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PO9P 6 Times-Advocate,, Augitst 11, 1.964 Greys. meet Brucefield
for south. group honors
FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS
y Ross Haugh.
Helped Irish
title hunt
a pair of miscues,
Mary Grayett had a pair of
hits, while Jean Taylor, Dolly
1Viattton and Lee Seucherean
had one each.
A well-known hockey performer in the
area about a decade ago is moving south of the
border to continue his .hockey promotions.
Len Gaudette, for two years manager of
the Lucan Arena and playing-coach of the Irish
Six, is heading to the state of Connecticut to
take over the dual position of general manager
of the New Haven Gardens and the New Haven
Blades of the Eastern Hockey League.
This new hockey league in its second year
of operation is presided over by Jolly Jack
Adams and embraces teams from seven states.
They added two more in the
top of the fourth when Audrey
POPIPY led eft with a single and
Was f9110).NO on the paths by
Dougall who again reached base
safely on an error, Dolly Matt,
son contributed a single to score
one run and two Mitchell errors
enabled Dougall to come home.
file big error of the inning
was a dropped foul ball by
catcher Irene Uniac that would
have retired the side without
a run
Exeter scored their final two
tallies in the top of the seventh
when Mary Gravett dropped a
perfect bunt and then raced to
second as she caught the second
baseman out of position,
Jean Taylor sent her to third
on a sacrifice fly and Audrey
Pooley then uncorked a booming
drive to deep left for a home
run for their 5-U lead,
The homesters tried yaliantiy
to make a comeback in the
bottom of the seventh when
they scored their two runs. 11,
Bender reached first on an
error by Pooley and June Che5-
sell, the losingpitcher,punched
out a double over the head of
Mary Gravett in left field.
E. Brown, who had four
straight singles, connected for
her last one to send them both
home, but she died on third
when Helen Ebel retired the
next three batters in a row
with the aid of some fine field-
ing by her cohorts,
Audrey Pooley paced the
Greys, not only with her homer
and two singles, but also de-
fensively from her shortstop
position as she figured in seven
outs--more than making up for
man-
Greys face big test against arch rivals
Despite the fact this photo was taken immediately after their win in a game against Mitchell, mem-
bers of the Exeter Greys display serious faces rather than the joy one may expect. Reason for this
is probably due to the fact they realized their big test was still coming as they now meet Brucefield
in a best-of-five event for the southern title and it promises to be a thriller right to the wire. pic-
tured from the left are: Fern Dougall,Mrs.Lloyd Cushman, Jean Chuter, Anne Cronyn, Jacqui At-
trill, Darlene Snell and coach Bob Pooley. --T-A photo Staffa, Walkerton
lead in playoff sets
Centralia close in bid
for zone championship
ueorge Wright came over
from his third base spot to
complete the pitching chore for
the Tribe.
SOMMENBMIMISEMOMEIL;•a
as they chalked up a thrilling
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the local diamond, Thursday,
behind the clutch three,hit
After two were out in the
second frame, Darlene Snell
walked and Mary Gravett fol-
lowed with a timely single and
they both came scampering
home when Chuter aided her.
own cause with a single through
the infield for a 2-Q Exeter lead.
They added a third run in the
next frame when Audrey Pooley
toured the sacks after gaining
life on an error. She advanced
on Jean Taylor's sacrifice and
came home on a single by Fern
Dougall,
came bounding back
to ijMkgintacollh.
Mitchell
lhe count at 3-3 in the
top of the fifth on only one hit,
Exeter booted three balls in the
frame and Chuter gave up one
walk before Gelh popped out to
first with the bases loaded to
end the rally,
The Greys wrapped up the
contest in their half of the
frame when Dolly Mattson
reached first on an error and
came in on singles by Taylor
and Dougall,
Hooks 'N
Slices Manore's
Riverside Marine
Len
The Exeter greys advanced
to the southern finals in the
WOAA ladies' softball groPp.
against Brucefield this week
when they ousted. Mitchell in
two straight in their best-of-
three semi-final,
Greys, who finished in first
place in the loop, chose Mitchell
for their first round and will
now meet their arch riyalsfrorn
Brucefield in what Iporgs as a
repeat of their thrilling set of
last seaton.
Although placing second in
the loop, Brucefield whipped
the Greys once this season and
tied them in their other en,
counter to bold a slim season's
margin over them.
The northern squad ousted
Clinton RCAF to gain the final
round to determine the squad
which will advance against the
northern divition champs.
First game of the series was
played last night in Hensall and
the next two games will be
played at the same diamond on
Friday and Monday night. All
games start at 8:30 p.m. under
the lights.
Manager Lloyd C u s h m an
stated that the fourth and fifth
games, if needed, would be
played next Wednesday and Fri-
day.
Exeter had to go all out to
defeat the pesky Mitchell squad
in, a pair of thrillers that the
Greys won
They wrapped up the series
Sunday afternoon with a 5-2 win
on the losers' field as both
teams came up with seven hits,
Exeter grabbed a 1-0 lead in
the second inning when Fern
Dougall gained life on an error
by H. Chessell and circled the
bases on a passed ball and a
single by Lee Souchereau.
Garand's long round-tripper
down the right field line.
FAIL IN CLUTCH
Failure to come through with
base knocks at the right time
proved Centralia's downfall in
Friday night's 3-0 loss to Pag-
wa.
Seven different Flyers were
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Laitar singled to left scoring
Hache and Tom Burke followed
with a perfect sacrifice bunt to
plate Garand.
Catcher Lou Larmond con-
nected for a two base knock to
send Laitar scampering home
with run number three.
The final run, an insurance
marker in the fifth came on Gaudette
MacNaughton performs at opening
Gaudette came to Lucan. in 453 to
age arena activities
and took over the
Trish Six as playing
coach the first year
and stayed on as a
player in 1953 - 54
to help bring the
first OHA intermed-
iate "C" trophy to
the village,
Len started his
arena work at Lu-
can, moved to Ayl-
mer for a four-year
stretch, to Trenton
for a single season
and then on to Galt
for the past six
years.
He was general
manager of the Galt
Terrier senior hock-
ey team that won the Allan Cup in 1961 and rep-
resented Canada at the World Hockey champion-
ships in 1962.
Last year's Ontario Senior baseball champs,
the Galt Terriers were also guided by Gaudette,
defeating Belleville after winning the Intercounty
title. Over 5,000 at drags
He will be in charge of the 6,000-seat
Arena Gardens in New Haven and have admini-
strative control of the Blades hockey six.
A valued member of last year's New Ha-
ven club was Jim Armstrong, former star goalie
with the St. Marys Lincolns.
Best of luck, Len in your new venture
south of the border,
BY HELEN BURTON
Twelve members of the Exe-
ter Ladies Golf Club "strug-
gled" through an 18-hole tour-
nament Aug. 5, posting some
interesting scores.
Low gross honor was taken
by Helen Burton with 95. Hen-
sail sportswoman, Olga Chip-
chase, took low net with 86.
Hidden holes were won by
Kippen's slugging sisters, Nor-
ma Coleman and Edna Deitz
and Centralia aces June Borland
and Lil Hillson.
Ethel Ailey won the chipping
award with Audrey Burrows
winning the most honest golfer
award.
Betty Coates, Ede Boyle, Dot
Munroe and Jean Taylor won
prizes for "endurance" despite
slices, trees and creeks.
Centralia RCAF Flyers turn-
ed in a good showing in the
RCAF Ontario Command finals
held at RCAF Falconbridge
from Friday to Sunday.
The local club opened with a
8-7 win over North Bay Friday
afternoon and suffered their
only loss by a 3-0 count the
same evening to the eventual
winners from Pagwa.
Saturday night Ed Lesnick's
Flyers came roaring back to
stay in contention with a deci-
sive 4-1 win over Downsview
in one of the best played games
of the series.
Centralia's hopes went down
the drains Sunday morning as
Pagwa slaughtered North Bay
16-5 to claim the title and the
right to represent Zone 3 in the
All-Canadian finals to be staged
at Namao, near Edmonton on
August 29.
normal little eliminator class
into the junior eliminator class.
He was runner-up to Port Hur-
on's Gilbert Clark.
Clark, driving a Dodge-pow-
ered 1934 Willys Coupe, burned
up the quarter in an 11.63 et
and 119.04 mph.
London's George Herber t
claimed the little eliminator
class honors when his "G" gas
dragster shut out Pete Wouters,
of London, in his Willys Coupe.
Herbert's time was 12.27, sec-
onds for 110.24 mph.
Other class eliminator win-
ners were:
Street eliminator -Dick
Hopkins, of Royal Oak, Mich.,
in a 1957 Corvette with a 13.21
et and 106.25 m.p.h.
Tiny Eliminator-Jack Hyde,
of Stratford, in the Cal's Sun-
oco Pontiac with a 14.02 et and
99.65 mph.
Top stock eliminator - Bill
Mason, of Flint, in his "Big
Cat" Plymouth with a 12.11 et
and 118.42 mph.
Junior stock eliminator
-Howard Brown, of Galt, in a
1958 Pontiac with a 15.36 et and
91.09 mph.
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Walkerton and Staffa lead
their rounds in the Huron-Perth
playoffs as both Exeter and
Zurich have yet to come up with
a win, although the Mohawks
did manage one tie.
Walkerton leads their best-
of-five set with Zurich by a 2-0
margin in games. They took the
second game by a 2-0 score as
Joe Berberich went the route
for the win and allowed only
six hits,
Manager Don O'Brien was
on the hill for the Lumberkings
and gave up only three safeties,
but his mates booted the ball
three times to help Walkerton
score one run in each of the
seventh and eighth innings.
Meanwhile, in the other ser-
ies, Staffs Merchants blasted
the Exeter Mohawks by a 12-6
count on the local diamond Sun-
day, after the teams had played
to an uncompleted 5-5 draw
earlier in the week.
Staffa and Exeter, who are
not only battling for the Huron-
Perth final spot, but also to
determine which team will ad-
vance into 013A play, are hook-
ed up in a best-of-seven effort.
Second game goes in Staffa
tonight (Thursday), while the
teams battle there again on
Sunday,
Gary Hopf pitched the Sun-
day win, while Jim Pfaff took
the loss. The young Exeter
hurler was also ejected from
the game in the bottom of the
sixth for remarks made to the
umpire after Pfaff had been
given a base on balls.
The young chucker had com-
plained about the bad calls on
some of his pitches in earlier
innings and had been warned by
the plate umpire over his dis-
putes.
Pfaff was not alone in his
compaints, as manager Joe
Wooden, working behind the
plate, was also of the opinion
the umpire missed several
strikes.
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way and Rossi bolted down the
track there was a rare audible
gasp from the crowd as it
watched two cars, ostensibly
ordinary in appearance, roar
past the stands at speeds dup-
licated only by roadsters and
dragsters.
London's Doug Ridler, pilot-
ing the Ridler - Handleman
fuel dragster "Claim Jump-
er," took top eliminator hon-
ors with an 8.56 elapsed time.
He hit the quarter-mile traps
at 174.74 miles an hour.
The spectators saw a bit of
confusion in several of the
eliminator slots brought about
by unusually low runs by Lon-
don's Bill Kydd and Stratford's
Wayne Huber.
Kydd, with his "Wills Far-
go" Chrysler - powered gas
roadster, hot-fotted it out of
his usual spot in the middle
eliminator bracket with a 9.88
et - his best to date. This drop-
ped him into the competition
eliminator bracket where he
was runner-up to Londoner Bob
Atchison and his "A" fuel drag-
ster Atchison churned out a 9.35
et for 161.0 mph and class hon-
ors.
Meanwhile, in the middle
eliminator class London's
Roger Miller, with the Miller-
Gregory "Packrat" roadster,
copped class honors with a
9.93 et for 149.0 mph, Miller
ran off against Cliff Duncan
of London in his dragster.
Stratford's Wayne Huber, who
turned his best time aboard his
Buick - powered 1931 Ford
Coupe with an 11.98 et and
111.11 mph, jumped out of his
CLEARANCE SALE
Sunday's official opening
of the Grand Bend Drag way by
Ontario Highways Minister c. S.
MacNaughton drew the largest
crowd yet seen in the six-week
history of the strip.
More than 5,000 spectators
watched almost 200 competitors
run for $1,500 in prize money.
The feature was a best-of-five
scoot between the new Ford
Thunderbolt and the new 426
hemi-charged Plymouth.
The event was held over from
the previous Sunday after being
rained out. The dragway is two
miles east of Grand Bend on
Highway 81 at the former Cen-
tralia secondary airbase.
Paul Rossi of Detroit, driv-
ing the Plymouth, shut down the
"Flying Farmer" Don Leedy in
the Thunderbolt in three
straight runs.
Rossi's best time was 11.27
elapsed time at 124.92 mph,
Leed y' s Thunderbolt pleaded
valve trouble, yet turned in
11.95 at 119.0 mph for its best.
There was a small drama be-
fore the two cars actually got
across the starting line. Leedy
pulled his car up and began
applying rosen to the tires.
Rossi and his WestbornRaid-
ers used the more conventional
water and only then saw what
was happening. The stands were
outraged when Rossi pulled his
car out in protest.
The dispute between the two
teams wrangled on for a half
hour before the teams resolved
to start anyway.
Rosen on tires is reputed to
give a car a burst of speed
right at the starting line.
But when the show got under-
TRY AGAIN
The Exeter and District Recreation league
will try and launch their first ^tournament this
coming Sunday.
Originally scheduled for Civic Holiday, but
washed out by the heavy rains, the tourney will
be staged on two fronts.
A pair of games will be staged in the aft-
ernoon beginning at 2:00 p.m. and the final will
be held at 6:30 in the evening.
Centralia Airmen will join forces with
Hensall to meet the Exeter Lanes-Dashwood com-
bine on the latter's diamond in one afternoon
contest, while Exeter Kinsmen and the league
leading RCAF Corporals will tangle with a com-
bination of Exeter Legion and Crediton on the
Exeter diamond.
The winners afth etwo afternoongames
will meet in the grand finale, also on the Exeter
diamond at 6:30, to decide the best in the "Lini-
ment loop".
Top notch softball is ensured for the en-
tire day as the top stars of all eight clubs of this
popular "play for fun" league display their abili-
ties.
RCAF SQUAD SHOWS WELL
Congratulations are in order to coach Ed
Lesnick and his RCAF Centralia fastball club in
winning the Western Ontario RCAF Command
play-offs and being runners-up in the all-Ontario
final:
Several weeks ago they disposed of Clin-
ton RCAF in straight games to advance to the
finals in Falconbridge.
Travelling to the northern Ontario station
over the past weekend, Lesnick's lads were sec-
ond best in the tournament to a good club from
RCAF Pagwa, a radar isolation station in the far
north.
The local Flyers downed North Bay and
Downsview 8.7 and 4.1 respectively and were
edged 3-0 by the eventual champs from Pagwa.
In the win over Downsview, star hurler
Monty Montomura tossed a neat one-hitter and
was backed up by some superlative tickling from
his mates,
We had the privilege to accompany the
team north and officated in the entire six-game
series with fellow umpires Gord Dutton of Fal-
conbridge and Bud Ridenour of North Bay.
Thanks for the ride, fellows.
MONTOMURA SHARP
Centralia's ace chucker,
Monty Montomura, delivered
the best mound effort of the
tourney in his club's 4-1 tri-
umph over Downsview.
The stocky right hander al-
lowed but one hit over the seven-
inning route, that coming in the
third, a double by Greene to
score Cruickshanks who had
reached first by way of an
infield error.
Montomura retired the side
in order in five innings and the
only other runner to reach the
base paths was the result of a
walk with two out in the fifth.
Brilliant glovework by, the
Centralia infield kept the oppo-
sition off the sacks throughout
the contest.
Shortstop Tom Burke and hot
corner custodian Joe Laitar
robbed the Toronto area crew
on several hot shots to the left
side of the diamond.
Laitar made a leaping grab
of Petter's ground shot in the
top of the seventh and fired a
strike to first to end the game.
Three quick runs in the bot-
tom of the first put the local
Flyers in front to stay.
Smart strategy on the part
of Coach Lesnick started the
game winning rally.
The first two batters Holly
Hache and Yves Garand beat
out well placed bunts to catch
the opposition flat-footed.
After an outfield out, Joe
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BRIDLE BITS
Two local area harness horses have con-
tinued their winning streaks. Charlie Godbolt's
prize possession, Dustabottt took three straight
races in handy fashion at Western Fair Raceway.
Joint owners Jack Morrissey and Pat Cro-
nyn are happy with the four consecutive wins
chalked up by their strong young pacer, B Direct
at Northville and Hazel Park in Michigan. The
latest win tame last Wednesday night in the
good time of 2.05 2/5,
Horses that campaigned at the just ca m-
plated Londen meet are enjoying terrific success
other tracks. Saturday night at Rideau in Ot-
tawa, eight a the ten eventS were captured by
hates that moved north-east after the Western session,
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Snell Bros. Ltd. MacNaughton cuts ribbon to open Dragway
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Opened by Hon. S. MacNaughton
day; as be was effibiating at the Granehd DiagWay4 Over 5,000 were on hand at the popular spot
to watch the ceremony and the thrilling "radet.Mr.1VikeNattglitoti is sticiWki above at the ribbon with
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