By SPORTS FRONT PIUS CALLAGHAN Hoop Series Opens BIRCHWOOD and Queen tonight at Birchwood Charlotte High School basketball in the first game teams will meet gym a emotes set for the City Inter-scholastic hoop championship, o school squads are basketball co high on o t Dare, in Eddie Lawlor and Bobby LeC' whole lot on _ abilities of Ronni Folks should see some real scholastic encounter and it is hoped that Birchwood gym will be packed for this contest. Both coaches have worked h one of them is desirous of as m boys in action. These same schoo! of it in interscholastic hockey and we have the feeling that the ers, — coaches Jack Kane and Jack Ready are Kane has a couple of outstanding performers possessed of some right smart | lair and Ready is depending 2 jie Diamond. ly great action in this inter- ard on their charges and each any as possible watching their ls gave spectators a great time same kind of’a fight will continue’in this hoop series. INTERCOLLEGIATE basketball in these parts ha fro idk rom outs think th Rona Jack Kane and Jack Ready oe -_— who are givin ey are not welcome among x; and their talents on the basketball floor Roan’ been exceptionally fine, These boys been We on t le the provinces. have had no trouble grabb- but this procedure may are turning out hoop players g promise of being future intercollegiate Indeed Kane insists that he has some players on his team a: Jack doesn’t qualify hi will be able to hold tues own wi will be sure peereeernvme SO let's give these school hoopsters a good crowd tonight. Get this basketball series underw and their statement one hit. He believes his lads bets if they go to university. ith the best of them. ay in fine style. Show the boys | ou are solidly behind them coaches that y Action aaa at 7 o'clock this evening. Welcome Home | We're giad to see Jim McTa Spain Penguins, back RECEIVES TROPHY | Educa- | Bos- | George Monaghan, _ right, captain of St. Dunstan’s High School hockey team, receives the Taylors’ { Division of Physical Jewellers and | tion trophy from Dave well, director of physical edu- cation for the province. “*St. 'Hawks Take Series Lead With 4-3 Win Over Habs j | By LAURENT CHIASSON MONTREAL (CP) — Chicago Black Hawks capitalized on de- fensive lapses for a 4-3 aa fight = but after Berenson | whipped a short pas over Montreal Canadiens Thurs- day night and a 3-2 lead in games in their best - of - seven Stanley Cup semi-finals. Black Hawks, defending cup champions, now can wrap w) the series if they win the sixth game on home ice Sunday night. If Canadiens win the sixth, a aya and deciding game will | ae peel here next Tuesday | ee Hull, Bronco Horvath, | Ken Wharram and Bill (Red) Hay scored the Chicago goals, while Phil Goyette, Claude Pro- | vost and rookie Gordon (Red) | Berenson tallied for Canadiens. Wharram got e decisive goal at 19:14 of the second period, snapping a 2-2 tie after Montreal goalie Jacques Plante HAWKS OPTIMISTIC ad been caught out of position. tay ee it 42 early in the third Canadiens tried to put them te within one goal Hawks took over with relentless mati and backeheck- | WITHDRAW PLANTE Plante was pulled out in favor | of an extra attacker with about | one minute left, but with the t by | had | The win puts Hawks in the position as last sp | same when they eliminated Canadiens | win in the in a simil ar semi-final series and went on to win their first Stanley a in 22 years. aan won the Last spring, fifth game here and wrapped up the series in sixth game on home ice. Plante had a bad night and faced only 29 shots compared Dunstan's captured the pro- vincial senior ‘‘A’’ interschol- | astic hockey crown. gue, secretary-treasurer of Old k home once none after an operation at Victoria General hospital in Halif. Jim was bothered since last finally made his way to Halifax a disc. He is AE rattan Pl rapidly fm about another month. Glad to see you around, Jim. pa with a bad back and last month for the removal of and hopes to be back at work Those Dodgers LA Walter Last year Walt was criticized game problem is be any ST season the young Los Angeles Dodgers eeenrnn a didn't set the world on fire but this season is said to be the one of on ion. It could well be the year of decision for manager ‘ton. this season and answer. Even Leo the Lip hasn’t a solution. for platooning his players. The re doesn’t appear to “I was criticized last year for platooning my outfielders” says Alston. “I wish I could go when I had such men as Hod Reese ges, Snider, Furillo, Campanella, back to the old Dodger days inson. When you got players like that. you leave ‘em in oo day no po ory who’s pitching or how they pitch.” T UES Willie ed a you have a Davis, a ‘ommy Frank veowara or a Duke Snider at his age, you’ve got to platoon them. I realize it might be better to have a Howard or the Davises play that when you're oe for a ~ ve got a seventh place club, but not when each game much.” Congrat every day but you can’t do mnant. Maybe it’s all right if means ulations R congratulations to Summerside midgets on winning the New eee oe Mh apy sin Island championship. .. The sponsors in Summerside are a determined group and this determination undoubtedly cost them money. This recént game with Cam liton was * = affair but Howard Waite o the thing toon to the cae hockey is on a sound footing in et CO and it’s g that teams from this enterprising town meet with success. "Te ouen, everybody concerned. Big Game Tonight THERE’LL be action galore when Hamps' — Ni their r hockey series for the W R. res eee boys lead this best-of-se tonight at St. Dunstan's rink ine Mile Creek Bulldogs renew Shaw trophy. seven series three games to two and could clinch the trophy with a decision tonight. If the Nine Mile Creek team conquers, the sevenfh and deciding Saturday night. le will be played ‘Action is slated for 8 o’clock tonight. Gary Playe r Leads Early In Masters AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)—South Africa’s Gary Player, the for- gotten champion, picked up where he left off a year ago and fired a brilliant five-under- par 67 Thursday for the first- round a in the Masters golf tournamen Finishing in fue Pine hee a faw, cold drizzle, Pla | nailed a birdie three on the final | hole to go two strokes ahead of Julius Boros, who had checked | “im two hours earlier with a 69. | While the crowd hugged the 18th green, Player sent a boom- ing drive some 260 yards down the middle, punched a No. 4iron shot to within eight feet of the cup and calmly sank the putt the round of the day. Tournament favorite, Arnold , also a birdie on the final hole by dite an 18 foot putt for a 70. He was brack- in third place with. Mike former Duke foot- ball star, and two darkhorses Florida, Dave Ragan and Dickinson Jr. One of the tournament hot- shots, young Jack Nicklaus, dropped ter ront- line content a 74. to green, Hogan _ his con- fidence on the green Al Balding of Tororito fired a| 37-38—75, Stan Leonard of Van- | couver shot a 37-40—77 and ama- | teur Gary Cowan of Kitchener, Ont., wound up with a score of | 40-43. -83. BASEBALL SCORES 2 Red Kelly Is Hero As Leafs Nip N.Y. By JACK SULLIVAN Canadian Press Sports Editor TORONTO (CP)—Centre Red Kelly scored at 4:23 of the sec- ond overtime period Thursday |night to give Toronto Maple | Leafs a fiercely-fought 3-2 vic- | tory over New York Rangers and a 3-2 lead in games in their best-of-seven Stanley Cup semi- inal. The 34-year-old centre — in the rebound on a hard d by left-winger Frank Mahovlich with Lorne (Gump) Worsley ly- | ing flat on Ler back at the cor- |ner of the n The goal, Kelly's third of the i climaxed a tremendous 3 | had this playoff against the surpris- | iod. Then, at 12:21 of the second the Blake Bla On Stupid By BRUCE STOVEL MONTREAL (CP) — Optim- ism raced through Chicago | Black Hawks dressing - room | Thursday night after the team’s 4-3 victory over Montreal Cana- diens to take a stranglehold 3-2 | lead in games in their best-of- | seven Stanley Cup semi-final. “I think we can do it,”’ coach Stan Mikita, 21 - year - old 3-2 In Overtime =": centre who has sparked Hawks night for Leafs’ big line, which | footer past Worsley to open the | through the series, said ‘yeah, ingly strong Rangers, who won two games in New York after losing the opening pair in Maple Leaf Gardens. KELLY KEY MAN Kelly, with left-winger Frank | ley, fought back to tie it a 38 | but we lost on four, stupid mis- | one, Stafford Brilliant ASN. Y. Nips Phils THE ASSOCIATED PRESS| who both cafne Right - hander Bill Stafford, | doubleplays were in progress. Mahovlich and right-winger Ron tewart playing in place of the benched Eddie Shack, broke out with devastating firepower to score all Toronto goals. And Kelly, a seasoned Cup veteran, | was the key man on all three. He flippéd out a pass from behind the New York nets to Stewart who whipped an eight- Imlach Heaps Praise : On Leafs TORONTO (CP) — aA coach Punch Imlach beamed after his Maple Leafs beat New 3-2 in overtime Thursday night, but he saved a lot of praise for Ranger's pudgy goalie Gump Worsley. “Worsley played a_ fantastic game,” he said. “I’ve seen a lot of good goaltending before, but nothing like this.’ Imlach was also lavish in his praise for Leafs. “I’ve never seen this club up as much for a game as it was tonight. They .had a lot of chances, but we had _ better ones. But we couldn't get past Worsley. Veteran Red Kelly, the quiet- spoken centre who scored the winning goal at 4:23 of the sec- | On Boxing }ond overtime period, called it | “quite a thrill.” | HARVEY COMPLAINS Coach Doug Harvey of Rang- ers thought the play should have stopped before Kelly's game-winning goal. He said . referee Eddie Powers called rk good game,” but ad : “He should get his whistle up faster.” Worsley and Gump didn’t know the puck was. where thought the puck was some- where around my head,” Wors-| he throttled the goal - hungry | Stafford has been virtually un- dete session, Mahovlich tipped in the | Redhead’ s 40-foot blast to give Leafs a 2-0 lead. rs, backed up by the sensational netminding of Wors- | before regulation time goals in the second and Pe periods. Just 80 seconds after Mahov- lich’s goal—at 12: eee ee Guy Gendron beat Tor minder Johnny ou oe : 25-foot knee-high blast. LEAFS IN COMMAND Leafs completely ere ee ow te Nery first half aay boeie out Pat an ers su that paid off at 12:31 on centre ton 'ingarfiel's third goal of | mane . ek it until Kelly’s goal | that brought the crowd of 13,312 roaring to clinch counter, been ominously silent in| scoring at 7:47 of the first per- | We can he Sunday. We'll play way we've been | and kick the hell. out of them as Blake said reais ‘we're out yet’’ in the morgue-like eeaakiiae dressing-room “We outplayed them by far, By oo “his earned run _aver-| o a spectacular 1.69, be-| caule the first member of New| | champions edged Philadelphia | takes. We gave them four goals. ‘DONE THE HARD WAY’ mes Loss Mistakes “We've got our backs to the | wall’ now, but we can do it. This team a done everything the | hard w to 38 by Chicago's =’ Hali He was trapped a of the net when Ab ou s to ram who just hed ‘ dump it in. In the second minute of the carried from , Pierre his own blue line and when the | | macketvent eawened about 20 feet in front waar ROUGH It wasn’t a rough game. Ref- eree Frank Udvari handed only nine minor penalties and none — in the scoring. Canadiens dressed Ralph and Bernie (Boom defence _ onset Boom) Geoffrion, both rursing Mon’ Plante’s view, The cro’ here for the series—let with a big ovation when Beren- Hay sco! wd of 14 cant game, injuries suffered in the third but they weren’t used arly. Ba ckstrom, who suffered a closed the gap to 43 at) — left shoulder separation | son 10:26 of the third. It was Hawks third straight series after losing the first two by 2-1 and 43 scores here last week. Plante got off on the wrong foot at 2:55 of the first when » ae to play Hull instead f the puck. * Hull vo Pees = de- fence and ‘Lou renee aig er pow of the —, But Plante was a out of his net and the ick skipped _ his stick for aie Chicago Canadiens he ‘the score at 6:13, Goyette beating Hall after Provost had aren a pass from Hawks’ Reggie Fleming. Provost got around Chicago's Turner inside the Chicago took a pass from Moore and beat Hall at 13:08 to give Canadiens a 2-1 lead. Fleming for Horvath’s - that tied the score 2-2 at 17:27. He inter- cepted a pass from Fontinato behind the Montreal net and passed to Horvath standing un- made the big play 4 A few Fas gy cries of, “they beat us here, we can beat them there” echoed in the silent yers oe with eyes riveted on Hawks’ Ss rece Hull, who scored his fourth goal the series, said with ee ‘we'll win Sunday. I frankly can't see how " can lose, the | way we've been ying.”’ | Bill (Red) Hay yet the game had shown the same pattern of the other four in the series: “We can put together two good periods and they can only play home _ while victory brought Yankees record to 17-8 and left them: in a tie with St. Louis for the best -Cards, getting an early tead| It was a oes ier gol for | 2-1 Thursday at Fort Lauder-| trom stan Musial’s first exhibi- | Worsley, the r d 32-y he has eth 7 stundeek of old | dale. A key performer in the 1961) the series with his acrobatics, | pennant race when he posted 5! at Lakeland and handed Tigers | “I was lying on my back and | He has been the big bulwark in | 14-9 record in his first full year ag eighth consecutive loss. all five games. Time and again in the majors, the 23-year-old ley said, “I lifted my head up| Leafs with dazzling saves from | touchable this spring. He al-| to see if I could see it. The) almost every conceivable angle. | lowed 11 hits — all pies | next thing I heard was SUMMARY | against Phils but walked only he whistle and I thought the play had been stopped, but the puck was in the net. “I guess when I lifted my head, Kelly poked the puck into the net.” Florida City Prepares Ban FORT LAUDERDALE, Fila. (AP)—A city commissioner pre- pared Thursday legislation either to ban or place stringent |‘ | controls on professional boxing | /and said the death of Benny | ( a ar Tuesday prompted | | the ” Osnainsalitioe William Cc ~y Worsley had fallen on the | Mason, who 4 oy roposed the ordi- puck after Mahovlich had shot nance, eaten ie At San Antonio, Los Ang. A one 100 01d 29 Houston 000 20 Duren, Bowsfield (6), (7), Spring (9) auer (9) (7); Mossi, ae (7), Fox (9) and Brown HRs: StL—Musial. | St. » Fla. Kansas City 100 011 120— 6110 ew 000 000 014— 5112 , Osinski (9) at | ai and Cannizzaro. HR: KCy—Siebern Cincinnati in their first-round try. Chicago A 000 x—5 70 Five players were tied at 71. O'Toole, Sisler (8) and John- They were the reigning U.S. son; » Score (8) and Ol- open Gene Littler; lar. HRs: Chi-A. Smith, C. former champion Bob Ros- Smith. burg; Bayer, Don Janu-| At Miami, sad Billy Maxwell. Minnesota 042 000 000— 6 101 an oid Lee and Battey, Zim L(); Ww (8; an) 'Lau. HRs: Minn-—Allen,' Ver- | saalles, Rollins. At Fort Landerdale, Fia. | Phila. 000 000 O01— 1112 |New York A 000 011 00x 2 76 Owens, Hamilton (6) and Dal- tymple; Stafford and Howard. FIRST CENT Cent as the name of a com al first. preposed im. 1782. Gouverneur Morris, assistant : NO. 9 COMING UP - - - - By Alan Maver First period: 1. Toronto, Stew-| one while strikin art 1 (Kelly) 7:46. Penalties—| g out six Yankee runs were scored by | Tom Tresh and Joe Pepitone, Duff 3:39, Hafield 8: a ate 8:32, Nevin 9:04, Langl 1 econd Mahovlich 1 lod: 2, "Tereate, (Kelly) 12:21; 3. New York, Gendron 3 (Hamp- | son) 13:41. Penalties — Mahov- lich 4:16, Ingarfield 4:16, Bath- gate 10:15, Brewer 10:15. Third od: 4. New York, aa ee 3 ae Gilbert) 12:31. Penalties—None Second ertime period: 5. Kelly 3 peters 4:23. Pen- alties— | Saves Worsley 13131115 4—56 ower 12 71010 0—39 STANDINGS Best-of-seven semi-finals SeHisaill Hotspurs 4-3 LONDON (AP) — eee the defending champions from Portugal, qualified ae | night for the final of uropean Cup soccer chumblie ship with an aggregate goals score of 4-3 after home-and- away matches . Totten- ham Hotspur of Englan Tottenham defeated “Benfica | 2-1 in the second leg before an excited crowd of 65,000 at in don’s White Hart Lane Stadium. The Spurs threw everything into the attack but the compact Ben- fica defence held them out. | tonio and Kansas City ee Benfica Ousts | | Petersburg. other games, Minnesota | ated Baltimore 6-2 at Miami Chelan White - a! Cin- | cinnati 5-0 at nah, Los | ae Dodgers ear Choviiion at Tucson, San bit ry a “iy lted Milwaukee Phoenix, Houston ciate in Angeles Angels 3-2 at San An- New York Mets 65 at CURLING DRAW | The following is the curling | draw a oe at the Charlo- | ttetown club. ‘M. (Rotation) Ice . George, Dr. ster, S. Bryenton, A. Brace webs vs . Cameron, ~ Michael, F. Mor- | gan, J.S. Tayl Ice 2—J. Sate, B. Veinot, Dr. Beck, Dr. Craig vs G. Ben- nett, D. Douglas, Dr. Roberts, r. Drysdale. Ice 5—A. MacDonald, Dr. Mc- Eachern, Dr. Hooper, H. Dob- son vs C. Campbell, P P. Sete Dr. Kelly, W. Farrell 8 P.M. Ice 3—(Championship mixed final), Al Saunders vs Wen Mac- Laine, ; py 4—Consolation mixed f1- a WLFA| Benfica Ciies 321712 | in tine won the first leg 3-1 ea ; WOMB aCe eh cree tt et oe ‘oronto 2 1514 e New York 23 1415 d oi Landis Has G A Pts. Pen. 3 8 ill s 9 i Injured Leg 4:4. ; SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP)~-Cen- 4:23*% 0 | tre-fielder Jim a left the 32s 14| White Sox Th and flew | ae Ve 4| to Chicago te oan treatenent of an | 2 4 6 9| injured ae pe 4 Manager Lopez 23 5 | Landis isn fant ready for the club's 22 5 g| home opener lay he s Goa a be replaced in the starting lineup by rooki h- berger. 8.30 P.M. Ices 1, 2 and 5 open for mixed es Kid Paret’s . Body Flown To Miami NEW YORK (AP)—The body of boxer Benny (Kid) Paret was flown to Miami Thursday for burial. A total of 20,000 per- sons filed past the casket of the before it was taken by hearse to Idlewild Airport. Mrs. Lucy Paret, 21-year-old pregnant wife of the fighter who died early Tuesday 10 days after he was beaten into a coma by Emile Griffith in a Madison Square Garden title fight, ar- rived in Miami earlier Thurs- day to make funeral pa ments. She was carrying wreath labeled ‘chante? "9 wach will go atop Paret’s casket. “I want to have the funeral lay,”” Mrs. Paret said on arrival in Miami, She added e has no bitterness toward E93 Yankees pitching staff to| mark on baseball’s exhibition | Griffith, its feet with his| go nine innings as the world’ train. A seven-man committee of | the New York State legislature opens hearings here today on | tion homer, nipped Detroit 6-5 ani Beg abolish boxing in this sta mint H. Plumadore, an | assemblyman from Saranac | Lake, N.Y., and former profes- sional boxer and wrestler, is a ae choice to head ms com- mittee. sat out the fourth game, ee eae turns on the ice only once—in the riod. t period. LINEUPS Goal—Hall. Defence —Pilte, ‘Vasko, St. ent, ‘am, McDonald, Horva t h, Nester- — Fleming, Melnyk, Kury- Montreal—Goal — Plante. De. fence—Johnson, Talbot, J. C, Tremblay, Fontinato, MacNeil. Forwards — Goyette, Provost, Moore, Beliveau, Rousseau, G. Tremblay, Backstrom, G eo f f- rion, Hicke, Berenson, Marsh- Referee — Udvari. Linesmen —Pavelich, Armstrong. SUMMARY First period: 1. Chicago, Hull (Mikita) 2:55; (Fleming) Vasko 8:06, Evans, Backstrom 9:51, Mikita 14:04, Talbot 18:46, Second period: 5. Chicago, Wharram 2 (McDonald, Mikita) 19:14. Penalties — Evans 6:36, vans, Backstrom 10:53. od: 6, Chicago, Hay 1:39; 7. Montreal, (J. €. Tremblay) Penalties—Hull 5:22 es: pe (Pilote) erenson 2 10:26, Bav Hall Plante 18 9 8—35 6 8 11—25 ATTENTION FISHERMEN CAR AND TRUCK Ce fale Je oy CNY. ALLSTATE Rebuilt en- gines are guaranteed 4,000 miles or 90 days. It’s cheaper to replace thon repoir Order yours today SIMPSONS-SEARS 129 Kent Street few hee It’s BUILT-IN . you at your very neatest! ¢ All sizes! Latest colours! new | ALL-WOOL SLACKS WITH THE DURASPRESS CREASE THAT NEVER CEASES! *4 TIP TOP TAILORS Exclusive. 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