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4 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, March 26, 1956 11! Czech Hockey Fans Expect BigChanges |i By RONALD FARQUHAR PRAGUE (Reuters) -- Czecho- slovak hockey fans are expecting a drastic reorganization among players and officials of their na- tional team following its unex- pectedly poor showing at the 1956 Olympic winter Games at Cor- tina, Italy. Hockey is Czechoslovakia's na- tional sport and supporters are still discussing why the team fin- ished second-to-last in the final 1, winning only one game, after | t pou 2 |posed casting a wider set in the | confident expectations that it would gain at least third place. Russia won: with the United States a sur- prise second, Canada a disappoint- ing third and Sweden fourth. The Czechs used to pride them- selves on having the strongest hockey team in Europe. Their fail- ure at Cortina is regarded as some- thing of a national sporting dis- aster: Critics seeking the reasons for it have attacked almost every branch of the sport here, They accused players of being conceited, pampered prima donnas, lacking cameraderie and fighting spirit. They blamed club officials for lax discipline and "crawling before the players." DISPUTES CRITICIZED criticized its preparations for Cor-/} tina and complained about the! general conduc: of hockey in this! country. | A state committee which con-| trols all sport here took it to seri-| ously that it spent three weeks in-| vestigating the failure after the team returned from the Olympics. It criticized the bad "educa- tion" of players, outmoded tactics, too many international matches and too little attention to home compeitions. As remedies it pro- search for national team players, concentrating on developing young blood and systematically checknig on payers' 'education" coaches' work. TIGHTEN DISCIPLINE Press reports say the committee ! decided to tighten up discipline among players and transfer regula- tions. The reports also say that there will be a drive to improve play- ing standards and the committee will pick a "nursery" of about 30 diens players were tops at their most promising juniors and groom! positions in the National Hockey them for the national team. Lea Czechoslovakia also will turn for] -- advice to the Soviet Union, whom first time in and! © THREE HABS WIN INDIVID These three Montreal Cana- | dule. Bert Olmstead ) winger, set a record for assists. Jacques Plante (centre) won the gue during the regular sche- | Vezina Trophy as the leaguw¥s | (left), left- UAL NHL HONORS best goalie, and Jean Beliveau, centre, won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer. (CP Photo) | onto went in front 10. Wings won 13-1. It was no different here. Canadiens And Detroit |: sis One Game From Final By MEL SUFRIN Canadian Press Staff Writer NEW YORK (CP)--"We try. We skate. But they've got class." | In those words, Phil Watson, coach of New York Rangers, just | about summed up the difference | between his club. and Montreal { Canadiens. | The National Hockey League | champions defeated Rangers 3 - 1 | Saturday night and 5 - 3 Sunday night to take a 3-1 lead 4n the | best-of-seven Stanley Cup semi- | finals. | With the fifth game in Montreal | Tuesday night, Canadiens are | strongly favored to wrap it up then ' Jane earn # final berth for the sixth straight season. | The "class" Watson spoke of | showed in every department dur- ing the weekend games here in which Bert Olmstead, a left winger who set a season's record with 56 assists while scoring only 14 (times, switched to a goal-getting role and netted a pair in each game. BELIVEAU TOO i He scored at 2:11 and 13:33 of -- the first period Sunday night to give Montreal a 240 lead: Athough HOCKEY SCORES, STANDINGS she helped to teach when the - Russians took up modern hockey 1948. The 1 ues They also spoke of disputes be- for the |New York fought back to tie the | score in the same frame on gools |by Wally Hergesheimer and Bill 5 at Soviet coach, Chernishev, will be tween coaches and officials about Soviet coac S---- a -- International League | Chicoutimi 1 Shawinigan Falls 6 - the selection of the national team, invited to lecture to Czech coaches. Win Classic | Toledo-Marion 0 Cincinnati 3 | | ' i i Quebec League . LONDON (AP)--Cambridge led OLD COUNTRY SOCCER {all the way to snatch a narrow Quebec 8 Montreal 3 victory Saturday over Oxford in the Western League 1020d rowing y the university Calgary 5 Edmonton 2 hoat race on the Thames. | (Calgary wins best-of-five prairie ; The heavier Cambridge crew, | division semi-final 3-0) St. averaging 184 pounds, held off a| Winnipeg 6 Saskatoon 3 : strong late challenge by Oxford to| Winnipeg wins best = of - five| quarter-final 3-1) win by a length and a quarter prairie division semi-final 30) | : Alan Cup "The winning time was 18 min-| Victoria 3 New Westminster 1 {Fort Willlam 4 Winnipeg 11 utes. 36 seconds--only 46 seconds (Victoria leads 3-0 in three-team' (Winnipeg off the record set by a Cambridge round-robin coast division semi- quarter-final 4-0) Sil crew in 1948 : final) Exhibition Cambridge's 56th vie- Alan Cup Playolf Boston (NHL) 4 Saint John 8 times and Winnipeg 4 Fort William 1 | American' League seven semi-final 2-1) {Quebec 1 Montreal 4 semi-final 2-1) Memorial Cup Boniface 3 Port Arthur 8 ENGLISH LEAGUE {Crewe Alex 3 Carlisle U 1 Division I | Derby County 3 Chester 1 Birmingham C 1 Blackpool 2 | Halifax T 0 Tranmere R 2 Burnley 4 Sunderland 0 Hartlepools U 1 Grimsby T 3 Charlton A 0 Woverhampton W 2|Mansfield T 6 Rochdale 0 Luton Town 2 Aston Villa 1 Oldham A 3 Darlington 3 Manchester U 1 Bolton W 0 Scunthorpe U 1 Gateshead 1 Newcastle U 1 Huddersfield T 1 |Stockport C 0 Bradford 0 Preston N E 2 Portsmouth 1 Workington 0 Accrington S 0 Sheffield U 0 Arsenal 2 Wrexham 3 Chesterfield 0 ; Tottenham H 2 Manchester C 1 | York City 3 Barrow 2 bid Es W Bromwich 3 Chelsea 0 Scottish Cup semi-finals tery xford Ww > Memorial Cup Payot | Final Standiog hn Pho N a 2 there was one dead heat or | : Everton CO kickott foe, 3 Raith oven 0 The all-English Cambridge crew Regina 5 Flin Flon 4 WLT F AP ix- S t away to a good (Regina leads best-of-seven quar- Providence 45 17 2 263 193 Barnsley 2 Doncaster R 2 SCOTTISH LEAGUE ol ae jocters Boog test own ter-final 3-1) Pittsburgh 43 17 4 271 187 Bristol C 0 Nottingham F | Division A four miles, 400 yards of the OHA Senior B Buffalo 29 30 5 240 250 Bury 0 Bristol Roy ers 1 | Dundee 3 Partick T 0 Thames course and went into a|Woodstock 5 Tillsonburg 1 Ceveland 26 31 7 225 231 Fulham 2 Stoke City 0 Dunfermline A 2 East Fife 8° |length lead after only a minute] (Woodstock wins best - of - seven Hershey 5 Leeds U 4 Plymouth A 2 Motherwell 1 Aberdeen 1 land a half rowing. | group final 4-2) Springfield 17 45 2 212 297 Middlesbrough 2 Sheffield W 2 Rangers 3 Kilmarnock 2 . |RECORD FOR MILE | Kingston 6 Whitby 2 Saturday's Results Notts ous EA Liverpool | Stirling A 1 Airdrieonians 1 |" Oxford, including three Austral-| (Kingston leads best - of - seven Cleveland 1 Buffalo 4 Jom Vale | U BO puma C2 Division B lians in the crew, ; Winks a faster |8roup goal Jo) - | Providence: 4 Springfield 2 Swansea T 6 Leicester C 1 Albion R 1 Brechin C 3 |stroke 34 to Cambridge's 32 yy, Fe joericelate A Era Bal West Ham U 1 Hull City i Arbroath 0 East Stirling 0 Cambridge passed the mile post * ea lore ort Erie 5 : Sunday s Results Division TIT (Southern) Ayr U 1 Dundee U 0 lin a record time of 3:50. The water 0 oa ord leads best - of -s even Hershey 3 Buffalo 5 Yidershot 1 Colchester U 0 Berwick R 0 Alloa A 0 |was calm and smooth. quarter-final 3-1) Springfield 8 Providence 9 phan 1 Exeter City 0 Montrose 2 Hamilton A 1 | About 200,000 persons lined the p Bio Intermediate B | Pittsburgh 5 Cleveland 4 Brighton 1 Exeter Obv. St. Johnstone 4 Morton 1 river banks. Millions of people fol-| Port Dover 7 Dunnville 5 ; All Ontario Senior A Toowich Tow: a ord 1 |Stenhousemuir 3 Cowdenbeath 0 | lowed the race on television includ. (Best-of-seven group final tied) - WLT Dor Co atv 1 Tivol! 4 | Stranraer 2 Dumbarton 1 ling viewers in six European coun- I'l) H | Chatham 101 4 2 Neo or pion T 1 Norwich c 1 |Third Lanark 0 Forfar A 0 |tries. si OHA Junior B | Sudbury 0:31.12 4 Queen's P R 0 Bournemouth 1 | Amateur international Cambridge, 6 to 4 favorites, moos 3 Waterloo 6 : 3 ee vr uemouh {England 4 Scotland 2 (Wembley found Oxford hard to shake off. ater leads best - of - seven final 10, one game tied) J By a eniy Co Stadium) After 2% miles the crews hit their | quarter-final 3-1) gs - Saturday's Results outhampton | 0 Gillingham 3 Irish Cup semi-finals first headwind--and that was the . OHA Minor Midget B Chatham 1 Sudbury 1 Torqua Cliftonville 0 Distillery 1 signal for Oxford to put on an-|Goderich 8 Aurora 4 Monday's Game ralsall 2 Watford 1 Glentoran 4 Portadown 0 other spurt. (Best-of-three final tied 1-1) | Sudbury at Chatham Pd visio. or Noiberp) IRISH LEAGU! Six hundred yards from the fin-'__ OHA Juvenile A | OHA Junior A or, ian 21 {Non ern) Bail 5 GUE ish Oxford was only a quarter of Kitchener 3 St. Catharines 3 Series D adford City ul spor allymena U 0 Coleraine 4 a length behind. But the fast pace| (First game of total-goal final) | ~~ [told on the lighter Oxford crew OHA Juvenile B | Barrie and in the last 200 yards Cam-| Bowmanville 7 Wingham 2 |St. Michael's (Ap) bridge pulled away. | : v -- | championship) : | finals 3-2) , HUGE CITY | SUNDAY | Saturday's Result Tokyo's population reached 1. International Le | i S i ! ) d ague Barrie 2 St. Michael's 0 by defeating 084,000 early in 1956, according to| Toledo-Marion 4 Cincinnati # | Finals (Best-of-seven) Washington, the civic register of the Japanese (Cincinnati lead -of-sev : id ; ati leads best-of-seven Monday capita semi-final 2.0) Barrie at Maribor 320 13 16 RETAINS CROWN | HOAD IS VICTOR 230 16 13 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Paul] ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Raton) Macias of Mexico re- [ew Hoad of Australia Sunday won tained his National Boxing' Asso-|the men's singles tennis champion- clation world bantamweight crown ship of Alexandria Sunday by knocking out Leo Es- Fred Kovaleski of pinosa of the Philippines in the pc. 6.3. 7.5. 9.7 40th round of their scheduled 15 | ---- ---- ground bout before a crowd of 50,- 000, Macias weighed 117%, Espin- o osa 115. % | The scrappy Mexican, defending] this title for the first time, dom-| inated the fight after the third round. 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Andy (Port Arthur leads best-of-seven Bathgate got a third goal for New York at 16:04. | In addition to the Beliveau-Olm- stead scoring prowess, the Cana- diens threw up a magnificent de: fence with Doug Harvey stopping at least half adozen well-aimed | shots before they could get to goalie Jacques Plante. The first two periods were rough and on at least five occasions it appeared full-fledged fights might + develop. 8. 0 6: 59 BLASTS OFFICIAL The Canadiens - recelved nine of Blake had some hot words to say about the officiating. "That was the worst refereeing I've ever scen," he said angrily as he paced up and down the |dressing room afterward. The ref- eree was Jack Mehlenbacher who had also handled one previous | game. : Blake contended the Rangers 3 should have received at least 1 | three or four more penalties. Montreal got 12 of the 19 penal- {ties Saturday and Blake said the refereeing in the whole series has | been "bad." Frank Udvari worked | Saturday night. Montreal scored twice Sunday wards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Curry, | night while Rangers were short- Leclair, M. Richard, Moore, Om- | handed and New York got one stead, H. Richard, Mosdell, Mar-| WLT F A Pts. |With a man advanta 4 | urday. {after Sunday's loss: | Ranger defenceman Ivan Irwin. It Penalty: Mosdell 4:38. {carried an automatic $25 fine but | ge. Penalties shall, ¢ |did not figure in the scoring Sat-| | winger, scored the tying and win- | wig goals, say finished things with dra- {matic suddenness at 4:22 of the sudden-death overtime session by : tapping defenceman Bob Gold- Watson, always a fighter, said, tinato, Evans; forwards: Bathgate, ham's pass behind Toronto goal oss: "We're not|Conacher, Gendron, Horvath, He-|tender Harry Lumley. : beat yet. We'll give it a good try|benton, Murphy, Creighton, ren-| Lindsay's gentle stroke deflated on Tuesday." {tice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Le-|15,366 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night Ken Mosdell put| wicki. who had seen Leafs blow a 42 Canadiens ahead at 14:42 of the Referee: Jack Mehlenbacher; lead in the third period. first period. Guy Gendron tied it|linesmen: Doug Davies, Bill Ro- HAS LAST LAUGH up less than two minutes later but berts. Defenceman Red Kelly and right from then on Montreal took] SUMMARY wingers, Metro Prystai and Gordie charge. Olmstead scored on a pass' First period: 1. Montreal, Olm- Howe picked up the other Detroit from Bernie Geoffrion at 16:24 of| stead (Harvey, Geoffrion) 2:11; 2.|goals. George Armstrong, big right the middle period, and shoved the Montreal, Olmstead (M. Richard, | winger shifted to centre by the in- puck into an empty net aiter| Talbot) 13:33; 3. New York, Her-|jury of 37-goal man Tod Sloan, Gump Worsley had been removed gesheimer (Horvath, Howell)|scored two Leafs goals. Utility in favor of a sixth attacker late|16:26; 4. New York, Gadsby (Gen- centre Brian Cullen and rookie in the third period ; _|dron, Horvath) 18:57. Penalties: |right winger Gerry James got the One minor note of satisfaction| Gendron :35, Provost 2:18, Plante others. for the Rangers was that they| 5:55, Creighton and Beliveau 9:44,| Lindsay, a 30-year-old star with managed to keep Maur ire Olmstead 17:47. 12 seasons in big-league hockey, (Rocket) Richard scoreless in the Second period: 5. Montreal, Beli-| was being guffawed as a chump two games here and also in last| yeau (M. Richard, Geoffrion) 2:25; |before he turned executioner. The Thursday's game. | 6. Montreal, Provost (Curry) 3:22.|fans rode him most of the night Rocket got three goals in| Penalties: Hebenton 1:03, Provost|because Leafs scored two goals the opener Tuesday. 43 and 18:11, H. Richard and|while he was sitting out slashing The Rocket received a miscon-' Howell 10:15, Curry 13:45, Fontin- and high-sticking penalties. duct penalty Saturday when he hit ato 15:31. But Mr. Lindsay had the last an official on the hand while try-| Third period: 7. Montreal, Beli-| word. He even rubbed it in with ing to intervene in a fight involv-| Veau (Olmstead) 8:16; 8. New|a show of defiance as he left the ing his younger brother and York, Bathgate 15:04. !ice. The last man to step off the rink, Lindsay bowed in triumph {to the customers and, using his $8 85 5-18 stick as a machine - gun, riddled | 714 7-28 thoth With jiagivery shots. 5 not decided whether to use Worsley | |, Lindsay had a perfect setup for in the next game or put in Gordiy| TORONTO (CP) -- To Toronto the winning goal. He was standing Bell, the 31-year-old minor league Maple Leafs, scoring on Detroit| to the right of the Toronto net standby netminder who was in the Red Wings is like tugging a tiger's Wen Goldham snagged the puck nets when Rangers won last Thurs- tail, All they get is grief. jan, te arkboards. iaseuvred Io day's game 4-2 in Montreal. For th : ya | the left side and slipped the puck Saturday's Lineups 'or the third straight time in across the goalmouth. 4 ; their Stanley Cup semi-finals Leafs SUMMARY Montreal -- Goal: Plante; de-| First period: 1. Toronto, Arm fence: Harvey, Bouchard, John- 8rabbed an early lead Saturday Toned , A son, Talbot, St. Laurent, Turner; against the Wings. And once again, ort Selby Ulparst) 12.9; Hy Toe: H.|they were jolted into defeat by a onto, Cullen (Reaume Armstron, : \ , g) Richard, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Le-| patnoit comeback that left them 16:33. Penalties: James 4:32, Pron- clair, Curry, Omstead, Mosdell, i : ovogt 5:40, Ferguson 8:54, Miga Marshall, Provost. nothing but bitter memories. 113:25, Lindsay 15:06, » Yay New York--Goal: Worsley; de-| The Wings sprang to the offen-| Second period: 4 Toront fence: Howell, Evans, Irwin, Gad-|SiVe With a three-goal third period 13:20, Penalties: Pavelich 06, shy, Fontinato: forwards: Gen. 20d a sensational overtime goal Harris 4:30 and 10:26, Migay 12:46 dron, Bathgate, Hebenton, Con-|!0 edge Leafs 54. It gave them a| Hannigan 18:59. : acher, Horvath, Murphy, Prentice, 340 lead in the best-of-seven series. Third period: 5. Detroit, Prystai Creighton, Hergesheimer, Popein. he Detroiters did it with such 2:46; 6. Toronto, Armstrong (Duff Lewicki. authority that even faithful Tor- Bolton) 7:40; 7. Detroit, Howe Referee: Frank Udvari; lines- OM0 fans can't expect the series (Kelly, Hillman) 9:11: 8. Detroit men: Bill Roberts, Doug Davies.|!® be prolonged beyond the fourth Lindsey (Reibel, Goldham) 14:25 SUMMARY y (Same Jaro Fuesiny nighe If the Penalty: Lindsay 5:58. : First period: 1. x . §, the fi en- Overtime: 9. Detroit, Lind do Re ap, Yatreal, Mos Sasement swings to Detroit Thurs- (Godham, Howe) 4:22. No yy Gendron (Bathgate, Gadsby) 16: Th ; aa | tes. Penalties: Moore (2), Gadsby 120, yet i% briefly is Lets Tecord of Stops: Howell :55, Beliveau, Irwin 3:06, first plasoft wane a Sod In the Hall 101311 4-38 H. Richard, Gadsby 6:15, Beliveau | Tuesday. Theo Jet 3 Detroit Jost Lumley Red St 8 Bs 4-33 9:23. Creigh : . . y lost 3-2. ean. eferee: Red Storey; : 6:10. Creighton 11:03, Beliveau; ond game at Detroit Thursday, Tor- George Hayes, sammy Babcock Second period: 3. Montreal, Olm-! stead (Geoffrion) 16:24. Penalties: Curry 4:38, H. Richard (2), M. Richard misconduct, Irwin 9:52,! Evans 17:12, Curry 19:49. | Third period: 4. Montreal, Olm- stead 19:48. Penalty: Provost 6:23. 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