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10 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, April 13, 1938 4 BRA Bs ai ES BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS Ser 11 champions for | Eilers ladies' club. They de- | above, with three of their star : : x players, left-to-right, Pat Law- the 1 cessive year, that's feated Toronto Maple Leafs 50- son. Bev Gibson and: Nora Me: the the 'Vancouver 44 to take the trophy, shown | Dermott, team captain, | "SPORTS MENU Frank Selke y § LJ] . Says Canadiens "Everything from Soup to Nuts' by Geo. H. Campbell EL vn SPORTS EDITOR po Ni HOWIE MEEKER has been signed on a one-year contract as the new coach of the Toronto NHL Maple Leafs. At 32 years of age, he becomes the youngest coach in Toronto's history but while King Clancy's successor has been named, it must be pointed out it still is only a one-year contract. Former right-wing buzz-ball for and later a member of Parliament for Waterloo South, + played with Leafs for seven seasons and finished off X Pittsburgh coach. Meeker's success will be watch- eat deal of interest. He has already stated that he will in the same breath admits that he will listen to expects to learn more about hockey from, Conn Day King Clancy. No one begrudges Howie ric rise to the top of hockey's 'brass' ladder but 1 feeling that not too many are exactly jealous eith- er. We | e¢ comes through with flying colors--he was a bat- tler on t ce himself and at least he'll expect that from his team. the Mapleos Howie } Me aavice from ind and Meeker mete Toro night rig nto Marlboros blanked Montreal Jr. Canadiens 5-0 last t in Montreal, to take a two-nothing lead in games, in their Eastern Canada Junior finals. The Marlies have been impro steadily ever since they hit their own OHA playoff trail -- and that's now a long time ago, but even so, the power- ful Junior Habs were picked to make a better showing than they have made to-daté. True, they are a long way from being out of the running but it begins to look very much as if that heavy of 90 games, all exhibition and most of them played style, away from home, with such added haz- 1 water, foods, etc., has taken too much out of . Canadiens. They are not "sharp" at the moment, may- couldn't have beaten Marlies right now, even if they { top form but on the face of it, it seems that a little especially in recent weeks, would have been a big the age-limit edition of Montreal Canadiens. sche harr rmi strange 10re rest help to "CHUCK" BARRON died yesterday ! The news while no means came as a sad blow to the sports populace of Osh- aw a listrict, yesterday morning. Charlie had been in failing he: the past couple of years and seriously ill in recent n s another of those tragic hopeless cases but as he ¢ k to stay in circulation, his friends began to 'hope ad it-beat, after all, "Chuck" was a battler, this y t traits as a lacrosse player for which he will always We don't mean a {istic battler--he was much "Chuck" battled to win and once in action, no- or displayed more will-to-win. We can remem- | | To Strengthen MONTREAL (CP) -- Managing director Frank Selke of Montreal Canadiens, newly crowned Stan- ley Cup champions, said Wednes-! day that every effort will be made to improve the club next season.| "We have won the National Hockey League title and the Stan- ley Cup playoff this season, but that doesn't mean we are going to sit back and bask in the glory," said Selke, ! "We want our club to be the best ever to represent the city of Montreal. The team is already the big attraction on the road and we want to keep it that way--a team of crowd-pleasing, top - notch hockey players who will be a credit to our Canadiens organization and to the city." WILL BE KEPT Selke did not specify any par- ticular changes he may have in mind but he made it plain that goalies Jacques Plante and Gerry McNeil will be retained by the organization. That statement disposed of ru- mors that flitted about during the playoffs. One had Plante figuring in a deal with Chicago Black Hawks. Another had McNeil, who did his goal-tending this season for Montreal Royals of the Quebec Hockey League, going to New York Rangers. Plante was the Vezina Trophy winner in the NHL this season and McNeil, who formerly played for Canadiens before calling it quits one season, won the counterpart trophy in the QHL. HOCKEY SCORES By THE CANADIAN PRESS Memorial Cup Toronto 5 Montreal 0 (Toronto leads best - of - seven eastern Canada final 20) Western Intermediate Port Arthur 4 Minnedosa 3 ball in factory leagues, we recall when he 'Port Arthur wins best - of - five ie Oshawa "'Simcoes" OHA Intermediate entry, Semi-final 3-2, one game tied) Charlie Barron's game, that was the game he knew, inside-and-out. Born in Scotland, "Chuck" Barron was a "natural" at Can- National Game. He was brought here from Weston, where he had starred, in 1928 to play lacrosse for Oshawa GM Sen- iors -- and he never left. He married an Oshawa girl, made his home here, raised his family and became not only a valued em- of GM but a useful citizen of Oshawa. We could go on s telling of his lacrosse exploits. We watched him play carly years here, later we had the privilege of being of the same team with him, on several occasions. cd bring the first Mann Cup to Oshawa in 1929, played Oshawa when they beat the U.S. All-Stars at Maple Leaf Stadium in 1930. When box lacrosse came in, along with such i as Kelly DeGray, Bill Coulter, Chuck Davidson, etc., d professional and played in Montreal and in Chicago. returned to Oshawa, he helped organize the local sen- He both played and coached here and in Brooklin. ped promote minor lacrosse in Oshawa as well. The last tin "Chuck" wielded a *'gutted stick" was one might last Oct- t in Brooklin, in the Old-Timers Game and whata re- s that, with "Toots" White and other former Oshawa . George Munroe, the man who coached Oshawa to two OLA titles and one Mann Cup triumph, left 0 + about 14 years ago to go into hospitalization for a lung vilm [his week he returned, cured and ready to resume his pl n the community but his "homecoming" has been sad- dene k 'Chuck's" death. We never "bumped into" any of . { p lacrosse gang, Ted Reeve, Walker Wilson, "'Smitty'f 8 n, but what they inquired about the popular "Chuck." Shannon, "Big Bob" Stephenson, "Shep" Shepley, "Ty" Silk, "Pete" Walsh, "Shine' Bdvin and ne or two others who played lacrosse here in the late 20's and §, have passed along. Now to that list, we must re- dd the name of "Chuck" Barron, a great" ball car- ¢ retriever and "holder," possessing one of the wm shots in the gamey, On behalf of the sporting ind also Brooklin, We pass along sincere sym- ployee for in | a member He for other GM Senioi Stokes aved family. "A real good guy" has answered th whistle { ; | and one tie with Marlboros as they | blast that found the upper corner (romped home with the Laurier | of the net. | Trophy earlier this season, | | an still undefeated and now looking, By GERRY LA FONTAINE Canadian Press Staff Writer pletely disorganized by the heavy- | checking Toronto 'club. | MONTREAL (CP) -- The great- Toronto outshone Canadiens in est junior hockey team ever as- every department as they scored | sembled is going to Rave to show one goal in the opening period and a dramatic reversal of form if it added two more in each of the last |wants to beat the team that fin- two stanzas. ished fourth in the Ontario hockey| Starry left-winger Bobby Pulford | circuit this season. |paced the attack with two goals Montreal Junior Canadiens, who and one assist. Bob Nevins added | received the generous title earlier| another pair and the fifth marker ithis season, Thursday night ab-|/went to Ken Girard. |sorbed a 50 drubbing from Tor. The close-checking contest pro- (onto Marlboros in the second game|duced 16 minor penalties, evenly [of their eastern Canada Memorial| divided. Marlboros scored three {Cup final series. Toronto now|times on their power play while {leads the best-of-seven series 2-0| Canadiens were never able to | with the third game scheduled to/ mount a sustained offensive when {be played here Sunday. Wey had 2 maspower advasiage. | Canadiens, frequent exhibition| The 4 ang several times {performers posted an impressive Canadiens when they Here {season record of 74 wins, eight| unable to get the puck out of their osses and 10 ties. Their victims OWR zone, even when Toronto was ncluded such semior teams as| Shorthanded. [Chatham Maroons and St. John OPENED SCORING | Beavers, current opponents in the, Pulford opened the scoring at | eastern Canada Allan Cup final. 3:03 of the irst peri Wie ) Non, i real had two men in {NOW DISORGANIZED box. He beat Montreal goalie Ed Canadiens boasted three wins Johnston on a sharp-angled 15-foot but| His second goal came while Thursday night they were com-/ Claude Ruel of Canadiens was off Meeker Named New Leaf Coach Marlies Blank Jr. Habs | Lead Eastern Final 2-0 for elbowing. Girard fired a long, low screened shot and Pulford tipped in the rebound. The clubs were at full strength when Nevins ran the count to 30 on a 15-foot backhand shot that caught the near corner. » Canadiens were again short- handed when Nevins scored his second goal by skating around Montreal defenceman Ralph Mec- Niff and finding an open corner of the net with a hip-high 10-|¢, footer. Girard's goal, late in the final period, was the prettiest of the game. He broke from centre ice, split the Montreal defence, pulled Johnston out of the net and nudged the puck in from the crease. Queen's Own May Clash, With Ace Marine Sat. FORT ERIE (CP)--Two of the best: horses ever bred in Canada may meet in competition for the first time during the Fort Erie spring meeting which opens Satur- day, it was announced Wednesday. Queen's Own, chestnut charger owned by E. P. Taylor of Toronto, was practically a unanimous choice for Canada's "horse of the year" honors in 1954. But in its final start of the season at Wood- bine, it injured a tendon slightly resulting in a year's rest on the arm, In 1955 another chestnut colt, Ace Marine, won Canada's "horse of the year" title. Owned by Lar- kin Maloney, Toronto industrialist and sportsman, it was unbeaten | at Woodbine during the summer Eddie Arcaro Has Pleasant Problem d its three-year-old opponents, | Now aged five, Queen's Own has returned to the races. x | NEW YORK (AP) -- Eddie Arcaro is in a quandry. But it is a pleasant problem. . e must decide sometime before May 5 whether to ride Nashua in the $50,000-added Grey Lag han-| dicap at Jamaica or Head Man in the $125,000 Kentucky Derby at, Churchill Downs. Both races will| be run the same day. Victory aboard Nashua would give him the distinction of being| astride the world's leading money- | winning horse on the day he pagsed Citation's earnings of $1,085.760. A win with C.V. Whitney's Head Man | would be Eddie's sixth Kentucky| TORONTO (CP)--Toronto Maple, "I have a one-year contract and | Leafs of the National Hockey| that's the way I want it," said League put the accent om youth| Meeker. "If I can't make good Howie Meeker to coach the club!the NHL.' H next seasor. | The new coach said he'll wel- The youthful pilot of Leafs' come advice from more experi-| American League farm club, Pitts: enced officials but "I intend to burgh Hornets for the last two make my own decisions during a seasons was appointed after a 40- hockey game." minute conference with Conn| "I know how to run a team and Smythe, president of Maple Leaf I know how to get the best out of Cardens. He will be the youngest my men." coach in Maple Leafs history. Smythe, commenting on the ap- Meeker, a native of Kitchener, pointment, said: "I'm happy with takes over from Francis (King) the way things turned out. I think Clancy, 53, Maple Leafs coach for we now have a powerful setup. the last three seasons, appointed Meeker has the fight, Day assistant to general manager Hap knowledge of inside hockey and Day last week Clancy will keep the boys happy." Oshawa Rebels | ter to give Milwaukee Braves a Blank Rivals REMEMBER WHEN , ., , Derby success. No other jockey has more than three. | "I would rather win the Derby," | said the banana-nose rider. "There | Thursday by signing 32-year-old|in a season then I don't belong in are not too many shots left for me | at it." Eddie is 40 and has been throwing his legs over a horse for a quarter century, "Actually I have not made up my mind," Arcaro said. erby is a long way off. And first I want to talk to Mr. Fitz (Nashua's trainer, James Fitzsim- mons)."" | WILL DO WELL | WELLINGTON, N.Z. (CP) --A New Zealand softball team which, the plans a tour of Canada and the United States will do well in the opinion of a Canadian now playing | in New Zealand. | G. B. Bull of Ottawa, until re- Max Surkont tossed a three-hit- cently a member of the Canadian high commissioner's staff in Wel- | 20 victory over Cincinnati Reds lington, thinks the team will sur- |in their first appearance in the Prise opponents in North America. | National League three years ago He is qualified to judge as he In a clean, hard-fought game at today. Milwaukee, which took over Played as a senior in Ontario. i Unionville Arena Tuesday night, the Boston Braves' franchise Oshawa Juveniles, 2-0. 145 Throughout the first period, the Pennant-winning | Dodgers. Softball was unknown in New [the Oshawa Rebels defeated the wound up in second place last year| Zealand until the war when it was but were 13)%2 games behind the introduced by United States ser-| 'vicemen. | "The | CUSTOM STYLED outboard motor in brilliant HOLIDAY BRONZE STARTLING NEW in appearence in performance Rebels had an edge in play, but, == couldn't beat Fielder, between the! pipes for the Juveniles. 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