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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-06-06, Page 12Thg Timak44011004, 440 4, MI 4 MA14414144411001401410441441. 4 I 4,- .0 4141A 4A040Ammuk4 All k A 14 A A Aug 4 A 14 Let's 'Talk SPORTS y. DON "1100M, OlrtAVETT Sports :Editor, Zurich Takes ifisiP Lead With 2-0 Record; Mohawks Suffer Two Straight Setbacks Theres been plenty At base , Zurich pushed home- to runs 'game,. produced their runs in the !second and threw to. firstbas.eman :hits. runs and errors turned M in .each of the sixth and seventh third and .sixtli innings- .Walthers for the twin kill, :by the six fluron.Perth filtering.' innings .to wrap up the game and in the third, Gerry Martene led ing. rdate Baseball 'League teams .10 record their second straight vie- off with a dOeb.le orrow tory M as many starts.,4114 was fol.! in all, the :two clubs produced date and mita tthe. !lowed with. consecutive singles by , 13 runs,ls, 'picked Up 12 hits_ and o s -of the local Exeter Mohawks, er. Benny Gignac was the hitting Don .Gtieniher,. Bob Hayter and committed 13, errors in the mare. rors ,have been taking more star of the. night as he delivered Dick Regier which scored, two.' than. I the sixth and thirdbaseinan Rus- mitehell Soo Tit s The Tribe has played two uldg3' games.. and has suffered. two -con- Snortstop Doug Theander of the • sell Page gained life on .first by secutiVe setbacks. Hensel'. .pulled .Kings, blasted a long fly to deep ' a Colt error . to set uP another. a 94. victory out of the fire by centrefield in the first inning that .two -run rally. scoring six runs in, the last in- Frank Hammond, covering theRammie Wein cracked out a centrefield pasture for the tribe, timely double to score Geiser a.nd fling and Zurinn Lumber misjudged and when the play` fin- move Page to third. When ,Bob, took advantage -of seine verY ished, the fleckfooted Theander .Hayter reached first on an.error. timely and costly errors by the was standing on third With a Page scored the second run of the locals Poi a 10•3 verdict triple to his credit, Mohawks are the only chib Winning pitcher Arnie Meyer,'tt4j1fiminill‘lbelv.ille started the .game • without at least one victery in picked up two singles 'at the on.the mound for Dashwood but • the standings, • plate' and recorded six strikeouts split his finger so Rammie Wein Elsewhere, every dub. in the in. chalking up his first victory replaced him in the second. Wein league, at least saw action once last week as the weatherman. finally co-operated to let the schedule roll int() high gear. Zurich also pounded out an 11- 4 victory, over Clinton Colts on Thursday night and. as a result hold down first place in the sandings with a 2-0 record. Alhough they've played one ,,,,maaammia0000aitammiata000matiamaatt000i000,100.0mamoka than. their .share of the spot- consecutive singles in each of , runs. $40ro 104- talons* n n tile fourth, fifth, .and. seventh In- Jack Gaiter singled early 2on nnn - light 'WRESTLING made a "quick sand" debut in this town bat Friday night as .only a handful of fans were on hand t� witness the three colorful bouts that took place, A "handful" of fans may be an exaggerated statement as around 300 paid admission and the few of us who check. past the ticket takers free gratis were • that was there. it was too had that such a good card as PRINCE MIAVA with his sidekick COCANUT WILLIE and the cocky "HARD BOILED" HAGGERTY in the main bout • and the other four "top -grade" performers were not witnessed by more because they put on a very delight- ' ful show. The fans that did take it in left well satisfied but the wrestlers were disappointed at the turnout as • one might expect. It's just like any kind of sport. When a person participates, his performance becomes better before a larger crowd as the clammering of the noise making audience sends him on to greater efforts. • One big consolation of the night was the tremen- , dons kick. we get out of seeing "Banker" BILLY GOSS- MAN push HAGGERTY'S hand and foot from the ropes • when MIAVA was down taking a beating. According to Bill, HAGGERTY bellered out at' hitn,-"Get the hell out of here!" WILLIE honored right • back at him, "I'm not afraid of you. Come down here •and fight!" 1 asked the "Banker" what he would have done if the muscle man had- come down and he quickly replied. "Oh, would have run into the crowd!" Whether or not wrestling will be continued in Exeter is a question a lot of people have been asking and one that we have been unable to find out a direct . answer to. Reports have it that bouts held in other 1 centres such as WALKERTON and TILLSONBURG have been rolling along in fine style but for some unknown reason the popular mat game elsewhere has come to a standstill here. We know a lot of buck. and ballyhoo goes along with this sport but still men deeply interested in the game, namely the professional. athletes themselves, want to give the fans „good entertainment and they are justly doing so. A lot of solid entertainment that brings plenty of action and laughs .can be seen by all the family. Just think of what your missing! The NEW YORK YANKEES are still hitting the headlines. True, they're not winning ballgames but are some of their pocket books taking a beating! It seems that. some of CASEY'S boys have been taking too much to the liquid diet and not playing ball. We don't mean milk either! Can yOu imagine getting a bi-monthly pay cheque on a Saturday and find that you've been deducted one grand for not living up to the rules:As YOGI BERRA said, "I looked at my check and I saw that 4 $1,000 had been deducted. Whew! These are the kind of bi-monthly or even monthly checks I'd like to be • storing away as would a good many of you readers. It just goes to'prove that the YANKS have what it, • takes in the remuneration column even though they may be crawling five games back of the CHICAGO* WHITE ,S0X. JUNE 15 is the deadline for trades in the AMERI- CAN LEAGUE we understand, so it's almost a sure bet that the NEW YORK club will dwindle the loot pile for some players if things don't start to pick up. Two • players that have supposedly caused some trouble (Martin and Bauer) may act as trading bait for the club and with the greenback F to go with them, it's our guess that the World Champs land a good pitcher, infielder and possibly an outfielder before the deadline • is reached. Ya' know, we can't let those TIGERS catch us or it will be the end! Locally, baseball wise, the HURON -PERTH IN- TERMEDIATE LEAGUE has finally been given a break by "Old Man" sunshine as the six team S rolled off six pines wilhout 'any .weather interference. Another week or two of this and everyone will be able to catch up on the postponed games. A number of new faces are being introduced around the circuit this spring. One comes with the ZURICH LUMBER KINGS in the person of DOUG • THEANDER, of London. Doug was brought in to re- place BILL ZUBYK at short. DOUG' isn't quite the glove man Zubyk was but he swings a more powerful bat. We don't think last years Intermediate "D" champs have lost any ground in signing this youngster. THIS'N THAT—Bert Horton of Hensall, is minus a ball player for a week or so as 'GERALD BELL went to the altar last Saturday with a MISS BALLANTYNE from THAMES' ROAD. Best of luck to both of you! , We're taking in the NEW YORK -DETROIT series this weekend. Of course Casey's boys will win two. ? ? ? ? 4 • VVV ll /My llllllllllllll 10111 llll tit tttttt ttpffil1 ttt t itostii ttttt tt it, ttttt tt11.4 ttttt 111111111111/4 , RICK'S TV RADIO SERVICE 1 GRAND BEND AND DISTRICT' of the year, Frank Hammond and third. baseman, Fred Matheson collect- ed two hits apiece for Exeter while singles felt to Don McKel. ler, Don ad Bob Russell. One of the best plays of the night was a fast moving double play that went from Doug O'Brien to Theander to Don O'Brien to more game than most of the kill off what looked to be a Mo, other clubs, Clinton Colts have hawk uprising. Fred Matheson, *covering the come along nicely to register wins over Dashwood Tigers and hot corner for the tribe, made a couple of gein catches on fOuls Hensall Coach. Mitchell and Dashwood are hit by Tom Rawlings and Doug Theander, playing .500 ball so far for the season with each holding a 1-1 srere 1,7 Inn H 15 record while Hensall Coach has zurieti , 340 142 2.-10 7 1 A win and twa setbacks. Exeter 003 140 0— 3 7 5 Batteries: Meer awl "Rawlins; If all goes well again this week :Russell, Pare (s) and. Mcralls, with the weatherman, seven games will be played including a previously postponed game between Exeter and Dashwood in Dashwood. Four games are scheduled be- fore the week is out with the re- maining three corning next Tues- day night, Phenol. 192 EXPERT POMP? GUARANTEED Grend Send Error Spoils Tribe Debut An error on a routine infield play in the fifth inning on a grounder hit by playing -coach Tom Rawlings of the Zurich Lum- ber Kings enabled the visitors to spoil the home debut of the Exe- Colts Whip Tigers 7-4 Ken Patterson pitched Clinton Colts to a 7-4 victory over Dash- wood. Tigers Monday night in. Clinton for the Colts' second win in three starts. ' Patterson had control of the game all the way, as he toiled the full six innings and recorded eight. strikeouts. The Colts, who committed five errors in the field, tagged two Tiger pitchers for. seven hits which produced the majority of runs spored by the. winners. Clinton opened the scoring in ter Mohawks by ringing up a the second inning when they load - 10 -3 victory. ed the bases and Bill Craig, Colt The Mohawks held a 3-2 lead centrefielder, lofted a fly out to goinginto the top half of the Jack Gaiter who let it get by fifthinning when secondbaseman him. Three runs crossed the plate Don Wells handled Tom Rawlings' and the Dashwood centrefielder ground ball with ease and threw was charged, with 'a two -base a strike to firstbaseman Bernie error. Dunning. Instead of being a rou- Clinton rallied for two more in tine out, the ball slipped through the fourth when Allan Wilson fol. Dunning's glove and two runs lowed catcher Frank McDonnell's, crossed the plate. single with a triple for one run. Before the inning came to a Later Mait Edgar reached first close, Zurich scored twa more on on an infield error and Wilson singles by Arnie Meyer and Ben- scampered home. ny Gignac to take a commanding Craig scored the final, run 6-2 lead. for the ballgame for Clinton in From here on in, pitcher Bob the sixth after he had got on with' Russell or•the tribe got little sup- port from hit mates as they com- mitted five errors, a single. ft . ' The 'Dashwood ball club, who. sltertstopGeorge Coveney picked arrived late at the park for the 'up, a fast' ground ball,:stepoed on picked up four strikeouts in fin- ishing out the game. However, Melville was charged with the loss because the four runs came off him. Spore h a irE Dashwood ... 002 nes, 4 8 4 Clinton 040 201-7 6 5 Mitchell 'Vets Drub Coach, The combined four inning pitch- ing efforts of Doug Aitchison and Gatenby, along with nine Hensall errors, gave Mitchell Le- gionnaires a lopsided 11:2 victory over the Coach club Monday night in Mitchell. Aitchison, who hurled the first four innings gave up the only two runs of the ballgame to Hensall but was "red hot" in the clutches as he hung up nine strikeouts. His successor, Gatenby, came in for the final four innings to fan eight and hold Hensell off the scoresheet. Mitchell and Hensall each scored two runs in the first in- ning but the Legionnaires romped seven across the plate in the fourth to pull well away from their opponents. A series of errors in the Hen- sall infield, a number of passed balls and a bases-tbaded double by catcher Kenny Saxton pro- duced the big seven,rUn outburst. Dick Gorney, losing pitcher, who was nicked for a double in. the third by Bill Gatenby, but the runner failed to score. Saxton and Gatenby provided the big bats for Mitchell as' each cracked out two tits to lead the Legion hitters. George Coveney, Aitchison, "Link" Rohfritsch and Ben Was - man bit singles in the eight -hit attack. • Harry Jacobi, who helped .Gor- ney with the mound duties, had a two -for -three night at the plate while Laverne "Porky" 'Wallace, Gorney and Bruce Moir, drilled singles, • Onlydouble play in the game came in the third inning when 'Coconut' Forgets Drum, Maya Has Hard Time Prince Miava, the bare footed strong man from Sonioa, whipped "Hard Boiled" Haggerty in the main event of the evening last Friday night at the Exeter arena where wrestling made its first appearance in the town's his- tory. Miava, -who loves the, mat game sa much that he does it bare-footed, took the third and decisive fall from the bare- headed (welt almost anyway). Haggerty to win the match at the 29 minute mark. Hagg6riy, who supports a hair cut with , a hole in the centre, entered the ring at 254 pounds and the handsome Prince who came in at 230 pounds had the water literallS, rolling off of them as their match progressed. It seemed it was just a matter of time at to how soon a canoe service would be started. As per usual, the main event. tera failed to make the hearty handshake before the bout. Haggerty moved. right in on the startled Prince Miava and gave him a rough going. over witilj all of his cleanest cTouts, kicks and hair pulling he could think of, Conanut Willie was so enraged over this performance that he plum forgot about. his Tom 'rem and it wasn't until the seven 1.. Vote McLean FOR HURON • Liberal Headquarters In Exeter 431 Milt, Street PHONE 611 Nom or Como in re Veins; Infeematien Allisert — Loot ehliettlatt minute mark that, he finally used- it.. Of course by this time, Miava. was weaving under the pressure as Haggerty beltedhim with a couple of dandy knee drops across the throat. it was, these same knee drops at 930 that gave "Hard iled" the first fall. Both wrestlers refused to give way to one another as to see who would leave the ring first for a rest, so they stayed right on the spot and waited for the bell. - As the bell sounded, Conanut Willie -started right off on his drum and must have beat out sweet music to his partn,er be. cause Miava, ‘yhirled some coca - nut crunches le the swelled head of Haggerty that practically shook the building. The Prince. grabbed Haggerty While he was still stunned and sent him hurling across the ring and onto the ropes. Naturally, when lie rebounded back into the centre 'of the ring — Wham! A beautiful judo chop just ,under the throat floored him. immed- iately' the sweathig ,Somoan pin- ned lus opponent for the fall, Insults galore flew back and forth across the ring after this and once again each failed to leave the ring for a rest, Haggerty cable • out of his corner at the bell for the decid- ing fall with a "definip" method in his madness. He trted his best to get the bout favourite in hot water with referee Joe Gollob: At first it worked but • later it sure 'backfired. Miava caught Haggerty in his powerful scissors grip and this really annoyed the poor fella. because he couldn't. shake loose for some time. Filially "Hard Boiled" sent some stiff -punches to Miava's mid section and got free. Riled at being held like this before "his fans" Haggerty' aimed Miava'a head for the ring- peht and headed. it that direc- tion. InStead of WA plan working, Haggerty caught Gollob, between them and the ref took the full force of ,the blow. Gollob. intmediAtely disqual- ified Haggerty and declared Mi- ava the winner inu'eh to t'he de- light of the roaring custerners. In the 8emi.-final, Lee Hen- ning from Iowa, U.S.A. failed to stop Johnny Barend from New York city with all his crude tactics so the match ended in 'a draw. The 'preliminary saw Mn favor- ite Jack Pesek engineer a fall with his specialized flying body scissors at 18:54 to take the bout from roughian Bill McDaniel of St, Louis. , TAKE IT EASY, 11111-13illy Gosannan, Dashwood's goodwill ambassador, became excit- ed at tutees first professional wrestling bout Priday night and tried to get into the fray himself. He, and the other mat fans, didn't appreciate the tactics of Hard.toiled Haggerty who was eventually disqualified in his match against PfilleIS Miava, Sam Goddard was the referee. TA Photo • * .Kings Thump Clinton -Colts Zurich Lumber Kings, last years All -Ontario Intermediate "D" Baseball champions, ham- mered out a decisive 11-4 victory aver the Clinton Colts in a Huron -Perth League "home open- er" on Thursday night. Grand slam homers played a major role in the game as each team collected one, Shortstop George Laking of, Clinton got hold of one- of Jim Lyon's pitches in the fourth in- ning and sent it sailing over the right field fence to give his club a temporary 4-1 lead. However, in the next inning, the Lumber Kings loaded the bases and Benny Gignac, batting sixth in the lineup, slammed a pitch, over left field fence to put Zurich into the lead which they never lost. The largest run rally inning in the entire ballgame came in the fifth when the Lumber Kings scored no less than six times. Pitcher Jim Lyons, who record- ed 10 strikeouts in the seven inning game, had • fine hitting and fielding support from his teammates as they pounded out 11 hits and played errorless ball behind him. Clinton on the other hand, could only muster three hits and committed on error. George Laking wielded, the booming bat for the Colts as his homer and single produced two of the three Clinton hits, • W. Craig socked the other safety. Don O'Brien, Bill Yungblut, Benny Gignac and hurler Jimmy Lyons each hit safely with one of Yungblut's being a double. W. Theander, Tom Rawlings and Don Hesse got credit for the balance of the Zurich singles. John Wilson, losing Clinton pit- cher struck out two men and gave up five walks while Lyons issued, seven free passes. George Laking picked up all four of the Colts r.b.i.s. while on the Zurich roster Gignac had four, Yungblut two, and Tfieander, on O'Brien, Tom Rew- lings, on Hesse, Jim Lyons one each. Score hi Dielege :it E Clinton — t ttt 000 400 0— 4 3 1 Zurich. 010 460 0-11 11. 0 Coach Rally Sinks Tribe Hensall. Coach pushed six big runs across the plate in the bot- tom of the sixth and est inning on Thursday night to upset the Exeter Mohawks • 9.5 in their first start of the season hi Hen- sall. • Trailing by three runs at the end of the first period, Mohawks got back' on even terms with the Coach club ,by scoring two in the second and a single tally in. the third. The top of the .fifth saw Exe- ter take the lead for the first time in the gameas a, double by .Bernie Dunning, .a walk 10 Dick McFalls and back to. back singles by Robby Dobson and e Don McKeller scored two rtins-. Don McKeller pitched the first five innings for Exeter and had Hensall well in .command .most of the way. Bid fry ford was sent in as Henson became • ,• "alive" and ripped •through him for six big runs. „ I Harry .Jacobi led off in the sixth witha, walk and was fol. lowed la)- Laverne Wallace who 1 77..070;n - singled. Baker on a fielders choice and Jerry Ran- IT'S FUN WITH A The tribe gotJohn. nie on 4 pOp-up to shortstop trouble started. Bill Springstead. but then the 1 Johnson Catcher George Parker got on! OUTBOARD by an infield error, Bruce Moir i smashed out a double. Ken ran- ker singled and Bill Lavender sent a bounder 'down to third I baseman Gerry Pitre wh� bobb- led it for an error. Gerald Bell then got to first on a past ball and the game had to, be called because of dark- ness Although Exeter picked up nine bits off of starter Harry Jacobi and relief artist Kee Parker,. Heleunse, hurlers were tight in the ie • Ken Parker received credit for the win while' Iry Ford was tagged with the loss, Mohawk's starting pitcher Don McKeller enjoyed a perfect day at the plate with three hits in three trips while Gerry Pitre and Bernie DUnning each had two.. Single safeties fell to Robby Dobson and Joe Wooden, Laverne Wallace and Ken P'ar- ker paced the Hensall attack with two hits each with one of Wallace's being a double. ' Bruce Moir slapped a double in the big sixth for the fifth and last Hensell hit of the game. R. IL E $10r1'Jitnino— Exel 021 020-5 9 2 Henna 300 006-9 5 4 Tigers Blank. Mitchell Nine Dashwood Tigers started off the Huron -Perth Intermediate Baseball League season' on the right foot as they strut out the Mitchell L.egionaires 3-0 at home on -Thursday night. A real pitching duel between Mitchell's"Whitey" Match° and Dashwood'S Steve Mitre was carried over the eight -inning gain e. Mitro threw .a scattered five hitter at the visitors, fanned. 14 and,walked two' in hi l first start of the season while Jlifalcho allowed six hits in going the route and was charged with the loss. Costly errors by the Mitchell club paved the, way for the run hungry -Tiger crew. In the fourth inning, Dash- wood grabbed a 1-0 lead when errors by shortstop Art Saddler and catcher Kenny Saxton Al- lowed Dick Regier to gain "life" on the base paths and eventually score the first run of the ben - gal -he, - Two more runs in the last half of the fifth inning for the. Tigers wrapped it up. • A walk to Jim Hayter followed with singles by Bob Hayter; Jim Melville and Harry Mott with Bill Gatenby's glaring error —Please Turn to Page 5 The "sWeitest-running Johnsons ever" will spark your water fun this summer. They're powerful as all get out! Let us demon. strete, We also sell "Canadian" Beats, Tee•Nee Trailers and ether mi. rine equipment. 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