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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1947 By Geo. H. Campbell By JACK SULLIVAN Canadian Press Staff Writer London, March 12--(CP) -- Britain's belt-tightening ration. ing system today extended to in- clude sports, Fans who patiently "suffered" a weather-enforced outdoor sports blackout for the last seven weeks, solemnly studied the government's request to ban crowd-drawing mid-week events in an effort to cut down 'industrial absenteeism and give the country's hard-hit PORT NAPSHOTS The victory of the Oshawa Legionnaires up in Brantford on Monday . night is the chiet topic of hockey conversation around these parts today and many local hockey fans are looking forward to Friday night's second game of the series, on the local ice. Brantford is bringng down a special trainload of about 300 fans and shades of 1942 when the Brantford Lions . and the Generals had that hectic 7-game series for the championship are beginning to loom. Incidentally, Tommy Ivan, was tie coach of the production drive a "shot in the arm." Morning newspapers banner- lined the government's unpreced- ented move and it was the favor- ite topic of conversation in pubs, buses and tubes. The comment generally was "we've had it." Hockey, which attracts mid- weekly attendance of about 3,000 at National League games in the three London stadiums, one at Nottingham and one at Brighton, is exempt "for the time being." page of mid-week cricket would kill the game whereas cessation of mid-week soccer would not kill football, Cricket, golf, lawn tennis, and boxing heads were not invited to the talks but their turn prob- ably will come soon. The big question bothering the fans is the outlook for soccer, the schedule was knocked completely off balance with the cancellation of 166 games due to the icy spell and there is no hope that these games will be played off before The exemption was made by the three government ministers who interviewed chiefs of soccer, rug- by, greyhound and horse racing and motorcycle speedway racing yesterday, The first effects of the meet- ings were: Cancellations of 18 English football matches szhedu- led for next week and postpone- ment of the world famous Grand National Steeplechase from March 28 to the following day. Observers believed that stop- BELT-TIGHTENING HITS SPORTS IN BRITAIN -- MID-WEEK EVENTS BANNED the season ends, Cancellation of these games means the loss of thousands of pounds to the clubs and the pro- bable collapse of the promotion and relegation system. Some clubs will have played 40 of their | required 42 games. some only 35, and in a situation like this it will be impossible to declare lea- gue champions. | But there still was one ray of i sunshine, The football Association Cup always is played Saturday and will go on as scheduled, : Brantford team and today he's in the news, as next year's coach of the Detroit Red Wings, coming up from Indianapolis when "Smilin' Jawn" Adams reverts to business manager duties of the Detroit N.H.L. team and hands over the coaching reins to a younger oan. Ivan has been jn the Detroit set-up for nearly a decade now. Then there's the tony AH the Oshawa Arena tonight which should attract a banner crowd. The Oshawa "Coca Cola" Bantam "A" team meets the Barrie Flyers tonight in the return game of their O.M.H.A. Bantam "A" series and the local youngsters are trailing by one goal, as a result of that 3-2 game in Barrie on Mon- day. The Oshawa boys are confident they can wipe out that deficit tonight and so earn the right to advance further in quest of the Provincial Bantam hockey championship. Tonight's game is called Club Members Have Worked Hard and Previous Experience LOCAL SKATERS READY FOR 'FROLICS for nine o'clock but hockey fans who wish to go down to the arena a little earlier, can see a couple of Scarboro teams from Toronto doing battle in a THL game, for which they have rented the ice here, Speaking of Bantam Provincial playoffs, the Orono youngsters, in Bantam "C" company were eliminated last night by Sundridge, but Orme Gamsby says it's alright, they were beaten by a better team. No alibis from Orono, is that little sporting town's good motto, Hockey at the Oshawa Arena on Thursday night will feature the Alex Fulton, Oshawa Club Pro, Has Made Tremendous Strides Since Doffing His R.C. AF. Uniform -- This Year's "Ice Frolics" Features Galaxy of Champions # Junior "C" Playoff game Verweon Whitby - Gananoque. The County * "Town lads dropped a 6-2 decision down in "Gan" the other night and . 1 theyll have to wipe out these 4 goals here tomorrow right if they hope to continue in defense of the Ontario Junior "C" championship, which they won last year. The Whitby fans will be over in 'arge numbers to- morrow night and no doubt a lot of local hockey enthusiasts will be on : hand also. On Saturday night, Bowmanville and Brockville will play a a Juvenile O.M.H.A, playoff game here and Bowmanville fans will move to Oshawa for this one. Having the only artificial ice rink in the dis- i trict means that there's plenty of hockey action for the rest of this * month, even if the Generals are on the sidelines. It takes more than just a desire to organize and produce a skating carnival of the magnitude of "Ice Frolics of 1947." The Oshawa Skat- ing Club has spent seven years learning the hard way in producing * + + ice shows. This year's edition of "Ice The McAdie Bonspiel, last "local club" tourney of the curling Prolics" is the Seventh Annual season, opens on Friday night and will continue into next week. It's a knockout competition and interest is keen. Several of Oshawa's top-notch curlers are to be in Kingston next week, seeking honors in their annual 'spiel there, In the Annual Royal Canadiens' bonspiel, now in prog in T to, several Osh rinks are in action, Bert White's rink lost to W. Knowlson of Granites on Monday but nosed out P. Heenan of Granites 8-7. Don Holden's rink beat P. Heenan in the first game and A. Troyer of Locust Hill in their second tilt but lost the third game to G. McPhee of Toronto Vics 13-7. White's rink is still in the running for the James Sutherland Trophy. On Tuesday, Perc. Eveleigh's rink lost to P. O. Dumble of High Park 17-12, lost in the Sutherland event to B. K. Prest of Toronto but won their conso- lation game over J. Burrell of Brampton, 7-3. Ben Ward's rink won their first game over F. Raney of High Park but lost to Gord Camp- bell of Hamilton Thistles 10-6 in the A. E. Walton Memorial Trophy event and then lost to J. Weir of Unionville in 'the Sutherland Trophy * » SCISSORED SPORT: ~ The Canadian Press)--The Dukes of Windsor and Marlborough finished out of the money in the Latham B. Reed amateur-professiondl golf tournament at Palm Beach, Fla. yes- terday, but they were the main attractions at the swank Seminole Golf Club with Palm Beach society turned out in its most colorful attire, Belting Ben Hogan, professional from Hershey, Pa., and Mike Phipps, . Palm Beach amateur won the: tournament with a best-ball score of 63 for 18 holes. The Duke of Windsor, clad in a yellow sweater and cream- ¢ colored slacks, finished with a corrected score of 68 but shot a 42-44--86. He had an 18 handicap . . . The French federation of Lawn Tennis an- * nounced yesterday at Paris that Jean Borotia, 49-year-old Davis Cup star, and Marcel Bernard, France's No. 1 player, along with Yvon Petra will leave next week for a goodwill barnstorming tour of Canada and the United States. Their tour will open in Montreal, March 21. . . The Soviet Union has declined an invitation to send a cavalry team to the Inter- national Horse Show in London from July 7-12 because the Soviet riders "are insufficiently prepared for participation in such competitions" be- cause of lack of training during the war . . . In a couple of factual para- graphs, the obituary reported the death at the home of a friend of Win- field Scott O'Connor, 66, former jockey, and the cas:al reader who didn't | fo the annual Oshawa Carnival. remember the man as "Winnie" O'Connor quickly turned to the financial With last year's experience as a page . . . But the older hands at the Paddock Bar on Broadway, if they | marker; Slo gn ¥ has bulls a saw the story at all, probably raised an extra glass in memory of the | De artes pte anything Brooklyn boy who was the world's most famous jockey around the turn | yyonne Sherman and Bob Swenn- of the Century, who bootem them home for Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany | ing heading his guest star list, he and King Alfonso of Spain, lived in luxury in France and finally went has a big start. These two skaters broke in the crash of 1929 . . . Winnie O'Connor was penniless when he | ave gi Sensauen Puig turned up in New York 10 years ago and he never came back to the big | the Canadian Champion money as a bartender on Broadway and a pier guard on the Hudson | Blair and Marnie Brereton, also a River, but he had the memories that he set down faithfully in his auto- | champion the year' before plus com- biography, "Jockeys, Croaks and Kings," a tersely-told story of his career. | 23y nd loca) stares and you have a Born in Brooklyn's Red Hook district, Winnie ran away from home at the | = Last but not least essential in the age of 10 and hooked up with Father Bill Daly, the one-legged horseman | production of show like "Ice Frolics" "who became famous as the trainer of Ed (Snapper) Garrison and Tod | 18 the support of the local fans. Sloan, the kid with the Monkey Crouch . . , O'Connor was as light as a | Qeniawa 20 dle, nave HRevs postage stamp then, but he won first Rattle and Roll for Pathe: Bill on | and overflow crowds have alvass a 100-1 shot named Emotional, and there was no stopping the 55-pound | supported the shows. This year Dovice . . . In 1901 O'Connor rode 253 winners on United States tracks, a | tickets are again going fast and all record at the time . .. The next year he was riding in Europe. ? signs point to a sellout crowd for both performances. O ol' = \'4 THURSDAY NIGHT GANANOQUE | BRANTFORD reo WHITBY JUNIORS | OSH. LEGIONNAIRES 8.30 P.M. . For Sale at Mike's Place Thrrsday 9 a.m. aches have gone into the building and planning of each show. The first and main requirement of an ice carnival is of course skat- ers. Now figure skaters are not just picked off the street, although this has happened in one of two instances. Your skaters must be coached and trained by a capable professional skater who is well schooled in Carnival procedure. THe Oshawa Skating Club started out with a large membership eight years ago and it has steadily grown over the years. The backbone of the club has been the advancement of the Junior skaters who have gra- duated year after year to the sen- for ranks. Each year, the Oshawa Skating Club has a new professional skater and this meant new styles to conquer and new faces to meet. However for the past two seasons the Oshawa skaters have been for- tunate in having Alex Fulton as their instructor and being able to continue with this one style has been a big help in building this year's show. Alex Fulton s a former Canadian awa direct from the R.C.AF, Last year in his first season here he pro- duced one of the most successful Ice Shows the club has had. Last summer he moved to Schumacher, to the "Skaters Paradise" where he taught in the summer skating school with such pupils as Barbara Ann Scott and Yvonne Sherman under his tutelage. After a remark- able summer season he returned to Oshawa and once again laid plans ADULTS 50c -- CHILDREN 25¢ Saturday Night! Jr. "C" BOWMANVILLE BROCKVILLE and much hard work and heart- | t| Champion skater and came to Osh- | ti Proving Valuable for "47 Show Red Wings Can Climb Into 4th By Win Tonite By JACK MITCHELL Canadian Press Staff Writer It may be that this is Jack Adams' last season as Detroit's Bench coach -- es the latest in National Hockey League retirement talk has it but wild horses cculdn't keep the veteran mentor away fro. . tonight's clash between his Red Wings and the New York Rangers. This game is the climax of De- troit's uphill drive for a playoff spot and Adams, who loves a fight about as much as he loves juggling his players, aims to be out there bat- in g. That's not to say the Rangers won't be. It's the Blueshirts, one point ahead of the Wings and each w!'"r six games to play, who stand to loee that fourth and last playoff spot to the Wings. And after two cs son's of watching four others in the money round, Frankie Boucher's boys are a mighty hungry crew. The Big Game Tonight For that reason -- and with the pace-setting = Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple ".eafs both idle -- this contest steals the spotlight from the night's other tilt. The second game brings together Boston Bruins and the Black Hawks at Chicago. The Bruins are en- trenched in third place, with a scant mathematical chance of over- taking the Maple Leafs, and the Black Hawks are too deep in the cellar to make it any more than playing out the string. The Red Wings and the Rangers meet each other twice in their last six games so fourth place should be decided virtually between them- selves. Ia 10 previous meetings the Wings hold an edge with four vie- tories against three losses and three es, Has Been Tough Year This Red Wing team, off to a bad | 3 start in September, required per- haps more nursing than way other in Adams' 20 years as manager- coach and for that reason is his particular baby. In a late-season splurge, after a | 2.) spell of shuffling and reshuffiing by the NHL's best "juggler" they went seven games unbeaten to climb back into contention. That streak was snapped when Boston whipped them 6-0 last week-end so tonight's game will tell how much they've cooled off. Adams, who has been coach of Detroit teams ever since the city entered the NHL. in the 1926-27 staan as the Cougers, said yester- his may be his last year as mbined manager-coach. If it is, he plans to devote his time to a straight front-office job. The Last of His Kind Jovial Jack is just about the last of the "manager-coaches", hockey having grown into too big a business for one man to handle. The Wings, for instance, have three direct af- filiates to oversee -- Indianapolis, Omaha and the amateur Galt, Ont., Red Wings. If Adams moves up front, his job will include scouting and supervis- ing this farm system. Besides the pressure of business, maybe Adams feels he's growing too mellow for a coaching job. Once, earlier in the season, he had a good word to say publicly about Toronto Maple Leafs. Windsor, Ont., March 12--(CP)-- The Windsor Daily Star yesterday quoted Jack Adams as saying this will be his Igst season as coach of the Detroit Red Wings of the Na- tional Hockey League. The newspaper, in a story from New York by Sports Editor Doug. Vaughan, said Adams is to become General Manager of the Detroit Hockey Club interests "at the re- quest of Owner James D. Norris," Tommy Ivan, Coach of the In- dianapolis Capitols of the Ameri- can League, will take over Adams' duties with the Red Wings next season, the paper said. Ivan, 35-year-old native of Fer- gus, Ont, has been a member of the Norris organization for about nine years. He started as coach of the Brant- ford, Ont., Lions, a junior "B" O.H. A. Club, later going into Junior "A" ranks. ; California's Popular Bantam Champion Back on Top of Heap Los Angeles, March 12--(AP) --Maulin' Manuel Ortiz, one of California's most popular champ- fons, is back on top of the world's bantamweights, The 30-year-old fighter regain- ed the crown last night in a tight 16-round squeak over clever young Harold Dade, Los Angeles negro who put up a gallant de- fence of the title he lifted from Ortiz two months ago. Both weighed 1173. : It was the consensus that if z Lovely Young Ladies from a Gypsy Caravan ci One of the prettiest group numbers to be offered in "Ice Frolics of 1947" moving sequence in gorgeous colorful costumes. Seen above are some iw is Gypsy Caravan, a bright and fast of the lovely young ladies who will skate in this number. Front Row, left to right, Lois MsGovern, Evelyn Robson, Gay Rutherford. Back row, left to right, Sylvia Skinner, Ella Durno and Marjorie Edgar. All of these girls are members of the Osha- wa Skating Club, --Photo by Campbell's Studio Orono Bantams Are Eliminated By Sundridge Orono, March 12. (Special) --Oro- no Bantam '"C" boys were eliminat- ed from the Ontario Minor Hockey Association playoffs here last night Lachine 1, Victoriaville 3, when they dropped the return game (First of best-of-seven semi-final). of their fourth round series, with Moncton An TENE SENIOR Sundridge Bantams, by an 8-6 (First of best-of-five final). score, losing the round 19-9. THUNDER BAY JUNIOR Although they tried gamely, the homesters were outplayed by the AVATELR RESULTS QUEBEC SENIOR Snawln an Falls & Ottawa 5. of best-of-five semi-final), Quebec 3, Montreal 6. ) (First of best-of-five semi-final), QUEBEC PROVINCIAL 8t. Hyacinthe 1, Sherbrooke 8. (First of best-of-seven semi-final). Fort Willlam Columbus Club 8 Arthur West Ends 1. v Pons 3 {Yor Willlam win best-of-five final classy young Sundridge lads but the Orono fans saw a spirited hockey tussle, in whaj may prove the last local hockey game of the season, if the mild weather continues. Orme Gamsby, "The Silver Fox" of Orono, is quoted that "although Orono's three young age-limit teams fave all been eliminated, they each enjoyed a very fine season, had their share of success and in the end, had the satisfaction of knowing they were eliminated by better teams", OF EUROPEAN STOCK Seventy-eight per cent of Argen- tina's population is of European ex- traction. News ond Views Industrial Loop By SIDELINER At the last moment today we were informed that the ice would be available tonight at Whitby from 7 pm. to 11 ... In an effort to get the schedule completed and play- offs underway Saturday, the follow= ing games have been set: L 2 BR J From 7-8 ... . The Times and Bolahood's; from 8-9 . . . Alger Press and Courtice; from 9-10 . . . Weston and Pittings; from 10-11 . + . Duplate and Monarchs . . . One game has been scheduled for the Arena here starting at 10:30 p.m. «+ « Bowers will meet Parts... '+P This leaves only five games to be played but there is great likelihood that only one or two will be neces- sary and it is hoped that final play- off positions will be clear after the srioke of battle rises tonight. * +P It is realized that the ice at Whit- by may not be all that is desired at this season of the year but no games will be cancelled despite ice conditions . . . No team gets ad- vantages from bad ice . . . it's the same for one as the other . .. Let's get it over with ... OSHAWA TIES WHITBY IN INTER B TILT Whitby, March 12 -- Oshawa and Whitby battled to a 4-4 tie in the first of their two-game home-and- home series in the OHA Intermedi- ate "B" playoffs here last night. Whitby held a 2-1 lead at the end of the first period, but wilted in the final stanza and had to come from behind in the last three minutes of play to earn the tle. > WHITBY -- goal, P. Burkart; defense, Maine, Heffering; centre, Bagg; wings, McCoy, McCloskey; alternates, L. Vipond, Moore, Lint- ner, J. Burkart, Dalby. OSHAWA -- goal, Nash; defense Ladd, McConkey; centre, Cooke; wings, Turner, Tyson; alternates, Keeler, Valentine, Reid, Hicks, Far row, Raike, Dionne. First Period 1---Oshawa, Keeler (Valentine) 2--Whitby, Moore (Lintner, L. Vipond) ....., 17.03 3--Whitby, McCoy (Bragg) ... 19.30 Penalties -- Ladd, Dionne, Second Period No scoring. Penalty -- McCoy. Third Period 4--Whitby, Dalby 5--Oshawa, Valentine ....c... 6--Oshawa, Turner ...... vees 10.00 7--Oshawa, Tyson (Cook) .... 15.10 8--Whitby, L. Vipond (Lintner) ....ceeseieecses. 1701 No penalties. 5.01 ' MANITOBA SENIOR Winnipeg Flyers 8, Winnipeg Stylists (Flyers win best of seven final 4-1). OTTAWA VALLEY INTERMEDIATE Ottawa Senators 3, Pembroke Lumber an Wa wins best-of-seven final 4-1), NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR VAN 'Porcupine 3, Copper Clff 1. "Winky" Smith Stars As St. Paul Saints Ousted by Omaha 8-1 Omaha Knights, already favored ty finish first in the Northern Divi- slon of the United States Hockey League, added to their lead in the standings last night by eliminating St. Paul Saints from the post-sea- son playoffs with an 8-1 win. 8t. Paul needed the game, play- ed at Omaha, to keep alive their chance of finishing in a tie for third place. But now they no long- er can qualify for the post-season play. Kansas Cit, with three games remaining still has a bare chance of overtaking Omaha. Max McNab and Carl (Winky) Smith ) sparked the Omaha drive last night, each scoring twice. St. Paul scored only in the second per- fod. Six points behind third-place Tulsa in the southern division, Houston kept alive its chances of finishing in a tle for third with a 4-. victory over Fort Worth at Houston last night. After a score- less first period Houston went into tLe lead midway through the sec- ond and never trailed. Games tonight send Fort Worth to Dallas, Kansas City to Minne- apolis and Tulsa to Houston, BIG NIGHTS Dade's punches had packed a bit more authority he would still be champion today. The 23-year-old outboxed Ortiz much of the way and landed more punches, but they did little damage, Ortiz, considerably slower than in the heyday of his previous 43 year championship reign, made the most of his blows and was the same old master at infight- There Are STILL SOME COOD SEATS AVAILABLE for the OF 1947" However They're Going Fast! GET YOURS TODAY! Admission 75: -- 51.00 On Sale At MIKE'S PLACE | ing, NOW WATCH THEM CATS HOWL/... THEY AIN'T GONNA. 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