Sid Abel Shoots Tying Counter For Wings In Dying Seconds 0f Tilt

DETROIT. Oct. 16-—(CP)- Bid Abel's 20-foot shot with ll seconds to play enabled the Dettplt Red Wings to tie the Toronto Maple WI 3-3 tonight in the opwiing game of the National Hockey League's new Gil-game season.

A first-night throng of 12.756 bash customers raised the roof when Abel's hard low shot ban:- ld into the corner of the ncl as Detroit played without a goalie for the last 15 seconds iii a. drive to avert defeat.

Rookie Garth Boost-h, Toronio ilefenccman playing his llFSL ma- jor league game. had hrokcn a l-all tie by slamming in a 45-foot screen shot; ivith four mlnut-‘s of ﬂlaylng time left and Toronto hp- peared a certain winner llnlll Abel punched in his first goal \lfl(‘€ lils return lust wintcr from inili- hry service.

Although the game was marked by 12 penalties-one of thcm n major against Dctroifs Ad-im Brown for fighting, only one of the goals was scored irhile a tcnm was shorthandcd.

That was the first score of the game when Brown tallied for De~ trait at 7:02 of thc second period with Howie Meekcr of Toronto serving time for tripping.

Bob Goirlham of thc Leafs squared it at 12:59 hut svithi-n ‘.055 than a minute rookie Gordon Howe notched a five-footer to put Detroit ahead 2-1.

Harry Watson, Toronto left winger obtained this fail from Detroit, knocked ln a rcbouiiri sliOt with a minute to play in the sec- tnd period to tic it up gol-ng into lhe third period.

It was the first time in three

ars that Detroit failed to win ta opener.

Summary First: Period

Scoring-None.

Penalties: Eztnl-cki t2). Jackson.

‘Howe.

Second Terlod) (Abel) 1.0a. (Ezlnicki,

L-Detrolt, Brown 2.—Toronto, Goldham Watson) 12:59. 3.—Detrolt, Howe (Brown, Abel) llziiﬂ. ir-Toronto. Watson (Apps) 19.01. Penaltles—Meckcr 2, Ezlnickl, Iowc. Third Period L-Torunto, Boesch 16:17. G-Detrolt, Abel (Simpson) 19.48. Pemltles- Thompson. Morison, Irown (major), Lynn.

Sox Receive Reception From Fans

B%TON. Oct. l6 —(CP)—Al- Iiough edged out by St. Louis Cardinals for the world champ- ionship. Boston's Red Sox still are lhc darlings of at least 300 fans who met than with cheers and ill inevitable requests for auto- graphs tonight as the baseball Qeclal pulled in from St. Louis.

A score or twd of Bobby Soxei-s were in the crowd as the beaten lockers left their special gnain at Huntington Avenue Stat-

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Cheers greeted the Sox as each Dame down the steps. And the encouraging yells wcre. if any- ‘lhing a bit louder for little Johnny Pesky. self-named "coat" 0f the final game.

REMOVE COACHES _-s..i ' PORTSMOUTH, England—-(CPl K-Thrce railway coaches, marocncd at the end of a pier 1n 1941 when I bomb blcw a hole on the land- ward side, have beeen removed by crane. :_

Golf Season Will Officially iﬂlosc Saturday

i The golfing season will wind-up mfficlally at the Charlottetown ‘Golf Club Saturday afternoon .\\h€il prizes will be presented iwlnners of the various tourna- merits.

Commenting on the season Just iciosing the President, Mr. H. L lSeai- stated that "it has been one ‘of the most successful in com- -p8!lllVE play 1n the history of the ,:iub and that through a. grow- ing membership the club has en- Wloycd increased revenue!"-

“New members." Mr. Sear said. “have showed keen interest in lcluh activities and there is every iindication that the club can look forward with hope and confidence {to the future." .

This year the club house was renovated and the additional ispace made available has suited mdmirably to the staging of dances l‘.'.'l1lCh have provided an additional

~=~.ou rce of revenue.

Saturday afternoon will be an "open" day and tea will be serv- ed by the indies of the club. The presentation of prizes will take place in the clubhouse.

Intermediates May Win Title _By Default

Held scoreless for four mnlngs while their opponents were build- ing up a 2-0 lead Charlottetowws intermediate All Stars came through with three and two run bursts in the fifth and sixth inn- ings at Sydney Mines Tuesday afternoon to whip the Cape Bre- ton team 5-3 and take a two game lead in the best of five series for the Maritime intermediate baseball title.

Forced to yield after pitching three lnnlngrhr the opener on Monday, Lefty McAleer. Charlotte- town portslde hurler got revenge on the Nova Scotla champions when he limited Ramblers to three hits. two of them coming in the second inning while Charlotte- town were combing the offerings

of the Sydney Mines hurler for a total of nine safe blows. including a triple by Buck Whltlock and a double by Charlie Ryan.

Third game of tho series rs scheduled for here on Saturd-rw afternoon next but definite word as to whether the Nova Scotla champions would make the ’ trek here or default the series was not forthcoming at time of writing last night.

WILL DECIDE TONIGHT

SYDNEY MINES. N. 8.. Oct. 16

(OP) — Sydney Mines Ramb- lers. who lost t-he first two games of the Maritime lntemiedlate base- ball serles to Charlottetown All- Stars. may forfeit their chances for further play. it was indicated here tonight.

Ramblers will meet tomorrow night. to discuss the feasibility of making the trip to Prince Ed- ward island for the third and re- maining games of the best-of-fivc series.

R-Mﬂblvrl. who took the Nova Scotla. title. were defeated 1-5 and

5-3 in two 09min! Maritime final Blmcs by Charlottetown.

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

OCTOBER 17, 1946

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The local rullby seison got away l0 a flying start yesterday after- noon with Saint Dunstan’s scoring a 23-0 victory over a hard striv- ing Prince of Wales squad but despite lhc lop-sided score for an opener thc game wasi considered reol good by the large crowd of fans who saw the tussle.

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Superior backfield work by Coach Mather McGulgaxfs red ind white backfield i-n the final an- alysis provcd to be the deciding factor. Prince of Wales scrum

'Ilhe Maritime middleweight box- lng scrap scheduled for tlhe Forum next Saturday night between Billy "Kld" Laindry of Worcester, Mass, and Ace "Bunny” McCloskey cf Charlottetown has been. postponed until Monday night, October 21st, promoters of the event announced last, night.

Reason for the postponement is that. the Saturday nlgiht date con- flicted with the closing date of the Charlottetown Hospital Bazaar and officials of the boxing meet yester- day afternoon decided to take the above action.

However, postpo-r-ament of the event will in no way hamper what ls fully expected to be a rugged, bristling encounter between two fighters who hit hard with either hand and who are well known for

heeled the bail well but costly|

fumbles ruined the several chun-

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The game also saw the two squads playing under new rules chief of which are changes in the scrum with only six men now forming the front line. no line- ups and players crossing the touch ling only permitted to travel eight; yards instead of the 25 yards tiuzit were in effect previously.

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However the changes. accord- ing to a large majority of fans who witnessed yesterday's tussle have speeded up the game con- siderably and once the players themselves have become accus- tomed to the changes, the gumc should take on an even more add- ed attraction.

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The grandstand which has been erected on the College gridiron. with a seating capacity of 500 will also add plenty to this sewa- scn's football schedule and this much felt want should benefit attendances greatly.

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Gordie Drillon, former National Hockey League star and still able to turn on plenty of hockey heat if the need arises leaves this morning to attend a reunion of former Toronto Manic; Leaf play- ers scheduled for Saturday night previous to the game which opens the Toronto Maple Leafs home season". .

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Drillon, now a rcsi-dcnt of the City, hit the hockey headlines when general manager Cc-nny Symthe of the Toronto squad took him up from the International League. In his years with the Maple Leafs, before joining Mont-

real Canadians Drillon was always up among the leading scorers, in fact leading the league on at least

their ability to absorb punishment.

Landry. Muncton - born fighter, but how fighting out of Worcester, Mass, is the present claimant to the lvlaritime crown A tough, ex- perlenced battler. Landry has been

Island Tennis Star Winner Singles Match

HALIFAX, Oct. housie‘s defending intercollegiate tennis champions -swept every game today in the opening match- es of the 1946 inter-collegiate meet. Acadia, Mount Allison and Nova Scotia. Tech are expected to provide stiff competition however when matches resume tomorrow, Summary of today's play: Women's singles: Yvonne Bed- ard. Mount Allison defeated Shir- ley Kennie. UNB. 6-1 and 6-1’. Joyce Hart, ~Dal. defeated Yvonne Bddard. Mt. Allison 6-2 and 0-2. (final match).

Women's Doubles: Mount Allis- on and Dal won first round by de- fault. Joyce Harf and Nancy Jones, Dal. defeated Barbara MacKenzle and Margvret l-ieartz, Mt. Allison. 6-4 and 6'2 (fl-rial match).

Men's Singles: Bill Moresldc. Dal, defeated T. Kyte. St- F‘. X, 6-2 and 6-2. Mac Grant, Mount Allison, defeated Glen Scott, Uni- versity of New Brunswick, 2-8. 6-2 and 9-7.

Men's Doubles: Blair Dunlop and Fred Fcnnell, Dal, defeated Jim Gibson and John Baxter, U.N.B., 6-2 and 6-0. Dunlop and Fennel! defeated John Archibald and Gil Jordan. Mount Allison 6-1 and 6-0. W. and J. Windeler, Acadia. de- feated T. Kyle and Bob Ritchie.

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one Occasion and it seems only, fitting that the Maple Leafs man- agement should have included the Moncton-born hockeyist in their dinner plans next Saturday night. 0 4'

There seems to be a lot. of ad- verse commant going the rounds ever since Saturday night when Bunny McCloskey punched out his ten round unanimous decision over Kid Chocolate of Boston. Mass. better known as Billy Lan- caster.

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Well just to keep the record straight gnd to give tho local young battler due credlvt for his victory we have it from reliable authority that the samg Kid Chocolate-by the way that i! his fighting name-is considered as being the toughest middleweight in the New England States today.

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With over a score of fights in his career he has yet to hit the deck. His style of fighting is one If constantly boring in; ha can aallmllate a lot; of punishment and has; young McCloskey fought a tough battlcr here last Satur- day night and ls deserving of plenty of credit for hi-s perform-

St. F. X,, 6-2 and 6-4.

Mixed Doubles: Bill Morecldc and Joyce Hart. Dal, defeated Bob Bailey and Shirley Kennle, U.N.B., 6-0 and 6'0.

Confident llouncil Will llave Free lland

By MAX HAREILSON

NEW YORK, Oct. to _ m?) - Ilamohiel V. Johnson, United States delegate, was reported to have ex. messed confidence at o. closed aunt. lng of tihc United Nadtiom Boo-info Ommcll that the general as. semblywuul beglvmafreohaaid to not. against lira-mo Spain dur. lng the coming session.

Mr, Johnson spohe slim-tn before the council ummlmousw approved o fbmtal ratification 0o this shun. bly that lihc Bpanlm and . ' questions still ware before the Council and, timeforc, wan not stibiect to y action.

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imce. no matter how one-sided the scrap may have seemed to some of the fans present.

llis Wish Granted —— llangs Nazis

FRANKFURT. Germany, Oct. 16 --(AP)—SQ1’.. John C. Woods, hbpld

he would gct. the job of imaging the Nazi war criminals convicted at Nuernberg-snd he did.

Tho veteran of 233 executions and four years of overseas may duty now is ready to go back to hlshoma near Ban Antonio, Tex. hilfricuds llld tonight.

"Ho n: going to stay ovoncu until he could lung thou Niam- bcrg Nuts and than ho wu ready to go back to tho States," said James J. Gibilantc. a maul sergeant.

"But. gee. I'll bet. he hated mp0

"W being dealt with in the Bccilrllly 00181011. unla the Council pacif- lcslly requests such action. Although sppmvI-l 0f the notlf. loatlon indicated the Council did mt expect to dmp either of the oases before nhc Assambh maﬁa

that. tihrﬂpanlch can would be dropped without difficulty when the was ready fa‘ action.

to tho veto. Th; Spanish question was fiat ht before

m any from lint."

McCloskeyi And Landry Meet For Maritime Title Here On Monday Night

bowling over all and sundry oppon- ants in recent. scraps and will be in A-l condition for the battle here next Monday night.

McClos-key, fresh from his victory over Kid Chocolate (Billy Labell- ter) last. Saturday night. is at present working out daily in Hall- fax under the guidance of his man- ager Lem Moore. Bunny was razor sharp for his encounter here last Saturday night—ma.ke no mistake about it. he beat. the toughest mid- dleweight lll the New England States when he decisioned Lancas- ter. a fighter who has yet to be lmocked out-and is now working out to get: an. even keener edge 1f that ls possible. '

Ringside tickets will go on sale at thg Forum tomorrow afternoon. New seating arrangements have been completed that will ensure fans of seeing every action-filled minute of a scrap that should be the tops put on here 1n recenﬂ years.

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Bears Upset Springfield Team 6-4

(Canadian Press)

Springfield Indians returned to American Hockey League competi- tion last night for the first time since 1942, but their debut was marred es Hershey Bears defeat ed them 6-4 in a close game.

The Indians. owned by Eddie Shore, fc-rmer Boston Bruin de- fence great, and coached by Earl Seibert, another former N. H. L. star, entered the league again this year to bring it up to its former IO-team strength.

Hershey's win. their second in two nights. gave them the league lead in the just-started season.

In other games last night, Pitts- burgh Hornets trounced Phila- delphia Rockets 9-4 and Indian- apolis ti-cd 1-1 with Buffalo Blsons last year's champions.

Roach Named - Coach 0f Truro

SYDNEY. N. 5.. Oct. lw-(GP) -Cllif Roach. 26-year-old Navy veteran. has been- named coach of Truro Beat-cats of the Maritime hockey big five. it was reported here tonight.

Roach. who last played junior hockey in Sydney in i940. was with Boston Bruins and declined a berth with Boston Dlymplca to join Truro.

Expect Wage Increases Within A Few llays

UITAWA. DEE-w» Wage increases of l0 cents an hour to employees of the Canadian Pacific

Railway are expected to be an- nounced by the National War Lab- or Board within a few days.

The award is likely to follow that recently granted Canadian National Railways employees who --wlth the exception of mainten- ance-of-way workers and mclnbdl of the Brotherhood of Tralnmexi-recelved a straight l0- cent advance. The of-way men had previously re- ceived a two-cent increase and In the later award were given eight cents. hbgotlatlonl still arc con- tinuing with the tralnmcu.

The situation in tho two railways differed in that whl-le the 0.11.11. agreed with the railwly brother- hood: on a IO-cent increase the ORR imposed the advaucc on tho ground of ability to pay. Since the case was heard by the National War lnbor Boardjcpt. I Cana- dian Rallways, including tho C. N. R. and 0. P. R, have‘ filod ap- plication: for a S0 per cent ad- vance in freight rates to meet ln- “ operating coats.

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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16 —(AP)—FoX the first time in many months the pressure was off the champion St. Louis Cardinals today and the

‘players turned to plans of a more a

personal ff somewhat less exciting nature.

A tired but happy staff at the

Cardinal office dug through a huge pile of congratulatory tela grams from baseball fans ranging from Commissioner A.B. (Happy) Chandler to the Mayor of Hono- lulu. The Cardinals. voted a full share of the world series receipts, each richer by $757. were packing their bags and leaving for their homes,_ for delayed vacation trips and-tr.‘ some cases-more work. 4

At least two of them still had baseball on their minds. Stan Mus- lal. the hard-hitting first. baseman, was reported en route to Los Angeles where he will join Bob Fellerﬂs touring all-star team. The veteran coach Mike Gonzalez was released to go back to his winter Job of managing the Havana. club in the Cuban league.

Hany (The Cat.) Brecheen, who

tihree series games from Boston Red Sox, said he planned to just take 1t easy. hunt and fish until he gets tired.

Others who planned to oil up the old gun and haul out the fishing rod included Ken Burkhardt. Ted Wllks, Enos Slaughter. A1 Brazle. coach Buzzy Warea, Clyde Klultz and Del Rice.

Bauer Leads Boston Bruins

HERSHEY. Oct. 16_-(AP)— Roberi". T. (Bobby) Bauer. veteran winger who joined iihe Bruins nine seasons ago. today was appointed

ioml Hockey League club.

His acting captains will be de- fencemen Jack Crawford and Mur- ray Henderson.

Bauer, who comes from Water- loo, Own-t, succzeds Crawford asice leader of the Bruins. [t is the club's policy to rotate the cap- taincy.

Dccﬁnes To Accept Challenge

POUGI-IKEEPBIE. N. Y, Oct. l6-—(AP) -- Vassar College today declined to accept the challenge of Skidmore College to a football game between the eat-servicemen student: of the two hitherto sl-rlct- ly female schooll.

The 46 veterans enrolled at skid- more, at Saratoga Springs. N. Y., last week announced that they would seek a game with a team selected from the 90 former ‘sol- diers studylng at Vassar.

“Naturally, the men students at Vassar were eager to accept the Bkldmore challcnﬂ." DT- 511F871 Gibson Blanding, president of Vassar. said in a statement.

“However the college fcels it must say no Vassar. It. has no equipment and no coach. Further- more, collegc policy has never en- couraged lntercollegiate athletics of any kind."

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Cart MacDonald. Len MacDon- ald. Joe Mahar and A. Mclsaac spearheaded the. attack Saints arid time after time they ripped through the Welshman for telling gains.

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After 12 minutes of play in the second half with the Saints forc- ing t-he Welshman all tho Mclsaac and MacDonald combined to ring up a tally. Izn MacDonald ran the count up to 18 points when he secured ball from a scrum to plunge for captain of the 1946-41 Boston Nan-R wow Sﬂfk sol the 11ml m" of the game, which was convert- ed. following a pretty piece broken field running Saints.

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16- (OD-Saint John police received Toronto today that James Coyle. a former New Bruns- wick man, was wanted city on a charge of stealing 81.200. to any football at '~An hour later he was arr-sated in facilities. no a house on Prince Edward Street. He had more than time. Another man reportnd impli- cated in the case ls under trrqt‘ in Toronto’.

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Season W i t 11123-0 Win Over Welshman

Scoring four tries in the first half and three in the second. plus the Balm Dunstan! Ullvcrslty Vanity team the Prince of Wales College rugby team 23-0 in an exhibition game played at St. day.

A large crowd saw the city col- lege ruggers. outweighed and out- iplnyed. go down to defeat before ‘All aggressive andvspeedy Saints team which will carry Island htyp- Intercollegiate

Takes Three Stroke Lead tlvcr Field .

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Oct l6 '- (AP) -- Shooting a founundcr par 68. E.J. (Dinah? Harrison of Chl- cago lnok a throe-rtmkc lead over the field today in the opening mund of the 810.000 Knoxville in. vlbatiotti-al gulf tournament. Harrison. with .14 on catch lcg of the 83930216 dlllfluult HOlSlOfﬂ Hills course, finished in fmnt of Jinunls Rina of Chicago, Herman Kaiser of Karim, 0., and Ky Laf-

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None of the orher 68 entrants broke par and only one other. llciuy "Ransom of Riavlns, 111., equalled it. wnus a hall dozen or so of the game's tap players are still off (the tour, tfhoss who entered found the well-bummed course a roasted C1181- langa and some n! them finished today's round out d the for 20- Tcumamem offlclax lliudloted n soomofﬂﬂorhlghnrwoialdwln the event, which Byron Nelson cap- tured last your. Nelson rccentld annoumed he would D588 l" "lily on; or two annual events

Gmupted at ‘i3 were Gena Webb of Springfield, Mo., Jim Flcrrler of Chicago and Bert. Shanta): of Cleve- land, ‘Ilerm. Clayton ltacfner n! Chicago, Hurry Todd oif Dalila-H. Rims, Al Smith 0f Donvllle, Va.. Tommy Wright. cf Knoxville, Buck White qt Greenwood, Miss, and Dick Meta of- ancsnsas qlty. Kw. turned in '14s.

Win Mlxodllptililas Title

MEXICO CITY. Oct. 15 —(AP)- Pauline Bus, United Statics wom- en's singles champion. amt Philippl -wuiicr, member of Belﬂlllm’! D"- ls Cup team. won the 11ml Pm‘ American-tennis tournament mines! doubles title may with I M. $01“- 10-S.,v1ct0fY liver the seeded Ulﬂl States combination of Lotti: Brow?!

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