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ED WESTFALL (18), of r C Boston Bruins, clears the Bernie Parent in a National SCHOOLBOY CURLING By GARY McCARTHY Canadian Press Staff Writer | Chicago Black Hawks have} found it is just as hard to stay even with the Smiths as it is to) keep up with the proverbial} Jones'. The Smiths--Gary gnd combined to lead Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-2 victory over the} Black Hawks in one of three Na-| tional Hockey League games |some of the credit for Smith's| Wednesday night but he picked jsuccessful NHL debut as they| up one assist to boost his sea- Montreal Canadiens edgedlimited the Hawks to mainly| son total points to 78 in the Na- Wednesday night. Boston Bruins 3-2 and New York | Rangers blanked Detroit Red' Wings 5-0 in the other games. | Gary Smith started the game| in nets for Toronto but he suf-| fered a leg injury at 2:15 of the first period and Al Smith was) hurried into service. Al Smith, 19, a junior playing his first full NHL game, turned back 29 shots and the Leafs got goals from Orland Kurtenbach, Cruising in on goal is. Mont- real's John Ferguson (22). Montreal won 3-2, Hockey League game in Montreal Wednesday night. puck from in front of goalie HOCKEY SCORES, STANDINGS Two Prairie Rinks In First-Place Tie ST. Prince Edward Island, a peren-| 4 vida drew the sixth-round bye.|for a winning draw shot, nial weak sister in the Canadian schoolboy curling champion- ships, turned giant-killer Wed-|in nesday skatchewan jump into a tie for|the first end and.added two mor first place. Keith MacEachern's Charlotte-| town rink engineered an upset|the A over Brian Howes' Alberta entry|Picked up three points in th from skatchewan, Ross of Humboldt, a new lease on life. Saskatchewan, loser of two in a row, snapped out of it Wednes- day night and now is tied with Alberta for the lead with four victories and two setbacks. Four rinks--Northern Ontario, | took out Howes' shot rock. Mac-| Nova Scotia, Ontario and P.E.!.|fachern's rock stayed in with --are tied for third place with|two other counters on the edge| three wins and two losses each.|of the 192-foot circle. British Columbia and Manitoba} follow with 3-3 records, New-\enq and tied the score 10-10 foundland has won two and lost! when By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Western League WLT F A Pt Portland 6 San Francisco 4 29 16 7 174 133 65| Seattle 3 Victoria 0 29 18 7 194 146 65) Eastern League 96 19 9 178 145 61|Johnstown 2 Clinton 5 24 20 7 153 143 55| New Jersey 3 New Haven 5 Boston 15 32 6 130 211 36\Charlotte 0 Greensboro 5 New York 14 32 8 158 209 36 International League Wednesday's Results | Bort Huron : a ; Boston 2 Montreal 3 | Fort babe ol Deine Toronto $ h hicago 2 Ottawa Capitals 4 Pembroke 6 Detroit 0 New York 5 Algonquin Senior Games Saturday Shawville 7 Deep River 1 eel York Pn Montreal (first game round-robin semi- oston at Toronto final) Chicago at Detroit American League Eastern Division WLT F 37-15 3 238 25 21 4 176 23 28 1 153 Baltimore 18 31 2 140 Providence 14 32 3 120 Western Division Rochester 35.13 4 211 Pittsburgh 20 23. 1179 Cleveland 27 24 «1 «166 Buffalo 19 31 3 146 Wednesday's Result Quebec 4 Pittsburgh 3 Central Professional aa tee 169 155 138 151 160 157 Montreal Chicago Detroit Toronto skipped by Bev Groves of Ed-,tricky takeout attempt. But in __|mundston. |the fina] end, 'the Charlottetown Quebec's Leslie Hallands of|skip had an unobstructed path By DON ANGUS JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) Prince Edward Island, which| PISS BO |has won three in a row, counted |N.S. LOSES CHANCE six ends against 'Alberta. | Glinz lost his chance for vic- Sa-|MacEachern scored a single in| tory in the 10th end of his match e|against British Columbia when in the second before Alberta|he wrecked on his own guards started hitting and stole four in|@"d split open the front of the third. But MacEachern| house. Engstrom then played a e draw through the opening for Sa-|fourth with an accurate last-rock three, ahs more than he needed. Bil] | shot. Glinz tied the score in the The island rink, with a one-|ninth with a takeout of British point lead after seven ends,|/Columbia's shot rock, stayed in posted another three-ender in|himself and counted three the eighth when MacEachern| Saskatchewan forced Steski to made the best shot of the night.| gamble. Ross led 8-4 after nine His final stone curled around alends and won when Northern well-placed Alberta guard.at the! Ontario ran out of rocks in the front of the house and cleanly/10th after counting three. In fifth-round matches Wed- nesday, Newfoundland defeated New Brunswick 9-5, Alberta f : downed Saskatchewan 9-3 Alberta stole four in the ninth | prince Edward Island trampled British Columbia 16-4, Nova Sco- Ontario Junior B Cobourg 3 Kingston 13 169 Ron Murphy "* Quits Game 59| MONTREAL (CP)--Ron Mur- 55 phy, a 14-year veteran of th 41!National Hockey League, de- cided Wednesday to retire. Murphy, 32, advised coach Milt Schmidt of Boston Bruins Ptithat he would not appear 56/a gainst Montreal Canadiens 55| Wednesday night at the Forum. 52) "He told me he had just de- 159 166 52\cided to retire. It has-nothing 175 180 51\to do with his trade to our club, night and helped A Pt| 169 77) 147 54 47 Quebec Hershey Springfield and gave skipped by Calgary 151 155 150 183 L 24 21 23 20 22 22 22 23 22 23 Minnesota Okla. City St. Louis Memphis Houston q | homp Wings Tim Horton and Eddie Shack, |shots, while Charlie Hodge in the as Toronto directed 34 shots at|Montreal goal had only 21 fired Chicagn netminder Glenn Hall. |at him. SHACK HAS 21 Shack collected his 21st goal | of the season, Kurtenbach his | eighth and Horton his fifth, | Stan Mikita with his 25th and| Phil Esposito with his 20th ac-| counted for Chicago's scoring. | The Toronto defence earned} long shots. / Chicago's Bobby Hull did not) score but he has 16 games re-| maining to score four goals and become the first player in NHL history to score more than 50 goals in a season. Hull, who has 47 goals in 49) games so far this season, shares} the record of 50 goals in a cam- paign with two retired Montreal | |players--Maurice Richard and |Bernle Geoffrion. PROVIDES WINNING EDGE Defenceman J. (. Tremblay's power-play goal with less 'than| two minutes remaining in the game earned Montreal Cana-| diens a 3-2 victory over Boston ) Bruins. | Tremblay's goal was his fifth of. the season. Claude Larose with his 10th and centre Ralph Backstrom with his 16th were the other Montreal goal getters. | John McKenzie with his 13th and Ron Stewart with his 11th lof the year accounted for Bos- ton's scoring. Canadiens bombed Bernie Pa- |Montreal Canadiens players. Montreal's victory, 'cou- pled with Chicago's loss against NHL BIG SEVEN By THE CANADIAN PRESS Bobby Hull failed to score against Toronto Maple Leafs tional Hockey League individual scoring parade. Hull, Chicago Black Hawks scoring sensation, has a league- leading 47 goals and needs only four more in the remaing 16 games of the schedule to be- come the first player in NHL history to score more than 50 goals in a season. He shares the record of 50 goals with Maurice Richard and Bernie Geoffrion, two retired Stan Mikita, also of Chicago, scored a goal against the Leafs Wednesday, giving him 63) points, one less than Norm UIl-| man of Detroit Red Wings, who} holds down second place in the} scoring. Mikita leads the league| in assists with 38. The leaders: G 47 28 25 25 Hull, Chicago Ullman, Detroit Mikita, Chicago Howe, Detroit Rousseau, Montreal Delvecchio, Detroit Beliveau, Montreal Richard, Montreal the Leafs, moved, the Canadiens into a first-place tie with the Rlack Hawks in the standines Bob Nevin scored two goals and netminder Cesare Maniag turned fe Maw Unett. Pont o1..6 WIRCG A NeW AGin eo out of the season as the Rangers blanked the Red Wings. It was New York's first shut- out since Dec. 25, 1964, when the now - retired Jacques Plante blanked the Bruins. Nevin's 25th and 26th goals of the season midway through the second period shook the Rangers loose and Maniago carried them the rest of the way. The 27 - year - old netminder, playing his 12th game for New York, was flawless on 23 Detroit shots as the Red Wings suffered their first shutout of th THE OSHAWA TIMES, @ @ Thurday, February 26; 1966 | YESTERDAY'S STARS & By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jean - Claude Tremblay, scored a power-play goal less than two minutes re: in the game to give Mon' Canadiens a 3-2 victory overgs Boston Bruins Wednesday night. Bob Nevin, who scored_ two oals in 42 seconds to lead New ork Rangers to a 5-0 win over __ Detroit Red Wings. et Al Smith, Toronto goalie who . kicked out 29 shots in his first " full National Hockey League _ game as the Mage Leafs edged Chicago Black Hawks 3-2. ~~ at Detroit netminder Roger Cro zier, is Reggie Fleming with his 1ith -- goal, and Rod Seiling and Billy . Hicke each with their fifth of - the season, completed New . York's scoring. | The Rangers' victory, coupled with Boston's loss in Montreal, deadlocked the two. teams for ~ e The Rangers directed 27 shots of Canada's last place in the NHL standings. ~ 3 Great Whiskie rent in the Boston nets with 44 | | | t | vat 8 9 8 8 7 8 ee Na ey a RS a "s MacEachern missed @/tia dumped Quebec 12-6 and 20 24 8 160 152 48 he assured me," Schmidt said. |Man. won over Northern On- Wednesday's Result | Murphy was traded to the| |tario 10-7. Ontario drew the bye.| Houston 2 Minnesota 5 |Bruins last week from Detroit | The seventh round today sends OHA Junior A Red Wings in a move that sent |Manitoba against Ontario,| WLT F A Pt\Dean Prentice and Leo Boivin! | Prince Edward Island against Peterborough 2311 9195 15155)to the Detroit club in exchange | Northern Ontario, Nova Scotia) Niagara Falls 2212 819314152|for Murphy and defenceman against Alberta, British Colum-|oshawa 2015 8 203 157 48/Gary Doak. \ bia against Quebec and New-)Montreal 2015 817614248) Murphy picked up one assist jfoundland against Saskatche-| Hamilton 2118 5188 199 47\in the two games he played ann jwan, New Brunswick drew the/Toronto 1818 9189 203 45\the Bruins. | | bye. St. Catharines 14 23 6 168 207 34| Murphy's career began in the} In the eighth round, Alberta) Kitchener 1222 9 142 169 33|\1952-53 season when he was a| meets Quebec, Newfoundland! tfondon 12 28 6 142 227 30| member of New York Rangers. | plays Prince Edward Island, On-! Wednesday's Result He was with Chicago Black) tario goes against Saskatche-|Toronto 4 Oshawa 3 Hawks for seven years before} jwan, Manitoba mets New Bruns-| Tonight's Games |his Detroit and Boston stop- wick and Nova Scotia plays|Kitchener at Peterborough overs. His lifetime total Is 176} Norther Ontario. British Colum-| Niagara Falls at Hamilton goals and 214 assists in 728 reg- | bia drew the bye. |St. Catharines at Montreal ular season games. PRICE REDUCTIONS ON three, Quebec has one win and Tulsa RY : four losses and New Brunswick Wy Mw trails at 1-5. | STANDINGS In the sixth round MacEach-! ee é erri upended Howes 11-10; Ross| By THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian schoolboy curling defeated Wayne Steski's North-| i ' ) ern Ont. foursome from North| Championship standing after Bay 8-7; Manitoba, skipped by| S!x rounds: George Wilson of Winnipeg, downed Newfoundland, guided by Danny Herder of St, John's, 11-7; British Columbia, skipped by Doug Engstrom of Prince George, won 9-6 over Don Glinz's| Nova Scotia entry from Truro. | BEATS N.B. 11-9 | Mike Boyd guided his Ontario} rink from Kingston to an 11-9 win over New Brunswick, THEY GO! WE'RE MAKING ROOM FOR SPRING STOCK SAVINGS 0% - 50% WINTER TIRES Nowwis the time te really save on brand new winter treads, SIZE s = | ex mm co ce cots ners boners tt Alberta Saskatchewan Northern Ontario Nova Scotia Ontario P.E.1. British Columbia Manitoba Newfoundland Quebec New Brunswick } RAM RMMAAANUMASH | ae ee ce ce OS 0 CO OO Kenyan Distance Runner | Gets Taste Of Indoors By JIM CRERAR jtres, Kenyan sprint star Sera TORONTO (CP)--Wilson Kip-|phino Antao and Kiprugut all rugut of Kenya, the man ex-jtrained barefoot on grass tracks pected to give Canadian middle-|and the hard-packed red soil na- distance ace Bill Crothers -of|tive to the country. Toronto his toughest battle over Kiprugut isn't sure when 1,000 yards at the Maple Leaf|Kenya will get its first cinder indoor track meet here Friday |track night, ran on an indoor track; It didn't take him long to get for the first time in his life Wed-|used to running with shoes on, nesday. though. His heat time in Tokyo The soft-spoken resident of|was 1:47.8 and he lowered it to Nairobi, who zoomed out of ob-|1:45.9 in the final. That was only scurity and finished third in the|eight-tenths of a second slower REG. 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