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PICKS URELLE

‘Former heavyweight boxing world light heavy title in the king Joe Louis has picked 0311- championship bout against Archie ads’s Yvon Durelle to win the Moore here Dec. 10. Louis, m

‘matches, is shown in his

l.Montreal to re.eree wrestling

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room. (CP Wirephoto)

American League

Pres.

Announces Resignation

By JOE REICHLER signed Wednesday as president of Associated Pro: Sports Writer the American League. He said WASHINGTON (AM—Stately, baseball in its troubled times

72 - year - old Willi Harridlgere- needs younger men.

SPORTS FRONT

'By PIUS CALLAGHAN

THIS FELLOW Roy ‘Red' Storey is really something.

If ever a referee had the ability to impart to players and fans alike the conviction that he was impartiality itself, that fellow is Storey.

‘Red' has a [way all his own and it’s a way that has won for him the respect of National League players and those who follow the destinies of the Big Time loop. _ -

Storey does everything with a real assurance; there’s no doubt about it when he undenfiakes to make a decision. He's sure of his ground and‘being sure, he works with an ease that is a pleasure to behold. Players lmow that Storey is the complete boss and they act accordingly. Pressure means nothing to the big redhead. Hometown displeasure doesn't phase him a bit. He’ll'keep sending the homesters to the sinners’ bin just as fast as he can catch them doing something tliat the book says is not pemfi.‘ TC: - ,‘,v ..

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“RED’ IS A MOST interesting convers‘autionalist. We thorough- 'qnjoyed his tales as he related them the other afternoon at the ennual hockey school. And we were most impressed by his con-

Storey maintains that there are plenty of lads in Canada with the ability to make the National Hockey League. However, he hastens to add, that a great majority of these young players lack the ambition. They all want to become good hockey players but they are not willing to work at it. In other words, practice and more practice is something that is strictly for the birds.

‘Red’ told several stories of National Leaguers who got into the big time with a terrific amount of hard work. Some of these players lacked certain qualities but they kept plugging away un- til they had acquired them; Hard work is essential if a player hopes to make hockey a career, Storey insisted.

THE LACK OF SKATING ability was deplored by the big N.H.L. referee but he maintained that even some National Hoc- key League players had improved their skating tremendously af- ter they had hit the big show. He cited fellows like Lou Fontin— Ito of the New York Rangers and Vic Stasiuk of Boston Bruins who had worked their hearts out to improve their skating. These fellows, according. to Storey, skate at every chance and especial- ly before the game gets underway. Their persistence is paying off and both have greatly improved by their practice.

Storey also cited several players who stayed with the big time, mostly because they were determined not to be shipped back to the minors. They possessed a will to win' and that more than made up for some of their shortcomings as far as natural ability was concerned.

PLAYERS LIKE to do things that they can do well. That's natural but it’s not the way to hockey success according to ‘Red‘. The thing we 'don’t do well are the ones that have to be con- quered if we are to be a success: He cited several players who have one or more outstanding abilities. These abilities of these players had come about, Storey insisted, by many long periods of practice. They didn't happen by chance. It’s only when you work at your weak points and keeping working away in an effort to correct them, that' you are really on the road to success.

There's no room in the National Hockey League for the fel- low who isn’t prepared to work at his job. He must keep pound- ing away at his weaknesses, trying his level best to erase them. if he doesn’t correct them, these weaknesses soon become com- mon knowledge and opposing players will see that they lead to his downfall.

THIS JOB of refereeing really keeps a fellow on the hop. Storey handled the game between Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs last Sunday in Boston. Monday morning he took a plane at Boston (early morning) and arrived here about 7 o’- clock Monday night. He had plenty of ‘downs’ on the way, Yar- mouth, Saint John, Moncton, Summerside and Charlottetown. To- night he‘s in Montreal where he handles the Leaf-Canadiens tus- sle. Saturday it's Toronto where the Leafs entertain Boston.

Everyone who attended the hockey school surely enjoyed their sessions with the likeable redhead. And we certainly in- clude ourselves in that group.

_ We sincerely hope that we will have the privilege of having him again at some future schools.

FRANKIE ROPER takes his Navy Tars on the Sports Arena ice tonight from 8 till 9 and a large turnout is expected.

Frankie, better known for his goal tending qualities than his coaching abilities, has high hopes of icing a formidable squad in the new league. Word from the Navy Barracks is that the Tars are not going to be any pushovers. In fact they have de-

finite ambitions to get home in front of this five—team loop. Their,

first taste of competition comes on opening night December 9 when they tangle with Parkdale Royals. The other three teams in'the loop are Saint Dunstan's University, Prince of Wales Col- lege and Garrison Juniors.

JAMES McCALLUM, league secretary, informs us that the loop will be known as the Charlottetown and District League. The executive met earlier this week and drew up a tentative constitution which is expected to be approved shortly. Another exerutive meeting is sci for this coming Sunday. '

Saint Dunstan's will not sec action until the early part of the new year. Prince of Wales can't take on anympponentn until exams are over which is about the 19th of this month. Up till then Garrison Juniors. Navy Tara and

_ Parkdale Royals will [no I

vide the entertainment for the cash customers. The league has approved four referees. They are: Don Whe- lan. Walter Lawlor. Maurice Goodwin and Brian McCallum. Remember ac‘mn commences next Tuesday night. The par-

ticipants Will be Navy Tara and Parkdale Royals

lGoodspeed. 1. Dowth

Speculation arose immediately as to'wmo would take over the post the white-haired Harridyge vacated without advance public notice.

lit was reliably learned the American League oWniers already were favoring Joe Cronin, gen- eral manager of Boston Red Sox, but a screening committee of six was appointed.

Other candidates mentioned in- cluded Bill Dewitt, administrator of the major leagues’ $500000 fund; Frank Lane. general man- ager' of Cleveland Indians, and Earl Hilligan, assistant to Har- ridge.

FOURTH PRESIDENT

The next _,,A.L, president, who will be the fourth in the 55-year- old history of "ie circuit, is not expected to be named for at least three to four weeks. Meanwhile Harridge continues to preside over the league meetings here.

The National League, at its meeting, re-elected Warren Giles

" president. Thedir'bctbrs gave the

62-yearaold Cincinnatian a five year contract. '

Redlegs, has been head of the league since September, 1951. He succeeded Ford Frick when the latter was elected baseball com- missioner. Giles‘ old cotract was not due to empire until December, 1959.

Harridge said advanced age is iihe only reason he is retiring after 47 years with the American League, the last 28 as president.

Although he got a new 10-year contract two years ago, he said he has been considering retire- ment about two years.

CRONIN INTERESTED

Asked whether he would be in- terested in the’ presidency; Cro- nin said: “I certainly would}:

Cronin, 52, has been the Red Sox general manager since 1948. Before that he was playing man- ager of the club from 1945 through 1947. The Red Sox paid Washington $250,000 for his serv- ices, the highest price ever shelled out for a player.

Harridge said he plans to stay active, possibly in an advisory capacity to the American League if the owners want that.

CURLI‘NG SCHEDULE

The following is the draw in the first night's play of the “‘Chick- en" bonspiel, this is a double knockout competition in three sec- . tions with 16 teams in each sec- tion skips please notify teams 7 P. M. l

Ice 1 —— A. W. Hyndman. C. Campbell, J.S. Taylor, B. Scott vs. Myron Bell, W. Mellish, C. Cudmore, W. C0165.

Ice 2 ——-R.Spillct‘i. A. Humphrey i 'A. Carruthers, C. Delaney vs. H. R. Carruthers. D1. O‘Hanlcy, I. Johnston. M. Pursey.

Ice 8 - T.W.L. Prowse, S. Bea- ton, J. Bealon, E. Campbell vs. Mel. Jenkins, F. McMillan, H. Howatt, C. Costello.

Ice 4 — Fin. MacLeod. E. Mc-: Donald, D. MacPhail. P. Balcom vs. I{.C. Atkinson, E. Gillespie, Abe Zakem, B. Moore.

Ice 5 — Had MacInncs, Dr. Mc- Eachem. 1. Trainer. Cam Mac-l Lean vs. G. Storey S. Carson, M. Waddcll, Geo. Wilson.

8:30 P. M.

Ice 1 — Ed Tanton, A. Wellner. P. Brydges, K. Cantwell vs. H. Peters. D. George, K. Myers. Doug Fraser.

Ice 2 — L. Turner, L. Blakeney, R. Ncwson, Dr. Craig vs. D. Won- nocott. R. Carr. D. Shaw, Dr. Saunders. lot 3 —~ G. Stewart, M. Kennedy, . Joe Zakcm. B. Partridge vs. I). (i'Rnurgc. (1K. Prcshy, L. Mac- T‘hail. B. Super. ice 4 l). Cameron, AB. Fla};~ i'all W. Millar. B. Acorn vs. 0. Saunrlcrs. Dr. Moreside. R. Ketch.

in l

Giles, former president of the

8 The Guardian. Charlottetown, Thurs“ Dec. 4. 1955 v

R. MACDONALD PRESIDENT

Dr. Wendall L MacDonald .rf Jharlottetown is the new presi-

uent of the Prince Edward Island

Curling Association.

Dr. MacDonald. who was ap- pointed at the association's an- nual meeting yesterday at The Charlottetown Curling Club, suc- ceeds Judge J.S DesRocihes ol Montague who presided at yester- day’s meeting.

Re-elected as the association's ~-

secretary-treasurer is J. Finley MacLeod of Charlottetown. Play in the British Consols com-

petition was fixed for Summerside «

commencing Monday February '1. The provincial high school cham- pionship will be staged at Char— 'ottetown January 28 and 29.

Other competitions and their sl- tes are as follows: Gaboury Tru- phy -— Summerside, the first Wed- nesday in December: Provincial tyro championship for The Cen. tral Creameries trophy - Sum- merside - March 4 and 5; Physi- cal Fitness — Charlottetown — March 11 and 12; Canadian Le- gion — Montague — February 25 and 26.

An invitation from curlers In Saint John’s, Newfoundland was, received by the association. Par- i ties interested in making the trip during the month of January are asked to contact the secretary- treasurer.

In addition to the reports of the president and secretary-treasurer, the meeting heard detailed ac- count ' the year's work from the chairman of the games' com. mittee, Gordon Bennett.

Rangers Black Ha

NEW YORK (APl—New York Rangers fought off Chicago’s thnirdtperiod surge to defeat the Black Hawks 4-2 Wednesday night and move into a thirdplace tie with idle Detroit in the National Hockey League.

The Rangers, who could have dropped into fifth place if Chi- cago had won and picked up the two points. took a 3-0 lead ‘11 the first two periods New York salted the game away in the late minutes of the third after a de- termined Chicago drive had cut the lead to 3-2.

Chicago had only one penalty— to Pierre Pilote in the first period—abut the Rangers took ad- vantage of it as Andy Hebeniton scored on a 25-footer.

ADL TWO MORE

In the s e c o n (1 period the Rangers added two more goals as Larry Popein counted tit-8:32 and Jimmy Bartlett back-handed a shot past Glenn Hall at 17:10.

Andy Bathgate, the league's leading scorer with 34 points, col- lected assists on both these goals to stretch his lead over Boom Boom Geoffrion of Montreal Ca- nadienvs to five points.

In the third period Chicago put on the most sustained drive of the night. Eddie Litzen-bergier and Earl Balfour s c 0 red to cut Rangers’ lead to 3—2 with five minutes to play, but the Hawks’

Phillies, Cards Swap Players

WASHINGTON (AP) -— S t. Louis C a rlin ai 5 Wednesday traded infielder Ruben Amaro to Philadelphia Phillies for out fielder Chuck Essegian.

.maro, 23, a shorts-hop, batted .

.224 after he was brought up from Rochester of the Interna-

tional League where he hit .200. He is known as a good fielder but poor hitter.

,Essegian, right-handed power)

hitter, batted .246 for the Phillies i Detroit

Hockey School Ends Wednesday

Island Curlers Select Officers

DR. MACDONALD the report of the High School Curl-

irg Championships committee. Mr. MacLaine stated that the ev- ent had proved an unqqualified success and over $700 profit on

the venture had been realized. \

Following the annual meeting, participants in the Gaboury tro— phy competition were guests of the Charlottetown Curling Club at a turkey dinner.

Club president Gordon Bennett presided at this enjoyable func- tion.

Down

wks 4-2

dnive backfired when Ranger

captain Red Sullivan broke loose

to score at 17:59. SUMMARY

First period: 1. New Y‘m-k. Hey

benton (Sullivan, Henry) Penalty: Pil‘ote 12:16.

Second period: 2. New York, Popein (B a th g a t e, Prentice) 8:32; 3. New York, Bartlett (B a t h g ate) 17:10. Penalties: Howell 1:24, S u 11 i v a n 11:05, Hanna 13:36.

Third period: 4. Chicago. Litz- enberger (Arbour) 0:28; 5. Chi- cago, Balfour (Murplhy. Vasko) 14:58; 6. New York. Sullivan (Henry) 17:59. Penalties: Non-e.

13:00.

Stops: Hall 5 4 4—13 Worsley 8 9 10—27

Are Winners

,At Summerside

Sherbrooke defeated Town Taxi in the first game of the evening at Civic Stadium last night mak- ing it two wins and one loss in the Prince County rural and commercial league. The score was 6-0. Town Tax-i have now won one and lost two. Gerry Ronohan and Zeke Roberts scor- ed two apiece, Greg Deighan and Irv Sonier getting singletons.

In the second game Coomacs edged Tignish 8-7. Claude Gaudet potted four goals for the winners Eric Millar shot two. and Don MacDougall and Smallman got one each. Bill Feunessey and Leo Richard scored two apiece for Tignish, Terry Gavin. Mc- Alduff. and Pres Hogan account— ing for other three. Benny Grady and Coke Grady refereed.

Coomacs have won one and lost two, and Tignish have drop- ped three straight games and are in the cellar.

STANDINGS

By THE CANADIAN PRESS National League

W L T F A Pts. Montreal 13 7 3 86 57 29 l Boston 11 10 4 70 66 26 New York 9 9 7 7'2 70 25

1Q 11 1 60 60 25‘ Chicago 910 4 82 77 22 Toronto 6 13 3 48 68 15

FLYING T0 MEXICO LONDON (AP) — Sir Anthony Eden disclosed Wednesday that

Moore Is Now Training In Montreal For Bout

By JOHN YORSTON MONTREAL leP) Moorc bl‘CCZGd into Montreal Wednesday and proclaimed him- self Canadian heavywcigihl boxing

; champion. Recalling some of the scvcn Ca. valo of_ Toronto nadian fights he‘s had. the world heavyweight

:S'side Captures Gaboury Trophy

The Summerside curling rink is the new holder of the Giabiou‘ry Trophy. The 2 teams rcprc ent- ing the S‘Side Club garnered the most points to lead the other three clubs participating in this annual competition, at the Charlottetown Curling Club. '

There has beer. an annual bon- spiel for this trophy since 1929 and the defending champ was the Charlottetown Club.

The Summersid‘c teams skipped by Gerry Hayes and B. MacWil- hams racked up a total of 43 points followed by S‘Side RCAF with 43. Charlottetown was next with 35 points and Montague with 24.

Alberton, due to the bad road conditions in that section of the province. was unable to partici- pate in this year’s bonspiel.

Here are the members of the competing rinks:

Summerside — No. l — B. Mac- Williams. J. Harris. E. Cameron. and A. Campbell: Summerside No. 2 —- Gerry Hayes. C. Ives, C. Ramsay and W. Riehl.

R.C.A.F. No. 1 — Sgt. M. Fe:- guson. B. Crow J. Karwandy and D. MacP‘herson: R.C.A.F. No. 2 —— J. Byrnc. C., Krvskl 1. Dou- cette and D. McGrath.

Charlottetown No. 1 — F. Cur-

RZmd Tell—e. Voted 1958 Horse Of Year

SAN FRANCISCO Round Table was voted the champion older horse of 1956 by the Thoroughbred Racing Associ- ation's board of selectors Wed- nesday in a nose finish with Bold Ruler. ~

Round Table, the world's great. est money winning horse, was named champion in the four- year-old and up division by a sin- gle vote over the Wheatlcy Sta- ble's Bold Ruler. The announce- ment was made here at the an- nual meeting of the TRA.

During the season Round Table won 14 of his 20 starts, 11 of them stakes, and earned $662,780 to surpass Nashua as the biggest money winner in racing history. His total now is $1,336,364.

The son of P r i n c e quillo- Knight's Daughter is owned by the Kerr Stable of Oklahoma. END ADV FOR 7:30 p.m. AST

GREAT RIVER

Length of the Mississippi River, now estimated at 2,350 miles. constantly changes because sand bars Chang its course.

Albert L. Thomas

STOVE FUEL OIL PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

GRAFTON ST. EAST PHONE 6610

(AP)—-'

The tenth annual hockey school: he will fly to Mexico later this concluded yesterday afternoon1 month for a winter vacation with a down-to~earth sessmn on: where he can work on his mem-

SKATES SHARPENED

finest professional sharpening on LCM. Skate Grinder.

Figure, Hockey, Pleasure and Speed Skates sharpened to correct radii and hollow ground to highest standards.

Fast Service

light - heavyweight champ. his

Archie eyes atwinkle. said:

“Say, I beat Parker didn‘t I? I guess that makes me Canadian champion.”

Told that young George Chu- is Canadian champion, Moore

tis, A. Anderson W. Mellish and G. Bennett; Chailottetown No. 2 h MacNutt, R. Boyne, E. Mac- Donald and R. Parker.

Montague No. ! Doug McGowan A. Robertson, and E. Duvar; Montague No. 2 — Pete Sinclair, Bruce Clair, Foch MacDonald.

Following are the results:

AFTERNOON Curtis (Ch'Town) 2 MacWilliams, (S‘Side) 16 Ferguson (RCAF‘ 13 McGowan (Montague) i Byrne- (RCAF) 7 McNutt (Ch'Town) 12 Hayes (S'Sidel 17 Sinclair (Montague) 7 EVENING Hayes (S'Sidc) 7 Ferguson (RCAF) 11 LG. Phillips (Montague) 6 McWilliams (S'Side) 8 McNutt (Oh’Town) 1] McGowan (Montague) 1 Curtis (Cli'Town) 10 Byrne (RCAF) 12

Fred Vuozzo and

I

Junior Practice

Practice is called for the Gar- rison Juniors tonight at the Sports o’clock.

The following players are ask- ed to attend: Murray, MacMil- Ian, W. MacDonald, Campbell. Trainer, Bradley, MacCormack, Arsenault, Sim- mons. Flanagan, Noonan, Gre— gory, B. Mulligan, V. Mulligan, Clark, Burke, Ward. MacDougall. Perry, Pineau.

MOVING ! LONG DISTANCE FURNITURE MOVING

ETC. AGENTS ALLIED VAN LINES

JENKINS TRANSFER

Arena from 8 till 9

Downe,

shrugged his shoulders and de- clared:

“Chuvalo‘ll have to fight me." MET PARKER IN 1956 Boxing records show Moore knocked out Edmonton‘s James J. Parker July 25, 1956, in a non- ti-tle fight. Ohuvalo won the Ca- nadian crown this year in an elimination bout with Parker. Moore spoke as he began light training in preparation for the defence of his world light-heavy- weight boxing title againist Can- ada’s Yvon Durelle Dec. 10 at the Forum.

Travel - weary Moore stepped into the ring of a northcnd gym to shadow box and do other light exercises before 200 fans. “I don’t know exactly how I’ll fight him," said Moore. “But I always use strategy and I always go for the knockout in any round.”

EXPECTS TOUGH BOUT He said he had never seen Du- relle, the New Brunswick fisher- man, box, “bait I expect all my fights to be tough." In 70degree weather, Moore left his California home Tuesday night and arrived before noon Wednesday in 15degree tempera- tures. He brought with him his trainer and a sparring partner. His manager. Jack (Doc) Kearns, has been in Montreal two weeks.