' Hwgey action is B0111! to be very 1 th tur of th new ‘um unriolw as an W115i! the

1'5.‘

“iniiutir visitpieeii through local 031mg thought ‘ be

. CG En 3 m: (it? tile Biuninerslde. 50111141 1111i» sith Summersid finding it impos- nole to come down tonight this

has been cancelled and wit n, other games in sight it looks as 11 the next encounter will take p1,“ only after the City League "news its operations.

1115 probable that league offic- 111, might have been able to con- M1 some mainland teams, but ‘m1 very much doubt concerning the strength of any Island team m”. could band together. it was 1.1g, that it would be a better p01- 1,’ to lct the matter slide for the Wesem’ “me. e s‘ o

the open dates, interest mmgflmtngu. should not wane,‘ however. Especially. in the case of 111, service teams where anything mi happen on the matter of per- mnnei, this the case. At present we two All Ibrce teams are con-

D’

- i’ be th trongest. Just Iylritiellesdcng. howevgiylls problemat- iul- ,

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Hut with drafts both going siid coining either one can become rtrcnger or weaker providing Just 111st fortune they have in the tufts. Navy also steps into the

tun, for with a few additions

ey can move right into a eon- “1111111; position. .

g9 1n the two weeks‘ intervaT nilts on any one of the Service 1mg will be followed with lntcr- p and more speculation will be mum pg u; just how changes, it itere are any, will affect the teams

interned. _ .

In the meantime the Colleginris sill likely lce the same squad-n. squad that showed plenty in their first and only start-and have a host of followers who are ready lo lay it on the line that they will Pore the surprise packages of the esgue. _ ‘ .

gotten Bruins may not win many honors this season. but they have 1 young man on their club who is more than likely to win the Calder Trophy. or. as t is more popularly sailed, the prise ‘rookie award.

A lieckler hastens to intefpose:

"Don't forget Art Rossmhe wins the after dinner speaking 0110111- piumilip." . ' .

The young man in questiormis Km smith, tho‘ sprightly lett- wlnger on the Bruins’ new ‘Typh- ooni-ine. Players all over the 100p ipulr very respectfully of him. which must be taken as s measure If his ability.‘ .

Silica one-third of the N. H.L._ niedule has already been run oil‘. w. not 100' early to take a look uuund the league and earmark the iwkies who have given impressive yrrformances to date. Boston has icouple more youngster in Har- rsv Bennett, rangy netmlnder. and 311i Cupolo, Smith's lincmatc, W110 rue well up among the newcom- us. Chicago Black Hawks have Jets Horeck and Bus Braysnaw. Detroit Red wings have Steve Wochy and Ted Lindsay. The rangers are represented by Ants iitanas. and the Leafs by Bunk licCocl. Csnadiens‘ contribution is ihsnkle Eddolls.‘

listed strictly off the 118111011 111 ills scoring race. y01111s MF- 51111111 b still the smartest kid in the 1135s. Pete Horcck and Steve Wo- tliy sre not far behind,but neither gthem displays the all-around

and know-how of, the Bos- ioi cub. _

0 s Canadians once had s string on its youngster who is now shapms ll so well. Dick Irvin brousht h down from Rcglna at tlie 14ft of the 1941-42 season alonB vith Cyril Biegler and the late Tilson.

‘ibis trio formed l. line that was Inown as the Milk Bottle Line- ‘llie boys went to Catholic H1811 in Montreal until Christmas but vent back West for the holiday

Ison and did not return. Later

th Smith and Tilson played for Iile starry Oshawa GeneraLs who

Ient on to win the Memorial Cup. - a s o

iTiicre is no telling how good a hockey player Red Tiisoii would‘ love been had he survived the war. ' i many hockey-wise observers‘ thought Smith was better than or Bill Ezinicki. another ‘umgster who made a name for imself playing for Oshawa. Est- nicki started thc present season

with’? 1o be 1.. bu. .1.,11,,g._1,e r. Lnffcriv 10s 114 122 c.5353“... .521. t... 1...... 1.. g» 11/111,311 11g 11g 13g ilithnot look as impressive as - _ ' _ , , ACES:- -"I i'k. S ltl . If." Di k Ir- Tin SIII; rcrgentlyéyfflie hasIft as lgaiffirb- 1&5} 12‘ lliich color as Tilson or Ezinickl _11_ 5113mm.“ 1113 123 1117 .111. but he scores a lot of 80015 C. rown 141 140 149 Ind all of them are earned. ‘fies A. Patterson 138 86 0d ‘millls about iiocke and looks ~ 111s a player who will be around BOMBERS»- . ." . ..."...."“1‘i——~-— s asthma“ ‘t1 n: _ P L, ld-(CP)-- ~ i? - Jirstkiriwog 11218813111; 11119158531119 M. McDonald 181 183i 307 ‘ills competition in which iooou 131m}; {ffi 1g, lllxcstions for improving Liverpool ' c" 1211s environs were sullamtlted, we gnywgngycgr... " s . . numy ‘mmm s‘ a. Sentner as: 19o 14s V. ROdd 168 T31 143 H. Turner 141 222 161 H. SHOW 136 148 109 A. 104

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OPTOMETRISTS

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to Basketball league when they de-

point ahead of Bill Cowley of Bos-

Mosienko. Chicago

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Coming through with five field goals in the last six minutes play after their opponents iisd whittled down a seven-point lead

ketball team last night took an eleven point lead in the fight for first section honors of the City

feated the Air Force All Stars 34 to 23 in the opening game of tlie two game total point series,

Next game of the series is sched- uled for the Y.M.C.A. on Wed- nesday. night st 7.30.

Starting at a fast clip. both teams fa led to find the basket in the first five minutes of play ivitlt the Air Pbrce drawing first blood to go into s 2-0~lead. Navy went ahead with two baskets for a 4-2 lead but the losers. csrryimrihe offensive. forged into a 7-4 lead. From this point on Navy started to show an edge and before the half had ended had gone to the front by a 16-0 count.

Flor the first six minutes of the second half it was all Air Force, scoring six points without a return to get to within one point of their

“Navy AWins Opening Game Of Basketball Playoffs

i o! vantage. leading zo-io. The loser]

to one solitary counter. Navy bss- in th

“WAY to build up I l0 point ad-

again fought their way to Within three points of their opponents but l e final six minutes Navy. on the strength of Williams and Mc- Leods accurate shooting came through with four field goals build u their eleven point load, which t ey will carry into the sec- ond and final game.

The scoring: NAVY

Jubinvllio McLeod Williams McDonald O'Shca 'I‘ittley Read Ibtals R.C.A.F. Schecter Dulbcrg Ramsey McLeod

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“Tiny” Thompson

Hawks’ Scout

TORONTO, Dec. 1B—(CP)--Flt. Lt. Cecil (Tiny) Thompson. former star goaltcndcr with Boston Bruins and Detroit Rcd lugs ‘the National Hockey League. will soon be named Chief Scout for Chicago Black Hawks. Globe and Mali sports editor Vern Degeer said in a story today.

Thompson recently was released to the R.C.A.P‘. reserves after two years‘ service. He is a brother c_f

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opponents. but again Navy drew

Referee: George Sinclair.

NEW YORK. Dee. 18—(AP)-— Byron Nelson, who averaged less than '10 strokes for '18 rounds of big time tournament golf. is 1044's athletc-of-the-year.

Seventy-nine sports w r it er s throughout the United States. who scat their affections on 40 different athletes. named Nelson successor to Gunder Haegl. Swed- en's miler and last year's winner.

Nelson's smooth-as-siik perform- ance on the fairways brought him

2W. in war-bond prizes as well as 16 first-place votes in the present tabulations. Each such bal- lot was worth three Points with

Athlete Of T71

Bv narrow cmasscrt nuvv YORK. Doc. l8—(AP)—-Arm

w named the woman athlete of the year by sports editors throughout the United States who were polled by the Associated Press.

The coast mermaid showed the same speed in the vote getting that she displayed in the United States outdoor championships when

Tcc Blake Loads‘ II. II. L. Scoring

(By The Canadian Press) Toe Blake of Montreal Canad- iens, picking up five points in two WWII-BM! Rimes. took over scor- ing leadership of the National Hockey League. Blake moved one

ton. Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard of Canadiens picked up four points each to take o. firm grip on third and fourth spots.

The leaders»- Blakc. Canadians

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icago s.in. Boston

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Bodnar, Toronto

Bowling Tonight

All member nf the Brighton Horseshoe and Bowling Club are asked to attend a. practice game this evening. Those that have not bccn contacted previously are asked to be at the Holv Name Ailevs at 0 p. m.

‘Ann Curtis Named Woman

“s Curtis

[Byron Nelson PzjckedMAs-Z- 'U.“S.Athlet_e Of The Year

two points for each second-place vote and one for s third-place mention.

The Toledo shot-maker finished with '16 points, five ahead of Mar- tin (Slats) Marion. Mr. Shortstop for St. Louis Cardinals. recently named the most valuable baseball player in the National League.

Les Horvath, Ohio State's all- American quarterback. was third with 59 points and is the leading amateur. The play-for-fun aili- letcs have topped the poll seven times in the past decade with only Joe Louis in 1935 and Joe DiMag- gio in 104i crashing through from the salaried ranks.

e YearIn

annexed all four free-style titles K611: third time the trick ever has

n done _

At the recent National Amateur Athletic Union convention. Miss sought approval for 18 United States swim records. Twelve were recognized .the remaining six being rcieotcci because they ha befin superseded bv Miss Curtis her-

se .

Seventy-one editors participated in the poll with the coast beauty listed first on 3'1 iaailots. '

The Queen of the girl s mmcrs tltus tcigiisbcsidc Bvion Nelson. ‘rnlcdu. Oiiio. LiOIIIJY. whom thc voters urcviouslv liad elected the

male athlete ear.

Nelson. winner of approximately 845.000 in war bonds _ during tlie ycar averaged a fraction less than "l0 for 78 rounds m pill-time tourn- amciit golf iii 194-1,

Todays honor climaxes a. two- year campaign bv Miss Curtis in which she has won eight national titles, set l8 United States records and surpassed the world times for both ilic BOO-metre and BRO-yard SWllYlS.

Sire has rejected various movie offers iii hopes of carrying the colors uf tlie Crystal Plunke Swim Club at Sail Francisco into Olym- Dlc contuetltion.

hree points are awarded for eacli first-place vote, two for sec- ond and one for third. The table lists the outstanding women MITIG- tes of 1944. with tlie sports iii winch they competed (first-place votes in parenthesis): Ann Curtis. swimming (3.1) Mlldrgd Didrikson Zaharias,

)

(1 Pauline Betz. tennis (l0)

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l0 wolf 80

67 Dorothy Germain. golf (2) 291 ipattv Berg. golf (s) 1a _Bettv Hicks. IlOlf t4) 14.

Paul Ccurtrcau Continues To Head A. ll. L. Scoring

(By The Associated Press)

Down The Alleys ZION LABTlT-g BOWLING

SUPERGALS:—

Warren 114 1B0 High Single. A. Sentner-m High ‘Three. A. Scntncr-STS

Remember When

By The Canadian Press Emic Schaaf pounded out s 10-

fans yelled in hospital 1

He. died

BINDING

NEW HAVEN Conn. Dcc. lB_ There appears to be no stopping Paul Courteau. Providence ace, and ED081111“! perennial leader in the American Hockey magnets indiv- idual scoring race. He tallied four goals for tlie second consecutive week to bring his total today to Z16 points.

The big battle is for tlie runner- up post, which finds Pete Lcswick and Byron MacDonald of Indian- apolis and Tom Burlington of

0 Cleveland in a tripic tie, six points

off the leader. Tciiy Bukovitch of Indianapolis. last week's occupant

of second. slipped down the scale somewhat. Prank Katie of Indianapolis

spent four minutes off the ice to bring his total to 38. thrce more ihan Pete Bessonc of Cleveland to loathe rules violators.

adlng scorers:

G A Pis. Couricau, Providence 22 14 36 Lcswick. Indianapolis l5 15 I10 MacDonald. In'apolis 15 15 30 Burlington. Cleveland 'l 20 30 Bukovitch. Inhpolil 16 l3 2B Gracie. Pittsburgh l0 l8 '18 Halderson. Buffalo l3 15 2B Walton. Pittsburgh l2 l5 21 Forgie, Hcrsltcy -' l3 l4 1| Pozzo, Hershey l2 14 2s

m/iucrsco. Doc.“ 1e -

Poreian Minister Shigcmitsu con- errcd separately with Emperor dirolilto.

Koiso reported on "state affairs

in‘ general". thc Federal Communic- zast said. Later. Shigcmltsu

broad- was

one iasion rmorded

tcd an audience to report on

n egattters under his rurlsdiction."

Paul Thompson. Black Hawk coach.

BITTER FOREIGN-

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do something about Greece. Thei he said. people were ‘being "snot like dogs" with weapons he said were provided Britain by the Uni- ted St tes.

.1. H A'I"I'RAU'I‘IUN

IIIIII CAIITEEII IS ATTRACTIVE I

e. prior to the Allied invasion to help

E MAIN TO-DAY

3-5 and 8-10

To T1112

Romance, Adventure For Two Parachutists

LONDON. Rec. 19 — (Tuesday)- (OP Cable) — Romance as well as adventure and danger beckoned when an Emziisli girl and a French- speakiilg Canadian Armv Caiptaiii parachutcd from i|l1_ Allml piano into cilemy-iicici territory lrrFruiic-ci mouths before D-da-y to aid that Maouis.

The Daliv Sketch. telling the sto- ry todav said the girl was Sonia Butt. 20-year-old French-specious! daughter of Group Catpt L A K. Butt of the R..A.l' ‘the man was Capt. Guv Dyartois of Montreal.

‘they mot 1.11.01‘ iii Paris and were married at St. Juiiics‘ Cliurcli in London some months ago. NOW he i! in Montreal waiting for Mrs. D-e Artols who is exp 11g a baby.

‘ disclosed that ' of idreiicii-spcaklnl: oi- fi the 1st Canadian army. cmonu them CLVDI. D'Artois. were dropped by uarnciiuzc 1211.0 l-runce

organize French resistance groups.

Capt. D‘Artois hud known IVIILS Butt oiilv a_ 191v months while thcr weio in traiiiinz.

a A. B. (Happy) Chandler. Ken- tucky Democrat who girdled the world in an Army bomber, said he didn't want American d1 lomats who might "follow the Br tish." Burton K. Wheeler. Montana Democrat, asserted it was not tlie so-called olationists, but those who had plugged for the United

war. who were fighting the nomin- ations.

Russia. and Britain, he said, were looking after their own interests first but if “anybody here says he is for America first. he's an isola- tionist." ‘What collld tlie United "States do, he asked, if Russia says she is going tc take the Balkans, the Dardanelles and Finland?

Fluent Claude Pepper. Florida Democrat who said he has nearly always followed the President bc- cause he thought Mr. Roosevelt was ri ht. called the nominations a mis ake. He sought to delay action on them until after the new Congress meets. hoped Mr. Roose- velt would reconsider.

Arthur Vandeiiberg. Michigan Republican who thought the dc- bate out of ali- proportion to the confirmation q u e s t i o n involved, called for a statement of foreign policy by President Roosevelt.

In a prepared address, Joseph F. Guffcy, Pennsylvania -Democrat. said the issue was human vers-is property rights. He asked if it wasn't true that the career oi Jos- eph C. Grew. nominated for under- secretary of state. has been “a coil- stant example of the old-fashioned diplomacy when the flag followed the dollar?” ‘

‘These attacks proitiptcd Scnaitvr Owen Brewster (Rep-Mo) to ac- cuse Senator Pepper and the oth- ers who are seeking to defeat the nominations of attempting to "crucify" Grew.

In the confusing exchange, wit- nessed by packed galleries. tlie Senate often sebnicd to lose sight oi’ the issue before 1t-WIlCIhEr Mr. Grew should be confirmed. Senator Pepper and his opposi- ion colleagues made plain. however. that they intend to use delay as their chief weapon. ‘They hope the Senate will get tired and quit. thus forcing recess appoint- ments, submission of names to the new Congress.

GERMANS ADVANCE .{_L

(Continued from page 1) repofted. iné"a€ri.i§f§‘si§<7§;2§e hammering at the 8th's positions with big railway guns on an iii. creased scale.

Belgian Civilians Flee

; Once more some Belgian civil- ians. fearful of a major Germ-an break-through. were picking up their belongings and fleeing west, iust as they had done before the ggféauglit of Hitler's legions in

s»

Fiar to the southwest four Unit- ed States divisions edged forward into the German Palatinateis Sieg- fried Line defences on a 14-miie front extending from tlie Rhine westward. One tank division pen- etrated seven POWS of the line's dfflson teeth tank barriers north of Wissembourg. Twenty-three miles west of Wissembourg, the German-manned Maglnot fortifica- tions amund the Fortress of Bitcnc were crumbling under combined assault of infantry, engineers and artillerymcn.

Farther west on the United States 3rd Army front. infantry pushed to the eastern ed e of the slekfried fortified city of illingen. and punched out half-mile gains in the southern Saar.

Nssls Bring Up Rcinforcements

The heaviest enemy rail move- nienis yct seen in the Saar indi-

cated that‘ the Germans were bringin up reinforcements tomeet these t rests. -

On the northern fronts held by the 1st Canadian Army and Brit- ish Dnd Army only patrol activity and light skirmishes were report-

e

On the 1st Army front, the Gor- man winter offensive had gouged out. the greatest gains yet. scored by the enemy since the Allies in- vaded Europe.

If the German counter-offensive succeeds even moderately. the

~end of the war may be delayed

many months. A full-scale victory for Field Marshal Von Runstedt would give the Germans time to prepare fresh blows that would drag the war throughout 1845.

e Germans fed heavy concen- trations of armor into key points. Front-line dispatches told bluntly of enormous numbers of tanks and amiored vehicles supporting the infantry. 1 To one extent the German coun- tar-offensive failed. It fai force the 1st Army to let up pres- sure on the crucial Roei- River

States’ early intervention in the,

led to De

The Sketch uJUI-IXI an iuiidcnilf- tied friend 01 lire couple us saving: i"D'Artois felt his heart leap when he saw her wave and smile as she lumped lust ahead of h1m from the same a The friend added that D'Artois told close acoualnt-, unces "I suddenly realized 1 miulit; never see her zigain arid deierriiiiiti. lif we cvcr met on tlie urouiitl she f would be mv wife."

Ii. S. Electoral College Names F.D.R.

WASHINGTON. Dec. iii M tap. Tlic Electoral College \\'C1l' ilirouaii thc quadrennial motions icclav and made it utficiul-Prcslciciit Rouse- vclt is elected azaln

The electors, in line with verdict, of the voters Nov. 7. cast tlie 531. ballots that. forrnallv elect r1 pre-‘ sidcnt aiid vice president: 42¢ fori Mr. Roosevelt and 99 foi G011 Thomas E. Dewev of New York. ‘ _ The President's psuiiiai plural-f 1tv of 3.593.714 over the Guvcr or. theoretically hadn't anything dir-l ectly to do with lt-tiiose votes1 merely named the eleot0rs.i\s far as- thelaw goes. the electors can do as they please

Huge Demonstration In Trafalgar Square

LONDON. DZCY-ismcpi-"iurn- Ly thousand persons jammed iii Trafalgar Square at thc foot of

Nelson's column yesterday con- demned British intervention ill Greece and approved a resolution

calling on tlie Government "to stop using troops against the cicni- ocratic resistance forces in Greece."

The Union Jack and the Red Lag of Russia flew side by side above thc platform from ivhicli spokesmen from the Labor, Corn- rnonwcaitli and Communist par cs criticized Prime Minister Cliur 111's stand and (Iemuiided the re- call of British troops on duty in Greece.

British Exporters Seek Clarification 0f Cov’t Policy