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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), June 12, 1985, p. 20

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Soccer origins show violence The game of soccer has Us earliest recording bach in dark ages of Far Eastern history Mongolian tribesmen played a game of footle with he shrunken heads of their captured enemies or vassals They first shrunk the head then wrapped it In hide then charged up and down on horseback team against team bashing the head with sticks forerunner of polo also and latcrendcdthegameonfoot kicking Sometimes they used a live body usually that of a child for the horseback section then severed the head and kicked it around The point Is soccer is derived from a far more violent background than Is in vogue Although it may be returning to Its beginnings Whilst the recent tragedy Is In our minds as a terrible happening and blaming the English fans It should be borne In mind that England is not alone with the violent side of the game Only a few years ago a referee was shot at in Windsor Ontario by a spectator Today fans are being ejected from Exhibition Stadium for misbehaviour what next We certainly have no room to be complacent 1 agree with the banning of English clubs from International European competition for present until the clubs put their own house In order Other countries have not been faced with such a ban however and I do believe that the English are being made scapegoats Similar treatment must now be meled out to the others who arc guilty of fan misbehaviour Nice to see that Wee Billy Murphy relumed from Sweden with a couple of wrestling medals in what must have been a personally satisfying campaign I gather the team result was Took in part of a bantam house league match last week and saw the immediate effects of Ihe combination of the former reps now selects upon the standard of play The same comment can be made about the higher division with the too old for junior players Adam DJuk Keith Spiller Travor Harkley Glynn Teddy to name a few And if there is a better goalie than Alan I d like to see him or her Hopefully the lads will see a change of ref this week as I am injured fell off the golf cart on Saturday and fell over the ball on Sunday and hurt both hips too old I reckon Aiera couple of abortive attempts to set up small meeting with councillors and the recreation director finally we were due to meet Tuesday on the director home ground so to speak The meeting is to discuss mainly the soccer flag football posts situs on I understand that there will be several other items to be discussed which are as Important to group as the goalposts situation Inter county results 1 Acton Villa A Butcher 1 Meteor Blue Rangers A Meteor White 4 Div Mariners 9 Milton Varian Ajax 1 Park Ave Coll The big news is Villa A s defeat of Butcher Butchers first loss in years Magnificent work by young Colin Lewis destroyed the visitors and his late free kick to Sam brought the winner a Just ending to a fighting game also netted the first Villa goal to cap a satisfying display all round While got back on track with their win in after struggling with player shortages Blue continue to with their results Mariners nine goal rout of Milton Is overshadowed by the Milton outfit only being able to field eight players later 10 for the second half Alex Tough and Dave Chapman bath netted hat tricks and singles came from Tim Davis another special Archie Tannock and Steve Swinscoe maintaining his goal a game record since becoming a Mariner Mariners lead the 2nd with PAC who scored a men table win at Rangers B with Colin Hicks as stand In goalie receiving a broken for his efforts Ajax continue to try hard but still went down to Varian in a epic struggle at Dorsey This evening at 7 Meteor White vs Villa A at and V Mariners at Dorsey have a rest week and Varian travel to Milton and Blue to Butcher Improvement means win Last Tuesday a much improved Youngs Pharmacy defeated Blue Giants TerlJane and Trudy Shields pitched for Ihe winners while Annette Debrau and Maureen Brooker pitched for Giants Cyndy Kemper of Young and Christine of Blue Giants were the game stars In another game slid by Insurance 13 Wendy Middle ton Angle and Kim pitched for Dunlop while Karen Doyle and Cindy pitched for the winners Kavanagh earned game star honors with her pitching and hitting while entire team played well Later in the week Valdi Discount Food edged Standard Products Karl was the game star for the winners while Cindy Roulllard was the top player for Standard with her excellent catches at pitcher as well as triumphant hilling Sheila Stiles and Tracy Green belted homers for Standard it soft right Rent it LIMITED OF FEH CALL NOW For Men s Flag Football League action OTooles easily down I Id Special and Dairy Queen appear set to renew their rivalry this year as both won big this weekend Tooles patched while DQ blasted Peel Co Bandits Other winner were M and M Pro Sports over and Smokers over IAS North and played a heated gome that ended 0 formerly Greeks began their quest for record four Cups last week by thrashing the Bandits This week they again looked invincible as they destroyed Long horns Rick Baldwin drove the Longhorns to the slaughterhouse by lobb ing seven passes to six different receivers James Allan scored twice with John is Rob Rivers Paul Wilson Steve Peace and Dan Reynolds picking up the others Bob Davis was the lone Longhom able to break through the O Toole defensive cord on Dean proven led another score with an end zone Interception Dairy Queen vi Peel County Bandit Early In the season Dairy Queen again looms as the most dangerous Toole nemesis After their dltionai season opening dispatch of and M last week they went on this week to route the Ban dits Brian Davis and Randy Lunn had two TDs each for with Ron Lann adding another Bandits managed two majors with Ken Baker and Allan Kaplan scoring Jeff Lockwood stymied the anemic Bandits attack with a pair of interceptions North This was a secsaw defensive struggle by random acts of violence most notably a John La rose tackle on Brad Ferguson La rose played a prominent game In other ways by snaring two North Halt on passes Kevin Brown turned the Favor with two North inter including one he returned 100 yards for a touchdown Ray Peacock scored North other major For Ferguson hit pay dirt with two majors North engaged in last play heroics as they blocked a field goal attempt to preserve the tie and M Pro Sport The bleachers groaned under the weight of half down bleary eyed fans as these two heavy weights took to the field to do battle at Sunday Norval offence admittedly missing their first string looked like they were audition for Monty Pythons twit of the year contest This was particularly comforting for a make shift group of M and M defenders some of whom weren t quite sure what planet they were The Pro Sport offence did all it had to do to secure a win when Paul Egcrton scored the gome first major in second quarter He added another later as did Bob Morrow Doug Colter picked off two Norval passes gaining a total of five yards of the IAS vs Smoke Shop Sorry folks Smoker stats available for this one Suffice to say the old men pulled of another win although usually reliable sources report that it was close Smokers were led by the graceful defensive pirouettes or Steve Frost sporting a dandy pair of Don Ho bloomers IAS coming off an opening game win over tallied TDs from Wilson and Doug Georgetown Pee Wees win consolation title COLIN BROOKES Herald Corrapondcnl The North Sports major peewees travelled to Wheotley this weekend to compete in their first tournament of the year After dropp ing their opener 11 10 In extra innings to Leamington the team were seeded in the conso lation division The opening game saw Kevin Barrow pitch four strong innings allowing two earned runs Jeff Hannah McCauley Mark Jason Bonneville and Mike Mc oil had extra base hits Bonneville had two double and three runs batted in Georgetown came out hitting in their next game with Harrow and quickly went ahead 120 after two innings After the dust had settled the game was called alter five Innings on the mercy rule as Georgetown led 141 Burke went the distance for his second win of the year He had seven strikeouts At the plate Shane Hannah to Kevin Usher Mc and Scott Van de all had two singles Usher and Van de bitted in two runs each The semi final game with Riverside was a similar story A mercy rule win 17 after six innings saw Van de Vnlk pick up the win Mr Slider had nine strike- allowed Just two hits He also had a single and triple with two runs batted in McCauley and Usher were perfect at the plate McCauley went an incredible for 5 with three runs balled in while Usher had two singles a double and triple for a for afternoon with three runs batted In Eddie Doyle hit a hard triple and was heading home when he was held up by a cautious third base coach The team and charged the coach with an error Georgetown met Essex the champs in final Burke was on the mound and was masterful in going the distance Tor his third win He gave up only three runs as the locals won 14 and took home the title Doylo did Ihe damage at the plate with a single double and homer no errors this time McCauley cashed in with two singles and a double white had two singles and a triple Burke helped his own cause with two Rob Doyle had two singles and two runs batted in while Sean Catcmnn had a hit and three walks while play strong first Last inning heroics give Pink Ladies win Pink Ladle Dingbats Pink Ladies clinched the win in the last inning closely played game Debbie Lindsay Debbie Titus Robin Hillock and Pat Mo shinier scored for the Pink Excellent pitchingby Jean Pucker ing and Poo along with sparkling catches by Sue MacDonald high lighted this solid team effort for the Green Golden Gloves 33 Bulldogs Gloves had a contl hitting spree in this game Carney belted two super homers and a double and single Sue and Joanne Tucker also had doubles Diane Leonard made lhre- great catches for Bulldogs Mary Ann Bradley had a great triple and double Janice Murray and Robin Richardson connected well at the plate Purple Power Black Sheep Purple overpowered their opponents in the romp Anne Dale Joanne Kemper Ruth Ann Wilkinson Debbie Patricia Green and Connie Darling enjoyed a good night at Ihc plate Sheila Kirk and Woodward were the sluggers and Bev Daqunno played well In the field Elaine Morland hit a fantastic homer for the Sheep 10 Scores close in all Ladies football games By J J TOMTYRL Herald Special Action was close this week with only eight points being the biggest point spread DIET CENTRE KING SUBMARINE This wes the game of the week The action went back and forth throughout DC Lisa Allen opened the scoring with a major as Mickey Richmond had the twopointer King came back as Calhy scored the major but DC scored again when Barb had the touchdown and King Vickery closed the gap with a 30yard touchdown run The action continued in the second half DC Anderson scored on a 70yard run and Dobson added a 5yard major and two pointer for the King cam The game was tight right to the end as DC Richmond scored a major on the last play of game Game stars were King and Anderson DC THRU WAY These two battled it out as the game was scoreless heading Into the final quarter Debbie Dwyer and Cmdi lioskins had interceptions for Thmway In the first half Work That Body broke through in the fourth when Jody Jacobs had the major and Dawn added the two pointer Work That Body continued the pressure with Donna Brown picking off a pass Thruwny Julie and Jacobs were the game stars NORTH ROYAL LEPAGE North and Royal LePage had a close game Diane Slonc put the Royal team on the board back in the fourth quarter Sandra Cousens had the major with Calhy Milne adding the twopoint convert North defence once again was brilliant and was credited for the win Mnrg Wilinga was the Royal game star while Jennifer Reynolds was the North Haiton J V JETSS PEEL COUNTY BANDITS These two squads played to a tie at half put the Jets on the board in the third with touchdown The Peel County Bandits had the ball on the Jets goal line a few times but I break through the Jets defence Kim Marcel intercepted a Bandit touchdown attempt to Marcel and Bandits Debbie Ferguson were the game stars Steady pitching and consistent hitting with solid defence paid off for Smurfcttes Leanne Macklc ran the bases aggressively and demon rated her sliding skills Foxes put together a good team effort but quite catch up Don st lock Blue Jays Flocks great batting by Sandra McMeekln Carol Dean and Dianne Saunders along with strong fielding by Dean Sharon Hale and Debbie thorn accounted for this win Marilyn Jones Mary Jones Cathy Van July Anderson Louth Peggy Rowlings and Kim Moral tallied for the Jay3 Grey Lightning IT Tumbler Lightning struck again Triples by Betty and Sharon Pahyk doubles from King and and superb field from Candy Arm strong engineered this win Tumblers Linda Paul Ruby Julia Bower Sandy Paddle and Diana Tripp answered for Tumblers Fourth game The Gordon Ladles B tennis team their fourth InterCounty match against Cobbleslonc No team winning only two sets Wilson and Mary McEwen against tough com pet ii ton had scores of 26 Midget Hampshire and Dai go in three sits lost with scores of Margot Prior and Norma lost with scores of ranees Brown and Oulda in three sets had scores of 46 62 16 Our next match Is away against No team Sweeping win The Gordon Alcott ladies B Intercounty tennis learn recorded a sweeping victory this week in their match with Brampton Kay King and Pat Harris won their game while Doreen Thomson and Ann Kennedy recorded decisions Audrey Houston and similarity needed two sets for a win while Is la Allison and Linda Rice went three games before winning 63 The team will take on Bra ma I en today Tough contests The Gordon mixed B Icaugc team came up against some tough competition this week against York Western No The team recorded a win In the six games played as Linda Rice and claimed the victory Larry Sisnctl 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