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Hundred and Second YearNo ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1976 Christm Atom tourney off until April Organizers of the third annual Atom Centennial Hockey Tournament are taking steps to postpone it four months until April April 1 and 3 are the dates tournament Frank hopes to clear with the town for the arena The Ontario Minor Hockey Association has already OK the switch from the Christmas break Mr Allsopsaid In previous years the tournament has been held on the Friday Saturday and Sunday between Christmas and New Years This year however the two holidays fall on Saturday Response to the more than invitations has fallen short Mr said that organizers expected thai 1C teams would apply Five towns said they d send teams Mr said that he talked most of the teams who d been invited and he said that the main reason for them not coming is that the majority of coaches and managers don t get time between the two holidays Another reason given is that there are more closer to home tournaments going on at the same time which satisfy the teams desire for competition without having to travel so far The first round of the silver stick playoffs also start about the same lime an this was also given as a reason for not coming to Acton 16 Mara Cooksville Don Mills Bay Ridges Bradford and Acton all said they could have teams in the tournament Mr The tournament started a couple of years ago with 16 teams but the number dropped to 14 last year The Annual House Tournament the towns other major inter town hockey event seels to be healthy Tourney organizer Al Hall said that three hours had to be swapped with the Figure Skating Club but that the February IB 19 and were set Last year winner Sault Ste Mane has already phoned several times to organizers to say that it d be to return even though the invitations haven t been mailed yet Milton is likely entry so that leaves open places Pap AHS swimmers grab 1st in trischool meet Acton High School swim mirs clinched 20 firsts and won the school meet here last Thursday lopped second place Pirdue by more than points Another is slated Friday at Georgetown In order of finish AUontnd 183 points Perdue and Robinson Perdue started well by winning the junior girls medley relay but Hit team of Pitir Garry S inlcy and Dave I took the junior boys Both teams first in the senior relay Thi iris K ilmkky Vakm Patterson mil Bid ton 1 hi boys team consists Dave Hannah Sieve Stanley John Smith C il Howies Perdue won tin frit style event Alton It red AHS SWIMMERS SCORED 20 firsts in the tri school meet here against Perdue and Robinson Pictured above is Dave starting the junior boys 200 individual medley relay Acton swimmers travel to Georgetown for a twoschool meet Friday puise by The Ontario Lacrosse Association Annual Con vention has come and gone and with it some of the momentum for fielding next year teams such as the one time Ontario Acton Rams Officially interested groups must let the OLA know by the mlNovember meeting if they re going to have teams But according to OLA executive director Jk in a telephone interview the association will possibly accept applications for the rest of December I would like to leave all the doors open for Acton to have a team but the longer they leave it the less chance there is Mr Christie said Ram executive officials may be getting together to discuss the possibilities They may also consider someone else taking over the franchise but so far it looks as if no Junior C lacrosse team will play in town next summer The next half of the Sabres first season as a Junior team is hoped by the team management to hold more points than the five already earned Sabre manager Bo chimin however have lo look for different players to reverse the trend in Sabre fortunes a search he seems ready If some of the local kids don t feel like playing we II find some that do he said before Monday practice So far the folks who argued last spring and summer that it was nuts to turn a last place Junior club Into a Junior entry are looking pretty smart Now that the elections are out of the way 1 wonder if community centre regulars w ill see the likes of or Ron MUkr both candidates for a couple of years Mr Levy lost his bid to unseal mayor Tom Hill though the challenger stayed for an entire game Ward two regional candidate Russ Miller dropped in to see how Georgetown Gems weredoingagainstSabres He for a few minutes and won his seat Sabres also won the game 2 Sharp Oakville Blades slice twice through blunt Sabres Blades took both sides of home- and- home games Sabres m Ont Hockey Association Jun lor B action last weekend Sabres matched Blades in the starting and finishing per hen Saturday but were unable to contain the attack in the second which produced four goals Blades went home Salur day night an to go with their Friday night home victory The pair of losses ends the first half of the Sabres debut season Into the central lea With a two wins and a tie rung from 21 games learn manager Fred Buchanan is hopeful about the results in the second half We expect to turn the around Tuesday he said Streets villi Derbys hosted last night Sabres head into some heavy going this week with three games in four days Tomorrow they play at Dixit and Friday they host Burling ton They II also practise to night and go over the results from Streetsville The has given tht local club a boost by granting Sabres request for two extra waivers Acton gels to import nine players because it is a first year club instead of the normal seven Robin played his first full in several weeks here Saturday Ik injured Kent Moffat in the nets for the last thirdsof Friday game Mof fal has a badly bruised slick hand Inscoe faced Blade shots Saturday and in his first turn in the nets Miss Brad Buchanan also missed game and most of Saturday s action because of an ankle injury sustained at ihi high school Also out of action was Pete who wis decked heavily Doctors say that hi suffered pinched nerve in the back Sabre manager Buchanan also said that Jeff Townslcy told the team that he d be going to see the Toronto Maple Leaf game the next night when Sabres had their home encounter with Oak if the executive planned lo taki disciplinary action against the player missing a league garni Mr Scott Malcolm tailed up from the midgets the garni at with his first Jun ior goal Mil in assist hid i before Sabre top point filter D ivi liapman notched his 12th of the year from Bruce and Lam paced with two and cams from rry Todd and Doug also beat in penalties taking turns of fivi minutes in the box for min to half hour Kent appears on the game sheet from Saturdav though he been suspended and has f tiled to show up at practices and including this one Sibre man ex plained thai meisure was taken to avoid an fine for having fewer thin 1C players for a garni Dave and Aim placid i two res pettivily in senior boys free styit Perdue won the senior iris o and M Itobinson look seiond bui Minim Hon pi third Steve Stanley took senior boys V free style won tin junior iris 100 mdividud rue Act in did not have an entry The junior boys In dividual medley w is won by Dave Stanley with Chris Con roy taking second place Karen llinkley stroked her way to first place in the senior girls iw individual medley In the senior boys dual medley Hannah w is again in the forefront Attun swimmers look both ends of the junior boys iris fly Nancy Patterson for the jirls and Piter for the boys won the senior girls 100 free style swim but lindi Shidboli took second plaee honors In the senior boys fret swim Stanley w with Dave puking up third spot Itobinson took Miriam Beaton won GO freestyle race while look third Perdue finished in Junior free styli saw PHe swim plate arid Tom bun entered no team in the senior irls fly in which I look second pi us lorn and Dave Berry finished first and second in senior boys 50 In the backstroke for junior girls samy Patterson tout hid finish firt two top elubs ind ins in tin industrial 1c itu wire in weekend pin while Hotel se ired just their seiond win of tin season ins link i out lo zip lead over Blow Press in the first period on Bruce s first if two gods HP stormed back to win HP domin ited the second period inkinj ins 4 1 in first too hit to Blow i ihL fin d minutes of pi i Ken assisted n first and Sabre scoring The following is an un list of the over the first half of the season Maj peewees pocket 3 out of 4 points town league Itallies Rochester trounced Rich on the strength of double goal efforts from two players Tom Briggs and Dana Taras fired two goals each Taras getting the winner Tom got a single and helped on one other Scotl also netted a goal while Don and Roy Stull picked up assists Barry McNabb replied three limes all in the first period Malcolm War hurst got another in the second Danny assisted on McNabb third goal Baltimore Chris flicked the red light for the winning goal as the team edged Tidewater also earned an assist on Paul McGinn first of two goals McGinn also found the mark once while helping on a couple of markers Roger Ward leashed one goal for more Bob Little managed three goals against Baltimore for Michael got the fourth marker Joe got an assist on Little second goal Brian Canarv paced Springfield with three goals lo a win over Cleveland Paul Nolan put the game out of reach for Springfield with a third period goal He also assisted on Canary second marker Tom Shannon and Mark Cook from Scott Petty got the only goals for Cleveland St Kitts goalie Steve closed his door to all scoring attempts by London players while three St shooters hit the target St Kilts blanked London 3 Ted Nessit from Brad Mcpherson in the first Shawn Taras from Chris Stanbury in the second and Jamie Taras unassisted In the Continued on Kevin Parker dethroned the Junior champion at the Western Ontario Sectional 1- Skating champion hips al SI Catharines on the weekend Kevin dominated the Junior men event from the start to win another gold medal for his trophy board The competition was stiff as some of the seven tors had several years Junior level experience behind while this was Kevins first crack at it His first triumph came on Thursday night when he won the Compulsory Figures beating last years winner and runner up by a slim but comfortable margin A point total of against second place and third Penalty shot in minor atom game Rod Townsend successful penalty shot put one up on the minor atoms in Wellington Waterloo play here Saturday Townscnl later figured in last goal as the visitors downed Acton Acton captain Mike Hudson fired minor atoms first goal on an unassisted play after seconds of action in the first period Heath Norton added a se cond unassisted marker in the middle period after had taken a 31 lead Andy Kleind- Jeff John and Shucien added goals place set the stage for some exciting Free Skating on Friday when the Program was skated Good form Kevin was in good form and was rewarded with firsts all across the board from all judges ana a point total of a Second place had 19 and third 17 With total placement for combined figure and compulsory pro gram Kevin led with five ordinals points Last years champion Roy Pres was second with 12 or dinals points third place had j ordinals 40 So Kevin had increased his lead and had some breathing room to go into the final day of competition on Saturday which was the four minute free Skating program He skated with strength and grace and won first place with ordinals 49 points Second place was tl ordinals points third place 16 ordinals points Placing The first four ere Kevin Parker ordinals 94 Paul Mills or dinals Roy Pnesniti 13 ordinals 86 and Brian Nllson 21 ordinals 82 It is on to the Central Cana dian Divisional Champion ships to be held in Jan 12 to 16 for these four young men they will meet other finalists from Northern Ontario and Manitoba The battle gets hotter with lots of work ahead for Kevin as he strives to be one of three finalists to go to the Canadian Championships to be held al Calgary in February Buchanan said that the team will distipline in this case Dunne ilurdiv s garni Sabris in the pinod had thi playing catch up hockey but teams fin ishidin Tin thing in the ihird but in out scored Acton 1 Taylor fired thi winning goal an assisted marker in the- It was his fourth goal of the game multiple goal get ler wis Sabres Chris who find three goals lo bring Ins season Steve in assisted on two of thim while newcomer Jot inked his first goal as aSibrc Hurley is thi ican who usid to lo He now iivis in Buchanan got his second of the season on assists from and Chapman Other shooters were Jot Connor JohnSertit Doug Tingey and Willie Mel- managed to out do visitors in the penalty departmint by taking minulis stayed on the ice four minutes longer than Sabres i- game was broken down into periods and the wiy Sabres played by the manager In the first period they Sabres I in the same rink They came back in the second but in the third looked for auto graphs Buchanan said Don Richard got the first goal of the second period on an unassisted play lies got five for the season His effort came after Blades built a lead Derbys rally Derbys drop ped Ihe Sabres in OHA leigui action Tuesday night al Sabres took a 3 lead In the first period matched the high scoring Derbys for goals in the middle period but were held scoreless in the third while Streetsville pumped seven goals Paul Ancinelh twice for Acton While Chris Cost Joe Hurley and Dave Chapman got singles Redmen split against Arthur basketball team split decisions in action against Arthur here last Thursday The boys senior squad edged the visitors while the Acton midgets dropped a game to the Arthur juniors On the seniors Bnan was the top shooter while Gord Bruce was the top defence player Martin got most of the headed theVfence control the play as the seniors edged Arthur corps visitors here in exhibition action The senior In the junior boys for the backstroke Dave Stanley took first and Garry M Robinson won the senior girls backstroke event but Karen Hinklcy to second place M Robinson also won the senior boys event for the 100 backstroke while Chris got second and John Smith third did not enter into the junior girls breast stroke cewhieli won and M M got second Alan fanels won the junior boy 50 and took third Perdue managed a second placed third in the senior girls 100 tarn race which Pirdui won and M It fin ishtd Bowles won thi hoys 100 breast stroke Perdue took first and sitond in ihi junior race entered a Tin junior toys team of Tom til Bowles Mian and Dave Pender won the free style relay In tht senior girls free style relay Perdue and It took first and second The senior boys style was won by the of John Smith Charlie Kmal Chris and Curry Two top teams upset rest climb standings liter lldlier helped on second an on Slimi s sixth goal of the sear Morrison hit Ihe mark our for Blow Twice Jhn Mason figured in storing us did Kuvamugh and Irwin on single plays got one goal from Irwin ind Sid while Wood combined wilh lb oi I of vcar UP took minutes in penalties two of Vans lotksix Welding player Km Minor pi us points in two Welling ton times and Horn to 1 a Sundiy at Hamburg 1 Dave find winning goal in third from Lorenzo Jim Richards lied the for on from Paul C and hum Four attend gym clinic Three students and coach will attend a gymnastics i coaching at University this wiekind In tin middle frame Greg and Tim put Vw unburn ihtadi pel wet Steit Kami got Ihe oil Lame for put further when hi pulltd the trigger on a pass from Milne added another for to finish off tht scoring Both goals came third All the storing in I Imira match eame in the first period Inn w only 30 seconds to gii mijors a 1 lead on in unassisted effort Dave Schlitt replied for fnt minutes later Ricks was in the nils for got i game misconduct Station tripled the scoring of Kens to win J Station led the first period after the second and then scored four times in the third Mike Mi Matron paced the last plate club four goals while Bill Field earned a hat trick Jim and Jim got singles Singles Van dir Bruce Cooksley and earned two while McDonald and John McDougall on singles corgi replied first for Kens on an un issisted goal in period Later Doug stored from Ken and thin he in turn found Ihe mark on Phil pass Hellers pulled into a lead our fifth place in tin second period but f to contain the Lakers ittack which idgcd the first placi team 4 Ron Mi lion find the winning goal for his third of the garni and tenth of the Mil Ion put Lakers into a first period lead on assists from Lornt Gordon ivne tied H 3 for Lakirs Heller Henry scored once from Ben Cyril in the first Bennett found the mark in Iht on a pass from Cecil Stuckkss waited until play was in the second period hi got Ikllers third and last goal from MATT SPEHAR AND MARK BEATON team however lost both its games at the Salt fleet tournament on the weekend The regular basketball season starts early in the new year