jrjM -y- a- J -nT- fc Ik Entti Thorny May Cement Blocks 8 and plain BLOCK CO MMt Albert Ml CLASSIFIEDS GET RESULTS Bells Corner O p en N g t No w Closing Hour 12 Friday and Saturday Monday open for gas closed all day SPORTS CALENDAR May Sharon Lake league meeting players Peel- York Softball league open ers Kin at Bolton Vs num ber Summit vn dia mond senior ladies team practice 1- N May intermediate baseball practice pm S diamond junior la dles practice May fair grounds town league doubleheader p North York bantam baseball league Aurora at Sutton 7 North York midget baseball league Wilcox Lake at Rich mond Hill May North York minor baseball league bantam Richmond Hill Mount Albert PeelYork softball league vs Noble ton vs King Sum mit vs Bolton Sehomberg Kettleby May pm high school and Pickering College track Newmarket high school field day Aurora park North York minor baseball league bantam Sutton vs Au rora pm fair grounds Newmarket town league double- lie a Optimists At Work Newmarket Optimists who sponsored and bantam baseball teams last season will continue their sponsorship of the two teams this summer reports Don Warner boys work chair man Frank Hollingsworth who guided the team through to the Ontario finals will coach both teams again this season The initial bantam practice was held Friday night at Stuart Scott diamond with reporting Sat urday morning turned up for the practice Further practices are due this week Optimist bantams have been grouped with Richmond Hill Lake Wilcox Aurora Mount Al bert and Sutton in the newly or ganized North York Minor Base ball League On completion of the league theyll go on into the Local will seek exhibition games with Aurora and Sutton previ ous to entry At the Optimists Club annua meeting last week Ken Stephens was named boys work chairman Ken will work along with Don Warner until July when he as sumes full responsibility AWARD For MidSeason Pitching Pitching and pitchers to be quite truthful did not steal the show as the town league teams kicked the door ajar on initial twinbill of the season Wednesday Pitchers In fact were knee deep in aspirin before the lights went out There was one exception Bill Toeing the rubber for Hoffmans Bill proceeded to whistle the apple by Sports Cycle Shoppers In midseason form- Two hits was all the tamed whizkids could turn in to the scorer all night Cycle did speed the bases for four runs but not a one of these runs was You can readily see Bill chucking was a feature- and for his twohit effort were naming him Rosy Theatre pass and award winner for this week Hasketts i siiiili George Sports Editor Need some help from you this week What can we about boys Thats the number of small fry give and take one or two either way wishing to play baseball this summer How do we arrive at this figure Thirty- five were out to bantam practice Friday and an amaz ing 60 Saturday morning for A Legion At Work Mount Albert has tossed its hat in the baseball ring The Mount Albert branch of the Can adian Legion are sponsoring a bantam baseball team The new ly organized club has been enter ed in the North York minor baseball league Opposition for the bantams will be provided by Newmarket Sutton Lake Wil cox Aurora and Richmond Hill Kelly Case Case Gregg Scott and Art are Legion appointees to get the team started As yet no coach or manager have been appointed but this necessary business will be con cluded this week To date one practice has been held with 18 boys reporting for a tryout Further practice sessions are due this week in preparation for the Mount home opener against Richmond Hill May 20 Legion sponsors are happy about the turnout and the inter est being shown in the team Good fan support will make it a success they report Four Team School League Frame work for a fourteam public school baseball league was set up this week Four teams are Leafs Royals Chiefs and Cubs Doubleheaders will be played each Saturday morn ing First game of the double header will start at am second game at am Best players from the four teams will be chosen to represent Newmarket in the OBA playdowns Every player will have an equal chance to make the representative team Schedule is May Leafs Royals Chiefs vs Cubs May Leafs vs Cubs Royals Chiefs May Royals vs Cubs Chiefs vs Leafs Cubs Chiefs Royals Leafs June 14 Chiefs vs Royals Cubs vs Leafs June Leafs vs Chiefs Cubs vs First team mentioned is the visiting team and will bat first Games will be innings at least and seven if possible Team rosters are Leafs How Alb Breckon Brian Byers Len Abbott Jim Lake ft i Brent Dave Bill Daly Ralph Bray Don Bone Royals Gary Campbell John Lake Ralph John Tony Brookes Dennis Edwards Reg Peterson Ian Dick Bill Comb Jim Arthur Vaughan v Chiefs Bill Ron Wright man Paul Blair Barton Peter Vale Francis Garrett Barry J Jack West Bob Kef- Larry Morton Ooh Cook Larry Bone v Cubs Ernie Hart ling Geo Ro- Jim Garrett Jack Terry Budd Dave Rhodes Norm v- BUI Mills John Lock hart Bruce Skelhorn Larry Kef- Ed Thornton Tom en Francis Lewis- BAREFOOT MAILMAN mix -Wfrt- Com ml I TUES WED MAY 192021 First Came AFRICA SPEAKS Next Came BRING EM BACK ALIVE And TRADER HORN then the Fabulous KING SOLOMONS MINES and NOW comes the greatest wild animal picture Mm CMMU Of YUM Five Teams in Ladies and District ladies softball league will have five teams again this season it was learned at the schedule makers Tuesday in New market Midland and will return Orillia has dropped out of the race Oril- place will tie taken by the Royal Canadian Air Force Womens Division Camp Borden The league is scheduled to open week of May reports Newmarket coach Charle Van- The local ladies will stage their homo opener Thursday May Visiting opposition should be known next week LAKE JR LADIES LEAGUE Seven teams Mount Albert Sutton Keswick Newmarket Aurora and Queens will make up the Junior Ladies League roster for the season Au rora arid were ac cepted for league membership at the annual meeting in Kes wick Tuesday Stan of Sutton is president and Bev erley of Keswick secre tarytreasurer Team delegates will meet again Tuesday May 20 in Keswick at tt pm Each team must present a players list for inspection on that dale Actually when you think of it there is very little being done for the junior girls Possibly a summer softball league would be the answer Well leave our caso there Top consideration to our mind should be given to the question of appointing a summer recrea tion director Enlarge Tennis Classes Keith Davis Newmarkets Mr Tennis sends along a reminder that his instruction classes i or junior players opens Tuesday May at pm and will run each Tuesday and Thursday thereafter In answer to a num ber of requests Mr Davis will broaden his instruction classes to take in intermediate members Latter classes will run from to on Tuesday and Thursday evenings commencing May 20 Everyone is welcome Work at the tennis courts is proceeding satisfactorily under the direction of Charles Lee and John McGwire Courts should be ready for use this weekend Give them all a chance Thank you thats exactly how this feels about it Course you know its going to cost money for equipment etc but well all fork over dough for sidewalks roads bridges etc so why not for the kids The Hub well stand corrected if anyone can prove otherwise spends less than any town of comparable size in the country seeing the kids are kept busy and out of mischief Except for the work of our eagerbeaver Optim ist Clubbers over the past couple of ball and hockey seasons min or sports would have gone to pot locally Optimists will be back In pitch ing with two teams that handles boys leaving TO boys no baseball Answer is a town league and if we intend to keep those busy we will have to appoint a summer recreation director Dont have to look be yond the town limits for one Theres a chap right In our midst who can handle it Man wo have in mind is Frank Frank has a knack of getting the boys to do things and his coaching record with the pecwees they reached the Ont ario finals under the Optimists banner speaks for itself- Now youll ask who should take the initiative in appointing a recreation director The an swer is the Recreation Commiss ion This was in vited to Commission gathering Tuesday Arrived at three members present fourth arriv ed a little late unavoidably de layedso your scribe didnt his innings to explain his cracks about the Commission lately So well just note our and gleanings picked up along the sport beat 1 1 Have been making enquiries on the subject past few weeks- heros some of answers received from various sportsmen and wo think they speak for themselves What Recreation Commission Is there one Didnt know we had one Thought they were dead and buried What do they do Checking the town financial statement Commission in 1951 received from the town ami from the provincial govern ment This is wholly inadequate to pay a recreation director and possibly answers the above ques tions As to what the Commission could do off hand we can think of four places aid is needed the Intermediate baseball could stand financial assistance ditto junior ladies midget baseball requires organizing and finan cial help and the try- Mays to get rolling wouldnt turn I Cook Spec up their nose at some help KIsby Spec Minors Open Next Week Everything points to a busy season in North York minor baseball The sixteam bantam and threeteam North York Minor Baseball League sea son will open next week Mount Albert Sutton and Aur ora drew home openers in ban- tarn Bill Mundeirs Aurora Cubs will visit Sutton May 10 to get the season under way Sutton will play in Aurora Wednesday May Mount Al bert will he at home to Rich mond Hill May In the only midget game card ed for next week Lake Wilcox will journey to Richmond Hill May to got the Milters officia lly started Newmarket fans will have to wait until May 2d to see the Optimists make their initial home against Lake Wilcox TOWN LEAGUE STANDING Hoffman Specialty SportsCyclo ThompsonBell BATTING II Dillnum Spec J A Eves Thorns Hoff Blight Andrews 3 A 1 Pis COO Split Loop South baseball league delegates meeting last Thursday at revised their plans for the season a move de signed to slice travelling time and overhead delegates voted to split the group into a north and south section of six teams each Newmarkets new entry wilt be grouped with Bradford Beeton Everett Maple Leafs and in the southern division Six north division teams are Ivy- Stroud Barrie Thornton New Lowell and Everett Athlet ics Southern section teams will play a double home and home schedule Top four teams in each division will qualify for the semifinals Winners in each division will meet in a best four out of seven series for the league title and the Davis Memorial Trophy League schedule is being sot up at the present time with the opener scheduled for the week of MayID Newmarket have re quested Friday night for their home games PLAYOFFS OR BUST Vandbrf soft bailers have just missed the Lake Simeoe Softball League playoffs by a whisker past two seasons Theyll be back trying again this season with one idea make the play offs or bust The team held its i irst practice last week with fairly good turnout prospects Doug Alcorn is coach pitcher Harold manager and Ivan secretary- treasurer at a recent meeting Further practices are planned for this Brownhiil Unbeaten Still Smashing a bushel of hits and runs in every innings Murray Edgars Mount Zion Ramblers doused last Fri day to reconl their first win of the East School league season Mount Albert hit for their second win dump ing HopeUnion St Combines Brown Hill continued their unbeaten pace atop the league as they knocked off Sharon 17S It was Brown Hills third win in as many attempts A full list of games arc sched uled for attention Friday after noon LEAGUE STANDING FOUR PLAYERS NEEDED Four more players needed to complete two soccer teams Step up men times Lets hear from you Turn your name over to Jan Bob Middle- ton or Geo lias- at the Newmarket Era and Express youre inter- Three more recruits Jim John Rendering Kettleby and Norman Taylor Sharon signed on over the past week John Rendering play ed in Holland and Norm Taylor in the Old Country so should bring alone a little experience for the team Lets have four more play ers please Four Teams in Gals Loop ON THE ALLEYS The bowling season is drawing to a close Two feature attrac tions last week kept a number of bowlers going strong First on the agenda was the playoff session for the Monday Night Ladies League title The sud dendeath fixture was required as FourFifties came on with a late rush to tie the Coons on the final night of league action Mondays sawoff was a triumph for Four- Fifties as they went to- town in a big way to pile up a count as against 2866 re corded by the Coons Alice Gibson came up with to lead Floss Gibson Jeanne Audrey Stevens Ethel Warden FourFifties win ning sextette were Audrey Stev ens Edna Watt Floss Gibson Muriel and Four teams Schomberg Ethel Warden The gals turn to Bradford and have entered the ladies softball league race League organization meeting was held at Elgin residence Schomberg last Thursday Hastings was returned as presi dent and Ray Rogers Kettlebys busy softball promoter was re elected secretarytreasurer Delegates voted to purchase a pennant and that along with the YorkSimcoe Trophy will give the knife and fork league this week in Toronto to officially close their season Item two was the rolloff for the Newmarket Manufacturers Association Industrial Trophy- Three teams Office Specialty Davis Leather and Dixon Pen cil entered the competition Final results showed Office Spe cialty trophy holders for with four out of a possible six opens May with Bradford at May Schomberg de fending champions will play in the teams added incentive to get I out and win was high Tuesday night Bond posted 215 Geo Watt 649 Sid Simmons Smith Fred Dill- man Ken Bennington 556 Art and Bill ing turned in other top- notch marks Members of the Office Special ty team were Geo Watt Lyle Bond John Art Geo Close and Sid Sim mons Brown Hill Mount Albert Mount Sharon Hope L i 2 Coming Wrestling returns May to the Newmarket Memorial Arena Opening cant promises to be something of a mat clas sic Hold steady now while we give you the good news First and this is a first for Newmarket Jack ex heavy weight boxing cham pion of the world will be on hand will referee the main bout The main bout is Yukon Eric the North Countrys strongman meeting Jim The Bull Wright the Montana hills wild man The main bout will be the best two out of three falls A quality supporting card of two other bouts is being lined up In last weeks report of wrestling nights June It was mentioned It should have read June ZEPHYR BLUES BACK IN Other teams please note Zephyr Blues will be back in LakeT Simeoe Softball League this season to defend the cham pionship and Stan Cook Trophy won the past two seasons IE anything well be a bit stronger than last year reports coach Harrison is secretarvtrcasu re More Sports On Page LADIES is planning to have a junior ladies team this season Their entry was accepted by the Lake Junior Ladies League at the an nual meeting Tuesday Beckett is heading the drive to organize the team and is slated to look after the coaching BRADFORD DOWN THE CENTRE BY ADDED 2ND FEATURE THURSDAY SATURDAY The Sellout Walter Audrey Trotter SECOND FEATURE Havana Rose Rodriguez Hugh Herbert TUES and WED Secicer Is j lit tiiH ROBERT WALKER JOAN LESLIE Jane Russell Victor Mature SECONDFEATURE Lets Make It Legal Colbert Carey IS FIRST OFFER SECOND OFFER j AWNINGS Aristocrat canvas awnings Airshade aluminum Complete service Estimation to Installation TENT AWNING CO Bayfield St From the past tense The ire- viva I of soccer in Newmarket is to be commended although it Is around years since there was a town team with exception of Camp eleven Probably the greatest club the Town ever had according to all reports was that of years ago They district honors Heros Iho team- roster Md youll recognize many family names Jack Smith Alex Me Charlie Flood Norm Rogers Sam Ivan Clarke Irwin J Dickson Walter Cain Tom Doyle Charlie Mont gomery A A Wal ter Rolling Joe Clarke and A McC rim inch The late Walter Rolling of who was a school master was probably the great est soccer player to ever play in the district and he could hold his own in international company It wouldnt be too hard to re organize soccer on a district basis Theres plenty of material at Au rora Maple and King and Brad ford are already A steady influx of Old Country folk adds to the possibility Theres Bill Bob Moody Pep Perry men Bruce Hall Harry Lavender Cliff Chapman Jim Murray and those other sports leaders to tackle Ten years ago Auroras Charlie Ten To Ace to victory in the kings Pinto which this year will be now n as the Queens Plate This year North Yorkers have besides the steeds of their choice interests closer to homo From the stables of Eric at Aurora comes a fill who has a real chance and is looking mighty good She Eries Girl From the Tartan stables at Vel- owned by John Stuart is a sleeper called Blister In the past the art horses have not come up to the expectations in the plate notably The Sheriff Runty Line and Lord Valen tino Little is said about Blis ter though unofficially the horse has done about everything re quested of it Well bo in Montreal as the Plato is run and the first Cana dian governorgeneral to ever award the historic platter in the challenge for fellows like person of Hon Vincent will make the award to the winning owner P Taylor is favored by many to again fio the circle and itll be interesting to see his nominees as he has four dandies Softball teams will have a mark to sliotd tit this season and that is completing game In rec ord time Believe it or not the fastest game oyer played In North York was in the fts Alex Webster hurling for Newmarket Teddy Bennett on the mound for Richmond Hill in a seven inning game that only took minutes There Were 15 hits too Bennett giving eight and seven umpires must have been their Iocs that night for gener ally speaking Webster and Bennett might debate min utes in any game with the um pires if the decisions didnt please them Tommy Hitchcock the late in ternational polo star left sport ing phrase that we commend to nil When you lose act as though you loved it When you win act as if you were used to it Need we say more Town Hall Newmarket WEDNESDAY MAY 21 AT PM SHARETMEWEALTH ATTENDANCE PRIZE JACKPOT DOOR PRIZE 5 ADMISSION CARDS SPONSORED BY THE NEWMARKET VKTKRANS ASSN MAY ITU DANCE FRIDAY MAY PM AM CEDAR BEACH PARK North Shore lake VAN WALKER HIS ORCHESTRA DANCING EVERY SATURDAY Now accepting reservations for cabins and picnics v i ir jf V