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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-08-10, Page 7GYPSY MONARCHS—Chosen king and queen of the gypsies in the August 1 playground parade were Gary iMacLean and Lorrain Filipowich. Miss Filipowich, from Detroit, is a visitor at the playground. At the park, kids enjoyed scrambles, treasure hunx and game,.:, SADDEST AND HAPPIEST—Prizes for the. saddest and happiest hobos in the playground went to Brian Killeen and. Debra Potter. The program was organized by Rec. Director Don Gravett and the playground supervisors. —Gravett photos Playground patter Hobo e Complete . r1 0 y se By JOAN DETTMER Monday, July 31st, playground Members mnct at 'Victoria Park for i a parade. for the Gypsies a••ci Hobos of Exeter. • me no parade enthusiae s 'remit ,up Huron Street and up t'nrough the Main Street of town, ending up at Kinsmen Playground, .fudges. Mrs. Killeen, Mrs. Pinder, Mrs. Perrot and Mrs. 1Vyatt chose Gary McLean and Lorraine Tilir• owick as the Icing Ind Queen of the Gypsies 'and Jim Darling and Roberta Gras- s'^'- as Khig and (Mem of the Hobos. Our happiest gypsy was Debbie Potter and elm sad- dest hobo teas Brian Killeen, After the judging was finished the eight and ovens proceeded v'ith a treasure hunt. which lead the participants all over the east side of Exeter; Merle id- le (captain), Bill Jeffrey,. Joey Darling, JimPa.rke.r, ° Marnie Morrow, Lorraine Tilipowiek and Jackie Darling were the winning team, Susan Perrot, Parke John Parker and Donnie1 Wo fe were the captains of the other teams, While the treasure hunt was in progress the 7 and un - dere joined in a peanut scram• hie and what a scramble it was! Tuesday afternoon the jun- iors had a Track and Field meet and the seniors did cop- per tooling. Wednesday afternoon Harold Sissons helped the supervisors at Kin Park. Friday morning we had the regular worship service. We then had a •real, hot game of baseball:, the supervisors dyes• sed in ball uniforms vs the play- grounders, After a hard strug- gle even with a few rule varia- tions the score ended in a tie. Friday afternoon we had our regular program. Ladies capture title with playoff victory By DON GIIAVETT Exeter ladies made an aus- pl}cioUs debut hr their first rear of, the Ladies' Huron Softball League by winning the league championship with an im- pressive 8-1 win -loss record. The locals however, were pressed • ris;ht to the limit to !n the league honors over REAP Clinton,, At the end of the regular. Schedule, Clinton and Exeter were tied in the standings with 7.1 records, In a sudden -death playoff contest, at Clinton, Exe- ter romped to en impressive 04 victry behindd the Strang ,aching of Rose Carey, Enter playoffs Exeter and Brucefield will ._.. begin a best,of•three semi- rnal files/eftsnext ,week in search of the Oretic' cliainpionship. Playoff .dates have not been arranged. In the "B" series.tt;ti,,P` Will tangle Wit}i Wi i. throp, who finished .Fourth In the .league standings, Clinton will play in Winthrop on Au- gust 10 with a return game in Clinton on August; 17. Clinton Bell 'Telephone, the fifthteam in the league, failed to make the playoffs, The .Exeter entry is ,.bider the direction of Manager Grace Farquhar. Coaches of the elub include Lloyd Cushman and Vern Sinith. The club vitas or- ganized and is partially spo:n. sered by the Kxoter Reefed. tion Council, .Exeter lineup for the sudden, death game at Clinton :includ- ed; Anti Jorgensen, g on, c; Rose Carey,. pl Verna, Smith, ib; 011ie Esesry, 2b; Audrey Pool- ey, ss; Ruth HendrieJ4, 3b; Alice Nixon, 1f; Gene Baym lianri eft Cathy 7-lti" giitt' rf, PteSeverarrce Ind otos strong will; obsthlaiictr r strong Won't, HOBO ROYALTY: Roberta Grassick and Jim Darling were chosenking and queen of the hobos in the gypsy and hobo parade staged by Exeter Kinsmen playground August 1. Over 100 kids were in the parade which marched from Victoria park to the arena. Zurich wins last two to sew up league Iead Zurich Lumber Kings carne up with two runs in the last in- ning and squeaked. by Hensall 10.9 in a H -P game played in Zurich on August 4. Hensall built up an early lead with three runs in the first inning on a three -run homer by Jack Chipchase and then added six more in the third to take a commanding 9-0 lead. However, the Lumber Kings fought back strongly and tal• lied four runs in their half of the third, four more in the fourth and then the clinching two runs in the bottom of the fifth and final inning. Hensall out•hit the home team•' seven to six but Hensall's hurler issued seven free passes to help out the Zurich attack. The game was the final one of the year for the Lumber Kings and it gave them an im- pressive record of 13 wins and only three losses. Gain four points Although out -hit seven to six, Zurich Lumber Kings came out on the long end of a 7-2 count over Hensall on August 3 in a four -point game played in Hensall. The four -point contest was necessary because an earlier meeting, between the two clubs in the first half of the schedule was rained out. The Lumber Kings racked up seven runs on a bare six hits but five Hensall errors helped them out. The six Zur- ich hits were all confined to singles and they .were picked up by, Larry Bedard, Don O'Brien, Doug O'Brien, Bill Yungblut• Ron Deichert and Dick Bedard. Hensall managed to bang out seven hits but couldn't bunch them. Gary Bell, who was charged with the loss for Hen- sall. whacked two singles off Zurich's Dan Trushinski. Bill. MacKinnon cracked a double for the losers and single -base hits were registered by Bruce Moir, Steve, Kyle, Jack Chip - chase and Bob Baynham. The victory assured the Lum- ber Kings of first place in the Huron -Perth standings, Shuts out tribe Staffa stopped Exeter Mo- hawks from moving into sec- ond place in the Huron -Perth standings by blanking them •±-0 in Exeter August 3. A win for the Mohawk nine would have moved them ahead ot the boys from Staffa but they ended the season in third place. Gary Hoof blanked the •home team for the second time this season. The fast lefty fanned a total of five batters, gave un two hits and walked three, Jinn Russell. allowed -four hits to the visitors. "Linc" Rehfritsch, Bob S•ad- ler, "Porky" Wallace and Bill Murphy all collected singles for Staffa and Iry Ford and Jim Hennessey picked up Exeter's two safeties, The .loss evened Mohawics' record with Staffa at two Wins and two losses, Both teams seem to do better away from lr me as o they both y bt1 C8t11e 11 with their writs while visiting the other team in their hdlne park, Stores shut -out John Masse hurled his fourth shut=out of the Huron -Perth season in. Staffa on August 1 when the Zurich. Lumber Kings. edged Staffa 1-0. The Kings picked up their lone run in the eighth inning when Don O'Brien dolled a Al single through the box to scare fn Earl Wagner with the winning di run. The win gave Masse a record i tl Of six wins against only one Ili loss in li.p action this year. The victory evened the two clubs' records with each other at two wins and two losses and it gave the front•running Zur- ich lads a record of 12-3, The win also ran Zurich's unbeaten string to four games during which they have beaten all four teams in the league, Kirkton, Exeter, Hensall" and Staffa. Post 8-7 victory A late -inning rally by Exeter Mohawks pushed • them past Hensall and enabled thein to squeak out .an 8-7 verdict in a game played in Hensall on July 31. The Mohawk crew tallied four big runs in the seventh inning to go one run up after Hen- sall had taken a commanding 7-4 lead in the first four in -i rings. Iry Ford burled 8.2/3 inning for the Exeter squad befor giving way to Jim Russell. George Wright led both teams at the plate by cracking a dou- ble and two singles in four trips. Simon Nagel and Dick McFalls both banged out two singles for the Exeter nine. Steve Kyle crashed a triple and a single for Hensall, Bruce Moir picked up a two•bagger and a single and Bob Baynham smacked two single -base hits, sl e — Continued from page 6 of the Hensall cause. Gerry Bell displayed fine form at the plate as well as .n 'the hill by coming up with two one -base hits. The two other Hensall hits were picked up .by Steve Kyle and Ken Parker. Bobby Dobson was the vic- tiro of Hensall's hitting outburst and he was • tagged with the loss. ICiricton's ace southpaw struck out one and gave up five bases on balls during the seven -inning contest. Gord Lavery picked up Kirk - ton's first and only 'hit off Bell r in the sixth inning when he lined a shot through a hole in the infield. However, he was n wiped out'' two plays later when • ON TF1E :POT REC NEWS 01 Ay QON "'BOOM" GRAVE7•T' .Director of .Recreation Kin .Pi.a.y9raund With the final week ,of the Kinsmen Playground lust a few .days away, enthusiasm contin- ues to run high in a number of :events being conducted by tile supervisors. •ver, 'Garolynne Sin)znons,_ Neil Hamilton and Greg„ Harness. Each will receive the Bronze Medallion 'Medal and a Red Cross crest when the tests are passed Minor Ball Club: Th. ' '�mes-Advocates Aygust 10,E 1901 AThas1,1!lun111. um1,Inll11l,1�11 outtaint11..no �dImal11n noom111p,It�{ i tit/1t1,iR affi,.tt�lttl,�utufl mig • C�Ilateral Trust Nott �. Today (Thursday) at least , , one bus load of children. from, Iwo of Exeter's minor base the playground will be making away in WOAA� competition. the rounds at Staryboolc Gar. The local dens in London. This is the.sec•pee weer, under and out-of-town bus trip that the direction of capable coach has taken place within the last .Jinn Red Loader, are sched two weeks. Earlier, an ener- bled to nneet New Hamburg for getie group of '70 journeyed to the WOAA "C" championship. .Kincardine to participate in the Exeter Kinsmen lthi.digeti con - Lake Huron .Zone Recreation tinue to play out their league Council's Sixth Annual Play schedule but their playoffs are day. The locals made a credit. Just around the corner, rbc third Exeter .entry. the able showing by placing third Legion 13anta•ns, coached by with a total of 21.8 points. "Bunny" Ford, were forced to Penny Carnival withdraw from the playoffs be- 7'hrt Penny Carnival, always cause of the lack e big hit oa the final week of the playground, will be held again. Preparation is being )trade by both the°kids and supervisors alike so that this year's event should be bigger and better than ever. An added feature of the Fri- day night show (August 18) will he the presentation of a- wards to participants of various activities held on the play- ground throughout the six-week program. Crests for track and field performances will high- light the awards night. A cowboy and Indian parade will start the big night off. All the children will whoop it up while riding tractor - pulled wagons to the Exeter. arena, Track Meet Here The Lake Huron Zone Recre- ation Council's Seventh Annual. track and field meet will be held here on Wednesday, Au- gust 16. Exeter has not participated la this'meet for:a number of years, It is hoped that the six- week track and field program run in the playground. will 'help the locals make a creditable showing-' Weed kill has been sprayed on the South Huron District High School track and a num- ber of the pits are being worked into shave. All in all, the event should be quite an occasion. Swim Team. PGI ,ANNUM 360-P.AYN T? RM a. 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Included in the class are John Nagel, Jack Stephan, George Godbolt, George Hinton, Shirley Gentt- Win first 12-0 No-hitter for Bel ..Gerry Bell, playing -coach fo Hensall, won his sixth game of the season July 28 when he fired a no-hitter at Kirkton i a five -inning game at Hensall Bell faced 18 batters during the contest and he fanned five Of them and walked one, Bill Shaddick and Steve Kyle banged out two Inas apiece fol. the Hensall nine and Bruce Moir only collected Hensall's s other safety. Hensall. tallied three'big runs in their first time at, bat and then coasted for the final three inning;; to register their third win of the year over the lads from Kirkton. Masse wins duel John Masse and Jini Rus- sell hooked up in another pit• citing duel here July 27 as the Zurich southpaw registered his .second shutout of the season over the Exeter squad by blanking the Mohawks crew by a count of 4.0. Russell fired.a four -hitter al the Lulliber Icings but it wasn't good enough since as his Mo- hawk. teammates could only nick Masse for two hits during the six -inning contest, Masse banged out two of the Kings four hits and drove in one Zurich run. Earl Wagner and Doug O'Brien were the only other Zurieh batters to get to Russell for a hit, .Russell cracl-^d nut both ot Exeter's two safeties. Staffa gains tie 'Three runs in their . last tune. at bat enabled Staffa to come u with4-4 tie m Hen- sall ien- sa l July a26. against Ken' Parker of Bonsai! aticl Rob Shooked Sadlerof Staffa -' S a fa up in a pitching duel that lasted the game, Parker gave up a scanty • four hits to the Staffa crew but two of them cane the sixth inning when the bases were full. Hensall collected a Total of 10 s•1� bast hits but were held o four runs "by seingoodStaffa mdfield; work Bill.., Shaddick, Bruce Horton and Ken Parker 1 banged r g mit two 'hits each r Hensall with one of Shad- ek's going for two bases, Frank McKellar picked 1115 w of Staffa'= four hits and: 6 other two went 'to dar'y 1lON.. ;and. George G(iveneq he was tagged trying to race onne. Hensall charged into a big lead early in the game by count- ing five runs in. the first inning on two walks and three singles and they then rolled on to rack up six more runs in the next four innings to salt away the contest. Bell faced a total of 25 men during the seven -inning game and he rain his shutout string over Kirkton to 13 innings dur- ing which he has allowed only one hit. IIENSALL—Meek, ss; Horton, 3b; Moir, cf; Bell, p; Kyle, c; Shaddick, 26; G. Parker, if, Cliipcliase (4); Baker, ref, Bayn- hanii (4); K. Parker, ib. 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