w, 1 (Willie) Scantlebury last will; was elected president of the my Basketball League at- a meet- .‘ o1 team representatives held ,_,', ‘gm 'I‘rave1 Bureau. Retiring pmdent rtev. Walter McGuigan ,1 saint Dunstan‘: was named i,” President, with Joseph Cu.’- beln; appointed secretary-

er. miililrlbers o!‘ the executive 1n- 5,“; Lt. Col. W. J. MacDonald ,5, Elmer Murnflshflll-

gums, Navy and Ray's Million- nm are the teams that will com- Vls, m; mague, to be run as an Abegwely, House Lleaglle with an all m,» team being picked at the end B, me season to enter Maritime pylydoirivs.‘ _

1n addition to the above league . ylmior league is also to be run “jg, Prince oi’ Wales. second 5 and Abegwelts named as

_ < chosen to handle the , ziii-lulli! W. E. G055. Eli-Tl ll LcClair, Bill Reid, A. J. .llll and Put Power. . -< will be Messrs. Wilfred Inbr- a_ participate downs with second and a p cc teams meeting in a total points series and , hclng decided upon a ,- of three games basis.

'~ ilic lcague schcdule will jcvway until some iinic New Year. exhibition l get underway immedi- li possible double head- hcld at the Prince of ililhtoriilm next Saturday

Saint John y Beavers Defeat

W. E . Seantlebua-y Heads Hoop Leagu

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Sugar Robinson And ChuckTaylor To Fight Doc. l9

DETROIT. Nov. 24 - (MP)- Contracts for a. world's Welter. wcight title bout between champ- ion Ray (Sugar) Robinson of "New York and Chuck Taylor of (Doll- Vlllt. Pa, were signed todayt

George Gainsford. Robinson's manager, and Taylor signed the papers calling for a 15-round match here Dec. l9 in Olympia Stadium, promotéd by Nick Lon- es.

Winner of 19 of his 22 bouts as B- Professional, Taylor is sched- uled to start training here late this iveek.

Jimmy Gray To Coach Dalhousic Hockey Squad

HALIFAX, lilovfnfl — (UP)- Jiinmy Gray. high scoring left- Willzer with Halifax Cresceiots in tne Maritime Senior Hockey Lea- gue. has liccn appointed cowh of Dalliollsio Univcrsitv’: hockey squad, it was announced tonight.

Gray, who although s studrrnt at Dal is- ineligible for intone-alleg- iate play, will take over the men- tpr job immediately from Windy O'Neill, one-time campaigner with ‘Toronto Maple Leafs and now a Dalhousle student.

COmpetlng with Dalhouslc in the 20-game Nova Scotia inter-

Moncton 6-5

S»\l.‘\'l‘ JOHN, N. B.. Nov. 24— uiit John Beavers play- o open style taught to eiga Vvncton Hawks 6-5 in a y! - Senior Hockey League . Beavers remained in the point behind Halifax ivhile Triiro Bearcats, ~ .g Cresccnts tonight, re- ‘o loop leadership from

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s shot a brace in each bfoncton replied goal opt lii the first, llawk l; Whitlock starred with

.. s and nn assist, soaring f» 28 p its at the top of the lea::.c

scoring column.

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i1 - Goal, MacDonald; moor, Basscttc; Centre, ; Wings, Demcliuk, Bell; lln.m'<"._v, Gresko, Imonti.

Gagrlon Jodoin, Agnew, Poirler, Badinichc.

‘ Jchn - Goal. Donachey; Dc flan. Gcrmonn; Con-

. Wings, Jackson. Ni- Butlcr, Garey. Fod- Lynch. McGibbon. . n. Cochrane. —~F.‘S"lbl'COl(S§ Linesmen. Sanford.

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"n, Wllitlock (Boll) 13101

‘ John, Garey (Butler. ,('c nick) .. 17:02 John, Butler (Wright) 10:49

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ll-Mnncton, Whitlock (Demchuk) 17:30

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collegiate schedule will be Nova Scotia Technical College Si. Francis Xavier University of An- tlgnnish, St. Mary's Collage of Ilalifax and Acadia Univemilty cl Wolfvllle.

Reports Perslist Cardinals Club Changing liands

ST. DOUIS. Nov. 24 —- MAP) -- Reports pcrsisted today without official confirmation or denial that Si. Louis Cardinals and at lcnst pfill. of thc Notional. League club's vust minor lcngue baseball properties have been solid to a syndicate including Poilsimaster- General Robert, E. Hannq-gan.

Owner Sam Brendon, ‘hcslcged with inquiries, indicated he will muko nn nnnoilnccmcnt on the

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The basketball season will like- ly get underway here next Sat- urday when members of the Abe- gweit club's City League team will meet in an exhibition dciiehead- er at Prince of Wales College and officials in charge are hoping to put the once popular hoop game back on a solid footing during

the coming months. I I I

And for the first time in a good many years much attention is go- ing to be paid to the juniors. Re- alizing that if the game is to be kept going the youngsters must be broken in it is the officials inten- tions to have s junior league play- ed in conjunction with the inter- mediate tussles and in this way it is hoped to develop future play- ers for senior squads.

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Players who have been keeping the game alive for the past sever- al seasons are actually few in number and in a good many cases have only a few more years of competition ahead of them. If juniors are not brought along in the meantime it can mean only one thing - the game Wlll cer- tainly slip‘ back into obscurity and this is something that is tc be avoided.

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And at the and of the season it is likely that for the first time in a great many years an Island team will be challenging for a crack at the Maritime intermed- iate baskatbsll title. In this writ- er's memory at least we have no recollection of a. title coming to this Province.

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‘Last year the Navy team which captured the City Basketball Dea- gue made efforts to play off with the New Brunswick champions but met with llKClCISlICCESS, after they had dropped a close decision lri an exhibition game played at Moncton. However at that time there were several matters that hindered the local team's chances. This year it. is expected things will be different and the local squad bearing the colors of the Abegwelts will be afforded n

mutter later. “I can't say uinything now. but I will have something to say later," Brendon said.

The reports placed the ‘purchase price at $3,500.0C0,

194s validity Derby Mayl

zourlsvtmm, Ky. Nbv- 94 — (AP) - Col. Malt J, Winn, pres- ldent of Churchill Downs, ari- noiinced after a dlrcctoiili‘ meeting here today that. next year's Ken- lucky Derby, the 74th, will be hclli Hay 1,

School Teams Clash This Afternoon-

Weather permitting West Kent

d Queen Square Schools foot- all squads will clash ‘in the sec- ond grime of their bcst of three serlcs for llic Clly championship at S.D.U. Elrldiron thlis afternoon. Starling iinic for the 3111i, has been

chance to bring a hoop title to

the Province. I I

Legionalres held their first workout of the season at the For- um last night when about 25 hoc- keyists turned out included in the number being a half dozen of last year's championship team, a team that not only won the City Lea- gue title but also retained their Maritime intermediate crown. I I I

Coach Gordon Drillon who last night reiterated his previous an- nouncement of retiring from a playing role will confine his activi- ties to the coaching end: Last night he had little comment on the players under his charge as he let them go through limbering up exercises with no scrlmmages taking place. I I Perry, Strain, Cudmore and McIntyre were the only members of last year's squad present- at the workout but. Plum McDonald and rultie Pound last year's stalwart defence duo are expected out shortly and with these Drillon should have a strong nucleus to build his squad around. I I

Here is how BazOMeara. views Conny Smythe's ascendancy to thdpresidency of Maple Leaf Gar- dens:

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“It doesn't seem so long ago that Connie Smythe was scramb- ling around seeking financing for his dream building the Maple Leaf Gardens. Now he is proli- dent of the enterprise whose suck has an actual value of somewhere around eighty-six dollars a share. It. started out at ten. once sagged they say as low as a dollar, but within a few years shot from fif-

teen dollars where he bought a.

big block. to its. present value. I

"We give the financial back- ‘ground to emphasize the way the man come up, one step at a time tlll now they say his holdings Irv worth a half a million dollars. '

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lug many years ago that he would sink or swim with the enterprise

"Well do we remember him say- ivhlch was largely of his; own crea- tion. At that time he was quite a racing man and he had good run- ners too, was a. betting man who had his ups and downs. but who abandoned the business when he buckled on his armor again to take a second slash at the Hun.

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"Oorinle never lost faith in hoc- key. What is more to the point he never lost faith in himself. He knew where he was going at all times and he drove towards his goal in fierce, relentless fashion.

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"He is a different man today than he waswhen he used to set crowds in an uproar with his en- tlcs in Montreal, Boston and New York rinks. He has mellowed-with the years and ls still quite a fei-

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(This is one of a series of weekly spurts roundups contributed by sports editors in Maritime centres) (By Doug Costello Sports editor, Saint John Telegraph Journal.) SAINT JOHN, N. B., Nov. 24- (C-lfl-Coming out of a slight case of shell-shock brought about by announcement that Saint John Beavers had lost the services of Bill Glggey, Walter Kyle and Don WhaJen, the wondering sports pop- ulace of this New Brunswick port city has suddenly realized things are all right with its senior hoc- key club and is groping for in- formation about another of its winter senior sports-basketball. While Walter Kyle will always remain a great controversial fig- ure with John Q. Public, his loss io the club is not now taken as seriously as it was one morning lust month when it was found he had cast his lot with Regina Caps

cf the Western Canada Hockey League. The pro-Kylists will always

argue his powerful rushes were an asset to the club. The anti- Kyllsts will forever contend that for every point he earned on his dozens of sorties goziiward, the backwash on an overworked, un- protected goalie sank the Beavers lonmany defeats.

The glamor and glory of Kyle is gone. The West now has its "Mr. Hockey" to do with him as it wishes. And Saint John has an evenly-balanceal steaclier hockey club. The addition to the forward lines of Johnny Gauthier, Jake Wade. Vic Jackson and Eddie McGibbon is no small contribution tsward a league championship. The downright defensive play of Bill Allan, Pete Wright and Mike Gcrmann is the way it should be. Tommy Donachey is doing a good Job in filling the boots of Bill Glassy.

The Beavers have not yet set tie league afirc. But from Coach Jack Keating down, the club is confident the climb to the top ‘s inevitable.

Stronghold of Basketball

But to get back to the court

aame. Saint John was long the Maritime stronghold of basket- . hall. The Second Great War

brought fl lapse, it ls true. Dozcns of church clubs, for decades the spawning ground of players who milked with the bcst in the cast, folded.

Junior basketball flourished in the late 30s and early 40s but as more players joined the services, it dropped bleow par. For a long period the only basketball liere was provided ‘by players from other points stationed iii the city with the armed forces. There was no link between the great ‘Trojans of the past and the home-brew teams of today.

The rev-ival started in the early mcnths of 1946 when three play- ers of one of the city's most pow- erful pre-war junior teams-the 1939 Saint Johns-got together aiv: formed an intermediate team. Tho "veterans" were “Rlp" Seely, George Boyle and Ralph Fitz- patrick, back home after years of service during the war.

Their team began to function at a time when Howie Ryan's great UJRB. coaching career was at its pcok. The year before it had net- ted him a Dominion championship i1 the intermediate class - and otl er provincial intermediate teams had declared the red and black too strong for the minor division.

Saint Johns claimed no com- porison of the strength with Ryan's Fredericton machine. hut when they went out and won the provincial intermediate title_ they became the target. A. A. Rennick, then eastern secretary of the Can- adian Amateur Basketball Assoc- iation. suspended Maritlme inter-

mediate playdowns while he in- vcstigated like charges against Glace Bay Crusaders. a tum

which was to become Nova Scotia intermediate champions. Later he

gave the teams the green light in the intermediate division but de- creed:

"That. it was the duty of every

too such times as he put $35,000 on the line for Clancy with little but a. ready tongue as collateral. or when he cleaned out. his poc- kets of his last remaining morlev to bet on the long shot of his

111E GUARDIAN,» CHARLOTTETOWN

Would Like To Know W-hi 3h Class They Should Register In

Prrovincial association to see that its best teams played in the sen- io: class-regardless of their com- parlson in strength to senior teams of other provinces-so as not to interfere with the progress and development of younger players ivho might rightfully be playing intermediate."

Saint Johns defeated Glace Bay won the Maritime intermediate title and lost in Dominion play- downs at Ottawa by the narrow margin of 12 points in a two- game series. Last winter, follow- ing Mr. Rennicks instructions, thby entered the senior class, as did the same Ottawa team which eliminated the Maritime champ- ions in 1946.

PAGE SEVEN

Sport Echoes from Prince County

leader of the Suimnerside Com- munity Bowling League No. drawing 7 points ahead oi’ three- runncrs-up who are all knotted up with averages of 1222 points each. Allies son, Lorne, is one of the

ion so bowling, like many other skills, must run to a certain extent 1n families. The "Big Ten": l. Allie Harris, Trinity United 229, Geo. Gucrgls. Trinity United 222, . Tanton McNeill, Si. Paul's 222, , Lorne Harris, Lucky Strikes 222, . Earl Smith, Lucky Strikes 221, Pete Mickus, Gremlins 220. 7. Ernest Gaudet, Hcartbreakers 218,

gauiwrego

Convinced They Wore Robbed

1n contrast, Nova scctia dis-V carded the senior class, entered all its teams intermediate and New Waterford Strands walked off with the Dominion intermed- iate championship. 1t was a move which Saint John players aridfans oIike were convinced robbed this criy of its first Dominion title, Out of action for more than a month previously, playing without a single guard on the cake-box coirrt at Montreal Y,M.H.A., Saint Johns were no match for the big blue team last spring and went down to a bad defeat in the Do- minion senior playdowns.

What Saint Johns want to know this fall is in which class should they register. Despite the fact they climbed straight up from lunlor to intermediate to senior (or. the orders of the C.A.B.A.) they have been accused of "pot- liunting" in that they travelled to Kipper Canada during consecutive years.

This year the C.A_B.A, had de- cided Maritime teams are not sfrong enough for senior clubs of Upper Canada. 'I‘\vo years ago the CA.B.A. decided some Maritime clubs were too strong for inter- mediate. (Saint Johns admit they can't play in the same backyard with the professionallzed clubs of Central and Western Canada.)

The Saint. John club ivants some definite action. So does the rlst of Maritime basketball, Is it to be senior or intermediate? Getting back to Mr. Rennicks 1114-.) order, the club should play scziior. The other New Brunswick incl-mediate cluhs agrcc. The New Biunswlck Amateur Basketball As- sociation has decided thq club is too strong for intermediate com- p»_tltlon in the Province.

Saint Johns are ivilling to play scnior. They figure there is more prestige in a Maritime senior title than in a Dominion intermediate rzown. But they may insist that other clubs-including those of Nina Scotia-fall into line.

They agree with Mr. Rennick in one sense-that the best teams in a Province should play senior and give the younger rxlayels a chance in intermediate. But it is unlikely

high-powered senior show in Up- per Canada.

Down m lAllcys

choice."

CWTOWN ALLEYS ‘ 11y Grads A. Llikelyi 187 2&5 L. Cudmore 102 170 W. Crockett 171 130 J. Simmonds 173 145 A. Caillbeck 175 245 ‘Total-JED! A. Murlcy 215 144 (l, Stewart 261 212 B. Shams 102 130 A. Found 153 180 C. Acorn 225 215 Total-MOI. B. Cliggey 172 219 W. CHTlTTlOIQ 144 182 N. Mclnnis 139 140 B. Cameron 186 172 B. Stevenson 21R 190 B, McDonald 176 177 Total-Mill. 0. Manuel 23S 168 H. Stewart 130 197 J. Roach 187 124 M. Bell 204 193 C. McInnlS 133 175 L, MacArthur 32 194 Total-film.

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. Vince Savidant, Heartbreakers 210.

they will stand by this winter and anything beautiful. especially a 2c: other Maritime senior and WOPK 01811" Hmm- maybe We itzlercolleglate teams grab off in- (“din "59 ‘he "EM 17°“ l" We tcrmcdiate honors while they lust paragraph after all. The Cry- Fmy a lone wolf game in the stal Rf-nk is harsdly’ a work of art,

but that is no reason why vandals. or whatever they are should be per-

mitted to wrrsk destruction on it with impunity.

The Kinsmen are going ahead rapidly wi-hh their opcn-air-lrlnk

project. ‘Ilhe space for the rink has been levelled and the posts for the

8. W. Davy. Glrenilins 217, 9, Frank SIIVldElTIIC. Irlflartbrcakers 214, 10,

Bmallrmsns team seems to have a strangle hold on individual hon- ors in Community League No. 2, the first three of the "Big Five” be- ing from that team that is natural- ly leading the league. The standing 1, Jerry Gauds-t, Scnallmans. 210, 2. Windy Clow, Smallmans 208, 3. Ray Durant, Smallmatfs 207, 4. Lconnrd Gallant, Crystals 205, 4. Geo. Oldscamp, Knights of Colulm- bus No. 1 205.

The "Big Ten" of the High School league are as follows: 1. Goo. McKinnon. Hot Leads 182, 2. Erlright Doucette, Hawks 176, 2. Bosi-l Campbell, Strikers 176, 4. Billy Sherry, Strikers 170, 5. Parker Crockett, Hot Leads 167, 6. Bev Gay. Ravens 166, 7. Ivan Pirieau. Hawks 165, 8. Royce Gallant, Cam- eos 160, 9. Derwyn Huestls, Sixers 15g, l0. Theodore Arsenault, Hawks

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Many of sumn-eersidvs hockey fans will be glad to hear that the Crystal Rink will be in operation again this year despite rumors and grave (car; that flhe rink would be closed. The rink wi-ll be under the management of Art Clow, and ex- tensive repairs are planned. The sides will have practically complete new, boarding, the floors will be re- pairer} and tho dressing roolms and promenade will be painted, as well as other necessary repairs.

If you want to see the msults of Vflfltlflllflfl carried to the Nth de- gree, go rnto the rink and inspect the wanton destruction perpetrated appnircntly by youngsters town during the off-season, We venture to predict that hundreds of dollars worth of damage has been done, and the worst feature (I it is that the guilty ones are to get away with it: at least we haven't hoard nf any attrmpt being made to round them up. This is bad, anyway you