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the tribune stouffville ont thursday iiareh 22 1951 sports news unu views jim thomas clippers keep playoff hopes alive trim markham 32 the work on the seating in the new orillia memorial arena is half completed goodwood won the uxbridge interconmunity hockey league championship last week downing the junior farmers team in the final series 3 games to 0 musselmans lake won their first game in the thl king clancy series playing at aurora on saturday afternoon the imperials won the ells worth trophy and the oil hockey leagues title with a 1m win over shells at the stouffville arena on saturday morning imperials won the round- 1710 on total goals and kept intact their seasons string of 11 undefeated games the oil league has operated in the local arena all winter and fall on satur day mornings did someone say the power of the press or of hockey fans has waned heres a bulletin just issued by the oha complaint has been expressed by the press and hockey fans gen erally regarding the rough and illegal play which is taking place in many games and which results in serious injuries to players fight ing and often causing displays of rowdyism among both fans and players the executive of the oha feels that a great deal of the criticism is justified and has therefore instruct ed the referees that all penalties must be decided without exception upon a strict interpretation of the rules with particular attention being paid to charging boarding and highsticking penalties mercurys swamp peterboro petes to take round 40 the powerpacked owen sound mercurys trounced the peterboro petes 153 saturday night to advance into the oha senior a finals against the winner of the woodstocksarnia series the mer curys swept the bestofseven series in four straight games the mercurys had the throttle wide open ail the way and the scrappy petes were able to keep close to the pace only in the first period that session ended with the sounders in front 42 and they bumped their lead to 92 at the close of the second kingpin of he mercury offensive was doug gillespie who scored two goals and made passes for five others pat mcreavy with three goals and tommy burlington with one each had five scoring points for the night buck pors- lund and jack ingoldsby each scored two goals for the winners the remainder going to mike bukacheski bill allum bob markle andy grant and harry kazarian kake wade jack mason and gus leonard were the marksmen for the peterboro club in a fairly fast game that saw the petes hold a 3021 edge in the shots on goal department millionaires take commanding lead markham millionaires took a commanding lead in their best of seven group playoff battle as they handed the ocal clippers a 32 defeat at oshawa on friday night the win gave the markhamites a two game lead and they need only one more to take the sr b group title play during the entire con test was fairly even with both goal- tenders turning in spectacular performances stunden hadtwenty- four stops while rhodes saved the day on twentyone occasions the game was very fasp and cleanly played although the clippers left themselves at a great disadvantage by receiving tour cheap penalties in the final period to a lone two minutes that the millionaires were shorthanded at one time the locals were two men short and although the markham squad were held olf the score sheet goalie rhodes was given many anxious moments with five minutes left in the third period bradbury was banished to the cooler and while he was serv ing his time singleton pushed the rubber into the twine for what proved to be the winning tally in playoff hockey penalties can be very disastrous and may mean the difference in winning or losing the game after many close plays at both ends of the rink the locals opened the scoring with sayliss blinking the light from hochberg at 1 121 of of the first period the clippers held the edge in play during the opening twenty minutes and out- shot their rivals nine to six the locals were in on stunden time and time again but their shooting was erratic and they fired the rubber wild of the net galand had the one big chance for the greenshirts but he bounced the puck off the goal post the second period saw markham tie the score with brennan catch ing the far corner with a back hand shot the clippers seemed very slow in clearing the puck out of their own end and gave the opposing forwards many point blank shots on the net both single ton and galand went right in on rhodes but he rose to the occasion and blocked the speedy wingers cold with sensational stops mark ham held the edge in the second frame and gave goalie rhodes ten shots while stunden kicked six shots aside the millionaires sewed the con test up in the final frame with grey notching their second marker to put his team in the lead for the first time in the game hopper put both teams on even terms again singleton came through with the big goal of the night to give the millionaires their third win on the nights play many of- the local fans were somewhat dis gruntled with the fact that gord lewis who was the teams top goal scorer during the regular schedule was used sparingly throughout the entire game hardly seeing any action in the second frame and be ing thrown into the fray in the final minutes of the third period when the cause was lost giving everything they had to keep in the running tor the oha senior k group championship stouffville clippers trimmed mark ham millionaires 32 here saturday- night in the fifth game of the best of seven series notwithstanding the loss of geo stark through injury and jim machin down with mumps ban- gays boys were back in top form and put up a terrific barrage in the first period which netted them one goal nick barigay taking a pass from sayliss at 512 norm stunden did everything but turn hand springs to keep the count down jack rhodes was only called on to make a half dozen stops in the entire twenty minutes play was even in the midframe watson from clements tied the score at 130 and that firebrand galand combined with bell at s38 only two minutes later sayliss banged home the tying goal for the clippers coach robinson pulled a new stunt with wo clippers in the penalty box he took stunden out of the net for a threeman advan tage but the move failed to pay off it was a smart move as mark ham had nothing to lose still hold ing an edge in the series the winning goal was a solo effort by gord lewis at 1316 lewis let go with a lightning shot on the ice which fooled stunden completely as it whistled in on his left side struck the base bar at thc- back of the net and bounced out the light failed to go on but the referees were on top of the play and called the goal themselves without question the clipper offensive started to roll again the last period and earl mccrone brought roars of applause from local fans as he cut on several dazzling rushes only to be out guessed by stunden stouffville carried the play continually as the millionaires began to sag under the pressure midway through the period markham got the rubber back of rhodes on a scramble but the play was called back as two millionaires were in the goal crease there was continual uproar over penalties and each offense was hotly argued geo scott wa thumbed off for ten minutes for trying to come to blows with a spectator nine penalties were meted out to the clippers and twelve to markham collingwood wins from newmarket the collingwood shipbuilders celebrated st patricks day in rousing style on saturday night when they eliminated the new market spitfires from the oha intermediate a playoffs by an 81 score after each team had won two games saturdays was the fifth and final and the shipbuilders will now meet the parry sound shamrocks in the next round coach eddie bush used jim barrett and ernie morrill two junior stars and these two with cochrane smart and fairchild were the shipbuilders stars mc- innis and thorns were best for the spitfires peaches ax take a one game lead down northern grads 30 peaches ac took a one game lead in their best of three series with northern grads as they shut out the toronto crew 30 at the royal arena on saturday night the two teams hooked up for the first time on wednesday night and after outshooting tlileir rivals throughout the entire first half the locals seemed to let down badly in the second session and allowed their rivals to overcome the one goal lead built up in the early part of the game and to go ahead near the end of the contest with about twenty seconds left in the final frame lloyd grove cleared the loose puck in the general direction of the net and denny smith stand ing in front backhanded the rubber into the cage just as the buzzer sounded with a 22 tie the game was automatically cancelled and the two teams would have to go at it all over again in the second tilt the grads seemed somewhat stronger than in the first meeting and kept the locals working all the time after about ten minutes of play n brown fired a hard shot through the goalies pads for goal number one goalie george timbers was called on to make one brilliant save early in the game as he stopped a point blank drive from close in with a matter of minutes to play in the first half j thomas stick- handled in to score on a low shot to the corner and the seventh con cession crew had a two goal lead going into the final twenty minutes of play the locals continued to dominate the play and whenever the oppos ing forwards did manage to get through goalie timbers was alyvays on hand to hold the fort in the closing minutes d tnpmas cleared the puck out of his own zone and m grove picked up the pass at centre and relayed the rubber to ed mason who was flying in on the wing ed let go with a perfect shot froma difficult angle that caught the far corner giving the goalie no chance whatever the final score read peaches ac 3 northern grads 0 goalie timbers racked up his third straight shut out and has onry let two goals get by him li the entire playoff 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