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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-07-06, Page 6Pogo 6 Tirros-Advoote, July 6, 1967 FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS By Roes Haugh Das YOUR PRESCRIPTION FILLED AT MI DDLETON'S MIDDLETON'S Drug Store NO DISPENSING FEE OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT I SEE THE WORLD'S TOP LADY PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS IN ACTION! AT THE LTITIE RTES LADIES' OPEN SUNNINGDALE COUNTRY CLUB LONDON, ONTARIO Highway #4, just North of toncion Don't miss this outstanding sports event the only Canadian tournament on the L.P.G,A. tour! Tuesday, July 18 Practice Round „ . — .$1,00 Wednesday, July19 Pro-amateur Event , .$1.00 Thursday, July 20 1st Round 18 holes , „ .$2.50 Friday, July 21 2nd Round 18 holes „ .$2.50 Saturday, July 22 Final Round 18 holes , ,$3.00 A dmission Tickets sold through most golf pro-shops, at Tom Munro Ltd. and Nash Jewellers in London, Or, write Sunningdale Country Club, R. R, #8, London, ont, Buy a Weekly Ticket for $6.00 arid save $4.00. 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Limited Chevrolet Oldsmobile PH, 235-0660 EXETER The Home of Guardian Maintenance WITH A HE'S KING Regular $ 1.95 Select 9,95 Exclusive 11.95 Executive 14,95 Director 20.00 "11,1.P." 25.00 s break even wood, K Unusua l p rofec t vrt . 4 IN It7414,1:00 'e 4;,S Spills aplenty in Centennial Canoe Jousting Action speaks louder than words. This was the case in the canoe to stay afloat. The Lions Club entry composed of incoming president jousting event one of the features at Saturday's Centennial Day at Gerald Webb and John Godbolt, a son of the present prexy, Gerald Riverview Park. In the above pictures many of the contestants Godbolt proved to be the best balancers as they upset Jim Cars- are shown in various positions and predicaments as they attempt cadden and Dennis Hockey in the final. six strikeouts , HANG ON The pattern of the Saturday game was repeated but only in reverse as Zurich forged ahead early and were able to hold off a last minute DashWood rally to preserve the 5-4 Monday win. Don O'Brien, one of Zurich's veterans who was behind the plate in the Saturday contest and started Monday's gama at third came on in a relief pitching role in the fifth inning and pre- served the win for starter Jim Pfaff. The Kings scored twice in the first inning on three Dashwood errors and a walk without the aid of a base hit. They upped the score to 3-0 in the third as Don O'Brien doubled and came around on infield outs. Dashwood hit the run column in the fifth as Art Rader reached first on an error, Bill Schade doubled and Jim Hayter singled both runners h o m e. Bob Heff,. man was hit by a pitched ball and this brought O'Brien to the mound. He was able to get the next three men in order to re- tire the side without any further damage being done. George Haggittls double and a single from Dick Bedard powered the two run Zurich rally in the top of the sixth. In the last of the same frame the Tigers scored twice on an error and singles by Gord Vin- cent and Jim Hayter but couldn't get the equalizer over the plate. Jim Pfaff, the Zurich starter allowed only two hits during his term on the mound, but was wild, walking two and hitting five batters. Bill Schade went the distance for the Tigers allowing but three hits and striking out four, • Blank London nine before overflow crowd Rec all stars shine in Centennial tilt On two occasions during the past two seasons when the Exeter Rec league All Stars have tested their strength against city op- position they have turned in cred- itable performances. Playing before probably the largest crowd ever to see a ball game in Exeter, the locals downed BS&B Rads, leaders of the London City league, 5-0 in a well played contest as part of Saturday's Centennial festivities. The spectators that ranged in number from 2,000 at the begin- ning of the exhibition to nearly 6,000 as the game was terminated to allow the fireworks display were treated to exciting action from start to finish. In officially opening the flood- lights at Exeter Community Park late last summer a team of all- stars composed of mainly the same players were downed 2-1 by London Life in a 12 inning contest. The Intense baseball rivalry between the Dashweed Tigers and Zurich Lumber Kings con- tinues and on their season's play to date in the Huron-P erth league each team has recorded two wins. The two rivals had split a pair of early season ganles and onthe holiday weekend each club won on thei r opposition's diamond to Maintain the stalemate. On Saturday, as part of Zur- ich's Centennial Day celebra- tions, the Tigers refused to co- operate in the birthday party and downed the home team Kings 7-5, Back on the Dashwood field, Mon- day, the Zurich nine returned the compliments by taking a 5-4 deci- sion. COMEBACK TRY FAILS In the Dashwood win Saturday, the Tigers scored once in the second inning, three times in the fourth and finished their tallying with a single marker inthe sixth. The Kings waited until the fifth to hit the score sheet when they found the plate twice and three more times in the sixth which Was the last inning of the game. Southpaw Dave Ratz chalked up his second pitching win of the year needed help from youthful Bob Webb in the last frame. Rats more than helped his own cause at the plate as he connect- ed for two singles and a double in four trips to the plate. His first single in the second came in front of Ken Rader's booming triple to put the Tigers in front 1-0. Singles from the bats of Richard Rader, Art Rader and Jim Hayter in addition to a Zurich error and a passed ball upped the Dashwood run total to four in the fourth. Ratz's second bingle of the day opened the fifth but the young hurler was caught at the plate trying to score on Ken Rader's single to left. Lorne Vincent followed with another single to send Rader scurrying home. In the final inning doubles by Bill Schade and Ratz combined with two walks sent the last two Tiger runners across the plate. The Zurich scoring was con- fined to the last two frames. Phil Overholt's double in the bottom of the fifth brought home Earl Wagner who had singled and Doug O'Brien who made first on a Dashwood miscue to eliminate the goose egg on the scoreboard. After the first King was re- tired in the sixthDoug Dalrymple reached first on an error, Doug Stade drew a walk and Bob Johnston was hit with a pitch to load the bases. Earl Wagner followed with a double to clear the bases and brought Webb in to relieve Ratz. Don O'Brien greeted the youngster with a single and Doug O'Brien was hit to again load the bases, Phil Overholt laced a low line drive at second sacker Richard Rader who was able to double Don O'Brien off second to end the game. Dick Bedard went the distance on the Zurich hill and recorded of singles and a London throw- ing error. After the first Star was re- tired, Bill Farquhar singled and Robert Wolfe walked. Both run- ners moved up on a passed ball and scored as former Exeter minor star Rick Boyle threw wildly on Jim Pinder's ground ball to deep short. to left-centre. Gilfillan com- pleted on the circuit as Jim Pinder ripped a single to left. The latter was nipped at the plate as he tried to come home on a similar safety from the bat of Cy Blommaert. The other two Star markers came across the platter in the fourth as the result of a pair form as he set the visitors down in one-two-three fashion in every inning but the second. In their second trip to the plate the Rads got their only life on the bases as Don Faulkner sing- led but was forced at second by Frank Anderson and the next two batters popped out to finish any scoring ideas they may have had. In chalking up the one-hitter, Bell sent six visitors back to the bench on strike-outs and was afforded perfect support by his mates. Centre fielder Ron Bogart pulled off a fine running catch in the very first inning to keep the London nine in check. The home town stars wasted little time in showing the large crowd they were out to win as they sent their first three batters in the game winging across the plate. Bogart singled to start pro- ceedings, Jim Russell beat out a bunt as the opposition failed to make a play and both runners scored on Bill Gilfillan's double Men's club bowlers win centennial dual BELL Don Bell Rec Stars CLOGS RADS on the mound for the was in mid-season Legion downs Crediton in only Rec loop action and Ron Heywood. Other prize winners were Dick Roelofson and Bill McLean and Bob Blair and Andy Dougall. Prizes were donated by George: Vriese, Exeter Co-op, Canadian Tire, Snell Bros., Middleton & Genttner, Cann's Mill and South End Service. In regular jitney play Tuesday, Bob Nicol emerged as the best bowler of the night recording two wins and a plus of 15 to lead the field of 22 competitors. Russ Snell and Wes Venner compiled similar double wins and a plus of 10 but the former was placed in second because of a superior aggregate score. Liz Lamport and Peter Plant- Inge were next in line to close out the first five place finishers. The sweet old lady smiled at the girl who had been left in charge of the bakery. ''Don't you sometimes feel tempted to eat a cupcake?" the old lady asked. "Of course not," said the girl, "that would be stealing. I only lick them." Nearly every organization in Canada has a special Centennial project and the Exeter Lawn Bowling club is no exception. Several months ago officials of the local club decided to in- troduce more people to the pop- ular summer sport as their contribution to our country's birthday celebrations. Thursday night was set aside to give the newcomers to the game a chance to show their talents in a "Duel to the finish". A pair of greensmen from ACTS of James Street United Church, Harold Patterson and Dr. Don Ecker, adapted well to the new sport after only a couple of practices and walked away with the top prize. The winners compiled two wins and a plus of 12, to edge out the runner-up combination of Fred Wells and Craig Davidson by a single plus. P et e r McFalls and Brian Sanders accumulated similar double wins and a 10 plus, good for third post. Finishing fourth and fifth respectively were the duos of Don Geiser and Lloyd Eagleson and Russ Collingwood Colter's triple and a double by Ken Bender were the big blows in cutting the Legion lead to 10-'7. A double by Bob Lammie sent Roy Smith home in the Crediton half of the sixth and Doug Fink- beiner singled and completed the trip home in the seventh to com- plete his team's scoring for the night. The winning Legion nine scored five times in the bottom of the sixth to increase their lead. Dick Bennett, Jim Finnen, Cy Blom- maert, Bill Gilfillan and Jim Hennessey were the successful runners. All teams are in action in the popular softball league tonight with the Teen Town 69'ers trav- elling to Crediton and the Legion and Kinsmen meeting under the lights at Exeter Community Park at 8 o'clock. FISHERMAN'S COVE GRAND BEND RIVER RD, S. OF BRIDGE CHICKEN & CHIPS N. FISH & CHIPS SHRIMP & CHIPS ETC. TAKE OUT ORDERS Phone: 238-2025 These days everybody seems to be coming up with a centennial project of their own and some of them are quite novel. We believe that Fergy Jenkins of Chatham is working on one of the best ideas that any Canadian could come up with. The young right bander from the Kent County city is striving in his first full year in the National league towards achieving .a "Big Three", That would be, being selected on the league's all-star team, the winningest pitcher in his circuit and pitching in the World Series. Jenkins has already achieved his first goal as Walter Alston has chosen Fergie as one of his first line throwers in the annual test of the two leagues at Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 11. The Chatham youngster is well on the way to making a success in his two other ventures with the help of his Chicago teammates. The Cubs, on the strength of 14 wins in their last 15 starts, moved into a first place tie with the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Jenkins contributed plenty to the Cub cause as he faced only 29 men in downing the Cincinnatti Reds 4-1 on Sunday and bashed a double and triple. The latest win gives Fergie an 11.5 season record, the most wins in the National league and a good chance at becoming a 20-game winner. As the Cubs have only played 74 contests in a 174-game schedule the Chatham native has a great opportunity to become the first Canadian to reach the 20-game circle in the big leagues. His selection to the all-star club is only the second time a Canadian has been chosen to pitch in the big game. The other Canuck to make the grade was Oscar "Lefty" Judd, a native of Ingersoll who hurled successfully for several years with the Bos- ton Red Sox. Coming back to the local scene, Saturday's Centennial Day celebration in Exeter was a huge suc- cess and sporting events added a great deal to the day's activities, One of the highlights of the program was the canoe jousting event held on the river in the early evening. Several thousand people lined the river banks in Riverview Park to watch 14 two-man teams vie for supremacy in the art of "canoe balancing." An art it certainly is as a couple of contest- ants failed to get into actual combat as they fell prey to the Ausable waters in attempting to stand upright in their canoes before reaching the opposition. After the elimination trials and quarter-final rounds the combatants seemed to gain from the ex- perience of some of the other less fortunate and the last two rounds resulted in lengthy and skilful bouts. A pair of jousters from the Lions club were able to spill all of their opposition to reign as cham- pions. The local service club went all out to gain the win as they sent out a "top level" team to do their roaring for them. Incoming president Gerald Webb and John Godbolt, a son of Gerald Godbolt who is completing the present term as chief executive of the Lions, were able to outmanoeuvre and outbalance the rest of the field and remain the driest. In connection with the canoeing, in referring to the upcoming event in the last couple of weeks we called it canoe jostling instead of jousting. After watching the exciting action Saturday and checking with our Webster dictionary, both terms could be used to describe the water activity. To jostle is listed as to bump together, to shake and to interfere with, while to joust is to join battle, to combat and to tilt. After considerable thought, the word joust may be a little more satisfactory as there was more tilting than anything else. The exhibition softball game which will be described more fully elsewhere on these pages was a fitting climax to the sports part of the birthday celebrations that also included games for the young fry and free swimming for everyone. With a large crowd spilling onto the playing field the Exeter Rec league All-Stars defeated the London BS&B Rads 5-0 in an abbreviated seven- inning contest to allow the colorful and brilliant fireworks display to go on at its scheduled time. The success of Saturday's Centennial festivi- ties has suggested the possibility of making this an annual event. The population of the town was about doubled for the finale of the day, the fireworks extravaganza. While on the surface the idea of having an annual July 1 celebration sounds like a good one, we must realize that a tremendous amount of plan- ning and work by many, many persons over several months was the main reason for the success of the day. The popularity of the canoe jousting was in- stant as the spectators delighted in seeing the vari- ous contestants dumped into the river. The coopera- tion of the various organizations of town in sending teams to get "dunked" contributed to the success. This certainly could become part of an annual Canada birthday celebration along with a softball game and fireworks. Also, a tug-of-war contest could be added. A similar event in Stephen Township a couple of weeks ago was highly successful, A test of strength could be widened to include the best of the various municipalities around Exeter. Features mepitweod distillotor svhieh removes injurious oils and tort, sdirnlisetes tongue.tsite*hroderatted iri Coneda, Doug's Barber Shop EXETER Exeter Legion continued their winning ways in Rec league soft- ball play by outscoring the Cred- iton Tigers 15-9 under the lights at Exeter Community Park, Mon- day in the only game of the week that the weatherman allowed to go as scheduled, A big eight run rally in the fourth inning provided the dif- ference in the Legion victory as the teams were tied at 2-2 after three innings of play. The Vets were first to hit the score sheet pushing across a single marker In the bottom of the first as Gerry Finnen doubled and scored on a pair of infield outs. Crediton moved into a tempor- ary lead with a pair of runs in the top of the third. Jim Fink- beiner opened the frame with a double, Bob Martin followed with a single and both came in to count on a two base blow by Roy Smith. A bases empty homer from the bat of Gerry Finnen with two out in the Legion half of the same frame knotted the score until the eventual winners broke the game open in the fourth. Dick Bennett started the big fourth with a triple and scored on Jim Pinder's single to left field. The latter was thrown out at the plate after Jim Finnen reached first on an error, Walks to Bill Gilfillan and Jim Hennessey loaded the bases with two out and Crediton pitcher Cord Slaght threw the third strike past Ms rival hurler Don Moue- seau for the apparent third out, but the ball eluded his catcher and all hands were safe with Finnen scoring. Another Crediton miscue com- bined with singles from the bats of Chub Edwards, Bennett and Finnen sent the balance of the Legion runs home to up the score to 10-2. The Tigers showed in their next trip to the plate that they weren't giving up as they came right back with five scores Co tighten the score again. The first four Tigers •.'ea.ched the safety Of first and eventually scored. Singles by Bob Lammie and Smith along with Dick irrrirerme NEVER Assume the public knows as much about your business as you do. That's why advertising is so indispensable