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THE DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE - FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1947 PAGE TEN Unbreakable Glass for Backstop Baseball fans who sit behind the catcher won't have to look through that old chicken-wire backstop much longer if this glass backstop proves successful. Here a group of players toss even their bats at the glass, and though it doesn't break, the young lady is expecting the worst. The glass s one-half-inch thick. CPORT NAPSHOTS If the "What is so rare as" days keep up until tomorrow evening, Oshaws, softball fans should. witness a bang-up softball attraction at Alexandra Park tomorrow afternoon, starting at 3.15 o'clock when Sammy Shefsky's Tip Top Tailors visit Oshawa GM-Colts for a league game of the Beaches Major Fastball League schedule. Tip Tops have -a fair . choice of hurlers with "Cam" Ecclestone, Abner Grant and Russ. John- ston, former Hamilton fire-ball ace, all wearing Tip Top clothes this season. Ecclestone hurled the other night against Peoples and since they play Bowles tonight, we think perhaps Russ Johnston will be pitch- ing tonight and Abner Grant facing the GM-Colts here tomorrow after- noon. Local sport fans who remember the wild scenes here last year the afternoon Abner Grant went bersek and attacked the fans (and got knocked on his can, for his trouble) will be in their glory if Grant goes to the local mound against the Colts on Saturday. The Oshawa team will have Sammy Stark back in action, his broken finger having healed nicely and everything points to a classy bit of softball action. Tip Tops have to win to stay in second and another win for Colts will put them within one game of tying up with Bowles Lunch in the Beach League race. * * + Whitby and U.A.W.A. opened their Inter. "A" season last night at Alexandra Park and what started out like a one-way affair ended up as a real thriller, Whitby blasted Stan Locke from the mound with an extra-base hittimg barrage in the 6th to score 5 runs and make the score 8-7. It stayed that way to the finish too, with Whitby having the tying run on 3rd base and the winning run on 2nd, with " only one out, in the 9th. Doug. Keeler was the relief pitching hero for the Union team. One accident marred the game last night. .."Humpy" Price, reliable 3rd baseman of the U.A.W.A. team crashed with Jack Spencer of Whitby, as Price went to field a throw from 'left field. Price suffered a broken nose and had to retire from the 'v game--but will be ready to play next week, no doubt. Whitby and White Eagles go tonight in an Inter "A" game at Alexandra Park and this one should be a good game with White Eagles due fo pro- { duce some new players and no doubt a better brand of ball than ' they showed in their opening game the other night, i Rs Ry * There were several other games played last night in the local leagues, as softball gets into full swing. In the Junior loop, Aces defeated Fittings down at Cowan's Park in a game in which Brabin hurled a swell game for Aces and also drove in enough runs himself to win his own game, with Taylor helping out. Westmount Juniors were to have played In Whitby but this game may have been postponed, due to diamond conditions, We haven't heard any result. There was no Juvenile game scheduled last night but tonight, at Alexandra Park, Kiwanis takes on Reed's Florists in a league tilt. Brooklin comes here to play Dunn's Tailors tonight at Bathe Park (N-E diamond) in a Junior game and down on the 8-W diamond at Bathe Park tonight, there'll be an Inter. "AA" game with North Oshawa visiting Tannery. In the Inter, "AA" game last night, Legion indicated that they are perhaps going to spoil this league, as they ran away with a 21-2 victory over Bolahood's. Don't know who won the GM Office League game last night, since no score- book was turned in. . * +» * SPORT SHORTS;--The Oshawa Tennis Club will hold its official opening tomorrow afternoon and evening, at their club courts on Mac- Millan Drive . . . . Oshawa Golf Club swings into their inter-club com- petitions tomorrow with the Captain's Dance tomorrow evening , . . . The Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club held their official opening last evening. More about that in tomorrow's issue . . . . The wrestling show last night was one of the most hectic seen in the Oshawa Arena. One of the battlers had his elbow dislocated in the first bout, the semi-final was a sizzler and the main bout ended in a riot outside the ring. Even to those of us who perhaps take a dim view of the grunt-and-groan boys and view wrestling shows merely as "shows," last night's affair was a real hum-dinger , . . . Oshawa "Hunters," fresh from their victory over B'Nai B'Rith, travel down to Peterboro for a Lakeshore League tilt . . . . Several Oshawa players are wearing Bowmanville Royal Inter. baseball uniforms this season, in cluding Doug. Furey and Paul Michael, a couple of very fair hitters . , , , Dovercourt visits Oshawa Cricket Club at Lake- view Park tomorrow afternoon for a T. & D. League fixture . , . . U.S. baseball fans will vote today to make their own selections for the All-Star game at Wrigley Field, Chicago, on July 8th. A poll, taking three weeks, is being conducted by 182 newspapers, radio stations and magazines, for the top 8 players, exclusive of pitchers, in both the Ameri- can and National Leagues and the poll includes not only 42 States, but Canada, Hawali, Panama, overseas troops, etc. Chicago Tribune is handling it and it's the first time since 1935 that the fans have had their own say about the All-Star selection, Leagues having done the selecting in 10 of the 13 All-Star games played to date. * * 4 SCISSORED SPORT-- (By The Canadian Press)--Wilbert (Dutch) Hiller, former New York Ranger star, will be the playing Coach of the Kitchener-Waterloo Senior Ontario Hockey Association "entry this fall. Players signed for the team include Hiller, Bob Bindernagel, Don and Ray Bauer and Don Muston, Keith Woodall, goalle with the Owen Sound O.H.A. team last year, will play for the Twin City team if he By Geo. H. Campbell \ [ROLLER SKATING | | - Friday Night -- Saturday Afternoon * and Saturday Night! rBryant. They'll have to call out the guards, or the Marines or the local constabulary or somebody, if they have any more hectic nights like the one produced in the climax of last night's wrestling show at the Oshawa Arena. The crowd was smaller than usual and the regular mat fans who stayed away from this show missed a real sizzler. It was one of the best cards seen around these parts in many a season, jammed full of action and tobasco. Toronto Man Injured An unfortunate injury marred the preliminary bout which started out to be a nifty curtain raiser. "Pat" Milosh, the Oshawa grap- pler, showed plenty of improve- ment and in his bout with Earl "Tiger" Grant, was going along in WILD AND HECTIC FINISH TO great style. At the T7-minute mark, Milosh his fall. xs . Maybe it would have been better if t had. That's what everyone thought had ed, for Grant had to forfeit taken to the Oshawa General Hos- pital, where X-ray pictures disclos= ed that the arm was not broken, painfully dislocated at the el- . The injured flipper was plac- a cast Fong Grant will be out ring for a few weeks. Lively Semi-Final Ernie Hughson and Pete Pernokis were the rival battlers in the semi- final bout and they were just that, with plenty of rivalry and-a whole in the MAIN BOUT FEATURES MAT SHOW A T ARENA lot of battling. Pernokis outweighed his oppon- ent by several "inner tubes" and the fans quickly made Hughson the favorite. The unorthodox tactics of Pernokis didn't weaken their loyalty to Hughson 'any either. It was wild and woolly action from start to finish and quite the best semi-final bout seen this year. Pernokis took the first fall after 15 minutes and a few seconds of torrid activity. Hughson gave Péte a touch of his own medicine to even the count but in the deciding fall, Pemokis made full use of his extra weight and punishing illegal moves to pummel Hughson in submission--much to the displeas- ure of the fans, Main Bout Ends in Riot The main bout lived up to all expectations, in fact, the two glad- iators tossed in a little extra action for good measure. It was a rough, tough and nasty bout from start to finish. Harvey "Underwear" Stan- field was the villain of the piece and believe it or not, "Red" Gar- ner, who has trouble sticking to the rules even on a good uight, was the darling of the fans, especially the huge female contingent om the west side of the ring, It was slam-bang from start to finish, Stanfield headed the par- ade of dirty work but Garner got in his share of snide remarks also. They punched, kicked, gouged, used to | the knee, elbow and even butted with their heads. Each had a turn getting kicked out of the | Stanfield took the first fall with a "clever" kick to the groin that put Garner in no condition to ob- ed to the treatment and the deci- ring. | Garner flying tackled Stanfield and ject. He objected strenuously when he came back, however, and even- ed it up with a series of flying tackles and a top spread. Garner then won the bout, in much the same fashion--but Stanfield object. sion, Spicy Bits From Other Sport Cols. He ed a challenge to Garner for m fighting--and "Red" was never slow to knock the chip off anybody's shoulder. They waded into each other, despite the re- straining 'holds of the referee, Simpson and promoter Ted Mc- Kinley, The "fight"--for 'that's what it was at the finish--ended up out- side the ring, among the seats when both landed on the floor. The jar took further fight out of them and they were led quietly away. "By JIM KEARNEY Canadian Press Staff Writer Toronto, June 5 -- (CP) -- Ivan, Ivan, give us your answer do--and don't tell us 23.2 miles is the great- est distance ever covered in one hour by a man on a bicycle. Ivan (Hamilton Spectator) Miller got both feet caught in the spokes last week * hen he gave that figure as the afiswep, to an idle query. Now he can't et quickly enough to escape the correspondence that is pursuing him. 5 d by Figures TIP TOPS PLAY GM-COLTS HERE SATURDAY 1946 ONTARIO SR. CHAMPIONS HERE SATURDAY Sammy Shefsky, Toronto's best- known softball manager, who last season piloted his Tip Top Tailors fo the Toronto Beaches Major Fastball League championship and then went on to capture the All- Ontario Senior "A" softball title, wheels into Oshawa tomorrow af- ternoon . for a Beaches League schedule game with the Oshawa GM-Colts and one of the biggest crowds to witness a softball game in this city will likely be on hand at Alexandra Park when the game gets under way. It is scheduled for 3.15 o'clock. Tip Top Tailors have won more Senior "A" crowns than any other single team in Ontario but usually when they were beaten in O.AS.A. playoffs or in the Cleveland series, for the right to represent Canada in the World's Series softball tourn- ament in United States, it was Russ. Johnson of Hamilton who did the trick. . . Strong Pitching Staff This year the canny Sammy has brought Johnson to Toronto to work and instead of opposing Tip Tops, he is now rated as their pitching ace, or one of their aces. It has to be that way--for Tip Top Tailors have two other pitchers who have long been regarded as "tops" in Canadian softball circles, namely the one-and-only Cam (Mr. Soft- ball) Ecclestone and the colorful Abner, The Great, Grant. Regardless of whether it's John- son, Ecclestone or Grant, Oshawa softball fans who take in this game tomorrow afternoon will see oppos- ing GM-Colts, othe of the best soft- ball chuckers in the game. "Lefty" Meulemester will likely get the hurling assignment for the GM-Colts and if the big left-hander is "on", with good control and his drop working, the Tip Top Tailors will not be "busting fences" either. . Stark Ready to Play Sammy Stark, classy first base- man and strong hitter, who played one game with the Colts this sea- son and then suffered a broken finger in practice, will be back in action for Saturday's game and with the Colts' revamped infield clicking; their defensive play rates with the best in Ontario. Tip Tops have France, Hayes, Cranham, Eddie Geraldi, Smith, the veteran 3rd baseman and a strong hitting outfield headed by Art Upper. At present, Tip Tops are tied with Bowles for second place. They play in Toronto tonight but regardless of the result, Tip Tops must win over the GM-Colts here at Alexandra Park tomorrow afternoon in order to stay in second. The Oshawa team, on the other hand, usually plays their best brand of ball against Sammy Shefsky's team and if they come up with one of their good games tomorrow af- ternoon, Oshawa softball fans are i for a real treat--regardless of the by PICKERING WINS OPENING GAME IN C.O.F. LEAGUE The C.O.F. Softball League opened on, Thursday in Alexandra Park. The visiting team from Pickering, under the ement of Jack Bryant, met one of the local teams, the Rangers, Sandy Stark, manager. The Pickering team borrowed a few Oshawa boys to complete their nine and during the first three in- nings held Oshawa to a no score, but the latter rallied and tallied with two runs in the fourth. Free hitting was the order of the day from then on and the score for nine innings stood at 19 to 13, with Pickering the victors. Battery for Oshawa was Bob Fer- guson, Carl Miller, pitchers, and A. Stark, catcher. For Pickering, Doug Bryant and B. Skinner. Umpires: ©, Ferguson and E. Belmont Was Last Chance for Phalanx Belmont Park race track When Phalanx galloped to victory in the Belmont stakes he proved he was st:1 the best horse in the U.S. over the mile and a half distance. In three previous races, all shorter, he was barely outdistanced by Jet Pilot in the Kentucky Derby and Faultless in the Peter Pan and Preakness. Phalanx set no record for the race, but the $100,000 prize is as large a purse as the highly publicized derby. Only one race on the North American continent is older than Belmont, first run in 1867, and that is the King's Plate in Toronto, Ont. Orme Gamsby Is Having Bad Year On Trout Stream Orono, June 6--Two games have been played in the "Bush" League which comprises Newcastle, Ken- dal with Orono. Both have been played between Orono and Kendal with Orono winning both contests. The score of the first game was 7 to 2 and the second 18 to 8. Orme Gamsby, dean of district fishermen, reports. his piscatorial endeavors have not proven ag suc- cessful thi seaon as in some year in the past. To date he has caught only 30 speckled trout. M-m-m! EDITOR'S NOTE: That is exact- ly 30 more trout than the editor has caught in the past three years, Ada Mackenzie Seeks Her 8th Provincial Title Ancaster, Ont.,, June 6~(CP)-- seeking her eighth provincial title defending champion Miss Ada Mac- kenzie of the Toronto ladies club teed off today at the Hamilton Golf Club against the one-time Ontario Junior women's champion, Mrs. H. M. Currer of Toronto Summit, in the 18-hole final for the Ontario ladies golf championship. In the final carded for 1.30 p.m: Miss Mackenzie ruled a slight. fav- crite, Mrs. Currer, twice winner of the Junior, title, has just returned to the g&uié after an' absence of four years and had only three prac- tice rounds before the present tournament opened. She was 'only one stroke behind the medallist in the qualifying round. In the semi-finals yesterday how- ever, Mrs, Currer had to go one extra hole before eliminating Mrs. J. Hanng of Toronto, Miss Mac- kenzie had her troubles too, watch- ing a four-up lead dwindle on the back nine before she defeated Mrs. J. Seawright of Toronto 2 and 1. does not turn pré and Mike Dziura, Kitchener boy who played for Holly- wood last season, is also a prospect . . . . Lack of suitable grounds st Toronto was the reason given for cancellation of a pre-season exhibition game between Toronto Balmy Beach Football team and Regina Rough- riders in the fall. It is expected that Ottawa Trojans will play the Westerners instead . . . . Howie Meeker and Bobby Schnurr will be honored for their National Hockey League exploits of last winter when their teammates on the Kitchener Senior Intercounty Baseball Club play Waterloo Tigers at home next Saturday . ... Waterloo Tigers of the Senior Intercourity Baseball League dropped a 6-5 decision last night at home to the Buffalo Colored Stars in an exhibition game . . . . Entries for the Ontario Amateur Golf Championship to be held June 26-28 at Thornhill Golf Club, Toronto, close Monday June 23. Players are accept- ed with a handicap of 12 and under... . Viljo Heine of Finland claimed a World Record for four miles at Helsinki last night by running the distance in 18 minutes, 47.6 seconds, bettering by 9 7/10 seconds his own previous record . , . , X-ray pictures have disclosed that Pete Reiser, crashed. into a coficrete wall while making a catch at a Wednesday night game . ... The President of the National Assoiation of Professional Baseball Leagues of America has placed a permanent ban on a Western Association outfielder of the Muskogee, Okla, club for "conduct detri- mental to baseball" The St. Joseph, O., News-Press quoted the out- flelder, Marion Allen McElreath, as saying the charges on which he was suspended were a lie and that he had not ask other player to hel him throw a game. udisd 2 Pave " 4) Sport Scribes & Hockey Players In Benefit Tilt Vaneouver, June 6--(CP) -- The official score-keeper vowed the game ended in a 4-4 tie but a packed stadium, after witnes- sing the softball antics of the Vancouver Sportswriters and the opposing Hockey All-Stars, left the game last night shaking their heads, Fans, who contributed nearly $1,100 to the Leo Nichelson tes- timonial fund--for the promin- ent sports broadcaster, formerly from Montreal, confined to a year in bed through illness -- were dished up in a strange dis- play of softball prowess, Included in the weird proceed- ings was a fire lit under a "cold" shortstop and an auction from the pitcher's box of a pair of py- jamas which the owner promptly whipped off and handed to the startled buyer, Coley -Hall, owne er of the Vancouver Canucks. MAX LANIER TO RETURN TO HIS MEXICAN TEAM Mexico City, June 5--(AP)-- The Mexican Baseball League announced last night that Max Lanier, former St, Louis Cardi- nalg stellar southpaw, has:agreed to return to the circuit with his old team, the Veracruz Blues, thus ending his long holdout. -During the winter it was repor- ted Lanier had been offered only FISHERMAN' SPECIAL! 8 JN pves 3.280 Loman $2.50 90¢ SMITH POTTERIES 353 King W. - Phone 472 OPEN EVENINGS! TROUT REELS Brooklyn Dodgers. outfielder, suffered. only facial lacerations when he | $7,600 for the 1947 season com- pared to the $15,000 he was re- ported to have received last year. 75,000 MILES BY FERRY London -- (CP) -- In 51 years George Bryant, 65, travelled 75,000 miles by boat--all within 300 yards of the shore. He crossed the Thames on Woolwich Free Ferry more than 300,000 times. Well, At That Maybe It's A Very Good Idea Toronto, June 5--(CP)--Some- times a girl just can't win and Bar- bara Ann Scott who rode out a tempest in a tea-port storm con- Sening her gift automobile knows t. The diminutive World Champion amateur figure skater, who alleged- ly jeopardized her Amateur Status, by accepting a gift automobile from the City of Ottawa, and who re- turned the car to make the Olympic officials happy, can't get away from the fiasco, Recently she drove with her friend Betty Caldwell to ott to visit friends. They travelled in Miss Caldwell's automobile, a model similar to the one Barbara Ann was forced to return. But, the Caldwell car is black. On returning to Ottawa, the girls stopped to visit a friend and when they re-entered the automobile there was a note prominently dis- played on the steering wheel. "Who do you think you're fooling with the black paint?" it read. "We're wise to you." Baseball . Personalities HOW THE STARS DID YESTERDAY By The Associated Press Joe DiMaggio, Yagkees--Dropping six points to .351 with one hit in five at bat against Tigers. Lone hit was a fitth-inning single. Hank Greenberg, Pirates--Went hit- less as Harry Taylor blanked Pitts. burg with two hits 3-0. > Jackie Robinson, Dodgers--Hammer- ed third home run, singled twice and grounded out for big day, three-for- four. Stan Musial, Card Jnaly-Contribusen it. a double and scored one run Louis' 5-3 edge over Boston. Johnny Mize, Giants--Walked twice in hitless first game, singled in seventh inning of second game as New York split pair with Chicago Cubs. His con- tribution to eight-run third inning was But one man who did catch him --and land on him with a sidecar full of facts--was veteran cyclist Gus Hogben of Hamilton, who de- vours bike-riding records with his breakfast each morning. And here they are as Ivan listed them when Gus finally gave him a chance to come up for afr, The one hour," motor-paced un- restricted record was made by L. Vanderstuyft at Montlhery (near Paris) Motor Track in 1928, where in 60 minutes he covered 76 miles, 503 yards, In 1928, at a motorcycle track in Melbourne, Australia, H. Oppe man rode for 24 hours in the same man- ner and found at the end of that time he had covered 806 miles, 367 yards. (He averaged almost 36 miles per hour.) Gus listed several more records, finally throwing the knockout punch at Ivan with: "From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1939, Tommy Godwin rode 75,065 miles, an average of 200 miles per day. Ivan, do you want to buy a bike?" Everybody Laugh New York Columnist Dan Parker is applying the whip to United States AAU. President Avery Brundage with just as much gusto as Canadian Sports Writers ever since that Amateur Triangle--Av- ery, Barbara Ann Scott and the cream-colored roadster--came into the International spotlight. 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