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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-06-03, Page 111 0% Off our usually low selling price BICYCLES and all .accessories, • In Stock Merchandise Only • Drive Over the Bridge and SAVE on these BIG MAC SPECIALS See us for the finest in swimwear. Choose from Speedo and Arena from Adidas, swim suits. Jerry MacLean & Son AUTOMOTIVE LTD. Exeter . 235-0800 Our Store Is Big Enough To Serve Your Needs.... But Small Enough To Be Friendly MIKE MacQUIGGING, GRADE 8 student at Precious Blood School launches himself over the bdr in the high jump at the Track and Field Day held at PBS Friday. Mike walked away from the varied events with a handful of honors. T-A photo by Youngs. CHAMPS of the Tuesday Night League are the Poppettes. Front row from left to right areLindafarquhar,, Phyllis Haugh and Susan Brintnell. Back row from left to right are Gail Skinner, Elaine Skinner and Audrey Fairbairn. T-A photo by Y. Romaniuk. GRAND CHAMPS and Thursday Night League Champs are the Sexy Six. Front row from left to right are Shelley Burnett, Cathy Boltzmann, Kate Bierling, and Shari Burton. Back row from left to right are Darlene Lynn, Kathy Wells, Susan Decker and Marg Relouw. T-A photo by Y. Romaniuk. Kirkton midget girls ball schedule ro May 27 the Exeter Royals Poplar Hill struck for their four travelled to Ailsa Craig and won runs. Ron Daniels reached on an a marathon night game 15-8. error, Ed Robb singled and The Royals opened the scoring errors also allowed Roger getting 3 runs in the first inning. McQueen and Jim Zavitz to reach Doug Pearson, Scott Burton and base. Jamie Robb then doubled to Paul McKnight all had hits. chase in three of the four runs, Ailsa Craig tied the score in the The Royals scored the final run bottom of the first with 3 runs of in the last of the fifth when Barry their own, Baynham reached on a bunt and The Royals went ahead 4-3 in scored on a single by Doug the top of the second as Jack Pearson. Glover singled and came around The Royals had runners on to score. Ailsa Craig added 2 runs second and third in the bottom of in their half of the second, the seventh but failed to bring The Royals added one in the them home. third when Gord Mauer scored on Ron Daniels pitched a strong Terry Bournes single. The Royals game for Poplar Hill fanning nine again scored in the fourth when batters and allowing seven hits. they added four runs, Jack Gord Mauer pitched the first Glover, Doug Pearson, Gord four innings and took the loss Mauer, Scott Burton, Paul allowing five runs and seven hits. McKnight and Brian Hodgins all Brian Hodgins finished up had singles. allowing no hits or runs. Barry Ailsa Craig pulled to within 9-8 Baynham and Jack Glover led but in the top of the seventh the the Exeter hitters with two hits Royals scored six runs to wrap up each. Doug Pearson Terry the game. Scott Burton, Paul Bourne and Paul McKnight had McKnight, Jim Pfaff, Brian the others, Hodgins, Jack Glover and Doug The Royals next home game is Pearson all reached and came in June 8 with Ailsa Craig supplying to score, Brian Hodgins toiled on the opposition while next the :mount for the Royals and Thursday the always strong although being ineffective sur- vived the game to pick up the win. He struck out nine batters while giving up ten hits and walking one. Jim Berg took the loss giving up 13 hits but received very little defensive help from his teammates. Sunday night Poplar Hill proved to be spoilers for the Exeter Royals. The Royals going into the game had an un- blemished record of four wins and no losses. Four runs in the fourth inning was the big blow to Royals. Exeter opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning as Jack Glover slammed a double down the left field line Terry Bourne then singled Glover in to pick up the RBI. Poplar Hill tied the score in the top of the third as Jamie Robb reached on an error and com- pleted the circuit to score. The Royals again went ahead 2- 1 in the bottom of the third when Jim Pfaff reached first on an error and came in to score when Barry Baynham and Glover singled. Then in the top of the fourth Royals streak stopped with loss to Poplar Hill Despite dominating the play for most of the game, the Exeter Centennials dropped a 4-2 decision to the Lucan crew Sunday in Exeter. Most of the play in the game was concentrated in the ,Lucan end, but chippy plays and foolish penalties resulted in Lucan taking a 3-2 lead into the second half. Burt DeBong and Bill Osterloo scored for Exeter. DeBong's goal came when a — Please turn to Page 12 Lucan beats Centennials Monefican't buy this kind of advertising. po pular APRIL 1975 . Mechanics AND SON RANNOCH 229-8945 We can repair if no matter how little (or how great) is the damage. 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The 1800-pound Rabbit is a mechanical mas- terpiece. It gets up to 60 mph in about 12 seconds—giving it the edge on some V8 subcom- pacts. Its hatchback design provides 24,7 cubic feet of luggage capacity with the rear seat folded. VW got the, greatest possible amount of usable interior space into the smallest possible outer shell—and an exterior with some style." Your Volkswagen Dealer EXETER TELEPHONE 235-1100 Don Taylor Motors A strange love affair by Fred Youngs What we have here is your average case of basic overlap taken to the extreme. It used to be that there was time for the transition between sports. When youngsters would hesitantly put down their hockey sticks, and keeping a wary eye on the weather, turn to baseball. Neither hockey or baseball ever precluded one another, And then, after the world series, with the,. ragged gloves safely stored under the bed for another year, it was time for football, Heaven forbid the sport of winter, hockey, should demand attention before the Grey Cup was played, Then, somewhere in there, it was time for basketball (more so in the United States) and a lit- tle dalliance with golf. However, it was all quite well defin- ed and there was never really any period in a year when an argument was necessary over exactly what sport season it was. It was either baseball or hockey but never, never, maybe baseball or maybe hockey. Today, with long seasons and multiple leagues, it is dif- ficult to tell, If they are playing baseball, isn't it the baseball season? Yes, but they haven't decided who is the Stanley Cup Champion, so it's still hockey season, right? We don't realize the psychological traumas we are putting eight-year-olds through when they want to play but they don't know what. Imagine a nation of confused eight-year- olds with acute sports schizophrenia? It boggles the mind! Actually, what is happening is North America's love affair with athletes and their games has gone overboard. If you could measure sports in calories, we would all be overweight. Consider this: by the time they have completed the NBA finals, it is quite likely baseball will be in midseason. Should they go the limit, to June 9, baseball will definitely be in midseason. Hockey will start again this year before the world series starts. The regular season will be several weeks old by the time the CFL decides its champion and the Super Bowl won't occur until halfway through the hockey season. Baseball will start before the hockey season ends; basketball will continue through both of them and universi- ty sports will run in conjunction with their major league counterparts. If you live in an area that is close enough to the border to pick up American channels; all three of them from Buf- falo, you could be faced with a situation like this: Saturday night, it is hockey night in Canada. Sunday, on the ABC af- filiate from Buffalo, it is the Bills and their weekly oppo- nent, along with the ball game of the week or CTV's coverage of Canadian football and maybe the Sabers at night. Monday night it is Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell; Tuesday CFL, Wednesday either one of the final games in another dismal Expo season or CTV carrying a Canadiens' hockey game. Thursday, later in the season, it could be Junior hockey, Friday the wife and kids can have the set and Saturday it starts all over again. In between times, there is tennis, golf, automobile rac- ing, the Wide World of Sports (the thrill of victory, the agony of self-indulgence), various programs given over to analyzing sports, superstar competitions, sports spec- taculars, previews, reviews and interviews. It never seems to end. Obviously, we are addicted. North Americans could no more live without sports than they could without food. In a random week, I would bet that with evening and night sportscasts included, there could well be 30 hours of television given over to sports at the height of the season (your pick, one of three or four running together). Take on top of that all the radio broadcasts (like for all Flyers' games, or the ill fated CBC broadcast of Sunday night Leaf games) and all the time people spend reading the sports pages (even with madness like mine on them) and it adds up to one pack of hours. + + + + One thing becomes apparent. We are creatures of sports. We need them and we thrive on them; sports provides the outlet for frustrations and allegiance. They'are a love/hate affair .that is rivaled only by marriage for the amount of emotion, passion and jealousy that can be in- fused. Like most addictions, North America's compulsion has spawned indecent complacency; a continent of watchers and analyzers. Everyone wants to be a color man. Most people who thrive on sports do their thriving in a comfortable chair securely ensconed in their living room. They are no more athletes than athletes are bankers. For the majority, physical activity and sports are not in- terrelated. We like our sports served up fast, exciting and violent and we want someone else to do it. Our affair knows no bounds. It was in September of 1972 that Canada stood still when Paul Henderson scored to beat the Russians. It was after Rocket Richard was suspended by Clarence Campbell that Montreal erupted into violence. It is for the reigning champions that people will stand in cold, damp nights on countless runways to welcome them home. Our mood, our life is inexorably tied to balls and pucks. Sports for many North Americans is more than a sidelight, it is the central passion and heart of their life. There are few, if any, who can totally resist the lure, the trap of sports. In fact, there are few people who do not compare themselves, one way or the other to a team or a play in sports. It is indeed a strange thing. In part, North America seems to be replacing other values with their devotion to sports, It has gone beyond the game . — it is a symbol of our culture. Imagine . Fred Shero, the seventies version of William Shakespeare. In about 1,000 years, history students will study our society, (about the twelfth in a continuing series) and they won't look at our literature or our leaders, they will look at our sports. The most important artifacts we produce will be Joe Namath's helmet, Rocket Richard's sweater and Babe Ruth's cap, Along with, of course, all the record books, which will stand the test of time as the symbol of our strange love affair,