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3 * PAGE EIGH - THE OSHAWA DAILY [IMES, MONDAY, NOVEMber 19, i528 MOTORS BLUE DEVILS WIN GROUP TITLE IN O.RF.U. Most Sensational Victory in Many Years Seen as Locals Beat London 11-6 their way through sixty rugby to finally defeat House Gang by an 11 to 6 score, Satoh, championship in Oshawa has ever the Intermediate O.R.F had a representation through an Intermediate entry, How did they do it? Such is the question on everyone's lips in Osh- awa today. Had those who ask been in London on Saturday they would have seen and understood, General - Motors Blue Devils earned their vie- tory, They went into the game with firm, grim determination marked on everyone's face, They went into the game with a week of practice behind them such as they have never had before, They went into the game not absolutely confident of vic. tory but imbued with that even bet- ter spirit of a determination to either win the game or provide such an element of opposition to the London Gas House Gang that the London men would know if they never knew before or would know after, that they had been through a mighty bat- tle, truly worthy of a championship contest, For sixty minutes the two teams smashed up and down, over and across the mud laden field, with ex- citement such as never seen before in London prevailing every second of the way. It was a real deciding championship battle but Oshawa de- served the victory, Oshawa stopped the advance of Bill Wanless, the London galloping ghost of the grid- iron, Oshawa stopped the line tear- ing shots of Bert Ellyatt, the ground gaining ramrod of the Gas House Gang and Oshawa bottled up the at. tempts of Nipper Cliff, Bonk, Cook, Churchill and all the rest of Lon- don's conglamoration of stars, upon whose shoulders the Forest City had counted so much to bring the group championship within the portals of its fair city, It was due to the Blue Devils' play- ing under obviously adverse condi: tions that the victory was both an outstanding one and to many, a to- ly unexecpected one, The Blue vils were without the unestimable ralue of the services of Alex Park, LT "STEW" CARVER Who filled into a tough hole at London Saturday by going in as quarter back with only a day's practice with the Blue Devils, He handled the team like a vet- eran for the entire second half and for part of the first, captain, quarterback and pilot gen- eral of the team who was not even in uniform due to severe injuries sustained to his right leg the Satur- day previous, The Blue Devils were playing on a foreign field, 170 miles away from their native haunt and the Blue Devils were playing before a frantic, madly cheering crowd of 2,000 people, 1,900 of whom were heart and soul behind the Gas House Gang, rousing them to superlative ef- fort in their attempt for the cham- pionship, But despite this, the Blue Devils won, They won and they did it de- cisively, They left no question at the end of those breathless sixty minutes as to which was the better team, yet their margin of victory was close, London scored first, not , touchdown but a safety touch which netted them two points after less than one minute of play at the very opening of the game, They were always dangerous thereafter but the Blue Devils carried an even more potent threat and with two touch downs and a rouge comprising their scoring debut they hammered the Gas House Gang into absolute sub- mission. The Blue Devils demonstrated on Saturday that their illustrious nick- name, fashioned after the illustrious famous fighting regiments of the French army, was well chosen, They went into Saturday's game to fight to the last--and how they fought! The team played another such game as that seen in the third quar- ter of the contest played here a week #70 last Saturday at Alexandra Pork, Oshawa played the kicking "ie g!l the way through in Lon- 1 Saturday and therein lay a 'y portion of the reason for + victory, Scott HHubbell's un- i 28 toe lifted the ball far and +. .on down the field high and ahead of the Oshawa team, every single punt but ene going for goodly gains of ~ tn fil.ecn yards over the In : Wanizss + any of the e 9) RUGBY RESULTS Senior O.R.F.U, Final xVarsity Orphans 6 Sarnia «co "0 x--Varsity wins championship. Intermediate O.R.F.U. Oshawa seers ssssssss Junior OR.F.U, xSt, Thomas 51 Galt-Preston.. § x--3St, Thomas wins round 84 to 8. uni xM.AAA, or 3 Ottawa R. ... 0 x--M.A AA, wins championship, Senior W.0.8.5.A. xSarnia 18 Galt x--Sarnia wins round 46 to 7. Junior W.0.8.8.A, xBrantford 20 St, Thomas.. 13 x--Brantford wins round 25 to 23, Midget Playground xBowmore 18 Osler wwe 12 x--Bowmore wins round, Juvenile Ontario Final Hamilton Viet 23 McCormicks.. 10 0.8.8.A. xSarnia CI, «...... 18 Galt CI, veers 1 x--Sarnia wins round. Central Ontario Interscholastic Peterboro C.I. .... 4 Albert College 1 Exhibition Ridley College -- 25 T.C.S, swerrersinnens 1 Montreal AAA. 10 Mont, CN.R, 2 T.C.S, Middle S, 16 W'dstock CI, § Ham, Vies III, .. 14 Hotspurs Maple Leafs Win Decisive Game From Canadiens Toronto, Noy, 19.--Before a ga- thering of some 8400 prospective but at the same time critical pur- chasers the Maple Leafs put on a fashion show at the Arena Gardens on Saturday night and against the flashy background of the Flying Frenchmen the local club made such a display that they sold themselves and they will likely be the Saturday evening style in this city for the re- mainder of the season, It was not only because they defeated the Can- adiens by 4 to 2 that they jumped from the possible stage to the sure thing class, but because of the con- vincing manner in which they won from Cecil Hart's crew, The Leafs deserved their victory and but for some rather hard luck breaks around Hainsworth's citadel they would have won by a larger margin, Several times promising efforts and glorious chances went astray without any help or interference by the visitors, Three of the four goals were on combina- tion plays, while hoth the Canadiens' counters were from individual ef- forts, : ; While the Leafs looked fairly strong in their victory over the Chi- cago Black Hawks on Thursday night, thanks to the showing of the second line of forwards, the game with the Canadiens was awaited as the real test, It was the general opinion that if the locals could make a good showing against the Habi- tants they would do, but few expect- ed them to come through with a vic- tory, as that 9 to 0 defeat adminis- tered by the Frenchmen last winter has not yet been forgotten, Canadien y Never : Even when the Leafs enjoyed a 2 to 0 lead at the first interval there were quite a number of skeptics who were of the opinion that the Habi- tants would step on the gas in the second stanza and make sure of the verdict, When Morenz went right through to get the visitors' first goal and cut the locals' margin to one, the "I told you so" crowd had their innings, but they were partly gagged by a Carson to Cox effort wl ich gave the Leafs a two oal lead once again. Early in the third period Jo- liat scored a cheap counter when his passout from the corner hit Chabot's stick and glanced into the net, PETERBORO C/I. BEATS ALBERT COLLEGE 4-1 Peterboro, Nov, 18.--Peterboro Collegiate captured the champion- ship of the Central Ontario Inter- scholastic League, won the Dr, Neal trophy, and qualitied for the O.R.F.U. Interscholastic semi-final today by beating Albert College, of Belleville, winner of the Bay of Quinte section at Cobourg, 4 to 1. It was a gruelling battle on 2 heayy field with the P.C.T + b greatly outweizhed and fighting vnder added disadvantage of losing their captain and field general, Gemmell, in the first few minutes of play. The P.CI. quarter svs- tained a fractured collar bone and will be out for the season. (Additional sport on page 9) people of Oshawa could hardly be- lieve it possible for this team, play- ing together for their first year, to All London and 90 per cent of the win the group honours from Lon- don in the deciding game last Sat- urday at the oval of Western Uni- versity, The boys, left to right-- Standing, Kohen, Boultbee, Wilson, Brown, Cook, Hubbell, Bond, Black, Kneel- ing--King, Tribble, Varley, Wigin- | ton, | General Moters Blue Devils of Oshavea -- Itermmadinta O. R. F. U. Group No. 2 Champions Loveless, Cornish Morse, President McKinnon, Front row-- Coach Pound, Rowden, Grey, Kil- mer, Park, Trainer Cox. Absent-- Hobart, Gummow, Carver Logan, PUNTS and TACKLES By the Dopester dvirededededededeodrdeoddrdrdrdvdrdrdedded General Motors "Blue Devils" 11 London 'Gas Houre Gang" 6 * 0% It was sure one sweet vietory! Everyone of the "Blue Devils" played his part perfectly, The Lon- don team fought right io the finish but the 'Blue Devils" were not Lo be denied. * 8 Hubbell, played a wonderfu! game, His kicking was cuperb; his catching faultless; his running was perfect, LJ LJ LJ Doe Rowden, Hubbell' half back mate, caught everything (nat cume his way without a miss, His squirm- ing tactics in runnin: lack punts were more than effective, * % 8 Cook and Gummow, the othey "Blue Devil" halves played very well on secondary defence, Their tackling throughout was deadly, » x * Boulthee was down on every kick and when he hit them they felt it, * * * Loveless started at quarter, The former London boy handled the team well, but was unfortunate in being injured early in the second quarter, he finished the half, but was not allowed to go back in the game, ow Stew Carver, who took over guarter-back duties in the second half is to be commended on his ability in directing the plays, * * * Bond and Wiginton, the outside wings, although watched very closely, were cn top of every play. | oh Hobart was in his glory on the sticky field, and his open field tackling was good, He is still won- dering who was responsible for the "Gas House Gang' wearing *mud cleats', . rw "Julius" Gray at centre was right in the midst of every play, Rn | SCOTT HUBBELL Take a look at this boy's right boot and then take your hat off to it. It was worth as much on Satur- day as nearly all the London team combined, Hubbell was one of the big reasons why the Blue Devils won, | SPORT SNAPSHOTS The crepe hangs high in London today. Never was a result more unlook ed for, Oshawa was, or at least 9% per cent of the city was all prepared to pay homage to a magnificient team which went down to a glorious defeat but today the name of a glorious team which turned in a magnificent victory is resounding from the lips oi everyone, Aye yes lad, 'twas a glorious victory. In London, not a single person even dreamt the Blue Devils had even a chance, would go out, play a splendid game ar any chance whatever of losing, Everycne actually took it for granted that the Gas House Gang 1d come home with the bacon without But what a sock in the eye Oshawa gave the Londoners The Blue Devils just simply tore into the Gas House Gang and rip- ped them to shreds, and this statement goes baring none, The boys worked as they have never worked before London didn't even get a chance to cross Oshawa's line, The Gas House Gang, according to a despatch from London in this morning's Mail and Empire, made yards 14 times during the game while Oshawa only made yards twice and the despatch tends to raise the ques- tion: "Well then why did Oshawa win?" The London writer He overlooked the fact that Osh purpose than: to play a kicking gam Vedic Langs to oeott riubben s boot who went down the field to tackle ti That was part of forgot a big detail, awa went on the field with no other e. Oshawa made all the gains they and the uncering judgment of the men he London halves, Oshawa's strategy, London made yards 14 times and tried to make yards easily on an- other 40 occasions, failing about six times and being forced to kick on the third down in the remaining 34, Oshawa tricd to make yards on third down only once--and made them on that occasion with a lot to spare. Gord Cook was responsible for making yards for Oshawa the second time, on a first down, and all the remainder of the times Oshawa had they kicked on first down, the ball, with only a few exceptions, ttle too good for London. Never has Oshawa's defensive game was a li a team shown more improvement in Devils on Saturday, They were just remainder of his circus, this department than did the Bluc plain murder to Wanless and all the This writer firmly believes that the week's practice prior to the Game Saturday had a great deal to do with the victory, Never have we seen a team practice so strenuously nor with such determination of purpose, From Mon day to Thursday they went at it with hammer and tongs and no one can tell us that improvements weren't made during those four days, Tke Sutton and Cliff Pound deserve as much credit for the victory as anyone, This pair worked and pr the week and saw thgir cfforts crows And just think what this ayed, begged and cussed all through 1ed with victory on Saturday. victory means to Oshawa, In the first place it brings the group championship of the Intermediate R.F.U, home to Oshawa in the first year a 0. O.R.F.U, running from the Motor Cit team has ever been in this y: And in the second place, victory gives Oshawa the right to meet Sarnia for the Intermediate rugby championship of Ontario, If Oshawa heats Sarnia, the dou the right to meet the pions of the Quebec Rughy Football Union, championship of the Dominion of C Canadian National Railway team of Montreal, ble series of victories gives Oshawa : cham- for the Intermediate rugby anada, Thing of it, the Intermediate rugby championship of the Dominion of Canada, The boys have something to work for now, will be decided this week and no on whether or not it's 'On to Montreal' The series with Sarnia e will be kept long waiting to know 'If they win next week, the hoys will be singing "Goodby Sarnia, Hello Montreal." A meeting is being held in Toronto tonight with representatives from i if the General ue Devils and the Sarnia Wanderers decide the when and the where of the Sarnia-Oshawa series. resent to ull details of the result of the meeting will be given in tomorrow's edition, This snapping was again 100 per cent. * » »* Kohen was sent into the game in the last quarter and he played his usual heady game, His ability to call the London plays was 8 great asset to the team, . 5» Moore and King, the middles played their usual stirling game, Thier plunging and defensive work was real, x x 0% Logan and Wilson, at inside, played their best game of the sea- son, They broke up play after play with their charging pttacks, » Tribble, Black, Johnston ana Brown while only in the game for a thort time made themselves felt, * ¥ ¥ Cliff Pound, Jke Sutton and Mp. Nicholl, -the "Blue Devils" board of strategy were the'three happiest This Buster Huffman, who played with Kitchener last season, looks like a find, Oliver: Reinikka and Stew Dunning are two others who will make the grade with something to spare, and Quennville, a quick-mov- ing defense man, will stick, It is impossible to tell the strength of the others until they get into good con- dition, but things may adjust them- selves with the addition of the play- ers expected, The hockey fraternity was well re- presented at Hamilton Wednesday night, Former members of the Ham- ilton club now with Buffalo, many of the Niagara Falls and Kitchener players, and even several members of the Chicago Black Hawks, of the N.H.L.,, took in the game with De- troit. It was like old times to see Roter Roth, Gamey Lederman, Mike Neville, Spiff Campbell and others at the Barton street igloo, and all appeared quite interested in the men in London Satuday night, hockey displayed, Pushes i i | This column offers its warmest congratulations to the Oshawa Blue Devils, for turning back that Bold, Bad Bunch--the London Gas :iouse Gang. te ERY The Oshawa fans ought to be mighty proud of O:shawa's success in sports, and the whole hearted way the officers of the various branches carry out their work, (Boxing News) Conducting or promoting sports is a thankless job, at the best of timegs--always a target for antag- onism--often a loser financially, ® *® . So many people on the side lines can handle a team gnd run a sport so much better than those who are working night and day---without pay, for the sake of Oshawa, the game, and the team. * . Arm chair' erities, falr side coaches, wise guys, * 9» Oshawa--as a sporting town--Is pretty fairsighted, and when a real effort to build up a team and pro- vide good sport, the people are pretty solid supporters. The hox- ing boys sure do appreciate the support the fans are giving them, * * * Tt takes two or three weeks' hard nightly training to get in shape ior a bout and it means something to these hoys, when the fans show their appreciation of their efforts, HOCKFY RECORDS Canadian Group PW. LT Maple Leafs 2 Canadiens Montreal Ottawa Americans Am Rangers Boston Detroit Pittsburg Chicago OD pao D1 po WO +] rican Sw COD OD veo Soom E Pwo WWW GEORGE LOVELESS . Who filled the vacancy caused by Alex Park in the first half of Saturday's game, "Doc" was going with all he bad until he had to be taken from the game just at the close of the first half, when Stew Carver took his place. Courtesy of Mail & Empire The , Play by Pla go Championship Game ball behind. his own 1} foll London's breaking through peg awa's kick formation, and he was brought to earth for a safety touch | |vielding London two unexpected pails, ay was resumed with Oshawa in possession on their 25 yard line where Oshawa boo! to Bonk and on an exchange of kicks, Oshawa im- mediately gained fifteen yards, other exchange of kicks followed, with Hubbell booting for Oshawa on first down while Wanless applied the leather when his team was forced to kick on third down. On a third exchange of punts, Hubbell booted to Bonk on London's goal line, the Gas House men starting signals five yards out. When forced to kick this time, Wanless punted to Hubbell on London's 30 yard line, Bond Gets Touch On first down Loveless carried the ball to the centre of the field, ad- vancing about five yards as he went, On the next play, the team went into kick formation and Hubbell kicked a short but rather high punt which just went over the London goal line, Hubbell immediately followed up this kick and jumping, he touched the ball on its way down to put all the Oshawa team onside but failing to secure the ball himself, A terrific scramble ensued for the ball with London and Oshawa players alike diving for it and running after it, Finally however Jack Bond laid hold of it to give Oshawa a touchdown which although unconverted, put Oshawa in the lead by a 6 to 2 score, It was a brilliant piece of work on Hubbell's part in this play to purposely kick the ball high and short so that he got down the field and under it to put all his teammates onside, Hubbell Gets Rouge Play was resumed with London kicking off to Oshawa at the centre of the field, The kick off by Wan- less went to Rowden who scooped up the bouncing ball and kicked it back down the field, the ball going to Lon- don's 35 yard line where Bonk touch. ed the ball but missed it to allow two Oshawa players to fall on it to give Oshawa possession well into London territory, A line drive and an extension play by Oshawa fol- lowed to carry the ball into London 25 yard territory but when the Gas House line finally held, Hubbell was forced to kick, the ball going over the London line for a rouge advane- ing te score in Oshawa's favour, 0 y SECOND QUARTER With London resuming play on their 25 yard line, an exchange of kicks in which Oshawa again got the better of the argument, took place just before the quarter time whistle, London, with the wind now at their backs, began to take a slight advantage to open the hostilities of the second spasm, With Churchill and Bonk carrying the ball, London made yards before the team was forced to kick, Oshawa returned the boot on first down to carry the play to the centre of the fleld with Lon- don in possession, London again made yards to send the ball into Oshawa territory and when at last forced to kick, Wanless booted to the Blue Devils' five yard line, Another Safety Toush Under the shadow of their own goal posts, Oshawa sent through Moore, Wilson and King in succes- sion to make yards and carry the ball out to their twenty yard area but on the next play the Blue Devils attempted an end run on which a London man intercepted a pass to put the Gas Housers in possession 15 yards away from a touchdown, Osh- awa held as firmly as rocks on the two plays which followed and Lon- don went into onside kick formation for their third down, The kick saw another wild scramble for the ball with Hubbell for Oshawa touching it first with Bonk next laying his ds on it without keeping it safely, Poe Rowden finally caught the ball how- ever, only a foot out from his line and he had no chance when half a dozen London men piled into him in an attempt to either bring him to earth or get the ball, They didn't get the ball but they brought him to earth, Doc being knocked behind his own line for another two points by the safety touch route for London, Wanless Kicks Rouge With the score now 6 to 4, after Oshawa had kicked to resume play on their 25 yard line, London again began to show a little to advantage with the wind still behind them, They made yards several times at this stage and when Jack Bond was penalized and when Doe Rowden, Alex Gray and then Loveless went off in succession suffering vari- ous causes for relief, the team wav- ered for a minute, It was only for a minute however but in this short space of time Wanless and company carried the ball without a from the centre of the field to Osh- awa's 25 yard line, The Blue Devils ) London actually yards on the next two plays, to fo back to the Oshawa 85 ¥ line, here, in the very last second of play in the quarter, Wan- less ki a rouge to advance the half time score 4p 6 to 5 In Oswa's yor, i This half, like the one which fol- the game when Hubbell was forced behin® his own line for a safety touch while the period was brought to a close with the one point score by Wanless actually after the thirty minutes had ended, THIRD QUARTER Stew Carver was now playing quarterback for Oshawa to start the second half, Gummow was at Rows den's place on the half line and Gray was back at centre, Hubbell with the wind behind him kicked off to London, Wanless behind downed with the ball on his 10 po line, London made their yards inches on three attempts but the margin was so close that they decided to kick on their next third down. Some- one for London was offside on the play however and Oshawa gained possession 20 yards out, Oshawa, over anxious, lost 10 yards for a similar offside offence and them kicked, Hubbell's kick, which would ordinarily have gone over the Lon. don line for possibly a rouge, slid off his boot and went across the field for only a 15 yard gain, George Gillespie made 15 yards in a smash through the Oshawa line for London's largest gain of the day at this stage but the Gas Housers were again halted in their advance by another offside and they were forced to kick, Rowden taking the punt and advancing it to the centre of the field, Hubbell's kick which followed, sent London back to their 5 yard line, Hubbell Scores Touch London, with two feet to go om third down, failed to make their yards when they were thrown for a loss by the Oshawa line and the Blue Devils immediately took possession, Oshawa went into kick formation on first down but on the play Hubbell repeated his stunt of running around the end for a touchdown which he pulled for the first time in the game with London here the Saturday pre- vious, This time however, his run was a longer one, it being easily a thirty yard canter which culminated with the five point score, Hubbell eluded more than half the London team in his advance and the score provided just the necessary encours agement to stimulate the hard works ing activities of the Blue Devils, Wanless kicked off from the centre of the field to Gummow to resume play, Gummow carrying the ball te Oshawa's 25 yard line before being brought down, Hubbell kicked on first down to the centre of the field, London made yards by three feet on three attempts which followed but it cost them the removal of Churchill from the game, he being injured badly at the ankle, When they failed to gain on their next two drives, London booted to Hubbell five yards out from the goal line, Hub- bell returned the kick on first down to the centre of the field, Two more attempts to gain ground proved ful for L and on third down they kicked to Rowden who advanced the ball to Oshawa's 26 BILL GUMMOW Loose balls and end runs were this boy's meat up in London Sstur- day. "Wink" tackled a terrific game while he was on the field in addition to his other aecom- plishments already mentioned, yard line just at the end of the period, FOURTH QUARTER Al Moore made five yards for Osh- awa to open the last quarter, to be followed by an end run in which Hubbell and Gummow made four more yards, Oshawa kicked on third down to the centre of the field from where, after two unsuccessful bucks, London kicked to Oshawa's 25 yard line, Hubbell returned on first down to the centre of the field from where vondon started an advance with some scorching end drives and bucks which carried the Gas Housers down the fleld to Oshawa's 20 yard terri- tory on three successive gainings of yards, And still they went but Osh- awa soon although none too called a halt to the proceedings when London were 6 yards out from the Oshawa goal line, they lost pos- session when they failed to their necessary yards on third down, Carver sent Al Moore and then Mor ris King straight through the line to carry the ball out of the danger zone for Oshawa and Hubbell then kicked on third down to the Blue Devils' 85 yard strip, . Wi Another Point London attempted another advance down the field but were given but little encouragement this time Wanless was forced to kick sbout 30 yards out the ball over the line where Hubbell downed for one point after a attempt on his part to carry ball out into the field, The scoreboard now reading 11 6 in Oshawa's favor, the London fans and the London team began to warm up to the fact that a down at this stage would tle the would win the game, Oshawa on the other hand with five minutes left to £0, began to realize that a victory was actually within their graps if they held London for these last long 300 seconds, With play resuming at Oshawa's 25 yard line, Hubbell kicked eon third down to Bonk who fumbled the (Continued on Page 9)