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The Ottawa Citizen Feb. 12, 196G Page 11 JACK HOFFMAN Complaints to grow MIL talent bcarcc Title curling Pressure shot wins for Gurowka owka won and George Parkes lost It went an extra end overtime to most sports fans and the victory gave Gurowka's rink of Don Mac-key, lead, Ken Ingo, second and Tom Howat. third the Ontario championship. This was Gurowka's fourth shot at the title and he bad to be perfect to make it to victory lane. On the other hand, this was the first shot for St Thomas at provincial honors and it took the greatest clutch shot in the 29-year history of the competition to By Ross Psterkin Cituen bpum writer BRAMPTON Ontario's long curling path the one leading to the Macdonald Brier next month ended in a 9-8 victory for Toronto Dixie's Joe Gurowka and heartbreak for George Parkes of St.

Thomas. deprive the Parkes team of victory. Sentimental choice It appeared that the sentimental favorite, Parkes bad the title locked up on the eighth end. Parkes rubbed a front rock and rolled for shot behind a Dixie guard. Gur tions.

The other winner had to be the St. Thomas rooting section, more than 75 strong, who took defeat graciously. At the presentation ceremonies the most sincere words spoken came from losing skip George Parkes. 'To you Joe Gurowka and the rest of your team, best of luck. Bring the Canadian championship back to Ontario." to extra ends and another pair to last rock.

Otherwise the kids from Port Carting could have been knocking on the Brier door. There were two other winners here this week but most of them will not be going to Dext month's Brier. Members of the Brampton Curling Club made a legion of friends with their tremendous prepara owka then went to the other side and played the in-torn, got a piece but not enough He rolled out and pushed St Thomas back. played up-weight Willie's pact lat the Gurowka rock on the nose and counted three for 6-4 lead. National Hockey League authorities have soured a lot of people in their expansion shenanigans and the complaints will grow in years to Some of the operators insist the calibre of hockey will deterioriate only for a year or two but that's supposed to be a joke.

It a well known fact, of course, that two of the current There never was more evidence of it than in the inept display by New Jork Rangers the other night when they were blanked in Toronto Rangers, like the Boston Bruins, simply don't belong in big time hockey with their present talent Can you picture a Saturday night in front of the television screen watching any one of the six new clubl with no more to offer than the tailend clubs of today It will be many years before the situation straightens out from a talent standpoint Casey Stengel's antics cushioned the dismal Mets in New York baseball and the new hockey entries would be wise to look around for six more like Old Casey Ed Houston and Jack Urie, back from the dinner honoring Jack Adams in New York, have nothing but praise for the manner which pro hockey honored the one-time Ottawa Senator Ed reports Red Smith, whose articles appear regularly in The Citizen, had the audience in an uproar while performing as toastmaster. Bruno was a popular athlete Everyone even remotely concerned with sport here mourns the loss of Bruno Bitkowski, who died suddenly while on a West Indian holiday Bruno was a sound football player and a great fellow, the sort of person who made friends easily He was a hit here from the time he came to the Rough Riders from Assumption College in Windsor back in 1951 and never lost his touch or iiterest in football even after he retired. It's encouraging to know that Darrell Mudra, new field boss of Montreal Alouettes, has a fine sense of humor Unless there's a drastic improvement in the Alouette fortunes, a good sense of humor will come in very handy Asked whether his three-year contract would be approximately $25,000 per season, Mudra quipped: "I'm not going to miss many meals, but then I never have." And, on the subject of Mr. Mudra, it might be wise to look him up first time he comes to Ottawa next season with the Alouettes if you need some carpentry done around the house Mudra, in his early coaching shifts, used to build a home in the summer and sell it the next year when he moved to a new job "I could make more money on the bouse than I could coaching in those days," explains Mudra. now official SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Willie Mays signed a two-year contract Friday with San Francisco Giants for an estimated $125,000 a season, a sum his boss believes tops all salaries in baseball history.

Terms were not divulged, but a Giants' official indicated the National League's mast valuable player of 1965 will receive in the neighborhood of $125,000 for each of the two seasons. Mays said some of the payment will be deferred to future years. The 34-year-old all-star centre fielder, who started with the Giants in New York in 1951, told reporters: "I like a two-year contract Now all I have to worry about the next two years is playing basebalL" Horace Stoneham, president of the Giants, declared: "We believe this contract makes Willie the highest salaried player in baseball history." Mays appeared in 157 games last season and led the major leagues with 52 homers and 359 total bases. He was the league leader in runs scored with 119, drove in 112 and compiled a .317 batting average. NHL is fighting for top, bottom 4 i SI ri: I xLizZi i -If 5 'tit Mike catches a 'sleeper9 CiUzen-UP! staff photo Dixie got one on the ninth but it could have been three.

Gurowka's final rock failed to hit the fall-back and he missed the St. Thomas rock and salvaged one when he rested against his own second shot. Gurowka missed light and heavy draws on the 10th and Parkes took one with a perfect draw weight and a 7-5 lead on the control end. Early misses were costly on the 11th and when Gurowka was presented with a second chance at three he made no mistake. He was left a wide open takeout on his last rock, hit the broom and counted three to go in front 8-7.

Everything clean Gurowka kept everything clean on the 12th with last rock against his Dixie teammates and Parkes was forced to settle for a tie. He hit and stayed for one with his last shot The extra end was played perfectly and nobody in the Brampton Curling Rink would have offered odds on Gurowka's chances. Parkes had two shots hidden with four rocks out front. Gurowka with no other choice elected to draw with back-ring weight. Take two feet of weight off and he would have curled too much on the in-turn and left himself short.

Add a trifle and he would have hung out and wrecked. It was the pressure shot and when it nudged the St Thomas stone back a trifle and came to rest in the four-foot it was acknowledged on all sides that this was the greatest clutch shot in provincial history. Where does this leave the Gord Brown rink from Ottawa? Just two shots away from the Brier, two shots that Brown himself would love to throw again. One was against Parkes in the opening game of this eight-team round-robin and the other came against Gurowka. Both would have resulted in threes for the Ottawa team and they would be the only unbeaten aggregation here instead of Gurowka.

Played differently Although Brown dropped his morning match Friday to Dundas' Jab Pierce on the extra end it would have been played differently had they beaten Parkes and Gurowka. Pierce won 9-8 when he made a fine last-rock draw on the 13th. Yesterday afternoon Brown rink of Roy James, Roy Blair and Dan Venance whipped two-time Brier skip Bob Mann now representing Waterloo, 9-3 in 11 ends. That left Mann and Brown tied for third place with four wins and three losses. In morning games Toronto Dixie beat RCAF Centralis 9-6 and Parkes had to go an extra end against Port Carting's Irvin Wallace, certainly the most powerful character here at the championships.

Wallace, always with a cigar stuffed in his mouth and usually wearing a ski jacket, caught the imagination of this Brampton crowd and he bad many rooters in every game. Host of friends Port Carting didn't win too often they finished with Checking the gloves Bruce Yeck (left) checks John McLeod's gloves before a Carleton Heights Hockey League game. The Peewee performer both nine years of age. are By the Canadian Press Today's full-card National Hockey League schedule can be broken down into two sectionsthe fight for the room at the top and the battle for the basement. Montreal Canadiens, who have problems on left wing, will be trying to take a win off Chicago Black Hawks, tied for first place with Detroit Red Wings.

Canadiens are two points off the leaders' place. Toronto will have to handle the other first-place club, despite a rash of defence problems. The Toronto club now is sitting in a limbo-land between the penthouse and basement-dwelling clubs. In the other game, an afternoon match, Boston, which gave up a seemingly permanent lease on the cellar be beating Montreal 2-0 in their last game, will be squaring off at New York, now trailing Bruins by a point. Douglas recovering For the Leafs, Bobby Baun has been a disappointment as his recovery from a knee injury is slower than expected.

It had been hoped he could play this weekend and he skated through a double workout Friday. But, it now turns out he won't be back in the lineup until Wednesday. Marcel Pronovost, also out with injuries, won't play this weekend and coach Punch Im-lach is dubious about Kent Douglas. Defenceman Douglas wants to play but is still recovering from a pinched shoulder nerve picked up last Wednesday when he was pl'ed into the boards by Edmonton Oil King Junior Hamilton. Because of the holes in the defence.

Leafs will be keeping Duane Rupp, up from Rochester, on the lineup for the weekend games. Terry Sawchuk will be between the pipes for both weekend games so Bower can completely recover from pulled groin muscles. But, at least one Leaf should be in fine fettle because of an ego-booster. Ed Shack, 29 Friday, got 127 items in the mail for his birthday. Hull problem Canadiens have problems on left wing and one of the problems is Bobby Hull who's not even on their team.

The left wing problem Is how to stop. HulL Chicago's super star who will continue his bid to score 50 goals in as many games and, failing that, to notch more than 50 in the 70-game season. He shares the record for most goals in a season with Maurice Richard and Bernard Geoffrion, former Montreal-ers. Richard got the 50 while the NHL was still on a 50-game schedule instead of the present 70. Hull goes into weekend games at Montreal and New York with 44 goals in as many games, having missed four of the Hawk's 48 contests due to injuries.

Blake worried Hull is expected to be in the lineup for Saturday's game although he missed the team's drill Friday because his hand was swollen from punching Detroit's Gary Bergman during the Hawk's game against the Wings Wednesday. Montreal coach Toe Blake says he is worried about the lack of production from forwards John Ferguson and Dick Duff. The other member of the line, Gilles Tremblay, is going well after a slow start and "now has 17 goals and 11 assists, nine of the goals having come in the last 16 games. Sports get $400,000 government package Some people head south for sun and relaxation Others, like Mike Imbro, head for the race track and "suffer" with the sun From Pompano Beach, Florida, comes word from Mike of some luck with the trotters and pacers He reports catching a "sleeper" one night last week It paid $27.80 and, as Mike explains, he had it three times. And Mike tells the story, of an unidentified Ottawa friend who clicked on two daily doubles, worth $88.00 and $27.00 each "Tbis fellow bets strictly on numbers," reports "He doesn't know a horse from a cow and makes do bones about it Perhaps he has the right idea." On the subject of harness racing, Don Booth once again is putting in his busiest time of the The Zone 7 annual banquet is coming up next Wednesday and Don, as usual, is devoting time and energy towards lining up speakers and entertainment The Assembly Hall generally is jammed for this outing.

Young Tommy Gorman Is the talk of sports circles these days Frank's little boy has rewritten the record book in basketball His scoring feats on behalf of Carleton are downright fantastic And just as important, the 20-year-old scoring ace, 6-3 and 205 pounds, remains one of the most pleasant youngsters in or out of sport. Eddie Emerson stepping down The Ottawa Football Club will have a new president next The club holds its annual session Wednesday and Eddie Emerson has decided, because of health reasons, to step down The veteran, who has been associated with football here for so many years, refused to make it official until the meeting but it is certain he will vacate the Sam Berger is to take over. Whatever happened to Andy! Bathgate? The one time high scoring wingman has gone 21 straight games without a He did manage to put the puck into the net recently against New York but the goal was called back for an offside This is the worst slump of Andy's NHL career and comes at a time when Detroit, fighting for the pennant, could use some extra scoring punch. Good thing Gerry Abel has a hockey-minded father in Detroit Red Wing boss Sid Abel As a veteran of hockey, Sid is in a position to understand that an athlete can run into a series of hard luck Gerry, assigned to Memphis Wings after turning pro last summer, broke his wrist in training camp, then broke a finger just when he was ready to rejoin the club Back in action, young Abel broke the same wrist again after four games and was put out of action for Uie season. to international competitions.

Further grants now are under study by the advisory council and will be announced in April, the minister said in a statement. Biggest of the grants announced Friday go to the Royal Canadian Legion, the Canadian Amateur Ski Association and the Canadian Am a- By the Canadian Press Health minister Allan Mac-Eachen announced Friday the award of close to $400,000 in grants under the fitness and amateur sport program. The grants will help 18 national sport bodies hold training and coaching clinics, stage their national championships and send Canadian athletes Ryun easy winner bnt Lindgren bows Hot putter helps Dickinson to lead Ottawa skaters title contenders teur Hockey Association. Help juniors The legion gets $65,352 to continue its popular advanced coaching clinic held each summer at Guelph. The money also is to assist in a national junior athletes clinic at Edmonton in June and a number of regional coaching clinics.

The ski association will receive $62,646 for its Alpine, cross country and jumping championships and to help meet the cost of training the national teams and sending them to world championships. Part of the money also is to be used for regional and travelling coaching clinics. The Canadian Amateur Hockey association will receive $52,450 to cover costs of training its national team and sending it to the world championships in Yugoslavia next month. Other hefty sums go to the Canadian Amateur Basketball Association, the Canadian Yachting Association and the Canadian Figure Skating Association. A grant of $31,740 was awarded basketball's governing body for its national junior championships at Vancouver and Victoria, its senior women's championship at Hamilton and the senior men's title meet at Winnipeg.

For sailing The yachting association gets $26,698 to send crews to international sailing regattas in preparation for the Pan-American Games and the 1968 Olympics. The grant also is to be used for the national championships at Quebec and a national seminar for instructors. Canadian figure skaters will get $14,576 to help cover costs of the Canadian championships at Peterborough and to help send a team to the world championships in Switzerland later this month. Various branches of the amateur Athletic y.nion will divide up $82,403 to hold trials, championships, clinics, seminars and send teams to international competitions. two wins and five losses but made a host of friends in the process.

Two games went yards back. New York veteran Tom Laris shocked little Gerry Lindgren at two miles. Laris let Lindgren, a sophomore at Washington State, set the swift early pace, then stormed by the little runner on the last two laps and won it by 10 yards in 8:40.2, the best time of his career. Ricardo Urbina of Georgetown, a late entry, took the half mile by 10 yards in 1:52.9, while veteran Nick Lee of Baltimore won the 500 in 57.6. The relays Oklahoma State took the featured two-mile relay in 7:36.6, while Maryland State won the fastest mile relay in 3:18.5.

The high jump went to Frank Costello of Maryland oa fewer misses at six-feet, 10 inches. Ed Carruthers of Arizona also cleared the same height. Bill Fosdick of Southern California to the pole vault at 16 feet even. NEW YORK (AP) Young Jim Ryun, the leggy freshman from Kansas, stormed to an easy victory in the mile run Friday night, clocking an excellent 4:01.6 in the United States Track and Field Federation invit a i indoor meet. Ergas Leps of Toronto finished a disappointing fourth in 4:14.1.

A sparse gathering of 6.593 in Madison Square Garden cheered the 19-year-old Ryun every step of the way in the first indoor invitation staged by the USTFF, aided in the production by the Amateur Athletic Union under terms of a truce in existence between the warring factions in track and field. Ryun, who made the Olympic team as a schoolboy and still as a schoolboy set the American record at 3:55.3, probably could have cracked four minutes if he had been pressed. A romp He wasn't It was a romp all the way. The tall, dark-haired youngster rushed to the front at the gun, and led all the way, taking the pack through a gruelling 58.6 first quarter and killing them off with a 56.1 final quarter. John Camien, now running for the New York Athletic Club, finished second, some 30 Lema left today for Dallas where he'll undergo an operation on his right elbow next week.

He said he hopes to be back on the tour within six to eight weeks. Venturi, who withdrew when cold, wet weather delayed the tournament's scheduled start Thursday, changed his mind Friday and shot a four-over par 75 under sunny skies. Venturi loses part of the circulation in his hands during cold weather. Doug Sanders and Arnold Palmer, who closed with a rash to tie for first at the end of regulation play in last week's Bob Hope Desert Golf Classic in Palm Springs, kept themselves within striking distance of the Phoenix title. Sanders, who beat Palmer in a playoff for the Hope ti'Je, shot a one under par 70, and Arnie carded a 71, the same as George Knudscn of Toronto and Bill Ezinicki, the former National Hockey League bad man from Winnipeg.

PHOENIX, Arix. (AP) Slim Gardner Dickinson carried a new putter and a two-stroke lead into today's second round of the $60,000 Phoenix Open Golf tournament Dickinson, off to a shaky start on the pro tour this year, rammed home five lengthy birdie putts Friday as he carded a five-under-par 66 on the Phoenix Country Club course made soggy by recent rains. Mason Rudolph was two strokes behind with a 68, and Bob Rosburg, Dick Goss, Dick Crawford and Charles Coody were tied three strokes off the pace at 69. Dickinson, trying out a putter gives him last month by a friend, knocked in putts of 14, 35, 10, 12 and 12 feet for birdies and one-putted twice for pars. The tournament lost one name player end gained another Friday.

Tony Lemit withdrew with elbow problems after shooting a 72. and Ken Venturi joined the field. win the novice men's championship in the first event of the evening Friday. Third in compulsory figures, Shaver's free-skating performance gave him the nod over Bob McAvoy of Ottawa, who moved up from sixth place. Earlier in the day, Cathy Irwin of Toronto forged to.

an early lead in the junior women's event, receiving four out of a possible five first-place votes from the Canadian Figure Skating Association judges. Miss Irwin, who moved to Ontario from British Columbia in 1965, held the figures lead over former clubmate Judy McLeod of Vancouver. Third was Judy Williams of Gait, Ont Today's schedule calls for finals in novice women's, junior men's, junior women's, and junior dance events. The final, or free-skating, portion of the championships counts for 40 per cent of the competitors' total mark. By Jack Braockmann Canadian Presa tH writer PETERBOROUGH A handsome, smooth stroking couple from Vancouver waltzed away with the compulsory dances Friday night at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships.

Joni Graham and Don Phillips drew bursts of applause from spectators in the Memorial Community Centre rink with an outstanding round of set-pattern dancing which included European Waltz, Harris Tango, Rocker Foxtrot and Paso Doble. Second in the compulsones were Patricia and Deny Allen of Ottawa. Graham-Phillips, fourth in the senior championship held last weekend and runners-up in the 1965 junior-title chase, hold a seven-point lead as the seven couples entered prepare to present their interpretive free dances today. Ronald Shaver of Hamilton roared from third place to Linescores Final Knund Dixie oi loo mi tm St. Thomas.

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Pierrette Beau-champ, Ray Haines and Mrs. Dolores Duchesne..