The Huron Expositor, 1983-10-05, Page 12Al2 -- THE HURON EXPOSITOR, OCTOBER 5, 1$$3
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Many golfers have sent their clubs to the
dungeon for the winter, and I suppose they
feel that their clubs deserve it. They have
decided to give up for another year, and turn
their sights to the World Series, Grey Cup
and other arenas. of the Canadian winter.
After such a scorching summer and many a
day when it was too hot to golf, it's hard to
imagine you may soon be skiing over the
same spot where you rude that great shot!
This between season time of year is a lovely
change, with the sunny days perfect for
golfing, free apple lunch provided by Mother
Nature, and the fallen leaves the perfect'
scapegoat for lost balls. Unfortunately,
though the course is quieter, there is still too
much to do here to just go out and play.
The golf salesmen have been pounding the
pavement In their yearly spring -booking
ritual. How they expect me to think of spring
at a time like this I'll never know. When you
consider that Thanksgiving, Hallowe'en,
Armistice, Christmas, New Year's, Valen-
tines, St. Patrick's Day, Easter and even
April Fool's Day lies between now and
spring...not to mention what evil lurks
between each of these holidays....well they
seem to be rushing it just a bit.
I've. just finished patting myself on the
back for having the foresight to look through
the Christmas catalogue, and here 1 have t'o
decide what golfers will want eight months
from now! How can one predict the future
without getting into a Pocklington mess?
Decisions, decisions! Sometimes it's fun to
see what's "in" for next season, but after all
is said and done, a V-neck is a V-neck is a
V-neck. Golf styles change very little over the
years and it's the colors and materials that
create the biggest stirs. Everyone waits with
bated breath to see what colors they will come
up with next.
Pink is now anything from fuschia, . to
raspberry mist, to powder pink, to rose, and
anything in between. Nothing is the same as
it was. Even the current knicker comeback
isn't really a comeback as knickers have
always been somewhere between out of style
and the latest thing.
It's not just the clothes that drive you crazy.
One expects to have trouble predicting how
many sweaters, shirts, shorts, and slacks to
order. Think of the mathematical combina-
tions for men's shirts alone. They come in
about 4 styles, 2 materials, each in 21 colors,
and 4 sizes. More decisions, and as I was
saying it's not just the clothes.
There was a time when a golf ball was just a
golf ball, usually round and white, depending
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on its age and experience of course. The
choice in our proshop was new or used, (plain
or smiling). Now it's not so simple...what an
understatement.
There are hundreds of balls on today's
market and even if your proshop narrows it
down to a few brands, they come in 3 colors,
low trajectory, pro trajectory, extra long,
extra lively, 3 different compressions, and 2
different covers. Now when someone comes
in to buy golf balls, it's easier to sell them a
pair of shoes. and spikes aren't even spikes
anymore!
Wood woods or metal tvoods?'What kind of
question is that to ask, b customer?
Equipment has changed too. Woods can be
cycolac, laminated, persimmon, metal or a
combination. Grips can be leather dr rubber,
shafts, long, stiff or flexible, and every
degree in between. Putters aren't just
putters anymore, they're scientifically de-
signed weapons. A golfer with put4tng
problems will spend more time choosing' his
weapon" than the jackal.
It's not easy trying to second guess golfers,
and choosing what others may choose a few
months down the road is one of the worst
parts of this job. I rewrite orders, read all the
guidelines, drink plenty of coffee, and shake
my head a lot. Finally 1 draw up my
predictions.
It's such t< nerve wracking experience that
once it's completed I usually take my ordinary
wood woods, and iron irons, my plain white
balls, crested V -necks, spikes with spikes,
tuck them into a plain old travel bag and take
a trip south. No more decisions. Oh yes....will
that be smoking or non-smoking, aisle or
window scat?
Saturday's two ball is all set if the weather
holds out. All members and guests are
welcome and after the golf that begins at 2
p.m. there will be a pot luck supper. Don't
forget something for the auction. If the
weather is bad the event will be cancelled and
you'll have to settle for television golf.
Ramblings from the races
Seaforth horse wins over
$ 100,000 in his lifetime
By Lois Glbbings
Journals Hope, owned by Rene Dupuis of
Seaforth, put his lifetime earnings over the
+$100,000 mark when he won in 2.01.4 at
' Mohawk Raceway on Sept. 30.
The five-year-old gelding by the Bye Bye
Byrd sire Keystone Journal, with a 1.59.1
pacing record taken last year, was also third
in a 2.00.3 mile on September 19.
Nails Contestant took a new 2.04.4 pacing
record at Elmira Raceway on Setember 30
with Ross Battin on the bike for owner James
D. Taylor of Hensall.
Stewart McCall has sold his homebred
pacer Callwood4Breeze, ii three-year..old'colt
by Alert Bret -Dawn Almahurst by Golden
Money Maker, to the same people that own
Ideal Tanner in New Jersey.
Stewart McCall was the final bidder on
Arnibro Dick 'for $55,000 at the Canadian
Classic Yearling Sale in Toronto on Sept. 15.
Seaforth Volunteer Flre Brigade were world champs In 1888.
Ribbons honor great Seaforth teams
With a population of 2,650, Seaforth in
the late 1800s and early 1900s was a town of
champion athletes. Boasting top hockey,
lacrosse, baseball, football and fire brigade
teams, Seaforth was described as the
"greatest sporting town in Canada," by the
Illustrated Buffalo Express in 1891.
A dozen ornamental ribbons honoring
some of these teams surfaced here recently
when F. Karl Ament of Toronto brought
them to The Expositor. Mr. Ament's late
father, Wm. Ament, former late Seaforth
mayor, fuel and lumber dealer and sports-
man collected the ribbons in the late 1800s
and early 1900s.
The ribbons are from the 1914 firemen's
convention, a bicycle tournament in 1892,
the Star Hose Company in 1888 and the
Young Oaks football club of 1885, among
others.
"There have always been a lot of good
athletes in Seaforth," says Frank Sills,
whose Memorabilia Parlour above his
hardwarestore displays numerous pictures
of the champion teams.
His grandfather, George A. Sills was one
d those athletes who helped make Seaforth
a champion town. In 1888, he did the
running and coupling during the Interna-
tional Hose Reel Competition in Sarnia for
the Seaforth Fire Brigade who set a world
teoord with a time of 56% seconds.
STARS AND STRIPES
The next year, the team again competed in
Mount Clemens, Michigan. When the two
dozen members arrived by train during the
fourth of July weekend, every building in
town, including the fire hall, was decorated
with stars and stripes while the streets'were
adorned with arches. They were the first to
run on the track they found "very level but
heavy and not nearly as fast as the Sarnia
track where we crowned ourselves with glory
last year."
"Each man took his place on the ropes,
and at the drop of the, flag went.e f to win
and with a quick run and rapid coupling
made the race in 611 seconds. Point
Edward, Hastings and Sarnia were all
particularly confident of winning before they
ran but 611/2 seconds was not to be beaten
that day," The Huron Expositor reported.
Members McKay, McDougall, Robb,
Cresswell, Whitelaw, McCush, Jackson,
Broadfoot, Edge, Shaw. J. Smith, D. Smith,
Davis, Bowerman, Cline and Kehoe were
described as "well-developed and muscular
men." They won S160 for the team that year.
But they nor anyone else never beat the
world record they set in 1888.
CANADIAN CHAMPS
In early October of 1873, the Stars
baseball club of Seaforth beat the Guelph
Maple Leafs;' a team which had won the
silver ball for three consecutive years, by
seven runs for the Canadian championship.
Before the game began, the Maple Leafs
appeared confident of their success, but
"little did the Maple Leafs expect that on
Saturday last they would suffer an undis-
puted defeat at the hands of the Stars,"
reported The Huron Expositor in the Oct. 3
1873 edition.
, Seaforth's' "playing was excellent, show-
ing thorough knowledge of the game, a
superiority in making safe base .hits. and a
large amount of physical endurance, appear-
ing as fresh to the game on the ninth innings
as on the first"
But, a championship team seemed to be
taken for granted by the townspeople in
Seaforth since the newspaper remarked,
"This deserved result although much
appreciated by the inhabitants of Seaforth
and the county of Huron, was not received
with applause usual on such occasions, but
on the contrary, was received as though
expected."
After the final score of 27 to 20 was
announced, the players of both teams were
entertained at the Knox Hotel, where the
Commercial Hotel now stands.
Sfories in papers of that time suggest the
entertainment afterwards often was as big a
feature as the games themselves. Since
players were coming by horse and buggy or
train, the days program was planned weeks
in advance.
Players on the championship Star team
were Lamb, Paulin, D. Sills, Latimer, Baird,
iiflj Cattterion;' Hogart and' 'Sills."'
BEAT BROOKLYN
Before a crowd of more than 4,000, the
Beavers Lacrosse team beat the Crescent
Athletic Club of Brooklyn, New York in 1905.
The "big strapping lot of fellows" who
"outplayed and outgeneraled the Crescents
in a most astounding way" included
Mulcahy, Pinsent, Bethune, Stewart,
(kooks, Bamsley, Smith, Broadfoot, T.
Johnson, W. Johnson, McKay and Jackson.
"This victory is a high honor for the
Beavt=rs and shows that when it comes down
to amateur lacrosse, the Beavers cannot be
beaten. The New Yorkers were entirely
outclassed in, every respect. The Beavers
had them going all the time and during the
latter part of the game played 'rag' with
their opponents," said The Huron Exposi-
tor.
During these and other championship
games, spectators would come by train, or
horse and buggy to town by the hundreds.
Often a parade would begin the festivities
leading spectators to the grounds where the
competition would begin. Ribbons would be
given to the participants in the games, who
often took parton several teams.
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
59 Godes-kb St. W., Seaforth
Rev. T.A.A. Duke, Minister
Mrs. Carol Carter, Organist
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9,1983
11 a.m. Church Service
This is an invitation for you
to worship the Lord.
ST.THOMAS ANGLICAN
CHURCH
21 Jervis St., Seaforth
Autumn's Gleam of Gold!
Rev. Gordon Simmons, Minister
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Ribbons were distributed to participants and
special guests at sporting events In the late
1800's and early 1900's.
Hullett waterfowl- habitat
area expanded for 1983'
duck hunting season
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9,1983
Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity
10:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
9245 a.m. Sunday School & Nursery
The portion of the 2,198 hectare Hullett
Wildlife Management Area (WMA) desig-
nated exclusively for waterfowl and other
migratory game bird hunting has been
increased for the 1983 season, Natural
Resources Minister Alan Pope says.
The minister added that the whole habitat
improvement project at Hullett is expected to
be completed a year ahead of schedule.
Once the 51.5 million project is completed
at the end of 1983, the WMA will include 779
hectares of prime waterfowl habitat in an area
which previously had no major staging areas
for migratory waterfowl.
The success of the Hullett WMA project,
Mr. Pope said, is due to the combined efforts
of Ducks Unlimited and his ministry.
The project is already reporting positive
results, Mr. Pope noted. "Several new
species of ducks are taking advantage of the
flooded areas and more ducks can be
expected in the near future."
The Hullett project is one of the largest of
its kind in Ontario. To date, a total of 25
kilometres oftdikes have been erected parallel
to the South Maitland River. Ducks Unlimited
has spent 51.2 million so far on dike
construction and maintenance and to date has
developed over 243 hectares of waterfowl
habitat.
The current regulations divide Hullett into
two hunting zones.
Zone A is for waterfowl and other
migratory game bird hunting only, and
hunters must shoot from designated loca-
tions. One-third of this zone is a sanctuary
arca for the birds. This year, 166 hectares of
additional waterfowl habitat was created
including 121 hectares of hunting area, and
45 hectares of sanctuary.
In Zone B a combination of upland game,
including pheasant, grouse and rabbits. and
waterfowl hunting is permitted.
As the marsh area is increased, Mr. Pope
said, Zone A will increase in size and Zone B
will be reduced. The overall effect will be to
provide more breeding and staging areas for
waterfowl, and more hunting opportunities
for sportsmen.
This project is the result of an agreement
signed in 1979 between Ducks Unlimited and
the Ministry of Natural Resources which
called for Ducks Unlimited to fund construc-
tion and maintenance for the development of
marsh habitat on the ministry's wildlife
management area at Hullett.
"The work of Ducks Unlimited and my
ministry in places like Hullett is felt, not just
locally, but all along the natural migratory
route of our wild waterfowl -- throughout
Canada, the United States and Mexico, Mr.
Pope said.
Ducks Unlimited, a private agency funded
by Canadian and U.S. sportsmen, funds
waterfowl management projects across Can-
ada. Between 1974 and 1982, it spent
57 -million in Ontario on 119 wetland
conservation projects involving 8,560 hec-
tares of land, more than half of that
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THANKSGIVING SUNDAY
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