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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER SPORTS AND RECREATION 4 ARM UPS WALKING TALL Mike Alexander ran into some sticky officiating and finâ€" *iished fourth in the 17â€"andâ€"under boys 1,500 race walk at the National Legion track and field championships in Saskatoon. Alexander, 15, received three cautions for improper walking technique during the race. He had no choice but to slow down and finished with a time of 7:51, well off his personal best. Alexander‘s teammate with Oakville Athletiques, Sean Milligan, was informed this week that he was selected as the outstanding athlete in his division at the Seventh annual Buffalo Brawn Ageâ€"Group Classic. Milligan set a meet record in winning the pole vault and also brought a gold medal in high jump and a silver in triple jump. CYCLIST IN FRANCE Oakville Cycling Club‘s Tim Hadfield will represent Canada in in the Tour de L‘Aveniris in France, Sept.. 7â€"17. The tour is an international event for professional riders 25 and under, some of whom recentâ€" ly competed in the Tour de France. The Acton native, one of the few amateur national repreâ€" sentatives who will be involved, last week competed in the Tour Poitou Charentes. One day after the national training camp in Regina, Hadfield competed in two races in New York City, recently. He won the Tour of Prospect Park on Aug. 14 and the Brooklyn Peace Week Festival on Aug. 15. COLIN BRONZED Waterskiier Colin Ellis placed fourth overall in the men‘s diviâ€" sion at the national champiâ€" onships in Edmonton last week. Ellis, a 19â€"yearâ€"old from Oakville, also won a bronze medal in the tricks competition The previous week, he also won the bronze in tricks at the Canada Summer Games in Kamloops, B.C., helpeing his Ontario team to the overall gold. In two weeks, Ellis heads south to Georgia College, where he will attend school on a waterâ€" skiing scholarship. RUN FOR CHARITY The seventh annual Tay Sachs fiveâ€"kilometre through downâ€" town Oakville takes place Monday. Runners of all ages and ability are invited to take part in the race, which benefits the National Tayâ€"Sachs and Allied Disease Organization. Registration and the postâ€"race award ceremony takes place at Sharkey‘s on the Water. Fee is $12 for adults. MakKkin‘ A SPLASH Cynthia Medeiros (top) was just one of the swimmers who converged on Brookdale Pool for local soccer girls The Oakville International Girls Soccer Tournament just keeps on getting bigger. The fourth annual tournament for rep girls goes this weekend with a record 42 entries â€"up 14 from a year ago. And, according to tournament director Jim Wroe, that figure could have been higher, The tournament committee receivedâ€"and ultimately rejectedâ€"six requests from underâ€"11 teams â€" a division the tournament has never had in the past. As it stands, there will be four divisions: Underâ€"13 (eight teams}, underâ€"15 (16), underâ€"17 (12) and underâ€"19 (six). There is one club from the U.S.â€"defending underâ€"19 champion Livonia, Michâ€"and, for the first time, two Quebecâ€" Dollard underâ€"17‘s and Alliance underâ€"19‘s from Sorel. Oakville will enter two teams in each division except for underâ€"19, where it will have one. Oakville underâ€"13 coach Dave Motley figures that holding the event on a long weekend and hard work by the committee accounted for the increase. Play begins tomorrow (Saturday) morning at Shell Park, River Oaks, Loyola Secondary School and Oakville Park and continues Sunday. Finals are Monday at Shell Park at 10 .m. (underâ€"13 and under~17) and 12:30 p.m. (underâ€"15 and underâ€"19). Tuesday for the fourth annual Oakville Novice Swim Meet. Swimmers, 14 and under from all FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1993 PAGE 14 Photos by Peter McCusker of the Town‘s public pools competed against each another. The Golden Bear will on the prow! for his first Canadian Open title Jack Nicklaus, who has finished second in the Open seven times, has copfirmed he will play in this year‘s event, beginning next Thursday at Glen Abbey Golf Club Nicklaus, of course, designed the Abbey 20 years ago and he has remained one of the most popular golfers to play here. But at 53, the Columbus, Ohio, native has curtailed his appearances on the PGA tour and, to a lesser extent, the PGA seniors tour After finishing 27th in the 1991 Open, he didn‘t play last year because of a hip injury. Speculation was he would not make it again this year because he had been unhappy with his play. He won the U.S. Senior Open in July but subsequently missed the cut in three major tournaments. With 70 Tour victories, Nicklaus became the first player reach the $2 million, $3 million, $4 and $5 million in career earningsâ€"â€"not including three British Open titles. He‘s since added nearly $800,000 on the senior tour. Nicklaus joins an impressive field that includes Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Paul Azinger and Nick Price. JACK NICKLAUS