PACE TEN THE DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1948 BY Geo. &. Campbell NAPSHOTS They'll still have their troubles finishing in first place--they've got to win all their remaining games, including one in 'Barrie this Friday night and one in Windsor at the end of the schedule, and besides. that somebody else will have to hand Windsor Spitfires another defeat-- nevertheless the Oshawa Generals issued a stern warning on Saturday night that regardless of whether they finish in 1st or 2nd position in the current O.H.A. Junior "A" race, theyll be a force with which to be reckoned when the playoffs get under way. That clean-cut 7-3 victory over the Spitfires was quite something and the sterling display of the entire Oshawa team sent a packed rink home tickled. Eric Pogue finally scored his first goal of the season on home ice--and it was a "gem." A beautiful piece of stick-handling and determined attgcking skill topped off with a cool finish at the firing line. That goal won the game--for Pogue was possessed from that moment 'on and literally headed the Generals to victory. That line of Scott-Pogue-LaFrance was again the spearhead of the Oshawa attack and Windsor Spits couldn't stop 'em. % * LJ Not only did "Pogey" get his goal but his unselfish play-making and clever passing raised his stock with the fans. We think we've "plasted" the speedy winger as hard or harder than anybody at times for we have no use for some of those displays he used to stage but when we also stuck up for him a few times, we were accused of being "a cousin" Now the fans arc almost all convinced that if he keeps his head, stays on the ice and plays the type of hockey he's been showing the past few weeks, he can be the spark that will lead the Generals to an O.H.A, title. This line is bubbling with team. spirit right now and that's why they are clicking. They've taken the limelight away from the Scholes-Blair-Gamble trio and this means they have a better chance mow to get going again. The Generals outskated Windsor all the way and with their third win in three games with the Spitfires, indicated clearly that Oshawa has a good chance to take it all. > * L J That Marlboro senior-junior combine business came up just as we hinted. Hassard and Timgren played for the Marlies in the Senior loop again and we're not sure, but we think that's their final game. One more puts them in Senior ranks for the rest of the season. Galt Rockets had a narrow squeak but they managed to nip Marlboros Jrs. on Saturday afternoon and so move into 4th place. In the other game, St. Catharines Teepees made good on their big chance by nosing out St. Mike's 2-1 and that puts the Teepees in 6th place, as the teams enter "the home stretch." The other Saturday game was the upset of the day however, with Guelph Rockets whipping Barrie Flyers 9-5. It was Barrie's worst defeat of the season--and could rhean that the trip to Northern Ontario didn't do the Flyers any good, in fact, they may have gone into a slump ~--at a very bad time for them. Stratford Kroehlers are in 5th place again but only two points behind Barrie and only one point behind Galt. On Tuesday, Galt and Guelph play in Galt and a lose for Guelph wipes out their last chance of overtaking St. Catharines. Meanwhile, the Generals are setting their sights for this week-end when they can "do it" or miss out. They go to Barrie on Friday night and the burly Flyers come here on Saturday. * " * FUTURE GAMES--No action tonight is the rule in the Junior "A", but in the Junior "B" loop, Oshawa plays at Byers Motors, at the Arena, and the meeting at home between, the two home teams, even though one comes from Toronto, should be quite a tussle . ... Tomorrow night in the "A" league, Galt plays at Guelph, and in the "B" league, Orono plays. at Lindsay, © « L 4 *® L J SPORTS SHORTS--DIit Clapper, captain and defenceman of the Boston Bruins in the N.H.L., suffered a severe heel injury when he col- lided with Bingo Kampman at Toronto, six years ago tonight. - The Bruins captain's Achilles tendon was severed and he had to be assisted I off the ice. Big, likable Dit hung up his skates last year and is now coacking the Bruins ,.. .. The OH.A, Seninor race is getting lots of publicity lately, and after last Friday's results, the race will get even more, Tom Smelle who played with St. Catharines Falcons last year led the Hamilton Tigers to a 9-0 win over the Hamilton Pats. Bobby Bauer scored one goal in the game at Maple Leaf Gardens between the K.W, Flying Dutchmen and the Toronto Marlboros. The KW's won the game 4-2 . .. . Watson and Ezinicki will have lots of fun getting used to the play of John McCormack. That youngster can really shove the puck around, and although sometimes his passes are a little weird, when they have ghe right guy on the other end, they turn into goals with amazing regularity . .. , The hall of Hockey fame has increased its board members to include seven more men, That brings the total number of governors to 16. Presidents of leagues, and outstanding play- ers of yesteryear, were most of those appointed . . . . The National Base- ball League announced that it will open its 1948 season April 19 with a single game at Cincinnati between Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds . . . . The nominating committee of the Ontario Golf Association announced Thursday it would submit the name of V. C. Héldroyd of Toronto as President at the annual meeting to be held in Toronto, February 14 . , , . His executive would include Phil Farley of Toronto, and R. D. Young, of Toronto as Vice-President, and G. F, Stevens, of To- ronto as Secretary-Treasurer, George T. Horner's name will be offered as representatives of the Northern Ontario Golf Association ...., Among representatives of clubs more than 20 miles from Toronto, the committee, headed by A. J. Mylrea of Toronto, is expected to recommend these names: G. Abbott, Peterborough; W. D. Powell, Brantford; G. R. John- ston, Brockville; A. F. Fuerth, Essex; H. W. Davis, Cataraqui; G. A. M. Edwards, Waterloo; 8, O. Mason, Lookout Point; A. L. Code, Links O'Tay; E. W. Robson, Oshawa; -E. 'E. H. Wright, St. Catharines; 'Duncan E. MacDonald, Cornwall, : L J L J *® SCISSORED SPORT--(By The Canadian Press)--An Owen Sound delegation, headed by Mayor Ed, Sargent, took time between periods of the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs' 3-2 triumph over Detroit Red Wings Saturday night to make presentations to three of Owen Sound's native sons participating in the game--Detroit goalie Harry Lumley, Toronto coach C. H. (Happy) Day and referee Melville (Butch) Keeling. Lumley" was presented with a set of golf clubs, Hap Day an oil painting and (Butch) Keeling a set of silver service . . . . Danny Webb, brisk little Montreal boxer, who has agreed to lay his Canadian lightweight title on the line in a Feb. 9 bout with Toronto's Arthur King, has been guaran- teedg flat $3,500 and privilege of 25 per cent of the gate, Toronto pro. moter Frank Tunney said Saturday , , . . Frank Selke, general manager of Montreal Canadiens, announced yesterday that the veteran Toe Blake out of National Hockey League competition since Jan. 10 with a broken ankle, will go to Houston, Texas, to coach the United States Hockey League team there ., .. The United States regained possession of the Lapham International Trophy Saturday when a 15-man American squash' raquets team defeated Canada 15-5 in the annual competition, held this year at the Hartford, Conn., Golf Club, ; JR. "B" HOCKEY - 8:30 p.m, --- TORONTO BYERS ~- Vs. -- : OSHAWA JR. BEES QADULTS 50. - CHILDREN 25. } OSHAWA ARENA NON-OLYMPIC HOCKEY WINS WILL PROBABLY BE RECOGNIZED --DUDLEY | St. Moritz, Feb. 2--(CP)--The opening phase of the men's figure skating championships heads the fourth day program of the fifth winter Olympics today. The men will stage the difficult compulsory figures with the more crowd-pleasing free skating events not scheduled until Wednesday Dick Button of Englewood, N.J., recent winner of the men's Euro- pean figure skating championship at Prague, is the United States' chief ihreat with = Wally \Distel~ meyer of Toronto, providing the Canadian competition. Judge's Two Events The women's compulsory figures, originally scheduled for today, were postponed until Tuesday. It was understood that Canada, with only one judge here in Melvilld Rogers of Ottawa, complained to the International Skating Union that the dorftinion could not be rep- resented by a judge in both events if held on the same day. Rogers will be the Canadian, judge for both the men's and wom~ en's singles and for the pairs under the revised schedule announced by H. J. Clarke, President of the U.S.U. last night. In the women's division, beauti- ful Barbara Ann Scott of Ottawa, world and European titlist, is a prime favorite. Marilyn Ruth Take and Suzanne Morrow, both from Toronto, also will compete. Hockey Continues Other events today are the down- hill skiing for both men and wom- en, 1,500-metre (metric mile) speed skaters and three non-Olympic hockey games, Frank Stack and Gordon Aud- ley of Winnipeg and Ab Hardy of Edmonton will carry Canada's col- ors in the speed skating. On the hockey program the Can- adians will shoot for -their third straight victory against Poland. Yesterday the R.C.A.F. Flyers, dominion representatives, defeated Britain 3-0 to remain undefeated and moved into a third-place tie with the United States team, two oints behind Czechoslovakia and eh dy The Canadians have a game in hand, having drawn a second-round be Meanwhile, the bickering contin- ued as to whether hockey should or should not be recognized as an Olympic event. Wins Recognized George Dudley, secretary-man- ager of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, said in an in- terview that the country that wins the hockey tournament probably will be "recognized by the world Olympic champions despite what the International Olympic Com- mittee says." Observers who have followed the four-month controversy which raged 'around participation of an Amateur Hockey Association team interpreted the I.0.C.'s decision-- to ban hockey from the Olympics --as a personal victory for Avery Brundage, president of the United States Olympic Committee. On the other fronts, meanwhile, Reidar Liaklev of Norway,--the Scandinavian countries have domi- nated most events to date--won the 5,000-metre speed skating cham- pionship to move his country into unofficial second place behind Sweden with 80% points. Sweden had 32 and third-place Finland 21. Canada is 10th with one quarter of a point. In the event, Craig MacKay of Saskatoon placed 14th, best show- ing by a North American, in 8:47.2. Liaklev's time was 8:29.4. The lone American triumph was scored in the hockey games. The Amateur Hockey Association squad snowed under Italy's sextet, 31-1 to record its second victory in three starts. " GENERALS DO IT AGAIN TO SPITFIRES Ex-Champion On Comeback Trail Oshawa Pucksters Outpass and Outscore Windsor Spitfires In Season's Fastest Junior Tussle & *- Locals Take Spitfires for Third Time in as Many Tries, to at Least Cinch Second Place -- Wind- sor Can Still Overtake Generals, Having Play- ed Two Less Games -- "Pogey" Gets His Goal By BOB RIFE Oshawa Generals moved up into first place in the Junior "A" race, and also mbved into the hearts of some of the fans who like to, see good hockey, when they whipped the Windsor Spitfires' 'Saturday night at the Arena by the score of 7-3. It was a packed house, and they loved every minute of play, from Sandy Air's first goal, through Eric Pogue's great stick handling. dis-. play, to the time near the end when the tempers of the Windsor crew got a little hot and the checks a little heavier. Oshawa were hot, we have to ad- mit that. Yet they have been hot for the last two weeks, and seem likely to stay that way right through till the coming play-offs. Maybe it will last into and through those games too, We like to think it will. Spits Try Hard Windsor tried hard, but the smal- ler and faster locals had it all over them in the forward department, and our defence pairs although up against big boys made them toe the line and gave Piquette a load of protection. . ~The fans from the'opening face- off were really from Ross Lowe and Dusty Blair and blazed the rubber home through a scramble in front of the Galt Windsor net, 'that they finally cool- ed off a bit. This cooling off didn't last long for the Spits looked dangerous all the time, and had the Oshawa de- fence doing handsprings to keep the puck in the neutral area. Eric Pogue finally came through with his goal on home ice, and wha! a goal. The young winger showed more finesse on that effort than the whole Windsor team all night. He grabbed the puck in front of his own net, burned up the centre ice lane, and approached two burly Windsor defencemen at breakneck speed. They started to move to- gether for the squeeze, but Pogue pushed the puck through, leaped be- tween the huskies and tore in on Walmsley, He Shoots! He Scores! That goalie just didn't see the puck or Pogue, both were travelling 80 fast, and Oshawa was leading 2- 0, when the net bulged, and the red light flashed on. Windsor were slow in coming io life, but when they did, it was with a sort of carelessness that belied the play that led to their only counter of the period. Busch made it from Hay and McKay when they sneak- checked an Oshawa defender close in and whistled the puck behind the startled Piquette. The second period was all Osh- awa, with the Generals putting on the pressure right through. Chuck Blair got the first chance, only to have Ivan Walmsley in the Spits net come up with a neat save. Pogue set up Gerry Scott with a short hot pass a few minutes later, and the big Winnipeg boy saw the open net and whipped in the rubber. Sullivan backhanded the puck in- to the net after a spectacular rush up the ice, but after much argu- ment it was decided, not to the en- joyment of the strictly partisan fans that someone was standing in the i and the goal was not allow- ed, Power Play Pays Another power play right from the face-off brought back the smiles though, as Oleksuik shot the puck into the corner, where Scholes pas. sed it out to Gamble, and he flick- ed It into the twine. That made it 4-1 for Oshawa, and the raw edges of the boys' tem- pers were starting to burn, as the pace they were setting was terrific. Pogue went through the whole team on a rush similar to the one which he made in the first period, and had the whole arena breath. less, when he repeated his.defence splitting maneouver.-A tiny miscal- culation of speed at the last minute made the puck.scrape the goal- post by inches, and saved Windsor from annther tally. Play was slower but harder In the beginning of the third frame, and when Ross Lowe finally got Pronovost with a booming body in- to the boards, it was the climax of a lot of small dirty play, Jim Uniac got an easy goal for Windsor at the five minute mark when' he 'found the 'Oshawa fore. checking had 'stopped and the de- | tensed, ' and {it {Marlports wasn't till Sandy Air took passes | Guelph: 3 The Summary | THE SUMMARY 1st Period 1--Oshawa, Air (Lowe, D. Blair) 2--O0shawa, Pogue 3--Windsor, Busch (Hay, McKay) Penalties: Pronovost. 2nd Period 4--Oshawa, Scott (Pogue) .... 2.53 5--Oshawa, Gamble (Scholes, Oleksuik 8.45 Penalties -- Ouellette, Quacken- bush and Busch. 3rd Period 6--Windsor, Uniac (J. Wilson, Hay) 5.1 T--Oshawa, Gamble ... 8--Oshawa, Scott (Pogue, LaFrance) 9--Oshawa, Brandow (Air) ,.15.17 10--Windsor, Busch (Quackenbush) Penalties: Pogue, Paulotto, Olek- suik, McKay, Walmsley (served by Church), Lowe (major), and Pro- novost (major). HOCKEY "gn O0.H.A. JUNIOR G W L Oshawa ..... 29 ooo OMmE elph: viv... 31 St. Michael's Y. Rangers a 22 Saturday's «2 8 | ... 9 Barri Future Games T y--Galt at ph (at Galt). Wednesday--=St. Michael's at Windsor; Marlboros at Stratford. LY 4 T F APs 1137 78 O.H.A, SENIOR G W L Ham. Tigers 30 Marlboros ... 31 Stratford ... 32 | Kitch.-Wat. . 30 32 | Owen Sound 30 32 | Ham. Pats , 28 18 | Brantford ... 30 2 2 5 Saturday's Marlboros Owen Sound..... 1 Kitch.-Waterloo Brantford........ 4 Futute Games Tonight--Brantford at Hamilton Pats. Tuesday Kitchener-Waterloo at Owen Sound. NATIONAL LEAGUE G W L Detroit Toronto ..... New York .. Boston Montreal .... Chicago 23 20 17 3 | 14 14 12 05 3 : 4 132 167 Sunday's Results . Future Games Tuesday--Detroit at Chicago. Wednesday--Toronto at Boston; New York at Detroit. Thursday--Chicago at Montreal, Saturday--Detroit at Montreal; New York at Toronto. 4 second prizes, with three wins for a 49 | prizes were decided and won in this 4 ly in the first draw of the day. | J. AL. PARKHILL'S RINK CAPTURES ONE-DAY SPIEL In an interesting one-day, three game bonspiel, staged for the mem- bers of the Oshawa Curling Club on Saturday, Al. Parkhill's rink, con- sisting of J. Walsh, Jim Stuart and Maurice Kirkland and "AJ." as skip, took down top honors with three wins and a plus total of 15, "Parky" won his first game in handy fash and whipped Paul Michael's fotsome badly in the 3rd game but in the middle canta it was the closest game of the season. Parkhill and Gifford were tied com. ing home on the last end and the winning shot had to be measured. Parkhill's black-handled stone got the decision, believe it or not, by the width of a piece of paper, to nose out Gifford's whitehandle, for the shot, and game, Charlie Peacock's rink won the plus total of only 6. All his games were close and his final game was the closest, when Peacock and his rink beat out Alex Hall's rink on the final end, with twp shots, to take the game by a 1-shot margin. | Fred Harris, Frank Godden and | Ex-lightweight Champion Beau Jack of Atlanta, Georgia, drops opponent Johnny Bratton of Chicago: during their bout at the Chicago stadium. | Cameron Burton were, the other | Jack won on a TKO in the ~ighth round when Bratton quit, complaining members of Peacock's winning! quartette, Alex. Brodie won his second and third games by one-sided scores to take the best two-win score of the day's play, with 18 plus 3 and thus lay undisputed claim to the 3rd prizes. The final set of awards went to Ed. Michael's rink, who lost out to brother Frank in the first game by a close margin, trounced Lou Beaton in the second 'draw and then dropped their third game to Alex, Brodie--thus two sets of 3rd draw game, Michael's 10-1 win was the best single-win score of the day. The entire day's play was featur- ed by cxlose competition, particular. This week, mémbers of the Osh- awa Curling Club swing into the the opening rounds of their annual G. W. McLaughlin Memorial Trophy competition. First J. Walsh J. Stuart M. Kirkland . J. Parkhill, Skip Sin poet, Frank Michael, 8kip Balson, ' Neil Macdonald, Karl Stafford, Fred Moss, Paul Michael, Father Pereyma, Skip FBR ve. ieee, B. McGrath, M. McGrath, 8. J. Storie, . H. Ross E. Crawford, . Barnett, Eldon Kerr, Alex Hall, Skip J. Dinner, H. Coulter, C. Dempsey, Ab. Robbins, Ivan Parrott, . Beard, Wm, Gifford, Al Bkip 4 ; Skip Fred Harris! Frank Godden, Cameron Burton, J. McGrath, A. Webster, L. M, Miller, Lew Beaton, SKIP se vienss A Fred Templeman, Stan. Bagg, 8id Nobbin, Maurice Hart, cesees.ee TT; SKID Second Game 12; A J. D. Morrison, J. A. Thompson, W. J. Brownlee, 8kip Michael fence were not even looking for him. He coasted in and banged the puck into the ghper corner past Pi- quette for a count of 4-2. Scuffles Commence Pogue and Louis Paulotto got into a small tiff and were given minors, and before they got back on, Olek. suik and McKay were swinging away at each other. This resulted in two more minors. : After that Windsor tried to rough it in everyway, but the Generals just skated around them and gave Dem a Bronx cheer for their trou- e. . Gamble got a softy when Quack- enbush deflected a shot into his own net, but Scott from Pogue and La. France made up for it with another nifty play that ended with the rub- ber behind Walmsley. This must have annoyed that goa- lie for he was caught slashing at LaFrance; and given a minor which Cam. Church had to serve. Sandy Air got the puck during the Oshawa power play that resuls- ed with Spitfires one man short, and passed 'it back to the blueline, where Ward Brandow lofted the puck on a long one right into the open net. That made it 7-2, and the locals re- laxed. Mayhap they relaxed a litfle too soon for Eddie Busch wormed and wiggled till he got a shot at Pi- quetle. He Qeked that worthy aside and scored very cleanly with only 16 seconds to go in the final frame. That made the final count 7-3, and Oshawa had cinched at least second place in the final standing, and taken over first place right now. WINDSOR SPITFIRES: -- (Joal, Walmsley; defence, Quackenbush, Pronovost; centre, Uniac; wings, J. Wilson, Haidy; Alts, Ouellette, Thompson, 7; M. Hart, 6. Peacock, 8: F. Michael, 5. Michael, 10; L. Beaton, 1, Strike, 8; Rev. Pereyma, 7. Hall, 9; W. Brownlee, 5. Parkhill, 8; W. Gifford, 7. Brodie, 16; A. Muir, 2. Michael, 7. A Muir, 7. W. Brownlee, 6. W. Gifford, 8. RIES AN PE EHOND Busch, McKay, Hay, Church, Pau. lotto and Bert Giesebrecht. OSHAWA GENERALS: -- Goal, Piquette; defence, Oleksuik, Sulli- van; centre, Scholes; wings, Gam-~ ble, Blair; Alts., Brandow, Pogue, Scott, LaFrance, D. Blair, Air and Lowe. Officials: --Referee, Ken Holme- of extreme pain in his jaw. Examination revealed that his jaw was broken. This was Jack's fifth straight victory on his comeback trail, Latest Olympic Results Speed Skating Norway continued its dominance of speed skating events in the fifth winter Olympics today when Sve Farstad, one of the country's Bb all-round athletes, won the 1,500 metre (metric mile) champiol : in the record time of two minutes, 1.500 metres speed ®kating , -- Frank Stock, Winnipeg, placed 27] in 2:25.7; Ab Harly, Edmonton, 29th in 2:28.5; Gordon Audley of Winnis peg, 35th in 2:30. (Winner's time 2:11.6). . bol Rt Hockey Shi Canada's RCAF Flyers chalked up another shutout in Olympic hockey tournament today, when thay blanked Poland 15-0. The Canadiaf pucksters headed the game by per fods 3-0, 11-0 and then scored féur more in the final- period, fof"# comfortable victory. : a Sweden defeated Austria 7-1 todfy in the hockey tournament staged "ffi conjunction with the Olympie games, The contest had no significaiit bearing on the standings since gf: ther team had won a game up. 10 their meeting. The victory was Swe- den's first in three starts and if was Austria's fourth defeat. 9 Ski Racing Henri Oreiller of France won & decisive victory in the winter Olym. pics' men's downhill ski race today, finishing the two-mile course in two minutes, §5 seconds. In second place came Franz Gabl of Austria who registered 2:59.2. 'There was a tie for third between Swiss champion Karl Molitor apd his teammate, Rols Olinger. 17.6 seconds. pes Ladies' "Skiing pry Hedy Schlunegger of Switzerla: today won the ladies' downhill #ki race in the winter Olympics in 2:2 28.6. SWISS SLEDDERS WIN G+ 8t. 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