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+ Bad Weather Adds To Woes, Bussian Oarsmen d Pony League Calls For Rid BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) | president of the class D Pony| § Baseball League Sunday called on| '| scheduled for June 7 in New York. News says organized baseball may ate aid to the minors. Vincent M. McNamara said in a statement he has appealed to base-| all commissioner Ford Frick and less to us in 1957 if we pass out; to 3 George M. Trautman, president of of the picture in 1956." ae cli which Will compete, in the minor leagues, to draft a plan MAY TRY FREE AGENT PLAN eights and the Wyfold Challe for immediate aid at a meeting -- The/Trautman, McNamara asked: Pass Royal Henley OFF LONDON (Reuters) -- Russian |oarsmen, who won a number of ¥ "Why cannot the plan of the ma. years, have not entered this year's jors, incomplete as it may be pres- Royal Henley regatta, which takes _ ; liv: ently, be finalized and tendered for place July 4-7. the major leagues to give immedi-| adoption to the 4 now?" : | minor league Henley officials announced Sun- "Blood transfusions are worth. 48y overseas entries this year less to a departed soul," he said. number 18 from 11 countries in- So too will any aid be worth- cluding the Brockville, Ont., Row-| Thames Challenge Cup for ST. LOUIS (AP)--The Sporting Cup for fours. Of last year's winners, only T. & Frick and Trautman will discuss adopt the "free agent draft plan" g,.orka of Poland, who won the! charges . have a monopoly on baseball play- i ers. John Stiglmeier, general mana- J ger of the Buffalo Bisons in the CHANGES HORSES IN MIDSTREAM Ace Jockey Willie Hartack , Cypress Gardens, Florida Wil- disproves the adage abou lie counts horse racing and changing horses in midstream, | water skiing as his two favorite by riding water skis in between | pastimes. mounts on the thoroughbreds at! --Central Press Canadian 14- Year-Old Schoolboy Athlete Wins Nine Events In Track Meet MONTREAL (CP)--Bob Gillmor, Chambly County athletes cap " S tured team honors, on a point 14 yearold iin rom Mi basis, in classes one, four and south shore's Chambly county high five. Fisher Park High of Ottawa school, turned the provin and took class No. 2 and Mount Royal, Dominion interscholastic tr and i, the greater Montreal area, class field meet upside down Saturday yn, 3 with a remarkable string of nine "yo "loco No. 3 Gananoque placed victories. He set one record and fish with 23 points. In class No equaliod BIOS a bh 2. 5 Gornyall was fourth with 12% Gillmore stole the show ° e and Ridley of St. Catharines sixth day-long .meet, staged by . the with 12. y Greater Montreal Interscholastic! Age groups ranged from 14 to Athletic Association. Officials an- 99 (Class No. 5 has Dominion rec- nounced five records in all were ognition in the meet, sanctioned by set in addition to one equalled the Amateur Athletic Union of The meet brought together ath- Canada. letes from 28 high schools, mostly| Gillmor placed second in the high {rom Montreal area and eastern jump. Ater that he ran through Ontario. Only five schools frc string of ni ight wins. He Montreal were represented, com- wus equally at | in field events pared with about 20 previously, be- and on the cinder track. He won cause of refusal of teachers to en- the broad jump with a record 18 gage in extra - curricular work feet, 11% inches, the softball throw, pending settlement of. a long- pole vault, hop step and jump and standing wage dispute. The schools the shot put. On the track he took tepresented have regularly "as- both the 100 and 220 sprints, International League, who made the charges, and Frank Shaugh- essy, president of the Interna- jonal League, also will attend the meeting and Trautman, minors in 1957. "Our immediate problem is: Will previous season's finish, we be able to survive 1956?"' Me- now is done in the regul Namara said LEAGUES MAY SUSPEND { McNamara, who is also presi- dent of the Association of Class B, C and D League Presidents, said "not only our league but others will find it necessary to suspend before too long." | Pointing out that the Pony [League has already lost two of its |eight teams--Hamlilton, Ont., Bradford, Pa.--McNamara said: | "Our financial reserves have been wiped out because of the un- usually bad weather that has plagued us from the season's be- ginning." | McNamara sald Pony League officials at & meeting in Olean| Sunday reported they would be| able to carry on for "the present." | He did not elaborate. In his telegram to Ford and BEATS RIDLEY TORONTO (CP)--Upper Canada College defeated Ridley College of St. Catharines 107-104 Saturday to retain the Little Big Four cricket championship. Upper Canada had 107 runs for seven wickets to sweep the three- game series. Ridley registrd 104] runs all out | yard run and romped home first in the 80-yard hurdles. In the Dominion class, John Matheson of Ridley College High, St. Catharines, Ont., won both the 100 and 220 sprints. SURREY signed athletic heads equalled the 57.3 record in the 440 FORT HENRY at Kingston, Ontario, ahnually offrachs thousands of visitors who come to see the historic fort, and watch the colourful precision drill of the Fort guides, History is in the making throughout Ontario. Expansion is on all sides. But the glorious past with its romance and fascinating record of people and events, lives on today. Much of beauty and tradition has been preserved so you may relive the unforgettable. . Why not plan a "circle" tour of Ontario that will combine in one tingling, exciting holiday package the "old" and the "new." The rewarding experience will intrigue you and your family, and all will learn to "Know ONTARIO Better." ® EseTTER ---- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- Ontario Travel, Room 396 67 College St., Toronto, Ontario. Please send me free literature and road map of Ontario. Nome that the major leagues NOW used basketball in an effort to solve the trophy critical minor league problem. re ---- Daniel, help restore the balance of power ton, welterweight boxing champion by giving the tailend clubs a chance of the world, got into a 0 by pro football and piamend Sculls, will defend his SAXTON JAILED NEW YORK (AP)--Johnny Sax-| The baseball weekly, in a dis- patch from New York by Dan says such a plan would aseball- and good young players. bat-swinging street fight early Sat- Under the system, the Sporting yrday that landed him and his News says, all college, high school, | jai | Iu an appeal telegraphed to Ford| American Legion junior and sand- opponents: In jail ! McNamara said lot players would be tossed into a recent press releases credited to pool each year. Then they would Ford stated that the major leagues pe drafted, were drafting plans for aiding the league clubs and minors, in the inverse order of the Saxton, 25, was later released in $1,000 bail for arraignment on a 3 + felonious assault charge. Also first bY. Je Wig] charged-with felonious assault were . two waiters, Wade Nance, 29, and just as Samuel Wyatt, 34, who were ar base- treated for cuts and bruises after ball draft meeting. their bout with Saxton. Each major league club would The fight, police said, be able to draft only three players, when the waiters' car blocked for a big league total of 48, and Saxton's on a narrow street, and dan, : : fused to move after! middleweight champion. CP from National Defence the other prospects would go to the waiters re the minors much horn-blowing by Saxton {major events during the last two BR | #2 started SIX H nge Hs | OLYMPIC COACH QMS Instructor Terry Weath- won the honors. who erall, 33, of Petawawa, Ont., will The coach the Army's Olympic box- |was first in three of the four com- at Camp Borden, Ont. Former Irish bantam and featherweighi champion, Weatherall - round, no decision bout in 1944 in Algiers with Marce] Cer- world fought a Windsor Athletes WINDSOR (CP)1--Windsor ath- + letes made a clean sweep of in- |dividual honors at the eastern % |Canada gymnastic championships | here Saturday. Ed Gagnier, selected by the Am- |ateur Athletic Union as Canada's he outstanding junior athlete in 1954 | and now a sophomore at the Uni- "| versity of Michigan, led Windsor |Gymnastic Club representatives to victory when he took the senior men's title. | Gagnier - finished with .a point | total of 558 and took firsts in all events: long horse vault, side horse 'vault, free calisthenics, high bar, | parallel bars and still rings. | Second place went to Karl Nut- |zenberger of Toronto, 518 points {and Frank Gromek of Toronto was {| third with 4508. Ernestine Russell, defending | Canadian women's senior gymnas- tic champion, did not compete due <4 ito an elbow injury suffered .in |training. Her Windsor Gymnastic {Club teammate, Peggy Schram, voung Windsor secretary pulsory events and finished with 346 points. Next was teammate Donna Dominato with 317. Shirley Maisonville of Windsor was third with 303. The results will have strong bearing on the makeup of the Canadian gymnastic Olympic team THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, June 5, 1956 19 Make Clean Sweep Bob Frewin, Daryl Wels Tie For Golfing Honors NIAGARA FALLS, Ont, (CP)-- Bob Frewin of the Toronto Tele- gram and Daryl Wells of Hamil- ton tied for first place Sunday in the Ontario Sports Writers and Sportscasters Association golf tour- nament. Each fired low-gross 87s over the par-72 Niagara Parks commission course. Bill Baker of Toronto radio station CFRB was third with 91.| Carl Totzke of the Kitchener- Waterloo Record won low net with 70. Jim McKay of the Woodstock Sentinel-Review was next with 72.! Laurie Brain of the Windsor Star. association president, said the Ontario Lawn Bowling Association had raised $1,500 for the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. The money will be added to proceeds of the Sports Celebrities Dinner-- sponsored by the Sports Writers Association--and sent to the soci- ety. 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