Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 18 Winnipeg free press Friday december 13. 1946 Runyon Dwyer storied figures we were never fortunate enough to know those two famous Runyon and big Bill Dwyer died Early this week. But we knew that Lou Davies Well known racing authority and commentator did. So we asked Lou to take Over this column today. After you read Davies piece we think you will agree with us that it was a Happy thought. Take it away Lou. And the famed columnist and Short Story writer Damon h Hunyon lived one Day longer he might have had time in his own inimitable style to state As follows newspapers to line off the daily wats you failed to report to any great extent the color that was big Bill Dwyer 3 during the fantastic Era of the prohibition Days around new York in the 1920v Smith it was strange that both Runyon and Dwyer should die the same Day tuesday for Runyon Rode to Fame by writing of the characters around Broadway who worked for big Bill in his varied enterprises. Runyon Cap tured the curious first person Lingo of the underworld and Cre ated a style of writing All his own. English newspapers carrying run Yon stories ran competitions for comparable writing in what be came known As Runy onese Runyon s Little miss Marker later made into a the characters regret the horse player Spanish John Dave the dude and a Host of other Broadway citizens became friends of the Reader in the opening pages of a tale by this master Story Teller. Son of a Journeyman Printe in the Western United states run Yon became a Newspaperman o note. He covered the first world War and came Back to write sport for the Hearst paper in new York heading the mrs. Hearst milk fun Benefit heavyweight fights run Yon came to know intimately the Many Guys and dolls that made up Broadway two decades ago. These were the Lush Days of Man of War the Handy Guy jockey Sande mayor Jimmie Walker Helen Morgan Nicky Arnstein Sill Fallon the great mouthpiece Fanny Brice a card of admission o a speakeasy and big Bill Dwyer the extent of Dwyer s Boot egging operations probably never vill be told but even if they Werp he chances Are that the Story would not be believed at this late Date. Hollywood in its wildest in has never captured it and Runyon s characters were notoriously close mouthed. Of Dwyer it can be said that when he moved into sport he did t in a Way that earned him the Itle big. With millions at his command Dwyer brought the National hockey league to the United states at the advice of the Mon Treal promoter Tom Duggan. He built the Coney Island race track at Cincinnati later renamed River Downs which proved a heavy losing proposition to Dwyer. He was reported to have offers for famed Hialeah Par in Miami Florida and when unsuccessful took Over an sex do track in the same City and mad it into the highly successful trop ical Park. With hockey affairs not Goin too Well for big Bill and Bein forced to dispose of part of i holdings in tropical Park he a still optimistic enough to Enbar on a new venture taking a Nev York musical show Earl Carroll vanities he opened the Palm is land club on one of the Beautiful islands that Dot Biscayne Bay be tween Miami and Miami Beach Here Over the doors was painted through these portals pass the most Beautiful girls in the world. And they were. At the Palm Island club were not Only the most Beautiful girls in the world but gambling for High stakes the Best of food and the highest paid entertain ers in the United states. It was said that Dwyer lost in the first month of operation. When a Friend of Dwyer s died n Montreal Bill was holding the Man s useless note for Over a Quarter if a million dollars. With tilings going wrong All round him Dwyer till found time to get. To Montreal and guarantee the distressed fam by a month for a year. As things became worse for Jig Bill he lost All his holdings in tropical Park but retained a Small Arcel of property adjacent to the rack which was needed by the new owners for increased parking Pace. The few friends he had left advised him to hold on for a better Price. But one Day being badly pressed he sold the property but before getting Home he stopped to Purchase an automobile for a Friend who As Runyon might have put it could t make his bets be in the late twenties Dwyer was backing a dog racing track near Orlando Florida and Many of the ticket Sellers and Cashiers were Broadway characters whom Bill had Given the Opportunity of enjoying a Florida Winter. The word came around one night that big Bill was in trouble with Uncle Sam and that Many of these employees might be asked to give evidence in the Boot legging Case against the Boss. They were taken from the warmth of the Florida Sun and found themselves on the French Island of St. Pierre de Miquelon. With a shortage of staff there was some doubt As to whether the be Able to run after the stuffed Rabbit the next night for it is known to one and All that the sport has Little Appeal unless a Guy and his Judy have a few bobs on the outcome. At the last minute some of were pressed into service to replace the Broadway ites v should you be a Reader of Runyon you will find inter Esting a tale of a Guy on an enforced vacation on the Island of St. Pierre de Miquelon. Press Box Potpourri advice from Boucher As noted by free press sports staff Damon Bunyan Bill Dwyer extends canucks lose in overtime rescued by defence Man Tommy Johnson s overtime Eoal monarchs caught up with James canadians sur Visin in stub Bornt treat to upset them thursday night at the amphitheatre to win 0-4 and regain undisputed leadership of the Junior a hoc key league. It was an evenly matched con test which found the losers ahead until s.47 of the final period when Monarch Centre Dick Tough banged in his second goal to tie the score and cause the first extra session of the current season. Monarchs now have a two poin Lead Over Brandon elks and rang ers who Are deadlocked for second place. Brandon plays Portage saturday night while monarchs and rangers clash monday. Bran Don journeys Here next thursday to play monarchs. It was a proper fright the hot and cold canucks threw into monarchs before dropping thursday s game. Ron Henley popped in Lloyd Rushworth s pass Early in the opening period to give them Lead. Tougher finished off Gordon Scott s assist at 14.29 but Mcmillan sent the West Enders ahead again less than two minutes later. Both teams scored in a speedy second period As Graham Shephard went in alone to tie it up for the regals but Ford Scott retaliated for the canucks by slamming in his own rebound off the pipes. Shephard equalized again for the regals in the last period but Ken Hilton took Wilkinson s pass to Drill a Beauty. Tougher tied it up to Send them into overtime. The overtime started cautiously but Tom Johnson the former Badiu Man., lad broke away on a neat individual Rush to fire a scorcher from inside the Elueline that won the game. He was a going concern All night and exhibited a Nice turn of Speed. Although the penalty Supply was doled out in meagre doses monarchs were quite disdainful when tabbed. Monarchs Gordon Scott was dumped pretty heavily in the second by his brother Ford on the Canuck defence and had to repair ties to the dressing room for Aid but he returned a few minutes later Mcmillan Robson and Hilton predominated on the attack for the losing canucks while Scott and Wilkinson checked lustily. Monarchs were sparked by Al Buchan an Cam Millar and Jerry Scott. Mcmeekan t Johnson liar Simpson. J. Scott b. Johnston Arundel Buchanan tougher Beatty g Scott Kuseck Mckay Shephard. F Mackenzie Scott Wilkinson Middleton Pennell Hen Ruth Henley first period 1. St. James Eney Rushworth 7.52 2. Monarch tougher of p i-14i29 3 St James Mcmillan 0ig ib.4v. Penalties Millar Salties Cape to Shep monarchs Shephard St. James Hilton monarchs tougher Wilkinson 4.is s j. Scott s.47. Nil penalties overtime 9. Monarchs t. Johnson 1.-is. Penalties Simpson Beatty a Cercos Burnle Ost and Vic Lindquist. Elks Moose jaw in on Silks and wools in conservative or vivid patterns from scarves Wool or silk in smart patterns from Thomson Pope limited the Man s shop 379vz Portage ave. At Edmonton St. Elks opening their Power play in the last two periods handed Saskatoon an 8-2 set Back in an match Here thursday evening. A total of fans were or hand despite the Low tempera Ture. Gord Watters was the leading Marksman with three goals All in Brandon s big second period and cd them 25 seconds apart. Fred 3unsmore ame through with Brace Brandon Mcdirmid Goring Kaiser Judman Mccall uni Mann Manson Johnson Dunsmore Hergesheim Ner Walters Whitehead Campbell Saskatoon Shirley Hamilton Soice Gregory Montgomery Senick w. Cole Lay r. Cole Lardner Adolph o Hara Kobussen Parker. First period 1. Brandon Dunsmore Campbell 2. Saskatoon Lardner Adolph 3. Brandon Evans Saskatoon Adolph second period 5. Brandon Herge Helms 6. Brandon Dunsmore Campbell 7. Brandon Watters Evans Hergesheimer s. Bran on Watters Evans 9. Brandon Vatters Evans penalty lard third period 10. Brandon Manson a Mccallum penalty Burman Portage la Taw canucks proved too Strong for Portage terriers in an exhibition Dicckey tilt played Here thursday miming handily by a 10-4 count. The Moose jaw team was Spear a the play of metro pry Tai who scored three goals. Moose jaw _ Bentley Berard Tarala Hunchuk Prystal Kre Kiewetz Lovett Wiley. Bents a. Juckes Thompson Mil Ford Stein Wilson. Portage _ Bunn Drabot Schwartz Green Khmer Campbell Erskine Robertson. Love. Simonca Sundin Gold Strain. Robinson. First period 1. Moose jaw Lovett Wilson 2. Portage la Prairie Erskine Robertson 3. Moose jaw Berard Kre Kiewetz 4. Moose jaw Kre Kiewetz Prystay penalties Berard. Second period 5. Miose jaw Stein Tarala 6. Portage la Prairie Robertson Erskine 7. Moose jaw Wilson s. Portage la Prairie Simoneau _ third period 9. Moose jaw Prysta 10. Moose jaw Prystay Kreklo Wetz 11. Portage la Prairie Sun Din love 12. Moose jaw Berard 13, Moose jaw Stein Berard 14. Moose jaw Lovett Tarala Jack Lavoi Pete Leswick led by the skaters pictured the Cleveland Barons have climbed to the top of the Western division of the american hockey league. Two of Bob cause the three shown Are among the leading scorers in the Loop Carse having a 25-Point total and Leswick a 22-Point figure. 72 entries received for Junior Bonspiel by Scotty Harper future winners of the Macdonald s Brier Tankard the Blue Riband o Canadian Curling will be seen in action when the Manitoba High school b on Spiel gets underway thursday Jan. 2 at the 14 rinks in greater Winnipeg. When Secretary Lyle Dyker filed the latest entry thursday night 72 rinks Hac entered the youngsters Curling classic but Dyker is confident thai last year s record of 152 rinks Wil go by the boards when the entries close saturday night. Champions of the High school Spiel last year and winners of the Jeyree press of Gimli cup is Herman Arnason defending his title. Arnason has almost the same formidable aggregation which won the newspaper event a year so it looks like the Gimli boys will be the ones to beat. Playing third for Arnason is Allan Helga son with Peter Thompson at second and a newcomer Kenny Einarson. As Lead off in entries close saturday night with Secretary Dyker at the Gordon Bell school. Of the 72 entries so far posted Are from the province and 13 from schools in the City a new representative from the City is a 59 rink from St. Paul s College skipped by Jerry Mcnulty son of that Fine curler from Sperling c. B. Mike Mcnulty. Jerry is former cup win Ner in the boys Bonspiel. That the High school Bonspiel i becoming known Over a wide Field is evidenced by the fact that there is a rink coming from the head of the lakes this year. Charlie Reynolds of Gordon Bell who placed third last year in the Dan Davidson event is in with a Strong aggregation. Kenora is sending along three of its Sterling Young skips in Dave Findlay Jack Gow and Bruce Macdonald while Brandon College has also entered three rinks with Dave Pikell Steve Snydal and Jimmy Grant holding the Broom. Somerset is another school which s bringing in three Finks skipped by Rene Beniton Maurice Decosse and Ralph Foster. Other High schools represented Are Altona Baldur because our Binscarth Birtle Cartwright Crandall Deoker Emerson 2 Gladstone Elgin Glenboro Lea Mgley Holland Killarney la Riviere Macgregor Tamorris Oak Lake Rath Well Riverton Russell Sandford Shoal Lake Sperling Cardwell Stonewall Waskada and Wawanesa. Curly Mckay of Shoal Lake who Seldom misses the big Spiel has a boy skipping a rink in the youngsters event this year. He s a better curler than his emotes curly so that youngster must be Good. Tom Bell of heading Ley a name favourably known in Manitoba Curling circles will be represented by his son Bob. A Young Canadian by the name of Kayo Ito is head ing a rink from Morris while Albert Friesen is handling the Sec Ond Morris entry. The officials handling the High school Bonspiel have again made the same elaborate arrangements for entertaining the up and coming curlers. There will be a banquet Lockey games for the boys to see and they will also be the guests of movie houses in town while Ernie Sowerby and his Granite officials will again entertain the eight rinks in the. Finals to dinner saturday night prior to the tart of the crucial matches. With the free press cup the Nam target for the Young curlers o shoot at the losers in the first of the newspaper event fall Back to the Tribune Competition and from there to the Calhoun and Hen to the Dan Davidson so that very rink in the Spiel is assured f four Brown 55 years ago and one swell time for Good measure. S air s be tires on time term s with Var time prices and j Trode regulation i played with 1st cagers it ctr i Sair s tire Exchange Graham at Garry Merigomish the mention of basketball brought a t ankle to the eyes of Rev. F g Macdonald. Basketball Why yes i was on the first team that Ever played Bas Etc All seventy years old or. Mac Donald retains nostalgic memories of that autumn Day in Spring Field mass., 55 years ago when the farm a basketball was invented thursday on its anniversary he recounted the Story at his Home in this Eastern Nova Scotia Community. As i remember it we were play ing _ football for Springfield College s against other teams in the state i we were leaving the fled after o last game of the season when the that was or. James Nai said we needed game "wv.uv.i4 a Kailis that we could play inside during Winter. 6 somebody was carrying the posts in i he said bring that goal Over and i la hold it Here then up on one to posts. Another Post was put at the other end of the gymnasium Ana somebody s hat was stuck up on we chose ides there were nine a Side and we placed the first game trying to throw that football the pan and hat. Of course we went into it Pell and it was the strongest team came out on after the or second game peach baskets were substituted for the pail Ana hat and rules were added to the style of play soon after the game originated fall Smith Falls ont branched out and a league was formed in which teams from All aver the states met. We never lost a game for two or. Maldon said we 3laye, a the colleges after the league was organized and we were never beaten in two years. After that of course were graduated and broke Boucher one of the smartest hockey performers Ever to lace on a skate believes players should never try to beat their goalkeeper during the pre game Wanup. They should shoot into the goalie s pads every says Bou Cher let the goalie look Good on All shots. It builds up his Confidence when he makes a few stops and hell figure that he s really going to be on we could t help but recall Boucher s excellent advice after watching the local puck chasers seniors too by the Way attempt to drive their goalie practically through the net during pre game practice. Next time you re lined up for a blazing pre game drive at your Newman remember what Boucher said. We think its pretty sound strategy. Get a Little headlines at Shoal Lake Man., they Are planning quite a show for the opening of their new skat ing rink monday night. The feature attraction will be an exhibition hockey game be Manitoba Junior standings when game in Ken Watson loses a the Manitoba Bonspiel. Which is not very often he can pin it on mrs. Lyle Dyker. Lyme curls second on Ken s prize winning aggregation. I must be their Hoo Doo or smiled mrs Dyker for every time i go to see or. Watson s rink playing in the Bonspiel they always lose so i just stay away Bob Carley the. University of Minnesota s phenomenal athlete who Lias been deaf since birth is about to win his 10th major "m1 As a Wing on what May be one of the greatest Gopher hockey teams in Many years. Carley a right Wing has been the leading scorer on Strong Minnesota sextet of the past two seasons. Carley is no stranger to Winni beg. He s been Here a number of times with University of Minnesota hockey teams. Hell be coming again this year too when the gophers play against St. James. Incidentally u of m Hopes to get a game with Minnesota when they come to Winnipeg. A basketball zealot from St vital s. Parthenon writes our Charlie Laveman about a probable change by the senior cagers from they floor to the auditorium for the second half of their sched ule provided they can straighten out the financing problem. He also adds this in the estimation of the players and fans will be Fine Spece the boys finish at 12 Midnight and then have to get up for work in the morning which is not very while on the subject he plumps for fairer descriptions of contests As to the players who fail to figure much in the scoring. He uses Jim Mckemie of chix and Pat Kearney of rods As shining examples to support his argument. He figures these two Are among the hardest working seniors in the Loop but he observes that game reports Seldom mention them. He says sure it s orc. To mention the High scorers like Jim Bulloch Mike Bosnyk Roy Burkett and Bill Mason but 1 think these other Fellows should give him this Stetson gift idea jonarchs__5 srandon___3 dangers ___5 St. James 6 Portage ___3 w 4 3 3 1 0 a pm 19 6 16 36 21 thursday s game monarchs a St. James 4 . Philadelphia 3, Springfield 5 new Haven 1, Buffalo 2 Western Canada senior Saskatoon 3, Calgary 3 Western International Nelsons los Angeles 0 Junior exhibition Moose jaw 10, Portage 4 Brandon a Saskatoon 2 . Hollywood. 8, Oakland 5 Portland 4, new Westminster 6 a . Kansas 3, fort Worth 1 Quebec senior Shawinigan Falls 6, Valleyfield 3 j provincial Verdun 9, Sherbrooke 4 Edmonton City canadians 6, new method 3 exhibition Edmonton 4, Camrose 3 Fridal swimming gala at y.w.c.a., . Commercial hockey is. Transcona 8.00 James Baak Etoll Junior intermediate 8.20, at . How7gets6.k. Ottawa Syd Howe former Star Forward of Detroit red wings is Back in Amateur hockey ranks i ,0me town Howe was Hoti Ned that his had been approved by . President Clar ence Campbell he will play for Ottawa senators of the upper Ottawa Valley hockey league a senior a Ipa Emo tween Brandon elks and por Tage terriers of the Junior a division of the . Larry Archambault left Wing recently recalled from the Hollywood wolves by the Pitts Burgh hornets in the american hockey league was an Ace flyer with the . Army air forces during the War. In his High school Days at Massena . He was a four letter athlete. Sports owe a great debt to Poland for the Many Star athletes it polish descent who have scintilla Ted on ice and Gridiron. Former Winnipeg Junior Star Walter Stefanie. Newly acquired Pivot of the Phil Adelphia rockets in the american hockey league was born in War saw Poland on dec. 3, 1922. Shoal Lake curlers beat Kenton rinks Shoal making their first defence of the season of the o Grady Challenge trophy he Shoal Lake curlers hurled pack the Kenton aggregations Vining both matches. Curly Lackay s rink Defeated George Dalley s foursome 12-8 while d. W. Findlay s men got the Best of 5. H. Mackay s rink winning by he same score to give the defenders a total of 24 Points to Enton s 16. Shoal . W. Mclean f Findlay h. O. Hurst and cur by Mackay 12. Wallace John Hunter Tim Breed George Dalley 8. Shoal s. Mclean h. H. Pollock g. F. Dawson and d. Findlay 12. Kent John Robertson Jim Lyall and d. H 8. Open alleys at the every saturday afternoon fir evening see Corke s 5th annual Diamond Sale tremendous savings advertisement on today s society Page and he is sure of tha Stetson of his Choice just drop into either of our style shops and ask for a gift certificate. We include a genuine miniature Felt hat in a miniature Christmas hat Box. See his eyes Light up Christmas morning Stetson from 8.00 to 15.00 269 Portage Portage at the mail Don t forget the senior hockey game Evans stylists is. Reo flyers wednesday. Pec. 18th, 8.30 ;