The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-08-23, Page 4m
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SWIMMING is the sport that seems to he hold
ing the spotlight at the moment for children of all
age groups. Towns that are staging competitive
meets with surrounding municipalities are giving thp
number one activity for the summer months, in most
young faces, a tremendous boost and are providing
splendid recreation for the upcoming adults.
However, at a meet held at RCAF CENTRALIA
pool last week, we witnessed an incident that young
folks' shouldn’t be subjected to, at least while in
their early years of life. *
GODERICH, EXETER-CENTRALIA and ST.
MARYS were engaged in a nip-and-tuck battle to
see who held the supremacy of the water lanes.
Eleven events in FREESTYLE swimming were
run off in excellent fashion but when the BREAST
STROKE swim was run a rhubarb erupted.
GODERICH swimming instructor JOHN KANE
protested that the swimmers from the other towns
were doing the stroke incorrectly. Girls at .the age
of 10 and under were racing when all this camp
about.
Kane’s crew was using the FLUTTER - KICK with
their breast stroke, Apparently ST. MARYS, under
coach STAN MOORE, and EXETER-CENTRALIA’S
coaches, BOB FLETCHER and BILL POLLEN, had
taught their swimmers to use a FROG KICK with
the breast stroke.
After the coaches went into a prolonged huddle,
while the youngsters stood patiently around wonder
ing what was going on, it was decided to call off >
the race for girls ten and under,
The next breast stroke feature was won by a
ST. MARYS girl who came home a good three yards
in front of her closest rival from GODERICH and
climbed out of the water. When the judges gave
the little miss a first prize ribbon, KANE stormed
in with a protest that the girl didn’t touch the wall
with two hands.
When the judges' wouldn’t change their de
cision, the burnt-up MR. KANE, who is supposed to
be setting* an example to the young onlookers,
promptly withdrew his team from competition to
spoil the whole proceedings for all three towns in
the meet.
In sports today one can hardly pick- up a paper
without finding that a protest has been lodged against
this or that. Petty arguments such as this are kill
ing sports because people are sick and tired .of
hearing about protest trouble in the BIG LEAGUES,
let alone in a friendly gathering of some kids.
. We think that JOHN KANE made a great mis
take carrying on the way he did in front of those
young children.
Kids, when they’re led into this sort of thing
in early life? will grow up with it and no matter
what sport it may be, they will always have that
sneaky fttitude in them that if we can’t beat you in
competition, we will sink you through the protest
route. ‘
EXETER’S swimming instructor, BOB FLET
CHER, said: “In my opinion, children of 10 years
and. under, are -too young to learn the breast s’&okn '
correctly'. Instructors shouldn’t attempt to teach it'-
until the boys and girls are of the intermediate age
level.” T
BOB was plenty burned up over the withdrawal
of the LAKEPORT CREW and I can’t say that I
think he’s wrong. A lot of time and effort is put
forward to teach the children swimming and when
something like this happens it makes one wonder
if it’s worth it,
GOLF CLUB NOTES—Some of the match play
results have been turned in after the first few days
of play . . . MORLEY SANDERS and “RED” SCOTT
stroked' them way to victory over JACK FULCHER
and CHUCK SNELL in two of the matches . . ...Now
MORLEY and RED will play off in the second round
of the tourney as soon as a date. can be arranged
• , . The same will apply to other winners as the -
matches must be completed as soon as possible be
cause of the., late start of the MATCH PLAY ...
HAL HOOKE and BOB DINNEY hooked up in a
real battle that went to the sixteenth hole before the
FURNITURE OWNER gave way to the smooth
stroking CONSERVATION CHAP . . . REG ARM
STRONG turned the tables on STAN FRAYNE in
their 18-hole match while BUD PRESZCATOR took
the honours from DICK WATSON on the fifteenth
hole . . . This corner would appreciate an early reply
on all matches so that the second round can get
under way - . . Members will be notified who they
are teamed up with in the second round through
the SPORT PAGES or you can find out by giving
us a. call at 770.
Dashwood Tigers,, the Huron-1
Perth intermediate league round 1
robin champions, will tangle•
with the Zurich Lumber Kings •
in a best of five series for the j
Huron-Perth championship of the
league. ‘The first game, which has al-.
ready been played, was taken
in Dashwood by the Tigers when
they clawed out a 3-2 victory
in a nine inning thriller on Mon- :
day.Bob Tanner and Bob Kovacic, ,
two imports, went the full nine
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clubs.
The next game Is slated for j
Zurich on Thursday, August 23 i - .with starting time set for 6:15. see the see-saw battle. .
Bob Stormes and Jim Attrill1 Jim Attrill was on the firing H
will probably oppose each other line for Zurich and he whiffed'
on the mound for the second fifteen hatters over the nine-in
game of this* series. I ning route.
The Mitchell Legionaries and I 7;.v „„„
Zurich had quite a battle in de-1 effective in the first, fifth and I
elding who would, meet the ; eighth innings as he slide a third
Tigers for the Huron - Perth i strike past three batters to strike
championship. I out the side in each inning.
A 0-0 game and a see-saw ( Bill Gatenby, who was tagged
battle on Saturday showed that as the losing Mitchell pitcher,
there wasn’t much difference in I didn’t seem to mind Attrill’s of-
the two clubs when their pitch-, ferings as he hit a two-bagger
Ing staff was right. in the fourth and duplicated his
Zurich won the. Saturday after- J feat in the sixth by bouncing a
noon game by a score of 12-7. • ground rule double over the left
-— - ’ field fence.
i First baseman Art Saiiler was
i the only other Legionaire player
to get an extra base'hit off At
trill.
Saddler tripled in the fifth on
the Second pitch but was left
, stranded on third as the glas-
; ses-wearing pitcher for Zurich
I hung up three strikeouts on the
next four men to face him. Bob
Norris got on with a close infield
play at first base while- Gatenby
held at third.Jim Attrill, who seemed to I
have it in every-1 department, I cracked out three singles and a
double that bounced over Roh-
fritsch’s head in centrefield in
five trips to. the plate to lead the
Lumber Kings’ hitting attack.
Bob Kovacic was credited with
a double and two singles in four
appearances to the .plate .while
Bill Yungblutt, Tom .Rawlings,
Don Q’Brien and Benny .Gignac
all flashed the-. Jiit sign, on two
different occasions, in the 18-hit
onslaught. \ .
Single safeties were picked up
by Peter Masse, • Doug O’Brien
! and Bill Zubyk. :
Big Doug Aitchison, Bill Gaten
by and catcher Bob Norris led
the losers’ hitting by smacking
out two hits apiece in a vain at
tempt to knock Zurich out of the
running league honours.
( The only' other players to get
on base with a nit were Link
Rolifritsch and Art Sadler with
one hit apiece.
The winning blow that pushed
Zurich into the finals 1 against
Dashwood Tigers, came , off the
bat of Don O’Brien in the. sixth
when he pounded out an infield
single, to score' Tom Rawlings
with the eighth and winning rhh
of fhe ball game. Rawlings 'had
previously doubled and moved
around to third when Gatenby
threw a wild pitch at catcher-
Bob Norris.
The Lcgionaires’ George
Coveney and second baseman
Murray Colquhoun turned in
some, fine defensive plays as the
two thwarted the attempts of
Zurich bids for base hits on
several occcasions.
Righthander Bill Gatenby, with
his assortment of stuff, had
seven strikeouts to his credit in
the seven innings he toed the
rubber.
Gary Kopf, who came in as a
relief pitcher from' the' last of
Zurich Ousts Mitchell
In See-Saw Contest
After playing a scoreless tie i the seventh,
on Friday night, a Saturday af-'man via the
ternoon game in Zurich proved. sc°ry by mn to he aip that was needed tol^|.^hpn ......
find out who would advance into j 4 Bat
the Huron-Perth finals as the j O’Brien; B. c.
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EXCLUSIVE!
PLAY-BY-PLAY Coverage by KEN ELUS
Saturday, August 25, 2:05 p.m. Sunday, August 26, 2:05 p.m.
Detroit at Baltimore Detroit at New York
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An open meeting will be held for all hockey fans
who Are interested in the Exeter Mohawks. Flans
will be discussed for the future 1956*57 Mohawk
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meet the I eighth innings as he slide a third--- n.,.<u . .. * . . " - , ' j
out the side in each inning.
Bill Gatenby, wlm was tagged
didn’t seem, to mind Attrill’s of-
in the fourth and duplicated” his
(.Bob Kovacic of Zurich.- and downs.
! Gary Kopfs of Mitchejl hooked I
up in one of the best pitching |
battles seen in this league in ai
number of seasons on August 17 I
in Zurich.
The two moundsmen each threw
one-hitters to make a 0-0 tie in
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Locals Oust
Clinton Team
Exeter Kinsmen Midgets turn
ed on the steam to eliminate
Clinton Midgets from a WO A A
playdowns by posting a 13-3, de
cision right in Clinton on Friday
’ght.
The victory gave the Kinsmen
Midgets a clean sweep of the
best of three series 2-0,
Wingham Midgets will proba
bly be the next opposition to op
pose the local entry. The win
ner of this series will represent
the WOAA in the O.B.A. play-
Jim Russell and Fred Hunter
teamed up as the one-two punch
on the mound to K.O. the Clin
ton team on five well scattered
hits. After looking at Russell’s
fast pitching for three complete
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Tigerettes Lead 2-0
In Girls' Ball Finals
Dashwood Tigerettes made it
two in a row oyer the Exeter
Greys on Monday night in Exeter
by pulling a ,17-14 victory out of
the file to take a firm grip on
the best-oLfive series for the
Eadies Softball League champion
ship.
The visitors did it the hard
way as they spotted the Exeter
crew a nine-run lead before
breaking into the scoring col
umn.
The fourth inning was fatal
for the Greys as the Dashwood
club exploded for ten runs on
nine base hits to lake a 14-10
lead.
Exeter fought back with four
more runs in the final frames
but the Tigerettes pushed a sing-
le marker over the plate in the
fifth and two more in;the top of
the eighth to salt the game away.
Christine Gulens- and. Shirley
Kipfen who played’ her first
game of the season, led the hit*
ting spree for the winners by
collecting three hits apiece,
Anne Koehler and Marie Sal
mon each flashed the hit sign
twice with one of Koehler’s be
ing good for a double in the
third inning.
Single Dashwood hits fell to
Marion Tyler, Eleanor Becker,
Helen Gulens, Elaine Datars
anr Ruth Shady.
The Greys, although losing the
ball game, provided, the most ex
tra base blows. •
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Tanner Star
In First Win
Behind the artful pitching of
Bob Tanner, Dashwood Tigers
drew first blood in the Huron-
Perth finals by edging Zurich
Lumber Kings 3-2 in Dashwood
,on Monday night.
Tanner, the number one hurl-
er of the Dashwood pitching staff,
gave up a mere six hits over
the nine winnings and had seven
strikeouts lo his credit. The
crafty righthander had a shut
out going until the ninth when
Bob Kovacic belted a pitch for
a two-run homer.
The game was a fast-moving
affair- as the pitchers didn’t
waste any time with their offer
ings and the fielding support
was - exceptionally good even
though five-errors were- commit
ted in the game.
Dashwood broke into the scor
ing column in the second inning
when Harry Elliott beat out an
infield grounder on ? close call
rat first base by umpire Archie
Hubert. Elliott promptly stole
second as he slid under the tag
by Bill Zubyk who was covering
the bag.
Raymie Wein came through
with a timely safety as he crack
ed out a single between short and
third to score the fast-moving
Elliott all the way from second
base.
One hit, an error and a wild
pitch gave the Tigers their sec
ond run of the 1 all 'game in the
third" frame.'/
Bob-Tanner* hit the third pitch
thrown by Kovacic towards sec
ond baseman Doug O’Brien who
errored on the play to give the
hurler life on first base.
The ever-steady Jim Hayter
came up and another well-timed
blow was in the making. Hayter,
dropped a double to left field to
give Dashwood a 2-0 lead. *
The...Tigers’ final and wanning
run was scored in the fifth when
Tanner singled to open the bot
tom half of the inning. Jim Hay
ter dropped a perfect bunt in
front of the plate to sacrifice
' the runner to second. After Wade
, filed out to Benny, Gignac in
shallow centrefield, Bob Hayter
smashed a line-drive - double for
an R.B.L .. y ’
With only three outs to go for
a shutout victory,’ Bob Tanner
’walked Bill Yungblutt, the first
Zurich batter to face him. After
getting two strikes past Bob
Kovacic, a slow hanging curve
ball was belted out of the ball
park at the 300 foot mark to put
the Liimber Kings right back
into the ball game.
Don O’Brien tried to keep the
rally going by producing a single
but Tanner p.ut an end to the
rally by breezing a third strike
past Benny Gignac and getting
Jim Attrill on a soft grounder
Lo the box.
Dashwood’s Harry Elliott and
hockey cStar Don Hesse of Zur
ich were the only players t,o get
tijyo hits >in the tight ball game.
Bill Zubyk engineered a fast
double play in the seventh by
I picking up a hot grounder, touch-
! ing second and throwing to first.
I The Tigers also achieved a
i twin killing when Don O’Brien
i was on first base. Gignac lined
a scorcher at Tanner who pulled
It down, reeled and fired to Bob
Stormes at first to nail O’Brien
off the bag.
The second game of the senes
will be played in Zurich on
Thursday, August. 23 with the
starting time at six o’clock.
ZURICH
Doug O’Brien, 2h
Bill Zubyk, ss
Bill Yungblul,
Bob ICovarle, p
Tom Rawlingp,
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Jim AtlrlH. rf
Don Hesse, 1£
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RAymia Wein
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Tarnier—1 in. 9
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Standings
Huron-Perth
ROUND ROBIN SERIES
Score? of Series: .
Zurich 10, Dashwood 1
Milohell 5, Zurich-4
Dashwood 7, Mitchell, 2
Dashwood 9, Mitchell 0 ,
• Dashwood .3, Zurich 4
Zurich 12, Mitchell 7
FJNAJ, STANDING
Dashwood Tiger? ....
Zurich Dumber Kings
Mitehell Degionaires
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
(R^st-of-Five)
Scores to Date:
Dashwood 3, Zurich ’ 2
STANDING
Dashwood Tigers •••■•
Zurich Dumber Kings
Future Games:
Aug. 23—-DashwOod al • Zurich
-35—-Zurich at Dashwood
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27—Dftshwdod al. Zurich *’
f Fl ria I Rttrije Lo be arranged if
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Ladies' Softball
(Rest-of-Five Series Playoff)
Last Week’s Scores;
Dashwood 17, Bxeler 14
(Dashwood leads the best-ot-five.
championship series 2-0.)
Future‘Games: . .
Aug?24—-Kxeler at Dashwood
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WOAA MIDGET
WITH CLINTON
scores to Date:
JCxeter 17, Clinton
Exeter 13, Clinton
(Exeter • wins besl-.ot-three series
2-0,).. . ‘ .... ;
Lieury Softball
Last” Week’s Scores; ‘1 . '
Mt. Carmel 19, Exeter 14
Crediton 13, Brinsley 4
West Corners-11,
STANDING
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Rained Out Games:
Brinsley vs. W. Corners
D’enfield vs. Crediton
Future Games;
Aug. 23—Greenway ys. Exeter •
24—IVest Corners vs, Crediton
27— Den field vs. W, Corners
28— Crediton vs.. Mt. Carmel
29— Greenway vs. Brinsley
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