PtiiiCe Kujcrf Luily INe"vi. Wednesday, March 26, 1952 Ickell Drives Meteors to Two Local Two Smithers BONSPiEL rv i n i RESULTS Kirwc uuirr in nnncn m lge Filers in First Game 3 LEGION AND CLUB 27 MEMBERS WATCH FOR TOMORROW'S BIG AD! ' I ' ," , I-,' WW III VVIIJMIVtl SEMI-FINALS j Grand Challenge" Dominato ' Two Smithers rinks and two locals edged their! barren 5; shier 10, Boulter e. ,. Primary Competition Laurie way into curling championships here last night in 8. Adomeit 7; DeLage n, Eyoir-what all curlers called the most closely contested s0" 5nlewhaite s'aR.w. We ore putting on the biggest and best anniversary party ever held at the Legion. HE ROUND-UP f By LARRY STANWOOD Row- art 8, Turnea ft; Bovill 10, bonspiel they ever entered I botham 2. North Star Secondary Row made Two extra ends were Comrades! THIS IS A CELEBRATION! . . . DON'T MISS IT! EDMONTON (CP) Backed by high-scoring Bob Pickell, Edmonton Meteors on Tuesday night edged Vancouver Eilers 62-58 to take a one-game lead in the best-of-three western Canada senior men's basketball semifinal. . botham 10, Holllston 3; Watson rink ln 13 ends against the Wat son rink of Smithers. The match started at 12:30 1 14, Laurence 4. ,r's B.C. Senior Basketball Championships toi;;iv aims to start , calls for extension of the Civic n ,1,p No, we don't Centre building on the First n,.w sport all by ; Avenue frontage to 75 by 120 feet necessary by tie scores at the completion of regulation 12-end games In the finals. One match lasted four hours with only one point scored at a time. Winner of the Grand Challenge Trophy was the Dominato rink, skipped by Bill McKenzie. He bested the Shier rink by one Will!' we Witiit w I.U give a i uu-auc tuuit ui iu UJ 3 . fnnta UfMtl hulllf SOUir iai.ua, " p.m. and finished at 4:30, with each rink scoring one point alternately until the two rinks stood tied 6-6 at the twelfth end. Skipped by Bert Rowbotham, he is the only experienced curler of his rink. His lead, Dr. Hector McDonald and Bud Shu- Hockey Scores Faclfic Coast ( Quarter-Finals r Edmonton 0, Saskatoon 2 Seattle 4, Tacoma 6 ( first game best of five series) 4 nf nOSSIumwm, fans next 94 feet ana seating arrangement for more than 1,500 people at basketball games. Why would 1500 people here want to see basketball? The basketball commission in j Rupert sport ,,. can capture Smooth-working Pickell, a last Vancouver P,nt ln an extra end a,ter 8nler of year member Clover nior men's basket-unship. k chef Lennard s Leafs, Leafs, scored scored 31 31 points Vancouver stated to tied the score nine-an in me twelfth with his final rock. A similarly contested match Calderone to almost single-handedly down man, second, curled for the first QrM n Parlr trainW .mar Dnnnpt urk rinrlnir thn final Qon i nr itime this season. Third Len i . . ' ,. ' .... was featured In the primary ,., ,..ih i ' visor ior i,anauiau wauonai ie..- f v x x x . rnr ni ucrni w nriinn.ini i s s s rtnrnttai it inn f., th. s, merioT u . 1 y eraDhs, arrived :n the city on Br the rnmc i'r" b i last nifih.. Coach "A" playoffs that, if Rupert prolan he considered It vided the facilities, inter-city ,'.c..sary" that, not Senior "A ' teams could meet a 8erV,?hL! A sudden reversa. in the Lnit TkEl tn Will DUl IU nva , rvuffi b team jui st-aguc yitxymj si' ?e Prince rturie rtnk. 'n0 ' 5,T!?L S?, ZZLfJ the tide in the Stewart-Bovill hers ; "A" hoop circles next once a week. and Cemmercis! Buildings . . . y Including Thermopane Insulating ' 3. Windows, Insulux Glass Blocks, If "Vitroiite," Tempered Glass Doors, Wot Pattern Glass, Non-Glare and Heat- I gggpll Abrbine Glass, Plate Glass. Sheet ; Canadian National Railways That means, there would be the Eilers. Second game ol the series will be played here tonight. A third, if necessary, will also be played here, with the winner advancing against the Mantoba champions in the western finals. Meteors held the ?dge In the opening minutes of play, posting a narrow 13-12 margin with only minutes remaining in the first quarter. Eilers came back behind Nev Muro to move Coming home with two points j behind (9-7i, Skip Jack Laurie, a big (fame here between next match in the Appiewhaite sec- j and wiu proceed . on tonight's i ondary, the Smithers rink Bo-!train tg tne interior enrout' vill) winning 10-8. Stewart led;back to Edmonton headquarters.! Dy lour points ai tne sevenm; . had thi score tied with his first rock DeLage's next rock knocked out a counting rock for Laurie, whose final throw died just short of the house, giving Smithers the ena. in ine venin ena me score : classified advertising ln the fffppiSjpi and Crystal, Safety Glass. SgHfi ggjjl Storefront Metal aftd I if Rupert must nave to tall players and ' basketball facilities, f.icili'ies. I mean a; ; '..'AculaV floor!" j j ih isn't posing an im- j ! ; ijiuti'in. On the conii 'vspidsmay have spark-) .(Hint which, while it, : evolutionary to gome, i the greatest develop-) j (Continued on page 6 j "DAILY NKWS" bring results. year's Challengers and one of three or four Vancouver teams, Penticton or Alberni, every other week, or some such . schedule. Such competition would do much to spark the attendance at basketball games in fact, it Is not unlikely at all that a crowd jof 1,500 would attend almost j every such game, for Rupert ahead 17-14 at the end of the one-point Win. "' i period. LlNfctP 4rs in Rupert history . Edmonton Clark 2, Pearce 1, Price 11, Burtwell 7, Kruger 8, Moncrief 2, Pickell 31, Bakken, ackle the seemingly i people would then be 100 percent : JmrnllHrilffl r)ate and gheet Glass Mirrorg- 1 FItEE ESTIMAIE3 1 ... and CONSULTATIONS II ! (f2OMOS.10liSDN.LTDj i of glass J t00 hom street, phone marine mi-9 behind the Challengers BOWLERS Open bowling on Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Alleys open every day at 2:00. Saturday and Sunday at 1:00. Dominato rkik also won the Grand Aggregate championship with only one loss and nine wins in the entire bonspiel. De Lage rink came second with eight wins and two losses; Rowbotham, third, with 11 wins, three losses. Award was made on a percent average basis. But the most outstanding match was the secondary competition for the North Star trophy, won by the Rowbotham Martin, Leah. Total 62. Vancouver Bardsley, Munro 13, Lawn, Moses 4, Wotherspoon fl, Llzee 2, Forsyth 8, Watt 6, Mitchell 11, Blssett 8. Total 58. Alt situation greater 'g binder, full-sized ,1 inirt. c;:re Director Jack From a financial point of view, at $1 an admission, visiting teams' plane fare would be guaranteed and the Civic Centre and the Basketball Association would share a comfortable bonus after rts Director Fred Cal- votir reporter have preliminary plan ars not onlv feasible each game. 4 practical. Tlie plan But this Is only the beginning. I uld See and Listen to Outstanding Artists has a few plans on area will demand more forms of Fraser-Payne Become Champs By 1-Poin! Win Fraser It Payne 24, Hi-Green 32 Beavers 17, Mansuns 1 rtiier pay for this In- ! t rti jOi space. I ifjfl put a raised dais j in the centre of tne few more seats, and ' Led by sharp-shootinff entertainment. Not only will, more people demand more, but if they don't find It here they will gtt somewhere else. A lot of people intending to come ts Prince I! u pert to stay have !so come under the Influence of a reputation e can't deny "there's nothing doing in Rupert, It's a dead town." A bigger mass entertainment Ron Chriritoff, Fraser & : accommodate 2.000 ; ' such noted artists I Brothers. Ink Spots,1 sr Boys. Spike Jones, ! s etc. j fople all come to ; 'It is only a few hours' j Payne last night squeezed by with one point in an overtime period to win the second straight game i here and there is no tfould Proram would llltely k(P our come here if u-i With t enough morning police courts free of yl! right. routine drunk cases. jcity- and good doubt for a single would make such a W each time, besides ( i t pe pit' entcrtain-Shave never had be- Sports Director Calderone believes he has a practical answer for the discussed seating arrangement In such a suggested oi a best-ol-three series against Hi-Green and capture this season's intermediate city basketball championship. A see-sawing dogged fight all the way. the narrow margin was won by two long-shot baskets by Christoff who racked up 14 points in the tus.-k It was anybody's game up un ... v-O Vs. . ' ' fe - - t i -1 1 4-t, V f"" . , t .Mttl I '! ,P't' I ) ii.1!. 4 1 I'p; f -- I -., l J f ! 1 1 "V. -v, H' (I l " ' I ' ' I ' , ;'.'--.'V . j& p.. t . I.. ' v 4 . V . ist r- r . 'i a K i ' fc!s' ' , 4 . r x til the last six seconds when ' time was called by Fraser & Payne. One point ahead, the whites took the ball on the side instead of a fiet throw they j (jvtnna.'lum: Bleacher seats i also points out the which fold Into the walls when 'iii a set-up for wrest-! not in u and extend Within a 'xmg shows and that few feet from the out-of-bounds ;S population in this lines. Swimming Pool Also Mooted for Centre !'! nlarged gymnasium compete even In the Olympics. iy facet of the sug- "In order 10 lea,'n to swlm wel1' you need year-round facilities. .,n-im, 10 ' promm r. 01 T" There are thosc-especially the iff facilities. Mr. Slim young men and women who ;in indoor swimming have not Urns to lean; to swim '1 under the gym In the summer. An indoor pool were awarded, then stalled out I the six seconds for the win. I But it was the toughest fiRht I the winners had all season. The students, sparked by dynamite- i t ine another highly would give them the opportunity j . to 11i l ..... 1.0 -in uus cny. in tne winter. Himself is a swimming There have been accidents certified lifeeuarri charged Jerry Ford, were bound win and stay in for another game, scheduled for Saturday. Although floor play of the Greens was flawless and showed future championship possibilities, they could not make their shots count. Many ringers which seemed sure to drop through the net fell out in the last second. Greens got away a large per- here in the past which could have been prevented If the people knew how to swim. Even one life saved is worth the construction of a pool." wing instructor, he Jle difficulty In trained girls for amateur fc wi'.h a chance to t avment For Expansion Already Available :fc.t U like v .7: ' . "I' r.'' T,r;,; centagc of more shoU than did the winners. A small house which saw the cost a lot of money, on the doorstep of the Prince n.0(K,0 of Civic Centre of sports-minded men to con-1 'f,"'"' "p1" mannef of a sta' dium audience. Ms which i Dihin. - ....frini n.m. Jl'MOKS ocst, three nerrpnl. ; fnt emnlnvmAn nnnnrt.untties. A similar crowd witnessed the I then canvass the continent for a r a few years, the ! couple of taU pVayers vt'ho would na'3 between Beav- Rupert liik-ih. ?rs and Masons as the only can rh.nr nf working ln and Prince Pnnce fr $50,000 or so to in-1 around Prince Rupert P I Bo-Me"H1 sponsored team yet f imureofihni, .k.mJ ' . . in the running outscored the Serve in Defence of Freedom as a r PILOT NAVIGATION OFFICER OR RAPIO OFFICER Thls c,ty 18 a gooa p,oce 10 dlies prosperous1 j jewellers by five points. have done En u; 1 live, work and play. Advertise it. son3 won the first game of the 'av 'o look that far ! An idea might be taken from an best-of-three last Saturday. 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Phone 41058 firm mml f me, wiltinHt ebltgMien. full prticlmt ttgMMng twrlmwt remrtmtmlt mmd fwmp armUhU m Ik K.C.A.F. A ti(3rvlc?r4:ul tiling, i 8? I these Jets, my dear. I guess we'll all bt? 1U International Vt-ton Panel 1919 Austin Tanel 1948 Ford ranel 1941 Ford Sedan 1947 Austin 8 Sedan 1941 Morris R Sedan 1937 Terraplane Sedan 1048 Ford Sedan 1948 Thames (Ford) Panel r travemna i rig arout NAME ( STRirr, ADDRESS CITY L in them scon 5i3 f.: PROVINCE IDUCATION (by tifc nj province) Varsity Grads Manitoba Hoop I Title Winners , WINNIPEG m The Varsity Grads won the Manitoba Senior AGE peror Auto Service i Men's basketball title, defeating Paullns 64-57, taking best of five I series 32. The Orads now meet i winners of the Vancouver Eiler Limited 1 C3yc i Edmonton Meteors series which enue West Phone Green 217 'commenced in Edmonton last i nieht. . 4