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sre n rr eeAAS A cde or SHYT MOboo 2a b a t a p [] F t 3 RA PAGE TWO THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1940 Today's Sporting Features Tigers Favored to Win World Series Opener Paul Derringer and Buck Newsom to Pitch O.B.A. Senior Finals Opened Here Today Today 's Sporting Features Johnny Ferraro Announces His Retirement 4 Guelph Meets Pepsi-Colas Here Tomorrow - ¢ Hamilton Pee Gees Blank Toronto "Peoples" ! uelph Opens O.A.S.A. Inter. "A" Finals With Pepsi-Colas, Thursday By the time this sheet hits the streets, youll know who won the first game of the 1940 World Series and the first game of the 1940 O.B.A. Senior finals, being played at Alexandra Park this 'afternoon. + + + The next big event of para- mount importance to Oshawa's sporting public, is the first game of the O.A.S.A. Intermediate "A" finals, booked for the Mo- tor City Stadium tomorrow evening, at five o'clock sharp. There'll be a lo, of local soft- ball fans who will have a late supper tomorrow evening, for it means going straight from work to the Stadium, in order to see the full game. * +» + Fresh and keyed-up thrilling and sensational over their victory over C.P. Express and the Toronto | Bus | ace Fastball League hurler, Benson, the Pepsi-Colas, while far from being over-confident, have a quiet feeling of confidence thal at least they'll meet no better pitch- ing than Benson produced and 80 | their chances are good. * + + The Pepsi-Colas are them- selves chiefly a team of veter- ans, Nine members of the team were playing Juvenile and Ju- nior softball right here in Osh- awa, away back when the game was first operated here under the Indus.rial League. The team is practically entirely "home-hrew" and they have enough younger blood on the roster to give the needed zip. * ¢ + The Pepsi's have had a hard row to hoe, in order to reach the O.AS. A. finals, a feat never accomplish- ed by any Oshawa team since 1932 | when the Dodgers copped the bunt- ing. Back in July of this season, the Pepsi's were right en the bot- tom of their own 4-team loop. They climbed into third place time to catch a playoff berth and then started to click, after losing the first game of the semi-finals. They won the next two to elimin- ate Whitby, then showing improve- ment in every game, they ousted Tannery, the season's league-lead- | ers, by tying one game and win- ning three in the 5-game series, + » » | Once out of their own league and | into the Ontario playdowms, the Pepsi-Colas have flasned even bet- ter brand of ball. They ousted a mediocre Peterboro team in two- straight and then triumphed ove Kingston and their ace "Cowboy" Smith, giving him a de- cisive beating in the third game at Trenton, Then against Toronto, the Pepsi's were down one game | and trailing 5-4 in the 8th inning of the second game, when pinch- hitter Preem Whiteley's homer won the game and prolonged the series. The Pepsi's went on to definitely prove their superiority by trounc- ing CP.E. in Hamilton, in the gud- den-death game. * ¢ + Now they've reached the fin- als and just as they have done since they started to play Whit- by in the league semi-finals, the Pepsi's are holding work- outs every night. They hope to be ready for Guelph tomorrow and, according to reports, the Oshawa team will have to speed up just another notch in order to whip the crack Guelph entry. + + * Not too much is known about the Guelph team but one thing ic cer- tain. Any team that can reach the O.AS.A. finkls must be good and Guelph eliminated Stratford, last year's champions, in two-straight. Stratford had a great club. accord- ing to early reports, but Guelph took them 4-3 in Stratford. + + 4 The Guelph team has two or three colored boys on their ros- ter and one of them, their ace second-baseman, is regarded as the smoothest, fastest and surest infielder in Ontario. Both Guelph and Hamilton softball authorities, who have watched this boy play, say he is the smoothest softball ple yer to "come up" in years. * + » We also hear that Guelph has two reliable pitchers, one who uses plenty of "stuff" and the other who is rated as a real speed-baller. They are rated by those who have watch ed them, as a very smart defensive team, classy in the field, behind reliable nitching. They must be fair hitters too, judging by some of the! rallies they have staged in playoff games, GUILTINAN'S CHAMPION SHOE SHOP OUR MOTTO: Better SHOE REPAIRING pleases our old customers and gets us new ones. 17 BOND FAST PHONE 1216 Collect, Deliver just in| hurler, | Well, anyway, we'll know bet- ter after five o'clock tomorrow evening, One of the largest softball crowds ever to watch a game in Oshawa should be on hand tomorrow night to see Pepsi-Colas make their bid fer an O.A.S.A. championship. The admission price is the same as usual. + 4+ + som in the first game of the Worl Series today, in Cincinnati. They don't know whether or not L.ombar- di will be playing and Frey is al- list. This would seem to give the Detroit Tigers, with their five .300 hitters, all the edge but still, many so-called 'experts' claim that the Reds' defensive strength will over- | come Detroit's hitting power. * + » "THE HAND-WRITING ON THE WALL"--if vou haven't | seen it yet, take a look In the Globe and Mail these mornings. Already, they are starting to roll the ballyhoo for Marlboro Juniors and the Marlboro- Goodyear Srs. It looks very much as if the powers-that-be have decided that this is Marl. horos' big year, at least in the Junior ranks. * + 2» Bill Stewart, for years a colorful | whistle-tooter in the NH.L. and an | umpire in the Big League in the summer, has irked and tickled the | fans with his decisions. It looks as [if hell be absent from the ice lanes this winter however They | told Bill last year he was the best and so he asked for the "best" sal- ary--and got it This year. they of- fered him the same contract as Mickey Ion received --Stewart re- , fused--and the NHL. has decided | to move King Claney up to a reg- | ular berth and leave the fiery Wil- | liam at home. | * 2» a | We see that Balmy Beach Is | going to play their "home" | rRames at Varsity Stadium. There's no twe ways about it, the Varsity oval is the ideal spot for football to be played and watched but we venture that the Balmies will lose much of their tradiilonal color and traditional support which went along with them from the sport fans of "The Beach" district. JOHNNY FERRARO WILL RETIRE NOW Montreal, Oct. 2 --Johnny Per- raro, the man around whom Coach Bill Hughes was planning to build his Montreal entry in the Inter- | provincial Football Union, said last night that he would be unable to play this season. He added that possibly he was retiring for good. Ferraro, backfield member of The Canadian Press all-star team for the last two seasons, announced his | retirement after last night's work- | out at Molson Stadium. The Mon- | treal team meets Toronto Argo- nauts in the season's opener next | Saturday. | "I've had sixteen Ferraro said. "And vou've got to call it quits some day. You can't | go on forever. I just came out this | season to give Bill Hughes a hand and Il still be around any time he | wants me to help him out. I love | football and the game has been vears of it" | mighty good to me, but T guess six- | teen vears is enough for a man | I've got a family to think of." HAMILTON CATHEDRAL HIGH WHIPS ST. MICHAEL'S, 7-1 Hamil'or, Oct, 2 athedral High defeated St. Michael's in an exhibition football game under lights here last night by a score of 7-1, the victors piling up six of their counters in the third quarter when they took advantage of a fumble from 20 yards out and turn- ed it into a touchdown. Oct. 2. -- Coach Ross the Ottawa Rough- a lengthy passing drill last night as Ottawa, Trimble sent riders through and scrimmage the team rounded Saturday. squad Tigers at Hamilton Trimble kept his large steadily at work for almost hours, giving a stiff preliminary run, then turning to passes and plunges. WINGS GIVE COUSINS TRIAL Sarnia. Oct. 2.--Stewie Cousins, back home after a successful sea- son in professional beseball with the Cleveland Indian chain, will be given a. trrout by Jack Adams of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team this year. 'Cousins, who played ju- venile and high school hockey here, | had ore of the liardest shots in the city. It's Paul Derringer vs. Buck New- | most sure to be still on the injury | 'RIDERS HOLD LENGTHY DRILL | into shape for | its opening ieague game with the | three | Guelph and Oshawa In Inter. 'A' Finals Guelph, Oct. 2--Guelph Lelands have finally been given an oppon- ent for the Intermediate "A" On- tario amateur softball champion- ship with Oshawa emerging as vic- tors over Toronto in a four-game series. The Guelph team will travel to Oshawa Thursday and the Motor City team will play the re- tum game in Guelph Saturday. In the Senior "B" finals Toronto plays in London Wednesday with the second game in Toronto Satur- day. Championships have already been declared in four other series | as follows: Intermediate AF. Intermediate | Bombers. Junior | Roofers Junior "B"--Etobicoke. "B"---Trenton "cH Crowland YAY Windsor Dayus HAMILTON P-G TEAM BLANKS PEOPLES 5-0 Toronto, Oct, 2.---Peoples' hopes | for a second Canadian senior soft- ball championship received a seri- ous setback at Acorn Park last | night when Hamilton Pee Gees | former holders 6f the coveted title shut them out 5 to 0 in a game that was completely dominated by the fine hurling of the visiting pitcher Russ Johnson Allowing but two hits, one a clean single and the other a scratch hit and both by Wilf Smith, Johnson was never in | any danger of being scored on, and when Hamilton broke into the colimn in the fifth frame the game was over to all intents and pur- poses. For six innings the game was Aa real pitchers' battle between John- son and the veteran Cam Eccle- stone, with the only run up | that time being an unearned count- {er in the fifth frame. Hamilton clinched the verdict with three runs |in the seventh frame and added | another in the eighth. Meanwhile | Johnson was retiring Peoples with monotonous regularity fanning six- tesn and issuing no WwWaiks while Feclastone, allowing five hits and two walks fanned fourteen. The second game of the series will he played at Scott Park. Hamilton. Thursday evening at 8:15 TED LYONS HURLS WHITE SOX TO WIK Chicago. Oct. 2.--Ted Lyons made Chicago Cubs "like it" again today --with reverse English. The 39-year-old veteran pitched the route as Chicago White Box won the opening game of the 1940 city champlonship series, 5-3, but it was Lyons' batting, rather than his hurling, that gave him honors for the afternoon As compared to the brilliant five- hit performance he turned in as the White Sox won the title just a year ago, Lyons today gave the National Leaguers ten safeties But he got three hits in four 'rips to the plate and batted in three runs The White Sox the last five city skirmishes, went to work Claude Passeall. ton Dp city which have won champio ) ear Canadian First Fatality Of The U.S. Grid Season Port Williams, N.S Oct. 2.-- | Relatives here were advised yester- | day that John Donaldson, formerly | of this town, was the victim of the first fatality of the 1940 United States football season. The 19-year-old native Nova Sco- Agricultural College, suffered a brain concussion during a football practice Monday afternoon and | died that night. He was a son of Ralph Donald- son, a profussor at the college. He was born e. Bridgetown, N.S, and at, one ume lived here His father is a. Canadian veteran of the first Great War. STEVE PEEK HURLS OPENER FOR BEARS 2.--~American headquarters Columbus, O., Oct. | Baseball Association anounced yesterday tions for the "little world series" between Louisville of the Ascocia- tion and Newark of tional League The Association arbiters will Hal J. Weafer and Ernest ID. Stew- national circuit The bhest-of-reven sories Wednesday night at louisville where the first three games will be played. The additional games will | be played at Newark, 1 opens r umpire selec- | art, George L. Parker and Roy Van | Graflan will represent the Inter- | Their Work Well Done | RC. | Having ired the Motor City of the 1940 cinnati Reds for the these four can call their day's work well teries", Catcher Sullivan and Rookie Pitcher Geibell, Rudv York who game on ice, and Manager Del Baker, who piloted the Tigers through a erican heap. Geibell is unable to play in the series as he didn't join deadline, series, BOSTON OLYMPICS EASTERN Montreal JOIN AMATEUR LEAGUE Oct. 2 Boston ( NAPPER TANDY TAKES FEATURE AT 'GANSETT Oc! Phi P S | With a big grin demonstrating that he can take it as well as dish it | out, Leo "Lippy" Durocher, manager of the second place Brooklyn Dod- gers, is shown as he was initiated into the Saints and Sinners club. At left, a cut-out of Manager Bill McKechnie of the Victorious Cincin- nati Reds attempts to increase the chagrin of "Saint Lippy". Kayoed in Pennant Clinching Game | tian, a student at Amherst (Mass.) | | the Interna- | be | | | Howell, of the Cleveland Indians is out in the box after chasing a | foul adn falling over the wail, his as only one of the casualties, the | others being caused by various missiles thrown from the stands. The Tigers won this crucial game 2-0 and clinched the American League | pennant. . Ameri an league pennant and the chance to battle the Cin- done. LEFT to RIGHT, "the bat- poled out the homer that put the tough season to the top of the Am- the Tigers until after the Aug. 31 Probable Lineups For Opening Game | Will McKechnie i vulge hi hati, Oct. 2.--Probable line- | today's between world series opening Detroit Tigers of League and Cincin- defending hampions: Detroit ican Cincinnati Werber. 3b M. McCormick, cf Gehringer, 2b. Goodman, rf. Greenberg, If. York, 1b Campbell or Fox Ripple, If, Wilson, 6 Joost, 2b. Myers, ss. : Derringer, p. ir Bill Klem (N.I Em- Ormsby (AL); Lee Ballan- (NL), and Steve Basil (AL). Ps ARMSTRONG: LOSES TITLE NOT IN RING | Baltimore, Oct. 2.--Asserting that | it was "time to stop the tieing up | of boxers and smash monopolies," the Maryland mission declared Henry Armstrong's welterweight championship yest man, said F. McCormick, 1b | ' ning and even money on the Reds | Buck Newsom Will Oppose Paul Derringer in First Game As World Series Commences Cincinnati Fans Wait All Night in Line for Bleacher Seats -- Lombardi and Frey May Both Be Out of Line-Up opening assignment, would not de~ cide definitely on a right fielder. McKechnie did not know Tues- day night whether the injured catcher, Ernie Lombardi, and Sec~ ond-Baseman Lonnie Frey would be able to start, and the best guess was | that they can not. TIGERS HAVE FIVE .300 HITTERS Experts Have Varied Opin- ions as to Whether Pitch- ing Strength Can Offset Batting Power " Cincinnati Oct 2 --Big Buck Newsom of Detroit Tigers will be in the firing box Wednesday in the first game of the world series, with equally big Paul Derringer probably doing 'the rifle work for Cincinnati Reds. were camping out- to Cros= Fans already side the bleac I e Fi y sure of seeing th spectacle starts at 2:30 pm. (EDT. Wed- nesday, but the proximity of the first battle did not disturb Manager | He refused to di- starting lineup But the hopes of the crippled Na- | make that to e | tional League champions for giving | the American League its first squel- ching since 1935 are bound up in Derringer. No one has any doubt that he will get the call. Aside from the starting time, fixed by Commissioner Kenesaw M. Lan- | dis, and the size of the crowd, 33,- National | State Boxing Com- | vacant | Stanley Scherr, commission chair- | the move was directed | against the "New York boxing mon- | | opoly" in general, and that by tak- | ing this stand Maryland became | the first State to oppose the "pow- | ers that be." The action came, Scherr declared | after he had been advised by Eddie Mead, Armstrong's manager, that the titleholder could not fight any- where without the consent of Pro- moter Mike Jacobs of New York. Efforts had been made to match Armstrong. Los Angeles negro, with {he winner of the Oct. 14 bout here | between Louis (Kid) Cocoa of New Haven, Conn, and Izzy Janazzo of New York. Scherr said Mead' told him he would demand $25000 for such a match if Jacobs would consent, but | | that the promoter would not permit | the champion to meet Cocos, | UMPIRES ANNOUNCED | LITTLE WORLD SERIES Oct. 2.--Smashing Louisville, Ky power at which gets | the little world series under way here tonight Newark Bears of the International League and . the close | the plate versus an air- | tight defente may be the theme of | between: | fielding | | Louisville Colonels of the American | | Association. As a team the Bears slugged the ball at a .275 clin during the regu- | Jar season while the Colonels could | do no better than 266. , On the other hand, the Colonels fielded 974 against Newark's 970, making only 147 errors for a league record. pitching for Louisville will be the veteran Tot Pressnell. Opposing | him probably will be Steve Peek | who was Newark's leading hurler NOSE VERDICT Detroit, Oct. 2.--Tex Kiss, chest- nut filly owned by E. B. 8mith of Chicago, outran ten other 2-year- olds to win the featurad fifth race at the Detroit Fair Grounds yester- REN CST WADI TY 4 reer 000, controlled by the capacity of the | park, almost every aspect of base- ball's autumn classic was surround- ed by minor mysteries. The Tigers were rated as betting | favorites, with book-makers report- ed quoting 7 to 10 against their win- | Tiger Manager Del Baker, while naming Newsom for the important | ney The weather forecast was fair and cool, but clouds came scuttling over the city Tuesday. The series shapes up as a test of | pitching against power, and the ex- perts were hemming and hawing in unprecedented fashion Tuesday nignt. The Tigers will take the field with five 300 hitters in their lineup -- Hank Greenberg, Rudy York, Bar- McCosky, Charley Gehringer and Billy Sullivan. In Detroit's workout on Tuesday, Greenberg belted four balls over the ntre and left-field fences of Cros= Field, and made it look so easy ional League supporters quaked at the sight. Der who finished the sea- son w a record of 20 won and 12 lost, has been groomed carefully for the opening assignment, with Bucky Walters, Gene Thompson and Jim Turner following in that order. The big Kentuckian's curves al- ways have baffled the American League batters, accustomed to look ing at fastball pitching, and in this bulwark the Reds braced all their hopes. ; But no one could explain how Cine cinnati would get any runs. Newsom, a 21-5 standout in the American League this season, has a puzzling motion and more speed than the Reds have been looking at most of the year. Behind him Baker has Schoolboy Rowe, Tommy Bridges and probably John Gorsica in mind. Rowe par- ticularly has made an impressive comeback this year, winning 18 and losing only 3. 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