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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-06-17, Page 184 Page 6A Times -Advocate, Jun. 17, 1981 Stephen Central second Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH Last week's draft of Junior "A" hockey players by National Hockey League teams had its usual number of surprises. The first pick of the draft belonged to the Winnipeg Jets and they surprised nobody by choosing 18 year-old Dale Hawerchuck from the Memorial Cup champion Cornwall Flyers. Several surprises followed with the most notable being the fact that John Goodwin of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds was not selected by any team. Goodwin led all scorers in the Ontario Hockey League during the 1980-81 sesason with 165 points. Goodwin's scoring credentials would have warranted early selection in past years, but, he joins a long list of 19 year-olds who have been overlooked the past two seasons. In 1980. the NHL draft was opened up to allow the selection of 17 and 18 year-olds. The addition of first and second year players has turned the draft into a guessing game for NHL scouts. Teams are now taking a gamble by choosing players whom they feel have the potential to become future stars. Some of these young players who are being chosen may not have seen much ice time in their first season of Junior "A" hockey. A good example of this is Mitchell native Doug Chessell, the rookie goaltender of the London Knights. Chessell who tended goal for the Listowel Cyclones in the 1979-80 season is now the property of the Chicago Black Hawks. The Mitchell youngster who was taken by the Chicago club in the fifth round played sparingly this past season for the Knights. He had an opportunity early in the season to prove himself as the result of an injury to regular London goalie Frank Caprice. The Knights originally intended to bring Chessell along slowly since Caprice had a strong playoff series the year before. Chessell responded quite well to the pressure situation and although he was not rated on the NHL central scouting system list of 25 goal tenders he apparently showed the Black Hawks that he had the necessary potential. We learned over the weekend frorr, our good friend Tom Creech of the Mitchell Advocate that Chicago general manger Bob Pulford told him in a telephone in- terview that Chessell was rated number three among goalies on his team's list. Incidentally Caprice who was the London Knights regular goalie was not chosen by any of the NHL teams. The trend has now turned to youth. but, only a select few of these first and second year juniors that were drafted will step into the NHL next season. If an underage player does not make it with his NHL club he must be returned to junior hockey. This leaves the door open for players such as Goodwin and Jim Egerton of the London Knights who were not drafted to sign up with pro teams as free agents. An example of this from last year's draft is Wayne Thompson, the former high scoring centre of the Lon- don Knights. Thompson was returning from the draft meeting disappointed in not being chosen and was met at the train station by his father who informed him that the Montreal Canadiens wanted him to come back immediately to sign a contract. During the 1980-81 season. Thompson had a successful sojourn shuttling back and forth between Nova Scotia and Flint. This proves that the NHL is now putting more emphasis on acquiring players with future potential rather than players capable of step- ping into pro ranks immediately. To Doug Chessell we offer congratulations. He will attend the Chicago training camp and will likely come back to the London Knights for one more year. but his climb to the NHL has begun. Out on one strike Three strikes and you're out at the old ball game. That's a popular song that has been sung for more than 119 years since Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball back on June 12 of 1862. That song is not very credible this week. One strike and everybody connected with professional baseball is out. Yes. they are literally out of work. It's almost impossible to determine how many people are actually affected by the major league baseball strike, but. the number is huge. In addition to the 675 active players on the rosters of the 27 big league clubs are a lot of other people. Each team has ground crews, clubhouse personnel. ushers. ticket sellers and takers and numerous other service related people. Added to this are the companies and services in- volved in providing food at the ball parks and the hotels where the players stay and eat. The allowances the players receive for meals each day amount to $25.362 50 This is based on what we believe is a daily allowance of $37.50. Sure they will still eat. but. certainly on a more economic basis when it's coming out of their own pocket. Large sums of money are also spent on air flights. taxis. buses and you name it to get players from one city to another and to the ball parks from the hotels. Each of the 27 major league teams has a television and radio broadcast crew that has been thrown out of work. This applies to most of the teams. The Toronto Blue Jays are one of the exceptions. The Hewpex Sports Network is sending their radio an- nouncers Tom Cheek and Early Wynn down to the Toronto farm team in Syracuse for live radio broad- casts which started Tuesday night. This not only keeps the netwdrk and Blue Jays sponsor commitments alive. but. will give fans a chance to hear more about the younger players in the farm system now performing at Syracuse. The amount of money lost is going to be very sub- stantial, so we would hope the two sides get together quickly and come to a settlement. What are the key issues of the strike? That's a good question. It deals with compensation to teams losing star players by way of the free agent route. Beyond that sometimes it's difficult to determine ac- tually what they are fighting for. 1 McCurdy wins area school track, field meet J.A.D. McCurdy public school of Huron Park won the overall team title in Thursday's very successful area elementary school track and field meet held in Exeter. McCurdy students amassed a total of 68 points. Stephen Central School was second at 55 points and Exeter Public School was right behind with 54 points. Following were Usborne Central 36, Hensall Public 33 and Zurich Public 12. Four of the eight new track records were set by McCurdy athletes. David Rook, the senior boys champ won the 440 in 63 seconds, Doug Smith took the senior boys 100 metres in 11.9 seconds, Lori Lewis took the girls 880 metres in 2.52 and the senior boys won the relay event. Ilderton beats local bantams The Exeter Bantam Soccer team dominated the first half of the game ending with a two goal 1 lead. Ilderton came back in the second half with four straight goals to beat Exeter with a final score or 4-2. Exeter goals were scored by Rob Weersink and George Pratt. Dina Lerikos of Exeter, the intermediate girls champ set a 100 metres mark at 13.6 seconds. Heather Rideout, also of Exeter took the junior girls 220 metres in 34.3 seconds, Usborne Central won the junior girls relay in a record time of 68.4 and Kandy Dobson of Hensall set a senior girls 100 metres mark at 13.5 seconds. Setting field records were Lisa Ellerington of Usborne, the junior girls winner the high jump at 1.2 metres, Lori Harburn of Hensall, the Three tied in shoot Jim Butcher, Jack Barker and George Hamm recorded scores of 25 to Lead the 25 shooters at Tuesday's regular competition at the Kippen gun club. Next in line with 24 each were Bill Stewart, John Love, Tom Allen, Al Kyle, Wayne Riddell, John Hessels, John VanLoo and Dan Crerar. Knocking off 23 targets each were Roy Lamport, Mery Batkin, Jack Bell, Harrison Schoch, Bill Cochrane, Bill Weber and Jack Parker while Paul Johnston and Jack Mills hit 22. Paul Ritchie 21 and Edwin Miller, Lloyd Venner and Bryan Beer scored 20. junior girls standing long jump at 2.13 metres, Jeff Dalrymple of Exeter the junior boys softball throw at 43.6 metres and Arlen Johnson of Usborne, the intermediate girls ball throw at 43.25 metres. Following are the com- plete results with the following legend being used - M - McCurdy; S - Stephen; E - Exeter; U - Usborne; H - Hensall and Z - Zurich. High Jump Jr Boys - Scott Bell A, Robert Wonnacott U, Glen Hayter S. Jr Girls - Lisa– Ellerington U, Lori Harburn H, Christine Chalmers S. Int Boys - Greg Becker S, Gary Parsons U, Trevor Cottrell H. Int Girls - Brenda Wilson M, Liz Cottrell E, Paulette Rothbauer M. Sr Boys - Sean Whiteford E, Scot Merrylees M, Tim Easterbrook H. Sr Girls - Irene Brand S, Sandra Dickins H, Sonya Kuepfer Z. Standing Long Jump Jr Boys - Chris Smith E, Jason Labreche S, Scott Bell H. Jr Girls - Lori Harburn H, Carolyn Dykeman U, Lisa Ellerington U. Int Girls - Dina Lerikos E, Laurie Forrester Z, Cindy Mathers E. Running Long Jump Jr Boys - Mark Coward U, Duane Costain M, Brent O'Brien Z. Jr Girls - Lorraine Lewis M, Lisa Ellerington U, Lori Harburn H. Int Boys - Greg Becker S, Stephen McIntyre M, Gary Parsons U. Int Girls - Dina Lerikos E, Laurie Forrester Z, Tammy Howe U. Sr Boys - David Rouke M, Tim Easterbrook H, Doug Smith M. Sr Girls - Marsha Brand S, Cheryl Webber H, Irene Brand S. Triple Jump Int boys - Greg Becker S, Daryl Sweitzer E, Steven McIntyre M. Sr Girls - Irene Brand S, Cheryl Webber H, Lori Lewis M. Sr Boys - David Rooke M, Tim Easterbrook 11, Danny Morley E. Ba II Throw Jr Boys - Jeff Dalrymple E, Garry Broom M, Steve Martin S. Jr Girls - Chris Parsons U, Laura Mason E, Patti Bierling E. Int Boys - Roger Ward S, Scott Heywood E, Gord Lightfoot S. Int Girls - Arlene Johnson U, Kendra Arthur E, Cathy Ingram H. Sr Girls - Cheryl Lewis M, Sandra Dickens H, Kelli Schroeder Z. Shot Put Sr Boys - Kevin Tripp M, Murray MacDonald S, Ken Payne S. Run Jr Boys - Robbie DeVries E, Duane Costain M, Glenn AREA ELEMENTARY TRACK WINNERS — The district elementary school track and field meet was held Thursday. The in- dividual winners are shown here. From the left are Robbie DeVries and Dina Lerikos, Exeter Public School; David Rook, J.A.D. McCurdy; Greg Becker and Irene Brand, Stephen Central and Lisa Ellerington, Usborne Central. T -A photo PLEASE OTE Canvassers for the Exeter Grounds Development Project will be canvassing, beginning on Monday June 22. To com- plete the project the Town and area Townships will be canvassed. Phase two - The Fair Building; Demoli- tion of old livestock barns, soccer pitch are the major goals. OUR GOAL IS 97,000 Cheques payable to Town Of Exeter Official receipts will be mailed yr r.", 1 CANVASS Special Thanks To "TIN/111S KitkJCk'-- .. for their generous donation of $1,000 KICK-OFF — Don Cameron (left), chairman of the Exeter rec centre development committee, accepts a che- que for S1,000 from Ted Johnson, manager of the Exeter Ken- tucky Fried Chicken restaurant. The committee will be can- vassing for an estimated S97,000 to build o new fair building and complete phase two of work on the rec centre grounds. A, t J4 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT` EXETER RECREATION GROUNDS -`, For more information Contact any member of Grounds Development Committee: Don Cameron, General Chairman Gerald Merner Jorry MacLean 235-1774 Bill Brock 235.0281 Jim DeBlodt 235.0800 Dolton F,nkbe4iwr 235-0323 235-2300 235.1383 1. Hayter S. Jr Girls - Heather Rideout E, Carolyn Dykeman U, Lorraine Lewis M. Int Boys - Greg Becker S, Stephen McIntyre M, Trevor Cottrell H. Int Girls - Bonnie Kooy M, Tracey Ratz S, Michelle Rock M. Sr Boys - David Rook M, Scot Merrylees M, Brian Topp E. Sr Girls - Lori Lewis M, Marsha Brand S, Karen Heather U. Dash Jr Boys - Robbie DeVries E, Chris Smith E, Glenn Hayter S. Jr Girls - Heather Rideout E, Lisa Ellerington U, Lorraine Lewis M. Int Rain spoils lawn bowling Heavy rains Saturday night, cut the weekly ac- tivity at the Exeter lawn bowling club to two jitneys. Tuesday night, Lawrence Russell recorded two wins and an aggregate of 35 to take first prize. Tied for se- cond place with equal aggregates of 30 were Edith Love and Ruth Skinner. Next came Roy Blanchard at 29, Rose Blanchard and Charles Hendy deadlocked at 27, Stella Taylor and Thelma Russell each scored 26 and Lorna Spencer's score was 24. Olga Chipchase notched a pair of victories and an aggregate of 28 to capture Thursday's championship. 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