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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), September 29, 1976, p. 16

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Page THE r IBIS Geminis split season openers with Oakville and Brampton CONN SMYTHE TIPS HIS HAT TO LITTLE NHL Pre season game success part of the regular season does not necessarily preclude have to find out who con do the regular a the he admitted and our Georgetown of the team Is by no means set lied at this point tte have a gome Central Ontario Junior loop discovered this past when attacking and this cording to Robinson caused several Rood victory was not without h South just returned to the Gems Dave Robertson tests Oakville goalie Fastball tourney gets washed out the Georgetown Industrial Fastball League had their annual tournament rained out after but one day of play last weekend but according to Don one of the lour organizers the league Is attempting to get the remaining championship and consolation round games In his week league went out of its way getting awards for years tourney but the just wouldnt The Elmer Fendlcy Memorial Trophy donated by Perks Barber shop team will be presented lo the tour nament Grand Champions along with a cash award The Labalts trophy will be presented to the consolation champions again along with a cash award breweries are donating beer muga to players who hit home runs and to pitchers hurling nohitters and so far three players havo claimed their prize Doug of the Flyers tossed nohitter while Wayne Davison of Rapid Print and George Sheppnrd of have clouted home In the championship the Whalers and WayJay still have to play Ihcir semifinal with the winner meeting Real Estate of Milton In the consolation round and Perks Barber Shop still have to play their semifinal match with the winner going against Elmers Fobert nipped Erin to advance to the championship final while Elmers edged Rapid Print 12 to make it to The Gems opened their 1976- regular season last Saturday and Sunday and while their Initial foray into the regular season was sue edged Oakville In Georgetown night ran into a rather substantial stumbling block In Brampton on Sunday evening Brampton took the Sunday tilt by a comfortable margin appear to be a much more powerful club than the one that finished In fifth place In the leagues regular season last Gemini Conch Paul Robinson was not overly concerned about the ambush that occurred In Brampton on Sunday and was prepared to shoulder the blame for the loss I told the team not to be upset over the loss and that it my experimenting the final In the consolation First round action saw the Flyers trounce 13 1 Erin topped Elmers squeezed past Rapid Print 3 Gage whipped different combination that was for the most part to blame Robinson com mented I must have used about different com binations he added mainly just to find out who could do what and how in different situations The Geminis regular schedule this year and I would be satisfied if the team hit the mark after games a young team and some of the players have to be brought slowly but Im satisfied that we have the talent to be more than just competitive in the league this year Saturdays game against drew more than people to the Gordon Memorial arena and they saw the Gems chalk up their first win of the young season over the Blades led after minutes of play the game was tied at otter the second frame then the Gems out scored 2 In the final period to claim the hard earned win Oakville has a hustling pesky hockey club and while they dont appear quite as strong as the team that finished in second place in the leagues schedule lost one point ahead of the they showed signs that they certainly won I be bowled over by any team In the opening minutes on Saturday Oakvllles hustling for king gome seemed to unsettle the owners Gemini forwards appeared be a bit hesitant and unsure Robertson missed recently three scoring chances from Gemini foldaftcra close in and it was a frustrated Junior Kitcnener crew that left the ice Rangers suffered a shoulder the first minutes or separation in the third period and will be lost to the club for The cobwebs were tossed leaa lwo aside early in the sand which frame as Paul Glngras on a Robinson cited bad luck and pass from Ian notched his own experimenting for the he first Gemini marker of the 103 Gemini loss to Brampton season when he scored on Sunday The Gems at the mark of the second Brampton but goalposts had already potted strong effort by iheir second goal at the 1 Brampton Don mark and the Gemini marker held the locals at made them tighten their bay defensiveoriented game Close checking highlighted the second period but the locals tied the match the IB mark on a power play effort by Dave Robertson Brampton held a lead after the first period the Geminis narrowed the gap to ft- after forty minutes of play The nip affair Brampton poured continued Into the early port of afterburners In the final GDHS runners impressive again Interest in the sport of cross country running is on the in crease at Georgetown and District High School Cross Country Coach Donna Met reports that prospective distance runners haw turned out for the team more than double the number that turned out last year The team has already been engaged in Invitational meets and last weekend In the Henry Carr Crusaders invitational meet Once again Georgetown are proving to be athletes to be reckoned with as the team finished in first place ahead of East York and Henry Carr while the girls team placed third behind Henry and Michael Power More than runners from schools in southern Ontario took port in the meet a course laid out on own tree Mills Form in Toronto Cathy Clark won the Senior girls race with brother tan taking the Midget boys race Jennie Thompson finished third in the Junior girls race Minor schedule TYKF ft NOVICE SCHEDULE CHFbNS JOES OLDS SMITH HILLS CATERING WILLIAMS ARMSTRONG LIONS 12 OCTOBER jo Team Nos Tram Nos Team Noi KTOflIH21lh7B KM Tram 15 IM Tram No IM Tram IM Team No IM Tram Nob 1 1 I 15 IM Team I A Tram Tram Tram No I IS IM Tram I G IM Tram Noi712 Tram Noi 76 A Team Nos9IO3 Tram No I II 121 S IM am FRIDAY MHr it I2h 7B 15 Tram II -12- IM Tram 45PM Tram FRIDAY 22nd 7 4 Tram 15 Tram No 10 Tram Nos II Tram FRIDAY NOVEMBER isth 430 Tram Tram 3 6 Team Nos II- 12 4 Tram Nos 6 FRIDAY 78 Tram 15 Tram No A Team PM Team Nor 24 FRIDAY DECEMBER 3rd J Tram Nos 124 1 DECEMBER 10th 5 IS Team Noi 1 Team 45PM Team FRIDAY DECEMBER 17th 76 Team Nos 2 sis Team Noi 101 600 Team Nos All players are to be at the Arena and dressed ready to play IS before their playing time Actons Hills Catering WayJay did In the A1W Bears by a count the Whalers bested Perks while sandhill received a bye into the consolation division In the championship scries Erin beat the bounced the consolation round Elmers sprinkled with Georgetown hipped Limehouse Rapid hockey products and Print defeated Acton and admits that he will be AW shutout Sandhill pcnmenllng well into the GIFL awards S I I Young of Georgetown The Georgetown Industrial nlngham got the nod from his Pi Fastball League has wound up males on the Elmers Natural its regular season and two Gas squad Doug embroiled the present Trainer and in championship ploy Gage all guy for the Stnlionary are battling Georgetown Geminis was the Rapid Turks for the MVP for the Flyers no offense loops top honours and at press Douglas keep on wearing your time Gage were up by one muscle someone will game by i irtuc of a win In notice while Glenn Fendley the first game of the was tops with Gage Stationary DUG These brackets arc unnerving Norm Topping Impressed his hampered the drivers buddies with Nerval Boh more Nova Scotia trophy going to MacDonadl got eh MVP from the fir I place team druing the his Perk cutters up regular season was won by The kid Most to keep Gage Stationary The you Awake AT Nights Keith Most Sportsmanlike Player was MVP for award Cunningham Rapid Print while Bob Craig Memorial Trophy will be was Ihc player selected by presented at the season end Sandhill as their Most The various teams in the Valuable GIFL chose their team Most Industrial Finals will con- Valuable Players and there linue week with Goge are some surprise selection going against Rapid Print this Farmer was picked Wednesday night at the from AW Bryan Fairgrounds Ball Park Little NHL things remembered the third period then Paul Allison gave the Geminis the lead for the first time in the game at the 47 mark Oakville tied the game at 3 at the 15 mark of the third but Doug Barnes scored the Gemini marker little over a minute later and this seemed to take a lot of the fight out of the crew Rick was In nets for the Gemini win and Coach Paul singled out several players for praise Bill Allison Paul Allison Bruce Bailey Paul Martin all played strong games minutes to goals while shutout Ten years ago Gordon Alcott remembered as the X force behind the founding of he Little NHL recalled the words of Smyth the then and now force behind the Toronto Maple Leafs Smythe pledged his support for he fledgling and In Mr Alcotts own words Conn Smythe Little NHL W that he told me that I could have the Maple Leaf Gardens once a year from 12 noon to 12 midnight for Minor Hockey Times have changed priorities but Cbno the everdriving force behind the hockey artists perform for the Maple has nothing but praise respect for Little NHL the men who organised the now widely accepted and widely approved hockey fe- association When The Herald contacted Mr he made eg- these comments Having had a great deal of respect for WK Gordon and fine people he u associated v with I can think of nothing better hat has been done for young people Interested in hockey than the founding of he Little NHL It has done great work for hockey and all those connected with It should be congratulated for the results Major Pee Wees have two wins Dave Robertson with his Georgetowns Standard Products Major Pee Weea second and third goals of the team has started their young season a pair of style lor lads Georgetown Marty have been involved in lwo scored the other Georgetown lop of both occasions The locals started off their Coach Robinson Act that exhibition season with Tom Fendley played a strong win over Richmond Hill game and used both Brad Anthony Oram Scott Miller and Rick Tomkinson in and David Norton the Gemini nets Neil Young wins Race of Champions Georgetown marksmen while Mike Marcolinl Ken nedy Hatcher and David Norton were credited with assists Jeff earned the shutout and made several good saves The defence corps of Jamie South Peter Kirk and Mike all were out standing The second Standard Products win was a edging of Preston Kennedy on a pass from Jamie South scored he first goat with Duane Hatcher converting a pass from David Norton for the second goal Jell again played excellent In nets and he had some great help from Kevin Frank Hatcher Kirk and Kennedy The Major Pee Wees play a return match with Preston on Oct and will begin their season with a game In Burlington on Oct 13 five finals Several League and earn awards have been presented TheBankof Cenre Pharmacy powered MG Midget class productive r to first place In his the Canadian Road Rate Champions held over weekend at Circuit race course SO miles north of Montreal The race was run over winding hilly mile course The race was organized by the Canadian Automobile Car dubs aociation and driers from five regions British Columblo the Prairies On tario Quebec the Atlantic region The years top finishers in each region were invited to compete and all regions and classes wire well represented Three classes raced In the This is Neils first year of racing but he has done con sldereble and rallying driving Neil qualified for the post position In the race on Saturday in his doss with a time of 2 09 He was a full row ahead of the next car in his class an Romeo Sprint driven by Richard of Von- Sunday race day broke cold and dear and the morning was pent warming up scrubbing in new tires and making some last minute Adjustments to the car engine and chassis The race got under way about m Sunday with cars and drivers ready to challenge course Neils strategy was to allow more experienced driver to lead him the first part of the race and stay close enough to take advantage of on opportunity pass should the situation arise in the latter part of Ihc race As It thcDlan worked to perfection The Alfa took a early lead and Nell stayed within two seconds of him until about midway through the race As Young began lo close the gap the Alfa began to misfire In comers and after swapping positions with five times Nell took the lead on Ihe loth lap and held on to win The Alfa pulled off the track on the lap to give Young an easy win over second place finish John Irvine of Toronto and third place finisher David of White the win was a well deserved one for Neil he wished to express his ap preciation to several people not the least of whom was his wife Mary Lou and his year- son Kevin who made the weekend Jaunt with him Lee was Nells crew chief wnlle Glenn and Thomas made up the crew Nell also expressed his appreciation for the help ex tended to him by North Body Smith Automotive British Cars and Murray at Canadian Tire J4olel RED BARREL ROOM NOW APPEARING SEPT TO OCT ROBERT E LEE BUND POW WOW LOUNGE PEAKING OCT TO OCT TO OCT RON HAWAIIAN GOODWIN REVUE The Little NHL which is celebrating it An niversary here in Georgetown 91111 maintain Its original code of ethics all of the and Ottawa area with only a relatively few in the Toronto boroughs As with Gordon Tiding wish the Little NHL shallower antics that have today still stresses fair ploy clouded hockey as its known and good sportsmanship The today in Canada players are still required to Gordon who died two sign a good behaviour contract years ago created the Little which emphasizes NHL because he wanted to and the Importance of school give as of Ontario work Should a boy slack off in hockey playing youngsters as either of these areas he could possible he simple chance lo be reprimanded or in some play in organized leagues cases forced to withdraw only six teams the problem is settled named the original clubs The Little NHL met Its and Initiated by Gordon dealh knell In Georgelown its in Georgetown In 193S began first home In Ihe late the foray inlo the heretofore By being ushered out It left unknown areas The league something of a vacuum in Its has now expanded to several wake We still hove minor hundred squads with hockey but one wonders if the under boys principles that were adhered participating to and were a part of the Little The largest concentration of NHL have been to around the Slmcoc the years Roast Beef Luncheon golf results Results of Mens Golf Closing held at North Golf Country Club an Saturday September A FLIGHT Gross1 M Leach743 K Marriott 4 J Harrison I Savage E Muzrattl69 T Hay FLIGHT Gross I D McQuaker 78 J Todd B0 Collins 5 McDermoB25 R Mercure Michie G Crosby B Presseault 10 D Ferguson J 68 G Osborne GO J Timpson j Bradley 70 Sanderson T Cash a SchenkSr 10 R FLIGHT French M 3 McMllllon 4 A Johnson895 Allan 7 J 8 Hay 93 10 B Elliott A Pollock 2 Sanderson Cormnn J Carlo J Crlchlon I Archer J Htveatlng 74 TIIK MIDGET CLASS PRODUCTION SPORTH CAR that Georgetowns Nell Young drove to victory In the Rood Race of Champions held at Le Circuit near Montreal over the weekend NOTICE Commencing Monday October 1976 the Town of Halton Will Revert To ONCE A WEEK REFUSE PICK UP As In Years THANK YOU WORKS HILLS HONDA CIVIC Station Wagon NOW ON SALE The money you lava at Bai MOTORS after sales it tops TOWN COUNTRY ABATTOIR 126 Steeles Ave Hornby 8783923 SPECIALIZING IN ORDtRS SIDES OF BEEF HINDS OF BEEF FRONTS OF BEEF PORK SIDES A 411 CUSTOM CUT AND At M0 CHARGE SIDES OF VEAL too- no lb O ti I If ITfld

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