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Mark Sports Editor Hello Halton Hills morning sport tam this is your new sports editor at the Herald My name is Mark week through these pages will covering the sports seme in the Mai ton Mills ret on eventually wl shall nRLt face to face Please to know mi and I shall do the same Contacts for any reporter arc an essential pari of Job many contacts have been made with the Herald my predecessor Tony for which I am thankful I like to consider myself a good sport and hope that others do loo lam have been or will be involved with all the numerous sports In this community either as an participant or as a reporter covering them Through this column I will take my and endeavor to continue to give you the comprehensive coverage you have become accustomed to reading in the Herald Sports Week Although am a newcomer to the area I have in this past week gotten to know some of the people responsible for making Hills the outstanding sports community thai it is There arc many I have yet to meet and I am looking forward to doing so Sports people are of a breed unto Then is somUhinf unique about their For some life is a game For others it is a contest or merely a recreation Whatever it is they all to relate to one another That probably accounts for why this area has turned out so many international class athletes and sportsmen The sports scene here active one and one which 1 hope to get out into the thick of from this week on Drop into the office or stop me on the street You arc the sports and I am one who reports them My job and your coverage will be a lot better off through our contacts Most people who run miles yards competitive in one day just don go out the next day enter a fun run Then there is Bob Tike this last weekend for example Saturday he entered the Owen Marathon in and topped the Masters class with a lime of two hours minutes and placing the more than runners This was the Ihrd lime or the marathon and Bob has competed in all of them Sunday he his wife Agnes and their iwo children Doug and Karen 10 all entered the Erin Mills Fun Run The twt children entered the kilometre race a ceo pa by their parents who Bob says did It for moral support for Then Bob and Agnes ran the five kilometre race where 111 bo I h won their respective class divisions Now that a lot of running Danlell been running around for six years now and daily runs a couple of miles to Ihe GO Train here In Georgetown hops the train llien gets off runs a few more miles to work He repeats this on the way home every day I go about 11 miles each day and when Im training for a marathon I increase it to about 20 miles This Sunday he will be entering the Spring Bonk Road Race in London It is probably the best race in Canada All the good runners will be there Ian Clark should be there and If he is he should win it Clark a Georgetown high school and Canadian running champion says he and a half doien other runners from Georgetown will be entering Georgetown ran into the winning circle again on Sunday when local councillor Marilyn Serjconlson the women division of the 10 metre Enn Mill run SPORTS SHORTS With Ihe hockey season now under way many of the local young players will be avidly watching the TV this winter looking for local players DAVE BURROWS In the Toronto Maple lineup and MIKE FORBES and DICK In Edmonton Oilers uniforms This time next week we should have a better idea whether they will indeed be playing MAYOR PETE and some councillors will be swimming this Saturday at the Georgetown Pool to help raise money for equipment as part of a swim a Raiders tie in opener After four weeks of train camp the Georgetown Raiders Intermediate A hockey team played their first exhibition of the season Friday night in Stratford The Haiders last years Intermediate league plons had trouble icing a full and were hard pressed to hold on to a tie with the Stratford Senior A team Coach Steve a Raider player last year said the S5 draw gave him an opportunity to look at the team as it was He said he saw some good skating and playing by the Raiders He said their first home game the Friday against another senior team from Preston will enable him to get a better Idea of how the team will fare this season The game against Stmt ford was difficult because of the shortage of players which put added pressure on the three lines and four defence- men who played However it gave Blundy an opportunity to sec these players in depth They arose to the and managed to hold tie which had it not been for a Stratford goal with left in the game been win Juri Kudrasova picked couple of Raider goals in a strong game for him while Sieve Lyons Bruce Ellison and John Boyce had the other singles Graham Snyder had a big night against the Raiders scoring three times with singles going to Dan Segum and Recent acquisitions Gary Ford and Peter Mara from Die International Hockey League did not play Ford injured a finger at work and Mara sat out to give coach a belter look at the other players TOUGH AbUt The Raiders will play in a seven learn league this sea son against Owen Sound and Port Elgin Competition should bo for the Raiders as the folding of the Senior A league In Ontario has meant that some of those teams like and Col returning National Hockey League NHL referee John said this week he expects lo be able to see his way back to regular duties season suffering on eye injury last February McCauley suffered the injury when an urate fan tave him a sucker punch to he a bar In New York following his assign mcnl in the Canada Russia Challenge Cup Since that time two operations have failed to clear his double McCaulcy a 13year vete ran official and a George town resident told he He mid Ihis week that he will not be returning until Ins eye is 100 per cent corrected Us improving he said my vision is but I have double vision II aggravating and but I hope to be back within six months I may still need another operation Despite the injury joined others at this years NHL officials training camp in Etobicoke I just had to keep myself in shape When his eye is back to normal he will join the regular man team up this year with expansion following a week in the minors to get my timing Super clinic for skills lingwood colored the Inter The Raiders do nave a mediate league And players jump on many of Ihe learns on other folded senior teams their league who are just hac signed on with the clubs beginning training in this league As well a few camps his week while the players from the now defunct Raiders arc winding up and World Hockey Association are close to finalizing have to terms to ploy for the Hockey camp signs up Sept 14 tie conclusion of the very successful Georgetown Minor Hockey Support Groitp Hockey Conditioning Camp Ed reported that two hundred and forty five rej were accepted for the two week period and many names were put on a waiting list Head instructor Bill Hay ward conducted a rigorous programme assisted by Bob Webster Neil Cotton Keith Bennett Graham Tyler Charlie Harold Bill Lee Chris Milne John Mark Webster and Pot Team tryouts are well underway with good turnouts tor most levels Dates have been advertised regularly In the sports section of each newspaper COSTS UP this month the deliberated for considerable time over increased ice rates equipment costs and M H A referee fees in the proposed fifty thousand dollar All players must register with the Georgetown and Minor Hockey Assoc When boy signs his O M A card with a rep team he will be required to pay thirty dollars additional ninety dollars payable in two postdated cheques of forty five dollars each one due Nov 1 and the other due Jan 15 1380 This registration fee will provide for a minimum of twenty hours practice lime County and OMHA registration fees ice time for twelve home games all TriCounly and OMHA playoff tames It will help pay referee costs for regular season playoff games insurance team pictures tournament entry fees to a maximum of two and a regular season pass for one family member If this registration fee exceeds the group costs the balance will be returned lo the player at the end of ihe season The group is trying lo initiate a hockey school type practice as well as a regular weekly team practice for Novice throuth Major Pec Wee Hopefully with a sequential systematic programme we can develop much better yers and sec our teams advance further in playoffs G At least ten members will attend the meeting on Sept at the Royal York in Toronto A level two super clinic will be held Sept and 22 to cover coach as teacher game techniques team play basic skills skating push control an injuries work shop offensive systems and defensive systems The fee includes Saturday lunch Friday a clinic runs from to at Cedar vale while Saturday a events run from a m to f the arena Is being requested and further mation is available from Bill Richmond or Joe at The Georgetown and strict Minor Hockey Assoc a Lion Is sponsoring two coach clinics in cooperation with the Hockey 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