HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1948-07-28, Page 8sane diagnosis of the dormant status
of the day and the apparent reason
fur the slump and the ways and means
to place Winghatn back In the fore,
front of sporting fraternity. An "old
timer" myself born in your beloved
community, reared and cradled upon
your very door step, perhaps a few
reminiscences might be tolerated by
your readers, refreshed from a retentive
memory dealing with the early sport-
Mg history of your town.
I knew thrifty Old Wingham as
the must hustling and sportiest town
in North-Eastern Huron and the pages
of my memory have kept a panoramic
record of yOur civic and sporting pro-
gress from 1885; when as a freckled
faced, red haired, barefooted, knee
knickered urchin of 10 summers,
hitch-hiked, walked and ran all the
way to y your magnetic sport centre,
to. be in attendance at your 24th of
May Sports Celebration, which feat-
ured a sparkling card of harness rae.-
ing, baseball and foot ball.
Transportation and lack of the elus-
ive penny, not even the lack of shoes
or an unwashed face could deter we
youngsters from reaching a sport cen-
tre of such magnetism. Your card of
horse races was an eye opener and an
inspiration to the larger cities.
Your contest prizes drew horses
from the best stables within a radius
of 500 miles, The Gobels of Waterloo,
The Oberholtzers of Berlin, the Sea-
grams of Toronto, The Myles of St.
Marys Were ever in attendance with
their famous colours.
For Wingliam and her pioneer con-
tribtftion to the spot of kings, many
of your older residents will recall two
outstanding figures, who did ,so much
to establish harness racing in your
town. J. A. Swarts, who at that era
owned and operated "The Swarts Hot-
el" and Richard (Dick) Roach, the
then noted horseman and trainer. Mr.
Swarts was an experienced horseman
of his ,own right at that period, owning
and developing many money making
track In rses.
Perhaps the two outstanding of her
products out of a host of others were:
Harold H., a sleek natty little trotter,
15 hands high of import breeding, who
at that period putting most of the oth
er horses on the circuit in the shade
and was bringing many dollars ino the
coffers of his owner. The other money
maker was, ''Two Strikes" a big rangy
steel gray, revealing ribbing sides and
high hip bones; standing approximate-
ly 17 hands high.
His track prowess entailed his stay-
;i1g 1,,wers on a heavy track and his
far reaching strides, which carried I
him much faster than he appeared to
be going.
There is an interesting saga behind
the career of "Two Strikes." one day I
a local fanner drove up to the Swarts
hostel with a team of horses attaelietH
'to a wa,;:no. sheltering his team in i
the Swart , barn during his brief stay
in town.
Tre proprietor, (Mr. Swarts), al
way: At the alert for prospective horse
flesh, strolling past the well filled!
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LETTER TO EDITOR i
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Melville, Sask., July 18th, 1048
"The Wingham Advance-Times"
Dear Editor:
I trust you may not think me too
intrusive in edging in upon your recent
Editoriay dealing with "Old Timers"
comments on the decadence of the
dominant sporting spirit of Wingham
of the old days.
I was very much interested in your
stalls in his shelter, was attracted by a
team of outstanding contrast, occupy -
nig one of the stalls, one of the pair
was an ordinary low set type of Bel-
gian clyde, of the plow type, its mate
was a slim clean 'boned, rangy road-
ster, a steel gray, standing' about 17
hands in height.
M, Swarts was quick to evaluate
the makings of a track horse as an
addition to his stable. So hunting the
owner up he soon convinced him that
that type of light roadster was not
the class of horse for the plow and
farm truck and offered the farmer
$50.00 spot cash for the prospective
race sulkey.
This offer may appear small to pre-
sent day horsemen, but 1 • can assure
my readers I have seen many good
common farm horses front 10 to 15
years of age, change hands for $10.00
to $25.00 on Wins of over production
in horse flesh. Anyway Mr, Swarts
became the immediate owner of this
freak roadster and under the coddling
and care of Dick Roach his trainer,
became a big money beside Harold
H. on the Western circuit,
As a fitting sequel this Episode and
one which gave me great delight and
satisfaction permit me to relate that
some ten j,ears later, when I- had
adopted the prairies as my future
home, while attending a sports pro-
gram at River Park, Winnipeg attend-
ing the spring race meet, whom did I
see loom up before me in one of the
events but Dick Roach on the sulkey;
coming down the rome stretch guiding
the winner Harold H.
Later the same day I again saw
"Dick" and his versatile trotter in a
matched race with a human competi-
tor, Alf Schrub the noted long distance
runner from London, England, who
had come to Western Canada to, com-
pete against such notables as John D.
Marsh and Tom Longboat celebrat-
ed Cree Indian. Needless to say the
race which was for the 3 mile distance
was won easily by the horse.
W. J. McLeod.
BELGRAVE
Last Tuesday night the Married
Men vs. the Single Men for a thrilling
and exciting softball game. The Mar-
ried Men winning 27-17.
Miss Norma Nethery of Hamilton,
is spending her vacation at Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Cook's.
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THE WINGHAM ADVANCE,TI1VIES
Wednesday, July 28, 1948
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Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper and Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Hopper attended the
Rath reunion at Springbank on Satur-
day.
Mr. and Mts. Lyle Hopper visited
with friends at Ingersoll and Port
Burwell over -the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wheeler have
moved to their new home in Blyth.
Another exciting softball game was
held in the telgrave park between the
Marrieind andcocuev HP, oubh
Single and Married Men, the latter
were again victorious with a score of
26-16.
Last Friday Mr. Jack Armstrong
left for Sashatchewan, where he-'will
spend its vacation.
Mr and ,Mrs, Jones and daughters
of London, are visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mts. Sack McCallum.
'United Church
The 'Minister will conduct services
at Itelgrave and Brick Chttrehes on
Sunday, Aug. 1st.
The 'Minister and his family will
leave on Wednesday, Aug. 4th for
Toronto where they will spend their
vacation. ,.?„,
The schedule for the remaining Sun-
days of August will be gas follows.
Aug'. 8th, free Sunday; Aug. 166, the
Brick group in charge of both services,
Aug. 22nd, Triple V Class of the Bet-
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'vices; Aug. 20th, to be arranged,
Mist Dorothy Nethery of Hamilton,
is vacationing with Mr. and Mrs, Tel-
f red Cook.
Last week-end George Cook went
on a business trip to Toronto.
The annual picnic of the Happy
Heart Mission Band was held last
Thursday at the home of their leader,
Mrs, Earl Anderson, on the fifth line
of ,Morris. The afternoon' was enjoy-
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ball and the younger one played games
There was a perfect attendance of
members, and also friends. At the
close of the day the children were re-
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Mr. and. Mrs. Leonard Coyne of
Windsor, are spending a couple of
weeks **Ali Mr. and Mrs. 'Calvin Rob.
'bison and are also, visiting friends and relatives iti and around tielgrave.
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