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POLITICIANS TAKE TO THE GREENS - It was the official opening
for the Ironwood Golf Course Saturday and who should be there to
break in the fairways and greens, but our own local government
leaders. From the left: Dave Ferguson, golf pro and designer of the
course, Walter McBride, Reeve of Usborne, Bruce Shaw, Mayor of Ex-
eter, and Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron-Middlesex.
T- A photo by Robinson
DERRY BOYLE, LEFT, chats with two trophy winner rred
Mommersteeg Jr. Mommersteeg, son of Hawks manager Fred
Mommersteeg, picked both the rookie of the year award and the most
improved player award at the Hawks banquet held April 30.
T-A photo.
Saturday's rain forced a slow
start of the first open tournament
at Ironwood golf club, but
clearing skies around noon
allowed over 70 players to take
part in the nine hole tournament.
The tournament was divided in
two, with a junior tournament for
players under 16 being held
simultaneously.
Mike Cushman of Exeter took
the low gross score with a 40, two
strokes better then Charlie
Glenn. Paul Van Gerwen and
Terry Price were third, shooting
45 each and Don Gifford, one
stroke back again and Wayne
Brunzlow with a 48 took fourth
and fifth spots in the tournament.
Glen Kadechuk, Exeter, took
top honors in the score category,
shooting a 74. Barry Southcott
and Larry Bourne each shot 74
for second and third spots with
Maynad Maggison with 75 and
Bill Brock and Dan Lewis with 76
rounding out the top contendors.
Bob Mackie was judged to be
the most honest player in the
tournament.
In the junior tournament Kevin
Gilmour of Lucan finished with a
41 to handily take the gross score
segment, well ahead of Dave
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wound up its season last week,
with over 50 people taking part in
play at the peak registration
period.
The club played every Thur-
sday in the SHDHS gymnasium,
with the finals in a double
elimination tournament being
held April 29.
Jill Tuckey took the Jr. Girls
singles, when she defeated Lynne
Brooks 11-9, 11-5, and Paul Pooley
took the Jr. Boys by defeating
Randy Parsons 15-1, 15-5.
Senior Girls was won by Cheryl
Chapman, beating Mary War-
burton 11-1, 11-1, and Senior Boys
by Tony Kyle who beat Tom
Read 15-1, 15-5.
In Girls Doubles' play, Brooks
and Tuckey took top honors by
heating Jayne Dougall and Mona
Hodgins, 15-5, 15-3.
The Junior Boys Doubles went
to Perry and Paul Pooley, who
beat Braden Whilsmith in two
close contests, 18-15 and 15-11.
Kirkton bail
season starts
The Kirkton Men's Slowpitch
Softball league kicks off its
season May 13 with two games, at
7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
The early game puts the Expos
and Royals together and the
second has the Cards and the
Tigers meeting one another in
their first game.
Chapman and Sheila Snider
combined to win the senior Girls
Doubles, beating Val Sweet and
Judy .Miller 15-8 and 15-7 after
losing the second match 15-12.
Kyle and Scott Boyle took the
Senior Boys Doubles beating
Perry Preszcator and Tom Read
15-2, 15-12.
Tuckey and Parsons took two of
the three games from Brooks and
Paul Pooley to win the Junior
Mixed crown, winning 15-10 and
15-5, losing the second match 15-7.
Chapman and Kyle beat Sweet
and Read for the Senior Mixed
title, winning 15-8 and 15-5.
Costs up for
Ree softball
The cost of fielding a team for
recreation league softball will be
up this year, possibly to as high
as $175 per learn.
The increase is due to the
higher diamond rental costs
expected when the RAP budget is
brought down and the increased
Humber of playoff games.
The rec league, which had its
maiden season last year, is in-
tending to field at least six teams
this year for the season which
will tentatively open in mid-May.
RAP director Jim McKinlay
will take applications for teams
up to May 10 when they will be cut
off to allow the drawing up of a
schedule.
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70 play in two tournaments
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Times-Advocate, May 6, 1976
By LtIGH ROBINSON
Baseball was always my favorite sport. When Fred
Youngs asked me to do a guest column for this week's T-A
my first reaction was to back off.It's been a good decade
since I followed the old eight team American and National
Leagues and with all the expansion that has taken place
since, I got scared at the prospect of trying to fill one of
Fred's spacious columns. I don't even know the names of all
the teams! But in the interest of variety (which they say is
the spice of life) I decided to try it anyway.
I got all my baseball knowledge back in Tiger town, the
Motor City - sometimes known as Detroit,
My hereos were guys like Al Kaline, Harvey Keunn, and
Charlie "Paw Paw" Maxwell. Strange that they were all
outfielders, but then I always liked the outfield where a
fellow could kind of take it easy and meditate on the play
far away in the infield. If you were lucky, you might play on
a diamond where there were lots of shade trees out there in
the outfield and it made the meditating all the better.
It was great. You could really get the feel of the game.
Standing there in your own piece of solitude, you could go
back over the events of two innings ago or begin to look
forward to your next time at bat, Another reason why I lik-
ed the outfield was because that was where they always put
me, so I learned to like it. I don't know what their reasoning
was exactly, but I think some of the guys who used to boss
the "pick-up" games on a vacant lot didn't think I had what
it takes to be an infielder,
But that was okay, because I really did learn to love the
outfield, and if my throws were sometimes a little wild, I
could always blame it on the distance that the ball had to
travel to get there.
There were a lot of memories attached to a particular
summer in 1959. I was about 11 at the time and Queen Eli-
abeth was touring the U.S. in a yacht. I saw her waving
along with Prince Philip. They were out in the middle of the
Detroit River and I was on Belle Isle.
It was the summer that my grandfather, who was blind,
and my cousin, the latter from Parkhill, and the former
from Ailsa Craig, came down to Detroit for a visit. They
both loved baseball. They stayed half the summer.
We went to a ball game at Tiger Stadium (they called it
Briggs Stadium then). That was an experience. The Tigers
were playing the Yankees in a novelty night game. I think
the final score was 9-8, and Mickey Mantle hit a three-run
homer and 'Old Paw Paw" managed a grand slammer.
If you can imagine two 11-year olds sitting to either side
of their blind grandfather and trying to explain to him what
was going on in the game with a crowd roaring behind and
all around us. you can get an appreciation for what my poor
grandfather went through. Actually he probably enjoyed the
game even more than we did, even though he had to wait to
hear the final report on the radio next day.
More than anything else, it was the atmosphere at the
ball park in the dead heat of summer with aromas of "red
hots" and pop corn burning in your nose that gave the whole
thing a mystique that transcended nine men on a field, a
ball and a bat. The game involved the crowd with all its
ever-lasting enthusiasm. It was the heat and the night, a
few stars, and perhaps even those exhaust fumes exhaling
out of shiny new autos built in the Motor City a few long
blocks and many light years away.
Aside from attending the odd major league game and
playing ball in sand lots, alley ways, backyards,
playgrounds, and once in a while, even a regulation ball dia-
mond, there were a lot of other complicated rituals in-
volved with my favorite sport.
For instance, there were variations on the game, such
as step baseball, For this simple game, one required only a
bouncy sponge rubber ball (which cost 26 cents at the local
drug store) and some steps. Without going into a complete
rundown on the countless innings of play, I will suffice it to
say that it was a good game to play when other equipment
wasn't available and time was short, say five minutes
before the tardy bell went off to begin school.
And there was catch, involving a t the minimum, two
players a ball and two cherished leather mitts. I used to
play this game with my cousin from Parkhill on his farm,
You never saw two guys make so many spectacular catches
in your whole life. One guy would throw the ball way the
heck up there and the other guy would run like the devil to
get under it, even if it meant running through a screen door
or into a misplaced elm tree.
There was an old water pump 'nearby (its still there)
and nothing tasted better than a drink of cool cool well
water after a half hour of non-stop runnin' and catchin'. We
drank it by the dipper-full.
In addition to actively pursuing our favorite sport, my
cousin and I spent a whole lot of time discussing it. Between
the two of us, we knew the last year's batting averages of
every one in each league. Tom concentrated on the National
and I on the American. We'd play a little game when told by
our parents to calm down before making crazy fools of
ourselves out there in all that hot sun, where we would sit
on the porch and mention initials and see if the other guy
could guess the player in so many questions.
For instance, V.W. wasn't a foreign car, it was Vic
Wertz, who played first base for Cleveland. F.M. was for a
pitcher by the name of Felix Mantilla, who kept getting
traded all the time.
Speaking of trades, that was the basis for another
baseball ritual, trading cards. I used to wander down to
Joe's beer and wine store, located on Plymouth Road. Of
course the cards came with gum and if I had just gotten my
allowance, you could see me sitting with my friends behind
a huge billboard, drinking a great big R.C. Cola (they had
just started making them in 16 ounces) and thawing on
about three pounds of gum while sorting through"tradesies
and keepsies".
There was only one year when I got the entire Tiger
team, including all the special series cards that went along
with it, but that one year was at least as exciting as when I
fell in love for the first time, some two years later, Sitting
on a milk crate behind a billboard behind Joe's beer and
wine store, I never thought I'd see the day when I would fall
in love with anything other than a new outfielder's glove,
But of all those cherished, growing more distant every
day, memories, I remember my grandfather best, He loved
the game more than anybody, exceptin' maybe Babe Ruth.
When we would come up to Ailsa Craig for a visit, there
was only one place that he would be in the summer time and
that was out on the cool front porch on his favorite comfor-
table old couch. He'd be smoking some Half and Half in his
favorite hickory pipe and he'd be listening to Mel Ott broad-
cast the ball game. Sometimes my dad would come in and
sit, next to his dad and listen along. And grandpa would
smile when the crowd roared at a fantastic Kaline catch or
a clutch single by Rocky Brigges, a distant cousin of his,
Mostly I think of my grandpa when I think of baseball
and since he passed away almost ten years ago now, X don't
really pay too much attention to the players' names
anymore, But I'll, always love baseball - it's in my blood.