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Seniors McFadden busy man in hectic schedule Ken of the Seniors has had a busy two weeks He has pitched five games for them in that time Including both ends of a doubleheader played In Fergus July The Seniors winning spree was snapped in the double as the Fergus squad took both halves of the double bill taking the first game in spite of being 14 Phil Shrive led the batting attack with four hits followed by Norm Beattle with three According to Beattle McFadden pitched well enough to win holding them to only four hits In the second game of the doubleheader We com errors which led to our defeat according to The team managed only four hits In the game against Fergus ace Jim Bott whose record now stands at 1H Ken McFadden hit his first homer of the year In the loss to account for Rock wood only run Postponed A game scheduled for August with had to be postponed because the Seniors were playing In the tournament In that tourney won twice before being halted by eventual tourney champs Clifford Seniors made she errors in the game as McFadden took the loss In their first game they edged Durham behind the three hit batting performance of Dave Bruce Ken got the win was credited with the second round game as well when Rockwood trounced Burlington In dustrial team McFadden also collected his second of the season in the August got Its regular season play back on the winning track with a 13 win over Ken got the win leav ing his won lost record at Rick White took the loss Ron Kelly and Phil Shrive each had two hits in the well balanced attack They won again Monday night as Albert Kelly took the mound giving up a scant three hits In the Seniors 41 win over Erin Ken Stecn took the loss Erin committed costly errors to give us the win said of the game The teams record now stands at 1211 in league play for the year Playoffs The Seniors will face New Dundee tonight in the third and deciding game of their series In the second round of the annual Ontario Rural Softball Association playoffs Intermediate B division The teams are all even at one win apiece as New Dun dee took the opener 43 and Pap ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST I977 One Hundred and Third Year No 6 Pago 11 came back Sunday to grab the second game Bob Shaw was the losing pitcher in the first game but the big story was winner Don Rot Roiwiffed an amazing 20 Rockwood batters in the game D Fischer homered in the bottom of the ninth to nail down the win Bob Shaw had better luck the second time out as re- assumed mortal form and lost 51 Chick Milne and John Parkinson each got two hits Tomorrow night the Seniors visit to make up the postponed game of August The tight schedule con tinues Friday when the team plays in the first round of the annual ball tourna ment If they win Friday they go on to play again Saturday Sunday is a day of rest and then Monday visits If the Seniors defeat New Dundee tonight they will move into the third round of the O S A playoffs win again drop Frontenacs 101 The Kitchener Frontenacs action They defeated their proved no match for the closest opponent the Kit- Acton Monarchs in bantam Chippewas in the lacrosse playoff action Wed as the bants trounced the visitors in the arena The win was the Monarchs opening game of their round robin series Playing with only nine players the bants led 30 after the second The teams each scored once in the third to reach the final 101 count Peter Hurdle last years team scoring leader led the attack with three goals and three assists Rick Miller netted two goals and three assists Rick Miller netted two goals and two assists for four points and Peter found the mark three times Other Acton goals went Marshall and Lorenzo with one each Assists went to goalie Paul Campbell Mike Marshall with two and Doug Johnson The only goal was scored by D on assists from A and Hesse played the same Kitchener squad last night in Kitchener second in a row In playoff after the first period and Kents lose mixed title Pool play program proving successful Perennial mixed doubles champions of the Gordon Tennis Club George town Bernle and Pauline Kent lost their title in the championship game of this final Sunday Peter Marks Paulines twin brother and a former member of the Acton club teamed up with Thomson one of the Alcott Clubs top female players to dethrone the Kents Peter and reached the final by defeating Bob and Audrey Houston by exactly the same score in the semi finals The Kents eliminated John Dallison and Allison 76 in their semi final match Marks now has a piece of both club championships which have been decided so far In June he teamed up with brotherin law Bernle Kent to defeat Gerry Peace and Bob Houston for the mens doubles title The ladies doubles crown was won by Pauline Kent and Rita Kennedy There were teams en tered In the mixed doubles competition The club will hold its mens and ladles singles championships in September following the Hills Tournament which runs August 1828 Attendance has been good so far at the watersports pro gram being run by the Halton Hills recreation department at Acton Lions Pool Instructor Susan Ancker Angels tie Royals 1919 Angels and Royals played to a tie in House league action August in Prospect Park the first tie game of the year to come to the attention of the Free Press has had up to 12 show up for the session which consists of diving tag races and organized games In the water according to Miss The experimental program runs every Tuesday and Thursday from m to So far the attendance has consisted mostly of boys wish more girls would come out said Miss Activities for girls would include synchronized swim ming PETER HURDLE SCOOPED up the loose ball and golfed it into the empty net for one of Acton 10 goals Wednesday defeated the a bantam team from Kitchener in the first round of roundrobin playoffs They faced the same team again last night See next weeks paper for results Jock Tock Industrial race tightens teams enter home stretch By John Bottomley Statistics are mushrooming faster than major league salaries Has anyone out there in readerland noticed the proliferation of trivial statistics which the major leagues are keeping nowadays I have I watched one batter step up to the plate in Mondays game between Pittsburgh and Chicago and was duly in formed that the mans batting average so far this season was around 3l8orso That was fine Iknewhewasagood hitter After the first pitch I learned some Important new information The man is batting against this par ticular pitcher in the course of his batting career A second pitch went by and to my surprise I found out another new thing Three new things In one day is a bit much for me but nonetheless I found out that this batter still the same one Is batting with runners in scoring position Mercifully the man got a hit or an out or something and themadflowofstatsstopped have been laid his batting average against Scorplos with an ascendent moon his average against lefthanded fastball pitchers In nationally televised games and maybe even his slugging percentage different from his batting average against Catholics when Howard Cosell was announcing the game Statisticians an overworked lot if ever there was such a thing This Is no Isolated case and I am not sure how they manage to come up with such a barrage of statistics to cover such a range of situations Somewhere in the depths of America must toll thousands of overworked statisticians wllh horrid pale complexions who cant spell what they do but who have a genius for the invention of new categories and new areas into which to thrust their computered visages One can image the scene ten rooms each filled with ten rows of ten desks each At each sits a balding man with no shoulders and large slobbery lips with which he Is con stantly licking his pencil poring through game sheets to discover just how many hits the third string third baseman of the Toronto Blue Jays has had In the middle Innings of Friday games when the opposing pitcher has been Cuban In between the rows walk men with cat tails ten to remind the slavish statisticians of their devotion to and dependence on the decimal system pushing them on and on to new and lower heights In the science of stats Steinberg If you dont get moving well never have dose figures ready for tonights game If dose results arent on the supers desk in tirty minutes youll be out on the street In thirtyone minutes point seven Tour percent of my threats result in da firing of da Victim so move It The New Statistics would need the New Math to follow them When I was young and happy kids used to memorize stats on their favourite players Some could tell you day by day the batting averages of every player on the home team These mini Elnsteins of my youth would be lost in todays maze of numbers Can you imagine a nine year old trying to remember all the statistics which the statisticians have deemed important enough to collect in the first place It would take months for our hypothetical child to figure out the Importance of most of them much less memorize them Disraeli Benjamin once very much like there are three types of lies lies damn lies and statistics And each worse than the last I might add If old Ben didnt do so himself A statistic can be made to say anything it likes and with each subdivision and new category we move farther and farther into meaninglessness Why play in a baseball organization Speaking of baseball I wondered recently why the Acton Minor Baseball Association calls itself this when they dont play baseball at all They play as we all know and softball is not baseball I asked Pop Main about this last week and he told me that the association used to play baseball but at one point a new executive came In which didnt know anything about baseball and switched the organization over If that Is the only reason for the switch I would recommend a return to the original baseball With two Canadian teams In the major leagues now supposedly looking for Canadian talent outside the realm of pitching we should be trying to foster Canadian talent Softball games wont teach anyone how to play baseball because the balls behave differently Hitting a Is much easier In general than hitting a baseball A hardball moves faster and the game has more action I dont see any real reason why hardball should not be returned to Acton It is no more unsafe to play than soft- ball Is and young players wanting to emulate Slue Jays will probably feel closer to their dream if they are playing the same guys TMtul tala One thing I forgot to mention In last weeks opus about leeball wax the possible proposed by Pop He said be could see a season of half teeball and ball pitched ball This would give the tykes a chance to learn the rock bottom basics which shouldnt take a whole season and move on to face a pitcher too It could be worth a try A 3 tie between second place Sports and third place Hills Catering prevented the Sportsmen from moving into first place in the Industrial softball race last Week as the leading Vans squad dropped a 144 shocker to Station Hotel The Caterers needed a single run in the final inning to tie and they got it on hits by Ray Graham and Vince Thornton while Avery reached base on an error by Larry Bryan Lawrence and Frank Daley were the pitchers In the game Lawrence striking out nine while Daley fanned Run scorers for were Jim Cole Wally Ella and James Morris Gary Wilson Roy Graham and John Duf field scored for Catering Ray Graham collected three hits for the Caterers as did Stan Kruk for JT Mora JT were more successful in their drive for first in their Thursday game with Station Hotel They scored two runs in each of the four Innings in the game for their total in the 3 win Frank Daley got the win striking out five and walking only one After a shaky first inning in which he gave up three hits and the walk for two runs he settled down and held the Hotel team scoreless until the last inning when John Dunn crossed the plate Gary Wilson and Ed Hllller were the run in the first inning for Station Jim Cole was the high scorer for JT and he did it without getting a single hit Walked twice he was antra Family Cleaners shrunk Electric down to size with close victory in Sundays first game The Electricians hod been winning everything in sight but fell short Sunday as they were missing most of their players Players from other teams filled in the gaps for the Electricians and kept the game from forfeit The Cleaners scored three runs in the fifth Inning to make up a deficit They con for five hits in the in ning including doubles by Gene Wood Winning pitcher was Chris Tennant while Fred Archibald took the loss Sutionwbii The surprise game of the week was last place Stations 144 drubbing of league lead Vans Welding Sunday Knuckleballer Alex Ward offerings were not fooling the Hotel team as they pounded out 19 hits Vans leading the league In offence and defence were held scoreless until the sixth inning when all four of their runs crossed the plate Station came on strong in the final innings as they pushed 12 runs across the plate in the last three JT only managed one win this week out of their two games but coupled with their tie and Vans loss it put them within a single point of the league leaders Halton Hills Catering stayed in the race with their He leaving them three points out of the top spot The only change in positions was between Family Cleaners and Hills Electric as the Cleaners moved up to fourth place well behind the leaders Station Hotel con tinued to reside In the cellar despite their big win StuiUnfi 11 io 104 l HI a in Electric US Id sullen 10 in iti 40 competitors in trail ride REACHING FOR A dipper of water Is Mo astride his young colt The obstacle was part of a ten mile course at Sundays Trail Horse Trials in by Jennifer Barr Despite being dragged through the bush by his horse suffering cuts and bruises tramping through the woods for an hour trying to locate his mount and eventually finishing the course young Brent Storey of went on to win eighth place In the Rockwood Trail Riders annual Trail Horse Trials held Sunday on the Blue Springs Line Nassagaweya Other local winners In cluded Doug Wood of who was top trophy winner in the western division Shelley Cooper not only won second place in the English Division but the coveted Horsemanship trophy Jean came third In English while Mo McGinnis was seventh In western all from Rockwood and area The all day equestrian event attracts contestants from all over the province competitors in both divisions English and Western Ten miles of beautiful trail dotted with judged obstacles started at the Presbytery Grounds Riders were sent off at two minute intervals and accrued points for the manner In which their horses negotiated such obstacles as a closed gate steep sandy slide hills ponds and bridges Some of the more difficult events Included obtaining a dipper of water from Inside a large floating inner tube in the middle of the pond trans porting a large Canadian flag and riding horse past a moving fur hat simulating a wild animal Kaz RTR club president was Trail- master Marg Cox and Sue tackled the awesome job of secretaries Numerous club members acted as judges timers and organizers A buffet supper was en joyed before awards ribbons and trophies were given out Awards were as follows Western Division 1 Doug Wood Blue Misty Marg Patterson Mounts Dark Miss Don Inglis Missy 4 Karen kowict Guelph Poco Continued on page 12