HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-06-29, Page 69Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, June 29, 1983—Page 17b
Make NHL...
'from page 16b
players" although the game
was entirely foreign to their
Chinese ancestry.
More recently two young
men who played their minor
hockey in Lucknow have
made the ranks of the
National Hockey League.
Paul Henderson, while a
member of the Toronto Map-
le Leafs, played an important
role in Canada's defeat of
Russia in the first ever world
hockey tournament in 1972.
All Canada stood still in the
dying minutes of the last
game in Russia when Hend-
erson scored the goal to give
the Canadians their win.
David Farrish is currently
playing for the Maple Leafs.
He has added stability to the
defense of the team and
contributed significantly to
the Leafs' success in enter-
ing the first round of playoffs
this past season; the first
time they have made the
playoffs in several years.
Curling and bowling had
their place, and tennis at one
time, two score years or so
ago, was a popular game.
In 1909 the Lucknow "Big
Four" of curling, Jas. Bryan,
George H. Smith, J. G.
Murdoch and Robert John-
ston, won the diamond jubi-
lee tournament at Fergus.
Curling continued in popul-
arity until the building of the
arena in 1937, when ,the ice
demands for hockey and
skating ruled out any chance
of having a suitable surface
for the exponents of the
game of "Sup-er-up". Today
there are few "rocks" in the
Village and just as few who
still take a whirl at the game
occasionally in neighbouring
towns.
Lawn bowling continues in
popularity and the greens at
the old "Victoria Park" or
"Market Square", are kept
in first class shape, and most
any suitable summer evening
you may see the trundlers
performing. The clubhouse,
destroyed byfire a couple of
years ago, was rebuilt and
modernized.
Other diversities in the
realm of sport included "the
silent game", engaged in by
checker enthusiasts a few
years back, and long before
that the Fish Club, with its
"Old Shebang" headquar-
ters. Today the "lost art" of
checker playing has been re-
placed by cribbage.
Cycling also had its day,
and competitions were stag-
ed as long as seventy years
ago from Lucknow to God-
erich. In 1884 A. Grenache
set the record time for the
trip - 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Quite popular as a fall and
winter sport is five -pin bowl-
ing with weekly games at the
Lucknow Bowling Alley. Sev-
eral leagues participate in-
cluding a senior citizen's
league. Originally the bowl-
ing league organized in 1950
was comprised of 12 teams
from the Lucknow-Dungan-
non area and they played on
the Wingham alleys.
Tennis is enjoying a reviv-
al since the Lucknow Kins-
sem 0'i%":
Members of the Lucknow Novice , hockey team, in 1968
included from the left, front, Grant Gilchrist, David
Errington, Tom Shiflett, Randy Alton, Steve Hamilton,
Shawn Dalton, Jay Passmore and Craig Treleaven, and
back, Left, Leo Courtney, manager, Tammy Forster, Rick
Howald, Mike Hackett, Randy Ackert, Edward Courtney,
Rod Simpson, Stan Loree, John MacLeod, Pat Murray and
Ron Alton, coach. [Contributed by Al Hamilton]
men Club spearheaded a pro-
ject to build tennis courts
next to the bowling green in
1979. A children's tennis
tournament is being played
the weekend of the Jamboree
'83 celebrations and the
plans are underway to sched-
ule tennis lessons and to
form a tennis club.
"FINA BELL"
Modern technology in the
work place has provided man
with more leisure time and
indeed leisure and recrea-
tional activities have become
an industry.
A history of sport in the
Sepoy Town would be remiss
without mention of the sig-
nificant contribution William
Hunter has made in the
unoffical capacity as recrea-
tion director, a position he
assumed full time officially,
June 1.
Bill has worked close to 20
years without remuneration
to organize ball and hockey
schedules, coaching teams in
both sports, supervising the
Lucknow swimming pool and
the Lucknow Arena. Only in
the past two years did he
receive any reimbursement
to offset his out of pocket
expenses.
The four municipalities of
West Wawanosh, Ashfield,
Kinloss and Lucknow are
co-operating to fund several
services to the village and
recreational programs have
been part of this co-operation
for several years. They joint-
ly appointed Hunter Luck -
now and District Recreation
Director and he will be
responsible for all recreation-
al programs in all four muni-
cipalities as well as the
scheduling of time at the
Lucknow Arena and the
managing of the Lucknow
Swimming Pool. For the first
time, he will be paid for his
services and the four munic-
aplities will share the costs.
—Taken from The Story of
Lucknow - A Century in
Retrospect edited and com-
piled by Campbell and Marg-
aret Thompson with an up-
date by Sentinel editor Shar-
on Dietz.
O/Ace
0/
7/e
fl?ajor
TO THE PEOPLE OF L UCKNO W
FROM THE PEOPLE OF KINCARDINE
Congratulations, HappyAnniversary
1858 to 1983
It is with great pleasure that I extend greetings to you on behalf
of the people of the Town of Kincardine.
From a mill and a dam built and operated by Mr. J. Eli Stauffer
in 1856 to the Municipality we know today certainly is proof of 125
years of successful progress.
I feel certain Kincardinites will be over to join in with your
celebrations and I hope some of you will find time to join us since we
are also celebrating Kincardine's 1 25th Anniversary the same weekend.
Once again,
"24/4 ere
HAPPYANNIVERSAR Y!
Charles W. Manu
re
Mayo r
()sill:, a c -e