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What is this game called golf?
My golfing talents are very •limited,.
Before this year I was: doing well if I got on
the golf course three or four tunes a season.
This year some of my journalistic cohorts
and myself have been on the course quite
regularly, but I can't say that I've shown
any vast Improvement. In fact, I think the
first game I played was my best one of the
season.
Golfing requires good eye -hand co-
ordination, technique, and above all, pa-
tience. After hitting the ball into every
possible water trap, it is very hard to be op-
timistic about the remainder of the game.
Recently I spent a weekend at a cottage
near Port Elgin. After basking in the sun for
the better part of the day, we decided to
leave the solitude of cottage life and head in-
to civilization. Our destination was the Holi-
day Country Club.
Our golfing crew consisted of three peo-
ple. Two of us had golfed on and off while the
other had never picked up a club. (She tried
to use a tee for every shot.) On the nine hole
par three course, we ended up with scores of
48, 49 and 64.
But the most interesting part of the
scorecard was the message written on the
back, It read:
What is this Golf?
The game is played on carefully selected
grass with little white balls and as many
clubs as the player can afford. These balls
cost from 75 cents to $25 and it is possible to
support a family of 10 people (all adults) for
five months on the money represented by
the balls lost by some golfers in a single
afternoon.
A golf course has 18 holes, 17 of which are
unnecessary and put in to make the game
harder.
. A "hole" is a tin cup in the centre of a
green. A "green" is a, small parcel of grass
costing about $1.98 a blade and usually
located between, a brook and a couple of ap-
ple trees or a lot of unfinished excavations.
The idea is to get the golf ball from a given
point into each of the 18 cups in the fewest
strokes possible and the greatest number of
words.
The ball must not be thrown, pushed or
carried. It must be prepelled by about $200
worth of curious looking implements,
especially designed to provoke the owner.
After each hole has been completed the
golfer counts his strokes. Then he subtracts
six and says, "Made it in five. That's one
above par. Shall we playfor 50 cents on the
next hole, too?"
After the final, or 18th hole, the golfer
adds up his score and stops when he reaches
86. Then he has a swim, a pint of gin, sings
Sweet Adeline with six other liars and calls
it the end of a perfect day.
Six local teams to compete
in Old Timers tournament
CLINTON - The Clinton Oldtimers' Slo-`
pitch tournament is set to go this weekend.
Six teams, consisting of players who are all
over 30 -years of age, will take to the dia-
mond at Community Park Friday at 7:30
p.m.
Last year's "B" division winners, Clinton,
will 'kick the tournament off when they meet
Auburn. The • second game will see
Holmesville take on Vanastra. Saturday
morning will start with last year's "A"
champions, Porters Hill, playing
Londesboro at 9 a.m.
Semi-finals will get underway at 10:30
a.m. with the "B" final being played on
Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and the "A" final star-
ting at 3 p.m.
According to organizers Ross Jewitt and
Jack Armstrong, refreshments will be
available throughout the tournament.
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By Anne'Narejlio .
BA.YFIELDIlsa Bauer didn't Wink she
would make the University g. Waterloo field.
hockey team. When she was asked if she
would like to be on the Canadian Olympic
team, she was quite surprised.
The 24 -year-old university graduate has
been spending her .summers in Bayfield
since she was a young girl. She was happy to
get back to the, serenity of the small town,
despite enjoying the events at the 1984
Olympics in Los Angeles. The Canadian
team finished in fifth place but the thrill of
competing in the Games was reward enough
for Miss Bauer.
Late start
Most Olympic athletes will say they have
dreamt of competing in the Olympics since
they were young. But Miss Bauer didn't
start playing field hockey until she was in
Grade 12.
"Volleyball and field hockey are played
during the same season and I'd played
volleyball the year before and didn't really
like it. I guess it's not my favorite sport. I
had heard that the field hockey team needed
players, and I've always liked running
sports, so I decided to try it;" she explained.
Her high school coach had been on .the
Canadian team three years prior to Miss
Bauer's debut and she felt that being taught
the rules properly, helped her a lot.
In university, she had the choice of
playing basketball or field hockey. Miss
Bauer was concerned about the amount of
time the longer basketball season would cut
into her study schedule, so she decided on
field hockey.
The University of Waterloo's field hockey
team was usually on the losing side, but last
year they placed second in Ontario and sixth
in the Nationals in New Brunswick. It was
during the Nationals that Miss Bauer turned
a few heads by being appointed to the
Tourney 11 team. (This is similar to an all-
star team and is made up of players who
have been recognized,at various provincial
and university tournaments, )
At that time, Marina VanDeMerwe, the
Canadian Olympic team's coach, asked
Miss Bauer if she would like to be put on the
back-up squad.
Training camps
April was the first' training session for
Miss Bauer. The team had not yet been
named, but those trying out were taken to
Los Angeles to use the Olympic turf for
three weeks.
Clinton Jr. "C"
MUSTANGS CflMr,
Starting
September 171h, 1984
at 8:00 pm.
Clinton Arena
NO personal invitations are going to be
sent by mail Miss year. Check coming
events on channel 12. For more
information
PLEASE CALL - 482-3530
482-9941 or 482-9755
IRA
Four weeks at the end of May and
beginning of June Were spent in Holland.
According to MU* Bauer, Holland .,has
excellent club systems, so. the Canadians
ventured down to experience them, From
July 3-15 the team was in Montreal to play
•
on the astro turf. 'July 15-23 was spent in
Califoyxlia so the teaniil members could
beeonze acctistomedto.the eiimate.,On July
23 they headed for the Olympic Village.
Training consisted of two two-hour
practice sessions and one hour on the track.
Lisa Bauer recently returned from the 1984 Olympic Games where she competed in the
women's field hockey competition. Lisa'enjoyed her time at the Olympics but was happy
to home and relax with her family. Above, Lisa,shows her nephew, Daniel, how to play
smashball. (Anne Narejko photo)
O.H.A. Int. 'C' Group 4 &
Mitchell Red Devils Int.
,Hockey Club present
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Mitchell & Di$tr-ict
Community Centre
LICENSED L.L.B.O.
(Age of majority card required)
Advance ticket
At door s7.00
Doors open at 8 p.m.
No Refunds
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT
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Silver News & Beckers, Mitchell
Tony's Truck Stop, Bornholm
Drills, one -on -ones and *Ong viere
stressed during the sessions: while timed
5,000 metre runs and sprint works were .. id
on the track.
While at school, Miss Bauer had to
continue her training on her own. Here she
did some running and stink work.
"Running was no problem, to do on my
own, but the stick work was more difficult.
Sometimes I would just graliAnyone and
give them a stick," she explained.
Olympic Games
"The opening ceremonies were
unbelieveable! There were so many people
cheering. I think they did a great job
introducing the games," Miss Bauer
commented on the colorful display which
caught the eyes of those across the world.
The field hockey competition was set up as
a round robin tournament with the top six
finishers at the world tournament vying for
the gold medal. For this reason, the field
hockey competition was not affected by the
boycott.
The Canadian team lost their opening
game against the United States 3-1 and
dropped their second game to West
Germany, 3-0. Then they pulled up their
socks and defeated Australia 2-1. The team
then played to a 2-2 tie with the country that
ended up winning the gold. medal, Holland.
Their final game was played against New
Zealand, winning 4-1.
When the competition was over, Canada,
the United States and Australia were tied for
third place. The officials then looked at the
goal differences and Canada was counted
out. However, the United States and,
Australia were tied in that statistic as well.
To decide the third place winner, a stroke -
off (similar to a penalty shot) was held. The
United States finished third and Canada
placed fifth while West Germany took
second place.
The Canadian team and Miss Bauer left'
Los Angeles without a medal and she is
undecided as to whether she will set her
sights on the 1988 games.
Not winning a. medal disappointed Miss
Bauer: However, the fact that she had not
expected to take part at all, helped ease the
sorrow.
"My national experience was so short I
never expected to be there, so I found
everything really exciting. It was fun to
meet the other athletes from the different
countries and sporting events," she said.
And after all; isn't that what sports is all
about? ,
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season winds down
Summer is drawing to a close and with fall
aproaching, the tournaments wi11 finish off
the end of September. At Atwood's Women's
Pairs Tournament August 21, Lois' Haines
and Audrey Walsh were among the winners.
On August 22, Seaforth held their 55th an-
niversary tournament. It was a very' cold
and wet day but they were able to finish
their games. Winners were Bert and. Jean
Gray and Della Slavin and Walt Newcombe.
At Wingham on August 25, Lois and Don
Haines were among the winners..'
The Goderich Club held a Women's
Trebles Tournament on August 29. Jean
Gray, Doreen McCallum and Ella Rich-
mond were the winners. Clinton.held a mix-
ed pairs tournament on September 1. Cliff
Brown and his .partner from St. Marys won
the tournament. Harve and Doreen. Mc-
Callum of Blyth were second.
Other winners were Della Slavin and Phil
Cornish of the Clinton Club, Len and Peg
Lumsden of'Goderich and Harve and Grace
Scrimgeour of Goderich.
The next . outside tournament will . be
September 9 (mixed trebles) at 1:30 p.m.
The winners at the local jitneys were Bert
Gray, Audrey Walsh, Cliff Ashton, Alma
Madill, Doug Ball and Jean Gray.
The Clinton Club's last dutside. tourna-
ment for the 'season will be Men's Pairs on
Sept. 15.
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