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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-04-25, Page 6Complete Line of Now In Stock Jerry MacLean & Son. AUTOMOTIVE LTD. Exeter 235-0800 Our store is big enough to serve your needs . . , but small enough to be friendly. BALL PLAYERS "Play With A Winner" THE STRATFORD KRAVEN KNITS Major Senior Intercounty Finalists in 1973 Are Holding a "Meet The Manager Afternoon" Saturday, April 27 3:30 p.m. WINDSOR HOTEL, STRATFORD All positions on the club are open The Exeter Centennial Soccer Club Presents Soccer Day and Registration Sat., April 27 10 a.m. EXETER ARENA Minors play in a 6-aside tournament Movies between games Refreshments Available Exeter Minor Hockey Association ANNUAL MEETING To elect officers for the coming year and discuss other business pertaining to the organization Thursday, April 25 7:30 p.m. EXETER ARENA Anyone interested in minor hockey is urged to attend. 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Licence DPV108, 2895 2395 895 9 995 995 4550- 195 Many Other MOdels To Choose From Snell Bros. limited Chevrolet -- Oldsmobile PHONE 235-0660 EXETER, ONT, The Home Of Guardian Maintenance Hustlers win lucon bowling .P490 4 Times-Advpcpre, April 25, 1974 FOR GPO() SPORTS lay Ross Hau911 More awards A recent article in the Toronto Star listed some player selections as picked, by coaches of the National Hockey league teams, Bobby Clarke of the Philadelphia Flyers was named the hardest worker arid the best checker and was selected as the best penalty killer along with Walt Tkaczuk, Craig Ramsay and Peter Mahovlich. Tkaczuk was also named the most underrated player. Rick Martin and Phil Esposito were chosen as having the best shot and Dennis Hill the hardest, Stan Mikita picked off three awards as the best on faceoffs, smartest player and best playmaker. The best skater was Bobby Orr and the best fighter was Dan Maloney. Most dangerous around the goal and the league's most valuable was Phil Esposito. Bill White was selected as the best defensive defenceman and Barclay Plager as the best bodychecker. The best young player award went to Gil Perreault and Dick Redmond and Dave Burrows were tied as the most im- proved. Named the best goalies were Tony Esposito and Bernie Parent and Dennis Potvin the best rookie and Fred Shero and Billy Reay shared the coaching honours. Who was selected as the most colorful player in the NHL? Anybody wish to venture a guess. That's right, No. 23 on your program and No. 1 in your heart, none other than Eddie Shack. If anyone is interested Art Skov was named the best referee by the coaches edging out Lloyd Gilmour. The Hustlers. have won the 14cpu men's bowling league grand .championship after winning the "A" GlivW011vrown. The Rex, .teaM won the league title and the Bar Six were best in the "IV division, The annual banquet when trophies will be presented will be held Friday night of this week at 7 p.m. at the Luean Legion hall. LADIES GOLF The Exeter ladies golf club held a luncheon meeting -Tuesday to organize for the .coming season. The ladies will play Tuesdays at MOO a.m. and 5-6 p.rn,; weather permitting from now on. New members are very welcome. Contact Edna Busche 235-0613 for information. HATS FOR HAT TRICKS --$At Wednesday's wind-up banquet for the Exeter Bronco atom hockey team three players received hats for scoring hat tricks during the season, Above, coach Ron Horn makes the presen- tations to Mike Taylor, Rick Lindenfield and David Bell. T-A photo Hiller again This may be getting to be a little repetitious but here we go again with another report on the progress of John Hiller with the Detroit Tigers. Hiller was a big hit with most of those who attended the 1974 Crippled Children's Sportsmen's dinner in Exeter spon- sored by the Lions club. His attitude towards sport and his job with the Tigers was very refreshing in this day and age when most performers are concerned about the money they receive. At the March dinner here Hiller told us he signed his 1974 contract after only five minutes of discussion with management. He said, "sure, I probably could have got a bigger contract, but I'm only interested in providing my family with a comfortable living." The fact he suffered a severe heart attack only a couple of years ago makes his recent accomplishments more out- standing. In Sunday's game against Milwaukee, Tiger manager Ralph Houk called on Hiller with one out in the sixth inning and the score tied at 4-4. The lefthander originally from Scarborough, Ontario, did the job he was called on to do.He squelched a Milwaukee rally and went on to allow only one more run in the next eight innings. That's right, the game went to the 14th inning with the Tigers winning 5-4 and Hiller was the winning pitcher. The triumpl icIphn's third, straight of the year. He now has allowed i niy: one run in about 16 innings of ielief work. Boys may .till register Registration for the coming season for the Exeter Minor Soccer Association continues Saturday at the Exeter arena. Any youngster wishing to sign up will be taken care of by members of the executive anytime after 10 a.m. when Soccer Day begins. Soccer games with six players on each side will be played throughout the day. Instructional films will also be shown and refreshments will be available. Ron Helm coach of the Exeter Centennials senior soccer club is holding practices tonight, Thursday and Monday night at 6:30 p.m, The practices will be held at South Huron District High School if weather permits and if not at the arena. The first game for the Cen- tennials in the London and district league is scheduled for May 5. Anyone wishing to try out for the team will be more than welcome. TROPHY WINNING BRONCOS — The 1973-74 season for the Exeter Broncos officially closed Wednesday night with a banquet. In the above picture, Ron Bogart presents the most valuable player award to David Bell. At the right is the club's most improved player Edward Willis. T-A photo Positions open on Kraven club Any ball players in the area wishing to try their hand at the Senior Intercounty level are invited to work out with the Stratford Kraven Knits. .Clark Hayman publicist for the Kraven Knits has announced a "Meet the Manager Afternoon" at the Winclgor Hotel in Stratford Saturday afternoon April 27 at 3:30 p.m. At the same time Hayman said all positions on the club are open. The Kraven Knits were Major Senior Intercounty finalists in 1973. Dart finals on Friday PACKERS WIN ZURICH BOWLING — The Packers emerged as champions of the Zurich ladies bowling league, Back, left, Leona Rader, Marion Rader, Marg Clarke and Nellie Trott. Front, Frances Gibson, Mona Kraft, Anne Oesch and Elaine Weida. T-A photo Teams still in contention for the Exeter Legion mixed dart league championship have been reduced to four. The four remaining teams will compete Friday night in the semi-finals beginning at eight o'clock with the ,finals taking place immediately afterward. The Dart Sharks and Dark Angels who were battling for first i place most of the season will meet in one semi-final set while the BJ's and BA's will meet in the other. The annual league banquet will be held at the Exeter Legion Hall on Saturday May 18. "ist 4 GOOD DAY FOR FISHING — Sunday's weather provided an excellent opportunity for area youngsters to fish for suckers in the Ausable River in Riverview Park. Shown above are Mark Vandergunst, Dave Jackson and Chuck Windsor. T-A photo Winning isn't everything We read over the weekend of an interesting ancl different minor hockey tournament held at the Dixie Gardens in the Toronto area. It was a novice invitational tourney but the winner went home empty handed, It's not that the organizers have anything against winning, but a part of Mississauga hockey league's continuing resistance to the image of minor hockey as a high pressure winning is everything interim between the cradle and pro hockey. Players — there were more than 1,200 of them don't receive anything for winning their games until the cham- pionship round. Instead players whose teams are eliminated from competition are presented with small trophies. Emphasis is taken off playing the game just to win. Assistant chairman Len Barrett said "we want the kids to go home remembering the tournament by the amount of fun they had." We agree completely with this philosophy. These kids in question are all eight years of age or younger and this is probably the only time they will be allowed to play hockey for the fun of it. The whole operation of the Dixie tournament is geared to avoid putting pressure on the paperweight puck chasers. The series is spread over nine days which means none of the 64 teams play more than one game a day. Participation is stressed with the stipulation that every coach who enters a team must dress at least 14 players. A request from one coach whose attitude wasn't in accord with officials was turned down. Chairman John Howell said "this coach was out to do nothing but win so he wanted to enter a team with only two lines of really good kids. His team made the consolation finals last year but this year he said "we don't come back to play consolations, we're just interested in championships. Barring super teams like this eliminates outright domination of the tournament. It also gives players of lesser calibre a chance to play. Some are remarkably smooth skaters, others play shin- ny. Some weigh nearly 100 pounds others barely make 60 pounds. Some wear expensive custom equipment while others peer through ventilating slits of a helmet he will someday grow into. But the goal of fun is still attained and despite' the difference in talent the game seldom develops into a scrap. Some of the boys still need to get used to the idea that it isn't the winners who get the trophies, While trophies Were being presented to one of the losing teams one of the players commented, "Mister, you got the wrong team." We would hope that this attitude will not only be con- tinued by novice hockey officials but carried on for another year or two in the lives of all young hockey players. The time will seem all too long when they are expected to do nothing but win regardless of the fun aspect. Trophies 50% Off * * * See Us For Your Soccer, Ball, Tennis and Spring Sport Requirement H & K SPORT CENTRE Trophies - Engraving Sporting Goods MAIN ST, EXETER 235.1261 Sunseti beaten The bid by the Belmont Sunsets to bring the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" championship to Western Ontario has failed, The sunsets were defeated four games to two by Stayner. We saw only the first game of the series but in that one Stayner appeared to be a well balanced and well dis- ciplined team. The thing we liked about the Stayner club was their behaviour in not retaliating when bumped around. They seetned to be content to stick to hockey despite any rough stuff and this is probably the reason they won the cham- pionship,