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PAGE TEN THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE 'WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1951 SEEKS TITLE SHOT \ WN THIS CORNER ~ER-UH- WHATS 4s NAME LANE AND ROLAND LA STARZA, WHOM ROCKY oUTPOINTER WERE THE ONLY ONES WN Hie srl OF 36 STRAIGHT WINS (31 kos) THAT WERE KNOWN 70 THE our SIDE WORLD! MARC, CIAN 0 of B28 Ai HAS ASslrep Him OF AEAVYWEIGH7 TITLE SHOT WN "HS BRD YEAR OF FIGHTING 7 Y oun HOWEVER, THERE'S NO QUESTIONING THE AUTHORITY OF ROCKY's RIGHT WHICH BELTED REX OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME." mw mM . By Geo. H. CanpeErLe It happened! The Viaduct League tried to have Oshawa and Pe- terborough play league playoffs and take a "cut" from the games while the TABA (of which the Viaduct League is a voting affiliated mem- ber) wrote to the OBA and requested that Oshawa and Peterborough be declared a separate unit or league--for playoff purposes. In other words, TABA didn't want any Toronto team to be eliminated from pos- sible chance of OBA playoff competition, by either Petes or Merchants --while still in their TABA playoffs. A wire from the OBA telling Osh- awa and Peterborough to arrange their own seriés and be ready to play the Inter-County League champions immediately was the final blow. The two club executives met last night in the Liftlock City and agreed that they must abide by the telegram from the OBA. Now Oshawa and Peterborough are playing a 5-out-of-9 series and Merchants have won the first game, Second game is here tonight, 3rd and 4th games in the Liftlock City on Thursday and Friday; 5th, 6th and 7th games are here in Oshawa, Shturday night, Monday morning and evening and the 8th and 9th games are booked for Peterborough, on Wednesday and Thurs- day of next week. Peterborough won the toss for the 9th game. +* * The series officially opened last night and Oshawa Merchants won an impressive 6-2 decision on Bob Carlson's brilliant 2-hitter. He allowed only one hit for eight frames. An error, walk and hit- by-pitcher loaded the bases in the 9th and pinch-hitter Bill Dadson (that man again) came through with a clean single, Peterborough's second hit of the night, to drive in their two runs, with two out at the time. Bill Edger, the other Bowmanville-Peterborough pitcher (he played in right field last night) got the other off Carlson. Hunt- ley, Brabin, Milne and the rest did nothing at the plate. Al Menzies, who suffered a three-stitch cut in his heel in that spill at the plate on Sunday in Toronto, was out of action and Bill Huntley did the catching--which brought Edger into outfield play. Lowery, their classy centre-fielder is also out of action with an injury so Milne played at centre with Joe Stewart over at 3rd base and Bunny Mae- son on 1st base. The lanky Osh was tional at first base also--so good in fact that we think theyll keep him there for the rest of the. series. Petes apparently thought they might sneak the first win with Doug. Plunkett pitching at home and perhaps they wanted to have Dadson work with Menzies, who might be ready to go tonight, Plunkett lasted his usual six innings and that was it. Actually he was lucky to get past the first frame when Oshawa open- ed the game by loading the bases with none out--then got only one run. Ted Barnes had three good hits, Dick Berning had a couple. Sherry Rowland had a pair also but mostly the left-handed batters were hard on Plunkett. It was a splendid win for the Merchants, who played a fine brand of ball with Carlson's pitching the high- light. * * * The series now moves into the Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium for the second game tonight. It will be "Lefty" Bill Dadson for the Petes and that's for sure while Manager Mike Mellis will likely go to the mound for Oshawa. It looks like a nice warm night and Mellis should be in top form and the attendance should break the record for this . season--with the exception of that Kansas City game. Oshawa Merchants should go all-out to win this game tonight. If they don't, then the series is all tied up and the next two games are in Peterbor- ough--so are the 8th and 9th--and that isn't good. On the other hand, if Merchants can win tonight at home, theyll need only three more wins to clean up the series and there are three games over the week- end, all scheduled for Oshawa's diamond. If the weatherman is very generous and lets the teams play every night they're scheduled--this se- ries might well end in Oshawa, on Monday. Oshawa might win it in five-straight, but we doubt it! They're not that much better than the Petes normally, but the Liftlock City team is certainly hart-hit at the moment by the injury jinx, with Menzies and Lowery hoth out of ac- tion, Oshawa should have an edge in the pitching department. * +» In softball playoffs last night, Oshawa Duplate' eliminated the Peterborough UEW team, winning the third and depiding game of the series here at the Stadium by an 11-6 count. The big sixth inn- ing, when three Oshawa players hit home-runs and another hit a triple in a total splurge of eight hits for seven runs, won the game for Duplate, Now the Oshawa team meets Kingston's Inter. "A" represeritatives, the Alcans, in the Eastern Ontario zone finals, with the series scheduled to start on a Kingston diamond, this Saturday. Return game will be in. Oshawa on Tuesday night of next week un- der the lights or on Wednesday, as a twilight fixture. * + + - BRIGHT BITS--Word was received this morning that Hastings and Marmora haven't really settled their series yet so the Pickering team does not make that playoff trip tonight after all. Seems the game was awarded to Hastings but now after some discussion, a replay has been ordered, which is being played tonignt. Winner of the game will play in Pickering on Friday night, as scheduled . . . Whitby Stokers and Dun- barton open their Inter. "B" playoff series tonight at Pickering . . . Up at Alexandra Park tonight, the North York Juveniles play Oshawa N-E Tigers, in the first game of their OASA Juvenile "A" playoff round . . . Pedlars wanted to open their Senior "B" series with Peterborough on Friday night here but that is apparently impossible as the Peterborough team can not make it, so that one will be later next week . . , Transport- ers expect to learn tomorrow whicn Toronto team theyll meet in the first round of TABA eliminations and then dates can be set . PLAYOFF LACROSSE (SEMI-FINAL) Woodbridge v: Brooklin Thursday, August 30 -- 8:45 p.m. "MEMORIAL ARENA, BROOKLIN Ottawa (CP) -- Bill Mawhinney of Vancouver, a tall, 23-year-old with a putting touch that brought the first two rounds of the week- long golf classic at the Royal Ot-| Allan tawa without lifting a club -- by virtue of a bye and a default. As if to compensate, the luck of the draw has him facing stern tests in today's third and fourth- round matches. \Mawhinney, who didn't shoot-hisq into | best golf in the Willingdon Cup contest Saturday but is rated better in match than medal play, meets Allan Boes of Winnipeg in the morning round. Boes has been a p - ranking amateur for many years. He made the third round with 8 par-equalling display to de- feat. Rod Phelan of Toronto 2 and 1, - If Mawhinney gets by Boes he'll meet the winner of the match be- tween J. G. (Sonny) Adams of To- ronto and Glenn Gray of Edmon- ton. Either could be a handful for the Vancouver star. Adams, a veteran, already has two of the tournament's most lop- sided victories to his credit, includ- ing yesterday's 6-and-5 win over Robert Bertrand of Ottawa, Gray, young and one of the long- est hitters here, eased into the third round with a 4 and 3 victory over Ralph Watson of Ottawa. There were relatively few upsets yesterday as 30 golfers were cut from the field. A prominent vic- tim was Tommy Riddell of Mont- THE BIG No. 1 WIN . No. 1 -- Tues., Aug. 28, No. 2-- Wed., Aug. 29, No. 8 -- Thur., Aug. 30, No. 4 --Fri.,, Aug. 31, No. 5 --Sat., Sept. 1, No. 6 -- Mon., Sept. 3, No. 7--Mon., Sept. 3, No. 8 -- Wed., Sept. 5, Ne. 9 -- Thur., Sept. 6, 10.30 8.00 Oshawa Merchants defeated Peterborough Petes 6-2 last night at Riverside Park in the Liftlock City to open their 5-out-of-9 OBA playoff series, to decide which team moves into Ontario playoffs against the Inter-County League cham- pions, on September 8. Bob Carlson was the hero of the piece for the Merchants in their impressive victory last night as he held the homesters to only two hits. Bill Edger singled to open the 3rd inning and took 2nd when Rogers' throw from the outfield got through the infield. Edger never got past second base as Carlson fanned Plunkett and forced both Huntley and Garvey to ground out. The Petes only got one other runner as far as 2nd base in the first eight frames, that was in the 5th when Bunny Maeson and Bill Edger each drew walks in suc- cession, PINCH-HITTER DADSON CLICKS George Brabin was safe to open the 9th inning Avhen Vic 'Napolitano fumbled a difficult grounder. Stew- Northminster Top Albert St. In Semi-Final Northminster defeated Albert Street 11-7 last night at Alexandra Park in the first game of their Inter-Church Softball League semi- finals, with both pitchers being hit very hard. Alb.rt Street pushed across two runs in the second inning on four hits, by Bent, H. Williams, K. Wil- Hams and Trude but they lost their lead in the fifth. Northminster got a run on two hits in the third, Mor- ey forcing Gord Wilson for the second out but scoring when Jef- frey singled and the outfielder muffed the pick-up. In the 4th inning Northminster had three hits but couldn't get a run and then in the 5th Wilson walk- ed, G. Morey walked and so did Jeffrey and then with one out, Hawkshaw tripled and C. Morey doubled with two out, to produce four runs and make the score 5-2. Northminster added to their tot- al in ever, inning after that, Gord. Wilson hitting a homer in the 6th and C. Morey hitting one in the 7th after Hawkshaw had singled. G. Morey's triple produced a run in the 8th and Glen McLaughlin tripled in the 9th to help out in get- ting the last two runs for the win- ners. Albert Street got a run in the 5th on a walk to Hardy and triple by Claus. In the 6th two more runs scored on two hits, including a double by Higgs and in the 8th they got their last two runs on three hits, including a double by K. Williams. : RHE Northminster 001 031 212--11 17 4 Albert St. ... 020 012 020-- 7 13 5 NORTHMINSTER: Gordon, If; McLaughlin, rf; Wilson, 1b; G. Morey, ss; Jeffrey, 2b; Goodall, 3b; Hawkshaw, cf; James, ¢; C. Morey, p. Pp. ALBERT ST.: Johns, 1b; Hardy, 3b; Tate, If; Claus, c¢; Bent, rf; H. Williams, ss; Higgs, 2b; K. Wil- liams, cf; Trude, p; Bircham, bat- ted in 9th. ~~ es: R. Andrews, plate and wa asters, bases. BASEBALL'S BIG SIX G Ab Musial, Cards 120 455 Rohinson, Byn 121 433 Ashburn, Phils 127 526 Kell, Tigers .119 479 ain, A's .... 91 327 Minoso, W.Sox 123 448 Coan, Senators 111 442 Home runs: National -- Kiner, Pirates 36. American -- Zernial Athletics 28. gs Roller Skating oe TONIGHT o Fri. Night eo Sat. Night ASS4A REN 8.15 pm. .. 8.15 p.m. . (Peterborough won toss for 'oth game) at Pelerborough at Oshawa ° at Peterborough . at Peterborough at Oshawa . at Oshawa at Oshawa x . at Peterborough at Peterborough DR am. . p.m. art popped out but a passed ball put Brabin on 2nd and Milne walk- ed. Trying hard to "bear down," Carlson hit Maeson with a pitched ball to load the bases. Bill Edger fouled out to Rog. Wood and it looked as if Oshawa had scored a shutout win but Bill Dadson, pinch- hitting for pitcher Doug Plunkett, came through with a sharp single to centre that scored both Brabin and Stewart. Merchants had only the two errors mentioned and Carlson's brilliant two-hit pitching perform- and some fine hurling with runners on bases. Dadson's pinch-hit single, the second and only other Peter- borough hit of the night robbed Carlson of his shutout but he had SHERRY ROWLAND (Drove in first run) ance was sparked with six strikeouts put two of the three runners on bases himself. an scored a run right at the start and were unlucky perhaps not to get more. Vic Napolitano opened with a walk and Jose Morales singled. Vic had stolen 2nd before the hit and then Jose also stole 2nd. Jim Rogers walked to fill the bases with none out but Dick Bern- ing popped up. Sherry Rowland beat out an infield hit that scored Napolitano but Charlie Walsh grounded, forcing Morales at the plate and Wood also grounded out. PLUNKETT WEAKENS 'The score stayed at 1-0 until the 7th and the game was just as close as that. Plunkett gave up singles to Berning and Rowland in the 6th and that was the tip-off. In the 7th Ted Barnes opened with a single, He was safe on his attempted steal when Dick Golden DICK BERNING (Double and single) dropped the ball on -the "tag" Golden accused Barnes of kicking the ball out of his hand (the Osh- awa runner was sliding into the bag) and rushed at Barnes. In a flash the field was crowded with players of both teams but cool heads prevailed and the threatened|; rumpus was cleared away, Bob Carlson then sacrificed Barnes to 3rd and Ted romped home on a perfect squeeze-play bunt by Napolitano. This made up Merchants Take Petes 6-2 First of Playoffs Play Almost Every Night In 9-Game Series 5-0UT-OF-9 SERIES S15 pm. .... 8.00 pm. .... 8.15 p.m. 8.15 p.m, 8.00 p.m. for a similar bid by the same two players in the 2nd inning which ended disastrously. On this try, managed to bunt the ball -- but it popped up foul. Bill Huntley snared the lig and then doubled Barnes off 3rd. MERCHANTS SEW IT UP Oshawa sewed up the victory in the 8th, Rogers opened with a walk and Dick Berning doubled for his second hit of the night. Rowland drew a walk to fill the bases with none out. Chuck Walsh grounded to Golden at short and Rogers was thrown out at the plate on the force-out, Then came the "freak play" of the night. Rog Wood hit a sharp grounder to Bunny Maeson at 1st base. Maeson didn't quite catch the ball but scooped it up as a "trapped ball." Realizing he hadn't made the catch, Maeson quickly touched 1st base, thus retiring Wood, then threw to the plate Jo prevent Bern- ing from scoring. Berning scooted back to 3rd and, in the meartime, Walsh had gone so far towards 2nd that he waited to see what happened while Row- land went part-way towards 3rd base. A throw to 2nd found Berning breaking for the plate again and then the ball was thrown to 3rd -- and slid in safe, under the throw from 3rd to the plate. Petes protested vigorously at first that Berning was a force-out victim TED BARNES (Three solid singles) ON TO KINGSTON Oshawa Duplatgs, 1951 Inter. "A" Champions of the City and District Softball Association, ad- vancad to the Eastern Ontario zone finals in OASA competition when they defeated Peterborough UEW here at the Kinsmen Civic Mem- orial Stadium last night in the 3rd and deciding game of their provin- cial playdown series, 11-6. Reg. Gordon, who beat Duplates in the Liftlock City on Saturday night, went to the mound here for the third game but was blasted off the mound in the 6th inning when Oshawa bunched eight hits for seven runs. Prior to this, Duplate got a run in the third when Bud Morey sin- gled, advanced on a sacrifice and infield out and scored on Doug. Vann's single. In the 4th, Jack McConkey singled, moved around or an error and scored when the right fielder dropped Morey's drive to that field. Jack White had clouted a homer off Jack McConkey to open the second inning and the score was 2-1 going into the 6th inning. EXCITING SIXTH With one out in the top half of the 6th inning, Bill Thompson was safe on an error in centre by Frank Smegal. Howie Dalton followed with a single. White flied out to centre but Wade drew a walk and then a two-base error on Robson's drive by Price allowed both Thompson and Dalton to score, making the count 3-2 for the visit- ors. Duplate came right back in the bottom of the 6th with a hitting barrage that clinched the series. Andy Czerewaty opened the parade with a double and Bud Morey singled then Joey Spencer homer- ed and Alex Walker followed with another homer. Vann flied out to centre but Humpy Price then hit the third home-run of the inning. Frank Smegal singled and Jack McConkey then tripled. That end- ed for Gordon and Hall took over thé mound duties. Tony Loople singled, scoring McConkey with the 7th run of the inning before the next two batters grounded out. Walker scored for Oshawa in the 7th on a walk and three suc- cessive wild pitches. In the 8th Andy Czerewaty singled and scored on a passed ball, wild pitch and error to the catcher, to complete Oshawa"s total. VISITORS CLICK AGAIN With his team leading 10-3, Mc- Conkey wasn't trying quite as hard Duplates Oust Peterboro In 3rd Game in the 8th and the visitors clicked for three singles by Dalton, White and Bernie Robson, for two runs. They got their final tally in the 9th when pinch-hitter Grafstein drew a walk with one out and Herb Casey came through with a triple--and was nipped between 3rd and home, trying to stretch it into a homer. Howie Dalton, Jack White and Bernie Robson each had two hits for the winners while Frank Smeg- al with three-for-five was the big hitter of the night but Price, Mec- Conkey, Czerewaty and Morey all had two apiece. The homers by Spencer, Walker and Price really broke up the ball game in the 6th. \ RHE . 010 002 021-- 6 8 5 001 107 11x--1115 3 PETE UEW: Casey, 2b; Thomp- son, 3b; Dalton, ss; White, If; Wade, cf; Robson, rf; Castle, 1b; Walton, ¢; Gordon, p;- Hall, p in 6th; Wilson, ¢ in 7th; Grafstein, batted in 9th. OSH. DUPLATE: Vann, ss; Price, 3b; Smegal, cf; McConkey, p; Loople, rf; Czerewaty, 1b; Mor- ey, If; Spencer, 2b; Walker, c. Umpires: Cliff Smith, Peterbor- ough, at plate and Frank Kellar, Oshawa, on bases. 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Unheralded Johnston McCormick of Toronto, who pulled off a first- round upset by eliminating the tourney's star attraction -- Nick Weslock of Windsor lost touch in his match with Andre Tes- sier, student architect from Mont- real ii A Tessier posted a solid 4 and 3 win Jack Nash of London, four-time Ontario champion, was taken out 2 and i by Fred Hunt of Ottawa. A golfer who did live up to ex- pectations is Gerry Kesselring of Kitchener. He topped off a skiilfal 5-and-4 victory over John Goodwin of Kansas City. with a 30-foot chip for an eagle three on the 14th. |B OSHAWA Napolitano ss .... Morales 2b ...... Rogers If ....... Berning rf ..... Rowland 1b .,.... Walsh ¢ .. Wood 3b . Barnes cf ... Carlson cf .. Ire lo} OHO MMO MY cwoonmNM~m~oN OD WONHOOO HNP -~ Totals Petes Huntley c Garvey 2b Golden ss ........ Brabin If .... Stewart 3b .... Milne cf Maeson 1b .... Edger rf .. Dadson | Plunkett p ...... 8 Totals 217 Ba for Plunkett in 9th. = o cCooomOoO~OOOY® | fy © OL) OY go! om~ooocoooOol® =1 wl vnoococovopanPo g| © | oir on A, -- Errors, Napolitano, Rogers, Stewart, Maeson Earned Runs--Oshawa 5 Petes 0. Runs batted in--Barnes 2 Napoli- tano, Rogers, Rowland, Dadson 2, Left--Oshawa 8, Petes 8. Stolen Bases--Barnes 2, W two base hits--Rogers, Bern Morales, Napolitano, BraBin. Sacrifices--Carlson 2, Napolitano; Berning; double play--Huntley to Stewart; ng; i | struck out--by Carlson 6, Plunkett 2; walks--off Carlson 5, Plunkett 5; hit batsman by Carlson (Maeson) ' | passed ball--Huntley; time o f game 2:20; Umpires--J. Hobbs and P. ©: | Calladine. . SPORTS CALENDAR Today VIADUCT BASEBALL Peterborough vs Oshawa Mer- chants, at Kinsmen Civic Memorial Ctadium, 8:00 pm. (2nd game of 5-0ut-of-9, OBA playoff series). his |"OASA JUVENILE PLAYOFFS North York Juveniles vs Oshawa N-E Tigers, at Alexandra Park, 6:00 pm. (1st game of 2-out-of-3 series). { OASA BANTAM PLAYOFFS North York Cubs and Oshawa Bathe Park, at Pickering, 6:00 p.m. ji (3r¢. and deciding game of series). OASA INTER. "B" PLAYOFFS { Whitby Stokers vs Dunbarton, at Pickering, 8:30 p.m. (1st game of 2-out-of-3 series). { MINOR SOFTBALL | Midget Playoffs--Rundle Park vs | Ajax Three-Star at Ajax, 8:15 | pm. (1st game of B"Nai B'Rith | League semi-finals). Bantam League--Sunnyside ab | Connaught. Thursday SENIOR BASEBALL PLAYOFFS Oshawa Merchants vs Peters | borough Petes, at Riverside Park, Peterborough, 8.15 pm. (3rd game | of 5-out-of-9 series). | KINGSWAY TOP | STAFFORDS 8-7 FIRST PLAYOFF ' Toronto--Kingsway Lumber gain- | ed the upper hand in the Viaduct | Major Baseball League TBA elimin- ation series, eking out a thrilling 8-7 victory over Staffords at Millen Stadium last night. Staffords out- hit the winner, 12-11, but made five errors that played a promi- nent part in the Lumbermen's triumph. ] Bev. Bourke took over from start- er Stan Courtney of Kingsway | after Ralph Hosking's two-run cir- cuit clout brought Staffs to just J , | one run off the pace in the bot- J ton of the seventh. Bourke claimed 9 three on strikes while allowing only one hit the rest of the way. Billy Calder and Keith Ball paced Kingsway at the plate with three | safeties each. Don Hall added two doubles, sending three runs across. | Catcher Steve McLellan, besides featuring defensively, came through with a pair of timely hits. ] but when it was tially explained that the "force" had been taken off when Maeson retired Wood, it meant that Berning was safe and there were two out. Ted Barnes then, came "through with his third hit of the night, a clean drive to right, scoring both : | Rowland and Walsh, to make the count 5-0 at the time. 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