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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-03-15, Page 6WOAA CHAMPS—Bob Burns, cant-ain of the Exeter Legion bantams is shown above receiving the WOAA "B" trophy from President Jim Inglis of Atwood -follow- ing the local club's win over Walkerton in Exeter, Friday, The undefeated squad ousted the northern crew in two straight and now face Strathroy in OMHA com- petition, playing in Exeter Friday, The team is coached by Leo "Dusty" Burns, shown above watching his son receive the trophy. photo Tribe playing coach chosen loop's MVP Towner s lose first, manager hurts arm The Clinton Thunderbolts came through with their usual third period rally, Tuesday, to edge the Seaforth Towners 4.3 and take the opening game of their best-of-five series for the homebrew final of the Big Eight, loop, It was a double loss for the spirited Seaforth entry, as their high scoring playing manager 'Bob Beuttenmiller left the ice in the middle period with what appeared to be a broken arm. Beuttenmiller, who placed second in the league's most valuable player voting, has been the back-bone of the squad throughout the season, picking up 50 points and leading their attack in most of the games. The prolific scoring centre- man started his crew off on the right foot when he sent them into a 1-0 lead at the 3:51 mark of the first period and they took a 2-0 margin five minutes later when Bill' McLaughlin beat Dennis Ama- cher in the Clinton nets. Clinton managed to whittle the lead to a single goal at the 10:13 mark when speedy Andy Chiasson picked up a loose puck and raced in all alone to beat Bill German with a low die - The teams battled on even terms throughout the rest of the stanza and through the entire middle frame before Seaforth's Larry Dale broke the spell and gave his team a 3-1 lead at the 5:38 mark of the final period, However, the Thunderbolts started their machine into gear and Bud Kelly pulled them back into the game in less than 30 seconds and Ed Big- neau knotted the count at 3.3 at the 8:15 mark on a power play, The Clinton crew climaxed their rally when George Rob- ertson banged in a rebound, at the 14:58 mark to give them the one goal margin they m a n • aged to protect throughout the remainder of the game. Clinton edge Devils, move into final set The Lucatierlderten Combines upped the lead to 3.1 in the 6.4 only 48 seconds late on 'his ethilleAted t It e .Philipsburg second period, but Andy Sat- second goal of the night. Chevs hi four straight in their eras whittled the 'count to 3.2 Dusty ,Ardis beat irred Cur' intermediate "B" playoffs in at the 18:47 Mark, only to have rah et the 14:25 Mark, but the the Big tight, FridaY, when Ken Loft eve the Combines a Chevs never gave up as Glee they came ttp with a 9-5 wart 4-2 teed when he dented the gaski kept them hi eehteritien in New Hamburg, twine with only one second with his second marker at the, Penalties played A big part s11 0?I'ing on 'dela , 15: 26 a plc. in the game as the Chevs made The first three Combines However, fleet Chrishee pick- 11 tripe to the sin bin And goals carne with the Chevs ed up a charging infraction and watehed as the COMbi s Iilgying. Ptah Sheri- Veit ifeldiriati Wee WaVed off Dee Hr' shot Upped the lead Tor -elbowing in the Test th"ree scomd six ref their tight goals With a Man advantage, to three goals after telly 22 minutes and the 'Combines seconds of play in the final Wasted two ptieks IMO the Big ,tae Grefgasid, whp was periled and theft Mar 0:gd to put the 'Otte the ally at the ) Arley Shantz h ulle cl the erten lihOtted eotitit tWO thil)titeg the 9:00 minuto mark with lIev until the.y trl)o ing the trick. feitrie.e. penalty, And Andy series, unless the Olin orders Carl ttitch and Stir f) ,'Neil y,araras made the score read thein into another round, first Peeled,. but the CelithifleS Chevs Waek into 'contention et The Combines will tiMe be With Tom r uli ngs turn- utlyghott athjg eta an lin er bees of the eehytee-.seafetti IL • victory at home gives 'Bolts lead Arena The Clint 610 ThetelerbOlts scored three Meek in the first eight minutes of the third peeled on their home lee, Tlineetley, and then held off A spirited attack by the Nikki( Red DOB's to post a 54 win in their Big Eight playoff round, The Win ,gave the ItCAP NReillsOt r, stamrteld eth emicvos in the if ssleretitti mark, Pc"" PlaY at tbb bag With St6" Storey 'g114-4tee*."4IdAd iri their„ best. Walt Struthers being the marks. of-.flue series with the evils. Speedy Andy Chaisson Need the atteek for the Thunder. Thunder- bolts with throe big tallies in Bleb' win, Mel Parsons and picked up singles. The Mitchell ties scored Schedule . FRIDAY, MARCH 16 5:00P.M.—ETRATHROY vs, EXETER LEGION BANTAMS (Second &int of OMHA plAydowns)' 8ATuRbAY0MARdH 17 ae5640;tel 0.m.--Puetto tkatine StiNbAY MARCH 16 emteeteutelt ekatime .. ....... . • . SIXTH WOAA TITLE .. Don O'Brien Snell, ros. LIMITED "777 .7r • Locals sfi 11 unbeaten, begin -OMHA series. The Clinton Thunderbolts ad- their goals off the sticks of vanced into the final round of Bob Cheros, Ernie Ahrens and the Big Eight homebrew plAy- Charlie Westman, offs, Friday, when they scored a close 4.2 win in Mitchell to eliminate the Red Devils in the fourth game of their best-of- five series. It was a hard-hitting affair witnessed by one of the largest crowds of the season in Mitchell and the outcome was in doubt until the final minute of play when Clinton fired their clinch- er. The Red Devils moved into a two-goal lead early in the first period on goals by Bob Cheres and Ernie Ahrens, but Cjihtern cut the lead to 2-1 be- fore the period ended on a tally by Andy Chiasson, 'Wray Breadner knotted the cOtint early in the middle frame on a neat passing play 'with Chiaseen and Parsons and then Mark 'Pruden gave Clinton a 3,2 lead at the mid-way mark. Census 'faker "flow old are Mitchell fought hard to get you, 'MA'AM?" the equAlizer but Dennis Mn a- I lettatWire: "Did the Johe cher shut them out for' the re , Hills nett door tell you their maindee of the tilt and thee Age?" Mel Parsons put the game out Census Taker; "No," of teach When he beat housewife, "Welt, Pm es old Naht with less than two min , a8 they ere." tiles remaining the final. Census 'Mee: "I'll ;fuel, write stanza,. down that you arc as old as the Hills." Zurich coach 0on Won his six t.h. consecutive championship Saturday, when his bantams: edged Pais- ley 3.2 in the third game of their .series in. the - Exeter arena. O'Brien started on his sue- eesful. coaching stint in 1957 when he piloted a Zurich bane tam team to a WOAA crown and the .0M.1IA title, and then took the same team to two straight midget and juvenile WOAA, championships and. an- other 0,1111-1A erfe‘en This year he started over again in the bantam level and his new squad never let him down as they ousted Paisley in a hectic, nip-and-teck series. In the opener in Zurich, the squad scored a 4-2 win with Ken Westlake pacing the et- "tack with a pair of tallies and Bill Schade and Bill Hoffman adding singles. :However, in the return en• gagement in Paisley, Wednes- day, the hosts came back with a 1141'cl-fought 3.1 win to knot their best-of-three series, Lill Schade was the lone marksman for Zurich, as the team had difficulty with the Paisley .netminder, who put on a fantastic display in all three games, The Zurich squad appeared to have things much their own way in the deciding game played in Exeter, Saturday. They led by only 1-0 at the end of the first period, but came up with a pair of tal- lies early in the middle frame to jump into a. 3-0 lead. However, Paisley whittled the count to 3-1 at the end of the second and pulled to with- in one goal when Alan Worth- ington scored his second of the night near the mid-way mark. But Zurich managed to stave off the final rally of the deter- mined Paisley entry to win the bantam "D" crown, Bill -Hoffman, Barry Block and Ken Westlake fired the Zurich tallies, Nve 6 Tire, Timos-A4yocate, March 15, i9' talrae-Jaele. • COTTONS COMMENTS - B.y au: BATTEN, Sports Editor pfpnter QUITE MAKE iTt It was almost a little too much to expect that there wouldn't be any major protests in area Minor hockey circles this year, but it actually al- moat came true until Watford Atoms protested their first game in the playoffs with the Strathroy junior Rockets. There have been minor squabbles in some of the leagues naturally, but this was the only case • as far as we know that reached the OB.A. However, it was partially the fault of the OHA to begin with, so they really have no one to blame but themselves and it appears as though they have settled it satisfactorily for everyone concerned. The situation arose when a former Strath- roy puckster by the name of Dick Belinki was released from the St. Thomas Junior "B" team because St. Thomas found they had too many waivers on their roster. Naturally, when. Belinki returned to his home in Strathroy, officials down that way im- mediately took steps tffeheave him put on the roster of the junior Rockets. The sub-committee of the ORA ruled that Belinki was eligible, pointing out that he had been signed under a 'misunderstanding" by the St. Thomas squad. The other clubs in the Shamrock loop were notified of this decision and quickly put up a pro- test. So, after Belinki was in the lineup for the grathroy squad's 12-2 win over Watford in the first game of their semi-final series, Watford pro- tested and their protest was sent to the OHA. The OHA executive over-ruled their sub- committee and Belinki was ruled ineligible for the Shamrock playoffs. However, if Strathroy wins their series with the Hensall-Zurich Combines, Belinki will be al- lowed to play for them in their next OHA round. - • This was the part that appeared to be rather conflicting to us, because if a player is in- eligible for one series, surely he must be ineligible for all the series. However, Jack Oaks. Strathroy, a member of the OHA, informed us that the winner of the Shamrock series will be allowed. to pick up two players from the other clubs in the league before they advance and the OHA ruled that Belinki. could be one of them. This could straighten the situation out as far as we are concerned, but we have a sneaking suspicion that the OHA could receive some more repercussions yet. We imagine they will find that the other clubs in the OHA will want them to explain why a player who was signed by Strathroy past the deadline, and one that has been playing junior "`B" is eligible for junior "D" playoffs, However, we have come up with We best solution and that is to have the Combines oust the Rockets from the playoffs and save the OHA from getting into any further difficulties, IT WILL SOON BE TIME The regular schedule of the NHL is grind- ing to a halt, and Stanley Cup playoff fever will soon be the major ailment of most hockey fans in the area. It appears that the only thing that has yet to be decided is the fourth team in the playoff. The Detroit Red Wings and the New York Rangers are presently engaged in a tight battle for the spot and it could go right to the final game before it is decided. Sports writers are having plenty of fun with the situation as they come up with their reasons for giving one or the other the advantage of taking fourth slot. They originally had the Rangers picked. but Detroit moved back in and while only one point behind had played three less games, This then gave them the advantage, but they dropped a home game to the Rangers and this then put the shoe back on the other fool, We suppose we should join this writers' game, but we picked our favorite Wings to wind up' in the playoffs before the season even began. and we have no intention of changing our choice. (Although we did change our one choice from Chicago to Montreal for the top spot in the league.] IT WON'T BE LONG! While hockey is still controlling most of the talk around the sporting world, baseball is making a determined bid to take over top billing as the teams cavort around the sunny south in their spring training. At this time of the year it doesn't matter what team you cheer for, because it sounds like they are all winners, Pitchers from every team have shown up without arm troubles that they claim plagued them last year and they are sure bets to win at least 20 games this season. The. long-ball hitters are still knocking them out o fthe park and every team has an unlimited supply of promising young rookies who are expect. ed to set the world oil fire. However, unless your memory is a little on the short side, this is much the same type of talk that emin.ates from the south every year, but when the season opens the same old pitchers still have troubles, the long-bali hitters are in a long slump and most of the rookies have been farmed out, leaving the perennial favorites to do battle for the world series berths. And no matter what type of news comes Out of the park and every team has ari unlimited they will still be picked ononost of the ballots that area fatIS submit for American league honors. tAIT'N AROUND--.-Any basketball fans in the area should see a good series between the Zurich Hustlers and the Peripatetic Pedagogues when they battle for roc league honors tonight and on the 20th . , , These teams are evenly matched and there is no admission charge to see the' actien in the HS gym facts this must be one of the most profitable sports around as tl,e league has made 'close to $10,00 besides pay. ing the rental for thegym and paying their referees, It just gots to show that fellows interest. ed In a little sport and exercise don't mind dip. ping into their own pockets to pay their own \coo The. Exeter Legion bantams brought Exeter its first WOAA championship in three years when they skated to. a 6-1 win 0\ et' Walkerton in Exeter, Fri• cia. to cop their series in two straight. It was the 18th straight win for the undefeated club and they will now meet Strathroy in the first round of the OALHA playoffs. First game will be played in Strathroy tonight with the second in Exeter on Friday at 8:00 p.m. This will be the first meeting of these clubs this dear, but Strathroy edged the locals in the Georgetown tournament last year and the Exeter squad will be nut for revenge. On Friday, the locals started nut slowly against the northern entry and held only a slim 1.0 lead in the first period, hut. Shor begorra . s a great day! Ch er 200 young hockey play- ers. playing on 12 different teams. will vie for top honors and seven different trophies in the sixth annual Shamrock pee wee tournament to be staged this Saturday in Lucan. Playing in the Irish town on St. Patrick's Day, the young peeksters will be looking for the luck of the Irish to help them cop one of the handsome trophies. The main trophy up for grabs will be the H. B. Lang- ford cup, donated by one of the most energetic hockey figures in Lucan. This trophy goes to the team displaying the most sportman• like behaviou r and. best de- portment on and off the ice during the all-day event. "A team can lose their game and still win the trophy", Langford pointed out, "The club that can lose with a smile is just as good as the winner in my books'', he added. The winner of the. tourna- ment will be declared by a pa- nel of outstanding judges tin- der the supervision of Paul Conlin, a -former Lucan minor star, now with St. Mike's junior "A'' team in the Metro loop in Toronto. The players will also be com- peting for trophies in their re- spective categories as well as awards for the outstanding ielayer in the tournament- and the best goalie, Teams are expected from ii. derton, Ailsa Craig, liensall, Zurich, Exeter. Byron, Lam- beth, Bryanston. Point Ed- ward. Ingorsoll, Kensall Park and Lucan. Tourney title to CE squad The Centralia RCAF volley- ball team. won the first annual Golden Ball tournament, Sat- urday, when they ousted four other teams for top honors, Held at Centralia, the tourna- ment will be staged annually among the volley ball teams in the district. The airmen gained the final against the London volleyball club when they won four straight in the round-robin play, while London won three, Centralia junie?el into a 134 lead in the first game of the best-of-three series in the 15- point games, only to have Lon- don stage a thrilling rally to win 16-14., However, t h e champions came back to post identical 15.10 scores in the next two matches to cop the touranment. Other teams entered in the order they finished behind the two finalists were RCN Pre- vost, London; RCAF Station Clinton and the RCR. band from London. Members of the Centralia team were: Al "Porky" Wiper, Bob Noyle, Ron Gardner, Ed Leslie, Ken Mae:Kellar, Al Davies, "Goose" Gosselin, Charlie Caron, Paul Kinch 'and George Kelly, Host tournament On Saturday, March 24, the Centralia squad will host the Command championships with teams from Camp Borden; St. Johns, Quebec; RCAF Clinton and the winners of the Western playoffs competing, came 'back to dent the twine four times in the middle frame to. register their margin. Ron Broderick started the locals .eff on the right foot when he scored an unassisted mar- ker at the 14:20 mark of the initial stanza, Dusty Burn's crew jumped into a 2.0 lead at the 4:50 mark when Bryan Baynham scored the first of his two markers on a play with Paul Mason, and then Bob Grayer upped the lead to three goals when lie finished off a neat play with. Larry Willett and Bob Stogie two minutes later, Walkerton finally beat Cal- lum SlacPhee when David Brindley blinked the light at the 9:00 minute mark, but Bill Al. len came right back in a little over a minute after taking pass from Bob Benning to give Exeter a 4-1 margin. Baynham's second tally at the 13:4o mark upped their margin to tour goals and Rick Schroe- der pulled the game out of reach of Walkerton when he notched an unassisted marker early in the final frame. A crowd of close to 100 was on hand to witness WOAA pre- sident Jim Inglis, Atwood, pre- sent the bantam "B" trophy to captain Bob Burns following the match. There were only six penal- ties called in the match, all coming in the final period, with Walkerton picking up four, spoiling their chances of catch- ing the hard ' working Exeter cree\'‘h.e Exeter lineup was as follows: Callum MaeRhee, Ron. Cornish, Larry Willert, Bob Storie, Bob Burns, Bob Grayer, Bill Allen, Dominique March- ilton, B o b Benning, Bryan Baynham, Paul Mason, Doug Stanlake, Rick Schroeder and Ron Broderick. Rick Benning is sub-goalie, BIG EIGHT MVP . . Boom Gravett The butcher confronted the customer with embarrassment. "I'm sorry, madam, but I can't give you further credit, Your bill is bigger now than it should be," "I'm aware of that," the woman said, "so if you will make it out for what it should be, I'll pay it." feeeee,.. e ,eereeeeei Hockey Scoreboard OHA BIG EIGHT Intermediate "8" Series Lucan -ilderl 1—rhilipshure. 'A" 1, A Luran -Tide rton 4 5 11 2:: Ph il:pshurz Q 1 2:: ,7 4100 n-Ild erton win. stiff-.." 4-11: Homebrew Series 'in Ion 4 --Sea fori h 3 'sv 1, To A Clinton ,• _ '1 C 4 3 Seaforth n 1 3 4 Ctin ton lra.ds hewi.-of -rU P st,P1P.5 1 -11 Games this week: Thursday, Maroh 15 Clinton at SeafOrt Tuesday, 'March 211 Soarorth at Clinton SHAMROCK JUNIOR 5-81 rat hroy 4 Rtrathroy 5—Rerisall ,Zurieh AV 11` A omutll .• 1 1 7 1 8 WA t Tiro), . 1 1 1 (Best- of- 11 tre final sled 1.1 GArnes this Week: Thursday, MArolt 15 I 1 ensiall.Zuri ell at fitraihrov Sal to'd AY. March r7 Stralliroy at Not isall .4urirh tit necessary). Although the Exeter Mo- hawks managed to win only five games during the regular Big Eight schedule and fin• ished out of the playoffs, play- ing, coach Don Gravett was still voted the most valuable player in the league by a wide margin, With the voting conducted amongst the seven managers and teams in the new group, Gravett picked. up a total of 30 points on the 14 ballots sub- mitted. Each team was allowed two ballots, but could not vote for the players chosen for compe- tition for the award from their own team. Gravett, who scored 29 goals and picked up 26 assists for a total of 54 points in Exeter's cause, was the first choice on nine ballots and picked up one second and a third. Playing manager Bob Beut- tenmiller „f the Seaforth Town- ers ended up in the runner-up spot with 15 points, picked up with seven second place votes and one third. The prolific scoring centre played in only 20 games and was in the nets for one of them but had .50 points split evenly between 25 goals and 25 as- sists. One of the assists he picked up in the game when he played goal, Goalie third Third place in the league's voting went to Mitchell's bril- liant young netminder, Bill MacNaught, Although his team only won eight of their 24 games, MacNaught, was, the mainstay in most of their con- tests. He was scored on 138 times for a 5,01 average per game, third best in the league. He picked up eight. points in the voting. Lanky Dez Killen of the . Cen- tralia Golden Hawks was fourth in the MVP balloting with six points, while Ron Ehrat from Philipsburg and George Cove- ney from Mitchell were tied be- hind him with five points each. The voting was conducted from a ballot listing two play- ers from each team, who were chosen by the management or players of that team. The final standing in the vot- ing was as follows: Don Gra- vett, Exeter; Bob Beutenmiller, Seaforth; Bill MacNaught, Mit- chell: Dez Killen, Centralia; Ron Ehrat, Philipsburg; George Coveney, Mitchell; Dick Be- dard, Exeter; Ray Crozier, Seaforth; Max O'Neil, Lucan-. Ilderton; Mel Parsons, Clinton; Bert Christner, Philipsburg; Rick Tremblay, Centralia; Don Utbshett, Lune- Ilderton and Bud Kelly, Clinton, Scarborough best In competition for the league's best goal tender, sta- tistician Don Gravett 'announced the Winner as Keith Searbo- tough of the league winning Lu., eati-Iiderton Combines. (UPS Meet .AIY,100.9r1 The Zurich squad tvila new face Alvinston in the first round of the playoffs wilt the first game in. Alvinstori last night. Zurich will host the southern crew no Friday in the. fiensall retie- The Zurich, lineup is as fol, lows: Gary Geoffrey, Ken Westlake, - Robert Bannister, Barry Block, Bill Hoffman, Bill Schad.e, Richard Thiel, Charlie .f3eker, Paul Rosso, Brian Decker, Gary Flaxbard, Paul Corriveau, Mike Soldan, Mike Bedard and Charles Masse, '61 Chevrolet BISCAYNE 2 DOOR SEDAN 'New cal' condition. '59 Chevrolet BISCAYNE 4 DOOR SEDAN Automatic transmission, custom radio, whitewall tires, chrome discs. '58 Chevrolet BEL AIR 4 DOOR SEDAN Auto matic transmission, chrome wheel discs. '57 Chevrolet '56 Dodge DELUXE 4 DOOR SEDAN Custom radio, whitewall tires, chrome discs, two. tone paint. '55 Chevrolet DELUXE 4 DOOR SEDAN Radio, au tornatic transmis. Sion, whitewall tires,. two- tone finish, CH V .iLIS etway- Phijlid 235.6660 - Exotdit' • 41111111.01ii•Miimmeeetaxerows•mmxiititoi ----ritormsidewagrit# The lanky netminder played in 21 of the Combines' games and posted a 3.95 average per game. He was followed closely by Fred Currah of the Philipsburg Chevs, who allowed a total of 88 tallies in 20 games for a 4,40 average. Mitchell's Bill MacNaught was third with a 5,79 average. Although he held the highest average in the group, Exe- ter's Dick McFalls was the only goalie to post a shutout during the season, FLU Penalfies.play big part, Combines oust .Chevs Zurich o ust Pal,51-eye. six in row for coach Clinton jumped into a 1.41 lead at the 9:23 mark of the opening stanza on Chaisson's first tally, but Cheros knotted the count at the 16:50 mark, Brown gave Clinton a 2-1 lead with the only score in the middle frame and then Chais- son and Parsons dented the twine 41 seconds apart at the 3:00 minute mark and Chais- son gave Clinton their 5.1 lead DELUXE 4 DOOR SEDAN at the 7:57 mark, Custom radio, 28,000 actual Mitchell fought back gamely with Wcstman blinking the miles. light before the mid-way mark and Ahrens picking up his tally at the 16;26 Mark, but the RCAF sie tightened their defense to protect their tWo- Ignomriute allsead in the last four •