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and Jam 1Mb 4 -j- Optimist MMjKts Lose Exhibition Tilt Despite a desperate last peri od drive that netted them two oals our Optimist midgets were nosed out by Cecil Morris at the arena Friday This game was part of the big fivestar Friday night minor attraction at the arena Frank ar ranged the exhibition game as the local midgets were having an off night from OMHA competition Bob Forhan gave out with a classy twogoal display to lead the locals against the well- drilled Toronto squad Bobs NOTICE TO HOCKEY FANS THE NEWMARKET HOCKEY GAME halted on Saturday Jan 20 1951 owing to the hydro failure be yond our control will be played at a later date to be set by the and admission will be half price Manager Arena Ltd first came on a threeway relay that took in Creed and Freeman West His second marker unassisted started the third period rally off Freeman West pounded in the Optimists third tally in the dying moments Delwyn Creed chalking up his second assist of the night Paul Moore topped the Morris- mens scoring with two in their early spurt to the front Roy Menahan and Jack pot ted single shots behind Glen The Torontos are scheduled to become our adoptees They have practised here since Novem ber and have home ice spoken for with Stan Smith when the pi ay downs beckon them Cecil Morris N Smith Harford C Fitzpatrick wings J D McDonald alts Menahan A Suliphant P Moore A Cleary Booth Woods Newmarket G def B Broadbent Beaudoin cen B wings Creed F West alts G Davis Chandler Chandler B Hodgins Lothian Van- Keffer Smart gj Now Open Harry and Bea invite you to enjoy a tasty snack at our at tractive new spot down town We feature Silverwoods de luxe ice cream Just South One Door from the Theatre OF A GOOD TIME olio mi fo THEATRE PHONE NEWMARKET Open Nightly Saturday pm Matinee Saturday and Holidays pm STARTS TODAY JAN 25 FOR 3 DAYS ft if Cm If IEBNG HOT silvers STARTS MONDAY JAN FOR DAYS career all female a wo fed Jy fcj tf lvl 3 fltr MANKIEWICZ COMING SOON TYRONE AMERICAN GUERRILLA IN THE PHILIPPINES Vrf BERG LOOP LEADING 2 and Kettleby were winners In last Fridays games in the KfngVaughan circuit Both came up with triumphs over the opposition Schomberg pulled the surprise packet downing the loopleaders Nobleton It was the second straight win for the Schomberg- Bill pack after skidding from grace last week got back in solid by floor ing Kleinburg Net result of the two thrilling games is that Schomberg and Kettleby now share the second rung in the league race and Kleinburg is in the cellar Schomberg hungry at the mo ment to slice the mar gin took an early lead and never let it slip The winners scoring melon was split four ways old hands Doug Palmer and Pike started the fireworks and new recruits Nick Michnik and Ed Hughes polished off the scor ing In the other contest in the thrilling doublebill Noel Ash a fugitive from Pine Orchard was the scoring pacesetter He gave an early lead with two smartly executed drives on the cage Playing coach Bill and Bob got in their licks for singles to wind up the scoring This Friday second place is the prize and Kettleby are scheduled to clash In the other half of the attraction Kleinburg meets Hasketts HASH by George Newmarket Sports Editor There was a curfew on Bath Night at Stouff ville The lights went out when the power failed and cancelled the SpitsClipper clash at end of round one For an hour and a half Stouff- Frank Outside ville rink looked like a lireflies referees for all OMHA games convention Lights went on again at too late to finish Referee Jack Crombie finally got through for instructions from headquarters Replay at a later date No refunds fans advised could get in at the re play at half rates It was a costly period Legge injured his knee again and this could mean another long layoff for the battling hard working winger Game had the earmarks of tidy battle It was for when lights went out Spits needed this one dumped our heroes twice earlier in the week Col- and All is ton are coming hard on the outside fourth slot held by the Spits in jeopardy On Thursday Spits early four- goal lead was erased by late surge on the Markies Nine hundred and ninetysix payees here second largest of the sea son The game was 12 minutes late starting blew in late because of foggy driving con ditions We were ready and have been last four games re ports Coach Larry and so they have drew his third misconduct stretch for popping off to referee Andy Fans again showed their slap at the purse Little enough coming in as it was Fri days fivestar minor attraction routed out best crowd of the sea son Room for considerable im provement Mid land etc back their youngest fry to the hilt Root the old man and rest of the family out Friday evening for another of those juicy fivestar game attrac tions The Arenas Association a body of officials representing all arenas in the province will shortly come out with a brief on the reasons why hockey attend ances arc slipping Should make interesting reading Try to con dense this information for you in due course Our junior Rockets arent fill ing the rink Guess you dont need confirmation of that fact Fan support has been downright discouraging to Frank Johnston and his hard working board of officers Reason One diehard hockey man whispers in our ear that he thinks maybe the admish is too steep Give the fans 35 cent hockey and see what hap pens Might have something there chum Much better to have a good crowd on deck at the lower rate than to play to a couple of hundred Food for But Not Close Enough Their first win Is still escaping the clutch of OM juvenile entry but theyre getting closer to putting a sock in their win column Over the past week Schomberg earned a split of the polntage with It was a fourall deadlock and a thriller from the word go The game was played in arena Thursday Murray Edwards Ken Archibald and Bob Phillips worked as a unit to pow er the attack Mur ray Edwards lit the scorers lamp twice and his linemates dropped in for singles Monday evening on a visit to Orangeville Schomberg players had one of those tougl assign ments to come back to explain to the folks at home They were squeezed out 32 by Orangeville Murray Edwards shifted into pos ition to let fly a drive that boost ed his scoring mark and Ted Rog ers moved up from his defense post to register the other tally It was the third loss of the sea son for the After a slow start were starting to move now reports coach Doug Mar- chant could be the week we get rolling and come up with our first win Schomberg Osborne d Ted Rogers How Archibald Murray Edwards Bob Phil lips Ken Archibald alts Harry Davis Louis Davis Jack John Shaw Tuesday Win Eases Pressure Comes From Behind To Cancel Spits Lead Driving for four goals in the second period New market Spitfires came home winners over Midland Flyers Tuesday The victory eased the pressure on the Spits from Collingwood and to take fourth place in the Big Seven group Top man in the point gathering Preston Sparks Vandorf To Win Over Blasting away for eight goals Jim Preston put on a superman scoring show to pace Vandorf to a win over Quecnsville in an exhibition game at rink Tuesday evening Mike Van Don Brown Don Gra ham Bill and Dick tenden had single markers Alan going at a merry clip was the pacesetter with ville popping in five goats Bill Pickerel and Ron shot in singles in the losing cause Were in reports secretary Ken Rogers and treasurer Harry Lavender the ORHA has ac cepted the Lake Simcoe Hockey League bid for entry Its a twoway fight all the way be tween and Vandorf Playoffs get underway immedi ately Right to go on in the rural playdowns will be decided between the two teams via a sixgame set points to count Schedule of the games all to be played in Queensville arena are Jan Feb 2 Feb Feb Feb Feb pleasure by a shower of paper least and oddments Ken Broughton was nailed for freezing the puck against the Calendar Tonight Spits at home with Midland Flyers Tuesday off to Goal By Gives Midgets Victory Bob whistling drive that picked a corner of the Port Perry cage midway through the middle frame gave Newmarket Optimist midgets a win Monday evening The local club played at Port Perry goal was made pos sible by a pass from wingmate Creed The Ports who resorted mostly to dumping the puck in the Optimist zone and diving in after it couldnt break down a stout defense set up by the locals and Glen be tween the pipes refused to be beaten Newmarket Langford P Stewart G Davis alts VanZant B Creed West P Keffer Att- Rogers P boards forward For- Rockets next home appearance stepped away rather than February Town League piling it on top of Broughton as day Juvenile Tuesday is usual in those cases Ken was j left holding the puck and nobody near result two minute stretch in the Fred Morris of the North York softbaliers writes Give the boys a dig about soft- ball want 51 to be a big one- meeting next month to organize Enough of that sir and us with umpteen and half hockey games on our hands Dont forget the big school on the hill reports C Blackstock Did you know that our seniors won three in a row Coach has been work ing hard on his charges passing and defensive work Take a bow sir and keep up the good work Aurora Indians would like a home and home exhibition set with the Spits Well lets get on with it Sounds like a stellar attraction Split the gates on two games reports Harold Rog ers and help us plug up some of the big drain on finances due to injuries Give us a front pew for that one and bring in a pair of top notch officials Sounds good Don Smith has the cast off his fractured wrist Itching to go but cant get the final OK from the doc Congrats to master secretary of them all Frank Courtney is going up elected president of Newmarket Lawn Bowlers Aside to the Lions club Get out the runners men trouble brewing Optimists challenge wilt be unfurled shortly Optpus held first workout Sunday Early tip to the Roar Laddies- watch Don Warner and Messrs Hill Tom Dickson had a surprise pitched on them over the weekend when they were advised both Aurora bantams and midgets had to step up from rating to That means it will be a straight fight for group honors with Newmar ket Getting tougher to operate min or teams all the time reports Minor Race Tight Tie Slows Red Wings Race for the top roost in the minor is getting closer than glue to a postage stamp Its looking like a repeat of the big time Friday Leafs bopped over to scoot into second place Red Wings were held by the Rangers to three- all to slice their front running lead Ken fading Black Hawks were dunked fur ther into the basement dropping their fourth to Bruins 30 Bob again starred for the Leafs with a fourgoal per formance three alone and the other with help from Warren Townslcy Ron pick ed up the other scoring credit for the Leafs in their win Creed Bob Attwell and Jack Cain were the snipers for Creed the Andrew St flash wound up a busy night with a pair of assists Rangers hopped into a two- goal lead in the first round as they tied Red Wings with Bob Broadbent and McGuire the marksmen Red Wings made their move in the second scoring three It was Dave Purcell from Kennie Bell for number one then turnabout for number two Don Thorns fir ed the third with Bill Cain in the helper role Norm Smart swatted in a third period re bound to give the Rangers a tie In the closing exercise the Bruins scoring at a goal a period rate whitewashed the luckless Black Hawks Neil Tate with John the pass supplier Murray Chandler un assisted and Murray Chandler with Stogie the struck for the winners League officers wish to Murray McDonald and LaVeine Firth for their help Aurora Ds Win Fifth Then Lose To Orcno Andy CIoss has two kinds of opposition to contend with in the group in which his Aurora D Cubs are operating First comes from and The other is the big stuff repre sented by Bowmanville tabbed with a C rating After tramping heavily upon the necks of both and in their first meetings the Clossmen turned attention to visitors at Aurora last Thursday The Cubs failed to recognize any difference and gave the visitors an drubbing Top honors in the polishing off of fell to Artie Bar ber Chris Wansborough and Walt Fines The trio hit it up at a great rate to fire a pair of mark ers each to lead the Aurora attack Other scoring thrusts were engineered by Lowell Wall and Bobs Cook Aurora grabbed a 31 first margin and set up a lead in the second and completed its powerhouse attack with three in the third Kirkpatrick fired both goals to take a shutout away from Charlie Southwood Friday trouble hit the player- weakened as they hit Orono seeking win number five Orono shot into an early lead and despite a valiant lasthalf drive that saw Andy Closs Jr pump in two goals and Walt Fines a single couldnt line up the tying goal won Tonight Thursday we get on our home ice and fig ure to turn the tables reports Chief Need we say more fans The kids can use their vo cal and financial support Aurora Southwood L Waller C Wansborough A W Fines D aits Winters Boyle B Cook A Barber GET LAHFF FLYERS SWEEP AURORA LOOP Returns this week from the Aurora Town League front Indi cate a ten day rest period Is just what the Victory Flyers need ed They came out flying Thurs- day to tie the league leading Collis Tanners in knots and earn a three all deadlock Joe Lundys sharp shooting tactics in the dying moments of the game gave the country cousins a tie Previously Joe kept a date with the scorer to get the Flyers off the ground Bill Kingdon was the other Victory man to crowd in on the scoring loot Lome Fleury had a big night to pace the Tanners with a pair and Bill Kirbyson shot the third Tannery counter Monday the Flyers had their machines souped up and crowd ed the Merchants further into the league cellar by dumping them Dave Richardson sup plied the main power up front with the winners going after two counters Mike van Bob Stevenson Joe Lun- and Bill Bennett pumped for singles Harold pushed home the Merchants lone tally to keep the wolf from moving from the doorstep right into the living room HOW THEY STAND KINGVAVGIMN LEAGUE Kleinburg 11 NEWMARKET TOWN LEAGUE W L Davis Leather Town Off Specialty Can Hoffman 9 1 5 AURORA TOWN LEAGUE for the was Denny La- bine with two snapshooting efforts Ken Thorns Todd Ken and Bill Johnston were other goal getters The Spits play a return en gagement with Midland Flyers here tonight Thursday SPITS CLIPPERS BLACKED OUT Two sides to every argument tis said Stouffville Clipper disciples were emitting loud blasts around pm Satur dayof what the Clippers would have done to the Spits New market famiom and there was a goodly number on hand coun tered scairt had to turn out the lights All this commotion and chal lenges were caused when Satur days game at Stouffville be tween the home Clippers and Newmarket SpUs was blacked out at the end of the first period To the accompaniment of rain on the roof close to 1000 fans sat from to 1125 until the lights came on again When Referee Jack Crombie finally re ceived instructions from the O HA the game was abandoned too late to lie finished The game had all the ear marks of a terrific go up to this point George bounced the Clippers into a 10 lead in a matter of sec onds The Spits roared back but couldnt get the equalizer nor could the Clippers add to their jackpot The oneperiod affair may prove costly to the Molly- men as Legge was car ried from the ice with a re-occur- rance of his knee injury when checked heavily by Herb Rose of the Clippers The game will be replayed at a later date tis said LOSE TO Leather Ditch Diggers Victory Flyers 1 Merchants MINOR 13 7 1 1 1 Black Hawks Red Wings Maple Leafs Rangers Bruins Clayton R Collins Egan M Chapman S Wilson THEATRE AURORA FRIDAY SATURDAY VAUGHAN ELLA RAINES SINGING GUNS JAN it BEWARE OF BLONDIE ARTHUR LAKE PENNY SINGLETON MATINEE SATURDAY 2 PM MONDAY TUESDAY 2 DAYS Please Note Change of Program JAN SO YOUNG SO BAD Paul Catherine ADULT ENTERTAINMENT frvTV WEDNESDAY THURSDAY DAYS JAN 31 FEU Robert Walker Joan Leslie THE SKIPPER SURPRISED HIS WIFE Note Change of Program COMING SOON THE MINIVER STORY JOLSON SINGS AGAIN MY BLUE HEAVEN TREASURE ISLAND and BEAVER VALLEY Imps Lose First Game As Perry Wins Wots this We hand you the gimmick last week that our Imps are on their way The Imps are our OMHA juveniles What do they do They read our mail and promptly do an about face Monday night visiting Port Perry they muffed their chance to record win three as the nosed than out 54 The got away on a des perate dying moments drive to pop in the ticbreaker The Imps put on a spirited end of the game kick but the Ports managed to kill it off It was loss one for the Imps Against two wins Top in the Newmar ket corrall was Stan Pollard who marked up a pair of tallies His linemate Don Mickey Bark er sifted one into the Port cage while Jack was on shoot ing end of a passing play with Wayne Robinson to pocket the final scoring point Soft ice and heavy going didnt do us a bit of good re ports coach Jing and the officiating left a lot to be desired INSURANCE Fire Auto Casualty Prospect Ave Phono 42 Guardian Assurance London England DOYLE Afent V Millionaires dumped the Spits at arena Thursday For minutes and some odd sec onds Spits were going like rab bits with a shot gun at their backs During that time they polished up on their skating and shooing both were good and enjoyed a lead In olden days that would have been enough to get a win but took up the and after a goal had been called back scored after the whistle went was referee Carpenters version the kicked over the traces They roared back and gave the Spits a handful to hold them at as second recess time caught up Then came the crowning blow of all got hep and slap ped a trio of scoring hind Joe to get the game in the winning groove A Denny to Ken pass clicked Harold Tunstead tipped in a relay from Bill Johnston to give the Spits a first period edge It was early in the second as Bill Johnston rolled a shot up arm and into the cage Harold supplied the pass polished off a nifty close in effort after being sent on his way by Bill to boost the Spits ahead That was the extent of bright side of the picture took over led by Norm Grey with a threegoal performance and with sniping efforts by Vic Sluce Jack Watson Bruce and Bill Armstrong The latter con nected for the tic breaker after five minutes of spirited third period acion that saw turn aside enough Spit shots to fill the Markham cage Main third period excitement was generated around a miscon duct stretch out to defense- man Al Under direction of US army experts instruction in the opera of flamethrowers is being given to members of the Princess Pats now at training base near Ptisan Top Andy Vancouver shows the proper stance and position of the flamethrower before firing Above Gib York Ottawa re- leases a stream of fire under watchful eye of a US instructor Keswick Surprises Sutton With Defeat Packing a sixgoal punch into a second period drive pulled the surprise upset of the TriCounty rural season by easing out a win Sutton The garnet played in Sutton arena was replay of Fridays postponed con test The loss was Suttons fir of the season Ted Peters and Ken Davi spearheaded the winners with trio of scoring thrusts Sam Lat imer Tom Hare Ted Anderso and Ralph got Grcenshirls scoring was suppll by front liners John Geo and Skip lor The trio proved in final period K wick by a margin to com within one of the equalizer Playoffs are in the Playing a pair of between and Beavei ton will complete the schedule Its possible a start on this will be made this week or early next