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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-07-13, Page 6Page 6 Tho limos -Advocate, My 13, 1961 By. PERR¥13AYLp .. . . .. ... nos vvgews FoggsoNArry This past Year will be remembered as the year of the curling boom in this area, with the building of two fine rinks in Exeter and at RCAF Centralia, The man largely responsible for the eon - tion of the. outstanding rink on the station is about te leave for RCAF staff college but his name will linger for ieng •time .at Centralia. S/L G. L. Robertson promoted the rink project at the station for many years and last year the seeds of his dream bore fruit. Being a typical westerner with their attributes for bard work and harder play, he played a fine game of ball at first base for P.T.S. until some unkind people (no names menticnedi pre- sented him with a plastic golf set hinting that be should give up ball and turn to golf. After his re- tirement, P.T.S. promptly dropped to the basement of the station ball league. As a boy in school, "Rob- bie" was an outstanding VL G. L. Robertson high jumper. Since taking up golf, his game is rapidly improving. Soon it may replace curling as his great passion• When a good competitor and sport leaves an area, it's a loss we all regret, Probably TilLsonburg won't be sorry, however, because Robertson rinks have won the Tobacco Belt Curling Trophy two of the last three years. Be also won the Exeter 'spiel last year and the Mt. Forest Invitational in 1959. They didn't invite him back to Mt. Forest, how- ever, which shows the fear and trembling with which other curlers regard him. Being a perfect host, he never tried too, hard to win bonspiels held on the camp. (Ho ho.) S/L Robertson has been chief of officer training at primary training school, Centralia, for the last four years and in that time has been very active in all phases of sport. As president of the rec council, he has always supported the minor sports programs at Huron Park and at Exeter. As president of the Exeter Figure Skating Club, I would like to acknowledge also the tre- mendous job his charming wife, Nancy, did as chairman of the costume committee for our club. Many hours of headaches and work, plus many miles of driving were involved in costuming our shows each spring, Words are often inadequate to describe the efforts of such people. To S/L Robertson, his wife and two lovely daughters, for being such good sports, we say "Rasta La Vista". WHAT IS A FAN? The word sport has many meanings and de- scribes a great variety of games and recreational activities. But much more complex is the definition of the person known as the sports fan. To me, a true sports fan is one who sup- ports and backs the various endeavors in his home community. If he takes an active part in games of all kinds then he is participating for his own health and pleasure. But what happens to so many people when they actively retire from sport? They :seem to forget their playing days and the name on the uniform they were so proud to wear. They sit back and talk a fine game of ball or hockey and know exactly how Toronto, Detroit, Montreal, New York and various other pro teams are doing. But they wouldn't know whether it's half -past two or a quart of milk as far as their home teams are concerned. Apparently, they could t are less. Many people have asked me what's going to happen in hockey or baseball—what are we doing about this sport or that. Well, a few people in town have spent a lot of time and money in the last few years trying to keep Exeter's name on the sports pages. Their reward: criticism, laugh- ter and jeers, Who can blame these few for becom- ing discouraged? What if the majority of the people in Ex- eter took the same attitude about spending their money at home? The town would soon be but a shadow. If we want a good town we need every single attraction we can get. Sport is one important way of keeping the spark of community life flow- ing. Our intermediate ball club is playing a good • game but where are the spectators? There just F- aren't any around. At an admission charge of 354, we have taken in a total gate of about $2.00 a game. "Umpires alone cost $7,00 a game plus the expense of two new balls. Come on folks. Let's get behind our town in sport. The cost isn't great with a homebrew dub. Nobody wants a donation—just a few people at the park. We cannot serve beer like they do at De, troit, but if it's ball fans really like and riot the. beverage, then they can get it here. And you won't often see five errors in one game like the Tigers Made the other day. Let's" make the few many, core: 41 tuns during week fl9S score t Break Belgrave jinx btit lose to Aub Fnrtittbaes softballers split two games this week with Belgrave and Wingham in Huron softball aetion. On Saturday the local crew upset league -loading Belgrave 5-3 but on Tuesday night they dropped an S -a4 count to Wing- hain. Wingham mig9N.PERTli BAARRAI,I- ree Coming up! t irfitQa The loss gave the local team .17_ at SAf'a a_ ,record of one win and three 18,....Kirkfen at zeeteh Imes against Wingham so far 19-Foceter at Staffa thTi s heLyeara.ees teant plays its Zureb atatlierx,seatietr next gaille agairest when they travel there this HURQN SOFTBA14. Friday night for a genie ttnder 14 -Exeter at Rensall tIe iights, EXETER - Edwards. rft Bogart, 2b; Fuller, c; Russell, 3b; Carey, ss; Blomrnaert, if; Nagel, cf, Slaght (6); Middle- ton, lb, Little (7); 1301, p, llar- riS (8). Last Inning splurge Winghani broke a tight 3-2 ball game wide (men in Exeter Tuesday night by plating five runs in the last inning to, squash the Exeter nine 8-2. The two teams had been Playing it close Ain to the last inning when Wingham banged out four hits and tallied their five big runs to take the con- test by a wide margin, Don "Dirtger" BeJ1 had held the visitors to only three runs up to then, although they had rooked him for ten hits. Bell was replaced in the last inning by Dick Harris after he got in- to trouble but Wingham pounced on him for two more hits before he could put out the fire. Together the two Exeter hurlers fanned six and walked three. The Lanes crew got to the Wingham ehuelter for seven hits but could only turn them into two runs. Jim Carey was the leading slugger for the bowlers as he pounded out a triple and a single ip three trips to the Mate, Simon Nagel and "Dinger" Bell both crac- ked doubles for the Exeter squad while Jim Russell, Cy Blommaert, and Gary Middle- ton all picked up singles. Hitting spree for Midgets Exeter midgets pounded out a 19 -bit attack and plated 18 runs as they romped to an 18- 8 win over Crediton Tuesday night. Don Cann pitched his way to his fourth straight win of the season as well as leading the locals at the plate by picking up three hits in four time at bat. Cann allowed eight hits during the six -inning contest and he fanned nine and walked six, Jim Pfaff and Hubert Arts shared the pitching duties for Crediton and together they struck out five and issued two free passes. Centralia loses sclueaker Tavistock Squeaked Mit • 43 decision (wet Ceara- ,* in Memorial League soft- ball action by counting all their /trig Iit the last three innings "To pull away from the CE • bayS. Centralia took 14 lead it, the middle frames but sace the lead vanish in the set/0th in. ning when TAVistotk plated three Unearned rens, Al Wipe dueled with Gott. SeliA;tilk M TAwistodk for seven before Tavistock tallicd a run in the eighth inning to take the lead. And the eeeteg. WiPer gave up Seven hits, Exeter took a 3-1 lead after three innings, but in the fourth and fifth innings they broke loose for 15 big runs while Cre- diton managed to come through with seven. Don Cann paced the Exeter hitting barage with a home run, a double, and a single. Teter Means followed close- ly with two doubles and a sin- gle in four trips to the plate. John Nagel and Bob Schroeder connected for three singles ea eh while Fred Wells picked up two one -base hits. Jack Glover, a bantam brought up to the "big leagues" for the contest, smashed a long triple in his first appearance at the plate for the midgets. Roger Cann and Rick Boyle both poled doubles for the homes1ers while Don Westover and Dale Turvey added singles. Hubert Arts picked up two of Orediton's eight hits by crashing a single and a triple to drive in three runs. Rugge- ber nicked Cann for two sing- les and Lightfoot added triple in one time at bat. Single base hits for Crediton were knocked out by Dick Coulter, Jim Pfaff, and Lamport. The victory was the fourth in a row for the local team against no losses. Crediton has played both their games so far this year against Exeter and have a record of 0-2. , struck out five and walked one, Gottschatilk allowed eight MO, whiffed eight and walked three. Noyle, Kelly, Miller, and Burke all had two hits each with Noyle's being A Mite run And a delible. Dee et Miller's hits also wont for two hatea. Wettlauffer and Erb paced the Tavistock attack by pound- ing out two hits and scoring one ruin eaelL The air force 5(I14(1 coin mitted three effort iti the sc. venth inning in let three runs cross (he plate and in the next inning Tavistoek tallied one ; run that was enough to win . the tarne. Midgets triumph over Dashwood Exeter midgets tallied ten runs in the first four innings and then coasted to a convin- cing 10-3 win over Dashwood, Wednesday, July S. The local boys picked up two runs in the first ineing, and eight more in the third and fourth innings to give them a big 10-0 lead until the last two innings when Dashwood scored all their runs. WINGHAM-Fry, 2b; Saxton, ef; Bain, as, Gardner, 3b; Fi- sher, p; Foxton, c; Wellwood, rf; Brown, If; Piekforcl, ib. Finally step Belgrave Aub Farquhar's softball nine finally unleased their power Saturday night and with the aid of four home runs defeated Belgrave 5-3, The win was the first of the year over Belgrave after Exe- ter had suffered three straight losses at the hands of the north- erners in Huron Softball play, The game was played -under the lights in Jlensall and it was the fourthwin of the sea- son for the Lanes team against six losses. Don "Dinger" Bell went_the full nine innings on the mound far the Exeter squad to notch his fourth victory. He gave up five well -scattered hits during the game to the Wingham bat- ters. The fireballing righthan- der struck out seven and al- lowed four free passes. G. Smith started the game for Belgrave but was relieved by C Coultis in the fifth in- ning. The bowlers picked up all their runs off Smith in the first three innings. Together the two Belgrave chuckers al- lowed eight hits to the Exeter boys while whiffing eight and walking four. The Exeter squad made their hits in the first feur innings count by smashing out four home runs and scoring five big runs. Walter Westbrook and "Chub" Edwards led the Lanes at the plate by picking up two hits each. Westbrook ham- mered two circuit elouts in four times at the plate while Edwards crashed a homer and a double. Jim Russell clouted a four - bagger in the third inning to finish off all the Exeter scor- ing. Exeter picked up three other safeties that all went for singles and they were banged out by Lyle Little. Ron Bogart, and Simon Nagel. Dale Turvey led the Exeter crew at the plate by crashing out a double and three singles in five trips, Don Cann pieked tip two singles while Dick I3oyle, Pete Means, and Dee Westover all contributed single base hits. Don Cann went the full nine innings on the mound for Exe- ter to record his third straight triumph of the year. The crafty rightly allowed twelve hits but fanned 10 and walked Six. Jaiis Gulens was on the mound for DastiWeed And he also was the big gen at the plate as he cracked out three singles .in five at bats. Rich- ard Deithinnic picked up bye singles as did Genttner And Schade. Bob }Riff m a n, Jack Schenk and Tyler also contri. 'bided singles. Although they were ttithlf, 11 to nine, the Exeter 'ere* took advantage of same walks and Dashwood miscues And turned them into ten big riltia, rht win WAS the third iti 'kW ler the local club against no defeatt, Bell allowed only three play- ers on the Belgrave team to pick up a hit during the con- test Higgins slapped a two - bagger and a single for Bel - rave while M. Shield banged two singles and J. Coultis had one. Belgrave struck early in the game and picked up two runs in the top half of the first in- ning. A walk to McAlpine, a double by Higgins and Shield's single drove in two runs and it looked as if Belgrave was going to roll to an easy win. -However, the bowling crew came .right back iji their half of the inning with two runs that tied up the ball game. A single by Bogart and West - brook's first home run of the night gave Exeter their two runs. The Lanes team followed in the second and third innings with three more roundtrippers to give then, a 5-2 lead that Belgrave couldn't overcome al- though they did get one run back in the last inning when they tried to stage a late rally that fell ,short. The Exeter team will face a real test next Tuesday when Belgrave again will meet Exe- ter in. Henselt for an 8:30 game. Belgrave is currently leading the pack in the Huron Softball loop with Wingham, Exeter and Hensall strung out behind them. EXETER - Little, 3b; Bo- gart, ss; Westbrook, 2; 1b; Nagel, ef; Campbell, c; Edwards, rf; Gravett, If; Bell, p. BELGRAVE - Robinson. if; McAlpine, lb: Higgins. if, M. Shield, c; J. Coultis, ef; Smith, p; C. Coultis (5); Shield, 2b; Justice, ss; Smyth, 3b. j8-Belgrave at Exeter (at n.---Eseter at 'S.elgrave 1,,,Ap1g5' SOFTBALL 18 -Winthrop ,at Exeter .mEmpRtAk. •a0FT.041„. 14 -Centralia at Hickson 16.-Otterville at Centralia (2:00 mat.) 1.9—Centralia at Stratford Mc0114.1Y.BAY •$OFTBAl.t, 1.4—Brins1ey vs. West Corners 1.8-43riesiey vs. Lieury act --Grand Bend vs. W. Corners SOCCER 1.5-40YA at Centralia MIDGET ALL-STARS 17 -New Hamburg at Exeter Crediton at Dashwood 19 -Exeter et New Hamburg BANTAM ALL-STARS 14—Clinton at Exeter PEE WEE Alet,,STARS 14 -Exeter at. Clinton 18 -Clinton at Exeter Lin. score R H E Belgra've 200 0(10 001 3 5 0 Exeter 212 000 00 5 8 0 H -P sked completed The remaining half of the Iluton -Perth sehedule w a s drawn up. on Wednesday, July 5, at a meting attended by representatives from each team present. July • 7 -Zurich at Kirkton 10 -Exeter at Zurich Kirkton at'8taffa 12--1ieesall at Exeter Staffa at Zurich 14--EXeter at Kirktoit 17 -Zurich atStaffa 18--Kirktcm at Zurich 19 -Exeter at gaffe 20-Kirkton at EXtter Zurich at. IlenSall 22-.11ensall. at Kirkton 24-Staffa at Exeter RefiSall At Zurich 26-Hensail at Staffa '27,e-Ztifialt at Exeter 28.-•,Kiritton at liaise!! 31,--Staffa at Kirkton Exeter at Ileesall August ?--Stafta at 'Rattail Bali standings HURON,PgR71-1 1A/ L T P Zurich 7 2 0 14 $talca, 6 3 0 12 Kensa.11 5 2 in Exeter 3 6 0 6 Kirkton 1 9 0 2 This week's scores: Mensal] 6, Exeter 1 Zurich 7, Staffs. Zurich 26. 'Kirlacn '3 Zurich 7, Exeter 1 SIAM. 7, 'Kirkton 6 REC SOFTBALL: Ti' Legion 3 0 0 6 CredItnn. 3 2 0 6 Cliffords 2 2 0 4 Kinsmen 1 5 0 2 This week's scores: Credito,. 11. Giffords 5 Crediton 2, Kinsmen 0 SWZMUMEMERMOSHOMMUM1 • Twin wins for Crediton Zurich 1,4111her Kings en,i0Y- He(iu.man.VreerrIrth 444 Cjieo$:;11t conwoenegic up I with. three big wins on A total of 41 runs, The Lumber Kings posted two wins last Week OM Staffa and Kirkton with scores of 8-0 d2s7 and then came back this week to register a 7-1 tri- ein proPh over the Exeter Ma, hawks. Staffa and liensall also re- corded victories this week with Staffa squeaking by Kirkton 7- 6 and 'Jensefl dewing. the Mohawksand Steffai the tap two teams in the league, will tangle twice this week and both of them will be fighting for top spot in the loop. The Moliewk$ have two games lined up this week as Staffatahnedyet afinree dgaoaynn. 1 e srokat KionFridanall Crediton posted two victories in the Rec Softball league this week by downing Giffords and the Kinsmen. The Stephen township boys marched over the Giffords 11-5 Thursday evening and then on Monday night edged the Kins- men 2-0. Don Pickering hurled both games fpr Crediton to register his second and third wins of the season. He fanned 13 and walked six in the game against Giffords and eame back with a masterful six -hit perform- ance over the Kinsmen, Man' day. Roy Smith paced the Credi- ton attack in the game against the Giffords by picking up three safeties. Al Flynn and G. Slaght both crashed home runs for the winners while Bob Nichol hammered a circuit clout for the Giffs. Pickering was the whole show for Crediton against the Kinsmen ' as he held them scoreless during the entire game and helped his own cause .by pounding out a double and two singles in three trips, Other ' Crediton hits were reg:• istered by Ross Haugh, Al Flynn, and Roy Smith. Crediton picked un bath their runs on infield beats by the Kinsmen who had a rough night in the field. Credi- ton collected one run in the third ,arid then added another in the 'sixth to put the game away for them. Doug Sillery led the losers at the plate with a two -bagger and a single, Gord Baynhatn, Walter Westbrook, Jim Carey, and Cy Blommaert all nicked up one hit off Pickering. If it's true that a fool and his money are soon parted - then tell us how they got to- gether bi the first place'? .. R., . ,' . RI • DOMESTIC • COMMERCIAL Wiring Ana jnstallations ALSO MOTOR REPAIR AND REWINDING 70 HURON ST., EXETER Minn* S2I1W Zurich wins third in row A fired -tip Zurich ball team rolled to their third win of the week and their third win in a row over Exeter Monday night when they defeated the Mo- hawks 7-1, Bantams drop fourth straight Exeter bantams lost their fourth game in a mw Monday night when they were edged 7-5 by Goderich. After two initial successes the locals ran into trouble and have lost every contest since. Errors once more spelled the downfall of the Exeter club with the locals helping the Goderich lads by tommitting four miscues in the infield. Go- derich only managed to get to Exeter chueker Jake Nyhuis for three base hits. Goderich tallied five big runs in the first two innings and the Exeter lads made a game ef- fort to overtake them in the middle frames but two Gode- rich runs in the second -last in- ning gave the salt -town boys the edge. Ricky McDonald, a pee -wee brought upto help out the "big boys," paced Exeter's losing ,attack by slapping out two singles in four times at bat. Doug Parker and Ron Cor- nish picked up Exeter's only other hits with both of 'them going for one base. The' -Exeter lads will try to get back on the winning side of the scoresheet this Friday night when they play host to Clinton for a 6:30 game. *Ida:ries • The 1,1trge victories .of the week left the .Zurieli .Lumber Kings in undiuted :possession: DC top spot in the 1-10roo,rerth league. DAP TrilSilinS14 fired a „fettr- • hitter at the local squad and. allowed them only one run. during the abbreviated eight inning c o e t. Trushinski 1 struck out three Mohawks be- fore retiring :in the :sixth in. ping. John Masse came on And fanned .six, during the next tbra Plo4ild."4 •went rail the way for Exeter and he gave up a bare five hits but .once Again . errors spelled doom, for the Exeter squad wMcji committed. five, Ford whiffed three And issued four free poses, 'Five .Zurich hits were divided evenly among five hitters with Doug .0,'Brien cooling up with the longest hit of the night, a booming triple 111 the .Seventh inning. . Earl"Cuss" Wagner smacked a two -bagger fax the Kings while single base hits were picked up by Paul Pear- son, Ron Deichert, Larry Be- dard, and Danny Moore, Exeter's hits were all eon - fined to singles collected bY Joe Wooden, Simon Nagel, Ray jOhnson, and Pick Me - Mohawks, tallied their only run early in the game when back -to -hack singles by Wood- en and Nagel put runners on first and third andExete squeezed in a run on a sacri- fice by Ford, Zurich -came storming back in, their half of the third in - ping and took a 4-1 lead on two walks, an error and t w 0 singles. The -Lumber Kings finished off . the scoring in the final innings when they plated three runs on ,O'Brien.'s long triple. The win gave Trushinski record of two wins and no lasses over the. Mohawks while the loss evened Ford's record at 1-1. EXETER Loader, If; Mc - c; Johnson, 2b; Russell, lb; Wright, ss; Bogart, 3b; Wooden, rf; Nagel, cf; Fond. 6. ZURICH -'Wagner, et Don O'Brien, ss; Trushinski, p; Doug O'Brien, cf; Pearson, 3b; Deichert, ab; L. Bedard, ib; J. Bedard, ff; 'Moore,. rf; Masse, p (6),. h,e •.1.14m.1;oer was loaded! Zurich Luelber Kings, iia - leashed their full power en napless Kirkton and turned 18 hits into 26 runs to romp to a 26,•3i Will over the boys from. Kirkton on their borne park on Friday eveping.4 The Kirkton Pitchers suf- fered one et their most ineffec- tive nights of the season and the Zurich Sluggers came through with their best per- formance of the year to an. - count for the lopsided score, Kirkton used four hurlers dur. ing the six -inning contest as the Lumber Kings fattened their batting strength. Don O'Brien started for Zur- ich for the first time this sea- son .and he gave up four hits to the Kirkton crew while fan- ning four and giving up two free passes, Bobby Dobson started for Kirkton but he gave way to a succession of other Mitten liuriers. Bil Crago; Tom Saw- yer, and Bill Hooper all took turns in trying to .stern the Zurich onslaught. Paul Pearson led the Lum. ber Kings at the plate by erashing a triple,two doubles, and two ,sin gles in five trips. Doug O'Brien belted a triple, a double and a single and Larry Bedard added three more ,singles to ;nee the Zur- ich attack. Bill Yungblut banged a two= bagger and a single and Earl Wagner had two singles for the Zurich,,squad. Don O'Brien, Danny Moore, and John Masse all collected singles for the Kings, Bill Crago nicked O'Brien for 9 double and -a single while Bruce Greenstreet crashed a triple and Bobby Dobson a single to round out Kirkton's hits. The win was the sixth of the year for Zurich and it left them tied with Staffa for top' spat in the Huron -Perth league. Clinton clobbers bantams 21-2 Clinton defeated the locai bantam team 21.2 in a game played in Clinton on Wednes- day, July 5. Jake Nyhuis limited the Clin- ton squad to 12 hits in the 6-1/2 inning ball game but some shabby fielding by the Exeter crew permitted 17 Clinton runs to score in the last two in- nings. Ron Cornish smashed a tri- ple for the Exeter team while two pee -wee perforiners, Lar- ry Willert and Ricky 'McDonald each contributed singles. The locals will have a chance to redeem themselves when 'Clinton travels to Exeter for a game this Friday, July 14. Staffa edges Kirkton 7-6 Staffa came up with four big runs in the first inning and managed to stay -ahead for the rest of the game to come out on the long end of a 7-6 count over Kirkton Monday night. ' The game was a real squeaker all the way with Staf. fa plating two runs in their last time at bat to gain the decision. Kirkton outhit the homesters eight to six but couldn't turn their hits into enough runs. Gary Hoff and Bill Crago op- posed each other an the mound for Staffa and Kirkton and both pitchers turned in excellent jobs. Hoff recorded four strike- outs whileCrago fanned two. "L n c" Rohfritsch a n d Laurie McKellar both picked up two singles for the Staffa crew to lead thein to the win. Bob Sadler crashed a triple for the home town boys while Bob Norris banged out one single. Tom Sawyer nicked the Staf- fa pitcher for two hits and single bits were collected by Bill Waghorn, Bill Grego, Bruce Greenstreet. Keith Stephens, and Barry Stephens. The victory was the sixth of the year for Staffa against two losses while Kirkton currently holds a record of one win and eight defeats. Hensall tops Exeter 6-1 A four -run splurge in the sec- ond inning provided the Mar- gin That Hensell needed to car- ry them to a 6-1 triumph over Exeter Mohawks in Exeter Thursday evening. The win was the third in a row and the fifth of the year for Hensall in Huron -Perth ac- tion. runs in thesecond innings.1)401 . Remelt picked up four two walks and two errors and maintained their lead for the duration of the game. Gerry Bell went the complete route for the winners to regis- ter his fourth win of the year. He allowed seven hits during the eight -inning game and he fanned 12 and walked one in a fine display of control. Dean McKnight started on the mound for the Mohawks but he was lifted in the second inning and Jim Russell fin- ished the game, Hensall only nicked the Exeter hurlers for five hits but five Mohawk er- rors helped them out. They also recorded nine strike -outs and six wallas. Rensall's hits were divided evenly among five players. Bruce 'Moir hammered a dou- ble while all the other hits were singles picked up by Ger- ry Bell, Bob Baynham, Ken Parker and John Baker. Jim Russell and Ray John. son both banged out two hits each for the Mohawks and Ron --Please turn to page 7 A SOUND INVESTMENT Minor Services Inspection A stitch in time saVes nine—and that's particularly trtle about your car. 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