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the HER ALP HERALD Wednesday July Page NORTH HALTON SPORTS for All Your Sporting Goods Downtown tm Georgetown Oil I lit HARVEYS TIRE CENTRE Different philosophy for gold medal winner Joe Scott Joe Scott of Limehouse won one gold and two silver medals last weekend in but his accomplishments are regarded in a different light than many of his fellow athletes Joe la a member of the Worldwide Church of God and was competing in the second annual Canadian Youth Opportuni ties United YOU Iracknnd field meet July 12 He was competing alongside fellow church members of his affiliation who were between the ages of 1210 20 years old Scott placed first In the discus and second in both he high and the 110 metre high hurdles against athletes from across Canada Joe docs not believe that competition should have a win at all costs attitude such as seen by John McEnroes perform ance at Wimbleton recently You expect proper respect from your opponents it snows a little more class the year old says You have to give per cent of yourself but If you dont win you should chalk the loss up to experience he says PERSONAL BESTS Joe talks of or rather Personal Bests as more Important than winning against opponents He and the Worldwide Church of God believe that competition should involve fun fellowship and only then should you worry about track meets and sporting activities Five years ago the Worldwide Church of Cod which majority of followers from the United States organ red the first summer games and they have been going strong ever since However the Canadian branch decided more youths could partici pate If separate games were held in Canada The Worldwide Church of God has Its home base In Pasadena California and the religion was founded by Hubert Arms trong who at BO is called the PastorGeneral Armstrong has his own radio show and reaches his believers through that medium ONE DIFFERENCE One of the differences of the Worldwide Church of God from others religions is that Saturday Is considered their Sabbath Thus no sporting activities may be played by members on Saturday Joe was sent from the Ontario chapter after he competed in the Ontario trials last June 14 There he placed first in he discus second in the high high hurdles while attaining a fourth in the 100 metre relays Joe says he enjoys being allround and If It were allowed he would compete every event At the Canadian finals of Ihc church games Ontario placed first with points while their nearest competitors were from British Columbia ahoy collected The other teams representing Saskatchewan- Manitoba Alberta and QuebecMori times were fairly close in remaining stand ings Scott said Joe was a student at the Georgetown District High School recently After school was completed he went to work at Varian and has been going to services of the JOE SCOTT Worldwide Church of God in Toronto since Joe active baseball player and was a member of the Junior A Forums for two years Injuries starting to heal for Georgetown Royalettes Rutherfords hit spurs Legion past Aurora With all the fury they could muster pitcher Michelle Mlehrn left and first baseman Janet MacKay blasted both toward home and in the direction Tuesday The won their game against Aurora 42 Herald photos by Dave The Georgetown Legion Royalettes played solid base ball last week to land two victories against Oshawa and Aurora Last Monday night Ihc Intermediate girls fastball club had a hitting field day by blasting Juniors 115 Offensively the girls were awesome as four batt ers hit consistently to boost the team past their MacKay had four singles at four times at bat while Joey Bennett was 5 for including one triple Rutherford finished the even ing with two ingles a double and a triple In what coach Ted Wilkes called the best game of ihcscasonforDos Barb Curry on strong for the local side by bitting a for which included a single double and a triple Defensively the girls had a strong game on the windy night Michelle pitch ed the distance for the Roys let li 4 Auroral Against a home town crowd the Legion Royalettes waited until seventh Inn ing last Tuesday to send Aurora home dejected and defeated as the girls from Georgetown rallied to a victory thanks to the hitting of Rutherford was for at bat for the and drove In the winning run as Joey Bennett crossed home plate in Ihc seventh inning to break the tic at Michelle Mlchm pitched for sixth Innings before she was replaced by Barb Curry who is trying to Work herself back into pitching after suffered a bruised hand two weeks ago Dea Rutherford hod anoth er big night for the local squad as she batted for Joey Bennett connected for three singles while at bat four times while Nancy till was strong in her for 3 standing ERROR HELPS The started off scoring In the first Inning after Joey Bennett ran second on an error then she ran home after Dea Ruther fords pop fly was miscalcu lated by an Aurora outfield- si vcty and defensively One shoestring catch came from Barb Curry in centre field she trapped a deep line drive in the fourth inning The bottom of the fourth inning was fiction packed for the fans as started Ihc hitting with a single A sacrifice bunt by Jennifer Linton put on second base but Barb Currys slice hi I over the Continued on page B4 Stacey gives top seed run for her money Third ranked Hurley of George town played side by side and opposite firstranked Patty Henderson of Toronto but both combinations failed to give the local tennis star a firs I place standing Stacey was defeated by Patty In the semifinals of the Ontario Closed tennis tournament In Toronto last week Henderson won the first set but came back strongly In the second to win The native felt confident going into the third set but Henderson was unbeatable on her volley as she took the match with a final set score of Stacey said after the match that she was pleased with her own performance even surprising some spectators who didnt She could extend the match to three But Stacey said Henderson has been playing more tournaments and has reached her training peak She says shell give Patty a better game the next lime tbey will play again at the Ontario Open tennis tournament in three weeks found her on Ihc same side Patty as they took to the court as a doubles pair made it all the way to the finals before they were defeated The team who defeated them Stacey hod beaten earlier with a partner who wasnotasgoodapIaycrasPatty Thus the loss came as a bit of a disappointment for the duo Glen Williams express derailed by Greeks team Hera Special Well he wheels finally fell off the Glen Williams express this week and heir five game win streak came an end when the Greeks derailed them In other games Wlmpeys had no trouble with Winning Dairy Queen won a tough decision over Royal Pizza 176 and the Smoke Shop ran away from Mountain view 4313 Nine out of ten limes In tills league a good offense will pick opart a good defense That was the story in a nutshell in the Greeks win over the Glen With Rick Baldwin at the helm the Greeks played char acteristic cocky offensive game gambling on third downs throwing into he teeth of the Glen defense and generally coming up roses despite four interceptions BUCK SCORED The Glen were In the game briefly in second quarter when Mike Buck scored to cut the Greek lead lo 147 but Paul Wilson quickly caught a deflected pass Tor his second major and Steve Peace add ed a pi conversion to virtually eliminate the Glen Mike Buck scored another Glen late In game which Andy Tyrol convert Mark Russell also had touchdowns for the Greeks and James Allan one Mad Moo Rivers and Allan each had converts A severely traumatized Bum Campbell was seen racing away in the team bus get game films developed and vowed a day workouts for his defense in preparation for next weeks encounter with the Smoke Shop volley this week when they did very little right against Wlmpeys and came out on the snort end of a score OWEN BULLDOZED quarterback Dave Robertson passed for first half lo John Clark and Gary Lock wood and John Owen bulldozed his way In for a third Bob Lock wood snagged another In the third quarter and that was all she wrote Joe Wygcrgangs caught a pt conversion and two more Rob Arthurs had the lone Rob played an outstanding game an the Fobcrt defense In an other wise bleak game Royal Pizza had some reason to believe they de served a better fate than the loss to the DQ Both teams played a lough tight game which Dairy Queen finally clinched In Ihe dying minutes when Wayne Willis The first half was about as close a defensive struggle you can get Jeff Lockwood pounded a yard field goal In the first quarter and Howie grabbed a TD for Royal in Ihe second CONTROL Thats the way It stayed until Dairy Queen slowly began to assume control In the third culminating a drive with a touchdown by Steve Cross man Although Royal threatened again Williss TD put the game out of reach Sometimes its better to be lucky than good as Mountain- view Plaza found out this week Jim McGlil threw the best game of quarter backing at the Smoke Shop defense that theyve faced yet this year but away with a paltry 13 points poked holes In the Delrcx defense all through the first half and ended up with a yard strike to Paul Allison Then for some reason his receivers got the shakes and started dropping home run passes That gave Delrex lime to regroup and played shutout defense from there on There were no flys on the Smoke Shop offense how ever and steely eyed Bob Inglis riddled Mounlainvlcw with majors to Werner Miko- Mark Chris Sargent and John Vierra Bruce Cartwrlght collected converts and Gerry Nell caught one for points Players of Week Wer ner Mlkolelt SS Jim McGill MP Paul Wilson Glen Rob FOB Gary Wayne Willis John Mad- sen July Nerval vs Wim- Royal 1000 Stingers down Limehouse Last Friday night the Georgetown Stingers scored only when they needed to In their defeat of iimehouso In midget girls fastball action According to coach Brian James Ihe team didnt hit exceptionally well but they scored enough runs to take the win Top hi I ten for Ihe evening were numerous Lisa and teammates Cindy Julie Founder and Cheryl Jackson all hit for and scored one run while Cheryl had a tworun homer The other run scored was by Val Williams The Stingers started off well scoring two runs in the first and Cheryl Jacksons homer In fourth inning added two more Limehouse scored their only run off of a Stinger error Donna Sedore pitched a threehitter for Georgetown and struck out eleven baiters Studying sports Chinese style By DAVE Editor Jean Bonner of Rockwood saw more than the cultural side of China In her rip last July 15 she was able to compare and contrast Chinas sporting development and their recent desire to compete in many International sports The 21 year old professional skating coach was selected annual study group organized by Ihe Institute of Comparative Physical Education at Concordia Univer sity In Montreal Jean wholsaflgvre skating triple Gold Medalist travelled for two weeks In China over 5000 miles to participate in seminars visit schools and see athletic programs in action JEAN BONNER The differences in our two cultures was readily apparent to Jean In her encounters through the cities of Peking Canton Shanghai and Wul She was introduced to Chinas Sports Schools where one out of children are picked to participate at a higher level of coaching and competition At of the Sports Schools Jean and the other in the study group participated in individual and group discussions with volleyball gymnastics track and field coaches to learn new ineas COACHES OLDER One noticeable difference In organi zation of Chinese sports is most of the coaches are older than Ihe ones in Canada Jean says Many of the coaches are from Cultural Revolution who went underground and have resurfaced We only met the older coaches Age gives you wisdom seems to be the adage in China according to Jean The Cultural Revolution had farreaching on sporting development In China says Bonner The Introspective nature of Chinas Cultural Revolution hampered sporting development especially on the International level the Rockwood resident says Only since have Chinese skaters been raining for World competition But considering have been practic ing for only a short tlpie three Chinese kids who were at the Junior World skating competition In London Ontario were a good start for the country Jean says One noticed among the Chinese back to their coaches or comment on any Instructions is because they eel their place Is special theyve been picked among hundreds to country and they dont want lo let people down MASS SPORTS As well as the Sports Schools China has what Jean calls Mass Sports for the average citizen Two radio broadcasts day encourage the public to exercise their bodies Including eye and breathing exer cises The promotion of fitness seems more widespread In China than In Canada Television specials also show more grass roots type of competition between athletes Involved in minor sports she says The purpose of the Tour was to see China and study their sporting techniques while passing on what they could to their Chinese counterparts Jean Is considering writing an examination offered by Concord- la University which will be worth six University credits If she passes One of Ihe questions she must answer is In reference to your particular area of interest Identify and discuss several strengths and weaknesses In both China and North America The tour Included many chances to explore some interesting areas of China rich with historical and religious signifi cance After arriving In Peking the entourage visited the Canadian Embassy Forbidden City Temple of Heaven and the WatlofChlna A Chinese Opera Silk Worm farm Shadow Boxing and an American Fourth of July party were some of the highlights of her visit Exposure to the farming communes arts and crafts exhibits and hospitals were also part of Jeans Itinerary Jean has been coaching professionally for three years and was an amateur coach for four years She currently teaches skating at MM China has begun to look outward in attitude towards worldwide sports says resident Jean Bonner The magazines the back the one above seem to reinforce that claim