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FORMER SMOKY ACE PROSPERING IN U.S.A. It is always welcome news to get good reports about our travelling Newmarket hockey lads. Ed Pitt reports he received a letter recently from Grant Morton. Grant is attending the University of Kentucky and playing hockey with Louisville Colonels of the International Hockey League. Grant recently won a scholarship and as well has been chosen to represent the University of Kentucky on the Board of the American College's Who's Who. This is quite an honor as only two students are .picked from each school to act on-the-country-wide college committee. Grant is well up in the league scoring race with an eight-goal, 13-assist mark. Recently Grant and Mrs. Morton were pleased to announce the arrival of a baby girl at the Morton household. JACK & JILL SHOPPE NEWMARKET FURNITURE & ELECTRIC LTD. JAMES A. DUNCAN BUILDING SUPPLIES BRICE'S MEATS Down The Centre by Ab Hulse Bears Barrage Dept.: We write this before Tuesday, so we don't know the result of the Woodbridge game, nevertheless the Alcorn Bruins, who appeared about to wilt for good recovered enough to take two straight from Unionville Jets who are just barely ahead of them now. The wins were badly needed : and although it would seem that fourth place might be the highest the Aurora club could shoot for, remember that fast year they appeared headed for the discard and then 'rallied, desperately to take the group. Dick Dineen has found himself in the nets and it now appears that this problem has been solved. Strange-to- figure that Alcorn should release Keith Colombo to Brampton. The defence needs strengthening- but Keith wasn't turning out with the Bears, lives closer to Brampton by 15 or 20 miles and as Alcorn says unselfishly: "I won't keep anybody out of hockey simply because he is my property. If he does not want to play in Aurora I'll let him go." Charlie Leeming, up from minor ranks, played briefly on New Year's Day and he has a future with the Bears. Danny Routledge, a cinch to bfe an all-star in the Metro group, has signed and played a couple of games with Aurora, to the advantage of all concerned: Dan js_ at St. And-trew's'College and W a t u r a" 11 y schooling and College hockey yviJMiaye to_come"first.,_,_. There's no gainsaying "tlie' fact however, that it is a shame to see^ a boy of Routledge's ability limit-*' cd to prep school competition, i Efforts.will .be.'"made to tVy and i secure permission for him to play a few games in the future and perhaps in the playoffs. Last time any similar arrangement was concerned was back in 1940, when Pepper Martin of Wallaceburg, one of the all-time greats at the Aurora school, was allowed to play junior B with -Aurora-Tigersr-Martin was-right at home in" the calibre and most popular with Aurora fans and like Routledge we don:t think it hurt his academic standing too much. _ Certainly Martin, who I see regularly, always- regards this bit of 'Town and Gown' fraternization as one of the high events in his.carfi.ej-,. ------------------- â€"Don't be downhearted you Bruin fans. Take a look at what's happening to Sarnia, the junior B kings of '59. With practically the same team the Legionnaires are finding the going rough, with St. Mary's, Goder.ich and Tillsonburg all ahead of the blue and gold. They expect to do better, however, but it just shows what can happen. Smoke Rings Dept.: As/mid- season arrives, the three musket- J eers of Canaltown hockey, Gor- f man - Cain - Legge, are figuring f that'if the fans don't fill the rink I for tonight's game with Orillia I Bulldozers and next week's game with Whitby, there's not much r use carrying the torch. I Here we have three of the best ' junior'- teams outside Junior A, 1 plenty of talent from municipalities all suffering from growing < pains but still with a sports back- 1 ground that gives a club the right c to expect support both vocally 1 and financially from the Home ' Town. We would think Mayor Otton and the service clubs might well proclaim a junior hockey week J fn Newmarket and make a con- . certed effort to fill the arena for J the blue and white, who have a ' record unsurpassed in Ontario. . Gone from the club for insubor- [ dination are rookies Ace Watts and Len McMillan, both Bruins' ' chattels. Corby Adams, second top scorer on the club and Marv Routledge, who has been buffet- 1 ed'back and forth in junior A, appear to be lost to the club definitely as-Emms~hones his Fly-ers for the final. stretch. Good news that Brent Macnab is on his way back and there are good minor replacements below, plus the unseen hands of Cotton and Emms. Miscellaneous Dept.: 93 horses are still-eligible for the-1960 running of the Queen's Plate on Saturday, June 11. Originally there .werqj89.nominations but only 98 ' paid their first deposit of $75. By May 1 another $100 is. payable and by race day a further .$50.0, As usual there is. a North York tinge to the entries as follows: J. Abrams, M a r k h a m, entering Bibewood: Cliff Ben net, Richmond Hill, Dutch Larry; Mrs. Morris Fishman, Keswick,. Doc Shaul; Gormley Stud Farm. Lou Ruby, Pink Vat, One Hit; C. W. F. Burns, Temperancevilie, Quin-tain; J. M. Mcintosh, Aurora, Fair Juror, Prerogative; W. E. (Bill) MacDonald, King, Tulalou; Larry McGuiness, King, Air and Fire; Mrs. Churchill Mann, Kettleby, Druid, Happy Guest. Of all these entries Mrs. Fishman's "Doc Shaul" and Mr. Mc- 1 Intosh's "Prerogative" are the on- i ly ones favored in the winter : books. | The entries of E. P. Taylor, i Conn Smythe, Bill Beasley, Sher-manor Farms, are the favored ones right now. Our own cKoice will be with the Taylor entries of All C a n a d i a n, Victoria Park, "Windsor Field. . Yesteryear Dept.: Remember Charlie Smith, the A u r o r a boy who became a top jockey? Charlie is now living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and is racing secretary at Scarboro Downs (Portland, Maine), Beulah Park (Cleveland, Ohio) and Pawtucket among others, where he acts as a steward. Thirty years ago the late Dr. Bruce McDonald donated a crosscountry running trophy to St. Andrew's in men)ory of the'11 Andreafis killed in World War I. Inscribed on-tlie-trophy-are-the words, "Qui sanguine nostra nq-men in astrant". , Twenty years ago, Newmarket juniors iced a team of: goal, Fred Dillman and Gardiner; def., Dennis, Bone, Gunn; forwards, Jack Gibbon, Stan Gibbons, Collings, Hamilton,. Luckv .Jelley, Bro'ugh, ton, Melnnis, Evans, Carter, Ross Eves, Roy Eves, Barker, White-1 p h"-•A'dSmjr~Tfras~th:en' known as 'Slaps and Scraps'and was a top columnist in the sports field-for the Era i Aurora Tigers made their debut in-junior-B -with: goal, Joe Tunney a n d" Joe McGhee: def.. Jack Curtis, Pepper Martin, George Scott, G o r d y. Brennan; forwards, Jimmy Lowe, Joint Mc-Comb, Frank Michaniuk, Pete Donkiri, Jim Cummings, Owen Johnston, Gordy Fanning, Grant Cook and Harry Pearce. Curling Chatter By GEORGE HASKETT Bill Mabbatt and his curling foursome Les Brown, lead, Jim Diamond, second, Bill Insley, vice-skip, are the toast of the York Curlers. '. j; Last week in a playoff- match, p Dec. 30, the Mabbett-skipped ^ rink won the York Curling Club a first series championship with f an 11-6-win over-Alex-Dalgarno's r rink. â-  p The Mabbett rink after trailing in the first few ends picked up j to hold a 7-4 advantage at the ^ seventh end. Dalgarno and com- i pany whittled the opposition lead , | to 6-7 in the eighth. Mabbett counted two in the ninth and I three in 'he final end to put across a fighting winning finish. I Members of the runner-up j Dalgarno link were Alex Dalgarno. skip. Ken Stiver.. Vice-skip. Jack Bowman, second, Russ Harrison.' lead. The match closed a busy exciting week at the York Curling Club. Earlier in the week the lop four rinks did battle in the . semi-final rounds, j To earn a spot in the finals Bill Mabbtil's rink defeated' Bob Clark's fouisome of Art Fry, Jim i Diamond and Norm Skingsley 8-6 in a thriller that went down ;;to the wire- Art Dalgarno's rink in their | successful semi-final effort defeated Bob Coulter's rink 11-9 ! in another tense match- Dalgarno's rink shot into an early 10-2 lead but the never-say-die Coulter foursome whittled away at the DaUarno lead to cut it lo 1 a single stone at 9-10 at the | ninth end. Dalgarno and com-i pany added a single point on the * lasi -fiiid ...to assure.. a._ victory.;_ Members of the Coulter rink B were" Boh Coulter, skip. Jim I Greenis. vice-skip,--3>rcfc~BenneU7 " R second. Ken Flett, lead. ~ . 9 Four games Monday afternoon started the York Curling Club lady curlers away Qn their January schedule. '"; In one feature match Caroline Ion's rink battled to a 6-all tie with. Helen Kurtz's rink. Emma Broadbent's rink, back with re--newed vitfgaTTd â€"v i g o râ€"3 f 1 o râ€"t he- - holiday fe.-tivities, polished off Agnes McLaughlin's rink in handsome fashion 12-2. In other matches Heather Mc-Kenzie's rink.- topped Janet Burns' foursome 7-3, while Louise Evans' eager crew.finish' •ed-on a strong note to top-Ruth Mabbettfs toursome . 6-4. â€"Twn Yo'rk-'eurling- Club -rinks. -B| will go to Bradford Jan. 7 to M represent the local club -in the" â-  Ontario Ladies'-Tankard-region-B .at playdowns. -Muriel Clark will â-  'skip'one -rink. made tin of Emma II Broadbent, Aeries - McLaughlin t and Betty Luesby. K'aye Cathers 1 e _ V- ____1._ . vill skip a second contingent of leather McKenzie, Mary Stauf-jpr and Maxtne NesbiL- BRADFORD LEAGUE TILTS Bradford North wallped their arch rivals Bradford South 8-1, while Springdale topped Ansnorveldt 4-1 in Bradford-Holland Marsh Hockey League matches last week. George Hunt blew up a four goal scoring storm to pace Bradford North. Bill Marks added two goals. Art Hunt and Greg Scott a goal each for the winners. Mike Kaychak whistled home the lone Bradford South tally. Jim Janse sparked Springdale with a two goal effort. Jim Verkaik and Art Janse got in goal flicks in the winning cause. Tom Rouble collected the lone Ansnorveldt goal. vill skip a second contingent of leather McKenzie, Mary Stauf-jpr and Maxtne NesbiL- _.... jack Luc-sby reports interest s soaring in the District No. 9 .oils' bonspiel to be held at the I'ork Curling Club Jan, 23. In ill 15 district curling clubs, from Elmvale on the north to Newmarket on-the southr'are-expected to send competing teams. A rink to be. skipped by Ernie Sokol and made' up of Bill Mabbett, Jim Diamond and Brue Andrews will represent the York Curlers in the colts' competition. " - REALTORS STREAK TOPS NHL SQUIRTS Gerald Hoare's Doak Realtors are the hottest club in the Little NHL squirt division. The unbeaten Doakers behind John Hoare's shutout goal-tending and two goals apiece by Ray Normandin and John Brown walloped Newmarket Motors 4-0. Victory gave the Doakmen undisputed possession of first place. In the other squirt contest Matt Boyd's Brandon-Hopkins shotmakers, with Dave Brandon i shooting two, Larry Blight one, i edged Cy Keat's Annie's Lunchmen 3-2 in a 'sizzler. Jim Hoare I and Les Copping were Annie target hitters. Gary Bellamy is just about the sharpest goal-scorer in the peewee loop. Gary bagged three goals as Jeff Elliott's Arrnitage Construction tripped Mike, Lawrence's Newmarket Electrics 5-3. Mike Cainey and Dave Elliott contributed other Armitage tallies. Noel Edgar hit for two, Leigh Hansen one to keep the Electrics in the shuffle; In the second place tilt Bob Bennett was-a-hotshot-two goal marksman, Ken Mathewsan . triggered a singleton' as Bili Ingram's Slessor Motormcn handed Harold Brown's Bisgould Con-. rstrudtion a 3-2-setback. It was the first defeat charged against Bisgould;. Case Bassie and Steve McMullen pumped- home- Bis- ' gould goals. John Houlihan's Gordon Sunocos gave Avenue Cleaners a 13-3 *drubbihg," whlte*^(3"Robinson's Fina Fighters poured it' on for a 9-l win over Taylor Imperials in atom series scraps. _____________ Jim Houlihan fired four, John Mitchell, Dave Kelly three caclv Jim Witherspoon two, . Brian Snow one to spark Sunoco£ Steve Smith, Jim Cowell, Peter Bootsma and Billy Patrick were best Avenue skaters. Barry Brymer was a going five goal concern to spark Fina's, while Martin Carfrae scored two, Bruce Smith and Barry Cooper popped in a goal each in the winning drive. Doug Phimister came through with the Taylor - shutoiil saver. Need Basketball Players Wanted immediately: basketball players. That's the word coming from the Orfuns' camp. The Orfuns require three or four more players to keep their team in the Newmarket Town Basketball League. Any chaps interested in playing basketball are asked to contact. Dave Crackle at Twining 5-5086. The Orfuns need your help now. Plea?e contact Mr, Crackle immediately.. BEARS LATE MARKER EDGES UNIONVILLE Doug Alcorn's Aurora Bears are climbing. They put across a couple of extra important wins last week over Unionville Jets to cut the Jets' lead to two points in the race for the sixth and last playoff berth in the Metro junior B group. Before a New Year's evening gathering of the faithful at Aurora the Bears scored a last period goal to - break a 2-ail deadlock to gain a 3-2 nod over Glen Kennedy's Unionville Jets. Danny Routledge called up to skate and shoot during the holiday stretch for the. sagging Bruinsâ€"wasâ€"theâ€"lierorâ€"Danny, picking 'em tip and laying 'em down with old time vim and vigor, fired the game winner' at 11.32 of the third-round. Dave Maclnnis and Bill McKenzie were Routledge's feeders. After a scorelcss' first period Dave Maclnnis and Keith Browning scored goals in the first three'minutes to tlje.sccohd i period-to give Aurora-a 2-0-lead, i Gord Sampson fed the pass to Maclnnis, Gary Durie and Danny Routledge drew assists. - on â-  Browning's counter. Before the second period closed Jim Paradine and Jim Turner scored to put the Jets on even terms with the Bears. The two clubs decided to give the sin bin a good sweeping out to start the New Year. Both goalies, Pat Dineen of the Bears and Dunning of the Jets drew misconduct sentences during the busy, penalty crammed first round. Before the second period clos-t ed Jim Paradine and Jim Tuv-: ner. scored to put thc. BRADFORD CAPTURES MARSH LOOP GAMES Bradford teams were the big winners in Bradford Holland Marsh Hockey League scraps last week. Bradford North turned on the scoring steam to whip Ansnor-veldt 8-4, while- Bradford South doubled the score 4-2 on Spring-dale. â-  < •-" Bob Jackson was the hot shot shooter for Bradford North. Jackson packed in four goals, while Bill Marks -..scoretL.Awfl,___Greg Scott and Gcorgfe Hunt a goal each. 1 The Oosterhuis boys, Tom and Jack, along .with Terry Jacques and Charles Miedema shared Aniinorvplrit tallies. '_L_ Paul Margetiak hit . for two goals to spark Bradford South. Rick Morris and Deno Scott we're the other happy pre-Christmas goal-getters. Jim Janse and Wolf Buckholz popped in the Springdale counters. NORTH YORK MIDGET SOUTH DIVISION • v 'fi ' â-  'fyy^y': L T Pti -Newmarket >_ - -»'. Riclunond Hill .' 1 9 -•• "• Aurora : " 3 2 0 .6 ' • - Uniohville " ' â€" i- - a-: 0â€".2 King City . .0 0-. «• • - • . - V '.â€" ' • • ----- • . NORTH YORK PEEWEE STANDING W- L. T PU Aurora 3 1 0 6^ Newmarket " 2 10 4 / Richmond Hill . 2 1 0 4 Bradford 0 2 .0 0 " Unionville , 0 2.0. 0 TOWN ATOM LEAGUE â€"----Jan; 1, I960â€"â€"-â€"â€" v .. - â-  .' W L . T Pts â€" Gordon Sunoco 3 A 0-6 "Avenue Cleaners 2 10 5 Fina Fighters 1 2 1 3- . Taylor Imperials 13 0 2 WINN E RS OF E-TH E WO R D GA^