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THE OSHAWA 'Y' Ladies' Basketball Club, 1925 Intermediate cham- pions of all Ontario, are shown here, with "the very best in transportation facili- cae models of the McLaughlin- Buick -- built right here in Oshawa. Left-to-right, the team members are "Dot" Kennedy, 'Viv' Fulton, ' Mae Bowers, Marion Lick, Jean Hall, coach J, E. ties' -- two brand new three well-known sports, bowling, curling and (surprise, to us) oldest survivors in categories. formed back in 1879 -- we have the club's original "pin" -- and later, they had the Oshawa Curling Rink, on King Street West, on the south side of the street, alongside the bank of the Osh- "Mac" McCutcheon, Kay McLaughlin (team captain), Agnes Alger, Helen Ford, Marion Germond and Mary Mason. The picture was taken in front of the new "Centre Street Public School" -- erected in 192} and today known as "The A, E, Lovell Public School. By GEO. H. CAMPBELL We give you "Charlie" Pea- cock as the oldest "'young"' ath- lete in the city of Oshawa -- and perhaps in the Dominion of Canada. Chas, H. Peacock will be 87 on July 4 -- and he is still one of Oshawa's most skillful and competent competitors in both lawn bowling and curling--and we suspect, comes close to be- ing "the oldest competitor" in both of these popular sports, in Canada. A "Centennial" survey of lawn tennis, reveals that "Charlie" Peacock is one of the all three The Oshawa Curling Club was after moving indoors, they had public skating on Fri- days and Saturdays. Charlie Peacock tells of the days when they went to Peter- borough for a bonspiel. They loaded their own stones on the train here, transferred them at Port Hope and at Peterborough -- and if they were lucky enough to be still in the run- ning, they enjoyed a Monday- to-Friday sojourn. Back in the days of 1910 -- it cost $5.00 to join the Oshawa Curling Club but not only was the five dollars hard to find -- so was the opening -- because the membership was almost a "closed deal'? -- if you didn't look like a real prospect -- then you didn't get to join. Charlie Peacock is too old to play tennis now, but he recalls the Johns brothers, Newt and Tom, forming the first Oshawa Club. Tennis was played on On- tario Street, about where the old 'Customs Building' was later located. There was a SPORTS HISTORIAN The Dean of Oshawa Athletes, Charlie Peacock could well take his place as the city's sports histor- jan. He remembers when Oshawa's street lights were first installed -- the carbon- arc variety and gas lamps, long before an electric light bulb was used. He played tennis in the days when the courts were, on Ontario street (between Bond and King streets) and he grew up with both curling and lawn bowling. Oshawa's "grand old man" of curl- ing and lawn bowling is still not merely active, he is a top-ranking competitor in both sports. He is per- haps the oldest active curl- er in Canada today--he'll be 87 on July 4--and he's still an expert on the rings and skillful with that im- portant "'last rock" by the skip. He's a top lawn bowl- er too -- and has played at all four locations of the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club, over the past 67 years. He started his curl- ing in the old club, on King Street West, beside the Osh- awa Creek. He can still take a tough three-game, full-day bonspiel in stride and is the envy of many younger skips at Oshawa Curling Club -- and every- where -- for he's admired and respected all across the province, Queen's Plate Race Classic Staged At Whitby Track While it may not be known, particularly to those of the younger generation, it is never- theless a fact that Whitby at one time was a noted horse racing centre and that, at one time, the historic Queen's Plate, was run here. In those days, the Queen's Plate, still a racing classic, was held in various centres across the province. In the old days there was a mile track, near Lynde's Creek, west of the town, which at- tracted race lovers from many parts of the country. Nat Rae and the Rae boys of Whitby, who owned several racers and operated a livery stable were the leading sportsmen in "this field in the area. Whitby newspapers of the early 1880's tell of great days in Whitby when these races were held. Hotels were numer- ous and all had their barns and sheds filled; while livery stables did a thriving trade furnishing accommodation and convey- ances for visitors. Of course, old dobbin was the mode of trans- portation and it is recorded that it was a busy day for Whitby merchants when the race meeting was in progress. Purses of $400 downwards were big money in those days. Col. George Ham, a noted Whit- by citizen for some years, who started his career as a reporter and later gained prominence with the CPR, in his book "'Rem- iniscences of a Raconteur" tells how '"'the sports in the town for race days used to assemble at Nat Rae's livery to play poker." In the spring of 1870 the Queen's Plate was run in Whit- by, attracting a large crowd. It was, as is the case today, one of the memorable events of horse racing. While Toronto is today the scene of the running of the race, many Whitby resi- dents felt, in the old days, po meetin, ht have been tained hitby. According to Col. Farewell's "County of Ontario," the race track near Lynde's Creek dis- appeared and was _ replaced around 1873 by the '"'Agricul- tural Horse Trot" on the fair grounds in Whitby. Patrons of this sport apparently suffered less from thirst (or perhaps just went on suffering) for, with the change, the -- of hotels catering to them in the town diminished from nine to three. awa Creek. : |"Percy" + |Ellis, Bill Coad, Bert Smith, In those days, they curled on two "outside" sheets or "rinks" and in the centre, was a hockey cushion, where local OHA teams, Industrial League teams and others, played hockey. That's back in the days of Arthur Lambert, the Dingles, McAdie, Fred Hobbs, "Doc" Henry, Ted Fishleigh, Fred and Charles Bailes, the Michaels, Bob and Tom Henderson, "Chick" Anderson, "Cubby" Clifford, Ernie Parsons -- yes, "Fred" Garrard, too -- and a lot of other oldtimers, Art Ger- mond, Johnny Thompson, both George and Sam McLaughlin, Punshon, "Posie" John Perry, Wilse Drew, etc. BUILD NEW CLU! Oshawa Curling Club, present location -- natural ice. On February 18, clean up the spiel" because of soft ice. Shortly after that, they put court on the "Williams Piano" property, too -- on Simcoe St. North, near Richmond. Private homes, if they had a lawn big enough, also had courts, such as the Cowans, Eversons, Carswells, Stalters, Conants and George Miller. Later, a Church League was formed with tennis courts at St. Andrew's, St. George's, Christ Church, Albert Street, etc. The "big club' had its first major sized courts on Bond Street East, behind what is now General Motors Office Building. Then they moved to the 'Creek Flats" and survived numerous floods, before finally moving to }|their present location, at Ritson Road and Hillcroft Street. The glory days of such play- ers as Eric Vesey, "Army" Armstrong, Stew Alger, "Doc" B In 1925, they built the new|McMullan, Len Corn and. nu- at its|merous others, is well-remem- but with|bered. Stan Everson, earlier era, recalls tennis in|-- 1925, they played all-night, to|Oshawa at various other sites, "McLaughlin Bon-|including the of an "grass court" in Alexandra Park. Lawn bowling, in Oshawa, has in an artificial ice plant andjflourished at three major sites. the curlers had ice assured andiThe first "greens" were on Old "Young" Athlete Talks Of Lawn Bowling, Curling Simcoe Street North, on the corner of Richmond Street (north-west corner) and later, the club moved to a location, adjacent to the city's water tower, on Simcoe Street North, next to the Oshawa Hospital property. Expansion of the club mem- bership -- and expansion of Oshawa Hospital -- made it necessary for another move and Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club moved to the location which it now enjoys, on Col- borne Street West. In recent years, Jack Hunter and George Jackson won the Canadian "Doubles" champion- ship in lawn bowling, for Osh- awa Lawn Bowling Club and more recently, past-club presi- dent Gordie MacMillan won the Canadian "'singles" crown. Charlie Peacock, still active in both lawn bowling and curl- ing, is one of this city's last links with a glorious sports past. He remembers when the original Robson Leather "Tan- nery' was located on Mill Street and Oshawa's street lighting was of the 'carbon arc" variety, prior to 1900. He has a son, Charles Junior, who will retire on July 1, as general manager of Simpson's "Cedarbrae"' store, age 65, and another, Arthur (62) who is with the Episcopalian Church Mis- sionary, in the district of Panama and the Canal Zone. He remembers, when he was superintendent of Williams Piano Company, they increased the output from seven or eight pianos per day, to 15 per day. Oshawa is privileged, we feel, in this year of Centennial Cele- bration, to have a sports figure like "Charlie" Peacock, still ac- tive, competitive and still ex- tremely skillful, in lawn bowl- ing and curling. In these three key sports, in our books, he's Oshawa's grand old man in any sport, one of the men who helped make our city prominent -- and. dig- nified -- in the sports world of yesteryear -- today -- yes -- and tomorrow! _the Ontario Amateur he's Oshawa's '"'grand old man"' | @ PLEASURE FLI @ GOVERNMENT APPROVED @ CHARTER AIRCRAFT @ SOCIAL ACTIVITIES We Salute Canada On The Occasion Of Her 100th Birthday * Oshawa Flying Club MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN FLYING CLUB ASSOCIATION GHTS 728-1626 _FIRST OF CENTURY HERE YW Basketball Team Won Ont. Title In 1925 We venture that very few of Oshawa's sports fans realized or perhaps ever knew, that the first "'Provincial Championship of Ontario" in sport, to come to this city, in the .20th Cen- tury, was won by the Oshawa Ladies' YWCA Basketball team, in 1925. Prior to that date, the only other "Provincial" title in sport captured by an Oshawa team, was the 'Canadian Lacrosse Championship" (and Ontario) in 1878. 1925 WAS THE BIG YEAR The year 1925 was a big one in Oshawa's sports history. That same winter, Oshawa Curling Club opened their new club on Bond Street East - after leav- ing the old curling rink "in 'he hollow" - on King Street West, alongside Oshawa Creek. They curled all night, for fear of a thaw, in order to complete their annual 'McLaughlin Bon- spiel" - but then, that's curling and that's another story. Also, in 1925, Oshawa joined Softball Association, at their annual Good Friday meeting, held in Brantford that year. A week before the LOBA |championship basketball finals, the Oshawa Church League Hoc- key Association held their wind- up meeting. They had been op- erating for three years, and St. Gregory's won permanent pos- session of the Junior group tro- phy, having won the league in 1922 - 23; 23 - 24 and 24-25, And it was to be the year of another championship too - Oshawa St. Andrew's, from the Church League Baseball Assoc- iation, went on to win the All- Ontario title in Juvenile, in the summer of 1925 - and that too is another story. HAMILTON IN FINALS The Oshawa ladies' basket- ball team was coached by J. E. 'Mac' McCutcheon, super- visor of the Oshawa YMCA. Competing in a league with most Toronto opposition, the Oshawa "gals" beat out Tor- onto Lakesides for their LOBA league championship and then took on the champions of the Toronto Church League Ladies' Basketball Association, the West Presbyterians. Oshawa won their game at home, at the YWCA, 35-18 and then held the West Presbyterian team to a 22-22 tie, in the re- turn game at Toronto Central *Y', to take the round 57-40. The late '"'Bunny" Morganson, well-known to Oshawa hockey fans of later years, took the Oshawa ladies to his heart and pen, The glowing reports he gave of the Oshawa team's prowess resulted in 'Bunny' writing a special sports, column, for The Oshawa Telegram. His first column appeared in that paper on April 13, 1925. "'Bunny' was a member of the Toronto Telegram sports staff at the time. His guest column won lots of ardent readers among local sports fans. Oshawa 'Y' played Hamilton *Y' in the Ontario champion- ship finals, and they held the powerful Hamilton team to a 10 -10 draw, in Hamilton, on April 12, even though forced to play without one of their star performers, Helen Ford, whe was ill with the "'flu". Because the interest in the championship final was so great Agnes Alger, Jean Hall, Marion Lick, "Dot" Kennedy, 'Viv" Fulton, Mae Bowers, Kay Mc- Laughlin, Marion Germond and Mary Mason. And that about concludes the story of Oshawa's great lad- ies' basketball champions of 1925, except a few words about their celebration. They were all YMCA - YWCA members and in those days the 'Y' was the meeting place for sports groups, elections of officers, basketball games, swimming pool activities and even the banquets. The city honored the cham- pions on Tuesday, May 12, with a gala banquet at the YMCA, where they received The Ladies' Ontario Basketball Association Trophy and championship med- als, from A. Duncan of Spal- ding. George W. McLaughlin presented a special new trophy to Marion Lick, who received it on behalf of the team. Mayor H. P. Schell present- ed each of the girls with a white woollen sweater, a gift from the City Council. C. Peacock, on be- half of Jury and Lovell's gave each girl a handsome compact and George E. Ainsley present- ed them each with a team photo- graph. On behalf of the Oshawa Ama- teur Athletic Association, an active sports body here in those days, W. E. Clark presented each of the girls with a spec- ial ring and finally, H. L. Bloom- field, on behalf of the YMCA, handed out individual champ- ionship crests. Kay McLaughlin, team cap- tain of the champs, voiced the sincere appreciation of the girls and brought to a close a mem- orable evening, climaxed by what has since stood up as one of Oshawa's great moments of triumph; on the female side of the sports fence. COULD HAPPEN AGAIN This past winter season saw ladies' basketball return to Osh- awa, after a lapse of many years, except for competition in the various Collegiates and High Schools. There were two four - team leagues operating this past few months, under the supervision of the Oshawa Recreation De- partment, most of the players being employees of General Mot- ors and other local industries. it was realized that the nar- row balcony, along the west side of the Oshawa YMCA gym- nasium, would never accommo- date all the people who wanted | to see the game, so they decid- | ed to play the return game in the new gymnasium, at the Osh- | awa High School. Actually, the writer feels al- most certain that in 1925, Osh- awa High School, (with the big addition that included the aud- itorium, gymnasium, etc.,) had changed it's colors from green- and-white, to adopt a three-color combination, of red, green and gold befitting the new name of the school - Oshawa Collegiate Institute. At any rate - that's where the game was played - before "a packed house' and the Oshawa 'Y' team defeated Ham- ilton 'Y' ladies 24-18, to take the Ontario championship, 34- 28 on the round. Because the Hamilton team had golden - yellow uniforms, the "hosts" Oshawa team had to switch from their usual or- ange sweaters to a set of blues. It was a little confusing at first, but they soon adjusted and went on to win the championship -to make April 18, 1925 a big night in Oshawa's sports history. Members of the Oshawa 'Y' team, ladies' Intermediate bas- ketball champions of Ontario in 1925, coached by "Mac" Mc- Proud Distributors of: Cutcheon, included Helen Ford. To Take Part During Canada's Centennial Ralph TAYLOR SUPERTEST a PETROLEUM PRODUCTS For Farm Home and Industry 100 BLOOR ST. 723-3742 SUPERTES! Canada's All Canadian Company & me / \/ ok E. - OSHAWA | | 'tT. G. GALE um 284 RITSON RD. OA Coiliry of Ou Iroud Confederation CANADA ==E= 1867 -- 196723 With An @&> o The Future... We at T. G. 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SUCCESS STORY One of the great stories in Canadian s of the Oshawa Gr Operating only for Gaels have walked many Canadian juni championships in th: One of the reason: success is the excel ship provided by ge ager and coach J who, it is said, can ponent's weaknesses watching them for o There isn't a_ be lacrosse coach ar Majo1 By Mi By GEO. H. CAMP Of The Oshawa Time No review of sports a Oshawa over the past would be complete wit! quate tribute to the Minor Hockey Associat though that organizatio come into existence 1 early 30's. Other than Oshawa's try in the ranks of the Hockey Association's competition, shortly turn of the century, t first organized hockey limit groups was the awa Church League. This was organized i such men as Harold | late Tom Fitches, the Donald, Dane Found, siding in Orono, a Mi who ran Oshawa YMC time and several othe sentatives of various c HAD FOUR DIVISION The Church League, in the old Bradley's Duke Street (now | Street west), was ac association operating leagues, three of the group, midget, juvenile for and a senior leagu Many churches had ' each division and the those great "Church games at Bradley's Ri vividly recalled by ma city's older resider played there. "Dit" Clapper, late come an all-time sta NHL, . with Boston played for 'South Os the early days of th League. Just to menti others, boys, who late for Oshawa teams in ( included the late "Doc and the late Vic Bu Leveque, etc. When Bradley's rin down, in June, 1929, | the end of the Church Then the Oshawa A opened on January 9, once again, Oshawa } didn't have to depend weatherman to skate ¢ rinks, such as the Motors rink, up in " where the North P stands, nor the outdoo: was located where building now stands, various school rinks. Oh yes -- and ther many of us who can "shinny games" on Li Wilson's Pond, Broo! the old mill race, | town," about where tt Lawn Bowling Club ne MacMillan Drive Street, then); the Ce pond and of course Creek, Whitby harbor awa"s "'second marsh Harry Lott, later | professional ranks, 1: always associate with narrow pond on Street. He was a " ace! JUVENILES FIRST Harold "OHA" Luk become a president | tario Minor Hockey A then still unknown, al group of other hock enthusiasts from vari borhood areas, form hibition league. The first full seast saw the Oshawa "Cit formed, with players original Americans ¢ rocks, who had play tion action the previc now forming part of organization, a four-te of Rotary Club, Kiw Kinsmen Club and 3 Coal. The Ontario Juveni Association was forn winter of 1934-35 an "City League" affilia In the very next se awa Juveniles were to Hamilton, for th Hepburn Trophy a championship. Two years later, ©