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THIS WEEK'S PERSONALITY
With the passing of the years, the sports
activity of older in becomes forgotten. Often it
- comes as a surprise to the youth and newcomers
to learn of some of the successful and respected men
of tOW11 who, in their early years, made a signific-
ant contribution to the sporting life of the com-
=triunity,
1" Dr, M. C. Fletcher is one of these men.
A few years after the doctor moved to town,
the ball club was at a low ebb. The old standbys
had finished their college days and departed to
practice their various
pursuits. Without any
minor baseball organiza-
tion, it seemed that the
game was dead. We late
teenagers who had shag-
ged flies and were bat-
4„ing practice pigeons for
the big guys figured our
baseball days were done,
Sizing up the situation,
Dr. Fletcher stepped in•
to the breach more or
less on his own to do
something about it. In
his n o w well known,
quiet, efficient way, he
formed the club, took on
the responsibility as man-
ager and, although he
hadn't played for years,
took over first base posi-
tion.
Looking back now, 1
realize what this effort must have cost him in sore
muscles and utter fatigue but no one ever knew
it at the time. When the players would pull a
- muscle or sprain a finger, he was never too busy
to administer to our needs. His concern for our
physical well-being was a great as his concern for
community sports.
As the years went by and the demands of
7 the community became more and more taxing, Dr.
1• Fletcher had to give up this public service, much
-- against his will. But he has never lost his interest
in sports activity and has always been concerned
about the prospects of the town team each hockey
and baseball season.
His advice has always been cheerfully given
to those of us in sports when we needed it, as
well as another necessary commodity which is al-
ways required to run a sports program.
There was a red-headed shortstop playing
on that team whose throws were always in the
dirt, a foot or two over his head, or to either side
seldom straight at the target. However, never
in those years, did the doctor shout or snarl at
me. In a very soft, firm -voice on the bench, the
mistakes were pointed out to each player who
needed advice. Never once was anyone embarrass-
ed or belittled.
This is one of the attributes of this man
who has spent his life in the service of our town.
11e's always put the people and their well-being
first, His own estimation of sports is this: "A
healthy town is a happy town and sport is a very
fine way of keeping fit and happy".
Those of us who played with him in those
early years are better citizens and richer men in
spirit through Dr. Fletcher's work and influence
on the sport scene in this town.
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HOW WILL IT BE SPENT'
Five million dollars a year—that's a lot of
money! That's what the federal gov't intends to
contribute towards a recreation and sports program
in a new bill which will be introduced in the fall
session of parliament. How to spend it to the best
advantage is going to take a lot of thought and
planning.
Everyone is making suggestions and the big-
time sports writers probably will be very instru-
mental in forming governmental policy.
My main worry is that the big names or, as
they are known in this trade, badgers, will pull
the strings and the money will be gobbled up de-
veloping a lot of professional athletes for their
own gain.
To me, this inoney should be spread out
among the provinces and they, in turn, should use
it through their departments of education at the
public school level. For many years, 1 have main-
-tallied that the lack of physical training in public
schools is woefully inadequate. This casts no re-
flection on the teaching staff who must spend all
their time in academic work. Many give up after-
school hours for the little physical training their
students receive.
A friend of mine pointed out that there
can be no compulsion in connection with PT. But
this is not true, We compel our children to take
subjects, such as music, which are of no value in
latter life to many people. And rightly so. While
very few people acquire much ability for music,
certainly a large number enjoy an appreciation of
good music because of that training,
As children progress through school, the PT
becomes a larger part of their work. In high
schools, the program becomes heavier and is a
must. The college level stresses sport and recrea-
tion to an even larger degree.
If this program is so important as we ad-
vance in school life, why is it less important in
the formative years of public school? If boys and
girls are given a set syllabus of PT from grade
one with marks and progress charts that will have
a bearing on the final standing in June, then they
will develop a healthier body and mental attittide„
Renoernber, children today cannot be blamed
for our 8oft way of life, We parents are respons.
ible. We rarely Walk to the corner but hop into the
tar. We tart the kids to school if the weather
looks a little bad. Years ago, most young people
had to work hard after school and walk miles to
school and home again. And they still found tirtie
for sports.,
So, if music is a must in school, so should
PT be, I believe that With the proper leadership
the federal grants could be used in this way 'hi
develop fine athletes and a stronger nation.
14ENtALL JUVENILES ROLL
tat Saturday, that good Hensel] juvenile
liall club took another step toward provincial
DR. M. C. FLETCHER
CE bantams take lead
in Ontario semi-finals
Centralia bantams opened up. feat into victory and sink
a 141 lead in games in the On- Wardsville starter Wayne Fish-
tario "C" division er who bad :kept the area team
Monday when, they stopped under ,control until the. wild •
Wardsvilla by a score of 5-3- ;eighth. Three walks leaded the
in Wardsville's home park. ; bases and a single by Bob
The game was the first of A Benning and two infield groped-. .
best -of -three series .that ers provided. Centralia with the
decide which team will runs they needed. to push peg
vance to the ;Ontario finals for , the Wardsville crew who, ',bad
the coveted "C" tiro hy built u r__----'-1 • '
sixth frame sin a walk and a
triple by Centralia centrefield-
er Brian Fortune.
The locals tallied their de-
ciding IOU runs in the eightl
inning as the first four men at
the plate reached base and
scored safely. The four -run out-
burst was just enough to edge
the home -town Wardsville lads
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, ea ariO give Ucntralia a big 1.0
Although they were °titbit in the first five innings, lead m the series. .
seven to four, the Centralia However, Centralia kept Only other Centralia bats -I
nine utilized three walks in pecking away and were re- men to Pick up e eighth inning to turn de- 1 warded with one run in the the nine -inning name besides
A bit during
the :
b
Fortune and Benjn eie
Brian Haber and Bob Burns
Greys edge Winthrop hits.
who both added single -base
Centralia hurler Jim c flattray a • a cops o ener
to lead turned in another stellar per- ,
league finals held the home team to ' a over South River
IOOF' juveniles ad-
vanced to the Ontario "D"
division finals Saturday evening
by clubbing Brigden 8-4 in their
third and final game of their
best -of -three semi-finals series.
However,.the victory was not
an easy one for the Hensel).
nine who NV c.ra form( to stage
a late -inning rally to break up
a tight 4-4 hall game.
Hensall pitching ace Steve
Kyle won his own game by
slashing a bases -loaded single
in the seventh Inning that plated
twoto• '
Kyle turned 111 a masterful
Performance on the mound as
Well as at the plate as he fired
a neat four -hitter at the Brig -
den crew. Three of Brigden's
four runs were unearned. The
Ilensall fireballer whiffed five
and walked only three.
Hensall outhit visiting
team eight to four and their
timely base hitting tept thein
ahead of the Brigden squad
who toot advantage of six Hen.
sad errors, all of ;which toot
pine in .the first two innings
when the visitors _scored all
four of their ma.
Three members. of Hensall's
team, which last year copped
the Ontario midget "D." 'trophy,.
banged out two. bits each :dur-
ing the final .gtime• of the. round
played in II ensal 1. Dennis
Mock and Bruce Horton both
:cracked out a amble end A
single and Kyle Contributed
twO singles to pace the win-
ner's Attack. Harry Moir
banged outa two -bagger while
Bob Mickle rounded out the
Attack with a one-babit
the. seventh.
Brigden jumped into an early
lead. by .counting three un-
earned. runs in the - first inning •
when the Hens,ail infield, suf- •
Behind the steady pitching o
southpaw Rose Carey, Exelei
Greys downed Winthrop 6.4 in.
}tense(' Tuesday night to take
a in Senior Lathes'
Softball League finals.
Second game in the best -of
five final will be played to
night (Thursday) under the
lights in Hensel' at 9;00 p.m.
Ro•• ac
pitching artist who turned in
her best game of the ;season,
teamed up with Winthrop's
'number one performer, Donna
Hannon, in a thrilling seven.
inning pitching duel.
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Carey, although touched for
i
eight hits' showed masterful
I
control in the clutch as she
fanned eight and didn't walk
a batter. The only time the
Exeter hurler was in trouble
was in the third inning when
Winthrop pounded out five of
their eight hits — all singles —
to score three of their four
runs.
f WINTHROP — Joyce
Clure, 3b; Fay Love, ss; Marg
Elliott, e; Ruth Richie, 1b;
Fay Little, rf: Geraldine Den -
2b; Donna Hannon, p;
Judy Thompson, If; June Dol -
mage, cf.
EXETER — Cathy Hodgins
cf; Jean Baynharn, if; Alice
Anne Nixon, if (6); Bev Wright,
3b; Audrey Tooley, ss; Ruth
Hendrick, rf; Mary Gravett,
2h; Ann Jorgenson, c; Verla
Smith, ib; Rose Carey, p.
Line score R E
• Winthrop . 003 100 0-4 8 2
Exeter 000 402 x-6 4 2
Hannon and Elliott; Carey
and Jorgenson. Winning pith-
er—Carey, Loser—Hannon,
formance on the mound as he
meagre seven hits while check-
ing them with nine strikeouts.
Second game of the OBA
semi final round will take place
in Centralia Saturday after-
noon at 1.00 o'clock when the
CE lads will have a chance to
wrap up the series and ad-
vance to the Ontario finals,
The victory was the ninth
straight for the Centralia nine
who haven't lost a single game
in playoff competition. The
locals eliminated Exeter, Mitch-
ell and Milverton in straight
sets of two games each to ad-
vance to the WOAA champion-
ship and then stopped Chesley
twice in succession to move to
the semi-final round against
their current victims, Wards -
vine,
CE soccer team
; The only extra base hit off
thegCarey came in top of the ains semi- inals
'fourth when Hannon slammed
an 0-2 pitch deep to left centre -
field for a home run.
Winthrop's Donna Hannon
struck out eight of the first
nine batters to face her and
before the game ended chalked
up a total of 15. She walked
one. Exeter collected only four
base hits all night but three
of them went for extra bases.
Rally in fourth
Trailing 4-0 in the fourth In-
ning, Exeter staged a thrilling
, four -run rally to tie up the
contest.
Cathy Hodgins, leading off
the inning, punched a double
into short right field. Left-
handed Jean Baynham followed
Hodgins with a run -scoring
triple as she pulled a 1.1 pitch
down the "e line.
Bev Wright filling in at third
for the absent. Jean Taylor,
took four straight pitches for
a walk. Attdrey Pooley bit into
a fielder's choice play when
her 1
r to the mound
was tossed to the catcher to
get Baynham at the plate.
With one out, one run in and
runners on first and second,
Ruth Hendrick drilled a triple ,
into deep right field to score
the second and third runs of
the half inning.
RCAF Centralia soccer team
moved into the semi-final round
for the Pearkes trophy, Wed-
nesday, when they scored a
convincing 6-2 win over Downs-
view in the first round of the
Ontario playoffs.
The visiting Downsview club
held Centralia to a 3-2 lead in
the first half of the contest
played at Centralia, but the
homesters came up with three
!big tallies in the final stanza
, to wrap up the win.
! Dick Parrish was the scor-
ing star of the game, contri-
ibuting a pair of goals, w'hil'e
Rick Tremblay, Gerry Cum-
mings, Tony Farrugia and Ha-
veldsrud picked up singletons.
The Centralia squad took the
' initiative right off the opening
, whistle and in less than 10
minutes had their first tally on
a cleverly executed play by
Haveldsrud and Kyed.
Haveldsrud was awarded a
free kick from 20 yards in front
of the net, but the Downsview
players lined up in front of
him in an effort to block the
shot. However, Kyed moved
into the Jine and as his team-
mate hooted the ball, he fell
Hendrick, who displayed a-
mazing speed on the base
paths, galloped home with the
tying run when catcher Marg
Elliott let a low pitch get by
her. Mary Gravett popped to
the catcher and Ann Jorgenson
i went down swinging to end the
; inning.
Winning runs unearned
The score was tied until the
bottom of the sixth when Exe-
ter took advantage of some
loose defensive play by Win-
throp.
Alice Ann Nixon started out
the frame by fanning but Bev
Wright pounced a single be-
tween first and second. Wright
moved to second on a wild
pitch by Hannon and then over
to third on a passed ball. Ran-
t= struck out Audrey Pooley
but the catcher dropped the
third strike and threw wildly
to first allowing Wright to
come in from third with the
tie -breaking run. and Pooley
safe at first.
The Exeter base runner
moved around to third on the
second wild pitch and passed
ball of the half inning and
finally scored Exeter's sixth
run when the catcher missed
a swinging third strike on Mary
Gravett and threw too late to
first base again,
Three in third
Winthrop scored three runs
in the third on singles by lead-
off hitter Donna Hannon, .Tune
Dolmage, Joyce McClure, 'Fay
Love and Marg Elliott. Al! of
the runs were earned,
For Winthrop, Hannon and
June Dolmage each had two
hits, with one of Hannon's be-
ing a fourth -inning homer.
Team lineups for the open-
ing game of the series were
As follow,
Take series
two straight
Centralia bantams moved to
the Ontario "C" division semi-
; finals Friday night by thump-
ing Chesley 9-2 for their sec-
ond,straight win of the OBA
quarter -finals.
The Centralia crew pounded
out a 14 -hit attack to score the
triumph, Pitcher Jim Rattray
got excellent support from his
infield and he turned in a
, masterful performance for CE
as he limited the Chesley nine
to five hits.
Centralia got off to a roaring
start early in the game by
counting five of their nine
• runs in the second inning. Cen-
tralia used four hits and two
Chesley errors to rack up their
five runs with the big blow
being a home run by catcher
Bob Burns with two mates on
board.
Centralia added their remain-
ing four runs in four separate
innings while holding the home-
town Chesley team to a scanty
two runs.
Big gun for the victorious
Centralia nine was Brian Haber
who cracked out three hits in
four times at bat. Jim Rattray,
Jelin Lock, and Bob Burns all.
smashed nut two hits apiece
for the CE lads while single
hits- were picked un by Callum
McPhee, Bob Benning and Bob
Thompson.
The victory gave the area
bantam nine the best -of -three
series in two straight games
as they had earlier pounded out
a 20-2 win over the same CheS-
ley team in Centralia in the
first encounter
honors by defeating the strong Western ebtinties
champions, Brigden. Keep chucking, guys, Knock
off Carlisle and win that Ontario "D" title. You
have the talent,
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A LONG HAUL
Std.&wlll certainly have a scenic tide in
their first round of the OBA "C". playoffs, They
have been drawn agaitist South River, a town 20
Miles north of Sundtidge. The mileage must be
about 275 or 300—some punt, Rind 'Of glad it's
them and not the Mohawks (or am I?),
Staffwon the first one M home. Here's Time is that expatise 0 ,
to the ground, leaving a space
for the ball to go through into
the
They jumped into a 2-0 lead
five minutes later as inside
right Farrugia beat the Downs-
view netminder.
Tie it up
The visitors moved back into
contention at the 25:00 minute
mark when Clark scored on a
neat passing play, and they
came back to knot the count
when a Centralia defender ac-
cidentally booted the ball into
his own net.
Another free kick gave Cent-
ralia their one -goal margin at
the half on a neat play by
Brian Corke, although he didn't
even touch the ball.
Cummings took the free kick
and lobbed the ball to Corke,
standing in front of the net.
He went to head the ball and
the Downsview goalie moved
to the right in anticipation of
the reflection by Corke.
However, the Centralia ace
let the ball go by and it end-
ed up in the net behind the
startled goalie.
Staffa moved to within one
victory of the Ontario "C"
semlfinals Saturday afternoon
when they dropped South River
by a score of 8-4 in the first
round of OBA playoffs.
The area team needs only
one more victory to Wrap up
the quarter -final series and ad-
vance to the semi-finals against
the victor of the Bronte-Cale-
donia series, The locals ad-
vanced into Ontario playdow.ns
after defeating Exeter Mo-
hawks four game to two in a
best -of -seven series.
Staffa picked up only six
bits during the nine -inning fix -
lure against the northern team,
as compared to the five South
River collected, but Staffa
managed to take advantage of
five South River errors to tally
all eight of their runs in the
first five innings of play.
The local entry counted three
runs in the first time at bat,
one in the second, two in the
third inning and one each in
the fourth and fifth. From there
they hung on to defeat the
visitors 8-4 and take a 1-0 lead
in games in the series.
South River tallied two runs
in the second stanza and finish-
ed off their scoring with two
more in the eighth,
Mitchell's "Line" Rohlritsch
• paced the Staffa•nine at hat
as be collected the only extra -
base hit of the, game, a dou-
ble, in the first inning. AO five
of Staffa's remaining hits were
singles and were picked. up by
Charlie Westman, George..Coy-
eneY, -`4P.orky" Wallace, Bob
McKellar and Bill Murphy,
George Coveney hurled the
entire .game for Staffa. The
Mitch ell righthancler allowed.
five scattered bits during the
contest and was never in seri-
ous trouble through the full
nine innings.
Staffa plays their next game
of Ontario playdowns Satur-
day afternoon when they travel
to South River for the return
match of thei quarter -finals..
When Stephen Leacock was
asked by ambitious would-be
authors to impart; his magic
formula for writing success,
he would reply, "it is not
hard to write funny stuff. All
YOU have to do is to procure
a pen and paper, and some
ink, and then sit down and
write it as it occurs to you,"
"Yes, Yes," the would-be
writer would prompt.
"The writing is not hard,"
Leacock would conclude, "but
the occurring—that, my friend,
is the difficulty."
Best wishes to Centralia!
fering a slight ease of jitter;
committed a total of four er,
-Tors.
Hensall closed the gap in the
second frame with one 'nn an
a double by Horton and a Brig.
den infield error and then tied
the game up in the next inning
with two runs on a two -bagger,
a Brigden error and a fellow?.
UP single by tiorion.
Brigclen shot into the lead
in the fifth inning with a sip&
run but Hensel' auleklY Red it
up in their half to set the stage
for their final four -run out.
burst that sunk the Brigden
nine,
Hensall starts their darn.
pionship final with Carlisle
Saturday afternoon when Car.
lisle invades the Hensel' dia-
mond. for the first encounter
in a three -game series that
will decide the juvenile "D"
champs for Ontario, Game
time for the match is 4.00
p.m.
HENSALL — Mock, ss; Shad.
dick, c; Kyle, p; Horton, 3b;
Chiechase, cf: McKinnon, rf;
Moir, If; Jones, 2b; Mlckle,
lb.
BRIGDEN — B. Stewart, ss;
McLean, 3b; Vincent, lb; Wil.
cox, c; D. Stewart, 2b; An-
toine, rf; p; HaywaPP
cf; Wagner, If,
Line score R 11-1 E
Brigden 300 010 000-4 4 3
Hensel' 012 010 400-8 8 e
Parrish hot in second
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With Downsview showing
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Centralia, Sept. 9
signs of tiring in the second •
half, Centralia came out to BRING YOUR
wrap up the contest with three
unanswered tallies. CAMERA .•
Dick Parrish came up with AND Hopper -Hockey
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some fancy footwork and an RECORD •
exceptional burst of speed to YOUR VISIT
bang inthe first two and Rick FURNITURE
Tremblay finished it off with
an "impossible" shot in the
dying minutes of the well -
played contest.
Centralia now moves into the
semi-final round with Camp
Borden,
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Crediton put
champs out
Crediton gained a final berth
in the Exeter Ree Softball
League, Thursday, dumping Ex-
eter Kinsmen by a 4-2 count
to take the best -of -three series
2-0. one game. was tied.
The tilt featured a tight
pitching duel between Credi-
ton's Don Pickering and Don
"Dinger" Bell on the mound
for Kinsinee, defending cham-
pions in the popular loop.
Bell allowed the winners only
four hits, but they managed to
turn each of them into a run.
Gord Staght was the hitting
leader, contributing a pair of
singles, while Pickering helped
his own cause with a long
d
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u
obyl
e
.
RSmith picked up a single
to round out the hitting,
Paul Pearson and Jim Carey
were thc onlyto solve
the slants of Pickering, with
Pearson pounding out a triple
and Carey Contributing a
single.r
Cciton left six men Stetted.;
ed on the base paths, com-
pared to the two left on by the
Kinsrncn.
Giffords tie Soffit
in the other SO111 Whig Montt, =
Giffords bounced back with a;
12-8 win over the Legion tri
even the series at, one game
apiece.
The Whiners came tip' with a
big rally th the late innings to
pull the game out of the. fire,
after, 1,1-11,eaLegiee had ,ihreat,e1.
ZIbt-i°g 814 PiotAltd1, the senek With
hoping they an make it two straight, space between paydays
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