ACT

Tnd stnan nf Tnmntn MaplelBtltlYn Boom Geoffrion LPN: ..pa(.h95 Mr MN, punk wnnn mm-95 in with other Montreal play game in Toroiitu. At left is Leafs Mnntrpnl won Ev-1.

In This Corner Is The Goal

VI:

l tender The

Cart Or The Horse?

Plagued by injuries the Boston Bruins have been having a pretty.

tough time in the National Lealzue in team value. Yet if Sawnhuk is n-nm time immcmorial.

of late. Over the weekend they. absorbed a pair of pastings at the hands of the Toronto Leafs and

goalie is H5 percent ill a It-aiiiis strength; others have said that he compares with a baseball pitcher

85 percent of Boston's strentllll they are very lucky they are still in the league.

the vhwagn Hawk-V On Saturday Frank Brimsek dldii't get the the Torontonians xtalloped them nickname of ”Mr. Zero" because 5-1 and on Sunday the Hawkslnf his low marks in Alg-whra.l

blasted them 7-1 and very nearly vulcanized Terry Sawchuk in the process.

I.a-:t vear and tor the past sev- eral seasons Sawcliuk was toii'iig

Brinsek was the hottest Eoallel Beantown had ever seen with the possible exception of Tii1.V Tlmmll: son. However when he was shir)P9t'l,

(centre) 'ers during Natioiial Htii-kcy I.eatI'-IF

ION AROUND MONTREAL CAGE

(George Armsti-oiiE- llldtltreal goalie: l

Sport Forum

Jhe Strange ”Curse'' Of

The Middle

Sir. Hard luck and traszcdr ll-35' .1 S It seems to be some sort of curse. hangs over the heads of all middle- weights and has spared ncitlier i-ltampioii, contender nor just the run of the mill fighter.

it dates back many years all!)

in the time of Jack t.N'onparicl) (lflle whose real 9'

Dempsey. name was Johnny the tender age. of 32 of culosis The following epitath is

Denipsey. Kelly died at

. . . .. . . : ' ' I925 alkw me mmdlewelgnt dn-nnnn stalled his boxing career in

that from Lou Brouillard at Boston in 1933 and lost it to Tcdd.V lam. Scptembcr 11. 1934. Vince retired from the ring in 1937 after losing .a 10-round decision to KI). Jones

Page 6 The Guardian Tuesday, Dec. 30. 1955

'S'side Amateur Athletes Assoc. Holc's Me eting

The Suniiiicrside Amateur Atb- t.'l'itm 0t lItl"01' lwckey We” the”

g. .. v - discussed.

Mm Assouaimn met at. the lcsmnl Prcsideiit ltizit-Farlane appointed l"""9 lllsl "lg"! mm Hank (”"."'ltlie following men as a committee eron. VlCE:Dl'ESld9lll- lll the Vllalli-.tii meet with the town cteuticil to for the first part of the mceiing.lfiiiulizc the plans: Frank ameron after which the president. Mmtchairiitaiit. Jun Hogan. Chuck Horace MacP'ai'lane. arrived and-Slonklcy. Bob Clark. There was took charge of the meeting. coiisideralile dl5ICUSSllll1 uun Wags Rcpurts were given on the past;aiirl means to inance le iljllter sumniei"s activities. Dr. lt'.i'uci't lll'0E-Zl'am'f Aft((J?tll0rDl'llCC;lIllK Xlll bet MacNeill reporting for men's soft- held on ues ay. :c. .w an r&; ball. Jim Hogan for ladies' soft-.-ports will be received from can-. ball and Frank Cameron for littlewas.-ei's iii the proposed "special league. Plans for the winter pi'o--naines" drive for funds.

,M.n.n... plante gets set for shot.

weight Class

Vince Dundee of New York

and won the middleweight title

was unheard of until 1943. n it was discovered that Dun- had contraced multiple scler- which plagu-l

and

osis the same discas

ml)", ed baseballl immortal Lou Gchi'ig.l

For six years Dundee Waited ll0lP-

(lerdan at Madison Square Gard- nnignt wnn ,, 5.2 win We, the pace.

l wks in the late foit- . - . . -. . l frn. the hit.:li-powered Detroit Red 21:5 from 3 ban of may inx.L.,.n,ed nn ms neadsmnc. Essllyuivn la94w9heheel(l::5iset'gi atllgyentalt. ll Will"-is aml W3-' regarded by m”5l.This might have been due to his ”Obliiion wraps llls latled lflrm me agle M1 45 " lI'P MP"tlF 35 the l305l "F 3t l935l then advancing years. But what But ages hence shall save ghomv (mgr world Wm. 2 in l one of the two best tznaltenders in of Harry Lumnw. Shanwhnk-5 me. The mgmnry nf that in,-)1 tad Vesar-nm Iaveme Roam wiaded l ill? lf'dEllP-Dlll'l"S' lll-S 5l3Y til decessor at Detroit? When the That fills poor Dempsey's grave." ihmugh mfg middleweight ranks l Detroit he picked tip the Vczina wings den). off Harry in Cliit-ago Bob Filzsiiiiiiitins rctired from "P warm 2-) ..i(.m..K.n in 25 fights- Trnpby and was selected on a he didn't make any appreciable the ring in I914 Three years later andl WM mlmchm tr; mx Marcel I number of first and second all-star dine,-nnn-E in the final statidingsmthc curse of the middleweight ' A "l lP?lnl5- Yet in Toroiito ll few years later division struck the great ex- When Jolly .lack Adams traded it was Sam-hnk and Lnmlcy, champion. Fitzsiiiinitins died of

merry Terry to the Bruins during the slimmer a number of ob- servers thought Adams had ('t)lllP lonse was an important vertebrae in the Wings backbone and only ill would come of his departure. The ill came alright but most of it to Terry who has probably had more rubber thrown at him in this short season than he had in any one of his terms with the Wings. Adams replaced Sawcliuk with a pink-cheeked youngster by the name of Glen Hall and at the moment Hall seems to be the hottest piickslupper in the league

from his moorings.Terry-

either 1-2 or 2-1. as you will. in the yearly battle for the Vczina Trophy and all-star honors

This seems to give a lot of support to the old claim that ”an lnoaltender is only as good as the team in front of him". The quest- ion of which is the cart and which is the horse will rage on but one.

thing seems sure A goalie mightll47 pound class and laid claim to york.

make a diffcrcnce between first and second but certainly not bet- ween first and last.

3 Island fans will no doubt bavel noticed that one name dear tot them seems to have been omitted

October 23. l

pneumonia in a Chicago hospital, 1917.

Kid tit-Coy grossed more than a quarter of a million dollars dur- ing his fantastic 20-year career tltltll-t9llI. The Kid knocked out Tom Ryan in H196 to gain world recognition as w elte r w pl g ht champion. McCoy outgrew the

the middleweight crown vacated by Bob Fitzsimmona. 1 He committed suicide in Deiriot April 1940. Stanley Ketchcl was regarded by. fistic experts as the greatest

tfn WhPtt h? t00k It SPVPT9 lw-lll:.setting Saint John Beavers.

mg. I

Roach was dropped several. times and finally in the eight round the referee stopped the un- even contest The beaten fighter took a short rest from the ring but he never fully recovered from, the clfecls of that lacing. t

Then one night he boxed George. Small at St. Nick's Arena in Newl In the ninth round Roach was tagged with ii bard left lab and went to the canvas. He never regained consciousness and died the next morning. l

Marcel Cerdan the most popularl European fighter since Georges

pMiami Takes Control 05

Syracuse l.L. Franchis -

SYRACUSE. N.Y. (AP) - Afterl According to Haske. his own having been on the verge of re-ll3Wy9l" land lawyerlst log lllgallllewgl"

. - g organize commun y are c r- mmmg the dub' Syracuse Mun poration here had reached oral day lost its International Baseball agreement Monday on yerms 0! . League tranchl-W t0 Mltiml. Fl8- contract which would have kept the AltlI0UKl1 llwyefs Worked tevgef-'team in Syracuse. However. Huko ishl.v to frame I contract which had agreed to sell to Salomon and would permit retention of the team stein if no contract were gjgned by here. the contract hadn't beenlMonday's deadline. The cm-non. GFBWD UP 81 5 P-mu the detldllneltion lawyers were unable to draw set by chiefs' owner Martin D.lup such 1 contract prior to the Haske. . deadline.

At 5:05 pm.. Haske sent a tele-1 As the deadline approached. Pat grain to Sidney Salomon .lr.. and,Miller. president of the Central Elliott Stein, in Miami. selling tlie;New York Community Baseball Syt-at-uselfranchise to tlieiini. k ;Corp.. waited for nearly an hour

The 38 9. according tto as e's'for his corporation's lawyers to telegram. is subject only to an bring in the contract which he was proval of the league's dlrectorsyprepared to sign. They notified and to Salomnn's ability to obtain him then that drawing tip the con- : satisfactory lease with the city tract was too involved to be done; of Miami for rental of Miami hurriedly. l Stadium. Neither of these is ex- .Thus three months of work by pected to cause any difficulty. civic groups here. climaxed by n Haskeis telegram put into effect rally which brought 555,000 in an earlier agreement with tl1e'pIedgcs from fans to keep the Miami men. club here. was wasted.

Brillant Scores Three To Pace Ramblers Victory

AMHERST ICP) Aniherst u close-in shot. Ramblers moved to within onel Ramblers broke early in the point of the Atlantic Coast Seninrithird to move into the lead when Hockey League had here Monday Brillant shot the first of his three goals. They increased their lead when Dave Kiley shot his second of the night.

Smith scored his second at 7:21. Brillant notched his second at &M Tgdzzcompleled the hat trick at

Ramblers broke out with four goals in the third period to climax in free-wheeling contest that saw only three penalties handed out. Pierre Brillant, the loops leading goal scorer. notched three in the third period to lead Ramblers to victory. Dave Kiley scored twice. while Gerry Smith collected bothl

caver goals.

Beavers moved into a oiic-goal lead in the first period and lit-id their narrow margin until th n 19 mark of the second period en Dave Kiley beat Jim Shirley with

Summary : -

First period: 1. Saint Smith IRubic. Jones) 17.51.

Penalties: Brklacicth 7:46.

Sccond period: 2.lAmlierst. DH Kiley tLeyte. Kennedy) 18.17.

R naltim: None.

Third period: 3. Amherst. Bril- lant (White. Schmidt) 2.14; 4. T Amherst tD. Kiley tReid. Leyte) 2.45; 5. Saint John. Smith tllubic)

Jolln.

l

t

ing the flyers for the second time. In the first engagement the Man- tague sextet

highly regarded B. Y. 7-6 and a victory tonight will put

for the leadership.

BILLY HUGHES

--..

JIM MMLEOD

APPS AIISENAULI

BOB HURRY

Montague And Flyers Play

In Island League

The league-leading Montague Primroses and the Parkdnle Flyers will meet tonight in the seventh game of the Island Senior "B" Hockey League" at the SPO”-S Arena. '

Undefeated in their previous two starts the Primroses will be meet-

lnd: from Montague have been the only team able to defeat an op- ponent by more tthan one goal. And they did this rather convinc- ingly by overpowering Summer- side Aces 8-2. All other games have been decided by one goal. In the persons of Billy Hughes. Apps Arsenault and Dick Carroll the Primroses boast the highest scoring line in the league. In two games they have ammnssed a to- tal of 17 scoring points. Arunault is tied with Paul Schurman in the goal scoring department each hav- ing 5. Hughes and Carroll III alone at the head of the assist list. each having taken part in 5 goals.

willie Dunn. Bob Hurry and Jim MacLeod lead the Flyers in near-

shaded the Flyers 7-6 in a riotous encounter.

The Flyers bounced back into the win column in their second outing of the year nipping the C. team

them into 1 tie with the Primroses

In play to date the high-scoringt

Monday's Minor Hockey Results

In addition to Q.S.S. Paperweight and Pee Wee practices. yesterday. in a regularly scheduled Midget game. at the Sports Arena, Abbies defeated Vics by a score of 3-2. MacDonald scored all three Abbie goals. He potted the first one un- assisted and the other two asisted by hard-working Billy Mulligan.

Vics goals were scored by G. Nnonan from J. Kennedy and Gil- lis from Smailwood. Don Vi'hclan handled the game which was a comparatively clean one with only three minor penalties being halid- ed out to Jay, Noonan and Mur- ray.

MONCTON tCP) Moncton Hawks scored twice in ovtrtlme Monday night to ship Fredericton Capitals 6-4 in I listless Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League en- counter.

Dave Wall was the big offensive gun for Moncton. firing two goals and helping on two others. Ray Leduc. Orin Carver. Bob Bowness and Bert Hlrscbfeld slammed in singletons.

Bill McDonagh shot two of the Fredericton markerI,whlle Jenn Leclerc and Bernie (Bessie) Mc- Donald added the others. Roy

having racked up three consecu- tive shutouts. and ranks second to

"llly 'l5"l”9-T Pla""' "t llllflttt-Fcallkey was almost an automatic.

average.

All or this brings up the questlnnl of what is the true value of nl first-class goaltender to any teamittnthat at the end of this season he Some observers have said that Blwlll hang up his blades for good,

coming to the end of a great car-

Prince Co. Sport Echoes

Time"-Out To Discuss Aces' Hockey Problem

Stine spectator sports in Siim- sidcralile box otficp mm. merside seem still to be at I low M ' ebb. it's In good time to talk .il)outl the situation that has arisen in. connection with our Ace hockey! team. One npinion expressed by It . . rltinn RUM mm mis: usnmel oftlhe ticket window doytn in these

t-'()lll(! them more than others

cannot command Richard's sala

town owes them a living." The town doesn't. and with this opiii.onl . we heartily agree. There shruildlw,-M an unmnpmved -labs he no question of sentiment. .1-rst Mm”. . . ll)Il'l'll1PR(lPf'l biisincss methods in'""T Pm h;'r'Hl"ad"d b'”"l”-T ""3 ilealinn with such situations So Sm” -wnh Hm how that -V"” M” mum Mr W much. ' be paid for the trouble taken. The Montreal Canadiens do not my Maurice Richard his high salary because he is hero of the

- t fans. which he undoubtedly mull" "'31 """l' "1" "W" l'"C'”'l' Henry niaorar t -

' but because bets worth every glallfsrs march Z.;lf'Ifllll,V 9mt)l"V”l sight. '0" U "W his eye- -. Wit"? 0' it at the box --ttice- 935.95. arid l'l(enlli,"ilI:-Miilliiv till" ” ”?mrms- I 2'.2.'::..l"t-"...'.?.:-...'"22:" sl."...:.l: Summde h-my -3 Raleigh. Irwin - -. N ' laying coaches. Donlt you think

White his salary because f aff t- p ' 4 . Ion rm. I Home town b0y,',”Nnn :5" we should make some kind of

They pay him because they lltipe S: II? it all hack with interest at 0 mt oflice. mIn.ett'sSgo down-ghehladder another Emu” . ummersi e k l - I", "m ” mod ns”(t'h5-1' ”I:'-V3:iIoaf might Atlantic Coast League. They can't

key talent at home?

because the boys

. if Amherstran pay big Salaripf: Just for playing hockey. Siimnier- side should be able to plan things

effort to keep the best of our hoc-

in

champ's back. Three hours latt-rig . eer He has hccn quoted as saying Ketchel was dead at the age of n VFW Yor

24. Again when

from the ACSHL All-Star team..middlewciElll 0t all tlIYlCS- l'I'hat name is Buck Wliitlock who morning of October 15. 1910. Ketch- for many years in Maritime lioc- el was at breakfast at his ranch . Conway. "l ll"? mall" "l K0RlS:8i13lllStlchnice for that centre spot on the farmhand

this bizarre" Billy Papke captured

160 pound death Papke had scored :3 prev- ious win over the lll-fated Ketcbel and upon thc ('ll8mp.S death Papke

was rccognizcd as champion. Bill iyim-Lean retired from the ring in 1923. Little with 36 0 was heard of him iintll 1936 when crash of srmrtswriteriti rushed to their type- liner at Moose Jaw. sask.

On the

Missoiiri. when a

named Walter Diplcyl nvcar-end teams Rut-k seems to he-fired a load of bucl-(shot into the

curse bit the

title after l(etchcl's

Carpentier won the middleweight crown from Tony Zale September l2l, 1943 and lost it to .lake Laftfotta Xlune I6, 1949. Cerdan was killed in a plane crash in the Azores October 27. 1949, while on route k to engage LaMotta in a return title bout.

l have Sands. Australian triple title holder and British Empire imiddleweight champion was killed in a motor accident August 9. 1952 in Australia at the age of 26, Again the strange curse hit on prll 3, 1954 when Harry Billy of Bathurst, Na along ther persons died in the I T.C.A. North Star air- Billy

lA

writers to report that Pnpke had w. t h t ' killed his wife and then commit- M " ave me DWE Hm" "' ted suicide

l Harry Greb 1-nay Windmill" had a ring career that stretched from 1913'-I926. lie en- or even lNhi((-'5. pm; if nm, can zaged in more than 300 bouts and camp out keep the silver shckcls clicking at ll” his middleweight title to Tiger NB. . 1026. In Oct- u.,.5,, ;nnn.,,.s S99," n, nnnk me Parts. they must be worth snmc- ”l")t'. Just two short months after a thing. The next step down ttfflllld thc bout with Flowers Greb went Imn”(.aHOn- M. Nmrspv is "W m lsurely not be worse than niakingllft -"I hospital in Atlantic City and an effort to get any of those boys

Flowers.

-1. ti r lffti ()n

NEW YORK. Losing two or three of our best Rangers can't tional fford to stay home all winter and Sam;-dn mean the -difference cg-n,m,, between making the playoff finals rm,-ing

in

Nnveniber

the "Pittsburgh

Aiigutit

died on the operating table at the for the age of 32

Not for sentimental rt-;is-l iger Flowers lost his middle.

icbt title in Mickey Walker after Ettlns as champion for one year. 1927. Flowers defeated Leo Gates in New York City. Four

12.

days later

. Flowers was dczid as the result of an em-

tAP)-New York farmed out two Na- lllwkey League veterans y. Don Bones Raleiyi. n

and defenceman Ivan

"tilt? the teams which draw three or four thousand fans at the

offlce. But they still have n cm:-.

Flyers Notice .

'"" l'lll"Wltltl players of the ::rNk:ol;r Flyers 1:; um to be end on t qt n . ,;

Jordan. am. pm

. J. J. :;lLil:1.',:.”.;.'";...'”:" .;;".r ".3; .l.”.'.l'.l"Tu.iL'" t'-.lJ'i'.i'.'.'fi”.l ll'8l..”'”i'5l'.f3f position. It certainly d0C.ln"t sgem ldm” "ll

aaonablg ting the nnwgnns M Conac-her from Buffalo. also an hockey pt-ym iiiifiuiy below the AHL member-

""i" .1 Wtts-.

-game by having a better te.-im--

-Rltmzctlicr it matter. perhaps. of some 32.000 or more. and A cut of more than 81.200 for the rink mdllallement. All this besides the excellent service in good entertain- ment provided by the town for its citizens.

Certainly the town does not owe its athletes 3 living. Nor do those

caliber of major

dm mm "M elguerii should

il'il"i'i.'.'”'

and being eliminated. to say .1.-tn. ng of drawing more fans in every gnnnce

per wool; tn an scorer in the history of the Illbluto lero--not even rating the Rangers. This year he ltld ae- troubloltwouldtaketotrym keen counted for 13 points. on one '1 that goal and 12 assist. in 21 panel.

- . an an W M”, ?:.::Ivn only inlve of

Both men were scntto Prov- Reds of the American Hockey League. a club which has a working agreement with the Rangers. Assignment of the two men was the aftermath of the Rangers' action in calling up three minor lcaguem in an at- tempt to shake a four-game los-

ing slump. The Rangers brought In

left

left winger Pete

Raletmi ll the sixth-highest

.wbowu borninChlc- StuteolnflieN'ftL.

Calgary. April 13 for the Canadian ylightheavywelght Iille. Two days before his death MacLean cele- brated hll 22nd birthday. He was ""9 0t the blst Prospects ever to of the North Shore (1

Johnny Green tn-can boxing in mateur ranks at the age or 17. He won 31 out of 35 lnafrhes. mn professional carerr stretches back some 14 years H, fnunhl smne ll4 bouts in New York's Madison 'Square Garden -11 of them main bouts. For aubile lie was nick. named the Million Dollar Kid, Hg flluglll ")5 PM bouts in his career and lost only 13 of them,

From 4lllS ring earnings he bnuizht his Parents a s23.ooo home in Montreal and 5 smaller houses as an investment "He 1.4-d (gr lllll parents," his friends said. wll?" -l0lInn.V stepped down from the ring in Montreal Nov. 1. 1954, 8"” absorbing a terrific beating "07" Ttmy Percy he muttered to a friend' "no more headlines for me." Poor Johnny was wrong. on December 13. 1954 sportswrlters. radio and television broadcasters boomed the much publicized mu-no back into print. The .11-year-old tlllhter was driving alone in sub. urban Wesimounl when his car skidded. leaped a sidewalk and crashed into a tree. He died of I

broken neck before aid could reach him. I am. Sir. etc.,

WILFRED o. M CLUSKEY Charlottetown. C