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(AP) — Toronto, Bert Olmstead, Dick Duff, Leafs, aroused to fever|Frank Mahovlich and Bob Pul- its Stan-|ford registered the goals ‘which
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BY NORMAN MACDONALD ,
N.H.L., and the fact that Mr. Campbell's parents had come from the Bedeque district, a fact not generally known.
It has been noted elsewhere that twelve players of the pre- sent Aces, all the regulars ex- cept Ulric Gallant, played hoc- key in the South Shore League @t one time or another. After seeing the last game of the_sea- between Cape Traverse and 16, we believe there are oth- boys ripe for graduation to Island’s best hockey. Iee which
kept the puck acting like a jumping bean for the most of the
time kept smooth attacking plays at a minimum last Wed-
nesday night, but for about ten minutes nf the second period the disk rolled smoothly, and we were surprised at the Cape
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team’s co-ordinated play-making. With the kind of coaching Aces received this year, such boys as Dale MacWilliams and Al- ger Cutcliffe would have no trouble making the grade, in Intermediate ‘‘A’’,
“Hook”” Walsh of the Cape Traverse defence can do one of the most spectacular solos we've seen in some time. Mostly noth- ing in particular happens at the end of these headlong rushes, but we feel that a ‘coach like Windy Steele could “ignite the
charge”, and make the rfsh potentially dangerous in the enemy zone. “Hook” ~- would
certainly come in handy when a team got bottled up in its own zone.
Don't let anyone tell you those belt each other
in the course of the play swal- lowed it. Then while he was
going down the right boards. he.
was given a terrific jolt- by a Lot 16-player. Both boys fell to the ice, and when the Cape play- er got up ‘he says), he- found to his surprise he was chewing the gum again. Some check!
SPORTS FRONT
By PIUS CALLAGHAN
BEFORE THE BOSTON BRUINS and Toronto Maple Leafs commenced their gruelling semi-final Stanley Cup series, Leafs’ Punch Imiack spoke in this manner. “I think they have to worry about our big line of Frank Mahovlich, Bill Harris and Gerry Ehman. That threesome could take us all the way. Our other lines are good, solid groups and have come up with big goals im our stretch drive, but Mahovlich and his mates have the potential to break this series wide open.”
WHEN WE POUNDED out this column, the fifth game in Boston Gardens had not yet been completed. The series was knotted at two games each and after reading Imlach’s _re- marks, uttered before the series got underway, we decided to see just how right the talkative ‘Punch’ had been.
In that opening game, Gerry Ehman. picked up the lone Leaf marker as the Toronto team lost 5-1. In the third battle, won in overtime by the Maple Leafs, Ehman fired two of the Leafs’ three tallies. Ih the fourth Tuesday evening, Ehmap grabbed himself another and Frank Mahovlich sank the’ over- time clincher.
In the first four games, Toronto has scored nine times and the Ehman-Mahoviich combination has accounted for five of them. Mr. Ehman who just came to the club this season, has four of the nine to his credit.
It would appear that Imlach knew what he was talking about.
MUZZ PATRICK, the general manager of the Néw York Rangers, was the first New Yorker able to talk after it was learned that Watson’s outfit had missed the playoffs.
Muzz was asked how he felt about the whole thing. It was a@ cruel question but Muzz was obliging enough to give a reply.
Here it was: “It was like getting hit in the face with a cold codfish. Two
weeks ago we seemed to be sitting on top of the world” Everyone knew that Muzz was in anything but a happy mood. And who could blame him?
GENE CONLEY, obviously in the Milwaukee doghouse this past year, has been traded away to Philadelphia Phillies where he hopes to accomplish much greater things in this 1959 —
Conley figured in the deal that sent him, Joe Koppe (short- stop) aa Harry Hanebrink outfielder-infielder to the Quaker City in exchange for catcher Stan Lopata, and infielders Ted Kazanski and Johnny O’Brien.
To use it would appear that the rich ,got richer but appar- ‘ently the Phillies didn’t make the deal with any such thought ‘in ‘mind. They figured. like Gene does himself, that Conley has a lot of good games left in the big arm. We hope they are
it vi ch. ‘ right but we aon te big man in the Braves’
i as champions of the National League. He wal site oe ae homers inst season but it could have have been just an off-year. He has 116 in 11 years with the Phils. Beside his potential power, he'll be great insurance should either Del Crandall or Del Rice falter. :
Big Stan is a mighty capable receiver.
JOHNNY O’BRIEN is the chap the Braves are reported to have really wanted. Word is that. he'll be used lo fill the gap left by the aling Red Schoendienst. Haney like O'Brien’s style of play and thinks he’ll fit in the Milwaukee plan of things.
The Phils know well what the record book shows about Conley for 1958. His record was 06 and his ERA with the Braves was 4.88. But Conley isn’t the least perturbed about the winless record. He insists he didn’t get a fair chance and that if the Phils give him that, he'll repay them for the con fidence they've placed in him.
Time alone will tell.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS’ manager Bill Rigney is pleas- | ed to have Sad Sam Jones around. But his reason isn’t what
you'd expect. Here is Rigney talking
“They'll be about 90 per cent less likely to throw at Willie |
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“Mays now that we have Sam Jones. There’s a couple of pitchers fm this league who take aim at Willie every time he steps up to the plate. But they’ll think twice with Sam around.
WALTER ALSTON isn't going out on any limb ip the way of predictions this year. Alston did a little popping off last spring and' wound up a miserable seventh.
The Los Angeles manager is once again cautious and con- servative. He merely<states his boys can’t be as bad as they looked while finishing next to the cellar in the 1958 campaign.
Wally doesn’t blame the Dodgers’ debacle for the trick ball
that is the Coliseum. He can’t very well do that in view of the fact that the club played .506 ball at home and only .416 on the road.
“We just played lousy ball, at home and away,” he points out. “The only thing we could do right was when we were play- ing -Milwaukee.” And the Dodgers certainly did fine when they met up with these Braves. They came out on top in 14 of the 2 games played between the teams.
ALSTON LOOKS for much better things from his pitching staff, especially his big man young Don Drysdale who got off to such a shaky start last year. Don came fast towards the end of the schedule and there’s every indication he'll begin in 1959 where he left off in 1958. '
The Los Anzeles manager also looks for much improved showings from fellows like Duke Snider and Gil Hodges. Duke usually hits around 40 homers but last year settled for a paltry 15 and Big Gil just never did get going.
“We thought” said Alston “that we had men who could hit the ball 251. feet to the left field screen, but the ether clubs did & almost three times as often as we did.”
We're still going te keep our eyes on those Dodgers.
Lamiley.
Spurred by two straight over- time triumphs after falling be hind 2-0 in the competition, Tor- onto for once found itself in charge from the start with a su- perior show of speed, stick-hand- LATE SEASON RALLY
The Leafs had clinched fourth place in the Nationa Hockey ‘League anid a paycff berth on the last day of the season. Thea, in the third game against - the Bruins in , they had to rally ffom a 2-0 deficit. .
SUMMARY
First period: 1. Toronto, Olm- stead (Mahovlich, G. Armstrong) 9:26. Penalties: Duff 5:04, Fila- man 8:12, Horton 9:36, Leach (two minors) 9:36, Gendron 11:58, Brower 19:06.
Second period: 2. Toronto, Duff 6:37. Penalties: Horton 1:04, Mor- rison 2:31, Pulford 10:28, Morri- son 14:00, Horton 15:45.
Third period: 3. Toronto, Ma- hovlich (Ehman) 0:19; 4. Tor- | onto, Pullord 9:62; 5. Boston, Top- | pazzini (Morrison, Mackell) 11:25. 'Penalties: Labine 4:43, 12:11, Gendron 5:47, Brewer 7:50.
Stops: Bower 9 11 12-32 : 99 42
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Nine Mile Creek Nips Hampshire
Nine Mile Creek went one game up in the best-of-seven ser- ies for the W. R. Shaw Trophy by edging Hampshire Bulldogs 3-2 at North River Rink Wed- nesday night.
Two goats in the final frame gave the Creek crew the game and the lead in the close series.
Scoring for the winning team were Jack MacDonald, Charlie MacDougall and Fred Taylor Hampshire snipers were Lowell | Balderson and George Watts.
Race Season On Saturday
FORT ERIE, Ont. (CP) — The 196-day Ontario thoroughbred | racing season opens here Satur- iday, the earliest opening in the history of Canadian racing.
Fort Erie's 25-day spring meet- ing is the beginning of a season in which the Jockey Club will |distribute purses of $3.691,300 at three tracks—here and at Tor- onto’s Woodbine and Old Wood- bine. The horses will be in action continuously until Wednesday. Nov. 18.
Jockey club officials are con- | fident that attendance and wager- jing figures this season will ex- ; ceed the record year of 1958 when | 1,587,331 patrons wagered a tota! of $83,498,483. The average daily | crowd in 1958 was 8,098 and the | average daily wagering was $426,- 012.
Big Bill Thinks
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MONTREAL (‘OP)—Big Jean
\for treatment of his injured back Thursday and said the way he feels now it is unlikely he'll be back on the ice this season. The Montreal Canadiens high- scoring centre has been out with ‘the injury since last Saturday jnight when he was checked and ifell in Montreal's Stanley Cup semi - final series with Chicago Black Hawks. He fractuerd two vertebrae in the lower spine. The word from the Forum
‘dressing room was that Beliveau ij has. not responded well to treat-
ment. He has been resting in bed at Some but he said “I have
hardly slept for three days.”
Stan Leonard
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Stan Leonard fad some luck that was denied to others Thursday and led the way through the first round of the 23rd Masters golf tournament.
With the ‘aid of a couple of “working men's para’ on the back nine where swirling winds /and a ¢reek make golf hazardous jat the Augusta national course, the Canadian veteran pro who ts in his 40s fired an opening round of 33-36-69
Three under par for the 6,960 yard par 36-36—72 Augusta na- tional course, it gave Leonard a two-stroke edge over Arnold Pal- mer, the muscular voung defend- ing chainpion from Pennsylvania: Jack Burke, the 1956\winher, and former PGA champion Chandler Harper at the end of a windy day ithat speed trouble fr -ome of the most famous players in the select field of 87.
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_ CANADIAN SOCCER STAR
Errol Crossan, a -native of London, England. Goalie Ron
New Westminster, B.C., is block-| Baynham of Luton Town reaches ed in a scoring attempt during|high to block the shot by the action in the Fooball Association | Norwich City forward. Had Cros- Cup semi-final game at North'son scored he would have made
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Jackson and H. Smith; Ford Bronstad (9) and Howard, Bian chard (7). W-Ford.
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HUNTERS CORNER
The spring flight of wildgeese is at its peak and thousands are present in Queens County and I presume the same situation ap- plies to Prince and Kings. A heavy flight arrived in the Or- well-Pownal area on March lita and 12th. This columist was afraid we'd have a repeat of 1957 spring conditions when the flats and bays were sealed under a layer of ice and the stubble fields and potato meadows were buried deep under crusted snow. The geese were driven from one open patch of water to another unti] they were so weak with hunger they had to rest on the snow or ice after even short flights.
There is food aplenty on the stubble fields this spring and it is readily available. Timely thaws arranged that. They are in top condition. I have watched them knife into the teeth of 530 mile an hour winds with power to burn in wing strokes. ‘Over
quarters in the Pownal Bay area. They have available water in the Mill Creek and abundant grain littered stubble at Crown Point. The 4 Acre shore\ field was under grain last fall and weather conditions prevented 8 or 10 acres of a heavy stand from being harvested. The bal- ancw was Combined with a lot of heads and loose grain left on the ground.
TOOK OVER CROWN POINT When they first arrived the whole f' tht made Crown Point their headquarters. The farmer who owns the stubble on Crown Point when there with a trac- tor to haul lumber from the woodland bordering the stubble on the north. A cloud of geese created a veritable ceilng as they milled and honked their annoy- ance from the air. In goose lan- guage: “Fly to heck out of here...we're hungry’. They don’t do that anymore. I wond- ered why this flight had shif- ted locale. Some would fly the fields in. the Cherry Vall area. ..others would head north. On occasion they’d give Crown Point a call. I inquired of sev- eral goose hunters in the area if there was any spring shooting. AH had 1 stock in trade ans- wer: “No shooting. . it's as quiet as a church” I felt like saying: “Who do you think you're kid- ding”. I took. the word of the geese.
Last Saturday afiernvon I drove out to Mill Creek, Pownall. A stiff norther was blowing and several hundred geese were rest- ing in Mill Creek. Approxima- tely 125 were on a Point about 300 yards from the highway. when I stopped the car 12 or 15 necks stretched upright and they tooK"@iT pronto. They fell back in the wind and made a
Wildgeese Spring Flight It Right Now At Its Peak
they lighted in the water near the, off shore but remained on the alert in sharp contrast to the
other birds: w either slept or ice edge or their necks at half-mast
DIP LIKE PLANES
A steady stream of geese in small flocks kept coming in from the Sou’East from the direction of the Cherry Valley fields. When they rounded the woods on Hal- ey's Point they were'nt 10 feet above the. marsh. When gale force gusts met them they'd dip like airplanes with the top of one wing only a few feet off the ground but till kept boring in. It was a thrilling sight bit I kept wondering why no birds came from Crown Point. On Sun. day afternoon I parked the car on the paeoment and covered the Crown Point stubble fields on foot. I was an enlightening tour and I figured the 5 mile hike was well worth the effort. —
At Dutin's West Hne foot prints
and headed, west. The maker of the foot prints avoided snow when ever possible. Car tracks came off the ice north of Da- vid's Bank. I stood in the gap bwtween Dunn's and the middle field and watched the actions of geese coming in to feed on the outside 40 acres. They came in high and then detoured and swung around over the ice to the south. I wasn’t surprise © when ae the road through .the woods to the outside field to see footprints so fresh the muddy wa- ter in the heel prints had’nt set- tled.
SPOTTED HIM
I spotted him standing In a clump o! bushes at field edge so intent on watching the geese he didn’t see me until I was within spitting distance. ‘‘Aha,” I thought to myself, “another candidate for the grab bag” I guessed wrong. He had no gun nor was there on in the bushes. He was in his late teens or maybe early twenties. He sure was guarded in his answers. “What's you name?” “x"’.. “Your first name?" ‘Billie’. “‘Where are you from?’’. “Lake Verde. “You're a long way from home
NHL PLAYOFF LEADERS
G@ A Pts. Pen. Moore, Montreal Bonin, Montreal McKenney, Boston Ehman, Toronto Maho. ‘th, Tor Mackell, Boston Geoffrion, Mtl Beliveau, Mtl Litzenberger, Chi Harvey, Montrea:
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City Midgets To Play N.B. For Ch’ship
The Charlottetown Midget Abbies meet thé Bathurst Pap- ermakers in a sudden death game to be played in Bathurst Saturday April 4th, for the N.B. P.E.I. midget title. The Charlottetown squad won the right to meet the New Bruns- wick winners when they defeated the Crapaud midgets for the Island title.
The Abbies team is one of the strongest miiget teams ever assembled on P.EJ. and a hustling band ef puck chasers:
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‘Canadiens
THREE ASSISTS
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By MARVIN MOSS Canadian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CP) — Montreal ; unleashed a whirl- wind-four-goal first period Thurs- day night to cuff Chicago's up- start Black Hawks 42 and. grab a 32 game edge in their Stanley
men. Sloan tallied in the second period and Nesterenko in the final frame. .
} Defenceman Doug Harvey and hard-driving Dickie Moore, the
ing champion in the last two sea- sons, each drew three assists on the Montreal goals.
The 14,355 fans saw the contest start out as a rough, bruising af- fair but it cooled after the open- ing period and referee Frank Udvari called -only five more penalties the rest of the game. Chicago received 11 of the 20 penalties imposed in all. They included a 10-minute misconduct to rearguard Al Arbour for pro- testing a minor too vigorously and a five-minute major to fiery Ted Lindsay when he nicked Montreal's Ab McDonald with a high stick, drawing blood.
The Canadiens skated the Hawks into the ice at the outset, fir 15 shots on goalie Glenn Hall and capitalizing on a man- power advantage for the goals by Bonin’ and Geoffrion. Montreal's Tom Johnson was also in the penalty box with a minor when the veteran Sloan notched his tally.
Saturday night the best-of-seven set shifts to Chicago for the sixth |
Hull Legion Grabs Lead
HULL, Que. (CP)—A screened slap shot.with 36 seconds left Thursday ‘night gave Hull Legion a 65 victory over Miramichi Beavers and a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five eastern Canada Allan Cup semi-final.
Rheo Dagenais fired the win- ning goal at 19:25 of the \third period after the New Brunswick club, down 3-0 early in the game, had fought back to a one-goal lead midway through the final eession.
Fourth game of the series wiil be played here tonight, with the fifth, if necessary, also in Huil Saturday night. A small crowd of 731 saw Thursday night's
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4 Goals In First Period Boost Montreal To Victory
game and the Hawks need a win there to remain the cup hunt. +A —seventa game, if necessary, would be played here Tuesday night. ee
First peried: 1. Montrea!, Pro- novost (Harvey) 1:34; 2. Mont- real, Bonin (Moore, Harvey) 10:48; 3. Montreal, Provost (Harvey, Moore) 14:35; 4. Mont- real, Geoffrion (H. Richard, Moore) 16:38. Penalties: Pilote 1:45, Nesterenko, Pronovost 4:07, Jobneon 4:37, Harvey 6:31, Evans, Geoffrion 9:55, Arbour
RCAF Sultans scored one of the big upsets of the basketball »season when they turned back the Trotters 57-46 in the opening game of the best-offive series for the Island Senior “C’’ cham- pionship at Birchwood High School last night.
The Sultans held only a slim two-point lead with but two and a half minutes left to play but put on a terrific spurt to pull away from the falterin~ league winners.
Kt was only the fourth loss of the season for the Trotters who galloped easily to the league title during the regular schedule.
Trotters will be at full strength for the second game which is slated for the Summerside air- port Sunday afternoon.
Apart from the last-minute flurry of basket dunking by the airmen their wasn't much to
choose between the two teams.
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. Third period: 6. Chicago, -Nes- terenko (Wharram, Pilote) 5:11. Penalties: Ferguson 2:35, Nester enko 12:37 Stops: Hall Plante
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Sultans led 24-23 at held a slight edge in the throwing category swishing 17 15 for the Trotters.
Scoring was pretty well divid- ed with four Sultans getting inte double figures. Lefty Lefler was high with 15 while Howlett for 12 and Kelly and Millar 16 each.
Mark” Ladner was the top Trotter shooter with 16 points, 10 im the final half. Father Gar ence Roche had 11 and Wayne
MacDonald 10.
Earl Nicholson and Roy Me- Gonnell handled t isties. LINEUPS
Sultans:— Lefler, 15, Howlett, 12, Kelly, 10, Millar, 10, Létile, 5, Anderson 1, Purchase 4. Totall — 57. '
Trotters:— Ladner 16, Roche 11, MacDonald 10, MacLean 98, Flynn, LePage. Total — 4. |
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Two games were played at | the North River rink last night. | North River whipped Wiltshire | 50 to capture the MacKinnon | Bros. Trophy.
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noon and are very confident of taking the Bathurst club and move on to Halifax for the Mari- time title.
Due to the jong play-off sched- ule in the New Brunswick and the closing .of the Sports Arena, the team’s chances of compet- ‘ing for the title were very nar- row, but Harry Sentner, the fiery and talkative coach of the , midget Abbies opened ne- gotiations with the Bathurst management and came up with a sound financial agreement for the sudden death fixture. Coach Sentner, the little man behind the big team and never at a loss for a prediction of the outcome, states ‘‘we have enough strength down the center to win any title”
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