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runner to get past second 'base
until the last inning. His tilateS
also backed him 4p with some
fine fielding] althottgh didn't
Five them too much work in re,
cording another 11 strike-outs..
Despite the difference iii the
score, both teamshatt ,enlY twe
hits. •
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By R.clS. .Haugh.
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sportsman
three consecutive
The next elan lip drilled a
grounder to shortstop where
Baynham managed to force, the
runner at the plate to protept
the lead, but the next man up
hit a high eon out to oratani)
Bern in right field, Bern got
tangled his feet as he
came in to make the catch and
two runners scored before lie
managed to grab the ball.
the „second When lie was issued.
a free pass and prprtiptly stole
second base, jam Loader then
punched one back to the pox and
In attempting to get Nagle at
third, Brindley threw wild and
enabled the runner to comp
nme and Loader went to sec,
end.
The Walkerteri hurler was
called .for a balk by umpire
Ross. and Loader ecored
when Brindle, threw wild to
first trying to get Glen Stires
on another grounder.
Exeter added another tally in
the third when they picked up
their only two hits, Little Barry
l3aynham doubled to centre- and
romped home when Creech
pounded out another double right
after him.
Errors enabled Creech and
Fairbairn to cross the plate
in the fifth to up the lead to 5-0
and they came up-with another
pair in the sixth when Randy
Weber and Stires came hOMP
on an error by young, after
the two had been Issued free
passes by Craig, who relieved
in the sixth.
Creech gave up only two hits
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creech was at his best when
Exeter travelled to wap:erton
for the second game, Saturday,
as he allowed no hits in posting
a 5-1 win,
in recording the no-hitter,
the young hurler whiffed 1.5hat,
ters and wasn't in trouble until
the final liming when wildness
put three men on base and at,
counted for the one Walkerton
Graham Hem was the best at
the plate for the locals, more
than making .up for his tangled
feet incident in thp first game.
Be collected two of the seven
Exeter hits, both of them being
doubles.
Creech aided his own cause
with a pair of timely hits as
well, while John Loader, Bill
Fairbairn and Barry Baynham
had one safety each.
The Exeter Legion bantams
rode the strong right arm, of
Jim Creech te the WOAA ``P"
title this week and now advance
to the QMT34 serilirfinal round,
Creech was the sparkplegOr
the ',peals as he bounced baek to
win the final two garnes of the
best-of-three set with. Walker,
ton, after the northerners had
scored a 2,1 win in Exeter,
ThnrSdaY.
Evidence of the fine hurling
by the local mound age can be
backed by the fact he recorded
38 strikeouts in the 20 innings
he worked and allowed. Walker,
ton only five hits.
He gave up only one earned
run in the three games and had
Walkerton eating put of his
hand on his fine array of wide
curves and blazing fast halls,
Oddly enough, in the game
they managed to win, Walkerton
had to use about four pee wees
as several of their regulars
were at hoekey camps and at-
tending the CNE.
But it was those same pee
wees who gave Creech the most
trouble as they gave him a very
small target at which to aim.
Exeter jumped into a1-0 lead
in the first Inning of the Thurs-
day night game when Barry
Baynham circled the sacks after
leading off with a single. John
Loader advanced him with a bunt
single and he moved around on
walks and a passed ball to give
his squad the first run.
From then on, the game was
strictly a pitching duel between
Creech and Don Craig, whose
overhand southpaw style had
the locals mystified.
Craig struck-out 13 batters,
while Creech recorded 12.
The one-run lead appeared
to be enough for Exeter, but in
the top of the last inning Creech
ran into trouble with the small
pee wee players in the lineup.
After striking out tile first
man he loaded the bases with
ERRORS HELP
While Creech was still the
star of tile deciding game when
the locals came through with a
7-0 triumph in Exeter Monday
afternoon, Walkerton actually
gave the locals most of their
runs on errors.
Don Brindley allowed Exeter
only two hits in the game, al-
though he and his mates came
up with no less than six errors
that accounted for most of the
Exeter tallies.
Hilke Nagle started the lo-
cals on their winning ways in
Best team in WOAA "B" ranks
The Exeter bantams earned the distinction of being the best team in the WOAA "B" class this
week when they ousted Walkerton in a best-of-three final set. They now advance to the Ontario
playoffs. The names associated with those smiling faces are; back row, left to right: Gord
Baynham, coach; Jim Creech, Red Loader, coach. Centre row: Uilice Nagle, Peter Lawson,
Glenn Stires, John Loader and Bill Fairbairn. Bottom row: Rick Weber, Randy Weber, Barry
Baynharn, Graham Bern and Gary Campbell. Missing is David Burke. --T-A photo
An announcement of more than a month
ago has paid tribute to one of the finest athletes
this area has ever produced. We are speaking of
the selection of the late Charles Albert "Babe"
Siebert to the Hockey Hall of Fame,
Well known throughout all of Canada and
especially in Western Ontario, Babe was ,a glow-
ing example of a true professional athlete com-
bining good sportsmanship with natural ability,
In his second last playing year, 1937, he
was awarded the Hart trophy as the most valu-
able player in the entire NHL at a time when
many all-time stars were in action.
It was 25 years ago this past August 25
when the whole community was shocked to hear
of the tragic
drowning of Babe
Siebert in Lake
Huron near St. Jo-
seph, Known to be
an excellent swim-
mer, he was enjoy-
ing an afternoon's
swim with his two
young daughters,
Judie and Joan.
The girls were
playing with an in-
ner tube when it
was carried out in
the lake by a
breeze and when
the father attempt-
ed to recover it he
suffered c r amps
and drowned al-
most immediately.
Siebert was born in 1904 in the hamlet of
Platteville, moved with his family to Dashwood
in 1910 and a couple of years later to Zurich
where he received most of his schooling.
Although gaining most of his fame as a
top notch hockey player he was quite at home
on the baseball diamond as well. At the age of
14 and 15 he held his own on the Zurich Inter-
mediate ball club and was a valuable member
of the 1920 Zurich team that captured the North
Wellington title and the Ontario championship.
Wih Babe patrolling left field 'and adding
power from the left side of the plate, Zurich
won their own grouping that included teams
from Crediton, Clinton and Goderich. They went
on to down equally strong einbs from Woodstock
and Wingham to emerge as champs in what could
be termed an open intermediate class of ball.
After getting his hockey start in Zurich,
it was as a member of the Exeter-Zurich club
that his talents were noticed by pro scouts.
Digging through the files of the Exeter
Advocate of 1922 we find Siebert was one of the
top scorers of the Exeter-Zurich six throughout
the season.
Following is a quote from the report of a
6-5 E-Z win over Ingersoll. "McKinnon, Hoffman
and Siebert all had a share in the scoring on in-
dividual and combination work, Siebert particu-
larly did some wonderfully fast playing."
Performing in the same league for Strat-
ford at the time was another youngster who went
on to be a hockey immortal, the late Howie
Morenz.
• Babe was a standout in the 1922 OHA
semi-finals against Kitchener and the following
year was in the Kitchener juinor line-up.
Staffa rally for victory,
gain OBA final round
Staffa Merchants rapped out
five hits and scored four runs
in the final inning in Corunna,
Sunday, to pull a 9-6 win out of
the bag on the losers' home
field, The win gave the Staffa
crew the best-of-three set in
two straight games.
Staffa now meet Campbell-
ville in. the Ontario final f or
"C" honors, and the Merchants
will have their work cut out for
`them against this squad.
Area fans will recall it was
the strong Campbellville team
which ousted the Exeter Mo-
hawks back in 1962.
First game of the final set will
be played in Staffa on Saturday
afternoon at 4:30 p.m., with the
second back in Campbellville
Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
George C oveney, who did such
a fine relief lob to help win the
first game in Staffa, went all
the way in the Sunday game and
scattered six Corunna hits to
capture the win.
It was also Coveney who
started the rally when his club
had their backs against the wall
in the final inning.
The chunky righthander led
the inning off with a single and
Porky Wallace followed suit.
Gerry Bell, who was another
star of the first win with his
pitching, batting and base run-
ning, again stepped to the fore
in a hero's role when he clubbed
a double to send the two runners
across the plate.
Bill McNaught kept the rally
going with another double to
plate Bell and after Bill Kompf
and Laurie McKellar grounded
out, Bob McKellar socked a
single to account for the final
tally.
Corunna scored one run in
the final on a walk and a double
by Pelletier, but Coveney closed
the door when he got Knight to
pop out,
Staffa started the game off
on the right foot with a two-run
rally in the fifth for the first
scoring of the game, but Cor-
unna came back with three hits
in their half of the frame to
take a 4-3 lead.
Staffa regained the lead in
Coveney recorded 10 strike-
outs in the contest and walked
six batters. His mates were
charged with four errors, three
of them enabling Corunna to
score four unearned runs in
tile fifth.
Walkerton and Staffa hooked
up in the first game of the Hur-
on-Perth final in Staffa, Wed-
nesday, and battled to a 2-2 tie.
Bob Sadler was on the mound
for Staffa,
If the series is completed, it
will be the first time since
1961 when a champion of the
league has been declared. In
recent years, the various teams
have been in OBA playoffs and
have finished too late to com-
plete the league playoffs.
the sixth with three of their
own, but Corunna knotted the
count with a single marker in
the sixth to set the stage for
the exciting final inning.
Charlie Westman paced the
Mitchell attack with a triple
and single, while Wallace, Mc-
Naught and B. McKellar also had
a pair of safeties each.
Single clouts came off the
bats of Linc Rolifritsch, Cov-
eney, Bell and L. McKellar.
Kampf was the only man in the
Staffa lineup who failed to hit
safely, although he scored one
run after getting a free pass
in the sixth,
Carter and Pelletier had two
safeties each for the losers.
One of Carter's—the losing
pitcher—was a homer. •
Exeter loses first
in softball playoff
St. Clemens lumped into a
one-game lead in their best-
of-five WOAA "A" semi-final
with Exeter Lanes, Saturday,
when they scored a 4-2 win on
their home field.
It was the first time the
Exeter crew had played togeth-
er, having drawn abye in league
play, and they expect to have a
couple of workouts before play-
ing the third game in Hensall
last night (Thursday) and the
third in Exeter onSunday after-
noon.
The game featured some fine
throwing on the part of Exeter's
Gord Slaght and Russ Powell
but Jim Kew recorded the win
while holding Exeter to nine
hits and recording. 1'7 strike-
outs.
Exeter took a 1-0 lead in the
second inning when Jim Russell,
who was the top batter for the
Lanes, clubbed a leadoff homer
off Kew.
They held the lead until the
fourth when Ray Bender reach-
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Gil Burrows and came racing
in on a triple by Hinschberger.
The latter added the second un-
earned run of the game when he
scored on an overthrow,
St. Clemens added their final
two in the sixth when Hinsch-
berger connected for his sec-
ond consecutive triple to drive
in both tallies.
The Lanes threatened in the
ninth when Bill Gilfillan started
it off with a triple and came
riding in on a single by Jack
Fuller.
However, Powell went down
on strikes and the final man
lined out to the left fielder.
Besides connecting for his
homer, Russell followed up with
a single and triple for a three-
for-four night. Gilfillan had a
pair of safeties and the others
came off the bats of Red Load-
er, Simon Nagel, Fuller and
Slaght.
The Exeter lineup was as
follows: Pinder, Hoyle, Loader,
Russell, Gilfillan, Nagel, JoSey,
Fuller, Burrows, Powell and
Slaght.
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Zurich ousted
in Huron-Perth
Zurich Lumber Kings can
hang up their ball equipment
until next season having been
eliminated in the Huron-Perth
serni-finals With an 11-4 loss
to Walkerton, Monday.
The win gave the Merchants
the beat-Of-Seven series four
games to one and they will now
Meet Staffa for the group title.
Zurich have also been Misted
from OBA 4•4 D" play, losing
a best-of-three set to Wilkes-
port in two straight.
ken McLean paced the Walk-
erton attack oh their hoMe field
with a dbuble and two ainglea.
Duffy Obright had a triple and
single.
Larr y Bedard picked up a
triple to pace Zurich, Who gain,
ed only foi r hits off the slants
of Steineff:
Don O'Brien gave up a total
of 14 hits to the winners.
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He also played one year of senior hockey
in Niagara Falls before turning to pro ranks in
1925 with the Montreal Maroons. His 14 year
stint in the National hockey league was a suc-
cess from start to finish and at his untimely
death was beginning what undoubtedly would
have been just as successful a coaching career.
In the summer of 1939, only months be-
fore his death, Babe was appointed coach of the
Montreal Canadiens, the last of the four teams
that he performed with as a pro.
In between his sojourns with the two Mon-
treal clubs, Siebert saw service with the New
York Rangers and Boston Bruins. As a Bruin he
was one-half of probably the most rugged de-
fence combinations in NHL history, His regular
blue-line partner was none other than the hard
rock Eddie Shore.
During his term in the NHL, Babe devel-
oped one of the hardest shots in the league, in
the days before the advent of the slap shot. As
both a left winger and defenceman, he scored
140 goals and assisted on 159 others for a grand
points total of 299.
On three different occasions he was
named to the first all-star squad in addition to
his Hart trophy triumph.
One Saturday night during the peak of
his playing career, Babe was honoured by the
many sports fans in the area. More than 300
loyal supporters boarded a special train for a
game in Toronto that Babe was particpating. A
gesture of his on this special occasion shows the
fine sportsmanship and personality that was the
Babe's.
After the game, at the railway station in
Toronto, while holding up the departure of his
own train for a Sunday -encounter in Chicago,
Babe personally shook hands with everyone of
the fans who made the trip from the Zurich-Hen-
sall-Exeter-Dashvvood area.
We would like to convey our congratula-
tions on Babe Siebert's nomination to the Hockey
Pall of Fame to his wife and daughter living in
Kitchener, another daughter in California and his
brother Bill, now the postmaster at Zurich.
Our sincere thanks for some of this hack.
ground information goes to a former schoolmate
and fellow athlete of Babe's in the village of Zur-
ich, Leroy O'Brien,
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Bantam action
The photo at the left shows the
long and the short of it in the
Egeter-walkerton bantam final
in WOAA play. That's big Da-
vid Burke towering over aW0.1-
kerton player at first. While
not all the Visitors were dwarf-
ed, there Were several pee Wee
players inthe lineup for the first
gene in EXeter and they ac-
counted for their team's 2-1 will
as JIM Creech had trouble find-
ing the small strike-zone On
theta and walked three Of them
in the final Inning when they
scored all their Muria. Photo
at the bettotii siloWS Exeter's
Graham Bern Making a Safe
steal attempt of third base.
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