Union, Springfield, Wednesday, July 10, 1974 on from carriage which also serves as golf cart at Wenham Golf Club. All Outdoors This Bug Too Big For Mother Goose 01. (United International Telephoto) Mrs. Janus Tarr of Wenham gets set to drive ball as her son Eric. 3.
looks Just dreaming and scheming. Jim Whyte was driving along in his littie Volkswagon "Bug" when he spotted a mother goose and her goslings besides the road and came to a halt. The goose immediately gave Jim's car a good hit on the hood. Jim at first thought he might have run into the goose, that is until it gave his car a second thud. Whether the silly goose was protecting her young or thought it had a king size for breakfast we'll never; know.
A group of South Carolina, sportsmen have made the most valuable gift to cont servation ever made in this country. Twenty- -five member of the Santee Club donated 25,000 acres valued at $20 million to the Nature Conservancy, a land conservation organization. The area will be home to a fide variety of including two endangered species, the southern eagle and the American alligator. The land was much sought! after by commercial! developers The club, active back into! the 1800's, was credited with preventing the slaughter of the local egret population by market hunters by setting up; a warden system there. Nearly 6300 duck clubs In this country have purchased and are protecting for water-! fowl and wildlife more than three million acres of marshes and wetlands.
much does this amount to? It is nearly equivalent to all the acreage of the National Wildlife Refuge System. "Bet you a bitter that other than knowing a dog wags its tail, you didn't realize a hound wags his stern, an otter wags his pole, a rabbit! wags its scut, a fox his brushi and a deer its single. Vermont's out of state licenses will remain the same this year with the combina-' tion costing $32.50 and hunting, $30.50, In 1975, combinations will go to $45.50 a hunting to $40.50. "Also, in 1975, everyone will. have to produce a hunting license from a previous year; from any state or a hunter safety certificate.
So hold onto your 1974 Licenses. A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in a half hour. I know a gal who can! smoke 25 camels during the same 30 minutes. was made a major today. Our pet crow, Bo, first landed on my left shoulder and left an oak leaf cluster, then landed on my right shoulder and left another.
The only thing that bothers me is protocol. When being made an officer by a "bird" isn't the cluster supposed to go on the right first. I'll be darned. Mass Audubon has some pretty interesting Do you know that the cicadas, the little bug you hear making, monotonous buzz song; Surprise! New State Am Layout By DICK OSGOOD Union Staff I SUTTON Perhaps because he's a civil engineer did Ed Polchlopek quickly note that the nines were: reversed at the Pleasant Valley Country Club. The 29 year old Polchlopek made the observation while walking toward the pro shop Tuesday prior to rer' for a tuneup round I preparation for start of play today in the 66th Massachusetts Golf Association state amateur championship.
"What happened?" he inquired. "The course has been changed." Pro Bob Molt proved Polchlopek right. The nines had recently been reversed. Polchlopek, the most experienced of the eight Western Mass. in thought was the 10th tee was nos now the first, Polchlopek hit a drive solid down the middle of the fairway.
The' hole measures 465 yards from the gold markers. Polchlopek had a six iron to the green but pushed the shot and wound up taking a bogey five. He birdied the par five, 530-yard, second hole and after the round said Pleasant Valley would be a good test for the amateurs. The only other time Polchlopek played the course was during his junior year at UMass. He recalled shooting a 75 in a match against Holy Cross.
''It's a good test," Polchlopek continued, He's among the seeded "because you have to hit all players in the fourth quarter the snots. The greens a are a and will meet Richard little hard, but not like Cunney of Salem. this morconcrete," 1 he added. "So, ning at 11.48 a.m. you can putt The youngest of the them." Though this will be Western Mass.
contingent is Polchlopek's fifth fling at 18-year-old Tom Sutter, son matching shots against the of the Shaker Farms state's top amateurs, he's' pro, John Sutter. still hoping to outdo his rookie performance. Sutter, who has played "That was at Brae Burn Pleasant Valley in the past in 1969," he recalled. "I won in conjunction with former three matches that year. pro Paul Harney's junior Every other time I've program, joined Polchlopek managed to win the first one for Tuesday's tuneup and but could never get beyond was quite consistent.
Thursday "But, I haven't played too Polchlopek also has well here in the past," he competed at Essex, Taconic confessed. "I think it's and Belmont. mainly because I never had WHA's Saints Woo Shero regards to state-am com- TORONTO (AP) Coach lawyer, Mark S. Stewart said he was representing time qualifiers. petion, posed the question Fred Philadelphia Shero of of the held preliminary talks with Ed Shero.
"I've talked to about Mr. For Murphy, a beaten semi, because "I was here only two National Hockey Flyers the Snider Philadelphia owner Stewart but it's been finalist last year by, weeks ago to watch the girls League is and general manager other things," Snider said. champion Bill Mallon of (proettes) and the course offer considering from a the Minnesota Keith Allen. Asked if Allen had ever Framingham, and Williams, was layed out differently." "I am waiting now for the discussed the reported offer it makrs their third Pleasant Valley is a regular Fighting Saints of the World counter offer," Stewart told from the World Hockey nament. stop on the LPGA tour and Hockey Association, the the Star.
"The Minnesota Association team with Mallon's victory a year ago since it came after Toronto Star said Tuesday. people have offered a very Stewart, Snider replied: "If at Belmont ended a two-year Polchlopek had qualified for Shero, who led the Flyers handsome package." he had, he'd have told me reign by. Western Mass. state-am, the ex-Chicopee to an NHL Stanley Cup Snider, vacationing in golfer. 71.0 the about it." High and University of championship victory this told The Associated Neither Allen nor Shero Tracy Mehr of Hickory Massachusetts athlete year, is quoted in the report Tuesday: "This is the could be reached for com- Ridge went the route three figured it would be a good from Philadelphia as saying first time I've heard ment.
summers ago at Taconic and idea to reacquaint himself that if he makes the switch, anything about it. We have Shero told the newspaper Gary Burnett of with the course. he will do so in the next few never talked about an offer in ani interview: "This may Longmeadow won at his own "Plus I could see the weeks and would become from the Minnesota Fighting become a breakthrough for club in 1972. girls," added Polchlopek, coach, general manager and Saints." coaches. It's about time we Mehr failed to qualify this, who just so happens to be part owner of the Saints.
He said that he had started getting the money year and Burnett. is serviag a bachelor. received a letter from that's been lavished on. un- with the military as a naval After realizing what he The Star says Sheros Stewart in which Stewart tried junior graduates. officer.
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Sutter's 'debut comes. against Mike Wood of Stow Acres. Completing the eight-man Western Mass. group is Jim Lavin of Crestview, Dick Murphy Ludlow, Dennis Williams of North Adams, David London of Hickory Ridge, Dr. Robert.
Schwartz of the Country Club of Pittsfield' and Tom Toski, 21 year old son of" the Hickory Ridge pro; Tommy Toski: Lavin, Toski, Dr. Schwartz, a native of Great Neck, Long Island, Sutter and London, greens superintendent at Hickory, are first- By FRANK SOUSA Union Outdoor Writer sounds on warm days lays eggs which fall to the ground and that the young stay in the ground for 17 years chomping on roots and all, before they have their day in the sun. The cicada resembles a house fly. It serves as chowdown for a variety of predators. Otherwise there could be problems.
For in- stance, one type of cicada has 16 generations in a summer, 'each generation with 41 young. And each of the young is a female which reproduce without being fertilized directly. So this aphid could have 000 000,000.000,000,000,000. I think I'll call its quits. feel as impotent as a butterfly courting an eagle.
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