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Lcoon Sifts Orchard Newmarket Legion made sweet music with their hickory sticks Wednesday to sink Pine Orchard flf1 to a Lake Softball League contest at the fair grounds The win sent Myles Mo win conscious Legionnaires Into the league lead spot Bill brought along his best pitches to handcuff the Or chardmen on live hits- Beaks posse got their lone run the second It came without benefit of a hit BUI scoring after drawing a walk went up two stations on Infield outs and scored when Tod Hos iers attempted ELSE CAN BOX A Chevrolet Two door black coach equipped with heater good tires completely recondi tioned and carrying Gen era Motors approved War ranty 93US per month Open evenings until pm Newmarket hit for three first and three third frame runs to sew it up early Don Smith and Norm Legge singled in round one and scored on Bruce double From there on home run blows were important factors in the Legion triumph Bill Van belted one a country mile in the third with two on and In the following round Norm whacked a roundtripper to score Don Smith The Legion men counted their final tally on two Pine Orchard errors and Norm Legges hit in the sixth The Legion counted hits against Harvey Preston Norm Legge with three and Don Smith with two were the pacesetters Nobby Ash and Harvey Preston collected two hits apiece while Bill Dike belted a double to ac count for Pine Orchards hit total JUVENILE PLAYOFFS Stouffville Redwings have dropped out of the North York juvenile baseball league race The remaining teams Newmar ket Richmond Hill and Lake Wilcox will play a roundrobin series for the league crown The series start- Jed last week If- THE OLD Hake Now Your Reservations for Fall and Winter Bookings for LAND SEA AND AIR Travel Bureau AUTHORIZED AGENT FOR ALL STEAMSHIP LINES V Ont Phone have by HOWARD MORTON While the war was on I remember hear ing about a lady in Chatham Ont who had the problem of gasoline rationing complete ly licked She drove as much as she ut without the worry of running out of gas And do you remember how people used to raise their eyebrows during the war if they thought you were using your car more than an sticker on the windshield would allow She didnt ve ANY sticker on the windshield and the looks she got vy not suspicion Mrs Robert Gray and she was the widow manufacturer The car she drove too the Detroit Electric If you you probably remember the fling model about the same time was Electric Detroit Electric was the last batterydriven in Canada It was powered by batteries each he recharged once a week at home She no clutch no muffler and could go about i can someone will design a new electric car of service we want today Mrs Gray on any long trips and the batteries unds one main reason why the gasoline engine elecric car one pound of gas will deliver more times the power one pound of the best storage battery maybe someday well get a good powerful but actually doubt it On our used car lot weve got a of reasons why most everybody wants to own one of todays cars reliable cars that gave somebody else good service before they decided it was time to move up a notch to a newer car Theres electricity these cars too in the ignition system thats the brains checked it and everything else in the it on our lot some facts about tires that can used car buy help I AWARD Three Homers By Lois Although some outstanding pitching efforts were recorded notably by Haley Cook and Bill It was in the main a bitters week around the diamond circuits The most notable effort in the hit column in our books that rates the award and Theatre pass was that turned in by Lob Lois one of Peaches veteran outfielders accumulated three home runs Two came against Elm vale here Tuesday They were major factors in our senior ladies win over It was Lois homerun at with two mates aboard that made possible lor New market to drop Greer Aces ftS Aurora Legion Wins Third Aurora Legion is out to grab the lead in the Town ship softball whirl The Matt hewRichardson brigade took a giant step in this direction Thurs day by knocking off the league- leading The game was played under the Aur ora lights Cook came up with an other ace high pitching effort Cookie set down on seven hits fanned six and walk ed but three to best Bob Flem ing the starter Aur ora got to Fleming for eight Earl towering four sacker after Grant Dawson got aboard on an error and Norm doubled and sent Aurora ahead in the initial frame Legion band was never in trouble after that uprising and led all the way Aurora hit masters were Norm Earl and Cook They all got two hits apiece Bob Fetch SPORTS CALENDAR NEWMARKET ARENA July 15 pm lacrosse junior A vs Newmar ket FAIR GROUNDS July ladies softball senior Newmar ket July pm baseball South intermediate Pal grave vs Newmarket- July 21 pm softball lake league Mount Al bert Newmarket AURORA PARK July 3d pm softball township league Aurora July 21 pm York midget baseball Sutton vs Aurora the Newmarket Era and Express Thursday July Page 9 Lake Race Tightens The scrap for first place in win over Zephyr Aurora Win Two Move Up Cook uncorked a neat fourhitter to spark Aurora Leg ion to a 75 win over last week Cook was in the final two frames protecting his small lead with a run of four strikeouts Aurora got to Gord Wright Thornhill ace for eight hits Coach Doug Richardson and manager Don and Bidler wore top were happy about A The Zephyr ball club officials headed by Cec Harrison and Stan would like all the district faithful to drop into Mount Albert Wednes day July Theres an out standing attraction booked for that date under the lights the Lake Simcoe allstars National Hockey League stars at pm The game will give district fans an opportunity to see all the Maple Leaf hockey stars includ ing Turk Sid Smith Dan ny Hugh Bolton in ac tion on the ball diamond Weve had the pleasure of seeing stars in action previously and theyll give the best the Simcoe league has to offer quite a scrap Talking about the best Simcoe league has to offer in the past league allstars to our way of thinking have been selected hap hazardly Why not do it right and have the managers and coaches make the selection of an allstar lineup In other words make it as advertised an allstar team The game deserves all the Lake league fans support All pro ceeds will be turned over to Bert Simpson to help the Blues second defray hospital and doc tor bills Bert according to lat est advice will be unable to re turn to work for three months Likeable Bert one of Stan Lun- neys rookie crop suffered a leg fracture in a league game at Keswick July Were taking time out at this point to congratulate those gentlemen responsible for the visit of the British bowlers to Newmarket It was a wonderful thing to happen to our town The visitors were high in their praise of the District and bowlers Newmarket greens and the fine hospitality extended to them here It was an impressive scene as our visitors and the district bowl ers from all sections of central Ontario stood at attention as our Newmarket Citizens band played God Save The Queen The event and the fine way in which it was handled put Newmarket on the map as one of Canadas leading bowling centres was a little late in his praise of Bill Bill we understand has resigned his position in Aurora as assistant recreation director to apply his talents elsewhere Your para graphs will miss Williams smile along the sport beat We hope that as his business plans get in to order Bill will once again add his knowhow and organizational ability to aid Aurora minor base ball and hockey teams Via the grapevine we learn that Pickering Colleges popular sportsman Ward Corky Cor nell will not return to the school on the hill next fall Corky has moved into radiotelevision work around London His many friends hereabouts will join us in wishing him every success in his new undertaking Nobody it seems except New market Legion and Willow Beach want first place in the Lake Simcoe league Its whispered that all the other teams prefer to finish farther down the ladder The the three aforementioned teams are bowling over the opposition that wont be any trouble to arrange It does seem a pity that some other playoff deal cant be ar ranged to make it tougher for lower finishing teams to gain the Due to numerous postponments Newmarket County have a busy schedule ahead of them Theyll play five games in six days will be here tomorrow and on Monday the CiTsipaa visit to Saturday afternoon the locals have a doubleheader duel with Barrie in Barrie It sounds like a tough sched ule However now that Ernie has discovered a new pitcher things shouldnt be too tough for the local diamond boys New pitcher is Break up the cards That seems to be the slogan in the Lake junior ladies soft- ball league The Cards are a country mile ahead of all opposi tion in the league race and win ning with great ease To date Newmarket Pinups have been the only team to take the Cards down a notch Coach Hare and manager Jack on that account havent drawn up any championship celebration plans However the Cards at the mom ent look to have the inside track on the title You can never tell about the outcome of a ball game Charlie and Frank Courtney were prepared for the worst when they trotted out their rookie jammed makeshift line up against Thursday The two worriers had a surprise coming to them The rookies came through handsomely behind Sarah pitching to top The rookie crop included Elsie Mitchell at third Velma Hammond Aurora at short and Mary in the outfield They all turned in fine games Edna was a returnee at second and Barbara a Pinup graduate turned in big league jobs Oriilia not Greer Aces appears to be the team to beat for the and district loop bunt has twice beaten The lineup ac cording to Greer Aces pitching ace Dorothy Miller is crammed with hit power When do we get started on the new hardball diamond in front of the grandstand We do as soon as the culvert is installed this week at the east end of the fair grounds The play- downs are just a month away We have strong midget and ju venile teams Should the Op timist bantams combine with Au rora a strong bantam club can be fielded We have a feeling that if the three teams can gel proper practice facilities before the snow flies Newmarket will have its first Ontario baseball crown hitters County Slay Bolton Wanderers Newmarket County Towners with Ernie at the mas termind switch found a new pitcher and a win over Bolton Wanderers Wednesday at Bolton in a South baseball league contest The new pitcher was and the victorv was a 143 effort Wilf the County reliable receiver has been indicating lately hed like to do a little chucking Ernie Bennitz gave his chance and immediately tamed Bolton on seven hits Over the first six frames gave up but three hits and didnt allow a Bolton runner to reach second base Then a flurry of basehits by Jack Harry Ron McKay and Harvey Wallace gave Bolton three runs and sav ed them from the shame of a shutout Newmarket added to an early lead six runs in the sixth and two in the seventh The County put up a snap py fielding effort behind and had speed to burn on the baselines To illustrate one occasion they scored two runs on a bunt threw in three hits in support of his fine pitching while and Lloyd Har vey both spanked out two nits Other successful Newmarket hit ters were Jerry Hugo Grant Blight Don Gibson Carl Moore and Bill Smith air tight defensive play Aurora received inspiration from Norm three for five clubbing One of socks was a twobagger Andy Closs and Don Hoiman pushed down the hit throttle for two safeties each Jack slammed a home run and double to pace Aurora made it a two game winning week by walloping Norm Lake scramble is waxing hot between Newmarket ville and Willow Beach New market and lead with points Willow Beach has 12 Mount Albert Keswick and Zephyr each In a three win week ville blanked Vandorf 100 dump ed Mount Albert and topped Pine Orchard Willow Beach defeated Zephyr and smack ed Pine Orchard Zephyr won number two by flattening Van- do Zephyr Blues used long ball hitting power and Ron sixhitter to wallop Vandorf Stan Lunneys tribe counted eight early runs and sailed serenely into the winners circle Lloyd Preston and Bill were hit freely by Zephyr Clark Arn old socked two triples Don Hew lett two doubles and Ken Taylor and Harry contributed extra base drives Doug Alcorn managed two doubles Jerry Lavender Jack and Clark took singles for the losers Don Glover handcuffed on one hit and allowed only three batters to get aboard as Queensville shocked 100 Queensville took three third and four fourth round runs Doug Eves triple Bill double and steadfast hitting by Ron Beckett Bob Miller Daw Harvey and Don Bond sparked Matey pitched strikeout ball to rate McNeill pitched a sturdy five hitter and his mates broke up a deadlock with five fourth and two fifth stanza runs got one in the first three in second and two in the before giving up the ghost home run Winchs double and triple Kays two doubles am McNeills two bagger the ten Ron Clark the Blue with a triple Harry had a I and Stan to make the Blues hit Willow Beach won Friday knocking off chard Cec McNeill well spaced eight tilth seven on strikes Preston In the McNeill didnt run until the fifth when Cards double and single plated Pine Orchards run Matt triple doubles by Sernartl Kay Ron and Bob Winch put the extra base sock in the Beach drive Merlyn played a standout game in the outfield Doug Card and John ston had two baggers for Pine Orchard Theres been a schedule change Willow Beach Keswick tomorrow evening Newmarket will visit the Beach on Saturday night h 5Tn win over Mount Albert efforts Earl made a grandslam home run to touch of f a seven run sixth chapter for the winners Harold Stephenson sup plied Auroras other roundtrip per Aurora has a five win five loss record are tied with lor the third rung heads the circuit is second MORE SPORTS ON PACES AND imcoe leaguers Show Action Cards Win Two Games In Junior Girls League The hardhitting fancy fielding Keswick Cards are racing atop the Lake junior ladies league race The Cards defeated Mount Albert and Aurora DaiHans last week to register their seventh and eighth victories Keswick rose up for eight sec ond chapter runs and then relied THE RANGE BUY OF THE YEAR Brand New Thrifty Special pie capacity elements Automatic oven heat con trol huge storage drawer down per month Open evenings until pm MOTORS Legionnaires Stop Keswick Comets Mclnnls hotfielding Newmarket legion team which holds down the lead position in the Lake league reeled off victory number seven Saturday at Keswick when they defeated Keswick Comets The loss was Keswicks fourth and left them lied with Zephyr for seventh place Newmarket found the range on Harold Smith for hits Kes wick got to Ted New market starter for five hits he for Bill came in to rescue the faltering exPine Or- thard In the fifth Van snuffed out Keswicks rally after they had pulled up to with in one run of Newmarket at Norm Legges home run smash the sixth boosted Newmarket ahead Connell went on the warpath for a double in sixth and Claude Pol- singled in Ihe seventh stopped Keswicks i notions Bruc spliced to gether a triple double and two Rive the winners a big lift Norm Doug Simp son and John were the other Newmarket ling leaders with two hits each Harold Smith couldnt be blamed for the loss He was given shoddy fielding support Smith came out of a hitting slump to cash three hits to head Keswick Claude Pollock Rot two and It was one each for Hoy die Tom Hare Ted An- and Eddie to complete Keswicks hit picture home in front of Mount Albert Lit Ruth Munday and Helen provided the hit thunder for the winners Mar Green fanned it Cards but suffered from poor fielding support Marie Harrison and Marguerite Green bombed away for two hits each to top Mount Albert Grace Curtis collected four hits and received luaty hit support from Lit Ruth and Rita Riddel to pitch the Cards to an easy win over Aurora Astern Card hitters chased home three fourth seven fifth four sixth and five seventh stanza runs to leave the behind Ann Craig the losing pitcher had three hits and along with Margaret and Woods topped Aurora from last week Simcoe league scoresheets last week read Willow Beach Zephyr Willow Beach New market 3 Mount Albert Zephyr Mount Albert Pine Orchard Zephyr Keswick 3 Zephyr claimed win number one by defeating Keswick Ron seven hitter time ly clubbing by Harry Don Hewlett Clarkson Arnold and Alan and Arnolds key pickoff play in the sixth won it for the Blues Ted Anderson furnished two doubles Ken a two bagged and Claude Pollock a timely single to account for the Keswick scoring Fine fielding by Bruce Claude Pol lock Don Hewlett Tom Hare and Bill was featured Loser Harold Smith gave up hits Willow Beach played spark ling ball behind McNeill to mow down Zephyr Zephyr scored four first round runs but couldnt hit the late revival Bernard Kay hammered a home run triple and single while McNeill and Don Cam accumulated three hits each for the victors Arn old had three hits Alan and Harry two each to pace the Blues Kester yielded hits McNeill McNeills steadfast five- hit firing Winchs two on homer and the long ball club bing antics of Don Trivett Don Cameron Bernard Kay Bob Winch and Cec McNeill furnish ed Willow Beach with a win over Newmarket The scored three first three third and one seventh innings runs Mickey Smith Bruce Townsley Doug Simpson and John uncorked in Newmarkets three run second McNeill cap a long list of strikeouts by whiffing pinchhitters Charlie VanZant and John losing- pitcher was John Shed- Five second and four sixth frame runs set up Mount Al berts 115 win over Zephyr Zephyr added to a fifth stanza run with four in the seventh All the hit well Top honors went to Paul Mainprise and Dave Couch Clark Arnold and Ron wore the Blues hit togs was the loser Paul Mainprise Bruce Auckland and Horner pitched In that order tor the winners Nobby made his debut as a pitcher Monday at Pine Or chard Mount Albert greeted him with three first and four second chapter runs to set up a Pine Orchard counted four fourth and two fifth round run four in the seventh Mainprise tolled five before Horner strolled In to stem Pine Orchards threatening recovery High hit marks for Mount Al bert were posted by Bob Bad ger Kelly Nelson Case Craig Case Dave Couch and El mer Howie Art hom ered with- one aboard Bill Dike had a triple and neat bunt Doug Card a Preston and Pin Orchard Ahead scored four fourth round runs to win going away rookie crop Ron Bob Miller Ted Reeve Dave Harvey and Don Bond hit hard and often against Paul Mainprise as did veterans Doug Eves Bill holder and Cliff Word Dave Couch socked a four in three to scrap Haleys shutout Other Mount were Kelly Case and Art Monday rose up for six sixth and two seventh frame runs to down Pine Orchard Queensville uprising came after Howie Ashs single and Doug Cards home run rated Pine Orchard a 20 lead Cord Haley hung up a dandy three hitter and struck out clipped Josh Pres- lin for hits Don Glover and Bill were Queens hit stars Both had three hits arvi drove in three runs Two hit men in the winners camp were Cliff Want Dave Harvey and Doug Eves Both teams were en the alert defensively Don Glover Earl Doug Eves Bill and Doug Card making three star catches Willow Beach got their two game winning week rolling with Hockey Stars At Mount Albert One of the outstanding soft- ball attractions of the current season has been hooked Albert July It will pit the Lake League allstars against the National Hockey League greats Game time is pm It is a benefit game for Bert Simpson Zephyr Blues second baseman The likeable Bert broke his leg in two places In a recent game at Keswick and will be sidelined for at least three months All proceeds from the will be turned over to Simpson to help deify hospital and doctor bills All the Lake league teams are getting behind the drive to aid Bert Har rison and the Lunney boys Stan and are In charge of the program A lucky draw and prizes will be held in connection with the game The game will give district fans an opportunity to see all the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey play ers head by Sid Smith Danny Hush Bolton Harry Watson and Turk in action along with several Boston Bruin and Chicago Black Hawk play ers BARN DANCE FRIDAY JULY 16 at BERT BOYDS L ORCHESTRA Admission t00 per person Proceeds in aid of York County A I Sponsored by Union St f m Time 9 pm Worlds Champion Girl Fiddle Player Memorial Arena AL Wed JULY featured with Americas Foremost Al litti MM ALk