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Hawks lose first game to St. George
By Ross Haugh
Salute amateurs
The prelude to the Toronto Blue Jays first home
game at Canadian National Exhibition stadium on Fri
day, April 14 will feature a salute to amateur baseball.
Pre-game festivities for the Jays home opener
against the Detroit Tigers will feature a starting
lineup of 11 youngsters from Metro Toronto sandlots
who will take the field for the season’s ceremonial
first pitch.
The first pitch of the 1978 season will be thrown
out by five year-old Robin Godfrey son of Toronto’s
metro chairman Paul Godfrey. He will pitch to nine
year-old Joe Jurus who plays in the Mississauga minor
baseball program. Several girls will be participating
in the opening ceremonies.
The pre-game entertainment which will begin
soon after the gates open at 12 noon for the 1:30 game
will also see the return of Canada’s singing superstar
Anne Murray to sing the National Anthem.
The well known Canadian songstress performed
“0 Canada” at last year’s historic and snowy opener
and once again this year will donate her fee to the
Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded of
which she is honorary national chairman. Also liven
ing up the colorful pre-game show will be the Cana
dian Legion Colour Guard, the United States Marine
Corps Colour Guard and the Governor General’s
Horse Guards band,
The Exeter Hawks
dropped a 3-2 verdict to St.
George Lions in their OHA
semi-final opener at the rec
centre, Sunday while
Tuesday night’s game was
cancelled when the team bus
turned around and came
home due to dense fog.
That forced a switch in the
playoff schedule. The Lions
will return to Exeter this
Friday for the second game
of the best-of-seven series
and the next two games will
then be in St. George.
The third game will be on
Sunday at 2.00 p.m. and the
fourth contest is scheduled
for Tuesday at 8.15.
The Hawks won the coin
toss for the extra game and
will host the fifth contest at
the rec centre a week from
Friday.
Team and bus company
officials deliberated for
some time before embarking
on Tuesday night’s trip to St.
George. The fog had slowed
traffic in the area to a crawl,
and resulted in several
accidents but it was finally
decided to make an effort to
reach the destination.
It took the bus over 40
minutes to get to Elginfield,
and when radio reports in
dicated there had been a 30-
car pileup in the Stratford
area, it was decided to abort
the outing.
Ironically,
area cleared
the fog in this
minutes after
the game had been cancelled
and by the time the bus
returned to Exeter, con
ditions were returning to
normal.
Several local
unaware that the game had
been cancelled, showed up in
St. George and then had to
turn around and come home.
fans,
FLIPS IN BACK-HANDER — Fred Mommersteeg (17) scored one of his two goals Sunday night on this play. His back-hander
sent the puck into the net behind a sprawling Ken Kirby in the St. George net. Other Hawks shown are John VanGerwen beside
Mommersteeg and Ken Pinder at the side of the net. T-A photo
Come up Flat
“I thought we’d be up for
this one,” lamented coach
Ron Bogart as he emerged
from the dressing room
following Sunday’s 3-2 loss in
the home opener.
The Hawks played in
consistently throughout the
contest before 1,025 fans, and
never were able to get any
sustained offence underway
after the first half of the first
period when they dominated
play.
The defence got caught out
of position on two of the goals
and the winner came when
Bob Parkhill took the puck
off one defender’s stick
outside the blueline, deked
around another defenceman
and skated in alone to lift a
high shot into the net behind
Steve Beer at the 5.51 mark
of the final period.
The Hawks started the
game in high gear and Fred
Mommersteeg blinked the
light at the 2.59 mark when
he blasted a shot into the
lower corner on a play with
linemates Ken Pinder and
John VanGerwen.
In the final minutes of the
first period, the Hawks
appeared to run out of steam
and St. George knotted the
count on a shot by Dick
Morrison from near the
blueline.
Beer managed to get his
glove on the shot, but it
trickled over the top and
dropped behind him into the
net.
The Hawks started off
quickly again in the second
when Mommersteeg picked
up his second of the night
after only 17 seconds. He was
given a puck in front of the
cage and made no mistake.
Pinder and Jim Ferguson
drew the assists.
At the midway mark of the
middle stanzg, an Exeter
defender attempted to keep
the puck in the St. George
end, but his attempt failed
and the visitors broke out
with three men with only one
Exeter player back and they
managed another clear shot
on Beer to even the count at
2-2.
After St. George scored in
the third, the Hawks pressed
for the equalizer, but Ken
Kirby came up with several
key saves in the Lions net to
preserve the win.
St. George picked up 10 of
the 17 minor penalties called
but the Hawks failed to score
on their power play at
tempts.
Beer was credited with 39
saves in the Exeter nets,
while Kirby handled 50 shots.
Steer
This
Way
By
LARRY
SNIDER
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Unbelieveable
One of the most amazing athletes in sports history
celebrated his 50th birthday Friday. No, he isn’t sit
ting back with his feet up to the fireplace and counting
his money.
The fellow in question is the fabulous Gordie
Howe who intends to play at least one more season in
professional hockey.
The famous No. 9 seems to be like Ole Man River
and just keeps on going. Late last fall he scored the
1,000th goal of his NHL and WHA career.
Howe has proved over the years that he could
have excelled as a professional in several other
sports. He still is a low handicap golfer, was a promis
ing baseball player during his teens and the way he
handled himself in his 31 years in professional hockey
shows he could have been successful in boxing as well.
Former Cleveland Indians playing manager Lou
Boudreau tells the story of Gordie Howe boasting he
could hit major league pitching.
Boudreau says, “One day when the Indians were
in Detroit we got Gordie into one of our uniforms and
sent him onto the field to settle: the bets he had with
myself and his team-mates Ted Lindsay and Harry
Lumley.”
“I don’t remember who pitched, but, it was one of
our starters. Anyway, Gordie bunted a couple, ticked
a few and then bang, bang, bang. He hit three in a row
over the left field fence at Briggs Stadium. I didn’t
think anybody could come along and even hit one out
of the batting cage.”
How long Howe will continue to play is a question
which nobody can hope to answer. He continues to sur
prise with his performances and this year is leading
his New England team in scoring. Any player able to
score more than 20 goals a year can stay around for
quite awhile.
The official birthday party for Gordie covered two
days. Wednesday night some of the greatest names in
hockey were on hand at the Springfield Civic Centre to
honour the great Howe. These included the presidents
of the NHL and WHA, Bobby Orr, Gump Worsley,
Bobby Hull, Eddie Shore, Sid Abel and Bill Gadsby.
The following night more than 700 persons attend
ed a Gordie Howe Roast. Proceeds from this event
will provide the seed money to establish a program for
the planning of a Gordie Howe Greater Hartford
Hockey Hall which will be located in the rebuilt Civic
Centre Coliseum.
Along with Gordie Howe and New England Whaler
memorabilia amateur hockey will be represented.
A special Gordie Howe commemorative magazine
is being printed and should be available to the public in
the near future. The book will contain articles, facts,
figures and pictures all relating to Howe’s great
career. The final paragraph will probably not be
written for some time.
Dennis Riggin of London sums up any evaluation
of Howe as follows, “As great a hockey player as he
is — the greatest — he is a greater human being.
Riggin was a goalie with the Red Wings in Detroit
when Howe was at the height of his career.
Strange noises from un
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Repainting scratches or
chipped paint may not
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while helping to avoid
Thurman named manager
of Dashwood ball club
The Dashwood Tigers will
be playing for a new
manager when the 1978
Huron-Perth intermediate
baseball league season
opens.
Club president Bob Hoff
man announced Monday that
Glenn Thurman would be in
charge of the team. The 1977
manager was Joe Fulop.
Thurman who has been a
valuable member of the
Tigers for the past two
summers will be the team’s
first playing manager.
The new Tiger mentor
played three years of junior
ball and three at the senior
level in Stratford. He also
coached the junior team for
one season.
While playing with the
Stratford senior Intercounty
Phil Knight, recently named as top
the western junior "D" grouping, was chosen
TOP HAWK
defenceman in the western junior "D" grouping, was chosen
as the Hawk of the month for March. He receives con
gratulations from Dean McKnight, along with a $50 gift cer
tificate at Mcknight's Men's Wear. T-A photo
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club, Thurman’s team
mates were two who are now
in the big leagues.
They are Montreal Expo
shortstop Chris Speir and
Minnesota pitcher Jeff Zahn
who is expected to start
today, Thursday against
Seattle.
The present day Tigers
were organized in 1964
mainly using the previous
year’s good midget players.
The first manager was
Ron Merner and he was
followed by Milton Webb,
Lome Kleinstiver, Glen
Webb, George Tieman, Jack
Schade and Joe Fulop.
Bantam year
comes to end
Exeter’s two bantam
teams completed their
season this week with a
game against each other.
The bantam II squad
scored the first and last
goals of the contest at the rec
centre, but the Legion “A”
squad scored 10 in between
to post a one-sided victory.
Dave Bell, Al Gaiser and
Pete Tuckey paced the win
with a pair of goals each.
Registering singles were
Dave Jackson, Dave Shaw,
Wayne Smith and Kevin
Parsons.
Mark Vandergunst and
Mike Murray potted the
tallies for the second team.
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CAME CLOSE — This play was about as close as the Hawks came to tying Sunday night's
home opener at the rec centre. Brian Taylor (10) fed a pass across the goal crease to Brion
Penhale, but the St. .George goalie came up with a spectacular save as he quickly covered the
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