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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1929 Who Won the Dominion Honors -- is Proud of the Boys MOTORS LACKOSSE TEAM, 1928 SENIOR CHAMPIONS oF ONTARIO Pat Shannon, "Toots" White, * k"" Barron, "Mac" McGrath, "Er- | "Kelly" DeGray, Oliff Stokes, "Red" y nie" " Fox, Mel Whyte, Matt Leyden, (executive) ter, Whitton, "Chuck" Davidson, Jack Anderson (trainer), J. A. Carson, Mes rr MY Teddy Reeve (captain), "Smitty'* Smithson, ' Above are poy 1028 Senior Lacrosse Champions. of Ontario, "Pete" Walsh, "Bus | Munroe (manager), Frank LeRoy (president), Harry Lott (coach ef the General Motors team of last year. Those in the ieeure, left to Oshawa Juniors), Sam Johnson, (trainer), yight, are Jack Carson and Nick Gifford, mascots; Bob 3 Short Sketches of Members of the General Motors Lacrosse Team That Brought Glory to Oshawa The citizens of Oshawa, natur- #lly, are interested in the boys who have brought back to the city the Dominion lacrosse championship and the Mann Cup. To most la- erosge. followers, most of the play- ers are very well known Others, however, know of them only by name, 'Below is given a short sketch of each of the players who brought honor and glory to them- selves, to the General Motors of Canada, Limited, which they rep- resent, and to the City of Oshawa, Three hard working members of the General Motors Senior Lacrosse Team, winners of the Dominion Championship and the messengers that were successful in bringing the Mann Cup back to Ontario, are TRI A Rawr WO SAM JOHNSON The faithful trainer who had much to do with keeping the General Motors Lacrosse team in cham- plonship condition, "Chuck" Davidson, "Smoke" Fox. and "Kelly" DeGray. "CHUCK" DAVIDSON Charles "Chuck" Davidson is one that comes under the heading of "halfpints" and add to that the fact that 'Chuck' is still eligible for junior lacrosse and you can eas- ily judge what class of player that this smart flelder really is. Davidson learned his lacrosse iu Orangeville, the town that has turned out many good teams and a host of senior players that have made themselves famous: through their playing of the National Game. Like all these Orangeville stars, "Chuck" learned his lacposse well and now takes the game seri- ously, and is in constant condi- tion, owing to a non-stop life or training for such games as la- crosse. In 1926 "Chuck" played with the Irish-Canadian juniors and in the following years has been with Oshawa, playing both junior and senior here last year and this year. His success lies behind his store of "tricks of the trade" and his smart stick handling, these two arts last year earned him a place as a flelder, but the management this season made better use of his trickiness by playing him in closer where they had more effect, This year 'Chuck' has been travelling at a higher rate of speed and this additional speed earnea him a name of one of the best goal getters in- the league. "SMOKE'" FOX The 'smoke' that drifts lazily from the pipe of the idle dreamer as he sits meditating before his fire-place plays no part whatever in the naming of Robert (Smoke) Fox, one of the young senior la- crosse players on the roster of the General Motors Lacrosse team, "Smoke" is speed personified, and some people have gonb as far as likening him to Percy Williams, "the fastest human." Wallace- burg saw him first, and there he learned the, most of his lacrosse which has been for two years and will be again a factor in the win- ning of the Dominion title for Osh- awa, 'Smoke' delighted the fans hoth last year with his stellar playing on the General Motors junior and se- nior teams, and true to indications his playing this year was a treat that the fans of Oshawa, Toronto, Brampton, St. Catharines and the western cities were glad to, watch. His youth je an advantage that makes him easy to coach and this is also beneficial to the smooth evenness of a well trained team, and, coupled with the smart stick- handling of this star, it points to the favorable chances that Oshawa have of retaining the trophies won by them in the last two years. This same vouthfulness enables "Smoke" to play at top speed with- out a let up and that too, is a thing that all fans demand of a game in any line of sport, and this same top speed is one of the things that make for the popularity of the local senior team, "KELLY" DeGRAY Then there is Kelly--now who would have thought that Kelly boasted such a name Joseph Law- rence DeGray. h re did the Kel- ly part come from? ask me an- other? Nevertheless Kelly is a fa- miliar figure around Oshawa and if popularity has anything to do with it he will be a permanent fixture, as he is one of the "bunch" in the winter time, following the hockey teams wherever they go and always making himself useful in the dress- ing rooms, and as goal umpire, etc, In the summer, and this summer more particularly, there is a little job on the lacrosse field that is filled in no little way by the same Kelly. It is the job of centre man on the General Motors Lacrosse team, winners of the coveted Canu~- dian trophies. Joseph, Lawrence, or Kelly as the case may be hails from down east and he, too, is only young 1 years, no matter how old in la- crosse experience. Other well known lacrosse teams that have been glad to let Kelly wear their colors are Irish-Canadians, Hamit~ ton and Brampton and in every in- stance this young tower of strength has given his best for the team that he was playing for, and like- wise in every instance his best has been plenty good enough to win him distinction on the lacrosse fleld. Last year the General Motors were proud to say that Kelly was one of their roster, and this year he made them even more so by his steady playing at centre fleld. Tip- ping the scales at 1656 pounds, every bit of it being bone and mus- cle makes this player one of the fastest and most tireless in the game and was a decided factor in the winning of the Ontario Cham- pionship in 1928.and the Dominion title in 1929, The trip to New Westminster and back was no new thing for six of the players on the Osahwa se- nior team, but it was the first time that any one of them have come back in company with the historic Mann Cup. The bringing gack of this coveted trophy will add a new spice to the trip and back for the most callous of all players and the six that have taken the trip only come back empty handed are six of the type of athlete that will take the greatest amount of pride in helping to bring the trophy back to Ontario and Oshawa, The six players that went out west in 1927 are Walker, Wilson, Bill Coulter, Red Spencer, Gunny Golden, Toots White, Bob Stephen- son. They all played with Weston in that year when the Toronto sub- urban team won the right tq make the distant journey. WALKER WILSON Walker Wilson, substitute goalie and substitute centre player with the Oshawa General Motors team, is a player of no mean ability in either one of these roles. He was born and raised in Weston, learn- ing his lacrosse there by playing in the juvenile, junior and senior series under .the Weston name. This is the first year that Wilson has played with the Oshawa contin gent and when he came the Toron- tos made some little fuss over his eligibility to play for the Motors, Their protest was useless, as Wil- son was qualified to play here and the protest was just one of many small protests put up by the To- rontos when the senior series had developed into a race between Osh- awa and Brampton, w INNIPEG ARGONAUTS LACROSSE TEAM *hamplons of Manitoba defeated at Winnipeg by the General Motors by 6 to 4 in the first game by the Dominion Champions on their way to the coast. The team, as shown above, is as follows: sow from left to right=--Ben Chivers, J. Menlove, K. Paul, C. Rosborough, C. Dixon, R. McEl. A. Bell (trainer), Paid McKinley {Manges Front row=-D, Oliver, C. Lawrence, S. Thompson, " MeKicheran, Fallen C. Crowley, F. Tawkins, { . Paul, H, Stephenson, , NOY wor YY, 0 A ri OSHAWA INTERMEDIATES LAC ROSSE TEAM Standing left to right--Jack Rupert, manager, H. Luke, centre; Kunkel, defence; Quirrie, defence; L. Luke, home; Peter Walsh, defence; Bill Luke, defence; Bert Constable, coach, Centre row left to righte-- Perry, defence; Stokes, goal; Bovin, home; Higgins, trainer; Black, home; home. Front row----Daniels, home; Garrison, home; Brown, home; Stevens, Cardinal, Cowling, Whitton, home; defence absent home; Davidson, home, This team plays its second game with Toronto Maitlands in the intermediate championship final at the Motor City Stadiurg tomorrow afternoon. BILL COULTER The year that Weston attempted to do what Oshawa succeeded in doing there were three Coulters on the team, namely, Harold, Doddy and Bill; this year there is oniy one Coulter playing the game ana he is the Bill Coulter that stood out so on the Oshawa General Mo- tors defence during the past sea- son and in the finals and semi- finals. Bill Coulter is another Weston born boy and his people still live right in the same place. Bill, like Wilson, learned his la- crosse there, playing in the differ. ent age series as he graduated to them. Even now he is not so ter- ribly old and still has a good many years of his best lacrosse ahead of him, RED SPENCER Red Spencer, the flashy fielder who has been giving the girls u thrill with his dashes up and 'down the field and also his blond hair waving in the breeze on covery dash, lived in Weston and played with the team in 1927, the year they went west. This year Red has been going great guns and his play has saved many a game from going to the opponents, while he also is fast enough to close in with an unex- pectedness that puts him in the pou- sition of being the odd man, win the result that Red has been do- ing some of the scoring in the sea- son's games played. CUNNY GOLDEN Now, in the case of Cunny Gold- en. he also played with Weston but was not born nor raised there. Golden "comes from Orangeville, where the lacrosse is taken every bit as seriously as it was in Wes- ton, consequently Golden learnea the game where it is taught as well as any place, and after learning it moved to Weston. In 1921 Golden was first seen in a Weston uniform, and he played with them right up until last year. During that time Weston was very much in the La- crosse picture, turning out teams that were championship contend- ers so much so that they won tne Ontario Globe Shield in the years 1922, 23, 24, 25, and 27, when they went west. Towards the last reports indicate that Golden was not going as strong as he might, all of which may have prompted this clever home man to change the flelds of pasture. Since coming to Oshawa and in all his games here, Golden has been a tower or strength on the Motors home field, and his bag of tricks seem to he without end. These same tricks have placed Golden on the score sheet many times this season and algo helped to place Oshawa on the lacrosse and sporting map. "TOOTS" WHITE Everybody knows "Toots" White, as his smiling face is to be seen everywhere in and around the city. "Toots" also played on the Weston team but, like Golden, was not a native of the suburb, White comes from Shelbourne, which gave him a good opportunity of learning the game in a big way from the Orangeville players and teams. Not long after he had become proficient at the game, he moved to Weston and there he played until the year of 1928 when he came to Oshawa. Last' year "Toots" and his xoal zet- ting ability was a feature of every game played, and also a feature of the team's wresting the champion- also added to that a clover under- Brampton, This year "Toots" has surpassed even his previous year's records in goal getting, and has also added to that a clover under- standing of the game that has In many cases proved to be the entire brains of a campaign for goals on the enemy net, BOB STEPHENSON Bob Stephenson was a mucn talked of player this year, being rated as one of the best home men in the game, but'up. until a late date he had not been seen in um- form. Every paper that carriea news of lacrosse prophesied his ap- pearance in a coming game, ana these articles stating that Stephen- son would be on either the senior or Intermediate line up, occur- red weekly until the people were asking which is Stephenson? The truth was that Bob was not in any condition to play owing to a recent illness, and that had caused him to take plenty of rest before playing nearly as strenuously as the Na- tional game. When he did appear in uniform, those that were full of questions were soon aware 'of which was Bob as he made his presence known to all more especially the scorer, Stephenson comes from Port Elgin and played with Wes- ton, starting in 1922 and playing from then until 1927 when he too went with the Weston team. Last year Bob was a factor on the Osh- awa home field and this year in lat- er games he has been one of the scoring aces of the team. PAT SHANNON His mother called him Thomas-- His girls call him . Lorne--but his lacrosse followers all call him "Pat" and so do we (it's shorter) but never theless his real name is Thomas Lor- ne Shannon and he is a familar fig- ure wherever lacrosse fans are gath- ered, "Pat" is a veteran goal tender that knows his lacrosse, and knows how to keep the baffled enemy from sneak- ing in too many counters, There 1s no doubt about the knowledge "Pat" has of the game, as he started to play some fifteen years ago and is still going strong. Among the num- ber of well know lacréss clubs that have been fortunate in securing the services of this stellar goal tender is that of St. Mary's, the one time meet- ing place of lacrosse championship players. His last year's play need not be rev wed and it is sufficient to say that "Pat" played brilliantly last sea- son in goal for the General Motors team, that won the senior champion- ship. early part of the season when his tcam mate Walker Wilson worked in the nets. Shannon has been the de- ciding point in many battle this sum- mer stopping a host of shots that some would call impossible, and sport writers in every city that he has played in, pay tribute to the stellar goal keeping of this same Pat Shan- non. Not one game that the Gen- eral Motors participated in was the account of the game a glowing tri- bute to Shannon in some way or an- other, that is if he was play The square dancers at Jubilee Pa- villion may have missed Pat these last few Friday nights when they were in need of his clever "callingoff" but then they did not miss him nearly as much as the Team would have if he had stayed to do their calling, His work in the last game with the Salmon Bellies was sufficient to re- store him to any or all Ontario peo- ple even if they did miss him for their weekly whoopee. ALBERT SMITHSON Two others from the now dis- banded Weston team that have been familiar figures in the la- crosse world around Oshawa me "Chuck' Barron and Albert Smith- son. Both of these players mie young and the stories of their la- crosse experience is almost the same. Last year Smithson started his senior lacrosse playing here with the General Motors team after play- ing in Weston where he hails from in every series, including juvenile, junior and intermediate. Thig year and last, Smithson has been a valu- able asset to the General Motors team and his playing on the de- fence, coupled with his long legs that takes he ' and the ball away from the danger zone with light- ning speed has been a decided fac- tor in every game that the Motors have won. This year Smithson has played even better than last year and his checking of the Brampun scoring aces was a treat to watch. "CHUCK" BARRON Chuck Barron, a Weston boy started his lacrosse in the Toronto In size he is not very big, except|' when a person is shooting on the goal and then he seems like the side of a barn, covering every little corn- er of the net with his active body and stick, There is a large streak of kindheartedness in this diminutive goalie and his generosity sometimes led him to hand the opposing a goal to keep them in the proper spirit. However these generous moods only seem to hit "Pat" when the said op- posing team is far behind on the score sheet. What is far more important than that which has gone ahead is Pals 1929 scasdn record. Pat played in every game lately, the only ones that he missed beinz a couvle towards the suburb playing junior and inter- mediate there, when he came nere and broke into senior company with the Oshawa General Motors Lacrosse team, winners of the Do- minion title he is rated as one of the best in the game. Hardly a game went by that "Chuck" did not figure in the score sheet and when his family were present at the games, or the family of some other Weston play- er that he knew it was a game with him to:bet that he waquld get a goal, he usually did and in most cages his goal was the opening one of the game. NORV HUBBELL' Norv Hubbell, one of the athle- tic Hubbells of Oshawa 7 introduction to older cit this city as his athletic doings have been chronicled in and around this city since his school days. Hubbell is a defence man that is a pest to the opposing teams' home players, and to further strengthen a reputa- tion of being a 'shadow' which he gained during 1928 when he made a "dim light" out of Machell, 2] scoring star of the 1928 Brampion | team, he this year, picked out their 1929 sniper, Zimmer, to worry, ana he did this so well that Zimmer was little better than useless when the Oshawa team was hooked up with the league favorites. "DODDY'" DODDEMEADE Now "Dody" Doddemeade comes from Brampton where he learned the large amount of lacrosse tricks that are at his disposal at the pres- ent time. Doddemeade is a fast home fielder that has been in near- ly every game this season and when in there, the opposing team know full well that they are being pitteu against a man that has as much lacrosse knowledge as any in the game. His playing against his old home team this year was the best of his efforts with the exception of the final game out west when he took a pass on the run tc re the goal that won the highest ot 1a- crosse honors for his team and newly found city. "SHEP" SHEPLEY Ernest "Shep" Shepley comes from Wallaceburg where they first put a lacrosse stick in his hand, after having it put in his hand he liked the feel of it so well that he took the game up seriously. Last year "Shep" played both junior and senior here with the General Motors team and his defensive play is a big thing in the winning of the A. L. IKE) BOUCKLEY Who lined up the sporting organi- zations of the city for tonight's grand parade of welcome, BUFFALO TAC ROSSE TEAM ---------------------------------------- two championships, that the Mot- ors have annexed, He is short and stocky and knows how, when and where to use his weight to the best advantage, this eanny use of his weight has made him adept st get- ting Into a crowd ef players and emerging with the ball tucked safe- ly in his stick, once there the old pill is out of danger, MEL WHYTE Mel Whyte, another of last year's players with the chmpions is a fast player th&t has been used little this year, but whose never say die spirit has kept him plug- ging along and when a player is needed as in Brampton near the first of the season, Mel is right on hand, His play during the year has y even that of last year and when he has been used he has shown the fans some fast moving PRESENT TION OF THE MANN CUP TO OSHAWA'S TEAM Irishmen of New New Westmins- ter Made Presentation to Pat Shannon (Reprinted from the Vancouver Sun, Sept. 7, 1929) New Westminster, Sept. 6.--Osh- awa lacrosse team, a product of the General Motors, and the West- minster Salmonbellies, were ban- quetted by the Royal Agricultural and Industrial society at the Elks' Home yesterday noon, when the Mann Cup, emblematic of the Canadian lacrosse championship, was presented to Bill Coulter, cap- tain of the team, - by Abbie Coo, president of the Canadian Amateur Lacrosse association, Mayor A. Wells Gray, M, L, A., was in the chair, and commented on the fine sportsmanship of the Oshawa team, both om and off fhe field. He stated that Westminster had boasted of the hest teams in Canada and while it was a hard pill to swallow, in losing the trophy, he guaranteed that the Sal- monbelies would be back to the East next year, and would bring it back. . W. G. McQuarrie, M.P,, during his speech, asked how it was that while the west had on numerous | occasions guaranteed the expenses + of the eastern teams, through' the exhibition association or other means, the east had never offered to return the favor. A. E, Lyon, president of the Ontario Lacrosse association, then rose to his feet, and stated that in the event of a team coming from the west next year, the east would guarantee as much, if not more, than had been guaranteed to the Oshawas by the exhibition board. A little humor was injected into the proceedings when Pat Feéney presented Pat Shannon, goalie for the Oshawas, with a well painted \ plece of crockery, from the rest | of the Irishmen in town, Bob "Bill" Allen handled the luncheon, which included buffalo meat sent to the R. A, and I. so- ciety by the Canadian government, Fred Bass and his orchestra sup- plied the music, while Alan Wat- son, noted singer, gave a few se- lections, 'Toots' White, outside home player with the Oshaws, gave a recitation, which was much ap- preciated by the gathering. Intemediate champions of Ontario in 1928, defeated by last year's Oshawa Seniors by a score of 18 to 1. )