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InBy TED BOWLESIf anyone thought that two losses to St. Boniface Canadiens on the home pond would have scaredLethbridge Native Sons out of coming to Winnipeg to complete their junior hockey series, then they were wrong. Sons showed upMonday evening, and a short time later held a light workout at the Amphitheatre in preparation for tonight's match.To Toss First BallIke Safe-Guards%Baseball TraditionAUGUSTA; Ga., (NYHT)“—!Presi-lcalled off, members of the White cent Eisenhower will throw the House staff in Washington got in first ball after all — at the open-[touch with the Washington base-ing baseball game between the [ball club and found out that theNew York Yankees and the Washington Senators in Washington,opening game would be played Thursday. Rapid messages werewhich was rained out Monday and exchanged between the White rescheduled for Thursday. I House and Augusta, and finallyThe news, bringing gladness to troubled baseball fans worried over a serious break in tradition, was announced here Monday night several hours after the president arrived at the Augusta Nationalthe president's press secretary, James-C. Hagerty, announced here that the president would go to Griffith Stadium Thursday, but would1 not stay for the entire game. Thursday morning Presidenteon of the American Society of Newspaper editors. From there he will go to the baseball game. Alter the game he will fly to Charlotte, N.C., and motor to Salisbury, N.C., to speak at ceremonies commemorating , the 200lh anniversary of Rowan County. Afterward he will return*to Augusta.The president arrived here after a rough trip lrom Washington at 1:00 p.m., Monday so eager for golf that he stepped off the plane at the airport carrying his own golf shoes.The game tonight is the third in the ‘ best-of-seven set. for the Western Canada junior crown and the right to go into the Memorial Cup final. Judging by their zip and confidence, Sons intend to get back into contention in this crucial series. Apparently Saturday night’s weird fixture at Lethbridge in which St. Boniface scored four times in the last two minutes to win 8-6, has had little but a sobering effect on the boys of Butch McDonald. Though they were feeling pretty low immediately following the contest, Butch has apparently talked them out of thinking that perhaps they Just * weren’t meant to win.They got over that one pretty good, said McDonald, They’ve got a lot of spirit.”iface juveniles, still sports a cast on his broken wrist, but apparently it is coming along nicely. Yanoslk suffered a broken ankle. It didn't appear 16 hamper him too much in the light practice session.nnn^ir tnlrnrroam •McDonald went on to note that the team wasn't too tired after their trip, and that physically, they are In the same condition as they were prior to Saturday’s fixture. Two of their injured defencemen for which they asked a replacement, Gerry Sorenson and Howie Ynn-©sik. were skating and shooting in the light workout.Sorenson, last year with St. Bon-It is like old home week for three Lethbridge players. Besides Sorenson, others renew-• Ing old acquaintances are Bud Laidler and Larry Winder. Incident ly, Winder, a half pint, was skating quite a lick Saturday, especially when it came time to kill penalties.more spectacular than that.*’Canadiens held a workout early in the evening. Buster Stewart, coach of Canadiens* juveniles, handled the scrlmage in the absence of Bryan Hextall, who hopped off the train at his heme in Poplar Point when the team passed through, that town Monday morning on their way home.Canadiens were met at the CJ*.R. depot Monday morning by quite a host of supporters, all' with one question* on their lips, Was the finish of Saturday’s game as spectacular as It sounded?Invariably the answer to the question was? “It was evenThe most color-laden adjectives couldn’t describe the final two minutes of that particular fixture. There was only one sour note about it. It happened in the town of the losing team. Had it happened in Winnipeg, the walls of the Amphitheatre no doubt would have buckled a little under the thunderous roar. Had Lethbridge won in such a stunning manner, know doubt the good burghers there would have made the roof heave. As it was, the only sound that could be heard in the Lethbridge arena was that created by Canadiens' players themselves. And for 18 or 20 men, they created quite a racket.Billy Short, who had bean anxious to get home to sec. hit new aon ever since he left, was particularly overjoyed when Leo Koayk scored the winning goal, for It meant that he wouldn't have to stay away for a third game in the Alberta city'. He rushed up to referee Fred Page, and after getting confirmation from him that it was a goal, he grabbed the arbiter and began to waltz him in circles in the middle of therink. The ref took a dim view, ' but understood Short’s jubilation. Pago inferred later thatJim Thorpe Buriedhe doesn’t like dancing.SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP)—Indian Jim Thorpe, acclaimed as the greatest athlete in history, was buried: Monday.*With the reading of requiem high mass, the body was laid to rest in. a .mausoleum* In the shadow of an athletic stadium which beats the great Olympic star’s name..He will be Immortalized by a bronze and marble statue, 21 feet high, showing Thorpe in the role which first brought him fame—as a football player .for the Carlisle, Pa.t Indian school.White and red men alike, numbering in the thousands, mourned their old friend and idol who was born here 64 years ago when this state was still Indian territory.The burial came more than two weeks after his death at his Lo-mita, Calif., trailer home March 28.By the time Short had finished' his jig with Page, some of the fans had decided that they had seen enough, and were heading for the' exits. Short, with arms gesticulating, implored them to stay and watch.Stick around folks, it isn't over yet, there's going to be more. Please stay, Short yelled at the departing fans.Tonight Native Sons will be a desperate bunch of* hockey play*, ers. How fast they can go when thft.. chips are stacked high against' them will be known tonight. Citi- . zens of Lethbridge claim they can get more. than tough. Tonight’s game could quite feasibly be one of the best seen here in years. Both clubs are capable of. play ing beau* tiful hockey, and if eyer the ini* petus for going their best lick there, it will be present tonight. V,Game time is 8:30 p.m.Electric Tools Need Fixing ?See Your BLACK DECKER Service end Repair Station --For local service on Black * Decker, Van Dorn, Home-Utility^anrl- I^otro-Saw Tools
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Apr 14, 1953
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