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Meaford Takes Series Three Straight
Defeating Flyers 10-0 In Final Tilt
GODERICH BOWLERS
PLAY AT SEAFORTH
Although entries did not equal
diose of other years, enthusiasm
ran high in the annual lawn Dowl-
ing tournament held at Seaforth.
Only 30 entries' comprised the com-
petition.
\\'inners were: W. Ryckman and
M. Southcott, Exeter, with 3 wins
plus 26; second, H. C. Rivers and
N. Pollen. Exeter, 3 wins plus 20;
third. 13. F. Christie and Dr. P. L.
Brady, Seaforth, 3 wins plus 18;
fourth, C. Danbrook and Ted Hol-
man, Atwood, 2 wins plus 24; fifth,
Gordon Muir and Dr. F. J. Bechely,
Seaforth, 2 wins plus 22, (63);
sixth, George Hart and E. Smith,
Atwood, 2 wins plus 22 (42).
Other players were: Ken Hockey,
M. Mode, Exeter; R. Sparling,,
George Mathieson, T. Pritchard.
R. Besse, George Baechler, C. F.
Chapman, J. Baker, Goderich; Al-
bert Callahan, London;'' J. Sutter,
Hugh Hawkins, C. Johnston, Clin-
ton; H. Vodden;•Blyth.
Other Seaforth players were G.
Hildebrand,' F: Sills, E. II. Close,
H. 0. Free, A. W. Sillery, Eric
Munroe, John Hotham, M. Merriam,
R. Stevens and Lorne Dale.
LOCAL TEAM FIRST
IN CLINTON TOURNEY
Winner of first place in the
Mixed Trebles Bowling Tourna-
ment held in Clinton was a team
from Goderich, skipped by Bill
McLaren, with• Mrs. McLaren and
John Baker, who had -three wins,
plus 24. and -an an aggregate of 43.
In second place with three wins,
plus fl, and an aggregate of 30
was Jack Nediger, of Clinton, with
Iva Boyes and Jack Innes,." and
third spot also went. to a Clinton
team, skipped by Walter New -
Bombe, with Mrs. S. - Castle and
third with two runs, Allen and
Bowles scoring. The Dodgers re-
covered the lead in their half, with
two tallies, but Hanover evened it
in the fourth, 3-3. There was ro
Medford Knights proved far too
powerful for the Goderich Flyers
in Meaford on Wednesday night
of last week as the Flyers were
downed 1011 and knocked out of
further' WOAA Fastball playoff
competition.
The. same night, Walkerton clip-
ped Kincardine 12-1 to win the
right to meet the Meaford outfit
in the finals. Both Meaford and
Walkerton won their series in three
straight games.
The loss was the eighth for Gode-
rich in nine played against Mea -
ford this year. Errors proved
costly for the Flyers, with five
miscues chalked up against them
And they were weak at the plate.
accounting for only six hits, three
of them by Justice, while Johnson
fanned 17. Justice sent four
Knights down by way of the strike-
out route, but allowed nine hits.
Meaford took over in the first
inning and stayed in power all the
way. In. the initial stanza, three
runs crossed the plate on only one
hit. The Knights added single
runs -in the second and fourth in-
nings and collected two runs in
each of the fifth and eighth. •
The final two runs came when
Meaford's centre fielder, Miller,
dropped a bunt down the third
DODGERS ADVANCE IN base line, catching the Goderich
SEMI-FINAL PLAY infield asleep. Big Russ Johnson,
the pitcher, came up and slammed
Goderich Dodgers advanced in out a home run to end the scoring.
Johnson was the big hitter for
the semi-finals for the W.O.A. A. Meaford batting in three runs.
ladies' softball championship by Justice collected three safeties for
God ih d LLilliot two
one of them a two bagger.
Batteries — Justice and' Ginn;
Johnson and Richardson.
R. H. E.
Goderich 000 000 000— 0 6 5
Meaford 310 120 02x-10 9 0
DUNGANNON
DUNGANNON Sept. 16. -- The
Dungannon United .Church an-
niversary services were held on
Sunday morning and evening with
administering a second defeat to ercan s g,
the Hanover ladies' team on Mon-
1day evening. The score, 7 to 5.
The . game was played at Kincard-
ine, the people of that town, for
1 years interested in ladies' softball,
hng q ted that one of the
g re nes
Dodgers' home games be played
lth
Rev. Fred Starkey. of Teeswater,
as guest speaker. The church was
beautifully decorated with autumn
flowers and a lovely large bouquet
of gladioli on the altar table placed
by Mrs. William Bradley. of Gode-
rich, in memory of her grandpar-
ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Alton. Rev. Starkey, al the morn-
ing service gave 'an address on
"The Church and beer Saviour."
The choir sang an anthem and, Mrs.
L F. Stingel, organist. was accom-
panied by Miss Norma Sherwood
at the piano for the hymns and
also sang a solo "The Holy City."
A quartette made up of Lois Web-
`ster, Slywia Stingel, Wilmer Er-
rington and Carleton Stingel, sang
a selection after the sermon. In
the evening Rev. Starkey preached
on "The Church and the Commun-
ity." The Chordsmen, Fred Moss,
Paul Arnistead, Jack Allan and
Bob Woods, Goderich, were guest
singers in the evening and pleased
the audience with their fine har-
mony. The church was filled at
each service despite the damp day.
and the. collections amounted to a
fine sum. Rev. George Watt, pas-
tor, exchanged pulpits, and preach-
ed at Teeswater for Rev. Starkey,
who with Mrs. Starkey and two
children were guests at the par-
sonage.
Mrs. Walter Driver and Fred
Garton, of Golden Valley, were
down from the north on Tuesday
to the house of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs: Albert Orser. She re-
ports that her father is remarkably
well at the age of 93 and her mo-
After the week -end rain the Gerrards Leading
diamond was wet and slippery, the
uncertain footing being account-
able for some part of the unusual
score of errors.
Kay McKinon was on the mound,
for Goderich, with Peg Wood re -1
ceiving. R. Field and R Fortney
were the battery for Hanover. The
Dodgers made the first tally in the
second inning, Pearl Morland hoist-
ing a three -bagger and scoring on
Wood's sacrifice. Hanover came
.fight back in the top half of the
George Beattie, with two wins,
plus 16, and an aggregate -of 37.
A Forest entry was in fourth
spot, skipped by R. G. Lawrence,
with Mrs, Lawrence and Jim
plus 13, and more scoring until the seventh
tan, with two wins;
an aggregate of 31, and Goderich frame, when the Dodgers used
scored again in fifth spot, Mrs. J. their bats to good purpose and
Broad made the score 6-3. They added
R. Wheeler skipped Mrs. L.
leyone more in the eighth. Hanover
and George McPherson to two
wins plus 11 and an aggregate of made a gallant effort in the top
half of the ninth and with a pass
26. and two hits got two runners in,
Entries were present from Gode- completing the score at 7-5. Gode-
rich, Exeter, Seaforth, Hensail, rich had 8 hits and 7 errors; Han -
i Forest and Clinton.
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WRO.ARA. Ladies' Softball
3EMI-FINALS
Linwood vs. Goderich Dodgers
FRInAY, SEPT. 18th, 8.30 p.m.
AT AGRICULTURAL PARK, GODERICH
Industrial Finals
Gerrards unleashed a powerful
attack to- swamp .the.. Canadian
Legion crew 15-2 in the second
game of the Industrial League soft;
ball playoffs on 'Monday night.
Gerrards won the first game: last
week 154. Third game' of the
best -of -seven series was slated for
last night:
At the game, over 150 boys and
girls who took part in the pee wee
i softball league sponsored by the
Lions Club and operated by John
i Berry, were guestl of the league
and the Lions. They were treated
Ito hot dogs and soft drinks and
captains of the winning teams re-
ceived their trophies.
Gerrards started the attack in
the second inning getting . cme run
across the plate. They piled on
four more in the third, one ,in the
fourth, three in the sixth, one in
}the seventh, two in the eighth
I and three in the ninth.
I The Legion outfit was held score -
over 6 and 5.
R. H. E.
Hanover .002 100 002— 5 6 5
Goderich 012 000 31x— 7 8 7 !less until the sixth inning when
THI]ESD4% Y, SEL ., 17th, 1963
ther, who is at the home of kir.
Jack Orser, Toronto, is compara-
, Lively well also. "
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Brown and'
family spent the Week -end with
ph Petrie. Till -
Goderich's ambitious pipe band 1 they managed to push one tally
—McAdam, McCreath and Camp- across the plate. The second and
bell—made its initial appearance 'final run was scored in the ninth
in support of the Dodgers, and
drew generous applause from the
Kincardine folk, who have a,. first-
rate pipe band of their own.
The next game here in the semi-
final series will be on Friday
evening, with the Linwood nine I Legion
facing the Dodgers.
Mr. and Mrs. J
sonburg.
The United Church
ons .U.eShd held
its bi-weekly
night and a ' boil was : joyed
at the back of Harvey Maize' farm.
Miss Grace Crawford L back
after spending the summer at Ot-
tawa.
Miss Jane Montgomery, of Owen
Sound, has been spending -a month
with her niece, Mrs. Allan Reed.
Dr. Ii. A. S. Yokes and Mr's. j
Yokes. spent a week at their sum-
mer home, and left Sunday to re-
turn to Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd lodges and
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Young en-
joyed a trip to Manitoulin.Island
at the week -end via boat at Tober-
mory.
Miss Margaret Joy Durnin is
spending a vacation at Calgary.
Ladies Guild. — Mrs. Thomas
Young gave her home. for the
meeting of St. Paul's Ladies' Guild.
The president, Mrs. William Cae-
sar,was in charge. Scripture read-
ing was given by Mrs. D. Erring-
ton. Roll call answered by re-
peating a commandment and show-
ed seven members present. Plans M
were completed for the annual
bazaar to be held later this month.
The meeting closed with prayer by
Mrs. William Caesar. Lunch was
served by the conveners. Mrs. G.
Rivett and Mrs. Ben Mole.
FEWER USE BUS
Greyhound Bus Lines, which this
summer operated a service be-
tween Goderich and Detroit. re-
ported that the volume of passeng-
er traffic and consequently the in -
in a short-lived spree.
Medley and Mero made up the
Legion battery, while McLean did
the hurling for the winners with
Willis doing the receiving.
Gerrards 014 103 123-151
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' OBITUARY
JAMES GLEN
- fJames Glen, pioneer Alberta
farmer and a. _resident. of Calgai y'
for the past two years died on
August 28 in Calgary. He was a
veteran of the Boer War.
Mr. Glen was born near Gode-
rich in Colborne Township, a son
of the late Alex and Janet Strachan
Glen. He wept west as a ..young
man in about 1898 to Manitoba.
Later he went to' Lethbridge, Al-
berta. With his older brother,
William, he homesteaded at Nan-
ton, Alberta and in 1910 he' estab-
lished a homestead with his young-
er brother, John, at Sibbald, Al-
berta.
He was a member of the United
Church, the Masonic Lodge and
the A.,F. & A.M., Alsask, Alberta.
Surviving are two sons and two
daughters, Mrs. Ava Mae . Ball, of
Ontario, California; Margaret,
R.N., in Calgary; Kenneth, of Ed-
monton; and t;ar1, of Ocean Beach,
California; four sisters, Mae M.
Glen, R.N.,. in Toronto; Mrs. W. H.
Jewell, of oderich; Mrs. Alex Sin-
clair, of Eston, Sask.; Mrs. Effie
Hogarth, of Calgary; one brother.
John, of Regina Beach, and six
grandchildren. One- sister, "Mrs.
Arthur McNeil and a brother, Wil-
liam, predeceased him. His wife,
Ava Mowers Glen, predeceased him
on June 30.
Funeral service was held August
31 at Gooder Brothers Chapel, Cal-
gary.
PHONE 625W
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JOHN S. "DICKSON
Funeral services were . held at
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church,
Toronto, today for John S. Dickson,
native of Goderioh and well-known
Toronto financiQr. He died Mon'
day at Wellesley Hospital, Toronto.
Mr. Dickson's grandfather, James
Dickson, was registrar of deeds
for Huron County and his father,
John T. Dickson; was deputy reg-
istrar for a time.
He was a past president of the
Canadian Institute and 'an active
public worker. A partner in the
,brokerage firm of Dickson, Jolliffe
and Company, he had been presi-
' dent of Harding Carpets Ltd.. for
many years. He was a director of
numerous financial, mining and in-
• dustrial companies.
I A graduate of the University of
Toronto in,3916, he served is an
officer in World War I. He was a
member of the national committee
of , the Canadian . Cancer Bedell,
and chairman of the Toronto Vic-
tory Loan Employees' committee.
Surviving are two •daughters and
a son and also two sisters, Mrs.
D. 11. Gilliesi and Miss Jean G.
Dickson and one brother, James
A. Dickson of Cleveland. ' His
wife, the former Florence Budd.
predeceased him in 1946. -
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