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the tribune slouffville ont thursday january 2s 1954 i k sat tmoafag ixsiiiuxo skkvick when the one great storekeeper comes to mark against your name he counts not if you won or lost but how you played the game these were the closing word delivered by rev g davison of claremont baptist church at the second annual omha church service held in the slouffville united church on sunday the impressive service introduced by jim austin an executive member with the ontario minor hotkey association should be considered as one of the highlights in the sports year although there was a good representation from stouffvilles juvenile and bantam clubs there was a noticeable absence from the local peewee league the coaches intend to increase promotion of this worthwhile service among the younger hockey players who are now in circulation in the district kktchxs aktkij 11 wkkks nick hangay returned to the stouffville clipper lineup last week and played his first game before the home fans on saturday night it was just 11 weeks ago that the hardskating forward was hospitalized when struck over the head by a player with itavina flyers already his return to the team has sparked the club in the past four games bangay has scored two goals and picked up three assists rktujixs to foksi on saturday and monday nights the clippers showed a sharp reversal of form as they chalked tip two straight victories over newmarket and ieaside in the saturday night contest the forwards were skating with determination that ranks the stouffville club with the best in the sr b circuit on monday night the same story was true with their passing plays working well and backed by steady goaltending from netminder blake eatough the stouffville squad rolled to their fourth straight victorv although for a time it appeared that the clippers were iaking a midvseason nose dive they appear to have pulled out of their downward flight and have returned to their oldtime form sunday spouts and biixy graham on sunday afternoon billy graham the noted evangelist from the southern united states spoke to over 10000 people in the colliseum at the cxe grounds toronto despite the fact that a similar service was held on saturday night literally thousands of people were turned away at the doors two hours before the service was slated to start squads of police were on hand to turn back the surging crowd and a loudspeaker system was set up outside the princes gates to turn back the long line of cars you may ask what connection has this to sports just this since billy graham elected to come to toronto in the middle of the winter it was necessary to hold the meetings inside an enclosed building in the city of toronto there is one large structure located on the corner of church and carlton streets commonly known as maple leaf gardens on sunday afternoon a jr a hockey doubleheader held the snorts spotlight while ten thousand people jammed the col liseum and thousands more were turned away a mere handful of spectators comparatively speaking watched sunday after noon hockey while thousands of good seats were being wasted not toeing a promoter of sunday sports i couldnt understand the reasoning whereby a church service on sunday should be held in cramped quarters and a hockey game claim a hold on the spacious maple leaf gardens a number from stouffville and district like myself journeyed to the cne grounds only to be disappointed others received a more rude shock after travelling many miles from distant points in canada and the united states individuals have many chances to see a hockey game but the chance to see billy graham and attend one of his meetings might come only once in a lifetime shins is the young peoples league pat lehman 51 edna fairies 51 m redshaw 19 d chadwiek h m wagg 37 pea ches inc 23 mr k betz chalk ed up the high bowling single for title week with 355 in the mens league lehmans team has now been replaced by the stouffville cleaners clippers edge newmarket spitfires 43 in crowd pleasing performance carries canadas x10js ix international kacks l aida d hodgins score 214 average joe aida and dinty hodgins have chalked up bowling av erages of 214 in the mens bowling league joe murray sr is close behind with 213 joe murray jr 202 and geo allison 107 the league stand ings are as follows legion 30 harolds grill 33 orphans 32 shamrocks 26 cooksville 27 machine shop 20 klincks 21 wilsons 23 skyline 20 a- rena 15 mole motors 15 leh mans 9 in the lions league the standings are v8s 32 pink pills 29 cuties 28 quacks 27 overdrafts 22 stuffed uxbridge pt perry league standings brougham 8 3 1 port perry 7 2 0 greenbank 7 1 9 brooklin 0 3 1 comco 3 0 9 claremont 3 0 1 peaches 7 9 uxbridge 2 s 1 w l t ttl 17 10 16 13 8 stourlville clippers squeez ed out a thrilling 43 victory over the newmarket spitfires on saturday night in one of the most colorful exhibitions of the season the spits look ed very good and are certain ly a suitable replacement for the swedenbound lyndhurst motors nick bangay was once again the triggerman for stouffville as he fired what proved to be the winner at 1220 of the third period jack rhodes turned in a steady performance in the clipper cage and outshone the oppos ing netminder tupling who looked a trifle shy at times scoreless first period both clubs battled through a scoreless first period although each team had a number of chances to blink the light newmarket were granted the first real opportunity to test sub goalie jack rhodes when centreman ken mcneil was banished for high sticking the stouffville defense and backchecking forwards kept the play confined almost en tirely to the centre ice zone and the spits failed to get a shot on the clipper cage a few minutes later bradbury was penalized for holding geo stark but stouffville were not able to get any clearcut drives on the newmarket net mid way through the period de- fenseman joe scatalon teed off on one of his deadly slap shots but the puck caromed off the post elwood small worked in close but the puck went astray as the stouftville forward tumbled over the sprawling spitfire goalie newmarket opens scoring goaltender jack rhodes pul led off the two best saves of the game early in tthe second period when playing coach herbie cain and ortie thomas broke through the clipper de fences rhodes fell to the ice and blocked both scoring at tempts at 945 mclver and gibson teamed up for the spits to open the scoring on a closein play three minutes later gordie haddleton frank stephenson and elwood small combined to tie the score the goal came on three quick pas sing attacks in front on the newmarket net lioxs xhli standings w 7 6 1 l 2 2 3 5 7 boston rangers canadiens wings 5 hawks 3 leafs 2 s results rangers 10 chicago 2 wings 13 leafs 0 boston 3 canadiens 3 schedule bruins vs leafs canadiens vs hawks wings vs rangers t pts 1 in between three and four hun- drej ydusand young boys of the ontario minor hockey as sociation formed a large con gregation in the stouffville l niteci chunh on sunday morn ing for the second annua omha church service rev g davison of clare mont baptist church was the guest speaker and took as his no 1 line clicks the clippers newly formed line of geo stark nick ban gay and chuck webster struck for two goals in the final frame stark notched the when he deflected bungays irve into the top of the net don smith deadlocked the score for newmarket but stouftville roared back with lh pture lesson two in a row midway through the peiiod stephenson scored with a long shot torn right wing and bangay fired what proved to be the winner on a pass from webster les clark one of ohe best in the spitfire lineup put newmarket back in the game with a bulletlike slap shot but the spits could nt- register the equalizer bill bradbury was banished with a 10 minute misconduct penalty when he argued too strenuous ly with the goal judge some of the newmarket players thought the puck had entered choir assisted with the net although the light did numbers not flash on in the final sec- onds tupling was removed from the nets in favor of an extra forward but the move failed to produce the desired result fi uubjecl lamentations 32 it is a good thing for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth jas austin of stouffville and an omha executive member and gy simmons of gravenhurst another executive member and sunday school superintendent in that town brought a few words to the lxrys present bringing jesus into play in their- modern hockey system gathering the offering were 11 christie toronto omha secretary mayor bert hicks of lindsay 2nd vice pres frank doherty of thorold and al bert watkins of peterboro ex ecutive rev douglas davis was the presiding pastor and the local two fine j the slalom competition of the 16 th international ladies ski meet at grindel- wald switzerland brought a bitter fight between ger man and austrian skiers with germanys ossi keich- ert winning out canadas joanne hewson above of montreal placed seventh against the stiff competi tion miss hewson was a member of canadas 1952 olympic skiing team injured peaches claremont score decisive wins geo stark shifty clip per- right winger- suffered a concussion on monday night in the game against ieaside the stouffville forward was knocked to the ice early in the game and struck his head the injury may force him to remain on the sidelines when the clippers meet ravina flyers here on sat urday night peaches ac and claremont hockey clubs turned the tables on their rivals on friday night in the uxbridge arena with decisive victories claremont trounced brooklin 71 while peaches upset comco 03 claremont put on their best hockey display of the season as they completely outplayed the powerful brooklin squad the winners number one and two lines bottled up the brook lin aggregation while the third line kept the visitors from get ting many clear shots on the net lloyd pascoe and norm bradley paced the claremont attack with two goals bishop beverley and savonsky were the other marksmen for the winners in the second contest peach es downed comco g3 the ux bridge crew fired the first go but peaches tied it up two i minutes later with j thomas driving in d smiths rebound j defenceman morley ryan let i go a backhand slap shot that caught the corner to put pea ches in the lead to stay j thomas made it 31 and d pf ln smith put peaches four goals hold on fourth place up with two in a row his first ln lhe n 0 s came when he picked up ab s h w- forward pass from goaltender j p f leafc 130 don haines jack warriner and climaxed a n l i u rinklong rush with a bullet goals don mccullough was drive to the far corner comco i cios i he of s showed signs of a rally when j f th mth f they connected with two fast llile lehman counted tallies tout they ran out of two anci malcolm time with less than a minute 1ounm w remaining in the game they the new york rangers pul- pulled their goalie in favor ot led to within one point of the an extra forward but the move league leading boston bruins red wings blank maple leafs 130 in lions nhl backfired when m lewis drove the puck into the empty net 3 bishop gives wings tie with brooklin in final seconds bob bishop stouftville juv eniles high scoring forward came through with the equal izer on thursday night with but five seconds remaining in the game to give stouftville a 11 draw with brooklin bish op slapped in bob todds re bound in the final play of the contest both clubs went scoreless in the first period as the stouft ville and brooklin goaltenders were called on to make some good saves the second period commenced with gribben of stouftville becoming involved in a brawl with a brooklin op ponent and boiii were banish ed with major penalties hard ly had lioth clubs returned to full strength when wagg was thumbed for trinping howev er no damage was done with bellman and pollard warding off the brooklin attackers with some good defensive work with bishop in the penalty box brooklin notched the first tally of the game the game ended with a dramatic finish as bishop scored in the final seconds the brooklin ice was badly cracked which made passing and stick handling dif ficult for both clubs on friday night of this week on saturday as they overpow ered chicago black hawks by a score of 102 ron stewart paced the ranger win with four goals ted suzuki and bill white scored two with don neal and roger stover firing the others mike mcstra- vick was a powerhouse on the chicago attack and scored their only two tallies in the league opener mon treal canadiens and boston bruins battled to a sixty min ute deadlock wayne redshaw put the bruins in the lead with a corner drive but glenn jack son tied the score on a pass irom roy lewis the mon- trealors took the lead for the first time as murray hisey drove the puck into the empty net with goaltender bud tho mas sprawled midway be tween the goal and the blue- line bostons star defenceman don benson put his club back on even terms in the seesaw battle with an unassisted goal with about ten minutes re maining in the contest don tran completed a spectacular endtoend rush and scored what could easily have been the winner however ron hedges and wayne redshaw had different ideas as they combined for the equalizer a few minutes later some midseason changes have been made in the lineups of a few clubs by league pres ident ted edwards in an ef fort to strengthen some of the weaker cluhs with some eight games remaining in the sche dule even the bottom teams have a good chance of moving up into contending positions next saturday boston will face the leafs in the opener eatough robbed of shut out by fluke goal a fluke goal robbed netinin- tier blake eatough of a well deserved shut out on monday night as stouffville clippers scored a ol win over leaside the local squad had racked up a substantial 00 lead with on ly a few minutes remaining in the game when a leaside forward let a shot go that bounced high over the net and then rolled across the when it came down and the ice the clippers were full ue for their victory on nights play goaltender tough returned to his familiar position between the pipes and turned in a dazzling perform ance ken mcneil and hal gibson were two goal marks men for stouffville with roily minton and elwood small notching singles rightwinger geo stark was forced to re tire from the game in the first period when he struck his head hard on the ice line- hit val- the ea- brougham to honor softball team brougham will honor their softball champions on satur day night of this week a dance will be held in the brougham community hall and a trophy will be presented during the intermission brougham captured the all- ontario intermediate title de feating falcolnbridge clipper scor xg parade g a pts small 10 0 25 stephenson 13 10 23 lewis 11 11 22 stark 11 10 21 mcneil 12 0 is bell 12 g is gibson 12 0 is minton 10 0 1 haddleton 0 0 15 junkin i t 11 mcintosh 0 s 11 bangay 0 0 11 webster 3 s scatalon 1 1 s baker- 1 i o melville 2 0 2 peaches brougham play to 11 tie peaches ac moved out of the cellar position in the ux- bridgeport perry community league on mondaynight as they eked out a 11 tie with brougham the equalizer came with but nine seconds remain ing in the final period don thomas fired the puck into the top left hand corner with murray grove and j thomas picking up assists on the play in their last four contests peaches have gained two wins and a tie for the greater part of the game brougham held a decid ed edge in play and but for the sensational goaltending display of netminder jack warriner brougham would have taken the game quite easily wilmot gates and swifty todd were robbed time and time again of what ap peared to be sure goals as war riner kicked and batted the puck from every side and an gle don neal scored the lone brougham tally picking up his own rebound and driving it into the corner in the other game greenbank soundly trounced brooklin 81 former clippers with newmarket four former stouffvihe clipper players are now performing under the col ors of the newmarket spitfires les clark bill bradbury and don smith were in the spits lineup on saturday night ross hochberg is presently in chicago and was unable to return in time for the contest both smith and clark notched goals for the canal town crew les clark don smith i brooklin will be the visitors i canadians will meet the here and an exciting contest hawks and the red wings will is expected j battle the rangers bill bradbury ro hochberg