Times-Advocate, 1979-02-14, Page 8Page 8 Times-Advocate, February 14, 1979 Pee wees out Atoms lose twice
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Spotlight
By Ross Haugh
Cheers ga lore
Three cheers, hurrah, congratulations and all that
stuff.
Those superlatives are not enough to describe
Tuesday’s sixth annual Exeter Lions club dinner. The
local Lions club raised about $5,000 to help the cause of
crippled children.
Our standing ovation goes not only to the Lions
and the long list of well known celebrities, but, to
those in attendance who paid their $25 to help the
cause.
The highlight of the evening as far as the financial
end of it was concerned came during an auction of two
autographed footballs and a soccer ball. With grid
stars J.D. Hill of the Detroit Lions and Western’s
Jamie Bone handling the auctioneering chores more
than $1,300 was raised to go along with the dinner
proceeds.
A similar auction of two footballs the night before
at the London dinner with most of the same guests in
attendance raised only $360.
The footballs went to Nelson Monteith and Gerald
McBride for $355 and the local accounting firm of
Norris and Gee for $375. The soccer ball and a sweater
produced intense bidding. The articles were finally
knocked down to Consolidated Lighting of Crediton for
$550.
Trying to pick out the best speaker of the night is
an almost impossible task. Battling for the top spot
would be the headline speaker Bob Bragan, Lions J.D.
Hill and Canada’s grand old man of hockey Frank
Selke Sr.
Bragan, one of the old Brooklyn Dodgers was
barely silent throughout the entire event. He was at
the press reception at 5 p.m. and kept many observers
including this writer thoroughly entertained with his
jokes and riddles.
His official speech was thought provoking and
humorous and after some of the guests had left he
joined with local singing enthusiasts Bob Russell and
Doug Knowles for a little barbershopping.
Bragan was offering “Beat the Yankees” hankies
to those who had the right answers for his questions.
We have one of the hankies as the result of coming
up with the right guess.
Here’s the puzzler. “A batter hits a long fly to
deep centre field. A pig is sitting on top of the fence
and catches the ball in his mouth and takes off. What
is the umpire’s ruling? Very simple. It’s an inside-the-
pork home run.
For other puzzlers posed by Bragan turn to page 4
for the Batt’n Around Column.
Mr. Selke in addition to his many reminiscences-
about hockey in the olden days had excellent advice
for the many young people in the audience.
To the young people he said, “Let me tell you
something. Absolutely nothing takes the place of
kindness in the home. Forget your problems, love your
parents and help to make the whole world as happy as
can be.
The former Toronto and Montreal hockey builder
added, “I’m really impressed with the wide range of
ages and many families here tonight.”
Selke named five defencemen as the best in the
history of the NHL. These included oldtimers Frank
Patrick, Sprague Cleghorn and Hod Stewart, Doug
Harvey of the 1960’s and Bobby Orr. About Larry
Robinson of the present day Canadiens defence corps,
Selke said, “You couldn’t find a nicer or more effec
tiveplayer.”
Selke’s comments on any stars over the years,
“No matter how good a player is, there is always
somebody coming up from the bottom to make you
forget about them.”
Bragan said the greatest man to ever step onto a
baseball field was Branch Rickey and the best
baseball performer was Joe Dimaggio.
Rickey showed great humility at all times and
was instrumental in starting farm systems and the use
of batting helmets. Bragan suggested Phil Mankowski
of the Detroit Tigers would become a baseball great,
also because of his humility and great attitude.
Mankowski who attended the dinner as a replace
ment for rookie of the year Lou Whitaker told us,
“This is our year.”
Talking about the possible return of Tiger pitcher
Mark, “The Bird” Fydrich, Mankowski said, “We
don’t know anything until he reports for spring train
ing. He has been working with weights and has seen a
lot of doctors, but, the test will come when he tries to
throw.
Mankowski had some good advice for the
youngsters in attendance saying, “You should learn to
win with grace and lose with dignity. Putting a smile
on a crippled kid’s face gives me more pleasure than a
key hit or a good defensive play.”
We also asked about former Tiger hurler Verne
Ruhle who was a dinner guest a couple of years ago.
Ruhle, now with the Houston organization played
winter ball and should be ready for a good season with
the Astros.
The Toronto Blue Jays were well represented by
catcher Rick Cerone, publicity director Howie
Starkman and broadcaster Tom Cheek.
Well done, fellows
Congratulations are in, order to officials of the
Huron Park Minor Hockey Association for the extra
effort they are putting forth this year in looking after
three tournaments for the Western Ontario Athletic
Association. Two tourneys have already been held and
a third goes this Saturday at the Huron park arena
beginning at 9 a.m.
Saturday’s first contest will pit the Zurich and
Hensall bantams against each other. Two northern
clubs meet at 10:30 and at 12 noon, Huron Park will
take on the winner of the first game.
Another big day for the Huron Park group will oc
cur Sunday, March 4 when four hockey teams from
Royal Park; Michigan will be in. The Huron Park
clubs will repay the visit to Michigan in early April.
Bantams advance in OMHA, meet Ohsweken here Saturday
The Exeter bantams have
advanced to the second
round of OMHA playoffs,
eliminating St. Marys in
three straight.
However, the other Ex
eter minor teams have not
fared as well. The local pee
wees and midgets have been
eliminated and the atoms,
second bantams and second
midgets trail in their
playoffs with St. Marys.
The bantams will now
meet Ohsweken in a best-of-
five set opening Friday night
in the arena at the Six
Nations Reserve near
Brantford. The second game
will be in Exeter ’’his Satur
day afternoon at 5:15.
the third game in the
series will be played on Sun
day. either in Exeter or
Ohsweken, depending on
which team wins the flip of
the coin.
Exeter advanced to the
next round with a hard-
fought 2-1 win over St.
Marys in their third game at
the rec centre, Wednesday.
Bill Glover fired the first
goal for the locals on a hard
slap shot from a difficult
angle after he took a pass
from his defence mate,
Jamie Chaffe.
Exeter opened up a 2-0
lead early in the third when
Mike Clark batted in a puck
from close in on a play with
Mike Murray and Chaffe.
St. Marys finally hit the
sheet at ",he 5:54 mark, but
THE SUNS AND A JAY — Two of the honoured guests at the 1979 Exeter Sportsmen's dinner
were valuable members of the Milverton Suns, one of the top ladies fastball teams in Canada.
Above, centre fielder Lynne Farquhar and captain Marg Skillings get an autograph from
Toronto Blue Jays catcher Rick Cerone. T-A photo
Hawks open series Friday
opposition still unknown
The Exeter Hawks open
their playoff series at the
South Huron rec centre,
Friday, but at press time
their opposition still hadn’t
been determined.
They’ll face the fourth
place team in the northern
Junior “D” grouping and
that will be either Lucan or
Seaforth, Lucan has a one-
point advantage over
Seaforth, but they were
scheduled to finish- their
season against each other in
a game at Seaforth last
night.
A win for Seaforth would
put them back into third and
into a series with Mitchell,
while Lucan would play
Exeter. A win for the Irish
would send them against
Mitchell and the Cen-
tennaires would then play
Exeter.
At any rate, one of those
two will be in town Friday to
battle the Hawks, with the
second game of the series
being played on Sunday in
the rink of the fourth place
team. It is anticipated the
third game would be back in
Exeter on Tuesday.
The Hawks prepared for
the playoffs with a pair of
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wins this week and con
cluded their schedule last
night with a rescheduled
game against Port Stanley.
That game was made
necessary as the Lions still
have a shot at second place
in the southern group.
The Hawks posted an 8-5
win over the Irish in Lucan
on Wednesday and then
came home to clip
Thamesford 5-2, Friday. The
wins provided some op
timism for coach Ron Bogart
as the team heads into the
playoffs. The Hawks had
merely been playing out the
schedule in some of their
previous late-season en
counters, but they showed
some of their mid-season
form in rallying to beat the
Irish, despite being shor
thanded.
Lucan jumped into a 3-2
lead in the first period and
held that one goal margin
through the second, but the
Hawks got rolling in the third
and scored four unanswered
tallies to win going away.
Rookie Brian Mercer, who
missed the first half of the
season due to a football in
jury, paced the attack with a
hat-trick performance.
Defenceman Dave Bogart
added a pair, as did Ken
Pinder who moved back to
defence due to the absence of
holidaying Dave Kinsman.
Don Me Kellar potted the
single.
Pinder added three
assists, while Mercer and
Preston Dearing had two
each. Three of the goals were
unassisted.
Exeter scored four power
play tallies and the last one
of the game by Pinder came
when they were killing off a
penalty. Bob Hodgins and
Phil Knight sat out fighting
majors in the second period.
Randy Lovie made 37
saves in the Exeter nets,
while Murray Jamison
handled 40 for the Irish.
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Late rally again
Friday night’s game
against Thamesford was
similar in that the Hawks
rallied in the last half of the
game to win over the
Trojans.
The teams left the ice after
the first with a 2-2 tie, but
Randy Lovie shut out the
visitors from that point on as
the locals scored three times
to post the win.
Kerry Bedard and midget
pucks ter Jeff Fuller scored
the first period goals and
Ken Varley potted the
winner in the second.
Another midget, Doug
Fletcher, scored in the third
as did Brad Taylor.
Ken Pinder picked up two
assists to lead in that
department, with singles-
going to Ron Bilcke, Taylor,
Brian Mercer and Preston
Dearing.
Lovie stopped 24 shots,
while Andy Riley handled 27
for the Trojans, who were
hoping to beat the Hawks
and take a firm grip on
second place in the southern
group.
couldn’t get the equalizer as
Peter Dearing came up with
a stellar performance
between the pipes for the
locals.
Two ousted
The Exeter pee wees and
midgets were pushed to the
sidelines in OMHA playoffs
by St. Marys this week. The
pee wees were nipped 2-0 in
St. Marys Wednesday as the
home team took the set in
three straight games.
It was the best showing of
the series for the Exeter
crew who held the powerfel
Stonetown team to a
scoreless draw until the
final minute of the second
period.
The winners scored an in
surance marker in the third
to spoil any hope the locals
had of extending the series.
The midgets dropped a 3-1
decision at the rec centre on
Wednesday and then bowed
out of the series with a 3-0
loss in St. Marys on Satur
day in the fourth game.
Atoms lose
The Exeter atoms face
elimination in their five-
game series, dropping their
second straight at the rec
centre, Sunday,
After losing the opener a
week earlier by a 2-1 count,
Exeter held St. Marys to a 2-
2 score in regulation play,
but watched as the visitors
scored three in overtime to
post a 5-2 win.
Terry Zachar and Ron
Loucks scored for Exeter,
with Sean Whiteford picking
up one assist.
Waxers busy
The Exeter Waxers were
bus/ over the weekend, but
hit the win column only once
in four novice contests.
Competing in the
Dorchester tournament, the
locals dropped a 7-0 contest
to Mt. Brydges in their
opener, but then came back
with a 3-1 win over Lambeth
to send them into the “B”
championship with the host
team, Sunday.
The teams put on a thrill
ing display of end-to-end
hockey before Dorchester
took a 1-0 lead in the final
minute of the second period.
Exeter missed a couple of
good chances • to even the
count in the third, but the
home team pulled the game
out of reach with two tallies
in the final r.inute and a half
to post a 3-0 win.
Alan Blommaert and
Jarett Kobe were selected
by the tournament
organizers as Exeter’s top
players in the final contest.
In the game against
Lambeth, Jon O’Connor pac
ed the attack with two goals
and an assist. Scott Boyd
potted the other tally, with
Alan Blommaert drawing
picking up one assist.
After playing two games
in Dorchester, Saturday, the
locals travelled to St. Marys
for a Shamrock league con
test and ran out of steam
against the league leaders
en route to a 9-1 loss.
Jon O’Connor scored Ex
eter’s lone tally in that
match.
B teams behind
Exeter’s second bantams
and midgets opened their
OMHA playoffs with St.
Marys last week and both
are behind in their best-of-
five sets.
The bantam crew dropped
the first two games and face
elimination when they host
St. Marys at the rec centre
on Wednesday (tonight).
They lost by scores of 5-1 and
5-0.
Dale Jones fired the only
marker for the Exeter team,
with the assists going to
Brian Blackburn and Ted
Oke.
The midget “B” team
posted a 3-3 tie in their first
outing and then dropped a 3-2
verdict in Exeter on
Saturday when they blew a
two-goal lead.
Rob Smith, Graham Kobe
and Ed Cosman scored in the
first game that went into
overtime, with the assists
going to Cosman, Al Gaiser
and Smith.
In Saturday’s loss, Ed
Cosman and Kevin Parsons
scored for the locals, with
Bruce Shaw and Rob Smith
drawing assists on both of
them.
The teams play in St.
Marys tonight and return to
Exeter for a 4:00 p.m.
contest on Saturday.
Centralia club ties,
College suffers loss
In South Huron in
termediate hockey league
play Monday the Goderich
Merchants scored a 7-4 vic
tory over the Centralia
College Saints.
The College team stayed
right in contention for the
first part of the game. They
held a 3-2 lead until past 16
minutes of the second period
when the Merchants tied the
score.
Defenceman Marty
Becker put CCAT in front at
1:37 of the first period on a
three way effort with Rick
Vanos and Jim McCutcheon.
Ron Whetstone and Phil
Paquette scored late in the
first period to put Goderich
in front 2-1.
The College boys came
roaring back in the second
period with two goals to
regain the lead. Glenn
Witzel registered with
assists going to Harry Hul-
mand and Wayne Chalmers
while Rick Vanos hit with
the passing help of Jim
McCutcheon and Glenn
Witzel.
Phil Petrie scored three
times for Goderich, one
coming late in the second to
tie the score and two in the
final 20 minutes of play.
Ladies ready
for playoffs
Rinks skipped by Bea
Dawson, Doris Hackney and
Helen Burton have won the
three divisions of the second
draw of the Exeter ladies
curling club and will meet in
playoffs.
Included in the Bea
Dawson rink are Shirley
Mousseau, Rena McLean
and Pnyllis Johnston; the
Doris Hackney foursome
includes Dorothy Prout,
Wendy Kerslake and Deb
Etherington while Jo Vallis
Leona Amos and
Budden are the
members of the
Burton foursome.
This week’s scores
Dawson 8 Ross 2
Hoyles 9 Shapton 4
Smith 8 Busche 6
Timmerman 9 Ecker 6
Moffatt 12 - Pfaff 5
De Block 9 Boyle 3
Dougall 9 Coates 6
Hackney 10 Hackwell 5
Gregus 8 Lovell 4
Coleman 6 Davison 4
Gray 7 Burton
Ron Whetstone added his
second score of the night in
the third session and a single
goal was added by Paul
Corriveau.
Goderich took nine of the
15 minor penalties called by
referees Brian Campbell
and Jeff O’Brien.
In recent South Huron in
termediate hockey league
play the Centralia
Marauders and North
Middlesex Merchants of
Parkhill played to a 6-6
draw
The Centralia club
dominated play in the first
period with four unanswered
goals and Parkhill finished
strong with three scores in
the last four and a half
minutes of the final period.
Matt Muller was prac
tically a one man show for
the Marauders in the first
period. He scored three
times with one of his
successful efforts coming on
a penalty shot with 49
seconds left.
Randy and Ron Funston
assisted on the first goal by
Muller and Mark Cronyn and
Rick Funston provided the
passing help on the second
score.
In the middle frame, Dan
Lagerwerf counted two
goals for Parkhill and Matt
Muller counted again for
Centralia with Mark Cronyn
assisting.
The lone third period
marker for the Marauders
came from the stick of Ron
Funston on an unassisted ef
fort.
Bob Barkman scored
twice for Parkhill in the
third period and single
scores were notched by Er
nie Schlegel and Bob
Thoman.
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