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Oshawa Times (1958-), 26 May 1964, p. 13

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NEW COACH -- Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, great National Hockey League for- ward, began a new career David Molson, president of and Sam Pollack, new gener- Monday as coach of the Am- erican Hockey League's Que- bec Aces, Shown here are TO COACH QUEBEC Geoffrion Retires, In NHL 13 Seasons QUEBEC (CP) -- Bernie Room Boom) Geoffrion never escaped the shadow of Maurice Richard through his brilliant 13 year National Hockey League career and Monday, when he called it quits, he was. still sec- ond" best. The Boomer's awesome slap shot enabled him to do almost everything the Rocket did. He scored goals, he won games, he sparked championship teams, he captured awards, he was an all star many times. But one time Geoffrion sur- passed the Rocket and fans of the' Montreal enna -- 'ently never forgave him for it. Although lesser - lights snared their adulation, Geffrion never earned the esteem he perhaps deserved. His grav misdeed occurred in 1964-55 when he won the NHL championship, a feat never @ * the title The Boomer bya point while runner-up Ri- 'gat out a suspension that _ eansed. | notorious St. Pat- 'aed ine riot. at the Forum. YEAR HAUNTED HIM gage a aged ev with a range of emotions, often relived and regretted that year. He spoke of it often and although Richard and Geoffrion always were amiable in public, that season was never forgot- ten. Despite his heroics--especially last season when at 33 years of age he inspired a young club with 21 goals--Geoffrion only escaped the shadow Monday when he embarked on a new time. Gordie Howe had 566 and, as usual, Richard stands ahead of him. with 544. He succeeds Floyd Curry at Quebec ona one-year contract. Curry resigned recently to de- vote more time to his Montreal oil business after coaching the Aces through five seasons, in- cluding a league championship this year: Despite reports of a Geoffrion trade and apparent interest in Toronto, Geoffrion said he wel- comes retirement and will not play again, That's not surpris- Montreal Canadiens, Gerry Martineau, president of Que- bec Aces, Bernie Geoffrion al manager of Montreal Cana- diens. --(CP Wirephoto) riddled with injuries--one nearly) fatal. ONLY ONE FULL SEASON He only completed one 70- game schedule. The other years he suffered broken anms, legs, ankles' and jaw and in 1058 in- curred a bowel rupture and was given the last rites in hospital. There were better times, such as his initial year when he scored 30 goals and won the Calder rookie award. Then he scored 50 goals in 1060-61, shar- ing the record with Richard and Bobby Hull of Chicago Black ing, considering his career was Hawks. or AND LAST WEEK! WINNER 7 OF 4 ACADEMY AWARDS! Including BEST PICTURE! | | i SORRY ----- NO ADVANCE TICKET SALE career as coach of the Quebec Aces of the American Hockey League. He left behind Fe Ah accomplishments rookies dream of. His 371 goais rank him third best scorer of all Eisenhower Enters Charity Golf Game ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) -- One| of the best guarded secrets of the post-war years--how good or bad is Ike's slice?--will be re- vealed here today for the sake of charity. Former president Dwight Eis- enhower will team with Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole benefit for the Heart Association of south- eastern Pennsylvania. | Their opponents in a best-ball | match over the Merion Golf} Club course will be Jimmy De-/ maret, dapper, 53-year-old golf | pro, and Ray Bolger, the twin-| kle-toed star of Hollywood and| Broadway. 3: > THRILL-PACKED HOURS IVE OUT * TONIGHT * ALWAYS "TARZAN'S 3 yoy LAST TIME TONIGHT All Color Show "THE 300 SPARTANS" A COLOR CARTOON! CHALLENGES" ~-- STARTS WEDNESDAY FOR 3 DAYS ONLY -- THE MOST ACCLAIMED MOTION PICTURE OUR TIME! NATALIE woop ° RICHARD Winner of 18 "b66T PicTuaeI" OF i Academy Awerds! © iva: BEYMER One Show Only---9:15 *" THORNTON RD. AT HIGHWAY 401 . . . PHONE 723-4972 CHILDREN UNDER 12 FREE! Always A Color Cartoon PRICES: $2.50 $3.00 SATURDAY MAY 30th | pre-race 11.40 a.m. STARTS 12 NOON GLENDALE 783-144) WHITBY ARENA Saturday Only - Live Musie Every Soturdey Roller Skating: 8 te 10 P.M. Dancing 10 P.M. till 12 TUESDAY ONLY .-- Roller Skating to the Live Organ Music of LILA TREDWELL Let's Get * Rolling! Every TUESDAY and SATURDAY 8 p.m. until 10:30 The season just ended was one of the most gratifying for the man who could sufik in a corner or bang down a dress- ing room door, toss his stick and burst into song after scor- ing three goals. They thought he was through but even on his last legs he scored 21 goals, nine of them winners, and banged in the de- ciding marker as Montreal beat New York 2-1 to win the NHL Souchak Fails To Qualify For U.S. Open Play NEW YORK (AP) -- Mike Souchak was the biggest casu-' Z alty Monday as a field of about 2,000 started on the long quali- fying trail to the United States Open at Washington June 18-20. Local qualifying rounds over % holes were staged at 34 courses Monday. Three more tests will be held today, all in the New York area. A total of 428 golfers will ad- vance to sectional qualifying rounds scheduled for June 8-9. Twenty-one players, including defending champion Julius Boros and recent champions Arnold Paimer, Jack Nicklaus, Bill Casper and Gene Littler, are exempt from all qualifying and 45 others were allowed to skip the local test. HYNDMAN OUT Souchak's failure was the most noteworthy. Another was Bill Hyndman II, Walker Cup- r and former runnerap in h the U.S. and British Ama- teurs. Frank Stranahan, former British Amateur champion and veteran pro tourist, failed to qualify when he soared to 78-86 159. Mike tried at Memphis, scene} of the Memphis Open last week which he won with a 72-hole score of 270, lowest on the tour this year. But the best he could do Mon- day was 73-74--147. Bill Ezinicki, former National Hockey League player from Winnipeg who now lives in Massachusetts, was among the qualifiers. title on the last day of the sea- POOL TRAFFIC Scaffdinavian Airlines System and Alitalia have concluded an agreement to pool air traffic between Scandinavia and Italy. JUST WASN'T THEIR NIGHT WINNIPEG (CP) -- Chal- mers 72 Bronx Park 2. This is the score by which a Red River Little League baseball game won the other night in the Greater Winnipeg city of East Kil- donan. The official scorekeeper said it was a record score for a Little League game. No one argued. The game was called after three innings because of darkness. Clark And Foyt Enter Mosport June 6 Event ' TORONTO (CP) -- The Ca- nadian Racing Drivers Associa- tion announced Monday that 1963 world champion Jimmy' Clark of Scotland and United States auto club champion A. J. i of Houston, Tex., have filed. entries for the Mosport 200 invitational race June 6. Clark, No. 1 driver for the HANDLES GOODS A new goods handling termi- nal in Stockholm -- largest in Scandinavia -- is designed for handling a flow of 3.3 tons of goods a minute. , MEL KRUGER REPRESENTATIVE SUN LIFE Assurance Company Tee A NOW P That Beverly Hillbilly Guy Is BUDDY EBSEN @ JANE GARNER @ LEE REMMICK "Mail Order Bride" "The Wheeler Dealers" i € ourt-poor LIVER POOL ROAD ond 401 EAST hone. 282-8369 ot N-DOOR VEE. ( 89 - 2171 of Canada RESIDENCE: 723-7900 Lotus factory team, will drive one of two Ford - powered Lo-jand Clark are 500 will be driven by John Surtees of England, whose entry was announced earlier. 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