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MOTOR SALES HENSALL, ONTARIO Res. .178 - Phone - Bus. 54 High School Basketball Team Edged By Tillsonburg In Finals Exeter High school's third try for a WOSSA boys basket­ ball title failed Saturday when a Tillsonburg' five nosed them out by two points, It was , a heartbreaker for the local squad after reaching the* play-offs three years in a row. , Last year they lost the (Champ­ ionship by pnly two points in a close-checking game .with A?n- herstburg. Saturday’s game was reminiscent of last year’s except that Exeter had elimin­ ated Ainherstburg in the semi­ finals and they were playing a different team. Piling up a good lead'Of 15-7 at half time in a lpw-sqoring game, the boys in ped and black suffered a bad third quarter which cost them the game. The two black-capped boys, Johnny Reiher and Jvan Hunter- Duvar and captain Bill O’Brien shared 19 points among them. May captured the other three. R. 'Peacock was .the big bird for Tillsonburg, fourteen points. First Quarter Coach Mickle at .centre, May tilt shoving through started O’Brien _and Rether on forward and Hunter-Duvar and Fred Dobbs played back. Play was fairly slow as each team was feeling out their opponents. Hunter-Duvar had the first chance—a long -one that bounced off the rim. Exeter tried -a fast break which failed. Tillsonburg had control around their ,own basket. Dobbs fouled Walsh, whose free throw was good. 1-0. O’Brien missed a close one. Checking* was tight Rether missed a free throw and a long shortly after. Exeter started to open up and play got faster. Nichols failed to sink a free throw when Rether fouled him. The game became sloppy i n parts. Peacock sunk his first basket when he potted his own rebound. Time was 4.'02. Rether rimmed two sh-ots as- play became faster—too fas t—both teams were sloppy. May got the first Exeter iioint when he sunk a free throw -off Salsack. 3-1. Rether took’ a pass from May on a fast.break and .potted the ball. 3 all. -Duvar faked past Peacock and netted one. Tillsonburg called time out. Mannell .dribbled slowly from centre to side and sunk a nice one. Salsack missed a free throw. Hunter-Duvar .netted one off a 3-0, If Interested, Get in Touch with Us Geo. T. Mickle & Sons Nights 133Phofte TOsf HENSALL, ONTARIO • INCREASE YIELDS Liquid Fertilizer Use For Planting And Side Dressing • CLEAN • ECONOMICAL • EASY TO APPLY • ONE OPERATION DOES THE JOB Tomato and PLANT FOOD FCRTU-»tCR INCREASE PROFITS • ADVANCE MATURITY DATES Order Today From Jones, MacNaughton Seeds Ltd. EXETER • ONTARIO "Na-Churs" Plant Food Co* of (Cahada) Ltd. London ------ Ontario pass from Bether and the first quarter ended T”5 for Exeter. Second Quartet E.H.S. cheering section put on a show for Green, Lorna Blowes, Joan Triebner and the yells in short black and red uniforms. Play opened fast. Salsack punk one from the corner after inter­ cepting a pass. Richards went in for Nichols, Dobbs stopped a nice rush. Johnny Rether sunk a set shot from the ten-second line. Peacock missed a free throw. A fast break by Exeter missed. "Play see-sawed with neither team hitting the basket. May was fouled on a fast break and sunk two free shots. May intercepted -a pass, it to Rether and 'O’Brien the rebound. May fouled ards, who missed, Rether missed on a fast break when Richards held him. Johnny sunk the free throw. Tillsonburg ...shooting was way off the mark’ Exeter was •playing heads up ball offensively and defensively. Tillsonburg missed another free shot. Hunter- Duvar"" sunk one when Peacock held him. Half ended 15-7 for Exeter. Third Quarter Exeter was still playing with­ out any substitution. Peacock potted a long -one .when Dobbs accidently passed the ball to him. Exeter was sloppy.. O’Brien sunk his own rebound. 17-9. Dobbs gave Peacock a free throw, but the Tillsonburg player missed. Peacock netted a running throw from the side. He scored again aftei* Tillsonburg had four tries. Exeter .was slowing up but still sloppy on their passes. Hunter- Duvar netted a foul shot when Walsh slapped him. Exeter was playing a shifty zone. v Walsh and Peacock scored two in quick succession. The crowd was really roaring. Walsh tried two free .throws them both. Exeter was playing slow ball. Peacock sunk one on a fast break. -Cann came in for Dobbs—first substitution ,on the Exeter team. Peacock potted an­ other after.he took Three-quarter time the score 21-18 .for Fourth Quarter Tillsonburg fast been cess, pass, and Nichols sunk a .free throw. 'O’Brien swivelled from centre slot to swish one through. 24-20. Rether potted one off O’Brien’s rebound. Time out with Kfour minutes to go. All the boys could feel the butterflies in their stomachs. Both teams were ragged, miss­ ing shots at either end. Cann fouled Walsh but the .score did not change. Play roamed from end to end. Teams were aggress­ ive, and excited. Time was called with one minute and a half to go. The crowd Was tense. Till­ sonburg ragged the ball. Exeter was fighting desperately. Cann missed one, then O’Brien missed one. Tillsonburg got the ball and corailed it effectively until the final whistle. 24-22. TILLSONBURG: J. Nichols, 1; R. Mannell, 2; E. Walsh, ,3 Peacock, 14; Salsack, 4; H. Smith; W. Rutledgd; C. Bald- D. Richards. May, 3; Rether, 7; F. Dobbs; tdje crowd. Betty Taylor, Claudette Hopper, Dorothy Joan Freemen Jed — By “Pink” Exeter Men’s League E.M.B.Tj. Standings P 7 3 0 7 4 0 bowling 11-7. shot sunk Rich- and missed a long pass, came with Tillsonburg. using Exeter the had ,suc- long one was break which trying with mediocre Salsack scored on a Hunter-Duvar . missed O’Brien failed right after. win; R. Service; EXETER: M. O’Brien, G,‘ J. Hunter-Duvar, 6; r. a/muUO, Cann; W. "Mickle; G, Morgan; Dobbs. CROMARTY R. W. I. G. G. Yesterday we were living under the prediction that we were to experience the worst Storm of the season, but today is a beautiful balmy day, with the roads almost as dry as sum­ mer, They have been very wet and muddy of late. . , Mrs. Chalmers, who -lias been quite sick, is now on the mend and will soon be out and around again, A great many are laid up with bad colds which seem loathe to leave. The attendance at church was small on account of so many having bad colds. Mr, Gardiner is nicely settled 1n li is he w h o m e. We are sorry to say he had a slight stroke, but is feeling much better and was able to walk to the Post Office two days ago." We ate glad to see him able be up and around again. to TP 53 52 46 45 45 33 at Hot Shots .......... Butchers ................. Big Six „.............. Cellar Rats ........... Pinppppers ..... Whizz Bangs ....... Monday night’s Sweitzer Lanes finally unseated the Butchers from the league leadership, and generally tight­ ened up the standings. On the first two alleys, the Hot Shots and the luckless Whizz Bangs clashed. As expect­ ed, the Shots ran roughshod over Bud Preszcator’s team and swept all seven points. By doing so, the Hot Shots climbed into first place over the Butchers. Doug Brintnell tossed 694 (272) to lead the Whizz Bangs, with Harold Wolfe taking number 2 spot with 683 (282), Best trun- dler for the Bangs was Jack Whilsmith with 585 (224). How­ ever, Norm Walper had the high single of 231. Over on- alleys 3 and 4, the Pinpoppers took on the highly- rated Butchers. The latter’s rat­ ing wasn’t any too high Monday night though, as the 'Poppers took four points. The Butchers won the total score by two points. Bob Nicol had one of his good nights and banged off 694 (293). Harold Bleay took top honours for the Butchers by rolling 674 (246). Ken Jiockey had three good games totalling 672 (262). The Big Six and Cellar Rats met on alleys 5 and 6, and the Big Six, minus two men, came out of the tussle with nary a point. According to the team, it was the worst they had ever bowled. Ken Cudmore with 598 (233) was head man for the Rats, with Captain Traquair next with 504 (208). Stan Frayne led his men with 547 (285). Exeter District League There is no bowling news this week from the Exeter .District League. A mistake was made in some of with the caps are again. Rough Play Spoiling Hockey (Mildmay Gazette) No hockey fan wants to see the great game develop into a pink tea affair where the play­ ers apologize every time they brush elbows—but a good many of the hockey faps are disgusted with the blood and thunder type of game which is often permit­ ted today. , We drove all the way to Exe­ ter last Thursday night to see the Mildmay-Lucan match and arrived ‘ home wishing we ‘ gone to bed instead, During the sixty minutes of play ,the refer­ ees handed out five penalties— a n d there should have been thirty-five. T h e Lucan boys pretty well took the lead in the fouling and the Mildmay boys had to resort to the same tactics to stay on the ice with them and they never .did manage to hand out their full share of the rough stuff. At one point two players got into a fairly healthy fight but no one was sent to the cooler. The prime .argument against this kind of game is its effect on the -box office, Instead of seeing a fast, hard-fought game in Exeter the spectators' witness­ ed a draggy contest of brute strength where the toughest man won in every encounter. It had was mighty poor hockey. This paper is not the only publication to draw attention to the deterioration in the game, for we have seen reference to it in at least a dozen places this winter. Apparently the W.o.a.a, referees are not the only offend­ ers, for there .has been just as much "criticism of O.H.A, games. And be that not seen this category, Wingham and Youn„ ton have handled their games well, as have several other of­ ficials, , Tough body* checking is fine. Everyone likes to see a team which can hit hard—-but .it’s about time that o r g a n i z e d hockey recognised the hand­ writing on the wall and cleaned house from the bottom .up. May we remind you to read .the Classified Ads regularly every week? the players’ handicaps, result that all handi- going to he calculated Scanning the SPORTS By “SCOOP” FOR THE THIRD successive year a W.O.S.S.A. title has elud­ ed the high school boys’ basket­ ball team and for two years in a row by a scant three points.* *, * * ^Saturday afternoon the local eagers dropped a heart-breaking 24-22 verdict to the Tillsonburg hoopers. Last year it was Am- lierstburg, the team the Exeter boys put out in the zsemi-fihals two weeks ago. * * * * At half time the home team led 15-7 but in the third and final quarter Tillsonburg came back to gain the edge. Close only counts in horseshoes and Exeter is still without a major championship in sport. And it’s since they won the fail to bring it to it said in an justice all the games we have winter fall into the low Referees Young, of g of .Harris- A dollar* won’t do as much it once did. 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Here is a smart spring* line for the younger fellows tai­ lored from the popular gabardine materials in brown and blue shades. Sizes range from 6 to 16 years. FULL-LENGTH COATS — These may be ordered from our samples in the style and shade you prefer. Priced at $40.00 Kenwood Coats £* EXETERPHONE 16 1949 APRIL 1st Draperies More new patterns are now on hand to help you with your window decorating this spring. These materials are satin damask and floral designs in rayons and cottons, 36” wide — $1.00 per yard 40” wide — $2.00 and $3,75 per yard been so long last one we memory. READERS on this page from the Mildmay Gazette con­ cerning the modern trend of hockey. While we didn’t realize the game was quite as bad as Editor Wenger makes it out to >be, we are right behind him in •this business of blood-and-thun- der shiny. ijt « # * We agree that good clean body checking is fine but some of these rough-house tactics that teams seem to get away with now should be thrown out if the boys hope to keep packing them through the turnstiles. Our own pet -peeve is boarding, especially the kind where a guy follows the puckcliaser into the corner and then practically throws him into the first row of seats. The poor­ est player can resort to this but it takes a stouter heart to it out face to face at the line. « * AFTER - . . ,February and March gate re­ ceipts at bank balance from sliding into the red, thanks to the hockey teams, the weatherman, and the valiant efforts of icemaker Ralph Batten and his assistant. Bob Laxton. There is some talk of extending the north end for greater capacity this summer. However, no action as yet has been taken by the board. ♦a TALKING about the weather r e m i n d s one more about the ball season. The postponed base­ ball meeting is to be held this Thursday night in the town hall to review plans .for the summer. As yet we have heard nothing regarding softball but, of course, there Is plenty of time yet be­ fore the season opens. * ♦ * will see elsewhere an editorial clipped McBrine Luggage 35% Tax Removed See our south display window for pieces of travelling equipment, You can be assured of real quality when it’s McBrine lug­ gage, Suitcases. Overnight Bags, Aeropacks Twin Sets. Gladstones. » Both Sugar Factories Likely To Operate It is likely that both the C It a t h a m and Wallaceburg sugar factories will operate this year, it was predicted by W. 3. McGregor, president of the Can­ ada And Dominion Sugar Co. One or other of the factories has not operated for the last seven years, because of wartime con­ ditions. At the week-end, farmers had contracted to plant nearly 28,000 acres of sugar beets and Mr. McGregor Was confident that several thousand more would be signed before the actual seeding begins. Average acre per farm Is greater than last year. More than 3,000 growers have signed contracts, of which 1,100 are new. A meeting of the company’s fieldmen Was held this week. * * * a slow start this hand blue- year, the arena kept the RCAF The Royal Canadian