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SPORTS AROUND TOWN T HERALD Jets Hit Drag Strip The stands were packed at the Toronto Internationa on Saturday night The main attraction of the evening was the contest Untouchable was one of dragsters are powered by the Jet cars at Saturday a modified airplane engines Toronto International that produce over horse meet These power HALTON HILLS SPORTS By Steve Wall Drag Racing Spectacular To the uninitiated drag racing must seem like a very strange sport It a barely evolved from the stoplight grand In as much as all the driver does Is put foot on the gas and hope for the best Yet drag racing is one of the most popular sports In North America lust about every racing authority In existence and still hardly ever gets reported by the national press or who owned a car In the early a drag racing began in the US withagenerationofkiaswhohaanothlng better to do than mess around with cars If I was a sociologist I All I know is that on Saturday night at the Toronto In temational on Highway kids from all over Hills were burned blinded and deafened by five jet cars competing against themselves These cars are extraordlnarycreations Basically they are airplanes without wings The drivers or pilots sit In front flnddirectthesecarsdovmthequartermileiitrip At the end the cars are slowed down with parachutes It sail very dramatic to watch especially when the cars revup their engines or whatever you do with a Jet engine and the Toronto International like all motor sport venue the world over has Its own unique at The sheer power of the machines la over whelming and the speeds they reach are bard to com prebend Unlike most sports drag racing can be appreciated by those who know very little about the finer points of com petition It Is perhaps In the traditional North American way best described as a spectacle sport And the best way to appreciate Just what I mean is to pay a visit to the strip on Highway any Wednesday or Friday evening DETROIT TIGERS HOLD The Detroit Tigers baseball team Is holding a tryout camp In Guelph s Exhibition Park on Saturday July 20 The Tigers who play In the American Baseball League have sent Bob Prentice their chief Canadian scout and Bill Lalole thelrcoKtrdinatorofscoutingtorunthecamp Walt Jeffries Ron Gumbley and Jim Ridley will help in the camp All boys who live In and around are Invited to attend- to Ottawa in September to compete In the National Championship Because of their good per formance the teams from the Georgetown Bowl are well known provlnctally FaceLift For Bowling Arena Work was started last Thursday at Georgetown Bowl There are no bowlers at the alley but the lanes are by no means empty Georgetown Bowl Is taking out the old Brunswick automatic pin setters and replacing them with newer ones In fact the new pin setters are the latest most sophisticated model They are smaller safer and more trouble free than the older model This will result in faster easier bowling as well as more room behind the machines for vicing Georgetown Bowl has been open since 1H1 and since then tola Is the first time that up dating of equipment has been undertaken Next year the building that houses the Georgetown Bowl will be added to and eight more lanes will be available to bowlers These new lane will have the same type of pin setting equipment now being Installed in the existing part Georgetown Bowl which is owned by Radyk handle about public and league bowlers per week Julie Burnt li champion in league bowling and will be travelling BINGO THURSDAY NIGHT at 800 pm HOLY CROSS PARISH HALL OTHER SPECIALS JACKPOT 53 Numbers between five Jet Cars The one above Compulsion was capable of producing WW and of reaching speeds of over along the quarter mile strip The Dixie team was removed from the league for defaulting two games in a row due to In sufficient players and their games were thrown out of the standing and two changes made In the schedule to balance the schedule to have all teams play each other three times and now play only fifteen games Instead of the original eighteen games The balance of the schedule fallows Rained out games have been fitted Into the schedule also Wed July 17 Georgetown at Wed July StreeUvUle at July IB Glen Williams at Hornby M July 19 Hornby at Georgetown Sun July Mlsslssauga at Streetavtlle 6 Town Fires There were six fires In the Georgetown area since last Thursday Four of these were One was on Thursday at 12 30 am north of Williams another occurred the same day at 13 S3 p m at the Georgetown park and the third happened Saturday afternoon on the Road The fourth car fire occurred at oh Friday on Victoria Street The remaining tires were as follows a m Friday a house on Maple Ave and Saturday a lantern caught fire In a lountalnvlew Road home 32 Mon July at Glen Williams 98 Wed July Glen Williams at Mlsslssauga Sun July Georgetown at Mon July HiUsburgh at Glen Williams 28 Wed July Georgetown at Mlsslssauga Aug Glen Williams at Hornby to be advised at Mlsslssauga iSSK V that playoff the or even the final a position will probably go to game It Is very easy to see by the teamin LADIES LEAGUE SELECTS AN ALL STAR TEAM At a recent meeting of the League Managers and Coaches they selected an All Star Team and a secondAUStarTestnreDresenttheleague Those selected to the teams ere First Team 2nd Sue von Georgia Lewis Georgetown Elaine Lewis Georgetown Judy Rash Hlllsburgh Nancy Rhynold Hlllsburgh Gail Young Georgetown Judy Piper Glen Williams Cindy Stafford Glen Second Team Sue Georgetown Penny Mather Misslasauga Hamilton Glen Wma Mine Kemshead Glen Alice Hancock Glen Lelthwood Streetsville Barb Johnston Hlllsburgh Mary Bullock Hlllsburgh Bulla Ball Mlsslssauga tie Sville Hlllsburgh Mlsslssauga GlenWms 13 10 10 7 3 9 10 10 10 Ontario believes that residents 65 or over the blind and the disabled should have an income of at least 2600 a year In July Ontario will introduce Special Benefits program It will place extra funds on tap of fetlerul I Guaranteed Income enough to guarantee 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