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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-06-24, Page 14In a well played Western Ontario Athletic Association baseball game in Dashwood Wednesday night, the Crediton juveniles edged the Crediton juniors by a 5-4 score. The juveniles moved ahead with three runs in the top of the first inning, Paul Shapton, Brian Taylor and Mike Desjardine drew walks, Larry Clarke doubled and Paul Brooks delivered a single to produce the opening scores, The juniors retaliated with a Shaw will try swimathon Although he termed "a thons" a waste of energies, Mayor Bruce Shaw this week agreed to enter the Exeter swim team swimathon scheduled for the pool this Saturday morning. Most members of council signed his pledge card following Monday night's meeting. He was the only member of council to accept the challenge to swim in the event. pair of markers in their half of the same frame. Paul Truemner and Bill Hodge walked and were able to come around to score on a single from the bat of Pete Wtterth. The score remained at 3-2 until the fifth when the juveniles counted two runs only to have the juniors bounce back with three runs to even the score at 5-5. Brian Taylor's single was the only hit during the juvenile scoring in the fifth. A double by Brad Gregus and a single delivered by Bill Hodge powered the three run junior rally. .The juveniles moved ahead with two runs in the top of the eighth frame with Larry Clarke's triple doing the damage. The juniors responded in their half of the same inning with singles by Brad Gregus and Kevin Bestard but were able to score only once, Paul Brooks and Doug Mclsaac shared pitching duties for the winning juveniles while John Wuerth, Peter Wuerth and Rick Bowers toiled on the mound for the juniors. 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Dodge gives you a choice of 3-man cabs, Club Cabs and Crew Cabs. Plus a long list of special options and option packages for camping and trailer towing. And for economy, the good news is a new overdrive 4-speed manual transmission. MATHERS MOTORS 136 Main St. North 235 1525 CAR 11-IE YEAR MotorTnend Magoim Times-Advocate, June 24, 1976 Crediton juv's edge jrs. 5-4 The Mosport tragedy By FRED YOUNGS They were racing again at Mosport this weekend, Mosport is the major racing track in Canada, although its facilities border on the pre-Neolithic and its management follows suit. Mosport does, however, manage to bring in the Formula cars, with the attendant supplimentary races. It was a good race, with Allan Jones, an Australian come Englishman driving a Formula 5000 March to victory after narrowing the gap on Jackie Oliver in his Shadow and passing him in the waning stages of the race. But there is more to Mosport than the exotic cars and fast driving. There are the people who attend the event and they are divided into two categories. There are the serious race fans, of which I count myself one of, who come out armed with stop watches and knowledge of what to watch for and with cameras and the ensuing trappings, They comprise less than half the crowd. The other part is made up of people who come out to, well, it's hard to say what they do, but they call it a good time. There are the dirt bikers, who are a menace to themselves and other human beings as they roar around the inside of the track, up and down the hills rolling their machines over on top of themselves and there are the drinkers who are harmless enough if they stayed away ex- cept they become exceedingly obnoxious when they traipse around the track in between races, breaking bottles and holding things up. Broken glass and the soft compounds in race tires are diametrically opposing factors that tend to ruin a driver's race and sometimes kill. But who cares? This is a good time, right? The thing about Mosport is that the people like myself, who go to see the cars, for they are indeed the penultimate in machinery and to observe the driving techniques are of secondary importance to the people who go to get drunk and race their bikes and cars around the infields. On turn three at Mosport, on the outfield of the track, there is this extremely high hill. Spectators, oblivious to the fact that there is a race in progress and something is happening on the track, try and race their car up this hill. They start at the bottom and go like blazes up the steep grade until the three-quarter mark when they begin to slow down and eventually they start to roll backwards, hurtling down the hill with the car in drive being towed along on the forces of gravity. The game will eventually take a life. One' life has already been lost at Mosport. Not a driver's, the drivers have to contend with that fact themselves, and they are aware of it. It was a young man from Toronto who, along with about 100 other spectators, took his car onto the track after the feature was over and tried to play Jackie Stewart. The difference was the simple fact that while Stewart and 25 others were going one way, four times as many spectators, many of them no doubt in- ebriated, were going both ways. He was killed in a head-on collision on the mile long Mario Andretti straight. + + + + The blame for this tragedy has to rest precisely on the shoulders of Harvey Hudes, the man at Mosport who calls the shots. Hudes likes to call Mosport the "Happy track" and he does try and keep it that way with the premise that the fewer the rules, the happier people are. Hudes likes to open his 2,5 miles of asphalt between races to let the people on: he doesn't like to follow the ex- ample of Watkins Glen by banning all off-road vehicles within the confines of the track. Hudes thinks the general rowdiness of the track makes it a happy place. For some. For myself it makes it miserable, as it does for other fans. For some people it makes it deadly. Hudes conception of lack of rules equalling incentive for happiness is philosophically amateur and immature. His grubbing for a buck is disgusting in that it has caused a death many claimed was merely a matter of time. He is responsible. The death of a spectator is nothing new to racing, Five died in a single crash at Le Mans when a car leapt the barriers. Fans were showered with gasoline and chemicals during the carnage at the 1973 Indianapolis 500. But this sort of tragedy, where it could have been prevented, where it should have been prevented, is a new perversion. + + + + Race courses are deceptively simple looking. The turns look like they could be taken safely, from any angle. What is unfortunate is that many people do not realize that to go fast around a turn requires some thought. It is not a matter of sliding the car around and hoping it comes out at the right place at the right time, it is a calculated, precise manoeuver, with an entrance, passage-way and an exit that will prepare the car for the next turn. And the machinery that negotiates these corners is not stock Chevrolet and showroom Toyota. It is heavily sprung, prepared suspen- sion coupled with a responsive engine that will allow for the proper application of enough power at the right moment. And it is years of practice and learning. Further to this is the protection that is built into every car. Not Nader-bumpers that stop impact up to five or ten miles an hour but roll cages and fire extinguishers and monocoque chassis. The drivers are completely encased in fireproof suits, right down to the underwear and socks and shrouded in full face helmets that leave only their eyes visi- ble behind visors. This is what racers are prepared for and it's not hacking about in a 12 year old station wagon with bald tires and a blown engine, + + + + Hudes would not have wanted the death that occurred this weekend, Mosport has enough problems as it is without adding this travesty to the list, And, indeed, Hudes never in- tended to have the cars roaring about the track after the race but the blame still must go with Hudes. The cars on the track at the end of the race were mere- ly an extension of the lack of crowd control evident at Mosport, It was the inevitable result of leaving crowd con- trol in the hands of "Perry's Merry Men", an in-house security system armed with flashlights and the CRCA, the race officials who are there really to marshal the race, not Control the crowds. When you open a track with the premise of as few rules as possible, maintain the track under those conditions and hope that everything will be all right while cars are racing up hills, bikes are trying to get on the track before and dur- ing racing and you have a knee-jerk, unviable security system, you are shirking your responsiblity. Mosport has done this and Harvey Hudes knew it and he should have ex- pected something to happen. It has and the responsibility remains With hitn. He will not sleep well. Tigers drop 6-2 decision to Chesley In their only start of the week in the Huron-Perth intermediate baseball league this week the Dashwood Tigers dropped a 6-2 decision to Chesley Sunday af- ternoon, A regularly scheduled home game Friday night with 'Hanover to supply the opposition was cancelled when the Bruce county team was unable to field enough players. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday, June 29 at 8 p.m. at the Dashwood field. The Dashwood club was in Clinton last night, Wednesday to meet the Colts and will play host to Thorndale Friday night in an exhibition contest. The Tiger bats were stilled in Chesley Sunday afternoon as they were only able to bash out four base hits. The two Tiger tallies came in Gun club scores Claybirds Gun Club 1. Bill McNutt 25 2. Carl Heford 19 3. Randy Stanlake 18 4. Larry Dobson 16 Neil Romphf 16 5. Tim Oliver 12 6. Bonnie McNutt 9 ALBATROSS TOURNEY WINNERS — The Albatross Lounge and Restaurant held its 2nd annual golf tour- nament Saturday at Iron wood Golf Course and of the 39 participants Don Jeffery, left, was the low net winner and Steve Bennett, right took the low gross honors. Each received a trophy and prizes for their ef- forts and a dinner followed the presentation of awards. In the middle is Scott McNair, manager of the Albatross and organizer of the tournament. Photo by Stover. FARM SAFE WORTH PRACTICING You des...good..., THE GOOD. NE S CARS FROM CHRYSLER