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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-05-16, Page 6Take Shamrock "B" title One of the features of Friday's annual banquet of the Exeter Minor Hockey Association was the award- ing of trophies to the winning clubs. Above, Ebbie Bishop, general manager of the London Nationals pre- sents the Shamrock pee wee "B" plaque to Exeter captain Perry Stover and coach Bev Skinner. Grand Bend youngsters win trophy THE Crediton Tigers wish to thank all their Sponsors and Fans A. Wein Cab Crediton Farm Supply K. Kuhn Welding D. Browning Hair Stylist Galloway Elect?* R. Schenk Beauty Salon. C. Radford General Store L. Boyle Barber Shop' A. A tifield General Store' G. Slaght Plumbing & Heating L. Hey B.A. Service V, Bullock Supertest Roeszler Trucking Lippert Trucking ',aye Appliances Jones McNaughtOn Seeds Martens Market Gardening MeSteplzen Auto Wreckers Earl Neil Quality Produee C. A. McDowell Constritelion Centralia Farm Supply Centralia Garage Borland Farm Machinery Alton Isaac Find Service H. Reitz Farm Supply 0. Guenther Welding C. ESso Service B. Acianis General Store L. Snider Motors X. T. Monteith Smith & Rader barber Shop Ross Haugh &7tA Stephen Township Office it Council and many loyal fans. Sincerely, The Crediton Tigers Goalies check equipment The guest speaker at last week's minor hockey banquet in Grand Bend, Dennis Riggin brought along some goalie masks that he had used during his stay with the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL. The goal tenders of the four Grand Bend teams are shown with Riggin looking at two different masks. From left, Steve Hodgins, Doug Parker, Dwight Jennison and Joe Arnold. T-A photo Team captain CORNTROL 862 OIL saves time. frusttation and money—and your nearby ESSO Agent has it. CORNTROL 862 OIL, approved by the Ontario Agricultural College, reduces corn crop production loss and is just one more good reason -why Imperial Oil and your ESSO Agent Can help you get more for what you do! .1* NO CORNTROL 862 IS AVAILABLE AT YOUR IMPERIAL, AGENT G. Vrieset vExeter t Ont. Phone "n5-2MJ 0.C. Russelli .Shipkat Ont. Phone 288'.2481 Page 6 Times-Advocate, tilaY FOR ALL GOOD:SPORTS By Ross Haugh Future „stars feature minor H.hockey banquet , 6, 1968 "Get skates that fit properly and thee Reed all the tithe Yen can Just skating." These were the w9rcis,,pfgb140 P1shel?) general manager of the Londen Nationals, speaking to the father and son banquet of the Exeter Minor If ockey Association at the Legion H411, friday, Bishop went on Friday, say, "The best possible skating practice to get proper balance IS to skate to music, especially the old time band selections, The !WA- ee, portant requisite is shooting and building up your arms and wrists is a peceSsity. If a midgetage boy can skate and shoot we can teach him the rest," In speaking to the more than 150 boys of the EMHA who were accompanied by their fathers, the London manager also urged, the boys to try and get as much edu, cation as they possibly can. A boy heading to a junior "A" club will bp provided with room and board, books and tuition for high school and will also be assisted through university as long as he is of junior age. Bishop said that of the current London junior club 10 were still going to high school. All players making a junior "A" club get paid exactly the same regardless of their experience or capabili- ties. Other guests who spoke brief- ly and answered questions were Daryl. Edestrand of the St. Louis Blues, Bob, Cook of the Roches- ter Americans and John Gould of the London Nationals. Edestrand, who played his juni- or hockey in London, saw action in 19 games: for the St. Louis A hustling group of youngsters from Grand Bend won the 1967;68 pee wee championship of the Lambton- Middlesex minor 1.1,QPiCe4JP9-8A.,Al2on the happy,,champions are shown with their trophy after last week's minor hockey'binqueVidbilhd' Jaeiiti.13ackOeft,'Stephen'Fleara.ryJenniaon, Harry Smits, Ron Pickering, Frank SmeekenS, Peter Bax and coachCliffordGreen.-teutie,13avid Graham, Eddie Grenier, Kevin Bestard, Dwight Jennison and Rodney Willert. Front, Scott Green Paul Lovie, Michael Desjardine, Michael Eagleson and Billy Pullens. — , — T-A photo ANiz PH. 235.0660 • A short holiday Don't 'look now, but the National hockey league teams will be starting fall training sessions in early September, As members of the two clubs competing in the Stanley Cup finals only completed their 1967-68 season. Saturday it makes for a fairly short rest, The longer season is one of the reasons minor hockey associations all around the country have trouble get- ting name stars as speakers for their annual ban- quets, We have been to three district hockey feeds in 'the past couple of weeks and at only one was the guest speaker a current NHL star and that was Johnny Bower at Lucan. With the longer schedules and playoffs the players are finding less and less time to spend with their families. Governors of the NHL are meeting within the next two weeks to review their regular season and playoff schedules and it would be hoped some sensible plans can be made to shorten the sea- son a bit. Although National league officials will be seeking ways to improve schedules, president Clar- ence Campbell offers very little encouragement by saying that, "We'll certainly have to review the whole thing." He added that a change in the Stanley Cup semi-finals from a best-of-seven to a best-of-five se- ries might cut down the period of playoff hockey and create more interest. "But that is just conjecture. It's possible we won't change a thing." In a step in the right direction, the proposed minor league championship series between the West- ern and American hockey leagues was cancelled by mutual agreements of the two circuits. The unexpected announcement was made jointly by the presidents of the two leagues, Jack Butterfield of the AHL and Al Leader of the WHL. Both agreed that the 'best-of-seven title series would run too late. The WHL-AHL playoff was originally sched- uled to start May 3, but because of the death of negro leader Martin Luther King, both leagues had to postpone their earlier playoffs. If the two leagues had met in a special playoff and took the full seven games to gain a winner, the finishing date could have been as late as May 24. COLORFUL CAREER ENDS With the final game of the Stanley Cup finals in Montreal Saturday afternoon came the announce- ment of the end of a colorful hockey career. After his 'Canadiens had edged the St. Louis Blues 3-2 to take the battered old mug in four straight games, Hector "Toe" Blake announced he was stepping down as coach of 'the Montreal club. This brings to a close one of the most remark- able coaching careers in hockey history. In 13 years under Blake!s,directio.,n, ,,Canadien teal-as-13V finish- ed in first 'plabe''on nine occasions 'and won eight Stanley Clips, five iii Succession in 'an-all-conquering inclusive span between 1956-60. Blake proved himself by winning the Stanley Cup three times in the last four years with quite a few unknowns supplied first by the late Frank Selke and then by Sam Pollock. In his early coaching days, Blake had a power house club that included Rocket Richard, Bernie Geoffrion, Bert Olmstead, Doug Harvey, Torn John- son, Dickie Moore and Jean Beliveau. With teams like this, Blake's detractors would sneer, "Even a sports writer could win coaching that mob. All you have to do is open and shut the gate." This year only three players, Henri Richard, Claude Provost and Beliveau, remained from Blake's first Montreal team of 1955-56. Forced to integrate five or six rookies into the lineup when his veterans were burdened with injuries, "Toe" guided Canad- lens from last place at Christmas to the Stanley Cup by Mother's Day. Before he quit on Saturday, he should have erased all raps against him as a push- button coach. Blake's performances as a coach were a re- versal of his playing tactics. His playing career was distinguished by his gentlemanly conduct as he won the Lady Byng trophy in 1945-46 on his way to scor- ing 260 goals in his 13 years as an NHL player, the same amount of time he has spent coaching. In recent years, as Montreal's coach, Blake took special pains to prove 'that his winning the Byng trophy was a reversal of form. As an example, seven years ago in a playoff game in Chicago, he became agitated by the officiating of Dalton Mc- Arthur and skidded across the ice to direct a good right fist at the official's jaw. For this fit of temper, Blake was fined $2,000, the largest individual financial penalty ever assessed by the NAL. This didn't completely deter the Canad- len coach as only this past season he WAS accused of assaulting a Los Angeles fan With the help of Claude Provost. AN UPCOMING COACH While the NHL season just concluded herald- ed the end of one fantastic coaching career it was probably the beginning of another. Scotty Bowman who guided the St. Louis BItte8 to the Western division championship and in- spired his club to a terrific showing in the finals proves he belongs in the big time. There is also distinct possibility Bowman could become the new coach of the Montreal Cana& iens. The present St. Louis coach was brought Up in the Montreal System as a junior player Until almost fatally injured while playing, coached Montreal spon- sored junior teams and spent Some time in the Hab's front Offite. His agreement with St. Lodis ekpires in June. The most amazing fact of the St. Louis final performance was their ability to hold the Montreal winning margin to only one goal in every one of the four games. FISH WERE BIG While the amount of pike and pickerel caught the first few days of the new season Were small the fish were 'quite different. Fred seer of }Tennil holdS the honor of landing the biggest fish of the weekend, The veteran Hensall angler reeled ant a nine pound pike from the Howard bridge in Ray town- ship some time on Saturday while Cy t lonitnaert 'of town landed a five pounder frem the same location, Sunday morning, club et the NHL this Past season Edestrand revealed that he and is expected to be a regul4r played Pee wee house league next YeaT. hockey in Fxeter quite a few years, ago when his father was stationed at',RCAF Centralia. Cook, who Spent his junior days In LOndon and Kitchener, Possesses a hard shot and scored 22 goals and gained 16 assists during the regular season with Rochester. When questioned by some of the youngsters. as ,to how many fights he got into this year, Cook said, "I never get any penalties." A quick look at the final statistics of the AHL shows Cook drew down 93 minutes in penalties, the third highest on the team. Derry Boyle, president of the local Minor Hockey Association was master of ceremonies for the evening activities. The Exeter squirt hockey team were able to win the Shamrock B11 championship during the 1967-68 season and captain Brian Taylor is shown above with the plaque and crests. — T-A photo Bill & Doug's Barber Shop will be closed all day Sat., May 18 CHEVROLET BONANZA V8 SALE Special Prices And Trade-In Allowances On 1968 Chevrolet Biscayne Sedans, Belair Sedans, Impala Fastback Coupes, Sport Sedans and Caprice Sport Sedans. Snell Bros. Limited USED CARS 1965 OLDSMOBILE DYNAMIC 88 SEDAN power steering and 'brakes, radio, shadelite windshield, whitewall tires, one owner. License H48438. 1965 CHEVROLET IMPALA SPORT COUPE automatic trans- mission, radio, two tone finish, wheel discs, one owner. License H48026. ,p71,p4R9LET,B41AIR SEDAN automatic transmission, „eia:).redio..,1WhiteWall,,fiFes; Wheel discs. 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