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What is the purpose of sport To win or to have fun and try to win Unfortunately many people in control of minor sports programs in this country ire just concerned with the winning aspect of sports Celling and when a youngster makes mistake is no solution to solving the problem of the play the child or of those presently minor sport Orlick on the Athletic Drop Out A High Price For Efficiency was first presented at the first Canadian Congress for the Study of Sport and Activity n Monti in October 1973 The report states that to Canadian iteur Hockey of the COO registered or affiliated with the in 1971 S3 per cent were under years old 34 per cent were 15 only percent were over lijears of age percentages have been rcrmrk since 1070 a similar trend reportedly exists in other organized sports But is this rate so high The paper interviewed mm who were once involved in sports programs In ease me a 17 old femilc cross country skier of national calibre revealed why she dropped out of sport cive some perspective insights on why children may dropping of minor sports She sui liked the sport when she st irted out but later it fun because there was too much criticism She said the net like he wanted her on the It an I never gave her POSITIVE suggestions lust criticism Another thine that her was hat the coach ignored the young skiers In order to tot attention have to he good of kids gave it up because nobody took in in them she said in the report In two a seven year old boy had dropped out of both and He slid he because he I get the puck passed to him too limes only once in fact He null got bored Why was he bored In said You could be around it your house Instead of wistinf time playing hockey All I did wis Ml around When asked what he bv silting around Well like baseball it like you I hardly even gel a I at the end of the line in baseball He said he wants to be real in his sports so the coach will think about When asked If he thinks he 11 ever go out for a sports team again he said NO What arc the implications of these two test monies filed in this report The fact is that something must be done to curb the dropout rate and to improve the general participation sports here In response to a series of questions the report said per cent of the dropouts cited the of the program is the reason for dropping out Included in this were such things as tho seriousness of the program the lack of enjoyment and emphasis on winning and on hcing the best Another per cent mentioned the the primary reason for leaving The conch was said to people out criticize loo much and push loo silting on the bench and the absence of rewards in general tend to lead to feelings of and unfun in Ihnt pirticular environment which In turn leads to rejection of sport as a but To Programs their seem so caught up in the winning ethic that the dropout ap pears to be irt of the price in short sighted quest for Victory Contrary to what some rmy think which eliminated masses of children will never result in true excellence A program comes from serving the needs of all children The need for changing of the competitive ethic is evident When one considers he fact that less one percent ever make it to a professional level 1974 that less than two percent of the Canadian adult population are reportedly physically active in sport related is frequently as once a week 1972 Burgess the necessity for positive change becomes evident The report closed with statement for the tomorrows It is time to re foe us away from scoreboard victories to human victories lest we end up with a jocked off generation The Acton Free Press Wed September 5 All Stars edge Grimsby 21 all stars played benefit game against the Grimsby all stars to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy in won 1 Grimsby was a team which made the Ontario Amateur Softball Association finals this year Sidney Lang and Jeff Boyle netted runs for the win Jeff was the winning pitcher The all stars were made Arkcll players four two Eden Mills twe one Slrabane and players were J Legate and two Erin The two Eden Mills Steve Lawkey Moss Hardware MILL ST E ACTON 8532720 STORE HOURS Mon Tuoi Wed Sat 8 to pm 8 00am For a Growing Commun TOM cruises into home plate greeted by members of the Eden Mills Srs after their win against Don Prior Trucking of 4 Thursday evening run drove in a pair of Eden Mills tallies Eden Mills win their semifinals over Guelph It was home run from den Mills Tom that drove in three runs late in the eighth inning to secure the victory f I den Mills seniors over Don Prior Trucking of in I- den Mills evening won the semi finals of the Fra league play downs The win wis trfen Mills third over Priors In their best of five gome scries They will now to the finals An error by second baseman Itonnie in the fifth inning gave I- den Mills their run lcicl of the until the eighth inning Bob made the Mills EXECUTIVE MEMBrRS of the Tri county Minor Softball Association collected trophies and issued crests for at a meeting in Eden Mills Thursday evening The Tri county association covers miles takes in nine centres and keeps children busy in ball over the summer months Left to right are Ken Martinz convenor in chief Jimmy second vice president Jean Cellini treasurer and recorder John Johnston first vicepresident Jay Christie secretary Don Legate president and George Wheeler umpireinchief Golden Hawks H MOODY Former pastor evangelist teacher and executive ad ml lit rata the costal Assemblies Can will minister In the tabernacle Sun Sept ARE WELCOME runs The local crew slopped a run by Guelph with double play In sixth Prior Trucking didn t the scoresheel until the top of the ninth when Mark Gamble and Bill tallied the only runs for in game den Mills rally began ith a Jul from Jim Borden and was followed by George Campbell vvho made a base on balls Tie home Soapbox Jim McVeigh of Acton took part and placed fourth in the junior class in Hills club soapbox derby Sunday in Georgetown Hundreds of spectators lin the streets to watch the entries compete for the Houghton Jewellers Trophy for the fastest ear The derby is rated the biggest ant ml event of its kind in the try Rogers won the hard luck award Marc Williams the best David won best effort and Craig Snyder the jewellers trophy run drove In the of runs for the win and his own run for security CHEMICALS Service ft Supplies St Your Complete Pool Store POOL WATER CHEMISTRY POOL KITS POOL INSTALLATIONS POOL SERVICE PHONE 8771487 Think Quick Youve only September Sending ideas out to work ACTON PHARMACY LTD Bill Davisclean up your Acts The Davis government has cleaned up a few things in its time Take for example conflict of interest Mr Davis came down hard on some of his cabinet ministers who were exposed as having conflicts of interest Now we have guidelines to steer our politicians Or there was the case of corporate contributions to election campaigns Again Mr Davis responded He cleaned up that legislation But the government has sadly neglected the rights of 60 000 citizens It has forgotten its own employees Crown employees and civil servants have practically no political rights The Public Service Act and the Crown Employees Collective Bargaining Act spell this out clearly We can t canvass on behalf of a candidate In fact we can t even speak or write publicly on any topic that is part of any party s election platform This is a denial of our basic democratic rights To change this costs taxpayers nothing We have asked Mr Davis to clean up these two acts He has refused We hope you will vote for democratic justice for everyone These are two hard acts to swallow Whose rights go next Civil Service Association of Oman ISM