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Pile I THE HERALD Wednesday November 1K4 Try curling and warm up your winter By Colin Gibson As one member aptly put it The season has been en joined What season Why the Halton Hills curling season or course always nice to while away the Inside the curling area to winter In the company of condense and rise to the top or ihe building and tiny drops of Although the night Itself was water fall to the ice The result a success the curling and the was hat the curlers had put curlers suffered slightly more of an effort Into ihelr because or problems with the th- iHip Ice John Cornelius who has that their rocks would Both the men and the opened their respective seasons last Monday The ladles SSS wo BlWer Spiel situation things werent expected to run Ideal curling area like clockwork everyone took la degrees these minor setbacks in stride On Monday his This spiel ran through to was impossible to attain Thursday and three sets of because of mild outside prizes were offered In each temperatures This mild draw The were outside weather caused the air described as tonic to case both been associated with curling for most of his life and with the Halton Hilts club for the past The club was also using new rocks and this undoubtedly caused some of the curlers to be season that evening with the annual Blister Spiel This Scottish transplant which has flourished extremely well in Canada is one of the few sports which requires social as well as athletic prowess This is not meant as a slight rather a compliment If some of our other more publicized sports were to adopt curlings competition and friendship attitude they would be much better received As explained Roger a member of the North Halton Curling Clubs executive the Blister Spiel is held primarily to acquaint new curlers with the mem and the club as well as to give all members a chance to S flhootmg contest last Friday at ra money body and the spirit As night wore on and the social aspect of curling took over some of the members commented an how they felt after opening night and on just what curling meant to them In particular George Wagner recalled the first time he had ever curled The first night I curled I fell fine But the next day my leg started to swell up almost before my eyes I was off work for two days Jack Hamilton sympathized with George and added In all the sports Ive been Involved In Ive never been soiled up the next day as I am after curling To Harry Clark who isnt actively Involved this year Its he beginning of a new athletic season another ad venture opening up for you Bill Schenk wryly commented It keeps me off the streets on cold winter nights Miss Margaret seemed to capture the essence of the curling scene with these remarks To me it means many nights of enjoyment through the hard winter months The curling season has begun and there will be many a rock thrown and many a friendship made before It ends next Spring There are worse much worse ways to spend the winter Try curling and warm up your winter Pretty fair foul shooting their won section and that the experience of competing against top level teams will help them enormously In the foul shooting contest the girls had three minutes in which to sink as many baskets as possible Earlier In the week the team had canvassed the town to get people to sponsor The Individual totals are Barb Curry Smith Alice Holblleb Leant success Roger did point out however heP injin is Waterloo Mavis Jell Girls SSrn members So Director at them the Idea to pi or that girl will pledge money in different this give one of the members of the executive call They will be glad to an any questions you may and can give you in on how to Join It s weekend of November Mth take part In a basketball tournament which will decide who qualifies from western Ontario to take part in Ontario Winter Games tour nament to be held later this Charleen Milton Karen Herring on Kim Susan Alexander Butler Sharon Barclay shot The team did well and if confident the pledges will all pledges are honored should honored as the trip means a lot net Mrs ONeit is to the girls Amount Total 150 120 18 50 200 32 BO 185 13 50 Tenday wait for Raiders GO GLEN TAXI Mike Georgetown Chrysler Raiders will have been out of league action for ten Georgetown girls will be days when they meet the Oak playing In the section of vil lnla Friday In the tournament which Is made Inst Rut up of high school teams the winner must play off against the A sections champions to decide the western Ontario represen tative The teams A section are university college and senior women ights game was cancelled because a snowstorm in the Port Colborne area made travel hazardous The Sailors decided that rather than risk an ac i- they would play the Sunday contest In Dundas was cancelled because GEORGETOWN MINOR SOCCER ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING 30 am SUNDAY DEC 1st 1974 COMMUNITY CENTRE Anyone interested in Soccer is Welcome Sports Tack NOW OPEN St No Hwy Georgetown Ontario j ii was club and Mr Nell that tew lte the eventual winner will A club and the LJSft St J B club Mrs the cooch wll hometown will dc well In lha Ihe club but he hastened to add that they will have to play belter hockey than they have In the past couple of Raines Bruins Murray Sheridan College Bruins of are expecting big things this season from Georgetown native Brooke Murray Brooke Is In his second year as a student at Sheridan and season also marks his year with Ihe hockey club Last year Brooke was a standout performer with the varsity football team and his accomplishments In athletics garnered him the schools award as Male Athlete of the Year This year Brooke passed up the football cam to concentrate on his studies Although a foot Injury has him down somewhat Brooke Is playing himself Into shape and to date has a goal and two assists In three games A STANDINGS as of Nov TEAM T A PTS Ft 17 4 10 Fort Erie III 4 Georgetown 1 a Ml 43 9 Oakville 4 10 43 SCORING LEADERS NAME TRAM GP G A Gerry Fort Erie 9 10 Pete Vcrvergacr 1U a IB 16 Joe Donald Dundas Tom Schoflcld Dunnville IS 3d Dwlght Battle 2 IS It Port Colborne h V 11 Gerry Pearson Georgetown 10 3 17 Dave 13 Dundas 13 12 Dave Pay Thorold i 2D Tom Daley Arm a Peddle fi Dunnville 7 13 4 Kay Evans Georgetown J ID 13 10 THE annual ski and skate exchange drew hundreds of interested winter fans to browse through the pairs of skates boots skis and ski suits Catrina Lancaster was searching for just the right pair of skates Water everywhere but no swim place TOPGOALTENDER Rob Stewart Port Colborne played games 1 shutout Bill Balfour coach of the Georgetown and District High School swim team has a He needs water Not himself hut for his team The team enters league com petition this Thursday at Lord Elgin High School In Burlington and to dale have had a grand total of one practice under their trunks The team was allotted Acton pool for practices but because of he delay in Its completion had to be content with team meetings Coach Balfour is extremely leased by the student turnout the team but will make no predictions As he commented Im Just Interested In getting the kids In the water This Is the first year that a regular league has been for med Previously the various schools in the area just con tacted each other In order to organize meets There will be three league meets between now and Ihe end of January and Ihc area championship will be decided at a gala meet which is to be held sometime next Spring A new coach for the Raiders Now you see now you dont THE VOLVOS Have now arrived Drop In see and test drive the exciting new series of cars today at GEORGETOWN BRITISH CARS St Hwy No Georgetown 8775235 Mike Georgetown Chrysler Raiders of ORA Intermediate A league held a press conference last Friday to announce appointment of a new coach At that time Dave Kcntner vice president of the Raiders announced that Paul Robinson currently coaching the Juveniles would be taking over the handling of the club Hob In ion was named to the position on the basis of a prior verbal agreement which according to Mr Kcntner outlined the terms of the Job and seemed acceptable to both Ihe Raiders and Mr Robinson It was disclosed later that Mr Robinson had submitted a written list of terms for the Job to Raider President Wilt Brownlow Just before the conference started and that they were different from the terms discussed previously Because or the changed circumstances Ihe Raiders later that new terms were unacceptable to the club and that Mr Robinson would not be taking over the coaching When contacted by the Herald regarding the sltuallon Mr Robinson stated that he did not feel that his demands were unreasonable and also that by putting them down on paper he was actually protecting everyone involved Wllf who is presently running Ihe club from behind the bench will remain as coach another replacement can be found Raiders league mourn death of Cooper Mavericks proving theyre for real Terrible just terrible These were the words coach Wilf used in describing the Raiders performance in Fort Erie last week The boys played terrible hockey The was alright but it was the rest of the team that played poorly The Raiders took a beating from the revitalized Mavericks who seem determined to trove to the rest of the league that they are contenders for first place Gerry from Gerry and Bob and Ray Evans from Tommy Gilbert were the marksmen for the Raiders For Fort Erie Bob Greer and Ron each scored a pair while Gerry Rousell and Owen Held counted singles Hockey people In Georgetown were shocked to learn thai Dick Cooper of the Thorold Athletics weeks ago against the When It Snows Or Blows Your VWG0ES Ant Youll Smile At THE GAS SAVINGS TOO SAVE MORE THAN GAS SAVE MONEY TOO On Our Guaranteed Reconditioned Used Cars On Sale Now BAZ MOTORS LTD voiksvin t ST Merchants had died Mike Taro of the Raiders had this reaction lo the death 1 a few people t How can you guard against such a Ihing Its just something that happens The Raiders have been in louch the Thorold club and have assured them that they will do what they can lend assistance in whatever way possible to Coopers family In more specific terms Mike was thinking either of organizing a collection or ploying a benefit game was scheduled to play last Friday but because of the accident game was can celled Cooper had retired as an active player earlier in the season However on the nlghl of the incident because players had job commitments nc agreed to suit up time He had been employed as team trainer since his retirement SKATE X CHANGE Trade in Your Used Skates On Brand New Bauer Skates Or on Good Reconditioned Skates Trade In As Many Pair As You Wish Used Reconditioned Skates For Sale Sports Tack Guelph St No 7 Georgetown Ontario The injury occurred as the Medical Centre and later resut of an apparently normal transferred to Hamilton Cooper fell back- General Hospital He died on wards and as he was falling Tuesday without regaining his helmet dropped off and his consciousness unprotected head struck Ihe Cooper is survived by his ice He was immediately wife Pat and his son three rushed to McMaster University year old Matthew Fans add sour note to Sheridans victory Sheridan Colleges football Canadian Community College Bruins made it Iwo Eastern Championships in a row last Saturday when they defeated Vanler College of Quebec Vanler led at halftime but a lot of second half penalties blunted their offence and caused some contusion Those blunders allowed Sheridan to regroup and came roaring back For Sheridan Dan made four Latches for yards and two touchdowns BUI Richardson kicked two con verts and three singles and Tim Page had one touchdown For Vanler John Guineas and Rick Kiraly each scored touchdowns and Frank kicked two field goals wo converts and a single The only sour of the afternoon was sounded sur prisingly by a Sheridan sup porter She felt that some Sheridan fans disgraced their team and their school when the tried a intimidate the Vanler fans who were In attendance For those Sheridan fans we can only add that their team may be champions they obviously are town all the way