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a the acton free press wednesday september 3 irfc v i t i nf with the summer season pretty well wiped off the board for an other year the sports calendar mores to more reasonable events other year the sports calendarneves to more seasonable events the baseball season winds up its schedule with the world series in the near future to date boston and minnesota are neck andneck in the american league race columbus and toledo are tied one apiece jn the best of seven international league finals and st louis has a ten gams margin for the lead in the national league the toronto rifles are back in action after the club was sus pended a week ago by the league for failure to meet us financial obligations monday night in wheeling w va a meeting of seven other owners in the leagues eastern uivlsion voted to reinstate the rif les with the league itself taking over babba marriott took over jackie farters coaching position after he quit because he wouldnt compromise with his players on the managements drastic financial cutbacks were back in business said marriott but theres a lot of work to do the personnel situation claims may be helped out by two or three late cuts from the cleve land browns with whom rifles have a working agreement rs usually the same way every year when the toronto maple leafs and punch imlach make the warm up pitch before the hockey season is underway imlach has trouble money wise signing some of last years big guns and he makes a federal case out of the whole issue with fines and suspensions when these guys know darn well theyre going to get pretty near what they want imlach now has pulford pulled off the stemkowski pappla drive line the maple leafs most potent line at the end of last years season in pulfords place will be wayne carleton who has been working out with stemkowski and pappia since training camp opened the leafs open their is game exhibition schedule against the boston bruins friday night in london out tim horton is another hold back from the leafs and is supposed to be 500 poorer due to the fine levied by imlach for failure to show at the training camp that 37yearold defensenun cant afford to hold out much longer especially at his age andy nolan took top honors in saturdays legion masters golf tournament with an 80 for the 1 holes the legion members rallied out in numbers to enjoy the annual afnlr this year at hilltop golf course in erin the world of outdoors art with h a w e s there was a twoway split for top honors at maple rock shoot ing range and brad mainprise and dave johnson both got 25 straight it is me first 25 str aight for brad and daves second good shooting boys brad also got a 23 and a 20 other good scores included gord clow with 24 edhawes24 19 19 and 18 art hawes 24 and 17 john shadbott 22 and 22 wayne leadston 22 21 20 and 19 keith mainprise 22 and john cordes 21 and 20 this week was the last shoot in this series and the top three guns were john shadbott with an average of 2x5 out of 25 gord clow 225 and brad mainprise 219 top 5man squad was captained by john shadbott and included brian hammond wayne leadston bill hohenadel and john cordes their average was 191 out of 25 this saturday the sportsmens show sponsored by the acton chamber of commerce in con junction with the fail fair takes place the maple rock trap team is sponsoring a trap shoot with four other halton clubs the other clubs participating are the appleby gun club halton sportsmens association and hal ton trap club there will be several other events taking place also including a model airplane demonstration various displays of outdoor equipment a demon stration of trap shooting by doug norton one of the top men in canadian trap shooting circles a and miss frances searlewhohas won several canadianchamplon- shlps and outdoor movies an admission ticket to the fair includes free transportation and admission to the sportsmens show or a ticket purchased at the sportsmens showentitles visit ors to transportation and admis sion to acton fall fair sunday september 24 is the date of the second half of the an nual competition between halton sportsmens association and ma ple rock trap club in the first half of the shoot at the halton sportsmens association property near milton the maple rock me mbers took a narrow four bird lead the season for black grey and fox squirrels in halton and wellington is from september 30 to december 15 the bag limit is 10 per day aggregate totauand the possession limit is 10 the rabbit season in halton and wellington is from october 18 1967 to february 29 1968 bag limits on cottontail rabbits is six per day there is no bag limits on sgowshoe or european hare i have been around here for 20 years doing three mens work for one mans pay and i want a raise well i cant give it to you but if youll tell me the names of the other two men 111 tire them ilium jbowl for pleasure lllllbowl for health the entire family can bowl together make it a date bowl where the action is industrial laagua bowling begins sapt 20 acton bowling lanes 10 mam st n mbnubioapja 534170 btot st marys merchants win campbellvillc opened their annual pursuit or an oja title on sunday afternoon in campbellvillc and won by a core of 72 over st marys campbdlvllle jumped into a i 0 lead in the first when with two out moore doubled and scored on elliots single in the third they added three more to go ahead 4 0 with one out repfa singled moore popped up for the second out and replo then stole second ei was nit by the pitcher and mcphdil walked to load the bases king walked to force in a run and then chester doubled in two more hinds hurls no hitter at rockwood roberta save up two runs off nine hits hi walked two and struck out seven flak hurled the first six innings for st marys allowing six runs off eight hits he struck out five walked two and hit one batter in the last two innings ballen- tine allowed one run off two hits he walked two ha lings hit three singles for st marys l love doubled and singled and flack mitchell murray and i noble all sing led st marys 000 000 0202 9 2 campville 103 011 10 7 10 1 st marys flack balen- tine 7 and leslie campbellvillc robert and andrews acton branch of the canadian legion held its annual masters golf tournament at hilltop course erin saturday afterwards the golfers dined on roast beef at the legion hall where trophies were presented and plans made for next season front row sitting has the three low gross trophy winners with trophies top golfer andy nolan flanked on either siaefayjohnnv krapek left third low gross and julian zajac second low back row gil m legion sports officer les trevail second low net john turkosz low net tourney chairman sam brunelle barry inscoe top left hander paddy dick winner novice trophy and branch president gord james art ford won the draw for a set of golf clubs and canadian tire proprietor art gordon donor made the presen tation to mr fords wife staff photo blake hinds burled a no bitter for rockwood last night tues day jts the rockwood club bung a 50 shutout on georgetown hunters in the intercounty senior fastball league playoffs senior ladies softballers bow out to georgetown last thursday nights bout be tween the acton lga senior ladles and the georgetown geor gettes was officially deemed the third and final fallout for the acton girls as they last out 136 to georgetown in the best three out of five series not two out of three as erroneously reported last week joanne landsborough handled the pitching chores for the acton squad allowing nine hits off the georgetown bats and marilyn eagles georgette hurler let by 13 passes for the acton batters kelta stevenson liz kirby sandra slingerland jiu hurst and joanne landsborough each came up with double hits with pointers coming from gail fry er joanne fletcher a home run kelta stevenson jill hurst and sandra slingerland with a pair the georgetown squad took a firm grip on the game early in the first inning with 11 runs off six hits while the storekeepers held them during the following innings acton lineup j lansborough l dunn b macdougall g fry er j fletcher k stevenson j hurst a brunelle l kirby p wheeler s slingerlajid acton ladies r 002 201 1 6 h 004 412 2 13 georgetown r 11 01 010 13 h 6 20 010 9 sports paget masters golf tourney has over 50 entries over 50 golfers enjoyed a roast beet dinner following the legions masters tournament saturday at the hilltop course erin following the dinner sports officer gil malcolm acted as master of ceremonies for pre sentation of trophies the superior glove low gross trophy went to andy nolan and it was presented by julian zajac who came in behind andy and took the customs cleaners award it was presented by paul hurry john krapek took the carling trophy for third low gross pre sented by the company represen tatives gord mccutcheon presented the molsons trophy to john tur kosz who came in with low net second low net went to les tra- paddy dick won the novice golfer trophy presented by dave manes and the best left handed golfer trophy went to barry ins coe sam brunelle headed the com mittee which arranged the tourney first line tv sales ft service r 8531057 channel master antennas for perfect color and superb black a white reception guarantied lous tackled the used car market and is passing along touchdown bargains beat the 68 prices visit lous used cars 8564235 vail who accepted labatts trophy from dude lindsay registration 2nd acton brownie pack september 14 and 23 5 to 6 pm 1 275 registration fee on or before sept 23 i 2 10c weekly fairy gold weekly penny collection for unicef girls must earn or save own pennies 3 mothers are expected to join or support scout and guide mothers association 100 fee 4 parents wishing to buy or sell used uniforms tend not to brown owl i 5 mothers will occasionally be called upon as tetters or helpers on special occasions also please help your daughters to learn and practice for tests mrs jeanne combe brown owl is commgio the acton fall fair dont miss acton lions club steer barbecue at the acton fall fair sept 15th and 16th september 1516 here is your chance to play the exciting esso hockey game the hit of last years cne browse through the colourful hockey exhibit and find out whats new and better in modern home heating equipment all this is yours to enjoy when the big esso hockey caravan comes to town be sure you attend and enter your name in the big esso hockey trip contest its the big event of the season dont miss iti 7 esso od wn win a oneweek trip for 2 to any one of the12nhl cities of your choice jerry aaw feam a t -reart- coi on roteo atw ie a lw e you- f 1 41 s3 details at the esso hockey caravan skirrow85323ao your imperial eao agent and ho heat s box 299 acton out v a