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Today' 's Sporting Featares Pepsi-Colas in 0.A.S:A. Finals Here Tonight St. Kitts Eliminate Brampton in 5th Game Newark Bears Win Opener in 'Little Series" NNN a 4 Ww THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940 Don't wait! Jusy drop the paper land start out for the Motor City Stadium. The first game of the JO.AS.A. finals between Guelph Le- Jands and Oshawa Pepsi-Colas starts at five o'clock, this evening. LR Bill Coulter, Guelph sports writer, modestly claims that the Lelands are the best team to re- present Guelph in 0.A.S.A. play- cifs -- much stronger than the team that lost out to Belleville in a sudden-death game, played in Oshawa, in 1935, (Ken Coll- ing, note.) The Lelands are re- ported to have everything a good team needs to win a champion- ship, including fine pitching, es- pecially strong fielding and a hard-hitting line-up, any player having the ability to break up a ball game. Gordon Merkley, their drop-ball artist, will likely get the call against Oshawa Pepsi's, here tonight. * bb So much for the softball situation --except to remind Oshawa Juvenile team managers that they are to at- tend a protest meeting tonight at Hotel Genosha at 7:30 o'clock, when the Terriers-Supertest protest will be threshed out. Each Juvenile team will have one vole. * +P The following comes from the Peterboro paper, yesterday's issue: * Pk Oshawa will carry the good wishes of Peterboro players and fans in this all-important series. It remains to be seen whether that will be enough to carry them through. The Brights have a strong club, with much the same lineup as the Petes defeated in two straight games two years ago. They have good fielding, plenty of power and a good pitching staff that includes Wasser, who twirled one of the games against the Petes; Senese who will be re- membered as the young pitcher who opposed Bill Calladine when the Maple Leafs and Niagara Falls juy- eniles clashed, and Copie, a smooth leftie from south of the border. Against that array of talent Oshawa offers the puzzling pitching of the veteran Steamer Lucas, the steady heaving of McGarry, the experience and batting power of such well-. seasoned players as Doc Rowden, Matthews, Red Jubenville and Lefty Wallace and the fast fielding of a pair of classy infielders in Dalton and Kitchen. * + Oshawa Seniors pulled off a nifty win over Niagara Falls Brights yesterday afternoon here. We were very much sur- prised at the large attendance. With the local factories working "full blast" on wartime produc- tion, we thought maybe the at- tendance would be very meagre but several hundred local sport IT'S CANADA'S MOST POPULAR TIRE AND AT A LOW PRICE ® "G-3" is the tire to buy for safe, long-wearing, mile- eating service. It's a new *G-3" improved in every way +». Stepped up in quality and you can buy it here at a low price! Drive in and see It today! ROSS : GREEN 3 LIMITED . 138 King Street W. - Oshawa Phones 575 - 1160 fans got around to attending the game and the visitors brought about 100 fans with them, + + 9» It was a great win for the locals. It has often beer said that when two strong teams meet, the "breaks" decide it and such was the case yes- terday. Oshawa's board of strategy crossed up Brights by starting Frank McGarry and the youthful right- hander justified his selection with a sterling mound display. * + * He allowed eight hits and kept them scattered. A rousing triple, which might have been limited to less by more alert fielding, came in {he right spot, with two men aboard, fo give Brights two runs in the Ttn and it proved their only successful effort. Three times McGarry pitch- ed himself out of tight holes, with runners on second and sometimes even on third-base, with one or none out, and still they couldn't score. The famed Brights' batting punch seemed to be lacking. > + > McGarry's best effort defen- sively, strangely enough, was in fielding and not in pitching, in the fifth when Brights had run- ners on third and first and none out. McGarry speared a hot grounder with his bare hand for the first putout and then, with the bases loaded snared another one to start the double-play that ded the inni without » score. ¢® 4 Doc Rowden turned in a mighty useful game out in left field. He had some brilliant catches and they came at crucial spots. Oshawa's en- tire field played a brilliant game, with Jubenville and Dalton getting most of the work. However, Johnny Kitchen was the big hero in the at- tack, for besides turning in a great game at the hot corner, he paced his mates at the plate. His hit In the first proved the first run when Moose Matthews came through once agaih (he's been doing it for years) and then Kitchen's triple in the 5th scored Frank McGarry with what proved Oshawa's and McGarry's own winning run, * 9 Niagara Falls Brights are bet- ter than they showed here yes~ terday. That is our firm convic- tion. They didn't seem to click on the attack yesterday. How- ever, we doubt if they can im- prove their defensive play very much, Stephenson did a lot of hard work in centre-field while their infield pulled off a lot of sparkling plays--in fact, had only one error in the entire game, dv ¢ * Copie, their left-hander, is a nice steady hurler. He didn't issue a single walk yesterday and his con- trol was very evident in the pinches. Most of Oshawa's good hits came when the batter took a firm cut at his "first pitch"--which was often a groove ball. * + > A word of praise is due at this stage for the neat job of catch- ing and pitcher-handling, dis- played by Coach Tracy Shaw. The silver-haired backstop was in fine form and his steady play was a real asset to McGarry, in the tight spots. The entire Osh- awa team played well in the field and if they keep up that brand of ball, Brights will have their worries, even on thelr home diamond, on Saturday afternoon. * % % And Oshawa still has Steamer Lucas to throw at them, B» + % We don't intend to "tell" you what happened at the World Series yesterday. Apparently the Tigers took a liking to Paul Derringer's curves in the second inning and the Reds couldn't do enough to Buck Newsom's off- erings to ever get back in the running. It begins to look as if the series will provide more than one upset, too, Irvin Ready To Start Drilling Les Canadiens Montreal, Oct. 3. -- When the twenty-five to thirty men who are trying out this year for g berth with the Montreal Canadiens line up at St. Hyacinthe on Oct 17, for "opening practice, introduction hon- ors will most likely go to the veter- an Toe Blake. Coach Dick Irvin, former mentor of the Toronto Leafs, and now the man of the hour with the Cana- diens, admitted yesterday that he had not met his team. "I know the record of every man," he said, "and have complete reports from scouts, but in the main, we are new to each other, which is a distinct ad- vantage. We all start off with fresh slates. alt (By "Handlebar Hank") we © % Well folks, here we are after a layoff of two weeks, but the old column is really coming back with a bang. There are a lot of things which we know will be of interest to the bicycle racing fans of the city. + + ¢ Probably the most interesting of them all is that the Ontario Champ- ionships, which were postponed on Labor Day on account of rain, are expected to be held on Thanks- giving Day, October 14. The club is making every effort to obtain the track at Alexandra Park on that day, and if there's no ball game, the races will be on. * + b> Although it is pretty late in the year for track races, the boys are hoping that the citizens of Oshawa won't let them down. We know the riders themselves will give all they- 've got, despite the cold weather, | and most of them are right in the pink of condition. Well, so much for that. Watch next Thursday's paper for more information. LB "HAL" PRINGLE BADLY HURT Last Saturday at Delhi, Hal Pringle and Lance Pugh rode in a six-hour team race. Pringle was teamed up with Rene Cyr of Mont- real, while Pugh had Andy McCon- nell of Montreal, recently of Delhi, for his mate. At about the 4-hr. mark in the grind, Pringle and Cyr were tied with three other teams for the lead, when Pringle was spil- ped heavily to the cement surround- ing the inside of the track. He was leading a jam, when one of the new riders from Winnipeg, who had never ridden on the boards before, slid from the top of a bank and crashed into Pringle. Hal flew about ten or twélve feet throught the air and landed hard on the cement, smash- | | right-hander, i the mound and he justified his AAA AAAI Today's Sporting Features Oshawa Srs. Cop First Game of O.B.A. Finals Detroit Tigers Trounce Reds in First Clash Juvenile Softball Protest to Be Heard Tonight Frank McGarry's Fine during Plus Stellar Defensive Display Gives Oshawa Win In Opener Homesters Flas] Flash Brilliant, Fielding Plays to Keep Brights in Check and Limited to Only Two! Tallies KITCHEN TO FORE Niagara Falls Get One More Safe Oshawa But Fail to! Bunch Them -- Copie Gets 3 Hits | big one" yesterday afternoon at Alexandra Park when they opened the 1940 Senior O.B.A. finals against Niagara Falls Brights. The score was 3-2 and it was just that kind of a ball game. Crammed full of championship quality of reliable pitching, sterling defensive plays and payoff punch at the plate. McGarry in Limelight Coach Tracy Shaw and Mgr. "Peg" Hurst crossed up the "ex- perts" when they sent the youthful Frank McGarry, 'o club's confidence with a brilliant pitching display. McGarry's laurels were not earned by virtue of the few hits he allowed, but rather in the manner in which he allowed them and the calm manner in which he hurled himself out of some ticklish spots and never once yielded his grip on the game. Even 'when Brights staged their big rally in the 7th, McGarry didn't panic but proceeded to go right along and he won his game by his attitude. In the 7th, Hardson doubled and then McGarry fanned Stephenson, and Rowden gathered in the drive which would have given Copie a perfect day at the plate. Then Kalbfleisch drew a walk. Next Whitehead lashed a ing his shoulder very badly and suf- hard-hit drive into right-centre. fering some serious cuts and bruises. | Moose Matthews just couldn't quite *» 4 Ld This very same rider spilled Per- ron, his partner-to-be in this race | on Thursday night of last week | while training. ' Perron suffered from two gashes in his scalp, which needed 16 stitches to close. It's about time the officials of the Delhi Velo- | drome got wise to themselves and | made sure the riders are all capable | of getting around the track without | falling off their bikes. After every | race they have that someone gets injured In, they say they shouldn't | have let the inexperienced boys | ride. The time to act is before the event, They are endangering the riders and someone is going to be very seriously hurt, if not killed, one of these days. We are not say- ing this out of sympathy for Prin- | gle and Perron, but we're telling them for their own good. Bike riders have to take their spills and like them, but they certainly aren't going to ride on a track, where their lives are in danger every time they push a pedal. * + Art Leadbeater, the Canadian champ, and Mike Miller, holder of numerous titles, won the race over Crowder and Busche of Buffalo, N.Y. Lance Pugh and his partner, McConnell, finished in third posi- tion, after riding a grand race. These three teams, along with Pringle and Cyr were tied until well on in the grind, when after Pringle had spilled, the winners gained a lap on the field. It Is certainly a tough race and the riders deserve high praise for put- ting up such a show. LIE We noticed in the paper the other day where Torchy Peden won another six-day bike race in Wash- 'ington, with Cesar Moretti as his partner. They stole a lap in the final-hour sprints and this gave them their victory. Jules Audy and Heinz Vopel copned second place, with Bollaert and Debaets in third position. The war has certainly hit the professional races hard, as most of the foreien riders have been cal- led for military duty in the home- land. However, it just goes to show vou that you can't keep bike riders down. a bb The Canadian Wheelmen's As- sociation has awarded the Ontario 50-mile championship to Ottawa and it will he held this Saturday October 5. Entries have been re- ceived from all over the province end. a good race is expected. Rene Cvr, who won the 50-m'le Canadian Championshin last week in Quebec, is favoured to take this one too. The Oshawa boys are not going to com- pete, as Lance Pugh is the only one who eould get away. "See you next Thursday." Jimmy McLarnin, the boxer. is succeeding in golf and now is a six- stroke handicap player. get over to it in time and Hurst, covering up, fell as he dove for the | ball, but he recovered in time to hold Whitehead dt third base. Those two runs represent the only successful scoring attempt com- Hit 'Than|| Oshawa Seniors grabbed off "the | EN Ra, pleted by the Brights in the entire | afternoon. Wodynski then ground- | ed out to end that inning. McGarry was in tight spots on | three occasions and came through, aided by his mates, with shutout ball. In the second, Brights had | two on and only one out, but a | pop fly and an infield roller ended that inning. In the eth, they had two in position but Hardson lined out to Kitchen, McGarry saved his own game, not with pitching but with field- ing, in the fifth inning. Stephen- son was safe on an error and then 3rd, with none out. Kalbfleisch hi: one almost past McGarry but the Oshawa hurler reached out with his bare hand and snatched the hall out of the air, threw to 1st for the putout. Next Whitehead walked, which might have been just as well and then Wodynski ground- ed hard to McGarry, who threw to Tracy Shaw completed the double- play with a neat throw to Wallace. Again in the 8th, Brights had the tying run on 3rd base but Doc Row- den made a brilliant running catch to retire Hardson for the 3rd out. Rowden again came through with another great catch in the 8th. Rowden's work in left was one of the highlights of Oshawa's steady defensive play, while every single member of the infield turned in a bang-up display. Dalton and Juben. ville had the most to do but Kitchen was equally effe:tive. For that matter, the visitors were hot stuff in the field also, with Wodynski, Lipke and Wilkinson all showing plenty of class, along with Hardson, the initial sacker and Stephenson, who made four impres- sive putouts in centre field. Ability to make their hits count won the game for Oshawa, because Cople, the Niagara Falls' steady left-hander, turned in a neat job on the mound. He allowed only seven Oshawa hits and not a single free ticket, but Oshawa had only five runners left on bases. Copie was good and his support was too, but Oshawa had the punch in the right spots, Kitchen started it early in the initial frame, with a clean single and then stole second. He scored when Moose 'Matthews bulleted a hot one, just inside third-base and the ball later rolled over the line, giving Matthews two bases. Mat- thews then scored when Red Juben- ville"s hot grounder got right through Wodynski's legs. Cople singled, putting his mate on | the plate for the force-out and | Oshawa got Kitchen to second in FRANK McGARRY the third but Rowden and Matthews were both retired by Copie. Juben- ville singled to open the 4th and never got off first. Brights were playing airtight defensive ball too. In the fifth, Frank McGarry scored the run that won his own ball game. He opened the inning with a single and advanced on Dalton's sacrifice bunt. Kitchen then poled a triple, inside the right- field foul line. He failed to get off 3rd when again Copie proved too good for Rowden and Matthews. Oshawa didn't even come close after the 5th inning but as it turned out, they had enough. While it was in defensive play that both teams showed their real class, there was some real punch displayed also, with Johnny Kitchen accounting for two of Oshawa's runs by means of his two hits. Matthews drove in the first one and Kitchen drove in McGarry. Dalton also had two hits for Oshawa, while Juben- ville and McGarry were the other hitters, Cople, the visiting hurler, was their | (8) Morden ...... Ire LOU BOUDREAU LOSES APPENDI® oNMOoONwWwWONOOP 2] » CoO OoOOCOOOMm cwormmnomel Wodynski, ss. ec. 4 Kaminsky, ¢. .... 4 Lipke, 3b. ........ 3 Wilkinson, 2b. ... Hardsion, 1b. Stephenson, cf. .. -- 4 ONAN = ~NNOO 34 2 82412 (a)--Batted for Stephenson wl Ooo Ccooco~=oC 5 | oth, bs] =] HOO WOIONWP Oshawa Dalton, ss. . Kitchen, 3b. .... Rowden, If. ... Matthews rf. Jubenville, 2b. Hurst, cf. Wallace, 1b, Shaw, c. McGarry, P. «oss. -- OW =NWOoORNN see ns ~oooOo~mOoO~oOoMN HOOOM~ONN Ee comoocoocoo~D™ Totals Score by Yanings. Brights 000 000 200--: Oshawa 200 010 00x--3 27 R. 2 The Summary Runs batted in: Whitehead 2, Kitchen, Matthews, Jubenville. 3b hits: Kitchen, Whitehead. 2b. hits: Hardison, Matthews. Sacrifices: Lipke, Dalton. Stolen bases: Lipke, Kitchen. Struck out by: Cople, 2; McGarry, 2. Bases on balls off: Cople, 0; McGarry, 3. Double play: Dalton to Jubenville; McGarry to Shaw to Wallace. Left on bases: Niagara Falls, 9; Oshawa, 5. Win- ning pitcher: McGarry of Oshawa. Losing pitcher: Cople of Niagara Falls. Farned runs: Niagara Falls, 2; Oshawa, 2. Umpires: "Babe" Sheppard, plate; "Joe" Spring, bases. Both of Toronto. Time of game: 1 hr. 58 min, best hitter, with three safeties in four trips to the plate, Whitehead's triple was their most valuable hit while Kaminsky, Lipke, Wilkinson and Hardson had the other bingles. Oshawa had two double-plays In the game and nine visiting base- runners were left stranded. Cleveland, Oct. 3. -- Lou dreau, Cleveland Indians' young shortstop, packed a troublesome appendix and g radio off to a hos- pital yesterday--to have the first cut-out, and the other "cut in" on the world series, The Tribeésman, who plugged a leaky infield in his first full season with Cleveland, batted an impres- sive .296, and poled in 101 runs to lead the club, had been "bothered off and on the whole season" by his appendix. GRADS ELIMINATE SOUTH HASTINGS Belleville, Oct. 3. -- Columbus Grads of Toronto eliminated South Hastings Combines from the On- tario aBseball Association's Inter- mediate "B" playdowns by 'scoring an 8 to 5 victory here Wednesday afternoon to take the 2-of-3 series in straight games. Toronto won the first game, 8 to 2, at home last Saturday. Grads starting Combine pitcher, for six runs in the second inning and were never headed. South Hastings made a valiant attempt to get hack into the contention by scoring one run in the second and three more in the third but from there on, Grad pitcher, Elmer Crosswell, bore down with telling effect to hold them at bay, Marsh, who relieved Barriage, also turned in a neat relief chore, but his mates could not overhaul Toronto's lead. Arlingtons Beaten 6-2 By London Softballers London, Ont., Oct. t, Oct, 3.--Behind the brilliant pitching of Jack Bryant, London defeated Toronto Arling- tons 6-2 here Wednesday in the first game for the Ontario senior "B" softball championship, Bryant was given perfect support, and the local boys hit In the pinches, Creighton and Nevin be- ing outstanding. Crippen of Toron- to and McClement of London hit home runs. The return game will be played Bou- ganged up on Barriage, ords: ST. TS WIN 0.L.A. CROWN 8t. Catharines, Oct, 3.--St. Cath- arines Athletics captured their third successive Ontario senior lacrosse championship here last night when 1,500 fans saw them overwhelin Brampton Excelsiors, 22 to 3, in the fifth game of the Provincial finals. A's now qualify '0 meet the winners of the Vancouver Burrard-Cornwail : series for the Mann Cup of Cana- dian supremacy, which opens at Maple Leaf Gardens Monday night. The touted Maroons were very little J in the picture after the first per- fod, which ended at 5-1 for Saints, who boosted the tally to 11-2 at the half and 14-2 for the third quarter. They held Brampton absolutely scoreless for over thirty-seven min- | utes of actual play, limiting them § to a goal in each of the first two. blanked in the tnird and another | single in the Tomy, 4 TWO SECORDS SPL LAT Guelph; oct: LPH MEET school rec- 'broken + "the annual field' ors, of the iph Collegi- ste Voos I I Wednes- day. 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