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Pollock Has A Tough Road In His First Year As GM

By JOE DUPUIS choice was between Pollock and |pro hockey, and in fact wasn't MONTREAL (CP) — One of / Reardon but adds that it didn’t | really given a chance to Show

Cameron Rink ~ Arrives Home

the mercy of the critics It’s his first season as gen- eral manager of the team, hav-

last year's first - place finish

spotting hockey talem. Ralph Backstrom, Gilles Tremblay

|and Bobby Rousseau are just a) ing succeeded Frank Selke, and |

few examples of his ability. As a scout and later director

Sam Pollock's problems is that |take long to decide what he could do -vhen he

7 unless Montreal Canadiens fin- Molson didn't explain further, | turned out years ago with Mont- By JIM CULLEN ish firs: in the National Hockey |but perhaps the main reason! real Royals junior team. y : s ;

League this season he'll be at | was Pollock's untanny knack of He got into coaching in 1947-

48 when he tgok over Montreal Junior Canadf@ns, and two sea- sons laer, at 25, became the youngest coach of a Memorial Cup winne

makes it a tough oce ‘° follow. | of Canadiens’ farm system, Pol ——— ——— The only way he con improve | lock picked up a habit of scan- | C | D

on che job done by his succes-|ning a heavy sampling of ur ing raw

sor would be to reach the Stan-/ sports _pages from Canadian |

Cup finals, something Ca-/and American ne He | Sodions failed to do last sea- | still does it. wepapersuwe At Montague

ti 4 first majer bonspiel that the — ormed son, ern reed wie the cup. | swe can keep a pretiy good| ‘The following is the curling had in as had just formed But with the b the thick | check on every hockey player | draw M for Tuesday,

their rink at the beginning this season. We had. a chat with of the fight for the top spot in jin the country in this, way: aoe — of eseeye

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the Jeague, the critics are quiet. | who's scoring the goals, who Not that Pollock is concerned. isn't—that sort of thing.” 7 et fh. Robertson, G.

ttar-cuided bonepiel "Cameron told a thet he woulda't trade The only difference about/ Pollock has also been de-| worth E. MacDonald, J. Mur- jhe three members of his rink for any three curlers in the my job now is that I'm respon-| scribed as a walking encyclo-| "ty McGowan. P. Sin . sible for making the final ‘eci-| pedia, able to dredge up out of phy vs. D. McGe Sin- The Charlottetown rink up $2,500 in merchan- sion. But that doesn’t bother | his memory the statisiical rec- clair, M. Wigginton, D. Clark- @ise for ca second plese tn the Toronto banspiel me. It's what I want to do. ords of players past and pres- | 5°": along with the honor of having defeated several of the best in When the 38-year-old Pollock | ent. Ice 2 — Ladies. the was named general manager, | But another reason he .finds | 2 P-™- a he got a job that many thought | pimself with this new responsi- Ice 1 — K. Sullivan, R. Fergu-

would go to Kenny Reardon, bility is that he has been groom- | 5°", R. Stead, C. Sollos vs L. the former star defenceman. ing himself for a top~manage- Johnstone, A. Sullivan, J. Mac- “I had an idea this job migh< | ment position for years. Lean, D. Clarkson.

jbe open before it was offered! Sow of an immigran Irish-. Ice 2 — Ladies

jto me,’’ Pollock says. “You just) man and a Newfoundland-born — —_

|seem to know those things. But| mother, Pollock. never played e 4 lit was still a big surprise get- | Curlin Draw |EASY CHOICE Midget Practice - :

David Molson, the team’s : At Belvedere

lttmg it.” presiden:, admits that thé final | The fellowing players are re-

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we would hearing from them. / ~¢ The Cameron rink includes: Doug Cameron, Allan Smith

formance.

next attraction local curling scene quested to attend practice at The following’ is the curling ace “ final ua this en At the "Chere the Forum this evening at 7, draw at Belvedere for Tuesday, ) ' January 12th.

| >. Red Shirts — Coach — Joe!g p.m.

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ae a ae y eal § spotlight and this year’s tourney on a Na- a . _- ; > alin S , s Foley. Mike Brown, Alan [ce | — B. Moreside, R. Man- a by leopens VOLLEYBALL CAPTAINS riley. Mike (Brows, Alas| Ice 1 —B. Moresde, R. Man gras bottling , Davies, Ted Kitson, Bob Youn | ys ¢. Flinn, E.K. MacNutt, Bill > = timers’ are battling it out at the Charlotte- Here are captains of five Air Marshall school won Roberta MacDonald of Elm a of Air Marshall John- ber, Jim Dowling. ‘Lloyd Blan. | Rog Bill Ross at the Belvedere Golf and Winter eee eae : <iemat. Street School to right: Bev -., Schools competing _were: | Arsenault, Brian Foley, J oey | ye.4 — ge See The ‘Schootbey: chenipionahip’ ts ged Wi order to decide | part im the first” provinei*l --defesting- Saint Jean caer ° Marshal! Johnson, $m mer‘ ; , Donitie “ Dunsford, |,” 7 amare a Joukius* G ii eee wide elementary tournament tary School of Charlottetown, Beving of Saint Jean; Gord ireet of Summerside, Elm Lowell Brown, Ron Carmichael, : A: ul sf Mt. Jenkins,” G. to be in Fredericton, N.B. mid- - | Saturday at Air Marshall — Back row left to right: Faye Mountford, referee and presi- Street of Summerside, Saint Paul Stanley, Bobby Jewell hea hed pee ir eit 10 tone ie te ore” = Johnson School at RCAF Sta- Fraser, Montague; Anne dent of Maritime Volleyball Jean of Charlottetown and nore Shirts: cones — Lloyd | lee 3 AL. McCurdy. in merside. Lapp, Summer Street; and Associaion, and Paulette Le- lontague. illier, Paul Jelly, Gordon El- B. ' . The win- ——— = : |lis, Tex MacDonald, Sandy monds vs. J. Cooke. K. Irwin, MacDonald, David Jenkins, | A. Wilson, I. Cudmore.

Ice 4 — F. Acorn, K. Kennedy,

, e championship and right to enter the national com- ; | Jack Durant, | should The St. Dunstan's Varsity | Bob Whitlock, Jim- MacDougall, | D. Jardine, D. Scales vs. —-D. fo See a ces Mus ear i, Sita, rag ase eee ae i hae. Pwr é ‘ i y Irwin, Te Steele, | ther, N.S. Mac . eae oe Bawts | tC SPARES: J.N.“MacLeod, Ivan

ibi | David Scott, Robert Campbell, | ome pe ee | Mike MacDonald, Ron Lidstone. | Hughes, Wilburt McInnis.

\ Tid BitgFrom Here And there [Helmets In League Games 2225+ Rangers Meet PWC.

per in the Hawk’s cage, with

* ~~ Billy~Bicke must have felt something close to ‘sweet re- | wenge’ when he pated the New York Rangers to a 65 victory | NEW YORK (AP) — Profes por pl Bee ane te ercans | pce wearing a helmet,” Geet | Glen Hughes doing the honors. oe : in | stonal hockey won't be Ms ing helmets,” Geotfrion said. |friop said in a telephone inter-| The Saints then san up a 50) . __| the Montreal . Hicke had been traded by the Montreal | head uotil it orders all players ing helmets, | wi sone |count before che Hawks got on | Then che whole team started | view from Quebec City. ‘‘I also | club in a deal to Dick Duff from the Rangers to wear, helmets, insists Bernie : iniuries {the scoresheet. The Saints mar. | 4 playing with them and I was |remember ‘other head injuries | . | two-weeks ago. Hicke hadn't blinked the red in | Geoffrion. ; k hile |that Paul Meger, Gordie Howe | ers came from the sticks of | this until Saturday night and he picked his Geoffrion, former National very happy. They take a wi | ep eae ger, ore Howe | Maurice Roy with a pair and teammates for his three goa! outburst. Hockey League payer the to get. used to but they're well/and Elmer Lach had. Jack 5 also buted a ‘ 1 coach of Quebec Aces, whose 16 worth it. | The Maple Leafs were the | brace. jee Kennedy was the The Prince of Wales Welsh-; River vs. St. Dunstan's .High Te Perron. Bou’ je sumething that: hes. bees catching started to wear At first the fans were s.r last pro team to wear helmets |; k to dent the twines in |™e® Meet Rogers-Rangers ina; School. ‘the of numerous Chartottetown fans during the rene prised when they saw us com | en masse. They were ordered to the Beant fr |regular seasoned game at the’ Tuesday, Jan 19 — Prisiet.of past couple of weeks. This is an hour oot aide each Thursday currently ing out on the ice with the hel-|do so in the early 1930s after a | ‘© Opening trame. Charlottetown Forum tonight at| Wales vs. St. Dunstan's’ > iZi night at the Charlottetown Forum in which a top PeeWee team | .. 7, Mees. PO ten ar mets. But so far most of the |head injury almos caused the Pe ol wang oe Showed | 5 30 p.m. " Schoo tans High, mee serve pleasing brand. hockey think # |American League, are the first commeats have bees very’ fav. | death of Ace Bailey, a Leaf for- | 12’ second frame when they | The Rangers are undefeated The second section begins on aoe ie - of y and we it team in more than ffiree dec- Tlocliviea al — eee. loutscored the Red and ‘Vhite jin league play this ‘season while; January 2ist. The schedule for ades to make helmets manda- Dour Harvey. the 40-year-old |OLD ONES TOO HEAVY squad 14. Don ‘Gunner’ Mc- thé Welshmen have been having! this section will be released fol- -The cast was removed from Jean Beliveau’s injured knee tory. Yvan Cournoyer of Mont Quetec deloncemnen ‘da long-|_‘“In those days.” recalled | Cormask pylled the trigger on trouble getting untracked. lowing a meeting of the league oe King Clancy, former Toronto de- | the losers sécond marker. With Rogers Rangers and ofticlals nena ren

time outstanding player for \ : fenceman and currently assis-| .The Saints took control of the ‘ : Mewes “het to veers bab “the hel- game in the third stanza when North River Juniors having next Thursday, January 14th, at

. | tant general manager, among the first to wear a hel: - |both teams ran imto a rash of |Played one more game than) 7 p.m. prior to the North River

mets were the football-type, big | | aoe eco Sashes belenete and heavy. Most of us threw |penalties. Gerry Kane, of. the Prince of Wales and St. Duns-| St. Dunstan's game.

on the market are made of plas- | hem away after che first game. ing Hawks and Billy Mac-|tan'’s High School, the top scor- | ~ ween I got rid of mine after only a| Millan of the Saints tried their | eter 3 ee - few minutes because it came |hands at fisticuffs after a shov- be tial league to date are as JUNIOR HOCKEY jury myself,” ‘said Geoffrion, | down geet el eyes ee eee ed . GA Pts Zee MARTIN. ve = mber .eouldin’t see what was going on. | were asse: ive minute ma- | Wes os Sarre oe en. nce eee helmets are |jers for thelr offerte Kane was | J Kennedy (RR) ws 15 | FO R U M The Aces’ move was- prompted | tstter’ short |much improved. They are |laer thrown of game.| *- nnedy by head injuries to two defence: |e aeer wm acd. ‘first (lighter and alr gets through so|with a misconduct. Jamey Ken-|V- MacDougall (Rs) £ 4 12] TUESDAY, JAN. 12th men, Jim Morrison ant ~Johm+into the boards at the Montreat |¥U-d00't perspire much." nedy. was also pjected.from the %. MpcArtor (PwC) ; % : $:30 P.M. Hanna. Morrison was the more | Forum two years ago, suffering |} Tetty Reardon, general man- game with a match penalty. . Cullen ; seriously hurt, suffering a frac-| ager of Baltimore Clippers of| The teams played at four|™M. MacKinnon (RR) 5 8 Rogers Hardware

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8 sideline . ; endorse the head protectors. “I|this frame and the Saints wurn- |B. Newson (NR) 6 “Rangers” Sie Vn te ee eee : saw the Quebec team play re-|ed the game into a rout with|J. Brown (PWC) 3 3 6 Rangers “After these injuries a few of Souris Rink cently and although it was a|goals ¢rom: Monaghan, St. Arn-|C. Campbell (RR) 2 6 vs. al ; . ———| s _|little_ strange seeing every |aut, B. MacMillan and Gord| Games to be played in the first! BD. WC. "Welshmen™ ~i . lleyball |15O ed food thing. I think iti be made| Den Whelan and Joe Coyelares lStudents 26 — Adults 50° j : m — Adults Vo y s Upen mandatory pretty soon.” handled the contest. Thursday, Jan. 14 — North a SUMMERSIDE — The Check-| ,SOURIS—he | Soorit st’ for ad os mhates, last year’s volleyball! the first time this winter with , .. By JERRY GLADMAN security and helped him on his champions are picking up whete| 4 general skate. 4 Press Staff Writer to a shot at Patterson 1 they left off last year in the| A large crowd was on hand . Chuvalo’s reputatio impressive victory | Nits Lose To Town League. for the first skate of the sea- ~flor blowing his big chances has |over Doug Jones in New York Saturday, at the completion of|son. If the weatherman co- created a lot of ‘sceptics among |in October earned him the rec- '| the opening games at the ee Remember, your home-town merchant can’t afford to sell-cheap, inferior aay tee ee ee Le MO eserved youre Eagles 4-2 County Vocational High School. | Os ae nthe rest ef the merchandise. He must depend on your mage, today, tomorrow and = Ee heweyweight chanaien. "Chafelle moved tote the heavy. oyna’ E — The RCAF in first place with a 60 won-loet winter. thereafter. And he must retain your if he is to stay in business, *<"But the ‘Toronto boxer insists | weight title picture with an Lith- have held first place Seeeed, Gostad plese Wes thar That is why you get an honest dollar’s worth when you spend locally. it will be a ‘new” Chuvalo who |round knockout over Jones, pre-|in the Prince County Hockey /oq by the Summerside Legion Ra T vel . Continued satisfaction to his customers is the goal of every home-town _ tangles with former world |viously rated No. 1 contender | League since their faC® | and the Y's Men with 42 m- ngers ta \ merchant, because he can only continue to serve you by offering all the f ee eae pe on World Boxing Associa- 6 ioe and Parad | cores. Lochy's negates exe 38! Te Se J 's finest merchandise at superior and reasonable prices. You are ahead ALL k.28 Feb. 1. there aoe ok ee Rogers: Hengars ¢ the Cher WAYS and ALWAYS when you shop in your home community. ; for the inevitable|PROMISED TITLE SHOT Borden Nationals who hav@| si merside High School Junior|lottetown and District Junior a that blossoms in a| Winner of the Chuvalo-Patier- | been the Eagles closely | Boys hai $8 seanebe League travel (6 Gt. Joseph's 5 é camp, there appears to /son fight has been promised a | all season y chance i w College this weekend to do Village Diner Stect MacLEOD & GREENE > Wales ths onddencsthered te wie of On merch Chicage | le lastnight oh soe shaged night at Civie Audi Pe te sauces, team. | (Carl MacAdam, Prop.) fj Building Supplies, Lamber. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER MACHINERY . handlers between Ernie Terre RCAF Borden, This year’s league looks to, be place Seine Cockel Mente Plywood. Wallboard. STEMS > See aa a eat tee a Beret oO NEAT 48 My Baton, us|, Te ear end okt | he Juno Lang Ba tie Tasty Light Lunches . E. GALLANT . PLUMBING & HEATING | says manager Ire Ungerman, 3 Poriaed. Ore, 5 postponed match. RCAF 208 |one and Saturday's play indicat-| suttered at the hands of ‘St. | Table and Counter Service | Phone 2% North Rustico [I gus-sits Phones duit > Ny yrs ey ad bd icc “ied that, All teams were well! Dunstan's High ‘School in an Phone 29 coal WBA’s | Na 6 : . ° who re mvele vernon of “the ch oasip . Doug Tucket, Bette. right exhibition game at 8.D.U. Rink. , oe —.. ; " Caniuy” Gay tor weee ol oy wh og eae oe AE | Basketball | Dart Results | + ELLE’S SHOPPE 0 W lee amie eee men scored three times in the KResU Ri R | FRASER BEL , he corling|match. Return-bout clauses ‘in mented See bell oft the : ‘ x Restaurant Hubert Harvey's Tuesday night at ins [tide fights 'are frowned! "upon uy | stays. ‘ward skating In Souris The following ate the resus}, Your Imperial Esso ff] For the finest tn ladies’ wear General Store 1 Club. Sparesithe WAB. Tucker's Wes soeree come C of play in the Inter-Club Dart] (Goldie Rix, Prop.) Agent at reasonable prices Clover Farm Store : FOUR QUICK Kos Ta irst veriod Less then four| SOURIG— There will be «| Leave om Thursday, Jaduary | wi, 05 tise Lumches Phone Chuvalo has seldom lived up | minutes ,. playing coach | double header basketball game |“. “3” ot @ Dresses ¥8. G\0 the promise he showed when, | Tony Licari, who shifted to de-| held here today between Souris| Brace (Bat § intercepted | Regional boys and girls and a| Brace “A” at 14. @ Coats + MaC-| knocked out four men in one MacWilliams’ pass and! boys and « girls team from) | ©. ap at es Roland Be stey. (mete, 3% wot | “agen Gordon Macias, nt The game starts at 4 STANDINGS Marne peed a. vunnka s * 8 WL @ Millinery FEEDS rer He was rewarded with a tele- ing for the résting Jerry | p.m the Souris Regional 8) Bea-|vised main bout ‘at Madison:| Campbell an impressive | High School ‘gym. Sets. Mess 5 7 8 ionaitl nak smplate, Peed Service | VS. | Square Garden in 1956, an event | first Se tae Legion “A” she oe : MS: DF-lthat, proved ve be the frst big |telew G6he a Darnley Ties Brace “AY. 5 14M Sh oy x letpieaten's|Hunter River (ines: Bes Wash., also a promising young- | period (2:40) a8 Al Andrews SB 916 MaeRae. Hunter a Bud, |*er, played 8 tation on Chu. | scored the omly goal, 4) stiding . Doug-|valo’s nose with a left jab and footer. B. Mac-|took an easy 10-round decision. glk dae ons ea Oe A. Mae- Ungerman says Chuvalo ‘had final — pry oe Bie Mme of another Acorn but others say Chuvalo, gd the time, dis-