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ae presented hb' "the: Marathon: Mercuries. REPORT ON THE NORTH SHORE HOCKEY LEAGUE: ~ .bY a H, ones David WHALEN HONOURED oS TRADING SCORER At the first game of the semi- -finals Series) "Bt between Nipigon Flyers and _ Terrace Bay Superiors held here last Sat- urday night, Dave Whalen was honoured for his past season's hockey records. Through- out the season, all players' statistics - Fél@ased by statistician F. LE, Broughton revealed Dave as the top scorer, Never was the race close. In achieving the honour as Leading Scorer, Dave shattered three records which in this reporter's Opinion will take some time to beat. the scheduled 30 gemes, the Superiors played only 28 games due to Geraldton Goldminers' unreadiness at the beginning of the season, In his 28 games played, Dave garnered 108 points, -43 more than.Gold- miner's Steve Rusnak's " of last season, The previous record of Jim woro's 4S goc1¢ in 22 games in the 1954-55 season is now second to Dave's 49 goals, Marvin Osmar's record of 39 assists ®f last season takes" a second Standing record to Dave's 59, On behalf..of .O'¥efe's Governor. .., Peter E, Mazza presented the Leading Scorer Trophy with & miniature to Dave. At the. same time, 'on behalf of C. 'R. Strachan _ Jewellers Deas , of Fort William, 'Peter IY oi Automatic Gruen Wrist Watch valued at $75.00 ohne his heh ae on par mn oe League records, "larry Dunville of: the Red Rook Royals was acclaimed the winner of 'the George iardrope Trophy (Most Valuable Player) and the B..J, Kapitan. Trophy_ (Most Sportsmanlike Player). The presentations 'of these trophies with miniatures and an automatic Gruen Wrist atch donated to the League by C;'R, Strachan Jewellers were made on Tuesday night in Red Rock, "The only Superiors 'nominations: for any of these awards was that of Jim Moro for the. er "ardrope | Tropny 3 : _ The Carling Trophy' (Rookie of the Year} was won by young #llie LeBlane :-of The Nésco: Trophy '(Best Goalkeeper) was: won' by Deluce also of the Marathon Mercuries. oll these winners of heat are deserving of congratulations. In the last issue of the News, this reporter went into details on the "changing of his tune" by Intermediate Convenor and In (cont'd next col.) Page 11 North Shore League Rept (Cont'd) - Vice-President »f the Thunder Bay Amateur Hockey association, Frank Walters. Evidently his Executive unanimously endorsed his dec- ision to have the N.S.H.L. winner meet the Bearcats before proceeding against the Kenora - Fort Francis winner for the district finals. fn excuse offered by Frank is that this would reduce expenses of teams in the.westem div- ision. Evidmtly no time was spent on the thought that this would increase expenses 'of the easter division (N.S H.L.). Further- more, no consideration must have been given to our organized League which Member Clubs are involved in expenses throughout the season in meeting their 30-game schedule, Because of near 30 at our Executive Committee held last November having heard Frank's statement, 'President art Currie has consulted all teams involveé in our semi-finals as to their wishes, and all teams other than the Marathon Mercuries have declared that should 'ey "Win the' League 'Championship they will -compete only if they are to meet one west- ern team for the District Championship. 4S a result of the League 's suggest- ion to all locales under its jurisdittion to, render further financial support: to its Minor Hockey through an acditional 10 cent per admission 4t any one Teague game, the following reports have been submitted: = Terrdcé Bay at home to, lerathon Feb 7th' - gag, 43 collected through | silver 'collection. - Marathon' at home to Terrace' Bay Feb 14th - $86:20 collected through 862 paid admissions - Geraldton st homs to Terrace Bay Feb 10th - ® $40.00 collected "through 400 paid admissions. _ = Red Rock at home to Marathon, Feb. 17th - $62.10 colleétcd-through 621 paid admissions, This reporter is to understand that over $70.00 was collected at Nipigen through paid admissions and has no report from Schrei bei pe ek 'community shares 'Nipigon's sorrow in the loss of their Arena Manager, John Broezkowski who was the victim of a fréak acc- ident late Monday night. To Mrs. Broézkowski and son Joseph, our deepest sympathy, RECREATION FLYER (cont'd) -_ FILMS AVAILABEE AT RECREATION OFFICE The following films will be available "at the Recreation Office between now and Mar. 'Ath, for use. .by local organizations, nee further: information. see the Rec, Orfice, 11 mins,,... EYE WITNESS #80 EL mins iy cil {SORE Ly one BEFORE THEY HAPPEN <4 mins....., COLOUR OF. LIFE (colour) Teh TAN Si yh Che De Kis