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heard that he had travelled to a Western Ontario tournament with a Richmond Hill Industrial League team and had pitched them to a champ- ionship with strikeouts all over the place. Must interview him, I said to myself. ’ Casey did his best to sign A] up for his Jewellers this season but couldn’t talk him into it. I can only figure that if Casey wants a 17- year-oid lefty like Heintzman he must have some- thing going for him. VEfiter‘ interview at Al’s home in Oak Ridges. I suppose I expected to meet some hulking youth with bulging muscles and a left arm that was twice the size of his right one, ala Pete Landers. What I saw was a quiet spoken, but not shy, 5’7” 160 pounder who isn’t really “crazy about watching softball” but likes pitching because “it’s something to do.” His left arm looked very much like his right one. VOL. 98. NO. 5. Then came this season and some more sup- erlative-s from the mouth of no one else but the shrewd Mr. Russell “Casey” Cripps of the Rich- mond Hill Dynes Jewellersh Manager Cripps unabashedly states that Mr. Heintzman is a “potentially terrific hurler. The big thing is he’s a Ieft-hander and there just aren’t that many good lefties around.” As for the others"? “I guess théy’re good but the thing that gets me is the size of some of them. You would think guys that big could throw harder.” I asked Al the inevitable question about whether he thought of well-known hurling stars such as the aforementioned Landers, Bob Domik, MikehLunneyr. Barry Timbers, etc. He didn’t seem to know that much about them except that he had heard about them. No idol worshipper, Mr. Heintzman. The one hurler he does gdmii‘e is the great Eddie Feigner. A1 is in his first year of junior ball and he’s tossing for the Aurora club in the tough Scarâ€" boro loop which is probably one of the best of its kind in the province. “I had 21 couple of other clubs after me,” he said, “but I went with Aurora because I know the fellows. We’re not doing too bad. It’s a tough league.” “I don’t necessarily try to blow the ball past the batter,” he said. “You can’t do that with a good hitter. You have to keep it low or it’s gone. I toss a curve, a fast drop-ball, and I’ve been working on my change-up. I’m happy about the change-up. The other night I struck a batter out on three straight‘change-ups." He likes to'fhrow a loi ago “because the more you pitch the better you get, I hope. I throw the ball around in the backyard for two or 7 " Give up? Wellrit’s 17-year-old Alan Heintzâ€" man of 59 Bond Avenue, Qak Ridges. To say that Al is popular with area teams is putting it too, too mildly. He’s participated in a tournament every weekend with one team or another for the past five weekends. He averages about four or five games a week and loves it becagse, naturally, “it’s something to do.” A quickie little question here. What softball pitcher has three no-hitters this season, is left- handed, has a sizzling fastball, and isn’t Pete Landers of the Toronto Globals of the Ontario Major Fastball League? A1 has done all right himself having tossed the odd no-hitter. Last week it was against Markham as he struck out 19 batters in nine innings. A few weeks before he managed 21 strikeouts in another no-hit win. ALAN HEINTZMAN By Fred Simpson (Continued on Page 16) SOMETHING TO DO CASEY LIKES HIM N 0 HITTERS He’s Real It started to get to me last summer when the word got out that the Oak Ridges Mid- gets had a pitcher by the name of Heintz- man who was really throwing the ball, but fast. Who’s A1 Heintz- man? I must confess I’ve been hearing the name for the past two seasons but I didn’t think he was real. Had it figured that Heintz- man wa s Landers’ w e e k e n d name. Shrewd deduction ex- cept that I was wrong. Sport Spots Later on I again RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1974 [fled S‘mpson Pitcher Moreland gave up four runs on six hits issuing three walks and hitting two batters. while claiming 16 via the strikeout route. Richmond Hill 4, Eringate 4 The second game ended with the same result â€" Rich- Imond Hill getting the deci- sion by a margin of 15~13 in base runners. This one was .3 cliffhanger right to the end. In their third game of the day. the Hillers met the To- ronto Beaches team for the first time this year and be- hind the shutout pitching of Glen Moreland blanked them 5-0 to 'qualify for the “A” championship final. Richmond Hill 4, Bramalea 4 In the first game at 11 am the Carpenters were declared winners by the margin of 16- 12 runners reaching first base safely. While they had run- ners on base in every inning they trailed the Bramalea squad until the bottom of the sixth when they tied the score and did not allow Bramalea to score in their ihalf of the seventh, Eringate got on the score- board first by scoring in the bottom half of the third. only to have Richmond Hill tie it up in the top of the fourth on singles by More- land. Greg MacMillan and a fielding choice by Centre- fielder Greg Walton. No fur- thel‘ scoring took place until the bottom of the sixth when Eringate scored two runs twithout the aid of a hit. In the top of the seventh. with their backs to the wall, Wood led off with a single and was advanced to second by Doug {Lewis who had replaced Chris Nye (spiked an inning earlier) at third base. With two out, Woods scored on a ground ball by Tipold that was misplayed by the second baseman. Still trailing by one run Moreland stroked a double to left centrefield with Tipold stopping at third. With the count at three balls and two strikes, Catcher MacMillan fouled off the next two pitches and then walked to keep the rally alive. Centrefielder Walton hit a double to give Rich- mond Hill the lead for the In" the Carpenters’ sixth Girard opened the inning by driving out his fourth homer of the year â€"- and the only homerun hit by the Car- penters in the tournament. Wood followed with a triple and scored on a long fly by Philip to tie the score. Bra- malea threatened in the top of the seventh as two men were on base when the final out was made on a ground ball hit to Philip at short- stop who flipped to second Baseman Pete Tipold for the final out. Girard and Woods had two hits each to lead the hitters with Girard also scoring two runs and Philip and Wood the others. Bramlea jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on two walks and a triple with Richmond Hill getting one back in their half on three consecutive singles by Paul Philip. Steve Madden and Moreland. Bramalea extended their lead to 3-1 in the top of the third only to have the Carpenters close the margin to one run in the bottom of the fourth on back to back singles by Danny Girard and Phil Wood. A homerun by the Bramalea catcher in the top of the sixth inning restor- ed the two-run lead. TAKE FIRST TWO Richmond Hill squeaked by in their first two games. even though they only tied Brama- lea and Eringate by identical 4-4 scores The rules of the tOurnament specified that in the case of ties at the end of the regulation seven innings the winner would be the team having the largest num- ber of runners reach first base safely. Bantam Carpenters In Belleville Finals The Richmond Hill Carpenters Local 3233, in their search for their first “A” Championship of the season, met a powerful Oshawa Club and were turned back 10-3 July 27 at the first annual MacDonald’s Tournament at Belleville. LEAGUE ACTION Behind the two-hit pitching of Moreland, the Carpenters edged Oak Ridges at Crosby Park July 26 4-3 and in the second half of the double~ header outclassed King City 18-6 to run their record to 14 wins. no losses and sew up first place. The Richmond Hill United Soccer club missed some good shooting opportunities in their league match with Aurora Unite-d Saturday and ended up on the short end of a 3-1 score. Pitching his fourth game of the day, Moreland gave up Oshawa's 10 runs on nine hits. He walked five and stru~ ck out 13 to give him a total of 54 strikeouts or an aver~ age of two per inning for his day's work. The first half ended with the score at 8~0 which Was a good indication of the even play at this juncture. An injury to one of the United's key defence play- ers, John Connelly, upset the United team as a whole. He was out for the remainder of the game. first time. Eringate's lead-off batter in the seventh tripled and scored on the next batter’s single. Two further singles loaded the bases. Moreland struck out the next batter. The next one hit the ball back to Moreland, who threw to the plate to force out the runner at home and Catcher MacMillan threw to third base to force the run- ner there. ending the game and sending the Carpenters into the semi-finals. Richmond Hill 5, Toronto Beaches 0 Pitching his third game of the day, Glen Moreland had his best effort of the day as the beach team could only get two men on base. one in the sixth on a walk and one in the seventh on their only hit of the game. Fifteen batters were retired via strikeouts. Catcher Chris De- Geer caught a solid game as well as going two for three, driving in three runs and scoring a run. Moreland went three for three. scoring two runs, while Walton and Wood also had two hits each. Oshawa 10. Richmond Hill 3 The championship game originally scheduled for 8 pm was delayed due to a rainstorm and did not get underway until 9:30 pm. By this time the Carpenters were cooled out as Oshawa scored six runs in the third inning and that was the ball game. The Carpenters could score only one run in the first on a walk to Philip who crossed the plate on a wild throw and two in the seventh on three singles by DeGeer, Nye and Wood. Things went from bad to worse as another Richmond Hill ‘player, Ian Bann. was also taken out of play after being fouled and was unable to resume. The weakened United team sagged at this point and Aurora ripped home three quick goals which Goalie John Slawson had chance to stop. All three were breakaway goals with United's defence stranded upfield. Richmond Hill scored their three runs on six hits with Woods getting two hits and Madden. Walton, DeGeer and Nye one each. United has no league game this Saturday but will take part in a soccer tournament organized by the Richmond Hill Rangers. Their next league game will be August 10. Richmond Hill's only con- solation of the day was an accurate shot by Keith Prosser off a free kick which found the back of the Aurora net. Injuries Hurt United Lose By 3-1 Aurora Cathy Boagey started things off in the first inn- ing with a single. She stole second and advanced to third on a hit by Mary Jones. Cathy scored on Lynn 01- Richmond Hill Dairy Queen Mic Macs once again came out on top of the York Central Juvenile Girls Soft- ball League. There are still a few rained-out games to be played, but they will have no effect on the Mic Mac standing. The girls are now playing in the PWSU Playdowns. The two losses dropped the gals down to the Senior “C” level where they now await the loser of the series between Tillsonburg and Windsor. Ohsweken 7, R. Hill 6 Richmond Hill opened the PWSU at Ohsweken July 23 and jumped into an early 6â€"0 lead only to watch the Mo- hawks rattle home seven runs to win. Marion Fox started for the Legion and was relieved by Joanne Palmer in the eighth inning. Winning pitcher was Bev Beaver. Richmond Hill Aurora Kleinburg Woodbridge Bolton The Richmond Hill Leg- ion girls got tomahawked by the Ohsweken Mohawks by 7-6 and 6-2 last week in the first round of the Provincial Women‘s Softball Union- olaydowns. Mic Macs Top League The Richmond Hill Ran- gers will be holding their annual tournament Satur- day at Pearson Park. The first game will start at 10 am. The teams will come from Colling'wood, Aurora, Newmarket, Markham, Bayview Thistle and Rich- mond Hill. A good turnout of spectators would be appreciated to cheer on the local lads. The next league play will be August 10 when the Rangers meet Aurora in Aurora. Dynes Jewellers 8 13 2 Wearever Alum. 0 4 3 Scarboro 4, Dynes 2 In their second game of the Andy Godchalk scored four oig goals Saturday in league play, as the Rangers rolled L0 a 5-1 wm over Newmar- net, The Rangers‘ forward nne of Fottrell, Brennan, .xiartm and Macr‘arlane play- ca excellent soccer and every time one of them connected u'ith Godchalk the ball was in the net. The Rangers’ ufth goal came from about 0‘0 yards out, on a lovely shot from Andy " Brennan, wno shot the ball high, but u bounced off the post into the net. Ranger Goalie Ron Binsell had his shutout sporled when a foul-up in iront of the Ranger goal enabled Newmarket’s Alas- tair Mills to put the ball in .he net. A special mention nculd go to Ralph Crabb who played an outstanding game. lers won their first game in the Port Credit Tournament by a decisive 8â€"0 score over Wearvcr Aluminum of the Beaches League. However, they lost their next two con- tests â€" 4-2 to Scarboro Lindal Homes and 1-0 to Winston Park Caterers â€"â€" to bow out of the tourney. mnmmnnummummunnummmnmmumumlmummw Local Bowlers Win Way T 0 Ontario Finals Marshall, on the mound for Dynes had six strikeouts and issued only one walk as he shut out Wearever Alumi- num. Art Lee for Wearever struck out two Dynesmen and issued one free pass. All hits were singles. Soccer Tourney On Saturday Legion ladies lose To Ohsweken Now In Senior C PWS U Series lose Next Two Dynes Take Ist Game Part Credit Tourney Last Saturday in Oshaâ€" wa, the Richmond Hill Colts (Dawson Hare, Brian Mather and Gary Charity) and the doubles (Morley Hall and Larry Wales) won the quarter-finals for an area stretching from here to Ottawa. The local club might have been represented in a third division of the finals as the rink lost by only one shot to Peterboro in the quarter finals. Richmond Hill will be represented this coming Saturday in two divisions of the Provincial Lawn Bowling Championships in Hamilton. Standings Pts. To Play 23 3 22 0 15 23 14 1 Big hitter for the Legion wa: Lynn Olsen with two singles and a triple. Then came Mary Jones with two singles. Single hits went to Dea Pacini and Lea Pacini who pinch hit for Cathy Boagey. The Mohawks had 16 hits. walked once, were struck out five times. while the 10- cal girls committed three errors. The Legion lassies had seven hits. two free masses, were struck out six times while Ohsweken had only one error. The Mic Macs bats were unable to connect with the pitching of Linda Gould until later in the game and then mara, each with three singles. Richmond Hill 13, Glenfield 8 The third and final game of the round was in Rich- mond Hill Sunday. Glenfield Donna Querengesser was on the mound with nine strikeouts and only five base hits given up. Glenfield 12. Richmond Hill 9 It was a different story Thursday in the Hill. Glen~ field scored nine runs in the first inning and added three more in their half of the seventh. sen's sacrifice fly Richmond Hill scored four more runs in the second when Debbie Sluce started off with a hit, advanced to second when Donna Baytor was safe on an error to third with a bunt. These two girls scored on Merrylynn Henry's triple. She scored when Joan Wilkins hit a homerun. They added their last run in the fifth when Lynn 01- sen started off with a hit and stole second. She scored on Dea Pacini's sin- gle. Richmond Hill had 11 hits, no walks, were struck out once and committed four errors. The Ohsweken Mo- hawks had 11 hits, two walks. were struck out seven times and committed two errors. Ohsweken 6. R. Hill 2 At the Town Park Wed- nesday the Mohawks defeat- ed the Legion Ladies 6-2 to put them in a lower circle of the PWSU. Losing pitcher was Joanne Palmer. who was relieved by Marion Fox in the eighth inning. Doing the catching chores was Debbie Sluce. Winning pitcher was Bev Beaver with Helen Lickers hatching. Last weekend Dynes Jewelâ€" mond Hill’s Doug Webster. pitching for Scarboro Lindal Homes. He struck out three. allowed five hits and walked two. but was the winning pitcher. Andy Gionette. on the rubber for Dynes. had six strikeouts. allowed five hits and issued one free pass. The margin of victory was the five errors committed by Dynes against one for Lindal. who got {our unearned runs. tourney Dynes faced Rich- Dynes got a run in their half of the first inning but Lindal answered with two runs in their half. Dynes tied the score in the second but Lindal went ahead 4-2 in the bottom of that inning and that was the ball game. Dynes' five errors were cost- ly since all occurred with two on and two out. For Dynes, Pitcher Frank Marshall struck out five and issued one walk. for Winston Park Don Crawley had four strikeouts and three walks. in the third game. in spite of three errors. when Allie O'Quinn led off the fifth inning with a homer for the only run of the hard-fought game. Dynes Jewellers Winston Park Dynes Jewellers Scarbr‘ro Linda] 4 5 1 Winston Park 1. Dynes 0 Winston Park Caterers ma- naged to eke out a 1-0 win Mic Macs Take First Round PWSU Defeat Glenfield 2-] The Dairy Queen Mic Macs now move on to the second round of the PWSU with Toronto Sherway. The first game is in Allderwood Wed- nesday and the second in Crosby Park Thursday even- mg. ‘ A passed ball and a fleet-‘ $150 to the wi: footed Paul Williams of Rich- also received mond Hill Auto Body on trophy donate third base charging for home Breweries Ltd and a close play at the plate The concludj gave the Killers all the runs ed last Frid they required to take the top tight defensi' awards in the 1974 Richmond Town manage( Hill Industrial League Tour- nff the RH A ney. The victory was worth while the l opened the scoring with one run in the first inning and added another in the fifth. The local girls came back in the fifth with two runs to tie the score. They added three more in the seventh and eight more in the eighth to total 13. Glenfield managed to score two) in the seventh and four in the ninth. In the eighth it was Mc- Namara leading with two homers and Fran Berthelotte with a triple. Thompson had a homer in the seventh and a double in the eighth. It was a hard-fought win and the girls certainly eam- ed it. Querengesser had the pitching duties until the second out in the ninth when Bryan took over to retire the final batter. The newly formed bantam softball team which plays in the interlocking league is known as the “Richvale Rose Trailers" which recen~ tly racked up a triple victory over Thornhill teams. This team is composed of 13 and 14 year old boys from the South Richmond Hill area. Robbie Haenel did some excellent pitching with seven strikeouts, backed by Catch- er Paul Gregoire‘ and fan- tastic fielding by Rick Mills (second base). Credit went to both Mills and Tim Wil- lis for double plays. RH Auto Body New Champs Industrial Fastball League Rose Trailers Triple Victory The Trailers defeated Thornhill Blacks July 18 10-0, and again on the same day 3-2. They had their biggest victory July 25 when the final score of the game was 16-0 over Thorn- hill Greens, This was only a six-inning game due to curfew. Base hits were by Harry Ablett with a triple, Allan Ablett, Pat Tomasso and Tony Roman all with a double and Robbie Haenel, Rick Mills, Tim Willis, Harold Levy and Chris Nichol with singles. DON LI'I'I‘LE FORD DON llTTlE FORD ARE FEATURING-o OF THE VERY BEST USED CARS IN TOWN DON’T MISS THESE TERRIFIC VALUES! MANY MORE USED CARS TO CHOOSE FROM RICHMOND HILL The concluding game, play- ed last Friday. was very tight defensive battle as Town managed only six hits nff the RH Auto's chucker, while the Hillers nicked Town's hurler for just five hits. The winning run results as Williams doubled. Kenny Ro- berts singled. Williams stole third and the Hill pitcher had a three ball situation going for him at the plate. Then a fourth ball eluded catcher Larry Black just long enough for Wiliams to steal home. $150 to the winners and they also received an impressive trophy donated by Labatt Line score of this final game: ‘RH Auto Body 1 5 1 Town Auto Body 0 6 2 Town Auto were the defend- ing champs. For the new champs this was the success- ful conclusion of a gruelling struggle from the losers' di- Tam to 9 pm Mon. to Fri. Saturday ‘til 6 pm YONGS 8: LEVENDALE BJCHMOND HILL EXTENDED BUSINESS ROURS The Ian Tyson Show Featuring Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird Tickets: $4 in advance, $5 at the door. Children 12 and under half-price. Group rate: 10 tickets for the price of nine. Tickets available at Aurora Community Centre, 727-3123 (Mail orders accepted â€"enclose cheque or money order) Ticket outlets: Aurora â€" Doane Hall Pharmacy. Omar’s Shoes, The Banner Newmarket â€" Simmon’s Shoes, Newmarket Travel, Upper Canada Travel, The Era Oak Ridges â€" Doane Hall Pharmacy TRY Aurora Community Centre August I4, 8 pm. ' CLEANING 5A amass 10414 YONGE STREET 889-1105 The presentation of awards was made by Casey Cripps. Dynes' Jewellers' coach. in [the absence of President Fred Simpkin who is in hos- pital. vision back into contention. The Hillers lost a 0-0 game to Central YMCA. on having fewer runners reach base. They met the “Y” again after Town Auto had given them their first taste of defeat 2-1. This time RH Auto really put it to the “Y” downing them 12-7 and sending them on their way home. This left Town as the only undefeated team and RH Auto as the only team left with one loss, the two met late July 21 and a surpris~ ingly fresh-looking Hill team battled to a 3-2 victory over a battle-weary Town team. FASIBAH THURSDAY, AUG. 1 VS. Dynes Jewellers At Town Park Admission $1.00 Students 75¢ Children & Pensioners 2 GAMES DOUBLEHEADER Toronto 8: District Softball League Time: 8:30 pm. WINSTON CATERERS Free