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Sport satisfies aggressive drive says Acton psychology teacher Sports are a necessary as of western civilization according to Roger Johnson an Acton resident who teaches a course called the psychology of sport at Sheri dan Sport allows a release or aggression he said citing the competitive values prized in our culture It possible that some athletes get in volved in aggressive sports to satisfy a need to show slon He likened sport to a gladitorlal arena and said It provided on the heels of advancing technology loco motives and airplanes In particular a kind of political Jousting arena where nations can appear to get along well In sport It Is an opportunity for nations or countries to relate to each other in a non threatening way Agression in sports has been the subject of public criticism especially with regard to hockey he said Johnson pointed out that many sports had their in the military Johnson declined to com on the Tightness or of these competi tive urges saying they are pushed on everybody by parents and schools and that he was brought up in this sort of atmosphere and therefore can never get separated for enough from It to judge This Is only one aspect of the psychology of sport which he discusses in his classes and it falls as much under sociology as much as it does psychology His purpose in the course la to teach students most of whom arc in on intensive para medical course designed to teach them to treat sports related injuries something of the basics of psychology and to apply it In sporting situations Athletes like anyone suffer stresses under pres sure of competition or team pressure or in or around an Injury situation It is widely accepted that you can t heal well if your mind is working against you and psychological training can help athletic trainers In their work by showing them how to keep their patients In the right frame of mind for healing The course also covers other basic psychological questions like motivation We might without Derek Sanderson permission talk about him behind his back said Johnson We take a case like this and discuss Usually the students are more up to date than I am on the current stars They will lead the discussion and tie it in to basic principles There Is a difference In the forces affecting people In Individual and team sports In Individual sports the constellation of factors are personal motivations goals set for the self etc In a team situation social and physical environment changes There are factors like pressures to conform to standards Students he has found are quite Interested In William Sheldon s body type theories Sheldon is the man who first designated people as and and theorized that certain personalities went with each type of figure In sports this ties in to determining the suitability of certain types of people for certain types of sports One example he cited for the Free Press the over weight In school being forced by a teacher to do layup shots when perhaps he should be concentrating on something a little closer to the ground Johnson claimed that in Russia other countries is more emphasis placed on selecting children related to personalties and physical types Sheldon divided the world into three basic body types the with his frail bone structure usually sens I live and withdrawn the mesomorph an angular and muscular person who is aggressive and loves cam petition and the a short thick person who loves socializing around eat All bodies can be rated according to their degrees of endomorphy mesomorphy and according to Sheldon who arranged them all into a range from one to seven In each category Johnson gave as an example Muhammed AH who might rate a score of two in en seven in mesomorphy and zero in as op posed to Minnesota Fats who might be a S0 From these figures Sheldon felt he could determine personality types and more recent research has shown that he could have been right Johnson la well qualified to be teaching this course and in fact feels It la the best pos sible combination of his different skills and training He has a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education which he sandwiched between two different psychology degrees and has taught in Phya Ed departments for seven years Including two years as chair man of a Ed depart May Year No Second Section High scores are popular as industrial season opens Industrial Softball got underway under perfect conditions Sunday as Station Hotel topped Hills Electric Vans Welding doubled Hills Catering and Family Cleaners took J T Sports 149 In Monday action J T Sports got into the win column with a victory over Vans Station Hotel scored single runs off Electric loser Bryan Lawrence in the third fifth and seventh Innings for their win Hits by Rick Coe and Jeff combined with a pair of walks In the third to account for the first Station run while the winner came across when Brian Canary drove Inglis In with a single proved to be the main weapon In the Station of en arsenal as he went four for four scoring twice and knocking In a third run A solo homer from Dave Bousfleld accounted for the Electric tally Vans Welding got things going in a hurry in their game as lea doff batter Bruce MacPherson drew a wo Ik second batter Gary Cope and singled and third man up Bill blasted a round tripper to get the first three runs Three more scores crossed the plate before the side was retired in the inning TheCaterers closed the gap to with a pair of scores in the third and three in the fourth but Vans exploded for eight runs in the next two inn to put the game out of reach Allen connected for a homcrun for the losers Losers Guy Payne and Ken to whiff nine Welders while winner Vince Thornton registered eight strikeouts Poor fielding proved to be the downfall for JT Sports against Family Cleaners as they allowed five men on base through errors four of them going around to score The Cleaners had two big innings to put them over the top They batted around the order in the second Inning scoring five runs and managed six more runs in the sixth inning when they sent batters to the plate Shortstop Larry scored four times in the game for the winners while win ning pitcher Ken Pilgrim crossed the plate three times J T Sports did most of their scoring in the fifth Inn Ing as five runs came across on six hits and walk victory Monday was a rain shortened five Inning game Ron Kruk and Pete Homer homered for the winners They held a 3 lead alter three innings before a four run burst by Vans Welders mode I close the fourth frame Industrial Softball action continues next weekend as Family Cleaners meet Vans JT Sports battle Hills Electric and Halton Hills Catering plays Station Hotel Catering and Electric square off Monday at HH Furniture girls terrorize Limehouse DOUG CA1RNCROSS TOOK HIS first shot of the new golf season last week at Acton Meadows The course is showing the signs of a long winter but recent rains should do a lot to bring it into top condition Golf club prepares for upcoming season Hills Furniture bantam girls continued their winning ways on the Softball field with a pair of exhibition wins over Halton Rural Soft ball Association rivals Lime- house last week Last Wednesday saw them crunch the squad 198 behind a grand slam home run from Kelly White Three Acton batters went four for five In the high scoring game with Michelle Noble Phillips and Barb Wilson all managing the fiat Kelly White and Patty combined pitching talents to get the win Acton held a lead going Into the sixth Inning when put seven runs across the plate Acton responded with an equal number of scores In the seventh to account for the final tally The bants proved It was no fluke win by winning the return engagement in Limehouse Sunday by a 17 count Acton jumped right out into the lead in the first half of the first inning with an 11 run outburst that saw the first three batters In the order each score twice in the in Mardic Phillips Cindy and Barb Wilson were the twotimers Kelly White again belted a round tripper and Phillips went six for six at the plate to lead a club that Is going to be strong with the slick this summer The girls finished the gome by pushing 12 runs across In the final inning IAN CAMPBELL GAVE it a good try but went down swinging as his Station Hotel team topped Halton Hills Electric in the first game of the 197 industrial Softball season Dominion first in Shuffleboard Second soccer team status is in doubt With a record of wins and four losses Dominion Hotel squeaked by Milton Legion and Fuels to take the top spot In the United Shuffle- board playoffs Milton Legion and Krantz Fuels finished the one day round robin tourney with Identical records the Legion taking second spot on the tourney on the strength of three straight wins over For the Dominion team Ron White and Tony Lambert played six perfect games winning all six of them John Vlictstra and Geoff Denny won five of six and captain Wayne Wilson and Doug Mann won three out of six Mann was voted winner of the rookie of the year award Andy Luff and Ron Hagen were not called on to play but effectively led he cheering section and also were score- keepers in most of the Dominion games The team would like to thank the sponsors of this year teams Coslmo Mer- of the Dominion Hotel Alton and Construe ion Acton Legion Milton Legion The Charles Hotel In Milton and Gord Krantz of Krantz Fuels Milton Acton Meadows golf club is going to be a busy place this summer with quite a few tournaments booked accord ing to manager Gerry more Most of the groups booking tourneys come from out of the area but a few Acton groups Including the Legion ladies curling and Free Press have events scheduled during the summer months Other nearby groups who have booked the course for tourneys are Rockwell International from Milton and the Sons of Scotland from Georgetown Groups like the High School ore using the facilities for dances and there are wed dings to help take up the time between tournaments The course has had a new challenge added this year in the form of a new lake on the ninth hole Work on the change was begun last August but was hampered by Ihe rain We hope to get It done this year said more Merchants pick up pair of exhibition wins Acton Is expected to enter two teams In the Inlercounty Soccer League this year and with both teams scheduled to play tonight It Is still not known whether the town will be able to field the second team Coach of the Acton Villa Colin told the Free Press they were having trouble getting players to come forward for second team Probably when the season starts when they see people out kicking the ball around that when they come out If the second team does play tonight hey will be at home on the field The first team is not as strong as last year Acton Villa who finished second to the Georgetown Meteors in their first attempt at league competition but Bracken ridge says once we get two or three games under us we 11 hopefully be stronger It doesn t look to bad on paper A few of last year players have moved and some cannot make the opening game but most of them are back this year Acton Merchants got them selves on the winning track last week with a pair of wins trouncing the Milton 11 1 and doubling Hornby In exhibition fastball action Chuck and Norm Topping handled the pitching chores both games while power at the plate was well distributed Don Archibald connected for a two run double In Thurs day win over the Staggs Terry Cole contribute a three run triple Topping added a two run double and Bob hit a triple to right that would have been out of the park If fences were The win seemed to be a big lift for the team according to manager Ron Hachey Gary Wilson hit for a pair of singles In the Sunday game In helped his own cause with a home- run Everybody played good baseball said adding Ihe team is shaping up well Regular play for the Merchants begins Sunday 40 register for lacrosse About 40 boys will take to the lacrosse floor this week at the arena after registering week for play In a proposed minor lacrosse system In town who is organizing the system says there will probably be two teams midget and peewee The midgets will be graduates of last year league champion bantam Monarchs The league Itself has not been set yet this year but according to It will consist of teams Brantford Eloro Kitchener Guelph Arthur and possibly Coaches for the local teams have not been picked Financial problems for AMHA exec The new Acton Minor maybe three kids playing Hockey Association and Its driving them away chosen at their annual from the arena We have to meeting Sunday will be a try to or lower the good hardworking executive registration fee by according to president elect Ing It some other way and Barry Inscoe that means we are going to have to go out on the hustings me problem tlon faces will be mostly financial he feels We He described the annual to find other sources of meeting as poorly attended revenue Costa of Ice have saying the usual faithfuls gone right out of the world were there Directors of the and you take your average aBsoclatlonwlUbechoscnata working man with two or later dale WINNER OF THE UNITED Shuffle Board League playoffs was the Dominion Hotel Team Left to right in the front row are Tony Lambert Ron White captain Wayne Wilson sponsor and Ron Hagen In back left to right are Geoff Denny cocaptain John Viietstra DougMann Andy Luff and R