a | ! i os SUE SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE —— DON’T LISTEN to the folks who tell you that I haven’t got a brain in either head. -At least I picked Chicago Black Hawks to make the National Hockey League playoffs — something that a panel of “suessperts” from around the NHL circuit agreed last October couldn’t happen. It was in October that I selected the lowly Hawks to end the Season in third spot. They missed by an eyelash, tied on points with Boston but bumped down to fourth under a games won regulation (Boston won 28, Hawks 27). Had it been a games lost regulation Hawks would have edged Bruins (Hawks lost 28, Boston 29). The 17 pre-season “experts” fell on their collective kissers be- cause they couldri’t see Toronto Maple Leafs being squeezed out of the ‘payoffs — pardon me, the playoffs — by Sid Abhel’s aggregation. | Naturally most of the sports scribes picked Detroit to finish first and Montreal second. 5 | For the record, here’s how the teams stood at the finish of their ’ %0-game grind: ; : P WwW L qe F Wo Rt +Detroit 70 36 16 18 222 133 90 +Montreal 70 28° SS 19. 153 148 75 +#Boston S3 70 28 PIE SETS: ET 153 172 2469 7Chicago : 70 27 28 15 169 75 69 Toronto 70 27 30 13 154 167 67 New York 70 7 37 7 152 209 50 Boston finishes in third place, having won one more game than Chicago. : : + In playoffs. : And who'll win the Stanley Cup? Well, I must go along with Detroit Red Wings, although upsets can;happen in playofis. * * * ONE OF THE most fantastic scenes ever seen in a British boxing ringe occurred March ;17 when the Yankee middleweight, Walter Cartier, was disqualified in the second round of his fight with Randolph Turpin. : : . The referee called a halt to proceedings in the second stanza when the outclassed Cartier persistently ignored warnings to stop holding. But the American pushed the official aside and ran after Randy, who was walking to his corner. He lashed out with both fists, yelled abuse at the referee, tore around the ring like crazy and began kicking atithe ropes. _ Now, you just don’t behave like that in a British ring. So it was no surprise when a meeting of the stewards of the British Boxing Board a couple of days after the bout slashed Cartier’s purse by ap- proximately $3,000:and suspended his British license for three months. The board also praised Turpin for his “commendable restraint” in the face of Cartier’s attack after the disqualification. During the fight itself Turpin, showing some of the power he displayed in beating Sugar Ray Robinson for the world title, whipped. a sizzling left to the American’s jaw in the first round and appeared bent on a quick knockout. | Worried, Cartier went into a low crouch | and tried to make a wrestling match of it. When he refused to trade punches the referee halted proceedings for a moment to give him brief lecture, but it did no good. : Coming out for the second round, Cartier repeated his clinging _ vine role and wouldn’t break’on command. So he was disqualified. * * * MOST OF OUR readers do not own television sets. but | know that boxing fans will want to watch the Rocky Marciano- Joe Walcott heavyweight title fight April 10 on TV. -If you’d like to know how you can do this—and help the PT drive at the same time—just give me a ring and Ill make the arrangements. * * x =o ANNIS STUKIS. Vancouver’s new football coach, is due here any day now. Toronto sports writers gave him a big sendoff, stressing his determination to build a Canadian team and prove also that Canadian coaching is on a par with American. Wrote Jim Vipond, sports editor of the Globe and Mail: “Big Stuke . . . is off to sell the game to the province. He’ll tour the hinterlands of B.C. looking for players and preaching the gospel of Canadian football as only he can do it. ~ \ “Here’s a warning to the citizens of British Columbia. Better trim. your sails; there’s a gale heading your way, and whether you like it or not you’re going to become football crazy before another ' season rolls around. That man’s contagious. . “Stuke hits Vancouver about April 1. Immediately he plans hitting the rubber chicken circuit to talk up the game. and the college campuses, lumber camps and rugger fields. to dig up physically fit | bodies with plenty of beef and plenty of speed. “That’s right! Big Stuke figures some of those rugger players in British Columbia should fit into his football team. A big, tough lumberjack, he reasons. should make excellent line material, especi- ally on defense. Lacrosse players will be scouted, too. . . . Stuke plans on calling spring practice the end of April with an open invitation to one and all-to give the game a whirl,” = " 4 Castle Jewelers : Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Discount to all Tribune Read- - PENDER AUDITORIUM © (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS _ FOR RENTALS i Phone PA. 9481 with you 752 Granville St. ° : Government approves Buttle Lake project terly-contested Buttle Lake hydro-electric project. this week, laid down drastic conditions for construction of the project to prevent wholesale despoiling of the Vancouver Island beauty spot. : Premier W. A. C. Bennett, shown above closing the switch to start generators in the new BC Electric plant at Wahleach, has given his government’s approval of the BCPower Commission’s bit- A legislative committee, making a favorable report attacking the BCHI Service he now administers, as a “magnificent lit- erary effort,” and admitted he was “embarrassed” by questions on the Social Credit, promise of “vol- untary” dollar-a-day hospital in- surance. cas es CCF members scored the dis- crimination between those com- pelled to make payroll deductions who are not prosecuted if they are in default. Leo Nimsick (CCF, Cranbrook) said there are two groups, compulsory and voluntary. Robert Strachan charged that there are 5,000 more defaulters under BCHIS than there were last year at this time, and Martin ad- persons going to hospital is in- creasing. He said, however, that BCHIS made payments sufficient, to cover the hospitals’ bad debts. In answer to his critics, Martin in effect repudiated the voluntary scheme, and maintained that the B.C. scheme was better than the dollar-a-day Alberta plan. He argued that the Socred govern- ment was proteeting B.C. from a from attacks of “foot in mouth” disease. and those making direct payments. mitted the number of uninsured | Socreds under fire in House : | For BCHIS, labor policies; failure to review ICA Act hit — _ VICTORIA, B.C. The Social Creditors have lost a number of verbal battles during passage of the controversia health, labor and education estimates through the legislature and in one case, surrendered a tactical position in relation to the Rolston educational for mula. i Opposition critics peppered volatile Health Minister Eric Martin who suffered more than usua During proceedings he praised his pre-election statement y, nea.) Ve “police state” by administering the compulsory scheme. No one on the opposition side called for complete abolition of co-insurance although many ask- ed that the government pay pre- miums for low income groups. Bok * * Opposition critics attacked the government’s labor policy when estimates of the labor department were being discussed. They charg- ed that Wicks’ policy speech mere- ly covered up a lack of a concrete policy. a é. Jim ‘Bury (CCF, Vancouver Centre) summed up by saying all the government had done was to change the Labor Relations Board in face of opposition from labor groups and management to a part- time board. He said it was wrong to change the board without changing the scope of the act un- der which it operated. Other speakers pointed out the government’s failure to carry its pre-election promise to review the Industrial Conciliation and Arbi- tration Act and the Workmen’s Compensation Act. ; KIMBERLEY. B.C. The recent struggle of more than 1,000 workers ‘in the Kimber- ley “fertilizer plant” and the Wan- eta Dam project to force Stone and Webster, giant Yankee con- struction company, to observe con- ditions in their agreement has end- ed in complete victory for the strikers. P Men on the Kimberley job tied up their plant for a week and the | workers at Waneta Dam shut down that project in a sympathy move. Involved in the strike were plumb- ers, painters, electrical workers, boilermakers and steelworkers. Yank firm compelled to live up to award ~ Action of the company in firing shop stewards hardened the de- termination of the. strikers to stand fast, and when union offi- cials flew to the scene they, were told that the workers would not: return to the job until the com- pany rehired their local leaders and agreed to implement the terms of an arbitration award handed down months ago. The company finally agreed to these terms and wogk has now been resumed with all the fired job steward§ back at work. | PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 27, 1953 — PAGE When it looked as if Wicks was not going to answer, CCF leader Harold Winch charged that his silence made him not fit to hold , the post. When Wicks finally — rose, the Opposition made mince meat of his defense of his policy: ae Kook a A half-hour’s persistent quest ioning of Finance Minister Einat Gunderson by Leo Nimsick (CCF; Cranbrook) finally elicited the i= formation that the municipalities had been cut off from their one third share of the 3 percent sales tax at December 31, 1952. Since the new educational aid scheme is not due to start until April 1 1953,.the government will save — some $3,000,000 which will go. 4 long way to paying the additional $4{500,000 being allocated school costs this year. 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