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sports and recreation Httnirvd and WEDNESDAY 1W1 One Hundred and Sixth Year No WEDNESDAY JULY 1981 Top swimmers in one family by Diana and Dave Immediately set out to contuse me Whosivho I ask This Is our girlfriend says Dave She my girlfriend says Avril who says nothing smiles placidly use to his obviously I not I m not even sure I in the right place having wandered into parts unknown suburban for this Interview At least I think it was an interview Imnotsureonthatelther Aha you think She writing about herself again a malady much suffered by journalists Luckily I am an exception so this Is a story about David and Allan Swans ton of and a great apartment in Kitchener and other parts in between They swim For example Older heather Allan swam in as part of person Canadian team asked to participate in the Cuban national pi hi And he swam In Russia in August in 1979 in a dual meet against the Soviets and in London England in April and in Tokyo for the World Cup in in Puerto Rico in July or the Pan American games and even in far a Canada West Germany meet Allan competed in the Canada games in 1977 various competitions and the nationals seriously in high school Now heading for his fourth national championships this weekend in Montreal s Olympic Pool He says he hopes to retain or improve his C Card status that will keep him on the national swim team and send him to the world champ next year Medals abound in the trophy case at the Swanston home Allan picked up three silvers in his fust Can games in 1977 in the free and and 100 relays a sliver in the x 100 relay in the Pan Am games two golds three silvers and one In Cuba two in Tokyo and made the finals In his first international meet the Coca Cola Cup in London England The University of Waterloo nam ed him most valuable swimmer and the city of Guclph honored him with a plaque There also a letter from Prime Minister Trudeau commending Allan on his performance In the Pan American games somewhere in a drawer He one of the best swimmers in the country Dave is where Allan was four years ago embark inghesayshehopes onthesameloftycareer Ati8 he competed in his first nationals this w but t achieved a card rating yet The pair swim out of the Region of Waterloo swim club Both started their careers with the high school team in and later Joined the Guclph Marlins Club under the tutorship of Ann Grape Grape was Al first coach Both and Dave were coached the following year by Clifford Barry for the next three years and when Barry mov to Vancouver last season Al followed Dave stayed behind the Marlins and his second coach Doug Now the brothers are together again under Barry in Waterloo David is the jokster of the two He provides the entertainment says his father Walter also joking They share an apartment in Kitchener paid for by Mom and Dad while attending cither school or workouts Yeah it great says Dave who it seems has discovered the joys of being young single and living miles away from a mother You should come Of course it not all play For one thing Allan is in his third year of Economics at the university and Dave still needs a few high school credits Then they add there ore the workouts We re in the water for five hours or more a day they soy almost In unison We have a workout Saturday continues Allan We lift weights run practise yoga You re not going to tell her about that says Dave which helps our flexibility and to relax finishes Allan Swimming is a serious business he adds It amateur sport but it really a job So why do you do if It not exactly a recreational pasttime Anybody who says it recreation gets kicked off the team says Allan He said he started swimming a couple of times a week for the high for fun but what real got him interested were lessons he took with the school in grade five And if you really want to go back when Allan was three or four years old his father beat him a race and sent him lo swim lessons Dove says he joined the high school team for fun but he added he was influenced by his big bro ther Both saw the opportunities swimming for your country can offer trips to Moscow and Tokyo aside But only if you qualify for the national team Only if you arc exceptionally good Allan says a full Olympic games team 64 men and women will be chosen from the nationals to compete in the Worlds and Commonwealth Games next fall And adds Dave the chances of having two brothers carded Is slim But they are prepared Dave says they hove been in what they term training camp for the past pie of months Arriving at pool at 40 in the morning every day all winter they built a back ground of workouts and distance Then as the ionals drew nearer the sessions were narrowed Brother Swam ton left David and Allan right leave for the Canadian national summer swim championships Friday held In Montreal Allan has long on the national swim scene but younger brother David one of the up and coming Both swim out of the Region of Waterloo club and together la one relay event Both are hoping to break the Canadian record and win a few medals In the relay down concentrating on major events This last week was spent resting putting In less meterage but keeping in touch with the water while theirbodiesarestUlbuilding energy Theyleavefor the nationals Friday Most swimmers shave down before major events says Allan to increase their skins sensitivity to the water Shaving scrapes nerve endings leaving them tingling so you feet faster in the water It a psychological edge and done only before the big meets They shave their legs bjt neither Dave nor Allan shave their heads Not yet says Dave They will attend the summer nationals as mem of their club The Waterloo team Dave assur fta is tops ranked third in the country in men a and sixth overall with one woman after tho winter The club has same promising swimmers says Dave We have good chance to win the Dave and Al swim together in this event Their backstroker is Mike West Mention him We said we dget his name in the paper His father is from Acton but West is more noted lor winning both nationals and beating Graham Smith to doit Victor Davis to whom they promise any newspaper glory Is their butterfly specialist and Canadian record holder in that event He also ranked In the world And finally their anchor sworn one of the fastest relay sprints In Canadian history I did So what do you think Dave asks of the team Good eh We should go under the Canadian rec Allan main events internationally are the re lays while nationally he excels in sprint freestyle the 100 and metre sprints and metre individual medley Davesbesteventsarcthe50 and My ultimate goal says Dave after some thought is to be successful in the sport to qualify for teams and to have fun And to compete internationally interjects Allan Allan Is sort of in swimmer limbo The Olym pic boycott destroyed my ultimate goal I can t say about the next Olympics They are still three years off I do like to stay in swimming until the Common wealth Games They ore in Christchurch Now Zealand and for the world championships in Ecuador and the world student games In Romania The boycott says Allan was a disappointment Once people learned of the boycott they stopped trying In other meets A lot of people just quit It was mentally hard added Dave because a lot of people were In hard training when the boycott was announced HI still bo interested in the sport said Allan and would like to stay with it either in an Continued on B2 HaltonRural re Errors cause squirts second setback Fielding errors late in the game proved costly j Acton Optimists squirts in minor ball match Inst wville Wednesday After leading for four innings Acton drop ped a decision Shawn Dry den and Mike Williams shared the loss on the mound Dryden was relieved in the fourth and took over the catcher s position Acton came out slugging with crossing the plate in the opening frame on several walks then scored again In the second along with Mike and David Harrison thanks to rison home run Williams touched home after Harrison to make it by the bottom of the second scored again in the third with seven runs in the fourth to gain the lead Optimists meanwhile ran into some nifty pit by Lowville who fanned bat tersinthegame Lowville added five more runs in the fifth to finish off the game Optimists made a gallant ef forttocatchup especially an Harrisons triple in the sixth driving in Dryden for the sixth run Harrison touched home on Williams ground out for the seventh run Williams held at bay in the bottom of the sixth but Acton could on manage one final run in the seventh Paul Sankey crossed the plate on a single by Jason Campbell wins the match The loss was tho second setback suffered by the Optimists last week as they failed to avenge their defeat to Glen Williams Monday Glen Williams snuffed Acton on June in Tri County report the first part of a home and home series Op timists had hoped to redeem themselves lost Monday in Glen Williams but were nipped Williams took the loss on the mound for Acton despite whiffing 11 batters was outstanding at bat scoring two of Acton four runs Tho first came in the third after Mike reached home on Dryden twobagger Bar single sent cross the plate That mado it 2 1 for Acton after Glen Williams scored in the opening frame Glen caught up in tho four and went ahead by one run in the fifth Williams slugged a single in the fourth while Campbell stroked a triple in the fifth but Acton did not score again until the top of the sixth when Dryden touched home again after batting a single Williams crossed theplate in In ningtomakeIt43 But a home run by Glen Charlie Han cock tied the game in the bottom of the sixth Op timists did not break the tie in the seventh but Glen did when Craig Cooper slammed a double to send Glen Dean home for the victory Gibbs leads bants to win fine Dot It t do much good as Hornby downed Family pee to last Tuesday at Rural minor ball action Rhys Glbb two runs led the MackenzleBuildall bantam boys to a 102 victory over Mary hill Monday night in county action Chris Hicks also had an outstanding game Ing two runs Big gunners for Mackenzie were Ron Barker Brent Steve Raine Bruce Can and Darren Wrigglesworth The win was a pick after tho bantams drop ped a decision to Eran Friday Miko Baker and Peter Cargill played strong games for Acton MaekenzieBuildall next game is Monday at Prospect Park when they meet at 30 Peewees fame unwelcome Acton Restaurant boys are becoming famous Unfortunately their notoriety lies In their lack of enthusiasm evident once again In their defeat to last Wednesday at Kevin Lobsinger Jeff White and Mike Ormsbysc the runs coming In Inning It was a repeat performance of last Monday match in when once again Acton was shot down In defeat Restaurant was missing their catcher and first and third basemen for the game However things began to look up for the as they dumped Friday In a ball game the club Is always capable of playing Brad and Chris Cooney scored three runs each White Randy Mclntyre and Mike Cun ningham touched home twice each while singer Steve Parker Tom scored singles whiffed 12 baiters to take the win Restaurant record stands at six and six for the season a disappointing statistic after their fire cracker start losing only one of their first five games Piper paces Jason Piper third Inning single chased home Dwayne Swartz with the winning run to propel Ac ton A atoms to a victory over Brook ville recently The run capped a threerun Inning and broke a 1 tie Marty McAfee paced Acton with two hits and two which opened the gates to a threerun third inning Swartx s basesloaded walk In the first inning drove home Piper with Actons first run Jamie started on the mound for Acton be fore giving way to Mike Shannon in the fifth Actons good luck was stopped Friday when Maryhill scored nine In the first three Innings to a victory at Donald Mann Maryhill scored three runs in the first inning and coasted loan cosy victory Acton scored once in the second Inning and lowed it up with two more in the fifth McAfee and Piper paced Acton with one double each Finally Eds sink Navy It took Ed s In midgets six games but they finally beat the Intercounty Midget Boys Fastball Leagues first place squad the Woodstock Navy Vets on Monday night at Tho In have had trouble in their five previous meetings but Monday they rallied from an early 20 deficit to score an impressive win behind a strikeout pitching performance from Roy Spear Of their five previous losses to Woodstock three have been in league games and the other two in tournament piny This past weekend the In were at the Ontario Eliminations in Port Perry where Woodstock handed them an early exit with a setback In that game two rivals were tied heading into the final inning when Woodstock exploded with five runs Acton took a win In their first tournament game defeating Jordan before losing to In gleside 135 and then Woodstock in the double knockout event The league win against Woodstock puts the locals In the hunt for place The victory moves the In record to six wins and five losses and within striking distance of the league leaders If they can continue to improve the way they have over the past month we re going to be tough commented coach Dan Arblc referring to the team play of late The local midgets were two and five at one point but four straight Woodstock counted single runs in the first and second innings of the Monday night match but the In fought back in the third with three runs Tim Evans Mark Duval and Tim Baker rounded the bags with the aid of a couple of key Navy Vet mistakes Woodstock evened the count In the their half of the fifth inning but Ed s take long to regain the lead for the final time as Gord McArthur reached base with two out stole second and scored on a Tim Evans safety McArthur added the insurance marker In the seventh as he again stole second This time he left Evans at the plate taking third on a passed ball and scoring on a wild throw Pitcher Spear picked up his second league win of the year against two losses holding Woodstock team to just two first Inning hits A leadoff double and a triple were the only hits Spear gave up In the first game of their weekend tournament in Port Perry the In nouters used a three sixth Inning runs to subdue Jordan with Roy Spear again getting the win Spear allowed single runs In the first third fifth and sixth while Ed counted runs In the third fourth seventh Gord McArthur was again the big story for the In noutcrs hitting three for three while Spear struck out from the mound The In had Ingleside well in hand in their second tourney game leading 40 in the third inning before four third inning tallies and eight more fourth inning markers put things out of control in favor of Ingleside Tim Baker carried the only bat for the Inn outers in that contest picking up the team lone hit a first inning single Rob Verm cull en took the loss In theu final encounter of the tourney with Woodstock Ed s spotted the a first inning lead and then fought back a threerun third and a single in the sixth to tic the game before giving up five runs in the seventh and final inning to be eliminated from the tourney Dave Wilson suffered thcloss for the In Tonight Wednesday the In travel to Guelph for a league game and then return home start The In held their Bar Draw at Pro spect Park on Monday with fret prize going to Brian Dc Rutl of Hu Ron second prize went to Tony of third to Don McKenxle and fourth to Bob Cunningham of Fread bounces back Construction bounced back from a rather humiliating defeat at the bats of the to take a victory over the North Hal ton Bears Sunday in Industrial ball action at Prospect Park The handed an 1 lost last Wednesday Good fielding gave Fread the victory Sunday Bears had several good hits including a single by Mike a double by Cliff Brit ton a twobagger by Sid Barens and a couple of singles by Gary But most of the Bears offensive elfort was stopped by effective Inflelding on the other hand their turn to bat capitalized on some Bears errors sending Hall Gus Holmes Lloyd Bob Mer rikln and Barry Buchanan home and Nate Fields touched home for Bears Unfortunately for they weren so tivo against the despite Dan big threebagger In the fourth A single by George Wall is drove in for lone run B J Legate and Chris baited doubles while Bruce McPherson and Keith Fcndley slug singles Another single by Gary Moore drove In the fourth run and Legato touched home again in the sixth on errors by