Spits To Lynddorst i Motors Metro Leagw Spot If a good thing for hockey ar a p lot If flwy probable the Hub would be without a big team winter It seems definitely established Bow that Newmarket will aumc Motors place ha Twi Ami Ynt Aurora will fee bantam and midget teams in the North York minor hockey league That was the decision at last Fri day when minor hockey wishers gathered in the Aurora arena Chairman Bill indicated there was plenty of talent available for two teams and outlined the cost of operat ing the two clubs It was decided to set up a to proceed with fi nancing plans Alderman Jim Murray was named chairman of the committee Bill Calhoun and Ken Bennett Browning elected chairman of the trans portation committee It was also decided to Harry Bill Sis- man Charles J Bowser Doug Harrison Evan and Stan Walker about acting on a finance committee committee will meet again to complete plans for Bill Mundell said that Bill Bill Patrick and had consented to the Metro senior league team IS scheduled to play its final league game previous to Christ mas before leaving for Europe to represent Canada at the Worlds Hockey Tournament Down Center a member of the executive this year advised the local ex ecutive early this week that the subcommittee had dis cussed Newmarkets problem and would raise no objections to Newmarket a vanning place and would grant the local club a bye into the senior Tbe other teams in the group have to agree to this arrange ment but are not expected to raise any objection In order to take over scheduled games New market will have to play their home games on Friday night in stead of the customary nights Arena manager Stan Smith reports local Op timist club which sponsors the Friday night NHL sessions have kindly consented to play on Thursday nights paving the way for the Spits to play Spitfire management is angling with several outstanding senior B teams to provide the local hockey hungry fans with exhibition games until they jump into the Metro league Under the new management Herb Cain will coach the team and Fred is expected to be manager AM SPARES High score men in the town industrial league were Roy Kef- Del Doug Mount Bond Dave Mathewson 733 Art Deave Fred 70S John His- Moe Hall Har vey Murray Doug Mount rolled a single game high for the season- league standing is 36 Deime Electric Legion Office Specialty 3i Keffer Construc tion 28 Dixons 27 Newmarket Metal Workers 20 Combines Clover Kickers I ft Rockets and This looks like a high for the year Hazel spun an 858 triple counting with games of 291 and 266 Other top scorers in the Thursday Night ladies league were Myrtle Dunn Helen Olive Marie Ned Bud and Bill CuUen were top three trundlers in the Davis Leather loop beat Burling Thorns edged Scott League Thorns Cullen Scott Burling 16 Geo registered 270 Tommy Scott 255 177 Jack Malcolm Bert to top the Office Specialty league Standing is 18 Scott 17 NEWMARKET If PHONE r i to CONTINUOUS FROM ONLY CONTINUOUS ROM I NOV20 he fl HIGHPOWERED J fei r I CAMERON MITCHEU 2- FREE cky MATINEE for FREE pro Stick Deluxe Chinese Checkers Courtesy Si aft SPORTING GOODS I 24 r rv ft 141 I SMI NOV 25 2i color i J It 7 SOOI FROM HERE TO ETERNITY i High scorers in the Monday night ladies league were 591 Mary Austin Jeanne Gatti 524 Jean Gould Annie Stickland Claire Pollock Scoring roundup read Clippers Peasants Femcats 2 League standing is Janjaps 16 16 Clippers Peasants High scoring quartette in the Office Specialty office gals league were Marion 596 209 Audrey Brice Lois Gibson 559 198 222 League standing dell VandenBergh 7 Bunn Climpson Myrtle Dunn counted a 632 Marie McCabe and Helen Taylor to pace the Wednes day afternoon ladies League standing is Isobel Sturgess Doris Hlgginson 5 Agnes Rich ardson What a whirl trying to get the air cleared for Hub senior B hockey First the Spits are in then out But everything isnt lost The refusal on the Spits bid for senior B metro area status Friday may be a blessing in disguise Hulse battling strongly in the Friday reported to the Spits executive this week that the would support Newmar kets bid to take over Motors spot in the Metro senior league On top of that the would give the Hub crew a bye into the Thats good news for the Hub hockey faithful It seems assured now that well see senior B hockey here this winter spot in the league will become vacant before Christ mas when the are scheduled to start packing to rep resent Canada at the Worlds Hockey Tournament in Sweden means of course the Spits wont actually move into the league until the middle of Dec ember Until that time the Spits ex ecutive is trying to interest sev eral outstanding senior clubs to move in for exhibition games At the moment theyre talking tur key to Oshawa Truckmen and dont be surprised to see them hooked in a home and home exhi bition set with Eddie Bushs Col- lingwood Shipbuilders Club officials players and team well wishers met Sunday and gave Herb Cain the go ahead sign to gather up out of town talent to boost the team into a top notch senior crew Herb has had preliminary discussions with several outstanding players and final outcome should pro vide us with one of the strongest teams in years Spitfire executives realize its going to be tough to keep the hockey fires burning brightly especially during the exhibition scries but are hoping the Hub Bears Top Big Nine Group Aurora Bears are riding on top of the Big Nine OHA junior group The Bears moved into disputed possession of first place a drop in the bucket ahead of Brampton and Lake when they St Mikes 61 at the Aur ora arena Monday before less than fans The Bears and out shot the Collegians by and margin in the first two Doug Lee who got super rfOfffcfon Offers Tew h King City and district will pool their hockey player resources thhi season to enter three teams in the North York Minor Hockey League and play downs All three teams ban tam midget and juvenile will ply their hockey trade under the banner in North York League play The teams will stage triple- header league attraction every Wednesday at the arena The bantam game ia scheduled for with the midget and juvenile contests following at and chimes re Doug who success fully guided the Schomberg Lions bantams to an OAtHA bantam D title last winter will coach the bantams Bill Hodgson is manager As yet a coach and manager havent been selected for the midget entry Forrest been named manager and Percy Hill coach of Nobleton juven iles fans will rally We count to ten before com menting on the turndown of the Spits bid for metropolitan area status Its not very often the Hub hockey men and theyve been paying dues to the associa tion for 35 years or more go to the hockey big wigs to- ask for help They went down Friday and got a decisive no The handed out the old we cant fool around with the metropolitan area rules How then did Brampton and Aurora both outside the met ropolitan area happen to wind up with a franchise in the metro politan area junior loop Perhaps that doesnt come under the heading of fooling around with the rules or does it Mondays Wash Line Aurora will have two minor hockey teams operating in the North York league Sorry Beeton and Bradford cant participate this season The league has 18 teams and Bolton may be the nine teenth Itll be a big afternoon Sat urday at the Newmarket arena Gorman Smoke Rings kick off on another big season Town Leaguers get away to a rousing start Monday Aurora New market King City vs Vandorl It never rains but what it pours Three weeks ago the town league officials were ready to give their eye teeth for another team Theyve got their four now and along comes Millionaires one of the top senior teams and they want in Got that info from Mickey Smith town league coach League officials will con sider the entry Monday Jack Frost has to be piped in these days Bradford told is going all out for a new arena artificial ice and Hope they make it Should make it easier next season to revive the Trolley League Sutton New market Aurora Bradford and perhaps Markham and Alliston Beeton ex pects to complete its artificial ice installation by Dec 1 and no doubt by this time Ellis and company at Sutton have their artificial ice setup well on the way to completion Basketball League Starts hi Aurora Tracy Barrager a chap with a mission and that is to put bas ketball on the district sport pages comes in with the glad tidings the are operating on the basketball courts Tracy reports called right now because we havent got a sponsor and one is badly needed Anybody interested in sponsoring an up and coming readymade basketball quintette can contact Tracy for details The are entered in the Toronto and District Metropoli tan B basketball league The Orfans with Roger Perry and Dave leading the parade eclipsed East York Grads 3823 last week to make a gaudy league start The will play all their home games on Wednesday nights at the Aurora high school gym Present members of the team are Roger Perry Dave Cossar Tracy Don Casey Bob Saunders Geo Lee Harvey Ross Roll ins Don Lloyd Phil Mike Kovaks Keith Kincaid A won Recreation Leape Starts Next Saturday Bill Mundell Pep and company are going to pull the wraps off the Aurora Re creation Commission hockey league this Saturday at 930 ajm The league boasts a roster of eight teams and has players registered for action Theres a four team circuit players under thats called the American League Teams in the Krmp are Providence and Then there the four team loop player under Saturdays opener will tend Pittsburg against Buffalo at to be followed by Providence at Leafs at aid Detroit Boston at am At dozen manufacture in Canada during was considerably up THE COLUMN defensive protection from Andy Grant Morton Bob and Ron gunn ing for his second home ice shut out lost it late in the second per iod when Frank Howorth was the score man on a passing ses sion that took in Bob Butler and Angelo The Bears looked good all the way as they scored at a two goals a period clip Bob Veale with Andy Closs and Bob Fallis the everready pass supply men got the Bears started at The Bears were leaders before the period ended as Lewis drove home a three way relay that came via hardrock Nobby Ash and Newmarkets solid send er Grant Morton The clock was heading for the half way mark of the second be fore Grant Morton rerouted a St Mikes clearing pass behind St Mikes netminder Paul Bums Chalk up a nice effort for Morton on that one The Bears went topside when Bob Fallis picked an opening after Joe was the shooting man Veale and Bob Fallis the pass suppliers as Aurora wound up their scoring in the final period Bears Beat Dixie 53 Andy Closs Aurora Bears are hitting it up at a jolly winning clip in the early Big Nine Junior B race The Bears with Charlie tree and Norm Stunden calling the coaching shots took Dixie Rockets apart 3 in the Dixie arena Saturday The win gave the Bears a win 1 loss season to date The Bears led all the way They protected a 2 edge after the first period were 32 mas ters after two rounds and out- scored and outhustled the by a 1 margin in the final 20 minutes White Bob Ed die Walker Roy and Ron scored in that or der to provide the Bears victory margin Grant Johnny Mc Lean and Eddie came up with the Dixie goals that wrote off Dougie Lees shutout Mora Sports 13 Any of start to la was ft fame to fee revered have been a few at the very kimny accorded Mann and games except In the regions immediately these trophies represent respectively Us senior and of Can the general of interest displayed therein by of the Dominion is unfortunate the more so since la crosse is official and legally Canadas national game Except for hockey lacrosse is the fastest game played And a lacrosse field is no place for a weakling For it is a rugged hemans game with speed skill and bodily contact And it is the oldest of all the games played in Am erica antedating baseball and hockey So far as records indicate the first Canadian clubs were organized in the lefts but each followed its own rules and the game was until The code of regulations then drawn up by Dr W George Beers known as the Father of La crosse gave the game great impetus and it became the Dominions national sport by an act of legislation in For years it flourished mightily Epic battles were fought east and west famous teams in east such as Ot tawa Capitals Toronto Montreal National and Shamrocks contributed mighty stars On the Coast it held and holds great favor Bat in the east interest has waned as heck and football new in stature As played by the white man who adopted from the In dians lacrosse was introduced to the United States In the 1880s when John sponsored a meeting of the Montreal Shamrocks and an Indian team at Boston The game was played on Boston Commons in the nowroaring heart of the Hub After that contest many New England groups began experimenting with the Indian game The Intercollegiate Association was organized a few years later and it now the guiding body Its original members hailed from New England but today teams as far south as the are included The game is played in scores of United States colleges International competition has been an important feature of the sports popularity in other years An American squad first visited England in and prior to World War American and Canadian clubs met annually for the Joe Lally Trophy named in honor of the grand old sportsman who lives in Cornwall once a hotbed of the game from whence came such stars as Newsy Lalonde John white and the The John Memorial Cup was placed in Competition in when Syracuse leading United States team of that season played an Oxford- Cambridge squad Lacrosse a great game la far from dead Bat In general public interest Jt has declined a strange for a country In It Is the national rate with its roots ex tending bark into the days when rivals played It as many as men a side by Toronto DISTILLERS LIMITED HOLLAND THEATRE BBAOFOBD ONT sat I In Technicolor PONY EXPRESS Charles Rhonda Fleming SECOND FEATURE 1ST i ft r c MOW IK MOON IS m Mimed Men staple Gotag Concern Again Though it begins to look like Keswick will not nice an inter mediate team this winter Keswick hockey fans will rejoice that the Keswick Married Mens hockey league will be a going concern again this winter The latter leagues annual meeting was held Nov at Bert Tomlinsons garage Mi ami About a dozen ardent en league named an executive for the season Roy Galloway was reelected president and Paul was named secre tarytreasurer Representatives from the three teams in last years race Kes wick Jersey and Roches discussed plans for the coming season and they all indicated their teams would return to the hockey warfare again this sea son The wielders in the circuit are to feel the weight of a new league rule put on the books this season In stead of drawing the customary two minutes theyll now sit out five minutes for high sticking infractions All three will be send ing out their scouts over the next few weeks to round tip talent for the teams A start cm the schedule will he made as soon as King Winter does his staff Any married mats- can talk his wife farteatkrwfa him a night out weak can contort Delta il OCCASIONAL of HASSOCKS DOMINION LUGGAGE tones CHINA CRYSTAL COMB IN AND SEE OUR LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Ab ra XMAS SEALS RIBBON Use our Plan on any article