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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), August 12, 1948, p. 9

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the tribune stouffffviile ont thursday august 12 194s sports aurora juniors are slated to play off with sutton in the first round of the oba ontario play- downs markham juveniles will go against bovmanvilie in their firs playoff round m kenneth braithwaite well- known toronto umpire last week swore out a warrant against a base ball fan charging him with assauk causing bodily harm he claims his jaw was fractured when he was attacked by a specta tor while umpiring a baseball game at farlscourt park v m the aurora arena will be oper ated this coming winter by the aurora athletic commission the athletic commission for our yonge st neighbor does similar work to the local athletic club however its fiveman board is appointed by the town council and being operat ed as a town commission comes in for the provincial government grant which is considerable we are told such a setup might be food for thought for the stouffville organization lindsay and cameron are both out of the tricounty league play offs cameron passed out of the picture last week when defeated by cambray while lindsay fell to little britain cambray and little britain will now meet in the finals of the northern section woodville against sunderland and beaverton against bolsover are the team- playing off in the southern section sunderland took their first of a best of three series against wood- ville 211 and will play again this monday and thursday if necessary local midgets badly off color in first off game playc nine runs on one hit and all in the third innings just about indi cates the type of ball being played in the first midget playoff game of the local group between stouffville and newmarket the series is a threeoutoftive affair newmarket took the opening contest 212 newmarket for their part were doing little better at bat but capita lized on the basketful of locai errors the newmarket batsmen touched up three local hurlers don davis lome boadway and d mac- gregor for only five hits but the fielding muffs were uncountable and there were ten free trips to first base handed out simmons went the distance o the hilltop for newmarket and struck out twelve of the visiting midgets six of them in two inn ings lie also passed out sever walks and was touched up for only two hits both of them in the last innings accounting for the two stouffville runs bud lehman was top performer for stouffville handling four put- outs one of them at second base and gave the local pitching staff the only sure support they got ail even ing midgets play much improved game on monday night but one bad innings loses game one bad innings for stouffville micigets when newmarket scored eight runs gave the yonge st visitors their second straight play off win in memorial park on mon day night despite this big blow in the second frame the local kids turned in a much improved brand of ball than what they displayed in the initial game in newmarket don davis went the distance for stouffville striking out seven and allowing only four hits his biy headache was in the second innings when he dished out four free passes to first which coupled with two hits brought in the eight runs only four stouffville batters hearu strike three called at the plate and they slapped out six hits off three pitchers the local lads scored three runs in the second and two in the third chadwick and macgregor each had two hits in four irys w top the stouffville hitters hugo got two for four for newmarket there was quite a commotion caused by the field umpiring of the newmarket man assisting umpire murphy on the bases the chap had little if no idea about handling the position and called plays on third and second all the way from first when he couldnt possibly see what was transpiring the third game of the playoff series will be in newmarket this wednesday night local team entered in bantam swim the number of bantam teams now entered in north york for the league honors and right to advance into the oba playdowns has beer increased to three by reaon of stouffville entry the three teams newmarket markham and stouffvihe will play a round robin series to decide the league championship first game for stouffville is coming up in memorial park this thursday night with newmarket the oppoition stouffville passes out of mens softball picture stouffville mens softball team wound up their season last wcck bowing out to greenbapk in two straight games greenbank will now advance to meet goodwood for the league championship stouffvilles protest regarding port perry players on the green- bank lineup was of no avail the disputed players had not played for greenbank previous to the playoffs stouffville contended that at the league organization meeting it was agreed that all players must play in at least two schedule games before the playoffs however green bank stated that they were not represented at this meeting and knew nothing of the rule jack pearson of oxbridge is president general manager etc ol the league no records were kept of the meeting proceedings and thus greenbank was upheld stantons salt away game with fourrun rally in the fourth local hockey sponsors take note four men who steered the louzon flyers of goderich ont to a junior oha champ ionship in 1sm6 were sued in the ontario supreme court for damages for injuries suffered by a spectator on jan 6 when the cable around a balcony in the town owned hockey rink broke causing him to fall to the ice justice keiller mackay dis missed the action against the town but awarded slso to the accident victim and ordered the club to pay the club is comprised of ivan louzon walter westbrook arnold doak and donald paquette all of goderich in a daze over the result of the lawsuit are man ager arnold doak and son wavne from the crowd ken schells long fly to left field brought lew over the plate with run no 2 the game failed to pack the excitement of those played on the local grounds the week before partly due to the tightness of the pitching particularly in the clinches stouffville left six men stranded on the base paths and the uniques ten in a fourrunrally in the fourth innings was enough to salt away the intermediate exhibition base ball fixture with toronto stantons on friday night the city team took the decision g4 stouffville went into an early lead in the second frame on a tiit by wally nicholson miller drew a walk to open the chapter holden flied out cook got on by a fielders choice and lome schell got to first on an error ken schell came through with a hit in the third to account for two more runs nichol son and wideman also getting on through toronto errors stantons were right back in the game in their half of the third scoring four runs off hits by boyn- ton anderson and courtney two errors and a walk put three more men on the base paths the city boys continued their slugfest in the fourth slapping out three more hits to score another two runs stouffville tried to even matters in the last innings and did succeed in getting another run across miller getting on for his second time in the ball game chasing wideman around the bases ahead of him torontos third error had put boss on first cook pitching in the last innings set three down swinging boynton top man in stantons batting order nicked cook for his third hit of the game but died on second the local mound performers out shone the visitors two to one in the strikeout column schell and cook were credited with eight strikeouts four each while the tor onto hurlers found only four strike out victims hits off stouffville pitching nine off stantons six toronto uniques take close decision from stouffville toronto uniques snappy junior aggregation from the earlscourt junior a loop squeezed a 32 decision from stouffville in wed nesday nights twilight baseball fixture in memorial park earl cook was stouffvilles hill top performer all the way and gave up only five safe hits while strik ing out seven of the city visitors cook is a warmweather pitcher and the cool evening kept the big righthander from really warming up until after several innings had been played only two stouffville batters went down swinging before the offerings of the two toronto pitchers atcheson and sullivan while they touched the pair up for seven hits toronto scored one earned run out of three two men crossing the plate due to errors miller holden and nicholson all hit safely in the fourth innings to give stouffville their first run lew raxlin siarted the locals on the road to their second run in the fifth by beating out a bunt raxlin took second when toronto muffed a perfect doubleplay ball and stole third on a slide that brought a big hand goodwood wins first softball final 72 goodwood mens softball team came out on top 72 in their first game of the finals against green bank according to our goodwood reporter the home team were able to hold their own against the green bank visitors both on and off the field fists flew on two occasions during the game and the melee provided quite a thriller for the five hundred fans present the largest crowd in the goodwood park since the field day goodwood was still smarting from the 225 defeat they suffered at the hands of greenbank earlier in the season they had bob millet on the mound replacing cooper the new bridegroom who is honey mooning miller received good sup port at one point greenbank load ed the bases with none away and miller pitching steadily retired the next three batters greenbank are presenting a strong lineup and despite their initial loss at good wood will be hard to take two in a row goodwood returns to greenbank this thursday night for the second game arrangements have been made for trucks to take along several loads of goodwood sup porters they will leave staleys service station at g30 pm carihnaxs to conduct baskbauu school at hamilton the st louis cardinals always strong contenders for pennant honors in the national league pennant race have announced that they will give aspiring youn players a chance to show their stuff when the bed birds conduct a three day try out camp at civic stadium hamilton ont thursday friday and saturday aug 26 2 and 2s the camp is one of more than 60 scheduled by the cardinals this summer it will be open free to all players in this area who fee they have what it takes to become professional baseball players c kelchner dean of baseball scouts will be in charge of the camp he will be assisted by joe cusick former holy cross star and minor league player and manager hugh east recently retired national league pitcher and j f katherman former minor league player now coaching at sandusky ohio they will watch the players as they go through their paces and offer minor league contracts to those they feel qualified for pro ball careers players stiould bring their own gloves and baseball shoes and uniforms if they have them anv expenses incident to attending the camp will be refunded to all players signing contracts markham last times tucks jame helen stkwaut walker in call xorthside 777 friday saturdav august 13th 14th sue onrhope- m luirtiujswniunm u ctoiee collotlls monday tuesday august 16th 17th shever 3 dull moment samlel goldwyn preint eelnsrf utrasfc boerfo wrote i cary grant iorettayoug david kiven with monty woolley gteason cooper unchester andthemitcheuboychoir directed bv henry hosier v screen play by robert e sheiwood and leonardo beicovici fronrthe novel by robert nathan bgbbg wednesday thursday august lslh 19th mgms technicolor musical thats hilariously different teanette macdonald jose iturbi jane powell three daring daughters 1 unemployment insurance beginning in october unemploy ment benefits are to be slightly raised also there is a slight increase in the charge to those who have to put up the money this is all very nice but what about the thousands and thousands forced to pay un employment insurance who will never receive any benefit bank clerks postal clerks etc who never get laid oft read the editorial in this issue and give us your opinion on the wisdom of its suggestion alfalfa hay wanted best price for good qualify sample reesors marmill limited markham phone 96 blc stouffville athletic club street fair and dance stouffville wed aug 18th bingo shooting gallery refreshments your chance to win a 650 value delux henry boat with 5 hp johnston motor or 500 cash for your dancing pleasure geo wade and his corn huskers intermediate baseball in memorial park at 615

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