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Acton Speedway Hard luck plagues BallEckerich wins By Vivian Shaw Hard luck plagued Prank Ball at Acton Sunday In the first diamond race he tangled with Dutch DcBocr and the steering of car was damaged After working on the car all afternoon Frank was ready to run In the feature He grabbed the lead and held it until the fifth lap when Brian crashed Into the bank at number our turn and the red flag was dropped Takes lead Ball took the lead once again on the restart but the race was only one lap old when he tangled with Chuck and the red flat fell again This time he started in scratch but still managed to work his way up to a fdurth place finish Hugh won the feature with Chuck second and Mirroy Wallace third Larry wins In the six cylinder feature Ijarry Majuery started in scratch position and took over the lead on the second lap George Wrigglesworth was driving a fine race in second place when he had to pull out with a flat tire Larry Cox took over second but catch who added the feature to his long list of wins Ted Foster placed third Remlli Under lit tint Miluery George Larry Cox 2nd heit Jim Milne George lea worth 3rd hut Mtluery George Wrmglciworth Larry Cox Mijuery Cox Ted Jim Milne lit henHugh Eckerleh Wallace McGlnflery Chuck Lawlor Hugh Murray Wallace Hugh Chuck Liwlor I Hugh Chuck Murray Wallace Frank null Rockwood whips Petes Mels return a success GENE SNOW S Dodge Charger shoots off seconds for the quarter The car was driven the line on its way to i new Cimdnn by Jake Johnson of Tort Worth Texas and it record at Toronto powered by cubic inch engine Photo Saturday night Snows turned by Ray Sait7 Fourth loss for Petes Norval capitalizes on barber bobbies JUNIOR lacrosse returned to the community centre Thursday night when Acton Rams hosted Brampton Excelsiors in their home opener Mike Marcoux whips in one of the three shots he put past Brampton goalie Nels in the heartbreaking 11 Acton loss Staff Photo Novices peewees bow to Oakville Baileys picked up a pair of wins over Acton minor leums in house league lacrosse play at the community centre last night Tuesday Acton novices suffered a 1 defeat while the local bowed to the visiting Baileys Played well Both our teams played much better than the scores indicated Acton convenor John commented They Just t finish their plays off around the net he added Jordan potted a pair of goals and Dan Webster netted one for Alton in the game Webster and Scott Withers picked up assists Lone marksman Shane Withers was the lone Acton marksman in the novice encounter John hopes to make arrange ments to have the teams entered in M A tournaments later on in the Moffat girls split games girls 15 and under eked out a 1MB win over Moffat in last Tuesday In spite of the loss Moffat defensive play was adequate Nine of the outs were on fly balls Michelle and Kim Henderson caught two each Karen Sandra Kathy McClurt and Reading hauled in one apiece Dennis clouted a home run with two on base for Moffai the fifth liuunf Thursday night Linda Dennis struck out seven batters to lead Moffat to a win over HUlsburgh A Moffat pounded out four homers Including two bv Shelley Ismond and one each by Michelle Sokolowski and McClure on their way to victory Moffat plays host to Morriston Friday night at at diamond Years plans Initial development began with the planting of Urge trees the Meadowvale Conservation Area Maintained by the Credit Valley Con Authority this US acre parcel of land along the Credit river from Deny Road north will be developed as a multipleuse conservation area First phase of the development is budgeted at with the Ontario Government through the Department Energy and Resources Management paying per cent of the cost This year The north onethird of the area will be left as it is now All three Acton teams novice peewee and bantam travel Tuesday June Bants edge Acton bantams edged BP here Saturday morning for their third win without a loss in the minor lacrosse league Acton scored three goals in the first period then had to hang on as Oakville took advantage of several penalties to score two goals Wayne Allan Robin and Ron were the Acton snipers Assists went to Russ Van Fleet and Mike Lut Ron Charlebols and Kevin replied for Peewees win Three second period goals gave Acton pee wees a come from behind lacrosse victory over at the commumtv centre morning The win evened pee wees record at one win one loss and one tie Craig Jordan netted the first two Acton goals then set Gene Bra da up for the winner late In the period Fred Allen also picked up an assist for Acton marksmen were Paul and Bruin Crowe Each team served two minor penalties Six unearned runs carried to a Softball victory over Pete Barber Shop at Prospect Park last Tuesday The loss was the fourth five starts for the Acton entry First place Norval has yet to lose a game Barbers the visitors but committed four errors behind righthander Grant Usher ashed In on the Acton errors to score five runs in the sixth Pete held a lead at the end of five Norval tallied an unearned run In the first when Robinson was safe on an error went to third on single and scored on a ground out triples Pete tied in their half of the first on a double by Fred Buchanan and a single by John Dunn In the third Jim banned out a triple and scored on Grant Usher single to make the score Singles by Wash and Neil were the only Norval safeties in the five run sixth innine rally in which the visitors suit nine men to the plate Scoff at levy Nassapaweya Township Conned scoffed at a statement from Region Conscrv Authority the township their hare of a improvement project at Eden Ski Area was to be over five There arc not people in who ski there I think it is ridiculous to even dream of spending 000 when the has just cut their capital Mrs A MncArthur told her colleagues at the night meeting Conservation officials said felt the lo in wo be self liquidating Thev have never made money on it vet Mac Arthur said Ihev expand at our expense Councillor Art Gibson noted Reeve Don objected to the idea of the Authority trying lo compete with private Council agreed t tell the Authority they opt used the project Councillor Watson they raise the 000 from parking fines it Lake Watson said cars to the lake were parked Ml over the place and the lane Pete s paraded nine batters to the plate in the last of the sixth but left the bases loaded and came up with only three runs cutting the Norval lead to Holthy bares down Norval John Holthy protected the lead as he set the lot lis down on one hit over the three innings and struck out six fanned 12 Acton batters in alt added an insurance run in the ninth Usher struck out four and walked four for Pete Jim John Dunn and Harry Phillips picked up two hits apiece for Pete Fred Buchanan Grant Usher Pete Acton cubs visit Centre Island Homer and Ed Phillips all hit safely once Robinson Pcavoy Wash and Neil collected the hits Pete play In tomorrow Thursday night and in Tuesday June Next home game Is Thursday June against at Nineteen Acton Cubs along with their leaders Forbes Cole Joan Harrison Barb and Pat Wardk were among 67 from the Georgetown District attending a at Centre Island in Toronto on the weekend The group left early Saturday and took the ferry across Toronto harbor to the Island Cubs enjoyed a two mile a variety of tames and were presented with cubaree badges adorned with a picture of a ferry boat A roup of cubs marched in the annual Decoration Day parade Sunday This Saturday there II be a father son car wash from in the until five in the af at John Texaco Friday June 25 cubs will hold their family closing night and at Prospect Park Moffat Limehouse play for first place Moffat squirts whipped Rock wood for their fourth consecutive win Monday night 1out Moffat pi tellers Osso Manes Thomson and Connor recorded a total of strikeouts The winners picked up 11 hits including homers by Joss Moffat used base running to score extra runs Coaches inserted an entirely new lintup the fourth inning enabling all players to participate equally but still overall team strength In an inter squad game last vvetk Cats edged Rats 119 Deride This Sunday Moffat travels to liincl for the final came of the first half of their schedule Bill clubs are undefeated and outcome of this will first place Came time at limehouse is p Moffat Brown Connor Essery Joss B Buttery Manes C McLean MacLeod McLarty P Muselius M W Thomson Tremills Wunder Tamic Thomson Seniors clobbered Pete Barber Shop behind the our hit of John Salmon at Prospect Park last night Tuesday Salmon chalked up 14 strikeouts and was never in serious trouble hitters backed Salmon fine performance with on 18 hit attack to help make manager Mel return to the local ball field a success The Big M guided Station Hotel to three straight Acton Industrial titles while in town Power lineup Sheppard fielded a power packed lineup that Included three players Dan Walt Jeffries and Harry Barber who have Senior Baseball experience and two others catcher Arlon and Salmon who have starred In the InterCity fastball league Vickery bore the brunt of the Rockwood attack giving up seven runs before he was replaced by lefty Blake Hind in the third Both hurlers were victimized by their club poor Juves host Burlington Acton Rams Juveniles make their second I A start of season when they take on Burlington at the community centre Friday night at 8 Nextroud game for the Is in fit Catharines against Sparta A Wednesday June 10 Rams lost their first game to last week Atom Spitfires whitewash Milton 60 Acton Atom Spitfires played an outstanding as they whitewashed Milton In a Halton Peel minor soccer match at the Prospect Park pitch last Tuesday Steve Trotter gave Acton a 10 id with the only goat of the first half on a pass from Stephen 1umbcrs Spitfires exploded for five goals in the second half Rocky Allonby booted home three of them while Scott Malcolm and Rob counted one Acton goalie Mike Dawson had very little work thanks to the fine defensive effort of his Kevin Davis and Wade were particularly sharp defensively Perfect night Walt Jeffries had a perfect four for four night at the plate for the winners Chick MUne another ex Acton player and Harry Barber lashed out three hits apiece Barber included a home run in his trio and Dan also belted round trippers for Rockwood Harry Phillips Jim Blake Hind and John Dunn collected trie Acton safeties Dunn nocked a triple to right batting lefthanded In the ninth The win moved into a first place tic with who lost their first game to Glen Williams Sunday night Thursday night Bob Shaw pitched to on easy 144 win over Belwood striking out 14 batters on the way Vic Wilms and Chick Milne had three hits each for Mike Martin and Shaw each had two and Pete clash tomorrow Thursday night in K II Hock wood IS J NTV romp over Milton Acton chalked up second baseball victory in a row when they 12- in Milton last Wednesday night have yet to lose The Acton lads fed 7 going into the bottom of the fifth when Milton exploded for six runs to tie the score then collected seven consecutive base hits and scored five runs in the top of the sixth to wrap up the win Big guns at the plate for Acton were Barry Payne with four hi Li and John Ashley Jeff nibble David Galbralth and Kevin Jordan with three Rick Holmes and David Allen all hit safely Nelson I and ler collected two hits each for Mill Acton Taylor John Ashley Jeff Barry Payne Terry Holmes Kevin Ian Steve Bennett David Allan 4th LINE FLOWER SHOP miles north of No on Esquesing 4th Lino GERANIUMS BEDDING PLANTS BULBS SEEDS LANTANA Open Days a Week PHONE ACTON 8532739 lea dint to Torn Howards house if Ihej tan spend why HI don they build lot PLAN TO ATTEND SUMMER FESTIVAL at the ACTON ARENA SATURDAY JUNE 26th Beer Garden Dancing 8PM to 1 AM Featuring The Shaynes Embro Trio Guelph Admission Advance 50 at Door Doors Open Free Mug with Admission