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16 TH OSHAWA TIMES, Thuredey, November 22, 1962 BILL DONOVAN N.B. Sports Scribe Star In Three Games By FRANK SULLIVAN SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) -- athletes would be as of achievement a touchy problem to Donovan, crack athlete Until he retired from football last year Donovan, whose pre- maturely greying hair belies his 25 years, was the only New Brunswick athlete playing three senior sports. The others are baseball and hockey. He has excelled in all three. His problem is how to write @ newspaper story about top plays when he has been the star. What does he do? "1 play it down." BATTING RECORD An example of how he avoids blowing his own horn followed this year's provincial baseball windup. Donovan, a left-handed batter of 185 pounds on a five- foot-eight frame, came up with a .520 batting average in New Brunswick Senior Baseball League statistics. This topped his previous mark of .468 in 1950--then believed a Maritime 7 senior baseball record. Donovan, who feels his first éuty is to report accurate sports news, in his statistics story gave the laurels to the second and third place batters. He ful- filled his duty by saying they followed Bill Donovan. Bill rose high in Maritime 2 sports despite never having had the advantage of college athle- thes and coaching. "T once had the opportunity to go to college under a partial hockey-football scholarship but TI turned it down and I've been kicking my rump ever since." WAS RINK RAT He got his early start in sports the way so many prom- ising youngsters do. He hung around ball parks, was a rink rat at hockey arenas and stick boy for senior hockey teams from 1949 to 1953. Often it was difficult to find time for sports because Bill started work at the age of eight, delivering telegrams during the Second World War. He has been working ever since. He joined The Telegraph- Journal as part time sports- writer in 1954. At that time, working for an insurance firm, he was the youngest adjuster in Canada. He joined the regu- lar sports staff in 1956 and be- came sports editor a year later. Besides playing and writing sport, Bill is secretary of the New Brunswick Senior Baseball League and president of the Saint John County Juvenile Baseball League. He also can be geen coaching high school hockey teams. VERSATILE ATHLETE -- Besides being an outstanding New Brunswick hockey play- er, Bill Donovan has excelled in senior provincial baseball and football. Before retiring Donovan's dark eyes have fol- lowed pucks in hockey rinks outside New Brunswick. He played one season in Newfound- land with the RCAF Unicorns, an air force team with some civilian players. He began his senior hockey with Saint John Beavers in 1956, the year the team played Chatham Maroons in the eastern Allan Cup play- offs. Despite. the sports he has played--'I've never broken a bone'--he doesn't rcommnd th same pattern for other ath- letes. "Our seasons in the Mari- Simcoe Hall Minor League Team Rosters Simacoe Hall Minor Basketball League additional teams and balancing of league effective Saturday, Nov. 24: Kinloch's Men's Wear: Coach E. Jones; Players: Jim Nawrot, David House, teas teate, ek Jerry Ogden, Terry Brady, et gg oe Jacula, Joe Kras- naj, Herb Chapman, Charles Marlow. Medical Pharmacy: Coach M. Cole; Players, Dale Gallant, Karl Blakolmer, Gus Milosh, Rudy Komposcb, Paul Roman- iski, Muir, Victor Rudak, Ewald Bengel, Lenord Biriuko- times are so short that an ath- wicz, Gerry Moore. St. John Cadets: Coach J. Mc- Coll; Players: Allan Smelko, Barry Couture, John Rajkovic, Jim Clement, Randy Skelton, Don Weatherbee, Bob Vanstone, Glenn Cairnes, Dave Riley. CKLB: Coach E, Ellis; Play- ers: Pete Kilistoff, Bill Wayling, Lloyd Heholt, Jim Davis, Phil Mcliveen, Don_ Cockerton, S'even Shewchuk, Larry Lloyd, 4 |Bill Langley. Bolahood's Sports haven: *|Coach R. Goddard; Players: + |Andy ,|Wayne Sayers, Drew Allman, + |Earle Chuck Wayling, Fred Mandryk, Glecoff, Nick Corneal, Walt Wotten, Hubar, 4 |Larry Brennan. * |Livingstone; ;|Haas, Bob Glecoff, Sam Brad- % jica, Jeff Mcliveen, Brian Lynch, from football last year, the 25-year-old Saint John native was the only New Brunswick athlete in all three sports. He's also sports editor of the Saint John Telegraph-Journal. --CP Photo lete should take all the time that's open to him to perfect one sport."' However, versatility has hurt his performance little. In 10 years of senior baseball he has hit under .300 only once. "That was 1960, the year I got mar- ried." Born William Leo Donovan Dec. 7, 1936, in Saint John, he married Rosalie Whittaker, also of Saint John. 'Rosalie for two successive years was named best all-round female athlete at Saint John Vocational School and still plays senior basket- ball. They have two daughters, the younger born Nov, 14. B.C. Grid Customers 4% |Salway; ' |wright, Gord Perkins, Rick Sal- :|way, Gary ; |noski, Andy Cherkas, Rick New- :jman, Ralph Branton, Mel Den- : sham, Firefighters Assoc.: Coach R. Players: Bob Cart- Shaw, Brad Bar- Provincial Tile: Coach, E. Players: Wayne Peter Plob, Gary Morrison, Dave Hughes, Don Sugden. GAMES SATURDAY Y's Men's Club Minor League -- St. John Cadets vs Medical Pharmacy, 10.00 a.m.; Kinloch's Men's Wear vs CKLB, at 10.45 a.m, and Firefighters Assoc. vs By M. McINTYRE HOOD Specia ILondon, England Correspondent To The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The ups and downs of British football were very much in evidence when in the weekend series of matches, not one of the top five teams in the English first division managed to win. Everton, Burn- ley and Wolverhampton all went down to defeat, while Totten- ham and Leicester had to be satisfied to salvage a point by drawing their games. That single point, . however, raised Tottenham to the league leadership, even on points with Everton, but with a much superior goal average. Burnley, two points behind, hung on to! third place and Leicester to fourth, Nottingham Forest, with a sparkling 3-0 win over Arsenal, jAipea to fifth place and Aston Villa to sixth, with Wolves down in seventh posi- tion after leading the league for the first six or seven weeks of the season. Wolves have ton race for the championhsip. CHELSTA ON TOP Chelsea, fighting for a quick struck a bad patch, and can be counted out of the running for the title, The situation remaing just as I pre- dicted it would more than a month ago. with three teams, Tottenham, Burnley and Ever- a neck-and-neck lst Division Leaders Have Poor Week-End with Port Vale. Close chalten- ers for promotion are Watford, m's Park Rangers an Notts County. I fancy Queen's Park Rangers, as they are only with two games in hand, and are going great guns at the moment. Oldham and Mansfield Town are. monopolizing the fourth division leadership. Oldham return to the first division, Con-liymped one point ahead by tinue their winning way, and are still out in front in the sec- ond division. But tiere is not) much in it. Contrary to what happened in the first division, the top five teams all won their games, to leave the standing un- changed. It is a close race. Chelsea lead with 26 points, Bury have 25, Sunderland 24, and Huddersfield and Stoke 23. I am still banking on Sunderiand to go back to the first division along with Chelsea. There is another close race in the third division, in which a win by 6-0 against Millwall put Peterborough United on top as Northampton could only draw four points behind the leaders) Contractor Has Filed Lien On Rideau Track OTTAWA (CP)--M. Sullivan and Son Limited of Arnprior, Ont., general Contractor of the New Rideau Carleton Raceway here has filed a mechanics lien in the county registry office claiming $817,758 on the race- Way property, it was reported Wednesday. A lien under the Mechanics Lien Act must be filed within 37 days following completion of work or the last supply of mate- rial, A firm has 90 days from rd then eve feeling, backaches, Now and "tired-out" i ' E sFEE ? el 3 r i i drawing with Crewe while Mansfield were being beaten by Southport. Bunched five points behind Mansfield are Brentford, Rochdale, Crewe and Gilling- ham,' all well in the running for promotion. SNOW IN SCOTLAND The worst November snow- storm to hit Scotland in many years played havoc with good football, and three games, one of them the first division match well had to be postponed. The games that were played ran fairly true to form, with the leaders, Rangers, Partick and WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) -- Ham, sausages,: fish, cereal, toast and bread and coffee or tea. Not a bad lunch, but that's what the touring Russian hockey team had for break- fast Tuesday. Their other meals were equally hearty, and it's ap- parently tied in with a Rus- sian theory that the more food and the more exercise, the stronger the athlete. Monday night in Hamilton, the Russians looked their best against the junior Hamilton MUST EAT WELL -- RUSSIAN PUCKSTERS PRESCRIBE number of pros. "This was the first time we played against pros in our three tours of Canada over the years," said Anatoly Tarasov, one of two coaches with the Russians, through an interpreter. He said Canadians "'are still superior to us in hockey," -but added: "If we continue to get bet- ter, it could be that we might chalinge National Hockey League teams some time in the future." league in that order, while Cel- tic and Dundee had a goaliess draw. .. Still at the bottom are Raith Rovers, with two draws and 10 defeats, to give them two points in 12 games, But it is surprising to find Motherwell second from from 11 games, and one point behind Clyde, Airdrie and Third between Aberdeen and Mother-| 2 the bottom with only six points}, Hearts all winning to head the| pa Lanark. FAST FRIENDLY SERVICE +++FROM THE ROCKIES TO THE ATLANTIC i Bolahood's Sportshaven, 9.00 a.m. : quarter. How do you explain it? "There's an exuberance about the West," says general man- ager Herb Capozzi. "Much more so on the coast than the Prairies. People here do more things, go more places. They're more interested in more things. "The Prairies are insular. . . . We have the ocean and a cos- mopolitan mixture of people." Capozzi explains falling atten- dance elsewhere and lack of in- terest as 2 failure to make new loyalties. "Each year you lose some fans, and you go down unless you create and generate new ones. The danger is complac- ency." It hasn't happened here. Pro- motion 'helps as well as the minor football setup which pro- vides a pool of 5,000 to 6,000 youngsters for new fans. While Capozzi is concerned with creating those new loyal- ties, coach Dave Skrien is con- centrating on nabbing six men to solve his difficulties, espec- jally in the defensive backfield. And if Skrien and his Lions should come through, could this breed of fan ever be spoiled by success? "It's pretty difficult to worry be associated with the tor, General Electric, Simplicity, who provide mercandise to excite and whole family. RCA VICTOR RECORD PLAYER Compact, smartly styled 4 speed manual monaural record player, 24.95 Your B. F. 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