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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-07-12, Page 6FOR A GOOD DAY! Ca ll for milk! 'ECECTRICAL. '4-C914,11TRAC*OR DoitteMic * Corimercial, * Industrial Motors, Centralia „Lighting •, ,. 70 Huron ,St; Wds$ Vacation Specials Your family's sure to like one of these 1958 Chevrolet F3ISCAYNE 4-DOOR SEDAN Automatic transmission, low mileage, one owner. 1958 Chevrolet 4-DOOR YOEMAN STATION WAGON Low mileage, one owner, ideal for campers 1958 Oldsmobile 88 2-DOOR OLDSMOBILE Automatic transmissioe, custom eadio, Iwo-tone 19 5 7 Chevrolet DELUXE COACH Mack with whitewall tires, See this ono, 1954 Chevrolet BELL AIR 4MOOR SEDAN Low cost transportation. Snell Bros, LIMITED CHEY OLDS ENVOY Phone 235.0660 E)o Exeter Mohawks continued their torrid. pace in the littron -Perth loop with a pair of victories this week, The two victories extended the 'Mohawks. win streak to four games and also ga.ve them a 'very impressive record of eight wins and only two losses for the season. The Exeter club staged a rally in the late innings to nip Staffa 6-4, Tuesday evening and they also powered their way to an 1 1-5 victory over Hensall on Thursday. Listbwel. Legionnaires stayed with the Mohawks through the week's action with a close 3.2 decision over last-place Zurich Lumber Kings in Listowel. Staffa moved out of a cellar-dwelling tie with Zurich when they dropped the Kings 9-5 in Staffa. Pane 6 The Times-Advocate, July 12, 19,62. Sports seen Tribe treats By BOB SCHROEDER For our first column this summer we. decided that 'we should write about something with which we bad at least a passing acquaintance. Although this stipulation definitely limited the possibilities, we began by listing some of out' sum- mer season's sporting highlights that might be Vttar- Ally of mention. The very impressive record of the Exeter Greys in the Ladies Softball League and the fine performance of the local ladies wherever they play deserves commendation. The Exeter minor baseball setup. which em- braces peewee. bantam, and midget categories, and the success of these teams is worthy of note. The Kinsmen playground. which started this week, is only one of the many summer activities planned by Recreation Director Don (lravett. This is certainly a timely topic and warrants attention. Charlie Godholt's harness racer. Dustabout, is drawing appreciative remarks from the rail birds. She has already compiled an impressive record of 'two Wins in three starts this year. The surprising Los Angeles Angels and their bid for first place in the American League and the reasons for this sudden surge could probably be extolled upon at great length. However, sticking to our original decision that we should know a little about our subject, we reserved these topics for future consideration and came up with what seemed to be an entirely ob- vious choice, the Exeter Mohawks, THINGS ARE LOOKING up Prospects appear to be bright for this year's club. The Mohawks are currently engaged in a bat- tle for first place with Listowel Legionnaires, the team generally considered to be the one to beat in the Huron-Perth loop. iAs of last weekend the Mohawks held a slim one-victory lead over the northern town). For the first time in a number of years Derry Boyle has come up with a real contender in the Huron-Perth league. This is a far cry from the situation in the past few years. Three years ago the :\lohawks couldn't stir up enough interest to field a team in the league and the Exeter squad of four years past had trouble finishing the season, iAs an indication of conditions four years ago we should point out that even our .astute over-seer, Bill "Cotton's Comments" Bat- ten, was called on once to pitch in ,Mitcliellt. This year's team is almost identical to that of last year and by now has developed into a smooth- working unit. The arrival of three high school teachers in Exeter recently and their addition to the team has certainly bolstered what used to be a shaky in- field. Ron Bogart, George Wright, and Lyle Little, when teamed with Jim Hennessey at first, base, give the Mohawks an infield that ranks with the best in the league. Although they are sometimes accused of being slow-moving, the Exeter outfield trio of John Boyne, Simon Nagel, and Joe Wooden covers a lot of ground and all three provide much - needed power at the plate. Also for the first time in a few years Exeter has acquired reserve strength in the backstop po- sition, Regular catcher Dick McFalls is both block- ing and hitting the ball with authority and he is ably backed up by midget catcher Rick Boyle Who can hold his own in the intermediate ranks, However, the most striking change in this year's club land Cotton will surely attest to thist is in the pitching department. Along with this fine fielding crew, Derry has managed to round up no less than four players to handle the hurling chores for the club. Pitching mainstay for the Exeter club is. of course, Jim Russell. The big right-hander is of.f . to a fine start this season and has already recorded four wins against a single loss. Bill Crago, who toiled for Kirkton last year, has made his presence felt in the Exeter lineup .and he has compiled a record of two wins and one loss thus far, Backing up these two front-liners are Glen Bennett and Dean McKnight, a former Exeter minor-leaguer. Both would be a helpful addition to any ball club. This ;tear's Mohawk appears to be strong both. offensively and defensively and we believe that with any breaks at all they will he able to go all the way, both in league and play-off action. NEED YOUR SUPPORT ' The Mohawks are certainly playing a fine brand of baseball this summer and the fans that have turned out to watch the locals in action have been well rewarded. However, the number of supporters could be Increased, The Mohawks need your support. Let's get out and back them all the way by taking in the home games at the local diamond. „ Exeter Mohawks are current- look At the batting ,Averages ly leading the league in the Huron-Perth loop and a quick will give an indication as to why they are up there. Last season the.Exeter club didn't have one player who ted . over .300. This year the Pint) has six Players over this Mark and four of theft are hat• ling over .400, Pitcher Jitil Russell is Arm- log the way at the plale. The big hurler has only 17 official at-bats but has reeked up eight safeties fora nifty ,471 average. Second Pesititin hi the stand- ings goes to .harcllitting Joe Wooden with his mark of .455. FUMY George Wright has the rive number of hits, 12, and ranks YOUR 'HOLIDAY third With .444. M , Catcher Diet aalls is also BE WATER WWI Over _the, .400 mark with 1118 'record of 11 hits in 26 fillies at hat for a .423 average, Belts 'em Town Councillor Joe Wooden belted Iwo key homers in Mo hawk wins last week. The SliDEIS teacher is batting at a .400-plus clip. Greys' bats boom again The Exeter Greys continued to chew up the opposition in the Ladies Softball League on Thurs- day evening by romping to a convincing 28.5 victory over RCAF Clinton, • The two teams pounded out 39 hits during the contest with the Greys collecting 26 of them. Exeter had two big innings that saw them plate a total of 19 runs. In the third, 13 Exeter batsmen went to the plate and 12 more followed in the sixth Every one of the local ladies hit safely once during the eon- te;it and four players knocked out four hits .piece, Shortstop Audrey Pooley paced the Greys with her four- for-four performance at the plate. She cracked a home run her first time up and then came hack with three straight dou- bles. Winning pitcher Rose Carey managed four hits, coming up with two singles, a double and a home run, Jean Taylor nailed down a home run and three singles, Mary Gravest contributed three singles and a double to the Exeter attack while Norma Coleman managed three singles. Ann Jorgenson connected for another Exeter home run and she also singled once, Ann Cronyn picked up a double and a single and Dorothy Wilson had two singles. Dolly Mattson tripled once to finishi out the Exeter hitting splurge. Rose Carey went all the way for the Greys and she. notched eight strikeouts during the sev- en-inning game. The victory was the eighth for the local ladies who have yet to be defeated, W. Corners tops league West Corners, rebounding from a fourth-place finish last year. has taken over top spot in the McGillivray Softball league standings. The West Corners nine. be- hind the steady pitching of (lord Slaght, took two straight this neck, beating Grand Bend 11.-5 in one contest and bombing Lieury 21-7 in another. The two wins gave the league• leaders an impressive record of five wins against two losses, Lieury, first-place finishers last season, and Sylvan are tied for second spot with. identical records of four and three. Grand Bend is having trouble getting rolling this year and so far have managed only one vic- tory in the seven games they have played. The four-team league is very e‘etily balanced and (Mee the Grand Bend crew gets moving it alit develop into an interest- ing race for top spot. Fred Tilleys place one, two The :Fred Tilley family cop- ped both of the top two post- tiOns in jitney play at the Exe- iPr bowling green on Saturday evening. Mrs, Fred Tilley teamed up with Wes k miner In take first place r11 the ek-tining's cnnipeti lion with their l'eeord of one win and a pins of II,. Mr. Fred Tilley and )ire. Lou AleNniglit managed second place in the jitney with their slate of One win and a Pius of seven, An nurely new group of bowl- ers look over the to spots in the ;jitney held on Tuesday, July 'Gary Middleton anti Don Jackson swept aside all opposi- tion with their record of two wins and a plus of 'for the; Ted. Pooley and Will Shapton took second place with their record of two wins and a plus Kings drop 3-2 match Last - place Zurich Lumber Kings extended Listowel Legion- naives to the limn Tuesday eve• ning before bowing 3.2 to the powerful northern team. The Legionnaires tallied alt three of their runs in the first liVe innings and then hung on through the last four frames of the match in Listowel. A triple play in the Lop of the eighth inning prevented the Kings from winning the ball game. Finish strongly Down 3.0 after five innings, Zurich tallied their first run in the sixth when three straight singles by Doug O'Brien., Ron IDetelieet and Larry 'Bedard scored O'Brien, The Lumbe Kings added an- ether run in the seyenth when Wagner tripled and then scored on, a fielder's choice to cut the lead to 3.2. In the top of the eighth in• fling, with .men on first and second, a sacrifice bunt back- fired against the Kings and Lislowel turned it into a triple play, ending a potential Zurich ra John Denomme's single And A double by Dick Bedard were the only other Zurich hits. Den O'Brien pitched for ,Zur• ich and lie ' uned in a creditable live•lut pf nrmance. however, playing miner the lights affected the outfielders and a touple. of miscues the field resulted in Iwo Listowel tuns. The victory marked the sixth in. a row for Listowel in their home park. Mohawks' bats boom Eseter Mohawks 'pushed a • cross eight 111ps in the first two innings and 'then defended their lead throughout the nem five fealties to register an 11-5 vic- tory,. 'no* Hensall Thursday evening. Joe Wooden 'provided the big- blow for the Mohawks by pound-, three-run home run bail deep into right-centre field tri or 11 while Ray Sblilb ),It' . McKnight placed third with two wins and a plus of eight, spark a five-run second inning surge. The home run was the second in as many games for the. Exe- ter playing coach, In .H.ensall the previous nigh( lie unloaded another blast that went right to the bush in deep centrefield, The Mohawks banged out 16 hits off liensall pitchers Gerry Bell and Ken Parker while Exc.- ter hurler Jim Russell twirled a neat five-hitter for the night. The Mohawk right-hander fan• ned nine and walked four during the six innings that he worked, Dean McKnight finished up in the final frame although Russell had to return to stall a Hensall rally. Catcher Dicic MeFalls paced the Exeter attack by reaching base safely every time up. The Mohawk backstop doubled once and singled three times. Two Mohawks had three hits during the night. Simon Nagel Mashed a triple in the third inning and also recorded two singles, George Wright chipped in with three singles in four trips and drove in three Exeter runs, Russell aided his own cause with two singles in three ap- pearances and. Wooden singled once as well as going for the chant in the second. , Second-baseman Lyle Little spanked a triple and Jim Hen- nessey collected a single to round out the Exeter hitting spree. All of the Hensall hits were of the single variety and they were picked up by John Bell, Bruce. Moir, Gerry Bell, Bill MacKinnon and Jack Chipchase. Exeter counted three times in their first time at bat with George Wright supplying a two- run single to spark the attack, The Mohawks tallied fve times in the second, mainly on the strength of Wooden's four-bag- gel, and once more in the third. .Hensall finally got. on the scot'esheel. with twt, runs in their half of the third inning but the Mohawks countered all of 'Hen- sall's future runs with tallies of their own to maintain their lead. The game was the last meet- ing of the year between the two area clubs. The Mohawks came out on top of the Hensall nine, three games to (Me in victories. Staffa pair limit Kings Gary Hopf a n d Laverne `Porky" Wallace teamed up to fire a three - hitter at Zurich Lumber Kings and power Staffa to a 9-5 victory on Wednesday, July 4. tlopf hurled the first five in- nings of the game in Staffs and confined the Lumber Kings to two hits, both singles. Wallace then took over and allowed the visitors one more single in the seven-inning game. Staffa counted all of their runs in the first three innings and then hung on through the last four while the Zurich squad tried to break down the big nine- run lead. The horn esters tallied three times in the, first inning and then went on a spree to notch —Please turn to page 7 Pastor John 'Boyne, minister at Caven Presbyterian Church, is patrol- ling left field for the. Tribe thi s se ason , He's a native of Listowel, Mohawks' chief rival for 11.-P honors. Ball standings HURON-PERTH 0 Pt•i. PAP! Pr g ii 1 LoISI on FI Hen. nit Staffs. RECREATION SOFTBALL Orpr111 on 0' 1, Ptc. • 1'' 6 4 o 112 po game, Coming up! HURON•FERTH BASEBALL July 12—Staffa at Hensall. 16—Exeter al Zurich 17—Hensall at Listowel 18—Staffa at Exeter LADIES' SOFTBALL July l2—Centralia at, Clinton 13—Brucefield at Exeter 17—Exeter at Centralia 19—Clinton at. Exeter McGILLIVRAY SOFTBALL July 12—Lieury vs. Sylvan r6—(;rand Bend vs, West Cornet's 17—Grand Bend vs. Lieury LINIMENT SOFTBALL July 16—Legion vs. Kinsmen Lanes at Crechton 18—Crediton vs, Lanes MIDGET ALL-STARS July 13—Mitchell at Dashwood. New Haniburg at Crediton 16—Exeter at .Dashwooci BANTAM ALL-STARS July 17—Mitchell at, Exeter Free close games featured play in the recreation Softball. League this week, Crediton split the two games they played although they did gain two points in the process, Wednesday, July 4, a full slate of games was scheduled and Crediton edged Legion 6-5 in a .four-point game played in Crediton. The same evening, Lanes kept pace with the league-leaders from Crediton with a narrow 4.3 win over the Kinsmen, However, on Monday evening, the Kinsmen bounced back into contention by squeaking by, Crecillon 3.2 in a nine-inning contest, The four-point victory gave Crediton a commanding lead over the second-place teams Lanes and Kinsmen, Crediton has 10 points while the two Exe- ter clubs have six. Legion is trailing the pack with one four-point win i n s ix starts. Loader stars in Lanes' win Jinn "Red" Loader's fourth hit of the night drove in the winning run in the bottom of the last 'inning to give Exeter Lanes a, 6.5 victory over the Kinsmen. Wednesday evening. The two teams matched each other run-for-run through the first six innings before Loader broke up the game in the bot- tom of the eighth inning. After trading single runs in the third, the Lanes broke out with two runs in the fourth to take a 4.3 lead. In the next two innings the teams tied the count al- 5-5, setting the stage for Loader's clutch blow. Loader caught for the win- ning Lanes nine and also head- ed their attack at the plate. He came through with three singles and a triple in five appearances. The Lanes team could only pick up four other safeties among them and they were ob- tained by Jim Russell, Jack Fuller, Ron Heywood and Ralph Finkbeiner, The Kinsmen rattled Lanes' pitcher JaCk Fuller for 11 hits during the contest but they were a ll of t h e si ngl e var i ety. Joe Gunn reached base safely twice ,for the Kinsmen as did Felix 'Boogemans. Single, hits were registered by Doug Sillery, Cy Blommaert, H e r e's why tribe hot: tour hit over .400 Complete results for the Etae- ler leant are listed below. Pla+dt' gp ah hits pc. Jim Russell 7 17 8 .471 ,Tee Wooden V 22 in .453 George Wright. ft 27 12 ,411,1 Dick Mc Falls A 26 11 .423 Ron Bogart R at 11 Al3 Simon Nagel l 31 11 .321 Fill Crago 6 17 4 .415 Lyle Little A 32 1 .219 (lien Bennett 3 8 1 .1117 rim hen»easey ft 2S 4 143 jack Boyne R2.0 4 .136 Rick 'Boyle 3 10 1 .1011 Dean MeKeight 4 0 It .000 Tribe rally nips Staffa Exeter 7.1ohawks rallied for four runs in the second-last in- ning to register a come-from- behind 6.4 victory over Staffa Tuesday evening, Flinch-hitter Bill Crago spark ed a four-run rally in the sixth which moved iiiohs vks from a 4.1 deficit into a slim 5.4 lead, Crago cracked a double in the big inning that drove in one Exeter run and set up two more. In the next inning he came up and banged a single that drove in the sixth and final. Mohawk tally, Laverne ''Porky'' Wallace handcuffed the local squad for three full innings, giving up only two hits before he had to retire because of an arm in- jury. His mates, meantime, scored four runs, Exeter gained one run in the top of the fifth off Bob Sadler when Lyle Little doubled to open the inning, stole third, and then came home nn an infield out. Wallace returned to pitch the sixth inning and was given a resounding welcome by the Mo- hawks. With one away, Jim Russell hit a single to left. jack Boyne gained life on an infield error and Crago then. delivered his key blow. Simon Nagel brought in the next run when Staffa. elected to try to get Boyne racing home but missed. An infield single by Lyle Little and a long double to right by George Wright pro- vided Exeter with two more runs and their 5-4 lead, Russell records fifth .Jim Russell picked up his fifth victory of the season against a single loss. The big right-hander got tougher as the game progressed, allowing only one man to reach base after the fourth inning. Lyle Little and '13111 Crago led the tribe with two hits apiece. Little crashed a triple as well as a run-scoring single. Singles went to Simon Nagel, Dick Mc- Falls, Jim Russell and Jack Boyne. Wallace paced the Staffa nine with a two-run triple in the first and a lead-off single in the fifth, Frank MeKellar garnered two hits for Staffa, both singles. Bill Murphy, Bob McKellar, Line Rohfritseh, Laurie McKellar and Bob Norris also singled for Staffa, 11S,2144 Nothing starts off the day better than a big ,glass ta( fresh, protein-packed milk! You know, you never outgrow your need for the nutrients in milk so drink three full glasses -a day, Call for delivery. EXETER DAIRY Daily Delivery 2 I t Both teams counted one in the 4 a A top of the first inning and the Kinsmen took a one-run lead s a after two frames 2.1, °hawks maintain torrid pace with wins over Staffa Hensall Crediton takes lead with four point win ;him Carey, Neil Campbell. Dick Roclofson and lion Bell. Fuller was the winning pitcher anti Bell absorbed the set•baek. The recreation softball league leaders irons . Crediton squeaked out, a close 4-3 victory over Le' gion Wettnesday„thly, 4. A scratch single in the in- field In the b°"111 of the" sev-enth and final inning. gave the Crediton team the victory. The Legion nine had rallied from a two-run deficit after five innings to take a 3.2 lead. How- ever, the margin was short- lived as John Wade socked a home 11111 in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game and set: up the Goderich win, Wade started for Crediton but he was relieved in the three- run sixth by Bill Schroeder who registered the victory, Coyetche went the complete route for the Legion and he sparked the Legion's come-back hid with a two-run homer in the sixth, The only other extra-base hit of the game was Metv Fink• bother's triple in the first in- ning that gave Crediton a 1-0 lead, Three Crediton players, Fink_ Leiner, At Flynn. and Roy Smith, singled in the seventh inning to give Crediton one lain and their hard-earned victory, Murray Brintnell led the Le- gion a t the Plate with a pa i r of singles and Mettles and Webb also singled once, Creditors nips veterans 4-3