Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1947, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page Winnipeg free press tuesday april 15, 1947 battling Reo flyers do it again today team that was t Given a Chance against the Western Only one game away from Cream. One of the biggest upsets in hockey his tory. How is it the flyers find themselves in the Driver s seat Well we Haven t got the com plete answer to that one not having seen the two games in Calgary. However. Monday night at the amphitheatre it was sheer fight and determination that carried them to Vic tory. That and the fact that a i red headed Guy by the name of Don Mcrae insisted on playing despite the fact he carried a two Pound pm Ster cast on his srm protecting a broken wrist. You can ridicule if you like All that stuff about spirit etc., but we believe the very fact that Mcrae had the gumption to ask a promis ing hockey career by donning a uniform inspired his team mates. Anyway that was the kind of hoc key they played against this Strons Well balanced team from Alberta which figured to Knock them Over in three straight. He terrific red head did t see a great Deal of action Mon Day but he was on the ice Long enough to provide the assist for the flyers first goal. That in itself did something to the Ken Nedy Burnett outfit and from then on there was no stopping them. Having Learned our lesson from the recent Moose jaw Brandon series we re not going to predict the flyers will earn the Jaunt Down East to meet the Eastern champions. But we will say this Calgary Stam Peders Are going to have their work Cut out to deliver a Kaye punch in the next game or games. You can t underestimate the Blades Speed up shaving minora gives you quicker Isavei than Ordinary double Edge razor Blades. It s the Quality Blade in the Low Price Field. Your double Edge razor now How do you like that folks it seems there is a gang of rustlers on the Loose hereabouts. In other words if Calgary stampedes Don t watch out our Reo flyers Are going to rid Herd on them so hard they la wind up Back in pasture country with nothing but memories of what might have been instead of s berth in the Allan cup final. 7tt stampedes. They did t win the Western Canada league Champion ship and then Knock Over Kimber Ley Dyn miters without having plenty on the Ball. Flyers will find them tougher to beat from Here on in. But that win last night is going to give the Divens gang an awful lot of Confidence. The rest of the the will be no Pink Tea party for Jack Arbour s club either. Played better hockey than we be Ever seen them play. What impressed us most was the work of the Elueline per formers Bob Sykes. Bud Craig Bob Tel Encoe and Harry sulkers they gave Bun Nicholson Rock ribbed Protection while receiving a lot of help from the forwards who Bac checked relentlessly. We also like the Way the Calgary defence men covered up in front of Russ Dertell particularly when the flyers had the pressure on. However. Art Micholuk. The boy who is supposed to Knock pm up in the dime seals did t look too Good. But maybe the reason for that was because he received the worst of it when he tried to tag Hugh Bell in the second period. He wound up on the seat of his pants a slightly dizzy hockey player. In Ken red Hunter Bob Brownridge and Dune Grant the Cal Arians really have a Nice line. They were not too effective Mon Day but you can see with one Eye that the ability is there and that you be got to watch them closely or else. This Grant can really be when he makes up his mind and is shifty going in. Star of the game was undoubtedly Don Raleigh. The Slick trigger brained Pivot Man really played a lot of hockey out there laying Down those Lovely passes and Sel Dom making a false move. No wonder Monsieur Boucher wants to turn him pro. Frank must have been drooling at the Mouth last night As he saw Don in action again for the first time in a couple of years. A capacity crowd saw the game. They la be knocking Down the doors to get tickets for the next one. Ducats go on Sale today fellas. Reckon they have earned that spot by the sweat of their brows. For the second time in three nights the unheralded and Unsung Leos took the measure of the Al Wertans by 3 to 2 and the jammed wrong of fans Many of whom figured that Calgary had merely got a bad game out of heir systems when losing 2 to 1 if ruptured try this out modern Protection great Comfort and holding Security without torturous truss wearing at Eye opening revelation in Sensi ble and comfortable reducible rupture Protection May be yours Cor the asking without Cost or obligation. Simply tend name Anc address to William s. Rice. Appliance co. Ltd. Dept. 1203-b, 5 West Adelaide St. Toronto. Ont. 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Lothian proposed the Toast to the Manitoba Curling association and honorary Secretary Bill Luis Den replied for the . Ross Woods congratulated Jimmy Welsh and his rink on winning the do minion Curling championship. Pres ident Frank Wall of the St. Vita club spoke for the representative of the sister clubs and Scott Harper replied to the Toast to the press. Wilf pension s concert party pro Vidd a first class entertainment. Senior b softball anyone interested in the forma Tion of a men s senior a soft Ball league is asked to be at the next league meeting which will be held May 4 at 3 . At the Esquire cafe. Applications for umpires Are to be mailed to the Secretary f. Walsh Globe Lite batteries ltd., not later than May 1. By Harvey Dryden it May seem out of the order to countless hockey fans across these Low water logged Prairies to see a senior team called the Reo flyers yes. From Winnipeg leading the Allan cup champions the Calgary stampedes by two games to one in a. Best of five series or the Western Crown but to the battling nothing reos themselves there s unusual about it. They saturday could hardly believe their eyes. As you May recall the Stamps simply overpowered the flyers in the series opener last thursday in Calgary by a 10 to 3 count. After that she lacking the reos realized that they d have to Battle As they have never battled before if they were going to get anywhere in this series. That s exactly what they have been doing Ever since. Fourth game of the series goes wednesday. Fifth game if Neces sary will also be played at the amphitheatre. If the fans were amazed at the scoreboard Reading at the final whistle think How they must have Felt when Don Mcrae his broken wrist encased in a wrist to Elbow All of the third period. But stayed in there Long enough cast skated out to take his regular spot at the opening whistle. True Mcrae did t see As much action As he would have liked to up his left Wing spot to Clint Al Bright most of the Way and almost he to make the play for the first goal of the game scored by Jack Kerna Han at 18.57 of the second period. Play moved at a hectic Pace throughout the thrill packed game with action galore around each goal. However both net minders managed to keep their twine Clear in the first session which saw five penalties handed out. Including two minors to Art Shoquist Blond Calgary rearguard and a major to Al Bright for drawing blood on Tony Desmarais on a Check ing Exchange. In All the fiery Shoquist picked up four minors plus a ten minute misconduct for referee baiting. Albright s major which cart pc near the end of the period followed a minor to Hughie Bell forcing the flyers to play two men Short for a minute and 35 seconds. Reos weathered that storm . As they did when they ran into another similar five minute sentence when Bob Mcdonald was bounced for cutting Bob Brownridge. Shoquist had scored on a shot from near the Blue line in. The second period when Mcdonald was serving time but the ref Rejes Cal the terrific gathered around Spunky Don Mcrae last night after the stunning upset Victory turned in by Reo flyers Over Calgary stampedes. Mcrae played despite a mean wrist fracture which is encased in the e Sam i who was another standout. The contented men in the pict re Are Mcrae s dad. Centre and team president Bob Divens Rig t. Plaster cast shown above. On the left of Don is lineman Fabro while the other player is Centre Man Don Raleig opens season with dodgers Robinson moves up today new Robinson moves into big league Competition today As a member of the Brooklyn and most baseball men agree that the Lithe negro not Only will stay up but probably will become a Star. The 27-year-old Robinson who first won National athletic Fame As an All american halfback at the University of California a los Angeles was the first to admit that the pressure would be great. But this is what i be been waiting he said. He was confident that or could make Good in the majors thus opening the door for others of his race to compete on equal footing they do without incident in Box ing College and professional foot Ball College and professional basketball and As jockeys in horse racing. He already has proved he can produce despite pressure. He became the first negro in organized baseball when Branch Rickey signed him to a Montreal contract last year and was received with mixed emotions by his Montreal team mates. The Montreal manager. Clay Hopper a native of Mississippi declared that Robbie would get a fair Chance and held to his word. The six foot 180-Pound negro played 119 games at second base an unfamiliar position led the International league in batting with a .340 percentage. Sideline Moncton Hamilton reaches Eastern puck final Toronto Hamilton tigers monday came roaring Back from a two goal deficit to rap in three goals in three minutes of the third period and win their Eastern Canada Semi final Allan cup hockey series in three straight with Moncton Hawks by Tak ing the last game 5-4. The hard hitting bengals came to life with a bang in the last half of the final period after two frames in which the Eastern team outplayed them. Tigers now and j Vance to the Eastern finals against Jeither Sherbrooke St. Francis or Montreal Hoyals. Led by Clarence Shillington who performed the hat trick for the second time in the series Hamil ton kept even with Moncton through two periods before Spring ing to their big attack. To the roaring fans it looked All Over for Hamilton in the first few minutes of the third period when the Hawks rapped in two counters in Quick succession by Whitelock and Poirier to make it 4-2. That for 24 Cash in your empty Beer bottles now was the moment when tigers struck Back. They quickly forced Moncton Back into their own territory and in rapid fire order banged in goals by Pierre Cadieux and Shillington with the pay off coming from Bill Dinning. Moncton Mcdonald. Fraser. Poirier. Dowling. Mcmanus. Trainor. Bast racer. Charlton. Demchuk . Bell. Whitlock. Agnew. Hamilton Childs. Laurent. Sperry peer. Mason Liscombe Dinning. Soil line Lon. Runions. J. Conick. A. Conick Brady. Cadieux. First period scoring none. Penalties Poirier. Second period 1. Hamilton. Shilling baseball sheeting Sparling tigers juvenile base Ball team will hold a meeting wednesday at 8.30 . In the base ment of Sparling United Church Corner of Worth and Elgin. All players interested Are invited to attend. Ion Runions. Conick i 2. Moncton. Lucaci beater Demchuk 3. Hamil ton. Shillington Conick. Laurent 1. Moncton. Mcmanus i Fraser Trainor i Penally third period Moncton Whitlock Charlton i i. Moncton. Poirier Manus Trainor 7. Hamilton. Ca Direux Brady Dinning s. Hamil Ion. Shillington j. Sperry Hamilton. Dinnin . Ronick Sperry penalties Runions peer. Poirier. Predict repeats for cards and sox new Louis cardinals and Boston red sox. Who met in the world series last fall Are n cinch to stage a repeat performance in the opinion of a majority of baseball experts in the United states. The 96 major league writers participating in the associated press annual poll closely followed last year s order of finish in Mak ing their 1947 predictions. Eighty eight of them placed Eddie Dyer s world Champion cardinals in the number one spot in the National league. Five votes went to Brook Lyn dodgers two others were handed to Chicago cubs and one picked the improved Boston braves to win the Pennant. The defending Champion Boston red sox. Although not quite the overwhelming favorite that the red Birds Are were selected by 79 writ ers to win the american league Flag. Of the other 17 votes a dozen went to Detroit 1945 i n n e r a three went to new York Yankees and the remaining two were garnered by Cleveland indians. Edit Back because of a Calgary player in the crease. The first legitimate goal came with both ides at full strength. Coach. Art Barnett sent Mcrae out on the second string Alung with Bell and Oards mostly with his one Good land on the stick As he was forced o play much the time he beat a Calgary player and whipped it across in front of the net for Kern to slap Home. The flyers went two up after 10 seconds of the third when Sam Rabron blinked the Light on a pass rom Don Raleigh whose dazzling passes and All round play thrilled he Pew holders throughout. Raleigh broke up a Calgary attack at he red line and headed goal wards with one stamp breathing heavily Lown his neck and a Lone defender Between him and Dertell in the Cage. As he hit the Calgary Blue Ine he slipped a pass Over to Abro who wheeled right in on top Dertell to hit the twine. The Stamps finally beat Bun Nicholson two minutes later on a wild scramble with Doug Cairns driving one Home after Nicholson and most of the Fly ers were caught out of Posi Tion. What proved to be the winning goal was netted by Albright with Raleigh and Fabro having a hand in the play. Albright picked up the led second sackers in Fielding with .985. And was second in the league in base stealing with 40 thefts. His Fine play continued in the playoffs and in the Little world series. More important he became one of the Best liked men on the team both with his mates and with the ans. After the final Little world series Victory the Montreal crowd Lood cd onto the Field and hoisted women to ils ind Robinson. Robinson wept openly with Pride and pleasure. Today Hopper is a Strong Robinson Ooster. Know hell hit .300 in the the manager said. Hell unt third basemen crazy and hell lit drives to All Fields. He has no weakness at Bat. He in t a major Raguc first baseman right now but hell make it because of his Vonder news of the promotion was Aken calmly by dodger players ome of whom Are southerners. Mickey had talked to Many of the players during the training tour and reportedly informed them that Lis prime object was to build a Vinning team and that he would use any player who would help. The National arbitration Tribu Nal has announced that British foot Ball players have been awarded maximum wage of week in the Winter and s40 a week in the summer. J. Guthrie chairman of the players said tonight. Guthrie added there would be a minimum wage of cs28 Ter and in Summe the Derby the world s most famous Flat race has been postponed from wednesday june 4, to saturday. June 7. At Epsom Downs n co operation with the govern ment hold Down on mid week sports. V v Miami Beach. Ruth predicted if anyone Ever beat or equalled his record of 60 Home players who did not wish operate would be allowed to to none wanted to leave Brooklyn and the consensus after Robinson s promotion was that i it would help the dodgers it was an acceptable move. For canadians Telephone direct to the brewery and they will be picked up by truck. Government liquor control commission future is Rosier Toronto the future looked Rosier for Montreal canadians confident the return of Maurice Richard will tip the Scales in their favor in the Best of seven Stanley cup final with Toronto Maple Leafs. I think Well win said general manager Frank Selke lifting a week end blackout on activities of his club which dropped two straight games to the Leafs 4-0 and 4-2, after winning the opener 6-0. Conny smythe of the Leafs a trifle More cautious reported we re still the challengers and we re still he won t know until game time whether Gus Mortson will be on the de Fence in the fourth game because of a sprained hand. Selke said he looked to the re turn of Richard suspended for the third game saturday night for an attack on Toronto s Bill Ezinicki to put the canadians Back in the series. Not Many players can score 45 goals in 60 games like he did during the said the Mont real manager. We came close to winning saturday night. I figure we actually were beaten by a one goal fourth Toronto goal although a nifty play coming on a breakaway in the last Curling banquet the past president s association of the Manitoba Curling clubs is holding its 20th annual meeting and banquet at the Marlborough hotel april "21, at . Mem Bers Are requested to Send in their cards to Secretary a. E gods Mark on or before thursday so that seating accommodation May be arranged. Edmonton Junior bid rejected Edmonton bid to have one game of the Junior hoc key Dominion final has been turned Down Al Packard vice presi Dent of the c.a.h.a., announced monday. Fourth game of the Memoria cup series Between Moose jaw canucks and Toronto St. Mikes which opens at Winnipeg tuesday night will be played at Regin april 22. The fifth if necessary Wil be played at Moose jaw april 24 the sixth at april 26 and any further games at Regina. I. Was announced earlier that the. Second game would be played a Moose jaw next thursday and the third at Regina next saturday. Officials for the series will be Ken Mullins of Montreal and Vic Lind quist of Winnipeg. Major leagues Start today new York a opening Day baseball attendance Marks May go by the boards tuesday when the 1947 major league season opens in eight cities with a total of fans expected. Cool Cloudy weather is forecast. Because Mon Day s presidential preview at Washington Between senators and Yankees was rained out. All 16 teams now Are due to get away at the same time. Clyde Sukeforth named acting manager after Leo Durocher was suspended is to supervise the Brooklyn Boston festivities at be bets Field where a crowd is due to watch the unveiling of Jackie Robinson As the first negro major leaguer. Bucky Harris returns to the big show bossing new York Yankees Harold Muddy Ruel is the new manager of St. Louis Browns Billy Herman will try to Combine playing and managing at Pitts Burgh and Johnny Neun Veteran Yankee farm system manager gets his first big time Chance at Cin pass right can Dertell s Doorstep and made no mistake. The final goal of the night Carne at 13.08 when Ken Hunter found tie lower Corner after a face or beside the Reo Cage. Bob Brown Ridge assisted on the score. In the remaining six minutes of play the Stamps poured to the attack but the flyers held on and when Calgary did get n close Nicholson was the master of the situation. With 29, seconds remaining a sixth Calgary for Ward was put on the ice in place of goalie Dertell. Sta3ipeders passing attack of course did t function As smoothly on the smaller Mph. Ice. They of chances make no mistake about that but Nich Olson robbed them of Many coun ters while they had Tough Luck on Many others. Don t think the reos could t Nave cashed in on More scores if their marksmanship had been better. Although their Goalmouth plays were not As systematic As he Stamps their Power attacks hemmed the visitors inside their own Elueline for lengthy spells on Many occasions. There was More bodily Contact in this contest than in the first two at Calgary which is perhaps natural when you consider the difference in the size of the. Ice. There was a lot of heavy checking in the first period particularly. Calgary Dertell. Shoquist Michaluk. Wilder Craddock. Hunter Brownridge. Grant. Cairns Dame. Fisher. Desmarais. French. Sulkers Sykes Crais Tel Encoe. Raleigh. Albright. Fates. Bell. Kernahan. Mcdonald. Mcrae. O Connell. Crete Hon. Brandon and Ike Morrison. Moose jaw. First period no scoring. We arc very satisfied with Thel Cannati. lie said. Dundee United monday Defeated Raith rovers 3-0 in a Raguc b division soccer it scottish atch. Runs in a single season Ted Wil Liams was the Likely player. The former Sultan of Swit during his first interview since his Arriva Here to mend from a Winter illness predicted that Williams. Boston red sox slugger could better his aver age by Hilting into left f betting commissioner Roll listed these Odds on James car the nation be Pennant the world Champion St. Louis cardinals open at Cincinnati where a sellout crowd is expected to see the reds try to Stop Eddie Dyer s champs. Joe Cronin Banks of Tex Hughson to pitch for the Boston red sox against Early Wynn of Washington. Fabro. Shoquist 21, Belt. Albright major second reos Kernahan 18.57. Dame. Shoquist minor and third reos. Fabro Raleich i. Fal sary Cairns Fisher. Darne 2.57 4. Reos. Albright Raleigh. Fabro 9.23 Calcaro. Hunter brawn Ririe is. Of. Rugby nonfood St. Practice Boniface legion club Manitoba intermediate champions will hold an initial Spring practice sunday at 2 . At Provencher school grounds Corner Cathedral and Ste. Jean Baptiste All last year s others interested Are requested to attend. Export Canada s finest cigarette Al and american Lea races on the eve of the 1947 season opening. Louis cardinals 3 to 5 Brooklyn dodgers 3 to 1 bos ton braves and Chicago cubs 5 to i. Cincinnati reds 10 to 1 Pittsburgh pirates. Philadelphia Phillies and new York giants 30 to 1. Red sox 3. To 4 new York Yankees and Detroit tigers 3 to 1 Cleveland indians 6 to 1 St. Louis Browns and Chicago White sox 20 to 1 Washington senators 25 to 1 Philadelphia Athle tics 40 to 1.___________ canadians we Dup Winnipeg canadians juvenile hockey squad will holes a Windup dinner at the Steak chateau monday evening. Andy Hebenton who was i voted the most valuable player in the juvenile league this year via be presented with the Clar wrestling tickets for May 16th at auditorium now on Sale at Baldy Northcott s and Herb King s smoke shop. Prices All seats reserved. Ticket no. 13. Ence g. Heb emblematic of memorial trophy award. 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