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"v H YFREE PRESWDEAYSPTM R 2,lf90, PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN Ut z ýý- ý- Stats !Ly5UMMER VACATIN... Se it's' nearly the end of the basebali season. So far this yermore than 3 illion people have paid admission to see te B lue Jays- play in the Skydome. Sew up first place, they will, sometime this week, I read somewhere. Think of it. What a great statistie. Three million people. Well, not exactly three million people. Three million admissions. 0f which there are likely a dozen or so wIô have taken ini more than one game. But a record of sorts, although I forgot of what kind. More impressive, though, are the league standings stats. (1 learnsd about phrases like that years ago as a sports editor. What- I learned is that you can cali 'stats' any boring numbers that ne one in his right mind would read. Put them on a sports page and any number of people net in their right mincis will.) Back te stats. A -sl ofr M a sesn________________________ _______ As stats will show, baiseball is by definition a born g gaine. I proved this again this year by turning on a gaine when the news was postponed. I watched two guys play catch. I felj asleep. When I woke up the sanie two guys were still playing catch. Figure I didn't miss nothing. Anyway, league stats say that the race for the penance now is dewn te the last eight gaines. Or six, by the turne you ' , read this. Or something. WVhich means that ail those three million paid admissions get ripped off. Like, they went to see a bail game, right? Paid good money te do it, too, like more than tossing a dine into a hat te pay for the hydro the floodlights use. But the Blue Jays got more than hydre bis te pay.-So .. . they charge an -arm and a leg for seats in the Dome. So people paid ail that nloney, but, see-nothing really happened. Some wins. Some basses. But now it cones down te the next à haif dozen gaines. Time now tochk Actually less than that, if you want te bet the Toronto book. That is, any team which calîs Toronto homne will choke r-id blew the whole thing with more than three gaines left. Te blow it on the last gaine -- as the Blue Jays once did - just is net a Toronto thing te do. Net that baseball really is a Toronto thing te de, anyway. Qui .ck. Naine at least one member cf the Blue Jays who is native of Toronto. Or cf Canada. Gotcha. IGWY41LOIGES RMBOKSREP14 rigtht? mWh huth be? ratheseos oste hd aICetew 401 was planned in 1938, but construction was halted by the Second -Werld War. win, rgt h hudti è r l hs ospse tCnrt paving was completed by the turne this picture was taken, but the cloverleaf at the employment office se, native Canadians have a crack? Brock Street is stili unfinished. There were only four lanes for traffic. Wliitby Archives photo What I say is, let the bail teains, and 'hockey teans, and football teains, tee, for that matter, get ta pvick only frein the W bat aboàu roho k y A giant fnee banbeque will be held at the Heber Down farm near Broolin on Sept. 25 by Andi did I get -the price tag right? It coet *50-million just te mount'the camnp aign te get the Olympies here? With that 15YER AG kind of money Toronto could even have a professional hockey 1omth2Turd Yepeber 2, 85 diin f h teain. f W h Irdy etBY CHrONC1865edino h Or on second thought, split it inte 50 equal anieunts and *Te hty od n ar T CmY Chasbn tken ecutfrntpoel guarantee a world-class marathon every ycan for the next 50eTh htyRaanHrbrCm ny asentantocutfro pprl years. Se maybe by the year 2046 Toronto will ba in Iiin.ie r * maintaining the road that leads froin the north cf Ontario County te Whitby harbor. the Olympics again.e William Westlake, a bricklayen building Ail Saints' Anglican Church, broke bis arm when What"s that? Football? Flease, sir, I was talking about he felI frein the scaffolding. We'v beere th stndads wth aseafl hokeyJohn usiner Greenwood was manried te, Charlotte Churchill Hubbard on Sept. 14. He was sP<>t be on nweeltly ob ap ihyu the fathen cf the future Haman Viscount Greenwood who was Chief Secretary for Ireland l te enygoCuganywhckore ately. S er hapy. with your from 1920 te 1922. litl GeyCpadgoikyurigbadrslyBtdnt Prizes were awarded last week te the top students in the Whitby Union School bother sports fans. examinations. Any sport allows that ANY breaks or intermissions or timeouts or replacements is for sissies anyway.________________________________________