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rAGE TWELVE ' SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1946 | ' U.S'CUP HOPE . JACK ER»: ==" cHAMP= By Alan Maver SPEARHEAD OF THE AMERIC/ SEAM WHICH WILL TRY TO REGAIN THE DAVIS CUP FROM AUSTRALIA MN. THIS FAMOUS TROPHY HAS BEEN IN_REGULAR COMPETITION SINCE EXCEPT DURING THE WORLD WARS --BOTH OF WHICH IT SPENT IN AUSTRALIA lr THE AMERICANS WILL RAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING IN THE WAY OF UNORTHODOX 28 PENALTIES FEATURE ROUGH GAME PLAYED AT STRATFORD By The Canadian Press Eight of the 10 teams in the On- tario Hockey Association's Junior "A" circuit swing into action this afternoon and tonight, the only idle squads being the league-leading TorontoSt. Michael's and the sixth- place Barrie Flyers. Before the week-end fray started, the standings were tightened just a little in Friday night's battles in which Oshawa Generals whipped St. Catharnies Falcons 9-3 and Galt Red Wings walloped Stratford Kroehlers 4-1. That left St. Mike's still six points in the lead, with Oshawa second, and Marlboros -and Galt tied for third another four points back. Bar- rie and Stratford were still within reaching distance, but a large gap separated the other four--Hamilton Sgabos, St. Catharines, Toronto Young Rangers and Windsor Spit- fires. Oshawa Generals approached within 'six points of the leaders by theig 9-3 victory at St. Catharines last night. There was ho score un- til eight minutes of the second per- iod had passed, then Oshawa put four in a row behind Haunn in the Falcon nets. In the last period Oshawa got five more, while Falcons managed to beat Reddoch three times. The General's speed, long passing plays and polished style resulted in two goals each for Pogue, Milliard, Ceresino and Hildebrand, Bauer get- ting the other. Wodatsky scored twice for the Falcons and Currie once, At Stratford it was a rough en- counter in which 28 penalties were handed out before Galt beat the Kroehlers 4-1. Galt had a 4-0 lead on goals by Glover, Wiseman, Pave- lich and Cooney before Kullman broke Galt's shut-out. The last period at Galt produced | the roughest hockey of the night, with 13 penalties, including two | majors. The majors went to Scott | of Galt and Daniels of Stratford. Ottawa Senators Hand Tigers Their First Loss In Ex. Ottawa, Dec. 28--(CP)--Otta~ wa Senators edged Hamilton Ti- gers, 3-2, in a sizzling exhibition hockey game here last night be- fore 5,000 fans at Ottawa Audi- | torium, It was Tiger's first loss of the season. From the opening face-otf, the current leaders of the.Quebec Se- nior Hockey League and the On- tario Hockey Association senior loop played as though the Allan Cup were at stake, Opening the scoring early in the first period, however, the Senators were tied but never headed as play surged back and forth between the nets. ' Ottawa's opening goal resulted from a ganging attack which fi- nally beat Goalie Art Child, while Hamilton's tying counter was slapped in easily by Johnny Con- ick when Jack Gelsebrecht failed to clear. The third goal, later in the sec- ond period, came after a long hard drive by Butch Stahan, who fired from the blue line, Connie] Brown i pped it into the nets, New York Rangers Have Busy Session For Next Nine Days New York, Dec. 28 -- (AP) -- New York Rangers of the National Hockey League are about to embark on a back-breaking sched- ule calling for seven games in nine days between tonight's Detroit date with the Red Wings and a Jan. 5 Madison Square Garden engage- ment with Chicago Black Hawks. Throughout the period there will be only one day, Dec. 30, when the Rangers will neither travel nor play a game. The schedule calls for them to play Boston at New York Dec. 29 and Detroit on the garden home ice New Year's Eve. A Jan. 1 date in Boston will be followed by Toronto at New York Jan, 2, New York at Toronto Jan. 4 and Chicago at New York Jan. 5. Pasadena Rules On New Year's Day Los Angeles, Dec. 28 -- (CP -- Los Angeles should not go into compe- tition with Pasedena's annual Rose Bowl football game even if there were a basis for criticism of ticket distribution, Mayor Fletcher Bow- ron said today. "It's Pasadena's day and Pasa- dena's game," he said. "It just can't be duplicated. The annual post- seascn game brings the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of publicity to bear on this section." The mayor made his statement to newsmen after he said he was misquoted as advising an audience not to "listen to the patter of our city council," which yesterday toyed with the idea of running a competing game in protest over the Pasadena ticket distribution. "I didn't say it at all," said the mayor. "I did turn to the mayor of Pasadena and say something like: 'You know how city councils are-- you've got one of your own. It was just a joke. What I did say and meant was that Los Angeles and all Southern California owes much to Pasadena for developing the Tournament of Roses." Asked if he would attend the Rose Bowl game, Bowron replied: "I will if I can get the tickets." HOCKEYVITCH Moscow, Dec. 28-- (Reuters) --Rus- sia is making a bid for interna- tional equality in ice hockey by launching a country-wide Canadian- style ice hockey tournament. Hitherto the Russians have play- ed a form of ice hockey, peculiar to themselves, using a ball instead of a stead of three as in the western game. Now, Canadian hockey has been introduced and in order to popu- larize it, an all-union championship has been started. In Moscow alone over 3,500 play- ers took part in preliminary matches to decide the best teams to include in the all-union competition, Events Next Week! MON." AFTERNOON--SKATING MON. NIGHT--SKATING TUES. AFTERNOON--SKATING NEW YEAR'S 9 O'CLOCK 'TIL? EVE SKATING ADMISSION 50c C SKATING NEW YEAR'S DAY & EVENING Il ARENA Toronto, Dec. 28 -- (CP) -- Can- ada's Olympic Committee must ac- cept the representative team of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Associa- tion on the Association's definition of "amateur" or look elsewhere for a club to carry Dominion colors at the 1948 Olympics, the CAHA de- cided yesterday at its semi-annual executive meeting. George Dudley of Midland, asso- ciation secretary, said there should be no "pussyfooting" and that the matter of salaries lost while mem- bers of the Canadian team were absent from their jobs must be con- sidered -- no player should be asked to perjure himself as to his qualifications on entering Olympic competition. Would Not Be Eligible In line with regulations set by the International Olympic Commit- tee, Dudley said the CAHA repre- sentative would not be eligible to compete due to the Association's agreements with a professional or- ganization, the National Hockey League. At a previous meeting it had been decided that the 1946-47 Allan Cup winners would be offered by the CAHA to represent Canada in the Olympics, but. Dudley said "they » THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE MEMORIAL CUP FINALS LIKELY TO BE IN TORONTO AS USUAL will have to take the team on our terms." It was agreed that in the event the Dominion champions did not wish to make the trip, the ex- ecutive could name an alternate or an all-star team. The meeting decided both Mem- orial Cup and Allan Cup final series will start next April 16, decisions to be made on points in seven games. May Change Junior Plans Previously the Allan Cup finals were allocated to the East and the Memorial Cup finals to the West, but discussion took place which™may lead to a change in the venue of the junior final series should the win- ning Western club elect to travel East and play in Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. r George Panter of Gravenhurst, president of the Ontario Hockey Association, said that he was glad it was George Wardrope of Port Arthur, "a Westerner," who sug- gested the junior finals be moved to Toronto "because an Easterner would have been afraid to suggest it." He said the maximum the as- sociation could hope to net in the West was $21,000 against $50,000 for a Maple Leat Gardens' series. If a Thunder Bay team won the Western junior championship, they'd like to stage the semi-final but real- ized it would be financially wise to travel to Toronto for the final, Wardrope said, Dr. W. G. Hardy of Edmonton said the same situation would apply if ore of the smaller Alberta centres won in the West. An Eastern committee headed by Norman Dawe of Verdun, second vice-president, and a Western com- mittee headed by A. W. Pickard of Regina, first vice-president, will draft Cup Finals details and con= sider a ruling which would give the Western junior champions the right to travel East if they felt so inclined. GENERALS JUMP AVERAGES IN ST. KITTS A 4 Oshawa Lads Win 9-3 Verdict Over St. Catharines' Falcons; Same T eams Play Here Tonight To Stay Ahead of Galt Red Wings, Who Win in Stratford 4-1 -- St. Kitts Visit Oshawa for First Time This Season Tonight -- Hildebrand, Bauer and Milliard to Fore in Scoring Parade Victory Enables Generals -- The Summary OSHAWA -- goal, Reddoch; defence, | Samis, McKay; centre, Bauer; wings, | Hildebrand, Milliard; alternates, Cere- | sino, Curik, Gamble, Pogue, Dunn, | Blair, Scholes, | ST. CATHARINES--goal, Haunn; de- Wood, Kafun; centre, Mann; wings, Moy, Twaddle; alternates, Bid- die, Aitken, Thompson, MazDonald, Kodatsky, McOustra. Officlals--Referee, Pat Patterson, To- ronto; linesman, Billy Mocha, St. Catharines, First Period Score--None. Penalties--Moy, Curik. Second Period Pogue (Scholes) Milllard (Bauer, St. Catharines, Dec. 27--Oshawa | Generals and St. Catharines Fal-| cons clashed for the first time this | 3 season here tonight and resume | yg the action tomorrow night in he Pogue) eastern Motor City. Blessed with | 3--Oshawa, meritoriously superlative and su-| 4 Osiava, perior speed, Chuck Conacher's Red | penalty--Ceresino. ol ; 8 iti Third Period Jackets Yale of with the initial 5--Oshawa, Hildebrand (Milllard, Bauer K} Falcons managed to hold Generals | e-2s Bauer (Millard, Hilde- scoreless for the first period and | d) 2:55 had their share of the going that was both rough and spirited with a spicy flareup after the siren. It took Gens nearly half the middle chukker to get functioning, but they rapped in four in little over 9 minutes for a 4-0 lead in the semes- ter. Oshawa upped that to 6-0 be- fore Falcons got a mark, the sec- ond period being plentifully sprink- led with illegal plays that escaped the officials, but not the fans. A minor, boosted into a misconduct wees 8:30 ...10:20 Ceresino .. Hildebrand . Catharines, .Kodastsky Wood, McOustra) .. 8--Oshawa, Ceresino (Curik Oust: 14:29 10--St son) 14:40 11--Oshawa, Milliard (Hildebrand) 17:38 | 12--Oshawa, Pogue 19:13 Penalties--Kafun conduct), (minor and mis- was twice guilty of holding, yet jescaped penalty. Ray Ceresino midway in the final rather played [soloed in for Generals third of the havoc with Saints lines, but they | period, getting a flip shot away managed to zp two tallies in 20 sec- | While trailed by Vic Kafun that onds past Reddoch, with Generals (went over Haunn's shoulder. That cashing in on the final brace for | was 4 minutes later and in 25 sec- their treble tally. Conacher's club onds more Ceresino tripped Moy looked the next smartest unit to|and gave Saints a sortie. They St. Mike's to show here this sea- | buzzed around Generals goal zone son and were well balanced and |and right in to Reddoch's door, only with speed and punch in every line |t0 have shot carom off skates or they dropped over the boards. But pads, on a packed defence that for Haunn and Wood, it could have | Oshawa threw up. The visitors 4th been well past the dozen mark in |counter was the result of a two- Generals scoring. man breakaway, Ceresino feeding puck and playing two periods in- | First Period Though Generals displayed su- a stonewall in all in youngster saints, who refused let them through, except on scant occasions. Led by Capt. Bobby Wocd, "red-headed spark of the home flock, Falcons stepped into stopping the puck *toter at the blueline, Oshawa wings found themselves offside more often than not and many hot efforts were wasted. Ike Hildebrand flashed the most speed of the starting line, onca he got wound up behind Reddoch's riggin. Bob Moy got the gate at Generals failed to produce largely through some stellar work by Max Haunn in the home hut, When Curick was tagged at 5:00, Falcons bottled Generals up. They got a breakaway at the 9 mark, when Mann and Moy raced in and Moy muffed the full open side. The Gamble-Bauer-Pogue line then broke in and Pogue banged the post, for Generals best chance, Fal- cons were also robbed of several goed chances, when checked from behind and the snap taken out of their shots. Second Period Falcons were first to threaten in the middle chapter, but it fell shy of results. Moy laid a perfect pass to Mann, a yard outside the Red- doch crease, but Generals goalie flicked out a long stick and spoiled Mann's aim when caught cold. Saints then set up a brick-checking bee and though they could not match Generals in speed, their pesky type of checking kept Osh- awa scoreless, in return, Saints had Generals hemmed in for 2 minutes irom the 6-8 mark, then Conacher's crew sped away. Scholes sent a long pass to Eric Pogue who raced away and beat Wood back, then foxed Haunn for the opener, on a rising shot that sagged the hemp. Their second was a triple-play, started by Pogue then to Bauer and Milliard sagged the net in less than 2 minutes. That set back only fir- ed Falcons, who sailed right in, perior speed to Falcons, they found | four | to | the huskiest of the Generals and by | 2:15, but the stoutest pressure' of | while fans roared as Phil Samis|p | Hildebrand the perfect pass on the {right wall and the pair raced right in, to pull Haunn aside and register, in the dying minutes, play roughen- {ed fiercely, with nothing called, as players were strewn around the ice and after the siren, Wood and Mc- | Kay squared off on the boards, but cooler heads prevailed. Third Period * | Generals flashed their vaunted I speed to top advantage in the final | when they poured 5 goals into the | Falcon's twine but also took three |in return, Oshawa flicked the red- | light twice in the early minutes on | plays that simply spelled more legs. | A three-men break copped the first {of their string, with Hildebrand {pulling Haunn aside and tipping it {into the open net. In little over a | minute it was Bauer who did the | trick, on the same Gens line, the | other setting it up. Falcons got on | the sheet in 40 seconds, next, Billy | | Kodatsky the sniper on a triple- ! passing play and the roar of cheers | was as if.Saints were leading by 6-1. Vic Kafun tripped Samis on a solo burst and when tagged with a |minor, and talked himself into = | misconduct. In just 52 seconds it | paid off when Ceresino took a pass | out after circling the net on Me- Kay's pass-in and a bat-in from the crease edge made it 7-1. Fal- cons shot right back courageously and beat Reddoch for two in 20 seconds. Kodatsky and McOustra getting a breakaway and Currie and Thompson a duplicate that saw them coast in on Reddoch and beat him cold. A cross-net pass from Jack Milliard to Hildebrand tapped in the 11th of the night 3 minutes, later and in the last min- ute, Pogue soloed in and pulled Haunn aside for the Gens ninth counter, merited mostly on flash- ing speed and .finish. HOCKEY RESULTS O.H.A, JUNIOR A Galt 4, Stratford 1. Oshawa 9, St. Catharines 3, MARITIME SENIOR Halifax 5, Moncton 3. QUEBEC PROVINCIAL Victoriaville .9, Cornwall 5. EXHIBITION Barrie 7, Porcupine 4. Halifax St. Mary's 11; Ottawa St. ats 2. SPECIAL SKI BUS DENURE BUS LINES Leaves Bus Station 12.15 Sunday Returns 4.45 p.m. RETURN TRIP 60¢ Ohio Becomes Baseball Capital Now As Majors and Minors Move Their Offices to 'Buckeye State' ' By CHARLES J. THOBADEN Central; Prfess Canadian Correspondent Columbus, O.--Baseball has its shrine at Cooperstown, N.Y. and now it is going to have a capital, too, although an unofficial one. Claimant to that title is Ohio be- cause, before the next season rolls around, much of the control over organized baseball will be directed from the Buckeye state. Concentration of the controlling reins of the diamond sport in Ohio resulted frm two major changes in the game's high command. One was the election in 1945 of iormer United States Senator A. B. "Haony" Chandler as commissioner to succeed the late Judge Kenesaw wountain Landis and the other was the electicn a few weeks ago of George M. Trautman as president Weather Forces One 0.1.H.L. Game Postponement The rain, sleet and wind storm which struck eastern Ontario last night left transportation facilities in a condition which made it neces. sary to cancel one game in the Oshawa Industrial League sche- duled for Whitby at noon today. The game affected was that be- tween Courtice and Weston Aircraft, Weston was unable to gather its players and equipment from scatter- ed points. However, Courtice, sty- mied in its first scheduled encoun- ter, took the time as a practice period. Fittings, which was also supposed to turn out for a practice, met the same fate. As a result Courtice will get its first opportunity at competition next Thursday night at the Arena here. They have been scheduled to play The Times immediately fol- lowing the City League games which are expected to end around 10 p.m. The hour obtained is from 10.30 to 11.30 p.m, U.of T. and U. of M. May Stage Annual Hockey Title Series Winnipeg, Dec. 28--(CP)--On the eve of their hockey series with University of Toronto, first east-west intervarsity series on record, University of Manitoba officials announced plans for ma- king the two-game series the forerunner of an annual intercol- legiate puck championship. . At present University of Toron- tn p'avs in an eastern intercollegi- ate loop, comprising Queens, Mec- uul ana University of Montreal. The western college loop of Man- itoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta is back in operation this rear af- ter a wartime lapse, Manitoba officials sald each circuit could declare a champion by early February, enabling an east-west playoff to be completed before examination schedule. Failing adoption of the east- west championship idea, Univer- sity of Manitoba officials said they would continue their series with University of Toronto, pos- sibly in the Ontario capital next year, of the National Association of Pro- fessional Baseball League. Chandler promptly set up his of- fices in Cincinnati's Carew Tower on the Ohio river, not far from the commissioner's home in Versailles, Ky. Minor Chief, Too Trautman announced immediate ly after his election at Los Angeles that he would move the minor lea- gue's headquarters from Durham, N.C., where the venerable Judge Bramham had maintained them for many years, to Columbns, O. The affable redhead tentatively plans to complete the transfer some time in February and certainly before the 1947 baseball campaigns open. The change is a natural one be- cause Trautman, maintains his home in Ohio's capital city, where he attended Ohio State university and where he presided for a decade as president of the American Asso- ciation. "Red" left Columbus a year ago to become general manager and ex-cutive vica president. of the De- troi{ Tigers, but his absence turned out to be temporary and he never did move his family away. Further claim to the title of the "baseball capital of the world" can be made by Ohio, too, because two of the minor leagues also maintain their headquarters in Columbus. That circumstance, plus the pend- ing establishment of Trautman's new office, looks like a gold mine to the local sports writers but it has caused some jealous glances from colleagues in other cities. Ohio Loops, Also As mentioned before, Trautman made Columbus the American As- sociation headquarters when he took over the presidency 11 years ago. His successor, H, Roy Hamey, who now has moved on to the Pittsburgh Pirates, elected to keep the same office and headquarters personnel. Frank E. Lane, who was chosen as the triple-A loop's new prexy also has decided to continue the es- tablished order of things. He visit- ed his new office a few days ago for the first time since his election and announced: "I've only been in this office once before in my life and that was 10 years ago, But I feel like I'm com- ing home' when I come to Colum- bus." The second minor league with its headquarters in the capital city "is the Ohio State league. The presi- dent of that Class D. loop, incident- ally, doubles in brass because he is also a sports writer and columnist. In fact, Frank Colley of the Col- umbus Citizen was a baseball writer long before he shut off the inevi- table comments of some readers, "Yeah, but I'd like to see ycu do better," by taking over as a base- ball executive himself. Closer Alignment What effect all this sudden con- centration of baseball's brass in Ohio may have on the national game is not certain, but most base- ball writers are willing to bet that there may be closer co-operation between the majors and the minors with the major leagues' commis- sioner littla more than 100 miles from the minors' "czar." Not only that, but Trautman is expected to take over the minors' reins with an eye to closer co-oper- ation with their big brothers. His background fits him well for the task because of the combination of his long experience at the heim of the American Association and his year as an executive of the Tigers in the American League. However, that does not mean there is any substantiation of the charge levelled by his opponents at the Los Angeles conclave that he is a "major league man" who will be "dominated by the big league clubs. His long work in building up the minors and the American As-' sociation, in particular, would seem to take the strength from that ac- cusation. ! ST. KITTS HERE TONIGHT, FIRST VISIT GF SKED. With all County roads still practi- cally snowed under, the Osha Generals and Mgr. "Ab" Hambly the Oshawa Arena are tonight 1 ing to the bona-fide residents tax-payers of the City of Oshawa to swell the crowd at the Arena toe night, when St. Catharines' Falcons play here for the first time this season, Saturday night hockey games in Oshawa for the past few years have always attracted a lot of "country neighbours" but tonight, the "city slickers" will just about have the Arena to themselves, for the rural residents will likely elect to sit by the fireside instead of travelling treacherous, snow-drifted roads. With the Bauer-Hildebrand-Mil- liard line coming into their own last night at St. Catharines with a total of 5 goals in Oshawa's 9-3 win over the Falcons, it is expected they will continue the scoring pace to- night, Eric Pogue and Ray Ceresino each added a couple of goals last night too. Last night's game in St. Kitts was remarkably clean and there was no scoring until the 8-minute mark in the 2nd period. "Al" Reddoch, sub- stituting for Louis Crowdis who didn't get back from his Christmas trip to his Montreal home, played very well and had a shutout in his grasp until late in the 3rd period. Coach Conacher will' send Reddoch right back into the nets again to- night, it is expected, "Bud" McPherson, the hard-luck kid of the team, is in trouble again, After being laid up about five times in succession, he finally got going again last week and then ran into a 2-stitch knee cut in the last work- out, to keep on the sidelines once more. Another win for the Generals to- night will move them up within 4 points of the league-leading St. Mike's, who are idle this week. Galt plays at home tonight, with Strat ford Kroehlers' visiting. Last night, in Stratford, Galt Red Wings won 4-1 in one of the roughest games of ths season, 28 penalties all told, with 13 including two major terms, - in the 3rd period. Pro Grid Player Draws Fine For Criticizing Coach New York, Dec. 28-- (CP) -- Com- missioner Bert Bell of the National Football League revealed today he had fined line coach Heartley (Hunk) Anderson of Chicago Bears $250 because of his public criticism of the Detrcit Lion coaching staff and ownership. Anderson critici:d the Lions at a lunchedn recently in Detroit. He said he had intended his remarks to be without prejudice and had intended them to be constructive, but that they had been misinter- preted. Bell said he would have meted out a stiffer penalty had not Fred Mandel, owner of the Lions, re- quested leniency. 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