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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-04-20, Page 7THURSDAY, • APIIIL 20t1i., 1941 The Lucknow Sentinel, Lucknow, Ontario Describes Hockey Activities Overseas-. Had an interesting letter front •Ha'rold -"Toby" Greer who ' is overseas with the .R.C.A.F., aiid we are taking the liberty to pub- lish it in part as we know that; sport fans•in • particular .will en- joy• it as, much -as we did. • •"Toby" starts0in with a com- parison" of .winter conditions ui Ontario•• and England and then • says I .hear that the .Lucknow Juv- eicailes haue been stealing' ;the show this •winter. I really would have liked to see .a few of 'those games. • - T• he Chin brothers have been' making a., name for themselves. Their pictures we're in the Can- •adi;an Press -News •some'time ago: - It is a newSpap.er printed in Lon- `, cion,' England, for .the Canadian forces overseas. The pictures cre- aced quite an interest e so ' their name is, practically world wide now.. • - 1 was very lucky in being able to •play quite a lot of 'hockey -this. Winter, after • a late- start , due to courses. • We played most of our, . •games, and did all our practising on an.. artificial ice rink' in. Dur- ham City which is an hour's.run frorn•,carnp.. The -rink is quite an. affaiif. •To •begin with it is .nothing but a big - c,anvas circus tent „sur- rounded by "'wooden dressing .rooms. The ice surface is• of av- erage,, size, about sixty by • one n�tzndei`"ad' slx fee• ".•1'•Y.This" would all be very, fine.if it wasn't for .the posts, of which there are • 'en. holding tip •the canvas roof. There are six of these posts. right 'low:n th'e .middle of the ice sur- face •.with -two more in front .of ::n& to ,each side -.of the. goals. They are all. good and solid '.and ' he z• dant move a bit. When you into them • as every mem . - r of the t::arn did at. least, once • dut ir.4 the; '•sc.asun. 'L.uc.•kily - no r:., 1 art in th collisions acid t c f "Piero were. aril? funny. lc 'i l r f ihe suspert- cir'd .in eon s above the ice' sur- face they are arranged about ten... feet alcove the boards completely :.round the rink. •They. give som^.. •a; -Fired patterns. of light anti, shade and. the goal tenders • have a nightmare' trying., to., follow, the puck through the :darkness and round the posts. We were all so 'anxious to play .however, that . ash long as •it was ice it was •good enough for . us. ' • • Our team was built 'around • Bobby Bauer. and Milt Schmidt; right,••wing ,and centre, respect- • • ively of the famous Kraut line for Boston. Bruins. Neither platy - . er hasiost arty of his •N:H.L: skill . and as a result we hada pretty strong team. There were eleven teams in our group and therm • were some very spirited games among the posts in the old Dur- ham rink. We only lost one game .:n, our groiup and .that game was to Porky Dumart's team, the left winger of the old Kraut line. We breezed .through the serrii- • finals of the group and then had a couple of tough games ' wit ii Porky's team. being lucky. en- ough to •win both of , them and .the championship of the group. :Our next seric4 • was for the r•hampionshi.p of No. 5 • .hockey �listricf: Th6' first 'gartte7was in .Liverpool and for a change '• we • nad a good rink to play in. Our 'ark still hold and we took the ';iut game of the ttro :,,:on ' total oal. series. , 111 just spay a ,word (,r tv,•„ ;,}runt the Liverpool rink ,hc f r f nntinue,. It is really lly a -1,.ati ; Huh. is'yerti^'rr- e:-•-T-he--h'1 . 'a4trrl3"&e.rw 4i Eyn ri ,.,1! 1h -tit PAGE SEVEN RECORDS U.K. REINFORCEMENT. UNIT U.K. • e •. BASE REINFORCEMENT DEPOT NORTH AFRICA' ,'MAIL,.TO RE1N,FORCEME_NT. UNIT* :4-H7A7k iffirqt TO7 • THIS is a war of movement. ]Never before have troops been moved such incredible dis- tances, in so many theatres of war, so quickly. Night and day, thousands' of men are in motion, by sea transport, motor truck and air . edging into enemy territory, shifting to keep the element of surprise. Did you ever stop to think what :it means, under .these trying conditions, to find your friend or relative, and put your letter into his hands? '�. Yet in spite of the tremendous task ihvolved, tracing men, who are moving from reinforce- ment units hi England to group depots in Italy or from one Iodation to another ..: or through hospitalization or• while on leave .... in the face of every sort oewar hazard...31,500,000. letters in addition to parcels and other items, reached our men in 1943. a ��„AMA's Cts o ..1:&g, C,N,OP CANADA POST OFFICE Issued by the authority of NON. W. P. MULOCK, 'K.C., M.P., POSTMASTER GENERAL REINFORCEMENT BATTALION C.M.F. ''ITALY ' ADVANCED REUNFCiRCEME,NT BALTA'L•I,AN. C.. F. • lights are good.. The seating is arranged in a lower 'section ,a- round .the ice surface and a gal- lery above this entirely around the ice surface. The corridors ar' .all covered! 'by thick carpets and the ,stairs_-.haVe_:.xubber pads on them so you can ,walk all • over without dulling your' skates. At one end of the balcony is a large restaurant.- You can haire 'some- thing to eat and look out .on the ice surface from your table. It is a very nice rink and was• well filled for the •u*ame. • . The • r'.tu.rn game in Durham Was pretty much of a walk away for •Us as the other team was a•• •frail hof the posts. The final score was -4-8-2- rwi.t - every one_ on. our tutfi---the-loal. ten . • • A nice -silver cup for the team and gold medals for each` n ienrber wag the reward for being chain pions .of. No: • 5 group. This put us into the finalsfor the R.C.A.F. Overseas . championship which were plated in Liverpool. Our opponents the finals proved to be fast and rugged but lacked the experience. of Milt and Bobby and. we took the game and the championship • by .the score of 9 to 5. The rink was packed for the final gaine•with'close to four thousand fans. 'They were mostly ng,iish but made as much noise, as, any Canadian crowd. The R. C. A. F. band was up f,; ort Lon,dor, and it really was quite an oven- rn �. Aftet Ytl. game . was presented to Milt Schniidt.. our captain and then each mem- ber of the teals was presented with a ,gold shield. Our opponents also were presented with silver shields. The final game was handled by two Army referees, one being well known to Luck - now hockey fans. He was "Fish” Kemp• from Listowel and 're-. fereed several garnres in .Lucknow several years ago. There is a' rumour_ around that we may still have a hockey game to play. The Army champions want to play the Air force chain-. pions for the championship of ail' the overseas forces. If it should c :mc; to pass it would really be a ,.good game; There is noting ,...filTitu"at t tis..t:iatre•itnwe ler It has• been a.'real winter's fun and really helped to pass. the time., We amateurs • have: learned a great deal about the garne from Bobby's and Milt's coaching and the chance of playing with them. They 'are two really fine chaps/ c • 1 am enclosing a program of our last game: 1 am sure you will . senile when you read the rules of. the game printed on the back so the English fans can understani the game. Our next sports activities on the station ,will be softball and if we do half as well at it as we did at the, hockey I will try ar:'l write a note about it. u . Wish-in-g--y:eru all the best. .Sirs.:ef 3s' yrtr:rr- H.,.Or.�it... p'