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Tutoring a junior dirt track champ ByDAVtHOWNEY Herald Sports Editor There a no doubt in Mike a mind that the main reason why he s the top Junior dirt track rider at he mile is because of Jon Cornwell help The grade thirteen student from Georgetown says he owes Com well and the entire Cornwell Racing Group a great deal for ihelr work in keeping his custom built motorcycle on the Hack Instead of in his garage who also ended the season as the fifth ranked rider in the Junior national championships soys the cooperation between Georgetown riders enables hem to race more competitively Quite often Mike fellow riders Steve Duff and Dave will exchange motorcycles for races if one Is broken The threesome travel to dirt track races in Ontario and Quebec with North American expert rider Jon Cornwell is accompanied by Brian from Acton who Is Jon mechanic Leonard Stipe ley Is the finetuning expert the technician of the Racing Group Bob Sobering from Brampton also works together with the four riders Jon helps about different riders If not for him we get chance to ride Doucette The sharing of motorcycles sometimes back ires Decently Dave borrowed Mike a 2j0 for a race and did considerable damage However Mike understands and he willing to pay for the damage because if he damaged Broom hinds hike he would pay for its repairs Mike is a rookie on the dirt track circuit but he been a veteran of mo tocross racing since grade eight This summer Mike would have rode motocross at the senior category but Jon and the other local riders convinced him to race dirt track One of the biggest differences In the two types of racing is the speeds Involved Mike says mile track can accelerate to 110 on straightaways while Jon bike can get up to 130 he says Last summer Cornwell broke his pelvis and his bike Mike went up lo visit Jon and he was offered use or his bike for the rest of the season RIDER one of the best riders in the United States and the best in Canada if it t been for his unfortunate accident last year During the winter Jon Mike travelled together on the Iceracing circuit He gained valuable experience with Jon and Mike ended up the high point winner at the end of the season In his junior class Jon taught Mike how to do his own mechanical work by telling him to Just sit back and watch encouragement biking lips from all the Georgetown riders have helped to Continued on page 11 DONS AUTO SERVICE Electrical Repair Servicing Santo Oil Changes I THE I1FRALD Wednesday August Page 1 the HERALD Borthwiche wins tourney North Hal ton Golf and Country club held their Ladies Invitational Saturday and crowned Gail as champion shooting an won a set of woods while Wosney of Aurora won a stereo set for the low net score of In all about 111 players took part with local club players qualifying or the The tournament had a Hawaiian theme Some of the low scorers from the area were Shirley Gall Gerry Caird Cathy Crowe 911 Anne Hartford 95 Cathy Crowe the reigning North Halloo Golf and Country Clnb Ladle golf champ readies to tee off Saturday at he North Ha Hon Ladles Invitational Gail won the event booting an si Crowe managed a 91 on the course Herald by Limehouse fastball humble Blue Jays BARB Abb He ratd Special Regular season was wrapped up in last week with the last four places being decided by the last two games played Oilers and the Blue Joyscame out as the big winners In the first game Sun day morning the Oilers took forfeit when the Indusmln Expos failed to field a In second game the Hawks came out on top of he fad Blue Jays 203 Considering that centre fielder Dob Schofield held the Hawks to until the fifth inning when his pitching arm decided to rebel this game pitcher In Sunday final game Lalng Hustlers proved that there Is still some winning on Ihelr team when they trounced the Abltibl boys II with two home runs Both were In the second inning The first knocked out of the park by John Case and the second was a beautiful Grant Slam scored by Glen Scolt Glen was also 3 for 3 at the plate The game between the Hawks and the Hustlers started out as anyone game Peter started the scoring on a double and Gary Glllls brought him home Three more runs in the second for he Hawks two brought in on Fred Butler double and Hob s twobaser scored Fred and the game Is now 1 Hawks Roger Brawn crossed the plate In second inning and Earl Ma It by scored In the Third Then the Hawks started to soar getting six runs finishing with a home run out of the park by Marty to relire their side Although Hustlers did get a five run Inning In ihe fourth and two more single runs he Hawks total runs of 19 was still more than the Hustlers In Wednesday game between Ihc Abltibl Price boys and the the star player was Bob On the mound for lib Hob threw a two hitter striking out nine players and his learn held I mm in scoreless while they brought in seven runs Score Abltibl In the final deciding game or the standings the Pel rehaul Ollcs and Blue Jays played a draw This decided he standings and paired off the third place cam Oilers against Lalngs Hustlers and fourth place Indus Expos against the Blue Jays Playoffs started on Sun day HARVEYS TIRE CENTRE Local team split playoff series Those power hitting Midgets The Inter Transport mid gets opened their Ontario Baseball Association playoff series lai day at the Fairgrounds against Pel ham won the match up Tht rip hardball had hits in ihc game powered by Ihe pitching of Rod Wilson who hid an excellent Tile under if boys Tin shed their season recent ly playing In the highly competitive Ha lion Coun hall Association against tains like Brampton Burlington Oakvlllc Mississauga and Streets The win against Pel ham was by the collective hitting of the entire earn said manager Pot Brook Pitcher Rod Wilson went for Greg Robert son was close behind with three hits lor Five times at GOOD PI Several outstanding in the I r I I Is Nell Hob Wilkes and Pat Outfield duties were handled very effectively by Hob Mike Mc lark and Tom It was very rewarding lo sec the cam start to hit the hall well or said They played heads up ball he sard- rainsoaked con til ions the Interamerl can midget were slowed down and were edged out by the following day In an away game a tight game was played under cold and rainy conditions manager said Robertson pitched a good hat saw the leid clinic hands times he said me v s I MI I posed double but lie use of he adverse conditions the game was cancelled The and final game of the first round of playoffs for midgets willslirt The winner of game will play Port Hope Sun day If Georgetown wins the game will be played against Part Hope at the Fairgrounds Inter midgets are coached by Jim Parker In rep news the Tyke reps ended up tied for fifth In the County Baseball Assoc playing In the major division The drew a bye which them to champ- Ions held lilwr iIjj weekend The will feature six will be a The I Tht rep Lions let out roar as hey entered playoff against Milton However settled it wjs who proved that was more fearsome than their bark won the weekSBgtTtffC Eagle Junior entry were by wo games to one The Georgetown Base ball are plan o hold heir house leauL playoffs Monday September of the Labor Day weekend Glen squirts wear crown The Squirt of the Rural league are the happy champions playoff bust ball having won crown beating such as neighboring Hornby and Limehouse Seen here arc back row lefl to right Jeff Dean Doug centre left to right Cooper Brent Glen Stork Greg Greg Dave Chi tie n front Irft right Don Quest Derek Meyer Glen Dean Kevin Hoe and John Bali title Herald photo Hornby squirt girls take trophy for 2nd time The 1982 version of the Hornby Squirt Girls Soft ball Team has won the Elmer Memorial Trophy donated by The Glen Williams Minor Soft They won this award last year also The Hornby girls also John Trophy for ending up In first place at end of the regular schedule They were chased all year Glen Williams the team they met in the finals Excitement at the Hornby and Glen park when these two lea ma met In the finals Good Ball when Ihesc two teams met In the finals Hornby won the series in two straight games but both games went down to the last Inning before a definite winner was de clared In gam cone which was so last It only took less than an hour play Hornby hung on for a victory The Glen had the bases loaded with two out and Hornby pitcher Rbo- struck out last to seal the win After three Innings the Glen were winning two to with Hornby scoring four runs In Ihe fourth Glen was able to get one run in Ihc lop of Iho fifth load the bases and then held from gelling any other runners across home plate In the line up for Gien Williams was Jill Wind sor Mary Connelly All an Sandra Weeks Steph mile Traccy Weeks Julie McCurdy Handle Julie Andcr son Hughes Jo anne ens Debbie Lawrence In the tine up for Horn by was Jane Ho Lewis Griffiths Rat a tine Heather Speck Wendy Angle la Andrews Nicole Linda Waters Olscn Kelly Stew art Wilson Game two he excite ment ontinued with Hornby picking up five runs In the first and Glen scoring After two innings Hornby had built up a lead but the Glen started to close he gap and after three complete Innings the score was for Hornby Each team scored four runs In the fourth and was held scoreless In Ihe fifth Inn ing end the game 141 1 Now excitement of winning look over for Hornby and the Glen Will lams team will be heard from next year in the Squirt Girls division as have nothing to be ashamed of by losing the Hornby Squirt Girls Scoring for Ihe Glen In game two was Sandra Weeks and Julie with two each and single runs were scored by Alison McGill Hughes Jill MCurdy Stephanie LaFlamma Julie Anmderson Joanne and Law Hornby runs were led by Jnnette Lewis and Griffiths Chudlelgh scored three each Single runs were Continued on page