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the tribune stouffville ont thursday july 28 1949 ports news and views chas nolan etter baseball plan lets underway monday school runs 2 weeks in city province toronto july 20 better base- ill for young canada a two- eek series of daseball schools for le youth of toronto and ontario arts next monday laurie thorns forward with aurora junior hockey team last winter will be at either gait or north bay for a trial with the chicago black hawks this fall thorns won the ojijv most valu able player award with aurora last season stouffville bantams dropped an 86 decision to markham on wed- michael j oneill onetime big evening in an exhibition ffiwum tor- game in memorial park stouff- lw c yhyi- vines younger lads made a good showing against the older mark- ham nine goodwood is r w topping the uxbridge twp softball league with uxbridge jr farmers udora and siloam following in that order greenbank has dropped from the running only one point separated goodwood and uxbridge as the schedule stood last week the need for that homerun fence as suggested in our ball park was further emphasized in the game on saturday night when long drives which would have surely gone for home runs had there been a fence 250 to 300 ft out in the park scarcely allowed the run ner to get around to third its a real feat to hit a homer in this park when the fielder can scamper after the ball in any direction and re turn it to the infield in quick time norm stunden with unionville junior oha squad last winter will be available for net duty with intermediate or senior hockey club this fall mac clement ex- stouffville junior last year with varsity bees missed his year at toronto varsity and may be avail able for some district intermediate or senior club we are told several juvenile ball players are waiting stouffvilles entry into the oba playdowns when theyll be added to the local intermediate roster to give some muchneeded strength to the infield the young er lads in question are entered in the oba series in both juvenile or intermediate and will be avail able for duty on both teams how ever they were not entered as members of the intermediate club in the tricounty league and therefore cannot participate in the current playoffs too many players with stouff villes athletic club sponsored teams still seem to have the twist ed idea that theyre doing the team or community a favour by turning out for games and practices and according to the managers of both the girls and boys give consider able trouble in this regard it would be better for all concerned and better for the fans if players who had to be catered to in regard to transportation and punctuality at games were dropped times were when a girl or boy was only too happy to wear the uniform and the idea of demanding trans portation in the form of free gas taxis and so forth would have ap peared absurd certainly those were the good old days intermediates blow up and lose 105 after winning first game of playoffs 187 after handing sunderland an 187 trimming on friday night in the first game of their group intermediate tricounty semifinal stouffville intermediates blew up before one of the largest crowds of the season here on saturday night and lost 105 it was a good ball game here for three innings when stouffvillete catcher butch schell in his haste to make a double play at first threw wild and no less than three runs scored the locals came back in their half of the same innings when hassard stole home on a passed ball at the plate only moments before polly minton was outlucked when he drove a sizzler down in side first raxlin who was on first at the time was doubled off when welsh made a neat catch of the hot drive stouffville drove into the lead in the fifth when miller drove in two runs and hassard brought in the fourth run with a long fly from then on stouffville infield errors were too numerous to count wild throws booted balls double- play balls muffed all added up to sunderlands rally which netted them seven runs ken laushway went in to pinchhit in the 7th and drove in stouffvilles remaining run miller was on the mound for stouffville for seven innings when he was relieved by hassard the loss however was no fault of the pitchers but the inconsistent play ing of the infield campbell went the distance for sunderland ito manager and now coach of the leveland indians will be head istructor six hours daily this the most comprehensive rogram of education in the iamond sport ever attempted in lis country will operate six hours jily all next week in parks in the letropolitan area and the follow- lg week in parks in the western mtral and eastern sections of mthern ontario the school will be climaxed by a oubleheader at maple leaf tadium saturday night august 6 hen the toronto junior and mior allstars will meet the ntario junior and senior allstars ross receipts from these games ill be donated to the toronto inor baseball association for the romotion of the sport among the oys of this city these announcements were lade today by joe ziegler general lanager- of the toronto maple eaf baseball club on behalf of le three cosponsors the phila- elphia phillies of the national eague the maple leafs of the iternational league and the elegram ready to go all details of the project have een ironed out and were now ady to educate thousands of anadian boys in the fundamentals nd finer points of the game an pportunity which theyve missed i previous years because of the ick of former big league players i this country explained ziegler the educational school has been rmahy and enthusiastically en- orsed by baseball commissioner b chandler due to the interest f robert carpenter president and wner of the phillies and joe eardon general manager of the hillies farm clubs we were jrtunate in obtaining michael j neill as head instructor said reardon yesterday in a ire to the toronto general man ger oneill is the best man in ur organization for the type of chools planned in toronto and ntario centres and the phillies are nly too pleased to assign him to le maple leafs and the telegram r the twoweek program the toronto clubs dynamo tressed that the schools are esigned to assist ball players of 11 ages the junior section being r boys 17 years and under the enior section for youths 18 and ver seagons finale this will cap our program of linor baseball for the season he ontinued i believe that at the nal doubleheader under the lights our park thats the night of aturday aug 6 even the oldest f our fans will be amazed at the rogress being made by our boys oth here in the city and through- ut the province were going to harge the regular prices for that oubleheader because we sincerely elieve that the attraction is worth and because every cent the ublic pays at the gate goes to the oronto minor baseball associa- on for that occasion our club is lad to contribute the park the taff and the lights because we ont think there is a worthier ause than minor baseball to ssure a happy and healthy future r the youth of the country all schools will open at 10 am nd continue until at least 4 pm jo written application is neces- ary for attendance at any of the essions but all players are asked wear a baseball uniform if ossible baseball shoes and a love dates and sites following are the dates and sites f the schools in metropolitan oronto monday july 25 gibson park weston rd mount dennis tuesday july 26 riverdale ark gerrard st e and broad- iew ave wednesday july 27 eglinton pears park eglinton ave w nd edith drive thursday july 28 millen sta- ium in viaduct park danforth nd broadview aves friday july 29 st clair sta- ium in earlscourt park st clair ve w and lansdowne ave saturday july 30 maple leaf tadium fleet and bathurst sts and here are the dates and sites f the schools throughout the rovince monday aug 1 due to the fact lat this is civic holiday this date as not been scheduled but the chool is available for any mun- ipality or league which would ke it as an attraction tuesday aug 2 oakes stadium iagara falls wednesday aug 3 civic sta- ium brantford thursday aug 4 exhibition ark barrie friday aug 5 exhibition bounds belleville saturday aug g doubleheader etween toronto junior and senior 11stars and ontario junior and snior allstars the winners of the double- eaders will be presented with the eter g campbell trophies don- ted by george mccullagh pub- sher of the telegram in memory over 43000 canadians participate f the late president of the toronto each year in apoculture they keep laple leaf baseball club i bees for their honey intermediate ball game here saturday night stouffville intermediates who are awaiting the oba playdowns will go against newmarket inter mediates in memorial park here at 630 this saturday night july 30th like stouffville newmarket also has a bye into the ontario play downs and saturday nights game here could be a preview of things to come girls lose close one 65 stouffville girls softball team dropped a close league game to el gin mills 65 on monday evening the local gals were minus two of their strong arms audrey jennings and blanche paxton both away on holidays stouffville will play at wood- bridge on aug 4th with the next home game here against langstaff on august 8th stouffville out tricounty league triple play nips 9th inning rally stouffville bowed out of the tri- county league on monday night losing their rubber game to sund erland 96 a 9th innings rally by the locals was nipped in the bud by a fancy triple play to blast stouff villes final hopes ken laushway started the 9th off for stouffville with a single he went to second on manager hold- ens single murray having gone in to pinchhit the third batter wal- ly nicholson lined a sizzler to short for what looked to every body including the runners like at least a double however bran don speared the drive at short and smartly doubled the runner at sec ond then nipped the runner at first to complete the tripleplay and the game stouffville trailed 81 in the fifth innings miller relieved hassard on the mound and set sunderland down with only one hit in the last four innings campbell for sunder land weakened just a shade in the sixth and seventh and stouffville pounded out several base hits which coupled with one or two errors netted them a total of five runs stouffvilles infield was off colour right from the drop of the hat dropping easy pop flies missing ground balls and making wild throws to the bases sunderland scored two in the first three in the third and another three in the fourth chiefly on errors the home crew nearly broke the jinx on several occasions early in the game but just couldnt get a man across the plate they left the bases loaded in the third when mil ler popped out hassard grounded out and procenko went down on an easy fly to centre bud watson who made his first appearance in a uniform in sever al weeks was back at short but was badly out of practice he singled in the fourth and the local supporters believed they were off for a rally at last but a lapse by the runner at first- and he let him self be picked off by the pitcher miller hassard and laushway were top batters for stouffville each hitting every trip up but once laushway singled in the sixth to start the boys off for two runs mil ler singled in the seventh and hassard followed with a smashing triple that bounced off the end of the rink while three runs were chalked up in this innings three more possibles were left stranded sunderland will now advance in to the group finals with port perry who have eliminated sutton stou ffville meanwhile will await their chances in the ontario oba playdowns which will not get un derway for several weeks more than 30000000 gallons of kerosene are sold in canada each year pine orchard mrs wm pingle has been visit ing at the homes of w johnston and r chapman mr and mrs h boake and fam ily have been visiting their brother albert and family here little sandra davies has return ed to her home in toronto after spending the past three and a half years at the shepperd home mrs j sytema and carl have re turned home after spending three months with relatives in holland mrs sytema reports the weather is much cooler in holland and price of food is very high mrs w chapman of aurora is domestic heating sheet metal roofing stokers oilburners agents for new idea all steel furnaces very suitable for oil stoker coal or wood 126 h mosier sheet metal phone 4s05j oshawa the beginning of ice hockey courtesy linde canadian refrigeration company the when where and how of the origin of ice hockey will perhaps be a debatable point forever there are many stories about the origin of the game and many claims to originating the rules one story states that it was played very early on the playgrounds of collegestemarie there is no doubt that mcgill took up the game about 1874 and seems to have played its games on the river or canal an article appeared in the college paper of december 1875 setting forth the need for a rink on the campus similar to the one that the jesuit college had for a number of years about the same time the victoria skating and hockey club of montreal was originated and had a continuous existence until quite recently another story for which captain james sutherland is the authority has it that in 18g7 the royal can adian rifles stationed at kingston ontario cleared the snow from the ice in kingston harbour and play ed a game requiring skates sticks pucks and goal posts apparently however rules regulating the game were quite simple in fact the objective of putting the puck into the goal no matter how was the beginning and end of the game the following is condensed from an article by w l hurray and appeared in the winter 1936 num ber of the mcgill news v as a small boy i played shinney on the ice opposite the city of montreal early in each winter probably from the middle of november until early in jan uary for after that time the heavy snows of winter made it impossible to skate on the river to play shinny one had to have a good stick no umbrella handle or any stick that was of crossgrained wood would do so early in the fall boys who con templated playing later on would go up the sides of the mountain to hunt for small maple trees growing on the steeper slopes for those trees invariably had roots that curved sharply into the bank and when trimmed and dried they made ideal strong sticks with which to play the game only one rule in shinny the shinny season seldom lasted over six weeks but we took advantage of every opportunity holidays and often times after school we were on the ice shin ny at that time was a small boys game the ages of the player aver aged from eleven to sixteen years one had to be a fine skater or he could not enjoy the game it was played by groups of boys of no particular number who would chase a puck of some kind usually a small block of wood a battered tin can or any similar object which could be batted along the ice the object of the game was to try to keep ahead of the rest of the boys by skating in any direction until some other player took the puck away from you as there were no goals it did not matter where the puck was being driven a player merely tried to keep it as long as he could there was one infallible rule in shinny and only one it was to never hit the puck lefthanded if you did so the rule was for the nearest player to you unless he was a close personal friend to say shinny on your own side and then to give you a smart crack on the shins with his stick naturally if he was not much bigger than you you would drop your stick and pitch into him as hard as you could how shinny became ice hockey w f robertson who graduated from mcgill university in applied science in 1880 spent the summer of 1879 visiting relatives in eng land returning to his home in montreal on november 9 at that time i was a freshman at mcgill and on the morning of the 10th i met bobbie and he told me that he had picked up a fine game over in england that he thought would keep our football team in perfect condition during the off season that evening bobbie showed me one of the heavy field hockey sticks and the large ball with which the game was played in england explaining its fine points and how popular it had become throughout the country and repeat ing his idea that the mcgill football team could keep in condition by playing this game during the off season i pointed out that football was played until the snow covered the ground in the fall and that practices began again in the late spring and suggested playing the new game on the ice adapting english rugby football rules to it and using lacrosse goal posts by freezing them into holes in the ice and a large rubber ball made flat on both sides by slicing off its top and bottom shinny was played two complete shows nightly at 730 and 930 pan saturday nights continuous showing commencing 700 pm visiting the chapman home here miss eileen fair visited her aunt and uncle mrs and mrs w johnston mr and mrs fred allen also mr and mrs aimer allen are vis iting their fathers home here mr wilbert widdifield also mr and mrs colin widdifield were sunday guests with miss aleta widdifield and mr and mrs r allen stanley theatre stouffville sat matinee discontinued until further notice fri sat july 29 30 a laughhappy combination ronald jack reagan carson and edward arnold john loves maiy mon tues aug 1 2 its a dontmissit comedy riot ray milland jean peters in it happens every spring wed thurs aug 3 4 its a barrymore need we saymore lionel richard barrymore widmark in down to the sea in roxy theatre markham matinee saturday afternoons at 200 pm fri sat july 29 30 two fine features roy rogers trigger in trucolor in night time in nevada noreen nash darryl hickman in devil on wheels gala holiday midnight after sunday midnight july 31st 1205 pm its a dontmissit comedy riot ray jean milland peters in it happens every spring mon tues wed august 1 2 3 in technicolor what more can we say betty dan grable dailey when my baby smiles at me usually with small square block of wood obtained in the carpenters shops so when we sliced off the top and bottom of the large rubber balls we always made the puck square the game was played for over a year with square pucks until the victoria hockey club introduced the round one continued next week sunny valley takes pleasure in presenting jerry bates and his allstar coloured band featuring the fat man wednesday july 27 friday july 29 monday august 1 and billy hole and his livewires on saturday july 30 midnight dance sunday july 31 1205 ive licked my problem of this years supply of gasoline oil and grease q i signed np with my local coop assuring delivery vta saving by doing it and im sore im getting the best at your stouffville coop association two phones for your convenience 269 and 122