The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-06-21, Page 4TM Tinm-AdvwaH, Juna 21, 1956
SPORTS
By Don "Boom Boom" Gravett
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Tigers Take First Place,
Zurich Upsets Mitchell *
The first golf tournament held for Exeter this
year is now off to a flying start.
We have no less than 30 names of local and
district golf enthusiasts eager to tee off in the grand
old finale.
Still more names are coming'in and all are
welcomed. We want as many names as possible to
enter into this tournament as it gives the males a
good chance to cover three sports at once. By this
I mean HUNTING (for lost ball), FISHING (ball out
of creek), and of course, the game of GOLF itself.
This tournament is proving to be a booming
success as it is showing the number of local golfers
in the community who are interested in playing the
game.
I am hoping that the'shotmakers will not stop
at this one get-together but will go on and form a
club and a committee that will run tournaments
over the different golf courses.
Golf' courses at Mitchell, St. Marys., Goderich
and the Bend are some of the different fairways that
events could be held at to give the club swingers a
chance at a variety of holes;
In my previous column I said this tourney
would be held around June 23. As of Thursday, June
21, we have pinned things down and found that
this competition will be held officially from June 18
to June ,27. This is to give all of the boys a good
.chance to participate in'the affair.
Remember fellas, you can only play one round
of 18 hole? and then you must hand in your score
card to* the Sports Dept, at the T.A. Please print
your names clearly on the scorecards before handing
them in.
Hal. Hooke and John Goman are the first two
✓players to hand in their scores. Hal shot a 99 while
John, who has only been playing golf a year, had a
106. Nice shooting, John!
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WEDDING BELLS—Bill Oberle, the Exeter Mo
hawk hockey star, is now a happily married man.
“Obie” was married on June 9 in Waterloo at the
St. Louis Roman Catholic Church. We had the op
portunity of attending his wedding and thought it
was perfect.
Bill and his wife, Barbara, will live on Marlboro ‘
St. in Exeter.
We all want to wish the both of you the very
best and may you have many years of happiness
together.
HURON-PERTH BOUNCING SHORTS—The all-
star game for the intermediates is" slated for our
own park on July 11. London Majors undei' the
guidance of Frank Coleman will provide the opposi
tion . . . Managers from each team in the H-P will
■ choose their own players for the big game , . . Bob
Sadler will manage the dream team while -the rest
■ of the regular , season managers will automatically
become “ coaches . . . Umpires aren’t doing bad for
themselves in their open evenings ... By umpiring
games at night they receive $14 a game ... $7
goes 4b the gent in blue who calls the balls and
strikes and $5.00 to the base ruler; $2 is for travel
ling expenses . . . Lome Haugh has been accepted
by the league as spare Umpire . , . Good luck, Lome
. . .. Rick Elliott's name did not appear on a Zurich
certificate handed in Friday night in Dashwood. Rick
is apparently wanting to play with Zurich as he was
at the game on Monday fully dressed but did not"
see action.
THIS 'N THAT—Toronto Maple Leafs of the
International League may only be tied for fourth
place in the league standings’ but I’ll bet they’re the
only club that can boast of two no-hit performances
this year by their pitchers. Don Johnston hurled a
seven inning no-hitter and husky Lovenguth, newly
acquired. Toronto pitcher, hurled a nine-inning dream
game, winning 8 to 0. Casey Stengel has a nickname
for the Cleveland Indians. He calls the boys “Plumb
ers” . . . The largest score of the year has been
posted in the softball.circles . . . Denfield scored 41
runs in beating. Crediton in a seven inning softball
game m the Lieury League. Vic Wertz is doing a
terrific job for the Indians but he can’t do it all
himself . . . Players Cigarettes have published an
interesting book on golf ... It starts at the history
Of the game and ends up showing you the score
sheet . . *. Fred Walker of the Grand Bend course
had a few on hand he was giving out to some of the
golfers . t . The book gives some of the rules of
golf etiquette which all should know . . . It’s a tight
race in the National League . , . Only U/2 games
separate the first five clubs ... It would be nice
tb see one of the underdog clubs like Cincinatti or
Pittsburg come out on top at the end of the season.
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Dashwood Tigers, who won their
only game this week with a con-
vincing 264 victory over Hensall
Coach, took over first place in
the Huron-Perth Intermediate
! baseball league standings from
the Mitchell Legionaires.
■ Mitchell had to forfeit the top
J rung as they dropped their ini-
. tial game of the season to the
up-and-coming Zurich ball club
which won two games this week
with the help of a strong import
pitcher.
Meanwhile the Exeter Mo
hawks and Hensall Coach ball
teams are having their troubles.
Hensall still hasn’t hit the win
column in five games and the,
only two victories the tribe has
posted have been over Hensall,
Hensall and Exeter, who have
gone more or less to the home
brew players, are taking these
defeats on the chin as most of
the players lack experience for
this Intermediate class of ball.
However the two teams will keep
plugging j way and no doubt will
make the other teams in the
league sit up and take notice be
fore long.
Dashwood Tigers in six games
have pushed across the plate
a total of 70 runs in six games
while the other power-packed
Mitchell team has accounted for
51 runs in five games.
Zurich Flyers to date have
scored only 16 runs in four ball
games but have made them good
for a third place standing.
Exeter, tied with Zurich for
third place have scored 43 runs.
Flyers Blank
Exeter 8-0
Zurich Flyers recorded their
second consecutive win Monday
night to move into a 500 aver
age for the season with a two
win and two loss record.
By trampling Exeter Mohawks
8-0 in Zurich, the Flyers pulled
into a two. -way tie with the
tribe for third place in the league
standings.
Jim Attrili of Zurich flung a
neat two-hitter and had his team
mates perform, errorless ball be
hind him.
The only two Exeter players
to get a hit off the righthander
was Irvin Ford and Coach Bob
Meharg. Both of the hits col
lected in the first inning were
singles.
Attrili had a good fastball,
change of pace and a slider
working to perfection for him as
he hung up a total of fourteen
strikeouts.
Steve Mitro, ace flinger for
Exeter registered 13 strikeouts,
but slow fielding by his team
mates and misjudged fly balls in
the outfield cost him the game.
Zurich pounded out an even
dozen hits. A pair of triples and
two doubles were the biggest
blows of the game.
Shortstop Bill Zubyk and catch-
Tom Rewlings shared the hitting
honours of the’ game with each
getting three hits in five times
at bat.
Zubyk was the power hitter
of the seven inning affair as he
tripled in the first; singled in the
second and doubled in the fifth
inning. Kovacic also lined out
a three-bagger that was good
for an R.B.I.
-Exeter only had just enough
players to start the game with
and when Ford injured his ankle
playing shortstop, local midget
player Jim Russell was put into
action.
Although Jim had trouble see
ing a couple of high flies that
went for a double and triple,
he made two sparkling one-
handed catches in deep centre
field.
The Exeter club lacked punch
in air but the battery department
as they dropped their fourth
game in six tries.'
Zurich Flyers were full value
for their win as they hustled the
Exeter crew, right off the ball
diamond.
Score By Innings;
Exeter ...
Zurich ....
Batteries:
Rawlings;
Meharg.
Batteries: Jim Attrili and Tom
Rewlings; Steve Mitro and Bob
Meharg.
Tribe Scalps
Coach Club
Exeter Mohawks went On „
hitting spree for the second time
this season as they pounded out
17 base hits which were good
for 18 runs against Hensall
Thursday night. The locals won
18-5.
Hurler Bob Russell gained cred
it for his second victory in three
starts as he pitched a six-hitter
to win his second consecutive
victory over the Hensall nine.
Hensall scored their runs in
the first, third and fourth innings
while Exeter registered runs in
all five innings of the abbreviat
ed game. Only five complete
frames were played due to the
lateness in starting the game.
Pitcher Bob Russell led the
winners at the plate with two
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Jim Attrili and Tom
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Ball Standing
HURON-PERTH INT,
BASEBALL LEAGUE
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STANDINGS
Dashwood Tigers ..
Mitchell Legionaires
Zurich Flyers .......
Exeter Mohawks .. Hensall Coach .......
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Week's Scores
ExeterlS, Hensall 5
Zurich 5. Mitchell 3
Dashwood 26. Hensall 4 -
Zurich 8, Exeter 0
Games This Week
June 21—Zurich at Mitchell
25— Hensall at Zurich
26— Dashwood at Mitchell
..LIEURY SOFTBALL LEAGUE
STANDINGSGreenway ...............
Brinsley .............
Exeter ......... .......................
Lieury ...................West Corners ............... .
Crediton ....................Benfield ...........................
Mount Carmel ..........
Last Week’s Scores:
Greenway 17, Dieury Wesst (Jorjierg 21, Exeter ;<
Greenway 24, Mt. Carmel 12’
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Greenway 17, Lieury 6
West Corners 21, Exeter 9
Greenway 24, Mt. Carmel 12-
Lieury 10. Brinsley 7 ,
Games This Week
June 21—Denfield vs. Exeter
25— Greenway vs. Denfield26— Lieury vs. Crediton
27— Exeter vs, Mt. .Carmel
RECREATION BALL STANDINGS
TEAM W
Junior Girls Softball
Budgies ......................
Cardinals ..............Orioles
Red Wings ............;
Junior Boys Softball
Mohawks ...............
Tomahawks ..........
Black Hawks ......
Playoff Schedule
June 20—Mohawks
21—Mohawks
Pee Wee Baseball
Dodgers ...........Indians ................
Giants
Playoff Schedule _
Giants 6, inaians 4.
June 20—Giants vs. Indians
Playoffs For Girls Softball
’ Budgies 13, Cardinals 10
Budgies 8, Cardinals 3
(Budgies Win Championship)
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Giants 6, Indians 4
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The only other Mitchell player
to get on base safely with the
hit sign registering was right
fielder Bob Aicken. Shortstop Bill
Zubyk and right fielder Pete
Masse each lined out singles
for Zurich. The biggest blow of
the game and the only extra base
hit came off the bat of Doug
O’Brien who smashed a long
home run.
Bill Yungblut, although not
credited with a base hit, drove
in two runs.
Neither team completed any
double plays.
Score By Innings*. R
Mitchell Legion .. lOfl 002 0—3
Zurich Flyers ... 210 011 0—5
Batteries: Kovacic. and Tom Raw
lings; Gatehby and Stewart Hen
derson.
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Pitching Ace
Zurich Flyers, whp haven’t
been able to hit the win col
umn so far this year, have ac
quired a new pitcher.
His name is Bob Kovacic and
he hails from Belleville, Illinois.
Bob is a 23-year-oid right-
handed hurler who stands 5’ 11”
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Dashwood Tigers behind three
■pitchers, laced Hensall Coach to
the tune of 26-4 in a Huron-Perth
Intermediate baseball game
played in Dashwood on June 18.
By winning, Dashwood took
over sole possesion of first place
it. the standings as Mitchell drop
ped a 5-3 ball game to Zuricjj in
Zurich.
Dashwood’s 19-hit attack was
led by Bob Stormes. The big
first baseman, who has- been
hitting the ball air over the lot
all season, cracked out two
triples and a single in. five trips
to the plate.
The only thing Bob Hayter
lacked in going for the cycle
was a triple. Bob was credited
with a single the first time up.
He smashed a double and hit a
towering home run in his six of
ficial appearances at the plate.
Raymond Wein was good for
a triple and three singles in
five chances. Fifteen-year-old
Russell Page, who played, short
stop, had four safeties which
were all of the single variety. "
For Hensall, Bruce Moir was
the only player to hit safely
more than once-, He hit two
singles in four trips. . Gerald
Flynn walloped a double in the
losing Hensall cause.
Raymond Wein started on the
mound for Dashwood and was re
placed by Stormes in the fifth
with the Tigers ahead 13-0, Rus
sell Page took over from Bob
Stormes in the ninth inning.
‘Gerald Bell replaced Ken
Parker in the fifth for Hensall
to toe the rubber and put out
the fire on a nine-run Dashwood
rally.
The three Dashwood pitchers
chalked up eleven strikeouts.
Score By Innings:
Hensall .......
Dashwood ,..
Batteries:
Stormes (5),___ ...... ......
Hayter, Martens (8); Ken. Barker,
Gerald. Bell (5.) and Geo. Parker.
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singles and a double in four trips.
“Red” Loader, who played his
first game of the year, strength
ened the team considerably vyith
his fielding and hitting. Red and
Steve Mitro each pounded out a
respectable three for five.
Gerald Bell, Jerry Rannie, Ken
and George Packer were the
leaders for the home team as
they each pinned down one hit
in three official trips to the plate.
Young Pete Crocker and Bill
Pincombe were ‘the only two
tribesmen who failed to con
nect for a single.
All of Hens all’s hits were of
the single variety. In the third
inning, the Coach.-crew dropped
in three texas league singles.
These three hits and an error
by Jim Haley who dropped a
fly ball in left field accounted
for three of their five runs.
The longest clouts of the game
came off the bats of playing
coach Bob Meharg and Steve
Mitro.
Mitro hit a ball to centrefield
er Bruce Moir who misjudged
the fly ball and it went .for a
triple. Bob Meharg smashed a
liner into left-centrefield that was
good for a double.
The only double play of the
ball -game was executed by the
Hensall crew. Gerald Bell engin
eered the play by tagging Me
harg going into third after pick
ing up a hot grounder and firing
across the diamond to first base
map Ken Parker to get Mitro
to complete the twin killing?
Fielding gems were turned in
by Jerry Rannie and Steve Mit
ro. ’
Second baseman Rannie went
to his left quickly to pull down
a line drive off t-.e bat of Bob
Russell to rob Bob of what look
ed to be a sure base hit.
Mitro, playing the shortstop
position, took the hit sign away
from Mervyn Eyre as he made
a good running Catch out behind
sfecond base.
Easy-going Bob Russell fanned
five Hensall hopefuls at the plate
while three Mohawks went down
via the strikeout method.
HENSALL ’ -------------
Henderson, rf, cf (5th)
Baker, If ..........
Moir, cf, 3b (5th) ......
Beil. 3b p (5th) .............
Eyre, ss ........................
K. Parker, lb...............
Rannie, 2b .............«...G. Parker, c ....................
Sangster, p ..........
Flynn, rf (5th) ............
TOTALS .....................
EXETER
Bill Pincoihbe, c ...........
.Tim Loader, 3b
Bob Meharg, lb ........
Steve Mitro, ss Bill Batten, cf
Bob Russell, p
Irv Ford, 2b .. Jim Crocker, rf
Jim Haley, If .
TOTALS ........................ 35 18 17
Line Score; R H
HENSALL ............. 103 10—5 6
EXETER ................ 312 48—18 17 „Umpires! Henry Harburn, plate;
Erb Turkheim, bases.
Vets Suffer
First Defeat
Zurich Flyers handed Mitchell
Legionaires their initial setback
on June’ 15 in Zurich by posting
a 5-3 decision over the high-fly
ing Mitchell team.
It marked the first triumph of
the year for the Flyers as
against two losses.
Bob Kovacic, the new right-
hahded pitcher from United
States, made his first appear*
ance on the mound an impres
sive one by registering his ini
tial victory of the year.
.The game was marked by a
pitching duel between 26-year-
old Bill Gatenby of Mitchell and
Kovacic.
It was a thriller for Kovacic to
Win and a heart-breaker for
Gatenby to lose as each pitcher
only allow* ’ tl._ L ;; ‘
stellar performance during
seven inning game.
Zurich scored their runs in
first, Second, fifth and sixth
rungs while Mitchell ta’lied__
a run in the first and added two
mere m the sixth. Each team
committed throe errors.
The only flayer on either team
to collect more than one hit was
Doug Aitchison of Mitchell.
He picked up a pair of singles
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