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f Jacques Sets New Sport News Lake Race Attracts Hundreds Of Spectators Cooks Bay Swim Winner Elaine Jacques extends a helping hand to second place face Ricky Robertson at the finish line of the Lake Hasketts HASH By GEORGE Newmarket Sports There an old saying nothing Is new Everything has been done before Your can well believe that now Jim my Gibson who remember much of the Hubs history for the past sixty years can well re member the first regatta on Fairy Lake It was held in reports Jimmy The event was staged to officially open the town water works building Jimmy recalls the event quite vividly There were boat races a tub race and a greasy pole- climb The young of that day also had an opportunity to try to catch a greased pig Jimmy reports everyone had a wonderful time Jimmy thinks It is a wonderful idea to have an other regatta Every citizen we have talked to feels that it would be an excellent idea to get a clean up Fairy Lake campaign going Legion sportsmen led by Ivan Ruddock Jack Duncan Syd Cliff Davidson and Charles Lloyd are all enthused about the possibilities of making the regatta program a centen nial highlight This writer thought possibly there might be trouble securing events However entries for the canoe Jousting canoe race across the lake swim and contests have been coming in satisfactorily Dont let this stop you from entering Your entry will he cate in Newmarket Imagine with all the new fangled washing machines the ladies have today the old wash tub is a scarce com modity Another suggestion comes our attention That is for a fish derby What made us think of this was seeing several busy around Fairy Lake the other morning early Suppose star- fish derby a week before centennial starts and give a prize to the fisherman hauls in the largest fish durinr the week McNeil Dodgers Dairy and Legion are embroiled in a seething battle for the league lead Below that is a fas developing scramble for the other playoff positions Playoff arrangements as up at present call for sudden- death firstround contests Thi scribe this is a mistake A team can have an off night and boom theyre out for good where as using a system gives a team an opportunity to come back Tried our best to get the town league spare list erased It was no dice Still think the spare lift should be rubbed out for the playoffs 11 could mean and it has this season before now that a member of a team sat on the bench while his club substi tuted a player from the spare list Winner of his years cross Lake swim from Belle Ewart Beach was Island Elaine three mile stretch in one hour minutes 22 seconds beating last years winning time by minutes For setting a new record she received the Vita- Krisp trophy donated by Joe Price and for being first girl to finish she received from Conn Smythe the Conn Smythe Tro phy In second place- with a time of one hour 18 minutes se conds was Ricky of Virginia Beach As first boy to finish he received the Lamport Trophy from Sue Lamport daughter of the chairman The race is sponsored by Albert Schelstraete owner of Sunset Lodge Orchard Beach and Joe Price owner of VitaKrisp potato chips The race is for amateur swimmers from to 18 years A calmer lake mav have been responsible for a quicker cros sing The first six swimmers all bettered the time set last year of by Frances Pierce of Point who finished fourth this year with a time of Elaine who lives on Snake in the summer and in Toron to in the winter admitted that like all members of the Lake- Swimming Club which in cludes Marilyn Bell the first to conquer Lake Ontario she was of trying the Lake On tario swim Her coach in Toronto is Jim Currie one of Gus Ryders assistants Almost a thousand persons on both shores and in boats in the lake watched the swim Specta tors on shore were kept posted by ed the ship to shore phone on the officials boat The Good Ship Anne which was loaned for the race by the Levy family The Barrie boat patrolled the side of the course during the race Contestants left the dock at 310 when the starting gun was fired by Whipper Billy Watson Robertson took a quick lead close- followed by Elaine Jacques In minutes the field had spread to about 600 a d s in the boat crowded course The leaders were about 200 yards ahead At Elaine Jacques took the lead and kept it the rest of the way She was swimming at 65 strokes per minute which she to 85 for the finish One contestant Georgina McConaghy of Crescent Beach left the wa ter at this point With minutes left in the race Elaine had increased her lead to 300 yards and finished an easy- winner This is how the contestants fin ished 1st Elaine Jacques second Ricky Robertson 59 35 third Pat Hutchinson of Keswick fourth Fran ces Pierce fifth Ken Wil son 14 Orchard Beach sixth Don Wilson Orchard Beach seventh Norma Balfour Beach eighth John Henderson Or chard Beach ninth Mich el Gross of Balfour Beach tenth Laraine Duchek of Clarey Beach Eleventh Gerry Clarke of Orchard Beach 14616 twelfth Linda Mathicson of Orchard Beach 2114 thirteenth Marline Sinclair Glenwood Beach 45 Two swimmers McConaghy and j Spectators crowded the shore at Sunset Lodge to watch the the Lake Simcoe race Mike Gillan Sutton who OConnor did not finish the race DoNuts Meet Stouffville In North York Playdowns North York minor baseball i is at Stouffville Aug eague playoff arrangements j The second game in the Xv Others found it cooler and more exciting to watch the progress of the race from the water More than two dozen boats sailed along the course during the race Lake Simcoe League Lead Changes Hands Down Redmen To Top Pennant Race were announced this week by governor George In the junior series Newmarket DoNuts will meet while Eag les and Agincourt will square off in the other bracket of the semi finals Both series will be best of five affairs Games remaining in the New- marketStouffville series are as follows Aug 6 Newmarket at Stouffville Aug Stouffville at Newmarket Aug Newmarket at Stouffville The remaining games in the MarkhamAgincourt series are Aug 2 Agincourt at Aug Markham at Agincourt Aug Agincourt at Markham In Bantam Aurora and ville are scheduled to meet in a best of three A series while New market and Richmond Hill meet in a best of three set and Aurora were scheduled to open their series at Aurora last night Second game Rich mond Hill Newmarket Optimist series will be played at the fair grounds tonight at pm In A series Newmarket and Aurora will meet in a best of three semifinal set The first game of the set was scheduled for July 31 with the second game at Aurora Aug 2 In B series Richmond Hill are the combatants Se cond game in their series is at Richmond Hill tonight In all series peewec through to junior the teams are scheduled to toss before the series starts to de cide which team plays host in the deciding game In the NewmarketRichmond Hill bantam series since both teams are classed as A minor the series winner will be the North York league standard hearers in the Ontario Baseball Association welcome get it in today Con- It could also mean as the play- tact Ivan Ruddock Jack Duncan or yours truly for information About the only thing no one seems to be ready to tackle is the greasy pole climb Sounds like just the job for Colonel Basher Bert Morrison has promised to be on hand with a couple of mo tor boats Jerry Hugo swim instructor along the Lake Simcoe south shore beaches will be chief for the proceedings Almost forgot Grandma and Pierre from wilds of Northern Quebec will be here for the logrolling contest have let it be known they intend to dunk every Hub citizen who dares to test their log rolling ability There are four or five entries In for the across the lake swim Editor Jack Struthers will be a starter if Slim refuses to represent the Era and Express Councillor George has promised to go if yours truly will make the swim Theres two more entries you can count on Were in tiptop shape and ready to go Incidentally a note to all across the lake swim contestants Anyone found dragging a foot on bottom will promptly be dis qualified Waterwings too arc definitely out The canoe race will start at the Black Bridge Peter Pear- crossing Ivan Ruddock and Toddy Mosier have indicated theyll make a preliminary run of the course this weekend They claim they can make the run in under minutes Personally I think they can do it con sidering they may have to make a portage or two out around Ed- Dennis farm idea of a tub race as men- by Jimmy Gibson strikes a responsive chord Wonder how many old wash tubs we can progress and more teams are eliminated that the teams still in the hunt use a number of spares until finally the teams in the finals arc most ly of the best spare listers This we feel would be defeat ing the purpose of the town lea gue namely to give as many fel lows a chance to ball Think it over men It is still not too late to change this situation The pennant battle and scraps for the playoff spots scorns to have put a strain on the players Umpire Shorty Keats had to chuck a Brad Walker man Don and a Ted Greenwood out of a recent game for over jawing It means a game suspension for both bad chaps The battle for the town lea gues top spot appears from our vantage point as pitching versus batting and fielding McNeils Bob Marriott is the lea gue top while Cecil An drews Newmarket Dairymen have a power packed hitting ag gregation while Myles Mclnnis Legion nine are about the sharp est fielding club in the circuit It should prove an interesting scrap for the league pennant I notice the fans are taking note of the sizzling race and are start ing to pop over to the fair grounds more frequently The Lake Leaguers specializing year after year in seething pennant scraps have another cooking this season It looks like a fourway struggle with Ab Pine Orchard Toppers Allen Lockios Zephyr Blues Joe Cases Mounties ond Ken Keswick all grouped around the league lead position All four are lin ing up their best artillery for a last ditch drive to cop the pen nant Ross Chapmans Rockets look to have clinched a playoff berth Ross reports the Rockets are doing amazingly well Remember I called them to fin ish ninth Of course we didnt take him seriously for a minute Thats five of the six playoff positions doled out Who gets the sixth and final spot That is the question Outside of Keswick legion all the remaining clubs that would be Willow Beach and Vandorf with the latter two flub- nursing a faint hope all have a chance with a point edge over Willow Beach appear to have the inside track It is going to prove very inter esting to see which team cops that sixth position In both cases it adds up to a busy and eventful session along the Newmarket town league and Lake league basepaths before the playoff contenders emerge Hope our Office Specialty and Dixon Pencil friends are enjoying a good vacation Make it a safe one friends sports day Sat urday Rex Smith in charge of the tourney has eight teams lined up for the compe tition including Green Acres from the Newmarket town league Green Acres expect to add sev eral town league allstars to their roster Aurora soft- ball magnate was kind enough to make a crack about the boys from the Nwmarket hush league recently Maybe will be ready to eat those words now McNeil Dodgers recently tied Kettleby the PeelYorks second place club on the Kettleby Ontario Baseball Association Information Twelve North York minor lea gue teams arc slated to see action in the Ontario Baseball Associ ation playoffs Subject to executive ap proval all Newmarket minor baseball clubs will be classified this season for the first time with A minor ratings The teams involved in this shift of rating will be Newmar ket DoNuts junior Avenue Cleaners midget Op timist bantams and the Re creation Commission sponsored All four Newmarket clubs are destined to see action except possibly the Optimist bantams The latter team must bent Rich mond Hill in North York play off action to qualify is coach and is of the junior DoNuts Cliff Gunn is coach Ralph man agersponsor of the Avenue Clea ner midgets Neil MacTaggart is coach Ross manager of the Newmarket Optimist Club soon red bantams Bill and Brian Million are at the helm of the The three Aurora teams Thorn ton Brownings midgets Norm Stundcns bantams and Hayes pecwee have a rating All three are assured of OBA playoff activity as they are the only B class teams in the circuit Other North York teams sub ject to approval will carry the following classifications ju nior Morkham juvenile Stouffville bantam C D The first OBA games for the and bantam teams are Most amazing feature of this years Lake League penn ant race is the way the league lead changes hands Last week it was Keswick Redmen on top and the week before that Zephyr Now Joe Cases Mounties have sneaked into first place By next week as the league crews enter the home stretch it may be Abbic Pine Orchard side in the lead Tlie skirmishes were hot heavy last week Pine Orchard slipped a bombshell into Zephyr Blues camp Monday as they scor ed three deuce frames to upset Allen potato diggers 62 Blues had Bill and El- wood Litncr going in opposition to Josh Preston Garnie Williams Howie Ash Bill Dike and Preston himself I socked the apple well for Ills win- 1 Litncr whacked a homer and Clark Arnold Ken Taylor Bill and Harry claimed other Blues hits Zephyr and Ballantrae had a couple of red hot meetings last week The Blues behind Ron onehitter Harry triple Clark Arnolds two hits and timely clubbing by Bill and Bill Lockic gained a home win The loss went to Forfar Clare Longhursts hit spoil Kcst- nohit dreams had timely hits as Belhaven shaded Keswick Legion It was a win for speedster Bill Hen ry over Legions Don Harper John Ronnie Mount Alberts fivebyfive receiver had two home runs Harold Harper and Paul Mainprize pitched well as Mount Albert shaded Keswick Le- Legion Team Smothers Newmarket Services diamond Maybe the boys from scheduled for August Midget the bush will to teach Au- will start Dairymen a lesson before August The junior teams the snow flits How about It have until Aug to prepare for Mlowtf Brian Stokes George Green and I Elmer Paisley hit runscoring nd sixthinning doubles in a four- run outburst as Mount Albert tripped Keswick fi2 at Mount Albert Thursday Teams were even 2all at the end of the fifth as Craig Case and Rcdmens Harold Smith were on the beam and Ed whacked extra for the Scoring seven fourth inning runs Willow Beach rallied to nip Vandorf Don Camerons triple and Joey Carpenters double powered the Beach rally Cecil McNeill had relief help from Bill Ego to win Eric Barber Whim Patten- den had keyblow hits for Harry Lavender was a two- hit man for the Vans while Don Trivett dug in for two Beach Big game of the week was the willow sawoff won it After pitch- It was strictly a pitchers night as scored a fourth-inn- fill fcgo walked four and run to defeat Zephyr Ivan Rye Bill Blues nailed one hit off Ballan- Davidson sngl- soeed merchant Frank Hon- scored seven game That hit was Harry double Clare and Kn Card notched three hits of Ron Kcstcr tripled but was out trying to shoot home with an insurance marker Ross Chapmans Rockets made a trip into Pine Or chard badlands hut came out well scalped Doug Card in playoff form chilled on three Rocket hits all fell to Ron Croutchs educated swine Pegg Nobby Ash Williams and Bill Dike cut handsome hit figures for the win ners scored six early runs to defeat Willow Beach winning runs Bill Henry was the winner al lowing six hits Beach gave out with a threerun sixth frame on Dock Munros double Cecil Mc Neills single Don Camerons bin- and Don Trivetts double SPORTS CALENDAR FAIR GROUNDS West Diamond In a way its a blessing that Mclnnis Canadian Legion is to have a few days rest between town league game s Otherwise they might be too tired to put in an appearance after they ran themselves into exhaustion beat ing Andy Sinclairs Newmarket Services 2 at the fair grounds on Friday In crushing the Servicemen the Legion compiled hits which included John grand slam firsti n n g home run three doubles and a flock of dinky sin gles that fell just inches in front of the frustrated Servicemen fielders All these hits were good for an incredible bases At feet per base they added up to feel of running Or if you boil it down its approximately three quarters of a mile Some of the Legion veterans arent just as frisky as they used to be so theres small reason they were a tired bunch after covering all this ground The Legion seemed to be using seeing eye bats to jump on the pitching of Andy Sinclair and Phillips Just about every Legionnaire got at least one hit while the more eager Legion swatters such as Bill Johnston Bruce Charlie Van- Zant Fred Don Burch and Ted T d m a had a merry time going for two or more hits apiece While the Legion bats were ringing out a merry round of base knocks Ted Heather and his sixth inning helpmate Ted Tidman were chopping down the Service on seven bingles Andy Sinclairs first inning home run that followed Cliffe Phillips sin gle gave the Servicemen their on ly two runs John who was ticketed to get but one hit got it just at the right time It came in the first inning and it was a base circling blow with the- bases populated The Legion just missed the scoring boat in one inning That was the fourth They climbed aboard the run scoring rocket for three second two third four fifth and one sixth inning runs to put the hex on Sinclairs Servicemen Barrie Loses Second Game To Newmarket Ladies Team Aug 7 pm softball and district ladies Aug 2 pm softball town league McNeil Dodgers vs Brad Walker Aug pm town Monday Mimes was the 1 league Bell Telephone McNeil cket routegoer The Dodgers gave Cecil McNeills best pitches a going over Bill Ego completed Diamond Beach hurling chore Aug pm baseball Ron Bob Mill- North York bantam playoff Dave Harvey Ed t Richmond Hill vs Newmarket Ron Beckett kicked in with a timists bundle of Rocket bingles Dick Sinclairs threebase sock and Mc Neills hit were Beach bright spots stayed in for six frames with Don Glover in a fine relief role as outlast ed Vandorf 75 A sixrun sixth chapter outburst framed around Dave Harveys homer Ron Becketts classy double powered the Rocket assault Eric Barber Bill Kingdon Doug Woods and Whim checked in with Vandorf hits behind Bill Richard sons chucking homered Bern ard Kay and Irwin Davidson dou bled and Bert Comer and Albert at Zephyr South Diamond Aug I pm town league vs Lyons Aug 7 pm softball town league Green Acres Newmar ket Dairy Aug pm town league YMCA vs LAKE LEAGUE Aug Keswick at Aug at Keswick Mount Albert at Willow Beach Aug ft Keswick Legion at Queensville Aug Zephyr at Pine Orchard hi Bal Aug Vandorf at Mount A Barrie scribe covering a re cent NewmarketBarrio Flyers ladies contest remarked that it was utterly fantastic that Newmarket should whip the Fly ers right in So now our upnorth scribe is going to have to say it was just utterly utterly fantastic because the local ladies it again here Thursday This time to the tunc of Thursdays scrap here was stric tly a thriller Helping of course to make it thus was the usual pitching duel that goes with meeting between our own Sarah Barradell and Flyers flash Dor othy Miller Our Sarah came out best one She had the Flyers stymied all the way and only let down the bars twice to allow to score single runs in the first and fourth rounds broke from the wire with a leadoff round run on Dor ian Parkers single and Barbara Jenkins triple The VanZantWatt company claimed the equalizer in the sec ond It was Mary Osborne scoring after singling on Barbara Gwill- wellaimed single The locals made it in the third Sarah who has been having marked success at the plate of late started it off with a double Shyrlca Preston provided the hit that scored her pitching mate and then veteran outfielder slammed into a Dot Miller pitch for a sin gle to chase Shyrlea Preston home Barbaru who posted a perfect evening at bat four for four homered in the fifth for a Newmarket insurance run grabbed their second run in the fourth on Ellis triple Looking down the local batting parade following Barbara iams in the hit statistics were battery mates Dean and Sarah Both contributed two hits each while the other Newmarket fell to Shyr Preston Lois and Mary Osborne At Barrie to put across their big win the locals applied the clincher with a fourrun fourth- inning outburst Barbara Watts home run was the turning point in the big frame Hits by Helen Watt Mary Osborne and Colleen Cain provided the help required by Sarah Barradell to post an im pressive pitching win over Dor othy Miller and the Flyers Home runs by Marg Ellis and Dorian Parker were the hits that I kept Sarah from regist ering a shutout over the Flyers