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hikv;Ich Over a, luggth Since baseball season ended, the
VaiY•oppOrtunity 1 get Crier the summer to work out the
Opted, cObwebs. The entertainment and eXerase the
Sport prOVided was an important distraetion from :the day
to day deteileratiOn which overtakes this body.
' Then** was October. No playing. Body dYing. Time
to de.tellnething. A suggestion from a friend that a group
gathered one night a week to play some basketball:seemed
like fitie way to fill that void. 1 shonld go out. Even if, int
fttet•firaW t heir ntake this body into a fine running
nutcldne,. I can, at least in my own mind, dupe myself into
believing in the infinite benefits of the toil. •
So there I was, out on the court, warming up and:making
nevfacquaintances. I think I can really play basketball well
141 OriTY v—vIen tTiere is nobody elte playing. With any
opposition my game quicitly degenerates from the vaguely
possible to the utterly indescribable. I can accept that. It's
never been my game.
I was rather pleased with the shots I was making in
warmup. LarlOs, jump shots, hooks. You name it. I was
putting them in. But there was no bne around, however
even that was not enough to protect -me •from, the
knowledge of how brutal I am at the game. It was one
instance, illustrating truth like a ray of lominated insight,
which ted me this game and I will not make friends easily.
At the high school there are five or six steel bars, about
an inch thick, fastened to the wall of the gym. 1 had just
finished one.of those dazzling layups and, as one does
often on these occasions, I relaxed the body to let the wall
'stop me. I forgot about the steel bars. Gash, pain, bleed.
An auspicious debut w.as..confirmed, but for the wrong
reasons as blood poured profusely from cuts on two
fingers-.
Fortunately, there was medical assistance available, and
the damage was swiftly. repaired. The game was fun, and
nobody seested to mind my feeble efforts. (Layups, for
example, ale supposed to bounce gently off the backboard
and into the hoop. Not, as one of mine did, go screaming
off the board and all the way back to the foul line.)
What 1 didn't expect to result from this little injury were
comments from friends that 1 was on the receiving end of
later. Twice, good friends, never ones to miss an
opportunity at taking a shot at my five-foot-sixness,
amused thernselves with what I'm sure they considered
witty conjecture. "What happened, Herb? Get it caught on
ithe vAien you were dunking, it?” Chortle. Chortle. I
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by HerbShoveller
shudder to think what my nephew, a six -foot -lour forward
for the University of Ottawa basketball team, would have
said. I'd best not tell,him. snot good to distort the image
younger people have of their elders.
Only recently while reciting one of my awkward
escapades I was reminded of good ol' Mr. Murphy his
carved -in -stone law; what -can go wrong, will. More than
anything, I think, that non --constitutional = provisioh.
applied to those who are moving their meagre belonging
from one spot to another.
It is hot that breakdowns occur in the act of moving, but
rather that wheo the shift is complete, and the unpacking
is'started, there are inevitably things which disappear. Not
chairs or tables or anything like that, but still things that
under no circumstances should make unexplained
departures. —
This time, it was a pair of cross-country ski boots, and,
of course, it didn'tloccur to me until everything had been
carefully stowed away. Unpack, repack, unpa9k, 'repack.
Nothing. Little nasties roll off the tongue, bu they don't
help at all. Quickly, I went from anxiously waiting for snow
to hoping there isn't any this year.
I've gathered some rather interesting glances around
the Expositor over/the past few weeks. Financial woes
have led Me to make adjustments my evil habit, smoking. I
have returned to the age old art of manufacturing the
harmful little sticks myself, rather than buying them.
I am inclined, in an effort to further reduce costs, to roll
my cigarettes very thin. Hence the looks. What •are you
smoking? It doesn't help that my favourite tabacco is
Dutch and has a fragrance different from that of regular
tobacco. You certainly don't do it for the double -takes, but
the questioning stares are amusing.
As he usually does. Joe Crozier rang me up Monday
morning to discuss the past. week of his Leafs. Joe was
quite jovial after the team had finished a very succesful
naadtrip- five points out of six.
I hated to be the one to bring him down. but I had to say
that. in spite of his team's strong showing,.the *games
weren't nearly as impressive as the numbers indicate. in
Pittsburg they'Were hopelessly boring, returning to their
defensive style of two years ago, and I had to ask him if
Roger 11.01s9n :had secretly slipped back into the Leaf
camp. In Colorado, they blew a two -goal lead and only
ended bp with a tie,.and in Winnipeg, in spite of winning,
they seemed, ,mOre intent on setting records for foolish
penalties, A geed team wouldhave mowed them down, -1,- •
told him in no uncertain terms.
It was important, I felt, to bring his feet back down to
earth. OVer-confidence breed i complaceney, I stressed to
him and then discipline ultimately breaks down.;
"Your're right, of course," he said. "I sometimes forget
I'm the coach and get caught up in the bupheria of victory.
I have to: Set the example of discipline:"
"That's right," I replied. "Look around you, You said at
the beginning of the year ,the team would •be
offensively -minded. Good idea, but nbt at the expense of
defense. Also, that style of play requires swift, crisp
passing. You show the players films of Montreal a couple
years ago. It might help them get an idea of what a pass
looks like." •
"DitiTtIfe-passing look that -bad?" he -queried:
•"You know it, skip. Stunk," was my unsympathetic
answer. "Picard was supposed -to be this great mobile
defenseman who could move the puck for you. He can't
make a pass to save his life. When he does get the puck up
the ice, it's at about 90 miles an hour and waist high and
usually goes for icing. You couldn't stop it with a laeroNe
stick.
:Well...," he started.
"No, I jumped, ''There:s more, Somebody better remind
Anderson there are.four other skaters on the ice besides
him. Tell Turnbull that, too. I think all the praise he is
getting is going to his head and not getting out. He wears
that helmet -F -1m, he's the worst thing you've got on the
power play. AH he does is shpot. And I know his shot is
fgood, but every time?" . _
"I didn't realize all that."
"I'm sorry, Joe."
"They're in such good spirits now, 1 hate to be tough on
them." •
"They're big boys, Joe. Don't spoil them."
"Yea, I know. Thanks for bringing me back to earth,
Herb."
"Any time, Joe, Talk to you Monday."
"Right."
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neighbors this week.
Angeline and Carrie Hare
of Stratford spent weekend
with their grandparents Mr.
and Mrs. Hared McCallum.
Mrs. Ed. Regele
accompanied by Ivirs. Fred
Kistner of Bro-dhagen
attended the craft show
which was tied at Atwood on
Nov. 8th.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kistier
of Brodhagen visited with
Mr. and MTS. Robert Kistner
at Seaforth and also visited
with Mrs. Mary Thornton
who is not enjoying the best
of health at Seaforth
Community Hospital.
Mrs. Louisa Bennewies of
Senior Citizens Home
Mitchelltforrnely of McKillop
12th Concession, is a patient
in Seaforth 'Community
Hospital
Mr Norman Hubley
visite° last week with friends
in Ottawa.
Bryan
Vincent
top tractor
puller
Bryan Vincent was
awarded Molson's top
honour of total points' series
for 1000 lb. & 1200 lb. mini
tractor pulling at the
C.M.T.P.A.
rl .4•a•Auct- Satur•
dtiy night at Paris. His
brother Barry came in second.
Both brothers received many
trophes & priies and
competed in a total of 21
. pulls this last summer. BarrY
was the youngest puller in
the ( M .T .P. A .
The.; will both be compet•
tng at Canada Farm Shy on
Friday. Jan. 29. 1981 at the
Mg Indoor pull.
FOR THE BUILDING FUND — A highlight of the annual veterans
banquet at Seaforth Legion Hall, Saturday night was the presentation by
—the -Legion aux ii lar y -of -a- cheque -for -$5000--t-o-the _
Here Auxiliary president Thelma Coombs hands the cheque to a smiling
Bill Wilbee president of Branch 156. (Photo by Phillips)
VOLUNTEERS IN TORONTO—Ten junior volunteers from the Seaforth
Community Hospital attended the Sunday session- for teenage volunteers
at the recent 70th annual convention of the Hospital Auxiliaries
Association in Toronto. Shown at the convention with their drivers who
accompanied them are: Top photo left to right, Leo Teatero and Pam Bell,
back row Joyce Lee, chaperone, Bobbi Dale, Joan Chesney, chaperone;
Grace Titford, chaperone, Mrs. Yvonne Kitchen, Assistant Director of
Nurses at Seaforth Community Hospital; and Sandra Lee. Bottom photo it
left -front row Laura Chesney and Shirley Dinsmore, Chaperone; back
row, Debbie Dinsmore, Frances Teatero, chaperone; Paul Stewart; Carla
Thompson, Cindy Taylor and Sandra Dorssers. (Photo by Oke)
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