BUT THAT WAS LAST YEAR Sid Smith Had Outstanding Success To Top Bidder (Champ Nashua Will Be Sold [§ | NEW YORK (AP)--Executors of THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, December 8, 1955 18 | CANADA OUTDOORS When An Important Goal Was Needed | MONTREAL (CP) -- If Toronto|team two goals ahead; and the Maple Leafs wanted a "crucial"| proximate goal--the one bringing goal in 1954-55, Sid Smith was the a team to within one goal of a tie- man to get it for them, National! Thirty of Smith's 33 goals fell| key League statisticians into the "important" category-- Hockey a j givin him an average of .909. It But it isn't much consolation to was far and away the best among € ith, last year's all-star left players who scored more than 20 winger: After 17 games this season | goals during the season. he's still looking for his first goal.| Smith topped the league in get- To assess the value of individual ting first goals in a game wth 10 players in relation to "important" | and also had seven tying markers goals the NHL devised a compli-| and four winners. cated system and applied it to last' Don McKenney of Boston scored season's play. {the most tying goals--eight--and FIVE TYPES | Maurice Richard of Montreal and Five types of goals were classed Earl Reibel of Detroit netted the as important: The first goal in a most winners--six. game; a goal that tied the score; MORE RUNAWAYS a goal that put a team ahead: the] The two teams who led the insurance goal--a goal putting a'league all season -- Detroit and Montreal -- had more runaway | games and hence a lower average ; k." | of important goals. Only .662 of Detroit's tallies and .667 of Mont- real's were classed as important. Toronto, involved in a lot of close games, had the highest aver- age--.810. Bernie Geoffrion of Montreal, who tied for the league goal-get- ting lead and won the scoring championship, had only .579 of his |§ goals classed as important. Of Richard's 38, .711 were in the crucial group. 8 Several players came up With perfect 1.000 averages but scored few goals. Fleming Mackell of Boston, with 11 goals, was the top goal-getter with a perfect mark. American Leaguers Puts Strict Limit On Visits To Mound CHICAGO (AP)--The American League acted Tuesday to vd Pe the time of games by permitting ! only one visit to the pitcher's franchise today appe mound by a manager. coach or|for either Toledo, Ohio, non-player. Fla. Earl Hilligan, league's service bureau, Syracuse SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Syr- Chiefs' International League eared headed or Miami, | Syracuse owner Martin Haske head saig""s| announced Tuesday hat be nas jiolation of the rule will result in|received a second offer irom os ae removal | Miami interests to buy the fran- from the game. The league adonted| chise. Keith Kiggins, a représenta- the new rule unanimously after| tive of the Storer Broadcasting considerable discussion about the Company of Miami made him an length of games. | offer. average game in 1955 lasted Haske said the Storer interests 2 The i 31 minutes. told him they were not interested A previous rule that permits the in consolidating their bid with that catcher and one infielder to con- of Sidney Salomon of St. Tous, sult with the pitcher was not| Salomon, an executive of the ol changed |St. Louis Brows, has offered fo OSA Suports Ben Hogan Sues Its Umpires By 'Ben Hogan Sues For Using His Pix In Book PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Golfer Ben Hogan is asking for $400,000 Headed For Miami HE 2 WINS GRID TROPHY | Ken Carpenter, Saskatchewan | Roughrider halfback and scoring | leader of the Western Interpro- | vincial 'Football Union, holds the | Jeff Nicklin trophy awarded to | 'him in Toronto The award is | made annually for the most val- | uable player in the WIFU. He scored 90 points in league competition this season. Lt.-Col. | Jeff Nicklin, flying wing and end with Winnipeg's Grey Cup- | winning teams of the 1930s, was | killed in action while serving | with a Canadian paratroop bat- talion in the Second World War, Officers and men of his unit do- nated the trophy in his memory. (CP Photo) Chiefs agent of a group of Miami bus- | inessmen. | The Chiefs' owner said the Tol-| ledo offer came from Fred | Galliers, representing a civic com- mittee to return baseball to Toledo: Haske predicted that the league] would approve either franchise shift but he declined to discuss the amount of the various offers. Tuesday night, Haske announced he would hold off until Thursday on the disposition of the club. At the same time, Mayor Donald Mead"s office abfiousced tat a as 1 rally mass meeting baseball rally. ane the city «i: Jacques Plant » Holds His Lea ver Worsley torium Thursday night to decide finally the future of the Syracuse NEW YORK (CP) -- Montreal's Jacques Plante was a bit stingier franchise. | . (Grid Dutchmen | J Accuse Pro S. | but New York's Lorne Worlsey was {a lot busier last week as the two KITCHENER (CP) -- Kitchener- | damages from a New York pub-| Stern Measures HAMILTON (CP) -- The Ontario Amateur Softball Association wound up a three-day session Mon- day with a solid endorsement of the much-maligned man behind the mask--the baseball umpire. The OASA sub-committee and executive committee meetings lishing company for allegedly using Waterloo Dutchmen of the Ontario {pictures of him in a book on golf- Rugby Football Union Tuesday ac-| ing without his permission. cused teams in the Western Inter-| Lawyer Francis W. Sullivan filed provincial and Big Four unions of| the suit here Tuesday on Hogan's tampering wih their players. | behalf. A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc, Dutchmen president Len Croth of New York was named as the said unless the practice stops, the defendant. Dutchmen will invoke the Canadian | | la $1,000 penalty for offenders. "We have given certain club rep-| | continued a tight race at the top of the efficiency ratings for Na- tional Hockey League goaltenders. The steady Canadian netminder gave up one goal in each of three games during the week while blocking 68 df the 71 shots fired at him for a .958 average. That boosted his But Worsley stayed just one point the estate of William Woodward Jr., announced Tuesday that Nashua, the three year old cham- pion of 1955, and other horses of he Belair Stud will be sold to the highest bidder. The sale of the Belair stable, one of the :nost prominent in the United States, has been rumores since the death of Woodward, Oct. 30. The executors, the Hanove Bank and John W. Ludewig, callec for sealed bids to be received no later than 11 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 15, 1955. "Thereafter they will be opened by the executors and the succes ful bidders notified," said the bank and Ludewig, who was secretar: for the late sportsman, "All bids must be accompanied by a certi- fied cheque for 10 per cent of the amount bid or they shall be void." SECOND TO CITATION here have been various esti-'§ mates of the value of Nashua, sec- ond bigest money-winning horse ie the world. Nashua earned $752 550 by winning 10 of 12 races this vear--the most ever picked.up by a thoroughbred 'in one season. His total earnings are $945,415 and he stands second to Citation, 'who re- tired with $1,085,760. During his brief racing career, Nashua won seven races worth| £100,000 or more, including a win-| ner- take-all match race against Swaps at Washington Park, Chi- cago, last August. Swaps beat Nashua in the Kentucky Derby. Among stakes Nashua won this year were the Flamingo Stakes, | Florida Derby, Wood Memorial, the | Preakness, the Belmont Stakes and the Arlington classic--all $100,000 plus races--as well as the Dwyer and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Binky Palermo Ordered Before 'Pa. Commission Alberta Game | By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Alberta game officials checking on the take of big game in the province this season are also help- |ing hunters to find their quarry. Check points established in hunt- ling areas are playing a part as | information booths where hunters | can learn of likely game haunts land road and hunting conditions. Provincial authorities hope that | hunters will become better ac- quainted with game officers and learn more of the need for con- | servation, They emphasize too that information furnished by hunters "8 at check points while on their way gi home may help solve big game %| management problems. | REGULATION NECESSARY John Stelfox, government game biologist, said Alberta should be P big game animals than now is the | case. ¢ Hunting pressure on deer, clk nd moose should be regulated so Officials Find Check Points Prove Big Help that herds are culled periodically to keep the animal population from increasing. Mr. Stelfox said the pop Tati fon been reported and mule deer are increasing in numbers, D. E. Forslund, superintendent game for the province. said it JS. impossible to compare the over-all hunting yield with last year's. HE" said it will no be known until lo... cal distributors repoft at the end of the season how many licencés were sold. Supervision is also more exten sive than in the past. Hunters have. been asked to leave the lower jaw thins out without shooting when poor food causes the health of ani- mals to deteriorate. But when there is lack of good food, he said, undesirable vegetation begins to develop on the range and it can never support as large a popula- tion as it did before. The big game season opened in the province Nov. 1 and it is ex- pected a record 30,000 hunters will take the field before it closes Dec. 31. Hunters have a wider choice of game than they had in 1654, when only 8,000 licences were sold. Deer and moose are legal game in specified areas after being pro- tected since 1952 and the area where *'either sex" elk hunting is allowed is larger this year than last. Good stocks of deer and elk have of the Is they bag at check" points so scientists can obtain ins. formation on the survival of youn age composition of herds, * dence of diseases and other facts... i BRACCIA CALLED, BACK KINGSTON (CP)--Import quar. terback Gus Braccia of Queen's Golden Gaels, 1955 intercollegiate champions, has been ordered home to report for a United States Army medical, it was reported Monday night. Ne The report said Braccia, who led Gaels to their first championship * in 18 years, will leave Kingston Dec. 16 for his Philadelphia home.» Braccia, who played last year with Temple University, entered Queens. this fall following a %ry-out wi Ottawa Rough Riders ui the B Four Football Union. «dy EN EARLY START 77 A light snowfall in Otawa gives Olympic skier Anne Heggettveit | « chance to loose up after being | off skis since breaking her leg | early last season. Anne has been bicycling and doing some cross- | country running to get into shape | for the Winter Olympics in Italy, | Jan. 26 (CP Photo) | 2 7 2 Z | Toronto Argos Report Heavy Debts For '55 TORONTO (CP)--The Telegram said Tuesday that Toronto Argo- nauts of the Big Four Football League have lost $50,000 this sea-| son and that three law suits to be heard this month may increase the {loss to $100,000 : d season's record two inski i {Rugby Union rule which provides|n~'~ts from the previous week to|counsel, Morton Witkin, alleged back Tom Dublinski and lineman 1.939, PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The The story said losses during the STE ried = pine Es Sank Yomky) | and the team's share in the Grey Jo8 show why fie stand not forlolt| OOF Ete Loe we a andy ig 98 Neence as a fight) 4 otha League are suing Argos | The order, served on Palermo | for damages for signng quarter- that Palermo has a lon Gil Mains. § recon ot Argos also are being sued by association with "known criminals yp » 7 rr | 7 Y. VY 4 | ' were attended by 30 club hms: Sugar Ray Isn't |resentatives permission to talk to|behind Plante, even though he let|and gamblers." halfback Whizzer White, seeking from throughout the province. |our players on the basis of attend-|in five tallies. The little Ranger| Palermo's trainer, Jimmy Wil- his full season's salary of $9,500. Association president John Brady of Oshawa stressed the absolute authority of the umpire as four individual suspensions were upheld and a fifth lifted. 'Counting On Any ling tryout camps next } | Croth said. "What has happened is that the players are being pestered | | Psychology Edge Ito sign contracts both by these in-| CHICAGO (AP) -- Sugar Ray dividuals and by others whol season," | netminder had 108 shots to handle son, also was ordered to in his three games and stopped 103 before the commission. for a .954 mark and a .938 record for the year, also a two-point gain. Terry Sawchuk of Boston added Ths executive committee turned| Robinson doesn't believe there'll haven't even bothered to approach 8 point to his record, carding a down appeals from Fred Garrity and Norm Giroux of Capreol. Gar- rity received a two-year suspension and Giroux a one-year ban. both be any psychological factors in-| qc» volved in his bid to regain the| | middleweight championship against Bobo Olson Friday night but the halfbacks Billy Tonegusso and Players being sought by teams in the Big Four and WIFU include dating from last October for an the final ahi Sil aes' of Ouhawa the com- was against Rd OT ELIGIBLE The committee ruled that coach thinks otherwise. : Bobby Kuntz, fullback Cookie Gil- "I wouldn't say there are any vd and Pat Pagnon and tackle psy or disad- Arkell. ww sald. the la | Kem champion, "but I guess it's better to have won two over man than to have lost two." the Sarnia Imperials Sign Robinson was referring to tis| Doug Drew Of Western two victories over Olson in 1 SARNIA (CP)--Sarnia Imperials effort for the week and .918 for the year, while Chicago's Al Rollins had a bad week, slipping seven points to .916, and yielding third place to Sawchuk. Detroit's Glen Hall and ~ To- ronto's Harry Lumley each dropped four points to .9 . respectively. i 12 20d 503 He says he was cut because of in-| juries, despite a clause saying he The commission, in its citation, | couldn't be cut for that reason. | alleged that Palermo has engaged | in "acts prejudicial and detri- NAME 91 | mental to boxing." which under| ARCADIA, Calif. (AP)--To the state boxing code would deny by Swaps and Nashua, 91 kn him the privilege of a licence in|y;u0 heen nominated for the $100.- Pennsylvania. i Last Thursday the commisson 200 added 3 hits Haneep) had Palermo and Wilson befor it | on another matter--the investiga- Club announced Tuesday. tion of reports that one of Pal- ermo's fighters, heavyweight Coley Wallace, had said he was given a appear Youths' and Men's sizes--3 to 12. Pal ...... sedative before a fight in Cleve-|, land on Oct. 1, 1954 James McWhirter Ja and 1952. Sugar kayoed Olson in James McWhirter and Jack Spel 1050 and thes grooves off a 15: to play any softball in the 1956|round decision two years later. season because one-year suspen-| Olson, however, takes a different sions handed down last August by| view of the situation. = the Hamilton Fastball Association will still be in force after the final player-signing date next year. Suspension of Ronald Martin, a Windsor junior, was lifted. Martin was pended after a disp with umpire Harry Dewartz of Galt i a playoff game at Woodstock. The next OASA annual meeting will be held in Toronto the weekend of March 30-April 1, 1956, it was announced. "Sure he beat me twice," said| {the champion, "but thin, | changed. I'm the champ now. "The first time I went against | Robinson, I was scared. I was just |a green kid and while working | out for the fight, fans would crowd |around and watch me. 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