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TOWN
OF
SEAFORTH
Notice
PARKIN
To facilitate snow removal, residents are
reminded that By-Law No. 952 as amended
prohibits parking on the streets of this
Municipality between the hours of 2 .00 a m .
and 6:00 a.m.
Notice is hereby given that the Municipality
will not' be responsible for any damaqi•
Capsed to peeked vehicles as the result 4-t
snow removal operations.
C
J. Crocker
Clerk
Town of Seaforth
— THE HURON EXPOMTOR, OCTOKR 20,1 1
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And the.110ron Expoaitor Was
there
"The playing on the whole
was very too.- according to a
report in that week's pager.
The ,Seaforth Live Oaks
waxed the Wroxeter Donca-
sters to win second prize (for
Clubs three yeart in practice).,,
and the Seaforth Club of
Seaforth bested the Brussel
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t play their match with the
Stars as iapected."
The foilowin* May 25
(I874) the Maple ',eats got
elten with a ytigeisnee. They
thrietheil the Shirt 304 at
Guelph, Condittens were less
than ideitt
A fan Who travelled to the
game wrote an acCount of it in
a letter to the Expositor
WET AND WINDY
"The day w as wet and
windy, and most unsuitable
for the game of baseball
Upon the Stars going to the
field, it wa,s noticeable that
they were compelled to wear
their vests. coats and some
even their boots. owing to the
wet...Seven innings were
played with three different
balls, and it so happened that
on each change of new ball
the Maple Leafs went to the
bat."
Some of the
that recur in
1'
Mr. Silts didn't kiwis
where to start. to bring the
scorebook hemeso contacted
Clure WestcOft in Toronto,
tanteeentive.seetegary to, the
premier), and not long after-
wards Frontier Dims-atnel)
Latene of the Toronto Star
showed a 'groat deal of
intereSt -and encouragement.
Then one day a retired
hardware store owneti, by the
name of W.D. Baker from,
Lima in Ohio, popped in at
George A. Sills and Sons
Hardware on Seaforth's Main
'Street„,and the conversation
drifted astound to baseball. as
it tends to do when ball buffs
get together. Mr. Baker knew
some people with clout too.
cal ed "Sparky" and Bowie.
Sparky Andersonat this time
was mailer- of
..
ifie Cincin-
nati Reds, and Bowie Kuhn
was and remains the Com•
missioner of major league
baseball. -Mr. Baker suggest-
ed a course of action.
To make a long story
shorter, Mr. Sills wrote let-
ters requesting the return of
the scorebook to five very
prinninent - directors of the'
Cooperstown Hall of Fame:
Joseph E. (Joe) Cronin.
Charles E. (Chubb) Feeney.
Leland S. (Lee) MacPhail Jr..
Bowie K. u-& =:,(2#) Kuhn,
and Robert - R.M. Carpenter
Jr. • •
BOARD MEETING , J.
To get an exhibit out of
Cooperstown requires the ap-
proval of the board of direc-
tors, which met and formally
OK'd the requett kit Febru-
ary. It took about five years-
for Mr. Sills to get the
scorebook back. it arrived in
the mail earlier. this year:
So don't let anyone ever tell
you that Canadians are rela-
tive newcomers to the sport of
baseball. It just ain't sot And
Frank Sills has got the goods,
that prove it.
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of Brussels to win fifth prize
(for boys ages 13 to 10).
But The Stars of Seaforth.
many . of whom were former
cricket players, won first
prize by whipping the County
of Huron's Picked Nine 39-12.
You dOn't have to take the'
Expositor's word for it. Frank
Sills has a fascinating Ord
scorebookthat proves it.
The scorebook has a travel-
led history. •
It came from ' 'Frank's
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area names
the Stars'
scorebook during the lb-year
period it was used. include .
Hugh Cameron. Hy Camer
on, Thomson. Walker, An-
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grandfather George. *k9,,,, demon, .Paulin, Veal; Daly_.
moved -froth Britcefield to -Atkins, Shaw, Parker, Meyer.
Lamb. D. Hagan. G. Sills. D
Sills, Erwin, B. tartimer.
Adams. S, Baird, A Cardno,
Wm. Cardno, J. Grieve .
Kidd and Maloney.
Frank Sills says he thinks
many of these players took up
baseball after cricket. or
perhaps played both sports.
The present Optimist Park
was a cricket club at one time
and there may have been
another pitch 'last century
where St. James Church and
School is now situated. Mr
Sills' -uncle Joe. now de-
ceased, donated the seore-
book to the National Baseball
Hall of Fame and Mummy
Inc. at Cooperstown in, 1952.
• He WAS a professional
hockey player who played for
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—Vind throw. ._Seaforth in 1870 and played
for the Stars, and five years
ago the book was lodged in
the basement of baseball's
Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
N.Y.
The detailed format score-
book was printed specifically
for The Star Baseball Club Of
Seafotth. It has notations you
won't find in today's score-
books, such as "M" for
"Muffed balls." • Yellowed
game reports that appeared
in the paper were pasted on
the inside front cover of the'
old book, end it's a simple
•
task matching the report with
the corresponding score-
sheet. The book has 28 scored
• paste for Various games
played between 1873 and
1889. Some of the teams the- Milwaukee then Pittsburg in
Stars- played in this period 1924- with the Hies of Frank
include the Wroxeter Shoo and Bun Cook, Taffy Abel and
Flys, Goderich Maitlands, Ching Johnson. These four
Guelph Maple Leafs, Huron subsequently went to "the-
County Picked Nine, Wroxe- big apple" where they form-
ter and Gorrie Picked Nine, ed the nucleus of what
Listowel Red Stockings, became the National Hockey
League's New York Rangers.
Meanwhile Joe took up refer-
eeing and one day in Balti-
more he got into an argument
with a reporter about the
origins of organized baseball
versus' the origins of the
National League. Joe claimed
it was played in Canada years
before the NL. Joe proved his
point by writing home to his
brother Frank Sills Sr. for the
old Stars' scorebook which
he ended up donating to the
Hall of Fame.
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The Industrial Hockey
League completed its second
Sunday of action last week-
end and • three clubs aro
already threaten,ing to pull
ahead of the pack. In fact the
Hawks. Rangers and Flyers
could run away and hide, very
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HAWKS 7 BRUINS 5
The 'Hawks did an early,
imitation of Rip Van Winkle
but woke up Ions enough to
nip the stubborn Bruins 7-S
during last Sundays early
match.
The sluggish birds fell
behind 2-1 after the first
period bur snapped out of
their lethargic state to score
three late goals and thus
remain unbeaten this year
McLIwoin nets hat' trick
O'Shea and Dale Kennedy
each getting single markers.
Kennedy added a record 7
assists for a nifty 8 point
outing.
Herome Aubin, Frank
Flanigan, John Lansink and
Dan Devereaux• replied for
the Canadians.
RANGERS 3 PENGUINS 1
While the Flyers have been
playing with reckless, aban-
216-11 the -Rangers have em-
ployed a cautious conserva-
tion style of game.
If they continue to get goals
from unexpected sources like
last week they should battle
for top•spot.
- Ron Hildebrand, back from
a four year exile, netted two
scores to enable the Rangers
to continue unbeaten. Hilde- ,
brand- now had ncitched....3.
goals in his first two games of
the term. •
Mike Flanigan had- the
other Ranger marker.
Casey Van Bakel had .the 0
lone Pen score.
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Ron 'Quipp conted twice
late in the contest to give his
team the win.
Larry McKnight tallied
three times for the winners
with Perry Broome adding a
pair.
Brian Nigh netted two
goals for the Bruins with
singles going to Marc Rob-
inette. Ken Swan and Tom
Nigh. The Bears are missing
Jim Nash (broken wrist)' and
BriarT Cooper (work).
FLYERS115 CANAMANS4
It was like a rerun of the
Little BigHorn and no doubt
goalie Brian. Dale felt like
General Custer last _Sunday
night.
The Flyers massacred' the
Canadians 16-4 during last .
Sundays middle 'match and
rolled up the most .one-sided
score in three years. .
In one grim outing during
the 1978-79 season the Wings
crushed the.Hawks 19-1. That
tally represents the greatest
humiliation in Industrial Hoc-
key League history.
The Flyers scored eleven
straight times during one
stretch last Sunday and have
connected for 23 goals in their
first two games.
Dave' Broome paced the
Flyers surge by notching a
record tieing 7 •goals.
Kevin Bennett scored
seven times during that 19-I
slaughter. He also had 5
assists in that game for .a
record 12 points.
Ray Scoines helped the
-Flyers cause by chipping' in
four scores. John Wilson also
had a hattrick with Bill
Wroxeter Silver Maples, Mit-
chell Browns, Clinton and
Stratford.
CANADIAN CHAMPS
The Maple Leafs of Guelph
had been-Chilitniitons ofSan-
ada for three years running
when the Stars played them'
at Seaforth in 1873. Seaforth
won 27-20, only Guelph's
second &lett in six years. It
was a gentleman's game, as
the account in the Expositor
indicates: "Mr. D. Leonard of Brus-
sels acted as umpire, exhibi-
ting a thorough knowledge of
the game by -his -prompt and
*Tea decisions, and hence
giving general satisfaction.
The players were entertained
by the inhabitants of Seaforth
at Knox's Hotel, at a sumptu-
ous dinner. ,Mr. • Knox
deserves great credit for his
success in providing so excel=
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added a pair. Scoring singles
were Ken McManus, Don
Lilly, Sean Porter. and Dave
Patton. ,
Mark McLlwain led the
Centenaires with a three-goal
performance, _While single
tallies were counted by Steve
Granger and Mike Kelly.
TAVISTOCK 9 SEAFORIMI
The Tavistock Braves
scored four goals in less than
six minutes early in the
second period as they rolled
to a rathereesy victory over
the Centenaires. The Braves
led 3-1 after the first frame as
they scored two power play
goals late in the period. The
second stanza ended with, the
Braves leading 7-2. In the
third period the ' Braves
scored their final two goals
while allowing the Centen-
aires only four shots on goal.
The' Centenaires were out
shot' by a two-to-one margin,
SI -25.
Dan McClure played a
strong game in the Seaforth
nets as he handled Many
tough drives, be was given
practically no help at all from
his defencemeri.
Rob Froses led the Braves
with three goals while Jeff
Kaufman added a pair. Add-
ing one apiece were Ken
Wettlaufer. Larry Albrecht,
Ted Gladding and Brett
i Schultz, Bill Flanagan and
John Hicknell scored for the
Centenaires.
,The Centenaires picked up
28 minutes in penalties inclu-
ding a third period miscon-
duct call to defenceman Don
Williamson. The Braves re-s•
ceived a total of 20 Minutes
from referee Chuck Kreiger.
The next home game for
the Centenaires•• will be this
Friday night in Hansen at
8:45 whet) they tangle with
the league's newest entry the
'Medford Brown's.
BY GARY GRAY
After five games in the
ORA Western Junior D group
two grouping the Seaforth
Centennaires have yet to gain
their first point. They drop-
ped both games on Hensall
ice this past weekend. On
Friday night the Lucan Irish
scored six goats in the middle
frame, as they held on to
defeat the local's' 9-5. On
Sunday afternoon they were
handed a 9-2 drubbing by the
Tavistock Braves.
Against the Irish the Cen-
tenaires fell behind 2-0 at the
end of the first period and
trailed 8.2 after the second.
The locals outscored the
visitors .3.1 in the final stanza,
The Irish scored three of
their nine.goals on the power•
play as the Centenaires pick•
ed up a total of 26 minutes in
penalties compared to 24 for
Lucan. Jamie Shipley led the
offence for the Irish. by firing
three godis. whith. 4ton Glenn
HIDDEN AWAY
Frank was in the Hall in
Cooperstown in the mid-
1960i and went looking for
the book, which was dqwn in
the 'basement. It bothered
him that it was hidden away.
He felt the book's rightful
home was in Canada. perhaps
in our own Sports Hail, of
lent a repast, sparing np,.. Fame. He would-like to give it
Pains "to supply the-wants of1 to our Hall, with the proviso
different
Chesterfield Suites
and Sleeper-Lounges
to choose from:
the players, after a match of
two hours and ten minutes
play...We now understand
why -the London club did not elt
that if a museum should be
established- in Seaforth the
book would return to the
locale of its origin. WOAA
to meet
ROXTO N
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BRAEMORE
The Western Ontario At-
hletic Association (WOAA)
wilt hold its thirty-ninth
annual meeting at Wingham
Armco-bites Thurs. Nev. 5 at
7:30. The armories is behind
Wingham's Town Hall. Each
' WOAA stub in good standing
is entitled to one ,vote per
team, and the "association
tropes area clubs have indivi-
duals representation at its
meeting.
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