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THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1948- PAGE FOURTEEN 'CPORT NAPSHOTS A lot of fans were wondering after last night's one-sided show, ow Windsor Spitfires ever took two games from the Generals. Well, we can assure them of two facts. The Generals haven't looked better this season than they did last night--and Windsor has never looked as bad. There are reasons for both too. The Generals, faced with .a 2-game deficit, realized they had to win last night (and they have to win on Saturday too) if they were to prevent Spitfires from making this a very . brief series and not only were the Generals going all-out last night, but they got the breaks for a change. They were really "clicking" and thelr Speed was too much for Spitfires, plus beautiful passing that kept the puck on the move and had the Windsor boys '"'chasing" all the time. Then that penalty at the 20-second mark gave Oshawa their first two goals, or at least, was a big help. We scored our 3rd goal also with ; Windsor a man-short due to a penalty, the 4th goal was scored with +Haidy in the penalty box. Three of the goals were scored with Windsor A short-handed and two of the other three were scored just after a penalized {U4 Windsor player had barely got back on the ice. Y Geo. H. Campbell -----_., " £3 -» * Windsor's off-color showing can be blamed on several factors. The long trip is no help to any team and then they had two games in the bag and could be expected to perhaps be a little relaxed or even over-confident. On top of that, they hawe suffered from a lot of injuries. They didn't have Noel Busch in uniform last night, he got a charley.horse in the Monday game. "Butch" Houle and Bruce Giesebrecht have been out for several weeks and early in last night's game, Jimmie Uniac, their ace centre, was side-lined with a groin injury. Both he and Busch are expected to be ready for Saturday night's game however and we know the Spitfires are capable of much better hockey than they showed last night. Walmsley didn't get much chance to star in goal, because the Oshawa snipers were hitting the "holes" last night. The Spitfires made quite a game of it in the first period, despite the 3-0 score, but they were just hang. ing on in the last two periods. The Generals got the breaks and at the pace they set last night, that was a combination that was un- beatable. - L 4 >» L 3 Coach Tommy Anderson rates a special word. ¥e benched Dick Gamble last night, because the lanky left-winger hasn't been doing much either on the attack or in back-checking, for the past few weeks. How- ever, 'when a Coach finds his team down two games in a crucial playoff series, it takes a lot of figuring and fortitude to leave off the team's highest-scoring player. Ross Lowe took over with Scholes and Chuck Blair and turned in a splendid chore. There were no right-wingers coasting in on Piquette last night with such back-checkers as Lowe, LaFrance and Ceresino on patrol. The boys on the other side did an equally fine job. That's what wins hockey games--keeping the other team from scoring. Offensively, Joe LaFrance was the Oshawa ace last night but he had a lot of help from Eric Pogue. Gerry Scott and Ray Oleksuik. Ray Ceresino was a ball of fire, He scored the big one-- the first one, and set up "Sandy" Air for another that was a gem. Pogue's pass to LaFrance, both going at top speed, was the picture play of the night. Oshawa's defense dept. was much improved also. Yep! The Generals were all stars last night--but that's only one game. They've got to repeat on Saturday night in order to get back on even terms, -* * LJ In Port Hope last night Toronto Daxforth Byers Motors pulled out a 4.2 win last night over Peterboro Triplelink to take their Junior "B" hockey playoffs, two games and a tie to one game and a tie. Byers will meet Whitby Red Wings in the district finals, but when these will start has not been made definite as yet. The series though will see some games in the Arena, and that will make for some really hot hockey. Whitby might even have to play her home games here in the Arena, if the weather gets mild and the natural ioe situation gets a little on the wet side, op * LJ The Hamilton Tigers now have a 2-1 game lead over the Toronto ¢ Marlboros in the Senior "A' O.H.A. semi-final playoffs. The Tigers edged out the men of Primeau last night in the Mountain City by the score of '6-5. Overtime was required to reach even that much of a decision. The * first overtime session remained scoreless, but the second which was the sudden-death affair saw the Tabbies notch the winner, Bill Dinning scoring unassisted at the 6.45 mark. Friday night in the Gardens these two teams will go at it again, and it will probably end up that the ' Dukes will take their home games, and the Tigers theirs, This will . make for lots of fun to say the least. : L 2 + L J Tonight's a big hockey night at the Oshawa Arena. Three local "City League" teams, representing the Oshawa Minor Hockey Assoc- iation in the first rounds of their M.H.A, playoffs, swing into actien tonight, in goals-to.count rounds, all against Barrie opposition. At six o'clock, Kiwanis Club Bantams take on their Barrie rivals; in the next game, Kinloch's Midgets meet Barrie and in the third .gamey. Oshawa Dairy Juveniles tackle the Barrie Juvenile champions. This is a big might for the "City League" fans and local hockey boosters should be on hand in large numbers to cheer these Oshawa young- sters along, as they make a: bid for an Ontario champienship. The Bantams are really 'worth seeing, the Midgets are surprisingly good and the Juveniles are only one step away from Junior "B" ranks,' Don't miss these games here tonight! * + ® NOTICE TO SOFTBALLERS--President Johnny Brady, of the Oshawa, City and District Softball Association, has called a meeting of all teams interested (Senior "B", Inter. "A", Inter. "AA", Junior and Ju- venile) for Sunday afternoon, 2.00 o'clock, in the "Blue Room" at the Hotel Genosha and every team expecting to compete in the City & District leagues this summer, is asked to have one or two voting dele- gates on had at this important meeting. All of last year's teams are especially urged to have representatives on hand. LJ KJ > FUTURE GAMES--No games are scheduled in the Junior "A" playoffs tonight, nor tomorrow night, as the boys rest up for the week-end sessions . . . . Junior "B" hockey ig in the same boat. In the Senior "A" 1 no g are scheduled for tonight, but Friday night, Owen Sound will play their first game with Kitchener. Waterloo Flying Dutchmen in the semi-finals, for the right to meet the winner of the Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Marlboros series, *» EX RE SPORT SHORTB---Sam Baroudi, the boxer, who died because of injuries sustained in a fight with Ezzard Charles, has reared his volce irom the grave, in a manner of speaking. His manager Mike Spinelli may be prosecuted for saying that Baroudi was 22 when he was really 21 when he applied for his. boxing license . , . . Joe Louis still thinks that it will be possible for.him' to retire after this last fight with Jersey Joe (Continued on Page 16) O.M.H.A. PLAYOFFS TONIGHT at the OSHAWA ARENA Bantam -- 6.00 p.m. A-- a Midget -- 7.30 p.m. "OSHAWA. KIWANIS | CSHAWA KINLOCH BARRIE BARRIE JUVENILE -- 9.00 p.m. OSHAWA DAIRY v:. BARRIE TORONTO LEAFS JUMP INTO FIRST PLACE Individual scoring feats stood out in last night's two National Hock. ey League games, with Don Raleigh, New York Rangers starry rookie, showing the way by netting all four of his team's goals in a losing cause. More than offsetting Raleigh's four-star performance, however, was the work of a couple of opponents. Between them Gaye Stewart and Bud Poile rapped home five goals to pace Chicago Black Hawks to a 7-4 victory oyer the New Yorkers. ennedy Paces Leafs Ted (Teeter) Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs driving centre, also turned ina smart scoring effort. His two goals were the margin of Leafs 4.2 victory over Boston Bru. ins, which gave Toronto a two- point lead over the idle Detroit Red Wings at the top of the standing. While the Leafs were breaking the leadership tie, and also draw. ing level with Wings in total games played--each now has just 10 games left in the drive to the lea. gue title--the tailend Chicago Black Hawks were beating the third-place New York Rangers 7-4 at Madison Square Garden. The New York result put the Hawks within a game of the fifth. place Montreal Canadiens. But Hawks and Canadiens still are fac- ed with the task of producing mir- acles if they are to break.into the Stanley Cup play-off circle. Dumart Scores First At Torento, with 13,454 fans jam. ming Maple Leaf Gardens, Woody Dumart scored for Bost «1 in 33 sec. onds of the opener. Bill Ezinicki evened it up. Ed Sandford scored Boston's second. Then Kennedy produced some stick-handling wiz. ardry to tie it up once more. It was in the last minute of the sec. ond pericd when Kennedy fired the winning goal, and Gus Mortson added one for good measure in the third peried. The Toronto ice saw a free.for- all in the second frame. Boston's PAST IDLE DETROIT WINGS great goalie Frankie Brimsek had suffered a facial gash from a fly- ing puck and returned to his nets with three stitches in the wound. He promptly caught a hard shot from Ezinicki and was holding the puck when Wild Bill took a swipe at the hand with his stick. Murray Henderson of Boston was brawling with. Ezinicki when Clare Martin of Boston 'elected to tackle Gus Mortson of Toronto. Mortson knock. ed Martin down and at that mom. ent all four were chaesed to the cooler for roughness. Before the period was over, three more had joined that quartet to jam the penalty box. Ed Harrison was sent there for slashing and for roughing, Jim Thompscn of the Leafs going off with Harrison in the roughing penalty, and Bill Bar. ilko went there for slashing. 4 Goals For Raleigh Av New York, rookie Don Ral. eigh from Winnipeg scored all four Ranger goals. But Gaye Stewart scored three goals for the Hawks, and Bud Polle, ancther former Leaf, scored two. Doug Bentley and Ernie Dickens got the other two counters. Grey-haired Neil Colville, Ran. gers' captain and master of de- fence, was hit in the mouth with a flying puck and required three stitches. GENERALS BLANK SPIT Oshawa Lads Flash Brilliant Speed and Deadly Attack to Cut Windsor's Lead in Half Generals Outskate Spit- fires on Every Turn and Disrupt Windsor's Attack--Ray Ceresino and Scott - Pogue - La- France Line Prove Scoring Heroes -- Pete |. Piquette Earns "His Shutout--Local Rear- guard to Fore Oshawa Generals jumped back into contention for O.H.A. Junior "A" playoff honors, before a sellout crowd at the Oshawa Arena last night, when they blanked Windsor Spitfires 6.0 in the third game of their 4.out-of-7 series and thus halved Windsor's lead in games. Completely outclassing their op. position, actually more so than in any of their previous half-dozen games this season in schedule and playoff competition, 'he Generals last night made Spitfires lo very ordinary -- but the Windsor boys were definitely "off form" and were having a bad night, almost throughout their entire line-up. Generals Open Fast The Generals took the ice with fire in their eyes and twenty se- conds after the opening face.off, Marcel Pronovost drew a penalty and the excitement had started. Ray Ceresino made it 1.0 on a nif. ty three-way play with "Dusty" Blair and Ray Oleksuik helping out and the Generals maintained their pell.mell rushing tactics at such a clip that even though Pronovost got back on the ice, he wasn't quite in time to overtake the speeding pair of LaFrance and Pogue, as they combined for a neat bit of puck- passing and made it 2-0, at the 2:24 mark. Relaxed but still forcing a terri. fic pace behind their 2.0 lead, the Generals roared into the play again and penalties followed quick- ly, first to Ross Lowe and then one to Brandow, just after Lowe got back Frezell's came next, more than halfway through the period and the Generals promptly made it 3.0 while the Spitfires were short. handed. It was Ross Lowe who pulled the trigger on the shot that riddled Windsor's fading hopes. Frank Sul- . , ROSS LOWE livan starfed the play and "Chuck" Blair fired a high looping shot at the net. Lowe tipped it as he skat. ed across the goal mouth and Ivan Walmsley didn't have a chance on the deflected puck. Scott's penalty gave the Spitfires a chance to liven up the dying minutes of the first stanza, but ac. tually, the Windsor boys at this early stage, appeared to have shot their bolt. Their attacks were spas. modic affairs, seldom on a three. man basis and usually of the solo variety. Windsor Bogged Down Proof of Spitfires' surprising im. potency came early in the second stanza when Eric Pogue drew a tripping penalty and for the two minutes he was doing pennance, the Windsor team didn't get a sin. gle shot on the Oshawa net. Their odd sortie over the Oshawa blue. line was made only on a long shot into the corner and the Generals always hustled back to gain pos. session first and promptly brought the puck back up the ice again. Next time on the ice, after serv. ing his penalty, "Pogey" set up Joe LaFrance for the prettiest goal of the night and fastest of the sea- son. Pogue was flying up the ice, after circling to get under way, up in his own end. As he hit the Wind. sor rearguard, he feinted a move between: them and as they con. verged upon him, he zipped the puck right to the blade of Joe La. Prance's stick--and the left-winger was flying at the time, He scooted in on Walmsley and then: complet. ed the picture.play with a sensa. tional finish, to give the Windsor ADMISSION: ADULTS 25c--CHILDREN 15c custodian no chance, as he faked him and then fired into the empty IRES IN THIRD § The Summary | First Period, fil , awa, Ceresino (D. Blair, 1. Civ, Oleksuik)....1,08 2. Oshawa, LaFrance (Pogue)..2.24 3. Oshawa, Lowe (C. Blair, Sullivan)........c......13.45 Penalties; Pronovost, Lowe, Brandow, Frezell and Scott. Second Period 4. Oshawa, LaFrance (Pogue)..7.37 5. Oshawa, Air (Ceresino, D. Blair) Penalties; Pogue, Haidy, Taylor (2), LaFrance (minor and 10 mim. misc.), Lowe, MacKay and C. Blair Third Period 6. Oshawa, Scott (LaFrance, Oleksuik....16.04 Penalties; Lowe, Ouelette (mi- nor and major), Pogue and Scholes. side. Oshawa's next goal was a result of some classy passing also, with Ray Cereino taking the puck from Dusty" Blair and going right to the Windsor = goal.mouth, Walmsley didn't dare wait any longer so he threw himself forward to smother ia J RAY CERESINO the puck and as he "threw", Cer- esino slid the puck across to the far side where "Sandy" Air was waiting and promptly slapped the puck into the net. Taylor "After" Pogue It was obvious in the night's play that Jack Taylor, hero of Windsor's second-.game victory in the series, was extremely intent on tangling with Eric Pogue, the Oshawa speedster. Midway in the middle frame, Taylor dumped Pogue from behind and drew a penalty. Two minutes later, Joe LaFrance bumped Hay on the blue.line and was given a penalty for tripping, although it looked. like an ordinary, mild body.bump. Joe was consider. ably irked with Referee Farrell's verdict too and when he showed his resentment smashing (in two pie ces) his stick on the ice, the official promptly tacked on a 10-minute misconduct sentence, The officials must have decided to give the timekeepers a little ex. tra work at this stage, for Lowe and MacKay were thumbed off together for a brief high.sticking session. While they were still serving time, Taylor roared after Pogue again, this time he slashed him from behind and then jumped on him with "a high tackle", to earn another. penalty, Chuck Blair got a cheap one in the next minute, for an alleged slash, It was the"easiest" penalty of the night. ' : Pe Lg HOCKEY - RESULTS - 00Uncocoon~, O.H.A. JUNIOR "A" Playoff Series (Best Four-out-of-Seven) Wl T Windsor ... Oshawa . 1 Wednesday's Result 6 Windsor ul Saturday--Windsor at Oshawa. Series «"C" (Best Two-out-of-Thref) WL T(F APts Galt 1 022 17 4 St. Catharines .... 1 2 0 17 22 2 Wednesday's Result alt St. Catharines... § Overtime--Galt wins series, 2-1. O.H.A. SENIOR "A" Playoffs Series "A" (Best Four-of-of-Seven) TP Hamilton Tigers . 2 1 0 12 Mariboros 1 0 9 Hamilton Overtime. Series "B" (Best Two-out-of-Three) WL T PrP Kitch, -Wat, ...... 2 0 0 6 Stratford . 2 0 2 Series "C" (Best Two-out-of-Three) Owen Sound .....2 0 0 27 Hamilton Pats ... 0 2 0 11 Serles "D" (Best Three-out-of-Five) Future Games Friday--Owen Sound at Kitchener Waterloo, Wednesday's Result 6 Marlboros goa.mouth pass from LaFrance, with Oleksuik also helping out. Ouellette swung a fist at Pogue when they tangled and it meant a major penalty for the Spitfire and a minor for the General. George Scholes got the final penalty of the game, to bring the total of terms to 17 minors, 1 major and 1 misconduct, for the night. Generals Hogged Limelight Naturally, with a 6-0 victory, it is to be expected that the Generals were hogging the limelight, "Pete" Piquette was sensational in the first stanza, Windsor's best period, and he kept up his perfect work after that to fully earn his shutout. Coach Tomeny Anderson benched Dick Gamble for this game and Ross Lowe was a tower of strength, going both ways, beside Scholes and Chuck Blair, Ray Ceresino made a big hit on his first appearance be. fore the hometown fans, with a sensational display of speed. Sev. eral times he was so fast that he was offside, just on speed alone, The Scott.Pogue.LaFrance line was of course in the brilliant class last night, with Joe LaFrance mak- ing a great comeback after his one. . JOE LaFRANCE | game lay.off, as he grabbed two fine goals. and an assist. Sandy Air kept his end up nicely again and the defense department was out. standing, with Brandow much im. proved and Oleksiuk and Sullivan turning in their best games of the season. WINDSOR SPITFIRES -- Goal, Walmsley; defense, Pronovost and Quackenbush; centre, Uniac; wings, J. Wilson and Haidy; alts, L. Wil. son, MacKay, Taylor, Hay Frezell, Bert Giesebrecht and Ouellette. OSHAWA GENERALS----Goal, PI™ quette defense, Oleksuik and Sulli- van; centre, D. Blair; wings, Air and Ceresino, alts, Scott, Pogue, LaFrance, Scholes, C. Blair, Lowe and Brandow, Referees: --"Chuck" Good, of To- Tonto and "Red" Farrell, of Bar- rie, ' Galt Rockets Earn Right to Meet Barrie in Semi-Finals, Goegan, Krahulec, Maxwell, Mullens. GALT--Goal, Dougall; defence," Ro- bertcon, Tkachuk; centre, Wylie; wings, Pidhirny, Marchand; alternates, Hopper, | Gibson, Mulholland, Gualazzi, Buwch- | am, McNally, Singleton. | Officials--Kenny Holmshaw, Toronto; Bill Morrison, Oshawa First Period 1--St. Catharines, Service . 2--St. Catharines, McIntyr: (Sullivan) 3--Galt, Pidhirny (Wylie) ... 4--Galt, Pidhirny Wylle, Marchand) . 16:12 Penalties -- Goegan, Hildebrand 3, Buck, Singleton. Second Period 5--St. Catharines, Sullivan .. 6---Galt, Pidhirny 7--S8t. Catharines, 'Se: (McIntyre) .. 8--Galt, Burch: Tkachuk) 9--St Catharines, Toppazzini COBBAN) i... vsuisssrsrrva pgs | 1 10--Galt, Pidhirny (Wylk Tkachuk) .. . 16:4 Penalties--Kodatsky 2. Gibson, Tka- chuk, Robertson. Third Period No scoring. Penalties -- Mulholland, Goegan 2, Buck, Tkachuk, McIntyre, Overtime Period 11--Galt, Wyllie (Marchand, wee 2:28 ees 3:08 vee.. 8146 BISONS DRAFT PLAYERS Buffalo, N.Y.,--The International League Buffalo Bisons announced the signing of shortstop Manuel Hidalgo and right-hand hurler Joa- quin Gutierrez. The 33-year-old Hidalgo was drafted from Chattan- 98a | of the Southern Association for Edge Teepees, Overtime Goal Early Overtime Tally by Wylie Enables Galt Rockets to Win 3rd and Deciding Game from St. Kitts and Right to Meet Barrie Flyers In Semi-Finals -- Teepees Give Galt Team a Real | Scare In Sudden-Death Tilt Galt, Feb. 26--Galt Rockets oust. ed 8t. Catharines Tee Pees from the OHA junior "A" playoffs with ® 6.5 overtime win here last night. Wiggle Wylie fired the deciding marker. The Rockets took the best-in. three series two straight. They meet Barrie Fliers in the semi-final. Each period of the tilt ended in a stalemate as the first period end. ed at 2-2, the second at 5.5, the third at 5.5. Blond Wiggie Wylie was the local hero as he potted th™® winning marker just 25 seconds af. ter the start of overtime play. Incidentally, that goal put Galt' in front for the first time in the' game as they came from behind in all three frames to tie the count. Harry Pidhirny was again the Galt scoring star as he connected for four goals. Hal Burcham and Wiggle Wylie each had singles for the Rockets. Teepee marksmen were Gib Ser- ! nates, vice with a pair, Bill McIntyre, Red Sullivan and Topper Toppazzini with one each. Toppazzini was the pick of the Teepee team. 8T. CATHARINES--Goal, Gruhl; de- fence, Buck, McIntyre; centre, Sullivan; wings, Toppazzini, Hildebrand; alter- Buschlen, Kodatsky, 8ervice, TORONTONIAN SETS RECORD IIamilton, Bermuda--L. 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Penalties to Lowe and Ouellette gave the rival clubs a chance to ex. | tend the pressure in the first half | of the period. With about four min_ | utes left Gerry Scott, who had been | trying hard and coming very close | all night long, finally clicked on al KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS 8Y A LARGE PIECE OF ° §{ DRIFTWOOD, OZARK SINKS BENEATH THE WAVESS MR nad y OZARK RISKED «AND IS LIFE TO SAVE ME... IF | MUST, I'LL DIE TRYING TO SAVE HIMJ