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SPORTS | roel

intangibles ‘Influencial

By CHRIS ANNETT-

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oe By the time that this column appears in print the-resulta-. of the second game between’Charlottetown Juveniles and St. Lamberts will be known and.perhaps some of the questions that I am ‘going to ask in this following paragraphs might be answered. However it is unlikely that they will be because the Charlottetown team ‘is without any question superior to the Quebec team and would likely beat the Quebec: club under ' any conditions. _

However’ the question of intangibles in sports is a com-

plex one and well worthwhile Jooking. It would he interesting

~, te know just how much effect a trip has on a team. Take the game Monday night for example. St. Lamberts appeared — te he very tired and disorganized in the first period and fit cost them five goals before they hit the scoreboard. They were still losing by five at the end of the. period but were

* aay estacaeed by two tallies in the closing stages of the contest. _.. This, is ‘where the intangihle elements enter the game. The ice at the Charlottetown Forum is without a doubt very slow. The Charlottetown club has played on it all season but who knows what sort; of*fee St. Lamberts has played on. Did it affect their play? Fans will never know because the two clubs did not get a chance to play on fast ice. However

_ Lambert regardless of ice conditions. Then one must consider the effect that a thy has on team, and that means more than one thing. They are playing fm a strange rink, facing what you might cail hostile fans, home _te say the least. In

—Queber-team-they-have-to_adjust-te-an_hour—— change'in the time (seven o'clock here is six in Quebec) and that would mean that their meal schedule would be thrown

eff for the time they were down here.

~ —_neopte dept.

April 6, 1966.:7

it appears safe to say that the Charlottetown club is a-much——|

Members and officials of the

| Juvenile hockey clubs met_in- \ the more friendly atmosphere

+ “oa a-banquet: “yesterday after-

Lambert and Charlottetown tre

8

INTERPROVINCIAL BANQUET

noon, at the Confederation Cen- _

m- _bers. ‘of the visiting club, from _ the left, Dennis Charbinaud and Roger Savior talking with’

; By AL McNEIL

MONTREAL (CP) — Mont- real Canadiens are pre-game and pre-series favorites for their | Stanley Cup semi-final despite the fact Toronto .Maple Leafs | hold the edge in regulaf season National Hockey League play.

| starry leftwinger who scored 32 goals this season, may hold the ‘key to his eclub’s success. * Mahovlich injured his knee jagainst Canadiens in Toronto ilast Wednesday, ‘played: against Boston, Bruins Thursday, but 'since has been sidelined by fluid Oddsmakers have established

: \ : = \in the joint.

the reigning Stanley Cup cham- |

ipions at. 8%-to-2 choices‘ for LOOK TO BIG M .

|Thursday’s opening game of the. Frank (King) Clancy, assist-

best-of-seven series against the amt general manager of the

Leafs. The same odds apply for [Toronto club, said Tuesday that |

ithe series. | “‘without Frank we haven't got Canadiens, who- on a week-

a hope. If he’s all right, we | end wrapped ,up their eighth lgot a better than 30-per-cent. -|league title in 11 seasons under |

hance # |coach Toe. Blake,- finished the |

Clanéy, filling in for’ coach. ‘regular schedule on the short

Imlach, absent on a scouting | ‘end of. a 7-5-2 record against | trip, said that, if Leafs are |

Toronto. i. The Hawks open their series | FL OOT i home - against fourth-place | RIFLE SH troit Red Wings the same Followi the t the ing are scores a j might. York Rifle Club shoot held Wed- |

ee Blake ran his club through a |

&

Habs Pre-Series Favorites “As Playoffs GetU nderway

beat Montreal, they must st. Henri Richard, Canadien speedy centre. .

“He's Canadiens’ and. the heart of the club

Clancy said.-‘‘If we sg hin we'll stop Canadiens.”

If Mahovlich ‘is unable to pla Toronto will bring up Dick Gan ble -ffom Rochester American ,of the American Hockey Leagy as his replacement.

‘key playe

Kensington Blanks Montagu:

Kensington Bantams defeate, Montague Bantams at the St Dunstan's rink 5-0 last night te

| capture the Island Bantam ‘'B’

championship. This was°a sud

arlottetown Juveniles

F think of—all_these-elements when they see ‘example Montreal Canadiens avel to Chicago.”

“when hey They have to go through.the. same sane ‘This is why _ the--home -team always—has the decided-advantage in a game. Athletes, as do all people, live on a sort of a built in time table and. when there are interruptions to this it is bound to affect: them .to some nto some degree. It would be indeed be inter- to see two teams_playing some day wit’ all the con- ditions equal to each, but that is something that is going te be impossible for any teams to ever do. In the meantime fang will be able to argue that it was the-trip or the home ice advantage that caused the visit- ing team te lose, Perhaps it's just_as well.

RAMBLINGS ;

It's the Masters Golf Tourney_time again in the States . and a galaxy of the top golfers in the world are descending on Augusta, Georgia like a swarm of bees after honey One of the pre tourney favorites-is Ben Hogan, the 53-year-old— ____ace who started on the pro links in 1930,-was_in-a—car—ac-—— ~eident that almost killed him and then after doctors inform- ed him that he would never walk again let alone play golf, won 4 U.S. opens, the 1953 British open:and two Masters . Arnold Palmer who is always great on the Augusta course x aie being favored as well as another long hitter Jack : cklaus .. .

ae

Observers Nike.

‘Hogan Favorite —

‘ing Thursday. = ee

. yw round,

. ble Hogan victory seems to be

: nade hide of Ben Hogan? |

= AuGtatA. Ga. (AP)—Could said he never would make it. | be “that ‘there. is one more |He whipped the fault with long golfing miracle left in the tough, jpractice.

Such speculation gained mo-|most dead from an automobile mentum Tuesday as more than jaccident in 1949, they said he 100 of the world’s top profes- | would never walk again. He not- sionals and amateurs put in jonly. walked but played again semi-final practice licks for the |and raised his number of Open ‘90th Masters Tournament, start-: | vietories to four, won- two Mas- jters and the 1953 British Open.

_ Hogan, the onee. dreaded ~has- eured_ his putting nerves, He is es his best golf of the last |

years. He is hard from a month's “intensive. training in Florida.

“7am playing better than I have in many years,” the Jeath- ery Texan says. “If I can start) ~ginking those five-foot putts, I think I have a chance.

gan's practice rounds have drawn praise from his playing partners and a certain amount of respect from the men who might be favored to win the ehampionship. 3

SHOWS PROMISE

Hogan has been practising here a week. He Started out _he called a bad. p- consecutive rounds of 70, 70, and 73. Report- ers following him insisted he had a 68 last Saturday in beat-| ing Nicklaus, the defending ‘champion. ae

The one thing ‘Against a possi- .

CLARENCE CAMPBELL

IHL Gives inal

age. He is 53 and his traditional, stiff-legged walk has become a bit labored. Still, he hits the ball like a machine and no man in the field is better than he is, from tee to green.

Also, the word ‘can't’ al-, ways has been to Hogan like |

waving a.red flag before an

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- ship). BEAT CHICAGO .. The St. Louis group headed by AT SOURIS Salomon was picked over one Kassner trophy. headed by Carl Berst of Chi-. ~Jee 1, 7-8. HB: Poole va- cagg. ‘ : bs Delory. Early in February, condi- Iee 2, 7--9: Open tional franchises: were awarded Tee 1, 9 11: Jenkiné va.Pet- to Pittshurgh, Philadelphia, ers, sino oo. Minneapolis-St. Paul,..Los.An-- Jee 2, 9 lh es vs. Gal- les and San Franciseo- Oak- Jant : > lland : fi

angry bull.

When this son of a_ Texas. “Blacksmith started on the tour, in the 1930's he had such an | _atrocious hook that observers |

Franchise

‘ By KEN PRITCHARD CURLING eau NEW YORK (CP)—The Na- tional Hockey League awarded ‘a conditional frawehise Tuesday. The following is the curling to a St. Louis group headed: by draw for Wednesday night at the Sidney Salomon Jr., completing Charlottetown Club. ‘Spares \the selection of six teams for needed). expansion in 1967. - 7 p.m, A petition from Vancouver

minute of the rout. “T" Despite expectations -that the ,

” By ang The Charlottetown Minor Hoc- Fe Association Juveniles acted as perfect hosts yesterday af-

style at the Confederation Cen-

ing as the locals bombed the Quebec team 16-2 in the second

game of their tw ‘| point series. Sin ‘bin officiais |

cramps as a hungry Charlotte- town team pressed for every

St.-Lambert club would puf up a bit stronger battle after hav.

club came up with an awesome display of oe as almost every member._of_the18-:.man._ team / | figured in -the scoring in’ one. way or another,

;

ers with four goals while Billy | LeClair had" three: Paul Btan.. ley and Bob Doherty each con-

ternoon as they dined their St. | Lambert counterparts in. lavish |

ter- but all sembances of good | hostmanship disappeared—at—the— Charlottetown Forum last even-{ |

Don MacLean and Reg Arsen- ault could well have had writers |

ing gotten the lay of the land | eo to speak the Charlottetown | ;

BILL LECLAIR

town's fifth straight marked at |<

Bobby_ Whitlock-led- the ‘seor-| about the five mark of the sec-

ond_as he put< a\screened: back- hand past Ernest and then Bill

When he was picked up al-| tributed a brace of goals while | LeClair rapped a centering pass

|| assault-on-_the. CSA club at just

‘Mang le St. La mbertsTeam.

ly got their second of the even- ing as Francoise Lemenu broke in on the right side and popped a quick shot into the far corner. ' Whitlock continued his one man

play respectively had set Sete | up_and then St.

over the 11 minute mark as he converted. passes from Bob

twelth goal of the night, and

Doherty and Alan Flood into the |

CURLING DR ee

approximately two ‘minutes Aster

twines. | Frank Mahovlich; the Leafs’

' 90-minute kout Tuesd. night: 100 eae ute workout Tuesday. | Seett Donal __Deputy-Mayor, _ Mrs. Dorothy bers of the. Charlottetown _|__ Canadiens will be at full bpdle conten - r ne - =e an and Bilt Minor Hockey Association ex- : “strength” for the opener. with | Raymond Vessey— “oe ] “MacKinnon, members of the _the exception of all-star defence- | ‘tom Vessey -_—__--. ____ gal? Blaine Coal. Charlottetown Club. Also pre- €cutive and other noted offi: -man Jacques Laperriere, side-|zome Stoscnson 98 | a sent at the banquet" me mem--—cials-from ihe Island. rdined“ for the-last 13-games with | ¢ynest-Prowse oT} : Somer ia torn knee ligaments:. —| Lloyd-Vessey —___ _97 | New Shipment of HAS GOOD HOPES Brows ” | -Honda Bik Blois Coles 96 ! es : The Montreal coach said after ; % | the workout he thinks his elub | Lenore Crockett % - and Cars. can. handle the Leafs ‘even | Bob Currie 94 , ——.j though Toronte—has—won—five—of- : = = “even” ganies”” pilyed ow | es Mocke aa Forum ice this season. Nelson Shaw oT His club. had played well Sladen 3 93 | against Toronto in recent out- Lowell V 90 ings because the ane were | Donna nam Si : 0 | skating well. Bryen a | Ralph MacCallum oT. side ‘after a goal meuth! Herman MacQuaid whipped | As long as we're skating, Stuard Vessey 90 | ecramble. _ wrist shot between Ernests pads |they don't get the chance to'| Beryl Vessey ‘90 | ; Lowell-Brown continued the for number 13. As if they did |hit,” he said. “At least two of| Frank Vessey 89 | 160 Mode! with 18 h.p. everhead * | flood of goals on the St. Lambert not have enough troubles CSA | the mid-season games we played | navid Leard 7 | cams, dual carburetors, and tele- levew minutes later as he ram- took a penalty and Bill LeClair | against them and lost, we just | Barry Metcalfe 87 | scopic fron? suspension. _ Tmed in a ehot between the pads | deflected a wicked Alan Food ‘idn’t seem up for them.” Roland Vessey 86 | : and post and: then Billy LeClair | shot into the twines. Blake said he thinks a consid-|Larry Welton 26! 4-cycle engine took a perfect’ pass from Bill| .Bob Doherty cdntinued the , erable spread in the standings ‘Wayne Vessey 86 | Liga senneney MacKinnon and cut in rifling the rout at the 18:20 mark as Bob/at the time caused the Cana- | George-Jenkins 85. ; bd e “ puck into the twines. “Doherty dug the puck out of a |diens to underrate the opposi- | Betty Crockett | #1 ~ No nade ci saneor Whitlock and Jim Mac- pile of players and slid a tow | tion. Ricky Buell 80 EASY FINANCING — eT. Tan the-scoreto 11-1 shot under Ernst and a minute| Now that the playoffs have | Dwight Vessey 80 Keith of ie t the beginning of the ==third| later even the defense got into | arrived he doesn't think Toronto | Jean Bruce “807 ! arm hael ; cade tay ered after a|the act as Ken Ballem pumped be any tougher to beat than | Arlene MacDonald 80, Ltd. passout and a pretty passing| his first of the night into the jeitHer Detroit or Chicago. Donna Welton © oe 25 Brackley Pt. Rd.° Dial 4-6423

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‘Herman MacQuaid, Ken Ballem | into the twines to run the count

Jim Dowling, Lowell Brown, and |tg 6-1 at 7:30 mark. A penal- Jim MacDougell had one apiece. | mie A

Ice 1 — Open (mixed).

Ice 2 — E. Tanton,.A. Gill, G. Wright. H Shama vs C. Asprey, E. Ford, D. Ward, G. Lord. “Tee 3 ton, E. Gillespie, Gus Gallant vs | T.-White, Bill Smith, B.—Jones, Geo. Schleyer.

Tee 4 - L. Blakeney, N. Nich- nison,— vs A, Jones, J. MacDonald, Bob Stevenson, F. Miles.

Tee 5 R.C. Parent, V. Mit- ton, B. Partridge, W. Carr. vs Henry Douglas, F. Corcoran, B. Rogerson, T.. Winter.

1.30 -p.m,

All ices open. ‘Mixed games will be played if they. don't con- flict with City Mens Champion-

was received by the league gov- ernors, who ruled that they were not in a position to consider further franchise applications

F. MacMillan, S: Bea- iat this: time. Said NHL President Clarence ‘Campbell: ;

“At such time as further ex- pansion of the NHL is consid:

aHim—MacLean, -F-— Dillon-ered;the-govern

that cities such as Baltimore. Buffalo and Vancouver: are ac- ceptable and, qualified areas. ‘However, there are no additional franchises available at this time.’

Campbell : briefed the press on the results of a lengthy meeting of the governors.

For the losers Abraham and Le- menu each had one. Oddly ehough Ballem was the only de- fenseman. to score a goal and | he got that at the 19:47 mark. -

team—held-/

ty to Charlie O'Donnell led to

the next

| attack | with—a-flipshot in the short

corner. However a penalty to, Abraham atthe 3:44 mark prov- | ed costly to St.. Lamberts as!

‘place in the right time to deflect |

the far corner.

Bob Whitlock gave the locals a comfortable 3-1 lead before | the nine minute mark as he tal- ‘hed .on fwo equally beautiful ef- forts. Alan. Flood, in the pro- cess of killing off a penalty set up-—-Whitloeks first goal as he centered a pass that Whitlock banged in and then two minutes | later he hit with a rising shot

i Paul Stanley.was in the- right | a Bob Doherty point, shot into |

that just caught the upper left |

ag corner.

Jim Dowling, one’ of the less | prolific marksmen_on_the club rounded out the scoring in. the period as he squeezed a sharp”

| angle shot behind Gary Ernest |

fe the CSA cage. However fans |

Rot to see one of the very very_|

few penalty shots called _ this year at the Forum when Barry Turner after having worked his way_into ‘the eléar had the puck taken’ off of his stick by a thrown stick was given the honor. However Turner lost con- trol of the puck--as he attempted to deke the goalie. : |

a goalmouth pass into the open the trophies and awards.

Hampshire went ahead 2-1 in the -first-period—and-the— period was scoreless with/Hamp- shire’ firing three unanswered |.

tallies in the final frame. | Ha

Scoring for the winners were: L. Balderson (2), -G. Vessey, #| | Hughes and W. Tremere...

8:30 _POWNAL

~ (First. game best —_

“9:00 A.M.

'the majority ‘of the play. and| ae le completely outelarred their el Ham pshire Beats _... TODAY'S DRAW tion no. time was : question of the game—in- de Pownal’ Royals - IN THE... | despite the fact that the visit- a |ors opened. the scoring at the To Take Title. HENDERSON and | 31 minute mark. From then on |_|.’ | it was completely Charlotte" The. Hampshire Bulldogs eap- CUDMORE town. tu red. the Hon. Philip. Matheson | Fans had barely settled down trophy by “defeating Pownal|... . Men’s City Curling. |in their seats after the opening | [Royals 5-1 at St. Dunstan's Championships | whistle the first period when St. tik Jak (0 thd cae nd Cee | Lamberts opened the scoring ia | : a AT BELVEDERE | the game. John. Murray. and | final game in a best of seven w Sac Bob Abraham took advantage of | series. Hon. Philip Matheson and 6: oe read ‘ a 2-1 break as Abraham poked | Harold Smith, MLA, presented; pr. Bill ‘Moreside vs. Dead j

Cameron. Art Burke vs. Joe Saunders.’

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