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| OSHAWA'S FIRST "SOAP BOX DERB respective classes, Y" ATTRACTS A BANNER CROWD Rotary Park Entries Sweep Entire Prize List, Winning Both Race and Show Honors "Miss Lifebuoy" Sets Best Time, 2:54 for Half-Mile Course In Midget Class-- "Black Beauty" and "College Hill Flyer" Win Bantam and Pee - Wee Titles -- "Milky Way," "Dopey" and "Rinso" Are. Winners In Show Classes Oshawa's first annual "Soap Box Derby" ran off as scheduled on Thursday night end thanks to the efficient work of the starters, time- keepers and judges, the antire list of entries had their crack at a championship within one hour. The "show" judging, held at the rear of the O.C.V.I, attracted a banner crowd as early as six- thirty and by race time, the streets of the course were lined on both sides with» Interested spectators. With police and firemen kindly volunteering their services, the big crowd, estimated at more than 3,000 poopie, was restrained from block- ng the course and the young con- testants had every possible chance to display. their speed and skill. Clever Constructions The judges in charge of the show, Miss M, Webber, J. N. Willson and Rev, E, D. Jones, had a very diffi- cult task In selecting the winners in the three classes, In the Pee-Wee class, "Milky Way", a cleverly-constructed little Job with a cow-head front piece; won the honors. This was entered by G. R. Bell, 176 Mill Street and J. Harrison, 552 Cubert St. In the Bantam class, "Dopey", a natty silver-hued "automobile" en- tered by Charlie Finley, 176 Centre St. and M, Pankhurst, 32 McGregor 8t., was rated "tops" by the judges. In the Midget class, "Rinso", a cleverly-constructed stream-lined Job, won {first place. This entry was made by John Bingham, 50 Elgin St. West and Alex. Beaton, 109 El- gin St. West, While these three were judged #8 "the best Joking cars" in their he competition was exceptionally keen and several hii smartly constructed "custome built" jobs received "honorable mention" and gave the judges cause to ponder, in Races Speed Best time In the races was made by "Miss Lifebuoy", with Bert White as driver and Lloyd Witter- ick as mechanic. This speedy pair ~ negotiated the tricky 4-turn, half- mile course in the remarkable time of two minutes and fifty-four sec. onds flat. This, of course, was the winner in the Midget Class, besides being the best time recorded by any of the 36 entries. "Devil's Eyeball", "with the team of Geo. Moss and Paul Molntyre, won their heat in the Midget class with time of 3:16 2/6. "B.O. Plenty", Alice Tay- lor and Shirley Antil, girls' entry in the Midget section, made a very creditable showing, In the Bantam section, the rub- Yes, tires are precious .. . do everything you can to make them last. And when they need repairs bring them in to us. With modern methods and materials we can repair rips, cuts, holes and bruises so skillfully that we can restore all the bal. ance, flexibility and mileage. Have small cuts and bruides repaired NOW before they lead to serious trouble, Drive in today. o GREASING eo WHITE ROSE e VULCANIZING ee TOWING BATTERY SERVICE, Etc. For "BETTER" Service Stop At . .. SLU Corner PRINCE and BOND STS. -- PHONE 1096 ber-tired "Black Beauty" proved the fastest in a fleld of fifteen en- tries, with Fred Parish and Don Stovin negotiating the course in 2:66%, second best time of the en- tire Derby. "Lissie", operated by Glen Rutherford and pushed by Bill Calder, made it in 3:44 to win their heat and '"Snakeyes", with Donald Reid and R. Clayton as team, won their heat in 3:32 2/5. The "College Hill Flyer", - ated by a pair of brothers, Lloyd and Allen Stire, won the Pee-Wee class, in the fine time of 3:46. The were the winners of the first heat of the Derby. "Little Lulu", oper- ated by Don White and John Stef- fan, won the other Pee-Wee heat in 4:06. Vera Bronizewski and Rose Bilous, with their entry "Rosie", failed to get in the money but "drove" a nice race, . Rotary Park to Fore Strangely enough, although Rit- son Road Playground had about half as many entries as the Rotary Park Playground but the Rotary "representatives" cleaned up, cap- turing all 14 pris, A special prize, donated by the Dancey Bros. Shoe Store, to the youngest crew in the Derby, was won by the Coolidge brothers, Alan and Stanley, 104 Montrose Ave, (5 and 11 years) and this too "Wounded Duck" was a Rotary Park entry. The entire Derby was well man- aged and ran off in smooth fashion, with plenty of volinteer help for judges, timekeepers, starters and "judges of the course". The police- men and firemen were busy keeping good-natured order along the course and especially at the corners, Recorders Miss B. Knox and "Bob" Reddoch' both had a busy time, getting all the information, times, ete. for their records but not an entry was neglected, The "Derby" was brought to an eventful conclusion for all the youngsters when J. L. Beaton, chairman of the Boagd of Educa- tion, presented each and every one of the young contestants with a pint of milk. And the "kids" . went for it in a big way--no doubt seek- ing stamina and energy and an early training start for next year's races. The judges and officials who acted were as listed in Thursday's issue of The Times-Gazette, with the exception that Earl 8, Kennedy of the Oshawa Community Recrea- tion Association was pinch-hitting for his chief, Capt. "Bob" Coleman, who was unable to be present for his duty as "official starter". Scout- master Ronald A, Nicholson was an added vounteer as course judge. No Bad Accidents Another gratifying feature of the big Derby was that not a single serious aceldent was reported. A First Aid man was on hand to tend to the wants of those who suffered any spills but the clever drivers nearly all made the tricky turns without mishap. There were a couple of close calls, "Black Beaue ty", the Class winner, almost com- ing to grief at the dangerous Alice Jarvis Street turn. One young "mechanic" pushed so hard and earnestly that: he col- lapsed at the finish line but he soon recovered. » We Recommen Firestone GUM-DIPPED TIRES o OIL CHANGE GASOLENE 'things, Active Program At Playgrounds Civic Holiday Rotary and Ritson Road Play- grounds will be hives of activity on Monday, August 5th, when their will be Inter-Playground work go ing on at a high clip, The Ritson 1s will be the hostesses at Ritson k, while the Ritson boys visit Rotary Park to participate in the races, games and water sports that are to be held there, The whole affair is to be under the auspices of the Board of Education. At Ritson playground where the girls and ladies are having their "do", they will be exhibiting beaue tiful pieces,of hand work as well as having competitve sports in the form of archery, dodge ball, volley« ball and water sports, Meanwhile at Rotary Park the "men" will have taken over and their program will feature the big exhibition softball game between the Ritson Bantams and the Alle Stars from Park. The Rite son team is at moment fighte ing a battle with the Northminster "Nailers" for the Oshawa Playe ground Championship, so the game should prove to be worth seeing. Their program will also include the races and water sports which were mentioned above, Everyone is wel- come and according to all reports, everyone should have a very enjoy- able day. Ritson Road district citizens have been noted to be enjoying the sport of Robin Hood, archery to you, and they are becoming quite proficient at the sport, The front lawns have taken on the aspect of Sherwood forest in their minds, and they are even wishing that the mighty long- bowman himself might come to life and pit his skill against theirs, It is to be hoped that such enthusi- asm for the sport will draw the citizens out in droves to the archery contests that are to be held at Rit son playground under the sponser- ship of the Oshawa Playgrounds and the Board of Education on Cis vic Holiday, Monday, August the fifth, ACHTING ARNS- (By "The Barnacle") The Oshawa Yacht Club held its inauguration banquet Thursday, Aug. 1. Sitting at the head table were the officers of the club, name- ly, Ralph Schofield, Commodore, and Chairman George Hart, Les. McLaughlin, George Sibbard, Bob Mills, Les Stevens, Bill Switser, Wrighty Howe and guest speaker, the Hon. Gordon Conant. Geo, Hart, in his opening few min- utes, stated that ER sailors and good ers combination that vs Jud to unl, In a short address that was enjoy- ed by all present he introduced the new Yacht Club members after stating that a yacht club was only what the members made it, He also sald that new members on a club every year wag the ofily suc cessful way to a better yacht club, He then welcomed the new meme bers as follows: Lloyd Smith, Bruce Cameron, John Qeikie, Bill Hen- Art Annis, Waite, Robert Chapman, The Honorable G. D. Conant, an old sallor of remown not only on his own ship, "Bonnie", but also as a, founder the Oshawa Yacht ub and an old shipmate of Ami lius Jarvis of Royal Canadian Yacht Club of Toronto, gave a very ine formative address on seamanship. He stated that although of late very lively interest in sailing, one of the oldest gports in the world, He sald that as was generally un- derstood, seamanship was the abile ity to manoeuver a craft under dif- dicult conditions, In his lan y however, seamanship means ability of a sallor to adapt himself to un circumstances He gave as an example two incl dents when ships he was aboard in # bit of a blow were before arvis Training he was a firm believer in keeping every "shipshape" and all tackle colled down in Jreparition for emergencies.: Mr, ant, in reminiscing, stated that he had seen emergencies on board ship knives were a necessity in case of trouble for cutting away halyards and tackle of any sort to avert disaster, "Shipshapeness" to him was safety of lives and equipment and in that depended the future of our club. In closing he insisted that we must be prepared for our club to expand as Oshawa grows and to be able to adapt ourselves to greater From a small group of men our dinghy sallors have grown to a group of men who could com- pete favorably in any club on the Great Lakes, To continue on in this manner it was necessary in his opinion to keep our club and our Squipment, in the finest trim possi- e. for his timely speech and Schofield introduced the guests at the dinner, namely: Frank Gwind- / Geo. Hart thanked Mr, Conant | ley, Sid Rooke, Cec. Monight, Jim | Soap Box Derby Preparations Varied & Energetic 2 PEE-WEE GIRL TEAM ENTRY, ROSE AND ANNIE BILOUS PLAN TACTICS Oshawa's first annual "Soap Box Derby" was run off before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 3,000 specta- tors, on Thursday evening and proved an outstanding success. Seventy-two young comntestanis vied for the honors in the three classes, Pee-Wee, Bantam and Midget and strangely enough, all the "winners" came ftom the Rotary Park Playground entry-list. Photographs of the winners appear on the front page of today's issue while a complete account of the big event is found elsewhere in today's sport column, Clements, Frank Gillard, Bill Cairn and Eric Miller, As for our activities for the week. end it is generally understood that the Frenchman's Bay cruise "is postponed due to the silting in of the gap in their anchorage, Instead the Seventh Division will hold their Sunday evening day race for a suitable prize at 11 am. At 1 pm. Sunday, there will be a mixed crew and crewette race, The boats to be drawn for just before the race, At 230 pm, Sunday all the teams from O.Y.C. who raced inter-club will hold a cattle team race among themselves for a sweepstakes prize, At 11 a.m. Monday the Glen Rae Cruise to Bowmanville will start with as hosts the Bowmanville Beach Association, We are expeote ed there between 1 and 3 p.m. and a lunch will be served to sailors. This 460 16 GPENAD Al boas 13:the club. Ralph Schofield and Grant Beal were so pleased with the "Oorneill" sloop-rigged dinghies which they salled at Boulevard Club (Toronto) last week-end (and so pleased with the way Oshawa salled them?) that they have convinced Bill Switzer that we need some of this super type racing craft at Oshawa. We hear these boys are placing orders for 2 of these beautiful craft which when delivered will provide fitting competition for Scho-Irwin Grew type sloop. They say you have to get your order in early, boys, HEALTHFUL DIET Pointing out that nutrition is a science with dally application to every one, the Department of Na- tional Health and Welfare supgesia that wise people will learn all they can about healthful foods and food combinations. Only by careful study of nutrition, the department poirits out, can one be sure of the best return for money spent and time and trouble invested in food prepar- ations, The Times-Gagette classified ads. bring quick results, THE TIMES-GAZETTE Saturday, August 3,.1046 1" CC2A COLAS MARK UP WIN ON BEATON'S ed Beaton's Dairy handily in thelr OMBA. Jisiue in by a score of 8-1 th, the touted hurler for the Dairy, could do no better than Simpson for the "Cokes" as they both struck out nine of the opposi- tion, McGrath bettered Simpson in only one department and that was in 'the number of walks issued, lie allowed two while Simpson let go to first, This failure if it a failure was more LH sikis § 1 of seven runs 1 3-4 3 B® With t in the top of the second inning, Bradley got a base on balls, Mercer slapped one ai the § 2 Park. Thurs-' . | which is what counts, Simpson third on the hit, to steal home and was pub out ab te, i Dairy tried a revival in the last of the seventh that didn't work when Powers singled, and Simpson setting down the last man up Law- rence on strikes. Hitting Told Story It was the superior hitting power of the "Coke" team that told in the long run and the pitching of SBimp- son was good in the right ols, and | wilson were the power batters for y Mercer continued on to third. Ken- nedy was hit by the pitcher and got to' first, from which position he stole second. MoGregor hit to the pitcher and was put out at first to end their half the second, Wallace got to first on balls when there was one out in the last of the second. Powers singled advancing Wallace to second from which posi |1f tion they both stole another base. Wallace tried to steal home but was caught by the catcher, when Locke fouled out to the catcher and so ended the inning for the Beaton's Dalry team. Blows Up In Sixth Nothing further occurred in a scoring way until the top of the sixth when Simpson led off for the Cokes and won his own ball game as he scored the winning run on a home run blow, It was then that MoGrath started to break down. Wilson singled and Bradley walked, they went to third and sec- ond respectively on stolen bases and a passed bell, Mercer flied out to the right fielder, Gillette then got a safe hit to the same field and soored Wilson, Kennedy went down swinging but MoGregor singled safely to centre field and brought two more runs in to the plate, Mc- Gregor stole around to third and soored on & passed ball while Can- ning wag at bat, Canning struck out and retired the side. Beaton's got & man to third base in the last of that inning with two out but he was picked off that bag Coca Colas while Powers was the only man on the Dairy team to get more than one hit, Wallace was ale 80 0 Valgable with his three-base blow, . BEATON'S DAIRY :--Lawrence of; Sheriff, 3b; Turnbull, ¢; Mor. rison, ss; McGrath, p; Wallace, 2bf Powers, 1b; Locke, cf; and Parrott, OCOOCA-COLAS: -- Oanning, ss; Lowry, cf; Simpson, p; Wilson, 2b; Bradley, ¢; Mercer, rf; Gillette, 1b and ¢f; Kennedy, rf; MoGregor, 3b; and McClelland, 1b in 7th, Umpires: --Tyson and Murphy. Clydach, South Wales -- (OP) -- Nickel from South Wales mines is being nsed by the government of India to make new half and quarter rupee coins to replace existing sliver alloy coins, ; 8 GASOLINE ATTENDANT WANTED STEADY POSITION Appl Dominion Garage 78 Bond St. W. -- Phone 3198 I ---- TAXT : MOTOR CITY CAB RUSS WELSH, Proprietor 15 BOND WEST Day and Night Service @ Long and Short Trips Phones 3702-173 ' KING'S RIGHWAY" Based upon a pioture painted for Carlingd's By Fred Finley, 0.8.4. This is one of a series of llustrations on the sub. ject of the Conservation of Canada's natpral assets designed fo em. phasizse the fact that the beauties of unspoiled ndture that we enjoy toe day are a precious birthright which we must protect for tomorrow. 1 cOPYMONT BY CARLING'S, 198 "They Eat Out Of Your Hond™ The spotted deer of Northern Ontario come stalking cautiously out of the vast forest which is their home, to stare with wonder- ing brown eyes at the road man has cut through the wilderness. They rub velvety horns against signposts that read "The King's Highway", and they are not afraid, for they have never even heard the crack of a rifle. If you offer them food they will take it, timidly, right out of your hand. They are part of the vast heritage of wild life and forest beauty with which we Canadians are endowed, and in their very trustfulness is a plea for protection-- against the hazards of fire--of predatory animals--of indiscriminate hunting by ourselves. As new branches of the King's Highway open up, bringing more and more of Canada's beautiful forest land within reach of the city dweller, it becomes increasingly important that each one of us understand the laws and rules of con. servation, for only by so doing can we protect and preserve our heritage. Every Canadian, as a shareholder in Canada's natural wealth, has a vital interest in the conservation of this heritage. Conservation is not just a doctrine to preached to hunters and fishermen. It is a vital part in the continuance of our national economy, and must, of necessity, fail if its measures do not receive the full support of all Canadian citizens.