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7T r to ficcwi to fite I ullit tot MteH Watt r f Re fer fan la mad tickets fee fcr Saturday PHONE SATURDAY NEWMARKET SEPT 1213 ACTOR 2ND FUN HIT JO Sum k tfiiO WWW IOSSJ MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY SEPT THE ALL SHOW iHD WHEN 0gns Atom man of joy rot mi mums who unit m jm Town League Finals Tied SHOW STOPPER LARRY PARKS EUZABETH TAYLOR Bill with a la the third carried Hoffman to win Specialty The town mew stand at a fame each- Third fame Friday at SPECIALTY WINS Although Office Specialty did enough timely clubbing and Hoffman commit ted enough miscues to allow the Specialty to pick up a deci sion in game two of the town league finals The large Monday night audi ence saw Bernard Kay start the game with a single and Bun Cook drive a ground skimmer at Grant Blight at Blighty scooped it up and pegged to second for an attempted force out The throw eluded Freddie and both runners scored and Specialty were leaders They increased their margin to 40 in the third scor ing two runs on John Hiseys walk and Bernard Kays second hit Hoffman catapulted back into the game with two runs in the third on consecutive hits by Fred Thorns and Bill Both Bill and John stood off further attempts at scoring until the last of seventh Hoffman fired their last in the seventh as Don Gibson Fred and Thorns hit safely It was good for one run but fell one short of the tying counter Bill VanZant pitched threehit ball good enough to win most games John Shedlowick lowed seven but was steady as a rock the tight spots Bernard Kay had two hits and Els- collected the other safety Ortie Thorns was Hoffman big gun with two triples OPENER Specialty and Hoffman got off on a weird rough and rousing note Friday When the smoke had cleared and the last verbal brickbat was thrown the teams had battled to a tic in the first of a best four out of seven series Hoffman protected a lead heading into the last of the seventh Bill VanZant in and out of frying pan needed just three men to bag the win but it didnt work out that way A pair of errors two walks and singles by Bruce Andrews and John Shedlowick fused a four- run Specialty rally to tie it The Specialty would have snatched the decision except for Ortie Thorns perfect pitch from centerfield that nipped Bruce Andrews at the platter That brought about a sustained rhu barb as to whether the teams should crack the tie or go home with a point apiece After sev eral shoving exchanges and calls for the rule book they settled for a OUST BELL FROM SEMIS One of Cooks low pitches bounded away from catcher Mickey Smith to set up Hoffman with a win over at the fair grounds last Wednesday That pitch did three things It broke up a ball game as scored from third with game winner ousted Thompson- Bell from the town league semis and qualified Hoffman for the finals against Office Specialty Actually considering statistics the Pressmen had no license to be close to the ThompsonBell men Bellmen belted Bill Van for hits Cook was and stopped the man hit production at five Bell men too sharp defen sively- and were- positive basepaths In the fourth they an themselves smack in a double play to squelch a sure lire rally Bellmen delivered a big three- run first innings as Bill Johns- tori Stan Evans and Lloyd Cud- more pro v d sendhome singles At that the Bellmen a glorious chance to make it more by leaving the bases saturated Hoffman start ed fanning the comeback fire with an unearned run in the second and shot into a lead fourth on a walk two er rors and Bruce double came back with a two run rally in the fifth on triples by Bill Johnston Lloyd Cud- more and a single by Don Smith Hoffman anchored their win around a tworun last of the seventh on Wilsons single Thorns double and Roy Eves hit Thorns scored the game winner on a wild pitch with two out It was a rough ending for the Bellmen Specialty Trips Mount Another chapter in the sum merlong struggles between the town leaguers and their Lake league opposite was written under the lights at the fair grounds last Wednesday Mount Albert patiently standing by for Zephyr Blues and Pino Orchard to declare a semifinal winner were guests in an exhi bition to do with Office Spe cialty The two teams put on a tidy Softball show before Office Spe cialty poked out a 3 win The liked what Lefty Glover had to offer and were off to a flying start on hits by Dave Couch Harold Stephenson Doug Simpson and Horner Rut ledge Office Specialty roared back with a matching pair in the sec ond secured on a missed third strike a pair of bobbles and Charlie- single Kelly Cases single put Mount ahead 3 in the third before Office Specialty sewed it up on a walk an error Jerry Hugos double and Charlie VanZamVs second hit That flurry was good for three runs and the ball game HASHMAN AWARD mm For Pitching Effort Bill has tamed In two In the town league final why the and If off- man are tied at a came each now lost a tough three hitter Monday Wednesday William gave up four hit and won Those pitching tries have been the high spots In the matte showdown series to date This were naming Bill tor the award and Theatre on the strength of those two well pitched Karnes Incidentally fanjf if you havent been taking In the town league finals hiltit do so pronto The two teams have been furnishing the nest Softball of the year here there or anywhere They go again Friday at eight chimes race It the Newmarket Era and Express Sept Blues Orchard To Settle m Semis Under Hub Lights A new chapter will be written lies efts BY EORGB Newmarket Sports Editor So you thought the might close this week Hold the phone Orchard and Zephyr be in tinder the lights to their Lake semifiriat series Theyll go two out of three so were sure of games arid Tuesday What a series that should be Into the Hub sport record next week Pine Orchard ami Zephyr Blues have been battling a fort night now to get their Lake semifinal series settled The Hides have played six games and have a win each The other four have been wiped off the slate due to darkness and ties League executive have decided to throw the two teams at each other tonight under the New market lights The teams are as evenly matched as a pair of new ly minted quarters they play top flight and every fan from here to Gum Swamp will be on hand to root for their or ilea The teams will play a two out of three series under the local lights with the second game carded for next Tuesday Game time is pm CANT I EC WINNERS Pine Orchard and Zephyr Blues scored three in the fourth for their date with the scorekeeper Picker and Don ninehit attack against with two each the Monday game lilucs rocketed Into a frame lead Hill Chef Liinneys surprise staffer held steady until fifth then Pine Orchard blew liJ off with three in that and hit for three more in the following panel The last two came against Ron who over in the sixth Blues came for twjo run serving in the ft and a edge on a error and singles by Hon and Harry Hawse and Roy Eves doubled to feature Pine Orchards Hon Hester and Dim Hewlett laid good on pitches lor triples i Sports Ladies Win First Of Finals Newmarket ladies are one game away from annexing the intermediate title Saturday at the fair grounds on the strength of Hester Clarks Stirling threehit relief pitching local ladies spilled Midland Monarch Game in the best of three finals will be played at Saturday at Should a third game he required perish the thought it will also be played Saturday in at chimes Newmarket looked at deaths door in the third when Midland flew into Sarah pit ches for four hits and five runs Thats when Coach Charlie Van biting his finger nails up to the elbows made his big move shooting in Hester Clark to do the hurling and keeping Sarah in the game at second has just in case Heater Clark immediately went to work to silence Midland on three hits giving up single rims in the seventh and eighth Neither of thce runs could be charged to the pitcher as her mates made the scores possible by errors Newmarket matched Midlands five in their half of the third on hits by Terry Held Hosier Clark Barbara Walt and Lois Mono Deans hit scored Terry in the following frame to break the tie and locals harvested the game winning two on con secutive hits by Mary Osborne Terry and Dean in the sixth batting starlets as New market Midland Dean and Barbara Watt three each Fielding high lights were provided by Dean Mary Osborne Grace Webster and Shirley Wilson Midlands lop clubber was Vivian with three Muriel usual nemesis to the local hitters was the loalng pitcher Both teams are evenly matched Heres a warning to local soft- ball filberts better be there early or youll to climb a tree to watch proceedings Per sonally- this is as tickled as a great Bane behind a meat counter to see the league teams make use of the lights Thats what theyre there for a under the lights both teams will have an equal oppor tunity of winning the series While were on the subject your paragrapher is a little browned off on the fair grounds setup We started out with big plans to make it a Hub show place Outside of the lights we havent gotten very far Things that need doing oyer there In clude getting the track in shape a football field started and the bleachers repaired or better still the grandstand moved over re side the diamond This season in and actions we have entertained a number of outside The first thing they ask is Where do we change We just have to shrug bur shoulders and believe me they dont go away with any great regard for our setup If the grandstand was moved over dressing robins storage space for equipment and a snack bar could be under it and everything would be right there handy It is certainly something to think about arid now is the time a blue print should be laid down so that these tasks could be accomplished over the next couple of seasons- Sport we figure is one of the best mediums for advertising the Hub across the province and we like to hear the visiting teams going away with a good word for Newmarket Our Optimist baseball teams by reaching the Ontario finals two years in a row and with a good show of sportsmanship did extra fine workin this respect The ardent fan has a long memory too One fan surprised its with its years since Newmarket was here with a hardball team Diamond dust While its a lit tle late perhaps congratulations to those busy Keswick and North sportsmen on their opening of new pitch When completed it should produce one of the best diamonds in the circuit Work we notice has started on now park Thais good news for the fans in that district Sutton in west division trlcounty finals aiding in the Sutton triumph were Tommy Hare Ted Anderson Don Cam- Blues are still at if hammer and are now in a showdown ton W series for the Lake s Ladies League title If our I Mtt Pinups equal the performance evenly matched teams have bat- jpa town semifinals SPORTS CALENDAR Sept Aurora displayed against Keswick in the semifinals they could just take the measure of the Weve got our fingers crossed of our acquaintance on the inside at Camp Borden pas ses along the info that Prank Hoi worth did a fine as recreation director during the summer months at the big mili tary center Frank had about and girls under his wing He has a knack of getting the small fry to do things and we missed his guiding hand around here during the summer months Town league finals betwixt Office Specialty and Hoffman are generating a lot of heat The boys got into a shoving match after Fridays game Stan Smith missed a bet by not being around with his card to sign a few lied six times to date and all they have to show for it is a win apiece One of those six games was a tie while two others ran into 2nd game Civil Service Ditch Diggers pm New market arena prowrestling card- Sept fair darkness The winner if they Lake Simcoe junior ladles fi- can get it through before the snow flies tackles Mount Albert for the league title Friday the third and decider so booked went down to the first of the seventh Pine Orch ard leading before Umpire Carpenter called a halt for darkness The two games dood it again Monday with the same result games stopped for dark ness- This time the Blues were topside 109 ici the bottom of the sixth- 2nd game Mount Albert Newmarket pan fair grounds town league finals 3rd game Office Specialty Hoffman Sept 230 finals Newmarket Midland diamond Sept J Aurora park town league semis or fi nals Ditch Diggers Civil Ser vice pm Aurora arena pro wrestling card Sept IB pm Mount In Harvesting hits including home run smashes by Isabel Rogers and Kay a triple and a double by Mar- Martin and a double by Betty Arthur Newmarket Pinups bashed Keswick Lake- sides in a Lake junior ladies league semifinal contest at the fair grounds Friday The victory gave the Pinups the best of five semifinal round three games to one and qualified the Geo Watt clan to meet Albert for the league diadem Pinups leading sent batters to the plate tor an uprising in the fifth to apply the clincher Coach times starting lit rail took the early bartering from the Pinups before Lynn Thompson came in to zipper shut the rally Keswick turned on their tor mentors for five runs hi Ihe six for their ablest show of keeping in the playoff whirl Keswick registered this rally against who took over the pitching from Kay in the third played and hit like coining champs Marilyn five 1 Martin and Betty each were the deluxe swingers Third Barbara shortstopper Joan and center fielder Helen Fridays encounter was a Sallibert diamond Lake game down to the sixth ladies leasee finals 3rd Pine Orchard got for four runs game Newmarket Pinups in the sixth and three in the Mount Albert seventh for a comfortable lead j Sept pm Aurora Howie Ashs homer and park town league finals Andy Lloyds twoon homer Diggers or Civil Service sparked the Orchards late Queen City Storage Diggers vs Service In Doubt Storagemen Sure Finalist stole Keswick hit with alert defensive play race Hon Howe ami Don tors- topped the hit If it should happen were not marks with four and it was two saying it will that Zephyr and each for Grace Curtis Including Mount Albert meet in the Sim- coo finals how will Coach Gla dys Hulling keep peace among tier softlmU Hock four of Mount Albert- gals Rein Loia Morrison Hetty Meyers and Mor rison hall from Zephyr and en virons and are IkjuiuI to root for the Blues The rest naturally will whoop and holler for the good old Motilities- Mount Indies and by ih of WW Mil Mount Albert ladies got away lo winning start in defense of their Junior ladles league title by defeating Newmarket Pinups in Albert Tuesday it was amo one hi heat four of fiovbrt title series Game two will bo aired at the fair grounds Friday at flIltt pm games three at Mount Alhiut rode herd on Mar guerite Green Mountto ace for an lead in third Mount gals the home fans as Imp as a of fleas dug pound by roaring cop the derision with a fiverun fifth Mh Joan Marilyn lice and reeled off main Pin up hatting punch Ruth Simp son and kept up their hit ting habits to spark the a four baser Kay Peters and Beverley Keswick Curtis K Pe ters If Peters Worrall Thompson Peters lb I loaton s Porter It York J Leo Martin I Rogers tiu If J v- TOWN HO Bit ten Sorting to on the ptimpklli this week Ihe announcement lwniati Hot league that the or meeting for be held next scheduled for at Millard Mount Albert Vandorf teams of last year are toked to make a note of the date Anyone Interested In seeing a strong league Li welcome to attend i rz A railway to tap the iron ore deposits of due to be producing in 1054 will cost Canadas privately owned commercial banks have branches throughout the coun try Tonight Thursday Ditch Dig gers and Civil Service will swing back into action in Aurora Town Park in an attempt to produce a winner in their Aurora league semifinal series Civil Service hold a 1 I edge in games and can sew up the series with a victory tonight The defending champion Ditch Diggers can prolong the set and force a third and deciding game Monday with a victory Series survivor is schedu 1 e to go against the Queen City Storage the finals Were planning on a threegame schedule next week Monday Wednesday and Friday reports league president The wise boys are saying the will cop the honors this year but either Ihe Diggers or the greatly improved Civil Service tribe could knock off- the favorites in Hie finals i The hustle arid bustle of the semifinals has- brought out the largest crowds of the season and theyll increase when Hie finals roll around Concluding games in the semifinals finals are scheduled to start at TUKSDAV bitch Diggers Civil Ser vice are providing a pressure cooker semifinal series Theyre still at it and for a month the way things are going Ser vicemen hold a game edge with a win In game one of the best of three round sup posedly won game two but saw the game erased from the record sheets by an executive ruling owing to umpires mis interpretation of the dead ball rule V Theyll try again tonight to set tle it If not a third game goes Monday Tuesday night the teams to all tie The teams came out of a hectic scor ing first Innings with Ditch Dig leading Two runs in both the second and third gave Servicemen a redge Diggers drew even with two in the fourth and went ahead 8 In fifth on Mickey Suttons double and Howie Timbers sin i Mickey Sutton who relieved Bill on Diggers rub- her in the In deep trouble in the last of the sixth Red Craig drew a to score it without further scoring damage as- Charlie Sutton skied out the sacks populated Red Craig came on in the sixth Servicemens pitching burden from Jimmy and checked Diggers without hit c STORAGE QUALIFIES Stundens threehit pit hear flawless fielding plus a cluster of runs in almost every I frame worked out to a win for Queen City over Rockets in contest Monday The the Queen City Storage for the Aurora Town Leslie finals Stuhdeh lost his shutout in the seventh as John OMsho- doubled and scored on an tempted pickoff play at second base Storagemengbt in a lot of good iolid socking against Sid Aylett on the Rocket rubber Homers rant Winters and Jack Andrews sparked the attack j Queen City Storage Win ters Andy J Andrews J Emmons button- Rockets If Aylett A Cook J Sutton- Ridiardson J Ford Ousted Little Giants were eliminated from the OBA mid get Friday when they suffered an setback at the hands of Oaks at the Fair Grounds Oakville won at home Thursday to gobble up the series In two straight Grant Morton coach Lowell Wallers pitching nominee had the Oaks on one hit un til the ninth as the teams were deadlocked all Then peeks of trouble develop ed for Morton and his helpmates With one out and one on base via a Anderson pinch hitting for the Oaks sent a ground scoot er back to Morton It looked a sure fire double play but Grant Morton throw second and it was and that fired a sixrun rally for the Oaks and won the game for them Jock Mills came finally to erase the raly was tough game to lose had a lead going Until the sixth Little Giants it there as Norm Smart wacheo first on a missed third strike and singled to spark the tying rally Little Giants the invaders Boh Honey led two Laurie Van- out a long double and Ding Don and Grant Morton furnished the cr Iorm the catch of the game in left field Lawrence with a triple and sin gle headed the hit list Newmarket J Mills Van2ant P Bannister v i ii I