Clinton News-Record, 1969-08-14, Page 121? QIintgn Nem-RecPrd, Thursday, Auiust 14 969
Lois Merrill, 18, of RR 2, Clinton, shdws her pet golden pheasant
to Ina Lorencz, 20, of Manning, Alta., a Junior Farmer exchange
visitor .in Ontario for two weeks. An Alberta provincial junior
director of the. Junior Farmer organization, Ina is spending a
week at the Merrill home and another week in the South Simcoe
area. While here, she visited the Huron County Pioneer Museum
and attended gatherings of the Seaforth and Clinton Junior
Farmers. - Staff Photo
Thorndale player is tagged out after Clinton Colts' third-inning throwing play in which Don Bartliff
went across the track, retrieved the ball and fired a long throw to Cam Coiquhoun who, in turn, made
a perfect throw to the plate in game last Sunday. The Colts went on to win 15-11 to take the
Huron-Perth Intermediate baseball title.-Staff Photo
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Coifs win championship game
Continued from ?Age
. again
the game baseball. So 1939 was had professionals, but most of
the 100th anniversary of that, the players were amateurs. But,
Standard rules weren!t, the Cincinnati Red Stockings
adopted until about 1845, when formed the first all-professional
'Alexander Cartwright laid out team in 1869.
the diamond with most of the Professional baseball has been
distances used today. But around ever since, and the pay is
Cartwright doesn't get much better. The players on the 1869
attention nowadays. Red Stockings earned from $600
So what is 1969 the 100th to $1,400, World Booksays.
anniversary of? Get ready for 1976. That will
It is the 100th anniversary of be another 100th anniversary
professional baseball, that's year -- the 100th anniversary of
what! the founding of the National
Prior to 1869 a few teams League.
Baseball is 100 .
THURSDAY, August 14, Bingo
Clinton Legion Hall, 8:30
p,tn. Jackpot $56,00 in 56
numbers.
FRIDAY, Augnst 15, Special
bus to the Bill Cosby show,
Toronto. Price $10.50 includes
bus fare, G.N.E. gate pass,
reserved grandstand seat. Phone
Neil Bell, 527-0915 for tickets
and information, -33b
SUNDAY, August 17, 12:05
p.m. Special bus to Glen
Campbell show, Toronto.
$12.50 includes bus fare C.N.E.
gate pass, reserved grandstand
seat. Plume Neil Bell, 527,0915
for tickets and information.
--33b
Clinton's Pee Wee Ponies
downed Listowel 14-12 in the
first game of a two-out-of-three
series for the WOAA group
finals.• The second game was
played last night and results
were not available at press time.
The third game, if necessary, will
be back in Listowel this evening.
In the opening match, the
Ponies led off the first inning
with four runs on four hits,
including Billy Irwin's three-run
homer. Four big hits in the
second inning gave Clinton an
8-0 lead. David Bartliff and
Richard Welch hit doubles. A
walk to Ray Burns, a long triple
by Steve Cook and Greg Butler's
single scored the four runs.
Listowel hit Donnie
MacDonald hard in the third and
fourth innings, scoring two runs
in the third on a home run, then
pushing across seven runs on
four singles and a Clinton error
to go ahead 9.8.
The Clinton Lions Midgets
won their group championship
by defeating Listowel twice in a
row last week.
In Clinton the line scores were
Listowel, four runs on five hits
with four errors,' and Clinton,
nine runs on 10 hits with two
errors.
Brian Edgar was the winning
pitcher with six strikeouts.
Leading Clinton hitters with two
hits each were catcher Bill
Stirling, shortstop Stewart
Mustard and pitcher Edgar.
Other Clinton hitters were Barry
Edgar, Bob Langille, Paul
Bartliff and Ron Graham.
In the return game in
Listowel, Stewart Mustard led
Clinton to a 7.5 victory by
tallying three hits, one a triple.
Others who hit for Clinton were
Bob Langille, Brian Edgar, Paul
Bartliff, Ron Graham, David
Fawcett, Steve Switzer and
Brian Langille. Coiquhoun was
pitching and Fleischauer
catching in the Listowel game.
CFB trackmen
The Canadian Armed Forces
Central and Southern Ontario
Track and Field Zone 5 trials
wound up last Thursday at' Base
Borden with Clinton topping
Toronto, but nevertheless
coming in only fourth out of
five behind Borden, London
and Trenton.
Borden copped the all-round
championship with 90 points.
London followed close behind
with 88. Trenton was third with
45. Clinton had five points and
Toronto four.
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TUESDAY, August 19, Bingo at
litiron Fish and Game Club.
Jackpot $50.00 in 50 numbers,
Six ticlerprizes, 8:30 p,m.
SATURDAY., August . 23,
Special .bus to C,NX grounds
$6.00 includes return .' only
Phone Neil gnu, 527.9915 for
tickets and information, -300
SEPTEMBER 13, 1969 - 2nd
Annual 13luewater Reunion will
be held at Knights of Columbus
Hall, Louzon Rd, Windsor. Get
tickets from Lou Ducharme,
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September 1st. -32,341)
Richard Welch led off the
sixth with a triple and tied the
score on Ray Burns' single,
Listowel went ahead in the sixth
on four consecutive singles to
lead 12.9.
In the top of the seventh
inning, Billy Irwin grounded out,
then Neil Colquhoun walked.
Pinch-hitter Paul Wheeler
cracked a hard single, then David
Bartliff scored Coiquhoun on his
hit. Clinton's next batter, Welch,
walked and loaded the bases.
Steve Cook hit a long single,
scoring David Clynick and
Bartliff. Don MacDonald hit a
triple to score Welch and Cook.
In the bottom of the seventh,
MacDonald faced Listowel's
three top batters. He forced one
into a grounder, struck out the
second batter and then Ray
Burns caught a pop fly on third
for the final out.
Stewart Mustard was pitching
and Barry Edgar catching for the
Clinton game.
Clinton now awaits the
winner of the Hanover-Walker-
ton series to play off for the
W.O.A.A. Midget "B"
Championship. Meanwhile,
Clinton plays an exhibition game
with Dashwood at 6:30 p.m.
today.
BANTAMS
The Bantam ' ball club,
sponsored by the Huron Fish
and Game Conservation
Association, was eliminated by
Listowel in two games straight.
The first game, played away,
ended with Clinton on the short
end of a 4.3 score. Pitcher Barry
Edgar allowed only four hits.
Danny Coiquhoun was catching.
In an abbreviated return
game, at home, Listowel's hitters
combined with Clinton errors to
spell disaster for Clinton pitchers
Langille and Edgar as the local
team was eliminated from
further competition by a 9-0
score.
Bean festival.
Zurich's. popelation is likely
to increase more flhop. tenfold a
Week frnill Saturday Whe4. 'the
village and surrounding district.
hold t
tes
heir annual 'lean
The .only event of its km. in
Ontario, the day-long festival
will feature .beans cooked on the
village streets in huge kettles. on
tripods and served with ,,delielotia
sliced ham, cOle slaw and buns.
Packages of white bons will
be sold and a Lions Club auction
.sate starts 4t.- 1 p,m. Rides
unroll& the area en buses and
tractor-drawn wagons will give
visitors a chance to view beans in
various stages of growth and
harvesting.
Huron County farm products
on sale will include Dutch apple
pie, honey and sausage. There
will also be horseshoe
competitions, a midway and
pony rides for the youngsters.
A pre-festival dance Friday
night will be highlighted by
selection of a bean queen,
The central area of the village
will be blocked off to form a
mall.
Huron is the largest
bean-producing county in
Ontario, with 1,260 of the 4,200
.growers in the western Ontario
bean-growing belt. Hay, Stanley,
Stephen, Usborne and
Tuckersmith Townships contain
the bulk of the 29,000 acres of
beans in the county. About
80,000 acres are planted with
beans in the province.
Organized baseball refers to
the 1969 season as the 100th
anniversary season.
100th anniversary of what?
Those with long memories
may remember,that 30 years ago
1939 also was the 100th
anniversary season. The National
Baseball Museum and Hall of
Fame opened in Cooperstown,
New York, that year with
appropriate fanfare.
It is said that in 1839 Abner
Doubleday laid out a
diamond-shaped field and named
In the eighth, ,Clinton's lone
run was scored by Laurie
ColetihOun Who led off the
inning with a single, Bartliff
tried to steal home, :but the
catcher retrieved the ball in time
for the Put-Mit.
Clinton's next two batters hit
fly balls ,to the fielders. With the
pressure on the pitchers, Pickett
struck out the first two batters
using his fast ball, then he forced
the third batter to hit a high fly
ball to gd Daer in left field.
At the end of the game„ Bob
Sadler of Staffa, league
President, presented the team
captain, Bob "Little Joe"
Livermore, with the Huron Perth
Intermediate Championship
Trophy,
FIRST PLAYOFF
After ousting Mitchell two
straight in the semi-finals, the
volts pounded out 11 hits to
down Thornclale in Clinton with
a 10-3 tally behind the strong
pitching of Ed Daer.
Daer scattered seven hits,
striking out six. Until the sixth
inning, Thorndale had only three
men as base runners. Two errors
by the third baseman and a
single by Brad Dutot, followed
by an error on Jim Livermore's
hit, scored Laurie Colquhoun,
Don Bartliff, Rick Fremlin and
Dutot in the second inning.
Fremlin and Dutot scored
again in the fourth to go ahead
6-0. Thorndale put two
back-to-back singles together to
score their first run off Daer in
the sixth. Then they scored two
more in the seventh on three
Singles and a fielding error.
Kennedy held Clinton's
leading batter, CaM Ccrillehenn,
until the seventh When he
pounded out a triple, Scoring
Pickett and Fleet ahead of
himself, Laurie Colquhoun
scored Cam on his single, then
he scored on Bartliff's sacrifice
hit,
SECOND PLAYOFF
The second game of the 2-of-3
series was played in Thorndale
Sunday morning, Clinton's lefty
Brad Dutot and Thorndale's
Byers had a pitching duel going
until the seventh. Dutot gave up
one run in the first inning after
Clinton took an early 2.0 lead,
Three costly errors allOwed
Thorndale's first run,
Fleet and Cam Colquhoun
scored in the first inning for
Clinton, then Pickett and Cam
scored in the fifth to give the
Colts a 4.1 lead. Thorndale
finally put Dutot out in the
seventh after a two-run homer
by Murrell tied the score at 4.4.
Reliever Ed Daer gave up a hit
and the runner scored on a wild
throw from Fleet to third base,
giving Thorndale the lead by a
narrow 5-4 margin.
Byers was strong for
Thorndale in the last two
innings, facing seven Clinton
batters. Bartliff hit a hard ball tc
centerfield and Thorndale's
center-fielder made a spectacular
catch.
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