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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-11-14, Page 6"MEW 31U TA W1TH READY (ASH If you can lay out "Ready Cash" this week at Conklin Lumber Company, you'll save more on Top Quality Building Products than you ever dreamed possible! 2ND ANNUAL loroinistrunnwasamanwerrin•mi__ 01.11••ff, Hurry! QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED 2-speed No. 514 No. 501C — Drill Plus Accessories 10% OFF All Skil Tool Accessories KITCHEN Counter Tops $26 85 8' Reg. $40,00 101 Reg $50;0Q $32 85 YOU CAN Rely on CONKLIN'S: OVER 85 YEARS OF TRUSTED EXPERIENCE Pa • 4 TimesAfivocete, Hoygmber 14, Ma Trgvet to, Goderich today l to knot the count. A couple of quick counters in a space of less than a minute with Exeter enjoying a five-man-to-four ad- vantage gave the Hawks a 3-1 lead as the clubs headed for their second rest of the night. Dan Anderson fired the first with assists going to Scott Burton and Lawson, Grant Walker picked up the second on a play started by Hodgins. Early in the third, Pete Lawson found the range on an unassisted effort to give the Hawks a three goal edge on the scoreboard. The Elmira boys refused to give up and Jim Dorscht and Dennis Brubacher scored to cut the Exeter lead to 4-3. The latter goal was scored with the Elmira net empty as they tried to put on extra pressure with a Exeter player in the penalty box. The same strategy backfired in the last minute of play as Bill Fairbairn was able to fire the puck into the empty Elmira net. Total paid attendance was 390. r T FOR ALL GOOD PORT By Ross Haugh. Opt cya a limb Ws. that time of the year again when. we go out on a limb :and pick the order of finish in the National. Hockey league, After having .a good. record in selections in the American baseball league this year and in the World Series. we have .given the teams .4 few weeks. to get going before We Make our choices. The race in this year's eastern division could he the closest in many a moon. Although, it is. still early in the season only eight points separate the -six clubs at the time of writing, The Toronto Maple Leafs off to a slow start have scored only 26.goals in 11 games, which is exactly half the total scores chalked up by the Chicago Black Hawks in a dozenconteStS. On the other side of the ledger, the Leafs have also the best goals against record with their trio of goalies allowing only 25: goals. Without any delay let's get to the selections. In the eastern section, we see the following order of finish in our crystal ball: New York, Montreal, Boston, Toronto, Chicago and Detroit. In the west it should be St. Louis, Los. Angeles, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Oakland. Youth and Experience Some people may be quite surprised by ourpicking the Rangers to finish ahead of the Canadiens and possibly rightly so.. The Montreal roster is virtually unchanged from last spring when they took the Stanley Cup. We feel the Rangers have a good combination of youth and experience that is necessary to mould together a solid hockey club, Their experience comes from fellows like . Ed Giacomin, Harry Howell, Phil Guyette, Don Marshall, Reg Fleming and Bob Nevin. Nevin is well on the way to his best scoring year in the big leagues. The former Toronto Maple Leaf fired 28 goals last year and so .far this season has 11, one quarter of his team's total in 13 games. • While the Rangers really only have one rookie, Walt Tkaczuk, up from the Kitchener Rangers they have a goodly number of competitors in the twenties. Among these are Rod Selling, Jim Neilson, Arnie Brown, Jean Ratelle, Dave Balon and Orland Kurtenbach. The most important factor in the Manhattan club this year is the vast improvement in their mental attitude. Rookie coach Bernie Geofftion is along-time exponent of positive thinking and a fierce competitor and he should be able to keep his club hustling. Will Miss Blake As we said before the Canadiens are about the same as a year ago and will have plenty to say about who finishes first. The biggest loss suffered by the Montreal team was the retirement of coach Hector "Toe" Blake. While the new mentor, Claude Ruel is a sound hockey man but at the age of 29, much younger than a lot of his players-he, cannot compare with Blake. Blake during his 13 years at the helm of the Canadiens knew how to utilize the club's personnel to the best advantage and could rally the players beyond the limit of their potential. The Habs are again strong up the middle with Gump Worsley and Rogatien Vachon in goal and fellows like Belliveau, Richard and Backstrom at the centre ice position. More Bruin Defence The Boston Bruins have been proving their coach right in the early stages of this season, at the outset, Harry Sinden said his main objective was his team's defensive play and cutting down on goals allowed. In the first 13 games, the Beantowners allowed 28 shots to get into their nets. On the scoring side of the ledger, Sinden said he would settle for an average of three and a half goals per game. At the moment the Bruins have scored 42 timess in the 13 starts which is pretty close to Sinden's hopes. Most of the Bruin hopes center around the play of their sensational rookie, Bobby Orr. The former Oshawa junior star had a couple of knee operations during the summer and the success of these will have a lot to do with the Boston club's fortunes. Without Orr they would probably miss the playoffs. Most of their scoring should come from Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Fred Stanfield, Johnny Bucyk, Tommy Williams and.Eddie Shack. More Leaf Legs The acquisition of a bunch of youngsters should give the Toronto Maple Leafs enough extra hustle to make the playoffs after sitting one extra-season session out. The biggest Leaf spark is being provided by newcomers Jim Dorey and Larry Mickey. Dorey, a former London National junior is showing some of the exuberant bumping qualities exhibited many years ago at Maple Leaf Gardens by fellows like Red Homer, King Clancy and Flap Day. While the Leafs have scored little more than two goals per game to date they should get better scoring outputs from Ron Ellis, Dave Keon, Bob Pulford and the former Detroit line of Normie Ullman, Floyd Smith and Paul Henderson. Hawk Defensive Problems While the Chicago Black Hawks are noted for their Scoring abilities especially from Bobby Hull and the Scooter line they have troubles keeping the other teams from scoring g oftener. In the first 12 Chicago games they have allowed 45 goals which is a higher total than any club in either division, The loss of Pierre Pilate to the Leafs is hurting more than anyone in Chicago cares to admit, Wings Could Explode Although, we pick the Detroit. Red Wings to finish last in the eastern division, here is a club that could surprise everybody, In the first 12 Red Wings games, ex-Leaf Frank Mahovlieh has Shown signs of coming back to his great potential by scoring on 10 OcCasions. The Wings have p lenty of scoring potential in guys like Gary Unger, Pete Stemkowski,Alex Delvecchio, Bruce MacGregor and last, but far from least GOrdie Howe, The Exeter Hawks showed over the weekend that they should be able to hold their own in junior "C" company this year by racking up two wins in the OHA's Western division. After dropping their first league start in Elmira a week ago with an uninspiring performance, the Hawks rebounded with a 5-3 win over Elmira on Exeter ice, Friday and travelled to Preston the next night to inflict a 3-1 loss on the Preston Legion Raiders. The Hawks will make their next start on home ice tomorrow night, Friday when they take on the Hespeler Shamrocks in an 8.30 contest and will then be idle until the following Friday when the Preston Raiders will be in for a return contest, BOUNCE BACK The local boys proved in Preston Saturday night that they have the ability to come from behind. They appeared to have taken an early lead at 2.16 of the first period when Jim Hayter converted a pass from Larry Laye into the Preston net. The goal was disallowed when it' *as fotind-FlaYter's name did not appear on the official score sheet. Hayter, who was making his first start after suffering a knee injury while performing for the South Huron football Pan- thers was forced to call it quits for the night. To add insult to injury, John McLeod scored at 5.13 to put the Preston club out in front, if only temporarily. The Exeter deficit lasted for less than 30 seconds with defenceman Pete Lawson finding the scoring range on a hard shot from the point. The The Lucan-Ilderton Jets notched their fifth consecutive exhibition win on Tuesday night at Centralia's Huron Park arena by a 6-4 score over the University of Western Ontario Mustangs. The Jets open their OHA Intermediate "B" season at the Centralia rink Tuesday at 8:30 with Port Elgin supplying the opposition. The Mustangs are members of the Quebec-Ontario University Athletic Union. COME FROM BEHIND For the first time this season the Jets were forced to come from behind to keeptheir winning streak intact. Midway through the second period, the Mustangs were holding a two goal edge at 4-2. The University club jumped in front quickly with a goal froth the stick of John Hospador before one minute had elapsed in the game. It took the Jets less than four assist went to left winger Bill Fairbairn. Play continued on even terms until 18.51 when Preston drew their third penalty of the period. With time running out in the initial session, Torn Hodgins sent Grant Walker into the clear and the Hensel youngster made no mistake in putting his club in front 2-1. The final goal of the night came early in the third with Bill Fairbaim finishing off a three- -way passing effort with Scott Burton and Danny Anderson. The home Preston club drew 13 of the 19 penalties called, all being of the minor variety except one five minute call to Preston for cross-checking late in the game. The Hawks also held a slight edge in the shots on goal department 30-27. PENALTY BENCH BUSY The busiest fellows at Friday's game at the local arena when the Hawks edged Elmira 5.3 were the penalty timekeepers. The regular OHA form has room for listing 27 rule infractions and the score- keepers were forced t'Zi use a second record ,shget early in the third-period. -0, On several occasions in the first and last periods, the seating space in the penalty box was completely filled with three and four players from each club. Only in the second period did both teams stick to hockey and forget about taking care of the opposition and using the fists. Tom Hodgins scored the only goal of the first period on a play started by Bill Fairbairn and Pete Lawson to put the Hawks in front 1-0. In the second, Doug Ireland scored at the twenty second mark minutes to get back on even terms with veteran defenceman Don Urbshott finishing off a three-way passing effort started by Jack Nairn and Jamie Robb. At 1:58 of the second session, Tom Monteith found the range behind Bob Simmons in the Western net to give the Jets a short-lived lead. At this point the Mustangs caught fire and scored three consecutive goals in less than five minutes to take a two goal margin before the halfway mark had been reached. Paul Courneya scored twice and Bob Blackburn added a single to complete the college boys scoring for the night. A couple of former St. Marys Lincoln performers got in a scoring mood to tie the Score at 4-4 before the second session was Completed. Barry Hearn and Jack Nairn fired the successful shots on goal. In the third period at the one — Please turn to page 8 The entire focttiali season for the South litiren senior Panther§ has boiled to one game, They will be in ,Goderich thiS afternonn, Thtirsday to Meet the Goderich Collegiate Vikings for the HUM-Perth Conference championship. The Panthers gained the final with a thrilling 13-6 win over the wingham mustangs in a sudden-death contest on the Exeter field, last Wednesday. In an exhibition tilt about three weeks ago, the Gotlerich club pulled off a 30.3 win, but South Huron coach Ron Bogart saYs "It will be a different story today," The first game was played with only one day's notice due to a change in playoff plans, "We are ready for them this time and our spirits our high," added Bogart. More than 700 students are expected to accompany the team to Goderich and pep rallies were held during lunch hours on Wednesday to help increase Sharks widen dart loop lead The Dart Sharks have opened up a three point lead at the top of the heap in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league. The Sharks now have a season total of 24 points, three more than the Itchy Four and Hairpins, who are deadlocked for second place. A three-way tie exists for fourth spot with the Cleaners, Dark Angels and Canners each sporting 20 point records. The individual leaders remain the same with Don Wells heading the men with 10 games to his credit and eight wins puts Marj Edwards at the top of the ladies'list. In each of the next few weeks, members of two teams in the league will be listed. Members of the leading Dart Sharks are Verdun and Jake Lindenfield and Jean and Larry Estey. The Hairpins are comprised of Ann and John Link and Edna and John Dietz. Last week's scores were as follows: Hairpins 4 — Hell Cats 1 Shiphunters 4 — Cleaners 1 Snappers 3 — Canners 2 Four B's 3 — Hot Shots 2 Dart Sharks 3 — Dark Angels 2 Featherflights 3 — Itchy Four 2 school and team spirit• FullhaeX Jim HaYter, injured several weeks ago IS a donbtfid WOAA continues :coaching clinic The Western Ontario. Athletic Association, is continuing its policy of holding instruction clinics for coaches and referees in various sections of the countrY. Under the direction of WOAA vice-president Hugh Hodges, one coaches clinic and four sessions for officials will be held in the next two months. The first, for coaches will go at the Wingham arena, this Saturday an all-day session beginning at 9.30 in the morning. The Seafprth arena will host the southern area referee clinic, Saturday November23. On Sunday December 1, a similar training session for referees will be held in Chesley -and the following Saturday, the Wingham arena will be host for central area referees. To wind up the program, the Wingham arena will again be the scene for a referee improvement programme, This final clinic will be for selected personnel only. Anyone wishing further or detailed information is asked to contact Hugh Hodges at Box 808, CFB, Camp Borden or the nearest WOAA executive member. Six species of hickory are found in Canada. Most,..thAde.nts will be there WINNERS OF FIRST DRAW — The curling season at the Exeter club got underway over the weekend with a mixed bonspiel for local members. A rink skipped by George Busche was victorious in the first draw. The winners ire shown above. From left, Bill Cann, skip Busche, Betty Wilson and Harry Mathers. Hawks gain double wins in Western OHA reC" play L-I Jets win fifth in exhibition starts WOAA INT. "C' EXHIBITION HOCKEY Sunday, Novi 17 8:3G PM,: EXETER ARENA Milverton VS Crediton Tigers 15.ePthibiNd'iAl-OAA -tHAls1106 • OHA JUNIOR 'C' HOCKEY Friday, Nov. 15 8: 30 P. M. EXETER ARENA Hespeler Shamrocks VS Exeter Hawks • inal starter and guard Bill Taylor will definitely miss,the game because of injuries. IP a move to strengthen the Wen, Bogart is bringing backs Brian Campbell and Larry Bourne and linemen Paul Passmere and Gary Raker from the junior school team. RAZZI,-DAZZLE WINS A razzle.dazzle play that came about pn some quick thinking in the South Huron, backfield When a play seemed to go astray in the third quarter put the Panthers on the way to victory, Trailing 6-0,. qearterback Scott Burton pitched out to Barry saynham for an apparent end run, When Baynharn failed to get running room he tossed back to Burton who hit end Larry Bourne with a 13-yard pass into the Wingham end zone, Bill Fairbairn booted the convert to put the Panthers in front 7-6. Dale Wardley had scored a Wingham touchdown on a nine yard run early in the second quarter. On one of the first plays of the fourth quarter Doug Cook kicked a 27-yard single to tie the score at 7-7. . Late in the fourth quarter, Bill Fairbairn barged over from three yards out to give the Panthers the win and a spot in the Conference final. Despite the closeness of the score, the Panthers had a big • majority of the play, running 62 plays from scrimmage as compared to 31 Wingham plays.