Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday february 2, 1965 19 missus Mam it was a disastrous Day for the utile Scot in the first Day of the Manitoba Bonspiel two of our big 10 to win the grand aggregate Are already among the also rans while three of our selections Are hanging on the wire Howie Wood of the Granite and Ernie Boushy from the Heather stable Are definitely out of Contention but Claire Mil Ler and Gerry Duguid of the Granite and Jerry Ste ski from the Grain Exchange Are still in the race. However that s All you can say about them Harold Painter of Portage la Prairie and Oades of fort Rouge sent Howie Wood to the showers for keeps and George Wallis of Glenboro and Fred Drewe of Ross Mere performed the same act on Ernie Boushy Jeff Davis and his men who Fly through the air with the greatest of ease sent Jerry Ste ski and his three Brothers to the cleaners in the Birks Claire Miller vanished from the a tons As the result in losing to Gerry Mckay s sharpies from Brandon while Gerry Duguid took it on the Chin from Ken Sampson of Glenboro but that Guy Harper is still stringing along with Hersh Lerner of. The Maple Leaf Terry Braunstein from the Granite Bruce Hudson and Barry Fry from Strathcona and Gary Ross from Carman so that Guy from Carlton Street is holding his own. Enjoyed watching operations at the Granite with Otto Heas lip who was on the Canadian teams which toured Scotland in 1926 and 1950 he still talks about that great speech by Hon. Errick f. Willis when he captained the-1950 team the scottish curlers gave or. Willis a standing said Otto who curled with or. N. G. Trimble of Dauphin just a few seats along from us was mrs. Howie Wood and her wee boy David Harold Painter who knocked out one of our big 10, is representing zone 5 in the British Consols play Downs on Harold s lineup Are Ken Blair Vern Watson and Tony Chipowsky Pinkie Davie the former big time hockey Star from flin flon came mighty close to watching proceedings from the sidelines Pinkie missed the bus to Winnipeg and was Lucky to get the Only seat left in the plane heading for Winnipeg. It is Nice catching up again with Andy Greer the former West Kildonan curler Andy now makes his Home in Lon Don you Only get one club game per week in the Highland club they have mixed Curling mixed Bonspiel and what have said Andy and they pick the rinks out of a Rev. Or. Donald Bruce Macdonald has his brother Ken from Hartney As the mate on his rink they take turn about at skipping and they re making no great shakes at it or. Macdonald lost in the Birks and brother Ken piloted the rink in the Batons they lost out in both we re jockey ing for grinned Ken we saw a Gowanlock a two time Canadian Champion skip. At his Best he made a double kill with a great shot to bag a triple on c. M. Lord of valour Road and go on to win his game in the Batons Gerry Duguid had a queer sort of a game Johnny Robertson of Elmwood in the Batons Gerry s granites were trailing the Robertson clan 7-1 after five ends and would you believe it they did t finish the 10 ends the dug ids hit the Elm Woods for a five in the sixth end followed that up by two singles and a big four in the ninth saw a Tough struggle Between the two time Canadian Champ Bill Walsh and Bill Walker of Rossmere in the Eaton Bill was one Down coming Home and pulled off a Nice shot to get a pair in the last end while Andy Greer does his Curling in London he picked up a Trio of sharpshooters from St. Thomas in John Ayling Frank Matthews and Wilf Willis who say they saw nothing Lika our Manitoba Bonspiel the boys from Vancouver Island Are making a bit hit with their Straw washers maybe those four swell Guys from Victoria Are Only trying to vex us we left Victoria when it was 65 and landed in. Winnipeg when it was 25 Don Matheson is skipping the . Rink and Bob Siddall son of Mca Secretary Vic Siddall is play ing third with de Mould of Duncan and Jack Irving from Vic Toria on the front end Jack Irving has brother Bob Irving who curls at the Granite for about six ends we thought Steve Vance Leader of the blanking end apostles was going to Best Hersh Lerner in the Eaton but the Maple Leafs bagged a two in the seventh end and a triple in the eighth that was All for our Good Friend Steve from Charleswood what a great personality is Les court of the Granite with his Wise cracks and running commentary in the Granite gallery monday night Les brought Down the House he was terrific. Survey schedule changes and rink personnel were of importance to this Mani Toba Bonspiel delegation from Selkirk. From left to right Brian Bracken Cece Jen Kinson and Ralph Mcfadyen. Drawing a Victoria . Rink decided that regular Curling tarns were out of the question when they invaded Winnipeg for the Manitoba Bonspiel. Show ing opposing skip Jimmie Gates civic Caley right Bottom tie new style Are Don Matheson and Jack Irving. Back Row left to right de Bob Siddall. Fur flies Early in by Don Blanchard the 77th annual Manitoba curl ing association Bonspiel came in like a Lamb and went out like a lion monday. After an uneventful Start which saw the favourites adhere obediently to the script things began to happen As play progressed. Before the first Day had been dutifully recorded in draw master Jimmy Wishart s accurate led Gers the fur was flying. Among the casualties sit Ting on the Premier event sidelines As the 432-rink Field headed into its second Day were such notable and distinguished competitors As Howie Wood or. Of Granite Heather s Ernie Boushy Strathcona s Marno Freder Ickson Bill Donaldson s crack rink from the Pas and Buck Hay of Thistle. All were two time Losere in the Barry Greenberg wins at Portage Portage la Prairie spec Ial Barry Greenberg who comes from a family with quite a Curling name in Portage started one of his own on saturday night. He romped through the 1965 version of the Portage collegiate Bonspiel without a loss on Friday and saturday and claimed Possession of the Fairbairn trophy emblematic of the first event championship. Greenberg with Pat Boychuk zone winners decided for Consols playoff by Don Blanchard Only nine entries Are needed to Complete the 32-rink lineup which will partake in a doable knockout Competition for the Manitoba title at the Arena. The British Consols is slated to get under Way feb. 15 with the Best of three final feb. 19 and 20. The Winner will represent the province in the Canadian Champion ships at Saskatoon. The list of 21 zone win ners was completed monday. These rinks will be joined by eight from the Manitoba Curling association Bonspiel and one each from Carman Morden and Brandon. Two of the Bonspiel entries have already been decided. Garry Ross finalist in 1964, captured his Home town Carman Bonspiel. Den Nis Loeppky won the mor Den event. The Brandon Winner won t be decided until feb. 13, while the eight Semi finalists of the Birks and Batons events in the Mca Bonspiel will be known saturday. In zone 1, Harry Friesen of Winkler skipped his rink 56 Only 1965 meteors full loaded. Driven less than 3 months. Retail wholesale to honors while corel Klap rat of seven Sisters ended the zone 2 reign of the Johnny Sackis rink from Lac Dubonnet which had won the berth the past three years. Petersfield s a Mochmer captured zone 3, while bal moral Veteran Sam Good a proven performer emerged with the zone 4 berth. Zone 5 went to Harold Painter of Portage la Prairie another Veteran campaigner. Byron. Steen of Neepawa took zone 6, while Grant Collins will take another crack at Hje Consols As the zone 7 representative. A Minto rink skipped by Ross Kinsley will represent zone 8. In zone 9, it s Bob fines of Brandon Golf and country club zone 10 Lloyd Horn of Lenore and zone 11 Bill Fraser of Franklin. Burke Parker of Dauphin beat Young Ralph Wilson in a two game final to win zone 12. Swan River s Ted Alex Ander won zone 13, and flin flon s Lyle Lavis in the Champ in zone 14. The metro zones were decided earlier and zone is Norm Houck Elm Wood zone 16, Mac Scales zone 17, Hersh Lerner Maple Leaf zone 18, Bob picked valour Road zone Ste ski Grain Exchange zone 20, Terry Braunstein Granite zone 21, Bruce Hudson Strathcona. At third Cam Allison at second and Delwyn Bird at Lead Defeated Bob Horner. 10-8 in the abbreviated eight end final. With Horner were Don Thompson at third Gene ditzy at second and Mariyn love at Lead. Ron Gillespie of Portage finished fourth in the event while Perry Robinson also of Portage was fourth. Bill Patterson built up an Early Lead then had to fight Izard to hang on to a 12-10 Victory Over John Lozanski of South port in the Narvey event final. Paterson with Harold Cress at third Les lie Parrott at second and Alma lament at Lead led 10-6 after eight ends but he managed to stave off a rally by Lozanski who had Don Bedard at third Nancy White at second and Lyhne Kumpala at Lead. Terry Owens of Highbluff was third while Ralph peach of por Tage was fourth. Wayne troop of Portage with Gerald Yurkiw at third Rhonda Ribordy at second and Tom Bur ton at Lead topped the daily graphic event with an 8-5 Victory Over Murray Cairns. Cairns packed things up after the ninth Murray Malan Chuk of Portage took third in the event while Terry Campbell of Portage was fourth. Forty six rinks opened play in the Bonspiel at 7 . Friday. Fort rink gains final Keno a special Nick Kozak led his rink Back to Kee Watin after ending the Northwestern Ontario Brier play Downs in a fourth place tie with Forl Frances. The Kozak quartet won three and lost four. Fort William won the right to continue on the Brier Trail by sweeping past port Arthur 13-2 in a Post round Robin playoff of their own. Each Lakehead team had a 6-i record after the round Robin concluded. The fort Wil Liam skip is Tommy Todd or. Dryden finished third one game Back at 5-2. After Keewatin and fort Frances red Lake Geraldton and Marathon rounded out the standings. Peg rink scores Quebec a Winnipeg rink by Jim Guy of Kenora ont had a first round in the Francois Jobin Gold cup at this Quebec International Bonspiel monday. The rink edged Pierre Greco of Quebec 9-8. Other members of the rink Are Eden Poyd Char lie read and Charlie Wiliams All of Winnipeg. Birks and Batons the two major competitions which offer Bri Tish Consols berths to the final four survivors in each classification. Except for Donaldson a former Consols competitor All enjoyed springboard starts. Meanwhile a Host of other established rinks Are hobbling along on one leg so to speak in the main events. These include Granite s Claire Miller who won the Henry Birks trophy last year Harold Painter of Portage la Prairie Jerry stes i of Grain Exchange Gerry Duguid of Granite Roy Hilton of Victoria Doug Hallick of Star Buck or. Bill Mctavish of Elm Wood Ralph Wilson of Dauphin Bobby Stannard of Elmwood Frank Hay of Macgregor Bill Sharpes of Pilot Mound Sam Good of Balmoral and Morden s Howie Sager the Canadian elks Champion last Spring. The Bonspiel s two senior Citi Zens meanwhile were kicking up their heels like a couple of Frisky a Gowan lock appearing in his 40th consecutive Mca Spiel posted three victories in the select events. And Granite s Howard Wood sr., who can look Back on 58 Bonspiel without a miss won his first two games and gave club mate Miller a tussle before bowing 7-4 on the 9 . Draw in the Birks. It make or bust game for Miller. After three rather peaceful draws the 6 o clock festivities in the Eaton event offered a hint of tilings to come. Boushy was knocked Over 8-7 by Fred Drewe of Ross Mere a club which seems to have a Happy faculty of up setting the deep thinkers who dare to insult them by Selec Ting favourites. On the same drawl Delaney of the same club jolted the Hopes of Wilson the Young Dauphin wizard in a 5-4 Cliff Hanger. Brandon s Gerry Mackay who Appeal s to have lost none of the ability which carried him to the Consols a year ago. Won an 8-7 argument from Miller Ernie Oades of fort Rouge dumped Wood or. 114. Ron Cassels of Deer Lodge halted Hilton 7-6, Rev. Smith of the chaplains Hung an 8-5 defeat on zone Winner Painter and they were off and running. But some of the Best brow raisers were yet to come. Painter soothed his damaged ego by taking out Wood Jav 9-3 on the late draw. Or. Mctavish a for Mer provincial Champion caught fever succumbing 7-5 to Lloyd Farrough again of Ross Mere. George Wallis and his capable Glenboro aggregation Reung the Bell on Boushy 8-7 in an extra Ender that relegated the Heather skip and defending Canadian mixed Champion to the secondary events. On the same draw the Friendly giant Ste ski had a leg kicked out from under him Fay. Jeff Davis arid his Craf buddies who Hung on for a 6-5 verdict. Bob Hampson of West Kildonan Defeated Hay 8-6, while Duguid s talented granites found them selves with a Tiger by the Tail in Ken Sampson another Glen Bor skip who distinguished Bim self during the first Day s work. The 3 . Draw offered some mild surprises. Bill Moss of Granite trimmed Hay 10-6, Dave Olfert of san Ford upended Sager 12-6 and Gord Walker cooled 10-4. Stannard needed an extra end to ease past Jim Adamson and his Classy Gladstone outfit. Hersh Lerner last year s aggregate Winner and current Holder of the Charles Harris trophy breezed to three two in the Birks As did defending Manitoba Champion Bruce Hud son of Strathcona bom already have Consols berths safely tuck away. Three secondary events Are slated to open today As Wishart dispatches four More draws. Another round will be played in the a rfcs and Batons and play will get under Way in the Winni Peg Hydro new York life and Federated Coop events before the curlers take the night off for the annual reception at the auditorium. Terms Vanloan let me buy More car for the same Moneff finance in buying Power bargaining Power in your pocket with a loan. Compare its Low Cost with any other financing make. No extras. No hidden charges. Remember the More you save on financing your car the Imore you can spend on the car itself. 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