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+ STQXTERAREANNEIE. _ mu.l S24BERH4S y ¥ : % 8 i : | : : : 5 : of | 5 / 1S i DI N ONTARIO CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL BERT RIPLEY DEFEA pe mie ONTARIO CHAMPIONS the list of 126-lbs. class--Tommy Bland, St. AL, Toronto. 135-lbs, class--Alf Sproule, London Garrison. 147-lbs.. class--Jim Taylor, St. Catharines. 160-1bs. class--Harry Sachs, St. * A.C., Toronto. class--Cosm Carere, o Heavyweight--W. T. » Central ("Firpo' Brown, "Y," Toronto, by © Newsboys.' ¥ . Final--Harry Wright, St. Ja- mes', ou ted Eddie Hutchi- son, in an extra round. 112 Pounds Class Malcolm --- Mathieson, Central "Y", outpointed Jack Pal 7 fam but ig Adt Sve pleased the ntray Y. har itting ~scrapper. Palmer stayed just out of the danger zone created by Mathieson's left and many a point went flying over the head of Palmer. In the meantime a were landing on the face of Math- ieson. At the end of the three rounds the fight was called even and an ex- tra round was fought in which Ma- thieson bore in to earn the judges decision by means of that famed left hook. Jim Taylor won. the welterweight title by winning two fights that were all the fans could ask for. In the first Taylor outpointed Willie Stev- ens in a bang up affair that brought blood and bruises to the face of both the fighters. The final was won by the only K.O. of the evening when Taylor hammered Mickey Maguire of St. James A.C. into submission. With Maguire hanging on the ropes in the second frame he was in a fair way of being punished severely when his seconds threw in the towel and saved him from unnecessary pound- ing. The bantam weight finals were also leasi the bled fans with mer, Classics, in an extra d 118 Pounds Class Final--Bobby Crothers, Sarnia, outpointed Matt Gifford, St. Ca- 128 Pounds Class Final--Tommy Bland, St. Ag- nes', sutiyinted Bobby Laurence, tep Mickey M, » outpointed Del Raby, letiveked out 160 Pounds Class Final--Harry Sachs, St. Agnes', Suipointed R. C. Langford, Lon. on. (By Staff Reporter) "The Robbing of Ripley," could easily be the title of the story of the Ontario championship finals fought in Toronto last night, in so far as the boxing fans of Oshawa are con- cerned, Bert Ripley of the Ontario Regi- ment Boxing Club last night lost the provincial lightweight title and the chance to make the trip to Port Ar- thur dor the Dominion finals, to Alf Sproule, the Western Ontario finals ist in a bout, the decision of which, brought a storm of criticism down upon the heads of the judges. Early in the first round Sproule doubled up from an alleged low blow and was forced to take a rest, on snquiry as to claiming a foul Sproule lected to finish the fight. Ripley ai- ter the new start, stalked his oppon- mt around the ring with cool delib- sration, keeping a straight left con- stantly working and crossing it with an occasional uppercut that rocked the London boxer and increased the [inches of the pain-wracked face. hrough two rounds the local boy gsed this method with rights and lefts driving Sproule into the corn- ars. At the end of the bout no one was in doubt but that Ripley was a sinch, but the judges were of diff- erent opinion and the title travels to the London Garrison. In the flyweight final M. Mathieson and Jack Palmer of the Classics club were the finalists and the issue was not decided until an extra round had been fought after which Mathieson was awarded the decision. Plamer, a taller boy, was by no means any . slouch, but on the contrary showed an ability to box that pleased the Pp g to Bobby Crothers, of 'Sarnia, retain< ing his title from the attacks of Matt Gifford, a smart scrapper from St. Catharines, Two Homers in Cleveland Game Cleveland, April 17.--Cleveland and Detroit opened the season with an 11 inning struggle at the Oho City yesterday, the Indians winning five to four on Carl Lind's two bagger with two out and two on base. The contest was played before only 15,000 fans, one of the small- est first day crowds here in years. Cold weather and a threat of rain held the attendance down, Earl Whitehill went the route on the mound for the Tigers. Wills Hudlin relieved Joe 'Shaute in the eighth for thetribe and got credit for the victory. Earl Avrill, the Indians' new centre fielder, drove out a hue run, as did Charley Gehringer of the Tigers. Flukes Help Browns Win St. Louis, April 17.--Sam Gray, who won 20 victories last season, held the Chicago White Sox to five hits and the Browns won the Qpen- ing game at St. Louis, 3 to 1. Flukes helped the Browns score each of their three runs. The first was brought in by Thomas* balk and wild pitch, while the last two were scored on errors by Cissel and Metzler. St. Louis Opens With Victory Cincinnati, April 17.--The Car- dinals, National League champions, successfully opened their '1929 campaign here yesterday, defeating the Reds 5 to 2 in a light hitting contest before 25,000 fans. "Old Pete" Alexander, who usually baf- fles the Reds, was effective and permitted only five safe blows. Lucas also was stingy with hits, giving up but five. Hafey was the batting star. He drove in four runs, two in the first inning on a single and two more in the sixth on a home run. Two Countries Honor U. S. Queen of Courts Miss Helen Wills will be Presented to Queen Mary on Visit Abroad A HE court is the attuned sphere of Miss Helen Wills, world's woman tennis champion, Su- preme on the grass and slay courts for many years, the Cali- fornia girl is about to make her i u but in another court--the Brit- ls.. Court at Buckingham Palace, whee she will be presented early next month, it has just been reported. Miss Wills, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. C. A, Wills, and her t- nis playing partner, Miss Edith Cs, will sail for Europe on_ the C 1d liner Aquitania from New York on April 17. Miss Wills and Miss Cross will play in Hole land, Germany, France and Eng- land, climaxing their stay abroad b- competing in the All-English ¢ mpionships at Wimbledon. They v. || return on the Cunarder Maure- tania, embarking from Soul ton, July 13. . as The sailing of Miss Wills has p 'mpted the conferring upon her ©: coveted honors by two countries. First, she was honored by receiv- ing Passport No. 1 to be issued un- der the administration of the new Secretary of State Stimson, and now she is to be among the few | 'MISS HELEN WILLS | World's Woman Tennis Champion who sails for invasion of European courts on the Cunarder Aquitania from New York on April 17. American women to be pr at, He British Court next fhontl Mrs. Wills received passport No. 2 from Secretary Stimson, while No. 3 was made out in favor of Miss . who is also yo. 3" in the tennis ranking, position i being Bhbvinicn by Miss \ 5 Miss Wills is the only woman that has ever held the American, English and French ten- n's championships at one time, The Berkeley (Cal) girl achieved this diz'inction last year. 'nection with the reported f "Ties Wills to Queen called that her former tennis rival, Suzanne Lenglen, forfeited a chance to be presented at the British court several years ago because of a temperamental outburst. Mile. Leng- len had her gown ready for the presentation, but at the last minute it was reported that she was "in disposed" and she was not pre- sented. A few days previously, Mille. Lenglen had arrived late for a ten- nis engagement at Wimbledon, a' which Queéen Mary was present ta watch her play, a grave breach of «sy at the May Court, it is re etiquette. number of jolts also from both hands |! TE Strikes, Spares and Blows At Local Alleys With the coming of the warm weather (what's that?) the bowl- ing leagues are fast coming to t final games. On Monday the Ma~ jor Ladies' League held a gala preséntation roll-off night, the fea- ture of the evening being a spec- ial prize for the highest score in the first of the three games.. This special prize was donated by mr. A, B, Lovell and was won by Miss Anna Reece. Mr. Lovell also pre- sented the prizes to be awarded to the various winners. LJ * Ld Other special prizes for this night only were awarded to Mrs. Shoenon, second: high, and M. White, third high, Two mystery prizes went to Hazel Holmes and B, Bouckley. ; * All teams were at full strength with the excepton of the Chevs, who were minus their captain, Mrs. Dorothy MecTavis.,, who recently moved to Regina. - The champions of the 1928-29 season were the deserving recip- fents of a handsome prize for each. Ths team title was won by the Whirlwinds with Vi Norris as their captain, and M. Shaw, B. Bouckley, A. Morrison, C. Leach being the remainder of the champion quintet. The runers up, the Regular Fel- lers, also came under the receiving hand. They are I. McDonald, captain; H. Holmes, D. St. An- drew's, M. O'Connel, J. St. An- drews. Other prize winners are: High Season Average--Mrs. Dorothy Me- Tavish, 176; High Single dure, Eileen Pipher, 327; (this score is the highest score ever bowled by a lady on Oshawa alleys); team high average, D. St. Andrews, 166; M. Shaw, 151; 8S. Core, 126; A. Reece, 163; M. Hart, 143; V. Nor- ris, 161; A. Greer, 142; C. Hopper, 135; M, Elliott 161; J. Goold, 142; S. Brown, 122. High weekly scores--V. Norris, Mrs. Schoenon, V. Bark, M. White, Mrs. Turner (2), M. Elliott, D. St. Andrews (2), V. Reece, S, Brown, E. Piph- er (2), A. Greer, D. Moffatt, I. Goold, Mrs, Beatty, M. Donald. LJ] - LJ The Big Ten Roll Off was held on Monday with Gord Creamer get- ting first, Reg. Mackie second and Ed. Higgins third prizes in the final games. "ow The scores were:-- Jack Purdie... ... Ed. Higgins... Ken Kenning. . Peg Mackie... «os «4 Bill O'Regan. Jack Ogden... .. Jack Brady.. Jack Cornish... «vs «& Harold Hainer. .., ... Gord Creamer., .. .. Extend Entry Date one Week "A Bolt from the Blue", and that is just where it came from. The City and Industrial Softball League last night held their regu- lar weekly meeting the feature of whith was the withdrawal of the General Motor Blue Devil team. When everything is serene, a few details to be attended to, along with a few wrinkles to be ironed out the much talked of last minute entry is withdrawn after the re- quired fee had been paid. The reason for their action is explained in number of ways, chief among which are, as the General Motors are not sponsoring the team they are in no position to finance a team, another is that, the name of Blue Devils belonging to the Rugby Team and Club, that won the In- termediate O. R. F. U. Champion- ship last fall the name should not be used in connection with soft- ball. At the first meeting of the club it was thought that at least ter teams would be playing in the in- termediate loop but they have slowly dwindled down and tho "hedging" of the rugby players brings the number of intermediate teams to six, while there are five juniors and four juveniles. After taking inventory the league officers decided to extend the date of entries for another week in all series to give doubtful teams a chance to decide. The question of the playing field was again left over and will be attended to in the near future. Ap- plications for the positions of ums pires and scorers were read but also tabled until a later date as there are not enough applications in yet. The. Officials would like to hear from all last years' arbitra- tors and scorers and any that would consider such positions. ENGLISH CUE FINAL CLOSE London, April 17.--At the close of yesterday's play in the match for the English professional billiards champ- ionship tournament Thomas Newmar was at the table and had amassed 11,536 points, while Joseph Davis, de- fending champion, had an even 12,- 000. Newman, however, maintained excellent form throughout. He aver- aged 249 in the afternoon and 187 in the evening. Davis' averages were 129 in the afternoon and 103 in the evening. There were two sensational breaks yesterday. In the afternoon Davis St. \ ABE RUTH Who wat mrried this momg to Murs, ice church's tilled and growd stood ¢ the entran(in & %ain to see the mous and his bride they m the chur( The lad in a purpl hat and wo emerged bride wi tume coat. C.H. Np to. |... Race Tole By Ted Vosburgh (Associated Pres Sports iter), On the eve of he openiof its forty-third seasor, the In/ational Baseball League rs to fur TC elect a president, bit gainffeader, Out of an appareitly hf®S tan- gle in which eight candi? stood deadlocked, there firally f8¢d the capable figure of Clarle Knapp, of Baltimore, who wis unan- imously to succeed thA® John Conway Toole in eying but name. : The stalwart, firm-j; barrister, who has served as pdt of the Baltimore club since 9¢ath of Jack Dunn last Oct¢and for 20 years was Dunn's rigfd man as a director and coun®F, the club, was named chairma the execu- Hye committee wit] the powers of president except" 4 = event of disp involving the Baltimore club, su¢3¢s are to be handled by Lawr dent of the Toro vice-president. The duty of ang and super- vising the corps /mpires also was delegated elsewh, the veteran Bill Carpenter of Citath 19 years in the league, beinfmed chief of the officiating staff. : Warren Gilegl James P. Sin- nott, Rocheste/d Newark presi- dents, respect» Who formeny comprised the:cutive committee, continue to seit office under the ub and league St. Pittsburg y Other games postponed, rain. TO-DAY"S GAMES Pittsburg at Chicago. Kansas City. . Indianapolis . 10 Milwaukee Minneapolis . 21 Columbus Toledo. olman, presi- Oakland % Mission .. Sacramento .. . Seattle-Hollywood postponed." OSHAWA NATIONALS F. C. BASEBALL RECORDS Philadelphia 'Washington Boston ,...eeeee TUESDA Louis .... 3 xCleveland .. 5 Detroit «...evees x--11 innings. . Other games postponed, rain. TO-DAY'S GAMES Chicago at St. Louis, Detroit at Cleveland. Boston at Philadelphia at Washington, NATIONAL JLEACUE St. Louis ssssses Hodgson The Pittsburg .. Cincinnati Philadelphia ..... TUESDAY'S SCORES Louis St. Louis at New York at Philadelphia, Brooklyn at Boston. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City ...e0 Indianapolis ...es Minneapolis . Toledo Louisville Milwaukee Columbus , St. Paul TUESDAY'S SCORES 8 Louisville .. TODAY'S GAMES Kansas City at Louisville. Indianapolis Columbus St. Paul at Toledo. Cc PACIFIC All' players layers are requested hand at Alexandra Park on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock for training and practice. ments have been to be served. 9 . 9 Portland LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. 1.000 of Ontario, After hittin COTOIO mm : trifle low, the London boxers was the claim the fight should have Y'S SCORES CARO csasrnee New: York. Industrial Softball League. They on Lost Pct. . 0 1.000 ve 1.000 h try disproves the fact that a great team with their needs. A fiel t at all c Cincinnati ..... 2 Chicago ....ee0 3 competition keener, Cincinnati. the same place Friday, at 7.30. Much can be said about the decision given Bert Ripley of the Ontario Regiment Boxing Club in his final bout last night for the lightweight title Sproule with everything but the posts through- out the three rounds of fighting, to have the decision given to the oppon- ent is pretty hard, In the first round Ripley accidentally hit Sproule a forced to take a rest. If a foul was to stopped there, but to continue and by b, avin: on the sympathy of the judge obtain the decision after being fol- 1|lowed around the ring for the remainder of the fight was hardly the proper 4 | way of pleasing the fans who voiced their disapproval in no uncertain tones. . However, Bert was in no way put out regarding the matter, saying that losing that way gave him a greater thrill than to win such a fight. There is another problem on our hands, that being the genuine reason for the withdrawal of the Blue Devil Rugby Club's entry in the City and give various reasons for their actions, saying that if financial difficulties which is by no means sufficient reascn for a club that wants to play ball badly there are a number of teams in the league that are without moneyed backers and they have few worries about being able to supply equipment, The speedy advance of the popularity of softball throughout the coun- deal of money is envolved supplying a half the size of a hardball diamond, no quip pared with many other games is needed and no uni- forms are necessary to play softball. Which all goes to show that a large amount of "tin" is not needed so much as the proper spirit, | As for the name belonging to the rugby squad alone, would not the rugby club benefit from the publicity that would fall to the lot of a smart team? Just a week ago rumors were to the effect that the Blue Devils were lining up the snappiest team possible around these parts, Now these softball aces are free to go where they choose and no harm to the league will result as they will likely be evenly distributed thereby making the Tonight the Red Ace softball club are holding a mecting in the Y. M.C.A. at 8 o'clock while the Oshawa Ladies' Softball' Association meet at Lo: Won st 0 Pct. 1 «Belanger and Hills To-Night Montreal, April 17.--Three Cana- dian titleholders will go into action in tonight's boxing show at the for- um, and of the trio, two will be de- fending their titles, "Frenchy" Bel- anger, of Toronto, rugged little hold- sler of the dominion flyweight cham- pionship, will defend his crown a- gainst Harry Hill, the fast and cle- ver British boxer, while Joe Villen- euve, of Quebec, the Canadian ban- tamweight titleholder, clashes with Arthur Roger, of Montreal, in an- other titular bout. The third champion who will ap- pear on the program is Leo "Kid" Roy, of this city, the Canadian fea- therweight champion, Roy meets the 2| aggressive Jackie Cohen of New ork in a non-titular set-to. Hill and Belanger fight ten rounds, Roy and Cohen, ten, and Villeneuve and Ro- ger, six, Two other six rounders are on the bill. Edouard Peyracde, heavy-hitting Argentine fighter, meets Johnny Morris, local colored lad, in one of these, and in the other Joe Caripety will be pitted against Billy Ayrton, clever Toronto bantam. COO wt ht hk pt St. Paul .ii000e 3 at Milwaukee. at. Minneapolis. OAST LEAGUE San Francisco . 7 Los Angele and prospective to be on Arrange- made for tea Pirates Defeat Chicago Cubs Chicago, April 17.--The Pirates withstood a Cub rally in the ninth here yesterday and defeated the home team by 4 to 3 before 50,000 fans, the greatest opening day crowd in the history of Chicago. Burleigh Grimes held the home team helpless until the ninth when two runs were scored. Pittsburg got away to a start of three against Charlie Root in the first, and was never headed. TO PRESENT NET PRIZES Port Colborne, April 17.--Mayor J. R. Tuck and Councillor George Reekie, chairman of the parks com- mittee, will present the Free Press and Slazenger trophies to the local successful tennis teams at a party in Guild hall next Monday night. The Free Press trophy was won by the local men's team and is em- blematic of the championship of the Western, Ontario Tennis asso= ciation. The Slazenger cup, won by another Port Colborne team, signi- fies winning of the Niagara district title. Weather Prevents Eastern Games BY ALAN J. GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor) Major league baseball barely mane aged to get an even break with old \ man. weather on the dpening . day, Four games were playd in the middle west, under most wfavorable conditions, but the entire eastern half of the getaway program was rained out by a cold storm from the north= east. It was the biggest shock to the opening program on record, A hasty. dive into the archives for these oc casions disclosed that the washout of the game between the Yankees and Red Sox is the first upset to the opening day calendar of citler Maga hattan entry at home sine 1909 when Brooklyn was kept fran starte ing the campaign with thi Giants at the old Polo greunds, . The postponements were he first in either league since 1927, vhen St, Louis experienced an unusud streak of bad weather luck by haing the first three games of the opeling se« ries with Detroit -washed awy coma pletely, May Have Better Luck [oday There may be better luck dday ae long the Atlantic seaboard. Tle pross pect is for clearing and s ly warmer weather. It will neec © be considerably warmer, however, o a- rouse any enthusiastic outpourinjfor the American league openings be-" tween the Athletics and Senayrg at Washington, the Yankees-Red ox at New York, or the National leayg affairs involving Brooklyn and 3e Braves at Boston, the Giants ad. Phillies at Philadelphia. . While the rain-drops pattered a dismal tune for the east, the bas hits popped noisily out beyond to Alleghanies, Chicago put on the Ik" show with a record crowd of 50, packing Wrigley field to see Roge Hornsby make his debut with th Chicago Cubs against the Pittsbur Pirates. This tribute of home-tow enthusiasm for their pennant chance. failed to inspire the club, howeves | for they dropped the first skirmish, | 4 to 3. | Big Drop in Attendance The turnout at Chicago surpassed the combined attendance for the. oths er three games played. The fourss game total was 94,507, as compared: with aggregate attendance of 121,517! for the opening of 1928 among the same clubs, Exactly 25,507 paid to see the St» Louis Cardinals, National league' champions, start off with an impres« sive victory behind the veteran Gro< ver Cleveland Alexander, who beat: Red Lucas and the rest of the Redsy 5 to 2, at Cincinnati. At Cleveland' 15,000 watched the Indians and Ti gers battle extra innings, with Cleves! land winning in the eleventh by 5 to 4. Only 7,500 attended the game at St. Louis, where the Browns got a-" way impressively with a victory for Sammy Gray over the Chicago White LET » ' Sox, 3 to 1. od LU new Chairmapapp. There. is to be no change the administration of the lcagugil December, when a president ye Senet. this per. Knapp's cofsation - iod, ibs uniood, is to be $5,000 and travellinpenses, as compared to the $12,0(year Toole received. The generaldiction is that Knapp meanwhile 'relinquish his Balti- more club ctions and be moved up to the ydency. : i The Bapre attorney's wide- spread poplty among the assem- bled magn was in marked con- trast to timited appeal of the other cances in the field for the presidency hen it became appar- ent, as Er Savard, Montreal pre- sident poi: out, that "they are all good men; none can command the five votegcessary to elect," no vote was en, and Knapp was na- med to !specially created office without fier ado. "The calates who failed to mus- ter the fvotes necessary for el- ection wi Vincent L. Jameson, of Fredericlid., president of the Blue Ridge Lbe; William Ashton, Sr, of Baltir, former president of the Reading b; William L. Dill, Pat- erson, N, Michael H. Sexton, Rock Island, J president of the Nation- al Asso¢on of 'Professional Base- ball leap; Representative James Mead ajSam Robertson, both of Buffalo,;.d John D. O'Brien, of ew Y¢ > J Ney os new administrative head, the leag today launches a season bright w colorful personalities and rich and the promise of good base- ball hotcontested. Couty League Sart Planning Anott softball meeting was also helin the Y.M.C.A. when the South sn League gathered to considepntries and elect officers. The offirs elected were President, R. Braon, Oshawa; Vice-Presl- dent, AMoore, Pickering; Sec~ retary-Thasurer, C. Hanna, Brooklit A lan number of representa- tives we on hand last night to hear thuninutes of the previous meeting ead, and also the finan- cial repd which showed a respect- able balice. Althoth no entries have actual- ly been {cepted some of the like- ly ones » be playing the county loop are, Oshawa Business Men, Bhicks {Oshawa), Whitby (2 brth Oshawa, Bowman- bring (2 teams) Orono, , Ashburn, Claremont, Brooklin. ULSIER SIGNS KIRK Toronto, Apr. 17.--Ulster United made a mater stroke in securing the sighatur Kirk, the clever inter- national soder custodian, Kirk, who d with the Earlscourt- n is considered the e- ORE than a thousand guest rooms . . . an ideal situation over- looking the beautiful Toronto Bay and Lake seating for 4070 people » these are some of the features of the new R oyal York. Built, owned and operated by the Canadian Pacfic, the Royal York will be the largest hotel in the British Empire. qual of any joaltender in the dom- inion and it $ no secret to say thay: the popular player was approache by more that one National leag made 838 and in the evening Newman made 647, of which 77 were cannons. organization efore being landed the Redhande¥s, TORONTO A CANADIAN PACIFIC HOTEL Reservations Now Booking TR CHP RIORSR a The Roof Garden