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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-05-01, Page 20age 2--•Crossroads-May 1, 1WTh-- CHESS P 8NTS nior high schools compete By ROSS WILLIAMS New Haven, Connecticut, is the site this year for the ` hird Annual National Junior High School Championship. The eight round, Swiss System tournament will be held May 3.4, and is open to all students in ninth grade or below. The Continental Chess Federation, from Mt. Vernon, N.Y., conducts this tourna- ment in conjunction with the National High School Cham- pionships under the program title:. "Annual United States Scholastic Championships." The high school event is in its seventh year. The Junior High School Championship made its debut in 1973. Both events were held together in 1973, but were conducted separately in 1974, and will be separate again in 1975. The 1973 Junior High School Champion was Michael Rhode, • who was then an eighth grader at South Orange, N.J. Junior High School. Lewis Cohen, a seventh grader from Ramaz, N.Y., was second. Both Cohen and Rhode en- tered the final round of the 1973 tournament with perfect scores. Rhode had the black pieces, but he prevailed over his opponent and won the tournament with an 8-0 "sweep. Michael must have had some interesting thoughts, however, as he sat down across the board from Lewis, Cohen in that final game, because on two previ- ous occasions when he had taken that seat, the results had been different. The two occasions were the North Jersey and the Greater New York Junior High School Championships in ' 1972-3. In both tournaments, Michael Rhode and Levis Cohen en- tered the final round with the only perfect scores, and Cohen won both of them. The 1974, Junior High School Championship was held in Cleveland, Ohio, and :this time Lewis Cohen won thetitle'while-Miehael Rhode ' Was moving on to greater achievements at the high school level. The three top finishers behind Cohen were Eli Jaffe and James Kubicek. from Ohio, and Mark McLamarrah front Illinois. There were 214 players in the first National Junior High School Championship. In 1974, there were 230. If the downward trend continues, New Haven can expect about 200 junior high school stu- dents for the first weekend in May. Game of the Week. One of Lewis Cohen's. successful games against Michael Rhode was played in the final round of the 1972 North Jer- sey Junior High School Championship. Lewis was 12 years old at the time and Mi- chael was 13. French Defense Lewis Cohen Michael Rhode White Black 1. P -K4 2. P -Q3 3. N -Q2 4. KN -B3 5. P-KN3 6. B -N2 7. 0-0 8. R -K1 9. P -K5 10. N -B1 11. B -B4 12. P-KR4 13.P -R3 14.N(1) -R2 15. P -R5 16. Q -B1 17. P-KN4 18. P -N5 19. BEP 20. P -1t6 21. N -N4 `22. BEB 23: B-KB6 24. Q -B4 25. B-KN7 26. Q -B6 27. Bali 28. Q -N5 29. PxP 30. R -K2 31: Q -Q2 32. R -Q1 33. Q -B4 R -K4 35. R -Q4 36. QER 37. Q -K3 38. QxN 39. Q -K3 40. 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All the information will be re- corded in a special register and in this way the whole cycle of the fish can be studied. (Photo Owen Sound office of the Ministry of Natural Resources)•, i Published every Wednesday as the big, action cross-country section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance -Times and The Mount Forest Confederate. Wenger Bros. Limited, publishers, Box 390, Wingham. Barry Wenger, Pres. Robert O. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. Display and Classified ad deadline - Tuesday, week prior to publicat on date. REPRESENTATIVES Canadian Community Newspapers Association, Suite 51, 2 Moor St., West, Toronto 962-4000 Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc., 127 George St., Oakville 884-0184 UP, UP AND -AWAY -A fish is being -lifted up from a special holding pen. It will be weighed, scales will be taken to determine its age and each fish is measured and checked for its sex, spawning condition and wounds. This"is all part of the process at the Denny's Dam Project. (Photo Owen Sound office of the Ministry of Natural Resources) Constant care is required (Continued from front page) through the St. Lawrence River watershed. It first became plenti- ful in Lake Ontario but later be- came abundant in the deeper, cooler waters of the upper lakes as well. Commercial and sport catches in Lake Huron have suf- fered greatly and the lake trout has been almost eliminated. All lampreys are primitive, eel - like animals that differ front the true fishes in that they have no jaws, have no paired pelvic or pectoral fins, have no ribs and completely lack scales. Their mouths are disc-shaped and under -slung and in the predaci- ous species are heavily armoured with rasping teeth. They differ from true fishes in that they have seven pouched gills or pore -like openings behind the head on each side of the body, instead of fringed gills. The lamprey ranges in size from three feet to less than six inches. The lamprey is a fast swimmer and attaches itself to 'the fish by means of the strong, horny teeth and the tongue soon penetrates through the scales of the fish and into the flesh. They remain there unless the fish is large enough to brush the eel off or until it dies from the depletion of body juices or the lamprey itself becomes gutted. The fish that frees itself of this parasite is left with unplea- sant -looking scars. The sea lamprey is born in fresh water and spends most of its life there. It migrates to ,the ocean where it reaches maturity and then returns to the fro h water to spawn. It dies shorn'] after spawning. Sea lampreys move in great numbers in late spring and early summer with the heaviest runs occurring when the water tem- perature reaches about 50 de- grees. The adults seek out a gravel or rubble bottom with a strong current. The female makes a nest by moving stones With her mouth and then she moves slightly ahead .of it and lays her eggs. A female lays an average of 65,000 eggs. They are carried down the stream by the current and flow into the nest. The young lampreys, known as ammocoetes, drift downstream a few days after hatching and burrow themselves into the mud. They remain there for four or five years, getting their food from microscopic animals which they strain out of the water and mud. The new lampreys stay in the big lakes anywhere from a year to 18 months before they return to a stream to spawn. Ontario conservationists have tried many different ways of con- trolling these killers. Mr. Harris explained that at' one time chemical control was used. A yellow chemical was spread in the spawning grounds every three years. The chemical was not harmful for anything else but the lam' rey, but this was a very expensive method. Electrodes running diagonally across a stream and sending out 110 volts of alternating current, are also being used. This barrier creates an electrical field which stuns and sometimes kills lamp- .reys. They are collected each day and destroyed. Vertical Barrier 'At the Saugeen River Sea Lamprey Control Barrier and Fishway, bordering the Chippa- wa Hill Indian reserve; there is, a new system of control being tested. The Denny's Dam Pro- ject, as it is called, consists of a six-inch ,steel plate which over- hangs the dam at a 90 -degree angle. Mr. Harris pointed out that the Saugeen River is an excellent breeding ground for the lamprey due to its swift flowing, rocky nature. It is rated as one of the most productive rearing areas for lampreys. The Federal Department of Fisheries and Forestry, which is in charge of lamprey control, fish's ability to jump.. Aece the rest of the 8uepo qati tie o10 rained by silting' jullaps of one foot or through. portholes at the bottio0 � � l. The' ler5e discour- ages shakers and carp, from en- tering the, fishway. ` 'Thr fish are attracted td the ladder by the heavy flow of water. At the end of the eighth pool, the .fish are put into a holding pen which is lifted regu- larly by an electric hoist. They are then taken to a trete tank for study. Here lamprey are re- moved, and the . fish are mea- sured, weighed and checked for their space condition. and sex. It is here that the filth are tagged or the fins clipped. Experienced staff can do each fish hi less than one minute. When the fish is re- leased it is let go through a wide plastic pipe above the dam. -The lamprey barrier has been very successful and Mr. Harris explainedthat it is much cheaper than the chemical process. "Denny's Dam Project cost $350,- 000 and it is still cheaper than the chemical process," he said. To indicate the success of the project, a graph shows that during the first spring operation in 1971, 420 specimens were cap- tured in the lamprey- trap. In 1972 -only 21 adult lamprey returned while in 1973 the number was re- duced to 49. Success is also shown in the decrease in the scars on the fish. In 1971, 34 per cent of the adult rainbow trout had lamprey - inflicted scars while in the fall of 1973 only three per cent had lamprey wounds. Mr. Harris explained that many more lamprey barriers are being installed on dams'. This is usually done when a dam is being rebuilt or repaired. It is not a spe- cial Oroject of its own. The Saugeen River Sea Lamp- rey Control Barrier and Fishway. carries out many more research projects as do other department, of Fisheries and Forestry ands Ministries of Natural Resources. Fishing involves much more than just putting a worm on a hook and waiting for a tug at the other end. It is a year-round process of preparation, research and preventative measures car- ried out for the fish's protection and the benefit of fishermen. The fish on the end of the line may only take half an hour to catch but its being there represents many hours of work. realized that to erect a lamp- rey. -proof dam in the,lower Saugeen River, would be an answer to .control. "The lamprey can crawl up the dams by using their suction mouth," said Mr. Harris. "They cannot master a 90 -degree angle though." This barrier series the purpose of denying access to adult sea lamprey which migrate up the Orr to spativn. The dam has a belt -in fishway which lifts the trout and salmon across the dam and permits them to get to their spawning sites up the river. The control barrier and fish - way went into operation in 1970 and has . enabled the Sports Fishery Branch to study the rain- bow trout in the Saugeen River. By tagging the fish or clipping their fins, Mr. Harris said that they can study their movements, their life expectancy and their survival and mortality rates. "Every year we clip a different fin on the fish and therefore we can go back and tell what year they went through our fishery," he said. Mr. Harris laughs when he says that the fish are handled in black and white striped wool gloves. "They are the only things we can hang on to them with. The fish are extremely slippery." Rainbow trout, followed by chinook salmon are the main spe- cies which go through the fish - way. The fall of 1971 was the record year for rainbow trout when almost 3,200 were handled. The average size of the rainbow trout passing through the fishway has been 24 inches, With a range of size between 10 - 32 inches and weighing between one and 19 pounds. The salmon are a spec- tacular size. The fish ladder which trans- ports the fish over the dam con- sists of nine progressively higher pools and each pool is seven and one half feet by seven feet. 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