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He surrendered a threeâ€"run homer in the bottom of the sevâ€" enth and was lifted for Dave Krug, who picked up the save. RBI singles by Breckon and Jeff Brake in the second inning gave Oakville a 5â€"2 lead. A‘s added two more in the fifth on Everts‘ solo shot and an RBI sinâ€" gle by Brake. In the sixth, Collett blasted a solo homer. Everts singled and came around to score on Scott Antoniak‘s single. _ Evershed, a teaching pro at Horseshoe Valley and Carlisle golf clubs, shot rounds of 71 and 67 for a 138 total â€" four strokes better than the secondâ€"place finâ€" isher. Cardinals loaded the bases with two out in the ninth but Krug recorded a strikeout to end the contest. Oakville struck for three runs in the bottom of the first inning on RBI doubles by Krug and Everts, sandwiched around a runâ€" scoring single by Ken Collett. Oakville‘s Mark Evershed was top pro at the Hamilton Homebuilders Association Proâ€" Am Golf Tournament over the weekend in Hamilton. Evershed took home $2,600 for his efforts. MrR. CHRISTIE Steve Christie is up to his old tricks. And this time it helped exact a little revenge for his Buffalo Bills. A former star soccer player here, Christie and the Bills were embarrassed 52â€"17 by Dallas in last year‘s Super Bowl. John Breckon was the startâ€" ing pitcher. He went sixâ€"andâ€" oneâ€"third innings, allowing seven runs (five earned) on nine hits and two walks. He fanned four. ON THE MARK Saturday‘s play took place at Kingsforest Golf Club. It switched to Chedoke on Sunday. The 26â€"yearâ€"old Oakville native booted a 35â€"yard field goal with 2:49 left, lifting the Bills to a 13â€"10 win over the Dallas Cowboys in week two of the National Football League season, Sunday. The win evened the bestâ€"ofâ€" three Len Andrews Division final at a game apiece. The third and deciding game will go Monday (7:30 p.m.) at Ninth Line Park. White Sox rang up an 18â€"hit attack and everyone in the lineup had at least one. Selwyn Everts went 5â€"forâ€"5 with a solo homer to lead Oakville White Sox to a 9â€"7 vicâ€" tory over Erindale Cardinals in senior Central Ontario Baseball Association playoff action at Oakville Park, Tuesday. SOX EVEN SERIES ARM 40 years ago, they ruled amateur footballâ€"â€"and local sports Adding to the night‘s glamour was having Marilyn Bell, who had just completed her famous swim across Lake Onitario, on hand f0r pre"game cefemoni¢s® * * °_‘ The Black in Black Knights was named after John Black, a star halfback who was paralyzed playing in a game for the Braves in 1949. "They (Peterborough) were almost semiâ€" pro," McKay said at an informal meeting to some alumni last week. “They brought in a quartcrback and a couple of rmgers from Winnipeg." The club won the Ontario Rugby Football Union Western Division intermediate title in its very first year, beating out teams from Welland, East York and Stratford. They would go on to lose to Peterborough for the provincial title. It was during that ©54 campaign when 3,000 people â€"â€" almost half the town‘s population at the timeâ€"â€" was at Victoria Park (now Wallace Park) to see the Black Knights play a McMaster University team quarterbacked by soonâ€"toâ€"be CFL star Russ Jackson. McKay would leave Oakville to play for the Toronto Argonauts in 1950 and Calgary Stampeders in 1951 and 1952 but over a few beers at the Halton Inn one night, visions of another football team began dancing in the heads of he and friends Ken McLaren and Bill Hughes. The Black Knights were born and Hughes, a "fleetâ€"footed end that could never make the team," eventually became the club‘s president and McKay the coach. But in 1954 the Black Knights again capâ€" tured the ORFU West title again but this time followed it up by taking the Ontario intermediâ€" ate B championship, knocking off Stratford. It will be a great opportunity for everyone associated with the team to exchange tales of onâ€"field exploits and offâ€"field shenanigans enough to fill a book. There are hopes of 80 forâ€" mer players, wives and people closely associatâ€" ed to the team will attend. Actually the first ever senior football team in town was the Oakville Braves. They were around for two seasons â€" 1948 and 1949 under the helm of Bob McKay But the team folded. he drafts at the Legion Hall should be flowing easily and the stories should roll of the tongues just as easily on the night of Oct. 16. The Oakville Black Knights â€" an amateur football club that captured the imagination and attention in town during the 1950s and 1960sâ€"â€" will be holding their 40th reunion for players, coaches, supporters and even the six original cheerleaders. THE * § Trouble was, the proceedings had just ended and when the police were spotted, the customers disâ€" persed. There were a few empty whisky bottles strewn in the grass but no evidence of a show. A few people were rounded up for evidence but no charges were ever laid. "If we lost a game, though, coach McKay would call a practice the next morning," recalls Jim "Maggy" MacRae, who played end. and the show went on. In the meantime, Trafalgar Township Chief of Police Fred Oliverâ€"â€"now an Oakville councilâ€" lorâ€"â€" got wind of the secret show and sent eight of his men into the orchard. But while the Black Knights played hard, they could party hard, too. There were the allâ€"night house parties after games or hanging out at the old Cushion and Cue or Halton Inn for beers. The most famous story revolves around the night of Aug. 21, 1957, at what is now Lion‘s o Valley PdfK. Some memoâ€" rable names coached and played for the Knights over the years until they disbanded in the late 1960s, guys like Jolly Jack Rogers, Vince Scott, Bill Zock, Bernie Custis and Peter Dalla Riva. And the Black Knights produced a stirring effort in a 7â€"1 victory. In dire need of funds, the team decided to hire two striptease artists from Toronto and sell tickâ€" ets for a show. Problem was, they sold the tickets first and found out later no one would give them permission to hold the show legalâ€" ly. So they moved it to an orchard, away from the public eye. But one of the perâ€" formers got cold feet when she saw the paying customers emerging from the bushes. The other reluctantly stayed Despite the funny mix, sométhing clicked and the team thrived that very first season. "One thing I never had to do was cut a playâ€" er," said McKay, who still coaches amateur football in Burlington. Defensive back Jake Fennell remembers Oakville being a tightâ€"knit sportsâ€"oriented comâ€" munity. During football season, the team was the talk of the town, with pictures of players plastered in store windows and local watering holes. One group from Hamilton with odd haircuts «1 came to a practice. Ed Sullivan, Phil Lightheart, Rick Kasoian, John Roberts, Bruce MacDougall and MacRae stuck with the team and became affectionately known as the "Raggedy Ass Canal Boys." For more information on the reunion, call 827â€"3676 or 637â€"8505. the cars around like a wagon train and change in the parking lot. But the old ladies in the apartâ€" ments around the park would get out their binoculars." Cheerleader Marlene Yustin laughs about all the good times. But the thing she remembers most is the family feeling. "We have always kept in touch," she said. "It‘s incredible the camaraderie that‘s there." "Oakville was small back then," Fennell chuckled. "Past Kerr St., you were getting into the bushes." McKay vividly recalls rounding the first team up in ‘53. He described the team as a "ragâ€" tag bunch of misfits." Many couldn‘t make other teams and players from all over came to Oakville, knowing it needed players. #* FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1993 PAGE 35 t# Bv TOM