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Newmarket Era and Express (Newmarket, ON), December 22, 1954, A4

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The Newmarket Era and Express Wednesday Dec Am Redmen Lose First In Seven Ac Win In Overtime Sinclair Leads Scorers Newmarket trying to stretch their win streak to seven dropped a tough over- toe decision to OriUia homed Wood arena Thursday It was one of the best of the season It was a goal by Earl roamed inside the irtrtSl line but just couldnt get a direct Srkefwal I that it spoiled a drive on the net and he was joined at by Or- illias John Wood Just after White got back Rusty Aiken joined Wood in the sinbin Coach Herb Cain lifted goalie Jimmy Cruickshank with a min ute remaining and for the final 30 seconds six attackers terrific comeback Early in the third trailed drive on the net Don Smith was injured in the first period and will likely be sidelined for a spell Andy too STEWART Television is going into the operating room right in Canadian hospitals Authorities have given the goahead for a new TV dramatic series tailed Medic which will be based on actual medkal cases With doctors and nurses playing some the lead- ins roles Trie impact of this program will be it will be enter taining and it will be edu cational Favorable reaction has come from Hospital offic ials Here is what one of them said Anything which can publicize wisdom of hospital treatment when necessary is good Such a series will help minimise the fear held by some per sons of hospital treatment Viewers will be able to see the birth of a baby They will see techniques We are not doing scenes for the sake of explained i- Theres chances didnt look However being a bunch of scrappers did come back to the delight of some odd fans It was freewheeling who applied fuse hit the de fense going a mile a minute then whipped a pass ahead to Ken Sinclair On other occasions Sinclair missed excellent oppor tunities to add to his scoring laurels but on this bid Shropshire right out of his britches stilt had a long way to come back but shortened Or Ilias lead to when George Wright rosy j Clots turned in a capable placement effort- re HISPORTS With exams holidays and pre parations for Santas visit going full blast sports will be forgot ten for a spell at the district sec ondary schools However with the turn into the new year the basketball program will be pop ping again Newmarket High junior boys and senior girls dont have to worrv about their basketball and volleyball grades They passed these two subjects Friday the Toronto fireman honors as they claimed a a shot through a of players to score at Bill Chard dropped the pass back lo Wright after double win over High- The NHS junior led by Ken squeezed past in a fine and other surgical any sen Medics producer There a lot you can show of sur gery that is not revolting or offensive to audiences Medic is but one of sev eral new features being exclusively for TV Unless youre a regu lar viewer you may miss It Youll miss nothing though when you invest in one of todays greatly im proved TV sets Over the years television has made steady progress and while the has come down the quality has gone up One thing that varies though is the eager ness of our Service Depart ment to please now as ever Stewart Radio Appliances Main St Newmarket Wright alter dug the biscuit out ox the corner basketball comeback drive 1 volleyball team to have hu a snag when We led Zip Thompson who had been lhe volleyball uffling with Bowen but it was minute earlier charged first game they did and was chased at work- at a man disadvantage didnt the reviving It was Bill Chard who worked in I for the tying goal with Ron cello and Geo Wright doing the necessary preliminary moves had the legs in the overtime but couldnt prove it on the score sheet They out gunned the Pontiaes Ron Ken Sinclair Bob Fry- day Boniface and Porky had excellent op portunities only to find Shrop shires pads working like a mag net McCrones game winner came after a faceoff in the Newmar ket and It was At who sent a shot into the New market cage early in the first period A period that ended the had no license to get an even break them but It wasnt unlit with OriUia a man short that Boniface rapped in a beautiful pass from Ken Sinclair and exceptionally well reports Miss Sinclair Between games Messrs George Kelly Stan Raymond Keith Davis and Charles Lee staged an excellent badminton demonstra tion- The games and badminton demonstration were features of the first athletic night The entire program went off without a hitch and the program organizers were well pleased with the fine turnout of students exstudents and parents- Another athletic night with Richmond Hill the visitors will be held early in February re ports George Kelly In exhibition senior basket ball Wednesday at the school Aurora DoubleBlues exploded a point final quarter to defeat Newmarket High Vic hooped points to lead Aurora while Graham ledge counted and John Dew Bob Dick connected foe points Jim Cassavoy 10 to lead How North York Minors Now Stand There will be a holiday period ahead for the North York minor hockey league teams This is an excellent time to give a run down of the league First in the juvenile group Hornets and Newmar ket Specialties are racing neck and neck for the lead spot Both loams have annexed 11 points via five wins one tie and one de feat The two clubs were sched uled to do battle in a home and home set over the past couple of flays Those could possibly the deadlock or increase the first place tension Charlie JQodgers are in third place with Camp Borden Royals without a win in- live attempts the dropped from the Juvenile competition fo midget leaving four teams a possibility may be added to the group in the new yean not quite so much con fusion in the midget circuit Bill Mundetts Aurora lives are flying high They have won six out of six and appear to have taken a long term lease on- first place Smoke Rings and Doug King City Rockets have six points each and are dead locked In second place King City has the edge with only one defeat while the Smoke Rings have been charged with three setbacks steadily Improving HASHMAN AWARD has a week to run so as we look back over the year one of the major accomplishments was the program in Sep tember to revive interest hi a swimming pool project The biggest item in the pool revival movement was Slim attempt to swim the bulrush infested waters of Fairy Lake The Era and Express Slim even with the knowhow of coach Bill Ingram and the fine inspirational leadership provided by Jack Struthers photographer Ernie Stcfaniuk and your was unable to negotiate the full course It was a gallant attempt Slim and his failure certainly spot lighted the heed for a swimming pool in the Hub So to Slim or Lome who played his part this season of good will for his stupendous effort in high lighting the need for a pool goes the best wishes of your Hash- man John and the Roxy Theatre Incidentally if you should run across a frogman flipper in and around Fair Lake the owner is Slim Slim will appreciate its return Who knows perhaps in hell make another attempt to conquer Fairy Lake knee injury has points Standing of others are Frank With a one goal three Geo Wright 11 effort last week Ken Sinclair Scott Andy boosted his scoring record to Porky Ken points Sinclairs total is made up of goals ami assists He is the Redmans scoring leader has points with and assists Boniface has They are made up of 15 and 15 assists THURSDAY Hob assists will to get in the booming battle for first la Metro Trailing this Irio are defense- 1 man Zip Thompson ami front- I liners Bill Chard and lion Scar- I cello They have accuinulaled JJ points each Smith out of action at the moment with league when they move into local diggings tomorrow evening to clash Cains Newmarket Should provide quit pre- Christmas Eve RtVlmen had nVdish for the local fans With operators Porky Mac- every point large in a whale of arap for first place neither teas with Ken liuhhn and Art White operating just a notch defense buddy MacDougall I Frank Stephenson provide a hattrick to the Clippers Ron Hell scored two Ken Crawford anil Nick one afford to it can at lord to is they have designs on coveted top Game time pm I By Co id and Plain fancy and di seeks At West St Newmarket d To Clippers That two week lay forced j at the end of the first period It Oft the was the turn to apply through the fold up of in lhe second That hursts hasnt done the locals pressure paid ott to the tune of any good The dropped two goals got in j their second straight as Bob one reply The Clippers went topside the second minute the SPORTS COLUMN Clippers presented fans with a win over Newmarket Satur day It was a game that improved with age Why there were only couple of hundred fans on hand must remain a mystery because this was one of the best games oi the metro schedule In the final analysis aiufi l0 be a battle of midget crew under Bin Gray defenses and It Sdjdlm Key are fourth M up Iter the in third period on Ron Boils goal before the struck back to square it on a pair of quick goals by Boniface tie was in existence until the Clippers Ken Crawford zipped in the tie breaker and Frank Stephenson poured in the clincher at The were far from ready to chuck in nclair and points Jim Cassavoy Ah and Earl McCronethe Newmarket attack In ft scored Oriflias second period goals while the were si lent Danny McDonald was the visitors rifleman early in the third as OriUia forged a ad vantage Excitement was rife in the fi nal minutes of the overtime Art White Redman a thumbed away for a hook at In a junior basketball garnet Wed at Aurora Fran DoubleBlues defeat ed Newmarket ton has four points two wins three loses Lions hold down the cellar rung Beet- on after dropping five straight decided to withdraw the league at five teams Five learns namely ket Nobleton Aurora and arc waging a scrap- battle for bantam league leadership Lowell Newmarket Optimists have the inside track Optimists have spiked five wins and ft in six outings far an point rating Elmer Lions are second with four wins a loss and a Harry Suttons Aurora Lions specializing in tie games are third with seven points AltlsI seconds ton la fourth with four points while Bob Flyers are fifth with ihree marks Bob Waltons Wood- bridge havent hit the teams had battled to a tie over the first fiftyfive minutes in the final five as found the range for two goals Newmarket one The work of Terry bord ered on the sensational times was either lucky or doggone good His stops at times were utterly illegal as he fended off the best contrived drives of the the Red- men goalie was almost as brill iant and it was a goal that dropped over his shoulder into the net that caused most trouble for the That goal broke the 5all deadlock Stouffville started strong They had a goal In fourteen were ton Oil the towel and to prove it slapped home Ken Sinclairs pass at The were desperately trying to get the equalizer as coach Herb Cain sent out six forwards to roam the Clip pers zone when the final bell sounded The and Clippers both had many good forwards going for them Boniface was the lop Boniface speared three goals fired two while Scott was the other goal- getter Ron helped on Scotts goal Andy and Scott were the workhorse op erators on Boniface s second and Ken Sinclair threw over the pass for third period counter Selection of Christmas cards you and scouring through the telephone book for addresses may produce headaches but whatever the these activities are import ant They herald the day when the en tire Christian world joins in Peace on earth good will to all men One may be inclined to look backward at If one looks far enough one finds that early ob servances on the continent took place in a crude chapel like the barkcovered long houses of the Huron ihi was the Mission Ste Marie near the eastern Bay To that wild land of forests and roaxin waters Jean Norman noble and kin of the Dukes of come as a Jesuit And there under the of the Northern winter he brought the to sing to the tune of the Breton Vne Christmas carol he had written for them in their own tin Thats something worth thinking as one through mailing lists with its late shopping and dressing the We dont have any idea of A and trovdiriJt the words of the A v 4 though no doubt it was a simple and reverent piece or As simple as the days before baubles storewindows full of electric trains black u- ties which once were considered gaudy to wear So let us forget the crowded stores the weeks of The Red Nosed Reindeer and the other tunes with Tinpan Alley cuts in on the dollar and ay wit Thackeray I wish you health and love and mirth As fits the solemn Christmastide As fits the holy Christmas birth Be this good friends our still Be peace on earth be peace on earth To men of gentle will MMWfl a A by DISTILLERS LIMITED ed for the Optimist NHI and Saturday morning Little f teams for the next two weeks League schedules will be IVe cherish the Happiness our old and new Friends have given ed during the over lhe and at this Joyous and Heartwarming minor league give you our Sincere Wishes for Christmas Joy and contests are booked for the next lor the New Year HOLIDAY REST The next couple of weeks to the holiday festivities will bo win column in four attempts quiet ones for our minor hockey land bring up the rear sides There are no games book- 1 to DRUGS KESWICK two weeks as our bantams mid gets and juveniles build up their strength for a busy schedule in the New Year One North York midget league game is booked into the Aurora arena It is on Dec 28 when Thornhill will meet Aurora flame time is pm SPORTS CALENDAR ARENA Dec pm Metro league- vs Rod men Dee pm Inter mediate hockey vs lee pin OH- A Junior hockey Aurora Rears Dec 2H pm York midget hockey Hiornhlll vs Aurora A MERRY Happy Prosperous r t- t i t i i yV kik i A M I i n fr l 7 V 3 This year Christmas and New Years day fall on J J m which means there will be no delivery on Saturday day of each week Please remember to products on Friday to last you over the p iLi3 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