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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 1929 U.OF C. AND 0.A.L.A. BANQUET DOMINION LACROSSE CHAMPIONS General Motors Lacrosse Team Honored at Banquet Attended Leading Sportsmen of Ontario Dominion Sportsmanship and Gentlemanly Conduct as Well as for Their Playing Abiliy~Cuse of Lacsome is Ontatio Conceded Io be y Benefitted by the Mann Cup Victory of the 4 Oshawa General Motors T: (By Staff Reporter) Toronto, September 16.--The high- est of sports officialdom in the pro- vince of Ontario tonight did honor to the General Motors Lacrosse team of Oshawa. Dominion champ- ons and winners of the Mann Cup, at a banquet held in the Prince George Hotel here last night. If ever there were any doubt of the pub- ticity value to Oshawa of the achieve- ments of those splendid good: will commissioners, the lacrosse players who carried Oshawa's colors to the far Pacific Coast, that doubt must have been dispelled at tonight's func- tion, for the name of Oshawa was on every tongue, and the praises, not only of the lacrosse team, but of its sponsors, General Motors of Canada, Limited, and of the city itself, were uttered by speaker after speaker. The banquet was sponsored by the Ontario branch of thc Amateur Ath- letic Union of Canada and the On- tario Amateur Lacrosse Association, and was presided over in a capable and genial manner by T. A, Mus- phy, chairman of the Ontario Athle- ic Association. Many distinguished guests were present, not the least important being the Hon. Joe Thomp- son, of Toronto, former Speaker of the Ontario Legjslature and Charles Higginbotham, resident of the On- tario Branch of the A. A. U. of C. Large Oshawa Party A large party went down from Oshawa along with the team to share .in the reflected glory of its achievements, among those present being H. W. Nicoll, C, E. McTavish, H. C. Lecky, Lorne Ardiel, E, R. Birchard, and Oscar Baird, of 'the General Motors Staff, Sam Johnson, trainer of the team, Fred Hobbs, vice president, General Motors Lacrosse Club, Mat Leyden, its business man- ager, and George Munroe, the team's coach, Other official guests from Oshawa were Mayor Mitchell, and Aldermen Douglas, P. A. McDonald, Robert McDonald, Harmon, 'Boddy and Jackson, members of the coun- ' cil's lacrosse reception committee, and M. McIntyre Hood, editor of The Oshawa Daily Times. An interesting feature of the event was the presentation fo each person of a copy of the special Lacrosse Souvenir Edition of The Times, mes- sages of appreciation of this being expressed by the Hon. Joe Thomp- son and A. E. Lyon, president of the 0. A L.A Champions Welcomed After a splendid - banquet, T. A. Murphy, the chairman of the occa- sion, opened the formal proceedings, and called upon the Hon. Joe Thomp- son to welcome the General Motors team, champions of Canada. In a brief, but witty and pointed address, Mr. Thompson extended the heart- iest congratulations of the gathering to the Dominion champions. Toron- to, he said, had the reputation of be- ing "Hogtown," but he felt that this was not deserved, since Toronto was eager and anxious to do honor to the Oshawa team which had brought the Mann Cup back from the coast, be- cause it had brought honog to the whole of Ontario. Mr. Thompson recalled the days, nearly fifty years ago, when he had played lacrosse, and said that while it was more prosper- ous then than it is today, he felt sure that the victory won by the Oshawa team would do much to put new life NEW MARTIN Thrilling Drama of Newpaper Life The Power of The Press with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. d an Jobyna Ralston also ADDED ATTRACTIONS --Withe-- CONRAD NAGEL BESSIE LOVE LEILA HYAMS On the stage, evenings only 845 pm. LOCK'S AUTUMN FASHION REVUE also OTHER SCREEN "ATTRAC. TIONS TE into the game, and bring it back to its former position of glory. All of the speakers who followed had congratulations for the General Motors team, and in particular paid a tribute to the gentlemanly conduct of its members, and the splendid way in which they had kept themselves in the finest of condition during the ar- duous trip to the west. It was stressed by all speakers, too, that the victory of the General Motors team meant much to lacrosse in Ontario, and that it would help to create a new enthusiasm in the villages, towns and cities of Ontario for Canada's great national game. Toast to The Game The toast to "The Game of La- crosse" was proposed by Francis Nelson, a veteran sportsmag, who, after congratulating the team, refer- red to the great value of sports in the life of any community. The responsc to this toast was made by Charlie Querrie, who went to the coast as referee in the Mann Cup series. He gave an interesting review of the games played in the series. "Never in all the history of my lacrosse tra- vels," he said, "have I seen a team of players who took as good care nf themselves as did the Mann Cup winners," The . Winnipeg ficld, he said, was the worst for lacrosse he had ever seen, and he paid a tribute to the fighting spirit of the Oshawa team in coming back after being four goals down to win the game. The boys throughout the whole series, he emphasized, had played clean la- crosse, and werc a credit to Oshawa and to Ontario. Toast to. The Champions The toast to the General Motors Lacrosse Team of Oshawa was pro- posed by Gene Wallace, of Bramp- ton, who said that the Oshawa play- ers would be ° looked upon by. the young boys as models of what sports- men should be, and he was sure they would live up to the high reputation they had won. ~~ C., E. McTavish Responded C. E. McTavish, president of the General Motors Lacrosse Club pre- faced his remarks by introducing the players and officials of the team, all of whom were present except Doddy Doddemeade, who sent a telegram expressing his regret at being un- able to be present. On behalf of the club, he expressed appreciation of the assistance given by A. E. Lyon, pres- ident of the O. A, L. A. He also expressed appreciation of the splen- did way in which Charlie Querrie had handled the games, saying that the referee had given both teams in ev- cry game a. real square deal. He also paid a tribute to the New West- minster team as being made up of a wonderfully fine set of sportsmen, both on and off the field. Turning to the future of lacrosse, Mr. McTavish stressed the necessity of keeping the game clean, saying that if it were played as it should be played, it would be one of the most popular of sports, Mayor Mitchell Mayor Mitchell was also called upon to respond to this toast, and in saying that Oshawa had every reason to be proud of its lacrosse team, and that he hoped its members would stick together and keep the Mann Cup in Oshawa, taking for its motto, the old «British tradition, "W!'.at we have we Hold." Mayor Mitchell also spoke of the announcement made last Friday night that Oshawa was to have a new hockey arena, saying that this was an indication that Oshawa was inter- ested in all kinds of sport. Toast to A. A. U. of C. The toast to the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada wag proposed by Alderman Cameron of Toronto, and responded to by Charles Higginbo- tham, president of that organization, who instanced the results of the track and field championships held in the west to show how Ontario was taking a leading place, not only in lacrosse, but in all lines of sporting activity. Toast to O. A. L. A. A toast to the O. A. L. A. was pro- posed by Alderman Allen of Toronto and responded to by President A. E. Lyon, who not only congratulated the Dominion Champions, but quoted figures to show that lacrosse was ex- periencing a wondesful revival among the boys of the province, and that the future of the game in Ontario was indeed bright. Toast to the Press The toast to the press was pro- posed by Walter Stevenson of To- ronto, who was master of ceremonics for the banquet, and was responded to' by Mike Rodden, sports editor of the Toronto Globe. Other Speakers Other speakers who joined in the congratulations to the Oshawa boys before the gathering broke up were Mayor Coulter of Weston, W. J. Blainey and Dr. Wendell Holmes, of Toronto, the latter two being re- sponsible for the admirable arrange- ments made for what will go down into history as a memorable occasion. Most people won't find fault with the fire which a politician puts in- to his speech, but they'd rather he put more of his speech into the fire..--Port Arthur News-Chronicle. 20 Injured in Hebrew School New York, N.Y.--Twenty per- sons were injured, three of them seriously last night when a railing on an exit stairway of the Ezra Hebrew school in the Bronx gave way as an audience was filing out after an entertainment. , Skating First Week of October From all appearances the skat- ing public of Oshawa will have plenty of ice this year, with the new Arena being built to be ready by the first of January and the Curling Clubs decision to have pub- lic skating at their ice Palace on Bond Street around the first of October. Those that are devottees of the sport will be well taken care of. At a meeting of the Oshawa Cur- lers Club last week the members and officers made some important decisions in so far as the general public are concerned the (first and most important of these is to open the Rink about the first week in October for public skating, and the second which is also an im- portant one s the engaging of a man that is a past master in the Art of Ice mak'ng. This artist will take over his duties just as soon as is necessary and the public will be guaranteed a perfect sheet of ice at all times regardless of weath- er conditions. This decision on the part of the members of the Curling Club has only one condition and that is, if the weather conditions are such that the gliders will not feel the want of skating the opening date will be postponed until the demand by them warrants them the privil- ege of using the ice, Rah Rah Boys Hold Pactices Montreal, Sept. 17.--McGill foot- ballers took the first step toward the retention of their championship hon- ors yesterday afternoon when the remnants of the titular squad, aug- mented by a group of intermediate and junior players as well as sever- al newcomers, gathered at the Per- cival Molson Memorial stadium for the initial practice of the scason un- der Coach A. A. Burridge. Stipplemental examinations and the fact that registration is almost two weeks off prevented a full turnout, and about 20 aspirants to the first squad kicked the oval for two hours and then retired. The main body of the footballers is expected Wednesday, when the coaching board will begin the ser- ious work of getting into trim for the opening exhibition fixture against Royal Military college. PLANTERS ADVANCE OVER SEIBERLINGS Toronto, Sept. 17.--Planters of the Industrial Ladies' league, defeated Seiberlings 10 to 9 last night at Sun- nyside. The winners will play the cast-end champions Thursday night in the first of the city intermediate finals. Planters scored all their runs in three innings, making walks, errors and hits count in timely manner af- ter Seiberling girls had taken an carly lead. Sciberlings had the best of the hitting, but spectacular fielding by Misses Appleby, DeNovo and two runners caught at the plate by Miss Collie figured in the final result, Miss Appleby of Planters and Lil Nairn of Seciberlings, rival shortstops, led their teams in hitting, both with four solid clouts. Miss Wilcox of Sci- berling died at the plate in the fourth stretching a good triple into a homer. Miss Harris had a single and a triple and Miss Maxwell a double and single as did Miss Plum- mer. Toots Harrison of the losers fanned eight and walked 7, while Miss Fryer whiffed only two and walked 3. Kingston, Sept. 17.--Thirteen play- ers turned out for the initial prac- tice of the 'Queens senior rugby team at the Richardson stadium yesterday afternoon when Coach Harry Bat- stone was in charge for the first time. Another big squad was expected to be on hand for today's workout. Capt. "Ike" Sutton was the first player on the scene. Sutton has sum- mered in Kingston, and only last week finished playing softball when his team was eliminated by, Oshawa. Sutton looks heavier than last year, and apparently is in for another good season at quarterback. Toronto, Sept. 17~If numbers mean anything then the attendance at the initial practice of the Varsity rugby teams on the campus yesterday afternoon augurs exceptionally well for the Blue and White in all four series this fall, senior intercollegiate, senior O.R.F.U, intermediate and junior intercollegiate. When Head Coach Jimmy Douglas, accompanicd by his three licutenants, Earl Doug- las, Red Chaffe and Lou Carroll em- crged from Hart House they found the campus populated by almost one hundred players and as quite a num- ber of other candidates for the var- jous teams, both old and new, ha still to report the coaches arc in for a busy time in weeding out the suit- able from the unsuitable. Major League Earlscourt Kenwoods v. Crescents. Referee, J. Millsip, at Earlscourt park at 215, C.G.E. v. Ww. Pitts S Lancashire v. Oshawa City. Referee D. Jowett, at Greenwood park at 4 p.m. Beaches United v. Mimico Beach. Referee, W. Wilson, at Withrow park at 4 p.m. Oshawa Nationals v. Mimico Rov- ers. Referee, J. Irving. 48th "Highlanders v. Referee, H. Bloom, at park at 2.15 pm. Congasco. Referee, Sunderland. Greenwood land. Torrential rain later halted ! the tournament. Here are shown Harris Coggeshall, of Des Moines, | Mercur, left, and Coggeshall after Ta., in the national tennis cham-|their match.-----Copyright, 1929, ra- pionghips at Forest Hills, Long 1s-| cific and 'Atlantic Photos, Inc. l : = Up in Owen Sound they do not think much of my calling the Chevs to win over their pits, the Wawanekas, In fact they, or at least the Sports Editor of the Sun Times, savs that 1 am all wet. Well, I won't say any more until after the game and then, if the Chevys win, which they will, he will hear all about it. : Fritz Mercur, of Bethlehem, Pa., was forced to five sets to defeat + that 1 LC] + was away off yesterday. It was Neil McDougall of the Aarabs, and he referred to my picking the Stouffville nine to defeat the Peterboro Cognawandas., There 1s an alibi there, however, as he let me in on some inside dope that puts the chances even, or a little in favor of the Petes. Neil played with the Aarabs who were ousted by the Peterboro Raybestos team, who in turn were kicked out by: the Cog- nawandas, and he picks the Petes to win this game, the final that is being played here tomorrow afternoon, starting at 4.15, + LJ + Tomorrow takes on the appearance of a midsummer day inspiar as activities arc concerned, with (wo ball games, an interesting" rugby prac- tice and the big General Motors' banquet for the Dominion champions, In the afternoon the Peterboro Cognawandas meet the Stouffville team in a third and deciding game for the intermediate title at Alexandra Park, while starting at six fifteen the Cheys ladies will, or should, defeat the Owen Sound Wawanekas by five runs at the Stadium, and later on the lacrosse ounds of merry making in the wvicinity of the G.M.C. Some one clse told me banquet will ccro auditorium, + + + The 'rughy squad is starting to. provide a little interesting. entertain. ment for the fans, and starting last night their plays were followed by a large erowd of football fans as they plowed up and down the field in two scparate squads, perfecting shifts and simple line plays. A few moments of opposition sent. the fans away satisfied that every night from now on will bring more action, and tonight will be no exception. They will likely start little carlier to do the plunging work and the fans will be able to see for themselves who is who among the new material turning out. + + HAMILTON WON'T LIKE THIS In describing the final Canadian senior championship lacrosse game between the Oshawa General team and the New Waestininster Salmon Bellics, Vic Andrew, Sports Lditor of the British Columbian, says as follows: : New Westminster sport followers are much like the Hamilton fans. They cheer loud and long, and stick mainly to the local boys. It not only broke their hearts when they saw the ragging tactics, of the winners in the dying moments of the game, but. it broke the hearts of the Red Shirts themselves, : Why single out Hamilton in making the comparison? There are rabid fans in the Mountain City all right, but there arc several other cities: in the East where the situation is even worse. Mr. Andrew had better take in a few hockey games at Montreal, for 'instance, and he would get a lot of experience~From The Toronto Globe. Motors P. who lias been years and enjoys the confidence ana sletted support of all sporting officials. He e is the most popular and well-liked Olympic committee for the past 8 /member of the sporting fraternity. J. Mulqueen, chairman of the Canadian 3 "Teddy" Reeves Toronto Humorist Gives His Version of Individual History of General Motors Seniors Each Player, His Home Town and Date of Arrival Is Re- viewed by Mr. Reeves in His "Sporting Extras" Col- umn of Toronto Telegram--Predicts Oshawa as Next Canadian Representatives at Olympic Games The Oshawa lacrosse team, Dom- inion champions, were the centre ot one ,grand and glorious, old-time whoop-it-up jubilate last night when they hit their home towu, judging by the echoes, and they de- | serve every bit of the banzai. They have done more to advertise the General Motors throughout the Dominion than six months' output of sales literature. The objective of the Motors la- crosse machine is now said to be the Olympic games of 1932, and while Paddy Shannon and a few more may be tripping over their beards by that time, the team as a whole is extremely youthful for a championship aggregation, so it would be no surprise, at that, if Toots White, Kelly Degray and the rest were giving the Johns from Hopkins, the Kaydets from West Point, or some other U.S. gutted stick wielders, the .well known works in the suburbs of Hollywood three symmers hence. Paddy Shannon is a real veteran in the nets, having played a heap of lacrosse up in the burdock belt before breaking in with Oshawa in mid-season last year and startling the natives with his saves which appeared to be 80 unconscious. In' fact during the first few games that Paddy guarded the hemp house for the Motors even the players out in front of, him used to hold their breath when a sot sailed at him, for he had a hairline method of picking them off that made every move look as though it was covered { with norseshoes. They figured they had a chance for the 1927 title "If Shannon kept on being lucky," but before that season was over all hands had' worked it out that it was not a run of amazing good for- tune after all, but a keen eye and a quick stick that made Shannon a regular Johnny Sure Stop. .He has proved that this campaign, and if the Oshawans do wend to Los in 1932 (over our dead body) we trust that Mr. Shannon will still be basking between the posts with- out the aid of a wheel chair. The real proof of Shannon's worth as a goalie came this sum- mer when Walker Wilson, for many years the star net minder of Wes- ton Champions, could not displace him, Wilson showing his versatility then by catching a place on the home field of the Munro-led aggre- gation. They seem to make use of every spare part in that town. Next to Shannon, Golden, Stev- enson, White and Bill Coulter might be grouped as the veterans of the team but without statistics to prove it, we would say that Gold- en is the only one on the thirty mark, which means that all that starry quartette have several sea- sons still packed in the system. Bob Stevenson, Toots White and Cunnie Golden, as every person on the upper reaches of the Humber can inform you, formed a goal-get- ting punch for the old Weston title- holders for some seasons after Stevenson had been captured in the wilds of Port Elgin or Southamp- ton, Toots White found resting in Shelburne, and Golden brought in from Orangeville. Stevenson is the charger, the sudden. rusher who after perhaps half a game or a game and a hax of a statue-like lacrosse, where he might stand in one spot till the grass dies under him, will rouse himself to the most sensational spurts and rushes that are apt to upset an entire defence in about five minutes. Owing to these out- breaks of goal getting Stevenson is useful to the Motors even when dormant as the opposition, fearing one of his efforts of running amuk, have to put one of their best de- makes being to take an extra swing at 'his check or an added "Yes, that's so," to the referee, the Red- head being what s known in polite circles as aggressive. Weston also supplied three .ot the Flaming Youth on the Osh- awa line-up these being young Whyte, Barron and Smithson Whyte, is a .nifty stickhandling re- serve lacking only beef to become a star. Charley Barron is the kid home man who discovered he could score goals last summer when the Oshawans went back to Weston to play and Charles found himself in front of his home folks and the Weston goal, the ball in his stick and the famed Ellerby Farr in front of him. Shutting his eyes closely Charles dashed forward, went into an impromptu imitation of a corkscrew and when nothing hit him awoke in the crease to throw the ball into the twine much to the surprise of cveryone but most of all to Charles. Since then he has been performing the same remarkable spin for goals in all parts from Rosalea to Vancouver. When Bert Smithson arrived in Oshawa with his lacrosse stick and lunch pail one year ago last spring he was a long, rather awkward boy with the speed of a deer and a man- ner of checking that would have had him muscle bound in a season. He was taught to pull in his swing to cross-checking distance, and ever since has been breathing down the necks of star home men of the opposition and keeping the ball away from them so successfully that he is seldom, if ever, beaten for a goal; and a loose ball in his vicinity is a signal for him to pick up those long legs and hurry that apple up to the attack as though the sheriff was on his heels, Wallaceburg's contribution to the champions is Smoky Fox, a fast-running centre fielder, who is another loose-ball hawk, and Shep- ley, a husky young fellow, who handles a stick as though he had been playing lacrosge for twenty years, and handles a body ¢heck as though he was working at rugby for the same length of time. He was a great find. Art Doddemeade, speedy and close-checking fielder, arrived with the Motors this spring via Brampton and Newmarket. He is one of those stubborn, plugging birds that go their best when the finals are being fought. Perhaps the boy on the team, that deserves most credit of all is young Hubble, the defence man with the longest residential record in the Buick city. He took, up lacrosse last year with but zj faint idea of what it was all abouf and is now rated as a regular wt § the Canadian champs which is 'a record for winning a diploma as ffar as we have ever heard. He sill never be given any marks for n pat- ness but his check seldom :foes places or does anything. Kelly Degray and Charley "Dav- idson, closely related in size, / style and other matters, would be 'p toss. up if we had the honor of giving a most valuable player meyial to anyone on that Oshawa clhifb, The sturdy Degray, a human' motor- cycle, good stick-handler and per- fect passer, has played they lacrosse of his life this summer, wiiile Dav- idson has made up for his 'sawed-off build by his great speed,sgick-hand- ling ability that cannot lez equalled in thé league by anyona but Pete Machell, of Brampton, aad a fear- less headlong method +)f rushing that will put the best of defence men off balance as the!r see three approaching figures Md hit the wrong two. Davidson is ap Or- angeville product, gz.rriving via Irish-Canadian Juniw.:s, and De- gray, starting from (Cornwall, the home of other great jilayers of that name, has touchsf:d Huamilton, Brampton and Tore nto in his la- crosse journeys. on Hoi ---- Toronto, Sept. 17. --Fergus Thistles qualified to meet T¥>rontos in the ju- yvenile O.A.L.A. firgals when they eli- minated Maitlands last night at Cot- tingham square. I faitlands won the game 4 to 2, but: the Thistles had a six-goal lead from: the first game in Fergus, making 'the score on the round 11 to 7 iw. favor of the boys from the banks, of the River Grand The game was a hard fought one but in the last quarter it developed into the survival of the fittest. Nei- ther tcam as'ged for any quarter and the spectato rs more than once rush- ed on the field of play. Fights were frequent, w hile some of the specta- tors should, have been rushed off tc the police "station for the language they used. It was the kind of a game that doesn't d p lacrosse any good and in future wiben teams reach the semi-fi-: nals the 0O.A.L.A. would be well ad- vised to have them played on en- closed fjelds exch J ay -- = J 7 31: streer 87 Tu AVENUE... OPPCISITE PENNA. RR. STATION A Py peminent Hotel of 1200 Rooms having Bath; Ls ce Water and many other inno idorYCircu Travel The King's Highway fence on him for the afternoon. White is the headiest home man with the possible exception of Gec Sproule, to play in these parts, an his twine bending shot and abilit to throw passes around a cornci make him the ideal field genera! Golden with his tricky dodging and stick-handling, ranks with the bes: home fielders in Canada. But it Is the way this pair work together that makes them really dangerous. They have their team work on the run-in play down smoother than a trapeze act. : Weston, according to an old say- ing, used to import their home men but grew their own defence and two of the best that ever sprout- ed in those parts were Bill Coulter | The latter went | and Red Spencer. to Oshawa last summer and CoM- ter followed this spring and when he arrived in the Motor City a | warning tremor should have shak- | en the slanting field at New West- minster. The big fellow just round- ed out the Motors lacrosse machine to Cadillac proportions. Spencer, who is just over the Junior age limit, though year veteran of senior, has a sys- tem of lacrosse by which he lands at the ground two minutes hefore the first whistle, throws on his uni- form. and rushes out on the field where the momentum of this hur- ried arrival 'keeps him speeding back and forth for the rest of the afternoon, the only pauses he a four } - OSHALWA =~ DAILY COACH SERVICES TORONTO ' FARE~85¢ LEAVE OSHAWA '(Ed:stern Standard Time) 6.00 a.m., and 6.30 a.m. daily except Sunday 7.30 am, and every hour on the half-hour till 9.30 p.m. 10.00 pum. Sunday only. Leajre OSHAWA EAST ten minutes earlier. LEAVE TORONTO (Eastern Standard Time) 6.20 claily except Sunday. 10.30 p.m. Wha pf, Huntsville, and intermediate points. 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