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The chase SIDELINES @ Cont'd from pg. 10 here's a bear and a guy with a badge on his lapel that looks like maybe they're supposed to be known, greeting everybody like politicians on the last day of a close cam- paign. Or maybe there's a secret society of Schnapps worshippers. Maybe. I had only just joined. The next thing the Bear and I knew the game was over and we were mysteriously teleported to the corner of Yonge and Gould. There's not nearly enough space here to get into all the things that happened from that point on. There was our encounter with -- and trouncing by -- the Real People-famous Polish expatriate and certified eccentric chess hustler Josef Smolij. There was our long global politics-and-hockey debate with an old, bearded Russian exile in John Anderson's Hamburgers. There was a stroll past historic Ford Drugs' omnipresent bevy of hookers-- one of whom took mild but emotional ex- ception to the Bear's exception to her syn- thetic fur coat. There was a long bus ride north on Yonge and, at 4a.m., a long bout of door-knocking at the apartment of a certain Countess of High Fashion Sportswear in the hope of attaining some much-needed lodging. (She eventually let us in, whereupon the Bear inhaled all her beer.) To put it mildly, there was plenty of potential for misunderstanding in all this. Yet there was none, with the possible ex- ception of the shiny-coated call-girl. The game? It was, as far as the Bear and I could determine, pretty bad. There it was, five feet in front of us, and it completely failed to hold our interest. The only high' point, in fact, was when the Bear deflected a tube of Chapstick tossed from on high right out onto A member of the Midland Indusmin Minor Bantams is chased around his net by an Elmvale opponent during recent Georgian Bay Minor Hockey League play at Midland Arena. This weekend, there'll be plenty of this kind of action as the annual Midland Silver Stick Regional Championships get underway and continue through Jan. 2. the ice near Sevigny. Otherwise, the Bear snarled and growled and yawned. And he was right. Leafs games aren't fit for Bears or humans. If there's a moral to this story (pumping a Haughton nets 29 in 46-31 MSS win Rarely can it be said in basketball that a player won a game all by himself. But Glenn Haughton of the Midland Secon- dary School Senior Boys' team almost did just that, ammassing 29 points in his team's 46-31 victory over Ecole Secondaire Penetan- guishene Secondary School last Friday at MSS. In other games of the tripleheader, the Midland Juniors edged Penetanguishene 42-37 and the Midland Midgets clobbered their local rivals 60-33. = SS SSS ESAS SB, Next-highest Midland shooter in the senior game was Jerry Richard with eight points. Jerome Ladouceur had 12 for ESPSS and Paul Balabuck con- tributed 11. Top shooters for the Midland Juniors were Drew Varley with 11, Daryl Burns with eight and Sloan Campbell with six. Mark York had 13 for the ESPSS Juniors and Carl Weber chipped in nine. Shawn Davy led the MSS Midget point- getters with 12, Jeff i, _ | al i, We wish to extend to you our best / ij wishes for a healthy, happy Christmas % olour Works y 4 821 Vindin St, Midland ( [ 4 526-4733 j Season and a Joyous New Year. y 'WS WW WS 2S rf Page 12, Friday December 25, 1981 "moral" out of a tale like this is like sear- ching for pearls in an alligator's mouth) it must be this: If you're going to get Schnapped, don't go to watch the Leafs. As a matter of fact, don't watch the Leafs at all. Better to scalp the tickets, buy a lawn chair and a good scarf, and settle in for an evening of people- watching on Yonge. Right, Bear? "Snort." Bales added 11 and Jim a Pass it along. Faragher came up with * eight. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ta ishene Penetanguli ' "Merry Christmas." high-scorers were Perry Beausoleil with 12 and --Garry Forbes J Andy Bayfield with six. Mz _ We wish to take this mtime to thank you, % our patrons for your support during the past year. Midtown Tavern 919 Hugel Avenue, Midland P Warm Wishes Here's an old-fashioned greeting from all of us to all our friends! From the ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Branch 80, Midland OLYMPIA SPORTS --_ Closing- Out-Sale Continues = Historic Naval and Military Establishments Christmas Blessings a he (1817-1856) » Ontario May you know His peace at Christmas. Brooklea Golf & Country Club Hwy. 27 Penetanguishene, Ministry of Culture and Recreation Step into a different Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (1639-1649) Midland, Ontario summer job Step into a different century this summer as a historical interpreter. We need friendly interested people who want to learn more about their heritage and to share it with others. For application forms and further @{ PARKS 926-7838 = * Deadline for application is January 13, 1982