HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-10-15, Page 11'WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1958
ZURICH Citizens NEWS
SPORTS
DIGEST
By
DON O'13RIEN
(Citizens News Sportswriter)
'KINGS COP CHAMPIONSHIP
Saturday'•s 8-0 shuotout over the Latta All -Stars capped
the Zurich Lumberking's bid for the All -Ontario Intermediate
"C" Baseball Champiosnhip, and thereby proved a fitting finale
for what has certainly been a most successful season.
The win was certainly a team effort as brilliant pitching,
timely hitting and perfect fielding were combined to close the
season out in .great fashion. This was the 'King's second OBA
"championship in the past three years and thus they have cert-
ainly proven their superiority on the ball field as far as this
/district is concerned.
When you consider that "C" classification includes towns
up to a population of 3,000 it makes the winning of these laurels
•even more gratifying.
Incidentally, the Latta team used 16 players to Zurich's ten
in the final contest. The Zurich club was minus Arnie Meyer,
Jim Ruttle, Ben Gignac, Ken and George Parker and of course,
Ron Heller, who, for various reasons, were unable to make the
trip.
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YANKEES TAKE SERIES
Those "Came through in the clutch" guys have done it
again. After giving the Braves a 3-1 series edge the Yankees
became the first team since the Pirates of 1925 to come back
:and take the next three games to cop all the laurels.
Once Hank 'Bauer, Gil McDougald, Yogi Berra, Bob Turley
and Elson 'Howard, etc. ,got rolling, there was no stopping Casey
Stengel's boys. Even though the Yankees took a couple more
games than we predicted before the series started, in copping
'the honours, we had the satisfaction of predicting correctly for
:a change.
Don't be surprised if they win it again next season.
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SPORTS POST SCRIPTS
Hots Off To ---
-BOB WHITE for his masterful four -hit pitching performance
in the final game to lead the Lumberkings to the OBA "C"
championship;
-MANAGER TOM RAWLINGS for his part in building this
championship club.
--BOB WHITE, for Hs winning the T. L. Wurm Memorial Tro-
phy for being voted. the most valuable player to the team.
---THE EXECUTIVE: Honorary president Ivan Kalbfleisch; presi-
dent Gordon Block; secretary -treasurer Jim Wild; and other
executive members for their fine job of looking after the
business end of the club.
-ALL LOCAL FANS who supported and followed the 'Kings
throughout the year.
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Mackey In Zurich 'This Season?
Noticed in the papers where Ilderton, Exeter and most of
the other members of last year's league have already had their
organization meetings. About time we got rolling. At least,
let's have a meeting so that the players will know where they
.stand.
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'More NHL Predictions
Tom Rawlings -
Montreal, Boston,
'Doug O'Brien -
Montreal, Boston,
'Herb Turkheim-
Montreal, Detroit,
Bili Yungblut- •
Montreal, Boston,
'"Duke" Yungblut-
Montreal. Boston,
Detroit, Chicago, New York, Toronto.
Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, New York.
Boston, Chicago, Toronto, New York.
Detroit, Chicago, New York, Toronto.
Detroit, Chicago, New York, Toronto.
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Manager Tom Rawlings R.esponsibl.en
For Zurich's Second Championship
Every organization and every cast or failure otf the group. Quite
eponting group unualllfy has a lead- often . when the groupis suess-
'er who its responsible for the suc- ful not near enough cc
edit is guv-
.... ... . 'en to ;the leader. This week, the
Zunildh; Citizens New would like
to pay a special tribute? to the
Tont Rawlings
A Great Manager
Pitcher Bob White
WinsValuable
Player Trophy
Bob Wihite, star of the Zurich
Liumlberking's pitching staff, was
voted the winner of the most valu-
able player award far the past
season. The "T. L. Wuxi n; Memor-
nal. Trophy" which was donated
for the first time last year by the
employees of Kalbfleisch Mills in
memory of the late Tally Wuann
Will be presented to. Bob at a ban-
quet to be held in the near fut-
ure. hast year's- winner of the tro-
phy was Doug O'Brien, and it will
be up for annual competirtion.
manager of the Zurich Ball Club,
Tann: Rawlings. '
. Toon came to Zurich about flour
Years' ago to work as an a+ccounrt-
ant at Pearson Motors. ' When he
uame•no one knew he rtva+s'-.a. good,
,adll-round athlete, but as soon es
they found out it wasn't long until
Tom •was- gliveln the tough jab ,K f
managing the ball team. Feick,
ttio coming here he had played bawl
(Continued on Page Twelve) •
Bob White
Wins Award
The fine pitching ;performances
,given by Bob this season made
him the choice af his team-mates
for •the award. He won. 8 games
for the 'Kings this season, with-
out a single defeat. On tap of
his great pitching performance
"Whitey" was an exceptionally
good fellow to build up team spirit,
especially when things would be-
gin to took a bit on the gloomy
side.
Voting .for the most valuable
pllayer award was done immediate-
ly atfiter the game in Latta, and the
pickling of Bob White is a fine
tribute to a .great, all-round ath-
lete. 'Congratull'ations, Bob!
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Ratting Averages, Player's Records,
Brought Up To Date At Season's End
Manager Tom Rawlings led his Lumberkings in the hitting
department during the past season, with an average of .360.
On the right hand side of the listings below are the batting
averages of the Zurich players, who were here in 1957, which
makes an interesting comparison.
The code is G -games played; AB -times at bat; R -runs
scored; H -hits, and RBI -runs batted, in.
-. 1958 1957
Player G AB R H RBI Average Average
Tom Rawlings 24 75 18 27 18 .360 .352
Red Theander 20 64 24 22 11 .344 .231
Don O'Brien 25 • 94 26 31 20 .330 .322
Doug O'Brien 23 79 29 26 9 .329 .407
Gerald Bell 22 70 16 23 17 .329.
Arnie Meyer -- 18 62 12 20 9 .323 .376
George Parker 8 13 3 4 1 - .308
Bill Yungblut 22 83 17 24 26 .289 .396
Bruce Moir 23 85 8 24 15 .282
Ron Heller 9 23 8 6 • 5: .261
Ben Gignac 14 31 6 8 7 .258 .236
Jerry Rannie 10 28 2 5 3 .179
Bob White 15 29 3 5 4 .172
Jim Ruttle 9 21 1 3 1 .1.43
Don Hesse 4 7 0 1 1 .143 .224
Ken Parker 2 3 0 0 0 .000
•
Team. Totals 25 767 173 229 147 .299 .308
In going over the summaries, it will be noticed that Don O'Brien
was the only player who was in the lineup for every game. Other
interesting items are-: Don O'Brien was officially at bat more than
any other player, Doug O'Brien scored more runs than any other
member of the team, Don O'Brien had more hits than anyone else,
and Bill Yungblut had the most runs batted in.
More interesting statistics are:
Two -base hits: Bell 6, Meyer 6, Don O'Brien 5, Yungblut 5, Raw-
lings 4, Doug O'Brien 4, Theander 3, Gignac 1, White 1.
Three -base hits: Yungblut 4,Bell 3, Doug O'Brien 2, Rawlings 1,
Meyer 1, Moir 1, George Parker 1.
Home runs: Moir 2, Theander 1, Don O'Brien 1, Meyer 1, Bell 1,
Heller 1.
Stolen bases: Doug O'Brien 15, Don O'Brien 14, Theander 4, Moir
3, Bell 3, Rawlings 2, Rannie 2, Yungblut 1.
Bases on Balis: Doug O'Brien 23, Theander 16, Rawlings 15,
Yungblut 14, Bell 14, Don O'Brien 12, Meyer 9, Helier 7, White 6,
Gignac 4, Moir 4, George Parker 2, Ruttle 2.
Struck out: Moir 24, Theander 17, Bell 17, Rawlings 10, Yungblut
9, Doug O'Brien 8, Meyer 8, Don O'Brien 7, White 7, Rannie 6, Gignac
5, George Parker 5, Hesse 4, Ruttle 5, Heller 3, Ken Parker 2.
Hit by pitcher: Doug O'Brien 3, Theander 2, Moir 2, Rannie 2,
Rawlings 1, Bell 1, Gignac 1.
Sacrifices: Meyer 5, Rawlings 4, Theander 3, Bell 3, Doug O'Brien
2, Gignac 2, White 2, Heller 2, Ruttle 1, George Parker 1.
In examining these records it is wise to keep referring to the
number of games the player took part in, and also the number of
times he was at bat.
PITCHERS' RECORDS
Listed below are the records of all the pitchers on the Zurich
Lumberkings ball team. It will be noticed that Bob White, who won
the most valuable player award, has a perfect percentage of 1000.
The code for the figures is: GP -games played, CG --completed
games, IP -innings pitched, HA -hits allowed, RA -runs allowed,
ER -earned runs, ERA -earned run average, SO -strikeouts, BB-
bases on balls, W -wins, L -losses, PCT -percentage, HB -hit bat-
ters, WP -wild pitches. -
GP CG IP HA RA ER ERA SO BB W
White 15 4 67 56 22 9 1.21 44 21 8
Don O'Brien 7 1 24%22 13 5 1.85 22 14 2
Ruttle 10 2 50%30 29 15 2.66 47 40 4
Ken Parker 2 0 8 9 2 2 2.57 4 2 1
Meyer 4 0 12%10 10 4 2.84 11 18 1
Heller 6 1 31%28 22 13 3.77 27 19 3
Totals 25 8193%155 98 48 2.23 155 114 19
2 tie games played.
Shutouts: White 2, and Don O'Brien 1.
Home Runs Off: Don O'Brien 4, Ruttle 1, White 1, Heller 1.
No Hit Games: Meyer and Parker over Exeter.
GAMES PLAYED
Throughout the 1958 season the Zurich Lumberkings played 25
games, including regular schedule and playoffs. Of this total they
won 19, lost only four, and tied two. Oddly enough, of this total, 12
of the games were played against the Mitchell Lincolns, who handed
the 'Kings three of their losses. The other loss was to Listowel, and
the tie games were played with Mitchell and Dashwood.
L Pct. HB WP
0 1,000 4 1
1 .667 0 0
1 .800 5 5
01,000 0 0
1 .500 1 1
1 .750 4 7
4 .826 14 14
Congratulations!
To The Zurich Lumberkings
On Winning The Ontario Tale
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