The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

THE ERA Neo-arkat. Avon. In . Out. Wot. Nave-kc Huron lacks out twice ayt ltltls VAN KRIEKE Interim Era sports editor girai Ian lye come to one uonclusmti in this twoweek sports stint you w m. oi. wrale you went on holidays That is that sports people are basically masochism Take a look at hockey Here you hate seemingly intelligent pople setting themselyes up to be thrown down puncth out. mm: upon and mhcrwise abused Then you have the spectators Where is the yoy in sitting in a "gym; cold arma watching a piece of rubber being flung from we side of the arena to the other" They cheer if their team punches the other out and cheer even arr if one of their own is iniured yet manages to rise again and 5mm hailing in body battered It really makes little sense The big craze this month seems to be tootball what with the Grfyl up am College Bowl Thank goodness ll s almost over in our mi \thy on earth do seemimly rational people set themselves up mt But" it don-sh t matter that the quarterback s face is now a goody pulp What is important is that the other team looks worse ad a touple of yards have been gained The fans are qune willing to stand in the bone chilling rain to mm pneumonia sports reporters. [Mt h really hay i- to take the cake , Uter \lllln thrmgh a freeziru cold hockey game, it s on to an mm colder football game and then back to take in yet another pckey game It s all masochistic The reason that l m sounding off like this is that lye mam-red that two weeks on sports is really two weeks too many when you see a respectable local businessperson question a rderu' s birthright and hurl accusations upon his ancestors. you xgir. to wonda' if titre is any sense in the sports world too know what you can do with that ling story you gaye me. as you gleefully departed for holidays about how cove-rim sports will Ioaden my horizons and make me a better reporter Another thing. if you leaye on holidays again in the near future you re going to be ducking hockey pucks Sportlugly yours. ( HRIS l 8 too better be back today M l' M15 TA It E Take note lan There are disadvantages to putting innocent ping reportas into unknown tantory' 1 Last week in this column ldid what almost every reporter fears doing l made a mistake l Wstood what Aurora Tigers mach Ted Tobias told me and ls l to saying that l'm sorry lt all bqan Ur other week when I asked Tobias if he was pinning any dianges for his team You asked me to ask. Iani Toms said he was planning some changes for the team so I wrote last he was ttankiiu of domg some trading That s where I made i mistake titer Saturday's game. "where they lost Tobias caught me Carefully he explained that he doc not believe in tradim Cutting. is but trading. no He pointed on that he did not think tradirg was fair to the iers Here. the player could be shipped off to a team he did not at to go to ii. the teams do it he explained but we new no right to do I Tobias wasn't saying which players were being cut if any All did say was that some had been injured CRASH I! (S T0!) The recent tragedy in Mississauga also played hamc with The DI inst week Normally three editions are put out line for Catrina another for Aurora area and still another for New market an Howeyer our plant where the paper is printed is located in ll ssaiuga and extremely close to where the train derailed The outcome was that we had to find another place to haw the IN printed It meant gomg down from three papers to only one hm meant that we had to put out a much smaller paper For the people who so religiously submit results of games to us bunt that a lot of it could not he used because there wasn t to Space We appremate the submissions that did come in and Wile for not being able to use a lot of it FL l ERS LA (. K TA L EN T mere 13 no denying coach Larry Boise's statement that his Market l- lyers lack talent He made the remark after being . d what the weak points in his team were Johnsly. l! pointed out that its record would improve : if the Flvers had people like Gordie Howe and Bobbie M"'l'fthcleaa. Bone does feel he has some good players 5"" Such as Kurt Pearson. Jamie Mama. Petar Kelley and .7! Tabavonhng are ones. he said. who have Wt forth a good .n lime in and game out m oaltending. too. Bone admitted, was starting to get better we need more depth." he said We have maybe two lines Wop ly most nights Sometimes. only one gomg We Just ' some taluit " 309 noted that there were some players on the injury list who Hobany help. if only they were on the ice instead Muller solutiai. he pointed out. was to replace the coach It s 9 Wt he s considering fl STEELERS SIGN (II-'1" 7*! Newmarkei Starters flushed off another season last week ! their dectiom and general meeting n" "N executive imluda Peta Lawrence. prosident. t'hris it y'iceproidait. Roger Hoiliday, treasurer. Nancy ll secretary. Jim Ackermaa. Anne Ackerman and Frank I. director; n" Steelers have already started planniiu for their next " A"you: faceted in joining should call Chris Barratt at l or Jim Acker-aa at 4850 1""team willbe holdingan enoofthc year. pretlrey t up post dance tla s Friday at 8 pm at the ()pthSl Hali. " et LEGION DUES WELL by Canadian Legion Branch 4% had a successful year in h 9 squad won five zone tournaments and one district men! . m m 'Porta (inner ail! pru-itation of all zone and inter 90"! Visa will take place at Sutton Legion on Dec 1 "HR-branch sports [Ingram includes "utton at H n on M a. Stodfville at Newmarket on Jan 16 and " at at Stodfville on Jan. so HOCKEY DANCE an! GW'llllmbury int-mediate Hockey League will hold a _ '0 PM! It the Eat Gwillimbury Community Centre minimums. Tickotsanavallablofrom all league ' by calla; Jot hoa- at assent ARKHAM Huron Heights Secondary School lucked out twice Saturday. as they tried against Markham in the York Region Girls Basketball (hmpsominps Biron Wis )imior fosmd itself the first to g defeat with klarkhdm winning Si 33 The Victory gave klarkham its fottth claim on the championship title, \Ahile both Junior teams appearrhyenly matched at the beginning of play Markham slowly picked up speed towarm the kid of the second quarter At half time. the V'tirf rested 25 ll in Markham s fayor Markham players refused to let up in the last half Their ability to zero in on rebounds combined with added height gave the Markham Second Section Sports team an added advantage and left \ewniarket trailing far behind Top scorers for Markham were Shanna Lyons with 22 pomta and Lisa Steyenson with l4. Newmarket's high scorers were Natalie H.011 with eigl'd, Michdlc Weinert with six ( hristine Tamopoisky with six Kim Proctor with brand Debbie Doman with Entertainment (the hewmarket player noted that the team had been short one of its top shooters who could have helped to balance out the score Top scorers for Newmarket were Sue Ports-Inan with It points f'harmamc Henry with eight and Michele Hudie with seyen \ewmarket beat Stouffyille earlier in the week by a score of 3 21 In thou-mi finals thehewmarkef team won I 32 against St Robert ii If the Newmarkef senior teams Leading up to the championships. Hiton Heights had defeated wvliif to: in the quarter-finals on Tuesday In the semi-finals. they came up against Bavaon Wodieaday and hit them with a was Victory The Newmarket s team loss ii. Markham had been the first of the season The team had won all 12 prewous games The junior team will still move on to the tmrgian Bay Secondary sch ). Hmmlom mmmmw wii. in the playoffs on NOV 1) they scheduled for Dec 1 in Pent-tam 1m in mow mm the (3888A m "mm My. mm [tun t b The team will also be u m pm": mm .mm play ing in the annual north south all Saturday for the York ('ouity title Jr 'm Fr'd They fared no better than. their a P " mououmbmfm "11 NH")! counterparts losing 52-35 \ l m W D ? ll 7 Unce again Markham s height V ,, thf f senior l and fast rebounds-rs created an at llva Markham @feated Aurora s v ~ g ,, T. I 5, l 601 IT, I 601 IT Aurora's Dr. (LW. Williams came up against Markham High last week trying to win a chance to play in the York Region Girls ( ps Both of Williams junior and senior teams lost. however. Here. the junior teams battle it out with Markham. The Markham Basketball WHOM squad eventually pulled forward to win was The Markham teams came up against Huron Heights Secondary School on Saturday for a final stab at the championships junior and senior categories to carry off the title for the fourth time Markham won in both the Tigers devoured twice Al'RORA Two defeats in the same weekend has furthered the Aurora Tigers' chances for making a quick leap up the Proy'incial Junior A league ladder Hie Tigers were squashed 105 at the hands of the league-leading Dixie Beehives Saturday A win would have moved the Aurora team into second place Tigers' coach Ted Tobias admitted that it would take the team at least another month before they would be in the same position again I want you to notice how calm I am after such a bad game " Tobias said halfyokingly A bad game it was too The hgers started things rolling in the first period with goals from Andy Browne. Jeff Eatough, Brian ( lark and John Nixon Assists came from Len Thornbury ( lark. J D Van, Tom Thornbury. Dave McLaughlin and Browne Dixie. however counteracted with three powerrplay goals in the first period A fourth powerplay goal at 6 20 in the second period tied the game and then Diane took the lead shortly afterwards Aurora struggled again minutes: later with a slammer from Jeff Eatoqh Wllh help from Yan and Paul Ritchie Homer. tiltir move was still not enough [)iiiie retailiated with a goal directly off the fact-off in the final minute of the period Disie scored four goals before five minutes had elapsed in the third period The final goal came against Bill Sellers, who had replaced (lary Smith in the Tiger net Flag football finals Sunday NEWMARKET aiarwater Pools and Ray s (lulf will battle ll out this Sunday to gain the title of the flag football championships In the semifinals played lrm Sunday. Cicarwater crucified Thi- Unknowns 47-1 Ray's Gulf followed suit by creamtng Midas Muf er 26 8 Clearwater has last only one game in the season and that has been to Ray's The Ray's remain undefeated. Thogamc will start at to am at Hiron W Secondary School The Tigers were not the only ones injured in the game Nine year old llayid Scollard of HR 1 (lormley ended up catching a wayward puck with his lip in thi- third period He was quickly examined and sent on with a fat lip The Tigers tart-d a littie better whet: they were matched against \orth Hay Sunday The Aurora team tdlllt' away with .i 55 loss (loalgetti-rs were Jack Pichie Marten Maclkinald Lorrie Waide, la'n Thornbury and t'lark ady antage At half time the Markham team left Newmarket trailing 22 if: They made up their last winning two quarters points in the last assuring an outstanding Vlt itW) l" l. \A llll'dmb 51> in the semi finals assuring themaely es a place in 'hr \ork (ounty title Markham s jdnlflf 'i-am defeated Illidfln m \t rirr of 00 l Huron to host major karate championships \f iHMAHhET HUT'Ifl Heights Secondary hchunl will be playing host early next month to on of the biggest ( HHS in proyincial karate action the tintario Karate Championships hie championships to be held her .' is expected to draw more that ltll (Wimptfiltirs along wit many more spectators Along with the ighti'ig competitions their will he df lh by eight degree black belt Mensa-mi Tsuruoka His son Hand 3 thirddegrec black belt holder will also be dernonstrating tariuus karate techniques The eyent is being organized by karate enthusiast Brad Jones "l'i\. |. .1 \O tli7.f1 \j..gr."' liidt k lit-met Joni-s explained that he tow \o-wr'iarket as the site for the champiorstups simply fiiget it out of 'liir'vflli l shl yf'dr ll was lr'. Hellenlii' \drltim wit if't'rs from the eye-n! wt; tie those-r for the mutant team win will ll or to the nationals next \Ul'flrnt'f lf Regina hi-lei'tioris from 'ho-ro- will attend the infernalinrials l. \paii st d for next year Tl 0 \o-wrt..irkt" t'yi-txt is \piiflStlrf d by the flf ldrlt' Karate \sux ialiuti whii t is part Hf the \atiuia. Karate Assix iatior \Ahilr the competitions at Huron lif will fir-gr a! lt.l a :7. the 'flLdlS will not std uiitii . p 7i, St. Andrew s wins soccer title, 7 -0 Al'Ht'KA St Andrew s ('(illr gt' claimed the (. eorgian Bay Secondary Schtals Senior hoccer title last Wednesday after defeating Alliston s Banting Memorial High \ htlil Ttl The college team neyer ir: danger throughout the contest led 2 mil the half and added a further fiyi- goals lit-fut ~ [hr end if the mint tiiyn Jones scored three goals hei Marshall 'wi and tiraham l iilliris and Ted \yoblom had one each John Hassett recorded the shutout St Andrew s now a $ l( the All lintaiii High Schools fina's ll' be plan-d lf May Football curling? NEWMARKET The \ork l'urling t'lub of Newmarket will be tidying its own unusual fund raiser Saturday as it helps the Must ular Dystrophy Society" The unusual part about this fund raiser is that it will see the curlers haying to play by the rules of amour not obeying the F'llf" and a f .iift".dr_ charge i~ {Midi \putators will fir in.ka whid; 'iuii'. they suptnir' .iriii ll' charged a sital: fer Tlll comm "no will hr iiiifialr d The i' ( 1' ltkdfiiil of M13! .i' 'lit' lul: s \i ii! it'i \? w I'f ii . footbaLTbere will be penalties for lirt dkfaxt it 8 i. it Shakcup m Myers lineup expected \FWMARKET A new face may soul; be seen it the Newmarket l'lyers lineup according to court: lorry Hone Bone admitted negotiations were now llftlt il_ to bring in .i new player but he refused to giye the t'\lfd details He also would not tell wliict; om- of hi uw i. players would hr gin-t the on The flt'giilldlltil; follow the l'lyers 4-2 df til Thursday from Bt lleytlle Ir a game which men Bone called disappointing Newmarket found themselyes panting to keep up With the out of town team Helleyillc s top scorer for the ex enirig John Murphy set the pace with .i slammer in the first period ll win lolloued iust minutes later by .iimtlit-r llo'lleyillt' goal making thi- Nitrt . t' al 'hr end of the first \Q l, Hurry Intuitniiifiiiig retaliated in the- ow i fld with the team s llf's l goal oi: .I\\l\l fruiri Tony Amati. .itid Jaimi- \1iit iitiii Niiirphy struck again in the \O tllflll as ht streaked through lht \Q'Vinldrki'l i ii'fmsr to score Finally well lnlll the third iii-rind when eyeryone had )us! about gin-i: up on the Flyers tillllf l \rwmarket goal was Q lit tl l .iirii ll t'lll Kurt i't drNif. wi'h \llnild assisting with the son- 12 and just summits remaining on the clock Hum opted to pull his goalie Th! .im I\ltil turned out to be the wrong .m . just three seconds left Hrilryilles Murphy struck yet agaii l Iliiiuglil we had a good number of scoring opportunities, said one )ust didnl put ll away that s all ' Newmarket had fared just slightly better two days before when 'ho-y l Hfllt up against Richmond Hill tilid won 5 -l l iideti-rred to Richmond Hill s lead .it Whr end of the first \i-wiiiarket returned in the second period ti. pup iii 'tiree markers The first iiilllt off ii piiwr-r play in Peter Kelli-y with or: assist from ltiil Hurkh-ulder (.ird liliiu struck New market Flyers experienced frustrating game Thursday night as Belicville Vic beat them 0-2. Here. Bill War tries is in- juiu minutes later with help front Huikholder and Tababoridung l . came forward towards the end of the second to chalk up yo" .inottier marker for hewmarket Brer. Houbos and Tababondung we'ri .iwdrtit tl lhi' thisls Vyhili- Just minutes inti play ..,r_, mums-4. lW'w'd \ldi HUI turned up H kllll'k le \t llrf' .iguii for \i'wmarki-Y l'l 'hw 'hird f dr\lll llllll . ii \Ui 't.li ~ late-r wilt bx wt " .irki't lit!" a mime Moi-itil' ho- mix? another tercept a Belicvillc goal. he Flyers had been sodas two days earlier when they beat Rick-