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\ # Ss 4 'Make Big Switch ' Ps é c tcf MONTREAL, (CP)--Dick Duff don his third National Hockey League uniform Wed- sfay night when he turns out n Montreal Canadiens, the of a Montreal-New York layer trade: neral - manager Sam Pol- tof the Canadiens announced ay night that Duff and er Dave McComb were acquired by the Montreal from New York Rangers Bill Hicke, a Canadien prop- _ , and goaler Jean-Guy Mor- = of Cleveland Barons of P American Hockey League. "The 28-year-old Duff, a left Wittger, went to the Rangers last season in a trade that sent Andy Bathgate to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Duff had played with the Leafs for-nine seasons before that. SHis best season was in 1958-59 en he scored-29 goals and as- on 24 others for a 53- point total. He had three goals DICK DUFF and nine assists in 29 games so far this season with New York, Hicke, 26, was in the Cana- diens lineup for 17 games ear- lier this season but had been .. used only occasionally. He had/h; one assist before he was sent down to Cleveland two weeks ago. His best season with Montreal was in 1961-62 when he scored 20 goals and had 31 assists. In the 1958-59 season with Roches- ter of the AHL, the year before he went up to Montreal; he scored 41 goals and assisted on 56 others for a 91-point total. Morrisette, 22, became a pro- fessional with Omaha of the Central Professional League last season and played several games with Quebec Aces of the AHL. McComb, 23, played. with Kitchener - Waterloo and Sud- bury in the defunct Eastern Professional League before g6- ing to St. Paul of the central pro circuit last season. Line Change Helps Black Hawks' Spurt MONTREAL (CP)--A little;scoring four goals and five as-;with 25 points. Boston Bruins, line-juggling by a coach canjsists last week. He has 27)who have won only one of their take on formidable proportions!points, the same as Norm Ull-|last eight games, continue to when its results are put through) man of Detroit and Claude Pro-|play their role as league door- on National Hockey ia of Montreal. mat. They're in last place with icial statistics computer. | 16 points. ~Coach Billy Reay of Chicago| LEAFS DROP BACK | Charlie Hodge of Montreal Black Hawks:put together the| While breaking even in their) and Roger Crozier of Detroit ihe of left winger Bobby Hull,|three games last week by win-/are tied in the Vezina Trophy centre Phil- Esposito and right/ning, losing and tying, Toronto|race. Each team has _ been winger Chico Maki which has|Maple Leafs slipped to fourth' scored on 69 times, three fewer teammate Carl Brewer and 22 more than Detroit's Ted Lind- "THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tussdey, December 22, 1964 1 . By JOHN SHORT - EDMONTON (CP)--The jun- ior Edfmonton Oil Kings, rein- forced by six of their alumni Russians Stagger To Win Over Edmonton Juniors ond intermission with Broderick again missing the first two Rus- sian drives. But the Toronto-born net- Ps ge d by the Canadi and four intermediates, Idn't quite catch Russia's national team Monday night but their coach thinks the world ama- me hockey champions can be ad, The Russians won the game 7-5. But they frittered away a five-goal lead, giving up two goals while they had a man ad- vantage, and were hanging on the ropes until they fired an in- surance goal into the empty net with 11 seconds remaining after the Oil Kings lifted their goal- tender for an extra forward, Edmonton coach Buster Bray- shaw praised the tourists' puck control and passing ability but found them less outstanding than he had been given to be- lieve. "They threw a lot of blind passes at us,' he said, "and as soon as our defencemen changed their tactics a bit they couldn't complete passes of that type. J Brayshaw felt Canadian teams shouldn't allow the Rus- sians to dictate the tempo of play. SHOULD PRESS THEM _ "You have to press them and they'll make mistakes. But they're well coached and in good condition, That wins a lot of hockey games." Unbeaten and tied only once in seven Canadian starts, the Russians took a 3-1 lead. at the end of the first pesiod, beating goaltender Ken Broderick with two of the first three shots he saw, and made it 6-1 at the sec- Elimination Bout Switched To Feb. 1 Patterson - George Chuvalo heavyweight 12-rounder, now NEW YORK (AP)--The Floyd], national team for the occasion made 30 stops, 25 of them in the'first two periods, comparec with. 23 by Russian goaltende: Victor Tolmachev. Blonde Veniamin Alexandrov. one of the veterans of the Rus- sian lineup, scored the clinch- ing goal on a lofted backhand from his own zone and set up the first two of the game, both by Victor Kuzkin, 45 seconds apart in the first period, He also assisted on a third goal by Alexander Ragulin. Vyachesiay Starshinov, Yuri Volkov and Victor Yakushev were the other Russian marks- men. SCORES TWO Roger Bourbonnais, a former Oil King who faced the Rus- sians before along with Broder- ick in the 1964 Olympics, scored two of the Edmonton goals with Harvey Fleming, Max Mestinsek and Bert Marshall getting the others. Mestinsek, Marshall and Glen Sather rejoined the Oil Kings from Memphis Wings of the Central Hockey League. Pat Quinn came from Tulsa of the CPHL and Jim Eagle from Denver University. Bourbonnais is with the Canadian national team. Broken Thumb Puts Bathgate Out Of Action TORONTO (CP) -- Defence- jman Bobby Baun may be back lin the Toronto Maple Leaf line- up before the Leafs' Friday and Saturday night Christmas series with Chicago Black Hawks, but set for Monday, Feb. 1, will be chances are slim that Andy telecast to theatres and arenaS'pathgate will return before five closed circuit. | | During this séason of peace on earth, good will towards men, we are taking time out from hustle and bustle of Christmas to wish you and your family the happiest and most joyous Christmas ever. From the CANADIAN Tire Management «\ ASSOCIATE STORE and Staff .. CLOSED CHRISTMAS PORT PERRY fred A, Smith Co. Ltd, 183 Queen St. OSHAWA Fred A. Smith Co, Ltd, 115 Simcoe St. S. say. Toronto is the st penal- say 'onto is the most penal-| AND BOXING DAY Phone: 985-2824 Phone: 728-6272 ized team with 464 minutes, six | more than Detroit. turned out to be the top unit|place from second place with 31|than Toronto. Crozier continues im the league in its first six| points, }to lead in shutouts with three. games. | New York Rangers, who have| In the penalty department, ae and Exposito have each/failed to win in their last six ed a sli gotoon pdt scol ~points while Maki! i is cota ag 'athe ae games, (22m fell off the pace to fifth) vith 93 minutes, 21 more than Gebers has. won its last seven, mioving into a second-place tie HOCKEY SCORES with Detroit Red Wings. Each has 32 points, two fewer than first-place. Montreal Canadiens, | STANDINGS Last week, Hull scored five] 2d , veg | The leaders: géals, stepping up his scoring) BY THE CANADIAN PRESS | i ee eee pace to a goal a game--28 goals| Central Professional 'Hull, Chi f "a 18 in 28 games--and picked up five! WLT F APtiyixita Chi g assists for a total of 44 points.| maha 15 9° 3103 7933\ Esposito, Chi 13 17 Hull leads th divid eads the individual scor-\Minneapolis 15 11 1 95 733¥Ullman, Det 12 33 We raco hy 10 points. Tulsa 1510 1 90 7431/Provost, Mtl He has 42 games in which to|st. Paul 1510 0 85 8530\Bathgate, Tor 10 12 srore the necessary 23 goals to'st Louis 617 1 67107 13|Goyette, NY 4 ag al go for most goals| Memphis 615 0 59 8112 Henry, NY 4 season. Gilbert, NY . » : Parra Ontario Junior B | Y ried cnet te Serine Relieve # Peterborourh 2. Be" Bt : whose points are made up of sy, ange toate Green, Bos 61 eight. goals and 26 assists, best| Windsor 6 Wallaceburg 2 |Bucyk, Bos- 10 in the league, Another Hawk, Exhibition Prentice, Bos 12 Phil. Esposito, moved into a/Russian Nationals 7 Edmonton|Mahoylich, Tor 8 16 three-way tie for third place by! (CAHL) 5 |Pilote, Chi 0 54 14|" json Square Garden, said Mon- |day night that Lester M. Malitz, jInc., of New York had been granted the closed circuit dis- [tribution rights, also also will handle network radio and com- ;munity antenna negotiations, | Irish said there will be no |home television, except in the jareas that have community an- tenna contracts, BASKETBALL | SCORES By THE CANADIAN PRESS | NBA "Tei : . | weeks. Ned Irish, president of Madi-| Baun is being treated for a charley-horse in his right thigh and, if the clotting dissolves quickly, he could be skating by weekend. But Leaf doctors. say Bathgate's broken thumb won't) be ready for action for at least! five weeks. Both players were injured during the Leafs' 3-1 loss to De-| troit Red Wings Sunday night.) Either Duane Rupp or Larry Hillman, both of Rochester Americans of the American) Hockey League, will replace) Baun while Bathgate, Leafs' top scorer and sixth in the Na-| tional Hockey League race, will | |New York 113 Los Angeles 125 pin or Eddie Shack. be replaced by either Jim | Settle down to some solid flavour! Wednesday and playing by the|? BOB GIBBONS JOHN MARKOVICH Service Manager Proprietor. ws, accompanied by the peace and joy this happy holiday always brings. May we wish you, our loyal patrons, a large measure of all the good things Christmas offers, and thank you for the many joys your continued friendship has brought @ BILL CRESSWELL @ H.B. KELSEY @ BEN FOWLER * @ OWEN AHO @ EASTMAN STEEVES a @ JOAN MARKOVICH SHAWA ESSO SERVICE CENTRE King St. West at Park Rd. 728-1601