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'BALDY' NORTHCOTT Longest Game Still Vivid In Northcott's Memory By WALTER KREVENCHUK WINNIPEG (CP) -- Lorne (Baldy) Northcott 'can. still see it -- the bouncing puck that ended the longest game in National Hockey League history. "They didn't flood the ice in-those days and the puck pounced all over the place." After 176 minutes and 30 seconds--at 2:25 a.m. March 95, 1936--it finally bounced into the net for Detroit Red wings. The 1-0 triumph' over North- cott's Montreal Maroons in a semi-final clash started De- troit on a drive to the Stanley Cup. "It was a lucky break," Baldy recalls. 'Mud Brune- teau shot from outside the "You never put your stick up," Baldy said. The butt end was '"'a hell of a crime." De- spite such tough customers as Charlie Conacher, Dit Clap- per and Cook 'I never lost a tooth." Things weren't all quiet though. There was the day Baldy read a sports col- | umn by a "great friend'-- Elmer Ferguson of the Mont- | real Herald. Northcott had a chance for the Lady Byng | Trophy--an award for gentle- | manly conduct combined with ability--this season, it said. A few hours later Baldy | clashed with Canadiens de- | fenceman Babe Siebert, col- lected a 14-stich forehead cut | --the scar is still visible--and that | a handful of penalties. | THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, June 30, 1966 13 | Sunday Games Maybe Salvation Of Cricket LONDON (CP) -- Sunday games may be the answer to the declining popularity of cricket, Like all spectator sports, cricket is enmeshed in a com- plicated and, some say, out- dated set of Sunday observ- ance laws dating back to the times of the Puritan revolu- tion of the 17th century. These laws prohibit sports under various circumstances one...eyen...forbade teams playing outside their own par- with only 660 Saturday. Gate money totalled only $390 while voluntary collections and pro- gram and score card receipts totalled more than $1,500 Sun- day. Organizers admitted part of the success could be attrib- uted to the novelty and future matches could attract a smaller and less generous crowd, A further 12 Sunday matches are planned this season before any final judgment is made. Cricketers quickly note that handing round the begging bowl is not the way to make the venture work, Commercial sponsorship and knockout tournaments would help but admission charges must be introduced before weekend | sport can get off the ground, | ish. They were designed to | preserve the Lord's Day for | prayer and worship, but now | are largely ignored, or acknowledged as unenforce- able. One which forbids admis- sion charges is still applied and makes Sunday sporting events unprofitable. Sports fans have to rely on | amateur and charity meetings and cricket is limited to the | village green. A loophole in the present law does allow voluntary col- lections to bé made among | spectators. County teams fig- ured if fans could be induced to pay for admission that way, Sunday cricket with top class | professional players might | work. A survey carried out by a | cricketing magazine showed more than two-thirds of the | readers were in favor of Sun- day games, The Marylebone Cricket Club, cricket's governing body, asked county members to experiment with the scheme by playing some three-day championship matches Satur- | day, Sunday and Monday in- stead of midweek. The first match between Essex and Somerset proved an undoubted success. More than 6,000 people turned up Sunday compared SENIOR LACROSSE -BROOKLIN REDMEN PETERBOROUGH FEPSI'S Sat., July 2nd - 8:30 P.M. Brooklin Memorial Arena Sponsored by the following merchants: Northside Chrysier-Dodge Bramley Mote Oftenbrite Me Gus Brown Motors Bewmen and Gibson Ontario Contractors Drew Motors J. B. MeMullon Reel Estate Mitchell Bros. 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He guided Win- nipeg Rangers to the Memor- ial Cup in 1941 and 1943, then settled down as a business- man in the sporting goods store he had purchased in | 1933. | Seated in the basement of- fice of the downtown shop, he gave a capsule wrapup of his 56 years. Born in Calgary, he tagged | along on family travels to Re- gina and Winnipeg. He played junior hockey in Brantford, Ont., and senior in Hailey- bury, Ont. An_ invitation to -Toronto Maple Leafs' training camp had this result; 'I watched Canadiens beat Toronto 10-1 and thought, 'This is way too fast for me,'" But the Maroons didn't think so. They could use a -good goal scorer, good skater who was adept at back-check- ing and had a good forehand and backhand shot. A telephone call from Ma- roon manager Eddie Girard enticed Baldy to Montreal, where he stayed until the club folded in 1938. He closed out his professional sojourn with Chicago Black Hawks. 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