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NEW COACH CHATS WITH TEAM HEADS ON SEASON eas Wall Ee Bow Soaeh of piano Fgh Football Union, eam president Sam Ag (centre) and Chuck Klein coach last year of the ORFYU champions. The team op- ens its season Aug. 21 with an exhibition game against the parent Toronto Argonauts and its first regular game in Kit- chener August 28. Wall was brought up from a Michigan high school to replace Klein, now line coach with the Argos. (CP Photo). NEW SEASON - NEW LOOK Clair Working On Rebuilding Plan Move Argonauts From Underdog Spot BY WiLF GRUSON Canadian Press Staff Write TORONTO (CP)--Toronto yi! nauts, who joppied from the 1 of p champions in 1962 to a iro finish in the Big Four last year, swing into the 1904 season with a new look. The once- rful Argonauts, on their record over the years the most successful football club in the role Py un- derdogs season as coach Fran Clair puts into action a Sweeping rebuilding program he hopes lead at least to a playoff berth. The Argonauts' collapse last year provided proof that a amber of country, take on the for years, had slipped and mn the end the layers. Sarsiliar figures ac Be from the team's line-up this year along with a number whom Clair didn't invite back and few who couldn't come to terms. YOUNGSTERS MAY HELP Clair has turned to younger rs from the college ranks and Ham, ESE 0 Golo Raghy |. ach of the 0 Football Union, to thelr 4 a faced with 3 has guided | are 01 e has Argos to two hove Cup titles since Chir"%s the. Argo: | A nauts aren't used of | stre of the layorts and another poor season like 1953 could possibly place his job in jeoparay. Clair has come up with a new crop of imports. There are no big names among these Americans but Clair, a shrewd judge of football talent, has picked them for the|s split attack he will use this year for the first time along with the and straight-T offence. He isn't dismayed about nauts' first two tests. They om 55: | Arg: to Edmonton E os and 19-2 to Winnipeg Blue Bombers in exhi- bition engagements and the set- backs showed Clair he must n the club's offence be- ros open the season Aug. 28 Ottawa Rough Riders in Horonio's 27,500-seat Varsity Sta- um, DEFENCE LOORS OF OKAY "I Joel a lot better about this fore ag team than % aa about last year's | jp t this time," Clair sald in club at discussing the losses. "The team played well defensively .for the most part and once our offence starts to click we'll have a pretty Tes | Sout finishing out'lie, Ste Krol, Bill, Roberts verty, Marsh Hames, Bob Shaw The lack of scoring punch in the exhibition games has sent Clair ack. who a crashing import full Cw 0 can Block ¢ on defence, gn Doug Pyzer, Jack ob Marshall, Hal Fa. oe Scudero, Bud Fowler, Paul Shannon and arterback to share the pivot ry with Nobby Wirkowski, ow in his fourth year with Argos since he came from the Uni- versity of Miami in Oxford, Wirkowski can't run well tena to operate smothly from th t T but is regarded highiy by Clair for his superb passing. has been disappointed in two other asterbaels; ick Shatto from the niversity of Kentucky and Don Rydalch from Utah University. However, Shatto can play halfback as well, and has a good chance of | th being one o the club's 10 imports if Jair can't find another quarter-| o, ack. SOLID ALONG GROUND The, Argos' und attack is ex- pasted eir best in years. Ulysses Bs, hampered last year juries, appears to have re- ere | gined his old form and among the Clair two 8 has and parts runners in Gene Whoo trea Carolina and Bill Cross, last ear with Chicago Cardinals, Cross ve-foot-six and 150 pounds, is e coach | 235 geen (AP) -- Earle and Roy Mack hinted Thursday they have found an 'angel' to save Mack ownership of the Philadel- phia Al J\thieties and another source t involved selling their Ly 's %.2. for $600,000 to Some. one who will then invest $2,000,000 more to rebuild the club. Just who the "angel" is, neither of the Macks would say but they inferred he exists and that they would ig the hatchet and run the ball club next year and for may years to come. t was Earle who hinted a plan vie in the making that would en- able oh Mack family to remain in Rov'c .. in with a hint that a. detailed plan of refinancing and reorganization may be ready for announcement at the end of about two weeks. NEITHER TALKS While neither brother would talk my Mack Brothers Have Found 'Angel' To Keep Their A's In The Family about this, it was learned that the propasiH position was to sell Connie Mack r-cent interest to a mew ak ler who then would invest additional working capital esti mated at approximately $2,000,000, Both Roy and Earle would re. tain their 58 per cent majority, and the baseball end of the business would be turned over lock, stock and barrel to a new general' mana- gern a man experienced in Base- ager of the Washington Senators, and Frank Lane, §omeral mi manager of the Chicago have Deen 0 prominent wi Sylk, head of a Philadel. = syad cate which has offered |3 £2500 for the Athletics, said he thou; he the Macks were wishing out loud. He zeilergisg that his group stood ready to carry out eir offer which he contends is the "'only black and white proposi- tion" presented to the Macks, probably the smallest player in the eague from a trade, and Bill McFarlane, up from the University of Toronto. The flying wings are homebrews Rod Smylie, rookie Ken Foster from Balmy Beach and Al Haig, a left-footed kicker who will share the punting with Gray. Bobby Fiveash from Florida is faking a strong bid for the full- back slot. His chances depend on whether Clair can come up with another import fullback before the Sn Suttng deadline, this year ame of the schedule, a fair candidates are Bill Barbish from the University of Ten nessee and Johnny Bell from Balmy Beach. STRONG ON ENDS The Argos are stocked with good ends. Norb Hecker, Jost season th Los Angeles one 6 ol [) other going eifer or Al Bruno, two #00 who have starred for Argos previous years. As defensive ends Clair is count- ing on converted halfback Royal Copeland, Art Scullion and Oattem Fisher. Sher, Tu and tackle Jack Jack Carpentet this year are th ports Argos can carry Jue the new limi the , {Buber of four-year impo) tackle candidates include , 228-pound Ted O'Con- nor from Nebraska 2 University od on versity of Detrott, tn Canadian tackles are Geo Pete Bennett and Don aw Aud Bi Beach. Ed.D Bradl eked last year on Big Four 4 all-star olfeive this season a ates are Fred Black, Merv Col- lins and Jack McGee, another raduate from Balmy Beach. her is likely to play offensive guard in addition to tre end. from the A, Kentucky and Ton: ols ers, are aL two in Calgary Siam for the centre position, f | 000 with Former Giant Puts BlastOn Team Manager NEW YORK (AP)--Arnie Wein- meister, all-star National Football League tackle who quit New York Giants to play for British Columbia Lions of the Western Interpro- vincial Football Union this season, Thursday put the rap on the Giant management for "treating us like criminals when we lost a game." In a by-lined article in the Sep- tember issue of True magazine, |be Weinmeister said he was tired of having Giant co-owner Wellington Mara *'act like a private eye" in practice. sessions and accused the ement of "pushing economy eyon the point of virtue." he Giants declined to comment on the article. oon meister said he will get $15,- e Lions at Vancouver, He claimed he aot $11,000 in his con- tract and $1,000 in a special cheque from the Giants last season. How- ever, he emphasized that he never was dissatisfied with the Giants |re financially. all, Stanley (Bucky) Harris, man- R ear on a two-year contract | taw. Big 4 Teams Ready Buck CRU hb, pn ONIREAL (CP) lowed rests by tes Ottawa Rough Riders SE a statement in Toronto ednesday night by Harry Me- Brien, CRU secretary, that Big Four football teams must use only eight of the 10 imports allowed in a game, e Big Foe i resident, who also heads a t owns the Alou- ettes, sa the executive will *'dis- cuss whether the CRU should have the right to Interfere jn the oper- ation of any leag "Under the presen constitution they (the CRU have the right to sa, what they did," he went on. e have to find out if our mem- ber clubs believe this should be so in the future," APPROVED EARLIER The CRU ruling was unani- mously apploved at its annual meeting, but the Big Four subge- gently decided that playing nine imports a game would be permis- sible in league contests. Earlier Alouettes general mana- ger, Lou Hayman, took sharp issue with the CRU stand. an said each league should pi) to fonduet its own af- fairs Yin respect to calibre of pley The CRU "could not b. te 'against the sovereignty of leagues," Ottawa Rough Riders a nine a instead of "a |b Big Four games, eld. seoret Wes Brown said Thursday at te he Ottawa club feels the same way as Montreal," he said. "We youd, prefer to play nine im- Rough R Riders ar took i issue with the was a a a Tung Canada's Biggest Golf Event, Labatt Open Starts On Monday Some 170 top pros and ama- teurs," 26 juniors' eight NHL. ni- | stars and two women golfers will be practiging this week-end for Canada's biggest golf event, The Labatt Open, which starts Mon- day on Scarboro Course, Toronto. U.S. Open hap Ed Furgol, British Open Cham ap Pater Thom- | gom. Worl i Coamp Ho ob Toskl, Sam ddlecoff, Jerry Bend, ig Gene Littler are among the 75-odd Americans in the field for a share of the er | 000 open purse. The four Huots of Quebec -- Jules, Rodolphe, Ro. land and Gerard, CPGA Champ Stan Leonard, Henry Martell, Ru. dy Horvath and Stan Horne are among a like number of top Ca- nadians entered for the open purse and another $1,500 im spe- |¢le: rizes, cial Canadian p Roberto di Vicenzo, wy Cerda, South. America; E| Open Naaman, , and top France am 8p re foreign Metropolitan Toronto's com] Chairman Fred Gardiner will knock out the first ball at 11:00 a.m. Monday. Immediately after the junior nominees of 268 Toronto and district clubs, youngsters from 2 to 17, will uw with top Bros for a round of the tourna- ment course, At 3:15 p.m,, Babe Zaharias and Peter Thom mphon Ww pair up in a best-ball match : gainst Betsy Rawls and Sam nead. Tuesday mo , with most of the field on * decks will be ared for practise on the Scar- boro acres which have seen three THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Saturday, August 21, 1954 11 SPORTS ROUNDUP Chicago White Sox May Decide Which Team Will Win Pennant By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sporis Writer Somebody must have forgotten The | to tell the fe Caloago White Sox they are out rican League pennant race. gear gd 1 ve-game back in high Boys are back 1 high | w Milwaukee by 6%, pending today's action, * Cincinnati took over Jouith lace in the National, sha: 3-2 despite six double p = Ry by Cardinals. Philadelphia and American Le streak and hy Saas Wig thought they still had a chance. wi iematically, they're right. The figures show the Sox still could overhaul both the second- place New York Yankees and the Jeague-leading Cleveland Indians. Yok. are five games behind New York, 8% back of Cleveland. But the chances of any such strange thing happening are so re- mote that anybody waiting in line at Comiskey Park to buy a world series ticket better be prepared for at least another year's vigil. TRUCKS SHINES Virgil Trucks struck out six Fri- day night in beating Detroit 8-2. He scattered nine hits in becoming the first American League pitcher to win 18 games. Another Sox player, Minnie oso, moved within five points of the league batting lead with a run - scoring triple that raised his average to .331. Cleveland defeated Baltimore 7-2 and gained a full game on the Yankees, whose 10-game winning streak was ended by Willard Nixon and the Boston Red Sox 4-3, Nixon is the first pitcher to beat New York four times this season. Milwaukee slipped another full s- [length behind New. York and ve | Brooklyn in the National League. The Braves were beaten for the |D! third time in four games, 3-1 by use | Chicago, New Sok defeated Puts. ugh Lo 40 Ko Brooklyn whipp: Philadelphia 6-4, The Giants the Dodgers by two games and ame with an elg hing drove in the son had to finish the ninth, sow. ever, when Nixon was injured in slide as he attempted to stretch his hit into a triple, Ted Williams beat out a bunt and added a double ahd a single in three ofifeial times at. ROSEN'S 21ST Al Rosen hit his 21st home run and Larry Doby delivered a three- run triple as the Indians scored six runs in the first two innings at Baltimore. The Giants scored all of their runs against Pittsburgh on a grand-slam home run by Don Mueller in the fifth inning. It was the second bases-loaded homer of his career for Mueller, who spec- ializes in hitting singles. Don Liddle, who came to the Giants from Milwaukee with John Antonelli during the winter, al- lowed only three hits, all singles. Liddle has pitched three complete ames, a five-hit shutout, a four- it victory and Friday night's three-hitter, Brooklyn found the home-run range 28alust Robin Roberts -- the Phils handed armed hander Dis 11h dh uke Sn hit man on int rat, found the seats, s, again heh a an on, the y San d | Amoros homered ith the bases empty in the sixth, previous major tournaments ip re- cent years. At 2:00 p.m. Red Kel- ly and Dutch Reibel of Detroit Red Wings will tee-off in a best- ball match against Ed Sandford and Warren Godfrey of Boston Bruins, They are the first four- some for the National Hockey of at least 18 Canadian sionals and five amateur p League of Golf. Shortly after EH Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard |ha of the Canadians will tee-off a- ainst Teeder Kennedy and Jim ompson of the Toronto Leafs. It will be medal play and if two pair wind up with will be a three-hole piavort and sudden death on the 1 Scarboro actually has a 19th Woy and it may be ort $500 to tournament com, ohio. apart money they take. I E RS th very col - tor in the ay tournament it- self will pip ot at the end of each round on the 100-yard 19th hole. The tournament commi have announced $500 to any play- er sinking his tee shot in this way. The Labatt Open tournament it- self gets Wednesday morning ties plus enough players to insure inclusion same score there ¢ "gx fines Bolt who has wi ments Jo al YOUR FUE PHONE NO N I FOR YOUR FURNACE AND STOVE OIL NEED YOU CAN NOW BUY DIRECT FROM REGENT REGENT Furnace & stove oils are SPECIALLY REF- INED from super crude. This process prevents screen clogging and sediment formation which means cleaner burning and more heat. This means lower heating costs for you ! Join the thousands of satisfied Regent customers that have switched to cleaner burning fuel & stove oils. 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