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SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN Three Canadian Hurlers In Majors AlLIn Philly By JOHN D. HAMILTON Canadian Press Staff Writer New York, June 21--(CP)--Maybe it isn't significant but the only three Canadian Big League pitch- ers extant all make Philadelphia their working headquarters . . . Dick Fowler of Toronto and Phil Mar- childon of Penetanguishene, Ont., are on the mound staff of the Philadelphia Athletics while Oscar Judd of Ingersoll, Ont. hurls for the neighboring Phils in the Na- tional League . . . Judd and Fowler haven't been going so well this year but. Marchildon is the joy of the venerable Connie Mack's heart . . . When he won his sixth game of the season Thursday, he lifted the A's into fourth place, just 2% g behind the leading Boston Red . Judd so far has lost Jour games and has won none while Fowler has a .500 average with four wins and four losses. , . Marchildon Saga Marchildon came up to the A's a few years ago as a fast but wild youngster . . . The Athletics were tagging along at the end of the American League parade and Phil never was the outstanding star he might have been with a powerhouse team such as the Yankees . . . But he nevertheless proved himself one of the better Big League mounds- men . . . This season the A's are a little better and Phil has a respect- able record of six wins and three losses. Grade A's Mention of the Athletics always brings up memories of Philadel- phia's old days of baseball glory . .. After 15 years cf tagging along be- hind the other teams, it seems strange that the A's once were as powerful as the Yankees who suc- ceeded them as Baseball's Golden Boys . This observer recalls the first World Series broadcast he listened to was in 1931--the year the A's swept through the Ameri- can League 'and met St. Louis Cards in the post-season contest , Stars of the A's were pitchers George Earnshaw and Lefty Grove, both rated virtually unbeatable . . . But the Cards came up with two aces--Burleigh Grimes and Pepper Martin . . . Old stubble-chin tossed his spit-balls past the best Phila- delphia batters and Martin ran like crazy on the basepaths . . . The re- sult was an upsetting Card win ... Those were the days of the Gas- House Gang--when the Cards never cleaned their uniforms while on the road and fought to the last pitch... HARDLY PUSSER The English fleet that opposed the Spanish armada was composed mostly of merchant ghips. X | donates three paragraphs to num- Spicy Bits From Other Sport Cols. By RAY TIMSON Canadian Press Staff Writer Toronto, June 21--(CP)--There's boom and setback in every business. In politics it's humor and hatred. In love it's ecstacy and heartbreak. But in sport, that business above all businesses, the term "oddities" suf- fices. With the Barbara Ann Scott ice affair melted and the Canadian Golf Open thoroughly chipped, Sport Columnists across Canada to- day plug gaps in their daily efforts with countless current or recollected oddities in sport, Ivan (Hamilton Spectator) Miller ber one oddity in the roundup. He looks ahead to June 26 when blind golfers from every corner of the Dominion will compete at Toronto's St. Andrew's Course in the Annual Canadian National Institute for the Blind Tournament. t-- Ivan suggests that duffers who toss clubs, wear their tempers thin and threaten suici"e because they fi.:d it difficult to break the century in golf, should turn out and take a r:ek at this novel tourney "and they would probably never again cuss the rub of the green or a shanked shot." A lengthy piece on Southpaws by Jack (London Free Press) Park rated "oddi'; number two." He told of a boy-runner who ripped off miles in better than 4.1 but refused to enter a recognized meet. While ordinary track men are content to bow to tradition and run their races counter-clockwise, Jack's hero in- sisted on running his races clock- wise. "He was a stubborn c..; and gave up the track when they would not change the rules," Jack wrote, "and took np alley bowling, a sport he claimed was the only one fair to southpaws, for one has the choice of ~aming either the feur or the five pin their 'blow' pin." N. D. Whitmore of the St. Thomas T.mes-Journal, reports on Sport Television. Two local yokels, he says, visited New York and saw a base- ball gamedand a boxing match through television. "It's gaining ground rapidly in the US." says N.D., "and my two locals enjoyed it immensely. Methinks they'll have the first St. Thomas sets." At Winnipeg, the . Free Press alarmed sportsmen when it an- nounced the formation of a nine- team baseball league, garbed in colorful sweaters and hose, and representing 'Peg's Fire Depart- ment. The firemen have also or- ganized an 18-team volley ball loop. 'BETTER'WITH AGE" . By Jack Sords "The Human Cork" Visits Oshawa-- Will Water Stunt | Norris "Corky" Kcllam, the one-and-only, 'original "Yuman Cork", is visiting in Otis an along with his son, who pilled as "Corky Kellam and Son", performed last season at Atlantic City's Steel Pier and who this fall, will be in the C.N.E, as a featured performer, are going to put on a show for Oshawa swimming enthus- fasts, young and old, out at Pleasure Valley Ranch, on Sunday afternoon ard evening, 2.00 and 7.00 o'clock. "Corky". holds the world record for non-stop swimming, ndving stroked his way down the Mississippi River: irom Cairo, Hlinois, to Memphis, Tenn., back in October, 1931, a distance of 225 miles and he was swimming" contin: 'usly for 96 hours--a mark that has never been topped. He weighs 300 lbs. today and in his repertoire. of water stunts, has 38 tricks, including eating a banana under water, smoking a cigarette, being pushed into the water while blind-folded and tied to a chair and the very tricky stunt depicted in the picture above, balancing 7 glasses filled with water, while floating on his back in the water. It's a good trick if you can do The general public, especially youngsters who are afraid of water, are invited to watch y, as Kellam gives a practical demonstration of his pet slogan, "Keep Em. Swim- and "Corky" can do it. his perfor on S ming". a Big League 'Ball Games ' Sport Shorts From Britain Lord's, the Old Man is back. "Father Time," the bearded an bent old fellow who told how. the wind was blowing ffom atop Nis perch on the famous cricket gra stand at Lord's, was "dismissed" early this year when a rampant wind bowled him over. A few repairs on his steel frame and he's back now on the side eagle-eyeing the flannel-trousered players. London, June 20--(CP)--Carry of LR SR 2 Councillor L. F. Glanville of Portsmouth has this novel (or is it?) definition of cricket:- "Cricket is a game for 22 players and two umpires, played slowly in the presence of a large number of spectators fast asleep. Stumps are usually drawn at 6 p.m. when the spectators wake up, dash around the ground and buy the evening paper to ascertain the score." But how does Councillor Glan- ville reconcile those "well done, sir" murmur8 one occasionally hears coming from the grandstand? 5 Be HL BoB Ander®™n, former chairma of the English Rugby League, getting a lot of chuckles with his story about the referees. One of the 20 R.L. refs died and clubs and officials were asked for a shilling (20 cents) subscription towards defraying funeral expenses. One Yorkshire club director sent 20 shillings with a note:- "Keep the change and bury the other 19." * » Mrs. Jean Hetherington, bride of a few months when she won the British women's amateur golf cham- plonship in 1946, wasn't around to defend her title at Gullane, Scot- land. All her time is centred on another event--an addition to the family-- expected in September. d+ Bookies took a terrific beating at Newmarket when Blue Train, the King's Derby horse, galloped home an easy winner in the Newmarket Stakes. Estimated loss to boo ers in the stands was £70,000 ($280) 000), described by one as the bigge: gamble he had seen since the days of big betting after the First World War. Re ae TE Here's a sporting gesture. Australian athletes are to send food parcels to Britain's partici: pants in the 1948 Olympics. "We want to meet British athletes on an equal footing in all events and we cannot do that if they have not the food on which to train," said Sir Frank Beaurepaire, president of the Victoria Olympic Council. Is there an in the rumor that Canada might do the same? J9-YEAR-OLD LEFTHANDER, I5 THE. LEADING TWIRLER OM THE PITTS~ BURGH STAFF AGAIN. FRITZ HAS WON FOUR AND LOST.ONE.." OSTERMUELLER HAS SPENT I4 YEARS INTHE BIG. LEAGUES, AFTER STARTING HIS CAREER 20 YEARS .AGO_WITH QUINCY IN THE THREE-1 LEAGUE. + - Yesterday's Stars In Box and At Bat By The Associated Press Batting, Stan Musial Ca his batting average to 242 with a per- jee four-: our-four agai e Giants n ing the Cal to a victory. He drove in three runs. Pitching, Walter Masterson, Senators --Shut out St. Louis Browns 3-0 with Awo hits to extend his consecutive scoreless inning streak to 34. "Human Cork" Visiting Here Norris "Corky" Kellam, the "Hu- man Cork", who back on October 31st, 1931, climbed out of the Mis- sissippi River at Mcenphis, Tenn, pafter swimming 225 miles Cairo, Ill, for 96 hours without stopping, is visiting in Oshawa. "Corky" still holds that world's record for longest time non-stop swimming and distance. He was with Billy Rose's "Aqua- cade" at the N.Y. Woyld's Fair and later at the World Fair in San Francisco. He wag at the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, last summer and this year, he'll be a featured per- former at the C.N.E,, in Toronto. This breezy veteran of the water, who now tips the scales at 300 lbs. (almest tips 'em over, eh?) is still a star in the water. He features stunts, most difficult of all, float- ing on his ba¢k and balancing sev- en glasses filled with water, placed on his knees, hands, forehead and "tummy". He's going to do this trick and about 35 others, includ- ing eating a banana under water, etc., tomorrow afternoon and even- ing at Pleasure Valley Ranch, This is not a paid-admission show, claims "Corky"--just his favorite slogan, "Keep 'Em Swim- ming". He thinks everybody sheuld swim and his performances are for | w. the benefit of those youngsters and timid about" water. "Corky" gets himself tied to .a chair, hand and foot, and then he's blindfolded. They push him into the water tank and in about 15 sec- onds he's back on top--bobbing around like a cork. It's strictly a swimming exhibi- tion, with water stunts, that is be- ing given tcemorrow and parents are invited to take their children along to see the performances at two o'clock and seven o'clock. The only admission is the usual gate fee in vogue at 'Pleasure Valley Ranch. "Corky" and his son are known for their swimming performances and diving stunts, across the con- tinent. He was at the Sportsmen's Show at Ottawa in April. "Corky" Junior is a comedian of rare talent and does comedy and fancy diving as his specialty. International League Action By The Associated Press Rochester Red Wings are pick- ing on the International Lea- gue's, one-two clubs in their bid to land a first division berth for the first time since 1941. Manager Cedrid Durst's Wings, have won six out of their last seven starts from the league-lea- ding Montreal Royals and the runner-up Syracuse Chiefs andgss a result the Wings trail the fourth place Baltimore Orioles by six percenfage points today. Rochester followed up its 7-3 rout of Syracuse in the series op- ener Thursday by taking both ends of a twin bill from the Chiefs last night, 6-4 and 5-3. Veteran Glenn Gardner limited the Chiefs to five blows. Recruit Green gained credit for the night cap win although CHAMPIONSHIP VOTORCYCLE LINDSAY eo Exhibition Grounds o Je foo, on et be 1 MILE TRACK . DUST TREATED! Cyclists will here for this event! The Fastest Riders in U.S. and Canada will be on_ hand. Nine Events, Three and Five Miles. Under Auspices of 1.0.0.F. Sanc- tioned by the AMA. (of USA.) and Promoted by the Toronto LINDSAY Motorcycle Club, . Admission 50c--Cars 50c he needed help from Max Surkont in the eighth, By losing, the Chiefs dropped five games behind the Royals who took a 5-4 decision from the Ori- oles, Jersey City Giants pulled 'to within seven percentage points of Syracuse as southpaw Jim Good- 3-1 on four hits, The set - back dropped the Bi- sons into a sixth place tie with Newark Bears who nosed out the guil-eny, Toronto Maple Leafs -3 Baseball Personalities Stan Musial, Cardinals--Rapped out 4-for-4 including 'a triple and drove in three runs to lead St. Louis to a 7-8 victory over the Giants. Ted Williams, Red Sox--was called out on strikes, fanned, hit into a field- er's choice and lined to centrefield in four times at nat, 8 the Indians nip- the Red Sox 3-2 Mize, Glants--Hit his 18th hom right, in four times at bat as the Cards defeated the | Giants 7-3. Hank Greenberg, Pirates--Singled in four times at bat and scored one of Pittsburgh's runs 'in the Pirates 6-0 shutout of the Phils Joe DiMaggio, Yankees--Flied out, stuck out and walked against Hal New- houser and doubled against Johnny QGorsica in four times at bat as the Yankees downed the Tigers 5-3. (Jackie Robinson did not play). from | gue smoking a cigarette under water, | Chi own method of promoting his own |B others not-go<young, who are a bit St, win turned back Buffalo Bisons |. Stafidings| INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal . Syracuse CIB. Ne Jersey City, FORT Sunday' 's Games Toronto at Buffalo; Baltimore at Montreal; Newark at Rochester; Jersey City at Syracuse. ' NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati .. Philadelphia ... Pittsburgh .. 32 r Friday's Results to! Sunday's A ass New York at 8t. Louls; Boston at cago; Brooklyn at Cincinnati @); Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (2). AMERICAN LEAGUE Pet. ' GBL New York .. 57 v Cleveland Washington Now Tork Cleveland Phe Sunday' s Games at Phil Cleve- Chi (2); land at Boston (2); Detroit at New York; St. Louls at Washington (2). BORDER LEAGUE Auburn 1; Kingston 7. +» First Game Geneva 6; Ogdensburg 3 (7 innings). Second Game Geneva 5; Ogdensburg 6. Ottawa 2; aterdown 12. HURLER SENT BACK TO COAST Cleveland, June 21-- (AP) -- Cleveland Indians have farmed hurler .Gene Bearden back to Oakland, Calii., of the Pacific Coast . League, the Tribe's busi. ness manager Rudy Schaffer an- nounced last night, 'birds' No. 1 Yesterday By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer "Whitewasher" Walter Master- son, whd hasn't been scored up- on in his 34 innings, threatens to win as many games this sea- son as he did all und in his pre- vious five and a fraction years in the big time. The tall righthander, who won only .20 and lost 35 in five full seasons and part of another with Washington in the 'American Lea- gue, notched his sixth triumph against three defeats last night when he shut out St. Louis Browns 3-0 Has White Sox Number Masterson, who had blanked Chicago White Sox for 16 innings June 8 and Detroit for nine June 15, gave up only two hits and -faced 28 batterss Walt Judnich singled in the third inning and 'Bob Dillinger hit a one-bagger in the seventh. Both .went out at- tempting to: steal. Masterson's 34 consecutive scoreless innings tops the prev- ious high of '31 strung together by Frank Papish -of the White Sox, Cleveland's Bob Feller had 29 earlier this year. Cards Topple Giants St. Louis Cardinals continued their rush toward the top of the National League standings by winning their eighth straight 7-3 against New York Giants, Harry (The Cat) Brecheen, the Red~ hurler, gained his ninth 'victory as he became the first St, Louis hurler to defeat the Giants this season. The Redbirds row are in fifth place, but only 3% games away from the front-running Boston Braves who lost to Chicago Cubs 6-4. Stan Musial upped his batting average o .242 with a perfect four for four performance. He drove in three runs, two coming in a big four-run seventh on his triple Joe Medwick and Del Rice homered for the Cards as did Johnny Mize and Walker Cooper of the Giants, Yankees Back On Top New York Yankees went back into first place in the American League by defeating the slump- ing Detroit Tigers 5-3 while Bos- ton Red Sox were losing to Cleveland Indians 3- Rookie righthander Frank Shea of the Yankees continued his mastery over the Bengals and ace south- paw Hal Newhouser with a four- hit effort.. The, Red Sox fell a half game behind the Yankees as Tex Hugh- son. lost a tough : decision to Cleveland's Allen Gettel, Jim He- gan, Gettel's batterymate, drove in all the Indians' runs with a second inning home run and a ninth inning single. Sun Helps Cubs. Win Tommy Holmes lost Emil Kush's fly in the sun for a dou- ble in the last half of the ninth and it developed into the win- ning run to give the Cubs the edge. Kush also gained credit for the victory by pitching two score- less relief innings. Ernie Bonham, former 20- game winner for New York Yan- kees, hurled a. 6-0 shutout against Philadelphia Phils in his first starting assignment for the Pirates in a night game at Pitts- burgh. Bothered by a lame back most of the season, Bonham was well enough to allow only five hits. 2 Top U.S. Golf Figures Fade In PGA Play Detroit, June 21--(AP)--The 29th national P.G.A. championship hit the third round and 36-hole match play today but few of the pre-tournament favorites were around to appreciate it. With the heaviest casualty list in history marking the first two 18- hole match rounds, most of the front-ranking name stars were looking on from the sidelines as play went into the fourth day over the treacherous 6,922-yard Plum Hollow Golf Club layout. Knocked out in the opening round were such aces as Ben Ho- gan, defending champion; Jimmy DeMaret, leading tournament mon- ey winner of the year; Bobby Locke, the South African veteran and two other ex-P.G.A. champs, Johnny Revolta and Bob Hamilton, Sam Snead, 1942 P.G.A. cham- pion and runner-up.last week in the National Open, wasn't long in joining them as 45-year-old Gene Sarazen, celebrating the 25th an- niversary of the first of his three P.G.A. championships in 1922, kay- oed him 2 and 1 on the second lap after Snead had squeezed past hard-hijting Jimmy Thomson in his first match 2 up. Sarazen's third round opponent was 39-year-old Ky Laffoon, the Chicago veteran who ousted one of the giant-killers in the second round, defeating Toney Penna of Cincinnati whose eight - birdies in 17 holes was enough to drop Hogan in his first match 3 and 1. Another star-wrecker, Texas- born Henry Ransom, couldn't 'hold up after throwing the bombshell that eliminated Locke, 1 up, and he bowed to 39-year.old Dick Metz of Chicago in the afternoon. Today the 36-hole matches will trim the field to eight player for finals are Monday and finals Tues- day, also at 36 holes. Finland-Norway Get Olympic Games If Held in 1952 Stockholm, June 21 (AP).--Avery Brundage, head of the United States delegation to the Interna- tional Olympic Committee meeting here, announced today that the committee had selected Helsinki, Finland, and Oslo, Norway, as the sites for the 1952 Olympic Games. Brundage commented: . "In view of the fact that Helsinki was given the Olympics in 1940 and prepared for them. It is not un- usual to expect they would have a favorable reception of their re- newed bid. "Oslo has bid for the winter Olympics more than 10 years and it is natural that the winter games be held there, with the summer games at Helsinki." It was disclosed earlier that five United States cities bidding for the games had been asked to under- write transportation expenses of European athletes. Avery Brundage of Chicago, vice- president, of the I.0.C. said the host city never before had been asked to pay for the transportation of ' athletes but expressed the opinion that profits of the games should not go to the city enter- taining the quadriennial classic. This was interpreted to be tanta- mount to approval of the reported conversation of J. Sigfred Edstrom, president of the 1.0.C., with delega~ tions from the five American cities in which Edstrom asked them to agree to use the profits to help bring Europeans to the games. CANADIAN WINTERS PREVENT PRACTICE NEEDED IN TENNIS Vancouver, June 21--(OP)--The long winter lay-off is what kills de. velopment of top tennis players in Canada. Dave Gillam, American tennis professional at the Vancouver lawn tennis club, said in an interview that the Dominion is and always will be one of the poorer tennis countries in the world unless frass tic action to rectify the lack of training. "Practice is needed to reach the top 10 in world tennis, and as long as no action is taken to nullify the harmful effects of the winter in- activity, Canadians will not attain that high mark," Gillam said. © What is needed are some indoor courts for winter play. The players who show promise, particularly youngsters, are trained well throughout 'the summer and by September have learned quite a bit, But the long winter layoff takes away the finer edge of their game and it takes at least a month in the sprifig to regain it." Gillam was brought from the Palm Springs Racquet Club, by joint action of the Canadian and British Columbia Lawn Tennis Ase sociations, 'to help develop Can. ada's Davis Cup team this year. 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