The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-11-29, Page 66 > Th» Tim«»-Ac<¥ocat«, November &t 1956
Let's Talk
SPORTS
By DON “BOOM BOOM” GRAVETT
Sport; Editor
We were out to Grand Bend on Saturday after-
noon after the GREY CUP classic on T-V. b^ut we
. couldn’t see anyone swinging anything that looked
like a golf club, not even our good friend MORLEY
SANDERS,
So I guess it’s a good safe bet to say that two
sports bowed out of the picture on Saturday in some
what the* same fashion.
The GRAND BEND GOLF COURSE is complete
ly Snowed under as were the MONTREAL ALOU-
ETTES by the EDMONTON ESKIMOS.
Now that these sports are through, we have a
hockey club to write about—-namely the EXETER
MOHAWKS!
Oh man! How did we ever let the invading
SARNIA GV’s score six goals in the final period
and blow a four goal lead? That’s one question that
Will never be answered 100% correctly.
I must admit, it is the first time I can recall
being connected with a club and have that happen,
especially in one period. But as most of you hockey
fans know, that’s the way things in sports happen.
An example of winning and losing can be seen to
day in the NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE which
sometimes makes you wonder what’s going on.
On a Saturday night a week or so ago at the
FORUM, the MONTREAL CANADIENS handed the
DETROIT RED WINGS a 6-2 setback. The next night
the two teams played in the motor city and the
WINGS belted the CANUCKS 8-2.
In our last game in WALLACEBURG, the EX
ETER MOHAWK hockey team, as a whole, never
looked better to yours truly than it did in the
HORNET’S nest. Everyone was skating hard and the
only thing that prevented an EXETER /win was a
chap by the name of DICK PIATKOWSKI (that' can’t
be Scotch) who played goal for Wallaceburg. We
outshot the HORNETS 42-30 and only scored one
goal so you can imagine what Piatkowski’s perform-
"ance was like. You’ll have a chance to see him this
Saturday night when Wallaceburg comes into the
MOHAWK stamping grounds. *
Although we didn’t win the game, some of our
boys were lauded by the PROVINCIAL POLICE from
CHATHAM on the way home.
BILL MUSSER was driving GAR BAKER, MARV
SHANTZ, EARL BARTON and RON SALTER home
from the game when Gar spotted a body lying on
the side of the road. Upon checking, the players
found a chap by the name of STANLEY WYNN, who
was later identified by police, lying in the snow.
Musser and Baker took off to Dresden for the
police, an ambulance and a doctor as" Earl Barton,
• Marv - Shantz. and Ron Salter shedded their own
jackets and stood in the cold trying to keep MR.
WYNN warm.
When the Provincials arrived, they praised the
actions of our MOHAWKS. Good work, fellas! ■
The 8-7 victory our ten-man force picked up in
ST. THOMAS is a little amusing in a way.
When the third period started with the score
tied 6-6, only six men appeared from the ROYALS’
" dressing room to start the game. Finally, after a
minute and. a half or so was played, the balance of
the team came trudging from the’dressing room.
Apparently Coach KEITH KEWLEY was really
giving his boys a strong tongue lashing for which
he is highly noted and I am happy to say that while
he Was squealing away in the dressing room, our •
team scored one quick goal and added another to
leave him. and his watery-eyed players behind the
eight ball.
The WALLACEBURG HORNETS are having
troubles trying to get big JOHN “MOOSE” SHED-
DEN, who played with DURHAM HUSKIES last
year.
Apparently the Huskies told the “Moose” that
he could play hockey for Wallaceburg if he so de
sired but. after Mr; Shedden moved his wife and
three children to the Glass Town, the Durham
hockey club decided that they wanted $350 for
release.
The WALLACEBURG officials appealed to
O.H.A. and according to one spokesman, didn’t
any satisfaction, so as we came onto the ice for
M.n J ’ .I F ’ ™ • 1 1
Exeter Mohawk
Player Of The Week'
As Chosen By
Charlie Acheson, Perry Boyle, Bill Muster
5
Bill McDonald
(Right Winger)
Bill, over the three-game
week, picked up a total
of four goals and three
assists for a better-than-
average seven - point
week. His hat-trick in
St. Thomas sparked the
tribe to an 8-7 vitcory.
his
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the
get
the
final period an executive member was explaining
the situation from centre ice. to the 1,700 fans in ’.
attendance.
It looks as though the people of that town are
going'to raise the finances for the player which is
a very decent sort of thing for them to do especially
with the Yuletide season just around the corner.
It’s too bad that some of the so called hockey
wheels Want to practically ruin a man’s chances in
sport just to get a few. extra dollars.
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WOSSA "A" FINALISTS—This year’s edition of South
Huron District High School’s Panthers was the most suc
cessful in the school’s gridiron history- The’ club won the
newly-formed Perthex Conference title and reached the
Purple. Bowl finals, only to lose the championship for
six points in a see-saw contest. The team was presented
with The Stratford Beacon-Herald trophy, the Perthex
award, last week. Front row, left to right, are Bill Foster,
Bev Sturgis, Bill Pollen, Vai Gulens, Ted Normington,
Jim pougall, Jim Etherington, anti Joe Zimmer.; middle
row, Morley Desjardine, Gerald Regele, jack Clarke, Bill
Lavender, Jules Desjardine, Coach G. M. Mickle, Ted
Smith, John Masse, Peter Irwin, Tom Lavender; back row,
Cecil Henderson, Nick Fedossow, Ed Hern, Don Peterson,
Ernie Morenz, Dick McCutcheon and Nolan Taggart. Miss
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Mohawks Seek Revenge Saturday
For 4-1 Loss To League Leaders
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The classy Wallaceburg Hor- .
nets, who will be playing in
Exeter this Saturday night are
at the moment on top of the
O.H.A. Senior “B” hockey stand
ings.
The Hornets have ten points
to runner-up Strathroy’s eight
but the Wallaceburg crew has
played two more games than
the Rockets.
Two overtime victories were
featured in the week’s activities
as the Strathroy Rockets edged
Woodstock Athletics on home ice
5-4 on Carl Hatt’s overtime
.marker and Wallaceburg Hor
nets tripped the Sarnia CV’s in
the extra frame in Sarnia when
Earl Towers scored at the 2:44
mark.
One of the biggest upsets this
week was when St. Thomas
Royals came up with a 5-3 vic
tory over the league-leading
Hornets. »
The victory has moved the St.
Thomas club into a fourth-place
tie with the Exeter Mohawks
and the Woodstock Athletics.
Wallaceburg won two of. their
games this week to stay out in
front of the rest of the league.
Hot Goalie
Stops Tribe
Wallaceburg Hornets were
pressed right from the opening
iace-off by Exeter Mohawks but
still came out on top of a 4-1
score in a Senior “B” game
played in, Wallaceburg Monday night.
The Hornets, although outshot
42-30 by the tribe, made enough
of iheir scoring opportunities
count to climb all alone info first
place in the O.H.A. standing.
Goaltender Dick Piatkowski
turned in a stellar performance
for the winners as he thwarted
determined Exeter rallies time
and time again. The Exeter club
put Up one of its best displays of
the year against the league lead
ers in a fast three periods of
hockey.
Brad Gay turned out to be the
hero of the night as he registered
insurance goals in the second
and third periods to put the game
on ice for his club.
Several scoring opportunities
evaded each club in the first
twenty minutes of hockey as er
ratic shooting and fine goaltend
ing on both sides stopped almost
everything.
Hornet defenceman Mike Zo
rica bounced a labelled drive" off
the Exeter goal post early in the
period as the Wallaceburg club
tried everything to score.
Exeter’s front-running line of
Oberle, Heideman and MacDon
ald, along with Wharnsby, Dares
and Gravett missed chances ga
lore to sc<?re goals.
It wasn’t until the 17:50 mark
that Bruce Jones finally flipped
the puck over the outstretched
Gar Baker for the’first goal of
the game. Paul Oliver had taken
a pass from Brad Gay and had
his shot Stopped by Baker, but
Jones came romping in for the
rebound to pump it home unmo
lested for the only goal of the
, period.
Defenceman Mike Zorica tal
lied the second Wallaceburg
marker at 4:15 of the second
period after the tfibe did every
thing but put the puck past Piat
kowski in the Wallaceburg net.
The Hornets jumped off to a
c
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I
Cats Swamp
Zurich Six
Ilderton Wildcats swamped the
Zurich Flyers in Lucan on Tues
day night by a 13-3 score to reg
ister their initial win of the sea
son.
It was Ilderton all the way as
the Wildcats ran up a 5-0 score
in the first; added a single mark
er in the second and outscored
Zurich 7-3 itt the final stanza.
Evans paced the Ilderton club
with a four-goal attack while
Maltby followed with a hat trick.
McNair ahd O’Neil with two
each and Houston and Fulford
with single markets rounded out
the Ilderton scoring attack.
Playing Coach Tom Rawlings
of Zurich scored a pair while
Benny Cignae picked, up the
Lu • iuk-UMJI.
,3-0 lead' when Bruce Jones set
tip Bop Gay in front of the Exe
ter net at 5:50,
Ed Didone, captain of the Hor
nets, picked up a rare two-minute
penalty ■ in this v period as he
speared Mohawk Captain Doug
Thiel in the back with his stick.
The referee called it accidental
and issued only a two-minute
minor to the centre iceman.
The checking after this inci
dent became a little more rugged
and five other minor penalties
were issued, mainly for heavy
body checking. Exeter picked up
three of the fi.ve penalties called.
Centre Larry Heideman kept
Mohawk hopes alive when he
picked the corner from directly
in front of the Wallaceburg net
after his line had been humming
all around the pay-off territory
for nearly two minutes. Bill
Oberle and Bill MacDonald drew
assists on Heidy’s goal.
Chances were missed by
Wharnsby, MacDonald, Heide
man and .Oberle as the third
period progressed. When it looked
as. though the tribe was going to
score, Brad Gay took advantage
of an opportunity to tally un
assisted to take some of the
punch out of the Exeter attack,
but the Mohawks kept plugging
away until the final buzzer to
end the game.
EXETER—Goal, Baker) defence,
Barton, Dwyer; forwards, Heideman. MacDonald, Oberle. Dares. Loader, Gravett. Wharnsby, Shantz, Tfhiel, Hayworth, Salter. /
WALLACEBURG — Goal, Piatkowski; defence, Zorica, Cellotto,
Plouffe, McArthur; forwards, Towers. Didone, Elnickl, Gay, Emery, Mann, Jones, Oliver.
First Period
1— Wallaceburg, Jones(Oliver, Gay) _ ___
Penalty — Dwyer.
Second Period
2— Wallaceburg, Zorica(Towers, Didone) ____ ___4.153— Wallaceburg, Gay (Jones) _ 5.50
Penalties — Cellotto, Dwyer 2, Oliver. Didone, Barton. .
Third Period '
4— Exeter, Heideman(Oberle, MacDonald) _____3.475— Wallaceburg, Gay ...___17.10Penalties — Cellotto, Didone.
Sarnia Rally
Dunks Locals
Six third-period goals by the
visiting Sarnia CV’s /capsized
Exeter Mohawks as the tribe
dropped a narrow 9-8 decision
Friday night;
In one' of the weirdest games
seen on Exeter ice, the Mo
hawks, who'boasted a four goal
lead in the third period at one
time, completely fell apart as
the CV’s kept pouring rubber
into the Exeter net.
For some unknown reason, the
tribe couldn’t get clicking in
that hazardous third frame as
they did in the second, when they
pumped four t unanswered goals
past Hodgins in the Sarnia nets.
Sarnia took a 3-2 lead in the
first, period but trailed 6-3 at the
end of the second.
Exeter right-winger Bill Mac
Donald lost no time starting off
the high scoring game as he’
took a direct pass from centre
Larry Heideman to beat Tom
Hodgins at the 15-second mark.
One minute and 20 seconds
later, playing coach “Red” Load
er scored his first goal of the
year on a breakaway from cen
tre ice.
As the period carried on, two
quick goals, 11 seconds apart,
by the visiting Sarnia club put
■ them right back in the game.
Ray Moffitt beat Baker after
taking a pass from Kevin BeU
for the first goal and Leo Houli
han blinked the light for the,
second after receiving a hand
from Tussey Dunham,
: With only Seven seconds to go
■ in the period, centre Murph Al-
• len scored his first of two goals
• to give 'the CV’s a one .goal ad-
vantage to carry into the sec-
i ond period.
i The second period saw the Mo-
■ hawks put on one of their best
I displays of hockey this year,
Bill Oberle sparked a four
> goal outbreak for the tribe by
s potting a pair, The first came
, at 2:36 with Heideman drawing
i the assist and the second was
I recorded at 19:21 when he slid
; the puck over the prostrate Sar
nia goaltender. Egrl-Barton and
> Bill MacDonald picked up as-
: slats oh the play,
i Bill Franklin accounted for the
J'kUk.
17.50
and Jim Loader.
Loader’s second goal came at
18:04 with Doug Thiel drawing
an assist on the play to round
out the second period action.
Larry, Heideman grabbed a
loose puck sitting in front of the
Sarnia net early in the third
period and sent it home to boost
the Mohawks into a '7-4 lead.
However, a battling Sarnia
team had different ideas about
the outcome of the game. Murph
Allen picked the corner of the
Exeter cage at 2:54 while Thiel
sat in the penalty box for the
first of six big goals.
, Tussey Dunham took advan
tage of Bill Oberle’s penalty at
6:25 by scoring on a play with
Stan Ulrich.
. Ulrich got credit for the third
CV goal when a flip shot was
directed carelessly into the Exe
ter net.
Milton Fraser let the. puck de
flect off his skate in front of the
Mohawk goal past the helpless
Baker after a hard low shot
left the stick of Tussey Dunham.
Dunham scored his second
goal of the period at 16:36 on a
goal mouth scramble,and finally
Leo Houlihan picked the short
side of the Exeter netminder
from close in to net the winning
counter.
Junior Dares, playing his first
full game with the tribe, pushed
a loose puck under Hodgins for
the final Exeter goal of the
game and his first goal of the
season.
EXETER—Goa! Baker; defence, Barton, Dwyer, Hayward, Franklin, Thiel: forwards, Heideman, McDonald, Oberle, Shantz, Dares, Loader,
Gravett,
SARNIA—HOdglns, goal; defence, MOffit, Haddon, Eraser, Horner; forwards, Allen, Bell; Savage, Dunham, Houlihan, Barash, Glaab, Ulrich, Duncan.
First Period1— Exeter, McDonald(Heideman) ___—----.—.152— Exeter, Loader--,---■--------L35,1— Sarnia Moffit (Bell(-----10.1(5
•1—Sarnia, Houlihan :(Dunham) ____________ 10.27
5—Sarnia, Allen (Ulrich) - 13.53 Penalties—McDonald, 5.33: Hay
ward. 13.49; Fraser, 17.24.
Second Period (
G—Exeter, Oberle
(Heideman) ----------------— 2,367— JCxeter, Franklin(Thiel, Loader) ________ 15.59
8— Exeter, Loader (Thiel) — IS.049— Exeter, Oberle(McDonald, Barton) ___ 19,21Penalties — Hayward. 4.14; Bell, 7.35;, HOulihan, 10.1'5; Haddon,
Oberle, 11:10.
Third Piriod
10— Exeter, Heideman (Oberle) ;3211— Sarnia, Allen (Ulrieh)__2.5412— Sarnia, Dunham (Ulrich) _ 6.25
13— Sarnia, Ullrich (B611)____9.3214— Exeter, Dares —____— 14.0415— Sarnia, Fraser (Dunham)16— Sarnia, Dunham(Houlihan, Horner) __
17— Sarnia, Houlihan(Dunham) _____ _Penalties — Thiel, 3..U; fit, 3.50: Haddon, Oberle, Moffit, 11.45. *
Braves Nip
St. Thomas
A small band- of warriors from
the Exeter Mohawk Hockey Club
traveled to St. Thomas ons Thurs
day night to grab a close 8-7 vic
tory from Keith Kewley’s Royals.
It marked the tribe’s second
victory of the year in the new
Senior “B” circuit and they came
from behind a first period 4-1
deficit to pick up an important
two points.
Only ten of the Exeter Mo
hawks were able to make the trip
to the Community Centra Arena
in St. Thomas as the weatherman
Stranded the Kitchener players
who were scheduled to play. One
player from Stratford had to miss
because of employment reasons.
The players from Exeter were
lucky to get there because of the
stormy conditions and icy roads.
Eventually the scheduled 8:30
game did get under way shortly
after 9:00 .o’clock and the two
clubs missed- numerous chances
‘to score in the first ten minutes
6f play as both Ed Lochhead, of
St. Thomas, and Gar Baker, of
Exeter, turned aside some well-
labelled shots. 4
It wasn’t until 10:13 that Harry
Bentley beat Gar , Baker to give
the Royals'a 1-0 lead, Hal School
ey, one of the best stickhandlers
seen atound this league in some
time, made it 2-0 tat the 12:45
mark with an unassisted tally,
“Black Jack” Dwyer caught
the eye of the referee for charg
ing at 17:44 and while sitting out
his penalty in the sin bin Bentley
and Walter Long - scored two
...fr*!—
4
town lead to 4-1.
Previously Larry. Heideman
sunk a close-in shot during a
goalmouth scramble to score the
only’ Exeter goal in the first 20
minutes of play.
Mohawks emerged from their
dressing room after - the first
period rest tooutscore the Roy
als 5-2 and carry a 6-6 tie into
the third period.
Cecil Cowie, who played ' in
Scotland last winter, scored both
of the St, Thomas second-period
markers.
Right Winger Billy MacDonald'
however, overshadowed Cowie’s
performance with a hat trick.
JaclfTDwyer, Larry Heideman apd
Bill Oberle picked up assists on
.MacDonald’s three goals,
MacDonald picked up another
point when he assisted on a mark
er by Oberle.
Bill Franklin scored the other
goal with “Red” Loader and
“Boom” Gravett drawing assists
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Lucan Wins
Loop Opener
Lucan Irish stormed.. back in
the second period to score four
goals and go on to capture the
opening game of the .WOAA In
termediate “B” schedule against
the Mitchell Red Devils in Lu
can on Friday night by a 5-3
score,
Ed Dolmage sent the visitors
into a 1-0 first period lead when
he scored at 7:51 with C. West
man and J3. Hartleib drawing
assists on the play.
Early in 'the second Charley
Westman Of Mitchell pqt the
Red Devils two goals up when
he scored on a play with Dol
mage and Hennich. '
Then forward' Steve Storey1 Of
the Lucan Irish found the scor
ing range and tallied twice to
go with goals by Henry Petrie
and Glen Cole for a 4-2 Lucan
lead. c
The Red-Devils kept fighting
back and Ed Dolmage sunk his
second goal of the game to make
it a tight 4-3 hockey game at'the
end of the second period.
However, Don Fletcher dash
ed in for a late third,period
marker at 18:14 to put an initial
win on ice for the Irish Six.
Out of a total of seventeen
penalties that Were called in the
.game, Mitchell picked up .ten
of them.
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