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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE ef et et SATU RDAY, MARCH 1, 1947 By Geo. H. Campbeli | NAPSHOTS ; Oshawa Generals move to Toronto this afternoon to tackle gt. Mike's at Maple Leaf Gardens in the third game of their 0.H.A. Junior "A" playoff series. Having lost two games, the Generals just simply have to.cop a verdict today if they are to have a chance to survive this series--and all Toronto hockey fans and a lot of the Oshawa hockey followers think that it's just as good as being all over now. However, the big thing now is to see that the "Irish," they do manage te win today, don not take this series in 4- straight. The humiliation of that would be a hangover for at least "until July 1st. The fourth game of this series will be played at the Oshawa Arena on Monday night. If the Generals pull of a surprise today, then they can jump right back in the running by tying the round up with a win at home on Monday night, It they lose today, then the Generals will simply be out Monday night to prevent St. Mike's from making it a clean sweep. Needless to say, there'll be another sellout crowd at the Oshawa Arena on Monday night. DBE Me Bie. Oshawa Legionnaires ran into a snag last night. They expected to "oust Kitchener from the semi-finals here in the 4th game. Some even ! suspected that the Legion didn't worry about taking a weakened team ' to Kitchener for the 3rd game, because a loss would give them an extra : game on their own ice. Now things are different! Kitchener played | clean hockey here last night and upset the over-confident Oshawa Le- gicn team 4-3 to tie up the round. The 5th and deciding game will be i played here in Oshawa, not until next Friday night. They must have a | lot of time, yet. : i L 3 * * LJ There's a Junior "B" gaiie at the Oshawa Arena tonight, Mills Motor Sales are taking on Corner Boys of Toronto in the second game of their group championship final series. The local lads lost their first game at Wexford to Corner Boys, last Tuesday night but they hope to tis it up tonight, with a win at home here, over the Corner Boys, who are still favorites, of course. This game tonight is the only local hockey attraction of course so it should draw a good crowd. LJ] 3 LJ L3 Since we regard him as one of the cleverest and most entertaining sport writers in the business, we hesitate to elevate our sights to toss a barbed shaft in Jim Coleman's direction but we just couldn't let pass, | without comment, his first two paragraphs in yesterday's issue. The text, summed up, was Bill Ezinicki and the booing he is receiving from Toron=- | to fans. James wrote that Bill has been a target for critics for several years, because his superior physique gives him an edge when engaged in | bumping duels with rival players. It is pointed out that playing away ' from home, Ezinicki is one cf the best men the Leafs have, never backs up from any of 'em regardless of their size, such as Bouchard, Reardon, etc. | James reports that Bill is a bit bewildered by the heckling he is receiv- ing from Toronto fans. Columnist Coleman points out that he carried a few unkind references to Ezinicki during that famous series between Winnipeg Rangers and the Generals, Memorial Cup finals of 1943, when he thought Will was using his weight unnecessarily against smaller boys. But the writer points out, now Ezinicki is playing against the men, and playing the same rchust game, in courageous fashion, against all opposi- | tion, regardless of size. The article concludes with an appeal to the | Toronto fans to at least ot joer, 4 they dent cheer. | Back in those days, we also pointed oa that Ezinicki's fine phy- sique and his solid stance and balance on skates, were reasons why he appeared to be "sloughing" rivals when actually some of them were | * trying to hit him hard but to their surprise would rebound back on their pants, as if they'd hit a brick wall. We also pointed out that while Ezinicki was playing for Oshawa as Ontario representatives, in an attempt to bring the Memorial Cup and Dominion title back to Ontario, still Toronto fans booed him and cheered for Winnipeg. But that was idered O.K. then even pointed out that Tor- onto was a cosmopolitan city and many of the fans were actually former Westerners. Now apparently the patrons of Maple Leaf Gar- dens are all supposed to be Toronto homebrews. In those days, Bill Ezinicki was a Junior and he was playing 'against Juniors but it wasn't right for him to bump opposing players and booing was justi- fied. Now Bill is an N.H.L. player and he's playing against N.H.L. players and it is all right for him to bump opponents and booing (in Toronto) is mot justified. Adding it up, like 2 and 2--it amounts to . this, according to the way friend Jim has it written. Back in the Memorial Cup finals of 1943, it wasn't right for Bill Ezinicki to go tossing his weight around against Church Russell and Cal Gardner of Winnipeg Rangers, but now, in N.H.L. competition, it is perfectly proper for Ezinicki to toss his weight around aganst Church Russell and Cal Gardner of New York Rangers. Time Marches On! | * % > ! "SPORT SHORTS: --Two rinks of Oshawans participated in the Ki- | wanis Curling Bonspiel, staged in Peterboro by the Kiwanis Club of that | city, on Thursday, and the local Kiwanis curlers brought home 1st and 3rd prizes, against strong entries from Belleville, Peterbors, Cobourg, Lindsay and Orillia . . . Claude Tice of Belleville, well-known to local [| sport followers, was member of the Belleville rink. Claude was up here | on Wednesday night to see the hockey game and had some comments on that subject too . . . George McBride, classy young hockey star who scored two goals for Bell A.C. in the Midget "A" game here Thursday night, is reported to be going to Montreal next winter to play Junior "A" hockey. lf Re's "tagged" for Canadiens... Somebody should take a look at this boy 1 Jack Debers, of the Lindsay Midget "B" team too. He scored 7 goals in : an 8-0 victory over Port Hope the other night . . , When Clarence Camp- i bell, N.H.L. President, rescinded that misconduct penalty against Syl Apps, | he brought forth a flood of hockey comment from the writing boys, most rot whom point out that many other players have bezn victims of a referee's | mistake and had to take it . . King Rhymer set a new world's record of | 32 seconds flat for the three furlongs, at the Santa Anita track on Thurs- (day . . » That's nothing like the reccrds set in the prices paid for Louis Ie Mayer's race horses this week . . . English hockey fans like the game played with no bodychecking allowed in the other fellow's half of the ice . . . John J. McGraw was buried in New York 13 years ago yesterday. {He was in baseball 42 years, 30 as manager ¢f N.Y. Giants, won the National League title with the Giants 10 times and 3 World Series, i i i TONIGHT!!! CORNER BOYS ss. OSHAWA JUNIOR BEES (2nd Game Group Playoffs) Adults 35¢. -- Children 15¢ . ICE SKATING SATURDAY AFTERNOON KITCHENER LEGI Local Legionnaires Upset On Own Ice In Fourth Game As Kitchener Ekes Out Win ON TIES UP GROUP FI Kitchener Edges Oshawa 4-3 to Even Up Semi- Finals at Two Wins Apiece -- Deciding Game Here Wednesday Night -- Local Legion Finds Out That They Need a Full Team of Regulars -- Visitors Earn Their Victory Backing up the sensational per- formance in the nets of Belanger with the finest display of check- ing seen here this season, Kitch- ener Legionnaires defeated Osha- wa Legionnaires 4-3 at the Arena last night to tie up the Intermedi- ate "A" semi-finals at two games apiece, ; Faced with elimination, the Kitchener squad looked better than in any previous local game as they fought every minute of the game to stave off the sustain. ed attack of the Oshawa team, At the end both teams were dead- tired but the slim one-goal lead could not be overcome by the ev- er-pressing Oshawans. Fast And Clean This Time In direct opposite to previous encounters the contest wis a fast clean fought affair with never a trace of the hard feelings that has featured the other games to date. Ag a result of the loss, Osha- wa plans for meeting Brantford in the group finals next week had to be scrapped as the fifth and deciding game of the series is gcheduled for the Oshawa Arena next Friday evening. Oshawa opened the game in fine style, although it was obvious from the start that Kitchcb ier was out to tie up the series, Ken Mc- Naught brouzht the first big ovation of the night when"he blas- ted the puck past Belanger on a pass from Frank White at the four-minute mark. With play fairly even, Kitchener suddenly took over the offensive after the half-way mark and before the pe- riod ended, had scored three times, Wend rf got the first on passes from Brown and Shuttle- worth while the second, scored by Bauer, was of the "soft" varie- ty. Shuttleworth tallied the third on a hard drive from right wing that gave Barriage no chance. The second period was light- ning fast with both goaltenders turning in great performances, Barriage stop ed. hrueger ii a Wendorf wil f1 they were in alone, while Lelanger kicked out rubber time after time sa Osha- wa pressed desperat ely. He was afforded grand protection howev- er, as every member of the Kit- chener team fought to hold their lead. With "Jake" Jackson in the penalty box early in the final pe- riod, Kitchener went three goals up when Brown scored on a pass from Shuttleworth which gave Barriage no chance, The goal put new life in the Oshawa team and with the 1,000 odd fans shouting encouragement, Barker scored just ten seconds later on a pretty play with Dafoe and Tisdall. Tak=~ ing complete charge, Oshawa roared back scoring again less than a minute later with Tisdall doing the sniping on a relayed pass from Barker and Hinton. From then on Kitchener was strictly on the defensive as the Oshawa team put on power play after power play, in an effort to tie up the contest, Time ran out 'however with Oshawa playing ev- ery man up and Belanger perfor- ming miracles to richly earn his win, In addition to Belanger, Bauer, Wendorf, Roy Wildfong, Brown and Shuttleworth, all turneu in' stellar efforts while Ken Mc- Naught Barker, Dafoe, White and Hinton were outstanding for Oshawa, The Teams: KITCHENER--goal, Belanger; defence, Malcheski and Messmer; centre, Bauer; wings, E, Wild- fong and Simon; alternates, Bec- ker, Brown, R. Wildfong, Wend- orf, Shuttleworth, Krueger and Colbert sub-goal. OSHAWA--goal, Barriage; de- fence, Hinton and Murphy; cen- tre, Tisdall; wings, Dafoe and Barker; alternates, White, Furey, Peters, McNaught, Jackson, Reid and A. MacMullen, Referee--"Pat" Patterson, Tor- onto; Linesman--Ted McComb, Oshawa. RESULTS By The Canadian Press NORTHERN ONTARIO SENIOR SEMI-FINALS North Bay 1, Hollinger 10, (First of best-of-five series. OHA SENIOR SEMI-FINALS Hamilton Pats 2, Hamilton Ti- gers 4, (First of best-of-five series), INTERCOLLEGIATE SENIOR Queen 3, Toronto 2, ALBERTA JUNIOR FINALS Edmonton 2, Lethbridge 4, (Lethbridge wins best-of-five series 3-2) » WESTERN CANADA SENIOR Calgary 8, Edmonton 0. NOHA INTERMEDIATR PLAYOFF New Liskeard 2, Matchewan 1, (New Liskeard wins total-goal round 14-3). B.C. JUNIOR FINALS New Westminster 4 Trail 6, » batts wins B.C, championship =Z), | The Summary 1st Period 1--Oshawa, McNaught (White) 2--Kitchener, Wendorf (Brown, Shuttleworth).12.20 3--Kitchener, Bauer (Mess- mer) . 4--Kitchener, Shuttle- worth (R, Wildfong) -18.05 Penalties--Barker, * and Jack- son, 2nd Period No Scoring, - Penalties--R. Messmer, Wildfong and 3rd Period b----Kitchener, Brown (Shuttleworth) 6--Oshawa, Barker, Dafoe, Tisdall) 7--Oshawa, Tisdall (Barker, Hinton) - 4.04 Penalties--Jackson (2), Mess- mer and Wendorf, ? Final score--Kitchener 4; Osh- awa 3. Today Should Clear Up 0.H.A. Playoff Races By The Canadian Press "he complicated Ontario Hockey Association play-off picture, Senior and Junior, should be a long way towards solution after today's three scheduled games." Right now there's four teams in Senior play-offs, out of the five that started the season, and four Junior teams are still battling it out of the 10 squads that fought all winter. Tonight's Senior play-off has To- ronto Staffords at Owen Sound in the first of their best-of-five semi- final, The old Hamilton Tigers, Eastern Senior champs last year, got the jump on Hamilton Pats by a 4-2 victory last night in the first game of their semi-final, also best of-five, In Junior ranks Oshawa Generals and Toronto St. Michael's clash this afternoon in Toronto, in the third game of their best-of-seven semi- final. St. Mike's, Eastern Junior champs last year, won the first two games. At Galt tonight the Red Wings take on the Barrie Flyers in the first game of the other semi-final, a best-of-three affair. Galt got there by eliminating Stratford Kroehlers two straight, and Barrie also won two straight to eliminate Toronto Marlboros. In last night's rough fray at Hamilton the Tigers wece always ahead, but never far enough to re- lax, Tigers were in front by 1-0 in the first, 2-1 in the second and 4-2 at the final bell. Runions, John Conick, Cadieux and Brady were the Tiger goal-scorers, Barlow and Rob- inson for Pats, Major penalties were handed out to Brian Robinson, the diminutive Pats forward who sailed recklessly into the veteran Tiger rearguards, and to Sherry of Tigers, Miocino- vich of Tigers also spent five min- utes in. the cooler after a fight with Pats' centre Fritz, In the ruggeu going flying pucks into the stands resulted in three sront-row spectators requiring medi- cal treatment after being hit, Gus Lesnevich Retains Crown In Rousing Bout + New York, March 1--(AP)-- Gus Lesnevich, who always has been just a 'gcod" fighter to the fans but never one to raise their blood pres- sure, woke up today to discover he not only still has his light-heavy- weight championship, but is the hottest thing around these parts since the invention of steam Leat. It wasn't only that Old Gus tcss- ed the betting odds and the ugly ru- mors of a title "deal" right out the windcw by stepping young Billy Fox with the big right hand in the 10th round of their title bout before 18,- 318 customers in Madison Square Garden last night, although even his closest friends didn't think he could do it. It was how he did it--fighting a smart, heady, fight, weathering. a storm that had him hearing ihe birdies at one point, and finally, taking on a strong free-wheeling youngster with the greatest knock- out record in history and caving the roof in on him. Lesnevich--32 years old, veteran of a dozen years of the wallop wars, and just a game guy up to now-- really had the customers roaring for Fox had piled up 43 straight knockouts without a defeat. He was 21, strong and young--some of them even called him the new Joe Louis. But Gus went out and practically pounded the ears off Fox. Except for the third--when Billy set off his only explosion and all but flattened the chemp--and the fourth, when Gus was recovering from the fireworks,~tlie flailing Fox didn't take a round, Lesnevich fought a fight from the start to finish as though he'd written the book, mov- ing to Billy's left out of reach of the right-hand artillery, digging both hands to the body, snapping the challenger's chin back with jabs and mixing him up with right-hand rockets. From the sixth on, . Gus took. charge. In the 10th he put over a right. Alttiough Bill got up at the count of eight he was helpless and referee Johnny Byrne called it a night. Oshawa Ly Tue Peterboro Kiwar's Club staged no w Curling Club on Thursday, with Kiwanis Clu ville, Peterbore, Orillia, Lindsay and Oshawa. winners of the one-day, 3-game 'epie skipped by "Al" Parkhill, who won { my Rink Peterbaro rinks entered from Bclle- Above are shown the el, the Oshawa Kiwan's Club entry heir three games by decisive scores, Wins Kiwanis Bonzpie i YY Leg to vigat o 3 yaiw ns kK Fred Moss, 2nd stone; and Geo, skipped by S. Lowe won ¢ captured by the cther Cshawa ent: . News ond Views | IN THE Industrial Loop By SIDELINER including last night's two encount- ers; league standings--in +B" Sec- tion changed ily with EBEola= hood's sitting on the top rung by a | single point and The Times mov- ing up one nctch to porch preecar- fously in fifth position . . . Bola= hood's thumping of Fittings in a mid-nite festival of g¢ leaves them in a position where it is thought likely they will finish, come journey's end ... In all, be- tween the two teams they flashed the red light (or reasonable facsim- ilie thereof) mo less than 10 times « + « The final score--Bolahood's 7, Fittings 3... LN In the first ga » . 2 f the evening ne Times won convincingly over | e boys from the hinterlands by | a score of 6-2, the third win in four starts for tiie newsies . .. Tl i period saw Forshee beat Chadwi in the Courtice net on a pass from | Eposito . , . Courtice came back | shortly after, with Hution tieing it | up assisted by Jim McGregor... The - second period ended with The Times in front 3-1 by virtue of ers and Esposito, and an unas | effort by Lee Squires . . ., Forshee banged in his second counter of | the night early in the third period | on a pass from Powers, while the | newsies' final goal was netted by | Espcesito, with Fowers again laying | the pattern for the play .. . Courtice's second tally came late in the period when it was a case of Johnsen beating Johnston to the punch , , . Both Johnsto The Times' net and Chady the other end had eaough calls to make ghem sweat drops from time to time ... oe oe 0 In the Boiahood's-Fittings en- counter, we know: only the final | score and were not in possession of the referees' report in time to tell our reader (well, there may be two or three) just who the big guns were . . . However, Monday is an- other day . . . BIG FIVE gum- Bowers G.M. Parts Monarchs Robson .. Duplate ... we eo Won al CHRWRASI0R Bolahood's Ray's Grille ... Pitts' Alger Press . The Times ...ivssss Courtice 9 Weston A/C sveveese 10 Fittings ... 11 ps HOO Sewn --~aaow aca Cau Savio ™ -- Kramer to Try for game of the Junio: |- George H. Doucett, | securing | 32, -- po--wa™ Will Be In Nets | | | | \ AL. REDDOCH tuct of Oshawa "City League" heekey ranks and only "homebrew" his years Oshawa Generals' pected will get the } the when Official Che [7 Shows Conich Sill Senior Point Leader rh. 7 wie Toronto, March 1--(CP)-- close scoring race in th the Horkes ¢ histpr on Tigers yesierday clared the winner, Conick played in 23 up 20 goals and 16 ed up 306 poin § Stratiord in Ti of the schedule. one point more thar Hamilton Pats' Hu Barlow went the duled games im 1 iner-up, | goals the | St. Mike's at | in the semi-finals, Licence Date Again Extended Toronto, Mar. 1, -- (CP) -- Hon. eo Minister of Highways, has announced that in view of the unusual their new Plates, the term of 1946 motor veh- icle permits: and drivers' licences has been further extended to March The Minister said there would { be no further extension beyond that date, 3rd ||% The Times-Gaz classified are sure to get results, erd pr | at Peterboro y my 'p; AL Parkhill, gkip; il, lead. The Peterboro rink nd the 3rd set of prizes were d by Bert White, holo, Courtesy Peterboro Examiner C Vy 8 Ermed i al isu Against Field it Santa Anita > readia, Calif,, March 1-- (AP) vas Warren Wright's Armed inst the field today in the 10th inz of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, on gelding, seeking to econd place in the timo ney-winning stand- 3, headed postward a 6-5 and 'haps even-money favorite. With no rain and a fast track pre- icted, at least 20 of 22 horses red were expegted to start in » mile and one-quarter gallop. | Ac d rivalling last year's | 80,200 Handicap throng was an- ticipated. | Without in the rac the was Le p: a standout contender , the second choice of ing public was likely to ¢ 11-horse mutuel field such campaigners as \staire"s Triplicate, winner $100,000 Hollywood Gold vear;. Plover, Witeh Sir | and Adrogue, i OSHAWA Didn't let the ci hing situaiior "clothes quarters" by ma ON Yaak) bo D2 od 403 QUEEN TORONTO (2nd Fleor) Ys, such i am Ww oi, W. 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