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HASHMAN AWARD er Scores Four The swing is on from indoor to Outdoor activities around the district secondary schools George Kelly reports that district physical education directors will meet this week at to map plans for the annual trophy interschool track and field meet I It Is expected that Aurora Richmond Hill and Newmarket schools will again vie for the prized trophy this year Date and location of this years meet is expected to be finalized at the meeting As soon as this information is known the track and field squads will be swinging into all- out action in preparation for the big day of the meet Plans for an extra busy May along the track and field trail have been lined up by Pickering College track and field men un der the capable direction of Reg Three main events and several lesser meets will keep the PC track and field program at the boiling point Mas busy round of events gets a king size send- off when the districts best track and field men move onto Pick ering College track May for the Georgian Bay Central On tario Secondary Schools Associ ation meet Fast becoming one of Ontarios most renowned meets the Qua- Beer Relays come up for attention May The climax of the schools spring track festival comes May when Pickering College will stage its annual sport day When it comes to storing goals there isnt a unit in the coun ty that can hold a candle to the Thorns Don Gibson Phil Nicholas combination These three In case yon havent guessed before are with Aurora One game youll find Thorns carrying the trump scoring cards next time Nicholas then it will be Gibsons torn Thats how St has been going all season long with these three high scoring frontliners Lean Don Gibson who towers over six feet and goes around allowing people to call him Spider had his turn to howl last Wed nesday as Aurora swamped Point Edward 125 Over the even ings proceedings Spider Strang a high powered fourgoal effort It was this performance that torched the Aurora win and qualified the to meet either Napanee or Mlnden in the Ontario finals Just by way of saying well done Spider Gibson were going to give him the nod over his two mates for the award and Theatre pass this week Strikes and Spares Hasketts HASH By GEORGE Newmarket Sports Editor Jeanne was boss gal in Monday ladies league with a total Marg was a close second shooting for a triple Other maple were Gertrude Clark Hitting over were Mary Osborne 598 Mono Dean Ar- va Thorns Marion Stark 537 Helen Tay lor 536 Claire Pollock Hall Ann Osborne 518 515 Jean Gould 513 Hester Clark and Helen Tug- well 501 With but two nights to go theres a red hot argument going between Ken Millers team and Don Gibsons sextette for the Of fice Specially Officcmens league title At the moment Millers men have a one point lead Fran cis MeFarlands triple showed the way In the over class were Hoy Bennett Don Jack Malcolm Hank denBergh 602 and Fred 601 Four hit over in the Wed nesday ladies league Km ma was followed by Helen Goldie Mac- Nab Barbara Bell Other scoring experts were Terry Marion Gould Mary Fish and Beta Gorman Myrtle Dunn Joyce Both- well Allene McBride Ha zel Olive Jean 507 Joan Noble were Thursday ladies league leaders I Gould set a blistering pace to lead the Tuesday ladies Barbara Foster with was the other pin over 600 Joy Lewis Dorothy Butler Nancy McTavish 548 Joy Count er Mary Sargent Dorothy Hewitt were other scoring leaders Bell boys and gals were spill ing maples at a steady clip Don Cordys 708 series including a single paced the mens div ision while Eileen More with a 612 triple and a single de monstrated forcefully who was the bowler in the More family Over shot makers were Bill Johnston Harold Jack Donaldson Harry Mills Ivan Gibson Dick Corner In the ladies division i Norma Peel Jean Shirley Caroline Mc- Lee Wallace Alma Zogalo Elsie Evans 516 topp ed the barrier With a week to go Hurricanes are shooins to finish first in the have point followed by Meteors Spits Vikings 39 Jets 39 Com Jean Millers classy 632 triple showed the way Other lea ders were Ethel Winter 593 Mary Sargent Edith and VadenBcrgh The Aurora Belairs win the Good Housekeeping award for getting their spring cleaning done with such dispatch over the past week Two impressive wins in a row over Point Edward have put the in the Ontario in termediate finals One of the nice parts about be ing a hockey writer in this dist rict is that invariably you get a seat until the last of the shooting is over and when you finally look up you find spring has arrived It does seem that one of our dist rict sides is always staying in un til the final whistle The will have to con tend with either Minden Mon arch or in the final set We imagine it doesnt make much difference to Ron Simmons and company which it is With the team spirit coach Ron and maestro Simmons have built up in the club the should go all the way However we imag ine that if the have to start knocking off the miles to the gas companies arc going to benefit most so I guess deep down the are pull ing just a mite for Minden While the dates for the finals havent been set manager Sim mons assures this paragrapher that therell be a game in Aurora Saturday So my its about time you shut off the TV and gave the a tumble Youll be happy you did They kick in game in game out with that pleasing hockey that is a treat to watch secretary Cliff Chapman wont settle for anything less than a full house Saturday Hockeys parting shots Cliff Johnston and his Com bines as so many times this sea son have pulled back from the brink of disaster Trailing Parry Sound 2 in games after the junior C finals got underway the Brooks drew up on even terms two games apiece with a 5 4 win in the Sound Saturday Tonight its a full house at the town hall as the Newmarket mi nor hockey association stages a big windup for its executive mi nor program players and helpers are scheduled to attend I can see with this big family on hand the cake ice cream and chocolate milk will take a terri fic beating We join with other district sportsmen to salute the Aurora Lions The Lions copped the on ly Ontario minor hockey associa tion championship for North York last week Winning 4 at St Marys The Lions headed by coach Percy Preston and Manag er Doug Harrison brought back the Ash Morrison Trophy This trophy it will he recalled was the one won by the Smoke Rings edition after that hectic ses sion with The Lions- St Marys affair was almost as tense as three games of the series went into overtime Jack Robinson going to have to build an extension on the ar ena trophy case Bill Mundell and his Appliance midgets won North York honors and the Ted OHearn trophy The Lions as well as capturing the Morrison silverware added the Lex Mc- Kenzie trophy emblematic of North York bantam supremacy Now for a little spring sunshine First call has gone out for town Softball league entries It looks like a tenteam setup this semes ter Gentlemen of the jury when considering rules and regulations lets remember to keep it a play for fun league It was that last year and everybody had a great time The minute you start lay ing down hard and fast rules you force dubs to fold Everybody that wants to play should be given that opportunity The main idea of a town league as we see it Is to give everybody regardless of skill a hance to get out and scamper around the ball diamond Let us again make this the objective and the first character that gets real serious send him on his way to join the International league or the ma jors The league meeting comes up in the next couple of weeks Speaking about meetings Art King Ken Hodgins Harry Laven der and company apparently havent fired the opening gun for a Lake S m c softball league convention No doubt this im portant affair will be on the docket right smartly It seems to me it usually brightens up the early spring picture around the end of April The North York minor baseball league meeting is scheduled for Aurora May Item one on the agenda will be to consider ways and means to increase interest in baseball One tried and proven way to do this is get a strong age league percolating With this objective in mind every community in North York and surrounding territory will be ask ed to come in with a peewee team Two suggestions have been put forth as to how to operate the league without getting involved in a lot of travelling First the closest teams could play home and home sets of games and the second worth considering would be to stage several major tourna ments open to all North York teams Said tourneys could be held throughout the season at sites selected by league officials Anyhow just bring along any suggestions on the subject you have tucked away in your bon net Theyll be as welcome as the flowers in May at the May ga thering Naturally along with a series the league is still looking for bantam midget juvenile and junior entries Get them in early so we can get cracking Its still a wee bit dampish for Matt Walsh and his eager young lacrosse hopefuls to move out doors to the Millard Ave west bowl Matt informs us that this is going to be another big lacrosse year locally The opening gun in the program will be fired this weekend when Matt convenes a school What do young people want to do Well the YMYW question naire passed amongst the prob able participants to years of age brought to light some in teresting facts and figures First it seemed that just about everybody was interested in dancing Secondly that a goodly number favored discussion groups Our rest centered around the athletic- side of the questionnaire It was an eyeop ener to us the number of high school interested in basket ball howling badminton floor hockey table tennis tennis golf archery gymnastics and track and field It seemed that just about everyone who filled out the questionnaire wanted to do some thing to keep in shape In our travels along the sport trail we have run across a num ber interested in formation of a local track and field club The answers received on the questionnaire would indicate it wouldnt take too much of a push to get club rolling How do you feel about it Do you want to do some leaping and loping this spring and summer Give us a shout if youre interested Peanut The young bowlers performing in the Recreation Commission sponsored Peanut bowling league will swing into round two of the playoffs this Saturday Six teams have qualified to do pin battle for the leagues top a- ward Teams to qualify were Ca shews Filberts Beechnuts Chest nuts Hazel Nuts and Acorns Beechnuts spilling the pins in impressive fashion were paceset ters after last Saturdays first round of playoffs They posted a two game totalpins count of It was approximately 300 pins ahead of the nearest opposition The next five teams down the list arc closely bunched with Ac orns at the moment in the runner up slot The Acorns have a total followed by Chestnuts Cashews 1470 Filberts MM and Hazel Nuts NAME OFFICERS Short sweet and successful In brief sums up the first year act ivities of the ladies section of the York Curling Club Looking ahead with eagerness to the start of another season come November the ladies sect ion of the York Curling Club met April for the clubs annual meeting The meeting held in the York Curling Club clubrooms drew an excellent attendance of enthusi astic members Item one on the agenda was the election of officers for the 58 season The officers elected were as follows president Mrs C A Gathers 1st vicepresident Mrs Orville Clarke 2nd vicepre sident Bertha secretary Mrs H J Kurtz treasurer Joy ce chairman games committee Mrs Orville Clarke bonspiel chairman Mrs Frank Dawson prizes Mrs Ron Mrs Ron Douglas entertainment convener Mrs Allistair Cameron tuck shop convener Mrs Ron Douglas Mrs Howard Mrs C A Curtis Mrs field Mrs Russell Broadbent Despite the late start this sea son everyone of the ladies pre sent felt it had been a most suc cessful year Plans to hold a mam moth bridge in November to start activities for next season were approved AWAIT FINALS OPPOSITION The Ontario Hockey Association intermediate C finals will begin this week That much is certain at the present time Another cer tainty is the fact that Aurora Bel are going to be one of the parties in the finals Now as to the Belairs opponents in the finals as this is written Tuesday am nobody could be quite sure It has to be either Minden Monarchs or Those two clubs have been mat ching bumps and thumps over the past ten days in the semifinal bracket As of Tuesday they had nt been able to declare a winner manager Ron Simmons figures whichever club emerges on top the final scries will be starting probably Thursday on the home ice of either Minden or Working from that angle the second game will definitely be staged at the Aurora arena this Saturday evening From there on the games will alternate back and forth The len gth of the final series wont be settled until such time as the two definite participants are known and can complete final arrange ments for the series District fans owe it to the to come out and fill the arena and give them every ounce of sup port in their bid to cop an On tario crown New Town League Entries Being Accepted entry forms for competit ion in the Newmarket town soft- ball league were sent out to team managers this week Last season seven teams Grass Hoppers Cre scents Queens Grease Monkeys OPP Green Acres and Bell Tel ephone entered the league race Reports indicate that alt seven teams will return for diamond ac tion in At least two new teams appear interested in competing in the league competition They are Newmarket Services and Harold RayMar juvenile team Reports also indicate that the Legion may have one or two teams and possibly the APV Com pany Any new teams interested in playing in the town lea gue are asked to contact George league president TAKE REGISTRATIONS FOR NORTH YORKS CAMP AHSIIUNYOONG If parents intend to have their hoys attend Camp Ahshimyoong this summer should have registration forms sent in imme diately The number of early registrations is considerably in excess of previous years The senior camp which is for boys to years of age is more than half filled This period is from June 28 to July a ten day period The first junior camp from July to 25 has room for several boys yet Newmarket district boys may pick up registration forms at the Newmarket Era and Express of fice Charles St or at the Keith Davis Sporting Goods store These registrations should be sent immediately to the address indicated in the camp brochure Kenneth Newmarket will be one of the swimming in structors this year the other will be John Taylor Aurora who this past winter received his Canadian Red Cross Swim ming Instructors Badge Some Newmarket boys will be acting counsellors at Ahahunyoong Rev J C MacFartane of First Baptist church Aurora will again be director of the camp Aurora Lions Are Tendered Civic Reception Bantam B Hockey Championship Fresh from putting the clutch on the Ontario minor hockey as sociation champion ship Aurora Lions captured their third successive North York ban tam hockey league title as they defeated at the Aurora arena Friday The game a sudden death af fair wound up a successful sea son of North York bantam hock ey that saw eight teams enter the competition In arrears after a period of fast action Aurora flashed a threegoal attack in the middle round to build a advantage Just to make the decision stick the Lions scored two unanswered third period tallies Maurice Clifford the Beeton rocket bringing his North York league season goal output to over scored early in the first per iod to give Beeton an early advantage Norm Dennis put the Lions on the on a pass from Don Taylor early in the second Period This tally cancelled out Cliffords first period counter Keith Wright dumped in a pass from Norm Dennis and Charles Leeming beat Bobbie Dunn who was playing a standout game in the Beeton goal with a sizzling 25footer goal provid ed Aurora with a 31 advantage Clifford scored his second goal before the chapter closed to make it 32 Dennis scored unassisted after six minutes of third period play and Ken Taylor on a relay from Don Taylor potted the Lions oth er third period insurance count er under coach Ron and manager Bob de spite the fact they have been off skates for over two weeks turn ed in a fine effort Tom and Ken Kelly handled the game efficiently handing out just five minor penalties Congratulations go to the Aur ora Lions team coach Percy Pre ston and manager Doug Harri son on winning their third suc cessive North York crown Aurora Lions captured the Ontario Minor Hockey Association bantam B title The players given a rousing welcome home in the wee small hours of Wednesday morning At noon Wednesday morning they were tendered a civic reception in front of the post office Ardent hockey fan Mayor Jim Murray handled the arrangements for the reception It was an event the young hockey players will long remember Behind a championship winning team there has to be a strong hard working executive body Here shown with team captain Norm Dennis holding the Ash Morrison trophy art several members of the willing workers circle Left to right Mayor Jim Murray Percy Preston Norm Dennis captain Don Glass vicepresident of Aurora Lions Club the Lions along with the Aurora Minor Hockey Association sponsored the team and Doug Harrison manager Photo by George Haskett North York league governor presented the Lex Trophy to Lions captain Norm Dennis in the cere monies after the game AURORA Peter Bob Wall Paul Hughes Norm Dennis Rob ert Wright Keith Wright Derek Scott John Wilson Charles Leem Don Taylor Ken Taylor Br ian Knowles Terry Stone BEETON Bob Dunn Gil Wil liams Paul Sinclair Wayne Carl ton Gary Maurice Clif ford Bill Ritchie Bob Ed Walsh Gary Kelly Mike Doyle Bert and Don King Stan Smith Is Named Manager Of Swim Pool Belairs Swamp Pointers Don Gibson Thorns and matter of how many The Phil Nicholas operate together as the Aurora number one production unit These three speedsters were the dominant figures unitwise that is as Au rora Belairs polished off Point Edward on April 10 at Point Edward This victory coupled with the home romp gave them the Ontario Hockey asso ciation intermediate best of three semifinal round in two straight The quick ouster of Point Edward gives the an opportunity to mark time un til Minden and declare the other Ontario finalist The effective unit of Gibson Thorns and Nicholas came through with another superb show of scoring power In all the trio accounted for eight goals Spider having a whale of a time in front of the Point Edward goal squeezed the trig ger on four markers His mates Thorns and Nicholas showing topnotch class and skill added to the lines glory with a pair of goals apiece With the big line go ing like wildfire the game for Point Edward was almost over it had begun Before the whistle called a halt to first period proceedings the had sped into a commanding load From there on it was a made it 92 in the second stanza and both teams concluded action with three goals in the final minutes With only five of the Simmons- aggregation fig uring in the scoring statistics other Belair goals were produced by Walter Fines and Grant Ed wards These two got on target for two goals apiece to stretch the total to the even dozen figure The bounce brigade that would he Fines Andy and Grant Winters was all efficient and halted most of the Pointers thrusts before they penetrated close to Paul Guires den McGuire although not overworked playing up to his high class standard was on the spot to shuffle aside several hot blasts from the eager Point Edward youngsters TOWNSHIP SOFTBALL MEETING Jim Thomas Stouffvillo Tri bune sports editor who keeps a weather eye on the hockey flocks who op erate down his way shoots in the glad tidings that the Mark- ham Township ball League will hold its annual general meeting Tuesday April The gathering is called for 9 pm and will be held In the Markham public library The Newmarket Recreation Commission adopted a resolution to employ Stan Smith as New market Community Swimming Pool manager at its regular meet held Tuesday The managers salary for the three month per iod is to be The proposal was adopted by a majority with Councillor Geo rge Haskett casting the negative vote Councillor George Knapton and Don Warner were absent but the chairman reported the two absent members were in favor of the proposal Recreation Commission chair man Peter Gorman advised the meeting that Mr Smith would be given time off from his arena managers job to look after the swimming pool project Chairman Peter Gorman re ported the swimming pool work was progressing satisfactorily and that the project was half com pleted Fred Counter Of the Newmarket Bowling Acad emy attended the meeting with regard to bowling Mr Counter reported on the fine success of the commissions bowling program for primary school pupils but in dicated that the age group 1417 had more or less been overlook ed Mr Counter a will ingness to assist hi any to get this particular age group In terested in bowling Commission bowling chairman was delegated to discuss the matter with Mr Counter and br ine in a proposal for sions consideration Bob in charge of proposed summer playground pro gram gave a brief report on his trip to Barrte in connection with a proposed school for rummer playground supervisor man also govs a out line of the number applications received for local summer play ground supervisors jobs- Ray Bollons presented a report on the district meeting of recre ation commission members held at Aurora recently Mr indicated there was an excellent turnout for the inciting Among the matters discussed at the meet ing were the new regulations in force regarding grants from the Ontario government Peter Gorman spoke on a pro posed cinder track to be on the Stuart Scott school grounds Brief reports on the suc cess of the TeenTown program as well as on the progress made by Mr Parker in connection with the Trumpet Band were also pre sented Minor Hockey RoundUp By George league With Newmarket This week in flight two of the Lions Newmarket Rotary 7TTT Twenty nurses working out of district offices across the pro vince have a case load of more than crippled children This service is provided through the sale of Easter Seals The Annual Easter Seal Campaign which is sponsored by the Ontario Society for Crippled Children runs until April and has an objective of for the province Newmarket minor hockey round up we focus attention on the Optimist NHL and town juvenilo league activity Also included will be Optimist allstar bantams and Canadian Legion sponsored midgets The Newmarket Optimist club long noted for interest in boys work sponsored the fourteam NHL bantam league Teams in the competition playing a doubleheader every Monday at the arena were Detroit Rangers Canadiens and Bruins The league under the directorship of Ross provided hockey for approximately boys in the age grouping After the final shot had been fired Jack Canadiens were league champions and hol ders of the tro phy Alf Boston Bill Pat rick Detroit Kd Adams New York along with Jack Peppiatt handled the coaching assign ments Definitely a highlight of this years minor hockey show was the newly organized midget- North Minor Ball Meeting May The annual general meeting of the North York minor baseball association will be held in the Aurora arena recreation hall on Wednesday May I at 8 pm Invitations to attend have been sent out to minor baseball execu tives at Sutton King City ville Thornhill Richmond Hill Brad- ford Lake Wilcox Oak Ridges Alliston Aurora and Newmarket The North York league in con junction with the Ontario Base ball association will make a spec ial effort to interest as many clubs as possible to enter peewee teams in the league race North York league entries for junior juvenile midget bantam and the peewee scries can be for warded to George leag ue governor and district con vener Mars Ray Smith Ted Robinson and Hill Merchants Bert Morri son Atkinson and Fred Bowser sponsoring teams there was never a dull moment as the teams provided keen every Monday at the arena The fourteam league gave ap proximately boys in the mid getjuvenile age bracket an op portunity to play hockey Each of the sponsors or sponsoring or ganizations purchased sweaters for the teams and donated funds along with the Newmarket minor hockey association to pay tor Ice time Don Warner chairman the Newmarket minor hockey as sociation did a terrific job schedule maker and league di rector The leagues first year cham pionship outfit was Harold La Planters RayMars The Ray- Mors defeated the Hill Merch ants in handsome style in the finals Hick Corbett and Nobby Sproule shared coaching duties with the Merchants Groves coached the Lions while Richard and Clarence Stickwood shared Rotary coach ing dates The Optimist club also sponsored the bantam all- stars in the North York league Ontario minor hockey association playoffs Coach Harvey and manager Garrett had some promising young hockey players under their wing They will be heard from another year One of the bright light of minor hockey wee the fact that Legion jumped into the picture to sponsor the midget allstar Goddard Larry Motyneaux The loeel competing in the North Toe league were ethwineted be rota Now to keep oeieeta that boasts or more hockey players operating there hat to be a good many witting worker digging in to keep the organisa tion pertolating Neat wee well bring you a of the work of this band minor ho ckey boosters