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RAR a. 40 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Saturday, August 1, 1958 [RIGHT BACK HERE TONIGHT SPORTS MENU "Everything from Soup to Nuts" by Geo. H. Campbell SPORTS EDITOR For a change, it happened to some other team. Oshawa Mer- chants moved up within two games of London Majors and fourth place in the Inter-County standing, when they whipped Guelph Maple Leafs 13-3. This time it was Guelph Maple Leafs who got a rough break. They'vé been winning with regularity the past two weeks -- in fact they've climbed up within a game-and-a-half of the Oshawa Merchants, with their win over Galt on Thursday night being a big help. They had over 2,000 fans on hand last night, as interest zoomed following Guelph"s recent victories -- and then the team turned in a bad game. Oshawa Merchants would like- ly have won last night's game anyway, because Eddie Drapcho, former Guelph hurler, pitched a masterful game for the Mer- chants after he got over the sec-. ond inning and he was in great form, improving as the game went along. At the same time, Oshawa Merchants hit Fauth very hard and then continued their hitting assault against Mar- ty Philp, the relieving pitcher. But what really cooked Guelph's. goose was a flock of errors, about eight all told and at that,. we imagine the scorer became more tolerant after the first few bobbles had been made. The bobbles had been made, The outfielders espe- top, by virtue 54 win over Brantford. Thomas Elgins pulled off the , defeating Waterloo Tig- 7-5 to knock the Tigers off the . Oshawa, Galt and Guelph htly bunched behind Lon- 1 FREE i a B B, : § i bi : i | i LH lit ti] Leh: HE rr I i i 7 4 % 41 he if i iL § : : { | i : g : # H ty 5 2 5 38T i SF i | <F RL ; i b i i 7h ij : BEE g HE i 1H 2% = : E A i : g : | g SE i ! | "Mike" Mellis, former Oshawa Merchants' mentor, go to the mound for Springfield, the team he joined about a month ago. first time an International League team has ever played in Oshawa, this game here Wednesday night should draw the biggest crowd of the season -- and there is no in- crease in admission prices either -- just the regular prices that have prevailed all season. Out at the Oshawa Raceways tonight, in addition to the usual program of stock car races, tree 'Merchants Thump Leafs Wild Comedy of Errors GUELPH (CP) -- Eddie Drap- cho, a pitcher Guelph Maple Leafs sold to Oshawa Merchants sever- al weeks ago, threw a six-hitter at his ex-mates here tonight in an inter-county senior baseball game. The | Merchants won the game by. a 13-3 score and took a firmer grip on fifth place. Leafs, in losing their second game in their last eight starts, committed eight errors to give Oshawa seven unearned runs. Ap- propriately enough it was "give- away-night" at the Guelph ball park with special program prizes for the cash customers. Leafs carried a 3-2 lead into the sixth inning when Oshawa scored four times on two hits, two walks and two errors. They scored two more in the seventh, two in the eighth and three in the ninth. Jimmy Jones, Dick Berning and Billy Turk each collected two hits' for Oshawa. One of Jones' hits was a triple. i No Guelph player got more than one hit. Eudie Napier hit a bases- empty homer in the fourth for | Guelph, his ninth of the season, and his third in the last three games. THE BOX SCORE OSHAWA Jones, cf Berning, rf p10 Lawing, If .. Imbra, 2b Dyson, 1b Mason, ss Ryba, ¢ .... Drapcho, p TOTALS. ......uvs. GUELPH Dicarlo, Bilco, of Rich, ss . Carruth, If ... ki, 1b > = wm = - oNoHwNOHWO H"mwonwonooP sano wWARRL CNB © hh et RON NS =a - 7-GAME SERIES ALL EVEN heats for the three : drivers, followed by a consola- tion, little feature and then a big §eature to end the program, there is to be a special exhibi-. tion of "accidental driving' per- formed by Ted Gilbert, former- ly with the late "Lucky Teeder's stock car circus. Gilbert likes to roll his car over and over Some more or, take "high dives" off a special ramp. They're going to have all this tonight at Oshawa Raceways and no doubt the stock car fans will be out in full force to enjoy this one. Pat Milosh's wrestling card for Tuesday night at Oshawa Arena has three feature bouts. In the pre- liminary, Jimmy Szikzay, of this city, takes on Abe Zvonkin of Ham- ilton. Szikzay, who started his ath- letic career here as a member of the Oshawa Shamrock AC and then turned from weight tossing to wrestling, has enjoyed a long tour of U.S. mat rings for the past two years and should be able to show his hometown fans a few new tricks. In the semi-final bout, Don Leo Jonahan takes on Fred At- kins and this will be a burly af- fair between two very husky gents. Then the main bout is something new with Whipper Billy Watson de- fending his British Empire crown against the challenger, Lord Athol Layton. This pair will cause a lot of excitement here, since each has a very large following among local mat fans. BRIGHT BITS -- CKLB Lake- landers came up like champions are supposed to do and the floor" to win last game of their championship series over at Bathe Park, defeating Eve- leigh"s Cleaners 7-6. This gives each team three wins and one tie so they'll settle it with, a sudden- death game, this afternoon, at Bathe Park. . . . In Juvenile girls' playoffs, Wildcats evened their round with Motorettes last night at one game apiece. . . . We watched a few innings of the Church League playoff game last night and when we left, St. Gertrude's had taken the lead, midway the CKLB Lakelanders Knot Rourd Win 7-6 Thriller The Lakesides Ladies' Softball League's Intermediate "A' cham- | pionship series, scheduled as a 4- out-of-7 affair, ended all tie with three wins apiece and one tie game, by virtue of CKLB Lake- landers grabbing off an exciting 7-6 triumph over Eveleigh's Clean- ers, last night at Bathe Park. The two evenly-matched 'teams will clash this afternoon on the same diamond, in a sudden-death game to decide the title and 1953 PWSU playoff rights. FIGHTING FINISH Lakelanders, holders of the local Inter softball crown in recent years, came » like true cham- pions with a fighting stand last night to stay in the running and even up the series with their win in the 7th game of the round. Kelemen started on the mound for Lakelanders but gave way to Lil Beamish, in the third inning, after Eveleigh"s had scored two runs on three hits and a walk, in the second stanza. Lakelanders got one run in the first on two walks, an error passed ball and infield out. In the third frame, Allison opened with a hom- er to knot the score at 2-2. In the fifth inning, Sution singl- ed to centre, advanced on a pass- ed ball and scored on an infield out, to make it 3-2 but Lakelanders came back with three runs in their half of the same inning. Allison started off with a walk and Bartell singled. A couple of passed balls as Kut- asienski was being walked advanc- ed the runners then Shestowsky singled to score two of her mates and scored herself later on an in- field out. Over Cleaners In the sixth, Cleaners got two runs on a walk to Fry, hit by Smith, fielder's choice, an error and an outfield catch, to make the score 5-5 but Lakelanders scored two more runs in their half of the same inning when Allen singled amd Allison belted her second home-run blow of the night. MADE IT CLOSE Cleaners got a run in the 8th when Beevor singled and Nesbitt doubled to score Beevor but was thrown out her self trying to reach third. Suton then singled, which meant base-running had cost the Cleaners their tying run. They tried hard again in the 9th when Fry walked with two out and Smith singled but Kutasien- ski made a snappy play on Beev- or's bid for a hit to end the game. Allison with two homers and a single, plus a walk, for a perfect night at the plate, was the hitting star of the game and the big gun for the winners with Bartell next, having two hits. Both teams fielded well but walks were costly to both teams and Lakelanders had the edge in their speedier base-running. Smith had three hits for the winners and Sutton had two and a walk. EVELEIGH'S CLEANERS Smith, ss; Beevor, 3b; Haines, 2b; Nesbitt, ¢; Sutton, If; Porayko, cf; B. Cardinall, 1b; Davey, rf; Fry, p. CKLB LAKELANDERS -- Allen ec; Allison, cf; Bartell, ss; Hyrcan- uk, 1b; Kutasienski, 2b; Shestow- sky, 3b; Kelemen, p and rf; Beamish, rf and p; Durston, If. Umpires Pat Jarvis and Norm O'Reilly. CONSERVATION CORNER Largemouth Bass Season Here, Found In most TORONTO -- With the 1958 fish- ing season now in full swing, the largemouth bass is coming into his own again. While some may con- sider he's not so hard to handle orf light tackle as the ller sma mut' Inland Waters to grayish-green and grayish-yel- low on the sides. The boney upper jaw extends back of the eye, whereas the small- jaw does not. He's a cl and heavier fish, too, mouth bass, many sportsmen pre- fer the largemouth, even though he rarely jumps and generally and | ouits sooner. He's mot so moody the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Cl an all-day event. . . . J. S. and D.S.: (concerning baseball letter) -- Ey will ly send us your names addresses, we will be glad to lish your letter -- otherwise, ! No Recall Rule Deadline Halts Player Shifts Today By JACK HAND I NEW YORK (AP)--Minor league | man can sleep soundly io] night, assured of no more big | league raids on their budding stars, if they still have any stars. | Up to midnight Friday night the | big boys were busy with the July | harvest, getting ready for the pen- nant drives ahead. Some of the | player moves were hard to take bv | minor-leaguers who also are fight- for a pennant: he Yankees brought up us Triandos, the leading hitter of the they grabbed Steve Kraly, 18-2 pitcher who just helped grab the lead in the Eastern League race. In the National League, Brook- lyn brought in Dick Williams and Dick Teed and the Cards recalled pitcher Willard Schmidt. All this and more activity is be- cause of the new rule, adopted last winter at Phoenix, Ariz., providing that all players optioned to the as the outh. The largemouth is found through- out most of the lower Great Lakes and rivers and connecting waters in Georgian Bay and Kawartha and Rideau Lakes and countless smaller lakes and ponds. It prefers quiet, weedy waters, even lakes with muddy bottoms, and is usually found in shallower water than the smallmouth. It is subject to wide colour variations and in some sections is known as green bass. It is blackish-green above in rushy shallows and bays such as Georgian Bay, shading to light green and yellow on the flanks. In other waters it may be blackish green on the back, fading minors, or by one minor league to another, cannot be recalled after midnight, July 31. There are, however, a couple of gimmicks in the rule. In case of dire emergency, a broken leg, say, by a star player, an optioned played could be recalled. In recent years there has been an increasing tendency to call up these optioned men in the heat of |the pennant race in August anf September. Managers put the pres- sure on the front office for help and, eventually, get it. Minneapolis, particularly, was ,|all excited about some raids by the New York Giants. The Willie Mays case in 1951 often is cited but it would not have been subject to the new rule for it was a pur- chase and not a recall. The Henry Thompson incident, also in 1951, created quite a stir in Minneapolis. Hank was sent down on option from the Giants and then brought back in August to make him el- igible for the World Series. z It will be interesting to see what Kitchener Team Wins Golf Cup | St. Catharines Top TORONTO (CP)--The George S. Lyon Memorial Trophy, emblema- tic of the Ontario team golf cham- pionship, will return to Kitchener for the fourth time in six years. but this time to the Westmount Country Club. The Westmounters captured the trophy in Friday's scorching play at Toronto St. George's for the first time. The three other Kitch- ener wins have always been by the Rockway representatives. i Westmount came through by 10 | strokes over London Hunt, 299 to 309, the third successive year that | the Londoners have finished run- ners-up. 3 The Westmount quartet which disposed of 25 other clubs was made up of Gerry Kesselring and Gordon Ball, each with a 73, Grant Shirk, 76, and Don Heller, 77. It was the only team to have all four members in the select 70 circle. Kitchener Rockway was third "Humber Valley fourth. Scar- 'came next with St. George's Dp when an "emergency" arises. The club must rs commissioner Ford Frick that there is a real ih al need for the re- By THE CANADIAN PRESS Remember When. . . Vince Dundee, world middle- weight boxing champion for less than a year, retired from the ring 17 years ago today. He won the title' from French - Canadian Lou Brouillard on Oct. 30, 1933, and lost it to eddy Yarosz in Sep- tember, 1934. He quit the game two years later. Wildcats Defeat Motorettes Team, Series All Tied The Wildcats defeated Motorettes 10-8 last night at Radio Park, to tie up their Lakeside Ladies' Ju- venile playoff series, a 7-game af- fair, at one win apiece. Wildcats took a decided like to Luke's slants and scored runs 'in almost every inning missed out only in the third and eighth frames. McEachern tripled in the fifth and O'Neil had one in the sixth, while Thomas doubled in the second, for the big hits of the night. . Thompson tripled for Motorettes, Bottomley had two doubles while Sawyer was the best batter for either side, with a triple and two doubles. Long had a double and a single but Motorettes scored only one run in the first six innings. They got one m the seventh, two in the eighth and then had their best rally, for four runs, in the 9th, but that wasn't quite enough to catch up. MOTORETTES Long, 3b; Luke, p; Thompson, rf; Bottom- ley, c¢; Sawyer, 1b; Ogden, 2b; Stark, cf; Peters, ss; O'Reilly, If; Walters, p in 7th. WILDCATS McEachern, c¢ and 2b; Delves, rf; Thomas, 3b; Sharples, If; Anderson, 1b; O'Neil, cf; Fice, ss and 1b; Hale, p; Gib- bens, 2b; Johns, ¢; and Kale, 1b. Umpires -- M. Mech and L. Andeley. ROLLER SKATING TONIGHT Province, in the |; with disp: rtionate head and large mouth and is not quite as "streamlined" as the smallmouth. "Aplites salmoides", the large- mouth, may be taken readily on live bait, such as frogs, worms, Eg h s, helgr. and minnows, strikes at "bass bugs", spinners, spoons and plugs, but probably prefer frogs. Fly fishermen usually find the largemouth variety much more in- terested in flies than the small- mouth. The limit in Ontario is sfx per day, not less than ten inches in length, according to the Depart- ment of Lands and Forests. Officials of the Department were on hand for the opening of the bass season at Long Point Bay on Lake Erie. Anglers reported the fishing there was never so good. Officials are trying to determine the status of bass spawning during the early part of the season and hope to use the results in determining future opening dates. Anglers were asked to make their catches available to the of- ficials who measured the fish, took scales for age identification and study. All fish were returned to the fortunate owners -- cleaned! Study of the viscera will reveal what percentage of fish had completed spawning on opening day, June 25 and succeeding days. The experiment was directed by A. H. Berst, Lake Erie district fisheries biologist. Conservation of- ficers assisted at Turkey Point, St. Williams dock, Port Rowan docks and other points. Smokey Harvester Wins At Thomcliffe TORONTO (CP)--Smokey Har- vester, a big grey gelding owned by Dick Johnson and Pete Piquet of Oshwego, Ont., won his first race in two years Friday. His reord showed only two thirds in 11 races and he had drawn the outside position--a bad spot in harness racing where the first turn comes quickly on the half mile tracks. His odds were 50 to 1 ford; Galt at Waterloo; St. Thomas National Exhibition Stadium, a built a few years ago, may be Olympic Games and major league manent 60,000-seat $2,000,000 sta- dium--still in the blueprint stage-- Lamport, the city's sports-minded men and sports officials, have onto will be host to the world's Olympic athletes and will also get a major-league ball franchise. Lake Ontario, would be completed in late August and the cost would 24,000-capacity, championship at Belvoir Park Fri- day with a record 72-hole total of 272. Reggie Whitcombe held the | previous record--a 281--shot Kinder, rf .... Napier, ¢ read D'Addario, 2b .... Fauth, p ..... Philp, p .... TOTALS .......... 31 OSHAWA 010 114 223-13 11 GUELPH 011 100 000--3 6 Summary: Errors--Napier, Dicarlo 3, | Bilo, Carruth, Kinder, D'Addario; | Runs batted in--Rich, Napier, Berning | 2, Pyba, Mason, Turk 2, Jones; Two- | base hits--Rich, Bilo, Jones; Three-- | base hits--Jones; Home runs--Napier; | Stolen bases -- Mason 2, Imbra; Sacri- fices--Imbra; Double Plays--Ryba to Im- | bra, Imbra to Dyson, Rich to D'Addar- dio to' Smolenski; Left on bases--Osh- awa 8, Guelph 6; Bases on balls -- Off Drapcho 6, Fauth 4, Philp 3; Strike- outs by -- Drapcho 7, Fauth 1, Philp 1; Runs and hits--10 and 8 off Fauth in 7 innings; Earned Runs -- Osh- awa 6, Guelph 3; Hit by pitcher--Drap- cho (By Fauth). Losing pitcher--Fauth; Umpires--Chriss, Stanley, Swan. Time of game--2.33. INTERCOUNTY STANDINGS LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS Oshawa, 13; Guelph, 3. Kitchener, 5; Brantford, 4. St. Thomas, 7; Faerie, 5. Kitchener, Waterloo, Brantford, London Oshawa Galt coo~co cow COMO ul w oe moe 600 591 .587 533 8 4901 5 5% 479 Guelph 456 6% St. Thomas 12 33 .267 15% THIS WEEK'S GAMES Saturday, Kitchener at Brant- % % at London; Guelph at Oshawa. Plan Bigger CNE Stadium For All Sports By JACK SULLIVAN anadian Press Writer TORONTO (CP)--The Canadian sports white elephant since it was used as bait to lure the summer baseball to this city. Plans are under way to make it the biggest sports arena in the country. The scheme calling for a per- was disclosed Tuesday by Allan mayor. He, and a few business hopes that in the near future Tor- The stadium, on the shores of MIKE RETURNS Mike Mellis, who guided the Oshawa Merchants to the OBA Senior title as wmanager-pitcher in 1951 and again handled the local club in 1952, will likely be pitching against this year's edi- | tion of the Oshawa Merchants when Springfield Cubs of the In- ternational League play an ex- hibition game here on Wednes- | day night, at Kinsmen Stadium. SPORTS CALENDAR SATURDAY INTERCOUNTY SR. BASEBALL Guelph Maple Leafs 'vs. Oshawa Merchants, Civic Stadium, 8.00 p.m. CRICKET Oshawa CC vs. Avro "A" (away) SUNDAY FOOTBALL 10.30 a.m. MONDAY No games scheduled. LAWN BOWLING Annual "Read Trophy' tourna- ment, for Mixed Rinks, at Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club. Brydson, Gray Stage Marathon In Millar Play TORONTO (CP)--Gord Brydson of Toronto Mississaugua and Bob Gray of Toronto Scarboro staged a 26-hole marathon Friday in the quarter-final round of the Millar tournament at the suburban Is- lington golf club before Brydson earned the right to enter today's semi-final round of the profes- sionals' and assistants' tourna- ment. Both played it close through the first 18 and were two under on the next seven when B dropped a 15-foot putt for a birdie- three. Gray missed a fourfooter to close out the match, the longest in Millar history. The previous record was set in 1949 when Gray beat Bill Kerr of Montreal Beaconsfield after seven extra holes. Norm Smith of Toronto York Downs and Merv Costello of Ren- frew surprised the experts by sur- viving Friday's play and entering today's round against Brydson and veteran Willie Lamb of Toronto Lambton. Smith edged Duke Adams of Brampton two and one, then came from behind a three-hole deficit to defeat Lloyd Tucker, Kitchener Rockway, on the 18th. Costello shunted aside Jack Windsor of Oakville two-up in his morning round and then clipped defending champion Al Balding on the 18th to eliminate the Oakville expert. in time for the 19564 football be shared by the city, CNE and would be con- structed with steep pitctind, un- covered cement stands. In his announcement, the mayor said the scheme calls for the razing of Maple Leaf Stadium, home of the city's International League entry, and the Leafs moving over to the new layout. He figured also the new bowl should '"'cinch" the Grey Cup as an annual fixture for this city. But a tremendous face-lifting would have to be accomplished to make the stadium suitable for any sport. The field--now east-west-- would have to be made north-south to date baseball and the present 24,000-capacity grandstand would have to be moved. The stadium now is used for stock-car racing and track and field events. The announcement caught sports officials by surprise. Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Leaf ball club, declined to com- ment on the proposal to tear down the site of his team's home games and move to the new bowl. He has been working for a major-league franchise for months but declined to say whether he had made a bid. Harry MacBrien, secretary of the Canadian Rugby Union, also had no comment to make on the idea that the new bowl would make Toronto a sure thing for the an- nual Grey Cup game. "That is up to the CRU," he said. WINS IRISH OPEN GOLF BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)--Eric Brown, an unemployed cot, won the Irish open golf at Dollymount, Dublin, in 1936. Here's MONEY... on your own signature FAST.SAME-DAY SERVICE $50 to $1000 without bankable security. § Up to 24 months to repay. Phone or stop in for fast, friendly service. ) Canada's largest and most OUSEHOLD FINANCE 25th year in Canada C. H. Brook, Manager 11% Simcoe St. South, OSHAWA, d floor, ph ONT. Fines Heavier But Violators Fewer In Month of May TORONTO -- Fewer fish and game law violations in May as compared with April, but slightly heavier imposition of fines and costs are reported by the Fish and Wildlife Division of the Ontario De- partmdnt of Lands and Forests. Fines for 180 offences in May to- talled more than $3,800; in April, $3,200 in fines was imposed for 226 infractions. Two "sportsmen" were fined $200 and costs each for unlicensed killing of a cow moose and four paid $100 fines for illegal beaver trapping. Most common offences were: Fishing by means other than angling, 40; having fish in a closed season, 32; hunting without a licence, 18; hunting in prohibited hours, 15, and angling without a non-resident licence, 17. Yesterday's Stars By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Batting: Wally Westlake, Cleve- land Indians, collected five straight hits including a home run as the Indians defeated Philadelphia 12-6. Pitching: Robin Roberts. Phila- delphia Phillies, won his 18th game, a four-hitter over Milwaukee in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader 5-1. BASEBALL TONIGHT 8:00 P.M. GUELPH MAPLE LEAFS OSHAWA THIS IS LADIES' -- NIGHT -- Ladies Admitted Free with Escorts KINSMEN MEMORIAL STADIUM ADULTS $1.00 CHILDREN 25¢ Red Raider practice, Clubhouse, OTTAWA (CP)-Paddlers of the Toronto Salling and Cance Club carried a slim lead today into the second and final day of the 53rd annual Canadian Canoe Association championship regatta on the Ri- deau river. The club went out in front Fri- day as one of their paddlers placed first in one race and second in another for seven points. Two points back, battling for third spot with one win each, were three clubs--Toronto Island Canoe Club, Lachine, Que., and Sudbury. The Manitoba Paddling A s s oc iatipn | from Winnipeg, with two seconds, was next with four points. Hoisting the Sailing and Canoe Club into top spot was Lloyd Rice, 25-year-old Toronto textile cutter, who retained one championship and lost one in two of the four open- ing day 10,000-metre events. Seventeen races are scheduled for today with the team compiling the most points carting away the association burgee, emblematic of | team supremacy. Last year, Rice {sparked the Toronto Sailing Club |the | to their first championship in 39 | years. | As a 20-mile-an-hour' northeast wind cut across the usually quiet ! waters of Mooney's Bay, Rice re- | tained his championship in the 10,- 000-metre double blade single, but Toronto Club Leads Can.Canoe Regatta" was upset in the 10,000-metre single blade single by Don Stringer year-old husky from the. Sudbury Canoe Club. Rice stroked across the finish line in the double blade event a quarter of a mile ahead of Bill Brigden of Winnipeg with a time of 54:0.8. Pat Way of Ottawa Ri. deau placed third. The Toronto youth looked tired in the single blade event as he came home three-eighths of a mile behind Stringer, who stroked home in 62 minutes, 31 seconds. battle between the two for the championship goes back three | years. In 1951 Stringer copped the: | honors with Rice placing a close second but last year Rice came home ahead of Stringer. Norm Lane of Ottawa Rideau was third behind Rice. Les Melia and Bob Smith of La- chine racing club won the cham- pionship in the 10,000-metre double {blade tandem with a time of 47:18.8. They spurted after being pressed hard Winnipeg's Lorne Smith and Bill Brigden most of way. The Winnipeg entry was second. Top honors in the other long distance event, the 10,000-metre single blade tandem, were carted away by Bill Stevenson and Tom Hodgson of Toronto Island Canoe ub. SPORT FROM BRITAIN | Manchester's Rainy Season No Time For Cricket Match By ARCH MacKENZIE Canadian Press Staff Writer MANCHESTER, England (CP)-- Britons are a patient race whose leisurely qualities are exemplified in the game of cricket, but they out had just about enough of this Lancashire city and its sodden treatment of fhe game. They know all about rain and the hazards it inflicts on cricket. But most figured it was a bit thick when Australia and England failed again this year to reach a decision in the rain-soaked Test match attempted at Old Trafford pitch here. Largely because of rain, there hasn't been a completed Australia- Buglend Test match here since There have been pointed sug- gestions that the match, one of five of the rarest plums in the cricket world, be given to some drier city. "MONSOON SEASON" Stung, the city hastened into print with a letter to the Times to explain itself meteorologically and to offer a suggestion. "The truth of the said an official, 'that Manchester, like India, has. a 'monsoon sea- son' in July and August, when the rainfall is sometimes more than double that of other months." It was suggested '"'the obvious answer is to change the Manches- ter test to the month of June." It wouldn't be the first time that Manchester's over-abundant preci- pitation had caused a shift. In 1926, despairing authorities decided to advance the match to mid-July, matter is," | from the end of the month, after only five minutes' play was pos- sible on the first day of a three- day contest. The change helped a bit, but not enough, apparently. By tradition, the five Test matches played in this country, when Australia invades, are at Not- tingham, Lord's (London), Man- Shester, Leeds and the Oval (Lon- on). Any change would mean ad- | vancing the Manchester date to the second or first match. There's little likelihood of the city losing the match, since soi many of game's stars hail from the county, yet even the hardy northern cricket fans feel they deserve something better than they usually receive. chester's test cricket story for the last 40 years. In 1912, there were five hours' play in three days. In 1921, a Qiittering summer, one of three ays was washed out, almost the 1934, out bash at each other, producing 1,307 runs in the four days. They still drew. Only three"hours were lost in 1938's four-day test but im 1948 a full 1% days were lost to rain, plus shower interruptions. Shalt five-day match was drawn | Actually, Manchester annually receives under 30 inches of rain, but weather statistics back up the | contention that July and August 'get miore than their share. Connaught Tigers Blank Brooklin In a UAW Juvenile League soft- ball game out at Brooklin last night, Connaught Tigers blanked the Brooklin Juniors 10-0 as "Rich" Wilson chalked up a splendid two- hitter and received classy support from his mates. Wilson was on top all of the way. A couple of singles in the third inning gave Broo) a chance but they failed to come through. Errors in the 4th and 6th frames provided the only other occasions in which the homesters were not retired in 1, 2, 3 order. Wilson didn't have many strike- outs, only a couple but he didn't issue a single walk either and it was quite his best mound display of the season. Connaught Tigers lashed out with and an error, to score seven runs in the second inning, Knapp's hom- er being the big blow of the rally. The winners added one in the third inning and a couple more in the sixth. Wilson and Knapp each had two hits for the winners, who had only eight all told. Connaught Tigers: Nelson, 3b; Wilson, p; Oldfield, ss; Knapp, c; Peel, 2b; Garrard, 1b; Ulrich, If; Sharples, cf; O'Malley, rf. BROOKLIN: Heron, c; Johnston, If; Stevens, cf; Mackey, 3b; Mec- Kinney, 1b; Gibson, rf; Fields, 2b; Till, ss; Asling, p Grandy, If; Lovelock, 3b. Umpires: M. Jordan and W. Jor- dan. four hits behind a couple of walks | Visit Your RCAF Career Councillor ot the OSHAWA ARMOURY on Wednesday Time 12 Noon to 7 P.M. This is your opportunity to get complete information on what the Air Force can offer YOU as an aircrew officer or as a skilled air- man or airwoman techni- cian in a modern aviation trade. Championship Match WHIPPER BILLY Watson (Champion) -- LORD ATHOL Layton (Surrey, England) Special Bout! FRED ATKINS --- NE, Don Leo JONATHAN WRESTLING OSHAWA ARENA - - 8:45 P.M. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH British Empire Title § JIMMY SZIKSZAY, Oshawa -- VS. -- ; ABE ZVONKIN, Hamilton 2 and Brantford trailing. Tickets! Ringside $1.25 -- General Now on Sale at Casino $1.00