The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-12-13, Page 4The Tim.e«TMviii'«iite< D«c«mb«r 13, 195^
SPORTS
By 30N "BOOM BOOM" GRAVETT
Sports Editor
The highly-rated STRATHROY ROCKETS (in
that town anyway) will be the guests of the EXETER
MOHAWKS this Friday night.
As usual, the tribe is having its troubles with
their “cousins” from the other end of the 40-mile
jaunt. Because the EXETER boys have to travel to
WALLACEBURG on Thursday night to play the*
league leaders, the MOHAWKS tried to get the Fri
day game postponed ’until Saturday.
But MR. R. G. PINCOMBE and COMPANY as,
usual wouldn’t go along with the idea, So Friday the
Rockets, who won the first meeting of the year by
a 7-4 score in Strathroy, will be here to try for win
number two, but let’s hope they get a BIG surprise.
The big line for the Strathroy club so far this
year has been DON EMMS centering JACK Me-
CREIGHT and BUDDY EVANS. However, in their
last two outings the ROCKETS have" taken it on the
chin from WOODSTOCK and WALLACEBURG. Like
the tribe they will be out to try to snap their losing
streak and get back into the win column.
This year STRATHROY has a 27-year-old net-
minder by the name of JAMES STRACHAN playing
foi' them, This name is familiar to yours truly as I
have noticed it in the HOCKEY NEWS a few seasons
back.
STRACHAN has been around the AMERICAN
HOCKEY LEAGUE a number of years. He used to
play goal for the SPRINGFIELD INDIANS of the
A.H.L, and from there he moved his gear to the
SYRACUSE WARRIORS’ stamping grounds in ’52-
’53.
So, the town of Strathroy will be bringing its
♦‘high-priced” hockey club into Exeter oh Friday for
a game which should provide plenty of action. .
4r ' ★ V * ★
; CUFF CLEANERS—JUNIOR DARES picked up ’
seven stitches in his forehead against St. Thomas
when he was' hit with a flying puck . . . BILL
WHARNSBY, who is now employed by the BURNS
MEAT CO. in KITCHENER is getting so pleasingly
plump that the office staff there asked him to play
SANTA CLAUS at a Christmas party , . . Exeter
LEGION BANTAMS are off to a flying start with
. 14-0 and 9-1 wins over CENTRALIA and LUCAN
. * . Reports have it STRATHROY must win this
year or they’ll have to throw in the sponge because
of the amount of money it’s costing to run the team
. . . Curling is a little slow at the moment, no doubt
because of the Yuletide season, but try to set aside
Wednesday afternoon for the bonspiel because you
will enjoy it . . . Don’t lux get tu ‘
hockey game Saturday, December
MARYS comes here for the league
★ ★ ★ *
RIGHT CUFF—“RED”- SCOTT,
. Don’t foFget to see the midget
‘ ~ ’ 15 when ST.
opener.
★ ★
, local owner hf
the billiard hall on . Main Street, has started up a
CHRISTMAS FUND in aid of young BOB SCOTT,
who was seriously hurt in a car accident near BRUCE-
FIELD. Bob has spent three months in the~hQspital
and it is expected that he will be there for another
three oi* four before he gets out. The LIONS CLUB
of EXETER has started off “RED” SCOTT’S fund
with a sizeable donation and anyone else who would
like to contribute' a dollar of two is asked to drdp
it into Scott’s Billiards or into yours truly’s office
and we’ll see that it goes to the right party . . . That
was a nice piece of work turned in by DICK Me
FALLS of Exeter who is playing with the ZURICH
FLYERS in the WOAA INTERMEDIATE LEAGUE
when he blanked the- LUCAN IRISH by a score of
2-0 to gain his first shutout of the season.
★ * *
T’OTHER CUFF—Basketball is in the spotlight
once?again even though it seems to get little support
around here. BILL BATTEN stopped long enough at
our office door to tell us that a team by the name
of the ZURICH HUSTLERS are now operating. The
HUSTLERS tangled with the CENTRALIA FLYERS
at the airport gym only to go down to a 71-58 de
feat. Although the six-men strong HUSTLERS out-
hustled the Flyers by a 46-41 score at half time the
ah' force crew proved too much for them in the last
half of the game. DON O’BRIEN, BILL YUNGBLUTT,
BOB FLETCHER, ED DIECHERT and DOUG O’BRIEN,
along with BATTEN, make up the team(?)» One re
port of the game said that the Centralia boys “ran
them into the floor.” Speaking of floorj the Zurich
team is waiting for some ambitious character to
start scrubbing the Zurich gym floor so that home
games can get under way. New baskets and even
basketballs will be used this year.
ONLY 10 MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL
CHRISTMAS!
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Loader Shakes Up Tribe
For Battle With Rockets
Exeter Mohawks, Senior “B”
entry in the O.H.A. league, are
now lodged in the cellar oi the
six team loop as a result of drop
ping their only game of the week
to the St. Thomas Royals on
home ice last Friday night.
The comparatively light two-
week schedule for the tribe has
now ended and the team will
be moving into three-game a-
i week action. Due to the lapse in
the O.H.A. schedule, every team
in the league has played at least
[two more games than the Mo
hawks.
After that disastrous 6-3 beat
ing suffered at the hands of the
St. Thomas Royals, plating
coach “Red” Loader has put his
charges through a pair of tough
practices in an attempt to find
the scoring ’ punch the tribe
needs. ,
Loadei* has been working on
line changes which will spread
more scoring power over all
three Exeter offensive units in
order to break off the four-game
losing streak the tribe is now
riding.
Although the long road trip to
Wallaceburg comes this Thurs
day night, “Red” promises to
have a hustling bunch of hockey
players here at home on Friday
night against the Strathroy Rock
ets.
Wallaceburg Hornets are still
setting the pace as they defeat
ed Strathroy and Woodstock to
hoist themselves a full five
points ahead of their closest riv
als, the Rockets,’ who recorded
a 1-2 win-loss record this week.
Woodstock Athletics registered
aii important overtime 4-3 vic
tory over Sarnia CV’s in the
bordef t city on Don Hartung’s
goal with less than a minute to
play in the game, The win leaves
the Woodstock club only one
point back of the third' place
GV s with one game in hand.
Frank Stars
For Royals
Frankie Anderson, the heavy-
set Negro* star of the ice lanes
who played for the Exeter Mo
hawks two years ago, came back
to haunt his former teammates^
by scoring a hat trick to lead St.
Thomas Royals to a 6-3 decision
Over the Tribe in a Senior “B”
game here on Friday night. '
The victory hoisted the Royals
out of the. cellar position for the
first time this year and dropped
the tailspinning Mohawks into
undisputed plhce of the last spot, ;
The Exeter club, which now
has lost four games in a row
started off as though they really 1
meant business.
Just <33 seconds after the game
had started, opportunist Larry '
Heideman bagged the initial i
counter of the game when he 1
reached and lifted a loose puck-
into the twine behind goaltender ■
Ed Lochhead. :
Bill MacDonald and Bill Oberle, 1
who had been buzzing all around i
the St. Thomas net from the drop
of the opening faceoff, received '
assists on the play.
Earl Barton was sent off at 6.55 1
for a twouninute Charging penal- 1
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Schooley 6.44: McPherson 10.35;
Sllverburg 16.5S.
Third Period
■6—St. Thomas, Anderson(McPherson, Psiesh)
7— Exeter, MacDonald
(Oberle, Holdeman)_ _
8— St. Thomas, Anderson »
9— St. Thomas, Sullivan
(i.onfr, Bentley) __ _
Penalties ‘
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we can provide the same prompt attention as before.
Mr. Petrie has had considerable experience in Lon
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Season's Greetings
wish la take this opportunity to wish all
our customers and friends a Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
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Mohawk Sked
Balance of the O.H. A. Senior
“B” schedule for the Exeter
Mohawks in the 1956-57 hockey
season:
December
13— Exeter at Wallaceburg
14— Strathroy at Exeter
18— Exeteb at St. Thomas
21— Exeter at Woodstock
22— Woodstock at Exeter
27—Exeter at St. Thomas
29—St. Thomas at Exeter
January
5—Exeter at Sarnia
10—Exeter at Wallaceburg
12—Sarnia at Exeter
15— Wallaceburg at Exeter
■ 19—Exeter at Sarnia
22—Exeter at Strathroy
25—-Woodstock at Exeter
2S—Strathroy at Exeter
29-MSxeter at Woodstock
February
so—Exeter at Strathroy
9—St. Thomas at Exeter
15— Exeter at Woodstock
16— Sarnia at Exeter
19— Wallaceburg at Exeter
22—Strathroy at Exeter
‘ j ty, but the Tribe held its ground I
>1 quite effectively, until Barton’s
: return.
Fifty-five seconds after the
: Mohawk penalty and when the
t Tribe was applying the power i
around the St. Thomas goal,
Harry Bentley fired a long clear-.
' ing pass up to Art Sullivan, who
had sneaked behind the Mohawk
• defence brigade, and* Sullivan1
went in unmolested on goal
tender Ron Salter and beat him
cleanly with a high rising back
hand shot to the top left hand
corner of the net.
Cecil Cowie put the visiting
Royals one goal ' up when, he
batted in Defenceman Herb Kew-
ley’s rebound shot at 10.56.
Four seconds after “Black
Jack”' Dwyer had returned from ■
serving a tripping penalty,
Frankie Anderson slid a slow
shot from close in along the ice ---------- ........
that hit the goal post and deflect- key at the local arena saw the
ed over the goal line for The third bantam Canadians team beating
straight Royal marker of the ” “
period.
The Mohawks, down 3-1, came
charging right back in the second
period and dominated the major
ity of the play but could only
capitalize for one* goal,
“Black Jack” Dwyer won the
scoring honors this time, while
Bill Oberle drew an assist after
setting up the play.
St, Thomas drew all four
penalties handed out by Referees
Gus Boussey - and Abe McLean
in the second period, but the
Tribe could only take advantage
of one of the penalties handed out.
The second ■ period saw each
team miss a numbei' of excep
tional scoring chapces.
Goal posts, legs, sticks, .arms
and what have you always got in
the way just when i.t looked as
though someone was going to
score.
The third period was no excep
tion.
Erratic shooting on the part of
the Mohawks prevented them
from taking the lead away from
the St. Thomas entry,
It wasn’t until exactly half-way
through the final period that
Frankie Anderson flashed the
light for his second of three goals.
Joe Pelesh, ex-London Briggs
player; passed a sizzler to the
opportunist in front of the Exeter
cage, and he trickled it into the
net between Ron Salter’s legs.
Exeter’s Billy MacDonald put
the Mohawks right back in the
game at 15.13 -by capitalizing on
a play with Bill Oberle and lanky
Larry Heideman.
It was a 4-3 hockey game' with
Exeter coming close to tying the
score on several occasions but
when Frankie Anderson scored
his third goal of the game from
behind the Exeter net, it took
some of the punch out of t)he Tribe’s attack. ?
Anderson’s passout from be
hind goaltender Ron. Salter’s
cage hit one of the Mohawk blue-
line defenders and glanced into
the net.
Art Sullivan’s Seconcl;. goal of
the game, less than’h- minute
later put the game on ice fqr St.
Thomas with ’less than two min
utes to play in the game.
Cec Cowie and “Black Jack”
Dw.ver picked up five-minute
majors in the third'period for a
brief scuffle along the boards in
the Exeter end of the rink.
ST. THOMAS — Goal, Lochhead;
defence, KewJey, Williams, Silver-
herg, Long; forwards, Bentley, Sul
livan, Cowie, Allison, Anderson,
McPherson, Beattie, Pelesh, Schoo
ley-.
EXETER — Goal, Salter; defence,
Tli$il, . Hayward, Barton. .Dwyer;
forwards, Heideman, MacDonald,
Oberle, Loader, Franklyn, Shantz,
Dares, Gravett, Wharnsby.
Officials — Gus Boussey and Abe
McLean, both of Seaforth.
First Period
1— Exeter, Heideman ,
(Oberle, MacDonald) ______.33
2— St. Thomas, Sullivan
(Bentley)-------------------------- 9.50
3— St. Thomas, Cowife
(Kewley)-___ ___________ 10.56
4— St, Thomas, Anderson
(Pelesh) ________________ 16.'56
Penalties — Barton 6.55; Silver-
‘berg, 11.22; Bentley, 13.02;'Dwyer
1,4.52; Hayward 19.59,
Second Peribd
5— -Exeter, Dwyer (Oberle)_12.57
Penalties-— McPherson 3.46;
— 10.00
15.13
— 17.52
___ ....................„„„ 18.16
„ — Pelesh 4.34; Dwyer
id Cowie (majors) 17.07.
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Around
The
Arena
With L«rry Heldtman
Saturday morning minor hoc-
a
the Rangers to the tune of 5-2,
Bill Heywood, captain of the
Canadians, led his team to vic
tory with a pair of goals, while
; singles went to Bill Harvey, Dale
Turvey and Bob Marriage.
Bob Jpnes scored both the
Ranger markets.
In the first pee wee game, the
Black Hawks walloped the Cana
dians 8-0. Captain Ricky Boyle
came up with a sparkling five-
goal performance, while Robert
Schroeder netted two and a
single going to Lester Heywood.
The Rockets humbled the Leafs
by a score of 7-0 in the second
pee wee game, with Fred Wells
getting the hat trick. Don Cann
registered two goals, while Mike
Cushman and George Armstrong
rounded out the scoring with
singles,
The Red Devils and .Blue
Devils squared off in the first
wee wee and squee gee game and
played to a 1-1 tie. Doug Stan-
lake scored for the Red-Devils,
anr Eddy Lindenfield tallied for
the Blue Devils.
The second wee wee and sqqee
gee game between the Mohawks
and the Boston Bruins had • the Mohawks coming out bn top with
a convincing 9-0 win.
Marksmen for the Mohawks
were, Gordon Franklin, Stephen
Bailey, Douglas Huntley, Ricky
McDonald, Ross »Bailey, Joe
Jackson, Richard Banks, Brian
McClean and Ron Fletcher..
Coming Events
If enough interest is shown
there will be girls’ hockey over,
the Christmas holidays, The age
will ru'n from 10 years and up. A
notice will be posted in the local
arena which all those-wanting to
play are asked to sign.
So come you gals, get out and
sign that notice..
Minor Hockey
Minor hockey games for Satur
day, December 15, .will be posted
in the public and high schools on
Thursday or Friday as a com
plete change in team personnel
will be made,
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Bantams Win
Two Straight
The Exeter Legion Bantams
made their 1956-57 season start
an impressive one by swamping
the Centralia Bantams to the
tund of 14-0 on Saturday night in
the Exeter Arena.
The locals look to have a well-
balanced team this season as no
less than nine players figured in
the scoring of the Saturday night
game.
Bob Jones, Dale Turvey, Jack
Stephen, Frank Boyle ’ and Jim
Jones dented the twine on two
different occasions for the win
ners while Bill Heywood, Gordon
Strang, Bob Marriage and Don
Cann added singles. ,
The Legion Bantams jumped
off to a 4-0 first period lead, and
added four more in the second
and rallied for six more in the
final period.
Dale Turvey picked up a two-
minute boarding penalty for the
Exeter club, While Lesnick and
Tanner were sent to the penalty
box to serve time for the Cen
tralia Bantahis.
HURON PARK— Goal, ................
defence, Swanson, Leath driale; foi
wards, Davis, .Tanner " *temates, .... -......Lesniak, Redman, Busehe, O’Reilly.
hxeter—Goal, fence, " "
forwa:
Jones;
Cahn. ... ------... .........----------------B. Marriage, D. MelCnight.
First Period
.1—Exeter, Th Jones fJ< Stephen)
2— Exeter, D.-Turvey (Th Marriage)
3— Exeter, Heywood (Rtenhen)
4— Exeter, B. Jones (McBride)
, Penalty Lcgnlcki
second Period
5— Exeter, Stephen „ ’6— -Exeter, strata (Harvey)
7— Exeter, Marriage (Turvey)
8— Teeter, B. Jones (Boyle)
Finally — Turvey.
Third Period9— Exeter, Iwie (B. Jones)
j ii—Exeter, Turvey __11— Exeter, Gann (Turvey)
12— Exeter, Stenlien „ (Boyle) .JH—Exotf-r. Rnvip fMcBrldet
COMING
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HOCKEY
Senior "B" OHA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
Strathrby at Exeter
Int. WOAA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
Goderich at Lucan
Mitchell at Clinton
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