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The Richmond Hill Leg- ion Fuddle Duddles staged their first annual softball tournament at the town park and Crosby on the weekend and also turned out to be very ungracious hosts. They won it. Led by the pitching of Gary “01y” Oliver and the hitting of Dan Ritchie, the Legion boys came from be- hind a 2-0 deficit to down Aurora 9-3 to win the cham- pionship. For their efforts they re- ceived the Norm Smith Real- ty Trophy. The runners-up trophy, also donated by Mr. Smith, went to Aurora. VOL. 97, NO. 14. Enroute to their win the legion team opened the tournament with a 13-6 drubbing of Stouffville, lost 6-4 to Aurora, and came storming back to take East Metro Police 12-0. This qualified them to meet Aurora in the finals after the former squad had shutout Downsview 10-0. His big win. of course. was the final one against Aurora which saw him spin a seven- hitter while striking out 14 in the seven-inning game and walking only two. The only time he was in trouble was the first inning when Aurora opened a 2-0 lead on a single, hit batter. two walks and a wild pitch. Oliver was the defensive man in the final two games Sunday as he tossed 14 inn- ings in winning the final two games. He had a total of 3 wins and no losses in the two-day tournament. Only Legion loss of the tourna- ment was charged to Don Quinton. Ritchie drove an inside the park homerun to make it 2-1. It was the start of a hot afternoon for Ritchie. He went on to club another homerun with two men on in the second to give the Legion a 4-2 lead. Clay Chapman had started it off with a single and Neil Jar- vie had reached first via an error. Legion ‘Fuddle Duddles' Win Their Own Softball Tournament It was a short-lived mom- ent for Aurora as the big bat of Ritchie swung into ac- tion in the bottom half of the first inning. Aurora got one run back in the third on two hits but the Legion team got two in the bottom half of the same inning as Bill Robson doub- led and Larry Black hom- cred The Legion sealed Aur- ora's fate with a run on Dan KelLy‘s single, an error, and a sacrifice fly by Eric Hill- aby. The Legion scored their final two runs in the sixth as Oliver tripled. scored on an infield out. Ritchie then hit his second double of the game. He later scored on a sacrifice fly. Saturday's event attracted a good entry of around 40 sports persons and it wasn't long before the Billy and Bobby syndrome was very much‘ in evidence. But the cheers of the men were stilled by the hurrahs of the ladies as Eleanor Lloyd beat John Beck, and June Beck beat Derek Smith to set up an all ladies final. Eleanor was the ultimate winner. I didn’t paint. It didn’t rain. And the men got clob- bered in the singles handi- cap event. That was last weekend.. However the sexes were reunited on the following day, another sunny and warm one, for the mixed doubles handicap. This event was won by Karl Allison and Joan Lennon, with Al and Eileen Lennon runners-up The Gals Win This Tennis Match Too! That final game saw the eventual winners experience a shaky first inning falling be- hind 3-0 to St. ‘Kitts. uummmmmuumunummummunl\mmummmunmuu Team coaches are Earl Freeland. Marsh Thompson. Cliff Dunbar. Bat Boy is Gario Robson. Manager is Don Quinton. The Kleinburg-Nashville girls juvenile softball team won the All-Ontario PWS‘U Championship recently when they downed St. Catharines 18-6 in St. Catharines. The championship trophy was presented to the team in a post-game reception. Ritchie was the big hitter of the final game with his two homers and two doubles. Oak Ridges won the first game in Oak Ridges. but lost the second game play- ed last weekend in Jordan by a 6-0 score. This tied the best of three final series at one game each. flllllllll\\\\ll\\\l\l\\llll\l\\lllllllliiilliflllllllllllm“\“lilillllllllu The 12â€"0 win against East Metro saw Oliver allowing only two hits while striking out 15. That turned out to be the final runs scored by the los- ers as the locals started hit- ting, scoring runs to romp home the winners. Susan Hilliard and Kim Lostchuck rapped homeruns and drove in- five and four runs respectively. Patsy Maw added a bases-loaded triple and Chris Veenstra drove in three runs with four hits and made outstanding catches in centrefield. Kleinburg Girls Capture luve Honors Sam Chefero, Peggy Maw and Lynne Lostchuck com- bined to score five of the runs. Sonya Lostchuck had three key hits and scored three runs. Winning pitcher was Pat Purves who came up with a top effort allowing only nine well spaced hits over as many innings. It was her 18th win of the season. They opened the series with a 13-6 win in St. Kitts. Enroute to the champion- ship they eliminated Wood- bridge, Brampton, Richmond Hill and Grimsby. Bob and Dee Woodley are coach and manager. These tournaments wexe well run, very much enjoyed, and very even. Tournament director J ohn- Marais is to be congratulated for a fine ten- nis weekend (even though I did help him out with the weather). The AGM on October 19 will be combined as usual with our end of Season party. The meeting starts promptly at 7 pm and should be over in time for a 10 pm start to the festivities. There will be music, dancing, food and the occasional drinkie-poo until the wee small hours. Meantime I'll be working hard trying to promote a match between Rod Laver and Louise Brough, and tak- ing bets from liberated women. and Steve Cox and Pat Loh- man third. The All-Ontario Final Championship game will be played in Jordan this com- ing Saturday at 2 pm be- tween that town's peewee ball team and their coun- terparts from Oak Ridges. Final Peewee Game Saturday LET'S PLAY TENNIS Richmond Hill Tennis Club By Brian Bullock Phone 884-6841 RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1973 By FRED SIMPSON You’re going to have to excuse me if I tend to ramble more than usual this time around. Blame it on the season if you will. I mean late September, early October. All that October color explosion dead ahead, rattling leaves that tend to, well, rattle me. I can even remember when burning leaves used to conjure up all kinds of nostalgia in a fellow. Now it brings the pollution-squad run- ning onto the scene. Screaming, naturally. Anyway, so it was this past weekend when I wandered down to the town park and took in some of that first annual Richmond Hill Legion Ball Tournament. I must admit to being rather blase about the whole thing at the beginning. Guess it’s the times we live in. You’ve got to either be playing for the world championship, reading about some guy making $100,000 a season (or is that figure out of date, I just can’t think on that rarified plane), or whether Hank Aaron will break Babe Ruth’s all-time homer record. The Legion ball team was enroute to winning their own first annual tournament and, man, there was excitement in the autumn air. Fans were screaming, the pressure building. I began to think I was at the most important event of the year, like the World Series even. But there definitely was excitement, and fun. And when the Legion guys came up with that 9-3 win over Aurora I thought the place would explode. It was like winning a world championship or a Grey Cup. TOO MUCH ‘BIGNESS’ Nothing wrong with that. Except it causes you to sometimes lose your perspective. Get car- ried away with all the bigness. It started to get to me. The pressure. It was deadly serious out there but it was a differ- ent kind of seriousness. There was no money on the line, no world-wide fame to achieve. It reminded me of a long time ago, a more innocent time ago when I was a member of a team that won a local championship. Somehow I’d forgotten what a thrill it was. The weekend brought it back to me. Talking to Legion Coach Earl Freeland at a reception after the tournament was like inter- viewing someone who had just achieved im- mortality. Well, something like that. “The fellows came up with the best ball they’ve played all season,” he was saying. “We got ggme great? pitching andrgreat hitting.” 7 He was talking especially about Burly Gary “Ollie” Oliver who pitched and won the last two ball games on Saturday; and, of course, Bob Ritchie who smashed out two homeruns and two doubles to lead the offensive. “The turning point,” he continued, “was that first homerun Ritchie hit. We were losing 2-0 and just_seemed to pick the whole» team up.’_’ He was telling me that just a couple of sea- sons ago “the fellows got together to form a fun-team. We played in a league that didn’t even have a name.” A pause. “In fact it still hasn’t got a name. “Then we just got better, got some more younger players. Now we’ve got a pretty good ball club.” The celebrating went on in the background as Freeland went on in the foreground. I was a rapt listener. “We called ourselves the ‘Fuddle Duddles’ and most of the fellas were old guys, around 47 (I can hear the gasp from you old fellows of 47). It was a lot of fun. But the “old fellows” haven’t been forgotten. States Earl. “We’re contemplating getting another ball team going at the Legion. We’re thinking of starting a lob-ball team. You’ll have to be 40 0;; older to play on the team, something like t- at.” It all sounds great to me. Keep it going for everyone. Maybe even eventually they’ll have a lob-ball tournament and the excitement will be just as great. Hope so. I might even start getting into shape for that time (not really, very far) when I’m 40. Get back into harness. Well, enough of the rambling. Hope you get what I mean. Blame it on the season, that beautiful late September weekend. Man, it was exciting. Most of all. Fun. Can Winter be far behind type of thing? The 1973-74 addition of the Richmond Hill Junior “A” Tier Two Rams have finished their exhibition schedule and are into the regular schedule. A report from the railbirds (as they say) YOU OLD FELLOWS (Continued on Page 16) TURNING POINT It’s Still Fun RAMS START LONG AGO It was a different story in Richmond Hill Thursday night of last week when anh other bases-loaded homerun in the top of he ninth stun- n-ed 'the Jewellers with a 4-0 defeat. That loss was Dick‘s first one in. 12 games as he has been forced to carry the en- tire pitching load in the ab- sence of Bob Domik who is recuperating from an ope- ration. Sunday's game saw the Jewellers coasting along with a 5-1 lead in the se- venth inning when the roof caved in on Dick. There was one out when Pa-ul Roach singled and Lar- ry Christie was safe on an error. Brian Stewart then singled to ioad the bases? Up steps Ted DeRuiter and guess what? DeRuiter proceeded to‘ whack a Dick pitch out of3 the park to score four runs, and tie the game at 5-5. I The score remained tied i at 5-5 until the 14th in- ning when Dave Russell doubled with two batters out. He came home with the winning run as Bruce Staughton singled. Dick ran into some diffi- culty in the 14th, had the bases loaded. but pitched himself out of it. Richmond Hill Dynes’ Hurler Wally Dick survived another bases-loaded homerun Sunday as his teammates eked out a narrow 14-inning 6-5 victory over Welland Dycks in Welland. Dick was the winning pit- cher allowing 10 hits while striking out 12 and walking one. Loser was Ted DeRuiter who replaced Ken Rhora in the seventh inning with two out and went the rest of the way. He walked no one and gave up six hits, striking out seven. Rhora went six and two third innings, gave up nine hits and five of the runs. He struck out eight while walking two. The win tied their best-of-three OASA Sen- ior “A” playoffs at a game apiece. The third and deciding game was scheduled for Wednesday of this week at 8:30 pm, also in Welland. Jewellers Tie Series Argos they’re not but they probably have all or more of the same-type enthusiasm. That’s the Richmond Hill Bantam Football Club. Four members are shown going through their paces behind the town arena in prepara- tion for an upcoming game in the Scarboro Football League. Maple Arena Late Hockey Registration Welcomed from Maple and Concord area for boys’ House League and OMHA hockey Contact: Atoms - Ross Allen - 832-1540 Peewees - Roy Homer - 832-1110 Bantams - Jim Jones - 832-2509 Midgets OMHA - Bruce Murchison - 832-2530 Juvenile OMHA - Kingdon Boake - 832-1113 MAPLE MINOR HOCKEY 0R register with Mr. Al Taylor - 832-2526 SATURDAY HOUSE LEAGUE STARTS OCTOBER 13th, 8 A.M. Calling ihe signals is Quarterback Glen Touchdown Territory Ahead scoring in the fifth inning as George Teasdale led off with a homerun. Wally Dick was safe on an error and Frank Lederer singled. Mic- key Hancock also singled to load the bases. The next two batters went out on a fielder's choice but Russell then singled driving in two runs. Welland scored its first run in the fifth as Larry Christie singled. He then scored as Brian Stewart’s high fly dropped between Hancock and Russell. There were two men out at the time and Christie was run- ning. Richmond Hill picked up its forth run in the sixth as Catcher Bob Shelston doub- led and Lederer drove him home with a single. The Jewellers scored their fifth run in the seventh as Catcher Mike Thompson singled, advanced to second on a sacrifice. He then came home on Staughton's ground- rule double. Then came the bottom of the seventh and DeRuiter’s big home-run. PITCHER’S DUEL Thursday of last week's game was a pitching duel between Dynes’ Dick and Welland‘s Rhora for the first eight innings with the score 0-0. Then came the top of the ninth as Welland pushed avc- POSS four runs on a superâ€" dooper bases-loaded home- run by Ralph Williams. It started off as Rhora hi-t a long-single off Dick. Paul Roach fouled out but Larry Christie was safe on an er- ror. This play saw him hit back to Dick on the mound who fired to Bob Smith at second for the force-out. Smith dropped the ball. Dick then walked Brian Steâ€" ; Whip Welland 6-5 wart to load the bases. He got DeRuiter to hit imp a force-out at the plate. Then came Williams and he cracked Dick's first pitch high and far over the left field fence. Moreland of 49 Rockport Crescent while pre- paring to lead the blocking (left to right) are Steve Wood, 253 Harrygan Crescent; Doug McNaught, 55 Inverlochy Drive, Thornhill, and Mark Marshall of Richmond Hill. This is the team's first year together and in the Scarboro League. The boys are coached by Ray Kyte and Don Ireland. Industrial Rd. at Yonge, Richmond Hill Tel.: 884-8841 or 773-4444 GREENWOOD GARAGE THE SEDAN THAT CONVERTS INTO A STATION WAGON RENAULT I6 Dick also came through with a fine effort striking out 10 and walking one. Rhora was sensational all the way in this game stri- king out 21 Dynes’ batters. walking two. 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