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Newmarket Era and Express, 17 May 1956, p. 17

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I For A Banner Year Three new Newmarket citizens joined the Tennis club at the clubs organization meeting held Monday at Keith Davis store That to tennis lovers Keith Davis Chas Lee and Chas Cobb is a sign there will be a record membership this season in the Newmarket club There was a good turnout of tennis enthusiasts at Mondays gathering A managing com mittee composed of Charles Lee Charles Cobb and Keith Davis was named to guide the club through the season Rodney West was named secretarytreas urer to complete the executive committee Additional names will be added to the committee as the tennis season gets into full swing Fees wore set at senior married couples 10 high school students and public school pupils 1 Club officers are now Bell Bowlers Banqueted Members of the Bell Telephone bowling fraternity and their friends strong tucked in their napkins and tore into turkey supper for the official close of their season at the Legion hall Friday Following the banquet the presentation of prizes and indi vidual awards won by the bowl ers were made After the din ner and prizegiving ceremonies the bowlers demonstrated their footwork on the dance floor to complete a large evening President and chairman Ken introduced Alex Hands who in turn presented his club championship trophy to Stan Evans captain of the win ning CrownAnchor team The members of the championship team along with Stan were Alice McCarnan Norma Peel Caroline Art More and Andy Anderson The Ed trophy went to the playoff champion- accepting membership dues for ship team with Bob Lee on behalf of his team Be- A general cleanup around the Boh Lee members were courts has now been completed Cecil Hare Aubrey Watson As soon as weather permits the Mickey Smith Dorothy courts will be rolled and the Alice and Don Gibson new tapes purchased recently In the individual award win- will be installed Era and Express Classifieds Results Fhre Teams Entered For Aurora Softball This is better than we had ever hoped for We were try ing for four teams for the Au rora town league and now we have five teams ready and raring to go reports Jack Robinson Aurora town league organizer A Kettleby team filed an en try early this week to bring the entry list to five teams Previ ously Lake Wilcox Remington- Hand Collis Leather and a town team headed by Harold Stephen son and Bob posted en tries A meeting to organize the league and draw up a schedule will be held this week League organizer Jack Robinson has hopes of locating a sixth team to make it easier on the schedule maker and received the Ted Rob inson trophy and Mrs Cordy also won the high triple prize The presentations were made by Ken and Don In the mens section the Roy Keffer trophy emblematic of high average went to Stan Evans as did the high triple award while Harold ftp NH Break Records The Kenmarket Era and Express Thursday May 17 Page list ladies division were Mrs Dorothy Cordy high single received the high single game Mrs Norma Peel for the second trophy Greta Lee and Alf year in a row held the high Peel won the door prizes Nine records were shattered at the Newmarket high schools an nual track and field meet com pleted Tuesday afternoon Dave Jefferson featured with three record breaking perform ances in the intermediate com petition His second 440- yard dash his minute se cond yard sprint and a heave of feet inches established new marks John Longland scampered the yards in seconds to set a new record and Bob went over the bar at ft in to establish the other records in the intermediate competition Along with the five records that went on the books in the in termediate competition the sen ior boys competitors established two new marks Two records were also toppled in the girls competition Watson fast develop ing into the districts top came up with a minute second mile and Barry Jones hurled the discus ft in to register new senior records Muriel Thompson in the pro cess of becoming junior girls champion added an inch to the existing standing broad jump mark with a leap of ft in Dana added approxi mately two feet to the interme diate baseball throw record with a toss of ft in Competition for the class championships was keen all the way down the line Track spe cialist Carl and field export Don Lewis claimed points each wind up in a tie for senior boys honors Dave collected Paul Don with two firsts and four seconds captured the inter mediate crown with 23 points Dave Jefferson second with points John had John Hopper piled up an im pressive total to walk off with junior honors Larry totalled points John eight Evans dominated the senior girls competition scoring four firsts in five events to harv est points while Edna Mark- ham had Shirley West four Colleen Cain rolled up an count to capture the inter mediate championship Donna collected nine Frances Hope eight Muriel Thompson and Linda staged an excellent race for the junior title It was points fur Muriel Thompson for Linda with Vivian in third place with five points The meet was under the super- vision of Miss Linda George Kelly and Don Carroll BOYS Senior yards D Lewis time sees yards D Lewis time sees yards Lewis field time 609 sees yards New- roth Kerr time Mile Wilson Barker time Hop step jump Galbraith Bell distance Pole vault Lewis Garrett height Discus Jones Pur distance Broad jump Bell distance High jump Garrett height Intermediate 100 yards Longland time sees 220 yards time sees 440 yards Jefferson Mills time yards Jefferson Dove Lewis lime 2155 Hop stop jump Long- land Jackson distance I Pole vault Lewis height 1 High jump Dove Hone height Broad jump Robert son Longland distance Shot put Jefferson Lewis distance Discus Jefferson distance Junior yards Hopper time sees yards Hopper time sees Hop step jump Hopper distance Pole vault height ITS Shot put Blair distance Broad jump Hopper distance 15 High jump Burling height Discus Hopper distance Senior High jump Evans M Bone height Standing broad jump Ev ans West P Cock distance Running broad jump Evans L Sedore distance Baseball throw E S Grieves L distance yards Evans Mark- ham S West time sees Intermediate High jump F Hope White height Standing broad jump Mar tin White Martin distance Running broad jump Hope C Cain distance throw C Cain J Smith distance yards Cain White C time sees Junior High jump L Hose height 4T Standing broad jump M Thompson L Purcell Bliz zard distance Running broad jump Thompson L Rose distance Baseball throw V Thompson distance yards Thompson Pur cell May time sees STRIKES and For Lacrosse Ninety wouldbe lacrosse players from the wee toddlers of seven or less to the midget group of and years of age have signed to play lacrosse ac cording to figures released this week by lacrosse organizer Matt Walsh The list covers in the age group ban tams and 20 midgets The plan to organize a four- team peeweemite town league plus bantam and midget teams for outoftown competition Practices are expected to get started this week Games in the league will alt be played on Saturday mornings at the arena The Newmarket Canadian Legion sponsoring the complete lacrosse program Bob and Matt Walsh with assistance from Legion members will coach and man age all the various lacrosse team Miking sure that there will be efficient refereeing for the genus local lacrosse officials have sent Tony Brooks Lothar and Ed Adams to the referees school being held at CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS BUILDING A BETTER COMMUNITY For the best fireworks display youve ever had BUY STANDARD FIREWORKS i SOLD ONLY AT Keith Davis SPARES St Johns league bowlers of ficially wind up the season with a banquet tonight In the final week of action top scorers were Bernard McIIale John White Mike Forhan Frank John Atkinson Fred March 50U Bert Main St Sporting Newmarket Phone Sixly teams mens la dies and mixed doubles par ticipated in the first annual Lake Bowling tournament staged at Fred Counters New market Bowling Academy Pres entation of the trophies captured by the bowlers will be made this Saturday Joe team Van- Ted Heather Ray Bob Early Bob ran up a 3077 total to capture team honors John Wing collected 3060 Steve loam was third Bell Telephone ladies team Norma Peel Greta Lee Lois Crydermun Alice Dot captured ladies team honors registering 2835 points second Vic Marx Bradford 2062 with Legionettcs third Roy and Lloyd Harvey combined to total to win mens doubles honors second C Shier and 128C third J Child and F 1200 In the mixed doubles Cobb and Cobb rang up lo win championship hon ors- Dorothy Cordy and Don were while Elaine Blain and Alvie were third Steven and Greta Ijee won individual high three game awards during the tourney Holiday Weather Prediction HOT and DRY t COME TO tvv MORTON BROS LTD Newmarket Davis Mount Albert 1952 COACH air sent covers SEDAN AircondiUoniiiK seat covers twotone 595 SEDAN IONTIAC COACH Aircoiulitioninj signals coach radio 1951 HUDSON SEDAN 1st class shape 1951 AirconditionihR DELIVERY EXCLUSIVE RANGE OF SUMMER SLACKS SHIRTS JACKETS 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