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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-11-16, Page 6FOR A.1.4, GOOD SPORTS y Ross .Haugh Let's back the Hawks Now, My Little Elves; For Those Who Were Extra Good This Year, Go To Earl Campbell Jewellers, And Buy These Special gifts... WATCHES and CLOCKS, RINGS and DIAMONDS, FINE CHINA and CRYSTAL, CUFF LINKS and TIE TACKS SILVERWARE AND PINECROFT AND DRESSER SETS AND 6•••••••••••1 4W1 • 114 .:F.:14CT, SOMETHING FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY .111 • ••••• • Purchase Your Waltham At WILSON'S JEWELLERY & Gifts Exeter Pleasing You Pleases Us. Page .0 Tirnes Advocate, .Nev ember 10, 1967 ANTHERS WIN HET LOOP TITLE This Friday night heralds the opening of an- other season of junior hockey at the Exeter arena. Local fans will find quite a few changes have been made since the Hawks were last seen in action in the provincial semi-finals in early April of this year. First of all, although most of the same teams will be back in action, the name of the league has been changed. The eight,team loop will now be known as the Bluewater Junior Hockey League. The only new face that will appear as far as teams are concerned will be Wallaceburg. The entry from the Glass Town is replacing the Port Huron Beefeaters who have moved into a Michigan junior league. The returning clubs in addition to the Hawks are from Petrolia, Dresden, Blenheim, Point Edward, Belmont and Alvinston. The Hawks will again be sponsored by the Exeter Minor Hockey Association with Derry Boyle as president but a complete change has been made in the managerial and coaching departments. Bob Baynham has taken over the duties as team manager and Terry Bourne will do the coaching. Bourne, who was a top junior star in Inger- soll and has seen some pro hockey action, has been working hard in practices on the basic fundamentals of hockey, especially in a defensive vein. As far as the playing roster is concerned six of last year's top Hawk performers will be among the missing when the locals face Petrolia at the arena Friday at 8:30. The four top scorers on the club of a year ago, Gary Parsons, Mike Cushman, Craig Chapman and Dennis Morrissey, are ineligible because of age. Last year's regular goalie Tom Glavin is also past the age limit for junior hockey and hard working forward Bill Chipchase is playing with the Learning- ton Flyers in junior "B" company and has been scor- ing his share of goals in games played to date. We have watched the Hawk candidates in a couple of workouts and they look as if they will be a hustling club. They may not scare as many goals as the club of a year ago but on the other hand with their persistent checking and hard skating shouldn't allow as many goals either. Although they dropped the first game of the season in Dresden Friday by a 5-4 count, the Hawks looked promising after they got rid of the first-night jitters. Late in the first period before the Exeter machine got untracked Dresden were leading 4-0. Another fact to consider is that the Dresden boys had at least three exhibition games under their belts before they took on the Hawks. The Kings also lost a few of their top performers of a year ago, in- cluding their top forward line of Roy Boyes, Andy Jones and Al Houston. The crowd following that the Hawks received last year was fantastic and we're sure that if -the club again comes up with pleasing performances the fans will be right behind them. In last spring's playoffs, the Hawks drew 9, 273 fans to 10 playoff games and in a lot of crucial games as many as 400 fans would attend the away contests of the locals. At the present time it looks 'as if the Hawks will be a "D" club without any imports. Players currently on the roster are from Hensall, Zurich, Lucan, Dashwood and Crediton in addition to Exeter, making the Hawks a true representative of the hock- ey talents of South Huron and North Middlesex. We wish the best of luck to Bob Baynham, Terry Bourne and company as they begin the long winter's schedule that could lead to an Ontario junior "D" championship for the Exeter junior Hawks. made no mistake to make the score 7-0. Shortly after, Desjardine burst through the Wingharn line toilet- ten a half-back who had just taken a pitch-out and the jarring tackle sent the ball sprawling, Desjardine picked it up and started for the goal line, but t h e slippery pigskin squirted from his hands, However big Ullke Nagel was close behind and picked it up and carried Crediton club enters league ;die &lox it "code pit doie eetadiof In fall football finals the players are usually hampered by muddy field conditions. This was not the case as the Southliuron Panthers won the 11-P football conference title on their home field Tuesday afternoon downing Wingham 16-7. In the accompanying pictures, members of the Panther club are shown getting plenty of snow in the face. Top left, an unidentified South Huron performer has his face guard completely filled with snow while at the bottom right, the same player seems ready to take another mouthful. Top right, Scott Burton is shown breaking loose on a good Panther ground gain. T-A photos. Hawks lose first junior tilt meet Petrolia here Friday the rest of the way for the major, lia.yter again was good on the convert. The score remained at 14-0 until mid-day through the sec- ond quarter when Doug Gibson burst through the Panther line and cut through the safety men on his way to a 50-yard romp for the lone Wingham touchdown, The Panthers came out after the half-time rest and continued their domination of the game, despite the fact they chose to work against the strong wind in the third period, The defense had a good rest as quarterback Scott Burton dir- ected a strong attack featuring his running along with that of Hayter and Desjardine and pas- ses to Bill Fairbairn, and Kevin McKinnon. Due to the wind and the treach- erous ground conditions, coach Bogart had Desjardine onside on all punts and the move paid off near the end of the period when he raced down to fly into the Wingham receiver and he and McKinnon recovered the ball to get the Panthers within striking distance. They were thwarted by a strong Wingham line although Bill Far- quhar managed to grab a pass in the end zone for what appeared to be a touchdown. However, the referee shovelled the snow away and finally ruled Farquhar had been out of bounds on the play. The defense got the ball back for them in quick order in the fourth period when Ron Durand recovered a funble, and after two pass attempts went astray, Bur- ton upped the count to 15-7 with a 40-yard punt into the Wingham end zone. He duplicated the feat minutes later, and while Wingham came up with their best display of the game in the dying minutes they never seriously threatened and Len Rimmer took the ball away from them on an interception. The Panthers ended the game — Please turn to page 12 The Crediton Tigers, 1966-67 champions of the Exeter and dist- rict Rec hockey league, are mov- ing farther afield in their puck ventures for the coming season. The Tigers, guided by Bob Gal- loway and Joe Regier, have enter- ed a WOAA Intermediate grouping and will be meeting clubs from Blyth, 1Vionkton, St. Clements and Zurich in a 16-game schedule. In addition to their participa- tion in WOAA play, the Tigers will continue as a member of the local Rec league. Galloway re- ports he has more than 20 play- ers available and will have no problems in icing teams in both leagues. The Crediton home games in Western play will be held at the Exeter Arena, mostly on Sunday evenings. This is the only time slot available at the local ice house. The Tigers showed they have plenty of strength to move into district play by scoring a 16-2 win over Dashwood in an exhibi- tion contest at the Exeter arena over the weekend. Jim and Dennis Morrissey led the Crediton scoring attack, each scoring four times. Larry Laye, Fred Lamb and Jim Pfaff checked in with two-goal performances while pat McKeever and Bob Galloway added singles. Although dropping their first game of the season the Exeter Hawks appear to be in for a good season in the new Blue- water junior hockey league. The locals in their first test of the year dropped a 5-4 deci- sion to the strong Dresden Kings in the Kent County town, Fri- day night. While the Hawks have been practicing for about three weeks they did not play any exhibition contests wh i 1 e the Dresden six saw action in three pre-season games. Hometown fans will get their first look at the new edition of the Hawks, Friday night at 8.30, when Petrolia pays a visit to the local arena. The South Huron panthers bat- tled their way through three in- ches of snow, cold winds and the Wingham Mustangs, Tuesday, to give the school a special centen- nial honor the Huron-Perth Conference football title. The winners scored two con- verted touchdowns in the first quarter and added a couple of ine surance singles from the foot of Scott Burton in the final quarter to wrap up a 16-7 win in the con- ference It was the best season ever recorded by a football team at the school as they went unde- feated, and while the weather provided unpleasant conditions for the contest, they were quickly forgotten when the final whistle sounded. The new champions jumped on each other on their way to the dressing room where complete bedlam broke loose, Two staunch supporters were tossed into the showers fully dressed and then the husky footballers raced down the hall to collar coach Ron Bo- gart. Pleas of "wart till I take my jacket off" fell on deaf ears as Bogart was tossed into the show- ers in the championship tradition. The victory celebration in the dressing room was indicative of the play on the field. There was no single star held up for special commendation, It was strictly a team effort and every player shared in the glory. The shouting was halted mom- entarily when someone announced the cheerleaders wanted to come in to hand out congratulations and there wasn't a dissenting voice in the crowd, although one player who had been anxious to get his wet football equipment off had to rush to get his pants back on. First there was a general cheer led by the pretty young misses who braved the winter weather in their short skirts and then there was a cheer for the football players, amply returned by the squad to the girls who had sup- ported them throughout the sea- son. However, a deafening din greeted the ,'let's have a cheer for Mr. Bogart". The team's reaction towards the coach was amply returned when he reported winning the title was the biggest thrill he ever had, placing it above some of the honors he helped other teams receive as a player. OFF TO POOR START In the opening tilt in Dresden the Hawks got off to a shaky start, and before 18 minutes had elapsed in the first period, were on the short end of a 4-0 score. They battled back quickly to score twice in the last minute of the first frame, traded single goals with the Kings in the sec- ond session and scored the only goal of the final period to come close in their opening test. Single goals by Don Eascott, Paul Brown, Gord Law and Gord Peters shot the Kings into the early four goal lead. The ability to take advantage of a Dresden penalty produced the first Hawk marker at 19.13 of the first per- iod. With the power play on,Pete Lawson completed a three way passing effort with Mike Hoy Curling season opens report initial scoring MEN'S CURLING SCORES Murley '7 - Prout 4 Dougall 9 - L. Webber 2 Kraft 15 - Alexander 4 MacLean 9 - L. passmore 3 Dunn 9 - Pym 3 McDonald 6 - McCarter 0 Raymond 10 - Wein 3 M. Hodgert 7 - Pollen 4 Hewitt 7 - Jermyn 6 A. Cann 7 - Sherwood 6 R. Hodgert 6 - Rhode 5 Cerson 13 - J. Gaiser 2 R. Webber 10 - R. Snell 8 Learn 1'7 - Smith 2 Payne 10 - Pinder 2 Marshall 8 - Busche 4 Seldon 14 - Morgan 4 and Scott Burton. Only 15 seconds later with the clubs at full strength Lawson notched his sec- ond goal with the assists being credited to Larry Laye and Hoy. Again in the second session the Hawks made the most of an- other King penalty as Bill Fair- bairn was in the right spot in front of the Dresden net to bang in the rebound on a shot from the point by defenceman Scott Bur- ton at 9.52. The other point man on the power play attack, Bill Bourne, also picked up an assist on the successful score. The situation was reversed just past the 14 minute mark when Morley Clark, a holdover from last year's Dresden club, found the range behind Exeter goalie Glenn Stire with two Hawks rest- ing in the penalty box. The final goal of the game was registered early in the third period when Larry Laye took a pass from line-mate Pete Law- son and beat goalie Ken Blackman on a low drive. A total of 28. penalties were called in the game with the Hawks drawing 15. The Exeter c 1 u b, using a new penalty killing meth- od initiated b y coach Terry Bourne, were very successful when shorthanded and gave up only one goal and this when they were two men short. Following are the line-ups for the opening Hawk game in Dres- den: EXETER — Goal, Glenn Stire and Jim Glavin; defence, Scott Burton, Bill Bourne, Larry Wil- lert and Craig Davidson; for- wards, Kevin McKinnon, Bill Fairbairn, J i m Hayter, Pete Lawson, Mike Hoy, Larry Laye, Andy Hardy, Rick MacDonald, Tom Hardy, and Bob Moir, HUGE CROWD About 1,000 spectators lined the playing field for the contest, as the SHDHS students and staff were joined by about 600 from the Wingham school. The crowd thinned throughout the game as the bitter wind took its toll, although surprisingly enough it was a well-played con- test, with only two fumbles. The team punters had the most trouble as they had to clear away mounds of snow to get a clear patch from which to boot the ball, and of course, they didn't get any extra yards on bounces as the ball sunk into the snow on the field. South Huron dominated play throughout the game as both the offense and defense came up with steady hard-nosed football. Ex- cept for the one touchdown, the Wingham squad didn't get within 30 yards of the Panther goal. The Panthers took control of the game from the opening kick- off when the defense forced Wing- ham to punt on their first series and midway through the quarter John Pryde pounced on a short punt to start the winners towards pay dirt. Jim Hayter took the first play for seven yards and Bud Des- jardine followed with a 25-yard run around the left end for the major. Hayter missed the convert at- tempt, but a Wingham penalty gave him a second shot and he A full compliment of 24 rinks are competing in this year's first draw of the Exeter ladies curling club. The ladies have again been assigned ice time each Tuesday and Thursday even- ing and Wednesday afternoon. In the first week of action, Barb Bell's rink moved to the front in Tuesday afternoon play, Dorothy Marks led her rink to a convincing win Wednesday and the foursome headed by Lee Dobbs was in high gear Thursday rol- ling up the highest score of the night. Last week's scores were as follows: B. Bell 14 - H. Frayne 5 T. Payne 10 - M. Ecker 4 E. Busche 8 - E. Knight 4 D. Elder 7 - H. Webber 5 D. Marks 10 - D. Pfaff 4 J. Weber 9 - E. Boyle 8 p. Simmons 8 M. Marshall 7 H. Mickle 6 - A. McDonald 5 L. Dobbs 13 H. Burton 1 B. Elliott 12 - M. Gaiser 6 M. Murley 8- D. Etherington 2 J. McDowell 7 - W. Marshall 6 CORRECTION PLEASE Last week we made an error in reporting the appearance of the Harlem Globetrotters at Treasure Island Gardens in London. The clown basketball out- fit with Fergy Jenkins as an added attraction will be in London Monday, November 27 and not the 17th as we reported. A top exhibition hockey game has also been slated for the same London rink for •the night of December 29. Sweden's National team will meet the Eastern division of Canada's National club in one of three exhibition tests before the World tournament that starts in Winnipeg January 1. The Swedish team with a dozen new players will arrive in Canada Christmas Eve and will per- form in Hull and Sherbrooke, Quebec before appear- ing in London. The tournament in Winnipeg, which is being held for the second time, has Canada, Russia and Sweden meeting in a double round robin schedule. The final game January 6 pits the Canadians against Russia with most of the games being shown on Na- tional television. On their way home the Russians will stop off in Edmonton and Ottawa for exhibition tilts. Four other European clubs will also tour Canada. The Rumanian national team will be in Canada for most of the month of December appearing in 10 games in cities from Manitoba to Newfoundland. The Italian National team will be in Maple Leaf Gardens on January 7, in North Bay the fol- lowing night and in Montreal on January 10. The Moscow Selects open a nine-game series in Hull, Quebec on December 16 and complete their Canadian stay in Sudbury on December .29, SEE OUR SELECTION OF OK USED CARS TODAY 1966 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE SEDAN automatic transmission, radio, whitewall tires, discs. License E77639. 1965 CHEVELLE DELUXE SEDAN automatic transmission, white- wall tires. License E80694. 1964 CHEVROLET BELAIR SEDAN 8 cylinder engine, automatic transmission, radio, whitewall tires, discs. License E78195. 1964 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE SEDAN automatic transmission, radio, discs. 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