Whitjiock

AX. Jan. 1| - (GP)- Mohcton Hawks brought Halifax Crescents five-game winning streak w a, sudden halt here Saturday night and swung into second place in the Maritime Senior Hockey Magus by thumping the Haligon‘- lsns 5-3.

Hawks struck with a sustained fury in the first half of the open- ing period to score three goals and then held off a spectacular Hall- fax offensive in the closing chap-

ter.

Hawks previously had been tied with Crescents for the second ‘slot. They can more into first alongside Truro Bearcats with a ylctory over Saint John Bearers ‘Monday night~providing Halifax downs Truro at the same time.

swede Pnulscn, subbing for the lnjiired Mike Demcliuk, rattled in three goals for Hawks, assisted ‘n another and was easiLv the out statiding player of the night.

Crescents defence ivas wny off stride and Hawks skated in al- most at will for a good part of the.

.gamc. Stan Piou, late of Glace

Bay Miners in the Cape Breton Senior ‘League, came up with some remarkable stops, partly offsetting his strike-out in the first period on a long shot from centre lcc. Crescents held the upper hand in the. last two periods but the superb goalteiidiiig of Hughie Mac- Donald kept them at hay. Moncton got a goal in the first minute of the second period when the Halifax defence failed to clear and Paulsen scored on a break- away two minutes before the end oi tho game. ' Paulsen put Buck Whitlock, the league's leading scorer, in the

clear for the first goal. Willie

y Adds Two Points As Hawks Win From Crescents 5-3

Alfww connected from near centre ice for the second and Paulsen, working smoothly on a pass from fivrorze Bell, made it s-c at 1.5a

a ore Crescents could find their feet. .

3111)’ Hannon bashed in a pa“. out before the opening frame mg.

ed but 33 secon the second Paulsen 5am; thins with Bell again assisting.

There was no further scoring until Crescenls started a determiu. ed drive halfway through the last period. Johnny Young worked the prettiest goal of the night and Gougeon registered on a pass [mm Hannon.

With Crescents desperately try-

ing to bat in the tying goal Paul- ,

sen and Whitlock fled up the ice on a breakaway with the clincher.

Summaryzl-

First Period l-Ih/izoancton, Whitlock (Paulssh) i-“rMmlcll-ln. Agnew (Gognon)

4.09. Ii-Moncton. Paulsen (Bell) 1.5g.

4-Halifax, Hannon (Gougeon) 14.44. Penalties: Stahan.

Second Period 5—M<mctc>n. Paulsen (Bell) 0.33. Penalties: Paulscn, Whitlock.

Third Pcrlod 6—Halifax, Young (MacGregor)

13.11. 7—Halifax, Gougeon (Hannon)

15.33. 8—Moncton, Paulsen (Whitlock) 18.55.

Penalties: None.

Blackwell llas

Easy Winter

SAN DIMAS. Calif. 112111. i8-

.(AP)-The "Life of Riley" could be

rephrusedto "The Life of Black- well" in this Southern California community.

For Ewell Blackwell, feuding Na- tional League pitcher in 1947, ls

‘ioaflng, enjoying life and growing

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. here and klbitzing

fat this winter. His sole accomp- lishments in this off-season have been:

Signing a contract with the Cin- cinnati Reds for approximately $23,000; adding 20 pounds to his former 175-pound, slx-foot-six inch frame; golfing, fishing, painting the kitchen at his parents’ home at sporting events. He hasn't touched a base- ball since last October. -

Blackwell thinks the added weight will help h-lm, a thought which will he bad news to Nation- al League batters. Last year he won 22 games, including six shut- outs, one a no-hitter, struck out 193, was never beaten at night, went the distance 23 times and chalked up a neat 2.43 earned run average.

One Of Wurtelc

rfwins Victim 0f

‘jury jinx that has hit

injury Jinx.

ST. MORITZ. Switzerland. Jan. 16 —(CP)—-Latest victim of the in- Canada's

' Olympic ski team is Rhoda Wllflele

of Montreal. She cracked a bone in her right ankle while skiing yesterday. and

will be unable to ski for probably a

week, Hector Sutherland. a Montreal mun-her of the team. re- ported toduy by telephone from nearby Davos.

The team passed a day of train- wlthout further mishap at its “Lit- tle Canada" headquarters at Davos. vuhere it will remain until Juli. '13-

But manager Louis (‘ochand of St. Margaret's. Que. tram rnaiiaSPY- keeps his fingers crossed insidc his mittens.

The Canadian team serious blow four days ago when Pierre Jalbert of Quebec. the Dominion‘; leading hope for "l" downhill ski event, broke his 'e<z while training. He will be unable to compete.

Windsor Oops First Place In Valley League

suffered a

WOLFVILLE, N8" Jan. 1B - (CW-Wlrrdsor Maple Leafs copped undisputed first place in the Valley Senior Hockey League when they Y°l1tht Acadia Axemen for a 7-6 W1" hero Saturday night.

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Sonny MacDonald Signs With llictorias

SYDNEY. N.S.. Jan. 18 —(CP)- Sonny MacDonald. released as goal- tender for Truro Bearcats in the Marithic Senior Hockey League, Saturday signed as netimlnder for Noriih Syniney Victorias in the Cape Breton senior loop.

Doggie Kunn, forvmei‘ coach of the Bcaircats, signed on as mentor of the Vics. trailing the League with only one victory this season.

Defencoman Charlie Phillips, re- leased by Glace Bay Miners. promptly joined North Sydney.

Sport Shorts

LONDON, Dec. 14—(OP)——There isn't much fear that English football league third division clubs will damage Tommy Lawton,Notts County's £17,000 ($68,000) centre- forward. Tommy's presence means increased attendances-—and money lu the bank.

Since the lowly club surprised the football world with the high- est transfer fee in history it has enjoyed prosperity at the gate and also on the field. Club offic- ials estimate the presence of Tom- niy in the lineup has added £1,000 a game to receipts and his bril- llunt play has given the team the necessary "push" to win games.

Opposing forwards and defence- rneii have tremendous respect for Lawtoirs prowess and they have strict orders to keel) 111m W911 covered and to hold down rough tactics in an effort to at»? him- His absence from the lineup would result in decreased gates-both home and away.

The County isn't taking chances on Tommy. Officials have taken out a £25,000 insurance policy on him-the highest on record for any footballer-and the club will receive that sum if Lawton is to- tally disabled either by injury 0n the field or accident off it.

Nottingham fans have shown their pleasure at Tommy's P111’- chase from Chelsea bi’ 591151"! donations rnIiElKlS frm‘ 5 m" shillings to £5.

"Hell's Bells." shrleked the rail- birds at Birmingham race-track, "he's going the wronL" And- 5"" enough, they were right.

You see. "Hell's Bells." favorite in the Sutton Handicap Hurdle. had branched out and was gal- loping hell-bent down the steeple- chase course. The 10¢“? 90°!) IIV his mistake but had lost too ground to catch the leaders.

- H b t, 61-year-old jockey wlfbredretiie-gderthis year fzftfrugg years in the saddle. doe!" Y‘; m‘ w gjvg up riding aitoaethef- e

bv jockeys at a London puffy- ger-bert, born in l-iamlltops. said he plum W "l" “w” ° m for one of the leadln! "time"

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JANUARY 19, 1948

THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

PAGE SEVEN

1t will be a test of strength in

the City Hockey League fixture. tomorrow night when the Saints and Navy meet in their only game of the regular schedule. The two teams met in a pro-Christmas ox- liibltion encounter and in that contest the Saints emerged the winners 11-4. Q- 0 1- 1|-

Since then, however, the Navy have been considerably strength- ened through the acquisitlon of several players from the disbanded Legion team. However. even iii that exhibition contest there were many who couldn't see the Saints overshadow the Navy—not by the margin of seven goals anyway.

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While pro-season predictions seemed to favor the Saints and Navy as finalists there are those who are watching the fast improv- ing Summerslde entry. Many fans are of the opinion that the west- ern lads, with a fow more com- pettlons under the belt. will pro- ride plenty of opposition when the playoffs roll around.

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On the basis of contests to date the Saints will enter the game t0- morrow as favorites. The Navy has defeated P. W. C. 5-3, Sum» merside team defeated Prince of Wales 5-4 and the Saints in their turn defeated Summerslde 8-2. The

league standing thus far is as follows:

P W L Navy . 1 l - Saints .. 1 1 - S‘Slde 2 1 i P. W. C. . 2 - 2

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Willie Robertson. former Prince of Wales College hockey star now attending Dalhousle University, practised yesterday with Halifax Crescents of the Maritime Senior Hockey League when they held their regular workout. Robertson may be used against Saint John Beavers at Halifax Wednesday night. If so he will be appearing against former line male Nick Nicolle. The twp played for the Welshmen in the City Leueue last season.

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The introduction of a. contract system whereby junior and senior hockey players will be bought and sold in much the same manner as the professional clubs now ope:- ate, is certainly a revolutionary step as far as the Canadian Am- ateur Hockey Association is con- cerncd.

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This new plan says Maurice (Free Press) Smith is expected t0 go into operation next season. Un- til it is put into effect we will be content to wait and see what hap- pens before passing judgment on George Painter's brain child.

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In the meantime, however, some of the hockey moguls are already starting to find fault with the idea one gent. who is closely associated with the game here wants to know‘ what will happen if unscrupulous men gain control of teams-

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Example: Mr. Jones, who runs the Podunk Polar Bears is a little tired of hockey. He intends to get out of the game after the current season. Mr. Jones has a number of likely looking junior players on his team. So what does Mr. Jones do? He sells all the players he can and ends up with a profit of \ few hundred or thousand dollars for himself.

We don't know whether the Can- adian Amateur Hockey Associa- tion has thought of this angle. Nc doubt it has and will probably take steps at the annual meeting in April to make sure no such in- cidents oocur. '

O O Bill ilizinicki, robust young right winger of the Toronto Maple Leafs figures to show a profit soon on his “stitch" insurance. O O O

Wild Bill. like many other Na- tional Hockey M88“! Dlflyefil. 981d about uoo for a volley which guarantees $5 for every stitch tak- an to close an injury received in hockey games. The other day Wil- liam was nicked under the eye, got it stitched and ohorticd:

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"Plan's No. i9 already thda lea- son. Only two more and I chow a profit. Wow! It's just like double indemnity."

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Keen Racing At Week-end Harness Mcct

Muy Todd, Romeo, Nellie Watson and Mary's Delight were the win- ners ln a, four class racing catxi staged by the Victoria. Driving Club on the Park Speedway Saturday afternoon.

It was the second of a series of races planned this winter and des- pite the soft condition of _the track there was keen competition and the large crowd of spectators and many patients in tihe Veterans Wing of the hospital witnessed some thrilling heat finishes.

May Todd driven by A. Tierney took two straight heats in the Class A Trot and then finished fourth to Guy Harvester, Archie Lee and Lce Brewer, in that order, 1n the filial heat.

Romeo, driven by J. Arblng, won the first two heats of the Class A Pace in duels with C. Albert Bud- long and Reuben Lee. The third was a dent heat with Romeo and Reuben Lee battling it out to the wire.

Nellie Watson, driven by H. Cud- more. had a bit too much for Buddy Budlong uihen he took the first two heats cf the Class B Pace. Buddy won the third heat and Nel- lie finished third to Molly Dale.

Mary's Delight. driven by Shaw, won the opening heat of the Class C. Pace, finished third to Johnny Kalmulck and Dill Pickles in the second, bpt came back strong to beat out Johnny Kalmuck in the final heat.

SUMMARY o... s Trot

May Todd (Tierney) Guy Harvester (Arbing) Archie Lee (Wood) Lee Brewer (Bell) . Whining horse owned by McLaine. Charlottetown.

Class A Paco

Romeo (Arbing) Reuben Lee (Bernard) . C. Albert Budlorig (Kelly Muriel Henley (Wood) Whit ‘N See (O'Mieara) Winning horse owned by lington MBcNelll, Scuthport.

Wel-

Clnss B Pace

Nellie Watson (Cudmorc) 1 1 3 Buddy Budlong (Stead) . 2 21 Molly Dale (Kelly) ' 3 3 2 ,Lady Wortihy 2nd (Willis 4 4 5 ‘Fred Direct (Cutcllfife) ..... 6 5 4

‘Sampson Royal (Downe) . . Winning horse owned by Harold Cudmcre, Harrington. I

Class C. Pace

Mary's Delight (Show) 1 Johnny Kalmuck (Kelly Jr.) Dill Pickles (Mills) .. Midnight Scott (Agnew) Winning horse owned Praught, Cherry Valley.

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Starter: Russ Abbott.

Judges, H. Murphy, W. McAius- land, Geo. MacDonald.

Announcer: W. H. Beaten.

Lcc Wins Feature Al Halifax

HALIFAX. Jan. 18 —(OP) Lee McKlllop. the big trotter own- ed by Fred Lahcy of Dartmouth, N. S., president of the Eastern Driving Association, Saturday won the two-heat free-for-all in the weekly racing card at the North Commons.

Dr. L. 3.. from Bert Walker's stable, was the only opposing horse in the second heat after Judge and Walter Brown were drawn. Judge hit one of his knees and Walter Brown cut himself.

An extra heat was needed in the class A event. Robie Kaizers Grattan Axworthy came home in front in the deciding race.

Summary Pree-For-All

Leo McKilloP. A. Allen i 1 Dr. L. B, L. Walker 3 2 Judge, P. Lovers 2 dr. Walter Brown. S. Weeks 4dr. Winning owner: Fred Lahey, Dartmouth. CLASS A Grattan Axworthy. Levers i 2 2 l Mary Stuart. C. Drake 2 4 1 3 Dizzy Dean, P. Craig 4 i 8 I Colleen Adam. L. O'Brien S S 4 Winning owner: Robin Kaiser.

Halifax.

CLASS _B Mary Wltte. D. 'I‘urnea i. l Hurrykane, D. Smith 3 2 Tom_ Volo. C. Hector I 3 Maxine Dudds. D. Harding 4 dr

Winning owner: Don Turner. Westphal.

CLASS C

Haul Stout. N. Campbell ‘l-Up Direct, L. Walker Darkey Tell. S. Gay Tracey Direct, W. Walker x Winning owner: D. fsnor. Hali- ax.

I 1 2 2 3- 4 4 O

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Results 0f Curling Matches Played Saturday

Some l2 matches were played Saturday afternoon at the Char- luttelo-vm Curling Club. The re- sults were a5 follows:

W. Pickard, skip 7, A. Bagnall, akitp 6.

Col. G.E. Full, skip, 10, A. Howatt skip b.

W.R. Cruikshank. skip 6, N. Anderson, skip 5.

L. Jay, skip l5, P. MoCoi-imack, skip (i.

J. Fraser, skip 11, Dr. W. Mac- Donald, skip 4.

A. W. Hyndman, skip 8, R. Car- ruthers, skip 7.

RSP. Jardiiie, skip 11, G.. Hugihcs, skip 4.

B. Nicholson, skip 19, JJ. Morris, skip 3.

A. L. MacPherson, skip 11, HF. MacP-hee. skip one.

A. V. Soillett, skip 0, P.W. Tur- ner, skip S.

J. E. Burden. skip 4, Ed Tanton,

G..

ip 4. R. Spillett ,

skip 12, J. R. Keefe, skip 4. "

Winnipeg Rink Wins Four Oars

NlPAlNlN, Sasla, Jan. 1B — (CP) _ Grant Watson of Winni- peg led his rink to victory late Friday night in the world's rich- est honsplel -_ the $23,000 auto- mobile classic.

Watson. Bill DUflClIn of Flln Flon, Mann Dr. G. Dyker of Pr.nce Albert, Sask., and J. Guy of Ken- ora. Ont, thus each "won a 1948 model automobile, ‘

Watson defeated Crawford Hicks,

4 also of Winnipeg. in Friday's final,

by a score of 10-9.

Howard Wood c,f Winnipeg won the number 1 event in the bon- spiel and thus copped electric re- frigerators for h.s rink.

IIu-atcFRiver Rink Opened

On Monday evening, January 12, the Hunter River Rink was offi- cially opened with a very large crowd iii attendance. The Hunter River Bone Crushers and the Hampshire Bulldogs play to g five-all draw. The referee was very busy handing out twenty-two penalties.

SUMMARY

First Period Bone Crushers. L, cousins Watts) 2:17. Bulldogs. I. MacLean, 3:10. Bone Crushers, s. MacLean, 13:05,

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Second Period Bone Crushers, C. Smith (J. Ber- nard) 3:02. Bulldogs. G. watts 5:10. Bulldogs, l’. MacLean, 15:10. Bulldogs, A. Kitson, 19:05.

(MacLeanv)

Third Period Bulldogs. I- MacLean. 5:05. Bone Crushers, L. Cousins (Sher-

ren) 7:49. Bone Crushers, L. Cousins (Math- eson) 18:05.

Sport Briefs

ARCADIA. Calif, Jan. 18 —(AP) —01haverry, nlne-year-old grey galloper from Chile. pulled an- other surprise victory out of the hat Saturday by winning the $50,- 000 San Pasqllal Handicap before 52,000 fans at Santa Anita.

BROOKLYN. Jan. i8 ’ lAP) - Leslie Macmitchell of the New York Athletic Club came from be- hind in ihc last 50 yards Saturday night to win ihc mile run at the Metropolitan Amateur Athletic Union indoor track backfield cham- pionships in 4:199.

PITTSBURGH. Jan. 18 — (AP) --Dixie Walker. National League outfield star, Saturday signed u contract with Pittsburgh Pirates for “around $25,000." which he sold represented the highest salary ever paid him in his i6 years of playing major league baseball.

By The alfiadlull Preol

Eddie (Red) Trllicr. star snap- baok with Montreal's Dominion champions, was expelled for life by the Canadian Rugby Union 16 year; ago today. Tellier attacked George Gilhooley of Regina Rough- riders after the East-West final at Montreal, December 5 .1931. Ho

was reinstated in 1937.

S’side Legionaires RQCQAQFQ 6'3

The Smnmerside DeLgionaircs handed the R.C.A.F hockey sextet their second straight defeat in l-WO Slflfls at the Crystal Rink Sab- urday night, again doubling the score on the atnmen, this time by the tune of 6 to 3. Drnimett Traiincr, streamlined left winger of the vets, shot four of his team's half dozen counters and won the "M.L. Frank MacKenzie" award for the outstanding player on the Legion teaim. Freddie Foy. peppery winger of the Air Force aggregation, though forced to retire for a ten minutes rest-after taking a bad fall early in the second period, came back to pot two out of three of his team's coals. and he caught the judgcs nod for the Stedirnan Ltd. Prize.

The Lcgionaires were short two of their star players in the persons of_G. Bernard and Mooney Gallant, but a pair of last year's hockey stalwarts, Leo Shields and Jimmie Grady, came back to action for the first time this season and filled in the breach.

The R.C A1". opened the scoring after six minutes cf play in the initial frame, MacDonald beating Lauman on a, pass from Brawley. This was the end of successful sniping for iihe period. After Fey's imiahap the Legion boys swarmed all over the Airmen and shot four goals without a return.

‘Trainor was on the end of a three way passing stunt and pick- ed an open corner for the first tally of the second period. The same player intercepted an Air Force pass from the corner and beat Lauman again. Syl Bernard took a, relay f-rom shields at the bluellne and after some superb stickhandllng scored the prettiest goal of the evening Tralnor got a soft one soon after. swooping one behind . Crawford from a position slightly to the rear of the cage.

In the final canto “Pooo1i" Gal- lant made it 5 to 1 after a nlcl effort. Pram in front of the R.C.A. F., net Foy sent a slow dribble: that managed to find its way be- tween Lauimang legs, and seconds later beat the Legion goalie again, this time on a lateral drive from deep left wing Trainer ended the scoring about five minutes before the bell. going right in on Craw- ford. with Syl Bernard in an as- sisting role.

Both goalies, though performing capably for the most part, let a pair of soft ones through their de- ferices.""'" ' """"" " '

SUMMARY First Period 1—R.C.A.F, MacDonald (Brawley) Penalties _ Trainer, Hello. Anderson. Second Period

2-Leglon, Tralnor (Shields, Davis) Ck-Legion, Trainer. li-Leglon, S. Barnard (Shields) 5—Legion, Trainer

Penalties - D. MacNeill.

Third Period