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Acton dominating basketball scene Midget Redmen cop tourney title Acton Midget Redmen Basketball leant captain John proudly display the trophy hi team won at the Tournament on the weekend The Red men four a might games to lake the title at the 16 team event A week ago the Acton Junior Boys basketball team copped a tourna title but this week belonged to the Midget Redmen The Midgets remained undefeated In preseason over past week as Ihey knocked off some lough competition to take home a crown at a West wood tourney The played tough through the entire event topping J A Tur ner In the opening round and then disposing and Ancaster 3635 before clinching the title with a win over he host in the finale Acton showed a strong defensive form through the tournament and on occasions held their opposition scoreless tor more than half of the tame In their second round game Erindale the Redmen had their backs against the wall at half time trailing but a Bolid second half perfor mance stalled any chance of an victory The counted IS points in Ihe last half while holding Erindale scoreless In the final the Acton squad was again their defensive best as Ihev up an isn halfUmc lead before allowing two third- quarter points John paced the Acton attack In the first game of the tournament the 215 win over Tin ner Lobelio netted 10 points while Bob Little followed close behind with nine Paul Nolan added the other six for the In the win over Lobelio was again the top point getter with 15 markers Little counted ten with Nolan adding three Mark Walke picked up two The win IS was a more rounded effort with several players sharing in the scoring Dob Little paced Acton attack with while Paul Nolan was close behind with ten John added five Mark Walker counted four and and Clin counted two each In the final against the host est wood Little and Lobelio again took charge of the scoring with Little counting points and Lobelio firing six Mike Smith and Paul Nolan counted four points each with counting the other Iwo of points high for Acton team John added with Paul Nolan 3 In exhibition ploy over the past week Ihe Midget toppled Oak Miles A 39 in a battle of two Hal ton East teams Little counted is points in the match wiih Not an adding sports and recreation On Fifth YearNo WEDNESDAY DBCEMBER Second Section One Hundred and Fifth YearNo 22 Industrial Hellers surprises Lake view Hellers lei everyone know they are on the move in Acton Industrial Hockey action Sunday night the Acton Com Centre The Hellers team In their first five attempts have now gone two straight weeks without a loss including a surprise come from behind 33 lie the league leading Centre his week In other games Sunday Acton Terminal Warehouse took a solid hold on third place with a win over Family Cleaners while Blow Press got back on the winning track dropping Von Welding l It was a complete reversal for Hellers in Ihelr match with Lake- view Hellers slur led season dropping games in final five minutes but they overcame a lead over the final ten minutes this week to earn the draw and blemishing the Centres record for the first time in seven weeks Floyd had a hoi night for as ho fired all three markers with Glen earning assists on each one Jim llaggelt also added an assist scored once in the first period and twice in the second to build up lead In the final frame Hellers came to life Their first goal of the game with gone in final stanza set the gears in motion John Ashley fired the marker his first of the season from Randy Mclntyre and Van Fleet A marker from Bob Jarrett pulled the Hellers squad to one selling up a last minute marker from John McCutcheon earn them the draw Van Fleet assisted on he final marker while Dave Thompson helped on the Jorretl goal A three goal per forma nee by Gary Marsh lifted Acton Terminal Warehouse into sole possession of third spot in Industrial play as they lopped Family Cleaners Ken Slaney fired a pair of goals to help the i a use while George McPhall Girls Ten nan and Mike Mitchell con verted singles George and Chris shared the honors earn ing two assists each while Bruce McPhall and Mike Morris counted single helpers Family Cleaners got single goal efforts from Jim Ernie Ruck and Bill Manes with Fred picking up Iwo assists Joe Deforest Bill Manes Jim and Stan Rhynolds added single helpers to cause Aclon Terminal built up a 30 lead early in the contest but were fighting to maintain a lead by the game mid point A late second period mar ker and an early third stanza score gave the Warehouses control and the win Blow Press rebounded after their loss of a week ago to score a win over Van Welding and drop the Welders into a lie for last place over all Rick Henderson and Wayne Hot Dog Deforesl netted two goals each Tor the winners while Brent Irwin fired only Welders goal with only 12 seconds remaining in Ihe final period Wayne Allan counted two assists for Blow Press while Sid Barens added another Gary Moore assisted on the Van marker In action this Sunday Van s Welding and Hellers meet in a 7 match lo decide last place while Centre try lo get back on he winning track against Family Cleaners in an pin game At 40 p m Acton Terminal Warehouse and Blow Press tangle Acton Terminal Warehouse Mark Morrison keeps a tight rein on the puck as Family Cleaner Ted attempts to pry the piece of rubber loose for another goal ATW scored an win to take a solid hold on third pot Gems get Malcolm back The Acton Sabres and he Georgetown Gemini Just keep battles lo the ice The executives have been in combat over Scott Malcolm for almost two weeks At present there is a lull in the battle and the Gemini have acquired or reacquired playing services of the former Acton Minor Hockey and Acton Sabres Malcolm Ihe subject of much attention over the past couple of weeks was playing in Georgetown until an Ontario Hockey Association ruling reverted the slick rights back to Acton Since thai lime the Gems have been try ing to reacquire his rights On Saturday morning a final deal was made bet ween the two clubs in a straight cash deal returned Mol to the Gemini line up Both teams gave a little said Acton Lee Vickcry of the agreement between the clubs A week ago the Gems and Ihe Sabres were at different ends of the spectrum in lines of a price for the Malcolm waiver We re happy with what we got from the deal commented Unfortunately the Third time Horseman honors for Ron Waples It has been a successful season for Ron He added another win to his credit being chosen Ihe Ontario Jockey Clubs Horseman of the Year for the third successive lime last week has recorded his best sea son ever in harness racing scoring wins lo date in North America including wins on Ontario The driver ran away with the balloting for the horseman award picking up votes with one other driver earning two ballots Waples is also in a position to be come first Canadianbased drt ver win the North American title for most victories He currently leads in lhat department by more than wins over two other drivers will receive his award at the Ontario Harness Horseman Association dinner In Toronto on January 0 Georgetown Gemini are not as pleased as the Sabres Wo paid more than we wanted to said Gems president Bob Girdwood but he a gentleman in the dressing room and a good hockey player The main beef the Gems have is they paid what Girdwood con sidered almost double the price hat learns receive for Junior players and then ihey found out what they were paying for was only a one year release meaning Malcolm will become Acton property again the end of the playing season We belie It was an outright release said We re not happy with the way Acton negotiated According lo Gird wood it was Saturday morning when a Gem executive member made the trip to Acton that they found out was a one year deal We re resigned to the fact lhat Malcolm s rights will return to Acton but we re not happy with it says Girdwood Despite the fact of being outraged by the way the final deal ended up the Gems wasted no lime In putting Malcolm back in a green yellow and white sweater Mai was back on the Georgetown bench when the Gemini met the at Georgetowns Gordon Arena on Sunday night Redmen slate cage tourney Acton High School begins two weekends basketball tournaments this weekend when the Acton put their unbeaten string on the llneagalnstteamsiroin Collingwood Milton J A Turner Georgetown Stayner and Dundas Milton is the defending champion Acton meets Markham In their inaugural m on Saturday morn ing The tourney final is slated for 8 p m Satur day while the consolation game runs at 15 m The week following t December 151 the Senior take to the courts with schools from Milton M Robinson Sacred Heart Monarch Park Saltfleet Ridge way and RedmenlnvttationalJunlor Saturday December Acton Markham ISamColtlngwoodvsMilton 11 J A Turner vs Georgetown 4 45pm vs Dundas Loser One Loser Two 3 Loser Three vs Loser Four 7 30 Winner One vs Winner Two 15 p Consolation Final Winner Five Winner Six p m Championship Pinal Winner Seven Winner Eight Taking cartful Bruce Arthur takes dead the Businessmen the Acton Curling aim on the rocks at the other end of the ice during Club Saturday Winners of the Curling Club s Businessmen Bonspiel Saturday were left right Roger Wilson Dave skip Crawford Caswell and Lei Weir Midgets score big against The Acton in out Midgets remain defeated in Waterloo- Wellington but the status makes the Acton learn a mark for the other league teams Last week the Inn needed everything they had to hold off a laic charge by the Fergus Green Machine holding for a lie in what lias been considered one of their poorest per formancesof Ihe year In other action the In outers scored a 150 win The highlight that game was the fclora team itself The visiting Elora team played the entire match Willi only six players In uniform Acton took a 20 first lead in their match with Fergus as Inn Ferguson and Denis netted the twine ten seconds of each other with a little more lhan three minutes remaining in the opening frame But ihe locals could not hold on as Fer closed the gap o willnn one before stanza ended Mark Duval extended Hit Acton lead from early in the middle frame but again came back to pull a single marker of the lead Denis Kirlon fired his second goal of he game with It 31 remaining in the final period to restore the two goal In out margin replied with wo markers within seconds lo even and the wo sides played scoreless hockey final ten minutes At home to it was a matter of tired legs that did in the visitors by a 15- tune Acton managed only two first period markers the six man opposition and extended the lead as legsworethin Five more third period markers gave the locals their big Rest win of year The In outers spill Ihe scoring production with ten netting no one scoring more than twice Olympic hopes swim in Alan Swanstons mind Bants suffer loss Acton Rotary Minor Bantams suffered their first defeat of the Waterloo Wellington league season last week as Ihey found trouble when they skated into dropping a 1 decision Acton coach Ruddy Holmes sap he questioned the official in match wilh the Rotary team picking up minutes in penalties while the home side were handed only four I can t understand how one team can be so aggressive and the other team so passive said Holmes Jin Richard fired the only goal of the game for Acton after the locals had fallen behind by a score Scott Hibbard turned in a fine performance in the Acton net according to Holmes stopping several key break a ways Acton played the entire final frame shorlhanded In other action over lite past week the scored a convincing victory over Fergus In what coach Holmes considered a relatively clean but well played game A total of five pen alties were handed out Lorenzo Civiero led the scoring parade in the match picking up three goals while Rick and Bruce Canary added each Jim Richard fired the other Acton goal Randy Coverdale David and Jim Richard each picked up a pair of assists with Vince Danagher and Troy McNaughl counting single helpers Acton built up a lead in the contest before Acton Tim McKendry relinquished the shutout Olympic hopes of swimmer Alan Swanston are more and more becoming a reality each time he com petes On the weekend Swanston was one of several Olympic hopefuls hit the water at the as part of the Canada Cup competition Swanston swam m five events over he compel it i on against several of the top swimmers for Canada and United States clubs finishing fifth in his specialty the 100 metre freestyle in Siesseconds Swanston other top performance came in the mens 100 metre where he finished in sixth place overall in a lime of 1 B2 II was Swanston s first lime competing in breaststroke even I and he was quite pleased with the performance The Canada Cup Meet is a development meet according to the young swimmer It s top level competition in mid rain ing season said in a telephone interview Most of Canada s national swim team was al the meet Swanston was pleased with his swim limes not in the two events he placed in but all five I m ahead of what I was al this lime last year says 1 m tired from he training but pleased he res The swimmer is optimistic about his Olympic chances but feels he can qualify You have be optimistic cited A pessimist won I make il II going to be lough and I realize thai is gradually setting his training program toward next June and the Olympic trials in Montreal and the Olympic Pool In two weeks is hoping to be at a meet in Long Beach California and he will con qualifying for the United Stales Nationals I must but I should be here swimmer confidence From the Nationals it will be back to the Canadian inter Nationals next March and then the stretch drive to the Olympic Trials and the 1980 Olympics in Moscow Swanston was a silver medalist the Pan American Games in Puerto Rich last summer swimming on the mens four by 100 metre relay