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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-02-14, Page 6Pee wees sport victory smiles after winning 'silver stick' LOCAL CLUB WON INTERNATIONAL TITLE AT WATFORD, WENT ON TO FINALS IN PORT HURON Front row -- left to right — John Loader, Marvin Bowers, Bruce Second Row -- Frank DeVries, Graham Bern, Merle Idle, Ron Fulcher, Ricky Brintnell, Barry Baynham, and Ricky Weber. Janke, John Roulston, Jim Kearney, Bill Fairbairn and Philip Howard. Back -- Jim "Red" Loader and Manager Gord Baynham. Pick your CHEVROLET IMPALA These OK Used Cars Are REAL SWEETHEARTS 1962 Chevrolet BISCAYNE COACH standard equipment, 4,300 actual miles. 1960 Vauxhall SUPER 4 DOOR SEDAN custom radio, snow tires, low mileage. 1961 Chev Coach custom radio, 18,000 actual miles. 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Saturday night the same situation existed for the junior combines from the Hensall-Zurich area when they made their last appearance of the regualr season in Watford, After coming up with 19 wins and four ties, the end came in a game that meant very little •to the Watford boys, by a fairly convincing 12.6 count. Over in Seaforth the Gravett - Cushman handled Exeter Midgets fell •into the losing col- umn for the first time this season in their twenty- fourth outing of the year. Despite their losses in the closing portion of the season all district teams have enjoyed suc- cessful schedules and will be providing many hours of pleasing hockey entertainment for their fans as the play-off trail nears, The H-Z boys ended on top of the Sham- rock heap and are now awaiting a play-off op- ponent. Manager George Beer is well satisfied with the season, not only with the team's fine showing but also with the fans' support and the few in- juries that have been suffered. Their only serious casualty, defenceman Larry Bedard, was back on skates over the weekend and should be in the play-off lineup. The other combine hockey entry from Lu- can-Ilderton is staging a real battle for top hon- ors in Big Eight OHA competition and will give supporters plenty to cheer about before the ice leaves their arena. Speaking of the fine play of the local midgets, right winger Larry Stire has blossomed into quite a scoring star,, blinking •the red light on an even dozen occasions in three starts last week. TOURNAMENTS ON TAP In addition to the play-offs that will be con- fronting all the local minor clubs, several tourna- ments are on tap in the near future. This Saturday a new competition will be staged at the RCAF Clinton arena when the eight- years and under mites will vie for honors. Boom Gravett and Lorne Haugh will gather up a squad of local youngsters who take part in the Saturday morning scramble here to make the Clinton trip. Norm Carter sends a message from the Lucan arena that the annual Shamrock pee wee tournament will be held in his ice palace Satur- day, March 16, with entries in B, 'C and D divi- sions. On March 9 the Exeter squirts will be travelling to Mount Forest to participate in the annual event in the northern town. Followers of the Centralia RCAF Hawks, Big Eight intermediate entry are looking forward to their team's pursuit of the RCAF Training Command championship. The Hawks under the guidance of Gord "Curly" Ebel and Art Stogie will be playing host to Camp Borden at the Exe- ter arena, Saturday, Feb. 23 in the eastern semi- final. If Centralia is successful in eliminating Camp Borden, the eastern final will 'also be held here with either Clinton or St. Johns supplying the opposition. NO REAL IMPROVEMENT Recent announcement has been made by the major baseball leagues that a larger strike zone has been created for the 1963 season. The target for pitchers to aim 'at will now be from the knees to the top of the shoulders. Previously the strike area extended from the top of the knees to the arm-pits. Apparently the purpose of this move is to cut down the number of bases on balls issued by the hurlers and therefore speed up the game. We cannot see any great improvement with this move as most of the walks occur when pitched balls just miss the corner, knees or 'arm-pits. This situation will probably still exist as the hurlers will be trying to stay away from the batter's power and aiming for the edges of the new strike zone, and we know they miss occasionally, A local hurler has suggested that the plate be widened a bit so the umpire won't miss so many corners. Wonder who he was thinking about? Officials of the Texas loop seem to be on the right track in attempting to cut down on tardi- ness. A new rule will be put into operation in the coming season whereby the pitcher must de- liver the ball within 20 seconds of receiving it from the catcher. A clock will be 'posted on the scoreboard and a buzzer will sound when the specified time has elapsed, and a ball will be called on the batter, They are also toying with the idea of cut ting down on the time taken between innings. In this case a clock would also be used and the teams limited to 90 seconds in changing from offensive to defensive positions. The maximum number Of warm-up pitches allowed before each half inning will be reduced from eight to five in order to speed thingS HOCKEY HISTORY: Alex Connell Of Ot- tawa Senators tacked up six consecutive shut- outs in 1927.28, Connell played 446 minutes and nine seconds without allowing a goal to be scored against him. (Forward passing riot permitted in attacking zones at that time.) Most of the positions in the Shamrock junior standing have been decided as the league en, ters its final week., of the schedule. Hensel-Zurich combines and Strathroy Rockata ended up in one-two Order, A battle is still being waged for trot" spot between pelr000t and St. Marys who will meet in a crucial cone test in St. Marys. Wednesday, The Hensel-Zurich boys will swing into play-off action in the first game of a best-of-seven series ,on home ice Saturday at 8;30 with either St, Marys or Belmont. After 23 unbeaten efforts it finally happened, Playing on the small ice surface in Watford Saturday, the H-Z junior Com- bines dropped their initial con- test of the season by a fairly decisive 12-7 margin to the Atoms. Steve Kyle shot his club into a temporary lead early in the first but the hometowners came back with three fast counters near the halfway mark and were Three fight for '8' title Alter another hectic week of Big Eight intermediate action, three clubs continue to fight tooth and nail for the top rung. Lucan-Ilderton Combines with a win in their only outing continue to rule the roost, but the Chevs from Philipsburg, on the strength of two victories, one of which was a four-pointer, have moved into the runner-up slot only one point back of the Irish. COMBINES ROMP Treating their supporters to a fine exhibition of puck chasing Lucan-Ilderton Combines rom- ped over Milverton Topnotchers 11-4 Friday to slow down the Perth County club's bid for second spot in the loop stand- ings. Three Combine members-- Stu O'Neil, Don Gravett and Ken Loft-- came up with hat- trick performances, each in a different fashion to lead the rout. O'Neil managed to get all of his markers in the opening frame, with number three com- ing with one second left on the clock. Assistant captain Loft picked up a pair in a space of a minute and a half of the middle frame and added number three in the closing session. Using a different pattern, Gravett found the target behind Zenas Buehler in the Chevy cage once in each stanza. Captain of the Combine crew, Steve Storey notched goal num- ber ten in the scoring barrage. Norm Leis with a pair and singles from Ab Martin and Ron Huras accounted for the visitors sniping in a losing cause. Tackling opposition from Bryanston on foreign ice Mon- day, Exeter's minor ho ck e y clubs came home with four points from a three-g a m e ser- ies. In opening action the pee wees romped awarwith an easy 12-0 slaughter, with JohnRoul- ston's three-goal performance leading the way. Graham Hem and John Load- er were responsible for a pair of counters each and scores in single fashion were banged in by Ron Janke, Barry Baynham, Phil Howard, Merle Idle and Bill Fairbairn. Performing in the second fray of the night, the bantams drop- ped a close 2-1 verdict to their Bryanston opponents. Bill Beavers was the only Exeterite to blink the red light behind the Bryanston cage, In closing the night's coin- petition, the midgets rang up a decisive '7-1 victory with se- veral of their stars still on the sidelines with injuries. Hard-working Bob Burns pa- ced the winning effort with a pair of markers and the re- maining five were registered singly by Bob McDonald, Bob Storie, Mike Cushman, John Lock and Don Wright. Have field day With the midgets leading the onslatight, Exeter's three minor hockey clubs ran up their lar- gest triple score Of Shamrock play Wednesday when they dow- ned squads from Bryanston at the local arena 3'7-3 on total goals. EVEN DOZEN The forward trio of Ptank DeVtleS, .Graham Nth and Ricky Weber were responsible for half of the pee wees' total in their 12-2 'runaway. Centre DeVries led the attack with a hat trick arid two assists to credit, }fern was right behind With Iwo' and thtee while Weber notched one and one. out In front to stay, Fred Quick was the foremost attacker for Watford coming up with a bat-trick performance. Ray Manders and Russ Powell Were close behind with •acouple each. Captain Wayne Willert and defencernan pin Murney sup- plied the ammunition for Com- bines on two occasions each and singles were added by Ron Livermore, Paul Draper in ad- dition to Kyle's early marker. EDGE ST. MARYS In one of the better displays of pnck-chasing at the Hensall arena this year, the H-Z Com- bines edged. St. Marys juniors 2-1 in a battle that was in doubt right up to the final bell. Although the visitors were outplayed by a good margin, goalie Marty Humphries turned in a spectacular effort in turn- ing aside many.drives that had goal written all over them. At the other end of the rink Dennis Mock, although not tested quite as often, stopped shots that were dangerous to hold the visitors to a single score. Steve Kyle on a relay from Bob Johnston opened the scor- ing mid-way through the first and Ron Livermore made it 2-0 at the 15 minute of the third with help coming from Craig Chapman and Paul Dra- per. John Ruppel spoiled Mock's bid for a shut-out less than a minute after Livermore's coun- ter on a neat stick-handling ef- fort. NEED LATE SPLURGE Fashioning a five-goal splurge in the final stanza, Hensall-Zurich Combines edged St. Marys 8-6 in the stone town, Wednesday to main- tain their unbeaten record at 22. The home club jumped into an early lead as Dave Ross fired two first period scores and John HELPS H-Z TO TOP Dennis Mock's steady netmin- ding helped H-Z Combines fi- nish in top spot of the Shamrock junior league this season. Com- bines suffered only one loss during the season and it came in the last game of the year. Larry Haugh, up from the squirts, fired a pair with sin- gles being added by Ron Janke, Merle Idle, John Roulston and Jim Guenther, also a squirt regular. Bob Springett and Gary Stead were the only visitors to beat Gary Campbell, who was filling in for regular net-minder,Rick Brintnell, out with illness. BANTAMS BAG FIVE Glenn Overholt, with a trio of markers, led the bantams to their 5-1 triumph, playing the in-between contest of the night. Ken Davidson, Barry Bayn- ham and Bill Fairbairn added singletons to complete the sco- ring. The latter pair along with Pee Wee line-mate John Loader were making their first appea- rance in higher company and turned in a creditable perfor- mance. MIDGETS MARCH ON Going on their wildest sco- ring spree of the year, the midgets ran away from Bryan- ston flicking the light on 20 occasions without a reply. In this blistering attack every member of the squad with the exception of goalie Callum Mc- Phee and defence stalwart Ron Cornish took part in the scoring. „ Laity Stire and Allan Thomp- son up with a good portion Of the gaine'S tallying, dividing eight counters eqUally,BObSto- rie and Mike Cushman were cies° on their heela with a trio apiece. Defeficeitaii Ron BrOderiok nabbed pair with the balance being added from the sticks of Jack Glover, Bob MeDenald, Larry Willett and Craig David- son. Although not acoriagi Bob Beta and John Look were busy in the Play-Making: dePattnient, giving an assisting` hand on font goals. Look also Meited up his only penalty, . being spotted for playing With a broken stick. Stevens added one while Craig Chapman and Bill Shaddick re plied for the ytattog combines to give the home-towners a 0-2 margin, St. Marys outscored the Coin, bines 3-1 in the middle frame to take a three goal edge into the final 20 minutes. Wayne McKenney, Maurice Gleason and Bruce r gh a ni were on the firing line for the St. Marys crew while Steve Kyle notched the lone 171-Z tally. Facing their first loss of the season as the third period got underway, the Combines put on a relentless attack to come from behind and stave off de- feat, Ron Livermore led the last minute surge with two goals while Craig Chapman, Bob Johnston and bill Shaddick added singletons, the latter his second of the affair. Point crown to Shaddick Bill Shaddick, star centre of the le a gu e-winning Hensel- Zurich Combines, has walked off with the Shamrock Junior scoring laurels for the second consecutive year, according to statistics released by loop con- yenor Don Buddo of Ilderton. TOP TEN G A T Bill Shaddick, Hensall-Zurich 40 29 69 Jim Walker, Belmont 30 25 55 Steve Kyle, Hensall-Zurich Ken Fadelle, Strathroy Ray Manders, Watford Bob Johnston, Hensall-Zurich Bob Batholomew, Strathroy George Richards, Watford Harvey Thomas, Strathroy Ron Livermore, Hensall-Zurich A new scoring leader each week in Rae Basketball play is getting to be a common occur- rence. George Wright went on a 22-point scoring splurge as his team-mates held previous lea- der Tom Burke in check for a two-point night. The teacher climbed back on top of the heap with a 123-116 edge. The battle of scoring supre- macy took place in the wind-up of Thursday's action at SHDHS as the fast moving Moonshiners dumped the Peripatetic Peda- gogues 63-43. In opening proceedings, Zu- rich Hustlers moved back into sole possession of the top spot with a squeaky 30-2'7 decision over the Flying Farmers. The opening game was do- minated by close guarding, re- sulting in one of the lowest final scores of the year. Squirts blank Clinton squad Controlling play throughout, Exeter squirts shut-out their opponents from Clinton on lo- cal Ice Friday in exhibition play. After being held off the score sheet in the opening period the locals caught fire in the second with captain Larry Haugh and the mighty mite, Dennis Thomp- son, potting two apiece and Jimmy Guenther adding the fifth marker. Haugh with his third of the fray and single efforts from Guenther and Peter Glover in the final brought the total count to eight. Glover's goal came on a loW hard shot from the point with fifteerf seconds left in the con- test. Centralia drops exhibition game In exhibition basketball play at RCAF Centralia'S recrea- tion hall WedneSday, the home cagers under the guidance of playing coach John MOCarroll ended up on the short end Of a 57,45 decision to a squad from Clinton RCAF, Play in the first half WAS close to the vest with the visit- lag airmen taking a 20-19 mar-, gin to the Mid-Way rest period; In the Olosing quarters ail advantage in youth and heighth Paid off for the tagerS,frein the north as 'they Monopolized the backboards and ran the Margin Of victory to 15 Points. TOM Burke and Don McCauley Were the top pent getters for Centralia notching 12 and 10 points 'respectively, Both teams will have a crack at their rivals in the remaining games with Mitchell and St. Marys squads. SPLIT WITH STRATFORD SHDHS split with Stratford collegiate in last week's action. Junior boys and senior girls chalked up wins but the Panthers and junior girls went down to defeat. Panthers, trailing all the way, dropped a 52-40 verdict and lost first-string guard Dale Turvey in the bargain. Turvey twisted his knee and is on crut- ches. Mickle's men were within five points of the classic city cagers at the end of the third quarter but never did get much closer after their slow start allowed the winners to take a 14-7 lead in the first period. P. Syburra, hooping seven .points in the opening quarter, 'led the winners with a 13 total, 'followed by B. Harrison and Hammer with 10 each. Steve Kyle paced SH attack with 15 points while Bob Mickle potted 11, all in the first half before he was sidelined with fouls. Dave Buchanan and Bruce Horton contributed five each, Dennis Mock was held to three and G. Ford hooped one basket. TAKE EARLY LEAD The junior boys, taking a 13-3 lead in the first quarter, held on to post a 41-32 win. Ron Motz showed the way with 13 points and Larry Idle added 11. Other SH contributors were Bob Burns with seven, Bob Wolfe, Four; John Locke, Wayne Baynham and Dave Dale, two each. Stratford's Jim Love was top scorer of the contest with 23 points. SECOND EASY WIN Senior girls scored their se- cond easy victory over Strat- ford, by a 50-31 margin. The locals held a substantial lead throughout the entire game. Quarter scores were 10-5, 23- 15 and 30-23. Ausma Gulens sunk 18 points for SHigh, followed by Marjorie McPhee and Xandre Busche with 12 and 11. Kristine Gulens and Diane Hood each added four points. Heather McCully, with 20, was Stratford's biggest threat. LOSE EARLY LEAD In spite of their good lead in the first quarter, the junior girls lost a 23-21 squeaker. The girls even had a four- point lead at the three-quarter mark but couldn't stop Strat- ford in their late rally. 'Pop scorer for SHDILS was Iris Marshall with 10, Nancy kyle and Ann Mickle added nine and two to the total. H. Flatery sunk 14 points for Stratford. Listowel, still undefeated, is out in front of both girls' leagues. FOR GOOD SPORTS By Ross Lightning hits twice With new acquisition Felix Boogemans pacing the attack, the Farmers ploughed into a 21-18 half-time lead. The Hus- tlers bounced back with a 10-2 edge in the third quarter and barely held on to come out on top by three after scoring star Don O'Brien fouled out. O'Brien accounted for two- thirds of, his team's total. Boogemans with 13 received able assistance from Harry Schroeder's ten point perfor- mance for the farmers. Getting double figure efforts from four of their members, the Moonshiners jumped into an early lead over the teachers and won quite handily. Ed Wiebe led the attack with 18, 12 of which came in the closing quarter. Al Wiper, Don McCauley and John McCarroll with 16, 15 and 10 respectively accounted for the bulk of the remainder of the scoring. George Wright with nine field goals and four throws from the foul line netted more than half his club's final total, Tonight's action pits the up- and-coming Moonshiners a- gainst the first place Zurich Hustlers, which should turn into a real battle. TOP SCORERS George Wright 123 Tom Burke 116 Don O'Brien 111 Jim Carey 62 Harry Schroeder 59 Al Wiper 58 26 28 54 With two games left in the regular schedule, both SHDHS 23 26 49 boys' basketball teams are tied for first place in the Perthex 33 10 43 competition. "The rest of our games are 12 28 40 'must' ones," says CoachGlenn Mickle. 23 15 38 Panthers are in a three- way deadlock with Stratford and 23 15 38 Mitchell, all with 4-2 records. Coach George Wright's ju- 19 17 36 niors, who have a 5-1 record, are tied with St. Marys for top 18 1'7 35 stop in their division. Three rinks in playoffs Rinks skipped by Alma erington, Helen Frayne and Jean Page qualified for play. off Positions in the Second draw Of the ladies' curling club here. Alma Etherington, the Thurs.., day night winner, receives a bye into the finals becauSe of het high point total of 62. The FtaYne and Page rinks, which won 58 and 57 points tespeO- tively, Will meet to decide Who tackles the Etheringten four for the trophy. Scores this Week! Tttesday,-Jeati Miller 11, Mel Pollen 4; Helen Frayne 8; Sally Raymond 4; Hilda Smith Florende Seldon 3; matt Par,, Ice' 8, Marion bougall 3. Wednesday=-Jerry oregas 10, Helen Webber 8; Betty LOU West 9, Jean Taylor 4; hen MaVet 13, Lois Webb 2; Dorothy Pfaff 9, Jean Page 6; Pauline Simmons 8, Dorothy Prout 5; , NormaWettgate 8, jUne Bet,' land 5. Thursday—Alita dodbet :8, Ada Dinner 7; Alma Ethering., ton 9, Barb Corbett '5; Mary Frail Gaiter 6, ila Snell 5; Dorothy Goman 9, bai'sy Eth, bringtoti 5. Split tripleheader 2-1 after 37-3 onslaught AA A A A AAAAA•ALAAAA.AA AAAA. AAAAAdi— ALi• A A A A.41 AiLAII A.a.a.a.A.A.A AA -A-