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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-06-05, Page 4Page. 4 Th Tlnws•Aclvocatct June 5. 1958.: inntinini nnittntitt111n111n1111111111 11tN111111i1111Niit111111t111i11111 Intilinninniti Le}'s Talk SPURTS y ,PQN "BOOM, BOQM" GRAVIrTT • Sports Editor MIM,11111111111A111111111111111111111A111111U1AIt11111111111111111111111111111,11111111/111111111111 JiMMY i3RYAN HiT$ THE jACKPOT Auto racing, a gamble with death and a battle o nerves, is one of the largest business sports souti of the border. The most recent testimonial to its tremendous popularity occurred May 30 when the 42nd International Sweepstakes took place on a 21 mile track in Indianapolis, Indiana, before an estimated 180,000 people. It's a gamble with death because. for the second year in a row, a driver has lost his life. Last year, Bill Vukovich was a crash victim and this year the death of popular Pat O'Connor sad- dened the hearts of London and district people who met hint at the London's An, nual Sports Banquet for Crippled Chil- dren, We were one of the fortunates to meet O'Connor in London, and we might add that one could not have asked to meet a 'nicer fellow. Jimmy Bryan, who copped the 500 -mile feature, won a real bagful of money for himself and Uncle Sant. One of the plain reasons why Bryan did win it, was the cat -like action of his pit crew. They changed his four tires and gassed him up in a mere 27seconds. The second place finisher, had a crew that took 30 seconds to do the salve job, When you think of it, it's almost fantastic. Usually when i get a flat tire, I pry at one of the tight nuts for about 15 minutes before it loosens! EXETER, DASHWOOD MEN AT RACE Harold "Scotty" Fox, of Exeter, and Bill Begier, of Dashwood, made the jaunt of some 462 miles to the "500" classic last week, For "Scotty," it was his third time, but for Bill, it was his first. We'd Like to pass on to you some of the comments "Scotty" had to xnake about the trip. Just to show what an attraction this event is, motel rooms run up to $25 a night, and you'd be lucky to find a vacancy sign hanging out within 50 miles of the track. Everything doesn't take place on race day. The night before at 7.30, a 21/2 hour parade starts. They have enormous sized floats which total 33 in number to coincide with the number of cars in the "500." Over 100 bands help to make up the festival. The main intersection near the race grounds is blocked off and on one side of a monument, there's square dancing. On the other, round dancing prevails and it lasts all night. It's something like the famous Mardi Gras. "This is the third race I've seen," said Scotty, "and it's still a beautiful sight to see!" If you're realty an auto race fan, you can attend a 150 -lap feature on another raceway right beside where the 41500" takes place. It starts at midnight the night .before. and ends about 3.00 a.m. Seat prices for the annual "500" derby are listed from $3 to $30 but try to get them at that a week before the race or even a month. The gates to the park swing open at 5 a.m. the day of the race, and thousands of people scramble into favourite locations. Some even assemble tubular scaffolds that stand as high as a five -storey house. They take enough food with them to stay put for the entire race. "Scotty," who witnessed the mishap on the first lap where O'Connor lost his life, felt that no one driver could be blamed for the accident, as several incidents contributed to the fatality. The Thursday night before the race, close to 3,000 cars were lined up along 16th street waiting. Some had been there for weeks! Scotty told us to mention the pace car Sam Hanks was driving. As you might guess, it was a '58 Bonneville Pontiac Convertible. (How's that for a plug, Scotty!) • In '57, Sam Hanks won the international event in a record time of 136.601 m.p.h. The cars travel around the 21/2 mile track 200 tithes. In money, Hanks picked up $103.844 for his day's work. Hanks is known as one of the top money makers of the circuit. He compiled a nice fat sum of $123,425,76 in 12 races. It sounds like a nice pile of hay to sleep on. :But how many would gamble their lives for it like those bold kings of the raceway? •k * 'fir * * it When Dickie Moore, the NHL scoring cham- pion, spent the night at RCAF Centralia's annual winter sports banquet, we had quite a discussion with hint about the wandering antics of Montreal goal- tender Jacques Plante. "Plante got a raw deal being placed on the second all-star team," said a serious 1Vioore." Pdople just don't seem to understand the valuable asset he is to the defence when he roves out of the cage. He is by far the best goalie in the league barring none, and not because we're on same club. He keeps everyone on their toes by .hollering at them. when he thinks they may be coasting," Apparently other clubs seem to dislike the little netlnimler's style as quite a discussion took place at the annual NHL meeting Tuesday night. One club wanted a rule .put into effect that goalies must stay within their crease. This club happened to be the Detroit fed Wins, and we can readily understand why they wanted such a thing after listening to some of the statistics given to us by Moore. When Detroit Was flying in high gear with their famed power play; their objective was to drive the puck around the boards to the opposite wing to Make the goaltender move and catch the defending defencemen off stride so that a wingman could roar in on the opposite wing, pick up the puck and blast a shot past the unset goalterlder. However "Jocko,Plonto" found a way to stop the play. He adapted himself to a more frea.wheeling style to stop the puck behind the net before it reached the danger point of being fired back at him. Did it work? I'll say it. did! Wings scored less than half goals last year on this lower play than they did the previous year against MVIontrea r . urn in.,s iosl:.. Two More Wins; Stretch Undefeated String To Four uncn Cops Fourth Win Lumber Kings made it four in a raw Monday night in Zurich when they pounded out a 7-0 vie- tor4 over Mitchell Legionnaires. Don O'Brien toed the rubber for Zurich and the righthanlier threw an eight inning four -hitter at the visitors while his mates gave hicn strong support by pumping out nine hits that were good for seven runs. The Zurich club only managed to push a single run across the plate 'in the fir, three inning:: hut then eame up with a big five -run burst in the seventh for a commanding lead which they never relinquished. The seventh inning rally was sparked by a double off the flat of Bruce Moir and from Ken Parker, Bill Yungblut and Don O'Brien. , Doug Aitcheson losing pitcher, allowed Doug O'Brien and play- ing coach Tom Rawlings to reach first on walks and then climaxed his wild hurling efforts by hitting Doug "Red" Theander, In the eighth, Ken Parker scored the final run of the ball game after reaching first with a single. Doug O'Brien followed with his back-to-back single as Doug Theander walked, Bill Yungblut flied out to centrefielder "Link" Tohfritsch to end the game. Aitcheson recorded five strike- out throughout the contest and walked six, while O'Brien whipped a third strike past seven .Mitchell batters and issued five walks, Ken Parker and Bill Yungblut led the Zurich hitting attack with two hits apiece. Doug O'Brien, Tom Rawlings, Bruce Moir, I)on O'Brien and: Gerald Bell all followed with one l hit apiece. Rightfielder Bob Frier got to Drub Sfruggiing Tribe Don O'Brien for two hits in three Zurich Lumber Kings continued loss column for the week. their winning ways in the Moron- Exeter Mohawks are really Perth intermediate Baseball .having their troubles getting ed two League this past week as they auoreedgafesas 0ths wccllslr a fund pouncled out a pair pf 8.3 and tl,emseives solidly located iii ire a -o victories over Aashweod and league basement with no wins and four losses.. The Tribe, after (dropping the lopsided 14.3 contest to. Mitchell, were dumped 1541 right on their own diamond by a hustling banal of Listowel juniors on Thursday night. Mitchell respectively.. Although the Mitchell Legion- naires suffered a whitewashing in Zurich on �'londay,they slaughtered the Z xeter Mohawks 44.3 fn Mitchell last Wednesday night to break even in the win- SPEED:- _= DAL. Y 4�ER��./ (fa -- WHEN YO U:DRIVE IN HANDL/N9 CLAIMS MEANS 600D INSURANCE BANTAMS HONOR COACH—Members of Hensall Kinsmen bantam hockey team, who reached the WOAA finals this winter, made a surprise presentation of a portable outdoor barbecue to their coach, Robert Reaburn, Monday night. Bill Shaddick, cap- tain, standing on the left side of the barbecue made the presentation. The boys were accompanied by their assistant coaches, Kinsmen Bill Mickle and Harold Knight. PHONE Listowel, Mitchell C!ubs • trips to the plate, as did team -t nate Bob Colquhoun to accot:nt I for the Legionnaires' four safeties. Score try Innings: P 1{ is 11iai: aaa nn..n 4 !.urich out ' :1- ; n I1,1n n'nrirn and 'rpm Rawlings; Doug .\;t,•heson and Ken Saxton. Winning: Pitcher ---O'Brien; loser -...titr.heson. Fielding problems once again hampered the Exeter Mohawks in their bid to break into the win column in the Huron -Perth. Base- ball League as they committed four big errors to help Listowel juniors rack up a 15-0 victory in Exeter on Thursday night. In a short five inning game, Listowel managed to score runs in every inning but the second Legionnaires waltz to a lopsided 14-3 victory in a short 41/ -inning game. Doug Aitcheson .chalked up his first victory of the season as he allowed four hits and struck out eight Mohawk hope- fuls. Mohawk hurler Bob Russell was given little' support in the field or at bat and absorbed his first loss of the season. Despite Rutile to back the fine pitching display of lefty Don Dennis who didn't the lopsided score, Russell Tigers 8-3 Zurich Lumber Kings won their third consecutive game Wednes- day night, behind the three -hit pitching of Jim Rutile, when they belted the Dashwood `.Tigers 8-3 before the home town fans. Rutile fanned "nine Tigers and gave -up five walks in his seven - inning stint while Steve Mitro, who suffered the loss, issued nine free bases on balls, struck out two and hit two batters. Leadoff batter Doug O'Brien was the only player on the win- ning club to nail clown two hits. Bruce :Noir cracked out the other. The Lumber Kings exploded into a 5-0 third inning lead when they scored five times on two singles, five walks and a • hit batter. Doug O'Brien and Bruce! Moir provided the two singles.+ Dashwood got one run back,{ in the fourth and added two I more in the sixth but still didn't come close to catching the- high- flying Kings. i Steve Mitro. the second man? to come to the plate in the sixth, I reached first on a single to start off the Tiger two -run rally. Catcher Bob Meharg got life at first when second .baseman Doug O'Brien booted his grounder. A walk to Dick Regier and a line single by Gnettner proved the base runners around. Coasting on their 5-3 lead Zurich pushed three more runs across the plate in t therr half at the sixth. Mitro issued three walks, a single to O'Brien, hit a batter and forced a player into a field- er's choice play to give Zurich its three -run inning. ' Jimmy Hayter, popular cateh- er-infielder for the Tigers. was thrown out of the game in the late stages when a rhubarb de- veloped with plate umpire Gus 8oussey of Seaforth. Aetire 'ne Innings: 1. "ffi 1•: trash tnnd .. unl, lu, a -:' Zurich ui1 nn:: \14.1 :.0 .fire 11ut114 and Tont nan•tintas: Stoic nitro awl'0 'h 1i'harg. Winning Pitchet'•••tiuttle; Loner— Uitrn, Local Shoot To Goderich st four br ezc a gird strike past ei ht allow a hit over the fir e d t g innings he pitched. Mitchell batsmen. The fastball southpaw chalked Wallace Homers • up 10 strikeouts and retired the side in order every inning but Mitchell's eight -hit attack •was the second when he walked a featured. by a solo home run man after he had fanned the off the bat of Laverne "Porky" first two. Wallace in the 'third inning with nobody on andafter two men Dwight Wagner replaced Den- nis on the mound in the final had been retired, Bis blast inning and ran into trouble when carried some ,310 feet over. the he loaded the bases but he pulled himself out of the hole by striking out the side, In the hitting department, the only Exeter bright spot was thirdbaseman Don McKeller who Shortstop Charlie Westman and drilled a single out over second secondbaseman George Covcney base when the Mohawks threw- cracked out singles in the fourth. tened to score in the fifth. and second innings respectively .Tim Bain, classy third -sacker for the other two Mitchell sin - on the Listowel club, belted a gles• long triple into deep left field Leadoff batsmen. Gib Sabourin, in the first inning that gave the Bill Batten, Joe Wooden and visiters a 2-0 lead. It was the Jim Hennessey were credited only extra base hit of the game. with the Mohawk safeties. Listowel led 4-0 going into the Mitchell scored the first run fourth when they. came up with of the game in the opening in - eight more runs on two singles, Hing and added four runs in three walks, two men hit by Exe- — Please Turn To Page 5 tier pitchers and two Mohawk fielder choice plays that failed to accumulate. Jim Russell started for the Mohawks and was relieved by Iry Ford in the fourth, Ford failed to make any headway so Fred "Crafty" Hunter came on in the same half• inning to put out the fire. a .: Snore 'try rnulows; 11 1I 7: i.liinWnl . ::1h f:. . l:, i I i4xc-ter oua 1111 . n 1 4 !inn Dennis. Ittvight tvag;nrr r57 and tion, 1'hishnlm; .11i11 l;n irll, Ira Yord f41 Fro(' Minter i 4) anti 'Doug; hldlery. 11'iiutirtt; r'il- elte)'--Dennis: Loser—J. Russell, left -centre field fence, Kenny Saxton, Wallace and Aitcheson each ,picked up two safeties to pace the Mitchell lineup in 'the hitting department. Approximately 30 shooters took part in a shoot at Fink's Farm last Wednesday afternoon, and when it was all over, the team captained by Ashley Gilbert, of Goderich, captured top honors, Gilbert's team, which cont. prised some 15 shooters, won the contest by a mere six birds over a team ca ptained by Harry Mathers. of Exeter. • John Anderson pacers 'Matbers' team with 24 birds in 25' tries, while harry blathers "himself seared a 23, Newcomer to the game, Earl natars, of Grand Bend, put a big spark in the side of Gilbert's team when he cracked out 22 deadly shots. His tremendous display played a major part in the Gilbert team victory. • Several new shooters took part in the contest, but fount] things on the tough side its conditions were very windy. 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