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PAGE TEN TN THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE 8, 1951 " THURSDAY, FEBRUARY They'll Know Oshawa Ice "AB" BARNES REGINA TISDALL BILL ROBINSON JIMMIE CASBURN y Peoples Credit Jewellers of the Toronto Hockey League cavort Migr Rg ihn tonight against the Mercantile League All-Stars in a benefit fund exhibition game, these four players shown above will not need to worry about any special corners or the way to the dressing rooms. They've all played here in Oshawa plenty of times--dozens, in fact, and usually in an Oshawa sweater. Tisdall was a former Oshawa senior and Inter. player, "Ab" Barnes, a homebrew product, played both Junior "A and Senior "A" for Oshawa. Bill Robinson was with the Generals two seasons ago and Jimmie Casburn, who is employed in Oshawa, played i eague hockey here last season. ersantile Leag y --Photos by Turofsky. -------- GPORT SNAPSHOTS (3) In the only Junior "A" game played last night, Guelph defeated Stratford Kroehlers 6-4, and Ken Laufman got a couple of goals to move up into second place in the Junior "A" scoring race again, just a notch behind Lou Jankowski. Chuck Henderson was a Guelph star with Andy Bathgate and Herb Dickenson scoring one apiece also. That win keeps those Biltmores climbing right along in a very solid 4th-place spot and not so far from taking the third position from Toronto Marlboros, * * + With no Junior "A" games on tap, interest tonight centres on the exhibition game at the Oshawa Arena in"which Toronto reoples will tangle with the Oshawa Mercantile League All-Stars. As mentioned yesterday, this is a regular re-union affair with ten players of Oshawa affiliation being on hand in the Peoples uniforms to do battle with the local homebrew boys of the Mercantile League. It should be a peppery exhibition game and one certainly worth seeing--not to mention that it is in reality a benefit game for the Mercantile League's injured players' fund. 4 * * Oshawa Generals travel up to St. Catharines on Friday (tomorrow) night and then on Saturday, the Windsor Spitfires invade Oshawa. These two games mean a lot to the Generals but the boys will be out to try for a win over the Teepees tomorrow night and trying even harder to lick the Spitfires here on Saturday. The Windsor team always puts on a good game in Oshawa and the last Windsor-Oshawa clash here gave the fans a real treat. Saturday night's game should be no exception, : * +* * ud In the British Consols curling competition for this district, played here yesterday, two Oshawa rinks reached the finals and because they are both local, the final game was postponed from late last night, until later this week or perhaps on Monday. Bill Brownlee and Dr, John Brock each steered his entry into the final bracket and regardless of which rink wins, Oshawa will be well-represented in this famous single-rink competition, which eventually winds up with the Dominion Macdonald Brier curling championship finals, at Halifax, * * * SCISSORED SPORT -- (By The Canadian Press) -- Conn Smythe, President of Maple Leaf Gardens, Wednesday night squelched 'what he described as "one of the most amazing rumors of a hockey trade" he has ever heard. Reached in Florida where he is on vacation, Smythe said there is nothing at all to a story prevalent here Wednesday that Toronto Goalie Al Rollins, defenceman. Bill Barilko and forward Ray Timgren would be traded to Chicago Black Hawks for goalie Harry Lumley. "Why that's amazing," said Smythe, "I don't know how such a rumor could get started. None of those players have ever beén men- (Continued On Page 11) ------ ALL STAR BENEFIT GAME Mercantile Hockey TONIGHT ADMISSION 50c¢ JR. "A" HOCKEY | SATURDAY NIGHT | -- 8:30 -- Windsor Oshawa Generals Adults $1.00 - $1.25 @ Children 75¢ Tickets on Sale 10 a.m. Tomorrow at Arena Ice Skating Friday Night (Children's Night) ARENA ---- Fer 1 ejected from the rink for grabbing New York, Feb. 8--(AP)--Joe DiMaggio, the millio1-dollar centre fielder of the New York Yankees, and George Kell, brilliant third- baseman for Detroit Tigers, have signed. their 1951 contracts, but many of baseball's stars remain out of the old. DiMaggio yesterday accepted his third straight $100,000 contract via telephone from his San Francisco home. Kell, after turning down two proposals, came into the fold a $.,000 raise over his 1950 salary. Kell is the highest-paid Tiger play- er. The capitulation of DiMaggio leaves only Ted Williams of Boston Red Sox and Stan Musial of St. Louis Cardinals among the upper- bracket players unsigned. Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh is working on the last half of a two-year contract calling for $65,000 a season. Williams is expected to sign at the same terms he worked under last aL Detroit for an estimated $40,000, year, a reported $125,000. Musial is said to be angling for $100,000. Other Stars Miffed Other stars in the gilt-edge brack- ets who have not signed include Johnny Sain of Boston, Preacher Roe of Brooklyn, Andy Pafko of Chi- cago, Larry Jansen of New York, Del Ennis of Philadelphia, Wally Westlake of Pittsburgh and Howie Pollet of S*. Louis in the National. In the American Leagu , such stars as Dom Dimaggio of Boston, Bob Lemon of Cleveland, Hall New- houser of Detroit, Yogi Berra of JOE DiMAGGIO ACCEPTS '51 CONTRACT VIA PHONE-- KELL INKS INCREASE New York, Ferris Fain of Philadel- phia, Ned Garver oi St. Louis and Eddie Yost of Washington have not signed. The Cardinals continue to encoun- ter difficulties lining up their vet- eran crew. Ted Wilks, portly relief pitcher who pitched or! 2¢ innings last year, balked at signing a con- ditional contract calling for $1. Card owner Fred Saigh said he had offered to pay Wilks 75 per cent of his $17.500 1950 salary provided Ted shows enough during spring . > HOCKEY -RESULTS - OOUNDOOONN~ NATIONAL 4 Ww training Saigh also revealed that Pitcrers Red Munger and Fowie Pollet are dissatisfied. Other Card regulars unsigned include Tinos Slaughter and Red Schoendienst. Other players signed yesterday include Infielder Bob Ramazzotti, Chicago Cubs; Pitchers Steve Rid- zik and Blix Donnelly, Philadel- phia Phils; Catcher Paul Burris, |. Boston Braves; Infielder -Johnny Pesky, Boston Red Sox; and In- fielder Bobby Adams and Pitcher Bob Sanders, Cincinnati. LEAGUE 17 111 143 .. 12 30 10 132 180 Wednesday's Results Toronto M Final Round OSHAWA CURLERS IN FINAL, THIS SECTION Detroit New York ..... : Future Games Tonight--Detroit at Chicago. OHA MAJOR SERIES WLTP A xSt. Mike's 27 Two Local Rinks Reach In District British Consols Elimination Bill Brownlee and Dr. John Brock Skip Their Entries Into Last Bracket Local Section Honors, Ontario Single Rink Competition Bill Brownlee's rink and the foursome skipped by Dr. John Brock reached the finals of sub- section "B," which is this Osh- awa area, along with Agincourt, Locust Hill, Stouffville, efc., In the British Consols, single-rink elimination, yesterday. With an odd number of entries, a preliminary round and a series of byes was necessary in the morning but the time the rinks had reached the semi-final stages, an all-Oshawa finish was assured. R. E. Walion's rink was -the only outside entry to survive their first game and Dr. J. Brock's men ousted him in the second round. In the semi-final games, which were both very keenly contested, Bill Brownlee's rink curled in superb fashion to oust Al Park- hill"s strong rink and in the other bracket, Dr. Brock's men nosed out Charlie Peacock's rink by only one shot--on the last end. Peacock's glant-killers defeated Paul Michael's rink, picked by many to take it all, in the first round. Peacock kept on winning until the semi-finals and was all tied up on the 10th end but Brock scored two in the 11th and the best Peacock could do was a single on the 13th and final end, though he just missed a possible winning shot, by a scant inch. Ross Tarlton and Charley Cassels' Clash for Honors CURLING SCORES -- Preliminary Round -- OSHAWA ... OSHAWA Fred Harding, Wally Butler, Morey Reed, Fred Moss, Rae Halleran, Bert White, Chas. Peacock, Paul Michael, skip, skip, OSHAWA AGINCOURT Eldon Kerr, W. Watson, Pard Canning, P. Woolhead, Dr. A. Harding, F. Thompson, Dr. John Brock, L. E. Ross, skip, .. «14; skip, . .. ... AGINCOURT OSHAWA R. 8. Green, W. Kitson, K. Walton, Nick Jenkins, W. Walton, Bob Wright, R. E. Walton, Don Holden, skip, .... skip, ........ OSHAWA Waddy Oke, Gord. Henderson, Maurice Hart, Les Eveniss, skip, . (A bye) 9; -- First Round -- OSHAWA STOUFFVILLE Lew . Beaton, H. Davis, Bud Moore, J. Davis, Al. Morrison, C. Brillinger, Al. Parkhill, W. Brillinger, skip, ... .. skip, OSHAWA LOCUST HILL Ivan Parrott, L. Armstrong, Al Webster, J. Grant, Rev. J. Pereyma, G. Bennett, W. J. Brownlee, R. J. McDonald, skip, *...:... 13; skip, 6. OSHAWA OSHAWA >. Peacock, .L. Eveniss, skip, «i. skip, JSHAWA AGINCOURT Dr. J. Brock, R. E. Walton, . Ba 17; 14; -- Semi-Finals -- OSHAWA OSHAWA W. J. Brownlee, .. J. Parkhill, skip, ....... 13; skip, . OSHAWA OSHAWA Dr. J. Brock, Chas. Peacock, skip, .... 0 12; skip, GUELPH BILTS Hamilton, Feb. 8--(CP)-- Charley | Cassels and Koss Tarlton, rink | mat: . for many years, mee* today | for local British Consols curling | honors and the right to represent | Ontario District 7 in the final Dlag-{ downs at Kingston Feb 23. Cassels advanced to the last round Wednesday by defeating Bill Meak- inc and A. D. Somerville while Tarl- ton reached the charmed circle with an 11-8 victory over Russ Armstrong and a 13-5 win over the veteran Bill Hardie. Tarlton had a comparatively easy time in the semi-fin !s but had to come from behind a two-shot de- ficit on the eleventh end against Armstrong after trailing from the sixth end. Armstrong had a chance to at least force an extra end but hig last stone wis wide of the mark aud left Tarlton with two. Cassels coasted in. St. Mike's and Tigers In Tie By THE CANADIAN PRESS As usual when Toronto St. Michael's and Hamilton Tigers meet, extra-curricular activities played a prominent part in last night's Ontario Hockey Association Major game. The final score was 4-4 but the game was livened by a wild scram- ble involving players, police and patrons, In the third period one fan was the stock of Gord Hannigan and refusing to let go. Two burly po- licemen stepped in before things broke loose. Jack Meldrum scored three goals for St. Mike's, whose first-place margin was narrowed to five points. Bill MoCracken got the fourth. Murray Comfort, Harvey Fraser, Tom Smelle and Ab Conick scored for the Tigers. 'The Bengals were without Centre Johnny Conick, who will be side- lined for five weeks with an in- jured shoulder. St. Mike's iced minus Peanuts O'Flaherty. Elsewhere fans battled the weather to get to games. In Water- loo Dutchmen lost another home fixture, this time to Toronto Marl- oros. Marlies rammed in four goals in the third period to tri- umph 5-2 in the O.H.A. Jr. "A" event. ' TOP KROEHLERS, LAUFMAN TWO Stratford, Feb, 8 -- Guelph Bilt- mores registered a 6-4 victory over the Kroehlers here last night in an OHA Junior "A" contest. Ken Laufman of the Bilts moved nearer the league point leadership with a pair or goals. Chuck Henderson with two, and Andy Bathgate and Herb Dicken- son with one each were the other Guelph scorers. Gord Myles got two and Larry Lemenchik and Ray Ross one each for the Kroehlérs. Guelph -- Goal, Wilson; defense, Lucyk, Houghton; centre, Laufman; wings, Murphy, Henderson; altern- ates, Howell, Bathgate, Dickenson, Guidolin, Theberge, Kulik, Fontin- ato, Prentice, Stratford -- Goal, Armstrong, Bennett; de- Nudds; centre, Bailey; wings, Myles, Lemenchick; alternates, Salter, Uniac, Aitken, Williams, Leckie, Ross, Henri, Wood. Officials--Pat Patterson, Newmar- ket; Andy Bellemer, Toronto, . First Period 1--Guelph, Laufman (Dickenson) 2--Stratford, Lemenchick (Myles, Bailey) 3--Guelph, Henaerson (Murphy, Laufman) Penalties -- Aitken (2), Nudds, Guidolin, Theberge. Second Period 4--Stratford, Ross (Aitken, Henri) . 5--Stratford, Myles (Nudds, Armstrong) Penalties--Murphy (major), Aitken (major), Bailey, Houghton. Third Period 6--Guelph, Lauiman (Henderson, Howell) 7--Guelph, Dickenson (Bathgate, Theberge) ... 8--Guelph, Henderson (Murphy, Laufman) 8--Guelph, Bathgate 10--Stratford, Myles (Lemenchick, Bailey) Penaltles--Aitken, Guidolin, Lauf- man. fense, Lucyk, co 11:47 GILLIES NUDGE EXETER « London, Feb, 8.--(Reueis) --uil- lingham Town defeated Exeter City 2-1 in an English League Third Division south soccer game on Wed- nesday. RUGBY RRESUTS London, Feb. 8. -- (Reuters) -- Welsh Universities defeated Eng- lish Universities 6-3 and United Ser- vices Portsmouth defeated Royal Naval College Greenwich 11-3 in Rugby Union matches played yes- terday. Phone 3198 VIGOR OIL Co. Lid. FOR THE VERY BEST NO. 1 STOVE OIL 78 Bond St. West: Here's One Hockey Player Who Was Really Hot Stuff -- In Fact He Was On Fire Wingham, Ont, Feb 8--(CP)-- When Gord bisset caught fire in a hockey game here he did it literally. Late in the second period: the other night the referee stopped the game after smelling smoke. A check through the crowd failed to turn up any signs of fire. Then one of the players noticed that something inside Bisset's sweater was smouldering, The sweater was rippzd off and it was found that a towel he had been wearing around his neck was afire, T apparently from a cigarette butt tossed by someone in the arena. Uninjured, the right winger went on 'o score three goals for Godrich in the game with Lucknow. Sid Smith Scores Two, Holds Rocket By MEL SUFRIN Canadian Press Staff Writer The form players had a field day in the National Hockey League Wednesday. All six teams were in action and 0. | the results went according to a pattern clearly outlined in previous games this season. The league-leading Detroit Red 'Wings once again made life miser- able for Harry Lumley, who used to tend goal for them until traded to Chicago Black Hawks this season. 10. | They buried Lumley under a bar- rage of goals as they blasted the last-place Hawks 11-3 for the highest-scoring game of the season. In Toronto, the second-place Maple Leafs maintained their mas- tery over Montreal, handing the 9. | third-place Canadiens a 3-1 setback, their ninth in 11 games at the hands of the Leafs this season. In Boston, it was another old story as the fifth-place New York Rangers and the fourth - place Bruins, two teams with the most tie games to their credit this season, wound up in a 2-2 deadlock. Rocket Fails to Score About the only thing that might be described as unusual was the fact that Maurice (Rocket) Richard failed to score a goal. Toronto's Sid Smith was given the job of shadowing the league- leading goal-scorer and did an ef- fective job. What's more he got two of Toronto's three goals to the de- light of 14,083 fans in Maple Leaf Gardens. The forward line of Smith, Teeder Kennedy and Tod Sloan looked after the Toronto scoring. Sloan got the first Toronto goal before Normand Dussault tallied for Mont- real in the first period. Kennedy assisted on Sloan's first-period goal and the one by Smith in the third. In Detroit, 10,182 fans saw the teams stick strictly to hockey, even if it was rather one-sided. Referee George Gravel didn't hand out a single penalty in the high-scoring affair, Plenty of Scoring Gordie Howe, pace-setter in the leagre scoring race, accounted for two goals and assisted on another, while defenceman Red Kelly, rookie Glen Skov and Gaye Stew- art got two each. Jimmy Peters, Bob Goldham and Ted Lindsay got the others. Roy Conacher, Ray Powell and Ernié Dickens scored for the Hawks. Lumley, with virtually no defence in front of him, made 41 saves in a futile effort to stem the Detroit scoring. tide. Terry Sawchuk in the Detroit nets had a comparatively 32 | easy time, handling 25 shots suc- cessfully. The 6,602 Boston fans wére the smallest crowd there of the season. It was the sixth tie in 12 games between the two teams this year. Alex Kaleta and Pentti Lund, the latter saving thé tie with his goal late in the third period, scored for New York, Veteran Woody Dumart and Johnny Peirson got the Boston 3 | goals. g By 3-2 Cou Belleville Rockets Victorious nt Over Oshawa = hd Pts 18 8 3117 8 42 xMarlboros 26 16 9 1111 92 36 Hamilton .. 33 12 18 3121 142 7 Kit.-Wat. . 34 11 20 3120151 25 x--Marlboros and St. Mike's have 4 Hamilton Locals Blow Early Lead To Enemy -- Secreen- Shot in Last Frame Breaks Tie and Wins Very Rough Game The Oshawa Junior Beés trav- elled down to Belleville last night and absorbed a 3-2 setback at the hands of the Rockets in & bruising and tight Central "B" league hockey game. Belleville opened the scoring in the first period, But the Bees came back and popped home two for a lead heading into the second period, The Rockets scored one in that period for a tie and they got the winner on a screen shot with less than five minutes to go in thé game, Opens the Scoring . That first goal came off the stick of Strahan with the help of Des-. jardins around the six minute mark. Not 60 seconds later, Bud Hillman on the Oshawa defence got into a tripping penalty to which he ob- jected too vociferously and so re- ceived a 10 minute misconduct. Halfway through the stanza, Gord "Sudden" Deeth flashed the Bees into a 1-1 tie when he con- nected on a pass from Ted DeGray. The Oshawans continued to dom- inate the play for the remainder of the period and with but 15 seconds left in the period, Ted DeGray slipped home a pass from George Brabin and Fred Etcher to push the locals out in front 2-1. Almost all of the second period the teams roamed over the . ice without denting the twine. Both Pallister in the Oshawa nets and Tripp in the Rocket citadel played great games. Came the late minutes of that sessicn, and a neat break by Strahan shifted the puck onto Mason's stick for the goal that made the game a 2-2 tie. Go All Out It was in the final period that both clubs pulled out all the stops. They went all out on offence and yet still couldn't beat the terrific netminding at either end of the rink. About the same point in the third period as that in the second when Strahan broke loose, the Quinte City crew were setting up a power play. Trumble got the disc, waited for someone to screen the goalies' view and then let go a blazer into the rigging that won the game. Next * game for 'the Oshawans takes plac> next Monday night when the team plays host to those same Rockets in a return tilt. BELLEVILLE ROCKETS -- Goal, Tripp; defence, Trumble, Green; centre, Turland; wings, Mantle, Mason; Alts, Murphy, Desjardins, Strahan, Gilmore, Brown, Doran, Carey and Houle, 7 OSHAWA BEES--Goal, Pallister; defence, Hillman, Marshall; centre, Etcher; wings, Lawrence, Chircoski; Alts., DeGray, Deeth, Brabin, O'- Connor, Copeland, Wilson, wards and Johnson, Referees--Reeson and Holliway. Call McLELLAN'S FIRESTONE TIRES © Passenger ® Truck : ® Tractor ©® Factory Retreading EASY TERMS | ALL STAR BENEFIT GAME | TONIGHT PEOPLES CREDIT JEWELLERS OSHAWA MERCANTILE ALL STARS Adnmusaion 50c IN AID OF INJURED ALL PROCEEDS PLAYERS FUND Ed- | y : Future Games X Friday--Hamilton at Marlboros. SUMMARY |, sii "ihe o St. Mike's. : 1st. Period . Belleville, Strahan, (Desjardins) . Oshawa, Deeth, (DeGray . Oshawa, Degray, (Brabin, Etcher) Penalties -- Green, Desjardins, (Minor and misconduct), : Hillman (minor and misconduct). 2nd Period 4. Belleville, Mason, (Strahan) Penalties--Turland (major). 3rd Period 5. Belleville, Trimble ........ 15:46 Penalties -- Desjardins, Turland and Marshall, Pres. Campbell Hints 70-Game Sked to Change Detroit, Feb, 8 -- (AP) -- Presi- dent Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League disclosed Wednesday night that the league's Board of Governors, worried by a decline in attendance, is con- sidering shortening the 70-game schedule. Campbell, here for a Detroit- Chicago game Wednesday night, said a late survey showed Chicago is down 25 per cent over last year's turnout while Boston and New York each have declines of 15 per cent and Detroit eight per cent. "We are not convinced that the 70-game season is the perfect answer for the schedule and we are still trying to find a solution," Campbell declared. Campbell added that a full study is being made to Jing, eats for the box office decline. He said some critics feel the 70-game season should be shortened by 10 games, Campbell headed for Chicago where he will confer Thursday with Bill Tobin, owner of Chicago Black Hawks. Subject of the dis- cussion will be the conduct of Coach Ebble Goodfellow in Saturday's game at Toronto. . Referee Hugh McLean was re- ported to have been roughed up by some of the Chicago players and Campbell is conducting a personal investigation. OHA JUNIOR A P'W L Barrie 40 Windsor ....40 Marlboros. . 39 Guelph .... 40 St. Cathar. 40 Oshawa 39 Galt Stratford .. 42 St. Mike's . 40 Waterloo .. 42 5 35 Wednesday's Result 6 Stratford : Futuré Games Friday--St. Michael's at Barrie; Marlboros at Windsor; Galt at Guelph; Waterloo at Stratford; Osh awa at St. Catharines. : Saturday -- Stratford at Water. loo; Windsor at Oshawa. Sunday--St. Catharines at Marl. boros; 'Guelph at St. Michael's. (Ep | A a SI_22Ra8S g B EENNES SEES 8 g More than 1,000 women are amon the approximately 28,500 Canadians who participate in tar- get or other types of organised recreational rifle shooting. CANADA'S FINES? CIGARETTE TOPCOATS of Distinction Johnston's invite you to inspect this advance showing of spring Topcoats in pre-selected BRITISH FABRICS. : Tailored by Society Brand and by Parkley to the highest standards in the tailoring trade. $55.00 to $70.00 MEN'S WEAR AT JOHNSTON!