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WEDNESDAY AUGUST Hundred and Fourth YearNo Second Section Chicken I izi Spot from Am ilciir Softball 14 come from behind victory Aeton who deft lltspolcr in two were lit after five and a h ilf innings store our limes itli of the sixth and second off uilh innings to iredaruninlht Jeff another homer in the third along with run by Paul 4 In Unite In the fourth before manage iny more offensive power scoring in their half of the fourth lltspcler added a single run in Ihc fifth and got runs in the sixth In lake a 13T lead In the Acton half of the sixth spectators would hive though he team had just arrived The bench which had been all but deid through Cleaners clobber Caterers Station loses 3rd of season amilj Cleaners renin ned in a lie for third spot in Industrial Baseball It ifut is ii result f Mi nd night clobbering if list Hilton Hills iteruij it I In other gimes because of tin luig weekend J ind T Spirts in second knocking off first Station Hotel 1 In tin ither it ins mother big seven in the Hills A pair of runs In the fourth and single runs in each Ii if the sixth and seventh in leaners rounded out the inning on Cleaners scoring rout run other lhan Hie one in the first in ning ime in the second Hotel ring on the board with run in the first 1 from there on it down hill le The Mi i limine runs Sports game pitted the lop i ml innine untcrs two clubs in the standings Bants down Wood bridge in OASA playdowns SAFE AT FIRST is the call the umpire made in this instance as an Acton wee player beats out a bunt in their Ontario playoff game against espeler Acton won the game and the series in two straight Aeton Bantam ball team began lint ino Am Hour Softball Thursd ij with wm over Wood bridge Acton plays in Baseball h it league plays Ontario Kuril Softball ition rules which means the Acton squad which uses i inch ball for league had to smaller 11 inch ball for the In iddition the itself was int In tin first three innings the mil mm to reach safely is Paul Nolan of Hi pot on he score oird first with a lead iff single i d on an error i sienf ice bunt in fourth inning came right back in Fastball Merchants Charges split GIFL action Acton Merchants Merchants were shul out ahead of Tojoli in the rice for third spot in the Georgetown Induslnal a only one hit iff win last Thursday over tint backer Mcon I In Tuesday night iction I m in four hits off Chuck I lmchuuse Ihe first fourth and pair in lb Atom boys blast Hornby In Rural league play offs the instruction Mom boys took the first of a three series from Hornby 17 last David winmiif pitcher was commended by Ins for his excellent performance on the mound tins Gcrvvais Mike llaker hit for Acton in contest the with I irk i the I irk team struck early with four base hits ind three runs in the first inning time back with a pair if ruas in the bottom of the first is Bill and Steve Marshall singled and Itrry isales doubled Acton scored four more times the a walk singles by Don Gary Wilson and Dan Allen mother run fifth is 1 Deforest singled I ark 1 time hack with a pur of runs off two doubles but held on for Hit 7 win Merchants next is Thursday night against first plate Motors In previous meetings this season defeated The Merchants ire looking to play an exciting against and ire hoping for some moral support da me lime is p m at Prospect Park Contrary to last week paper charges- have been laid resulting from an incident at the Glen Williams bail park The incident resulted from an umpire ejecting a Glen ball player from a game between the Glen and The gome was to decide firs place in the Rural Softball League Acton was trailing after six innings in Hit seven inning ball game came back to tie the score An inilc fin hen allegedly assaulted the umpire as the was leaving pork the bottom of the fourth with two runs Rob Vcrmulen singled and scored on a Mark Duval Both teams held each other off the until Acton an insurance marker in the eighth when Rick Greenly singled moved third on an error and scored on Paul Nolan bunt The insurance marker tame in handy as Woodbridge got one bick in the ninth to make final score Rob Vermculen was the winning for Aclon allowing only four hits through Ihe nine innings The pitcher allowed only five hits in the game travels to Wood bridge Thursday for the second game in best of three playdown A third if necessary will be in night pm agnnst each other I needed the win remain of Vans ind Cleincrs Station had lost only twice ill Simon came bat first and it looked as if hey would walk with mother eime Station scored four times in the first only hive J ind three iddcd to their lead in second with doubles by Cot I Burt ind singles by Jtfflnghsand rd The four hits brought J Jiid lied score in Ihe fourth when a couple of Station errors illowcd two Hi lei scored another in filth before J and T look the lead to stay I- our runs crossed plate for J and T in the fifth as Dive Black error Kan fun singled Stan Kruk doubled and Fred Archibald hit Station scored iingle runs in of the last Iwo innings while J ind two runs in Ihe sixth Station suffered its third loss of the i J score In diys other Vans Welding slowed down Hilton Hills at tempt oeatch playoff spot downing thai team 14 could only manage ingle runs in of the first ind third innings Vins scored four runs in the first three in the second and third innings and four more in eighth to give them the win Ron hit Ihe nly homer of the the first five innings to life Screaming and support to their teammates as they went to the plate the pcew cos managed to get back four of the runs they went to the field and retired in order for the first time in the Things got dirk for Acton In the bottom of seventh as Iht first Iwo Acton bitters grounded and flew out Ted I indsiy Piul then singled Brian w load the bises Bruce Canary came to plate and hit a long triple over the centre fielder he id bring in runs tic he score Canary scored two pilches later on a wild pitch to Acton the ball game Canary was winning pitcher in relief of Acton starter Bruce Shannon in the sixth inning In the first game of series Acton hit five home- runs two each by Bruce Shannon and Brian Canary one by Paul on way to their 14 win In pelcr Aclon scored all but two of their runs in the first four innings of hat game scoring big the third and fourth with five and six runs res peclively Shannon was winning pitcher in thai game Acton now meets the winner of the Niagara on and Simcoe series ARTIST Alex Ward of Station Hotel releases a pitch that J and T Sports batter Dave Mills attempts to bunt J and handed Station their third loss of the season Monday night Royalty and locals race pigeons Weekly basketball fun at Acton High BASKETBALL YERS got together for the first six weeks of the summer on Monday nights at High School for some fun and practice Here Martin Osso lays up a shot tor he six weeks enthusiasts have been getting it High School for some ind exercise Three different played week with four teams in ith league Che leagues were set up accord to players ability The more expert played in late night of cental Most players in category were cither high school seniors or graduates Three ladies ployed In this division which was known as the NBA he three girls were Shirley Anker Cook and Sue The second division was mostly a junior boys league which went by the title of NCAA The youngest or leasl ex group the OUAA consisted of three girls teams and one boys squad of the teams in each league played a round robin schedule and a playoff round Last Monday night the finals were held in each league After each league declared winner he all star team of he lower lass ion played on exhibition game against heir nocalled sup erior counterparts The league was organized by high school teacher Rick for recreation Mr said that league would help develop basketball skills and at the same time give people some thing lo do for the summer For almost now people have been racing pigeons and having race results recorded Queen II is one of many who rnses and races these One club that is Involved is the Aclon Racing Pigeon Club The Aclon club is a member of Canadian Racing Pigeon Union The Union publishes results of all the Canadian results over Iheir five month I here are 11 members In Acton who send birds to race in club events every weekend The which is in the Central Ontario I e deration with Dixie Hamilton St Catharines and Niagara talis holds meetings on Fridays to load their birds and ready for the trip to wherever week races arc The birds are then taken by truck along with the birds from rest of Central Ontario lederallon Id Ihe meet area The birds are released from on open field and timed on flight home I owner has a liming clock which prints out Ihe lime which bird arrives by dropping a band thai the bird must wear Into the timer The band Indicates each bird by number Aflcr the pigeons have returned the birds time Is figured Into the distance it has travelled coming out in HARRY FOLEY of the Acton Racing Pigeon velocity It is then recorded In Club shows a bird that won a 600 mile race Mr minule m Foley along with ten Acton area men Last weekend me pigeon belongs to the club which races the pigeons each race commenced from weekend from May to September bout 103 west Coming home to roost RACING PIGEONS owned by Harry Foley are just some of the birds sent each week to races in Ontario and parts of the United States The Acton Racing Pigeon Club has members Mr Foley says that Queen Elizabeth II also races the birds of Aclon The winning bird from Aclon was one owned by Bill Wilson melres per minute Mr Wilson also had second place bird at Harry Foley had third place bird at CD mpm while Grant Pun birds finished fourth sixth ninth and tenth Pigeons owned by Henry Clark finished fifth and seventh Other club members who attended the lngcrsoll event were Jim Mitchell Turowski and George Koloisvarl The pigeons which are proper racing birds are checked by veterinarians- a year and are not allowed race in the United States unless they have been cleared They must also be registered Other members of Ihe Aclon club arc Colin Tony Van Dam Hugh Harvey The next two weeks the birds will be racing from West Lome Two weeks following thai Ihc pigeons will fly from Tilbury and then September the birds will race from Michigan The Atlon club was formed