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Times-Advocate, 1981-07-15, Page 101 Page 10 Times -Advocate, July 15, 1981 Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH The cancellation of Tuesday's major league all- star game probably provided one of the biggest im- pacts since the baseball strike began almost a month ago While 13 teams and cities are suffering as they lose crowds each day and all contributions to the economy. the city of Cleveland is the big loser. More than 1.600 hotel and motel owners were book- ed for as many as three nights and this loss along with accompanying meals could amount to almost one million dollars. The overall loss to the city of Cleveland is es- timated to be close to five million dollars. The two largest crowds in all-star history were achieved when the games were played in Cleveland. The largest all star crowd flocked to Cleveland in 1935 Attendance was 69,891 and the second best crowd was 68351 in 1954. The 1963 all star game was also played in the Ohio city. Up to this year, the annual all-star game has become the mid-season highlight for baseball fans throughout North America. The game was originally conceived by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward for the 1933 Worlds Fair in Chicago. The highlight of the 1935 game in Cleveland was the performance of Jimmie Foxx of the American league who homered and drove in three runs to back up the excellent six inning pitching of Yankee pitching ace Lefty Gomez. Rules have been changed since the early days to limit the pitching time of any hurler to three innings. The American league manager in 1935 was Mickey Cochrane who led the Detroit Tigers to the pennant in 1934 in his first year of managing. The 1963 all star game will be remembered by the exceptional play of Willie Mays at the plate and in the field. The "Say hey" kid did it all that day leading his National league team to victory. Mays had two hits, two runs, two runs batted in • and two stolen bases along with a spectacular catch against the centre field fence robbing Joe Pepitone of an extra base hit. One of our Christmas gifts last December was the MacMillan baseball calendar 1981 edited by Joseph Reichler. a baseball writer for more than 40 years. During the week we took another look at it and found a rather interesting and ironical paragraph. It says "It may be hard to believe that the decade of the '80's will present the baseball fan with as much excite- ment and heroics as he witnessed in the decade of the '70's". How true that statement is at the present time with no sign of an end to the players strike. It also mentioned 1979 was the year Pete Rose signed a three million dollar contract with the Philadelphia Phillies as a free agent. That was the beginning of the trouble - which brought on the current strike. Neither side seems to be making much effort to bring the strike to a conclusion. The owners appear to be faring the best financially. They are getting some insurance money for each home game cancelled and are not required to pay the players. So, they may not be in a hurry to settle, at least until the insurance returns end. Baseball fans are not the. only ones to be suffering because of a strike. Canadian football followers have been cheated out of a couple of CFL telecasts due to a strike by CBC technicians. Friedsburg sports The annual Friedsburg Day celebrations in Dashwood are coming up shortly and a number of sporting events are on the program. Saturday. August 1 will see the popular arm wrestling and tug-of-war competitions again. They begin at 4:30 p.m. with the finals set to go after 7 p.m. Two events for children were initiated last year and will be repeated this Civic Holiday weekend. Dashwood and area youngsters would be wise to oil up their favorite tricycles and search nearby creeks and water holes for speedy frogs. The frog and tricycle races will get underway at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon. One tip to frog trainers don't keep your favourite creature in icy or cool temperatures. Ice slows the frogs down as several Exeter Lions owners and trainers found out a few months ago. Anyone wishing to obtain further information regarding any of the afore mentioned sporting events should call John Becker at 237-3628. More frogs and turtles This coming weekend frogs and turtles will get a chance to show their stuff. The Kirkton-Woodham Op- timists are sponsoring a frog and logging day Sunday at the K -W park. The same day, the now famous turtle races will be part of Ailsa Craig's Gala Days. Also on the agenda is a five mile road race. Off to tourney The Dashwood Tigers will be participating in this weekend's senior baseball tournament in Kincardine. The Tigers will see their first action Friday night at 7:30 p.m. with Cambridge supplying the opposition. Southpaw John Bruijns is back with the Tigers after a brief tryout with te London Majors. His return will certainly bolster the pitching staff which consi3ts mainly of lefty Jim Guenther and right hander Perry Stover. �1 Did you know? That for five consecutive years. NHL scoring star Phil Esposito scored his 50th goal of each season on his birthday, February 20. That it was 105 years ago today that George Bradley of St. Louis pitched the first no -hit game in the National baseball league. Lucan soccer Lucan minor soccer teams picked up four victories and Iwo ties in eight games placed this week. .ferry Emery scored four Imes and single goals were . dde•d be Al Craig, Ron lir•ymer and Mike Ernlleuvel as the Lucan amc defeated Ilderton 7- 1hr mosquito Rangers dr.fr•tr•d (:rand Bend 4-2. '.' r,rrng in single fashion u"•rr• Eddie ilessels, Donnie IlugiII Sandy Hyde and Matthew Welsh Todd ifvdehootedtwo goals In Kincardine tourney this weekend Tigers beat Colts in Great Lakes baseball The Dashwood Tigers were in action on three oc- casions this week in the Great Lakes baseball league and came up with one vic- tory. Tuesday night, the Tigers dropped a 2-0 decision in Kincardine, Thursday they edged the Clinton Colts 9-7 and Friday back in Dashwood they lost again to Kincardine, this time by a score of 5-3. This week the Dashwood club had only one engage- ment in regular league play. That's Wednesday when they travel to London to meet the Servicemaster juniors. The Tigers will be par- ticipating in a senior tourna- ment on the weekend in Kin- cardine. Their first action is set for Friday night at 8:45 p.m. against Cambridge. In Friday's loss to Kincar- dine all Dashwood runs crossed the plate in the eight inning. Up until that time only three runners were able to reach the base paths. Jim Dietrich managed to make the bases twice with a single and a walk and Luke Gagnon drew a free pass. In the Dashwood eighth, doubles by Barry Baynham and Bob Hoffman and a single from the bat of John Bruijns sent the three runs across the plate. The promising rally died with the bases loaded. In the Tiger ninth Baynham and Bruijns were again able to reach the bases with hits, but, were left stranded. Southpaw John Bruijns went the nine inning pitching distance for the Tigers giv- ing up five runs and seven hits while recording 14 strikeouts. In Thursday's win in Clin- ton the Tigers started off with a bang with three runs in their first turn at the plate and they managed to hold onto the lead to the finish. In the opening inning, Luke Gagnon doubled, Bob Hoffman and Glen Thurman walked and all scored on Perry Stover's double and a sacrifice by Pete Wuerth. Doug Fairbairn walked in the fourth and rounded the bases on singles delivered by and Jeremy James added a single as the squirt Kickers edged Exeter 3-2. The senior girls were able to edge :;tratford 1-0 as Darlene F'every notched the only goal. Brian Hessels was the only marksman as the Lucan atom Spurs lost 7-1 to Exeter and Tim Carter's score gain- ed the atom Cougars a 1-1 deadlock with Grand Bend. In other girls games. the mosquitos lost 11-0 to the London Southeast Rowdies and the atoms played a scoreless tie with the Oakridge Boomers. STARS AID MEDICAL CENTRE — The CFPL radio all stars were in Dashwood Sunday night to play the Dashwood UPC sto pitch team with all proceeds going to the Medical Centre building fund. From the left are Dashwood players Whitey Denomme and Dave Ratz greeting Jasmine Dooh, Brian Gillis and Scott Alexander of CFPL. T -A photo Lose to Mount Carmel Greys score two victories The Exeter Greys scored two victories in three starts this week in district ladies fastball action. The Greys were on the short end of an 8-4 score to Mount Carmel Monday night and then rebounded to trounce Staffa Wednesday night and down Uniondale 14- 3 in a Sunday contest. In the 5-4 loss to Mount Carmel the Greys scored all of their runs in the top of the final inning. Lia Snell, Loes Etherington, Elaine Gould and Paula Sereda crossed the plate for the Greys. Karen Ford and Julie Webb counted the first two Mount Carmel markers in the first inning and Heather Riddell counted the third run for the winners in the second. Mount Carmel broke the game open with a five run outburst in the fourth frames as Karen Ford, Julie Webb, Kelly Wraight, Heather Riddell and Helen Glavin scored. Helen Muller was the Centennials get draw A quick turnaround by the Exeter senior Centennials soccer team enabled them to come back after trailing 2-0 at half time to gain a tie with Nairn 2-2. The game played Saturday started out fairly even with neither team getting any real good opportunities. Nairn scored first as a result of an Exeter miscue on defense. Before the half ended Nairn upped the score to 2-0 as a result of perfectly placed corner kick. Down 2-0 Exeter had to fill the gap in midfield where Nairn was controlling the game. Exeter's forwards had to come back further in a defensive situation and the defense had to press more in an attacking situation. As a result Exeter dominated the game in the second half with fine mid- field control from Dick Lord and Gerald and Alfons Weer - sink. Exeter scored their first goal when Dick Lord fed left winger Shawn Rotteau who in turn pressed toward the Nairn goal and sent the ball in front where forward John Muller successfully put the ball in the top left corner. Down only 2-1 Exeter kept pressing and with only a few minutes left PaulVandawalle was tripped up in the Nairn penalty area. As a result he was awarded a penalty shot and he scored. Exeter had a problem all year of not being able to come from behind. Exeter always had to score the first Eoal in order to win a game. xeter proved in Saturday's game that they're maturing as a unit. The Centennials are off next weekend but travel to Lucan the following Satur- day. e winning pitcher for Mount Carmel while Val Minhin- nick was on the mound for Exeter. In Wednesday's romp over Staffa, the Greys scored 15 times in the first inning as the Staffa pitchers were wild giving up 16 walks. Julianne reached first base on walks three times in the first in- ning. The only hit was a home run by Pam Walper. The Greys were held to a single run in the second inn- ing as Loes Etherington blasted a home run. Six more Exeter runs crossed the plate in the third again mostly on walks and one base hit by Val Glanville. She again crossed the plate in the fourth with the final run for the Greys. Scoring for Staffa were Betty Upshall, Betty Miller, Dianne Verloeve, Jill Norris and Martha Looby. Val Glanville was the winning pitcher for Exeter while Betty Upshall started for Staffa. In Sunday's victory over Uniondale, Lia Snell was the Greys pitcher and she recorded 17 strikeouts along the eight inningxoute. In addition to a fine pit- ching performance Lia Snell led her team at the plate with a home run and a single. Donna Glanville also con- tributed a home run. Gifford winner at Ironwood club Don Gifford used six pars and a birdie on the way to a score of 36 and the low gross prize winner in Tuesday's regular men's club competi- tion at the Ironwood golf course. In second place also with a 36 on seven pars and a birdie was Steve Pearce. Gabby Mol was the low net winner with a 29 and Iver Small was next at 30. Lorne Kleinstiver fired a 40 to take the low gross award in the 'B' flight. Mike Cushman was second. Best in low net were Marshall Dearing and Bob Forrestwith scores of 20 and 31, respec- tively. In B' flight, Pat Joynt's 44 and Brad Dater's 45 were the top low gross scores while Ray Heywood with a 31 and Don Lee at 33 were best in low net. The 'D' flight champions were Marty Van Heeswyk and Larry Healy in low gross and low net. respectively. Bob Swartman,a 'B' flight competitor scored an eagle on the par four third hole. The prize for a shot closest to the pin was won by Sir Bob Drummond. Julianne -MacLean slammed out a pair of doubles while Joyce Morgan and Pam Walper each had two singles. Getting one hit apiece were Elaine Gould, Paula Serda, Loes Etherington and Bonnie Westlake. Ladies best in bowling Ladies dominated the winners circle at the Exeter lawn bowling club Tuesday and Saturday while a large number of members from the Seaforth club were in for a friendly competition, Thursday. Liz Lamport was Tuesday's winner with two wins and an aggregate of 30. Close behind with 25 each and a tie for second spot were Charlie Hendy and Lawrence Russell. A three-way deadlock ex- isted for fourth position with Stella Taylor. Bill Lamport and Tom Walker all even at 24. Ernie Chipchase scored 19. In Saturday's competition Stella Taylor and Garnet Hicks each came up with a pair of victories and aggregates of 30 to share first place. Tied with aggregates of 29 apiece were Marinus Marsman and Jean Cassidy while Dean Frayne recorded 27. Olive Harvey 26 and Leone Brock 25. 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Susan Tieman, Darlene McBride and Nancy Durand shared pitching duties while Janet Pfaff and LIz Cottrell caught. E imville used five pitchers with Kelly Johns going three innings. In games this week, the Exeter B club was in Elim - vine Tuesday night while the Junction Jets will be at bg,ne Thursday night with s Road supplying the apposition. encountered came in the bot- tom of the final inning when Clinton scored four times and left one runner on the bases. Unable to get a hit in the right place was the downfall of the Tigers as they were edged 2-0 by Kincardine, Tuesday night. In the Dashwood first Barry Baynham walked and reached third, singles by Glen Thurman and Rob Dickey and a walk to Doug Fairbairn loaded the bases, but, they were left stranded. Again in the fourth, Kevin Hern and Brian Mercer singled and in the sixth Dave Robinson doubled. Lefty Jim Guenther was the Tiger hurler. 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