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6 - Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, April 15, 2009 LOCAL SPORTS Remembering the man who brought sports to Orono Newcastle BOWLING MIXED LEAGUE Thursdays 7 - 9 pm Top Scores 175 + over for April 9th BOWLER Game Game Game One Two Three Ken Crichton Adrian deLaat Randy Flynn Bob Forget Fae Forget Greg Forget Bob Kilgar Bob Lewis Fran Madden Claudine Richard MaryLou Trolley Don Wright 179 181 176 175 197 179 241 207 218 189 190 176 177 182 264 203 204 189 180 NEWCASTLE SENIORS photo courtesy of Dorothy Robinson Bowling The Orono Orphans Junior "D" Hockey Ontario Champions 1948- 49, back row (from left): Percy Lunn, Raye West, Gerald Robinson, Ricky Richardson, John Gibson, stickboy Jack Hudson, Gus Pollard, Don Mercer, Spence Creamer, Carl Welsh, manager Dane Found; front row (from left): Rocky Esposito, Ron Shaw, Bob Stephenson, goalie Bill Gearing, Chuck Hutton, Dean West, and captain Junior West. Coach Bud Hooper and secretary/treasurer Carl Flintoff are absent from the photo. Top Scores 150 + over for April 7th GAME ONE BOWLER GAME TWO by Sue Weigand Dean "Wiener" West doesn't want to simply recount his glory days. As a member of the 1948-49 Ontario Junior "D" Championship Orono Orphans hockey club, as well as the 1959-60 Intermediate "C" Championship Orono Orphans hockey team, and the two Intermediate "C" Championship Orono Orphans baseball teams of 1954 and 1957, there are lots of glory days the 78-year old could relive. He says he hopes the people of Orono will never forget those days. But more importantly, West hopes the townsfolk will remember the one man he says was responsible for it all: Dane Found. April 7th marked the 60th anniversary of the Orphans' Junior "D" championship win. That day, in 1949 -- in a thrilling end-to-end contest held in Stratford -- was when the Orphans did the Orono Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA), and its founder, Dane Found proud. In the best two out of three of the final, against a team from Milverton, Orono had already won the first game 6-5. Game two was tied at 9 when, in the last minute of play, Junior West scored on a pass from his brother, Dean, to win the championship. Junior and Dean each had four goals and two assists in that game (with two of Dean's goals unassisted), while their brother Raye West netted two goals. Spence Creamer had two assists, and Gus Pollard and Rick Richardson each had one assist. Bill Gerring was in goal. Junior was the captain, Bud Hooper was the coach, Found was the manager and Carl Flintoff was the secretary/treasurer for that winning team. Other teams members were Rocky Esposito, Ron Shaw, Bob Stevenson, Chuck Hutton, Gerald Robinson, John Gibson, Don Mercer, W. Welsh, and stickboy Jack Hudson. But the road to glory started four years earlier, in the summer of 1945, when Dean, Junior, and their friend Carl Flintoff, were hanging out on Main St. They were high school student, but school was out and there was little to do. It was then that Found, the owner of the local restaurant (where the Orono Country Café is now located), spotted the three youths outside his business and, according to West, came up with an idea that would eventually put Orono in the spotlight. The idea was simple enough: approach the local business owners and ask if they'd be interested in forming a committee to run organized sports in town. The teenagers followed Found's suggestion, and the business community responded favourably. It wasn't long before a meeting was held, and the OAAA was born that same year. In 1947, Found formed the Junior "D" hockey club, calling the team the Orono Orphans, likely after the Orono, Maine team of the same name. "If it was not for Dane, Orono would not have had the Orono Orphans," says West by phone from his home in Cobourg. "And as far as the OAAA goes, who knows when that would have happened, if ever. Sports would have come to Orono in time, I guess, but not the way Dane did it." The first OAAA executive consisted of: President J.J. Mellor (Twp. of Clarke clerk); Vice President W.E. Armstrong (local grocer); Secretary Perce Lunn (owner of one of Orono's two hardware stores); and Executive Officers Charles Tyrell (Tyrell's Drug Store), J.J. Cornish (Cornish Red & White grocery store), Dane Found (restaurant & pool hall owner), Roy Winter (GM employee) and Ab West (butcher at Armstrong's Grocery Store, and father of the West brothers). While the executive changed from year to year, Found continued on as the manager of the team for at least 17 years, says West. "Dane never missed a hockey game," he recalls. "He called us his boys, and when we went on the ice from the dressing room, he always patted each one of us on the back. HOCKEY see page 7 Alec Martin Bertha Powell Bob Scales Ed Milgate Elaine Doty Jack Watson Jean Hall John Tigwell Marg Wade Marie Trim Marilyn Martin Maureen Powell Russell Powell Tony Ton 177 164 155 202 182 193 221 156 188 205 156 218 151 217 156 168 158 172 157 151 GIRLS' NIGHT OUT results for April 8th (over 150) BOWLER Cindy Angiers Game One Game Two 153 183 LADIES' LEAGUE Mondays 7-9pm results for April 13th Top Scores 175+ BOWLER Game Game Game One Two Three Anne Arsenault 195 352 Bernice Westerink 177 175 Betty Major 208 Joan Moffat 175 Sharon Bester 178 Stephanie Gionet 238 Tina Schuh 221 179 50/50 winner: Susan Lee Send your sports stories to: ORONO WEEKLY TIMES oronotimes@rogers.com Ph./Fax: 905-983-5301