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Newmarket Era and Express, 19 Apr 1951, p. 10

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1 r- J at will cover election of officers and discussion of plana for the coming summer Everybody welcome J time I NEWMARKET Nightly Saturday lee Saturday and Holidays 2 pan ADULT ENTERTAINMENT 20 21 A A if Kit ft a ROMANCE r THE GOOFIEST LEO BOWERY BOYS MOMOOMM MKLBQ1 FOR DAYS Performance j the Year 11 Pi lory of the Kid who wanted to alt on a Queens Throne IK WKll ma THURSDAY FRIDAY 2627 aVU vi s W To f ALSO JOAN HITS THE ROAD A NEW HIGH IN LAUGHS Joan Davis Andy Sawyer im- On alleys The little pegs were tough for the Monday Ladies League sharpshooters to get their sights on last week Top scorer was Alice Rose at Other leaguers in the bracket were Claire Pol lock Alice Gibson Edna Mclnnis Hester Clark 510 Flo Campbell Melrose 504 Feeps and Wizards picked up the bulk of the scoring swag with 31 wins over and Spark Plugs Dubs and Cubs shared their take home Two teams deadlocked for first place with three weeks go Spark Plugs and Wizards at Cubs 542 Fernmes Dubs Grant Blight was the pin I spilling star with Hoffmans last week racking up a includ ing a grand single game ef fort 646 and Jack were other top scorers Of fice and Machine Shop measured Sheet Metal and Vorclone for losses Present standing is Press Shop Vorclone Ma chine Shop Office Sheet Metal Hoffman League ses this Friday Lou Bovair highlighted the Office Specialty Of League action last week bang ing out a Second to Lou was Don with a and Gordon Manning belted out a for third place honors League standing at pre sent is Bennetts Seldons Phimisters Giles Two weeks to go to wind up league play Laura Whitfields team picked up three points to open up a point gap over Grace Osmonds team at 34 and third place is held by crew with Laura Whitfield set the pace last week with a Mary filed a Jean Sisler and Frances Bateman 192 The gals have two weeks to go to complete league action Ella cracked out a 154257166 count to pace the Thursday night gals Other fine scores were posted by Dunn 565 Fran Marie McCabc Vi Dales Norma Peel Jean Wright- man Ruth Penrose 540 Edna AURORA STARTING TONIGHT FRI SAT APRIL 19 Jane LOUIS ANN HARDING PLUS CARTOON Matinee Saturday pm APRIL 3 WAYS SOON Destination Moon I No Way Out ADULT J The Bill Such Trophy prized possession of the bowling clubs is back in Newmarket The Newmarket division trund- walked into Toronto last week and grabbed the cup They made it convincing with a total second place fell to Toronto District Office Toronto Regional Office finish ing third with Jimmy Rook headed the individual scor ers in the mens division with twogame total Marion Pickering was tops among the ladies with a including a single game mark of 280 It was playoff time last week in local VLA bowling circle during the regular season showed their lowly rat ing was all a mistake as they waltzed away with the cham pionship In the semifinals TailEnders put the to sleep compiling a total against posting of 925 In the finals the com pleted their mission by pound ing into submission with a two games total against an mark set up by the High ladies scores were pen cilled by Ruth Palmer and Marion Pickering In mens division top scorer was Neil MacDonald with 312 and Lou Tompkins Trophy winners over the season were in mens sector high average Lou Tomp kins high single Tom Sa- deski high double Neil Mac- Donald high single with handicap B Tulloch 260 high double with handicap Art Lloyd 489 In the ladies division high average Barb Thompson high single Pollock 219 high double Smith high single with handicap Mar ion Pickering 266 high double with handicap Vi Curtis 451 Albertas oil reserves are esti mated officially at barrels Some experts think there may be ten times that much oil yet to be discovered in the prov ince Height of the Rock of is almost feet Some is being spent each week in Alberta in the search for new oil deposits The basis of Canadian prosper ity is a high national income dis tributed with regard to individu al contribution to production It is years since Canada is sued her first postage stamp Drift bottles released in Hud son Bay 20 years ago to check on water currents are still turning up All returns are from Hudson Bay shore points King Vaughan Ice Crown Dust off last years headlines For a second year in a row is King hockey league king A pile- driving finish three goals in six minutes that tore down a deficit enabled to win the crown with an triumph over Kleinburg Friday While relied on one Rocket to find the pocket Elgin Hastings was able to tick off three- Heading from to right they were Floyd Dyer Trevor Barney Graham and Bill Winters Those three spon sored goals in Ihe last six min utes to turn the tide from a los ing proposition for into a trip the winners circle Floyd Dyer cut loose with a doorstep drive to tie it sixall Barney Graham and Don March- ant shuffled Die biscuit back and forth like before Barney spotted an opening to shoot Schomberg one up- BUI Winters plunged in for the insurance tal ly with Don March a big gun in the assist column and Barney Graham dishing up the pass on the payoff relay Eddie Michnaks two Bill Win ters and Hay ODonnell singles sparked into a firstround margin That look ed like homefree to the Hastings men but the gritty Kleins scrap ed up a edge in middle session and had quaking in their boots with a smothering early third period barrage that lifted them ahead The rally took too much out of the Kleins They fell panting on the ropes and men exploded with their gamewinning spark Outside ot a second period tally by Henry scored as outlined above Elgin Hastings received good rearguarding from Phil Stewart In fact the deck was packed with stars Bill was Kleinburgs ace with two goals the Lostchuk Bros Bert and Harry were again out standing P Stewart d Hughes ODonncll w A Carrey Don alts L Harvey Winters Doug Ar chibald Graham Palmer Dyer P Cabell Kleinburg Page d Milliard A Shaw W Bell alts J Ross B Bell C SOFTBALL Attention all Lake Softball League teams An nual meeting Friday April at pm at Sharon hall Ross Chapman all executive members dele gates and team representa tives will make it a point to be on hand Election of officers rules and plans for the coming summer will make tip the agenda Any new clubs wishing to enter will be welcome Aurora Kids Meet riday In Ice Test The and quiet of Tom Dicksons Aurora ice igloo is due to be shattered Friday evening Right teams in the Aurora Minor Hockey League setup will move in with sights set on a battle for two crowns Championships on the line are in the and bantam division The schedule of play off games opens at pm with Red Wings and Hawks matching skating strides In the second contest and Ernies take up the battle Survivors if any meet at pm for the Roy Allen trophy In the bantam division cur tainraiser is due at pm Ernies Imps and Won ders providing the first taste of action In the second affair LaHayes Rockets and Arena Jets clash at pm Prize the bantam teams are shooting for is the Recreation Directors Cup Bill a tireless worker to keep the teams on the go over the past winter is hoping that every parent will be out to see the games and root junior homo to a championship The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday April Indians Clip Clippers Twice With Help Of Three Pros Aurora Indians and ville Clippers have been taking a little spring exercise over the past week with a couple of home and home exhibition games The Indians came up with a win in both contests At Stouffville Saturday they sneaked out with a decision at home Tuesday they made it more convincing with an 84 tri umph On the side the Indians had considerable aid from three St Louis Flyers American League stars Bill Joint Comb Eric and Jack Ham ilton the latter a who goes places and things In the Saturday contest Bill and Eric were on the beam to net two each leaving a Rogers oldhand Jack Rumney the chore of smashing in the game winner Gord Lew is was top man with Stouffville with two Bob Hopper and Jim Mac hi completing the Clippers scoring Tuesday after a 11 first per iod the Indians showed their bettor side to cement the win with four in the middle round Jack Rumney was a ball of fire on tribes attack hitting for three Eric tucked away two Jackie Hamilton Andy and Grant Firth collected the other Indian scoring loot It was a fourway split on the Clipper scoring Rose Earl Gord Lewis and Geo Sayliss doing the sniping as Harry in Indian cage turned tough on the Stouffville marksmen Aurora g Bailey E Pogue J alts Thorns Firth J Hamilton Williams A Stouffville J Warner d Rose G Lew is Hopper Couch alts P Minton J L Clark McCrone Brad bury Gibson Referees Ken Aurora WILLOW BEACH IN Rumors have been making the rounds that Willow Beach would nt be a party to the Lake Softball fun this season Fans can discount them Heres the latest from McNeill Beachs perennial star Team just back from spring training at Day- tona Bench joke In wonder- fid shape Will have much the same team as last season two or three changes Don Cameron will be a definite starter Management not named yet meeting shortly A S Foster Referees Bob Peters Newmar ket Carpenter Sutton Bridge Wins King Vaughan School Hockey League LEGION WINS At the zone bowling tourna ment held at recently the Newmarket branch of the Legion won the Bert Phelps Tro phy by defeating all comers After an enjoyable afternoon supper was served by the Lad ies Auxiliary of the Willowdale branch and an evening of cards and dancing followed with the branch acting as host Orillia branch won the district bowling held at last week Close games and fine sportsman ship featured a pleasant contest DOWN THE CENTRE BY News Of Sport Personalities Personality potpourri president of the ill- fated Aurora Indians suffered at serious heart attack last week as a result is confined to York County hospital His many friends will be pleased to learn that The Big Chief is coming along nicely even though hell be under the doctors care for some weeks to come No visitors al lowed Hilt ace soft ball from Langstaff is handing out the cigars days Its a boy at the menage the first horn of the family Bob Hack ing who used to ploy junior hockey for Aurora and remained on in the service of the at the int of the war has been transferred overseas with one of the Canadian squadrons assigned to duty in Europe While formerly of Rich mond Hill and one of the dis tricts best allround athletes in the has been elected to the executive of the Ontario Lacrosse Association Fergus his adopted home where he scintillated in la crosse after leaving the Hill will he playing senior lacrosse this summer Up at with signs of an early golf season John Junior former Aurora boy who now runs a hardware Up north and Freddie once the top outfielder of the area and who was born in Aurora were elected as directors of the Golf and Country club First the Kings Plate entry owned by John Stuart Is showing fine form in early sea son trials and in the winter books Is quoted at odds of Re member its just days until the Plate is run and the reams of publicity in connection with the event will soon be catching your eye Harry will head the West Hill en try in the strong league and the and Millionaire will take an active hand as well Millionaires finally ousted Kingston Nylons in the senior series to reach the finals against Brant ford the defending champions The mon ey men whom we do not consider as strong as in other years are not favored to win the champion ship however First game went to the Weston Dukes handily walloped Kingston worse scores than those handed Aurora Bears in the regular sea son and now meet Kitchener for the cup Invariably junior scries is the last to finish in organized hockey gave Orono quite a trimming in the first two games of Hie junior finals should be home free is playing its games at Lindsay where ice is expected to stay until mid summer The club didnt let the rivalry with blind it to the practical side of hockey and its moved into the rink tor the series Congratulations to Colli wooil for repeat performance in junior Its the first time in the history of the series Probably no club that ever played in the aeries more properly deserved higher rating than did the espec ially with that nine from the club that Aurora last winter back in action again Both Colling- wood and Port Hope who were the finalists arc centres that ex ceed in population the original intent of the towards the series Legion won the district Legion bowling honors at last Saturday and along with Wondbrldge which finish ed second they will compete next Saturday in the nilOntario bowl ing championships of the Legion at Niagara Falls Newmarket Legion won the honors two JOSEPH QUI NN Real Estate General Insurance Homes Businesses Farms Couatuy queen st newmarket Phone 1038 Fire Auto Casualty Sfayice weeks ago but was not at its best in the district finals Leg ion championships will be de cided as follows at lies- May darts at London April billiards at Kitchener May A newcomer to the Aurora district who has an impressive sports background is Charlie proprietor of Motors Mr was a member of the University of To ronto club and then played with the team of the half- century Varsity He was also prominent at rugby and played with Montreal Winged Wheelers among others Its to be hoped that hell take an active interest in North York sports St Andrews College has in- a new form of sport to the north in squash tennis The took part in the prep school squash tournament for the first time in history last week The game is not of course one that is particularly crowd pleas ing and is fairly expensive but to the competitors it is probably only exceeded by badminton in action Ginger former Aurora athlete who met with an unfor tunate accident that has kept him back for months is walking on crutches now and despite all his misfortunes is the same happy lad as before Jim head man of the Hart Ladies Softball club which has represented Aurora so well in the North league the past two years has severed his connections with the firm and ex pects to return to the Jim did a good job us plant man ager in encouraging sports for the employees and hell be miss ed in Aurora While still an Aurora resident likely to be so for some time Italph Tucker another energetic sportsman has accepted an important post with a large Toronto firm and commutes from Aurora daily Ralph who is chairman of the fund will shortly be calling the boys to gether to plan for a further moneyraising effort for the fund now bingo Is probably drawing as many fans as any form of relaxation and Aurora Legion is holding a monster eyes down on Wednesday April Aurora Graystones It like a big night with the fine list of prizes that will be offered MORE SPORT NEWS Page ARSENIC OLD LACE SUCCESSFUL SHOW PACKS TOWN HALL Seats were sold out for both performances of Arsenic and Old Lace by the Newmarket Drama tic Club on Friday and Saturday nights The play has received an exceptional amount of favor able comment from Newmarket play goers The director Dorothy Bow man recently accepted an invi tation to show the first act at a Central Ontario Drama League festival in Toronto Industrial statistics In Canada show workers depend on eyesight more than any other sense to earn a living The figures eye sight percent sound per cent smell 35 percent touch 15 percent and taste percent Britain maintains the worlds largest merchant fleet 25 I cent of the worlds total tonnage Boosters of public school sports in and around the countryside unanimously voted the hockey season that closed last week the best on record Competition was keen and the games good reports Murray Ed gar chief whipperup of enthus iasm In the finals just concluded over past couple of weeks Wood- bridge won the south division and Pottageville the northern They met in a fivegame set and it went the limit in a hectic series won two ville two and in the fifth and de cider holds the whip hand to capture the King- public school league crown with a 31 triumph Ron Hill scored the lon er In the allstar game between the north and south divisions the men of the north came into then own easing out a win on by Jack Proctor and Ron UK The eightteam league has been going strong since early in the year at the arena North sector teams were and Kleinburg We hope to carry on the same setup in and expect to make an early start at getting organized reports Mr Edgar Gary Harry Davis Lon Davis Bob Da vis Ron Hill Jack Proctor Tom Don Bob Bill North AltStars Fred Broad Bonham Bob Tom Nip Hill Bill Nip Bill Harry Davis Lon Davis Jack Proctor Ron Hill Don 300 BINGO 300 Wed April 25 8 pm The Aurora Admission 50c Sponsored by Aurora Branch Canadian Legion PRIZES 300 300 THIRD ANNUAL LIONS CLUB Minstrel NEWMARKET TOWN HALL EXTRA NIGHT Tuesday April COMPLETELY NEW SHOW NOVELTY NUMBERS PEPPY END MEN Lions Minstrels a -WW- RUSH SEATS

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