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THE TIMES-GAZETTE Thursday, July 25 1946 PORT NAPSHOTS Oshawa "GM-Colts" are playing their last "home game" of the Beachs Major Fastball League schedule here at Alexandra Park tomor- Tow night at 7.16 p.m. sharp. This game was originally scheduled for this Saturday afternoon but the "Colts" consented and "People's" ag- reed to have the game moved ahead to Friday night, in order to let the Shamrock Athletic Club have Alexandra Park all to themselves on Sat- urday afternoon. Tomorrow night's game at Alexandra Park will be the first "Fastball" game played this season here on a "week-night" and it will be interesting to see whether the attendance will be as large as it has been for the Saturday afternoon attractions. One thing is certain, the game should really draw a banner crowd for there were about 2,000 on hand to see "Peoples" play here back in June, when the Rotary Fair sponsored the game and all those who remember that hectic Saturday afternoon and the famous "Ab" Grant's temperamental display are sure to be on hand again tomorrow night at Alexandra Park, * ® w * Don't know of course which pitcher Mgr. Jim Murchie will send 10 By H. Campbell one: As a matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise us much if "Abner The Great" Grant has requested the chance to pitch against the Colts here tomorrow night, If it isn't "Ab" Grant, then it will be either "Susie" Turner or "Bus". Benson. Benson hasn't hurled against Oshawa this season and Turner has had very good success against in zames at Kew Gardens. Peoples are lead- race and of course, they are going to pro- winning every game they can, for Sammy Shef- a second and trying desperately to catch other hand, are getting a little desperate too. last three games and it's about time they win in order to cinch 4th spot and a pass Oshawa if they hit a winning last night in Toronto were rained out, as was Bowles and 30th Battery. If the te some of those costly bobbles they've h out a few hits in the right spots, they can tomorrow night. At any rate, it should be real "fastball" treat, % 8 4% =» fans are looking forward, and well they might to field athletic meeting being staged here on Saturday afternoon by Oshawa Shamrock A.C. The Brown twins, Morris, Canada's crack miler, and some of the fastest sprinters in the Dominion will" have to compete in these races on Saturday afternoon. Field competition will be especially keen also, with jump men, pole vaulters, shot - putters, etc, all keen to cop honors here, The track and field sport is booming in Canada again, especially in Ontario, with the young and not-so-young athletes working dilligently to get in shape for the Olympic Games trials, which will be held next spring. Oshawa Sham- rock Club has a couple of fine prospects too in "Wimp" Crawford, a very fast 100-yard sprinter, "Bud" Wilson, already rated as one of Can- ada's best half-milers, and of course "Ben" Fallman, coach of the Sham- rock AC. the man who has kept track and field going in Oshawa for many years, who is still one of the best shot-put and hammer-throw men in Canada. This meet here Saturday deserves the patronage of all local sport fans. Oshawa Rotary Club is donating the fine medals and a club-championship trophy. Some of the finest track and field talent in Canada will be performing and who knows, they might set a record of two and they'll certainly make it an entertaining afternoon for all who go up to Alexandra Park, There is no admission fee either-- a silver collection will be taken to help defray expenses, so come on sport fans, nothing less than "two bits," eh/ > * ® we * After two months with hardly any "rained out" games, the wea- therman toughenend up lately. Three of the last four Inter. "A" games have been rained out and the two Junior tilts, Robson Lea- ther and U.A.W.A, were to have played Monday night but rain stop- them and then they tried again last night but the diamond was wet and muddy after the afternoon showers. On Tue-day night, Le- gionnaires ran into a surprise as the White Eagles served up a brilliant brand of defensive fielding, especially in the outfield and also pounded out seven hits, two of them homers, for a total of § runs in the first three innings, going on to win a 10-2 decision over the Legion, White Eagles are now very much in the running frr 2nd place but they have to win three games to make it or two to crcate a tie. They get their first big chance tonight at Asex.... . Park, when théy meet Mayfair Lanes. This is a game previously postponed. A win for Mayfair Lanes tonight will tie them with Legion for 2nd place so naturally, this game tonight will be a real sizzler, and White Eagles who have won their last three games are plenty "hot" and may come up with another win tonight. * Tw" we * On Saturday night, White Eagles are in action again, this time against Robson. Leather "Tannery" team, a game that was rained out last Friday night. Robson Leather has first place cinched but they' still want to win this game on Saturday night, just to show they can take White Eagles.' The Eagles, with 6 wins now, wil ha.c tu . .. . 1 Saturday night, if they lose tonight, in order to make it necessary to re- play their tie game with Mayfairs, for a chance to create a tie for 3rd place, If Eagles lost both tonight and Saturday, they'll have to be satis. fied with 4th spot and the playoffs will likely get under way early next and the ¥* * > * : Things are hectic in the Junior scftball race tno. An~cs J-x¢ over in Whitby the other night, a bit of an upset and that dropped them back to 2nd place but last BABusy, Libavl Meeaniimin oi. ue 2 winning run in the last of the 9th, with two men out, to squezze out a 4-3 win over Pete's Place for another upset and that dropped Pete's right back tied with Aces again, The Junior games are al- most over now and these two teams each have one more game. Aces - play Brooklin at the park tonight and they'll have to be good to win that one, They have to win it too if they want to stay in first place for Pete's Place should be able to beat Whitby at Cowan's Park tomorrow night. Other Junior games tomorrow night are Harmony at North Oshawa and K. of P. at Brooklin, On Tuesday night, K, of P. defaulted to Pete's Place. The race for 3rd, 4th and bth cpots is very keen in this Junior loop. On Saturday night, White by comes to Oshawa to play Harmony Millionaires over at Park, This game was rained out Monday rich¢ "= 7° storm, It poured in Whitby so the Wolves didn't come to Oshawa --but they could have played at Bathe Park, althoug. Te was water-logged. This will clean up the Junior schedule and tht playoffs will likely start on Tuesday or Wednesday night of next week. * * ww *» SPORTS SHORTS--The draw for the Juvenile playoffs will be published in Saturday's issue of this paper, The four Juvenile teams are [SE] AAV AY Beaches Major Fastball League "The Best" PEOPLES Fc vs. OSHAWA "GM-COLTS" Alexandra. Park Fri., July 26+ - 7.15 p.m. Cars Free - > REXALLS WIN TIGHT TUSSLE FROM BEATON'S + Beaton's Dairy lost a toughie to Rexalls last Tuesday when a score of 7-6 was racked up against them in a regularly scheduled O.M.B.A. tilt at Alexandra Park. Beaton's were behind in the third by a total of four runs but they got these back in a hurry with a four-run splurge. They were left behind in the rush when Rexalls again went out ahead with two in the fifth, their last tallies of the game, Beatons tried to make these up but only succeeded in getting one and that was the way it ended. McGrath was pitching excellent ball on the mound for the Daliry- men but it was not enough for the Rexall boys bunched their hits and so gained the win. Lean begged a base on balls to open the game for the Rexalls, He stole around to third base and went home on Batten's groundout. O'Connor got on with an error to the second baseman, and stole to second where he was hit to third by Stovin's single to left field. Hoy lashed out a two-bagger which scored both base runners. Hoy him- self was left on base when the next two men grounded out to the in- field. With one out in the last of the first Turnbull got 'to first base where he tried for third on an error which went for two bases off the out as he came into third. Wallace bashrd out a two-bagger which scored Souch. He was left on this bag by the next batter who popped out to the shortstop. Batten got to second on an erpor/ and a stolen base to open the fop of the third innning. O'Connor grounded out third to first and this put Batten on third, Stovin scored him on a long hit to right field. two on strikeouts and so another man was left on base. The Dairy team came back very strongly in the bottom of the third when Phillips went to second on an error and a stolen base. Gilford waked but Turnbull flied out to (Continued on Page 2) FITTINGS BOOST THEIR LEAD IN JUVENILE RACE Fittings gained a big win in the Juvenile Softball loop when they out-hit and out-pitched the Arena Park on Tuesday night. The Arenas seemed to have no power at the plate and this more than any other factor accounted for their defeat, They had eight hits but. these. were widely scatter- ed and just short onés and so pro- ved the club with the heavy hitters will. win. When the pitching is not a snecial feature. : Fittings led off with five runs in the first inning and to this comfor- table lead they added three runs in the third frame, ene in the fourth and one again in the sixth, when Arnold crossed the - plate for the Fittings. Arenas replied to the Fittings first inning splurge with but one run in their half of the sixth add- ing to the singleton they earned in the first frame. A desperation move In the last inning brought forth | but one run and so the game end- jed 10-3 in favour of the Fittings club, Welsh and Goulding were the big batters for the Arenas while Chopik and" Keeler held up their end in this department for the Fittings. ARENAS:--Welsh, 2b; McGillis, rf; Simpson, cf; Massey, p; Jenk- "ins, 3b; Goulding, ss; Hooper, lb; Thompson, 1f; and Lovelock, c. FITTINGS: --Dervent, 8b; Keeler, ss; Locke, cf; Demille, p; McIntrye, c¢; Arnold, rf; Ford, lb; Chopik, 2b; and Brooks, If. Umpires:--Thursby and Crosby. WHITBY HOSPITAL STAFF ENTERTAINED AT ST. GEORGE'S im-- St. George's Tennis Club enter- tained members of the Ontario Hospital Staff Tennis Club of Whitby yesterday. While the ten- nis tournament originally sche- duled was rained out badminton and table tennis matches were run off during the afternoon and evening. In the badminton Oshawa de- feated Whitby 8 matches to 2 in mixed doubles, 2-0 in ladies' douse bles and 2-1 in men's doubles, while the table tennis tourney saw Oshawa the victors by 5-2, All the table tennis matches were mixed doubles, GPORT SNAPSHOTS all in the playoffs, with the 2-out- of-3 semi-final series to open on Tuesday night . . , Rexalls Juvenile baseball team, who nosed out Bea- night, are going over to Whitby to- morrow evening for an exhibition game with the Whitby Juveniles , . . "Crabby" Crandall, well-known lo-~ cal sports figure, who played hoc key 'with the "Red Raiders" last winter and has also performed on local ball diamonds and in the box- ing ring, is being moved from Oshe awa Hospital to Toronto General today or Friday. "Crabby" has been ill for some time with rheumatic fever but after he's heen settled for see visitors in Toronto .., Coca M.B.A. Juvenile game at Alexandra Park tonight. . . The Lakeshore Jr. rained out of course but Bowman- ville Rotary comes here. Saturday evening to play the B'Nai Brith and those who saw that other thriller here," will nog bat of Souch. Turnbull was tossed |. The next three men were put out boys to a 10-3 victory at Alexandra | ton's Dairy in a thriller on Tuesday'| a week or so, he should be able to | Colas are playing Victors in an O. | [i game booked for here last night was | & 1-0, miss Satur~ day's big game. v : Premier Trophy for Saturday Meet When the Shamrock Athletic Club stages its monster track and field meeting here at Alexandra Park on Saturday afternoon, some of Canada's outstanding track and field stars will be performing here, seek- ing the handsome trophies and medals, which have been presented for competition, by the Oshawa Rotary Club, Shown ahove is "The Rotary Club Trophy" which will go to the club or team amassing the highess total of points in the entire meet, Frankie, Michael and 'Ziggy' All Win Their Mat Tussles Keleman Tosses Farmer ,..; kicks the last of which punted Brown Out of Ring to Win Preliminary Go -- Irish O'Toole Too Good for Tonn's Substitute -- Szikszay Defeats Bruckner in Two-Straight Falls The mat fans who visited the local grunt-and-groan emporium Tuesday night were treated to a very good show, when all the heroes flattened their respective bad men with less straight wrestling than has been seen since the days when Jim Londos stepped through the ropes. Frank Keleman and Jacob "Far- mer" Brown met in the preliminary and as Frankie started to exert himself out went the Farmer into the crowd, only to return after he felt that Keleman was cooled off a bit. Finally Frankie gave him a terrific heave-ho and Mr. Brown landed outside the ropes without touching them. This all occurred much to the chegrin of a Brown supporter, who proceeded to try to pick him up and push him back into the fray, The Farmer would have none of this and so Keleman got the match while the Farmer carried on a rousing argument with his seemingly one-and-only fan, outside the ropes, O'Toole Too Tough In the semi-final Irish Michael O'Toole tangled with Don Bain of Central Y.M.C.A., Toronto, who re- placed the injured "Ab" Tonn. Bain turned out to be another bad man who didn't like to stay inside the ropes, but O'Toole kept him there long enough to give him a body slam and pin which gave the Irish- man the first fall at the 14:43 mark. On his return to the ring Bain did much better and even had O'Toole worried--it says here. But faith Mr. O'Toole fell back on "Whippah" Watson's standby and gave Bain a couple of "whips" which took all Bain's wind away allowing the "wearer of the green" from Hollywood. to pin him for the final fall of the match at the 14:02 mark, The so-called grudge tilt between Jim Szikszay and Max Von Bruck- ner didn't produce any blood but almost did, as Von Bruckner trotted into the ring wearing tape on his left hand, with which he proceeded to pull a bewhiskered "tape act" out of mothballs and give Ziggy an eye-rub that didn't please the fans at all. In fact one not so gentle gentleman with a pop bottle threat- ened to plant it on either Referee Fallman's or Von Bruckner's noggin unless somebody got the tape off. Nobody seemed to notice him when Ziggy started to give out with three TOMO Von Von Bruckner to a pin giving the local boy his first fall at the 21:12 mark, Two-Straight for "Ziggy" Von Bruckner came back just as ready to conti »: his dirty work | after the first fall. He started out with kicks and gouges and then | began to use Ziggy's head for a battering ram against the roped corner, but Ziggy got wise and the second time he shifted a little and Von Brucknet's head went through the ropes to bang against the coer ner post. Jimmy applied a few whips and a body-slam and got Von Bruckner on his back where with the referee on one arm and Ziggy on the other they began to take off the tape, much to the delight of the man with the bottle. Von Bruckner got up from this indignity on a pair of very wobbly pins and Ziggy then really went to work on him and had him crying for--ahem--mercy in his corner. But it was no go and Von Bruckner was put on his back for the final fall in 18 minutes and 20 seconds. Jim S+kszay having taken Von Bruckner is now to be given a high- er rating in the "rassling woild" and so we should sée some rip-roaring matches from now on, FISK tires... (OR TRUCKS 700 / @® You'll find rugged, heavy duty Fisk Transportation Tires to match' manufacturer's specifica- tions for your truck. en it's "Time to Re-Tire", buy Fisk Tires--at standard prices and cut operation costs. SKATING Sat. Afternoon ..... SKATING Saturday Night. .... SKATING NOZTH OSHAWA WINS 4-3 UPSET OVER PETE'S PL. North Oshawa nosed out Pete's Place 4-3 up in North Oshawa to score a nice upset victory ni the Junior Softball race, last night. The feature of the game was the great fight that North Oshawa put up in the fifth and sixth innings to come from behind a three run lead and tie it and then go ahead on an error in the last of the ninth to the P.P. shortstop and win the game. Pete's Place took the lead early by scoring a single run in the first and adding to it in the first of the fifth when two runs came in. North Oshawa then started their great rally which netted them the game. Baxter, the moundsman for Pete's Place showed great furm and set down six of the opposition by the fan method. But this effort alone was not enough as the infield let that last-minute bobble count for a run and the game. Martin who was on the mound for North Osh- awa had a fairly good night and he claimed three strikeouts and only two bases on balls. Baxter on the other hand allowed six walks. With one away in the top of the first inning Stark gained the initial sack on a hit and was blasted home on Zigman"s big two-bagger. Taillon struck out and Loople popped out to the third baseman and so left Zigman on base at the end of Pete's Place first scoring inning. In the fifth Pete's Plcae again tallied, this time with two runs when Stark hit u double with two out. Zigman clipped his second double of the night scoring Stark. plate also when the North Oshawa team exhibited some sloppy play. Taillon flied out lo the shortstop ending play in that half of the in- ning. Woods singled to start North Oshawa's rally in the last of the fifth, Another single was slashed out by Lyons and both of these boys advanced when Brown flied out to center field and Woods scored after the catch. Lyons came home on Scorgie's hit, 'but Scorgie was put out on an attempted steal to second base. v The Northerners continued this rally in the last of the sixth when Scorgie and Marlin got ahead of Baxter, their opposing pitcher, and got walks. Asby singled loading the bases snd at this "crooshal" mom- ent Hurvid stepped to the plate and clipped a long fly to center which that fielder nandled fault- lessly., Martin beat the toss to the plate and Woods came up next. He popped out to first and therefore allowed no play in the base paths. Baxter struck the next man out and so ended this big scoring threat. Pete's Place tried hard in the top of the eighth to break the tie but their man was left on third base when the side was retired. Lyons got to first on a hit to open N. Oshawa's 8th and went down fo second on-an-errered-throw to first. Heaslip was out on his bid, but Brown begged a walk off Bax- ter, with Lyons now on third base. Scorgie hit a fly to the pitcher who had no trouble in making him the second out. Then came Martin's hard-hit ball to the shortstop where it was fumbled by Taillon, allowing Lyons to cross the platter with the game's winning run, PETE'S PLACE--Claus, cf; Stark, 3b; Zigman, 1b; Taillon, ss; Loople, c¢; Edmonds, If; Taylor, rf; Keeler, 2b; and Baxter, p, NORTH OSHAWA--Heaslip, ss; Brown, 3b; Scorgie, 2b; Martin, p; Welch, 1b; Asby, c¢; Hurvid, If; Zigman came scampering across the Woods, cf; and Lyons, rf. COLLEGE HILL PUT ROCKET BLAST ON ROTARY HOBOES College Hil Rockets nosed out Rotary Hoboes 12-11 at Park Tuesday in a thrilling pitchers game in the Kinsmen Midget Lea< gue schedule, The Hoboes pitchers had the Rockets eating out of thelr hand, and but for some hits which they could not seem to put a stopper on, the game might not have been even close, Fowler and Peters were the two hurlers for the Hoboes who saw duty in the game. The two of them collected twelve strikeouts between them and this was sufficient to win the game. Durno who was the Roc- kets moundsman had but one of these and he gave up the only walk of the game, In the fifth Hoboes were down two runs but they came roaring back with five runs in the last of the fifth and four in the seventh giving them the necessary one run lead at the end of the game, Peters worked hard in 'the first of the ninth and had struckout two of the opposition when England came up to the plate as Rockets last chance. He grounded out on an easy infield roller, and so ended their chance of tying up the game. The high average batters for the Hoboes were Carey and Comerford with "three for four" and "four for six" respectively. ROCKETS: --Myles, 3b; Durno, p; George, rf; Mason, 2b; Trimm, If; England, c; Patfield, cf; Skinner, ss; and Dodd, 1b. HOBOES:--Sullivan, 2b; Comer= ford, ss; Pinder, 1b; Hardy, rf; Scammel, If; Peters, cf and p; Care ey,c; Fowler, p; Lack, 3b; and Vare ga ph. in 9th. Oshawa and District TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS Held Under the Auspices of the SHAMROCK ATHLETIC CLUB at ALEXANDRA PARK Saturday, July 27, 1946 - 1.30 p.m. 1 Ontario Branch of the A.A.U. of C. JUVENILE d by the Cent "COME OUT AND SUPPORT THIS RENEWED ACTIV- ITY IN YOUR COMMUNITY. 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