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The Huron Expositor, 1987-12-23, Page 23THE HURON; EXPOSITOR, DECEMBER 23, 1987 - 11• parrLine'sh•ut;oit finally eliminated in !adies.broomball LADIES BROOMBALL PERTHO-QUEENS3 ' Keen Marg Henderson watched the scramble in front of the net, then listened to instructions and scored. Cheryl Kruse also trotted down ice to score for the Queens, assisted by Audrey Smith. Kruse got a break away later in the game and scored again... Perth Ladies know Christmas is getting close, and may have made a resolution to win every game in the New Year. JR. FARMERS'O-COMMERCIAL 4 Bev Shea humored her 'Commerical team with a magnificent goal off• a pass from Sophie Klaver. Joan Flanagan and Audrey Schenck saw Barb -Flanagan on her knees pleading for a pass, and they responded - she scored. News• for Heather Mcllwraith as she took a shot from the cor- ner then got her own rebound to score. Thanks for the help, Bev Shea. Mcllwraith later got a break away then passed off to Sophie Klaver who scored the Commercial girl's fourth goat The Farmers showed some real Christmas spirit. PARRLINE 2-WINTHROP 1 A shut out for the Parr Line goalie is no longer the talk as Susan Hulley scored off a deflection from Deb Murray, to give Win - wards Parr Line's Sandi Fremlin took a wind up and blasted the ball into the net. Team of past • fromg a e 10 P energy. - Certainly the amount of participation was , not en the scale that they.have now with so many oganized- games and long schedules. However there were organizations who en- couraged sports, particularly for boys, in such games as hockey, baseball, 'softball, soccer and one year the Lions Club had a league for Lacrosse. In this latter game I remember we even had to take a Physieal to see if our heart could take it. For many years the Seaforth athletic association was a sort of umbrella organiza- tion for many types of sports. In the 1920s Mr. Duncan put.up a cup and this was the beginning of Duncan Cup hockey on Satur- day mornings for boys age 7 to 16, Everyone paid 10 cents a game. When I wasi7 I took over as" a manager of a team with 19 aspir- mg hockey players all clamoring to be next on the ice. I believe it was that year that,Ken Doig made his debut along with his brother Knobby. - All around the town there was a host of pick up teams wherever there were enough kids around the corner to fill the roster. Ball games and shinny hockey were often played on the roads providing that the youngsters• came from the surrounding houses - other- wise there would be complaints about broken windows and trampled flowers. In winter, most people who had cars put them up on blocks in their garage and walked because the streets weren't ploughed - just the sidewalks. Our corner usually_playedhaseball games against other corner pick unlearns in what was known as Ferguson's field. That was the former Fairground property now mainly owned by the Seaforth Public school. In my time there wasn't anything built on it and we had a diamond opposite Andy McLean's home and next to Paul Cerroll's house. Finally a service station was built there so we moved to Scott's field which was behind Paul Carroll's house. That field too is now part of the school property. The Rennie family came to Seaforth from Hensall and settled In our corner at the end of John Street next to Sperling. They too lov- ed sports so we challenged their old friends in Hensel!. We went over on bicycles on the gravel roads and my brother Tom pedalled with me on the cross bar. He must have been tired but he took it in his stride. I can't remember who wort but we had a lot of €tin. Later on in the day, brother Der came over in the old Model T and we all piled in along with the bikes and struck off for home so at Ieast we saved some energy. During the winter time every corner of town had its favorite spot • to play shinny hockey on skates. Many homes had back yard sheets of ice and often sections of play. grounds at the school and•the Recreation field (now the Optimist Park) were'fiooded by the Fire Brigade or school janitor. Once in a while they even had boards around them. I remember learning to skate in George Hay's back yard on an old pair of girl's skates that belonged to my sister Mona. The North East corner of town had a pond that usually formed in the area behind where Ken Devereaux now lives. They also had the luxury of the Silver Creek at the Lions Club grounds. The South East corner could play on the Silver Creek near the railway bridge while the Egmondville "River Rats" hada dandy spot under the Egmondville bridge. The youngsters in the south west corner could often play in the "Stumps" onthe south side of the railway tracks at the end of Sperling St The North west group, including our bunch at the end of John St. (nineteen kids) - played on Beattie's pond out. near the Slaughter house. It was located beside the Janeway that leads from the Highway bet- ween thehouses of Mrs. Hunt and Stan Bray. This pond had a' wooden fence around it in order to keep some snow off it because the frozen ice was to be cut up and put into the Ice House beside the alley that ran behind. Mr. Beattie's Butcher shop. Art Larivee's Auction shops is now where the butcher used to be located. Every day, when school was out at 4 o'clock we would go home; pick up our skates and stick and head out dr Beattie's pond. There might be as many as 20 to 40 kids there at one time and hardly roots to turn around all a potential' Cooney Weiland or Howie Morenz. The first ones there usual - 1Y shovelled it off and if it was particularly told we might gather enough wood to make a fire. Fortunately the fence was a great barrier against some of the Cold winds. Sometimes the 'ditch that ran out to the mile and a quarter beside the new part of highway 8 from the Freeze King westward would flood over after a January thaw and then freeze so that it became as smooth as glass To skate on such ice on a crisp winters day is very exhilarating and seema so ef- fortless ,and_ providing. -that the wind is behind you. When we played hockey on the artificial ice in Stratford we found the first two periods required a lot more skating ef- She was asrAsted by Heidi Elliott. Parr Line pulled .nto the lead when Suanne Van Miltenbert, took a: pass from Sandra Wilson sad Jan Rutledge that passed directly in front of the net, and scored. Great playing by both teams: Next week, on December 23, Commer„ clal meets Winthrop at 9 p.m., Parr Line meets Queens at 9:50 p.m. and Jr. Farmers meet -Perth at 10:40 p.m. . MEN'S BROOMBALL RAIDERS 1 -KNIGHTS 3 The Raiders were keen and eager and the pace in this game started out steady. Steve Van Dyke of the Raiders took the first point of the game. Ws back up was Steve Jansen and Jeff- Campbell. For- tunately the Knights, got their second wind and Joe. Dorssers blasted a shot that flew by everyone, including the goalie. Lawrence Vink was hi§ supporter.twice in a row. Jim Nynhuis also came to .his aid. Joe Vink passed a shot up to Paul Nynhuis who scored the Knights third goal. . GRADS 3 -MUSTANGS 0 Mike Vandenheuvel fought for the ball and won when he scored the first goal of this game. Assisting him were Henry Wydeven and Al Haid. Adrian Wydeven got a break away then used two oposing .-players-to.defleetthe-balintollie-pet..Help came from Craig Smith and Robert Wydeven. Robert Wydeven then passed one up to Adrian Wydeven who directed it on to Craig Smith, who scored. Rick Ar- chambault needs his glasses as open nets are hard to see with no goalie. CHISELHURST 2 -RUSTLERS 1 Al Wyllie got a break and squeezed the ball through an opening not bigger than an orange. Assisting him was Henry Kutt- schrutter. With time running out in the first half Blain Marks tipped in a pass from Jim McCreight..From the face off Art Veenstra scored with help from Robert Anderson and Earl Flynn. RATS 2 -PARR LINE 0 Parr Line men had trouble , com- municating with each other in this game. They;had-plenty of _opportunities to score butdidn't. Brian Wilson was credited with the first. River Rat goal, but Ed Van Miltenberg, a regular defenceman moved,. to forward and showed off his talents when • he scored the second goal. Help came from Robert McGregor and Steve Haggitt. DUMPERS 5-WINTHROP 1 Winthrop men decided they weren't go- ing to be skunked in this game. Res Mit- chell' came through smelling like a rose scoring the only goal. Fred McClure helped him succeed. For the Dumpers it was first, Frank Flanagan off a pass from Rick Archambault. Dale Kennedy put his shot -into -the -top corner -of -the -net -with Tom Burke helping out. Bob Nash raced from the red line to the blue line then shot fort so perhaps the• ice had some effect on the skates or perhaps it has something to do with the density of the ice.. .. To get to -hockey teams, none of the .schedules games could start before January 1st' because the old Palace rink and other rinks in the area, except Stratford, had natural' ice and it took that long to get a suitable sheet. If a January thaw occurred you often played with watery spots or soft ice that made the going a little tougher. However, it was as fair for one as it Was for the other. One year I played on the High school team as well as on three others - Junior B, Kip - pen Rural, and near the end of the season played for the ,Mitchell Juveniles in a play off game at Point Edward.. - The games in the Rural League were played on Saturday nights in the old Palace rink. Two games for 25 cents and the place was packed every night with people literally hanging from the rafters. Cars, sleighs and cutters parked all over and the livery barns full of horses: The spectators were familiar with the players who were representing Egmondville, St. Columban, ,Winthrop and Kippen. Before them some of the teams were called Tuckersmith and McKillop. Each team could have an "import" so that's how I happened to play. They were really exciting games that went at full tilt all the time. I believe the next season I played Junior A. hockey for the St. Michaels College majors in Toronto. Seaforth had an Intermediate team for many, many years going back to the early 1900s. In 1939-40 we won our group and the finals by Whitby. In 1940-41 we won all the way and got the O.H.A. Intermediate B championship by beating Paisley in Owen Sound. Various teams that we played during those years, were Glencoe, Niagara Falls, Paris, Waterloo, Whitby, Paisley and of course the .other teams in our grouping which were always tough to beat. We figured if we could get out of our grouping we had a good chance of beating anyone else. Who will ever forget, the special train to Niagara Falls with 500 screaming and sing- ing fans from Seaforth. Believe it or not some people actually missed the train home! When we won the championship we called on some good players -from Clinton who were usually our toughest rivals. All our home games in the finals were played in Stratford because the natural ice was usually finished by the first part of Tigers lose to Goderich BY GEORGE LOVE The Seaforth Tigers lost to league leading Goderich 37-11 in Men's Intertown league action .Saturday. Goderich was ahead 7403-6904 in total pins. Murray Bennewies was high for Seaforth with games of 348,216,265,278,268 and 1375 total. Erich. Matzold had high scores of 234,260,286 and 277 for 1235, Jack Fuller had high games of 352, 265 for 1202 and Roger Edwards had highs of 262, 249, 266 for 1110. January 2 will find the Tigers hosting Mikes from Stratford. Seaforth averages after 15 weeks are: • Murray Bennewies 256, Jack Fuller 232, GEorge Love 225, Erich Matzold 221, Neil Beuerman 220 and Roger Edwards 209. Turn to page 12 Cougars back in first place BY GEORGE LOVE The Cougars are back in first place in the St. James bowling league after they downed the Lions 7-0 in league play on December 14. Richard Love led the Cougars with games of 176, 264, 328 and a 768 triple. Cathy Broome also had a fine night with games of 193, 246, 238 - 677. Murray Bennewies was high for the Lions with 290 -694 and Brenda Kenny 224 - 525. The Panthers came up with a big night as they dumped the Jaguars 5-2. Dan Ben- newies was high bowler for the Panthers with games of 204, 266, 228 and a 698 triple. Jim Dalrymple 283 - 610, Jim McGrath 221, 224 - 587 and Lynne Coombs 214 - 544 also helped the -scoring. For the Jaguars,. Shirley Brugger 211, 216 - 601, Gerry Armstrong 221- 584, Albert BoVen 214 - 569, and Pat Kenny 223 - 561 had top scores. The Tigers continued their climb in stan- dings when they downed the Leopards• 5-2. High games for the . Tigers were George Love 273 - 694, Pat Nolan 243 •. 553, Carol Johnston 105 - 528, and Karen Hoegy. 210. -_ 483. High for the Leopards was Sandy Broadfoot with 208.563. Team Standings - COUGARS - 57, JAGUARS-- 52, PANTHERS -61, TIGERS - 49, LEOPARDS - 48, LIONS - 37. March. With such vagaries of weather affec- ting the ice and causing short schedules and little practice, it is a wonder that so many fellows turned out to be such good hockey players. I think that the shinny games on the ponds made the difference. In the twenties and thirties most High ' School teachers were ladies along with two men, one of whom would be Math teacher and Principal and the other Science teacher and Physical Training Instructor. They could be reversed but in my time they were the former. Girls had their own Physical Training Instructor and it might be anyone of the ladies. . • . Physical. Training was a must for boys and girls every day and there weren't many exceptions. Because there weren't any bus schedules to worry about all games were slated for after 4 o'clock when school was out. Transportation was usually provided free gratis by team members borrowing the family car and of course the P.T. teacher usually took his as well. Many of the 'students from the country boarded in town and those who lived within a mile or two usually walked' in and out. Some rural students came in with horse and buggy or cutter or were driven or drove in the family car. I remember the Rutledge boys from Walton always came with their car with themselves and as many others that they could pile in. Don Jenkins used to drive from Blyth, MCCash from Varna and McLeod girl from Bayfield. The school only had a stu- dent population of about 150 during the depression but they accomplished a lot with what they had. . ' There was always a good school spirit and usually pod co-operation. The only time I ever even hada minorelash was when Miss Fennell said that she was going to have an extra French class after 4 o'clock. I was'• captain of the soccer team so I put up my hand•and said, "Could I be excused for soc- qer practice." She replied, "Frank, if you. think soccer is more important than French then you may go." I said, "Thanks Miss" Fennell" and I walked out. I'm sure she never expected me to do that but I 'don't think she ever really held it against me. At least she never refused me a skate at the old rink on Friday nights when they held public skating. She was a good skater as well as the rest of the lady teachers who always showed up as well. In fact a lot of adults came out for a skate,,inciuding•our mother who was an excellent skater. I am sorry for digressing from my original intent of mentioning High Schbol hockey team's but thinking dusted off some old memory pigeon holes in the brain that haven't been used for years. . Many lasting memories are made by boys and girls participating in sports or any form of get-together that requires give and take. It helps to build character too and that is what makes Canada a better place in which to live. Thank yoii. Sincerely, Frank Sills the ball directly into the Winthrop net. nd Bill Dale tucked the ball into the net with Rick Archambault by his side and Jim Nash behind. There will be no men's and no junior broomball this week. 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