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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-09-07, Page 6LEAD TIGER WIN — The Dashwood Tigers moved to the Ontario Baseball Association Intermediate "D" finals over the weekend with a double win over Brigden. Important cogs in the wins were the three fellows shown above. From the left, Pete Ravelle with two homers in the Friday game; Dave Ratz, Sunday's winning pitcher and Bill Schade who contributed two home runs in the final contest. BALL TOURNEY CAPTAINS — A very successful ball tournament was staged at Kirkton Monday for boys and girls teams entered in the Usborne minor leagues. Captains of the four teams making the final rounds are shown above with the Ross Francis CIAG Insurance and the Parker and Parker Drainage trophies. They are, from the left, Gary Skinner, Elimville; Maurice Ruston, South Hibbert; Cheryl Gricken, Granton and Barbara Miller, Thames Road. T-A photo First game at home Tigers in OBA final O.K. Used Cars 1971 AUSTIN AMERICA 1300 coach, 19655 miles. Lic. 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After The Soviet Unions' decisive win over Team Canada in the opening game of what could be called the World Series of Hockey, the Monday night win for the best in the National Hockey league certainly proved that one game doesn't mean the outcome of the entire series. On the district sport front, the Dashwood Tigers pilled a switch about similar to the Canadian hockey team. In the first game of their OBA opening round playoffs the Tigers lost 19-6 to Brigden and for all intent and purposes should have been written off. This was not the case as the Dashwood club evened the series Friday night with a 19-11 win and came back Sunday with a very convincing 11-3 decision to move along the playoff trail. Getting back to the current world hockey series, Team Canada proved Monday night that professional athletes have the ability to adapt their. playing abilities to the methods needed to counteract the opposition's power. Harry Sinden and John Ferguson were able to devise a system to neutralize most of the Soviet plays which were so successful Saturday night. Forechecking is an important part of a winning hockey club and this was clearly demonstrated Monday night. The Canadians with persistent checking were forcing the Russians to make mistakes in their own end and several goals resulted, We won't say too much here about the series to date. Several area hockey fans were at Monday's game in Toronto and a story elsewhere in this issue will carry their comments of the series. We've heard many fans give excuses for the opening game loss, such as lack of conditioning, not playing together before, performing under international rules for the first time, etc. There shouldn't be any excuses, the best hockey team won and should have full credit for their win, The Russians outskated, outhustled and outbumped the Canadians. Coach Harry Sinden can't be faulted for his choice of players in the first game. They probably were not the best to play against the Soviet type of hockey but they showed better promise in practice sessions. The balance of the series should provide the best brand of hockey ever seen anywhere in the world. Each coach will be adjusting his game plans from game to game in an attempt to cover up weak points. This could be seen in Monday's game and we wouldn't be surprised if Russian coach Bobrov is able to change some of the pattern of his team. In an excellent hockey special put out by the Toronto Star last Friday coach Harry Sinden pointed out three things his club had to do in order to stop the Russians. These were in his words, "dogged, ceaseless forechecking; bodychecking and defensive poise." Sinden's philosophy was correct but his team couldn't put his advice into practice in the opening game as the Russians were allowed to control the game and set the pace. The Canadian coach had said, "We have to break up their short passing game by taking out the man making the pass so he can't get it back. Also, our guys might be tempted to chase them around our own zone." An interesting game Ball fans in the area will have the opportunity to take in an exciting and interesting ball game and help a worthy cause at the same time. Friday night, September 15, the London Dukes will be in Hensall at 8:15 to perform in an exhibition contest with all proceeds going to aid the Cystic Fibrosis fund. Dick Ha mes, a member of the world champion Richmond Hill team is manager of the London team. Due to injuries Ha mes will not be in action in the game but the rest of the Dukes will be on the diamond. Included in the Dukes line-up will be a former star of Hensall ball and hockey teams, Bill Shaddick. The opposition for the Dukes will be supplied by Hensall of the Exeter Rec fastball league. TA Ball Quiz Answers to last week's questions — The three New York Yankees to win the American league most valuable player award two years in a row were Yogi Berra, 1954-55; Mickey Mantle, 1956.57 and Roger Maris, 1960-6 I, Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dogers stole 104 bases in 1962 to set an all-time major league record. • Questions — Which pitcher holds the record for the most consecutive strike-outs and which pitcher holds the strike-out record for one season? single and came in to score as John Hayter was safe on an error. The Dashwood lead stretched to five runs in the fourth frame. Hartman was hit by a pitch to start a fotir On rally, Bob Hoff- man drew a walk and both scored 4s the result of John Hayter's long double. Hayter scored moments later on Schade's second round tripper of the night, — Please turn to Page 7 Hogarth winner in lawn bowling In the only regular jitney of the week at the Exeter lawn bowling club, Gordon Hoggarth took top honours Tuesday night with two wins, a plus of 18 and aggregate of 34, Russ Snell placed second with a record of two victories, a plus of 15 and 28 aggregate while Lillian Pym followed in third position on the strength of a plus of 12 and aggregate of 30 to go with a double win. A new bowler this year, Barry Reid was in fourth spot. He scored a plus of 10 and aggregate of 25 along with two wins, Completing the prize list in fifth and sixth spots, respectively were Olive Harvey and Mabel Glenn. Saturday night's regular play was washed out by the weatherman. Thursday night the Exeter and Mitchell clubs got together for a friendly match with 38 bowlers participating. OBA Intermediate "D" FINAL 1ST GAME Walsingham Senators VS Dashwood Tigers DASHWOOD ATHLETIC FIELD Fri., Sept. 8 8:00 p.m. If If Monday night's performance is any indication of what is to come for the balance of the World hockey championships Team Canada should be successful, That's the opinion of the close to a dozen local people fortunate enough to be in attendance at Maple Leaf Gardens Monday night. All agreed it was a top notch Hold tourney at Kirkton The Kirkton athletic field was a busy spot Monday as the boys and girls divisions of the Usborne bantam softball league held tournaments. The final game in the girls section provided a real thriller with Thames Road hanging on to edge Granton 13 - 12. Thames Road received the Parker and Parker Drainage trophy. The boys championship and the Ross Francis CIAG Insurance trophy went to Elimville who downed South Hibbert 20 - 13 in the final contest, The boys consolation cham- pionship was won by Hurondale with an 8 - 5 win over Thames Road. The Elimville girls cap- tured the consolation title with a 16 - 15 decision over Hurondale. Both consolation trophies were donated by Junior and Leona Doupe and family, operators of the booth this summer at the Kirkton athletic field. In first round play in the boys section Elimville downed Thames Road 12 - 3 and South Hibbert edged Hurondale 7 - 5. The first round girls scores were Thames Road over Hurondale 25 - 2 and Granton over Elimville by a score of 12 6. An exhibition game to wind up the day's activities provided a lot of excitement, The Kirkton - Woodharn Combines and the Nairn Royals played to a 4 - 4 tie in a game called after 10 innings because of cold weather. Members of the Usborne minor ball executive are John Miners, Russell Ferguson, Sam Skinner,,, Jim Miller, Les Parnell, Bill Morley, Ross HodgertandCharlie Glanville. hockey game but Canada must continue their persistent forechecking to contain the Soviets. Ron Bogart of town expressed the sentiments of most of the Exeter area spectators at the game when he said, "It was the best hockey game for a full sixty minutes I have ever seen." Bogart who saw the game with his son Dave of the Exeter Broncos novice hockey team When asked of the outcome said the series could go either way but felt the Canadians could win if they kept up the ft:rechecking shown Monday night. Lorne Kleinstiver of Dashwood described the game as "tremendous, the Canadians were superb." He said Team Canada played as a unit. "The only time we stopped forechecking, the Soviets scored," Kleinstiver continued, "The Russians are tremendous skaters and superb puck han- dlers. Tony Esposito saved Canada in the first period with excellent goal tending." "The Canadian forechecking broke up their patent passing plays and at times the visitors looked confused," Kleinstiver's only prediction was, "Canada will win a fair share of the games." Lorne Haugh of Exeter was a little more optimistic. lIe predicted Canada will take the balance of the games at home and in the final half of the series, "The Russians might win one. Bobby Orr will make the '4dif- ference in Russia." Re continued, "that was great hockey. The Russians are fast skaters, can break quickly and are always on the move. Even in warm-ups they never stood We should win the rest of the games here. In Russia we will have to be that much better." Those were the comments of Bob Down who watched the game with his wife Pat. The Downs were thrilled with the tension of the game and the atmosphere of the crowd indicating everybody was keyed up on every play. Down said the Russian coach tried his best in switching lines to keep his ace forward Valery Kharlamov away from the checking of Ron Ellis. Lloyd Hodgins of town said as a prediction, "it's not going to be a runaway. We might lose one or two more games." Roy Westcott of Usborne township, another local spectator at the game thinks Team Canada will win the series. "The Canadian team certainly made successful adjustments after the first game and I think they can do it again if necessary." Teem Canada should win is fans of local tans The Dashwood Tigers displayed their usual form over the weekend in reaching the Ontario Baseball Association Intermediate `D' finals. After dropping the first game of a best-of-three semi-final series to Brigden by a resounding 19 - 6 score a week earlier, the Tigers showed their usual good come-back powers by winning two straight on their home diamond. Ball season ends for Crediton kids The baseball season in Crediton came to a close Monday af- ternoon with a picnic for the players and parents of the three minor ball clubs. The lucky draw on the television set sponsored by the minor ball clubs was won by Gerry Smith. A highlight of the day was the awarding of trophies to the most valuable, most improved players and the highest batting average of each of the pee wee, bantam and midget clubs. The most improved player trophies went to Robert Bush- field, Dale Dinney and Ron Funston, Mark Cronyn, Larry Clarke . and Rick Bowers were named the most valuable to their teams and the highest batting averages were accumulated by Rodger Finkbeiner and Matt Muller To wind-up the day's festivities, the midget team downed the Crediton firemen in an exhibition softball game, Friday night with a large crowd on hand, the Tigers squared the series by gaining a 19 - 11 win in a game which lasted well over three hours. The third and deciding game was played Friday night and the Tigers had little trouble in posting a 11 - 3 victory and gaining the OBA final round. The first game of the all- Ontario final will be played in Dashwood Friday night at eight o'clock with old-time rivals of the Tigers, the Walsingham Senators providing the opposition. The second contest will be played back in Walsingham Sunday afternoon at four o'clock, Tiger manager Glenn Webb said Wednesday morning that the length of the series had not been determined but it could be three- out of five. Good Pitching Tiger captain Dave Ratz went the full nine inning route in getting the all-important final win over Brigden. Ratz game up only four hits and walked but two batters as he was in control of the situation all the way. The home run ball was the big difference 'in the game. Dash- wood second baseman Bill Schade cracked out two homers to lead his team-mates 13 hit attack. After Brigden went ahead with two runs in the top of the first inning, Schade smashed his first home run in the bottom of the same inning with John Hayter on the bases. The Tigers went ahead to stay in the second frame when Gary Hartman singled with one out, moved to third on Bob Hoffman's EXETER Men's Bowling LEAGUE Commences Play Monday and Wednesday Sept. 1 1 and 13 Captains will be notified of starting time 4, 4 5)