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TERR LAS EOL a 4 an '. will run his charges through some - old drills and some new to get*the * ~ ror Wimp Crawford, Don Seeley, Ric -* . Which includes plenty of early- PL Et EE LT pu ball out of play. x Te LL ELE EE TER ET a WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1949 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE BASKETBALL SEASON BEGINS TONIGHT 'Grads' Open ' Home Season The Oshawa Grads, the Motor City's newest athletic . aggregation open' their home season tonight at the O.C.V.I. gymnasium when they play host "to the Lindsay Inter- mediates, This will be the first taste of C.B.A. play for the local basketball fans at home this year, and large numbers are expected at the Col- legiate at 8:00 pm. for this all im- portant event. Coach At Work Coach Earl Deacon, well-known for his track and field work and now turning to the hoop game, has assembled a fast-moving crew of basketeers and with improved shooting accuracy the club will give every team in the league a long run for their money. In a pre-game warm-up Deacon | boys tuned to the tempo of this fast sport. . Still smarting under the loss to .the Peterborough Marines last Sat- 'urday, the Oshawa Grads will be out to beat their record tonight when they meet the Lindsay quin- tet. The Marines are rated as the best in the loop by the experts. * The league in which Oshawa plays this year is composed of four other teams. Port Hope, Cobourg, Lindsay and Peterborough. The last named plus Oshawa make up the .."B" section while the "C" section will take in the three tirst-named 1 teams. Home And Home Each team will play a home and home series with each other club in the schedule which ends around the last day in February. Then come the play-offs to see which team enters the provincial play- downs. .. Some of the names who will be in action in tonight's game are Solway, Bob Patte, Jim Anderson, .Bob Rife, Fred Fairhart, Gord {, Hanna, Tony Mayer, Jack Magee, .and newcomers Jim Ross, Bud Christie (of lacrosse fame) and per- haps Bunny Maeson. Bill Szikszay has threatened to play guard with Coach Earl Deacon. They say it could happen, so watch for this move, Remember game time is 8:00 p.m. The place, the O.C.V.I. gymnasium tonight, Sport Shorts From Britain « London, Jan. 11.--(CP) -- The flat-race jockey's off-season bogy-- the threat of accumulating pound- age around the waistline--leaves champion jockey Gordon Richards undisturbed. ., Gordon, Britain's ace jockey with regularity distressing to his col- leagues during the last two de- , cades, has found his keep-fit medi- cine in winter sports at Switzer- "land's St. Moritz. He finds it the .- best build-up for a strenuous rac- | ing season, though maybe it adds a . little adipose tissue. "I always do in the winter," he said, "but it will come off 'again quite easily when I go into train- * ing for the season." As conscientious as he was 20 years ago, Gordon prefaces each opening of the flat season with three weeks' serious preparation, morning road work, exercise and right diet. It's his formula for starting the season fighting fit. Even so, rid- ing six races daily, he finds he of- ten loses as much as 3% 'to four pounds. That is adjusted by saddles of varying weights if his horses all are required to carry the same. Statistical pundits say the aver- age time wasted in every league soccer match through the ball be- ing out of play is 35 minutes out of 90. Throws-in from the touch- line are largely responsible. West Bromwich Allion's live- wire director Norman Bassetts has been campaigning against this for years. He contends a kick-in should take the place of a throw-in. He now intends to ask the Foot- ball - Association to set aside one day's complete fixture list, which would include all league games, for a thorough test of the kick-in-for- throw-in proposal Records kept throws-in average 85 a first-class match--approximately one a min- ute. In a 10948 trial game between Moor Green, a leading Birmingham amateur side, and a West Brom- |. wich Albion team with the kick-in rule operating, the ball crossed the touchline fewer than half the aver- age number of times for league matches. Play, too, was speeded up, Bassett said. His argument is that with kick-in likely to have much more danger- ous consequences than throws-in, ~players would be unwilling to con- cede them or deliberately to kick a A recommendation by the English Golf Union, aiming at cheaper golf, "shat experimental competitions be "held with players' clubs limited to seven instead of 14, prompts the "question, "which would you choose?" ~ Few players carry their full al- % lowance, but a good best-seven guide =for the average golfer by R. A. "Whitcombe, Champion in "1938: Driver (or brassie); No. 4 wood, . No. 2 iron, No. 4 iron, No. 6 iron, . niblick and putter. ¢ BASKETBALL SCORING w Ina g basketball there are ; two ways ring, one by throw- ing into the hoop while the game is .dn progress, which counts two + points, and the other by throwing «in foul or free shots after a penalty "by Bassett say | | Basketball Star Helps Put FixersIn A "Fix" The attempt by New York gamblers to fix a recent Madison Square Garden basketball game between George Washington university and Manhattan college, was blocked by the arrest of four men who were charged with dangling offers up to $10,000 before the eyes of war hero co-Capfain David Shapiro of G.W.U. Here George Garber, left, assistant coach of G.W.U., talks to Ken Norton, coach of Manhattan College about the entrapment of the four gamblers; a. bit of intrigue in which Shapiro played the role of hero. JACK LEVY--ARRESTED JOSEPH ARNOWITZ--ARRESTED Four prisoners try to hide their faces as they are booked by detec- tives at a New York police station. The charges are attempting to bribe an amateur player. The player in question is war hero Dav- id Shapiro, co-captain of the George WILLIAM ' RIVLIN---ARRESTED Washington basketball team who helped spring the trap on the gamblers. The arrested men are, L. to R., olose to desk, Philip Klein and Joseph Aronowitz, both using hats as camera shieldsA Jack Levy, with hands over face and William, KLEIN--ARRESTED PHILIP Rivlin with turned-up coat collar. In the rear, smiling, are Detectives Hughes, left, and Detective Jaeger. HERO DAVID SHAPIRO Big Ed Just Too Big . A Touch Of Acrobatic Basketball John Oldham (42) of Western Kentucky, still latcehi the basketball, 4 hi Big Ed Sadowski, one of the top stars of the professional basketball cir- cuit, loops one in as the New York Knickerbockers' Lee Knorek tries in vain to stop it. Sadowski is with the Philadelphia team of the Basket- ball Association of America. The game was played in New York and won by Knicks, 88-80. over Irv Horn's back as Ed Gard (Horn and Gard are LLU.) helps to confuse the play during a recent game between Western Ken- tucky and Long Island University at New York's Madison Square Garden. Western Kentucky won the game 83 to 58. / ~All Pictures by Central Press Canadian. Yale Captain Is Court Wizard With Rhythm Tony Lavelli, handsome Yale court captain (who looks like an illustration for a Frank Merriwell book), has broken all Eli court records for scoring, and his graceful shot-making has put him at or near the top in collegiate circles. He has been averaging about 20 points a game. Tony is shown Lat (left), jumping to put one into the b His gr crowd-pl is a hook shot from the corners executed with infinite rhythm and grace. Above, we get an inkling into the rhythm angle.. Lavelli is majoring in (personal foul) which counts one point, music at Yale in New Haven, Conn., and is an accordion-player who is expected to make the music headlines in the future y BOWLING ALBERT ST. UNITED CHURCH Monday night saw some of the gents turn in some nice scores but the ladies have yet to hit their stride. It's those corner pins, isn't it, gals? Harry Norton was the star of the night. He bowled a lovely high single, with handicap of 333. Harry beat the previous high of 300, held by Jim Gor- don. Nice bowling, Harry! The two top teams had a great run for first place. Although the Hurri- canes were short two bowlers, they came through with two points and the Head Pins took three, with a full team to tie them for first Place, It is a very close race between these top teams. We are very, sorry to hear some of our players af ill and also that one of our bowlers, Perc. Bent, was rushed to hospital. We wish them all a speedy recovery. {Head Pins and Zipples took three points from Spiders and Caterpillars and Hurricanes, Apaches, Bumble Bees and Ants. Ladies' high single--Violet Pike 235; Dorothy Coleman 217; Glady Clark 205; Doreen McGee 203 and Amy Sargeant 202. There were no ladies over 400. Men's high singles: --Harry Norton 333; Jim Gordon 259; Rod Wiltshire 254; Alec Pollock 253-226; Lawson Park 239; Earl Rorabeck 235; Gordon She- milt 230; Fred Coleman 228; Gord Hornby 225; Ab. Walker 221-205; Ed Simmons 221; Morley Rorabeck 212; Jack Bent 209 and Bob Bent 203. Men's high doubles -- Alec Pollock 479; Harry Norton 475; Jim Gordon 433; Ab. Walker 426; Rod Wiltshire 407 and Ed Simmons 403. Lemon League--Flo. Boyle 87; Leona Walker 85; L. Allman 83; Dorothy Cole~ man 82; Barb. Cooper 80. The following bowled themselves out of the Lemon League: Gladys Clark with 205; Ann Snudden 185, and Elmer Pixley 188. Hurricanes 31 Head Pins . . Caterpillars Spiders Bumble Bees MOTOR CITY LADIES' MAJ. LEAGUE Somcone once sald, "If you can't say anything good about it, don't say any- shing at all", That's right down our alley today--the less said the better! (The -mortem conversations after last onday's efforts went something like this: "How did you.do tonight?" "Skip 1t!") "A" League The 650 honor roll appeared to be headed for the waste basket, until Zena Menzie's 650 was turned in. Carry that torch high, Zena, for all the other 1nt- ty-nine bowlers! Victory Billiards and McCallum Transports whitewashed Hayden Mac- donalds and Lock's. Karn's took two from Victor's Sports and Cycle; Osha- wa Furriers 2, Coca Cola's 1; Franklin Simon's 2, Pearl's 1. McCallum Transports .. Victory Billiards see Coca Colas Karn's Pearl's Oshawa Furriers . Victor's Sports & C Lock's Hayden Macdonald Franklin Simon's . "B" League Same alleys, same pins, same bowlers --two in the 600 Club: Flo. Wills 615; Edith Ryan 602. Alger Press and Henderson's blanked, Felt Bros. and Dixon's Coal. White's Insurance took two from Oshawa Dalry. Saywell's 2; Jack Biddulph's 1; Mit- chell"s 2; Burns' Shoes 1. The race is now very keenly contested, with only two points between first and ninth places. Saywell's ........ Basunes Henderson's . Mitchell's Alger Press Felt Bros. . Dixon's Coal Jack Biddulph White's Insurance ..... P.S.--From the new management we jearned that the new pins and new balls, which are already on hand, will be in evidence next Monday night, pro- vided the pit cushions have been re- paired. It should be something to look forward to, eh gals? -- TIMES-GOODFELLOW This week saw another shake-up in the leadership. Red Cats by virtue of a four point win are back at the top of the standing followed one point be- hind by Baxter's Beauties, Incidentally those Beauties did it again. Meeting the leaders, Esme"s Aces, they took three points and put the Aces back to third place. Bylines and Aces are now tied for third spot. Herb Wager with a triple of 722 led the Red Cats in their victory over Oillie's Orphans, The Cats rolled a to- tal ot 3190 pins which is nice going, Alex Mackay fattened his individual average while topping the Orphans with 730. Jack Taggart with a single of 303 and a triple of 695 was largely respons- ibie for the Beauties taking three from Eeme's Aces. Doug. Warren rolled best for the Aces with 698. Bylines, by taking three to one from Battling Bums, placed themselves in a contending position. Frank Ball led the way with 671 from scratch. John Nantais topped the Bums with 638. Pace Setters stayed in the FulNing when they tv Doris' to 1. D. Willams was best for the winners with ot, Bob Salmers led the Schmoos with 562. Verda's Victors split even with L. C. Schmoos and the Victors are still with- in striking distance of the top. Don Dean was best for Victors with 586 while Jim Baxter topped the Schmoo team with 660. Best single scores for the night were Marion Wilson 255 and John Taggart 303 in single games. In the triples Ma- rion again proved best with 628 while for the men Alex Mackay stood tops with 730. Better than 210 without handicaps were--ladies: Wilma Worfolk 213, Esme Williams 211, Marion Wilson 253--gents: N. Perry 264, H. Wager 238, A. Mackay 243, 247, 240, B. Hudson 215, H. Dyas 260, J. Taggart 284, J. Shields 221, 217, D. Warren 211, 211, F. Ball 253, 232, R. Jeyes 214, J. Nantals 252, F. Forshee 224, D. Willlams 223, 222, R. Salmers 225, 210, F. Harris 227, J. Baxter 215, 264, D. Dean 232, R. Johnston 236, 247. Red Cats . 17 Baxter's Beauties . Esme's Aces .... Bylines Battling Bums . Verda's Victors Pace Setters , L. C. Schmoos Doris Schmoos Ollie's Orphans .... 4 PLEASE--For the sake of the league which follows us let's get started a little earlier. ACCEPTED--The challenge carried in this column last week has been accept- ed by the Alger Press. The match will take place on Jan. 22 at 2:30 p.m. Two teams will represent each firm and total pins will count. The team from this league will be selected by the ex- ecutive--waten for it. And apart from bowling--I'm going out on a limh and calling Algers to take this year's Grudge Game although I will be there shouting my head off to "BEAT ALGERS" . . . Jack Shields was heard to remark that girls will be wearing dresses longer again Last-Secon 0.C.V.l. Senior C.V.1. SENIORS ED \ d Basket Gives Squad 3 Gedge Flips in Set-Shot With Four Seconds Left To Put Local "Yellow Jackets" In Front at Final Whistle --TFoster, Salmon, Har- ris And Mozewsky Lead O.C.V.I. Attacks Twelve seconds left in the game between the Ajax house champs and the O.C.V.I. Senior basketball team. The score is 36-35 for Ajax. Oshawa grabs the ball in a re- bound off the Ajax backboard. It goes to the centre in the keyhole, He passes to Gedge at the mid- court line. Four seconds left. Gedge lets a long two-hander go. Its good. Oshawa wins 37-36, . Most Thrilling Game Thus ended one of the most thrilling games that had been play- ed by the O.C.V.I. teams this sea- son. Coach Earl Deacon's yellow jackets handled the ball masterful- ly and caused such a sensation that their game almost overshadowed the big fixture between Ajax Seniors and Varsity Blues. The Recreation Hall at Ajax was jammed with students and they cheered lustily for both sides, and a little louder for the pert young cheerleaders brought along by the Oshawa teams. In .the first quarter Oshawa jumped into the lead on some well- | placed long shots by Ray Mozewsky and two hook shots by Foster from close under the hoop. The Ajax team were caught off- balance by the speeding younger team and required all the rest of that half to get back some of these points. At quarter time the score stood 11-3 for Oshawa, while at the half the locals were ahead 19-13. | Came the second half and Osha- | wa, a little slower, but still hand- | ling the ball with great accuracy, moved the pill in closer on the rather wobbly basket in the north end of the Hall. This system paid- off in fewer missed shots. Jack Fos- ter, the driving force on the golden- sweatered team, threw in three field goals in this half which liter- ally kept Oshawa on top of the "Jaxers". » At three-quarter time the count had upped to 20-26 for Oshawa with the work of Ceresino, and, game. Ajax then moved out in front for the first time in the game and Os- hawa were pushed till those last seconds of play when they finally got the winner in true "Merriwell" style, The O.C.V.I. Seniors play East York Seniors tonight at 6:00 while the O.C.V.I. Juniors play East York Juniors at 5:00 p.m. SOCCER POOLS GROW BIGGER London, Jan. 12--(Reuters)--Bri- tain's soccer pools, which weekly offer glittering cash prizes for cor- rect forecasts of game results, are big business now booming as never before. Here are the figures to prove it: Weekiy "investments" by bettors total £1,500,000 ($6,000,000) or £57,- | 000,00 for the 38-week season. About 17,500,000 packets are sent weekly to the various pools, the vast bulk of them presumably ¢on- taining entry forms, according to a post office census taken in October. This is 1,600,000 more than a year ago, 2,000,000 above the pre-war high reached in 1938 and fully 6,- Nose more than the figure for 1945, Big Revenue Betting taxes and - post office charges in pool business net the government £395,000, weekly. No less | than £55,000 of that sum is taken | by the post office in stamps and money orders, Throughout the sea- son, government revenue from het- ting tax and post office dues tops the £15,000,000 mark. Size of weekly stakes varies from small one-shilling 'investments" to big throws of hundreds of pounds from bettors who spread their | stakes over the various pool firms. They try to ensure success by work- ing out complicated "permutations" in their forecasts, designed' to en- sure that at least one entry shall give a completely correct slate of results for the week's matches. One of the big men is reputed to stake more than £2,000 each week. His' "hobby" leaves him no spare time for other work, as he has to brood over the "coupons" on which he finally writes his com- | plicated entries. However, he claims to make a handsome living out of the pools--and he does not even have to pay income tax' on it. Spring and our Freddy was heard to retort, "sure, and if prices keep going up they'll be wearing them long Campbell keeping Ajax right in the | | Sports Roundup Win Over Ajax House . Regina, Jan. 12--(CP)~-- always the straw that camel's back. And for those who breaking up of the British is 'perilously well advanced, a final stroke they might under consideration. 3 Tom (Regina ~P ville thinks "The collapse is complete" after pi don paper and in most famous British sme ished--"The smell which clung' Harris tweed." . "We spilled our blood for Empire (in a boxing { Aldershot, . fighting a X was 10 years younger ae taller) and cannot watch the E pire breaking up without a & tears," Melville explained. Hi He went on to say things had been going too well with the BE pire for a long time. Tommy had upset the dopesters by Sta ing up for 15 rounds and losing heavyweight Joe Louis dvhen tr tion called 'for him to' win on canvas by a foul." "ier It took 10 years and Bruce/Wo cock to .straightem of le Bri boxing picture, {Mel adds. ~ § "In Australia"the bodyline bo ing in test cricket almost ripp the Empire asunder," he says. O a knighthood to Don Bradman ed the situation. 3 "International golf threatened turn i some Yank took a poke at He! | Cotton in the United States I Foster Leads Club ls "Thank goodness the Empire © lied then," says Melville. "It nee¢ the rally because the Russian namo soccer team had gone London the winter before to bh} the mighty Arsenal during a § Nobody saw the goals scored Pravda claimed a vietory over decadent capitalists nd the; only. three letters tok disp claim." ; ; s all been wasted now, h¢ ever in Melville's opinion. The E tish Empire is done. , | é New York, Jan. 12.--~(AP)--P1 example of double thinking (I doubletalk, you know was Har' Harman's recent suggestion to s giving films of disputed decisic to the newspapers . . . . The papi of course, would have their o still pictures and recourse to { newsreels (unless the colleges wi to shut off those, too.) .... 1 only result would be to hamper forts for accuracy. Writers s would criticize officials if ti thought they saw a sour. decis In line with that was refei Sam Schoenfeld's contention ti basketball officials are sensit guys and shouldn't be critics "unless it is constructive and he the game." . . . . Most of us figt it helps the game to point out tt an official is doing a bad job, ey if we can't improve his perfor) ance, End of the Line Heine Groh, who hit 474 in t 1922 world series, still is so pro of that feat that he has obtain Neence No. 474 for his car eve year for 26 years. He's h d three states--Florida ap star sophmore tumbler on the Pe State gym team is Rudy Valenti --no relation to the famous mo! star . . . and a hockey fan at t Garden, observing a picture of T ronto's Max Bentley (whose nc is rather prominent) exclaime "oh, look, Pinocchio." 37-Year-Old Debt Paid to Grid St: Saskatoon, Jan, 12--(CP)--Ba in 1912, Joe Kosid, who now liv in Saskatoon, played rugby wi the Chicago Bears, now one of ti top professional teams in the Ur ted States. In his spare time | refereed games. Recently Joe received a lett from Herman Fletchner. Fletchn said he had been looking over o football records which he found in little: black book: in an old trunk Mr. Fletchner said he noted J: still had $10 coming to him, a parently unpaid because a man ht collected cash for the league b had forgotten to turn if in, Mon being a trifle tight in those day Joe's debt was ignored. Times now are happier. M Fletchner" decided, after looking the black book, that the de should be liquidated. So now J¢ has a $10-cheque--and is feelir pretty good, the price of thin eing what it is. { Fletchner gave the Chicago Dai, than they expect." THE TAXI SERVICE WITH FULLY INSURED ® Prompt ® Careful ® Col MOTOR CITY CAB a News as his address. OPPOSITE = BUS TERMINALS ® | 5238)