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12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, August 29, 19 fr---- KEN VENTURI GETS TWO PRIZES A cheque and a kiss -- two desirable prizes, is the reward for professional golfer Ken Ven- | turl, of Palo Alto, California, who is shown above receiving a cheque for $4300 and a kiss from Miss Lea Ann Wilke "Miss Mil- waukee of 1960", Venturi shot a 694 0ne-under-par in the final round of the Milwaukee Open and had a total of 271 for 72 SPORT SNAPSHOTS TORONTO (CP) -- The once- popular tune "coming in on a wing and a prayer" is fast be coming known as the anthem of an International League band with a weak wood section but ecutive, and Menendez, coming to Leafs this season after own. ing a Triple A club himself, have provided McGaha with the performers. Cooke entered into an affilia- Leafs Setting Records But Not At Box Office 10-year famine during most of do, another record will have|the professional American dou- which the club had stumbled around in the league's second division. Leafs finished half a game behind the top in 1955, when they played one game the advantage of a strong brass tion with Cleveland Indians of fewer than flag-winning Montreal and fine young conductor, the American League this sea-| Royals because a rained - out Toronto Maple Leafs are justigon after operating indepead. ame couldn't be made up. the virtuosos who could use it ently since buying Leafs J 4, Toronto again took league hon- as a theme for a best-selling al-11951 but has not relied complet-lors in 1956 and repeated in 1957 bum entitled "Music to {Baseball Games To." | Under the baton of Fred Mel- Toronto major league franchise, his fervent hope for years, he Win ely on the hookup. Aming for a before another second-place fin. ish in 1958, vin (Mel) McGaha (pronounced hag shelled out more than $100,- FORGET 1959 Mi-gay-hey), Leafs are ming along to the pennant on a {theory that victory equals one would have a chance at making L#afs -- will give strong "wing" from among the team's bountiful array of pitch- ing arms, plus a prayer that the batting order can beg, borrow or |--yes--steal just enough runs to | win, | It's a sweet symphony but the audiences are sparse, McGaha, 33, who could be heading for manager-of-the-year honors in his firs ar of pilot ing a team with a classification as high a Triple A, has received fine support from the brass--owner Jack Ken and general manager Menendez, FINE MATERIAL Cooke, wealthy magazine pub. strong hum-|000 this season to purchase the| This kind of players he believes a big-league club ] He paid 5,000 to Philadel phia Phillies of the National) League for pepperpot second baseman Sparky Anderson and $15,000 to Chicago Cubs Hight sanded pitcher Steve Rid. 7ik, Southpaw Rip Coleman put a $15,000 dent in Cooke's wallet when he came from Baltimore Orioles of the American League, and left hander Bob (Riverboat) h was pried loose from Cleveland for the same amount Right hander Al Cicotte was sent to Leafs by the Indians for $12,. 500. Trying to fortify a weak spot year's club, which--bar- complete collapse by them their fourth pennant in seven years, was designed to make the fans forget the club that ended last season mired in the cellar, 20% games behind pennant-winning Buffalo Bisons. Not only have the fans forgot- ten that dismal showing----they apparently are unaware this sea- son's team exists, As one wag put it earlier this season: "This is probably the greatest home club the Toronto fans have never seen." Although recent attendances have been picking up, the 212,869 fans who had seen Leafs in 48 home dates were only about 9,000 more than at the same ring a lisher, radio station owner and at first base, Leafs bought Earl|time last year, when Leafs were photograph-record company ex Senior Golf Play In Montreal Today | MONTREAL (CP) {senior golf championshi men the other side of 55 held 29-31 district golf courses, All of year's leaders are ers I medal run-off | A two-ball scheduled for [lowed by two {competition senior team States Canada's for ps A gy | holes, He was nine under for Aug the four days of play. This is the second time that Venturi has won top money in the Mil- waukee Open | last low Bross regi ed for the 36 - hole pla the -AP Wirephoto competition days event a. openin wo i fol foursome the third day of a 16 the days against from United will be at two Montreal one among the 260 golf- et for trophy man Hersh from Louisville of the American Association for $15,000 {after the season had started, In Herb Plews, former ma jor-league player, was a $7,500 {purchase from Minneapolis Mill ers of the American Association TAKES NO CHANCES When the mumps struck right fielder Jim King-- of Toronto's few holdovers from last season and the leading slugger and batter on this sea. son's weak-hitting Leafs--Cooke took mo chances although he knew the ailment would be short lived, Chuck Tanner, formerly with - Milwaukee Braves and Chicago Cubs, was purchased from Cleveland, where he had a 280 batting average in 18 games this season This group, augmented by the fielder recently in sixth place and on their way lower Because of this fans are mis hasn't been apathy a dran ilable here for 53 years. The club in 1907, when the circuit was known as astern Leagu was the yronto representative ever win a pennant after finishing last the previous year, PITCHING MARK This year's Leafs are sure to equal that team record, If they some only TUES. 8:45 P.M. the, played a large part, | Last in team batting and runs scored for most of the season,| this year's league-leaders have relied on speed, an almost-im- | pregnable defence and their | piece-de-resistance -- the pitch ing corps, which has already posted 26 shutouts to break the league's modern-day record of 25, set by Syracuse Chiefs in 1943, The mound crew also is threatening the all-time mark of 289, set by Rochester in 1910 when | the league played a 168-game schedule compared to today's 154-game season, | These records, however, take gg a back seat to a burning ambi- tion of Cooke, second only to his hope for a major league fran- chise. That Is a Little World Se- ries title in the annual post- schedule playoffs with the Amer-| ican Association's playoff win- ners, Toronto has made 'he se- ries only three times--the lat in| 1934--and has won two of them, but hasn't had a champ since FOOTBALL STANDINGS By THE CANADIAN PRESS WLT F APts 5 0 0168 65 10 0 66 33 4 0 88 99 4 1 1 Winnipeg Edmonton B.C 2 Si 0 1 28 88 0 1 64129 Saturday's Resnlt Winnipeg 27 Saskatchewan 0 Tonight's Games Saskatchewan at Calgary Edmonton at British Columbia OSHAWA ARENA ( algary YUKON ERIC ,. FRED ATKINS 2-AGAINST -1--Handicap Tag Bout Tobin of St. Lamberts, Que, won can trapshoot closed, Frofend 92 |v. ' 1 (24) 96 Canadian Wins |Howard Morton, Sharon--(19) 88 American Title mem. 3 femn o0 Pro Trapshoot [i= see Beogicm i» (20) 98 {David R. Ferriss, Harrow--(18) 87 VANDALIA, Ohio (AP)-- R. J. con Hartman, Kitchener--(23) 90 W. J. Oliver, Niagara Falls--(19) 92 C. A. McAteer, St. Thomas--(21) 76 H. W. Thrasher, Harrow--(21) 86 Harvey Kistner, Poston--(20) 81 Harry Hodge, Newmarket--(20) 81 bles trapshoot championship Sat- urday as the 61st Grand Ameri He broke 93 of the twin clays to win by one over R. L. Andrews of Jackson, Miss.,, and Clay Wil- liams of New Orleans. Harry A. Wilisie of Montreal broke 968 of 1,000 during the ,, week to lead the Canadians and Glenn Culp, Waterioo--(20) had to rank fifth in over-all contest. Ontario scores for Saturday's final events, the National dou- bles and the Vandalia handicap, : (Handicap yardages in paren. Hairos of Holland, world trotting theses( included: champion, was true to form Sat- Emerson Clark, Preston doubles urday night when he easily won 20 the $25,000 Challenge Cup at Reg Orendorff, Windsor 80 (22) Roosevelt raceway, The nine. year-old defeated three Italian R. C. Hilborn, Preston 81 (21) and four American horses by 1% 94 lengths in 2:33 3-5 for 1% miles, William Macdonald, Bradford 77| The time was three-fifth of & (19) 97 Isecond under the world record, WORLD CHAMP WINS WESTBURY, N.Y, (CP) ~~ JUNIOR FOOTBALL Watch The Future Argos In Action KINSMEN STADIUM WED. AUG. 31 The Oshawa "Imps" vs. Burlington "Braves" 8 p.m. seven holdovers--four of them pitchers--and the seven 'Players {optioned to Leafs by Cleveland THE TWO JOE KILLER CHRISTY and Beaconsfield and Kanaw the host clubs, Bill Kerr akl are These Players Are Being Groomed for Big Four Competition This Is Bob Simpson's n 11th Big Four Term OTTAWA (CP)--A decade ago e young football player named Bob Simpson weighed two profes sional offers. One was from Tor onto Argonauts and the other from Ottawa Rough Riders Ottawa won out, because Bob wanted to stick with fur fellow players on Windsor Rockets who had already decided on the Rough Riders The Windsor buddies have long since and coaches have come and gone bodied Bob Simpson his 1 Big Four team He looked back over the years the other day while holding casual court in his Laurier Avenue restaurant, a leg bruised in the previous night's game resting over a chair while he sipped his vitamins--from a glass filled with equal portions of beer and tomato juice "It's not much of a story," he was born In Windsor and played th Windsor Rockets in the ORFU. I came to Ottawa in 1950 and here I am." B in the erowded years be- ge 20 and age 30, while starting a family and blossoming as a businessman, Bob has made scattered » ed 1 a English Clubs Balk At Televised Games By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London, England Correspondent The Oshawa Times LONDON - Some of England's a name for himself as one of the finest ends In Canadian football HIGH POINTS A member of the 1951 Ottawa Grey Cup champions, six times in the league playoffs under four coaches, Simpson i§ Ottawa's all- time high scorer with 310 points The Big Four record of 398 points belongs to Virgil Wagner of Mont- real Alouettes Simpson has been the veteran of the Ottawa team in seasons of service since his dazzling 12 touchdown, 1955 playing year, He's a five-time Big Four all-star choice, a perennial choice for all- Canadian teams, and four times a member of the Shrine allstar eastern squad Off the field he looks a little smaller than his uniformed six feet as he plunks down like a ide of beef to pass the time of day with his restaurant custom. ers, He now weighs 210 pounds, compared with the 195 pounds he packed In his first season with Ottawa. He may be slowing down now he's craftier with experience« and he's taking the seasons one at a time, "I used to do a lot of things the hard way," he says. Manchester United, started off by taking full points. Burnley only scraped through to a 3-2 win over Arsenal, who had all the best of the play, and should have won, the wi ner of the Canadian Professiona {Golfers A ation title at Win |nipeg this is the pro at ec year, | H. Gorden Love president of 70, of Calgary, the Canadian Cham Much as he would like to play in another Grey Cup final, Bob is not obsessed ping going as a player, "My ego has been pretty well satisfied," he said, | But he admits to a dread of| | having to sever his ties with pro f football some Be "I've matured with football," he said. "It's pretty hard to step up and say goodbye. I would like| it very much if Ottawa could see fit to use me in their coaching! | plans in the future.' | J For all his love of football, Bob| | started in athletics as a basket. | ball player, and he says it was| in basketball that he got his| greatest personal sports thrill as a member of Canada's team in| the 1052 Olympic Games at Hel-| sinki, Finland | He had no difficulties regarding amateur standing then, His Ot-| tawa football 'salary at the time] was low enough in the eyes of| officials to qualify as legitimate expenses, His first contract with the Rough Riders called for $1,800 a season | with ke ent rants, "Now," he said, any of the offensive ends in the league--Canadian or American." the league cup games played so far. Hearts have started a win- ning gait, and still have a chance to qualify for further progress BITS AND PIECES . Joe Baker, centre of Edinburgh ber of Commerce, is among the | Leafs won the pennant to end al as part of the affiliation agree- ment, is the crowning achieve- ment in Cooke's reign--the most successful baseball era Toronto has ever known It started in 1954 when, after a two-year rebuilding program, BAD vs. BIG Christy's & Liepler's Combined Weight 488 Ibs, PAT FLANAGAN vs, BOB NANDOR Tickets For These Exhibitions BOY BOB LIEPLER JUMBO--517 LBS. 1.254 1.00 « 75¢ ot Casino Rest. Pat Milosh, Promoter ADULTS $1 00 CHILDREN FREE Draw at Game for Two Season Subscriber Seats for Argo Home Games ie top-ranking clubs are in open But at Blackburn, the Rovers' in- rebellion against the decision of| side forward, Berek Dougan, ran the English League management Wild and scored three goals committee to have some 20 against an ineffective Manchester league games televised during| United defence the present season. Arsenal start-| Glasgow Rangers have yet to ed off the revolt by announcing Win a game this season, and are that they would not allow their! credited with third place in their game with Newcastle United to Section of the League Cup. Five be televised next month on a teams, Kilmarnock, Dundee, Saturday evening. Arsenal have Queenof the South, Hamilton and notified the Football League to Cowdenbeath, have full points in Chi OLD COUNTRY SOCCER Hibernians, will be certainty as England's centre again this season, With one of the English selectors looking on, Joe had a acteristic goals, Bobby Evans, Scottish captain now with Chelsea, had a tough time in his first English league match, His side lost 3-2 to Aston Villa, just up from the second division B That was all that was needed to set the revolt alight. Now other| big name clubs are joining with| field day, and scored four char-| Invitation... 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Accept this rewarding invitation to visit your Arsenal in putting a veto on tele vision of football matches on a Saturday evening, Everton Sheffield Wednesday have joined with Arsenal in the protest, The reason given is that the League should not have made an agree- ment with Independent Television without first consulting the teams constituting the league, Two other clubs, West Bromwich Al bion, have joined with Arsenal in refusing to have any part of their games televised SUGGESTS PEACE PLAN Jim Baker, chairman of Wolverhampton, also opposed to games put on television on Saturday evenings, suggests as a compromise that games be tele vised " evenings, when the ss fear o the tele attend ance The being only e¢ worked. The Committee what it should in the fir It of the clubs protests hi Management to do ¢ done calling a to con posals As a sidelight on this, attend ance figures on the opening day of the English season were 58,000 down from those at last year, and 200,000 down from the open ing Saturday of 1958 NO SURPRISES Opening league games in Eng land prox prises, and all the favored clubs, with the possible exception of mee der the television pro Nl no outstanding sur s Sheffield U LONDON (Reuters) -- Results and of soccer matches played in the Walsall 3 Torquay 0 United Kingdom Saturday: ENGLISH LEAGUE First Division Arsenal 3 Notts F 0 Birmingham 1 Sheffield W 1 Blackburn 1 Tottenham 4 Blackpool 5 Aston Villa 3 Cardiff 2 Preston 0 Chelsea 3 Wolverhampton 3 Everton 3 Leicester 1 Man City 2 Man United 2 (match abandoned after 68 min- utes) Newcastle 0 Burnley 1 West Brom 2 Fulham 4 West Ham 2 Bolton 1 Second Division Brighton 6 Bristol R 1 Ipswich 4 Derby 1 Leeds 2 Rotherham 0 Lincoln 0 Lutor Sunderland 3 Middlesbor th 1 Liverpool 1 | Scunthorpe 2 Leyton Or 2 | 1 Charlton 0 | Southampton 5 Portsmouth 1 | Stoke 1 Norwich 1 | swansea 1 Plymouth 2 | Third Division ! 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