LAKE AVE. ASBURY PARK strong character built by stern privations of me blizzard- Local skippers who will take swept blind. But don't, for good-1 part in the regatta include Bill Wed. and Trt. Sid Entrant Opto I tv Fru Pmrkinf ness sake, lorgei me Dotue oi Olsen, Bon Koloed and Kay up Aperiodic check-up on your lines and prompt replacement where needeB can prevent expensive hull damage.

Questions and Answers Is nylon line worth the money? Nylon line costs almost four times as much as manila, but it is more than twice as strong and weighs less than three quarters as much. It can be stowed wet without danger of rot to the line, and eppears to last almost indefinitely if guarded from unnecessary chafing and abrasion. Its flexibility is a good feature for dock, moor-ine and anchor line but it stretches too much to be used for halyards. 6 What material do you consider best for sheets? Irish linen yacht line combines the excellent characteristics of being non-stretching, very pliable, and easy on the hands. Nautical Jive Line A rope used aboard a boat.

It is laid from strands, which in turn are made up of yarns made from fibers. ChocV-A fitting for holding a line in position as it passes over the rail. The term is also applied to wooden wedges on deck for holding and supporting something In place, such as an anchor or dinghy. Winch A drum equipped with a cranking handle to provide a purchase for lines. Unlay To separate strands of a rope or the yarns of a strand.

Sheet A line used for trimming a sail. Halyard A line for hoisting a sail. Lippincott, president of Tex. piheott. tain responsibility not to mention peril.

In the first place, duck hunting is a sport hallowed by the centuries, cloaked and muffled in generations of rich tradition. The youngster must not get the idea that it always was all as simple as, for Instance, astrophysics, of interplanetary travel And invention must be equal to a collision with hard facts, for every duck hunter it entitled to know a few things that aren't strictly true. The elder statesman whose children already are convinced that he walked six miles to school through four feet of snow, summer and winter, has a considerable advantage. He can easily switch to tales of how the ice was always six inches thick where he wanted to pole the boat or plant the decoys. Can Be Overdone You can overdo this, however.

A generation ago, the current expert's boyish suspicions about his elder's hard times were aroused and never thereafter allayed by stories of a long-ago duck season that was so cold only polar bears could be trained as hot soup and the hand-warmer. Spin your harrowing tale of how you, as a youth, poled your skiff eight miles before dawn against a 10-mile current to reach the blind. But first be sure the model outboard motor is working. And finally here's the touch of master liars of the Old Duck Hunters' Assn. give the properly humbled novice something to be proud of in his own time.

When the sun resolves the dark mystery the Jet 14 Class won the spring and summer series at Monmouth B.C., and recently took first place in the Noroton, Invitational Regatta. Morris Sherwood, regatta chairman, reports that William Bennett will be chairman of the race committee assisted by George Worthley, Jim Wolcott, Jack White, and Sherwood. No entry fee is charged for ENGINEERS-INSTRUCTORS DATA PROECESSING IJCC. 1 IAIKI IJf, iuiaui-ipiiia. Dec.

25 Santa, Houston, Tex. Dec. 26 Aluminum, Little Rock, Ark. Dec. 31-Sun, El Paso, Tex.

Jan. 1 Tangerine, Orlando, Fla. Jan. 1 Prairie View, Prairie View, Tex. Jan.

1 Orange, Miami, Fla. Jan. 1 Sugar, New Orleans. Jan. 1 Rose, Pasadena, Calif, Jan.

1 Cotton, Dallas. Jan. 2 Gator, Jacksonville, Fla. of wings whistling in the night, this popular fall regatta. IF YOU SEEK NEW and you put your rusly eye along the dusty gun barrel and miss your bird three times clean, shake your head and say with just the light amount of rueful admiration: "The birds sure didn't fly that fast when I was a boy." There's still magic there, all right.

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college. Opposing Tillman's forces was the grew its success gets one last fling this Thursday. Clemson College and the University of South Carolina bring 51 their State Fair Big Thursday arstocracy, represented by the IF football series to a close with YOU'D LIKE TO LIVE IN NEW to be held in the GIANT STRIPED TENT from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. now thru Nov.

1st i i at university which Tillman at one time closed. In the old days, the game was staged as an 11 a then a noon affair. That gave people time to get home by horse and buggy before dark. In recent years, the kickoff was at 2 p.m. Swords vs.

Pistols The series suffered a major interruption after the 1902 game when sword-wielding Clemson students and pistol-carrying university men lined up for battle after a university win. The late Christie Benet, then an assistant university coach, later a U.S. senator, scrambled atop a wall and challenged the Clemsons to individual combat. There were no takers and that ended a possibly serious free-for-all. It also ended the series for six years.

Resumed in 1909, it has run without interruptions since. HOTALINC'S OUTBOARD MARINA TOMS RIVER, N. J. PRIZES, REFRESHMENTS, MUSIC DEMONSTRATION RIDES this 57th game. It's not likely that anyone watching the first game, played in a downpour in 1896 at the old State Fair Grounds in the heart of the city, could have foreseen a series that would command: 1.

A legal state holiday. 2. Annual overflow crowds. 3. A 42,500 seat State Fair stadium.

4. Predominance in the state's social, business, industrial, and political life. Annual Classic The game has become the annual rally (or state leaders in all lines of endeavor. State boards and commissions stage annual meetings in connection with the game. The governor and state Legislature attend.

So do South Carolina congressmen. For the ladies, the game is a style show. Scores and scores of luncheons before the game, and dinners afterward, are an integral part of the picture. All that now comes to an end. South Carolina has signed North Carolina for a short State Fair series, but probably to be played on a Friday or Saturday.

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