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imnuocence, as s( go over to the 1 warned that I‘d write another column about my ‘"fishing weekend _ Here goes. What kind of people belong to a "camp" on a lake that you can‘t get to except by plane or by walking 10 miles through the bush? Ten miles through the bush, by the way is like 40 miles on a highway . This is one of the first great lies you‘ll be told by the oldâ€"timers, who sit around drinking tea and talking about the big bear someone shot 40 years ago. Â¥eRELL cAn 1 soe: contact a flyâ€"in to the your problem will be ly. Do you have a personal physical prob lem? Leukemia? Touch of cancer? Hear spasms? Crippling arthritis? Emphyse ma? Old age? " Don‘t give it another thouwht â€" nc D L 0c Comms ons AHUGC i The reason Tigers have advanc because a lot of people have cared 97,000 others to show the same sen Midst all the backslappin, request. And that is, as the road hopefully towards the County title, that the peop Rejoice with them in their s applaud their hardworking honor _ they bring the city Toronto have done with the nave they achieved that Slugger they have. One tho manager Wray, Upper and s assembled a closelyâ€"knit, | field. they have done so success. As in turning a bedr powerful, pennantâ€"winning c But that‘s only half the st« the skilful direction of J recognition to the club thre dignified league dealings, a class organization. Awards t \ + triumph not only a monumental odds. It is old news that § folded up shop. For geo offâ€"field footsoldiers Fortunately, an 11th i and Tigers set as thei ty. Tigers, for the benefit of the 57,000 0 caught the fever, play out of the highly controversial, lmer-Cuunl_\ Major Ba: the top senior leagues in the country. Tj 1983,. both on and off the field. is an triumph not only of athletic ability. MiJimibreagllcd y 4 a To echo a jJust isn‘t a Waterioo thi What a lot of the bigp orchestrated pinstripers, Tigers 10e 7 ake me out to ... To echo a slatement made in last week‘s editorial, there JUst isn‘t a great deal of activity going on in the city of Walerlm. this summer is it?" in to the nqrth;-r;t-bush BILL SMILEY no a statement ‘t a great deal 0o this summer a lot of people a biggest* news "ated bv the be ... FATERLOO OHRONICLE . WEDNESDA y maniac northern bush, and solved. Permanent F 2000 00 2202R MAE HEV d antâ€"winning club a year later. ly half the story. Off the field. Tigers, under rection of Puncher, have brought solid the club through wellâ€"planned promotions, e dealings, and overall, by being one first on. Awards they‘ve won prove it. ackslapping though, they do have one small at is, as they tread down their yellowâ€"brick towards their firstâ€"ever modern day Interâ€" at the people of Waterloo join with them . m in their successes, console them in defeat, ardworking efforts, and take pride in the ng the city. Yes, just like the people of NC with the Rlua 1 C "~2¢‘° Jjust pmor to this season, Tigers ‘or good. As in finito. Lack of players diers, , lack â€" of support, you na 11th hour decision prevented the ext s their goal the modest aim of resne ask in your suggests you thought. Just nere goes. 0 a "camp‘" 0 except by through the â€" ‘mal goal" You bet your Louisville ne thousand fold. Not only have field and general manager Paul Puncher knit, highl,\'-entertaining unit on the e so with unprecedented levels of a bedraggled last place 1982 unit into a ninas wl.ahk . .. 00 qhol that goal?" You e thousand fold and general m; ve cared. It‘s not too late for : same sentiment. ; apparently S items o bovys of su a! probâ€" They haven‘t lied ? Heart _ facts that the mile is mt 3 ns Â¥. _ Â¥Yes, just like the Blue Jays. advanced this far thi« Did you ever wonder why men who escaped from prison and head into the Canadian bush in summer aren‘t even pursued by the authorities? They come whimpering out the nearest road or settlement, pleading to be locked up or shot immedial.ely. Aside from breaking an ankle on the "trail" which is pure jungle interlaced with rocks, a mile trip through the bush would make a session with the Gestapo a Sunday School picnic. Most of us can blow or wave away a mosquito, swat a fly, demolish a bumbleâ€" bee with a newspaper . How many of us can annihilate a whfa’lbd deer fly, the size of a sparrow awar m ue sc se & ly haven‘t realized is that one of the summer has been summer,. those pajamaâ€"clad k baseballers. the Waterion address correspondence Waterioo Oni N2J 117 we; w of you who haven‘t yet :hl}'-enterlaining. if often Baseball League, one of Tigers‘ success story in an extraordinary one, a ity, but also one over this season is _ name it e extinction respectabili 10 some â€"It is written More camp me instigator, and 1 think he loved every moment of our torture. He probably still hates me for nearly clipping off the tail off his Spigi:e about 80 years ago. 1 7 ie o mesdnt l Well, 1 can‘t. And only the lurching, blasphemous, old fighter pilot ahead of me kept every bone in my 63â€"yearâ€"old frame functioning. He was 65. Honor prevailed. We made it. And both politely but firmly refused our old buddy‘s sprightly request next morning that we take "another liittle hike" to see "another great lake." By this time. the guests had agreed that one lake looked much like another. What kind of people would do this to you" They weren‘t Gestapo or KGB or CIA. They were just a bunch of ordinary Canadians who had enough sense to know that bass don‘t bite in hot weather, and wanted to see what was left of some old fighter pilots whose daringâ€"do the previous nlfl:dhad piqued their curiosity. Boy, we ta A aooéI war, but they won it. Monsters? No. Jack Ryan, a lawyer, was ‘he msug‘w. .nd ' ulink hP lflvM puake rods? ‘*We‘re not L. 00 5 "~~~ APWEL yOR , old fighter pilot, an Australian saying they don‘t need the a money, we‘re Spitfire «o1 . 3,_ _ C1 ~°"U were on the same Spitfire squadron. Henderson and J have a mutual old sidekick, Tony Frombola.. And so it went. Ryan is the complete Irishman. Life of the party. Never stops working or talking. Listens but doesn‘t seem to. If he isn‘t t out _ _ _______ CC tan bardly wait to get out. Ryan and 1 are old buddies, based on a brief relationship in Britain about 40 years ago. He and HManqg... _ 17°°~ SVOUL i Bill Turner, a millionaire \ sehoo} at 15, was a sort of uncle S ema se d e nc who married and settled in Canada after the war, brought up in New Guinea, flew in the Aleutians, instructed flying at Camp Borden when I+was frantically trying to get my wings, flew two tours of Ops in WWII, and is a raving naturalist who says things like, "What is that lovely little lizard on your neck?" 1 Ryan's’accomplices were permanent members of the camp. Everybody seemed related. Harold and Ken Rogers were halfâ€"brothers, with almost three decades between them. a civil servant saying prove it to us." â€" SEE PAGE 1 SPDA@RiGedRinialict (Continued on page 26) 120 in Canada after 1 New Guinea, flew in cted flying at Camp frantically trying to cle to Afldy can hardly + quit