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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1965-06-10, Page 11)e Mrs, ieltekt 4 With over Year No. 23 GODERICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE ,10th, 1905 1r9vict pow euvefA ' iswer foollt ant up.f stop, long s ailing (ft '•;,; • ,, .1t* P. • ' • ... • . • ' 524.851 'Ger' Form Variation Weighed Down --By REJECT BIKINI BEAUTIES sf 13 i9 19 It really didn't seem fair hav- ing tb spend a sweltering sunny afternoon watching hundreds of pounds of male mince pulverize one another. Tf We were With teMpert atures soaring observing • three contemporary gladiators do bat- tle in sauna-tymsknslitions. '"Oh to be a member of the paparazzi, Rorne's starlet hunt- ing photographers, zeroing in on big -busted beauties clad in the briefest bikinis," .The advent of hot weather seems to bring with it certain connotations as to what one should be doing instead of the job at hand. But n9, here we were on the football field watching a trio of local maulers attempt to tear each other apart. Football is normally an ap- pealing sport when one is clad in topcoat and scarf shouting Oeudo-obscenities across a frost-' covered field. " In or u a e y is eeingune it lacked the atmosphere. It -was a time to speculate that the tough trio had rejected the ap- parent summer call of the wild for youth. ToPrid Torsos By all accounts they should have been sticking surfboards underneath hairy armpits and rushing off to display torrid torsos and continue. their educa- tion on- some beach. But by aparent choice they had rejected the idea of lying on Nfarm sands casually casting empty beer cans into -the water and reciting beat poetry tb ex- plain their existence. Lw.. these ggys. A series of gleeful grunts at each bone - jarring impact showed they were the pseudo -masochists ot which good football players are made. Coach Wayne Horner did not help things. The cigar -smoking GDCI instructor barked orders at the big three—Brian Dowds, John MacLean and Brian Fea- gan, as though it was their pri- vilege to ,be perspiring under pounds of pads. For he was putting thein through their paces under the expectation thatjt will take at least one of them to the Ottawa Rough Riders Camp later in the ant , • So who want's to plaPt,foot- ball at the end of June? Ap- parently not just these three. Youthful fanatics" from across the country converge on train- ing camps in an attempt to snag the coveted prizes of the football world. Surfing Ball The sun beat down even stronger and brought visions of film producers seizing on these three energetic youths to pro- vide a rkew theme for the seem- ingly endless number of surf- ing films. Titles like "Cleats on a surf: board" would replace "Beach Party 'Lansjahm...woutthlie._ lines of dialogue like: "They used to kick sand in my face till I bor- rowed Angelo Mosca's shoulder pads." .. All levity aside these three young, athletes deserve full credit for their efforts. It was enough to make out -of -condi- tion onlookers puke'to see them tearing round the turf in, -the - display of uninhibited enthus- "It gets a little warm under all these pads in this sort of weather," said Brian Llowds. "But it is an :excellent way of getting into shape if you can stand it." . After watcTiing This vio en exhibition. fob an hour there was nothing else •for it .but to stagger down to the beach and see what the rest of the world was doing. . . . Here the long haired youth of Goderich, some of them girls, lay sunning themselves in won- derful lazy apathy to life around them. Pass the suntan ,lotion... • 1 or ce