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4 ttx acton ft prw wdneuy september 17 1969 flfaerf w quotes wtoali fflitr eotnlo t9jfjpmt by denis gtbboas the joint regbtralloti for minor hockey which will be held by the thcounty and legion astodation m town thl year thould completely eliminate the confusion that two separate repstttion ha created among both parent and boy in pest year apparently tome boy who had the ability to play tilcounty hockey have been under the fane impienlon that the tilcourtly team wen picked before ice war evert installed in the community centre and that no tiyoliu for the team were held cotiteojienlly they regntend to play houte league hockey in the legion attociailort this year both auocutlonr wint to make it clear lhat all hny who tegliter will have the opportunity to try out for the tricounty team if they todcslie both organlatton are interested in doing their bed to see that player with natural ability and deiiie put their talents to the best possible uae m a competilive league and lhat player vlth leu ability get chance to develop in houte league with playeri of the urn calibre another point of confusion thould be eliminated with the agreement that after january i 1970 there will be no twitching of player between house league and tricounty teams lait year in an effort to bolster one of their teams for the omiia playoff tlie tricounty group recalled player from the legion league although it ku done by mutual consent of both groups the move did create confusion among the boy and parents of the boys involved the decision to hold a joint registration for minor hockey in acton this year is a definite step in the right direction and thould set the stage for the towns most successful minor hockey teaton yet the registration is expected to be held on two days saturday september 27 and saturday october 4 the exact times and whereabout will appear in next weeks issue of the free press fans who have been wondering what happened to the golden horseshoe soccer league playoffs will be glad to know that georgetown eagles and georgetown royals will play the deciding game of their best of three semifinal tonight and that the winner will play acton rovers in the finals starting this weekend royals protested the use of illegal players by the eagles in the third game of the series the league upheld the proteit and ordered the game replayed as a result rovers have now been idle over two weeks while they await winner in the series bantam baseball mentor pop little anecdote main reports this humorous it seems that pop was a little surprised when the umpire ordered acton shortstop carl reed back to third base after carl had jsjamiftiii what everybody thought was a home run into the long jpaas in georgetown last wednesday night hurriedly pop approached the georgetown coach claiming that there had been no ground rule holding a runner to three base on ball hit into the long grass laid down before the game thats right pop replied the georgetown coach didnt know your boys could hit em that far but we the legion minor hockey association have reserved ice at the community centre for february 28 and march i and hope to stage i 16 team pee wee house league tournament on those dates after eliminating penetang in straight games campbellvtlle merchants met the same fate at the hands of the commits giants in oba intermediate b playoffs campbellville lost the opener of the series 65 in 13 innings last weekend then dropped a 42 decision in campbellville sunday tricounty league holds tint meeting in milton all 1 1 towns that competed in the tricounty minor hockey league last year acton brampton chinguacousy oakville guelph milton st reetsvllle hespeler burlington georgetown and preston were represented at the first league meeting for the 196970 season in milton sunday the secretary received a letter from streetsville requesting that in the case of a clash in sweater color the home team supply pullovers of a different color for the visiting team to wear after some discussion on the subject the request was denied by a vote of the executive as was the case last year it will be the duty of the home team to change sweaters in the event of a color dash this on or a representative from oakville indicated interest in forming a minor midget league this would be for first year midgets who do year a schedule will begin uoimjke tricounty team sl i1x a wheeling will be held in oakville in the near future to discuss formation of such a league cawpawffviff towns that have tee others will begin u soon u ice is available in their particular towns the final date for players certificates to be forwarded for group play will be november is the tune as last year referee in chief don sfmimttf of lawrence reported that n refereerifonim will be held in onmmfl oakville november 5 the oj4ha annual meeting will be held at the king edward hotel in toronto october 18 each town will be allowed one delegate for each of their five teams providing their entry fee hu been paid by that tune after many years of oba competition against each other the great baseball town of corunna finally eliminated campbellville when they defeated them 42 in campbellville sunday afternoon all three acton t6ams atom motoulto and peeweet are in first puce in the haltoft p minor socor leeoue with teem from milton and streeltvllle this action took place in e momulto bstiut between acton and streettvllteistsff photo barbers whip station move closer to title petei lj it i shop took a commanding three game to none lead in the acton softball association league finals by whipping station hotel is9 sundiy afternoon the barbers banged out 22 hits on their way to victory station opened the scoring in the rust wlien andy willlanu walked larry kuchma doubled and chick milne tingled to drive in two tuns petes fought back with three rum in their lulf of the first then added five more in the second and three in the third roy shultls phil msrio and bruce shultis all tingled in the first inning uprising while fred buchanans home run capped off the second inning outturn pete marzo doubled home two runs in the third a double by bob andrews highlighted a three run fourth inning for the hotelers which narrowed the count to 115 station then added one run in the sixth and two more in the seventh after picking up a tingle tally in the sixth petes tatted the win away with a three run seventh inning pete mario tingled and tcoied on a triple by roy shultls phil marios three bagger drove shultii home and mono scored on a single by ed plullips winning pitcher ed phillips struck out five chick milne and ed smith hurled for the hotelers roy shultis and phil marzo each swatted out four hits in five at bats for petes ed phillips had three hits and bruce shultis harry phillips and pete marzo had two each john dunn jan riddall and larry kuchma each hit safely three times for the losers while chick milne and george williamson lud two hits apiece larry phillips made tome fine catches in right field for petes h ii i sulun 20002 201 v 16 ivifi j53 00130 ij 22 i station andy wllliimi uny kiurhnu jin riddall cliuk mint td smllh cttiy tiiuetrr john dunn gtutgr wlllllmuin jim kay hob amlirt pctet roy sliullli ptill muro jelf i tyrr ld phlumi i red huchinin brace shultli jim bulloush limy hiluipt pete mtfio rained out the fourth game of the acton softball asiociatiun finals between petes barber shop and station hotel wat called on account of rain after three innings of play last night petes were leading 42 at the time the game hat been rescheduled for sunday afternoon the tricounty presidents dinner will be held in milton december 5 with the president of each local organization plus the tricounty representative attending the executive passed a motion that the wives of the officers be allowed to attend this years dinner as well the tricounty league will host the juvenile allstar game against the north york group this year while the north york group will host live midget allstar game in aurora december 26 acton meadows club manager jim tlmlack presents iunior champion dennis norton with hit award as runnersup glen mekeiule riant and georoe mcphall left both ol acton look on dennis recorded a 36 hole total of 170 to win the junior championship stall photo minor soccer 1 by charlie thomson atom acton atoms whitewashed milton 20 saturday morning to win the opening game of their best of five league final milton controlled play in the first five minutes but acton battled back to take a 10 lead when sctt malcolm scored a beautifo goal at the 18 minute mark acton opened up very fast in the second half and were rewarded when kenny woodman scored at the is minute mark on a shot that just dribbled through the milton goalies hands jeff shields also played a fine sme for acton and bruce cphall recorded the shutout in goal miltons outstanding player wat oscar traynor acton bruce mcphall paul tintralngs david haverty bui shaw mike dawson ron guest john- griese craig somervllle scott malcolm kenny woodman jeff shields jim allonby kevin davis i i mos0uit0 acton mosquitoes got back on the winning track with a 31 win over milton saturday morning milton scored the only goal in the first half but ricky holmes booted home three goals in the second half to give the locals the win paul logan assisted on rickys first goal jim gentles on lus second and nathan fields on his third acton goalie ron turkosz nude a tremendous save on a milton penalty kick pee wee acton pee wees won their game by default saturday morning when milton failed to show up acton are presently leading the league with 22 points may still hold roller marathon arena manager harold towntley reports that a roller marathon may still be held this year if there is more response thown small boats and canoet are warned to ttay close to shore in ontarios provincial parks as suddenly rising winds can capsize small craft within a few minutes bav att nt ptttssports page to hold joint registration for minor hockey this year the acton tricounty minor hockey association and the acton legion minor hockey asiociatiun will hold a joint k registration this year the joint registration was agreed upon by member of both organisation after considerable dlscuulonat two different meetings it is hoped that holding jdtt one registration for minor hockey will eliminate the confuiion that lias existed among both parent and boys in pail years this year as each boy registers he will be given a mimeographed letter explaining to both he and his parents that each boy that tegiiters will have the opportunity to try out for the tricounty team if he witliei at leglitration lime each boy will pay the fee normally charged by the legion association the tricounty wilthert call for liyooii for all five age group at soon a ice is available the pliyert that are elected to play o the tricounty teams will then py the difference between the legion registration fee and that being charged by the tricounty the players who are not immediately selected to play for the tricounty team having already paid their legion registration fee will be able to play for houte league teams the tilcounty teams will be able to use players providing both they and their parents are agreeable and providing they sports appreciation night saturday in oakville a dinnerdonee this saturday night in the oakville arena will honor alltime greats of the hilton county sports scene as well as tluee men who will be honored for their work during the 196869 season in lacrosse hockey and baseball the sports appreciation night to be held on the arenas main floor should be an excellent place for sports people to get together raid oakvulet ken brown one of the chief organizers of the event it was a tremendous turnout bit year he went on and this year we are pushing to make the event even bigger and better we think that we are going to get many more attending from the northern part of halton county last year charles sonny towntley and neil gibbons two of actons finest athletes of yesteryear were among the tint 10 named to the halton sports hall of fame at the first annual sports appreciation night others included babe clement or millon bob goldham of georgetown sab mac mcclesry of oakville len andrewi of campbellville ed lefty jordan of burlington ollie johnson of oakville the lite pete mcmutlen of milton and the late pete blackburn of oakville junior hockey tryout on for week of sept 21 have tigned an omiia players card up until december 31 i96r at which time it u of the utmoit importance that all teams be set after january i 1 070 there will be no twitching of plyeis regardless of player or parents requett registration dates re expected to be saturday september 27 and saturday october 4 complete details will be advertised in next weeks paper dunking machine everyone attending ihe fall fair ihii saturday will have a chance to kill two birdt with one none at the alwayi fiopular tricounty minor lockey association dunking machine theyll be able to dunk their favorite town officials and teachers and contribute to the support of minor hockey in acton at the tame time included in the hit of peiionahtiet who have agreed to be dunked are deputyreeve ted tyler jr councillor pete marks bank manager ted pratt arena manager harold towntley and teachers rick coe and bruce andrews hillsburg ousfs rtxkwood girls rockwood girls toftball team were eliminated from the league finals by hillsburgh bit week gail nichol continued her fine hitting smashing a homerun for rockwood coach daryll nichol reports that there is still a possibility that rockwood will host a gills softball tournament before the season is over the millon merchants junior hockey club has announced its tryout dates for the 196970 season and all young men bom after dec 31 1949 are invited to come out to milton arena for the sessions the first one will be on sunday sept 21 at 1 pm the second on monday sept 22 at 830 pm the third on wednesday sept 24 at 830 em and the last tryout will be eld friday sept 26 at 830 pm players from the miltonacton area are invited to come and are asked to bring their own equipment maple rock shootmc range gunsmlthlng gun sales trap and rifle shooting 8334555 acton with the money i can win in bats ill be able to buy sports equipment at sports cotnr ymca program the board of directors of the v m c a wish to sponsor fell to sprirvq programs for the community some of the programs will be operating outside of the v mc a building if interested please check and return to murray memorial y m c a box 332 acton ontario woodworking ci upholstering sewing b cooking sport club men slim a trim contract bridge club for beginners art investments public speaking elementary law d engliih as a second language conversational french q if there la enough interest shewn in e program it will be developed name address mamem zr ken 4j7 j paeuy pak 579 are second with 16 and milton b milton a streetsville follow all three acton 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