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Rain delays championship quest Rain played I the annual Acton ball tournament Sunday wiping out championship game between the Stags of Milton and Publishing of Georgetown No one is sure when the title will be decided because both teams are embroiled In their own league schedules The game will be played when they find a t me slot compatible to both teams The Stags and PhUps got that far after two full days of baseball and 15 playoff and consolation games In the tourney hosted by the Acton of the Georgetown Industrial Fastball League C Pirates copped the consolation crown Competing in the tournament besides Stags P rates and Philps was Acton Travel Freedom of the Acton Industrial league Electrical from Milton Color Your World and Three Phase Electric from Bramalea Alters Clark and R S Muffler from and the Ornagh Juniors went far The Roadrunners went the farthest of the Acton teams all the way to the semi finals whe they lost to Milton Slags On the other end travelled to the semi finals of the consolation round only to fall to McDuffe The third Acton entry Acton Travel loot two in a row to Clarke In the first round and then to C The Roadrunners took care of Ornagh Juniors in the game downing them Saturday morning The game was close un the fifth Inning Williamson batted a double Steve Mar shall hit a single Dave Spear batted a single Gary Pickles slammed a triple took a base on Gary Moore Joe Deforest and Dave Black all hammered singles before Williamson rounded the bases on his second hit Mar shall finished with a double but was left on base at the end of the Inning Deforest drove In Tennant In the second and Don Richard in the fourth for tho other two runs Ornagh batted a single their only hit in the game in the bottom of the first heat Game two Saturday morning saw dom battle S Muffler of Georgetown And the heat R jumped into a threerun lead In the top of the first with scoring one hit Dave Boycott crossed plate after batting a single Randy and Mike McGregor all hit singles Muffler added three more runs with a single In the second and two In the fifth to make the score Three Phase Electric from advanced to the quarterfinals after down ing McDuffe Three Phase scored a run in the fourth and fifth to take the lead banged several hits in the seventh but score a run Tho Stags nipped Color Your World 3 in game four of the tournament with the winning run a homer by Steve Gervais Cit p Pirates fell to PhUps Publishing in game five Philps took a tworun lead In tho second Inning Lorry Peterson knocked in a twobagger and crossed the plate on a triple by Dan reached home on a single By G Williams In the fourth Peterson hammered a homer knocking In Doug Anderson llama crossed the plate later In the inning Pirates scored a run in the fifth and two In the sixth on a home run Travel over Acton Travel went down fighting in game to AkersClark had built a lead until the top of tho fourth when Acton Travel scored six runs GlenMcKen lie batting a double Karl KllllngbecJc Al Bouafield Dave Allen Dan Allen and Dave Piper all crossed the That gave Acton a shortlived onerun lead until tied in the bottom of the fourth eliminated Juniors from further competition in the first round of the consolation playoffs They scored four runs in the first inning Boycott Bob Little McGregor and Arblc crossed the plate had tied the game with a run In the first and fifth and two In the seventh but clinched it when touched home in seventh McDuffe tarnished Color Your World In the second consolation game C P Pirates bumped Acton Travel In the third match Then met McDuffe in the second round of consolation play while the Pirates sat out a bye for having the least amount of runs scored against them In the McDuffeFreadom game Milton took the lead with a run In the first end innings while was held to only four hits At the top of the sixth McDuffe scored three more runs but Freadom fought back with two of their own Boycott and Ruddy Holmes crossed the plate George Wallis touched home in the seventh for the third That set up the consolation final with C Pirates coming out on top of Georgetown scored all five runs In the fifth Inning to Milton lone score In the sixth The Roadrunners disposed of Muf flcr In the quarter finals of the champion game was tied 4- going Into the top of the eighth runners Chris and Deforest touched home went down quickly In the bottom of the eighth on a Qy and two strikeouts Other Roadrunners runs were scored by Tennant In the sixth Steve Marshall and J Legato in the seventh and Williamson in the filth The Stags to the final downed Three Phase while Philps overpowered Akers Clark That gave a bye In the semi finals while the met their downfall a loss to the Milton Richards Marshall Mills and Moore all batted singles in the losing cause The final game featuring Milton and hardly got under way before a thunderstorm put a damper on things Muffler runner It to third during the Acton Industrial ball tourney Saturda or the Acton Induitriol League lost the game Muffler Thai Dan Arblc making catch The Acton Roadrunners of the Georgetown Industrial league which hosted the tournament travelled to the semi finals where they were defeated by Milton The final game featuring Milton Stags and Georgetown tins been delayed by rain Pirate won the consolation crown sports and recreation Writ J 1980 d Sect Wed J 23 Dangers dont bother this girl Amanda a isyearold girl has Just completed a 10week Jockey Training course at College Why She wants to become a Jockey In the mealtime argues with her thoroughbred horse Morning Maie Get your ears up by Diana The and tragic death of Jockey Gomez has shocked everyone re motely related to horse racing It almost as if the possibilities of death or injury are unheard of in the sport But Jockeys after all wear very little in the way of protection and horses are left to their own So says 16yearold Amanda Rox borough I don t really see danger Strange thought for someone whose pas sion for horses has made her pursue a car eer a Jockey I don think about It Just living is dangerous Racing la as dangerous as everything else had Just completed a 10- week course at Humber College last week She took Jockey training at school not your average academic curriculum Now she looking for employment with trainers at Woodbine Raceway in Toronto an exerciser And after a year or so of that she says maybe someone will offer her ride It takes a little while of exercising be fore you get a good break one that will put you up Trainers arc always offering a job but it just for grooming I want to find one that will put me up It all started when was 10- yearsold The family moved from George town to and Roxborough finally got what she had been asking from Santa Claus all those years a pony which she re cently sold Rockwood holds regionals The Minor Ball Association is hosting the PWSA Juvenile regional ment this weekend Teams from Brampton Guelph Glenfield Courtrlght Stratford Riverside Barrie Corunna and Mai ton are entered The first game features hometown Rock wood at m Friday Tho tournament organizers are using the Eden Mills diamond as well as the Rock wood eld to accommodate all the games Championship games arc scheduled for Sunday afternoon She took riding lessons at Mountainview Farms wheh got her into hunter shows She did alright and decided to stick with horses for career Her is a bonus too A towering foot barely tips the scales at pounds She read about the Jockey training course In a trade pape colled in the spring of I applied was Interview and accepted It is only the second lime the course has run Roxborough said the Instructors Inter view applicants about their riding taking their height into consider Then during the weeks students take a life skills course one that prepares them for unstable world of Jockeying and a physical education course They learned about racing form the and racing as an industry They galloped horses around the learning track at Wood bine and learned how to exercise The final days wes a placement week Students worked for tra at Woodbine as they would if employed It really takes a lot out of you borough says In physical education we we and were advised on diet You have to be in shape You have to keep your weight down don lave that problem because I don cat much any way Jockeying and horse rac Is a male- dominated sport but that bother Roxborough she soys Its a bit harder to get Into trainers used to women jockeys But there is a female jockey at Woodbine Valeric Thompson getting a lot of mounts And adds after her place ment week at e track the trainer said he was pleased with her work ght g rls and seven boys enrolled In the has her own horse Morning Maze which she rode in hunter on I had fun but I prefer racing Hunters are plac d but thoroughbreds are rangy They squeal nip rear buck you have to be on your toes all the time They arc also a lot faster wants to be where the action Is She said she has no plans to get in the other end of racing Maybe when I old and grey 1 train But I not going to own a thoroughbred Sure It s not a secure profession If you get hurt and yourc out for awhile you have no Maybe you ride again But Amanda think about those things Right Three Roadrunners are allstars Three Acton have made team one of the Industrial Lea Steve Marshall first baseman centre fielder Tennant and pitcher Joe De forest will form the nucleus of the squad well shortstop J Legate catcher Don Richards and Bruce MacPherson out fielder have been named as alternates Team one of the allstar squad Is com prised of players from teams In first third fifth and seventh place in league standings Team two Is made up of players from the teams in second fourth sixth and eighth place The two will meet In on battle Sunday Tho hold first place Also on team one arc five members of Publishing Brad Edgar or second base shortstop Bill catcher Bob Ike Ingles Doug Anderson In left field and Bob In field Frank Rob from Hornby will play third base Don Martin from Hornby Bob Cunning ham and Rick Cunningham of Nerval Gord and Rabble Freestone and Randy from Clark will be alternates On the replacement squad in case some one can t play are of Akers- Clark Andy Irenes of Hornby and Jed Wil Hams of On team two from C S Plumbing are Art Budweiser on second Leek ing as Shortstop and from It S Muffler ore Moore on rst base Williams in centre field and Brent Telford in right field Norm Topping and Bill from Peel Police are In the field and the catcher Jim Parker from the Georgetown Merchants Ron Osborne from S Muffler Gene Inglis and Tom from Peel Paul Sargent Bob Allison and Chuck from the Merchants and Gary Bertasson Don Peacock and Tim McChesney from C S Plumbing will play as alternates M of Peel Police of S Muffler and Dave Puckering of the Merchants are replacements Sunday game will be played at the Georgetown Fairgrounds An team will be picked from the entire league to play the Milton In an August 10th match in Hon Tri County report Transmissioners end undefeated The Acton wound up their regular season Thursday with a stomping over Maryhill That was the perfect to a perfect season The oners have a remarkable undefeated record this season partly due to the efforts of chuckers David Haynes and Mike Baker Haynes started things off Thursday with rounding the bases and knocking In Peter for the first two Acton runs Patty Johnston and Joe Marchmcnt touched home In the third Acton had big fourth and fifth Innings scoring six runs in each Baker Johnston Robbie Leopard Car gill Henderson and Marchment in the fourth and everyone but Marchment and Cargill plus a run from Scan Fitzgerald in the sixth added to the score Johnston Leopard and topped things off in the eighth to make 105 In a game Thursday July 10 Acton Transmissioners stomped over Ponsonby innings Haynes Johnston Cargill Murray Dave Paul LeopardiandJasonONcllall crossed the plate some several times Paul scored fouf runs while Murray counted three scored a single run in the open lug frame added two In the third and another single In the seventh The Transmissioners had a little more trouble with Tuesday July in Ermoasa having to come from behind for a 11 10 victory Johnston and Carglll reached home in the first but tied it up and went ahead in the second with a third run Fitzgerald evened the score In the third with a run but came back with four runs to take the lead The Transmissioners had trouble until the sixth when they were finally able to score six runs Baker Johnston Paul and Henderson crossed the plate That put the within as added a single run to their tally in the fifth They came op with a big seventh Inning scoring the tying and win ning runs Jason Nell batted a single followed by Johnston slammed a onebagger bringing Nell home and Fitzgerald belted another single to drive Johnston In Paul was sent walking but the three were left on base In the bottom of the seventh stroked a pair of singles but the Tran tagged them while on base Eds suffer first loss spoiled Ed unbeaten streak edging them by one run 11 Wednesday In Ed splayed a tig defensive game until the bottom of the ninth when exploded for seven runs to win the gome Tim Shannon put Ed in front in the first frame with a run McArthur and Baker touched homo In the second to make It 30 replied with a run of their own In the second but then t score again until the sixth Meanwhile Ed counted two more runs by Tim Baker and Tim Evans in the fourth and two In the sixth by Evans and Bob And rewa That made it rallied with three runs In the sixth narrowing tho lead to Roy Spear crossed the plate in the seventh frame before Paul Campbell Andrews and Dave Wilson touched home in the eighth for 11 runs But came up with seven runs In the ninth plus a single run in the eighth to overtake Ed a Spear relieved Wilson midway through the ninth but It t help Ed third Denis Kirton did not travel to Freelton Ed b eased pain of their only loss of the season by whipping Monday in Prospect Park Continued on Page A battle for the ball during last Wednesday a junior soccer loss last week when their team mascot Lima a border collie match at Acton High School field The Trojans In dark collapsed after the gameand died the shorts won the game over the Georgetown Metros extend rag their undefeated streak Out the team did suffer a to coach Brian Saxon