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ii place. We doubt if Baseball, soft- { ; i l E } ! " haps even unknown before in the' © world, this season when seven |nig | teams finished tied fol first place. if "Just in case you're starting to { wrack your mem : and averaged one-point-a-game -- TED O'CONNOR "BUTCH" LAWING SPORTS MENU 'Everything from Soup to Nuts" by Geo. H. Campbell SPORTS EDITOR Don't know for certain of course but we'll venture that the Darling: tof senior soccer league set a re- cord unique in sport history, per- ory, for some- thing that beats. this +-- don't for- get they only had seven teams in the league too! Yep! That's right seven teams in the schedule an they all finished with exactly points, tied for first (or last) all or any other type of sport has a record of anything to top this. Each team played 12 games equivalent to a tie, which is just how they all ended up, tied. They finally drew out of a hat for play- is positions with Maple Grove face the bye. Other entries in- po Hampton, Tyrone, Ennis- killen, Solina, Zion and Courtice, Oshawa Merchants travel wp to Guelph tonight to tangle witn the Maple Leafs for last time this season. Waterloo Tig~ Sy Long rs ison | fe y League race, their 16:2 win over St. Thomas on Wednesday night. Brantford knocked off Kitchener 6-3 the same night, which enabled the Tigers to replace the Panthers ders ht Iv as more awa baseball fans was the 6-4 victory by Galt Terriers ever London Majors. That defeat left London Majors only two full es ahead of the Oshawa rchants, who are in turn Thre full games ahead of Terriers. Kitchener visits London Majors to t and if the Pan- he! and Don't know who phn Sa will send to the mound ton} nt in Guelph but our Zuess 1s ¥ ig Bud Ripplemeyer and the big boy "has it" then the Napiet gehen i a big game for Merchants, who do not see 1 E casve action again until onday night, when Brantford od Sox visit Oshawa. However Oshawa Merchants are going to be in action here tomor- row night in the big Kiwanis All- Star exhibition benefit game, being sponsored by local Kiwanians, wi proceeds to aid their service work in the community. The Lakeshore Le e All-Stars were announced 'ednesday and a great deal of SR iorastae interest is evident throughout the circuit, in Cobourg, Bowmanville, Whitby, Lindsay, Col- borne, etc. This game between the Inter-County Merchants and the Lakeshore League's best should be a fine piece of baseball entertain- admission fee of half-a-buck should also serve to bring out a banner crowd. In addition to the baseball ame, the fans supporting this wanis All-Star game tomorrow ht at Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium will each havé a chance of winning an RCA-Victor tele- vision set as well as 20 other very valuable attendance prizes. Up at the Oshawa Motor Race. ways tomorrow night, the pro- moters are holding "Family Night" with all a under 12 ude be admitted free, if accom- anied by parents. They're giv- rizes to the youngste) attractiin is that the "kids" are going to have a chance to take a ride in a stock car with their favorite racing driver. There'll be a lot of Youngsters take ad- v of oportunity to ride around the yo: in a stock car "racer" with their favorite driver. The Oshawa stock car drivers, Hogan, Spencer, Race, Bowers, won over the Pimecrest Spscayay drivers 3 4 there Wed- , wi games played around these parts ast night each resulted in a 12-1 score with Connaught Tigers com- pleting their season's Juvenile Be ly wore iy Jr a y whip T. here last night and u Brooklin, Shevepzon Motors A Pickering by the same score, to sweep their OASA Inter. "'C" play-| off series in two-straight games +... Brooklin has a bye in the next round $0 Will be, idle. for a week , .. Ajax and Whitby Royals their OASA Inter. "'B" play- series tomorrow night in Whit by... In the Junior "A" playoffs, Belleville. Glen Roys, 1952 Ontario Shampions, visit shawa Jrs. at andra Park Saturday evening Alerts Pee Wee champs go to Brooklin afternoon to Oshawa Minor Softball Association will shart 4 their cham Ba ia play offs in the B'Nai League with § side Park ddget ing a Connau ht Park on Monday night, 6.15 o'clock and the second game of the series will be at Sunny . In the Kiwanis Bantam League all teams will be included in the League championship playoffs but in the meantime, Bathe Park visits Sunnyside Park on Monday night to open. their semi-final series with the second game at Bathe Park on Wednesday night. In both the Midget and Bantam OASA elimina- tions, winpers of the semi-final series will take on Rundle Park teams in the finals . . . Other Ban- tam League playoff rounds will be ment and certainly the reasonable announced on Saturday. SPORTS ROUNDUP Rocky Marciano Wants To Prove He's The Best By GAYLE TALROT | Associated Press Sporis Writer | GROSSINGER, N. Y. (AP) | Driven by a determinaton to be- | * come recognized as a great heavy- weight champion before he is through, Rocky Marciano is drill- ing perhaps even harder for his : ' coming defence against Roland La- Starza than be did when he was a challenger. The axiom that a fighter will let down to some extent once he has the golden bauble in his grasp is positively not for him, says the Brockton, Mass., belter. "What I want to do now is not just beat LaStarza,"' he says ser- fously._ "I want to beat the next eight men and establish myself as the best so everybody will know it. , The last knockout over Joe Walcott ' wasn't satisfactory as far as 7 was concerned. I suppose you could say 1 have pride in my fighting ability. There's. no danger that rn suffer a let down in this one.' Rocky has a great deal of res- | pect for LaStarza and he fo give the boy from the Drang to him a hard fight on LR Sept. 24, DU he Is, deep ly confident that he still will Seg bio ' MONTREAL GAINS FINAL ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N. Y. (AP)--Defending champion Mont- real defeated Johnson City, N.Y. 4-1 and Schenectady, N.Y., wal-| "loped Massapeque, N.Y., 9-1 "Thurs- day to gain Saturday's final round of the region one Little Leaoue . baseball playoffs. Montreal pitcher Phil Griffis, a tricky fasthaller, | allowed only three hits, 'seven and walked none. fanned | Drilling Hard, when it ends, either by a knockout or a decision. other "I remember from our fight that he's hard to hit," 'he conceded readily. "I can't remem- | ber that I ever caught him real solidly, even though I had him down. He doesn't have too much foot-work, but he moves around a lot from the waist up. However, I think I've learned a lot about 5 to hit a man in the 3% years since we fought. | "I see that Roland thought he had me hurt toward the end of our other fight. Maybe he did think 50, but I honestly can't recall that I felt any of punches, much. In fact, that's been my main recol- lection. It was close, sure, but after all they gave me the verdict. "I \had no preference at all whether I should fight him or Ezzard Charles. Al, (manager Al | Weill) never asked me what I thought. Whichever figured to draw the most money suited me, {an and that was in Al's department. I'll be happy to give Charles the {next chance if that's the way it tomorrow i; open their OASA playoff round . . . | incl side Park on Wednesday evening | Evo; JOHNNY IMBRA FRAN DYSON | 1 | Whitby squad \ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, August 21, 1953 11 UNDEFEATED RECORD Connaught Tigers wound up their schedule in the UAWA Juvenile Softball League last night by de- feating Whitby Jr. Stokers 12-1. The win marked the 18th-straight league fixture for the Connaught boys, an undefeated record for the season's league action. "Rich" Wilson went to the mound last night and limited the six scattered hits and one run, scored in the ve first inning when Smyth, first bal ter, drew a walk Henry singled but Denyer .forced Smyth at 3rd. Jermyn grounded out but MacRae walked to fill the bases and a ga le by Dixon scored Henry with Whitby's only run. Henry had two hits for the los- DICK BERNING TEAM HITTING SECOND After holding the team batting edge in the Intercounty since the season started, Oshawa Merchants have dropped to second spot, this week's weekly IC statistical review shows. Waterloo with a .277 mark, has taken over, with Oshawa drop- ping 'to .266. Individual averages show Dick Welker, Kitchener and Butch Law- ing, Oshawa, who have been battl- ing for the lead for the past couple weeks, hitting .343, followed by the idle Ed Steele, Galt, who has .342. Billy Flick, of Waterloo, who with Hank Biasatti and Don Oberholtzer has proved the chief batting ower in Le Tigers' drive, is fourth with .332 Eudie nN 47, leads in runs batted in, edging "Alex Kyvasnak, Kitchener, by one. Lawing is third t! Leroy LeFevre with 16 has taken the lead in doubles. The Brantford first sacker replaces Lawing as leader but the feature of the "doubles" has been provided the past week by Ed Finney, Brant- ford second baseman. He had had eight in his last seven games to b his season's total to 13. Individual batting .260 or better games played Monday night, or more at bats: Ariss, Wat. Lawing, Osh. Welker, Kitch. Steele, Galt Flick, Wat. Ldn. we Tg Wat. 161 27 53 . Napier, G. 8 74 23 24 82 40 58 4 514 324 23 .319 26 318 5 Yount, Guelph T. O'Connor, Osh. Eaton, Galt Rassmussen, St. Thomas Wilkes, Brant. Biasatti, Wat. Pontorelli, Galt Halkard, Ldn. Kvasnak, Kitch. Jessup, Galt Duncan, Kitch. Psutka, Kitch. Jones, Osh. Schnurr, Wat. Sokol, Wat. LeFevre, Brant. G. Wilson, Ldn. Imbra, Osh. Thomas, Wat. Trew, St. Thos. "Connor, Galt ke, Osh. Kaiser, Galt Herch, Wat. Carruth, G. Russian, Galt 210 23 58 . McGrattan, Brant 158 15 43 . Butler, St. T. 207 31 56 . Reitnour, St. T. 162 18 44 . Berning, Osh. Drapcho, Osh. Urban, St. T. Fischer, Wat. .316 20 313 11 .313 26 .309.28 .307 30 .307 46 .303 18 .302 10 .298 35 297 22 .296 17 .296 25 .293 34 228 8REZE BERANE E LE8RRBES i) das S58 832 BO bt BD pot ok pk SEREYR Eee s FRSBER 261 28 261 47 218 39 57 180 32 47 OTHER PLAYERS Leaders: Runs batted in Napier 47, Kvasnak 46, Lawing 43, Evon 42, Steele 38, Kaiser 38, Psutka 38, Welker 35, LeFeve 34. Two base hits: LeFevre 16, Law- 5 | Kitchener Oshawa's Butch Lawing and Dick Welker Continue Inter-County Batting Race ing 15, Pontorelli 15, Rassmussen 14, Finney 13. Three base hits, Jones 7, Welker Some runs, 'Steele 13, Cline 12, Napier 10, Kvasnak 8. Stolen bases, Welker 36, Gray 14. Sacrifice Juss, McGillvray 11, Ler 10, Gray 10. OTHER PLAYERS DeLaurentis, Osh. 11 1 0.000 0 Dyson 137 20 31 .226 11 Garbark 61 512 .197 7 Hanrahan 28 3 5.143 0 Mason 205 30 53 .259 21 Ryba 136 18 30 .221 14 Walter 30 25.167 3 TEAM RECORDS BATTING Waterloo Oshawa Galt Brantford London St. Thomas Guelph FIELDING Waterloo Kitchener London Oshawa Brantford St. Thomas Guelph Galt Double 55, Guelp! don 44, Oshawa 58, ' Waterloo 60. 1962 249 461 1859 292 476 1574 610 22853888 BRERBEEN: Plays: Brantford 46, Galt 41, Kitchener 49, Lon- St. Thomas 52, TWO STRAIGHT Brooklin Stevenson Motor Sales advanced to the second round of the OASA Intermediate '"'C"" play- downs last night when they defeat- ed Pickering at Brooklin Commu- nity Park 12-1, to sweep the series in two-straight games. "Nip" Hooker went to the mound for Brooklin last night and gave up only four hits. He was com- plete master of the game all the way. Pickering had a couple on in | the second inning and again in the 5th, this time on a hit by Koch and an infield error but they didn't get around to breaking the goose- egg until the 9th inning. Pyette, who opened the inning with a triple, came home when Koch drove a fly to centre field for the second out. It was Pyette's second hit of the night, half of the Pickering total. Featherstone was clipped for five runs on four hits, a walk and an error, in the second inning as the Brooklin team clicked at the plate, Carnwith's double and then three- straight singles after two out, be- ing the damaging blows. 'our more hits in the 3rd pro- duced two more runs for the home- sters and Featherstone was struck on the leg by Bill Graham's drive through the box and the Pickering pjtchep had to leave the game, roud taking over the mound dut- ies. Brooklin got to Stroud for five runs on two hits and an error plus a couple of costly walks, in the 6th inning. They loaded the bases in the 8th but failed to score, two runners being forced "out at the plate. Brooklin Eliminates Pickering First Round OASA Croxall's three-for-five, including a pair of doubles, made them the big hitters of the night with Johnston, B. Mitchell and Carnwith each getting a couple of safeties. Brooklin will now await the sur- ~vivor of the Tweed-Madoc - Hast- ings section for the third round of OASA playoffs. PICKERING -- Holter, rf; Rim- mer, 2b; McNee, 3b; Pyette, ss and cf; Stewart, ¢; Koch, cf and If; Hills, If; Comfort, 1b; Feather- stone, p; O'Reilly, 1b; Gates, ss; Fletcher, 2b. BROOKLIN -- Graham, rf; John- ston, 3b; B. Mitchell, c; Harper, If; Hooker, p; Croxall, ss; D. Mit- chell, cf; Carnwith, 1b; Schell, 2b; Arksey, c¢; Kivell, cf Umpires; D, Stauffer and H. Cooper. Yesterday's Stars. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pitching--Ed Lopat; New York Yankees, won his 13th game, against two losses and his 11th Sia) ht over Washington, beating nators 7-0. he castors 7 Hegan, Cleveland Indians, drove in four runs with a home run and two single§ as the Indians broke a four-game losing streak with a 13-7 decision over Detroit Tigers. | works out." ROLLER ® TON ALSO SATURDAY NIGHT SKATING IGHT © ARENA Graham's three - for - four and FAMIL Cm FREE ! IF ACCOMPANIED CHILDREN'S : a SATURDAY, AUG. 22 CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER ADMITTED RIDES WITH YOUR FAVOURITE * 'STOCK CAR DRIVER OSHAWA RACEWAYS, TAUNTON RD. E. (pa anay STOCK CAR RACES Ted Hogan and Norm Brioux e Anyone Y NITE = _" FREE ! BY THEIR PARENTS DOOR PRIZE : ers who had only one man reach 3rd base after the first frame, pohnsn who drew a walk in the 'Nelson singled to open the first for Connaught and scored on a couple of passed balls and an in- field out. Pete Anderson clipped a homer in the second inning with Connaught Tigers End Schedule Without Suffering Single Loss none on to break the tie and then the Tigers scored four rums on five-straight hits in the third in- ning, the first four blows by Nel- son, Wilson, Oldfield and Knapp all being two-baggers. In the 6th inning Tigers went on another rampage to score four more runs, Peacock getting a hom- er in this inning and in the 7th Garrard Sngied and Anderson got his second homer of the night to conclude the game's scoring. Anderson with two homers and a single, Wilson with two doubles and a single and Nelson with a double and single, were the big hitters for the winners, WHITBY STOKERS -- Smyth, 1b Henry, p Denyer, c¢ Jermyn, ss MacRae, 3b Dixon, 2b Mussel man, rf; bs ow, cf; Johnston, If; Sandford CONNADGHT TIGERS -- Nelson 3b; Wilson, p; Oldfield, ss; Knapp, ¢; Garrard, 2b; Puckasoiski, 1b; Jnderson, rf; Peacock, cf; Grant, Umpires--J. Guiltinan and Bill Kellington. y H. Biasatti Pitcher, Too . Records Prove The Inter-County pitching review for the week presents an anomaly for the leading percentage hurler is 'a first-baseman. Hank Biasatti, sometime American, Inter-National and Pacific Coast Leaguer, who mound for Waterloo Tigers, has won six and lost one game for an .857 rating. Jeep Jessup, Galt, has the most wins, 12; the most strike- outs, 119, and has worked the most innings, 170. Mel Duncan and Bud Ripplemeyer of Kitchener and Osh- ave, respectively, each have won 1 games. Pitching records including Mon- day night games follow: W L Pct. 80 Straiger, London 1 Biasatti, Wat. Yount, 'Guelph Duncan, Kitch. Ripple'r, Osh. Ariss, Wat. Penny, Ldn. Bricker, Kit. Jeffries, Guelph Gavey, Brant. Parker, Brant. Copeland, Brant. Hanrahan, Osh. Fedoris, Kitch. Koval, Wat. Yorke, Wat. Jessup, Galt Walter, Oshawa Allan, Kitchener Burke, Ldn. Butler, Galt Clark, Guelph Welker, Kitch. Ober'zer, Wat. Brumm, London Best, London Hannel, Galt Schnurr, Wat. Gerringel, Brant Eaton, Galt Sommers, St. T. Philp, Geulph Drapcho, Oshawa White, St. T. DeLaurentis, Osh. Griffith, Brant Begs. St. Thos. * Caffrey, St. Thos. Costa, St. T. Fauth, Guelph Grasso, St. Thos. Sysmanski, Galt Hal Butler Counts 72 at Montreal MONTREAL (CP)--Scores of On- tario players in the $25,000 olf tournament at Summ If Club Thursday included: Harold Butler, Oshawa 37-35--72 Moe Norman, Kitchener $7-37--74 .000 857 .818 .786 733 I DAUWONRJONNDD td Ne 8838 22 « LE SEE A Se EE Ee ER 1 I 2333282 het i" HHH > _- 3 het BRS WULUANN ITV TARR TTR rt RW TRU AN DWE ED bi BOND © 00 CO beh pt BD DD 1k 1a i DD i UT 0D CO CO A OY bd bet i 00 ST oT i SaBBuERRRRsS: varies between first sack and the G INTERCOUNTY |, STANDINGS WEDNESDAY'S SCORES Brantford 6, Kitchener 3 Waterloo 16, St. Thomas 2 Galt 6, London a Waterloo Kitchener Brantford London ... THIS WEEK Friday: Kitchener at London; Brantford at Waterloo; Galt at St. Thomas; Oshawa at Guelph. Saturday: London at Galt; St. Thomas at Kitchener; Waterloo at Brantford. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Newark, N. J.--Vince Martinez, 150, Paterson, N. J, stopped Billy Andy, 153, Providence, R . 14 6 Detroit--Bob Amos, 174, Detroit, outpointed Gordon Wallace, 167, Brantford, Ont., 8. Sydney, Australia--Freddie Daw- son, 143, Chicago awarded decision over Harry Hayes, 154%, Australia. (Hayes disqualified in 5th round). SPORTS CALENDAR FRIDAY INTER-COUNTY BASEBALL Oshawa Merchants vs Guelph Maple Leafs, at Guelph, 8.15 p.m. LAKESHORE INTER. PL' YOFFS Lindsay Merchants vs Whithy Merchants, at Whitby Town Park, 6.00 p.m. UAWA JUVENILE SOFTBALL Rundle Rockets vs Brooklin. at Brooklin Community Park, 6.30 p.m. BOYS' MINOR SOFTBALL Bathe at Thornton's Corners; North Oshawa at Rundle; Fern- hill at Eastview and Sunnyside at Woodview; all games at 6.30 p.m. (NOTE--top- four teams in standing start OASA elimination playoffs on Monday night--details in Friday's paper). UAW SHOP LEAGUE Flyers vs Tigers, at Alex. Park, 6.30 p.m.; Chev. Line vs Stamp- eders, at Alex, Park, 6.30 p.m. LADIES SOFTBALL CKLB Wildcats vs Motorettes, at Bathe Park, 6.45 p.m. (5th game of 4-out-of-7 series tied two wins apiece.) J SATURDAY EXHIBITION BASEBALL Oshawa Merchants vs. South Ontario All - Stars, Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium, 800 p.m. _| (Charity game Sponsored by Osh- awa Kiwanis Club) LAKESHORE INTER. PASERALL Cobourg Legion vs. Bowman - ville Roses, at Bowmanville. 3.00 p.m. (1st game of Inter. "B" final series, 3-out-of-5). OBA PLAYOFF BASEBALL * MIDGET---Hamilton vs. Oshawa UAWA, at Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium, 3.00 p.m. (1st game of 2-out-of-3 playoff series). CRICKET Oshawa Cricket Club vs. North Toronto, at North Toronto grounds, 2.30 p.m. HARNESS RACING Full program of harness racing, three classes, at Oshawa Fair (Alexandra Park) starting at 2.00 p.m. i PWSU PLAYOFF SOFTBALL INTER. "A" -- Oshawa CKLB Lakelanders vs. New Toronto, at New Toronto, 2.30 p.m. (3rd game if necessary at 6.00 p.m.) OASA PLAYOFF SOFTBALL PEE WEE -- Oshawa Pee Wee Champions vs. Brooklin, at Brook- lin Community Park, 3. 00 p.m. (1st game of 2-out-of-3 series). JUNIOR "A" -- Belleville Glen Roys vs. Oshawa Jrs., at Alexan- dra Park, 6.15 p.m. (1st game of 2- out-of -3 series). INTER. "B" -- Ajax Aerials vs. Whitby Royals, at Whitby Town Park, 8.15 p.m. (ist game of 2- out-of -2 series). INTER. "C" -- Brougham vs. Keene, at Keene, 6.00 pm. (2nd ame of 2-out-of-3 series). K CAR RACING Program of stock car races, six events, at Oshawa Motor Race- ways, 8.30 p.m. Midget 0.B.A. Playoffs Hamilton Oshawa U.AW.A. CIVIC STADIUM 3:00 O'clock Saturday ADMISSION 25¢ Robert Dean, Cornwall #0-35--75 Maple Leaf Stadium Lots of action! by Nat Turofsky Two wild throws--the infield to the catcher and the catcher to the pitcher --enable the baserunner to score. Lots of action on this one! 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