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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-06-02, Page 81 Pogo 8 • Times -Advocate, June 2, 1982 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Older and better The saying "Not getting older; but, getting better" is heard quite often. This phrase seems to apply to a couple of veteran major league baseball players this season. First of all Gaylor Perry became the 15th player in big league history to record 300 victories and just a week ago, Chatham native Fergie Jenkins recorded his 3,000 strikeout. Perry's achievement is greater not only because he is over the age of 40 years, but, is only the fourth player to win that many games in relatively modern times. Besides Lefty Grove (1925-41), Early Wynn (1939-63) and Warren Spahan (1942-65), the 300 club members began their careers before or shortly after the turn of the century. Those were the days pitchers worked often and long and were expected to finish what they started. If that same method was used today without using many relief pitchers and letting pitchers get themselves out of trou- ble, there would be bound to be more wins recorded by some a hurlers. Sure, some of the games now saved by the firemen from the bullpen would likely be lost by the starter, but, there‘are some that he would go on to win. Of the 11 other pitchers in this special category on- ly Walter Johnson and Grover Cleveland Alexander pit- ched as late as the 1920's when Babe Ruth brought power to the game and the livelier ball came into being. One of the reasons Gaylord Perry has been able to reach the 300 win plateau may be his widely suspected use of a spitball. Perry confessed to salvaging his career by resor- ting to the greaser in a book published several years ago but insisted he had reformed and that his sharp dropping delivery was actually a forkball. If that is true and he hasn't thrown a spitter or a doc- tored -up ball in years he has done little to dispel that notion in the heads of batters and probably has used this psychologically. Over the years ball players have searched for gim- micks which would give them edge even if it may only be pyschological and the spitball is one of them. Only a couple of years ago Perry gave umpires a 20 minute demonstration to verify the effectiveness of his bone-dry forkball. The only comment from one of the umpires was "One helluva pitcher". One of the first ball players trying to get an edge on the opposition was the great Ty Cobb and did that literally by sharpening his spikes to . give second basemen and shortstops a few fears, Other ploys have been infield foul lines banked to keep bunts from going foul, the phantom tag of second base on a double play, sign stealing, the corked bat and the hodden ball to name only a few. Gaylord Perry is a game competitor of the highest degree. Some fans in Seattle's Kingdome are now wear- ing T-shirts that say, "300 wins ain't nothing to spit at." The accomplishment of Fergie Jenkins of record- ed a career total of 3,000 strikeouts is also very com- mendable. Jenkins who has seven straight 20 game vic- tories or more with the Chicago Cubs is back with his original team and also has a chance at that 300 win mark. We are not quite sure of Fergie's current career vic- tory total is, but,it's somewhere in the area of 270. That's not out of his reach. Go for it, Fergie. Speaking of records, the old base stealing mark of Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals will likely be broken this year. Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics stole four bases in one game against the Detroit Tigers Sun- day to bring his season total to 49 in the same number of games. •4L - jw..l ttla tllr aw'* �+' . ..., Pki lA ,A181 14i ' rH assiseirc.J. Sponsored by EMBA Ajax, Corunna win bantam to u rn e • • Ajax won the grand cham- pionship and Corunna took the consolation title in the weekend bantam baseball tournament sponsored by the Exeter Minor Baseball Association. Ajax, a Toronto area team won four straight games, three in impressive fashion to win the Andex trophy which was presented by Chris Relouw. The Ajax club was forced to score seven runs in the final inning to edge Kingsville 8-6 in their first start. From then on they had each game in hand as they thumped Tecumseh 9-2 and Wheatley 6-1 and blanked Southwest London 5-0 in the final. After losing their first game to Southwest London 7-1, Cor - WIN BANTAM "A" TITLE — Ajax won the grand championship of the Exeter ban- tam baseball tournament.Above,. Chris Relouw bf Andex presents the trophy to Ajax captains Geoff Pennycook, Brian Tarleton and Bill Perios. At the right is Brad Gregus of the Exeter Minor Baseball association. T -A photo Big tourney The third Milverton International Softball Classic is set for June 11, 12, and 13 with plenty of good softball action for area fans. There will be 12 men's teams and 12 ladies leams and games will take place at each of the following parks: Millbank, Milverton, Rostock and Newton. Following the games Saturday night the Milverton Lion's Club in co-operation with the International Classic Tournament committee will be hosting a dance at the Milverton arena. The Lion's Club will also be making a draw on Saturday night for a choice of three trips. The tickets will be available at $5.00 each during the tournament up until Saturday night. More details on the entire weekend may be obtain- ed by contacting Lorrie Symons in Hensel' at 262-3506 after 5 p.m.. • The first game for the Milverton Suns will be Fri- day, June 11 at 6:30 p.m. against the Kitchener Kieswetters. • Lynne Farquhar and Iris Marshall of this area are back as valuable members of the Suns. CORUNNA TAKES CONSOLATION — The consolation championship of the weekend Exeter bantam baseball tournament was won by Corunna. Above, Chris Relouw of Andex and his daughter Kelly present the trophy to captains Clare South and Clarke Lanthier. At the right is Lorna Russell of the Exeter Minor Baseball Association. T -A photo Irish win over Saveway in area fastball league Lucan Irish dropped Exeter Saveway • Tuesday, 9-6, in Southwestern Fastball action. Exeter had built up a first in- ing 3-0 lead on Will Lamb's lead-off triple, a walk to Heywood and a three run blast by Doug Todd. The Irish came storming back with a run in the first, all on an error. They got one more in the third, as Windsor singled, was out at second as Eveleigh reached first on a fielder's choice. Smith singl- ed home Eveleigh to make it 3-2. In the fourth Lucan got to Exeter starter Brad Marsden, as Noyes singled, Taylor reached on an error, 'Smith also was safe on an er- ror, Windsor walked to load the bases with the score tied and one out. Eveleigh thensingled home two runs to bring Brian Hodgins from the Exeter bench to relieve Marsden. Capitana greeted Hodgins with another single to give the Irish a 6-3 lead. Exeter closed the gap in their half of the fifth. when Lamb singled, Heywood singled, followed by Paul McKnight's single to score both runners. In the bottom of the fifth, the Irish plated three more runs on Noyes' solo home run, and doubles by Taylor and Smith. This made it 9-5 for the Irish. The Exeter crew could manage only one more run as On Monday TV It was interesting to take a peak at the 1982 National Football League schedule in a recent edition of the Spor- ting News. The Detroit Lions will be appearing on Monday Night Football on television on two occasions. Rumours have it that Howard Cpsell will not be back for the Monday night telecasts. The Lions will appear on television the first time on November 1 in Minnesota and again on December. 6 at .the Silverdome in Pontiac with the New York Jets supplying the opposition. The New York Jets will be in Pontiac for the tradi- tional Thanksgiving Day game on November 25. 1 Lightfoot came on to relieve Eveleigh on the Irish mound. In the seventh Lamb was safe on a fielding error, Heywood doubled, then McKnight grounded out, scoring Lamb with the final run to give the Irish the 9-6 win. Marsden took the loss with relief from Hodgins. The pair gave up eighthits, struck out four and walked one. For the Irish'Eveleigh was the winner with . relief help from Lightfoot. They allowed six hits, struck out six and issued six walks. Leading Lucan at the plate was Noyes with a homer and a single. Doubles to Taylor and Smith and singles to Capitana, Smith, Windsor, and Eveleigh rounded out the Lucan attack. For Exeter, Lamb had a tri - Scores of 25 at Kippen shoot John Anderson and Dan Crerar each recorded scores of 25 to lead the regular com- petition at the Tuesday shoot at the Kippen gun club. Checking in with scores of 24 each were Bob Caldwell, Jack Mills, Glen Mock, Al Kyle and Bert Mahaffey while Jim Butcher, Wayne, McBride, Lloyd Venner and Bill Cochrane hit 23 targets. Completing the scoring were Mery Batkin 22, Bill Smith, Grant McGregor and Bill Baker 20 and Gladys McGregor 19. unna came back to beat Ex- eter 15-3 and Blenheim 8-2 to take the "B" crown. In their other game, the Ex- eter bantams were on the short end of a 7-4 score to Tillsonburg. Dashwood, the other area team in the competition lost two close games. They were beaten 2-1 by Wheatley and 3-0 by Blenheim. In the loss to Corunna, George Pratt, Steve Gould and Scott Bogart scored the Exeter runs with" Rick Gilfillan's double being the big hit. Exeter's four runs in the 7-4 loss to Tillsonburg came as Rick. Gilfillan singled and scored in the fourth, Scott Lovie homered in the sixth and Lovie and Jeff Pfaff crossed the plate in the seventh. In Dashwood's 3-1 loss to Blenheim, Schade scored the only run after walking and stealing second. Centennials take over first place brilliantly in supporting the fullbacks and backing the at- tack forwards Shawn Rot- teau, John Muller, Paul and Jerry Vandewalle. Just before the half ended Alfonse Weersink, Exeter's centre -half worked his way in front of the net where a long shot to the lower corner fool- ed the Taxandria goalie. In the second half Exeter pressed hard with Shawn Rot- teau, Paul Vandewalle and Dick Lord all hitting crossbars. Exeter couldn't score until Jerry Vandewalle took a long shot from his right wing position that fooled the Taxandria goalie by catching the.far corner. The only regret was that Exeter had only eleven players out meaning no spares and some of the players had to play hurt. Half Rob Weersink hurt his ankle putting Exeter down to 10 players. The Exeter team with a man short seemed to play even better. The strong asset of the Exeter club seems to be.their team play and ability to cover up for one another. Exeter now has a league record of 3-1 and 4-1-1 with Exhibition play. The league is very competitive this year with very few points separating first and last place. Next game is in Exeter Sun- day at 2 p.m. against West Williams. Exeter Centennials took over first place in the Ausable soccer league Sunday by defeating the league leading Taxandria Falcons 2-1. Exeter did what it never could do last year, come from behind and win. Mike Klyne of Taxandria scored the first goal that beat Exeter goalie Blair Burbidge. Blair played brilliantly in the goal for Ex- eter with strong support from his fullbacks Bill White, John Rasenberg and the ever stur- dy Joe Laurie who probably played his best game of the year to date. Halves Dick Lord, Alfonse and Rob Weersink played ple and a single, Heywood a double and a single, Todd a homer, with McKnight collec- ting the lone single. Exeter Saveway raised their record to five wins and three losses with an 8-5 vic- tory over Bryanston, Monday night. The short-handed Ex- eter squad, with coach Fred Cook in right field, collected eight hits off two Bryanston pitchers. Gary MacMaster, Doug Pearson, and Rob Snell each had a single with Snell also collecting a double. Paul McKnight blasted out a triple and a double, with Doug Todd adding a triple and John Gillespie a bases loaded double. Bryanston's inexperienced team managed to get seven hits off Brian Hodgins as their eighth and ninth place hitters each had two hits, but the top four hitters couldn't produce any offence as Hodgins pitch- ed a little stronger with run- ners on base. He got seven batters on strikes and walked three to get his second win of the season. Bryanston pitchers struck ,out four and walked three hi a losing cause. Exeter has to travel to Poplar Hill Tuesday of this week while playing a rained out game from Thursday against West Corners, this Thursday at 9 p.m. They are also at home Sunday with the Lieury seniors in town (game tithe possibly 7:30 p.m. ). Holtzmann wins again BIKE RODEO CONTESTANTS -- Sunday's bike rodeo sponsored by the Kirkton- Woodham Optimist club was a huge success. Above, Optimist club organizer Gord Robinson checks with contestants lorel and Mellissa Wilhelm and Peggy Dunnell. Dave Holtzmann won low gross honours in the "A" flight at Tuesday's regular men's night at the Ironwood golf course for thesecond straight this week. This time Holtzmann cut his winning score by seven strokes to 33. Iver Small was the low net winner with a 31. In "B" flight, Paul Van Gerwen with a 39 and Larry Wein at 40 were the low gross winners and best in low net were Mike Cushman at 30 and Jamie Gaul with 41. Fred Wells and Bill Gilfillan fired identical 44's to take low gross honours in "C" flight with Bert Brown at 34 and Stan Frayne with a 35 as low net best. Leading the "D" flight golfers with low gross were Jon Dinney and Lee Webber at 47. Mike Anstett and Jim Rowe with 34's won in low net. Paul Van Gerwen took the prize for being the closest to the pin. Members are reminded of the first special occasion night to be held June 8 when Jerry MacLean and Son will sponsor the evening with special prizes. Cowgirls win big The Crediton Cowgirls won a very decisive victory Mon- day night by defeating Lucan in five innings by a score of 24-6. The Cowgirls play tomor- row night in Ilderton against Denfield at 8:30 and then are back in Crediton Monday night against St. Peter's at 9:00 p.m. The Cowgirls took the lead with their first bat by scoring five runs. They kept their bats moving every inning by averaging at least five runs per inning. Leading the Cowgirls at the plate were Deb Lord with a home run, single and a double and Barb Mitchell with a home run and two singles. Barb has held her record of. one home run per game. Adding two, doubles was Shelley Weber while singles were hit by Tammy Regier, Wilma Lagerwerf, Sandy O'Neill, Teresa Van Raay and Brenda Wilds and using plan L was Wendi Schwindt. Taking the win for Crediton was pitcher Brenda Wilds. Thamesford in Shamrock loop At a special Shamrock Hockey League meeting, Sun- day, Thamesford was ac- cepted as a new entry by the league for next season's play. The addition resulted in a realignment of the north and south divisions. Thamesford will join the south group with Belmont, Dorchester, Lambeth, Port Stanley, Mt. Brydges and Oakridge Acres. Strathroy has been moved into the northern division with Ilderton, Lucan, Parkhill, Ex- eter, Goderich and St. Marys. Let's run oround togeitmw. (-2 �rrsowr sen•• Best Interest * 17"4% We represent many Trust Companies. 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