Quality Repairs at Economy Prices tfrinrr Uuprrt Daily jftrtos: Wednesday, December 19, 1945 Athletic Record For Year CANADIAN SPORT HEADS INTO WMfisrJSE competition WITH CONFIDENCE FOR GOOD FUTURE Outlook Brightened By Revival of Prewar Classics, Return of Stars from Services By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer Apparently on the threshold of an expansive new era after wartime retrenchment, sport'heads buoyantly into 194G, confident of mastery over reconversion problems which followed V-J Day. In all lines of athletic activity, the outlook for Canada is brightened by revival of pre-war national classics, return v y y V .5 y y y 'V y y y y y y y y y v y y y y y ar ;y y y y v y y y y y y y y w y y y y w y y y y y y y y y y y y y y PRINCE RUPERT SHOE REPAIR 3rd St. (Near the Post Office) OF MISCELLANEOUS LADIES' WEAR ... at the . . . STONE BUILDING (Next to W. F. Stone's) Exceptional Values in all kinds of Women's and Girls' CLOTHING A VISIT WILL WI3IX REPAY YOU! X.,5.J.Ji,S.3,.S.J,l.,.ii, 5,53, .a..i,5;3,i,5.5,,.,.J'.5,,,3,.- PHONE 543 PHONE FOR . . . . . H. Letourneau Expert Plumber, Tinsmith and Roofer SEE OUR STOCK OF Automotive Accessories Cleaners and Polishes Polish Cloths Chamois Glashlne Window Cleaner (with sprayer) Vanity Mirrors Bumper Jacks Seat Covers Locking Gas Caps Car Top Utility Carriers (just the thing for the sportsman) Sleet Shavers Wheel Wrenches. Get your Imperial Oil Hockey Broadcast Schedules here. Listen every Saturday night at C:00 p.m. over CFPR to the National Hockey Broadcast. S. E. PARKER LIMITED Ford Dealer Imperial Oil Dealer of established stars Trbm the services and indications of Increased participation In sport by men and women who learned to play games in training camps. swelling In the late months of 1945 are old familiar names: Syl Apps, Frank Brimsek and Milt Schmidt in hockey; Tony Golab, Bill Stukus and Andy Tommy In football; Canadians Dick Fowler and Phil Marchildon in major league baseball. All spent more than a year in uniform and Fowler set the comeback pace, by pitching Philadelphia Athletics to a no-hit, no -run victory against St. Louis Browns first perfect game in the American League since 1940. Sport leaders announce renewal of blue-ribbon events like the blacked-out MacdonalcTs Brier curling classic and prepared for a Canadian entry in revived Davis Cup tennis com petition. Golf officials dusted 1 off the Seagram Trophy for Canadian Open competition even before the war against Japan ended. New leagues blossomed everywhere. Reconversion Problems Are Up For sport another hopeful legacy of war was a cross-country trend toward construction of war memorial centres designed as sport playgrounds. Reconversion problems principally affected football and hockey. The national football crown finally went to Toronto Argonauts, returning to the game after a three-year hiatus. It was a strange season of "window shopping" with players out of the service drifting from one camp to another in search of steadily in strength and easily defeated Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35-0 in the Canadian final. Their 6 ! display stamped them one of the .5 A A A A A great teams of all time. Toronto Maple Leafs won the 1944-45 Stanley Cup on Babe Pratt's third-period goal in the seventh game of a tense series against Detroit Red Wings, but Leafs opened shakily in the campaign which ends next April. General Manager Conny Smythe said Toronto never had faced JrllA Them with - YjP feyypij The gift every woman Kwacxf 0 receive. JlS THOUGHTFUL AND Sjtf APPRECIATED All colors and sizes available in . j j J our fine stock. fjk FASHION FOOTWEAR Next to Variety Store WHMH'ia ' I ' 111 P P INCOME TAX Returns Prepared See It. E. 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Basketball: Merritton, Ont., Hellcats win Canadian senior title second straight year by defeating Vancouver Lauries; new professional league and possibility of East-West cage final mooted. Badminton: Jack Purcell abdicates world title; Doug Grant of Montreal and Stanley Cutts of Toronto arrange challenge match to determine successor. P.O. Box 1294 Golf: Bryon Nelson, golf's mechanical man, wins Canadian Open with 72-hole score of 280. Stan Leonard of Vancouver, 11th in field, Is closest Canadian. Rowing: Philadelphia's Penn Barge wins 63rd Canadian Henley regatta renewal; Lieut. Bob Pearce indicates impending abdication of world's professional sculling title. Figure Skating: Barbara Ann Scott, 1C, Ottawa, captures North "House of Better Cleaning" EVENSON'S IDEAL CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY Authorized "FLEXFORM SERVICE" Shapes Dresses Without Guesses Waterproofing a Specialty PHONE 858 Mall Orders Box 99 HELEN'S BEAUTY SHOP Permanent Waving Beauty Culture in all Its branches 206 4th Street : Phone 055 BERT'S TRANSFER ant MESSENGER Stand 303 3rd Ave. W. Books, Magazines, Newspapers Phone Blue 810 (Res. Oreen 955) JOHN H. BULGER Optometrist JOHN BULGER LTD. Third Avenue FOR PROMPT and EFFICIENT SERVICE mall nour qUsttt to COLUMBIA OPTICAL C0.LT-2 W UYHOURST. VANCOUVER. B.C. American senior ladies' figure skating championship at New York. Lacrosse: Vancouver Burrards trounce St. Catherines Athletics for Mann Cup in three straight; ill feeling between teams reflected in attack on referee Jimmy Gunn. SHORT SPORT Joe Louis began training for the twentieth defence of his world's heavyweight boxing championship four years ago yesterday. It was a second en gagement against Buddy Baer and the result was the same as the flrst-a knockout victory for the Brown Bomber. Louis is preparing to fight Billy Conn early next summer. John Henry Lewis, light-haevyweight champion of the world, knocked out Coleman Johns In the second round of a non-tltle bout 10 years ago. Lewis defeated Dutch Weiner the following night in another non-title tussle. Daily News advertisers desiring- to make Christinas I'.ve changes in their advertisements 1 are requested to have their copy in without further delay in order to ensure the changes being made. Cooperation in this matter would also be much appreciated. (295) Business and Professional For Your FOUNDATION GARMENT see MRS. PERREAULT representative of Spencer Supports (Canada) Ltd. 1313 OVERLOOK ST. Box 1177, Station "B" INTERNATIONAL Correspondence Schools CANADIAN, LIMITED Montreal, Canada R. F. I.OVIN, Phone Own 974 Representative Box 626 117 2nd Ave. W. Opposite YMCA PRINCE RUPERT. B.C. 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