& THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thuredey, December 30, 1965 isPORTS MENU By Geo. H. Campbell SPORTS EDITOR _. LONDON NATIONALS held the Oshawa Generals to a tie decision, back a few weeks ago, and the figure. filberts, with their enthusiastic interest in the Generals always tem- pered by the point-totals in the official standing, gave vent to the odd bleat of regret. It looked, as pointed out, that Oshawa had dropped a point to the tail-enders of the Junior "A" circuit and this is considered in all competitive circles as throwing away a point that should have been snaffled up with ease. But London Nationals, while still on the bottom of the OHA age-limit ladder, are no longer to be considered as push-overs. They are taking valuable points from a few of the other teams these days and their big bite was this week when they defeated Peterborough. Now the Generals still hold a four-point margin over the second-place "Petes" and the Liftlock City squad has only one game "in hand". In the "loss column' -- still the most important set Of statistics in any league standing, we find Oshawa and Niagara Falls have each lost five games and the 'Petes' have iost six. GENERALS get their chance to tighten their grip on the top rung, this year, since they visit Hamilton Red Wings tonight. This one could produce two more points for the Oshawa contingent and then "'Bep" Guidolin's boys get their chance to start off the New Year's campaign, on a winning note, when Toronto Marlboros visit our Civic Auditorium on Saturday night. That one Saturday night could be tough to win, as well as interesting for the customers. Jim Gregory, general manager of Marlies, is not happy with the way some of his veterans have been performing lately, the team having managed only two ties in their last six starts. Gregory has intimated that some of the star players on the Westclair Junior "B" team, including the Metro League's leading scorer, centre John Hughes, may be given a chance to re- place one of the "senior" Marlies, who is not producing. The blast at such players as Watson, Meehan, Byers, Os- borne, Glennie and even star Jim McKenny, is no doubt aimed to get the Marlies "fired up' for their visit to Oshawa this Saturday night. MARLBOROS couldn't sign Paul Laurent this term, he wanted to stick' to his school books. They lost star Jimmy Davidson, for the season and perhaps for good, with a badly broken leg. However, word is out that Wayne Carleton will bé in uniform against the Generals. Staff Smythe calis Carleton "the best prospect signed by the Leafs' and when he gvas signed to the Marlboro-Leafs system, four seasons ago, be "did alright'. Carleton hurt one knee playing hockey, two seasons ago and then last year, badly injured the other knee, in a ball game. He has had operations on both knees, 'after appearing only briefly last season. He was eight weeks in bed this summer, following surgery, but used weight- lifting to exerise. He got on his skates about November ist and has been skating daily, usually all by himself, at Maple Leaf Gardens. At the start, it was predicted by some that he would never play again but he has made great progress, on his own determination and hard work, and word is that he will play here Saturday night. Rated a top NHL prospect, of similar stature to Bobby Orr, Carleton weighs 215 pounds, when right, is 6-feet, 3-inches tall and packs a wicked shot. All of which should make the New Year's Day game here Saturday night, a bang-up attraction for the hockey fans of Oshawa and district, who have been giving the Generals great support this season. CANADA came from behind a 5-3 deficit, to tie Sweden 5-5, last night in the hockey tournament, at Colorado Springs. Father Dave Bauer, who minced no words in blasting the team, following the game against Russia, last night declared himself more than pleased with the team's reversal of play- ing form and spirit. "'This represents our first step back to respectability,' said the team's special adviser. Vincente Saldivar Voted Boxer Of Year For '65 Ta 'Late_L Hawk ee By THE CANADIAN PRESS Recently Montreal Canadiens seemed to toy with the opposi- tion by first spotting them two- or three-goal leads then coming from behind to either win or tie the game. Dec. 4, for example, New York Rangers visited Montreal and looked like winning as they led 3-0 after the first period. But the Canadiens roared back to win 4-3. Next night in Boston, Mont- real gave up three goals to the Bruins but came back to tie it 4-4. : However, the tables were turned Wednesday night when Toronto Maple Leafs overcame a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Cana- diens 3-2, in one of two National Hockey League games. Chicago Black Hawks moved into first place in the standings by blanking New York 3-0 in the other game. Power play goals by Bob Pul- a dramatic effort by veteran George Armstrong--all in the third period--gave the Leafs) their victory before a crowd of| | 14,996. | It had appeared the Canadiens |would ride to victory on their pair of first-period goals by cen- tre Jean Beliveau and former Leaf Dick Duff but the Leafs came on like tigers in the final 20 minutes. Armstrong's goal, his fourth of the season, came with the Leafs a man short. Toronto net- minder Terry Sawchuk was |credited with an assist. The Toronto victory spoiled a spectacular effort by Montreal netminder Charlie Hodge, an ac- robatic wonder in kicking out 36 Leaf shots LAST NIGHT'S STARS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Glenn Hall, who kicked out 33 shots to gain his fourth shutout of the season as Chicago Black Hawks blanked New York-Rang- ers 3-0. George Armstrong, who scored the winning goal and as sisted on another as Toronto Ma- |ple Leafs came from, behind to jedge Montreal Canadiens 3-2. Oshawa Hawks Play Hamilton Here Tonight Tonight at Donevan Collegi ate, Oshawa Hawks will play jthe Hamilton Cosens, who are the top ranked intermediate |club in Ontario and last year's Intermediate "C" champions of the province. Led by Bob "Big Daddy') Grier, they are currently lead- jing the All-Ontario Intermedi- ate League with three wins and {one loss. The loss was the re-| | sult of a cancelled game, with the Oshawa Hawks, which was| protested by Coach Jim Brady of Oshawa and awarded to the Hawks. Manager Mike Gravine of the | Hamilton team reports that his club is ready to prove that they are the team to beat, by defeat- Chicago at Detroit PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP)--Mex- feo's Vincente Saldivar has been voted boxer of the year by the world boxing association. Saldivar, the world feather- weight champion, defended his title twice in 1965,. defeating Raul Rojas and Howard Wins- ton The 126-pound champion has another title defence set for early in 1966 against Floyd Robertson of Ghana. Honorable mention for boxer of the year went to junior light- weight champion Flash Elorde of The Philippines; bantam-| weight champion Fighting Har- ada of Japan and Don Fullmer of Utah, the American middle- weight champion. Emile Griffith was named boxer of the month for Decem- Rjax Shellettes Beat Don Mills Ajax Fleming's Shellettes split their holiday weekend schedule in the Toronto Metro Girls' Hockey League Shellettes dumped Don Mills Juniors 4-1 at Whitby Arena_on Sunday after dropping a 3-2 de cision in Guelph three flays earlier. : Ajax took an early lead against Guelph and held their own for two periods 2-1 going into the final 20 min- utes, but relinquished two. un- answered goals in the third Coleen Allen and Nancy Puck rin scored for Ajax while Guelph goals came from Melba Jewell, T. Hohenadell and Margo Brown Shellettes looked like a. dif- ferent club in Whitby. On two separate occasions they kept full control of the game while play-| ing a man short. Coleen Allen, Joy Hercia and the Gibson twins proved able penalty killers,| almost scoring on several occa-| sions 'Beaver' Midgley and Jenny Doole netted singles for Ajax while Leona Sleep tallied twice. 'Buddy' Taylor saved the visi-| tors from the shutout | Nora Axbey played goal for Ajax and was outstanding in| bth encounters.* Axhey *has been a major factor in keeping the girls in second place in the standings Shellettes take to the ice in Whitby at 6.45 Sunday night for| an exhibition game. | They led 1 ber for his welterweight title de- ing the Hawks right in Oshawa fence against Manuel Gonzalez.|Last year, Cosens found Here are the. final WBA/hospitality in Oshawa not to ratings for the year: their liking, as they were de- Heavy weight --Champion,|feated twice by the MecMur- Ernie Terrell, Chicago. 1. Cas-| ray's, which are now the Hawk sius Clay, Louisville. 2. Zora| nucleus Folley, Chandler, Ariz. 3. Amos; The Hawks have not been de Lincoln, Los Angeles. 4. Floyd|feated in their own gym this Patterson, New York. 5. Karl|season and have eeen excep- Mildenberger, West 6. George Chuvalo, Toronto. Coach Jim Brady credits his lt -- team as being at least 50 per cent stronger this year, due to the fine play of rookie Brian Jenkins from Central Collegi- Central Topped By Belleville tive teem an has impressed everyone with his Defending champion Oshawa sive work. In addition to Brian Central and Vocational Insti- improved play on the part of tute Wednesday night bowed to; Tom Dejong and Bob "Buster" Belleville Collegiate 37-33 in the) Ehlert has given added depth finals of the annual Queen's'to the team. University High School basket-, The veteran contingent of Bob ball tournament. Booth, Tom Olinyk and the re- Top scorer for the Oshawans| juvenated Fred Reilly, has pro was Larry Lloyd with 17 points, | vided the stabilizing experience while Ron Walsh matched that) that every championship club total for Belleville. needs. Further scoring punch is Belleville advanced to the|provided by Alex "The Great" final round with victories over| Fleming and Jim Rowden, with Frontenac secondary school of| their variety of drive shots and Kingston, Brockville Collegiate | outside shooting and Quinte secondary school of 'The overall calibre of the Brockville, Hawk players has _ enabled In the semi-final, Belleville: Coach Brady to freely substi took a 39-32 decision from tute in every game, without Quinte. hurting the team's perform Top scorers for Belleville in| ance. The bench strength of the the semi-final were Walsh with club is the strongest of any 16 points and Tom Lornie with! team in the Ontario League and 0 makes the Hawks a potent club Belleville led Oshawa 20-16 at at all times. The Oshawa team halftime in the final game. With) will be going all-out tonight, to two minutes remaining in the| prove that they will have to be fourth quarter the score was|reckoned with in All-Ontario tied 33-33. Belleville scored their! Playoffs. a winning four points on foul) Game time is 8.30 p.m. in the shots. 'Donevan Collegiate Gym. bod COUNTRIES ¥ DISTILLERIES L160 the| Toledo 5 Muskegon 6 | Germany.| tionally sharp so far this year.| fine defen-! \ford and Frank Mahovlich and ( GEORGE ARMSTRONG, Toronto Maple Leaf captain, tries to poke the puck past Charlie Hodge during Wed- nesday night's game against Montreal Canadiens in To- ronto. Looking on are Cana- diens Jean-Guy Talbot (17) Sawchuk had a shaky first pe- three points of riod in goal for Toronto, but set-' Montreal. tled down in the second period) Veteran goalie Glenn Hall and shutout the Canadiens the | turned in his fourth shutout of rest of the way. He kicked out! the season with a brilliant show 27 Montreal drives. Wednesday night as the Black The win enabled the Leafs to Hawks blanked the Rangers. stretch their unbeaten string to all, 34, in his 11th NHL sea- nine games -- seven wins and son, made 33 saves as the two ties. They remained' one - point behind third-place Detroit) Hawks won their third game in Red Wings and moved to within|the last five. HOCKEY SCORES, STANDINGS By THE CANADIAN PRESS National League Wi, 7 Fe 17 9 3 109 16 8 4 97 Fort Wayne 4 Port Huron 4 Des Moines 3 Dayton 8 A Pt Eastern League 72-37 Johnstown 1 Clinton 4 69 36 Charlotte 4 Greensboro 5 15 11 4101 81 34) Long Island 1 Knoxville 9 1410 5 81 81 33 Nashville 3 Jacksonville 3 New York 74:7 S619 2 Western League Boston 6 20 3 66 125 15 San Francisco 5 Victoria 3 Wednesday's Results Alberta Junior Montreal 2 Toronto 3 Edmonton Canadiens 7 Edmon Chicago 3 New York 0 ton Maple Leafs 1 Game Friday Exhibition Finland 3 Lakehead Bay Senior) 4 Chicago Montreal Detroit Toronto (Thunder American League Eastern Division Colorado Springs W LT F A Pt Sweden 5 Canada 5 Quebec 9 7 3130 82 41 Hershey ree ee i NHL BIG SEVEN i Springfield 318 1 93 118 Providence is 3: 75: Baltimore 18 0 78 87 By THE CANADIAN PRESS Western Division Bobby Hull, Chicago Black Rochester fae Bae tae * 3 43 Hawks' high-scoring left winger, Pittsburgh 1512 1 101 3i was held off the scoresheet by Cleveland 1216 1 81 25|New York Rangers Wednesday Buffalo 1018 0 73 20\night but still maintained a Wednesday's Results jcomfortable lead over team- Providence 2 Buffalo 4 jmate Stan Mikita in the Na- Rochester 3 Cleveland 2 |tional Hockey League individual Quebec 2 Hershey 4 \scoring parade. Springfield 4 Pittsburgh 2 Mikita gained an assist Central Professional against the Rangers, giving him WLT F A Pt 39 points for the season, six less 15 9 4 95 81 34 than Hull, who leads the league 1110 4 72 80 26\in goals with 27. 11 11 4 76 8026 Bobby Rousseau of Montreal 10.11 4 76 75 24|Canadiens assisted on one Mont- 1 3 Tournament 22 83 86 86 92 Memphis Oklahoma St. Louis Minnesota Houston Tulsa 11 13 81 88 23 real goal against Toronto Maple 10 14 87 83 23|\Leafs Wednesday night; giving Wednesday's Results him a league-leading 22 assists Minnesota 1 Memphis 4 |He also has 15 goals and holds Oklahoma City 2 St. Louis 0 {down third spot in the scoring Tonight's Game | Norm Ullman and_ Gordie Minnesota at Houston |Howe of Detroit Red Wings are International League |fourth and fifth in. the scoring jwith 35 and 34 points respec- jtively. Jean Beliveau of Montreal scored a goal and assisted on another in Canadiens' 3-2 Inss to NHL LEADERS By THE CANADIAN PRESS |Toronto and remained in sixth! Standings: Chicago, won 17,'spot with 33 points. lost nine, tied three, points 37.! Bob Pulford of Toronto scored Points: Hull, Chicago, 45 his 15th-goal-of-the -season and Goals: Hull, 27. moved into a three-way tie for Assists: Rousseau, Montreal,/seyenth place with Bob Nevin jof New York and Alex Delvec- Detroit; |chio of Detroit. Each has 30 points. The leaders: Shutouts: Crozier, Hall, Chicago; 4, Penalti¢s: Green, minutes Boston, 71 Hull, Chicago MURPHY INJURED Mikita, Chicago DETROIT (AP)--Detroit Red Rousseau, Montreal Wings left winger Ron Murphy, |Ullman, Detroit suffering a knee injury, will re-|Howe, Detroit main out of action when the|Beliveau, Montreal Wings play.at Boston in a Na-|Nevin, New York tional Hockey League game to-|Pulford, Toronto night. \Delvecchio, Detroit second-place | and J. C. Tremblay (3) and Leaf Frank Mahovlich (27). Leafs won 3-2, Tie veteran netminder was particularly strong while the Black Hawks were shorthanded, stopping Ranger power play manoeuvres repeatédly. Ken Wharram with his 13th goal of the season, Chico Maki with his sixth and rookie Ken Hodge's second goal accounted for Chicago's scoring New York netminder Ed Gia- comin had 12 saves throughout the game. No games are scheduled to- night. Chicago visits Detroit. for ja game against the Red Wings |New Year's Eve City League Midget Games aS gS The Oshawa Minor Hockey Association's Midget League had three schedule games last night, at the Oshawa Children's Arena, with one of the games ending in a tie while the third tilt was a clean-cut shutout, Rotary Club and Letter Car- riers tied 3-3 in the first game of the night's action. Roy Fish- er, uric Cay and Danny Clarke each scored for Rotary Club while Robert Kennedy with a pair and Roger Richard's single- ton, kept Letter Carriers on even terms. Canadian Legion defeated Firefighters 4-1, in the middle game. Mike White with three goals and Bob Durno with a singleton, took charge of the; scoring for the winners. Bill! Vanueghel saved Firefighters) fram the whitewash brush. | In the final game, Rose Bowl} Restaurant blanked Lions Club) 4-0. Bob Martin, Gary Swinson, | Peter Pigeon and John Pluma- getters. OWA Referee 'Hugh MacLean Hurt On Road BURLINGTON, Ont. Hugh MacLean, 51, (CP) -- Ontario Hockey Association referee and} former National League official, was Wednesday while tire on «the Queen Elizabeth Way north of here. Maclean of Dundas, Ont. was admitted to hospital suffer- ing back injuries Police said the accident oc- curred when a car struck Mac Lean's parked car which in turn hit "MacLean Hockey injured dore were the Rose Bowl's Boal-| schedule in changing aj jule with two losses and a tie COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CP-AP) -- Canada's national hockey team fought back with three goals in the third period Wednesday night to tie Sweden 5-5 but still was eliminated from the race for the Walter Brown Memorial Trophy. The Soviet Union; world ama- teur hockey champions, could wrap up the trophy tonight by defeating Czechoslovakia. Roger Bourbonnais, 23-year- Swedish goalie Leif Holmaqvist. Both teams missed close-in shots in the closing minutes, A 30-foot wrist shot, after a pass from Dineen, gave Bour- bonnais his other goa! earlier in the third period. After Palmqvist scored to give Sweden a 1-0 lead in the first period, MacMillan tied it with an unassisted shot at the mouth of the cage. Bengtsson scored again to give Sweden old Edmonton ~ born forward,|the lead but McLeod scored on scored two goals in the lastjan eight-footer at 14:03 to tie half of the third period as the|the score 2-2 at the end of the Canadians outscored = period. t ; : | Swedes 3-1 in that period | overcome a 4-2 deficit. |GETS BREAK Ray Cadieux, 23 - year - old| Lindberg scored in the sec- right,winger and top scorer for/0"4 period when he and Torg Canada in the 1964 Olympic Lundstrom got a break while tournament, also scored in' the| their own team was short- third period. handed due to a penalty. Lind- Billy MacMillan, 22-year-old|berg scored on a 10-foot shot. Charlottetown { »|Nygren got the first of his two native now r studying at the University of|80a!s by backhanding the puck Manitoba, and coach-manager| jinto the open side of the net Jackie McLeod scored for Can-|Past Canadian goalie Ken Brod- ada in the first period. McLeod, jerick. $5-vear-o tive Swift Cur-. But Canada came on strong hg te gira a of eee the third period to turn the ment as a plaver earlier this| atch into a tie. The Canadians year. : joutshot the Swedes 16-5 in the : |period, Nygren scored his sec- SCORES TWO Scoring for ond goal: after Cadieux' period Sweden were °Pener. ' Haken Nygren, with two goals, Officials said the match to- Bjorn Palmqvist, Folke Bengts-/night "between Russia and son and Hans Lindberg. |Czechoslovakis is a sellout of Canada lost 6-2 to the Soviet {he 5,100 - capacity arena. The Union Tuesday night in its first|Czechs were the only team to It now must play Czech-|beat Russia in the international to round out its/tournament here last year and the single round-|hold an earlier victory this win- robin tournament. ter over the Soviets. Sweden wound up its sched-|-- game oslovakia DEMOTE ONE HULL It lost 8-3 to Czechoslovakia! CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago and 4-3 to Russia. Black Hawks have sent Dennis Bourbonnais' tying goal came Hull, younger brother of Bobby 'on a pass from behind the net} Hull, and Fred Stanfield to their by Gary Dineen, 22-year-old) St. Louis farm club. The Hawks Montreal native. Bourbonnais) called up forward Dave Rich- shot the puck from four feet out} ardson from the Central Hockey past the outstretched glove of' League club. The Week After Chrustmas By Roy O. Eastman "Twas the week after Christmas and all through the house There was nagging and fretting twixt husband and spouse, u Twixt Willie and sie, the dog and the cat, Why even the car had come up with a flat. The tree which had dazzled with color and light Was shedding and dropping in pitiful plight. The tempers were short and each face wore a frown; And the mantelpiece Santa seemed sadly let down, Pop's gift to his wife had been promptly returned, So Mother was grump and:Father was burned; The Spirit of Christmas, too often the case, Had picked up his traps and abandoned the place. In this situation you'd scarcely have thought SATURDAY NITE 0.H.A. JUNIOR "A" HOCKEY as SATURDAY NITE 7:15 P.M. OSHAWA GENERALS TORONTO MARLBOROS Season Ticket Holders Use Series No. 13 For This Game. 4 t 4 4 CHRIS ROBERTS TICKETS AVAILABLE AT NEXT HOME GAME SAT., JAN, 8th Generals vs Hamilton Red Wings Bolehood Sportshaven Downtown Oshowa . Jim Bishop Sporting Goods Downtown Oshawo Auditorium Box Office THORNTON RD; SOUTH OFF KING ST, WwW. What joy and what gladness their Christmas had brough With merriment ringing and faces aglow. At the dawning of Chitenen one short week ago. The pitcher that's full can be emptied too soon, And life is much like a child's balloon; When blown to its limit, it bursts from the strain And-the effort to fill it seems futile and vain. Perhaps at the moment some thought of this kind Had suddenly flashed on the young child's mind, For Willie grew quiet and wandered about As if thinking of something and puzzling it out. He bursts out with '/Daddy, what | want to know Is what happened to Ghristmas and where did it go?" His dad looked perplexed, so he tried to explain, "Why can't we have Christmas all over again?" As this was a poser, both father and mother Stopped still in their tracks and just looked at each other; And the father remarked as he rose from the chair, "It strikes me that Willie has got something there."' The frowns left their faces, their cares were forgot, And mother was smiling and saying, 'Why not?" The man left the room; in a few minutes more A jolly old Santa stood in the door. What fun they all had! Why you never did see A merrier Christmas or lovelier tree. Such shouts and such laughter you never have heard, While the dog wagged his tail and the pussycat purred; And when Willie and Susie that night went to bed, And both were'tucked in and their prayers had been said, They looked up and smiled, "What a wonderful day! Let's hang on to Christmas and keep it that way. Let's play that it's Christmas again and again." And Mother and Father both murmured "AMEN!" HAPPY NEW YEAR From All The Folks At The CLIFF MILLS MOTORS tn. Your Pontiac @ Buick @ Vauxhall @Viva @ Acadian © GMC ® Bedford Dealer OSHAWA 266 KING ST. WEST