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Hubs Show NoSigns Of Vacating Top Spot THE CANADIAN PRESS This is the year Montreals great dynasty in the National Hockey League was supposed to collapse The Canadiens ere ousted from the Stanley Cup playoffs last season by Chicago Black Hawks gt The pundits foresaw il dire future for Montreal with some of the Ifabs slipping over the Mycar mark and chains de ficiencics on defence and left wing But take look at thestand ings in Montreal Thuisdny night the Canadiens extended the bulge at the top to six points with 52 win over Torontos runnerrup Maple Leafs before seasonhigh crowd of 15266 Unbeaten in 11 starts the Habs now have 67 points to Torontos 61 In Detroit the Hawks won 74 with Bobby Hull loading the way with our goals That gave the blond telt winger 30 for the campaign and he shunted Montreals Claude for the NHL lead in that depart ment New York Rangers skipcd over the Red Wings into fourth place in the standings with 53 win over the Bruins in Bos ton before H363 fans In Montreal Bernie Geotfrion scored goal and set up two more to power the Canadians attack Gilles Tremblay lcan Heli eau Don Marshall and Henri Richard rounded out the Mont real scoring The Tomato marksmen were Frank Mahov lich and Dave Kcon Near the midway point of the final period Toronto goalie lohnny Bower was hurt in scramble and took six stitches for out near the left ear The game was delayed about 10 minutes Four regulars on the iniured tlst hurt Torontos cause Cen tre Red Kelly and defenceman Bob Baun dressed but Kelly made only one appearance late in the game and Baun didnt Eddie both sidelined the trip Before crnwd of 10236 in play Forwards Dick Duff and with leg injuries didnt make Detroit goalie Glenn Halt stopped 51 shots while Terry Sawchuk handled only 27 in the Detroit nets Reggie Fleming added two goals to the Chicago offence and Bronco Horvalh counted thernthcr The Detroit marksmcn were dcfenccman Marcel Pronmost and forwards Den Lunde Alex Deltecchio and Norm Ullman WINGS FALL BEHIND The outcome gave the Hawks 51 points and the Red Wings with 41 tell point behind the Rangers At Boston Ken Schinkel Johnny Wilson Dave Baton Dean Prentice and Earl lngarlt field counted for the Rangers The Bruins got goals from Murray Oliver Doug Mohns and Andre Pronovost Theyre last with lowly 21 points The weekend schedule tosses all six teams into oetion twice Saturday night its Detroit at Montreal New York at Toronto and Boston at Chicago Sunday night Montreal is at New York Toronto at Chicago and Boston at Detroit Mrs Irwin Wins Curling Playdowns TORONTO CPLMrs Fern lrwin of Toronto st Georges rallied from 102 deficit to de feat Mrs Cyril Lnurin of Union ville 1211 in playolf Thurs day for the Southern polario womens curling championshlnl Sheand her rink now ad vance to the provincial finals against foursomes from north ern northwestern and northeast ern Ontario The playoff was necessitated when both rinks won their final round games oi the eightrink roundvrnbin competition to fin ish with identical records of six wins and loss Mrs1rwin defeated Mrs Shaw of Toronto High Park 123 while Mrs Laurin de feated the winlcss Peterborough Golf Club rink skipod by Mrs Selkirk 96 Mrs Dalrymple of St Catharines finished third with 52 record MrsJ Ough of Bar rle and Mrs Schmidt of Kitchener who didnt play their scheduled seven round game were 33 PALM SPRINGS Calif CF Veteran Stan Leonard of Van couver clung to slim lead as he swung into the third round of Hire marathon $50000 Palm Springs open golf tournament today but dangerously close was Arnold Palmer apparently Ilack to his brilliant form Leonard forged ahcad Thurs day with his second great round and had an 11underpnr 132 for gt36 holes His closest challeng ers in the Whole event at four golf courses were lnek Cupit and Gardner Dickinson two strokes back Another stroke behind at 135 was Neil Colcs of England Palmer who has been hav ing trouble getting into the tournament grind this year was four strokes off the pace witll Mike Souchak Leonard 17 today tied alter the first round with young Rcd Baxter Jr grabbed the lead Thursday with iivcunderpar 67 The eighttime winner of the To Investigate Report Player Involved In Ticket Racket By McINTYRE HOOD Special to Thaliarrle Examiner LONDON Plymouth Argyle Football Club is to investigate report that at least one of its members is involved in big money cuptie ticket racket The decision to investigate was made after selfstyled ticket operator Stanley Flashman of Dalston London arrived in Ply mouth two days before the third round Cup match with Totten ham Hotspur and said he had over 1200 tickets for the match to sell hope to clean up between $1000 and 51500 this weekend said Mr Flashman Altogether have received 1214 tickets for the Plymouth ArgyleTottenham Hotspur Cup tie They have all come from source inside the Plymouth Club The last consignment of 260 tickets was handed over to me by Plymouth footballer He boarded my train at Exeter and gave them to me on the journey between there and Ply mouth BEING mourning These tickets were to be sold at anything up to six times their face vallTE before the kick off of the greatestsoccer match Plymouth has ever known Ron Blindell millionaire chair man of the Plymouth Argyle Club has ordered thorough investigation of Mr Flashmans statements if this is true am disgusted was his cum ment Interviewed at hotel in Ply mouth Mr Flashman gave fur Cher details of his ticket deals made contractflflhe said when Plymouth reserves play ed Spurs reserves and telephon ed the contact asking for as many tickets as possible after the Cup draw was made few days later pidred up 054 tlck ets paid just over $900 for them so gave my contact about $300 over their face vat lie Will hold on to as many tickets as possible until just be fore the kickoff that when they fetch the best price The Plymouth chairman is sued public announcement adlt vismg the public not to buy the tickets from Mr Flashmans splvs Meanwhile Plymouth police are investigatin charges that 12 MONEY DOWN Payable Over Mths For Our Budget Sav Ing Food Plant EATBETTER FORLESSI rm Delivery up 16100 Miles ll KlEERPAK Fooos PA 90501 on Saturday forged tickets for the Plymouth Tottenham game have been sold ticket which was bought by lorry driver has beet shown to be definite order which added to the problems the Plymoqu ground as ever ticket presented had to be care fully checked The forged ticket itscent one was bought for $150 The color was the same as the gen uine ones but the print was slightly different and it was smaller All the genuine tickets for the match numbering 40000 were said several days before the game Tottenham received an allotment of 10000 and all were disposed of while the other 30 000 were distributed in Ply mouth Leonard Improves Palm Springs Leadl Canadian Professional Golfers Association crown carved six strokes off par for 65 in the opening round Wednesday Baxter blew to 74 Thurs day aiter his opening 65 and faded into the field 41117139qu pit Carded sevenunderpar Thursday Other Canadian competitors did not 36 as well as Leonard Wilt Homenuik of Winnipeg and Al Johnston of Montreal had 725 Thursday for 140 totals Al Balding of Toronto had 69 for 142 and George Knudsen ot Tor onto ballooned to 71 for 149 Jerry Magoo of Toronto with drew with sore hand exific STAN LEONARD Georg CONSTRUCTION LTD Barrie PA 53186 The GraILTurismo Hawk isthd car for the discriminating motorist who demands elegance craftsmanship andithrilling Vperforainnco If you are that person the new Gran Turismo Hawkbyismdfler iisureto be your proudest possession 5140 nnanronn noniiv mini Brown Nears Point Crown By THE CANADIAN mess Bobby Brown played for two senior Ontario Hockey Associa tion clubs in the week but it did not affect his scoring power He fired in two goals for his home club Windsor Bulldogs in the 44 victory over Wood stock Athletics thcn moved to Galt Terriers to help them de feat Chalhom Maroons 133 Transferred to the Terriers with Windsor defenccman Billy Mitchell for the world hockey toumamont Brown collected two goals and three assists in the game against Chatham The two Bulldogs are playing with Gait in the pre tournament warmup tour Browns sevenpoint splurge rnovod him within two points of lrwin Gross of Windsor Gross leads the scoring race with so points22 goals and 37 assists Brown has 29 goals and 28 as sists George Aitken of Chathom Marouns and Don Emms of Strathroy Rockets who both led the scoring race for part of he season are third and fourth itkcn has 53 points Emms 50 Ross Childs of Windsor with goalsagainst average of 3137 catching up with the goal ending leader Boat Hurley of rail who has an average of Buffalo siui Minus EXMTINER FRIDAY FEBRUARY HOCKEY RECORD By THE CANADIAN PRESS National League APt 28 11 176 111 El 77 14 166 124 61 1517131371m51 17 135 d2 16 21 128 151 11 12 It 131 213 Thursdays Results Toronto Montreal New York Boston Chicago Detroit Games Saturday Detroit at Montreal New York at Toronto Boston at Chicago Montreal Toronto Chicago New York Detroit Boston Eastern Professional Pt Pt 15 13 176 136 57 22 13 135 108 53 2413 417014852 15 157 150 166 37 13 25 142 180 31 13 116 151 33 Kingston HullOttawa Kitchen Sudbury Marie North Bay Thursdays Results North Bay Sault Ste Marie Kitchener Hullvottawa Frfdnya Games North Bay at Sudbury American League Eastern Division Springfield 3013 135m 62 Hershey 22 ill 140 132 49 Providence 2222 15f 160 45 Quebec 2125 3141 133 45 Western Division 11 API 26 22 158 150 53 23 113 2145130le Rochester 2121 4151156 46 Pittsburgh 11 31 111 196 18 Thursdays Results Buffalo Quebec Friday Game Providence at Rochester OHA Junior API Hamilton 25 517112155 Montreal 24 10 170 109 51 St Catharines 1815 6148147 38 Guelph 13 20 148 186 31 Niagara Falls 20 ii 132 149 26 Peterboro 23 90147 23 Thursdays Results Guelph Peterborough St Catharines Hamilton Tonights Games Cleveland Peterborougil at Montreal st 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the most games but his elimina tion from the Chateau event by Btaekadder makes it impossible for the Haligonlans to duplicate the feat accomplished only once before that of winning one of the bonspiets three maior events and going on in win the playoli for the LieutenantGov emorslrophy and the grand aggregate The Canadian champion rink skipped by Garnet Campbell of Avonlea Sask won the triple prize in 1056 Littlcs record now stands at 51X wins one loss and three games to go na better posi tion to take the grand aggre gate is Ostlawas Oscar Parker His rink lost its first game but hasnt lost since and has six wins loss and four games to go Parker downed Jack Burgess of Weston Ont 11H Thursday night toenter the finals of the Francois anin against Evans of Bradford 0nt who beat out Bob Monast of Quebec Winter Club 1041 the Chateau event is John Bu chowski of Conlston Ont who beat Joe Thomas Quebec Curl ing Club skip the Omega cham pion last year by an impres srve 1L1 score Other results included CAMERA TROPHY Quarterfinals Gravenhurst 0nt Sam winc master 11 Septlies Que Rob ert Morris 10 Semifinals Gravenhurst Winemnsicr Bridgewater NS Fra ser it WEDGEWOOD TROPHY Quarterfinals Quebec Marcel Lacroix 11 Noranda Que Portelance 10 HOLTrRENFREW TROPHY Quarterfinals aire Que Ernie Eaman Simcoe Jackson Que bec Rourke Semifinals Gait Findlay Quebec Gaby Boivin Pendrigb 11 Simcoe Jackson skipped by Ernie Blackaddcr in Qucbec Levesque Finalist against Hlackaddor in ROYAL BANK TROPHY Third round Quebec Levesque North Ba Kervin Kirkland Lake Butorac ll Timmins Jack lielpert Baie Comeau Que 11 lfegill Sudbury George Yon Zubnn Quarterfinals Kirkland Lake Butorac LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS Second round Burlington 0nL Carl Bastcdo ii Oshawa Preem Whitely Oshawa Parker Dart mouth NS Don MacArthur BIRKS TROPHY First round Windsor llowick Pinfold 10 Sydney NS Morris Udovin defaulti Alliston 0nt McCague Pictou 115 3111 Broidy Sudbury George Moore Quebec Jacques Trcmblay fimmins Helper North 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