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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-09-27, Page 8CORBETT WINS BANTAM TITLE — The championship trophy in the Parkhill-McGillivray- Williams bantam softball league was won by Corbett, Back, left Darrell Hodgins, John Robinson, John Jongeneel, Dan Isaac, Steve Hodgins and coach Earl Hodgins, Centre, John Arnold, Robert Marshall, Bill Hodgins, Rick Homer and Rick Hodgins. Parkhill Gazette photo SQUIRT CHAMPIONS — Corbett won the squirt championship of the Parkhill-McGillivray-Williams softball league. Back, left, coaches Willis Rock and Raymond Hutchinson. Middle, Doug Smith, Bradley Breen, Bill Hodgins, Randy Turner, Jeff Horner and Chris Eagleson. Front, David McLinchey, Marty lssac, Brian Romphf, Steve Lagerwerf, Danny Rock and Martin Eagleson. Parkhill Gazette photo PEE WEE CROWN TO CORBETT — Corbett won the Parkhill-McGillivray-Williams pee wee softball championship to sweep all three series. Back left, coach Mac Hodgins, Dan Steeper, Gary Romphf, Jeff Isaac, Tom Hodgins and coach Norman Romphf. Centre, Glen Bullock, Mike Brannon, Paul Bran- non, Eric Bullock, Paul Lagerwerf and John Mclenchey. Front, Bill Hodgins and Rick Hodgins.- Junior girls gain victory in first basketball start Curlers Old and New Wornen and Men! THE SEASON IS HERE For information, about membership rates, draws and leagues Gord Strong ... — 215-1466 Norrno Parsons ..... 235-2493 Ron Cottrell 235-0330 Dorothy Cootes — .... — 229-6411 Barry Reid 235.120 Robbie Robithaud-- 228-6470 HURON PARK MINOR HOCKEY REGISTRATION Saturday, Sept. 29 9:00 a.m. - 12 ME CURLING RINK Calling All Boys within 15 mile radius of Exeter MINOR HOCKEY REGISTRATION Saturday, Sept. 29 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 FEES ARE AS FOLLOWS Novice and Atom - $10.00 Pee Wee, Bantam, Midget - $12.00 Family Plan - $18.00 EXETER ARENA ALL AGES Ali boys throughout the area are eligible 1974 CHEVROLETS OLDSMOBILES CHEVROLET TRUCKS See Our Selection Now SPECIAL 1 BRAND NEW 1973 CHEVELLE MALIBU POWER EQUIPPED. REG. $4410 NOW $3685 2 1973 CHEVELLE MALIBU DEMONSTRATORS OK USED CARS 1972 VEGA HATCH BACK coupe, 4-speed, redid. Licence FK0295, 1971 PONTIAC LAURENTIAN sedan, power equipped. Licence CZE760 1970 PONTIAC PARISIENNE 2-door hardtop, power equipped. Licence OHie 175 1970 PONTIAC STRATOCHIEF sedan, power steering, radio, etc. Licence DPY367. 1969 METEOR RIDEAU .600 sedan, power steering, radio, Licence DHA789. 1961 'OLDS DELTA 4-doOr hardtop, power equipped. Licence Oftnoi, 1961 PONTIAC PARISIENNE 2-door hardtop, power equipped. LicenCe 0FY212 4895 '2295 4595 9595 9195 9295 '1195 Snell Bros. Limited Chearoiet — Oldsmobile PHONE 2364Ciati0 EXETER, ONT Thit Home f Guardian Maintenance "el TOrhOs,A0o0;010, SoPhomttif- 37, 1073. 1110000000000000000oototoomoottigattotmottmlo11111t11nottoo0000110i1Oi. At home to Listowei SH gridders win first H-P starts help. $ Two popular sayings were demonstrated literally at the Lucan arena over the weekend during the Ontario Horseshoe pitching championships. The philosophies we were thinking of were "practice makes perfect" and "close counts only in horseshoes". The two finest. horseshoe pitchers in the world met in, Sunday night's final for the Ontario championship. They were world chaMp Elmer Hal of Wellesley and Dean McLaughlin from Ottawa. 1- phi outpointed McLaughlin to win and redeemed a loss at the recent Canadian finals at the CNE in Toronto. When we said practice makes perfect we were thinking of Hohl and McLaughlin. While not actually engaged in a game, both men could be seen continually throwing practice ringers. The two men when they met in the final were pretty close to perfect. They each threw 140 shoes in the championship round with Hohl tossing 118 ringers while McLaughlin was successful with 114. To show how evenly matched the two are, no less than 32 times in their 7Q attempts each man was able to throw two ringers and, thereby cancel the. scores. Our knowledge of the game of horseshoes is quite limited but we were thrilled with the action at Lucen Sunday and cer- tainly hope the Ontario officials decide to return to the Irish town for next year's championships. It's certainly a game of skill and the athlete makes his own game and doesn't get any help from a team-mate or in thetese of the final Sunday very little help from the opposi- tion, Neither Hob! nor McLaughlin show any emotion when they are out on the courts and conduct themselves on a truly professional basis. They take the game very seriously and a smile is quite infrequent. We were told by one of the participants that about 70 shoes is the number thrown in an average game. He quickly added, "unless I'm playing Hohl or McLaughlin and then it's a lot less." A hearty word of thanks should go to Lucan Legion branch 540 for the excellent way in which the tournament was conducted. A lot of work was necessary in constructing the 15 horseshoe pits. Gord and Jack Elson were co-chairmen for the Legion end of the tourney and were ably assisted by president Bert Thompson. It sounded good While talking about horseshoes we wish to clear up a point which was brought to our attention by a local resident. In last week's issue we used a picture of Cy Blommaert of Exeter in action during, the horseshoe pitching at the Huron County plowing match at Dashwood and the cut-line said he tossed a ringer. We were so busy catching Cy's fine throwing form that we failed to see the shoe actually ring the stake but we can truthfully say it sure sounded like a ringer. Congratulations to Elgin Kipfer of Dashwood who finished third in his class in the provincial championships. Keep up the good work, Kip. Crazy happenings it'te Almost every year, baseball fans are amazed by the finishes in one of the divisions of the major league but the an- tics this year in the. National league eastern division is something else. When this was written Sunday night only two of the five teams in contention for the eastern pennant were playing .500 ball and only three and one-half games separated all five clubs. In contrast, Houston in the western division had won as many games as any club in the east and yet they were 18 games out of first place behind the Cincinatti Reds. We were very interested in the outcome of Thursday night's game between Pittsburgh and New York and were able to catch most of the game on KDKA in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh announcers had a lot of trouble believing what they were seeing on the field at Shea Stadium. Early in the game, a double play was executed. This achievement certainly isn't unusual but the one in question was. The play went from the first basemen to the shortstop hack to the pitcher. Veteran announcer Bob Prince said, "that's the doggondest double play I have ever seen." The ball was ap- parently hit wide of first forcing the first baseman to go •,)wards second and the pitcher quickly covered first. The Expos still with a mathematical chance to survive lost seven games in a row and several of the losses were the result of mental lapses, something a team can't afford in a critical situation. To give themselves a tie for first place.. the Expos must win all remaining seven games while the New York Mets split their six contests. Hockey practices start Practices started over the weekend for two area hockey clubs. The Exeter Hawks opened their pre-season training at Huron Park Sunday afternoon and the Lucan-Ilderton Jets followed Monday night at the same arena. The Jets will open the exhibition season when they travel to Stratford on Tuesday, October 9 to take on the Stratford Perths, the club they defeated to win the OHA Senior "B" championship last spring. One of the stars of the Jets in the 1972-73 season may not be back with the club this season. He is. Bill Fairbairn of Ex- eter who has been invited to attend the training camp of the Port Huron Wings of the International league. The Wings camp opens at the McMorran arena in Port Huron on October 5 and runs for a couple of weeks. Best of luck, Bill, By TEReseONDREJICKA The South Huron junior girls basketball team started the season off with an exhibition game played here September 20 against Seaforth. Seaforth narrowly edged them 19-18. All through the game South Huron led until the last minute of play when Seaforth scored. It was a game full of action from beginning to end. The girls played well and should be commended for the hard fought effort that they displayed. Top scorers of the game were Gayle Ecker chalking up six points, followed closely by Wilma Vanderlaan who put up five points in our favor. Other scorers were Patsy Randall, a junior who for a small girl has a lot of power, scoring two points as did Marie Jarvis and Heather Wein. Gail Fuller also scored a one point shot for us. It was a good game and through out the rest of the year we should see a lot of action. On Monday, South Huron travelled to Parkhill for the second game of a two part exhibition series. Again we were narrowly edged by the score of 15-12. The game was a hard fought battle all the way through. It was a game where the components of speed and agility along with good co-ordination played a very important part. Parkhill is a strong defensive team and can be noted as worthy opponents. They lost but I think it is safe to say they played well for so early in the season. The scoring honors went to Gail Fuller with see points, Janet Pryde with four and Heather Wein with two. With a few more practices they should be in tip-top shape and ready for their first game at home against Stratford today Thursday at 2 p.m. Members of the team this year are Tammy Baker, Julianne Brittain, Ellen Eveleigh (manager,, Gayle Ecker, Gail Fuller, Marie Jarvis, Beth Keys, Janet Pryde. Patsy Randall. Donna Riddell, Wilma Van- derlaan, Cathy Vriese, Heather Wein, and Cathy Wooden. The regular season as men- tioned above starts today and continues on for the next few months. All games start at 2 p.m. and everyone is more than welcome to come out and watch. Here are the schedules for both the junior and senior teams. September 27 - SR at Stratford Central — Please turn to Page 9 When it comes to SNOWMOBILE SUPPLIES Come To Us We have a complete selection See our, diapiay at the. Exeter Snowinobile Show Gerry MacLean and Son AUTOMOTIVE LTD. Exeter 235-0800 The Smith Huron District High School, football teams chalked up their second win of the season Thursday as they travelled to Stratford, in the first Huron-Perth con- ference games, the seniors downed Stratford Northwestern by a score of 1.6-7 while the junior club also won their game with a score of 24-18. The two South Huron clubs will be back in action this afternoon, Thursday when they play host to the seniors and juniors from ListowelThe following week the Panthers travel to Wingham. Throughout the H-P schedule the senior games begin at 11 a,m. with the junior contests following at 1:30 p.m. In downing Northwestern. Thursday afternoon, the South Huron senior Panthers were forced to come from behind a 7-1 deficit at half-time to take a 16-7 decision. While outscored in the first half, the Panthers held an edge in territorial play running 31 plays to 21 by the opposition. In the second half each club managed 25 plays from scrimmage. On the first play of the second quarter, Paul Robinson kicked a 35 yard single to put the Panthers in front 1-0. Only a couple of plays later, Northwestern scored on a 45 yard pass and run play which caught the South Huron secondary napping. Midway through the third quarter, the South Huron ground game materialized. The Panther march started when Gord Pryde intercepted a Stratford pass. Large crowd at motorcycle races More than 1,100 spectators were in attendance at Hully Gully Sunday afternoon to watch the first Canadian Motorcycle Association sanctioned Moto in Southwestern Ontario. Bob Kelly of Hamilton, an official of the CMA was the referee and Huron Cycle members were the track mar- shals for the afternoon. The Hully Gully course presented an exciting challenge to the 232 riders competing. The open expert class winner was Jeff Wecher of Davison, Michigan while Terry Mattenly of London was the open expert championship. More draws in bowling The close competition which has featured this year's activities of the Exeter lawn bowling club continued Tuesday and Saturday nights. After all the action was com- pleted, Elizabeth Lamport and Harold Simpson were deadlocked for first place with identical scores of two wins, a plus of 18 and 32 aggregate. Clarence Down was close behind with a plus of 17 and aggregate of 26 to go with a double victory. Alvin Pym was in fourth place followed by Russ Snell, Saturday night, Alvin Pym and Edith Love finished in a dead heat for the top position. They each scored two wins, a plus of 14 and 31 aggregate. Thursday's winner was the efficient greenskeeper of the club, Wilfred Shapton. Shapton was tops with two wins, a plus of 20 and 33 aggregate, In second place came Gertrude Hamilton on a record of a double victory, plus of 15 and aggregate of 27. Third position went to Alvin Pym who was in the money in each of the three nights. Placing fourth was Tom Yellow. Here Now. Complete SeleOtion of Hockey Equipment FOR ALL AGES H&K SPORT CENTRE Trophies Engraving Sporting Goods MAINS!. SXEtt 235-2261 Good carries by Brian Taylor, Dave.Lovell, Wayne Regier and Perry Stover took the ball to the Northwestern six yard line and Gary Levier went off tackle on a third yard effort to score six points, Robinson was good with the convert attempt. Late in the fourth period, Panther tackle Wayne Riddell broke through the Stratford line and caught the.ball carrier with a hard tackle forcing him to fumble. Brad Oke was jolmny-on- the-spot and picked the loose ball up and galloped 37 yards for a touchdown. Robinson again converted. Wayne Regier led the South Huron backs with 72 yards gained in an even dozen attempts and Dave Lovell picked up 31 yards in seven carries. Juniors start quickly In the junior half of the double header, the Panthers wasted little time in getting on to the scoreboard. Northwestern fumbled the kickoff and Doug Mclsaac was quick to recover the ball for South Huron. On the third play from scrimmage, Doug Mclsaac galloped 20 yards for a touch- down. On a third down Stratford punt attempt, Terry MacDonald broke through to block the kick and his mates recovered. On the fourth play from scrimmage from the Stratford 30 yard line, quar- terback John Van Gerwen hit Steve Knight with a successful pass and the Panthers were in front 12-0. Late in the second quarter after neither club could gain much ground, the Panthers were able to move the ball in close and Doug Mclsaac picked up his second six-pointer from the two yard line. The third period was nearing completion when the Panthers were able to get a good drive going which was again culminated .by Doug Mclsaac. This time Aticisatte scored ea a halfback sweep starting from the Stratford 15 yard line. Stratford Northwestern took over in the fourth quarter and scored a pair of touchdowns without a reply from the Pan- thers. Doug Mclsaac led the Panther running game with a total of 161 yards in 16 carries for an, average of better than 10 yards per rush. Kevin Baker picked up 66 yards in 9 carries and John Van Oerwen was good for 48 yards in six at- tempts. Terry MacDonald was named the best defensive member of the Panthers due to six key tackles and a blocked kick. Other defensive stars were Tom Hay ter, John Gould, John Nelson, Gregg Beattie and Steve Jen- nison. Five points for Canners The Canners started off in a blaze of glory in the first week of play in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league by gaining a maximum five points. The complete scores this week were as follows: Canners 5 - Swimmers 0 Sharpshooters 4 - Shiphunters 1 Scotties 4 - Itchy Niters 1 Winkers 3 - Dark Angels g BJ'$ 3 - Last Chance 2 DR's 3 - BA's 2 Dart Sharks 3 - Doublers 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m, DR's vs BJ's Swimmers vs Sharpshooters Dart Sharks vs Winkers 9 p.m , Scotties vs Shiphunters BA's vs Last Chance Canners vs Itchy Niters Dark Angels vs Doublers PC ALL. GOOD SPORTS ay `*ors Hough Practice