The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

p9 w the stourrylue tksuhe tfandiy apri 9 1959 mokk than just a hockey game it is little wonder that there is a noticeable swing in fan support behind the minor hockey entries in provincial playoff competition during the past few weeks arenas throughout ontario have been boasting crowds exceeding one thousand spectators for bantam midget and juvenile contests in the town of beeton the minor teams have outdrawn the inter mediate entry 3 to 1 stouffvilles attendance on saturday night for the bantam final was one of the largest of the season a closer contest at blenheim might have seen a packed house here for the return tilt minor hockey fans do not expect to see any razzledazzle plays they do however expect to see two clubs give their best thats all they ak and in the majority of kids games thats what they receive im sorry to say however that the same story does not hold true in intermediate ranks minor hockev even goes much deeper than the scene of twelve players battling for a provincial title the sportsman like conduct of the players the joys and sorrows of individual performers and the aftergame hand shakes all tends to boost this calibre of sport above the level of oha ranks how many times would you see two individual clubs congratulate their goal tender at the completion of a championship final thats what happened here on saturday night stouflviue had won the game blenheim had won the series how many times does a rival netminder receive a standing ovation from partisan spectators thats what happened in blenheim how many times does a defeated team host their opponents with a post- game reception that was the scene in stouffvilles masonic hall on saturday night these are the small but important gestures that give minor sport its fine reputation these are the factors which prompt team supporters to drive hundreds of miles to witness a sixtyminute game directing the course of a minor hockey entry along a provincial playoff trail is the greatest satisfaction any coach can experience just ask hal gibson unequalled support the claremont hockey club is the worthy holder of the stouffviile community league title although the players and their management deserve a great deal of credit for their uphill tattle from a cellar position to the group championship some word must be said for the unequalled support of their enthusiastic fans when the club was mired in the league basement early in the season the spectators still outnumbered the fan support of other entries 2 to 1 for a time it appeared likely that the team might retain the lowly position when week after week it was knocked off by opposing clubs the fans never gave up hope one could hardly blame them for showing frenzied en thusiasm at the conclusion of friday nights final contest theres no denying the fact that claremont spectators had a great deal to do with the success of the league they not only turned out in strong numbers but they exercised their vocal cords to the breaking point it is true that the claremont entry boasted the largest population of any centre in the circuit but in this day and age that does not necessarily mean that the residents will support their club claremont fans can be justly proud of their newcrowned champs the team should be equally proud of its vociferous fandom victoria square news mrs w sandle park the park committee held a meeting in the victoria square community hall on tuesday evening last week with fifteen members in attendance mens banquet the annual mens banquet sponsored by the board of stew ards of the victoria square un ited church was held in the sun day school room on friday eve ning of last week with a good attendance the dinner was in charge of the younger members of the wa who are to be con gratulated for the fine way in which they handled it guest speaker was mr j m fraser fd electrical equipment tv radio repairs to all makes washing machine parts service neville appliances vour admiral iowrev organ dealer main si vicepresident of the canadian national exhibition who gave an illustrated talk on his trip around the world which was very much enjoyed by all brownies on saturday morning tawny owl barbara hardief and the brownies went on a hike to heises sugar bush which they very much enjoyed before the hike six of the older girls in the brownie group met at the home of dianne donnelly where mrs donnelly showed the group how to pot a plant then they gave each brownie and the three leaders a plant which they had potted y p u on wednesday evening a num ber of the young people of the victoria square charge attend ed the york presbytery young peoples union banquet held in the keswick united church those from here who attended were rev a f binnington al an snider and donald boynton the young people from the vic toria square charge conducted the worship service which was led by joy fuller alan snider read the scripture lesson and don boynton led in prayer w m s the victoria square wms has been invited to attend the easier thankoffering meeting of unionville wms to be held in the unionville united church on thursday april 9th at 230 pm the guest speaker will be dr davison of indore india the victoria square wms group is entertaining members of the mission band explorers and their mothers in the church on saturday april 11 at 215 pm the mission band and ex plorers will participate in the programme and there will be a picture shown this takes the place of the regular april wms meeting a social half hour will follow will the wms mem bers please provide a good attendance is hoped for the annual church service of stouftville phone 346 lltf the wms will be held on sun- moiid hill saniisms lose series 149 present trophy to capt mclean two teams shared championship hockey glory on saturday night blenheim the ultimate winners were presented with the fred c waghorne cup emblematic of the omha bantam c title stouftville received the vice presidents trophy mr geo haskett of new market made the presentations blenheims mickey gray and stouffvilles barry mclean accepted the individual awards on behalf of their clubs stouftville took the return tilt 76 but trailed on the round 149 it marked stouffvilles second successive year in the bantam finals it was blenheims first championship stole the show- ross brown stouffvilles midget bantam stole the show a virtual unknown the diminutive right winger on the locals secondstring line whipped three successive pucks behind goalie richard rumble in the blenheim cage the three tallies were counted in two minutes and fiftyseven seconds linemate bill corner picked up assists on two of browns goals his first was unassisted in the twogame series the agile forward collected four of stouffvilles nine goals he fired a single tally at blenheim he received a standing ovation seesaw battle only at one point in the game did stouftville threaten to overtake blenheims six goal advantage built up in the series opener following ross browns three goal barrage in the third period barry mclean hit the target on a pass from roger forsyth to give the homesters a 75 lead in the game they trailed on the round 139 mickey grays drive at 1320 ended any farfetched dream that stouffviile might pull a cham pionship victory out of the fire it was a 11 tie at the end of the first but blenheim held a 53 advantage going into the third two for miller stouffvilles firstline trio of roger forsyth jim miller and barry mclean collected four goals miller potted a pair forsyth and mclean each notched singles blenheim captain mickey gray and bob robertson split their teams six goal effort forsyths goal was a picture effort rearguard garry gall planted a perfect pass on barry mcleans stick at centre he flicked a pass over to forsyth who batted it into the twine mclean was the workhorse on millers first tally he completed a rinklong dash and relayed the disk to his linemate a fifteen foot drive found an opening in rumbles ar mour forsyth was credited with an assist on millers second goal mclean found himself standing unprotec ted in front of the blenheim net at 620 of the final frame and promptly blasted the puck into the twine always dangerous blenheim proved to be dangerous at all times any noticeable letdown by the homesters resulted in a tally for the visitors two blenheim goals came with defenceman garry gall in the penalty box gall pushed one shot into his own net when he attempted to clear a rebound the foreign ice appeared to have little effect on blenheims team effort they crowded stouffviile into their own zone in the early minutes of the first frame wayne oldham came up with another stellar performance in the locals net his play following the game was the main topic of conversation in the blen heim dressing room six chances stouffviile had at least six good chances to score that could have meant the difference between a cham pionship and a runnerup position they were either blocked by goalie rumble or missed the target in the second period roger forsyth bounced the puck off the goal post after he levelled a slap shot at the blenheim cage ross brown had two closein shots go wide and was blocked on another determined bid midway through the final frame jim miller broke in on the blenheim net on two occasions but was stopped each time blen heim had two players in the cooler at the time in similar fashion the visitors could easily have added two or three goals to their total oldham looked good on pointblank drives by bob robertson and bob fleming robertson also glanced a drive off the post in the second period suitable conclusion the stouffviile management returned the hospital ity to their western visitors in a friendly social gathering at the masonic hall immediately following the game a few of the close to 200 faithful followers returned to blenheim after the contest the remainder including the players remained overnight in a yonge street motel beai bsmmhism 76 day april 19th at 230 pm the guest speaker will be rev f muir from japan the cgit and the explorers will be pro viding the special music sunday school there will be a meeting of the teachers and officers of the sunday school on friday eve ning april 10th at 830 in the sunday school room church news the sermon theme on sunday was placed in this together ness the reception of new mem bers was also held when the following were received into the membership of the church by transfer mrs k petty from claremont united church mrs john mccague from st marys anglican church rich- 4feah4a4bh4feawl madbjla4buaadfemia4bh4k4fcj lets play golf this year at w i club vandorf pa 74651 18 holes complete club house facilities t i i i i i i i i i i membership initiation 50 annual fee 50 junior 25 daily feesi weekday 150 weekends and holiday 2 for information keith nkbet box 1216 aurora 5 j lj skating club dance april 17 the annual stouffviile skat ing club dance will be held in the veterans hall stouffviile on friday evening april 17th at nine oclock mrs margaret gough a dance routine expert will direct the evenings entertainment there will be both modern and old- time dancing both teenagers and adults are invited to attend the proceeds will be used by the local skating club to pur chase additional ice time and professional instruction the club is anxious that member ship fees should not be increas ed next year trophy to finalists for the second straight year finals last seasor they were blenheim pictured here mr trophy to team captain bar- a stouffviile bantam entry defeated by shallow lake geo haskett of newmarket rv mclean has advanced to the omha tiiis year they lost out to presents the vice presidents claremont wins c claremont are the new cham pions of the stouffviile com munity hockey league paced by a brilliant bob cherry the redshaw evans aggregation chalked up a 107 victory over ringwood on friday night a large crowd of over 500 fans witnessed the thrilling game mr gar lehman a member of the stouffviile arena board presented the trophy to clare mont captain lloyd pascoe both teams remained on the ice during the presentation cere mony ice nine men ringwood could ice only nine men rearguard clare fockler was confined to bed and right- winger jack mehaffey was call ed out of town in spite of their manpower shortage jake har mon and company put up an all- out effort although on one oc casion they trailed by 4 goals they never gave up two break away tallies by leftwinger joe lewis were picture plays he notched ringwoods first goal in the opening period bruce fockler hit for a three goal hat trick ross madill scored one nine points bob cherry shifted up on left wing as a fulltime forward started to roll at the five min ute mark of the first period ringwood couldnt stop him at the final whistle he had deposit ed six pucks behind goalie pine orchard mrs george wood was a re cent guest with her cousin in toronto and enjoyed dinner at the granite club mr and mrs rae mcclure myrna and danny visited mrs mcclures parents in thornbury on friday the wav of union church met at mrs james hopes home for their regular meeting mrs cody gave a paper on the eas ter lily and its significance misses evelyn and june john ston spent the holidays with their family at port hope we extend our sincere sym pathy to mrs john bosworth sr and family in the death of mr bosworth service was held on tuesday from aurora funer al home with burial at king city spring is surely here mrs h mcclure heard a frog on satur day night don johnston was home from guelph oac for easter week end then returned to write ex aminations last week good luck i i don 1 editors mail claremont ont april 6 1959 to the editor the stouffviile tribune sir i would like to take this op portunity of expressing my per sonal thanks to the members of the stouffviile lions club for the effort they have put toward in organizing and pro- j moling hockey for the young- sters in stouffviile and district j parents i am sure through- out the district must share my sentiments when i say that our children gain many advantages from organized hockey in addi tion to those directly associated with the game itself such as lessons in sportsmanship disci pline and conduct what many people fail to realize probably is the terrific sacrifices in per sonal time and money that coaches managers etc are re quired to make in order for this organization to exist although i would not want anyone to be offended by mentioning some names and omitting others i want to pay special tribute to hal gibson and bob bangay for their splendid job of coaching the bantams these men along with don davis ken wagg lloyd jennings and many others have contributed many hours of their time so that our children might benefit i would also like to commend the sports editor of the trib une for his fine coverage of all hockey games from pee wee right up to the community league the tribune should be proud of his sports page it is one of the best in closing i would like to wish the lions club every success with the hope that they continue their hockey program for many years grant taylor bruce smith and assisted on three others he blasted one shot off the top crossbar in the second period late in the open ing frame he ran into a ten minute misconduct penalty ringwoods bruce fockler and joe lewis counted singles dur ing his stint in the cooler dean evans and lloyd pascoe each potted a pair the performance of dean evans has been one of the features in the current playoff series he has scored 7 goals and picked up one assist for 8 points he is one of the clubs cleanest performers two klareups there were two flareups dur ing the contest bruce fockler a respected pugilist tangled with an equally rugged don benson in the second period fockler had little opportynity to prove his fistic ability but came out on top in the wrestling bout in the dying minutes of the game jake harmon and jack redshaw became embroil ed in a brief blueline brawl redshaw was banished with a major harmon received a min or brother merlin harmon was tagged with a ten minute mis- couduct penalty claremonts ron hedges handed out one of the stiffest checks of the con test he rocked ringwoods don mccurdy early in the first per- iod ringwoods ross madill was rolled by stan benson with a clean but hard block merlin harmon completed a nice de fensive move on a breakaway bid by claremonts dean ev ans in the final frame blocks 34 shots ringwood netminder bruce smith had anothei busy night he blocked 34 shots handling drives from the stick of forward bob cherry was alone a hair- raising ordeal although six cherry blasts evaded him he stopped an additional four siz zling shots smiths finest effort was a glove save in the third period on a cherry slapshot rival netminder earl pilkey handled 26 ringwood drives his best efforts came on shots from ted suzuki and merlin harmon in the first period and from bruce fockler and ross madill in the final frame torrid pace both clubs set a torrid pace from the opemrg bell the huge crowd roared their approval throughout the game the champion claremont team were showered with confetti by their partisan fans according to re ports the allnight revelry ex tended into the early hours of saturday morning ringwood concluded the hardfought series in a sportsmanlike manner both teams are expected back next season claremont are the worthy champions ringwood are worthy runnersup for the title officials polly minton and russ forfar handled the con test 1st period c cherry 545 c cherry 810 c pascoe s benson evans 1015 r lewis j harmon 1733 r b fockler j harmon 1945 2nd period 1055 1225 1508 c cherrypostill c evans cherry r madill suzuki r b fockler lewis 1704 3rd period c evans cherry 243 c cherry pascoe jones 415 c cherry pascoe 555 r b fockler madill j harmon 1010 c cherry wideman 1618 r lewis madill 1656 c pascoe cherry wideman 1705 r lewis b fockler madill 1915 mens town league ringers 66 red caps 62 sunoco 52 cardinals 51 big boppers 45 wild cats 42 rockets 35 monarchs 31 high single ken halstcd 272 high triple joe murray jr 806 7 10 7 9 community league scoring statistics g a ps b cherry claremont 20 10 30 r madill ringwood 8 7 15 l pascoe claremont 5 9 14 j lewis ringwood 10 4 14 b fockler ringwood 8 3 11 t suzuki ringwood 5 5 10 g jones claremont 3 j harmon ringwood 2 s wideman claret 2 d evans claremont 7 g lewis peachs 3 h malcolm brougham 5 g carter brougham 4 l disney brougham 4 m harmon ringwood 0 p byberg brougham 0 g carson brougham 2 s benson claremont 1 j harrison peachs 1 t williams brougham 1 g todd brougham 1 r stewart ballantrae 2 f hendy ballantrae 2 h forgie altona 1 d thomas peachs 1 m lewis peachs 1 p brown brougham 1 l wilson brougham 1 d mccurdy ringwood 0 d benson claremont 1 ft sent gifts to following the social gather ing in the masonic hall stouff viile at the conclusion of the bantam playoff game on satur day night presentations were made to the management by the club members gold tie pins and cuff links were presented to coach hal gibson mgrs ken wagg and bob bangay lloyd jennings and don davis the address was given by garry gall tenders are being called by the stouffviile road department for 1500 tons of crushed gravel for use on local thoroughfares tenders must be in by april 16 new teams want to enter community hockey league the doors of stouffvilles ar ena were closed only on sunday but already neighbouring towns have requested consideration for entries in the 195960 com munity hockey league they were informed that an organiza tion meeting would be called possibly in october none of the regular entries to date have given any indication that they do not wish to return again next season claremont is anxious to wfend its champion ship one and perhaps two teams might come from uxbridge markhams thl club have al so given some indication that they are interested in playing here there has been a suggest ion that two separato leagues could operate in uxbridge and firemens bonspiel the second annual ontario firemens bonspiel was held in oshawa last week with a full entry of 32 rinks embracing rinks from niagara falls peter borough lindsay parry sound scarboro brampton uxbridge trenton ajax whitby mount hope cannington beavertcn colborne unionville orono port perry and york township chairman capt ray hohbs of the oshawa fire dept org anized the event the prizes a complete set of two groups for each section threegame win ners twogame winners one- game winners and lost souls who didnt win a game rounded out a perfect day of fun and fellowship the fred d garrard trophy premier award was won by carman boadways entry from unionville which included har ry boadway bruce coupcrth waite and henry allen skip they copped the handsome glad- stouffviile with a challenge ser- j stone bags first prizes for the j ies to be run off between the 2 day with three wins and a plus i and c winters ajax entry with claremont ont i individual winners i total of 18 p munrocs rink 1 8 plus l from niagara falls stamford defeated brother fred munroe in the third game and took down the runnersup prizes other threegame winners were the rinks entered by clayton smith of mount hope and matt gowland of brampton with 12 and 4 points respectively twogame winners were pat murrays rink from parry sound with 16 plus 16 oshawa duplate firemen skipped by ivan parrot with 14 plus bruce mercers ontario rink with les mcgee at the helm with a score of 14 and oshawa gm firemen entered by j craighead and skipped by jack elliott with a score of 9 plus 4 in the onewin division an oshawa rink with father jack percyma as skip took top hon ors winning their final game 8 plus 12 next in line was j an dersons scarboro rink with 8 plus 5 followed by g shaplands cannington foursome 8 plus 3