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The Acion Free Press Wednesday September TRAPPED thats the position Station Hotels Fred Archibald found himself In between third base and home plate during Thursday nights Industrial Softball playoff game Petes Barber Shop catcher Fred Buchanan 2 and third baseman Jim Bullough prepare for the ensuing rundown as umpire Don Price watches the play Petes shortstop Roy Shultls eventually came In to make the tag for the out Staff Photo Petes clip Hotel on Shultis homer A three run eighth Inning home run by shortstop Roy broke tic and gave Barber Shop win over Station Hotel and a two gomes to load In the Industrial soft ball league finals Thursday night Close tutilr The contest had been a nip and tuck tussle up until the eighth scored once In the first on consecutive singles by Fred Buchanan Ed Phillips and Jeff Fryer but the holders tied It In the fourth on a walk to Jan Rlddall a ground out and a double by Gary Talllcfer Base hits by Roy Jim Fred Buchanan and Fryer produced two runs and gave the barbers a lead In the fifth Dunn clubs Tho lead was short lived however as Station Hotel battled back to knot the count In the bottom of the sixth John Dunn clubbed a bases empty homer and Bob Andrews tripled In the Inning Fred Buchanan had three hits In five at bats for the winners Roy Shultls Jim Bullough Jeff Fryer and Pete Mario had two Speedway doubleheader packed with action Acton Sept In the late model feature today George took over the lead on the second lap from Bruce Bailey Murray Wallace who started in the middle of the pack took over second spot on the third lap and was pushing hard Wallace was able to get past on the seventh lap and take over the lead Steve took over third position also on the third lap On the sixteenth lap the red flag was thrown when Bruce Bailey blew his motor but everything was quickly looked after and the race resumed On the restart Murray Wallace still led with George Nlcholls second and Steve third and that is the way they finished the race George Wrigglesworth started well back in the pack in the six cylinder feature took over the lead and held It with Larry Majuery right behind him Jim the seventh lap Ellis got paBt on the ninth lap and won race Wrigglesworth finished second while Larry held down third place The mini feature saw Ken Daniels start scratcK take over the lead on the third lap and never look back Stan Kokupec placed second and Larry Deagle third Monday Sept Our feature race for the late models today went off without even a Sieve took over the lead on the second lap and held It for seven laps until Joe Woods came through to take over first after chasing Pi otto for six laps By this time Ed Stewart who started In scratch had worked his way up to third Stewart took over the lead on the eleventh lap never to look back George took second and Murray Wallace third The first four drivers all received trophies The six cylinder feature had minis with them so it made for some interesting driving The first restart was on the fourth lap Scar bo ro claims title with victory over Rams Soccer Rums gave it their best but their beat just wasnt good enough last Wednesday night as Juniors dumped them to wrap up the A Junior championship In four straight games locals stayed with the Scorboro crew for the first two periods but third period Droved disastrous the champs scored eight goals to Actons three tallied their lBgonls while Rams were shorlhanded period splurge After falling behind in tho first period Rams took a lead with three goals In the first minute and seconds of the second frame then bounced hack with six goals to lend at the end of the period earned game Bcoring honors for the winners with n five goal performance Browne and fired a hat apiece Row swell and A Healy scored two each and I Healy and counted singles Marcoux nets four Mike netted four of the Acton goals Craig Bob Waller Fred McPhail and Fred scored one apiece Paul Cooper earned three assists Bob Gowland two and Mike Marcoux Christ Sargent Bob Andrews Craig Weldon and goalie Gary one Injuries dim hopes After eliminating Midland Huron In three straight games Rams hopes of a provincial championship were high but injuries to captain Bob and Rob helped those hopes vanish Coach Howard was satisfied with his team a per romance In Wednesday s game nevertheless At leant they knew they were In the game he commented It was the best game we played in the aeries Prospects nod Although several Horn players have Invited to with Junior A team Barns should have an even stronger hit next year They Ion t lose single player to overage and the midget Juvenile tin law has some good looking prospers A representative Ed Blair presented his own trophy to the new champions following the game Alton Gary Craig Weldon Dave Cooks ley Bon Andrews Chris Bob Waller Boh lowland Paul toper Fred Fred Mcfulloch Mike Marcoux Alan Rod Mr hern Orangeville Raceway Entries hits apiece and Fd Phillips and Bruce each hit safely once For Station Andy Williams Jan and John Dunn collected a pnlr Of hits each Frod Archibald Ed Smith Gary Talllcfer and Bob Andrews each contributed one hit Strikeouts Grant Usher Dour Vlckery and Ed Phillips combined to strikeout 10 hotel batters Philips claimed exactly hall of them over the tut three innings Chick Milne fanned eight in a losing cause for Station Hotel DN THE CROC I Softball tourney here this weekend I Ten teams Including Statfon Hotel Peto Barber Shop Guolph Kearneys Erin Orangevllte Dairy Queens Woodbrldge Sheridan Equipment Hlllsburg Georgetown Combines and Brampton Benson and Hodges will compete In a two day soft ball tour here this weekend The tourney gets underway with two games Friday night at and 8 Remaining games will be played Saturday with the championship gome scheduled for Adult admissions are tor tho complete tour A complete schedule of games follows Friday September Guolph vs Station Hotel 30 va Georgetown Saturday September 12 Petes vs Brampton p m Erin vs Moffat girls near title atom series tied up when Al Simmons went off the track at number two turn One lap later the red flag was thrown again John spun and was in the middle track On the restart It was Bunting and Cox Ken Daniels went on to take the feature with Chris Bunting second and Larry Cox third The first two minis got trophies along with the first two six cylinder drivers Pit Stops Ed Stewart blew his motor a week ago He had it replaced only to come out on Sunday in the first heat and blow a piston Larry Majuery wan In very bad accident Sunday and whipped out the front end However they worked on it all night and right up until race time Monday ana had that number running as well as ever 111 Jim EMU Little league playoffs open Thompson Fuels whipped Acton Motors 146 while Lions Club and Ncllis Construction battled toon 11 He In the final two regular season games of the Acton Minor Baseball Association novice league E hit three singles S Oakley a single and a home run and EC Swan and two singles apiece for Thompson s Winning pitcher struck out seven batters Pickles homers G Pickles homered and Van Fleet M Morrison and all singled for Acton Motors Pickles fanned seven but issued 13 walks Knight pounded out a single and a double for Lions Club J Matthews and Webster all singled Post struck out nine batters For Construction John Pink singled and doubled singled twice and J Gait K Swan and J Hurley each singled once struck out eight but walked nine In the first game of the semi finals Monday night pennant winning Thompson Fuels downed third place Construction 4 and K Swan tossed a three hitter and struck out six S Oakley doubled twice singled twice and Swan singled once for the winners John Pink hit two singles and McGilloway hit one for D McGilloway and J Kentner shared pitching chores for the losers A M B A final standings Novice W T Pt Brown It and collected the only three Moffat hits off winning pitcher Mann In a playoff opener loss to last Wednesday night Saturday night Moffat scored three runs in the final Inning to tie the series with a win Brown and collected Moffnt hits Essery and Musclius played well defensively Next two games In the scries are at Ponsonby tonight Wed and at Sunday at TO Moffat girls 12 and under have a two game lead In their final scries with as a result of and victories Karen Smellic batted In the winning run and Susan Thomson Tanned 18 batters and walked Just four in the win Saturday afternoon In Moffat the score was tied after nine innings went ahead In extra innings but Moffat rallied when Jamie Thomson drove in the tying run and Kathy scored the winning run to make the final score for Moffat Michelle Sokolowskl had homered for Moffat In the first inning Moffat can wrap up the scries wllh a win In Rained out Last night s playoff game between Pete and Station Hotel was washed out The scries resumes tomorrow Thursday night Weather permitting Ice will be ready in the arena Saturday October Acton and Milton bottled to a 1 1 draw In a Peel Minor Soccer game here Thursday night Although shorthanded the local lads played good solid positional soccer Bill scored the only of the first half for Milton at IS minute mark started to press In the second half and their per paid off when Jeff scored on a pass from Peter I uty at the 15 minute mark Shields was the outstanding player on the field Acton mosquitoes built up a 30 lialftlme lead and went on to defeat Milton In Milton last Tuesday Nullum Melds Ricky Holmes and Jim Gentles scored for Acton In the first half Milton tied the score In the half hut Jim Gentles scored the winning goal on a perfect miss from Nathan Fields Acton II Inscoe Kuiken Stewart I gale Alton J Jensen Fields F It Holmes J Gentles Taylor At Urn Is squirts edged on finis by Gary I umbers and lust night hard tame on penally Gorelti Turner played a strong game In goal for Acton Angels defeated olden lets 7 Stephen and Stephen Ik II scored three goals apiece for Acton Gary Lumbers counted the other Stephen Mitchell David Mitchell and Teddy James earned assists Angels led I at ha If time James and Steve Em em scored for Georgetown Sunday afternoon In of a large crowd at Ihe Sportsmen Show Angela dropped a 2 decision to on all star squad from Georgetown Kevin Thomson and Robin Jones scored the Georgetown goals Angels made a fine showing considering Ihe Georgetown learn was chosen from boys Angels G Turner J Mcrrln Mitchell It T James G Lumbers Mitchell Hatfield Alton J East wood McArtfiur M Collerton Referee Mick Davis Linesman Ian Galbrallh ACTON BADMINTON CLUB ADULT BADMINTON BEGINS AT ACTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL TUESDAY SEPT 15th THURS 10PM NEW MEMBERS ft BEGINNERS WELCOME RACQUETS ft RUNNING SHOES REQUIRED SALE CONTINUES ON ALL SPORTING GOODS BIG REDUCTIONS Acton Sports Corner MILL ST PHONE ED STEWART accepts congratulations from Acton Speedway manager Ron White after speeding to victory late model feature Monday Photo by Vivian Shaw Vie for club honors at Acton Meadows About members and guests attended a men guest day at Acton Meadows Saturday Low guest score for the day u recorded by Graham of Georgetown Dune of Toronto n second advance Keith and Ranney and Ron and Elsie Whitbam have reached the quarterfinals of the husband ana wife club chain John will meet the winner of the Lome Thomson Jack match for the C Date club championship Winner of the match between Martin Mc Crista 11 and Jock Brown will face the survivor of the Harold TownaleyStu Mc Donald match for the championship Spectators welcome Spectators are welcome to follow players around the course In the duo championship which begins Saturday September is at in the morning and continues Sunday September and the following weekend Saturday and Sunday September and Ready for Winter LET US SIMONIZE YOUR CAR THE MECHANICAL WAY LASTS THROUGHOUT THE WINTER ONLY 525 PHONE NOW FOR APPOINTMENT Shell Automatic Car Wash QUEEN ST E ACTON l5pcceof Chicken CHICKEN SNACK of Chicken CHICKEN in a BOX French 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