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j Marbles hud skipping- ropes are out Its playoff in hockey This is an important week for the Spits Boils down after all the semaphoring wigwag ging to Shipbuilders from Coiling wood and Spits for the Big Seven Int A crown Teams go three out of five Bit grim for a time for the Moliymeh after losing two to the Shipbuilders They wormed back in by hurdling Midland Flyers in two straight Fea tures of last Thursday was a close cheeking duel At Show- puck lugging paid off for the winning goal Seemed evident from where your observer sat that the Mid land coach sent his boy Adams out deliberately to get Al out the game in final minutes It worked to the of two minutes but that was one penalty didnt deserve Shots on net were Newmarket Midland Spits came back singing the praises of for his work at Mid land Fink fired the winning goal in the triumph He snaked his way through the shortstaffed Rockets to hurl tire Midland team- Spits were them to a 78 win -Consider- men short at the time to able talk junior A teams are Gannon supposed to have convened to request to extend the junior age limit to 21- another year that case above trio all on their last year could form the nucleus of a championship crew in the hub Add Don son back from the north after Sudbury was knocked out Midland goalie right out of his sweater Whisperings Lions may de fault their annual game with the Optimists this winter were told Are the Lions going chicken or maybe those jibes to watch out for and Warner had a telling effect Were told Keith So to complete the pie Highlands golfer has been J a director of the Ontario reportSome time ago we mentioned arenas association was investigating why and made Golfers Assoc Slipped our mind but did you notice in the recent home and home set with Owen AURORA TONIGHT ONLY THURSDAY MARCH George hotel at ft March to for Col lin wood for third Spitfires groups finals game Con tact either Vic or John Mines re Information Sound Spits and Sounders play ed two games without a penalty being called That surely must be a record Harvey Jackson for mer Maple Leaf Kid Line Star is coaching Winged Wheelers and giving the Indians biggest handful of season Two teams have divided the best hi three semi final set both games by a one- goal margin settle it tomorrow Friday night Advantage with Aurora via home ice Andy Gloss Junior hopefuls gird for battle this week against for group title Tie Up Finals With Hoffman Roaming the ice with a cham pionship glitter in their eyes Harry Thorns Davis Tanners laid down a terrific scoring bar rage to knock off Mc Donalds Hoffman at the arena Monday The win rolled back the tide of elimination threatening to en gulf the Tanners and squared the best in three Town league finals at a game each The deci der comes up Monday matching the free scoring gusto of the game was the penalty What might have been the cooler Keswicks rural hockey platoon has been put on the shelf far OR1LA play goes ft drop ped a pair to Keswick suffered from the shorts losing an decision Last Tuesday at home the lost a decision In road game Ted An derson smashed but in a of goal scoring to snap in four All Smith ran his mate a close sec ond with three Ivan Rye col lected the final Keswick scoring point At home Jack Cole added the snap crackle and pop to the Keswick attack with a brace of goals playing coach Ken Davie drove in the final tally If as and when ice is avail able Keswick and Sutton are scheduled to tangle in a series for the rural crown Wins Crown Defeats 75 while making the comeback of the year didnt par ry their ideas quite far enough parade as Referee fin this direction After being little thumbed bad boys to solidly behind the eight ball Lose First In The Spits Play At Home Tonight a 1 mm 9 m Mi The Newmarket Spitfires are a same down in the best three Out of five for lite Big Seven Internal A title Tuesday playing on commodi ous cushion the Spits couldnt off a last ditch rally put on by the home town Shipbuilders dropping a decision minutes action Spits trailed mil with Ken ilotlA Thorns tho hi a firsi pert marker Then the Ship builders In those final eight minutes S the on two quick goals and added spike before could down the ana the same was a gone two comes up at the arena This is a must for the Kverj loyal Spitfire fan his uncles and aunts are asked be out to root for the home team on down three to nil in their iors Rocket closed regular season with a win at Owen Sound An- bounced into an early sawoff with for the lead but from there on closed Lake crown to find shop as the Tanners started came alive to tie the set Thorns Grant Firth and a minute clip to At the seventh and decider at the hardpressed WSJ iwc Period- ltd by were Boh Groves Bruce Reg Baker Kith Groves Deb Cooper and who nailed down singles Ken Rogers had to shed tears their hopefuls being beaten to lose their grip on the Morton Bros trophy the ulti mate winners nabbed a first period margin on goals by Bob Groves Ken and Preston and Bill fattened up their I snipers averages with a brace of as- were Bun Hood and Ron Ken Groves incidentally The teams dueled through a was on loan from the second round Bill as a replacement injured play maker Jack Groves ITiV and spark popped in on early Cliff was the Hoffman pacesetter with three goals and wo assists Red and played out the string on even Lloyd Cud more dug in for two terms trading six goals three third period tally to make it From there on the teanis Vktory Over Mid land Spits Chance At Group Title and funis rated the glances of their fellow Spitfires and some odd- Newmarket rooters last Thursday It two steady performers who shot in goals to give the t i res a win over The win assured Spits another Jingwood for the Both goals were unassisted- It that hard was by long odds the Desroche letting it so fforrhisik point swag the Spits have had to i the red line its It t J dint just good work Bill five wiicq c And a defense- man battled and took a header effort ik behind the Midland cage picked up aid doodled his way in front v the biscuit behind Gannon- in before goals each Green- apiece Elmer Paisley Allan wherefore of drop hockey at- wood rounded out the Hoffman and Ross Draper hit the tendances Part of the report J scoring with a single filtered through Heres some of the reasons they men tion Schedules are too long teams not matched so the choosy fans wait until the right opposition comes along calibre of hockey is not as sen sational as in years gone by too much ganging not enough Stick- marker MRU mum mm handling admission prices too high out of proportion with the ability of cash customers to dig up the fare Another reason they bring up more and more rinks springing up means fans are staying around home to support home or closeby teams Dont even mention our favorite peeve late starts Indians And Wheelers Decide Semifinal Set strings for J Preston came with a two goal effort and Nigh a rinklong rush that paid off to collect the Vandorf scores Ross Draper was top scorer with with four Fivers cage This happen Liz the mark of the first Spit the sc tfeis asrft- a 2h fc On the alleys IT IS ennui early Newmket Rockets Close Season With A Winner If things Had broken right this might have been the story all winter long Bolstered by Lau rie Thorns Grant Firth and Ken graduates of Hack Cains Aurora Bears Newmar ket Rockets rocketed to a win over Owen Sound Thursday I game the last of the regu- didnt mean any thing though gave the headmen Rft0ie Rockets a good deal of satisfaction emerging from the first two rounds deadlocked at all Mile slashed in three goals matter a little over to cop the verdit a look at the dividual scoring those helper from the and lirth slammed in a pair of tallies each Ken in the Racket citadel blocked less than fill pounded at him by the who figured picking tip easy points Regular Hod IJIaek via titromj big evening with two gciiilti Pivot innn oiling rounded out the scojing a fcolj- McDonald ft J Aurora Midgets Ousted Prom Auroras final standard hearer along playoff hail faded at f stage a week ago Thursday Hill midget Wliii earlier a hope of a brighter were in on ice by TM3ion ton of a deffjiit t Aurora the playoff by a oil Aurora ifoaleltffil Kilwaidji ion ami fed anil cotulujj in for cictlilit Aurora fust Hum hut fim defeat aalm Attishm Ousts Bradford From Senior Bradford hopes of making the finals for central Ontario rural senior playdowns were eclipsed Saturday night in triggerhappy Aurora Indians and Winged points a goal and three Wheelers out of Toronto coached Elmer Paisley another Mount by Harvey Basher Jackson for- Albert product boosting his Leaf Kid Line star are average with a goal and two causing alt kinds of excitement assists Preston in their Trolley League semi- mighty atom on the now three Both by the a knockput punch as Wheelers surprised with a win Monday the Indians went back on the warpath to turn the tables on Wheelers on their home ice at Woodbridge In the scries starter Don lerton Wheeler golfed in a shot halfway through the finale his second of the night to shatter a threeall tie and Wheelers the 13 edge Jim batted in a first period tally as Aurora scored at a goal a period clip Jim had help from Harry Morrison and Bill on this one Hex Bailey working in cahoots with I Patrick accounted for seen Aurora counter Filth tipped in a Don Will son pass up for third period counter Aurora lacked direction in its shooting ami hud trouble with Wheeler force V- Monday a second period provided the main in the Indian lying the scius Keith lauvie and Grant gave a one- all lie in round one with War den doing the actual Laurie Thorns from Jim Jack fttuniney liili Smith and Sill Patrick and thirty were Aurora peiiod scOlinE plays Harry with Mini deli and Jim the ini fired prowd to be frig goal at I lott the third Grant again the rlj iitrc shot pin jjesiai circuit out a 258 a S6j close second Other Individual over Salisbury 5o 5Tn Bill VanZant 623 Davis sl lMl Aurora Badminton Lose tumbling in on Bradford as listen poured in for Sg without a replv salt the game away Charlie Joe and BUI poked in the first for Bradford BUI Ioychoif Jye Magaiu the second round scoring effort for Bradford Charlie opened the third on- a sotup pass trout Joe Bill phviii an rfiiiressivc driving wound lip scoring after Bruce for the final play Top Bradford killer was wither Watt loui who chucked in five tnU iat Chris Lotto for Bradford on move with lhi Smith to Opposition Wiit be Aces ir Bradford AX J i W hoi- ivu i jW whit isiCFs named first vc r Ti at Brmoe MvsUUt Aurora lose First Of Their Group Finals Despite a and furious stretch ice that pulled within one of the fly l a lomih tt7 leciiion Or- jd he Hide ot this the fact it wan the first of the liiwiip filial That leaves the with the ta of Winning- In tonight or tip its hockey jear the finals nettled on a hi their the Cuius a attach prom- and had arena will the crowd in some lit on uproar and couple of led to 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