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_& THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesdey, Mey 9, 1967 = SPORTS BEAT By Eric Wesslby © Times Sports Editor OSHAWA'S GREEN Gaels ~ekicked the Ontario 'Lacrosse Association Junior "A" sea- son off in style Monday night "at Civic Auditorium, edging Toronto Township PCOs 10-9. "It was a typical opening game, ~ with the boys hardly in mid- season form, but it looks like another good season for coach Jim Bishop and company. Ross Jones started the season ""off in grand fashion, clicking for goals on his first three shots but running into difficul- ties after that. TOP PERFORMER for the ~on the floor, although Barry 'Salovaara and Brian Sicinski of PCO's gave it a good try for the visitors. But Higgs was the top star. He scored a pair of goals and while he didn't garner an assist, he set up numerous scoring thrusts by Gaels. IT MUST be discouraging for other clubs in the league to realize that Gaels should be just as strong, if not stronger, as last year. Last night centres Don Stinson and Gay- lord Powless were missing, and defenceman Dwight Davies took an early shower. Can you just imagine what the loss of three such key men 'would do to a hockey club? It would be like Montreal Cana- diens having to play without Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard 'and Jacques Laperriere. * BUT EVEN with three top performers out of the lineup, Gaels still have some aces going for them, not the least pf which is goalkeeper Merv "Marshall. Already ranked as the best junior goalkeeper in ~Canada, Marshall should be a standout for years when he graduates from junior ranks. And other clubs must think he's found the fountain of youth. He's been playing jun- ior lacrosse for four years and still has two more seasons re- maining, counting this one, He's the last line of defence, but what a line! A THE TEAMS meet again tonight at Port Credit, and PCOs will be just a little tougher on their home floor. For the good of the league, a win by the PCO's would be a good thing tonight, although the Gaels would probably ar- gue over this point. A good tight league, with three or four clubs fighting for top spot, is always a winner at the box office. Let one club have a runnaway and interest is over before the season is hardly under way. It's true ° in any sport. TORONTO TOWNSHIP will be heard from before the sea- son is over. It's a good club, one which moves the ball well and can check. With a little sharper goalkeeping it will give Gaels quite a tussle. It looks like the real battle will be for second place, with Mimico Mountaineers and Tor- onto Township battling all the way. ONLY SOUR note on the evening's performance was a bit of a stick-swinging duel in the second period between Toronto Township's Tom Campbell and Gaels' Davies, Dwight had been the victim of a vicious butt end seconds before the stick Swinging, an offence that went unpenalized, and that's when the trouble started. For a while it ap- peared that a nasty situation would prevail but things quietened down once the inci- dent was over. FEW NOTES -- Ontario Hockey Association's Junior "A" council will hold a sched- ule-meeting in Oshawa, June 12, Teams expect to play a 54-game schedule next sea- son, because of the new Ot- tawa club. New Westminster Royals played 100° games this past season and didn't make it to Memorial Cup final. Who says OHA plays too Many games? 2 Whitby Scugog ladies of the Durham Senior Ladies Softball League will practice Wednesday eve- ning at Whitby's Centennial Park. Candidates from 16 up, living in the Whitby area, are invited but, please, no Oshawa girls. ROOM ENOUGH -- Tor- onto Township PCO goal- keeper Roger Williams didn't leave Oshawa Green Gaels' Ross Jones (3) much room to shoot for, (above), but the latter found the spot for one of his three goals during Monday's Ontario Lacrosse Association Junior "A" game at Civic Auditorium. Gaels won the game 10-9, and swing to Port Credit tonight for another contest with the PCO's. PCO's Tom Campbell arrives too late to help Williams. --Oshawa Times Photo man battle for the vacant world heavyweight boxing champion- ship has been announced, but it's not as cut-and-dried as ap- pears on the surface. " . First announced in Frankfurt, Germany, by the backers of European champion Karl Mildenberger, the plan was confirmed in Toronto by Irv Ungerman, manager of Cana- dian champion George Chuvalo, and in New York by promoter 'Water Proves Equalizer "In Centennial 4000 Rally ' By GORDON GRANT. "= NORTH BAY (CP)--Competi- ~tors had more trouble Monday "with a 35-foot stretch of water on a Northern Ontario backroad than they did in the previous ~B,000 miles travelled in the "Centennial 4000 rally. « The water, up to two feet deep %h parts, caused hundreds of points: to be assessed against rallyists and the elimination of others from the 4,500-mile event which ends at Expo Wednesday. ~ Drivers moving along a nar- fow winding road in Espanola, Ont., about 40 miles west of Sudbury, were confronted with ethe water and had to drive "through it. ~~ The first six cars managed to et through without problems, but then the trouble began. Mike Hunter and Mike Alexander of Vancouver in an Alfa Romeo Became stuck in the middle of the water and blocked the road. Keith Ronald of Guelph and John Medwell of Toronto, how- ever, decided to try to get through in their Citroen and also became stuck. » MEET SAME FATE Immediately, cars following became mired in the muddy water. The Alfa Romeo was even- tually pushed from the quag- mire by other crews, but water damage caused the car to drop out of the rally. Efforts to move the Citroen failed and it also dropped out. A Sunbeam Imp, driven by Rosemary Smith of Dublin, be- came stuck and she blocked the road again, a tow 'truck re- moved her car, but she lost in excess of 300 points and slipped from contention as the rally's over-all winner. The same fate befell Jean Claude Ogier of France in his Citroen who lost 330 points at the water hole and slipped well down the list from fifth place. Paul MacLennan of Toronto and John Wilson of Waterloo, Ont., in their Lotus Cortina dropped 20 points, 10 times as many as they had dropped in the previous. 3,000 miles. How- ever, they still hold first place with a one-point margin over Roger Clarke of London, Eng- land, a team mate who has lost 23 points. Clarke and his navigator, Jim Peters of Toronto, sailed through the water without prob- lem, one of about six cars that managed that feat. SLIP TO THIRD John Schulz and Paul Manson of Toronto in a Datsun slipped from second to third place after taking a 30-point penalty in the water, they now have lost 46 points. Scott Harvey of Dearborn, Mich., and Mike Kerry of Tor- onto moved into fourth place from fifth with 55 points after going without penalty. Their powerful Barracuda took the water easily. ~ SPORTSCOPE TODAY LACROSSE OLA Junior 'A' League -- "Oshawa Green Gaels vs To- ronto Township; at Port Credit Arena, 8:30 p.m. Practice --Oshawa Minor Assoc. Pee Wees; all players workout at Oshawa Children's Arena, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY Oshawa Minor Assoc.--Or- ganization meeting, for Ki- wanis Bantam Boys' League and Midget Boys' League; at Simcoe Hall Settlement House, 7:30 p.m. LAWN BOWLING Whitby Lawn Bowling Club Annual Spring Meeting; at Centennial Centre, 7:30 p.m. BASKETBALL Oshawa Recreation Dept. Ladies' League -- Thunder- birds vs Firebirds; sudden- death game for league cham- pionship, at T. R. McEwen Public School, 7:00 p.m. ROLLER SKATING Publie Skating -- at Civic Auditorium, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. LACROSSE Practice -- Oshawa Minor Assoc. Novices; all players workout at Children's Arena, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Marcel Rainville of Quebec City and Robin Edwards of Montreal were in the only Cit- reon which did not have diffi- culty with the stretch of water. They went through Monday's 809-mile run from Fort. William without losing a point. They moved into fifth place from seventh. John Smith of Kingston and John Catto of Ottawa dropped out of the rally when they had car trouble, They were in fourth place with 28 points when they left Fort William and held first place in the private entry class. Their place was taken in the private section by Herb Felton of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and Rim Callon of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., in an Austin Copper with 94 points, STILL LEADS WOMEN Miss Smith continues to hold first place in the Coup des Dames which she won last year. Diana Carter-Polivka of Toronto and Barbara Jean Jack of Bur- lington, Ont., in a factory-spon- sored Rambler America, are second in the class with 714 points after losing 90 Monday. A total of 13 cars dropped out Monday, leaving 51 to head for the next overnight stop at King- ston. Chris Dougal and Ernie Moi- sey of Nelson, B.C., fell out of the rally when patches to the clutch in their Chevelle did not hold up. This was the last team left in the press section of the event and would have been assured of $1,000 had they been able to hold out for two more days. Oshawa 'Old Birds' Fly From Ingersoll The General Racing Pigeon Club of Oshawa held its second "Old Bird" race of the season on Saturday, with 21 owners shipping a total of 309 birds to Ingersoll, for the race home, an air-line distance of 120 miles. L. Prescott's loft claimed first and third places in this race. Following are the results, in yards-per-minute -- L. Pres- cott, 1346; J. Irwin, 1309; L. Prescott, 1307; S. Grant, 1296; J. Strachan, 1283; C. Bennett, 1246; J. Kehoe, 1207; M. Koro- bij, 1192; A. Kellar, 1188; F. Cowle, 1181; C. Bennett, 1179; J. Shewchuck, 1173; A. Szczur, 1171; F. Stuart, 1170; J. Shew- chuk, 1151; W. Bowden, 1136; J. Askew, 1133; S. Grant, 1125; L. Kinsman, 1124; L, Kinsman, 1112; A. Kellar, 1066; J. Kehoe, 1064; J. Issel, 1002; J. Shew- chuck, 969 and D. Bejkowsky, 911 Eight-Man Scramble For Heavyweight Title NEW YORK (CP)--An eight-;Mike Malitz of the sponsoring| Clay recently was stripped of his championship by the WBA when he refused to accept in- duction into the U.S. Army when called upon to do so at Houston. UNGERMAN READY Sports Action, Inc. But at least two of the fighters named -- Floyd Patterson and Joe Frazier -- have deferred their acceptance of the idea, for various reasons, Patterson, drawn to fight Os- car Bonavena of Argentina, has a bout July 9 in Los Angeles against Jerry Quarry and the former champion's adviser, Al Bolan, says no decision will be made regarding the tournament until that fight is concluded. Frazier, 1964 Olympic cham- pion who has been drawn against Chuvalo, is hesitant about the tournament because it has no official sanction, so far. Bruce Wright, an attorney who is secretary of the corpora- tion backing Frazier, said Mon- day: "We'd feel better about it if it was run by the World Boxing Association. "Secondly, the guaranteed purse for the first-round elimin- ation is $50,000, which we do not consider satisfactory." The first-round fights are ex- pected to be held sometime early in September. Ungerman 'said in Toronto Monday he hopes to set the Chuvalo-Frazier fight either at Expo 67 in Montreal or in the Astrodome in Houston about Sept. 2. The other pairings in the tournament would match Mil- denberger against Thad Spencer somewhere in Germany and former WBA champion Ernie Terrell against young Jimmy would meet Wednesday to make a definite decision about the fight, but Ungerman is all set to go. Frazier as potentially the tough- est of the lot even though his boy has lost decisions to Clay, Terrell, |vena in the last two years. Frazier's backers said they He sees Chuvalo's match with Patterson and Bona- , Marlowe, By GEO. H. CAMPBELL In what has to be one of the most exciting opening games of any Ontario Lacrosse Associa- tion's Junior 'A' schedule, Osh- awa Green Gaels turned back Toronto Township, 10-9, here last night at the Civic Auditor- ium, and the result sent almost 2,000 Oshawa rooters home con- vinced that this is going to be a@ great season. Ross Jones, less than 48 hours out of a cast, turned in a ster- ling effort, to put Green Gaels out in front, early in the fray, when he himself accounted for the first three Oshawa goals. Jones clipped his first one, early in the game, on a pass from Johnny Clayton and add- ed two more, on power-play at- tacks, when the visitors were short-handed. Phil Clayton's goal, on a pass from Charlie gave Green Gaels their fourth goal of the first period. But the period was far from one-sided. Barry Salovarra picked up a_ power-play goal while Brian Davies was serv- ing an interference penalty and then clicked again while Osh- awa was serving a "too many men" penalty, late in the game. Bob Gardener from Joe Hore, late in the period, kept Toronto Township in the running, on a clean-cut scoring play. SECOND PERIOD HECTIC The second period produced some hectic action, with penal- ties, rather than goal - scoring, holding the limelight. While Wayne Davidson was serving a holding penalty, Brian Wilson made it 4-4 on a three- way play with Salovarra and Bob Chandler. ' A minute later, Dwight Davies struck for a goal, on Dave Keenan's pass but a flock of penalties, for roughing and high-sticking followed, includ- ing a couple of game miscon- duct penalties, to Davis and Tom Campbell, for their stick- swinging acts. : A few more-Toronto Township penalties followed and _ the hang-over made itself felt in the final stretch. Jack Clayton, Jimmie Higgs, and Charlie Marlowe scored goals for the Green Gaels and Marlowe's tally proved the winner. After the teams had survived the game misconducts, which came about midway through the middle frame, the close checking increased in tempo, resulting in late penalties to Ean Innis for high-sticking and Bill MacKenzie for interference. Toronto Township held out for "We must give Frazier his due because he is unbeaten, but George's chances are good," Ungerman said. Frazier, of Philadelphia, is unbeaten in more than 20 pro- fessional fights, Fisher Wins Junior Event Robert Fisher of Oshawa cap- tures the 500 cc junior event in the Oshawa T.T. Rider's Club scramble at Pleasure Park here. Some of the races in the Ca- nadian Motorcycle Association event had to be cancelled be- cause of weather but winners in events which were held were Ron Wheatly, Montreal, 100 cc the last minute of that period but their short-handed state was obvious from the third-period face-off as Johnny Clayton scored on a three-way play, set up by Ross Jones and Peter Vipond, within 12 seconds, tying the score at 6-6. TENSE FINISH Oshawa's big break came about three minutes later, when Mike Lewis was thumbed off for high-sticking and following recovery from the Toronto Township power play, goalie Merv Marshall made a long clearing pass to team captain Jim Higgs, who broke in on Roger Williams and he made no mistake. Mike Lewis was still in the penalty box when this happen- ed and when his time was up, he came out of the sin-bin, grabbed a loose ball and made it 8-6. 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Most American and Canadian Cars 5 Wheels 7.50 USE YOUR CREDIT are KING PARK King St. W. at Park Rd. RES inion Tire Stores wheels with bonded ing brake fluid 1000 miles for the pants were warm on the pen- alty bench, Jim Higgs had taken a pass from Ross Jones to make it 9-6. But Toronto Township weren't giving up easily and Barry Salo- varra came up with a spark- ling effort to make it 9-7, a half-minute later. For the next five minutes, it was ding-dong checking with the rival goalies called upon many times for _ sparkling Saves. Then, at 12:52, Salovarra set "Rick" Larose in the clear and he made it 9-8, Smelling victory, the visitors swarmed to the attack and came close too, but again Mar- shall snared a shot and from his protected area, cleared the ball to Charlie Marlowe, who zipped in, deked Mike Marks and put the ball behind Wil- liams, to make it 10-8. That proved the clinching goal but it didn't look like it at the time. Toronto Township roared back to the attack and had a definite edge, but over- per proved a poor combination, with Bob Sicinski getting a '"'follow- through slashing" penalty and then after the Township held off the Gaels for these two min- utes, Bob Gardener went off for high-sticking. Again the Township -- held Green Gaels at bay and then with Gardener back, Salovarro put Joe Hore in on Marshall, at 18:57, to make it 10-9. The last minute was a real thriller. Sicinski went right in at 19:44 and put the ball just over the cross-bar, because he was in a little too close. Goalie Marshall's long _ stick-handle wiggled the rigging on this one and the Oshawa fans groaned, figuring the ball was in the net. Oshawas Green Gaels Start Off With Win make a good save -- to prevent a tie game. Salovarro with his contribu- tion of three goals and four as- sists, was the most productive player of the floor while Sicin- ski, with a beautiful shift, when in full stride, also caught the eye of the fans, and scored once. Gardener, with two goals, along with Wilson, LaRose and Hore at one apiece, accounted for the other Township tallies. Ross Jones was Oshawa's top scorer, with the first three of the game. He was followed by captain Jim Higgs, with a couple and five other players shared the remainder, Davies, Lewis, Marlowe and the Clay- ton brothers, one apiece. TORONTO TOWNSHIP: goal, Williams; Innis, Marks, SALOVARRO A STANDOUT O'Grady, Gardener, Hore, A, With just two seconds to g0,|Gordaneer, Sicinski, MacKene Barry Salovarro, Toronto Town-|zie, LaRose, Oda, Chandler, ship's outstanding star of the/Anderson, Camp bell, -- Salo- game, knowing time was run-|yarra and Wilson. ning out, fired a hard one, from mid-floor and Marshall had to| OSHAWA GREEN GAELS: MONTREAL (CP)-- Montreal Alouettes of the Eastern Foot- ball Conference have obtained linebacker Al Ecuyer from the Toronto Argonauts in exchange for defensive halfback Ed Learn and* linebacker Jim Andreotti, the club announced Monday. "We felt we had to obtain a Canadian who could play first- team defence in order to bal- ance our import ratio to enable us to insert another American on, offense," said Alouettes head coach Kay Dalton in a state- ment. "We have evaluated Ecuyer's play and feel he is the best Ca- nadian linebacker in the league. Ed Learn and Jim Andreotti are fine football players, but to obtain a player of Ecuyer's calibre you have to give up something good in return, "We also felt there was a good chance Learn would not return to Montreal as he has expressed a firm desire to 'play for a team located close to his Argonauts Trade Ecuyer; goal, Marshall; Keenan, Jones, Lloyd, Langley, Higgs, Row- and, Lewis, Davies, Marlowe, Vipond, Vann, Goulding, David- son, J. Clayton, P. Clayton and Receive Two In Exchange Ecuyer, 29, a native of New Orleans, stands 5710" and weighs 220 pounds. WAS ALL-AMERICAN He played his college football at Notre Dame where he was a two-time All American. He turned pro with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1959 and joined the Argos in a trade before the 1966 season. 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