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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-10-10, Page 6Time for an interview While the last couple of hours before an important World Series game are busy for all participants, they do take time out to talk to reporters and those fortunate enough to have field passes, Above, T-A sports editor, Ross Haugh, is shown chatting with Jim Northrup of the Tigers, shortly before Monday's fifth game against the Cardinals. South Huron footballers gain second wins of year Both defensive teams were tough in the firgt half as the scoreboard failed to show a single score. The Panthers lost 55 yards in penalties in the second quarter alone. The third period was about eight minutes old when Barry Baynham grabbed a Scott Burton pass and romped for 13 yards to the Parkhill goal line and the first South Huron score. Only a few moments later the Panther lead was increased to 8-0 when a Parkhill backfielder was grounded behind his goal line after picking up his own fumble. In the final quarter, the South Huron offensive team came alive and took only seven plays to move into paydirt after Tom Prout had returned the kickoff to his own 53. Baynham and Prout started the march with consecutive runs of 14 and 17 yards and Jim Hayter completed the move , down the Meld ,with 'a one yard plunge fcir',:the Tinal'major score ;' of the day for the Panthers. About four plays later, a 30 yard forward pass put the only six Parkhill points of the game op the board. /7 "They say he's wanted in six countries!" Both South Huron District High School football clubs off to a flying start in exhibition play scored their second consecutive wins in regular Huron-Perth Conference play last week, but had plenty of trouble before finishing in front on the scoreboard. Ron Bogart's senior Panthers scored a 14-6 win over North Middlesex of Parkhill while the juniors edged Goderich 8-7. In the next league action, Stratford Central will visit the local high school football field this afternoon, Thursday ,for a doubleheader with the local teams. EXTRA POINT WINS In the South Huron 8-7 junior win over Goderich it was a case of not only an extra point, but an extra, extra point that gave the locals coached by Doug Ellison, the win. The Goderich youngsters scored converted touchdown on 4he first play'of the game to go ahead 7-0. Late in the third quarter, taking advantage of a Goderich fumble, South Huron backfield ace, Mike Seniuk romped over for a major score to cut the Goderich lead to 7-6. At this point, coach Ellison instructed quarterback Randy Decker to try a pass for the *convert which is good for two points. Brian Campbell was able to make the grab for the extra, extra point and put his club out in front by a single point. OVERCOME PENALTIES The senior Panthers were able to overcome almost the distance of a football field in penalties to down the H—P's new senior team from Parkhill 14.6. The local squad was penalized a total of 105 yards while the home Parkhill club was assessed only 10 yards in infractions of the rules. BA's take lead in Rec ball final The Exeter -BA's took a one game lead in the best-of-five Exeter and district Rec league softball finals with a convincing 11-3 win over the Legion at the local ball diamond, Tuesday. The BA's eliminated`Crediton Tigers and the Kinsmen to reach the loop final round while the Legion received a bye after finishing on' top in the regular schedule. The winners scored three times in the first inning and were never headed. They picked up a total of 10 hits from the offerings of Legion hurler Don Mousseau. Doug Kennedy in gaining the BA pitching win allowed but three, well scattered hits and struck out four. Season ends for bowlers I. • • •••• A* 4. r. Members of the Exeter Lawn Bowling Club closed out their regular season at the local greens, Tuesday with a pot luck supper preceding the twice-weekly jitney. In the final outing Len McKnight proved to be the best cOmpetitor compiling two wins, a plus of 19 and aggregate of 31, Wilf Shapton was a cloge second with the same intmber of wins and plus as the winner but a lower aggregate of 21, Art Cahn placed third on the Strength of two wins, a plus of 8 and aggregate of 18. Mabel McKnight and Harold Patterson finished in fourth and fifth places, respectively, Brock Gibson exciting, We spent four days in Detroit in the middle of the Fall Classic atmosphere and it was exciting to say the least, From a Tiger standpoint, only one game was thrilling but it was a real privilege to watch outstanding ban players like Lou Brock and Bob Gibson. Our press privileges at Tiger Stadium were terrific. Although, we did not receive the same consideration some of the larger papers did we were quite happy with our accommodation. Members of the Detroit Chapter of the Baseball Writers of America were hosts to the visiting pressmen and they did a wonderful job m taking care of everyone. We were located in the third deck press box in right field, about twenty feet in foul territory and had a clear view of the whole field. In reporting on the series, we won't say too much about the games themselves, but confine our comments' to some of the sidelights and interviews, with players and celebrities that we were able to listen in on. Saturday we stayed in our press box seat throughout the whole day, but arrived at the park early Sunday morning and were able to get down to the field and join the large group of reporters. Most of the attention was centred around Mickey Lolich who has given the Tigers a pair of wins against the Cardinals and has surprised everyone, including himself with his hitting abilities. Mickey was being asked about a statement in which he was supposed to have called Lou Brock a "showboat." The Tiger ace left hander said, "I never said such a thing. I have been in baseball long enough to know you can't talk about an opposing player like that." Lolich was asked about Brock's base running. "He's the best I've ever seen. No one in the American league can compare with him. About the best way to describe his base running abilities is to say he gets a jump on the pitcher and then just outruns the baseball." In the second game in St. Louis, Lolich appeared to have Brock picked off first, but the speedy Redbird broke for second and beat Norm Cash's relay. About this particular play, Lolich said, "I thought we had him and then the next thing I knew he was on second. Did I fool him on my move or did he fool me? That is a good question." Asked if Brock is a distraction to a pitcher, Lolich said, "Sure he is. Nobody wants to be embarrassed by a fellow continually stealing bases on you, but you can't forget about the hitter, either. The main objective is to retire the, batter. If Brock steals second and third and you are able to get the batters out his speed doesn't hurt you that much." Someone then remarked, What if he steals home? and Lolich replied "He might do that, too, the way he has been running." Theinbject-then switched to the other Cardinal ace, Bob Gibson and Lolich said, "That fellow is a pitcher's pitcher. I like to sit back and watch a good hurler throw, not second guess him, but comment on his technique. This guy is about like Whitey Ford of the Yankees was." Mickey went on to say, "Gibson is an accomplished athlete most pitchers aren't. Most of them can only throw a baseball, they can't run, field or hit or, play well at a variety of other sports. I've been told he could make the grade in pro football o r basketball. Put me on a football field and they would kill me." Gibson proved Lolich to be quite right a few hours later when he became the first World Series pitcher to hit two home runs by opening the Cardinal fourth with a long blast over the fence. Lolich was jokingly asked about his home run in St. Louis and he said, "That's a different story, the ball just hit my bat." This had been verified earlier by Tim McCarver who said if Lolich hadn't got his bat in the way the ball would have hit him on the helmet. "I was trying not to strike out and I got a lucky break. I couldn't believe my eyes when the ball kept sailing out and then my ears when coach Wally Moses yelled it was out of the park. I've got to confess I got so excited that I missed tagging first and had to come back. Heck, that's a new experience for me. Turning left at first base, I mean. I'm more accustomed to turning right and heading back for the bench," added Lolich, SUNDAY WAS WET Sunday's game turned out to be somewhat of a farce with the Tigers trying to stall things and the Cards trying to hurry along to the fifth inning when the game would be official if it was called. The Tigers were slow, to come out of the dugout for their turn on the field in the fourth and fifth and Willie Horton went to his bench to wipe his bat with a two and two count on him. This brought a protest from the St. Louis bench. Mayo Smith got his chance to complain in the fifth when Javier was easily thrown out at second on an attempted steal. This brought on a conference with both Managers and the men in blue and apparently stopped the bush leagUe tactics. The wet weather of Sunday provided a lot of interesting things to talk about. When the game was suspended in the third inning, the fans in the centre field bleachers began to chant, "We want rain, we want rain, soak it-to-em-Tigers" and put up lots of applause When the grOund crew dragged out the tarpaulin. A lot of the bleacherites were equipped with umbrellas and we have never seen as many different color's of rain protectors. The rain was so consistent and heavy throughout most of the game grounding the numerous pigeons that usually fly around the park. Some of this Column is being written froth the press room of the Sheraton-Cadillat hotel in Detroit and is quite a different atmosphere from a quiet Sunday evening at the 'rimesAdvocate, Looking around, we see at least 30 SpOrtS writers from practically around the world banging Out their Monday copy and 20 Western Union girls sending out the messages on teletype, That staternent of reporters from- around the World may' be a little stretched but their were two Rgin spOils fourth: game from Japan in for the Sunday game. Our next door neighbours were Al Halberstadt from Preston, Ray Boucher of Blind River and Paul, Leonard from Sault Ste. Marie, Most of our companions in the two rows of the right field deck were fellow Canadians. We also ran into Dean Robinson of Stratford, Bruce Huff of the Free Press and fellows from Woodstock and Galt. All told, 150 Canadian representatives of the communication media were in attendance of a total number of 700. Some 400 request for press privileges were turned down. Watson Spoelstra of the Detroit Free Press and chairman of press accommodations told ' us every request from Canada was granted. Spoelstra said, "The Commissioner wasn't too happy with the large number we allowed press privileges, but we tried to take care of all we could. Last year in Boston only 600 privileges were given out." While we were supposed to be restricted to the press box, we can certainly understand that it would be virtually impossible to have 700 people running around the field and entering the clubhouse. One of our new friends, Ray Boucher of Blind river happened to be on the field when the rain started before game time. We didn't ask him how he got there. The showers came quite quickly and Ray was near the Tiger dugout so he just headed for the nearest shelter and spent the next half hour sitting between Joe Sparma and Bill Freehan. CHANGED TICKET PLANS Some of the area fans that sent requests to Detroit for World Series tickets may be interested in how the ticklish situation was handled. We were able to find out that the Tiger front office had intended in sticking with their original policy of accepting orders on a first-come-first-served basis. Over zealous post office employees at Grand Rapids, Michigan stamped all requests early on the evening of Sunday, September 22 and they were in Detroit before three o'clock in the morning. It normally takes at least four hours to send mail between the two cities. Tiger ticket manager Norman Otto said the first three bags of mail opened were from Grand Rapids. "If we had continued our original plans, most of the fans at the three games would have been from Grand Rapids," added Otto. All letters were then left in the mail bags until Wednesday morning when the impartial drawing started. Otto also said it could take as long as three weeks to return all the money orders and cheques. He has two shifts of 12 girls each working daily, opening mail. Incidentally, Mayor Cavanaugh of Detroit received 200 tickets for each of the three ganies. As far as we know now Elmer Bell, Joe Wooden, Jim Fairbairn, Gord Baynham and Gerry Webb were the only Exeter fans at any of the games. GOOD DAY, MONDAY Monday proved to be our best day in more ways than one. The weather at game time was much improved over Sunday, the Tigers won and we were able to talk to many of the players and celebrities before the game started. One of the most colorful, characters to ever play in the big leagues, Jerome "Dizzy" Dean was front and centre for most reporters, Monday morning. Dizzy, who is never at a loss for words and greets everyone with "Howdy, pardner;" was asked to compare the current St. Louis Cardinals with the championship club of 1934. "Red's team of this year is a better all-round club than ours of 34 years ago. Possibly, only Frankie Frisch and Ducky Medwick stood out better in their positions than the players of today," added Dizzy. He said this year's Cardinal team with their daring base running, led by Lou Brock compares favourably in their colorful play with the old Gas House Gang. Dean said that Pepper Martin was the only player he had ever seen that slid on his stomach and broke his belt during a World Series game. He went on to say that in this particular game play had to be stopped to allow a belt replacement for Martin. Every interview eventually got around to Lou Brock and Bob Gibson. When Dean was asked how he would operate with Brock on first base, he replied, "First of all I would never allow him on base, but if it ever happened I would throw the ball to the plate and then back up the third baseman." Dean, who was the last 30 game winner in the majors until Denny McLain achieved the feat this year said Gibson is the greatest pitcher of all time. "Gibson has the take-charge attitude out on the mound. Control is his big asset. Not many pitchers can throw to a batter's power and strike him out, but Gibson can," added Dean. A FEW MISSING While attendance was listed at 53,634 for each of the three games in Detroit, we did see a couple of empty seats each day. This was probably due to tickets that were confiscated by police. At least a half dozen arrests were made on Thursday and Friday for scalping. Prices as high as $50 were being asked for reserved grandstand seats by fellows trying to make a fast dollar. The downtown hotel area was well covered by plainclothes policemen. Several 'of the arrests came about when scalpers approached these men in trying to get rid of their high priced ducats. We walked around the outide of the stadium several times to see if anyone ass offering tickets for sale, but found only the reverse, being asked many times iLastweekend, one of the downtown Detroit hotels ywas the scene of a Funeral Director's convention, This prornpted one wag to suggest they came tO "bu the Cards." After the first inning, Monday, mostfans would have admitted the other team was ready for burial. Two clubs. tied. at top of.,..darts After in ,second . weekof VQPWPOtiPn. e Exeter :Legion mixed. ,.dart league. a tie. fer'firO .plagn exists between the cleaners' .444 tThirPj..PS,_ Each came hack with n t hree point PerfP.PPOPPe. fticlPy to 04190 for top spot in the popular 11Pagne .after compiling "four points .apiece on PPOPPIO night. Individual.scores. obtained in opening night, action continued to heidetter two weeks of play, Eric Heywood's. 140 is best in the .men's section while 132 tossed by Ann ,Rorunninic•js best for theladies. 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Limited • PhOne. n 5 '066t) 'CHEVROLET' 'OLDSMOBiLE Exeter The. Home of Guardian :Moitilettott6 • E 'WEE PARING'. At BACK OF OUR' LOTbU Iktd. ROAti Thrilling Series in Detroit' .By TA ,SPP fiT$ EDITOR, R(?$$ (JOH sm,•••.&,•-• Page 6 Timos-Advocato, October 10, 1968 is