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| LEGION LOSES IN » | some MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1948 THE DAILY T IMES-GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN "Oshawa Legion Beaten 7-6 2nd of Inter. Piay 3rd Game In Toronto HAMILTON -- FITTINGS JRS. OUSTED 'AR' Series, Hamilton "AA" Champs Nose Out Legion to Tie 0.A.S.A. Finals--Win- Umpire Awards Midget Playoff To Simcoe Hall Victory Park Aces and Simcoe Hall "Red Feathers" were tied 8-8, in the last half of the 12th inning Big League on Saturday afternoon, with two men, when a mix-up by two of the young players following a close play at 1st base, resulted in a fis- tic flare-up and Umpire Ted Ros- Oshawa Golf Club Champs Receive Their 1948 Awards - As Successful Season Ends Annual Closing Day Tournament and Pre- sentation of Trophies and Prizes Officially of Mr. and Mrs. Mwray Hainer, also proved a big success and was attended by a large number of members. . Mrs, E. Bradley, president of the ladles' section, officiated at the Trinity School Edge O.C.V.L Jrs InC.0.8.8.A. Tilt BILL SZIKSZAY . Port Hope, Oct. 4--Trinity School ifs, Saturday edged Oshawa High School, 26-23 in their first game of COSSA Junior Rugby play. The home squad had a great advan- tage in ground gaining and first downs, Oshawa, capitalized on TCS FINALS Oshawa Fittings Juniors Bow Out To hecker Cab In 0.AS.A. outhern Finals Checkers Get 13 Runs in First and Then Oshawa Boys Break Even With Toronto Champs -- BOWLING UAWA MOTOR CITY LEAGUE The Majors are very well balanced, a) if the stand! is any indication. Vic- N ond awarded thi to Si ners Grab Early Lead p arged 11S game o iimeoe Ends Local Golf Sea-|presentation of the Ladies' Section | 6101s to keep the score close. Masowich Pounded tor' lead! r's are leading with 6 points while 4 and Drive Wilson from Mound -- Meclsaac Keeps Oshawa's 10 Hits Scattered Hamilton "Niagara Paints" nosed out Oshawa Legion 7-6 at Hamilton on Saturday afternoon, to tie up their OAS.A, Intermediate "AA" Southern Ontario championship final series, at one game apiece. The 3rd and deciding game will be played in Toronto, likely on Tuesday of this week. Take Early Lead Hamilton "Niagaras" grabbed an early lead over the Oshawa squad, scoring their seven runs in the first » four frames. They got two in the irst inning when a walk and an 'error put two on bases. Smith forced Gervasio and Beveridge forced Dixon, but McIsaac doubled to score his two mates, McFarlane singled to open the 2nd inning for the homesters and scored after two out, on a choice play and an error. In the third inning, Wilson walked Beveridge with one out then MclIsaac singled and Brock came through with a 3-run homer, to make it 6-2. That ended Wilson's stay on the Oshawa mound and "Bunny" Zaka- row took over, retiring the side with a couple of strikeouts. Then he al- lowed a run in the 4th, or at least, his mates yielded it on successive prrors followed by an infield out. after that he let Hamilton down with only one hit for the last four frames and not a run. However the damage had been done. Mclsaac Stops Legion McIsaac allowed 10 hits to the Oshawa gang but he wasn't in too much trouble, McMillan was safe on an error in the second and scored on an infield out and a passed ball and another infield out. In the 3rd, Waddell singled with one out and scored when Flintoff was safe on an error, Flintoff homered to open the 6th ning, for Oshawa's first earned un, Dionne then singled and Mc- Millan was safe on an. error but Smegal forced Dionne and Hobbs forced McMillan, then Menaul walked to fill the bases but Zaka- row grounded out. hd Oshawa scored a run in the 8th entertaining the American League the job of mailing down Cleveland's first pennant since 1920 before 74,- Yesterday By RALPH RODEN Associated Press Sports Writer "Sudden death" confronts Cleve- land Indians and Boston Red Sox teday. The Indians and Red Sox are scheduled to clash in Boston in a one-game do-or-die play-off for the championship of the American League, This unprecedented American League event came about Sunday whn the Indians and Red Sox fin- ished the regular season in a flat- footed tie for the pennant, The. Indians began the day's ac- tivities a game ahead of the Sox but dropped a 7-1 decision to De- troit Tigers while the Red Sox mauled the defending world cham- pion New York Yankees 10-5. Both Manager Lou Boudreau of Cleveland and Joe McCarthy of Boston refused to reveal the iden- tity of their starting pitchers for today's dciding game, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. EST. Said McCarthy after the Red Sox win: "I had everybody working in the bullpen this afternoon and I haven't the ghost of an idea who I'll start tomorrow." Best guess is that either Ellis Kinder (10-7), a righthander or Lefty Mel Parnell (15-8) will work for the Red Sox with Denny Gale- house (8-7) a darkhorse. Boudreau said, "My starter will be Bob Feller, Gene Bearden or Bob Lemon. There will be no announce- ment of my starting pitcher until he steps on the rubber." There's an outside chance that Bob Muncrief may get the nod. Muncrief was pretty tough on the Sox while pitching for &t. Louis Browns. This is the first time in its his- tory that the American League has had to stage a playoff to decide a pennant, No matter which team wins to- day the World Series will open in Boston Wednesday with the Na- tional League's champion Braves winner. Bob Feller was entrusted with 181 paying customers at Cleveland Hall, the Midget League finals, being played at Cowan's Park. in Hryco. It was the second game of Victory Ates" have protested the decision and the issue 'will be set- tled in the Oshawa Minor Softball Association committee room. If the official's decision is upheld, it will mean the championship for Simcoe Hall, as they had already won the first game of the series, final round for the Midget League championship. Aces started off with a run in the first inning and added three the second on a homer by Wasylyk and hits by Craggs and Simcoe Hall came back with three runs in the second frame also, when an error and hits by Sciuk and M. Tutak paved the way. Simcoe Hall continued to pound Jones very hard, scoring three more runs in the third frame to take a 6-4 lead, Czop and Bosko- vich doing the hitting, the latter getting a homer with two on. They added two more in the 4th inning to drive Jones from the mound and Stroz took over the pitching duties for Victory Aces. Piontek's homer ended Jones' stay. Stroz stopped the Simcoe Hall team in their tracks, fanned 18 bat- ters in the remaining eight in- nings he pitched and didn't allow a single run, Meanwhile, M. Tutak continued to go along nicely for Simcoe Hall. He gave up a run to Seles on a walk and hit by Jones, in the 5th and another in the 6th when Hry- co was able to connect and scored on two errors, ! In the 7th, Seles singled, Jones connected and so did Stroz, and an error let the st two runners scored, making it Both teams played airtight ball after that and neither scored an- other run. VICTORY PARK--Zakarow, ss; Cirka, c; Seles, cf; Jones, y Stroz, I Aoph Srages, 2b; Zacharko, If; Hryco, ss and p; Wasylyk, 1b; SIMCOE HALL--Valentine, cf; Hrycanuk, 2b; Piontek, ss; J. Tu- tak, 3b; Czop, 1b; Wilson, rf; Bos- kovich, c; Sciuk, If; M. Tutak, p. Umpires--Ted Rospond, plate, and C. Kutasienski, bases. Sunday, but the big righthander son -- 2-Ball Foursome Tourneys Prove Inter- esting Events The annual presentation of tro- phies and prizes to the 1948 cham- pions and tournament winners, to- lgether with the annual 'closing day" tournament and ceremonies, was held by the Oshawa Golf Club on Saturday and brought a very successful season to a fitting climax. Starting early in the afternoon, the traditional two-ball foursome tournament attracted an entry of 54 players, with Mrs. Fred Fordham and L. M. "Jimmie" Souch emerg- ing as the winners, with Miss Ursula Morrow and Joe Habberfield as the runners-up. President Performs Honors Following the afternoon tea, Club President Ed Robson presided at the presentation ceremonies and gave an interesting review of the 1948 season, mentioning the repairs and improvements accomplished, to- gether with giving a brief summary of the plans intended for next year. Each winner and the runner-up, received a splendid ovation from the large crowd of golfers and club members present -for the cere- monies. In the evening, 'the customary "club closing dance" was held and this event, under the convenership championship trophies and con- gratulated the winners. Men's Trophy Winners Presidet's Trophy, won by Dr. A. S. McKay, runner-up, Doug. Keel; Scratch Trophy, won by Harry Michael, runner-up, Earl McMas- ter; Club Championship Trophy, won by "Wib" Hall, runner-up, Doug. Keel; ship, won by Ray McMaster and Clive File, and runner-up, Jimmie Daniels and "Oke" Crawford; GM Trophy, won by Harold Ball, run- ner-up, Garth Gillespie. Ladies' Section Champions Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin Trophy, won by Mrs. E. F. Armstrong, run- ner-up, Mrs. H. E. Smith; Margaret McLaughlin Trophy, won by Miss Inis Pipher, runner-up, Mrs E. F. Armstrong; Felt Trophy, won by Mrs. C. H. Seaton, runner-up, Mrs. J. R. Robinson; President's Trophy, won by Mrs. Chas. H. Seaton, run- ner-up, Mrs. H. E. Smith; Club Championship, won by Mrs. E. F. Armstrong, runner-up, Mrs. J. R. Robinson; Bassett Trophy, won by Mrs. E. Gibbs, runner-up, Mrs. H. E. Smith; Bronze Championship, won by Mrs. Chas. H. Seaton, run- ner-up, Mrs. Elmer Dixon; D. J. Brown Trophy, won by Miss Ruth Higgins, runner-up, Mrs. E. Gibbs; GM Ladies' Trophy, wen by Miss Ursula Morrow, runner-up Miss Isobel Wallace. Boston Smashes Boston, Oct. 4--(AP)--No matter who pitches for Boston's Red Sox in their American League pénnant playoff today with Cleveland In- dians, he will be one from "The gamest bunch of players" Joe Mc- Carthy ever coached. That was the firm description by McCarthy of the sockers after they mauled New York Yankees 10-5 Cleveland, beaten 7-1 by Detroit. Counted Out "We were counted out early in the New York To Force Pennant Play-off As Detroit Dumps Indians Sunday to tie for first place with | is L 4 | Major League Leaders By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting--Williams, Boston, .370 Runs batted in--DiMaggio, New York, 6. Runs--Henrich, New York, 138, Hits--Dlllinger, St. Louis, 207. Doubles--Williams, Boston, 44. Triples--Henrich, New York, 14. Four-ball champion-/ kicked off to start the game and recovered the ball on an OCVI mis- cue. TCS worked the ball to the Oshawa 25 yd. line. And after a few unsuccessful tries OCVI regained possession on their own 16 yd. line. Two bad jumbles behind the OCVI goal line left the bal] loose and C Smith of TCS fell on it for the 1st major score. The concert was un- successiul and TCS led 5.0, TCS proved to be a tough team lo stop'on. the ground, what with ground-gaining and runs and neat off-tackle plunges. Despite this ob- vious advantage on the ground, TCS were held to no gain on any and all centre plunges through the good work of Clarke and Donevan, Later in. the first quarter, an Osh- ada latera] was intercepted and the Trinity club raced the ball down for a touch on three successive plays. Ashton was credited with the major, going over middle for -the count. The convert was good and the home-town club led 10-0. Break Goose-egg The Oshawa Collegians were not to be stopped though when they took to the air, Normy Fry did the chuckling and hit several receivers for gocd gains before he flung one to Mozewsky to bring the club into scoring position. Mozewsky plunged over the count, wilfa the conversion, was 11-6. In the second quarter, Oshawa grabbed off a bad snap deep in the Trinity zone, and with Clarke do- ing the galloping, the team tied the count with the second major at 11- 11. The conversion, which might tiave meant the lead was wide. Trinity College plunged and pass. ed under the able guidance of Mc- Derment and Pierce right down to the OCVI one-yard line, Ashton then grabbed the pigskin and loped through a big hole for the touch- down. The kick for the extra point was 'wide and the count was 16-11. TCS Strike Back Trinity College looked very strong in striking back, but the local Col. legiate juniors held at their own two-yard line. Things went well for the first two downs, but on the third, Ashton whipped around the end for a 21-11 count, the convert being wide, Walter Mozewsky then took part in the most thrilling play of the game, make a broken field 1un of r5-yards for an OCVI touchdown and make the count 21-16. The boot. Hard While Errors and Walks Also Hurt-- 5-Run Rally in 9th for Fittings Oshawa Fittings Ltd. Juniors fad- ed from the O.AS.A. Junior "A" championship race on Saturday afternoon at Davisville Park, in To- ronto, losing their second game of their Southern Ontario final series, with the classy Checker Cab team, 20-1. The victory gave Checker Cab, 1947 Ontario Junior "A" softball champs, the Southern final round in two-straight games and they now meet the Northern Ontario champions, in the All-Ontario finals, at Sault Ste. Marie. Won in First Inning Checker Cab won the .game and series in the first inning on Satur- day when they scored 13 runs on nine hits. Hewitt, first batter, start. ed off with a homer and that was the tip-off on the verdict. Halas doubled, so did Kennedy, Cairns singled and Bera doubled and so did Sanderson, as Masowich couldn't get a pitch past the plate, Gren- sted walked and so did Ezrra and then Greenburg doubled. It wasn't until they started to bat the second time around that Oshawa got a man out with Cairns and Sander- son getting more hits in the same inning. There was nothing to the game after that. Dervent had taken over the pitching in the 1st inning when Masowich was pounded so freely and he couldn't stop them. He lasted until the 8th, when Claus took over the pitching. Checker Cab scored four runs. in the 2nd, with Bera getting a homer to top that rally. They, added one in the 3rd and two in the 6th. Fittings Keep Trying Claus singled to open the 2nd for Oshawa and he scored on a two- bagger by Masowich, The Fittings boys kept rapping Greenburg for hits but couldn't get enough for runs, Corrigan walked in the Tth and scored on an outfield catch and a hit by Smegal and another by Claus. In the 9th, Oshawa made their dying kick, a-5-rune rally on five hits with Hurst, Turnbull, Smegal, Claus and Keeler doing the hitting. Claus, with a double and three Wilson Batterips, Palm Cigars, Ripley's Smoke Shop, Jubilee Pavilion, and Kent's Service Station are ali close bee hind with 5 points each. Rotish Men's Wear with 4 points also look as if they will be in the fight, but we feel that Warner Willlams, Andy Nagy's and Mutual Benefit will shake things up in a few weeks' time when get going. the, oyd Hall was the pace-setter with 814 (323), Pete Dobbins was right be- hind with a nice 772 while "Lefty" Thomson maintained his previous week's form and it sure looks as if Lefty" 1s in for a good year. Bob Skelton also justified his existence. Doorbusters are once again displaying the form they had last season and are on top of the standing in Group 2. Robson Leather also are tied for the top rung and the Skinner boys are close behind along with Inspection. Ron Ogden was the only bowler in Srenp 2 to make the 700 mark while 8. cCatfery e through with a nice 691 tripl Bill Judd helped the Doorbusters with a 302 single and Ede die Kitchen rolled a 295 for the Tane ners. The Group, 3 opening night was very quiet and Jimmy Freeman with 611 was the high bowler while Walter Wil- llams came through with a 270 single for the Exports. Cliff McQuarrie came back to league bowling after an ab- sence of a few years and rolled a nice 270 single, Dave Matthews was trying hard but all in vain. Reg.- Fair's Drivers picked up the maximum points and took over the lead in Group 3 and it looks as if Frank Freeman will have some tosgh opposition for his Light Rejects when they meet the Drivers. Domestic Truck got away to a good start when they nicked the ev. Bombers for 3 points but the Bomber; intend to get revenge on their io 4 opponents. The Beat Line and Machine Shop squads both notched full points from their opponents in Group 4. 'Scotty' McDonald seems to have rounded up a derk horse in this Seat Line entry. Tin Shop, File Pushers and Chevies all picked up 3 points while Maintenance and Heavy Reject were whitewashed. GROUP STANDINGS Major Pts. Victor's Sports PRE Wilson Batteries . 5 Jubilee Pavilion .. 5 Palm Cigar Store ... Ces Kent's Untd. Service Station § Ripley's Smoke Shop ...... § Rotish Men's Wear Warner Willlams Radio .... Andy Nagy's Mutual Benefit 1 High Scores--Lloyd Hall 814 (323)) Pete Dobbins 772; Harry Gillard 752; "Lefty" Thomson 734 (304); Bob Skel- Jou 725; "Slim" Doyle 718; Jack Roes Group 2 Doorbusters Robson Leather .. Skinners Inspection Shipping Primers Wheel & Tire Trim Line . Db bbUuON STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE Final Standing W. L. when Dionne doubled and scored on a single by Hobbs, In the 9th, Legion made a great | bid to tie it up. With two men out, pinch_hitter Middleton smacked a two-bagger and Flintoff then doubled to score him, making it 7-6 but Dionne struck out, and the game was over, Flintoff, with a homer and a spring when we had a bad streteb," | reminded McCarthy. "They counted | us out again as late as last Wed- pnesddy night when we lost to Wasn. ington." just didn't have it. Feller, striving for his 20th victory and seventh straight, was pounded from the hill in the' third inning when the Tigers scored four runs to sew it up. The four runs were more than enough for Prince Hal Newhouser, Detroit lefthander. Newhouser st ped the Indians on five hits in win-) Home runs--DiMagglo, New York, 39. Stolen bases--Dlllinger, St. Louls. Strikeouts--Filler, Cleveland, 164. was 21.17. Pitching--Kramer, Boston, 18-5, .783. Ashton led the way again in the i V second quarter, and crowned off "But those fellows never quit. | Battie AL LEAGUE some brilliant plunging by going They never gave up, You've got to| pi, P8 usial, "St. Louis, | over for a count of 26-17. Things looked very black for the local club, tip your hats to them for coming 131. put they were still fighting and from behind the way they did." Hits McCarthy, like Cleveland Man- | Doubles» Mutial, S made the score very close in the ed his own convent and the count Duplate Oshawa Rallway High Scores--Ron Ogden 700; 8. Mce Caffery 691. Singles--R. Welsh 329; L. Jackson 306; Bill Judd 302; Eddle Kite chen 205; Bill Baldwin 290; P. McFare lane 296. singles, was Oshawa's best hitter of the day with Hurst getting two hits, as did Corrigan, Smegal and Ford. Masowich, with a double and two singles, was next to Claus. Hewitt, Cairns, with five hits in six trips, Bera and Sanderson all had a big day at the plate, --- Group 3 The Drivers ... Light Reject .. Domestic Truck Lead Slingers . Brooklyn Pittsburgh New York Philadelphia ¥ Cincinnati Musial, St, Louis, 230. Louis, 45. Triples--Musial, St. Louls, 18 Oshawait £ double and Dionne with two hits, were Oshawa's best at the plate while McIsaac had a double and two single for '"Niagaras". R HE ' Dshawa Hamilton .... 213 100 00x--7 73 LEGION--Waddell, 2b; Weather- ap, 3b; Flintoff, rf; Dionne, cf; Mc- Millan, 1f; Smegal, ss; Hobbs, 1b; Menaul, ¢; Wilson, p; Zakarow, p mn 3rd; Middleton, batted in 9th. NIAGARAS--Gervasio, 2b; Dix- pn, 1b; Smith, ss; Beveridge, If; MclIsaac, p; Brock, 3b; McFarlane, pf: Jarvis, rf; Wercholoz, ¢; Heath, p in oth. Umpires: Jack Hobbs, of Oshawa, t plate and J. Hickey, of 'Hamil- Pon, on bases. i 'Thumper' Williams Regains American Loop Batting Title Chicago, Oct. 4--(AP)--Ted Wil- fiams enters today's dramatic Bo; ton-Cleveland pennant playoff as the American League's 1948 batting champion. Through Sunday's games, the Red Sox belter had posted a .370 mark, highest made by an AL. batting king since. 1941. In that year, Williams won the first of his four hit crowns with a phenomenal A406. He slammed .356 in 1942 and won with .343 last vear. Home run honors went to Joe DiMaggio of New York with a total pf 39. The Yankee Clipper also drove in the most runs, 156. Tommy Henrich, his teammate, was tops in runs scored with 140 and tied Washington's Ed Stewart in ham- mering triples, each with 13. Dillinger was another double winner in the specialized bracket with the most hits, 207, and 27 base thefts. ; Boston's Jack Eames continued jo held the best pitching percent- ge with 18-5 for .783. The 10 leading batsmen: Player and Club Williams, Boston Boudreau, Cleveland Mitchell, Cleveland : Zarilla, 8t. louis ............. 3 McCosky, Philadelphia ....... Dillinger, St. duis ....... J. DiMaggio, N.Y. ...... Appling, Chicago ... Goodman, Boston Evers, Detroit American League Play-Off Facts By The Associated Press Stake--American League pennant. Participants--Cleveland Indians and Joston Red Sox. Site--Fenway Park, Boston, Length of series--one game. Time--1:30 p.m. Probable crowd--34,000. . Probable pitchers--Mel Parnell (15-8) or vs. Bob Lemon (20-14) for Weveland. roadcast Mutual Broadcasti lystem starting at 1:15 p.m. EST, ne ninth inning when Joe Gordon 011 020 011--6 10 4 [0.00 relief pitchers for 15 hits with John- Wertz drove in three runs on three doubles, Wakefield knocked in two runs and were never headed. The the hill with a two-run rally in the of the Sox. However, Raschio folded tin the sixth, yielding four runs on breeze, DiMag, limping along with games Washington Senators down- ed Philadelphia Athletics, 7-2 and Chicago White Sox beat St. Louis * |socked his 40th homer for the Giants to tie Ralph Kiner of Pitts- second place 'as Brooklyn Dodgers game behind the Red Birds. hit pitching Meer, game in front of the Cubs. ning his 21st game of the season. He blanked the Indians until the singled home Allie Clark from sec- ond base with the lone Cleveland Detroit pounded Feller and five and Dick attack. Wertz ny Lipon, Vic the Wakefield leading with a two-bagger and Lipon crack- ed out three hits, scored twice and batted in a run. Before 31,304 paid fang at Boston and trailing 2-0 going into the third, the Red Sox exploded for five Sox sealed the verdict with a four- run blast in the sixth. The Yankees nicked starter Joe Dobson for single runs in each of the first two innings but rookie Bob Porterfield couldn't hold the lead. The Yankees drove Dobson from fifth to make it a 5-4 game in favor five hits. Earl Johnson, who relieved Dob- son in the fifth, gained credit for the victory, his 10th but Dave Fer- riss came on in the seventh to squash a Yankee threat and finish- ed up. If it weren't for Joe DiMaggio the Red Sox would have won in a a bad charley horse, rapped out four hits, two of them doubles and batted in three runs. When he left for a pinch-runner in the ninth the crowd gave him a tremendous ova- tion. In the other American League Browns 10-5 in the first game of a doubleheader. The second game was called at the end of eight innings with the score tied at 2-2 because of darkness. "The Braves tuned up for the. World Series by trouncing the New York Giants 11-1. Johnny Mize burgh for the circuit home run leadership for the second straight year, Kiner and Mize whacked 51 homers apiece last year. Although beaten 4-3 by Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals clinched also lost 4-2 to Philadelphia Phil- lies. The Dodgers, defending Na- tional League champions, finished & Cincinnati Reds, behind the two- of Johnny Vander shaded Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0. The triumph enabled the Reds to wind up in seventh place, a half OILERS DEFEAT CUBS Hershey, Pa., Oct, 3--Tulsa Oilers of the United States Hockey League defeated Boston Bruin "Cubs," 6-2 Sacurday night in an exhibigion game, iy 4 Philadelphia .... 4 Cincinnatl ,, Philadelphia Brooklyn Hedy and Westrum. Borowy, Rush Hearn (6) and Rice. Detroit .... Washington Chicago ... Cleveland .. Washington Philadelphia (7); Brucker. 8t. Paul ... . 4 3 Oolumbus . 3 4 St. Paul International League tne Junior World Series. The two Brooklyn farm clubs open in St. Pau] tomorrow, New York .. Brooklyn . Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis Saturday's Results S00 022 000--4 6 4 0 001 00x--5 8 Roberts, Possehl (1), Heintzelman (3), Koecher (6) and Seminick; Ers- kine, Roe (6) and Campanella. First Game fog 200 2003 1 3 0x--8 10 2 Spahn, Barrett (8) and Salkeld, Bur- ris (7); Webb and Yvars. Second Game 010 010 0--2° 6 1 001 000 0--1 5 0 Voiselle (6) and Masi; Ken- » 000 000 000--0 5 2 . 011 430 00x--9 13 2 (4), Dobernic (6), Caullough; Brazle, Hacker (8) and M Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Standing W. L. xCleveland xBoston ... New York . Philadelphia Detroit St. Washington Chicago Is] 361% 301; Louis 51 10 336 44 Xx--Tled for lead. Meet in playoff to decide championehip. Sunday's Results New York Cleveland New York .. . 8 Detroit Sov i 150--7 12 0 000--1 8 Welk, Welteroth (7) and Okrie, Early McCahan, Hoiborow (vy) aww AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Playofts Won Lost Pct. oe 571 ats 429 Sunday's Results 5 Columbus ....... 3 St. Paul wins final serles, 4-3. Saturday's Result . Columbus 14 innings. Montreal Royals To Meet St. Paul Little World Series Columbus, O., Oct. 4--(AP)--St. Paul won the right to represent the American Association Little Columbus, 5.3 here Sunday in the Seventh game of their final play- offs. in the World Series by iefeating The Saints will take on Montreal, winner, in St. Paul won the first 'wo. games from Columbus, but the Red Birds then swept three straight to move within one triumph the playoff title. St. Paul won a 3- 1, 14-inning game Saturday and clinched the crown behind the four- hit pitching of Phil Haugstad, Mel Himes and Morris Martin Sunday. of clinchwog Try a Times-Gazette classificd ad ager Lou Boudreau, will not an- nounce his pitcher until game time today. baseball writers were of the opinion crucial game, Confident of Tribe World Series tickets today. - Their in-and-out Indians battling Boston in the American League's first pennant playoff, but no one along the lake front appear- ed too perturbed about the outcome. The two teams tied Sunday for the flag. The Indians, bidding for their first since 1920, bowed to Hal Newhouser and Detroit Tigess 7-1. Boston, two games back only three days ago, zoomed into the deadlock with a resounding 10-5 conquest of New York Yankees, "We're not downhearted over los. ing," Manager Lou Boudreau said. "We are going over to Boston to beat the Red Sox for the pennant. This play-off just gets us there a day early for the World Series." President Bill Veeck had a case of champagne on fiand Sunday for the sports writers and a flock of fire- works for the fans in case the In- dians grabbed the pennant. But not a cork popped or bomb exploded. The day had been designated as "Bill Veeck Day" by Mayor Thomas J. Burke, but all the sport-shirted, 1 coatless president got out of it was a chill from the cold winds blowing off Lake Erie. The Indians' share of the gate receipts--some $55,000 -- was turned over to thie Cleveland Community fund. Three-Place Tie For Portland Open Portland, Ore, Oct. 4--(AP)-- Portland's big open golf tourna- ment went into extra holes today as triple title holder Ben Hogan hooked up in a single round playoff with tall Fred Haas Jr, of New Orleans and Johnny Palmer of Badin, N.C. The trio hit the wire dead even Sunday in a sensational windup to the $15,000 72-hole links race. Pal- mer toured the Portland Country Club course, a par 35-37--72 test, with scores of 69-66-68-67 for a total of 270. Hogan, owner of the United States and Western Open crowns in addition to the P.G.A. title tacked up scores of 67-71-65-67. Haas' similar + 18-under-par per- formance for the distance was ac- complished in this fashion: 67-67- 71-65. The three avere playing today for a capital prize of $2,450, with sec- ond money set at $1,750 and third place worth $1,240. They agreed to divide the money equally in case of a continued tie. In case two tie, they will split up first and second today -- You can be sure it will pay money. Most of the Red Sox players and'| Cleveland, Oct. 4--(AP)-- Confi- | dent Clevelanders picked up their were | Home runs--Mize, New York, and | Kiner, Pittsburgh, 40 Stolen bases--Ashburn, Philadelphia, 2. Strikeouts--Brecheen, St. Louis, 148. | Pitching -- Sewell, Pittsburgh, 13-3, the Indians would send that right- "813 (ander Bch Lemon after this really | Sports Roundup By HUGH FULLERTON, JR. | Boston, Oct. 4 (AP). -- Beiore starting the American League play- | off game, Boston Red Sox ought to | pay their dues and enroll in New- houser's "Hal's Pals" club . . . Hal did all right by the Sox gnday, although it seems that the law of averages was on his side after los- ing seven out of eight previous duels with Bob Feller . . . the most significant event of the week-end wasn't the unprecedented American League deadlock or anything that happened in football. It was the "buyers strike" at Belmont . . . the fans raised a holler of "don't bet" like a football cheer when they heard there would be no show bet- ting on a seven-hoirse field, topped by Citation ... and a lot of them didn't as was shown by a drop in the mutuel handle . . . that came just a week after the Atlantic City customers rushed onto the track and refused to leave until the management refunded the money bet on a favorite which wouldn't break from the starting gate. Monday Matinee When Detroit's Fred Hutchinson took sick and couldn't pitch against the Indians Saturday, manager Steve O'Neill phoned Joe Cronin in Boston to make sure the Red Sox didn't think he was easing up . . . middleweight champion Marcel Cer- dan will return to the United States in about a month to begin an exhibition tour . .. Rocky Gra- ziano turned up unannounced at the tournament of champions office the other day bringing a gaudy solid gold wrist watch inscribed: "To Andy Niederreiter, a Great Promoter" . . . the fight mob think it's a wonderful gesture, but nobody knows who told Rocky how to spell Niederreiter. PETER PANS Sarnia, Oct. 3--Peter Pans from Toronto shut out Sarnia juveniles, 2-0, in the first gaene of their OBA semi-final series here yesterday af- ternoon. Yank Lipka turned in his best pitching effort of the season, in turning back Sarnia witty four hits and fanning 14. The Panners were able to secure only three singles off the offerings of the Sarnia hurler, but their hits were good for runs. Otto Duzidk, who hadn't hit much all summer, came through with two of the three singles and drove in two runs. Bob Brown came up with a steller game at first base. These teams will play back at Eglinton Park, Wednesday after- noon. Game time 2:30. final quarter. "Moose" Goes Again Mozov:sky was the firebrand for the Oshawa club again and led the way with some very long passes, His first - was to "Baldy" Harrell. The second hit Clarke, and brought the ball into scoring position where Harrell was given the job of push- ing it over. He did and with Mozew- sky kicking hte convert the score was 26-23. Play became very tight after that, with the OCVI needing but a field goal to tie the score. TCS bogged down any. line plays and their de- fensive work on passes was excel lent, The game ended on this note, 26-23 for the TCS. club. The whole TCS squad played well witia Ashton and McDerment stand- ing ous. For Oshawa, Mozewsky starred, TCS--Maier, Ashton, McDerment, Pierce, Southam, Wilson, Lick, Bird, Harriss, Lewis, Luxton, Bruce, Dry- nan, Rawlinson, Cleland, Smith, Gilmour, Pepler, Gordon, Burdock, Brodeur, Teuch. OSHAWA--C. Beaton, A, Beaton, Bilcky, Cooper, Donevan, Clarke, Mackness, Fry, Harrell. Mozewsky, Clayhom, Majorosat, White, Ford, Jeffs, Dalby, Braithwaite, Amphray, Hines, Bak, Simpkin, Corse, Old- field, Langmaid. Stan Musial Wins National's Crown New York, Oct. 4--(AP)--Stan (The Man) Musial, after a year's absence, once again reigns as the batting champion of the National League. The St. Louis Cardinals mauler won the third batting derby of his major league career Sunday when he finished the 1948 season with an unofficial .376 mark. In addition to compiling the highest batting average since Arky Vaughan 'socked .385 for the 1935 Pittsburgh Pirates, Musial finished first in every other batting depart- ment except home runs. Johnny Mize of New York and Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh slammed 40 homers each to nose out Musial for the leadership. The 27-year-old Musial, led the league in doubles, 45; triples, 18; runs batted in, 131; runs scored, 135; and hits, 230. Rip - Sewell, 40-year-old right- hander of the Pirates, was the pitching leader. The blooper ball artist won 13 games and lost only three for an .813 mark. The 10 leading batsmen: Player and Club Musial, St. Louis Ashburn, Philadelphia Holmes, Boston Dark, Boston | Slaughter, St. Louis Heath, Boston Walker, Pittsburg Pafko, Chicago Gordon, New York Baumholtz, Cincinnati Oshawa .... 010 000 105-- 7 16 4 Toronto 1341 002 00x--20 20 2 FITTINGS LTD.--Corrigan, 3b; Hurst, ss; Dervent, 1f; Smegal, 2b; Claus, ¢ and p; Ford, 1b; Masowich, p and If; Locke, cf; Brooks, rf; Turnbull, ¢ in 9: Siblock, cf in 5th; Keeler, rf in 5th. CHECKER CAB -- Hewitt, If; Halas, rf; Kennedy, 3b; Cairns, 1b; Bera, cf; Sanderson, ss; Grensted, ¢: Ezrra, 2b; Greenburg, pj Swing, cf in 6th. Umpires: "Pat" Jarvis, of Osh- awa, at plate and G. Souch, of To- 'ronto, on bases. Spicy Bits From Other Sports Cols. Montreal, Oct. 4 -- (CP) -- Some quarters in French Canada have be- gun to wonder about Ontario's at- titude toward Quebec so far as spor, goes and a leader in this thought is Elmer (Montrea] Herald) Ferguson who writes: "Ontario sports inter- ests are not doing much to aid the bonne entente." Elmer's remark followed his col- umn in which be quoted Lew Hay- man, coach of Montreal's football Alouettes as saying Toronto Argo- nauts were out to break him and in this they had the help of Hamil- ton Wildcats. Hayman is a former Argo coach with considerable financial interest in the Als, His outburst against Argos followed Hamilton's refusal to play a Sunday Big Four football game in Montreal and then, when the game was scheduled at night, the Cats insisted on using a white football. But to return to the bonne en- tznte, here is what Fergie has to say about Ontario-Quebec sports re- lations: "Sunday afternocn and evening sport is a recognized way of life in the proad-minded province of Que- bec . . . but Ontario sports teams, excepting the National Hockey League Maple Leafs, are turning an icy shoulder toward it. "The Toronto Argos won't play Sunday football, the Hamilton (white pall) Wildcats reneged on one of their scheduled Sunday games here, and now the Hamilton lacrosse team is withdrawing from a Sunday night Eastern Canada la- crosse play-off scheduled for Lax ¢hine , .. "The fight of the Toronto base- ball club for Sunday games, with- out which it can barely exist, won't get far with this negative attitude by other sports clubs ... . It's their own business, of course, but con- sideration for the customs of an. other province wouldn't be a bad way of 'furthering relations and friendships « os 4 +" ) The Bucks .. 5% Oshawa Railway No. 3 .... Chev. Bombers Bun Wagons 0 High Scores--Jimmy - Freeman 611, Singles--Walter Williams 270; Cliff Mc Quarrie 267. NWI P File Pushers Orfuns The '"Dewsers" Wildcats Heavy Reject Maintenance 0 High Scores--Morton 756; Tovey 748; Harry Nesbitt 709; Bill Dionne 682. OSHAWA DAIRY LEAGUE There was a nice turn-out for the first night of league bowling on Thursday, and competition was keen. On Alleys 1 & 2, the Cans defeated the Covers, 3-1. Danny Butler was the spark for the Cases as they applied the whitewash brush to the Caps. Even| though the Crates were one man short, they managed to nose out the Cartons' 3-1. The Carriers put up a good fight but were defeated by the Cappers to the tune of 4-0. Deity Butler was the big operator of t night with a nice triple of 703. Other good triples were: Ray Westfall 6309; Helen Henderson 635; Ilean Shackleton 628; Grace Holmes 619; Boyce Waram 610; Stan Hart 604. Good singles were: Danny Butler 202; Art Lymer 281; Helen Henderson 260; Grace Holmes 265; Stan Hart 253; Dick Butler 258; Bruce Henderson 242; Cliff Chambers 227; an Shackleton 226; Boyce Waram 259; Carl Scammell 235; Marion Campbell 252. . The Lemon League picked up some new members on Thurs. night--Bruce Henderson, Doug. Shackleton, Violet Page, Fran. Westfall, Bert. Amey, Bill Lymer, and Marion Campbell. Ilean Shackleton and Francis Westfall were the prize-winners. 3 Standing QOH HWWANM Hamilton Tapples Cornwall in First Of Eastern Finals Montreal, Oct. 4--(CP)--Backed by the sensational goaltending of Doug Flavell, Hamilton Tigers scored an easy 13-4 victory over Cornwall Flyers in the first game of the best-of-three Eastern Can- ada senior lacrosse finals here Sate urday night. The second game is slated for Cornwall Monday night, with the third if necessary also in Cornwall Tuesday night. The winner of the series will meet the Western Canada cham- pions in the Mann Cup finals. Mrév Mackenzie, former Laching R.C.AF. star in the Quebec circuit, led the Hamilton attack with four goals, while veteran Joe Cheevers notched three markers. Jack Gair, Alvin, Doyle, Tank Teather, Ross Davidson and Elmer and Harold Lee added singles for the Tigers. Yves Garand was top Cornwall marksman with, two goals while Gaby Wheeler and Ronnie Jamiee son each scored once. :