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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-05-06, Page 12100 mph 0-50 in .2 seconds 46.8 mpg* What a combination of performance and economy! The Rabbit is the yardstick by which all small cars can be measured. Each Rabbit comes with a hatchback, 1.6 Itr. Overhead cam engine, steel belted radial tires, rear window defogger and much more. Catch a Rabbit at our place. Don Taylor Motors Limited MAIN STREET SOUTH/235-1100 Wheals shown optional 'According to E PA tests Actuot mi000n rooy vary depending Cr, type of dr,v,no driving F.ah.ts carte, Bond, ion, and ophonot oqwornoot 7 ••••• / • • / 7 / // / The Amazing rabbit EXETER TENNIS CLUB MEM ENS WANTED! No Experience Necessary Advantages of Membership 1. Scheduled court time 3. Family recreation 2. Tennis tips 4. Social events FEES: THIS-SEASON Single - $10 Family - $25 Junior - $5 Registration May 8 *41"11"hveme... Opening Day Mixed Doubles Tournament - May 16 Bill Dinney - 235-0231 REC. OFFICE - 235.0391 ART WHILSMITH - 235.2478 AL RANKIN - 235-2976 DAVE ZYLUK - 235.0328 JANICE PRAYNE 235.1409 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 .1.Roll up your sleeve -V to save a life... BE A BLOOD DONOR Steer This Way BY LARRY SNIDER C.B. radios are becoming so popular that automakers are considering offering them as factory-installed options. If front wheels don't return to the straight-ahead position after your car rounds a turn, the problem may be insuf- ficient positive caster. Time for a front-end alignment. It takes seven gallons of crude oil to make a new tire - only two-and-a-half gallons for a retread, * Why do we drive on the right? It's a pre-automobile practice that goes all the way back to Napoleon. (In Colonial days, horses and carriages .stayed on the left, as in England.) * Women ARE better drivers, ac- cording to a study in Buffalo, N.Y. Males 25-45 make the most errors. Women 45 and up make the least. Survey con- cluded that men drive faster and more aggressively because they think they are better-than-average drivers. * Men drivers, women drivers - ALL get a smoother ride in the well- engineered new (and late model used) tars of Larry Sniders. Come in for a test-ride today. Larry Snider MOTORS LIMITED EXETER 235.1640 LONDON 227.4191 Huron County's Largest Ford beater " The SHDHS badminton club 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. The strictly non-competitive league will likely be operating on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1973 CHRYSLER NEWPORT 4 door, fully equipped, plus automatic air conditioning, one owner new car trade with only 44,267 miles. Will pass your closest inspection. Licence JCT352. $3495 1974 MUSTANG II Hatchback, 6 cylinder, bucket seats, radio, steel belted Radial tires, one owner with only 22,202 miles. Spotless throughout. 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' Starting May 11, every Dave Bogart and Ron Glenn Tuesday will become Men's tied for the lop honors in net Night at Ironwood, with males 16 score, with 76 apiece, edging out and over welcome to play, Jeff Fuller who took second, starting time is between 4:30 and Dave Delbridge's honesty paid 7:00 p.m. off with him winning the most May 13 will see the start of the honest player award, Junior's Tour at Ironwood, with Over 300 people passed through reduced green fees, to $1.50, for the revamped course Saturday, males 16 and under who start taking in the free coffee and between 4:00 and 5:30. 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Equipped with .shadelite glass, bodyside moulding', rear defogger. 4 seasons air- conditioning, sport mirrors, 350 V-8, automatic transmission, steel belted radial whitewalls, dual horns, AM radio, rear seat speaker, deluxe bumpers, rally wheels, auxiliary lighting, pin striping. Serial 415270. List Price $6791.50 SALE PRICE '6030 Page 12 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.