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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-04-26, Page 21r S davek Where did we go wrong? Canada's national sport, dismem- berment on ice...ah, that should be hockey, has been dealt stiffer blows lately than a Gordie Howe elbow to the ear lobe.. Recently two distinguished men with a reserved interest in the sport spoke out against what they consider rough tactics in the game. CBC commentator Dave Hodge was close to tears when the Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames tried to separate noses from respective faces in a preliminary round skirmish between the teams. Seems he was not im- pressed. " Then last week, Bobby Hull, revered • as the Golden Jet when the purpose of hockey was to score goals, took a slapshot at hockey via the daily newspapers of the country. \ . ) Hull has not only quit hockey ( he already has his million) but pulled his _ 17 -year old son from the game insisting Inside this section: Champion looks to Far EAst for new plant site Page 3A Domtar earnings good in all areas except pulpwoodPage 3A Colborne Township Council wants to offer for resale unused burial plots Page 6A Vimy Ridge veterans honored at Legion Branch 109 event Page 8A Peter Muller of the Toronto Argonauts will speak at •Sunday lay service Page 9A that coaches -stressed guerilla warfare tactics instead of passing and skating. Certainly Hull, who in his day was capable of'scoring by drilling a slap - shot through a goalie's midsection,is respected in hockey circles. His opinion on the deterioration of hockey may fall on attentive ears. Why our famed Golden Jet insists that minor league coaches are more intent on instructing eager youngsters on the fine art of dislodging a player's face with a single flick of the Koho while keeping the helmut intact. Certainly a valuable trick to be plied in the trenches of the NHL. • Is it true, as Hull claims, that our country's minor and professional players are more adept at severeing a nose with a simple application of an elbow, cuasing irrepairable damage to the groin with "a slick knee jerk or removing a row of biscupbids without raising a sweat? AMP His concerns seem to imply that it is so. Why need a player be able to shoot, skate and pass if he can immobilize an entire team with stunning stickwork? As a rule NHL teams do maintain a player or two who take time away from friendly intimidation to score goals. How can we possibly apply such apple pie virtues to the warriors of our national sport? It's ludicrous. Anyone with endless tracks of stit- ching criss-crossing his face, a severed ear, toothless smile and legs minus kneecaps is immediately identified as a hockey player of exceptional talen- t. Would an excited youngster standing outside Maple Leaf Gardens seeking autographs be able to identify hockey players from fans were it not for the battle scars etched on his face and body? It would be difficult at best and the youngster may end up with an autograph of Harry Glum, a Hamilton postman attending the game. Injuries are identifiable with hockey. Players wear them as trophies and are easily distinguishable from ordinary men. Men who limp noticeably, have one ear slightly severed and a puck em- bedded in their brow and find it dif- ficult to talk with a noticeable lack of teeth are hockey players. Any Canadian can recognize the signs. Would adoring youngsters be able to recognize Tiger Williams outside the rink were it not for the scars on his face and a nose pushed back into the area of his sinus cavitis? Surely his autograph would be snubbed. And who is to say that Bobby Orr would be the subject of attention if he possessed a full •compliment of kneecaps (two). Take away the rough part of hockey and the players would like ordinary people. thederich IGNAL STAR 132—YEAR 17 THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1979 SECOND SECTION Another April storm -another lost ship BY JOANNE BUCHANAN April storms, like the one experienced by Goderich residents a few weeks ago, are not really so unusual. People just tend -to forget about -them. Rod Bogie of Goderich remembers one par- ticular April storm very well. It was 57 years ago -When he was on- his first voyage as a deck hand on The -Martian. He was only 16 years old at the time. His--sh-i-p wa s doc k€d •--at-. Sault Ste. Marie and all around it blew a furious storm, the storm of April 1922. The Canadian Government Steamer LAMBTON, a lighthouse tender ship, had left Sault Ste. Marie on Tuesday, April 18 at 10:30 a.m. to place five lighthouse keepers on Parisian Island, about 20 miles above the Soo; Caribou Island, about 90 miles above the Soo or 56 miles above Whitefish Point and Michipicoten Harbor, approximately 120 miles from the Soo, all in Lake Superior. The LAMBTON got caught in the same storm experienced by Mr.. Bogie. . • It wasn't until about a week la -ter. that -Mr. Bogie found out himself that the LAMBTON had had- _been.- in — the storm and was lost. As a deckhand he could only go by the few stories he heard. No doubt- his superiors knew full details of the loss at the time, he says. For so -me.- reason, the storm of April 1922 and the loss of the LAMBTON stayed in Mr. Bogie's mind.. Perhaps it was because it was his first voyage or maybe just his curious nature. However, he could never find any information about the loss of the LAMBTON in books he read and only the older sailors seemed to remember the ship itself. Younger sailors had either never heard of it or they confused it with another steamer also called the LAMBTON which was wrecked on the Parisian Island shoal in 1927 resulting in two lives lost. CAPTAIN'S PI•CTU-RE Mr. Bogie took an early retirement from sailing a-f-t-er abou-t-2-7-er--28-year-s- of it. He never really lost interest in ships and the water though and he continued to do research in this area. One day while he was in the Marine Room at the Huron County • Pioneer Museum in Goderich, he saw a picture of Captain Alxander Brown, skipper of the CGS LAMBTON! It seems that Captain Brown, although living in Owen Sound at the time he was lost with his ship, was horn in Bayfield and still •had relatives in the area. Mr. Bogie contacted the captain's relatives and they provided him with a picture of "the LAMBTON. Before this, Mr. Bogie had no idea as to what the ship looked like. --�M-r-�--1�e�i�-{�i 1-i•o•ug h those at the museum might be interested in the picture of the steamer to hang alongside the captian's picture in the Marine Room. So, before returning it to the family, he had-a-oep-y-of it made— for the museum. Curator ' Raymond Sdotchmer said he wished he had some information to.go with the picture for those people who were curious about it. Mr. Bogie then wrote to the public archives and was surprised to receive detailed information in the summer of 1977 in- cluding a report of J.N. Arthurs, Superintendent of Lights, on the last known movements of the CGS LAMBTON and of the search for her, dated May 2, 1922 plus a list of those•who were lost with the ship. The following is what Mr. Bogie found out: The CGS LAMBTON departed Sault Ste. Marie on Tuesday, April 18, 1922 at 10:30 a.m. in the company .of the • Glen - finnan and the Glenlivet, also known • as :the Playfair boats, of Midland. Heavy ice was encountered by the three ships well. past Parisian Island and heavy gales from the North West packed ice into Whitefish Bay which had been fairly free of ice up until then. On April 19 at 2 p.m. the Glenfinnan reported the LAMBTON 40 miles out from Whitefish Point heading for Caribou Island (apparently the captain had to bypass Parisian Island and head straight for Caribou because of the storm). The LAMBTON was also seen by the Westmount and the Midland Prince near this position. Then the storm got stronger, the snow shut out visibility and they all lost sight of the LAM-BTON. • WRECKAGE On Sunday, April 20 at 6:30 a.rn. the Valcartier reported seeing wreckage floating about 25 miles south east of. Michipicoten Island and 15 miles east of Caribpu Island. Later the steamer Grant Morden and Collingwood reported seeing wreckage floating 14 miles north west of Crisp Point. As far as Mr. Bogie can tell, no wreckage from the ship was ever per - served. None of the ships which spotted the wreckage probably stopped to really inspect Turn to page 2A • The Canadian Government Steamer LAMBTON, a lighthouse tender boat, was lost in the April storm of 1922. Rod Bogie, a retired sailor from Goderich, remembers the storm of 57 years ago very well. He was on his first voyage then as a 16 -year-old deck hand on the Martian. His boat was docked at Sault Ste. Marie and he didn't hear about the loss of the LAMBTON until about a week later. (Photo courtesy of the Huron County Pioneer Museum) This picture of Captain Alexander Brown is hanging in the Marine Room at the Huron County Pioneer Museum. Captain Brown was only 53 - years -old when he went down with his ship, the CGS LAMBTON, 57 years ago. He had been living in Owen Sound at the time but was originally from Bayfield. (Photo courtesy of the Huron County Pioneer Museum) Got a strange sort of telephone call Saturday afternoon. "Hello Mr. Seddon? This is your lucky day." "Quick tell me why. The dog was run over by the mailman's car. I was fixing a door and smacked my thumb with the hammer. Almost the exact opposite of what I wanted to happen today hap- pened today. You're running out of time so tell me just why this is my lucky day." . v "Well You have been selected to w'in one of four gifts. You have won either $75 in cash, $50 worth of gasoline, a dinner for two valued at $25 or a Maple Leaf hostess set." "That's good. I'll take the cash or the gas." "Well it's not quite that simple." "I didn't think so. I really feel I, not you, should be able to judge whether or not this is my lucky day. What's this all about?" "Mr. Sedd.n•you have been selected for orre,of those four fine gifts and all you have to do to receive one is pick one of four numbers and take a vaccuum cleaner demonstration." "I don't quite understand. I thought I had already won and now you're telling me how I can win." "Oh you have already won. All you have to do is pick a number. Each number represents a prize. To collect the prize all you have to do is permit a salesman to • call on you and demon- strate the vaccuum cleaner. There is no purchase necessary." "I guess I can look at the vaccuum cleaner for $75." "Good. Your numbers are 216, 217, 218 and 219. Pick one." "219." "Okay. Now how does tomorrow night sound for the demonstration. Would 7:00 be alright?" "Hang un. Back it up a bit. What did I win?" "Oh I don't know. I don't work fon the Vaccuum cleaner company. I just make the calls and set up the ap- pointment. I tell them what number you picked and the salesman will tell you what you won. I honestly don't know. "See how lucky I am? Anyhow 7:00 tomorrow night is no good. I'm not going' to be home, I'm not going to be home tonight nor all day Sunday." "How about Monday night?" "I guess that's all right. Have him C. all abdut 7:00." Convinced the whole thing was a setup and that even if the vaccuum cleaner man showed up all I was going to get was a hard sell and a hostess set, whatever that is, I passed the whole thing off. Monday night I got another phone call. The same outfit. They. still don't know what I won but they'll tell me if I'll explain how the salesman can find our house. My wife did the grocery shopping Monday after 'work. The kids still have to be bathed and put to bed. There's a little work to be done around the house and supper is just a rumour so far. "How about making it 9:00?" Wishing I had just told them to keep their prizes and forget the whole thing I got ready to see just how much dirt this machine will suck up. But 9:00 carne and went and nobody showed. Waiting on this guy I settled in front of the television. I got interested in a show and groaned every time a car went down the road. There was no way I wanted to see a vaccuum cleaner now, no matter how good it is. No one showed all evening. I still don't know just how lucky Saturday was for me but I'm going to press the issue. I held up my end of the bargain and gave them •permis'sion to come into my home and show me their product. Just because they didn't get there doesn't mean I shouldn't get my prize. Maybe Saturday was my lucky day. What is a hostess set alhyway; jerf ddort 7 )1- -.J