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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-08-10, Page 7By Lots Gibbings One of the busiest sessions of buying, selling and claiming Clinton area horses this week has provided many changes. Lorne Tyndall lost his seven-year-old pacing mare Irisha Hanover in a $10,000 claiming race at Elmira on Friday, August 4, while R:H. Ronald, owned by Ian and Jim Fleming, was claimed by Patrick L. Smith of Sudbury, out of the first race at .Clinton on Sunday afternoon. The same day at Orangeville, Wayne McFadden lost his pacer, Van Order in a claimer. Wayne Horner of Brucefield has sold Chappy Herbert to James B. Buchanan of Goderich; Harold Gibr bings has sold Harlo Champ to Lorne Dale, and May and Walter Pepper have parted with their Carols Pet as well. William Laverty of Seaforth claimed Mr. S Attorney at Barrie on July 12. The 11 -year-old gelding has had four wins and five seconds from 20 starts this year. At Clinton Kinsmen Raceway on Sunday afternoon, Dennis Jewitt • Vanastra Gun Club results Tom Allen of Lon- desboro, George Hamm of Blyth and John Hessel of Goderich were the top marksmen at the Vanastra Gun Club trap shoot on August 1, each taking perfect scores of 25. • Jack Mills, Guelph; Dan Crerar, Hensall; Bert Mahaffy, Staffa; Bill Boussey, London ; Glen Mogk, Bornholm and Lorne Reist, Kit- chener each got high scores of 24, while Jamie, Caldwell, Hensall and Fred Brall, Holmesville followed with 23 hits each. Mery Batkin, Clinton; Gerry Zehr,, Zurich and Jim Butcher, Clinton each took 22 shots. Joe Kenda, Zurich has 18 shots; Gary Koehler, Hensall had 17; George and Paul Giles of London both had 13 and Frank Vanloo from Holland finished last with 6. _In the skeet shoot held on August 5, Bill Boussey finished on top with 24 points while George Giles, Joe Kenda and Tom Allen all followed with 23 points. Harrison Schock, Zurich had 22, as did John Hessel and Jim Crocker of Stratford. Paul Giles; Paul Haggitt, Zurich and • Mery Batkin each hit 21 skeets. Gerry Zehr had 20 and Jim East, Clinton finished last with 16. Exciting motocross action was the order of the day at Hully Gully on August 6 with the largest program ever. The race of t the day, Junior 125 was thrilling with Perry Thornton of London. and Ken Avann of Scarboro passing each other seven or eight times in the last lap before Avann crashed. • The faste`s't Tap time of • the day of 1:41 was ac- complished by Al Logue of Hamilton who also won both 125 and 250 expert classes. Local rider Wayne Ryerson of Clinton topped the senior 125 and open classes coming from behind to overtake Earl Marvin of St. Catharines' in the last lap.. Rookie Phil Lassaline of Goderich came up with his best performance yet with his sixth place finish in the Junior 125 class. Both riders are members of the . Huron Gully Jtkinpe, 's;. who in- cidentallf r need. cheerleaders. For more information contact team captain Ken Boyce of Goderich. The next race is Sep- tember 1 here at Hully Gully. won the first race with R.H. Ronald in 208.4 for Ian and Jim Fleming of Clinton. From 18 starts this year, the four-year- old gelding by Tarport Arnie, has had two wins, two seconds and ' three thirds. Randy Henry finished third with Reggie Ford for owner Charles Brindley of Goderich. Bill Rappon and trotter Alpha Herb, owned by Ron Taylor of Wroxeter, were moved up from third to second after Lis Pendens interfered with him and was placed third. Gerry Roebuck of Goderich gave Mikes Jimmy Lynn his fourth win in a row and his fastest winning time this year of 2:10.2 in the fourth. The 13 -year-old pacer is owned by Fred McCutcheon of St. Thomas. John Jewitt of Londesboro finished second with his Skippy Del, Dale Kennedy of Seaforth was third with his Jeffrey Hi and Dennis Jewitt of Clinton had a fourth with his Champion Hit. Bill Rapson was fourth with Dee G Eagle for owner Wayne Preszcator of Exeter -in the fifth. Warrens Duke, owned by trainer David Shamblaw of Kirkton and 'James Willis ,of St. Marys, was secnd for driver Frank MacDonald of Clinton in a 2:08 mile. Ray McLean drove Jo Spinner to her ninth win of the year, timed in 2:08.3, for owner, Franc Stroop of Fordwich, in the seventh. Ross Battin finished second with Tony Bay for owners Ross McEwan and Lorne Brown of Clinton, John Muir was fourth with Mr. S Attorney for . Wm. Laverty of Seaforth. Ray McLean came through again in •the eighth with Lucille Sanford in 2:08.1 for owner Robert G. Sanford of London. Ray made it three winning drives in a row when he also won . the ninth with Iron Lassie for owner Bert McBride of Goderich, timed in 2:10.4. This was the fourth win this year for the five- year-old pacing mare by Iron Rail -Miss Jean La Salle. Randy Henry was third with Swift Honey for owner Arnold Doak of Goderich. The ; winner of the Clinton Centennial owned by Claire Woodburn of Parkhill and driven by Glen Woodburn, after a couple of inquiries were settled. Originally Gamblers Chance was first, followed by Dave Wall with Good N Fair and J.D. Pride third. However, Dave Wall's horse, which had been in front all the way, broke stride causing a lapped on break which moved J.D. Pride up to second. Finally, Gamblers Chance was placed second for interfering with J.D. Pride on the final turn. The winning time of 2:05 was disallowed. At Flamboro on August 1, Betty Van Dyk, owned by Frank Little of Goderich, was second in a 2:04.3 mile. The following night Randy McLean was second with Jivas Rick for Les Reid of Londesboro while Claybrook Kaola finished fourth for owners Lionel Kloss, Wm. Bradley and John Shaddick of Goderich. Bobby Tar was also fourth for owner Jim Riehl of Goderich in the sixth. Sokys. Honey, owned by Frank Little of Goderich, was fourth in a 2:03.3 mile on Thursday night. At Elmira on Friday night, Ross Battin was second with Yankee Go Lee for Arnold Kerr of Goderich. John Muir also finished second with Waverly Don for owner Les Catnpbell of Seaforth. Frank MacDonald was second with Trisha Hanover for, Lorne Tyndall of Clinton. Granny Mathers finished third with Ray Mat; up for the Broken M. Stabjes of Goderich on Friday and again on Monday night. Ima Jerry was fourth for Bud Jerry of Goderich. Irisha Hanover was the only one in at a claiming price. At Hanover on Saturday night, Frank MacDonald was third with both Apache Grey for Brian Rutledge of Brussels and Goldies Hit for Terry Rutledge of Clinton. Randy Henry won the fifth with Crimson Josie in 2:10.1 for owner Bruce Volland of Goderich, Gerry Roebuck was second with Late Affair in a 2:07.2 mile for owners Grant and Carl Fisher of Goderich. John Mathers finished third with Imp Mathe-rs for the Broken M. Stables of Goderich with South Byrd fourth for owner Morris Roberts of Clinton. Mac Sewers of Barrie gave Sunday Chimes her first lifetime win in 2:10.4 at Barrie on Saturday night. There will be races again this Sunday, August 13 at Clinton with qualifiers- at 12:30 pm and post time is 1:30 pm. The monthly meeting of the Stanley Township Recreation Committee was held on July 26. This year's corn roast will be on Thursday, August 17 at the ball park following the men's Inter -township slowpitch games, which start at 7;30 p.m. All the corn -on -the -cob you can eat will be supplied. Bring your own refresh- ments, and hot dogs to roast over the fire if you wish. Improvements to the ball park include fencing along the first and third base lines, and a snow fence along the oat -field. A water fountain has been installed and the ball lights have been repaired. The food booth has been opened for the Thursday night games by an enterprising girl, Sherrie Taylor. She sells pop, chips and gum, and if it is successful it may— be open on other ball .bights, too. T -ball has proven very popular with the 9 years and younger children who are not involved in organized ball. They play on Wednesday afternoons at 1:30. The boys' and girls' teams, also the Varna men's team in the South Huron Slowpitch League have finished regular games, and the semi-final play-offs began last week. Senior girls won over Auburn a week ago Tuesday night at Varna, and were to play the same team this week at Auburn. The Junior girls' A team defeated Ben - miller at Varna, while the B team lost at Holmesville last week* This past Tueaday, the A team was in Benmiller and the B team hosted Holmesville at our ball park. The senior boys lost their first play-off game a week ago Monday night against Benmiller at Benmiller, while the tykes team won their game at Benmiller. The pee wee boys' game against Benmiller at Varna a week ago Wednesday night was rained out. Their second game was scheduled for last night at Varna. The men's slow pitch game scheduled for Wednesday night was also rained out, and was to be played ° this week against the Fanshers Flyers of Bayfield. This is a best 2 out of 3, with the next game probably on Friday night. Our Varna team finished on top in the South Huron Slow pitch League. Congratulations tb them. A reminder -- some of the men and children playing ball this year have not yet paid their registration fee. For all men playing inter- townsh ipo ball the fee, ip ►w; and the children's is, Sa oxo $5 per family. Please hand it to your coach or team captain as soon as possible. We hope you are still thinking about our crest contest. Remember, your design is to be drawn on a sheet of 8 x 10 paper, using only three or four colours. Include your name and address, and submit as many entries as you wish to Shirley, Hill, Varna. Please mark CREST CONTEST clearly on the outside of APPLY TO P.O. 1147 DEADLINE: AUGUST 14/78 Too fat? Too thin? Too tired? Too often? Do something for somebody. • • Your body! Tired of those high heating bills? :WAY You should have one of these ENERGY-EFFICIENT. STOVES TOP-OF-THELINE WOOD & COAL BURNING Findlay Oval Deluxe Cook Stove ;,:64 Goderich Township should be proud of their Midget Girls baseball team. They sure have some very good players and coaches, so let's get out and support the team. When a game is being played it would be nice to have more people watching the township children playing sports. The community wishes to express its sympathy to the family of the late Mrs. Ruby Dempsey., Gerald and Evelyn Orr have returned home from a very enjoyable trip to Victoria, B.C. They spent three weeks travelling and • stopped in each province to visit relatives and found more than one relative • in some provinces. One point of interest was having supper on a houseboat on Lake Okanagali, B.C. The Orrs won't forget this trip nor will they be likely to forget their home welcoming: on their return they had found that someone had put their farm up for sale. Argyle and Muriel have returned home from their trip to Western Canada. We are sorry to hear that Argyle had the misfor- tune of hurting his hand while cutting the lawn. The strike -bound. Etas Manufacturing Ltd. plant at Huron Park resumed operations Tuesday after a two-week shutdown. An official of the United Auto Workers union in London said Fran Piercey, a spokesman for the strikers, said non- strikers returned to their jobs. (A division of P&F Lawn & Sports - Ltstowel) opposite Clinton COnservation Park CLINTON 402-4400 REPAIRS TO MOST MAKES OF CHAIN SAWS • HOMELITE • PARTNER • STIHL "FREE CHAIN GUARD" - with every repair or chain saw chain sold in the month of August. We now pay cash for estate jewellery ... including diamonds, gold and gem stones.' You can rely on Anstett Jewellers ... Our membership in the American Gem Society is your assurance of the reliability and capability of this firm. Membership is awarded only to selected jewellers who possess proven gemological knowledge and the highest ethical standards. We have, on staff, two Graduate Gemologists for prompt, accurate ap- praisals of all leweilery. on alit stoves until August 31 *Buy now and save. 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