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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-06-13, Page 6Purchase Your BRIDAL-KNOT DIAMOND "Insured for a lifetime" At WILSON'S, JEWELLERY & Gifts Exeter pleasing 'You pleases Brewers Retail The 1968 season of the Exeter and district Rec softball league got underway at the local ball park Mon- day night and fans should be in for some exciting action. Above, Dick Bennett of the Legion is shown following through his swing after lining a single to left field in the fifth inning. Jim Hewitt is the Kins- men catcher and Bill Bourne is the umpire while Bob Bayham waits in on the deck circle.— T-A photo Another good season The 1968 season at the Exeter lawn bowling greens is off to a good start with about 35 members turning out for regular jitney play each Tuesday and Saturday evening. Above, Alvin Pym, Mrs. Bill Lamport, Wilf Shapton, Ivan Hill and Mrs. Wilf Shapton are drawing for partners during a recent club jitney. T-A photo Glenn Webb takes over as Dashwood Tiger mentor The Dashwood Tiger baseball club was completely reorganized at a meeting of players and inter- ested fans, Tuesday night. A long time baseball supporter in Dashwood, Milford "Joe" Merner was chosen as president and Glenn Webb was installed as field manager with Charlie Tiern- an handling coaching duties. Dave Ratz was selected by the players as the captain for the 1968 season. The balance of the executive includes Jack Ford, George Tiernan, Hubert Miller and Ray Webb. Bill Vandeworp will handle the secretarial duties and take care of statistics. At the moment, the Tigers have only two wins in six Huron- Perth league starts and the play- ers themselves have been hand- ling the managerial duties in most of the games. Dashwood Tigers were only able to come up with one win in three starts in Huron-Perth in- termediate baseball action over the past week. The Tigers now will be idle until they travel to St. Marys on June 17. The Dashwood club gained their second consecutive win over the Mitchell BP's by a 7-3 count in the Perth County town Wednes- day and then fell into a slump as they were downed 5-2 by the Zurich Lumber Kings in Dash- Wood Friday and were thumped by Thorndale 13-4 on Sunday, also in Dashwood. In other 1 e a gU e action, St. Marys came from behind ontheir home diamond, Sattirtia.y to edge }Jensen 6-5 and Zurich downed Mitchell 10-6 on the ZUrichlield, Monday. Youthful right hander Bob Webb gained his seeond win of the Season as he held Mitchell to six scattered hits in Wednesday's triumph. Three-run rallies in each of the fourth and seventh innings powered the Dashwood victory. Singles by Dave Ratz and Jim Hayter were the key blows in the fourth frame uprising while Ratz, Bill Schade and Charlie Tiernan delivered the necessary bingles in the game winning splurge in the seventh. KINGS COME FROM BEHIND The Zurich Lumber Kings, down 2-0 after five innings of play in Dashwood Friday, came up with three runs in their half of the sixth and two more in the top of the seventh and last inn- ing to gain the victory. Dashwood's two markers, one each in the fourth and fifth inn- ings were scored without the benefit of a base hit on walks and errors. Doug O'Brien delivered a line shot to left field in the sixth to send Bob Johnston and Don O'- Brien home with the tying runs and scored the eventual winner himself a few moments later on Ron Corriveau's double. A Dashwoocl error and back- to-back singles from the bats of Bob Johnston and Don O'Brien sent the Zurich insurance runs across the plate in the seventh. The only Dashwood perform- ers able to solve the offerings Of Zurich hurler Dick Bedard Were Jim Ilayter, Whitey Den- ornrne and Ken Rader, each, pick- ing up singles. Dave Ratz went the distance on the Dashwood hill and al- though he was tagged for the loss sent nine of the opposition down by the strikeout route. SCORE AT WILL Scoring in every inning but one on the Dashwood diamond Sunday, Thorndale, one of the two new entries in the league, had little trouble in downing the Tigers 13-4. The visitors ran up an 8-0 lead before the Tigers could dent the scoreboard. Dashwood scored single runs in the fifth and sixth and added a pair in their last chance in the game that was called after seven innings due to the hot weather. Pete Ravelle and Stan Lovie singled in the sixth for the only hits allowed by Doug Byers on the Thorndale hill. Bob Webb, Er- win E agleson and Dave Ratz shar- ed the Dashwood pitching duties. FIRST START In the Zurich win over Mitchell, Monday, Earl Wagner, a veteran infield performer with the Lumb- er Kings Made his first appear- ance on the pitching mound a win- ning one. Wagner, after a shaky first inning when Mitchell scored all their runs, settled down and used a good curve ball to keep the visit- ors off the score sheet the rest of the way. PLEASE BREWERS RETAIL Summer Hours of Sale effective June 3rd XETER. „.• Will be Open Monday thru Saturday 10 am to, 6 pm. open to . pm 'Frida ys Operated by Brewers Warehousing Co, Ltd, Lines out base hit Davies Grant & Patterson CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Municipal Auditors • DEVON BUILDING PH 235-0120 EXETER • Office Hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MEN'S NIGHT at the Ausable Golf Course EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT Tee Off: 5:30 to 7:00 1968 Chevrolet V8 Sale Biscayne, Bel Air and Impala Models Save Hundreds On One Of These Buys USED CARS 1967 CHEVROLET BiSCAYNE SEDAN automatic transmission, radio, 24,000 mile warrantyon power train, 'license H4/581, 1966 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE SEDAN 8 cylinder automatic transmission, radio, whitewall tires. 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IS IN YOUR HANDS • The Exeter Kinsmen in their first, game of the 1968 Exeter and district Rec sofi.411 league started off just like they finished lastfall! The Kin 'club, ptcleci by gl i‘caseyn Hearn, won the popular play-for-fun league champion- ship last year and got off on the right foot Monday night at Ex- eter Community Park as they downed the Legiop nine 10-4. The next league action sends CentrUlia Huron Park to Credit= and the Kinsmen against Teen Town at the local park in games tonight, Thursday! iFoR ,O0Pck SPORT:6 :Kin Gpen Rec .boll. season 4une. 1,0 By Ross Haugh with win over .L.e.g.ion nine L,o sof octiQn Page 6. Saturday's Mid-Western Quarter Horse Show at Exeter Community Park should be by far the best in the three Year history of the event. The all-day show will be held at the new rodeo facilities at the local park for the first time and is expected to set a new record in both attend- ance and the number Of entries, For the first two years of its existence the Quarter Horse Show was held at the Saddle Club grounds, west of Exeter and was hampered by ter- rible weather conditions, especially last year when the contestants slipped around in ankle deep mud. Last year's show, only the second of its kind in this part of the country, drew more than 225 en- tries putting it into the "A" class category, This was the first "A" show in the province and only the sec- ond in the entire Dominion of Canada. Saturday's show will run in two sections with registered quarter horses at halter in the morning commencing at 8:30 and performance classes going in the afternoon. For exciting action from a spectator's point of view the afternoon portion of the program will pro- vide the best entertainment, This will include barrel racing, reining, calf roping and hurdle jumping. The hurdle jumping event is new on the pro- gram and should provide a lot of extra excitement. One class, registered cutting, is probably the best test of the ability of both horse and rider. Added to the program for the first time last year, this event calls for the horse and rider to go into the ring and cut a particular animal out of a group. When the calf or cow is removed the follow- ing steps are made by the horse alone as the rider drops the reins. The Quarter Horse Show is being sponsored by the Exeter Saddle club with president Dr. Don Ecker heading up the enthusiastic executive. Keith Moon of Rochester, Minnesota will be the judge for the full day's program while Don Nye of Kilbride will be the arena director. Local talent will handle the remainder of the duties with Fred Darling as announcer and Noel Veri in charge of entries, some of which have been re- ceived from as far away as Texas. Most of the con- testants at Saturday's show here will continue on to Sarnia for a similar event the next day. The Ontario Quarter Horse Association has one of the largest following of youth activity classes in Canada. This association that sanctions all shows of this kind insists on various events restricted to the youngsters. As of last year, there were close to 5,000 quar- ter horses registered in Canada with Ontario having more than 1,000, the second highest total in the Do- minion. Quarter horses are in existence in every country of the world, except Russia. For a little background information, the quar- ter horse had its beginning as a race horse. In the 350 years since his origin, he has retained his ability to beat horses of any other breed from a standing start up to the 440-yard marker or a quarter of a Mile, thus establishing the name. The quarter horse breed originated during the colonial era in the Carolinas and Virginia. At that time match racing was the leading outdoor sport with races run on village streets and along country lanes near the plantations. The foundation of these quarter running horses came from the Arab and Turk breed brought to North America by Spanish explorers and traders. Stallions selected from these first arrivals were crossed with a band of mares which arrived from England in 1620. This cross produced compact, heav- ily muscled horses that could run a short distance faster than •those of any other breed. The quarter horse is the most versatile, best all round horse the world has ever known. He is gen- tle and his easy-going disposition makes him an ideal mount for women and children. He is thrifty, easy to keep and train for multiple uses and has no equal for rodeoing, cutting, roping, barrel racing and bull dogging. Popularity of the quarter horse and his rapid- ly increasing numbers in this and other countries is readily apparent at many hundreds of halter shows and performance events sponsored by quarter horse owners. POOL OPENS SATURDAY With the exceptionally warm weather of the past weekend comes the urge for most people, and youngsters in particular, to head for the water. Rec- reation director Alvin Willert passes on the good news that the Exeter swimming pool will be open for the first time this weekend. The pool will be Open Saturday and Sunday of this week for public swimming from 2-4 and 7.9 and on weekdays until public school holidays start from 3:30-5:30 and 7-9, GET NHL STATISTICS We received information a week 'ago that the National Hockey League is again offering its year- end statistical card to any hockey fan who is inter- ested, The booklet includes the final official statistics for both the regular season and playoffs for the 1967- 68 season. These handy bulletins are offered free by the NHL. All any fan has to do is write to the Publicity Department, National Hockey League, 922 Sun Life Building, Montreal 2. won't budge? Then get an ad into every home every week, Tha 'g the way to move merchandiser That's the fastest way to profits. Mid season form Lawn bowling continues to be a popular summer sport these warm evenings at the Exeter Lawn Bowling club greeis on Main Street. Above, one of the club's most enthusiastic bowlers, Ross Taylor is shown delivering a bowl during a pre-game warmup.— T-A photo Open mixed tourney set for local greens Activity at the Exeter lawn bowling club was limited to Sat- urday night of last week as the weatherman interfered with Tuesday's regular jitney play. Harold Simpson proved to be the best competitor Saturday as he won two games and came up with a plus of 13 and an aggre- gate score of 24. Len McKnight gained second place on the strength of a pair of wins along with a plus of ,11 and an aggregate of 32. The battle for third spot was close with Elizabeth Lamport edging Mabel McKnight by 22-20 on ag- gregate score after each had won two games with a plus of four. An open mixed doubles tourney HOMERS HELP A pair of two-run homers was the big reason for the Kinsmen victory in the opening game over the Legion, Monday. The Vets started as if they meant business, scoring twice in the top of the first and getting the same num- ber of runs in the third frame. The Kinsmen got one run back in their half of the first, added two in the third and broke the game wide open with respective rallies of three and four mark- ers in the fifth and sixth innings. Pitcher Dick Bennett socked a two run homer in the first inning to get the Legion off and running while a pair of walks and singles from the bats of Jim Pinder and Cy Blommaert sent the remaind- er of the Legion game runs across in the third. Larry Stire's single in the opening inning chased Lyle Little across with the first Kin tally while Jim Russell's home run blast with Little again aboard produced two more in the third. Russell's second hit of the night, this time a triple, sent Little and Jim Hewitt, who had each drawn a base on balls, home in the fifth and the big third sacker scored himself on a Le- gion' miscue. The final Kinsmen runs were scored in the sixth as Lyle Little reached first safely on an error, the fourth time he was able to gain admission to the base paths, and scored on Jim Hewitt's long triple. Hewitt crossed the plate himself a moment later as Jim McDonald slammed a home run to deep right field. Bill Fisher, a newcomer to the Kinsmen roster, toed the mound for the first six innings and Doug Kennedy fired the final frame. Dick Bennett and Bill Brock shar- ed the pitching du ties for the losers. SoftbalFsked is released Convener Ivan Gardner of Wingham has released the West- ern Ontario Athletic Association midget softball league schedule that involves a team from Exeter. Manager Lorne Haugh and coach Bill Farquhar are holding a practice at the local ball park Monday at seven o'clock when all boys that were under 17 as of January 1, 1968 will be more than welcome to try out for the team. Following is the schedule in- volving the Exeter team: JUNE 24 - Exeter at Nile 26 -Nile at Exeter JULY 3 - Wingham at Exeter 5 - Exeter at Wingham 10 -Lucknow at Exeter 12 - Exeter at LucknoW 17 - Belgrave at Exeter 19 - Exeter at Belgrave 24 - Blyth at Exeter 26 - Exeter at Blyth 0 • • • •