: SPORTS FRONT

By PIUS CALLAGHAN

: ' NEXT WEDNESDAY the annual meeting of the Prince Ed- ward Island Curling Association will take place in Summerside.

A decade or more ago this group might meet without much stir. Today things are different. The roarin’ game has made tremendous strides and enjoys a large following. Decisions made at the administrative level are closely followed and provoke plenty of comment.

WEDNESDAY’S MEETING will be suialied over by the energetic president Dr. Wen MacDonald and there should be much to discuss, Although from tradition and practice many of the major provincial contests are automatically settled as to site and date, they have to be ‘ruled up and confirmed.

‘A tentative and partial rundown on some of the major 'com- petitions include the provincials playdowns (British Consols) and Confederation bonspiel for Charlottetown; the Dominion Legion, the ladies provincial playdowns, the Maritime Mixed bonspiel and-the provincial ‘schoolboys for Summerside. In add- ition there is the provincial Legion play and other inter-club competitions.

TIME WAS when the ice factor proved a problem but with five clubs all operating with artifical ice, this is no longer true. ‘The increased interest and membership with the resulting boest in competitive entries have made the availability of ice lanes an important consideration.

*® SPEAKING of the annual curling meeting, there is one person whose absence will be regretted. He is Mr. Curling him- self, J. Finlay MacLeod. :

Finlay is a patient in the Prince Edward Island Hospital and we know that Finlay’s best wishes will go to all curling delegates attending the meeting. Secretary of the provincial governing body for more than 15 years, Finlay has a host of friends who will be looking forward to his gp eng oe

’ On and off the ice, Finlay has been a leading exponent of the roarin’ game and his presence has always added enthusiasm and zest to any enterprise or competition. It is doubtiful if any member of the curling fraternity has a greater knowledge of the history of curling in this province than the competent secretary of the provincial association. In Finlay’s_absence, Gordon Ben- mett has taken over the secretarial chores.

THE CITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE is surely away to a great start with games just as close as they possibly tould be.

Saint Dunstan's Seconds. played two games thus far and won one by a single point and lost the other by the same margin. Saints’ victory came last Saturday night over their arch rivals from Prince of Wales College and their loss was to ‘Red’ Howatt’s Junior Basilica Youth Club Trotters. Saints weren’t happy about the loss because Bert McWade got a basket at the end of things that wasn’t counted. However the reason the basket was disallowed was that the timekeeper’s horn went out of - working order and that the official claimed time was up before Mc- Wade let the ball go toward the basket. Instead of grabbing an- other one-point decision, the Saints were forced to settle for a

one-point. defeat.

THE WELSHMEN, victims of the one point verdict by the Saints in the opener, fared better on Wednesday and they as- gumed the role of real giant killers by beating LePage’s Trot- fers 58-54. This was another tight struggle with the outcome in doubt until the very end.

That takes care of three of the four games played to date leaving only the Charlottetown ‘Y’- Junior BYC game to be dis- cussed. This was played last Saturday and resulted in a 48-45 triumph for the Aouth Clubbers.

So there you have it. Four games played to date and the

greatest margin of victory was four points. Two of .the games -

were decided by a single point and the other was a three-point , spread. You just couldn't hope for a better balance loop_than that. No

and picking a eventual winner from this quartet should’ be a mirghty difficult chore.

The league has a strong executive headed by that ardent sportsman, Norman Lowther, and there should be nothing but success in store for it.

THE ISLAND HENIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE has several play- ers on the lineups of the four teams that are elegible for as low a bracket as juvenile.

-This means that several youngsters are competing against growa men. If, however, they elect to play senior hockey they must exvect to be treated as seniors. We know most of these lads personally and thev are the type that are not likely to expect any favors thrown their way. This means that they must be ready to take those hard body checks the same as the next fellow. You can't expect opposing defencemen to allow them to roam over their blueline with a view to scoring goals. If such things were allowed to happen, then the games would lose the great interest they have already established. :

HOWEVER, we do think that these rugged defencemen have an obligation that must be remembered. [legal checking is not part of the game but there always will be some of it creep in. when it does, the culprit will be punished as the rule book ad- vises. We are not trying to suggest that such checks should never take place but we are adarmant on the point that these bruising defencemen save their bad manners for somebody capable of coping with them. We know defencemen have every right to check these young players and discourage further sallies by them but they should do it according to the book. Surely no de- Yenceman in this league would want to be responsible for ser- fous injury to a young player knowing that he got this youngster by foul means.

Think it over boys.

Penguins Defeat

Collegians 10-4

Lorne Hennessey’s Perfection Penguins last evening racked up their second victory in three games by defeating Saint Dun- stan’s 10-4

This was the first outing for the Saints with only three prac- tices under their belts but they

showed promise of being able!

te hold their own against any of the ‘other. teams in league after a few mote games.

Penguins opened the scoring @arly -in the first frame with Hughes notching the first goal at the 2:22 mark. The winners counted five goals in this frame to the Saints’ one.

PENALTY SHOT

Seconds past the half way mark of this period, defenceman Doug. Williams, coming in all alone on the Saints goalie was tripped from. behind and the Penguins were awarded a pen- alty shot. Apps Arsenault took the shot and was successful in getting it past goalie Earl Shep- herd.

The Saints used two goalies. Earl Shepherd minded the nets for the first half of the game being relieved midway through the second period by MaclIsaac, goalie on Jast year’s Nova Scotia Junior championship team.

Gillis, big gun for Saints with two goals. scored the collegians’ first marker in the final minute of the period.

Play was quite even in the middie stanza with the Pen- guins outscoring Father Led- well’s crew two goals to one. However the Saints missed sev- eral golden opportunities, shoot- ing and making inaccurate pass- es.

The tempo increased as the game wore on and _ near-bat- tles were narrowly avoided in the second and third periods. Referees Spy Ready and Walter Lawlor out 13 penalties course of the game. the Saints was given

a S-minutes major for drawing blood. He was clearing the puck from his zone and lifted his stick high hitting Alan ‘Smelt’ Gillis in the face.

GOAL GETTERS

Billy Mulligan, Apps Arsenault and Alife Flanagan each scored | a couple of, goals for the win- ners. with singletons going to Hughes, Kane, Lewis and Mac- Donald. Other goals for the los- ers were by Deschamps and Lab- rie.

Lanky Ray Hache, rearguard for the college crew in the final frame gave Billy Mulligan of the

Penguins a hard check that sent \the speedy forward flying over jthe boards in the promenade. |For his effort Hache was given a minor for elbowing. Mulligan climbed back onto the ice and right back into action.

SUMMARY

First Period- 1. Penguins (Hughes, Duffy) 2:22: 2. Pen- guins- B. Mulligan (W. Mac- Donald, V. Mulligan) 12:58: 3. Penguins- Arsenault (penalty shot) 10:30; 4. Penguins- Flanag- an {Gillis) 7:59; 5. ‘Penguins- Kane (Hughes) 18:41: 6. Saints- Gillis (Ryne, Marshall) 19:14, | Penalties- Williams (2); Coyle, | Deschamps.

Second Period:- 7. Penguins- Lewis (Flanagan, Williams) 5:- 38; 8. Saints- Labrie (Deschamps) 7:59; 9. Penguins- Flanagan (Hughes, Kane) 14:09. Penalties- Williams, Whalen Longaphie, Hache, Flanagan, B. Mulligan.

Third Period:- 10. Saints- Gil- lis (Ryne, Marshall) 3:53; 11. Saints- Deschamps (Demers) 9:- 2; 12. Penguins- Arsenault (Kane, Hughes) 12-51; 13. Pen- guins- MacDonald iv. Mulligan. B. Mulligan) 16;08; 14. B. Mul- ligan (V. Mulligan) 16;3%. Pen- alties- Arsenault, Williams, saat: tah, i shane. Ryan (major), Hache (2),

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Hank Bassen of Vancouver« Canucks displays some of the form that has made him the top goalies in the Western Hockey League. His low goals- against average has kept

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Canucks in consistent first

place in the league. He is shown coming far- out of his net to take-a swipe at a loose puck.

(CP Phote)

HUNTER’S CORNER -

The sixty-five dollar question at the moment is: Are private

waterfowl sanctuaries in reality friends of our ducks and geese or are they factors that eventual- ly.lead the birds down the Judas path of betrayal? . Sanctuaries like Black Pond and the ears Park somewhat differ from small, inland private ae of refuge. They are different be- cause “Pass Shooting’ is prac- tically eliminated. The birds come in from the seaward side when they have to run the gaunt- let of the guns during their over- land flight.

The refuge at Southport was nothing more, or nothing less, than a man-made death trap. I saw it coming a month before the opening date. I told the South-| port farmer his set-up was an in- vitation to murder and advised him to disperse the concentration before it was too late. Upwards of 300 geese were visiting this re- fuge.

They got so bold they paid no attention to the farmer or his son. Sometimes they fed -within a stone's throw from the farm buildings. The ‘farmer’ insisted that hunters wouldn't shoot sem- domesticated geese within a few hundred yards from farm build- ings. ‘Brother’ I replied,”’ you don't know goose hunters like I :do. Some of them would shoot a wild goose on your doorstep unless you were standing by with a shotgun in your hands’. He found olit the hard way how true was this statement.

CASE IN POINT Here is a case in point: Re. gardless of the fact that it was

Southport Sanctuary Seen As Death Trap For Ducks

ing the geese would fly across the highway. They didn't.

SHOTS FIRED

Shots were fired at the geese on the dam during the night and dead birds picked up. by the farmer in the-morning. When they took bo feeding in the fields

22 cal rifle was used te put | on, them up. in otder to drive -them

hunters on the outside fringe of the half-mile limit.

The farmer created goose shoot- ing de-luxe in an area where, previous to the dam being built and ‘refuge creatéd, wildgeese were about as scarce as ice cream cones in the Sahara Des- ert. And what thanks did the farmer receive? Not a word of thanks nothing but abuse One irate hunter ealled me on the phone and reminded me that the hunters were. playing the game but the farmer wasn't. ‘What! does he mean by feeding the| geese and taking them out of circulation so the hunters can- not shoot them”’’ was his query

In answer to that he created the best goose shooting. this sec- tion will ever see again” I figure a conservative estimate places the number of wildgeese shot and retrieved not counting the ones shot and lost and those that subsequently died of gunshot wounds, at 250, where if they had been left to fend for them- selves in a natural way their losses would probably not have exceeded thirty.

One black Monday morning 13 hunters admitted shooting their ‘Continued on Page 9)

unlawful under the migratory bird regulations to hunt wild- geese within a half mile from this refuge, the farmhouse is a scant 200 yards from the highway and the dam in which the geese wash and get fresh water lies between | the house and highway. The dam embankment is less than 50 yards | from the Trans-Canada Highway. | One morning about 930 a car | turned in the farmer's lane en- trance and four hunters got out all carrying shotguns.

There were approximately 150 geese in the dam at the time. | Two walked on the highway to a | point opposite the embankment | of the dam and waited with their guns at the ready. The other two left ‘their guns standing beside

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BOSTON (AP)—Boston Bruins withstood a third - period New York rally and won their first National Hockey League game since Nov. 8, clipping the Ran- gers 4-3 Thursday night.

The Bruins forged a 4-1 lead late in the second period. but the Rangers kept it interesting when Camille Henry and Andy _ Bath- gate scored third-period markers and trimmed the Boston lead to one goal.

Bathgate’s goal came at 8:28 of the final period, but the Bruins managed to hold on from there.

It was New York's sixth game without a victory and snapped a Bruins winless string of seven games.

The Rangers’ Ken Schinkel suf-

he was checked by Stan Baluik in the first period. He ‘eft im- mediately for New York.

The Bruins took a 2,0 lead on goals by Leo Boivin and Leo La-| bine in the first nine minutes. It| was only the fourth goal of the) season for Boivin, a defenceman. and all have come at the ex- pense of New York.

Harry Howell got one back be- | fore the period ended, but Guy) Gendron caromed a shot off the | forehead of New ‘York goalie!

lead. Paille was not hurt by the) shot.

Doug Mohns wrapped up the} Bruins scoring at 14:15 -of the middle period.

First period: 1. Boston, Boivin) |3:27; 2. Boston, Labine (McKen-|

|Howell 9:48. Penalties: Boivin) 10:40, Ward 17:45. |

Second period: 4. Boston. Gen- dron ‘Stasiuk Erickson) 10:55: 5. Boston, Mohns ‘McKenney, Mac- kell) 14:15. Penalties: Howell 12:07, Fentinato 14:05, Ward 15:39. |

Third period: Bathgate ‘Henry, Sullivan) 3:52;

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7. New York, Bathgate (Prentice, Bownass) 8:28. Penalties: Baluik 3:48, Ward 16:39, Prentice 17:46.

Stops: WOE bs ore kasha 812 6—26 Bee 2 8 10—20 DETROIT (CP) — Montreal

Canadiens, getting two goals from young Phil Goyette, made it 16 straight National Hockey League games without a defeat Thursday night by beating the

Detroit Red Wings 42 before a| po

standing-room-only crowd of 14,- 799.

Goyette got the tie-breaking goal halfway through the middle: period, timing Claude Provost's rebound off the boards perfectly and crashing a 15-footer past sub- stitute goalie Gilles Boisvert.

Detroit’s regular goalie, Terry Sawchuk, went into hospital ear- lier Thursday with neuritis.

Big Jean Beliveau added an in- surance tally in the tast 63 sec- onds. He intercepted Warren God- frey’s shot and skated in alone on Boisvert for an easy goal.

The Canadiens, who increased their margin over second-place

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Detroit to eight points, have not been beaten since Oct. 17 when the New York Rangers captured| a 42 verdict in Montreal.

Twice the Red Wings bounced | back to gain a tie.

The Canadiens jumped out to| brilliant, while Glenn Hall! in the Marcel Paille for a 3-1 Boston’ a 1-) lead after 542 minutes, Pro- | Chicago nets made 25. defenceman Bob Baun|

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vost starting the scoring with a|

| 10-footer. Andre Pronovost’s shot |

;hit defenceman Red Kell | died at his feet. Provost swept

| past Boisvert. Gary Aldcorn tied it i the |

Howe's rebound. past Jacques Plante from close range. SUMMARY First period: 1. Montreal, Pro-

vost ‘A. Pronovost,- H. Richard, |

5:37; 2. Detroit, Oliver), 12:42; 3. Montreal, Goy- ette (Provost) 14:22: 4. Detroit,

6. New York,! Uliman (Delvecchio, Howe) 18:46}

Penalties: McDonald 17:10, Har-

d; oI ibounced off H | on the loose puck and knocked: ‘it! Pierre Pilote and behind Hall.

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Bruins Edge Rangers 4-3; Habs Increase Loop Lead -

vey 18:55, Ullman 18:55, Beliveen |Senceman 19: 46.

Second period: 5. sicclioal Goyette (Provost, A. Pronovost) 11:17. Penalties: Lanviois 3:38, Aldcorn' 7:48, McIntyre 13:43, Harvey 16:59.

Third period: 6. Montreal, Be- liveau 18:57. Penalty: Morrison 14:41.

Stops: POR arcnccicibiee 1211 6—2 MOONE es veces 811 7—26

CHICAGO (CP)—Johnny Wil- son’s second goal of the game midway in the final period gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a 43 victory over the Chicago Black

Hawks in \a National Hockey League battle here Thursday night.

Wilson's eighth goal of the year

—which came while teammate)...

George Armstrong was in the penalty box—climaxed a see-saw, loosely-played contest. *

Toronto scored three times—in | the final five minutes of the first | period only to have Chicago tie!

the score with three in the middie frame.

Despite the high : score. Leafs’

goalie Johnny Bower was the;

outstanding player in the game. The aging netminder was cred- ited with 44 saves, many of them

Leafs’ opened the scoring late ifirst period when his long shot yk defenceman

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onto, Wilson (Horton) 37:27.. 3. Toronto, Regan 18:54. Penalties: |. Wilson 8:38, E. Balfour 16:15. Second peried: 4. Chicago, Sloan (Lindsay, Litzenberger) 12:27; 5. Chicago, Litzenberger (Murphy) 15:44; 6. Chicago, Murphy ‘Sloan, Litzenberger) 16:24. Penalties: Horton 9:47, Lindsay minor and misconduct 13:05. Third period: 7. Toronto, Wil-

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Wilson scored his first marker \less*than two minutes later while!

{mey, Mohns) 8:28: 3. New York, | wings when he slipped Gordie | Chicago's Earl Balfour was in

the>penalty box, and Larry Re-' gan ended the spree by stealing, the puck in Chicago ice and skat-'

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By BERNARD DUFRESNE Canadian Press Staff Writer | ieee aaiaee (CP)—Ralph Gold-

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, Hamilton Tiger-Cats hard-| me halfback. may be consid- ered ‘as one of the roughest foot-

but he says it’s not so

And looking to Saturday's Grey | Cup final against Winnipeg Blue! Bombers, he said the defending champions from the west will! have to score at least three! touchdowns to win

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