Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday March 8, 1940 Paob seventeen tag play in title Badminton Forsythe Jones Triumph after Liliant match by Clem Shields if Winnipeg Badminton fans never see another Canadian moot they have Little cause for complaint. Thurs Day night at the Winter club where this year s renewal of the annual tournament is taking place they saw a match which has Gready been Muc Reci on the records Book As one of the greatest exhibitions of Badminton Ever played anywhere any time any place. And from it emerged the local pair of Jim Forsythe and a 0. Bert Jones As the heroes. A Pii Keci gallery was in turn roused to applause and hushed to silence by the very brilliance of the play on the i the men s open doubles Quarter Imal match the Central figures in the sporting drama being enacted grimly went about their business a nerve tingling end nerve breaking business in which eventually the slightest error in judgment or even anticipation meant elimination. Opposed to Forsythe and Jones the crack partnership of John Sam is and a. France of British Columbia never asked nor gave an Inch and after losing the open ing set 5-15, they came Back with an unstoppable attack of powerful and accurate hitting to Triumph 15 10. Gallery on Edge today s draws swims tonight think sir you la save plenty 4 . Dawlet Misa o Shea and h. Birch i. Flu tur cot and h. Smith mrs. Walton and r. Is. Bonthron and v. Xung a Ltd Man of inert and j. Snyder is. Miss Wckhardt and e. Mian Taylor and j. Under Bill in Piri and c. L. Jones h Winner m. Jda Lincy Mim Effert in. Winners b. Snell Eckhardt win Walton Mih Gray i. Khan miss Taylor. San Ofui h. B. Birch Winner w. Pinkerton de. Lemon j. 3nyder is. Winner t. Lons Ridge a sails u . Indict mrs. Walton and miss Effert mrs. Pirt and mrs. Hughes b. Snell and mrs. Perodeau Misi Sheppard and Mim Gray. Man s Doublet me sri Sibbald and Phelan is. Under Hiu and Laney Meiers. Fora the and Jones i. Snyder . Winner of and Birch Turcot Alan Boyd one of Manitoba s outstanding swim and Smith is. Winner of Walton and who will appear on the our n c la Brand. M .1 Teriaka 4 r r Herr. Genuine Sirr u buy your Spring suit or top coat now. For easter to i Nequa lord values Frank Mccomb 403 Portage at. Chelan Bonthron Long Iradge winners a Effert Snyder Eckhardt and . Leney is. Winner of Taylor and Hlll Pirt and result of perfect teamwork the win nip Eggers took the set 18-15, Andl the match audible sigh of what May be termed local Relief Fol Lowed. As a result of their Victory thurs Day night Forsythe and Jones will meet Jim Snyder and Paul Snyder of Toronto and Montreal respectively in the Semi finals the Eastern pair having advanced at the expense of Charlie Jones and a. A. Wil Liams of Winnipeg. In the top Hall of the men s open doubles the defending champions Rod Phelan Toronto and j. Sib Bald London Defeated Lount and Richards of Winnipeg and the Veteran Jack under Bill of Van a. Annual carnival programme at the Sher Brooke Street Pool tonight and saturday night. More about realm continued from Page 16 w wag oomph in in Large Bunches. Hen it was All Over Howard senior tried vainly to be nonchalant about the whole thing. He started to curl More than 30 year ago. As a matter of fact his original Bonspiel skip Back in 1b08 Aat in the gallery last night and watched his Pupil make Good. Couver teamed with e. Leney of that Man was j. Fred Palmer and Duncan Vancouver Island to Elim Fred was As Happy As Howard s the deciding was spectacular j Nate the local partnership of de almost to the extreme and left the gallery at times j Itte rally gasping in sheer astonishment at the uncanny skill of the court masters. With Victory for first one partner ship and then the other Teeter tottering Jones it his Peak with his specially of soft net play and Forsythe list As Brilliant with his smashing Samis and France cover ing court in phenomenal style fans were Given just about the Acme in Badminton thrills and when As a s tet s Lemon and Ems Long. Great future coming within an Ace of rivalling for brilliance the featured men s doubles match was open singles match Between defending Cham Pion Dick Birch of Montreal and Young a. France of Kelowna . An overwhelming favorite to and Vance Birch did so but not before he was forced by France of pull out ail the tricks of court strategy he has piled up Over a period of years playing Badminton. The Champion was successful 15-11, 15-9 but it is evident after his play in both the mixed and the singles that France who Only saturday celebrated his father the late and respected Dan Wood would have been had he been there to see not Only his son but his grandson As Well participate in that Curling show. I m glad for the boy s Howard said. Curl inf Centre but the spontaneous reception the visitor and Home curler received was a revelation to me. We re certainly elated the 1940 championships were conducted in your wonderful Secretary of the Mcdonald Brier to Uteri c. A Richardson who teen 14 of thew Eventa take Pooe atoned lie had never seen anything in his time to even equal the apoe Tacle he had witnessed at the amphitheatre. We had been aaa Rcd this might happen but did we believe it unit we saw it with our own and that pipe band show with the kind permission of my Friend col. Hath Mac Kent be wan the Fin Ishing touch to it commenting on Manitoba s ninth win in h starts in the Brier play Down Billy Finlay a recognized authority on All mat Curling stated after his . Rink had just won three straight games i thought we were Curling Well but our Best was far Short of what it took to win this 1940 tank Ard. I be seen Howard Wood curl for a Lon i time but i be never seen him curl As Well As he did through the nine game test we have just concluded. He had All the shots and the courage to make them. And that goes for his whole All of which we considered a High tribute to our All Canada Champi. Speaking to Bert Hall the de posed Canadian Champion from Kitchener ont. It s been a wonderful weak. You have overcome us All with your hospitality. After what i saw out there tonight and it simply overwhelmed me i d say the sponsors should bring this title meet Back to Winnipeg at least once in every three years. Your Public demands then moved along to that other tried and True Warrior Ernie Pollard. And there again came a similar rebuttal. Of i guess we just take those things in our stride. But i m sure glad for Howie and let it be said they were elated for Howie and Roy both of them. But let it also be said at eighteenth birthday is to be tabbed this time they both received a great thrill whether they would admit it f. B w _ a future Champion. In the Semi finals of the men s open singles Birch will meet the Winner of the Pinkerton Lemon Badminton continued on Page 22 w is How to get a head Star t More about Brandon s win continued from Page 16 for a few minutes near the end and Henry made a spectacular Stop when Melnyk got clean through on Lofvendahl s pass. The third period mostly belonged to Kenora. Bobby Benson kept shifting his lines around to try to find something that would Click but without Success. They outplayed Brandon but not Henry. Once Mel Nyk broke alone and Henry saved and another time Lofvendahl sent Dartnell in Clear but Henry was invincible. Bill Juda played 60 minutes one penalty on de Fence Lofvendahl almost As Ion great defensive pair and dangerous on attack predicted fireworks failed to materialize closest was a push ing Bee in the third Between Malnyk and Taylor. Sirnoi a Rayner. Pond. Hilda and Lofvendahl. Defence Milford. Centre Dartnell and White. Winks Melnyk. Jorgenson Hanton rims lad and Johns alternates. Roal Harmon and Richardson defence Taylor Centre Wycherley and Hickey. Wines Johnston. Mulkern Brown. Cameron Shearer and Mcmurdy alternates. And Ullman Winnipeg. First Brandon Brown 15.30. Brown. Scorinzi. Juda. _ third scoring. Loi Bradahl Shearer. Johnston. Or not. From the first Day of the All important argument until the Well from that twelfth end draw to the four foot Howard himself made on the opening draw against the Dunbar rink of Saskatchewan All the Way to the finish the Manitoban curled superbly consistent. They had their misses but they had very few of them and that is Why Manitoba can claim the world supremacy is still her own. As for Young Howard and Hoy Well they both admitted it might be a few Days before they would property realize they were on a rink which had just won the acknowledged Curling championship of the world. I made Many said Roy but i was trying All the As for Howie jr., All he could say when it was All Over was i m so excited a bout it All i Don t know what to a and so it went All Down the line from Nova Scotia All the Way to British Columbia. Col. Peter Lyall Montreal declared it was the greatest Curling show he had Ever seen and went further by insisting it was by far 1he Best Ever held in the whole world. Peter Lyall has been around this world a bit and the Montreal sportsman and former Manitoban is respected wherever Curling is a game. For that reason we were again elated we had sat in on the show which made such history. Furthermore we were glad the foursome Steve Trewhitt got together at the last moment made the Grade. And How we were glad. And we re also pleased Saskatchewan finished Sec Ond. That town of Kinley sask., with its 85 citizens should give these Dunbar boys real Welcome. They deserve it. Donna hello twin new Don yes Mam i m going to get that new Job on the strength of this Amateur boxing at Sulc tonight the Stock Exchange athletic club Jias lined up a card which promises to be full of action for tonight at the club rooms Logan and Arlington. Some of the Best Amateur boxers in the City Are taking part Harry Gillhan Mike Ellis Frank Cumiskey Ham Irwin Tony Roberts and Chick Haynes. There will be two wrestling matches Between Wally White and Tommy Mcpherson and Henry maitre and Billy Furgeson. The card will get under Way with a Battle Royal at 8.15 o clock. Arrived As a big time i sports attraction thursday night right Over there at the amphitheatre rink. Men who have been connected with the sport from anywhere up to 80 years glanced Over that great throng and with justifiable Pride admitted it was really something which they had never dreamt of seeing. Talk to the visiting curlers and they readily attested to the fact. Talk to any single one of the sponsors and the response was the same. President of the w. C. Macdonald company of Montreal Thomas Caverhill stated it was marvellous. I had always known Winnipeg was a additional on Donna not taking any chances Don indeed i m not seems to me there s something about a Stetson that makes Man a even Donna you re telling me still though you Are my brother i must say you look quite distinguished and i m sure you la get that Don thanks Donna i la buy you an other Stetson when i get my first pay Stetson for men Brock hats by Stetson Stetson for women from up made in Canada sold by leading merchants everywhere monarchs at Mph. Is. Portage ight on South division Junior hockey comes Back to Winnipeg with a vengeance tonight when. Monarchs clash with por Tage la Prairie terriers in the second game of their Best of three a series at the amphitheatre at 8.30. Monarchs who ended the season at the top of the league standings after edging out Kenora thistles 1-0 in an extra game to break a deadlock will be on the Long end of the after their 5-1 Victory at the Plains City saturday night. But the monarchs were flattered by the score in the first game and won t have things easy against Jimmy Creighton s determined Young terriers tonight. Portage got in under the wire in fourth spot in the playoffs but have been a stumbling Block against the monarchs All Winter and will have some of the smart Money on their noses. A win for monarchs tonight would Send them into the final South division playoff on two straight but if terriers come through the series will be forced into the third game. Bosons Battle affix m in y return Clark s special week end u. 9.15 . Sat., mar. 9. Return on special train sun., Fla Flat in Macdonald s makes a better cigarette tobacco University of Manitoba bosons have their second Chance to take the Winnipeg and District senior hockey league championship when they clash with Clark s cruisers in the third of the bust of three final playoffs at the olympic rink at 8.30 tonight. Bosons Are slightly favored to take the title on their showing through the Semi final series and in two previous Post schedule games against the cruisers. In the first they were out in front 7-4, but dropped the next by a single goal in overtime on a 5-4 count. Coach lome Chabot has his varsity team Riding on the top of a Crest which carried them triumphant through the last half of the regular schedule hut the cruisers were on top All year and proved capable of winning in their earlier stand this week. Evenly matched both teams will turn in a sound performance on Good ice tonight s Winner will earn the right to meet Royal Winnipeg rifles for the Manitoba championship. My a la. Fortar ave Academy re local my turning Tiitu Academy of Fol. Aft. Portage ave. lit mtr to. Muto. Depot in a 3t in f. I i i of pm hair. N lri4p i 4 r m f m m m i j f r f m f Lim Mirml ;