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Barrie Examiner, 12 Mar 1962, p. 8

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Maple Leafs Unbeaten In Last Eight Games By THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto Maple Leafs extended our unbeaten streak to eight games and lust about sewed up Second place in the National Hockey League during the week end The Leafs getting superb gonitending from substitute Dan Simmons blanked Detroit Red Wings ed home ice Saturday night then edged the Black Hawks 32 at Chicago Sunday The two victories gave the Leafs commanding topoiat lead over the thirdplace Hawks WINGS and each club only has six mun games to play Montreal Canadicns Within reach of fifth straight league title also won twice They slapped down Boston Bntins 54 at Montreal Saturday and ral lied for 21 win at New York Sunday The Habitants still lead the Leafs by seven points and need combination of three wins or Toronto defeats to wrap up the championship In theweekends only other game Detroit and Boston bat tied td 22 tie at Boston Sun day gt CANE HANGERS The single point pulled the Red Wings into tie with the Rangers for the fourth and last playoff spot Each club has 57 points and Detroit has six mom game to play to New Yorks five The Bruins winlesl streak meanwhile was stretched to games Boston has not won since Jan zItying four and losing to Other weekend developments Chicagos Hull scored his Nth goal of the sea son again the Leafs He needs six more in the Hawks six re maining games to tie the 50 goal record held jointly by Ber nie Geoffrion and Maurice Rocket Richard of Canadiens Geoffrion scored the mo Charlands Good Show May Earn Europe Trip CAMP FORTUNE Que CP The Scrvold brothch from Cam rosc Alta and Knare Licn of Revulstokc BC are kings of Canadian Nordic skiers as re wit of weekend competition Clarence Servold raced his way to the Canadian cross country title his brother irwin took home Nordic combined honors and Lien led field of Jumpers in the Canadian ski jumping championship gtThis skiing centre 12 miles dorth of Ottawa was also the scene of the second annual Tournament of Champions which forms part of program aimed at improving Canadas chances in jumping events at the 1964 Olympics Each year starting with last season brewery is sending team of four jumpers for two month training period in Eu ropeThe team is selected by the Canadian Amateur Ski As sociation which bases its selec tion on the jumpers showing in the tournament and their past records DTIIERS IN RUNNING The top four Sundaywere Seppo Rhanen of Sault Ste llllaric Ont Jacques Chariand of naisIiivieres Que rand Real Seguin of Ottawa While each of the four rates consideration for the European trips for his Sunday perform Habs Wings jHold Series Leads By THE CANADIAN PRESS The powerhouse teams of the Ontario Hockey Association Ju oinr series moved back into playoff leadership during the weekend and the fans came pouring out to watch Montreal Canadiens and Ham Zilton Red Wings who finished first and second during the regu Iar schedule have 2t leads over Niagara Falls Flyers and St €athorines respec tjvely The Habs downed the fourth epiace Flygrs 42 Sunday before 30485 biggest crowd for ju nior game in Montreal Forum ln the last nine years The Wings who dropped their oeries opener to the Teens came back with two close ones Jhey won 32 Saturday night be fore 3725 fansfirst sellout at St Catharines in two yearsand gt 54 at home Sunday before 3788 PLAY TUESDAY Both series are besttofseven fsemi finals Next games are Tuesday night in Niagara Falls and St Catharines After last Tuesdays rough opener some fireworks were ex pected in Montreal but the game was cleanly played and only nine penalties were called five to Montreal One was major to Rejean Richer for boarding iJyers defenceman Tom Tea iher who was carried off with torn knee cartilage and is be jievcd out for the rest of the season Team THE CANADIAN PRESS REM fans who get carried away by the leadership race the Eastern Professional Hockey Leogue gave them bangup weekend Three teams had Slice of top spot 3And hockey sticks never saw luch punishment As Hull Ottawa Canadiens wentinto sole possession of first placq Sunday coach Wren Blair of Kingston Frontenacs enraged over tripping penalty to one of his players grabbed every stick within reach and smashed than in the concrete floor 11 was thrown out of the go as Cnnadlena went on to gbul victory qunle this WM entertaining HullOttawa fan North Bay uppers warn moving to within so militant fourth knobth Ill14 an the playoff ladder lcy whacked Sault rho Mario IJiu deihlrtls 541 and the Llen nnces CASA officials said that others such as Gerry Gravclle of Hull Que and Frank Gar trell were also in the running injuries kept Gravelle and Gartrcll out of the jumping Sunday but officials said their world ratings will be weighed before the team is announced within the next few days Those who went overseas this season were Lien Gartrell Gra vellc and Frank hicinncs of Fort William who finished fifth Sunday feature of the weekend jumping vcrc thc backstoback displays of Charland six times the Canadian champion Chara land is serving suspension for labelling national coach Franz Baier incompetent That cost him trip to Eu rope this season but Charland came to Ottawa determined to wipe out that unhappy memory and to win back CASA favor He was second in both the Cann dian meet and the tournament IMPROVED STYLE He covered distances of 190 and 137 feet Saturday to finish behind Lien The Revelstoke skier revealed greatlyvim proved ston then with leaps of 189 and 197 Sunday Charlnnd had distan ces of 196 and 1138 to his credit but was nipped by Ruhanen member of the national team Ruhanen went 201 feet on his The Flyers prepared for an artillery barrage from the stands wore construction hel mets provided by coach Hap Emms during the warmup but doffed them after the game started Germain Gagnon scored twice for Montreal and Yvon Cour noyer and Bob Charlcshois added singles Wayne Maxner and Run Hergott scored for Ni agara Falls At St Catharines the Teepees moved ahead in the first and second periods on goals by Ray Cullen and Dick Lachowich but Howie Menard and Lowell Mac Donald tied it up MENARI GETS WINNER Menard got the winner late in the second when he pushedfiin loose puck from near the goal post Ten minor penalties were called six to St Catharines Things were rougher Sunday when total of 57 minutes in penalties was called by referee Bill Quennovilie of Montreal The Wings drew 11 of the 21 minors spearing major to Roger Lafreniere and one of the two misconducts Hamilton coach Eddie Bush was tossed out in the finalmin lite when he threw stick to the Ice Menard Bub Wall John Gof ton Wayne Rivers and Ron Harris scored for the Wings St Catharines scorers were LachoA wich John Brenneman Brent Hughes and Bill ivcs first try and tea on his second Mikc Council of Port Arthur 0nt chairman of the CASAa jumping committee said the competition revealed that Can ado was building up fine yountt lumping team in the crosscountry Saturday Clarence Scrvold come out in front covering the 15 kilometres in 59 minutes and four seconds 1min Servold picked up 2068 points for finishing eighttrtin the crosscountry and 1806 points for his Sunday jumping to win the combined His total was 3894 BEST OF Ruhancn put together leaps of 201 and 183 feet Sunday to lead field of 41 in the Tournament of Champions Ruhanen earned 211 points for his performance on the oomctre hill Other rcsults included Jimping championship Senior Ruhancn sixth 19411 points on two jumps of 181 feet Senior 13 Eric Hurle Midland 0nt second 1516 points on lumps of 141 and 156 feet Nordic cross country and lumping championship Tenno Tikka Sault sixth 335 points Cross country championship Vaikko Pullddnea Sudbury sec ond 6117 Antero Ruhanen Sudbury fourth 6245 Uno Mutks Sudbury fifth 6357 Tikka 11th 7150 Kavko Riih aho of Sudbury did not finish Totems Win Five In Row By THE CANADIAN PRESS The surging Seattle interns recorded their fifth consecutive victory in the Western Hockey League Sunday night and oiisted Calgary Stampeders from sec ond place in the Northern Divi SIOII The Totems are new four points hack of divisionleading Edmonton Flyers andone point ahead of the Stamps beaten 1041 by Spokane Comets Sunday night The Totem edged Los Angeles Blades 54 The defending champion Port land Buckoruos leaders of the Southern Division lost 52 to San Francisco Seals in Saturday action the Flyers lost 13 to Stamps Totems heat Vancouver Canucks 82 and Comets defeated the Bucks 541 Barney Krake led the Totems on home ice Sunday night with two goals Gerry Leonard Rudy Filion and Gord Sinclair added singles Ed Panngabko Jean Mare Picard Gerry Goyer and Jim Powers scored for the Blades At Spokane Yves Lucas Del Topoll and Gordie Stratton each scored twice for Comets while singles came from Max Meki iok Connie Madigan Bill Shvetz Witiuk Doug Barclay scored twtce for Calgary and Gord Ve jprava and Jerry Figzeil each tallied once At Portland Al Nicholson scored three goals for the Seals Ray Cyr Harry Pidhiray and Ken Girard got the others Ar nie Schmautz and Ed lawson scored for the Bucks Touched First Saults coach Jack Stewart also got whacked with cow bell The game ended in brawl with Stewart being gashed by the cowbellwielding fan STAY IN CELLAR The defeat left Sault Ste Mario in the cellar six points behind North Bay In Saturdays action Kingston movedinto secondvpiace tie for the night by pounding fozurth place Sudbury Wolves This particular game featured stickvswinging duel that nearly touched off pustgame riot Sudburys Ted Wright and King stons Bob Olajos started swing ing their sticks on the ice then on the way to the dressing roomWright took hefty swipe at fan ifo also punched an other ln Kitchener meanwhile hrnwl oruptctl after North Bay Trappers nicked KitchenerWat erloo Beavers 12 Players from both teams piled over the boards and staged rectorall before order was stored All these games left Hull0t tawa on top with 74 points one more than Kingston and Kitch enerWaterloo both tied for sec ond Sudbury has 56 North Bay 39 and Sault Ste points GETS THREE GOALS Marie 43 Canadiens were helped to thé top of the heap by rookie centre Bill Bat Masterton who scored three Others came from Keith McCreary Bob Elliott and Mi chel Legace Terry Gray scored two for Kingston and Orval Tes sier added the other in North Bays 53 win over Sault Ste Marie Trappers were led by Joe Sgurawith two goals Singles wero scored by Norm Waslowsk Paul Morlssctte and DougiSMllttl Merv 1ury1uk got two for the TBitds and Dale hfachnalgl battedin the other finally re goal of his carrcr against Boslt ton tying him with the late Nels Stewart for fourth plow in the leagues alitimc scoring list Only Richard Detroits Gordie Ilowe and Ted Lindsay have scored more goals SUBSTITUTE STARS Simmons an emergcncy re placement for veteran Johnny Bower was standout in both Toronto victories He stopped 23 shots for his shutout against the Wings and made 31 save at Chicago He was called from the stands few minutes before game time Saturday night after Bower bruised his left thumb catching shot by Eddie Shack in pre game wormup Shack reinjured his left knee against the Wingsand didnt play Sunday injuries to the same knee sidelined him twice earlier this season once for six weeks and the other time for week Bob Nevin and Frank hiahov lich scored the Toronto goals Saturday night Against Chi cage the Leaf scorers were Nevin Tim Horton and Red Kelly Bill Red Hay and Hull potted the Chicago goals Hull now has scode times in 25 outings At Montreal the Conndiens got goals from Bobby Rousseau Geoffrion Jean Beliveou Gila Trembley and Dickie Moore Jerry Toppazzinl and rookie de yfenccmon Pat Staplcton tallied lfor the Bruins NEW YORK CP Quebec and Labrador waters firmly ce mented their reputation as the home of North Americas prize lirook troutvduring the 1961 fish ing season They scored almost clean sweep in both flyfishing and open divisions of Field and Stream Magazines annual com petition The authoritativeout door publication keeper of freshA water game fish records re leases the results in its March issue Three Rivers in Labrador within reach of the Goose Bay air base produced the biggest lollpoundor which took first prire 1n the flycasting division for Marvin Di Baird of Non York But the lions share of the awards went for trout from Que becs Broadback River and its neadwater lakes north of the Chibougamau mining centre about 500 miles northwest of Quebec City The Brondback itself which flows into James Bay about 50 miles south of Rupert House produced the winner in the open division and the second biggest of the 20 brook trout listed it weighed nine pounds 10 ounces and was caught by Black of Richmond Hill Ont Five of the top 20 came from the Broad back Assinica Lake Broadback Ileadwater which placed 14 in top 70 the previous year ac counted for four in 1961 Cash isca Lake part of the same sys tem placed another and Lac houveau in the same district ac counted for two more Lac Chi goubiche to the south gave up another pair Labrador waters placed four Three Rivers two Ashuanipi and the Forteau River one each Lake Nipigon and the Nipigon River in Ontario which pro duced the 14pound record in 1914 werent represented and only two Ontario fish made the top 20from Shuofly and Foot Lakes in the Sudbury district No records were broken in 1961 although it was near thing in the muskie division domi noted as usual by the Lawtous of Delmar NY and the Hart mans of Ogdensburg NY Ruth Lawtons winner was only one pound 10 ounces shy of the sopound lsounce mark set by her husband Arthur in 1957 The best Lawton could do last year was fish of 53 pounds six ounces behind Leonard Hartman 67 pounds 15 ounces and Betty Hartman 60 pounds two ounces Both couples do all their fishing in the Thousand Is lands section of the St Law rence River Lake Superiors lake trout re ord of 63 pounds two ounces was threatened by giant from Great BearrLake in the North srocas as Dunno sr wasn PA 6650 5111 BARBIE EXAMINER MONDAY MARCH 19¢ Playoff Spots Up For Grabs By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First place in the west and the east still are very much up for grabs as the American Hockey League heads into it last three weeks of the seasor Buffalo and Cleveland fougb to overtime tie Sunday night allowing the hardpressed Bison to retain onepoint lead over the challenging Barons Providence and Quebec each won and remained in tie for the last playoff spot in the east The Reds took Hershey 53 while Quebec surprised eastern leadtr rt 11 field 41 Rochester bombed Pittsburgh Art Strotton Wayne Hicks Dave Creighton and Brian Smith scored the Buffalo goals No by Ron Atwell and one each by Ed anur and Bill Sun terland made theBarons tally Ed Mocqueen scored twice for Providence Zelllo Toppazzini Bob Beckett and Orland Kur tenbach got the others Iiec La lands Cleland Mortson and wit lie Marshall scored for the los ers Only Jimmy Anderson spoiled Quebec goalie Hedgec bid for shutout Danny Lewieki Jean Marie Cossette Guy Black and Michel Harvey scored for the winners Bruce Draper Jimmy Pappin Bill Dineen and Darryl Sb got two each for the Americans and Dick Gamble produced the other in Saturday games Spring field took Quebcc tl Buffalo beat Rochester 52 Hershey trounced Providence 123 and Cleve downed Pittsburgh Quebec find Labrador Waters Yielded Finest Brook Trout west Territories It weighed pounds two ounces and won first prize for Dr Nelson of Gary 1nd Four provinces shared north ern piko honors which were taken exclusively by Canadian waters last year Burrows lake about 20 milm northeast of Get aldton Ont produced the win ner of 35 pounds 10 ounces for Robert Weaklcn of Cresoc iowo CZECIIS LOSE MOSCOW AP Czechoslolt vakins national hockey team kept out of the world champion ships for political reasons Inst Sunday to the Central Army Club team six times national Soviet champion Ii Ioe Malo left Canadas eaglceyed winger who scored three goals against West Ger To Play KITCHENEH tCPl The curling Richardson of Saskat chewan their third Canadian championship safely tucked away board an airplane today and set off in search of their third world championship The Saskatchewan rink with Ernie Richardson at the helm won the 1962 Canadian chant pionshlp here Saturday morning by handing Alberta skipped by lice Gervais 1+7 thumping in the final game Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba were forced into playoff when they all finished with 82 winloss records The Richardson rinkwith the same family group on each oc casionwon the Canadian title in 1959 and 1960 but lost to Get vnis last year it won the world title the same years it was sue ccssful in Canada START THIS WEEK With Ernie are brother Garnet and cousins Arnold and Wes in the world championship in Scot land they will be meeting rinks skipped by Willie Young of Scot land Rolf Ariwildsson of Swo den and Frank Kcffmnn of the many congratulates goaltenl der Harold Boat Hurley who kept the Germans off the Richardsons Fly Aboard United States The series goes March 1520 in Fnikirk and Ed inburgh Gervais had little to say about the pounding his team took lost the first end Then everybody seemed to give up dont know why we did The playoff was billed as battle of the worlds curling giantsRichardson had won in 195960 and Gervais in moibut it fizzled out early when Saskat chewan piled up sixend as lead There was no doubt that the 25opound potato farmer Gervais and his mates were off their usual brilliant game on day when the ilicbardsons put nearly every stone where aoyenreld skip Ernie dictated it should go MISSES DIDNT MATTER Saskatchewan made the infre quent miss but it didnt matter Gervais viceskip Ron Anton second Ray Werner and lead Wally Ursuliak either had too much weight not enough were off the broom to jump in and apply the pressure The victory put Ernie in the record books along with Ken savanna DHIVEDUIJBE PIlIE HUGE RIGHT YEAR TO SWITCH TO DODGE Dodge Dalt Dodge Dart 330 HAPPY TERRIERS urn2a WIN score sheet Gait Terrill won the game so Watson of Winnipeg and Matt Baldwin of Edmonton as the only threetime title winning skips since the classic started back in 1927 Baldwin won it for Alberta in 19545768 and Watson for Manitoba in 1936 1942 and 1949 Saturdays playoff was set up Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba ended the rink round robin competition with eight victories and two losscl each crowd of about 150 watched on in amazement when Alberta fell bchind S2 after six ends and it was soon all over except for the official sema tion of the Macdnnslds Brier tankard to the winners and some speechmaking And it was proof that the west continues to have it all over the east in the hesom and stone game Throughout the sixday competition the westerners played the frontend knockout strategy whereby stones are laid down in front of the hous all set up to be killed The fig uring is that someone is going to miss opening the gates for the up rsilion to curl in 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