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" MONDAY, APRIL 19; 1948. THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE PAGE ELEVEN | Spicy Bits From Other Sports Cols. . By W. R. WHEATLEY Canadian Press Staff Writer Montreal, April 19 (CP).--The day of the small city's in hockey is far from done. There is such | each has - two - games left to play broke out ali over the. place smaller towns tried to keep faltered but others © 'The enthusiastic community and the inspirational Spang. of na- tive-son Happy Emms, who hopes his 11-year-old son will become a professional hockey player, have t- this tribute from Hlmer (Montreal Herald) Ferguson: "On this sparse foundation there has been placed the cornerstone of what might come to be the great- est junior hockey empire in the east. Great not only because of Emms, but because there's a whole surrounding community 'supporting ' the project, supporting the Flyers, * helping to pay the salaries of these junior players who, unashamedly and wi * week in addition to what they earn in private business centures." Fergy tells of Barrie's earlier fostering of hockey in a er way, and then along came Emms, "with practical notions," to put the town on its hockey feet. "He scouted players from here and there so successfully that now there's only one home-bred on the Barrie team, goaler Jimmy Stra- chan, and he plays only half-time because Emms is game enough to undertake a plan that balked major leaguers. He alternates his goalers, the second one being Gillis Mayer of Gatineau Mills, Que. as major hockey bait." Old Country . Rugger London, April 17 (Reuters) --Results: of Taeby HUE played Saturday in the om: Shy LEAGUE Amateur International Match . 21 ce Internat.-Boxla Group Grants Six Franchises Montreal, April 19 -- (CP) -- Six teams were granted 'franchises in 'the newly-formed Interprovincial error Senior Lacrosse League at a meet- ing here Saturday. Art Walker of Montreal was ! fiamed President of the circuit that « will comprise Montreal Canadiens, Quebec Montagnards, Ottawa St. * Ann's, Cornwall Seniors, Alexan- dria, Ont, and Ogdensburg; N. Y,, we * Indians. The teams will play a 30-game schedule with the openers tentative- ly set for May 2 in Montreal and Falkirk Quebec. the season the Quebec and Montreal clubs will meet teams of the Ontario Senior Lacrosse As- sociation in a spgcial series. HEADLINES ROTARY SHOW o, April 19--(CP) -- Two | Qinple Figure Skating Champions, Barbara Ann Scott and Dick 'But. ton, will headline the Rotary Club of Toronto's Ice Revue, which will be held here May 6-7. Net proceeds of The Revue are to be devoted 10' Philanthropic activities of the club. PHILLIPS OPTIONED New York--New York Yankees today announced the release on op- tion of first baseman Jack Phillips _ to Kansas City Blues and third base- man Jerry Coleman to Newark - Bears, Coleman was with Kansas City last year and Phillips first 'with Newark and then, at the end of the ' season, with the Yanks for 16 games, out hypocricy, get $50 per | separa regarded ton Newcastle U. . Ld Clinches Climb . J eo oo o . First Division ' London, April 19--(Reuters)-- Newcastle United, which has spent more 'than £25,000 ($100,000). in the last year rebuilding its club, Satur- day' was virtually assured of pro- motion to the first 'division of the English Football League. The United, three points behind second division 'leaders, Birming- ham City, defeated Sheffield Wed- nesday 4-2 before a crowd of 55,000 in one of the most important games in 'today's "schedule, The gave Newcastle , a four- point lead over the Wednesday and before the close of the season. One point in its remaining two games will put Newcastle up in the premier division and on its present form this is almost a certainty. Birmingham made certain of promotion with an easy 2-0 victory over Cardiff before 52,000 home fans. . Tt is likely Birmingham and New- castle will replace Blackburn Ro- vers and Grimsby Town, The Ro- vers, trying desperately: to stay in the first division, drew 1-1 at Mid- dlesbrough' to raise its point-total to 30 but Charlton Athletic, also fighting hard to stay up with the "big league" clubs, gained® two val- uable points in its 2-0 triumph over 1 Charlton, with 34 points -- four more than the Rovers--needs only one point in its remaining three games to avoid relegation. Grims- by Town's fate was settled two weeks ago. Leadership battles in the third southern and northern divisions continued at a hot pace. One point' tes Rotherham United and Lincoln City in the northern group and each has two games to play. The United defeated Southport 2-1 and Lincoln stayed in line with a 3-0 verdict over Carlisle United. Queen's Park Rangers held its four-point lead over Bournemouth in the southern section as each club won. The Rangers made it 2-1 at Exeter and Bournemouth blank- ed Northampton Town 2-0. Queen's Park have four Tore games to play : urnemouth three. a a capacity crowd of 134,000 at Hampden Park saw Mor- , in the bottom half of the Scot- tish "A" division, hold the fighty ngers to a 1-1 overtime draw. The replay is at Hampden next Wednesday evening. - Old Country Soccer London, April 19 (Reuters) --Re- sults of soccer matches played in the United Kingdom on Saturday: EN re Division Derby County . Grimsby Town . Aston Ha cars Man Chelsea ........ Black. Rovers Sunderland . Ni 2 ne TG \ 8 SCOTTISH CUP FINAL COTTISH LEAGUE 5 Division "A" Second Round) ith Athletic . 2 teur Cup Fi Aatewt, oa HE! Match St. Mirren 'BARBARA ANN'S SEDAN Ottawa, April 19--(CP)--If Bar- bara 'Ann' Scott goes professional, she can get, along with those $150,- 000 Hollywood offers, a cream-col- ored convertible sedan just for the asking. The sedan. sybject of an Inter- national Amateur Association con- troversy when originally presented by the city to the world figure skating queen, hag been in storage for the last year. Controller Dr. G. M. Geldert last night said Ottawa would be glad to hand over the streamlined convert- ible just the moment. Barbara Ann HELP FORHUB « = = By Jack Sords » KRAMER Won 11 GAMES FOR ST Louis LAST YEAR. WITH "THE RED Sox BEANS HIM === FIGURE Yom : SPORT SNAPSHOTS (Continued from Page 16) Art Childs was terrific in goal for Tigers in their 4-1 victory while their ace forward line each scored a goal. Oh yes--in another important hockey game, Breslau defeated Sutton 8-4 in regular time of their second game, to tie the round 15-15 but in overtime, Brady scored for Sutton to give them the round. It was a challenge series between Breaslau, ORHA Intermediate champs Gand Sutton, ORHA senior titleholders for this season, LJ L L J SPORTS SHORTS--Frank Filchock, the star of last year's Hamilton Tigers football squad, has said that he is willing to listen to offers of Leo Dandurand of the Montreal Alouettes before all others . . . A New Yorker by the name of Reshevsky defeated the old Russian master of the chessmen, Botvinnik. Seems though that another Russian by the name of Paul Keres is tied in points with the American for the second place, behind the old Russian master . . . Windsor Alumni found the going really rough in Montreal as they were ousted but good, by the Montreal YMHA from the Eastern Canada cage finals, It was the first defeat in a long while for the classy Border City crew and it will dis- appoint quite a few people in Ontario circles not to have a team from this province in the Dominion finals . . . Stan Leonard won the city championship of Vancouver the other day when he walked over Malcolm Trapp by the score of 8 and 7 to go . . . Gerard Cote, 26-year-old St. 'Hyacinthe, Que., Tunner, won the 44th Boston Marathon, eight years ago today in the record time of 2 hours, 28 minutes, 28 3/5 seconds. Joe Smith of Medford, Mass., lowered Cote's mark to 2.26:512 in 1942. Cote won the race again in 1943. L J LJ + SCISSORED SPORT--(By The Canadian Press)---The first game of the 1948 Allan Cup final will be played in Regina, the date depending on tae outcome of the eastern final series between Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Senators, President Al Pickard of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association said at Regina last night. The cup final will begin April 14, Pickard said, but if a fifth game becomes necessary in the best-of-five Hamilton-Ottawa series the opening game will be postponed to April 26. Second game will be at Calgary April 27 or 28, depending on the eastern series, with the third and fourth games scheduled for Edmonton begin- ning May 1. The remaining games and dates have not yet been scheduled . ... The east-west battle for the Canadian Women's Senior Basketball crown gets undér way tonight at Toronto with Cardston, Alta., Shooting Stars meeting Toronto Montgomery Maids in a best-of-five series . . . Hamilton Lady Zion Ramblers Saturday might edged out Cornwall OCOT Golds 22-20 to win the Canadian Women's Intermediate Basketball Championship. Playing a two-game, total-point series, the Ramblers took the title with only a four-point majority. On Friday they claimed the opener 26-24 . . . The Dominion Gymnastic Champion- ships, scheduled for University of Toronto Hart House May 1, have been indefinitely cancelled. Chairman A. E. Chilcott has announced. Inability: of out-of-town competitors to attend and the high cost of the competi- tiin which would not be justified by the entry list, were given as reasons for the cancellation . . . Official Professional Golf Assoclation figures Saturday listed Lloyd Mangrum as top cash-collector during the 1948 winter tour with $12,205. Bobby Locke of South Africa was second with $8,008 and Cary Middlecoff of Memphis third with $6,992 . . . Nearly 1,000 athletes now are playing ball under auspices of the Ontario Base- ball Association, it was revealed in the annual report of W. J. Snyder, secretary of the association. The report was presented to the 31st annual convention of the organization at London last Friday and Saturday. The association conducted 340 playoff games which were attended by *137,739 cash customers. Financial statement showed a bank balance of $3,165 and operating profit of $857 . .. Toronto Yorkminsters captured the Ontario Basketball Association Intermediate "B" championship at Till- sonburg Saturday by defeating Tillsonburg Trojans 63-59. Yorkminsters carried a 27-point lead over from their fist game to take the two-game total-points round in easy fashion , . . Central United of Welland swept to a 61-42 victory over Riverside United of Windsor at Welland Saturday to capture the Ontario Church Basketball Junior "B" championship. Riverside won the first game of the two-game total-points series 34-33, but lost out on the round, 94-76 . . . Henry Cotton, British professional won his first United States golf tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., yesterday. He had a consistent 136 for two rounds over the par 70 old White course in the first annual Breenbrier pro-amateur handi- cap . . . Amherstburg won the Ontario Amateur Basketball Association Intermediate "'C" championship Saturday by defeating Brampton 70-35 in the second game of the final series. The winners took the first game 58-39, to give them the two-game total-points round 128-74 . . , Peter- borough Collegiate and Vocational School hoopsters edged out Hamilton's Westdale Collegiate 41-40 in overtime Saturday to win the OABA midget title. Teams from four Ontario districts played in the championship turns proféssional, final. They were Peterborough, Hamilton, Kitchener and Napanee, By Ray Gotto UKE OZARK IKE IN LEFT FIELD, EVERY PLAYER THE WINDUP.., THE. PITCH... AND THE td PENNANT RACE 1s ONY | Sports Roundup | Virginia Beach, Fla. April 19 -- (AP) Since there's a good chunk of mileage between this resort and any major league baseball cities, this looks like a good spot to in- dulge in the sports writers' spring pastime" of picking the pennant winners . . . Any fans who object to the selections can't throw brick- bats this far . . . At that, it's fairly safe this time because this observ- er, on the basis of early spring ob- servations, is obliged to string along with the majority in picking the Yankees and Cardinals. The Yanks look like a better club' than 1947 world champs, especially in pitching, while the impression gained at Sarasota was that Joe McCarthy may have a fine collec- tion of players for the Red Sox but he masn't got a ball team yet. There's. some temptation to choose the other Boston Club, prin- cipally because of Billy South- worth's leadership, but there are too many 'ifs' attached to the Braves. We'll stick with St. Louis as a sounder, more experienced club. Admittedly stabbing in the dark on some second division. clubs and those that trained in the west, here's our order of the finish, Am- erican League: New York, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis . . . And you can lump the last three . +» » National: St. Louis, Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago. LOUIS SUGGS WINS NORTH-SOUTH AGAIN Pinehurst, N.C.--Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs, Ga., won back her North and South women's golf championship Saturday by a 2 and 1 margin after a sée-saw battle with Grace Lenczk of Hartford, Conn. Truman's Toss Opens Majors Ball Season New York, April 19 -- (AP) -- Major league baseball teams knuckle down to serious business today with both the National and American leagues opening their 1848 seasons. The blue chips will be on the line at Washington, Boston and Cincinnati with 125,000 fans expect- ed to witness the proceedings. The world champion New York Yankees, picked by the experts to win their second straight American League pennant, will begin defence of their laurels at Washington. A crowd of 31,000 including Presi- dent Truman, who will toss out the first ball, is expected to watch the | New York-Washington battle, ! Allie Reynolds, who blanked | Washington in the 1947 inaugural | is slated to hurl for the Yanks and | Early Wynn for Washington. { However, before either Reynolds or Wynn even warm up, the first: official game should be in the rec- ord books. ! This game is scheduled to be played at Boston where the Red Sox take on Philadelphia Athletics in a morning and afternoon double- header. The morning game is scheduled to start at 10:15 with Joe Dobson on the hill for the Red Sox and Phil Marchildon from Penetanguishene for the A's. Either Denny Galehouse or Earl Johnson will pitch for the Sox in the afternoon tilt against Rookie Lou Brissie. National League warfare opens at Cincinnati where the Reds enter- tain Pittsburgh Pirates. Ewell Blackwell, the majors' top winner with 22 triumphs in 1947, has been nominated to hurl for the Reds against Pittsburgh's Hal Gregg, off-seasen acquisition from Brooklyn. The remaining clubs will begin playing for keeps Tuesday. St. Louis Cardinals, picked to win the Na- tional League pennant, entertain Cincinnati while the defending champion Brooklyn Dodgers meet the home-run-hitting Giants in New York. 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