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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-08-07, Page 4Page 4. Tlia T,itne4 Advecate AusuAt 7 195. 11111111 n 111 4 4111 41111 n 1111 n1111n 1111 1111141111111111141 n I t l l a t t 11111,1 11 n t 111111111 l 1111l t l l I I t Let's Talk SPcT RTS By DQN "BOOM BOOM" GRAYFTT Sports Editor 1141111111111111I4n1/nn4111111Wn41M M11/11111411U11111114111111111111111,I11111R111111 HURON -PERTH BASE HITS! One of the main reasons why the Dashwood, Tigers are giving Mitchell Legionnaires such a head- ache 111 their current Huron -Perth baseb 11i semi-final series has been the aggressive hitting of Jimmy Hay- ter, Hayter, a veteran stalwart of Dashwood teams • through the years, has been murdering prac- tically everything that is dished up to him by rival pitchers. Last Monday in the Civic Holiday doubleheader, the hard-hitting catch- er who sometimes al- ternates at third base, was no exception. In the morning game, which the Penga1s copped 9-7, he crack- ed out a double and single in three official trips to the plate. In the nightcap. the stocky athlete tripled in the second, belted a grand -slam homer in the fifth and was just robbed of a second round tripper in the top of the tenth when. centre - fielder "Link" Rohfritsch made a last-minute des- peration stab at the ball to pull down a high line drive that would have easily meant the ball game, Although Jim got off to a slow start in the hitting department this season, he's certainly making up for it at the present. To us. it's good to see him belting the ball again at a healthy clip as he's one of the better athletes still participating in the league. Another reason for the Bengal stand at the present is the ability of Raymie Wein to come forward in stellar relief roles and with the bat. Raymie saved the day in the morning contest on Monday against Mitchell and also chipped in with some, timely hit- ting. Jimmy Hayter Steve Mitro has been a tower of strength on the mound for Dashwood and it amazes us how he can keep going for so long: The Tigers chiefly rely on the right arms of Mitro and Wein and credit should be given to the pair for the way they've per- formed all through the season. "Link" Rohfritsch, coach of the Mitchell Le- gionnaires, tells us not to be. a bit surprised if his club knocks off the highly -rated Zurich Lumber Kings. "We've given 'em all they could handle in our previous meetings and with a couple of breaks, things could easily swing our way," said Link. There only seems to be one drawback a', the moment, Link, and that's getting past the Dashwood Tigers! • • * •* •>i'• ar MISS LEGAL c RATTON KEEPS LUCAN 9N THE MAP! Jim Proudfoot of the Toronto Daily Star seems to be quite impressed with the way district horses and local hockey teams keep the town of Lucan on the map. Recently he wrote the following article: "Between hockey and harness racing, the Western Ontario village of Lucan (pop. 900) is on the sports neap constantly. In the winter, hockey teams like the Lucan Irish Six and the Lucan Lepre- chauns have brought the hamlet trans -continental fame. The pee -wee Leprechauns even appeared on the Ed Sullivan television show a few months ago. "However it's in sulky racing that this trans- planted chunk of Erin has its biggest moments. Last night. for example, a Lucan horse, Miss Legal Grat- ton, owned and driven by Clarence Young, won the Gratton Royal Pace at Woodbine raceway. The mare v. second to Josedale Minty -Lou in the first heat, Te.-ersed that finish in the second dash, and was named winner of the souvenir blanket on the, basis of better timing. `'Rumor has it Miss Legal Gratton is for sale with a price tag that reaches five figures. A possible customer might be Sheridan Revington, a spender in the standard -bred field. He and "Bud" Gilmour are partners in owning Howard Rosecroft and also own chunks of Bimbo Chief Can, Floating Rhythm and Governor G." It certainly is good to see that the vicinity is making the daily sport pages throughout the country. * 7k• * it CUFF CLEANERS --Congratulations to Don Southcott ,s _. GrandIlh1�hole-in-one 4z at the GBend Golf Course last Monday, Don's ace marks the second one in the family golf parade. Mel Southcott performed the dream shot some time ago , Lou Boudreau takes over as manager of a 32 -lane bowling alley in sub- urban Chicago after ending his season duties as sportscaster on WGN ... Anyone for golf? Ruben Gomez has been turned into a links sharpy in only two years. Ile shoots consistently in the low 70's and has gone to 68 at Phoenix, A pro down that way taught hint the game in a month! ... Last year at this time, Yankees' Bullet Bob Turley owned a 6-3 win -loss record. To date, the New York fireball is leading both ieaguos with a brilliant 17-4 record . We hear that Don Joynt of Hensall fired a 0.0.0.1 71 over the Bend layout recently . , . Things on the hockey front have been the quietest since our arrival in Exeter" some five years ago.. .. Ex- eter's softball team under coach Blake Gifford is continuing its exhibition schedule. Last Tuesday they dropped a close one, 8.5, to London Life in the late innings. The locals have received a by into the WtDAA playoffs . , Hensall Bantams are on the prowl for the WOAA Bantam "1)" title. Wouldbe nice to see a good crowd an hand Friday night in Hensall when Atwood pays its second visit of the aeries there. Gallie time is 6:15 p,m, sharp! .. The Toronto Maple Leafs (hockey wise) got their first bad bre3k of the season when Bert Olmstead, who they recently purchased, got into a serious ming and will be forced to miss the majority of the 'S849 campaign,„ . We'r'e calling this One the laugh of the week! be you ever° think that renter will ga r major league baseball franchise? Mitchell Cops Lads Dashwood In Semi ome Run The Huron-Perthintermediate `.continuous rains ;forced the can - baseball league is in the midst cellation. Instead, the two teams t declaring a ring a” G representa- rresenta- will hook upThttrsday d c a i� 1 day and Pri• a,, a'e forthetBaseball As- day ' necessary ti Ontario if n ss1 todeclare y ba win- . 111 socia on playdoarns. i ger. Already Mitchell Legionnaires'`Plenty of action is prev'ailurg hold a 21 lead in a best -of -five in this tight playoff ,series with. series with the Dashwood 'fibers' A1lkchelt .and Dashwood as the as they downed the Bengals hy . three home runs. seven doubles scores of 6-3 and 12-11. Dash.: and a triple indicated in their wood, who are doing; everytliing' last game. hut give up, hauneed hack to Double trip the Mitchell entry 9.7 in a I n Tenth. Civic Holiday morning game in Dashwood and remain in the`/ J thick of the race to see awn williYe Y Lead advance into the finals against ; On the strength of "Buses" the power -laden Zurich Lumber Brown's tenth -inning double that Kings. scored "Link" Rohfritsch from With this semi-final series la-' second base, Mitchell Legion - belled as a hest -of -five set the' 'mires scored a 12-11 victory over finals with the Lumber Kings Dashwood Tigers in, the nightcap and Dashwood or Mitchell, who-. of a Civic Holiday doubleheader ever it niay be. will be played out : in Mitchell Monday night to grab M a best -of -seven affair. a 2-1 lead in the best -of -seven The Dashwood -Mitchell series semi-final playoff series. must be concluded by August 9: The winning blow was one of so that a winner will be ready to 26 witnessed by a large holiday tangle with Coach Tom Rawlings' crowd as the two Huron -Perth Lumber Kings on Monday, Au -1 teams put on the biggest slugfest gust 11. All games in the series of the season for the paying sus - will start at 6 p.m. sharp. tourers. Mitchell was slated to play the i Three home runs, including two fourth game of their series in grand stammers, seven doubles Dashwood nn Wednesday night and a triple sparked the evening but the weatherman said no as 1 performances of the two clubs Hensall bantams Lead Championship Series The Saturday heat wave didn't However itdidn't take long for the picture to change completely as Hensel] came up with three in their half of the first on only one hit. Walks to Larry Jones, Jack Chipchase and Bruce Hor- ton, with an infield error by shortstop B. Coughlin, set the stage for the three -rule rally. The only hit of the half inning, and a timely one it was, came from Bill Shaddick to give his club the lead which they never lost. Before it was over Hensall added three more markers in mean a thing to a run -hungry band of Hensall Bantams last weekend as they pounded out. a seven inning 10 -bit attack to de- molish Atwood Bantams 15-4 in Hensall and go one game up in a hest -of -five final series for the WOAA bantam '•D" champion- ship. Steve Kyle. a young fieee-wheel- ing righthander, went the dis- tance for the winners. He chalked up a total of 12 strikeouts and scattered six hits over his seven - inning performance. Kyle gave .the third; four in the fourth, one up three of the six safeties in in the fifth and four more in the the first inning and then settled seventh, down to allow only single blows The combined efforts of W. off him in each of the fifth, sixth and seventh frames. Although Atwood Bantams came up with four glaring errors, it is doubtful even without the score hy Inningsl RIFT r; miscues, if they could have held scorend __ .. -.- Inn 1115 1—R4 e 4 on. This showing belonged to the Henaail-_....:._ .3na 410 4-15 1n 1 Steve kyle and Jack Chipchase; W. Harrow, C. Smith (31 and r, Harrow. Winning Pitcher—K.y1e: Losing Pitcher—\i-, Harrow, Harrow and C. Smith on the mound for Atwood recorded nine strikeouts against the victorious Hensall club. Hensall nine. Backing up the Hensall Burling performance were 10 big hits, four of which were belted for doubles, Shortstop Bill Shaddick paved the way in the hitting department with four safeties in five tries. Two of them were -run-scoring doubles in the fifth and seventh innings. Jack Chipchase pounded a lead-off double in the three -run third inning while Larry Jones placed a two -bagger into left field in the seventh. Jones and Chipchase each col- lected two hits throughout the contest while the Hensall bal. ling spree was rounded out with single blows off the bats of Bruce Horton and Bob Mickie. Believe it or not, Hensall trailed 2-0 at one time in the game. In the top of the initial inning, Atwood broke loose for three singles and a walk to score their first two runs of the game. R. Harrow started things off with a single and was followed by W, Harrow's walk. Successive back-to-back singles by B. Ache- son and B. Coughlin brought the base runners home. Playground PATTER By BERNICE STRANG The fourth week of the play ground was called "Old, Fashioned Week." The special days were Thurs- day and Friday. Thursday was backwards day with each. child wearing their clothes backwards. Friday was another big day. Church was conducted by Rev A. Rapson. King and Queen of the play- ground layground at Kinsmen Park, were Don Wolfe and Barbara Whiting, They were crowned by Shirley Merkley, Donna Wells and Ber- nice Strang, At 'Victoria Park, Brenda Brintnelt and Bart De. Wiese were crowned by Eleanor Heywood and Bonnie Doerr, while at Queen's, bonnie Gifford and Nancy Gifford were crowned by Marilyn Jory. We concluded "Old, Fashioned Week" with a big parade down 10 the Library. Each child was dressed in an old fashioned cos- tume. The children sat in front of the library •and sang songs for a while, The -costumes were judged by Mrs. I, Srnith and the supervisors. The winners were Kathy Wells, Mark Heywood. and Danby Laing, This concluded the fourth week of the playground activiti es. The fifth week was known as "Penny Carnival Week," We spent the week playing games but mainly getting ready for the Penny Carnival on Tuesday aft- ernoon, Church on Friday was conduct.• ed by fhe supervisors and reerea- tlonal director Larry Heideman. Karen Heywood and Donnie Wolfe were crowned Xing and Queen Al Mu 'Playground by Eleanor Heywood Marilyn ,tory and Shirley Merkley, while Hort• no' We11C and Bernice Strang crowned .handy 'Tiernan and Joan Campbell at Victoria.. At Clueen's, Bonny Doerr crowned Pattie and David Moffat, an !!ridgy afternoon, about 1.50 children •turned opt for the Benny carnival., Draws for an airliiariee and doll' wore won by Joan They.. wood and frOrdolr Page, There eras a great variety of booths fop the chitdrett Where each paid a penny to trarticlpate. With Wet full and enlply jock• eta, then'; Children went home happy, Baseball Standings &e'L RON-PERTH INT, LEAGUE intermediate "C" Semi -Finals (Bast -of -Five Series) East Week's Scores: Dashwood n, Mitchell 7 Mitchell 12, Dashwood 11 :Mitchell 6, !Dashwood 3 standings 'w 1, P Mitchell2 Dashwond - __» _, 1 1 2 !Future Gaines: A,1gUS1. T—:ditchell at Dashwood S--Dashwnnd at :Mitchell (if necessary.) as OAA BANTAM' ,'D" FINALS (Best -of -Five Series) Last W ieek'.s 'Results: Hensall 18, ' Atwood. 4 Hensall at Atwood ppd. (rain)' feature Genesi August 7—.Hensall Al Atn•norl S --Atwood at Hensall WOAA MIDGET "r" PLAYOFFS it3est-of-Threw Series) (Group Playoffs) Last !leek's ire,lulfst Seaforth 2, Exeter 0 Future Games: August 7••--Seaforth at Exeter :1reG1.LLIVRAY SOFTBALL, 1,F.AG ret Final Standing* W L Rrinsley 11 2 West Corners... _ •" Il 4 Ailsa Craig, 11 4 Sylvan s Parkhill_ _ 3 7 l.leury µ_. 2 S Playoff :Dates (Best -Of -Three Series) August 11—Shan vs. 'Rrinsley 12 --West ('nrnersi va. Parkhill Yid ---L fleury vs. Ailsa Craig 13--Srinsley tis. Sylvan 19. -.-Parkhill 1a. ','est Corners 20. -..Ailsa Craig vs: Lieury who went through a real see-su. battle for ten innings before th rwa \viunc was decided. Starting pitcher "Whitey" Mal; elle paved the way for the artil- lery barrage in the second in• Hing when he cleared the bases with a blast over, the right field fence to push Mitehell into a tent porary 44 lead, Kenny Saxton Murray Colnlhoun and Harold lleinbuck all rode glome on -Whitey's" first grand stammer of the season. Dashwood's Jimmy Hayter, who gained credit for a triple in hi first plate appearance of the night, duplicated Maicho's lea in the top of the fifth when his club was trailing by a 6-1 score He blasted a long drive over the left field fence with the bases lammed, Bob Stormes, Steve Mitre and Raymie Wein coasted home on the big blow that pu the Tigers right back into the game. However, the home 'run barrage still wasn't over even though the fans saw eight runs cross the plate on two round trippers. in the bottom half of the fifth, Mit- chell's "Porky" Wallace poked a solo shot over the right centre - field fence for the third home run of the game,. Dashwood Tigers rallied for h pair of runs in the top of the ninth inning and looked as though they had their second victory of the series sewed up but Mitchell bounced right back with two •18 their half of the inning to force the tenth. , The door was opened to the Mitchell club in the bottom of the tenth. when "Link" Rohfritsch reached first on a Dashwood error. From there he was sacri- ficed to second by Doug Smith. With the base runner in scoring position, "Buster" Brown teed off on one of Steve Mitro's pitches and sent it for a run -scoring double to end the 23 -run, 26 -hit marathon. Benny Saxton, Rohfritsch, Mal- ebo and Brown each cracked out doubles in the winning cause while Raymie Wein, Steve Mitre and Jerry Martene connected for two -Naggers for the Bengals, Jimmy Hayter for Dashwood and "Porky" Wallace for Mit- chell, picked up a triple and. home run apiece for their respective teams, Score 1/y 'innings: R H F f'ashwnnd .„ nln 5112 nn2 0-11 12 4 Mitchell _. 042 012 nn2 1-12 14 Stpyn :Nitro and Soh Meharg: Whitey Malcho, "Buster'. Brown (3) and igen Saxton. 'Whining Pitcher—Prolcn; Loser—Mitro, w' out two safeties. Wein himself e contributed singlesthe ie ' ' t fits and eighth innings. .One of the Iwo hits picked up by Jimmy llayter and.Bob Storines were doubles which came in the first and third frames respectivly.. Tiger Catcher Bobby Moberg slammed: a double in the sixth for the Tiger's third double of the game to rouird out the 11 -hit as- sault. In the Mitchell cause, playing coach "Link" Rohfritsch lest the way with three, all .of the single s variety. Backing up their coach's hit• t ting j erforinanees were Ken Sax- ton and Wayne Pauli who each socked two safeties. One of Pauli's was a first -inning triple while Saxton came up with a run - scoring double in the fourth. Singles off the bats of Murray 1 !Noble, George Coveney, Charlie Westman and "Jo" Wallace ac- counted for the balance of the Legionnaire's 11 hits. Wallace and Bob Sadler shared the mound' duties for the Mit- chell Legionnaires with Sadler absorbing the loss, Score 1, 7'nnrn);•ro1 1l. 1f p; Tigers Even Set With 97 Triumph Thanks to the splendid no -run pitching from the fourth inning on by ace reliefer Raymie Wein, Dashwood copped the first game of a Civic Holiday doubleheader in Dashwood Monday morning hy a 9-7 count to tie their best - of -five series with the Mitchell Legionnaires at one game apiece,, Wein took 'over the pitching duties in the fourth from starter Bob Stormes who had allowed Mitchell to take a 7-6 lead. The Tiger reliefer, who was credited as the winning pitcher, breezed a third strike past two potential Legionnaire batsmen and al- lowed the visitors in T.igertown park to gain a mere four hits off him in the balance of the five and one-third innings. Flits were a diene a dozen in this three-hour contest as each club produced plenty of power at the plate. Backing up Raymie Wein's re- lief job for the Tigers were Steve Micro, Bob Stormes, Jim Hayter and Ray Webb, who each belted FAST RELIEF FOR ACHING nit Ain n h 0 4 11111'heli 21111 Sn0 non. _7 11 1 Dahwon,j 4(12 003 511x-9 11 2 a\'allaee, Sadler (5) and Saxtoni. Stormes, !Vein (4) and Hayter, Winning Pitcher—Wein, Mitchell Rallies To Win Opener Mitchell Legionnaires wiped out a 2-0 third inning deficit last Friday night in Mitchell and chalked up a 6-3 victory over Dashwood Tigers in the first game of a best -of -five series for the right to advance into the Wonder Who Sneaked It •In? Don Southcott of. the Exeter Golf Club, scored a hole -in -one at the Oakwood Inn Golf Course at Grand Bend last Monday. The ardent golfer scored his ace on the par three • 170 -yard 17th. He used a three -iron on the hole as he hit his shot into a stiff wind, Playing with the editor of The Exeter Times -Advocate were Jack Southcott, Toronto, and Don Knight of London .Highland. arat finals 2 Huron -Perth finals, "Buster" tt B ster 1 worked Brown vo Ices 1 i 1 le t inounct duties for the winners ed in the seven•iiniing game,. t chalked up four strikeouts while allowing nine scattered hits. Steve Mitro allowed the Mit- Midgets Lose First Playoff Seaforth Midgets anon .a thriller from the Exeter Kinsmen Midg• ets in Seaforth on Tuesday night when they sclueezecl ottt a 2.0 decision to cop the first game of a hest -of -three playoff in the WOAA Midget "C" playdowns, Second game of the series will he played in Exeter on Thursday night. The Seaforth club won the play- off opener in fine fashion as they halted what looked to be a sure three -run eighth inning Exeter rally, A sensational catch in left field by Campbell saved. the day for the Seaforth nine as Exeter had two runners on the base paths at the time. Peter Ravelle was robbed of what could have been an easy home run when Campbell. pulled ,off a phenome- nal catch to end the ball -game, Bell, playing shortstop for the winners, collected two of the four safeties picked up by the s Seaforth club. The others went to Dale and Patterson. In the Exeter cause, Gordie Strang led the way with a second inning single and a foprth inning double. Other local players to connect for singles included 13111 Heywood, Lloyd Moore and Frank Boyle. Seaforth scored the only two runs of the game in the sixth when Bell led off with a single, After Elliott grounded out, Pat- terson came up with a timely hit for the second safety. of the half inning given up by Pete Ravelle. Ravelle bore clown and got Reith by the strikeout route hut the next man to face hint, Seaforth catcher Dale, drilled a sharp single to scare the two base run- ners. Score by 1"arog•H4 3d H 71 Exeter 0110 non 011--5 5 1 Seaforth .. _ . 000 002 nx 4 0 Pete Ravelle and z,1oyd Moore; Reith and Dale, Winning Pitcher —Relt.h; Loser—Ravelle, .shell club only eight safeties throughout the, seven n ronin s he worked and sent four down via the strikeout route. Raymie Wein and Bob Stormes paced the Dashwood hitting at- tack with tr•o hits each while Wayne Pauli and Murray Noble led the Legionnaire artillery, Pauli and Noble each produced a double and single in the short game. Dashwood ,opened the hest -of- five series playoff minus threes of their regular players. The Tigers were forced to press a midget player from Clinton., wlio happened to be at the game, into action to fill out the nide man lineup. Mitchell scored all of their runs in the fourth and fifth inn• ings with three runners erossing the plate in each of the innings, Score lly I,uti.agsl 1t 1M Fr Dashllnnd- _. 0112 non 1•--.1 9 1 Mitchell-' .gnu :'in x--11 3 1 Steve Mitro and 11nh :lder,ara ; "Buster" .r;rnu-n and lin,tny Sax- ton. Winning Pitcher — Bron n; Loser --:Nitro, S. C. Bowen, Who has been appointed general manager of the To. ronto Better Business Bureau, He was recently elected '1ce- president of the Canadian Ass sociation of Better Business Bureaus. Arthur R. Haskell, former general manager of the Toronto Bureau, has been retained as a consultant. '54 Chev Deluxe Radio, turn signals. '53 Ford Coach' • • Very clean, '53 Chv C: cch Clean, low mileage. tO '51 Chev Coach Good transportation. Get Our Price Before You Buy Snell Bros. L PHONE 100 Chev & Olds EXETER rhn:'aSl:�iat3' Walla . z v.,;,a >. ���s• cax:a, �. • .h• irtiztkf vz.s. i'C,t . 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