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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-08-28, Page 8YOUNGSTER SHOWS UP THE VETERANS — The match play championship at the Ausable Golf Course this year went to 16-year-old Allan McLean of town who bested 70 other competitors in the annual tourney. Allan who is shown above receiving the Tuckey Beverages trophy from golf club owner George Rether downed Lloyd Greenacre in the final two and one. T-A photo Greys bow in final game of Huron ladies playoff NOTICE To All Parents And Guardians Of School Pupils STUDENT ACCIDENT INSURANCE PERTH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION HURON-PERTH SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD Your School Board, in co- operation with Pitts Life Insurance Company, is pleased to present a plan of StudentAccident Protection to you, the parents. This is done as a service to parents; the Board does not benefit from the insurance or pay the premiums. Particupation is this plan is strictly voluntary. You may select any one of three .options as well as Life Insurance ($1.50 for $1,000.00) the cost and coverage varies with the options; (a) $3.00 (b) $2,00 (c) $1.00 SPECIAL NOTE* All Accident Policies include BLANKET DENTAL ACCIDENT REIMBURSEMENT with unlimited coverage Applications will be distributed to all students through the schools, the week of Sept. I , 1969. For further Information contact PERTH-HURON INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION c/o LEESON-KILLER INSURANCE LTD., Box 72, Stratford, 271-1840 David W. Reed, A.I.I.C. 40111111MIPIIIMINW BOWLING Exeter Bowling Lanes WILL OPEN Sat., Sept. 6 For The Season ALL LEAGUES START PLAY THE WEEK OF SEPT. 8 Anyone Wishing To Enter a Team or Join a Team CONTACT Exeter Bowling Lanes 235-2781 Time's Up! 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Victory's Royal Lady, owned by Don Wilcox of Thedford completed two trips around the local quarter-mile track in one minute and twenty-two point two seconds. The Thedford pony had just returned from a two week stay in the United States where it set track records wherever it raced. The next races at the local track will be on Sunday, September 7 with post time set for two o'clock. Entries should be in the hands of the race secretary a half hour before race time. Six teams of chariot racers will be in action during the weekend performances of the Midwestern Rodeo. Following are the results of Sunday's races: Class 2.28-2.35 - Times 2.19 and 2.22 - Paul's Lad (Jack Meadows) 1,1; Beauty Lee, (D.K. McGill) 2,2; Ginger Lee (Jim Windsor) 3,3. Class 2.21-2.28 - Times 2.20 and 2.14 - Willowbrook Queenie (Mel McAllister) 1,3; Fury Ann (Ralph Hitchcock) 4,1; Little Ben (Bill Garside) 2,4; Trixie Wood (Harold Woodburn) 3,2. Class 2.14 - 2.21 - Times 2.14.1 - Beauty's Dream (Ray Core) 1; Gomer (Wilmer Sinky) The first Canada games that concluded Sunday in Halifax were an enormous success and should prove to be a popular event and certainly increase our country's fortunes in Olympic competition, It gives athletes right across. Canada the opportunity to train for a specific event and compete against top notch opponents. We certainly hope the bid by the City of London for the 1973 games is successful. A three-man delegation from the Forest City was in Halifax last week attempting to get the Games. Mayor Herb McLure, Don Ross of the Businessmen's Association and Bob Van Kleek of the London Lords football club made up the group and they came back with strong hopes of achieving their goal. The federal government has increased their grants for physical fitness and amateur sports and we hope this helps our country's chances in Olympic competition in he future. These grants that were first given in 1968 are to support coaching and leadership clinics, national championships in various sports and Canadian participation in Olympic and other international competitions. Paul Roach who supervised the just-concluded hockey and sports training camp at Centralia made attempts to get some of the leadership and training clinics established on a year-round basis at Huron Park but was told by the Ontario Development Corporation that the facilities at the former Air Force base were for the use of Huron Park and area residents. In 1968 the Canadian Olympic Association received the largest single grant. It was for $67,485 and assisted in sending Canada's team to the Olympics in Mexico City last October. The Canadian Track and Field Association was awarded $61,882 to help conduct national championships in most areas of track and field, to assist in the staging of clinics for track and field officials and meet directors and to participate in several international competitions and to cover some administrative costs. The Canadian Amateur Swimming Association received a total of $51,614 to carry on its various programs of competition, training and clinics in swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo. Broken down, the half million dollars in grants under the Fitness and Amateur Sport Program provided for $183,412 in assistance for coaching and leadership clinics; $126,440 for the selection, training and participation of Canadian athletes in the Olympics; $111,836 for National championships; $53,856 for international competition other than Olympics; $53,000 for special projects and $43,820 to assist in administrative costs for some of the national sports governing bodies and national organizations. The amateur sports that receive help from the federal government in grants are quite numerous. Getting assistance in 1968 were fencing, gymnastics, alpine climbing, archery, badminton, canoeing, cricket, cycling, field hockey, figure skating, golf, judo, rugby, shooting, swimming, table tennis, water skiing, wheelchair sports, yachting and skiing. New Game For Youngsters In the next few years minor baseball players might turn out to be much better hitters if a new game that was developed in Ancaster, Ontario continues to sweep the country. The name of the game is teeball and although it is played much like baseball the aim of the game is to teach pre-Little Leaguers how to hit. Instead of a pitcher tossing the ball like in baseball, the ball is placed on a three-foot tee and the hitters swing away. The new game is confined to boys eight-years-of-age and younger. The game originated in Ancaster about eight years ago when they received minor ball registrations from a lot of seven and eight year-olds who were just too small to play ball. Jim Morton, one of the directors of the league said, "It's extremely difficult for a kid that age to throw a ball across the plate. If the pitcher can't throw it, the batter can't hit it and the fielder can't field it." The outcome of this was there were a lot of walks and the games went on forever. Teeball was developed to involve all the players, not just the pitcher and catcher. There are eleven members on a teeball team, instead of the usual nine. The pitcher stands at his mound, but he doesn't pitch. He becomes a second shortstop. Instead of being pitched the ball is placed on a rubber tee perched on top of a pliable steel post that can be adjusted to the heighth of the batter. The batter simply swings at the stationary ball. If he hits it, the game is the same as baseball, either flying out, grounding out or getting a hit and rounding the bases. All 11 players go to bat every inning, regardless of the number of outs. When the 1 1th player comes to bat, he isn't declared out until the ball is in the catcher's mitt, even if he is tagged while running around the bases. When the catcher gets the ball, the inning is over. The secret of the success of the game is that everyone gets a chance to bat and a boy's fielding ability doesn't really matter. The Exeter Greys bowed out of contention in Huron Ladies softball play in Shakespeare Sunday afternoon but they put up a good fight. In the fifth and deciding game of the league semi-finals, the Greys were downed 12-11 . by the Shakespeare girls in a game that was in doubt right down to the final out. The Greys were in a formidable position last week with a two-games-to-one lead over Shakespeare but dropped an 18-5 decision in Exeter Friday to force the fifth and deciding game, Sunday. Shakespeare now moves in to the league final against Brucefield with the first game slated for Hensall under the lights tonight, Thursday. HOMER SINKS GREYS Diane Herold's second homer of the game this time with two runners aboard powered a six run rally in the bottom of the eighth that sank the Greys' ship. The score see-sawed back and forth with first one club and then the other taking a short lead, which was usually short lived. The Greys took a one run edge in the top of the first on singles by Patti Robinson and Sheila Willert only to have the home Shakespeare club score three times in their first turn at the plate. The second Exeter tally came in the second frame when Jayne Broderick singled .and raced home on Joan Campbell's double. Ann Jorgensen belted a lead-off bases empty homer for the Greys in the third to temporarily tie the score at 3-3. Carol Kiloh crossed the plate in the bottom of the same inning to put Shakespeare back in front again. The Greys took the scoring' lead for the first time in the Bowlers record high aggregates Illness has replaced the weatherman as the big interference to activities of the Exeter lawn bowling club. Club president Len McKnight is presently in a London hospital after undergoing an operation and tournament secretary Harold Simpson has just returned home from a hospital confinement. In regular jitney play, Tuesday night, Russ Snell was the top competitor with two wins, a plus of 17 and aggregate of 29. Lillian Pym placed second as the result of a pair of wins, plus of 10 and aggregate of 23. Finishing in third spot with a plus of 6 and aggregate of 21 to go with a double victory was Gordon Hoggarth while Clarence Down was fourth. The aggregate scores compiled Saturday night were the highest of the season. Howard Ince placed first with two wins, a plus of 20 and aggregate of 46. In second spot came Mabel McKnight with two wins, plus of 3 and aggregate of 20. Placing third with one win, a plus of 10 and aggregate of 39 was Lillian Pym. Zurich youth fires golf ace Larry Bedard of Zurich probably got the best shot of his young golfing career away on the second hole at the Bayview Golf club near St. Joseph early Sunday evening. Larry's tee shot with a No. 1 wood travelled the full 243 yards and rolled into the cup for a hole.in ,orie, It Was only the second ace shot in the history of the Bayview course. Other members of the foursome that witnessed the once-in,a,lifetirne shot were Jim Bedard, Bob Merrier and Phil Overholt. Greys one run shy of tying the score. SCORE SINGLE RUNS In the 17-5 loss to Shakespeare, Friday, the Greys were unable to mount a consistent scoring attack and were never able to score more than one run in an inning. Joan Campbell counted the initial run in the first. She singled and came home on similar blows by Ann Jorgensen and Pat Down. In the third, Sheila Willert reached first on an error and came home on Pam Vanderweil's hit. Singles by Marie Tieman, Penny McDonald and Campbell sent the third Exeter run home in the fifth. Brenda Brintnell singled to lead off the seventh and scored as the result of a similar hit from the bat of Patti Robinson. Ann Jorgensen singled in the eighth and scored on singles delivered by Farquhar and Brintnell. Rec playoffs are planned At a special meeting of the Exeter and district recreation softball league held Tuesday night it was decided to forget about the few games left on the schedule due to postponements and move right into the playoffs. Snell's Shell finished up in top spot with 22 points and will meet the fifth place Huron Park team in a best-of-five semi-final series. The other three clubs, the Legion, Kinsmen and Grand Bend ended up in a tie for second spot with equal point record of 16 and will play a round-robin home and home series with the top point team meeting either Snell's or Huron Park in the league final. The schedule for the playoffs is as follows with the Grand Bend club playing all their home games under the lights at Dashwood with game time at eight o'clock each night: AUGUST 28 - Legion at Kinsmen 7 p.m. Crediton club loses finale The Crediton pee wees in their first year of competition made a terrific showing in Western Ontario Athletic Association ranks before bowing out to Cargill in the third game of the best-of-three series, Friday. After dropping the first game of the series in Cargill a week earlier, the Crediton kids bounced back to take a decisive 15-5 in Crediton Wednesday. In the final contest, Cargill edged the Crediton club 12-11 to take the WOAA championship and advance to the OBA playoffs. The final game of the series only went four and a half innings due to darkness. The Crediton club placed a protest with the WOAA on the fact the game started almost a half hour late despite the fact both teams were on the field early. The first game won by Cargill also only went the minimum of innings. At a lengthy meeting held in Wingham Tuesday night, the Crediton protest was disallowed and Cargill will advance to further play. COME ON LATE Using the same pattern as in most of their season games, the Crediton boys came on strong to score three times in the fourth and four more times in the fifth to come close to tying the score in the final 12.11 loss to the northern team. The Crediton youngsters came up with a 14-hit attack in their final game. Singles by Mike Desjardine, Larry Clarke, Jeff Jensen, Kevin Bestard and Keith Davey sent two Crediton runs home in the first inning. A walk to Bob Brand and Roger Finkbeiner's single upped the Crediton score to three runs in the second frame. After a scoreless third inning, the Crediton boys caught fire and scored four times in the fourth with back-to-back doubles by Finkbeiner and Clarke and a single from the bat of Howard Schenk along with a walk providing the power. In the come-close rally in the fifth, singles by Desjardine, Clarke, Davey, Brand and Ronnie Bowers produced five Crediton runs that just fell short of tying the score. Mike Desjardine and Jeff Jensen shared the • Crediton pitching duties. ROMP AT HOME The Crediton club had little trouble in winning the second game by a score of 15-5. The game was also curtailed to the minimum four and a half innings when manager "Red" Henry of Cargill pulled his team off the field after he was ejected by the umpire and refused to leave the park by himself. A four run rally in the second along with a seven run outburst in the third and another four markers in the bottom of the fourth allowed the Crediton club to romp to their easy victory. Doubles by Roger Finkbeiner and Howard Schenk and singles produced by Mike Desjardine Perry Preszcator and Joe Verkerk powered the second inning Crediton rally. In the third, a couple of walks, a balk, a triple by Finkbeiner and singles by Mike Desjardine, Kevin Bestard, Larry Clarke, Keith Davey and Howard Schenk were responsible for seven Crediton runs. Roger Finkbeiner tripled for his third extra base hit of the night in the fourth while Larry Clarke doubled and ,Kevin Bestard singled to complete the Crediton scoring for the night. Mike Desjardine went all the way on the Crediton mound and gave up only four hits while walking four and striking out two. Huron Park at Snell's 9 p.m. SEPTEMBER 2 - Snell's at Huron Park Grand Bend at Kinsmen 4 - Huron Park at Snell's Legion at Grand Bend 8 - Snell's at Huron Pai. K 9 - Kinsmen at Legion 11 - Huron Park at Snell's Kinsmen at Grand Bend 16 - Grand Bend at Legion game in the fifth when Jorgensen singled, Lynne Farquhar was hit by a pitch and both scored on a single by Broderick. Shakespeare bounced back with a lone run in the sixth to again knot the score. The Greys scored four times in the seventh to move into what appeared to be a comfortable lead. Accounting for the four runs were singles delivered by Sheila Willert, Lynn Farquhar, Pam Vanderweil and Pat Down. The home club scored once in their half of the seventh but the Greys got that one right back in the eighth when Willert drew a base on balls and scored on a single from the bat of Jorgensen. The six run rally in the eighth put Shakespeare in front 12-10. In the top of the ninth Jayne Broderick singled and scored on Marie Tieman's double. Tieman eventually reached third base but failed to score, leaving the rr 6 9 0 Mixed Bowling Meeting Wed., Sept. 3 at 8:30 p.m. at the Bowling Lanes New members or teams call 235.2781, Team Captains call presidents Doreen & Charlie Browning 234.6393 no later than September 2 to enter your team. Track record shattered at local pony meet 2; Tony (Eric Schwartzent- ruber)3. 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