The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

41oevnt aswdeaajnwaaw Wm 10 the examiner Friday June 17 1977 History of golf over 100 years By ED HARPER Chay The golf courses in the area are very busy at this everyday history books which are very old antiques came across some interesting events in the history of golf The first golf tournament in history was played in 1860 at Prestwick Scotland It was 36 holes medal play but instead of medal the winner was given belt emblematic of the championship It was to become forever the property of the time of year and some are catering to tournaments almost thought it might be interesting to find out when the first tournament in history took place so delving into my sports Kely sacked as Leafs coach TORONTO CP President Harold Ballard of Maple leaf Gardens said Thursday Red Kelly will not coach the Maple Leafs in the forthcoming National Hockey League season Ballard also said that Jim Gregory will be retained as general manager Kelly NHL Coach of the Year in 1970 when he waswhen he was with Pittsburgh Penguins has been Leafs coach since 1973 when he was fired by Penquins management told him there were other sitions available in the organ ization and wed love to have im Ballard said in an inter view He could be helping Gregory or stay on as scout or whatever Hes one heck of guy Ballard said Kelly would tell him today whether he will re main with the organization Kelly said he was not upset at the news He met with Ballard an hour after taking therapy Thursday for old neck and back in uries have been treated here very well as player and as coach Kelly said We had some real times and some troublesome times but thats all part of game Thats why wasnt really upset when llarold gave me the news this morning Actually had made up my mind before not to renegotiate my contract Hockey has changed during the 30 years have been iii volved in it so decided to do something else dont want to say now what it is but expect to make an announcement in the not too distant future During his 1316game NHL playing career Kelly scored 281 goals to go with 542 assists and 327 penalty minutes In 164 playoff games he had 33 goals 59 assists and 47 penalty min utes He won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy four times and James Norris Trophy once In the 19505 he was perennial NHL allstar Kellys departure throws the Leafs coaching stakes wide open with four candidates reported interested in the job Latest entries are Orland Kurtenbach former Leaf centre who resigned as coach of Vancouver Canucks few days ago and Floyd Smith who was let go as coach of Buffalo Sabres George Armstrong former Leafs captain and coach of the minor league Toronto Marlboros and Roger Neilson coach of the Dallas Blackhawks are also interested in the job October 13 1795 mm Golf Club It reads 13th inst at Toclock George Woodruff Robert Mackay John CraigManagers James Dickson man winning it three times in succession Tom Morris Jr gained permanent possession of the belt by victories in 1868 1869 and 1870 Herbert Manchesters book Four centuries of sport in America published by Derrydale Press New York notes that an inventory of Governor Burnetts possessions made in 1729 revealed Gouffe Clubs one iron ditto and doz balls Manchester also reports this item which appeared in the Charleston SC City Gazette Daily Advertiser on NOTICE The Anniversary of the Golf Club will be held on Saturday next at the Club House on Harlestons Green where the members are requested to attend at one oclock October Wiliam Mulligan Secretary Ihis notice was repeated the next Sunday with change to will beheld this day and the date Further proof that golf dates back far more than century in the history of sports in North America is found in bit of paper yellowed with age and made fragile by the impact of the years now hanging framed in the Savannah Georgia GOLF CLUB BALL The honor of Miss Eliza Johnstons presence is requested to Ball to be given by members of the Golf Club of this city Savannah Ga at the Exchange on Tuesday evening the George Hogarth treasurer Savannah December 1811 This invitation was owned by Miss Eliza Johnston Grigg but was presented to Savannah Golf Club in 1901 Smith of Montreal who wrote the first hockey rules learned of the existence of the invitation and while cnroute to Florida in November 1930 stopped and made copy of it Golf was introduced into Canada in 1860 by officers of ships arriving from England and Scotland who brought along equipment and played in Montreal and Quebec on three hole courses that they made themselves The game increased so much in favour that on November 4th 1873 group of the original players met in the office of John Sidney in Montreal and created the Montreal Golf Club since renamed the Royal Montreal Golf Club Play began in 1874 on six hole course Contests were staged Wednesdays and Saturdays In 1875 Quebec organiz ed Club and challenged Montreal and this led to the first intercity golf tournament which was played in Montreal Golfers were required at that time to wear red coats and white flannet trousers with caps having peak both front and back The rules provided that the Captains make the in ital drives for their teams It was compulsory that each ap tain wear white gloves for the first shot after which he was privileged to remove them Dont forget the Optimist Golf Drive for Youth Week Ju ly 9th to 16th Sup stage port this worthy project and do your part to keep the youth of this area busy in good clean supervised sports and recreation Friday program ends for Barrie Raceway Tonights program at Barrie Raceway will be the last oppor tunity for area harness racing fans to take in regular Friday night program There will be racing Friday Aug 19 and Sept 30 when the Ontario Sires Stake races have already been scheduled Earl Rowe Junior General Manager of Barrie Raceway announced recently that the Raceway has asked for permis sion to stop the Friday racing cards Due to an increasing shor tage of good available racing stock and in keeping with Bar rie Raceways intention of of fering high calibre racing to the public the program will be cancelled Rowe said The elimination of Friday racing will take effect June 24 but the Raceway will continue to hold races every Wednesday and Saturday All tracks are having the same problem Rowe added We at Barrie Raceway believe that it will be better for the public the horsemens purses and this track in the future to offer good racing twice week and eliminate the third day We are confident too that strong Wednesday and Satur day program will enable the track to keep strong purse structure Raceway entries Saturday First pate mile 3400 5GYP HERBERT Lee lMISS WATCHOUT Field liMARG DANCER Byron 2Champ Valley Clement flBum Wave Buzzell 4Conc Harris 6Argye Flash from 7Southern Ensigns Edwards Second pace mile 3500 lSUSSEX TIME llyion 8ROBUST WILL Simon 7MIDNIGHT PARKER Lee 2Missey Clipper Dixon 3Petc Pilney Durbano 4Keomo Scrannagi 5Flying Miss Crowe trArmbro Legend Ienient Third trot mile 8501 +SHEPS HOOT Lockhart 7FURCAL Nicholmn lWILLOW HILL BOY lxBlanc 2Mighty Cindy Lee aBlue Spectre Annerud 5Bye Bye Jimmy Fuller 6Paint Brush lill Blaumbo Fitzgerald Fourth pace mile 8400 2VICKIE ADIOS Field lBAIILE ACIION ox BTRAVELLING Olier Nicholls SAll My Time Rutledge 4Eager Beaver Adios Wilson sMiss Wheeze Ben SArmbro Jute Dixon 7Up All Nitc Goodall Filth pace mile 500 lCHEUS BEE Monlroy 3AM Simr lrWILL LOR lCllllI lirtlhour szpsy Hill Nikki Durhano 4Silver Pebbles Btathaiii 5Sabanero Hanover Declicllis 615 815 pm Ivy vs Queensville 930p 815 930 pm Corha vs Hewetts sion sports calendar BASEBALL pm Ivy Alliston vs Leafs South Simcoe pm Eastview John Fendleys vs Garners bantam at Steele Street Mr Corn Beef vs Toke pecwee at Allan dale Ernies vs Simcoe Datsun tyke SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT pm Queens Park PeterReine vs Edgar West Bend vs Meaford pm Shear Park and Discount vs Vito Construction Innisfil vs Greenhams FASTBALI PeterReino CoOp Optimist Clarkson 10 Simcoe Hotel Clifton Molsons Canplas pm MacMorrison Park Giffen vs CF13 Borden 811 pm Firefighters vs Simcoe Hotel Recreation Divi frlli Alice Byron 7Norwoodhips Jones Stub pare mile Shoo iDLANE RELDA lrudell fyMANllY BAY Crowr lLn Mar Boy Arthur fercporler lion MaiArthur SToners lridi ll Bunsll Tlncusl Byrd Fitzgerald 8Davt the Dude Nicholls Sm eiitli trot mile MIX 1GOSllARl ox 2lARN 21le roue lllCllllHt Jackson LiRod Gray Lee itiyfiild Anneiud trCycloni Bob Dixon Eighth pare llliil $600 llIltHutl KILLEAN liiivis lrSMlLEY Klltllliili lontroy IiiMIGHTY MICHEL Elf Iliirbiiiio llHAKVIIY BILL Itll 4lctir By Alli Byron 5Aglll Annie rowi tlrlllml reed Byron 7llieland Battles Shakes Ninth pace mile 8781 MAJlJSTIDREA1 It run lailll$ftleli I401 MlliY WAVE titnoi ROYAL tilINT tleintnt 2lhe Gold Bandit lliirrix Easter Rogue lmrbano +Midiiiie llfil iowt Jo Kin it Bodkin Hilh pat llllit 3300 4NANIYSKEY lI Nicholson LAST AlltlltNlCY JOHN lilgiill lVIJIA LAY ll Scraniiagi iiilyllrtliilllliiili liudtll ZlalxlligliSezi ll liliii fl Lid Frost 111 Wilma Gun ti rowc ltiplii in Mar Fuller kv kmzLAMt Stop in the name of the NHL theres an unwritten law when playing the National Hockey League officials Dont reach first base Bob iclntyrc seated of the KBB NoStars found that out when he made it to first and was forced to stop and put on size 12 shoes by Brian Lewis The ex hibition game was staged Thursday to raise funds for the Simcoe Rescue Squad it ended in 66 tie Examiner Photo Canplas beats Molsons 54 in Rec Division The last night Werner Kaul pitched against Molsons he recorded nohitter and 2H shutout The second meeting between Molsons and Canplas of the Barrie City Fastball Leagues Recreation Division Thursday was closerione run closer with Canplas coming out in front of 34 win In other division play at Mac Morrison Park Thursday Sim coe Hotel defeated Clifton llotcl 73 Kaul gave up six hits and sup plied Canplas with threerun homer from his cleanup posi tion in the first inning Brian Simpson was tagged for five hits in the sevenhitting game including singles by Greg Osborne and Dave Bell in the third which sent the fourth Molsons run home Simcoe uses eight hits to whip Clifton Hotel Simcoe Ilotel used eight hits to defeat Clifton Hotel 73 in Recreation Division game of the Barrie ity Fastball League at MacMorrison lark Thursday Clifton collected nine hits in the seven inning game but oiin managed threerun spree in the third inning Dave Lowe was awarded the win with Barry Walker tagged with the loss Simcoe opened the scoring with two runs in the first inning following base hits by Bob Toulson Larry Wood and Pat Gibbon An error played major role in helping Gary Atkinson coir vcrt his single into run in the third inning for Simcoe Simcoe put together another threehit frame in the fourth for two more runs This time Rick Johnson Ralph Lambert and double by Larry Stoutcnburg increased the Simcoe lead Two final runs of the game scored in the fifth inning with Gary Ilelmkay slamming the only hit of the inning Clifton ignited for major rally in the third on back to back hits by Paul Hayes Walker triple by Jim OBrien and double by Bob Dobson Clifton threatened again in the sixth when they loaded the bases with two out only to have llyball end the spree Rob Morrison had two hits for Clifton Fidrych beats Garvin 41 to sweep series Al Mark The Bird Fidrych couldiit believe it and neither could Detroit ligers manager Ralph llouk Fidrych used just 81 pitches Thursday to dispose of Toronto as the Tigers completed threegame sweep of the Blue Jays with American League baseball victory DETROIT Rookie Jerry Garvin of To ronto gave up five hits com pared with eight by Fidrych but three of them were home runs Ron Lellore celebrating what he says was his 2th birth day hit solo homers in the third and fifth innings Rookie Steve Kemp wrapped up Fidrychs third consecutch triiunph with tworun homer in the ninth off Garvin 74 llouk had plenty of fine pitch ers in his many years with New York Yankees but he couldnt recall any who used fewer than 81 pitches in complete game know had some in the 80s he said but Ill be dar ned if know of any under that Fidrych the American Leagues player of the week for winning two games last week raised his record to 32 It was his fourth complete game in five starts since coming off the disabled list May 25 MAI IIANCES We had our chances said Toronto manager Roy Hart slield We hit the ball better off Fidrych than they did off Garvin Detroit is fifth in the AL East but has climbed to within 61 games of new leader New York and just onehalf game behind fourthplace Milwaukee Toronto has dipped below 401 at 897 and islast Molsons started to chip away at the anplas lead in the third inning by taking full advantage of two Canplas errors and singles by Kevin Gillies and Terry Maclssac to score three runs Back to back outfield errors gave Molsons life in the seventh and last inning after Canplas moved into tworun lead with run in the fourth Brian Maclsaac and Larry McCarthy reached base on miscues to have Simpson trig ger runscoring double Mc Carthy was caught at home try ing to platethctying run Tennis win for Barrie The Barrie Tennis club hosted Brewery Bay recently and came out on top 82 Nigel Griffith and Bruce Brereton won 82 in mens doubles Gerry Lawrence and George Dangerfield won 81 and the team of Ron Howard and Dangerfield lost 84 In womens doubles Ruth Edwards and Pat Howard lost 84 and the team of Sheila Ber tram and Gloria Ellefson came out on top by score of 86 Barrie teams won all three mixed double matches Ron Howard and Ruth Edwards won 81 Ruth Brereton and Pat lloward won 87 and Terry Lawrence and Gloria Ellefson won 83 Barrie club adds to wins Gloria Ellefson and Ingrid Andrews lost to in York Simcoe Tennis League play at Newmarket Thursday In other ladies doubles com petition Joan and Angela llilhorse combined to win their matchcs8toti Matt Berthwistle and Rick McFadden won their mens doubles event to with Phil Fowler and Dean Allen losing 02 The Barrie Club was strong in the mixed doubles competition winning three of four matches Gloria Ellefson and Matt Berthwhistle lost to while Joan llilhorse and Phil Fowler emerged with an to win In grid Andrews and Tracey Laplanle won to with An ela Hill and Jim MtTann com in ing to win to spo Coop ends winstreak Barrie CoOp did it CoOp finally ended the undefeated string of Peter Reino Sports with 82 win at Queens Park Thursday It was the first loss in seven starts of the Barrie City Fastball Leagues In termediate Division for Peter Reino which still holds two gamelead on first place PeterReino isnt known as team liking to give up too many hits But CoOp squeezed 10 off Dave Doucette including run scoring single by Jack Shanahan which brought the seveninning game to dramaticend Ken Payne on the other hand contained PeterReina to just four hits while retiring eight hitters on strikeouts Shanahan came through with double to knock home Pete Bertram in the fourth inning Dave Mills then tabbed Doucette for runscoring single which lifted CoOp into the lead for the first time in the game Brian Wiese with lead off single in the second then Leo Koopmans with triple had given PeterReine lOlead Doug Eves slammed homer in the fifth inning to tie the game Doucette worked himself out of jam in the sixth inning by striking out Randy Oaks after CoOp loaded the bases Clarkson breaks out to slam Optimist 103 For while it looked as if Clarkson Hotel would never shake loose its bats and break out of its slump in the In termediate fastball league divi sion But they did And in grand fashion Thursday against the Optimist Club at Queens Park Clarkson used the homerun swing to its fullest to score seven runs in the 103 win George Carre supplied the crowning touch with grand slam roundtripper in the eighth inning for Clarkson Gary Leduc cracked three run homer in the first inning to overcome tworun spree by the Optimist Clarkson used two innings to rack up their second win of the season It was back on June that the Optimist Club bowed to 20 loss at the hands of Clarkson Jim Angus tripled in the first run of the game for the Op timist Club in the first inning Bob Toffan added single to give the Optimist 20 lead By the time Clarkson bats had cooled in their share of the first they were on top of 42 lead Gus Eyers reached Op timist pitcher Jim McDonald for runscoring single to cap the early rally That was to be the only scor ing of the game until the seventh inning when Optimist first baseman Alex McEndry ripped triple to get himself in to easy scoring position on Mike Lesages base hit Things starting clicking for Clarkson in the bottom of the eighth inning Darryl McKenzie opened the inning with single his second of the game then Eyers saw his sacrifice attempt backfireagainst the Op timistand he was on base An ace for Ross HAWKESTONE Staff young Oro golfer Larry Ross had the unusual thrill of mak ing hole in one on the fourth hole at Simcoeside course recently Ross was playing against two friends when he made his swing from the tee on the 119yard hole and to his great surprise it rolled into the cup Linda Treloar who operates the club said it was only the third hole in one in the 10 years the course has been operating Ian Jermey of Hawkestone accom lished the feat on the same ole couple of years ago The most unusual hole in one was credited to Ken OBrien who made it on the 280yard fifth hole last year Mall beats Allandale Gary Cooper rambled for five goals to lead Bayfield Mall to an 82 win over Allandale in minor lacrosse play this week at the Barrie Arena Richard Holst Darren Tor rie and Andrew Meathtel chip ped in singles for the winners Paul Charles scored both goals for Allandale with Tim Day and Tim Doucette each earning assists on the goals Dan Malloch who went the distance to pick up the win singled to send the goahead run home Bob Welch walked to bring up second baseman Carre who had already had two hits in the game His basesclearing homer brought Clarkson players out in backthumping parade Just to finish things off John Greensides slammed triple Malloch gave up six hits while striking out six of PeterReina Sports Jim Edwards singled with one away in the seventh for Co Op and advanced to third on two wild pitches Doucette got Bertram to pop up bringing Shanahan to the plate who promptly knocked in the game ending run CoOp finished the game with one error charged against them and eight men stranded on base PeterReina also had one error and left six men on CoOp 000 200 13 10 Sports 010 010 02 standings Ptl PeterReino 12 Fl and W1 asap Starr Con PIS Mr Clarkson Upcoming games Sunday at Queens Park Barrie 000p vs Starr pm Mr IYansmission vs Barrie Floor and Wall 830 pm Winners in Finlayson Cup play The second round of the Finlayson Cup took place at the Barrie Country Club Thurs day Left Nancy Crysler was low gross winner Mari Hickling of Barrie was second Betty Clyne of Barrie and Muriel Laken of Collingwood finished tied for first place with low net score of 70 Teams from Orillia Midland Collingwood and Barrie took part Examiner Photo The Barrie Country Club announced its ladies executive for the 19th season Timmy Back left Ede Corby Muriel Scott Sharon Bowden and Wilma Anderson Front loft Grace Ough Norma Cohan Shirley McDonald and Mar Hickling Examiner Photo