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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-08-20, Page 6GERRY BELL Times-Advocate, A ugust 20, 1964 GREYS, TRIBE FALL. BEHIND IN PLAYOFF MATCHES Page 6 FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS By Ross Haugh. Provide top .action B ell wins pitchers' duel 1 Greys 'give " game away And Little each had dpublee in the first inning Third pine of the series was played lag night in Staffa and the fourth game will be in Exe- ter on Sunday,. home after one was out when Ebel reached first on an error. The latter was forced at eece and on Darlene Snell's fielder's choice and Mary qravett then oontributed a single to aid the cause, Jean Taylpr then socked a single to drive in a pair of tallies, but ehe was, called out at second attempting to stretch it into a double, In the seventh, graham re- tired the preys in order to grele the win. Horton's two eingles paced the Brecefield attack, while sin- gle blows came from Kay Sharp, Bev Wright, Betty Graham, Mc- Donald and Jones. Creech pitches. kids to victory Creech allowed only one hit as the Exeter Leglep ban- tams took the first game of their group final with Clinton in the loeee'e field, Monday, Creech was in control all the way as the fast balling hurler recorded 15 strikeouts in the six-inning effair and didn't give up a hit until two were out in the leet freme. Losing pitcher Don Bartliff hit a triple after Creech had issued. a walk for the only Clip- ton run. Exeter took a 3-0 leAd in the third inning and never looked back in posting the margin, Next game will be played in Exeter on Thursday night. Creech also helped his own cause at the plate with a pair of safeties, while Bill Fair- bairn, Pete Lawson and Dave Burke had one safe clout each. Fairbairres was a long double in the third. Other players on the team .are: Graham Hern, Glen Stire, Randy Weber and Gary Camp- bell. Play-off time has arrived in most baseball and softball leagues in the area and plenty of ex- citing action is coming up in the next couple of weeks. An important commodity missing at most Of the games has been fan support. Similar to other years the Exeter Greys are drawing good crowds. The first game of the southern group finals against Brucefield Monday night produced exciting action and as the series progresses attendance will certainly continue to increase. At the same time two Exeter minor clubs are in the thick of WOAA playdowns. The Legion Bantams, handled by Red Loader and Gord Baynham, are battling Clinton and are currently holding a one-game edge as the result of a 7-1 win in the northern town Mon- day. In this first contest the bantams were led by a brilliant pitching perfoi mance by Jim Creech. The speedy young right hander tossed an impressive one-hitter against Clinton and struck out 15 during the six-inning contest. The local pee wees, under the guidance of Lorne Haugh and Bill MacLean are also in a final series with a Clinton minor club. The first game on the Exeter diamond saw the Clinton young- sters come up with a win in a closely contested game. Manore's Riverside Marine Grand Bend After a shaky .start, Gerry Pell found the groove in 5unci4Y gtPrwon'P .contest. when the Staffa, merphents edged Exeter Mohawks 3-2 to take a twee game lead in their best-of- seven Huron Perth playoff, The Tribe sent .eevele men to the plate In the first tiling at. Staffa and came through with three hits tq score two nine thet almost chased the Hensall hurler frene the mound. But Bell handcuffed the losers threughput the rest of the nine- inning effeie, giving up pnly one more hit and sending theni Own in one,two,tnree order in all eight framee. In two of those eight innings he struck out the side and recorded a total. of 10 strike- outs, His mates didn't commit an error after B. McKeller booted a ball at first inthefiret inning. Jim Pfaff gave up only eight hits and two earned runs for the Tribe. Kompf circled the sacks in the first on errors by George Wright and Gord Strang, .and Staffs wrapped up the title with a pair in the third frame with Bell supplying the key blow with a booming triple. Kompf singled, stole second and came home on. George Cove eney's double and the latter rode home on the winning pitcher's clout after McNaught had gone down swinging to be the second out of the inning. Pfaff recorded seven strike- outs-etwo of them coming with two men on base in the fifth— and he gave up only one walk in the duel with Bell. Kompf and Coveney paced the Staffa hitters with two hits each, while R ohf rite h, Mc- Naught, Bell and McKellar had one safety each. Lyle Little, Gord Strang, George Wright and Jim Russell had the only hits off Bell. Wright FAST DOCK-SIDE SERVICE South side of pier at mouth of river beside customs building Brucefield scored five ene earned runs under the lights in Hensall, Monday, to teke a 6-5 Win over Exeter Greys and the first win in the southern group best-of-five series. Follpwing garpee in the series will all be pleyed at Hensall on Wednesday, Friday, Monday and Wednesday nights. Three costly errors in the first inning sent Brucefield, into a 0-0 lead and they were never headed, although they had to cut off a patented Exeter rally In the sixth to preserve the win. Horton started the first with a sharp single off Helen Ebel and Kay Sharp pined life on Jean Taylor's error at third. The next two batters were put out, but another Taylor error and a bphble by Jackie Attrill at second was followed by a timely single by B. Robinson to cap the outburst, The winners added another in the top of the second whenHor- ton again hit safely and came in on back-to-back singles by Sharp and Wright. Exeter managed to reduce the count to 4-2 in the bottom of the fourth when Dolly Mattson and Iris Marshall toured the sacks on a Brucefield error and two free passes by winning hurler Betty Graham. Brucefield added their final two in the top of the sixth on singles by Jones and Graham and another Exeter error. With their backs to the wall, Exeter came up in the bottom of the sixth and scored three runs and watched the potential tying run forced out at second. Ann Cronyn led off the inning with a pinch-hit triple and came OIL, WATER ICE, REPAIRS Johnson Moters Trailers of every size Complete l ine of boats Russell supplies power as Lanes-Dashwood win Back-To-School SHOES Clinton edges pee wee entry Playing on their home field, Monday, the Exeter pee wees dropped a 6-4 decision to Clin- ton in the first game of their best-of-three 'group final. Second game of the series was to be played in Clinton last night. Clinton struck early in the match, but had to come back with two runs in the top of the sixth to gain the win. They scored three in the first inning off the offerings of Barry Baynham and alter seeing the lead drop to 3-1 in the second, came back to go ahead by one more in the third. Ron Janke crossed the plate in the fourth for the Exeter crew and runs by Larry Haugh and Baynham tied the count in the fifth. But after two were out in the sixth, Clinton came up with the two winners and stopped Exeter without a reply in the last two trips to the plate. Ridden had a pair of singles for the local crew, while Bayn- ham Janke, Guenther and Ron Lindenfield added one each. Plenty of action in Liniment loop games Area fans witnessed three exciting softball tilts, Sunday, when the area Liniment league held an all-star tournament on the Dashwood and Exeter diamonds. Two teams from the eight were put together to make up four squads and the eventual winners were the Dashwood-Exeter Lanes squad. Action above shows Don Couture, who pitched for the Crediton-Exeter Legion crew, taking a stiff swing at the ball in their first game with the RCAF NCOs. The latter squad won the tilt as they found Couture's pitching easier to handle than his hitting. Umpire is Al Flynn. —T-A photo two safeties each, while single blows came from Mike Den- omme, Bob Stormes and Stan Heist. With the score knotted at 4-4, the winners came up with a six-run rally in the sixth to cap the win. Reynolds, Bache, Hatch, Jos- ey and Epton had the safeties off Fuller in the contest. BLACK AND BROWN OXFORDS Men's, Boy's, Children LACED AND BUCKLE LOAFERS DISCONTINUED LINES SIZES 6 to 10 REG. $7.25 NOW $5.89 MOM••••••••111 Gym Shoes MEN'S AND BOY'S colour s, black, white, green LADIES AND MISSES ASSORTED COLOURS Priced at $1.49, $1.89, $2.70 CLOSE BATTLE In the afternoon tilt at Exeter, the NCOs whipped the combined squad of Crediton and Exeter Legion by a 10-'7 count to gain entry into the final. — Please turn to page 10 Up to intermediate ranks and the Huron- Perth circuit play-offs are also underway. Exeter Mohawks and Staffa Merchants are meeting in a best-of-seven dual purpose series. The winner will move into the H-P final and also will advance into OBA playdowns as the league's "C" representatives. At time of writing, the Merchants, last year's champs, are leading two games to none. In the other semi-final bracket Zurich Lumber Kings are down two games to zero to the Walkerton nine. Don O'Brien's Kings, regardless of the outcome of the series with Walkerton will com- pete in OBA "D" play-offs when opponents be- come available. Likewise, Walkerton will play in "B" clas- sification. A change in this year's Ontario. Base- ball Constitution has allowed Exeter to stay in "C" a lower class than previous. This new pro- vision would also have allowed Walkerton to play in "C" but when certificates were signed they were unaware of the change and will be forced to move into a higher category than they are actually qualified for. With booming bats and some stellar pitching, the best of the Dashwood and Exeter Lanes entries in the Rec Softball loop teamed up to take the Liniment League tournament, Sunday. After whipping the RCAF Air- men in Dashwood in the after- noon, the squad moved out to Exeter to hang a 10-6 loss on the RCAF NCOs and the Kins- men combination. Big Jim Russell, who missed the afternoon tilt due to service with the Mohawks in Staffa, came in for the night contest and pounded out two booming homers and a double to pace the winning attack. The Dashwood-Exeter Lanes combination started the final tilt off with three runs in the first when Bill Gilfillan toured the sacks after a single by himself, a groundout and a sin- gle by Art Rader. Rader came across with the Attendance, sickness, rain Repairing properly attended to. Wuerth's the store that serves and saves you money. Kin camp sets records Wuerth's Shoes PHONE 235-0611 EXETER second run, racing around the paths in front of Russell who drove a Pete Bileski pitch out to the race track in deep left field. The NCOs came back to tie the game in the third when Souchereau and Garand hit back to hack singles after Attrill had led off with a triple against Jack Fuller. However, Russell opened the fourth when he greeted the NCOs ace, Monty Motomura, with an- other drive that went deeper than the first and again ended up on the track. From here on the winners never looked back as they added three more in the fifth, one in the sixth and two in the seventh. The RCAF crew made an attempt at pulling the game out of the bag in the bottom of the seventh when they scored three runs off Joe Green, who re- placed Fuller in the fifth. A walk, doubles by Bileski and Wong and singles by Moto- mura and Joe Leiter accounted for the runs before Green set- tled down to send Noyle back to the bench on an easy grounder to the mound. Pete Ravelle, Bill Gilfillan and Ron Dawe backed Russell's power with two safeties each, while single blows came off the bats of Fuller, Greene, Mike Denomme and Murray Bell. Others in the winning lineup were Bob Baynham and Jerry Kading, VaMMEMOVEMENNESIMEMEMS August CLEARANCE SALE Pair repeat in bowling events Lila Smith and Howard Ince were on the top teams in two nights of doubles action at the local lawn bowling green this week. On Saturday, Mrs. Smith teamed up with Wes Penner to take top honors with two wins and a plus of 20. Clarence Down and Howard Ince were second with a plus of 14 with their two wins and third place went to Alvin Pym and Ivan Hirtzel with a plus of 12 with two wins. Tuesday night, Ince teamed up with Ray Mills to cop top honors with two wins and a plus of 4, while Mrs, Smith and Len McKnight placed second with a plus of 12. Close behind were Fred Tilley and Mildred Mills with two wins and a plus of 11. Members have expressed ap- preciation of the improvements made on the back ditch by their efficient greens-keeper, Wil- frid Shapton. had some baskets of peaches and made the mistake of asking if anyone would like one. He brought in three full bas- kets and had a tough time sal- vaging one lone peach for him- self. Lindenfield, Ron Moore, Ricky Weber, Randy Weber and David Burke. Cabin 10—Charles and Peter Stewart, Leslie and Donald Shane, LarryEaugh, Merle Idle, Barry Tiernan, Marvin Bower, Tom Prout, David Hunter, Jim Parker and Bill Fairbairn. Three cabins tied for the honors in the girls' division with 115 points. Cabin 1—Jane Broderick, Debbie Higgins, Joanne Burke, Denise Shane, Launa Fuller, Darlene Porter, Debbie Fite, Susan Tuckey, Cathy Read, Con- EASY WIN In the afternoon game, Jack Fuller went the distance and allowed the Airmen only six hits in a masterful showing in Dashwood, The Dashwood-Exeter Lanes outfit pounded Art Epton for 13 hits with Murray Bell and Art Rader picking up three each. 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Some of the influences from Coaches in minor sport have quite a reflection on the devel- opment of character of the boys as they grow up. We like coaches who instill the proper attitude in a boy's mind. Not the "We must win at all cost" idea, but give it all you have to the best of your ability and remember fair play at all times. A successful athlete, the same as a stu- dent or an adult in any line of business, must have the desire to go ahead, put plenty of time into practicing the things they have been taught and have respect for their elders or coaches. This start of a keen instinct of fair play goes a long way in being a success in the "game of life". Following are a few excerpts from the Constitution by-laws of the OBA that are interest- ing. What is a boy? He is a person who is going to carry out what you have started. He is to sit right where you are sitting and attend to those things, you think are so important, when you are gone. You may adapt all the policies you please but how they will be carried out depends on him. Even if you create leagues and treaties he will have to manage them. He is going to sit in your place in Parliament, and occupy your, place on the bench, He will assume control of your cities, provinces and nation; your homes, churches, schools, universities and corporations. All your accomplishments are going to be judged and praised or condemned by him. All your work is for him and the fate of the nation and of humanity are in his hands. So we say, it might be well to pay him some attention, During these dosing week's of baseball ac- tion, let's support as much as possible all of the teams threading their way down the play-off path. Your attendance and vocal support may be a help to make their path a little smoother, especially for the youngsters in minor ball. See YOU at the ball park, THEY SPLIT THE LOOT Have you ever wondered how much a re- tired big league player will realize through the newpension plan that was devised in 1047? At age 50, a player with five years' serv. ice will receive $125.50 per month for life; a 10- year veteran will get $250 and a ball hawk who survived a full 20 years will draw down a nice $380 per month, At the age of 65 these three categories are increased to $261,62, $523.25 and $723.25 per month respectively, 64 Corvair 64 Super 88 64 Chev Bel Air, 60 Envoy Special, sedan 61 Chev 2 door,6 cyl. 60 Meteor 4 door sedan 59 Chev MANY SPECIALS Boom and the supervisors were partially prepared for the wet weather as they had organi- zed activities that could run them through three inclement days. But they had no idea that such an ample preparation would almost fall short of filling the bill. The recreation hall proved to be the most occupied spot of the week as it echoed to the wild cheers of spectators watching pillow fights, dodge ball and a host of similar activities. Crafts included making felt crests, leather change purses, plaster mouldings, wall plaques and several other items the kids proudly brought home. The weather managed to clear for a track and a swim meet and Max Harness journeyed to Goderich one night to keep the kids entertained with a square dance program., Each morning started out with morning watch and concluded (well, it was supposed to) with night vespers and a camp fire. Each cabin took turns at pro- viding skits and other enter= tainment for the camp fire pro- grems. Sunday, the kids attended their own church service; when Diane Dawson, swim instruc- tress at the camp, gave the message. Summing up the camp, Gra- vett noted the kids had used all the craft supplies taken. "They went through every- thing," he stated, WIN TIONORS A contest was held throughout the week between the various cabins and the kids were giveh pointe for winning sports events,• keeping their cabihe neat and tidy and for Other derma petitions. In the boys' race, two cabins tied for first place with 110 points, in cabin ii weteDeti,e tan baMbr i Bob Carpenter, Rod No Down Payment required with Conklin Custom Credit —so why delay any longer. Do it now! EXETER 131 Thames Road W. Phone 235-1422 "Support the Youth GRAND BEND Car,of Highway 21 & Phone 238.2374 of Your Community" 4 Door 6 cyl. Std. The third annual—and per- haps last—Boom's Kin camp set all sorts of records last week, and some unquestionably pleased the retiring rec direc- tor while others createdprob- lems. Attesting to the popularity of the camp and its director and staff is the fact that it set an attendance record - 104 camp- ers and close to 125 in atten- dance altogether. But, it also set a record for miserable weather at the God- erich Church camp and probably established an all-time sick list for a one-week camp. Rain fell on four of the camp days this year; and there were unquestionably many parent s Who were glad indeed that Boom and his helpers had the task of providing entertainment for the kids and not they themselves. However, the rec director reported that despite the incle- ment weather, which for ced Many activities inside, the spir- its of the campers remained extremely high and they all apparently enjoyed themselves. A 'flu bug also hit the camp and Mrs. Jessie Shane was one of the busiest persons at the camp in her duties as nurse. She adthinistered aspirins and other remedies by the box and spoonful, but fortunately none of the campers had to be brought home and Meet regained their health after a short bout. On Friday, no less than 21 kids trooped over to see Mrs. Shane and on that day all the sick children were moved into one cabin So they could be properly looked after without too much running around by the nutte. Some of the supervisors were also laid low for fora time with the bug, But if the kids were sick, it' probably Caine as news for the kitchen staff. They were kept permanently occupied dishing out food and some of the young lads appeared as though they. hadn't eaten for Weeke. One night when corn was the main dish on the menu, thekids devoured well Over 300 cobs and then topped this eft with ice cream and cake, Camp manager, ;loo Snider, Goderich, then .annetireed he Snell Bros. Ltd. Chev: Oids. Chev Trucks Phone 235 0660 Exeter