Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday january 1933 Page 17 mrs. H. Hutchison Secretary of the Manitoba ladies Curling association which will hold its annual Bonspiel in Winnipeg starting february 9. Mrs. Hutchison takes cafe of the entries and they must he sent to her at 1012, Downing Street Winnipeg before s . February 5. Views on sport new York Nyht Mike Jacobs who was buried in Brook Lyn monday was sometimes an Angel in the Broadway sense but he was not a Saint. He was a promoter. A Saint might have found the prize fight business somewhat unsettling. The promoter took charge of the Industry and reshaped it to his own pattern. One can show respect for the dead without canonization proceedings. It is no attempt to fit Mike out with a tin Halo and paper wings to say that he was far and away the greatest of boxing promoters and All things considered a Factor for Good in the fist fight Dodge. He tried to run clean fights instead of making speeches about cleaning up the game and driving sinister influences out of the if there were sinister influences present and of course there were he accepted the fact and dealt with them or fought them As the need arose. He was motivated not so much by High principle or lofty ideals about the purity of sport. He was guided instead by a keen enlightened self interest. He realized that bad fights or crooked fights would ruin his business and jeopardize his investment and so he struggled and fought to keep his promotions on the level. If he found he d been crossed his Wrath May not Nave been a holy one but it was real and implacable. As operator of excursion steam Ning the joint As far As boxing was ers he sold salted peanuts to pro concerned. He wound up running Mote the Sale of soda pop. When of the Ocean winds blew they promoted his Sale of ten cent lengths of Cord to tether the excursion its hard Straw hats to their la Pels. When fire destroyed the dream land pier that he had just leased As an amusement Enterprise at Coney Island he promoted the charred and twisted ruins into a profitable fishing ground. His fight promotions promoted his business As a ticket broker. He entered the list fight business with no such vast wealth t6 fall Back upon As his successor Jim Norris brought into the International boxing club. Nor did he have the enormously powerful backing of Madison Square Garden. At the beginning he bucked the Garden fought its entrenched Power and won and he wound up run cry Manitoba Bonspiel chiefs but they ii have to step on accelerator by Scotty a Bibb it s beat the Regina Bonspiel or else. That s what the boys Are saying Over at Manitoba Curling association s Headquarters. You know of course last year our Saskatchewan Brethren knocked the Manitoba show into the Erbil cocked hat. They had an entry of 346, while All Manitoba could Muster was 330 rinks. And did t the Good people of Regina let us know about it. Did they it was snowing Tele Grams in the free press sports Bureau. And Scotty Melville the Leader Post sports editor led off with a Righo to the Chin Winnipeg takes second prize Regina has the largest Spiel in the and were wondering if Manitoba is going to get second prize again this year. The Regina Spiel which opens today has 348, that s two _ More than last year. The situation looks ominous for Manitoba. Good Luck to the Saskatchewan boys if they beat Manitoba again. But we Hope they Don t if Only it s to save another Avalanche of As the up Scot has said before he s always ready to jump off the deep end. But Manitoba is not going to take second prize to those Saskatchewan Guys this year. Once in a lifetime is plenty. I when the last entry has been filed at six o clock saturday night you la find the Manitoba Spiel has a line up Between 360 and 370 rinks. Yes Brothers that s our guess and we re will ing to Gamble the scone Stone on it. And boy Scotty Melville and his Regina citizens will hear about it. The Bally blighters. What s your latest entry quizzed the Carlton Street Scot As lie walked into Curling Headquarters monday night. We be got 72 so from the province and 30 from the grinned Secretary. Vic. Siddall. But we re not worrying. You know How the entries pour in during the last two or three Days. Don t worry Well beat our friends this but you might say a Good word for us to get the boys in right away with their entries. You know there s a lot of work to be done at the last minute and it helps if we get the entries in said or. Siddall As he pecked away at the typewriter with two fingers. says the deadline for the City curlers is one o clock saturday while the out of town gents have to Check in by six o clock and the draw will take place two hours later the Headquarters this year Are located in the Marlborough hotel in the heart the Down town District so everybody should be Happy. There la be five draws a Day to Start with monday 9 ., 12 noon 3 ., 6 And 9 Of course if the Weatherman night to catch up. Goes on a Binge the boys May have to curl All missing the Broom among the latest to come in was Rube Ludwick s rink the champs of the b Nai b Rith Spiel we re look ing for Rube to go places this year and another fellow from the Maple Leaf stable to watch is Sam Arenson s clan but you can forget about Rock Calof s gang they la get seven games but that s All it was Good to see Len Cannon s name Down on the files the Delor Atoe skip Seldom misses a Spiel Fred Gardiner is holding the Broom for a powerhouse gang from Glen Elia the Peck overs of Sperling Haven t checked in yet Sandy wide is piloting a Poplar Point rink George Hutchinson is in a new role in the Spiel this year the former soccer Star of yester year is skipping a civic Caley Bunch and he s another former soccer great in the Lead off spot is Alex Williamson the . Chippawa is sending in a couple of rinks but what about Canon Glover and his chaplains rink we did t see their names on the list Well be seeing Walter Polski of Virginia Walter Wen his District in the Consols play Downs this Corner is always on the beam about a year ago we said the Winnipeg Winter club was talking about enlarging the club to take in four sheets for Curling they re meeting wednesday night to decide on it and from what we hear it s a cinch it will go through about three years ago they started Curling on two sheets and evidently the game got so popular with the male members of the club two sheets was t enough i press radio lads to March for dimes 1 they did t have enough at the basketball show a weeks now the members of the press my radio have come up with a Tew one. And it s All for a Cood cause. The March of dimes needs Money. Saturday february 7, will pro vide it Lor them h the Mem Bers of the press and radio have anything to say about it. That s the night the boys will tangle with each Ither in a hockey game at the amphitheatre All proceeds go to the March of dimes fund. At least it s billed As a hockey game. When some of the Well known gangsters in local writing and talking circles get together on ice when most of them Only know it As something to put in a anything can happen and it probably will. In fact Fellows like Ken Babb and Cliff Gardner have promised it will. There will also be several talented Winni Eggers from All Fields of Winter sport participating in the Mammoth two hours plus performance. It promises to be the Best in entertainment and it s All for a worthy cause. George Allen is the Man to see if you Are interested in a Pontiac or Buick ear or a Good used car or truck. You Are invited to Contact him at Picott motors 1290 main Street phone 59-5381. Export Canada s finest cigarette boxing itself and if he did not quite succeed in making it a per Sonal monopoly he shaped the Pat Tern that has been followed since. He lived to see the near Realiza Tion of a vision which he had when television was no More than a whisper going around research laboratories. Then he foresaw a Day when fights would take place be fore a tiny studio audience with old ladies in Omaha watching the video screens and heaping their largesse upon the promoter. Today the ringside crowds Are Small enough to fit into studios and the old ladies in Omaha sit transfixed before their screens. Soon by Means of theatre television or Quarter in the Slot television the Golden flood will pour in. All the stories about Mike Jacobs have been told and retold and will be told again and again in the years to come. Probably there is none More familiar than the yarn about the sound recording machine which is a personal favor Ite. That concerns a time when Mike preparing for a big outdoor show struck on a Way to save Money and promote efficiency in handling the incoming customers. Instead of having Guys with Mega phones outside the Gates Yelling Blue tickets this Way. For bleacher seats use Gates eight to he decided to have such instructions recorded and played Back through amplifiers outside the Park. A Man was invited up to the twentieth Century sporting club to demonstrate the recording machine. As he got it set up there was a phone Call for Mike in an other office. Say something into Mike said to Harry Markson his publicity Man. Ill be right what la i Mike said Over his shoulder. Just say or. Markson is a Man cursed with literate taste and a tenacious memory. Groping for something to say he recited the shakespearean sonnet that begins when in disgrace with for tune and men s eyes i All alone be weep my out cast state and trouble deaf head n with Bootlegs cries the record was ready for a play Back when Mike returned. The switch was thrown and he listened with a frown eyeing or. Mark son with a sidelong Glare of sus then he snorted interrupt ing. A Fer crying out Mike said. I heard that 30 years ago Farrell rink seats Howie 8-6 Portage la Prairie Man. Special Cliff Farrell s rink will present this District in the Brit so Consols knockout Competition n Winnipeg to decide the Provin Lal representative in the Macdon ild Brier play Down at Sudbury. The Arrell rink eliminated Tom Howie s Poplar Point rink in the District final saturday night by an 3-6 score. Auditorium Friday Jan. 30th 8.30 Tag team match main event 1 hour or 2 Falls out of 3 lord Albert and tiny Mills Whipper Watson and Pat Flanigan Semi Windup 45 min. Or 1 fall Kinji Shibuya is. Len Hughes special event Bob Leiper is. Kenny Ackles opener Stu Hart is. Ole Olsen ticket no. 9 tickets on Sale a Howard s men s shop 371 Portage ave. Pm. 92-4757 next wrestling Date feb. 13th auditorium 4 what s Good for the Goose is Good for in ., it s beat Russia at any Cost new York Amateur athletic Union has Laun Ched a fund drive to enlarge the country s sports program with the Battle cry we must beat the drive starts feb. 14 and will be raised by Public subscription. Russia subsidizes her said Jeremiah Mahoney who Heads a 70-Man committee assigned to fatten aau coffers. She has Mil Lions training daily while working for the government. To meet this Challenge we must make our country sports conscious must reach out to get yes More Young men and women under athletic training. We must continue to beat rus Sia. Other countries Are watching us. They must see our youths As an example of american Man other aau officials spoke of measures to improve Stand Ards in gymnastics wrestling and other minor endeavours. Charles Ornstein Veteran aau and olympic official said the american system of training gymnasts must be overhauled. Russia s women especially dominated this Ornstein said. That s because they were trained for it since childhood. They take Ballet lessons to acquire Grace and then they train constantly. Our women to match them will have to do the it was through this Success in gymnastics mostly that the rus sians pressed the For the unofficial team championships of the olympic games at Helsinki last summer. After trailing most of the Way the Rallied on the final week end to gain an Over All Edge of 610 Points to 553k. Points Are awarded for six for first five for second four for third and so on. The aau nabobs left no doubt that their big concern was Russia and ability of the To meet the growing Competition of the soviet Union in future International events mainly the 1956 olympics. Mahoney was asked if his re Marks regarding Russia weren t in conflict to the of Avery Brundage new president of the International olympic committee to avoid Over emphasis on National ism in the games. We agree with or. Brundage the games should be waged on an individual rather than a team or National Mahoney said. But at Helsinki Russia tried to make it a contest of roup s drive but not its to 1 would like to see us raise an amount. Of Money to promote Amateur athletics in Canada but not to offset another he added. In Montreal maj. John Davies treasurer of the Tatj in Canada said he was All for the idea but believed the drive would be just As successful without hinting that t was one country they were everything about it is he Aid. We need the same thing in Canada badly. We re so poor we have to worry about buying Stamps. There was nothing wrong with Canadian athletes that stiffer com petition would t cure but it takes to produce High class Tai Ken of the Cana Dian a said at Winnipeg cer Tanly Money should be raised to help Canadian Amateur sports but i Don t think the Money should be raised with the idea of beating Russia. After All there Are certain fundamentals. It s the game for the game s Sake that professor Bob Osborne past president of the aau said in Van Couver he favors a fund drive in Canada to promote Amateur athletics but does t want it on political he supported the american eight Ender famine ends there s been a lot of Curt Ling rocks tossed Down the ice since the 1952-58 season got under Way in Manitoba but perfect games have been As scarce As a Hen s Teeth. In fact there was t a sin Gle one until sunday when i Danny Cauwenbergh skip Ping a rink in the belgian club league at the Heather accomplished the trick against Wilburn Van Ballet him. Or. Cauwenbergh who has been skipping Only one season had Maurice cow Enber Ghe Roger Van Devyor Cire and Jim Richards on his rink. He scored his right Ender on the third end. Needless to say Danny and his men won the game. Trade in allowance for your old Battery on a Brooklyn a Brooklyn dodgers announced monday that right handed Pitcher Ralph Branca had signed his 1953 contract Mak ing him the 25th member of the club in the fold. Battery easy terms North end tire company 859 main St. Phone 59-6371 you re looking at the Willie Mays key to giants Hopes by Talbot new York a members of the official family of the new York giants Are sitting close by the phones these Days staring nervously into space and jumping every time a ring jars the silence. Who knows but what the voice on the other end will say fort Eustice Virginia calling and that this will be followed after the customary Clicks by the shrill familiar notes of Willie Mays an announcing say hey i m out of this Man s it might not happen but the giants can dream. They feel that it the Call does come through before they open their training Camp at Phoenix they be won the National league Flag. It it does to then Only maybe. Their concern is drop Barons 3-1 Selkirk rises in juvenile Selkirk fishermen last night moved into sole Possession of fourth place in the Manitoba juvenile hockey league and within one Point of third place with a 3-1 Vic tory Over Barons current holders of third place. Further action on the juvenile front at the olympic rink saw Weston show Little reluctance in whipping Norquay nationals 6-1. In the Lone midget contest Weston handed East Kildonan its first loss of the season a 5-1 setback. Selkirk Drew first blood with Denny Peterson hitting the hemp on a pass from Gord Hanson and Brian Hessler. Mel Moroz was Back to knot the count before the first period was Over on a relay from Bob Trembath. But from there on in it was All Selkirk. Two second period Mark ers decided the Issue. The clubs battled through a scoreless final stanza. Bill Purvis shot Selkirk out front once As he converted Hanson s pass into a. 2-1 Lead. Rol lie Normandeau finished scoring for the period and the game with a goal from Cyr at 10.37. In handing East Kildonan its first defeat of the season Weston were opportunists All the Way. After a scoreless first period Bruce Chudley notched the Only goal of the second period in a pass from Grant Laycock. It was in. The third period the Weston machine of Bill fudge really went to work outscoring their rivals four goals to one. Brian Haywood blinked the red Light at 2.46 of the third but Stan King came Back for Elk to make the game close again. Then in the final five minutes Weston scored three unanswered markers. De Hoekstra scored the a pass from Jim Mclean. Mclean was also Handy to set up Weston fourth goal for Bill Frie sen. Gary Spitz finished the scor ing at 19.15 on a pass from Brian Bleakney. East Kildonan had much the bet Ter of the territorial play. But a Stout defence combined with erratic shooting on the part of East Kildonan and Barry Zajac in goal preserved the Weston win. Weston spotted Norquay de Romanek s first period goal tied it up in the second on a tally by Jack Green and then won it going away in the third. In that stanza Green was Back for his second helping in goals Art Stratton notched a pair while singletons came from the Sticks of Brian Sandborn and Don Mead. Mead Keith Mccord and Bill Armour were prominent in the assist column. Manitoba Junior . Barons 0, . Monarchs 6. Saskatchewan Junior Humboldt 5, Saskatoon .4. Western Junior Lethbridge 2, Regina 3. Saskatchewan senior Melville 3. Yorkton 2. Northern Ontario senior Soo ont. 4, North Bay 5. Maritime major Sydney 2, Charlottetown 3. Few Brunswick senior Moncton 7, Saint John 5. Oha senior Chatham 6. Hamilton 0. Exhibition senior Quebec 3. Understandable. It s been More than two weeks since the Brilliant youngster drop Ped into president Horace Stone office and told him he had applied for a discharge As a hard ship Case. The boy from Alabama who won t be 22 until next May is the sole support of his Mother two aunts two Brothers and nine Sisters according to the Best Avail Able advice. Haven t heard word since he was said Garry Schumacher Stoneham s personal assistant. We can t help feeling though that Willie has a Good Chance of getting out. We re not even sure that he told the draft officials Here the full extent of his family obligations when he was called last Spring. If we do get him Back what an Outfield Well him in Centre Bobby Thomp son in left and Monty Irvin in right. Just the Best in the bus iness that s no one will Ever convince the giants they would t have repeated last year if their great soph More had t been called up even if Irvin was out almost All season with a broken ankle. They were out in front 2vi games when Willie left them on May 29. They dropped eight of their next 10 games. Willie s value to the team did t show in his batting average. He was hitting Only .236 when he de parted the Polo grounds. He had however earned extra bases on 10 of his 30 hits and he had knocked in 23 runs second Only to Bobby Thomson on the club. In manager Leo Durocher s opinion Willie was beginning to get his batting Eye. But it was not Willie s hitting which the giants missed most As they floundered about last season. The kid s spirit is infectious. We be never seen a ballplayer who appeared to get As much sheer pleas ure out of the game As the Grin Ning Yelling boy does. Collette rink cops elks trophy Portage la Prairie Man. Special Jim Collette s Junior elks foursome topped the 22 rinks entered in the elks annual Bonspiel Over the week end to capture the past exalted rulers trophy top event in the Spiel. The Collette rink edged Harvey Sparling in a hard fought extra end final 10-9. The second Competition was won by a rink piloted by Bill. Mcdon Ald Over the Frank Sissons four some while Ken Blair Defeated Norm Charlton to take Berg special a new event this year. Of the famous Morris Oxford now the Morris Oxford is a better looking car than Ever Here s stylish Ness a new impressive Beauty that gets All Heads turning to see the lines that Tell so plainly of the Quality beneath. Let a fact proving demonstration run show you the Pace making performance you la enjoy in the Possession of this Fine car. Feel the infallible Security of Superb Road holding at All speeds which Only Independent front springing and perfectly balanced design can give. 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