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Ross ‘Trophy; Durnan RetainsThe'Vezin.a Cup

IfON'.l'R.lA!... March If — (OP) ._ With the National Hockey League's first '10-game season of- ficially closed. Ted Lindsay of De- troit Red wings captured the Art Ross Trophy for being top point- getter and Montreal's goalie, Big Bill Durnan, copped the Vezina Cup for the sixth year. ,

Final league statistics released today show that Lindsay, a. native of Renfrew. Out.. ended the sea- son with 23 goals and a record- setting 55 assists for 78 points, holding a comfortable nine-point lead over teammate Sid Abel.

The fiery left-wlnger's assists topped by one a league record of M

-—:————._..Z_.._ llmer Inch in the 1914-5 season. no took over possession or the Trophy from Roy Oonacher of Chi. car?” Hawks.

A . 0 Red win ' team Mn. finished the seagdn in secs)?!- Iliot with 34 goals and 35 assists for H Points. only one more that Gordie Howe. who complete; 3, pg. trolt sharp-shooting three-man line with 35 goals and 33 assists.

Mauice (The Rocket) Richard or Montreal ended in fourth position with N points. His season’: 43—goal total is seven short of an N.H.L. mark he chalked up in 1944..a_

Dumln has captured in. covet- ed trophy every year since the 19-1.’!-44 season, except in 1948 when

assists in a regular 60-game sched- ule set- by Montreal Canadians‘

Boston Bruins Decide To Drop jBoucher As Coach

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BOSTON. March 27 —-(CP) Boston Bruins said today that George (Buck) Boucher’s contract to coach the National Hockey Lea- gue team would not be renewed next year. Boucher lhad signed a

one-year contract to coach the Bruins. A 5l30kesma.n for the Bruins

said the team's failure to make the Stanley Cup playoffs’ for the first time since 1934-44 had noth- ing to do with it. But 3, local newspaper quoted Boucher as say- ing that he had been fired.

"Bouoher was signed to coach the team for the 1949-50 season," the spokesman said, “and no com- mitment was made at the time or subsequently. beyond the one sea- son."

'IT.iat it was a "difficult season"

that brought severe injuries to several players did not affect Bouo“ner‘s status, the Bruins

spokesman said.

Boucher coached Ottawa senat- on of the Quebec senior League to the Allan Cup last year.

'.r.OI_?DN'I‘O. March 21 --(OP) — Bun Cook of Cleveland Barons is a probable successor to Buck Boucher as coach of Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, Milt Dunnell, sports editor of the Toronto star. predicted in his sport-page column today.

Cook coached the Barons to two American Hockey League championships and is in the con- -iention for a.third this year. Before that he led Providence Reds to two titles.

GEORGETOWN BOY SCOUTS D; MONTAGUE BOY SCOUTS 8

On Wednesday nightthe George-, town Boy Scouts handed out a convincing 9-3 defeat: to the vis-. iting Montague Boy Scouts. This was a sudden-death fixture to de- clde who would meet the Souris Boy Scout team for the champion- ship of the County.

MURRAY _HARBOB ‘BEIJING I: GEORGETOWN EAGLES I

In one of the fastest and best played games of the season on Thursday night the local Eagles lost A close 5-4 decision to the Murray Harbour Bruins. The game was the second of a best of five series for the Southern King‘: Cup and the count now stands at two games to none for the Bruins. The Bruins led 1-0 at the end of a fast first period and add- ed one more in the middle session to go into the final frame leading 2-0. In the end session the Eagles caught fire and in a matter of minutes had rammed home three pretty counters on two beautiful goals by Wevens, assisted by Landry and McNei1l and a single by MacPhee. At the five minute mark the Bruins on a goal by Herring knotted the count, only to have H. MncLean from Lavandier get the lead for the locals. Hume from Chapman once again gave‘ the Harbour boy: a tie and when it looked like a sure bet for over- time, at 19.35, Hume from Her- ring got the winner. With fifteen seconds to go Georgetown pulled out their goalie but could not

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it went to goalie Turk Brod; of Toronto Maple Leafs.

lnlerscholaslic ’ Games Tonight

Island Interscholastic hockey titles in both boys and girls div- lslons will be decided at the Forum tonight when the Queen Square and Summerslde High School boys‘ teams tangle in a sudden death game at 7:30 and one hour later the Prince Street and Montague High School girls cross sticks in another sudden death game. _

All four teams have battled their way through tough individual dis- trict competition this season and have been turning in a top notch brand of hockey. and when the leaders of these divisions contest one another tonight. fans can de- pend on seeing plenty of action before the 1950 champions in the two divisions have been decided.

Ileieci Si. Mary's Juniors’ Eequesl

I SYDNEY. N. 5.. March 27—(CP) -The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association has rejected a request of Halifax St. Mary’: Juniors to add three players for their Me- morial Cup round against Mont- real Canadiens.

M. A. H. A. secretary-treasurer Gene Connolly made the announce- ment here tonight. Saints were seeking Parker MacDonald and Doug McLeod of the Junior Syd- ney Mllllonelres and Neil Amadeo of Glace Bay Miners.

Saints, however, will be per- mit_t_ed to add players from their

Junior Canadiehs Are Optimistic

MONTREAL. March 2'!--(GP)- rhe battle-scarred Montreal Jun- ior Canadlena today were a happy band as they settled down to their first taste: of victory along the thorn-studded route to the Me- morial Cup.

Their respite from the hockey lanes will be brief as the Quebec Province junior uhumplona en- trained tpnightfor Halifax where a best-of-five series with Halifax

St. Mary's. the Maritime title- holders. in scheduled to start Wed- nesday.

Coach Sammy Pollock of the Babe was unusually optimistic about the team’: chances of get- ting by the Maritlmers.

"We can do it.” he said. "if the boys keep their heads and their hearts in the right places."

SWEDIJWS SHOWING

STOCKHOLM — (OP) — A awe- dish ship this summer will -carry goods and products of Sweden dir- ect to Chicago for display at the line. ational Trade Fair there in August. Gocds shown will include machinery, metal products. silver-

Well, the Charlottetown Juvenile Abbies. the {island titlists and the team we had picked earlier in llhe

season of being agood prospect for the Maritime Juvenile title. did't

come through quite as well as anticipated, when they were sent down to a 5-1 defeat before a flrong band of Moncion Beavers at the NB. centre on I-E-lday evening in quest of the NB.-P.E.

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Playing a. sudden death game over Moncton ice, the Williams coached Aabbles can't be denied the right of having put up a. good fight despite the score. when over- coming a quite evident case of "away from home jitters." played their opponents on even terms and split a goal each in two periods of play after they had been set back on their heels with a. quick first period spree by Moncion that netted them four goals, three of them coming in a little over the first nine minutes or play. 0 C C O

From our way of thinking, a sudden death game is never a very good test for Judging the abilities of two V.-a.rns‘ meeting one another for the first Lime, but 110-\\'l:VEl‘, ii is as fair to one as the other, al- though the team playing over their home ice has the little extra advantage that can be the deciding factor. But this method f decid- ing minor league playois in the Maritime: has always been carried out in this manner. and has been laid. down as such by the M.A.ll.A., who realize that it is a great ex- pense for small clubs to do very much travellmog, particularly where it concerns youngsters who very often have to miss a day of school or college as well to make such a trip, and for this reason have used the sudden death system to decide

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The home game angle is also worked out on a. fair, systematic basis. and rotate: year by year. and if our memory serves us correct. it was the Juvenile vics who had the advantage of the game over home ice last yea.r.,-’md no doubt it will be the Islands turn to have it here again next year.

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Although it is tough to see a smart little band of pucksters like the Abbies go down to defeat with- out having a second chance to re- instate iiheimselves, it nevertheless would have applied to Moncton should they have lost, so itisa case of "tough luck boys. better luck next year.” But they shouldn't feel too bad, as the Williams coached youngsters had a highly successful year, and despite the fact that they lost out for Maritune honors. they certainly did themselves plenty of credit in Provincial oom- petitlon and had plenty of fun and action while it lasted.

We noted last evening during the hockey match at the Forum be- tween Crystals and Abbies. that three of the City's hockeyists, per- forming in Maritime hockey leagues have returned to the Island. Am-V ong those we saw last night were Roy "Buck" Whltlock and Maurice "Mousey" Dovvling, both of saint John Beavers this season, the for- mer the leading scorer in the "Big flour" this season and ‘the latter well up in the scoring bracket for the year. The third of the group was Willie Robertson who came up with 3, good season, starting out with ‘Amherst Ramblers and later among the goalgetters of the Kent- viile Wildcats in the Valley Senior

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THE 'G‘UARDlAN. cHAaLorTaro‘wN S’side Crystals Score

13-3,‘ Win Over Abbies .To Advance To Finals

Turning in a terrific perform- ance of smart heads-up hockey at the Forum last night before an estimated crowd of over 800 fans, Dr. Vince Grant's Summerside Crystals hung a lopsided defeat on the Charlottetown Abbies. to the tune of‘ in a sudden death game for the right to advance in- to the Island intermediate hockey playoff championships. The Cry- stals will meet the winner; of the Island Intermediate B title. Bor- den Nationais. in the opening game of a home and home series which will commence at Borden tomorrow night.

Coming up with the finest peI‘~ formanee we have seen them dis- play this season, the Crystals out- scored the Abbles 3-0 in the open- ing frame, split one each in the second. and turning in a veritable landslide in the final session. out- scored and outplayed the locals to the count of 9-2 for a walk- away victory by a 10 goal margin.

It was a game. however. that displayed plenty of everything in the way of action and excitement. including smart scoring plays. heavy body checking and a couple of rousing fights to cap it off, that certainly gave the fans a pro- fusion of action. \ The contest was of a type that saw one team. Crystals, making every break they had count. while the other. Abbies. just couldn't make their passes and plays click at the crucial times, and al- though really playing smart hoc- key to get the puck into scoring position. just couldn't make it pay off in goals against a superb job in the Summerside net by Bill Sprague and some very close de- fensive action put up by both the defence and forwards _of a perfect- ly organized Crystal aggregation. it was a battle fa! scoring hon- on on the Crystal roster between Syl Bernard of ‘one line and Ley- ton Schurman on the other, Ber- nard ‘topplng with five goal; and Schurman ‘four. with teammates Benny Grady. Gordie Kelly, Stan Gallant and Emmett Tralnor

notching up one each for their full total of 13 tallies. The kid line of Carver. Hennesscy and

Fields, brought up from the Abbie Juvenile squad. led the attack for the local squad. Carver notching two and Fields one. with Ken- nessey. Perry and Carver also ringing in on assists. Playing really close hockey. in the—first» period, despite Crystal-'s three goals, the Abbies forced their share of theattack. but the visitors opened the scoring early when Grady tallied the opener on a play with Schurvman and Davis at 2.17. with Gallant and Trainer teaming up again at 3.35 to 80 into a two-goal lead, Gallant notching.the tally. The Abbies drove back hard at the five-min- ute mark and really made things hot around the Crystal cage, but Sprague came up with somerhot performances to keep them at buy. It was a see-saw battle for the rest of the frame with both teams breaking open often on scoring attacks but both goalies came up with good work to hold the fort until the 17.04 mark when Schur- man and Grady combined to dent the armor of Hooper for the third time and end the frame with I 3-0 lead. The Abbies really had some tough breaks during the frame, and although they had equally as many scoring oppor- tunities as their opponents. but just couldn't cliclbon the scoring. As far as territory play was concerned. the Abbies were the big aggressor: in the third period to force the play deep inside the Crystal zone where they hammer‘ ed away at Bill Spregue'a do- main. to fire rubber at him from all angles. and except for a goal at 18.07. just couldn't get any more est the outstanding work of pregue and some really smart ' ‘vs action of the Crystal's forward and rearguard section. Although the Crystals had not nearly the scoring chancel, they were the first to tally on the

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plant.‘ will go to.lfon‘otori. N3.’ Wednesday rnorninl to. cross at-ieiu with the Moncton Wesfrtnd Beav- ers. Midget champions of New, Brunswick. The local boys. as was the case with the; , Abbie Juveniles, will be under a bandl- cap in playing. a Judden-death game in the New Brunswick ‘Mid- gei‘ champs‘ own back ‘yard, but facilities for hockey ln-Sun1mer- side being what they are. there doesn't seem to be anything that can be done about it. Last year Summerside Midgets. .playing a

frame and run their lead at that time to 4-0. it came at 9.37, when Ti-ainor. Gay and Gallant broke away on a nice eiifort during a concentrated gang attack by Ab- bies. Trainor beating out Hooper on the shot from close in on goal. Twice during the session, Abbies held a man advantage due to pen- alties to the Summerside squad. and although they bounced rub- ber off everything but inside the not itself. they couldn't get one past Sprague while holding the man advantage. Although us to the 19-minute mark ofthe second

‘period, only two penalties had

been handed out. but"in only a few seconds after that time, three more came in quick succession. Josey got two minutes for board- img Trainer. but both boys decid- ed to not let it drop at-—that and proceeded to whale into one an- other, pugilist fashion, and boih got majors for their efforts. while Garth Gay, who left his players bench to get in the fray himself. received a misconduct for his ains. '

It was an avalanche of penalties and scoring in the final with the Crystals being away ahead on the scoring and breaking about even on the penalties. Breaking out with a terrific goelgetting spree. Crystals started the ball rolling at ihe 2.20 mark, and by the time the 8.30 point had been reached. had drummed four goals’ past a harassed and badly overworked Hooper. to run their count to 8-l. They only stopped long enough to allow Carver to come up with Ab- bies second of the night at 9.14, when they roared back again for three more quick goals by the time l3 minutes and i5 seconds of play had gone by. Carver tal- lied for Abbies again ‘at 18.80 for their last goal in a losing cause. with the Crystals finishing it off in high flying fashion with two quick goals in the last minute of play, coming only ‘ll seconds apart. _

There was another’ fracas again at the i6 minute mark. with Josey again involved. but with goalie Sprague his opponent, and both boys reallyv battled it out for quite some time before they could be separated. It started during an Abbie attempt to score 'in a gang attack around the net. and by the time it wssbroken up, you couldn't see who was fighting on account of the large number of fans on the ice. Both boys got majors for their action. and an- other mlsconduct was handed, out when Roach MacGregor, pulling the same stunt as Gay in the sec- ond frame, got into the lnixup to collect 10 minutes’. Nobody seem- edto be any the worse for line frays that broke out. and the crowd seemed to be more than enjoying them.

Lineups:

Abbies: Goal. Hooper; Perry Dalzlel, Josey; forwards. Leclair, MacGregor Sheppard, l-fenneesey, Fields. Carver. Stan- ley. Richard. Flynn. Burke.

Summerside. Goal, Sprague; de- fence, Shields, B. Gay, Davis, S. Gallant; forwards. B. Grady, G. Gay, L. Schurman, 5. Bernard. 0. Kelly. E. Trainor. R. Bradshaw.

defence.

Reoiierees: Jim Hogan and Chas. Hogan. _ SUMMIT First Period l~—SSide. Grady (Schurman. Davis) .......... 2.17 2—S’Side, Gallant (Trainer) 8.3.’: 3—8'Sicle, Schurm (Grady) 17.05 Penaltiea—.None. \ Second Period 4—S'Slde. Trainer (Gay. Gallant) 9.37 5-‘Abbies. Carver (Heonaaey. Perry) ...... .. 18.0’! Penalties--Bernard. Shields, Josey (Minoi~Ma1or). Trainor

(major). G. Gay (unlsoondvuct)

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Ills! Ieeiol O—6'8ldo. Bernard \ (Kelly, B. Gay) ....t.......... 8.!) 'l—s'Side. Schurmaa (Gallant) 8.9 B—8'Side, _Schurmgri G d ) 8.81 0-~s'8id Bernard I (Trainer. Kelly) ............ ... 0.80 10—Abblea—l'lelds (Carver) 9.14 il—S’Side, Scliunnan (Grady) 11.31

l3—8’Slde. Bernard (Gallant)

lI—8'side. Kauy (Trainer)

l4—nAbblea, Carver

Penalties - Josey (Ilia Bennersey.

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The ending of the midget final series for th .lsland championship has been te med by one of our sports writers as "unsatisfactory." We agree. but‘ it seems strange to us that this word was judged suf- ficient to sum up the situation. The ending was much more than un- satisfactory. It was disgraceful. seems some of the referee's decis- ions were not popular with some of the players. This, however. is not unusual, When have referees’ de- clsions :been satisfactory to all tho players? As long as hockey lasts the decisions of referees will continue to be disputed by those who play. as well as by those who watch the game. What was unusual and rep- rehensible, was the fact that one of the Charlottetown Victorias car- ried his disagreement to the point of attacking the referee, and that some of those who did not go that far used a lot of off-color language to the arbiter. The Charlottetown sports writers are strangely silent about this incident, and silence in this case would seem to mean con- donernent of the offence.

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We have always had the highest opinion of the sense of fair play of the Charlottetown sports writ- ers..however. and have concluded that it is possible they have not heard of this incident, and that is why they have not condemned it. There were no sports writers at the game, we understand. The score was erroneously reported to the papers as 8 to 6 instead of 9 to 8. as the official scorer had it. Per- haps other events relating to the game were also misrepresented. Certainly, one of the Summerside fans at the Abbie-Crystal game was condemned in strong and\ unequiv- ocal language, so we take it for granted that this cowardly attack on a referee whose service to his country has put him under a hand- icap ln the matter of defence would also have been panned by this .writer.

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We should like to know if there is to be any disciplinary action taken in regard to this flagrant attack. Surely the. perpetrator will be punished in some way by those who have authority to do so. For the continued success of our youth program it seems important that such unsportsmhnllke nctionsssbould not be tolerated. It will be remem- bered that another referee was t- tacked on Charlottetown Forum re this winter and got off with a 10- minute misconduct penalty. Such a. light sentence for so serious an of- fonce was a mistake, we think, and