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I I I I I. AGES 5 T0 20 YEARS REGISTRATION FEE - $1.50 PAYABLE AT TIME OF REGISTRATION ADULTS WELCOME FOR ADULT LEAGUES “““‘I‘-IIIIII“‘III“ But if Barrow's win the game they could tie for the fourth and last place play- off position with Joe’s as they have a game in hand with McKinley. Should this happen a run-off game will be held to decide the final standings. Jenkins have completed their regular schedule while Joe's have a game with the fifth place Barrow Insurance team. A win by Joe’s would vault them into third place and lay the defending cham- pion Barrow's Insurance to rest. Town Auto Body 3 McKinley Drywall 1 Town opened the scoring in the bottom of the third as Colin Wood singled follow-ed If they win one of these, second place is theirs. Jen- kins Garden Supply holds third place at this time one point ahead of Joe's Garage who occupy the fourth slot. There is a total of five out- standing games and the final standing of the teams had not been decided. Three of the four teams have quali- fied for the playoffs but their final positions haven't been decided. Qualifying are the Rich- mond Hill Auto Body who requires one more game to claim the league cham- pionship trophy. That one more game is with McKinley Drywall. Town Auto has two games remain- ing and these are with Fram Filtration and Lake Wilcox. 'A““““““VV‘“‘ By DAVE BARBOUR WINDING IT UP This week sees the remain- ing rained out and postponâ€" ed games being concluded in the Richmond Hill Industrial Softball League. VOL. 98, NO. 10. Jenkins Hot After Second Spot ERIC GEORGE for Regional Councillor SATURDAY, SEPT. 14 & 21 Minor Atom 3 pm. Minor Peewee 4 pm. Minor Bantam 5 pm. Minor Midget 6 pm. N.B.: second team try-outs are included Here Cw" w°°d Singled w1th first tryouts. A player must be and Gary Black reamed available for first team competition or $230": aiifi‘g‘iesuggfifiafififga he will not be allowed to play second catch. Chapman doubled to team. score Wood and Black. A sacrifice by Doug Carter “““““““‘l““““ lst and 2nd Team Try-Outs RICHMOND HILL ARENA YOUTH BOWLERS LET GEORGE DO IT! \TURDAY, 3PT. 14 & 21 inor Atom 3 p.m. inor Peewee 4 p.m. inor Bantam 5 p.m. inor Midget 6 p.m. SUNDAY, SEPT. 15 & 22 Atom 1 p.m. Peewee 2 p.m. Bantam 3 p.m. Midget 4 p.m. Juvenile 5 p.m. $1.50 Admission Charge for each try out 3.: Second team try-outs are with first tryouts. included A player must be available for first team competition or he will not be allowed to play second team. RICHMOND HILL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION “O.M. H.A." FRIDAY, SEPT. 6th â€" 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. SATURDAY, SEPT. 7th â€" 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 159 Centre St. E. FALL REGISTRATION DATES: Sept. 3, 4, 5, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Sept. 11 from 8:00 to 10:00 pm. For further information call: 884-3786 REGISTRATION A.B.C. LANES (Town Representative Team) Lenneville recorded 13 strikeouts while Hamilton fanned nine Jenkins batters. Fram Filtration 10 Joe’s Garage 2 The first of the Wednes- day evening double headers saw the hot and cold, mostly cold, Fram Filtration team trounce the struggling Joe’s Garage team. For Fram, finally attired in their new uniforms (white with heavy blue trim) the top of the first saw six runs crossing the plate. Al McKenzie singled as did Dave Stuart who was making his first start since injuring his foot in the Brad- ford Tournament August 11. A double by Lenneville scored McKenzie and Stuart and Barry Pollard, who was returning from a knee in- jury and holidays, scored Big Blue with a single. Jenkins 3, Barrow Insurance 0 Jenkins Garden Supply struck for three big runs in the top of the fifth to break Up a pitching duel be- tween Jenkins’ John Lenne- ville and Barrow’s Billy Hamilton. Gary Oliver for Town was the winning pitcher and Sexton took the loss for Me- Kinley. Each threw the en- tire game. by a homerun off the bat of Gord Wright. McKinley cut Town’s margin to one run in the top of the fifth as Dennis Sexton walked and scored on Cliff Hartnett’s double. The bottom half of the inning saw Town go out in front by two runs again on the strength of Wright’s second homerun of the game. Dave Olsen bunt singled RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1974 Town Auto Body 10 Barrow Insurance 4 With this win in the night- cap, Town assured them- selves of a playoff spot and it also assured Jenkins of post season play while Bar- row‘s were put in the posi- tion of “hanging on the ropes." Barrow’s came back in the fourth with two as Dave Joslin bunt singled, and Brian Mote drove him in with a double. Then Rich- ardson got on and stole sec- ond, third and home. After Town’s last scoring inning, Hamilton was lifted from the rubber in favour of Grant Rose who held the hottest team in the league at bay until the sixth inning. It was Bob Kennedy going the route for Fram on the rubber. The bottom half of the same inning saw Town con- tinuing its assault on Bar- row’s as Doug Carter sing- led, Jim Dubkowski follow- ed with a single and both came in on Oliver's triple. He scored on another triple by Wright. It should be pointed out that Barrow's are hurting badly as Catcher Paul Hun- ter is out for the season ap- parently with a broken arm and Jim Barton has been crippled with a leg injury. Add to this the absence of Glen Wright, last year‘s most valuable player, and also the absence of Roger Ball, their number two hurl- er. Town went three up in the next frame as Gary Oliver singled and Card Wright banged one out of the park. The top of the park. The top of the third saw Barrow pare Town’s margin by one as Billy Ham- ilton doubled and was scored by Billy Richardson who singled. Fram came to life again in the fifth as Buchanan got a life on an error to Parrett and scored on McIntyre’s double. This sent Madely to the showers as he was re- placed on the rubber by Wayne Kirchin for Joe’s. Fram, however. pressed on as Caume doubled and Ken- nedy reached base on a Bob Howard error. Caume scor- ed as Jim Lawson singled. Barrow’s opened the scor- ing as Dave Roberts single-d and stole second, then third base, and came in as Bob Viverette sacrificed. In the bottom half of the first. Town moved when Dwight Powell singled and Clay Chapman homered. Joe's got one run back in the bottom of the second as Joe’s hurler Brian Madely singled followed by a single by Mike Parrett and a third single by Bob Smith cashed in Madely. They got one more back in the third when Pete Hannam doubled and scored when Jim Anderson got on on an error to Fram's third base- man. The Joe's right fielder booted it to give Jerry Caume a life and this was followed up by a double by Bob Kennedy. Barry Math- ews also doubled and was scored on Rick Lazenby's single. ’ Bruce Buchanan singled, Jerry McIntyre reached first base on an error to the third sacker. Don’t forget, also, the league’s fall dance is set for October 26 at the Lions Hall. The lineup for the Rich- mond Hill team has not been released by the organizers of this event. The organiz- ers are Parry Stevens, coach of Barrow’s and who plays for Wimpey Homes in Aur- ora and RH. League Presi- den Fred Simpkin. RH. Auto Body 12 Town Auto Body 10 Jenkins Gdn. Sup.10 Joe's Garage 10 Barrow’s Ins. 8 Lake Wilcox 6 Fram Filtration 6 McKinley Drywall 5 In the third Rick Collins got the Lake on the score- board as he reached base on an error and then scored on a single by Bruce Stevens. Stevens, enjoying his best game at the plate, in this third consecutive hit in three trips, homered with Bill Mark on base via a single. This was in the bottom of the fifth and it left the Lakers one run short. The all-star teams are made up of two players from each team in both leagues plus the three top hurlers. McKinley Drywall 4 Lake Wilcox 3 McKinley struck for four big runs in the first and then hung on to eke out a close win over the Lakers. Barry Hartnett got the Dry- walls moving with a single followed by a single by John Uprichard. McKinley hurler in this game, Bob Carton, singled which scored Hart- nett, and Uprichard stole home with the second run. Joey Bryan singled bringing home Carton and Ray Car- ter singled to score Bryan. The top of the fifth saw Williams walking and Oliver safe on error to Pollard which scored Williams. Jen- kins bounced back in the fifth when David Stuart singled as did Lenneville. Barry Pollard singled scor- ing Stuart, and McWilliams singled scoring Lenneville. This left Jenkins two runs down, however, the Hillers increased their lead by four in the top of the sixth as Alex Smith homered and Paul Williams doubled fol- lowing which he stole third and home on passed balls. Jenkin’s final run came in the bottom half of the sixth as Phil Bellavance singled, Stuart sacrificed him to second and he scored on Lenneville’s double. Neither of the two selected all-star hurlers, Alex Smith of R.H. Auto and Big Blue of Jenkins, enjoyed a partic- ularly good game on the rubber. ALL-STARS Industrial league ball fans are urged to come out in force to support the Rich- mond Hill Industrial League All-Stars who tackle the Aurora Industrial League All-Stars next Sunday even- ing. The game is set for the Aurora Town Park at 7 pm and a silver collection will be taken to aid the Cheryl Ann Hanson family, not the muscular dystrophy research as earlier announced. The next inning the Hill- ers went three up on a sinâ€" gle, sacrifice, Lou Vander- ploeg walk, and 3 passed ball advancing the runners. This was followed by Al McKen- zie muffing a catch of a ball hit into centrefield by For- get in which two runs scor- ed while Forget reached second. Faulkner singled to score Forget. brought in Chapman who had stolen third to conclude the scoring. RH. Auto Body 7 Jenkins 4 Moving now to Friday we see that the Hillers have all but clinched first place as they downed Jenkins' Gar- den Supply in a sloppy, wide- open game. Richmond Hill Auto open- ed the scoring in the top of the first inning as Rob For- get tripled and scored on Ken Faulkner’s hit. John Lenneville scored the tying run in the bottom of the third as he hit for two bases, was sacrificed to third by Barry Pollard, and came in on Al McWilliams’ single. STANDINGS - Victoria Square OASA Midgets won their way into their league playdowns, defeating Maple once by default and losing 10-5 in the semi-finals. The winner will enter the lists against the league-leading Nobleton team for the championship. The third and deciding game against Maple is scheduled to be played Eonight (Wednesday) at Maple Community entre. There you have it. Send your cards and letters do Mr. Graham. Graham said he recommended “the RHHA accept registrations for any player who wished to play house league in our normal age limits from 5 to 17 years of age from anywhere in the munic- ipality.” 7 A \“It would seem more people are interested in preserving some kind of identity rather than see- ing as many kids as possible on the ice, getting asllmuch ice time as possible for the minimum 0 ar.” Graham said that under the “new terms of reference the funds for the house league and the OM'HA teams would be completely separate. This would stop any question that one supports the other or vice versa." HERE’S THE MALLET I should add one more thing before turning the mallet over to Tom. He stressed throughout that his opinions were not those of the RHMHA executive. Strictly his own although he felt he had a lot of support from some of the parents. Go to it, Tom: “It seems that this season the Ontario Minor Hockey Association has softened its stand on amalgamation of house leagues or local leagues as long as the OMHA players are kept separate. “A number of people along with myself have been leading a movement to put this portion (the house leagues) of the Richmond Hill Hockey associations back together,” said Graham. He added: “The reception to our suggestion has been very favorable from the run of the mill people. However, it doesn’t appear the RHMHA directors plan to take any action.” In perhaps a premonition of the reaction of critics to his proposal, Graham added the folâ€" lowing postscript. I still have a tendency to flinch whenever I talk to Tom about minor hockey. It goes back to a season or so ago (was it last season?) when I talked to him .ahgut the minor hockey scene. At that time I penned semething to the effect such places as Richvale and Oak Ridges were part of the Richmond Hill hockey association. Graham pointed out Brampton is in the pro- cess of amalgamating its house leagues in that municipality. “The advantages are tremendous,” he said. “For example the house league boys w111 pay cheaper rates and have the advantage of more me time. “Best of all, the ‘OMHA town representative teams are left intact which was the main orig- inal r_eas_on for the phange.” So why am 1 writing about hockey again, again, again? Well, it’s this way. I don’t know. Except that there’s a certain logical path to life and I’have yet to find that path. I’m always stumbling around out there in, the field. In any case, hockey it is. Bumped into Rich- mond Hill Hockey Association Past President Tom Graham. He was already performing mental calisthenics to get in shape for another season of fun and good times on the ice-hockey circuit. I’ve been suffering black-outs ever since. Pieces of fallâ€"out still keep working their way out of my brain. In other words, the roof fell in. The upshot was my being somewhat forcibly in- formed that Richvale, Oak Ridges and Richmond Hill have their own associations. I subsequently decided to take up a less hazardous game. Such as Russian roulette, maybe. Now don’t get excited. I’m not saying this latest offering is controversial. It’s just that I get nervous. So I’ll let Mr. Graham do the talk- ing, so to speak. Tom, according to my interpretation, is plumping for a minor hockey arrangement this season whereby the house league teams in the Richvale, Richmond Hill, and Oak Ridges associa- tions would operate as a single entity. There would be no changes in the town representative OMHA teams who would still operate independ- ently of one another. “The competition will be stronger and yet more balanced in a larger league. Better coach- ing and refereeing will result as the natural off- shoot of a larger league. Hockey Again There appear to be unseen forces afoot to destroy what remains of my summer idyl. I know it’s September but there are surely a few warm, summery days to come» Pleqse._ _ â€" By Fred Simpson Victoria Square Midgets In Playdo wn RUSSIAN ROULETTE ? (Continued on Page 18) sport Spots Saturday, September 14 and 21, Minor Atom 3 pm; Minor Peewee 4 pm; Minor Bantam 5 pm; Minor Midget 6 pm. Sunday, September 15 and 22, Atom 1 pm; Peewee 2 pm; Bantam 3 pm; Midget 4 pm; Juvenile 5 pm. Minor Hockey Try-Outs At Arena The first and second team tryouts for the Richmond Hill Hockey Association town representative teams will be held September 14 and 21 and 15 and 22. Time schedules are as fol- lows. 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