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Boston 3-2 For Berth In Stanley Cup Finals

Says _llempsey's Final Fight Was On Board Ship

HARTFORD, Conn, March 30 — (CP) - Most people think Jack Dempsey’s last fight was the one when he lost the heavyweight box- ing championship to Gene Tunney in Chicago in 192‘). _

But Arthur McGinley, sport-s editor of the Hartford 'l‘imes. Sal's the former champloi had one after t} t.

lffhe scene was a troop transport somewhere in the Pacific Elm")? half way through the Second World War. There was no $l.0()0.0°0 gate, no referee. no seconds. Just tho two fighters.

In one corner was Dempsey. 50 years old and a commander in the Coast Guard. Facing him “'55 B husky young seamen. Sparring partner for heavyweights. includ- ing Joe Louis. I

One day he challenged DBXHPSBY-

Dempsey told McGinley he knew he had no right to fight the man. “But before I knew it I had striP- ped down."

"This bird was pretty good and iri the first round he batted me hmund," Dempsey went on. »

“But then came the breflk- H! came out for the second round with his guard down.

"r saw this was my only chance and I put everything back of one

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shot. It. landed flush 0n ")6 fellcw's law and he went down and out.”

The former champion "Wild “P hi; story: “I expected to be court- martlsled — an officer iishtlng an enlisted man.

“And I sure would have bee!) 1f I had lost."

Halifax Riders To Perform Ar Toronto

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vmo BEACH, Fls., March 29- (AP) - Branch Rickey, president of ths Brooklyn Dodgers denied

th t h had made an offer lgllallsel lglnnlse, Willie (Puddlnhead) Jones or Gran Halnner of Philadel- phi; Phlllies. Jones played 1a" year for Toronto of the Internat- ional Ieague. Rickey said he had

. ggiked recently with Bob Carpenter,_

Phillles owner. bill; that n° deal wag pending or in the process of

BOSTON. March 30-(CP)—-Tor- onto Maple Leafs gained the Stan- ley Cup's final round by out-skat- ing the Boston Bruins for a 3-2 victory and a four-game-to-one margin in the National Hockey League's semi-final B series play- offs tonight before a capacity crowd of 13.909 at the Boston Gar- den. .

While being ousted by the Leafs in such onesldied fashion for the second consecutive season, the Bruins started the fifth game with such d-ependalzles as Milt Schmidt, Jimmy Peters and Jack Crawford on the sidelines.

Bruins were out-played from start to Jinlsh by the well-condi- tioned and speedier Maple Leafs who wound up the regular season fourth in the six-club league. The Bruins were runners up to NHL. champions Detroit Red Wings.

Summary:- Flrst Period 1—'f‘oronto, Gardner, (Ezlnicki, -Watson) 6:27 2-—Boston, Warwick, (Sandford. Kryzanmllki) 12.17 3—Toronto, Timgren, (Thomson) .. 14.57 Penalties: Klukay, K. Smith, Babando, Thomson.

Second Period 4—-Toronto, Bentley, (Mortson) . . . .. 8.01 Penalties: Broda (served by Dawes), Egan (2), Ezinlckl, Tim- gren, Flaman.

Third Period 5—-Boston, Peirson, (Rarity) .. . .. 19.03 Penalty: Flaman.

Campbell Comes T0 Defence Of Big league Hockey

MONTREAL, March 30 —(OP) - To Edgar Laprade's pronounce- ment that National League hoc- key ls "terrible". N. H. L. presi- dent Clarence Campbell had this to say today:

“I don't believe Laprldo ever‘ said any vuch thing and if he did it isn't true."

Then Campbell quickly marshal- led facts and flguru from this season's N. H. L. records a terse dissenting opinion.

Laprsde. who was 29th in the season's point-scoring, was quot- ed s fe-w days ago in Port Arthur as saying. “the small fellow with some ability i-s smashed by the guv with the muscle."

The New York Ranger centre went on to add that his club fin- ished last because it "lacked ex- perience in a game which puts ‘braiwn before brains."

“Let's take the 1948-40 statis- tics." said Campbell. “Of the top point-scoring 14 men, there are nine who can be considered small men.

"Doug Bentley finished second. Ted Lindsay fourth, Jim Con- acher fifth. Paul Ronty sixth. Billy Reay eighth, Gus Bodriar ninth. Bill Moslenko 12th, Max Bent- ley 13th and Ken Smith 14th.

‘Those comparatively small fel- lows didn't seem to be suffering srlv great hlndicap in their play.

"Now. about some of what might ‘be called the bis. tough guys. Roy Conachcr, league lead- er on points. is one of the clean- est players in the circuit. He lied eight minutes in penalties.

"Then there's Sid Aibel, u can- didate for the Hart Trophy and one of the game's greatest. No- body suggests that Albel fits into Larvradefs classification.

"Harry Watson had no penlltle! and was seventh in POlBt-mflnl- Johnny Pierson. a second-yea! man who might be considered of medium size, was 10th and Bud Poile right behind him.

"Lapradeh statement - if he

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S’Side Kinsmen Midgets To Play Sudden Death Game For Maritime Title

Ticker, Seolpers Toke‘ looting In Court

MONTREAL. March 30 — (CP) - Scalpers who attempted to sell tickets to the Montreal - Detroit hockey game last night for u much u N0 per cent more than cont took a bestlnfl c011" W" day. 8am Kalechlan p aded guilty to having attempted to sell three tickets, worth l. combined total of I3. for $5. Bo wu fined 640- Plgo others pleaded guilty and wen fined iao.

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The Bummersldo Kinsmen Midgets, N. B.-P. E. I. champions. will leave tomorrow rnwilhl by car for Stellar-ton, U. 8., where they will meet the Iourdes Midgets of Stellarton in a sudden death game for the Maritime midget hockey championship tomorrow night. This band of youngsters have come a long way since the be- ginning of the season when they were given no chance to win the Island title, and the best wishes of all Island hockey fans will be with them in the gune tomorrow night. They may not win but one thing is sure and that is that they will fight till the final bellwbat- ever the odds.

Coach" Harry Dickie has a chance to win a second Maritime midget championship on this trld‘) u lie coached the Kinsmen Midget team that took the three-province crown in Sydney two years ago. Club president Charlie Hogan, who is the manager of the team, is also a Maritime title winner u coach of the Kinsmen Juvenile hockey

*tel.m time years ago and u coach

cf m present ilitermediste buc- bali champions, the Bummerside All Stars. '

The Kinsmen Club and the tum are indebted _-to a group of Kins- men wives and some other women for misting to raise. money to trip polsilfle in holdini

very mcoopfal rummage sale ab‘ Ilhlffilyr’. . j a

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Juvenile Victories, ners of the local league and then conquerors of the New Brunswick

upset‘ win-

champions will receive their chance of adding a Maritime crown to their laurels it was learned last night when they will meet Glace Bay juveniles in a home and home series for the three-province

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With the season so far advanced it was felt in many quarters that the local youngsters would have to rest on their N.B.-P.E.I. laurels but the Nova Scotla champs were also eager for a crack at all the mar- bles. Arrangements are now com- plete for the locals to travel to the "Bay" the latter part of the week with the return game likely to be played in Bedeque rink next Mon- day night.

The above ‘viii be pleasing news to the many followers of the squad. The champions played inspired hoc- key ln all their games to fully de- serve all the laurels they have won and it is only fitting that they be afforded the opportunity to tackle the last obstacle in their path to a Maritime title.

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Just how strong the Glace Bay squad is, is not known here. But they must have plenty on the ball to capture the all-Nova Scotia title. That, however, won't/fare the mem- bers of the Vlcs squad in the least. Ever-since their organization late in the season they have overcome many obstacles and l! fight and spirit can carry them to the pin- nacle of juvenile hockey in these seaside provinces they can be counted in. O O O O

“It is just possible you suspect hockey games _are, excuse the exp pressicn “fixed". quotes s sports scribe recently. "Such thoughts crop up each year near the end of the hockey schedule when a lot of fans suspect teams of jockeying for a. position which might help them show to better advantage in the playoffs. And another thing fans point to are the numerous upsets and unpredictable performances of teams in playoff hockey."

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One sports columnist. Ralph (‘Ibrontc Telegram) Alien, doesn't think any games are fixed. “Even on pain of being locked away in a home for the lncuraibly feeble- mlnded. I would still have to say that, although I have been watch- ing hockey games for more than 20 years and have been on speaking terms with many of the particip- ants and coaches. I still do not think I have ever seen a fixed game," writes lialph. ‘ .

‘rhea-e always will be some games. lie says, in which a team that might be good enough t_'o win, will decide almost unconsciously that it is to its advantage to take an easy loss instead of risking injury or ex- haiastion for a victory that might come in the first place. “But I am convinced that games like these constitute an almost invisible min- ority among the vast majority of games in hockey or any other team mom‘ o o o

“In any case, they scarcely quel- lfy for the adjective fixed". If there is dishonesty it _l.s the same kind oif dishonesty that is com- mitted by a. wage-earner who sleeps in with a hangover and blames it on a cold. or the salesman who takes s. day off to go to the races."

Three Island Hockey Titles Al Stake Friday ’

The Reece and Saint Dunstan's hoopsters won the opening games of semi-final play in Island Phys- ical Fitness , Basketball ‘ League playoff coizipetitlon in a double- header event at the P.W.C. audit- orium last night, before a large crowd of hoop followers. The matches were i.he first of game. total point affairs, Reece and Ray's playing second game on the P.W.C. floor this Satan-day night and SD.U. and REAP. clashing at the Sum- mersldc Air Port on Monday next. Reece downed Bar's by a score of 57-38 in the first match of the night while SD.U. scored a 514G vlctoiry oveir Summersldig REAP. in the last game of the double- header feature.

Tlie first game between Reece and Ray's was a. ruggedly con- tested affair which saw both squads draw a total of l5 fouls apiece during the play with both Maciiirincn and Langille fouling out of the garne early in the sec- ond half with five each. The game was really closely contested in the first half with Reece only holding a 16-14 advantage at the end cf that time, but they came back strong in the last frame to out- score Ray's 411-24 to take a. Zl- point margin to carry with the-m into their final game on Saturday

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Joo Cullen of Rocco lead the scoring parade with s total oil 20 points while his teammates, Micli- elson and Peters. ran him a close second with l6 each. “Wlndy" Le- Page lead the pointgettea-s for

two- with their

olson followed next with l3. Second Game

The final game of the twin bill. between Saints and R..C.A.1".. was the outstanding encounter of the night and was fast and cleanly Dllyed throughout with both teams exhibiting some really smart ball- handling and trlclqy plays which resulted in some well earned bu- kew.

Boxer In Critical Condition After Boul-

SAN JOSE, Cailf., March 3O —— (AP)—Billy Cornwall, 23-year-old lightweight boxer from Los Ang- eles and Des Molnes, knocked out last night, was unconscious and in critical condition today.

Cornwall, who weighs 138 pounds was tagged with a straight right to the chin by Tote Martinez. also 138, of Stockton, Calif" in the ninth round of their scheduled 10- round bout.

Dropped by the blow, Cornwall struck his head on the mat with a thud which was heard throughout the auditorium. l-ie was rushed to hospital here when he failed to re- vive and was pronounced in criti- cal condition from brain concus- slon.

Ray's with l4, while Earle Nicli- "

Reece And Saints Win Games In Basketball Semi-Final Openers

The first Aislf was WI‘! CIONIY contested with first one, team and then the other holding the ad- vantage with Recce garnering a 21-18 margin (m the eeorllli If the end of half time. But the Saints came roaring back in the final half wlfh buckles: and O'Connor leading e bulk of the attack, and althoug the play was at close quarters early in the canto, Saints applied the prescurg from then on to outpoint the R.C.A.F. squad 33- 21 to earn s nine-point victory over the Silmmerside qulntette which will come in handy for the saints when they meet next Mon- day on "the Airport floor at the Western Capital. .

Mickus of R.C.A.F. was the top pointgetter of the game, gamer- ing a total of 1'9. with Bill Buck- les: of Saints running him a close second with 1'1. while another B.- D.U. forward, O'Connor, placed third on the scoring with a total of M. .

SUMMARY

Bay's FG F! I‘ Pt: IePago 6 2 3 l4 Nit-Jiolnois 0 1 0 l3. Simllem a a l. 1 '7 Rosslter 0 0 4. o Goodwin 1 .l. 2 3 Mackinac: 0 1 b 1 Total 16 6 l6 68

Recs. I-‘G F5 I‘ rte LeCll-lr l 0 I 2 lilichelsol 6 4. 2 l6 wwfllo o o s o Cullen a 3 3 m Btenrs 0 0 1 0 Mclennsn 0 1 0 1 Peters I 0 3 16 G18 l 0 0 2 Total I) ‘i l5 b’!

Referee — Bill Butlers.

Umpire —- Owen Mullins.

Ttmekeeper ~— WJ. MacDonald. Second GQno

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Referee — Ear-l Nicholson Umplrq, - Maurice Goodwin. Timekeevper -- WJ. MacDonald‘.

MONTREAL, Mai-ch 30 — (CP) — Montreal Junior Royals, making full use of weight and experience, walloped Inkerman Rockets 10-2 tonlghtjn the first game cf the bast-oi-flve Eastern Canada Mem- orial Cup hockey semi-final.

The willing young champions of the Ottawa District, who moved safely past Halifax 8t. Mary's in their playoff round, were widely outclassed by the more finished Royals, fresh from a layoff after defeating Quebec Cltadels in the Quebec junior playoffs.

A crowd of about 5.1!!) watched eight Royals share in the goal harvest. Three scores came in the first period, three in the second

Three Island hockey titles will be

at stake on Friday night at Bedeque Rink when the Abbie representatives who copped off

the paperweight, bantam and pee-wee City champions will meet the Bummerside squads who also won out in all three divisions in "the Western colnpetitlo

various‘ members of the troupe.

liq Dolly-Double Payoff Yesterday

MIAMI, 11s., Much l6 - (AP) - Gulfstream Park recorded a whopping cam-tom: daily-dou- ble payoff today.

’I1ie double was made up of Bomb Command ‘($030) in the first race and Poison Girl (860.30) in the second.

Jockey W. M. Cook was about! Bomb Commend and I. A. smith rode Patron Girl.

‘ A t ) ... 1.1280 The games should produce some z__&gxefi‘llnlaerwhk d ""117 mm‘ p“? l“ ‘n dwmm‘ (Fildes) 1:53 and a largo following of hockey kmomr", Emma“ m“ "m" m‘ t“ “m” ‘m?’ (Hefschfdld) 1on4 and the surrounding Bedeque Penn,“ _ "w" new“ districts are expected to turn out 0mm," Rouuum ' ' to see the yggrrzl in 1%")- g ' . As an ad a spec l~ Bu...‘ an“ traction on theflnlghfs Pfalfll?» Mr. W. E. Sean ebury an I ' , troupe of figure skaters, will put £53223’ Elam“ "" "u °" *;§{{",“,“d"”"°'“ (Burcliell) ma: pm ncu e some n“ _ intricate an graceful turns by ‘l-mkemml‘ 30M“ .' “H”

whenftockets counted both their goals, and four more in the last.

Royals, making frequent use of their weight, suffered seven of the 10 minor penalties in a game free from rough work.

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7--Montreal, Benoit, (Knutsoii, Moore) m. b-fnkerman, Armstrong, (Orowder) “m”... 16:5 Penalties - nus-on, mac-m. Rsttray, Potvin.

Montreal Junior Royals Swamp Inkerman 10-2

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Elimination

‘Matches Played

Al Bedeque

In a series of elimination match- es played at Bedequo rink yester- day afternoon and evening, the Pee-Wee Aibbles and Bantam Alb- bles tool: on all couriers to capture the pee-wee and bantam City hoc- key Ohlmpionsliipl. to earn ' the right to meet the Bilnmerslde rep- resentatives this Friday night for the Island titles in those divisions.

‘rilere was only one mitch in the

pee-wee division which saw the Alb- bies down the r-iillsooms by the close score of 3-2 in a sudden-death overtime period to clinch the title, after both squads had battled smartly on a perfect sheet of ice to end up in a 3-8 deadlock at the end of resuiar playing time. Donnie Maclreod got the winning counter for Abbies at about the five min- ute mark of the overtime. There were four matches in the elimination play of the bantani division with Saint Paul's winning out over Spring Park School 3-0 1n the first game, while the second game saw the Abbies take a 1-0 victory ovec- the liillsborol. ‘In the third game, Queen Square School earned a close 3-2 win over the first round winners, Spring Pu-k. but the Queen Square boys were no match for the fast-skating Abbie: in the finals who hung a. 10-1 dlrasbbing on their opponenfi- forthe t e

Arthur Perry was the referee in charge of all the matches.

The following are the results of the various games:

Pee-Woo Dtvflon

First Period

1—-Hill.1boro, Roberts

(B. Dillon)

z-Albbies. Donnie Mscileod

(Kane) - Second Period

3—-Hlllsb0r0. MacDonald

(Lsoey)

4—Abbles. D. MwLeod.

Tish-d Period

Scoring -- None.

Overtlmo

5—Abbies, D. MacLeod ADD ELllMmATTOfl

EWTADTEIVISION First Giana . first Period

1¢St.I>aul's Kelly (Hughu)

Second Ptlod A

‘ii-St. Paul's, B. Hughes (Burt!)

Third Period

3—-St. Paul's, Kielly (Hughes)

BooondGo-lno Pill-aeration!

l-Abblea. Arsensult No scoring in second and third periods

THIRD GAME Ifilt Period

1-3. Park, Kelly (Hughes) 2—QB.8., Mullins