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THE TIMES-GAZETTE Saturdsy, August 2, 1046 J -- SPORT =~. : NAPSHOTS Banh | In one of the most exciting softball battles witnessed here this | season, Harmony Millionaires defeated Pete's Place 10-6 last night at "Alex } Park before a bumper crowd, to capture the Oshawa City & it Junior "A" softball championship, It was the 6th and deciding th" game of thelr final series and a grand climax to what season around these parts since away when they went on a slam- , won the title for the Millionaires, kept the smart Pete's Place t defensive fielding was a with Jimmie Loreno starring for Harmony, along They had a definite edge The biggest Junior softball and we venture that Harmony playoff trail, which is Monday Peterboro Jr, champs coming |, Monday night, Har and it's to be hoped that a big crowd of ve the Oshawa representatives the vocal and e. Pete's Place went down fighting errors and weakness at the plate were . downfall but they faok their defeat like Most of them are young enough to play Junior season~-so they'll be back, stronger than ever, : * ® w * Inter, "AA" champlonship on Thursday night at ame up with some timely hitting, a couple of th men on bases and in general, showed an edge t, to earn their 9-6 win over Duplates in the eries, Duplates won the 3rd game only but they series near the finish, The Legion team will now Oshawa in the Provinical Intermediate "AA" playofts, and Peterboro Inter, "AA" representatives, here in Oshawa at Alexandra Park on » Legionnaires, in the Canadian Legion playdowns, 6-1 decision to Peterbore the other night but now it is that some of the Peterboro players didn't qualify according authorities and the locals may be definite decision has been announce locals are booked to play the second the Tapio Cy on Monty. evening, Oshawa and Peterboro meeting in the first round heavier than usual this year too, Oshawa's Inter, , Robson Leather "Tannery", open their O.A8.A, playofls t the DeLaval team of that city, re- sound, «balanced team of veterans who know softball diamond. The return game of this im. i for Tuesday evening, 6.15 o'clock, at Alexandra t and since the Oshawa-Peterboro softball playoffs, especially in the real thrillers, there is bound to be a big cheer for "Tannery" as they hit the reading this, the first game will likely be over see the cond half of the baseball moon. At 1.30 o'clock, the Peter als are clashing in the second game of their Liftlock Oity boys whipped Oshawa All- in stern fashion last Saturday but results are often entirely reversed At about 3.30 o'clock, the Oshawa C.OBL. yesteryears , . , , some from away back about 25 year and others of about 10 or 12 years ago, will be in action against he current Oshawa B'Nal B'Rith team, leaders of the Lakeshore Junior be pretty tough opposition for the "oldies" baseball afternoon for the fans who in action who starred back when funerals on May the 24th, race will be cleaned up Last night the Oshawa , for Oshawa, moves, neither Bowmanville comes back here of the schedule, give Secty. "Ab" play a sudden-death game heard as much nolsy ! inning as all Harmony [part of Courtice cheered their heads off as the Millionaires staged g-run rally that practically clinched the championship at Alexandra , Members of the Peterboro De Laval team, meeting "Tannery" . Inter, "A" playoffs include Heal, Giardino, Mowry, Mack= 'all well-known in Oshawa softball circles . , . . North Oshe Old Timers" plan a ball game with their Junior softball team, day night, The list of players will appear on Tuesday , .. . ja Golden-Fidler pitched a perfect softball game on Thursday night nyside Stadium as Sunday Morning Class blanked Midtowns 6-0, jed only 27 batters, didn't allow a single hit or a walk and her ldn't make a single error, WOW! . , .. Speaking of softball, 8 & amall quantity of choice seats for the big softball do at Maple dium on Monday night, when Tip Tops and Peoples face Fort fEoliners," World's, softball champions . , . . Kingston Victorias i from the hockey scenes, leaving the field to other Kingston 4 + +» Ike Hildebrand is due back in Oshawa soon, but we § much that hell be back here by Sept, 8, as reported . . , . Big 6-Run Rally Win Exciting Eastern Suburb Boys Come From Behind To Take Lead, Then Play Win- ning Ball to Earn Cham- pionship -- Pete's Place Make Great Fighting Fin- ish but Lead Too Great To Overcome -- Maeson And Loreno Pace Har- mony Attack and Good- win Hurls Well Harmony Millionaires wound up their local City and District Junior softball campaign by taking Pete's Place for the proverbial "ride" in the last fume of the series by a score of 10-6 up at Alexandra Park last night, That gives the Harmony team the Junior "A" Softball champlonshi of the Oshawa City District, They deserve a lot of credit for this win as they were placed third in the official standing at the end of the year and they fought all the way into and through the finas, This last game was just a sample of ihe sremendons "team spirit" of the club; The game was a very thrilling one for all of the many spectators that attended and there was a big crowd, The game was tight till the third frame when Harmony took a four run lead after being down two runs in the inning before. Goodwin Hurls Well There was only one strikeout in the game and the credit for it goes to the winning pitcher, Goodwin, ame was not one for the hurlers ut on the other hand when you consider that Baxter gave up 14 hits for ten runs and Goodwin but seven for six you can see what a difference the pitching made, Goodwin truly deserved his victory, Pete's Place were in there fight- ing all the way and early on, they seemed to have the game all packed away, only to lose it in the next inning on loose play. Harmony started the first frame with their first homer, With two men out "Willie" Maeson pounded one out into center field that the fielder misjudged and the ball went far over his head for the first run of the game. Jimmie Loreno then singled past second base but the next man went down on a pop up to the shortstop, and retired the side, Pete's Take Lead Pete's Place came back in the last of the first to take the lead for the only time in the ball game when they made a three-run tally, Claus led-off with a scratch single to right field, Stark followed with another that was errored on in right field and it allowed Claus to pull up at third and' Stark to atop at second, Benkowski then tripled to left field and that scored two runs and he came home himself on the bad return to the infield. The blow went right down the foul line and was close to being a foul all the way. Talllon and' Loople pop- psd out: for the first two outs of e inning, Edmonds then made it Jide when he went down third-to- Pete's Place tried to widen thelr lead in the last of the second when they pushed & man as far as sec- ond, Taylor laid down a bunt that went astray as it hit him for the automatic out, Kovacks then bloop- ed a grounder to third where that baseman made him an out at first, on a nice toss, Baxter then clipped & double but was left stranded as Claus ended the inning by flying out to the right fieder. . The Fi re n came Harmony's big innin thay realy won them 'the game, Fi was the first of the third and one man was out, when Penfound singled past second base. Loreno then doubled to put Penfound on third, Bunny Maegon walked, to load the bases and then Goodwin started to win his own game with a double to center field that scored two runs Dart walked and then on & passed ball the runners advanced to second and third, Robinson hit a ball to the shortstop Talillon, that Was errored on the throw to the plate, to score another run and then Saunders got to first on a similar choice , only time the catcher bobbled the throw to the plate, which allowed Goodwin to score the sixth run of the inning. Scott popped out to the left fielder and then Penfound, up for his sec- ond time in this frame, ended things as he went down second-to- first, 1 ue) | Pete's Place made up for ones those runs in the last of the fourth when Loople walked and then went to third on the error to the first baseman on Edmond's hit, Taylor flied out to left field and that sent Loople in from third with Pete's Place's fourth run, making the score read 7-4 for Harmony. Kovacks popped out to the pitcher and then Baxter retired the side when he flied out to the shortstop. Winners Boost Lead over Pete's when a two-bagger to center field to open "Bunny" Maescn hit into a force to center field, Dart bingled into next two men ware easy outs to end the frame, with the score reading 9-4 for Harmony, Harmony pus.ied another single- ton into the plate in the first of the eighth to make it 10-4 in their 10 fight Billy Westfall of Belleville at the Diamond A.C. S| (Continued on Page 3) favour, With one out Dart tripled { f One might infer from this that the | 9th, Harmony again made the margin | Place a little larger | the first of the sixth they |i got two more runs, W. Maeson hit | iS the inning and Loreno followed it | | up with a sing.e to score Maeson, |} out as he grounded to second and | Loreno was tajyged out. Maeson | 8 then went to second on an erroy to | | the second baseman and was sent | |g to third by Goodwin, who singled | what should have been a fielder's | § cholce but for a moment's hesita- | § tion and then it was too late and | anoiher run crcssed the plate. The | HARMONY CAPT URES JUNIOR SOFTBALL CROWN In 3rd Frame Enables Harmony Millionaires "Sudden-Death" and then on Robinson's infield out he scored on a close play at the plate, Saunders drew a walk but he was caught on an attempted theft of second, for the final out of that frame, Pete's Make Great Bid Pette's Place made a great rally in the last of the ninth but the old story of too little and too late came true as they only were able to count two runs and leave the final score at 10-8, Two were out when Tutak who was in for Olaus got a walk, Stark then blazed one at the first baseman who made a stab and missed, allowing Stark to go to sec~ ond and Tutak to pull up at third, Benkowski then doub to bring in one run while the other scored on the fielder"s bad throw to the infield, Benkowsk! reached third on the play. Taillon! then ended the Jame by popping out to the third aseman, The Big Hitters It was a great game and the big hitter of the evening was Willie Maeson of Harmony with a "four- for-five" average the best for both teams. Jimmie Loreno was next with a "three-for-five" and one al- most intentional pass to his credit, Benkowsk!i hit well for Pete's Place and he got a 500 average on the night's play. Harmony now enter the regional Slaves against Peterboro Jrs, on nday night, at Alexandra Park, 6:18 o'clock, Score by Innings: R.H.E Harmony ,.,, 106 002 010-10 14 6 Petg/s Place ,. 300 100 002-- 6 7 7 PETE'S PLACE--~Claus, of; Stark, 2b; Benkowski, 1b; Taillon, #s; Loople, ¢; Edmonds, If; Taylor, rf; Kovaks, 3b; Baxter, p; Tutak, ef. in 6th; and Boyko, ph. for Kovaks in HARMONY Scott, 3b; Penfound, ¢; W. Maeson, 1b; Loreno, 8s; B. Maeson, rf; Goodwin, p; Dart, If; Robinson, 3b; and Saunders, of, Umpires --- Ceo, Campbell and "Dib" Little, -------------------- PICKERING BRYANTS TIE COURT OSHAWA C.OF. SOFTBALL TILT "The Bryants"--beg pahdon---the Court Duffins of Pickering and Court Oshawa failed to reach a de- cision when they clashed last night in a Canadian Order of Foresters League playoff tilt, Pickering had the game tucked away until the last half of the 7th inning when the Oshawa contin- gent sjueezed ncross one run to make it an 8-8 tle and darkness prevented any attempt at breaking he deadlock, Plckering scored four runs in the first frame with D. Bryant, Bye, J. Spencer and D, Spencer all cross ing the platter, W. Bryant made the circuit in: the 3rd inning aided by R. Bryant's bingle, In the 4th inning they added three more runs, Culling, Bye and J, Spencer scoring with D, Spencer, Cookson, R, and J, Bryant all playing a part. After that Pickering didn't do much at the plate but Oshawa came up from behind to tle it up, Oshawa got one in the first, Joe Andeley scoring on hits by Norm, O'Rellly and Harold Brown, In the 3rd frame, Oshawa got one run and then added two in the 4th to make it 8-4, In the 8th, Lang, Richards, Sey Sipps and Fer- guson a ure & 3-run rall nit Jude oo 8-17, b y shawa had the bases loaded In the 6th but couldn't score, as Smith falled at the plate for the 3rd out. In the 7th, Tippett opened the frame by getting on base and they pushed him around to tie the score at 8-8 and that's how it ended. Four Bryants played for Ploker- ing and another acted as an um- COURT DUFFINS:- D. Bryant, 4; W, Culling, It; V. Bye, 3b; J. Spencer, o; W. Bryant, of; D, Spen- cer, 3b; H, Cookson, rf; R, Bryant, Pp: J. Bryant, 1b, COURT OSHAWA;- J, Andeley, i H, Hartshorn, ss; N. Lang, 3b; W. Richards, nN O'Reilly, of; H. Brown, If; B, Smith, 1b; B. Tippett, rf; and ©, Ferguson, o. Umpires; D, Lang and E. Bryant. These two teams play again on Tuesday night at Ploker and should Pickering win, they will go at it again at Bathe Park, next Fri- day night, Oshawa leads the series At present 2 games to 1, with the above game a draw, TIGERS TAME WESTM'NT BRONKS Casino Tigers took the first game of the play-offs for th Buri e Oshawa and y defeating the Westmount "Bronks" 13-11 in a tight battle at ae [) ers were slow in gettin, Satie but they Made ine ai ood ooun some tallies, The big hitters for the Tigers were M. Tutak and J. Joskoski who had triples; for the "Bronks" Ferguson and Watton did the same adding to triples two their counting hits, MONDAY NIGHT Playground championship | finish EEE EE EE EE EE EERE) WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ..........SKATING WEDNESDAY NIGHT ..........vv0vo SKATING FRIDAY NIGHT ......¢ci0v0vv0nin inn SKATING SATURDAY AFTERNOON ,,.......... SKATING SATURDAY NIGHT .......0vv0000000o SKATING WITH WINNER A on or fhe 4 2 \9 ~a T LAST? - - By Steve Bishop lly 8 | = = | a VIHITE Sox To 167. PLACE # MOSES WHO, WIkL BE 76. BT YRS. OF AGE STILL CAN HIT AND FIERD WITH THE BEST OF THEM, GIVING £) THE Wed Sox SOME REAL OUTFIELD PROTECTION te od sBisitop~ Ted Parish Cops Tennis Title At St. George's Club Brotherly love was set aside temporarily, when the Parish boys, Ted and Wilf, met in the finals of the Men's singles tournament at the 8t, George's Tennis Club last Wed- nesday, Although it was only necessary to play three of the possible five sets, many of the games went to deuce numerous times. The rallles were often long and tense as each player manoeuvred for placement shots and kept spectators on the edge of thelr seats in excitement and in- terest, : Ted's smooth sure stroking was admirable, as were Wilf's splendid recoveries which made the game a pleasure to watch and a source of much envy to the tennis fans among the bystanders, For a time in the first two sets it seemed Ted would have no dif floulty in taking his brother into camp, but Wilf battled strenuously to prevent Ted from scoring, How= ever his best was not good enough to reverse his losses 6-3, 6-1, During the third set, Wilf settled down to a determined effort to force another set, The score of 8-6 indicates how close was the inde cision as to who was the best man. Many a battle was waged as each player was drawn to the net until a lob broke the clinch, It was still anyone's game at 7-8, sot point 40-30 and Ted serving, when Wilf misjudged a ball and drove it outside the court to finish |® a gruelling struggle for both tired Playess, The final score was 6-2, 6-1, -6 and Ted Parish is the Club Champion for 1046, BOWMANVILLE NIPS HUNTERS IN TIGHT TILT Bowmanville Rotary moved one Sip nearer to tying Oshawa B'Nal B'Rith for the leadership of the Lakeshore Junior Baseball League race, when they nosed out Oshawa "Hunters" 2-0 last night in Bow- manville, as the two clubs cleaned up one of their postponed games. Cobourg Kiwanis and Whitby Rotary settled 3rd place and the final playoff berth this evening in Whitby, when they are replaying a ame previously played to a tie. On onday night, the "Hunters" meet Bowmanville Rotary at Alexandra Park in the last game of the sched- ule, A win for Bowmanville will tie them with B'Nal B'Rith for 1st place with 15 wins aplece. Tight Pitching Duel Last night's game in Bowmanville was a real thriller from start to and Bowmanville collected only 4 hits off young Brown, the Hunt Club hurler while Oshawa got two hits off Clemence, the Bow- manville ace, Bowmanville got thelr first run in the first inning when Dadson opened with a single, stole second, advanced on an infield out and scored after the catch on a long fly to centre-field. In the 6th inning, they got their 0. SKATING other run when Dadson and Gil. hooley both got on base on a single and an error respectively, Mcllveen was walked to fill the bases, John~ ston hit a terrific liner at Mosszrop and the Oshawa 3rd-baseman doub= led Dadson off 3rd base for a beau- tiful double~play. Gilhooley stole 3rd base with two strikes on the batter, Sleep, Then Gilhooley came home when the next pitch got away from catcher Claus and on the next pitch, Bleep struck out to end the inning. Brown pitched another great game for the Hunters but his mates Just couldn't click against Clem- ence, Had One Good Chance In the 6th, Oshawa threatened with runners on 2nd and 3rd and nobody out but a strikeout and a nifty double-play by the Bowe manville infield killed off Oshawa's big scoring chance, They played the game In just a little over an hour, MIDGET GIRLS - PLAYOFF SKED. Series 1 v Mon, Aug. 26--Courtice at West- mount (Radio Park). Tues, Aug. 27T--Westmount at Courtice, If third game necessary Wed. Aug. 28--Courtice vs. West mount at Centre Street School, Series 2 If third game NOT necessary in series 1, Wed, Aug. 28--Cowans at Win- ners, Thur, Aug, 20--Winners at Cow- na, y If third game necessary. Fri, Aug, 30--Winners vs. Cowans at Bathe Park, R If third game necessary in series 1. Thurs, Aug. 20--Cowans at Win= ners, Fri, Aug. 30--Winners at Cowans, If third game necessary Sat. Aug, 31---Winners vs. Cowans at Bathe Park (10 am) Games to begin at 6.45 pm, Classy Kingston Plenty of Softball "Savy" to Defeat Oshawa Fittings Juvs Powerful Hitting by Lime- stone City Lads Settles First Game of O.A.S.A. Juvenile Series--Cassidy Hurls Good Ball to De- feat Fittings In Handy Fashion--Homesters Jit«' tery at Start Kingston "Drury's" drew first plood in the O.A.8.A, Juvenile "A" Eastern Ontario zone finals here on Thursday night when they deféated Fittings , Oshawa's Juvenile representatives, 14-4 in the opening game of their series. The second game is being played in Kingston this evening at five- thirty o'clock, Powerful At Plate Fittings, playing their first Pro- vincial playoff contest, were defin- itely jittery at the start of the game in both infleld and outfield and to make matters worse, the Limestone Clity lads produced a powerful hit- ting team, x Alkens opened with a singe and Mellquahm tripled, The next two batters flied out, the second run scoring after the first catch, In the second, Pennock walked, ad- vanced on an infield out and a passed ball to score, In the third, Kingston added two more runs, Mellquahm was safe on an ine field error and then with two out, Choplk bobbled White's grounder, with the first batter scoring, Care reh doubled to score White, In the 4th inning, three runs crossed the plate with the aid of a single hit as the Oshawa boys blew wide-open, Brown opened with a single and Cassidy flied out to cen- tre. Altkens walked and then Me- Tlquahm was safe on an error by Chopik, McCormack grounded out and another run scored then Der- vent bobbled McElroy's bid and the 3rd run of the inning score. Kingston added two runs in the 6th on an infield error, a walk and double by McElroy, In the 7th, Pen- nock homered for another. In The oth the visitors cinched it with three more runs, hits by White and Brown and Altkens plus a walk to Pennock doing the damage. Fittings Try Hard Fittings got two runs in the sec- ond inning when Cassidy hit a wild streak, With one out, he walked Arnold, Bowler singled then Chopik and Brooks both drew walks, De- Mille fanned but Keeler walked with the bases loaded to force in the second run, In the 5th, Lock singled with two out, advanced on a wild pitch and came home when Dervent doubled, Oshawa's other run was scored in the fth when DeMille single with one out, Keeler walked and Meo- Intyre singled to score DeMille, Carrah was the big hitter for the visitors with a triple and a double but every member of the Kingston team but two managed to get a safe blow, McIntyre had two hits for Fittings, . Soore by Innings;« R. HF, DRURY'S;« 212302 103-14 10 2 FITTINGS;- 020010001-- 4 6 § KINGSTON;- Altkens, 1b; Mell quahm, rf; McCormack, 3b; McEl- roy, of; White, ¢; Carrah, ss; Pen- nock, If; Brown, 2b; Cassidy, p. OSHAWA ;- Keeler, ss: McIntyre, o; Locke, of; Dervent, 3b; Arnold, If; Bowler, rf; Choplk, 3b; Brooks, 1b: DeMille, p; Brown, 2b in 5th, Umpires; Frank Kellar and "Pat" Jarvis, both of Oshawa, -------------------- The American Indian used sun- flower seed for bread and for thick- ening soup, Rotary Hoboes Defeat "Dads" In Keen Game The Rotary Hoboes of the Midget Boftball league invited their fathe ers to battle it out on the diamond et Rotary Park Thursday night, and the sons gained a 26-12 win, It was a wild scoring affair for the boys despite their fathers' attempts to hold them in check, Peters and Scammell were the heaviest hitters for the Hoboes, while Mr, Sullivan and Mr, Proctor took top honours in this departe ment for the fathers, Mr, Gunter the pitcher and Mr, Scammell the catcher were an outstanding battery for the defeated team, but the "pro" shortstop made some bad bobbles, After the game an enjoyable lunch was served to the two come peting teams of tired players at the home of Mr, Carl Scammell, FATHERS;- Bcammell, ¢; Gunt- er, p; Garner, 1b; Sullivan, 2b; Lack, 3b; Comerford, ss; Peters, rf; Fowler, cf; and Proctor, If, BONBS;- Scammell, ¢; Peters, p; Fowler, 1b; Sullivan, 2b; Lack, 3b; Comerford, ss; Nichols, rf; Clover, ef; and Proctor, If. 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