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banquet awards night hears tips on hockey girl softballers stanley cup playoff hockey action seems to be on the tip of the tongue these days with the toronto maple leafs leading their series over the chicago black hawks 21 and the montreal canadiens blanking the new york rangers 30 tt looks as though the most cherished trophy in hockey today will stay in canada i ni as far as trophy takers go montreal has had the winning edge on new york throughout the season and are showing it in the playoffs toronto has sparked from a slump suffered in the latter half of the season to develop into a real going concern and tuesday nights game showed the team splnt and determination that is going to win for them the stanley cup next years national league should have a new twist to it with the introduction of new teams into the league it wilt be interesting to see what effect if any these reams will have on the stanley cup playoff outcome with the official opening of the national and american hall lea last m i thought that maybe you readers would like to hear how it is possible for you to pick up your daily newspaper and read exactly how the game was played two or three thousand miles away the day before the pioneer organization into which newspaper sports reporters were grouped is the baseball writers association which was created almost 60 years ago to protect writers on assignment from crashers of the press box gate in the era prior to 1908 not much attention was paid to baseball reporters by the club owners and the men did the best they could in regards to finding suitable spots from which to send their reports of the games only a few newspapers pirated more than the final score of the game and other were content to supply brief detailed accounts however the increasing interest in the sport caused some newspapers to send reporters to each game whose reports were telegraphed to the newspaper shops since the club owners wanted the writers to have a clear view of all the proceedings the press boxes of the era usually small and sometimes made up merely of grandstand seats were in spots just back of the plate the location was naturally sought out by people who were not newspaper writers but who wanted to be close in on the play as a consequence the press boxes soon became so crowd- ed with crashers that in time the reporters who arrived late did not find seats a grand total of 14 reporters gathered together and re solved that an appeal should be made to the national com mission then controlling world series play to give the new organization full control over the press box the commission agreed to the proposal and the baseball writers association for the world series allotted seats to all qualified writers and put a guard at the entrance to the press box gate to keep out the crashers from the small beginning in 1909 the baseball writers association developed into a very elaborate and exclusive or ganization for a long time membership was limited only to writers in the major league cities and writers now are eligible if they are regular reporters for ball games in the top notch minor league cities for world series games the writers apportion tickets to all qualified reporters regardless of what city they represent a tong as their purpose is to report the game 900ft sputa intermediate oh a hockey continues between seaforth and durham as the beavers lead the series 21 durham picked up their first win on sunday afternoon and will attempt to tie it up tonight april 12 in seaforth at 8 30 micro plastics bowlers e tojjamiltoftbjw a team of is men from the micro pibmics plant played building products in hamilton on saturday afternoon the match was the first of what is expected to be an intcr-comp- any tournament although ac ton did not fare too well at this meeting another match is be ing scheduled for next weekend in acton high aggregate honors for three games was taken bv an excellent speaker a deli cious turkey supper and a table of glittering gold troph ies combined at saturday nights annual acton minor hockey association banquet to make the evening more than a success over 75 youngsters ranging from novice to juvenile age groupings attended the ban quet held in the community centre along with their coach es and managers guest speaker bnggs creigh- ton coach of the university of guelph redmen hockey team as well as the university girls team originates from peterbo rough where he played junior and intermediate a hockey and coached various teams howard pearce recreation director for the town of acton and secretary of aoton tri- county hockey association in troduced the peakeras a man whp had not cometo tell us a great deal about himself but had come to tell us about hockey and so he did mr creighton who has been associated with the sport of hockey for over 20 years pass ed on numerous tips and sug gestions picked up by himself during those years ab supermarket trophy for the most valuable player on acton midgets was presented to goalkeeper paul cooper by store manager don lindsay i staff photo during the address to his en thused audience mr creigh ton related the facts that can adas losses in the national hockey games held in vienna just recently could be attrib uted as far back as the play- ers coaching during their ear ly years of hockey training in one instance mr creigh ton spoke of a player who had participated on many championship hockey teams and scored 44 goals during one season hut when he had joined up with the diversity team he was fortunate scor ing 11 goals over a four year period this emphasized the fact that during this lads earlier years of hockey training he had nbt been taught how to sla the f type of ockey required for a profes sional player mr creightons suggested re medy for the situation was for coaches and managers to attend the training school sponsored by the canadian amateur association each year in kingston but as he stated only those with a great deal of interest would attend an cooper secretary of ac ton parks and recreation com mittee thanked mr creighton for his helpful advice and tips offered in his most interesting address boisterous rounds of ap plause followed each trophy award handed out during the program barry elliott received for acton juveniles the c conso lation trophy copped at the annual juvenile tournament in milton presented by herb ri chardson secretary of the tri- county hockey association the only trophy received by acton from the tri county association went to the stal wart midget netminder paul cooper for the most valuable player in the midget division young billy mcgiltoway re ceived the george green mem orial trophy for the most val uable player on the novice elect executive coach manager team presented by charles green billy had played well throughout the season and during the finals he kept fup his pace and coped with a bro ken finger at the same time grant motors trophy went to henry toebes for the most va luable pee wee player and he was presented with it by herb richardson grant motors thoughtfully donated record ings of nhl hockey tips to the league this year besides the trophy pete marzo took home the doddstownsley trophy for the most valuable player on the midget ticounty team harold townsley acton tanner star and herb dodds coach of the midget team this year presented their trophy to jpete w don lindsay presented the ab supermarket trophy to the by thereea marao balls and bats were the executive was also cho sen with president ivan kllby hauled out of mothballs when secretary gail fryer treasurer the girls assembled at the joanne lai community centre for regis tration monday night there was a great turnout of en thused girls ready and willing ta swlngvthe bat for the acfon girls teams a short meeting was held after registration to organlte the junior and senior teams which will now be under the acton ladles softball associa tion hank earle for the micro team with a 684 total individual game honors were taken toy hank earle and bob agnew with- 278 each hamiltons champ j lico threw a third game total of 291 and an aggregate of 756 essentially the same team that went to hamilton will be looking for revenge in acton next week paul cooper ace netminder for the midgets for the most valuable player on that team a well deserved prize for paul most valuable player on the juvenile team this year was barry elliott captain of the squad roy goodwin made the presentation the acton free press tro phy this year for the most va- iuable netminder went to young ted hagan for ms sup erior goahending abilities dur ing the v667 season john mc- nabb made the presentation for dave dills who was un able to attend the banquet murray harrison represent ing the referees association presented juvenile defence- man kevin hall with their tro phy for the most gentleman ly player both on and off the ice don van fleet and barry in- scoe presented dave manes wmh autographed pictures of the trlcounty teams he has thoughtfully sponsored in the past year highligh of the evening was the big draw for a week at the billy harris hockey school sponsored by eight local mer chants allowing the youngster a full week of fine food and exercise as well as spending money herb richardson pull ed the winning number out of a hat for kent kentneron of mr and mrs fred kent- ner the eight merchants involv ed in the sponsorship thought this to be the best way to show their interest in actons future hockey stars and would welcome anyone interested for next years student or maybe even students roy goodwin master of ce remonies for the evening thanked members of the lad ies auxiliary which is made uo ofthe wives of the execu tive and mothers of the play ers for the wonderful turkey dinner prepared by them for the banquet congratulations and many thanks were delivered to the coaches and managers of all the teams for their help and guidance through the year and for their interest in these ho ckey stars of the future most valuable ptaybt of the novice club was sharp shooter billy mcgiltoway who was presented with his award by charlie green at saturdays banquet billy played in spite of a broken finger in the final tournament ndsborough publici ty director theresa marzo rep resentatives two 2 from both junior and senior teams juniors charlie thomson the other not known at the pres ent seniors frank splelvogel and sandra slingerland now the junior team has a slight difficulty they havent a coach yet i now come on men maybe we are girls but were not really that dangerous with abat in our hands we need a junior coach willing to trust girls i the lunlor manager this year will be dear charlie thomson the senior team has a coach who trusts us with a bat frankspielvogel and to as sist frank with his challenge is bonnie macdougall also managing the senior team will be charlie thomson whos go ing to have to keep hopping to keep up with the girls i also at the meeting differ ent ideas were brought up for the alsa to raise money start getting the girls in shape and to help get the league started on the right foot if there were any girls who couldnt make it for registra tion monday look next week here in the acton free press for our first practise and come if youre willing to play well baseball fanswell see you at the ball diamond m birds stay north a study at the pennsylvania state university of 260 defer ent kinds of birds that popu late towns and cities in the state during the year shows that as many as 60 species may choose to spend the win ter there the university urg ed residents to provide extra food tor birds during the win ter particularly after snow and ice storms kens variety store big special 5 to off fishing tackle for sale brand new typewriter drop in now1 see these fabulous deals kens variety store main st rockwood ask for ken 8569963 the world of outdoors art wth haw e s guest speaker briggs creighton spoke to the annual acton minor hockey association awards banquet on the fundamentals of hockey he is flanked by recreation director howard pearce and art cooper secretary of the recre ation committee staff photo top scores at maple rock shooting range jhib week wore recorded by john shadbolt with 22 wayne leadson 21 ed hohenadcl 19 gord clow 19 and art hawe 19 doug norton of coolowlle 1966 canadian trap shooting champion is expected to be present for the chambot ojt commerces sportsmen s show which is running in comuiu lion with the fall fair among his achievements are the following opt a singles champ 1964 and 1965 with scores of 197 out of 200 on both occasions north american clat a champ in 1965 with 200 out of 200north american champ of champs runner up in 1965 when he tied with 100 out of 100 vnh another contes- tant and went on to shoot 125 more birds before he lost the shootoff and dominion sing les champ with 196 out of 200 in both 1964 and 1966 th local making seasons for this year are as follows pike may 12 to march 31 walleye may 13 to 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