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By Ross Haugh
Early tension
World Series fever doesn’t usually hit the big
league teams until September but a visit to Tiger
Stadium in Detroit about 3:30 Sunday afternoon and
one would have thought the calendar was pushed
ahead about four months.
The tension, excitement and pressure was very in
tense as the Boston Red Sox came to bat in the top of
the ninth innihg with the Tigers leading 2-1 and Milt
Wilcox working towards a six hit victory.
Wilcox who was one of the guests at the 1978 Ex
eter Sportsmen’s Dinner had struck out nine Red Sox
in the first eight innings. He retired the first Sox
batter in the ninth and then took on slugger Fred Lynn.
With two strikes on Lynn, Wilcox fired the ball
over the outside corner of the plate and umpire Bill
Bremigan called the batter out.
Lynn immediately rushed the umpire and bumped
him several times in typical late season style when the
chips are down. He was tossed from the game as was
manager Don Zimmer who came to his player’s
rescue.
The 52,368 fans were on their feet during this inci
dent and stayed there as Wilcox struck out the last
batter to end the game. It was certainly a case of pre
World Series sensationalism.
The win put the Tigers one game ahead of Boston
but the Red Sox came back to win the second game
and they were again tied for the American league
eastern lead.
Also, Sunday, crowd support was almost as good
in Toronto but the response by the Blue Jays was not
as appreciable.
The third largest crowd in Blue Jays history was
on hand, 41,308 to see the Yankees take two games
from the Toronto club.
The three day series with the Yankees drew 97,886
fans to Exhibition Stadium.
Vie for Canadian honours
An annual exhibition series between Canada’s two
major league ball teams will be started this year.
The first game between the Toronto Blue Jays and
the Montreal Expos will be played Thursday night,
June 29 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
Each year the Lester B. Pearson Cup will go to
the winner of this Canadian contest. It will probably
be a long, long time before these two clubs could be
expected to meet in the World Series.
Still hopes
The chances of an area horse competing in
Canada’s richest thoroughbred race continues to be a
very good possibility. With the 1978 edition of the
Queen’s Plate only four weeks from Saturday Bobis-
que is still eligible.
Owned by Dalton Finkbeiner, Eric Kints, Peter
Oud and Bob Hamather, Bobisque showed well in a re
cent race for three year-old fillies foaled in Canada.
The local filly was second by less than half a
length to Diviner and close to seven lengths ahead of
the balance of the field.
Diviner has been campaigning all winter in
Florida. She won again this past Saturday in convin
cing fashion beating four others by five lengths in
another Canadian foaled fillies event.
The day that Diviner beat Bobisque by a narrow
margin in the last few yards the track was very mud
dy and trainer Paul Sweet felt Bobisque “just ran out
of steam’’.
According to Dalt Finkbeiner, Bobisque will be
entered in the June 17 Canadian Oaks and after this
race the decision will be made on a try at the Queen’s
Plate.
When Bobisque was purchased almost a year ago
from Brian Smillie she was eligible for all the stakes
races. This was a big factor in continuing the eligibili
ty for the Oaks and Plate.
We will be following the progress of Bobisque very
closely and hope area fans will have a chance, to cheer
for the local filly in the prestigious Queen’s Plate."
MASSEY-FERGUSON WINNERS — The annual Massey-Ferguson golf tournament spon
sored by Sherwood Exeter Limited was held Saturday with excellent participation. Above, Ex
eter dealer Gabby Mol, centre presents the prizes to Iver Small who carded the lowest gross
core and the low net winner Don Wells. T-A photo
BEST INDIVIDUALS — Prizes were awarded to the top individual bowlers at Wednesday's
annual banquet of the Exeter men's bowling league. Back, left, Dan Brintnell, Don "Doc"
Campbell and Gary Black. Front, Eric Matzold and Bob Coleman. T-A photo
Tigers drop first
game of new season
Brad Clausius scores
Centennials win by 1-0II
Brad Clausius, in his first
game as a Centennial,
scored for Exeter’s 1-0 win in
Ausable district soccer at
Grand Bend last Sunday.
Clausius, at right wing,
tapped the ball in through a
scramble of defenders trying
to clear it from the Grand
Bend net. His tap was a relay
of the ball after it dropped
from an outswinging corner
kick by Al Beattie 30 minutes
into the second half.
Both Clausius and Beattie,
the latter playing a driving
game on attack and defence
at right fullback, had earlier
missed by inches on goals in
a game in which Exeter was
mostly dominant.
Grand Bend’s attack
slowly came apart after a
quick start. In reply, the
Exeter forwards, supported
by excellent midfield play by
John Muller, Dick Lord, Joe
Laurie and Mike Janyu,
began an almost steady
probing into Grand Bend
territory.
Aggressive goal-keeping,
and some clever backfield
moves, kept Grand Bend in
Steve Pearce leads
juniors
the hidden hole prize went to
Steve Skinner.
Mark Vandergunst
recorded the low gross in the
“C” flight and John Mol was
best in net scores. Gib Dow
needed the fewest and
Steve Batten was the hidden
hole winner.
In the “A” flight of men’s
club play Terry O’Rourke
with a 76 was best in low
gross and Iver Small was the
low net winner at 64.
In “B” flight, Larry
Wein’s 88 was the best low
gross and Red Fairly led in
low net with 52.
Murray Lobby with a 92
was lowest in gross and Bill
Armstrong was low net
winner with a 56.
Ironwood
Steve Pearce fired a 77 to
win the low gross in the “A”
flight of Tuesday’s junior golf
play at the Ironwood course.
Jeff Fuller was the low net
winner, Dave Shaw and
Wayne Parsons were tied
with the least number of
putts and Rich Fletcher won
the hidden hole prize.
In the “B” flight Derrick
Vandergunst’s 93 was the
lowest gross score and net
honours went to Scott Bat
ten. Peter Parsons required
the least number of putts and
Greys split
first games
The Exeter Greys split
their first two games of the
season in the South Perth
ladies fastball league.
Thursday night the Greys
opened with a 16-13 win over
Usborne and Tuesday they
dropped a 9-3 decision in
Blanshard.
Thursday’s victory over
Usborne came in extra in
nings after the two clubs
were deadlocked at 13-13
after seven innings of play.
The Greys were aided by
excellent pitching per
formances by Lia Snell and
Marie Tieman.
The Exeter girls will be
wearing new uniforms when
they meet Cromarty tonight,
Thursday at 9 p.m. at Exeter
Community park.
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After the first two games
of the scheduled Hurbn-
Perth baseball league
season, the Dashwood Tigers
saw their first action Friday
night.
Play close
in rec loop
If the first two weeks of
action is any indication of
what is to come, the com
petition in the Exeter and,
district rec ball league will
be very close.
At the moment, the Car
petbaggers and Dashwood
Industries lead the league
with four points each and the
other six clubs have two
points apiece.
The teams with one win
each are Usborne, Mt.
Carmel, Hensall, Gord’s,
Crescent Rolls and the T-A.
The first game scores were
as follows:
T-A 10 — Gord’s 7
Usborne 14 — Mt. "Carmel 5
Crescent Rolls 7 — Hensall 6
Dashwood 14 — Usborne 7
Mt. Carmel 15 — Car
petbaggers 13
Carpetbaggers 6 — Mt.
Carmel 2
Dashwood 13 — Usborne 2
Carpetbaggers 14 — Dash
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Usborne 14 — Mt. Carmel 5
Hensall 23 — T-A 16
Gord’s 10 — Crescent Rolls 9
On their home diamond,
the Tigers scored two runs in
the first inning, but, that’s all
the scoring they do as they
dropped a 7-2 decision to the
Walsingham Senators.
Singles by Barry Baynham
and John Hayter along with
walks to Rob Dickey and
Doug Fairbairn produced
the two and only Dashwood
tallies.
The only other Tiger hits
given up by Senator hurler
Len Quick were singles in the
second and seventh innings
by Barry Baynham.
Qi ck retired 16 Dashwood
batt rs on strikeouts while
issu ng eight bases on balls.
P; ul Brooks was the
pitching choice of Tiger
manager Glen Thurman and
he responded with an ex
cellent performance.
Brooks allowed only one
run and four hits during his
four inning stint on the
mound and struck out two
opposing batters.
Southpaw Jim Guenther
took over-in the fifth and
allowed only one run and
three hits until Walsingham
broke loose with five runs in
the top of the ninth.
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