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Exeter seniors take flr�t In Trl-county Senior Ganies
Above, opening
ceremonies for the Tri
County Senior Games
horseshoe pitching com-
petition were held last
Tuesday at the Jack
Gaiser Memorial pits in
Dashwood. From the left
are Hay township deputy
reeve Jim Love, horse-
shoe chairman Bill Cole-
man and Stephen town-
ship reeve Bill Weber.
Ron Dann and Exeter
Mayor, Ben Hoogen-
boom, shown at right,
light the torch that
burned brightly for the
Tri -County District Onta-
rio Senior Games on
Monday and Tuesday. Ex-
eter placed first and will
send four seniors to the
Provincial Senior
Games in August.
Pigeons race 500 miles
By Al de Haan
LUCAN - Recently the Lucan Homing Pigeon
Club held their special, annual race: the Clarence
Hardy Memorial. This race is flown from Gr. Mere,
Quebec, and is open to members from other clubs
whose lofts are located at least 425 miles from Gr.
Mere.
A guaranteed first prize of $500 attracted entries
from London, Woodstock, Stratford, Tillsonburg,
St. Thomas, and of course, Lucan. A total of 98 pi-
geons were entered in this special race.
The weather was close to ideal when these birds
were released at Gr. Mere at I a.m. According to
eye -witnesses, the pigeons quickly homed in on
their range and were soon leaving Quebec and head-
ing for home: Ontario.
What scoring a hole -in -one is to a golfer is what
getting a 500 -mile day -bird is to a pigeon racer. The
Smith brothers from London, along with fellow -
Londoners Martin vanden Plas and Whitey McDo-
nald, had that pleasure, as did Gord Lautenschlager
from New Hamburg, John Koekman from Stratford,
and our own Norm Hardy from the Lucan club. The
Smith loft win was remarkable in that last year they
also won this big race. (Is is said that the Smith
birds seldom suffer from respiratory problems).
Norm Hardy's day -bird placed fifth in the open
race and first in the Lucan club race. The next
morning Norm clocked a pigeon that took second,
and local flyer Al de Haan had one come home at 8
a.m. that captured third place. Jim Whitworth was
fourth; Tom Hardy fifth and sixth and Mitch
Sczcech seventh.
A "shorter" race was held the same day from
Cornwall, Ontario, a distance of 360 miles. These
birds were released at 8 a.m., and the winning pi-
geon, owned by Jim Whitworth from the Forest
area, reached its home loft 10 hours and seven min-
utes later. Al de Haan came in second; Jim Southern
from Kerwood took positions three, four and seven,
and Norm Hardy. in position five, nosed out neph-
ew Tom who placed sixth. The weather resulted in
satisfying race results.
Nal Snoddy, Mike Under-
hill and Marshall and
Marion Dearing won
gold medals at the Tri -
county games and will
represent our com-
Inunity at the Provincial
Senior games In August.
EXETER - For the first time in
11 years Exeter placed first in the
Tri -County
District Senior Games on June 17
and 18.
Approximately 560 seniors from
37 municipalities in Huron -Perth -
Middlesex competed in 17 events
over the two days.
This year, the games were hosted
locally by Exeter, Grand Bend,
Grand Cove Estates, Dashwood,
Zurich and Hensall.
Exeter led the games with the
highest number of participants (38)
and won top community honors
Ironwood
AttiliMINWR
June 22
First Haydn Gozzard
Sid Daley
Wilmer Ferguson
Don Ross
42
46
47
185
Second Al Preece 43
(tie) Ken Hermann 45
Bill Schaefer 53
Gib Dow
195
Second Don Cowan 42
(tie) Ken Hockey 48
Lloyd Robison 52
Bud Preszcator S,
195
Fourth Andy DeBoer 45
Sandy Trap 49
Bill Thompson 50
Rob Dobson 52
196
Fifth Jim Steen 43
Mike Barclay 50
Cord Club 52
Joe Regier 53.
198
Closest to pin: Don Cowan, #4; Al
Preece, #7
June 3
Low gross
A fit. Joan Heywood 45
Lynne Farquhar
Pat Fletcher
Rt. Ruth Mercer -Ross 43
C fit. Marlene Parsons 45
D fit. Mary Lou Hyde 67
Birdies: Carolyn Gilfillan (2), #7;
Anne Prout (2), #4
Skins: A&B - Lynne Farquhar (6),
Carolyn Gilfillan (7); C&D - Mar-
lene Parsons (1,3,6), Julie O'Neill
(2), Anne Prout (4)
Bingo balls: Jean Rudderham (75),
Sharon Steciuk (49)
Pot of gold: A&B - Kathy Camp-
bell; C&D - Lisa Taylor
with 109 points; the first time since
the Barnes began in 1985. Second
place went to Zurich with 63
points.
The rust place award has previ-
ously gone to Mitchell, who
clinched it nine times and to Strat-
ford who won it twice.
Exeter winners were: Marshall
and Marion Dearing, who took gold
in carpet bowling. Hal Snoddy
won gold in golf and snooker. Au-
drey MacGregor won gold in
women's prediction swim and gold
in womens' sprint swim. Mike Un-
derhill placed first in mens' (55-64)
prediction swim and mens' (55-64)
sprint swim. Silver medals went to
Lawrence Russell who placed sec-
ond in mens' (over 65) sprint
swim, Ray Warner and Harry Put -
tock in darts and Ray Smith and
Mike Underhill for their second
place finish in Euchre. '
The gold medal winners will ad-
vance to the provincial champion-
ships called Actifest '96 held in
richmond Hill on August 26, 27
and 28."
We're really pleased to see Exet-
er seniors take number one in the
games," said Lynne Farquhar, di-
rector for the South Huron Recrea-
tion Centre. "Marshall, Marion, Hal
and Mike deserved to go to the
provincials and I'm sure they'll
represent our community well,"
she added.
Father and
sore team win
pairs tourney
EXETER - The Exeter Legion
sponsored a Mena' Pairs Tourna-
ment at the Exeter Lawn Bowling,
Club on Wednesday.
Teams frorn three London clubs
including Seaforth, stratford, St
Marys and Exeter participated.
Peter McFalls and his son Jason
captured first prize with three wins
and 53+4. Second place went to
Norm Welsh from the London
Fairmont Club with 3W 53.
Third went to Ron Jones of Lon-;
don Elmwood with a score of 3
wins 39.
Consolation prize went to Henry
Drachenberg and Bob Thompson
of Exeter with I win 43+5.
In a recent tournament in Bob-
caygen, Bob Thompson, Doris
Hackney and Jack Hill won the
trophy along with the first place ,
finish.
In mixed pairs action Seaforth on
Saturday, Thompson and Hackney
finished second with three wins
and 42+4. Roy Treibner and Au-
drey Burrows were fourth with
three wins and 36.
In Mitchell, Gloria McFalls and
barb Triebner placed third with
two wins and 42+2 in a ladies pait
tournament. Peter McFalls and
Roy Triebner won the mens pairs ;
tournament on sunday with three
wins and 45.
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at press time.
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