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The Charlottetown Nomads will '5 be facing their toughest battle of dis rugby season when they talk! '3: on the New Glasgow Grads at B.D-U. gridiron this afternoon in most important game that either . team has played so far in the NS.- P.F..I. rugby league.

., The winner of today's contest is 4- almost assured of the league title. W The Nomads will have only one more contest left and that against .. Windsor, whom they have already

Angry B.C. Football Fans if .

Stand Be

VANCOUVER. (CP)-An angry football public declared itself Friday in the majority behind British Columbia Llons' head coach Annls Stukus. fired Thurs- day night by club directors.

Newspape and radio offices were swamped with calls after Llons' president Don Mackenzie announced Stukus had been re- lieved after coaching the newest entry in the Western lnterprovin- cial Football Union for the last two years.

Ray Baldwin. one of the orig- inal members of the B. C. Lions club in 1953. said he would be- gin immediately on a campaign to gain a "no-confidence vote" against the 29-man board of di- rectors.

"We've set ourselves back an- other year." said Baldwin. "May- be this board of directors is not competent enough to judge." one game.

Dr. Roger Paris. president of Mackenzie himself was obvious- the Western Junior Big Four ly shaken when he faced news- Foolball League, described the paper men with his announce- 1ey' out go, 10 days Wm, , ham, firing of Stukus 'as "disgusting." ment. .

une fl-sch"-e of, small bone in M, ."Stukus hasnt had a fair '”Ive never felt lower in my back. Canadian Don Simon is ex. trial." he said. "I feel badly a- life. I hope I never have to do pected to take Lindley's spot. ' A preview of the semi-final is not likely at Winnipeg since Sask- atchewan intends to put the accent on its young Canadians. Riders are assured of second place and Bomb- ers of third and the two clubs meet

Hind Fired Coach

bout this move. After all 3 isn't Stukua' fault that players were injured or that others failed to live up to their notices. He didn't hire them you know."

"THROUGH WITH COACHING" Stukus. one of Canada's most colorful football personalities, said he is through with the Lions. There is no Job in the mage- ment setup of the Lions. includ- ing that of general manager. that he would accept. "I'm through with coaching." he said. "So far as I know the only job the Lions are prepared to offer me is something to do with the program and concessions. The Lions. playing their second year in the WIFU. finished in fourth place this season with a 5-11 win-loss record. Last year. they finished last. winning only

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"Everyone agreed Stuke Jug dons a tremendous job." mg Mackenzie. "But we're in a, mi. tion now when we've got to q. better.

There was no mention of "pr-og. pects for a successor to Stllkug.

"The Job is open . . . .appIlcg. lions will be received now." M... kenzie said.

Sports writers throughout west. ern Canada found little favor with the dis al and Ba: 0'Msan of the ontreal Star suggested Stukus "might be the man" (u- the Toronto Argonauts next yen. stukua. who compared the amp he felt to the time he broke his back as a player. said:

"I couldn't work with those guys again . . . I know who voted against me.

"I can't imagine anyone start. ing a new team in Canada and I don't want to coach a team already in business. I don't want to take over someone else's prob. lcms."

Page 6 The Guardian Saturday, Oct. 29, 1955

Only Records At Stake As 'W.l.F.U. Ends Season

By THE CANADIAN PRESS The We ster n lnterprovlnclal Football Union ends its regular 16- game schedule tonight (Saturday)

with little at stake but records. Playoff berths have been decided

Grads. who have been the only.able trouble to strengthen their team able to take the measure of lineup. This would appear to be a the Nomads. will also face Wind- good idea for when the Charlotte- sor for one more game. town team hits the field today they Nomad coach Dr. Frank Jelks will have ,a possible league title was noncommital when asked of and the added incentive of revenge his team's chances last evening. to spur them on. but the Nomads have improved Coach Jelks contacted Grads' considerably since they dropped officials Friday morning and ad- the season's opener to the Grads vised them that there might be 3-2 and in their last two outingslhcavy seas coming across on the have gone on scoring binges withlPictou Ferry tomorrow and the 14-6 and 25-2 wins over Truro and Grads stated that they will be pre- Windsor. Uuared to take th: 12.20 fgrgy tat It has been reported that New ormentine and t ey will einie- u rlobbered 15-: right in the Swas- Glasgow. expecting the battle of ly be here forlihe game. Charlie.'Ready- :23 (l?utte5Scfg;int:eafl?15tr:ii?'2 '.ika's home territory while the their lives. have gone to conside - The game will be played come The kickoff is at 3 pm. mds may be In for reshuming

when Calgaryu Slampeders tmeet Amateur Athletic Union Argonauts May Become "” '””"”'”””' "M E” .1 To View National Scene Flops Of Half Century

monton and Saskatchewan Rough Riders go against Blue Bombers at Winnipeg. Only a Stampeder victory would gave agy effect ton the tstagdiilngs E uonrmm. :cp.-n.. 52...: an- By THE CANADIAN Piuass ""”” 9” 3” W" W” 9 "' ,i' nual meeting of the Amateur Ath- T0F0"l0 AtfEf)"3”l5- Vlilho Wde :10 , . . pre-season arm on te expcn - letlc Lmon of Canada, convening nurcs of team manager Harry i ill Si15k5l"0'l "Elli We9k- Wm uh Sonshine. could become the foot- ' stock of the national sport scene ball flops of the half-century and and deal with reports from local,

rain. sleet or snow. and a great game it should be with both teams stronger than they have been at any time this season and both well aware of that to the winner could go all the chips.

The Nomads starting lineup will be selected from the following play- ers; Spy Ready. Dave MacLeod. Gerard Burge. George Kelly, Cliff Gillis. Cullen DeLory. Dick Carroll. Fred Driscoll. Dave Nicholson. Aquinas Ryan, Ron MacLure, Joe Coyle. Claude Fields. Charlie Heu- stis, Neils Hansen. l-Iilson Carr.

Rushing records are bound to tumble with Winnipeg halfback Gerry James and Eskimo fullback Normie Kwong, both -Canadians, hitting the lines.

In team competition. Stamped- ers are expected to go all out against Eskimos. Stampeder play- ers will be trying to retain their jobs for next year.

No INJURIES

No injuries are reported from the Calgary camp but Eskimos will be without ace halfback Earl Lind-

Rosewall And Hoad Will Remain "Simon-Pures"

Bruker said national treasurer Jack Wilkie of Regina "has done an outstanding Job" and is ex- pected to report that the operat- ing loss of two years ago has been overcome and that the union is operating within its budget.

TOP PLACE IN BALANCE

ln intercollegiate play. Queen's Golden Gaels and University of Toronto Blues meet in Kingston

to decide the league leadership. Both teams have won three and

Stampeders are 2 points behind British Columbia Lions. who fin- ished their schedu'. last weekend with a record of five wins and 11 losses. .

With a victory. Calgary could

and that merely on last place. Ottawa Rough Riders have it in

duel to decide who will make the'Fo0tball Union.

, . , . ag' vekfrmtod at W- blranch. relilnnal Md "3"9"31 19V' b TlI!fe)'d9B; bI':0k!Curmmilttee. hflrlildefg ;:'i9c'1'(' WW9” to make ”" "”e:105xt"ae)hd0n University of west claim fourth place on scoring aver- nilliill. ian lb: opehlng ofaihe honi'e.- MELBOURNE, (AP) -Austral- "POWER OF WOMEN" '

1 .5- Y T 00 0 070" 0: W1 "0 ' . , . ' . . . fl-h iil- ll .-l. l. V ' ah id I ' ll . LE 1: v - . l president Mame Bmker 0, Monty only Provide the union and its Argos square off ill l'oroniu lo-'ern Ontario .Mustangs will be 3. a" "me 0 a pa" semi mas guild .ifIa'l'&n Reglnel:,JL '31" b: Well. that I. that, but I will 5! real, completing his two-year term membership with a record of the flay agamst the mders "1 u"3lh”5l w Mcm.” Redmem - back to defend the Davis Cup "W" ""d"e5t""3i1 "19 POWOF Oi ” said Friday the union has hit a year's activities but will also pro- "st game "f 3 humeianwhome I" "'9 Sam” onum” Rugby :-

new high in registrations, activity and, to everyone's surprise, in fund-raising.

The three -day meeting opens Thursday and Bruker's successor, along with the new executive com- mittee. will be elected Saturday.

The agenda. drawn up by na- tional secretary Ken Yost of Win- nipeg. is a heavy one. It includes awarding of championship and Olympic trials for 1956: report on the Pan-American games: present- ation of C 4' amateu ath- letic hall of fame certificates; con- sideration of recommendations for the outstanding men and women athletes of the union: presentation

, of the first Year Book of the union,

vide the basis of a "fine sinking fund." Foot will also announce a sizeable net gain as a result of this undertaking.

Johnny Loaring of Riverside. Onl., will report on the work of the affiliations and alliance com- mitiee in establishing the basis for a working agreement with the three armed services.

Major C. S. Glew and Major R. G. Stebbens of the army. Wing. Cmdr. J. K. Tell of the RCAF and Lt.-Cmdr. R. M. Green of the navy will be present to advance prelim- inary work completed by corres- pondence. The working ugreement with the services is viewed as a long step forward in the develop-

Ind revisions of the constitution.

BACK STRETCH

golums have been written on the . th of the famous pacing stallion Hal Dale 2.02V4."bul. the best tri- bute that we have seen is written by Jim Harrison of the United States Trotting Association. Col- umbus. Ohlo. Here it is . . . The death this week of the pacing stallion Hal Dale, at the advanced equine age of 29. removed from the harness racing scene out only a great sire of champions but one of the most important links in a pedigree chain inaugurated ac- cidentally by a man who couldn't stand the sight of s pacer and which has evolved into the most auiatlonal pacing family in the

Although he aired countless world champions and two-minute

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performer including Good Time, Kcystoner. Irish Hal. Diamond Hal etc. -- Hal Dale will be remember- ed principally as the sire of the 3500.000 Adios, generally recogn- ized as the greatest progenitor the harness horas sport has ever known. Fooled in 1926, Hal Dale spent most of his life at the Two Gniis Farm. Camel, Ind.. where he is buried. It was this farm which bred Adios and which bred or raised most of the other Hal Dale champions. Hal Dale and 99 per cent of his sons and daughters were pacers. but that wasn't the way Leland Stanford. founder of Stanford University at Palo Alto. Csl.. intended it when he began breeding harness horses back in the g1n7o'u.

Stanford selected the trotting stallion Electioneer to head his

stud and insisted that he waniedltfickv Wink him I Word of 2.03 trotting horses only. If a pacerlgisi whwh W" 3 59850"'5 TP('0rd

l or the premises. and an few did. helM"y W5” 35" 39"”-V W33 "'1' was immediately disposed of by 9”"

had the misfortune to turn up on

sale or gift. After Stanford's deathl the male line through Electioneer' came down to Hal Dale through Chimes. The Abbe and Abbedale. Somewhere between The Abbe and Abhedale the switchover occurred and a trolling family became a paring family. When his turn came DB1! Rave the family the biggest boost it ever had by throw- tng champions galore and topping his efforts with the creation of Adios. Mr. Stanford may never forgive him but the harness rac- ins sport will never forget him.

a. Last week Ronnie MacDonald V011 Illlui Blusbonnets. Ilen-

ment of sports and recreation.

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lication of the USTA for the past eighteen months. has accepted an appointment as editor in chief of

The Horseman and Fair World, ..

formerly published in Indianapolis but now in Lexington, Kentucky. The former editor will retire from the publication after the complet- ion of the Christmas number and annual review and will inaugurate a publicity and service bureau de- voted io trotting interests. The lloreseman and Fair World is one of the oldest harness horse public- ations In the world and one that the writer has subscribed to for forty years and looks forward to with the greatest interest.

Mr. Hackett was born in Mil- waukee. Wis., in 1924 and in his boyhood days he spent his sum- mers caring for troiters at the Elkhorn track. During World War 2 he served in the cavalry and later saw service in North Africa where he was wounded and was in hospital for considerable time. Later he was office manager at Walnut Hall Stud and left that to take over the editorship of Hnof Beats. which as our readers are

proved under his regime. best wishes go to him for successl in his new sphere and also to re-5 tiring editor, Woodfnrd Lawlcss. Tommy Berry. who has been a leading reinsman for over forty years, look over the 2-year-old: Igelding Cedar Crest Pride shortlyi .before the Lexington. Ky, meeiingl ltn prep him for a reduction of his 2.05 4-5 record taken at Vcrnnnl (Downs some time ago. He did the

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trainer at Hanover Shoe Farms and while there brought out many stars. The last few years he has limited his activities but we notice from time to time where he pulls off some stunt like the above. As a young man he wgg attached to the runners in England and often rode the thoroughbredn. but he decided to come to the United States and become a, ham- ess horseman and we understand that he was connected with the stable which the late To Holmes was driving early after Iris arriv- al in the Unltul States. Tom Berry is eighty years of age or older but is well pi-sac-vsd.

aware has been tremendously im.' a

Big I-Tour's third and last play- off berth. Riders need two wins

ger-Cats will be trying for the win they need to tie Montreal Al- ouettes for the league leadership. Another game next Saturday be- tween the two teams in Hamil- ton would thcn decide the Big Four championship.

Coach Doug Walker's Aloucttes are a Ezime up on the Ticats and need only a single win to score their second straight league title.

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to grab the spot. In today's other Big Four. game in Montreal. liamilton Ti-

one game re- mains for Sunday. Sarnia Imper- gials visit Toronto Balmy Beaches in their home grounds.

In the Big Four game at To-

ironto. Rough Riders have nothing to lose and everything to win. 0t-- ltawa sat in the league cellar in 1954 and has won only two games this year. l Tiger-Cat coach Carl Voyles is concentrating on defensive an offensive plays to cut down Mont- 1cal's sky-larking.

From the power the Als have shown in their last three games, llhat may take some doing.

Emily (Babs) Morgensen. 21- year-old brunette from Bowness. was picked over eight other con-

By Al. C0l.lA'l'l'l

cansgiin Press Staff Writer

NEW YORK (CP)-Alex Webster parked his 310 pounds in a chair in his gleaming. modern kitchen and glanced at the old coal stove that struck out in the chrome and ena- mel lngs.

" hates to part with the sandy-haired New York

it. Giant halfback explained. "And my a very independent

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testants as Miss Calgary stamped. er at half-time during the Siam.

Webster Made Big Decision MuWhen Left Al's For 'N.Y-.

llllmlllll she never had a job by- ""'P- She put me and my younger brother through school and helped send me in college. I ow; im- someihing for that."

WAS RIG DECISION

The blunt decision of his life came last summer when he quit the Alouetles at the height or in. popularity, when he had smashed "'9 Bl! Four record for yard; fo'l"h': "'4 Niualled the mark for

Inc was Gun". IGWM. IE0 Ill! Vml Q! The records both went

I educated in Calgary. Her measure- peder-Rougbrlder Game here Monuments: 34-25-85. (CP Photo)

Coach Says, 'Best Back'

called. than would 50, 1.” mo fans in MG dlilda watehl

Red Wings A

1' Montreal

For First Time Tonight

(By the Canadian Press)

Detroit Red Wings. off to a dis- appointing start in the National Hockey League season. have a

chance to redeem themselves to- "'9 league

Wings. last year's Stanley Cup champions. hope to move out of last place.

Their position at the tall-end of has left even home-

. town Detroit fan s wondering Imgm lwgldcin lhgznntglggl Bgaltih; I what it's all about. Usually Wings gliflge-e M! are way out in front at this time

The teams meet

in Montreal 0.! y"”'

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The league standings are light with only five points separating Canadians and Wings.

Th e in-betweeners meet in other games tonight. Second- place New York Rangers play at home against the Boston Bruins and the Leafs take on Chicago at Toronto.

Wings have chance to get out of the cellar this weekend. They play Canadians in a return game at Detroit Sunday and if they win both they'll move ahead of Leafs who have seven points to lihelr six. Boston is in third place with eight points and Chicago and Rangers are tied for second with to. Canadians have ll.

Gaye Sfewdhf To Manage Aces

QUEBEC i(7P l-Gaye Stewart.

Hockey League. Friday was ap- pointed "temporary manager" of the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League.

He replaces George lPunch) lmlach. who was reported in be in ill health. A

The former. National Hockey League player is well known in Quebec. where he played at one time with the Aces.

Stallion Sold To Irish Stud

PARIS (APv--The sale of Pierre Wertheimr-r's fast. stallion. Vimy. to the Irish stud has been agreed Sn. it was learned reliably Fri- ay.

A well-informed source who do clmed to be identified said the sale will be announced officially late today.

The price of the three-year-old French horse was not disclosed.

The Irish National Stud is buy- ing Vlmy to replace Tuiyard. 1952 Epsom Derby winner sold Thursday to a United States horse syndicate for 240,000 pounds (3672.000.l

lcase is brought to Court. During .'i2-year-old roach last year of the . Bu"-8.0 3.5,,” of "u, America" gihe period of time between the date

NEW GAME WARDENS Our game law enforcement ser- vice has entered upon a new era. Just recently I had the pleasure of instructing two new game ward- ens in their duties-John White. Montague, for Kings County and W a l t e r Bernard. Tignish. for Prince County. in case there is

next year. They are remaining in the amateur ranks.

Hoad announced his decision Friday to U. S. promoter Jack Kramer. who has been seeking to lure the blond bomber into the pro ranks to tour with Tony Trabert, the American see who already has turned pro.

Kramer had offered Hoad 25.- 000 Australian pounds 656.000) to join his troup.

Hoad told Kramer he would not sign as a pro for "personal reasons."

some misunderstanding regarding their authority outside their re-. spective counties I wish to make it clear their powers under the Provincial Game Act covers the entire Province. Each is responsi- ble for his own area but their authority is not limited to any. specific county.