Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 18 Winnipeg free press tuesday february 2, 1954 plan Campaign in february soccer hot stove league dreams of great revival if there is such a thing As an official hot stove league for soccer football in the City it is probably the membership at Large of the Alexander Park Corpora Tion. Practically every old time soccer player and devotee of the game is Active in the corporation whose immediate dream these Days is restoration of the game to the dominating position it held in the City s sports picture in the great and Golden Days of the game nearly a generation ago. The year 1913 saw the commencement of this Era say the old timers and 1913 was eventful chiefly because it marked the birth of the Dominion of can Ada football association and the appearance of the Connaught cup emblematic of senior supremacy. And it also presented soccer enthusiasts with their Dominion championship. The association had taken form in 1912, when the Duke of Connaught governor general of Canada and a Patron of the association donated the cup for country wide Competition. The Connaught cup remained the top soccer prize until 1926, when it was replaced by the football association trophy. Norwood wanderers a team of piano legged footballers made up of a mixture of local Talent and Early Century immigrants from great Britain was the Surprise Winner of the cup in the first year of Competition. Since Alberta did not participate the Manitoba Victory was in some ways a hollow one since Calgary _ at that time was the giant of the Canadian soccer scene. Calgary Callies had won Glasgow team denied support Glasgow Reuters j. F. Wilson chairman of Glasgow rangers failed to get support monday from the scottish foot Ball association in a debate involving the team s visit to can Ada in May. The Sfa had decided that if Scotland were to qualify for the world cup final the players picked to go to Switzerland must train together for a month. Wilson told the Sfa that in View of the Spring trip to can Ada the rangers would not know until the last minute which play ers would be Able to make the tour. He asked the association to excuse any rangers chosen for the cup team from special train was voted Down. 17 to 15. In his argument Wilson said any such players would return from Canada 14 Days before the cup matches began. The Sfa decision will not affect the plans for the Canadian tour although one or two rangers May not be permitted to go. What had previously passed for the Canadian championship three years in a Row. Norwood repeated its Demon stration of supremacy the Fol lowing year and in 1915, Winnipeg scottish copped the con naught Bauble giving Winnipeg three straight Dominion titles. Alexander Park corporation Longs for the return of those great Days and believes that the Extension of Alexander Park is the first big step in that direction. The corporation is chartered As a non profit Organiza Tion for the advancement of soc cer at All Levels. During february they Are approaching Winnipeg s soccer Loving Public to raise to pay off present indebtedness and build Alexander Park into a worthy unit in the City s new. Recreational area. Soccer s hot stove is full of Confidence. Bantam Champ defends title Quebec Fer Nando Gagnon monday night successfully defended his Canadian bantamweight boxing Champion ship scoring a fifth round tech Nical knockout Over Jersey Joe Edwards of Edmonton. Referee Ralph Mcnaughton lifted Gagnon s right hand in Vic tory at of the fifth after Edwards went Down for the fifth time. Two solid left Hooks to the head followed by a right spelled the end. Gagnon weighed pounds and Edward 113u. Pushing incident closed Montreal up president Clarence Campbell of the National hockey league said Mon Day night no further action will be taken regarding an incident in Chicago involving Larry Zeidel of Chicago Black Hawks. Campbell s statement followed receipt of a telegraphed report from referee in chief Carl Voss who attended sunday night s game. Zeidel and Tony Leswick of de troit red wings got into a fight in the game and were Given major penalties by referee red Storey. Voss version of the affair differed greatly from newspaper re ports which said Zeidel struck linesmen George Hayes and Mush March and dropped Leswick with a right Hook. In View of the facts that no misconduct penalties were asses sed and apparently the events did not warrant any no further action will be said Camp Bell. In his wired report Voss said neither of the linesmen was struck by Zeide and none of his actions could be construed As striking an official or attempting to strike an official neither Leswick nor Zeidel was struck by punch from the English kids playing games just As dad did some critics Britain s younger Genera Tion seems As Busy on the playing Fields As dad Ever was. Perhaps More so. Statistics belie an often made Cage swi ties ten of the better basketball players in the City Are depicted above. They Are the Myca senior a basketball league All stars selected to meet mighty Max Well King whirl ways Junior league leaders Friday night in the feature attraction of they Loop s Booster Nite. They Are Back Row t to r Bill Wright Selkirk Hook shot John Derco Weston bread Gary Sanderson St. Andrews Garth Mckenzie Weston jumbo Jim Bulloch Weston Al Miller rant Row singing Syd Glenesk Weston Crafty Jim Walton St. Andrews Hal Mauthe Weston and dangerous Don Brown Ell phantoms. Missing from the picture is Al Maxwell of United College. Friday s game Fol lows a league game at the Myca and takes place at 9.30 . Bowling scores senior mixed ten Fin t with Only two weeks left in the third Quarter. Midwest Sash and door Lead the race with 10 wins followed closely by sparkle cleaners with nine Alex Langford with eight and Dominion Grain and feed Mccombs clothes shop Sim Kin s fuel and fort Garry brewery All with seven wins. Quintons have five wins. Norman Goller was High Man for the evening with 543 close on his heels came Wilbur an Yvell Egham with 525 Issy Mike Bosnyk 509 dam Christian 505 176 and Frank Billington with 430 Bea Finney was High among the gals Vith 514 Leonard with 505 followed by Hazel Dyer 489 Eleanor Smith and Bernice Hesp 470 h83j. L Nettla mixer Vive fins counters and Doo dads Are leading in he third Quarter with eight each. Majors and imps were the Only teams take three games. High ladies Mary Low 676, Jean Dav Atli 675. Dot Mitchell 653, 609, Lavet Parker 609. Evelyn genl Dave Cullen fi37. Bill Lowe Roy Mitchell 631, Bill Beau Ridge 626, score Portage triumphs May fair event won by or. George Hamlin Wil Liam Gray Don Ewing and Gordon Snider missing from sex soccer Star Dies London Reuters Vivian j Woodward Veteran of 66 International soccer games for England and one of the sport s brightest stars just after the turn of the Century died monday. He was 74. A Brilliant dribbler and accurate shot Woodward represented Brit Ain in two olympic games and once scored six goals in an Amateur International contest against Holland. Costly accosting Chicago a referee red Storey said monday he gave mis conduct penalties to goalie Al Rollins and defence Man Lee 1 Ogolin of Chicago Black Hawks for remarks made to him after the fight marred National hockey league game Between Chicago and Detroit sunday night. The penalties mean each will draw an automatic s25 fire. Storey said the two Chicago players accosted him on the run Way leading to the dressing rooms and blasted him verbally. Detroit won 5-1. Trade in allowance for your old Battery on a new Battery Tasy terms North end tire company limited 859 main St. Pm. 59-6371 Albion hotel won by j. Wishart skip d. Brownridge l. Jordan and g. Ryder. Eaton and grand aggregate won by s. W. Adamson f. G. Mowat h. G. Kerr and j. R. Broadfoot. 51 rinks after prizes mild weather hampers Portage ladies event Portage la Prairie Man. Special the ladies Section of the Portage la Prairie Curling club opening its 20th annual Bonspiel monday ran into difficulties with the Weatherman who turned on the heat and rendered three of the seven sheets of ice at the Curling rink unlit for play. Frost began dropping from the roof. The mild weather is also giving Jimmy Wishart draw Mas Ter a headache and he was forced to play three draws monday night the third at 1 . To catch up with the postponed games. The entry list of 51 rinks 35 from outside Points and 16 from the City is dotted with the names of former winners Well known in the ladies Curling ranks. Caswell of West Kildonan runner of Treherne Gillespie of Macdonald millions of Gladstone of Neepawa mrs. Cassidy of Winnipeg and mrs. Dick of rapid City last year s Provin Cial representative in the Eaton play Downs Are All rinks that will Likely be around when the prizes Ara distributed thursday. The ladies suspend one draw tuesday evening to take time out to attend the annual ban Quet and show. The Spiel consists five events grand Challenge Portage garage Costigan Portage Cream Ery Portage ladies Curling club and three specials a hard Luck prize to the rink winning the most games without reaching the prizes the rink winning the least number of games and the rink scoring the largest end. Results ., Anc Lrich event Kennedy Poplar Point beat Macdonald Mac Donald Andrich Portage beat Shmon Portage Phillips Winnipeg beat Bend Portage Gillespie Macdonald beat Kerr Portage Patterson. Morden beat Mcdonald Portage Clark Portage beat Miller. Oak Llie. 11.30 ., ant Rich event runner Treherne beat. Bruce. High Bluff War Burton. Poplar Point beat Bergson. Manitou Pearce St. James beat Lamb Macgregor Mckay Brandon beat n. Davidson Portage Elgert Portage beat Smith Portage. J . Andrich Dick rapid Cluj beat Gray Portage later. Lariviere beat Portage Vendel Eathyel beat Wishart Portage Crocker. Rouen beat dually. Dac Ouji Imperial a hot race is developing for the play off spots. Schoyen Lucas the second Quarter winners Are leading the third Quarter series by the narrow margin of five Points Over o Kum inn. St. James construction hold Down third spot. Points Back of the leaders. Schoyen Lucas picked up 30 Points mainly on the Brilliant display by Ivan Henning who toppled the Sticks for 880. Many other Fine individual scores were recorded with the following 1-1 Cynthia Sabine 651. Ollie Hyndiuk 642. M arg Graham Sparel 642, Elaine sad Way 641. Marg Macquoid 620 and Den Andrews 615. Bowling was much improved in the men s Section. Bob Murray leading the Way with 751 237, 237 and 277 followed by Merv Marks 736, Gerry o Brien 72s. Herb Sanger 725, Jock Gunvard 725, Cam Green 720, Walter Green 703 and Hank Zabinsky 701. Among those entering the goo bracket were John new Duse 692, bowlers hitting in the 700 bracket Ron Glamour 677. Harry Sabine 673. Stan Townsend 669. Ralph Tom Lack 669, Bill Reinsch 794 Jimmy Neal 777 de. Lynch 775 Bob Mceachern. 774 de. Kaye. 768 Alex. Mcmillan. 759 Barry Sutherland. 737 Lou Dol Ron. 725 Jim Vocks. 725 Gordon Glenwright 721 Brickell 706 Art Klippenstein 704 Wall Simms 701. A Terric Effort to crack the City men s team record was made by the Assn Boine credit Union team when in heir second game they combined for l Fine 1.362 scratch score. Leading the Way in the game was de. Kaye with 310, followed by Harvey Beckel with 293. Jimmy 277. Cord. Glen right 245, and Alex. Schneider 221. Coronation mixed High scorers were Marg Stevenson 673, Molly Firth 664. Ida Mcveigh 647, Velma Arner 644, Ruby Taylor 62s. John Udink 687, Mark Kodak 675, Bob Gregory 2 and Ron Hart 613. Car Date mixed the w. Kick quintette displayed a Spir Ted performance to take 42 Points and of spot in league standing. Naga s eighties and Macfarlane s bar flies mov d into second and third spots respect vely. Top individual honors went to Joe Ledwos and Pete Call. Starting with 290 in the first game. Ledwos added 244 and 254 to net 78s. Call started Voth 241 and boosted his next two efforts to 243 and 271 to total 755. I Alansky put on a Fine exhibition for the ladies with 201, 262 and 235 718. Harold Ake Stream edged. Teresa Hen Derson by three Points to cop the o Sui i ran award with a single of 296. Other scores ladles e. Bird 6s3 v. Ledwos. 652 202-248 j. Franklin 643 j. Hal Stock. 632 b. Morgan 626 g. Fuck. 617 r. Blore. 614 p. O suit Lvan 600 men g. Naga. 645 w. Fuck 629 h. Ake Stream ".28 296i t. Morgan. 624 5. Morrison 623 e. Gilson. 519 e. Henderson 614 202 Victory mixed la flue Kitty Elliott was High for the ladles with 646, followed closely by t. Reidiger with 641. H. Danloe 636 e. Son Helm 634. Charlie Wright led the men with 710 followed by s. Danloe with 669 Danloe 648. S. Rushworth 634 e. Burkitt 624. E. Geswein 613 h. Cooke 608, d. Mcgrath 606. Sparkles Itell Lead with 62. But Penny Antes Are sneaking up with 52 Points sharpshooters 46, atomics 43. Cruisers 38, comets 33, jeeps and rovers 31. Cab lied Ken Mccallum topped Bowling with 830 while the High lady was Maureen Somerville with 720. Other Good scores were those of t. Hart 778. R. Mason 749 and j. Mccallum 701. Academy mixed with singles of 224. 316 and 273, rat Henry paced the Leacue with 813. While 10 pins Down Bessie Dickie posted 803 314. 260. Sadie Mulvaney joined the 701 group with 704. 3201. Others High were Lyle Peters 689 cousins 661, John Williamson g5.1, Bill Galloway 651 and Cece Hood 6-16. Outstanding Bowler for the week was Walter Green with 703. Indians suffered their first loss in the second division dropping two to the dodgers but Are still Reading the team race with 10 wins and two losses. Yanks Are in second spot one game Down. Phillies next with eight and four and tiie cards and red sox deadlocked with charge that modern youth takes its sport from the sidelines. The charge cropped up again recently when Canon Charles Raven presi Dent of the conference of educational associations complained that the modern age s extra leis ure in t boosting attendance at workers educational classes and other academic facilities. What we have seen instead is the attendance at football matches jump from thousands to hundreds of hordes of players statistics indicate it in t so. De fenders leaping to Aid the criticized younger generation cited figures of organized sport in an Effort to show that far More per sons of playing age actually play compared with the number that watch. English league football is one example. Average total weekly attendance at the 46 league games is at least half Are Esti Rose trims net partner Sydney a Lethander Mervyn Rose trimmed Rex la Twig his doubles partner 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, 6-2 the Austral Ian National Tennis championships monday fortunes changed rapidly in the first three sets with Rose taking the initiative first. Hart wig broke his Racket Early in the first set and it took him a while to get used to the second one. But he played sensationally in the second set which lasted 10 minutes. Rose never got to Deuce in any game and won Only eight Points in the set. Hartwig kept it up for a 4-2 Lead in the third set but Rose broke his service in the seventh game. He did the same thing in the ninth game with the Aid of a net Ord shot that just trickled Over the net and held his own service for the set. Hartwig never recovered his second set form again and Rose took the decisive set without be ing extended. Mated to be persons too old to play. F yet the football association alone has Amateur sides providing saturday soccer for 000 players. Thousands More play with unaffiliated clubs and the highly organized English schools football association has players. The Rugby Union claiming spec scottish cup soccer draw London draw for the second round of the scottish cup made monday Berwick r. Is. Ayr u. Coldstream is. Ralth r. Rangers vhf. Kilmarnock. Third Lanark or Stenho Semul is. Deveron Vale. Albion r. Is. Dundee. Queen of s. Is. Forfar a. Morton is. Cowdenbeath. Falkirk is. Celtic. Stirling a. Is. Aroath. Duns is. Aberdeen. Hibernian is. Clyde. Brechin c. Is. Inverness t. Or Hamilton a. Tariff r. Is. Partick t. Peebles r. Is. Buckle t. Motherwell is. Dunfermline. Fraserburgh is. Hearts. Matches Are to be played feb. 13 with replays if necessary in the following mid week. Tutors drawn largely from old player ranks has clubs most of them Fielding several teams. Including various service and unaffiliated teams plus boys from the schools rugger league the game s approximate player total is More than All sports Active track Field hockey Cricket and other sports report the same trend toward participation at least As Good As 20 years ago. That s in spite of increased equipment costs a Steep hurdle in some cases. It applies particularly to Golf. Joe Anderson scots Curling Cricket and Golf great of the past said recently that More persons than Ever were playing Golf in Glasgow but that the country might have reached its golfing Peak because few youngsters could afford to Start playing at the right age. An interesting sidelight on the paying aspect of the younger set s sport is provided by the English school s football association Cele Brating its 50th anniversary this year. The Climax will take place at Wembley stadium where last year the lads 15 and under attracted nearly to the final. The proceeds Back into the sport. Company executive s Cai 1953 Mercury Sedan automatic transmission air custom Tum radio ii tric windows White Wall Tiris finder Shields custom seat covers headers and twin exhaust Continental rear tire cover window washers to tone National motors Ltd. Winnipeg Mercury Lincoln meteor 276 Colony at St. Mary s phone 73-2414 ate Wau a cup draw London Reuters the draw for the fifth round of. The football association Challenge cup made Here monday Norwich City is Stoke City or Lei Cester City. Port Vale is. West Ham United or Blackpool. Sheffield wednesday or Clit Enfield a. Everton. Leyton Orient is. Doncaster Roven. Blackburn rovers or Hull City is. Tottenham hotspur. Bolton wanderers is. United or Portsmouth. Preston North end is. Ipswich town. West by Orovich Albion is. Burnley or Newcastle United. The matches will be played feb. 20. Replays if necessary will be completed by the following thursday. Bronk replaces Joe Dusek Bronko Nagursky has been named to replace Joe Dusek in the main event of Friday night s wrestling card at the auditorium. Nagurski will partner dirty Dick Raines against the team of Kinji Shibuya and Joe Pazandak. No reason was Given for Dusek not being Able to keep the engagement but local wrestling fans probably won t mind too much for Bronko is certainly Welcome Here. In the Semi Windup pair of speedy boys tangle when Tony Baillargeon goes against new Comer Axel Cadier of Goteborg Sweden. Both Are extremely fast. The special event has Earl me Cready tangling with Abe Kashey while in the opener George Scott meets Harold Nelson. Grapple time is . Riverton wins Riverton Man. Downed Selkirk 9-5 Here sunday in an intermediate hockey game. J. Yergason and Ross Einarson fired three goals each for River ton. R. Magnusson added two and w. Zawilski one. W. Purvis bagged two goals for Selkirk your nearest naval remitting station adventurous Well travelled life e expanding Royal Canadian Navy the Navy offers Best in trades training permanent Well paid Job a pension at an age when you re still Young enough to enjoy it but that s not All i the Navy you with free food clothing thing quarters medical and dental care plus a worthwhile goal the defence of Freedom go places 1 go Navy xxx j j 1 h e. 1 v j v i Chippawa 81 Smith Street Wynn per mm., Porc local 02 or 03. 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