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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-08-15, Page 6Drive Over The Bridge . . . And $ave on Holiday Needs Whatever You Plan To Do . . .We Have The Items You'll Need * CAMPING SUPPLIES * BOATS and CANOES * TENTS - Including 2 and 3 Man Pack Tents * BOAT TRAILERS * SLEEPING BAGS * AIR MATTRESSES * SWIM POOL CHEMICALS and ACCESSORIES * PICNIC COOLERS * GOLF and BASEBALL EQUIPMENT * BICYCLES for Everyone in the family Jerry MacLean & Son AUTOMOTIVE LTD, Exeter 235.0800 OUR STORE IS BIG ENOUGH TO SERVE YOUR NEEDS . BUT SMALL ENOUGH TO BE FRIENDLY ROLLER SKATING Exeter Arena AUG. 20, 22; 27 & 29 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. ADMISSION 604 Bring Your Own Skates' ANYTIME... ANYWHERE... ANYBODY • izt Page 6 Times-Advocate, August 15, 1974 FOR AL.L. OQOP- $FORTS, By .Ross .Haugh ,Expos facing .important test, must post Sunday victory Big trade runs in the sixth inning. Dave Revington, Jim Lewyckyj and Terry Bourne doubled and crossed the plate. The Expos were able to get at least one runner on base in every other inning but veteran. Clinton pitcher Cain McDonald came up with strikeouts in the clutch, He and starter Ed Daer whiffed 12 Expos altogether. The other four Exeter safeties were singles by Dave Parsons, Larry Haugh, Terry Bourne and Dave Revington. uprising in the ninth, Rob Grant was safe on an error and scored on Bill Bourne's double in the Exeter first. Dave Revington walked and Bill Bourne singled and both scored in the third frame, To open the Expos fifth, Bill. Bourne collected his third straight hit, a double and rode home as Jim Lewyckyj socked a home run. Bill Farquhar doubled later in the same inning. Other Exeter hits in scoreless innings were singles by Jim Pfaff, Brian Haskett and Bill Farquhar. Expo hurler Jim Pfaff gave up five hits and three runs in the first inning but settled down and allowed only four singles the rest of the way, In fact, Pfaff held the Arva club hitless in the last three innings. Walt Parkinson was the only member of the Arva team to get more than one hit. AT HURON HOCKEY SCHOOL — At this week's sessions of the Huron hockey school at Huron Park students come from far and wide. Shown in the above picture from the left are, Robert and Jim Willert of Zurich; Keith Carr from California, one of the instructors Steve English, Lucan and school registrar Tom Sommerville. T-A photo Score resounding wins It's with mixed emotions that we heard of the trade Wednesday night of Jim Northrup from the Detroit Tigers to the Montreal Expos. Jim has been one of our favorite Tigers for about 10 years now. During our ,stay in the Motor city for the 1968 World Series Jim was the most agreeable member of the ball club as far as interviews were concerned, Northrup was one of the heroes for the Tigers withhis grand slam home run. He will be missed around Tiger Stadium but we agree it's about time some of the veterans were cleared out and a youth rebuilding program started. Jim started off on theright footwith the Montreal team and was a key figure in wins posted by the Expos in two of the first three games he played. His homerun and a singlegave the Expos a Friday night win and Sunday afternoon another round tripper helped in the 5-2 victory over Houston. The Expos while still in fourth place in the National league east have cut their deficit to only three and a half games. Northrup's presence willcertainly be felt on the Expos roster. If not used regularly in the outfield he will be a valuable pinch hitter. Getting back to the Tigers, they also released veteran first baseman Norm Cash and will likely do a lot more house cleaning before the 1975 season starts. When Cash and Northrupwere let go,Tiger officials said they were not giving up on pennant hopes for this year. We would disagree with this statement, Manager Ralph Houk in recent games has certainly been experimenting with a promising bunch of youngsters. Expos in contention The Expos from Montreal are not the only team of the same name in contention for playoff honours. The Exeter Expos have had a reasonably successful year in the Huron-Perth intermediate baseball league. One of the big games of the season for the locals comes up Sun- day afternoon at Exeter Community park when they take on the tough Clinton Colts. The Clinton club is still undefeated this year. The Ex- pos and Colts meet Sunday in the final game of a round robin series which also includes Thorndale, and Arva. At the time of writing on the weekend, the Expos were even with two wins and two losses in the playoff round. A win Tuesday night against Arva would almost assure them a place in the final round. The other club will be Clinton. The winner of the finals between the two top clubs in the round robin series will not only win the Huron-Perth championship but also will be the district representative in the OBA "C" playdowns. A good crowd at the local park Sunday afternoon would be encouraging for the Expos as they continue to dish up a good brand of ball. Let's'run around together. IVIMCIPa17713/7 Fitness. In your heart you know it's right. An Exciting Finish The 8-7 Expos win in Arva Wednesday night was ac- complished in exciting come- from-behind fashion. Trailing 7-5 with one out in the top of the ninth the Expos set to work and pulled the win out of the fire. With the first batter retired, Dave Parsons was hit by a pitch and Perry Stover walked, Up to the plate came clean-up hitter Jim Lewyckyj and that's exactly what he did with a long home run. Larry Haugh also singled in the ninth but failed to score. Jim Pfaff who went all the way on the hill for the Expos quickly retired the Arva club in order in the ninth, all on ground balls with darkness threatening, The score see-sawed back and forth in the early innings. The count was even at 5-5 after five innings of play and Thorndale took a two run lead in the sixth which held until the Exeter The Exeter Expos face their most important test of the Huron- Perth baseball season Sunday afternoon at Exeter Community Park at 2 p.m. when they face the Clinton Colts in the final game of a round robin playoff. In order to stay alive the Expos must down the Colts who are undefeated through the entire season. The Exeter club in one of the busiest weeks of the year broke even winning two and losing two. Wednesday night, the Expos came through with an exciting ninth inning finish to edge Arva 8- 7. Friday they lost 10-3 to Clinton, Sunday it was a 10-8 victory over Thorndale and Tuesday night the Arva Athletics came up with a 5- 2 decision. The best the Expos can hope for with a win over Clinton Sunday would be a tie for second spot in the series with Arva. Clinton has clinched first place, Three runs for the Arva team in the sixth inning provided the margin of victory over the Expos Tuesday night. The Athletics took a 2-0 lead after the third inning of play and the Expos were not able to catch up. Paul McKnight's homer with two out and the bases empty in the bottom of the fifth gave the Expos their first score. The final run came in the eighth when the Expos mounted their best scoring threat of the entire game. Dave Revington opened with a single but the next two batters were retired. Terry Bourne kept things alive with a single to move Revington to third, Larry Haugh walked to load the bases and Dave Parsons also drew a walk to force Revington across the plate and keep the bases loaded. Schooley on the mound for Arva was able to get the next batter on strikes and retired the side in the ninth to gain the victory for his club. Other hits for the Exeter club in addition to the scoring innings were singles by Bill Bourne and Dave Revington. Paul McKnight was on the mound for Exeter giving up a total of 10 hits while gaining four strikeouts. Tigers take playoff lead Tigers in the seventh as Bob Hoffman singled. A single by Desjardine and Dietrich's double sent three runs home in the eighth and the same number of runs scored in the ninth on hits by the same two Tigers. Zurich could never manage more than one run an inning off the slants of Guenther. Dick Bedard was safe on an error in the third and scored. Jeffrey counted in similar fashion in the eighth and Rick Schilbe doubled and scored in the ninth. Guenther showed fine control and struck out nine Met batters. Veteran Dick Bedard was the Zurich starter getting relief help from Jeffrey in the seventh. started by singles by Jim Hoff- man, Tom Hill and Bob Hoffman, an error and two walks and was capped off by Jim Guenther's bases clearing homer. Bob Hoffman's single chased Bud Desjardine home in the fifth. The last big Tiger outburst came in the seventh when six runs scored. Tom Hill led the closing attack with a pair of singles. The second and last Zurich marker came in the eighth as Aub Bedard was hit by a pitch and eventually scored. Guenther in pitching the first seven innings retired nine Mets on strikeouts. Dave Ratz, another left hander tossed the last two innings and fanned three. Pitching for Zurich were John Mommersteeg, Aub Bedard and Kevin McKinnon. EXETER POOL OFFERS A SURVIVAL SWIMMING COURSE AUGUST 19-29 at 11:30 a.m. Registration - August 16 At 1 1:30 at the pool cost $2.00 Huron-Perth Round Robin PLAYOFF INTERMEDIATE BASEBALL CLUB VS CLINTON COLTS SUNDAY, AUG. 18 2:00 p.m. Exeter Community Park Tennis„stars at resort The Dashwood Tigers took a one game lead in the Huron-Perth intermediate "D" finals this week with two resounding wins over the Zurich Mets. Zurich won the first game of the best-of-seven series a week earlier and then the Tigers came roaring back. They scored a 17-2 victory in Dashwood Friday night and came right back in Zurich Sunday afternoon with a similar 17-3 win. The fourth game of the series was played in Dashwood last night, Wednesday. The fifth will be staged Friday night at 8 p.m., also in Dashwood. A sixth contest if necessary will be in Zurich Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. Jim Guenther was the star for the Tigers in both wins over Zurich. The big left hander was on the mound in both games and hit three home runs. Sunday, Guenther, opened the ,‘ sdonritig with a lead-off hoe run in the second inning. Stan Lovie followed with another round tripper and the Tigers never looked back, A double by Bud Desjardine, triple from the bat of Jim Dietrich and singles from Bob Hoffman and Tom Hill produced four more runs in the second. Stan Lovie's double chased Bill Schade across the plate in the Dashwood fifth and singles by Joe O'Rourke and Schade scored two in the sixth. John Becker scored for the Sparkling net play highlighted Lakewood Tennis Club's first tournament at Grand Bend on the weekend. Well known players from Detroit, Windsor, Toronto and London presented spec- tators with the best tennis this area has ever seen. Greg Haider and Brien Mit- chell who were the top-seeded team, from Toronto showed unexcellfed class in winning the tourney beating John Turner and Tom Borecky of London in straight sets 6-1, 6-1. The serves of the two Toronto players, still in their teens, proved too much for the veterans from London. Haider was the talk of the tournament and many tennis people predict he will be Canada's number one player in the near future. The team of Peter Wright and Mike Wilson of London advanced to the one semi-final match, while Ralph Legall and John Wohlers made it to the other. Legall, from Windsor played on the Davis Cup team for the West Indies in 1954- 55, and Wohlers who stems from Australia played his junior tennis with such greats as Ron Laver and Ken Rosewall, They played a dazzling game with smooth ground strokes and hard volleys before bowing out to the younger, team of Turner and Borecky by 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, In the consolation finals, John Spricis and Brian Arnold won over Bill Booth and Jack McKeon, 6-2, 6-1, Two area teams of Don Flet- cher and Rich Fyfield of Lucan- Ilderton Jets fame and Art Whilsmith Exeter and Ken McFadden, London advanced to the second round before being eliminated. The well run event %vita organized by Norm Luckey, pro of the Lakewood Club. Lots of Base Hits • Sunday's game in which the Expos edged Thorndale .10-8, the emphasis was on the offensive as a total of 32 hits were rapped out. The Expos , in collecting 19 singles had; at .least one hit in every inning and left a total of 12 runners on base, Two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning proved to be the difference in the Expos win. Dave Parsons opened the Exeter seventh with a double and raced home on Dave Revington's long home run. The Expos hit the scoreboard for the first time in the second inning on consecutive singles from the bats of Larry Haugh, Dave Parsons, Jim Pfaff and Bill Farquhar. In the Exeter fourth the first four batters reached the base paths and three were able to complete their base cycle. Larry Haugh and Bill Farquhar cracked doubles and Dave Parsons and Jim Pfaff contributed singles. Four hits in the Expos fifth produced two more runs. This time the safeties were delivered by Randy Tieman, Jim Pfaff, Bill Farquhar and Dave Revington. The eighth Exeter run came on Jim Lewyckyj's bases empty homer in the sixth. Paul McKnight started on the mound for the Expos. Jim Pfaff came on in relief in the second inning when Thorndale mounted a scoring threat and he finished up weathering a late rally which included a homer by John Miller in the eighth. Only One Rally In the 10-3 Friday loss to Clinton the Expos scored all their Excellent shows Organizers of -Dashwood Friedsburg Days and Ailsa Craig Centennial are to be congratulated on putting on tremendous shows. Friedsburg Days were again very successful as the committee came up with a couple of innovations to enter- thin the public. A Queen was crowned for the first time and a very good talent show was held. The talent show wasactually started a year ago as a variety program but was extended this year and prizes were provided. The Centennial celebrations at Ailsa Craig drew large crowds throughout the four day observance and chairman Harold Guilfoyle and his committee were overwhelmed with the response to all events. We were interested in the Old Timers ballgame at Ailsa Craig. It was a chance to see some of the members of the Craig softball team which participated in Ontario Softball Association playoffs back in the.1950's. At that time we were involved in umpiring and of- ficiated in an excellent series with Merlin downing the Craig club in very low scoring games. The star pitcher of that team Vince Hiller was back for the old timers game and it looked as if he hasn't lost much of his pitching abilities. Others back in action were the manager of the team Eric Slater, Leroy Walker, John Sinker and Bob Evans.. Lots of CNE sports This year's Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto which opened yesterday again offers a tremendous menu of sports. Almost every sport possible is included on the long list of events. Today, Thursday is girls lacrosse tournament will be on tap. Friday open judo championships will be held. Saturday it's horseshoe pitching, handball, weight lifting, drag boat races and frisbee tossing. On the first Sunday of the CNE, sports will feature bocce, dog swimming, karate, power lifting and ladies soft- ball. Tournaments for snooker,bowling,softball and baseball continue throughout the CNE schedule. The snooker competition will feature the two top "pool sharks" in North America, Alex Higgins and Bill Werbeniuk. Top Ontario keglers will compete daily for the bowling crown plus prizes in the Ontario Bowlers Congress tourney that includes events for youth bowlers, blind bowlers and senior citizens. Onlookers will be invited to join in during lulls in the competition and expert bowlers will offer tips to improve spectators' games, The snooker and bowling events take place on the mez- zanine floor of the Transportation, Recreation and Liesure The pee wee baseball tournament involves 32 teams from all parts of Ontario and continues from opening day until August 29, The Toronto Globals will be on hand to defend their title in the Bulova watch men's softball event. short term lead In Friday's game in Dashwood, Zurich took a one run lead in the second inning but it didn't last long. Paul Charrette singled, stole second and scored on c° another single . from John Mommersteeg. The first batter to the plate for the Tigers in the second was pitcher Jim Guenther and he promptly hammered the ball over the fence and the score was tied. Bill Schade followed with a single and came home as Whitey Denomme banged out a single. Tom Hill singled and scored in the Dashwood third. In the fourth, seven runs came across the plate. The rally was Crediton club advances to WOAA final round The Crediton pee wees downed Dashwood in two straight games to advance to the Western Ontario Athletic Association finals against either Clinton or Wingham. - In the opening game Wed- nesday, a home run from the bat of John Nedza with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning allowed Crediton to eke out a 13- 12 decision. In Dashwood Saturday af- ternoon it was a different story with the Crediton youngsters romping to a M-9 victory. The Wednesday contest was close all the way with Dashwood leading 9-8 after four innings of play. John Nedza was the top Crediton batter with a pair of singles in addition to his game winning blow. Stephen Fink- beiner and Jim McVinney were next in line with three hits apiece. Tony Underhill and Andy Nedza Complete Line of ADIDAs Now In Stock Jerry MacLean & Son AUTOMOTIVI LTD. Exeter /35.0800 Our store is big enough 16 serve your needs, „but smolt enough to be friendly, each picked up two hits. Leading the Dashwood attack with four hits apiece were Mark Stire and Robert Watson. Stephen Finkbeiner and Andy Nedza shared pitching duties for Crediton while Mark Stire was the Dashwood hurler. In Saturday's game an 11 run outburst by Crediton in the sixth inning provided enough power to win the game and the series. John Nedza again was the hero at the plate for the winning Crediton club, He hit home runs in each of the first two innings and rapped out a triple and scored in the fifth. He was also the top run producer for his club with five successful trips around the bases. Getting a double and a single during the big Crediton rally in the sixth was Stephen Fink- beiner, He also singled in the opening inning. Others notching three hits were Tony Underhill, Andy Nedza and Steve Dinney. Brian Rader and /Cell Masse were the top batsmen for Dashwood with two hits apiece, Exhibition Fastball Exeter Greys vs Exeter Firemen Thursday August 15 8:15 p.m. EXETER PARK See the battle of the century