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Its tourney time again Its tournament Urns again and Actoni five minor hockey repre sentative teams are all looking forward to In the popular yearending events during the school winter holidays Acton Firefighter bantams will be the first local team to see tournament action this year Firefighters face In the opening game of the team Georgetown International Bantam Tournament Saturday morning at 30 The same two teams play again in the second game of a total goals series at 3 In the afternoon Winner of the round advances against either Uibridge or Pickering the following Tuesday morning Midgets la CFAW midgets were accepted into the Hespeler tournament as a replacement team Theyll see their first action against ville Monday March at A B novices will be defending their B series championship when they travel to port Friday March for the annual Port Colborne- Humberstone tourney on Niagara Falls team In their first game entered lions Juveniles are back in the annual TrlCounty Juvenile Tournament in Milton They meet Woodbridge In the first round Monday March at lions were series finalists last year s Mens pee wees still have hopes of going to a tournament there Acton Is on the standby list now so Page Raider rally puts exchamps on ropes Novices tie 11 Georgetown Raiders have moved to within a game of eliminating the defending OKA Intermediate A champion Brentford Foresters from the Niagara District league semi- Raiders won the third and fourth games of the best of seven aeries and on home Ice Sunday and Monday to grab a lead In games Fifth game be played in Brantford Friday night with the six If necessary slated for Georgetown arena Sunday night at Terry Cooke Duffy McCarthy Jim Blair At Stitt and Paul Porky Robinson were the Georgetown marksmen in Sundays game Raiders bounced back from a first period deficit to win Cooke an exWaterloo University star fired four goals In Mondays game Steve Al and Blake Inglls tallied singles Keith was a standout in the Raider nets In both games Over fans Jammed the arena for Sunday a game Poor weather conditions kept Mondays crowd down around the 800 mark If Raiders win the series theyll go directly into the league finals against Dundas or TriCounty Minor Hockey Astoeiation ANNUAL MEETING ELECTION OF OFFICERS ACTON COMMUNITY CENTRE Sunday March 26 pm All Interested persons are urged to attend MftAAfttVVMAAAMvtWWVVVVVWVvVVWVMWVvVlfWVWl ANNOUNCING BAZAAR CHILDRENS CLOTHING HOUSEHOLD ITEMS BAKED GOODS BAKED GOODS IN AID OF GEORGETOWN DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL BUILDING FUND Ninety Seventh Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 15 In one of their most impressive performances this season Acton novices battled a club to a tie at the community centre Sunday af ternoon Although they were outweighed five to 10 pounds a man ABs enjoyed a slight advantage In the play and the visitors The same team clobbered Acton in December Steve Wood put in front 10 In the first period on a pass from Hamilton Dave got the equalizer at 15 of the final frame Randy Van Fleet and Ricky Gibson drew assists on the goal Acton captain Scott Malcolm was the real take charge guy as he led several dangerous rushes Into the end Chris Swetman played a steady game In the Acton nets Oust Juveniles defeated Acton lions last Wednesday night toeliminate the locals from the WaterlooWellington league won the at of five series In straight games Centre Gord Murray scored the only Acton goal although Lions played their best game of the series lions meet In the first round of the Juvenile Tournament Monday March at make finals Acton Legion Mown midgets will meet Georgetown Saturday night in StreetsvTUe for the midget championship Acton earned the right to meet defending champs by He log StreetsvOle la last night Tuesday and winning the total goals series Paul Daley scored two goals and Chris Tennant added one for Acton Ken Jordan handled chores Gary and Wayne are handling the duties of coach and manager for this years team A Playoff trail proves rocky Four of the five teams that eliminated Acton entries in the O M H A playoffs tasted defeat themselves In the next round of the annual title hunt Only New Hamburg juveniles who are now engaged in a provincial semi final series with have managed to stay alive The burgers ousted In the second round New Hamburg novices bowed to In the zone semi finals In a series that went the full limit of games Pee Wee and midget teams from New Hamburg were sidelined In straight games In the second round pee wees by and midgets by Niagaraonthe Lake Ancaster bantams lost to THE GIANTS AND DWARFS Eden Mills battled on Acton players Gary and Gerald who now form a massive arena ice Saturday afternoon when Acton Firefighters and defensive combination for the Guelph club twins both GuelphlionsclashedlnanexhibiUongame TinyB J Legate second year bantams stands feet 10V4 inches and weigh in the final series a first year Firefighter is flanked by two former Acton neighborhood of pounds apiece Staff Photo league team still left In OMHA playoffs Fergus pee wees bantams and midgets all reached the quarter finals in the A series before being sidelined Exhibition tripleheader was like old home week reach league finals Acton gained a split In games with minor teams from tbe community centre Saturday afternoon The local A novices grabbed a first period lead and coasted to a victory over the team which has several first year players peewees evened the score when they nipped Acton Mens on a goal by Claire Ma Dot with only six seconds left in the game Guelph Lions a last minute replacement for the bantam team blanked Acton Firefighters In the third exhibition contest of the day bantams were unable to make the trip because of a tournament committment Old home week It was like old home week for most of Acton players and of The games with were arranged through Murray who left the Acton Free Press last summer to become publisher of the Rldgetown Dominion Murrays youngest son Gary played wing for the novices against many of the boys he used to play with here Acton manager Charlie Harrison and peewee coach Harold Haddock renewed acquaintances for the first time since they were with the Pic ton juniors in the early 60s Even the nearby Guelph team had a few familiar faces Gerald and Gary of Eden Mills two- gigantic defanceman who played all their minor hockey In Acton until this year were In the Guelph lineup Lion coach Ugo Bolzon was returning to the rink where he once teamed up with Firefighter coach Harold and Jim Casburn to form one of Acton Tanners highest scoring llne3 Paces attack Scott Malcolm paced the Acton attack in the novice game with two goals and an assist Bruce Dave McGilloway Shane Withers and Steve Van added single goals Ricky Gibson George Brown Todd and Vickery earned assists John Baldwin and Paul Money scared for the spunky team The lead changed hands three times in the final two minutes of the exciting game Mallota game winner Rick Patterson scored a pair for while David Brown Let- Hills and David Hill sniped one apiece Ricky Holmes and Joe Gardin both scored twice for Acton Marvin McNabb added goal and an assist Holmes Billy Manes and Jeff Shields also drew goals Wayne Scott Campbell Phil Tunney Paul and Paul Robinson handled the scoring for the huge team which won the Hespeler Minor Olympics tournament at Christmas time and placed second In the 10 team The Barden twins who weigh in at IBS pounds apiece handed out several hefty to their former who didnt hesitate to return the compliment league Elora the best of five series In straight games and will now enter the league finals against New Hamburg Kitchener or Fergus Acton built up a lead before Elora even scored is last nights game Dave McGilloway fired three Scott Malcolm two and odd Ricky Gibson and LeeJohn Bonne II one apiece for tbe locals and Malcolm both earned four assists Peter Muselios drew three assists Gary Short scored both Elora goals Cunningham wins scoring race Blow Press winger John Cunningham a veteran of Acton Industrial Hockey League seasons has captured the league scoring championship for the first time Cutty collected a pair of goals and on assist In the final game of the regular schedule to nose out Ron Mellon of Heller by a single point is the third year in a row Mellon has been runnerup Lakovtew John Mason led the league in goals scored with Four players tied for the lead in assists with 29 They were Ron Mellon and Jim McDonald of Hellers of Blow Press and McDonald of Nielsen s Clothing Last year scoring champ Harv HiUier placed fifth with points Three brother combinations were among the top 10 scorers John and Mason and Jim McDonald and Harv and Ed Hlllter all made the top 10 Complete scoring statistics are listed below J MINOR SOCCER REGISTRATIONS Saturday March and March 18 The Acton Minor Soccer Association will be holding registration sessions on Saturday March 11 and on the following Saturday March la Registration for boys aged 5 years will be held at the arena hall from until noon and at the Legion Hall from until 11 a m on both days Registration fee for one boy Other boys from the same family S3 each I Anybody wishing to play or coach soccer this year and unable to attend on these days should contact lain Galbratth Ron Mellon It John ion McDonald dry Jim McDonald II Cecil 11 Dave HI liter it Dive Ryder Van Dor Ron idler Jell Coy Dave Coo lev Sieve Bill Cook L Kevin Hall Waller Mike Miller Bob Waller Larry Hobble To John McNabb Lome Fred Bill Coon J 22 3 3 IT lft IT IS IB IS 20 13 IS 13 19 12 19 11 19 IB 10 IS 11 19 IS 10 IS 2fl t Erin lose Erin Lions Juveniles were eliminated from the Juvenile playoffs in the second round by Keswick Erin ousted SL George In the first round Sportsmens Anniversary Punjab Appears daily the Wrestling in the Arena- Tiger no extra charge Badminton Retriever Trials Fashion Show Camping Trailers and sports gear Cottage Airplane Can and Motorcycles Watkday Noon to Adults Si Saturday am II Student St Sundays Children Take the streetcar to the door service on GO Train Entire proceeds In aid Conservation Every dayMarch to Toronto JOHN CUNNINGHAM Hornets stage comeback Fergus Green Machine and Hornets will dash In tbe South Central OHA Junior league finals Fergus knocked off Bradford Vaseya and last week to win tbeir best of five series three games to one with a game tied After dropping the Brat two games of their series to the Schomberg Cougars bounced back to win three games in four days and earn the right to play Fergus First game of final series will probably be played Friday night but the site has not been decided Stmcoe and Caledonia an now tied in tbe best of seven Southern Counties league final