if, mice Kupetr Daily iNewT rriflav. Jrt ruin ry K, 19:4 Tennis Champ Exiting Cage Tourney Gets Underway Tonight By DICK. AYICKS "Mo" Connolly Tops U.S. Poll NEW YORK L For the third straight year, Maureen Connolly, the world's tennis queen, was COUGARS HOLD STAMPS TQ After being last in the seven-team Western HocK(.y most of 1953, Victoria Cougars rose up in Calgary M, and held the second-place Stampedeis to a 3.3 ti(l T . the best a coast team uraving the prairie Will, wilds h able to do In a long time. It's also the third time that Victoria has showed against the three top teams of the league since the Ni, The Cougars trounced third-placq New Westminster t Year's day and then batted Vancouver 3-1 in Canuck-den five days later. In the Okanagan Senior Hockey league last night' Canadians shellacked Kelowna Packers 7-3. tew. J--, v t v M" i""5! T-i' -T-y ; chusc-n U.S. female athlete of the year for 1953 in the 23rd annual Associated Press year-end poll. Little Mo, who holds all the world's major tennis titles and led the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association rnnkings for the third l - y- 1 "r'lvy consecutive year In 1953, ran up ROUND ROBIN r ft' , Sports Editor Daily News There's many a slip t'wixt cup and lip and few basketball fans in Prince Rupert are willing at this point to pick the eventual winner of the Parker Round-Robin cage tournament which gets under way -tonight at 7:U0 at the Civic Centre. But one thing Is certain there a theoretically more favorable will be plenty of action and lots position. Whether the hardware-of excitement. men have gone stale over the Scheduled to see action in the holidays will be seen in the third first of the two-night series are 'game of the series when G & A Senior B league's teams, Man- meets Manson's. This test fol-son's Omegas, Columbia Cellu- lows Bo-Me-Hi Rainmakers 1954 lose 300 Club and Gordon & An- ! debut into senior company, when derson plus Inter A entries Watts the high schoolers meet Colum-and Nickerson'5 and Bo-Me-Hi bia Cellulose School Rainmakers. Following on tne n-eels of the A great deal has happened G & A vs Manson's encounter, since the tournament was first Watts & Nickersons tangle with plan.ied, then postponed for the j CCC 300 Club to wind up the Duke of Coiinaught series and ; first evening's play the High now being staged on the heels of school gang meet Minor Simund-the. Prince Rupert Challengers' , sen's G & A crew. Alaska tour. At stake are a Most Valuable I'NDKR THE GL! Player trophy and a trophy for BASKETBALL a heavy margin in a pou i sports writers and sportscaster , The 19-vear-old from San! Diego, Calif., received 73 first-' place votes of the 126 ballots cast, and a total of 281 points. She beat out another famous San Diego athlete, channel swimmer Florence Cliuiiwitk, who had 21 first-place votes and 152 votes. Third, and the only other woman athlete in the first 10 to receive as many as 100 points, was Babe Dldrlckson Za-harias. The Babe got 13 first, and an even 100 points. 1 a FIVE TEAMS 1 no mi: in KMMiiitns (.okion & anhu VVC WATTS &- N( Kit! TESTING the newly-completed British Empire Games cycle track in the Grandview area of Vancouver are four Vancouver cyclists who hope to represent Canada in the games starting next July. Left to right are: Lome Atkinson, Jim Davles, Jr.. Tony Bachetts, and Ed. Bang. j Little Mo began 1953 by wln-! ping the Australian champion-i ship at Melbourne last January. She was upset by Doris Hart In I'ntler the Run are Senior B -I Rose, Hart wig Doubles Champs Richard on Scoring Spree As Habs Thrash Maple Leafs MANSON' S FRIDAY and SATURDAY li!GI from 7:30 p.m. on Reserve 75c Rush 50c Students; CIVIC CENTRE the Italian international tournament at Rome, but defeated Miss Hart in the French, Wimbledon and U.S. Nationals at ADELAIDE, Australia i.f Mervyn Rose and Rex Hartwig I ; today won the South Australian KOI It ACHIEVEMENTS total to 25, the league-leading Detroit Red Wings broke out with two goals in thehlrd period to beat the fourth-place Boston Bruins 3-1 in Detroit. Miss Chadwick had four major doubles tennis championship, downing the defending champions, Lewis Hoad and Ken Rose-wall, 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the a!l- the player who amasses the most points during the 10-games, plus individual cups for every member of the winning team. OIT ON A LIMB We have been dared to "go out on a limb" ourselves and pick a winner for the tournament, and being loathe to turn down such an offer we're going to do better. Here's our selection of winners for tonight's games, chosen without malice aforethought and merely to see how well we have the batkehall sized up in Prince Rupe Mansons U' take Watts and Nickersons in the first game. Rainmakers to beat CCC 300, in the second. coaches Bill Mct'hesney and Pop Pay. The former faces a dilemma from the start as his Manson's Omegas meet Watts and Nickersons of the Inter A loop which he also coaches. In the first place he knows the strength and weaknesses of both teams. Which is he going to coach in the second place? Will he play the strength of one against the weaknesses of the other? On top of that he's going to bring four of his regular players back from Ketchikan today, tired after a three-game series with no rest in between. They are Ray Spring, Danny Bill, Mickey Webster and Joe Walsh. The Montreal victory left Can- channel conquests In five wccks last fall. She swam from England to France in 14 hours, 42 minutes, record time for the English channel crossing. Two adiens In second place with 49 1 Australian final. points, one off the Detroit pace. After the match H;iad com- aisMMaissssssssssMaMiaatSMMMiiti-iMi- mi.mt The Leafs are five points behind; plained of a slight recurrence of weeks later he broke all records cunamens. By JIM BASTABLE Oiiindinn Pross Stuff Writer Maurice Richard, idolized and hated, is back in the headlines to remind National Hockey' League fans he should be ranked among the game's all-time greats. He is already there as far as Montreal fans are concerned. Richard, who has shown color and destructive scoring power since he broke into professional hockey 11 years ago, scored three goals and two assists Thursday night to lead Montreal Cana-diens to a 7-3 victory over the third-place Toronto Maple Leafs. To the 14.452 fans in Montreal. Richard was back in shape and . - for swimming me oiraiis 01 uid- has bothered him Intermittently ,, Euro t0 Africa. she this season. For The Second Time h TIP TOP Tailors' 44 Yen followed by swimming the tricky Bosporus. Europe to Asia, and Feature of the doubles final wai Rose's reversal of his recent 1 beck again. poor form. He served strongly j TwQ days ,atpr she gwam ,he Manson's over Gordon & An- Pop Pay likewise gets back two dersons in the third. and volleyed accurately. He did not drop his service at any time Turkish Dardanelles, both ways, Turkey to Greece. players who've played three CCC to down Watts & Nicker- Hogan Named Athlete of Year NEW YORK Ben Hogan, called by many the greatest golfer who ever lived after he captured the British Open championship with a record-smashing final round last summer, was and made many brilliant interceptions at the net. games straight this week and , son in the fourth game. another, DonScherk, is sidelined Rainmakers over G & A in the fifth game. nnce mnrp t.ho crna-lincr chins- Saturday Hoad meets Tony ,nailv News Want AJs Cirt Kesnlts Trabcrt of the United States in I - the singles final, billed as a re Now let's all be there at the j down rightwinger who rates hig:i with a mangled beak. That weakens Pop's squad and leaves Gordon and Anderson who have not played since December 19 in Civic Centre -tonight to see how play of their brilliant Davis Cup! match ln December. I wrong a guy can be. voted "male athlete of the year with such greats as Eddie Shore and King Clancy. While the 32-year-old Richard was boosting his season's goal -3 J J II i LT for 1953 Wednesday In the 23rd annual year-end Associated Press poll. "Boxing Dead'' Says Sugar Ray Happy To Be Song, Dance Man Curling Results CURLINO RESULTS Pae 4 . . Results of last mtrht'n piny in the Prince Rupert Curlin? Club s Oeori?e I" The mighty Texas shotmaker, who won golf's triple crown in 1953 the U.8. and British Open championships, and the Augusta Masters was an overwhelming EXTRA" PANT JWifh Every Tip Tdp Tailors' Cook trophy competition are as fol- choice In the country-wide poll io By WALTER GRAY and other candy each day and I TORONTO CP) "The boxing still weigh 157 " game is dead. They need some j Sugar, Ray goes . through a 1 of snorts writers and sports- otorvnon 10 peterwn i; M Park- er la, McKenrlf fl: TlfrB'botl-.am 13 ' ' casters. -' t (onodo Packers presents TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA "pop" concert PATSY PARR PIANIST toniqht-CFPR -7:30 new ones in the business." song-and-dance routine twice Berg 1; Ostertag 18. Ford 6: Thorn 15. Greene 4; Robertson 15, Mc-Ntect 7. MADE-TO-MEASURE Jessie Shenton With this phrase Sugar Ray Robinson emphasises the fact that he has no regrets over leaving the ring. The colorful former middle- nightly and picks up a cheque varying from $5,000 to $15,000 a week. ; , In his dressing room between his two half-hour shows at a i ::k S '. . Ml : Fred E, Dowdie OPTOMETRIST New address: 303 3rd Ave. W Phone Green 960 Double Winner . Jessie Shenton of New Laurels rolled 324 and 714 Tuesday night to top A Division of the j Ladies Five-Pin bowling league1 3 Days Oni uu...5 i.i.a...imi nj ht club 32-year-old pound of chocolates a day and is ;s R still in fighting trim. He's burn-!ance anoner' of just nnisning ing up his energy in a new me-- tiUe f, ht slumped ln front of d.urn-mght club entertaining ; j,,, dressing table, perspiration ana , socializing. dripplng f rom hls forehead, Rob- I don t have a chance to gain ; j buckled as his valet or lose any weight, he says I ! d anolner towel around can eat a pound of chocolates -we nls shoulders and quipped: in high singles and high three i game totals. Team high single was captured by Art Murray's with 1036 and team high three j FRIDAY, JAN. 8 SATURDAY, JAN.! 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