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Oshawa Times (1958-), 29 Apr 1963, p. 12

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' & "THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, April 29, 1963 - ABIGAIL 'ABBIE' Hoffman, is shown hitting the tape well in front of all other contes- ants to win the Pan-Americans- Games 800-meter run, : in 2 $4 4 SAAR h heh AAT $44 Owes teletaderty) Pittts + aah dtr eS Z fiz, 3 & i; be 3 a 4 i -@ " # : * = > : » & : 2 ; | Fj # fled ia; a BC. in Vancouver ily in the 'eight-oared ler competition in 33 HT medals in swim relays and one silver in shooting, two bronze medals for third place in indi- vidual swims, a bronze in track a bronze medals in skeet s ng HAVE FOUR GOLD Coupled with a silver and two bronze medals in . Saturday's i i , they pushed Canada's medal totals to four gold, 13 silver and 17 bronze-- second only to the strong United States team which continued its domination of the over - all scene, The U.S., which swept all 16 gold medals in swimming and Pee eee $99 944 FSS SLE eR hy My ig by Sg te ttt ee ={sae44 minutes, 10.2 seconds, yester- day in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for one of Canada's four gold medals, so far. ---(CP Wirephoto) board diving here, finished fifth in the men's platform diving Sunday as Bob Webster, the Olympic champion from the U.S. won. The strong crew from UBC, Canada's only entry in the seven rowing events, was fa- ruguay. 2,000-metre distance was. 6:16. Members of the winning crew were cox David Overton and oarsmen Daryl Sturdy, Marc Lemieux, Pete Browne, Tom Gray, Eldon Worobieff, Tom Stokes, Roy McIntosh and Don Dewar. A dense fog held up the start for half an hour but when it lifted weather conditions were ideal for four races. Then a cross-wind chopped up the ar- tificial lake and made the going more rugged, especially for the eights. NOT BOTHERED It didn't bother the Cana- dians, however. They under- stroked their four rivals by three to four strokes with a steady, water-eating 36 to 37 minute and led all the way. The U.S. won four gold med- als in rowing--single and dou- ble sculls, pairs with coxswain ;and fours without Cox. Uru- guay took the pairs without Cox and Argentina took: the fours 'three of four in diving, now has 61 golds, 26 silvers and 18 » bronzes. % The Canadian medal winners « Saturday and Sunday, in addi- =| tion to Miss McCredie, Miss # Hoffman and the UBC eights: Silver i Team. centre-ire pistol, 25 "metres (Mike Doig, Brandon, " Man., Bill Hare, Ottawa, Gary «© McMahon, Dartmouth, N.S 2a ® lay team (Ralph Hutton, 15, and = Sandy Gilchrist, 17, both of # Ocean Falls, B.C., and Aldy Meinhardt, 19, and Ed Cazalet, 20, both of Vancouver). Women's 400-metre freestyle relay team (Sharon Pierce, 15, Prince Rupert, i " Weir, 17, Toronto, and Lynne Pomfret, 16, and Mary Stewart, 17, both of Vancouver). Sandy Gilchrist, men's 1,500 ; Metre freestyle. Bronze 5 Ralph Hutton, men's 1,500- » metre freestyle. *. Lynne Pomfret; women's 200- « Metre freestyle. = Lynne Pomfret, ¢ metre freestyle. Eileen Weir, women's 100- 3 metre backstroke. * Noreen Deuling, 20, Winnipeg, = women's 900-metre run, Barney Hartman, 46, Ottawa, oting individual. shooting . tam $4 ae RS REE EH HE women's 400- z skeet sho Skeet e (Hart- man, Eddy Tuvo, Rosemount. Que., and Leslie}Clegg an ° » Hugh Garland, both of Mont-| 7.4 9 real), i JUST MISS ONE & Canada just missed another » bronze when Judy Stewart, the « petite 19-year-old from the Tor- f onto suburb of West Hill, placed #fourth in women's 10 - metre "platform diving, less than a y point behind Maria Teresa #Adames of Mexico. Linda ¢Cooper and Nancy Poulsen of #Ythe U.S. took first and second * places, respectively. <. Tome Dinsley, 22,' of Vaneou-| er, GAG medallist ' in spring Se 8 Men's 800-metre freestyle re- _ | Unofficial 4 United States |Canad fwith Cox. Miss MicCredie, a five-foot 10- inch 175-pounder, surprised as she cracked the shot put rec ord of 48 feet two inches by |more than two feet and beat her lown previous best by nearly jfour feet. | Miss Hoffman won by 10 me- | NANCY McCREDIE, the Canadian girl who set a new record of 50 ft. 3 inches, yes- terday in the women's shot- zuela's Arquimedes Herrera fin- ished second. Ira Murchison got the bronze for the U.S. Alberto Suarex of Argentina won the 5,000-metre run Satur- day and Marlene Ahrens of Hoo took the women's javelin title. Canada had entries in only three of the track and field events besides those in which it took gold medals; Doug Kyle of Calgary finished fourth in the 5,000 metres; Pat: Dobie of Sas- 'katoon finished fifth in the wom- en's javelin; and Maureen Bar- doe of Hamilton, only Canadian qualifier for the women's 100. metre sprint, was sixth. Two cycling gold medals went to Latin Americans, with Greg- orio Carrisalles of Venezuela winning the road race individ- ual crown and Uruguay taking the road race team -title. Ian Mahon of Vancouver finished 13th and Aurelio Battello of Montreal 24th in the individual Standings. Other Canadian showings Sat- urday and Sunday: Western Final Is All Even SAN FRANCISCO (AP)=The San Francisco Seals edged the Seattle Totems 6-5 in overtime Sunday night and evened their best - of - seven playoff for the Western Hockey League cham- pionship at one game apiece. Seattle won the opener Friday night 3-2, also an overtime con- test. The next two games of the series will be played here, Tues- day and Wednesday. jtres over Lea B.. Ferri of the jUnited States and her time of| )2:10.2 stands as a Games rec- |ord since this was the first time cans lar14 ne Deuling was third in 'The U.S., which took gold |medals in men's shot put and/each tallied twice and Bob Sab-| high jump and women's broad! jump as the track and field pro- gram opened Saturday, added four more Sunday in the pole| jvault, where Dave Tork set a |Games record of 16 feet, % inch /400-metre run, men's discus and women's 100-metre sprint. But Cuba's Enrique Figuerola| |won the men's 100-metre sprint. United States _ Is Dominating s Pan-American | SAO PAULA, Brazil (CP-AP) j medal standings in |the fourth Pan-American Games lafter Sunday's events: Gold Silver Bronze) Oo: 2 tt uw 4 ~ | Brazil Argentina Uruguay Venezuela Cuba Mexico Trin.-Tobago Chile |B, Guiana Antilles Puerto Rico Guatemala Panama Jamaica Barbadoes | | | BSS SSOP HHH GOH Wee SrKwh es SHUR HaAKae eS -- ~ wewSno4nerreSonade { |133%, Mexico, outpointed An, Nick Mickoski scored the win- ning goal Sunday night at 5:59 of the sudden death overtime period when he rammed a 15- was run at the Pan-Ameri-|footer past Totem goalie Al Mil-| For America Cup lar after taking a pass from Or- land Kurtenbach, Be Jim Powers and Den Chiupka ourin once for the Totems. San Francisco scorers in ad- dition to Mickoski were Al Nich. olson, Paul Jackson, Tom Thurlby, Duke Edmundson and Ray Cyr, all scoring in the opening period. e YESTERDAY'S STARS KS FEMALE ATHLETES COP HONORS -- put event, in the Pan-Ameri- can Games to beat out Cyn- thia Wyatt, of Honolulu, for the gold medal, is shown Ontario Teen-Agers' Win Gold Medals In an-American eet Somes Peter Bakonyi of Vancouver reached the final of the men's individual epee fencing cham- pionships but finished sixth. Mary Stewart, silver medal- list in butterfly and freestyle swim sprints earlier, finished sixth in backstroke. Sharon Pierce finished fourth in women's 200 - metre free- style, JoAnne Rootsarert of. Winni- peg was eliminated in 100-me- tre sprint preliminaries. Lethbridge, Alta., Nationals were whipped 84-74 by Puerto Rico in' men's basketball play, their second loss in three starts. Vancouver Maids suffered their fourth straight loss, 60-40 so ees in women's basket- all. The U.S, defeated Canada's water polo team 9-0. above, displaying winning form, in the Pacaembu Stad- ium, Sao Paulo, Brazil. --(CP Wirephoto) Sets World's Record Points In Decathlon WALNUT, Calif. (AP)--C.. K. King of University College of Los Angeles ran his total to 9,- world record in the decathion. The 29-year-old Chinese Na- tionalist bettered the so-called magic number of 9,000 in the 10-event grind with a brilliant performance that erased the world standard of 8,685 points set by U.S. athlete Rafer John- son in I Yang turned in his perform- ance as part of the Mount.San Antonio Relays. Yang played it carefully in the 1,500-metre run because he came up with leg cramp after finishing a spectacular perfor- mance in the pole vault in which he almost set a world record at 16 feet, 64% 'inches, The time for C.K. in the 1,500 metres was five minutes, 2.4 seconds, which was worth 245 points and put him over the 9,- 000 -mark. Actually Yang broke the rec- ord in the ninth event, the jave- lin throw, with a best heave of 235 feet, five inches. This was worth 1,040 points and brought his total to 8,876, 121 points Sunday to smash the| %V Saturday's Result Buffalo 4 Hershey 5 Buffalo at Hershey Western League settee ot seven Twist ied 1-1) Doug Robinson Glamorous Hero In Buffalo Win BUFFALO (AP)--Buffalo Bi- sons, stymied repeatedly by Ed Chadwick's brilliant goaltend- ing, got a goal from Doug Rob- inson with one second left in regulation time and another from him in overtime to defeat aint's what he used to be, He's -jants 3-1. By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer Poor old Warren Spahn. He better, Wondrous Warren, who turned 42 last Tuesday, pitched Mil- waukee Braves into third place in the National League Sunday as Braves swept a three-game series from San Francisco Gi- It was Spahn's fourth victory against one defeat and it was an epic one. Not because the wily southpaw spaced 11 Giants hits or because he did not is- sue a single base on balls. More important than that. It marked the first time in Spahn's illustrious major league career, dating back to 1942, that he registered four victories in the month of April. hnie is a notoriously slow starter and he usually doesn't get the old soupbone cranked up until after the All-Star. break. Just wait until' the. weather warms up. Elsewhere in-the league--St. Louis Cardinals whipped Los Angeles Dodgers 9-5 for its sev- Pirates topping the standings by four percentage points over enth straight victory, Pittsburgh ed Cards, won their fourth stra'ght! with a 3-2 decision over New beak taulet 1 ett ing ral runs in the eighth to defeat Philadel- phia Phils 4-1; and Houston Colts snapped a ninth-inning tie to nip Cincinnati Reds 3-2. BEAT SAN FRANCISCO Saturday, Milwaukee beat San Francisco 6-5, St. Louis shut out Los Angeles 3-0, Chicago beat Philadelphia 4-2, Pitts. burgh beat New York 2-1 and Cincinnati beat Houston 1-0. Spahn lost his bid for life- time shutout No. 57 when Gi- ants scored in the ninth but he gained career victory No. 331 as he turned in his fourth com- plete game of the campaign. The--majors' second oldest player--only Stan Mushy is older--needs just 14 more tvic- tories to tie Tim Keefe for sev. enth place among baseball's biggest all-time winners. Henry Aaron led Braves' at- tack against loser Juan Mari- chal. He collected two of his team's six hits, including 'his seventh home run. 'Has 4th Win Already In His Early Sprint -- Ken Boyer drove in three with a of home ru.is Ernie _ registered: 'h third yids as lef help in the seventh | t to alive his hex over gers. He has beaten them four straight times. SINGLES DECISIVE | er oe jane ca two out, the run sni a 2-2 tie and Pittsburgh its fourth the last thrée Mets. Don Schwail, he Thats starter: was charged with a balk raised the National to. tal to 76..That tied the record set in 1950. Houston inched into ninth place, past Mets, with its vie- tory over Reds. Bob Aspro- monte singled home Car! War- wick with the tie-breaking run in the ninth. : : 'Philadelphia's Chris Short had a shutout until two out in the eighth. Then two singles and back-to-back homers by Ron Santo and Ernie Banks gave Cubs four runs and the game. PY Hershey Bears 2-1 Sunday night and take a 3-2 lead in the Amer- ican Hockey League Calder Cup BASEBALL SCORES AND STANDINGS Playoffs. The crowd of 9,375 went wild when' Robinson golfed a 15-foot shot for his finst goal. Then, with 7:29 in overtime, he took a pol ratty pass from Art Stratton to score again. Mare Reaume's goal in the second minute of the second pe- riod had stood for Hershey until 's first score. Reaume skated in from his own end to score unassisted. Chadwick, who made 50 saves a week ago in shutting out Buf- falo in the second game of the best-of-seven series, had 43 Sun- night. Buffalo goalie Denis DeJordy had 44 'but not nearly as many tough ones as Chad- wick. GETS MISCONDUCT TAB Reaume was slapped with a match misconduct penalty in the second period when he pushed referee John Ashley after Ashley called a high-stick- ing penalty on him. Many spec- tators thought Reaume also took a punch at the referee but Reaume said he pulled his *fist back but did not swing. Ashley called a total of 72 minutes in penalties in the first two periods but the third and overtime periods went without a penalty. Ashley called seven mi- nors, a major, two 10-minute misconducts and the match mis- conduct on Hershey, and nine minors, a major and a 10-min- ute misconduct on Buffalo. The series shifts to' Hershey Tuesday for the sixth game and back here Wednesday for a sev- enth, if necessary. SOCCER FAN ROME (AP)--A soccer fan was killed by gunfire and at least 60 more were injured Sunday in wild stadium, riot- ing. Police also reported a dozen arrested in the out- breaks that flared at Naples and Salerno. Thousands of fans invaded the field at Naples during the major league Napoli-Modena game to protest a referee's decision, The invaders. ripped up goal posts, smashed fences and stands. They besieged the referee and visiting players in KILLED IN SHOOTING RIOT AT GAME dressing rooms before police restored order. At least 40 persons were in- jured at Naples and 12 ar- rested. Modena was leading 2 - 0 when the rioting flared. A fi- nal decision on the winner will be made Wednesday. Similar rioting erupted at Salerno during a match be- tween Salernitana and Pot- enza in Italy's third league. Salerno police reported one man killed when several riot- ers fired gunshots, and at least 20 people hurt. Russia May Try | By WILL GRIMSLEY | NEW YORK (AP) -- Are the |Russians secretly cooking up plans to challenge for the Amer- ica's Cup? e "Nyet!"" comes the rumble |from behind Nikita Khrush- |chev's Iron Curtain. But there is growing evidence that Soviet yachtsmen may be coveting the [United States' prized sports tro- y. The latest comes in the form of a photo which supposedly \P By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Batting -- Carl Yastrzemski, young Boston Red Sox outfielder rapped six hits in the double. header 4-3 and 6-2 victories over the Chicago White Sox. He drove in three runs in -the opener and one run in the sec- ond game. i Pitching--Warren Spahn, Mil- waukee Braves' 42 - year - old southpaw, registered his fourth victory of the season, defeating San Francisco Giants 3-1. He Spaced 11 hits, struck out four and walked none. was smuggled from Russia to this country. The picture, run in the latest issue of the. magazine Rudder, purporting to show the 12-meter yachts skimming gracefully over the churning waters of the Black Sea. Says the magazine: "According to our correspond: jent, Russia's most famous air- craft designer, Mr. V. Tubulev, has co-operated with her best marine architects to design, test and build two beautiful 12-meter lyachts. "It is reported that extensive wind tunnel! and tank testing WEEKEND FIGHTS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toledo, Ohio--Wilbert (Skee- ter) McClure, 156, Toledo, out- pointed Ted Wright, 154, De- troit, 10 a Mexico City--Alfredo Urbina, gel Mantequilia 134%, Cuba, 10. facilities were put at the dis- posal of his highly competent engineering team, TRAIN CREWS? 'Rumor has it that relays of |Skilled crews are now being |trained on a scheduled basis while frogmen and hydro-dyna- mic experts~ study actual un- dérwatér flow patterns of the | This is not the first hint that jthe Russians may be eyeing the |famous old mug which was won by the schooner America around the Isle .of Wight back in 1851 and which has been suc- cessfully defended ever since by U.S. yachtsmen, In March, 1962, the president of the Yachting Federation of the USSR, attending the world Flying Dutchman regatta at St. Petersburg, Fla., said the Rus- sians were planning to make a formal challenge in 1964. "We have not solved the sail fabric problem yet," he said. "We are working on it and hope to have fabric suitable for sails by that time." DENY EVERYTHING Later the Russians everything. The British, whose challen- ger Sceptre was beaten in four straight races in 1958 by Col- umbia, have mounted another challenge for 1964 off Newport, R.I. A boat is being designed by William -Boyd, the man who con- ceived Sceptre, for the new try. The Australians, whose plucky Gretel lost to Weatherly last summer, also are said to be preparing for a second chal- lenge. If the Russians made a bid, the New York Yacht Club, which is holder of the famed old cup, would be compelled--for reasons of pride if no other--to denied | sleek craft in action." accept Phil Rodgers Takes Pott In Texas Open SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP)-- Phil Rodgers won a glittering duel with Johnny Pott to cap- ture the $30,000 Texas open golf tournament Sunday and leave the crowd muttering about what might have been had a chip shot for a birdie on the. 17th hole been successful. G Pott, who had shot the iden- tical score for three rounds as Rodgers, 66-71-66, was a stroke behind as he came into 17. Rodgers, 25 - year - old belter from.San Diego, Calif., already had finished with a six-under- par 65 for 268--a record for the 6,775 - yard Oak Hills Country Club course. Pott was back on the fringe with his second shot on the par- four hole. He chipped barely past the hole, then missed a three-foot putt. and took a five. So all he could do to tie for the lead was shoot a hole-in-one a He took a par for a final Arnold Palmer, the defending champion and holder of . the course record of 270 which Rogers broke, made a bid in the final round. If he had nailed an eagle on the 15th hole, where he had landed his third shot within six feet of the pin, he might have made a race of it. GOES FOR EAGLE Palmer was six strokes be- hind starting the final round but had just banged a couple of birdies and was going for the eagle. But he missed and that wiped out chances for one of his noted clutch finishes, Palmer, who was trying for his fourth straight Texas Open, had a 67 for 276 and tied for ninth place, winning $1,050. WIN DINGHY RACES HAMILTON, Bermuda (CP) The United Kingdom won the world championship for interna- tional 14 - root dinghies during the weekend. The United States yachting team finished second in the four-nation round-robin champions, "ended 'in a last: Place tie- with Bermuda. Can- ada's team was composed of Ward McKimm and Dave Kirby of Ottawa, John Fisher of Mont: real, and Jack Barber of Tor- onte, By THE CANADIAN PRESS National League WL Pet. GBL Pittsburgh 11 5 688 St. Louis 13 6. Milwaukee 12 8. San Francisco 10 9 | Los Angeles 1010. Chicago Philadelphia Cincinnati Houston i New York .333 Saturday's Resul Philadelphia 2 Chicago 4 New York 1 Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 6 San Francisco 5 Cincinnati 1 Houston 0 St. Louis 3 Los Angeles 0 : Sunday's Results Philadelphia 1 Chicago 4 New York 2 Pittsburgh 3 Milwaukee 3 San Francisco 1 Cincinnati 2 Houston 3 St. Louis 9 Los Angeles 5 Probable Pitchers Today York, Craig (1-2). N. Houston, Farrell (1-3) at Pitts- burgh, Friend (3-0) N. Chicago, Ellsworth (2-2) at Cin- cinnati, Owens (-1) N. San Francisco, Fisher (0-2)' at Kansas City New York Boston Baltimore Chicago Los Angeles Minnesota Detroit Cleveland ' Washington § 12 . Saturday's Resul' Minnesota 9 Detroit 3 Cleveland 1 New York 8 Los Angeles 2 Baltimore 4 615 600 588 500 500 444 4" 385 204 Los Angeles, Miller (2-0) at New Chicago 5 Boston 9 Kansas City 7 Washington 3 Sunday's Results Minnesota 0 Detroit 4 Cleveland 0 New York 5 Los Angeles 3 Baltimore 2 Chicago 3-2 Boston 446 Kansas City 6 Washington 5 Probable Pitchers Today Washington; Rudolph (0-2) and Stenhouse (141) at Los An- geles, Lee (20) and Turley (0-2) twi-night. Baltimore, Barber (4-1) at Min- nesota, Pascual (1-3). New York, Stafford (1-1) at Chi- cago, Pizarro (1-0) N. (Only games scheduled) International League Southern Division WL Pet. GBL Arkansas 8 5 615 -- Atlanta Indianapolis Columbus Jacksonville Northern D Buffalo Syracuse Rochester Toronto Richmond Saturday's Results '|Little Rock 3 Toronto 0 Buffalo 11 Richmond 6 Atlanta 6 Rochester 4 WINS CYCLE RACE ADENAU, Germany (CP-AP) Mike Duff, a young motorcycle race rider from Toronto, rode his AJS to a clear victory in the 350 cc. class at the Eifel international motorcycle races here Sunday. He also took sec- ond place in the 500 cc. race behind winner Rudolf Thalm- hammer of Austria as a crowd of 100,000 defied rain and chill- ing winds to line the circuit . Columbus 2 Indianapolis 1 Jacksonville 5 Syracuse 10 Sunday's Results Little Rock 1-9 Toronto 2-2 Buffalo 4-1 Richmond 2-0 Atlanta 5-1 Rochester 110 Columbus 44 Indianapolis 5-0 Jacksonville 5-% Syracuse 4-2 acksonville at Rochester, N --. at Toronto, N " Little Rock at Syracuse, Indianapolis at Richmond, N Columbus at Buffalo, N Yastrzemski Is Sensation For Red Sox By JIM HACKLEMAN Associated Press Sports Writer Carl Yastrzemski pulled out of college to concentrate on studying. Majoring in hitting a base- ball, he appears well on his way to a. master's degree, The 23 - year - old outfielder, who gave up off-season attend- ance at Notre Dame to better prepare for his job with Boston Red Sox, earned high marks Sunday with a performance that sent him near the top of the American. League batting class. Yastrzemski rapped out six hits in 10 trips to the Leyden cluding a a in the opener, as the Red Sox swept Chicago White Sox 4-3 in 12 innings and 6-2. The barrage zoomed his average 44 points to .365, second in the league to the d by Wayne Causey of To Enter NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP) Niagara Falls Flyers, picking up where their predecessors left off 11 years ago, are heading west for another crack at hock- ey's Memorial Cup. The Flyers, successors to the Canadian junior champion Bar- rie Flyers of 1952, won the east- ern title Saturday night by handing a 13-0 hammering to the new Espanola, Ont., Eagles in the best-of-seven eastern fi- nal, Opponents of the Niagara Falls team, which moved here three years ago from Barrie, will be Edmonton Oil Kings, who have been in the last three cup finals without winning any. The best-of-seven series will be played in Edmonton starting Thursday. Happy Emms' Flyers, Ontario Hockey Association Junior A champions, took a four-straight run through the Espanola team, member of a new Northern On- tario Hockey Association Junior League, the first in years. On the way to the eastern ti- tle, they went through four play- off series in 19 games, taking 16. They won in straight games from the junior Montreal Cana- diens in their league 7 BRUSH PAST EAGLES After meeting some difficulty with Eagles in earlier games, the Flyers brushed by them with ease Saturday night, with league scoring champion Wayne Maxner scoring four goals and collecting three assists, Flyers rang up five of their goals in the first period, three in the second and another five in the last session before a standing - room - only crowd of 3,363 that gave the club an at- series and Canada, previous|tendance of 105;374 for 35 games this season. Garry Harmer, Terry Crisp and Gary Dornhoefer came un with two goals apiece, and Bill Goldsworthy, Bill Glashan and Don Awrey. had' singles. Flyers Whitewash Espanola Juniors Finals nets for Flyers, Niagara Falls native Geprge Holmes had 31 stops, including clutch saves" at one point when Flyers played shorthanded for four minutes in the second period. Rookie defenceman John Ar- bout saved his shutout in the second period by turning aside a puck trickling over the goal line After Holmes had been hit by an incoming forward. Kansas City Athletics. . Causey hit his average with 24ot4 and the amazing Athlet- ies recaptured first place. by shading Washington Senators 65 with a four-run eighth inn- ing. Dean Chance pitched # five- hitter as Los Angeles Angels clipped Baltimore Orioles 3-2, dipning the Orioles to fourth place from first. FORD WINS ONE Whitey Ford won his first of the year and hit a home run in a 5-0 victory over Cleveland In- dians that carried New York Yankees' into second spot one game back of the Athletics and 15 percentage points ahead of Boston., Detroit Tigers ended a losing string at three, whipping Minnesota Twins 4 - 0 behind Jim Bunning's five-hit' pitching. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jacksonville doesn't believe in doing things half way. . The Suns lost seven consecu- tive International League games beginning April 18. Then they found the winning formula and have won four of their last five games. oe ie Two of the victories .came Sunday as Jacksonville dumped the Syracuse Chiefs 54 and 7-2. Buffalo also swept a twin bill, downing Richmond 4.2 in 15-innings and 10 in the night- cap. nes The other six clubs divided doubleheaders. Toronto beat Ar- kansas 2-1 and then lost 9-2. Ro- chester defeated. Atlanta 11-5 then Atlanta won a 1-0 triumph with a wild pitch. Indianapolis defeated Columbus 5-4 in the opener and Columbus white- washed Indianapolis 50 in the second game, ; In Saturday's games, Little Rock shut out Toronto 3-0, Buf- falo trounced Richmond 11-6, Atlanta beat Rochester 64, Co- lumbus nosed out Indianapolis 2-1 and Syracuse defeated Jack. sonville 10-5. Jacksonville rattled off 25 hits in its twin victory Sunday and moved into a. tie with Colum- bys for fourth place in the Making his first start in the Southern division. Jacksonville Suns Starting To Shine Shortstop Elio Chacon's big bat brought in the winning runs in both games for Buffalo. His double in the 15th drove in the two runs that spelled the differ- ence and his home run in the ninth won the abbreviated sec- ond game. ' : The 'wo wins enabled the Bi- sons to increase their first-place lead in the northern division to 2% games over second - place Syracuse. STAY TED A split by both Arkansas and Atlanta enabled them to re- main deadlocked for first place in the southern division. Toronto's veteran. pitcher Steve Ridzik stifled Arkansas on four hits in the first game but the Travelers lashed out 13 sin- gles in the second and won eas- ily. Cal Emery and Mickey Har- rington each slapped two-run homers for Arkansas. Frank Leja's single scored Howie Be- aell with the winning run for Leafs. in the opener. Indianapolis jumped on Tom Cunningham for five runs in Zhe first. two innings of the opener against Columbus. Rookie right- hander Tom Parsons however, took charge of the second game and hurled a four-hit shutout for Columbus.

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