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AURORA: Councillors voted unanimously to send a letter of congratulations to Olympic Ski Champion Nancy Greene. The finance committee will also consider a contribution towards the expenses of the Canadian Olympic ski team. Powell Fencing is sporting a 21 game winning streak and are rewarded by being in first place in the third series. Mich- ael’s Gift and Jack Blyth Insur- ance are tied for second, four points off the pace. Here are the complete team standings: Powell Fencing 14. Michael's Gift 10. Jack Blyth Insurance 10. Team 9 9. Allencourt Lanes 8. Bowden Lumber 7, ABC 1 7‘ ABC 2 7. Sterling Drug 5. Hall‘s Fuel Oil 3. Tony's Esso 2, Wil- son Niblett Motors 2. High triples: R. Thompson 848 845 791 783‘ 752‘ so than in any previous year. No one bowler has held high average for longer than three or four weeks in a row and some have been up there more than once. At present Norm Thomas and Norm Roberts are tied at 258 each. These two bowlers have each held top spot three times. A. Higgins who has pro- gressively improved his average in the last 10 weeks is sitting third with a threatening 257 average. Team standings to date: Card- inal Insulation 25, Turnbull Groceries 23, Manufacturers Life 22, Bob's Delivery Service 21. ABC Bowl 21. Allencourt Lane: 19, Richmond Hill Auto Wreckers 18. Allencourt Elec- tronics 18, Allencourt F&C 16. Regency Cleaners 14. Watt‘s Real Estate 11, Richmond Inn ABC MEN’S MAJOR. There has been a real race for high average this year. more Fred Hickey has 263, Art Hig-l CFGM didn't get on the gins 257. Tim Saul 256, Bob scoreboard until midway Weeks 254, Bob Julian 250, through the second period when Doug Clubine 248 and Stan the club strongman, Dave Ber- Shadoff 247. seth, came up with a tally on Team standings to date: Card- an assist from the team‘s scor- inal Ipsulagon 25. Tm’nbull‘ling leader, Mike Rowley. n_,,, Electronics t o o k Cleaners. 1n the high average race Fred Hickey has 263, Art Hig- gins 257, Tim Saul 256, Bob Weeks 254, Bob Julian 250. ALLENCOURT MEN'S MAJOR Roy Thompson, tossing games of 358. 311 and 259 for a 928 triple, led the bowlers in this week's action at Allencourt. Doug Clubine had 840. followed by Dave Alexander 839, John Cruse 838. Andy K‘ovacs B33. Fred Hickey 827, Tim Saul 805 and Keith Jean-Marie 803. In team action Allencourt Lanes whipped Manufacturers Life for seven points and Bob‘s Delivery Service took for Richmond Inn. In 5-2 splits Turnbull Groceries over Allencourt for Richmond Hill Auto Wreckers, beat Watt's Real Estate. Cardinal Insulation he.“ ABC Bowl and Allencourt seven. Marksmen for CFGM were ' ‘Malcolm Johnston. Grant Fer- .guson. David Berseth and Ron Bell. all with singletons. Active in the assist department were Gordon Bedwell with two. Grant Ferguson, Tom Mesley ‘and Ron Bell. Goalie John Schaap was ef- fective in the CFGM nets. limit- ing Thornhill to only one mar- ker. CFGM 2. Thornhill 0 _ Saturday at Doublerinks the n'adio kids wrapped up the North York Playoff champion- ship by downing their hosts by a 2-0 count. Thornhill was con- siderably stronger than in the 7"“. ..... A _ . . . _ _ A_-L j ,I choose from. Styled by Velente Ladies & Gents Choose from finest imported cloths. The Winners 20 in Kitchener for the finals March 24. Con- gratulations are extended to all the young bowlers on their fine showing. Boys' winners: Allencourl with an excellent team effort of 3.492. Ian Cameron. David Webster. Ian Murray, Frank Stanway. Rick Bunston. all stu- dents at Bayview Secondary School. Girls’ winners: WillowbowL 3176 total. Gail Cummins 820 triple. Allencourt girls' team. Denise McDonald, Gayle Bart- lett, Beryl Doyle, Sandy Oliver and Janice Mansbridge, bowled well for second place. ’ The final of the Philips Bo‘vl- lng Festival was held March 3 and the winner was Jim Cragg of Allencourt Friday Nighters. second was Gord Arthur. third June Spinney of Aprile Lanes. and fourth after a roll-off Pat Harrower of Allencourt Com- munity League. First prize was a Philips Home Entertainâ€" ment Set. valued at $550, sec- ond was a Philips tape recorder,‘ third 1 Philips Electric Philo- shave, fourth a Philips trans- istor radio and fifth a Philips Beauty Satchel. ‘ ALLENCOURT YOUTH 1 LEAGUE 1 Pepsi Eastern Canadian High‘ School Team Championships! York-Simcoe area roll-off re- sults are: , l l l CUSTOM MADE-TO- MEASURE SUIT 100's to Richmond Tailoring Co. 5 Yonge 5.. Richmond Hill 12 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hi1}. Ontario, Thursday. March 1-4. 1968 Wool worsted Terylene Tropicals Pure Silks & Mohair 530mm Novice Country Gentlemen Winners RESULTS inrnl .I \l I I n ff'l".l Richmond Tailoring Order Your Suit Now For Easter gh triples: R. Thompson N. Roberts 848. A. Higgins B. Murray 801. R. Kipis F. Ryan 786, N. Thomas W. Vincent 758, J. Davie B. Gordon 42. ALLENCOURT LANES 884-4212 RESULTS "0.1 Scoring for the locals were lageiGrant Ferguson with a hard ;ing‘w1‘ist shot, unassisted. David 257 Berseth then put the Hillel‘s ahead after Bolton tied the g ascore. with assists going to and Grant Ferguson and Mike Ham. irst Gordon Bedwell added to the ich. CFGM scoring with a well- ;ur- placed tally on a pass from Ron our Bell. ,_‘Of North York League Playoff Title luluml\mmuuummuumumummuummum\ummmuuumu T h u r 5d a .V a n d {W 0 0n 5 a tu r d 3.‘ nummun\mnulumuuummuumuummuumuuumummuuw Radio Kids Entered In Brampton. Tourney Bolton then came back to narrow the score to 3â€"2. Mike Rowley then put the Hillers two goals ahead by sinking a hard drive unassisted. John Oakley scored the final goal for the locals with assists going to Malcolm Johnston and Mike Rowley. Late in the same period Winâ€" ger Grant Ferguson scored a pretty goal from his left wing slot on a pass from Centreman Malcolm Johnston. John Schaap made several key saves in the CFGM goal and all deserved his shutout victory. CFGM 5. Bolton 2 'Last Friday the Killers host- ed Bolton in an exhibition con- test and downed the visitors by a 5-2 score. The Country Gentlemen controlled the play most of the game. except when Bolton’s Don Dobrowlski was on the ice. Dobrowlski scored' both Bolton goals and displayed his very obvious talent as a skater and stick-handler. Thursday contest and showed a lot of desire in making the Hill- ers work for the victory. Goalie John Schaap was ef- fective in the CFGM nets. limit- ing Thornhill to only one mar- ker. Marksmen for CFGM were Malcolm Johnston, Grant Fer- guson. David Berseth and Ron Bell. all with singletons. Active in the assist, department were Gordon Bedwell with two. Grant Ferguson. Tom Mesley and Ron Bell. CFGM 4. Thornhlll 1 Last Thursday the first game of the best of three playoff series for the North York Championship saw the Hillel's score a decisive win over the Thornhill club. It was the Hill- ers' game all the way with the boys putting out 100% to win. the first all-important game in the series. i The Hillel‘s have displayed a ylot of hustle in their playoff ,games. starting with their'upset lwin over Barrie in the first iround. then by eliminating Aur- iora in four games and last week by beating Thornhill. The local lads will now go up against either Peter- boro or Bowmanville for the OMHA Zone Champion- ship. Dates for this series ‘ have not been set to date. i In.the meantime the radio‘ kids will participate in the an-l nual Brampton Novice Tourna-l ment beginning with two games' March 16. one at 1 pm, the‘ other at 9 pm. The opposition} in the two-game total goals . . 1 series Will be Preston. j For those youngsters coming from a distance billets will be provided in Brampton homes and free full course dinners will be provided for all players. Sponsored by the Bramp- ton Lions Club this prom- ises to be one of the best tournaments of the year. as this age group provides the purest form of hockey you will ever see. it is claimed. Richmond Hill is one of 14 teams entered in the "B" class for communities from 10,001 to 50.000 pop- ulation. "A" class is for teams from communities over 50.000. "C" for com- munities from 4.501 to 10.000 and "D" for com- munities up to 4.000. There will be awards for each class and for the grand championship. This will bring 1.000 youngsters from all over Ontario. from Amherst. New York: Port Huron, Michigan and teams from both the American and Canadian towns of Sault Ste. Marie to our neigh- boring town, during the winter school holiday. The CFGM Radio Kids will be participating in the 9th Annual international Novice Hockey Week at Brampton from March 16 to 23. This is reported to be the biggest novice tournaâ€" ment in the world and 50 all-star teams are entered to play in more than 100 games. The. CP‘GM Country Gentlemen captured the North York.PIayoff title last week by dumping Thornhill in two straight games in the best of three game series for playoff honors. The Richmond Hill crew presented Downsview with a card bearing good luck wishes for the Quebec Out- remont Tourney. Downs- view has drawn Castors. the top team in Quebec for their first game. Before the Lions left for Quebec City. the annsview boys had given them sincere wishes for success. Referees of this contest com- plimented the Lions on their superb skating. team play and stick-handling This is where the team has placed its em- phasis this year. Thursday the Lions will meet Aurora in the local arena at 6 pm in the return game of a home and home series. Friday they will be honored guests at the official opening of the new arena. Saturday they will have an exhibition contest and Sun- day will take on Oakville. a toth crew. at the new arena at 4 pm. After a rest and a light skate they leave March 20 to fly to Fort William. where hockey fans are expecting a superb per- formance by the chaps from Richmond Hill who were the erand chamoions of the Quebec International Tourney. They will play two games on The next Lion goal was dumped in by Jimmy Clement assisted by Sanlon, who was playing centre for the first time. and Sackfield on the other wing. Next it was Sackfield as- sisted by Sanlon and Clement. In the third Richmond Hill ramped farther ahead. Gordon got his second goal assisted by Sackfield and Ranieri (his fourth assist). Sanlon added an- other goal to his hat trick. as- sisted by Gordon (third). Rice finally got credit for his efforts assisted by Lunau and Graham (fourth). The end things the Lions checked for a shutout and Steve Gordon completed his hat trick assisted by Sanlon. The Richmond Hill crew presented Downsview with The Lions played at their best for this one. In the first In the second Sanlon got his second goal as'sisted by Gordon and Sackfield, his linemates. Then it was Lunau assisted by Ranieri. Before long Sanlon completed a hat trick with asâ€" sists by MacRae. Bailie and McKeage. In the third stanza the Lions controlled the play and finally Ricky Sackfield scored on a quick drive assisted by Sanlon. Then it was Steve Sexton who mastered the situation perfectly having received the puck from Winger Kevin McKeage. I Lions 4. Peterboro 0 Our peewees played host to Peterboro in the new arena Fri- day in the return game of a home and home series. The Pet- erboro club ran into misfortune when one carload of players was involved in a traffic acci-1 dent and three members of the} team failed to arrive in timel ‘for the game. Richmond Hill took over at the drop of the puck with San- lon getting the first goal aided by Gordon and Ranieri. Then it was Val Steffan assisted by Rice and Graham. Steve Sexton added one, assisted by MacRae and Graham. Before the end of the period Gordon got one as- sisted by McKeage and Graham. In the third the Lions were in command and manoeuvered well. At 13:12 Chuck Lunau scored. assisted by Rice and Steffan, his linemates. Our boys scored again when McKeage connected on a passout by Allan Graham and aimed the puek be- tween the spread legs of the Peterboro netminder. Bobby Clement backed his team up superbly as he made the key saves when his team was in trouble. Peterboro is a team that could outweigh the Lions, but our boys had the legs, desire and know-how and only for the fine perform- ance of Peterboro’s goalie the score could have been much higher. Lions 14, Downsvlew 0 Saturday the Lions played Downsview in an exhibition game at Forest Hill Arena. period after a two-way display by both teams. McKeage scored the opener at 14:12. assisted by Steve Sexton at centre and Paul Bailie from the point. In the second at 10:02 Sanlon got the second counter. assisted by Gor- don and Goalie Bobby Clement. East York managed one to make the score 3â€"1 at the end of the first period‘ Both teams checked closely and were out at both ends during the second period. Val’Steffan put the first goal in for the Lions. assisted by Terry Rice and Steve Gordon. Next Rice scored assisted by Steffan and Tommy Sanlon counted assisted by Steve Gor- don. ‘PEEWEES Lions 5. East York 1 Thursday at the new arena the Lions played host to East York of the Metro League. When these teams met five days earlier the Lions had had trouble ekinsz out a 2-1 win. This time, they had their legs on the ground and decided to prove themselves. Una-u gue_l They need the suppog’t of iaysgeveryone in the munic1pahty to had'provide the needed fu_nds for NHL this western trip as thelr treas- [egsiury has been depleted to the [ tacritical point by other commlt- :ments. The local midgets had elimin- ated Barrie and Orillia from OMHA competition before tak- ing on the powerful George- town team. The Legion Midgets will play an exhibition game on Sunday and then March 18 travel to Trenton to parti- cipate in that town‘s midget tournament. one of the top midget contests in the pro- vince. Their first game will be against Oshawa on the 18th. (My sincere apologies to the Legion Midgets for referring to them by another name in this column on two occasions. How- ever, by whatever name they are called, they play good hockey and we are looking for good reports of their endeavors in what remains of this hockey season. Mary Dawson‘. Cronkwright and John Gropp. Sackfield continued to sparkle on defence and Brian Dunlop and John Barnett kept Alliston completely off balance while killing penalties. The Weber twins were very prominent on ithe attack and came close to ‘scoring on several occasions. Cleaners 3. Camp Borden 2 Saturday the Cleaners met a {determined Camp Borden team ‘in a game played at the military base. The final score was 3-2 {in favor of Richmond Hill but lit could have gone either way. i l l l t The Legionnaires gave this game their best and although down 3-1 at one time, fought back to within one goal of tying the game. Goal getters were Murphy from Dunkley and Dunkley from McKillop. Dennis ' Acomb scored the winning goal late in the third with the help of Mike Ball. This was a very hard-hitting game with Barnett. Sackfield, Gropp and Scott Mabley leading the way with several stiff body- checks. Coming up for the Cleaners are three North York League games. Thursday night they play in Aurora, Friday night they host Thornhill and will play the return game in Double- rinks Saturday. MIDGETS Georgetown 3. Legion 2 Thursday the Legion Midgets lost to the Georgetown team and came to the end of the playoff trail. losing the decision 3-2. Each team had won one previous game. Georgetown is a very strong team and could well go all the way in OMHA playoffs. Greg Bodnar coached the team for this one in the absence of Coach Peter Artemchuck who was ill. Andrews continued to de- monstrate his goal-scoring tal- ents as he found the range on two occasions. For Chris these goals were his 40th and 4lst of the season, which is indeed an impressive record. John Gropp provided the assist on the first goal with Sackfield and Cronk- wright setting up the second. Robbie Sackfield opened the scoring on a slick pass and screen play set up by Dick Weber. Chris Andrews scored the second goal on a pass from BANTAMS Richmond Hill 2. Alliston 2 In a North York scheduled game in Richmond Hill Friday the North End Cleaners Ban- tams defeated Alliston 2-0. Al- though the final score was quite close the locals completely con- trolled the play and allowed Al- liston only one shot on the net. "miracle" team which upset the Quebec Winter Carnival. and Sunday. The lakehead will provide top competition and the trip is creating keen anticipa- tion in all connected with the team. Players and parents will be representing Richmond Hill. the town which prodUCed this HOW TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION Send your Clothes To Pick-Up and Delivery For Dry Cleaning Shirt Laundry Storage 884-8741 10 Yonge St. 5. Richmond Hill Open 7 am. every morning Area golfing Pro Bruce Butterworth and former manager of the Richmond Hill Curling Club is now handling similar duties with the Highland Golf and Country Club in Aurora. Mr. Butterworth was with the local curling" club for six years prior to his leaving a fewmonths ago. His position is being filled by Donald Coghill of 259 Harrygan Cres., Richâ€" mond Hill, on a temporary BRUCE BUTTERWORTH basis until the season ends. And talking about curling the lady winners of the Barth Trophy will be presented with their hand- some trophy by Phil Barth at the last meeting in April. ',,. 3pm S‘pots. .. Think it would be a nice gesture on the part of Pharmacist and Councillor William Lazenby if he would donate a free package of headache tablets to Mr. Amos. He might even need two before it‘s over. Needed at the moment are offers from Rich- mond Hill residents to billet the youngsters in their homes for their two or three-day stay. This is an excellent way to show off Richmond Hill’s hospital- ity mat to the young strangers. If you have the space (or can make it) for any youngster just give the Legion a call at 884-0086 and leave your name and address. It’ll be greatly appreciated and help out tremendously. PLEASE, MR. LAZENBY One more tournament item: Official registrar will be Marsh Amos. He’ll have to do the job by himself and you can imagine what a headache regis- tering umpteen youngsters will be in one day. Sixteen teams from Canada and the United States are slated to participate in the three-day tournament and you can imagine the preparations required to handle the visiting youngsters (and in some cases parents) who will be arriving in the Same in any tournament. And it’s especially difficult when you’re doing it for the first time. It’s amazing the last-minute wrinkles which suddenly pop their heads up. But the Legion bdys are forging full speed ahead. Hill It never ceases to impress me the amount of effort, the number of little and big details which are required to work out in order to assure such a tournament will be a well-organized success instead of a potentially disorganizednightmare. MIDGET TOURNEY Sat in on a meeting of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 375 committee responsible for laying the groundwork for that big International Midget Hockey Tournament coming up in Richmond Hill April 18, 19. 20, the other day. It has never happened to me but it will to the arena association during Friday's official opening ceremonies. A cheque in the amount of $3.000 will be donated by the Richmond Hill Lions Club to the association to cover the cost of the new hockey time clock and public address system. Presenting it will be Lions President Peter Dyson. Let us give your car the REGAL appearance it deserves. in our new Body Shop with the most up to date drying EQUiDment North of the City. It costs you no more to have quality work done by experienced men. “All Fully Licensed", who are specialists on Body Repairs and Painting. 89 NEWKIRK RD. S. (corner Markham Rd.) RICHMOND HILL A very fine gesture by the local Lions BRUCE BUTTERWORTH T0 AURORA We Use Solder â€" Service Cars Available Complete Collision Service (Continued from Page 11) Phone 884-8187 HERE'S $3.000 u". yuuuw Rice's Flowers 7 !sisted' by Ken Shedlowich andf Sm Hans BA 4 IBill Dyer assisted by Martin; Two goa Kevin Lundy got a hat trickJArmstrong. one unassi‘ Jeff Switzer a pair, both unas- Coughlin Fuels 3 [W Dave Ni sisted; and Stephen Allder ad- Shields Footwear 1 '03, Ron M (led an unassisted goal. with Coughlin‘s goalgetters wel‘e‘man and David Egan scoring on a pass'Larry Laionde assisted by Bilbsisted, W from John Greenfield forDysart, Frank Weber assisted'Stephenson Rice's- Greenfield. Egan and Rocky Deciantis and Gary Lev-led assist w David Curtis earned assists on‘esque assisted by Bill DysartvMCBrien a Lundy's goals, one of whichjand Bruce Newlands. RickyiMafine-s m Dan's Esso 4 Wilson-Niblett 0 Robert Monaco and David Mann split. scoring honors for‘ the winners with two goals each. Jonathan Crosier earned two assists. Monaco one and Richard Hopson one. Goalie Ben Bourget got a shutout. ‘ Consumer's Gas 3 Sunnybrook Riding 2 ‘ The winner's goals were put in the net by Bryan Charles. Bob Russell and Dane Eldridgei with Doug Whiting contributing} two assists. For Sunnybrook it1 was Kim McMaster and Neil Milligan in the scoring depart- ment and Allen Beintema. Mc- Master and Stephen Hodgins in the assist department. Allencourt Pharmacy 3 Rumble Transport 1 Scot Kerr clicked for two goals and Stephen Wolfries for one with help from Danny Jones and George Nelson for Allencourt. Doug Randall was assisted by Greg Bell and Mark Brillinger on Rumble's lone: tally. 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Town Inn‘s Ron Robertson hent the mesh for their first tally help- ed out by Larry Hutchison and Mike Graydon‘ Their second goal was put in by Glen Iron- side assisted by Bruce Hipkiss and Paul Telfer. ‘ Irvings Fuel Oil 3 Reynolds Shoe House 1 David Robbins scored two un- Dynes Jewellers 3 Tony's Esso 2 Steve Jarvie netted the puck twice for Dynes. assisted by Todd Price on both and by Alan LeMoine on the second. LeMoine got the third counter unassisted. Robbie Yoteff and Bill Bounds were the goaiget- ters for Tony's with assists earned by Kim Mabley. Brian Durand and Bobby McMeekin. Street's Construction 9 Eric's Cycle 3 Marksmen for Streets were: Greg Woloski with a hat trick. all unassisted; John Donovan with two goals. assisted by Steve Bei‘ezmvski and Ray Mc- Carvilie on both, Bob MacDon- ald assisted by Tim Middleton, Berezowski assisted by Dono- van. Bob Belanger unassisted, and McCarville assisted by Ber- ezowski and Belanger. Eric's goals came from the sticks of Martin Armstrong assisted by George Mason, Tom Lamb as- sisted by Ken Shedlowich and Bill Dyer assisted by Martin Armstrong. You must be entirely sallslizd wuh (he lm's overall 92!- lomunc: wuhm Ien days 01 we lepllce 11W“. BY BOB ROSS JR. Hon Na limeliml guarâ€" antee lgilfl5( all road hazards, fined an plumage nlllu "gum swung mic: 9! theme, you vccewu I hand new Inc. paymg only lur III: wand-on a! Head wom‘ He'll be lost to the team for at least the remainder of this season. Alllllulllllllll\llllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllill' Riohmond Gift 4 Butler & Baird 1 Bill Cox’s hat trick and a singleton by Chris Stothers gave this game to Richmond Gift. Stewart Thompson as- sisted on two of Cox's count- ers. the. other was unassisted. Stephenson Construction 5 Surf Marine 1 Two goals by John Walker, one unassisted and one aided by Dave Nichols, and singletons by Ron McBrien. Larry Laid- man and Wes Berseth (unas- sisted) totalled a win for assisted goals to spark Irvings to retain third spot and Joe Waterman clicked for the other. assisted by Jim Sinfield and Hugh Ferguson. Reynolds' Bill Knox punched in a dandy goal with Bradley Points help- ing to account for their scoring Rotary Club 2 Civitan Club 1 Rotary seems to specialize in exciting contests and this was no exception as the winners‘ first goal was by Brian Palmer and Peter Barnett setting him up. Tony Dwyer broke through the defence and scored an un- assisted goal for the winning tally. Civitan pressed all the way till the final siren with Keith Brown getting the lone counter assisted by Mike Stitt and Mike Hall. BAN'I'A MS Doug is still experienc- lnz difficulty in seeing as a result of an injury to his left eye in a York-Simcoe Senior League hockey game February 18 at the town arena. Injured Richmond Hill Dynes Jeweller Defence- man Doug Mclnnis was re- leased from Toronto“: East General Hospital a week ago. Sat. 5 p.m Envy new me Is guaranued lo be [In Item suucluul delecu. Should I clam ausc. "place- nmn would be mad! baud ln lh: amounl a! mad well u- lllmmg on lheme.