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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-01-11, Page 12P.000. 12 The Times-Advocate,. January -1902 et play-offs to ma Chevs use 'ineligible', ...men, e teams equal Hawks snap loss streak, rebound into ..second. spot The Exeter junior Hawks snapped their losing streak at six games this week and bounced back into second plaee In the Shamrock loop with, a pair of much-needed wiles. Their big win came Tues- day, when they whipped Wat- ford 7.4 in an important four. point fixture in the Exeter arena, Hawks started the week off badly, losing a 5,0 contest. ill Strathroy, 'Thursday, and returning to Exeter to. get trounced 7.1 by time league- leading Hensall-Zurich Com, Lines. However, they returned to their winning ways on Monday when .they eked out a 4.3 win over Lambeth and then came right back to whip Watford as they c o n .c luded their busy schedule that had them play- ing four games in six niguts. lied Loader, a former coach of, the Exeter Mohawks, has taken over the coaching chores of the Hawks, and aided by the return of several players who were away for holidays and out with injuries, appears to have the Hawks back in their usual form, Time locals have also been holstered by the addition of Vie Neil and. Frank Egan, a couple of 'pucksters from Lu- can. Neil is a shifty forward, while Egan is a steady defense- man who has played several games with the Luean-llderton Combines, the only game other than the Hawks' fixtures, Watford stuck in third spot with a 7-4 win over Strathroy. The win was posted on Watford's home ice, where they have only been beaten by Hensall-Zurich. The Hawks play only one game this week, when they tangle with Lambeth in . the local arena next Tuesday. The league-leading Combines have a busy -schedule, playing four games this week. They play a home-and-home series with Watford, tackle Lambeth on Monday and finish off by meeting Strathroy in. Hensel, Wednesday. Lamb paces win over Watford six The Exeter junior Hawks scored their second win in as many nights, Tuesday, when they out-hustled' the Watford Atoms to post a 7-4 decision in Exeter, in a game witnessed by 20 fans who braved the severe snow storm to watch the action, Fred La nib, who voluntarily "retired" from the lineup sev- eral weeks ago, asked to be re- instated - and made an auspi- cious debut by potting three goals in the well-played con- test. The tricky winger filled in on the first line with Lloyd Moore and Bob Armstrong to spark the Hawks, Bob Jones added a pair of markers and Jack Stephen and Bob Arm- strong contributed singletons. Mervyn Sister banged in a pair of goals past Ted Sanders to pace his squad, while Lyle Moffatt and Doug Caley dented the (mire once, Jones started the Hawks off with a 1.0 lead at the 3:15 mark. of the first period and Lamb opened the lead to two goals when he counted on an. unassisted play at the 12:45 mark. Sisler shaved the lead to one goal near the end of the period but Lamb upped it to 3-1 when he scored his second unassist- ed tally in the first minute of the middle frame. Moffatt countered for Wat- ford at the mid-way mark of the period and then Lamb teamed up with Moore and Armstrong to score his third consecutive goal in the early minutes Of the third period. However, time visitors came flying right back to even (he count with Caley and Sister beating Sanders with a pair of euickies less than two minutes apart, But Arrestreeg shoved the IlawkS hack into the lead at the 9:48 Mark and Ames and Stephen tapped in a single each in a little over a minute to pull the .gamine out of reach of. the Atoms, Tt WAS a cleanly played eon- test with only five penalties called in the 60 ithiutes, SUNDAY, JAN, 14 aexietioe—eublio tkattna TUESDAY, JAN. 16 11;36 p.m.-,—LAMtEttl vs, EXETER A, tiAWK THURSDAY, JAN, 11 9:06 n.ni. TOWNERS vs. CENTRALIA GOLDEN HAWKS SATURDAY, JAN, 13 1:30.3:30-*Publla akattilta 8;00.10:0O—PUb116 Skatilig Arena Schedule COTTON'S. COMMENTS By BIL-L BATTEN, Sports ....E.ditgr et; 1,ET'S. TAKE ANOTHER Wok Not too long ago, we wrote a piece concern- ing the Exeter junior ,Hawks and their "ridiculous" schedule that called for them to play as many as four games in six nights. Noting that nothing ever came out of our suggestion that local minor offic, Ws take a close look at things, we imagine that they feel things are ,alright the way they are. However, another situation has come up that we think bears mentioning and we again ser- iously ask minor officials, sponsors and parents to take a look at the minor setup to see if it is really being conducted on a basis that is fair to the youth who are participating. As we have mentioned before, these men do a tremendous, and unfortunately, thankless job of „organizing our boys into hockey teams, but they are naturally only human and prone to making mistakes. We commend them for their interest .and. our intention of writing this is to point out our personal feelings on the situation in the light of the fact that they may not realize what is going on entirely. At any rate, last Wednesday night was a busy night for several youngsters who participate in the Exeter minor setup. First of all, two house league games were played and then the Exeter and Goderich midgets and juveniles hooked up in an exciting twin-bill. At that same time, the Exeter junior Hawks were playing the Hensall-Zurich Com- bines in Hensall. After the bruising midget tussle, there was a bit of commotion as players ran around to get uniforms before starting the juvenile game and when the local squad stepped on the ice we were amazed to notice that no less than six midgets had merely thrown on another sweater and were back playing in their second straight game of the night, with. hardly a breather. The strange part was, the midgets had lost the fir• ': e and yet came back and helped their older ie,s beat the Goderich juvenile squad. However, we think it was a bit too much to ask must of these fellows to get them to play two games, and we wondered why it was neces- sary to have so many midgets step up to the higher class. Meanwhile, up in Hensall, the Exeter junior Hawks were battling the powerful Combines with only 11 men and three of these fellows could have been back playing juvenile hockey in Exeter. We realize that he haven't made much of a point yet, but if you have followed us this far we should point out that our conclusion is that Exeter does not have enough hockey players to enter both a juvenile and junior hockey team. HOW OFTEN SHOULD THEY PLAY? While this situation does not occur too often (where both teams play on the same night), it happens often enough that we feel it creates a hardship for the players on both teams, the coaches and managers and perhaps most important of all, the arena. When the junior Hawks started out, they were using at least four juveniles every game and on one of two occasions, even had a midget in the lineup to fill in. This worked out well and the Hawks were one of the better teams in the league until the juveniles started their schedule and then both teams were forced to play short-handed and as a result, neither have won many of their last few games. Our suggestion is that the Exeter juveniles be withdrawn from the league and the better players be moved up to junior. As far as we can see, this means that only four boys will not be able to play on an all-star team and because there is a house league for these fellows anyway, they will still be able to play their favorite sport. We think this will strengthen the Hawks and they will again be one of the stronger teams in the league and will be able to give their fans their money's worth. This should also bring out a few more fans and the arena will get a bit of re- venue, which we are afraid they will lose if the juniors continue to dress only a skeleton crew and get beaten by these visiting squads who have a full complement of players. As we have pointed out before, none of these fellows will have to quit hockey if the juve- nile team is disbanded, because there is a house league for them and only about four will not make the junior squad anyway. To continue with the way things are going right now, some of these youngsters are called on to play too much hockey and as can be seen by Wednesday night's action, there definitely aren't enough players for both teams and they are both suffering. BATT'N AROUND—Basketball is taking over the spotlight at SHDHS these days, and it appears that at least three of the local school teams will be strong contenders for Perthex honors, The junior boys are weak, but it should be noted that none of them have played the game before and as they get a bit more experience, they may show better before the end of the season. At any rate, they all have at least one or two years left in the junior ranks and so George Wright should have a real strong entry next year. Both girls teams are strong if their first game is any indication and the Panthers should do alright as long as they cut down on their "chep" fouls and can keep their first string in the lineup . . « In fact, the Panthers may even be good enough before the season is over to tackle the red league all-slats — Unless, of course, they keep winning in their league and don't want to mar their record with a defeat „ it was certainly an honor last week to get over to the Exeter Bowling Lanes and get a piCtUre and story of Amos Darling on the occasion of his 80th birthday, li'or those readers who thought We made a few mistakes with some of his chores, we are afraid we must point out that they were absolutely the truth arid if you still don't believe us, ask some Of Our top bowlers who leave had to take a back seat to this energetic fellow on the score sheet. Congratulations, Amos, and we ho" e we cart get our picture when you get yetlr fittt strike On YOUI, 85th birthday . And to think couldn't stand the paee and retired at the ripe old age of 25. The Lucan-Ilderton Combines 'made it 14 in a cow, Tuesday, when they braved a severe snow storm to travel to Sea- forth and return with a 9-4 win over the Towners. The Seaforth crew, with only 11 men in their lineup, man- aged to stick with the loop leaders for the first two periods but succumbed to a four goal outburst in the final frame. They were trailing by only one goal when they returned to the ice for the final 20 minutes. Playing coach Max O'Neil paced the loop-leading Com- bines in Weir win, picking up the hat-trick in the hard-fought contest. Stu O'Neil added a pair and singletons came off the sticks of Don Fletcher, Tom Collings, Harry Wraith and Steve Storey. Ray Anstett was the top sniper for the losers, beating Keith Scarborough on two oc- Clinton Thunder Birds scored four unanswered markers in the final frame, Sunday, to post A hard-fought 8.6 win over Cen- tralia. Golden Hawks in Big Eight action in Clinton. The win was worth four points to the Clinton crew, whose previous home game with Centralia was cancelled be. fore Christmas, Matt Matthews was the scor- ing star for the winners, pot- tine three goals against Contra.- ha's Rick Tremblay. Matthew's first goal knotted the count in the final 'period and he then carne batk to score the winner and the clincher with two more le 'the last ten minutes, Len Arsenault added a pail' for Clinton, while singletons were ,pid<td up by Andy tibias- semi, Wray Breadner and nick Munro, Centralia, 'Who had only 11 Men dressed for their third gable in four days, Were paced by Dea Killen, who dead(' the table twice on Dennis Ama' diner in the Clinton nets, Silvio tallies came off the etieks of George Xeliy, Claude .-,..udet„liin Sullivan and Ted Layouette. Clinton grabbed an early 1-0 lead on Arsenault's fire, goal at the 1:44Mark, but Centralia Witted the count two minutes later On Kelly's goal with. Mat. thews in the penalty box. The Searing „remained fast end 10100 and Attinfti OPOned up a 2;1 lead The Clinton at, the 3:36 mark* only .to have Audet misinformed at an earlier or- ganization meeting by an (NIA official and they had used the Players on the belief they were eligible. "They certainly haven't tried to do anything under-handed", be said, "and I would hate to see them drop out of the league. Race 011 tight Although the Lucatendertoo Combines have almost sewn tip the league honors, winning their 14th straight this week against Seaforth, the battle for second place is still a nip and tuck affair. Philipsburg, Centralia and Seaforth have all picked up six wins for 12 points as they split in last week's play, The Chevs and the Golden Hawks split their home-and-home se- ries, winning on their opposi- tion's ice. However, the Centralia entry missed a big opportunity to move ahead when they dropped an important four-point game with Clinton, Sunday. A win would have given them a four- point margin over the other two. Seaforth, although dropping their game with the Combines, kept pace by edging Clinton 6.4 in Seaforth, Friday. The only other scheduled game between Mitchell and Exe- ter was postponed due to, the severe storm in the area, Tuesday night. The Mohawks, who have the stiff test of moving out of the cellar, tackle Philipsburg in. New Hamburg, Friday, and travel to Seaforth next Tues- day in a pair of tough assign- ments. However, the Tribe have all their players back ready for action and after a stiff work- out, Sunday, coach Boom Gra- vett hopes to get his squad back on their winning ways casions. Doug Rowcliffe and Bill McLaughlin accounted for the other markers by the Town- ers. The visiting Combines jump- ed into a 3-0 lead in the first ten minutes as they appeared to be heading for another of their one-sided victories. How- ever, Seaforth cut the lead to 3-1 on McLaughlin's tally at the 10:35 mark and knotted the count on a pair of quick tallies in the early minutes of the middle frame, The Combines came back with two of their own near the mid-way mark of the same period and after Rowcliffe whittled the count in the third, they came up with their four- goal outburst to coast to their win. The Combines also won the penalty parade, sitting out sev- en of the 13 penalties called in the contest, witnessed by a small crowd. tie it up - less than three min- utes later. Neither team scored again until Clinton came. up with a two-goal .spree in the last mil-l- ute of play to take a 4.2 lead into the middle frame. However, Centralia came up with their own splurge and tal- lied four times in the middle frame to take . a 6-4 lead .into the flea'. period. treadner, wasted. little time in cutting it to one goal when he stored after only seconds of. play in the. final 20 minutes and then Matthews evened the tenet at; the 3:58 mark as Centralia's gruelling schedule started to tell on there. Matthews fired the winnee at the 10:19 Mark and added his clincher at the 1.4:10. mark. Clinton picked up nine of the 17 penalties called in the bruis- eontett, Both teams took full advantage Of time penalty parade as Centralia scaPed three .tairies with opposing play. ors looking. Ott from the penalty hooch,. while Clinton ..ratified In pair with the 'Gelder" Hawks playing a man short. Hockey Scoreboard OHA 810 EIGHT Last woek's "cores: Seaforth 6—Clinton 4 PlullpFburg. 7---Centralia 5 11—Philipsburg 7 Clinton 8—C'entraiiii. 6 1.ucan-Ilderton 9—Seaforth 5 'Exeter at Mitchell (ppd.) Standings iv 1.4 P Liica.n-Ilderton , 14 0 0 28 12 Philipsburg . ..... 6 0 t'entralia. 6 it 0 12 Seaforth 6 7 0 12 Clinton 5 8 0 10 seioneu , ..... 4 7 0 8 Exeter ....... , 210 0 6 Games this week: Thursday, January it Seaforth at Centralia, Friday, January 13 Clinton at laucan-Ilderton Exeter at Philipsburg Sunday, ;January 13 Mitchell at Clinton Tuesday, January 16 Lucan-Ilderton at Mitehell Exeter at Seaforth Wednesday, January 17 Clinton at. Philipsburg SHAMROCK JUNIOR Last week's stores: Strathroy S—Exeter 0 Hensall-Zurich 7—,Exeter 1 Watford 7—Strathroy 4 Exeter 4—Lambeth 3 Exeter 7—Watford 4 Standing:, Hensall-Zurich „,..„ 12 2 Exeter 9 10 Watford ,.„ 8 18 Lambeth 1 6 Strathroy 6 9 0 12 Games this week: Thursday, January 11 Lambeth at Strathroy Friday, January 12 'Watford at Hensall-Zunch Saturday, January 13 Hensall-Zurich at Watford Monday, January 11 Hensall-Zurich at Lambeth Tuesday, January 16 Lambeth at Exeter Wednesday, january 17 Strathroy at Hensall-Zurich PEE WEE HOUSE LEAGUE This week's scores: Canad Jens 1, Mohawks Red Wings 6, Rangers Hawks 2, Maple Leafs 1 - Standings L P 6 1 1 12 Mohawks ...... 5 2 1 11 Leafs 4 4 0 8 Wings 4 4 0 S Hawks 2 6 0 4 Canadiens 2 6 0 4 Rangers ....... Future games: January 12- 8:00—Red Wings 'vs. Hanks 9:00—Mohawks vs. Rangers 30:00—Canadiens vs. M. Leafs 11:00—Scitiee Gee (up to 7 years) 11:30—Squirt (8 & 9 years only) BANTAM HOUSE LEAGUE Standing& WLTP Wings ...... ,.„. ............. 7 0 1 11 Phantoms 5 2 1 11 Hawks 3 1 0 6 Romarcs 0 S 0 0 Future games: January 10- 6 p.m.—Phantoms vs. R. Wings 7 p,m,—Rornarcs vs. R. Hawks MIDGET JUVENILE HOUSE LEAGUE Future games: January 15- 6 p.m.—Cushman vs. Howard January 16- 6 p.m.—Fortune vs, Loucks ettelEVIESEEEMEMEnitailiallatelaneala Bantams still hot net two victories The Exeter bantams picked up a pair of wins last week, whipping Hensall 13.2 in Hen- sail, Friday, and posting . a hard-fought 5-2 win over Zur- ich here, Saturday. The Saturday night tussle was nip and tuck until Exeter came up .with a pair of quickies late in the third period to sink the visitors. Dominique Marchilton started the locals off on the _right foot when he beat Gary Geoffrey at the 2:30 mark of the first per- iod on a play with Bob Ben- ning and Larry Willert. Neither team managed -a score throughout the remainder of the period, but Barry Block evened the count at 1-1 when he beat Rick Becoming at time 2:15 mark of the middle frame. Exeter then came flying back to lip their lead to 3-1 at the end of the second as Bob Burns scored a pair with help from Bob Storie and. Bob Grayer. Zurich managed to whittle the lead to one goat when big George Westlake dented the twine at the .9:52 mark of the final stanza, but the locals came back with two quick goals in a little over a minute off time Sticks Of Burns and Billy Allen. to post the win. opposition • Hensall provided very little opposition for the unbeaten locals at nine players hit the score sheet.. Bob $tbrie,.. Bob Schroeder: Billy Allen .and. Rick SChroedet each popped in a pair, while Singletent Were registered .by Bob Burns Dominique •Mardliit- tOn, P'aul .Masee, _Nag Stan- lake and Ron Broderick. "Albert, run to the door and tell Mrs. Jones am out," "Hello, Mrs, Jones, WM'S out." "Isn't that too had? I just came over to borrow a few eggs," Alberti, shouting up the stairs: "Mom, do you Mean that you are out of eggs'?" NEW COACH FOR HAWKS . Rod Loader 'Army nets trio against Lambeth The Exeter junior Hawks snapped their lasing streak at six games, Monday, when they eked out a hard-fought 4.3 win over La mb e th in the Lawn arena. Exeter coach Red Loader was kicked off the bench in the third period for protesting an icing call and the absence of their coach appeared to instill some fight in the locals as they rap- ped in three goals in the last ten minutes to post their win, Bob Armstrong paced the at- tack for the Hawks, triggering a hat-trick against Don Bilyea in the Lambeth nets. Lloyd Moore accounted, for the other one, as well as assisting on all three of Armstrong's. .The Hawks started out on the right foot and took a 1.0 lead on Armstrong's first goal at the 11:10 mark of time first period, Neither team could break through the fine net play of Ex- eter's Ted Sanders and Bilyea until a Jitm Walker knotted the count the 14:10 mark of the middle frame, His tally appeared to spark the Lambeth crew and Brooks dented the twine a minute later to give the homesters a 2-1 lead at the end of the middle frame, Armstrong evened the count at the mid-way mark of the final period and then Lloyd Moore shot time Hawks into a 3.2 lead when he finished off a passing play with Jack Stephen and Vic Neil and stick-handled past one defender and pulled Bilyea out of the nets to deposit the disc in the mien corner at the 15:10 mark, The Hawks' first line was still flying high and Armstrong up• ped time lead to two goals at the 17:55 mark on a play with Neil and Moore. Lambeth managed one more tally off We stick of Walker at the 18:14 mark, but the Hawks tightened up their defense to protect their slim one-goal lead for the last two minutes, Three sink pair to pace H-Z win The Hensall-Zurich Combines gave the Exeter Junior Hawks a lesson in positional play at the Exeter Arena, Friday, as they blasted out a convincing 7-1 win over the sinking locals, It was the sixth straight loss for the local club. The locals never did get un- tracked in the contest as they appeared to be doing plenty of skating but not getting any- where. They also attempted to work. the puck in too far and, lost out on scoring opportuni- ties by having We last mail stop their attempts. When they did manage to break through, Hensall's bril- liant netreinder t .Dennit Mock, proved unbeatable, The agile goalie stopped several point- blank shots and robbed Lloyd ROOTH E C R C DOMESTIC 0 COMMERCIAL Wiling and Installations ALSO MOTOR REPAIR AND REWINDING 70 HURON ST., EXETER Phone SI8W Moore on two break-aways and. Jack Stephen on one, Earl "Cuss" Wagner, Wayne winert and Steve Kyle paced the attack for the high•flying. visitors, blinking the .hght be- hind Les. Howard on two ogee- siont each. Harold Jacques, a free-skat- ing centre doing xionble-dtity on both the second and third lines, accoueted for the other one, Jack Stephen was the lone Marksman for the Hawks, boat- ing mock on a high hard shot from about 28 feet in front of the net, Time visitors took a 2.0 lead in the first period and in- creased it to 4-0 before Stephen filially put the Hawks on the scoresheet late in the middle frame. 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LIMITED OW Envoy PHONE 166 EXETER The Lucan4lderton Combines end the Philipsburg Chevs, heal of whom had players ruled ineligible by the 011A, Were given permission to re- mainin the Big Kight League and use all their ',Were at a speeial meeting held in Clie. • ton, Sunday. The teams will still be eligi- ble for the league champion. ship and their players will all be eligible for the scoring race, most valuable award and the goal tending competition. However, a special play-oft arrangement has been set up so all teams be on an even basis when they fight for the right to represent the local grouping in OHA competition. Lucan-lkierion a n d Philips- burg will both be allowed to strengthen to straight inter- mediate "Ia" calibre at the end of the schedule and will face each other in the first half of the group's playoffs, The top four teams out of the other five squads will also compete in a playoff series using only players eligible for intermediate hornebrew "B", However, the winner of this four - team series will then strengthen to intermediate "B" calibre by picking up four players from the losing teams and will then meet the win- ner of the Lucan-Ilderton and Philipsburg series for the league championship, The winner of this series will then advance into the OHA playoffs as an intermediate "B" team. This decision was almost unanimously agreed upon by all the teams in the league, rather than have the two clubs drop out as they had indicated they would if they couldn't use their players who were ruled ineligible. President Dick Allen pointed out that the teams had been RAY YELLE TOM COLLINGS e a a L-I Players Allowed To Participate Combines win again, whip Towners 9-5 T-Birds clip Hawks in four-point contest T P 2 26 2 20 16 2 12 ALF ANDRUS Oil Burners 1-leafirfq, Sheet Mefat Work 461 .ANDREW 'Sto. EXETER PHONE 110' VJAiiii(CIIIIIrIllftilflfilifillffilitilfrifilitiffiTtiltilffifIVIMMIliffiilinfifilifinADMIli filliliblilillf1111111111ffi ri 1.