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TkaiRSDAY, J.UNN
PEE WEE STANDINGS
Group "A"
Flyers Clipped
7-3 By Knights
Goderich Flyers 'became mired
deep in the cellar of the WOAA
Major Fastball League here Tues-
day night when they dropped their
ninth straight game, losing 7-3 to
the powerful Meaford Knights.
The win was `Meaferd's ninth
straight and left .the Knights hold
the top ofthe heap.
Guy Sparrow, on the mound for
the visitors, was nicked for 11 hits,
but 5,truek out 14 Goderich batters.
MQ,fiey McLean did the pitching
once again for 4yGoderiele fanning
five and allowing 14"'hits.
McLean's roughest spots came,,
in the first inning when the
Knights grabbed a two -reit lead,
and in the fifth inning, When they
added a couple more.. 1Vleaford's
Kirkpatrick pounded out his team's
only -homer -in the eighth inning
with no one on base. - Lennie
Willis clipped a round -tripper for
the Fl-yerS in the .fifth. inning, bring-
ing home Billie MacDonald, who
had reached base on a walk.
The Flyers threatened in the
eighth, when four men managed to
get on base safely. Ted, McLean
was cut off at the plate; however,
and Sparrow came up with two
strike -outs to put out the fire.
R. H. E.
Meaford 200 120 011.— 7 14 2
Goderich 000 020 100— 3 11 41
Sparrow and Kirkpatrick; Mc - e
Lean and D. Willis.
Ladies' Softball
Schedule Listed
Schedule for the WOAA Ladies'
Softball group hasTbeen drawn up
and lists three -home games, for the
Goderich Dodgers during • July.
Four teams have entered the group
—Goderich, Ilderton, Mitchell and
Exeter.
Following is the schedule:
July
2 -='Mitchell at God'erich
5—Goderich at Mitchell
7—Mitchell at Ilderton
9—Exeter at Mitchell
Ilderton at Goderich
.14—Ilderton at Exeter
16--,Goderich at Ilderton
19—Exeter at Ilderton
21—Mitchell at Exeter
23--Ilderton at Mitchell
26—Exeter at Goderich
28—Goderich at Exeter
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40 YEARS SINCE RIFLE
LEAGUE ENDED EVENTS
Years ago, an organization known
as the Huron County Rifie League
held an annual match which was
one of the year's big events, par-
ticularly in the northern part of
the county. Just forty years ago
to the day, on June '17th, 1914,
the last of these annual matches
was held, the first World War be-
ginning in August of that year
bringing the activities of the
H:C.R.L. to a close and taking many
of its members into service in
other fields.
A ,'search of the files of The
Signal weals a report of the
1914 event, which took place at
Poiht Farm. Twelve teams of ten
men each were entered, and in
addition there were a number of
individual competitors.
The -twelve teams represented
Auburn, Dungannon, S:t. Augustine,
St. Helens (2), Lochalsh, Colborne,
Lucknow, Kingsbridge, Kintail,
Westfieldand _Whitechurch. The •
Auburn team—won-the" trop1y, with
a score of 627, followed closely by
Dungannon' with 623. The Auburn
marksmen were William .Watson,
Frank Naegel, Robert . Taylor,
George Yungblutt, Charles Asquith,
A. Dickenson, George and Charles
Beadle, Alf. Rollinson and John
Logan.
In individual shooting the win-
ner was Robert McAllister of St.
Augustine, with a score of 67. He
carried off the Huron County Rifle
League medal.
The attention -paid to this event
is indicated by the fact that the
report in The Signal occupied
nearly thio columns.
FASTBALL STANDING
(Not including last night's games)
W. L. Pct
Meaford 9 0 1.000
Walkerton -5 4 .555
Kincardine . : 4 4 .500
Port Elgin A 5 .444
Goderich 0 9 .000
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ON THE SQUARE
(Continued from page 1)
cause of his high principles, was
not completely understood by run-
of-the-mill politicians.
"A wise son maketh a glad
father." But the whole family
should make an effort to make dad
happy on Fathers Day, June 20.
We extend hearty congratula-
tions to "Mel" Southeett an4,sons,
Bob and Don, for the fine showing
of their paper, The Exeter Times -
Advocate, in the competitions at
the Ontario Weekly Newspapers
Association convention at Betel'
London last week. This enterpris-
ing weekly newspaper placed first
for beet front page and second for
general all-round excellence. This
achievement reflects a tremendous
amount of effort all year round and
Huron County might well be proud
to have such a journal in its area.
And "Mel" can be justifiably proud
of having two such.capable sons to
carry on the traditions of a news-
paper which he has for so .any
years nurtured,
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'One bit of information to come
out of the convention and which
we have not seen published to date
is the very strong poseibility of-•. a
Provincial election this All, maybe
in September. One of the editors
attending the convention is slated
as .a Conservative candidate for
the next Provincial election. He
stated that he was planning to visit
Europe and to be away for several
months, but when a prominent
Conservative organizer learned of
this the editor was visaed and ad-
vised to remain at name "since
something might -be coming 'up in
the near future." Other editors
told of certain printing 'already
being done which definitely indicat-
ed a Provincial election was on the
way. Finally, rumors around
Queen's Park have it,that an elec-
tion is notfar off. So, if you
see the Provincial candidates kiss-
ing more babies than usual in the
next few weeks and attending mare
garden parties, etc., you will real-'
ize something might be just around
the proverbial corner. You, might
even see accelerated action on the
facelifting job to be done on the
"rocky road to Dublin" between
Clinton and Goderich.
Well-known in Goderich, Arthur
R. Ford, editor-in-cJie£ of the Lon-
don Free Press, was guest :speaker.
at, the Friday noon awards dinner.
"I haps the time never comes when
the modern trend of chain news-.
papers spreads to weeklies," he
stated. "Newspapers cannot be
turned out like a can of beans."
He said he had -noticed 'a steady
improvement in both the, character
and quality of weeklies, yet they
still retained the old touch of per-
sonal journalism which was so im-
portant. Mr: Ford's many friends
and admirers in the weekly news -1
paper -field were happy and pleased
to see him
about again
after fter an
illness of some duration.
It was our pleasure and priVilege
to write and to present, on behalf
of the Ontario Weekly Newspapers
Association, a 'citation honoring an
editor as "The Weekly Newspaper-
man of the Year." This is the first
time this has been done In the
history of weekly newspapers in
Canada. The honored editor was
Rixon Rafter, recently -retire edi-
tor of the Arthur Enterprise ews,
whom we have known intimately
for more than 20 years,,, Despite
the fact that he has been blind
since chfldhood he managed to
graduate from Queen's University
and to run a weekly newspaper
:for 45 years with a degree of suc-
eess never attained by scorns of
weekly newspaper editors who
possess their sight. 1'ox sheer in-
testinal fortitude and for a Belting
display of cheerfulness, radiant
optimism and goad humot4, this
blind editor eould make many a
man ashamed of any complaining
he night do over a lesser handicap.
Said' a London i:°ree, ress editorial
On Monday: Itichly he deserved it.
In times when too many of u it .have
come to rely upon the. State for
help it is refreshing and stiulat-
iing to read t'he' Awry- Of Ude itteunte
Mess editor from n Ax thur."
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SPORTS
By "Observer"
Kincardine. Merchants have had
a bad time - in recent games, al-
though their pitcher, Norm Bag-
nall, 'has been doing very well. The
Merchants lost three straigbtgarnes
to Meaford Knights, but then turn-
ed around and (beat the 'Coder ich
Flyers. The 'Merchants, as of last
Saturday had a .500 average with
four wins and four losses.
Bagnall, at the end of la't, week,
had 126 strike -outs to his credit
in the eight games—a pretty fair
total. He has allowed 50 hits, only
lour walks and 29 runs were scored
against him in-74,{}zinings'of ipitch
ing. In addition, he leads the
team in runs batted in, with seven,
and tops the batters with, an aver-
age of .276 with eight hits in. 29
trips to the plate.
This information was gleaned
from a sheet Of official statistics
sent to us by the Kincardine team.
When plans for the league were
drawn up, all teams agreed to use
the statistics forms which have
been issued by the Port Elgin
Times. So far, we've, received re-
ports weekly from Kincardine and
one from Port Elgin. The Pontiacs'
form • had a note, attached asking
that the Goderioh team be asked to
send out sheets showing their
statistics but so far this hasn't been
done. (Note to "Hank" Smith of
the Times-1We checked the local
team and asked for statistics but
only got a shrug of the shoulders).
As pointed"' .out on the form, it
is for the betterment of the team.
"Let's Promote Fastball," the form
says. We think the idea of pro-
viding this information is great and
if team statisticians would sit down
•for a 'couple of minutes each Sat-
urday and fill out sthe forms they
would do a lot , to help give the
game a boost.
Goderich has its'"second ,harness
race meet of the season coming ,up
on July 1 and indications point to
a top-notch card. With better
weather on June 2, the first meet
wank' have attracted a much larger
crowd. The Goderich Trotting and
Agricultural Association is'='hoing
foe, a bright, sunny Dominion ay,
to' swe1ll this .,year's attendance at
the holiday meet to well over 4,000.
Goderh h, has alw,ays': had one of
the best tracks in 'Western Ontario
and this year considerable work
has been done 'to improve the oval.
One of the big jobs recently com-
pleted was the building of a new
fence around one side -of the inside
of the track. The sturdy new
white fence' replaces. a broken sag-
ging old fence that created a haz-
-ard- for--people-who leanedeagainst
the barrier to watch ,,the -horses•
speed down the home stretch to the
finish line.
The improvements have been
made through the co-operation of
the association- under President
Ben Goldthorpe and Town Council's
parks -committee under the chair-
manship of Councillor Frank Skel-
ton. The grader purchased a
couple of months ago, by council
was put to Igooduse and graded
theentire track to perfection,
shaving off rough edges and
smoothing the track.
SCHOOL TOURS
Three school groups are slated
to come to Goderich next wee,k
to make tours of the town. The
tours are being arranged byte
tourist committee of the Goder ch
Junior'Chamber of Commerce. On
Monday schools from Kettle Point
and Britton are scheduled to be
Ihere and on Tuesday, S.S. No: 5,
Fullerton is expected. ,
HONORED BY CLUB
At a supper meeting of The Art
Club recently, Mrs. Ian Hind was
honored. She was presented with
a gift from the club members, by
Tom Pritchard. Mrs. Hind, who
'has moved to Brockville, was, a
I founder of The Art Club, and was
president last year.
Opening Saturday, Junel9 -gam.
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Colborne Entry
Ties Benmiller
A battle of the diamond took
lace on Tuesday evening_ between
the Colborne Township Juveniles
and the 13enmiller Intermediates.
The scene was the Benmiller park,
which is becoming popular as a ball
field. The older boys of the Ben -
miller team established a lead in
the first part of the game but
were unable to hold it, nine thrill-
ing innings ending in as& tie, 6-6.
Play was then '°discontinued' owing
tb, darkness.
Colborne 100 012 002,— 6
Benmiller 130 002 000-- 6
'COLBORINE•--- Lorne Dougherty,
ss; Tom McPhee, lb; • Fred Buch-
anan, c; Jack Hicks, cf; Geo.
Wright, Bob Yungfb'lut, If; Bill
Bowra, rf; Al. Wilson, ab;. , Reg.
Goode, 3b; Donald Chisholm, Bill
Jewell, p.
BENZ 4r SER — E. Draper, Jas.
McPhee, 2b; Sam Mabon, If; Nor-
man Hoy, Jerry Ginn, 3b; Peter
alter; -ss; Leonard-Jeniiir; p; -John
Westbrook, ib; Arnold Lamb, rf;
Herman Fisher, e; Arnold Mitchell,
cf.
Colborne Juveniles play Holmes-
vilie .intermediates at Benmiller
this (Thursday) evening.
W. L.
Aberhart's 5 0
Craft 4 1
DRMCO 2 2
QVlills 2 •2
"Goderich Manuf1 4
HER,CO 0 5
Croft 9, DRMCO 4; Aberhart's
28, Goderich Manuf. 17; Croft 5,
HER!CQ 3; DRMCO 10, Goderich
J fanuf. 8; Aberhart's 11, HERCO
10; Croft 9, Goderich Manuf. 3.
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W. L.
Edward 5 0.
Gardner's ° " 4 1
French 1 4
Bradley 0 5
Edward 34, Bradley 3; French
24, Bradley 23; Gardner's 40, Brad-
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Group "C"
W. L.
7GA 2 2
McManus 2 2 .
Schaeifer's 2 2
- - ICA -24, McManus -15; McManus_.
22, Schaefer's 21.
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TNECa.�.'Vert SPORTS COLUMN.
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Have you ever been close to a race horse
that had broken a leg? if you have seem the
agony in the eyes of an injured horse, you
are not likely to forget it, ever. And vihen
this happens to' three or four horses, it's
sheer brutality.
It did happen at Britain's Grand National this year. One
horse dropped dead. Three ;others suffered such injuries. that
they had to be destroyed. When the race was over, many
Britons protested, and we think theye were 'right.
The killing of four horses in one afternoon is definitely
not our idea of sport. The Grand National is supposed to be
the great test of equine courage and stamina. .But wby make
such a test, anyway? Everybody knows by now that the
thoroughbred horse is gallant to the ideath. So why carry on
with this slaughter, when nothing remains to be determined—
except, of course, the sweepstake
stake winners?
There is something *rang with the conditions of• a rece,
which only nine out -of 29 starters' are able to finish. The
Aintree course has thirty obstacles..... One shudders to see
courageous horses charging at those obstacles, only to crash
with broken legs,. -broken necks, broken backs floundering in
helpless agonir until qnercifully dispatched. ,
This is a changing •world. We like to think it's a less
'cruel world than when there flourished, in Britain and else-.
where such vicious "sports" as bull -baiting, dog fighting and
'suc'h: Standards are being relaxed for '\humans. Why not
for horses?
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The Aintree course need not necessarily be shortened.
Four miles 856 yards is not an unreasonable distance for a
horse of good breeding. But the obstacles should be lowered;.
the ditches narrowed. A few changes in the Aintree layoot
could make it less hazardous, less of a suicide course.
"Your comments and suggestions for this column will be ,
Welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, % Calvert House, 431 Yonge St.,
Toronto."
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