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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1986-08-13, Page 15• Difficult sport While interviewing Walter Newcombe last week for a feature on lawn bowling, I asked him if he could take an afternoon out, and perhaps teach me the fine points of playing the game. ' I found, through trying to master the game, that the, ancient rumor that lawn bowling is only for those over 65 is thoroughy unfounded. If anything, it is a game that requires more co-ordination than most I have played. It is definitely not as easy as it looks, and not just a matter of rolling the ball down the green. For one thing, the ball ,,isnot perfectly round, but flattened a bit on the sides, and weighted or biased on one side. This bias causes the ball to roll in an arc as it starts VI slow down, therefore it is a matter of trying to get your ball to curve at the right time, and at the right place, to score your points. I never quite caught on to this part of the game. My training began when Mr. Newcombe showed me the proper stance. This stance is, with your feet together on the mat, and poin- ting slightly off centre of your target, so your bowl will arc in. Standing with my feet together didn't give me much difficulty, but then I had to learn the proper step taken when bowling. Mr. Newcombe had to correct me more than once on this, as I couldn't quite master stepping in the direction I was throwing. I know it sounds simple, but it isn't, though I did start doing it properly near the end of the afternoon. Now that I knew how to stand, and step (sort of), holding the ball, or bowl came next. I learned first to put my thumb on the grip of the ball, with the bias pointing in. Believe it or not, it was not easy holding a ball not perfectly round, and making sure the round parts will be making contact with the ground. As far as the bias was concerned, I only screwed that part of it up once, and my bowl rolled merrily across one or two parallel Joanne Duddy ,(foreground) of Clinton was among the 200 competitors to take part in a` regional swim meet in Clinton on August 9. Swimmers from Goderich, Seaforth, St. Marys, Vanastra, Kirkton, Exeter and Huron Park were among the communities represented. (Shelley McPhee-Haist photo) CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1986—Page 15 Clinton woman takes home X1,000 greens. I was just glad there was no one else my opponent ran up 21 points. there. I ran into many difficulties throughout, Next came the release, one of the most im- such as my hard throws, my wrongly biased portant parts of the game. Mr. Newcombe throw and knocking my own bowls away explained that I was not to push or throw the from the jack, ball, but let it roll off my hand. It sounded Mr. Newcombe was a super sportsman simple enough, but it never quite rolled throughout,, correcting my errors, and tell - where I wanted it too. ing me "Good bowl" if one happened to go My main problem was in rolling the ba too hard. But before I describe what happened with my throwing too hard, I should probably describe what we were throwing at. The jack, a little white ball, is placed at the far end of the bowling green, and the ob- ject is to place your bowls as close to -the jack as possible. Each of your bowls closer to the jack than the closest of your op- ponents counts for a point.:. This is where my problem of throwing too hard arose. Most of my bowls ended up either five feet behind the jack, or in the gut- ter at the end of the green. The only time this problem came in handy was when I knocked the jack into the gutter, and thus had the closest bowls. After being taught the fundamentals of is where it was supposed to, even though I'm sure he also knew it was just luck. Therefore, I would have to say that lawn bowling is definitely not a seniors' sport, unless, it is called that because the seniors can cream us youngsters any day of the week. I guess I'll just have to go back and keep trying, once I get over this sore back that strangely developed the evening after we played. Finally, I would like to once again thank Walter Newcombe for giving up his time to teach me the finer points of the game, and showing me what a real sportsman is like. Police Golf Tournament This is a reminder that the Clinton Police Golf Tournament will be held on September 7 at the Bluewater Golf Course. There are only a few spots left open for the game, I thought I would challenge Mr. Newcombe to a match. just to see how I this tournament whose proceeds• will go could do in competition. towards some very worthy causes. This was probably my worst mistake of The money will be split between the Clin- the day. ton Hospital Building Fund and the Clinton So as not to bore the readers with my Police Association. disastrous play, I'll just say that the way The cost to enter is $35, and a wide assort - Mr. Newcombe read the draw (the way the rnent of prizes will be awarded to the ball curves) of the greens and the way he golfers, as well as a grab bag of goodies for placed his bowls was amazing. all involved, Though I was able to rack up eight points, Those interested should contact Chief through, I'm sad to say, mostly lucky bowls, Lloyd Westllake. Lawries lead at end of regular season Merners 5, Norholme 6, best 2 out of 3. Upcoming Games Wed., Aug. 13: 8 p.m. - Norholme vs. Merners; 9:30 p.m. Dynamos vs. Vikings. Mon., Aug. 18: 8 p.m. Vikings vs. Dynamos; 9:30 p.m. ? vs. Lawries. CLINTON - During the early bird games tenth game, while Rachel Riehl won game of Monster Bingo held on August 11, Donna 11. Ellacott of Londesboro was the winner of In the twelfth game the winners were Her - $111.75 and Betty Kitlar of Dublin won min d e r itch of a n d AuburnD n n BarbaraE a PPigg of of $723:25: ... ... , ... _ Go The winner in the first game of regular Lon es oro. play was Ann Field of Goderich, and in the Following game 12, Share the Wealth second game Mary Jeffrey and Carol worth $150.50 was played, and the winner Alcock, both of Goderich, were the winners. was Carolyn Geblef f Wanton and Ray Audrey O'Rourke of Seaforth and Michael Judy Dykstra Gottler of Livonia were the winners in game McGonigle of Seaforth were the winners in three. game 13. In game four the winners were Jean Good The winners in the fourteenth game were of Auburn anti June Meliey of Goderich. Bert Bentley of Brusselis,. Linday Reinhart Prior to the playing of game five, Share of Clinton and Michael Gottler of Livonia, the Wealth worth $142 was played, and Michigan. Robert Govenlock of Clinton was the There were 18 winners in game 15 and they were Evelyn Stephens of Wingham, winner. William Pilgrim of Vanastra, Debbie Bailey WallaceoTiedemana in was the win- of Clinton, Isabel Rau of Seaforth, Roy Pigg nen for game five and in game six, David of Goderich, W. Patterson of Clinton, Frank Van Beers of Blyth and Rachel Johnston of Thom of Clinton, Bev Bentley of Clinton, Clinton were the winners. Rose Hummel of Clinton, Donna Ellacott of In the , seventh game Carol Alcock of Londesboro, E. Burgess of Clinton, Wilma Goderich and Bill Lutz of Auburn won, while McMichael of Clinton, Lila Thompson of in game eight Winn Burrows of Statford Brucefieid, Edna Wheeler of Clinton, Roy. won.McGonigle of Seaforth, Wilma Greenwood Share the Wealth was played again before of Goderich, Carol Alcock of Goderich and game nine, and Sherry Bezzo of Clinton won Thelma Duncan of Auburn. $147.50. The winners of the $50 Bonanza Consola- The three winners in game nine were tion were Isabell Geiman of Blyth and Hazel Norene Kerr of Nile, Debbie Wright of Clin- Reid of Londesboro. ton and Monica McGillvray of Goderich. Helen Beach of Clinton won the $1,000 Marie Dalrymple of Seaforth won the jackpot. MCBRIDE BROS. MACHINE and REPAIR Specialize in: *Precision machine work *Custom fabrication ••Tractor & Combine repairs •Replacement machinery parts '/a mile West of Kippen Brad Dennis 262-2687 262-2616 Call anytime Men's Fastball Standings GP W L 20 14 3 20 15 5 20 8 10 20 7 11 20 2 17 Last Week's Scores Lawries Dynamos Norholme Merners Vikings BACHERT MEATS. Cali us for your custom slaughtering needs SLAUGHTER DAY TUESDAY 'Foy yo.,r freezer sides of Beef. Pork. Lamb or Veal We specialize in home cured meals and old fashioned country style pork sausage. no fillers added All meal Govt Inspected mile eget $89328 d Welton v® rr T `OPTS 3 31 0 30 2 18 2 16 1 5 Aug. 6: Merners 0, Vikings 7; Dynamos 7, Merners 0. Aug. 10: Dynamos 7, Norhohne 0; Vikings 7, Merners 0; Dynamos 10, Lawries 2. Aug. 11: Playoffs • Vikings 5, Dynamos 8, best 3 out of 5; Clinton Pee Wees qualify for playoffs The Clinton Pee Wee baseball team -con tinues to demonstrate that it is the class Pee Wee team in the W.O.A.A. The Clinton boys, who are 17-0 in league play this year, qualified to represent the W.O.A.A. in Ontario Baseball Association playoffs to be .held in Bolton next week. The tournament.. 'which was held in Listowel openedt on • August 8 with Clinton meeting Port Elgin.. The game was played in -a continuous light rain which made for terrible playing condi- tions. Mike Pelss relieved Alan Hill to gain the victory. The final score was Clinton 20, Port Elgin 13. The . Clinton attack was led by Shawn Chipchase with a home run, a triple and a single; Chris Fox and Jason Fleet who each got a double and two singles, and Alan Hill who collected three singles. In the second game, on August 10, Alan Hill pitched a strong three hit game as Clin- ton overwhelmed Listowel 12-3. Brad De Wys collected two frits for Clinton. In the third game, Clinton faced the Pee Wees from St. Mary's who were also undefeated at this point in the tournament. Alan Hill and Mike Pelss shared the pitching as Clinton' claimed an 11-9 victory. Hitting two each.played so stars oithe gaiine ie Chris F os andJason. Overall, in over thirty games Fleet with three hits each. - far this season, the Pee Wees have St. Marys then dropped to the loser's side demonstrated all the characteristics of a of the tournament but fought their way back potential championship team with excellent to meet Clinton again in the final game of dese, strong pitching and powerful the double knock -out format. hitting. I Alan Hill pitched superbly as With same good luck added in, they should Crushed St Marys 17-4. Savin Hunter led Clint,'all ', do well in the provincial play -downs which Clinton batters with three hits with Chris will begin soon. Fox, Mike` Pelss and Alan Hill contributing Raceway holds Hospital Day... • from page 14 Heaman and Glenn Mitchell of Ailsa Craig. three third finishes in the last six starts. Red Carnation, driven by Tom Strauss, was Super Skippy was second for Brian Henry second for George Glouroukos of Jackson- and owner Ray 0' Dorico of Limehouse and ville, Florida. 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