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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-05-13, Page 66 eas Page 6 Times-Advocate, May 13, 1965 GB 'drag' enthusiasts set for exciting season Trying again frame with miniature cockpit and parachute canopy in the back for brakes. On the first big weekend, May 23, the dragway will ba featuring the first overhead cam V8 Ford powered Comet ever seen in Canada. This car can get up to 130 mph in 10 seconds. Marine Supplies Johnson Motors Complete Line of Boats Thames, Richardson, Traveler, Grew, Chestnut Canoes. Tee Nee Trailers MANORE'S Riverside Marine GRAND BEND Dragstrips are not a race like horse racing, but a test of acceleration from a dead start. To do this the drivers have devised all manner of tricks with engines and tires including the ultimate — taking the engine out of the car entirely and mounting it on a light, low slung Friday niter bowlers pick up their trophies The Friday Niter Bowling League wound up its season with a banquet at the Hensel]. Hotel last week. The league winners, the Merry Mums above, were presented with their trophy by Mrs. Ed Brady. From left, Mrs. Robert Scott, Mrs. Ron Heywood, Mrs. Cy Blommaert, Mrs. Henry Eisenschink, Mrs. Larry Baynham, team captain,. Miss Mary MacDonald, Mrs. Frank Dalton and Mrs. Brady. The Oddball Team, below, was runner up. From left, Marianne McCaffrey, Ila Mathers, Peggy Obre, Jane Dougherty, team captain, Myrna Magoffin, Hilda Turnbull, Mabel Robbins, Barbara Smith and Kay Snelgrove who presented the trophy. --T-A photo Lucan banquet to fete squads Pat Crudge, chairman of the Lucan Legion minor hockey set- up, reported this week his com- mittee is attempting to secure an NHL player for the annual father and son banquet planned for Wednesday. About 60 boys and their fath- ers will be present. The lads are members of the all-star novice, pee wee, bantam and midget clubs. The Legion midgets will be presented with OMHA crests following their winning of the group championship in the "D" series. Coach of the club was Joe O'Neil and manager was Jim Davis. • lllllllllllllll 1 lll 111111,1 llllll 1 llllll lllll 1 lllllll 1111 lllllll 1111111 lllll 1111,1111 lllllllllll lllll 1111111111111 lllll 18111 The Grand Bend DTagwaYp which was a surprise success last year despite a 'Johnny, come-lately' start, appear s likely to take the summer re- sort by storm this year as a possibly bigger drawing card than the beach. The sporting event has sur- vived winter hibernation in good form with a long list of sub- stantial improvements and new crowd-pleasing features lined up. The first meet is this Sunday with weekly meets through to September. There will be such things as the "biggest run of super stocks ever seen in Canada" in the strip's first two-day event over the July 1-4 holiday period. There's going to be a truck that takes off with its nose 10 feet in the air in mid-July; a possible charity benefit meet in June; an improved list of prize money and new system to compete for it. Last year an average of 3,000 turned out to watch and gasp. The young men of Grand Bend backing the strip hope to sub- stantially increase this number. There will shortly be 2,000 more seats on the grandstand with improved parking facilities and bigger concession booths. The staging lanes have been revitalized to run the cars off more quickly. The flagman is being replaced by a fancy itraf- fic light' starting system for fairer and faster starts. The autos are being handi- capped in a new system de- veloped over the winter by the dragway in consultation with some of its leading competi- tors to give every car an equal chance at the big prize money. And the kitty has been fattened. Spectators will be treated this year to a close-up view of the cars in a new 'hot car' area. • The dragway bounced into Grand Bend in mid-season last year when the former RCAF base became available. A group of young men bought the pro- perty to save it from becoming a corn field and with a new layer of asphalt, turned the runways into a dragstrip. Now that all the other area baseball fans have made their predictions public we'll make our own and hope they turn out better than they did last year when we picked the Minnesota Twins and the San Francisco Giants to meet in the World Series. Because of their poor showings last year we are picking the Twins and Giants to finish well down in their respective leagues this year so don't be too surprised to see either one of them battling for the pennant when the season comes down to the wire. Although most of the local experts have picked the Detroit Tigers as next fall's American League representative in the World Series we are forced to pick the Chicago White Sox be- cause of their well balanced squad and their fine manager, Al Lopez. The Baltimore Orioles are our second place pick with the Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees and Tigers rounding out the first division in the junior circuit. Any one of four tar five) teams could win the National League flag but we will have to go along with the Cincinnati Redlegs because of their improved young pitching staff, speed and hitting. The Philadelphia Phillies, who almost won the pennant last year before a September slump ruined their chances, will again finish in second place with the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Braves ending up in that order. One of our main reasons for choosing the White Sox as American League champions this year is the guidance of the former major league catcher, manager Al Lopez. The Senor from Tampa has gained the reputation over the years as being the second best manager in the league as he was continually finishing behind the Yank- ees when he managed the Indians and White Sox. This looks like Lopez' year, however, as the Yanks are off to one of the slowest starts in years and are currently floundering in ninth place 51/2 games behind the league leading Sox. Aside from the power hitting of Canadian Pete Ward and Bill Skowron. who always seems to come up with the key base hit, the Sox main forte is their pitching staff of Gary Peters, Juan Pizarro and Joel Horlen along with a fine rookie prospect Bruce Howard. The Sox are also strong in the bullpen with veteran knuckleballers Hoyt Wilhelm and Eddie Fisher ready to come on in relief. Although the home run hitters drive Cadil- lacs, pitching is still the name of the game and thus we pick the White Sox to win the American League flag by at least three games. The Orioles, who finished only two games behind the Yankees last year mainly because of the fine play of their classy third baseman and AL Most Valuable Player, Brooks Robinson, and the surprise pitching of rookie Wally Bunker will again be a prime contender for the pennant and should end up in second place. The Birds will rely on pitchers Milt Pap- pas, Steve Barber, veteran Robin Roberts and Bunker while Robinson, Boog Powell, Norm Sei- born and second year man Sam Bowens will be counted on to supply most of the runs. Mainly because of their hitting and young pitchers, the Cleveland Indians will probably be a contender all year long but should fade to- ward the end of the year because of their lack of depth and thus are our pick for third place while the once powerful Yankees whose stars are becoming brittle are our fourth place choice. The Yanks who are off to a slow start have been hit with key injuries with slugger Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard all out of the regular lineup with Whitey Ford's arm still a question mark after his winter opera- tion. Tom Tresh, Tony Kubek and Bobby Rich- ardson had poor seasons last year and have shown little improvement so far this year and the Yanks' outlook is very dim. This looks like a good year for all 'Yankee Haters'. Fifth place in the American League should be a toss-up between the Tigers and the Twins with the Tigers a slight favourite to edge the Twins for last place in the first division. TOP PITCHING — POTENT HITTING Since no National League team has been able to repeat in recent years as pennant win- ners two years in a row we are choosing the Cincinnati Reds as the 1965 champs with the Cardinals finishing no better than third. The Reds came within one game of win- ning the NL flag last year and this year should be their first pennant since 1961. Last year the Reds boasted the second best pitching staff in the NL and this year their young pitchers should be even better with Jim Maloney, Jim O'Toole and Sammy Ellis leading the way with second year man Bill McCool and veteran Bill Henry ready to carry the load in the bullpen. The Reds' attack is potent with Vada Pin- son and Frank Robinson leading the way with —Please turn to page 7 Pin Poppettes best of ladies, close scores mark men's tilts consolation final as they won all five games and took the championship by 498 pins. Jim Prest had a good night for the winners as he rolled a five game total of 1189 while Gerry Martene led the losers with 956. The annual men's banquet will be held at the Legion Hall next Wednesday night. The Pin Poppettes captured the grand championship of the Exeter Ladies Bowling League Thursday when they edged the Jolly Jills by 37 pins. The Poppettes, who were the "A" league representatives in the final round, were led by Phyl- lis Haugh who rolled a five game total of 929 while Jean Isaac paced the losers with a sparkling 1060. Other members of the championship squad were Flymo cuts a 19" swath, and features a fast starting 2% hp engine. FLOATS ON AIR. A whirling impeller spins a ring of air that supports the Flymo only 'A" above the ground. Height of cut is easily adjusted for %, 1 and 1% inches. games of 1094, 1041,1092, 1241 and 1174 while the Rockets who were paced by Jack Full- errs sparkling 1286 had games of 1010, 111'7, 1098, 1197 and 1218. Jack Coughlin, with a five- game total of 1107, led the Pepsis to their victory over the Noise Makers in the "B" league final as the bottlers won only two of the five games but ended on top by 64 pins. The winners were 50 pins down going into the fifth game but they bowled a fine 1193 game for their margin of victory. Ray Van Dorsselaer led the Noise Mak- ers in a losing cause with 1076. The IGA Flyers had little trouble with the 2x4's in the Female duffers set for season The Exeter Ladies' Golf Club began this year's activities on Tuesday night at the 1 o c al course and despite the cool weather there was a good turn- out of ardent golfers. Last year the club had 28 members with golfers from Ex- eter, RCAF Centralia and Kip- pen competing in the various tournaments and they will wel- come any newcomers that wish to join this year. The ladies will play at the Exeter Golf Course every Tues- day night starting at 5:30. It is not necessary to have a mem- bership at the local course in order to join the ladies group. This year' s executive in- cludes June Borland, president; Edith B o yle, vice-president; Lois Snell, secretary-treasur- er and Norma Coleman, Edna Deitz and Dot Monroe games committee. The Exeter Men's Golf Club hopes to get under way tonight (Thursday) and all area golfers are invited to attend. Windmill fleet formed at GB Elaine Skinner, Ann Simpson, Irene Haugh, Lossie Fuller, Audrey Fairbairn and Mary Gravett. Vera Stratton, Doris Eller- ington, Marion Frayne, Marilyn Isaac and Frances Relouw were members of the Jolly Jilts who lost three of the five games but held a 56 pin lead going into the last game only to lose 4901 to 4864. Action was hot and heavy at the Exeter Lanes Monday night as the Canadian Canners edged the Rockets by a scant two pins to win the men's "A" league championship and the Pepsis defeated the Noise Mak- ers in the 'IB" league final 5576 to 5512. In the consola- tion final the IGA Flyers took the honours by winning all five games from the 2x4's. Although they took only two of the five games the Canners kept ahead of the powerful Rock- ets all the way with Don Cou- ture leading the way with a total of 1155. 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It makes an admirable boat be- cause of its very low initial cost, exceptional performance, well organized class associa- tion and strict one design spent- ficiations. ATTEND CONVENTION Four couples, members of the Exeter Promenaders, at- tended the fourth annual Tor- onto International Square Dance convention at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on Saturday. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Max Harness and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Tuckey, Exeter; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bowie s, Clinton, and Mr. and Mrs. Norm Whiting, Petrone. Clean Up of Our Of Course They're OK They're OK USED CARS COMPANY CAR 1965 Chevrolet IMPALA SEDAN, B cylinder, automatic transmission, custom radio, whitewall tires, wheel discs. 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