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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-03-20, Page 6Page 6 Times-Advocate, March 20, 1969 FOR GOOD SPORTS By .Ross. Haugh A great `Feller' WOAA INT. 'C' HOCKEY GROUP FINAL Wednesday, March 26 8:30 p.m. HURON PARK ARENA —CENTRALIA Kincardine Bulldogs vs. Crediton Tigers Centralia Farm Supply and C, A, Borland Farm Machinery are Tiger Supporters .110.1100I "Look Your Best" Specializing In Hair Styling, Razor Cutting, Square Backs, etc. In accordance with the Industrial Standard Act, the Dept. of Labor, and a code of ethics set down by the Ontario Barbers Association we are maintaining a five day working week. We hope we are not confusing our customers by maintaining our regular working hours and to give them the best of service: OPEN MONDAY CLOSED WEDNESDAY Open Fri, nite till 9 GERRY SMITH GERRY RADER Barbers 364 Main St, Exeter Aileeleiner C.C.M. BICYCLES TRAQUAIR CANADA'S BEST KNOWN BIKES, REGISTERED WR ITTEN WARRANTY, PARTS AND ACCESSORIES AVAILABLE. 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License H78832 TRUCK 1967 CHEVROLET 1 ton chassis & cab, 8 cyl, engine, heavy duty equipment, dual rear wheels, License C87686. SNELL BROS. LIMITED Chev = Olds • Corvair • Envoy Chev Trucks PHONE 235.0660 EXETER, ONT. THE HOME OF GUARDIAN MAINTENACE OHA JUNIOR 'C' GROUP FINAL Friday, March 21 and Tuesday, March 25 8:30 P.M. EXETER ARENA NEW HAMBURG HAHNS vs EXETER HAWKS Hawks oust Elmira, gain final In last week's column we said it was the time of year again when the sports of baseball and hockey get tangled up a bit and Sunday was a perfect example of this as far as we were concerned. In Stratford for the annual convention of the Ontario Baseball Association we attended a noon banquet at the Victorian Inn and then hustled over to the Stratford Arena to catch a good portion of the exciting final contest between the Hawks and Elmira. The guest speaker at the baseball banquet was the former Cleveland Indian pitching ace, Bob Feller. Known as Rapid Robert, he set an. American League record for strikeouts in one season with 348. Feller is an excellent after dinner speaker and told of many interesting and humorous incidents in his long playing career. First of all he said his wife didn't come with him to Canada because she really didn't know much about baseball. He said, "She doesn't know the difference between a wild pitch and a wild duck," In talking of the greats of baseball, Feller named Joe Dimaggio as the greatest player ever to compete in the American league. He also told of the trouble Dimaggio had in the 1948 season in hitting the pitching slants of Satchel Paige, then with Cleveland. The great Yankee outfielder was only able to get one hit off Paige in 49 tries that year. Paige, 44 years of the age at the time was voted rookie of the year by the Baseball Writers of America, in 1948. The ageless Negro pitcher is still in an active playing capacity with the Atlanta Braves at the age of 65. Whenever big league ball players speak anywhere, a Lefty Gomez story is bound to crop up and Feller was no exception. He told ,of the time he was pitching in Yankee Stadium in a game in the late innings before most parks had lights and Gomez came up to bat. In trying to persuade the umpire to call the game because of darkness, Gomez lit a match and held it over the plate. This caused Umpire Bill Summers to become quite perturbed and he ordered Gomez in, saying that Feller had been pitching for a couple of hours and knew where the plate was. The Yankee pitcher came back with a quick remark, "I know that he knows where the plate is, I just want to make sure that he knows where Gomez is." The former Cleveland ace said in his opinion Bill Summers was one of the best umpires in baseball. "He was consistent" added Feller. Feller, a farm boy from Iowa never played minor pro ball going directly to the Indians and in his first exhibition start in spring training in 1936 against the St. Louis Cardinals struck out fellows like Pepper Martin, Leo Durocher and Ducky Medwick. In speaking of the success of athletes he stressed the co-operation necessary from parents, citing his own case where his father caught his pitches hour after hour. He said they often played catch in the winter time outside and if the ball fell in the snow and got wet._ it would be put into the kitchen oven to dry out. The question always comes up as to who threw the fastest pitch, Feller or Sandy Koufax. Steve O'Neil who caught Feller during his career and has been a catching coach for Koufax says, Koufax's pitch comes up looking like an aspirin, while Feller's is like a Bufferin, it's faster. Changes For The Better Some of the resolutions passed at last weekend's OBA convention in Stratford were heartily endorsed by Huron-Perth delegates and Dashwood Tiger officials in particular. Beginning this season, all teams participating in playoff series, junior and higher will be required to send a minimum of five dollars as the OBA fee for each game. In the annual financial report, playoff revenue for 1967 was listed as $280.16 while in 1968 it was $541.69. Dashwood manager Glenn Webb told us the OBA contributions from Tiger playoff games against Zurich, Walsingham and Mattice was in excess of $200, making up the largest share of the increase in revenue from last year. One OBA official told us he knew some of the teams were not remitting the proper amounts and the minimum fee will certainly increase the playoff revenue. Up until now a club was to forward 5% of the gate to the provincial body. In minor ranks, new regulations call for each club to pay $2 for each playoff series in which they participate. Also passed was a resolution calling for three umpires to be used in all provincial final games. Expos Are Ready Officials of the Montreal Expos have made plans to provide their fans with an exciting season of baseball. The Expos open at Jarry Park on April 14 against St. Louis Cardinals. Action on the field and good times for everybody is being assured. Music is provided before and during every game. Special days will be held during the season as follows: Ladies Days, Camera Days, Teens Nights, Father and Son Days, Steel Band Nights and Know-Your-Neighbour Nights. The Crediton Tigers finally moved into the Western Ontario Athletic Association Intermediate "C" group final against the Kincardine Bulldogs, but they had a lot of trouble in subduing the Milverton Four Wheel Drives in the divisional finals. After winning the first three games by fairly decisive margins, the Tigers lost two overtime contests to the Milverton club and were forced into overtime again Tuesday night at Centralia's Huron Park arena when they gained a 5-4 decision. Wednesday at Centralia, Milverton scored twice in overtime to take a 7.5 win and Sunday afternoon on Milverton ice, the Four Wheel Drives gained a 5-3 win again in overtime. The Bank Boys broke out of a losing streak to come up with two straight wins and stay alive in the Exeter and district Rec hockey league playoffs. The Bankers downed Huron Park 5-4 Thursday to tie their best-of-three series at a game apiece and came back Sunday night with a 5-3 decision to move into the round robin final series against Graham and Graham and the Old Timers. Carnival for saddle club A new type of skating carnival was held at the Exeter arena, Saturday night and was a huge success. Members of the Exeter Saddle club decided a few weeks ago to try a horse show on skates with the usual classes and events but without the aid of horses. Each member competing in the various events was charged an entry fee of one dollar and the money was returned in prizes. Craig Black was the official judge in charge while Ron Swartz and Arnold Paisley handled the timing and announcing duties, respectively. Winners of the various events are as follows: Western pleasure, Gladys Stire, Doug Mock, Casey Plomp; Junior equitation, Kathy Leonhardt, Gail Ecker, Trudy Johns; Novice class, Murray Preszcator, Brenda Swartz, Barbara Swartz; Senior barrel race, Jim Paisley, Larry Stire, Allan Parsons. Junior barrel race, Danny Turvey, Jim Peterson, Rick Ingram; Steady hand, Allan Parsons and Casey Plomp; Gladys and Larry Stire; Senior flag race, Larry Stire, Casey Plomp, Jack Parsons; Musical chairs, Allan Parsons, Brenda Parsons, Doug Mock. Rescue race, Jim Paisley, Terry Schrans, Allan Parsons; Pole bending, Jim Paisley, Larry Stire, Casey Plomp; Reining and trail class, Janet McDowell, Barbara Parsons, Jack Parsons. The first game of the best-of-seven final series will be played in Kincardine Sunday with the second contest back at the Centralia arena, Wednesday night, March 26 at 8:30. MORE EXTRA GOALS In Tuesday's final game of the Crediton-Milverton series at Centralia more goals were scored in the ten minute overtime than the two clubs were able to gain in three full periods of play. The Tigers held a good margin in territorial play throughout the game but were unable to find the scoring range until 12.18 of the third period. At 6.48, Milverton playing coach Tom Collings again put his club within one goal of tying the count. For the last minute, six Milverton attackers swarmed In the second half of Thursday's usual doubleheader, the Old Timers trounced the Juveniles 11-2 to make sure of a berth in the finals. Graham and Graham received a bye as the result of finishing first in the regular schedule. Tonight, Thursday, the Bank Boys and Graham and Graham will meet in the first game of the championship round with Graham and Graham meeting the Old Timers, Sunday night. BROTHERS AID IN WIN A brother combination of Dean and Paul McKnight paced the Bank Boys to their deciding 5-3 win over Huron Park at the arena, Sunday night. Dean McKnight was the top scorer with two goals to his credit while Paul added a single to go along with similar counters fired by Jim Russell and Bob Jones. The Huron Park counters were fired in single fashion by Don Cooper, Gary Riehl and Rod Hippern. JONES GETS PAIR Bob Jones, the top Bank Boys' goal getter during the regular season paced his team's attack with two goals in their close 5-4 win, Thursday over Huron Park to stay in contention. Aiding the winning cause with goals of the single variety were Jim Russell, Paul McKnight and Chuck Becker. Again, the Huron Park scoring was well spread with Don Cooper, Rod Hippern, Gary Riehl and Frank Boyle each scoring on one occasion. BOGART BAGS THREE Ron Bogart was the top scorer in the 11.2 Old Timers' win over the Juveniles to wrap up the series in two straight games. Close behind in a scoring way with two goals each to their credit were Paul Mason, Don Campbell and Doug Taylor. Single counters were fired by Bill Farquhar and Hans Zeehuisen. Dale Skinner and Grant Hooper were the marksmen for the losing Juveniles. around the Crediton net, but goalie Tom Glavin and his mates were able to keep the net clean. FALTER IN OVERTIME In Milverton Sunday, the Four Wheel Drives scored twice in overtime without a reply from Crediton to force the sixth game. The game was enlivened in the closing seconds of the third period when Paul Young of Crediton and Ray Kerr tangled in a battle of fists and both received roughing and major penalties. Paul Young put Crediton in front at 3.03 of the first period on an unassisted effort. In a space of two minutes near the halfway mark of the period, John Scimegeour scored twice to wipe out the Crediton lead and from then on the best the Tigers could do was draw even. In the middle session Gord Noble of Milverton sandwiched a goal between a pair of Crediton counters fired by Glenn Overholt and Paul Young. In overtime, it was Dick Harrow and captain Murray Kerr that scored the Milverton goals. Gord Noble scored two goals for the Four Wheel Drives in the second period and the lead held up until Bob Morrissey blasted in a long shot from the point to give the home town fans their first real chance to cheer. Only a minute later, Paul Cronyn let go another point drive that was deflected a couple of times and rolled into the Milverton net. There must have been some vegetarians in the crowd of more than 800 as several turnips were thrown on the ice during the Crediton scoring spurt late in the third period. The vegetables again showed in the overtime period but they were much Smaller in size. In the overtime session, Ken Fraser, one of the best Crediton performers of the night scored on a nice effort set up by Terry Bourne before the second hand on the clock had made it's first complete cycle. Only 17 seconds later, Crediton captain Dennis Morrissey upped the score to 4-2. Milverton failed to give in to defeat and Ed Erb scored at 2.28 to make things interesting again. The goal that finally proved to be the winner was fired by Bill Chipchase. The Hensall native got the loose puck near the Milverton blue line and wasted little time in firing the puck behind Mike Mohr in the opposing cage. FAIL TO HOLD LEAD The main problem with the Crediton Tigers in their 7-5 overtime loss to the Milverton club in Centralia, Wednesday was their inability to hold a three goal lead built up in the first half of the game. Bob and Dennis Morrissey and Ron Broderick were the Crediton marksmen in their early scoring spurt and before the second stanza was completed Murray and Ray Kerr had scored for the visitors to make the score 3-2. In the third the score ranged back and forth with Bill Chipchase gaining the equalizer at 19.59 to send the game into overtime. Other scorers in the third period were Craig Chapman for the Tigers Ed Erb, John Scrimegeour and Tom Collings. In overtime Dick Harrow and Ray Kerr scored to sink the Crediton ship. Only one remains • in tournaments One of the four Exeter Minor hockey teams competing in school holiday tournaments this week is still in the running. The Exeter Midwestern Broncos coached by Murray Moore and Jim Pinder defeated Beamsville 8.5 in a two game series at Brampton, Monday and met either Essex or Elora Wednesday afternoon in the first game of another two game set The Broncos outscored Beamsville 5-1 in the first game Monday and lost the second tilt 4-3 but were able to take the round on total goals. Howard Schenk and Ken Pinder each scored twice in the Exeter win with Paul Pooley adding a single. In the second game loss Tom Hayter scored twice for Exeter while John Van Gerwen scored a single counter. The Exeter Kinsmen midgets in the annual midget tournament in Hespeler won their opening round game Sunday by a score of 6-2 over Hagersville but lost 7-3 Tuesday afternoon to St. George. Ron Lindenfield scored two goals to lead the Kinsmen club in their opening tournament win while Larry Haugh, Larry Bourne, Brian Bestard and Pete Mason scored single counters. In the second round loss to St. George, Ron Lindenfield, Pete Mason and Steve Murley were the Exeter goal getters. The Exeter Legion bantams participated in the Georgetown bantam tourney and were sidelined by Kincardine by a score of 11.7 in a two-gameset In the annual Young Canada tournament at Goderich, the Exeter Legion Auxiliary pee wees suffered a 13.0 loss to Milton in the second game of Tuesday's program. OMHA Bantam SEMI-FINAL Playoffs Sat., March 22 7:00 P.M. EXETER ARENA Delhi VS Exeter Legion Bantams SUPPORT THE KIDS The Exeter Hawks are in the Ontario Hockey Association Western Junior "C" group finals against the New Hamburg Hahns thanks to a couple of three goal scoring spurts at the Classic Arena in Stratford, Sunday. The Hawks scored three times late in the first period and repeated the performance in the closing period to down the Elmira Kings 7.6 and earn the right to meet the regular schedule league leaders from New Hamburg. The first game of the finals was played in New Hamburg last night Wednesday, with the second slated for the Exeter arena Friday night at 8:30. It's back to New Hamburg Saturday and Exeter, Tuesday for the third and fourth games of the series. With their backs to the wall on home ice, Friday, the Hawks downed the Elmira team 6.3 to force the eight game of a best-of-seven series in Stratford, Sunday. At the time the Kings were leading the series three-games-to-two with one tied and only needed another draw to sideline the Hawks. The, main reason for the Hawks-win in Stratford was their refusal to give up when they were down two goals early in the third period. Shortly after the Kings had moved in front 6-4 at the 7.21 mark of the third period, defenceman Bill Bourne made a desperate diving stop in front of the Exeter net to smother the puck and on the next play Mike Hoy completed a three way passing play with Bob Goring and Pete Lawson to start the Exeter resurgence. The Hawks with consistent checking stopped every Elmira rushing attempt almost before it got started in the last ten minutes of play and carried a wide majority in territorial play. Jim Hayter, who turned in his best performance of the season culminated a continual Exeter pressure thrust at 11.38 to put his club back on even terms and set off a tremendous cheer from the Exeter cheering section that was more than half of the 1,031 fans in attendance. Hayter took a pass-out from the right corner from Larry Laye and found the range with a quick back hand shot. Less than three minutes later, again with the puck in the Elmira end of the rink for minutes, Elmira goal tender Bill Woytowich was caught just out of position on a wild scramble and Hayter whistled in the game winner with a quick shot about 15 feet out. In the last six minutes of play with Elmira trying desperately to get even, the Hawks continued their pesky checking tactics and with solid defence work from Bill Bourne, Jean Gautreau and Pete Lawson along with Glenn Stire's goal tending were able to preserve the well deserved victory. The game was exciting from start to finish with first one team and then the other going on a scoring binge that appeared to put them in the drivers seats. Glenn Read of the Kings opened the scoring at 8.49 of the first period but it took Jim Hayter less than a minute to put the Hawks back on even terms on a play originated by Pete Lawson. Read was right back at 12.15 to again give the Kings a one goal edge but this time it was Lawson that evened the count with Hayter providing the assist. With time running out in the first period, Grant Walker scored with Bill Fairbairn and Gautreau assisting and Fairbairn blinked the red light to give the Hawks a 4-2 edge as they headed for the first rest period. The only goals of the second period were fired by Dave Reid and Dave Scarrow of Elmira to tie the score at 4-4. Two quick goals by Scarrow and Reid early in the third put Elmira into what looked like a commanding 6-4 — Please turn to Page 7 New Hamburg Hahns here Friday For second game of series A GREAT PITCHER MEETS H—P OFFICIALS At last weekend's convention in Stratford of the Ontario Baseball Association, former Cleveland Indian ace pitcher Bob Feller was the guest speaker. Above, Feller, second from left is being greeted by Huron-Perth league president Bob Sadler of Staffa while Henry Harburn, also of Staffa and league secretary John Livermore of Clinton look on. Crediton club reaches WOAA final cheered on by some flying turnips Bank Boys rebound, join Rec round robin 01 01 Ii