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wrecking crew Victories plus cumulated frustrations Georgetown dirt trackers continue to cut a swath through the ranks of Ontario a oval racing fraternity The holiday weekend results came up with a mixed bag of disasters and triumphs On Friday night Jon Comwcll started the ball rolling at his first appear once at the Hamburg NY short track with a brace of victories in both expert classes Saturday a foul weather forced the cancellation of the short track but Sunday scheduled hair at the Tri- County Fairgrounds In ran on a dry and dusty track The Cornwell Racing Group and friends arriv at Tiilsonburg with six motorcycles by end of the day only one was running Act One scene one Dove Broomheads Honda doing double duty for Dave In the Senior class and Steve Duff in Expert class ate a valve In practice One b and two glum riders Act One scene two Bob Sobering or Brant Racing Group fellow traveller seized his Yamaha In practice Two down Act Two scene one Sobering and Cornwell doubled up on Comwcll a lightweight Sobering won heat and Corn well dicing over place clutch and finished second Frantic repair activity In pita by Sobering put the bike back together enough for the finals Two and a half Act Two scene two finished second in the heat and went out for the heat Third lap second place Ihe one and only brake broke as dove into the comer the bike ran off the outside of track and flipped sending over the bars Three and a half Act Three scene one Mike Doucctte sailing through hia heal In the junior class sailed through the leading all the way carburetor fell off on the last lap Four and a half down By this time the announcer calling our ct heroes The Wrecking ACT FOUR Act tour scene one Sobering out In the final on Cornwell light weight leading going away the seizes in a big way Five down and no for Cornwell In his final Finale Cornwell no doubt distracted by tho accumulated disasters flubbs Ihe start of the finul and finishes an In glorious fourth Brian Con oil mechanic with nothing left to work on serenely ides around in the junior final also picking up a fourth The Cornwell wrecking crew hastily stuff their bits and pieces back into the van and hightail it for home Another race to morrow night and bikes Continued page Inside Lions Slow pitch B3 B7 the HERALD HARVEYS TIRE CENTRE Georgetown 877 5110 THE HERALD Wednesday June Glen mens streak intact in rainsoaked tourney Four games were all the Glen Merchants Invl tatlonal fastball tourna could salvage be cause of the torrents of rain that fell throughout Saturday and Sunday weather did hold up long enough far the Glen Oldtlmers to overpower Alton 63 Friday night Glen Merchant coach Cliff Norton was Impress the calibre of the hill throughout the connects lor a hit The Glen Merchants have started their season well collecting six wins In six starts the direction of coaches Bod and Norton right the team won the fastball championship last year Including the four consecutive victories In the four remaining games In last year slplayoffs the Merchants have a togame streak without a loss Herald photos I game by the Glen Oldllm In he other Friday Belwoodbeat Acton On Saturday morning two games were played before the Inclement con lions made It ible to continue The Glen Merchants downed Cam bridge and the York Merchants beat Orange- vine Terry Haines pitched against Cambridge and played well Norton said The tournament will con next weekend on Saturday exactly where the teams left off Norton sold The Glen Merchants will play day night while the Glen Oldtlmero challenge Bel wood at m It is conceivable that the two Glen tct ms could face each other in the semi finals Sunday at If they both win their next JEFF HAINES The Glen was hilling well against Cam bridge tail Tuesday Let Wilson hit Jeff home for the winning RBI In 31 victory final Norton feels the biggest competition of the a will come from the York Merchants who won the championship Glen tourney last year But he adds that he thinks the will give York a run for their money Meanwhile Glen Merchants extended their regular season game- winning streak to six games after beating Cam bridge Juniors last Tuesday Jeff Haines pitched for the Merchants and was credited with a triple to right field Lea Wilson drove Haloes In for the winning RBI With four straight vic tories last year In tbe playoffs and six wins thus far Into tho season the Glen Merchants axe sitting on a 10 game streak without a Iota It was a sloggy win for Dairy Queen George Howies silver only medal winner for OFSAA challengers ByTIMTOLTON Herald Special Talk about adversity Dairy Queen not shook off an opening game defeat but also the stigma of bad press to shoot down first place In week two of the young season To the tune or slip away the Greeks Smoke Shop and and M Sports also slogged their way to wins In the astro muck Sunday Coming off a week in which were slighted by both M and M and the press Dairy Queen came back with a vengeance this week overwhelming Missing defensive star Glenby out with a broken foot was no match for the raging Steve Crossman led DQ with two Howie and had one each Jeff convert all four and picked off a pass on defence Bryan Myers had the lone score and Joan nominated for OGF special award Joan has been the guiding force behind what Is now a strong gymnastics program In Georgetown Joan was on the Board of Directors of the Georgetown from 196568 and 1B7072 During that time she served as Program Chairman Program Coordinator and Treasurer Under her leadership the Y in Georgetown started a basic gymnastic program in 196768 Tlcy hired two experienced coaches but were not interested in training teens to become certified coaches In 1970 Joan with the help of other Y board members set up a gymnastic leadership program In town Coaches were encouraged to attend York University for their levels 1 and From the sponsored about teens to train as coaches giving them local train and helping them financially to attend York During approximately 10 Georgetown rls were going outside town for more advanced gymnastic training Joan could sea that a gymnastic club was needed in Georgetown to provide more advanced training She managed to get tho parents together and Interested In forming club Joan could see that parents who would bo running the club were small in number and needed help She was able to get the Recreation Department of Georgetown to sponsor the club In this way the town and the parents both worked to run the club During Ihe period from 197662 Joan has worked very hard to make tho club strong giving of her knowledge understanding and love of the sport She has served on the executive every year and worked with all concerned to keep the club tunning smoothly As well she served as Secretary for Central Region in 1977 and 1978 The Halloa Hills Jills Is now a growing club we have a good base of volunteer helpers gymnasts and well trained coaches and judges Joan Aggiit was recently selected Hills Jills at their candidate for the Ontario Gymnastic Federation s outstanding contribution to gymnastics award Joan Is one of the Tew people who really understand gymnastics and see tho benefit of the sport for our youth One con not talk about gymnastics In Georgetown without acknowledging tremendous she has made Fairgrounds hardball lights a possibility Hardball lighting might still be a reality for Diamond A at Georgetown Fairgrounds Park Hills Recreation Director Tom Shepard said he currently is working on ways of putting additional lights for hardball with the help of the Georgetown Baseball Association The diamond was originally scheduled to receive llgl Is which would extend playing hours on the diamond but with the creation of a Junior hardball rep team Eaglet the GBA has lobbied for hardball lights to accommodate their club In league play Doug convert The Greeks gave some credence to their early claims to supremacy by easily handling Royal Mark Russell and John Karolldia both had a pair of majors to go with one by Unas Sta talis Steve Peace and James Allan each caught two point conversions Mike Milton delivered only Pino score of the game in the second Brian King added the In game three Plaza were Imized by the Smoke Screen defence who came up with four Interceptions and recovered a enroute to a win FROST HOT led 154 at the half thanks only to an end lone Interception by Steve Frost that snuffed out a promising Plaza drive Frost picked off er early In the second half and ran It back yards to score after Paul Allison had drawn Mountalnvlew to within 17 Bob Sargent second Interception of the game set up another Smoker score then Tim To ton recovered tho ensuing to pretty well bury Iho Plain A spectacular yard return during which virtually every Mountalnvlew player on Ihe field carried the ball beginning and ending with Jim Lindsay set up the final score by Bill Allison Terry did his Bobby Chandler five times for Delrex materializing In the end zone for four TDs and one two pt ion Werner Mlkolelt Chipped In eight Jack Butler three and Jerry Nell two SPORT WARS The day a final game was a pitched battle be tween the two local sport goods barons North Sports and and Sports and If this game was any indication North Halton should look for a new line of work they were swatted When a guy the size of John Owen burns ail your defensive speedsters with an as romp through Ihcmudforslx points its time to call a cab Continued on page By Herald Correspondent The closest anyone on the track and field team came to winning a gold medal at Ontario track and field finals last weekend was George Howie who placed second In the midget boys 100 hurdles Incredibly Howie time of seconds waa only three one hundredths of a second out from first He Is the only medalist from Georgetown this Other placing included three fifth places two of which were turned In by Doug Smith On Friday evening In Etoblcoke Smith ran a time of 3 in the senior boys ISOOm The winner of the event Dave set a new record of 3 in the event His second fifth place came Saturday when in the senior he ran a time of 1 58 Another hurdler Harwell used a time of 12 second in mid get girls to take third Georgetown fifth placing The only other person to make the top six In the province was Lynn Mac who took sixth In the girls 3000 with a time of 78 Many of the other quail tiers set personal beat marks in events but did not place in top six Georgetown Doug Smith seen behind liijhop Ryan number Bin Is based in pack team had their share of disappointments at the provincial high school championships last Photo by