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4 the acton free press wgrfneeday january 3 1968 the sports spot townsley flight tanners dunk port elgin 82 fii v iomn hcnabi h with the new year of 1968 off to a good start i thought this week we would take a look back into tho sports happening of 67 1967 our oentennial year saw rhany major sports events held itf- conjunction with the 100 year celebration winnipeg hasted the pan american gtnos with many cwudlans tagging nedls 6f gold for championship honors v v centennial hotkey totlrhamentg beeebalt foureya- and various olhsf sporting events were held in the amajlef toyns andclltosi looking back erf aetonv snorts history in thjigprioq spltite of ooblnaytakeaiwtiiraiopoodertjiist wnat didhappen- pateukactorl6e wrtifarrellyahd jan wddal porfeh- ed a goal apiece in overtime id gjve the stmrfhanajd tanners in 96 win overjhespeler mid macs here but fridavntght j five of acton club are artong the leagues top ten raid- ers tcok ever first place in the industrial league sunday night by whipping last place orioles74 sldp eleanor goy holds the bd raoolin trophy emblematic of the ladtes curling chaoi- nlonamps orioles cop industrial hockey chamoloashlp title harjerit diplomats at high achool play for benefit of athletic associations campbollville herchahls wait their 12th intermediate championship since 1953 brian mecrlst- all sports writer for the ullton champion leaves for chlluwack ac for a hew position- with the abbottsford times re creation director howard pearce will leave acton to take a new position as assistant director of recreation in kingston can adas panamerican games equestrian team moved and took part in exorcises at stylo acres ranch debut of tho acton lga ladles team in the haltdn ladles softball association rev andy uckenzto strokes to fourth actan open cup queen and her maids pay their second visit to acton on august 3rd masters golf tourney has over 50 entries station hotol cap tures second straight title in town league softball novice champions of tho acton minor baseball leaguo devlls angels dunking machine makos 100 far minor hockey fri acton eden mills squirts won the tricounty softball championships butlost out in the ontario finals cathy clark barrio elliott win roller marathon diplomats lnvaoe high school gym legion town league hockey starts season with 12 teams curl ers opened the season at the community centre with a sess ion of free curling for old prospective and new members industrial hockey starts executive of tanners stops down leaves room for new executive roy goodwin tricounty president of acton max stafford new tanner coach jack mcgeachle drops the first puck as acton tanners opened the 196768 season next week well have a look at what may happen in 68 atoms brampton cornered weston with a 53 win in saturdays town league atom bout brampton led throughout the game with scott malcolm and gordle bruce scor ing in the opening period danny webster picked up an assist on bruce s goal bruce came bc aijaln in the second period when ho netted one from david mcguloway andscott malcolm slammed in two more with gordle bruco collecting an assist westons tally came from bruce mcphail with a marker in the second andihlrdperlodsboth unassisted mlko morris planted one from mcphail and mike ware tor the tally novice st kltts odged outnlagera falls 21 in a close battle for the novice opener second period scoring saw st catharines take a 20 load when james ellerby scorod from stove brunallo and billy ware followed a marker on an assist from llet i niagara fails lunoly score ne fron eddy enslng early in third on a rick baglnsld it st i second half of the novice twin bill hamilton dumped osh- awa82 oshawls tally came from john scoyne with the unassisted opener and bkune cleland on assists from scott withers and john scoyne dave morris noued himself a hat trick with john mccutcbeon lending a band on one gordio toth and john mccut cbeon collected a pair of points each on double markers and ivan heam netted one from dave mor ris and john mccutchoon pee wee rochester clobberedcieveland 81 in the pee woe opener glen mckenxie sparked for rochester with a four goal tally of his own john hansen and peter margrave collected assists on two of ale- kaules scores john hansen ceppedtwoseores of his own with kevin marcoux taking one assist cuve diggans and bob murray tallied up for rochester with john hansen assisting on murrays core 1 wayo allan notched cleve lands only marker unassisted baltimore toppled springfield with a 67 victory in the second half of the pee wee twin bill charlie mcrao grabbed him self four markers with an assist going to mike ferguson and two to steve ward steve ward knocked in a pair with one assist for mlko ferguson brianstorey jim mcnabb and charlie allan tallied up for baltimore with two assists for jim mcnabb and one to troth armstrong springfields dave forester marked up three quickies on two bernle taylor assists while tay lor grabbed a pair of pointers on assists from tony lambert and dave forester bill mckoatle and bill paul talllod up for tho defoatedsprlng- field squad with unassisted goals bantams pittsburg edged hershey 53 in last thursday nights bantam ac tion pittsburg held a substantial load throughout the gamo with the cuncher coming in the third per iod garth taylor tallied up three markers one in each per iod for pittsburg with dave hun ter and randy colter assisting on two tim cohisandcokernettedono marker apiece with j thatcher assisting on coles score hersheys tally came from charles kutken on a trevor swann assist and randy marsh set up for twocounters and jackie holmes scored one on an assist from kulken oha int b statistics p w l t p seaforth 11 8 3 16 cbelt 12 7 4 1 15 hes 11 6 5 12 pt elgin 11 5 5 1 11 durham 8 5 3 10 acton 12 4 8 8 elora 9 1 8 g a pts ken dolg s 9 29 38 mcuwain 20 16 36 a mclaughlin 17 is 30 kingston w e 11 24 m finolgan 13 20 bauttenmluer 14 s 19 tom dick s 5 14 19 m main h 11 7 18 friday night could have been billed as fatherland sen night at the community centre with harold townsley drilling three goals and sonstoven potting two more acton tanners rangup a decisive 82 win over the port elgin sunoco- it was a three generation show as well grand father townsley team trainer cheered from the sldellnos the largest crowd of tho soa- son showed up fqrthe gamevnlch stayed close until the inirtfpor- lad when the tanners ran awy wltntlte decision evev the sborti- haridey sunocte tv t h- 3laf the one of trio flrstperiod bid a 42 lead going intplho final stanza it wfl ibelr fourth win in thestw games the v could- hive been rtipne lopsided but- fdr tfiowprk d teseckoy the port elgin goal keeper lie robbed blake jqglls so many times on what looked like- labelled shots tho tanner- centre- allhost despaired ofv putting a puck past him on defense bill currlo played a trtanuout game for the acton squad smothering many of the shots port elgin forwards aimed at tom ayres in tho nets ayres also played strongly in tho nots ho had no chance on the shots which eluded him the big attraction for tho holi day crowd was the townsloys harold his booming slap shot finding the mark for hlsfirst bat trick of the season and two neat msrkersxfrom steve who is just a year cut of- juvenile hockey even with their big jnargfn over port ely n tho acton squad was shorthanded don norton terry lane jim farrolly stu mcdonald mlko kelly gary cooper and gord mason were all missing from the llnoup most of them laid up with tho flu bug but lano cooper and mason are on the shelf with injuries harold townsloys blistering slap shot at 840 put the ijannors in front tho play started with bill currlo and rolayod to ron mollon who in turn passod to harold the shot was low giving tesockey no chance less than three minutes later townsley sr potted number two on a play with ron mellon and dennis snldor port elgin got back in the game on the very next play whon les kingstons shot trickled over tho goal line prottiost goal of tho night was steven townsloys first ho checked tho puck clear at centre lee broke through unmolested calmly pulled the goalie and hit the net to give acton a two goal spread the period ended with billy wheeler whos back in tanner livery taking on kennedy of tho visitors in a fistic exchange which wound up with both of them sitting tho first five minutes of the sec ond period out hts les kingston hit for his second goal of the night to pull sunocos within one goal of the tanners miller took tho faceoff from directly- in front of tho acton her and whlnoed it over to kingston he made no mistake harolp townsle while- mlllor wasoff with a tripping sentence harold towns- loy complotod a play withblab ingus and bui currlo to make tho score 42 only a mlhutoand 13 seconds of tho third porlodolapsedbeforo ron mellon stretched the load to 52 when be broke down tho right aide sklrtod the defense and scored billy whooler made it 62 while port elgin was short- handed final acton goals were scored in the last two mlnutos steve townsley picking up father har olds rebound off tho post at 1810 hatry phillips was also in tho play jlpl illairpoustvdoftthoscor- lag wltltjs seronds lofl topiay wbeeuir iuut ntaketngu assist- i- t first period jown1aybciirrie r mollon iv xiq ai h townsley b mellohd j sniiior lli03 pe u kingston chabbot 1 woods 1119 astowosloy v 1449 pens t wheeler sinclair r currlo miller whoeler5keh- nfldy5 second period pe j kingstonmlllor735 a townsley b ingus b currlo 1444 pens snider chabbot fra- ser h townsloy miller third period a r mellon d snider 11j ab wheeler ii inglls j cunningham 630 a s townsley h townsley h phillips 1810 a j blair a whur b stwpctownsley ingils ifus- pens chabbot cunningham acton t ayres goal w currie j cunnlngtiim g ing us a snider a ingusj blair w wheeler h townsley s townsley r mellon h phillips pee wees lose tie orangeville downed 02 by the doulile a brampton 6am wodnosday ac ton y menh puu woes camu hack saturday to tie orangeville 11 dospltu a playuhhortagu brampton chalkod upa4lluad in the first period hero wednes day over the iihorihaiikid acton club addod thruu mora in the second porlod and a alr in the third acton goals went scored in the brsf and third chrlk tunnaht bagging thv- first from torry holrrius and hilly cualiwriettlue odihbertwo rorrftlni mcliityru- the actoi oub was mlsjlljig joaoh ehamoers hick chaii- wars john camvton pamrdaluy fjiil ully mcglltowajrithellr top soorur fomhe gajiio t bour playerit wore away jor their maturday ganwlh orangu- viilo but the pee wees still brought home a to hilly mc- bllloway scamduieadqii goal froinchrieschuts with marrpro- vidirigtlw oranguvillu counter acton llnoup rick fionnutte gall billy mcguloway terry holmes chris schuts billy cuhner slevo mclntyro ken whhors tlnfmcintyro yohn cimoron david ioullryon tim bers ttt ptt sports pam morrison toebcrestars bantams beat orangeville 166 aftor a variety ol in and out performances in which uioy showod a marked proclivity for missing tho net acton bantam really went on a scoring ram- pago last saturday whipping orangovlllo 1gg pete morrison was picked as a cloan game with only four penalties called the acton club rang up a 41 first period lead jumped into a 103 second period lead and pocketted six more goals in the final stanza r in preston novices lose squeaker that in 1967 one hundred years ofconfederatlon205 years of game laws 160 years of fish eries laws 102 years of fish hatcheries 66 years of fisheries research 60 years of organized usuries nd wildlife adminis tration 23 years of wildlife re search 21 years of aimalga- matlon with department of lands and forests acton novices are making things interesting in trlcounty hockey friday night hero with only three players on tho bench thoy almost upset tho highly toutod brampton club they lost a 21 squeaker but gave the visitors a hard time before bowing out by a one goal margin the previous wook oakvlllo took a 73 decision from the local club right on the heels of an acton win over preston the ys mon outgunned preston 41 gerald harden scored two goals in tho preston win brother gary sniped one and russ van fleet notched another goals a- galnst oakvlllo wore scorod by ricky holmesgary bardon and russ van floot gerald bardon scored tho lone acton goal in last fridays close shave with brampton twin brother gary and russ van fleet assisted ton touch refuses to let players shake hands mk macs here friday night hespeler mlc macs masters of the tanners in their first two clashes this season will be visit ors in acton this friday night mlc macs have been getting smoke signals from the other teams in the leaguo that the acton club may be a different kettle of fish from the one they tomahawked in tho first two games theyll be trying hard for their third victory the tanners meanwhllo win ners of four of their last flvo starts look like they may beget ting keyed up for a run at the leagues top spot theres a new spirit on the club helped in part by the wins after a desolate streak of so von games which didnt net thorn a point in lea gue statistician ross ballantlnes book game time for the friday clash in 830 pm the mvp for the acton club scoring three and collecting seven assists for a ft point night the big goal shooter of the club was henry toebea who dril led ave of the tix acton goals lu tha third period henrys goals came in succession and he as sisted along with potejforrisoa on tho dual and sixth acton goal of the period drilled by rene schuts he also assisted on two hat tricks wore registered by rene schuts and george mcphail with rene also picking up two assists randy weldon and brad timbers each scored a goal and helped on one dale flahtr and dennis harndon collected an assist a piece pinlay bagged five of tha orangeviue goals still notched one the acton club play host to the same orangeville team here tonight wed at b pm and journey to brampton sunday acton arena schedule officials and fans of the acton bantam entry in the tricouniy hockey league wijre more than a little miffed when the coach of tha brampton toam wouldnt allow his team to shako hands with acton players after a game here last wednesday youm think ho lost the game observed one disgusted acton fan its hardly the way to teach boys good sportsmanship tho brampton club won the game by a 60 score and received only four of the 14 penalties ser ved fans wore critical of the re ferees whom they said lot too much go thoy also accused them of being partial to the visitors maintaining they were guilty of more infractions than the penalties showed brampton took a 40 lead in tho first period on the fludeci mated locals there was no scor ing in the second stanza but tho visitors added two more in the third kodors bagged two of their goals langloy graham orr and walker one each the acton club worked tiard to stay in the game but couldnt break the goose gg against their larger and heavlor opponents broken window a broken window at the laund romat was reported to police by owner leo relmer on december so if ac holden offometlbsf m cos at tbu cuelm themm ta wis hiaylno modern piumsino phone 1369501 warm air and hoi water fumpi awj water syttemt rockwood frank carney and sons ud y 9 trr 194 m1h t witt wionk umiio use your arena it is low cost entertain ment to watch tricounty hockey wednesday and thursday evenings and the acton tanners int b on fridays plus all other ice activity- we would ilk to maat you al pcru canteen wednesday january 3 67 pm hockey school 78 pm pee wee tricty orangeville at acton 89 pm bantam tricty orangeville at acton 910 pm midgets tricty orangeville at acton 1011 pm ind hockey thursday january 4 23 pm mothers and pre- school children 68 pm figure skating 89 pm legion hockey 910 pm open time 1012 pm ind hockey friday january 5 6 307 30 pm hockey practice 900 pm hespeler vs acton tanners saturday january 4 89 am hockey practice legion 9151045 am private lessons figure skating 10451245 figure skating i 16 pm 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