ionemmmuuamm' I SPORTS a ~ Leafs Tie Canadiens 3-3 0.. a- . FRONT By PIUS CALLAGHAN Rough Going For HaII pom- Glenn Hall. He had the goaltending him really worry his way to it. The Vezma trophy seemed a sure thing for Glen back a that time the most horrible any meth ever few weeks ago but since ‘ about We had to put this column to bed before we learned what happened last night in Tomato but regardless of that result. Hall has still a major problem on ds. . The Hawks must play Canadiens Saturday. night. in Mont- real and it could well be that Hall would lose his Vezina trophy right at the Forum. IT'S hard to imagine the Black Hawks seem no dif . t . most of them anyway. They have no more in the Windy City until the scmi-iinals open. Saturday of this week they are in Montreal and they close up shop Sunday night 1n‘Boston. Of course both Plante and Bower could get their share of hurts before the final siren screams Sunday night but the Home games or road games pressure right now is on poor .He may indeed emerge the race and most folks would like The feeling among hockey fans in general is that the have let their great goaltenderdhwn. badly just at h ared to have won e prize. . When e awe behind him in these two remaining Perhaps they can rally games and pull the thing out of Combines Take Lead PRIINCE County Combines are now favorites to advance against New Brunswick intermediate ‘A' winners for the NB.- decision either Friday night at Civic P.E.I. championship. The Combines need a Stadium or Saturday iift3¢312';iio¢:nt fit The the best-of-seven finals - a e presen time. _ ~ It was a hard-fought contest Tuesday night but this time the Combines managed to grab the one-goal edge. Last Frxday night at Summerside the Royals skated off With a 6-5 overtime decision. ht now we wouldn't dare IE little or nothing to choose between the squads and the one getting the best breaks will undoubtedly conquer. Royals cer- tainly had no horsesth with them Tuesday. Dick Carroll. Jim MacLeod and Vince Mulligan had tremendous opportunities in that final session but nothing went right for them. The Royals are convinced that they will get hot on Friday and force a sudden death clash back at The Sports Arena on Satur- day afternoon. Clinic Friday Director of physical education, Dave Boswell. has reminded Island Volleyball Association i us that The Prince Edward holding a clinic on SPORTS FORUM Pisquid Gunner Fires price all wrapped up and. ready to take home when his teammates decided they were gomg to let a . winner in this hotly contested to see the guy get the award. me ice apparently matters little to the contestants. Combines got plenty of cheers from Tuesday’s big.house_a.nd the Royals tell us they got a great hand at The Stad11un_Fr1day when Vince Mulligan rifled home the big The Parkdale boys are still confident that they’ll series out of the fire. Angie Carroll will be back with the club and he could give the Frizzellmen the lift they need. Eustace Reeves. out with the flu on Tuesday, is expected back for this engagement at the western capital. However. we’d have some doubts about playing coach Roy ‘Buck’ Wlhitlock who missed action in the third period Tuesday when he was nursmg a dry. No Pep Talk Needed ' v THE Royals will not need any pep talk to get them ‘up' for this game. It‘s a must. There are no more if the Parkdale gang boots this one. Combines halve the crown if manage a decision on Friday night Friday. March 22 beginning at afternoon. The instructor will be David Tweedley, past presi; dent of The Canadian Volleyball Association. The site of the clinic is Civic Auditorium in Summerside. the Hawks have gone into flop like this. doing a ferent. They lost the Hawks s time the fire yet Heavyweight champion Son- ny Liston holds his training camp mascot, 11 ' year - old LISTON HEFI'S TINY MASCOT Mike Zwerner, aloft as he ar- rived at Miami airport yes- terday from Chicago to submit By BILL MacDOUGALL TORONTO (CP)—Dave Keon scored his second goal of the game with eight seconds to go Wednesday night to give Tor- onto Maple Leafs a 3-3 tie with Montreal Canadiens and their first National Hockey League championship in 15 years. With Tomato goaltender Don |Slmmons out of the net in the ylast minute of play. and some lfans on their way out of the kink, the pint-sized centre beat [Montreal netminder Jacques 'Plante from a scramble. Only seconds before Cana- .diens’ Dickie Moore had missed 'scoring by inches, his shot hit- ting the side of the vacant goal. The tie boosted Montreal to s second-place tie with Chicago Black Hawks with 0 two games left in the schedule. Bob Pulford had the other Toronto goal. Ralph Backstrom scored twice and Moore once for Montreal. Although either Chicago or NEW YORK (APl—Vic Had- field. who had managed just tw0 goals in 34 games this season. exploded for a three goals Wednesday night as New York Rangers defeated Boston Bruins 5-1 in a National Hockey League game. Hadfield bea Bruins‘ goalie IEd Johnston on a solo dash in the opennig period after inter- cepting a Boston pass at centre ice. He added goals in the second and third periods as the Rangers snapped a three-game losing streak. Andy Bathgate, runnerup to to a medical examination of his left knee. (AP Wirephoto) us. They lead SPORT ECHOES By Norman Summerside Bureau of The Guardian l Macdouald OVEI‘ 1m one in i e. pull the ey can predict the outcome. There‘s 41nt.he Back At Hunter's Corner Sir, —— Reading my favorite colu mn (Hunter‘s Corner) in The Guardian of March 1. I take notice the writer said “the sparks — a forerunner of the which might take place He also said that he shot his first duck at the age of 11 years but the visit to Pisquld Pond is up to the department at Ot- tawa but before a recommends-l ' n i s sent there. the proper thing to do is to publish in the daily paper right now to all gur- ncrs on Prince Edward Island to write to some responsible of- fice in Charlottetown. stating what date they wanted the duck season to open. Of course. have a closing date for those letters to be in. Then have a gunner from the country in each county. also three from the city or towns on Prince Edward Island go in for a get~loaether and whatever date is on the most letters. that date be recommended to or - tawa. We country gunners only want fair play and October 15 is not. playing fair with the country boys ' I am. so. (9.. Still Pisqnld Eat Gunner for 50 years. was two years before that vAriel: would leave him nine years of age. I did not know he was nine years older than I am. I was born in June 1895. He also said about 300 ducks were going to Plsq-ild Pond in early September. Then. about he 22nd of that month they all it for beaver dams in Mar- tlnvale. He asked a party why left and the answer he got that they were ‘rattled out. who!» he meant they were geared by gunfire. If so, I really think he was taken in by this same mung was "1“;- e else living in this vicinity. that I have talked to, nevur heard a shot in that dir- ection before October 1. 1962. game warden was on duty made regular calls to this s leg. go-out he . I will take his word went to Msrtlnvale. ‘ lit) went north. ,fl. Peters. also 300 ’a ‘ (Parl- 1nd!» to t' r .« lblottheir break- ‘H n a nice may mostofns CURLING DRAW The following is the curling draw for Thursday at the ar- lottetown Curling Club. This is the start of the Seagrams Play. double knock-out. (Spares need- ed ). 6.50 PM. (SEAGRAM SEC. 'A') Ice 1 K. corn. G. Anderson. R. Carr. B. Cook. vs II R Car- ruthers. li Peters. H. Douglas. C. Maclnnes. Ice 2 W. MacLaine. W. Far- rell. J. MacDonald. N. Mac- Neill. vs. F. Curtis. C. Asprey. E. Gillespie. Dr. Jelks. Ice 3 O'Rourke. I. Horne. C. MacLean. J. Weldon. vs. C. Flinn. M Jenkins. G. Vessey. II. Love. Ice 4 E. Tanton. F. MacMillan. Lou Johnston. J. Whalen. vs. MacDonald. L. Turner. D. A. ' Estabrooks. S. Bryenton re I ce D. Saunders. E. Mac- Donald. C. Campbell. B. Lepage, vs. J. Cameron. Geo. Rays. 0. H Wellner. A E. Piercey. 030 (MIXED CH'PIONSIIIP) s O'Rourke. Ice 3 A. MacDonald. vs. A. Smith Ice 4 R. Ketch. vs. B. Acorn. cs 5 A Humphrey vs. D. Quite An Ordeal Where you ever so het up and excited about a sporting event that two minutes seem- cd like fifteen? it's quite an‘ ordeal. isn’t it? But if the two minutes are actually fif- then the original two minutes will seem at the same rate of excitement ex- pansion like almost two hours. That’s what happened to us Tresday evening listening to the hockey broadcast from Sports Arena. Between whist- io-s. thrown bottles, and time rdjustmrnts, it took almost f.l‘teen minutes to play the last two minutes of the third period. When it was all over, we tried to do a victory polka on the rug. but collapsed in A Summerside lady called us Lp about a week ago and told us he flooders at Sports Arena were not flooding the area in front of the home net. the had been attending the away-from-home games. and Wondered at this. It happened too often to be an accident or oversight. It was obviously done so that the puck would have more friction to deal with wl‘en speeding towards the home net. Now we didn't. and don‘t think for a minute that the Royal management had anything to do with this. Probably an idea cooked up by the delegates themselves. but it was allowe c tinue until a mainland referee took charge. and he stopped it. Chalk up another black mark against those "best-in- the-Maritimes" referees who ling home. , . ‘ K k._ ghan 10. Buotte 6. Chinery. Mad- 1110!). If “tied after 1 8811193 AnOTher BlaCk Mark Ibgozcm: of“ “t2: “egg; imam; dock 2, Turgeon 3. Grant 2. Tot- teams Will play at 9 pm. on ran from "in" Edward I._ which Stratford bounced back to “I 62' , . we 1 mam}! mun 1.... m“ a “We °‘ “‘3 W"- Miiili'ém a' agitim‘fii'inir' ' j 5 . . o The Tyne Valley Cloverringing-“Ts QUEBEC 14. Weale 3. Huggan. King. Tot- InterSChOIGSflC a heap on the chaise lounge. it looked like the same 5 wzih the same sad ending as the last game played at Sports Arena. On that occasion the Combines jumped Into an early lead, but were caught and pass- cu over the long haul. Tuwday night they were leading 2-0 ear- b ly in the first period. but down 34: at one stage of the second period. Somebody must have changed to script. however. for it was the Combines who bounc- ed back 10 score the final two goals l‘I‘llS time. The series is not over by a long shot. slapy or otherw.se. but the Combines (tr are displaying a fighting spirit. which is a credit to them wheth- er they win or lose. ; Farmers. who started out likel whirlwinds this Winter. (guess we got the “this"is just in time) and tapered off a Little in mid.- souson, did finally clean up on all Prince County opposition. and will meet the Souris Cross- bones tonight at O'Leaty in fliel first game of the Island inter-l mediate “B” finals. That rem minds us. Now that the Queens at County and Prince County All-1 Stars have played for the "Billy l Mulligan" fund. why don't wol nave something different Civic Stadium? Why not haveI ' (the the best players in Inter- mediate "B" teams in Prince County play the Eagles or Com- bines. That might draw a very large crowd from the rural Darts. Curling Event Opens Sat. A big curling event get un- der way at Summerside Cirr- llng Club this weekend, the Maritime Junior bunspiel on Friday and Saturday. The island will be represented by s rink tram Charlottetown and one from Summerside. The Swomside skip is Eric Johnston who won a bonspiel in Dartmouth recently. and almost won the Junior com- petition in Amherst two years. ago. His rink mates are Lloyd Lawless. Dan Darling. Bill Woodside. Andy Humili- iey, a Kcnsington native. now living in. Charlottetown. 3 skip of the Capital City four- some. Nova Scott; will be Fredericton and Campbellotn w' complete the sixminls competition. Confessions Of A Curling Tyre We close with our latest mas- ierpiece— "Confessions of a curling tyro." I try my best with all my cares to me! Ibringbcmetomy wifsmy labehmne pay. Iut fellow curlers near mid say: “That dope! He's for the birds-dis can't take out and stay." I give to charity and pet strange cats. I pay my taxes. yet they say: “that louse! If you ask me. his belfry’s full of bats. Ask for draw weight-his stone goes through the house." lbelpoldladlescrosssbuey I Iiiry to cheer my frlemh, 1 full of gloom. Yet drips and mates refer to me with heat: “A hopeless case! He's always room!" .blankcd seven ends and Onta-iSte‘vart atl Detroit‘s Gordie Howe scoring race. picked up three altirslacsmk I Saints, Pirates "° Meet In Finals In legion Spiel Pirates and Junior Saints will FORT ARTHUR (cp) __ A}, . meet in the City Basketball Lea- berta’s Pete Husar rink fromlglle finals getting underway Edmonton took control in the.981‘ly next week. Royal Canadian Legion curling l This “’85 d9“de 9‘ Saint Dun- championships Wednesday 3f. stan's last night when Junior ternoon with an 3-7 win over I Saints eliminated PWC Welsh- Walt L a y c o c k ' 5 Sheubmok | men by virtue of a 62-31 victory assists and ran his seasons point total to 78. four back of the Red Wings star. Forbes Kennedy of Charlotte- town, ruined Gump Worsley's chance for a shutout when be converted pretty passes from John Bucyk and Tom Williams for Boston's only goal at 9:02 of the third period. SUMMARY First period: 1. New York. Hadfield 3 6:19. Pe allies— McKenney 2:44. Green 12:41, Langlois 18:19. Second od: 2. New York, Hadfield 4 (McKenney, Bath- gate) 12:41. Penalty—Spencer 16:14. Third period: 3. Boston. Ken- nedy l2 (Bucyk. Williams) 920 ; 4. New York, Hadfield 5 (Bath- gate, McKenney) 10:06; 5. New York, Hebenton 15 (Schinkel) 16: 9; 6. New York. Henry (Bathgate. Langlois) 10:29. Penalties—Kennedy 3:23, Neil- son 12:17. Harvey 14:16. Had- field 19:55. Saves: Johnston Worsley squad from Saskatchewan |and Pirates took their schedul- The win left Alberta unbea-l ed same with BYC by default ten in five starts and all alone, 1 when the Youth Clubbers failed at the top of the standings. Sas-l to floor a team- katchewan's loss was the first} The Malpeque Road students for them and they dropped into dominated the play all the way second place. their game with Welshmen. Two other rinks which had By halftime they had built up a een beaten only once enterlng 33713 193d "Cl 1" the “"31 30 play in the fifth round sustained 1 m‘mute's of 80mm they ou’tscm" losses. John Kiiburn's Fi‘eder-ied the ,C‘tg" “Incl-3'3“ 2948- icton crew gave up two on the1 L9“ 511‘015 Paced the Winners final end to drop an 8.7 decision 16 points. P II Mullally to Joe McKinnon‘s B.C. repre¥1garnered 13 and Han-V Callagh’ sentatives from Kamloops' :an 10. Tops for the Welshman And. Nova Scotia also i‘ell.‘was .Ladner with 14 points‘ losing to Ontario 5_3 in an ex_l Officials for the game were a . end match. The squads‘George McGuigan and Scott rio‘s Steve Stratford rink froml gem are the mumps;— Virginiatown led only 3-1 com- a dwhle by wanylfl. Mullally 13. Perry 2. Calla- aints: — Sirois 16. Corcoran. 8 be Curling Draw For Montague Here is the curling draw for Montague tonight:— 7 PM. Ice l—Hen'riette Clair vs. Margaret Sullivan. I-.M Ice '2— MacDonald ye edy. MacKinnon and Colin MacDon- ald will play E. Shaw. H. Moan, L. tewart and Brookins in the first game of three acres in TM. st of Llewellyn Farmers Manitoba - Northwestern On- . a] 31. tario whipped Sam Butt‘s Val-l leyfield curlers from Queb . Today’s Minor Hockey Schedule ec 1.1-2 as Bill Hodgson’s Fort Wil- ham rink came up with its best I game to date. In R kwthle other game Carm oc el ’5 Newfoundland entry . - from St. John’s won its first Sts‘ Jen—n eggpgrspigmgmgfg; game' 9'5 over Doug MCGUW' Inks (Sudden deth after 45 ant's Montague. P.E.I.. quar- I mnmés) e. _ ' ‘ | 8.30 —— 10.00 — Intorcholastic N s FIFTgoolfigoUggmz 0 3 Queen Charlotte High Vls Birch- ofithflo 000101000100 ' 5 wool High (Opener of best-of- 2' :‘ive series for city title). ‘Manitoba-NM. Ontario OFFICMLs 030 012 01! 210 - ll . much” 100000 100m_ 2 l 5.00 — p.00 —- Grant Crockett. 13.0. v 101001021002- 8 "S We" 010120100110- 7 . . 001002 101) 320- 0 T lP.E.I. 100010011001. 5 HaWkS Down Alberta 001 002 130 100 - 8 Sask. 110100001021. 7 c b' 5 3 am Ines - MONCI‘ON (GP) — Sparked Hoop Tourney by . . defenceman picked up from the last-place team in their own league oncton Hawks defeated Piescott-Kemptville Combines 5-3 here Wednesday night to take a 10 lead in the best-of-five All-an Cup quarter finals. Slated Sal. O’LEARY —— Eight teams from five regional high schools will compete at O’Le Saturday in Series Opens This evening at 8.30 pm. sharp w see c of this year’s City Interscholastic play- downs between Birchwood High and Queen Charlotte High at Sports Arena. These two teams always play a fast. pleasing type of hockey and this year’s series which will 5‘ net" owes the Montreal could tie Tomato on points—«the Leafs have 82 and the other two clubs 78 each— Leafs- automatically would take the championship because of more victories. Second place could well be decided in a Chicago-Canadlens game in Montre Saturday. The Leafs went ahead with two goals in the second pe- riod. but Montreal tied it with a minute and a half left in that period and added two more goals both by Backstrom — by 12:44 of the final period. HITS FROM TOUGH ANGLE Keen got the first goal after only 22 seconds of the second period on a 30-foot shot frm a difficult angle. Pulford added another at 9:59. Simmons stopped a‘ shot from the point by Jacques Laper- riere with his shoulder, on lost sight of the puck. It fell by the corner and Moore was right there to push it in at 18:50. S To Cap’rure NHL Ch'ship ford and Bsekstrom 14:03, Backst 19:05. : 1. Toronto. Second period Keen 2] (Kelly) 0:”: 2. Tor. onto. Pulford 19 (Machllan Kelly) 9:59; 3. Montreal. Moore 24 (Laperriere. Richard) 18:30. Penalties—Harper 8:18. Stanley 17:27, Talbot 19:09. Third period: 4. Montreal. Bockstrom 22 (Hicke, Marshall) 5:13; 5. Montreal. Backstrom 23 (Marshall) 12:44; 6. Toronto, .Keon (Duff. Nevin) 19:52. Penalties — Backstrom 0:41, Douglas 9:32. Saves Plante 5 8 8—21 Simmons 12 10 7—29 M. Harbour Holds Shoot Results of the weekly shoot held in the Murray Harbor Rifle Range on March 1401. James Gordon Fred C. White Bruce Gormley William J. Harris Randall Richards John Hanlon Bruce Dort Jim Lelglhtizer Ronnie Gormley Crllly Lea Maureen Gordon Fred Buell p e r l o d: No scoring. s—Armstrong 1:20. Pul- SPORTS FORUM First Penaltie of “Iagoo. The Great Booster." and his "yakkln" as we rea d “Hunter’s Corner" of March 8. and. with due appreciation of facts which obviously the author is unaware of. or. his complete Ignorance has finally surfaced, we hereby wish to inform the public. of whom we have eve respect. as to the facts of the Harmony Dam project sponsor- ed by the Souris Branch of the Prince Edward Island Fish and Game Association. This Branch did not “experi- ment with public funds." and the columnist of “Hunter's Cor- Souris Branch an apology for such mis-statement. 88932888882888 Barry Harris Souris Branch President Answers ’Corner’ Writer 12 9 —30 . 10 3 3-26 Sir. -— We recalled the story with the rainy season forced the abandonment of completing the: We will state. though we were not silly and childish enough to take colored pictures of our ef- fort, that the water level was raised and flowed as planned by way of as Now our certainty is this: As soon as we receive a legitimate bill for actual service rendered from the department. not only will we pick up the “tab.” but will pay it from our (not public) funds. I am. Sir. etc., JOSEPH HENNESSEY. President. The Souris Branch P. E. 1. Fish and Game Association. This Branch has a paid up mem- bership for 1962 of one hundred and eighty members. and the amount voted (to be spent out of our personal collection of Membership Fund) for the Bar mony Dam is yet in our coffers. This branch did not bill the . e re- act - the Depart- ment billed this Branch for FAMOUS FOR BRANDED INSPECTED STEAKS GOOD OB “°"“ the operator of the unsatisfac' tory working machine with which he was supplied only worked the machine on this job for seven hours (the operator's statement). and with the Job un- finished because of improperly. operating, equipment. together be a best - of - five affair should give hockey fans of the city plenty of real entertainment. At the time of writing no one would pick a winner in this ser- ies. As one put it—"the why these boys play. anyone could in." One thing is sure. both teams will give all they hay led by Jack Kane and Jack Rea- dy. will show plenty d hustle and hockey savvy. Game time again is 8.30 pm. the provincial senior B Basket. ball championship tournament. it has been learned here. The games will be played In the high school auditorium. Tignlsh. Montague. Souris and Juvenile Abbie: Take Opener SUMMERsmE — The Char- O'Leary Will have teams competing in the day long com. petitio . Girls teams are coming from Tignlsh. Morell. Souris and O'- Leary to compete in their tour- nament for the provincial title. The ournament gets under- way at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Hampshire Takes Game Hampshire eliminated Kingston c . The game was a rough one and in minor . 4 madars. two 10 minute ndsconducts. and a game misconduct were handed out by referees Bolas. McCor- inack sn:l Coke Grady. Y — I. Abbie.— Fll'sl Period: 3 IcolASsnndersvsJLDob M on LEAD. WORLD was The United States leads the world in shery products im- ‘ng 717,100 tons for .410.” is 181. Souris Wins County Title Souris Regional High School girls clinched the ngs County lniersdiolas J. Chews-is. . “my. MacDonald and P. Fitzpatrick 2 each. B. O'Haaley 5 and J. Rosalia 2 The lineups for the boys‘ game are as ows: — M‘orell- J. McCarten 3. J. Gill 9; P. C . acDona K. MacDonald. 2 each. Souris -— G. Gravel-1c 6. Paouet 10. from the league semi - finals Tuesday night at North 11 l v e :- rink. blanking them . B. Campbell scored a pair and other goalgetters were R. Math- eson and G. Barrett. Flood (K. Smith): 4. Abbie— Burns (Flood. Fleming). Third Period — 5. Summer- s’de — G. Smith (B. Perry, W. Trainer). . PRACTICE will be held from 7 pm. to 8 pm. at the Sports Arena. for the Old Spain Junior Penguins. All players are urged to be there. thirty-four hours of work. when r u Patterson: I I s l— SPORT COATS BACK --------fi Watch Repairs 118 Kent St. Dial 4-0733 . newest tweak 0 fine checks . liaitweights. too 0 sizes as to 40 regulars and tall! priced from 29.98 Credit Terms Available Grafton St. PLAYOFF HOCKEY FRIDAY NIGHT MacKenzies Win Eve 8 IDE — MacKenzles UMMERS volleyball team won a bye into :the finals for the championship of is I It CIVIC Auditorium last night. I e angles two games to one. } The Triangles. a l tCharlottetown. and Will take on Mackensles. also of Summerside, for Island crown. l SUMMERSIIIE STADIUM SANDY’S ROYALS PRINCE COUNTY COMBINES out» Time 9:15 PM. "HINDI: Halts 00:: Salem 353 Advance Sale of Tickets st Bosfes Pharmacy. YOUNG LIBERAL RALLY Thursday - 8.30 p. In. ROLLAWAY CLUB 4-8332 Ch’town MostYoernssnsCoJlbordCudldam ALLISONGILISandIIALIWIS om Spodror ALEX cmrasn Dsscstotho Refresh-tents Cass-s Cody Yong mus! W