THE LETHBRroCE HERALD MONDAY, DECEMBER 14,1986 LEAFS WHITEWASH MEDICINE HAT TIGERS Leafs Battle Coleman Tonight CROWD SEES LOCAL SEXTET Opening game of tho Crow Hockey league takes place today bolwoen Lethbridge Maple Leafs and Coleman Canadians. The game, iKATEtO 5-0 WIN OVER YOUNG GAS which is scheduled for tho Pass town, Is expected to provide the re­ built Mapio Leafs with their {\rst big test of tho season. Tho powerful Canadians have been working out almost ai long sa tho Leafs and CITY CLUB IN MEDIOCRE DISPLAY tonight's game is expected to provide a good tost of the capabilities of tho two sextets. , I Careless Checking and Passing Makes for Loose Style Ice is fairly good in Coleman, according to telephonic communi­ cations, but Leafs may have a little dllfioulty on tho road around of Play—Goalie Bannon Puts Up Great Barrier Lundbrcck which has been drifting badly for tho better part of a in Hat Nets — McDowell, Anderson, Petrunia, week. Players making tho trip include: Roberts; McMahen, L. Bruchet, Petrunia; AInsworth, Stewart, Cormier; Spotewood, McDowell, Stewart and Christensen Score for Leafs—Stewart Christensen. Puts On Hard-Working Display in Centre Position LAYING a youthful but courageous band of Medicine PHat Tigers Saturday night at the Arena, Lethbridge Maple Leafs skated off with their second win of the sea­ CANADIENS TAKE OVER N.H.L SECTIONAL LEAD son, whitewashing the Gas City club by a 5-0 score. A slim crowd of 650 cheered the Tigers for their gallant stand against the more rugged and experienced Leafs. Headed by Ken Stewart, slaAing centre, the local club HEAVY HITTING PLAY 2-ALL DRAW WITH MAROONS gave the 'Hatters few opportunities to test Goalie Roberts. Jesse Owens Voted Most At the same time Leafs lacked finish and loose passing and spasmodic checking produced a game with a lot of ragged WASFEATUREOF Outstanding U.S. Athlete TOTAKEPOINTLEADASNEWYORK edges. FANS EXPECTED Both teams were slow to get away Lucking, B. Crane, F. Bennett; P. Sepia Streak from Ohio State Placed at Top of List BIGGEK THINGS on their tareafe and this, coupled Marsh, C. larder, J. Moodle; W. AMERICAN LOOP by 51 Out of 65 Experts—Carl Hubbell Second AMERICANS LOSE TO BRUINS 4-3 AKhough yonr key-pounder with careless checking and passing Gray. flitt not sec Saturday's hockey made for a loose style of play. The Referees—O. Mead and Ab Holt Detroit Retains Lead in American Section With 2-1 t«me at the Arena, I eathcr Gas City boys speeded the game both of Lethbridge. Luke Appling First Short from reports that fans were a but seldom threatened to score. SCORING SUMMARY Defeat of Chicago Blackhawks—Rangers Whip trifle disappointed at some The game was cleanly fought and First Period—1, Lethbridge. Mc­ Stop to Win Batting in Two Overtime Goals to Knock Over phases of the contest ajrainst well managed, with only four pen­ Dowell (McMahen) 1:50. Penalties: Medicine Hat Tigers. alties being imposed, two of these Wright, McDougall. Stewart. Title Toronto Leafs 5-3—Large Crowds under the new defence ruling to Second Period—2, Lethbridge. licafs failed to dispUy the By EARL HILLIGAN Going to See Favorites Beaten snap and vigor that fans had Tigers Wright and McDougall. In Anderson (unassisted) 12:10; 3, the opening canto, Stewart was Lethbridge. Petrunia (Christensen) (Associated Press Sports Writer.) expected against a bind of CHICAGO, Dec. 14—(/P)—The 1936 STANDING OF TEAMS pBckstm as youthful as the penalized for tripping and in the 13:00. No penalties. last Cormier for giving an Illegal Third Period—4, Lethbridge, Stew American League baseball season Canadian Division Gas City club, despite the fact goes down in the chwult's record ihey smeared the bengals 5-0. body check. art (unassisted) 5:05; 5, Lethbridge, w. L. D. F. A. Pis. SUUul checking and speedy, Christensen (McDowell) 8:20. Pen­ books as "the year of the big blast." Bat rm not going to pass Batters literally "murdered" the Canadiens 6 5 2 28 29 14 jndgment on a game I didn't shiftv break-aways put Ken Stew­ alties, Cormier. art Into the picture. After hard ball from start to finish of the cam­ 5 4 3 27 24 13 see. 'Tlie I>ig test will be when paign, climaxed by the New York I^eafs stack up against real op- plugging. Stewart finally succeed­ 4 5 2 29 32 12 ed in saUing one between the posts Yankee powerhouse explosion un­ positkm in the shape of Cole­ der the Giants in the "subway ser­ 4 7 1 30 35 9 man Canadians. in the third period. LINEUPS AND Division Wide open nets were missed by ies," the official league averages both teams several times. While showed. 7 3 3 29 22 17 WHAT WnvL SUMMARIES Luke Appling of Chicago White THE ANSWER BE? Roberts was called upon to make 7 4 2 32 22 16 few saves. Bannon put up a sensa­ Sox became the first shortstop to 4 2 ^5 29 12 Fans wlu not have very long to DETROIT 2, BLACKHAWKS 1 win the circuit batting champion­ 5 wait for that big test, for the local tional performance in stopping a Detroit—Smith; McDonald, Good- 1 7 5 12 23 7 steady barrage of stinging shots. ship. His .388 average was 10 Chicago pupk-hawks journey up the Pass to­ fellow; Barrj-, Lewis, Aurie; Roul- points better than his nearest com­ night for the first league tilt against SLOW START ston, Mackie, H. Kih-ea, W. KUrea, OME slight slackening of interest in the National hoc­ Howe, Pettlnger, Kelly, Bowman, petitor and 39 points better than the doughty Colemanites. The game started off slowly and the mark which gave Buddy Meyer key league might have been expected as a result of Prwn reports that have trickled was forced into the "Hger zone. Sorrell Bruncteau. S Chicago—Karakas; Seibert, Wie- of Washington the title in 1935. teams like Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks out. of Coleman, the Canadians are After Stewart's close call on the But Appling's average was just a stzonger than ever and have no goAl, McDowell picked up McMa- be; Romnes, Thompson, March; failing to win games. reason to belie^•e that the rebuilt Burke, Le\insky. Cook. Gottselig. part of a wild hitting outburst hen's pass and sent it home from Jackson, Larochelle, Kendall, Brya- which featiu^d the race. Twenty- But it seems the reverse is true. Chicago and Toronto Leafs will be able to lower their a skirmish for the first counter In seven players—five more than in colons. 1:50. The score made both sides son, Trudel, Blair. crowds are going to see their favorites beaten quite as re­ Officials-Stewart and Mitchell. 1935—hit over .300. Twenty-four ligiously as they attended to see them win. It's strictly up to the Leafs to tighten up but Roberts was at lei­ Summary of Game players scored lOO or more runs, sure until nearly seven minutes of Combine that with Increased at- J Maroons. He substituted for Wilf show them differently. First period—Scoring none. Penal­ 18 drove in 100 or more runs, nine Cudc who sufTcred an injured the psriod had passed, then he ties: Mackie Roulston. Blair. made more than 200 hits, to men­ tendances at Montreal due to tl'.c —-• THE DEADLINE easily cleared Aiqjleton's winging C?anadiens' fine showing and it all shoulder in the game with Detroit Second period—1, Detroit, Lewis tion just a lew highlights. Another adds up to prosperity for the mag­ Tliursday. AFPROACHES attempt. (Aurie) 8:05; 2, Chicago, March record was the 758 home run total Today's the last day on which nates. About 45.500 persons saw The Habitants semed to be on The new ruling, forbidding more (Romnes, Thompson) 8:15, Penal­ for the circuit. their way to victory in the first the application form for entry than three men to stand behind their ties: None. four games over the week-end and to the Lethbridge Junior The Yankees "stole the show." In both Toronto and New York report period when Babe Siebert and Pete blue line without the puck, caused Third period—Scoring none. Pen­ Lepine scored, but before that ses­ Hockey Association will be pub­ the Hatters to lose Wright and then alties: Levlnsky, Goodfellow (minor easily winning the pennant they attendance fig­ lished. Forms have tieen coming left broken records strewn in their ures far above sion was over Jimmy Ward thought McDougall for two minutes. Taking and 10 minutes misconduct). Maroons Into the picture and Dave.^ ia steadily and plans for league advantage of the opportunity five Overtime period—3, Detroit, Barry wake. Among them were 2.703 to­ J last year's. flrganization are I>clng made. tal bases, 182 home runs, 995 runs Chicago fans Trottler sent the game into over<-(fP locals swooped down at the Tiger 7:00. Penalties: None, time with his third period marker. APldicants wiU be classified, net, but to no avail. The golf slug­ driven in and 1,065 runs scored. certainly are the divided into teams and the va­ ging Uctlcs of the Tigers scattered The Yanks collected 315 doubles and most loyal hock­ The game was a real old Cana- rious lineups published in the plays away from the hot spot and BRUINS 4, AMERICANS 3 S3 triples. ey has ever seen. dlen-Maroon contest, with plenty of Herald sports columns. The boys Leafs had to be content with diffi­ Americans — Worters; Shields, There were 13,500 penalties.