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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-02-13, Page 6Page 6 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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E .!---= = CHEVROLET — OLDSMOBI LE Fr.' ▪ Phone 235-0660 = EXETER .4 = = FriiiIiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITMIIIIIIIIIimin1111111wIlliMiiillimillii111111111111111101111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIii. 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