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Times-Advocate, February 13, 1969
FOR ALL, GOOD SPORTS
By Ross Haugh
To err
is human?
DOUBLE RINK ON WAY TO TANKARD — A fourth representative
from the Exeter curling club is making a bid for provincial
championships, This time, two ladies' rinks are competing as a unit
and are aiming at the Ontario championships in Peterborough in
March. They are shown above, at the left, from back, Wynn Marshall
skip Helen Burton, Lois Learn and Marg Murley. At the right, skip
Ellen Knight, Pauline Simmons, Dorothy Elder and Barb Bell.
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in Rec hockey play
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WOAA INT. "C'
HOCKEY
PLAYOFFS
1ST. GAME BEST-OF-FIVE SERIES
Sunday, Feb. 16
8:30 P.M.
HURON PARK ARENA —CENTRALIA
Clinton Colts vs Crediton Tigers
Lippert Trucking and Alton
Isaac F ina Service are
Tiger Supporters
OHA Intermediate 'B'
TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 18
8:30 P.M.
HURON PARK
Arena — Centralia
PORT ELGIN SUNOCOS
VS.
LUCAN-ILDERTON JETS
Wraith and Storey Hardware
and Ken Carter Supertest
are Jet Supporters
We continually hear complaints of the calibre of
officiating in all sports. This will continue as long as
games of any sport are played. We have often wondered
how much effect it actually has on the outcome of the
game and always doubt if it has much bearing on the
final score.
Sure, referees or umpires, whatever the case
may be will make mistakes, simply for one reason,
because they are human. A good example of this
occurred late in the third period of Saturday night's
nationally televised hockey game between the Toronto
Maple Leafs and Oakland Seals.
A replay of one Toronto goal that was called back
showed the puck to be over the line and should have
been counted. This was the only case in 60 minutes of
play where the officials could be blamed and this time it
was the goal judge.
What effect did one apparently "rough call" have
on the Leafs losing 4-1? With Foster Hewitt picking all
Oakland players for the three-stars of the game, it
appeared the Toronto team could have used a lot of
help from the referees.
An interestina
t'
article concerning this same topic
was written by Bob Gage in the London Free Press last
week and we would like to pass on some of his
comments.
Did you ever consider a .300 hitter in baseball as
a .700 failure at the plate?
Probably not.
And what about the basketball team which is
considered to have been a sensational night if it hit 50
per cent of its shots but in reality missed one shot for
every one taken?
Never thought about it that way before?
Well that's the argument Frank Corkin Jr. uses to
defend game officials whether it be football, basketball,
hockey, baseball and right on down the line.
Corkin, writing in the January issue of Sportorials
which is published by the International Association of
Approved Basketball Officials (IAABO), points out that
officials aren't expected to make mistakes but the
teams, coaches and players in the games they referee
consistently err.
"No one," Corkin says, ."can calculate the
number of mistakes a coach makes. But their win-loss
records are mute evidence of their failures. Only a
handful ever achieve a better than .500 average".
No collegiate or professional official, Corkin
states, ever missed 50 per cent of his calls and no baseball
umpire ever failed on seven-out-of-10 of his decisions as
the .300 hitter fails on seven-out-of-10 of his turns at
bat. •
Yet, Corkin goes on, these same coaches and
players are constantly criticizing officals who are called
on regularly to make "split-second decisions under
staggering pressure".
•And he points to the now famous case of Norm
Schacter and his National Football League refereeing
crew which blew one last fall when they lost track of
the downs in the Los Angeles Rams-Chicago Bears game.
For that goof, Schacter and his five cohorts were
banned from NFL action for the rest of the 1968
campaign.
Corkin says Rams' quarterback Roman Gabriel
didn't detect the error at the time nor did the entire Los
Angeles coaching staff. But Gabriel and George Allen
and his staff were forgiven but not the officials.
And then the writer asks:
"Wonder what would happen if players and
coaches were judged by the same standards. What would
happen if players and coaches were banished and
suspended after a single error?"
Officials have good reason to complain about
their treatment by players and coaches. But things
might be better if some of them showed more
consistency in their work.
It's this lack of consistency — far more than
obvious errors — that rile players and coaches. This is
particularly true in basketball where in one game
everything goes and the next a player can't turn around
without having a foul called.
But most officials can thank their lucky stars it's
only words that are being hurled at them and not fists as
in Detroit's city high school basketball league in recent
weeks.
Spectators" attacks have become so bad there that
the officials have threatened to boycott the rest of the
schedule. Game officials now receive escorts to and
from the parking lot when they are assigned to a school
game in Detroit.
What was that again about "to err is human"?
'TWAS NO SURPRISE
The selection of the Detroit Tigers as the 1968
team-of-the-year by the Associated Press came as no
surprik to most people.
The Tigers were chosen mostly because of their
come-from-behind win in the World Series over the
Cards after being down 3-1 at one time.
A Detroit newspaper said recently the Tigers won
the world's championship on the pitching efforts of a
part-time motorcycle tester, Mickey Lolich and a
part-time organ player, Denny McLain.
OHA JUNIOR 'C'
HOCKEY
Friday, February 14
8:30 P.M.
EXETER ARENA
New Hamburg Hahns
VS
Exeter Hawks
The emphasis is an offense
rather than defence in the
Exeter and district Rec hockey
league. In three games played in
the regular schedule last week a
total of 53 goals were scored.
After all the statistics were
tabulated, the Bank Boys
continue to hold down first
place with 25 points. Graham
and Graham are only four points
back in second spot, the Old
Timers hold down third place
with 12 points, Huron Park has
10 points and the Juveniles trail
with four.
The Old Timers pulled the
biggest upset of the season by
defeating the Bank Boys by a
decisive 9-4 count in Thursday's
second game. In the ' opener
Graham and Graham edged
Huron Park 12-8 and in
Sunday's only contest, the
Centralia club trounced the
Juveniles 17-3.
In tonight's action, Graham
and Graham and Old Timers
meet in the opener and Bank
Boys and Huron Park tangle in
the nightcap. Sunday's lone
action pits G & G against the
Juveniles.
PARK WINS EASILY
Huron Park had little trouble
in running roughshod over the
Juveniles 17-3, Sunday night.
Glenn Neal was the top goal
getter with five scores to his
credit and Herb Hunter with
four was close behind.
Checking in with two goals
each were Frank Boyle, Terry
Hore and Larry Brintnell while
Chuck Taylor and Bill Thomas
each added singles.
Dennis Bierling, Cliff Webber
and Larry Stire scored in single
style to account for the
Junvenile goal getting.
VETS PULL UPSET
A well diversified scoring
attack allowed the Old Timers to
pull a gigantic upset in downing
the league leading Bank Boys
9-4.
Bill Farquhar scored two
goals to lead the attack and the
balance were fired in single style
by Don Campbell, Fred Wells,
Bob Moore, Dick Bennett, Larry
Willert and Vic Fulcher,
Lloyd Moore scored twice
while Chuck Becker and Bob
Jones notched singles to account
for the losers' goal scoring.
HIGH SCORING TILT
One player on each team
came up with a four goal scoring
Local Canners
hold bonspiel
The third annual Snow Belt
Curling bonspiel held at the
Exeter Curling Club, Saturday
was a huge success.
A total of 20 rinks from
Leamington, Simcoe, Dresden,
Waterford, St. Catherines,
Hamilton, St, David's and Exeter
vied for the bonspiel
championship which was
sponsored by the Exeter branch
of Canadian Canners.
A Hamilton rink skipped by
Vince Farkas was overall winner
on the two-game tourney and an
Exeter rink skipped by local
Canners' manager Jack Urquhart
finished second. Other members
of the Urquhart group were Bob
Coates, Ross Rowe and Bill
Lamport.
You are getting old if it takes
you longer to rest than it did'to
get tired,
effort during Graham and
Graham's 12-8 win over Huron
Park. Bob McDonald lit the red
light four times for the winners
while Frank Boyle duplicated
the feat for Huron Park.
In a supporting role for the G
& G six, Jim McDonald, Jack
Glover, Jim Dingwell and Doug
McBride each scored twice.
For the Centralia club in
addition to Boyle's scoring
output, singles were fired by
Terry Hore, Chuck Taylor,
Boudreau and Oesinghaus.
Good margins
in male curling
With only one week of play
left in the regular schedule of
the second draw of the Exeter
men's curling club, the leading
rink in each of the three
divisions holds a good margin.
Dick Roelofson's foursome
continues to head the Monday
curlers with a healthy 56 point
total. Bill MacLean has his rink
in second spot at 45 points and
Bev Alexander's rink is another
point back in third place.
A closer battle exists in
Tuesday play where Don Easton
and his group with 42 points
hold a six point spread over King
McDonald 's crew.
A 46 point total allows Ross
Marshall and his aggregation to
hold down first place in
Thursday action. Second place
with 38 points belongs to Bert
Borland's rink.
Last week's scores were:
Hodgert 9 - Mousseau 6
Roelofson 9 - McCarter 4
Murley 12 - Busche 2
MacLean 10 - Raymond 4
Powe 4 Coates 3
Alexander 11 - Jermyn 4
McDonald 9 - Seldon 3
Marks '8 - Dougall 5
Learn 7 - Cann 4
Prout 11 - Gaiser 6
Down 14 - Lavier 7
Easton 7 - Webber 7
Borland 9 - Hodgert 4
Marshall 7 - Pinder 7
Urquhart 12 - Passmore 3
Schroeder 7 - Clarke 6
Lady curlers
in real battle
Competitors in Wednesday
play of the second draw of the
Exeter ladies curling club are in
a real battle for first place.
Agnes Bray has her rink in
first place with a 36 point total,
one more than the record of
Marg McCarter's foursome.
In Tuesday action, Ellen
Knight's rink with 53 points
holds a seven point edge over
Dorothy Elder's group. Another
point back is a rink skipped by
Melba Ecker,
The Thursday lead is held by
Marg Murley and her rink with
46 points to their credit. Helen
Burton's crew holds the
runner-up spot with a 38 point
total.
Last week's scores were:
Ecker 11 • Marshall 3
Knight 13 - Learn 4
Elder 12 - Payne 1
Bell 13 Mickle 4
McCarter 8 - Bray 5
Boyle 15 - McDonald 2
Jermyn 12 • Marks 5
McDowell 17 - Simmons 3
Murley 6 - Webber 6
Elliott 8 • Etherington 5
Burton 9 • Busche 7
The Exeter Hawks fattened
their scoring averages with a.
couple of high scoring wins over
the Mildmay Otters in a home
and home series over the
weekend in Ontario Hockey
Association Junior "C" play.
At the same time, the Hawks
assured themselves of second
place in the league standings
with only three games left on
the regular schedule.
On home ice, Saturday, the
Hawks ran up a 12-2 count on
the cellar dwellers from Mildmay
With only one game left in the
regular schedule, the Crediton
Tigers are assured of second
place in the southern division
standings of the Western Ontario
Athletic Association
Intermediate "C" series.
The Tigers outscored the
Clinton Colts 12.8 in Clinton,
Thursday, dropped a 10-7
decision to the Milverton
Four-Wheel Drives, Friday and
walloped the Wiarton Redmen
9-3, Sunday. They completed
regular season play in Listowel
last night, Wednesday.
Milverton, finishing in first
place had their choice of first
round playoff opponents and
choose to play Listowel.
Crediton will be meeting Clinton
Colts with the first game
scheduled for the Huron Park
arena, Sunday night at 8:30. The
semi-final series will be a
best-of-five affair.
LAMB'S RETURN HELPS
The return of Fred Lamb to
the Crediton line-up has given
the club plenty of additional
scoring strength. The fast-skating
Centralia youngster has appeared
in the Tiger roster in seven
games to date this season and
has chalked up a total of 30
scoring points.
He was at his best Thursday
night in Clinton as he almost
sunk the Colts single handedly.
Lamb scored seven goals, with
four of them coming in the third
period during the 12-8 Crediton
victory.
FRED LAMB
. scores seven goals
Bob Pinter scored a pair of
goals and single scores were
added by Terry Bourne, Paul
Young and Glenn Overholt. Bob
Lovermore with four goals was
tops on the Clinton scoring
ladder while Bruce Boyes, Grant
Volland, Ron Parsons and Don
More glory
for curlers
Not one but two rinks
brought added glory to the
Exeter curling club during the
past week. Wednesday afternoon
at Clinton's CFB curling club,
local representatives won the
ladies district 3 Tankard playoff
and earned the right to advance
to zone playdowns in Walkerton
on February 17.
Provincial finals will be
played in Peterborough in
March. The Tankard is a
two-team event with aggregate
team total counting in the final
scores.
The Exeter rinks are skipped
by Ellen Knight and Helen
Burton. Other members of the
Knight group are Pauline
Simmons, Dorothy Elder and
Barb Bell while Wyn Marshall,
Marg Murley and Lois Learn
complete the Burton roster.
and concluded the two game set
with a 9-5 win in Mildmay,
Sunday afternoon.
In the only action slated for
this week, the Exeter club plays
host to the league leading New
Hamburg Hahns on Friday night
at the local arena. New Hamburg
has already clinched 'first place
in the grouping, with a seven
point spread over the Hawks.
SCORING WELL SPREAD
In the Hawks' 9-5 win over
the Mildmay Otters in Mildmay,
McDougall checked in with
singles.
COULDN'T OVERCOME
DEFICIT
On Milverton ice, Friday, the
home town Four-Wheel Drives
took a 4-1 lead after the first
period of play and the Tigers
failed to overcome the early
deficit.
The Crediton club battled
back to cut the Milverton edge
to 9-7 with less than three
minutes to go when Bob
Scrimegeour beat Bob
Callingham in the Crediton nets
on a penalty shot to put the
game on ice for the league
leaders.
Bill Chipchase was the top
Tiger goal scorer with four
successful shots to his credit.
Glenn Overholt found the
scoring range on two occasions
and Terry Bourne added a single
score.
Rick Harrow with a hat trick
was tops for Milverton with
Scrimegeour and Gord Noble
scoring twice and Bob Grupp,
George Nahrgang and Bob
Bundscho notching lone
counters.
WILD AND WOOLLY
Sunday's game at Huron Park
in which the Tigers walloped
Wiarton 9-3 turned out to be a
penalty filled affair. The visiting
Redmen were assessed 25 of the
35 penalties called including
three game misconducts.
Ken Fraser with four goals to
his credit led the Crediton
scoring attack. Glenn Overholt
picked up two scores and the
balance of goals for the winners
were fired in single fashion by
Jim Morrissey, Glenn Overholt,
Ron Broderick and Fred Lamb.
Sharks still,lead
in dart leagUe
The Dart Sharks' lead at the
top of the Exeter Legion, mixed
dart league continues to be
considerable although it has
been cut by one point in
successive weeks.
The Sharks have a season
point total of 67, eight more
than the Hairpins who hold
down second spot. The Cleaners
are in third spot with 57 points
and the Itchy Four are right
behind, another point back.
Last week's scores were:
Hairpins 4 - Featherflights 1
Shiphunters 4 - Hot Shots 1
Cleaners 3 - Canners 2
Dart Sharks 3 - Itchy Four 2
Dark Angels 3 - Hell Cats 2
Snappers 3 - Four B's 2
Sunday afternoon, no less than
eight members of the Exeter
club shared in the scoring.
The Mildmay team hit the
score board first with a goal by
Ron Crusp before two minutes
had elapsed in the first period. It
took the Hawks less than a
minute to square the score with
Larry Bourne, up from the
midgets converting a pass from
Jim Hayter.
Before the period came to a
close, the Hawks had scored four
more goals to take a
commanding lead. Tom Hodgins,
Randy Parsons, Bill Fairbairn
and Bill Bourne were the Exeter
marksmen.
Early in the middle session,
Jim Hayter found the scoring
range to put the Hawks in front
6-1 and then the Mildmay boys
started to roll, with four
consecutive goals.
Crusp picked up his second
counter of the afternoon and
singles were contributed by
Chuck Nelsen, Doug Speers and
Harold Detzler.
With time running out in the
second, Mike Hoy scored on a
low shot from close in to give
the Hawks a two goal lead at
7-5.
The third period produced
only two goals. Scott Burton
nabbed the first on aplay
started by John Braid and Hoy
scored his second of the
afternoon on a three-way passing
effort with Randy Parsons and
Tom Hodgins.
FOUR DOUBLE SCORERS
Four members of the Hawks
each scored on two occasions to
lead the scoring spree in
Saturday night's 12-2 romp over
the Mildmay club.
Jim Hayter, Scott Burton,
Tom Hodgins and Bill Bourne
were the double talliers in a
game that saw the Exeter club
score three times in the first
period, add four in the second
and close with a five goal flurry
in the going home session.
Completing the Hawk scoring
total with single goals to their
credit were Grant Walker, Larry
Laye, Larry Bourne and Jean
Gautreau. Both Mildmay goals
were counted by captain Chuck
Nelsen.
Meet New Hamburg, Friday
Hawks clinch second place
Tigers meet Clinton
in first of play-off