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The Guardian Wednesday, January 26. 1955

Mains And Albright Sign I955 Contracts With Argos

By WILF GRIJSON Canadian Press Staff Writer TORONTO. tCPJ-Toronto Argo- nauts. reiterating their defiance of the Big Four Football Unions of-

ficial stand on the signing of National Football League players. today announced that tackle Gil

Mains of Detroit Lions and guard Bill Albrlght of New York Giants have been signed for the 1955 sea- son.

The announcement by team man- ager Harry Sonshine that the two players had jumped their NFL teams to play with Argos came only three days after Big Four officials and NFL commissioner Bart. Bell met in Philadelphia in an attempt to work out a no-raid- lng pact.

The Argos blocked an agreement by refusing to approve any pact that would prevent them from signing eight of the NFL players with whom they have been negoti- ating.

FIRST SIGNED

Mains and Albright are the first United States players signed by

the Toronto team. It previously had been reported unofficiallythat they were two of the players ap- proached hy Argos in their cani- paign to sign established Ni-11. stars. '

Mains, who starred as a defensive tackle with Detroit. and Albright. a four-year veteran with the Giants told Toronto newspaper men they signed with Argos because they could make more money playing in Canada. They said nlso Argos promised them a chance to make money in other fields.

S'side Curling Club Schedule

Curling schedule for Suniniersitie Curling Rink Wednesday, January

'. Jenkiiis W. Morrison vs. W Hayward E. Corney vs. E. Hickey.

Furgol Plans To Compete In British Open

NEW YORK, tAPl--Ed Furgal. lame-armed U. S open golf cham- ion. announced Tuesday he plans to compete in the British open gull championship at St. Andrews July 4-8.

Here to receive the Ben Hogan Award, given annually to the play

Players Lead

MONTREAL, tCPJ-Two mem- ,bers of the Toronto Maple Leafs. tune from Montreal Canadians and la rookie from Chicago Black illawks led the polls in the ballot-

ing for National Hockey League individual trophy awards at the halfway mark of the season.

Announcement of the leaders was made by the NHL Tuesday night.

Ted Kciiiiedy, Toi'tini(i centre. is -the leading contender for the Hart Trophy, awarded the player ad- judged most valuable to his team.

Sid Sniiili, Leaf leftuinger. top- ped the poll for the Lady Byllg Memorial Trophy. awarded for the best type iif sportsnianship and gentlcnianly co n duct combined ,wuii 8 high standard of plavimz iability.

'HARl'El"S l.I-SAD WIDE

Doug llnrvcy. Montreal defence- man. had a wide lead in the vot- ing tor the James Norris Memor- .-,.i Tmphy, wliich goes to the de- fenceinan showing greatest all- lround ability.

Toronto, Montreal, Chicago

i I-Eddie lntzeiiberger. Chicago for- ward. was the choice for the rook-

ie award a the Calder Memorial, Trophy. I Kennedy received 40 points in

the voting for the Hart 'l'rophy. l

Closest was his teammate gnalici llzirry Liiiiiley. with ?..'l. .ll.'iiii'ice lticliard of Montreal was third with 19.

For the l.ady Bynz Illvmnrlal Trophy. Smith received 50 points Red Kelly of Detroit, winner the last two years. had 34 and Dz-inny K.Leuicki of New York Raiigers 27.

iVI'lN.VI'.'RS GET SL000

I As top defcncemnn. ll:iricj.' re-L .t-eived 72 points. more than any

lplziyer in the voting for all lro-l lplues. A uiianimous pull it ould,

have been 90. Rod Kclly u.'is sec-I

Their 913'” led '0 me Big Fm” er who overcame the Lll'8-31951 lllllsloiid choici.- with 40 points and Fern

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deciding at its annual with Argonauts dissenting. to re- spect player options and contracts of NFL teams. agrees in principle to a no-raid- ing agreement but opposes any move to make it retroactive in the case of the players signed or offered contracts.

signed 1955 contracts with NFL teams btit both were option for another year. Both said they did not consider committed to sign for next season.

The six - foot - three. 230 - pniind

Bl JACK Bhbi Canadian Press Staff Writer NEW YORK. iCI-it-Danny Le-

wicki is beginning to play up to the form that made him one of the most talked - about junior hockey stars of his time.

The 23-year-old forward whose entry into the National Hockey four years ago attracted so In paucity is the top scorer for

New York Rangers and also is the

chb'I defensive star.

Lewiclti was named as left wing 5&0 NI-IL'a second all star team win mid-season choices were an-

m99lI"E-Isiczil handicap to make a success I.-imnan

in golf, Furgol said: "I am looking forward to play-

The TOWN" Ulllbl ing on the famous old course nliichtm vhimgu In (.m.1). 1,K.H.,.,m.l.. 1...,

i hat e hca rd about for years. I am still having trotible with a muscle in my right arm hut

"WY hiwelhope the injury is healed before I lthe British open." Neither Mains nor Albright haldl

Fiirgalis left arm is 10 iiiclios their shorter than his right as the re- uudcrlsult of a childhood accident. lie

-developed trouble in his right arm they were during an ltour last fall and bad

Australian exhibition

hnme.

Big Gun For Bluevsliirlsi

goats uIlI.I 11 assists place him high in the league scoring race and make it virtually certain Danny will have his best season since 1950-51 when he broke in with Tor- onto and scored 34 points. QUICR STARTER

Ranger coach Muzz Patrick at- tributes Lewlckiis defensive suc- cess to his talent for getting under way quickly. ”l wouldn't say he is the fastest player on the team," Muzz explains, "but he is the fast est at getting away. The way he gets back on his wing. the other team hasn't many tances to get plays started.”

The five-foot-nine. 180 pound father of two small boys has play- ed most this year an right-winger on a line centred by Bones Raleigh and Ron Murphy on left. They are the Rangers' higher scoring line with 70 points among them.

Danny himself is happy about this year's shift to New York, which netted the Leafs a r BIIMN. He credits the "different nth of play" with the fact he is having his best NHL eeaam.

"l have more of a free hand in IWFIM lolll." he says. "The Plain do not stress the defea-

to return i

eported Juniors. a Leaf farm club. and Le-

of Boston Bruins

third. livith 17.

1 l.iizeiil)erger. sold by Ctiiizitiieiis lccived 54 points as top rookie. l l Goalie Jacqties Plzinio of Mont-, -real was second with 41 and New lYork's Larry Popein third with 22 l Balloting will be done again af- ,tcr the second hull of the sched- ule. Total points for the tuo halv lo: decide the sezisoii winners ll-Zach winner gets 31,000 from the NHL.

' The voting is done by a panel

site game to the extent that Tor onto does. With the Leafs it was check. check check and just. wait for that one break." CENTRE OF CONTROVERSY

Outside of Montreal's Jean Beli- veau. Lewicki was perhaps the NHL's most heralded recruit when he broke in with the Leafs four years ago. His debut was widely publicized not only because of his great amateur record but also be- cause of the famous "C form" controversy which preceded it.

Two seasons before. Lewicki had played junior hockey with Strat- ford. He wished to remain with them the next year. However the Leafs had Danny's C-form con- tract. under which they could con- trol his liockey movements when he became ill. That was near the end of the 1048-49 season.

Leafs general manager Conn Smythe insisted Lewicki play the next year with Toronto Marlboro

wiclti reluctantly agreed.

Looking back, Danny says: "After all that trouble I would just as soon aeealtidnptsignacform... It puts unnecessary restrictions on

lson and especially the one

llizimblcrs. The Islanders then took

,(-ircuitand cause all

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In BaIIoting'

of hockey writers. broadcaster! and telecasters in each of the six NHL cities. The total point value for each city is 27. Five points are given for first choice. three for second and one for third.

I 0 It sui-prised us greatly to learn

that the Atlantic Coast Senior Hoc- key League executive had decided at their meeting in Moncton Sun- day afternoon to stick with the of- ficiating of their local referees for both the semi-final and final play- offs. After some of the Jobs which the referees, employed with the ACSlll.. have handed in this sea- which we witnessed in the Hub City on Saturday evening. it left very little doubt in our minds that the league would have any hesitation in de- riding in swing out a few green- backs to Upper Canada and bring a pair of specialists in to do a right job of wistle tooting in the play- ofls so that when they were over

nobody could say that it was a referees series or any such state- ment to that effect. But, as has

been the case all year, the league comes up with the most unexpected decisions and unless things change

Curling News From Local Rink

1-'onownig,is the latest curling Ilene" iron. the local t.-tun:

Lest-uvenl numpemnin:

A. Iktilhatl it, C. macuean 5

Ab. macnutt o. C. lVliuI:lllt.IiI 7.

rrcmueuu runs:

it. 0831' ur. iv. 1.. Bagnall ii

.i. A. oumiionus 5, U4. A. lilac- clacnern i. uraw ror Tonight: one lllriusb Consuls game at 5 '(:iUCI(.-

7 o'clock: -One. British Consols game; one game in the Leuuvers Competitions. L. liiacuean vs. :5. lvlacniutt.

Two games in the President's Prizes: Emmett. nlacuonaid. Henry Dougias. A. Myers, Don Shaw vs. G. Anderson. .1. S. Taylor. Don itlactniyrc, -IOIJII Dingweil.

A. A. Macneod. L. Boudreault. C. Houde. Wt Rodd vs. Earl Mac-

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Islanders

. FREDERICTON, (CP) - Char- lottetown Islanders edged the tail- end Fredericton Capitals:-2 Tues- day night and stretched their lead in the Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League to six points over Moncton Hawks. Hawks and Amherst Ram- blers were ldleo '

Copper Leyte shot the winning goal with little more than two mi- nutes to go in the last period. Bill McDonsgh of Fredericton had knotted the count early in the ses- lion.

The first period ended I-1, Doug McPhee counting for Caps and Lorne I-Ienriessey equalizing. Char- lottetown's Bob Gray fired the only goal of the middle stanza.

Fredericton 3-2

Edge

ver. Palladino. Whiilock, Gray. I-Iennessey. Leduc, Dowling. Killi- man. Frederlctona Goal: Craig; de- fence: Mosgrove. I-leon, Powers; forwards: Smith. Nicolle. McPhee. McDonagh. Gilbert, Leger. Mac- Donald, Bliss. Miles.

. Summary

First period: 1. Fredericton. Mc- Phee (Smith. Nicolle) 2:50; 2. Charlottetown. Hennessey (Camp- bell, Whitlock) 16:54. Penalties:

(misconduct) 19:02. McDonagh 14: 55. Hennesaey 18:03. Nicolle 18:03. Second period: 3. Charlottetown, Gray (Whiilockt 12:13. Penalties: Campbell 3258, Carver 19244. Third period: 4. Fredericton, Mc- Donagh (Gilbert, Legeri 2:58: 5. Charlottetow . Leyte (Palladlno.

Carver! 17:43. No penalties.

Trotters And Nomads Score Wins In City Hoop League

greatly in the ACSHL field of ref-t ereeing. fans will have lots to com-,

plain about in the finals. 0 O C

The meeting Sunday knocked two points off the lslandei's' arch-rivals.: the Moncton Hawks and added two to the total points of the Amherst

mer sole possession of first place in the four team conference and have since then increased it while the Ramblers also climbed to with- in two points of the second place linwks. After Sunday's fiery fracus. in the Windsor Hotel. during which' manager Jim MacDonald of the Hawks got all steamed up and pull- ed out. MacDonald stated that the .'ilcNeill club has placed protests in the leaguels hands against all other clubs except the Islandersl for the use of players withoutl proper playing cards since Decem- ber 5. However. another supposed deadline has come and gone yester- day and we hope that there will he no further bickering in regard to! who can bring in a player and who can't for the rest of this season. 0 C 0

night in 8 press MacDonald said were well aware register severall that would "in all the four-team

the teams to be suspended from Allan Cup com- petition this year." Such scandal there must he in the ACSHL. When the teams have not been suspended already with all the trouble which they have experienced. it makes us shudder to think of how disgraceful certain existing bargains in the lea- gue must be when they could seem- ingly cause a Canadian Amateur Hockey League to be suspended from its own competition. State- ments like this will soon give the league in bad name and give the CAI-IA cause to look into the records of its entrants. However. we fail to believe such conditions exist be- cause it would be almost impos- sible to have any further violations of rules In one league than has al- ready been revealed.

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Later Sunday statement. .lim that the Hawks that they could other protests probability wreck

The Islanders slid into in ll point lead in the Atlantic Coast Senior. llnckcy League once again with their 3-2 win in the York Arena last' night and are showing definite signs that it was lack of condition- ing that raused certain scores of last week. In Monday's game at the Forum, the Brklacich team looked very good in every quarter and should improve with every game now that they have a chance to get their plays working since all their men are back in the line-up. An- other tough series is coming up when they play the Hawks in the Hub City tonight and then again at the Forum Friday. Tonight's battle for the Islanders will be a hard one in that they will be playing their third game in as many nights and along with the added tiring of the long road trip to the New Brunswick capital yesterday and back to Moncton today. In the meantime. defenceman Fred Weav- er of the Hawks has been having lots of luck in hunting the shoulders of opposing forwards. Several weeks ago in a Saturday night at- fair in the Hub City. Weaver charg- ed Lorne Heiinessey hard into the boards and put the fast left-winger out of the game for two weeks. Again Monday ni t in Bailey Arena be smashed aul Saindon and the high-scoring wingman will pfdside-lined for an Indefinite per-

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The Islanders didn't get any bouquets passed teir way as far as the fans were concerned for Mon- day night's game. For several years the Islander. had a last place team and the crowds were far better than they have been this year. Now they can support a win- ning and leading team and what happens? Their greatest interest is

Leon. H. Stead. Bill Robinson. Ch-rlottelown - Goal: Shirley: Howard Ma;-Donald, defence: O'Connor, Hinchberger. 9 12M your game; m B,-nigh Campbell; forwards: Leyte. Car- Consuls. Following is the standing of British Consols teams after last night's games: P W L C. MacDonald . . . . . . . . .. ll 8 0 W. MacDonald .. 8 7 1 5' MaCD""ald " 3 '5 2 The league-leading Sport Lodge Dr Prlmse '8 l 4.Trotters and the Scnntlebury No- I'l' A””"5”" " 8 T 4 mads both scored wins in City L AC0” ” 3 l lllziasketball League play at the F' Ha"5e'.' -- 8 l ,Queen Charlotte High School gym- E: Mclnms -- 3 l nasium last evening. In the first Bf”'d9'l -- 3 3 5.tilt. the Trotters came from behind 5- Vlfmd -- 3 3 slin the last half to edge the Welsh- D- "1" - - - - -- -- 3 2 6lmen 44-39 in an exciting contest 9- 531""I9l'5 -- 3 2 5 In the second game, the Nomads

Hockey Scores By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Atlantic Coast senior Charlrittetown 3 Fredericton 2 Ontario Junior A HalTllII.0l'l 2 Guelph 7 Toronto St. Michael's 2 Cali 8 Laurier Trophy Trois-Rivieres 3 Si. Catharine! 7 Ontario Senior A Cbatliam 7 Niagara Falls 10 Owen Sound 6 Windsor ti Quebec Senior Valleyfield 0 Shawinigan Falls 3 Quebec Junior A Quebec 3 Montreal 1 Intercollegiate Laval 2 Montreal 4 . Northern Ontario Senloi

trounced the cellar-dwelling YMCA Celtics 69-40.

Donnie MacLean. who fouled out in the last half. was high point-getter for the Trotters with 14 points, one better than team- mate Wendall Gillis. Mark Ladner, always a high point-getter for the

Welshman, collected 19 marks while Joe Bevel, who also fouled out. had 11.

Inrne McGulgan of the Nomads was high man of the night with a total of 16 points on ten field goals and six foul shots. George Seamle- bury also of the Nomads followed with 24 points on a 10-4 record. Ron Atkinson had 17 for the Cel-

Sault Greyhounds l Pembrnkd .

tics. Summary Trotters vs. Welshmen Trotters - McLean. I4: Gillls. 1.1; Lepage. 8; McKinnon. 3;

Musial Can't Comprehend

By JOE BEICHLEB NEW YORK tAP)--Stan Musial. who cant quite comprehend why Ted Williams wants to quit while he's still one of baseball's lop stars. plans to retire himself-but not un- til he achieves one great ambition. The National League's top hitter has a burning desire to wind up his brilliant career with 3.000 major league hits. That is an achievement attained only by the elite-seven to be exact The St. Louis Cardinals9 outfield- er and slugger estimates it will take him three years to join the 3.- 000-hit club of Ty Cobb. Tris Speak- er. Hans Wagner. Eddie Collins. Napoleon Laloio, Adrian Anson and

-Why Williams Is Quitting

1Paul Waner. He'll begin his 14th

active big league season next April with 2.418 hits, 582 shy of the cov- eted 3,000. That means he must average 194 hits for the next three years. He collected 195 last year. SOME CHEATED

”I'm only 34." Stan said: "And it's a young 34. My birthday was last November which means that

after three baseball seasons I still will not have reached my 37th birthday.

"I realize that in the old days they said a player was just about through when he turned 35. But in those days. it was a common prac- tire for players to cheat on their ages. When an old-timer admitted to 35, be actually was about 38 or

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not to go and see the game at the Forum but to phone between two and three hundred queries to the Guardianu Office-on nights there is a game at the local rink and many more on an night the Islanders play away. The club can't. use telephone fans and with a few attendances similar to the one they had on Mon- day. the club is going to have tough struggling to carry on till plsy-off time. As many. who know. have said. "The hockey being played in the league this year is far superior to that of other years." Our estim- ation is that Island fans just dldn bother to take a look at the brand of hockey being played this season Ind so lost. interpst. They have had senior hockey in Moncton just as long as on the Island and it still proves popular enough there to gel average gates of 3.000 with a second place club whereas the average at- tendanc at the Forum has only 1,000 with a first place team. 0 0 O

The City Hockey League opens tonight at the Forum with a double- header providlng starts for all four entrants. For three teams it will be their debut in City League compet- ition and for the Royals it will be their debut in hockey. Period. The Parkdale squad was a mom” in the North River League last season while the Montague club played in King's County competition. The Montague club have amalgamated with the Primrose boys this year and every indication pointe to a power packed representative from the eastern end of the Inland. The Saints. winners of last season's play-downs. are the only represent- atives of last year's City League. All the teams. except the Saints. who have entered Maritime Inter- collegiate competition. have signi- fied their intentions of registering for Maritime Intermediate play- downs.

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Wednesday night at

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"As for Williams. I can't under- stand why he would want to quit now. He's still the greatest hitter in baseball. I hope he's not seri- ous. Baseball will miss him."

Musial. along with Brooklyn”s Gil " Tiles. was honored Monday night by New York press photographers for being the most cooperative and obllglng athletes. Musial said he also hopes to play in another world series and perhaps add a seventh batting title along the way.

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