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PAS Sot oS TLR SERN wl pI $ 50 ARES " fA. "erholt. with Danny Millar od 2 3 No oH i oa 7 NAS O & Some members of the tug-o-war team of the Durham Regional Police. Fair Day Tug-of-War Police challenge Masons by Danny Millar The Durham Region Police Tug of War team, still smarting over their Western Weekend loss to the Port Perry Masonic Lodge team, have challenged their conquerers to another match on Labour Day. And' the Masons have accepted. The war will take place at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Septem- ber 1 and the battleground is the infield of the Fair grounds park. It will be a best two out of three tugs and the winner will receive a trophy. The challenge was made after the way the Durham Police team lost in the West- ern Weekend match at Pal- mer Park. According to Stan Glass Sr., who runs the Masonic team, the Police- men felt they didn't get a "fair deal. Big inning wins OASA game for Bantams by Danny Millar Port Perry Bantam Lions capped a seven run fourth inning with back to back inside the park home runs -and a bases loaded triple as they went on to take Mine- sing 8-6, in the opening game of their OASA series on August 24. Minesing starter Glen Keating was breezing along until the fourth, having given ~up_only a first inning run scoring single to Peter Oost- In the fourth Mark Goreski got on base and was bunted around by John Vaz, scoring on a play after an overthrow at third base. Harry Bolton followed Vaz with a single into shallow right field. Steven Lee walk- ed the bases loaded. Jeff Johnstone came up and de- livered the biggest hit of the seven inning game when he pounded a Keating pitch to left field. The ball took one bounce before hitting the fence. Oosterholt slammed the first inside the park home run to right field and it scored Johnstone ahead of him. That blow forced the removal of Keating in favour of Steve Chalmers. The first hitter to face Chalmers was Brian Hendricks and he duplicated Oosterholt's feat with anoth- er round tripper. Six of the Port Perry runs came with two out. The fourth was the lone outstanding inning Port had. Their only run came in the first. They got careless in the top of the ninth when Goreski allowed two runs to score after two men had been retired. Minesing second baseman Murray Scott played a strong game in aid of the visiting team's cause. He made four good defensive plays including a line drive catch off the bat of Lee to end the fifth inning. The series will end next weekend with a game at each park, if necessary. If Port takes this round they enter the OASA tournament in New Hamburg. During that week-end the Policemen agreed to pull with eight men originally because they had spiked boots and other special equipment. All the other teams were to use ten men. But that plan hit a snag when the other teams could not muster up ten strong men. So the Durham Region team agreed to use six men in the final while the Masons used eight. That decision was made by the Policemen's assistant coach. The head coach, John Watson, was not present. Mr. Glass said that Mr. Watson was quite upset after he heard of the idea, and with the fact that his boys were beaten. So, he challenged the Masons to go atit again in front of the Fair Day crowd. C.P. Watson could not be reached for comment on the upcoming contest. Using fish implanted with tiny radio transmitters, biol- ogists have found a major spawning ground of Notta- wasaga walleye-grassy fields in Swamp flooded for only a few weeks each spring. It's only the second docu- mented instance in North America of walleye spawn- ing on swamp grasses instead of typical gravel or rubble sites in moving water, said John Minor, a biologist on contract with the Ministry of Natural Resources. The first occurrence was record- ed in Wisconsin in 1970. Mr. Minor specializes in studying fish behavior using electron- ic devices. "The swamp spawning has long been suspected-- "especially by local poachers but until now, never scienti- fically proven," said Mr. Minor. : He has also just completed a 10-month preliminary study of walleye behavior in Lake Scugog south of Lind- say. There a similar "radio tagging' program revealed seasonal movements, local haunts of the walleye--and some probable spawning areas. "The Scugog date indi- cates spawning walleye scatter around the lake and may use typical sites--wave- washed gravel areas along the shore," said Mr. Minor. He said male and female 3 I r 4% " bg be: 4 rd the Minesing - Scugog fis wear radios for research fish in spawning and spent condition had been located in several areas, but those sites were not proven spawning grounds because spawning was not actually observed and ministry staff were un- able to collect discharged eggs as evidence. With the help of ministry staff in the Huronia and Lindsay districts, Mr. Minor surgically inplanted a total of 36 large walleye with 20-gram radio transmitters last fall and regularly plott- ed their movements from November to June using boats, snowmobiles, and air- craft. Ministry staff will continue to monitor the fish until the _radio's long-life batteries give out sometime next year. Seven fish have been caught by anglers who returned the radios. Robin Craig, Huronia dis- trict biologist and Cheryl Lewis, Kawartha Lakes Assessment Unit biologist said the Nottawasaga and Scugog studies will be inval- uable in helping manage the local walleye fishery, protect spawning areas and improve angler's knowledge of wall- eye behavior. The programs were origi- nated and funded by the Ministry of Natural Resour- ces but administered in co- operation with the Royal Ontario Museum. Port Perry Bantam Brian Stevenson is out at the plate in a Sunday, August 25th game against Minesing. Port Perry went on to win the game 8-6 and now take a one game lead in the OASA series. ] 3