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38- CAPE GAZE'Iq, Friday, February 3 - Feb 9, 1995
Sports & Outdoors
Polar Bears to jump for Special Olympics on Sunday
The Annual Lewes Polar Bear All proceeds support Delaware
Plunge to benefit Delaware Spe- Special Olympics, the state's
cial Olympics will be held at 1 largest year-round organization
p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5 at Cape Hen- devoted to sports training and ath-
lopen State Park; Lewes, ..... tetic-competition for children and
This "unbearable" event is
sponsored by the Lewes Polar
Bears and the Cape Gazette and
will be broadcast 5ve on KIX 106.
Registration/sponsor sheets are
available at the Cape Gazette
office in the Shoppes of Camelot
and the minimmn total contribu-
tion per Polar Bear is $50. All
donation sheets and money
received must be brought to the
event and attire is swimsuits only -
no T-shirts or wet suits.
Participants will receive an offi-
cial Polar Bear Plunge Sweatshirt,
a 5 x 7 group color photograph,
after Plunge party at the Bay Cen-
ter and eligibility for great prizes,
with special prizes for the Polar
Bear raising the most money and
the Bear who recruits the most
Polar Bears to take the plunge.
adults with mental retardation,
To be eligible to participate in
Special Olympics one must be at
least eight years old and identified
by an agency or professional as
having one of the following condi-
tions: a mental handicap, cogni-
tive delays, significant learning or
vocational problems due to a cog-
nitive delay that requires specially
designed instruction.
Special Olympics provides
year-round training in 22 official
sports, including aquatics, track
and field, basketball, bocce, bowl-
ing, gymnastics, powerlifting,
roller skating, sailing, skiing, soc-
cer, softball, tennis and volleyball.
Olympic games are held annual
at each organizational level, with
advancement to chapter, national
and international games, with the
Delaware chapter serving nearly
1,000 athletes in over 40 training
programs.
The Unified Sports Program
brings those with and without
mental-handicaPs together on the
same team, with athletes similarin-
age and athletic ability, including
basketball, bowling, sailing, soc-
cer, softball, volleyball, distance
running and track relays."
Special Olympics created iis
Motor Activities Training Pro-
gram to provide comprehensive
motor activity training to individu-
als with severe limitations.
Financial support comes from
funds raised from individuals,
organizations, corporations, foun-
dations and other sources. The
Special Olympic oath is "let me
win. But if I cannot win, let me be
brave in the attempt."
For more information contact
Brenda Zullo, outreach director, at
855-0546.
Lewes Polar Bears first started
jumping back in 1985
....... :..- By Dave Frederick
Nobody'sbody looks good on a windy sand-swept stark
winter beach. Goose bumps get down and all around' areas of
northern exposure while the body's southern hemisphere often dis-
putes theories of evolution that man was aquatic prior to becoming
psychotic.
The winter ocean is no place for vacation or procreation. But the
Lewes Bears, whose pride long ago departed with the outgoing
fide, refuse to give up salt water recreation just because the ele-
ments are harsh.
Harsh itself is a wimpy word and doesn't scare bears with
Wimpy bodies, Popeye.
The Lewes Polar Bears began in 1985 when five cronies, sitting
around the Blacksmith Shop, began talking much noise about how
,tbey weren't afraid of no cold ocean. (Red neck grammatical
license). And thus the Bears were born from hibernation into
frozen animation. The monthly meetings with nature gave us all
something not to look forward to, which seemed to make the win-
ter go faster.
Continued on Page 39
Cape boys hold off Panthers to preserve perfect conference mark
By Jeb Lee
The 4th-ranked Cape boys continued their
surprising streak Tuesday night, Jan. 31
with a 66-54 victory over visiting Polytech,
giving the Vikings a perfect 13-0 record in
the conference and 14-2 overall.
Cape was led by a balanced offensive
attack, as four players scored in double fig-
ures. Tommy Rushin was the high man with
16 in a win that was a lot closer than the
score indicates.
"Mr. Reliable" Dwight Young scoredthe
f'wst bucket of the game, and from then on
the first quarter was a battle. Rushin started
hot with two three-pointers and Young also
added 6 as the Vikings took a 21-15 lead.
In the second period, Rushin and Lament
Hazzard led a Cape run which extended the
lead to 35-23. By half-time, it was 41-30,
but the Panthers weren't done yet.
Cape continued to dominate into the
third, staking a 51-34 lead before Polytech
showed signs of life. The Viking shooters
went cold and the Panthers got hot, scoring
the final 11 points of the period.
The run did not stop until three minutes
into the final quarter. Polytech finally took a
54-53 lead with five minutes remaining.
Bobby Leggins entered the game for the
first time and quickly sank two three-point-
ers to start the final run. John Jones scored
on a fast break and drew the foul, bringing
the unusually small crowd to its feet.
Rushin and Jones scored the final few at the
charity stripe, putting yet another win into
the books.
NOTES AND QUOTES
Field goal shooting had been a concern
until a week ago, but the Vikings made bet-
ter than half their shots in a rout of Lake
Forest last Friday. "We had a dry svell
tonight," Coach Jerry Peden said t'ollowing
the Polytech win, as a few forced shots
helped the Panthers make their run. Peden,
however, gave a lot of credit to the visitors,
adding, "This was a very good team."
Rushin had 16, Young 14, Hazzard 12,
and Jones 10, but some of the non-starters
made huge contributions to the victory.
"Bobby Leggins played a heck of a game,"
Continued on page 40
The game of survival suddenly became very real
By Dave Frederick
Are we rolling downhill like a
snow ball headed for hell?"
---Merle Haggard ' i
Virgina's Blue Ridge Parkway,
offering access to the George
Washington National Forest, was
closed Saturday and Sunday as
winter's one and only snow storm
bombarded the green and brown
mountains and black trails with
over a foot of snow and sleet.
Meanwhile, in the valley 1,100
feet down below the Blue Ridge
Mountain scenic overlook, a half
dozen "Under The Hill" explorers
dragged dead wood and fallen
limbs into a primitive campsite as
the game of survival suddenly
became very real. The only noise
was the swift moving Saint
Mary's river. The campers
couldn't decide if the river was
raging or babbling but nature was
scoring points.
"How do molecules of oxygen
and hydrogen combine together to
form such splendor?" Forney
shouted poetically.
"Somebody please shut him
up," came a shout from a fellow
camper.
"Better go and get all the wood
you can find," said Captain Don-
aid McCann, an Eagle Scout and
confirmed survivalist currently
subsisting on half the income he
did the previous ten years.
John Ellsworth and Bruce Hefke
engineered a triangular sawbuck
tied together with a long piece of
brown leather. Be Hefke coped
with the saw for three hours being
relieved periodically by Dennis
Forney who bragged, "Save me
the skinny pieces." In a little over
two hours a cord of wood was
stacked next to the campfire.
Tony "Puppet Man" Bailey, a
glass blower by trade and erudite
raconteur, offered to make small
animals out of ice crystals but the
needs of the group required fuel as
carpenter Hefke was too busy to
construct a knick-knack shelf.
Bailey got his nickname by
dancing across creeks on sub-
merged wet stones with the ele-
gance of Fred Astaire and the
adventurism of Fred Rodgers.
Reared in a North Philadelphia
row house, I searched the forest
for abandoned campsites and con-
demned pieces of oak. Having
grown up in the city, I was aware
of only one type of tree and that's
"The Tree." Philly people don't
Dennis Forney photo
Shown around the emnp fire (l-r) are Tony Bailey, Dave
Fredriek, Bruce Hefke and Don MeCann.
distinguish between alive or dead or Wire Ball."
let alone hard or soft wood. Most of the meals were Army
My comrades know tree types issue MREs ( meals ready to eat),
and their characteristics but would a collection of disgusting looking
be lost playing "Baby In The Air Continued onpage 89