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LS a NS SE \ eh Tb te Te Te FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1948 THE DAILY PIMES-GAZETTE / PAGE ELEVEN "Jake" Powell Commits Suicide After Arrest WwW , Nov. 5 (AP)--Alvin (Jake) Powell, who rose from Wash- ington sandlots to big-league base- ball fame, killed himself Thursday at police headquarters after he had been arrested on bad - cheque charges. The 39-year-old former Yankee, Washington and Montreal outfield- .. er fired two pistol bullets into his chest and head before detectives could disarm him. Powell had been taken into cus- today at Union Station after a local hotel asked police to question him aktou: some $300 in worthless cheques cashed during a three-day stay. Similar Complaint A warrant for Powell's arrest on a similar complaint was filed here several months ago. During the questioning Powell asked for a chance to speak to a woman companion who identified herself as Josephin> Amber of De- land, Fla. She told police they had plinned to get married Thursday but had changed their minds. As two detectives stood nearby Powell suddenly exclaimed to his companion: "To hell with it -- I'm going to end it all," He then fired the fatal shots, Not Divorced Alhough Miss Amber spcke about marriage plans, Powell's wife, Eliza- beth, told reporters they were not divorced. They were married in 1932 and have a 15-year-old daughter. Powell, a native of nearby Silver Spring, Md., gained his greatest baseball fame with the Yankees during the 1946 World Series when he cracked out four hits against the Giants' Carl Hubbell in the opening game. He played part of the 1941 season with Montreal Royals. . Last year he made an unsuccess- ful comeback try with the Class D. Florida State League team at Lees- burg. He batted only .200. "Blood Sport' Bill Provides Parliament With Red-Hot Debate By JAMES McCOOK London, Nov. 5--(CP)--Connois- seurs of parliamentary debate smack their lips in anticipation of the blood sports bill. The issue of whether the hare shall be hunted, the badger dug from his hole and the fox chased across the fields is apt, at any mo- ment, to push international anxie- ties, steel natienalizesion and ev- ery other controversy into the background. Preliminary skirmishes are un- der way. Pink-coated huntsmen, who delight. in risking their necks in gallops over ' the countryside have practically taken their hounds in their arms and defied parliament to part them. ' - They Are Agin It The National Society for the Ab- olition of Cruel Sports, supported by the League Againét Cruel Sports, has drafted a bill it- hopes to get before Parliament to 'make any person taking part in hunting or coursing liable to a £25 ($100) fine or imprisonment .up. - to. three months. Even those who looked oa at such sports would be iiable to punishment. Promoters of the bill claim they have the pledged. support of 405 of the 640 members of Parliament. They hope one of these members soon will have the chance to intro- duce the bill: - Commoners Sport Hunting is enjoyed by ordinary folk who cannot afford to ride but industriously chase the badger to hic hole and set their greyhounds after hares and rabbits. Labor in politics or no, they have sympathy with the farmers and businessmen who hunt foxes. For all those who would like tc keep the old sports -- cruel though they may be in the eyes of sume -- the British Fields Sports Society has provided a rallying ground. The Society has established a fighting fund to combat the pro- posed bill and J. W. Fitzwilliam, Secretary, said 60,000 individual subscriptions already had been re- ceived. MUDHENS GO TO BARTOW Detroit--General Manager Billy Evans of the parent Detroit Tigers @Rnounced that the Toledo Mudhens of the American Association will train at Bartow, Fla., next spring. A. GYPSUM LATH BELGIUM CEMENT MCLAUGHLIN COAL & SUPPLIES LTD., 110 KING ST. W. PHONE 1246 BOWLING MAYFAIR LADIES' LEAGUE Yesterday ended the first section and a lot of surprises in store for a lot of us. The Die Hards came through to take four points and take the section from the hard hitting Crickets. Next week the Crickets and the Die Hards meet at the beginning of a new sec- tion, so watch your step, girls. Bea Northey rolled a nice 798 triple to take the honors from Rose Pearn. Nice bowling Bea; also to Gates for her 748 triple, an orchid. A lot of good scores were turned in by the rest of the league. Triples: Bea Northey 798 (232, 202, 274); Madaline Gates 748 (281, 220, 247); Henrietta Liston 668 (194, 246, 228); Marg Vaughn 654 (270, 173, 211); Freda McGlaskan 646 (242, 210, 194); Blanche Norton 636 (233, 233, 170); Toots Fer- guson 618 (193, 187, 238). Singles: Edythe Reading, 279; Daisy Malcolm, 254; Ethel Freeman, 246; Tammy Harlock, 238; Carrie Spencer, 237; Lou Borrow, 237; Vimy Newman, 213, 233; Anne Lovgren, 230; Rene Jones, 228: Mary McConnell, 224; Ruth Radway, 223; Dorothy Zedic, 222; Doris D'Donnell, 204, 230. Apologies to Win Rigler for omitting her high single of 251 last week. Season's high triple: Bea Northey, 798, without handicap. Triple with handicap goes to Flo McCallum with 755. Single without handicap: Sylvia Phillips, 301. Single with handicap: Edith McKee, 208. Standing Die Hards . 2217415 Cricketts . 2216918 Sextéttes 20--16784 Jesters . . 16--15304 Roamers 16--15925 Toni's .. 15--17344 Jokers .. +s 1417378 Mayfair: . 1417258 Jets .. . 13--16197 . 13--15340 . 1216050 . 12--15150 Aces .. Playfairs Happy Gang , Orphans ... Duces Go Getters Low Jinks RAINBOW LEAGUE Standing NRO -I0®D taken: Black 3, White 0, Brown 3, Gold 0, Grey 3, Maroon 0, Pink 3, Yellow 0, Mauve 3, Red 0, Blue 3. Green 0, Tan 2, Stlver 1, Purple 3, Orange 1. Phil Fordham sure was hitting them with a 612. Daisy Brain followed along with a 487, and then Winnie Bonnetta with a 409. High Single: Phil Fordham, 332; Dot McTavish, 235; Daisy Brain, 285; Winn Bonnetta, 219; Edith Harmen, 238; Bethea Halliday, 215. STORE BOWLIN G LEAGUE The seventh night of the Store Lea- gue showed some very surprising up- sets. Some of the better teams going down to some weaker teams, which Proves anything can happen in bowl- ng. You can put my money on Pedlars for the first section. I don't expect long odds but that's the way of fav- orites. Comdos and Algers are battling it out for second place, decided by pins. This should prove interesting. Hallidays team was high for the night with a 3617 total. N. Loblaws were close behind with a 3613. The Silents did something to themselves when they rolled a neat 3417, nice going fellows. Pedlars took four from Pros, Comcos dropped three to Powells, N. Loblaws took four from Dominion, in spite of the latter's 3202. Collis' split with the Barbers, Hallidays took three from Skinners, Silents rode off with four from the great Alger Press. These Silent boys are on the move. The Nationals took three from A. and P. and the OB.L. got an easy three from 8S. Loblaws. Standing .. 2524146 Hallidays .... Algers Nationals Powells .... Skinners . 8S. Loblaws .. to) A High Triples: W. Newland, 853; "Pop" Bemis, 766; Bert Hardie, 760; J. Menzie, 742; J. Pennington, 740; M. Powell, 707; W. Harmer, 700. High singles: H.. Cornish, 365; W. New- lands, 329; W. Bradbury, 326; "Pop" Bemis, 307; Bert Hardie, 301. Sports Roundup By HUGH FULLERTON, JR. Pinehurst, N.C., Nov. 5 -- (AP) -- Did you know that a lot of the best right-handed golfers--Ben Hogan for one--are left-handed? It's easy to figure out and the fact was em- phasized tse other day when Dick Mayer and Pat Cici, two of the bet- ter clouters in the current north and south open, were observed playing pool left-handed . . . They're natural southpaws but they learned to use golf ¢lubs from the other side, because that's, the way most clubs are made ... And everyone knows the left arm is the controlling member in playing golf The Inside Dope Douglas Clyde Walker, Wake For- est football coach who used to be a minor-league baseball manager, maintains: "All you got to do to manage a ball team is to know when to take out a pitcher. It's in- tuition. If you know when to jerk a pitcher, you're a baseball man- ager." Mail From Home Word trickling into this outpost is that mid-western United States college football fanatics have found as good a bet as Citation--Michi- gan State to enter the big nine and make it a big 10 again at the De- cember conference meeting. They say even Michigan's Fritz Crisler can't block this move, though he probably would like to after the rough afternoon the Spartans gave the univetsity a few weeks ago. End of the Line Dugan Aycock, Lexington, N. C., pro, is threatening Craig Wood's GD ED GU TER TRE WER GER ee Biltmore CANADA'S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF FINE FUR FELTS badbandio die BB BB Madaline | Western Colleges Tonsilory Tactics Lack East'r Vigor By ROBERT CLARKE Canadian Press Staff Writer Winnipeg, Nov. 5 -- (CP) -- "Miss Shhhhhh has pretty legs." That intriguing statement ap- peared in a front-page box in the Manitoba, student newspaper at the University of Manitoba, as the new- ly-organized Booster Club soyght to pel any belief that student spirit is lacking at the university. The contest to guess the name of Miss Shhhhhh--tips as to her iden- tity are to appear in the thrice- weekly Manitoban--is one of a num- ber of ideas to be acted upon by the club. The boosters, whose job it is to stir up the 5,200 members of the student body, number about 35 to 40. University President A, H. 8. Gill- son set the ball rolling with a re- mark following a football game. Actually, the president did not in- tend to leave the impression that Manitoba's spirit was at a low ebb but he was puzzled by the lack of vocal support for the college team. He partly patched up broken fences later with the comment: "A university is like an indivi- dual--it has periods of progress and periods of consolidation where the situation seems to be a static one, and these periods of quiet are fol- owed by renewed activity. Our 'U' is at one of those places where a forward step is about to be made-- in fact has already been made, So cheer up, pessimists, all is not over yet!" Fred Bickell, president of the students' union, said that President Gillson, who 'assumed his position here only recently after teaching at McGill University in Montreal, ap- peared to consider that the Western attitude on student spirit is not the same as in the East. "He thinks we're a little back- ward in expressing our feelings in the West," said Bicknell. Western Conference Chooses All-Stars For 1948 Season By ROBERT CLARKE Canadian Press Staff Writer Winnipeg, Nov. 5 -- (CP) -- Everything a football coach could want is wrapped up in the 1948 edi- tion of the Western Inter-Provin- cial Football Union all-star team. Chosen for the Canadian Press by coaches and sports writers in lea- gue cities, the mythical team has speed, power, a solid front wall, good kicking, expert forward pass- ers and glue-fingered receivers, Seven Stamp Stars The league-champions Calgary Stampeders, unbeaten and untied in 12 circuit clashes and one exhibi- tion game, provided the club with its nucleus of players. Seven Stamps picked up all-stars berths while four places went to the Saskatche- wan Roughriders of Regina and two were voted to Winnipeg Blue Bombers. That 13 players were picked resulted from a tie for one of the 'line positions. The team: : Centre, Chuck Anderson, Calgary; guards, Dave Tomlinson, Calgary, and, in a tie, Bert Iannone, Cal- gary, and Bud Irving, Winnipeg; tackles, oJhnny Aguirre, Calgary, and Mike Cassidy, Regina; ends, Woody Strode, Calgary, and John- ny Bell, Regina; 'quarter, Keith Spaith, Calgary; halves, Gabe Pat- terson, Regina, Don Hiney, Win- nipeg, Ken Charlton, Regina, and Paul Rowe, Calgary. Four Unanimous Four of the players were unani- mous choices--Rowe, Spaith, Aguir- re and Strode. It also was a repeat performance for Rowe, Patterson, Bell and Iannone, members of the 1947 clubs. : The all-star team has two excel- lent kickers in Charlton and Spaith, the former with Ottawa Rough Riders' last season whereas Spaith played professional with the Honolulu Warriors. Spaith also has been one of the nation's forward passing sensations, completing 78 out of 154 tosses. To mention Spaith is to mention the pass-catching Strode--they're something like pork and beans, or bacon and eggs. The big Negro end and Spaith constituted one of the best two-man combinations ever to tread a Western gridiron. record for giving star golfers a start. Dugan put Johnny Palmer, Clayton Heafner and Skip Alex- ander into the business . . . Palm- er's explanation of his extra-long backswing 'is: "Just kept reaching out for more distance." And when Sammy Snead, practising iron shots, asked: "What's wrong with those?" Heafner replied: 'Nothing, except that you ought to be down there on the practice green." = SPORT SNAPSHOT (Continued from Page 10) Gold seem to have the makings of a fine senior club, and the juniors though some are still playing football, also look for a hot season . . Lionel Conacher, prcbably Canada's greatest all-round athlete, was bought by Montreal Maroons from New York Americans of the National Hockey League in a straight cash deal 18 years ago today. retirement in 1937 Conacher sat for a time in the Ontario Legislature and served as chairman of the Ontario Athletic Commission. * + SCISSORED SPORT--(By The Canadian Press)--Dick Miller, gen- eral manager of the Indianapolis Caps said Thursday a protest would be made to American Hockey League headquarters on last Wednesday night's scoreless tie game with St. Louis. the fact that the game went directly from the first period into the second without the usual 10-minute intermission. Because of an injury to Ralph Almas, St. Louis, play was halted after 16:12 of the first period. When it was resumed, the remainder of the first period was played and the second period was started immediately afterwards . . of United States football imports as suggested by retiring president Art Chipman of Winnipeg Blue Bombers drew a cautious comment in Van- couver yesterday from the president of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, J. D. Rowand. He thought elimination of U.S. imports was "hardly practical" all at once. "That's a subject for off-season discussion when everybody's calm and collected," he said , . . Stewart Maiden, the little Scot who became one of the great professors of gold, died Thursday at Atlanta, Gas; near the course where he taught Bobby Jones the game. Maiden suffered a stroke three' weeks ago which left him partially para- lyzd and unconscious . , . Mexican Army riders won the military jumping prize at the National Horse Show Thursday night at New York scoring their seeond triumph of the day with the same form that earned them the Prix Des Nations at the '1948 Olympics. spectators in Madison Square Garden came in a relay event. registered complete superiority over their military rivals from Canada The Canadians came second . . boat races will be contested on the Thames River March 26, it was an- Previously there had been rumors that . M. L. (Tory) Gregg, founder of and France. nounced Thursday at London. the race might be held elsewhere . . the Western Ontario Athletic Association, was re-elected for his fifth term as president of the organization at its annual meeting at Wing- Considered the largest Western Ontario 'sporting or- ganization, the WOAA comprised 84 hockey teams last year. ham Thursday. Spicy Bits From Other After his +» The protest will be based on . Elimination Their vietory before 10,000 They . The Oxford-Cambridge New Featherweight Champion Crowned In Boxing World New featherweight champion Sandy Saddler baffled defending titleholder Willie Pep at Madison Square Garden in New York, thanks to lots of' In picture above, Pep moved inside the left hand and Saddler found himself wrapped around the champ's neck. ked out in four rounds. At left Pep is down He was caught with a sharp left hook, couldn't make it. reach an a jarring left hand. Willie was outcl d and k on the canvas for the full count. sought to get up, b --Central Press Canadian (2 MILLS MOTOR SALES 266 KING STREET WEST e PHONE 4750 GM AND ACCESSORIES For your ~ Tune in CKDO MILLS MOTOR SALES present RUSS MORGAN'S MUSIC Tict 3 lod and d 1240 on Your Dial at 8.30 Saturday Night e DISTRIBUTORS OF GENERAL TIRES PONTIAC-BUICK-G.M.C. TRUCK .| doesn't include minor items like Sports Cols. By WALLY IZSAK Canadian Press Staff Writer Toronto, Nov. 5 -- (CP) --Ama- teur hockey, as most people realize, is a big and 'expensive business these days and gone are the times when a player played for the fun of playing and received his reward in the form of a banquet, a crest or a hearty handshake. "It takes big money to operate a hockey club these days," says Daf (Kitchener-Waterloo Record) Odette, who claims that expansion of professional hockey really is the reason "Amateur" clubs are find- ing the bidding for players stiff. "Older players who ' normally would not turn pro now receive at- tractive offers from clubs in prac- tically every part-of the United States. These offers are used to gain higher offers whenever 'amateur' teams make their bid." Odette says Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen (an Ontario Hockey As- sociation Senior entry) found it hard to get material but offers were agreed -upon-and attendances high enough to meet costs. "It may not be generally known but the executive of the Dutchmen had to buy a $16,000 house to carry out commitments to new players," says Odette. "These players were guaranteed housing and when none could be found, it was necessary to make the real estate deal." It's Only Money "Have you any idea what it costs to turn out a well-dressed football player, a fashion-plate pigskinner?" asks Bobbie (Toronto Globe and Mail) Rosenfeld. "Unless you own three or four gold mines, think carefully before you decide-to buy yourself a foot- ball team. It takes more chips than you'll find at a woodchopper's ball," says Bobbie. She says she was told that to equip one player it costs about $135--and there are usually about 35 players on a team. But that practice equipment, miles of tape, T-shirts, sweat socks, salaries, transportation, room and board, and so on. "If you're thinking of buying a football team," says Bobbie, "May- be it's better you should invest in a water polo outfit where (they tell me) the boys wear little more than an expression." FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By The Associated Press Philadelphia -- Willie Beltram, 13513, New York, outpointed Jimmy Cellins, 13415, Philadelphia (6). New York---Tony Labua, 1383, York, outpointed Joey Belfiore, Philadelphia (8). Pittsburgh -- Sonny Hampton, 140, Buffalo, outpointed Sammy Mastrean, 144, Pittsburgh (10). STRENGTHENS OFFENSIVE Seattle, Wash.,, -- Acting Coach Reg. Root .today strengthened the University of Washington offensive lineup for the game against Univer- sity of Oregon Saturday. He moved Mel Davis into the Varsity back- field and had him working with quarterback Anse McCullough. New 13814, * HENRI ROCHON ADVANCES Mexico City--Henri Rochon of Montreal won his first-round match in the Mexican national tennis tournament. Canada's No. 1 player defeated Rodolfo May of Mexico, €-3, 6-3, 6-1, Unbeaten Tigers Tackle B-Indians On Play-off Trail By The Canadian Press Opening guns will be fired in Canadian Football playoffs tonight as Hamilton'sbunbeaten Tigers in- vade Toronto to square off with the Beaches Indians in the first game of a best-of-three final series for the Ontario Rugby Football Union title. Another unbeaten club--Calgary Stampeders--starts on the playoff trail tomorrow when the Stamps tackle Saskatchewan Roughriders in the opener of a two-game total- point set for the Western title and a spot in the Grey Cup finals. Winds Up Schedule The Big Four winds up its regu- lar schedule Saturday, with Mont- real Alouettes and Toronto Argo- nauts still fighting for the second playoff bkerth behind Ottawa's leading Rough Riders. Alouettes need a victory over the tail-end Wildcats at Hamilton to ensure themselves of second place. Argonauts, defending Grey Cup champions, have a faint chance to stay in the title hunt, but they need a win over Ottawa in their final home game, coupled with an Alou- ette loss. The Intercollegiate Union enters the home stretch as the unbeaten University of Western Ontario Mus- tangs entertain McGill's Redmen while University of Toronto Blues tackle Queen's at Kingston, League Switch Tigers, who switched leagues with Wildcats this season, are counting on the smooth-passing of playing- coach Frankie Filchock to see them through the finals against the underdog Toronto club. Beaches are counting on a muddy field to play havec with Filchock's opera- tions and give their scat-backs ® chance to show effectively. Jack Harper, who led the O.R. F.U. in csoring this season, will be out there to catch Filchock's passes. 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