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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-08-13, Page 11WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1958 ZURICaI-I Citizens NEWS PAGE ELEVEN Lumberke� , ins . First GariHuronP.,etFinIs;_� Play in MitTonight; • Tkursay._ Meyer, Moir and Bell. ° ere Hitting Stars In Zurich's 5-3 Win on Monday s oxTs IGEST By DON O'BRIEN (Citizens News Sportswriter) The popular manager and catcher of the Zurich Lumber - kings, Tom Rawlings, is filling at, for regular sportswriter Don O'Brien again this week. Don hopes to be back on the job next week, he is finishing ,his summer school term next Saturday. ZURICH WINS FIRST GAME The Lumberkings got back into Huron Perth comrpetitnon Monday might, after a lengthy four week layoff, beating Mitchell Lincolns 5=3 mn the first game of the league Intermediate "C" deals. Second game of. the best .of seven series is slated for Mitchell toidght with the third in Zurich on Thursday. One sof the reasons, for the Lumberking's fine' record this season has been the !fact that almost anyone in the line, - up seems' capable of producing the big hit when it is needed. Over the season Ronnie, Moir, Bell, Gignac, Yungblut, etc., have 'come !through with big hits, Last night it was Arnie Meyer's 'rum. Arnie's double drove in Gerry Bels with the winner in. The eighth inning and set up Bruce Moir on! third for the clincher. Otherwise, Moir and Bell earned the offensive honours. Moir connected for the first Zurich home run of the 1958 season ;and! contributed two sharp singles. Beal delivered a run. scoring 'waggle, plus a long double in the eigth to smart the winning rally. Although the Lumberkings have won all five meetings 'with. Mitchell: this year, the (present series is far from being in the bag. In fact the round is still. a toss up and could easily !go the full seven games. MITCHELL TEAM NOW KNOWN AS "TIIE LINCOLNS" Known as the Legionaires in the past, the Mitchell club is sponsored this year by playing manager Lincoln Rohfristch :and operating as the "Lincolns". Apparent heavy losses forced The Mitchell Legion to drop sponsorship of the clha!b. Last year's • reputed deficit was -$900. The Mitchell infield, led by short stop Noble, appears to be one of the best inner defenses Zurich has faced in some 'time. They have their usual fine outfield, good catching in Ken .Saxton and a balanced hitting attach. COULD BE LAST GAME FOR "RED" • Wednesday night's game could easily be the last in a 'Zurich uniform for "Red" The - ander. "Red" moves to Chat - 'ham on Thursday morning to commence has new job in the Chatham branch of the Bank of Montreal. Add this to the loss of 'Ron Heller, plus the impend- ing temporary loss of Bin Yungblut and the situation is becoming difficult. HAYTER STARRED AT BAT Congratulations to Jimmy Hayter of the Dashwood Tigers on has two grand slam homers and tremendous hitting in the recent series captured by Mitchell, 3 games to 1. TIGERS LOOKED LISTLESS Saw the Detroit Tigers and Chicago in Sunday's double- -header .toter seven, hours •plus of baseballs and rain, the Tigers gained a split bly winning the night cap 4-3 in 12 innings. However, the Tigers put on a most spiritless display for a major league club. Whether the trouble lies in the front office, in the management, or in the fact some of the players are overpaid or aver pampered is not apparent, of course, to outsiders, 'but something is badly missing. By contrast the White Sox apeared very sharp. Their ,excellent'pitching, good all around defense and HUSTLE appear •:bo make them a good bet for second .piece. "DIZZY" DEAN — THE CLOWN Back when "Dizzy" Dean was mowing down: the National League with the St. Louis Cardinals, he was throwing against the Pirates one afternoon and collecting 10 cents per strikeout :iron, an exuberant admirer, Vince Di Maggio, the league strikeout leader, opened the .ninth With a pop foul' ,behind the plate. As the catcher settled to udea the ball, "Diz" came running an shouting, "Drop rolp lit, drop iiut, 1 can make 10 cents .by striking him aur." With Arnie Meyer driving in the winning run in the last 'inning the Zurich Lumberkings edged the Mitchell Lincolns 5-3 in the open- ing game of the Huron Perth fin- als, played in Zurich on Monday night. Moir was the star of the ball game, as he came through with three hits in the game, one of them a towering home run over the right field fence in the fourth inning. Gerald Bell followed close behind Moir, smashing out a doub- le and a single anddriving in two runs. The Lumberkings opened the scoring in the first inning after two were out. Tom Rawlings worked a base on balls, followed by a rocking double to deep centre by Bill Yungblut. Then Bell came through with a slashing single to drive in two runs. Mitchell scored two runs in the first of the second on two singles and two walks. They added their extra run in the fifth, when Mur- ray Noble drove a long one over the right field fence for the second home run of the ball game. The third run for Zurich came in the fourth, when Bruce Moir poled his homer over the right field. fence. With no one out in the last of the eighth, Gerald Bell led off with a double, a long drive into deep right field. Bruce Moir then ad- vanced Bell to third with another single. The next batter, Arn Mey- er, lined out a double and drive in what proved to be the winning run. Play was started in the ninth with Mitchell to bat when the game was called on account of darkness. Don O'Brien started on the mound for the 'Kings, and was re- lieved by Bob White in the fifth inning. He gave up six hits for three runs in the four and a half innngs he worked, striking out five batters. In the seventh inning, White was hit on the hand by a line drive, and with two out Don O'Brien came back to pitch to Bill Smith, whom he had already struck out twice. Four pitches was all he needed to strike out Smith for the fourth time. Buster Brown went the whole distance for the Lincolns, giving up nine hits for five runs. He struck out only three Zurich bat- ters. The Lumberkings left a total of ten men on base, while Mitchell left nine stranded. The next game in the best of seven series will be played in Mit- chell tonight, and then back in Zu- rich for the third game on Thurs- day night. All the games in this series start at six o'clock sharp. Playoff Box Score Mitchell ab r h e Noble, s.s. 5 1 3 0 Coveney, 2b 4 0 1 0 Pauli, 1b 4 0 1 0 Saxton, c 4 0 1 0 Wallace, If 4 1 2 0 Sadler, re 4 0 1 0 Smith, 3b 4 0 0 0 Rohfritsch, cf 3 1 1 0 Brown, p 3 0 1 0 TOTALS 35 3 11 0 Zurich ab r h e Doug. O'Brien, 2b 4 0 0 1 Theander, ss 3 0 0 1 Rawlings, c 3 1 1 0 Yungblut, 3b 4 1 1 0 Bell, rf 4 1 2 0 Moir, cf 4 1 3 0 Meyer 1b, if (5) 4 1 1 0 Gignac, If 2 0 1 0 White, p (5) 1 0 0 0 Donn O'Brien, p, lib (5) 2 0 0 0 TOTALS 31 5 9 2 r h e Mitchell —• 020 010 00 --- 3 11 0 Zurich — 200 100 02 --•- 5 9 2 Save THOUSANDS ON THESE VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH EW CAR WAR ANTY 1957 PONTIAC Strato Chief Sedan 8 cylinder's, automatic drive, whitewalls, custom radio, backup lamps, etc. S.Ive $900.00 1957 ICK SPECIAL For -Door Hardtop equipped with automatic drive, custom radio, whitewalls, rear speakers, etc. S ve $1300.00 1957 PONTIAC Four Do. r P! ! hafhlder Deluxe custom radio, etc.; only 13,000 actual miles. .S ve $800.00 1957 PLYMOUTH SAVOY, Two®Dor whitewalls, wheel discs, two-tone, etc., only 13,000 miles. S.'ve $800.00 1956 D ± 1DGE STATION ' ?AGON locally owned, only 21,000 actual miles. 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