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10 Wednesday Many events have been planned for Acton and surrounding area this summer with many taking place a Prospect Park Over the next couple of weekends Acton Minor Softball will be running their annual tourney which brings boys and girls of all ages to town for some friendly competition This coming Saturday the boys will see action with four atom squirt and peewee teams tangling for championship honors In the atom division Acton will have two squads vying for the title against and Brookville while the squirt teams will come from Acton Rural Glen Williams and The two Acton Pee Wee teams Rural and Tri county have both entered with Cheltenham and Glen Williams Games are slated to begin at on Saturday morning on both local din monds Next weekend the girls teams should be here with an added bantam division Games are lo be slated for Friday night and all day Saturday to accommodate the extra group In July preparations are under way to host a team from Connecticut Recently the paper received a letter In the mail from a group of business men who take a week of their vacation each year and simply play ball This year the group is coming our and if final details can be worked out they slop here for a couple of games on Saturday July Their gimmick is on unusual one There t one They play two games one fastball game and a slow pitch con lest against teams with any profits from the game going to the charity of host I own s choice The Acton Industrial Fastball League is trying to set Ihe game up and they II probably square oil against an allstar team with proceeds from the event going to the Rotary Club Easter Seal cam Details arc still being worked out More when everything is finalized There will also be an Acton Industrial Fastball League tourney the local park for ball enthusiasts So far this season there seems to be a fewer number of local soccer and ball teams or results just coming our way It seems that local sports groups gave up sending In results when informed that Monday at is the deadline for sub milting articles In an attempt to get all the results we 11 extend that until Tuesday morning One thing thai Ihe stair of the Free Press ask is that results come in weekly Far loo often stories or articles are sub illlcd only when a team wins We ask that articles or score sheets be submitted every week if passible to keep readers Informed of the result no matter howbadjoufcclyourteamlsdoing You owe It to the parents players fans spon and your sell The McKetulrSmlth threeplica squad took top honours In their tournament division Thursday In The girls pounded W I Wildcats In the championship game 1M Team members are front row left lo right Kim Margie Parker Second row Christine Sleep Carrie McMillan Monica Parker Third row Tammy Forbes Chrfata Karie Gudgeon Elizabeth Roebock Back row Tammy Linda Kelly Harrison Cindy Dunn The boys team their area tournament In Thursday The team defeated Holy Cross 192 In the final game to take the crown Team members are first row left to right Geoff Maltby Raymond Second row Paul Kilpatrick Carl Peter Cyril Mobs David llaynes Third row Kosui David Roden Greg Frank Katilllerts Dairy Bart Scott Williams Back row David Hint John an Dam Acton falls couple of runs short in Oldtimers fastball tourney final For the first time In three years the Acton Oldtimers knocked off the powerful squad but it just enough as they tried to win their own tourney at Prospect Park on the weekend The local Oldsters claimed the first game of the double knockout final but came up just short losing in Ihe second game The Harvey Firestone crew opened the tourney with a win over Scarborough be fore suffering their first loss of the event to From there the locals went on a winning streak that included victories over Truck 3 Milton I and the 3D win over before the second loss eliminated them Acton third Backer Jules Russian was voted the tourney MVP scoring five runs and being voted MVP in three separate to pick up their first win of Ihe tourney as Mill Ball doubled and scored in the extra inning for the win Scarborough scored In the first and third innings while Acton matched them In the second and third but from then on It was scoreless until Ball s smack In their second gome the locals walled too long before coming lo life scoring all three of their runs in the final inning Avery Ball and Tim Penny did the damage for Acton after had built up a lead Acton rebounded scoring thrilling seventh inning win over Acton scored twice in the first inning while counted In Ihe first and fourth to deadlock the match before Kutasienski base hit drove Villa A Lacklustre performance home Penny with game winning run Four first Inning runs provided the win for the Acton crew against Dwyer Truck Lines as Russian Tom Brain Kutasienski and Jack Gudgeon alt crossed the plate A run by Penny put the icing on the cake in the fourth before tried in vain to come back in the fifth with three runs Two third inning runs were enough to lift the Acton team past Milton and into the tourney final as Russian and Brain again combined scoring on Ball double Milton got one back in Ihe Inning off Usher but the locals held on for the win and a shot at was stymied by the pitching of Roger the first game of the final as they stranded nine runners in the seven Inning contest Russianl scored twice for Harvey Fire stone with Brain crossing home for other Acton made the most of their chances stranding just four It was not to be however as I wo second Inning runs and another pair in the third lifted to the tourney title Acton got a run from Ball in the second Inning and another from in the third to keep close but the Acton squad Tell one short when it was all over as Ball scored his second of the game In the seventh inning Other teams thai competed In the event included Llmchousc and Georgetown Casselman Fuels Tourney Summary Bramalea Lira chouse Milton Georgetown 3 Rex dale Truck 1 Acton 3 Scarborough Truck 1 Milton Truck Scarborough Aclon 11 Milton 4 Dwyer Truck Aclon I Acton Bramalea by Dave Dodds Desmond Acton Villa A came up with a lacklustre performance on Friday night losing their first game of season 10 to Georgetown Meteor Blue at home As the score indicates It was a very closely fought game Meteors had he better scoring chances by controlling play at an area In which coach Dave Lewis feels he has to work with his team Any scoring chances had were nulificd as ihey had no finishing touches in front of the Georgetown goal Acton played unusually poor in the this game and nobody was really outstanding Villa will gel a chance lo get their game back to normal Wednesday night tonight as they travel to Milton to face Butcher Tinny baseball digest by Paul Nolan There comes a point in the existence of a sportsman when he becomes more recognized for what he represents than for what he actually did One who is able to re call the game of baseball rather than the businessofit is a natural resource In search of a diamond drill bit Tinny Masales Is a gold mine Tinny is one of Acton classic sportsmen known lo the wig est of local bowlers and the eldest of local ballplayers To hear him speak is fun What a concept in baseball in at age twelve Two years later Tinny began lo travel to Toronto regularly to see the old Maple Leafs play By when lie White Joined him he was hooked for life There wasn I any Sunday baseball back then Tinny recalls so and used to sneak into the hotels to see the boya Wed mix with the ballplayers He remembers the players Sparky Anderson Dale Alexander Els ton Howard They were good guys Now there are so many millionaires they bother with you Tinny interest wasn restricted to just watching the game of course In 1923 he captained the town County Junior Champions Fondly he reviews the lineup Neil Gibbons George Jigglns Sparky Drone Bill Kaley Frank Bauer Walter Bauer Arlie While played some outfield and caught some games for the team Bob Scot l was the manager We were given a banquet in the old town hall after we won Tinny recalls The town presented us with Vneck pullovers The following year while playing for the Acton he drove Into third Lifelong sportsman Tinny reflects back upon some times in his association with area baseball base and broke his right arm right ankle and his right leg In a single slide I had to turn southpaw for a while Tinny recalls but thai didn stop me The players now come out of the gome if Ihey have a hang nail In the olden days we played more for the love of the game It enough to make one pine for the early days of baseball When the grass was real rather than plastic an organic vision on a lazy afternoon in July Tinny t a cynic He knows what he likes though Right now in pro ball I like Pete Rose You know his heart In the game when he runs lo first base after a walk He also pledges his faith lo the Blue Jays of Toronto I listen lo their games every night on the radio when I can and I try lo make Saturday games when they re playing at home I ve taken a lot of kidding but this year I have a bel that they finish fourth or higher in their division And an outside chance of winning It Tinny Is very much a Jays fan even though Ihey play on in a concrete stadium But lis no secret that adaptability is a characteristic of any classic sportsman Tinnytalksofalimc when Whi ley Lloyd and 1 would go around own ask the sponsors for five dollars toward the town steams He adds that he s tickled to death that so many people in town sponsor the kids teams of today Tinny admits however that his interest isn quite as sincere and his love of baseball Hardball may be coming back though he says he hopes However anyone who has ever spoken of the game with Tinny would likely be quick to add that its never really left Pitcher Gram Usher ducks as Acton Old timer earn mate Wet KuUilenikl fires a throw to Tom Brain on first base during action against Rexdale on Sunday Acton won this game 32 Acton Don Archibald fouls off a pilch Rcxdale In action Sunday morning Aea of the OMUmm sets sight m first daring a I Park