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4 the acton free press wednesday december 2q 1967 the sports spot t john mcnjkia 1 acton tuners resotntians for the coming year should include move ol the same hockey action and wins that took place at last friday mights victory over seaforth actons 54 win bronght cheers and frina resounding once again from the still and quiet rafters of actons community centre tanners wen deserved win should spark them on to more of the same edging out the number one team after losing seven straight was actons record after fridays game with mat first win build up in morale the tanners went on to hank oat cheltenham on tuesday oast night in what was reported to be a rough and tough ba as cheltenham lagged behind in points their tempersappeared to haw gotten the better part of them and they bit the dost 14 times daring the game terry lane sparkled for the tanners last night with a pair of goals and assists buj carrie a milton recruit played an outstanding game as de- thwwmtn for the locals bob marshall has taken on the managers chores for the acton tanners mis year bob acted as an chha convener last season sad win take an active part in the local club during the 6768 session a former tanner playertind executive member bob win always be an asset to the acton squad sunday nights industrial hockey will be cancelled for the next two weeks doe to christmas and new years bush league action win resume again on sunday jan 7 registration sees for the second half of the season are due as of the next game dan arbtc and gary masales are scheduled to referee a kitchen er ts montreal jr a game this friday night the pair of local xha referees have scheduled themselves many good referee ing opportunities during this season mark pollock ace oak hurler dies in oakville former oakville oaks base- ban pitcher mark pollock died suddenly at his forsythe street oakville home saturday he was 47 mr pollock an employee with the oakviqe public utilities commission once had a tryout with the st louis cardinals of burlington blanks bants although they trailed by only one goal at the end of the first period and were four behind by the end of the second stanza acton bantams were on the wrong end of a five goal deluge in the third canto in a trl county game here last wednesday burlington lions a double a club with plenty of power behind accurate shots blanked the loc als 90 the acton team played wen in spite of the defeat although they were plagued by poor shooting a weakness apparent in their ear ly games this season coach harold townsley hopes their sights improve tor tonights wednesdays game against oak- vine here hes planning a trip to maple leaf gardens in dec ember 16 win or lose grlvel and keller scored two goals apiece for burlington in the whitewash job they brushed on acton williamson glass si minions and kelly sniped one the national baseball league ohle johnson oakvule base ball historian said pollock was one of the best pitchers the oaks have ever had i will always remember his nohit game in the 1947 payoffs he said pollock joined the oaks in 1947 and played with them until the late 1950s he came from a sporting fam ily his father used to play with bronte and hamilton harvesters ball team and his brother ken neth pollock of tecumseh cres cent has played with the senior baseball oaks and also has had tryouts with several pro teams in the united states acton baseball fans can re member many of the games pol lock pitched against acton inter mediate teams his fast ball a pitch which wrenched many a players arms out of sockets in futile swings carried oaks to the oba int b title in 1947 while the acton club copped the int c crown the two clubs met in the halt- on county finals a series which went the distance before oaks won the final game on the milton diamond maple rock scores top scores went to the main prise brothers this week both brad and keith got 22 brad also shot an 18 steve goy got 17 in singles and 16 in doubles george harris got 16 and 15 and art hawes got 15 rrst win tanners edge league leaders in rugged crowdpleasing game rrst win for the tanners this season was good reason to celebrate some of the boys congratulate jim sweeney on his sparkling performance steve townsley wearing seven and standing behind are jim farrelly ron mel lon harry phillips and blake inglis staff photo t fx pv v jfk bh jjc jjc 3 v p r 1 f f a f n r l sports pagl hovkes blank town league tanners blank cheltenham 40 acton tanners scooped up their second win of the season with a 40 decision over chelten ham last night in bramalea arena the locals grabbed two quick scores in the first stanza and kitchener teams visit three exhibition games with teams from kitchener last night tuesday saw acton town league all star teams gain one win and lose two close ones kitchener edged the novices 10 in a real thriller in which the winning goal was scored off an acton players stick the pee wees lost a 53 de cision in the last period the score was tied 33 as they went into the third stanza brian storey bernie taylor and jim mcnabb scored tor acton with assists going to m ferguson 2 a forester and b mcken- zie the final game saw the town league bantams pin a 41 defeat on the suds city visitors garth taylor randy marsh steve con- neu and ron louttet bagged the acton goal with assists collected by steve and ron k murray and ron mccuuoch clinched two successive markers in the second and third periods terry lane set the tanner pace in the opening period with both tallies the first on an as sist from rod presswood and the followup from harold townsley and jim cunningham don norton fired in the second stanza score from blake inglis and terry lane who in turn as sisted on ron mellons clincher in the third penalties were heavy during the hard checked and roughly played game cheltenham cop ped 14 detentions and acton 8 tom ay res handled the local net and received the well earned shutout actons tri county novice team suffered a 30 defeat in oakville last saturday in what was termed a very dull contest last friday the novices played host to burl ington and encountered a 50 lose to a vastly improved burl ington squad sunday the team played an ex hibition game against the leg ions 4 town tourney entry and took a 4- win gerald barden netted three markers brother gary barden slammed in one while ashley followed up with one which he was quite proud of it being his second goal in two seasons with the novice team acton plays host to oakvule on friday night and go to preston on saturday at 1230 after taking a licking from every other team in the league acton tanners turnedaroundlast friday night and defeated the front running seaforth beavera 54 in as good a hockey game as youll ever see in the local ice palace it was only the second defeat this season for the beavers who prior to tuesday night were un defeated they threw everything but the kitchen sink at jim swe eney in the acton net and he threw just about everything back at them the winning goal was scored in the last second at play in the second period don norton cred ited with pulling the trigger un assisted although blake inglis was in on the play the third period was score less as the tanners hung on to the one goal lead grimly deter mined to win their first at the expense of the alberts who pre dicted theyd be swamped tension was added when den- nls snider received a two minute sentence with less than four min utes to play but the tanners held the fort withsweeney making one spectacular save plucking the puck from the port side of the net before a dolgaimed shot could catch the open corner sweeney frustrated us all night said bob buettennlua of the beavers we couldnt get him to pull his leg there were some glittering saves at both ends as the tanners poured on the coal in a style fans havent seen here this sea son it was an allout team effort pee wees win lose one game acton pee wees split two tri- county games this week last wednesday they lost a 51 decision to burlington here friday night the acton club shad ed preston 21 the score did not indicate the play as the locals lost to burl ington with any luck the acton club could have had two or three more goals chris tennant bag ged the acton goal from billy mcgllloway billy mcgllloway scored the first marker in the win against preston assisted by terry hol mes and chris tennant terry holmes got the winner in the third from billy mcgllloway and chris tennant shoo feld scored for preston int b standings lions edge burlington in 21 squeaker cheltenham seaforth hespeler durham port elgin elora acton gp 9 8 8 5 w 1 6 5 3 3 1 1 l 2 2 3 2 4 6 7 pts 14 12 10 6 6 2 2 top scorers orioles edge jets 43 raiders hornet victims hornets oatseored the raiders in the lint half of industrial hockey action sunday night to tatty a 13- victory stn mcdonald copped four of hornets stingers with assists gotac to dan artec and barry wilson ruddy holmes notched himself a hat trick while harry philips collected two of the assists barry wilson knocked la a pair with assists going to daw papulon dan arbtc slam med in a pair with the help of baddy holmes on one rich gord on tallied up the scoring for the hornets with a marker unassis ted raider tally came from gord van gils wimahaitrlckasslsted fay jim mcdonald doug garrett turk shepperd and bui coon on two lorney peavoy jim mcdon- ald aadturksnapaiotoekebvln with rick henderson assisting on three more walls coon and mcv orioles collected the ma donald assisted hu1 coon eoh penalties with eight lected two markers with ken mclssac assisting on one steve goy received the only penalty of the game for the hor nets three minutes for slashing in the second hall of the twin bill orioles edged the jets with 43 tally jets held a 30 lead in the first period as the orioles fought back to take the win with the tie breaker in the closing minutes of the last stanza john cunningham scored a double take for the orioles while clayton ward and gary masales assisted gary ritchie and larry porte combined for the being score and gary masales slammed in the winner from tom oakley jets rick henderson opened their tatty on an assist from jim bulloagh ron hatter picked up the remaining pair of markers while john mcnabb received three of the jet sentences and ian johnston one industrial hockey will resume on sunday jan 7 when the jets start the new year off with a match against the hornets at 7 pm and the raiders meet the orioles in the second half acton lions juvenile squad continued their winning streak last thursoay night when they hosted the burlington juveniles in what was termed a tight game brian farrell teamed up with ken owen to pot actons opening marker at the two minute mark of the second period after a clos ely played well checked first period of play burlington snapped back three minutes later when mark swan- son scored from richard hall to even up the count tension and tempers tightened in third period and referees bar ry inscoe and fred yates of silver creek sentenced team cap tain barne elliott for butt end ing elliott disputed the charge and took an additional ten minute misconduct the hebreaker and lion lifter came at the 920 mark of the third stanza when george cook pulled the trigger on a shot set up by brian farrell and gary kelly lion net minder paul cooper played another of bis many out standing games as he continuous ly blocked shot barrages from burlingtons offence acton lions lineup included goal paul cooper george cook brent marshall brian farrell gary kelly bob walker ernie waller lloyd smallwood ken owen chick milne and alan mc- kenzie ken doig s m finniganc a mcclaughlan s j mcllwaln s m main h g smith c r beuttenmiueks g 6 13 11 7 9 4 8 a 15 7 8 11 6 9 4 jack ridley cartage comctetf blocks concrete brick cinder blocks clay brkk sand stone livestock and fertilizr farm service and supplies dump trucks for hire fully insured cv cbit fs acton phone 8530730 poru corner and port comer canteen say holiday greetings to one and all mav we offer tho lat minuf gift sugfloitivni guns racks ammunition or sox for your hunter rods reels tackle or tackle for your fisherman boxes pt 21 20 19 18 15 13 12 v v v s v which won it but there were stars the inglis brothers blake and gerry don norton terry lane and sweeney rough no action went from end to end but there was no real tough guy checks thrown al though harold townsley bad two teeth loosened and received a sore arm in the bargain the beavers opened the scor ing on the first play of the game as wayne rati went right in to score at the 15 second mark harold townsley evened it at the 541 mark from the inglis br others while ray henderson of the visitors sat out a minor penalty two minutes later gorry inglis took don nortons pass skeddad- led in on tight wing and put the tanners in front his shot had seaforth netminder gar baker beaten all the way picking the leftside it was 315 of the secondstanza before seaforth evened it up as bob mclaughlin put his head to gether with mcllevaln and hen derson and hit the net blake inglis put the tanners in front again at 532 only to have paul rau even it at 911 play seersawed like the score back and forth until the 1425 mark when don norton broke up the left side deled the beaver defense drew the goalie andfllp- wrt hnckhandnr into the tinner right corner of the net prettiest goal of the game it brought down the house mclaughlin potted his second of the night two minutes later to deadlock the count again only to have the tanners get the last second goal seaforth protested that the clock showed the puck did not hit the net until the 20 minute mark but a check with the time keeper showed there was still a second to go their efforts to tie it up in the third period were unfruitful coach max stafford had three lines going for him terry lane centred blake inglis and don norton jim farrelly harold townsley and stu mcdonald made unit number two harry phillips ron mellon and steve townsley number three the latter just went out with checking in mind and kept beavers confused in their own end- on defense gerry inglis den nis snider and mike kelly played outstanding games fans in attendance mopping brows at the end of the game made a backslapping swoop on the victorious tanners referee jack clancy of hamil ton showered his blessings 13 penalties on both clubs the visitors earned seven including a 10 minute misconduct to tom dick first period s wrau j sills 015 a htownsleyginglis inglis r- 541 a g inglis a norton- 741 penalties henderson t dick knee pads sliders and brooms for your curler clubs bags carts or stocking stuffers for your golfer s l or select an item of quality sports equipment for your child at sports corner a inglis m kelly r meuon p rau second period rmclaughlin mcllevaln henderson 315 binglis tlane djior- ton 532 p rau j sills teall 911 dnorton binglls q inglis 1425 rmclaughlin mcllevaln doig 1658 a d norton 1959 penalties lane dolmage third period no scoring penalties w rau t dick i teall j farrelly d snider acton arena schedule wednesday december 20 67 pm hockey school 78 pm pee wee tricty oakville at acton 89 pm bantam tricty oakville at acton 910 pm midgets tricty oakville at acton 101 1 pm ind hockey thursday december 21 23 pm mothers end pre- school skating 68 pm figure skating 89 pm legion hockey 910 pm juvenile tricty oakville at acton 1012 pm ind hockey friday december 22 63o730 pm novice tricty oakville at acton 830 pm elora vs acton tanners saturday december 23 89 am hockey practice legion 9151045 am private lessons figure skating 10451245 figure skating 16 p m legion hockey 6 30730bantams tricty hockey practice 810 pm public skating sunday 1 december 24 811 am industrial hockey 111230 pm tanner practice 12 pm novice tricty hockey practice 2 15415 pm public skating 4 307 p i n minor hockey practice monday december 25 closed tuesday december 26 24 pm public skating t murt allisons georgetown no 7 highway 3 mllee north of town 8773291