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Newmarket Era and Express, 9 May 1957, p. 9

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District A Dozen Records Are Shattered j In 16School COSSA Meet Here Dave Jefferson Newmarket High schools middledistance running star hits the tape a win ner in Saturdays Georgian Bay intermediate 440yard race Jeff erson finished two strides ahead of Aurora High track star Barry Cook Jeffersons time was seconds a little over a second slower than the record establish ed by Hugh Butt ers in This years Georgian Bay dis trict Central Ontario Secondary Schools Association track and field meet held at Pickering Coll ege Saturday attracted a record athletes representing 16 schools During the course of the 39-ev- six hour long card the dist ricts best athletes shattered an even dozen records Six of the new marks were established in junior four in senior and two in intermediate Bill Babcocks Richmond Hill High athletes finished on top with points with the host school Pickering College second with Broc was a close third with 50 points while St Andrews College win ner of the event the past two years was fourth with points Newmarket finished sixth with 30i behind Markham 36 Then in order were Thornhill OriL lia 21 Midland 20 Alliston Aur ora Barrie 8 Falls Bracebridge Huntsville Falls and athletes were newcomers to the event Set Records Jim Passmorc and Gary Kozak in setting two new records each sparked Richmond Hill won the senior 220 in 234 seconds and then edged Al White of Pick ering College in the 120yard high hurdles in 155 seconds White set the record of seconds last year Kozak established new junior standards of ft 9 in in the broad jump and 37 ft in in the hop step and jump Don MacLeod of Orillia ran the senior mile in a record smashing seconds white Frank Duval of Brock ran the two mile event in seconds to establish a new standard Newmarket High athletes Dave Jefferson and George won first place ribbons in inter mediate competition Jefferson won the 440 in 572 edging Barry Cook of Aurora across the finish line Robertson won the hop step and jump with a fine 39 ft 6 in effort Jefferson added a second in the shotput and a third in the discus Robertson was second in the broad jump Newmarket Junior Henry McCutcheon promising Newmarket junior captured sec ond place ribbons in the broad jump and hop step and jump ev ents John Hopper collected a third in the junior broad jump Dan Routledge wearing Aurora high doubleblue colors ran a close second in the intermediate Pickering Record Pickering College athletes were strong contenders in practically established a new record in in termediate javelin with a toss of ft in Blankenstijn won the discus event and was second in the high jump Simon Dew was second behind St Andrews Col leges Al Anderson in the senior 100 and Bruce Andrews finished second in senior javelin Pickerings Dave Simpson wa second in the intermediate pole vault Dave Beer in the junior hurdles ran a fine race to finish a close second behind Richmond Hills Bob Strikes and Spares every event Addie Blankenstijn 1 at 5 pm SIX TEAMS JOIN DISTRICT SOCCER A sixth team has joined the Newmarket and district soccer league according to information released this week by league president Bill Brookes Lindsay is the latest entry Along with Lindsay previous ly Aurora entered two teams while Newmarket Brampton and the StouffvilleMarkham Comb ines entered clubs to round out the sixteam count A seventh team being may also seek permission to en ter the league As a first sendoff to dis trict soccer Newmarket will meet Aurora in an exhibition match at the Aurora town park Saturday North York Minors Have Twelve Teams Mclnnis served a series Jo lead the pin spilling line in the Monday ladies league Smalley Mary Osborne Claire Pollock 599 Muriel Hea ther Annie Stickland 579 Edna Pres ton Hester Clark 549 Mimi Gertrude Clarke Grace 513 Helen Taylor Mona Dean 512 Norma were other top notches League playoffs hold the stage this week Tuesday afternoon ladies leaguers close the hooks on a busy season this week Goulds nifty triple showed the way Breaking into the class were Nancy McTavish 563 Mary 556 Ann Mason Dorothy Hewitt Eleanor Dutton Mary Sargent Dorothy But ler 450 Fred Counter of the Newmarket bowling academy reports that theres a large entry list for the intercommunity 5pin tourna ment The tourney is for ladies and mens teams mens doubles mixed teams and singles Tour nament schedule is as follows Sat May 11 ladies teams pm mens doubles pm May 7 pr mens teams May mens teams May 17 pm mixed teams mixed doubles May J pm dies teams 330 pm singlet 450 Intercommunity league bowl ers were in top form Monday as the playoffs commenced Lloyd Martin hit the jackpot with an triple including a 335 single Jack Watson posted 811 and Steve triples Over 700 pin spillers were A Wright Per cy Hutchinson 759 Roy Gibson Lloyd Har vey Martin 722 Chas Tug- well Herb Simpson Petro 701 Heres the pin total af ter one night of playoffs Rich mond Hill 3774 Bradford Academy Aces North 3112 Bobs 2986 Heres the start of a toss that established a new intermediate javelin record in Saturdays Georgian Bay district Central Ontario secondary schools association track and field meet at Pickering Coll ege Putting the oomph behind the heave is Pickering Colleges Blankenstijn chuck was ft in approxi mately 3 ft 3 in better than the existing record also collected a first in discus and a second in the high jump competit ion In all an evendozen records were established during the day Photos by Stcfaniuk i iTT With records falling before the onslaught of 211 athletes there were many close finishes in Saturdays Georgian Bay Here is the finish of the 440yard junior relay Even camera expert Ernie couldnt produce a winner via the shutter route It was a with Newmarket Highs John Hopper arid an Orillia Collegiate runner hitting the tape simultaneously Henry McCutch Tom and John ran the first legs for the Purple and Gold squad Torchlight On Town League By George There will be a record town softball league entry list this sea son To date nine teams have filed entry forms Teams in to date are Bell Telephone Green Acres Metro Home Crescents Town Hoppers Queens Garage Grease Monkeys Grant Kitchings Dozers RayMars and Newmarket Services Theres a good possibility that the entry list will go as high as teams as Brad Walkers Fords Club Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Police and York Ranger are all reported I- ready to toss their hats in the mens ring We re c 1 a n them all up this season reports Newmarket Services N 1 Alf and Andy Sinclair are team represen tatives on the town league execu tive The Services will have fire ball Bob Attwell on the line and to provide the plate power will bo Andy Sinclair Alf Bill Smith Bob Ken T and Thorn The hoys Jack and Don Cliff Ivan Gib son and Eves will also be back with the defending champs Bob Clark is reported on re liable authority is readying his York Ranger team for league ac tion The Soldier Boys will field a young team made up of New market and Aurora players Bob reports that the are having difficulty getting enough players out to practice but they are hoping this is just a temporary setback The leagues annual meeting will be held later this week A final reminder to team captains belter get those entry forms in immediately to the league presi dent George Haskell Keith Davis Elected Tennis Club President Newmarket tennis enthusiasts are starting to stir The club is now open to accept memberships for the season Keith Davis the districts one ranking racquet wielder was elected president of the Newmarket Tennis club at its an nual held Monday Mr Davis will- be serving his eighth successive term Charles Lee another top ranking tennis ex pert named vicepresident and West secretary- treasurer Mr announced that he will again conduct his junior instruction classes In formation about the classes will be announced next week The classes been a highlight of the local tennis season and Mr Davis has been conducting them since Y DANCE FRIDAY The second event in the spring fiveevent program a dance will be held at the Scout Hall tomorrow evening The dance starts at approximately pm Karle Ball is chairman of the program Plans for the ath letic night to be held May 25 un der the chairmanship of Gord Calvert will be finalized this week The program is expected to include basketball volleyball table tennis badminton and a feature wrestling match Details of the complete program will be announced next week Anyone interested in becoming a member may contact Marilyn Fines Calvert Jane Ed wards Mary Karle Ball or Ted Greenwood May 15 was set as the deadline for accepting entries for North York minor baseball league com petition at the leagues annual meeting held in Aurora May To date teams have joined the league The entries cover four peewee four bantam one midget one juvenile and two jun ior teams Entries received to date for the various series arc as follows Newmarket Aurora Rich- rnond Hill bantam Newmarket Aurora Stouffville Richmond Hill midget Aurora juvenile Stouffville junior Hnionville were set at midgetjuvenile 7 junior 10 The fees also include admission to the Ontario Baseball Association playoffs The league will again affiliate with the OBA and OBA rules will apply throughout the league It was decided to have the home team supply the plate umpire and the visiting team the base umpire during regular season play Last season the league had teams League officials are confi dent they can top last years en try list Newmarket is considering a midget entry Aurora is working on a juvenile club while Oak Ridges Lake Wilcox Markham Agincourt have still to be heard from Plans for a baseball school to be held at later in the season were discussed and appro ved All players in the league will be invited to attend and it is hop ed to have two or three Toronto Maple Leaf players attend to hand out pointers to the young ball hawks An umpires school will be held in conjunction with the player school Players arc also in the making to hold at least two tournaments open to North York teams during the sea son George was returned as league governor for a sixth term Each team manager appointed will act on the execu tive committee Delegates attending the meet ing were Jack Robinson Thornt on Browning Goorce Mr Scott Aurora Brant Ron Mur ray Stewart Harold Hodgson George G our ley Richmond Hill HOLD QUAKER RELAYS AT COLLEGE SATURDAY More than of Ontario school boy sprinters representing 35 Southern secondary schools will partici pate in the fifth annual Quaker Relays to be held at Pickering College on Saturday The program made up entirely of relay races is scheduled to get underway at pm Newmar ket and district citizens are ex tended a welcome to drop and see this colorful and out standing event The races are all named aftc outstanding Canadian track men such as Johnnie Phillips Percy Williams Steel Jim Bob Kerr an Phil Edwards- District relay quartettes repre senting Newmarket College St Andrews College Richmond Hill Aurora Thorn hill and will be competing Reg Blackstock originator the Quaker Relays has seen thi event over the past five become one of Ontarios known track events Soccer Men To Play At The Fair Grounds busy soccer TriCounty Baseball League Folds Up After many years of successful mond Phillips as main bat- operations the TriCounty inter- smiths mediate baseball league has fold- rumored Goulds was the announcement Grease Monkeys have inked top J president Ted Cadieux of Stouffville and effic ient secretary John af ter the leagues annual meeting held at Sutton last Thursday Aurora Minor Ball Officials Are Appointed Jack Robinson advises that Auroras minor baseball plans for North York minor league com petition are coming along fa mously Coaches and managers for peewee bantam and midget entries have now been appointed Hayes will be back at the coaching helm with the pec- team Fred Wilson and Norm will again handle the entry Thornton Browning is once again in charge of midgets Earl MaeDon- of note is ex pected to assist with the midgets Theres a good possibility a fourth Aurora team will enter the North York league Jack Robinson is investigating number of players in the ju venile age group available for diamond duty If enough play- era can be found a juvenile en try will be forthcoming Bob Marriott with either Bob Cook or Grant Winter to do the receiving and it will be the team to watch Kitchings Dozers is the name of Bill and Bob Wood cocks team Originally they were labelled the York County clubbers Among the players to grace the lineup will be Bill Bob Woodcock Bob Wilson and Brian Million The Dozers were punishing the apple in their initial practice held over the weekend La PI ante and are RayMar represen tatives on the league executive The HayMars will be going with a young club built around juven ile hockey talent which will in clude John Don Bone and Jimmy Bond You can count us in is the last word received from Ivan Ruddock Jack Duncan and Matt Walsh They were talking about a Canadian entry breezes in with the report that Brad Walkers team will be a definite starter Cord Calvert and Karle Ball arc all set with the YMcns team Cecil Andrews Town Grass Hoppers the defending title hold ers will have most of last years crew back in camp and are ex pected to add George Robertson Newmarket High track luminary goes into the step stage in the intermed iate hop stop and jump event in Saturdays Georgian Bay track and field The stage is set for i year on the Newmarket front Newmarket footballers wilt play their home league matches in the Newmarket and district soccer league at the fair grounds All home games will he played on Saturdays Club president Bill Brookes and his aidedecamp Holly Manners report the local foot ballers will start their home season May 25 Lindsay will provide the visiting opposition The Newmarket club will have ten home and ten away games There are six teams in the league at the moment Newmar ket Aurora Firsts Aurora Sec onds Lindsay Brampton and Combines Bradford il was reported late Tuesday would also be in with a team Newmarket club officials arc TOWN LEAGUE PRACTICES CALLED Calvert has called a practice for the proposed Y- for the Stuart Scott dia mond tonight at pm All players interested in playing with the team are asked to at tend The plan is to enter the Newmarket town league Cecil Andrews Kingpin of the Town Grass Hoppers reports the defending league champions will stage a practice at the fair grounds diamond May at pm All players with the team last season and anyone wishing to try out with the team are re quested to be on hand ATTENDS MEETING Local representatives are con tinuing their work to have Davis Drive west of Yonge St to High way through taken over by the province as a highway Reeve Edward Wright- man attended a special meeting on Monday night to discuss the spending two weeks with project sister Mrs Jack Irwin BROADBENT TO SPONSOR JUNIORS Heres a large size helping of good news for Newmarkets jun ior baseball players Sportsman and baseball booster Broad- bent will again sponsor a junior baseball club The loam will perform in the North York minor baseball league and Ontario Baseball Association competition As in past years it will operate under the banner of the DoNut Boys At the moment Broad- bent is looking for a coach and a manager for his team Anyone in terested in taking over these jobs is asked to contact Mr Broadbent Bakery The DoNuts with most of last years strong team ready to re turn should present a powerful lineup this season Likely to op- pear in DoNut livery will be pit cher Jack Cain catcher Bill Cain Grant Morton Don Thorns Bob Clark Francis Lewis Ron Will iams and Don Johnston Mr Harry and Miss Carol Creed visited friends at Kingston on Sunday Miss Marie Thaxter returned to her home in after her ART KING RETURNED AS SIMCOE LOOP Lake Simcoe league teams have until May to file entries with secretary Ken Hod- gins The Lake Simcoe annual organization meeting was held May at Sharon Hall Delegates represent ing Pine Orchard Sharon ven Keswick Keswick Legion Mount Albert and Zephyr present Are King as a tribute for pas good work was returned as pre sident Ed the busy sportsman was named first vicepresident and was reelected second vicepresident Efficient Ker was returned as secret and Harry Lavender was giv en a vole of confidence and re elected treasurer Judging from the delegates keen interest and enthusiasm in proceedings another banner is coming up as the league starts its season League officials expect ten teams will answer the roll call before the entry deadline rolls a- round Eight teams indicated at the meeting that they are all set to get in the hunt for the coveted Stan Cook silverware Entries re ceived to date are Keswick Red- men Keswick Legion Zephyr Pine Or chard Mount Albert and Sharon Sharon is a new entry this sea son Willow Beach and both members of the league las season were not represented I was reported that Willow Beach is having difficulty collecting en ough players to field a team dorf is expected lo reenter Boake heading the Pine Or chard delegation also a team from out way was interested in league mem bership Bradford execu tives were present and ask ed permission l enter but due to league rules their application had to be refused Heres a special note to all team managers The league executive and team delegates meet again May at pm at he ville arena At that time each team in the loop will asked to present a players list for execu tive approval COMMITTER ROOMS Liberal committee rooms were opened in the Newmarket fire hall auditorium this week The telephone listing is 52639 four inches shy of the record est ablished in 1954 by Collingwoods Garry Cook Lack of interest and lack of en tries for this years competition were given as the main reasons for the league folding Last sea son five teams participated They were Stouffville Sunderland Port Perry Orillia and Newmark et appeared to he the only club ready to reenter ville and Sunderland delegates advised that they were having trouble securing enough players to field teams Port Perry it was reported had disbanded while Newmarket was not represented at the meeting Waller who with Wilf was in charge of the New market team season had completed some spade work to wards organizing a club here However with the announcement that there would be no league there is little possibility of a team being organized here That means Hub fans wont sec any intermed iate baseball locally this season Keswick Appoint New Officers meet Robertson show ing classy form measured out at certain they can field a 39 ft 6 in on this effort to annex 1 team Expected to appear in a first place ribbon It was just the local red and white colors are Duncan Stevens Arnold Nel son Jim Richardson Phil lips Cliff Stan Bob John Cromwell Duff Derek Wilson Los Roberts George Eastwood and Mike Standard Ken Nelson will coach the lo cal entry with Jim Walker as his number one assistant Arn old Nelson Is captain and Frank Phillips trainer Executive mem- are Bill Brookes president Roily Manners secretary and Jack Robinson treasurer Newmarket games arc sched uled to June as follows May Newmarket at Aurora May Lindsay at Newmarket June Newmarket at Markham- Aurora Sec onds at Newmarket June Newmarket at Brampton The deepest river in Canada is the in Quebec pro vince In some places it has a depth of Keswick are ready to take on all comers in the Lake Simcoe league Well present much the same lineup as last year Practices are sched uled to underway in a few days reports coach Ken Hod- gins Harold Smith has been return ed as manager Ken is coach and Art King is club presi dent The will go with their onetwo punch pitching combin ation of Harold Judd Smith and Claude Pollock Efficient miltman Bob Cook will resume his spot back of the plate Sched uled to protect the infield picket line are Ken Don Smith and Jerry Pol lock The club will present one of the strongest outfields in the league with Ed Chadwick Tom my Hare Claude Pollock and rookie Peter on deck to haul down the long shots dished up by opposition- swing ers JUNIOR PLAYERS REPORT MONDAY Allyoung ladies interested in playing softball in a town league arc asked to report to the fair grounds Monday May at It is- hoped to again operate a fourteam league as In the past two years Captains wilt be named and teams selected Monday There fore gals if you want to play ball Ihis season better be at the fair grounds sharp at pm Mon day of moderation I if

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