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pat 12 the tribune tharj wy 14 1966 miue in this corner by ron wallace fix t up or close t up last week in this column i commented on three children that drowned in northern ontario this week i found a spot only four miles from here where the same possible tragedy is bound to occur sooner or later as a matter of fact one person four years ago did drown in this area its island lake norlh of musselmans on the east ern limit of whitchurch township on the north shores of this small but dangerous body of water is a park at least a fair excuse for a park it consists of a few nice shade trees plenty of grass about a pailful of beach sand and a couple of inconvenient conveniences this park costs the swimmer money if he drives his car onto the property people who go there have but one intention and that is to beat the heat in a cool lake yet this lake is completely without supervision not a lifeguard for miles nothing just a lake holding any where from fifty to 500 people i was there for about two hours and noted a num ber of things that were definitely wrong and that if not corrected more bodies are going to be pulled from the water first of all no guards and thats bad since the peo ple are paying for something and its not the scenery at least one qualified swimmer should be on patrol throughout the duration of the park being open under an admission fee its obvious that someone is reaping the profits and is not putting them back into the area thats evident in the inconvenient conveniences the change houses theres a compliment are in one building male on one side female on the other to ob tain the privacy most people desire one has to hold the doors shut with one hand and change with the other the picnic tables the ones than can be used are badly in need of paint and each one can guarantee at least one sliver per person one table is piled in a heap on the beach as though it were fuel for a huge bonfire the grass is part weeds and the sand is baked clay garbage and refuse is strewn about and that includes broken soft drink bottles the cars are parked in a haphazard fashion and in general there is no organiza tion whatsoever the lake itself is the second problem it drops off sharply only a few feet from shore and although the shallowest part has a good firm sand base deeper out it becomes a muddy slime a friend of mine equipped with the bare essentials of skin diving took a tour around the lake underwater and came back on the beach with this report i would dive deep and suddenly out of nowhere would be a bush and id have to surface to miss it the entire bot tom is covered in long stringy weeds perhaps six or seven feet tall in some places they break water the friend was sporting a healthy share of mud and cake sand that had been picked up while on the tour it was dirty and the dust blowing from the beach across the water caused me to choke on the air i was breathing well we cant blame the weather on the dismal shape of the park but how many sand beaches are there that turn to dust when the wind blows not many thirdly the people the silly people who by their actions cant have a brain in their heads across the en tire lake as far as the water boundaries extend are doz ens of air mattresses and floating rafts and other home made or storebought gadgets that look inviting in a shop window but are deadly on the water half of these people are using the rafts etc because they cant swim if one should ever decide to spring a leak its game over for the occupant once in those weeds noth ing short of a miracle will save him there was a young family situated nearby who had joined the hordes to beat the heat the little boy who could barely walk stumbled down the crag filled beach entered the water and fell flat on his face the father who was standing in the water quickly scooped his son from the lake gave him a couple of slaps on the back and the kid was line the father laughed at the big joke he had just witnessed i laughed too at the father two other men in their early twenties were splash ing about merrily in the water and neither it was obvi ous could swim a stroke if one ventured out over his head he would frantically dog paddle back to safe ter ritory stand up with a puffed up chest and strut around as if to say can ya beat that i was over my head and im still alive another incident that caught my eye was the most common of all the good old beach ball being tossed around in the water among four people the ball got away from one receiver and with the stiff offshore wind drifted into deep water two of the four swim mers went after it swimming as fast as they could they couldnt catch it and finally decided to let it go both had to tread water for a few minutes in an effort to catch their breath before making the return trip to shore about 90 per cent ol the people in attendance were from the city and in their anxiety to find water they dont care what the situation is maybe they dont real ize that places such as this arc required to have some sort of coordinal ion and supervision and if they have nt they should be closed if the owners whoever they might be insist on taking peoples money without offering at least a half decent place to swim then they should put up signs indicating that no guard is on duty and that the swim mers enter the water at their own risk as it appears now anyone di owning there places the responsibility squarely on the heads of the operators in short the park should be closed permanently il nothing is done to fix the place up or temporarily if the operators leel their conscience picking at them claremont 43 stock car racer pies following crash sammy snider 29 of butlonville wellknown stockcar racer died in hospital on thursday follow ing a tragic accident near hamilton his auto crashed into a track retaining wall and hurst into flames during a trial run he suffered severe burns and other injuries two some clerics arc using websters dictionary as a bible says an irate toronto clergyman it is encouraging to hear that dictionaries are used at all these days clarimont as long as the incompar able bob miller can lob his slow ball as far as the plate he will win games for brougham he did it on thursday niylu as his team edged claremont 13 in the secondhalf of a community league doubleheader the contest staged in the clare mont park attracted the seasons largest croud the foi iy year old plus pitcher was clipped for 9 hits but they were well spaced over the seven innings he showed excellent control and didnt allow a siuglc base on balls he struck out eight men he sent the claremont side down in order in the 1st and 9th in addition to his mastery on the mound he poked out a single in the third to start a brougham rally rolling that counted 3 big tuns iiomi run blast at the plate it was the combination of mur ray jones and paul white that sparked the win ners offensive catcher joins slammed a double and a triple while white uncorked a home run and two singles howard malcolm and miller collected singlebase blows and that was the ex tent of the brougham batting power jim red- shaw going the distance on the claremont hill threw well enough to win most games chalking up an 8hittcr whites homerun blast in the 3rd hurl his chances ron hedges larry vernon and jim hop kins crossed the plate for claremont the home sters stranded five men including tom benson in the 3rd and ray ward in the 1th after both had belted triples summer bowling lg wednesday july 6 high single men phil why- brew 231 high triple men phil whybrevv 736 high single women carole mor ris 2s high triple women rvumi herbert 612 j over 600 carole mo ris 607 phil why- brow 736 john martin gio ep keuken 613 norma herbert 612 over 200 jerry vanvcen 2h3 louise oquinn 202 dorcen brown 200 jim broun 24s206 phil wirybrew 291252213 john martin 221 john otter 212219 ep kcukon 255 garry chambers 212 carole mollis 25s201 rubua cooper 231 norma herbert 220203 july 7 thursday night high ingle edith fleming 270 high triple edith flem ing 651 over 200 edith fleming 270237 bill atyvell 266 brenda forshaw 2g1 dave mehaltcy 260203 dorothy moheltey 236 fred moore 220 carole morris 210 ait hove 206 eldon wags 203 eleanor wagg 202 team standings ufos a0 pts circle city six 3t pis suinpcrs 23 pts lucky strikes 17 pts drub woodville 204 stouffville the iga intermediates con tinued their torrid pace on the ball field racking up two more wins in weekend action saturday night in manilla the homesters won 95 then on sunday after noon at the park they clob bered woodville 204 on the regular season so far the stouffville squad has picked up eleven wins and a tie in fifteen games in sundays encounter the stouffville nine mowed down three woodville pitch ers scoring at least four runs in each of the first sixth seventh and eighth innings only two frames the third and fifth were they kept scoreless woodvillcs big effort was in the second inning when they scored three runs down sixteen tallies they added a single run in the final frame larry spang who pitched for the winners gave up seven hits but struck out twelve batters meanwhile jack rac carl flett and ron colcy were hit twenty- tvvo liiiics by stouffville batsmen rae lasted the first five innings flett was in for half a stanza and coley finished the game george mckay scored the only homer of the match in the first inning but the big gun was rodger todd who uncorked four doubles in six trips to bat other doubles went to dave slack and tom millar in saturdays short five- inning contest stouffville scored three runs in each of the first third and fifth stanzas to complete their scoring manilla netted two in the third and three in fifth to account for their five runs the iga squad now starts on a well deserved tenday rest this sunday there will be no game at the park and the same holds true for the following week stouffvilles next contest an outoftown game is scheduled for sat urday july 23 when they meet valentia next game slated to be played here is sunday july 31 with val entia the visitors west rouge 41 claremont george redshaw of claremont may have given up twelve hits tuesday night but only one west rouge player managed to completely travel the base paths as claremont chalked up a 11 win west rouge was held scoreless until the final in ning when hedley snel- grove blasted a triple and was hit home by ted in- mans double claremont slopped the latestage rally retiring the side with two men stranded on first and second the winners meanwhile scored singles in the second and fourth innings and ad ded a pair of runs in the 3th to complete their scoring larry vernon and bruce redshaw both connected with triples to lead the claremont attack for redshaw he gave up one run off twelve hits and struck out six west rouge batters don holder was tap ped for four runs off eight safeties and he registered a gooseegg in the strikeout department claremont is idle until monday night when they meet greenwood in a night cap game at brougham west rouge plays thursday in claremont against brock road players batting averages harry burnett glenn jackson mike cadicux larry span jerry lewis ken aida tom millar rodger todd ted susuki bill lehman an it ii 3 0 2 30 9 13 19 6 8 20 7 8 15 10 is 16 817 52 13 19 50 12 18 11 11 11 31 616 george mckay 17 14 vi dave slack ross madill barry mclean 62 is 17 15 3 2 pet 667 433 421 400 400 370 365 360 311 314 300 275 1s5 133 strike outs by pitchers glenn jackson 71 mike cadieux is rodger todd 13 larry spang 12 ted susuki 5 tom millar 1 brock road downs brougham 74 claremont a big 3- run fourth inning was ah that brock road needed on tuesday night to beat brougham 7 to 4 in a sched uled game in the claremont community league walks n ken craig and john me- inturc set the stage for hugh pugh and walt hall to come through with solid twobase blows john vesters crossed the plate for the winners in the 1st and 3rd and pugh and hall added the clinchers in the 6th halls drive was a homerun blast with one mate aboard broughams offensive was confined to the 7th inning when they touched hurler ken craig for 1 hits and 4 rims howard malcolm belt- i cd a double with singles coming from the bats of paul white bob miller and keith puckrin frank hendy and gord tarr shared the mound chores for brougham up until the 7ih ken ciig lircd great ball for biock road retiring the brougham side in order in the first 3 innings he whif fed 7 men and walked 1 no games death grove jacob m at the brierbush hospital on tuesday july 12 jacob m grove of uingwood follow ing a lengthy illness surv- ing arc his wife the former verna sleekly and one sister miss ada grove the fune ral will be held on thursday july 11 at 230 pm from the oneill funeral home stouffville interment in widcmaa cemetery claremont comm league standings july 14 as of july 13 july 18 p w l t rt goodwood 15 10 1 1 21 july 19 pickering 15 10 4 1 21 july 20 brock rd 16 10 3 1 21 claremont 16 9 6 1 19 bay ridges 15 7 6 2 16 brougham 17 3 8 4 11 july 1 1 july is july 19 greenwood 15 4 11 0 8 west rouge 17 3 m 0 6 victorian independent league claremont community league pickering vs brougham west pouge vs brock road at claremont bay ridges vs goodwood greenwood vs claremont at brougham greenwood vs brock road pickering vs west rouge at claremont bay ridges vs claremont goodwood vs brougham at brougham pickering girls softball east woodland at greenwood bay ridges at claremont brougham at bay pudges