SPORTS FRONT

By PIUS CALLAGHAN

Rangers And Red Wings

FOUR of the six teams in the National Hockey League are under no pressure during the remaining games in this 70-game schedule. Montresl, ‘Foronto sid Chicago are almost ceriain te finish in that order and Boston Bruins are a sure bet to close out proceedings in the league basement.

However, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers are fighting for their very lives. The Rangers pulled a mighty im-

portant one out o Wednesday night while 15,396 wildly jubilant fans roared their appro ve ame on Ai Bathgate’s penalty shot that had Gane wondering just how Andv came to get elected to his job. However, referee Powers ruled that Batheate was the last man to touch the puck on the play. The New York announcer was roaring about Pren- tice beine interferred with and we, along with a lot of others, figured Prentice would try his luck o

However, Powers ruled Bathate eligible and there has been no ward of any protest from the Detrolt came,

CAHA rules allow any plaver designated to take the shot but NHL roles maintain the offended player must do the Job. Annarently Powers felt Bathgate was the last offended player, otherwise Prentice would have been selected.

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IT WAS FITTING that the Rangers’ top man should emerge the hero. The player who is trying to grab the NHL scoring chamnionshin gave himself a great boost by scoring the Rane. ers’ first and third goals.

However. Rangers’ fans showed real sportsmanshin when Gordie Howe notched his 500th tally, Despite the fact that the

marker put Detroit ahead at the time 2-1. the New York folks gave the great hockey star a standing ovation.

Tt surely must have made Howe feel creat. Here he was scoring on a team that was fighting for a playoff berth, vet me ardent aoa of this very team forgot their Rangers f a few moments while they showed Howe what they thought of him

‘Things like this are really worthwhile and give sport quite ft

a lift The Rest Of The Way

SATURDAY night and Sunday night loom as big ones for these Wings and Rangers.

The Rangers go into acireal | Sauder to observe St. Pat- rick's Day, That night they ests of the front-rurning Habs and it should be rather dieu © gain points on this excursion. The Wings are idle on the 17th but resume action Sunday night in Detroit when the Chicas. Black Hawks come visiting. While the Wings are so engaged, Rangers will be hosting the second place Maple Leafs in New York. After the action, Rangers will have played one more game than the Red Wines However. Detroit gets a chance to pick that one up om day night but {t's In Chicago against the Black Hawks. Sid Xbel will hardly add these two points on until he gets them. Hawks are fough at home although the Leafs did manage to beat them the last time they journeyed to the Windy City.

AFTER THAT Rangers play at Boston on Thursday night up at home against the Black Hawks on Sunday Mai ‘eh 5, Detroit is in Toronto Saturday March 24 and at to the Canadiens on the final night, Sunday March 25,

It’s almost impossible to do any forecasting on th Ing tussles, We have no reason for our prediction but we have the feeling that the Red Wings will yet grab the fourth position.

Chances are that will put a real hex on the Detroiters and un-

donbtedly New York fans will be delighted to hear us pro- claiming these sentiments.

Nine more days will tell the tale.

A Final Plug

fied ee plug for the provincial ice meet tonight at ‘The Sp rena. The get: -together of the top skaters in the province is de- serving of a large turnout of fans and here’s hoping Dave Boswell and his workers get just that tonight

First and second place finishers in county meets will be going against each other tonight and the competition surely montis of a high ord

_Action commences sharp.

Birchwood Pucksters Capture City Crown

Jack Kane's Birchwood High pucksters capturtd the City In- the terscholastic hockey title by Scoring for Qu virtue of their thrilling 5-3 0 time win over Queen Charlotte and John Rogers. High at the Sports Arena last Alan Flood als night. This was thelr second Birchwood along wi

The score of the singleton by Aff opener was 4-3, ke! erect ria an Lew len cal The game was one of the best cieven penalties In the game, witnessed by hockey fan.at the Cleve Penal oi local freeze this season with Birchwood. -— teams giving their all. At -— ie and af regulation time the was desdiocked at Sal Inter-Service

forcing the game into overtime. .

Bonspiel —

three series

first and third periods scorel Ren Mecarvile trssered ‘te At Summerside winning goal, his thi night, at the 4.38 mark of oe SUMMERSIDE — overti ‘H annual inter-service bon-

the Sum-

Curling back on forms | sponsored by the P.E.I. Bag Co. with the Birchwood team. with which donates the

1B of overtime play re 1% maining. ime inception, are . om wr reke. time the, teams were For the first time nore ae Saal tsore tecktred tor | ad oe. Es ‘There move fee losers os Les Alfieck's shot |» banquet sounder cra % Following is the schedule for found the empty topronimately 6.45 and a dance ee lotte net at 9.34, Saturday which Arena Minor hockeyists oe guase but the North River | See invited. i od order P Qss ond} wives are | 08 goals betore Birchwood The Curling Club will be open | Cranes ve QSS Jays. a count again. The oo Ss snd Saturday | 7:30-6:00 | Peewees champs: retaliated with | Service ae | Ducks vs Pkdle Robins, == = draw is as follows: 8:00-8:30 Peewees Pkdle Curling Draw 9 PM. ay Parkers vs. BHS Lions. FRID! L | 8:30-9:00 ass For Montague "; tea No.2 es T0000 Paperwis QS0 Set. | ce S-RCAF Ass'n No. 1 v2 = oe

Flere is the Monta; Curlis | seen No. 2. , rs ee 3-Legion

schedule for today (Friday) i weave 7PM. ary No.2 Ice 1—Dr. L.A. Johnston, G. | a0 AM. Kennedy, Dr. AE. ings, G. War-| SATURDAY ner vs A. Robertson, B. Koke, E. MacDonald, K. Sulliv: |

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WHOLESALE GROCERS TROPHY WINNERS

Myron Bell's foursome of Charlottetown won the Whole sale Grocers trophy in Con federation Bonspiel play -at the Charlotfetown Curling Club ener Members of the

rink were (left to Heht) E Dr. E.S. Giddings, lead;

Habs Nip Chihawks 6- 3.

George Worth, second; Myron Doug

Bell, skip and Bell, mate. The runner-up rink was sl ig Cameron of

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Charlottetown, —M the rink slong with Cameron Cecil

George ‘Buby’ Dowling and James

‘Roach’ MacGregor. A Fred- ericton, N.B., foursome led by Doug Rouse took the first consolation prize. Along with him were Bill Allwood, Dave Larry Blakeney. Second consolation - Wendle MacLaine, Had MacInnis, Bill

Bobby Hull Scores Twice

REAL (CP) — ry Maes goal of the game midway through the third period Thursday night brought Montreal Canadiens a 6-5 win over Chicago Black Hawks in bruising, wide-open game that aw Chicago's Bobby Hull score his 45th and 46th goals of the season

The win widened Montreal's lead over Toronto Maple Leafs atop the National Hockey

standings to seven Canadiens need only a combination of two more wins or Toronto defeats to wrap up a fifth straight league title.

Hull now has beaten opposing netminders 31 times in his last

games and needs only four more goals in Chicago’a re- maining five games to tie the 50-goal record held jointly by Maurice (Rocket) Richard and Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion of Canadiens.

Hull has also scored in eight consecutive games — just one game shy of the record set by Richard in 1944-45 and tied by Geoffrion last season.

HAWKS FIGHT BACK

Canadiens built up an early 3.0 lead, but Hawks fought from behind and twice tied the score.

Beliveau also scored twice for Canadiens while Claude Provost and Geoffrion had one each. Provost's goal—at the 50-second mark of the first period—was his 3ist of the season, but his first since Fel 5.

Reg Fleming scored two of Chicago's other goals and Mur- ray Balfour counted the other.

Canadiens peppered Chicago

0, seared for don Kenned the three | president, with Billy straight victory in the best of markers by — and the | Borden, as vice president,

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Bowling League Has First Meet

SUMMERSIDE — Teeve leams were represented at first meeting of the Peiee County Rural Bowling League in Summerside last evening when teams from Borden, Ken- sington, Richmond and Welling-

four unanswerea markers for | 0m met and made plans to bowl | 2 victor

at the new Crest Lanes Ltd.

een Charlotte each Tuesday night commene- er- were Ron Giggey, Leslie Barnes, | ing April 3rd

The organization elected Gor- ly of Kensington a Irving

and Miss Cole of Kensington as sec-

retary.

I ot | “There are still openings for 2 | four teams in this league and in-

terested bowlers can arrange to Join by contacting Allison Arsen- ault at Crest Lanes Bowling Al- ley, which is now nearing com-

| opened on March 3ist.

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| merside vs Abbies. 12:00—12:30 Paperwt *

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goalie Glenn Hall with 50 shots

real nets. The five duced Plante’s lead in the Vez- | ina trophy race to 10 goals over Toronto's Johnny Bower. Cana- diens and Leafs each have five more games to play. SUMMARY

First period: vost $1 (Goyette) real, Beliveau 16 (G. Tremblay,

Rousseau) 4:53; 3. Montreal, joore 18 (Provost, Goyette) 12:12; 4. Chicago, Balfour 15 (Mikita, Pilote) 13:01; 5. Mont- real, Geoffrion 22 (Backstrom) 16:08; 6. Chicago, Fleming 6 (Horvath) 17:19, Penalties—St.

Laurent 8:02, Vasko (minor and misconduct) 9:55, Fontinato

13:32. sBeceed jeriod; 7.

. Hull

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(Pilote) 19:53.

alties—Fleming 13:41, Mik-

Goyette 16:38, Beliveau 40.

SDH Captures Hockey Crown

SUMMERSIDE — The Saint Dunstan's High hockey team won the Interscholastic “Senior ‘ais championship oo Prince ard Island at Civie s aie early last bch de- feating the Summerside High School team by the score of 41.

e Saints struck for their four gaols in the first period, and the session ended 40. Sum-Hi boys, scored one in the second frame, and the third was scoreless, George Dalton, Summerside boys _ attending

Saint Dunstan's academy, sc ed three of his team's four goals. |

SUMMARY

First Peri SD! Chandler (G. Monaghan) SDHS—G. Daiton 4.30; 3. SDHS—G. Dalton (G. Blanch. ard, C. Cheverie) 9.47; 4. SDHS dalton (G. Blanchard) 11.05 Penalties — G. Blanchard, P. Mullin, W. McAleer.

Second Period: — 5. J. Poirier (R, Perry) 1.20. Penalties—R Perry, * MacDonald.

Thi Period: No Score— Penalies—R. Perry, P. Mac Donald.

Referees — Grant Grady and | | Harry Callaghan.

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‘Bruins Shut Out

Red Wings 4-0

DETROIT (AP) — Boston} Bruins v5 about killed Detroit playolf chances Turaday’ a night while mappiog their own winless streak al snes wth 8 40 National

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One - time Detroiters Johnny | Bucyk and Murray Oliver scored | the opening and closing B: goals as Boston took its ist | victory sinee Jan, 27.

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Hope River (Cops Opener

Hope River defeated Kensing- ton Seabrooks 64 last night at Kensington rink in the first | game of the finals for the far

| mers League

The winners took a 3-2 lead in the first twenty minutes of act- ion, opened the gap to 6-3 in the sandwich session and then were| outscored 10 in the third per-| Jod to make the final seore -

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- 9,216 fans — Gordie Howe

Detroit Boston's ick ane nae an allout ‘swinging match at 13:48 of the final period. Howe and Meissner each ‘ao five minutes for fighting and Marcel Pronovost and Charlie Burns each drew two minutes for a side attrac-

i. defeat left Detroit two behind fourth place New Yorke in fhe chase for the final Stanley Cup playoff spot and | both clubs have four games re- maining. It was the third defeat in four games for Detroit which looked like it was the league’s last "piace club instead of | Bruins. RY | First period: ston, | Bucyk 17 44, Penal A. Pronovost

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