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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1948 HE ONLY 3 TIMES OVER A WHOLE SEASON'S PLAY # ¥ Soar | NAPSHOTS Don't know what happened down in Kingston but for the second or maybe it's even the third time this year, "Mike" Rodden mentions Kingston's COBL Locos and gives them a bit of boost. Most of the summer "Mike" is busy talking about everything else, Olympics, Hockey Hall of Fame, or Kingston's Ponies--but never about softball and hardly ever about the amateur "Locos." It seems that the Locos are crying about not having played as many games as the rest of the teams--they have four to play yet, all in Kingston, with the Oshawa Merchants. We'd like to point out that Oshawa's first visit to Kingston was rained out-- several hours before the Oshawa team arrived there, and no attempt was mage to preyent them travelling so far. Since then, Kingston Locos had one game postponed themselves, with a view to playing a double- header later and now the Merchants are looking forward to tonight's game in Kingston, The Locos defeated Batawa Shoemen last aight, an upset that prevents Batawa from catching Peterboro and puts Locos in a fine position to pass Oshawa Merchants in the race for third place, last playoff berth;-- ro | Geo. H. Campbell | + * + Meanwhile, after a two-week period of almost complete in- activity in the local sports whirl, Oshawa Merchants have a home game booked for Saturday afternoon, here at Alexandra Park, with the Batawa Shodmen-as the visitors. This game tomorrow afternoon will likely be a "must" for the Oshawa Merchants. If they should lose to the Kingston Luoos fonight down in the Limestone City--and it seems likely--then they'll have to beat Batawa here tomorrow in order to stay up in third place. This is the last schedule game of the season for the Oshawa team in the COBL race and after to- morrow, the local ball fans will have to wait and see if the Mer- chants can defeat Kingston Locos often enough to clinch third place in the league race. . * * , President Johnny Yoaiy has lined up his City and 1 Association playoffs for the juvenile, junior, intermediate (juvenile( teams: also start their semi-finals the same night, August 10. , Intermediate "AA" teams, Skinners and Duplates get going on Tuesday 'night also and the intermediate "A" semi-finals, GM-Cols vs. UAWA, 'opens on Wednesday night at Alexandra Park. Full details will be pub-~ ished tomorrow. + * * The Oshawa Minor Softball Association OASA playoffs will get going next week also, with the bant and midgets booked to decid { which team will represent Oshawa in the Ontario playoffs. After . # that the league schedule will be completed and the league playoffs, for the ocal championship will be run. off in September, <* LJ LJ SPORTS SHORTS--Rugby is fast coming .into-the sports scene, ROLLER SKATING TONIGHT | SATURDAY NIGHT WRESTLING Monday, August 9 -- 8.45 p.m. Sr . TALON O'CONNOR | MIKE SHARPE vs. GOON HENRY BILL STACK vs. 'JACK MOORE fg DAN O'CONNOR D5HAWA | ARENA KINGSTON KEEP. PLAY-OFF HOPES ALIVE, DEFEAT BATAWA 8-4 A brilliant ose-hit pitching per- formance by London Majors' right- |. hander Tommy White featured 'be third day of the Canadian Sandlot Baseball Congress tournament in London" Thursday. White completely baffled Toron- to Staffords' batsmen as the Lon- doners trimmed the Toronto team 6-2 to advance another rung in the tourney ladder. In the other game of the night, the Windsor Bterlings upset the favored Kirkland 'Lake squad by a 16-9 count. It was the Kirkland Lake team's second .loss in consecutive nights, and elimi- 2348 them from further Congress play. Undefeated Clubs Thursday's wins by London and Windsor ledves the Majors and Waterloo Tigers. as the only un- beaten teams in the tourney. Fri- day's games will bring together the two. unbeaten teams in one bout, and the once-defeated Toroato Staffords and Windsor Sterlings in the, other. The loser of the Wind- sor-Toronto game will be elimin- ated, White's pitching performance completely stole the show Thurs- day, with the only hit off him com- ing in the fifth inning, when Staf- ford third sacker Shea singled, hut was left stranded. Staffords got their two runs in the next inning when White suffered a wild spell, walking three and hitting one vat- ter, In all White chalked up four strikeouts and walked five. White also shone at bat with a two for four performance, which put him in a dead heat with team mate Gord McMackon for batting honors. . Major Upset The other tournament game pro- vided the main upset of the play 80 far with the favored Kirkland Lake squad going down to defeat before the clubbing Windsor Ster- lings by 16-9. The Kirks fell apart after leading by 8-2 at one' stage, and six errors didn't cause any. The veteran Gus Angus kept the Kirkland Lakers pretty well in check after the fourth inning while his mates were teeing off on three Kirkalnd Lake pitchers. Angus ook over from starter Lefty Davis in the third and received credit for the win. Sulliman, Casanova, Palin- er, H. Davis, Schiller and Boyce col- lected two hits apiece for the win- ners. Locos Trivsmph In the lone Central Ontario Base- ball game of the night, the King- ston Locos kept alive their hopes for a playoff berth by taking the aid their Batawa squad by a 8-4 count. Locos played heads-up ball behind the six-hit hurling of Jack Stone, who claimed 13 strikeout victims. Moe Watson of the Batawas took down hitting honors with a triple and two singles in four at bats. Glynn Udall and Tony Connor each had two hits for the Locos. The league-leading Frood Tigers downed the Coniston Buzzers 10-7 in a single Nickel Belt League en- counter at Sudbury. Tiger outfie'd- er Bill Huntley pounded out two triples to lead a 14-hit attack off Buzzer hurler Bill Soliski. Pitchers Ziminy and Rip Seeley hurled [or Tigers and -allowed 11 safeties. GIVE SOFTBALL PLAYOFF DATES SAT. Four Oshawa Leagues Start Final Grind Four local softball leagues, all affiliated under the banner of the Oshawa City & District Softball Association, will commence their 0.AS.A. elimination playoffs for league championships and Provin- cial playoff rights, early next week, President Johnny Brady announ- ced this morning. The local Juvenile "A," Junior "A" Intermediate "A" and Inter- mediate "AA" will all swing into playoff action early next week, with the Inter. "A" semi-finals opening on Wednesday evening at Alexand- ra Park and the three other lea- gues all starting their semi-final rounds on Tuesday night, at various diamonds, to be announced tomor- TOW. Ont. Cricketers Favored to Gain Canadian Title Vancouver, Aug. 6 -- (CP) --On- tario was favored today to gain undisputed possession of the Ca- nadian Cricket championship it shared with British Columbia last year following Thursday's triumph over Manitoba by 91 runs. The West Coast province, how- ever, remained in the running, put- ting Alberta out for 69, then scor- ing 70 in reply for the loss of four wickets. The .games left Ontario the only undefeated eleven, having won four straight. British Columbia has won three matches and lost MINOR SOFTBALL GAMES ROYALS MIDGETS DUMP SIMCOE HALL 14-8 Last night in a postponed game, Oshawa Royals added another win to their books, when they took the Simcoe Hall Midget softballers into camp by the count of 14-8. M. Tutak did the chucking for the losers, and had it very much his own way till a lapse in form in the late innings caused his own and his team's downfall. That late inning rally was what won the game for the Royals, they counted four runs in the seventh, and seven in the last of the eighth. McGillis pitched for Royals, and though he was not given to breaking down completely like Tutak, his steadiness at times was not all that could be asked. Simcoes scored four in the third, two in fifth, and two more in the eighth for their total. Royals scored one in the first, and two in the fifth besides that big rally for their count of 14 runs. SIMCOE HALL: Wilson, ss; Hry- canuk, 3b; M. Tutak, p; Boshko- vitela, 1f; J. Tutak, 3b; Armstead, rf; Czop, cf; Scuik, 1b; and Pion- tek, c, OSHAWA ROYALS--McGillis, p; King, 2b; Btcher, 1b; Kellar, 1b; Lawrence, 3b; Howie, ¢; Burnside, rf; Hill, cf; and Cooper, If, 0. R. A. WINNERS Long Branch, Aug. 6--(CP)--Two Canadian marksmen emerged today . | Glenn Seel Senior Basel as principal winners of the four-day meetings of the Ontario Rifle As- sociation. Topping the contingent of experts from Ontario and the West who now head for the Dominion Shoot at Ottawa are CSM. N. L, Beckett, 30- year-old lean, bespectacled Hamil- ton cost accountant, and Major nd Burke of Toronto, former- ly of Ottawa, King's Prize winner tory for Johnny Ziminy, recently acquired shooter from Abbingdon in the Blue Ridge League as leading Frood Tigers downed the visiting Coniston Buzzer 10-7 here Thursday night. one, Alberta has won one and dropped three, while- Manitoba has lost all its matches. In. Thursday's game Ontario scored 185 runs for six wickets and then declared before dismissing Manitoba for 91. The Eastern eleven rested its star bowlers, Les Stroud and Jim Cameron, but skipper Me- Lean carried the load successfully, resisting strong Manitoba batting opposition at the start. SEELEY SAVES GAME Sudbury, Aug. 6--(CP)-- Lefty saved a Nickel Belt 11 League debut vic- and even the odd bit of hockey news is creeping into the columns. The weather is cold enough to permit thoughts along these lines soooo . . . . The Red Raiders are mulling over a type of player insurance at the present time. It would be a good thing fellows. . The school teams should think of something along the same idea .... Herb McKenley lost in the 400 metres. It's hard to believe, but a team-mate of his, a relative un- known won the thing by about two-tenths of a second over Herbie . , . . Bob McFarlane, with a bandaged knee lost badly in the stretch of the final. John Metras won't like the sounds of that knee, especially after the way he has howled at what prospects have been turning out for the Argo practices lately . ... Gertrude Ederle of the United States became the first woman swimmer to conquer the English Channel 22 years ago today. She negotiated the tide-swollen waters in 14 hours, 31 minutes. Eight women have performed the feat since but none achieved the fame of "Trudy" who was acclaimed on her return to New York. '* SCISSORED SPORT-- (By The Crrnsian Press)--A grey-fringed Vancouver business man--with the suggestion of a paunch--Thursday came up with a reasonable explanation for Canada's track stars unspec- tacular showing in the Olympic games. "We must use the hot-house system of indoor training--the United States proved this in the present games," said Percy Williams, who won both 100 and 200-metre sprints in the 1928 games--a feat no white man has since equalled. "In the United States, development of track stars depends largely on indoor work, in winter months. Here what do we have? It is tragic to see our 'track people in the winter trying to work 6ut swathed in sweat- shirts and towels, in rain, mist and fog. You simply cannot train track athletes under such conditions." , , . President Peter Campbell of the International League Torontd Maple Leafs Thursday announced a verbal agreement has been reached between the club and Philadelphia Phillies of the National League for a tie-up again next year. "We have come to a verbal agreement concerning many matters for next season," said Campbell. "Phillies have a host of young ball players ready for triple "A" inspection and 'we hope to present a young and speedy club next season." , , . Condition of speedboat racer Jack (Pops' Cooper, severely injured while racing on Lake Ontario at Picton Monday, was reported "about the same" Thursday at Syracuse, N.Y. His physician said the 68-year-old Kansas City, Mo., racing enthusiast was still in serious con- dition, but not on the critical list . , . Bob Porterfield, ace pitcher for Newark Bears in the International League, has been sent up to New York Yankees, Parke Carroll, Bears general manager, announced today . . . Tippy Larkin, 31-year-old dancing master from Garfield, N.J., stopped Willie Beltram, New York, at the end of the fifth round of their scheduled 10-round boxing bout at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Ref- eree Eddie Joseph and Dr, Vincent Nardiello ended the fight because of severe cuts over and below Beltham's right eye . . . Lawn bowlers from Canada and the United States will compete for $3,000 worth of prizes in the provincial lawn bowling tournament at the Boulevard Club, To- ronto, Aug. 16 to 21. Tournament officials expect 600 bowlers to parti- cipate. Of the 11 trophies, three are for singles, four for rinks and four for doubles . . . Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler Thursday accused some tlubs of exercising "extraordinary prowess" in finding ways to circumvent the bonus rule and of ignoring some of the provisions of that dealing with the signing of high school players. "The commission- er's office is not naive enough to be unmindful of what is going on," Chandler said in a directive to all major and minor league clubs , . . Lorne Main of Vancouver Thursday eliminated Dick Cain of Kalamazoo, 'Mich., 8-6, 6-3, in the United States junior tennis championships at az00. Seeded fifth, Main is the only Canadian left in the tourna- ment. His victory advanced him to the quarter-finals Friday . . . Brownwood Lilly, owned by L. E. Brown of Scottsboro, Ala. sloshed through the mud at Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, N.Y. Thursday, to win the featured $2,900 St. Louis race on the Grand Circuit program. The margin of the victor was a scant head over Oxcart. Dark Chief was third, Time was 2:11 , . . Johnny Greco, Canadian weélterweight champion, knocked out Eric Boon of Britain in the third round of a scheduled 10-round main bout at Montreal's Forum Thursday night. Greco scaled 153% to Boon's 150. In a preliminary Joe Cardinal, 148, of Oshawa, knocked out Jackie Colborne, 153, St. John, N.B,, in the first round . . . Veteran Willlam Collins of the Argyle Lawn Bowling Club, Hamilton, was defeated Thursday by George Sayer, of the Providence, RI, club 22-13, in the finals of the eastern division of the American [Lawn Bowling Association's- tournament at Hartford, Conn. Collins had advanced to the finals by beating Richard Auld of Niagara Falls, N.Y. 'Canadian Girl Olympians Relax . pas a canadian girl athletes, participating in the Olympics in London, are left to right, Dianne Foster, Donnal Gilmore, both of Vancouver, B.C., and Nancy MacKay of Oshawa. It was announced today that Nancy, who has been on the sidelines until now, will be on the Canadian team in the women's 400 metre relay event. | DAY-BY-DAY AT THE OLYMPICS | By JACK SULLIVAN Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Aug. 6--(CP) -- Canad- ian cheering sections at these 14th Olympic games have had little to enthuse over, but nobody on the | team is really downhearted. Canadian spirits received a boost Thursday when the Dominion's oarsmen and yachtsmen turned in performances that spelled possible | points when the final tallies are made. But at Wembley Stadium it was Arthur Wint's day. The gangling, loose-jointed Jamaican ran the legs off the World's best to cop the 400-metre title and break the mon- opoly United States.athletes have held in this event since 1928. Wint overtook his fellow Jamai- can, Herb McKenley, holder of the world quarter-mile record, in a tremendous stretch sprint and shot over the line two yards ahead in Olympic-record-equalling time of 46.2 seconds. Canada's last hope in the 400, Bob McFarlane of London, Ont. had been eliminated during the morning in the semi-final. He ran last. But while the Canadian track and field team had little to show for its day's work, it was a differ- ent story at Henley-on-Thames, where the Leander crew of Hamil- ton won first place in its eight- oared shell heat, and at Torquay, in Cornwall, where Canadian yachtsmen continued to keep Do- minion colors in the running. The smooth-stroking Leander crew entered the semi-finals when they came from behind to over take a surprisingly strong Portu- guese crew. Stepping up their stroke to 40 to the minute a quar- ter-mile from the finish, the Lea- ander eight crossed the line half a length in front. Hamilton provided a pair of win- ning yachtsmen, too. John Robert- son and Dick Townsend sailed their boat to a second-place finish in | Thursday's racing to take over the third-highest ranking in the swal- low class competition. The 19-year- old Hamiltonians passed Sweden in the standings and were within reach of leading Britain and Por- tugal. In the over-all unofficial stand- ings for the games, Canada is cred- ited with only six points, compared with more than 300 for the leading United States team. At the Wembley pool yesterday, Dr. Sammy Lee of Pasadena, Calif, took the high-tower diving cham- pionship in which Dr. George Ath- ans of Vancouver wound up in eighth place. Lee, who announced his inténtion- of retiring from competition after his victory, had 130.05 points while Athans wound up with 62.50. The Vancouver doctor, who finished in ninth place in springboard dives last week, has been plagued with a severe cold. Although out of the main com- petition at Henley, double-scullers Gabby Beaudry and Ted Graves of Ottawa placed third in a prelimin- rary and enter another row-off that can earn them a chance of better- ing their position. Canada's basketball team, al- ready eliminated from champion- ship. competition, squeexzd out 58-50 decision over Uruguay in eli- mination play and now is in fourth place in the elimination group by a narrow margin. f The game was rough all the way and was featured by two fist fights, one of which resulted in the dis- qualification of Ben Lands, Y.M.H. A. guard. In swimming, Vivian King of Winnipeg placed fifth in the wo- men's 400-metre event and entered the next round as. fastest among the losers. Kay McNamee of Vic- toria failed to qualify in this event. Doug Gibson of Toronto and Al- lan Gilchrist of Ocean Falls, B.C., were eliminated in the men's 1,500- metre free-style event and Donna Gilmour, Millie Cheater and Diane Foster, all of Vancouver, failed to pass their first test in the women's 200-metre dash. In the 10-event decathlon, Mon- treal's Lionel Fournier reached the half-way mark in 23rd place with 3,715 points. The leader is Lieut. Enrique Kistenmacher of Argenti- na with 3,897 points. Canada, meanwhile, was elimina- ted from the team epee 'fencing by Belgium 12-1. Rosland Asselin of Montreal was the only winner, Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands set an Olympic record in the semi-finals of the women's 200-metre dash as did Joe Verdeur of the United States in the 200- metre breast stroke. ; Wembley, Aug. 5--(CP)--Wemb- ley's $500,000 Empire pool resembles the set from a technicolor movie these Olympic days. Sparrows chat- ter in the high vaulted roof, obliv- jous to scenes below, as divers, swim- mers and water polo players churn the turquoise waters. The Canadian team joined the Americans in describing the 15-year-old pool as "the finest we've ever seen." During, the events, photogenic swimmers from a dozen countries, attractive in bright bathrobes, line the waterside. Among the American beauty queens are Brenda Helser and Ann Curtis, but,Canada's court of entries ranks higlh with their "Oh - to - young - again" tenn - age freshness, Ben Lands, Canadian guard, was the first player ejected from the 1948 Olympic basketball tournament, Forty-eight games have been played so far, W. R. Jones, head of the Olympic basketball committee, said Lands was disqualified for "something he said to the referee" after a Uru- guayan had taken a poke at another Canadian player. "If Lands hadn't said anything, the Uruguayan likely would have been disqualified," said Jones. None would say what Lands had told the referee. Don McFarlane of London, Ont, won injured Jack Parry's place in the relay team in a run-off with Ernie McCullough of Calgary. The margin was one foot. In another Canadian trial, Bill Larochelle of Chatham, replaced Ez Henniger of Vancouver in the 1,600-metre team. The 1,600-metre line-up now includes both Don and Bob McFarlane, McCullough and Larochelle but the order in which they wil] run is not yet decided. Crowds at the pool, averaging 5,000 daily (capacity 7,000), reserved their warmest hand for a group of New Zealanders. Standing on ter- race chairs in full view of the spec- tators, four members of the Do- minion's Olympic contingent brought the house down with a minute-long Maori war dance. Whoops and stemps rivalling the antics of a dozen Carmen Mirandas were sud- denly let loose on the scene, Objec- tive: To encourage backstroke FRIDAY C.0.B.L. Baseball Oshawa Merchants vs. KingstoR Locos, Kingston, 8:30 p.m. Minor Softball MIDGET LEAGUE--Cedar Dale vs. Sunnysides, Sunnyside Park; Royals - ve. Nailers, N. Simcoe School; Park Road Chiefs vs. Vic= tory Aces, Victory Park; Centre Combines vs. Simcoe Hall, Cowan's Park; Wesimount vs. Bathe Park, Bathe Park. BANTAM LEAGUE--Eastview vs. Storie Park, Radio Park; Sunny sides vs. Holy Trinity, Centre St. School; Connaught, a bye. SATURDAY C.O.B.L. Baseball Batawa Sbhoemen vs. Oshawa Merchants, Alexandra Park, 300 pm. OLYMPIC STANDING Olympic Stadium, Wembley, Aug. 6 (CP).--UnofTicial standing by countries participating in the 14th Olympics, after final completion in 48 events: » United States ..........325 Sweden ..13 France .. Hungary . Australia, ..... FE Turkey Finland : Netherlands ,,....,. Denmark ......., Italy .... Britain ,. Austria .. Jamaica Switzerland Norway Czechoslovakia |, Belgium Argentina (Points are given in 'most events on a basis of 10 for first place, with 5, 4,3, 2 and 1 for the next five are scored only for the first three 4 d places; but some, such as Tr rel places on a 10-5-4 basis), FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By The Associated Press New York--Tippy Larkin, 14315, Gare field, N.J., stopp Willie Beltram, 137, New York (5). Montreal Johnny Greco, 153%, Montreal, knocked out Eric Boon, 150, Great Britain (3). New York -- Eddie Lebeouf. 143!%, Montreal, outpointed Johnny Carroll, 142Y;, Jacksonville, Fla. (4). swimmer Ngaire Laine who placed second, EXPLAIN "REPECHAGE" Henley-On-Thames, England, Aug. 6--(CP)--If you don't know what a repechage is you'd better keep on reading because you'll see it in print a lot before the Olympic games are over. In a rowing regatta the first day's losers are not eliminated. They are lumped together into a field which remains in the running for the championships through another series of competitions called "Repe- chage heats." Thus, a rowing crew can lose. its first heat, fight its way back out of the repechage and still finish champions. There are a lot of track and field folk at Wembley who wish they had a repechage, Canadian Swimmer Ousted Empire Pool, Wembley, England, Aug. 6 -- (CP) -- Vivian King of Winnipeg today was eliminated in the semi-final heat of the women's 400 metre free style Olympic swim, in which Karen Harup of Denmark TODAY'S OLYMPIA (Continued on Page 2) MILLS MOTOR SALES 266 KING STREET WEST e PHONE 4750 GM PARTS AND ACCESSORIES EASY to Apply . . . Easy to Remove... G.M. Polish and Cleaner is the help you need to lighten the work when you begin the job of polishing your car. For longer lasting shine and protection, apply a second coat of G.M. Wax. DISTRIBUTORS OF GENERAL TIRES PONTIAC-BUICK-G.M.C. TRUCK RR AAS OZARK IKE By Ray Gotto HOT DAWG... TH' BASES ARE LOADED AN' AHM TH' NEX' BAT-=- ME, ANYHOW. SO AHM T! IN MAH UNIFAWM AN' CHECKIN' OUT FER wi AT ST Glo ts \ CONFIDENCE]).. BY up THERE