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si3siji4fi iiprapf e7 j 1 virwfi immity r i i u hin imj ii 11 mm j il m with he industrial softball league getting underway last night it wont be long until the various other baseball organ izations start their 67 schedule charlie thomson has yet to receive the girls softbail sche dule but hopes to have it within the next week the team thu year will compete with ten other teams from the surrounding tea the minor hardball teams have been holding practice during the past week and hope to be underway in the first week of june at a meeting of the minor hardball association last night coaches and managers were assigned to their various teams president sam brunelle chaired the meeting while sec retary ron swan did the book work george williamson will aot as umplrcinchlef for the acton squads for the 67 season going to be made to bring lacrosse am an all out effort is back into being in acton boys ranging in ages from 813 are asked to be down at the community centre on saturday morn ing at 9 jo am if theyre interested ati equipment as far as sticks and balls etc are in n sufficient supply and any other equipment needed can be found right there in your hocvey bag such as a helmet shin pads and gloves im sure that any parents wishing to coach team or help out in some way would be most appreciated if they came down to the registration merv marshall a one time resident of acton is starting the 67 season with the st catharines supertests senior lacrosse team as netminder he played the 66 season with the oshawa green gaels junior team merve has been classified as one of the better lacrosse goalies in all of ontario when the pioneer frenchcanadians first saw the indians playing baggataway or lacrosse the thing which impressed them most was the peculiar formation of the head of the stick used in the game they didnt know what name the indians hod for their sport but when describing it to their fellow frenchman they talked about lacrosse the stick because -it- was webbed and reminded them of a bishops crosier or cross the early indiana used a different strategy for lacrosse than the people of this era their technique called for crippling as many of the opposing players as possible by accidental smashes with the stick and then when the ablebodied opposi tion had been whittled down played the game as it should be played and made the effort to gain victory by scoring t f m van wagner of mcgill university montreal who made a hobby of tracing down the development of sports in canada reports that the first recorded match was played gmts hi9 iff face dilemma in infield the georgetown ginnt have a problem at shortstop they have to fill a vacancy created by the departure of acton veteran pete lawson one of lite best in the league nt his position for over a dec ade first with acton and then with georgetown a job transfer shifted him from actio to saull ste marie his loss creates the one flaw in a team that looks capable of challenging the leaders manager tom jumr who states dude lindsay bate sever al candidates for the vacancy in mind but no real solutions to the problem moving dany arbic ol acton to short the teams leading hitler anil third baseman last vear with fred guislini who played softbail in parry sound last year moving to third base i one solution there are other answers to the problem available james may shift jason fields who has missed most pre season work outs because of work to shortstop utility infietder is tony boudreau denis gibbons of acton will play second bill campbell is back at first base but he could have a real fight on his hands keeping his job challenging him is rob mc- ardle who played first hase for kilclkiier in the senior inter- county league last year area sports tans remember him as lonuer backup goalletuter for ilit gall hornet ol the 111 a senior league villagers win opener over waterdown 113 umpire andm rouillard tosses a coin for the benefit of the two managers at last nights tuesday town league softbail opener herbs delivery manager harold townsley left won the game if not the toss plate ump clarence farmer sheppard looks on while iga man ager george maltby is at the right staff photo herbs delivery whips iga 96 to raise town league curtain between teamsallroprgjsjndggnquln indians i se of 1834 at the pierie race course in montreal van wagners search revealed that lacrosse games were played at the olympic sports meetings of 1848 and 1851 and in the latter year white men beat the indians for the first time dr w george beers is known as he father of lacrosse one of the great lacrosse enthusiasts of the time he proceeded to rewrite the jaws which wyrc adopted through 1860 and 1861 bringing revolutionary progress to the game herbs delivery dropped iga with a 96 decision in tuesday nights town league softbail opener umpires clarence sheppard and andre brouillard officiat ed the opener with little diffi culty except keeping them selves warm fans who had come out to see the starter soon began to dwindle down due to the cold d manes started the ball bouncing for iga with a base hit from howieleader and came home on a hit from george maltby who stole home on a base hit by don price harold townsley and how ard pearce tapped home plate on a grand slam by gary tail- lefer to put herbs delivery in the first inning tally tail ref er s homer flew clear past an unexpecting fielder to put herbs delivery one run up on the carryout boys len varey george maltby and jeff fryer pulled in an other three runs for the lga teamin thcthird inning in an attempt to bag the win only to have the delivery boys scotty mccristall howie leader harold townsley and don archibald walk out with the world of outdoors with art hawes red sox bow to giants in opener wednesday the goods adding a four point tally of their own in the 5th 6th and 7th in nings howie leader knocked em down onetwothree with that hot pitching aim brian dunn finished off the iga tally with a run on a triple from milton ball the grocer catcher jeff fryer took over the mqund forijicargildhxirig runs the seventh inning after har old townsley came running home on a base hit from how ard pearce fred archibalds base hit al lowed howard pearce to make his dash for home plate to put the finishing touch on the game the station hotel meets the dominion house at 8 pm on thursday night may 25 for their first game of the season and second in the schedule the defending league cham pions from campbellville start- ed off the 1467 season on the right foot by defeating the new entry from waterdown last wednesday night in wa terdown by an 113 score in the abbreviated five in ning contest veteran harry hamillon limited waterdown to two hits as he struck out five and walked seven nell doilnian and jack peer shared the mound chores for water- down allowing ii runs off six hits they struck out six walked eight and hit one bat ter campbellvllle took a i v lead in the first when repto walked stole second and scor ed on cairns single water- down came right back to tie it up at ll in their half as king singled stole second was pushed to third by two walks and scored on an in field out campbellville sewed the game up in the second the forth a single by dredge a hit halter and singles by moore cairns and chester produced four more to make it ill waterdown got their second anil final run in the bottom of the fourth when a walk an infield out and dodmans single produced the tally j king and dodnian had the hits for waterdown while new manager carl cairns led the campbellville attack with two sound hits rick repto doubled and klnier dredge ken moore and george ches ter all singled footnot-fslr- with 1 5walks a hit hatter and 13 runs in the game the teams had to hustle lo get in five innings r ti n cville 151 40 ii 6 1 waterdn 100 10 2 2 3 campbellville hamillon and andrews waterdown dod nian peer and wilson laing james hop to have actons jim lindsay last years centre fielder concentrate on pitching this year replacing hltn in the outfield will be george doucet te back after a oneyear lay off other outfielders on hand are howard murphy who played with gait in he senior inter- county james himself jim james rnrl hurl and lindsay veteran bernle dorc and don wesibrook ore the teams two strong armed starling pitchers with wesibrook particularly ef fective ugainst campbellville last yeir other righthanders oh the staff are sparky mcgill who missed last season and oeof fryer a former avion hurler but lame says the teams hopes depend on his coming up with a ood ohortstop and some lefthanded pitching that puis the pitching onus on rod donaldson a newcom er from port hope ond jim lindsay who pitched until lasl season actons don lindsay will he hack as starting catch er giants opened the season lasl week against milton when they pushed across five with one outlttngwtrtked opening a strikeout made it two out and then hamilton walked king scored from second on an error at third base then repto boomed a double to right centre lo drive in two more a walk and a scries of passed balls and wild pitches let in two more in the third mcphail walk ed stole second went to third on an error and scored on a passed ball to make it 71 in may 24th weekend edmar dude ranch on the ith line of esquesinq near balllnatad for information call ed osborne 8534564 out of the groove the farm boy on his first ocean voyage was entranced by tlie heaving mountainous waves terribly rough isnt it remarked a stranger standing nearby wul drawl ed the farm boy it wouldnt be so rough if the captain would just keep in the fur rows acton arena schedule thursday may 28 bto pm roller skating friday may m 91230 teeri dance the only way saturday may 27 2 pm movies flipper and tarzen 73010 pm roller skating tuesday may 30 810 pm roller skating the members of maple rock trap team- recorded some good scores this week john shadbolt stood out as the best with his scores of 25 21 and 20 john was trying for 50 straight and got as far as 36 before he had a miss other good scores included gord clow 24 and 17 wayne leadston 23 art hawes 20 keith mainpriie 19 and dave johnson 18 and 18 a meeting wih be held this week at maple rock it starts at 700 pm on sunday and oil members are urged to attend the buffalo meat barbecue that wits planned by the cham ber of commerce at their sportsmens show has failed to materialise the shipment which was ex pected to contain 1000 rbs of meat arrived recently but in actuality the shipment tipped the scales at about 150 lbs since there isnt enough for a public barbecue it has been suggested that a dinner be put on for the competitors at the sportsmens show some of the record site fish caught in ontario last year were a maskinonge weighing over 49 pounds taken from the lake of the woods district of ken- ora and a sturgeon weighing 123 pounds was pulled from the english liver in the same dis trict a record rainbow trout weighing 18 pounds two oun ces was taken at leith on georgian bay wmfcgre taken in bass lake district of kenora and in lac des mine lac district of port arthur tipped the scales t 14 lbs 2 oas and 14 lbs4c- spectiveiy ardent canoeists wanting new waters to explore wiu have their wish as soon as the de partment olands and forests sets aside enough suitable ww rivers wmd rivers need not be wim in the turbulent sense but should be natural and scenic bee from such human en- chnarhments as power develop- menu and water conservation ichfinrs they also must be untouched by commercial and tourist development or sum mer cottages and of course must remain unpolluted by in- dusriol or municipal wastes these restrictions will not necessarily apply to all parts of the stream however to quali fy waterways should be of suf- ficientlength to provide a days travel by canoe against the cur rent the regulation authorizing the spotting of moose from the air in certain parts of ontario has been rescinded abuse of the privilege by hunters who searched for moose outside the permitted areas is the main reason for revoking the regula tion originally it was considered that permitting a search for moose from aircraft would en courage the harvest of this ani mal in remote areas which can not be reached by road or read ily by boat the department is still fac ed with the problem of encour aging the legal harvest of moose throughout a large por tion of northern ontario a sixth inning rally squelch ed the milton red sox hopes of an opening victory when georgetown giants blasted four runsin the third inning and three more in the sixth to give them a 72 victory tony boudreau who played his minor ball in milton had three hits for the giants ber- nie dore- pitched an outstand ing game for the giants allow ing only five hits dorc scored twice himself once in the third on a double and again in the sixth on a double ron phillips had a double and triple for the sox art meianson red currie mcleod and wayne mcconnell were the other red sox hitters howard pearce night planned for june 2 the annual mil stands at 15000 but it is estimated 30000 could be harvested annually without endangering the herd failure to maintain the moose herd at a suitable level may result in overhrousing lower levels of nutrition for moose and greater susceptibility to disease or parasites in appreciation for the work he has done here for girls charlie thomson and the girls softbail teams are arranging a howard pearce night at the park on friday june 2 present plans call for a nov ice baseball game at 7 jo fol lowed by a girls game between the senior girls team and an other called the hasbeens most of whom are mothers of lake popular with fishermen fishermen at fairy lake on the weekend seemed to be rea sonably lucky the largest catch reported to the free press was a 30 inch pike quite a few of the fishermen in boats were campers who spent the weekend in tents or trailers in the two camps at the far side of tire lake other outoftown people came to the lake for a day girls presently playing minute walters and sam brunejlle will be umpiring the game further plans will be announced next week acton open golf tournament saturday june 10 golf a country club teeoff time 9 am to 12 noon tickets 600 special draw for golf bag and set of clubs tidnta available at 5oll covimt 9 corner 124 mill st at wilbur phone 8532160 baseball gloves and all team supplies see us at the store or at canteen acton arena loves tv nl appliances color tv he centre for color television z e n i t h 695 handsome danish modern styled with modern scandia base in genuine oil finished walnut veneers and select hardwood solids cabinet features simulated tambour doors 6 oval twincone speaker vhf spot lite panel and exclusive dialstop uhf tuning with illuminated numbers for every uhf channel cabinet size 30 high 34 via wide 18vi deep add 3 to dtpth for tub cap priced from as low as color reception in acton area exceptionally good vtf all the best programs now in color for free home demonstration 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