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When Generals face second- lace Toronto Marlboros in 'A Metro Junior "A" action in Maple Leaf Gardens their top scoring line of Billy White (left), George Vail (centre) and Terry Vail (right) will be out to lead the Generals to vic- tory and contention for the OBA Agrees To Speed Up Playdowns BELLEVILLE (CP)-The ex: ecutive of the Ontario Baseball Association has agreed to a new siplan to streamline provincial playdowns, At a weekend meeting the executive endorsed a commit tee recommendation that On. tario be divided into eight or 10 zones, with zone champions en- tering the playdowns. At present some 50 teams en- ter the playdowns directly, along with the champions of many associations affiliated with the OBA. Jack Carson, OBA president, said the new system would Fimean longer schedules and ag all teams more baseball. e plan would also mean the playdowns could start on Labor! Day and be finished by Thanks- giving Day, he said. Som« 400 teams in eight cate- gories, including minor, played) under the OBA last year. Efforts will be made to have he plan ready for ratification ichuk, STAN MIKITA KEON FOR HART KENT DOUGLAS TROPHY MONTREAL (CP)--For De- troit's veteran goalie Terry Saw- the National Hockey League awards must have a bittersweet flavor, it final playoff spot in the loop standings. Generals will be | playing in the second game | of a double-header. | at the OBA's annual meeting March 15-16 at Niagara Falls. Kingston and Cornwall juven- Sawchuk held a narrow edge over Chicago centre Stan Mikita in the first-half voting for the ile A clubs, eliminated from the 1962 playdowns because of de- fault, were ordered by the ex-| ecutive either to pay resulting) claims or face suspension. 'General' Scene May Brighten This Night -» By KEVIN BOLAND Qshawa Generals will the-odd position of plugging for @ Whithy Dunlop victory when belong to either thé Dunlops meet Brampton 7-|after the smoke clears from a) Ups in Metro Junior "A" com-|full slate of games scheduled to-! W' petition at the Whitby Arena to-|night. night ' Generals eye the last playoff|tle | be injspot in the standings that could/clash with Knob Hill in the Knob Hilljopener of a twin-bill in Toron| Farms or the Brampton club|to's Maple Leaf Gardens. While Dunnies and 7-Ups bat- SPORTS MENU By Geo. H. Campbell SPORTS EDITOR 'Everything From Soup To Nuts' : NHL TROPHIES? Every year, at about this time, the hockey buffs start talking over their opinions as f6 who is the best guy in the NHL -- the best for- ward, best defenceman, most valuable, best goalie. ete., etc., and so it goes. The fairly new system of vot- ing at the halfway mark for all - star team mem- Bers trophy winners, etc., has served one pert pernt. It-gets the stove-league talk rolling a lot earlier than usual, Now that the all-star selections. have been nam- ed for over a week, we get around the NHL types who have been selected, at this early date, for the var- iGls honors. Terry Sawchuck drew a narrow edge over Chicago's Stan "Mikita, in the voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy (most valuable), but now that the Retroit goalie has been side-lined, it's likely he'll lose his position in the next few weeks, with Chicago's Glenn Hall (they always like the goalies) having a jood chance to pass teammate Mikita. In the Norris rophy race (for defencemen) Pierre. Pilote, also a Black Hawk, is out in front with Carl Brewer. his tlosest contender. The Lady Bing Trophy (most gen- tlemanly,, plus effective, valuable) etc., could go to Toronto Leaf's Dave Keon. Kent Douglas is top man 'in the voting for the league's best rookie and although a defenceman has never yet won this Calder Mem- *orial Trophy, it does look very much as if it will hap- n this season as Douglas has a good lead and his Llosest rivals, both rearguards also, are Doug Barkley pf Detroit and Wayne Hillman of the Black Hawks. ps METRO LEAGUE is busy tonight. Whitby Dun- 'lops are at home to the Brampton 7-Ups and this is ia big chance for Ivan Davie's Dunnies to move right 'back into contention for fifth place and a possible scrack at fourth spot and a playoff berth. The other sfour teams are'also. in action, with Oshawa Generals, *meeting Marlboros in the second half of the double- theader at Maple Leaf Gardens. Doug Williams, like 'a lot more coaches, didn't really expect his boys to "knock off the power-packed Neil McNeil Maroons 'last Friday night, but he is expecting his charges 'to make a much better showing tonight against the ~Dukes. The Generals were very much within striking tdistance of that coveted playoff berth and a win to- "night over Tudk Broda's Marles would put Generals «right back in the thick of the scramble. Individually, sseveral of this year's Oshawa Generals are making it 'quite evident that they "belong". Both coach Doug Williams and manager Wren Blair are more than leased with the fine showing some of the boys have making. Equally, they are more than a little dis- lappointed with the way some of their prospects have 'failed to respond. This, is par for the course, but doesn't change the over-all picture too much. Now if ithe Generals will start clicking as a full unit -- then they could upset a couple of dope buckets and make this quite an interesting season. : BRIGHT BITS: -- Hats off to "Red" Carson. Jack, the Belleville baseball enthusiast who is cur- rently holding the president's chair in the Ontario :Baseball Association, is launching a new playoff sei based on the zone-winners policy. No doubt Geo, H. Carver would shudder to admit it -- but it is robvious that the OBA has finally decided to copy, in ssome measure, the system which the OASA hos used tin playoffs with outstanding. success, for the last 20 vyears ... MINOR HOCKEY WEEK in Canada has re- sceived an "inside blow' that carries some weight. "Pembroke Minors are going to stay out of Minor play- toffs this year in the Bttava district -- a direct pro- itest to this business of the CAHA charging for their *magazine "Hockey Canada' -- on a levy technique "that doesn't really look like a fee -- but really is. As ton ag pall of the Ontario Minor Hockey Associ- tation (the only real, true minor hockey organization tin the country) we'd like to remind them, once again t-- as we did several years ago -- they'd better stand son their own feet -- or they'll not be able to stand. "The NHL runs the CAHA and if the OMHA bows to "the CAHA -- they'll eventually knuckle under the rulings of the NHL -- and it has been proven already t= this is one thing parents and workers in minor hockey will refuse to do. | Racing Field Cut To One-Quarter MONTE CARLO (Reuters)-- Streams of cars from eight Bu- ropean centres converged Mcn- day on Chambery in the moun- bevy of southeastern France for the final 500-mile night drive it out, Neil McNeil Maroons) ver the Alps in the Monte Carlo rally The field was cut |by more than a quarter In the second game Generals| Latest official figures gave 77 iJ] hope to capitalize on a gol-|retirements out of the 296 start- |den opportunity Maroons could) ¢rs who set out Saturday on the ford them in the first game |2,500-mile drive on roads made Should Maroons win thei rjtreacherous by winter weather game against Knob Hill, and) ccnditions. win they should, Generals could) Retirements included Britain's move to an arm's length of the|Pat Moss, winner of the all-important last playoff spot.) women's cup last year, and 1953 The Oshawa entry trails Knob! over-all winner Maurice. Gat- Hill-by five points. If. they|sonides of Holland in a Ren- emerge victorious in their clash) ault. with Toronto Marlboros they; The Canadian crew of Sam would move to three points of|Nordell and Grant Maclean of the Farmers. |Montreal, in a Renault, passed jaf Hart Trophy, the league's most- jvaluable-player award, when re-| sults were announced Monday.) But the 33-year-old goalie is almost certain to fall behind in the second-half voting, He is ex- pected to be sidelined for six weeks with a hand injury re- ceived 10 days ago. Sawohuk also learned Monday he was the victim of a "'statis- tical error' when the league announced the all-star teams for the first half of the season last week. A. league spokesman said Sawchuk was actually tied with Chicago's Glenn Hall for the first team goalie position with 61 points, and was not the sec: ond-team netminder with 51 points as had been announecd. KEON WELL AHEAD The first-half balloting also gave Dawe Keon, Toronto's small, shifty centre, a giant step toward maintaining his rec- ord of winning one of the league's major trophies every year. Keon polled 69 points--and ran up a 53-point lead over Maroons are definite favorites} safely through Rheims and were in the first game, They have] headed for Chambery. New York's Andy Hebenton--ia the voting for the Lady Byng yet to lose to the Farmers, In) 27 «league contests eat waa '4 have lost only three games. Two} of the losses were handed to! Sportin them by cresgpiee and, one of! them by Marlboros. The last time Oshawa met} the Dukes they drew 5-6. Dukes) were fortunate in salvaging) the tie with a last-minute goal| while netminder Jerry Desjar- dins took a view from the Mar!l- boro bench in favor of an extra attacker "We've come pretty close to) beating them twice now," says) MONTREAL (CP) --. Sports Wren A. Blair, general man.| Writer Pat Curan of The Ga- ager of the Oshawa entry. "If|Zette says the voting procedure we can win tonight, we can/for the individual awards in the come as close to fourth spot as National Hockey League is so we have ever been" |complex NHL president Clar- The Maroons currently ride|¢nce Campbell "actually uses the crest of an eight-game win-|@ slide rule to figure out the ning streak that Knob Hill|Tesults. coach, John "Peanuts", O'Flah-|. Curran makes the statement erty, and his slumping charges|in an article calling for "a lit- hope to break. tle uniformity" in a voting sys- The Farmers, faultering in|tem to provide a total of $30,- late season slump, have fallen|900 in league bonuses for tal- victim to the fifth and. sixth-|ented players. place clubs, Oshawa and Whitby,| "May we suggest that presi- in their last two outings. On both\dent Campbell and the club occasions the score was 6-2. brass get together picking an Whitby coach, Jim Cherry,|equal number of voters in each feels his charges are playing|city and let the ballots be made the type of hockey he wants| public," writes Curran. them to, "I think they played| "As an, alternative let the well over the weekend," he|players themselves do the vot- said. "Maybe what I have been me After all it's their money." saying has finally sunken in,"| Curran complains the system Scribe Strikes Out At All-Star Voting Curran says the current sys-| tem was devised because of complaints by Stafford Smythe, chairman of the board of Tor- onto Maple Leafs. "Seems that Smythe didn't think his Leafs were getting a fair shake .. and decided to spread the balloting around" He says 20 sports writers and broadcasters in Toronto have ballots while other cities have fewer, What touched it all off was a sports fan's call to The Ga- zette, The fan, noting that the vot- ing was conduced on a 5-3-1 points basis and 90 points was the maximum potential, asked how come Toronto's Frank Ma- hovlich got 89 points as the all- star left-winger selection in the half-season tabulations. Trophy, given to the player best combining ability with sports. manship. The 22-year-old from Noranda, ue., won the Lady Byng award last season and took the Calder Trophy for the best rookie two In this year's Calder trophy voting, Toronto defenceman Kent Douglas and Detroit rear- guard Doug Barkley were a! close one - two choice for the seasons ago, | up |shutouts in the Wings' first eight TERRY -SAWCHOK jwith 46 points. Toronto's Carl! |Brewer followed with 34 points land Chicago's Elmer Vasko was third with 20. Last week Pilote won similar recognition ia the first-half voting for all-star de- ' fencemen. ie Sawchuk's nomination was due largély to his sensational |start this season, | The créw-cut, battle-scarred three |Winnipeger racked DAVE KEON Douglas Heads Rookie Voting © Montreal goalie Jacqueés|scorer amen. defexcemen last Plante won the Hart Trophy last/season with 42 points, has been season. named to the second allstar HAS ONE PENALTY team for the last three seasons. Keon, a 165.pound playmaker 4 directly into the NHL from junior ranks, ré- ceived no minutes in penalties in the first half of the season. Since then, he has been given) only one two-minute sentence,| equalling his total for the en-| tire season last year. } His value to the Hawks has improved t years, while his penalty utes total has tended to crease. This year he has 33 minutes in penalties to date, 111 minutes behind the NHL's most penalized defenceman, De- troit's Howie Young. firstdhalf's play. Douglas, ob-| i tained from Springfield in the fe eet ee American League by the Leafs} <treax. during the summer, had 63) ints, 12 more than Barkley., Sawohuk had the tendons of i . |his left hand severély slashed PRECEDENT LIKELY |by the skate of Toronto's Bob ar" bce pgenmemee| ee ea aad a hie i gi = rookie award, but a prece-|He is expected to be out for dent seems likely to be set this| most of the rest of the season. season. After Douglas and Bark-| wikita. 22 th ley in the first-half rookie voting| Hawks" Scogter Line, wor two came a \ and seamen rn | behind Sawchuk's 3?-point total. re 8 Haag i -- with 21/Detroit's ageless Gordie Howe, pe ie v4 4 orward wWas|the only player ever to win the ga ork's Rod Gilbert with) most-valuable award five Hines, . was third with 30 points. Ha Chicago defenceman Pierre|polled 21 points and Mahovlich, Pilote, 31, led first-half ballot-jthe league's leading goal-scorer ing for the Norris Tropvy, given|in the first half, followed with " his teammates 10.game unbeaten Detroit's Alex Delvecchio and|HARVEY IGNORED the Rangers' Camille Henry! New York's Doug Harvey, tied for third in the Lady Byng winner of the award last season voting with 12 points. and in hey A the be sea- ,./sons it has awa , was Pgs goo . defeneeman| completely ignored in voting for award last season and gained|*"e orris Trophy. an all-star berth, Barkley, also| Brewer was 12 points behind 26, was-named the best defeace-|Pilote with 34 points, Vasko was man in the Western League last|third with 20 points, followed by year with Calgary. The 190- Detroit's. Bill Gadsby with 16 pound native of Lethbridge,|and Toronto's Tim Horton with Alta., is rated less of a rushing|!4. defenceman than Douglas, but) is a solid defensive player. Montreal's Bobby Rousseau won the rookie award last sea- son, Wietecha Retires From Grid Scene to the league's best rearguard,'16, Pilote, the league's leading NEW YORK (AP) --_ Ray In NHL Score MONTREAL (CP) -- Boston aay? fans must be/ wondering how fy their hockey'team can score s0 } many goals and yet. make such \ a poor showing in the league ;. standings, But the lowly Bruins did it again last week Although the team won only one of its four National Hockey League out- ings, its forwards showed the rest of the league how to pro- duce Left-winger Johnny Bucyk, a veteran enjoying his best ma- jor league season so far, * chalked up three goals and two assists to take over the indivi- dual point - getting leadership from New York's Andy Bath- ate, Bucyk's total now includes 20 goals and 26 assists. Official NHL statistics re- leased today show similar five- point gains for two other Bruins, Murray Oliver and Guy Gen- dron, and a three-point increase |for Don McKenney. ; Oliver now 1s tied for fifth standings, but Montreal took tace with Mont.| Over second spot from Toronto ' |with two wins and a tie during ichard. Both have) tne wask: Chicago now has. 54 points, Montreal 52 and Toronto 49. Detroit ranks a close fourth with 47, while behind are New York with 33 and Boston with 7 JOHN BUCYK in the scorin real's Henri 43 points. McKenney is in a! three-way tie for 18th and Gen- dron is tied for 24th with Earl Ingarfield of New York. HAS SLIM WEEK Bathgate meanwhile gleaned one assist for a total of 45 points. JACQUES STAYS AHEAD Bucyk Steals Lead ? Prentice, Wietecha, New York Giant's durable centre, is retiring from National Football League play after 10 seasons. The 33-year-old former North- western star will become offen- sive line coach for Los les Rams under his former teammate, Harland Svare. SHORGAS| HEATING & APPLIANCES Industrial and Commercial The established, reliable Ges Dealer in your eres. 31 CELINA ST. (Corner of Athol) Race The leaders: Delvecchio, Det 9 Hull, Chicago zs 1 Keon, Toronto 17 MacDonald, Det 20 G.Tremblay Mtl 20 14 TIME 4:04 A.M. EST 'Just what we've heen talking about! Cherry didn't sound optimis- tic of his club's chances of making the playoffs this year. "We'll just play one at a time ba we see what happens," he} Said. | Terry Vail, the fiery leader} of the playing Generals, scored seven goals in weekend action. 'He's relly going well," said coach Doug Williams. "I'm hop- ing he can lead the club to a win now jis unduly complicated be- cause there are an unequal number of selectors from each of the six NHL cities casting ballots for such awards as the Hart Trophy, the Lady Byng Trophy and the all-star nomina- tions. BALLOTING WEIGHTED | The balloting is weighted to give each city equal represen- tonight." jtation and that's where Camp- Vail will problably centre the|bell's slide rule comes in, his brother George on his right! . . side and 15-year-old Billy White, Waite Heads Scoring | | After 10 games played in the ect 6 As Oshawa Minor Hockey Associa- ing leader is Joe Waite of the goals and 16 assists for a total} Di ct | Of 22 points. Here are the top 12 |Joe Waite (Kinsmen) 6 16 22 TORONTO (CP)---Max Bell of|Bob Burke (Kinsmen) 10 10 20 American breeding and racing,|psh Cameron (Navy) 5 has been elected a director Of|Rob Glecoff (Navy) 11 2 was announced Monday. Bi i Co - owner with Frank Me-|Ron wae ee Alberta Ranches Stable, he is i president of the Balmoral Sort Eons a ' erations of the Washington) Park track in Chicago, and of | | erates the Golden Gate track at! HOCKEY SCORES | San Francisco, Calif. | man - industrialist, has 'been! " bie oc a 2 named chairman of the board Leamington 3 Wallaceburg 7 the late Col. K. R. Marshall who ib wanda AP Pon ee yaaa ed last Nov. 8: Mr. Taylor St. Marys 6 Tillsonburg 3 breeder and owner of thorough-| Lakehead Senior The Jockey Club announced! ; | Cape Breton Senior four other executive changes. Glace Bay 4 Northside 1 Frowde-Seagram of Kitchener, | a director for many years, as a\Osgoode Hall 9 York 2 By THE CANADIAN PRESS Frank Boucher, then man- ager of New York Rangers, suggested 12 years ago to- day that the answer to dwindling attendance in United States cities might be enlargement of the NHL to 12 teams. He proposed expanding the league to two divisions, east and west, with possible addition of such cities as Quebec, Ot- tawa, Clevland, Cincinnti, Buffalo and St. Louis. But the league remained at its present six teams. REMEMBER WHEN ...?) One assist went to big Frank Mahovlich of Toronto, rounding out his total to 44, while De- troit's Gordie Howe picked up a goal and three assists to tie the Leafs left winger for third spot. Mahovlich leads in goals scored with 23. Chicago's scrappy centre; Stan Mikita, ranks seventh with 42 and Montreal's Jean Beliveau Jacques Plante of Montreal' preserved his slim margin over Chicago's Glenn Hall ag the league's best goaltender. Each netminder let in eight goals in | three games, | Plante has allowed an average of 2.03 goals a game, compared with a 2,29 average for Hall. Detroit's Terry Sawchuk, early leader in the Vezina Trophy race, ranks third with 2.37. Lel's hoth go this --who leads the league in as-/ Black Hawks also lead the sists with 34--ranks eighth with\league in penalties, having 41 points, served a total of 554 minutes. Tied for ninth with 38 are Ab, Howie Young, imdividual bad- McDonald of Chicago and Alex)man of the NHL with 144 min- Delvecchio of Detroit. utes, has accounted for more The Black Hawks ma'ntained!/than one-fourth of Detroit's 545- their two-point lead atop the! minute total. Local 1 By ALLAN BAILEY Local 1817 continued to be un- beaten in the Oshawa Minor Hockey Association Bantam League after 11 starts, when they belted Duplate 6-2 in the Children's Arena last night. Darryl Hudgin and Roger Waddell each fired three goals for the league-leaders. John Gory, Ken Jones, Ron Joseph, Jim Clarke and Hudgin each pitked up a pair. of assists, Waddell had one. Dave McMaster and Andy Konopacki scored for Duplate, with, Jim Verrall and Derry O'Bfien getting an assist each. Sticog Cleaners and Canadian Corgi battled to a 1-1 draw. Doug O'Donnell was the clean- ere akan assisted by Fred Fliel@r and Jim Badgley. Larry Myerés scored for the corp with ®ssists from Tom Parker and BRian Perry. Both Terry Lee opening Oshawa front line with jon his left, | In Oshawa Puck Loop tion Midget League, the scor- Jockey Club | Kinsmen Club team. He has six | | scorers: . | GA Pts. Calgary, prominent in North| John Baron (Legion) 8 The Jockey Club Limited, it! John Solowski (222) Mahon, also of Calgary, of the/ Bill Taylor (Legion) Jockey Club which directs ©P-/Harry Morrison (Navy) the Pacific Turf Club which op-| E. P. Taylor, Toronto sports-| Ontario Junior B of The Jockey Club, succeeding} Hamilton 4 Stamford 6 has been Canada's leading breds for nearly. 10 years. 'Port Arthur 2 Ford William 1 including the election of J. E Intercollegiate vice-president. Acadia 3 Dalhousie 6 and Rick Ellison in the Scugog 817 Extends Undefeated Streak cage and Terry Brady in goal|goals and Terry Irwin, Alan for the Corp played well. |Mathews, Jeff Jubenville and David Fischer and Bob Moore|Ricky Scott with one each. seored a pair of goals each to/Scott had two _ assists, Tom lead Coca Cola to a 5-1 victory|Bouckley, John Krantz and Ir- over Police Association. Charly|Win had one apiece. Terry Col: Brown fired the other cokes'|lins blasted the lone B'Nai marker. Fischer and Tom Wil-|P'Rith counter assisted by R. ton picked up two assists.| Moore had one. Pete McNamee shot the lone goal for the los- ers assisted by Bob Hall. Canadian Tire and West- mount Kiwanis played to a 1-1 deadlock. Dave Mosier and Richey Ballon had one goal apiece for the tiremen, Gerry Welsh picked up a pair of as- sists and Phil Plutz one. John Nestic and Rick Cannfield fired goals for the Westmount team. Paul Bligdon, Paul Brockman, urelo. Stars Blank Bears Led by Andy Mathews with two goals, Oshawa Juvenile All Stars blanked Aurora Bears (juniors) 2-0 in Canning- ton Arena last night. Don Gut+ sole in the Oshawa cage was credited with the shut-out and played a standout game. Au- rora is currently leading the OHA metro Junior "'C" loop. Oshawa opened the scoring in John Lupe! and Doug Warren were credited with an assist each. Local . 1500 downed B'Nai B'Rith 6-1. Th winners were led by Randy Zedic with twol the first priod, there was no scoring in the second and then they added an insurance tally in the final stanza. The tity's juvenile entry plays tonight in Uxbridge. Friday {* REC ROOM CLASSES (3 CLASSES IN ALL) START THIS FRIDAY, JAN. 25th 8 P.M. SHARP MILLWORK & BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD. 1279 SIMCOE NORTH 728-6291 LUCKY DRAW PRIZES Each Friday night during classes, some lucky person will win @ $25.00 Gift Certificate, You could be that winner EVERYONE WELCOME