The Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-04-21, Page 3HIGHLIGHTS
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HIGH SCHOOL
Thp Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, April 21, JbW
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be surprised to learn how little
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Whew! Well the ordeal is over and
here we are enjoying holidays' that
we have looked forward to through
all these gruellingweeks of study. Of
course, we don’t have any results yet
but some of us have a fairly good
idea "what to expect. The aspirin sales
in this town may boom shortly.
Speaking of aspirins reminds.us of
the terrible thing that has happened
to the teachers. (Chuckle, chuckle.)
All through these beautiful spring
days our over-worked teachers have
to stay in and mark those reeking
papers.
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Of course, they can put it over on
us by stashing themselves away
some place and thus leading us to
believe that they are marking exam
papers.They know by instinct that it
will be curtains for them if they ap
pear in public at any time this week
and then inform us Monday morning
that the papers are not yet finished.
Don’t worry too much though, dear
teachers, because we know you de
serve a holiday the same as anybody
else. We darling little students will
probably get in your hair just as bad
after holidays as we did before.
We have a little reminder for you,
teachers, If we don’t pull through
this year, you’ll have to put up with
us again next fall. Grim thought isn’t
it?
Catherine Keating
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GOLF
This year the game of golf is of
ficially twp hundred years old. We
say ’‘officially’’ because the oldest
known code of rules is that drawn
up by the. Royal and Ancient Golf
Club of St. Andrews in May, 1754.
There are, however, historical refer
ences tQ prove that the game was
played centuries before that. In 1457
and . 1471 the Scottish Parliament
passed edicts prohibiting the playing
of “fute-ball, golfe, or uther sik un-
profitabill sportis.”
Scholars claim that the game is
actually of Dutch origin; since the
Scotch imported their best balls from
Holland and since our word “golf”
can be traced back to the Middle maker, pouncing delightedly upon this,
ruthlessly cutting out the emotional
word “misfortune”, and going on to
give each little phrase the full treat*-
ment of amplification, explanation,
modification, and interpretation.,
A game as old as golf should be
Conscious of its origin and its tra
ditions. Those first thirteen rules
should be posted in every club house,
When golf wab first played at St.
Andrews, it was a nine-hole game;
there were no greens as we under
stand them to-day (indeed, the rules
still state that “the putting-green is
all grpund, except hazards, within
twenty yards of th® hole being play
ed”) ; and the teeing-off spot was any
place within a club length of ‘ the pre
vious hole. One of the great innova
tions in early gplf was the change
from the nine-hole to the eighteen-
hole game, This was done at first
simply by playing the original nine
holes in order and then playing them
again in reverse order; number ten
was number nine in reverse, number
eleven was number eight in reverse,
and so on, Two cups were sunk in
each green, and the “out” holes were
distinguished by red flags and the
“in” holes by white on^s.
Dutch word “kplf”. It is likely that
some form of golf has been played
In almost every uge- One can imagine
shepherd boys in Biblical times play
ing a crude form of the gamp with
small stones and crooked sticks.
At any rate-pur modem game is
based on the thirteen original St. And
rews rules made two hundred years
ago- To-day, pf course, life js not as
simple as it was then and those thir
teen rules have been expanded to a
present code of twenty-three
tions, sixty three rules, and
regulations regarding clubs,
local rules, and the Etiquette
game.
Compared with the modern adapta
tions these original rules may be
vague and inconclusive, but they do
have a brevity, a straightforward
ness, and an almost personal touch
that we find appealing. One of the
longest is Rule Eight, which reads:
‘♦If you should lose your ball by its
being taken up or any other way, you
are to go back tp the spot where you
struck last and drop another ball and
allow your adversary a stroke for the
misfortune.”
We can see the present-day rule
Most c»f the above information has
been culled from GOLF (Its Rules and
Decisions) by Richard S. Francis, with
some assistance from WORJD ORIG
INS by Wilfred Funk and the EN
CYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.
GOLF is available in the Wingham
Public Library, It is the most read
able and entertaining book of rules
we have ever encountered. The auth
or’s method is to state a rule, make
a clear and sensible comment on it,
and-
and
Golf
Golf
■will
he really knows about the rules and
their interpretations.
Consider, for example, these ques
tions, Do the rules reco^iize any dif
ference between “fairway” and
“rough”? May a player move or bend
branches or grass in order to make a
cleaner hit of his ball? Is a player al
lowed to lift his ball from the green
to remove mud sticking to it? May a
player ask for and receive advice
from an opponent?
The answer to all these questions
is NO. Most of the rules and interpre
tations in the book would indicate
that the penalties for breaking the
rules of golf are much stiffer than
the average golfer realizes—or wants
to realize.
Mrs. Norman McLaughlin, newly
elected president, presided at the April
meeting of the Wingham Branch of
the Women’s Institute.
Thank-you notes Were read from
several shut-ins and hospitalized mem
bers for remembrances of fruit, flow
ers and cards received, A letter from
the Mental Health Association for
help in their work of mercy was
read. Many Institute branches are
carrying on this very worthwhile pro
ject by means of the penny roundup.
Mrs. W. Henry, secretary-treasurer,
reported a .successful year financially
and reports of the standing commit
tees were given as follows: agriculture
and Canadian industry, by Mrs. R.
Campbell; health and home economics,
Mrs. J. Henry; citizenship and educa7
tion, Mrs. H. Burrell; historical re
search and current events, Mrs. N.
Keating and community activity and
public relations, Mrs. J. Halliday. The
district annual meeting was announc
ed for May 19th, to be held at Bel
grave. Delegates appointed to attend
this meeting were Mrs. A. Green, Mrs.
C. Hopper and Mrs. O. Haselgrove.
The district president, Mrs. Durnin
Philips of Dungannon, was present
and addressed the meeting, using as
her subject “The Importance of Put
ting First Things First”. She question-
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cd if all the mad rushing about we
indulge in Were really worthwhile,
and used as an example pf complete
contentment, the share croppers in
the cotton fields down in the State of
Mississippi, who have so very little
and yet they are satisfied, We, who
live In a wonderful country like Can
ada with all its beauty and privileges
do not, as a rule, really appreciate
our many blessings, “Happiness,” she
stated “ is said to lie in a state just
between having too much and too
little.” Mrg. Phillips brought to the
attention of the meeting a decision,
made last fall at the Tally at Corrie,
to establish a fund to be used for U
Huron County scholarship. This fund
would require a donation of $70.00
from each Branch in the district.
The roll call was answered by a
current event.
A very fine collection of old glass
and a few choice pieces of fine china,
including two very lovely heirloom!
of bronze lustre, were on display and
gave added interest to a paper* on
“The Beauty of Old Glass” given by
Mrs. N. Keating, Mrs, Keating -also
recommended that the ladies take five
minutes at each meeting to study and
discuss articles published in the Fed
erated News, in order,, that they may
keep .in touch with the activities of
the Women’s Institute.
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