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By DON
Sports Editor
Mohawks Capture Home Opener 3-2,
Lose To Strathroy, Sarnia On Road
We feel that this is a splendid opportunity for
us, on behalf of the community, to tip our hats to
one of the most “likable” football coaches around
the high schools today.
The party we have in mind is rapidly getting a
little round shiny spot on the1* top of his head but
the unique tony is seldom seen when this man takes
to the football field because of the bright red hat
he wears for a good luck charm.
You have probably guessed it by now—we’re
talking about none other than GLENN MICKLE,
coach of the SOUTH HURON DISTRICT HIGH
SCHOOL PANTHERS,
GLENN did a wonderful job with the boys he
had to work with this year. He brought them through
the newly-formed PERTHEX CONFERENCE FOOT
BALL LEAGUE without losing a game and guided
them past the power-laden WOODSTOCK RED
DEVILS, wno were favoured to take everything in
one big swing, and into the WOSSA “A” finals.
Since this was the first year for EXETER in
the SENIOR “A” division, which came about when .
• the high school enrolment reached the 500 mark,
we feel that MICKLE and every player on the roster
performed an outstanding feat by reaching the finals
even though the LEAMINGTON LIONS did edge out
a 13-7 victory td win the WOSSA SENIOR “A”
CHAMPIONSHIP.
This corner witnessed the game from the press
box at J. W. LITTLE MEMORIAL STADIUM and
thought that with a few breaks SOUTH HURON
could have easily been the champs today.
Fumbles and a beautifully-executed touchdown
pass which was called back stopped the Exeter kids
cold.
As the old saying goes “that's the way the ball
bounces” and it sure did bounce in the wrong direc
tion.
The football season has finally wound up for
this district but I’m afraid it will be remembered
for some time to come.
At the final game in LONDON, COACH GLENN
MICKLE reports that NICK FEDOSSOW broke his
wrist and JULES DESJARDINE came out of the
game supporting a broken nose after being hit on
a high tackle. Besides all this, two other football per
formers received shoulder separations and another
pair gained sprained ankles.
Who said hockey was a rough game?
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EXETER
HOCKEY BRIEFS — If there is any
available, you can send it down to the
MOHAWK dressing room. As you know, the hockey
season is under way and the tribe has been beaten
twice in its three starts.
But don’t worry too much about it at this stage
of'the game because most of the clubs we’ve played
had had three months conditioning to our one.
I’m not trying to make any excuses for our per
formance in STRATHROY but when we get our lines
organized and a better conditioning, we should give
any one of the three teams we’ve played a good run
for their money,
Maybe * we didn’t win the hockey game in
STRATHROY on -TUESDAY NIGHT but our wives .
sure cleaned up on the door prizes and lucky draws.
MRS. WILLIAM OBERLE won her husband a
free car wash while MRS. MURRAY BRINTNELL
received a beautiful wall picture. MRS. JIM LOADER
won herself a smart-looking pair of gloves, while
last, >but not least, MRS. DON GRAVETT won a
brand new “Arrow” shirt for her husband (I- hope).
So the Exeter gals really cleaned up on most •
of the lucky draws while the ROCKETS cleaned up
on us.
NEXT HOME GAME—The SARNIA CV’s, Who
we dropped a close 7-6 verdict to in the border city,
will make their initial appearance here this FRIDAY
NIGHT at 8:30. Three faces that won’t be strange to
the local fans here will be JUNIOR BARASH, OLLIE
HADDON and BRYCE. DAFOE.
. A WEEKLY AWARD — The/“Player of the
Week” is a new feature that will be appearing on
the sports page each week throughout the hockey
season. Merchants from this community are gener
ously sponsoring this project in hopes that it will
spur the players on to greater efforts and it will
help keep hockey interest at its peak through the
winter- GLENN LOCKHART of the nortKend White
Rose Station is a keen hockey fan and is? giving the
first award of the season. A player will be chosen
each week by BILL MUSSER, DERRY BOYLE,
CHARLIE ACHESON and .the MERCHANT if he So
desires.
Exeter Mohawk
As Chosen By
: Glenn Lockhart. Blit Musser. Charlie Acheson, Derry Boyle
xB
i| Gar Baker
(GOAL TENDER)
i GAR lias turned in two
i fine displays of the
i goal - tending art this
i week against Sarnia and
I Woodstock. He stopped
i all kinds of well-labelled
[ shots by the Athletics
on Saturday Right to
spark the tribe to a 3-2
i. win and was equally as
i good in Sarnia although
i the Mohawks dropped a
7*6 decision.
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GLINN LOCKHART, your north end White Rose
vfiWer,. it pleased Id present to the star goal tender
Mt"Hmr* of the W<ek" award oh hit arrival at
thl tervlta station.
GUNN LOCKHART, your
Glenn Lockhart
NORTH END EXITER *i
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Strathroy Rockets, paced by a
hat trick performance in the
first period by the league’s lead
ing scorer. Jack McCreight, went
on to dunk the Exeter Mohawks
to the tune of 7 to 4 on Tuesday
night.
It marked the third win for
Strathroy in four starts and mov
ed them 'into a thrce*way tie for
first place. The Rockets, with
six points, are tied with IVal-
laceburg Hornets and Sarnia
CV’s for the top runs.
Strathroy outscored the Exe
ter club 3-2 in each of the first
two periods and. then added a
single tally in the third without
a reply from the tribe.
It only took Jack McCreight
ten seconds to get his first goal
of the game as a quick combin
ation play from Don Emms to
Don Fulton to McCreight paid
off.
Don “Boom Boom” Gravett
tied the game up at 2:30 when he
took a rink-wide pass from' Bill
Franklin at centre ice and skat
ed in to park a slap-shot behind
Strathroy netminder Jim Strach
an.
The tie was short lived as
McCreight caught the top corner
of the net with a high wrist shot
after being set up by centreman
Do,n Emms.
Larry Heideman let go with a
shot at the 11:03 mark inside the
Rocket blueline that hit Captain
Doug Thiel’s leg at the side of
the cage and rolled into the net
to tie up the game once again.
But McCreight, who seemed to
be here, there and everywhere
in. the first period, picked up his
third and final goal of the night
to give the Strathroy club the
lead once (.gain in the see-saw
affair. His third goal was scored
at the 14:16 mark with Johnny
Evans and Don Emms receiving
assists on the play.
Exeter kept battling to stay
in the game and “Black Jack”
Dwyer finally flashed tha red
light for the tribe early in the
second period by sinking a
booming slap shot from his blue-
line position to make it the third
time in a row that Exeter had
come from behind to tie the
score. Bill "Wharnsby and ‘Boom’
Gravett drew assists on the play.
About five minutes after Dwy
er’s blistering drive, the Rock
ets surged ahead on Maroney’s
goal on which Don Kendall got
credit for an assist.
Stan Lpng made it 5-3 when
he finislfed off a play set up by
Willy Haas and Don Mayes.
Just when it looked as though
Strathroy was pulling away from
Exeter, Bill Franklin, who took
his.turn on thejforward line for
the first time this year, picked
up a clearing pass from “Boom”
and went all the way in to score
as he picked the short side of
the net. ■ •
"Strathroy, four minutes later,
got that one back on a three-
way passing play with Lane do
ing the honours.
Johnny Evan’s early third per
iod goal took some spark out
of the Exeter attack as the goal
gave the homesters a comfort
able 7-4 lead.
There wer*e only seven pen
alties called in the* game with
Strathroy getting nicked for five
of them.
EXETER —• Goal, Baker; .defence,
Thiel, Hayward, Dwyer, Franklin;
forward S, Heideman, McDonald,
Oberle, Gravett, .Wharnsby, Shantz,
Loader, Zukiwsky, Salter.
STRATHROY — Goal, Strachan;
defence. Long, Fulton, Finkbeiner,
Lamport; forwards, Emms, Evans,
McCreight. Hatt, Pearson, Lane,
Mayes, Haas, Maroney, ‘ Kendall;
Richardson, sub goal.
First Period
1— Strathroy, McCreight
(Emms, Fulton) ..... ,10
2— Exeter, Gravett (Franklin) 2.30.
3— Strathroy, McCreight
(Emms) ________ ____...
4— Exeter, Thiel (Heideman)
5— -Strathroy, McCreight
(Evans, Emms) _.
Penalties: Oberle, Fulton
Hatt 10:1'2, Hatt 18:36.
Second Period
6— Exeter, Dwyer
(Wharnsby, Gravett)_ _
7— -Strathroy, Maroney
(Kendall) __ _____ _______
8— Strathroy, Long
(Mayes, Haas) J____ ___
9— Exeter, Franklin
(Gravett, Wharnsby) ____
10— Strathroy, T>ane
(Pearson. Haas)_-____
Penalties—-None.
Third Period
11— Strathroy, Evans (Emm?) 1.21
Penalties: Mayes 3:29, Dwyer
10:46, Finkbeiner 19:36.
Win Opener
On Home Ice
Left-winger Billy Wharnsby’s
’goal at 19:26 of the third period
gave the Exeter Mohawks a vic
torious home debut Saturday
night' as they edged the highly-
rated Woodstock Athletics 3-2.
Right defenceman Don Peart
Was sitting out an elbowing pen
alty in the “sin bin” at the time
of Wharnsby’s game - winning
marker.
Over 600 fans roared approval
of the goal after seeing nearly
three full periods of a hard
fought) close checking game.
The Athletics, last year’s Sen
ior 4 “B” finalists against the
Whitby DunlopS) played a close
checking game throughout the
three periods until the last few
seconds in the third when they
took Purola out of the nets in a
Vain attempt to tie up the game.
Larry Lemenchick opened the
scoring for Woodstock at 4:51
of the first period when he sunk
a 20-foot shot after taking a re-
'lay pass from Ross Smith and
Don Hartung,
Bill Oberle, Who played a
strong game for the tribe, was
sitting Out a slashing penalty
at the time of Lemenchick’s
goal.At the 6:30* mark of the first
period, Larry Heideman put the
Mohawks back on. even terms
with the Athletics by finishing
off a goal mouth play set up by
Billy McDonald and Bill Oberle,
At tie two teams ended the
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14.16
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called by referees Higgins and
Robertson, both of London. Ober
le spent four minutes serving
time for slashing and roughing
as he caught Hlggin’s eye twice
in the initial stanza. Bob Bow
man served both of Woodstock’s
minors when he was called for
hooking and roughing.
Right winger Gerry Price on
Woodstock’s front running line
of Don Hartung, Prien and Larry
Lemenchick, scored the only
goal of the second period to give
the Athletics a 2-1 lead to carry
into the final period.
Bill Wharnby picked up a
charging penalty at 8:05 of the
second when he rammed Ed
Harrison into the boards at cen
tre ice and “Black Jack” Dwyer
got a two minute elbowing pen
alty at 13:36 but on each occa
sion failed .to score although at
times they came close on some
smooth passing plays.
Mohawks failed to take ad
vantage of the extra manpower
when Ron Halstead drew the
referee’s attention for tripping,
In a thrilling third period,
Exeter scored two goals capture
their first win in O.H.A Senior
“B” competition this year.
Larry Heideman sent a clear
ing pass to Bill Oberle who came
streaming in from left wing for
the tieing goal of the game.
“Obie” picked the bottom right
hand corner of the cage, beat
ing Lavy Purola cleanly.
Wharnsby’s bouncing shot from
directly in front of the Wood-
stock net gave the Tribe its
victory. Bill Franklin and Don
“Boom Boom” Gravett drew as
sists on the play.
Don Peart, one of the Athlet
ics star defencemen, turned out
to be the “goat” of the game as
he was watching the^ winning
goal being scored froni'the pen
alty box because of an elbowing
sentence he received.
It was the only misdemeanor
’called in the third period but it
proved to be the most bostly of
the night.
Exeter Mayor R. E. Pooley
officially opened the 1956-57
hockey season by dropping
puck at centre ice to start
game.
, President Bill Cochrane of
Booster Club introduced
ONE WASN'T ENOUGH — SHDHS Panthers’ Jules Des
jardine crashes through the Leamington line
score the first touchdown in the WOSSA “A”
above to
champion
ship match in the Purple’ Bowl, London, Saturday. Th«
Panthers took an early 7-0 lead in the game but Leaming
ton kept them scoreless the rest of the game. ,
n in a five-game schedule.
. LEAMINGTON — Halfbacks, &c-
Ken^le, OJartlln, Brooks, Mathes,
Hodgson, Kos,, 'Liddle, Wickham,
Simpson; quarterback, Jensen;
centres, Delellls, Morrison; guards,
Fotheringhame, Sivak, C. Smith,
Wfeins, Marleau. Clfl’der; tackles, Tait, D, Mopre, Vodarek, Dibbley,
McIntyre; fends, R. Moore, Gleeson,
Shuster, Jones, Jackson. *
SOUTH" HURON — Halfbacks,
Desjardine, T. Spilth, Fedessow,
Norminton. B. Lavender, Clarke;
quarterback. Pollen; centres, Doug-
all, Carter; guards, M. Desjardine,
Henderson, Hern, Regele, Foster:
tackles,. Zimmer, J. Lavender. GU-
of the highlights of this year’s Members of the front wall are seen above in action
outstanding work of the line- against Leamington in -the Purple Bowl at London. The
season, the SHDHS stalwars Panthers suffered heavy injuries in' the championship " . a*.- matchf _ —t-A Photo
>arnia
, Sarnia CV’s pumped home five
goals in the second period to wipe
out a 3-1 deficit and went on to
edge the Exeter Mohawks 7-6 in
a Senior “B” game held in the
border- city.
The Thursday night encounter
was -the first game of the season
for the Tribe and although they
emerged bn the wrong end of the.
7-6 score, looked as though- they
should be right atx home in Sen
ior “B” company.
The CV’s were outplayed in
each of* the first and third
periods but the middle stanza
proved to be the fatal one as the
Tribe Was outscored 5-1.
Right from the starting whistle'
the front running line of Bill
Oberld, Latry Heideman and Bill
McDonald poured all kinds of
rubber at the CV’s goaltender,
Tom Hodgins, to show that they
meant business, but the chubby
little netminder proved to be un
beatable until the 15.33 mark
when McDonald dented the twin
on a close-in play.
Bob Duncan, top goal scorer of
the night with two, picked' up
his initial marker in the first
when he caught the top right
hand corner of the net with a
flip shot from directly in front
of the cage.
Left Winger Marv Shantz made
it 2-1 for Exeter by scoring from
a scramble in front of the net.
“Red” Loader and Ted Lacey
picked up assists on the pray.
Bill Wharnsby picked up a
loose puck just inside the Sarnia
blueline, ;cut across in front of
the Sarnia goaltender and lifted
a high backhander past Hodgins
for a 34 Mohawk lead early in
the second period. .
Then the roof fell in.
Leo Houlihan, Stan Ulrich,
lie Haddon, Bob Duncan __
Charlie Glaab flashed.the light
to give the Chemical Valley
Crew the lead for the.first time
in the game, The second period
ended with the CV’s supporting
a comfortable 6-3 load.
However, it took the Tribe only
:12 seconds of the third period
to score and get back into the
game.
Bill Oberle did the honours
with Sill McDonald and Larry
Heideman drawing assists on the
play.
Junior Barash scored what
proved to bo the winning marker
at 10.45 when lie let go a par
tially screened shot from is feet
out at the loft side of the net
The Mohawks still kent plug-
hitting ground attack to score
an unanswered touchdown in the
second quarter and a converted
TD in the final quarter.
The Panthers took a 1-0 lead
early in the first frame when
Ted Smith booted a 35-yard kick
into the Leamington zone.
Shortly after Don McCutcheon
tore through the Lion’s line to
block a kick. Two plays later
Jules Desjardine crossed the
goal line with the ball for a six*
point major.
Bill Lavender and Jules Des
jardine made large gains plung
ing through the Leamington line.
zThe Second quarter saw Exeter
hang onto their 7-0 lead until
about the half-way mark when
Leamington started to roll. The
way 'John Kos,, Jerry Brooks
and Don Girardin were lugging
that pigskin around, it was just
a matter of time when the Lions
Would register some kind of a
score. Robert Moore took an
end-zone pass from Al McKen
zie to close the gap to a 7-0
count.
South Huron’s, onrushing line
again broke through to block
the Lion’s convert attempt.
After the short rest at half
time the Lions came back to
gain 30 yards on three consec
utive plays against the South
Huron defense. This seemed to
spark the Lions as Al McKen
zie pulled a “haphazard” sleep
er play which'went for another
six points as he caught the pass
and went over from the two-
yard ’ line.
McKenzie split the uprights
for a successful convert at
tempt.
The Panthers put on a deter
mined drive to get back into
the ball game. A series of run
ning and passing plays by Ted
Smith and Bill Lavender put the
ball down to the four yard line.
Then on a quick opening play
the ball was /fumbled and the
Lions recovered. But before the
Leamington squad could do much
moving around, they fumbled on
their 14-yard line and Exeter’s
Joe Zimmer recovered.
The fourth and final quarter
got under way with the Panthers
on the Leamington 14 yard line.
On their first play, quarter-
back Bill Pollen elected to try
a plunge through the line but
only two yards were picked, up
on the play. On the second down,
Ted Smith threw a pass into
the end zone to Ted Norminton
but-it slid off the ends of his
finger tips. '
On the third and final down
South Huron completed an end
zone pass but Illegal interfer
ence was called on the Exeter
ling: and the play was nulified.
'lhe Exeter team, in losing, lens, Etherington, Mas.se; ends,
displayed more defensive power, Peterson, McCutcheon, Sturgis, Tag-
than the winners. - Panthers £art- Jrwin, Glover..
blocked four punts over the £ua£}er . , .. 1—South Huron, single. (Smith) „ J 2—South' Huron, ' touchdown (.T,
This year marked the second] DesjarcUW consecutive time that Coach I ®eV/L ^uJ/ter i «,< '
Glenn . Mickle has brought his I 3“mS) 1 n’ k *0 w tt (R'
team to London only to go down • Third Quarter
in defeat. Last year in Senior, 4—-Leamington, t o u c h d own (Mc-
“B” playoffs the Panthers were IK halted by the Sarnia St. Pat-^7^ l®u‘r n (Mckenzife)
ticks. Scoring -*»- None.
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the collection including “Red Coat
Sailor” and “Captain of the Dis
covery.” Most of the books in
this series are in the library—*
These are stories of Canada’s
frontier, authentic talcs of the ex
plorers, fur traders, voyagettrs
and pioneers of our country.
We haven’t space, to tell you
about more of the new books, for
we want to mention the winners
in the poster contest for Young
Canada Book Week.
Winners in Room 10, Grade
four, were: Sharon Sanders and
Sandra Hunter; Roem 12, grade
four, Linda Huntef-Duvar, Sheri*
dan Penhale; room 9, grade five,
Shirley Genttrter, Barbara Janke;
room 5, grade six, Peter Knex,
Joan Dettmer; room 1, grade
seven, Jim Hannah, Judy SneL
grove; room 8, grade eight,
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Each of the winners will re
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