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- N "THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, PAGE TWELVE _ PORT ~ NAPSHOTS With the summer weather starting to come around and warmer Breezes blowing across the diamond, the local sport enthusiasts are getting ready for their favorite recreations. They're planning their official openings at the Oshawa Golf Club, Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club and Oshawa Yacht Club for this month, although the members are in action already. Several of the softball teams have started their work- outs, although the hurlers aren't going all-out yet of course, and the batters haven't found their eye. The local baseball teams have started to hold practices with the Motor City Cab juniors, Oshawa "Hunters" and the "Oshawa Merchants" senior "B" team all now in full swing. * \ 4 * Oshawa Lacrosse Club executive has called a meeting of all interested players, to be at the Oshawa Arena tonight. This will be a "conflab" session, not a workout, but no doubt they want to know how many players are available and what's more important, how much equipment is available and how much will have to be pur- chased immediately. There are reported to be at least two imports here, youngsters of junior age, while Hudson, the hockey-playing husky from Ottawa who came here last month, is also reported to be a gutted-stick wielder of note. The lacrossers will have about a month for workouts and then in June, it is expected their schedule will open. Peterboro's bid for Senior "A" rating was withdrawn, so they, as defending senior "B" champs, will stand as the team to beat. Geo. H. Campbell + + £3 Charlie Twining, chairman of the Canadian Legion "Sports Com- mittee" sends us important information, of big interest to the local boys who intend to play juvenile baseball (under 19) in the Canadian Legion Minor Baseball League, here this summer. All boys who are moving into the Minor league for the first time, should phone one of the team coaches or leave their name at the Legion Hall, Centre Street. Members of the 1947 Victors team are to phone Earl McIntyre at 2809W; Cay Lumber Co. players of last year should contact Sebe Claus at 3668J; Beaton's Dairy players are to get in touch with Ed Brisbois at 47217, and Rexall players are to phone Jack Strank at 4712J or Hank Valentine at 2784J. * * * Hamilton Aerovox Junior "B" OHA champions, were feted at a banquet last night by their sp s with President George Panter and Secretary "Bill" Hewitt both in attendance. The Hamilton mayor added his praise and the boys received the OHA gold medals, wind- breakers from the sponsors and wallets from the Aerovox employees' council. The players gave Coach "Pinky" Lewis a travelling bag and the sponsors also gave gifts to other club officials. A neat and nice way to wind up a season, for a very fine hockey team. a * * Today's the day that the grandmothers in Toronto (and neighboring centres) are buried again, in the annual funerals that enable the office boy (and the executives) to take in the opening baseball game of the season, at Maple Leaf Stadium. Toronto Leafs started well but they've slipped this last week and what will happen today is hard to guess. * + * With only the Allan Cup unclaimed for this year, the hockey season is all over, except out in Edmonton (and Ottawa) so sport fans are looking now to their sumnrer activities--or the opening day at Woodbine. The horse racing sport has a following all its own and the enthusiasm of those bitten by the bug, never seems to wane. Have you picked your King's Plate winner yet? * + * SPORT SHORTS--Bubba- Church is to pitch the opener of the Toronto Baseball Leafs season down at the Fleet Street flats in the Queen City. Seems that he is the guy who jumped from Class C ball up to the triple A Leafs. That is quite a jump, and funnier still is the fact that he is turning out to be one of the steadier moundsmen of the Leafs staff . . . Up at Alexandra Park these nights the junior ball squads are quickly rounding .into shape. Hunters and the new entry Mid-Town Taxi (last year's Sunnyside Combines for the most part) look to be heading for a great year of rivalry. The Hunters having pitching strength and some strong hitters, but they do not have the all- round balance of the younger, less experienced Cab squad . . . The UAWA Inter. "A" squad will have a practice this Thursday evening at Alexandra Park, so manager Harold Godfrey reveals . . . Johnny Risko, Cleveland baker boy, 17 years ago tonight got a 12-round win over Max Baer, the California heavyweight who in 1934 took the champion- ship by a technical knockout from Primo Carnera. One year later Jimmy Braddock dethroned Baer and in 1837 Braddock lost his crown to Joe Louis, present heavyweight champion. * 4 + SCISSORED SPORT--(By The Canadian Press)--Player salaries for the now professional Pacific Coast Hockey League will not be announced until after the annual National Hockey League meeting at Montreal or New York in June, it was learned at Vancouver Tuesday night. The coast: league's decision to go professional is in complete harmony with big money. Eddie Shore has paid $50,000 for the Oakland Oaks fran- chise. Charles Cord, motor car magnate, now owns the Los Angeles club, and the Forsyth brothers and the Buffalo Hockey team paid a large sum for the San Diego tink . . . Earl Sande, facing federal grand jury action on a charge of illegally possessing narcotics, was handed a 60-day suspension Tuesday at New York by the Jockey Club. Under the suspension, the famous one-time jockey, now an owner and trainer of horses, is denied admission to the grounds of any track under the jurisdiction of the turf's ruling body., This includes all major racing plants in the United States. Sand was arraigned Monday after one of his horses was allegedly found to have been drugged when it won a race at Jamaica last fall . . . Vancouver's sharp-shooting Clover Leafs led all the way at Montreal Tuesday night to hand Montreal YMHA Blues a 63-41 trouncing to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five series for the dominion. senior basketball title. Fourth game will be tonight with the fifth, if necessary, Saturday . .. At Edmonton, University of Alberta Golden Bears Tuesday night squared the Western Canada Universities' senior men's basketball championship series at one game each by de- feating University of British Columbia Thunderbirds 51-46. The deciding game of the best-of-three series will be played Thursday. The winner goes to Toronto to meet University of Western Ontario for the Canadian university: title . . . Surgeons took another inch off the right leg of President 'Bill Veeck of Cleveland Indians Tuesday ab Cleveland and described the operation as "satisfactory." That was the third amputa- tion of the leg below the knee. Veeck injured it in an accident while he was with the United States Marines at Bougainville in the South Pacific .. . The West Side Tennis Club of New York Tuesday announced that the United States professional grass court championships will be held June 12-20 at Forest Hills with such attractions as Jack Kramer and Bobby Riggs . . . The smallest field since-the end of the war will ¢hallenge Willie Turnesa in his defence of the British Amateur Golf Championship, starting May 24 at St. Andrew's, Scotland, Entries are expected to be less than 180. - MAT SHOW STRESSES BEEF NOT SPEED Villains of Squared Circle Gain Majority of Decisions At Opening Wrestling Show One Draw and Two Weird Wins Climax Grunt 'n Groaners Ex- hibition -- Davis and Meske Get the Nod in Main and Semi-Final Bouts By BOB RIFE . Heavyweights featured last night's opening wrestling card at the Arena, and the show they put on was a little on the heavy side too. The fans were treated and we use that word a little loosely te the scene of (one) in the prelim, a| draw (two), in the semi, a referee's | decision after the bout was over, and (three) in the main bout, a win by the villain, If anything could leave a sour taste in the mouth this did. No Yelps! Not once did the fans get a chance to let loose a long how! of derision at the bad boys. It was like the plot of one of those cliff- hangers you read in the doc's of- fice, and then find that the story is continued in the next issue, The next issue has been on the news- stand some four years ago. In the preliminary, which to our way of thinking was the best of the line, "Irish" Tommy O'Toole, who certainly was no relation to "Irish" Mike, fought to a draw out- side the ring with Jack Paige. Rope Waltz The boys threw elbow smashes and body slams all over the place, | and then, when they got tired of | that, they raced outside the ropes | and did a close-up for the front] row seats till referee Ernie Powers | called things off. That was what is known as a dis- | qualified draw. In the semi-final things sped up a bit. But only after the first few minutes of finger snapping and back-slapping by the referee to keep Dr. Ed Meske and Jack Moore | off the ropes. These bits of the Milosh "beef trust" drew the lustiest howls of the night when they really got down to Sovss/ay each other. Meske was the hero of the piece, and he performed the part as it should have been down, with all the gentlemanly. acts yet thought of. Moore just forgot all that, and plop- ped his knee into the Doc's throat till they both decided they were too weak to fight it out in the ring. They, too, took to the ringside seats. The referee counted two past ten, disqualifying the combatants, This didn't discourage the boys though, for they climbed back into the ring and fought it out tooth and nalil for the post-bout honors. Meske won this when fouled almost through. the mat by Moore. The referee held up Meske's limp paw and de- clared him the winnah. Yak Yak! All The Way The main bout, which went the whole three falls and saw Wee Wil- lie Davis pound Earl McCready into {he canvas, was just a bit too much of Mr. Davis, He was huge and acted like a refugee from a Frank- enstein movie. The first fall came when both boys had half-nelsoned the other into submission and by some acci- dent Davis fell on top of McCready for the decision. 'Second round honors went to Mc- Cready for the best bit of science of the night. He used the first new hold seen in all the bouts. T'was a rolling leg lock and it caused the large Mr. Davis to groan quite loudly when referee Powers gave McCready the mitt. That tied things up and left the way open for the third and final go of the fight. This fall saw ref- eree finally go into the bout in a little more orignnal way than usual. Banana Peels After the boys had tired them- selves and a few others for the | first five minutes, the referee slip- | ped (2) and fell on his knees be- | hind McCready. Davis heaved Mc- Cready over the man in white (as you or I have done a hundred times in our younger, more ambi- tious days) and flopred on the Au- rora toughie for the final and win- ning fall. Try as. he might, McCready couldn't convince referee Powers that he, Mr. Powers, was the real champ of the night. Motor City Ladies Major A's Close Out Season at Banquet Karns, 1948 League Champs Receive Tro- phy and C.B.A. Pins -- Individual Winners and Other Teams Share the Spoils--New President Had Best Average The "A" League of the Motor City Ladies' Majors staged their wind- up banquet on Monday night, in the Piccadilly Room of Hotel Gen- osha, with practically every mem- ber of the League present. There was also a fair representation among the sponsors. The sponsors who attended were: Mayor and Mrs, F. McCallum, Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Macdonald, Mr, and Mrs, Nick La- kas, Mr. Wm. Lock, Mr. Ray Weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Boris Shellenkoff, and Mrs. Pigden. Alleys Manager Clff. Rendell was also on hand. New Officers Introduced Immediately following dinner, the executive for the coming season was introduced by retiring president Janet Peel, who conducted the busi- ness of the evening. Dot. Clements heads the new executive, with Do- reen Dobbie as Vice-President, Marj. Tribble, Secretary, and Innis Pi- pher returned to the office of Trea- surer, The first award of the evening went to the Karn team, who finish- ed with top honors over the past season. This award was the Hayden Macdonald trophy, and was present- ed to captain Olive Frise by Hay- den, who, as usual, managed to find a spot in his congratulatory re- marks for the "story of the day". Olive then turned the trophy over to Ray Weeks, who, on behalf .of Mr, Karn, commended the bowlers for their success in competition, Victory Billiards, Coca Colas and Hayden Macdonalds received their prize-money for having finished the play-offs in just that order. The awards were then made to the section winners: First Section, Victory Billiards; Second Section, Hayden Macdonalds; Third Section, Coca Colas and Highest Number of Pins rolled over the entire season, Karn's, Prize-money was distributed to the ten top-ranking bowlers of the League. These girls, with their aver- ages, were: Dot Clements, 231; Olive Frise 220; Marj. Tribble 229; Janet Peel, 228; Bea. oss 227; Vi. Mason 223; Innis Pipher 222; Phyl. Ford- ham 218; Nena Melch 218; Mary Birchman 217. Point money came next, with the teams appearing in order of merit: Victory Billiards, Oshawa Furriers, Karn's, Hayden Macdonalds, Lock's,. Coca.Cola's, Pearl's, Oshawa Bakery, Victor's Sports & Cycle, and Mc- Callum Transports. Complying with demands for a speech from the Mayor's table, Mrs. McCallum, in the temporary absence of her hus- band, responded in humorous vein, commenting also that her associa- tions with the Transport team al- though not too numerous, had ne- vertheless been very énjoyable. Individual Winners Individual awards were presented at this time. First Section: High Single, without handicap, Phyl. Fordham; High Triple, without handicap, Dot. McTavish; High Triple with handicap, Erline Bent- ley; Highest number of pins, withe out handicap, Dot. Clements. Sec- ond Section: High Single, without handicap, Nena Melch; High Triple without handicap, Nena Melch; High Triple, with handicap, Made~ line'eeson; Highest number of pins, without handicap, Dot. Clements. Third Section: High Single, with- out handicap, Innis Pipher; High Triple, without handicap, Innis Pi- pher; High Triple, with handicap, Sophie McDonald; Highest number of pins, without handicap, Olive Frise. Coca Cola's were rewarded for having rolled the highest single team score--1333. Similarly, Vic tory Billiards rated extra prize- money for their high team triple of 3728. A special consolation award was made this year to the bowler who turned in the lowest single score. Marie Lott received this presenta- tion, and we feel confident that Ma- rie will take no offence at this spe- cial mention, since she was given a close run for her money by several other bowlers. The customary honorariums were presented "to the retiring executive and the press reporter. C.B.A. Pins Awarded C.B.A. pins were distributed by Cliff. Rendell, who took the op- portunity to commend the girls on the splendid averages attained this year. Each year shows a marked im- provement, and sets a new high for top ten averages. It is expected that the lowest average in the "A" League next season will be around OZARK IKE ...WITH OZARK'S ARM BACK BUGS IN SHAPE, THE NO FURTHER MY S «0s BUT YOU JUST SED R By Ray Gotto THINK 12L STICK AROUND FOR A FEW MORE N OAY'S...AND SEE THAT THE BUGS. DON'T LOSE THEIR ACE SOUTHPAWY a la "Huckleberry Finn" Lewis Trull ambled over to a creek close to is Hampton home and with a home-made fishing pole consisting of a branch of a tree, a length of line and hook caught this two-and-a-half pound, 20 inch brown trout. | When his pole broke and the fish flopped back into the water, Trull | Juiuped in and gave chase, scooping the evasive trout back ento the | shore with his hands. Though not the largest of this species reported it is still a terrific catch. ~Times-Gazette Staff Photo .| too soon, an extra strenuous flap 185, which is some 15 higher than it was three years ago. The C.B.A. pins went to the six members of the Karn team, and to Dot. Cle- ments for top average. . A gitf presentation was made by Dot. Clements to Janet Peel, in ap- preciation of her term as President. At this time, the girls were left | to round out the evening as they s0 desired. As in the past, Dot. Mc~- Tavish obliged the girls with their favorite pastime--a chance to gather around the piano and sing. Those whose tastes did not run to the musical, journeyed up to the alleys, to avail themselves of the oppor- tunity to bowl "for free", ° Hampton Angler Catches Brownie "Barefoot" Style On Saturday eager anglers the province over loaded elaborate fish- | ing equipment into the family car and drove miles, some cases hun. dreds of miles in search of the finny denizons of the rippling streams, Lewis Trull of Hampton put together a stick and a length of string and hiked down to a creek in the vicinity of his home. While expert fishermen swished flies gracefully to the surface in hopeful anticipation of a rise from a battling brown or speckled trout Lewis' Trull plunked his sinker- weighed line into the creek and relaxed. ; Expert anglers, changed flies, | "worked the stream," cast and re cast. Lewis relaxed. Then the big moment arrived, the experts hooked the bottom and Lewis got a strike that broke his slender improvised pole in two. Lewis grabbed at the broken half and both ends of the line came to life. Lewis pulling one way, the | fish the other. A short but vigo- rous battle ensued with Lewis Trull | the winner and a two-and.a-half | pound, 20-inch brown trout flappad | strenuous disapproval on the bank | of the creek. lewis relaxed. A little | of disapproval sent the trout splash- ing back to the water. Not to be out done, Lewis jumped in and followed in wet pursuit splashing 50 feet down stream with continuous scooping actions in an attempt to recapture the escaped fish. One last final all-out scoop with cupped hands produced re. sults, and that trout landed once again flopping on the bank. The | fisherman dove upon his slippery | prize and pinned it to the ground. The bare foot boy story still holds water it seems, AUSSIE CRICKETERS Leicester, England, --THhe Austral- ian cricket tourists in England, pac- ed by a brilliant 202 not out from Keith Milner, were in a command- ing position tonight in their match against Leicestershire. Ottawa To Get Replacements For Cup Finals Calgary, May 5--(CP) -- Edmon=- ton Flyers ruled strong favorites to= day to chalk up their third victory in the Canadian amateur hockey championship: series, but there was nothing but smiles in the Ottawa Senators' camp, The underdog easterners, trailing 2-1 in games in the best-of-seven series fer the Allan Cup, grinned gleefully as they learned that two | starry replacements were flying to their ald from the Canadian capie tal. However, the replacements--Alex Smart and Ray Trainor--will not be on hand for tonight's crucial tilt and with centre Jackie McLean of Ottawa out with a severe charlie horse, Flyers were expected to win without too much difficulty. Mc= Lean will be replaced tonight by 19- year-old Harry Watson, playing his first year in senior company. Both Smart and Trainor, left be i hind when they failed to get suffi- cient ti--o off from work to make the full western trip, will fly here for Saturday's fifth game. Club official Tommy Gorman made the announcement concern= ing Smart and Trainor, rated two of the best members of the club, in Ottawa Tuesday night. He said he had received an urgent call for help from team manager Jimmy McCaf= frey. Most fans were backing Flyers to the hilt following their 7-0 victory over Ottawa in the third game of the series in Edmonton Monday night. However, the hot-and-cold easterners, who outskated and out- played Flyers for a convincing 3-2 victory in the second game, were drawing some support from diehard foes of Calgary's bitterest rivals-- the Flyers. Edmonton won the opens ing game in Regina 6-2. MEHAN AGAIN CHIEF STEWARD Indianapolis,--Jack Mehan, Chi cago, a member of the contest board of the American Automobile Asso ciation, was announced as chief steward for the 32nd annual 500- mile Indianapolis Speedway race, May 31. Mehan was chief stew ard at the 1046 and 1947 races. auto DROBNY REQUESTS Rome,--Jaroslav Drobny, number one Czech tennis player, telegraph- ed a request for a reservation on the Czechoslovak airlines Rome-to= Prague flight Thursday. IT'S vi B.F. GOODRICH TIRES NOW Only... '1.85 DOWN! Yes! --Mr, Motorist, by buying tires now you can save money --secure increased traction and safety during your forth- h now is the time 'to insure g R safety in travel for that holiday trip. 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