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FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE ELEVEN Arthur Wint Beats Herb. McKenley In Olympic 400- Metre Final But Jamaica Still Claims Race Crown Teammates Run 1-2 In rinal Dash -- Sweden Sweeps Steeplechase Event To End Fin- land's Supremacy--Ca- nadian Girls Fail To Qualify In 200-Metre Sprints -- Swimmers And Fencers Also Ousted Quickly : By JACK SULLIVAN Olympic Stadium, Wembley, Aug. 5-(CP)--Arthur Wint of Jamaica won the 400-metre run from his Negro team-mate Herb McKenley and Sweden broke Finland's long monopoly of steeplechase victories as two more track and field cham- plonships were run off today at the Olympics. Wint was clocked at 46.2 seconds, equalling the Olympic record set by Bill Carr of the United States in 1932. Bob McFarlane of London, Ont., Canada's only qualifier for the semi-finals, had been eliminated before the six-man championship was run. America Is Third Mal Whitfield of the United States, winner of the 800-metre title earlier in the games and bid- ding for his second championship, barely nosed out Dave Bolen of Colorado for third place. He was seven-tenths of a second behind the winner, five-tenths behind Mc- Kenley. Morrie Curotta of Australia was in fifth spot. The last min was George Guida, the third American entrant. Sweden Tops Finland In the 3,000-metre steeplechase, won by Finland in every Olympic games since 1924, Sweden took the first three places. Thure Sjoestrand covered the gruelling course in nine minutes, 4.6 seconds, with his countrymen Erik Elmsaeter and G. Hagstroem close behind. The Finns could do no better than a fifth for P. V. Siltaloppi. Diminutive Dr. Sammy Lee of Pasadena, Calif, won the Olympic high-tower diving championship, the only other title decided by mid- afternoon. His closest competition was Bruce Harlan, the American who won the springboard title pre- viously. Dr. George Athans of Vancouver, 16th in Wednesday's compulsory dives, put on a fine display today to boost himself to eighth place at the end. Headed for Another Medal Fanny Blankers-Koen, already a double winner with victory in the 100-metre dash and 80-metre hurdles, won her semi-final heat in the women's 200-metre dash, well on the way to her third gold medal. Canada's three entrants in the event, a new one on the women's program, were eliminated in the preliminary round. Two from each heat qualified. Diane Foster and Millie Cheater placed third in their heats, Dona Gilmour fifth. All are from Vancouver. Vivian King of Winnipeg quali- fied for the second round of the women's 400-metre free style swim- ming race. Fifth in her heat, she advanced because she was among the four "fastest losers" picked to move ahead. Kay McNamee of Victoria failed to qualify and Canada's men swim- mers met the same fate. Doug Gibson of Toronto and Allan Gil- christ of Ocean Falls, B.C. were eliminated in the 1,500-metre free style preliminaries. Regatta Results Gabby Beaudry and Ted Graves of Ottawa placed third in their double sculls heat as Olympic row- ing began at Henley-On-Thames. Bill Gooderham and Gerry Fair- head of. Toronto sailed their star class craft to fourth place in their race at Torquay, Devon, third of & seven-contest series. John Robert- son and Dick Townsend of Hamil- ton were second in their swallow- class event, Canadian fencers were eliminated Quickly from the epee contest, los- ing matches to Denmark and Bel- gin iu succession. onel Fournier of Montreal, the Dominion's only entry in the 10- event decathlon competition, made a promising start with 686 points in his opening test, the 100-metre dash. Five events were to be run off today, the rest tomorrow. - Sports Roundup By LOU BLACK (For Hugh Fullerton, Jr.) New Haven, Conn. Aug. 6--(AP) --Intimates of Burt Shotten say the Brooklyn Dodgers manager in- sists he has reached the baseball retirement age and won't be avail- able after the close of the 1948 race. . » « Is that why a director of "dem hp 2 acific Coast see oO ? is Here's Your Rose Bowl Game Head Coach Ray Flaherty of the New York Yankeet football club, Bow in summer camp at Cheshire, and his line aide, Jim Barber, who yecently left their homes out in the far west, predict that the Uni- Yersity of Oregon can't miss mak- ing the Rose Bow! . . . Buddy Young, ace. Yankee back, and an all-American selection while at Il- linois, forecasts Minnesota will be the big nine's choice for the huge Pasadena classic, New Year's Day. It Happened in Hartford Willie Pep, current holder of the featherweight boxing title, strolled down Hartford's main street the other day and bumped into two of his predecessors, Bat Battalino and Louis (Kid) K Kaplan, all within a few minutes. "Hi, Champ," was their greeting to each other. Finishes Second HERB McKENLEY Above is the world's 400-metre sprint champ, Herb McKenley, who yesterday finished second in the Olympic sprint of the same distance to his team-mate Arthur Wint. Both men were running for their native Jamaica, and their great piece of work breaks the strangle hold that the United States has had on the short distance sprints for the past 20 years or so. Big League Baseball Yesterday Dixie Walker, the old "peepul's cherce" of Flatbush, is hardly ever missed in Brooklyn these 'days--all because of the fine all-around play of his successor in right field, Gene Hermanski. Hermanski enjoyed the greatest batting day of his brief big-league career Thursday when he crashed three home runs and almost single- handedly paved the way for the Dodgers' 6-4 victory over Chicago Cubs. The Dodgers trail Boston Braves by 4% games, the closest they've been to the top this season. The Braves defeated Cincinnati Reds 6-4 in a night game at Boston, snapping a four-game losing streak. With Cincinnati leading 4-2 as a result of a three-run outburst against Warren Spahn in the top of the sixth, the Braves came back to tie the score in their half, then tallied two more in the eighth. Earl Torgeson's triple off Ken Burk- hart with two aboard proved the decisive wallop. Although they trail Philadelphia Athletics by half a game in the won-and-lost column, Cleveland Indians retained possession of first place in the torrid American League rece by .002 points when they de- feated Washington Senators" 3-0. The Athletics swept a double- header from the White Sox in Chicago, 3-0 and 7-4, to advance to second place--a mere .0001 point in front of the Yankees. The New Yorkers nipped the Tigers in Detroit, 2-1, to remain half a game ahead of Boston Red Sox who overcame the Browns in St. Louis, 8-7. The Indians' victory was temp- ered by an injury to shortstop- manager, Lou Boudreau, who re- ceived shoulder and ankle bruises in a collision at second base with outfielder Gil Coan of Washington. 'While X-rays disclosed no fractures, Boudreau became a doubtful starter in today's game with the Yankees. Homer-hungry at Chicago's Com- iskey. Park since 1946, the Athletics hammered three out of the park to down the White Sox twice. Hank Majeski clouted a ninth-inning round tripper as Joe Coleman shut out the Sox on six hits in the opener. Don White and Sam Chap- man connected for the circuit in the second game. Allie Reynolds bested Freddie Hutchinson in the Yankees' hurling duel, although he needed help from Joe Page in the ninth. The Red Sox saw an early six- run lead go out of the window, then bounced back to tally one in the eighth to beat the Browns. Vern' Stephens singled home Johnny Pesky with the winning run, Four scheduled games in the National League were rained out. International League Action The cry heard around the In'er- national League these days Is "Break up those Montreal Royals." Unless the rest of the clubs get some much-needed help, or the parent Brooklyn Dodgers recall a couple of players from the Royals' star-studded roster, the race threat- ens to become a shambles. Already the Royals are 9% games ahead of the Newark Bears, their nearest pursuer. The rest of the clubs haven't even a look-in. Take Thursday's doubleheader between the league leaders and the cellar-dwelling Baltimore Orioles, for example. The Royals won as they pleased, 15-2 and 17-1. They did everything almost perfect. Jack Banta. and Frank Laga pitched 3 the 100 metres ( Miss I. P. Jones (right) is sh Scores Olympic Win For Canada 's) at the Olympics in London's Wembley Stadium. She carried the Maple Leaf of Canada to victory. Second was Miss G. De Jong of Holland. (at left). ge in Wembley Stadium, London. Winning Smiles 51.1 seconds for the 400-metre hurdles event. record for the 100-metre dash by clocking in at 10.3 seconds. Wearing their winning smiles here are Leroy Braxton Cochran (left), of Long Beach, Cal, and Harrison (Bones) Dillard, of Cleveland, Ohio, who chalked up two Olympic victories for the United States at the Olympiad Cochran set a new Olympic record of Dillard tied the Olympic four and two-hit ball, respectively. In the only other activity, New- ark and Toronto divided a double- header. The Maple Leafs won the opener in a walk, 11-1, and the Bears came back to squeeze out a 7-6 victory in the nightcap. Seven home runs were hit. The homer parade was led by Van Har- rington of the Leafs who had two in the. second game. They were more than offset by those of John- ny Lucadello, Jackie Phillips and Ted Sepkowski. Phillips'. came the bases loaded. Lefty Jocko Thompson gained his eighth victory in the opener, hold- ing the Bears to three hits. Puddin- head Jones aided him with a grand-slam homer in the third. Hank Biasatti also hammered his 15th for the Leafs. Rain forced the postponement of the Syracuse-Buffalo games as well Bs, te Jersey - City-Rochester af- air, with . SENIOR SATURDAY, AUG. 7th BATA "SHOEMEN" OSHAWA "MERCHANTS" 3:00 p.m. ALEXANDRA PARK LADIES 25¢ GENTS 50c Dutch Mother Of Two Scores Victory In Olympics A Netherlands matron who has two children, Mrs. Fanny Blankers-Koen, is shown (extreme right) winning the women's 10-metre sprint final at the Wembley Sta dium, London. The winning time for the new Olympic champion was 11.9, four-tenths of a second slower than { he record set by America's Helen Stephens at Berlin in 1936. Miss Dorothy Manley, a London typist (not shown in the above photo) was second. Miss S. B. Strick- land (668) of Australia was third in this track event. Try a Times-Gazette ad today -- You can be sure it will pay. Spicy Bits From Other Sports Cols. By WALL IZSAK Canadian Press Staff Writer Toronto, Aug. 6--(CP)--With all sporting eyes focused on Olympics, Canadian entrants are either -re- ceiving plaudits or hearty boos on their performance, One well-known Canadian entry, a little policeman from St. Hyacinthe, Que. has re- ceived a different type of praise from Mike (Kingston Whig-Stand- ard) Rodden, "To Gerard Cote goes an acco- lade," says Rodden, commenting on reports United States and Canadian athletes are complaining that bad- gering officials are getting the best of the deal, "A smart man, indeed, is the mar- athion voyageur," explains Rodden. "Cote, who smokes cigars, trains ac- cording to his own ideas and speaks nothing but French when address- ing a badger, has been a lone wolf for, lo, these many years, and became the Tom Longboat of his era without taking time out to even be introduced to those characters wearing badges. In victory or defeat he has always been a one-man show." Rodden says Cote has made no complaints about food, diet or any- thing else, and he wouldn't know a coach if he saw one. When Cote was told he should cut down on his cigar-smoking, he blew rings around the heads of his advisers. "Is it any wonder that Mons. Cote is America's greatest mar- athoner?" It's Only Money There's nothing slow about the Dominjon-Champion Toronto Argo- nauts. The football club, says Andy (Toronto Star) Lytle, would have $120,000 on hand if they could sell Varsity Stadium out completely in advance for all their scheduled games. Andy quotes a club spokesman as saying that "As we intend to close the advance sale for new subscrib- ers on Aug. 8, we will probably settle for $55,000 in advance receipts by th... time." STARTS TOURNEY WELL Haileybury, Aug. 6--(CP)--North Bay's Dave Morland, Jr., whose golf- ing ambition is to win the Northern Ontario Amateur championship, started off auspiciously at the 19th annual tournament which got un- der way here Thursday. . Morland fired a sizzling 68 to lead a large field of competitors imto the championship flight. His score was eight strokes better than that of Jock Stokes of Kirkland Lake, Northern Ontario Senior champion, who shot a 76. Bobby Locke Ties For Tom O'Shanter With Herman Barron Chicago, Aug. 6 -- (AP) -- Eight highly-touted pros today began the Sta last round of the Tam O'Shanter Bocnes| scramble for top money of $5,000 |; only four strokes apart and an extra-hole playoff seemed likely. Two past champions held a one- stroke advantage as the tourney turned toward the most unpredict- able finish in an eight-year history. Bobby Locke of South: Africa, de- fending titlist, uncorked a third- round 36-34--70, two under par, Thursday to overhaul Herman Barron, 1946 winner, who took a standard 72. Both pulled up at the 54-hole mark with 208's--eight un- der the regulation. Only one stroke behind at 209 | g were Pete Cooper of Gainesville, Florida Open champion; and Vet- eran Lloyd Mangrum. Cooper slammed a fine 68 in his third-round bid while the methodi- cal Mangrum, third leading money winner with $20,944, carved a 70. Scores soared generally in the All-American Women's Open. Patty Berg fashioned a four-over-par 80 seivsess 4 Newark .. AMERICAN: LEAGUE Ww. L. Cleveland . Philadelphia New York . LH 3 Rg23 Boston Cleveland New York .. Ww t St. Louis 9 ton... New York at Detroit, postponed. Philadelphia at Chicago, postponed, x Only games scheduled. 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. 'L. Pct. for a 54-hole tally of 236 and a | Boston two-stroke lead over Babe Zaharias. The Babe faded to 81, Hamilton Central Collegiate Boys Cop Rifle Title Long Branch, Aug. 5 -- (CP) -- Four youthful sharpshooters from Hamilton Central Collegiate Insti- tute are the junior team rifle shooting champions of Ontario. They won their title on the 600- yard range at the Ontario Rifle As- sociation meet last Wednesday, cut announcement of ' their triumph was not made until Thursday. Fifteen-year-old Cadet Clifford James, with 48 out of a possible 50 led his older teammates to victory. The other scores: Cadet Gordon Oakes, 45; Cadet Hughson .Elms, 45; Cadet Norman Hollingshead, 44. The youths are 16, 17 and 18 years old respectively. The three other teams in the 'contest, the 48th Highlanders of Toronto Rifle Association, the Na- tional Defence Headquarters Rifle Association of Ottawa and the To- ronto Scottish = Rifle Association, were tied with 178 points each. JAPS SHAVE MARK Tokyo, Aug. 6--(AP)--Two stocky Japanese swimmers unofficially bet- tered the World's 1500-metre free style swimming record today in Japah's "Consolation Olympics." The pair, Konoshin Furuhashi, 20, | 750. and Shiro Hashizume, 19, finished almost in a dead heat to shave more than 20 seconds off the recognized World mark. Thursday's Results .. 6_ Cincinnati .. Chicago we nn: e Jost ned. St. Louis at New ork, postponed. Pisisbuish at Fhiladelpnia, postponed Wednesday's Night Results Cincinnati ton .. wd 8t. Louis . 5 Chicago 4 h at' Philadelphia, postponed Major League Leaders By The Association Press AMERICAN LEAGUE --Willlams, Boston, .390, Batti , atted in--Stephens, Boston, Runs 92. Runs--DiMaggio, Boston, 78. Hits--Boudreau, Cleveland, 122. Doubles--Williams, Boston, and Hen rich, New York, 26. Triples--Stewart, Washington, 11. Home runs--Keltner, Cleveland, and DiMaggio, New York, 24. Stolen bases--Dillinger, St. Louis. 10, gt ke ts--Feller, Cleve .nd, 100. Pi. g--Kramer, 1 a, 13-3, .813, NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting--Musial, 8t. Louls, .386. Runs batted in--Musial, St. Louis, and Mize, New York, 83. Runs--Musial, 8t. Louis, 88. Hits--Musial, St. Louis, 149. Doubles--Ennis, Philadelphia, 29, Triples--Musial, St. Louis, 11. Home runs--Kiner, Pittsbureh, 28. 2 Den bi A n, Philadelphl 8trikeouts--Branca, Brooklyn, 97. 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