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PAGE FOURTEEN =~ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1948 PORT NAPSHOTS c= Oshawa Motor City Cab Juveniles took a 9-6 defeat last night at Alexandra Park, before one of the noisiest crowds we've ever heard. The Peter Pan team of Toronto brought aiong a bus-load and severals cars loaded with enthusiastic rooters. The Oshawa crowd, also ready for a rabid night of rooting, responded to the rivalry and bedlam reigned throughout the game, with Lipka, Toronto's hurler, with a very cock attitude, also aroused the jibes of the fans. Cabbies played bad baseball in the early frames, committed some costly errors and also made some mistakes in their attack strategy. Lipka fanned 15 batters and earned his win, for his support was only average too. Nick Mroc- zek couldn't last for Oshawa past the third inning and Bill McTavish took over. He did a great job too but he grooved a home-run pitch to Evans in the eighth inning, with two men on bases, and that broke the 6-6 tle, which George Brabin had created by smacking a double for Oshawa in the seventh with two men on bases. They argued lustily last night about the third game, Toronto Peter Pan manager refusing to toss a coin for the locale. However, they have agreed to settle the series at Sunderland on Saturday afternoon at three o'clock. Among 'those present will be Lorne St. John and all his Sunderland friends and relatives--all cheering for the '"Cabbles." +» * * Big games here tonight at Alexandra Park, is the Intermediate "AA" playoff game between the Wright's Hardware team of Birch Cliff and the Oshawa Legion. The local Legionnaires dropped the first game 13-8 on Tuesday night but they say they came up with a bad game, had four or five costly errors. They'll likely send Bunny Zakarow to the mound in the game here at Alexandra Park this evening, 5:30 o'clock, in a bid to tie up the series and force a third and deciding game, which will be played on Saturday. Last year the Legion "AA" team went to the Ontario finals and they hope to repeat this year. If they do--they'll have to win tonight. + J * Two other games of local interest were played last night. Herv in Oshawa's Minor Softball Association, midget playoffs, Victory Aces de- 'feated Centre Street Combines 15-3, to clean up that series in two- straight games. Victory Aces will now meet the winner of the Royals- Simcoe Hall series, which Royals will likely clean up tonight. Both of .the bantam semi-final brackets are playing their second games tonight. If the rounds are tied, theyll play the third and deciding games on Friday night, with the finals opening on Saturday. Ajax Legion dropped a tough 6-5 decision last night up at Port Credit when they met Cooks- ville in the first game of their OASA Intermediate "C" semi-finals, The Ajax boys have gone a long way along the Ontario playoff trail this year and they are hoping to tie up the series with a win in the return game, which is booked for the Ajax diamond on Saturday afternoon. Ajax was leading 5-0 in the seventh last night and 5-4 in the ninth, with two men out, when a single with two men on bases, won the game for Cooksville, n Geo. H. Campbell , * * * Toronto Firefighters, with their team-name of "Pyrenes," will open the Ontario Senior "B" semi-final championship round against Oshawa GM-Colts tomorrow (Friday) evening at 5:30 o'clock at Alexandra ark. This should be one of the best softball games played in Oshawa since the OASA playoffs got under way. The . of\ Toronto Byers; wingers, right, are "Red" Stephen of Young 1048, defeating Oshawa Mayfairs, in the semi-finals. Last year (Continued on Page 15) Ontario Senior 'B" Semi-Finals TORONTO FIRE FIGHTERS vs OSHAWA GM-COLTS Alexandra Park Sept. 24 FRIDAY 5.30 p.m. ADMISSION 25c¢ {have gone for hits. TER PA 1 N 11 CH il [2 UP OBA. JUV ENILE Toronto Team Wins Here 6 Over Motor City Cab Team To Force 3rd and Deciding Game Brabin's Triple T ies Score In 7th But Evans Homers In 8th To Give Peter Pan Club Their Victory Margin--Cab- bies Fail To Give Relief Hurler McTavish Ade- quate' Support And Errors Come In Bad Spots -- 3rd Game On Saturday Toronto Peter Pan tied the series with Oshawa Motor City Cab last night, winning by a 9-6 count here at Alexandra Park. The third and deciding game is called for Satur- day, at Sunderland. Peter Pan playea the same kind of ball that lost them the game up in Toronto last Saturday, but they left "Yank" Lipka in the game. He gained 15 strikeouts and held the Oshawa batters at bay in the final inning when they tried to overtake the Pans for the second time. Nick Mroczek started on the mound, but still could not find the plate in the third inning and was pulled for McTavish with the score already 5-2. McTavish hurled mightily in relief. but his support at the crucial moments was sadly lacking and the game was out of his hands when Evans came through with his home run in the top of the eighth with two mates aboard, to win the ball game. Oshawa seemed to lack the pep- per that had so characterized their win in Toronto, they made fumbles, and missed balls that should not Toronto were not much better. They bobbled al- most as often in their attempts in the infield. The only saving feature, for them was the fact that their errors were on not too important plays. Ler Scores First "Itzy" Ler scored the first run of the bdll game and got the Cab- bies off on the wrong foot when he singled, went to second on a wild pitch and scored easily on Bell's single. Oshawa got the run back in the last of the first when with two out, "Crabby" Jozkoski singled, stole second and came in on Ted O'Con- nor's drive into centre-field. Bruno really made Mroczek feel badly in the second ining when he slashed a ball through the short- stop's legs and past the centre field- er for a home-run error. That made the score 2-1 for Toronto. The Cabbies made no answer-in the last of the second, and Toronto settled down to some waiting in the box in the top of the third to gain three runs. Two errors, a walk, one batter hit by the pitcher, and in- terference called on the catcher all contributed to the three runs. Brown's single and the error result- ing from the play of it, also aided the Pans no end. Get One Back Toronto made with the slipshod work in the last of the inning though and the locals' got a single run off three errors, to stay in the ball game. Mr. "Slipka' Lipka accounted for two of these bobbles He was really | off the bit at this point and proved it further in the last of the fourth when with his team leading 5-2, he allowed two good bingles, a walk and hit a batter to advance two | runners over the platter and make the score 6-4. McTavish hit a double in his first appearance at the plate for a very neat try. The double scored the first run of the inning. Both clubs settled down after that, neither scoring in either the fifth or sixth innings. McTavish got two outs on strikes in the top of the seventh, and in the last of that inning, the Cabbies tied up the ball game at 6-6. Two were out again, Sarnovsky got to first on an error. Hank Jaz- koski got a walk and then George Brabin hit a double into deep centre field. to score both men before him. He tried to slide into third, but the relayed throw caught him off base for the third out. Came then the top of the eighth and that homer of Evans with two men on base. That made the score 9-6, the way it ended. TORONTO:-- 113 100 030--9 7 5 OSHAWA: -- 101 200 200--6 7 6 Toronto, Peter Pan--Ler, ss; Bell, 1b; Evans, 2b; Brown, rf; Murray, cf; Hastings, 1f; Woollens, 3b; Bru- no, ¢; and Lipka, p. Oshawa Motor City Cab--Morri- son, cf; Benkowski, 1b; J. Jozkoski, 3b; O'Connor, c; Sarnovsky, rf and If in 3rd: Milne, ss; Brabin, If and ss in 3rd; Tutak. 2b; Mroczek, P; H. Jozkoski, rf in 3rd; and McTa- ish, in 4th. y Umpires--R. Kelly, Tor, plate; and J. Hobbs, Oshawa, bases. Frankie Filchock Hurls Hamilton To ORFU Triumph Hamilton, Sept. 23 -- (CP) -- Frank Pilchock, the stocky United States import who earned All-Star rating in the Big Four last season in his first year in Canadian foot- ball, is building up his reputation even--further this season by his great playing in the Ontario Rugby Football Union. The former New York Giants ace did just about everything es Ham- ilton Tigers drubbed Toronto Beaches Indians, 32-12, Wednesday night, It was the third-straight victory for the Filchock-coached forces and put them all alone on top of the league standings. A crowd of 11,000 watched Fil- chock outpass, outrun, and' out- think the Combines under the flood lights. Though playing with a badly swollen elbow, he completed seven of 12 passes for a total yardage gain of 128--one of them 30 yards for a touchdown and another 40 yards to set up a field goal. He ran 56 yards for one major after intercepting a forward and even dragged out a variant of the old statue of liberty play to: set up another. The game was prevented from being a one-man show, however, by the way the remainder of the Tiger team rose to' their coach's example. The four Tiger touchdowns were shared by Filehock, Jack Stewart, Jack Harper and Gerry Walsh, the reformed English rugger player. 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AJAX LEGION LOSES FIRST T0 COOKSVILLE (Editor's NeOWiig to a slip-up by the Ajax management, no score- book was turned in on last night's playoff game at Pork Credit and the following information was 'obtained it a verbal report of the game). Port Credit, Sept. 23--Cooksville nosed out Ajax Legion 6.5 here Wed- nesday night in the first game of their O0.AS.A. Intermediate "C" semi-finals, The return game will be played in Ajax, on Saturday after- noon, Ajax's heavy-hitting team built up a 5-0 lead which they were enjoying until the 7th inning when Cooks- ville scored three runs. They added another in the 8th and in the 9th inning, a double and a deliberate walk of Cooksville's big hitter, put runners on bases, Then a sacrifice bunt advanced.the runners. An in- field out made two out but then a timely single scored the two Cooks ville runners, to give them their 6-5 last-second victory, a hard one for the peppy Ajax team to lose. SOX WIN FIRST Niagara Falls, Ont., Sept. 23-- (CP) --Brantford Red Sox Wednesday night won the first game of the Ontario Baseball Association Sen- for B semi-final series here when they defeated the Niagara Falls Fi- ores 6-5. Victory Aces Reach Finals Midget Series gion Victory Park Aces advanced to thé Oshawa Minor Softball Associa- tion championship finals, in the B"Nai B'Rith Midget League, when they eliminated Centre St. Com- bines last night at Centre St. School, winning 15-3 to.sweep the series in two straight games. Hoping to make & comeback ef- fort and avoid elimination, "Dint" Copeland's Combines ran into Jones, the Victory Park ace, on a "hot night". He allowed only four scat- tered hits and three runs, while striking out a dozen batters in seven innings. He 2lso issued eight walks. Centre St. didn't break into the run column until the 5th inning when Tanton walked and with one out, Winton also drew a walk. Sul- livan fanned, then Varga walked. Tanton scored on a wild pitch and Copeland singled to score Winton. They got their other run in the 7th when Winton and Varga both drew walks and Copeland again came through with a hit in the right place. Copeland had two of the hits collected by Combines with Lack and Winton sharing the other two safeties. Victory Aces took an early lead with three runs in the first inning. Zakarow singled and Seles walked with one out, then Jones smacked a homer. In the second stanza, Vic- tory Park rapped in five hits for four more runs, Kuney, Zakarow, Stroz, Seles and Craggs doing the hitting, the last one being a two- bagger. Zacharko homered to open the 3rd and Aces made it_another 4- run rally before the side was re- tired. They got another run in the 5th and three in the 6th when Zakarow singled, Stroz doubled and so did Seles, all after Kuney had Ft. Wayne Ties Sandlot Series Labatt Park, London, Ont., Sept. 23--(CP)--Fort Wayne, Indiana, General Electrics. and London Ma- Jors today are tied with one game each in the sandlot baseball world series, The U.S. sandlot champions de- feated Majors 4-3 here Wednesday night in the second of their best- of-seven series. Londoners, Cana- dian titleholders, won the opener Tuesday 8-7. The third game will.be played here tonight. In Wednesday night's game Fort Wayne picked up an early lead and held it throughout even though out- pitched and outhit by the losers. The men from Indiana got their p runs early--a single in the first in- ning, two in the second and their fourth and final tally in the fourth. From then on London's Cy Bricker limited them to one hit for the rest of the game, Southpaw Bricker gave up only four hits. However, during one wild streak in the second inning he walked four consecutive batters, had two rung scored on him. Charlie Shipp pitched for Fort Wayne and had only one bad in- ning. That was the seventh when London's Russ Evon and Joe Bech- ard walloped consecutive home runs. drawn a walk, after two men out. Zakarow, Stroz and Craggs with three hits apiece, paced the win- ners, while Kuney, Seles and Jones had two apiece. VICTORY PARK--Zakarow, 3b; Stroz, ss; Seles, cf; Jones, p; Craggs, ¢; Hfico, 2b; Zacharko, lf; Wasy- lyk, 1b; Kuney, rf. CENTRE COMBINES -- Sullivan, If; Varga, 3b; Copeland, p; Starr, rf; Tremble, c; Lack, 2b and p; Tanton, 1b; Attersley, ss; Winton, cf. SERIES) SPORTS CALENDAR! THURSDAY 0.A.S.A, Inter. "AA" Playoffs Wright's - Hardware, of ~ Birch CHff, vs: Oshawa Legion, at Alex- andra Park, 5:30 pm. (2nd game of 2-out-of-3 semi-finals, Wright's lead 1-0.) Oshawa Minor Softball Playoffs MIDGET: -- Royals vs Simcoe Hall, at Cowan's Park, 6:00 pm, (2nd game of 2-out-of-3 semi-zinais, T-inning game.) BANTAM: --Eastview vs Bathe Park, at Bathe Park, 6:00 p.m. and Connaught Park vs Victory Park, at Victory Park, 6:00 pm. (2nd games of 2-out-of-3 semi-finals rounds, 7- inning games.) FRIDAY O.A.8.A, Senior "B" Semi-Finals Toronto Fire Fighters vs Oshawa GM-Colts, at Alexandra Park, 5:30 m. (1st game of 2-out-of-3 series, Ontario semi-finals.) Oshawa Minor Softball Playoffs MIDGET:--If 3rd game neces- sary, Simcoe Hall vs Royals. at Centre St. School, 6:00 p.m., 7-in- ning game. BANTAM:--If 3rd game neces- sary, Bathe Park vs Eastview, at Connaught Park, 6:00 p.m. T-in- ning game. If 3rd game necessary, Victory Park vs Connaught Park, at Bathe Park, 6:00 pm. 7-inning game. NOTE: --2-out-of-3 final rounds for Midget and Bantam champion- ships will open on Saturday, Sept, 25, 5:30 p.m., 9-inning games. 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