SPORTS FRONT
Don Frizzell Is Back Home
By JIM CULLEN
mug I to Charlottetown to spend
. Dolly. his faumllhy'. Don has been in Newfmmdlxand for the past
51w months tending goal for the Buohons miners In the cial Newfoundland hockey league. The league ls com
on Bay, Gander, Grand Falls. Corner ou-um Tuesday night dis-
. Guardian. Mm woa.,nee.2s,1su. is.
.. and swim.
lil‘i'lzzell was it:I the 011;" I- ..:v\ hi. em me“ mg er. The Buo
ottetown I" Newfoundland with Wes Trainer. bans hockey for the young Charlottetown nebmlnder and with the Miners and is looking forward to
club has arranged for
at him while
rig for e Conception Bay Bees. that Alex hasn’t been deotlng the e to date, but has been stacking
50 d di tailback” player and we ‘0: incl: align his return to the Buchan's Miners.
TicI Bits From Here And There
starts producing awfully his way out or the Nil-
“ “wk”: “‘2 ram. “ind; th -n n cap .90 the way ey we are afraid Dick will
the most beloved Islanders of all time Colonel Danomgflnnon assed away at the Prince Edward Island hospital last nighl), Colonel Dan lived life to its fullest during his 87 years and he obtained fame as: soldier, man, promoter, fox rancher and businessman. The late colonel will probably be remembered most for his great successes and Interests in the harness racing game. Colonel Dan was born In Highfield, P.E.l. on November 12. 1876. Colonel Dan was the owner of a world record holding horse which was teamed by Ernie McTague. Colonel Dan was scheduled to drive The Yank In Michigan, U.S.A. 1924 but was late for the race and McTaguc was forced to drive The Yank. and he set a world record for pacing on Ice.
ones Ta 10:. former pass receiver for Washington Redgliifig. gas nameil head football coach for the Houston Oilers. Tuesday. Taylor, 41. replaces Sammy Baugh. a former Wash- ington teammate who resigned unexpectedly Friday while 52%- ing he wanted more time on his West Texas nan . Tavior was an assistant under Bough this season as the 01le had their poorest season in history. » The New York Rangers will envade the Montreal Forum to- night to do battle with the ‘Flying Frenchmen . This is the only game schedule for the Natlonal Hockey League.
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Rookie Tony 'Lorick tries on a helmet as his rival for the No. 1 fullback spot. Jerry Hill. right, looks on. In the center is the equipment man-
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ager for the Baltimore Colts. Fred Schurbach. The Colts play the Cleveland Browns this Sunday for the championship of the National Football Lea-
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back spot all year. Lorick I and Hill have accounted for . more than 2.100 yards be- tween them.
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CANADA’S COACH SAYS
VANCOUVER (CPi—Howard Firby, the Alabama-born coach who took Canada's swimmers to the 1964 Olympic games. says Australia is slipping as a swim- ' pOWer.
Firby. who fought paralytic polio in a Regina hospital to become a top coach. said in an interview he believes Canada could win one-quarter of the gold medals available to swim- mers at the 1966 British Empire Games in Jamaica.
Souris Curling
e following is the mixed nesday, December 23.
curling draw at Sourls for Wed- stem
1 Australia Is Slipping As A Swimming Power!
Canada has passed Britain in swimming and is rapidly catch- ' up with Austrlia.. he said.
“I believe the Aussies to be on the wane. But they may be able to come up with new blood
1966."
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Firby said Canada has the' material to become orld swimming power but "we’re too parochial in our thinking."
WANT INSTANT SUCCESS “Canadians want instant suc- cess and it won’t come." Canada has “some fine young swimmers and they are work- ing hard, but we need many more up and coming young-
7—9 p.m. Ice 1: R. Jenkins, E. Small- wood. D. Rowen, M. Jacquet.
SPORT IN KING’S
By ED CLINTON Sourls Bureau (1 The Guardian One can pick up the daily pa- per and read stories about peo- ple who have overcome many
very good example of it.
She is the seventeen year old
Her sports ability is amazing. i can vouch for her ability as I live seen pe many times. On a basketball court she is unbeatable. S
championship. and in their first exhibition
present season. their leading scorer? a right. it was Marie.
nItJnleus you know. you might 0
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ceived a pass. but she does
Handicap Girl Pulls Her Share OI Load In Sports
Her name is Marie Murphy. 1
' way. will be a new one. which
as a Happy New Year.
“_ 17%. Rovers 19
vs. J.Doucette. S. MacGregor, J. MacLean. S. Dickson.
Ice 2: R. Peters, E. MacDon- ald, B. Pierce. M. White vs. W. Coffin, L. MacDonald. M. Reid. J. MacLaren.
9 - 11 pm. i Ice 1: E. Doucette, B. Mac- Auley. E. Boertien, M. Mathews vs. J. Young. M. Pierce. A. Griffin, 5. Boertien. ,
Ice 2: F. Underhay, C. Row-
en, P. Gallant, S. Peters. vs.
choir singing and drama. and along with all this is a top stu- dent. And she is one of the alc-
City Softball Christmas Draw
Many Canadians were too conwnt on building strength within their own swimming clubs to care about branching into international competition.
He picks Vancouver's Jane Hughes and Ron Jacks. Sandy Gilchrist of Ocean Falls. B.C., and Dan Sherry of Toronto to
shine for Canada in the 1966 games. . “Now is the time Canada 1
must do all it can for its young}
swimmers. We cannot afford to: let these youngsters sit downI and admire They’ve got a long way to go."i
A step in the right dil‘ection,‘ Firby said. is the Canadilln Amateur Swimming Association plan to send a team of about; 20 to Europe next summer. De-l
tals are still tentative but pm.j town Figure Skating Club are manager of Clay. “Cassius is posed are trips to Spain. Portu-l reminded that no figure skating feeling fine and rarin’ to go." 331, France, Italy, Germany'iclasses will be held on Christ-l
the Netherlands and Britain.
‘weather outside is stormy and
Title Games May Be Battle Of The Field-Goal Experts
By JACK HAND CLEVELAND (AFN—If
more coach. also has a Collier connection. In addition to play- ing with the Browns in the early 19505. Shula served as an as- sistant under Collier at Ken- tucky in 1959.
the‘
the field is slippery Sunday at Cleveland Stadium the National
regularly with the Steelers last game relief man for Gino Mar- year, he was not needed as a che ‘. full - time operator with the Groza is accustomed to the Colts. Shula used him as a late« pre s so re of championship
for Collier.
Football League's title game} may turn into a field-goal duel\ between Cleveland Browns‘ Lou] Groza and Baltimore Colts'sl
Lou Michaels.
Strangely enough. both of the placement experts have worked Cleveland coach Blanton Michaels was a top- fiight college tackle at Ken- tucky under Collier in 1957. Groza broke in with the old
games, having played with the Leafs Run Wild
seven of their Over Schooners
DARTMOUTH. N.S. (CP‘ Paced by the two-goal perform- ance of Jean-Marc Dufour and
Groza is playing his 18th sea-l son of pro football. Aged 40. he sports a bit of a paunch but that doesn't bother his kicking.
Groza had a .667 percentage this year with 22 field goals in
Browns NFL title games as
well as foul in the All-America Conference He holds the record for field goals kicked in NFL title game: with six of 12 attempts. He alsc has the longest. a 52-yardel
33 attempts and a total of 115 points. a personal high. Except for a last-game spurt by Lenny Moore of the Colts. Groza would have been the league’s scoring ham
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Cleveland Browns of the All-
Frank Barteaux, Windsor-Darl- mdnth ran wild over Halifax Schooners in an 8-1 Maritime Senior Hockey League win here Tuesday night.
Jacques Allard and Choox
against L05 Angeles Rams in 951.
Groza announced his retire- ment before the 1960 season and served as a scout that year. He back in 1961. Down
the years since 1946
when Collier was an assistant
In fact, Don-Shula. the Balti-i
America Conference in 1946
to Paul Brown
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All-Star Junior Team To Play
MONTREAL (CP) The makeup of a l7-man all-star junior team which will play the Czechoslovakian national team here Jan. 5 was announced Tuesday.
Fourteen players will come from the Ontario Hockey Asso- ciation Junior A series, seven each from Montreal Junior Ca~ nadiens and Peterborough Petes. The remaining three will be from Regina Pats of the Western Junior League. a
All are in the organization ofl Montreal Canadiens of the Na- tional Hockey League and the announcement said the players are the Canadiens' best juniors. Scotty Bowman. coach of the Junior Canadians. will assume the post with the All-Stars.
Playing goal will be Chuck Goddard of Peterborough. Ca- nadiens’ Rogatien Vachon will be back-up netminder.
Defencemen are Bob Lemieux and Serge Savard ‘of Canap diens, John Vanderburg of Pe-‘ terborough and Doug Piper of' Regina.
Forwards are Leo Thiffault,
im Patterson, Dale Watson. Dan Grant and Andre Lacroix of Peterborough: Don Liesemel'. Jacques Lamaire, Craig Pat-g rick and Rene Drolet of Cana-i
their scrapbooks..dlen5. and Fran Huck and An-. sius Clay-Sonny Liston heavy-
dre Lageux of Regina. Figure Skating
Members of The Charlotte-
lmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
The winners in the Charlotte- town Softball League Christmas Cheer Draw are:
lst prize — George Bassett. 302 Grafton Street. Charlotte- town; an prize — John La - lot. 259 Dorchester Street, Char- lottetown; 3rd prize —- Elmer Hogan, 9 Harley Street, Park- da 9.
R. Coffin, A. MacDonald, C.S. MacDonald, E. Clinton.
N . ere will be no or- ganized curling for women in Souris until after Christmas.
est girls you could meet. She is modest about her many accom- plishments, is quiet. but not re- served, well-mannered. and all in all, a refreshing change to many of the young people you. meet today. !
The Christmas holidays areI here, and since school sports us- ually occupy the ulk of the sports program, this means a nil is taking place until school
O Curling Draw The following is the curling draw for Wednesday night at the Charlottetown Club. (Spares
- ded) opens again. When it does open me ~ 7 pm. (skip rotation) again. the boys and girls has. Ice 1 Open
ketball leagues. along with the hockey league will get under- way. The hockey league. by the
Ice 2 — Bob Stevenson. A. MacNeill. G. Proctor. H. Coffin Vs. K. Thomson. S. Willis, D. Livingston, Harvey Douglas.
Ice 3 — Dr. Jelks. G. Gallant, F. Coady, B. Davis vs. M. Jelks. B. Hopkins. B. Martin, G. leyer.
we'll discuss next Week. In the meantime. Merry Christmas and
BOWLING IN SOURIS
Bowling results for last week Ice 4 — 13- Rogers. H. Mac- in the two Souris Bowling Lu. Dougsll. C. MacDonald. M. Mac- sues are as follows. In the W0- Lean vs. K. Myers. F. Burke. men's League: we 5. Bill Stevenson. S. Harper. Hungry Six 0, Top Matcher: 4, Ice 5 — F. Dillon, N. Dooley, Quiet Ones 1. Professional; 3, K. Doucette. E. Jay vs. J. Shel- Centennlals z, Pixies 4, L3. foon. D. Taylor. G. Brooklns. C. Crashers 1. In the Men's 1.“. Butler.
Basketball
In an exhibition basketball game held at Souris Regional High. the SOUI'lS Teachers shad- ed Kingsboro All~Stars 24-20.
Griffin of the winners was the leading scorer with 12 points. Keough with 10 and Clinton with two rounded out the scoring for
Dori Results
The following are the results of play last week in the Inter- Club Dart League.
Sgts. Mess at Legion “A” 3-2 Legion “B” at RCAF 2-3 OLA at Brace “B” 2-3 Sportsman at Brace "A" 3 The schedule for the next set gaginan sthatwillbeheld
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the Teachers.
. Ching with nine points paced the attack for the losers. Rose followed with six points w le R. Ching with I. Pierce with two, and MacGregor with two completed the scoring for the All~Star .
. 5 game was only an ex-: hibition match. Souris is in the l
The next classes are schedul-
.lng or the Juniors.
This has been a memorable year for Michaela who still holds the league record of 26 set in 1962, but made only 21 of 41 in 1963.
The 28-year-old defensive end was suspended indefinitely by Pittsburgh Steelers' coach Buddy Parker for an infraction of the training rules at training camp and was reinstated on a probationary basis a few days . He soon was shunted along to the Colts. As a kicker he made good with 17 of 35 field goals and scored 104 points.
Although Michaela played
Smith opened the scoring for Windsor~Dartmouth in the first eriod. and the home team got goals from Dufour and Jim: 1 Beckman to boost the lead to: four goals. i
Barteaux kept the drubbing. going with the first of his two. goals early in the third period! and Jack Barzee added another before Alfie Flanagan finally put the Schooners on the sour- ing sheet at 5:13.
But Windsor-Dartmouth an- swered with two more tallies; off the sticks of Dufour and‘ Barteaux to complete the romp. A crowd of 436 saw fill-m goalie . Reg McDougall kick out 45, shots in the Halifax cage as he was peppered unmercifully by Windsor-Dartmouth marksman.
Harvey Lerfold for the host club was tested only 21 times. stopping 20 Halifax tries. 1
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Hunter River Downs Flyers
Hunter River Juniors defeat- ed North Rustico Flyers by a score of 5-3 in a Central Queens Junior Hockey League game at St. Dunstan’s Rink last night.
Orval Smith paced‘the win- ners attack with a brace of goals. N. Smith, Garth Crew. and Ron Tumes all with one goal each rounded out the scor- ' f scored a brace of goas in a losing cause with Gallant picking up the other
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Clay, Liston Fight In June
NEW YORK (AP)—The Cas-
{weight title return bout will be .held in June in Boston. Clay’s lmanager said Monday.
I “The exact date hasn't been 'j set yet but it will be in June," . said Angelo Dundee, trainer and
ca e through when he came out of Ohio state and joined the newly-formed Browns. Groza has scored 1,361 points in two leagues and only once has he scored a touch- down.
F O R U M SKATING
Thursday morning Dec. 24th 10.00 - 12.00 o.m.
Children (all ages) 15o Adults 25c
IlIIIIIS'I‘MlS
be held on April 19.
ed for The Forum Thursday.‘ “That’s too soon." said Dun- Jan. 7. ' dee.
In Boston there had been re- ports the postponed fight would
GREETINGS!
May each of you
1_ you aIl the joys and
blessings of
Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs.
Alberton
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LoncIAImir
gue while kingsboro is consider- ing entry into the league later.
are: Brace “B” at Sgts Mess Brace "A" at R F
Legion “A” Legion “B” at Sportsman STANDINGS W L Pts. ng5 Mess 14 6 28 Brace "A" 13 7 26 Sportsman 12 8 24 Legion “ " 11 9 22 Legion "B" 9 11 18 Brace “B” 9 11 18 7 13 14 RCAF 5 15 10 The executive of the league. wish. to all Its members and others a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous:
New Year.
Vancouver Sells l Bobby Del Greco
PHILADELPHIA (AID—Phil- adelphia Phillies arm 0 u n c e d Tuesday their Arkansas team in the Pacific Coast League has bought veteran outfielder Bobby
1 Greco from Vancouver of the same league.
Del Greco. 31. hit 17 homers. had 65 runs batted in and an
average of .251 With Toronto of the International league last season.
gue: Wanderers 5. Un redl t- N“-
P c ‘ ables 0. Night Hawk: 4, ntouch- All ice: 0 p _e n for s c r a t c 1: ables 1, Electrons 3_ [.11 3933. games for ladies and men. les 2. Detachables 5. Fishermen 0, Rovers tVz. Unbeatable: Va. Bachelors 5, Comets 0.
League standings. Women: High Lows I), Pixiq 19. Top Nome" 16' Prawn“ 12' ald 194. Dorothy Young 178, Ber- Mlc Macs 10%. Quiot Does 10, nadette Mahar 172. Margaret Centennials 9. LR. Crashers 3; Hebert 165. Rita Doucette 158. “5 Hurry Six 1%; In the Anne Poole 156. Men’s League: Men’s team: Night Hawks 24. Kenneth O'Hanley 205. Clifford Untouchabln m. L Wanderers Ford 187. Edward McGaugh 190, 10%. Bachelors 18.. Detachables Jim Macintosh 173. Gerald Clin- 16, Each ton I73. Mickey MacDonald 170. 6%. Unpredictablea 4. Ln. Bea- and Westie Rose 107.
ties 3. Comets 1. and Fishermen
it. The top seven bowlers in each n's- m a
league are, . MacDonald 196. Anne MacDon-
everythlng so effortlessly um You really don't notice. It was not until after the game that I discovered her handicap.
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cor she in- first no hand~
11 This past fall. in soccer for and while We didn't ’v “Port! are that the
N". ‘0" the confine be rseif “frail”. She is the secre-
WOOIWORTHS
Faniin Allowance TURKEY WINNERS
Mrs. Alice Griff-in
28Bher8tnet
Mrs. Joyce Cousins
Breathlhsns
Kathleen l-t. Erkelins Doom - v Mrs. Margaret Hughes
“fisher Street
(Regular Pro-School
FORUM
WEDNESDAY NIGH
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FORUM SKATING
8:00 — 10:00 PM. (Any and all ages)—-25c ' The Whole “Gang” Will be there! ! I I (PLEASE NOTE TIME—8:00 - 10.00 PM. I
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Takig time out to say: MERRY CHRISTMAS!
MINNI‘E’S GIFT SHOP
Montague
Shore 1:30—3:00)
SPECIAL
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SECS
CYRIL and ROY LEARD
Alberton
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have a holiday full of cheer, enough to last
all through
the year!
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O'Leary
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