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+ RECREATION NOTES Friday, May 11, 1961 The Biggest Game Of All ... Life Itself Waterloo Tigers, last year‘s Intercounty and Ontario Baseball champs were "true to form" on Saturday as they scored a 1â€"0 victory over their old rivals, Kitchener Le gionnaires, in the first exhibition tilt of the season. And, traditional as baseball, were the gallery that could not afford the price of admission. Waterloo ball park has a metal fence which eliminated the traditional "free knothole view". Youngsters were forced to stand tiptoed on their bicycles to get a free view of proceedings. A section of the crowd that turned up for the preâ€"schedule opener is seen in bottom photo. Dear Readers of this calâ€" umn: I know there are a few perchance quite a few, who read these illâ€"prepared arâ€" ticles each week. Well, to you I must make an explanaâ€" tion of the item you will see below. It is not an apology 1 am making:; merely an exâ€" planation because there may be some of you who, like me, upon reading it for the first time, may deem it cheapenâ€" ing to religious form and not altogether in keeping with a reverent approach to The Almighty. If, after you‘ve read it, preferably out loud to yourself and then, when it has sunk in, to some young C THOUG F MOTHER‘S DAY GREETING CARDS 20 King E By DON McLAREN Recreation Director on MOTHER‘S DAY SUNDAY, MAY 13 OSWALD‘S FEATURE THE FINEST SELECTION or OTHER‘S DAY OSWALD‘S {[enmzantrraness Order your wedding stationery needs now Tigers Win 10 In First Exhibition Game Be sure of prompt delivery IN THE TWIN CITIES )) mHHKFEUL BOOK STORE Kitchener rom MmMormEnr If, on the other hand, you think that the downâ€"toâ€"earth philosophy it contains is a help to us all in the game of life, then, I am sure that its author would feel more than amply repaid. Here it is: The Game Guy‘s Prayer Dear GOD: â€" e Help me to be a sport in this big game of life. I don‘t ask for any easy place in the lineâ€"up; play me anywhere YOU need me. person who needs to learn what a good sport really is, if after that you still feel that it‘s a poor attempt to drive home the point in everyday language, I hope that you will at least say that no harm has has been done by its publiâ€" cation. Dial 2â€"3523 I only ask for the stuff to give YOU one hundred per cent of what I‘ve got. If all the hard \drives seem to come my way, I thank YOU for the compliment. ‘Help me to remember that YOU won‘t ever let anything come my way that YOU and I together can‘t handle. Help me to underâ€" i stand that the game is full of knocks and knots and trouble and make me thankful for them. Help me to take the bad breaks as part of the game. Help me to get so that the harder they come, the better I like it. "Play On Square" And, O GOD, help me to always play on the square no matter what the other players do; help me to come clean. Help me to think a lot about the Greatest Player that ever lived, and the other great players that are told about in the Book. If they found ‘ out that the best part of the game was in helping others, who were | out of luck, help me to find that |too. Help me to be a regular felâ€" |{low with the other players. Finally, O GOD, if fate seems to uppercut me with both fists, and I‘m laid on the shelf in sickâ€" ness or old age, or something, help me to take that as part of the game too. Help me not to whimper, or squeal that the game was a frameâ€"up or that I had a raw deal. Ask No Favors And, when, in the falling dusk â€"Chronicle Staff Photos CARLING‘S THE CARLING BREWERIES LIMITED watss100, Omta®iO Len took the oars again and we worked along the shoreline until we came to a shallow bay at the bottom end of the lake. Just as Len started to say that "this bay was no good", a trout smashed at the streamer fily 1 had been castâ€" ing and away we went again. This was another fish between two and three fiounds. and he put up a good, although short, fight. This was not surprising for we found on nelting him that he had inhaled the big streamer fly clear back to his tonsils, so we took it for granted he didn‘t feel much like fighting. We threw the anchor chain over another deadhead, but after fishing there for about an hour, we decided it was a poor place. We then rowed over to the crooat island, crawled out on a bare rock and proceeded to down most of our lunch. After lunch we moved slow! along the side of the islnmj. About halfâ€"way along the island shore, there was a cleft in some rocks and the water showed clear ind dark. It was a long cast, but seing lucky, my fly dropped right n the back end of the narrow split. Neither of us saw the trout come for the Ay. All of a sudden .e was there and instead of takâ€" ng the fly from beneath, he broke water and jumped down on top of the fly. I laced the hook into im hard enough to disjoint every ection of his vertebrae. This had he effect of putting him off stride for about two seconds, and I gaâ€" her in a couple of feet of line. ‘ke trout woke up about this time ind decided he didn‘t like the way things were going, so he took cack the two feet of line I aad gained and about twenty more for good measure. There was a brushy promotory sticking wut in the iake at this point, but luckily for me the trout decided the deep water was his fastest route of escape. I was losing line steadily until Len got the boat moving and we followed the fish. Fortunately he rowed the boat backwards. This had the effect of making me almost as dizzy as I hoped the trout was ge_tlipg.‘bl!t This fish being off the back of the boat and stubbornly refusing to be lead to the side, I had to net him myself. I prided myself that I did a neat job, but Len of course said it looked pretty sloppy from where he sat. I managed by a great deal of efâ€" fort to stay in the boat. |_ _ _ That was a nice trout being about twenty inches long. It‘s one heck of a lot of Brook trout when a fellow is used to catching most of his from seven inches up to about 13 or 14 inches at the outâ€" side. Len relaxed long enough to admit it was a neck of nice trout, but pointed out that if it had‘nt been for his exgen guidâ€" ing and handling of the boat I would probably have lost the fish. I‘ll admit he should have some credit; but darned if he is going to get all of it. After all it was my wrist that ached. We finally arrived back at the cottage, hot and thirst?'. but hapâ€" py as toads in a puddle with our day‘s fishing. Theresa had put the coke and gingerale in a pail and lowered them to the bottom of the lake to get cold. We imâ€" mediately made a beeline for the rmpe holding the pail and brought up the drinks from their watery cooler. It‘s no wonder fish are lovely eaux out of water that cold. Mix with a very sma‘ 'drop of what made father skin the By this time it was getting well along in the evening and as we had the hike back to the first lake, to get over before dark, we headâ€" ed back for shore. _ _ _ _ _ Oy Herb Buaith (Continued from last week) I get the final bell, I ask for no living complimentary trophies. _ *_I‘d only like to know that YOU, O GOD, feel that I‘ve been a Good Game Guy. THE WATBERLOO (Gatuts) COHRONICLE AMEN fls n mt a the By time we had restored ‘ the moisture to our boâ€" had bacon and eggs l tea ready for us Neither of Td awiu! thed Al t uin over on the cars and rowed us across to the same island where I had taken the twentyâ€"incher the day before. Just befors: we got there, the To oo tenes thy froviows day we so we went uu:.mlnd the the island to get away from the wind. On first cast I felt something nfi.e the fily. 1 struck Suddenly he opened his mouth and the fly was gone. Setting the hook was like hooking onto the about fifteen feet from the boat through the water. Following it like a shadow was a brook trout rear bumg:r of a car, and sudâ€" denly as the weight of the fish telegraphed itself up my arm, I had the feeling that if it had been a car I hooked, then it must be a mighty fast one. Len let out a whoop and started to row the boat backwards toâ€" ward the fish. However, 1 was losing line about twice as fast as the boat was moving, and 1 knew it would not be too long at that rate before all my tapered line was out. I tightened up on the fish and watch the fourâ€"ounce rod take on an alarming amount of curve. The pressure did seem to slow him for a moment, and then suddenly he slashed sideâ€" ways and yanked the tip of the light rod right into the water. It seemed an awful long time\ after that before the fish showed his first sign of weakening. He came up on the surface and churned around, and I did a lot of hoping in a very short time. My wrist had long since stopped feeling like a wrist and had beâ€" come one big ache, Len was sweating from mwluilthe boat so hard and we had both run out of swear words. Finally I told Len to stick the net in the water. The trout saw it coming thou{h and made frantic rushes away from it. Twice he avoided the net entireâ€" ly, but the third time he ran his \Read into it and Len dit the rest. The net, large as it was, would not begin to hold all of this fish and he flofied into the bottom of the boat. n immediately threw the net over as much of him as he could cover and put his foot on him. I was so fascinated by his size all 1 could do was sit there and stare and try and rub some circulation back into my wrist again. Len in the meantime had discovered that he had forâ€" By the time we got started again the day was pretty well on its vn{‘kout. had rowed up the home e and it was Len‘s turn to row back. I could see he wasn‘t exactly in love with the idea, for by the time you have fished all day and then walk back over a W, you can get pretty tired. "Tell you what I‘ll do," I said gotten the fish stringer, so he took a leather belt and two heavy gut leaders and made them into a fish strimget. They worked too. We fished for a while after that but things were pretty slow so wa beached our boat ‘on one of the islands and ate our lunch. _ ‘"Tell you what I‘ll do," I said in a foolish moment. "If you catch a fish before we pull the boat up on the far shore, I‘ll row lake." _ _ _ _ __ Len had nothing to lose, so he started to fish in earnest. First he e came. Again L came back he rod. ;t‘fll nothing. Then 4 p )‘"5" 'k%’i ~\. h e 4" <@ C rmagg n o. 0 i# uy e yA On seole et Doug‘s Recreation PHONE 2â€"5792 CX € 19 51 â€"F"\, SENIOR BASEBALL * T SEASON 0e ggm"""~ WATERLOO PARK SsATURDAY, MAY 12 â€" 3:00 P.M. GUELPH MAPLE LEAFS vs. WATERLOO TIGERS Don‘t Miss It! . . . FOR FUN IN FIFTYâ€"ONE . .. FOLLOW THE WATERLOO TIGERS Reserved Seats BRIEF OPENING CEREMONIES thrill gave us a e :“h.a& & on & haik canee t un ballcts "In act 1 spent as much of time rowâ€" %.hs.kvaflhul-xd forward. y he yelled, "I got one", but by that time I didn‘t believe him anymore and started to back up automatically. â€" Ott Hoffman and yours truly took a swing at the local trout last Sunday and while we only came home with half a dozen, we had a lot of fun just fishing. Ott said that if there wasn‘t so much fun in just being out on a trout stream, he thought about one more day like that and he would start Ashing for pike again. 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Now that I have told all of you to be sure and be there, I might tell you I won‘t be there myself understand they have been loneâ€" some ever since i came home. i intend to remedy that condition, but I‘H be out to the next meetâ€" executive and there will probâ€" ably be a discussion on the signâ€" New committees will be formed w policies forwarded by the BEFORE YOU OUTFIT YOUR BASEBALL TEAM on Styles and Fabrics A HIGHâ€"CLASS BALL GAME 15 Sporting Goods * BADMINTON * TENNIS * MOBBY SUPPLIES ing of trout streams, at the ::d:h.lodnndGuncm so you had better be there. _ Mr. Fitzgerald of the Ace Scales in Wateriloo, very generously deâ€" nated this scale to the club, not just to use, but to keep. We are sure that all members of the orâ€" ganization are duly appreciative Bartie Flyers Win O.H.A. 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