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§Q 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tussdey, June 25, 1963 -Quebec-Born First Baseman 'Hoping Make Good With Mets Z By JIM PEACOCK "<NEW YORK (CP)--When he was 18 Tim Harkness set him- "self a personal goal--to play baseball in. the major leagues. = Within rs decade he had «achieved it. ~~ Today, as a New York Met, 'the 25-year-old first baseman "from Lachine, Que., is trying 'hard to preserve it. «This is the most important y in my career," he said s batting-practice ee 4 other day at the Polo "Grounds. " "If I can get a good batting eayerage this year it will help may mental attitude and give me ~A,..lot more confidence, Then "Fl be a lot more relaxed." "The night before, Harkness had helped his confidence. He "made a key pick-off throw to 'héme plate and smashed a game-winning home run for the tional League's last - place ts. "He's a good boy," manager 'Casey Stengel had growled in the clubhouse. "He's hit two or three balls real good for us this year and he win us two, fthree ball games." -WASTED YEAR « Harkness came to the Mets © 'this season from Los Angeles "Dodgers where, he said, "'last * 'year was wasted fof me," al- | Though he appeared in 92 ball © -ames. Most of his appearances "were as a defensive replace- "ment and he got to bat only 62 -imes--many of them as a pinch-hitter--and averaged .248 'Jn spite of the mental pressure eimherent in such circumstances 'with a pennant contender. "I was kind of happy to come re," he said of the trade that "brought him to the last-place Mets from last year's second- Place Dodgers. First of all, 'it's much closer to my home (he still lives with his wife and two children in the Montreal suburb where he was born, working in the off-season for a brewing company). TIM HARKNESS, 25-year- old first baseman from La- chine, Que., doesn't mind ad- mitting he's glad Los Angeles | Dodgers, a National League pennant contender, traded him to the tail-end New York Mets this season. Harkness wasn't particularly happy last season because, although he appeared in 92 games, it was usually as a defensive replacement. This year he's getting a chance to play regularly. farm system ofy Philadelphia Phillies, was traded the next year to the Dodgers and trav- elled around various levels of minor league ball from Pony to' Triple A with Spokane of the Pacific Coast League. Late in 1961 the Dodgers called him up and in his first game he was walked as a pinch-hitter, His second appear- ance, also as a pinch-hitter, he unded out. Next time--in St. pe oat got his first major league hit and he still prefers the Cardinals' park for his hit- ting. If he hadn't resolved as a youth to get into the major leagues--"I told myself when I was 13 that I'd play baseball in the majors by the time I was 23," he said -- Harkness might have made it in profes- sional hockey. He was invited to Montreal Canadiens junior A hockey camp in 1957 but his baseball bosses suggested he'd better make a choice and he took baseball. "I always felt I wanted to be a baseball player," he said. As for New York, "it's what all the guys call the big apple, and I'm happy to be able to play here." "Even for the Mets!" laughed. he PAY LOW TAX Norwegian workers on desol- ate Jan Mayen island in the North Atlantic pay only four per cent income tax. Oshawa, Canadian Tire Le- fonnaires split a twin-bill with eople's Credit Jewellers, in he Leaside Junior Baseball League last night, as the two clubs cleaned up both a schedule fix- ture and a previously rained-out date, In the twilight fixture, Osh- awa whipped People's 9-1, with Paul Domm turning in the big mitt and catcher's pads to. take over mound duty. With Etchells as his battery-mate, Domm came up with a splendid performance, a four-hit effort that held People's to one lone run, Domm walked Bill Peney- cad in the first inning, Ian O'Grady singled with one out and another single by Frank' Sideny scored Peneycad. People's never scored again, although they did threaten in the fourth inning when Sideny and Jim Wilson hit back-to-back singles, but Pete Morris lined! into a double-play. Singles by Bob Marshall, Jim Couch and Ted Lutton, in the second stanza, gave Canadian Tire their first run. In the third inning, they exploded with a six- run rally, on as many hits, to shell Bob Hawton from the mound and continue the attack on reliever Rick Stokes, Paul Domm's homer in the fifth and another run in the sixth, when: Roger Reeson open- ed with a double and scored on two sacrifice hits, completed Oshawa's total. Reeson had three hits with Ted Lutton and Paul Domm having two apiece. Every other member of the team had at least one safety. OSHAWA -- Lutton, 3b; Etch- ells, c; Reeson, 1b; Newitt, 2b; Jr. Legionnaires Split Twin-Bill PEOPLE'S -- Peneycad, cf; Stokes, 3b and p; O'Grady, rf, 3% and ss; Sideny, 1b; Wilson, c; Morris, 2b; Horner, ss and p; Sinnott, if; Hawton, p and mf; Appleton, 3b in 5th; Quen- elle, 1b; Malakas, c; Shepphard, 2b in 4th; McCarthy, rf in 9th. SECOND GAME Runs were hard to come by in the second game, with Peo- ple's Jewellers nosing out Osh- awa Legionnaires 4-2. Canadian Legion got only Morris, Stokes, Sideny, each with two hits, paced People's to this win and Oshawa, with only three hits, two by Reeson, were really never much of a threat. YESTERDAY'S STARS OSHAWA Lutton Etchells, ss; Reeson, cf and p in 6th; Newitt, 1b; Bell, If and cf; Domm, c; Marshall, © 3b; Couch, rf; Johnson, p; D. Mitchell, If in 6th, PEOPLE'S --- Morris, 2b; Stokes, 3b; O'Grady, cf; Sideny, lf and p; Wilson, ¢; Horner, ss; Quenelle, 1b; Wood, p; Sinnott, rf in 6th; Peneycad, ran for Sinnott; Appleton, 3b' in 6th. Yurkiw By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pitching -- Denny Lemaster, Braves, shutout Houston 3-0 on four hits, lowering his earned run average to 1.78. Batting -- Camilo Carreon, White Sox, smacked three-run double in fourth inning, driving in decisive runs in 5-2 victory over American League leading New York that moved Chicago to within one game of Yankees. EMEMBER WHEN .. .? 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Sideny took over and got the next two bat- ters and the game was called at the end of six innings. Johnson, pitching for Oshawa, gave up four hits for one run in the second inning, yielded an- other on an error, double by Jim Wilson and Yurkiw's sac- rifice, in the fifth and two in the sixth, when Pete Morris walked and Ian O'Grady homer- ed, EXPORT PLAIN or FILTER TIP CIGARETTES Bell, cf; Marshall, 3b; Couch, rf; Plews, lf; Domm, p. Heve Your Suit Styled and Tailored by SAM ROTISH 7 KING ST. EAST From A Lerge Selection of Fine British Woollens "Then I knew there wouldn't 'be as much pressure playing for a second-division club and could find myself. "But the main thing is that I Bet to play here." "Harkness appeared in 43 of the Mets' first 60 games and at that ae was batting 'ess than .220 with five home rans. 'He'd been in a slump which Stengel said had coincided with an ankle injury -- an injury 'Harkness didn't mention during Whe interview. 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