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Photos by John Cole UMPIRE HONORED Parade opens minor baseball NEWMARKET Newmarket Mayor Bob inly batter to get four strikes Saturday Heights qualifies four for OFSSA School led local schools at the Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletics track and field meet held here Tuesday May qualifying four athletes for the Ontario Federation of Secondary School Athletics meet The OFSSA Irack and field meet will be held at Centennial Park in Etobicoke Friday and Saturday Qualifying for Huron Heights were Karen Strong who won the junior girls discus with a throw of metres Allison Clarke with a throw of Bob Hart in senior high jump and pole vault with leaps of 6 1 and and Brian Murrain in the open 1500 steeplechase with a time of Fred from King City Secondary School won qualify for the allOntario the midget high jump with a leap of 5 while Dan took top honors in the midget boys metres was second in senior girls shot put while Philp was second in the senior boys metres from Aurora High School set a new record in the midget girls 1500 metres with a lime Newmarket High School qualified three athletes Jamie Jackson was second in high jump but qualified because the second place finisher had qualified in a number of other events at an athlete is allowed compete in three events Andrew Smith qualified for the senior Huron Heights Secondary School student Rob Hart satisfied smile after winning the senior boys pole vault with a leap of feet Hart also won the senior high jump clearing the bar at six feet one inch He holds the Huron Heights record Nubbins also nan he senior tO0O His til the Association opened its season with a 10gamc schedule at the Fairgrounds Following a parade of the associations teams from Lions Park to the Fairgrounds Mayor had the honor of batting out the first ball of the season The pitching of NBA past president Jock foiled him for three pitches but then the mayor cracked a solid hit over the heads of the players gathered on the field for he opening The featured the presentation of an engraved silver bat to Mel Roberts the most devoted umpire Mr Roberts umpired more than 150 games Karen Strong of Huron Heights concentrates during Junior girts shot put the lie started off the 1975 campaign Saturday by calling three games The opening day results ATOMS Home runs by Steve and Eric led White Sox to a victory over Pirates Bill Grant had a homer and double and Brent Stone belted a homer for Pirates Giants blasted three runs en route to a triumph over angels Harvey Smith David Mitchell and John Graham each clouted homers for the winners while Meyer had a four- bagger for Angels Stevenson had two doubles for Cardinals In the other atom game Mots stopped Astros Scott Cole had a big day at the plate to lead Tigers to a of Orioles in the added a triple white Chris and Richard Schmidt turned strong pitching performance for Tigers David Allen and Gary Burke turned in a solid pitching job for Red Sox in their victory over Royals Bob drove in two runs for the win ners while Paul Elliott played well defensively or Royals BANTAMS Strong pitching dominated in the Twins 53 verdict over Braves in the bantam division Todd Adams struck out seven and cracked a double for Twins who also got a double from Ed Kennedy Mark Gray had seven strikeouts for Braves Yankees staged a late rally to dump Phillies David Kennedy and Scott Radford combined lo pilch a two hitter for Yankees a new entry in the division from Dana had Iwo hits and Ken nedy and Mark Burrows each cracked a double for the win- in the day Yankees recorded their second victory by downing the Cubs 116 Hick Sooley struck out nings for the win leading hitter had homers and John double and single Hugh Alcorn had a double and single for the Vandorf Cubs another new entry in the NBA this year Newmarket juniors belt Tottenham 196 NEWMARKET Newmarket juniors went on a batting binge to rout Tottenham for their first South Simcoe Baseball League victory last week then dropped a decision to Orillia Majors in their home opener Sunday The Newmarket club sponsored by Phecol Mechanical Contracting Ltd bashed out 16 hits against Tottenham to back Scott Murrays pitching Dave Miller went four-for- including a triple to pace the Newmarket attack Murray Blight and Glenn Needier each belted three hits with Blight contributing a tworun homer Orillia Majors broke open a 21 game with two runs in the sixth inning on Sunday Tom Horlon making his first start in six years pitched a strong game for five frames allowing six hits Newmarkets only run scored on Dennis single and Needlers booming double to left hit would have been a 350foot home run if the new fence had been erected The fence is scheduled to be installed this week Midgets edged 43 the bottom of the sixth The home team picked up a run in the sixth to set the stage for the winning rally Scott pitched the first four innings for Newmarket allowing one hit and striking out six Alex Haskell finished fanning three Dave and Paul Climpson had Newmarket s only hits Newmarket midgets play their home games on Monday evenings at the Fairgrounds Cripps joins Rays as field manager Newmarket that he would take of the Ontario Fastball League who may be the most famous manager in Canada takes up the position of Field Manager which has been vacant since Ron Martin was transferred to the west coast by his company Cripps led the now defunct Richmond Hill Dynes to the world fastball championship in 1971 and says he intends to the same with the Newmarket learn which has won the title once and were finalists last season First stop on that world ladder is the AllOntario tournament which is being held In Niagara Falls at the end of June In his customary manner Casey says hell win the tournament with the Ive got the best lefthander in the game in Bill and everyone knows what Bab Domik can do to a batter In addition Ive got a club that just wont stop hitting managed the Dynes for years while they won three Canadian championships In addition to the world title Prior to that lie led a Toronto team Pharmacy to the Intermediate A Ontario Championship Born in Ontario played semiprofessional baseball with teams from Mines and Mines before Inking an interest in fastball