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PAGE TEN I'HE DKI LY TIMES-GAZETTE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1948 Veteran Rider Wins Mile Title LANCE PUGH Oshawa's veteran bike rider and also a member of the Canadian Olympic team this summer, who yesterday added the Ontario 1-mile championship to his long list of laurels. He also holds the Canadian crown for the same distance. PORT NAPSHOTS The biggest sports week-end of the summer saw Oshawa teams and Oshawa athletes make almost a clean sweep of the available honors, while teams from nearby the district also covered themselves with glory. However, before telling about what has now become sports history, we'd like to remind the local sport fans that the Oshawa Hunt Club Juniors play- Toronto Earlscourts tonight at Alexandra Park at 5.30 o'clock in the second game of their O.B.A. Junior "A" playoff round and it should prove a bang-up ball game, Earlscourts have about four top-ranking Juniors all playing with their Senior club this summer. In Roach they have an out- standing hurler who chalked up 17 strikeouts against the Hunters. They claim they have two more pitchers just as good as Roach too! However, the local Hunters feel they can do much better on their own diamond and they're going to make an all-out bid to tie up the series by winning here tonight. By Geo. H. Campbell » *. * Other Oshawa and district teams in action tonight, are all playing out-of-town. The Pedlars go to Peterboro tonight to open their 0.A.S.A. Intermediate "A" Eastern Ontario zone final series with the Liftlock City B-A team, while Oshawa Legion also goes to Peterboro, for their second game of the Zone finals against Quak. ers. Oshawa lacrosse team has to play that postponed game with Huntsville after all and it's being played tonight in Huntsville, It's expected the league semi-final playoffs will open on Thursday night here in Oshawa, but no definite word has been received yet. Ajax Legion won a sensational 9-5 victory over Hastings, on Satur- day afternoon in their 3rd and deciding game of the Inter. "C" O.A. S.A. playoffs and today the Ajax team is off to Parham, north of Kingston, to open the Eastern Ontario zone championship round. The second game of this series is over in Ajax on Thursday night. * * * Only serious setback on the Oshawa sporting front, was the 16-1 reverse suffered by the Junior Red Raiders, as they opened their Junior Big Four schedule against Hamilton Wildcats. The local lads were a little short in condition and in variety of plays..They took a 1-0 lead in the second quarter and held it until half-time. A touchdown put the visitors in front in the third and in in the final quarter, the sturdy Wild- cats rolled up a total as the Oshawa Juniors faded. However, it was a good rugby game, despite the mid-summer heat, and the fans enjoyed it. + * * Best Oshawa triumph over the week-end was by th Motor City Cab Juveniles. They whipped Mimirco 8-2 here on Saturday evening and went baick to Mimico yesterday and won 4-0, to sweep the series in two straight. Gilbert was the hero yesterday afternoon, pitching a brilliant 2-hit shutout and smacking a triple to drive in two of Oshawa's runs in their 3-run rally midway through the game, On Saturday, Bill McTavish went in to pitch in the 5th, after Nick Mzaczek found he couldn't continue, due to an injured wrist suffered in diving for a catch in the 3rd inning. McTavish chalked up 10 strikeots in five frames and backed by great support by his mates, hurled the "Cabbies" to victory in the first game of the series. Motor City Cab will now meét the winner of theOttawa-Kingston series, which may not be settled until this Saturday. % + * The Ontario dirt track bicycle racing championships here yesterday were an 'outstanding sudcess from an Oshawa standpoint. The local Vitor Cycle Club put them over in fine style and also copped most of the honors. Our own Frank Ball, who sets up sports stories on a linotype during working hours and then goes out and helps create stories in his leisure time, capped his career yesterday by winning the Ontario All- Round crown as well as the Ontario J -mile and 5-mile championships. Bill Hamilton and Lance Pugh, Oshawa's Olympic team riders for Can- ada, won championships in the %-mile and 1-mile events, respectively. In three of the races, Oshawa riders finished 1, 2, 3 and they copped 1st and 2nd in two other events. A big crowd was on hand and enjoyed the thrilling competition, * +* * GM-Colts chalked up a victory down in Peterboro under the floodlights on Saturday night in a thrill-packed softball battle that had everything in it. Homers and smashing doubles featured the early frames and then trailing 8-5 going into the ninth, the first Oshawa batter was retired then the Colts staged a seven-run rally on only two hits, one on a broken-bat drive, Red Jubenville's fourth hit of the game and the other on Billy Taylor's bingle, with the bases loaded. Colts won the game 12-8 but four walks and two errors all in the ninth inning played a big part in the freakish rally that netted seven runs after one was out, to turn defeat into victory. (Continued on Page 11) By The Canadian Préss London Majors : won the Inter- county baseball Association's sen- ior "A" championship when they edged Waterloo Tigers 4-3 Satur- day at London. Mzjors copped the title with four straight wins. The game was one of eight senior games played in Ontario over the Labor Day week.end. ' At Galt Monday, Galt terriers won their second berth inning game of the International senior "B" fin- al by defeating Brantford Red Sox 7-6. Tennlers lead the series 2-1. Niagara Falls Flores will repres- ent the Niagara district baseball league in the Ontario senior "B" playoffs. They won his right after drubbing St. Catharines Saints 8-0 at St, Catharines Monday. Fiores will play the intercounty survivor of the Brantford-Galt playoffs. Another Niagara Falls team, the Houcks, did well too. They whipped Welland Stokes 7-3 Monday night at Welland in the opening game of the Niagara district senior "A" fi- nals. Frood Tigers, who finished first at the regular season's end, scored 4-1 decision over Garson Grey- hounds at Sudbury to make a clean sweep of their best-of-five Nickel Belt baseball semi-final series. Ti- gers won the semi-finals 3-2. * Frood will now play the winners of the Copper Cliff-Coniston semi- final struggle, which Copper Cliff leads 2-0. Hollinger Bombers wound up their Temiskaming baseball league sched- ule at Timmins Monday by upsei- ting third-place McIntyre Macmen 4-1, In the same league on the same day, Porcupine Combines clinched a | run. playoff berth by trouncing the league-leading Kirkland Lake Grey- hounds 12-8 in the last game at Kirkland Lake. At Peterborough, the hometown Petes Saturday took the opening game of their best-of-seven central Ontario baseball league finals with Kingston Locos, 13-4. Ken McFadden provided the pay- off hit in the ninth which won the LONDON MAJORS WIN INTERCOUNTY TITLE -- HOUCKS DEFEAT WELLAND London Majors their game -and the intercounty crown. The Majors scor- ed tw runs in the first inning and one in the second to take a convinc- ing lead they never really lost. Waterloo almost tied the score in the eighth on Bobby Fisher's home Galt came through with a sur- prise ninth inning rally to tie up the score with three runs without a hit. Hurley Bunny Dustig was chas- ed about half way through but Nig Parker pitched his way to victory over Red Sox. Fiores won their senior B victory through the pitching of Gord John- stn W. Kerr paced the winners with three runs and two hits. Carmen Rienzo, youthful right- hander, held Welland Stokes to five scattered hits. His Houcks buddies collected a dozen safeties from two Welland pitchers. Catcher Billy Sherk of Welland, smashed a home run over the right field fence in the eighth with a mate on base. The Temiskaming league semi-fi- nals start this week between McIn- tyre and Porcupine Combines, with the winner meeting Kirkland Lake Greyhounds for the championship Bob Crowe and Don Pagett each drove in five runs for the winning Petes in their game against King- ston. Mike Cosgrove led Locos with a homer and a single in three times at bat, Veteran Bike Racer, Frank Ball Wins All-Round Championship, Also %; Mile and 5 Mile Titles All-Round Crown With Two 1sts and 2nds in Four Major Events -- Oshawa Riders Finish 1, 2, 3 in Three Races and Take 1st and 2nd in Two Others -- Cal- vin Blake Wins "B" Clase and Cops 2nd in 5-Mile -- Lance Pugh and Bill Hamilton Each Win An Ontario Championship Also The Oshawa Victor Cycle Club, with the blessing of the Canadian Wheelman's Association and the governing Ontario body, staged the Ontario dirt-track 1948 cham- pionships here and net only ran the show off in very pleasing and successful manner but also suc- ceeded in riding off with a major share of the championships and day's laurels, Veteran Rider Shines Competing against the cream of Ontario's bike riders, including two of Canada's Olympic Games riders, the veteran Frank Ball, who was coming into his own in the bike game just before he jeined the RCAF in World War II, not only succeeded in keeping three of the Ontario championships here in Oshawa but covered himself with glory (and medals) while deing it. Ball, who has trained diligently this season, collected his pay-off in the Ontario championships here yesterday. He finished a bang-up second to Bill Hamilton in the 1-4 mile final, after each had won his heat. Then he came right back to win the 1-2 mile crown, beating out Lance Puzh, his club-mate and J. Cooke, former champion. Ham- ilton was 4th in this event. In the 1-mile Ontario champion- ship sprint, Ball chased Lance Pugh to the wire, as Pugh added the On- tario 1-mile title to his trophy shelf. He is the current Canadian 1-mile champion, won here in July. Ball climaxed his brilliant day's racing with a sensational sprint in the gruelling 5-mile championship event, to take first place over Cal- vin Blake of Oshawa and Bill Ham- ilten, also of Oshawa. Ball's total of 20 points, with two 1sts and two 2nds in the four major events of the day, was sufficient to cinch the Ontario All-Round cham- pionship trophy for 1948 and he did not compete in the 25 mile race. Oshawa Colors Fly High Bill Hamilton in winning the 1-4 mile championship twice (the final was re-run) and Lance Pugh' in copping the 1-mile crown, put a pleasing Oshawa atmosphere to the championship presentations. Hamilton was runner-up to Ball for the All-Round title, with a 1st, two 3rds and a 4th. Oshawa riders finished 1-2 in the Frank Ball Cops Ontario |: 1-4 and 1-2 mile sprints while in the the 1 mile championships, in both Class "A" and "BB', also in the gruelling five-mile event. Vic- tor Cycle Club riders of this city copped all three top spots. It was certainly an "Oshawa day." Another up-and-coming young rider who served notice that he'll be tough to beat in a year or two, was Calvin Blake of the Oshawa Victor Club, who won the sensational style to cop 2nd place | in the hard-fought 5 Mile Class! "A" event. Ball was automatically eliminated from the Class final, when he won the Class "A" 1-2 Mile championship. Plenty of Competition In winning. their laurels, the Oshawa riders competed against large fields of top-notch riders. Large contingents were present from Toronto, Weston, Hamilton, Delhi and other bike-racing centres. | The competition was particularly keen but except in the 25 mile race, the Victory Cycle Club boys domin- ated the limelight. Fred Henry of Toronto won the 25 Mile championship, in a sen- sational race, beating out C. Chin- chen' of Toronto in the stretch drive, while Julien Chimthonnieny, f 3rd. also of Toronto, finished Charbonneau was the favorite with the fans for the was forced to switch "bikes" when he had a "flat" midway through the event after winning the first ©5-mile sprint in the long grind. He came back with some great riding to overtake the field, won the 15-mile mark sprint and then took 3rd in the final rush to the wire: Ontario championship races saw gold, silver and bronze medals a- warded to the 1, 2 and 3rd riders. Ball gets the All-Round Champ- ionship Trophy. Ken Hamilton of Oshawa added to the local limelight by winning a stern novice "miss-and-out" race that lasted 8 miles, to earn a tro- phy. Frank Varga won a trophy tlso in the "Oshawa Boys" special race, while the Class "B" racé drew merchandise prizes. A crowd of almost a thousand attended the rgcing program and showed their satisfaction and en- thusiasm by staying until the final lap had been ridden. More than 60 riders competed. in the various events. Following are the complete results: ONTARIO CHAMPIONSHIPS 14-Mile Final Hamilton, Oshawa; 2nd. Oshawa; 3rd J. Cooke, J. Marsh, Weston. Time 1st., Bill Frand Ball, Toronto; 4th., 32:2/5. 15-Mile Final 1st, Frank Ball, Oshawa; 2nd, Lance Pugh, Oshawa; 3rd, J. Cooke, Toronto; 4th, Bill Hamilton, Oshawa. Time, 1:08. 1-Mile Final 1st, Lance Pugh, Oshawa; 2nd, Frank Ball, Oshawa; 3rd, Bill Hamilton, Osh- awa; 4th, J. Marsh, Weston. Time, 2:53 5-Mile Final 1st, Frank Ball, Oshawa: 2nd, Calvin Blake, Oshawa; 3rd, Bill Hamilton, Oshawa: 4th, Arnold Digby, Toronto. Time 12:55 4/5. ¥ 25-Mile Final 1st, F. Henry, Jr., Toronto; 2nd, C. Chinchen, Toronto; 3rd, Julien Char- TOMORROW NIGHT ROLLER SKATING LACROSSE Thursday -- 8.45 p.m. SENIOR "B" PLAYOFF HUNTSVILLE vs. OSHAWA ADULTS 50c "CHILDREN 25¢ Another Championship for Oshawa BILL HAMILTON of the Oshawa Victor's Cycle Club and Canada's 1948 Olympic Games team, who won the Ontario %-mile dirt track title 'in the championships held at Alexandra Park yesterday. Bill finished second in the All-Roung Championship total to club-mate Frank Ball OSHAWA RIDERS DOMINATE DIRT TRACK Class | "B" 1 Mile final and finished in| upg Oshawa' Ss New Ontario Champion .|wind for the race to Whitby and FRANK BALL and ROSS SUDDARD Frank Ball, on the left, one of Oshawa's veteran riders, who has trained vigorously and diligently this summer, had his efforts rewarded yester- day in the Ontario Bike Championships here, when he won the ';-mile championship and the 5-mile title, as well as Ontario All-Round Cham- pionship with a total of 20 points, winning two firsts and two seconds, in the four major events in which he competed. Ross Suddard, on the right, made an excellent. showing in all races, winning second in the Class "B" 1-mile event, which was won by Calvin Blake, another Oshawa game of 2-out-of-3 rider who grabbed a major share of the limelight here yesterday. SPORTS CALENDAR TUESDAY 0.B.A. Junior "A" Toronto Earlscourts "Hunters," at 530 p.m. of 2-out-of-3° series). 0.A.S.A. Inter. "A" Playoffs Oshawa Pedlars vs Peterboro B-A at Peterboro, 8.15 pm. (1st series). O0.AS.A. Inter. "AA" Playoffs Oshawa Legion vs Peterboro Quakers, at Peterboro Quaker Field, 6.00 pm, (2nd game of 2- ut-of-3 series). Senior "B" Lacrosse Oshawa vs Huntsville, at Hunts- Playoffs vs Oshawa (2nd game bonneau, Toronto; 4th, Bi Abrams, Hamilton. Time 1:12:25 4/5 All-Round Ontario ghamplonship 5 2 'Ist, Frank Ball E 2nd, Bill Hamilton .. 3rd, Lance Pugh ..... 4th Fred Henry . 5th, Jack Cooke . ville, 8.45 p.m, '0.A.8A Inter "C" Playoffs Ajax vs Parham. at Parham, 545 p.m. (1st game of Eastern Ontario Zone finals, 2-out-of-3 games.) WEDNESDAY No games scheduled. LARGEST OF MARIANAS Guam is the largest of the Mari- ana Islands. ACHTING ARNS BY THE BARNACLES Ron Poulter and J. Ireland won the second race for the Conant Cup. Sailing in a steady southeast wind, Ron jumped into the lead. early and no matter what the other skip- pers tried they just couldn't over- take him. Outside of a rolling sea, the day was otherwise perfect for dinghy 'racing. Ken Iorbes, who had second place tucked away, ran into a foul with P. Phillips and consequently was tossed out of the running. . . Poulter, J. Ireland . Sharrard, T. Grigg . Phillips, J. Sanders . Jenkinson, G. Knowles . Forbes (fouled out) Stacey Cup Event Skippers racing for the Stacey | Cup had their ciosest race of the; series. C. Cheeseborough and J. Ire- land won out finally but it took two laps to settle the closely fought race, 1--C. Cheseborough, J. Ireland 2--E. Sharpe, R. Poulter 3--B. Switzer, G. Beal, Arch Rinker's Falcon won the 2nd race, for the Schofield Bar- ometer By corrected time, the Fal- con defeated Bill Nash's Viking by 30 minutes. It turned out that the return was near perfect for the larger boats. The time taken for this race was slower than the previous one due no doubt to the rolling sea. However, by the locker room chatter it appears the boys enjoyed the contest very much. Novice Series Under Way The novice series swung into action yesterday also, with four boats entering the competition. This series is held annually for first year sailing members who wish to get into a racing series which en- ables them to skipper their own boats. This series is always full of fun as the boys make up for the lack of experience with good spirit. Ray Pope proved to be the one to beat as he sailed his dinghy to first place in both races held. The second race was the closest contested one os G. Tomlinson made a determined effort to beat out Pope. As it turned out Tomlin- son had to be content in crossing the finish line 15 seconds behind Pope. First race: 1--R. Pope, J. Copeland 2--G@G. Tomlinson, T. Grigg 3--R. Connolly, B. Sharrard Second race: 1--R Pope, J. Copeland Oshawa Bowlers Cop Prizes In Labor Day Play Labor Day competitions were cons ducted on numerous greens and | Oshawa was represented at Port Hope and Elora. At Port Hope a team composed of Bob Duff, Mrs. Jewell and skipped by Ralph Jewell won the cup and a team made up of Mrs. G. Read, Mrs. J, C. Ward and skipped by J. C Ward took sece ond place, At Elora, a rink composed of P. Cook, Dr. Phillips, G. Read and skipped by R. Snowdon took fin prize out of 154 entries. Local Trebles Tourney At the local greens a mixed trebles was played with first spot going to C. Detenbeck who had Mrs. Detenbeck and O. Lint as his team, Second place went to A. Met= calfe with Mrs Lint and S. Bowers in the team. Third place was taken by W. Ward, Mrs. E. Jackson and Skip J Bryce, Win At Cobourg Too Four pairs of lawn bowlers from the Oshawa Club journey to Co- bourg on Labor Day, to participate in the annual men's doubles tourn- ament there. "Bill" Brownlee and his partner, A. J. Brennen (of Lindsay) another veteran ol the Metropolitan Life (31 years), won their three games and copped 4th prizes, electric wall clocks. Other Oshawa pairs were Ben Ward and "Pard" Canning; Cliff Rendell and Jim Burnside; Bill Preston and "Bill" Junior. Cliff Rendell and Jim Burnside won the lucky prize award, 3--R. Connolly, B. Sharrard 4--J Ireland, E. Cheetham. Bruce Sharrard Big Winner Bruce Sharrard had a perfect day on Monday in winning both the Commodore Cup and Glen Rae Cup In winning the Commodore Cup, Bruce, along with the rest of the skippers, had to go through a gruelling buck all the way to Bow= manville, T. Grigz and G. Tomlin- son gave Bruce his sternest battle but unfortunately at the critical point the mast on Grigg's bpat broke, leaving him out of the ' running. In the Glen Rae Cup race off Bowmanville Beach, Bruce Sharrard ! and R. Pope again combined their skill to outrace the opposition for & another neat win. At the start of this open class race, two Bowman= ville lads gave Bruce some stiff ope position; however, they couldn't hang on and consequently dropped quite aways behind. All in all the boys enjoyed the racing very much, but hope that next year the weather will be a little more favorable. Commodore Cup Race . Sharrand, R. Pope . Smith, S. Rogers . Forbes, J. Copeland Poulter, J. Ireland . Grigg, G. Tomlinson not finish.) Glen Rae Cup Race . Sharrard, R. Pope . Poulter, J. Ireland . Grigg, G. Tomlinson Dilling, B. Carlton Pennant Race In the Pennant Race for the private fleet of O.Y.C., Ed Storie and crews galloped home for a nice win. The bigger boats found the buck to Bowmanville rather slow, finishing considerably behind the club dinghies. However, they had no accidents and best of all didn'y have to contend with waves break- ing over their decks. T. Rolson's "Oledo" gave E. Storie's boat the closest opposition but just couldn't muster speed to overtake the leade ing boat. 1--Ed Storie, P. Phillips, J. Sane ders i 2--T. Rolson, B. Mackness { 3--T. Shobbrook, H. Stevens : 1 YESTERDAY'S STARS Batting--Billy Goodman, Red Sox --= Collected four hist in Boston, 14-6 first game triumph over Washington and singled home winning run in 2-1 Tighe 2--G. Tomlinson, T. Grigg cap conquest. MILLS MOTOR SALES 266 KING STREET WEST e PHONE 4750 ON GM PARTS 6th, Calvin Blake Tth, 8th, A. DIY ......en Class "B" 1-Mile 1st, Calvin Blake, Oshawa; 2nd, Ross Suddard, Oshawa; 3rd, Ken Hamilton, Oshawa. Time 2:45 1/5. SPECIAL RACES 1%2-Mile, Victor Cycle Club Boys 1st, Al Essery; 2nd, R. Irvine; 3rd, R. Baker. 15-Mile, oshawa( Boks 1st, Frank Varga; 2nd, John Pratt; 3rd, Jack Jeffs. Novice Final (Miss and Out) 1st, Ken Hamilton, Oshawa; 2nd, Roy Henley, Toronto. Final OR AND ACCESSORIES HOT WEATHER HAS BEEN HARD BRAKES. FASTER DRIVING, HIGH TEMPERA- TURES MAY HAVE WORN DOWN LININGS TO WHERE ADJUSTMENTS RE-LINING IS NECESSARY. ARE EQUIPPED TO HANDLE EVERY TYPE OF BRAKE WORK, PHONE 4750. DISTRIBUTORS OF GENERAL TIRES RY A WE P ONTIAC-BUICK-G.M.C. TRUCK RE -------- OZARK IKE By Ray Gotta UST UF TH'NINTH, AN' or RAGS AIN'T ALLOWED STOFE S 9) 4 AD TIRED. OVER SHORT FALLS SAFE AND ead ARE Forer roa GROAN) ONE, RUN KIN ST US TH' FLASH 5 GOTTA CUT IT OFF)