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} THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mendey, April 24, 1967 The Stanley ALL EVEN: Cup finals will resume tomor- row night at Maple Leaf Gar- denis and it's now a 3-out-of-5 sepies, Toronto Leafs having tiefl the set with their 3-0 win on.Saturday afternoon. If Tor- onto supporters felt their favorites were a little less than inept in the first game, then thé Habitants' rooters can also be forgiven if they felt the same way about their Montreal team, in that second outing. Actually, they weren't that bad either, but it's the same old story, when one team starts to click with both their checking and passing, success in the scoring column usually follows and when it's a shutout -- then only one team looks to have had a good game. "TOE" BLAKE, coach of Canadiens, could not be too happy about Saturday after- noon's result but one report out of Montreal says that he was "relieved." This was re- ferring to the fact that it brought an end to that 16- game undefeated streak the Montreal Habs had_ estab- lished, the last 11 being all wins. Coaches and managers of. teams not so successful, might welcome the "pressure" that seems to build up when a-team establishes a lengthy winning streak or undefeated string. Those who haven't had would likely deny it but even winners have an added strain, that mounts with each succes- 'give game. Now that he can forget about the streak, Blake and his club will move into Tuesday night's game with a changed attitude. JOHNNY BOWER was the standout hero in Toronto's win Saturday but Montreal's young goalie, Rogatien Vachon, could in no way be faulted in the defeat either. It still shapes up like another defensive series with the goalies as the key factors. There are those who figure Terry Sawchuk, with his fan- tastic display against Black Hawks, may have expended his contribution to the Stanley Cup bid. Certainly Bower looked as if he is ready to pick up the tools and continue the job. Two interesting com- ments, from the two goalies, came out in the variety of reports from Montreal. Terry Sawchuk, taking off his pads, wearily observed that, after all these years, there were only four or five more games to go through the chore for him. Bower, in contrast to Sawchuk's hinted retirement announced that he plans to wear a mask for the 1967-68 season. Looks as if Leafs are going to protect the veteran, doesn't it? LACROSSE FANS around these parts are going to have a feast of their favorite en- tertainment this summer, if yesterday afternoon's exhibi- tion game at the Civic Audi- torium can be taken as a criterion. Brooklin "Redmen" (they're wearing a big "In- dian's Head" crest, this sea- son) nosed out. Green Gaels 8-7 in a rugged exhibition tilt. For so early in the season, it was played at a fast tempo, surprisingly fast for the Senior 'A' team. If coach Fred Whal- ley keeps increasing the speed of his Brooklin team, terned on the relentess at- | ee SPORTS MENU By Geo. H. Campbell Associate Sports Editor | _ ot : - Members of the Albert ee Ga Ac ere Street United Church nov- Brooklin just might. "run im _team admire the Joe away" with the OLA. senior acMillan Memorial Tro- laurels this season. The teams play a return game in Brook- lin this Saturday night, where with tighter quarters, the checking is expected to be heavier and more often. CAPSULE SPORTS: "Bo" Burke checks in with word that his Quality Fuels team, All-Ontario Midget 'A' softball champions last season, are going to compete in the newly- formed Lakeshore Midget League. He is holding a meet- ing for the Quality Fuels team and other players in- terested, at the Sunnyside Park clubhouse, tomorrow evening, at 6:30 o'clock... PAUL SHODY also plans a Midget boys' softball team, which will also compete in the Lakeshore League (which met yesterday, in Cobourg) -- s0 this city will likely have two strong Midget teams, There are a lot of good players graduating from last year's Kiwanis Bantam League, who are looking for a place to play so there should be plenty of Midget talent avail- able for two clubs . . . SUN- DAY'S weather was more like football time in November but the enthusiastic youngsters didn't mind. They're impatient to get going and Alexandra Park was a hive of sports activity yesterday morning and afternoon, Scugog Clean- ers Junior softballers and Legion Minor Assoc. teams in both Junior and Midget ranks, all had large turnouts for their initial workouts, Freshman Coach Happy Following Seattle's Win SEATTLE, Wash. (CP)--Bill MacFarland freshman coach of Seattle Totems who had con- cisdered quitting early in the season, had all the more rea- son to enjoy the champagne Sunday night after his team downed Vancouver Canucks 3-1 to win the Western Hockey League championship. The Totems won the best-of- seven series for the Lester Patrick Trophy in four straight --the first time any team took the title undefeated since Seat- tle won its only previous title in 1959, Seattle won 4-3 Saturday after winning the first two games 3-2 and 4-3, Vancouver. coach Bert Olm- SPORTSCQPE TODAY No Games Scheduled. TUESDAY ig SOFTBALL Quality Fuels Midget Club: organization meeting, at Sunnyside Park clubhouse, 6:30 p.m. ROLLER SKATING Public skating: at Civic Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. stead could only say: 'Tired, tired, tired." His Canucks had downed the league-leading Portland Bucka- roos in four straight games in their semi-final playoff while Seattle ousted California Seals four games to two. Olmstead said the 10-day lay- off after the short semi-final series gave the Canucks too much time to relax. The Canucks got off to a fast {start in Sunday's game. Bryan } Hextall gave them a 1-0 lead at 14:58 on a pass from Dave | Duke, and it held this until 3:58! of the third period. Then the axe fell. Rookie Jim Paterson scored on a pass from Guyle Fielder, tying the game up. The 8,367 fans went wild at 16:49 when ex-Canuck Howie | Hughes scored the second | Seattle goal. Hughes took the) puck at a wide angle to the net, | leaving himself with less than | + PROTESTANT CHURCH NOVICE CHAMPS phy which they won as Protestant Church Hockey League novice champions this past season. From left yon, to right are Barry Dear- borne, Kevin Wiltshire and Paul Wiltshire. (Oshawa Times Photo) By CLIFF GORDON Brooklin Redmen of the Sen- ior A lacrosse league yester- day afternoon edged the Oshawa Green Gaels, four time Minto Cup champs, 8-7 in what would have to be one of the finest exhibition 'lacrosse games ever played in the Civic Auditorium. It was a big' win for Brook- lin, now coached and managed by Fred Whalley, who for the previous four years, was the right-hand man to Jim Bishop general manager and coach of the Gaels. It was, as many fans said and felt, the student getting back at teacher. We know however, from talking with "the teacher" that he was more than pleas- ed with the knowledge that has rubbed off on his counterpart. SHARE SCORING HONORS Brooklin Redmen Nip Junior Green Gaels up as the Redmen ran except- ionally well. This has always been a strong point with the Gaels, who un- der manager - coach Bishop would have to be the finest conditioned team in Canada. GAELS SCORE FIRST Oshawa opened the scoring but only after Merv Marshall in the Gaels' cage had made three tremendous saves on close- in drives by the Redmen. Brook- lin tied it up just 35 seconds later, as Don Craggs scored with a hard drive. Oshawa took over in a goal scoring way and fired three in- a - row, as they appeared to catch the Brooklin team in a slump. Coach Whalley soon snapped them out of it with some harsh It was at this stage that ex- perience and also some fine coaching and conditioning start- ed to show. oa Brooklin came back with four in-a-row. This gave Brooklin a 6-5 lead at the end of 40 minutes and several Oshawa fans were heard to say "what has Whalley done to those guys" The third and final period was a nip - and - tuck affair as both coaches strived to get the really big ones. Ken Thomp- son and Terry Davis scored for Brooklin while John Clayton scored a pair of well-earned tallies for the losers, JUST TALKING...... The same teams will play back in Brooklin on Saturday night, est pre-season crowd ever in Brooklin. . -We chatted with manager-coach Jim Bishop af- words from the Brooklin bench. There was not a repeat scor- er for the Redmen, who show- ed the fastest running senior team we have ever seen. Don Craggs, Ron Moore, Ken Lotton, Ken Thompson, Dave Houston Houston a former Gael, cut the lead to 4-2 at the end of 20) minutes of torrid action. Oshawa fans were breathing | we were beaten by a good team. Bob Hanna, Grant Heffernan, |¢@8¥ aS the second period start-| | Our team is young and have ed with their fine little team ter the game and are glad to report that he had nothing but praise for the Brooklin team. e said we have no excuses, in what should attract the larg-| semi-final bY "a Imlach Hunch Pays Off; Bower Blanks Canadiens By AL McNEIL MONTREAL (CP) -- George (Punch) Imlach is noted throughout the National Hockey League for his sometimes 'way out predictions and hunches. However, today he boasts a perfect batting average in both departments after his Toronto Maple Leafs took full measure of Montreal Canadiens Saturday afternoon and shut out the de- fending Stanley Cup champions 3-0. The win evened the Stanley Cup final round at one game apiece, The third game of the best-of- seven series is scheduled for Toronto at 8 p.m, EST Tues- day, and will be seen in its en- tirety on the national network of the CBC, Before game time Saturday Imlach, general manager and coach of the Toronto club, had "predicted that the odds were running out on Canadiens' per- petuating their 16-game un- beaten skein and their: record of 11 consecutive wins. The Montrealers had not been beaten since March 8 when Tor- onto handed them a 6-4 loss on Leafs' ice. The Canadiens won their last six regular season contests, beat New York Rangers in four straight games in the semi-final round and trounced the Leafs 6-2 in the opening game of the final round last Thursday. IMLACH CONFIDENT "I said it before. the first game and I'm saying it again now, there was no way Mont- real could take us four straight," Imlach said. "I decided before the warmup to start Bower. We thought we'd replace him if he wasn't going good, but we didn't have to, did we?" Johnny Bower counted the first shutout of this year's Stan- ley Cup playoffs with a superb individual effort, coupled with a tremendous checking display of} his team-mates that slowed the speedy Montrealers down to the pace Toronto wanted throughout the contest. It was Bower's fifth playoff shutout in 10 NHL post - sea- son appearances. The Leafs' power play, which faltered badly during their series against Chi- cago Black Hawks, scored two of the three goals. Centre Pete: Stemkowski poked Bob Pulford's goalmouth 4 By. JOHNNY BOWER yo + first shutout at 12:14 of the first period It was Stemkowski's fourth goal of the playoffs and came with Montreal defenceman Terry Harper in the penalty box. Pulford took the puck away from Montreal defenceman J. C. Tremblay and hit Stemkow- Blazers Win Central Title OKLAHOMA CITY (AP): -- Oklahoma City Blazers, in their second season in the Central Hockey League, won their sec- ond championship Satur- day night with a 3 2 victory over Omaha Knights in a_ hard- played game in which four of the goals were scored in the final period. The Blazers won the best-of- seven game series for the CHL Adams Trophy 4-1. The first score of the game came midway in the second pe- riod, when Dallas Smith used a set-up to Ron Buchanan and Jean Paul Parise to score for Oklahoma. Knight Wally Tkaczuk tallied with 8:14 gone in the final pe- riod. In the next five minutes, Blazers Ross Lonsberry and Terry Crips slammed counters for Oklahoma City into the nets to give the winning total. Paul Andrea knocked in the pass behind rookie Rogatien Vacron in the Canadiens' net final Knight tally less than a minute after Crips scored. only seven players from last} and Terry Davis each scored\nursing a two - goal lead and\vears' team back in action for once in the winning effort. The goal by Davis proved to be the game winner and sent the Brooklin supporters home| happy. Johnny Clayton, the youngest man on the floor for yesterday's game and perhaps one of the keenest competitors, was the only repeat scorer, as he trig- gered a pair. Captain Jim Higgs, Phil Clayton, Charlie Marlowe, Dwight Davies and Larry Lloyd each garnered singles for the Gaels. The game was billed as a battle of coach vs coach, as well as pitting one of the young- est junior teams against.a seas- oned Senior team like Brooklin, who have developed into a fine running team. Coach Fred Whalley had his charges fired up for the game and managed to get the end| results that he wanted. His i hand in practices showed after seeing them trounce anoth- er senior team 14-9, a week previous, with a lot of third and fourth - line players, in the final period. Many thought it might be a repeat performance when the Gaels took a 5-2 lead at 4.39 of the second period, as lanky Larry Lloyd scored on a fine effort. Dixie Beehives . Whip Greenshirts TORONTO (CP)-- Dixie Bee- hives defeated Kitchener Green- shirts 6-3 here Sunday night to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of- seven Ontario Junior B hockey final. The fourth game will be played in Kitchener Friday night with the fifth in the Dixie the game . . . Bishop felt that Redmen are the best running team he has seen come out of Brooklin, they have more bench strength than they haye ever had and still fellows like Conlin, Wheiller, Paul Tran, and Dale were not in action. And as Bishop added, with the voice of experience, McCready never has played better and we have never seen Pat Baker (who is rated as number one in Sr. A look any better. Also added that he was proud of his team and singled out the fine play of Merv Marshall, who has to be the 'class of Jr. A lacrosse in Canada..... Bish- op was also high on 17-year-old John Clayton who was the youngest man on the floor, also the work of captain Jim Higgs who turned in a fine game... Manager - coach Whalley said "all our guys played well and we will prove on Saturday night arena here Sunday. it was no mistake." two inches to shoot at. | "It must have gone in this, |way," he said later, turning the | jpuck on edge. "There wasn't | jenough room for it to go in HAVE IT DONE ALIGNMENT flat."" | Hughes added the 'insurance | score.with only 12 seconds left | in the game, when Vancouver | netminder Al moved for an extra forward. CITY Packing @ Shi No Job Too B mover. 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However, Bower was back at Defenceman Tim Horton|the old stand two minutes later rounded out the scoring at\#6:57|/{o make fine stops on Harper, of the second period when he|/Bobby Rousseau and Claude Larose. chon from just inside the Mont-| Stemkowski narrowly missed jsetting a record for the fastest On the Walton and Horton goal in playoff history when his goals Vachon appeared to be|shot at the eignt - second mark partially screened and had nojof the game bounced off the chance to block the shots. Montreal goal post. Montreal coach Toe Blake; Referee Vern Buffey called 14 minors throughout,. eight to the winners. A crowd of 14,789 was on hand for the game. at the 21-year-old Vachon, play- ing in his first NHL playoffs after coming up from Houston of the Central Professional League in mid-February. Blake said he had no alibis| and his team didn't deserve to} win. | "We were outhustled all the) way and they beat us to the puck all through the game. 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