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sel FE53¥dEHE aA =~ J oy) mS Ol MERE TAREE a "ae, ~ ~ cenBaBr3ngE g23Bedsc THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1950 SPORT SNAPSHOTS €3) ---.-. ~~ y~e*" _*<$€§<G>oe<S<oHwb -- Whatta week-end! When they call it Labor Day--they're referring to sport writers, believe us! We took in three of the Oshawa Merchants playoff games over the week-end but passed up the game down in Peter- boro last night. Marines pounded the ball hard at home to tie up the final series. We understand that Manager Sherry Rowland has instructed the Oshawa Club secretary to protest Umpire "Pat" Calladine's rulings en two balks called against Tony DeLaurentis but how the Oshawa man- ager figures he can win a protest against an umpire's judgment is be- yond us, We doubt if it can be done, even though an attempt will ve made, no doubt, to prove that the official gave the wrong interpretation of the rule. The third game of the Viaduct Major League championship series will be played either here in Oshawa tomorrow night under the lights or at Millen Stadium in Toronto. Latest indications are that to- morrow night's game will be in Toronto, + * * Three Oshawa pitchers created history ever the week-end, two of the Oshawa Merchants attaining "the pitcher's dream", a no-hit, no-run game, George Davidson whipped Ace Bowling Centre here Saturday afternoon 4-0 in a hard-fought game in which Ted Barnes' home run was the only earned tally in the game. It was a sizzling display by Davidson, with 15 strikeouts. At that, he can thank Rog. Wood and "Tommy" Thompson for his no-hitter, because those two players both came up with sensational fielding plays. On Sunday in Toronto, Darrell Thompson made it three-siraight shutouts in suc- cession for a clean sweep of the semi-final series over "Moe" Char- ney's Ace Bowling team--and Thompson's no-hit, no-run perform- ance, giving Oshawa Merchants two such coveted games in succession, was an even better showing than Davidson's game, in that the team didn't have one real "difficult" play to make in helping Darrell achieve his glory. Up in Toronto at the C.N.E. on Saturday, Normie Bagnell fanned the first three batters with nine-straight strikes, then he fanned the first 18 batters in succession and finally he fanned 23 batters in the game, for something that must be a record in senior softball playoffs. The win puts Pedlars right in line for The Telegram Trophy and the Bulova watches. They're now in the semi-finals and after ousting North Bay Palangios, they are favored to reach the finals, by winning their semi-final game on Thursday night. + + * Jerry Creasy and Doug. Plunkett waged a rare mound duel here yesterday morning and then in the 6th, Merchants followed a momentary fumble by shortstop Danny Brown with a flock of base-hits and the odd walk to pile up nine runs in one frame. At that, Creasy missed his shut- out when he faded badly in the 9th inning, after pitching a brilliant game or eight frames in which he allowed only two hits. We didn't see the game in Peterboro last night, so our readers will have to be satisfied with the eye-witness account in. today's paper, supplied by our Peterboro ven-pal, + J ry Over in Whitby tonight, Whitby Stokers and Cobourg Orfuns will try again. They played 10 innings to a tie on Saturday night in the third game of their 0.A.8.A. Inter. "B" playoffs. The winner of to- night's game goes up against Parham in the Eastern Ontario finals , for rights to go into Provincial semi-finals and the Whitby softball fans are due to see another sizzling struggle at the Town Park to- night, with Wally Samanski and his mates going all-out to halt Cobourg's claim to Eastern Ontario's Inter. "B" crown. + + + Down at the Oshawa Arena tonight, Promoter "Pat" Milosh will be presenting his final wrestling show of the season and it should be another hum-dinger, The young mat impressario has done a fine job of promoting pleasing cards for local grunt-and-groan fans this year and his final show tonight warrants the biggest crowd of the season. Jack Moore and Warren Bockwinkle meet in the preliminary bout and that will get the show away to a flying start. In the semi-final, Bowmanville's Billy Stack, quite a local favorite, takes on Seelie Samara, who is another wrestler that is popular with Oshawa's mat fans, Then comes the last bout of the season here*-the main bout between Ray Villmer and Pat Flanagan meet- ing those arch-demons, Wee Willie Davis and The Masked Marvel. The Marvel defeated and unmasked The Unknown on Saturday night and revealed him as Abe Zvonkin--which means initials A and Z, the first and last of the alphabet. We hinted a few weeks ago that we thought it was, "Alpha and Omega" and apparently quite a few local fans "caught on". However, tonight's the big night and Milosh says-'don"t miss it!" + +* + . BRIGHT BITS--There was so much doing: over the week-end that we couldn't begin to mention very much about everything, in fact, we'll probably miss out a few events . , . However, the Oshawa Cricket Club's victory over Dovercourt to win the Rawlinson Division Trophy in the T. and D. Cricket Council is certainly a worthy achievement for this little-known Oshawa sports group . . . Oshawa Pedlars de- feated North Bay Palangios 7-0 on Saturday night . . . Brooklin Inters. ousted Orono with a 19-9 victory at Brooklin and now meet Frankford for the Eastern Ontario honors, first game in Brooklin on Friday night . .. In the 0.A.8.A. Juvenile "A" playoffs, Oshawa Fabric Town youngsters went to Brockville 'on Saturday and won 18-8 over the Legionnaires to win the East Ontario J ile h They'll meet Toronto champions next . . . Local Inter. "AA" teams resume their championship series tomorrow evening at Alexandra Park . . . Pedlars are playing East City in 0.A.8.A. Senior "B" playoffs, opening the series tonight at Peterboro . . . Oshawa Midget and Juvenile O.B.A. representatives, Victor's and U.A.W.A.,, each won their first OB.A. playoff game on Saturday, over Peterbore rivals and these two teams of youngsters play at the Stadium here tonight in the second game of their local City series . , . This week finds the ranks of survivors in the various baseball and softball playoff rounds, getting thinned out and by the end of the week, there'll be only a small portion of the teams in action which started out on May 24th, full of hope and ambition. + +* * SCISSORED SPORT--(By The Canadian Press)--Walter Fedorick broke his own 10-mile meet record Saturday to lead Hamilton Olympic Athletic Club to victory in the annual Canadian National Exhibition track competition. Running with his left arm bandaged from wrist to shoulder after being scalded by steam Friday, the 32-year-old distance runner covered the course in 56 minutes, 56 seconds to lop 10% seconds off the mark he set last year . , . George Bevan of Winnipeg retained the Ontario one-mile amateur swimming championship at the Canadian National Exhibition Saturday. He covered the Lake Ontario course in 22 minutes, §7 seconds. George Park of Hamilton was second and Bob Eason of Stratford third . . . Vancouver's Barbara Wood won the Canadian Junior tennis championship in Ottawa Saturday, defeating Miriam Rainboth of Ottawa 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Conrad Fischer of Kalamazoo, Mich., won the men's singles championship by defeating Jim Bentley of Toronto 0-6, 6-3, 10-8, 5-7, 6-2. . . Fort Erie, Niagara District champions, defeated Oakville 14-5 Saturday in the second and deciding contest of the preliminary Ontario Baseball Association playoffs. The game was played in Fort Erie. + * & Vancouver Firemen won the right to represent Ww i Dominion softball finals when they defeated gg Foi id Saturday night to win the best-of-five series in straight games. They left for Toronto to meet Peoples who won the Eastern playoffs by edging Montreal Steinbergs 3-1 to take the best-of-three final in straight games. The series starts in Toronto next week-end . . . Frank Pearce, 45, former pitcher for the National League Philadelphia Phillies and Syracuse Chiefs of the International League, killed himself Sunday with a rifle shot. The coroner gave a verdict of suicide . . . The Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto defeated the Potomac Boat Club of Washington Sunday in the intermediate eight-oar class at the Middle States Regatta in Worcester, Mass. The Canadians became the only double winner of the day when they later defeated the New York Athletic Club by half a length in the senior eight-oar event, + + + George Rhoden, long-striding Maryland sprinter, streaked 440 yards to a Canadian open record at the Canadian National Exhibition Labor Day track meet. Running on a rough cinder track, the Negro speedster from Baltimore's Morgan State College ran the 440 in 47.2 seconds, three- tenths of a second faster than the 47.5-second mark credited to Bob MoFariane, University of Western Ontario, London. It was the only record set in the meet ... . Roy Wouters of Montreal, trailing on points, broke Arnold Fleiger's collar bone in the third round of a scheduled 10- rounder at Sydney, N.S, Monday night and was awarded a technical knockout over the New Brunswick battler. Wouters, Canadian welter- weight champion, landed a power-packed overhand right in the second exchange of close-in fighting to stop the battle. It was a non-title bout « + o President Albert Molini of the Class D Provincial Baseball League announced in Montreal Monday night he had suspended Granby, Que. pitcher Bob Wacha, 19, for "deliberately allowing St. Hyacinthe win a game against his club." Molini said the incident occurred in the bottom half of the ninth inning in a' game at St. Hyacinthe Sunday. With the score tied 7-7, three men on base and two out, Wacha nodded to St. Hyacinthe's James Argeros to run home from third base with the winning run and then threw the ball 40 feet above the backstop, Molini said . . ight champion Sugar Ray Robinson won a one-sided, 10-1ound decision over Billy Brown of Hartford, Conn., in a non-title fight Monday ting the Coney Island Velgdrome, ; and Maurice Kirkland (centre top). Above is shown one of the anxious moments during Geo. Davidson's no-hit, no-run itching ; rman the Viaduct League semi-final playoff game here Saturday afternoon. p y Jura si "Tommy" Thompson in centrefield sprints in to make a sensational catch in the ninth inning. In the row are three officers of the Oshawa Merchants Club, President John Harris, Honorary President Col. R. S. McLaughlin and.Vice-President Arthur Greer and among the other fans can be recognized Vic Peacock. (left) The tators watch ly as front ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Tense Moments In Exciting Baseball Playoff Game Here Saturday Are Caught by Times-Gazette Camerman Here is an interesting action shot taken during the game as "Bus" Gagnon of Ace Bowling Centre sprints for first base while Playing-Manager Sherry Rowland stretches out for a "clothes-line" peg from third base- man Rog. Wood and in the background, Umpire Pat Zona is getting ready to call the play (Out!). This is only one of several similar sparkling plays that were pulled off on Saturday afternoon to please the large d Ace Bowling Centre 4-0 to take a firm grip on the semi-final playoff crowd as Osh er series in Viaduct League playoffs. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. When , two masked grapplers tangle in a no-time limit, no-draw, no holds barred main event, one mask has to come off. And the guy to suffer the indig- nity to his person down at the Arena in Pat Milosh's second last wrestling show was The Unknown. The Masked Marvel won his way to this privilege by taking the sec- ond and third falls of their best- of-three final, Even so, there was some dispute about the matter, for The Unknown claimed, and with justification we thought, that he was pinned illeg- ally in the final fall . . . his legs were still on the ropes when he was counted out. EN Of course, with two villains in the event and so much dirt: being tossed around throughout the bout, this small infraction of the rules was nothing much in the eyes of Referee Sam Goddard. "Abe" Zvonkin Unmasked After the protest by The Un- known he attempted to escape through the ropes, but the Marvel and the Referee pinned him ef- fectively on the ropes and pulled the zipper that revealed . . ..none other than Abe Zvonkin, the form- er feetsball hero with Queen's and Hamilton and lately a bad man in the grunt and groan world. Quite a few ring-siders recognized him instantly, for he has been a frequent visitor to the local mat events, In the semi-final bout between Irish strongman Tim Geohagen and Warren Bockwinkle, it was a toss- up most of the way, with the holds and their application going to Bock- winklé and the breaking of same being done by Geohagen. "Strangler" Is Pleased However the time came when sec- ond Ed "Strangler" Lewis saw his boy appy his famed Irish Sleeper to put "Bock" in a snooze and win the bout hands-down, As a matter of fact it was again the case, as Toronto wrestling fans will know, that Geohagen had to untwist the Bock's neck to bring him back to present day events. For those who came early to see Geohagen, a handsome young MASKED MARVEL WINS BOUTAND THE UNKNOWN IS THATNO MORE guy, by the way, perform his feats of strength, we need say little. For the others might we say, he bent a bar of strap iron round his wrist like so much pulling taffy .'. . and then handed the bar around to show there was no fakery. He bent another bar double, using his teeth as a pry. 'He lifted a 200-pound man on a stool off a truck and car- ried him a distance of some twenty feet , . . with his teeth alone. Hypnotism Exponents And after the wrestling show was over he showed his knowledge of hypnotism by putting radio-sports- caster Bill Swinton under and stick- ing a sterilized pin through his hand. Bill felt okay after the or- deal and no little surprised when he awoke to find the pin still in his hand. Wouldn't Play Inside The prelim affair between Pat Flanagan and Lee Henning went through the usual in the ring, out of the ring antics and finally took on a new note when both guys got outside the ring and refused to let the other in and were thus counted out and the bout ruled a draw by the referee. In each case a strategic leg-pull at the precise moment the oppon- | ent entered the ring did the trick | and had the fans sitting on their hands wondering whether the hero or the villain in the piece would gain the ring and victory in the nick of time, FOR TODAY Professional Ex. Wrestling Three big bouts, at Oshawa Arena, 8:45 p.m. 0.A.S.A. Senior "B" Playoffs Oshawa Pedlars .vs. Peterboro East .City, at Peterboro Bowl, 8:15 p.m. (1st game of series.) 0.A.8.A. Inter. "B" Playoffs Cobourg Orfans vs. Whitby Stok- ers, at Whitby Town Park, 5:30 pm. (Re-play of 3rd and deciding G. Davidson and D. Thompson Earn Pitcher's Hall of Fame As Merchants Sweep Series Straight Shutouts Geo. Davidson Hurls His Not-Hit, No-Run Game Against Ace Bowling Centre Here Saturday Afternoon -- Darrell Thompson Repeats Sensa- tional Performance Sunday At Millen Stadium --Oshawa Takes Semi-Final Ro 1 Oshawa Merchants cleaned up their Viaduct Major League und In Three- semi-final playoff series with Ace Bowling Centre, over the week-end, in sensational manner and set something of a record for amateur baseball in Canada, when they won the 3-out-of-5 series in three-straight games, each of them a shutout and the second and third games, played on Saturday here in Oshawa and Sunday in Toronto respectively, resulted in no-hit, no-run triumphs for pitchers George Davidson and Darrell Thompson. In the second game of the semi- finals, Oshawa Merchants blanked Ace Bowling Centre at the Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium here on Saturday afternoon, 4-0. George LCavidson pitched a mas- terful game, striking out six batters in the first two frames, fanning 16 over the full 9-inning distance and yielded only three walks while his mates had two errors. Of the five Ace Bowling Centre batters to reach'lst base, none got as far as 3rd base. It was definitely Davidson's out- standing mound performance of the season and one of the finest dis- plays ever witnessed on an Oshawa baseball diamond. He was "on top" almost all the time and twice when his no-hitter was in jeopardy, his mates showed their appreciation with spectacular defensive plays. Most brilliant of these was a stel- lar sprint by "Tommy" Thompson, who tore in from deep centre field to 'rob "Rusty" Wallace, first bat- ter of the 8th inning, of what look- ed like a sure "texas leaguer" safety. A brilliant knock-down, recovered and fast throw play by Rog. Wood at third base robbed Buz Malloy in the 8th inning, immediately after Wood had made almost the iden- tical play on a ball hit by inch- hitter "Moe" Johnson. Wood also snared Baz MacMurr- 's screaming line-drive in the 6th. Merchants garnered only eight assists in the day and Rog. Wood had five of these and a putout for a fine day's work. One Earned Run At that, the game was anything but one-sided. Ted Barnes scored three of Oshawa"s four runs but the only earned counter in the game was Barnes' home-run blow that caromed: of the GM sign in right field, to open the 7th 'nning. ~ Prior to t. .t Oshawg had scored one in the first when &nother drive by Barnes missed clearing the wall by inches and went for a two-bag- ger. He scored iter wne catcher Greenaway threw higi to 3rd on a pick-off play. In the second, Thompson singled {ahd moved to second as Ticcony was being thrown at 3rd, on a run G. DAVIDSON Continued on Page 12) ACE BOWLING 0; OSHAWA 4 ¥ OSHAWA 8; ACE BOWLING 0 At Millen Memorial Stadium on Sunday afternoon, Oshawa Mer- chants pushed "Moe" Charney's Ace Bowling Centre team into the 1950 discard with the third straight- shutout of the series, a sensational 9-0 no-hit, no-run game for pitcher Darrell Thompson. Thompson -earned his niche in the pitcher's Hall of Fame with a superb exhibition of control pitch- ing. Unlike Davidson's 15-strikeout performance of Saturday, Thompson whitewashed Ace Bowling on only ROG. WOOD with equal skill, TWO NO-HIT, NO-RUN OSHAWA GAMES Played Prominent Roles In Saturday's Victory GEO. DAVIDSON Here are shown three members of the Oshawa Merchants senior ball team, posing happily in the dressing room, after the sensational 4-0 victory over Ace Bowling Centre, at the Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Left-to-right, Rog. Wood, who made three brilliant fielding plays at his third base posi- tion; George Davidson, who pitched a sensational no-hit, no-run game to blank the visitors and George Ticcony, Davidson's battery-mate who handled 15 strikeouts without a flaw and all the other pitches too game of series.) 3 0.B.A. Juvenile Playoffs Peterboro vs Oshawa U.A.W.A. at Kinsmen, Civic Memorial Stadium, 530 pm. (2nd game of O.B.A, playoff round). i Industrial League Playoffs Alger Press vs Times-Gazette, at Alexandra Park, 6.15 pm. A. & P. vs Royals, at' Alexandra Park, 6.15 p.m, : Legion Minor Baseball Playoffs MIDGET: --Coca Colas vs Bea= ton's Dairy, at 'Harman Park, 6.00 p.m.; Rexalls vs Firefighters, at Alexandra Park, 6:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY'S GAMES Kiwanis Trophy Playoffs Rundle Park vs North Oshawa, at North Oshawa, 6.00 p.m. (2nd game of series). Viaduct Major Baseball League Peterboro Marines vs. Oshawa Merchants, at either Oshawa Kins- men Stadium or Toronto Millen Stadium, 8:30 pm. (3rd game of 4-out-of-7 championship league finals.) 0.A.8.A. Midget Playoffs 'Oshawa Connaught Park vs. Pickering, at Pickering Park, 5:30 p.m. (1st game of series.) B'Nai B'Rith Trophy Playoffs North Oshawa vs. Simcoe Hall, a} Alexandra Park, 6:00 p.m. (3rd and deciding game of series.) Inter. "AA" City Finals Skinners vs United Taxi, Alex- Share Park, 6.00 pm. (4th game series. NOTE: 6. .m, De es, 6.00 p.m. starte Legion Minor Baseball Playoffs BANTAM :--Connaught Park vs Oshawa Dairy, at Haran Park, 6.00 p.m. (1st game of City Bantam final series, 3-out-of-5). > GEO. TICCONY Naval Reservists Win Top Honors ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photo. six strikeouts but he i d only one walk and while he hit one bat- ter and there were two errors in the game, he pitched to only 31 batters, 20 "official", : Always In Control Not once did Thompson let the game get out of hand. He hit Mc- Klilop in the first inning. The first error came in the second but that runner was forced by Doolittle and Aaron Bitman chalked up a double- play to wipe out Doolittle when Irvine grounded to Bitman. In the third inning, after Bourke had walked, Bitman repeated the same Youble-piay when Calder grounded to . Thompson pitched to only 22 batters in the last 7 innings and was never threatened. As a matter of fact, his no-hitter was even more authoritative in that noi once did any of his mates have to make a play "out of the ordinary." To top it all--Baz MacMurray, last batter of the game and series, popped up a fly near the box and with glee in his face, Thompson waved his mates away and took the final putout himself, Grand Slam Homer for Walsh Oshawa won this ball game in the first . inning. Barnes beat out a drive that caromed off the pitcher's glove and Paul Thompson then singled. Rog. Wood sacrificed and Dyment fumbled the play to leave all hands safe. Harry Hill fanned but Sherry Rowland walked, forc- ing: in Barnes. Thompson stole home but Wood was nipped going to 3rd then Bitman walked and so did Ticcony. With the bases still loaded, Char- lie Walsh poled one into the right D. THOMPSON Continued on Page 18) Jerry Creasy and Doug. Plunkett Wage Keen Pitching Duel Oshawa's Nine - Run Splurge In 6th -- Osh- awa Portsider Weakens In 9th To Miss Out On Shutout Before a crowd of over a thou- sand fans at the Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium, on Monday morning, Oshawa Merchants open- ed the 4-out-of-7 Viaduct Major League championship series with Peterboro Marines by taking a 10-4 decision. For five-and-a-half innings, it looked as if the two classy senior ball clubs 'would charge right into "overtime" as they whipped through inning after inning of shutout ball as Jerry Creasy, Oshawa's unde- feated portsider and Doug Plunkett, Peterboro's no-hit mound ace, wag- ed a sizzling duel. Disastrous Sixth Inning Each hurler had allowed only two hits and each 'had 'fanned five bat- MERCHANTS WIN 'Gantinued on Page. 18) Until | Merchants and Marines Tied In Viaduct League 'Serious' 'As Each Team Wins At Home TPeterboro's Bats Boom At Home As Marines Pound Out 8-5 Victory To Tie Championship Finals -- Series Re- sumes Tomorrow Night -- Likely At Millen Stadium Peterboro, Ont., Sept 5 -- After dropping the first of the Viaduct Baseball League's four-of-seven finals 10-4 on Monday morning, to the Merchants in Oshawa, the Marines came back at home that night to win 8-5 and square the series. However, the game was pro- tested inthe third inning by Osh- awa over two balks called on pitcher Toriyy DeLaurentis by Umpire "Pat" game is in Oshawa or Toronto on Wednesday and the fourth in Peter- boro the following night. The evening holiday scrap saw "Lefty" Bill Dadson hurl six hit ball and fan 11, with the Petes spotting Oshawa an. early 3-0 lead and 'then going on to pound out MERCHANTS-L,OSE Continued on Page 13) Calladine on .the bases. The third | Gt. Lakes Regatta .milton, Sept. 5--(CP)-- Mon treal Naval Reservists Monday came out on top of the three-day Great Lakes haval regatta. Men from H M.C.S. Donnaconna, Montreal re serveunit, piled up 94 points to take the championship, h H.M.C.S. Hunter, Windsor, scored 81 points for second place in thei Regatta in which more than 20( officers and men took part. Right behind the Windsor cre was H.M.C.S. Portage, Great Lakes training vessel, with 79 points fol Newmarket Kids Beat Bowmanville In Pee Wee Series Newmarket, Sept. 5--Newmarket peewees checked in with their sec- ond straight win in the first round OBA roundrobin series here Satur- day afternoon, defeating Bowman- ville, 13-9. Don Thoms handcuffed the visit- ors on three hits over the six rounds he toiled. Thoms' rcliefer, Jack Cain, had trouble in the seventh as the visitors opened wis a ag ditch rally that netted them five | owed by HM.C.S. runs. Thoms eased his own pitching | s¢on "oh a Cataraqui, King burden with three hits that drove ihe & Bowmanville .. 001 1025--9 6 3| Helsby Captus | 532021 x--13 9 3 y Cap ures Motorbike Race: Newmarket ... Mason and Markle; Thoms, Cain (7) and McGuire. Ottawa, Sept. 5--(CP)--Bill Hels} by of Kingston, Ont., won four of nine events of motorcycle cham pionship races at nearby Connaugh? Park Monday night. S : The races, sponsored by the Otta§ wa Motorcycle Club and sanction by the Canadian Motorcycle «Asso ciation, were billed as the Canadia 10-mile motorcycle championship Helsby won the senior four-m event, senior seven-mil: race, a both senior and expert class 10-n events. The junior 10-mile championsh: va. won : by 'Albert Irwin of Co wal Bowmanville Wins Over Whitby Inters To Take Series Lead Bowmanville, Sept. 5--~Bowman- ville Brookdales took a 3-1 edge in games in their inter-league "A" playoff series, beating Whitby Mer- chants, 10-2. Doug Fury, with four hits and four runs batter in, led the winners. Ted Bagnell and Frank Hooper "had: three "hits: each for Bowmanville. :. A Whitby 000000 2. Bowmianville 001 240 03x--10 "16 4 'Macdonald, Sutton (6) and, Dell;