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CLINTONNEWS-RECORD
TI3'CURSDAY, APRIL 19, 19511
PRESENT LADIES
WITH AWARD S
AS MARKSMEN
(By Wry] Heath) •
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A fine table of good food was
leid in the game room of Epps
Sport Shop when the Ladies'
Rifle Club held .its spring ban-
quet. Every member was out to
enjoy' the fine 'meal which the
ladies prepared. themselves, each
girl bringing a tasty contribution.
The two instructors, Ellwood
Epps and Bill Jervis, whose help-
ful advice meant so much to the
girls last fall when they were
just beginning, and who still are
called upon occasionally, when
Problems ' "arise, were special
guests. 'To show their apprecia-
tion of , this help, the girls of
the club presented suitable gifts
to Bill and Ellwood. These pre-
sentations were made by Norma
Grey, who thanked the instruct-
ors for their kindhess, making
special mention of Ellwood's gen-
erosity in donating the use of the
games: room to the 'Club for this
their first year. ,
Mr. Epps was called upon to
present the girls with the Domin-
ion Marksmen pins won thus far,
which are as followis:
Bronze: Genevieve Allen, Mar-
ion. Brown, Mary Brown, Isabel
)✓pps, Muriel Freeman, Norma
Grey, Beryl Heath, Rhoda Neil-
son, Irene Steep and Jean Thomp.-
son;
Silver: Genevieve Allen,, Isobel
Epps, Muriel Freeman, Norma
Grey and Beryl Health;
Gold: Isobel Epps and Norma
Grey.
After'clearing away and a dish
washing session, the ladies re-
turned to the game room where
Rex and Rhoda Neilson, showed
several interesting home movies
of their hunting and vacation
trips.
All in all it was a very success-
ful evening, in celebration of a
very successful year. It should
not, however, be regarded as the
conclusion of this year es the
regular Thursday shoots will con-
tinue for some time before the
warm 'weather takes the girls
outside on shooting nights to try
,their skill on groundhogs. You
may be sure they will be able
td knock over quite a few of
those little fellows!
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What's. The User
(A Sports Editorial by Richmond f Atkey)
The Bridgeport -Clinton OHA Intermediate "B" semi-final
,series of three games 'demonstrated one thing -at 'least.
No matter how good a "home-brew" team you have -no
matter how well the boys play together -no matter what spirit.
they show, and no matter what generous fan support they get-
it just cannot win against a teem that is playing in its wrong
classification.
After going through the series, it was obvious to anyone
with only half an eye and' only, a fragmentary knowledge of
the game of hockey, that the Bridgeport team should have been '
classified as Senior "B", or at least, Intermediate "A".
In fact, our good friend, •Len Taylor of Kitchener -Waterloo
Record, a close student of hockey who covered all the games
I3'ddgeport played this season, admitted that not only Bridge-
port, but also Ehnira and Walkerton, all of whom played in
the same group, should have been classified higher -for more
or less obvious reasons!
Now our "beef" is simply this -and we; hope some OHA
official or something reads this effusion -that there should be
at least one series in OHA Intermediate ranks in which the
boys from a small town, meanwhile working ,at their regular
occupations, should be allowed to play simonpure hockey with-
out benefit of highly -paid imports or the down -payment on a car.
Otherwise, there is only one answer -the death knell of
the kind of hockey by the kind of people who have been
playing it in Clinton and a few Other towns we could mention; '
very few, in fact! Len Taylor, in his "Snapshots on Sport"
published in The.. Record after the first game of the series,
commented thusly: "Clinton's team 'is a homebrew ,col-
lection that is just about the last of that vanishing species
hereabouts." How true! But also how • significant! Our guess
that one of the reasons is big, new costly arenas.
If some of those who ,really are interested in saving the'
game' to get' together, they might still do a job for the
youth of tins country.
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Writing to the Sports Editor in the Kitchener paper, "Just
one more disgusted fan", makes a few frank cracks about the
situation. He says:
Let's face it, sportsmen. 0,1 Kitchener, Waterloo and Bridge-
port! Tuesday night's `entertainment' (score 12-3 for Bridge-
port) at Waterloo Arena, all but closed another chapter on
the impending doom' of -Intermediate OHA hockey in smell towns:
"It is fairly . obvious • that the supporters of 'homebrew'
hockey teams will not dontinue to, support a team which is
almost certain of being - eliminated 'by a `peeked' team. It is
equally obvious that the OHA is going to wake up one of
these bright mornings to realize that their hockey reserves
are fast dwindling."
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And while we are doing a little "beefing", let's tell about
the financial side of the third game played in Waterloo Arena
Saturday evening after a toss of the coin had gone against
Manager Bent Glidden of the Colts.
Before us we have a copy of the Box Office Statement:
here are a few facts gleaned from it. Total attendance was 566;
total amount received was $375.95. After taking off $12.50 for
tickets, $1.50 for commission (whatever that is), $42.80 for
HELP (taken out before the split between arena and teams,
you'll notice), the net gate was $319.15. The teams' share was
placed at $159.60 and the Arena's at $159.55.
Then to start to deduct from the teams' share: $33 for
referees, $18.80 for the OHA, $18 for advertising $37.80 for
transportation; a total of $107.60, Ieaving a .balance of $52 for
the teams. Splitting this, Clinton's share was $26 and trans-
portation $37.80, a total of $63.80. And we understand the bus
that took the team to Waterloo and back cost a good deal
more than $63.801
The jaunt to Waterloo may have been a social success but
it certainly wasn't a financial wow. ' And we suspect• that the -
teams might hove filled Goderich Memorial Arena Saturday
night, and the two clubs at least might have paid expenses;
CLINTON "C"
ELIMINATES
BAYFIELD' CLUB
After two close and exciting
matches, Clinton "C" team edg-
ed Bayfield 13-11 in the Western
Ontario Badminton Association
"C" finals and earned the right
to meet Clinton RCAF in a two -
match series for the champion-
ship.
Bayfield captured the first
semi-final 7-5, but Clinton came
through with an 8-4 victory in
the second on the Town Hall
courts here Tuesday evening,
winning the men's doubles 2-1
and the mixed doubles 5-1, but
losing the ladies' doubles 1-2.
Results were' as follows:
Ladies' doubles -Merger tt Mack
and Dorothy Hovey (B) defeat-
ed Norma Grey and Merle Palm-
er (0), 18-14, 15-3; Kenna Worth
and Helen Blair (B) deleted. Mary
Brown and Muriel Elliott (C),
15-4, 15-4; Phyllis Mack and
Janet MacLeod (B) lost to Phyl-
lis Thompson and Edith Pepper
(C), 10-15, 12-15.
Men's doubles - Ernie Hovey
and Henry Nesbitt (B) defeated
Charles Johnson and Graham
Jenkins (C),15-6, 9-15, 15-12;
Ted Mack anJack Sturgeon (B)
lost .to Wes Haddy and Percy
Brown (C), 15-12, 1-15, 13-15;
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Drama Festival
The executive of Huron Pres-
bytery YPU of the United Church
of Canada sponsored a drama
festival in Londesboro Commun-
ity Hall.
Two 40 minute The
plays
were presented. The first, entit-
led: `Release," Was put on by
the Young ''People of Fordwich
United 'Church. The second one,
wee put on by the Young People's
Union of Belgrave United Church
and was entitled: "Joseph of
Armithea."
Don Warner and Bill Parker (B)
lost to Bob Allan and Glen Wise
(C), 12-15, 4-15;
Mixed doubles -Hovey and M.
Mack (B) defeated Jenkins end
M. Elliott (,C), 15-2, 15-8; T. Mack
and K. Worth (B) lost to P.
Brown and N. Grey (C), 12-15,
12-15; Nesbitt -and Dorothy Hovey
(B) lost to • C. Johnson and M.
Brown (C), 11-15;' 15-•11, 9-15;
Bob Turner and H. Blair (B)
lost to Haddy and M. Palmer" (C),
10-15, 12-15; Warner end P. Mack
(B) lost to Murray Draper and
P. Thompson (C), 11-5, 4-15;
Turner and J. MacLeod (B) lost
to Allan and Connie Simpson (C),
9-15, 4-15. -
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LOCAL. CURLERS
WIN TROPHY
AT GODERICI-I,
Organized only this year, a
group of curlers from Clinton
closed the 1951 season last week
by capturing the _Goderich Ele-
vator and Transit Trophy at the
three-day invitation bonspiel, in
Goderich Memorial Arena last
week when 27 rinks participated.
The beautiful trophy is now en
display in the store of Hugh R.
Hawkins, skip. The other mem-
bers of the rink were Rev. D. J.
Lane, Lorne J. Brown and Dr.
Harry A. McIntyre.
During the season, the Clinton
curlers - about 20 strong - used
Seaforth Community Centre
Arena as home ice.
It is a long time since din-
tonians have been. active in the
Scottish game,
In winning the trophy, the
Clinton rink defeated, rinks from
Goderich, Stratford and Owen
Sound, the last-named in the
final.
BAYFIELD WINS
THIRD POSITION
DRAMA FESTIVAL
(Continued from Page One)
from Nova Scotia. Uncle Geaorge
is no relative, just, an old ship
mate of Joe's father who found a
soft harbour with the Swiggins
when he got too old to go cod-
ing.
Much against Do's wishes, Joe
goes sealing, not on one of the
regular seal ships that sail out.
of St. John's each spring, but on
the broken ice that fills the bey
if the little fishing pont. The
wind changes -the floes on which
the men of the village are carry-
ing on their bloody work of
slaughtering the baby seals are
driven before the wind, out of
the harbour, and• into the open
see. In the Swiggins home Sadie
Frenchman, a neighbour woman
who is herselfa sealing widow
comforts Do, while Uncle Gee-
orge works out a method of learn-
ing whether or not Joe is safe.
He sends a wire to the radio
station at St. John's and asks that
a message be put on, Doyle's But-
letin, Newfoundland's radio -
newspaper. If Joe and his friends
have managed 'to reach safety on
the island that stands at the'
mouth of the hay the owner of
the radio there will light a signal
fire.
The exertion' of sending the
wire has strained Uncle Geaorge's
90 -year-old heart. Through the
vigil of waiting for signals he
sinks lower and lower. As Do at
the window sees the light at last
that tells her they have beaten
the sea Uncle Geeorge dies, and
the inxorable sea, cheated of one
victim, claims another.
It was a moving play which
held one's attention from begin-
ning to end. It was directed, by
Mrs. Meriden Miller with Mrs.
Maynard Corrie as promptness.
WITH THE JUNIORS
Executive Meets
The first meeting of the new
executive of Huron County Jun -
or Farmers Associetion was held
in the Department of Agriculture
Office, Clinton, on Monday even-
ing, April 16, to arrange for the
spring and simurer programme.
a a a
Annual At -Home
The annual At -Home will be
held in Clinton District Collegiate
Institute on May 18, with Bobby
Downs' Orchestra supplying the.
music, Livestock judging cone -
petition and. Adhievement Day
will be in Seaforth on May 26.
a a a
Juniors Flom Scotland
Four members of the Junior
Farmers Association front Scot-
land will be in Huron County on
May 25 and 26. They were given
the trip to Canada for their ef-
forts in junior work in Scotland.
Some from Clinton likely will
have a chance to meet these Jun-
iors from Scotland, and some day
a Junior from Clinton may get
the chance to go to Scotland.
WORK ON LAND
AT STANDSTILL
'DUE TO WEATHER
"Cattle are being marketed in
increasing numbers at exception-
ally good prices," R. G. Bennett,
Agsicultural. Representative for
Huron County, announced today.
"Farmers had become a bit per-
turbed because of the dip in hog
prices, but most of them have
the hope that these will soon
level off," he said.
"Wheat is looking fairly well
although there are A number
fields where it seems to be kill
out on the knolls and extreme•
slopes, Hay and pastures also.•
ere coming along well, with per-
manent pastures greening up par-
ticularly well,
"A little plowing has been dome
in the County. However, work
on the lend, for the most part,
might be said to be at a stand-
still due to continued wet and
disagreeable weather. Sideroaae
at the present time are in very
poor condition."
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