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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE PAGE ELEVEN Joe Wright Sr. Wins First As Sport Experts Cast Votes On Canada's Rowing Greats ® 9 Late "Grand Old Man" Noses Out Bobby Pearce As Greatest) Oarsman In Last Half-| Century and His Re- cord Proves It By JACK SULLIVAN A.H.L. ICE CHIPS By The Canadian Press | Cincinnati Mohawks last night cut Cleveland Barons' lead in the | {| American Hockey League to two | {points by downing Indianapolis! Canadian Press Staff Writer [Capitals 4-2 while Cleveland Bar- | Toronto, Dec. 21--(CP)--The late ons dropped a 5-3 decision to | Joe Wright, Sr, rowing's "Grand Springfield Indians. ' Old Man" a battling champion Cleveland leads the western di ®- a deep-throated, hard-driving vision of the Sion. Indianapolis w recruits in-|18 ' Coach W Bo shaped ow. today re-| Hershey Bears, Jeaning the Ai . ion, wen own ore ceived added glory: selection as|ern division, Canada's outstanding oarsman of | Pittsburgh Hornets 8-2. The Bears | the last 50 years. The honor came lead Bulialo , isons. dae last night, ust two months after his death. y only a single point. | d It would have done "The Gov-| In the fourth game played last | ernor's" heart good to be in on | night, Providence Reds edged St. | one of the most gruelling fights of | Louis Flyers 6-5. Providence is in the 22-question Canadian Press |third place in the eastern division. half-century poll. The 86-year-old] The Mohawks' goals were scored | oarsman, who died .last Oct. 18,|by Gerry Plamondon, with two, | took it by one vote over Bobby Jack Lancien and Fern Perreault. | Pearce, Canada's imported Aus- BEnio Sclisizzi and Larry Wilson | tralian of a later i lg |counted for Indianapolis. i The Sports Editors and Sports-| Springfield's victory over Cleve- casters, who voted in the CP ballot, | land was its third in a row. Steve named five others but it va 0 Wochy counted twice for Cleve- | two-man race from the gun. €| land and Les Douglas once. But | pollsters couldn't see any 50-year | that was overcome by Bill Gooden, | 'greats" in the present-day crop as | Leo Curick, Bronco Horvath, | the returns showed a solid swing | garry Pidhirny and Kelly Burnett. | -- ! whitewash of the | Jimmy "Baby Face" Mclarnin BUSH LEAGUE The two top teams hooked up in the feature match of the night with | the Wildcats gaining a pont over | the Singers with a 4-to-3 win. Wild- | cats won both the first and third games by a thrée-pin margin but | | were trounced in the second game. | out the only evening to the Bushwackers, Burgess led the Strikers with 639. Bevins helped the Strikers along with a 326. triple. Hurricanes took 5 from the Easy Aces and Bugs 5 from the Hell Di- vers. W. Scott, M. Pollard and K. Cameron of the Bugs had 741, 637 and 622 respectively, to lead their High triples: W. Scott 741; M. Barrett 657; S. McKinlay 645; L. Bur- gess 639; J .Bent 638, and M. Pollard 637. High singles: W. Scott 313-279; A. Kuch 257; McDonald 265; G. Thompson 256; L. Burgess 250 and 8. McKinlay 258. Results of the Chicken Roll: High triple: W. Scott 741; M. Bar- tt 651. High singles: C. MeDonald 265; S. McKinlay 258. High triple with hdcp.: L. Bur- gess 759; K. Cameron 700. High single with hdcp.: Thompson 206; A. Kuch 286. Lucky draw winners: J. Bent, P. Daniels, A. Bruce, M. McGregor, R. Cole and M. Pollard. League Standing: Singers Wildcats Hurricanes ... Bugs . Hell Divers ......... Easy Aces Strikers . ie Bushwackers ......... Strikers handed | team re Gord Still Meciaimed Canada's Best In Half Century of Fight Game over. Baby Face met him and lost but reversed the decision Oct. 25, 1936. His last pour was against Lou Ambers--a clean victory for t' Canadian who had left Van- couver 13 years before with Char- lie (Pop) Foster, his trainer- guardian-counsellor and still fast | friend. | His list of ring opponents down th2 years reads like a boxing who's | who--Pancho Villa . . . Kid Kap- lan . . . Sid Terris . . . Sanmy Mandell . . . Ross . . . Canzoneri . . -Ambers--all Champions. Belfast-horn Jimmy, now 42, lives in Glendale, Calif.,, with his Vancouver - born wife, Lillian Vancouver's Famous] | Welter Champ Fought | Many Champions and Retired At 29, a Wealthy Man By JACK SULLIVAN | Canadian Press Staff Writer Toronto, Dec. 20--(CP)--Jimmy McLarnin, the Vancouver newsboy | who blazed a glorious fistic trail across the United States and re- tired a rich man at 29, is Canada's | outstanding boxer of the half cen- tury He received the nod by al-|gypitt, and three "daughters, most-unanimous decision of the | Noy' it's caviar for the kid from Country's Sports Editors and ihe wrong side of the tracks who, Sportscasters. : |at one time early in his career, Idol millions in his fist- | existed on brussels sprouts. Now it swinging hey-day when he drew |i: the cosy comfort of his own top billing in rings on the US. home for the youngster who lived West, Coast, in Chicago and finally |, flea-bitten cheap hotels and New York's Madison Square Gar- |poarding houses while Grounds, McLarnin parlayed a slick left and burning ambition into the World's Welterweight Cham- | pionship. He retired with some- thing few boxers ever have--a | to line up fights. | Sam Not Forgotten Drawing a large vote of the fight knowledgeable and the sympathe- tic was blind, broke, almost-for- whopping bank account. | gotten, Sam Langford, Weymouth, The Sports Editors and Sports- | Ng _horn battler. Once a. bull casters, asked by The Canadian |ihroated, broad-shouldered, power- Press to name the country's great- | fy; man known as the "Boston Tar est boxer of the last 50 years, |pBahy" whose challenges to Cham- voted solidly for the well-to-do | pion Jack Johnson were ignored, Jimmy. He received 32 of a pos- | the 70-year-old Langford now lives 1 the man | den, Yankee Stadium and Polo | ho made him--Pop Foster--tried for the old-timers. The final result gave Wright 15] votes against Pearce's 14. Other | votes were scattered. | Many Greats Recalled { There was the great Jake Gau-| daur, World Professional Sculling | Champion from 1896 to 18901 who | died at his Atherley, Ont., home | April 6, 1937; Eddie Durnan of Toronto who held the Professional | single sculls championship of North | America from 1905 to 1926 and who died in the mid-30s; and Con Riley of the Winnipeg Rowing Club who stroked his club's four-oared crew to victory in the Steward's Cup at the English Henley in 1910--the | only time a sweep-oar title came oO: Canada from. the world-famous enley. | Riley, still active in Winnipeg, won nine National titles in the United States between 1901 and | 1912. Latter-day nominees were Joe | Wright, Jr, and Jack Guest, Sr.,| both of Toronto, whose sculling careers date from the 20s. Young Joe won the World-famed Diamond Sculls in 1928 (his dad coached him), just two years before Guest again captured the honor for Canada: Wright tried for this prized possession from 1927 to 1930 and Guest from 1928 to 1930. They got together as a pair in the 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam and were beaten out by Americans in the! final ; The younger Wright held three! Pi States Championships in! 1927--the quarter-mile, Association | and Championship Singles; was | Canadian titleholder in the quarter | and championship singles at The | Canadian, Henley in 1930: quarter- mile and Canadian titleholder in| 1831; and retired in 1933 after win- ning the quarter-mile title at Port Dalhousie in 1933. [ In the final analysis, it boiled | down to "Old Joe," as he was af- | fectionally known, and Pearce, an | Olympic and British Empire Games | winner for his native country, Dia- mond Sculls winner, World Pro- fessional Sculling Champion and now a naturalized Canadian and a Lieutenant at Hamilton in the Royal Canadian Navy. | Part of Sport History Joe Wright, Sr., added a glorious chapter to the history of rowing in Canada and the United States. He Stroke the Toronto Argonaut Rowing Club crew to victory in the 1885 United States National at Al- | bany, N.Y. and 20 years later stroke double blue crew to win | a Royal\Canddian Henley race at Port Dalhousie. He took two heats of the Grand Challenge in Eng- land in 1906 when he was 42 years old and when he was 44 played senior football with Argos on the same team with his son, George. He excelled in boxing (he won the Canadian Amateur Heavy- weight Championship when he was 35), wrestling, track and field, base- ball and football (he played 'in senior ranks with Argos for 18 years) but his big love was rowing. He became one of the most fam- ous rowing Coaches in the world, looking after Pennsylvania Univer- sity crews from 1916 to 1926. At one time he took eight Argo men, seven of whom had never before sat in a shell, and worked them all winter on rowing machines. They won titles at the Royal Canadian Hen- | ley and the United States National Championships the following sum- er. He bellowed and yelled at rookie oarsmen and his tactics paid off, not only in winning crews but he gained the respect and admiration of his men. A glance at Young Joe's record speaks plenty for the methods used by "The Governor." Pearce Was Great Also Australia-born Henry Robert Pearce started rowing when he was six years old and he won races when only 14. His sculling began in Call McLELLAN'S OSHAWA 1096 FIRESTONE TIRES ® Passenger © Truck ® Tractor ©® Factory Retreading EASY TERMS Jack Stoddard, a young right winger, pushed in three goals for Providence. The Flyers, trailing 5-1 entering the finale, tied things up with four goals in eight min- utes. But the Reds put nat Deschenes counted the other | Cliff Simpson | counted two for St. Louis, and | Providence goals. Hank Backor, Ed Nicholson and Barry Sullivan one each. Phil Maloney and Ray Hanni- gan each scored a triple at Pitts burgh won over Hershey. Ma- loney recently was sent to Pitts | burgh from Boston Bruins of the National League. George Arm- strong rounded out scoring with two. Red Sullivan and Norm Corcoran counted for | Hershey. HULL TIES OTTAWA Ottawa, Dec. 21--(CP)--A last- minute goal by Ives Sarfa-Bournet | gave Hull Volants a 4-4 tie with | on the | heat and Stoddard won the game. | Ken Davies, Orval Lavell and Do- | the Hornet | | STORE LEAGUE | (Turkey Roll) | It was a nice close finish last night with the winners undecided until Stan made up Carswell's sheet. 1st turkey went to K. McQuarrie of S. Loblaws with 858 (356). 2nd turkey: Jim Laurie of O.M.S,, | with 840. Singles--1st turkey: C. Halliday 349; 2nd turkey: I. Davie of Bar- bers, 345. Chickens to: R. Keetch 829, Dominion; C. Hubbell 815 of, bers; R.' Brown 801, of D. Donald 767, of Comcos; K. Fle- ming 765, of Barretts; W. Brad- bury 764, of N. Loblaws; R. Powell 763, of Powells; W. Lanning 763, of Alger Press; E. Pym 757, of Ped- lars; R. Halliday 748, of Hallidays; Wal. Clarke 744, of ;0.M.S. R. Creamer 737, of Carswells; Bob Hess 724, of Skinners; J. Penning- ton 722, of Collis; Umphrey 707, of | S. Loblaws; R. Knapp 706, of A & P; | E. Cournier 685, of Christie's; K. Pa- | quette 681, of Canada Bread; | H. Brown 627, of O.B.L., and | 8. Lawton 588, of Post Office. Bar. TIMES-GOODFELLOW BOWLING LEAGUE Ottawa Army in an Eastern Can- ada Senior League game Wednes- | day night. Behind 4-3 in the clos- ing minutes of play, Hull Coach Bob, Guertin pulled his goaltender and with less than two seconds to go, Sarra-Bournet took a pass from Zanatta and whipped in the tying goal, FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By The Canadian Press New York--Percy Bassett, 132, Philadelphia, knocked out '© Sonny Boy West, 1331;, Washington (7). Miami Beach, Fla.--Billy Kilgore, 16512, Birmingham, stopped Steve Belloise, 164, New York (3). earnest Aug. 8, 1926, when he quali- fied to represent Australia in the | 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. He won | at Amsterdam over the mile in the World-record time of 5:28.0, cap- tured the singles at the Empire Games in Hamilton two years later and in 1931 added the Diamond Sculls to his collection. He won the Canadian Champion- | ship at Port Dalhousie in 1931, be- came Olympic Champion at Los Angeles in 1032--the only sculler ever to win the Olympic title twice--and then, with no more ama- |, teur worlds to conquer, turned to the money ranks. He won the World's Professional Championship in Toronto frem Ted Phelps of England in 1933, whipped everybody in sight for years and retired in 1938. The big Aussie never was seriously extend- e din 1938. T ed in a race and it was considered an upset if his opponent came within four or five open boat lengths of him at the finish. Tuesday was a very important | night in the activities of our bowling | league. The section championship was at stake and in addition six chickens were awarded to lucky bowlers as prizes. In the matter of the section lead- | ership our congratulations go to the | Border Lines who are now "in" for a chance at the Mundy Memorial | Trophy. As in the first section the | decision did not come until the final | night of bowling. Border Lines and | Wrong Fonts started the evening | tied for first place. By taking three | points Border Lines came out on ! top as Wrong Fonts only managed | one, Border Lines now join Sluggers as section winners and can 'coast until the play-offs. Harry Dyas was best man for the champions when he rolled 629 as Scorchers were subdued 3 to 1. Ken Miners made the best effort for the losers with 652. Rollers were responsible for up- setting Wrong Fonts when they took a 3-1 verdict. Harvey Crouch tried | very hard to keep the Fonts in there by rolling 703, but Harvey's brother, Bill, was just as determined that the Rollers should come out on top so he rolled a lovely 749. In other games which proved of lesser importance Sluggers took Hell Boxes 3-1 and Inky Dinks defeated Ludlows 3-1. The three points put tied with Wrong Fonts. the lucky winners: Ladies' High Single--Violet Blatch (221). Ladies' High Triple -- Maureen yBrown (531). (282 (749). In addition to the above, two mys- | tery prizes (chicken) were up for competition. The winners were de- cided by bowlers rolling closest to numbers previously selected by Mr. Henkelman. The number selected for the ladies was 435 and Marj. Perry was the winner with 444, Lucky number for the men was 479 The causes of headache are multitudinous. It is, perhaps, the most common ailment of man. Many headaches are simple, and respond to simple home treat- ment. It should be remembered that headache is a symptom, and net a disease. that the track is not clear. It is nature's semaphore, signalling If headaches persist or recur, see your physician at If medication is needed, we are equipped to fill your prescription promptly and accurately. 28 KING ST. E. KARN'S DRUG STORE OSHAWA, ONT. Next to Post Office Phones: 78 & 79 Prompt Delivery of | Sklars; | the Inky Dinks up into second place sible 43 votes, the others going to heavyweight Tommy Burns, Sam Langford, Larry Gains and Lionel Conacher, and to British Empire Lightweight Champion, Li'l Arthur King. Elected to the ring's Hall of Fame last spring McLarnin, known across Canada and the U.S. as Baby Face, probably met and de- feated more champions or future champions--13 all told--than any other fighter. Yet he had to wait nearly nine years before he could climb into the ring Jor a fight billed as a World-Championship contest, Made No Mistakes And Baby Face made no mis- takes that night of May 29, 1933, at Los Angeles when his big break came against Young Corbett III, He took the championship with a knockout at 2:37 of the first round --the 'shortest championship battle in the history of the division, Just one day less than a year | later he lost it to lightweight | Champion Barney Ross at New York and scaled the heights again Sept 17, 1934, with a 15-round de- cision over Barney. They met in the rubber match May 28, 1935, and Jimmy lost over 15 rounds. Ross grew out of the Welter and the prize was taken by Herb! Wager with 480. We will not mention the *Booby Prizes' other than to say that Vi. Blatch must have been infuriated to receive such an award for low score in the first game so she went on to take high single ang a chicken. Remember, no bo but after New Ye again, all even. Final Standing: Team Border Lines Wrong Fonts Inky Dinks % Ludlows ...............: Sluggers Scorchers Rollers . Hell Boxes gE next week E's away we go PRIDE OF The top bowlers of the evening | were awarded chickens and here are | Men's High Single--Ken. Miners | ). . Men's High Triple -- Bill Croch 49) | and the R.C.AF., all altitudes, submitted to the Shockproof, dustproof a most carefree watch that any CREDIT JEW | 32 KING ST. W. World's Welterweight titleholder. | Divison and Tony Canzoneri took | And that's it ferfanother section. | tens of thousands watches have travelled millions | alone in New York's Harlem, {| Langford went to London, Paris, | Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and | Brisbane as the uncrowned Heavy- | weight Champion. Unable to get a | title bount, he later U.S, picking up fight dates where- ever he could. - Canadian Held Title Tommy Burns, born Noah Brusso |in Hanover, Ont., 68 years ago, and | the only Canadian ever to wear | the Heavyweight crown, was second | choice in the CP poll with five | votes. Claimant to the title vacat- ed by James J. Jeffries, Burns met Jack Johnson at Sydney on | Christmas Day, 1908. The fight was stopped in the 14th round with the 176-pound Canadian | taking a fearful beating from the | 196-pound six-foot-two Johnson. Burns now is an evangelist the small oil-field town of Coal- | inga, -Calif, | Gains, who won the Empire | Heavyweight title in London in {London in 1932 from "Phaintin | Phil" Scott, knocked out one-time | heavy champion Max Schmeling lat Cologne, France, outpointed Primo Canera in 1932 and rode to | hounds in the Midlands, now is a | day laborer at Shoeburyness, Essex, England. His income ranged around $8,000 for years but it was easy-come, easy-go for the To- | ronto-born Negro. Conacher, one-time holder of the Canadian Amateur Heavy- weight title who once boxed a | Jack | { Dempsey, now is Liberal Member | | four-round exhibition with | of Parliament for Toronto Trinity. | He and 23-year-old, Toronto-born | King each received one vote. 'J | ar | I ENIROREIT SWITZERLAND = eazrzeatle tp SUPER-WATERPROOF AUTOMATIC CHRONOMETER As the preferred navigation watch of the Royal Air Force of waterproof Omega of miles by air and by sea, at intensely damp climate of the tropics and to dust-laden desert storms. nd non-magnetic, the famous Seamaster is renowned throughout the world for its supreme accuracy. Winding itself with every motion of the wrist and protected by its super-waterproof case, the Seamaster is the man. can wear. : ELLERS LTD. ' PHONE 389 toured the | im | Kid Gavilan Trains Kard For Title Bid | w York, Dez. 21 (AP) hcneymoon is over for Kid Ne | The | Gavilan, | the welierweight title. "Everybody 'shid keed up," said Gavilan in semi-English, now taking dead aim on | washed | "When I lose four fights I show | them." Show them is just what the keed | thas been doing recently after a | sorry record in the first half" of | the year. | 'Training was an occasional thing for the sleek Cuban last spring | and sumer. Now he's serious -- imucho serious. | He Proved It "Maybe I was not ready for Billy Graham the first time," "I did not even finish my honey- moon yet. But I think I beat him. I proved it next time." Gavilan also lost to Robert Ville- he said. | main, Gene Hairston and Sugar | Costner, and drew with Tommy Ciarlo in 14 previous 1950 fights. This was by far his worst record |since coming to the States from | Havana. The keed's 15th start of the year |is against Joe Miceli of New York | Friday night at Madison Square | Garden. Gavilan is a 14-to-5 fav- | orite. | "I want to fight Ray Robinson again," said Gavilan, "But I do not think he ever will fight again as a welterweight. If he don't I think I should fight for champion- | ship." In Front Rank Gavilan moved into the front rank of contenders when he beat Graham in a return bout recently. A victory over Miceli, a rugged kid with a good left-handed uppercut, [Charlie Fusari of Irvington, N.J., {also belongs with the top-notchers {in the 147-pound division. | Despije the four setbacks the draw, all thought he won, the flashy Cuban has scored nine wins. and Janiro, Otis Graham, Johnny Greco, Georgie Small and Graham. He never has been knocked out, {Tke Williams, the champ, did the job. lightweight | Ym -- and was off his feet only once. | | scored twice and helped on another would solidify his claim. 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