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Citizens News, April 27, 1977
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Letters to the editor
"Joe Clark, I presurne?"
Hawks` spirit unbelievable says coach
Dear Editor:
The Exeter Hawks have just
completed a very successful
season. After a few early season
problems, things settled down
and seemed to gel very quickly.
We won the league with an
exciting victory over Mitchell,
After some tense moments and
two losses we eliminated Mt.
Brydges in four straight games
after we sort of took stock of
ourselves. The Mitchell series
provided some exciting moments.
but we eventually won the sixth
game in overtime,
On to Wellington and after
losing the first game we won the
next four to gain a berth in the
finals against Stayner. Four
straight in the finals and handing
Stayner their first home losses of
the season made the victory even
more satisfying.
We beat a good team but the
Hawks were better. We are OHA
Junior D Champions.
All this would not have been
accomplished without superb
efforts from 18 of the finest young
men I have ever worked with.
After our problems were solved:
in the early new year these young
men gave me everything a coach
could ask for —hard work, co-
operation, dedication and a
supreme effort.
This all paid off in winning a
championship—a first hockey
championship for most of them.
Those efforts on the ice will long
be remembered by me as coach,
You did everything I asked of you
and then some. You provided me
with a challenge which at first
was most difficult but once we
worked the problems out and
started working together as a
unit we became a fine cohesive
team.
The spirit and desire was un-
believable—sure.we needled each
other, but once on the ice, the
effort was for a common goal. We
had pride and never let up
because we believed we could do
it all.
This great achievement could
not have been possible without
the efforts of many people off the
ice. Manager Fred Mom-
mersteeg deserves a great deal of
credit for his hard work and
giving me protection during the
Mitchell series. What would we
do without Bob Drummond to
look after us, to pan out all the
new sticks to everyone at each
game and to cut the oranges—oh
those good oranges.
Thanks to Pat Denomme for
helping. Thanks to Steve
Grainger and Bob Mommersteeg
for timing and score keeping.
Thanks to Jerry Rader for his
fine co-operation at games and
practices.
I wish to especially thank the
EMHA executive for all their
support and for showing con-
fidence in selecting me as a
coach. It has been an experience
which will last a lifetime,. Special
thanks to Wayne Pearce for
paying the bills and BillBattenfor
looking after transportation,
meals and lodging This type of co-
operation is what makes the
operation run smoothly.
Thanks to my wife and family
for allowing me the time away
from you to meet thechallengeof
this experience.
Thanks to the great fans who
have supported us over the year—
you were super. There is no other
place in this country that has fans
like we do. We appreciate your
efforts. I think we provided you
with some exciting hockeyandyou
gave us the support that we
needed to accomplish our goal.
A special thanks to those who
travelled to Wellington and
Stayner with us. You never let us
down and we hope we never let
you down. Thanks to Phil
Campbell for arranging the bus
to Stayner.
I probably have forgotten
someone. If I have, I apologize,
but thanks for your efforts too.
This has been a great season.
The working together of many
people—and this is why it makes
it so satisfying. We can be very
proud of our Hawks and I think
the people of Exeter and area can
hold their heads high through the
efforts of these 18 young men who
displayed to me a dedication to a
common goal both on and off the
ice. I am proud of the way you
won this championship.
Thanks Hawks—you provided
me with a challenge and an ex-
perience which I will never
forget. You have done something
for me and I hope I was able to
provide something for you both
on and off the ice.
Sincerely,
Ron Bogart
Coach Exeter Jr. Hawks
Birthday
To The Editor:
During the year 1977, the town
of Goderich on beautiful Lake
Huron at the mouth of. the
Maitland River, is celebrating
its one hundred and fiftieth birth-
day,
As a great many special events
are planned for the days from
June 29th to July 10th, we would
like to invite all former
Goderichites to return home dur-
ing those days.
We have reached a good
number of friends by letter but
feel that there may be others
who have not heard of our
celebrations. We would,
therefore, like to use this column
of your newspaper to issue a very
hearty "Welcome Home" to
anyone in your community who
once upon a time, lived in our
town.
Thank you for -assisting us in.
this effort. Sincerely yours,
Harry Worsell
P.S. If anyone wishes more infor-
mation, write to me at P.O.
Box 1977, Goderich, Ontario.
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Hockey watching is rapidly becoming a frustrating af-
fair. Sunday afternoon with Canada and Russia playing I
was certain it would be a good game, but I was not prepared
for the type of game it turned out to be.
We were trounced, and deservedly so. The Russians
outplayed, outlasted and outshot us and if one more com-
mentator tries to make up one more excuse as to why we
lost, Pll be tempted to shoot them.
Canada didn't lose because they weren't used to wear-
ing helmets, or they had problems with their hotel rooms or
they didn't have time to get in shape and could only have 20
players dressed or even because as Al Eagleson put it, cut-
ting the team from 31 players to 20 split the team morally.
Hogwash. •
It's time we stopped making excuses and admitted it.
We lost because the best men available from Canada were
not good enough hockey players to beat or even come close
to the Russians. All the excuses don't hold water because
our team knew long before this series started just what the
rules and regulations were.
We sent the best available and they are no where good
enough and that is that.
However, I wouldn't feel so badly about losing if we had
done it gracefully.The least we could do is go down playing
good clean hockey not the slashing stick fighting kind that
was displayed on Sunday.It is very embarrassing to sit and
watch representatives of your country embarrass and
humiliate you by using such unnecessary tactics as hacking
and slashing displayed by several members of the Canadian
team. One player in particular, in my opinion, should be
banned from ever playing hockey for or in Canada again. He
managed nine minutes of penalties in the one game, in -
eluding a major and the commentators informed us he has
received almost as many in every other game played by
Team Canada so far.
As far as I can see, any player who deliberately swings
his stick around the heads and shoulders of his opponent,
who deliberately slashes and hacks to the extent that player
has been, then he should be kicked off the team and banned
from playing in Canada. There is just no excuse for such
conduct and I sincerely hope the coach of Team Canada
keeps him off the ice before he has Europe convinced we
not only can't play good enough hockey to win, we don't
• have the guts to lose like gentlemen.
The only redeeming factor in the afternoon's 11 to 1
fiasco was the thought of the semi-final playoff game to be
played at 8 p.m. At least the TV Guide said there would be a
game that night and I suppose I should know better by now
than to believe a TV Guide. It of course lied to me and had
no intentions of showing the Philadelphia -Boston game even
though it sounds like it was an exciting game.
The only explanation I can think of is the people who
made up the TV Guide figured Toronto' would push the
Flyers to the seventh game which would have been played
Sunday and so they put it in the Guide. I guess they were so
depressed when Toronto lost they forgot to make the
change and in,the process managed to disappoint a good
number of hockey fans. •
For 24 years I have been going through the time
changes spring and fall, to and from, Daylight Saving
Time, but this spring was undoubtedly the most confusing
one I have ever seen.
Usually you start hearing about the clock going
forward one hour at least a week ahead of the time change,
but this year it was the Thursday before the change that I
noticed the ad in the Exeter paper. Well, I thought, that's
funny, I wonder why no one has mentioned it on the radio.
Well, when they did mention it on the radio they con-
fused me even more. Friday one announcer said several
times the change was to be on April 30, not the 24th. I
switched to another station and this announcer was saying
the time change was on the 24th but he was telling everyone
not to forget to turn their clocks back one hour. Now, I knew
it was forward, (remember, spring forward and fall back)
so by this time I was really confused.
It wasn't until Saturday night I finally heard those on
the radio and television saying the clocks went forward one
hour April 24, Now we're back to getting up in the dark and
the way things have been going sometimes T thing I'm still
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