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JACK BRICKETT Takes Up Pro Golf As Career, He's 78 EDMONTON' (CP)--After 60 years of playing golf for fun, Jack Brickett, 78, decided to turn pro and this summer he) took a job as assistant profes- sional at Edmonton's Glendale Golf Club, Brickett's legs gave out on him a couple of seasons ago, and now he uses a cart to get around the course, But he still hits the ball with authority, and owns a 10-stroke handicap. In his prime, it was a 3 handicap. The veteran shotmaker was born at Levant, Me., and spent his childhood in Massachusetts. He was 16 years old when he took a caddy's job at North Co- hasset, Mass, In two years he} was named head caldy--a post then somewhat similar to to- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, When offi- cials discovered his age, 'he was pulled off the trains and given a shop job. | Golfer's Hobby, 102 Putters In His Collection TORONTO (CP)--When Bill] Saul leaves for a golf game he} has a choice of 102 putters 10) take with him. Saul, 62-year-old owner of an) automobile body firm, usually} chooses one of the bulls-eye THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, August 21, 1963 day's assistant pro--and was al-ltyne from the collection he lowed to play with club mem-/started about 10 years ago He came to Canada in 1910 and worked as a sheet metal worker in Moose Jaw, Sask, He served overseas With the Cana- dian Army in the First World War as a motorcycle rider and instructor, j Returning in 1919 he turned to radio as a hobby, setting up| his amateur wireless station in| & the Moose Jaw fire-hall, Nine years later, when the operations were converted into a commer- cial enterprise under the call ietters CHAB, he worked as an operator .for several years. The good-natured, slightly- built veteran says "it's impos- sible to try to compare the skills of today's golf players with the professionals at the turn of the century. "Today, people begin game at an earlier age, bers when they needed a part-| "Lhave a better feel and bet-ing jonger is restricted to the ner, jter touch with a bulls-eye, Sure,| millionaires as it was when ! When Jack Brickett last April from his job ¢ mating contracts for a Moose Jaw plumbing firm, it was,no surprise: to his friends that he took the Glendale golf club post Brickett considered it a poor day when he couldn't shoot 18 holes of golf spring, summer and fall, On holidays he usually took a trip that enabled him to play. goif every day 'You might think I get a chance to play a lot more golf; here," he told an: interviewer "but I don't. The pro shop and looking after the cially during the holidays and weekends--cuts down your free time." But, he said cause it keeps me clos: game," Brickett gave up his job as a caddy when he was 15 and became a motorman on_ the! tees--espe- "I'm happy be- to the anything else." His favorite bullseye was gold-plated for him two years ago by members of his four- some after he toured the rugged Islington course in 23 putts, He has been playing golf for 33 years and now is rated with a 12 handicap, He. averag three games a week and keeps game in the 80s Included in his collection is a 60-year-old semi-mallet head with a hickory shaft which was made in Scotland, an adjustable putter, a croquet-type, two bent} shafts and one with a hinged shaft The putter with the hinged shaft, given to him by Toronto professional Al Balding, breaks} in the middle if the: putt is! jabbed Saul believes the has cost him about ges his collection $1,000 ELITE MEMBERSHIP retired|I try a lot of new putters but)... addy ( MN jbegan vaddy. of esti-|they are more of a novelty than) ais sone and the balls are much better today, Heck no one really knew where the smooth rubber balls they used 50 years ago would land. If SAVE 10¢ tech 39: someone could hit a drive ac- do it," reason kids should get out early SHORTCAKE can watch someone hit a shot SAVE 4¢ ~ 3 curately 200 yards down the |, . FY roy r fairways he was a_ sensation. . 'Loday, just about everyone can He said youngsters . should start golf early. "Its no differ- ent than any other sport, The|Sunbeam Frost n' 'Serve is because when they are young they are great mimics, They properly, then go out and do Bo x the same thing dens *Plain or Pimentc But for the older ones, he has a tip. "If you're 30 you'll never 5 ates Seo nee GHEE GE SLICES SAVE 4¢ ~~) golf unless you take a few les- off on the right) York Peanut BUTTER sons to get foot." SAVE 4¢ 43: 6-O2z, Jor Mason's Assorted Soft SAVE 13¢ ve AS English Channel Is ORIMS 6: rted Still Challenge Swim RELISHES 2: By DOUG MaRSHALL Canadian Press Stafi Writer It costs about $5,000 and 15 pounds in weight to swim t English Channe! and every ce and every ounce of it going. Then why bother? One answer|\, fs because, like Mount Everest,|* it's there--a challenging stretch) of open sea, as unpredictable as @ woman, as cruelly indifferent as nature herself. Men have been held in awe by the Channel for as long as Britain has been an_ island Some have been baffled by it, Inurse, ens of people who helped Clau-) Winnipeg's 17-year-old Claudia/dia to her triumph. Her parents | 32-0: he| McPherson through a gruelling}worked to save the money, the ne ng:|CSA supplied expert advice and) the/extensive instructions. and the/ Blue Cheer 30c off 21-mile gap between the White|captain and crew of the pilot : lCliffs of Dover and Cap Gris|boat Fair Chance, "DETERGENT «= 1.19 and fail, gave her' all the sup- port they could. nt|17 hours to become the you is hard|est person ever to conquer 196 schools of stinging jellyfish, a queasy breaking tides that brought her} almost hearing distance of the English Recently Chadwick helpe d) cajofe and encourage Claudia, who failed twice in| 2, had to contend with stomach and heart-| to a standstill within soast, Following a tortuous Z course, she swam more than 40 w. n any pro- : some thwarted and many Pro-| niles in all foundly grateful for it. Fisher- men and sailors who know it make a compromise with many moods But long-distance swimmers, Another reason, of course the rewards of fame. Cha 1 swimmers are an elite group-- set apart from other men, Un officially 147 persons have suc- ceeded since Capt. Matthew Webb first made the crossing in 1875. Officially the Ct 1 Swimming Association nizes 96 who succeeded without) cheating, One man swam it both ways, "The swim isn't. as popular as it was before 1939," says M. L.' Chadwick, principal ob- server for the CSA and a suc cessful building engineer in _pri- vate life. 'It's getting more dif ficult to find sponsors and you need a gimmick these days." cog- t member At one point when Claudia| its -- io. pai i ' hadwick) hic day drew near. On the swim! ve om : "Keep going, keep it up.litselt he was constantly atten-|Highliner Frozen ow Channe like invaders, want to master it IWhen the Winnipeg but that's} darling." girl finally} flopped exhausted on an English} ach, Chadwick commented She deserved 'it. She's of the club." it's tough swimming, a true REMEMBER WHEN ...? By THE CANADIAN PRESS Nels Stewart,. one of \ great centres, suddenly six years ago today at age 56 while va- cationing at Wasaga Beach, Ont, "Old: Poison" played 14 seasons in the NHL with Montreal Maroons, Boston and New York Americans before' retiring in 1940 with the then record of 324 goals in regular season play was her coach, 26 - year - old! George Alliston of Winnipeg. | "Without a good coach," says sea y jteam effort "~~ SHORTENING »> 1.03 SAVE %e 49: 2-02 jors Johnson's. Kleer Chadwick is only one of doz-| SAVE l6e 1.09 SAVE 10¢ But Claudia's . greatest aid) Deerfield Frozen Sea PEAS "no swimmer can} SAVE 66 Ps 43. we it'? make it Sunkist Frozen White Alliston, who drilled Claudia} through two hours of training} every day last winter, watched over her like a baby when the 6-02 SAVE 9%¢ 49: tins tive -- mixing food, filming,| clocking the strokes of her smooth crawl and recording ape progress on ta Lb. 3 When veteran observers tig-| W od! buoyant with a steady patter of SAVE 12¢ bi VE ury ured Claudia was. beaten, it was Alliston who refused to let her} give up.and kept her spirits ! encouragement "George struggled and suf ssthagedtgs fered every inch of the way with her," said Chadwick. "It just Ec goes to prove that individuals} SAVE 10¢ co BJ can't master this sly stretch of} themselves, It tak In 1870 the world's first sub way was built under London's Puriten FB FC KL RSI LADIES' plasticized piping trim, white vamp with sizes 4 to 9. 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