The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-03-26, Page 6„” ^ �'d'^.es•l�ctixottt�, .M.dr'A:.I't.. Let's talk SPORTS By DON "BOOM BOOM" GRAVETT Sports Editor Df Since 1 started pounding thekeys this typewriter some three years ago for the T -A, I honest- ly believe that this is the hardest column of all I've tried toroduce. This is mainly due to the fact that p words to ex lain I'm completely lost for the proper • p my appreciation for the kindness and.generosity you b tome while a patient in Victoria Hospital, showed p London. The dozens and dozens of cards I received almostP roduced a special direct mail route to Room. 810 in the east wing. I was so well taken care of by friends throughout the district .and received so many cards that the nurses up there thought I was mailing them to myself. All kidding aside, 1 just want to say that the cards and especially "made-up" baskets that arrived really hit a tender spat. It makes one certain- ly realize the many friends he has throughout the community and how good it is to be alive. The Queen's own highways are pretty rough in spots throughout Ontario but her royal mall sure is heart-warming! I wish 1 could thank all the card senders per- sonally but it is practically impossible, so we hope that this short note will serve the purpose. Special a reciation must be sent to the Mitchell Hockey Club the BurkleY Restaurant and the "Spares" for their generous baskets of treats they forwarded to ine, I put on five pounds munching at it all for two weeks and I think the nurses must have gained 10 just thinkingabout it as it was brought in! To every- one "hello" one who sent flowers and stopped in to say hello 1 also want top ass .along a sincere thank you. Last but not least, hearty appreciation goes to Bill "Cotton" Batten for the fine fill-in job he did for me over the two weeks. Without his help, I'm afraid we would have had a mighty bleak looking sports page. I couldn't help but feel a little guilty lying there andthinking of William (hope he's got a trade mark on the name Cotton) several times as the nurses of Victoria slaved over me in numerous back 'rubs. My, what a way to steal an early vacation and have all those slaves working over you too while poor old Bill soils his fingers on the dusty old key- board! It isn't fair, is it William? But we're afraid "Cotton" has the last laugh on us, He's still playing hockey while we're out for the season! PEE WEES AT iT AGAIN IN GODERICH Easter holidays are about as important to hundreds of youngsters across Canada as making the Stanley Cup playoffs are to National Hockey League clubs. The "Young Canada Week" pee wee hockey tournament at Goderich is the big drawing attraction and teams right across the Dominion show their enthusiasm .by taking part in the lake port's annual affair. In fact, the tournament has provedto be such a. success over the past years that it actually stretches into a two-week period of activity so that all teams can be accommodated. As usual, teams from the dist- rict have entered the competitions. To date, Lucan's mighty Leprechauns have chalked up one victory— an 8-1 decision over Shallow Lake—while Mildmay has edged Zurich 3-1 and Ripley has waltzed through Xlderton 8-2. As far as Exeter is concerned, the local club will make its first appearance on Saturday night at 6:30 pan. against Chesley. Team officials feel the local team has a good chance of going all the way this year. District championship signs were demon- strated in Mitchell two weeks ago when the Exeter entry lookedstronger every time out in a 12 -hour episode which saw them defeat eight other clubs in taking the championship. Several of the players will be making their second appearance in the Goderich affair and will have that much more experience to throw at their opposition. Goaltender Neil Hamilton, Jim Carscadden, Larry Willert, Mike Cushman, Bob McDonald, Gar -y Parsons and Larry Brintnell are all second year men. Rounding at this year's squad will be Ray Cockwill, Jackie Glover, Danny Lenaghan, Pete DeVries, Billy Allen, Larry Idle and sub goaler Bill Penhale. Lloyd Cushman and Jim Glover will handle the club from the bench this year as we understand they are both over the pee wee age limit! Good luck, boys! CUFF CLEANERS Bill Mprner, who played goal for Zurich Flyers a few years back, won the Ashton Realty and Insurance Trophy for the • best netmind- ing this year in the St. Thomas and District Elgin loop ... Merner wears the Madgewick Cheyennes colors , .. Exeter Mohawk Bob Gauthier, who also toils for the Cheyennes sextet, was voted the most valuable player on the league -winning team ... An- other Ex -Mohawk. Bill McDonald, was chosen as the league's most valuable player and will receive the Tommy White Trophy . , . Gauthier picks up the Milt Schmidt Trophy ... Congratulations to Craig Chapman of Hensall for being chosenthe most out- standing player, in Lucan's annual Shamrock Tourna- ment this year. It marks the second time that such anaward has come this way as Exeter's. Freddy Wells copped the honours last year ... Congrats also go out to Richard Stade of Zurich as the best goaltender in the tourney. r iii rr,tnmmi intutmouttrt mintun)mttstimmtruutl Ninon mttm itummmon,m itintimrtl, err l lltl rel ll l tt/ OpenBowling 1 FRIDAY & SATURDAY MARCH 27 Afternoon 2.6; Evening 7.12 MARCH 28—Saturday Evening Only Prizes for ," LADIES' HiGH SINGLE * MEN'S HIGH SINGLE * LADIES' HiGH TRIPLE * MEN'S HIGH TRIPLE i •* MiXED DOUBLE."• •* LADIES' & MEN'S HIDDEN SCORES Make Your Reserveflans New By Calling 499 OPEN BOWLING EVERY FRI, & SAT. NIGHT` Exeter Bowling. Lanes 1jr itl'trrrr•uttrmlit i ackie Ph i i i psibu rg C�nevs ohaw reach Battlin..g bantams fail to click; lase semi-finals by 8-7 margin By DERRY BOYI—E The hard -skating Legion, 'ban- tams .came within one goal of upsetting the Blenheim bantams in their semi-final OMNIA play- off, when they played to a 5-5 draw in Blenheim on Monday. Blenheim earned the right to advance to the final by virtue of a one -goal margin they picked up in Exeter Friday with a 3-2 win. Exeter lost the two -game goals -to -count series 8-7. In Monday's game in Bien - helm, the homesters broke into the scoring column after less than three minutes had been played. Captain Mickey Gray, the spar'kplug of the Blenheim club, broke through the Exeter defence to slide the puck behind Howard. Don Cann put his team right back in the game in less than a minute when he picked up the puck behind his own net, cut straight down centre ice and.. after splitting the defence, the smooth -skating defenceman faked a shot and neatly slid the puck to the open corner. Fred Lee and Mickey Gray put Blenheim aheadtwo goals when they both scored on break- aways only eight seconds apart, The ;tallies came with the Exp.' ter crew putting on a sustained offensive drive, which had .pulled in the defence, allowing the Bien- heim players to get in behind them. With the score 3-1 at the end of the first, the Exeter crew ; came out strongly in the second i and after three minutes of play 1 were rewarded when Fred Lamb ! b 11 n k e d the red light. The smooth --skating winger picked up a pass from Rick Boyle at his own blueline and in a neat exhi- bition of stick handling walked right in on Rumble, faked to his right, and slid the puck into the opposite corner to )Hake the score 3-2 for Blenheim, Blenheim's Ken Faulker opened the margin to two goals three minutes later when he dribbled a shot that barely crossed the line. The score came from a scramble in front of the Exeter net, and Howard couldn't see the rolling puck, With Bob Robertson off ,for slashing, the Exeter club took advantage of the extra man to maintain a steady attack in the Blenheim zone. They were fin- ally rewarded when Don Cann. blasted in a slap shot from the blue line. Just 44 seconds later Fred Lamb picked up a loose. puck after teammate Rick Boyle had stopped a Blenheim defender coming out of his own. zone. Lamb grabbed the disc and made no mistake when he picked the upper right hand corner to knot the game 4-4. The third period was all Exe- ter as Fred Wells and Lester Heywood p l a y e d outstanding games to spark the club. Fred Wells put on a tenacious display of checking as the hard-working right winger appeared to be all over the ice. He was finally re- warded when he dugthepuck t nut of the corner andpassed out in front to. Rick Boyle who hanged the puck home. This gave the Exeter crew a 5-4 lead in the l game and tied the series score at 7-7. Exeter continued to carry the play and missed on several ehan- ees to go ahead in the series. Mickey Gray who scored the fi- nal marker in Exeter on Friday with less than 15 seconds remain- ing in the contest, pulled the game out of the fire for his club again when he broke away from the Exeter defenders to pot a goal at the 11.00 minute mark. With four minutes left in the game the Exeter team. almost continually controlled the puck but couldn't get a good shot at the Blenheim net. With 15 sec- onds remaining in the game, Howard was pulled out of the net in favor of an extra for- ward, but Exeter couldn't get the equalizer. Fix'w'1:R (foal. 11nw rd; de- fence. Den ('n nn, Lester Heywnnd; centre, litcicy Boyle; wings. 'Fred Lamb, Fred Wells; alternates, Peter :\i'Fnlis, \like (',, hnan, hilly \Wright, Robert Schroeder, t.nb 1lrndt t irk, Donnie Cooper, BIA N111.1M--(snag, niche rd rinnt- hlp: defence, lien green, trickle Futith. crntre, Itnh Terry: u•lnf;s, i1kner, lin" i1 f,ntlge); al- ternates. Miekey Gray, Fred Lee, Barry BurnhamJim \t'Ncar, .ine Pet rat um., Soh Fleming, Al Ike Bell, t; e -n r e Mallon', Rusty 1;.\ 1..i.r ri, 5, 111,16N11ia11 S -First maik. Zion Cann picked up .ala. assist on the tally -he set up Wells with a pass front his awn blue line, Three penalties kept the locals in trouble, but Howard came up with some key saves to keep the visitors off the score sheet. Exe- ter played with two men short for over a minute in. the open- ing stanza, but Blenheim ,failed to score with the advantage, . Captain Don. Cann gave Exe- ter a 2.0 lead early in the sec- ond stanza when he scored on a passing play with Fred Lamb. Playing with a man advantage,. the Exeter captain made a solo r•1sh from his own end only to be stopped at the Blenheim de- fence. Fred Lamb picked up the loose puck and *passed over to Cann who was all alone in front of the Blenheim net. The hard- working defenceman made no mistake as he lifted a backhand- er over Richard. Rumble in the Blenheim net. Fred Lee cut the lead to one goal when he found the mark at 8:52. The little right winger scored nn a screen shot after be had picked up a loose puck from a scramble in front of the Exeter net. Lee blasted the puck into the bottom corner, on a shot that Howard didn't have a chance on. The teams played scoreless hockey for the re- mainder of the period, 'with both • goalies .coming` up with some sensationa'i stops. 1 Ken Green knotted the score for Blenheim when he scored on a solo effort at 10:20 of the third period. Exeter got an advantage late in the third period when Bob Robertson was sent off for el- bowing at the 13:00 mark. With the extra man, the locals con- tinued .to press in an attempt 10 break tide deadlock, The move backfired though, when Mickey Gray blocked a slap shot that bounded out beyond tide Blen- heim blue line. The fast -skating centre picked up the puck and skated in all alone on Howard. He flipped the puck into the net with less than 15 seconds left to play in the fixture, Jalenheim 3, Exeter 2 Ie irnt :period 1—Exeter, .F, i\ -elle (Cann) 3'4 Penaltiea--'\Fells (interference) 6:29: Boyle (elbowing) 11:37; 1\'ells (tripping) 1^_-:43. Second Period 2—Exeter, Gann (r.anth) 5:41 3—filenheim, Lep (Pett'a.l Pel•) 8:52 Penalties _.. Fleming (boardint ) 4:47; r''leming tmiscnnduct) 4:47. !VI,irri pella,' 4 ---Blenheim, Grren ._ _.... _ 1n.2n —Rlenhrlm Grav 14':15 Penalties - Lea thnldin€t) 3:31; Rc,herison (4lhnrt-in>) 11,nn, nv t. � erloC� 0 u bu r. t Period _ First e.r- �' 1 I lenhei m. :\Isrkey Gray a, , Exeter, Dnn rano Blenheim, Fred Lep 4:25 here Wa111 s Forest Penalties -- Heywood 5:25; Bob- mann ::27; Reil 11:35. Second period 5—Exeter, Fred T.nntb ": 3 6-111eniteitn, Ken Faulkner 6:36 7- Exeter, Don ('ann 9:nn 5-.,1:xelOr. Fred lamb 9:44 Penalties -- Robertson 7:45, Titd perio(t 't --Exeter. Ricky Foyle ._ _ 6;28 10—Blenheim, Mickey Gray 11:0(1 Penalties -- None. Cop opener ,at 19:48 ICaptain Mickey Gray scored on a breakaway with less than 1 15 seconds left in the game to give Blenheim Kinsmen ban- , tams a 3-2 victory over Exeter. The game, played. in Exeter Friday night, was the first in the two -game series between the two clubs. Over 200 people were on hand to witness the contest. Several supporters were on hand from Blenheim to cheer their kids on to the hard-fought victory. Blenheim came from behind a 2.0 Exeter, lead to register their win. The Kent county crew miss- ed on several scoring threats as they found Leslie Howard hard to beat in the Exeter net. Fred Wells• opened the scor- ing for the homesters when he blasted his own rebound into the top left hand corner at the 3:45 'Sportsmen! To the editor, On behalf of the Blenheim Kinsmen Bantam Hockey Club, I wish you to convey to the Town of Exeter, and the re- sponsible officials, our congrat- ulations on the deportment and sportsmanship displayed by the members of your fine bantam hockey team. In this present age of "may- hem hockey",it is refreshing to engage an oponent, which has only one object to play the game. You may well he proud. of your representatives during their recent visit to our town. More than a few of our fans, having witnessed a dramatic hockey contest last evening, left the arena, high in their praise of the Exeter brand 'of sportsman- ship and ability displayed by the "Gentlemen of Exeter." Yours truly, K. G. Faulkner, Publicity Director Heide figures in all tallies Team captain Larry Heideman led Mohawks to a 5-4 victory over Lakesides in Forest Wed- nesday night. The lanky centre - man figured in all five of his team's goals, as he scored the "hat -trick" r nd picked up two assists. Coach. Bob White was forced to shuffle his lineup when regu- lar left winger Red Loader was sidelined with a shoulder injury. White moved Heideman into the v n Oberle and t between centre spot bet o right winger Ji'm Russell. The move provedto be very suc- cessful as the line accounted for all the Mohawk scoring. Forest jumped', into an early 2-0 'first period lead, when Stan Ulrich and Eric Haddon found the mark in the first five min- utes. Heideman put the Mohawks back in the game when he beat Foster after taking a pass from —Please Turn To Page 9 Led by Larry Heideman, Exe- ter Mohawks scored five goals in the first period to dump the Forest Lakesides 7-4 in Exeter Friday night. A crowd of 700 witnessed the contest. Heideman scored his first marker with only 14 seconds played in the first period, and then ad.deti three more before Forest managed to get on the score sheet. The lanky centreman, playing with Oberle and Russell on the Mohawk's first' line, played a strong two-way game to spark the tribe to victory. Jim Russell. set Heideman up for three of his four goals, while Oberle and Glenn. Wiese picked up assists on one of his tallies. Tussy Dunham cut the Mo- hawk lead to three goals when he fired a backhander that careened off Bob White's stink. Bill Oberle got the marker back for the tribe exactly one min- ute later when he beat Foster after being set up by Russell and Wiese at 19:42, This gave the Mohawks a commanding 5-) first period lead. With the four -goal bulge, the Mohawks slackened their check- ing in the second period, and Forest scored three goals to cut the tribe's lead to one goal. Bob Martin was the spark -plug of the Forest attack accounting for all three tallies. Ken Martin drew assists on two of the cen- treman's counters, while Ron Bennett picked up a point on the other. Late in the second frame Mo- hawks again started to press and were rewarded with a tally at 16:40. Bob Gauthier got the face-off in the Forest zone, and passed back to Bob Baynham who blasted the puck into the top right. hand corner. before Foster had time to move. Keith Steven, who returnedto the lineup for the contest, made a solo dash from his own end and broke through tWo' Forest defenders to flip the puck into the Forest cage. The marker came at the 18:14 mark of the second, and gave the Mohawks theteams 1 lead as a three -goal e g finished the second period. Neither team was able to score in the final stanza, as the check- ing became very close, and both goalies ,made several fine saves. Only five penalties were called in the hard-fought contest, with Forest being ricked for three. Glenn Wiese was forced out of the line-up in the second per- iod with an ankle injury. Keith Steven, Bob White and Jean t 1NTERXTOWN CHAMPS—This is the team which brought to D xeter the inter town bowling championship this year. The local bowlers edged Fergus rel the finals to climax a title march which carried then) from second last place in the ..standings to the top of the heap, Front ro\v, frost left, are jack Puller, Captain fob Osgood, Murray enntnrnmrtulnnnrm)mrrrurtnt+rrrrtlrrntrt(rf(nrnrrnfrruiull)mtnnnnnnrmrtlttmm�n( trintnell, back row/ Cap Foater, .1,11ck Gibson and fob \Vettlauftr. T -A Pilot() Bourque played well in front of Dietrich to preserve the win, Steven handed out several hard checks including one to Stan Ulrich in the second period which slowed down the speedy left winger for the remainder of the game. 'Expiry 7, Forest 4 1—Exeter, Heideman (Russell) 0:14 2 -Exeter, Heideman (Wiese) 5;09 o i xeter. Heideman (Oberle. Russell) 11;46 4—Exet er. Heideman (Russell) .. 15;27 `5 -.-Forest. Dunham (V1r1e1, Dunlop) 16:42 6—l'il'eter, Oberle, (Mussell, Wiese) __ _. 19:42 Penalties 'White t holding) 8:19, Second period 7—.Fnrest, :Martin (Mathews) - 5;98 S—Forest, 'Martin 19:111 9—Forest, Martin (Bennet 1, Mathews) 11:92 10—Exet er, r.aynhaln (Gauthier) 16:1(1 11—Exeter, Stevens ._ 18:14 Penalties — I11rich (kneeing) 2:01; Martin (slashing) 4:n4. Tie Ird. period No scoring. Penalties -- Dunham Omani Ing 7:28; Sabnurin (slashing) 11:97, finals Led by team captain Larry Heideman, Exeter Mohawks sidelined Forest Lakesides in their best -of -seven WOAA semi- final series 4-1. The :tribe now enters the .inter- mediate "13" finals against the powerful Philipsburg Chevs in a best -of -seven set. Mohawks, hit hard 'by injuries, staged a dramatic finish to edge the Lakesides in the fifth game at Forest on Monday. Forwards "Boons" G r a v .e 1 t d.nd lied Loader are holh side- lined with injuries, while .de• fenceman Glenn Weise has a ruptured: 'blond vessel .in his foot. Keith' Steven, the tribe's hard- hitting defence stalwart, Is play- ing \vitil a broken wrist. ,Tenn Bourque played his last game on Wednesday as he has been trans- ferred to Winnipeg. The Philipsburg e 1 u b, who. , In* Mohawks111 rP ousted 111 W e ternlediate "C" homebrow last year, have a conch stronger team according to observers. Both clubs feature several for, leer Kitchener and Waterloo players. The Mohawks have five players from the twin cities,. while the Chevs have four. Only •two playoff dates have been arranged, The series opener was played in Exeter Wednes- day. The two clubs resume ae, tion m New Hamburg Saturday, 'Iron mens grab series in thrilling third period Exeter's stubborn Mohawks,,when they outplayed Mohawks who refused to admit defeat,' and took advantage of some edged Forest Lakesides 1-6 in !loose play around the tribe's net, Forest Monday night to win the ; Tussy Dunham started the Lake - best -of -seven series, four games side crew off when he took a to one, pass from Stan. Ulrich and got behind the Mohawk defense to Mohan\lis had to win the hard way, overcoming a (1-3 Forest I go in all alone on Dietrich. The lead with four thirdperiod goals. ;shifty centreman drew Dietrich Only six Mohawks sale action; out of the net and flipped the in front of Dietrich in the third puck behind him. io Team captain Larry Don Armstrong made the count Period. t p ' 2.0 when he finished off a play Heideman, left winger Bill with Glenn Forbes at 6:58. With Oberle, defenceman Keith Steven, and playing coach Bob White played the full 20 minutes of the third period. Bob gauthier and Jim. Russell alternated at the right wing position for the tribe in the final frame. Explaining his decision not to rest his "iron men", coach White said he felt that because they lla. were the ogles who hadgiven 1 3' In the second the team the lead, they should fSecondsrame. Theof 11.013.1 -working uvillger. be the players to lose it, if any. picked up the loose puck and body did. Although appearing beat the Forest defense to slip tired after the hectic 20 minutes, it into the net. Glenn Forbes, who filled in on the front line • for the absent Art Norland, scored the first of his less than two minutes remaining in the period, playing coach Stan Ulrich blinked the light for the homesters when he blasted in a backhander in front of the tribe net. Forbes and Dunlop drew as- sists On the tally. Bill Oberle put ,the Mohawks on the score sheet after only 17 the first line was still skating as hard at the final whistle as at the opening of the stanza, three second period goals at 7:42, Coach White paid special trib- ute to the Mohawk fans. "They The speedy right winger had are the greatest I've ever seen,.' he said. "When they started to yell after the announcement about the next game, I knew they were really with us." "Each game we play is just like playing at home," he said, "because we always seem t0 have more fans than the home team." Captain Larry Heideman again gave Mohawks the spark they needed with three vital goals. The lanky centre also set up two teammates, for tallies. The three goals brought Heide - man's total to 10 against the For- est clu., This feat was registered in the last three games, as Heideman missed the opener with a case of blood poisoning, and was held scoreless in the second tilt. Bill Oberle, playing left wing with Iieideman, picked up a pair of markers for the tribe. Forest jumped into a three- goal. lead in the first period, been set up by Ulrich, and skat- ed in front of the Exeter net to fire a backhander into the bot- tom corner. Bob Gauthier anti Heideman put the tribe within striking dis- tance when they both registered goals near the halfway mark in the middle frame. The scores cane as the teams were playing five -men a side, with Oberle and Dunlop in the sin -bin for rough- ing. H-eidenlan set Gauthier up in front of the Forest ner, and the chunky winger flew in to beat Foster. Less than One minute later Gauthier set up Heideman, and the tali centre made no mis- take to make the score read 4.3' for the homesters. However, Forbes gave Forest hack the three -goal lead when ho beat Dietrich with two markers, less than 15, ,seconds apart. On both goals Forbes used the Exe- ter defense as a screen, and then fired into the bottom left corner, — Please Turn To Page 7 Join The Easter Parade in an OK Car '57 Chevrolet Deluxe 4 door sedan, air condition heater, turn signals, 23,000 actual miles. '56 (Chevrolet 4 door Delray sedan, air condition heater, turn signals, 30,000 actual miles. s '53 Chevrolet Deluxe 4 door sedan, automatic transmission, custom radio, turn sig. rials, good condition, '56 Oldsmobile 2 door 88 hardtop, radio, rear seat speaker, automatic transmission, two- tone finish. '55 Dodge Regent 2 door sedan, custom radio, turn signals, windshield washers, two-tone finish, , '52 Hudson Wasp. 4 door sedan, hydramatic transmis. sion, custom radio, turn signals, wind- shield washer, spot light, back -ftp lights, '56 Ford %—ton Pick-up Heater, turn signals, custom cab, spate tire never used, 22,000 actual miles. Get Our Price 'Before You Buy Snell Bros. Ltd Chev b Olds PoilotO 100 1 EXS'TEII