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410 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, March 26, 1958 THALER GOES RIGHT INTO NET TO MAKE SURE with Kingston's goalie Johnson sprawled outside the crease, look- ing back to see the damage being done. In the background, feree Kennie Holmeshaw watches pro- ceedings as do a couple of King- ston defenders, Watts and Londry. Jack Thaler, Oshawa's spark plug in last night's Senior "B" playoff game here, is shown scor- ing his first of two goals -- and | making sure he gets the puck into the net as he pushes the disc right to the back of the hempen cage, a Bob Holden is just starting to give a cheer and Perc. Nichols, who started off the rush that pro- duced the goal, can be seen skat- ing away from the scene (he's | wearing the helmet). | Photo by Dutton--Times Studio "FORCES 7th GAME Kingston Goodyears Knot Series; Trounce Smith Truckmen 6-2 . Kingston Goodyears seem to have a defensive systema which can completely disrupt all team play . . . as far as the Oshawa Smith Truckmen are concerned. This was proven here last night at the Arena when the Goodyears whipped the locals 6-2 to force a seventh and deciding game in their OHA Senior "B" Eastern Ontario group finals. This was the second 6-2 loss in- a-row for the Truckmen, and this one hurt, for it was on home ice . and it also means that the team which once led the set 3-1 must now take the short end of the odds with the series tied and the last game to be played on King- ston' ice. That game will be played at the Memorial Centre in the Limestone City this coming Saturday night. PLAYED IT CLOSE In the first period, the teams elected to play it close to the vest, and but for a short outburst from the Truckers while Joe Watts of Kingston was off serving a penalty, all was quiet in a scoring way. As the second period opened, Ken White picked up a loose puck on a sloppy bit of clearing by Oshawa, and he swept in on Naylor, letting 80 a long shot from the left wing. Naylor had his knees apart on the shot evidently for it bounded between the pads and into the back of the net. It was a fluke goal, admittedly, but it was the With the warmer breezes blowing and the youngsters starting to throw the ball around on the corner lots, it's quite obvious that the summer baseball season is almost upon us. The Big League teams are hard at training and exhibition games are daily procedure and even the various Ontario leagues are getting organized. Here in Oshawa, the Oshawa Legion Minor Association is getting ready to launch their 1953 season for Bantam, Midget and Juvenile leagues and also seriously con- sidering the sponsorship of a Junior entry. The OBA ruling that cities over 30,000 must have a Senior "A" team in the new bracket formed, means that both Oshawa and Peterborough, if they enter the Lakeshore League (which is Inter. "A" calibre) will likely have to get special permission to compete in that circuit and will then clash in a separate playoff series late in August, in the first round of OBA Senior "A" playoffs. Don't know what will happen to the rating of Whitby and Bowmanville clubs, if they decide to use Oshawa players but we would expect that theyll be given special permission by the OBA to use any Oshawa players not already claimed by the Inter-County "Merchants" and the Oshawa Transporters, without affecting their status. It's just 80 years ago tomorrow, March 27, 1923, that a meeting was called down in Peterborough to iron out the big dispute in COBL circles. Due to a a difference of opinion as to a single schedule or double, and a proposed residence rule date of January 1st, Kingston, Cobourg, Belleville and Peterborough threatened to pull out of the COBL. The meeting resulted in almost the same as that except they had two groups with Oshawa, Leaside, Lindsay, Bowmanville and Port Hope forming the other section. "Jake" Solomon of the Liftlock City headed that minor "revolt" which however had an amicable ending. Yeah--those were the days of the real COBL rivalry! And while om this baseball subject, an interesting letter arrives from John Harris, President of the Oshawa Baseball Club, now at Havana, Cuba. John writes that he has met Mike Garbark and predicts plenty of popularity g Osh baseball fans for the personable big athlete. Jim Turner who was playing at 2nd base for TL, last season (same team that Don McAndrew caught for) signed to play with Oshawa. Ernie Goman has been trying to Turner to play with Waterloo this year. Turner, who is also an outstanding catcher, caught with Wilmington in 1951, had a fielding average of 954 at 2nd base and he can also play Srd base. He's a husky, six-footer and batted .310 last year, including 42 base hits, 7 triples and one homer and 47 bases-on-balls. Another top-flight ball player coming to Oshawa is Chuck Aleno, who John caught-up- with at Tampa. A veteran of the majors, he was with Cincinnati and also Rochester in the Inter. loop. Last year he hit 25 homers and led his league in RBI's. Like Turner, Aleno bats right-handed and also hit 24 doubles last year and apparently demanded a lot of respect, because he also drew 92 "walks". Johnny Van deMeer, who hurled two no-hiiters in succession a few years ago, was on hand at Tampa too. It looks as if the President of the Oshawa Merchants is certainly not wasting his time on this "pleasure trip" and therell be some mighty fine baseball talent in Oshawa uni- forms strolling through the park one day, when the merry, merry month of May rolls around. Oshawa Smith Truckmen ran into a very rough snag along their Senior "B" playoff trail when they dropped a 6-2 decision on their home ice last night to the Kingston Goodyears. The Goodyears came here determined to make a do-or-die stand against the Truckers in the 6th game, held Oshawa even in the first period, scored the first goal of the By THE CANADIAN PRESS It would have to be seen to be believed. The final buzzer sounded in the Barrie Arena Wednesday, Toronto Marlboros lost the game 6-3 and their best-of-nine semi-finals of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series with Barrie Flyers. Then out on the ice strode Staff Smythe, Marlies' manager, grinning from ear to ear, to shake the hand of Flyer coach Hap Emms. It was an awful sight; two bitter hockey enemies giving each other Barrie Flyers Oust Toronto Marlboros the glad hand. But it was the sport- ing thing to do, and the partisan Barrie fans were pleased that the feud ended that way. The two ice warriors crossed swords as soon as the 1952-53 sea- son began and the tempo of the battle increased as the schedule ran its course. Marlboros appeared to have the edge for most of the season but in the late stages the Flyers hustled up the point ladder and finally booted the Toronto Jijuiors off the top perch in the inal standings. game in the secon stanza and then after Jack Thaler had tied it. up, they struck back for two more goals and were victory-bound. After | Goodyears had made it 4-1 in the 3rd period, the Truckmen struck again, | Thaler getting his second goal on a back-hand slider that clicked and | in the next few minutes, the tide might have turned. Scott, Samolenko, | Dickens with a couple of pot shots from "cover-point" and Jedd Wilson who missed a yawning net, all had great chances and came close to making the score 4-3 and perhaps 4-4 in that brief fhuTy but the visitors rallied and bolstered their defensive tactics and Oshawa's big' chance was gone. Now the Smith Truckmen, who are still very much in the picture, will have to win the 7th and deciding game on Kingston ice, Saturday night. It should be a thriller-diller game and attract the biggest crowd of all time to the new Kingston Memorial Centre. Truck- ers can still win this series--they've won in Kingston more than once Sls Jour wna ¥ cy come through again, they'll be favorites to win e OHA hy e winner of this group against Lyndhurst Motors in the semi-finals, next week. Sotre Vp Toronto Mariboros are out of the OHA Junior "A" playoffs and the Galt Black Hawks are hanging on the ropes. Up at Barrie Iast night the Flyers won 6-3 to end what to have been a 9-game series, in the 7th contest. The report tells us that goalie Johnny Henderson was not in his that the score was 2-| stuck to hockey but came back to win their over H. F. Gorrie of round, 12-10, to W. Hamilton sports scribe, was a The Stanley Cup playoff games and the home teams are still favored to cop these verdicts . . . St, Boni- face Canadiens won the Manitoba Junior hockey title and they meet Fort Willlam in the first playoff round . . . The St. Boniface team is picked to go far along the Memorial Cup trail . , . The CAHA has rein- stated the Quebec Citadels which puts them in the Memorial Cup play- offs (didn't you just know something like that could happen?) while the QAHA has suspended the Citadels over the ruckus in 'Montreal, JACK THALER « « +» the spark-plug straw that broke the Trucker's back. They had to come to'the Good- years for the remainder of the game and with that team playing a very fore-checking game which saw the puck-carrier shadowed and harried at every turn, the coming became more of a going. THALER IN FORM Jack Thaler, the Oshawa spark- plug throughout the series, scored on a scramble around the King- ston net to tie the game 1-1, but Murray bashed home two in - a - row for a 3-2 lead at the end of the second. Ken White scored another in the fore Thaler got his second for Osh- awa to make it 4-2. DeLuca scored Murray looked around quite sur- prised when the puck lodged in the twine. Oshawa was short-handed at the time of that second Murray goal. to make it 5-2 and then as the game ended White got his third tally, a neat unassisted effort for the final score of 6-2. Thaler's goal in the second period to tie the game came after Johnson made a save on Holden's shot from Perc Nichols' pass. Thaler shuffled the puck away from Johnson and tossed it into the empty net. Kingston argu- ed the point of whether the play should have been called, but the referees ruled otherwise. Don Murray potted his two goals within two minutes of each other to make it 3-1. His first was a long bard shot from left wing . . . a pretty goal. His second was an unconscious deflection of Ted Nich- Coach Max Silverman Has Secret Workout KITCHENER (CP)--Coach Maxie Silverman of Sudbury Wolves had spectators ejected from the Water- loo Arena Wednesday as the Wolves went through an hour's workout. They included two mem- bers of the Kitchener - Waterloo Dutchmen. The workout was in preparation for tonight's opening of the all-Ontario senior hockey finals here. Silverman declined to predict the outcome, but sald his team will make a real showing. The Wolves play here tonight and Friday night and return home for three games next week. 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Stop "FIRST" at . .. ONTARIO MOTOR SALES LIMITED KING & MARY STS. DIAL 3-2256 LOOK FOR THIS "HIGH SIGN" © # A------------ CLIFF BARA s on new lon y 162 KING sr, EAST x F QUALITY Gat YLT > f a opening minutes of the third be- 17 olson's shot from the blue-line.' In the last period, with the chips down, the Truckmen went all out. Kingston stuck to their great de- fensive play with Ted Nicholson acting like a traffic cop at centre ice . . . seeing that all the work was done and done correctly, and chipping in his own two skate's worth when the bit was needed. MAKES IT 4-1 Oshawa had to go all ok... and mistakes resulted. Walt Gerow picked up the puck on one of these and fed Ken White for the latter's second goal to make it 4-1, The puck® went high into the net, glanc- ing off Naylor's free hand. Joe Watts was off for charging when Jack Thaler rapped home his second marker. This came on a fast passing show . . . one of the few on which the Oshawa team clicked all night Jong, As time ran out, Murray scoop- ed the puck ahead to Al DeLuca and the 'Duke' batted it behind Naylor to put the game on ice 5-2. In the last minute of play Ken White scored his third goal on a fine solo rush. He streaked in on left wing and hit the lower right-hand corner of the net. The game ended 24 sec- onds later, 6-2, for Kingston. OSHAWA SMITH TRUCKMEN--- Goal, Naylor; defence, Dickens, McBeth, Peters, Nichols; forwards, Scott, Samolenko, Wilson, Nelson, Thaler Holden, Hooper, Berwick, and Boniface. KINGSTON GOODYEARS Goal Johnson; defence, Watts, Londry, Stewart, Nicholson; for- wards, Gerow, White, Myke, Mac- Gregor, Partis, DeLuca, Murray, McKeown and Tinkess. Officials -- Ken Holmeshaw, To- ronto; Pearcey Allen, Oakville. 1ST PERIOD Scoring. -- none, Fonaities -- Watts (charging) 2ND PERIOD 1--Kingston, White .... 2--Oshawa, Thaler (Holden, Nichols) 3--Kingston, Murray (DeLuca) 4--Kingston, Murray (Nicholson, DeLuca) ... 16.43 Penaltics -- Dickens (interfer- ICE CHIPS FROM AHL By THE CANADIAN PRESS A third-period goal by Bob Sa- bourin gave Pittsburgh Hornets a 2-1 victory over Hershey Bears Wednesday night as the Hornets opened defence of their Calder Cup championship of the American Hockey League. (Nelson, Dickens) Pittsburgh tallied first as Chu 7--Kingston, De! | Blair slipped a 25-foot_shot § (M .. 18.32 | the net while Hershey's Lorne 19.36 'guson was in the penalty box. igh - stick-| Hershey's lone goal came as rookie Gordie Wilson fired a 20- foot shot past goalie Gil Mayer, The winner of the Pittsburgh- Hershey series will play a best-of- |seven series with the victor of the series between Cleveland and Syr- 'acus. 3RD PERIOD 5--Kingston, White (Gerow) 9.14 6--Oshawa, Thaler ing) 12.35. Shots on goal: On Naylor . 8 15 15-38 On Johnson i910 7-26 Want to buy, sell or trade? A Classified Ad and the deal is made. Want to get @ NEW idea of topcoat values? Come in and see our grand collection of smart new styles . . . each one meticulously crafted for long wear. A wonderful choice of weaves and colors. Quality in fabrics and tailor- ing detailing such as you haven't seen in years at this low price! ENGLISH FANCY TWEEDS GABARDINES ENGLISH SHOWERPROOL » COVERTS FROM 42.50 GORD. 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