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Nkinors move By BOB SCHROEDER A 1,QQK AT THE MINORS In a. pcevious column. no made mention 01 the fact Exeter's minor baseball set-up evae flour- ishing„ This could now probably be ehi6.et-1 as an understatement because all three teams in the Exeter program are doing extremely well for them- selves. After our last week's baseball action. two of the three local teams have advanced to their league finals while a third is just beginning its playoff round. The pee-woes and bantams disposeu of their counterparts from St. Marys in easy fashion while the midget squad has been unable to work in any games with Clinton tas of last weekend) because of conflicting dates and wet weather. The Exeter pee-woes, under their coach Jim "Red" Loader., are playing a fine brand of baseball now and all through the season and certainly de- serve to be in the final round, Jim Glover, Gord Baynham. and "Bunny" Ford have their bantam charges playing to perfec- tion and their impressive peel:ovum:nee against St, Marys indicates that this team is capable of going a long way. The midgets have been running hot and cold all season but with any breaks at all the locals should fare quite favorably against their opposition, a strong Clinton team. Coaches Bud Preszcator and Ward Kraft will undoubtedly field a strong team in their quest for playoff honors. With the centre of attention on the minor playoffs at the moment, we are wondering why the teams have been forced to start their play- downs this early in the season. We would imagine that the persons responsible for this early start wanted to have a team ready for further OBA com- petition, However, we feel that the third week in July is a little too soon to ask the teams to start playing off, Coaches and parents both have spent considerable time in developing their teams and the players themselves have practiced hard and long for a chance to play during the summer. Now, with the playoffs sending some of the teams to the sidelines, they have had little opportunity to participate to any great extent. Some of the teams in the area will be knocked out of competition after playing for only a month and the boys will have little or nothing to do for the remainder of the summer, Guess the only thing for the Exeter squads to do if they want to keep playing is to keep. winning. (Elementary, isn't it?i Go to it guys and lots of luck! Judging by the results of previous games and from what we have seen, the three teams in the local minor set-up are not lacking in talent. All of the teams have quite a few players who have developed well in the minor system and play a fine style of baseball. Three examples that come to mind are Peter Lawson, a hard-hitting and fine-fielding pee- wee; Ron Broderick, a bantam who clubs home runs like most players hit singles. and Jalce Nyhuis, who is doing a great job on the mound for the midgets. These are only a few of the many fine ball- players that are toiling in the minor set-up and things would appear bright for Derry's Mohawks if he can latch onto some of these Minot' gradu- ates. GREYS ARE OFF AND RUNNING The Exeter ladies' softball team is certain- ly making a shambles of its league. The locals notched their eleventh straight win last week and they have not been beaten this year. It is indeed a credit to the girls and to their coach, Lloyd .Cushman. that they have compiled such an impressive ztec6r0 iir.ottel,,er. a club as strong as the one /ha'. Exeter has fielded this year hardly provide -.eemeetition ',then they can run up such stores as they have recorded at times .,eason. We are not .stz;:ge amt. the Exeter ladies start "throwinr ctt bet ache they }late worked diligent',y With their best pos- sible team. HotAteve:, have to be done to make the mart:-. the !eague more even so that there will be a keener competition and more balance /6 'he league. ,Nlaybe the Greys should use seven playemi ONE WAY TO BEAT THE HEAT While most of us Journey to the beach to cool off during the hot summer months. Lee Learn has found a new way to keep cool when the tem- perature soars. The local dairyman. along with his wire. recently travelled all the way to Nelson. 'British Columbia.: to participate in a curling bonspiel there. The ardent enthusiast and his wife accom- panied three couples from Sealorth to compete in both men's and ladies' divisions in the week4ong "Mid-Summer Bonspier, Although they haven't been in contact with the sport for some months, the lay-off couldn't have •donne too much harm to the area curlers since both the men's and ladies' teams finished third in their division and the men placed. seventh in a competition with 67 other rinks. The Exeter couple also managed to take in the Seattle World's trail'. the sights of Vancouver, and the Calgary Stampede while they were away. Lee reports that curling in the summer has its hazards, returned borne with a cold that he picked -up, during one of the 11 games that he spent on the ice pad. TOLIkING. THE LINKS The rain at the first part of the reek was greatly appreciated by Allan Westoott, proprietor of the Exeter golf course. The fairw ays and greens are taking quite a beating from the hot summer suit this year and Allan is trying hard to keep 'his course in good shape. Attually„ we viewed the rain with rather mixed emotions, When the fairways at the local course become hard we can always .count on a good long roll for our ball after hitting the ground about .50 yards in front of us. Then, too, when the 'creeks are full of water it is always .a lot harder to find our golf balls than when they ate dry. (Although„ four balls in six holes isn't that bad, is it?) Otiltft. -5E1wN hope we haven't put ro All three Exeter minor teams lost their first game of the playoffs in their respective di- visions on Tuesday evening. The local midgets Y1 ore shelled by Clinton 13-e In Exeter in the first game of a hest-of-three al:- fair in the WOAA semi-finals, Clinton haute ins shoved their way to a 3.4 decision over EN.- eter in Clinton in the opener of their league finals. The pee-wee squad was edged 11-10 in a close tilt in Godcrich by a strong northern team in their first encounter in a two- out-of-three final round. Unearned runs defeat midgets Exeter midgets managed to contain Clinton for three innings before the visitors broke loose ft— three runs to start them on their way to a 13.2 rout, Exeter hurler Jake Nyhuis held the Clinton squad to four hits and only two runs dureig the first three innings but his another two fielders' choices that infield collapsed behind him in the next frame and the winners counted four runs, all of them unearned, A pair of infield errors and Crediton Lanes top went wild accounted for all the Clinton scoring and gave them a big 6-0 edge. The home squad retaliated in their half of the fourth and turned a walk and two singles into two runs to cut into the margin, However, this was as close as the locals ever came and Clin- ton tallied seven more runs in the . next two innings while blanking the home nine to ice the contest. Exeter used three pitchers during the game, Nyhuis, Rick Boyle. and Rollie Rumpel and -they allowed only eight hits but some shoddy defensive work hampered their efforts. Clinton pitcher Joe Livermore had the Exeter hitters in hand throughout the 'game and he gave up only five hits while fan- ning 1e batters. Larry Stine picked up Exeter's only extra-base hit, a double, and he was called out trying to stretch it into a triple. Single base nits for the losing Exeter nine were registered by Robert Wolfe, Jake Nyhuis, Tom Sinclair. and Rothe Rumpel. Clinton bantams edge locals 31 A three-run surge in the sec- nod-last inning provided Clin- ton bantams with all the runs they needed to edge Exeter 3,1 on Tuesday evening. Exeter pitcher Ron Cornish had been coasting along with a two-hitter and a 1.0 margin before lie ran into trouble in the disastrous fifth inning. Three straight hits and a ground-out gave the Clinton squad their three runs and a 3.1 lead that they never lost. Exeter had taken a 1-0 lead in the previous inning on a walk, a follow-up single, and a ground out for their slim one- run margin. Both Exeter's aye lefthander and Clinton fireballer Alex Mc- Gee turned in creditable pitch- ing performances for Utah. re- spective clubs. Cornish .whiffed seven batters in the seven-in- ning game while McGee tossed a three-hitter and fanned 12 Exeter hatters. Mark Hinton, John Noble, and Cornish were the only players to touch eleGee foe a base hit and they were all confined to singles. Cornish allowed only seven batters to reach hose during the contest but McGee matched his performance and only four Exeter hitters made it to first base settle. P'wees -lost first by 1110 verdict A six-run third inning eartied Godei'icli to a close 1140 de- cision over Exeter pee-wees iri their first playoff match. The locals exploded fur fie e the kiss or death on the Mohawks. After winning four straight, they tied one game and lost two others hi their only three games since our feature on them . The swimming program at River- view Park is going full swing under Jack Stephen and Heather Strom. Over 200 youngsters have enrolled for the swimming lessons this year . . . The New York Yankees are finally' starting tti move. They have been having a little bit of trouble so far this year but we have supreme confidence that they will he bi front by at least eight games again at the end of the season, (Where are Batten's Indians?) , Taking a peek at the calendar we note that ottr annual holidays will be upon us next week. However, it looks as if Boom has lots lined tip for us to do during our vacation and well be back in two weeks time more run in the sixth inning but they left one mo an standing and they alto left the doing Ten on base in the final inning. Third-haseinan Peter Lawson once more paced the locals at the plate with his .three-for-four performance, One hit went for two bases. Ricky Weber and Allan Diller both smashed a pair of singles for the Exeter squad while Bill Fairbairn, John Loader, and Randy \Veber each contributed singles. Randy 'Weber started the game tor Exeter but he was lifted after pitching 2 1-3 innings. John Loader then went in and he blanked the victorious Gode- rich lads with a neat two-hit performance through the final four frames. Exeter out-hit Goderich 10-9 but the local youngsters were having one of their poorer days in the field and they committed five errors to hamper 'their efforts, Exeter Lanes, retaliating from a 6-5 defeat the previous Mon- day, handed Crediton an 17,-6 thumping on Thursday evening in Crediton. The Lanes squad rattled Cred- iton pitcher Gard Staght for 14 hits during the seven-inning game while Crediton could only manage eight safeties off win- ning pitcher Jack Fuller. Three Exeter batters crashed three hits during the night's performance and two others picked up two hits apiece, Catcher Jim "Red" Loader paced the Lanes by clubbing two doubles and a single for a three-for-three record at the plate. Bill Gannett and Gary Mid- dleton both s 111 a shed three straight singles for the winners while Tommy Burke collected the Lanes only home run of the game, a three-run blast in the first inning. Fuller aided his own cause by smacking two singles in two trips to the plate and Ron Hey- wood collected t h e Exeter squad's only other hit, a single. Credilon managed to turn five of their eight hits into extra- base blows and Roy Smith led the way with a home run, triple and a double. Don Dinncy pounded a triple and a double and Bob Gallo- way had a double and one sin- gle. Mete, Finkbeiner also sin- gled once, The Lanes, the home leant on the Credi ton diamond, ,jumped into a big 4.0 lead in the first inning. mainly on the strength of Burke's circuit smash. They added three more in the next frame while holding Credi- ton to one and then matched the losers run-for-run through the last five innings, The victory-and-loss combina- tion gave the two league-lead- ing learns records of six wins and three losses for the season. 'Rec' lead to Crediton The Huron-Perth will have four teams going into ODA baseball playoffs according to plans drafted this week by the team representatives. At a meeting in Mitchell aioeday evening, Exeter Mo- hawk Manager Deere. Boyle consented to his team continu- ing on in the "13" division. This separated the five teems in the league into four categories and the clubs will continue ill live divisions. playoff; Retie') in these respee. The only ealegory Thal has two teams from the area lout) \woo d to their league finals and Ilensall will have to play Zurivh Exeter Legion bantams ail- Is the "I)" division. off to determine which team on the strength of a 12.8 thumping they gave Si. Marys lel'itlittues 'ep e ractscegnotrythe Huron-Perth Thursday evening. The game, which was play- ed in St, Marys, was only the first between the two clubs but the quarry town had to forfeit the first game of the series and so the locals wrapped up the best of three series in two straight games, The Exeter squad pounded out 18 base hits during the encounter while St. Marys could only counter 'with six. Leading the, locals was hard- bitting L a 1' ry Willert who crashed out four straight doubles in four trips to the plate. Bryan Baynham and Ron Cornish both banged three hits apiece for Exeter with one of :Baynham's going for two bases. Ron Broderick continued his long-ball hitting with a long home run in the fourth frame and a single in the next, John Noble clubbed a double and a sin etc. Single base hits for Exeter were registered by Billy Far- nutter with two and Mark Hinton, Ricky McDonald and Keith Strand with one each, Ron Cornish was the winning. pitcher although he didn't start the game. The big lefthander came on in relief in the second inning to retire the side on a stripe-out and a ground-nut. The smooth lefty turned in a masterful perform anee (twine the next five innings as he yielded only four hits and walked one to keep the home team off the scoresheet. St. Marys counted all eight of their - runs in the first two innings but the locale 'foueht back with four runs .in the second, one in the third, four more in the next frame and two in the fifth. Exeter Greys nailed down their twelfth straight decision without a defeat with a 15.8 vic- tory over RCAF Centralia here Tuesday, The Exeter ladies cracked out 15 hits during the contest and they were aided along the way by a number of Centralia errors. Every member of the. Greys' squad picked up at least one hit during the game and six bat- ters banged out two hits. Shortstop Audrey Pooley turned in a three-for-four per- formance with a double and two singles to account for sev- en Exeter runs, A n n Jorgenson. clouted a three-run home run in the first inning and came back with a run-scoring double in the fifth Ira me. Norma Coleman knocked out a double and a single while Ann Cronyn, Dolly Mattson, and Mary Gravett all punched out Locals gain area finals Greys get 12th win Boys' Scampers alloIt $3.95 Men's 'Turk Oxfords $5.95 WUSITH'S siti:REe 23 .0611 EXETER MEN'S Cr ep e Sole Black Loafer $7,95 rao $&50 le"e1:51-1LAIR SUMMER SHOE SALE! ens Work Boots Heavy Leather Sole ast3 $8.95 The other three teams in the league. Exeter, Staffa, and Lis- towel, received a bye into play- downs because there are no teams in their separate divi- sions in the league. Listowel intends to continue in "A" although they could ploy in the "B" division if they wished. The northern team will probably bring In one or two players when they step up to the higher division. Exeter Mohawks will play off with teams in the "B" rate- gory while Staffa will continue in the "C" grouping, At the same meeting the team representatives decided to forego the remainder of the league schedule and begin the playoffs immediately. The five teams were sepa- rated into two categories with Exeter and Listowel playing off in one and Hensel], Zurich and Staffa in the other, Exeter and .Listowel, the top two „finishers in regular-season action, will play off in a four- out-of-seven series that begins in Listowel tonight (Thursday). Hensall, Zurich and Staffa will play a home-and-home round-robin series. The team that compiles the most points in the six-game set will play off with the winner of the Lis- towel-Exeter series for the Huron-Perth championship and The London Free Press Trophy. Although all of the teams in the league have -four or five postponed games left to play, the teams decided to forget about these genies in favor of starting playoffs right away. The schedules far playoff dates in both divisions ,for the eluron-Perth playoffs are list- ed below: "A" DIVISION JULY 26—Exeter at Listowel. 30—Listowel at Exeter 31—Exeter at Listowel AUGUST 2—Listowel at Exeter (Remaining games, if neces- sary, to be decided on later). "B" DIVISION JULY 30—Zurich at Hensall AUGUST 1—Staffa at Zurich a—Hensel] at Staffa 6—Hensall at Zurich (3:301 8—Zurich at. Staffs 10—Staffa at Hensel]. Zurich Lumber Kings turned out to be the better "Mudders" in a baseball game Against. the Exeter Mohawks here Monday evening. The visiting Zurich squad flailed their way to an 8.3 vic- tory over Exeter en a muddy diamond in a game that was featured by lots of walks and errors and, much slipping and skidding, Dick Bedard had the Mo- hawks sliding away from the plate most of the evening and he tossed a four-hitter despite the muddy playing conditions, Zurich collected six hitt in return off Mohawk loser Jim "lessen. Russell was bothered with his control most of the evening and he walked eight he during the sic innings he .worked. The Zurich squad followed the policy of "let 'cm hit the ball'' and it worked very well as the heavy infield gave the basemen easy chances to pick up the ball. However, the infielders still Kings excel in mud fest A GREAT VALUE I (8; on) (6:30) HURON PartTH 1,i4iott i•i Platstev lei,-all 7 $15115 1 7 Zurich . This week's Acorgsr Zot:Ich Plxeter $t Ufa •IleustIl 1 stittra 9,-1.;:zoler 1 riecRATioN SOFTBALL W I, r' 7 'I II LitimN Klmmien 3 6 1,t,g1on 3 7 ri This week's seeress crediton 7--Legion Lanes11—erediton . . An unearned run in the last inning gave Staffa elerclients lel. lie with llensoll in a game played in Hensall Thursday, Bonsai] had counted their lone run in their first time at bat and Ilensall playing coach had. to be light on their feet or Gerry Bell made the slim lead they would find themselves sit- stand up for the next six innines ling in the mud. before Staffa counted the Heine run after two men ivere gone in the last inning. Bell turned in a fine job on the hill for the 'home team and he tossed a nifty four-hitter in going the distance. The ace loft- bander waled only one batter. George Coveney of Stalin also turned in a neat perform- ance for the visitors with his six-hit effort. Jack Chipchase led the Hen. salt nine at the plate with a pair of booming triples, How- ever, the Hensel] team couldn't .convert any of the losing hits into scoring plays and he was left stranded both times, Jack Bell cracked a double and Dennis Mock, Gerry Bell and 'Bob Baynham added singles for the other Ilensall hits. Coveney was also the hitting — Please turn to page 7 A strong wind blowing in to- wards home plate also aided the pitchers and only two of the evening's 10 base hits managed to find their way out of the in- field. Don Gentener provided the big blow for the Kings with a bases- clearing smash in the second inning. The hit should have been good for three bases but the Zurich shortstop slipped round- ing first and he had to hold up at second. The other five Lumber King hits were all of the "scratchy" infield variety and they were collected by Earl "Cuss" Wag- ner, Don O'Brien, Doug O'Brien, Phil. Overholt, and Ron. Diech- ert. George Wright beat out two infield hits for the losing' tribe while Ron Bogart and Glen Ben- BEACHER Marine Railway 1001101112011368164/016106§1ftig Aqua PO BOX 145 Write (or Rev G Marine Products Catalog. See Our Model In The River r By The Fish Houses actif stondings I' !I I mine Sales GRAND BEND .nelt picked up the other two safeties. Bennett belled the teat 3:1 innings of the six-inning game for the Mohawks and he el- lowed only one man to. reach base, The encounter was the last Of the year between the two area clubs and the Moliewks finish- ed up with a record or two wins. e tie, and a loss iu tile four-game Late all ties tilt 1-1 three minor du playoff openers more in the second and it looked as if they would rim away with the -contest, However, the home Goderich nine played heads-up ball and got hack two runs in 'the first and three in no second before adding their game-winning six talkie; _in the third frame. The .Exeter squad counted one — Please turn to page 7 single by Keith Hodgifis gave e them a 2.0 lead. Legion managed to come up wlilt A pair of runs in the next inning on Reg Stagg's single, Crediton error, and a long sift- Goyetelie that tied the game at 2-2. However, this was as close as runs in th e fir st inning anti four the losing Legion ever came and. iNVO singles apiece. Gail Farquhar and winning Crediton climbed back into pitcher Rose Carey doubled and first place in the ree softball Darlene Snell singled once intwo official at bats, standings with a 7-2 win over Legion Monday evening, th e i r The Greys bunched most of scoring into the first and The victory gave the Crediton fifth innings. tallying 10 of their lads a slim one-victory margin 15 ru n e in th e two frames anti over second-place Exeter Lanes nine of their 16 hits, in their battle for top spot in the Leslie led the Centralia girls popular grouping. at the platter with a triple and Crediton used the long-hall to two doubles in three appear- great advantage throughout the Ance s, contest and five of their rune The, Greys managed to count were due to extra-base blows. at least a couple of runs in The winning Crediton squad every inning but the second opened the scoring in the bet, and the first four players in torn of the second inning when the lineup were a t the plate two straight Legion errors, a five times in six innings. walk, a ground-out and a sharp . Creditor completely dominated play for the reMeinder of the game. Creditoti counted another run in the bottom of the third when Russ Beaver clubbed a hoint run, Gord •Slaght singled for his first 114 of the evening, but he was left stranded.