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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 Today's Soorting Features GM-Men Play in Camp Borden Thurs. Night Stockyard Packers vs. "Generals" Here Thurs. Poo ow Prd x SPORT NEWS x ~ "4a pr pou " Today's Sporting Oshawa Curlers Open Their Season Thursday Hershey Bears Climb Into Tie With Barons American Sport Writers Elect Year's "Best" Features .Y. Rangers a Real to Climb Back Into Win List oston Hands mn are. y've completed their vigtory cycle, having taken the measure of every other team in the loop at least once, during 'the first part of the schedule and 'making it a two-ply win 'over the London Streamliners. ha * + * 'The locals looked good in the SERRE display against Port Col- ae here on Monday night. forward lines are uncorking me flashy plays on the attack ile the rearguard is improving padily. Right now, some of the sfensemen, in fact, we can hon- estly say all of them, are guilty of "hacking in" to far on some occa- sions, which makes Harry McQues- ton's goal-minding duties all the more difficult. Every now and then the boys have lapses of memory but that is a fault which irons it- self out as the season progresses. > +» Defensively, the Oshawans are a good club. The wings back-check diligently and we doubt if there are any more consistent back-checkers in the O.H.A. group than such systematic workers as Reid, Carr-Harris, Durling, Cooper and Thompson. Sometimes they are caught flat-footed in the other club's territory but that is bound to happen to the best of them, especially when they are keen after goals. * + Penalties is a problem to which the GM-Men will have to give con. sideration. They had too many the other night here. Normally a clean team, since they are not big but rely more upon speed and shifts to maintain pressure on the attack, the GM-Men haven't accustomed themselves to rough play such as the Sailors dish out. Don Daniels drew a couple of penalties, and he got them because he hit back at his opponent and the referee, who had missed the first bad move by the Port Colborne player, saw only Daniels' retaliation and so, he got the gate, alone. Certain "debts" should certainly be paid off. other- STOP CRYING ABOUT POOR BLADES s 310; All ~ Announcing Our Christmas Sale BUY NOW AND SAVE We have received a large 'assortment of Men's Ties, Sox, Braces, Scarves, Gloves and Belts. {The Ideal Gift for Him" 'OUR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST IN THE CITY JUST A FEW DAYS Men's Suit Overcoats Odd Pants BE DRESBED LP FOR wise opposing players are apt to get the idea that the Oshawa play- ers are easily pushed around--but it pays to wait for the right oppor- tunity. In brief, we don't hold with rough play but nor do we hold with "taking it" all the time. That adage about it being better to give than receive holds a lot of water--but the "receipts" should be handed out at the right time. * + @ With one exception. We refer to the definitely dirty tactics used by Shuttleworth. This Port Colborne laddie tossed a butt-end at Gar Peters, on his first trip to the ice in the initial period, which if it had found its mark, might have put Peters out of hockey for life. His cross-check across the back of the neck was another unpardonable offense, Butt-ends are vicious and extremely dangerous, liable to cause serious permanent injury. Any player that resorts to this cowardly form of attack should be taught a lesson, immediately. Any player that uses a butt-end should be promptly given a taste of the stick--where it will do the most good and with plenty of vigor. We agree that hockey players should stay on the ice, learn to "take it," because you never can win a game | in the penalty box but it is the | duty of every coach and team | manager to advise his players to | take prompt action if they are the victim of a butt-end. It is the dirtiest and one of the most dan- gerous moves in the game, the only thing worse is the player who kicks with his skates--and that fellow, at the time he does such a thing, isn't right in his head. * * 4 Oshawa Generals will play an exhibition game here at home tomorrow night, while the GM-Men are playing Camp Borden, up in Barrie. / The Stockyards team of Togonto's mercantile loop wa Je the visitors tomorrow evening. +» + 7 | One of the. strongest teams in| this popular Toronto hockey loop, | Stockyards boasts such players as | Jimmy Good, star of Eddie Living- | stone's Lions, back a few years ago | in Junior hey-day. Clow, who | starred in goal for Native Sons and other clubs, is their net-minder. Morgan, a husky gent who tried | out with the Oshawa GM-Men this fall, is one of their able defense- | men. i * & 4 { They have a nicely balanced club and should be able to give the Gen- | erals stern opposition. Incidentally, | the Generals expect that they'll get | into schedule competition some | night next week so this game Thursday will serve as a pepper- | upper. > + + Oshawa Curling Club will open its doors tomorrow night for the first and official "open- ing night" of the 1940-41 sea- son. They'll be curling for chickens at the curling rink to- morrow hight and all the local stone and broom enthusiasts will be on hand to get their first taste of their favorite winter sport. The ice-maker has been busy all week, the rings are painted in pretty col- ors, the interior of the club rooms have been cleaned and polished up, everything is ready for action. All that re- mains now is for the curlers to put in an appearance--and underground wires have it that "Plumber" Garrard, Ross Flin- toff, Ed. Michael, the Bailes brothers and a few others have been getting in a few pre- season workouts in order to get the jump on Ben Ward, Ed. . Goodman, Several Oshawa curlers were in action yesterday in Toronto. Ernie Parsons' rink, including Russ Gay, H, Monson and FP. Garrard, were defeated by M. Lindsay's Toronto C.C. rink, In the consolation round, this rink won their third round game yesterday and will compete again today W. J. Brownlee's Osh- awa rink, also defeated in the pri- mary, lost out in the second round of the consolation event. * i SPORTS, IN BRIEF: --Mr. Mason didn't like the way Marlboros, play- ed so rough with his Guelph Bilt- mores in the S8.P,A. and has an- nounced that "two can play that game" which means the Jr. Dukes will be "warmly entertained" in the Royal City. . . . Mr. Mason's threat of dropping back to Junior "B" ranks is just s0 much hooey--the OHA. wouldn't stand for that, . . 'Jerry Bradd, former Oshawa boy who starred with Goodyears, 1s working for that firm in London now and may turn out with the Streamliners shortly. , . .Bobby Coulter, tricky Argo backfielder, 'was opérated upon yesterday for appendix trouble. . . . Mike Jacobs Is trying to promote a bout between Doug. Peden, 6-day bike rider. . .. but California, for one, doesn't want any part of it. . . . The Ca- nadian Amateur Basketball Assn, has refused an amateur card to "Robert, the Rugged" Davidson is ready to turn out with the Leafs again, . . , Jack Church is out just now with a bad knee. . . . Whitby's fine little Juvenile hockey league may not operate this winter, due to financial troubles and added ex- penses for the Lions service club of the County Town. . .. It will be a great loss to Whitby's hockey prospects and future, as well as to the County Town youths if this worthwhile enterprise has to be dropped. . . . Boston Bruins whip- ped the Rangers rather badly again last night. . . , It is not too well known but one of our secret oper- ators informs us that Lester Pat- rick is a very sick man--which may be another reason for the poor showing of the Rangers, for every player on that club thinks the world of their silver-haired mentor. . . . Tomorrow (Thursday) evening at nine o'clock, at the Hotel Gen- osha, there'll be a meetin of the Oshawa "City League" hockey as- sociation officials and team mana- gers. All are urged to attend. . .. That's all for today! American League Retains No-Trade Rule for Winners Chicago, Dec, 11.--The America | League yesterday voted down a motion to rescind its rule against the pennant winner making trades. No announcement was made of | how the vote stood, or who sponsor- ed the attempt to remove the rule | which the junior circuit installed | last year to curb New York Yan- kees. Clark Griffith of Washington Senators was re-elected vice-presi- dent of the league and the repre- sentatives of Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Washington were named to the executive committee, The National League, at its ses- sion, re-elected President Ford Frick, for a four year term, the longest permitted by the constitu- tion. When he first tock office in 1934 it was for one year. This was extended to a two-year term in 1035 and a three-year term in 1937. Sam Breadon, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, was renamed vice-president, and the representa- tives of Brooklyn, Cincinnati, St Louis and Philadelphia were plac- ed on the executive committee, Giants' Get Arnovich The two leagues were in session for seven hours while managers, scouts and onlookers milled around in the lobbies hoping to make trades, The only deal of the day was transacted just at dinner time by Cincinnati Reds mnd New York Giants. It seat Outfielder Morrie Arnovich to the Giants for cash-- estimated at $12,500--and exchang- ed Pitcher Milt Schoffner of the Reds for Shortstop Wayne Ambler of Jersey City Glants of the In- : ternational League and cash. Shoff- ner will be placed on the Jersey City roster. The Giants also signed Leo (Gab- by) Hartnett, ex-nsanager of Chi- cago Cubs, as a player-coach, re- placing Coach Travis Jackson, who retired because of ill health. Hartnett, happy at getting an- other job after spending 19 Wears with the Cubs, declared: "Il be more player than coach, I think I can catch 100 games if necessary for the Gia7'ts." AWARD DETROIT ALL-STAR GAME Chicago, Dec. 11, -- The major leagues agreed yesterday to the re- election of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis which will take place in an unanimous action at to- day's joint session of the National and American Leagues. In addition to matters which the two circuits considered jointly, the American League designated July 8 at Detroit for the 1941 all-star game and the National League announced that 65-year-old Bill Klem, the "great arbitrator," had been retired from active service and made super- visor of umpires. De] Baker, manager of Detroit's American League pennant-winners, was chosen to pilot the junior cir- cuit's all-stars while Bill McKechnie of the National League automatic- ally returns as the rival pilot un- der the National League's practice of giving the assignment to the manager of the champions. In relieving Klem, who had been an umpire for thirty-five years, the National League shifted Ernest C. Quigley from the supervisor's job to a position in the public relations division. ' President Frick said Klem might still see occasional service as the Arturo Godoy and Joe Louls again fourth man in important games. NATIONAL LEAGUE WwW. L T.FRA P 40 19 20 32 25 16 4 33 13 27 12 29 10 Boston ...... § Chicago ..... 5 Rangers .... 4 Canadiens .. 3 24 Americans .. 3 19 Tuesday Resulis 6 Rangers Future Games Thursday--Canadiens at Toronto; Chicago at Americans. Friday--Rangers at Detroit. Saturday--Chicago at Toronto. Sunday -- Toronto at Chicago; Canadiens at Detroit (afternoon); Americans at Rangers. REN RR RN U.S. EASTERN AMATEUR W. L T F. AP Washington 11 0 63 40 22 Baltimore ... 8 47 41 18 Atlantic City 7 59 56 10 New York ... 7 72 72 14 River Vale .. 4 32 50 8 1 36 49 § Tuesday Results Atlantic City 6 Washington ... 3 Future Games Wednesday -- Atlantic City Baltimore; Boston at River Vale. Friday -- Baltimore at Washing- 2 1 0 0 at ! ton; Boston at Atlantic City. AMERICAN LEAGUE (Eastern Section) W. L..T FPF. A Springfield 10 5 5 64 47 New Haven .. 8 7 3 46 41 Providence .. 8 9 0 42 47 Philadelphia 6 9 2 42 54 (Western Section) Cleveland ... 9 4 2 4 Hershey ... 9 6 2 62 Pittsburgh ... 9 6 1 51 Indianapolis 4 11 3 41 Buffalo 10 0 33 Tuesday Resulls Hershey 4 Philadelphia .. Indianapolis 2 Springfield .... 1 Future Games Wednesday--Cleveland at Phila- delphia. O.H.A. SENIOR SERIES W. L. T PF. APS 31 4 40 14 34 14 33 13 Hamilton Oshawa Niagara Falls 5 Marlboros .. 5 St. Catharines 5 21 Port Colborne 4 3B 8 2 9 "48 4 Future Games Wednesday -- Marlboros at Lone don; St. Catharines at Hamilton. MICHIGAN-ONTARIO W. L. T FP APS Windsor .... 1 155 28°19 3:32 1"Nn 1 25 1 16 Future Games. Wednesday--Detroit at Windsor. "4 1 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE P.W.L. D. F. APis 13 32 30 16 14 36 15 13 45 13 24 4 10 Spokane .. Vancouver 4 Seattle .... 42 Portland .. 3 S.P.A. JUNIOR B Brantford .... 9 St. Michael's .. § | UCC. ....... 8 Waterloo B.C.-ALBERTA SENIOR omEdmonton . 4 Trail PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE mSpokane ... 4 Vancouver .... 0.H.A. BULLETIN The Junior "A" O.H.A. series will open at Maple Leaf Gardens next Saturday afternoon. The teams to play will be selected at tonight's meeting of the O.H.A, sub-commit- tee, which will be held at the Royal York Hotel at 8 o'clock. There are five well matched clubs in the ser- fes this year, as follows: Oshawa Generals (OHA. and Canadian junior champions), Guelph Biit- mores, Toronto Native Sons, Toror.- to Bowles Rangers and Torszato Marlboros (current S.P.A. cham- pions). Two games are scheduled tonight in the 'Senior O.H.A,, as follows: Marlboros at London--9:30 p.m, (DST). 8t. Catharines at Hamilton--8:30 pm. (DST). The Royal Canadian Alr Force junior team of Dunnville will play in Groun No. 6 Junior "B" series, with Port Colborne, St. Catharines Niagara Falls, Grimsby and Thor- old. President Clemens of Hamilton has completed his O.H.A. executive committee by the appointment of B. L. Bamford of Listowel, Mr. Bam- ford has been an OHA, convener in that district for some years and previous to that was secretary « the Northern Hockey League. Stewart McTavish of Oshawa was the other appointég of the O.H. 'A. president. 3B 9 U.S. SPORT SCRIBES PICK CINCINNATI AS BEST OF SEASON 1940 By BILL BONI Associated Press Sports Writer New York, Dec. 11 (AP)--United States Sports Editors, following the precedent they themselves establish- ed in eight of the nine previous As- sociated Press polls, today singled out the Cincinnati Reds' capture of the National League pennant and The World Series as the outstand- ing team performance of the sports year. Each winter since 1932 the experts have awarded this honor to the cur- rent baseball champions, basing their verdict on the reasonably sound theory that any club which can beat seven others over a 154- game season and then go on to whip the rival leagu2's best has proved its worth as a team in every sense of that word. The Reds got 26 of 62 first-place votes, were named second by 14 and third by 15 for 121 points 6n a 3-2-1 scoring basis. Their first-place total was more than three times that of any other team, and their point score almost double that of the sec. ond-place Minnesota football team The Gophers, last week named No 1 grid team of the year, were ranked | first by eight and got 67 points for | winning the Western Conference Championship and coming through eight major games unscathed Third place went Pacific Coast champions, whose 36 points gave them a slim edge over Texas A. and | M. The University of Washington crew won fifth place on the strength of its victory in the Pough- keepsie Regatta, the Tigers sixth for their surprise triumph in the Ameri- can League race, and the Chicago Bears seventh for taking the pro football title with that historic 73-0 licking of the Washington Red- skins. New York, Dec. 11.--Billy Jurges, New York Giants shortstop, is in hospital for a general checkup as the result of being hit on the head by a pitched ball last June. to. Stagford's | Conference Football | Hershey Bears Climb Up While Indians Falter (By The Canadian Press) Both Springfield Indians and Cleveland Barons, who threatened at one time to run away with the twin American Hockey League sec- tions, surveyed their respective di- visions today from positions not nearly so secure. Eddie Shore's Indians. still have a clean margin at the top of the Eastern section, but lost their third game in five starts last night in dropping a 2-1 decision to Indian- apolis Capitals. The loss left Spring- | field six points ahead of the second- place New Haven Eagles, who have two games in hand. Meanwhile the Barons gained a bedfellow in the front position in the Western Division. Idle them- selves, Cleveland was forced to share the lead when Hershey Bears clim- axed their chase after the faltering Barons by beating Philadelphia | Ramblers, 4-0. The victory was the fifth straight for the Bears. Playing at home, they sprang into a one goal lead in the second session after a scoreless first period and then added three more goals to clinch the verdict in the final frame. Joe Krol gave the Bears their first goal at 17:37 of the second period while his team held a one-man ad- vantage. Gordie Bruce made it 2-0 in the final frame and then Bobby Kirk and Krol tallied again before the end of the match. Hershey was backed by a flawless goaling per- formance from Nick Damore. The defeat left Philadelphia in last place in the Eastern section. Springfield meanwhile went down to their first home defeat before Indianapolis, who broke a five-game losing streak by the victory. Bill Jennings scored the winning tally for the capitals at 11:16 of the final | period on a pass from Art Hechen- | ratter. CHALLEDON NAMED BEST HORSE OF YEAR By SID FEDER (Associated Press Sports Writer) Baltimore, Dec. 11 (AP).--Challe- don is still the boss. Willlam IL. Brann's big four-year-old bay to- day was named the "horse of the year" for 1940 by the nation's turf experts in the Annual Turf and Sports Digest poll, thus becoming the first galloper to retain the throne in the five-year history of the voting, "Big Pete" did it by a convincing margin in a year in which the class of competitors in the racing world was decidedly "off." He re- ceived 84 nominations from the 172 experts who cast votes, compared with the 34 for Charlfe Howard's Seabiscuit, the richest money win- ner of all time, Challedon also was chosen first in the handicap division, among the four-year-olds and up. Col. E. R. Bradley's Bimelech, despite his loss in the Kentucky Derby and the hoof injury which forced his retirement in mid-season, was named best of the three-year-olds. In the two other divisions voted on, Crispin Oglebay's Level Best. Equipoise's best daughter, was eas- ily the outstanding two-year-old filly, while the closest contest of all found Warren Wright's Whirl- way besting Royce G. Martin's Our Boots for tep billing among the two-year-colts. In choosing Challedon to retain his championship, the experts end- ed the hottest argument they have had over any division in years, The reccrds of the leaders being what they were -- Challedon was upset twice in seven starts, Seabiscuit only ran four times and Eight Thirty fell off badly after mid-sea- son--the turf writers talked more about their choices for the honor in recent weeks than they did about the weather, or that hot tip on an 8-1 shot. Some even wanted to pick the crack jumper, Cottes- more, for their "horse of the year." The Biscuit was the leading money winner among the handi- cappers with $96,850. Boston Bruins Whip Rangers Boston, Dec. 11.--Threatened by General Manager Art Ross' ulti- matum of "win or else," Boston Bruins rebounded from two con- secutive setbacks on the road and overwhelmed the champion New York Rangers, 6-2, last night, be- fore a crowd of 13,000 at the Boston Garden, Sg Ross had accused his team of "kicking away" its last two Nation- al Hockey League starts to Toronto and Chicago during the week-end and he sounded a general warming sent down to their American that several of his players. would be Hockey League farm at Hershey if he noted any more careless play. As a result, the Bruins came out rearing, and during the first fifty- three minutes of play, piled up a 6-0 lead over the champs by scoring twice in each period. After Eddie Wiseman started the tallying in the seventh minute of action, Milt Schmidt chalked up two goals and Bobby Bauer, Roy Conacher, Desse Smith provided the others. Not a penalty was called before the Rangers started their scoring. After Jack Crawford and Neil Col- ville had drawn majors for winding up a high-sticking exchange with some fisticuffing, Mac Colville sent the first puck through Goalie Frank Brimsek and Kilby MacDonald jabbed an apparently harmless pass from Alf Pike into the Boston cage from ten feet out. Late in the second period, Herb Cain, the Bruins third left winger, suffered a fractured nose when ac- cidentally struék by a stick as Mac- Donald tried to clear by golfing the puck. GROH GETS NEW JOB Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 11.--Henry (Heinle) Groh, & scout for New York Glants, yesterday was named manager of the Green Bay bace- ball team to succeed Otto Bluege. The Green Bay team plays in the Wisconsin State League, a class "D" dally baseball circuit organized last year. These Cars Are Ready For Winter Weather When you select a used car from our stock you get a car that has been fully conditioned and "Winterized" for winter motoring. 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