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SINGING FOOTBALLEBS

LONDON-Jr the German foot- ball team played socco: the way they sing, it is probable they would have at least reversed that 3-0 set- back handed them by England Dec. 4. At a banquet given ,in their hon- or by the English Football Associ- ation, the German captain, using his ci ar as baton, conducted the team t rough a. number of German songs. The singers had to give eight encores.

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CAPE TOWN-To score 10 runs of‘ one hit is an evznt in cricket. 1n a local match the ball, hit to the boundary, lodged in a tin on the edge of the boundary. While a frantic search was made, thg bals- mcn added 10 to the score before one of the fielders had the pre:enoe of mind to call "Lost balil"

lfROMISlNG PLAYER RETIRES.

BRISTOL England-—West Coun- try rugby has lost one of its best players through the retirement of K. C. Klnne sicy. the Somerset and Bristol fullback, through heart troub‘e. Two years ago when fre:h from Clifton ‘College, Kinnersley made such a fin: impression in the. Bristol team that he was quickly selected for his county and he was slated .ior higher distinction when illne*s intervened. .

RETAINS RACQUET TITLE

LONDON — Retaining the open squash racquets championship of the British Isles, F. D. Amr Bey. the Indian player, recently defeat- ed J. Dear, professional champion, 3-4. 9-7, 3-9. 9-7 at the Royal Automobile Club.

MARION HOLLINS A POLO STAB

SANTA CRUZ. Calif-Wiles Hol- lins, former women's national golf champion. is now o. polo star. She plays back on the Nasatiempo wo- men's polo team which recently won the Pacific Coast Women's Polo Association title by defeating Santa Barbara 9-7. Miss Holllns scored six of -her team's goals.

COMIC FOOTBALL MATCH

BANGALORE, India - with the referee mountcd on a donkey a football match between the Depart- mental Wanderers and a team oi women provided much comedy for a large crowd. the women finally winning 8-2. Each man played with one hand in a sling and their op- pOIICIlLy, were quick to use all the privileges allowed them. being quite proficient at handling the ball.

CRICKET BENEFIT MATCHES

LONDOlL-Beneflt matches next your have been granted to A. l". Wemle , Sussex County Cricket Club payer and S. Boy?!» Hamil‘ shire slow left-arm bovfer. Well-ale! first played for Susszx in 1922 and Boyes ioiued Hampshire in i921-

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BERLIN — America's announced participation in the fifth world's bowling championship Boheduled to take place in Berlin» July 21-20. 1999, shortly before the Olympic Carries. increases the to- tal oi competing nations to 14. '

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- By Bob Cavagnaro,

Associated Pre Sports Writer (By Guardian's special Wire)

NEW YORK. Dec. 23.-A couple of welcoming commitieemen armed with machine guns. wave Mike Ja- cobs the shivers and made up his mind to call oif “definltely" the proposed heavyweight bout in Hav- ana. between Joe Louis. Detroit negro. and Izzv Gastanaga. a wild- swirwing Spaniard.

“They weren't at the airport to take me into custody or in the guise of a firing squad." said Jacobs to- day on his return from the Cuban capital. “They carried the weapons lust to convince me. they said, ev- erything was harmonious and peaceful.

“Well. it dld convince me. It con- vinced me rlvht then and there the fi t was off-definitely off."

astanam and the Detroit Brown Bomber originally wire scheduled to fight in Havana on Dec. 29. Julian ‘Black, one oi Louis’ managers. didn't'like the idea. so Mike decided to investigate conditions.

"After the reception I got my mind was made up." said Jacobs, "I told them down there the fight would have to wait until after the National Elections and tentatively fixed Feb. 2 as the date. Then I grabbed my hat and ran for the boat. ,.

"I must be a biker compared with the reception they'd planned for Louis. When he arrived they were going to put him in an automobile with cars to the front and rear of his containing men armed to the hilt. Under those conditions I wouldn't take Louis thcre for any amount of money."

Mike had a staff of Americans working with some Cubans in con- nection with the promotion oflhe fight. When he'd finished his in- quiry he "paid off" all concerned.

“It cost me almost $7.000, but that was cheap" said Mike.

HAVANA, Dec. 23.—(A.P.)--Thp Cuban Tourist Commission todav termed as “outrageous? Mike Ju- cobs' statement that two men carry- ing machine guns formed a. part of the welcoming committee on his re- cent trip to Havana to arranke de- tails for the J09 Louis-Isadore Cus- tanaag fight.

Jacobs. on investigating condi- lions. postponed the fight from Dec. 29 to Feb. 2 before he .left Cuba. On his return to New York today he called it oﬂ’ definitely.

Three Lines Decided On Olympic Team

(C. P. By Guardian's Special Wire)

PORT ARTHUR. Dec. 23—Couch Albert Pudas put Canada's Olym- pic hockey team through two more workouts today with iliree foTWBfd lines practically decided upon.

One of these which has been working well in practices, is a Port Arthur line with Alex Sinc- lair- at centre. Billy Thompson at right wing and Gus SaxberB l‘? left wing. These are the plllYf-‘Ys who provided Bear Cats with the bulk of their speed last year Wile" the team reached the Allan Cull final.

Deacon and Num Friday, both oi Port Arthur. ﬂanking him. Vince Ferguson and Chummle Lawlor oi Halifax along with Dave Neville of “anti-ell malt; up the third line. Ferguson is being drilled for re- lief defence work as there were only two regular rearguardsmen, Ray Milton of Port Arthur and Herman Murray of Montreal.

It appeared likely goal tending usi ents ‘ would be evenly divided between Jackie Nash oi Port Arthur and Daddy Bubar of New Glasgow, N. 5.. a former Hali- fax Wolverine.

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McCoy Holds i935 i Fistic Spotlight

By HAROLD MCNAMARA

Canadian Press Staff Writer (Copyright, 1935, by The Canadian Press)

The battering fists of Al McCoy, born Florian Iielirasseur in the Hench-Canadian town oi Beauce. Que., 22 years ago, smashed Can- ada back into the fistic picture dur- ing 1935. He hasn't yet achieved the stature of a Jimmy McLamin. but 1936 beckons to the Quebec boy with rosier promises than this fad- ing year.

Forcing his way up from com- parative obscurity to a place high in the light heavyweight ladder in a few months. McCoy boosted Can- adian fighting stock that seemed likely to fall after the gallant Mc- Larnin lost his world's welterweight crown‘ to Barney Ross. Jimmy didn't come back after that defeat in early 1935 and McCoy pushed straight ahead.

Frankie Battaghlia, slugging Winnipeg middleweight. was the only other Canadian this year to cause title talk. The Manitoba beltcr on the comeback trail after illness that followed his first crack and earn a non-title bout with Champion Babe Risko. He was beat- en on points, however, by the title- holder.

Gordon Wallace, Vancouver light- weight, a‘so moved up a step to hold his position as ranking Can- adian lightweight, pressed closely by Ottawa's Edclle Carroll and Tommy Bland of Toronto. Wallace won the title by defeating Bland. Montreal's two Canadian champ-

ions. Frankie Martin, bantam- weight and Greggie Greggerson, flywcight, were riot seriously

threatened during the year, al- though Martin lost a decision to Dav; Castifoux, comparatively un- known Lewiston, Me., fighter. Appearing as an unknown before a Montreal audience in mid-sum- mer, McCoy flashed into promin- ence with vistory after victory over some oi the world's outstanding fighters. He knocked out Sammy Slaughter, considered a leading title contender, beat Joe Knight and Olin. two former world tltlists, and smashed the title hopes of many another star.

Perhaps his most impressive victory was in Boston when he completelv outclassed Lou Broulll- urd, another French-Canadian who formerly hc‘d the world's middle- weight championship. The Beauce boy faled to lose prestige through his defeat in New York by Jock M~Avoy, British Empire light- heavyweight and middleweight and middleweight champion, putting up an imorcssive disnlrv befo"e losing the decision after being forced to re- d"ce several pounds the day of the fight.

A growing number of amateurs ioincd the moneyed ranks in an at- tempt to gain fame and fortune. Among these were two Canadian title-holders, Spider Armstrong of Toronto, flywelght, and Jackie Cal- lura, bantan-clrampion from Hamil-

lightwelqht champion turned pro- fessional. and at the year-end ranks as ore of the outstanding con- tenders for the Canadiar. crown. His younger brother. ‘Doug Marsh. also iolned the moneyed ranks as did Eddie Heathfield. who repre- mnted Canada in the lib-pound division in the 1934 British Em- pire Games at London.

Murray Patrick's surprising knockout cf Tommy Osborne. Montreal star, in the Dominion amateur heavyweight final at Edmonton in May, ranked the Victoria. B. C son of Lester Pat- rick as one of the most promis- ing amateurs in the country. Patri~k, one of Canada's best all- round athletes since the earlier days of Lionel Conacher, was con- sidered an easy mark for the Mont- real slugger. Later Patrick won the Washington State title.

The west monopolized the amateur championships. only one easterner gaining a. title. Irving Pease. Toronto. captured the i60- pound crown. Billv Marquard of Winnipeg, retained his feather- weight chompicnship: Dick Corrin- ton. Calgary, boat Sammy Luft- spring of Toronto for the 135-pound crown; Maurice Camyre. another winninegger, captured the welter- heavyweight title.

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Gutling. a janitor, went to a. drug store today to get some medicine for his wife, who he thought, was suffering from indigestion.

When he returned home, he found a surprising guest —a seven pound eight ounce baby girl.

Neither of the Outllnga had anti- cipated the arrival, they told Dr. 0. G. Starke. The medical man said he regarded it as an authentic case of unexpected parenthood.

“We learn something new every dav." said the physician. He added both his patients were doing well.

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BIRTHDAY GBIITINGS

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0N THE SIDELINES

HE OPENING GUN of Charlottetownk Junior Hockey League will be

fired tomorrow night at the young Rangers take on Harry Richardson's fast band of Abegweits.

laﬂoou, prominent United States professional golfer, born in Dec. 24, 1909. Lsifoon, runner-up in the Canad- ian Open in i094, holds the world's record for 12 holes at 266 on a par- ‘II course. Lost year in i9 consecu- tive rounds playcd. i’) ranged from

The game should ha a hard, even everything from whistle

proven their worth by their two

fight them. Tomorrow evening the force to chalk up their first league may be outweighed and outskated tricky passing attacks and

been recruited during the

game under their belts. But warrant the prediction that they reckoned with in the league. to work and will fight to the They will also perform so apparent players will show their real ability. o. time of it and it would not with the victory although at

the laurels. T IS T0 BE hoped that the I young hockey stars perform-

ance will find favor with the hockey fans and that a packed house will greet the opposing teams as they skate out on the ice. Junior hockey is being attempted on a bigger scale than ever this season; a. wide awake league ex- ecutive is doing everything in their power to make the league go over in a big way and if the fans show by their attendance that they are solidly behind them then it is a foregone conciusioh that at last junior hockey is on the way to gaining the recognition long since due. '

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HIS YEAR'S league is not to be run in any haphazard manner. Sitting in on last

night's executive meeting one could not help but realize the untiring effort that the officers are putting into their work. The constitution has been drawn up, the league schedule adopted and various other

ing passed. But not only are they looking after this year's league but are laying the foundation of a loop" which, if properly nursed. should flourish well in future years. 8 O O

ESPONSE TO the appeal for membership in the “Booster Club" to date has been ex-

tremely gratifying and proponents of this scheme are optimistic that their objective will be reached. An- other indication that the league will function satisfactorily. I O O

I-IE ENGLISH Ministry of Lab- 'or has decided that "amateur" hockey in the British Isles is an industry and have finally low- ered the burs on imported players. Canada, evidently, is not affected by the restrictions, but three Am- erlcan players slated to perform with the Corinthians "have found the gates closed to them. The players, Bill Splaine. Jack Harris and Herb Gallagher, arrived in Liverpool not long ago on what was termed by some writers "an educational visit sanctioned and suggested by their parents." I l C

UST AS AN afterthought they

"home work" with the Corinthians when the authorities stepped in. As a result they have been refused permission to ploy.

US. Amateur Hockey Clubs Rated High

' By George Magulre. Canadian Press Staff Writer (By Guardian's Special Wire)

NEW YORK, Dec, ZL-Bousting teams which expert observers rate on a. par with the best senior amu- teur clubs in Canada the United States Eastern Amateur Hockey League is enjoying the greatest season in its history.

Wholesale importation of players who constituted the "cream of the Canadian crop" inst season has en- ablcd the officials of Pittsburgh ymllow jackets. New York Rovers, Brrtimore Orioles. Atlantic City Sea Gulls and Hershey Bears to weld cleverlv balanced teams into a cir- cuit tl9t for fighting competition, drawing power and puck-chasing wizardry probably surpasses any now operating in the Dominion.

Such kcen observers as "Dinny" Manners, portly ex-Ottawan now coaching the Yellow Jackets. Lester Patrick, Vice President of the New York Rangers, National Hockey League Club, Mervyn "Red" Dutton, coach of New York Americans and kiddie French, ex-Torontonlan now referee-lug hercabouts. expressed the opinion the E. A. H. L., is this sea- son giving Americans a taste of the "real senior brand" of the sport as purveyed by the steel blade artists north of the border.

The Plttsburghers are generally, regarded as the team to beat for the E. A. H. L, title (his season and a glance at the lineup explains pretty fully why:

Goal, Mike Brimseir. Eveleth: de- fence. Joe l-iarnedy. Chicoutimi. Que.. and Jack “Tarzan" Draper. Ottawa: centres. Peck Donald. car- ieton Place. Ont, Gordon Drillon. Moncton. NB. and Wally Morison, Winnipeg; wings. Fan Heximer. Niagara Falls. Ont... Ike Houston. Arnprior. Red Sherwood. Ottawa. Harvey McClelland. Toronto and this classy group of reserves: Monty Muclrle, Winnipeg. Lem Barrage. Saskatoon, Red- Braconnier. Gravel- bourg, Sasln. Jack Smith. Fort Wil- liam, Jimmy Utmcn. Ottawa and Greg Coulsou, Carleton Place.

game will be well repaid for their attendance.

To a. man last minute no matter what the score is. a lot better tomorrow night as the nervousness in their first appearance will have disappeared and. the

be surprising if they present the Rangers are favored

matters ably alealt with before be-‘

Forum when Johnny Williams‘ classy struggle between two squads that give

to whistle and the fans who sit in on the

Rangers have already bang up performances against the

Royals. a team that outweighed and outskated them but failed to out-

Wiiliams’ crew will be out in full victory in Junior circles; again they but they feel confident that their

general all-round effectiveness inside the enemy blueline will more than balance. the scales in their favor.

BEGWEHS ARE AS YET an unknown quantity; a. team that has past three weeks and with only one in that game they showed enough to are to be a force that will have to be

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(C. P. by Guardian's Special Wire)

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man, Dec. 23-—President E. A. Gllrcy of the Canadian Amateur Hockey As- sociation announced tonight that Ralph St. Geri-min of Montreal has been added to the Canadian Olympic hockey team.

“It will be recalled that when the question of strengthening our Olympic hockey team was first mentioned; the first player I re-

commended was St. Germain." said President Gilroy. The ap- pointment will bring the*team's

strength to i4 players. The other 13 are in training at Port Arthur. _President Gllroy said James De Lalanne, President of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association. per- scnally requested St. Germain be added to the team. The recom- mendation was made to the spec- ial Olympic hockey committee and when St. Germain accepted to- night the appointment was an- nounced.

PORT ARTHUR, 0nt., Dec. 23- The augmented Port Arthur Bear Cats tonight defeated a team sel- ected largely from junior-graduates 5-1 in their first game in pre- paration for the Olympic Games.

Bear Cats, augmented by tour Hallie! '/"d two Montreal players for their Olympic games, showed smart combination play and good form. They scored a single goal in the first period and added four in the second. The opposition scored the only goal in the final period.

Gus Saxberg, Nurn Friday, Alex Sinclair and Arnold Deacon. all of Port Arthur, and Dave Neville of Montreal scored the Bear Cat goals, while Cummings got the single counter for the All-Stars.

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N.H.L._Tonight

(C. P. By Guardian's Special Wire)

Big guns oi the National Hockey League will be silent on Christmas Eve but tomorrow night will open on two fronts as Rangers travel to Boston for a. meeting with Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks clash with Red Wings at Detroit in a two-game card featuring teams of the American section.

Detroit holds n two-point lead over Rangers at the top of the standings and will retain their position regardless of whether or not they win but the Hawks need a victory badly to keep in the run- ning for group leadership, 'I‘wo points behind the second-place New Yorkers, Chicago can tie them with the aid of a Boston triumph. Red Wings have yet to suffer defeat in Detroit this season though they have been tied fre- quently. Chicago hope to break through and succeed where Mar- cons Just failed Sunday night. Boston trailing the League with i2 points-eight behind Detroit-will make a desperate bid for full points to stay within reach of a play-off berth.

Canadian section teams are idle until Thursday ‘night.

The Northern Lights‘ SeeStrange Sights ‘

(By The Canadian Press) SAINT JOHN. N. 3., Dec. 33- Bobby Beaten, New Glasgow, N. S. youth who held a place with Saint John Beavers last season. is popu- lar in English hockey circles accord- ing to a London newspaper describ- ing him as “a young salmon fisher from Nova Scotia."

Continuing, the writer showed little knowledge of Canadian geo- graphy and hockey: "He allows it to be known that he thinks ice hockey is run under most luxurious conditions. Not very astonishinr this, when it is added that in Can- ada he had to us his own dog team and sleigh to get to places where the matches were to be played." The writer said he believed all effort would be made soon to en- force a football rule-that any hoc- keyist fighting be banished for the rest of the game inﬁeld 0i 89m!!!) a five-minute penalty.

"I um one or the many who have irlt that a lew minutes‘ "benching" is a ludicrous way of dealing withl

Westmount School Has Unique Record

MONTREAL. Dec. 28. —- Proud holder of close to 100 championships _ in different sports since 1913, Westmount High School here is fast g a. reputation as one of Can- ada's outstanding athletic schools. Inthat period it has won 30 foot- ball titles. 29 hockey championships, 14 basketball crowns and 18 Mon- treal City ski titles.

Westmount has sent more hockey and football stars to outstanding major teams in Canada than prob- ably any other similar institution. And much of the credit for wins can go to George Smith, coach of the school's athletic tea-ms for al- most two decades.

Holders of the senior city school football uhiiliipiflllillip ‘ tiy for seven years. Westmount is ad- mitted the most powerful rugby school in Quebec and has developed many stars. Wiif Patterson. brilli- ant quarterback with Hamilton Tigers, Dominion finalists, learned the game under Mr. Smith. Johnny Rlddell, McGill University quarter- back, Tommy Riddell; quarter with Montreal Football Club. Wally Markham, star backfielder with Mc- Gill last year and many others are Westmount products.

Bill Hughes. who coached Ottawa Roughrlders in the big four this year. started his coaching with Mr, Smith while a member of the West- mount teaching staﬂ in 1916. Mur- ray Patrick, all-round athlete son of Lester Patrick, Hughie Farquhar- son and Gordie MacNeil, stars with Victorias of the Montreal Senior Group, are hockeyists developed at Westmount. The school has cap- tgiicgd 10 senior hockey titles since The Westmount High hockey team, Quebec junior champions, played the famous Owen Sound Junior team in Toronto in 1923 and twice has represented Canada. in games against all-star Boston High School teams.

Odie Cleghom and Sprague Cleg- horn, famous old-time hockey stars, first played organized hockey at Westmount. Art Ross, now general manager of Boston Bruins, is a Westmount product.

Westmount has held the city high-school ski title steadily since 1922 and ranks as well in city bas- ketball circles.

“At Westmount the winning of games is never emphasized," Mr. Smith says in explaining the record; “but the manner in- which they are played is stressed. The boys are thoroughly grounded in fundamem tals." That would seem to be the key of the school's success.-

S’ h a ugh nessy Named On (LS. Olympic Team

NEW YORK, Dec. 23. - Frank Shaughnessy, a. United States citi- zen playing with Montreal Victorias, was named today to the hockey team which will represent the Uni- ted States in the winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Cer- many, grext February.

Otherwise, the team is made up of players from the Boston Olym- pics and the St. Nicholas Club oi New York.

Boston players named were: Tom Moone. goal; Jack Garrison and Frank Stubbs, defence; Paul Rowe, left wing; Gordon Smith and J. Ross. right wing and John C. Lax and Frank Stain, centre. St. Nicho- las players selected were: Jerry Cofby, goal; William H. Palmer, left wing; Ian Baldwin, right wing. and August F. Kammer, centre,

PORT OF SPAIN. 'I‘rinidad—'l.‘he ‘lrlnidad Amateur Football Asso- ciation will send a team to Colom- his. to play five soccer games in Barranquilla, and one each at Bo- gota, Medillin and Cali. The toarn will tour by airplane.

a man who has broken the regula- tions. Fist fights should be treated as they are on the football field. The fighters should not only be sent off but kept off."

The sports reporter also object- ed to the practice of butt-ending an opponent or giving him an elbow- dlg in the ribs when the referee is. looking e‘sewhere.

Outstanding

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Press poll, Rankine, unbeatable at any

But one afternoon's work on a football field at Hamilton by Win- nipeg’s Fritz Hanson was almost sufficient to take the glory away from Rankine. Hanson. ran second in the closest polling since the Canadian Press inaugurated the honor roll in 1932. Another team sport athlete, Charlie Conacher, hockey’s greatest scorer. was third.

The race, however, was between the great Rankine. who has beaten them all at his own specialty and. the dazzling Hanson, whose ball- carrying in the East-West football ‘final this month was largely re- sponsible for gridiron supremacy moving West for the first time.

Looking back on the year—and they looked back on all of it- sports writers from Charlottetown to Victoria were almost evenly divided on the big question. They were asked to list, in order,- the three outstanding men athletes. The 3-2-1 system of values was used in tabulating the result.

Rankines total was 38 and Han- son's 32. Conacher had 2i and Sammy Richardson of Toronto, who set a new Canadian broad Jump record of 24 feet, 11 inches in the Canadian track and field championships, ran fourth with 16. Next were Alex Connell, goaltender of Montreal Maroons and Sandy Somervllle. again Canadian ain- ateur golf champion, with seven each.

No athlete ever worked harder and plied up a. more impressive list of successes than Rankine, groom- ing himself for either the mara- thon or 10,000 metres at the 1936 Olympic Games. It will likely be the marathon. because the Preston runner has been gradually working his way up to the longest race man sets himself.

In 1935 he won easily over all the best distance runners in On- tario. He went into the Maritimes and won there. They couldn't beat him in the United States. Hi5 greatest successes were at 10 miles. For the second consecutive time he won the Canadian 10-mile title here in early September.

Hanson. greatest running half- back in Canadian football since Lionel Ccnachers day, appeared before the country's sportive eye all in a. day. It was Dec. '1, on the afternoon Winnipegs lined up against a. powerful and heavily- favored Hamilton Tiger team in the 12th intersectional final.

Besides Charlie Conacher, bullet- shooting right winger of Toronto Maple Leafs and the National League's leading marksman. hockey had other nominees for the honor. Connell was one of them. Tommy Got-man, manager o1 Montreal Maroons, Stanley Cup champions, was another,

More than one writer mentioned Murray (Muzz) Patrick, son of old Lester and a. star at several sports, notably hockey, heavyweight box- ing and basketball. Another all- around athlete to receive mention was Syivmus Apps. Moll/faster Uni- versity star who is British Empire pole vault champion and a fine hockey and football player,

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Jlllllor Royals hockey team will hold a workout at the Forum this

morning from 11 to 12. Everybody that can do so are asked to be on hand.

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“N0 wonder so marry men ask for l-l lb N's BRIGHT CUT smoking tobacco‘ for Christmas”, says smith, Give this mellow, Virginia type tobacco to any pipe smoker on your list and when he says, “Just what I wanted”, you can tell he means it by the pleased Packed in pound cartons, pound tins and half pound fins for gift-giving.

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Rankine Rated Canad "

(By Elmer Duimage. Canadian Press Stall Writer) (C. P. By Guardian's Special Wire) TORONTO, Dec. 23-By a shade, perhaps by the

Robert (Spotty) Rankine of Preston, Ont, C 1935. l-Ie became the third distance

runner to be honored by sports writers in the annual year-end Canadian

Canada or the United States, succeeds to the Harold Webster, Hamilton marathon veteran. The 1933 winner was Dave Komonen, Finnish moral-hon ace of Sudbury, Out. '

Athlete For

1935 By Sports Writejfs

Succeeds To Crown Won Last Year By Harﬁ Webster. Fritz Hanson Second In Poll ' Charlie Conacher Third.

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MONTREAL, Dec. 23. —— TOYOBTU Maple Leafs, who have provided the main scoring punch in the National Hockey League for many a season, are keeping their record clean ain this year. But its not another r ie who looms as a threat for smiling supremacy. Its the veteran Buzz

last season and now one of the main dynamos of the Leaf machine. ,“ According to League scoring lia- tistics released tonight, Boll jumped his total to five goals and six as- sists, il points, by tallying twice and gaining two assists during. the week. He rests only four poﬁrts behind Paul Thompson, of Chicago, leader of the whole League. The veteran Thompson scored once: to

for goals scored, each with nine,’ Leaf bombers continued to hold command over international divis- ion snipers. Big Charlie Conaoher broke a long scoreless streak against New York Americans Saturday night with a goal to Jump his total to 7-6-13. It was his only scoring point of the week. e, Harvey Jackson was right behind with 6-6—12. a point ahead of Nicli

The best Sweeney Schriner, New York American star, could do was

ans assist and his record was held to - —10. '

Dashing Paul Thompson paced ' thcwhole League with l5 points a1. though held to a single goal during the week. In second place in the United States division thetwo vet- eran New York Ranger snipers, Cecil Dillon and Frankie Boucher, were locked with 12 points. Dillon had seven goals and five assists and Boucher four goals and eight as- slsts.

Red Horner. the Toronto hruiser, wasn't even threatened for the title of “bad man." He drew nine min- utes in penalties to boost his total to 59 minutes. Red Dutton, Amer- icans, and Allan Shields, Montreal Maroons, were his closest rivals, each with 32 minutes on the penalty bench.

lR.H0tKEY LEAGUE sci-light

Following is the schedule of the Junior HockPy League which opens Christmas night at the Forum:

Wed.--Dec. 25-Abbies vs. Rangers. Fur-Dec 2'l-Abbles vs. Royals.

Wcd.—-Jan. l-Rnngers vs Royals. Fri.—Jair. Zl-Abbles vs. Rangers. ‘rum-Jun, 7—Abblcs vs Royals.

Fl‘l.—-Jiiil. ilk-Rangers vs Royals. T‘ues.—.ian. iri-Abbies vs Rangers. Fri-Jan. lL-Abbics vs Rangers. Tucs.—.lan. 21—Rangcrs vs Royals. Fri-Jan. 24—Alibics vs Rangers. Tucsv-Jan. 28—Abbics vs Royals. Fri-Jan. 31—Rangcrs vs Royals, Tucs.—l~‘eb. 4—Abbics vs. Rangers.

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