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Al THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MAY 21, 1981
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by Herb Shoveller
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The frustrations
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PRIM
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Thomas J.
Devereaux
25 Goderich St. W.
Seaforth, Ontario
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Res,. 527-1942
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life's ambition to "AV certain .$9lf. .4:10 manufacturers ,.
51.4iPilm4illoss-. His hAbit 1S.' OS*, hill 'it .1i' 44,eauty .to .
,likholA ,Ati. goiters lulOw: ,teef3off...44$ are mur*OckYcjill
reptle4 of balls or .other go y,0444. it.etnOittio *,the
.• r04114. -They 0,, usually i§svIAghe*Wf of ilig.00.4.„ hi5,(gliotiv 0,4 amazing calm 00. IOWA • , .. strides Oer •
to one of these markers itAttrneS. a serous Oiler's, stance. '
and Off on it. This, is after flubbing.-his, own tee shot.
lie-gas through 'a couple of drNers each year. but van
empathize when. he says it `akes turn feel better.
- NO TEMPER
My favourite. though is my older brother. As often
happens in families. sibling& can be as similar as night
,.and day. Well. he just has no temper. With amazing lack
of concern. he -simply smile-when a golf ball or tennis
ball makes a fool of him. But it finally happened.
After a successful front nine one day. we'd just headed
out for a second round. During the first nine, we'd talked
about how consistency is the key to a good golf game, and
that one gains consistency. at least in part. by keeping his
composure. "Like that water hazard here," he says. on the
10th hole, while - continuing- with his level-headed
philosophy. "you can't worry about that. You just pretgud
it's not there. You thinking about it and you're cooked."
Ahhh, it was so nice, after his 25 yard drive into the mud
at the shore of the, pond. to see him go streaking after it in
full -,"ht. club held over his head like an Apache warrior,
and 7ilen proceed to pound the poor ball deep into the
mud. It happens to the best.
I suspect all golfers at some time or other have either
felt the urge or acted upon it. I suspect too, that mastery
over that little White ball is such a satisfying accomplish.
ment that many golfers seem obsessed in the summer.
-I've heard those who say chasing a ball around a field
seems the dumbest thing since the Edsel, but until you've
hit one, screamed at one, sunk one or birdied one, you
really can't understand.
You- may see me there, I'm the one talking to himself.
And it won't be my club around the tree, but I'll know why
it's there.
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tnttilintliksmittt. But now I've Managed to iettiOie" the.
utget. Almost •
If guest ou.ean never completely get rid of a trait like
',, that, though, as 1 tound out when I made thy Qrst visit of
:the season to the golf course last Week.. Believe me,
perhaps more than any other sport. golf is the one where
F.
the player can least effort to lose his cool. And it wasn't
even so much the kind of outburst I once so capably could
perform. But the grumbling and moaning was there. arid
so, on a couple occasions, was the trge to wrap an
offending club around a tree.
In earlier times. I would quite likeh have taken my
frustrations out,pn an innocent tree. It's not something I'm
proud of. but in looking back, some of my early golf
episodes were hilarious.
Beek. Wine,. where I'd return from school in the summer.
there was this quiet little course at a superb riverside
setting. It was a new club, and because of that few golfers
visited back then, which was fine by me.
I'm no great golfer. but when I set my personal par for a
hole one shot about the course's par and stick to it, then I
can usually break par (my own. that is). I don't hit the ball
far, but it is almost always straight. Andl can usually
concentrate long enough to ensure 'my ball gets to where
it's going through the air, rather than hit alleveaming
grass burner which claimes the lives of poor ants, worms
and assorted other creatures of the earth in it's murderous
path. Occasionally, though, that does happen.
PRIDE SUFFERED
When it does I never hurt or maim bystanders. My
clubs and my pride are what suffered in the aftermath.
As I just mentioned. 1 gelerally.hit my drives straight.
but at this little course by the river, there was one hole
" where that became virtually impossible. See, it went along
beside the river. with the edge of the, fairway perhaps 10
yards away. What that meant was if you were a right-hand
shot With a sliee, you brought your scuba equipment to the
course with you. Inevitably, at the hole. I would rediscover
the slice I'd thought I'd put to rest. Ants and worms ne
-longer became my •cictims. !tweed. they were the -
seagulls, ducks and other creatures of the water who
picked the wrong time° for a dip.
LITTLE SHEEP
Anyway. given the right circumstances (little, sl eep,
other problems the vieir -df "ink' ball in its perfect arc
towards the middle of the river made this lad's blood
steam. It finally happened one time too many. Clearly, at
least to this 'momentarily-demented mind, the "logical".
thing to do was 'launch the driver (whose fault it was, of
course) to a watery grave as well, That was four years ago,
and as a matter of self-punishment. the drier haslet
been replaced.
should have taken .the warning issued at the
treacherous number 5 hole that daY. I should have grabbed
my clubs, headed to number 6. and taken whatever score
playing companions wanted to give me (if they could have
calculated it through their hysterical laughter). 1 hadn't
learned the lesson well enough.
FAVOURITE CLUBS
In spite of the river's ominous presence. I somehow
managed finally to make my way to within an approach
shot of the green. Your favourite club should never let you
down. Mine is the nine-iron. and that was what was called
for in this instance on that blackest day in the history of •
golf. Something in this body didn't shift, swivel or turn
when it was supposed to, and instead of a nice. lofty shot
to die when it' hit the green. I hit a 'rope". baseball
terminology for a line drive. I'm sure the ball had a
spiteful Sneer on its face as it zipped over the green -in a
line towards 'territory unknown.
No problem, right. Just go over to your bag, grab
another ball, and do it right: I did that. But ;before did, I
---....-•.........gave-thehagaii-inneeent-two-hander-fronroverthe-hectd —
that would have done a woodchopper proud. It wasn't till a
hole or two later when I reached for my five iron that I
realized the damage done. The wood chop. had snapped it
almost in half and only a couple of twists each way
remained before it was in two pieces. It's foolish, and
wasteful, I know, In one sense thought. it was worth it. It •
hasn't happened since, and I doubt it ever The leSson
was learned. .
Now, l restrict myself to silent verbal abuse tin not too
pretty language) but the only sign of it to spectators might
be occasionally moving lips.
It's far better. more entertaining, to be a spectator.. An
old acquaintance and golfing companion has made it his
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Of course, the Treasurer's
new Budget was the big
news at Queen's Park this
week.
Prior to presentation of his
Budget, -the Treasurer. Mr.
'Frank Miller. who a year ago
gave us a. no-tax-increase
pre-election' economic blue-
prinelhad promised that this
would not be "a sunshine
budget" - an understate-
ment!
As Liberal finance critic
David Peterson pointed out,
'If they (the Tories) had
presented this budget to the
voters of Ontario (they)
would 'have been roundly
defeated.'
With- some-. bitterness,
Michael Cassidy, the NDP
Leader commented: 'It's
clear that the people who
voted Conservative on • the
19th of March got what they
deserved:.. We've had an in-
• ..:crease iota Ices of-$300-ow he
average family...while cor-
porations didn't get a nickel
of increased taxes.'
Calling it the 'fairest...but
not necessarily most popular'
tax, Provincial Treasurer,
Frank Miller. raised Ontar-
io's personal income tax
rates for the first time in
Ontario's history'. The in-
crease, effective July 1st,
amounts to about 5% more
this year and 9% next year.
raising the provincial rate
from 44% of the basic federal
tax to 48% in 1982. He didn't
increase corporate' taxes. ar-
guing that these have al-
ready been raised twice in
the past four years. Since the
personal tax hikes apply for
only the last half of this year.
the effective increase in tthe
rate of 1981 taxpayer's is fi.otn
44% to 46% of the federal
rate. The Treasurer main-
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tamed that the increase still
leaves Ontario taxpayers
third over-all behind first
place Alberta and then Bri-
tish Columbia 'in provincial
tax rates. •
The Treasure* will realize
$232 million this year and
$450 millioni n 1982 from the
increase. •
There is to be a gasoline
tax hike of about four cents a
gallon (almost one cent a
litre)', effective 'May 19th,
and this tax is now based on
price rather than on volume.
The new ad valorem tax base
means that taxes rise every
time the price goes up. This
is a tax raising device well
known. in • Britain and else-
where as 'value added tax',
which is applied as a percen-
tage of the retail price of an
item. rather than a fixed
amount.
David Peterson criticized
the change to ad valorem
calling-la-verrsnealry-mary---
oeuvre ...profiteering on,th e
fact that the 'majority of
consumers don't know who's
getting what out of the oil
dollar, and saying that On-
tario may make more than
Alberta on gasoline.
An average motorist using
600 gallons a year will have
to pay an additional $24. due
to the higher tax.
While government spend-
ing is to increase about
12.2% there are, few new
programs.
Health spending will in-
crease 13.4% to $5.6 billion.
Aid to local governments
increases "10.6% to $4.7 bil-
lion. Theoitip will get bullet-
proof vests, at a cost of S3.3
million; There is to be about
S20 million more for day
."'care. Another $20 million will
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