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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-08-06, Page 8Page. 8 Times -Advocate, August 6, 1986 Hear good, badcomments of Tigers on south of border trip Our column this week will be devoted mainly to happenings and information gleaned on a four day sporting trip to the United States. With son Dan we took in a Detroit Tigers -Cleveland Indians baseball game in Cleveland, harness racing in Pittsburg and Col- umbus and dog racing in Wheeling West Virginia. On the way to Cleveland Thursday we found an interesting ar- ticle in the Detroit Free press which predicted the Tigers would be in first place by August 19. It was written by Iffy the Dopester who suggested combined with the Tiger record since the all star break, the Red Sox would move to the Phillipines and change their name to the Manila Folders, the Yankees would fall apart with an injury plagued pit- ching staff, the Blue Jays and Orioles have as much chance of win- ning as Detroit mayor Coleman Young as the keynote speaker at an AFCSME convention and the Indians are still the Indians. After Allan Trammell, Kirk Gibson and Johnny Grubb hit.con- secutive homers to put the Tigers ahead 7-1 it looked as if Iffy knew what he was talking about. This Tiger lead didn't last too long as the Indian kept pecking away with base hits and heads up base running. Their rallies were helped by some shoddy Tiger fielding and the Indians scored three times in the top of the eighth to take an 8-7 victory. We were sitting in the midst of a number of Tiger fans and their moods and attitudes sure changed in a very short time from pennant contenders to "let's get rid of Sparky". The seats we had were in the boxes only 11 rows behind the Tigers dugout, but, they were far from being in an ideal location. Sure, we were close to the action, but, the rise from one row to the next was only about one inch making the view over the row in front very difficult. In getting back to the motel after the game, we turned on a Cleveland television station and lo and behold a commentator was complaining loud and clear about the vistibility problems from the seats in question. Other than the box seat problem, Municipal Stadium in Cleveland is a beautiful ball park right on the shores of Lake Erie. sports Spotlight by Ross Haugh It would be a great spot to host a World Series, but, don't hold your breath. The Indians have certainly surprised a lot of people, but, don't seem to have enough horses to do the trick. Later in the trip we read in a Toledo newspaper that finally the two pretenders the Yankees and the Indians would fade into oblivion. Our second stop: of the week was through Pittsburgh to Washington, Pennsylvania where we attended races at 'The Meadows, advertised as the Lightning Limestone track and the fastest five-eighths mile. track in North America. Saturday morning we were off to Wheeling, West Virginia and a first ever look at racing dogs. After six races in the afternoon it was off to Columbus, Ohio and Scioto Downs. Here we had a particular interest as Quite A Sensation from the Parkhill barns of Claire Porter was slated to race in two heats. The three-year-old didn't disappoint any of the Ontario fans there as he won the first elimination heat in 1.55.3 and then came back to win the final in only one -fifths of a second Mower. There was only win betting on the first race and Quite A Sensation was bar- red from the wagering pool in the final. The Parkhill horse will be staying in Columbus for another stakes event this Saturday with a purse of 3100,000. Royals Tourney Just a last minute reminder of the excellent fastball action on the agenda this weekend at the South Huron Rec Centre diamonds as the Exeter Royals sponsor their annual tournament with six outstanding teams competing. Play starts with four games Friday night. The preliminary rounds continue Saturday morning. The finals go Sunday after- noon. Don't miss some of this top notch fastball. Trivia time' Here are the answers to last week's -trivia questions. Don Drysdale holds the record of pitching 58 scoreless innings. The seven Smiths who played over the years for the Boston Bruins were Hooley, Des, Dallas, Ken, Barry, Floyd and Rick. This week we would like you to list the major league baseball players who have hit the most home runs with a name starting with each letter of the alphabet. Two examples: The A is Hank Aaron and the Z is Gus Zernial--- Royals win two of Exeter Royals won two out of three games this week to bring the season record to 11 wins and 10 losses. This Thursday they host Ilderton at 9 p.m. They have three games left before playoffs. Tuesday they travelled to Lucan to play the Irish and Lost a close 3-2 deci- sion. They Irish opened the scoring in the third inning as Murray Corless tripled and scored on Dave Smiths grounder. , They went up 20-0 in the sixth on a bases loaded walk. The Royals struck for two runs in the top of the seventh as Brian Hodgins reached on an er- ror, Will Lamb doubled,- Dan Heywood hit a sacrifice fly and Pete Tuckey reached on an error. Brian Noyes hit the first pitch in the bottom of the seventh over the right centrefield fence to win the game for the Irish. Fred Franks picked up the win in relief of Bob Mills while Dan Heywood took the loss in relief of Scott Brintnell and Brian Hodgins. Pete Tuckey had two hits for the Royals. Royals t Lieury 0 Thursday, the Royals beat Lieury 1-0 pushing across a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to pick up a 1-0 win. Dan Heywood tossed the win allow- ing only 4 hits while striking out 5 hit- ters. Don Appleby picked up the loss allowing only five hits. The winning run coming on an overthrow. Royals 6 White Sox 4 The Royals rallied from a 3-1 deficit and broke a 4-4 tie in the top of the seventh to come home with a 6-4 win. They opened the scoring in the top Strong arm of the law The term "the strong arm of the law" is often heard, but really applies in a positive way for Constable John Kelsall of the Exeter detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. Kelsall won three medals in the re- cent Ontario Police Olympics held in Ottawa. Ile won a gold medal in arm wrestling, with the left arm and a silver medal in the same competition using his right arm. In addition. the local constable who has been running for about seven years was a silver medal winner in the 10 kilometre race which attracted 80 contestants. Kelsall now moves on to compete in the International Police Olympics to be held August 11 to 18 in Columbus, Ohio. CHIPQN Computers & Electronics IBM Compatible Computers Desktop - 640K -Memory, 2 floppy disk drives, P/S/G Port Real time clock, Video card, keyboard 61 499" CALL John Feeney at 228-6810 Custom Programing and Educaticinal Training Available of the first as Pete Tuckey walked and scored on Randy Kraut's double. The White Sox answered with three runs in their half of the first as Mike Neil and Jeff Shipley singled. Gary Edgin- ton walked and Ed Dobinson singled . The Royals narrowed the score to 3=2 as Jeff Lindenfield walked and scored on Scott Brintnell's triple. They went ahead 4-3 in the third as John Kernick doubled. Brion Penhale singled and Tom Tordoff singled. The White Sox knotted the count at 4-4 in the bottom of the third as Jeff Shipley doubled and scored on Kevin Woods triple. The Royals then scored the winning runs in the top of the seventh as Ran- dy Kraul walked and with two out Brion Penhale's line drive single elud- ed the centre fielder and he came all the way around to socre. Jeff Shipley took the loss for the White Sox allowing 11 hits while strik- ing out three Royals batters. Brian Hodgins picked up the win coming on in the third inning and not allowing any hits the rest of the way. Hodgins and Brintnell combined to strikeout 11 White Sox batters who had six hits in the game. Royals host OASA first game The Exeter Royals will host St. Marys Stonetown Chargers in the first game of O.A.S.A. Intermediate "C' play down on Tuesday August 12 three, prepare for weekend tourney Game time set for 9 p.m. The series will be the best two -out - of -three, with the winner to play the survivor of Bluevale, Belmore and Palmerston in the zone final. Stonetown are currently in first place in the South Perth south division and were runnersup at the Royals tourney last year. Royals tourney The Exeter Royals fifth annual tourney is set for this weekend August 8,9,10. Games start Friday at 7:30 with the Lucan Irish, winners of the recent tourney in Glencoe with former memorial league pitcher Fred Franks leading the way playing against Fullarton 'A's' with intercity league player Tom Chessel and several hard hitters. On diamond two St. Marys Baird Lumber with several league and tourney championships in recent years playing the Nairn Royals who have reached the final six teams the last two years in -the tourney. At 9 p.m. on diamond one, Teeswater with several former Wingham BP's including former tourney M.V.P. Don Edgar will play the Stonetown Chargers who are cur- rently in first place in the South Perth Southern division. They are led by Doug Kennedy and Jim Siddall. On diamond two Forest, a former memorial league team meets Walton with hard hitting Rick McDonald. On Saturday the first games start at 9:30 a.m. with Ingersoll MacNabs playing the Lucan White Sox on dia- mond one. Ingersoll iso former junior team who hosted the Int. "A" cham- pionships two years ago. ' The White Sox have added St. Marys junior pitcher Paul Horenburg to their lineup. He is one of the top pit- chers in the area. On diamond two Petrolia from the Sarnia town and country with NHL hockey player Bob Gould plays Tavistock Merchants with Ross Yant- ze and Joe Yausie leading the way. At 11 a.m. the first round concludes with last years winners from Rich- mond Hill and M.V.P. from last year 3w� Diceman play Port Elgin Ralphs of the Bluewater League. Port Elgin were recent winners of a tourney in Mildmay and have cap- tured the Int. "B" Ontario Champion- ship only two years ago. They are led by Mildmay tourney M.V.P.'s Mur- • ray Maas and pitcher Doug Pet- teplace who is unique in that he is one of the top pitcher's in Ontario despite having only one arm. On diamond two Verschoyle Gun- ners tourney finalists two years ago led by pitcher Rob Johnson will play Onondaga with former senior pitcher Reg Smith leading the way. Games continue all day Saturday and start on Sunday at 11 a.m. with the finals at approximately 6 p.m. There is no admission and there will be food and refreshments available in the Agricultural building. Come on out and see some of the top teams in Ontario perform and help the Royals have a successful tourney. ladies slopitch All games are now up to date in the Exeter ladies slowpitch league. Good Times downed Huron Park Devils 8-4 and Exeter Indianettes set the Albatross Angels down 12-3 to com- plete all rainouts. Big 0 Sockettes, Downtown Dollies, Huron Park Devils and Exeter In- dianettes shared the winners circle July 24 while Sundowners, Good Times, Exeter Indianettes, and South Huron Hospital were victorioifs' July 31. Congratulations to Big 0 Sockettes who were B champs in Hensall this past weekend. andings W T L Pts. 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