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high school junior basketball team wins first georgian bay championship mike paul two years ago as the stouff ville midgets trudged forlornly out of the dressing room after losing the district title by four points the referee said to them come back in two years boys and youll go all the way last saturday that prophecy came true exactly two years later nearly the same lineup returned as juniors and climax ed a tremendous basketbail season by going all the way and winning the georgian bay championship last saturday at the gbssa basketball tournament at bayview it was stouffvilles day in the open lng round of competition brock eliminated barrie by a good margin to win themselves a playoff spot in the junior final then stouffville came on and vanquished bracebridge by a decisive 4332 victory to make it brock vs stouffville for the championship in this game the close play in the first few minutes gave the stouffville fans visions of another tense match similar to the woodbridge stouffville bat tle the tension was eased con siderably in the second quarter however as the stouffville team went on a scoring rampage one observer remarked that they played as if they were trying to make up for all the times that a stouffville basket ball team had been runnerup or second best in that fiery sixteen minutes they outscored their opponents 305 accurate passes from warren hendricks sent barry mclean knifing through the defence for basket after basket brian wilkes dev astating long shot kept the scorekeeper busy while john smithsons long reach controll ed the offensive in coach mr rehills words we never look ed better the powerful on slaught continued and at the final whistle the score read stouffvihe 57 brock 21 brian wilke netted 14 points in this game while john smith- son hit for 13 and barry mc lean counted 12 wuke tallied a fine 14 point average on the tournament and established a rev season scoring record of 242 it was a clean sweep for the southern district as both mark- ham and woodbridge won cham pionships also the stouffville team smallest in the league 7 players wound up the season with a league game record of 10 wins and 1 loss stouffville will be awarded a pennant for the district cham pionship team crests and an engraved plaque for the georg ian bay win to mr rehill who bore the burden of worries and problems that go with coaching a basket ball entry who taught each player all he knows about the game and who most import ant of all moulded those play ers into a championship team we offer our heartiest congrat ulations when mr rehill was asked for a capsule comment on the team he replied it is the finest team i have coached while at stouffville high not only bo- cause they had such a splen did record but because they were so easy to work with what gave him the greatest thrill of the season winning the georgian bay south cham pionship over a strong wood- bridge club after having lost the first game by 12 points and trailing them by 9 points go ing into the last quarter when asked about stouff villes basketball future mr re hill commented that our teams next year should be excellent midgets edged 54 in first omha playoff game with huntsville brian wilkes scores 34 points in title bid brian wilkes was the basket ball hero of the stouffville dist high school on saturday as he sparked the jr b team to the allgeorgian bay cham pionship with a double victory over bracebridge and brock the title contests were played ot richmond hill in the semifinal tilt wilkes counted 20 points to pace stouff ville to a 4832 victory over bracebridge it was their rivals initial loss in nine starts other pointscorers were barry mc lean 13 warren hendricks 6 john smithson 5 and mike paul 4 in the crucial final the stouff ville silver seven crushed brock 5721 once again it was wilkes who set the pace with 14 points followed closely by john smithson with 13 mike paul and barry mclean each with 12 lloyd graces counted six there are seventeen b schools in the georgian bay league stouffvilles season rec ord was 10 wins and 1 loss their first setback came in the opening game of the schedule they proceeded to win the next ten in a row its the best team ever commented their ener getic coach jim rehill he praised the support of the school staff and students the individual players will receive crests and the school will be presented with an engraved tro phy stick of theweekawards one player from each of stouffvilles three minor hockey clubs will be the recipients of brand new hockey sticks again this week they are wayne em- mcrson of the maple leafs squirt lg bill nicholson of the canadlens peeweel and keith beli of the maple leafs bantam the awards may be picked up at birketts insurance office main st w in siouff- villc harry young trying for playoff comeback markhams harry young may rightly take a bow as the come back player of the current play off semifinals during the regu lar community league sched ule he counted only 5 goals and picked up 3 assists for a total of 8 points to date in a two- game series he has 6 points comprising 1 goal and 5 assists it was a similar story with markham in softball ranks considered by many to be washed up he made a start ling return to the summer sports spotlight and stole the batting honours from some of the clubs former leaders youngs total is matched only by linemate lawrence gayman the threesome of young-gay- man and lindo borean have scored 7 goals and collected 8 assists in two tilts an indi vidual breakdown of playoff scoring statistics is as follows g a ft h young markham 15 6 l gayman markham 4 2 6 p lacey stouff 14 5 h hodgson ring 2 3 5 d jennings mark 4 15 j harrison stouff 3 14 b graham mark 0 4 4 b dixon stouff 2 2 4 n neale stouff 13 4 b atkinson mark 2 13 l borean mark 2 13 g jones green 2 13 down 51 after the first two periods stouffville midgets came on strong in the final twenty minutes to reach with in one goal of tying huntsville in the first game of their home and home omha playoff series the game ended 5 to 4 after a day of continuous rain and fog the game played in stouffville arena on monday night drew only a handful of fans for the first two periods it appeared a walkaway for the visitors but the hundred and fifty spectators had plenty to cheer about in the final frame as their favourites made a driv ing comeback scoring three times there were only four penal- tics in the game two in stouff ville in the first period and two to huntsville in the final period bob hamilton defenceman and captain appeared as the clas siest performer for the visitors and up front jim thomson scor ed three of his teams five goals stouffville boys appeared badly disorganized in the opening per iods and were bunched two and three players checking one man thomson scored on a pass from cooper at the five minute mark of period one to start huntsville to their win a pass- out from mccolman at 1342 hit goalie bob wagg on the skate and slithered into the net to make it two to nothing just before the period ended ross brown combined with roger forsyth to put stouffville into the race in the midsession huntsville skated all over the home club with stables scoring at 33 sec onds and thompson adding two more the game looked like a runaway however the local lads had other ideas and carried the play deep into huntsville terri tory for most of the last twenty minutes after ten minutes of bombardment hans de heus scored to make it 52 bill cor ner slapped in a rebound at the 18 minute mark and jim miller made it 54 at 1945 stouffville put two pucks in the net which were called back for offside plays the second game was played at huntsville on wednesday night with goals to count on the round coaches break up playoff brawl a threatened freeforall at the conclusion of a jr b play off game at woodbridge on thursday night was brought to a rather swift conclusion when the coaches of both lmonville and the dodgers jumped onto the ice and helped to separate the combatants harry watson of the jets and cccar brooks of woodbridge acted in the role of peacemakers until the play ers tempers subsided union- ville edged the homesters 54 gerry knightlev fired a pair of goals for the winners sin gles came from the sticks of ross colburn joint saunders and john brigdon the stchjfrville tribune tfandjy juurck 9 1961 pj tf jeis now meet weston bill nicholson nets 5 goals for leafs bill nicholson went on a goalscoring spree for the loafs in peewee house league com petition on thursday night and fired a total of five pucks into the detroit net his team blank ed the red wings 60 none of the tallies were unassisted ef forts bobby couse jim wilk- ins john heaton doug clark and dennis forsyth picked up single points in the assist de partment john heaton was the other leaf marksman hawks 4 rangers 2 wallace pugh is enjoying a good season with the black hawks this winter on thurs day evening he added to his goal production by collecting three more tallies chicago de feated the rangers 42 in addi tion to the hat trick he set up joe taylor for the teams other goal bobby forgie potted a pair of goals for the rangers boston 3 canadiens 3 the sugden brothers shelly and garry each counted single tallies and brian boyd one to give boston a 33 tie with the canadiens clifford bass notch ed two goals for the canadiens bobby garnet counted the other paul forsyth and harold ree- sor picked up assists on two tallies playoff standings group semifinals w l f a pts markham 1 1 14 10 2 stouffville 1 1 10 14 2 third anil final game friday night 8 oclock w l f a pts greenwood 114 8 2 uingwood 118 4 2 third and final game friday night at 930 the sign of a good time theatre uxbridge thursday friday and saturday march 9 10 11 boris day david niven a picture that will be remembered for a long time please dont eat the daisies technicolor cartoon and news ladies bowling league feb 23 high single nelda barkey 306 high triple nelda barkey 743 over 200 glen davis 258 carol mcdermott 245 nelda barkey 233 doreen harper 233 ruth lee 210 june hopper 207 donna lewis 201 march 2nd high single- ruth miller 297 high triple ruth miller 637 over 200 vi booth 275 alice wilson 254 marg woods 251 marg schell 218 alice cosscy 210 muriel steele 237 pearl barkey 237 ruth smith 226 helen elson 223 doreen harper 220 ev grove 209 lois holder 203 martha roberts 203 ethel gibson 202 team standing excuses 52 kadettcs 51 pe- tltes 49 scatter pins 44 car hops 40 blow outs 28 eagle mens bowling l standing slxors 99 squirrels 71 tripods 70 red caps 66 wilsons larks 63 screwballs 51 alleycats 35 jokers 21 top averages 1 chuck parsons 227 alf andrews 226 vic blrelli 225 art andrews 216 stan miller 215 jim mckcan 193 murray redshaw 19s h smith 195 donald hodgins 195 carl arnold 193 ringwood squares playoff series with 60 shutout ringwood the team that set the pace throughout much of the community hockey league season then dropped a 42 de cision in the first game of the playoff semifinals gave ample proof on friday night that they are still contenders for the title they blanked greenwood mt zion 60 grant jones who shoulders much of the frontline weight for the greenwoodmount zion squad was covered like a blan ket all night the team had on ly 12 shots on the ringwood net throughout the sixty minute contest jerry brett in the greenwood cage blocked 23 drives bruce fockler and pete good- fellow paced the ringwood at tack each with a pair of goals harold hodgson and ronnie guy fired singles fockler net ted a wouldbe hat trick but the final whistle sounded a split- second before the puck hit the target it was a rough night for net- minder brett on at least two occasions he suffered a hot hand when he grabbed scorch ing drives from the stick of ringwoods harold hodgson after one stop the game was momentarily delayed until he could cool off the mit with snow ross madill although not overworked did a jaques plante dash in the third period to clear a loose puck from the reach of greenwoods grant jones in the first frame alone he hand led only one shot and that was a high drive that could have missed the target harold hodg son figured in three of his teams six tallies with one goal and two assists the summary is as follows rb focklerhodgson 415 rb focklerlewis 1830 second rhodgson 1312 third rguyhodgsonlewis 528 rgoodfellowhaynes 657 rgoodfellowjackson 1425 the weston dukes will pro vide the next hockey obstacle in the path of the unionville jets as they battle their way to the jr b group finals they disposed oi woodbridge dodgers quite handily sweep ing the series in three straight games tile dukes will be the visi tors on unionville ice next tuesday night at s30 the two clubs will swing back to weston on friday the scries is expected to draw sellout crowds benson pots pair for canadiens tom benson fired two goals and picked up an assist orl one other to lead the canadiens to a 33 tie with pittsburg in a scheduled bantam house lea gue game on monday night ben aida notched a single the pittsburg tallies were evenly divided among three players don smith jim mehaffey and tom snow blinked the light jim mehaffey and jim daniels were credited with assists on the goals by smith and snow buffalo 2 leafs 2 four players scored four goals in a tight game between buffalo and the leafs they battled to a 22 tie david james teamed up with david jackson for one buffalo tally david jackson turned the trick witli an assist going to barry hilts darcy forsyth and blair wagg were the leaf goalgetters leo neilson and rickey thompson picked up assists senior champions brian wilkes sets basketball record brian wilkes junior basket ball star at the stouffville dist high school established an all- time seasons record this year by scoring a total of 242 points this breaks the previous mark set by roger stover of 217 in a single game brian also holds the current record with 38 pts surpassing rogers previous high of 28 a breakdown of the individ ual players records shows the following point production brian wilkes 242 mike paul 176 barry mclean 114 war ren hendricks 91 john smith- son 71 lloyd graves 30 and eric button 4 the stouffville dist high school girls senior basketball team captured the georgian bay south championship this season by beating mark ham 2923 in a sudden death game in their quest of the all georgian bay title they bowed to brock by a score of 3s16 witli their instructress mrs lee rear the team mem bers are pictured here left to right front row marion byer joyce nesbitt elaine forsyth daphne chowins helen busato rear row bettyann slack susan ogil- vy diane nelson faye byer and kay sharpe staff photo merchant force one team will advance in the community league hockey fin als and the other will hang em up following friday nights rubber match between the stouffville merchants and the markham aces the winner will meet either ringwood or greenwood mt zion for the title game time is scheduled for eight oclock markham took the series op ener 105 but stouffville bounced back last week to square the set with a thrilling 54 victory rightwinger neville osulli- van a constant scoring threat fired the gamewinning goal at 1458 of the third period jim harrison potted a pair with singles coming from the sticks of bert dixon and norm neale lindo borean and dave jen nings each scored twice for squirt playoffs march 14 645 chicago vs canadiens 715 leafs vs boston march 21 645 leafs vs canadiens 715 chicago vs boston march 28 645 chicago vs leafs 715 canadiens vs bostcn peewee playoffs march 16 700 leafs vs rangers 740 boston vs detroit 820 chicago vs canadiens march 23 700 chicago vs detroit 740 leafs vs canadiens 820 boston vs rangers march 30 700 boston vs canadiens 740 chicago vs rangers 820 leafs vs detroit march 13 700 canadiens vs leafs 750 buffalo vs pittsburg march 20 700 buffalo vs leafs 750 canadiens vs pittsburg march 27 700 canadiens vs buffalo 750 leafs vs pittsburg all games 2 points for a win and 1 for a tic two top teams in each group will play off for the championship the firs week la april player suffers 14inch gash garry gall a defenceman with stouffville mluget team suffered a 13stitch gash in his chin on thursday night of last week during an exhibition game with the juvenile club the cut which partially severed his lower lip was caused by a skate blade the local rearguard was treated by dr donald smith of stouffville in spite of the in jury he look his turn on the ice in the playoff opener with huntsville on monday the stitches were removed on tues day then there was the teacher who said one of the boys on your block may be the first man to land on the moon and if there is anybody living up there its a pity we cant warn them ten players score eleven as jets win the balance of scoring power in the lineup of the unionville jets is centred on no particu lar player or individual forward line according to the playoff statistics on tuesday night unionville trounced woodbridge dodgers 111 and no less than ten men figured in the goal scor ing bill johnston was the only marksman to collect more than one tally he potted a pair the victory gave unionville a three- game sweep of their series and knocked woodbridge out of fur ther competition the jots now meet weston the scries opener will start on unionville ice tuesday night it was the trio of bill john ston jerry rowarth and ross colburn that sparked the union ville attack the threesome was rolling at full throttle all night rowarths tally the games sec ond goal was a picture effort he split the defence wide open and yanked netminder dave kelly out of position to deposit the puck in the cage glenn boons effort was a similar play other markers were count ed by john brigden garry mil- roy ken naples barry watson gerry knightley ross colburn and doug kclchcr terry rad- ley rapped a rebound shot into the unionville twine to spoil rick charrons shutout per formance the woodbridge club took the series loss like real sportsmen the large crowd watched as the team players lined up to offer the congratulatory handshake at the conclusion of the game bill corner scores 97 points bill comer topped all indi vidual scorers on the midget basketball team at the stouff ville dist high school at the conclusion of the season he collected a total of 97 points thirteen more than runnerup jim hill the point production of the other players was as fol lows vic sharpe 56 robert mole 26 glenn avery 21 peter kratzian 7 markham it was a netminders duel with both goaltenders george wilkins of stouffville and jim johnston of markham complet ing some brilliant stops wil kins was especially keen in the contests dying minutes when his mates ran into some foolish penalties he blocked 21 shots johnston handled 25 two of markhams four tallies came witli stouffville players in the sinbin the line of young gayman and borean continues to spark the markham attack to dale they have counted seven of the teams fourteen playoff tallies dave jennings has enjoyed a good series to date with four goals and one assist osullivans return to the stouffville roster has ended more drive to their number 1 trio of lacey and harrison jim harrison had some great chan ces to his total but on four oc casions netminder johnston held the fort rod mcarthur markhams hardworking rear guard may be sidelined for fri days game he injured his left hand when he crashed into the backboards after completing a rush toward the stouffville net fires 15 goals in squirt league goals in the squirt house league are usually as scarce as the proverbial hens teeth hut on tuesday evening the play ers were filling the nets with pucks no less than 15 times frontline forwards hit the tar get the black hawks downed the leafs 62 the canadiens edged boston 43 bobby bangay sparked the chicago attack with two goals local skaters at uxbridge arena opening skaters from the stouffvilla figure skating club were visi tors at the official opening of the uxbridge arena on thurs day march 2 a demonstra tion of figures and free skating was followed by a junior dance number in which the following skaters took part pat foord debbie sellers judith button joyce williams bonnie oneill lyn patrick jane thomas de light winterstein melodee mole bill lennox randy mole and fred pcddie solo programmes were skated by jean winterstein barbara button and ron patrick a quick little number added rhythm skated by our four some janice smith nadine lennox valeria moore and janet button the senior dance group also displayed their talents betty ann slack janet button dar- lene watson karen hamilton nadine lennox judy staplcy janice smith joyce dewitt barbara button valerie moore jean winterstein and ron pat rick all took part our elvis presley added comedy to the programme in the person of freddie peddie another club member close to 1000 people attended the show and two assists single tallies came from the sticks of greg ory forfar freddie storrcy bill hassard and roger leh man glen gibson and wayne emmerson were the marksmen for the loafs canadiens 4 boston 3 allen corner fired two goals and donald ilarman and jim meakes netted singles lo give the canadiens ft tight 43 win over boston mike brillinger andrew valleau and brian nor ton blinked the light for the bruins y st patricks parish annual social and dance at golf and country club stceles avenue east of hwy 48 thursday march 16 1961 9 12 pm music by phil barnes his orchestra tickets s150 per person tickets may be purchased at teds mens wear or hunts sunoco station main street irwy