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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-09-07, Page 64 The Times -Advocate, September 7 19,61 BOYLES with Cate ratty to BANTER 1),Rirt APYL,h 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. * • * • 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 • , 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. • ; 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, * 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 R •• p•- ctiai • With Downsview showing • At 7) 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 • 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, • 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 o 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 "Where Quality Is Economy" PHONE 99 EXETER Sat., Sept. 9 AT RCAF Centralia Bring Your Family, It's A Great Show! Walper's MEN'S WEAR Phone 81 Exeter Service Manager Aub Tennant Says: "We ogre on the job to serve your car" Leave your car worries with us. 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