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Down The Centre by Hulse We were in Detroit on Satur day when the Wale was run and with no Toronto in the area and local radio stations carrying the Bel moot rather than the Plate we missed either seeing or hearing the Canadian racing classic We got the that had had nulled the upset of the year by beating the favored King Maple and we recalled the sur prise of 52 caused by Epigram and the one when Undisturbed with Charlie Smith of Aurora aboard about on a par with this year running Originally there were horses entered for the race As a twoyear old Mrs Gordon won and took seven races in a row to become a prohibitive fav- win the Guineas At starting trine there were but nine horses In the race while and Queens Own were respected few thought that any of them could beat King Maple By skilful handling Chris Roger brought home in front before a stunned crowd We wonder how many North Yorkers realize the local color behind it King Maple was bred by G McClelland and Alex McClelland at and didnt leave these parts un til after the yearling sales The winner also saw the light of day close to Aurora be ing bred by Malcolm a mile and a half from the main four corners of Aurora and Colleen Pat were the parent On Saturday both Mr McClel land and Mr Richardson who are directors of the Aurora Horse Show were absentees from the Aurora show for the first time in over years It was Mr Richardson however resplendent in gray topper and morning clothes who stepped in to the winners circle with the owner and the jockey for the honors from GovernorGeneral In addition to the Plate going to the owner along with a bag of loot Mr Richard son was presented with a trophy as the breeder and he of course get a cut in all the purses that Blair who mastermind ed Truckers to the senior title has been signed to run the Chatham Maroons in senior replacing player Jack Stewart Blair has a really good deal at Chat ham and his departure from might mean the disban- of the senior champs although Ernie Dickens wilt likely carry on Blair will take several players with him and hes said to be interested too in some of the district playing talent Vie promising young Au rora high school athlete became the winner of the Mem orial Trophy for as he was selected over a strong field by the committee in charge will be back at the school next year but will be ineligible for the award again At football he was a star defensive hack and allowed by his blocking when he played offensive fellows like Cy Easterbrook and Keith Kin- caid to get underway At bas ketball he was a member of the intermediate team although in one senior game he played he was as good as any of his elders In one game last year against a weak team he notch ed points which is a record for an individual in any kind of competition at the Aurora school In track he broke the North York high Jump record and finishing second also broke the interme diate running broad jump mark In the and school compe titions he also did well The possessor of a fine pair of legs and good competitive spirit young Master who hails from King finds himself in illus trious company Keith Kyle Jack Andrews Don Busby Ron Geddes and Jim Richards ail former star high athletes Art Stouffville sportsman is the kind of a chap most municipalities would like to have as a resident he spent about five gees making park the best for baseball and for miles and now he plans a new screen with parts for both teams the umpires and waiting batters and additional bleachers and lights Truly a gesture that rates him tops with the sports fratern ity and the kids Speaking of Clarke popular member of New market Spitfires is doing right well as a member of the Red Sox outfield Sox have won three starts in a row seftballers who havent been seen in these parts since the days of the North league when either George Kelson or Fred Morris of Langstaff had the play ers in tow will present a lot of new faces Bill veteran Jim Hughes still a youngster and Ralph Curtis are all that Joe Redman has besides himself from yester year Theres a host of good new comers however and before the season is over Thornhill will have to be rated Aurora took them last week and the report was that Wright of Tor onto and Newmarket Legion and tournament ball fame would be on the hilltop for the soon Wright is hurling in Tor onto and so far as we know doesnt qualify under the resi dence rule but population moves are fast anymore and perhaps he does Robbie Keith who excelled in football in the and pivot posts at hockey basketball and track has been awarded a scholarship at St Andrews College Hap Holmes has really added an athlete as well a scholar to the red and white teams Dr Ross Wesley of who has been dabbling in the racing world the past few years has obtained his biggest catch so far as he claimed Acadian once one of E P Taylors aces last week Acadian will be the basis of the future stable Tex Groves who played de fence for Aurora Indians a few winters ago is handling the Peaches girls club who entered in a league with Elgin Mills Unionville and Stouffville Roy Col lings has rejoined the Bradford club after threat ening to retire and the mighty Mutt is just a3 clever as ever Once again there are three Keith Roy and Tommy playing for Bradford and per usual the venerable Fred Colly Ceilings hovers in the back ground of the lacrosse picture Meet Aurora Tonight will meet Aurora under the Aurora park lights tonight Thursday in a Township league contest The will be seeking revenge In their earlier league clash Aurora Auroras home schedule reads as follows at Aurora 29 at Aurora at Aurora Markham at Aurora at Aurora at Aurora at Aurora at Aurora at Aurora Baseball Francis and his peewee posted one major and two minor league games last week In the major loop contest Red wings punched home five fourthframe runs to beat Royals Kerry Peters Wayne Greenfield and Barton supplied home runs for the vic tors Brad Gordon John Hop per and Larry poked out Royals telling blows Pitching winner was Brent loser Francis Garrett In the minors Toronto bless ed with fine southpaw hurling from Bob Page and eight runs in first two stanzas belted Mon treal Grant and Randy Kerr socked homers for Toronto Mike Smith was a going hit concern for Montreal An eightrun first round start ed Havana on the way to a win over Rochester Peter Jim Woodcock Jim Ward and John Gorman provided tfie big hit music for the winners Ken Shropshire and Craig were Rochesters big guns County Towners Out To Take The Lead In South Loop The chase is on Newmarket County are out to take over the lead spot in the South baseball league whirl The locals took a giant size step in this direction Friday when they upset the loop Due to two previous rainhalt ed games Fridays contest was the locals home opener Herb Cains athletes played fine ball to please the odd assembled fans The infield work was noteworthy Ortie Thorns picked up the pitching blue chips Thorns yield ed seven well spaced hits and strung up nine strikeouts Bar- starter Paul Emms who accepted help from Bill in the fourth was the loser opened with a run in the leadoff innings on hits sup plied by Ron Christie and Frank Alvie single and fancy stepping on the base lines by the Hubs speedy out fielder created a 11 tie Thorns was never in serious trouble after the first innings second run was produc ed on Frank triple and an outfield loft that Murray Mac- Donald dragged down out of the ozone Emms tumbled Into piping hot HOW THEY STAND Lake League Pine Orchard Newmarket 1 Mount Albert 4 Keswick 1 Willow Beach 2 2 Zephyr 2 South Baseball 1 Newmarket 2 Bolton 2 Have Fhe Straight Newmarket Green Gaels chalked up their fifth successive triumph and bolstered their first place lead in the junior A race on Saturday when they defeated Brampton Excelsiors The game was played in Brampton The Gaels who seem to be specializing in tremendous finishes rapped in five unan swered goals in the final five minutes to wipe out Bramptons lead Jack stepped in the starrole for the Gaels hit the target for four goals and right on his heels for scoring honors were Bob and Bill Davenport They both fired a trio of tallies Owen and Bob collected two goals each while Bill was a six point man via one goal and five assists St Catharines Teepees are the visitors here tonight at Vandorf Trim Newmarket Joe appears to have rounded up a strong soccer club at scored three quick second half goals to defeat Newmarket at Pick ering College in an exhibition football game on Tuesday Bert scored three goals to star for Joe started on the way to victory with an early first half goal and Derek celebrated his birthday by scor ing fifth and final goal Geo Jiruska scored Newmar kets goal to keep the Nelson boys Ken and Am Stan Phillips and company from a shutout shame Oak Ridges Bantams Take Three Games water in the third as Newmarket caught the run scoring fever Five runs scored in Newmarkets third innings uprising The ex plosion won the game With one away Ortie Thorns strolled chopped out his sec ond single Lloyd Harvey got aboard hit by the pitcher to load the bases Jerry Hugos outfield loft was dropp ed one run scored Then catch er Carl Moore delivered the key- blow a towering triple that un loaded the bases Moore came home seconds later when Barrie attempted to cut off at second Thorns and Mc Knight spearheaded Newmar kets five hit attack Thorns punched out two triples Knight two singles Moores triple was Newmarkets fifth safety It was a three game winning week for Oak Ridges bantams They now lead the North York bantam league race The trounced Aurora and and handed Richmond Hill an setback Southpaw John Comfort and ace right Dale Boyle shared the pitching chores in the three winning per formances In the 225 win Paul Wright Pine Orchard Grab Top SIMCOE league team are steady ing down The box car scores are gone Pine Orchard lead the league Soaks posse strut a three win no loss record Mount and Newmar ket are holed up in the runner- up station They all have two wins and a loss Willow Beach and Keswick are next in line and Zephyr at this point trail the pack Josh Prestons slowball assort ment four second three third and three fourth chapter runs rated Pine Orchard a win over Zephyr Monday Ron honeymoon over was back for three innings completed the Blues chucking Good hit tiding spreaders for were Nobby Ash Alvtn Garnet Williams and Stan Poll ard They all cashed two each Ron and Ches Lunney swung for two hits each to spark Stan Blues At on Keswick and ran off their June 1st postponement WhizBang Haley whiffed eight and four Keswick down the drain won it on three first and three third round runs BUI double and Ross Chapmans triple were big first chapter blows holders second double Doug Eves home run smash Don The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday June Page 9 Cards Win Third BOLTON HERE TOMORROW Theres an outstanding inter mediate hardball game booked into the fair ground tomorrow evening Bolton Wanderers who nicked Newmarket County 32 in the South Simcoe league opener will be the visi tors The locals will be out to avenge the previous defeat Game time is pjrn- PINUPS AURORA Dana two on home run blast in the fourth earned Newmarket Pinups a 32 win over Aurora at the fair grounds Tuesday in a Lake junior ladies league game Dana hit came with Colleen Cain and Barbara Ben- on the basepaths via walks and was the only solid basehit the Pinups collected off Ann Craig Aurora scored both their runs in the sixth Sharon Knoll and Judy scored on Rosalie Roses hit It was a good ball game Both teams played heads up Hits were scarce as both Pinups Shirley and Auroras Ann Craig pitched sparkling games Both catchers Pinups Nancy Orton and Auroras Beth Hodgson turned in fine games final out catch was a feature Top League Keswick Cardinals won their third straight and moved up into first place in the Lake junior ladies league race when they scored a lopsid ed win over Mount Albert Wednesday Grace Curtis with nearperfect support gained the pitching vic tory over ace Marguer ite Green Four first and seven sixth stanza runs enabled Keswick to to their win Rita Riddel Helen and Grace Cur tis were the winners hit stars Marguerite Green who was afforded poor support chopped cut a triple for Mount Albert from the visiting Ltmneymen Paul with last frame assistance from Horner Breens double and Bob Milters veteran single touched off the third frame explosion Glen Wright Roy Geary and Back to back doubles by Ted Keith swung lusty Anderson and Ed gave bats for the Ridges Wayne Spence and Keith Browning were the victims of the assault Barry Cook Paul Charles Vrana and Wayne came through with the Aurora hits Oak Ridges scored five first innings runs and wound up their free scoring show with seven in the sixth In Mondays game at Aurora won by the Ridges Paul Wright Glen Wright and Norm Roberts supplied the timely clubbing for the winners John Comfort and Dale Boyle limited Aurora to three hits Bill Jeans Glen Bennett and Paul furnished the Aurora Leading 32 Oak Ridges cash ed four fifth and two sixth frame runs to salt away the win In the triumph over Richmond Hill Norm Roberts Dale Boyle John Comfort and Paul Wright piled up the run ning scoring hits for the Ridges RIDGES MIDGETS WIN Counting three first and three third chapter runs Oak Ridges midgets scored a win over Richmond Hill on Thursday in a North York midget baseball league game Dale Boyle held the slugging to six hits gave Keswick a first round counter and Harold Smiths bunt and Jerry Pollocks double set up the second In the fifth Harold Smith went three then Keswick trotted out their new rookie- pitching find Tommy Bell It wasnt a total loss week for Art King and Company Keswick won a decision from Mount Albert Friday Keswick bagged three first one third and three fourth innings runs Mounts big one was the fifth when they scored two Harold Smith was the pitching victor with fifth inn ings aid from Claude Pollock Bill Auckland was the loser Ted Anderson bundled two home runs Tom Hare cracked two doubles and a single Ron and Ken Hodgins netted doubles to spark Keswick Dave Couch poked out a triple and double Geo Green a triple and single Elmo Paisley and Bill Auckland gathered singles for Mount Thursdays Zephyr vs Mount tilt was a thriller Trailing Mount used home run blasts by Kelley Case and Bob Badger to blow up a four run last of the seventh to cop an verdict in the pitching ex change Harry Howse banned a home run and single Don Hewlett and clipped a pair of each to rate the side line cheers DoHuts Win Seventh Newmarket Do- Nuts behind Jack Cains sterl ing fivehit pitching whipped Jets on Monday at the fair grounds in a North York midget baseball league game It was the leagueleading DoNuts seventh win They have one loss chalked up against them Newmarket blew up a seven- run first innings storm and were never headed Jack Cain saw his shutout evaporate in the fourth when Bob Atkinson after singling scored on an error Newmarket touched two for hits Bob was the Newmarket pacesetter with two triples and a single Don Zogalo and Thorns fattened their batting averages with two each Jack Cain Bill Cain and Lome Bab got the other DoNut hits Community Centre DAY 30 pm pm Horseshoe pitching contest Old time fiddlers competition for residents of tw Entries must be in by Variety program in the evening Collection THERE IS ONLY ONE the answer BtigB i rj va v hoi have injured forget it ever horse that had broken the agony are not like And when this horses if It did happen at Britains Grand this year One horse dropped dea Three others suffered such injuries that they had to be de stroyed When the race was over many Britona protested think they were of four in one afternoon is definitely a- J a i- fS n area I 5jfr oes tt mm I I ili a 1 Potato r2 I mv t lea sport The Grai test anyway Everyl itional is supposed to be me great test of equine courage and stamina But why make Everybody thoroughbred horse is gallant to the death knows a this slaughter when fin mm now that the why carry on remains to be determi winners a 1 i rJG 1 i tliVv f a We like to lourished in Britain and sports as dog fighting or mu rfdards are being relaxed ins in mm rl T it fed A I of I Uli tiff i otim v5 W- cai v foreign com t SB-