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Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 16 Aug 1978, p. 8

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FLASHBACK - 25 YEARS AGO - Maxie Yourth and Frank "Sonny" Hooper have been chosen to play on the Lakeshore League Al-Star teamn, Saturday night, against the %sawa Merchants in Kinsmen Civic Stadiurn, Oshawa. FLASHBACK - 10 YEARS AGO, - A new compressor for making ice at Bowmanville Country Club for the Curling Club arrived this week and manager Larry Heffering is supervising the installation. A new water recirculator has also -been purchased which should improve ice, conditions. THE MOLSON - Can Arn Trans Arn week-end, goes August 18-19-20 at Mosport. Setting an auto racing precedent the Can Arn will be a two heat event instead of one continuous heat. Prize rnoney totals $75,000.. BIG BROTHERS - of Metropolitan Toronto are heading down the home stretch to August 2th and the draw for their 1978 fully equipped Champagne Edition Il Volkswagen Rabbit. The draw will be held immediately after the Celebrity Race, scheduled for approximately 2:15 p.m. during the break between the two heats of the Molson Diamond Can-Am race at Mosport. Be sure to purchase a ticket and help this worthy cause at Mosport on August 2th. NANCY GILCHRIST - (nee Jackman) and Mary Mottlestead defeated Gail Crossman and Cathy Sakata in ladies doubles at the tennis tournament held in Whitby during County Town Carnival Week. MEMBERS - of the M and M Men's Lobb Ball Team, Orono competed on the holiday weekend in a tournament in St. Catharines, placing fourth in a field of 36 teams. The team hopes to compete in the near future at tournaments in Welland and Uxbridge. JOHN CONBOY - scored the final Baars goal at the 18.54 mark of the final period in the bail hockey game against the Royal Su bmarine team last week, but the Baars were defeated 5 - 3 with the Subs moving on into the finals. JUNIOR - Farmers held their provincial Msummer field games last weekend at the University of Guelph. Winner of the discus throw and the shotput was Colette Taylor, Annette Taylor and Colette were on the tug- of-war ta which won the provincial title. DARLINGTON SOCCER LEAGUE W L T GFGA Pts Solina 15, 1 0 65 14 30 Orono 10 5 1 26 19 21 Tyrone 10 6 0 35 25 20 Bowmaniville, 9 6 1 31 23 19 Courtice 8 7 1 25 22 17 Hampton 6 7 3 22 24 15 Zion 3 10 3 17 35 9 Flying Dutchmen 3 12 1 19 45 7 Salem 1i1il 4 21 43 6 IN SUDDEN DEATH Hampton defeated Courtice and Bowmanville in two close games. SEMI FINALS Solina 4, Tyrone 0 - îst game. Hampton at Orono Monday, August 14, 1978 at 7: 00 p. m. ,Wednesday, August 16, 1978 Solina at Tyrone, Saturday, August 19. Orono at Hampton game played at Courtice. CANADIAN FORESTIERS BOWLING LEAGUE Bowl Friday nights at9:O00p.m. at'Liberty Bow , Bowmanville: Ail Bowlers welcome from beginners to experts. Contact: Margi Pollard 623-5018 or Roger Delorme' 623-9491 0"F ALL 1978 MODELS. For Example: 31 Foot A7R41fPa rk model trailer.......... $7948.00 COMPARE ANYWHEREI Other models at similar savîngs - whi le they Iast. Largest Setection of Truck Caps in the Area. Phone (416) 987-5174 PARTICIPANTS - interested in entering a 35 kilometre bicycle rally starting at Oshawa Ciy- Hall on Tuesday morning, August 29th should cail 579-4070 or write the Oshawa Recreation Division, 50 Centre St. S., Oshawa. SPLASH SWIMATHON - Bowmanville's- Swim Team staged a swimathon at the Memorial Park pool on Saturday morning and raised about $1,000 in pledges for the Splash project. In ail, they swam about 25,000 metres with each swimmer averaging about 70 lengths an hour. Janet VanGoor swam 130 lengths of the pool. The Garne Wasn't Too Exciting Three Horners HeIp Merchants Stage a Corneback Bowmanville Senior Merchants, after two disappointing losses to Whitby on Thursday 2-1 after 12 innings and Saturday 8-3 here, carne back on Sunday to win, 5-2, helped considerabiy by homeruns by Doug Crough, Steve Parker and, late in the game, Larry Forsey. They played their fourth game on Tuesday in Whitby and the results wiil appear elsewhere. A fifth game if necessary will be played here tonight, Wednesday, starting at 6 p m. The two'photos above and below show Larry Forsey being congratulated by his teammates and Steve Parker at bat. i by Norman Smith seven ends. The tide then Bowmanville'lawn bowlers turned and Bowmanville scor- came within an inch of ed 17 points in four ends to winning the New Horizons give them a comfortable lead Championships for Seniors in which they stretched to 27-16 District 14 on Sunday, August by the end of the game. 13, as Clarence Oke's last shot The last game against moved the jack to an op- George Nicholis (skip) and the ponent's bowl instead of his Jones brothers (Steve and own,. as hie had planned. This Walter) of Peterborough pro- was in an extra end as another duced a titanic struggle and terrific shot by Oke in the last when Oke tied it up at il ail in regular end had failed by an the lSth end, as reported inch or so to capture the above, local hopes were high. second point his team needed But Lady Luck turned hier face to wlfl. the other way and "our boys" August 13 was the culmina- lost by the narrowest of tion of a competition sponsor- margins. ed by the Government for bowlers aged 60 and over. This was the iast of three Eight clubs in District 14 strenuous tournaments for which stretches from Whitby Clarence Oke: on Wednesday, to Cobourg along Lake Ontario August 9, hie led his team of and from Lindsay to Peter- Mervyn Brock (vice), Les borough in the north held local Langs and Morgan Lunney to round-robin tournaments to win the third prize for estabiish their champions. In Two-Game Winners in the Bowmanvilie Clarence Oke General Motors Gold Cup for (skip), Dave Reynolds and Men's Fours in Oshawa (the Albert Mavin emerged, as premier one-day tournament winners after the first round in Ontario) and on Saturday, had eliminated only one team August 12, with Norma and out of four. Mervyn Brock, he won the In the first game of the final prize for high One-Game knock-out tournament in Winner in the Victoria and Cobourg, Bowmanviile easiiy Grey Trust Company tourna- defeated Whitby 18-9 but lanfthe ment for Mixed Triples in next round against Lindsay Cobourg. they were down 6-14 after . Evidently Oke is 0K! Bowmanville 5, Whitby 2 Last Thursday the Bowman- ville Merchants opened their best 3 out of 5 garne series with the Whitby bail teamn in Whitby. The first game proved fain, bt adisappointing one oseomnvlea they lost a Jim Stacey pitched his finest game of the season, striking out batter after bat- ter. Each teamn scored early in the garne and it remaîned tied 1-1 until the,12th inning when SWhitby scored to end the game - 2-1. Whitby at this point led the series 1 game to none. Whitby 8 vs. Bowmanville 3 S On Saturday, the two teams came to Bowmanville for the fi l. second game of the series starting at 2 p.m. at Soper Creek Park. Bowmanville led the game in the first inning 1-0 p* on a homerun by Murray O'Brien. Whitby tied it up in the second inning only to have Bowmanvîlle corne back and take the lead for the iast time in the game by a 2-1 score. In the fourth inning Whitby exploded for 4 runs and added 3 more later in the gamne to win 8-3 and take a 2 game iead on the Bowmanville club. The Merchants couidn't get a k sustained drive going to corne B back after the fourth inning. R They gave up far too many A, walks and a few costiy errors L EARN TO SAI1L THIS SUMMER THE NEWCASTLE SAILING SCHOOL AGAIN HAS A ONE WEEK COURSE AFTERNOONS OR EVENINGS IN OUR SAILBOATS FOR $23 #ADULTS IF YOU ARE OVER 10 YEARS, CAN SWIM, '<OU COULD BE SAILING ONE 0F OUR DINGHIES WITHIN A WEEK. COME DOWN AND SEE US .. THERE'S ALWAYS A LOT GOING ON! BEGINNERS COURSES IF YOU CAN SWIM, YOU CAN SAIL PHONE US FOR A CHAT PORT 0F NEWCASTLE 987-5251 TENNIS INSTRUCTION GROUP OR PRIVATE NOW AVAILABLE PORT 0F NEWCASTLE 987-5251 Basebaîl fans corne in ail sha1es and sizes and ages too, but you don't expect thern to bring, along their needlepoint to pass the time. Adrnittedly, the garne between Whitby and Bowmanville Merchants on Saturday was pretty dul without too many highlights, so this attractive young lady sat on the grass and worked on her project, looking up now and then to keep in touch with the game. helped the Whitby crew take the second game of the series. Whitby 2 vs. Bowmanville 5 On Sunday, the Merchants season came down to one game. If they won they would continue the series; if they lost whitby wouid have won the series 3 games straight. Every p1ayer on the club understood the situation the club was in and had to go out and give 110 per cent on every play. The game at Soper Creek proved to be a close game until Bowmanville took the lead and neyer lost it. 1Jim Stacey, pitching his second game of the series, came up with another fine performance. Steve Parker played an outstanding game at centre field along, with hitting a home run. Larry Forsey hit a 2 rua homer with Larry Perris on base and Doug Crough added another home run as Bowmanvilie beat Whitby 5-2. The Merchants finally got their bats going and started scoring runs along with their fine defensive efforts. with the series now 2 games to 1 in Whitby's favor, the Bowmanville crew travel ta whitby for the fourth game on Tuesday night. This was ano ther do or die situation for Bowmanville for a ioss would stili end the season. Providing the Merchants win on Tue-sday the next game and final game Of the series wii be piayed on Wednesday night in Bowman- ville, at Soper Creek Park. 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