TALE OF THE TAPE FOR TONIGHT'S FIGHT This is how the welterweight | of Cuba and his will champion Benny (Kid) Paret | Emile Griffith of New enter SPORT FROM BRITAIN Too Many Clubs In English Soccer Play deeds, Accri challenger, measure up when York, for their ngton club membership by season. The league LONDON (CP)--Two events underline the sorry state of English soccer A few days after Accrington Stanley ceased op- erations, West Ham bought in- recent to great 1ever really got going It collapsed first in 1893, thenjdown its not reappeared in 1919 with the!howled the experts. Stanley"' suffix. It ended its; They want the days at the bottom of the|Fourth Divisions Fourth Division, doormat to the!stragglers in the side forward Johnny Byrne league formed into regional from Crystal Palace. The Ham-| The cause of death is plain mers paid Palace £65,000 for | There are too many clubs vying;penses, the main their new player, about the/for too few customers. The resi-|the treasure1 amount of Accrington's debts. |dents of Accrington had only to. Those left, These are the two extremes.|take a bus trip into Burnley or The Accringtons struggle for|Blackburn to watch First Divi-|try survival against overwhelming!sion soccer at the same prices. cer's 'millstones.' financial odds while *he West) Experts believe that fairly;measures, such as Hams splash phenomena! trans-|soon several other clubs will be/construction, could fer fees to buy success. Both|"doing an Accrington." Exeterjtoed in council are bound together by the Foot-|City admits to debts totalling their poverty-stricken ball League £46,000. Torquay, Gillingham ions Accrington's death was na-jand Doncaster are losing fans Meanwhile the tionally mourned althoughand money every week iron stands and hardly unexpected. The little' The committee that runs the pitch that were once the Lancashire team was one of the|league's affairs reecntly added of Accrington Stanley founders of the league in 1888.|to its unpopularity by announc-,as an empty - While its co- founde s _went _ NEW DICTIONARY COVERS SPORT SCRIBES' JARGON JIM BECKER YORK (AP) No more complaints, please about the jargon used by sports writers. For years we have been ac cused of bewildering little league mothers with a lang- uage all our own. But those tortured words and phrases have made Webster's Third | New International Dictionary in force size bankrupt Second, the Go.- not tte, Chapman, Metti ce son, Dobbs WHITBY--goal, defence Giblson Sorichetti, Norwood; Town, Horack, yond, Keenan, Reeson, FIRST PERIOD 1, Whitby: Keenan (penalty shot) 2. Richmond Hill SECOND PERIOD 3. Whitby: Town 4. Whitby (Keenan) Hopkins, ""horse- : Cawker By NEW There's '"'pigskin,"' hide" and "'bum."' DEFINES SOUTHPAW TOO And southpaw, "a left- handed baseball pitcher.' | Also "a boxer who leads with the right hand and foot for- ward whil le guarding with the left hand.' Foot in the bucket: "Bat- ting with the foot nearest the pit cher drawn back from the Four - bagger t's righ pl 5. there: "'A home run." Steal: "To gain a base by Haymaker? 'A powerful _ running without the aid of a | ¢ blow with a fist often result- | hit or an. error.' : ing in a knockout." There's one for. Dizzy Dean, Red dog? 'To too. Dean, an old-time base- passer in football.' ball star and now a baseball Lay-up? "'A jumping one- commentator on television, 1s 8. hand shot in basketball made | noted for using such' words off the backboard from close | as "ain't" and "slud" (for under the basket." slid) Even His zero in tionary Whitby Pee Wees Vipond THIRD PERIOD Whitby: Keenan (Vipond) Whitby (Vipond) Richmond Hill (Harrington Whitby Horack (Gibson) . Richmond Hill (Broderick) Whitby: Reeson (Vipond) Whitby (Reeson) Richmond Hill Broderick (Dobbs) Keenan rush the in the dic- though "slud" ain't '"*Ain't"' is, love? A of tennis score 1¢ 11. Keenan Third plus Wilson Wilson Churcher) 4,18 they the ring-tonight in New title bout eight next should increase, cut and the to be divisions This would reduce travelling ex- headache of a small team richest most talented clubs in the coun- would then be free of soc- ahead stadium be meetings compan- for and re- ve- by corrugated the grassless home remain reminder njing a proposal to extend its 92-'changes have to be made that i, Hutche-' « Partington; Pritchard, forwards Sandford, Giffin, Vi- 13.34 di adults and five young 7 vanishing 10.10 Churcher 10.30 16.42 17.10 lice Montreal Canadiens Haven't Slipped Yet -- By JACK SULLIVAN isc hedule, |Canadian Press Sports Editor |around the circuit was predict- Six months ago people werejing dire things for the champs. saying the dear old Montreal/They needed help. Canadiens were heading for a They had been rather thor tumble. Some said that if the;oughly beaten by Chicago Black 1961 National Hockey J.eague|}Hawks in the Stanley Cup semi- champions didn't shop around)finals last spring without Mau- for reinforcements, they couldjrice Richard. And they were slide to fourth place this season |starting the 1961-62 campaign i--or even' lower without all - star defenceman There had been New York Rangers first in 1942 and a year later SELKE GLOOMY had plunged to last place. Cana- Even Managing Director diens, themselves, had a some- Frank Selke was a bit gloomy what similar experience with a)Without alterations we can't first-place finish in 1947 and a finish first again next year * he drop to fifth in 1948 said But last October, when Cana- Canadiens diens were starting out for their alterations. Along with: Harvey, fifth consecutive NHL title and they lost defenceman Albert before the start of the 70-game Langlois and picked up an ex- CANADA OUTDOORS finished New York as player-coach. didn't make many Bird Watchers Imagining They See 'Whooping Crane By BEN WARD OTTAWA (CP) "Come quickly," the excited woman caller blurted out. "'There's a whoopi ng crane in our back- yard Hugh Schultz gist at Canadian Wildlife Serv headquarters in Ottawa, smiled and reached for his note- book to record another series he calls "'whooper whop- pers." "It's a big red head, just paper an jof 38 flight the wild birds in a migratory are fantastically slim," sandy-haired bird expert says. "'It's too bad all the re- ports we get aren't it would put the count into. the 'hundreds.' Each spring, normally in Ap- ril, the big white cranes take off from refuges in the U.S. and wing north to the nesting area just south of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories They return in the Fall, follow- ing routes through the central] portion of the continent Reports are issued warning hunters and farmers not to mo- lest or disturb the big birds which are white with black wing markings and a red stripe on the head Many ings °are swans or an ornitholo in a white bird with a like the news- says,"' the woman in- sisted. She had the rest of the description down perfectly and reported the bird was wading in shallows of the Rideau River be- hind her Ottawa home Hugh drove out to the spot and arrived just in time to see a blue heron spread its wings and drift majestically down the river. Like all blue herons, it was a dusty grey EXPECTS MORE Some day next of the erroneous sight traced to whistling trumpeter swans which are white and about the same size as whoopers. The trumpeter itself is counted 'ALLS ; Ae if the 2mong the rare birds of North os with the past is any indication, Hugh's America, ranking telephone will ring again and someone in the Ottawa area will have another whooper report. It will be one of scores from across the country and, like most of the others, will involve a heron, crane, goose or swan "it's something like the fly- ing saucer," says Hugh iverybody want s to see one." The fact that there has never been an authenticated' sighting of the rare whooping crane in} Ontario won't deter the callers one bit. There have been few} real sightings even in the Prai rie region over which~ the stately whooping cranes fly twice a year between their sub Arctic nesting grounds and the southern United States At the last count there were 38 wild whooping cranes known to exist in North America, 33 It is the for the is na the highest figure in years species which tive only to this continent FLY NORTH "The chances of spotting one NHL LEADERS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Standings: Montreal, won 40 lost 14, tied 14, points 94 Points: Bathgate, New 83 Goals: Assists: 56 Shutouts: Hall, Penalties: Fontinato, real, 167 minutes York Hull Bathgate, Chicago, 48 New York Chicago, 9 Mont Top Richmond Hill By GERRY BLAIR |Williams elected Keencn as the Mike Keenan with four goals, led Whitby Pee Wee All-Stars to an 8-4 victory over Richmond Hill, in the opening game of a two-game total-goals series Whitby take the four-goal margin back to Richmond Hill on Monday night. It was sweet revenge for the Whitby youngsters after. bow- ing to Richmond Hill in a best- of-three series which tock four games in last. year's OMHA Pee Wee "A" Minor semi-finals One of Keenan's goals came from a penalty shot early in the first period. George Reeson had} been pulled down from behind t. set up the play Coach Doug! 'shart pshooter Other Whitby George goals came Town, Peter Horack and from Vipond George Reeson. Jim Wilson with two, and Gary Churcher, and Dave Brod- erick accounted for the Rich- mond Hill scoring, which in- cluded three in a free-scoring third period Might goals were scored in the third frame after Whitby had built up a 3-1 margin RICHMOND HILL Lieshman; defence Wilson, alts, Harrington, erick, Churchel, Gordon, Larry goal O'Brien, Brod- Dou- TIME STUDY specialist. 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Toronte 1 SERVICE STATIONS OPEN THIS SUNDAY just about everybody,citing youngster, precedents. Doug Harvey who had gone to} authentic.! "JERRY BARBER 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. RUSS'S CITIES SERVICE STATION 767 PARK RD. $. & CORDOVA RD. TAYLORS TEXACO 461 FARK RD. S. BISSONETTE'S SHELL STATION 381 KING ST. WEST DURNO'S SUPERTEST STATION 574 KING ST. EAST BILENDUKE'S ESSO STATION 1004 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH COOPERS TEXACO STATION 410 RITSON RD. NORTH VIGOR OIL STATION 78 BOND ST. WEST BILL'S WHITE ROSE STATION 352 WILSON RD. SOUTH DRAGOMOTZ B.A. STATION 136 KING ST, WEST MONTY'S B.A. STATION 284 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH Bobby Rous-! seau, who probably will end as the rookie of the year. These didn't excite the ex- perts who probably recalled the dire predictions made in 1958 by Jack Adams at a time when Canadiens were walloping ev- erybody in sight. The Detroit Red Wing general manager, who knows all about the decline of Stanley Cup and league champions over a period of about 45 years with the Red Wings, had said "A hockey club disintegrates about every five years. And it will happen to Canadiens, too "Time is running out on Mau- rice Richard and Doug Harvey When the Canadiens those two they are going to have trou- ble." lose Ross' crane behind the whooper HELP SANDHILLS Blue herons, snow the greater and lesser cranes are also frequently taken for whooping cranes The whooper actually the best friend that the lesser sand- hill crane has. If it wasn't for the whooper and his rarity, the lesser sandhills would supply many a tasty meal for Canadian hunters The buff-colored lesser sand- hill is a dead ringer for a young whooper, which doesn't white feathers and marks until the second year to protect the whooper Cana dian. laws forbid the shooting of lesser sandhills. This is hardest on farmers in the Last Lake section of south- ern Manitoba where thousands of lesser sandhills pause to feed and damage grain fields on their migratory flights. At tempts to herd them away with aircraft have failed, geese and sandhill mis- is get its THE OSHAWA Ne) Saturday, Maren -" 1962 15 ;masked Jacques Plante. After, with the fewest goals scored a terrible 1960-61 season, he's against it heading for his sixth Vezina! If he miakes it, he'll tie an- Trophy, awarded annually toother great Canadien goalie-- ithe goalkeeper who has played Bill Durnan. the most games for the team) __ Canadiens are dying? % BIRKS ob FREE WATCH CLINIC MARCH 26-31 Well, as the league champion Canadiens prepare to meet Chi- cago again in the semi-finals, folks can ponder these statis tics Claude Provost. a young right- winger, took up the slack when 50-goal scorer Bernie Geoffrion couldn't buy a goal and, up to Thursday, had scored 32. That is more than double his output of the previous two years Then there is centre Ralph Backstrom who is sailing into the final stages of the schedule with 25 goals, the most he has scored in his four years with the club. His previous high was 18 in his rookie year in 1958-59 and he followed with 13 - goal and 12-goal efforts in the next two seasons Then, of course, You are invited to bring your watch in for a free inspection. Each and timing accuracy. inspection covers overall cleanliness, need for oiling, there is the An experienced watchmaker is here to advise you. OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE 725-3511 BIRKS JEWELLERS SCOTTY'S BARGAINS @ No down payments @ No poyments 'til June @ Free estimates ... No obligation WHEEL- BARROWS Heavy duty, rubber tire, metal or oak handles. Stan- dard or Contractor type. 24.29 1279 SIMCOE NORTH Open Daily from 7:30 'til 6 p.m. Fri. 'till 9 p.m. 728-6291 @ 6 to 60 months to pay PRE-CUT PICNIC TABLES 27" x 6'. Western Cedar. Complete with hardware. 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