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B2 The Acton Free Preas Wed Marc In snowmobiling Copeland finishes 10th in MOSRA overall list Snowmobiler Gary Copeland of Crescent Street came home with a pair of trophies from the Midwestern Ontario Snowmobile Racing Associations sixth annual awards night at Stratford Saturday Mr Copeland took top honors in the C class super stock and second in the modified C stock He finished tenth overall In standings Its the first time in two full seasons of racing that Mr has finished in the top ten Racers Edge of Milton Mr Copeland sponsor also backed second overall finisher Tom Walsh of St Marys The 26year old Mr Walsh finished first In both B class modified stock and super stock He also took fifth spot in he straight modified George of London finished first overall in the standings All three drivers used Mercury machines Two top ten drivers used one an Cat and the rest Mercurys season starts in late December and goes for approximately six weeks depending on snow con ditions Races are held at several towns including Norwich New Hamburg Thorndale and Glencoe Snowracers can cover a half mile oval track in 30 seconds with top speeds on a stretch reaching m p h Mr Copeland started racing on snowmachines three years ago He took a second place in the Men sponsored races over Fairy Lake early in Montreal top Legion midgets i Montreal won the Legion house leagues midgets championship with a vie over Toronto Legion president Fred Allen presented the Branch trophy to the team Crests were presented to all players Dave Morris of the Toronto squad received the high sc or trophy from midget con vener Ed Wood Trophy Ed S tans bury coach of the Montreal team presented the trophy for the most improved player to Colin Gary Pickles led the treal scoring with a goal and two assists He first helped Paul put away the game winner in the second period scored himself then set up Steve third period marker Dave opened the Montreal onslaught in the first period on a goal from Terry Winters Toronto Dave Morns re- Dave and John Gait picked up assists Schedule for Champions Day Acton s house league minor hockey season winds down this Saturday when the Legion Minor Hockey Association holds Its annual Day of Champions Teams eliminated from the playoffs will play consolation games in the morning while sudden death championship matches are slated for the afternoon Presentation of the Charles Thomson Memorial Trophy will be made at about 3pm Legion officials are hoping for plenty of support for the one day event at the arena Saturday A schedule of games follows Consolation game 30 Cleveland Tidewater Rochester Springfield 9 London Hamilton Weston Guelph Aeros vs Oilers Jets vs Championship games 1 p Oshawa St Kitts 2pm Richmond vs Baltimore 3pm Brampton vs Dixie Cougars Nordics Cougars over Toros onto Legion finals The Cougars skated over winning marker In the second theTorosbythe tuneof5lln period Garry Williams also legion hockey bantam level got an assist on Allen Vaughn Cole and Les Nad The Cougars advance into were the other Cougar IheiinalsatlheDayofCham marksmen Ted Nadhazi pions Saturday ped up a pair of assists Dave Johnson led the Cou Joe from Reu gar scoring with two goals ben Salmon made the sole and an assist on Jim Allen reply for the Wi Rock and Broom GARY COPELAND brought home the hardware from the Midwestern Ontario Snowmobile Rac ing Association s annual awards night at Strat ford Mr Copeland took a first m class C super stock and a second in the modified stock He placed 10th overall in MOSRA s stand ings Splash flashes by Pickering by Pete Vldler During last week our last mixed was held sponsored by D Hiram Walker Distilleries and Jack Ridley Cartage After a tic week of play two winners emerged On the Ridley side Fieback led his rink Nicole Campbell Jim Cough and Chris Geggie to five wins and no losses to capture the prestigious Ridley trophy Word has filtered back to this reporter that the club was hopping last Friday night after win after his losing his first game went on during the rest of the week to capture the Walker side of the The rest the rink included Helen Otterbein Graham Peel and Jane Wat son mention must be given to Fred Archibald who skipped the rink in the last game and did a fine Job es pecially after taking a defeat from Vldler the night before The early Friday night draw has had a winner decided after Tony Verbik played Don Ross on Sunday night Tony and hb rink of Finn Verbik Knickle and Karen beat out Don and rink of Linda Ross Doug Appleyard and Congratulations to both rinks for a fine display of curling throughout the year During the past weekend the Third Annua World ville Jim Glen Gray and Pete Vidler from our club entered this class event along with Jim of Niagara Falls After win ning on Friday night the Acton rink came up against Paul Savage on Saturday They valiantly against Savage for the first six ends and were even with him but Savage took three on the seventh and that was it for the Acton rink However they were one of only three teams out of six who played Savage to last more than six ends Play for OMHA top honors and South Lon don ore the finalists in the annual showdown for the All Ontario Major Bant Crown The series starts Friday in Markham Both teams eliminated their opposition in semi final action in three games straight Milton fell to Markham by scores of and South London Salt fleet Ml and 31 Optimists the Firefighter Bantams in quarter final action three games to two This week mark the end of our winter session of Swimmers will be and evaluated all week long with the final Red Cross for the Junior Intermediate and Senior candidates held Friday evening Therewillbea list of successful swimmers in next weeks In addition to the Friday night evaluations the Leader Red Cross exam will be held Saturday evening and the Bronze mtdilhon exam Sun day morning Those who pass hi leader valuation will Ix to lifeguard and be assistant instructors Some will be hired to work at Acton pool and Fairy Lake this summer Georgetown swimmers are travelling up to pool for these two exams Best of luck to all those involved Temperature The water temperature dropped to a cool degrees last week due to a broken water temperature is batk up to the normal degrees F While on topic of cold water it should mentioned what to do if you happen to fall into the chilly it this time of year It is predicted that in degrees C water an average person would bt able to swim a little less than a mile before being completely If you fall in do not drown proof Putting your head in chilly water cools your body per cent faster than just treading water head above surface Better still if you arc wear ing life jacket do not move your body al all and bring your knees to your chest This position know as HELP heat escape lessening posture protects your critical areas and the cooling process would be slowed and survival lime increased by double the survival time of a swimmer in the same water These points should be remembered as our Ontario waters are not comfortably warm until the middle of June Saturday is registration day at pool Classes are filled on a first come first served basis so make sure you re there on lime Rembcr learning to swim is the first slip to take in becoming Wise Marzo in last game Pete Marzo played his last college hockey game in the American National Collegiate Athletic Associations Nat lonal Finals at Denver last week Pete who played minor hockey in Acton helped the Boston University team to third place in the national fin Pete got an in the final game which Minnesota won The Minnesota Golden Gophers finished in first spot followed by the Michigan Tech Huskies Boston and Brown University of Rhode Island To be eligible to play in the national finals Boston University had to take top honors in the eastern division Brown Harvard and Cornell Lad Sizes to 4 ALL WEATHER and DRESS COATS Men Navy Si Brown Sizes to 44 LEISURE SUITS Other EASTER CARDS and FOLDERS TIME FOR 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