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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-10-03, Page 6PSI 6. TitneaAdvoFate,October 3, 1940. FOR ..SPORTS By ,Ross 11.4,V9h, Off to DetrQit Last week in this column we reported ordering World Series tickets for the games in Detroit and were keeping our fingers crossed in hopes of getting to at least one game, At the time of this writing, our tickets have not arrived as yet, but We still have good news,. Late Saturday afternoon while attending the 50th reunion of the FirSt World War Veterans of litiron County at the Legion Hall in town we received a call from home that a telegram was waiting in London for us, A quick trip to the office and an equally quick call to CN in London confirmed our hopes that it was Detroit. The telegram said it was confirming our request for press privileges at the series and we should pick up our credentials for the three games sometime on Friday. This was in answer to a letter OUT good editor wrote to the public relations department of the Tigers Asking for consideration for a representative from this newspaper. Needless to say this was exceptionally good news and we could hardly wait until the telegram arrived at the local poet office Monday morning confirming the phone call. We do not know the exact nature of the privileges that can be expected in Detroit but hope it would be for the duration of the series there. It will mean not only having the opportunity to see a World Series in person, a chance that not too many people in this part of the country have in a lifetime but to mingle with reporters from all over the United States, some that are close to the big league ball scene. Our telegram was signed by Watson Spoelstra of Detroit who happens to be one of our favorite baseball writers. Watson is president of the Baseball Writers of America and a regular columnist in the Sporting News, which is referred to as baseball's "bible." Good year for Fergie While rabid ball fans in this district are thrilled with the Tiger success and the contribution made by Canada's own John Hiller, we should not forget the accomplishments of another Canadian. Chatham's Fergie Jenkins won his 20th game of the season on Saturday to complete his second successive appearance in the charmed circle. Fergie is one of the main reasons, Leo Durocher's Cubs were able to finish in third place, their highest final placing in many a year. We are sure that if Jenkins was tossing for several other clubs in either league he could also become a 30 game winner. He came within one of striking out the most NL batters in the just concluded 1968 season. Willie is official From now on, it's just plain Willie Horton. The betroit Tiger power hitter has gone through the official court channels to have his name changed from William Wattison Horton. "Everything I have is under Willie Horton," he explained. My regular name is a good one, but I'd rather be just Willie. There is another William Wattison Horton and he's had some traffic tickets. I don't like that. I've never had a ticket in my life." Big business While participating in a World Series is important to a ball club it is just as important to the economy of the cities in which the fall classic is played. This year's World Series is expected to generate an estimated $3,500,000 with a regular home attendance a little over the two million mark, While not knowing anything of the financial situation in Detroit, we would think their profit this year should be just as great as in St. Louis. A good crowd for Sunday's final game put the year's Tiger attendance up to 2,031,847. We would expect the Detroit payroll this year would not be near as high as the Cardinals, who are reigning world champs. But wait until next year when contract time comes around. Who doesn't deserve a substantial raise? A versatile performer The South Huron senior Panthers have scored more than 60 points in their first two starts in Huron-Perth Conference pre-season and regular play. Quarterback Scott Burton has been doing the passing and a good amount of the punting. Above, Burton is shown getting away a good boot. T-A photo Hawks gain entrance to Junior "C" league 7 9 12 0 16 0 6 7 17 1.1 15 16 )11111III1111111111111111101111111111111111111111111I11111111111111111111111111111110111111111111111110111111111101111111111111111U11111 = •-• = == =— ••••=•• .1•11. uuluudlluuuunuuuuuuluuluuuuunmuunumnuunnmdnuuuuuuauununnnunnuununnnmluu DEPARTMENT of HIGHWAYS ONTARIO Notice Rental Of Hired Loaders For Winter Maintenance Separate sealed Tenders marked Loader Rental Agreement, will be received by the District Engineer, P.O. Box 217, London, Ontario until 12:00 Noon, Local Time Wednesday, October 16, 1968 Specifications, Tender Forms and Envelopes may be obtained by calling at or by mail addressed to London District Engineer, P.O. Box 217, London, Ontario Loaders will be located at the following locations: 1 Loader required at Thamesford 1 Loader required at Hickson 1 Loader required at Simcoe 1 Loader required at Norwich 1 Loader required at 3.0 miles south of Courtland 1 Loader required at 3.0 miles west of Tillsonburg Loader required at New Sarum Loader required at Wallacetown Loader reqUired at Lambeth Loader required at Strathburn Loader required at Junction of Highways 81 and 22 Loader required at Parkhill Loader required at Elginfielci Loader required at Junction Highways 401 and 97 Loader required at Junction Highways 401 and Sweaburg Road Loader required at Junction Highways 401 and 74 Loader required at Junction Highway 401 and lona Rd. ALL LOADERS MUST BE MOUNTED ON RUBBER TIRES The lowest or any Quotation not necessarily accepted When requesting Tenders please specify location, H. C. Dernier, District Engineer, Department of Highways, 390 Saskatoon Street, London, Ontario Telephone: 451-5400 DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS ONTARIO 1968 MODEL CLEAROUT Only Three Cars Left 50,000 Mile -- 5 Year Warranty COMPANY CARS SAVE HUNDREDS 1968 CHEVELLE DELUXE 300 Hardtop, power steering, automatic transmission, whitewall tires 1968 CHEVELLE DELUXE 300 4-door Sedan, automatic transMission, radio, chrome window trim, whitewall tires. 1968 CHEVELLE MALI8U Hardtop, power steering, vinyl top, automatic transmission, radio, whitewall tires USED CARS 1966 FORD CUSTOM SEDAN automatic, radio, discs, license H47200 1965 CHEVROLET BEL AIR SEDAN automatic, radio, whitewall tires, license H47309 1964 FORD GALAXIE 600 SEDAN power steering and brakeS, radio, whitewalls, license H47266 1963 CHEVY II SEDAN automatic, radio, new tires, license H46133 Snell Bros. Limited Phone 236.0660 CHEVROLET — 011)864061U Exeter The Home of Guardian Mdiriteharice FREE PARKING AT BACK OF OUR LOT WRING ROAD CONSTRUCTION South Huron junior backfield The gridiron season at South Huron District High School promises to be a good one. Both clubs won all their exhibition starts and recorded wins in the first league tilts last week. The starting junior backfield is shown above with centre Robert. Doerr. From left, Brian Campbell, Randy Preszcator, .quarterback Dave Keating, Larry Haugh and,Gary Eagleson. —TA photo South Huron BA's eliminate Kinsmen meet Legion in Rec final ii ors squeak post Clinton ridders post two wins attPrOPtS for 4 total pip of 74 failed er Y wtoWrol?a tir aU4te",YPelti l p eri use tries. Both South High Schpol clubs made their first starts in :regular season erth -Fnotball Conference play 'Winning .ones .44 week The senior .Panthera sheilacke4 Listowel 25-0, Wednesday .afternoon and the, juniors also 'racked up a shut-put over Central .1-ftnOnr7of Clinton, Thursday, .but only .040 score. Each club gained decisive victories. in PrOPOSPn play a. week earlier, the juniora by a 4042 score over the same Clinton. junior outfit, Junior coach Doug Ellison said. his team has been hard -hit by injuries which explains ..the difference in ,the scores of the two contests with Clinton, Both clubs are in action again today, Thursday. Ron Bogart's. seniers travel to 'Parkhill while the junior grititiers are at home to Goderich. EVEN SCORING The senior Panthers in their easy win over Listowel spread their scoring fairly evenly over the full sixty minutes of play. They scored an unconverted touchdown in each of the first 1,11MP' ,q44rtOM and ,added AMP' points .l,114 fin41 n4riPci, The Panthers first in. the .dying minutes .of the first quarter 00.-a nine yard run by Jim liaY.tgr• Toni Trout raced .58 yArdp the first the..N.hthers had their hanclS on the 'hall in theaceOncl Period but failed to hit scoring territory, Quarterback -$44t .Dtirten. rambled 27 yards near the end of the first half .to. up the South. fluson score tq 1.2=9 and the conyert again failed. Midway through the third period a .n yard pass from Burton to Prout put the Panthers .in scoring position and Bill FairbaiIn romped over from. eight yards out on the next to. chalk up another TD that went unconverted. With time running out in the fourth period Bpb carpenter recovered a fumble in the Listowel end zone for the final major of the game and Jim Hayter added the convert to up the final score to 27,0. On the statistical board, South Huron's Scott Burton completed five of 15 pass All bowlers are winners Everyone went. home happy from a special night at the Exeter Lawn Bowling club, Monday. It was White Elephant Night when all competitors brought a prize and in turn received one. Mrs. Gertrude Hamilton was the big winner in the special "spider" event. In open comptition, a flip of the coin was necessary to decide the first four finishers on the prize list. Mrs. Roy Swartz edged Harold Simpson on a toss after they each finished with identical scores of two wins, a plus of 15 And aggregate of 33, Similarly, Bill Etherington edged Rev. MorrOw, who closed With a pair of wins, a plus of 8 and aggregate of 26, Mrs. Howard Inge took fifth spot With a single Victory, plus of 10 and aggregate of 29, MORE 'TIES Ray Smith finished in first place in Tuesday's regular play with two wins, a plus of 13 and aggregate of 26 but Another tie developed for the runner-Op position. Alvin Pym and Harold Patterson each wort twice and r011ed up a pitiS Of 9 and aggregate of 23. Pyin was given second spot on the result of the tuts of the Oki., Len McKnight and Ivan Hirtzel fin iShed fourth and fifth, teatiectiVely. MEN'S "P... LEAGUE FA (L. Little 734) SU (M, Wallace 655) UN (R. Stagg 638) OD (C. Atthill 649) IGA (F, Darling 754) BV (B. Bourne 593) C4 th (E. Matzold 775) RO (H. Rollings 684) SP (B. Nicols866) RB (R. Smith 788) RI (B. Greenacre 717) CA (W. Beattie 696) MEN'S "B" LEAGUE TE (J. Glover 688) CO (R. Blackman 581) MI (C. Zeehuisen 614 ) TR (R. Lee 726) OD (T. MacDonald 665) RT (L. Lemmon 488) CU (J. Bedard 692) NO (A, Meikle 608) Wcl (R. Dickey 695) CJB (13. Jane's 642) WI (.1. Brand 700) KI (B. minotlarn 696) LADIES "A" LEAGUE (W. Brintrie(l 687) 5 (B. Hearn 548) 2 (b. Morrison 65d) 7 (A, Prout 492) 0 (D. Munroe 568) 7 (M. Hern 390) 0 (E. Skinner 677) 7 (S. ChaOpet 480) 9 (R. Durand 672) 5 (P. Crawford 565) 2 (G. COWard 6711 5 (G. Webster 647) 2 LADIES "B" LEAGUE MM (M. Orunzlow 599) 5 12 JJ (S. dreb 587) 2 12 JS (G. Skiiiner529) 7 17 WE (o. Klepper s 18)_ 0 0 AC (H. RobertS 583) 7 16 Alvin Pyrn emerged as the Saturday regular play winner with two wins, a plus of 14 and aggregate of 28, Bill Etherington was second and Rev. IvInt:row third, Wilf Shapton and Mrs,. Alvin Pyrn completed the first five priZe winners. The fears of a few hockey fans in the district that the Exeter Hawks would not have a suitable league to play in for the coming winter were dispelled at an Ontario Hockey Association meeting in Preston, Monday night. The Hawks were accepted into a "C" league with teams from Hespeler, Preston, Elmira, New Hamburg, Walkerton and TT (G. GibSon 447) 0 2 UN (J. Dougherty 653) 7 19 SW (I Russell 446) 0 0 ,SP (L. Thorne 608 ) 5 12 TM (P. Holmes 582) 2 14 BL (J. Ellerington 581) 5 11 HA (V. Stagg 595) 2 11 MIXED LEAGUE (D. Browning 619) 4 6 (B. Gilfillan 615) 3 6 (A. Wallace 802) 7 14 (R. Kippers 563) 0 0 (B. Cunningham 563) 5 16 (O. Wilson 648) 2 4 (A. Hunter 580) 7 7 (I. Campbell 631) 0 12 (C. Mdore 547) 5 17 (L. Webber 519) 2 9 (D. Tiernan 679) 7 16 (B. Greenacre 696) 0 12 (A. Miller 592) 4 14 (10. Hockey 592) 3 8 (T. Arthur 708) 7 14 (T. MacDonald 5/1) 0 4 (G. Irvine 604) 7 9 (J. Be11603) 0 14 will be playing a 30-game schedule. At a meeting of the Exeter Minor Hockey Association a week ago, the executive voted to move up to "C" play this year but were not assured by the OHA that they would have a league with all "C" clubs. Manager Bob Baynham, coach Terry Bourne and arena manager Alvin Willert represented the local club at Monday's meeting at which time the other six clubs took a vote and allowed the Hawks entry to their loop. OHA executive member Hugh McLean of Burlington was in charge of the meeting and drew up the first half of the schedule. One of the conditions set forth by the other clubs to allow an Exeter entry waS that all Hawk games be played on the weekends and this has been complied with. The first regular league action will see the Hawks in Elmira on November 3 for a Sunday afternoon contest and the same two clubs will be back on Exeter ice the following Friday night. Six of the seven clubs will be eligible for playoff competition leading to OHA provincial play downs. For an emergency Supper dish, fold a dan of salmon into some whipped potatoes and cook in hot fat until brown and crisp. Serve with bacon arid chili Sauce. A last minute rally in the fifth and final game of the Exeter and district Rec softball league semi-final series, Tuesday gave the BA's a 5-4 victory over the Kinsmen and the right to meet the Exeter Legion in the league final. With the series tied at a game apiece a week ago, the BA's eked out a 6-5 win, Wednesday and the Kin came back with a 3.1 decision, Sunday evening to set up the crucial tilt for Tuesday night. The first game of the best-of-seven league final was played at Exeter Community Park last night, Wednesday. Further games in the series are expected to be played later in the week. COACH COMES THROUGH Playing coach John Snell smashed a bases loaded single in the bottom of the sixth to break a 4-4 tie and send his club into the league finals, Tuesday. The Kin club took a three run lead in the' second inning on singles by Don Bell and Lyle Little and a bases clearing homer from the bat of Bill Fisher. A pair of walks and a single by George Pratt produced another Km run in the top of the third. The BA's fought back and cut the Kinsmen margin to two runs in the bottom of the same frame on Snell's single and Bill Fairbairn's round tripper. Pitcher Doug Kennedy doubled in the fourth and scored on Pete Lawson's single to send a single BA run across the plate and leave the Kinsmen in front 4-3. The score remained the same until the winning BA rally in the sixth. With two out, Scott Burton, Kennedy and Lawson singled to set the stage for Snell's game winning blow. Doug Kennedy was the winning pitcher and set the Kinsmen down in order in the last four innings and recorded a total of 10 strikeouts. Don Bell on the hill for the losers picked up three strikeouts and was in control of the situation until the BA's broke loose in the sixth. LATE RALLY FAILS In Sunday's 3-1 Kinsmen win, the BA's also rallied in the late innings but left a couple of runners stranded in the bottom of the seventh after scoring their only run of the game. The Kinsmen posted single runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings to post their victory. Bob Russells single, a walk and a BA error sent the Mat Kin run home. A couple of errors in the fourth allowed Gerry Finnen, who was an injury replacement from the Legion club, to complete the bases cycle. Bill Fisher's single and a double from the bat of Bob Russell completed the Kinsmen scoring in the fifth. On the gro,Phd, Harter, Fairhairrl, Prout, Burton and Barry Baynham, picked up 1$7 yards in 25 carries and the opposition gained only .64 yards rushing. pstowel gained 70 yards through penalties assessed to the Panthers and lost poly 25 on fouls of their owp. The 6-0 South HurPri junior win over Clinton was accomplished on the first play of the game. Brian Campbell took the opening kickoff on his own 45 yard line and galloped the rest of the way to the Clinton goal line to account for the complete scoring in the game. South Httron's Randy Decker counted another touchdown later but it was nullified by a clipping call against the junior Panthers. Campbell and Brian Bestard were outstanding on offence for the locals while Paul Passrnore was tough on the defence. SHOTGUNS RIFLES and HANDGUNS NEW and USED Trades Accepted COMPLETE LINE OF AMMUNITION Triebner's Gun Shop — Exeter OPEN EVENINGS Senior Panthers cink Listowel Jack culler singled and scored the only BA run in the seventh. Don Bell went the distance on the mound for the winners, gave up only two hits over the seven inning route and allowed only five base runners. In the losing cause, Doug Kennedy racked up eight strikeouts. A CLOSE CONTEST The third game of the series, Wednesday taken by the BA's 6-5 was a close contest all the way with the outcome in doubt right to the final out. The Kinsmen had runners on second and third in the seventh and only a great running catch by shortstop Terry Bourne on Lyle Little's looping fly to short right centre saved the game for the BA's. The BA's were in front 3-0 after three innings of play. Bill Fairbairn singled in the first and came home on Terry Bourne's ground rule double. The same two combined in the third to up the BA lead to 3.0. Fairbairn reached first on a fielder's choice and came home on Bourne's long blast over the left field fence. The Kinsmen took over the lead with a four run rally in the top of the fourth. A couple of walks and singles from the bats Legion darts back in action The Exeter Legion dart league started the fall season Friday with a full slate of games. Four teams, the Dart Sharks, Cleaners, Hairpins and Dark Angels each took four points to hold a share of first place. The Snappers and Four B's collected three points apiece as the other winners. In the opening night's play Eric Heywood tossed a score of 140 to lead the men's section and Ann Romaniuk's 132 was best for the ladies. Jake Lindenfield is the league president for the 1968-69 season while Jean Estey is treasurer and Gerald Lawson handles the secretarial duties. of George Pratt, Bill Fisher and Don Bell were responsible for the scoring splurge. Jim McDonald walked and Jim Russell singled in the fifth to put the Kin ahead 5-3. A three run rally in the fifth, aided mainly by Scott Burton's double and a single from Doug Kennedy ensured the BA victory. 4 8 0 7 4 9 0 0 4 4 0 4 2 10 2 7 3 11 1 8 4 4 0 0 4 4 0 3 1 8 4 7 (10 5 3 7 4 3 8 1 2 4 10 0 2 BB KI BO LE HG BH PP DU HD TR MM OS U&D H8 AC TB TH TI HE HS WI BB HA YS RA VA CH PS HG PP