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GOOD NEIGHBOUR (UNCLE) SAM Last week, this corner suggested that baseball was the national game of the United States and that the American and National Leagues would never let Canada interlope into such a situation. Lo and behold, last Monâ€" day it was announced that Montreal had been accepted into the National at an initial cost of ten million dollars. Montreal also has to build a suitable stadium within three years, capable of seating 50,000 people. Our Montreal cousins have already gone on record as stating they will erect a domed stadium with such a seating capacity and such a structure will ‘cost another ten of the real big bills, thus oyrâ€"Expo minded citizens in La Belle Province will see the backers of the new major baseball league entry spending close to a twenty million dollar bill to give Quebeckers a group of ball players that will be castoffs from other teams. By acquiring an experienced general manager (Ralph Houk has been suggested), by spending money like water on what is hoped will be beneficial trades and by suffering for ten years, Montreal might just come up with a pennant contender. All we need now is for a group of Toronto backers, armed with the necessary loot, to make an impassioned plea to the American League and at the same time promise a domed stadium, then Toronto might be back in the baseball business. WINNERS HONORED The cream of the crop of Metropolitan Toronto‘s athletes gathered at the Etobicokeâ€"Queensway Lions community center last Thursday night to receive recogâ€" nition as champions, either individually or as teams, in winning a championship, ranging from Canadian, through provincial and down to Metro. Close to 400 were on hand to hear speeches, partake of the food and accept the trophies, all underwritten by the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. Figure skating had eight winners in the Canadian championship category, gymnastics was represented by two girls at the Canadian level, Violette Nesukaitis and Vic Skujins won table tennis titles while Pete Duck was honored as a speed skating champion. Eight bowlers also received recognition as dominion winners. The list grew larger in the provincial honors roll and then swelled considerably at the Metro level. _ wWHAT ABOUT THE AGE LIMIT? Last Thursday‘s event took care of the winter time sports winners only and the summer athletes will be given their moments of glory at a similar event to be staged in or around November of this year. . Several parts of Canada have registered strong proâ€" tests with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association concerning the reduction of the age limit for players eligible for junior hockey. Previous to now a player could play junior as long as he was under 20 years of age as of May 31st of any given season. The new age deadline is now December 31st of any season, thus chopping five months off a player‘s eligiâ€" bility. The advanced date was established as part of the CAHAâ€"NHL agreement made two years ago wherein the amateur body would have full control of the player. In return for financial grants and other concessions, the CAHA agreed to the professional body to allow the earlier age deadline to be placegi into the records. Teams in the Ontario Hockey Association voted overwhelmingly to instruct the Ontario body to reject the new date deadline. In fact, just the opposite held true. Ontario had wanted to intrease the age deadline by seven months to make it read age 21 by December 21st of any season. In an effort to placate the delegates, the CAHA, while standing firm on the junior question, did sanction a seven month increase in age limits for the minor cateâ€" gories which means that the juniors are caught in a two way squeeze. At the lower end of the ladder, a player does not have to be elevated into junior competition until seven months later than normal, and at the top rung the juniors lose the playing rights five months earlier, which in effect could mean the loss of a player‘s services to junior ranks of one year, should both limits be carried to the extreme. Professional expansion is the big answer to the lowering of the age limit. With six new clubs in the N.H.L. and an everâ€"increasing amount of farm clubs to feed, new talent must come from somewhere. Jr. A. in Ontario is the biggest supplier of pro talent and quite naturally, their vocal chords are going to get the most exercise. Several interested parties have threatened a‘lawsuit against the CAHA and it would be interesting to see what would happen if this train of action went the limit. In the past, hockey leagues and associations have always veered from any dealings with the courts. OAKVILLE OUTâ€"DEARBORN IN The Ontario Rugby Football Union senior series has accepted an entry from Dearborn, Mich. to replace the Oakville Black Knights. This is the series in which Bramalea Satellites have operated successfully during the past few years. ! Another innovation is the acceptance of four downs, rather than three and this appears to agreed to as an inducement for the Dearborn squad to come in and TAILENDSâ€"The Etobicoke Aquatic Club were imâ€" polite guests Saturday when its members travelled to North York. The swimmers won 11 of 30 events and finished with 368 points, com%mred to the host squad North York with 300 . . . The Toronto & District Soccer Association made a giant step in the public relations department by announcing last weekend that senior citizens would be admitted at no charge into any Premier Division game at Etobicoke Stadium or Birchmount Park. Season passes will be issued on request . . . round out the league SPORTS © SCENE DOUBLE: HEADER AT CENTENNIAL STADIUM TUESDAY BY STAN ADAMSON â€" Mimico Beach were defeated 3â€"1 by Consols Cup holders Scarborough United in the Toronto & District‘s new Premier Division opener played at Etobicoke Centennial Stadium last week. The game, which turned into a thriller between two evenly matched teams, gave a good crowd in attendance a sign of things to come in the League‘s new venture. The visitors, fielding a number of prominent players including exâ€"Manchester City goalkeeper Tony Tighe, emerged as winners with all goals being scored in the first Top honours for last week‘s action go to coaches Larry Gies and Bill Wood for their outâ€" standing display of good sportsâ€" manship in livingâ€"up to Queensâ€" way Minor Baseball‘s motto of "The kids come first; baseball second." half. When the coach of their opâ€" position team failed to showâ€"up for the game, they set the finest possible example for the boys in their league by refusing to deâ€" fault the game. They shared their equipment with their opâ€" position, and delayed the game until & substitute opposition coach could be found. In fact, they inspired the opposition so much that Cdn. Tire had their first and only win so far by deâ€" feating Queensway Cycle 8â€"1. BIAVE$ .. sz> 13 Avon Sports . ; 1 QUEENSWAY MINOR BASEBALL Al Dudyez had 13 strikeâ€"outs to win the game. The losing pitcher was Spillett with 5 strikeâ€"outs. Cardindls |...ssuss22 0 28 Phillies Dave Clancy had 3â€"triples and 1â€"double for the winners here. Anthony Ruffo played a strong game for the losers. Consolidated Truck ... 13 Can, Tire . . fal 3 Jack â€" Sinclairâ€"2 runs, Pat Zitaâ€"3 runs, Tim Chandlerâ€"2 runs, and Ed Tarlowshiâ€"2 runs, all in a winning cause here. Ward and Patch Sports . . 22 Dairy Queen ... 4 An evenlyâ€"matched game until Ward and Patch exploded for 16 runs in the 5th inning, after they had 2 men out. Cub§ :10 0mmmemmmnmnemmn N Giants ..cuclse 7 Each team loaded the bases once, with only one run scoring each time. Warren Fisher got 3 runs for the losers, DodRELK .=c 18 Tony Pappano got 4 runs; one home run, and one tripleâ€" baggerâ€"and Terry Walkom got one homer and one triple for theâ€" winners here. Can, Tite .smmmmsemmmmccmone B Queensway Cycle ... e t Jerry Szwedyk got 2 runs for the winners, with pitcher Rick Liliani hurling a superb game, and catches Dave Padkowa callâ€" ing the winning signals. Queensway Midget , 9 Kingsway Midgets . ; 8 Two evenly matched teams here. This should be a tipâ€"off to exciting future encounters. GANES | .cs «. 82 Dodgers » wo 16 Rauri Wilkins starred for the Dodgers, with a strong game. Adam Whitley scored 4 times for the Giants. Two Driver brothers scored 3 runs each for the losers. . ... PiFRLE® ... .mmmmommmmmmcms B Cubs .. ......lllllll2l22 . 10 Doug Breard and Tony Papâ€" pano scored 4 runs each for the winners. Jim Callen scored 4 times for the losers. Consolidated Truck ... 12 Queensway Cycle . m 4 Aldo Lamarra starred with 3 runs for the winners here. Len Finelli got 2 solid hits for the losers. York Vithe .c 35 Cdn. Tire ... Ammmntnctomn 1k York Litho got 8 runs in the fourth inning here. Larry Cyr got 2 hits for Cdn. Tire, as did Jerry Szwedyk. Wayne Bradâ€" field got 2 hits for the winners. Ward and Patch ... 4 Budget Centre , 0 Pitchin‘ Billy Pender got his 3rd straight win with 8 more strikeouts here. Losing pitcher Sandy Brady had 5 strikeouts. Queensway Midgets ... 2208 High Park Midgets . 8 _ Two more evenly matched teams. You can‘t get a much closer score than this one. â€" That‘s it for last week‘s action. 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Wednesday, June 5â€"Atomâ€"A â€"Cardinals vs; Philliesâ€"â€"Queensâ€" way Northâ€"6:00 p.m.; Braves Bantam â€" Dairy Queen vs. Budget Centre â€" Queensway Southâ€"8:15 p.m. â€" â€" vs. Avon Sports â€" Grand Ave. Schoolâ€"6:00 p.m. Pee Weeâ€"Queensway Cycle vs. York Litho â€" Queensway Southâ€"6:00 p.m. Bantamâ€"Ward and Patch vs. Dairy Queen â€" Q ueen sw a y Southâ€"8:15 p.m. Thursday, â€" June 6â€"Tâ€"Ballâ€" Pirates vs. Giantsâ€"Queensway Northâ€"6:00 â€" p.m.; Cubs vs. Dodgersâ€"Grand Ave. Schoolâ€" 6:00 p.m. _ Pee Wee â€" _ Consolidated Trucks vs. York Lithoâ€"Queensâ€" way Southâ€"6:00 p.m. _ Bantamâ€"Budget Centre . vs: Ward and Patch â€" Queensway Southâ€"8:15 p.m. â€" Saturday, June 8 â€" Atomâ€"Aâ€" Avon _ Sports vs. â€" Cardinalsâ€" Queensway North â€" 9:30 a.m.; Phillies vs. Braves â€" Queensway Southâ€"9:30 a.m. ml;;lrltameairy Queen vs: Budâ€" get Centre, Queensway Southâ€" 2:30 p.m. * e Sunday, June 9 â€" Midgetâ€" Bloordale vs. Queenswayâ€" Queensway Southâ€"7:00 p.m. NEW ARRIVALS FROM THE BRITISH ISLES Before purchasing a new or used car, contact me, John Lennon. 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Barclay scored the equalizer after 17 minutes following a free kick from the half way line. Two quick goals, the first by Scarborough outsideâ€"right Alan Cairns at 31 minutes, followed by Barclay‘s second at 38 minutes, ended the scoring Complimentary season‘s tickets for all soccer games will be made available by the Toronto & District Soccer League to the senior citizens of the Metro area and which includes entry into Etobicoke‘s Centennial Stadium and Birchmount Stadium where the newly formed Premier keague games are being played each Tuesday and Thursâ€" ay. John Stuart, president of the T & D announced last week that Jim Castledine, secretary of the western section of Metro, would be in charge of distribution. Castledine stated: "We will be distributing these passes to {Kj‘pllng Acres and other complexes, however any senior citizen who would like a pass should telephone me at 241â€"1600 and the T & D will make sure a pass and a schedule is sent out by return mail." D. 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