The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 15

Beat Capture First QSHL Crown In Rugged Fifth Game By O. T. RYAN, of The Journal Sport staff. Ottawa Senators, after years of. failure, finally caught up with that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow trail of the QSHL playdowns Saturday night.

Topping off a successful season in the Senior Quebec loop, the Barber Poles handed Quebec Aces-a decisive 6-2 set-back in a rugged, exciting fifth game of their best-of-seven finals to capture their first QSHL crown before a crowd of more than 6,000 at the Auditorium. Now Enter Playdowns. ft 1 iJL pair of' goals in each period added up to a victory margin for the "ne.w champions and sent them into the Allan Cup1 play-downs against Victoriavllle Tigers, winners ofthe Quebec Provincial I Determined to finish the series on Auditorium ice following Quebec's upset. 5-1 win in the! fourth game. Senators opened up from the outset and had Aces backed into their own zone most of the way.

Punch Imlach's famed for. -their defensive play, had plenty of opportunity to put it into effect from that time until the 'final siren. Matching the Aces bump for bump. Senators showed they had little too much on the attack for Quebec. Refusing to let charging defencemen like Renaud and -Rags' Raglan deter them from their course, Senator forwards kept pouring in to keep a steady treany6f rubber flying at Marois.

When the Acetf did manage to get a breakaway the Barber Poles fast travelling defensive formations were back to give Legs" Fraser i adequate protection. Greene Opens Scoring. Right Winger George Greene, who has been on many an ill-fated Senator team in past play-downs, got the baH tolling Saturday night at the eight minute mark with Conny Tudin adding another marker before the end of the period. I Goals by Lude Check and Stu Smith gave Senators a 4-1 lead at the end of the second and this tots! was boosted to six by Jackie McLean and Bobby Copp during the rugged Ihlrdcanto. Jack Irvine, coming through with a driving game, was the playmaker of the Senator victory with three assists while Emile Da-genais; who missed three goals by inches, set up two scoring plays.

Quebec's power line of Fred Jim Planche and Gofdie Heale were the only bright spots in the Aces' lineup. jThey picked up the 'losers' only coun-. ters with Kovalchuck bulging the twine in the first period while Heale scored In the dying seconds of the game. Play Bumping Game. With their backs to the wall.

vucoec strategy- a hard-hitting defence. Their; forwards were also out to make use of their bodies, as well as their speed, in an attempt -to break up the Senator attacks before they got started. Senators met Aces more than half-way in this style of play and the game was hardly under way before, tempers were flaring. Although no real outbreak occurred more than a few verbal duels took place. Renaud and.

McLean almost hooked up in a little bout in the second period. Raglan roughed up' the Barber -Pole forwards. He caught Emile Dagenais with a punishing body check as the Ottawa centre! cut around the 'Quebec nets in the second. "Butch" Stahan, who drew the first penalty of the game but came back' to turn in a top -notch effort, settled Raglan a little later when the Quebec de-fericeman attempted a rush. Coming out tp meet Raglan at Stahan lifted him right off the Ice to take the steam out of the Aces-rearguard.

Senators Take Advantage, After 3' missing several good scoring chances during the early minutes of play, Senators offen-r sive play paid off when Joe Petit sent to the side for slashing Smith at 7.50 of opening period-Ottawa put on the power, and taking a pass from mart back of Quebec's nets, fired a. screen shot' that opened the scoring just as Petit's penalty WM jup. Jirt Planche set up a Quebec play three minutes later that knotted the count Stealing the puck from Copp at centre, Planche rushed into fire at Fraser. The shot was but Heale picked up the rebound and relayed to -Kovalchuck, who picked the low right side. Tudin sent Senators ahead again near the end of the frame, when he followed Irvine in to pick, up a loose puck," and drill, it into the left corner 1 -Senators padded their margin with the only two goal? of the second" period.

following ud a passing play by Irvine and nicked up rebound to beat Marois whlle Stu Smith tallied during Raglan's penalty law in the period. "Dagenais narrowly missed blinking the light in a breakaway in the third period. Taking the puck at centre on a lonf pass from Smith. Dagenais moved in closely checked by Labrie. Marois came 1 out to meet him but Dagenais got a slow shot away and it passed the Quebec goalie.

Jackie McLean just touched the puck as it was rolling into the open net. A low driving shot by Bobby Copp at 18.51 firrished the Senator scoring. Heale beat Fraser -for Quebec with .25 seconds left SIDELIGHTS. George Greene was one of the happiest, players in the Senator dressing, room following the Bar-box Pole victory On his way the showers, Greene was grin ning from ear to ear "It's taken me 13 seasons to 'land on the QSHL championship the blond winger said Senators were happy to win but they were quiet in their victory Still tired after the gruelling contest, the prospect of a tough game with Victoriavllle on Sunday took the edge off their celebrations The Barber Poles were really hitting their stride Saturday All threejfprward combinations were clicking Back of the blue line, Frank Mathers, Stahan, Copp and Ray Trainor turned in good steady hockey. Quebec Aces Goal, Marois; defence, Labrie, Ziedel; centre, Marshall; wings, Imlach, Tremb-lay.

Subs: Renaud, Brerman, Kovalchuck, Petit, Planche, Rin-fret Raglan, Poulin, Heale. Ottawa Senators Goal, Fraser; defence, Stahan, Mathers; centre, Emberg; wings, Greene, Smart. Subs: Copp, Trainor, McLean, Irvine, Tudin, Check, Smith, Wat son, Dagenais. Officials Pean Bennett Ken Mullens. Summary: First Period.

1 Ottawa--Greene- (Smart, Emberg) .1. 2 Quebec Kovalchuck (Planche. 3 Ottawa Tudin (Irvine) Penalties Stahan, Petit. i Second Period. 4 Ottawa Check (Irvine, Tudin) and 8.56 11.42 13.04 8.08 5 HOUawa Smith (McLean, Dagenais 19.27 Penalties Renaud, Smith.

Dagenais, Raglan. Third Period. 6 Ottawa McLean (Dagenais, Smith) 13.45 7 OttawaCopp (Irvine) 18.51 8 Quebec Heale (Kovai chuck, Planche) 19.35 Penalties Marshall, Zeidel. French and Turner Gef Hockey Letters At Clarkson College POTSDAM, NY, April 4. Patrick French and Gerald Turner, both Ottawa, Ontario, residents, are among 10 Clarkson College hockey players who have been awarded varsity letters for outstanding playing during recently concluded season.

This is the second hockey letter for French, who earned the distinction last year despite the fact that he was but almost half the season with injuries. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. F. A.

French, 100 Rlverdale avenue. A first team defenceman throughout the 1947-1948 season, French is a former captain in the Canadian Army, having served for four years following his graduation from St. Patrick's College. Turner, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Turner, 292 Fifth avenue, was also a letterman last year, and was one of the mainstays of the Tech, team this season. A graduate of St Patrick's College in 1940, he was active on the football, basketball and baseball teams at that institution. This season, he also attained the distinction of being named to the second all-opponent team named by the National AAU championship Colgate University hockey team. He was chosen as goalie, the position he held on the Tech squad. Cornwall Loses Round foCrowland WELLAND, Ont, April 4.CP) Cornwall Calumets handed Crowland Bisons a 5-2 setback here Saturday but dropped their two-game total-goal inter-city intermediate hockey round 12-10.

Bisons had won 10-5 Friday. Calumets are Ottawa district champions and Crowland Bis6ns were OHA semi-finalists. Leading 1-0 at the end of the first period, Cornwall moved up to 2-1 at the end of the second, and then -added three more in the third while Bisons potted only one. i Rheal Savard set. the pace for the winners by notching two goals while Gus Leprun, Emmerton and Snider connected for singles.

W. Kodatsky scored for Crowland in the second period and B. Kodatsky in the third. Lineup: Cornwall Goal. Plquett; defence, Lapanese.

Carbon; centre, Stnneld; wings. Savard Emmerton. Sub Snider. Murphy, Lebrurj.iSamson. Le- favej Flannigart.

Crowland Coal. Bishop; defence, Martin. LaUnovich; centre. B. Kodatsky: wing, Venables, Milencoff.

Subi Labnock. Knezich. Anderson. J. Rocco.

Hodowan. Superka, Semley, W. Kodatsky. Referees Jack Cuthbert and Jack Moore. Port Colbome.

Summary: i First Period. Corawell Murphy (Emmerton) 12.29 Martin. Snider (2). Second Period. Cornwall Snider (Lefave) 5.15 Crowland W.

Kodatsky (B. Kodatsky 13.31 Penalties Lefave, Semley. B. Kodatsky. Third Period.

Cornwall Savnrd (Lebrun) 1.30 Crowland B. Kodatsky (Venables. Martini 2.00 Cornwall Emmerton Cornwall Savard (Lebrun) Penalties 'Martin. 2.53 4.43, Aces NO REST FOR SENATORS AFTER WINNING QSHL TITLE their first Quebec Hockey Lepgue championship after winning it on dressing-room at the Auditorium the Ottawa players entrained for few minutes they whooped it following the 6-2 victory oVer Quebec Cleveland Wins Series' Opener From Buffalo CLEVELAND, April 4-CI Cleveland's Barons- rolled over Buffalo Bisons 6-1 Saturday night in the first game of the best-of-seven American Hockey League playoff finals before 11,765 fans. The veterans Fred Thurier and Roy Kelly paced the Barons with a pair of goals each.

Behind the brilliant goal-tending of Roger Bessette, the Barons seized a 2-0 lead in the second period. They poured in four more goals in the final 20 minutes of play. The Barons, runaway leaders of the regular season, eliminated Providence, four games to one, in the semi-final playoffs, ajid have lost only once in their last 33 starts. The second game of the finals will be played Tuesday and the next two at Buffalo. Buffalo Goal, Dion: defence, McMahon, Laycoe; centre McKay; wings, Hunt, Brown; subs, Field, Jackson, Bell, Cooper, Campeau, Lewis, Hickcy, Pargc-ter.

f- Cleveland Goal, Bessette; defence, Sprout, Davidson; centre, Demarco; wings, Kelly, Solinger; subs, Allen, WaresBuller, Bren- nan, Thurier, Russell, Lavoie, Holota, Carse, Leswick. i First Period. Scoring None. Penalty Campeau. Second Period.

Cfeveland, Solinger (De marco) 11.36 2 Cleveland, Thurier (La voie, Brennan) 19.56 Penalties Holota, -Jackson. Third Period. 3 Cleveland, Davidson (Kelly, Demarco) 4 Cleveland, Thurier (Lavoie) 1.50 15.03 16.46 5 Cleveland, Kelly (Sol inger, Sprout) 6 Cleveland, Kelly (Solinger, Demarco) 17.20 19.58 7 Buffalo, Hunt Cleveland Buys Russ Christopher ORLANDO. April 4. (P) President Bill Veeck of Cleveland Indians Saturday announced the Russ Christopher, relief hurler of Philadelphia Ath letics.

Veeck said it was a straight cash deal and did hot disclose the purchase price, but it was believed to be approximately $25, 000. Christopher has worn an Ath letic uniform for the last six years. He has a major. league record of 51 victories as against 62 defeats. Last year he won 10 games and lost seven.

Lanky Russ- had been ticketed at his own request for a starter's berth with the Athletics. Two months ago he wrote a letter to the club's front office asking for a chance to be a starting pitcher. I Russ explained that he wasn't objecting to relief work he appeared in 44 games last year but said he felt that if he was to work that hard again this year he should get more money. Mack promised Russ a starter's chance, but he has seen comparatively little action this Spring in the A's scant schedule of training games. Cornwall Girl Cagdrs Defeat Montreal CORNWALL, April 4.

(Special) Ocot Golds, champions of the Ottawa ana District Basketball Association, women'' division, defeated Montreal Olympics 19-15 here Saturday night In the first of total-points series in the Eastern Canadian playdowns. The second game will be played in Montreal next week. Jean Cameron set the scoring pace for the winners with seven points. Doreen Clough was Montreal's top scorer with eight point Golds led 10-5 at the half. 'IV To-Wib Quebec JMimmmm Victoriaville Jolts Ottawa In Start of Allan Cup Playoff 1 By BIIX WKSTWICK journal Sports Editor.

MONTREAL, March 4. Ottawa's newly crowned Quebec, League champibns leg weary and unable to strike an effective scoring gait at the Forum this afternoon to seize a victory and 'a; one-game lead in their best of three, Allan Cup playdown series. Unable to silence the Provincial champions' scoring guns in all three periods, Senators now face the task of overhauling Victojia-ville when the series shifts to Ottawa for the finish. Second gamers scheduled for Tuesday night at the Auditoriuh with a third, if necessary, to be played in the same rink on Friday night. 1 Victoriavllle Checks Hard.

While a crowd of 10,000 looked on. Senators only on rare occasions flashed semblance of the all-round power which had sparked them to a Title victoryover Quebec Aces the night previous in the Capital. Against aggressive, hard checking squad from Victoriavllle, they dropped two goals in arrears in the opening period and steadily lost scoring ground until the closing minutes of the third frame when Conny Tudin averted a shutout with 45 seconds of play remaining. The effects of a crowded play off schedule capped by Saturday night's rugged windup with the Aces were evident in Senators' play from the outset today. Well meant but fruitless efforts to seize the initiative in the opening stages of today's struggle were lacking the speed and finishing power of the other engagements, and throughout they failed to produce an attack, sustained enough to shake the close and avid checking of the Provincial champions.

I Score Two- Apiece. A pair of goals each by Eddie Vigneau and Gaston Gauthier, along with a single marker by Armand Dufault, were more than enough to spell defeat for Senators. The green and yellow garbed Provincial League featured by the work of their first string tine of Kelly Burnett, Gauthier and Dufault, and the stout defensive display of rearguard Phil Vitale, stuck to their task in tenacious style. 'After taking Senators' earlier assaults without they pounced on every opportunity to carry the play. Apparently bent on jumping the tired Ottawa out- iit, they moved up to the attack early In the game and gathered confidence as well as checking effectiveness after snatching a two goal lead, in the first period.

The Senator attack threatened time and again to roll into high gear, particularly in the second period when they stood in and hammered shots at goalie Lucien Deschesne, but the finish punch was missing and the Victoriaville custodian thwarted all but their last minute effort to beat him. Heavy enough, and with a team that showed good balance, the Provincial champions merely redoubled their checking efforts as the game waned, and try as they might Senators couldn't finish off their plays. They weren't clicking early, and things got no better for them in later stages. Phil Vitale Connects. It wasn't rough hockey, but there were some body checks meted out at time's with Vitale connecting for not'a lew of them.

Vitale was key man defensively, but all three Victoriaville lines checked well and held their own on the offensive. Both squads wasted no time in making their intentions apparent, but after Senators' opening drive had failed and Eddie Emberg had missed a good chance in the first three; minutes, the Tigers took over, and scored at the six-minute mark. Kelly Burnett, the Provincial League's leading scorer, fed a pass to Dufault and from deep in right wing the latter sent the puck to the front of the net where Gauthier hammered it m. Senators spent the rest of the opening period trying to get that one back, and just before the close of the first frame Burnett whipped a shot from the left side at Fraser. The puck struck the opposite goal post and bounded back on Fraser's doorstep.

Du a I -V I I I 1 I I it V' -'j -i 1 -V i i CtmU i mi Ottawa Senator players' didn't have much opportunity to celebrate Saturday night. Not long after; this picture was snapped in their Montreal for their opening game against Victoriavllle. But for a Aees. Coach George Boucher is at the extreme right. Victoriaville Tigers! cau'ght fault had a try at it -as Fraser sprawled trying to smother jthe loose rubber, but it tipped in! off an Ottawa defenceman's siick and pufault received credit for it.

A defensive lapse with Senators herded in -their own zone paved the way for Victoriavilie's third goal, and the only counter of the second period. An Ottawa attempt to clear the puck out of danger boomeranged when the rubber landed almost directly on Dufault's stick. Dufault; was inside the Ottawa blue line and promptly slapped a pass diagonally! to. his left which Gauthier nailed and converted into a shot that" beat- Fraser Senators' Best Effort. That counter- developed Senators most spirited and sustained offensive reply.

For a short spell Emberg. Smart "and Greene swooped around DescJhesne and fired at. him. When Vitale took one of the eight minors, meted Ottawa put five; men in behind the enemy blue line and Tudin, Mathers, Chick and Stahan planted shots without effect. Until a penalty to Trainor slowed them down Senators made their best bid before the sccohd period ended, but after that thiey never appeared capable of closing the gap.

They went after the opposition in the early minutes of the closing frame, but when Conny Tudin had been flattened in the corner behind the Victoriaville blue line, wingman Walter Cecohini broke loose down the left lane, sent a long pass across to Vigneau in. the 'Ottawa defence zone and Vigneau caught the 14ft corner on Fraser from outside the red circle on right wing. Trainor had just returned from a tripping penalty when Victpria-ville finished -the scoring wih less, than five minutes of play remaining. Cecchini started the play with a pass, to Wrajv and the latter fired towards the net. Vigneau was posted in front and deflected the puck past Fraser.

1 Senators finally clicked in the closing minute when Irvine took pass from Check, flipped it oux of the net from the to the front left side and Tudin put it in. PRESS BOX SLANTS. The Victoriaville supporter were surprised but-quite jubilanjt when it was over. A special train from that town brought 800 followers of the Provincial chamj-pions-here with 100 more from Sherbrookei; Hundreds of others made the r50-mile trip by motor to see the Tigers. Phil who was lined up for a time for defence duty with Comf mandos but failed to stay with the Allan Cup champions, was a standout for Victoriaville.

j. Kenny Reardon watched th game and said Senators "had no reason to worry" with count 2-0 against them at the end of th first period. But they were a tired hockey team and showed all the signs, There were no serious casualties. Eddie Em-j berg was struck above the eye by a flying puck. Vitale crashed; into the goal post In the secondj frame but came back after a restj There were "many who made5 the trip from Ottawa, but they! had little Chance to cheer.

There were no breaks fell to Ot-i tawa. Emberg had four trie at the net from a foot or two out in the third but couldn't get thej puck by Deschene, who formerly! -played with Valleyfield. Bobby! Carragher, Fred Velentf Kand Paul Leduc work together onjone Vic-r I A I rS. 1 Cowley to Coach All-Stay Team Announcement was made last night that Bill Cowley, former Boston Bruins star, '-will the all-star Quebec League, and professional team to oppose the Air Force Flyers next Saturday night at The Auditorium. The Olympic champions will be making their only appearance in Ottawa in a game in aid of the Canadian Appeal for Children.

torlaville. line with Dick Wray, Walter Cecchini and' Eddie Vigneau on another. Top line is Brunett, Gauthier and Dufaultt but all of them are good checkers. Lineups: I. Ottawa Goal, Fraser; defence, Stahan; Mathers; centre, Emberg; wings, Smart, Greene; subs, Copp, jTraino'r, McLean, Irvine, Check, Smith, Dagenais.

Victoriaville -Goal, Deschene; defence, Vitale, Roberge; centre, Burnett; Wings, Gauthier, Dufault; subs, Legris, Roy, Carragher, Wray, Valenti, Vigneau, Le Due, -Cecchini. Officials Sibby Mundey and Red Storey, i Summary: First Period. 1 Victoriaville, Gauthier, (Dufault, Burnett) 6.24 2 Victoriaville, Dufault ..19.32 Pens iltiesTralnor; Vitale. Second Period. 3 --Victoriaville, i (Dufault, Burnett) Penalties Vitale, Trainor, Roy.

i Third Period. 4 Victoriaville, 1 neau (Cecchini) 4.55 5 -Victoriavllle, Vigneau (Cecchini, Wray) 1552 6 Ottawa, Tudin (Irvine, Check) 19.15 Penalties Stahan, Dufault, Trainor. Barbara Ann Scoff Ends Western1 Tour WINNIPEG, 'April 4. (CP) Barbara Ann Scott Saturday completed her western tour with two perform ances at Winnipeg's Amphitheatre rink. Holder of the World, Olympic, European and Canadian figure skating titles, her appearance before sell-out crowds of 5,000 ended the western visit, climaxed when she won.

the Dominion senior ladies' title at Calgary. Tired after her months-long schedule of performances, Miss Scott rested between afternoon and evening exhibitions. Hockey Scores ALLAN CUP. Eastern Canada Semi-Flnal. Victoriaville Tigers 5, Ottawa Senators 1.

(Victoriaville leads best of -three 1-0.) Western Seml-Final. Edmonton 10, Trail 0. i (Edmonton wins best-of-seven quarter-final 4-0.) QSHL FINAL. Ottawa Senators, "Quebec Aces, 2. (Saturday) (Ottawa -wins best-of-scven series 4-1.) MEMORIAL CUP.

eastern Canada Quarter-Final. Halifax St. Mary's, Inkerman Rockets, 5. (Halifax wins bcst-of-flve series Quebec Junior Final. Three Rivers Notre Dame, 2: Montreal Wheeler-Canadlens.

1. (Best-ofrthree series tied 1-1.) Sunday. Three Rivers Notre Dame, Montreal Wheeler-Canadiens. 3. (Three Rivers wins best-of-three series 2-1.) STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Saturday.

Toronto, 1 Boston, 2. (Toronto wins, best-of-seven series 4-1.) Sunoay. Detroit, Rangers, 2. (Detroit wins bestof-seven series 4-2.) USI1L PLAYOFFS. Houston 7, Kansas City 2.

(Best-of-seven series tied 3-3) Both Coaches Laud Rockets St. Mary's Leave for Montreal By eJ W. of Tba Journal Halifax St. Mary's a husky, fast-breaking club, eliminate ed the scrappy Inkerman Rockets from the Memorial Cup playdowns with an impressive display of scoring power which gave them an 8-5' edge in the fourth -game of the best-of-five series, at the Auditorium Saturday afternoon. 7.430 See Game.

A full house of 7,430 paid customers saw the Martimes junior champions withstand Rockets shackling style of play and break loose for five of their eight goals when playing a man short. Rock ets, ODHA champions, scored a pair of tallies while the Saints were paying for misdemeanors. Halifax took the first two games the East Coast by 9-2 and 9-3 cores, dropped the next game in ttawa 6-2 and came back to take he series on Saturday. They ow advance against Montreal atibnales in a best-of-three with the first game booked for Montreal Tuesday. The complete series will be played in Montreal.

Inkerman bowed out, were outweighed hut not outfought and gave the visitors plenty of worries before the siren sounded the conclusion of the series. Hirschfeld Stars. Hirschfeld was the individual standout of St. Mary's, belting in three goals and collecting an assist The first line of Hirschfeld, MacGilllvray and Campbell garnered four of the "winners' goals. St.

Mary's led 3-2 at the end of the first, 6-4 at the conclusion of the second and got two markers in the final period to Rockets one. A dozen penalties were meted out during the rugged encounter, eight to Marty Barry's stalwarts and four to Rockets, but St. Mary's proved more dangerous when Rockets were attempting to capitalize on the man advantage. With St. Mary's playing short, Rockets moved into enemy territory to put on the pressure.

But Hirschfeld and his mates jwere too fast and broke out to race the length of the ice, leaving Rockets rearguards trapped out of position. Rockets never; deviated from their harrying, backchecking style of attack and commanded a good share of the game. They missed gilt-edged scoring chances in bunches and several times could have taken substantial leads if their shots had been on the target. Inkerman started the game at a furious pace and penned the Saints in their own ice for the first few minutes. Halifax managed their first shot on Bert Felt-ham, in the Inkerman nets, at 4.30 of the opener.

And that 1 was a weak effort sent from just inside the blueline. Duncans Tie It Up. Then Saints started to hit a fast clip and lanky Hugh Campbell broke into the scoring column at the 5.47 mark, on a play set up by Hirschfeld. Seconds later Hirschfeld set Up a play Identical to that which gave them the lead but Campbell's drive hit the post and bounced out to the boards. The Duncan twins combined to tie the count at the eight-minute mark with Erwin getting the goal and Edwin the assist.

Inkerman took the lead for the only time during the game at the 18.40 mark of the first stanza when speedy Gordle Brown, a brilliant performer and one of the smoothest men on the ice, gathered in a pass from Lunny, who took a relay from and whipped it into the rigging. by Burns and Hirschfeld gave Saints a one-goal margin to carry Into the middle period. One minute and four seconds after the second opened, Ed Duncan slapped in Erwin' rebound to even the score but before the period had expired, Duggan, Conrad and McNeill had tallied for Halifax and Lunny boosted Inker-man's total a notch. Pace Slows Up. With' both clubs showing signs of wear in the final 20 minutes, the pace slackened slightly and Hirschfeld scored the first final-period on a play which included Campbell and MacGilllvray.

Whiddiker got that one back four minutes later when he took a pass-out from Percy Armstrong and slid the puck along the ice and through goalie Ernie Yeadon'a legs. Lloyd Laporte used six forwards for part of the final canto but his tired players had taken a pounding through the first sessions of the game and lacked the drive to bring them back into the lead. Brown's bursts of speed carried him in several times but his shot was either blocked by swarming Saints or kicked out by Yeadon. 1 Bert Feltham played a whale of a game in Rockets' goals, handling scores of screened and outfoxing Marty Barry's forwards on many breakaways. Feltham's superb play kept Rockets in the running in their slacker moments.

Doug McNeill, a smooth-working Halifax defenceman, went down under a crushing check from Gordie Hudson in the last two minutes of play and vaas helped to the dressing room. However, McNeill was merely winded from an elbow in the chest and required no medical treatment. BLUELINE BITS. Gordie Brown, clever, highflying Inkerman forward, fell vic- tim to McLaughlin's lashing stick. Brown came off the ice.

with blooc streaming from a cut over his lefi eye. The deep gash three stitches and may mark the handsome boy for life Mary', left Sunday-morning for Montrea where they will hook up witi Natlonales in best-of-three, th first game booked for Tuesday Marty Barry coach "of Halifa: had nothing but praise for "a MacCABK. Sports Staff. fighting little club" Inker-man's mentor, Lloyd Laporte, felt Rockets should have won one of the games on the East Coast. Laporte said Goalie Yeadon was all that beat them in the second game Leo Boivin turned in another powerhouse job for Rockets Inkerman dropped Hugh Rlopella.

and picked up Alf. Menchini St. Mary's used a Juvenile, Ed Hagan, in place of L. Mathieu St. Mary's players took part in a broadcast to Halifax following the game Combined attendance at both games was more than 15,000, Trial Uom aj-u vniiia, Inkerman Goal, Feltham; defence, Thompson and Marshall; centre, Ed Duncan; wings, Erwin Duncan and Armstrong; suba, Hudson, Brown, Lunny, Whltteker, Defalco, Menchini' and Halifax Goat Yeadon; defence, McNeill and McLaughlin; centre.

Hirschfeld; wings, and MacGilllvray; Franklin, Reardon. Burns, Conrad, Duggan Hollett, Hagan. Officials Frank Elliott, Fat Pftttikru-tn First Period. 1 Halifax, Campbell (Hirschfeld) 5.47 2 Inkerman, Erwin Duncan -(Ed Duncan) 8.00 3 iInkern-um. Brown (Lunny Whiddiker) 18 JO 4 Burns (unassisted) 17.55 Halifax.

Hirschfeld (MacGilllvray and McLaughlin) 19.38 Penalties Hudson, McLaughlin. Second Period. 6 Inkerman, Ed Duncan (Erwin Duncan) 1.04 7 Halifax Duggan (Burns) .15.00 8 Halifax, Conrad 4 (Duggan) 18.03 9 Halifax, McNeill 10- Inkerman, Luriny (Boivin) 1959 Penalties Campbell 2, McNeill, Menchini, McLaughlin. Third Period. 11 Hirschfeld (Mc Laughlin, Campbell) 7.48 12 Inkerman, Whiddiker (Armstrong) 11.31 13 Halifax, Hirschfeld (McNeill) 14.57 Penalties McNeill, Edwin Duncan, Burns, MacGillvtay, Hudson.

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