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Times-Advocate, 1980-08-07, Page 1010 TimosAdvOcatat August 7, 19$Q WIN TUG-OF-WAR — Mount Carmel won Saturday's tug-of-war competiton at Friedsburg Days in Dashwood with a win over Exeter. From the left are Bob Hodgins, Dennis Lamport,' Roy Ryan, Larry Ryan,1Glen Thompson,lMike Hogan, Peter Peterson, Vern Sorensen and coach Bill Regier. T-A photo Saveway gain two victories, host to West Corners, Thursda , Ladies excel in bowling It was ladies week at the Exeter lawn bowling club as female members emerged as winners in the two jitneys held this week. Velma Huff was the top competitor Thursday night with two wins, an aggregate of 30 and plus of four. Charles Hendy was next with a 28 aggregate and plus of three. Roy Blanchard wars next with an aggregate of 27' followed by Len McKnight 25, Percy Campbell, 24 and Ted Lamport and Bill Etherington tied at 22. - Heading Monday's com- petition with a pair of vic- tories, an aggregate of 29 and plus of three was Rose Blanchard. • Second place went to Lawrence Russell with an aggregate of 27 and Emma Campbell and Stan Mitchell were deadlocked for third with 26's. Next came Charles Hendy at 25, Bill Etherington 24, Tom Walker 23 and Renus Marsman 20. STEPHEN TOWNSHIP ARENA Ice Available Phone 2284425 NE RR 1111 Solent takes the work out of yard work HOURS FOR AUG. Mon. to Thurs. 9 to 9 Fri. 9 to 6 Closed Saturdays SPECIAL Special 80 GMC red 1/2 ton Ser. # TCD 14A 1.55 4187 Power steering, rear step bumper, below eye line mirrors, automatic transmission. $6040.11 plus tax and license. 8 More Trucks In Stock HURON MOTOR PRODUCTS LTD. ZURICH 236-4361 PAY LESS IN ZURICH PAY LESS IN ZURICH — I HWY 83 DASHWOOD EXETER MT CARMEL CORBETTIF x HURON RD co COUN CRY CORNER SIGN LUCAN :TO LONDON* 40.4iNFIP”! Hall of Famer Sunday, August 3 was a very important day hi the lives of a couple of great baseball players of the past. 4 That's the day that Al Kaline and Duke Snider were in- ducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York. Interestingly enough, Kaline who made a name for himself with the Detroit Tigers for 20 years and Snider, a long time star with the old. Brooklyn Dodgers are now both television commentators. Kaline handles the colour end of the 'Tiger TV broadcasts with George Kell while Snider does the same job with Dan Vanhorne on the. Montreal Expo telecasts on the CBC. Al Kaline made history this year when he was elected to the Hall of Fame with a resounding endorse- ment from the members 'of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He was only the 10th player in history to win elec- tion to the Hall of Fame in the first year his name was on the ballot. Theotherswere Ernie Banks, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Warren Spahn, Stan Musial, Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams. Kaline received 340 votes, 88 percent of the total cast by the writers. He became the 19th Tiger elected to the Hall of Fame, but, only the second who spent his entire career in a Tiger uniform. The other was second baseman Charley Gehringer of the great Detroit team of the 1930's. His hall of Fame election is bringing retirement of his uniform number 6, the first uniform number to be ever retired by the Tigers. The retirement of the number ceremony will be held between games of a doubleheader at Tiger Stadium with the Texas Rangers on Sunday, August 17. It will be the final of many great days for Kaline. We were in the stands at Tiger Stadium in the summer of 1970 when he and his family were honoured on Al Kaline Day. He continued to play for four years after that occasion. Al Kaline's contributions to Tiger history cannot be measured by numbers alone. But, the figures are impressive for the 18 year-old bonus rookie of 1953 who developed into the premier right fielder of his time. He played more games, hit more home runs and had more walks than any Tiger in history. He also ranked second or third in seven other categories. As a matter of fact, all Tiger team records are held by either Kaline or Ty Cobb. Kaline was the youngest batting champion in American league history with a 3,40 average in 1955 when he was only 20 years of age. He reached the coveted 3,000 hit goal on September 24, 1974, the 12th player at the time to at- tain that mark and closed his 22 year career eight days later with a total of 3,007 hits. He won 10 Gold Glove awards for his fielding skills and was a member of 18 all star teams, 16 in succes- sion, started seven times and posted an all star batting average of .324. Kaline calls the 1968 World Series win for the Tigers his greatest thrill in baseball until the Hall of Fame selection. We saw three games of that 1968 World Series in Detroit and would agree that Kaline was terrific. He had 11 hits in the seven game series and had a .379 bat- ting average. His single to right field in the fourth inning of the fifth game drove in two runs and was the turning point for the Tigers in beating the Cardinals. It's a long time since Kaline was signed off the Baltimore sandlots by Tiger scout Ed Katilanas and driven to Philadelphia for his first game in a Tiger un- iform. With quiet perseverance and great ability, Al Kaline accumulated hit after hit, fielded brilliantly year after year and gathered award after award. For 22 years baseball in Detroit was synoymous with his name. While there were more flamboyant personalities, players with better single season statistics and those whose comments appeared more frequently in print, none compared to Kaline for consistency, determina- tion and devotion. His selflessness was genuine and sincere. A few years after his great performance in the 1968 World Series he turned down a chance to become the team's first $100,000 player because he didn't think he was worth it. Kaline's name evoked a sense of civic pride and admiration from baseball fans across the country. He is also tied in three major league records. They are two home runs in one inning in 1955, a perfect fielding average in 133 games in 1971 and two hits in one inning in game six of the '68 series. Shown directly below is a picture of Al Kaline, his - uniform and glove as they appear at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. The picture was taken earlier this summer by our son Dan. MN -11 111 I Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH! The Exeter Saveway fast- ball club upped their season record to 12 wins and seven losses in the Southwestern Fastball Association with two victories this week. Saveway defeated Ailsa Craig 13-4 Tuesday night and Thursday they squeaked. past Sylvan by a score of 7-6. The Exeter club was in Sylvan last night, Tuesday. They will play host to West Corners at Exeter communi- ty park at 9 p.m. tomorrow night, Thursday and Sunday they travel to Nairn. . In the win over Ailsa Craig, Saveway opened the scoring in the first inning as Doug Pearson, Brian Hodgins, Dan Heywood and John Gillespie all scored with Dave Watson providing the only hit, of the inning a line single. Ailsa Craig got one back in their half of the inning but in the third Saveway added five more runs to take a 9-1 lead. Brian Hodgins reached on The Ontario ladies softball league playoffs will be held this weekend in Milverton involving the first six teams. Games begin at 12 noon on Saturday and again on Sunday. The Milverton Suns and Agincourt„ the first and second place finishers get a bye in the first round. Buffalo meets Willowdale at 12 noon with North Tonawanda' taking on Fort a walk and then Dan Heywood blasted a long home run to chase in two runs. Dave Watson singled, Dennis Bierling singled and Noel Skinner reached on an error. They increased their lead to 11-1 in the fifth as Dave Watson and Dennis Bierling both singled and came around to score. Ailsa Craig scored their second run in the fifth but Saveway replied with two more in the sixth as Brian Hodgins singled and Jamie Eveleigh cracked a home run to left field. Ailsa Craig finished the scoring in the bottom of the sixth as they pushed across two runs. Davidson took the loss for Craig allowing 10 hits while striking out seven batters, Jamie Evelleigh picked up the win as he hurled a nifty two hitter, not allowing a hit until the fifth inning. He struck out six batters. Erie at 1:30 p.m. Milverton plays the winner of the first game at 3 p.m. while Agincourt meets the second game winner at 4:30 p.m. Milverton manager Bob Harrow said Tuesday night in Hensall that his top pit- cher Luanne Ozzard will join the Ontario champs from Agincourt for the Canadian finals starting August 19 in Hull, Quebec. Thursday. night Sylvan travelled to Exeter and provided the fans with one of the best games seen at Ex- eter in some time. Sylvan jumped on Saveway starter Brian Hodgins for two runs in the first inning as Bruce Furtney singled and Bill Johnson cranked a home run. They increased their lead in the 3rd inning to 4-0 as Bruce Furtney and Bill Brass scored on hits by Gary Mcleod, and Norm McPher- son. Saveway started their comeback in the bottom of the third as Doug Pearson singled and scored on Dave Watson's grounder. They narrowed the count to 4-2 in the fourth as Brian Taylor reached on a walk and scored on Dennis Bierling's single. Saveway took the lead for the first time in the fifth as Gary Skinner singled and Dan Heywood singled. Brian Hodgin's sacrifice fly knock- ed in one run and then Paul "Black" McKnight hit a long home run up against the rec . centre. Sylvan tied the score in the sixth at Bill Johnston singl- ed and scored on another single. Saveway took the lead again in the bottom of the sixth as Brian Taylor blasted a long home run. Sylvan tied it in the seventh as Bill Brass hit a home run. Then with two out in the bottom of the eighth Dennis Bierling singled and came around to score as catcher Dave Watson became the hero on a long blast to left field. Bruce Furtney started for Scott Bogart's Listowel pulled in a Ma to ma,e a 3-3 game in the top of the sixth, Exeter brought four across in the bottom of the sixth on a singles by Pym and Lovie, a fielding error and two free passes, Exeter 19 Ustowe I 6. Listowel's pitching staff ran into deep trouble in the Strikers win over Nairn 1-0 A second half goal by Jason Heywood brought Exeter Strikers a 1-0 win over Nairn-One in squirt- division soccer, Monday, August 4. The win placed the Strikers third in ledge standings. Lucan - One leads, with Exeter Blizzard second. ' The Strikers and Nairn made a close contest of Monday's match. Exeter got strong performances from everyone, with defender David Schwindt and for- wards Scott Bishop and Mark Burton doing excellent work. Goalkeeper Peter Blaauboer played brilliantly for Nairn despite the loss. 'Middle age is when actions ,creak louder than words. third inning when. three Pitchers faced 21 Exeter batters giving up seven hits and nine walks allowing fifteen runs to make it a 16-1 ball game. Exeter collected a total of 13 hits in the run awayA Marty Taylor had a double and two singles, Tim Easterbrook a triple and a double. Scott Bogart and Jeff Pfaff each had two singles. Lovie, Lerikos, Giffin and. Pym each hit for one base. Jeff Pfaff recorded the pitchers win as lie fanned eight batters walked seven and allowed five hits, Tim. Easterbrook recorded six r:b.i's, Sylvan, he was relieved by Bruce McLelland who took the loss. They combined to give up,10 hits while striking out three batters. Brian Hodgins struggled through and picked up the win allowing six hits while striking out nine batters. Four shooters best at Kippen Harrison Schoch, lAl Kyle, John Anderson and Paul Middleton scored 25's to lead the 24 shooters at this week's regular shoot at the Kippen gun club. Next with scores of 24 each Were Keith Cockburn, Bill Boussey, Ray Geddes, Bob Ironside, Bert Mahaffey, John Greidanus and Hugh Boyes while Chris Middleton, Lloyd Venner and Dan Crerar hit 23 targets. Wayne McBride and Tom Allen scored 22, Bob Caldwell and Jamie Caldwell 21, Mery Batkin 20, Bart Soder, Gladys McGregor and Jack Bell 19, Neil Colquhoun 16 and Paul Priestap 15. Exeter Legion pee wees . eliminated Listowel the first rotmd of playoffs to . determine the W.O.A.A, representative in. O.B.A. D playoffs, Exeter won the best of three series in two straight as they won 7-3 on the home diamond, Thursday and 10-6 in Listowel Friday night, They travel to Harriston Tuesday and host Harriston here Thursday at 6:30. Exeter 7 Listowel 3, Scott Lovie struck out 12 batters gavelugthree hits'ancl walked five to gain the' 7-3 win. A triple by Allan Pym, a double from the bat of Dave Russell and John Giffins single put Exeter out front 2- 0 in the bottom of the second. Listowel tied the game then Exeter pulled ahead 3-2, on Jeff Pfaff's triple and Harriston is. next Pee weer advance Ladies ball finals set for Milverton 6661 Outdoor power equipment... Plus A Complete Line of Accessories INICOATIDA. 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