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Plan URCHASIN commodities paving "a.dollar down and a di a week" has grown into t : pe, Often hae Sbiect ed Joie ts for, and worn out before it is the purchaser continues y yourself a fortune on the instalment your earnings in a Standard Ba account. The money is al- in available for use if required and When you talk of Hocke Perry, you speak of a sport that a had the enthusiastic suppopt of our townspeople for over thirty-five years, Every year the "faithful" gather at some central meeting place and pick out the speedy ones that are to win the laurels for the town. Every year there is the same job of running over the list of possibles, and it) there come years when it begins to. look as though they had drawn a blank; but generally speaking; Port has been able to give a good account of itself, and on more than one oc- casion the boys have moved up into the semi-finals, However, they never had luck to make the grand win, al- though they made a great try for it. . To-day, when we have our fine rink and its splendid sheet of well lighted ice, it is difficult to picture the con- ditions un the game used to be played. were the days 3 : Those "| Very few here Then hockey was shinney, . old lake gave ample room for ; the. longest shot that could be made. | Then all "who wanted 'to see a game made an effort to have the ice cleared, and (if there were no big snow storms, there was moonlight) rare sport was sujoyed, and the tally | plant, and there were. len 'beams § I'and rafters and braces to obstruet-the view. But they had glorious times in the old rink. There were manygmore young people. The movies had not | invaded the town, The auto did not! run all winter for there were none, 11 and the snow had a habit of coming | down handsomely, as Dickens would say. The entertainments were few, and the young folk were rugged. Hockey was the principal sport for ung fellows in the winter, with ord ' on Brock's hill for the youngsters, and ice races on the lake | for the seniors. It is no use crying ovér spilt milk, but it does seem § pity. that our young folk, have in some measure lost the "of entertaining themselves, = Of do not have to do so much ves today when such a 3 provided for 'hein; 'have do. enteriaiment in. the' THE TEAM OF 1907 Ed. Dunk, Joe Cassidy, Hugh Lucas, W, Anderson, , Hugh Anderson, Lou Corrin, x ers on, Bob. McGill. member that this rink » was made pos- sible by the united effort of the young people of the Presbyterian and Metho- "dist churches. They started the fund, and although it was some years be- fore the fund was big enough to im- press the citizens, still the credit] should be given to' the young people of that day for getting together, and making the project possible. | affair and the editor had a hand in it,! too. The war interfered with tie scheme for a time, | but when thé war was over, and we the "Peace Parade," the) € in a position to ask the the citizens, and they respe | liberally. The result n be seen by all who | e, and but few places better community rink than much for the buildings in which 1 Now | for the a bit. We take them in the years when they had their pictures taken, as they generally did when they had come out on top with their play. Here are the teams for some five or six years, 1901--goal, Geo. Vansickler; point, Jack Dennison; cover point, Art. ins; centre, Art Pacquette; right . Hugh Anderson; rover, Jack Naft wing, Charley Dennison. 1902--goal," Wm. Hicks; point Jack ; cover point, Herb. Callag- mitre, Art, Parkins, rover Geo. Vansickler; right wing, Hugh Ander- son; left wing, Charley Dennison. 1903--goal, Wm, Hicks; point Jack Dennison; cover point, H. Callaghan; | centre, Geo: Vansickler; rover, Art. Pacquette; right wing, Hugh Ander- son; left wing, Charley Dennison. Now we miss a few years, probably because there were no great victories. 1907--goal, Geo. Vansickler; point, Dave Carnegie; cover point, Lou. Cor- rin; rover, Ira 'Anderson; centre, Bob. McGill, right wing, Hugh Anderson; left wing, Wm. McGill. J 1908--goal, Tom. Stewart; point, Dave Carnegie; cover point, Lou, Corrin; rover, Ira Anderson, centre, Cecil Purdy; right wing, Tom Price; left wing, Bd. Dunk; spare Roy Cook. | Then follows a long spell when we 'were without a kink, and what hockey "was played was carried on under dif- ficulties. The next photo was of the Rev. W. dents, H, Black was a prime mover in that | D. Carnegie, Will McGill 3 Among those who have not beea mentioned are the McBriens--Will and James. They both played on the Port Perry team, but it is not easy to place the exact year, Doubtless when they see this sketch they will be able to recall many incidents of those days. Back of the teams are the Presi- Trainers, Secretary-Treasurers, Coaches, Managers, and other. folk who made it possible for the boys to | play. While we do not pretend to have all of these, there are a number ! of men who have always been on hand to help out. Some of them have left town, or have died, but their names live on. Here are a few of the back- ers: G. M. Gibbs, W. L. Parrish, Hugh | Lucas, Wm. Anderson, who was | Treasurer for nine years; Ike Watson, H. B. Clemes, W, H. Harris, Eli Hooey, W. 8S. Short, Ab. Carnegie, Joe Cassidy, E . B. Flint, Russell Harper, | Harry White, Harry Woodcock. The team of 1908 will remember ere is no depreciation, but accruing ans as time goes on. Branches also was a good smooth player, who could 'be depended on to put up a fine game. 'Herb. Callaghan was a husky giant, a tower of strength in defence. Lou. Corrin could put up a real good game when he felt in the mood for it, but the star did not always shine right. "Ed. Dunk would have been a champion player if he had had the physique to carry him through. - What play he could make was brilliant, Cecil Purdy 'was full of fire, things looked up 'where he was playing. You know the other players, and can place them to your own liking. The teams have been lucky in the matter of accidents, the worst being with Beck, who had the misfortune to lose his eye. That is a pretty good record, for hockey has been no child's play in Port Perry. The O. H. A. districts have varied from year to year, and at various times our boys have played Peterboro, Lindsay, Markham, Stouffville, Osh- awa, Cannington, and, of course Ux- bridge. Uxbridge was and is yet our great rival. © There has always been excitement in town when Port was playing Uxbridge, and it is but fair to say that the Uxbridge boys put up a good game and had a great set of 'players. It was some credit to our Deacon appears in the 1908 picture. team when they could win from the "Deacon", Tom Stewart's dog, that! sand boys, became so attached to the delivery waggon that he would not leave it. One game stands out as the high Whoever gave that dog the name-- point in excitement in the games be- Deacon--was badly misled, for he was tween Uxbridge and Port Perry. The a fighter from the drop of the hat, or battle was waged at Uxbridge. Our without any such ceremony. However,' fans travelled over to the enemy's he hitched his star to. a wagon, and followed it faithfully, Deacon is in the happy hunting grounds. Another dog that appeared on the scene was Herb. Adam's bulldog. That was baek in 1903. How time flies. What were the players like. If only one could make them live over again as they were--young, strong, and full of go. Take Jack Dennison, the six feet of him. When he got the puck he lifted it' with his stick, and landed it prettily in the other fellow's net. Dave Carnegie was another player of the same type. These men were well nigh irresistible. As one man ex- pressed it, the referee was inclined to put Dave Carnegie off the ice because he was Dave Carnegie, He did not need to violate the rules of the game --he was a dangerous man to the op- ruling him out on general pri posing team, and the referee felt like ~ camp in full force. Indeed, it was a question as to whether there were more Port Perry or Uxbridge folk in the rink. The game began amid cheers and hoots, encouragement and defiance found expression everywhere. The ladies were just as excited as the men, if not more so. First Uxbridge scored a goal, and then Port, then Ux- bridge, then Port, then Uxbridge, then Port, and so on alternately until eight 'goals had been scored by each side. Tom Stewart offered $56.00 to the man who could score a goal for Port. After all it was simply done. McGill got the puck in the third period of overtime and passed it to Hugh An- derson who shot. For a few seconds The puck was missing, Then it was found lodged in the Uxbridge net. Pan demonium broke loose. People hug- ged each other and shouted them- selves hoarse, It was a great exhibi- Art Brock would make just such an- other player--lots of backbone, and lots of muscle. Geo. Vansickler and Wm. Hicks made good goal tenders. Vansickler fitted in as rover, but Hicks was good only in the nets. The best local goal tender, however, is Deshane. Had he, like Roach, gone into professional hockey, he would have made a name for himself, and for Port Perry. We are proud of Roach. tion of husi and some folk did not understand it. But then they were 'not hockey fans, and had not j driven ten miles to see the great game. That is something that should be remembered--there were no: auto- mobiles to whisk you to a neighboring town in half an hour, and there was no such obliging weather as' we have had this winter. People who wanted to attend a hockey match had to drive He is Port: of an hour or more through all kinds M Fon P Branch Prag 2 Blakes, Li Bin, Neon But in 1907 the Port team won their district and played off with Cobourk. In 1924 Port team won their group. This year our players made a good showing in the South Ontario League, They missed winning the Kaiser cup from Claremont by two goals, The O.H.A. boys finished third here this year. It is a great job to keep up a good team when so many of the young fellows drift away; but the training has' been worth while, and in many fields of usefulness the qualities of persistence and courage have stood our boys in good stead. It is a wond- erful thing to be able to take real bumps in life and keep your temper, knowing that losing it will lose the game for you. Some very good peo- ple could learn this lesson with ad- vantage. In fact it is doubtful if some of them would do as well as the boys were they to have the, same provoca- tion, A New Concrete Bridge. When the old floating bridge that connected Port Perry with Scugog Is- land became a permanent roadway, no account was taken of the troubles of future generations, They had troubles of their own, and everybody, both here and on the Island, was too glad to have the job done, to question the methods adopted. Today a new concrete bridge is be- ing built and the puzzle is to drive piles in spots where there are neither logs nor stones. The James Mitchell Co., of Toronto, have their work cut out in building the concrete bridge. a 20 ft. and is 28 ft, wide. Twenty-five hundred feet of piles are to be driven and the following material is to be used==200 yards of gravel, 200 yards of stone and some 700 bags of cement, The piles are being driven in some 32 feet--that is where they do not strike a big stone or a log. When the pile goes down properly for the 32 feet, it passes through several feet of mud, then it strikes two layers of clay, and finally quicksand. After the pile has been allowed to set for a while. Then it is given a test drive, and the remarkable thing about this is the fact that the quicksand grips the pile, and in most instances it can- not be driven any farther. It will be about six weeks before the new structure will be ready for use; but a floating bridge has been constructed for the accommodation of traffic. However, it does not look like a good place for speeding just now: It has a spawefe | Perry's big find, and stands third in of drifts, And they were drifts on the records of the Canadian section| that Uxbridge road just past Epsom, of the National Hockey League. The! 'But the farmers of those days were lesson is to give the boys a chance. better at keeping the road open, as Some of the little fellows who are ! they did not depend on the Govern- chasing the puck: d now, will be! ment. It was not 'uncommon to drive | the star players of to-morrow, That 4 'is the way Roach learned, ands of can do the same, a Art Parkins was a onl player Another great hoskey triumph was to When his boot laces were done wp; gained by Port Perry in 1902 when ad who