Canada Is Pinning Hopes On Track And Field Team

By ED SIMON Canadian Press Staff Writer 'rliirty-two years ago Duncan

McNaughton of Vancouver won

,don’t call for a similar show- ing against much’ stiffer com- petition in Tokyo. But the squad, reinforced by Kidd and

the Olympic high jump at Los Toronto's Bill Crothers. one of

best half - mllers.

Hockey players, figure - skat- competition.

ers. skiers, oarsmen and sha shooters have had their hour Olympic glory in the in

Sao Paulo also produced a

PD- of triple champion in Willie Wei- terven- ler of Camp Borden, Ont, in Russ Jackson, 27 - year - old -

climax to a football season high. lighted by the heroics of Sas- katchewan Roughriders. Riders overcame a 26-point lead in the second game of the Western Conference semi-final to elimin- ate Calgary Stampeders by a single point. then prolonged the final by handing Lions their first home defeat of the season before bowing out.

ing years. But Canada's track men's gymnastics. Tom Dins- quarterback who took Ottawa

teams, the most pampered and icy of Vancouver captured top Rou blicized of amateur athletes, honors in men's ’

haven't finished in the first

springboard

diving. and the University of

three since 1948 when a Cana- British Columbia eight - oa

dian entry won tlbe] third-placegcrew also won

bronze medal e 400-metre relay at London. Yet the team that heads for

Tokyo and the 15th Olympiad next October will pin a fair proportion of its hopes on the speed and muscle of its track and field squad. '

Canada sent a young squad (without Toronto's Bruce Kidd. the 1962 British Empire Games six-mile gold medal winner. and other top-liners) to e Pan- American Games at Sao Paulo. Brazil. in 1963 and came away with five gold medals in track and field ,

Nancy McCredie of Brampton. 0nt., won the discus and shot- put events and Abbie Hoffman of Toronto the 800 metres. The others went to Alex Oakley of Oshawa. Out, in the 20,000-me- ti-e walk and Don Bei-toia of Rossland. B.C.. in the men‘: 880

CROTHERS WILL Go The most optimistic forecasts _—?—

Race Card Postponed

The harness racing program Driving Park this afternoon has been postponed.

The inability to have the snow removed from the oval in time for the eight-dash card necessi- tated the postponement.

It is likely that the same pro- gram will be raced this Satur- day December

Curling Draw

The following is the curling dr aw for Boxing day at Charlottetown Club (S p a r e s ne

ice 1 — Open.

Ice 2 — H. Spillell. F. Mac- Millan. T.W.L. Prowse. E. Tan- ton vs. S. Beaton, A. Leaman, R Spillett, H.R. Carruthers.

Ice 3 — Doug Cameron vs. Dr. MacDonald.

Ice 4 - Hooper vs.

Ice 5 -

(Junior Game) Dr. A. Humphrey. (Rotate) —— J. Square-

Clalr, H. Peters vs. Dr. C';“="'

a gold medal.

At the winter Olympic Games starting at Innsbruck, Austria. in January. Canada's prospects are not so bright. Don McPher- son of Stratford, 0nt., second successive Canadian to win the men's singles title at the world figure - skating championships. followed the example of the 1962 winner, Don Jackson of Oshawa. in turning profes- sional.

It's youth against experience again in the Olympic hockey tournament in which Canada is embarking on a brave experi- ment after a series ‘of interna- tional reverses.

Against the backizrolilul of a fourth - place finish for Trail Smoke Eaters in the 1963 world competition behind Russia. Swe- den and Czechoslovakia and two successive 01y m 1» i c defeats. Canada will go into the Games with its first truly tional hockey team. CHANGE NEEDED

Coached by Rev. David uer. who led Toronto St. Mich- ael'_s College Majors to the Ca- nadian junior title in 1961, the team of hand-picked youngsters from all parts of Canada was assembled at the University of

1964 na-

B tish Columbia and has played impressively in exhibi- tion games.

The need for a change was underlined late in 1963 by Wind- sor Bulldogs, current Allan Cup champions, who were soundly trounced by Russian and

l

the The 36-year-old Howe led

I able

1-9 Professional 1-! o c k e y League,

-opposition during a European tour.

In pro hockey. the 1962-63 sea- son belonged to Toronto Maple Leafs and Gordie Howe. Leafs won their second straight Stan- ley Cup and their first National Hockey League title since 1948. De- troit Red Win-gs to the Stanley Cup finals. capturing his sixth NHL scoring title and sixth Hart Trophy as league's most valu-

player. The right winger capped these honors in Novem-

ber by scoring his 545th regu- t 9, Alberta won the senior men‘: .

breaking the ired Maurice

lar-season goal, record of ret (Rocket) Richard of Montreal. Canadlens. i

In minor pro hockey. King- ston F-ronienacs won the final of the now-disbanded Eastern

Francisco Seals took West-

R. Ewing. T. Whitiock. W. Mac- Laine. 7 PM.

Ice 1 -— A. Love, E. MacDon- ald, E. Ford. F. MacLean vs. J. Burden, J. Cameron, A. Gill, E. Redmond.

e‘ 2 —— D. O'Rourke, C. Whitenect, J. Vautour. D. Re vs. G. Stewart, C. Campbell. A. Garrett, D. Wood

Ice 3 — K. Acorn. C. Macin- nes, A. Callbeck, J. MacLean vs. D. Wonnacott. E. Gillespie. R. Carr. G. Gallant.

Ice 4 — Doug Cameron vs. Doug. Bell

Ice 5 — 9.30 PM.

(Open)

id -final. and McMaster University

All ices open for s c r a t c 11 games.

Sin League honors and Buffalo Bisons won in the American

League.

WEST TOPS JUNIORS Edmonton Oil Kings scored a

minor upset by defeating Nia-

gara Falls Flyers four games

to two in the 1963 Memorial Cup

Marlins of Ham-ilton won the

first Canadian

hockey tournament at Kingston, nt

Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Eastern representatives for the sixth time in seven years. won their first Canadian football title since 1957 when they easily de- feated British Columbia Lions 21-10 in -the Grey Cup final in Vancouver.

It was something of an anti-

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intercollegiate kg

gh Riders to the Eastern 1. too an unprecedented double in individual awards, be- ing named top Canadian and be- coming the first Canadian to be -picked as the country's out- standing player. Tom Brown of the Lions was lineman of the year.

RAMS BEAT LORDS

Western teams swept amateur football honors as Manitoba’: St. James Rams nipped Lon- don Lords 16-14 for the senior championship and Edmonton Huskies crushed Montreal No- tre Dame de Grace Maple Leafs 47-3 for the junior title.

In a showdown between West- ern and Eastern intercollegiate champions, University berta Go Bears Queen's University Gaels from Kingston Golden Bowl. '

St. Francis Xavier, best in the Atlantic Conference. d o w n e (1 University of Toronto 15-9 in the Atlantic Bowl.

The Ernie Richardson rink of Regina captured the Canadian curling championship for the fourth time in five years and

is Canada's fth straight

whipped G o l d e n in the

world title at Perth. Scotland.

Mabel Dew ‘s rink brought its first national title by win- ning the Canadian women‘: cur- l'nlg championship with an 8-1 reco . schoolboy crown was taken by Wayne Saboe’s Edmonton rink.

George Knudson. N-year-old Torontonian. was Canada's top pro golfer of the year, winning the Panama Open. the over-all Caribbean championship and Oregon's Portland Open. In the Canadian Open, won by U.S. veteran Doug Ford, Knudson tied for seventh and made the best Canadian showing. Toronto veteran Al Balding won the Ca- nadian PGA tournament. MARLENE COMES BACK

Nick Weslock of Toronto won the Canadian amateur golf title and 3 - yea: - old Marlene Ste- wart Streit of Fontbill, Ont emerged from retirement to capture the women's open and closed titles before travelling to Sydney to win the Australian 1 1

interprovi title and 0 n t a r 1 women's crown. B.C. captured both men's and women‘: junior tour- Lacrosse in the East received a fillip when Oshawa Green Gaels upset Victoria Shamrocks four games to two to capture the junior crown. Senior honors went to Vancoufer Carlings by the same margin over St. Cath- arines Athletics.

Four of five basketball titles went West. Letlibridge Nation- als were crowned senior men's champions and Vancouver CY! Saints won the junior title. Sas- -to'on Aces a Vancouver Mount Pleasant Legion were the women's senior and junior win- ners. Assumption University Lancers of Windsor. Ont.. won the intercollegiate champion- p.

REPEATS IN TENNIS

Ann Barclay and Mari Shedd of Toronto were repeat winners in women's tennis badmin-

nclal team 0 took th

5 3

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Eriand Ko omit the badminton winner. Canada's Davis Cup team bowed to Mex- ico four matches to one. Canebora, owned by E. P. Taylor of Toronto, was named horse of the year after captur-

e Breeder‘: Stakes for the Eastern triple

crown. In the West there was a slm-' ilar sweep by Brother Leo. owned by Spud Murphy of gary. winner of the Av Derby. Manitoba Derby and Ca- nadian erby.

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CROSSED 1-‘

Jean Gravelet. French tight- rope walker. made the earliest crossing of Niagara Falls on a héigo-foot. three - inch rope in

SECOND SECTION

Charlottetown, Thurs. Dec. 26, 1963.

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Boston Bruin goalie Ed Johnston extends himself in diving save in first period of

DETROIT (CP-AP)-—A tliird- period goal by Gordie Howe. his second of the National Hockey

rk was 4

League game, gave Detroit Red Wings 11 4-3 victory over N w York Rangers Wednesday night. The goals were Howe’: 10th and lltli of the season. Howe broke a 3-3 tie at 9:03

of the final period when he tipped in Alex Delvecchio's shot.

The goal came after the hus- tling Rangers had lost the 1-0 first-period lead provided by penalty-killer Val Fonteyne and then came back twice to tie the

the puck and firing it up the ice to Rod Gilbert. Gilbert blasted a slap shot -from the Detroit blue line that rookie goalie Roger Crozier par- tially stopped with his stick, but -the force carried the puck into

i‘

The assist was the second by a goalie this season and the third of Plante’s career. The goal ca 43 seconds after Howe gave Detroit a 2-1 on a power-play goal.

Claude Laforge and Floyd Smith scored the other ‘Detroit goals. Phil Goyette tallied the final Rangers marker at 5:42 of the third period.

First period: 1. New York, Fonteyne 5 (Marshall) 17:56. Penalties — Barkley 0:06. Ca-

Sec forge 2 (MacGregor, 4:34; 3. Detroit, Howe 10 (Mar- tin, Laforge) 18:00; 4. York. Gilbert (Plantel Langlois, Mar

perl — 5. Detroit, Smith 1 (Ullman, Gadsby) 0:34; 6. New York, Goyette 12 (Gil- bert. Henry) 5:42: 7. Detroit, Howe 11 (Delvecchio, Barkley)

mi

Howe Fires Winning M

-deadlocked the game briefly be-

ad the teams play things to the fin-

43 Johnston's pads at 9:01

Six Skiers

Are Chosen

S-T-R-E-T-C-H game with Detroit Red Wings.

He stopped Eddie Joyal's shot, with his glove. But he couldn-

n't stop three other Detroit shots and the Bruins suffered a 8 0 10

after, Mahovlich Sparks leaf Win

BOSTON -(OP) — Big Frank Penalties -— Williams 2:3’, Mahovlich scored twice wednes- Brewer 19:03. day night in leading Toronto Second period: 4. Maple Leafs to a 5-1 National Balm 3 (puuopd, Mahwuoh llsioocltzeynl-efiguo victory ‘over 12:11. Penalty—Baun 14:53. s n ru . rl : . , - Mahovlich collected his um hovllll:l‘ii1?(Kelly) 133359": 1%. and 12911 8°31! 0'5 the ¢5mP3l8n- onto, Harris 3 (Pappin: Shack) The other scorers were defei‘i)ce- 13;53_ p¢mme,___sta,,1ey 5:24‘ B0 b 14 43.

Toronto. ) -

men Tim r and ; Baiin and forward Billy Harris save" The only shot to escape Bower m 3 5.5 Johnston 910 6-5

Johnny Bower's grasp was Tom Johnson's second tally of e season. The goal came midway through the opening period and

CHICAGO (CP) — Chicago Black Hawks stretched their National Hockey League lead to six poi s Wednesday night when they fought off the second- place Mon-treal Canadiens to

win 3-1.

The victory ’s sixth in eight meetin Montreal this season, was the Hawks’ second in a row and snapped I three-game winning streak for the Canadiens.

Chicago's Bobby Hull opened the scoring with his 21st goal of the season when he picked up

fore Horton sent a Z)-footer past Ed Johnston for what proved the winner. Play was ragged after the riod.

Some of the 13,843 fans on hand began showing their dis- approval by littering the ice after Harris’ goal at 18:58 of the third period.

GAME DELAYED Play resumed after a five-

, Chicago gs with

TRAIL. B.C. (CPi _ Three skiers from the West and three from the East were chosen Wednesday night to represent Canada at the Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria.

They are Garry Battistello, Kimberley, B.C.; Rod Hebron, Vancouver; Scott Henderson, Banff, Alta.; Jean Guy Brunet. Sim Asathe. Que.: Peter Dun- can, Mont Tremblant, Que. and Robert Swann of Ottawa.

Making up Canada’: men’: Alpine team, the six will coin- pete in the slalom, giant slalom and downhill events at e Olympics.

Verne Anderson, coach of the team, made the choices from among a dozen competitors who have been training since Octo-

er.

Anderson admitted he made

e sixth and last choice only hours before he announced the make-up of the team at a ban- quet here.

BOU! Hebron. 22, and Brunet,

ron also was a U.S. national ju- nior champion in 1961.

At Montreal the skiers will meet members Canada’: Olympic Alpine women’s team and later will compete in the European race circuit until the games open. . TRAINED IN ROSSLAND

The men’s team began dry-

1964 Winter ‘

SPORTS FRONT

By PIUS CALLAGHAN

HOPE you're fit as a ll!

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something to help Thane out in you're forced to lie on our back

Pack The

workers arolnd

Sumlmerside are They are iln Moncton and are also presenting

they side attr with

-everybody

and well they should

with so here’s wishing

this cause deserves. Let’; show lly do _

It's Thane Mann Day

flddleafterthe yoiiwe-1-ealiietobevllilfithefolkeyoulilcedbeetandhad thcngstiiatllavebecouneapast ' ' Y

in this Christmas season shouldn't get by without

keep robs these days when you're on the job all tile time. But understand how difficult financing becomes wtliesn

This was the way filings were for Thane Mann.

THIS afternoon at Civic Stadium e Hogan and his co a Jlmliiors to play Junior Legionaires a couple of paperweight clubs as a action. All go

we're hoping the Stadium will be

' sportwantstohlelpoutinthiscaliise

provided these

Thane loads of hockey thrills in the the committee

Christmas celebration.

miners de area doing a financial way. It's hard to

in hospital for several mon

Stadium

sta Tlllane Mann Day.

this most worthy cause and

packed. We figure

some folks

past. in charge the huge success Thane what sport fans can

land training in nearby Rosa- land last October and several weeks later began slalom. Slant slalom and downhill race train- ing at Bow Lakes, Alta.

“This team is in twice the physical condition of any other ski team Canada has ever had." Anderson said.

SPORT ECHOES

‘H By Norman Maodonald Summer-side Bureau of The Guardian

No Canadian male skier 2... ever won a medal at the Olym- pics, but Anderson said “Can- ada's chances are the but now." .

“We’ll be going over there with only one thing in mind," he said, "and that's to take first place . . . we don't care about second or third place, it's the gold medals were after."

"The decision was an ex- tremely difficult one," Ander- son sald, “but I am certain tl:jese_ are the very best in Can- a a.

He named Mickey Johnson of Rosslaiid. B.C.. and Gerry ' naidi of Kimberley, B.C., as stand-by men in case any of his choices are unable to make the trip overseas.

one member of the team, Henderson, did a lieadstand when he was named to Olympics squad. Another burst into tears.

The six will leave for Europe from Montreal Dec. 27

minute delay. But when specta- tors repeated the outburst a minute later, showering down paper cups and assorted debris, referee Art Skov decided to let

an errant pass y Canadiens defenceman J. C. 'I‘remblay d beat Montreal goalkeepetr on.

B

ish with the junk remaining on the ice.

Skov. caning a rather loose game wliistled only five penal- ties, four of them against the Maple Leafs.

Mahovlich’s -first goal of the night came on a deflection of Red Kelly’: long shot at 4:12 of the first period. He bagged -the other at 18:05 of the third period on a m-footer after Kelly's pass.

Horton's shot broke through of the first frame. Baun scored at 12:11 of the middle period on I shot from the right point. Harris

screened shot that Hodge never

saw. The tally was Mikita's mth

of the season. Montreal's Claude

Larose was in the penalty box me.

TAKE OUT GOALIE

Bernie Geoffrion cut the lead to 2-1 when he picked up a bad pass by Hull and ripped a 35- footer behind Chicago netminder Glenn Hall.

Hodge was out of the nets in favor of a sixth ater when Reg Fleming knocked a footer into the open cage.

Referee John Ashley put in a

deflected in Eddie Shack’s point busy night, calling a total of 16 shot, nal es.

The closest thing to a brawl occurred late in the last period when Chicago's Moose Vasiro and Terry Harper scuffled along the boards in centre ice. Vasko

SUMMARY First period: — 1. Toronto, Mahovlich 11 (Kelly, Pulford) 4'12; 2. Boston, Johnson 2 (Wil-

9:03. Penaltie -None.

Saves Plante 7 11 11-29 Crozier 11 6 8-25

liams, Bucyk) 6:43; 3. Toronto,

Horton 7 (Nevin, Pulford) 9:01. slashing while Harper was

Coaches

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Jacques Plante

Jacques Plants, of the New York Rangers, is the fourth in Weekend Ma azine’s 1963-64 series of co or por- traits of National Hockey ably the top goalie in the bu ' won the Trophy 11 1961-62 and made the first all-star team three tiin

TH-.E PATRIOT

WEEWKEND

League Stars. Plante, prob- 3"“

A”-s'”“"Proverbia| Fence

By JACK HAND

NEW YORK of the four teams that have played both Chicago Bears and New York Giants are divided on the outcome of Sunday’: Na- tional Footbali League title game at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Two like the Giants, one favors the Bears and one sira - eiice.

Jack Christiansen. whose San Francisco '49ers were the only team to beat the Bears in 14 regular season games, thinks the Giants will win. The Giants thumped the '49ers 48-14 later there were complaints about rubbing it in.

Buddy Parker of Pittsburgh Steelers and Nick Philadelphia Eagles hedge a bit because of the weather, with snow and icy around the East.

2: 2

( AP )—Coaches-

they are more alert to weather nditions than

as

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Ilklnl in Clmornll “IQ running ‘ad p.5sing_ I feel the defences are st‘

nailed for roughing and high- sticking.

The goals by Mikita and Hull shoved them into a tie with Montreal's Jean Beliveau for

league scoring lead. All have 45 points. Beliveau was ,held scoreless in the game. ‘i First period: 1. Chicago. Hull :21 13:41. Penalties-—Maki 2:40, MacNeil 10:32, Young 12:06. Ba- lon 12:06, Wharram 16:27. Balon