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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-02-17, Page 21.16 Page 2—The Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, February 17, 1972 Strikes and Spares COMMERCIAL LEAGUE The teams in the lower brack- ets have finally found the right trail and are o the move. The Beagles and Mutts upped their scores by five points while the Newfies took seven points from the leaders. The standings are: Boxers and Mutts tied at 77; Retrievers 71; Newfies .60; Collies 57 and Beag- les 52. A trio made the 250 -and -up for singles: Alec Walton with 250, Reg O'Hagan with 256 and Grace Walden 251. Rose Grove took over for Joyce -Gaunt by having the high single and triple for the ladies, 265 and 651. Rod Hickey led the men with a 293 single and a 692 triple.. Thanks to good spares Elaine and Alec. Walton and Wes Sim- mons. THURSDAY NIGHT As the playoffs are not far away the teams battle hard to decide who is best. Gwen's Go - Getters proved they are with 74 points, Fran's Frumps are there for second place with 73 and close behind are Elda's Eggheads with 72; Pat's Panties 71, Aantje's Up - N -Atoms 69 and last but still trying, Gail's Goons with 55. Gwen MacLaurin was in top form as she captured the ladies' -high single and triple with a 270 and 799. Great bowling. Terry Nethery was in rare 'form and captured the men's honors with 280 and 679. Keep it up Terry. 'The 200 games were more plentiful this week with Aantje Robinson having 220 and 255, Terry Nethery, 280 and 219, Forni area car club ' A club interested in the re- storation and preservation of antique and classic cars is presently in the process'of being formed in the area. The club will be named "The Maitland Valley Region, Historic Automobile Society of Canada". George Brown of Gorrie has been elected chairman and president. Harold Felkar, Kurtzville, will• hold the office of vice president. Secret- ary will be Robert Babcock, Lis- towel, and treasurer, Harold Cosens, Gowanstown. ' Other executive members in- cludl safety inspector, Charles' Hud on, Kurtzville, assisted by Grant McKenzie, Clifford; ac- tivities uirector,. Rae Wightman, . Clifford. Directors named were Murray Hill, Owen Sound; Harvey Doug- las, Atwood, and Lloyd Forler, Clifford. Other members present included Doug Gilkinson and Don McNeil of Listowel. The club plans their first meet- ing for Feb., 22 at . Ash's, Rest- aurant, Gerrie. An 'invitation is extended to anyone interested in . antique or classic cars. They may contact any • member of the executive for further informa- tion. Barry Fryfogle 201, 223 and 241, Elda Nethery 226, Pat Fryfogle 247, Murray Gerrie 206 and 276, Gwen MacLaurin 267, 270 and 262, Toru Robinson 221, Don 'Mont- gomery 238, 209 and 211, Fran Gerrie 211 and 221, Gary Brenzil 253 and 202, Harvey Ballagh 205, Bruce Machan 263. Bill Stapleton, Bill Montgom- ery and Kaye Gregg helped us out as spares. Many thanks. LEGION LADIES Ethel Ducharme .came up with a good effort last week to capture high single honors with 266 with Norma Strong only 20 pins behind to gain second place. The same pair continued their successful efforts to run away with the high triple scores with Mrs. Du- charme bowling 642 and Mrs. St1 oug 626. League standing : Coffee Crisps 73 points, Snack Bars 56, Smart- ies 44 and Sweet Marie's 37 points. SENIOR LADIES This week Mrs. Emily Williams took all honors in the senior ladies' league. Her high single was 163 and high double was 321. Runner-up in both divisions was Mrs. -Kay Murray with her 161 single and 315 double. Good doubles were also rolled by Mrs. Mary McKinney with 296 and Mrs. l.. Newman with 284. F ORDWICH MIXED Randy King 253, 203; Bonnie Wilson 229; Les Carter 243.., 237; Mabel 'Gibson 222; Lucille Reid 202; Lyle Foerter 208, 221; Gertie Lambkin 233, 220; Andrea Eskritt 204; Leone Foerter 207; Elsie Gauthier 224; Doug Bunker 237, • 257, 214. High triple, Doug Bunker 708; high single,' Doug Bunker 257. Ladies' high single and triple Gertie Lambkin 233 and 610. WROXETER LEAGUE Dick deBoer 237, Mike Newton 219, Glenn McMichael 219, Agnes Haasnoot 234, Jack Burns 239, Margaret Timm 217, Ted Smith 211, Ron McMichael 245 and 215, ° Ken Willoughby 201 and 202. High triples: Ron McMichael 659, Agnes Haasnoot 521. Wingham rink wins ladies' bonspiel A Wingham rink, .skipped, by Nancy Kennedy, won the Carling trophy for top score..at the Listo- wel ladies' invitation curling bon - spiel held last Tuesday, Feb, 8, ' Playing two 10 -end games, the Wingham foursome compiled a total of 43 'points edging out an Alliston rink skipped by Enid Graham which had garnered 42"2 . points. Other players on the Wingham rink were Mary Williams, Jane LeVan' and Shirley Kaufman, Rinks from the following clubs participated Milverton, Sea - forth, Monkton, Wingham, Brus- sels, ' Harriston, Alliston, Palm- erston, Woodstock, K -W Granite, Glen Briar and Listowel. Leafs finish on top. . Refusing to even jeopardize their lead in the Novice House League, "the ' Maple Leafs were the only team to register a win. last week, defeating Bruins 4-1. With regular scheduled play completed,. the Maple Leafs head the standings With 36 points, fol- lowed by Canadiens 28, Hawks 21 and Bruins with 20 points. A play- off series will start this week with first and third and second and fourth place teams meeting in a best of five series, or whichever teams may collect six points. Canadiens and Maple Leafs tied 3-3 last Monday with Kevin Netterfield scoring two and Randy Richey one for Canadiens and Rick MacLennan answering with t-wo,and John Storey one for the Leafs. Hawks and Bruins each scored one goal Tuesday night with Brad Gerrie and Doug McIntyre registering, for their 'respective teams. Another 1-1 tie resulted Thursday night when Danny Thomas scored ,for Hawks and Craig Brydges for Canadiens. Rick MacLennan with two, Leo Kinahan and Robert Ste. Marie counted for Leafs in the Friday game and Bruce McIntyre scored the lone goal for Bruins. CHECKING SCORE SHEETS, Bill Hotchkiss ' and Bill Johnston, judges of play at the senior boys' Four Stepsto Stardom bowling tournament at Wingham Bowl Sunday night, give serious consideration to the job. —Staff Photo. Bill Smiley -Syndicated Canadian EDITOR'S NOTE: The following feature on columnist Bill Smiley is from Town and Country Pub- lications, Elmvale, Ontario. It was written by Shirley Whitting- ton.. Smiley's column is carried regularly in this paper. Once a week, an Ontario high school teacher hunches over his typewriter and stabs out a salty little column about things like mortgages, kids, taxes and the cruel Canadian winter. Bull Smiley, who seasons 150 Weekly newspapers . across Canada with his personal blend of sugar and spice, .tells it like it is. He comments on home life. "It is something to be borne, like varicose veins or ingrown toe- nails." He tally about family hang- ups. "Momma's tolerance thins with the same rapidity as Dad's hair." About his job, he says, "Show me a teacher in June and I'll show you a character with a crumpled shirt, a wrinkled brow and a desperate look in his eye." He has this to say about the puzzling business of living: • "The Sixties produced the millions of kids who are now a mystery and terror and ,bewilderment to the relics of the Frightful Forties." To readers of his column, Bill comes across as a wise, irrever- ent and witty man. It's an honest projection. He writes the way he talks. Sitting in his favourite chair—an uncomfortable straight backed job -he'll curl one hand around a drink and run the other through his thinning white hair. He listens, while conversation flows around him, then delivers a wry and usually definitive com- ment, in a voice as comfortable as a rusty porch swing. This wiry. unsentimental wisdom is the rea- son acquaintances from eight to 80 ask him for advice. This is why ex -students 'invite him to their ' weddings, anal why every female he meets falls a little bit in love with him.. And this is why a clip- ping, from a Saskatchewan, news- paper describes him as "by far our most popular syndicated columnist". Bill. was born in Perth, Ont., and was studying at Victoria Col- lege when World War Two began. He joined the RCAF, became a Typhoon pilot and took . part in. many dangerous missions, 'like hitch hiking 380 miles , on a forty hour pass to see a girl. He re- gards this escapade with the -same puckish spirit as . the time he had to circle an airfield for a couple of hours with a live bomb hanging from his wingtip. The chaps down below wouldn't let him land until they had cleared away all the men and machines: "I landed", he says, "like a mouse in kid gloves walking on eggs. Then I rant like a bat out of hell, in flying boots, with a. para- chute bumping .on my bum:" The high times were abruptly interrupted in 1944 when he was shot down over Holland and im- prisoned by . the . "Germans. ' He came home with .a knee disabled by an S.S. boot, and. with plans to complete his Honour English course at U. of T. There he met his dark -eyed wife, and he's been announcing ever since that she is the root of all his troubles. They had only been married a few months, subsisting on love and 'very little money, when bi- ology threwa spanner into the works. Iyy (Susie to her ,friends) became pregnant and Bill de- veloped TB. After a year of separation—he in a sanitorium'., she at home in Wiarton—they both resumed their college careers, burning the midnight oil with a baby son as well as a stack of text books. Bill had.his eye on post -graduate studies in English with , a view to ' teaching, , but tragedy 'intervened. • Ivy's brother-in-law, the editor of the Wiarton Echo was drowned and there was nobody to take over the paper. Bill stepped into the breach and for years he lived "the happy harried life of a small town newspaper editor, rushing to get ads out, covering council meetings and Women's Institute meetings." In addition, he wrote a personal column, free from edi: tonal and reporting restrictions. The little column caught on. Soon other -editors were picking it up and some of them paid him as. much as 50 cents a Week for it. Before long over eighty weeklies were reprinting Smiley's Sugar and Spice, and the proofreading, mailing and billing became a family industry for Bill, Ivy and the youngsters, Hugh and Kim. When the Telegram Syndicate offered to market Bill's column, everybody was delighted. No mon—sticky—tongues—from nicking envelopes and stamps! Although he was established as an editor and columnist, the urge to teach lingered in Bill. Off he went to O.C.E. Ivy managed «the paper, juggling interviews, news reports and the management of a home and family with cheerful efficiency. He began his teaching career in Midland, where he iS now head of the English Department of MSS. Lately he has joined the Argyle Syndicate. The Telegram tried to retaliate by featuring another well known columnist in Smiley's format, ,but his loyal readers weren't fooled. As far as they're concerned, Bill Smiley is irre= placeable. Proof of his readers' affection and involvement arrivgs in his mailbox almost every day. When he mentioned a few years ago that his daughter Kim 'was dan- gerously ill with hepatitis, a flood f letters arrived, with prayers for her recovery. When he said that, in his opinion, cable TV was exploitation, he was visited by two officials from a large cable network, who suggested that per- haps he was duly kidding and would like to retract or modify his statement in a later. column.. He wasn't. He didn't. Last year he wistfully remarked that he'd like, to get away from', it all and enjoy a summer vacation with' his wife—perhaps in the form of an auto trip across Canada. Invita- tions flowed in, offering every- thing from deep'sea fishing in the Maritimes to dancing under the stars in British Columbia. A column commenting on the Baha'i religion inspired a spirited if ungrammatical, reply from an irate - Westerner. For a writer like Bill, a colour- ful family is a definite asset. His wife, to whom he h -as referred. variously as "the Old Lady"; "the Battle Axe", or "the Boss",, .is in reality, an intelligent and at- tractive lady who gets fan mail of her own. She's as interested in writing and reading as he is, and plays a mean game of chess. ,If occasionally she does something wacky, like setting the mantle piece afire at Christmas, it's. all grist for Bill's mill. Daughter Kim, a beautiful red- head with a blinding smile; is currently a student at E rindale, College, where she is earning ' professional raves -for her writing ability. Smiley's readers know all about her. They have been fol- lowing her exploits through Bill's column, from her first' music festival to her summer hitch -hik- ing adventures. Hugh, Bill's handsome son,, was also at university, and Smiley af- ficianados remember columns about his piano recital; his sum- mer working 'on the boats and the time he broke a finger Indian wrestling in Mexico. _ Bill's attitude to his kids is a typical blend of sugar and spice. "Those selfish brats?. Let them look after themselves. I'm" going to enjoy ;1M without worrying about a pair of rotten ingrates." As he says this, he writes out a healthy cheque to help with col- lege expenses. Is writing• the column ever a chore? Yes, says Bill. "It has to be in the- mail every Tuesday night, and every minute writing it is hard work. I hate it except when it's finished. Then I either feel the glow of knowing it came off, or a small work of misery starts eating away at me and I can't eradicate it until the „next column." Will he ever write the Great Canadian Novel? "There, are quite a few of them around al- ready," he says, "by fellows like Callaghan, Richler, Hugh Garner and Jack Ludwig. As long as I'1m reabhing, .I won't have time to -Start anything so ambitious." Because „there are never enough hours in the day, Bill often has to turn down invitations to speak, or to conduct writing seminars The few speaking en- gagements he has undertaken have proven to be memorable -oc-. casions for his listeners. To a high school graduating class he said, "Tonight, I'm supposed to speak to you about good reading habits... The choice of speaker was a hilarious piece of miscast- ing." In 1971, he opened a speech to the top officials of the Royal Canadian Legion this way: "You must wonder what a . '.. piddling little one-time flight -loot is doing addressing such an august body. And I wondered the same." He has served on the panel of judges for the Stephen Leacock' Award for several years, a .role he enjoyed because it kept him abreast of developments in Cana- dian writing, a subject in which he is intensely interested. His ambitions are stated in this snippet from an old column: "When I'm 85, I want to be known in the Nursing Home as `that old devil Smiley, who pinches your bottom every time you pass his wheel chair." In the meantime, every. Tues- day night Bill returns to his cen- tury -old brick house and dumps the day's crop of unmarked es- says or exams on the kitchen table, He, settles himself at his typewriter with a drink, (any- thing wet—Coke, coffee, beer, tea,) and percolates his weekly ration of wry comment. Then he starts rapping with the folks in Collingwood and Seaforth and High River and about a hundred other very important places in Canada. WHITECHURCH Victor Wybenga, student min- ister, is spending this week, Reading 'Week, at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Robertson and girls of Bluevale were Sun- day visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dow and family. Nc viNovices lase to Mississauga Mississauga Novices andthe Wingham aggregation served up an exciting game in their exhibi- tion tilt at the weekend with the visitors finishing ahead 8-?. At the end of the second period Wingham led 5-2 but Mississauga got stronger as play progressed and tied the score in short orddec then surged ahead to gain an 8-6 lead. Wingham put on tremendous pressure in the final two minutes and came very close to scoring on three occasions and eventually scored .to .- cut into the visitors' lead but could not get the tying goal: Cub News By Mike Beattie Our Cub meeting was held•Feb- ruary 10th. Following an exciting game o6 dodge ball, =la InL l- duced Mrs. Vaughan Slack to the pack. Mrs. Slack gave us an interest- ing demonstration on handicrafts and then showed us how to make pencil holders from used soup cans which we could take home. After thanking Mrs. Slack, Akela distributed the following badges: Doug Taylor, Readers and Artists; Mike Beattie, Collectors and Athletes. The meeting, was closed with a "mouse howl". There will be a parent and son banquet at the Wingham United Church on February 23rd. 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