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The Era Wed August Hasketts Hash By George Haskell Dodgers thumped Brooklin Alcan NEWMARKET Sam W the immediately Summer is half shot and before the week is out some of our district ball teams will be Shot right out of existence Reason the OASA playoffs are away the earliest start on record Reason the largest OASA entry list record A record teams This Is a jump of over last year Biggest increase is in the minor series North Gwillimbury is in for the first time with entries in bantam and division The two Gwillimburys North and East hooK up in first round OASA series over the next two weeks in and bantam Its the luck of the draw but the best two midget B teams Zephyr and East bury are elected to meet in the first round of the midget B playoffs The winner could go all the way The East at the moment are having their problems It is unlikely their ace pitcher Jackson will be able to pitch Lome had the mis fortune to burn his pitching hand in an industrial accident Zephyr has Bill the rising south paw ace ready to go as well as Paul Case Tom Holledge Art Ferguson and John Hop are directing the East entry sponsored by the Newmarket Legion Mike and lies along with Arnold all all- star ball players in their day are guiding Zephyr Mike rates as one of the best second Backers in the game today The Zephyr East Gwillimbury series should prove a dandy Second game is at Newmarket August 7 at In the other midget B series in Zone of the Vandorf meets Harold Both man and Norm Foster are Vandorf directors Roger Paul is the top in the A division of the Newmarket Town Softball League Pauls pitching has carried to four straight wins They are present town league A division leaders and are likely to remaining i their lofty plateau for some time Ontario Provincial Police were happy last week They picked up their first point of gaining a tie with Merchants Newmarket Legion with Bob Groves and Ken Metcalfe handling the coaching and managing are Newmarket Town League divi sion leaders York Curlers now Con cretes are second with AuroraAlcana running third The town league is going well Unfortunately one team in the A divi sion was starting to get a bit too serious Wo had a talk with them and hope it will have the desired results If not we can drop them and form one six team league It is unfortunate we cant locate an eighth team to balance up two four division groups Next year expect it wont be any problem to find eight teams ready to go We suggested to Jerry that East Heights should round up a team for this season Its a good time to get into the act All the teams are in the playoffs An entry at this time would get the club into the playdown excitement Speaking about excitement the New market after a two week rest one because of rain a second because of the Civic holiday should be ready to blast off on the Church of the Nazarenc are league eaders with Bankers In hot pursuit We vote the Newmarket soccer Club the team having the most fun in mushball hey dont worry whether they win or lose They have a lot of fun Theresa no complaining if has made it We had a visitor In from Windsor last week wanting to know all about our game the rules etc We passed along the necessary information Recently in one ball game had a player from Antigua in the BWI Francisco Jude playing with the soccer club How is that for long distance Francisco is likely to take the mushball game back to his homeland Wouldnt it be nice to shoot down to Antlnqua in Jan to play for the world championship Jerry Barley headman with East Gwil limbury Tigers is talking to himself Jerry cant figure out why the Tigers cant win a contest They have one tie this season We can just hear him well you cant beat the Looking around and about as summer goes into Its second half find Zephyr Spud Kings leading the North York Senior Fastball League Newmarket Rays won at home last Tuesday over to hold onto fourth place in the Beaches League UpShopshya are leading Oshawa Tonys second Theyre the teams to beat with Newmarket Rays Knob Hill Bowl and Tube- craft scrapping for third place Pine Orchard Lougheed Well Drillers country mile in front in the Lake Simcoe Softball League Theyll finish first and likely In Doug Cook and Norm Roberts a fine field- team and their batting order is filled to the brim with guys that can hit The club is a mix ture of young players and veterans The Drillers will take some beating Pleased to note Ron has return- i to the pitching mound with Aurora Merchants he Merchants were running second in the League until developed arm troubles Things wed like to see happen another season Understand are a request to join the Beaches League I 1970 Why not a north division to the Beaches ue with Richmond Hill is Newmarket Rays and Zephyr Spud Kings ouldnt that make for a great league and some flight fastball Wed see Dale Pegg Jerry Case Don Leo Rich and Bob Ik in action on the mound Something like an interlocking single hedule with the Toronto and Oshawa teams in he Beaches League would round out the picture NEWMARKET Practice 630 tomorrow morning was the shout from the Dodgers July 31 as they departed the fair grounds diamond alter los ing to in a Newmarket Town Soft ball League game Batting practice indeed was the immediate Dodger need They could only muster five hits off fire bailer Roger Paul the est town league struck out Bob Dove though claiming he learned most of his pitching know how from Norm failed to baffle the Dodger hitters They scrambled It hits including home run shots by Dave Claringbold and Charlie Larry Hickman hit a triple and Roger Paul had two bits Dodgers had their main bout of blues In the sixth when Lacals pushed four juicy errors with Roger Paul and Rich Bell blngles run in the sixth on a series of wild pitches unleashed by Roger Paul John Vale walked and came home v i a the Bob Gunn and Mark Senecal drew walks with two out in the seventh before scoring on Joe second hit Bob Gunn Bob Dove and Randy split other Dodger blngles NEWMARKET Concretes might have bases to beat AlcanAurora in a second division Newmarket Town Softball League game Pitcher hits and wins were it as Don Glover led Concrete with a steady pitching effort Glover hit sixth Sam White the Alcan specialist was the victim of the Con- display of rejuvenated power hod trou ble getting the Concretes out in second third and sixth as the winners pound ed homo with eight six and five runs scored four in the second three in In the singles Home run were dished up to Ron Croutch who had two and Don Williams with one Harold Farr came In at second after John had to depart for activities and immediately became the fir without a glove had a in his second appear ance Jack Mills and Joe Murphy stroked other Con crete Alcans used Jack V mine Harry Williamson and Ken Wells hits to score their four second frame runs Fleming and Williamsons built the three run fourth Bob Sanderson scor ed the final Alcan run Director Some fast action at first base Is seen In the Merchants League and defeated Germans Dodgers 13 to Shown here Is first baseman Larry Hickman attempting to make a putout A point at last a tie NEWMARKET Ontario Provincial Police are happy They have their first point the last inning tie Merchants 1313 in a first division Newmarket Town Softball League July 30 game at the fairgrounds Defeat looked the boys in blue in the eye ame to bat in They needed I tie six to win They dood it Terry Stone strol led Charlie Stewart singled and Harold Fawcett scored both mates with a hit With two out Ter ry Hall got aboard when hit by the pitcher Chris Whe- Chris Clarke dou bled and scored the tying run on an infield out before Alan Giles pegged out Grant Scharfe short of first to end the game at 13all Ciamplni start ed for OP working until Harold trotted to the mound in the sixth Ken Kyle using a sterling brand of spot pitching went all way for Merchants Bob Pegg and Chris hammered Kyles pitches with authori ty counting three hits each to lead OPP 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