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~'I!URS~ SEPTEMBER 28, i950 TEE CAKADIAN STATESMAIf, EOWMANVILLE, ONTAMO PAGE FIVU Nidgets Are Tied With Trenton For Eastern Ontario Championship Finai Game ai Nemorial Park Sat. The. least publicized team o! the town o! Bowmanville, will play the final game of the East- ern Ontario Play-downs in the Memoriail Park Saturday after- mlon, -at 3:00 p.m. This Is the Midget'Basebaîl team, sometimes called-the Soutb Ward Atbletics. The. Midget Basebail team plays Its games in Memorial Park, and has its own set of fans, people ,.Jrom-the South Ward, who do not <Mdin'rilY attend the Intermed- qte games, but devote their wbole, attention to the encouragement of this midget team. 1 Wbile other teams were win- ning a fair share of their games, this team was going tbrougb its scbedule undefeated. Tbe only game they lost was one in league play last Friday against Trenton, witb the score 10-9. Tbey bad a regular leftgue schedule play- ing against Orono, Port Hope and Ajax. After winning tbose games tbey played Aurora, whom they defeated in two straigbt games.j At present they are playing Trenton for the EVtern Ontario Play-downs, and thé score is tied at one game each. The Midgets won the first game by a score of 13-6, and , ast the second by a score of 10-9. That game was played under floodlights, the f irst time the team bad ever played that way. Their little groups of supporters cbartered a bus to go to Trenton and lend encourage- ment. Next Saturday the two teams mneet for the final game in tbe Memorial Park at 3:00 in the ufternoon. The whole series de- pends on tbis game, so let's see a good crowd out to cheer Bow- manville to victory. The draw for the leather windbreaker will also be. made at Saturday's game. Tis team is not as well off financially as other town teams, and thus is continually bampered by lack o! funds. At the moment they have only one bat that is not cracked. We should encour- age aur junior teams if we hope to bave good senior teams in the future. The team members are ahl good players, and some o! them have had some experierice in the Intermediate League games this year. The members o! this Midget Basebaîl team are: Business Man- ager, Bill Mutton; Manager, Jack Ross; catcher, Erv Brooks; pitch- We Keep Your Home Running Nothing is more aggra- vating than a electrical failure in your home or business. It is our job when we do a wiring job for you to make sure that you can count on years of electrical service free from trouble. Our technicians are ail trained men with years of practical experience so that you are assured of nothing but the best in workmanship and materials. Give us a cali to-day for a free estimate - no job is tçoo small or too large for us to handle. Higgon Electric Your Generai Electric Appliance Dealer Phono 438 Bowmanvilie 42 King St. E. Hi, gang: Well from the road it loolks just like every other yedr. F. Smith of Foundry bomMed the bigh three for the night with a 734. B. West- lake of the town team bowled 281 for high single. The Cast Iron Kids sure took the Lodgemen for a merry chase, to the tune o! 7 pts.. F. Smith be- ing the big gun for Foundry, and heavens! I wonder if be Still says he is a bowler, Kitson. 61 tsk, tsk-Hoiw about lettîng the boys know how you did it. Even bis triple o! 373 was the worst of the night. The teacbers and Farmers of Maple Grove split, with Maple Grove winning the extra point and winning 4 points to 3. Har- rison wasn't the best but be sure likes his name in the paper. Not bad, though, Matt. With G. Perfect's team clutch- ing 5 points to their bosom Bill Westlake was trying very bard with 281 single and 728 triple to gather them back but bad no sup- port. Y.E.F. (Young Enniskillen Far- mers) lost to the Tryon mob by the score o! 5 points to 2. G. White pitched white-hot ball for te winners. Sheppard & Gill gave up 5 points to G. Elliott's boys. Gor- geous George bowled a nice 638 to steal the show. Blackstock showed Up short- handed and lost 7 points to the senior corn borers from Enniskill- en. Too bad you have to carry the team by yourself, Ted. Uncle John would do better if you would remind hlm of a night with bis wife, two years back. Team standings and pins are: Pts. Pins 1-Foundry -------------- 7 3055 2-Enniskillen No. 2 7 2849 3-Perfects ------------ ----5 2763 4-Tyrones -.-------------5 2691 5-Elliott's ---------------5 2646 6-Maple Grove ---------4 2691 7-B. T. S.«------ 2778 8-Westlake -----------2 2754 9-S. & G *-------------2 2426 10-Enniskillen --- 2 2396 il-C. 0. F ----------------0 2835 12-Blackstock ---------- 0 2318 R. G. Mitchell, Sec'y Batawa Evens Series with 9-6 Win Ayainst Roses in Football Weather *In weather more suited to foot- hall, the Batawa Shoemen even- ed their best-of-five series with the Brookdale Roses, winning in Bowmanville on Saturday after- noon, 9-6. Bowmanville took a 2-0 lead in the lst inning on bits by Don.Gil- hooley and Frank Hooper. Mur- ray Carson eut that in bal! with a home run in the 3rd over the left field fence. Max Yourth made it 4-1 in the last of the 3rd, hitting a home run after Bill Bag- neIl had doubled. Batawa picked up another run in the 4th, and then sent Bow- manville's starting pitcher, Ding Gavis to the showers in the 5th with a three-run outburst. Ed. Spencer's triple with the bases loaded was the big blow. Bun Legree fared little better as the Shoemen exploded for three more runs in the 7th. Gord Sturrock finished the game,,holding Bata- wa scoreless. .Gord Muffitt scattered five1 Bowmanville bits over the last six frames, allowing two more runs. The game was held up by rain and bail and with the tempera- ture hovering around 40, winter ers, Clint Ferguson, Russell Lane; infield, Ted Dadson, Larry Dew- ell, Don Bate, Don Masters, Mar- vin "Squeak" Brooks, Karl Piper; outfield, Russell White, John Stainton, Art Jones and Ted Colwell. How about lending them your encouragement on Saturday? W/NlTWd WL', The freezing weather isn't too far away. Why not make certain now that you will ho sure of trouble-free driving this Faîl and Winter. Corne in now and let us check over all your car, change to proper Cities Service winter oil and greases and put in anti-freeze. Why delay and be caught - do it now and beat the first cold snap. For Beller Faliland Winter Drivin; Use CITIES SERVICE GASOLINES. Palmer Motor Sales Plymouth, Chrysler Cars 20 KING ST. E. - Fargo Trucks BOWMANVILLE PHONE 487 coats and l41ankets were much in evidence. Batawa 0 O 1 0 3 1 O 0 0 9 14 3 Roses -.--2 O 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 10 1 Muffitt and Aquino; Gavis, Le- gree 5, Sturrock 7, and Hooper. ""Ha p" Palmer Leads Men's Major League On Opening Nigjht The bowling s eason was offici- ally opened on Wednesday, Sept. 20 with Pres. Norman O'Rourke welcoming the old members back and wishing the new members. the best o! luck in the major league. The new members are: Jack, and Glen Lander, Jack Ross. Bob Gallagher. Blain Elliott, Dr. Aus- tin, C. Stevens, Pat Yeo, Charlie Wright, W. Craig, Walt DeGeer. The way the bowlers started hitting the pins it looks like a tough season ahead. "Hap" Pal- mer was the number one boy and had high triple of 782 made up o! 241-188-353. Al Osborne was next with 761, Ted Bagnell 757, Dr. Rundie 738, Ted Hoar 721 and Russ Halîman 707. Ken Luxton was bowling bet- ter the first night than he did all last year and captured the bigh single score with 356, "Hap" Pal- mer's 353 was next with Ted Bagneli 305 and Bob Watt 300. Several low scores were reg- istered with Sid Nichols 88 and Ray Brock 95. The two plumbers were jockeying for position, Jack Brough with his 100 getting the nod over Blain Elliott, 101. Mel. Dale had 104. Milne's team bad high triple with 3448 and also high single game o! 1266. Everything seemed t:>e same this year as last year, with Doc. Slemon and Sammy Woods kick- ing everything in sight; Bob Walt talking about bis high score for the nîght as well as bis golf game; Windy Coole still shooting the breeze; Sid Nichols going over the foul-line; Jack Cole coming in late; Fred Cole asking every- body for money. The only thing that was missing was Doc. Rundie singing "Mule Train." Yes, sir, it looks like another big year. Teams Points 1-Milne------------------------7 2-Rundle --- ----_7 3-Elliott -- -------- 7 4-Bates ---5 5-Westlake --------- - 5 6-Bagnell - 5 7-Hoar -.----------- - 2 8-Luxton 2 9-Hearle ---- ----- _2 10-Osborne 0 11-MoKnight _.----- ------ O 12-Phillips ------------------ o Averages H. Palmer 261, A. Osborne 254, T. Bagnell 252, Dr. Rundle 246, T. Hoar 240, R. Halîman 236, K. Luxton 229, M. Harrison 229, R. McKnight 225, D. McKnight 224, B. Watt 223. B. Mutton 221, P. Cancilla 218, W. Craig 217, E. Rundle 216, H. Janzen 215, C. Rundle 214, J. Coole 213, B. Gal-. agher 213, B. Westlake 212, B. Mimne 210. T,. Phillips 209, R. Hearle 205, M. Vanstone 204, R. Maynard 202, D. Furey 202, D. Little 201, M. Yourth 200, T. Miller 199, 'R. Wright 199, J. Brougb 197, R. Richards 197, N. O'Rourke 197, F. Blunt 197. Coffee Shop Wmes Town League Sofibali Titie Huyck's Coffee Shop won "he Town League Sofbal Champion- ship on Thursday, beating the Goodyear Union team by a scoreý of 12-10. , Harry Snowden was the star o! the game, holding Union to 9 bits while bitting two doubles anci a single and scoring 4 of bis team's runs. Don Rundie with a home run, double and a single, and Lou Rundie with two singles were the other big hitters for Huyck's. Pete Parker made five nice catches in rigbt field for the Food Men, to lead the fielders. For the Union, Fred Cowle with tbree bits and Jiggs Cowl- ing with a triple and single were the bitters while the Huyck's squad pounded Jiggs for 14 bits. Huyck's-2 3 11 2 21 1214 3 Goodyear 2022 103 10 94 Snowden and Kilpatrick; Cowl- ing and Rowe. Roses Victorlous Over Batawa 2-1 Ini Belleville The Brookdale Roses edged the Bata Shoemen 2-1 in a game cail- ed in' the 7th inning, when the Batawa teamn could not field a complete team. after having one of their players ejected from the game for interference. The game was played in Belleville, under the lights. Until the 7th inning it was any- one's games, with Bun Legree holding the Shoemen to two bits while his mates collected eight off the combined offerings of Willis and Muffet. Max Yourth with a single, double and triple, was the big hitter, while Frank Hooper col- lected a double. Manager Al Osborne informs us that due to the game bping forteited, Bowmanville actially wins the game 9-0. To add to the confusion, the Batawa team bas protested the gamne, whi.ah will be settled by the O.B.A. Roses -----0 02 00 0 2 8 1 Batawa ---0 1 Q0 00 1 2 1 Legree and Hooper; Willis, Mut- fitt 5, and Aquino. Foresters To Play Ebenezer on Friciay The Bowmanville Forestres, considered ta be the best softball t,eam in town, will meet Ebenezer who are rural champions, at the, High School grounds, Friiiay,' Sept. 29, at 6 p.m. iibenezer cieieated Salem and Maple Grove to earn the title o! Rural Champions. On MeIýnday, night they played under flood-! lights at Agincourt before a1 crowd of over 1,000 and showed' up well although on the short end of an 8-1 score. The Foresters defeated every- thing they met aIl year until they, ran into Coulters in the playoffs,1 who defeated them in the f ifth game after a hard-fought struggle. Coulters have gince won the Ax: tell Trophy. This game should be a real ex- hibition of softball and no doubt will be the last game of the year' in these parts. Ebenezer will have left-handed Jerry Peterson pitching, and Foresters will haveý either John Stacey or H. Snow- den with Blackburn doing the catching.1 WESLEY VILLE J Anniversary services were heldi Sunday morning and evening with1 Rev. V. Zufelt, Omemee, as spe-1 cial speaker. Rev. Zufelt's ser- 1 mon in the morning was based 1 on the text from St. Paul's letters to the Galations, Chap. VI, "And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shaîl reap; if we faint not." His evening ser- mon from the XVI chap. of St. Matthew was "The Church Thatý Christ Founded." In the morn- ing music was provided by thel Wesleyville choir with solos by Mrs. Carroll Nichols. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Doggett, Welcome, pro- vided special music in the even- ing. Both services were well at- Under a Dark Cloud? WORRIED about your job? High prices? The ]Interna- tional situation? Brother, you don't know what worries are! Thlnk of the feiiow with a burned-out home and inade- quate Lsurance . he's reaiiy got troublas. Guard YOURSELF against such a biow NOW. Stuart R. James JYSUEAINCE- REAL ESTATE 'Phone: Office 681 Res. 493 King Street, Bowmanville tended with visitors from Zion, Morrish. Canton, Welcome, New- tonville. Congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Green (nee 1Margaret Binsted) who were Imarried Saturday afternàon. A crokinole party was held in the church basement Friday night with 26 in attendance. Dr. Oke and Bernice Best were the wmn- ners. wbile Mrs. W. Tufford and Dwayne Dickerson took the con- solation prizes. Lunch was serv- ed. Miss Ruth Payne spent the weekend with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. Payne. Mr.. and Mrs. George Martyn and Lynn, Welcome, and Miss Dorothy Mason, Port Hope, 'visit- ed with Mr. and Mrs. W. Mason, on Sunday. Mrs. Vannatta and Mr. Cecil Vannatta visited Mrs. Len Ought- red Sunday evening. The Young People's Union will begin again, this Wednesday ev- ening. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Toppin re- turned to Toronto, Monday, after visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Toppin a few days. Miss Helene Barrowclough was home for the weekend. Sunday visitors with Mrs. Edgar Barrowclough were: Miss Shea, Mrs. Rutherford, Misses Billy and Jean Rutherford, and Jack Ruth- erford. Rev. Zufeit and Mrs. Oke were at Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Nichols', Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Langdon, Catherine and Miss Bertha Lang- don, Canton; Mr. and Mrs. Allan Peters and Mildred Jane, Morrish, visited Mr. and Mrs. Howard Payne, Sunday afternoon. Editor's Note-We are pleased to announce that Mrs. Howard Payne is our new correspondent for Wesleyville. Your co-opera- tion in assisting Mrs. Payne will be greatly appreciated. Dentists who try to stop kiddies eating candy are now faced with the new medical opinion that su- gar is flot the main cause of tooth decay. LONG DRANCH Just Off Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 27 WEST OF TORONTO 2P.M. Sept. 27 ADMISSION (Including Tax) - - - $1.15 CHILDREN UNDER SIXTEEN NOT ADMITTED mu: m N ew Improved Parking Lots First Class Restaurant r M EN'S GABARDINE TOPCQATSI > $2500o An exceptional value in ien's rayon and wool gabardine topcoats. Popular Hollywood style with shoulder tabs anîd all-around buckled beit. Double breasted. Corne in navy and beige. No extra charge if you buy on credit. $25000 DRESLIN'S bMenàf'sWear KING ST. E. YOU'LLENJOY Wl nchester m Oeta 20 BOWMANVILLE -z- ý 1 m ----a TIM CANADLAN STATESMAN, BOWbL&NVMLE. ONTARIO IIMRS., SEPTEMBER 28, 1950 PAGE riv