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Times-Advocate, 1978-02-02, Page 8Times-Advocate, February 2, 1978 Spotlight WHO WANTS TO BAT FIRST? — In most baseball games,participants can hardly wait to get to bat. That was not the case in By Ross Haugh Ready for dinner This is our last opportunity to talk about the fifth annual Exeter Lions Club sportsmen’s dinner. It will be held Tuesday night of next week at the South Huron Rec Centre with a good number of spor­ ting celebrities in attendance. Nearly all sports will be represented. These in­ clude baseball, hockey, football, horse racing, figure skating and track and field. Football is expected to have the best representa­ tion headed by Normie Kwong who was one of the leading backs in the CFL back in the 1950’s with the Edmonton Eskimos. Kwong is the headline speaker. Next in the football line comes a current star Glen Weir of the Montreal Alouettes who won an automobile for an outstanding performance in the 1977 Grey Cup final. The Toronto Argonauts will be represented by general manager Dick Shatto and former back Bill Symons. Bob Dieken, a defensive tackle is coming from the Cleveland Browns. Brian McFarlane, a well known television com­ mentator and author of a number of books will head the hockey contingent. Also attending will be former Leaf coach Red Kelly and Goderich native Larry Jef­ frey. He saw NHL action with the Leafs and Red Wings. Another winter sport, figure skating will be sen­ ding four representatives. They are Mitchell area natives Lori and Sheri Biaer and their partners Lloyd Eisler and Robin Cowan. Two well known harness race men will be in atten­ dance. Jack Kopas, now based in Ilderton is a veteran horseman and he will share racing honours with Ex­ eter’s own Jack Darling. Jack is now in the business full time and becoming very successful as an owner, trainer and driver. The Toronto Blue Jays are sending their rookie sensation Bob Bailor and veteran pitcher Dave Lemancyzk. There is also a possibility that Toronto manager Roy Hartsfield may accompany his two players. All crippled children will be represented by Lon­ don’s Timmy. He is 12 year old Danny Ruthven. CFPL radio’s Bill Brady will keep the show roll­ ing as master of ceremonies providing he has recovered from doing a lot of talking during last week’s storm. Tickets are now available from any Lions Club member at $25 for adults and $15 for students and are tax deductable. Here is your chance to get double value for $25 by enjoying the local sportsmen’s dinner and knowing the crippled children are the real benefactors. Pineridge next week Saturday and Sunday, February 11 and 12 the Pineridge Chalet, near Hensall will be staging their annual Crippled Kids weekend. Saturday afternoon area snowmobile enthusiasts will be participating in a poker run. Sunday will be the big day starting off with the popular pancake and sausage breakfast. Heading the list of celebrity pancake flippers will be Bill Brady and Ralph Duffus. They will be assisted by resident cooks like Lloyd Mousseau, Bob Baker and Russ Tieman along with a large number of ladies. Ready for spring camps Shortly after next week’s dinner, most major league baseball teams will be heading south for spring training. The Blue Jays will again work out at Dunedin in Florida. Most of the Blue Jays games will again be broad­ cast over CFPL radio with Tom Cheek and Early Wynn at the microphones. The first exhibition broad­ cast will be March 10. The Blue Jays open the regular season at Tiger Stadium in Detroit on April 6 and will open at home the following week. Mixed feelings It was with mixed emotion that we learned Wednesday night that the Exeter rodeo will be aban­ doned. The rodeo certainly put Exeter on the map, but, the small and enthusiastic executive was fighting a losing battle. We have attended many of the rodeo meetings during the past few years and attendance continued to decrease. Fellows like Dalt Finkbeiner, Carf Cann, Jack Malone, Glenn Northcott, Hugh Kennedy and Don Dearing are to be commended for their untiring ef­ forts to keep the rodeo alive. The 1977 rodeo showed a profit of $2.33. This item on the black side of the ledger came about because of a profit of $940.72 from the rodeo dance. Dashwood Sunday afternoon. Freezing temperatures and cumbersome handwear made holding a bat difficult as members of last summer's slo-pitch league tried an exhibition game. Shown above not trying to win the first bat are Bill Schade, George Tieman and Jack Ford. Midgets get only Exeter win T-A photo St. Marys takes playoff lead St. Marys took a one-game lead in two of the three minor hockey playoff series which they opened against Exeter at the South Huron rec centre, Sunday. The games counted in Shamrock league standings as well. The local midgets were the only winners, nipping the visitors by a 3-2 count. The pee wees then followed with a 3-1 loss to St. Marys and the bantams ended up on the short end of a 4-2 verdict. All three teams will travel to St. Marys this Saturday for games in the best-of-five OMHA playoff round. It will be the second game for the midgets and pee wees, and the third for the bantams who played in St. Marys last (Wednesday) night. The next home games in the series will be played on Wednesday, February 8 at the rec centre. a minor upset with their 3-2 win over St. Marys. The latter squad had whipped the locals in an earlier league game and had been slightly favored in the series. That prediction appeared accurate when St. Marys scored after only one minute of play in the first period, but Exeter came back at the 5:51 mark when Jeff Fuller finished off a play with Doug Brooks and Dave Atthill to even the count. Late in the second, Exeter took a 2-1 lead on a goal by Brian Mercer with Fuller and Atthill assisting. St. Marys knotted the count early in the third and Atthill fired the winner mid­ way through the final period on a play with Dave Bogart and Doug Fletcher to give the locals the lead in the best-of-five set. Midgets win The Exeter midgets pulled Miss chances The Exeter pee wees, looking akin to dwarfs to Bantams lose second tournament to Moore The Exeter bantams played in their second tour­ nament of the season this weekend, and for the second time were ousted by Moore Township. The teams hooked up in a two-game total goals battle at Clinton on Saturday and Moore won by a 6-5 margin with a 3-2 win in the opener and a 3-3 tie in the second. At the Ilderton tourna­ ment, Moore Towi ship beat Exeter by a one-goi ’ margin to win the gold. In Saturday’s opener at Clinton, Moore jumped into a 1-0 lead in the first, and afterExeterevened the count on two occasions, the Sarnia area team scored in the final minute to take the win. Dave Jackson scored both Exeter goals in the contest, with assists going to. Pete Tuckey, Dave Bell arid Ed Willis. In the second game, Ex- eter jumped into an early lead on a goal by Jackson, but Moore kept coming back and evened the count on two occasions before they took a 3-2 lead in the third. Exeter managed to get the equalizer for the game, but couldn’t come up with the tally that would have sent the series into overtime. Other scorers for Exeter were Bill Glover and Al Gaiser, while drawing assists on the three goals were Rick Lindenfield and Mike Murray. some of the lanky St. Marys team members, battled on fairly even terms with the visitors and missed several good scoring opportunities in their 3-1 setback. The winners took a 2-0 lead with single tallies in each of the first two periods before Exeter finally got on the score board to make the game close. Steve Batten fired the Ex­ eter tally on a rebound of a play with John Kernick and Scott Brintnell. .However, St. Marys came back in less than 30 seconds to score the insurance marker and kept the locals off the score sheet for the balance of the game. Bantams lose The Exeter bantams, who had been favored to win their series with St. Marys, couldn’t get their attack dn- tracked in the Sunday opener and ended up on the short end of the 4-2 verdict, The visitors took a 1-0 lead in the first and then Ai Gaiser evened the count with a blistering slap shot from just inside the blueline. St. Marys moved ahead 2- 1, only to have Bill Glover get the equalizer in the se­ cond. Glover had been upset in the St. Marys net, but managed to regain his feet and slap in a rebound in a wild scramble. After the intermission at the end of the second frame, St. Marys quickly regained LADIES CURLING Timmerman 8 — Shapton 3 Marshall 15 — Busche 3 Ross 12 — Ecker 9 Simmons 13 —Wells 0 Burton 6 — Moffatt 5 Hackney 8 — Simpson 4 Pfaff 7 — Boyle 7 Hodgert 7 — Prout 3 the lead and then fired an in­ surance marker later in the stanza to upset the locals. Having lost the coin flip for the extra game, the ban­ tams now face the tough task of winning two games in St. Marys. Hockey wins hockey pool With a name such as Hockey, it may be only natural that a fellow should enter hockey draws. That combination paid off with a $100 draw for Dennis Hockey this week. He won the monthly hockey draw sponsored by the ^Exeter Minor Hockey Association. Hockey’s ticket was drawn hockey centre. after Sunday’s games at the rec PIONEER Home Stereo Components Jets lose to Woodstock, remain tied with Perths The Lucan-Ilderton Jets dropped their only game this week but didn’t really lose any ground in their battle for the last playoff spot in the Ontario Hockey Association Continental senior league. The Jets were on the short end of a 5-4 score to the Woodstock Royals in Ilderton Sunday afternoon. A very important contest with the Stratford Perths was postponed Friday night because of stormy weather conditions. The Perths and Jets are tied for the last playoff spot. In other league play Sunday, the Durham Huskies dealt the league leading Petrolia Squires their second defeat of the season. The only action for the Jets this week will be Friday night when they again play host to the Woodstock Royals. Game time at the Ilderton arena is 8:15 p.m. also replied for Woodstock. Murphy was in the right spot to deflect a slap shot from the point by captain Brad Baynham who received the puck from the face-off from Gary Fera. Baynham was responsible for Brian Spurr’s goal as he dug the puck out from the corner. Ian McTavish also assisted. John Yeoman and Don Jones scored for the Royals in the middle frame to put their club ahead 3-2. At 12:54 of the final session, Ray Love squared the score for the Jets on a three-way combination with Brian Murphy and Gary Fera. About a minute later Gene McLaren put Woodstock ahead again, With less than a minute left, Jets coach Jack Chip­ chase pulled goalie John Robertson for an extra forward. The move back­ fired as Ted Brown scored at 19:19. The Jets again went to a sixth attacker and this time it paid off. Ray Love scored on passes from Barry Baynham and Brian Mur­ phy. The Jets outshot Wood- stock by 44 to 32. Senior girls win again in volleyball Lose in second Two goals in the second period without a reply from the Jets gave Woodstock enough scoring power to post Sunday’s victory. The first period belonged to the L-I club as they out- scored their opposition two goals to one. A pair of Brian’s Murphy and Spurr were the opening marksmen for the Jets while Rick Kelly The senior girls volleyball team at South Huron District High School continues to turn in excellent performances. Wednesday the local girls defeated Goderich and Seaforth. Scores in the Goderich win were 15-7, 5-15 and 15-7. The wins over Seaforth were 15-4, 8-15 and 15-9. Jill Tuckey served for 11 straight points against Goderich and was one of the top players against Seaforth along with Donna Riddell and Denise Byrne. Playing in a tournament in Strathroy, Sunday, the SH- DHS girls placed third. They scored wins over Strathroy, London Laurier and the Strathroy juniors. Leading the South Huron contingent were Karen McAllister, Donna Riddell, Ann Dearing, Karen Kernick and Jill Tuckey. The local team was back in action yesterday, nesday against Clinton Wingham. Wed- in a dual series Central Huron of and F.E. Madill of D D C P 1C • WHICH PL-AN TO CHOOSE? f • S • BEFORE YOU DO, CONSIDER THESE FACTS: RRSP Characteristics Banks Trust Co's.Excelsior • an immediate tax reduction YES YES YES • tax-free growth to retirement YES YES YES • waiver of premium benefit NO NO YES • guaranteed annuity rates NO NO YES • no purchase charge for annuity (at retirement)NO NO YES • a maturity bonus at retirement (Penflex*)NO NO YES • a discount on annuity rates for "in house" money NO NO YES • an income guaranteed for life NO NO YES * Penflex plan must be in force at least five years and policyholder .must be at least age 50 to qualify for maturity bonus. 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