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week's deferment of wages in| January. Lorne Cook of Kingston, OHA resident, says that "Senior ockey has taken a hold in East- 12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, February 25, 1959 HOCKEY SCORES AND STANDINGS ! ern Ontario. It will stay for a while, Some clubs are having a| financially tough winter but I think this will work out." INTERLOCKING LEAGUES The OHA - NOHA interlocking setup with three teams -- Chat- ham, Kitchener and Windsor-- from ¥esteth Quiatls aud Suc bury, Sault Ste, Marie and Nort , Bay from the north, probably will Sault si vs Reals | 8 end after this season. Kh hener 4 Windsor 6 y "The league is absolutely an| "on Tonight's Game impossibility financially," 88Y8| windsor at Chatham owner Pete Palangio of Northiy, ui "pav at Sudbury Bay Trappers. "The travelling" n HN costs are too high. Trappers are| Eastern OHA Senfor A not interested in continuing in the WLT F APs. OHA-NOHA and that's definite."| Whitby 32 10 7 243 144 71 Attendance generally is down|Belleville 27 13 8 215 160 62 from the 1957-58 season and many |Hull-Ottawa 18 24 6 147 207 42 teams have tried various stunts Kingston 16 26 7 188 211 39 to pull in the crowds. {Cornwall 10 30 8 131 202 28 President Bob Boston of Sault Tuesday's Result Ste. Marie Greyhounds hired a|Kingston 2 Whitby 5 horse and carriage and toured | Tonight's Games the city's main street with signs whithy at Kingston advertising Get Out ou Back the|Cornwall at Hull-Ottawa Soo Greyhounds. Players went out to sell tickets. Children and ORA Junta A A Pls students were charged 10 - cent 30 10 3 248 165 81 admission fees in place of the 28 19 5 213 167 61 regular 50-cent fee. 22 18 12 209 203 56 By THE CANADIAN PRESS OHA-NOHA Senior A WLT F APs 3515 2212171 72 33 17 3 252 191 69 26 26 1 213 215 53 21.29 3 185 202 45 Windsor 20 31 2 213 226 42 North Bay 17 34 1 192 262 35 Chatham {Kitchener S. 8. Marie |St. Cath, | Pete Guelph The NPHL semi-finals opened on two fronts, with Bolahood Bruins, League Champions, op- posing Dunn's Smoke Rings while Berg's Warriors took on the CKD Hawks, both semi-finals being a best 2-out-of-3 proposition. Bolahood Bruins, led by their, potent scoring combination of Badgley and Myles, got off to a flying start as each of these stal- warts scored in the opening stan- za to give the Bruins a 2.0 lead at the end of the period. Bagdley hit pay dirt after one minute of play in the second period but Dunn's came back to register twice on goals by Beach and| Woodcock to cut the margin to 3-2 at the period's close. Dunn's climaxed an uphill struggle when Woodcock scored the equalizer after 39 seconds of play In the final period but just past the midway - mark, Badgley with his third and fourth goals, along with a single by Bas. tarache, gave Bolahood's what seemed like a comfortable 6-3 lead with less than three minutes lead Howey's goal and although "each team had numerous opportunities no further scoring developed. The second period was just past the half - way mark of completion when the Hawks, who had been repeatedly foiled by Bryan pre- viously, broke through to even the score on a goal by Burgess and send the game period on a 1-1 basis. | After only 2% minutes of play in the final frame, Berg's whip- ped In two goals six seconds apart as Thompson and Phillips each found the range and Terp- stra made it 4-1 just before the midway mark: North Plant Hockey Loop Opens Semi-Final Series result of a 4-2 decision in a crowd - pleasing spectacle. Berg's opened up a. one-goal in the first period on into the third The Hawk forwards who play- ed a fine game throughout kept boring in and only standout goal- ing by Bryan kept them off the score sheet, finally with 4 min- utes of play remaining Burke f! Berg's refused to be stampeded| u fred Hawks' second tally but nder constant Hawk pressure Macko's A's Top. Round-Robin In: Mercantile Go Macko's A's whipped Durno's Garage 14-3 on Sunday night at Bowmanville Arena to conclude the Oshawa Merchants Hockey League round-robin series in top spot with 10 points. Durno's and Bowmanville Mets chants, with six points aplece,'y were tied for second slot. Macko's started the scoring early. and rapped in four un answered goals in the first period on shots by England, McGarry, Al Lawrence and Garrard, In the second stanza, A's came out strong and whipped in five more goals to take a command. ing lead. Al Lawrence, Irv Wels Denny Hubble, Ed. Romanuk a Geo. Lawrence did the scoring. honors. | Goalie Mike Cirka saw his shut- | out bid go winging when Danpy | Price notched the first one for Durno's on a play from Doug Cole and Ron Miles but the period ended 9-1 for Macko's. In the final frame, play rough. ened up a little. Roger Plancke and Ron Miles each scored goals HY Windsor Bulldogs hired a pro- . fessional promotion company 1 > } 1 152 3 from the United States to sell Marlboros 18 27 7 153 208 43 tickets for two games. Sudbury, Hamilton 1133 8 161 214 30 hit hard by a mining strike, Yacludes four - olnt 'wins started at two-for-two ticket plan |X nciudes four &p h which entitled a fan buying two Tuesday's Result tickets to get two more free, Guess » $t Contusines 2 MANITOB ursday"s Games Winnipeg NTO the only St. Catharines at Hamilton senior team in the province, The Peterborough at Barrie club plays exhibition games| Western League against Manitoba junior teams,|Winnipeg 7 Edmonton 4 Kenora intermediates and the Victoria 1 Saskatoon 3 University of North Dakota at Spokane 2 Vancouver 2 Grand Forks. Players pay for Quebec League their own skate sharpening, Trois-Rivieres 2 Chicoutimi § bear little resemblance, Presi- | ter use a horse and buggy In an supply their own towels and re- Porcupine Mines Senior dent Bob Boston (left) of Sault | effort to draw fans to watch the celve RD AICHEWAN Tats 3 Avi 3 ola mi | Hockey. Promotions, and club | hometown Greyhounds at Sault A Uiieetemm league -- Regina final) executive member Wib Muncas- | Ste. Marle, Ont. (CP Photo) |Pats, Yorkton Millers and Moose Cape Breton Senior Jaw Play-Mors--was formed last Northside 4 Sydney 0 ' December on a player co-opera-| (Northside leads best-of . nne tive basis, The clubs bought uni-| Sem-final 4-3 Sent forms and the players, who will North Shore enlor share in any profits at the end of Miramichi 4 Moncton 3 the season, buy their own skates! Niagara Senior xSt. Mike's Barrie of play remaining. Knox of the Smoke Rings in al last - ditch effort, took advan- tage of a Bruin penalty to score and Malloy cut the margin to 6-5 with 37 seconds of play re- maining but Bolahoods hung on for those final hectic seconds to preserve their margin of vietory. First Period . Myles (Ketella) | . Badgley (Myles) 2nd Period . Badgley (Myles) . Beach, (Wallace, Legree) .... ee . Woodcock (Malloy, Ladd) "........ and threatened to add to their for Durno's while Macko's addled margin on several occasions in|five more goals, Al Garrard gets" the dying minutes of the match. ting a pair, Irv Welsh also net- 1st Period ting a pair and Geo. Lawrence 1. Howey (Milton) 6.49 the other, § 2nd Period On the eight minor penalties, 2, Burgess (unass.) 11.45 Gil Hughes of Durno's picked ups 3rd Period {half of the sin-bin time [} 3. Thompson (Howey, | MACKO'S: goal, Cirka; J. ' Terpstra) ..... woes 227/Reid, G. Lawrence, Towns 5. 6. Phillips (Thompson) 2.33 Durno, Hubble, MacLellan, Pion!" Terpstra (Phillips, {tek, England, Welsh, Baker, Mc'™* GIOVEY). \.uus ivevns ++». 8.55 Garry, Romanuk, A. Lawrence, Burke (Tamblyn) 16.38 J. Lawrence and Garrard, DURNO'S: goal, Wiltshire; Me. HONOR HANDICAPPED Tavish, Hughes, Plancke, Shetler, TORONTO (CP) -- Harold Me-|Kilpatrick, Miles, Olesuk, Brown, | Laughlin, 26, who lost both legs Lack, Price and Cole. , |above the knee when he was run|------ over by a train as a boy, was| TOMY LEE SCRATCHED one of two members honored by| ARCADIA, Calif. (AP)--Tomy 1 the Lakeshore Swimming Club|Lee has been scratched from the 15.02|during the weekend." Morgan|lineup for the $100,000 added . 17.15/French, 22, a polio victim, was|Santa Anita Derby March 7 and 18.42|the other. Both received trophies|he'll apparently miss the Ken- as the outstanding handicapped |tucky Derby too. The second- Legree) 19.23 athletes of 1988. French recently Fanking two-yeargia in the U.S. . pass is red cross test as ap|last year suffered a hoof injur: BERG'S MOVE AHEAD instructor. McLaughlin, was one/and his fourth hy Berg's Warriors gained the first of some 4,000 workers who lost feat in the $50,000 San Felipe rung of their Series "B" playoffs their jobs at the Avro aircraft|Handicap at Santa Anita Satur- against the CKD Hawks as theiplant Friday. | day. OSHAWA WOOD PRODUCTS You too, can be on top of the SOCIAL LADDER @ i a wit POS NR i oP SEEK SUPPORT -- Teams | much of its glamor. It still is and leagues playing Allan Cup | the prize for the senior cham- hockey in Canada are struggl- | pionship in Canada but the cal- ing to keep in business, and the | ibre of play, compared to the once-prized trophy has lost pre-war years and up to 1950, | Allan Cup Hockey Action nies lof ice for practices. Crowds| Oakville 7 Niagara Falls 2 LJ [1 J [average about 800 a game. BRITISH COLUMBIA television as main reasons for at- Oo 1 © Two leagues, the three - team |tendance lags. "This league has |Western International and four-|Won two Allan Cups, has been team Okanagan, operate and/in the finals of two Allan Cups,| Many teams are financed by Saints of the Northern Division none of their teams is on firm|has won the world championship| Canadian Press Staff Writer only." contributions of citizens and by and RCAF Rockcliffe in the East- financial ground. Teams have and Kelowna his Ieprestuted Ten years ago the Allan Cup.) Attendances generally are the players who often buy their ern Division--because .of lack of changed from community control| Canada Su 38 Say Ation our olf awarded to the country's senior|small, averaging in many cases/OWD equipment and ice time. [fan interest. to private ownership and fofRissia n the las years," | hockey champions, took a tumble fewer than 500 persons a game| Bart W. Yerxa of Sussex, N.B.,| The OHA's Eastern Division Player-controlled co - operatives ean that 'we lave one to minor - league status. The and annual statements are writ- president of the Maritime Am-|took the jump to A ranks from in recent seasons with the finan-| 8 means Sia Ale wil major reason was adoption bY ten in red ink. Many teams re- ateur Hockey Association, says Senior B rating three years ago. clal pressure at its worst this of a yronges! oi of 235es the Canadian Amateur Hockeyisort to gimmicks and stunts in|New Brunswick has only one The league has produced cup|vear. [in ana a an 8 Jo meant Association of the Alexanderiaimost futile efforts to attract|classification of senior hockey. It champions the last two seasons) Success on the ice has not that they are expens Trophy, open only to hand-picked fans. Players of many teams'lis called Senior A but, says --Whitby in 1957 and Belleville|always been a good omen. At.' senior major leagues receive no pay, dig into their Yerxa, 'it's doubtful if calibre in 1958. This year it is expected tendance figures at Penticton Vs The Alexander Trophy survived pockets to keep clubs alive. play is Senior B." most clubs will finish the sched: games have dwindled since its| four years, 1951 to 1954. Leagues) A major ailment is that clubs Empty stadiums in the last ule with a deficit, 1955 triumph 'in the world am.| in the ill-fated series--Maritime pave few name players, unlike five years have crushed two| Average crowds of about 2,200 ateur hockey championship with major, Quebec, Ontario major previous years when National leaguest--the Antigonish - Pictou-\would allow the teams to break average game crowds this year and Western Canada--folded one jockey League clubs sent Colchester and the Maritimesjeven. Kingston, which requires at 1,000. Vernon Canadians won by one due to high operating promising juniors to senior teams major series. Nova Scotia hasan average of 2400, is operating the Allan Cup In 1956 and have costs. Out of the wreckage came for seasoning. The pros have by-/two leagues with a stake in the $8,000 in the red. had financial woes since with| the professional Quebec and passed the senior leagues, calling Allan Cup playoffs this year--the| Hull-Ottawa Canadiens, in the 2Verage crowds this year of 700! J rizes ranging up to $100; rube Western Hockey Leagues and an yp players directly from junior|three-team Cape Breton circuit/league on a full-time basis this compared with 1,350 a year ago. |, nic Indian war dances, hooded! assorfment of senior teams made ranks or farming them out to and the Nova Scotia senior. New season for the first time, are] Problems seem to boil down to players, giveaways and Sunday up mainly of local talent and re- minor professional circuits for Brunswick has three leagues-- drawing about 2,000 fans a fame. 1a matter of too high salaries for| games with silver collection, but Instated pros. experience, North Shore, Central New Bruns: enough to finish in the black the population of the cities in in-|none has brought sustained at-| The Allan Cup again is the| oi yore (oor prom Ontario Wick and the Bay Chaleur and| Cornwall, the league's last. terior British Columbia support-tendance increases. prize for the senior championship!, 4s itich" Columbia have pro- only the fiveteam North Shoreiplace team, has staged prize ing the clubs. |" Most operators agree with of Canada hut the calibre of play. 14.4 Allan Cup champions and, league is likely to challenge for nights to attract fans this season,| Dr. George Smith, president of George Inglis, sports editor of the compared to pre-war years and| i... 1056 clubs from these two the cup. but continued to lose money. Two Kamloops Chiefs of the OSHL Kelowna Courier, who says: up to 1950, bears little resem... 0 "have met in the cup bank loans enabled the club to|lists salaries, 'general apathy to| "I cannot see the game dying blance. Many teams and leagues final lls and players took a hockey from coast to coast" and It is just sick." are fighting to keep alive and the . ee ---- i bi sdb The Canadian Press survey cup has lost most of its glamor gives this coast-to-coast picture sociation Eastern Division and FEW CONTENDERS of what is happening to senior|and the six-team OHA-Northiern A cross-Canada survey by The hockey: Ontario Hockey Association eir-| Canadian Press showed that only| MARITIMES |cuits. Just about every club id leagues in Ontario and British Probably only one team, Glace operating in the red. | Columbia are serious contenders Bay Miners in the three - team| Also in the senior league cate- | for the trophy donated by Sir Cape Breton League, is breaking gory, but not considered a threat Montagu Allan in 1908 even on finances with an average in cup playdowns is the two- There is no Senior A competi-| crowd of 1,000 a game. The club division Interprovincial Senior tion in Quebec, Manitoba, Sask-|executive keeps the treasury fat- Hockey League which was atchewan and Alberta. Hockey of-/tened with summer promotions, formed last fall. Two teams ficlals in the Maritimes say their' including bingo dropped out in January-Ottawa cae Third Period . Woodcock (Ladd) . Badgley (Myles, Smith) . . Bastarache (Hickey) ... . Badgley (Myles) . . Knox (Malloy) ...... . Malloy (Knox, 0.39 By JACK SULLIVAN leagues are 'senior in name Other club officials say the season is too long, salaries are too high and that Senior A hockey to survive in B.C. must return to something more in the "'am- ateur" sense. Teams have used many gim- micks, ranging from bingo games played between periods with ONTARIO The major senior A leagues are meet payro! the five-team Ontario Hockey As - 2ND OSHAWA SPORTSMEN'S SHOW MARCH 4-5-6-7 AT THE OSHAWA AIRPORT HOURS: MARCH 4 - 5 PM. TO 11 P.M. MARCH 5 & 6 - 1 P.M. TO 11 P.M. MARCH 7 - 11 AM. TO 11 P.M. Plan That Dream Home SEE DOMINION 'SASH "WINDOWRAMA" On Display at Our Store 84 SIMCOE STREET S. THURSDAY, 10 AM. TO 2P.M. © PEOPLE © PARTIES e FUN Have Hubby Build A RECREATION ROOM You can't go wrong if you take advantage of the FREE advice obtainable through our Recreation Room Planning Department. Two modern show- rooms to assist you in selecting your materials. 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