The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-08-12, Page 6Times-Advocate, August 1Z 1965
FOR ALL. GOD SPORTS
By Jim Russell
We're into
the playoffs
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Although the weatherman hasn't been very
co-operative in the past few weeks, all the area ball
leagues have completed their regular schedules and
some teams have already started their playoffs.
The Exeter Greys under coaches Lloyd Cush-
man and Bob Pooley, finished the Ladies' Huron
Softball League with a ten and three record and are
currently playing a round-robin series with Hensall
and Brucefield. At present Brucefield holds the lead
in the series after wins over Hensall and Exeter in
their first two games. The winner of the round-
robin set will meet the winners of the Brussels-
Goderich-Winthrop series for the league champion-
ship.
In men's Rec League softball, last week's
rainy weather forced four games to be cancelled but
the league executive hope to have the playoffs under
way this week. The playoffs between the first and
fourth, second and fifth and third and sixth place
teams will be the best two-out-of-three series with
the highest finishers getting the odd game if need-
ed. As the league now stands the Exeter Legion will
meet Crediton in the "A" series with the Centralia
Airmen tangling with the Old Timers in the "B"
series. The third place Exeter Bowling Lanes will
meet the Kinsmen in the "C" series.
The Rec League contests will be played for
the most part on Monday and Wednesday nights in
Centralia, Crediton and Exeter. All Exeter and Credi-
ton games will start at seven o'clock with the games
at the airport getting under way at eight.
Walkerton, who finished on top of the Huron-
Perth Baseball League during the regular season,
defeated the Dashwood Tigers last Friday to take
the best-of-five semi-final series 3-1 and advance to
the finals against the Staffa Merchants who elimi-
nated Zurich in our games. After losing the first
game of the series, Staffa came back to win the next
three tilts from the pesky Lumberkings.
Staffa and Walkerton will now meet in a best
four-out-of-seven series for the Huron-Perth cham-
ionship while Dashwood and Zurich will engage in a
playoff to determine which club will represent the
league in the OBA "D" category.
After their series with Walkerton, Staffa will
enter the OBA as a "C" team and will meet either
Caledonia or Corunna in the first round.
Exeter minor baseball clubs have completed
their schedules and while the midgets have played
two playoff contests, the two other teams, the pee
wees and bantams, have yet to start their playoff
series.
The midgets were soundly beaten by Clinton
in their first game but came back to win the second
contest and set the stage for the deciding game
which was to have been played in Clinton on Tues-
day.
The Pee Wees hope to get their series started
next week, probably against the Clinton entry, while
the bantams also hope to get going next week.
RUSTLINGS — Area golfers who feel they
have accomplished something when they take forty
of fifty cents off their golfing friends must feel like
pikers when they see what big Jack Nicklaus of
Columbus, Ohio has made so far this season on the
professional golf tour. With his victory in the recent
Philadelphia Golf Classic, Nicklaus picked up an-
other $24,000 to boost his pro tour money winning
for 1965 to $114,000, With Nicklaus' extra money on
endorsements and public appearances it is reason-
able to assume that the young American will earn
more than $200,000 before the season is over . . .
The pennant contending Detroit Tigers suffered
through an important weekend series with the im-
proving New York Yankees which could put the
battling Bengals out of the running. After winning
the first game on Friday night by one run, the
Tigers dropped the next two by 6-5 scores and fell to
111/2 games behind the Minnesota Twins who keep
rolling right along without their top pitcher and
home run hitter . . . Congratulations are in order
for the RCAF Centralia softball squad who captured
the Zone Three playdowns in a three-day tournament
at Clinton last weekend. The Centralia club played
four games in the tourney defeating North Bay twice
and Clinton once and losing to North Bay once. By
virtue of their win the local team earned the right
to represent Zone Three in the Canadian RCAF
Championships at Greenwood, Nova Scotia in a five-
day tournament that will start August 30.
Exeter Greys lose
opener in playoffs
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Centralia wins RCAF zone 3 finals
go to Greenwood for championship
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Although they outhit their op-
ponents 12-6 in their opening
playoff game last Tuesday, the
Exeter Greys dropped the first
game of the round-robin series
to Brucefield by a 6-4 score in
Hensall.
The locals held a 4-0 lead
through the first three frames
by scoring once in the first and
adding three more in the third
but the powerful Brucefield crew
Cut the Exeter lead to 4-1 with
a run in the fourth and then came
up with five big runs in the
Sixth inning to put the game out
Of the reach of the Exeter squad.
Exeter took a 1.0 lead in the
first inning when Darlene Snell
opened the game with a single
to center and later scored on
Anne Cronyri's double. The lo-
cals increased their lead to four
rune in the third when with one
out, catcher Fern Dougall singled
and vide home on Audrey
Pooley's long ho me r u n. Anne
Elaynham grounded to second
ter the second out before a single
by Connie Kernick and Lee Sou-
chereatt'S double gave the Greys
their fourth and final run,
Exeter pitelier- Marie Tiernan
held the winners to only two hits
and one run until the disastrous
sixth frame when three singles,
two bases on balls and Bev
Wright's double netted Bruce-
field five runs and the ball game.
Winning pitcher Betty Graham
went the full seven innings on the
mound for Brucefield and scat-
tered the 12 Exeter safeties.
Marie Tieman went the distance
fOr Exeter and absorbed the de-
feat.
The win was Brucefield's sec-
ond in the round-robin series
while it was the Greys first game.
Lee Souchereau and Darlene
Snell led the Greys at the plate
by banging out three hits apiece
With Snell picking up three singles
and Souchereau adding a double
and two singles. Anne Cronyn
with a double and a single and
Fern Dougall and Connie Kerniek
With two singles each picked up
two hits while Audrey Pooley
poled e two run homer for the
losers.
Following are the remaining
games of the round-robin set.
All games in the Series will be
played under the lights at Hen-
sail starting at 8:30.
August 12, Brueefield vs Egeter
August 13, Brucefield vs Hensall
AtIgtist 16, Hensall vs Exeter
Last weekend saw softball
played at its finest when teams
from RCAF stations Downsview,
Lowther,Falconbridge,North Bay,
Clinton and Centralia met at
Clinton for the RCAF Zone 3
Softball Finals. The three day
double elimination series ended
on Sunday with the local RCAF
boys from Centralia coming out
on top by virtue of their defeat
over North Bay in the final game
of the tournament,
Leo Romain, Centralia's ace
hurler, was the hero of the first
game Centralia played against
North Bay on Friday afternoon
when he led his team at the plate
with a home run and a triple
bagger while allowing a single
hit on the mound, which later
resulted in North Bay's only run
in the hard fought contest that
ended in a 2-1 victory for Cen-
tralia,
On Saturday, Centralia had to
come from behind to edge out a
3-2 win over Clinton's power-
On Monday night the Legion
collected a total of 13 hits to
shellack the last place Kinsmen
13-1 at the Exeter park,
Winning pitcher Don Mousseau
allowed the losers one run in
the first inning on singles by
Pete McFalls, Doug Sillery and
Bill Rowe but that was all the
runs the Kinsmen could manage
off the veteran righthander who
blanked them the rest of the
way on two hits.
The Legion scored single runs
in the first and sixth frames
but scored five runs in the sec-
ond on five hits and added six
more in the sixth to walk away
with their ninth victory of the
season.
Catcher Murray Brintnell led
the winners at the plate with
three safeties including a single,
double and homerun. Don Wells
and Mousseau each had a pair of
hits for the Legion.
Besides the three singles in
the first inning, Mousseau gave
The Dashwood Tigers were
eliminated from the Huron-Perth
playoffs last Sunday in Walkerton
when they were defeated 5-1 in
the fourth game of the best of
five series. The Tigers won the
first game by a 5-4 score but
lost the next three games to the
powerful Walkerton entry by
scores of 5-1, 10-5 and 5-1.
The Zurich Lumberkings, who
lost their Huron-Perth semi-fi-
nal series to Staffa three games
to one, will now face the Dash-
wood club in a best of seven
series for the right to enter the
OBA while Staffa will meet Walk-
erton for the Huron-Perth cham-
pionship. Both series will start
this week.
In Dashwood's lone win over
Walkerton in the first game, the
Tigers overcame a 4-0 deficit
with three runs in the fifth and
two more in the seventh inning
to edge the northern crew 5-4 in
a thrilling contest.
Eugene Guenther relieve d
Dashwood starter Bill Schade in
the fifth inning and picked up the
victory while veteran Al Stein-
hoff went the full seven innings
to absorb the loss. Schade led
the winners at the plate by rap-
ping out three single s while
catcher Gordon Vincent picked up
a double and Dave Rats added
a single.
Vincent delivered the key blow
in the Dashwood win as he doubled
home two runs in the seventh inn-
ing after Schade had singled and
Art Rader reached base on an
infield error.
Walkerton tied the series at
a game apiece last Wednesday
as Joe Berberick scattered six
Dashwood hits to record a 5-1
win.
The winners held a slim one
run lead until the seventh inning
when they scored four big runs
on an error, a walk, a double
by Ron Schnur, a fielders choice
and Joe Grindley's single.
Dashwood picked up their lone
run in the third inning on three
straight singles off the bats of
Bill Schade, Dave Ratz and Bob
Hoffman.
On Friday night the league win-
ners over the regular season
came from behind for a 10-5 win
to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
The Tigers took a 2-0 lead in
the second when Art and Richard
Rader both came in to store on
Walkerton errors but the visitors
cut their lead to 2-1 with a single
run in the third before Dashwood
erupted for three runs in the
bottom of the third off Walkerton
pitcher Al Steinhoff who went all
the way for the winners.
13111 Schade started off the big
inning by reaching first on an
error and Bob Hoffman and Ald-
phOnee Denomme followed with a
double and a triple respectively
and Denomme later stole home
to tally Dashwood's third run of
the inning,
Dave Ratz, who went the dise
tance on the mound for Dash-
wood started to tire near the mid.
tile of the garne as the visitors
scored four runs in the fifth and
plated five more in the Sixth to
give steinbott all the nits he
house. Two unearned runs in the
first sent Clinton out in front
but Centralia's nine was not tube
put down easily and won in the
final innings of the game,
"Monty" Motomura allowed four
hits and was credited with the
win before lie was relieved by
Leo Romain in the fifth inning,
Ken Lapointe, pitching for Clin-
ton, was tagged for eight hits,
This win over Clinton put Cene
tralia in the driver's seat of the
tournament as they received a
bye in the second round and as
a result were automatically in
the finals,
While all this was happening
the other teams in the tourna-
ment were fighting to see who
would be facing Centralia on
Sunday afternoon. Do wnsvi e w,
Falconbridge, Lowther were eli-
minated on Saturday and finally
Clinton was knocked out byNorth
Bay by a 4-0 score, which gave
North Bay the right to face Cen-
tralia in the finals. North Bay
up third inning single to Pete
Flanigan and a fourth inning
single to Russ Lee.
The Exeter Bowling Lanes
plated six runs in the first inn-
ing of the Wednesday game but
the Legion came back with four
in the first and two in the second
to tie the score in a game that
looked like it could turn into a
high scoring contest. Pitchers
Dave Wood of the Lanes and Don
Mousseau settled down, however,
to keep the score more respect-
able as Wood allowed single runs
in the fifth, sixth and seventh
frames and Mousseau gave up
single runs in the fifth and
seventh.
The winners broke the 8-8
deadlock in the bottom of the
seventh frame with one out as
Mousseau reached third bas e
when his fly ball eluded the glove
of the Lanes' rightfielcler and
scored on manager Howard
Holtzman's line drive double into
left-centre field.
needed.
Art Rader paced the Dashwood
attack with a triple and a single
while Bob Hoffman with a double
and a single was the only other
Tiger with more than one safety.
Alphonse Denomme had a three
bagger for the losers while Gor-
don Vincent and Bill Schade pick-
ed up singles.
End series
Walkerton pitcher Joe Ber-
berick tossed a neat three hitter
on Sunday for his second win of
the series to oust the Dashwood
club.
Berberick blanked the Tigers
on one hit until the first of the
ninth when Bill Schade singled,
advanced to third on Art Rader's
single and stole home for Dash-
wood's lone tally. Bob Hoffman's
fifth inning double was the only
other Dashwood hit.
Dashwood batting averages up
Lawn bowlers
at St. Marys
The Exeter Lawn Bowling Club
held only one jitney last week
but paid a return visit to the St.
Marys Club that participated ina
recent competition at the local
club. •
The bowlers were in St. Marys
Tuesday night but Lila Smith
came out on top in the Saturday
night jitney with two wins and a
plus of 20. Competition was very
keen for first place as Wilf
Shapton finished second with two
wins and a plus of 19 while third
place finisher Hugh Love record-
ed two wins and a plus of 18.
has to be commended for their
fine play because they had thelr
backs to the wall every game.
If they had lost one more game;
they too, were out. The fine
pitching of USAF STAFF/SGT
"Digger" Page was the one main
factor which kept North Bay in
the running, North Bay played
three games on Saturday and
never lost and Page pitched two
of those three games,
The finals on Sunday saw a
large crowd on hand to witness
the possible 2 game series, Up to
this point Centralia had not lost
a game and had only to win one
of the two games to clinch the
tournament and North Bay had
to win both games to win. The
boys from the north quickly ca-
pitalized on two unearned runs
in the first game and never let
up and finally came out on top
with a 6-2 win. Again it was Page,
The Exeter Greys lashed out
18 hits and scored 12 runs on
Tuesday night to defeat Hensall
12-1 behind the two hit pitching
of Pat Down. The win gives the
locals a 1-1 record in the round-
robin series while Hensell now
has an 0-2 record,
Down blanked the losers until
the seventh frame when Eleanor
Shields' leadoff homerun spoiled
her shutout bid. Shields also had
a single in the second inning for
the first hit off Down.
The winners scored all their
runs in three innings scoring
five in the first, five in the sixth
and two in the seventh for their
to the Zurich series.
Bob Hoffman .345
Bill Schade . .303
Alphonse Denomme . .214
Gord Vincent .20'7
Dave Ratz . ,167
Art Rader .156
Richard Rader . . . .095
Eugene Guenther . . . .095
Mike Denomme . . . .083
Last Sunday afternoon the
Dashwood ball park was the scene
of a grudge game between Dash-
wood's Ontario Intermediate D
champions of 1953 and the cur-
rent edition of the Dashwood
Tigers that have again joined
the Huron-Perth League after
several years absence. Over 400
enthusiastic fans were on hand
to see the old timers defeat the
present day Tigers by a 10-8
score in a nine inning contest.
The 1953 Dashwood club, led
by the hitting of Bob Hayter and
Lorne Kleinstiver and the pitch-
ing of former standout Robbie
Wein scored one run in the sec-,
ond, added two in the fourth,
three in the fifth, three in the
sixth and one more in the seventh
for the win.
Dave Rats and Bill Schade
shared the pitching duties for
the present day Tigers while Al-
phonse Denomme paced the
youngsters at the plate with a
homerun in the first frame to
give the losers a temporary 1-0
lead.
who's steady fine pitching kept.
North Bay in the running.
This set the stage for the final
game, now that both teams were
even. Leo Romain got the nod to
pitch for the Centralia team while
"Digger" Page again started on
the mound for North Bay. By
this time the effects of the tour-
nament began to show on North
Bay and the Centralia boys came
out of their slump and clobbered
North Bay. The series, and the
right to represent Zone 3 at
Greenwood, N.S. later this month
In the all RCAF Championships
was Centralia's price, Leo Ro-
main allowed only one-hit ball
and had fine support from his
teammates at the plate. Joe Leit-
er connected for two long two
hundred foot homers in the game
and most of Centralia's team ac-
counted for one or two hits a-
piece in the game, which finally
ended with a score of 13-0.
lopsided win,
Every Greys' player with the
exception of pitcher Down man-
aged at least one hit with Anne
Cronyn, Iris Marshall, Fern Dou-
gall and Connie Kernick garner-
ing three safeties each. Audrey
Pooley slammed a homer for the
locals in the seventh frame while
Darlene Snell and Jean Weber
with doubles and Anne Jorgensen
with a triple completed the extra
base blows.
Legion tops
Rec league
Although four Rec League
games were postponed because
of wet weather last week, the
Exeter Legion managed to re-
cord two wins to finish the sea-
son on top of the league, one
point ahead of the second place
Airmen, The Legion squad clob-
bered the Kinsmen 13-1 on Mon-
day on Don Mousseau's five hit
pitching and then came back to
edge the Exeter Bowling Lanes
9-8 to finish the regular season
with a 10-3-1 record for a total
of 21 points. The Airmen re-
corded a 9-2-2 record to finish
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Bob Hayter and Kleinstiver
both had two hits for the 1953
edition of the Tigers.
Proceeds from the game went
to the present Dashwood club.
Members of the 1953 Tigers
who were Huron-Perth Cham-
pion s, WOAA Intermediate D
Champions and Ontario Inter-
mediate D Champions included
Robbie and Jake Wein who are
living in Sudbury, Bob Stormes
of St. Thomas, Louis Corriveau,
Charlie Tiernan, Jerry Guenther,
Jim Hayter, Bob Hayter, Lorne
Kleinstiver, G e r al d Martene,
Jack Gaiser, Ray Webb and bat-
boy Larry Wein.
A new strip record of 184.04
miles an hour was set at Grand
Bend dragway Sunday by Lang
Chase of Blenheim in the ".AA"
fuel dragster, "Renegade". The
record run with the Hemi-Chrys-
ler-poWered, was only one high-
light of the Bend's Annual Com-
petition and Gasser Meet.
Chase's elapsed time was 8,57
seconds.
Overall competition elimina-
tion honors were taken by Pete
woaters (George Grey) in the
London Motor Products super-
charged Pontiac powered Willys
Coupe with a 16:60 F.T. for
132.74 mph. Runner-up was Lon-
don's Pipter-cushing-V and e r-
peer team aboard the Thames
van Paddy Wagon. This London
entry won the top competition
car honors with a 13:97 ET for
94.8a mph.
Top stock class went to Bill
Andress of Ann Arbor, Mich.
in the Serbay Motors 1965 Ply-
mouth with an 11.99 ET for
118.57 mph. He shut down Robert
Williams of Warren, Mich., in a
19513 Plymouth powered by a
426 h.p. motor.
The Warren Brothers of Fras-
er, Micli. shut down London's
Fred Scarsbrook to win the mid-
dle stock class in their 1965
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106,13 mph. Scarsbrook turned
a 13:48 ET for 106.13 mph in
his 409 Chevy.
Junior Stock elimination was
won by London's Doug Phippen
driving an Austin Cooper to a
17:28 ET for 71.72 mph. He shut
down Galt's Wally Schilling in
a 1956 Chev,
Junior Street eliminations went
to international record holder,
Pete McNicholl of Madison
Heights, Mich,, with his R/MP
Valiant-powered 1933 Dodge
coupe. McNicholl turned a 13,92
ET for 95.54 MPH.
Runner-up was John Sexauer
of Warren, lynch., in the Van
Dyke E/SA Dodge who turned
a 14.48 ET for 96.15 mph.
Competition and Gasser class
winners were: Ron Mix, Port
Huron— top gas dragster (11.06
for 129.12); The Brothers Brown,
Toronto, Top altered car (11:40
for 127.84); Pete Wouters and
George Grey, London, Top Gas-
ser (10:72 for 131.96); and Barney
Rambo, Warren, Mich., top street
roadster (12:13 for 119.84).
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