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NO 50-GOAL MAN Look For New Leader This Years NHL Rac By JACK SULLIVAN Can Press Sports Editor It should be fairly obvious b now that neither Bernie Ge frion nor Frank Mahovlich will come close to the magic 50-goal mark in the National Hockey League this season, They aren't booming in the goals as they did last year. After the New Year's holiday weekend games, Mahovlich of Toronto Maple Leafs has scored only 15 goals and Boom Boom of Montreal Canadiens has clicked on 13. At this time of the 1961 schedule. Mahoylich was thundering along at a great clip with 34 goals and Geoffrion was next with 26, Everyone knows that the 30- He was the brightest star of the league. He had the hig eight-goal advantage over Geof- .|frion who had gone on a great scoring splurge from October to the end of December. On Dec. 28, at the haifway mark of the 70-game. schedule, Geoffrion had clicked for 26 goals. Then things went wrong for the Montreal winger. He was hit by injuries, scored only one goal in January in a game against Toronto, and the spotlight settled on Mahovlich. But the Leaf player went into a slump when his veteran cen- tre and playmaker, Red Kelly, was injured, Richard's record would not be challenged. But the Boomer was still to be heard from. He shook off his ailments, scored goals No. 28 and 29 on Feb, 2 against the fading New York Rangers, and was on. his way. Before the month was out, he had raised his total to 40, helped along by a two-goal ef- fort against Boston Bruins and a three - goal night against the Rangers. BEAT LEAF GOALIE At this point, Geoffrion had taken over the lead from Ma- hovlich and it appeared certain he would make it. In the next 14 days Geoffrion Detroit, three against New York and two against Boston in suc- cessive games. In Canadiens' 67th game of the schedule, he made it 49 and in his 68th he beat Cesare Maniago, serving in the Toronto nets for the in- jured Johnny Bower, for No. 50. The statistics showed that Rangers 'were the unwitting patsies in Geoffrion's drive. He collected 16 of his 50 at the ex- pense of the New Yorkers. He slipped 12 past Lorne (Gump) Worsley and four past reserve goalie Jack McCartan. Toronto and Boston goalkeep- ers yielded 10 each to him, Det- roit allowed nine and Chicago five, Tony's Now Loom UAW Dark Horse Tony's Refreshments, whojward line of centre Harvey "Hot only a few short weeks ago were|Dog" Burke, and wingers Jackie : forest Pantin pon team ge Sneddon and Keith West. i ockey ie, now Me! has been su themselves a challenger for the|ine gol awit mupplying league pennant. strength while Burke, Sneddon Merchants and Unionaires,jand West supplied the scoring who have been playing "leap|punch. In fact, the entire Tony's frog" for top honors since thejteam has fired only 50 goals in season started, find Tony's hotjthe season and this threesome on their heels, Last Sundayjhas 31 of them. moining, Tony's upset the pace-| syeddon, defending scoring setting Merchants 4-8 to movelchamp, has 17, Burke 8 and within one point of second-place|wost 6. The bespectacled left- Unionaires, and just two off the|winger Sneddon heads the in- pece set by Merchants. dividual scoring race. for the Baker Vending, the other clubjfift straight week with 32 in che four team circuit, alsojpoinis. He has 15 assists, Near- pulled out a surprise nippingjest rival is ex-teammate Syd Unionaires 4-3 for the first win|Arnold of Merchants, with 25 since Nov. 26, points, "Sambo" Smith of Mer- Your players are mainly re-jchants is third with 22 while sponsible behind the Tony's re-|Sicacon's line-mates West and cent upsurge. Included are goal-|Burke are fourth and fifth, with Once again me old Meory you can't win without a good net- minder can be told in Melnick's case. "Litle Joe" decided to re- tire earlier in the campaign at the mpe old age of 23 but play- ing coach Joe Reid talked him out of it. Since his return the club has been really jelling. Melnick has reduced his goals- against. average to a respect- able 3:56, second only to Mike Cirka of Unionaires with an average of 3:36. With only four games remain- ing in the current schedule, Tonys ate a threat for the league pennant and seem to have the inside track on the in- dividual scoring and goal- tenders' trophies, Aetion resumes Sunday morn- ing In the Bowmanville Arena with Tony's playing Unionaires at 10:00 a.m. while Merchants play host to Baker Vending at 11:30 a.m, WLTF A PTS. Merchants 2 Unionaires Tony's tender Joe Melnick and the for-'22 and 21 points respectively. THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, Jenuery 4, 1962 177 By THE CANADIAN PRESS The scoring pace of George Aithen slackened in the last week, but momentum has. car- ried the Chatham Maroons left winger into the scoring leader- ship of the Senior Ontario Hockey Association, Altken collected four points Irwin Gross of Windsor dogs, the previous leader, held to one assist for 35 points. Aitken had moved into third place from 17th in the stand- ings ihe previous week when he fired in nine goals and gained four assists in a two - game splurge. Don Emms of Strathroy Rock- Baker's ets, who had fallen from the Chatham Winger Top Senior Scorer lead to eighth place, is still climbing back, He scored three goals and an assist to move from fifth to a tie for third with Lou Bendo of Bulldogs.' Both have 34 points. ' Haro/d (Boat) Hurley of Galt Terriers maintained for 4 Latah ot 98, he Pachen pestis 2.06 Hayton leads with 65 minutes, Moffitt hac 62, Galt's Alex (Butch) Keeling is far back in third place with 48 minutes. That's when people said that|scored eight goals--two against year-old Geoffrion equalled the record 50 set in 1944-45 by re- tired team-mate Maurice Rich- ard and that Mahovlich fell two short, The Leaf left-winger went sour in the later stages while Boom Boom was the terror of NHL goalkeepers. But at this time in 1961 it was figured that if anyone would wreck Richard's record, Mahov- lich was the man to do it. Major League Resumes Action' This Sunday WASHINGTON (AP )-- Major | league baseball players called to active United States pallitasy | service last fall probably will' not make spring training, but | they could see action before the 1962 season is half over. 'There has be. i nite de-| cision, but it appears possible | that such players as Tony Ku- bek of New York Yankees and Ron Hansen of Baltimore Ori- oles, both shortstops, may be! cavorting arond the infield be-| fore July 4. President Kennedy announced Wednesday that two new regu- lar army divisions will be formea this year. The announce- ment said the two National Guard divisions and assorted | guard and reserve units formed in September and October "will be released this year as the in- ternational situation and the readiness status of the two new divisions permit." Defence department officials indicate they hope to release the units by June 30. Professional football players, many of whom managed to fin- ish the 1961 season by obtain- ing weekend passes, will be de- mobilized in plenty of time for the 1862 season if the June 30 date 1s achieved. Besides Kubek and Hansen, major leaguers called to active duty last fall included Steve Barber and Barry Shetrone of Baltimore, Bob Johnson of Wazmangton Senators, Jim Grant, Wynn Hawkins and Wal- ter Bond of Cleveland Indians, Dick McAuliffe of Detroit Ti- gers George Thomas of Los Angeles Angels, Reuben Amaro and Jim Coker of Philadelphia Phitlies, Dick Bertell of Chicago Cubs and John Orsino of San Francisco Giants. YESTERDAY'S STARS By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Dave Keon of Toronto, a two-| scorer in the Maple Leafs 1 triumph over Montreal Ca- nadiens, Bobby Hull of Chicago, who scored the first goal and set up the other for Stan Mikita as the Black Hawks edged New York) Rangers 2-1, | NHL LEADERS | By THE CANADIAN PRESS lings: Montreal, won 19,| lost 9, tied 9, points 47. | ---- Bathgate, New York, | | Geals: Provost, Montreal, 21. Assists: Bathgate, 35. Shutouts: Hall, Chicago; Saw- chuk, Detroit, 4. Penalties: Fontinato, Mont- real, 105 minutes. REMEMBER WHEN... By THE CANADIAN PRESS Eddie Bruneteau helped De. troit Red Wings tie New York; Rangers 3-3 in an NHL game 16 years ago tonight by scoring twice on Chuck Rayner within 10 seconds. The record for the two fastest goals however re- mains four seconds, set by Nels aaron of Montreal Maroons in i} POSTPONES SENTENCE | NEW YORK (AP) -- A Gen- eral Sessions court judge Wed- nesday postponed until Feb. 1 the sentencing of Joseph Green of New York on charges of at- tempting to bribe a Columbia University basketball player last year. Green, 37, had leaded guilty to bribing Fred 'ortnoy to shave points in four games. Portnoy allegedly re- ceived $1,140. TRADE LAWSON PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pitts:) burgh Hornets of the American] Hockey League Wednesday | night sent centre Ed Lawson, | 40, to Portland of. the. Western| Hockey League. The trading of Lawson completes a deal in| which the Hornets obtained for-| ward John McMillan from Tor-| onto Maple Leafs of the Na- tional Hockey League. ED. 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