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"RICHIE' SPEARS Sneaked To Practice, Today Hes A Top Star By ED SMITH WOLFVILLE, N.S. (CP)--An eerie thump-thump-thump ech- oed hollowly from the direction of the darkened church gym- nasium, Coal miners on their way to the pits looked askance and the odd houselight snapped ' angrily on. The 5 a.m. disturbance in the Cape Breton town of New Wa- terford went on for several momings before somebody tipped off the church janitor and the mystery was solved. Richard James (Richie) Spears was practising lay-ups, corner shots and foul - line throws. The 21-year-old Spears is rated by many as Canada's outstanding college basketball player. He shyly admits that the off-season pre-dawn prac- tice during his high school ca- reer helped a great deal to make him 1962 national colle- giate scoring champion and last year's selection to the all-na- ticnal collegiate team. SCORING RECORDS In three starring seasons here with Acadia University Axe- men, the six-foot-three 198- pound economics major has sparked the school to two Mari- time intercollegiate champion- ships. He has also established himself as something of a rec- ord-breaking legend. The legend in action has beeri enough to send one United States professional scout home with promises to praise Spears before. basketball's major league operators. Spears is Acadia's all-time high scorer with 1,054 'points in 65 games, an average of 16.2 a game. His 438-point contribu- tion in 1961-62 is a single-season high. He has a single-game rec- ord of 39 points, a single-game field-goal record of 17 and a single-game free-throw record of 14. His free-throw average over three seasons is a healthy 72.6 per cent. "The church janitor wasn't too happy when he caught me in the gym," says Spears in re- calling his practice regimen of high school years. | PRACTISED IN DARK | He sat up most of the night} during that series of escapades, had breakfast before 5 a.m. and went down to the church gym, sneaking inside through a wash- room window. "I didn't dare turn the gym lights on so I practised in the dark, pacing off distances from the basket and gauging. on the shot." Spears' basketball appetite SEEKS OLYMPIC BERTH-- Richie Spears, 21-year-old economics major at Acadia University, Wolfviile, N.S., is rated by one U.S. college coach as a prospect for the professional National Basket- ball Association. The high- |Louisburg railway locomotive |driver in New Water ford, coached an air cadet basketball team and Spears says he tagged along even "as a little shaver." His "appetite" grew and grew. He consumed everything written about the game by such people as Clare Bee and Ned Irish, And New Waterford had plenty of facilities to offer. The coal mining centre of 10,600 has scoring six-foot-three forward, who has led Acadia to two Maritime intercollegiate cham- pionships, says he wouldn't turn down a chance to try out with the pros, but he'd also like to play on Canada's 1964 Olympic team. --(CP Photo) basketball season. Off - season they used to take the back- boards down in the school gym." TOUTED BY COACH To keep in trim the last three summers, Spears has worked with a construction company in Niartford, Conn. Two of thase summers he also managed to squeeze in eight weeks as coun- long been recognized as one of|Sellor at Camp All-America, the the best basketball towns in|SPort summer school at Corn- Canada with five large and|Wall, N.Y. busy gymnasiuins. This summer he married "If the church janitor frowned|Doris Bishop, 21-year-old on..dawn practice: sessions, the|Acadia biology graduate from janitor at Central High School!/Chipman, N.B., who plans to was a more tolerant fellow. He/study for her bachelor of educa- grew from toddler's age. , His father, a Sydney and let me practise as late as mid-|tion degree. Richie, a better- night but this was during the!than-average student, is sched- Who Pours What And Whether 'On' Or 'For' All Depends On Score By CHARLES MAHER LOS ANGELES (AP)--Some- thing, maybe the Hollywood in- fluence, induced Los Angeles 1 odgers to come up with a new ending this season. A year, after they blew the National League pennant to San Francisco Giants, the scene 'in the Dodge. dressing. room was one of utter despair. The doors were locked for an hour. When reporters finally got in, they found the floor cluttered with World Series Facts, Figures By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WL Pet. Los Ang (N) New York (A) 04 First Game, Wednesday, Oct. Los Angeles 041 000 000-- 5 90 New York Koufax and Roseboro; Ford, Williams (6), Hamilton (9) and E. Howard, W--Koufax. L-- Ford. HRs: LA--Roseboro, Nyk --Tresh. Second Game, Thursday, Oct.| 3: Los Angeles 200 100 010-- 4101 New York 000000001--1 70 Podres, Perranoski (9) and Roseboro; Downing, Terry (6), Reniff (9) and E. Howard, W-- Podres, L--Downing. HR: LA-- Skowron. s Third Game, 5: New York 000000 000-- 6 30 Los Angeles 100 000 00x-- 1 41 Bouton, Reniff (8) and E. Howard; Drysdale and Rose- loro. W--Drysdale. L--Bouton. Saturday, Oct. Fourth Game, Sunday, Oct. 4 27. New York 00 000 100-- 1 61 Los Angeles 000 010 10x-- 2 21 Ford, Reniff. (8) and E. How- ard; Koufax and Roseboro. W-- Koufax. L--Ford. HRs: LA--F. Howard. Nyk--Mantle. FINANCIAL, FIGURES Vourth Game Attendance--55,912 Net receipts--$511,790.09 4 0 1.000) -000) 000 000 020-- 2 60) half-empty _ bottles loaded athletes. Camera men were summoned Sunday to re-shoot the last scene. They finally got their happy ending. The team that had pulled one of the most astonishing fainting spells in baseball history in 1962 had pulled one of the neatest tricks-of the generation a year later by taking the World Se- ries from New York Yankees in four straight. POUR CHAMPAGNE In 1962, they were pouring bourbon for each other. In 1963, |they wer epouring champagne 'n each other. The celebration barely had begun when Yankee manager Ralph Houk, no stranger to vic- and half-jtory parties, walked in to con- gratulate Dodger manager Wal- ter Alston. "You had it coming to you," Houk said graciously. "We just caught you in a slump," said Alston. The rest of the dressing room dialogue was predictably exhu- berant. Until Frank Howard, the bunyanesque outfielder, got into the act. In the fifth inning, Howard hit a ball 450 feet and became the first man to homer into the sec- ond deck in left field at Dodger Stadium. Howard, incredibly, brushed it off like a bad-bounce single. HIT FARTHER "TI can't say it gave me a big- ger thrill than any other home run I've ever hit," he said. "T've hit a lot of balls farther." In a corrider outside the dressing room, Pete Richert was pouring champagne over the head of Ron Fairly. "I'm still using that greasy kid stuff," Fairly said. Other clubhouse quotes: Bill Skowron: "After the sea- son I had, this Series was the biggest three of my career." Dodger general manager Buz- zie Bavasi: "If we'd played like this all season, we would have won by 30 games." "We played a good series," Houk insisted. "And we'll win a lot more Series in the future." 'The kind of pitching the Dod- gers had would beat the best team that ever played," said Yankee general manager Roy Hamey. "We just never had a chance to hit-and-run," said Bobby Ri- chardson. 'We never had any- body on base." MEMBER WHEN .. .? BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Don Larsen pitched the first perfect game in World Series history seven years ago today. The 27-year-old Yankee righthander dis- missed 27 Brooklyn batters in order with no hits, no walks, no one reaching first base. He had seven strike- outs as Yankees won 2-0, taking a 3-2 lead in games. Yankees went on to win the series by four games to three. | Players' share--$261,012.95 | New York club's share--$43,- 502.16 Los Angeles 'club's share-- $43,502.16 National $43,502.16 League's -share -- wled to graduate next spring but hopes to continue with graduate work, James (Buck) Freeman, of Brooklyn, former St. John's University coach and now as- sistant at the University of North Carolina, helped old friend Stu Aberdeen at a two- week clinic for high school youngsters at Acadia this sum- mer, Spears dropped in to take part in a pick-up\ame between students and instructors, potted 35 points and apologized for not being in better shape. Freeman made no_ bones about the fact that Spears had a good chance to break into pro company and indicated he would strongly recommend his name for the Naticnal Basket- ball Association draft next March, NO ILLUSIONS Richie is philosophical about the prospect.-"I certainly wouldn't turn a chance like that down but how many veterans retire every year from the NBA? A rookie has to be ex- cepticnal to crash that league." His big basketball ambition is to make Canada's Olympic team. A tryout with Tillsonburg, Canada's representatives in the 1960 Olympics, didn't pan out. "I wasn't discouraged. But I was frustrated by all the knowl- edge I lacked about the game. Coach Stu has filled a lot of that in since." Aberdeen, native of Niagara Falls, N.Y., who has been coach- ing at Acadia for six years, says it's also one of his ambi- tions to see that Spears gets every chance to make the Olympic grade and prove a point. His point is that the best ama- teur basketball in this country is played in the high schools and colleges, "The best amateur hockey is played in the Junior A and Allan Cup brackets. If they choose Olympic hockey pros- pects from the proper brackets why shouldn't they choose bas- |ketball players?" Leading Teams In Old Country Soccer Leagues LONDON (AP)--Old Country soccer standings (including Sat- urday's games): ENGLISH LEAGUE Division 12 17) 2117 13 15 15 15 1115 Man United Tottenham Sheffield Blackburn West Brom Divisi me 2 CO CH CD. 9 OP BD DS ey = 1119 1217 9 16 21 16 1214 25 14 Swindon Sunderland Leeds Preston Middlesb'h Charlton oy PWN De --_ i Division Oldham 8 Bournem'th Coventry 1417 8 16 12 16 uf 7 Division Gillingham 6 Carlisle Exeter Aldershot Chesterfield Workington SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division I 510 wen 317 1714 814 18 14 1114 2014 ederim ct eee wrwrwo 6 4 6 5 6 Rangers Dundee Dunfermline Kilmarnock Hearts oO oroo Divisio: MN Wom MONMD Morton Clyde Montrose Queen's Pk Arbroath 1216 1215 714 1214 15 13 MAAR wreors 'Deemer's Rhythm' Wins At London LONDON, Ont. (CP)--Deem- er's Rhythm, with Fred Gou- Al Heffering's five-pin entry, in the Willowdale Men's Major League, came through with a four-star performance, for a 7- point victory, shutting out the 1963 Champions, All-Canadian Mutual Fund club. Trailing their opponents by six points in the standing be- fore going into this series, the He'ferig boys really turned on the heat and completely master- ed the opposition. The Toronto squad started out as if they would clobber the Heffering club but the Oshawa crew was not to be stopped and got hit for hit with the classy opposition, The first game went to Hef- fering's Imperials 1277 to 1182 and it was obvious from the way that Si Rizun was shaking his head, that this was a sur- prise to the TV star. After winning the first game, the Imps never looked back, and went on to take the works with a masterful display of five pin trundling. The second game totals were Heffering's 1363 to 1108 for Si Rizun's squad, and by this time, there were five or 3ix head-shakers. Heffering's completed 'he vic- tory, with a brilliant 1480 f.nal game, while the champs made a partial recovery with a respect- able 1228 score which was just not enough. Before their meeting with Heffering's boys, the All Cana- _ceemrerarcend Heffering's Squad Upsets Mutuals dian Mutual Fund club had picked up 17 points from a pgs- sible 21, and this defeat from the, Imps really staggered the Toronto boys. It was the high- est team total for Heffering's when they racked up 1277, 1363 and 1480 for 4120. The losers had to settle for 3518 for their three- game total. It was a great team effort by Hefferings, with all members of the club having a share in the win. Gerry Bennett led the win- ners with 308,255 and 314 for 877; Wimpy Reynolds was next with 211, 378 and 257 for 846; Dick Adams 264, 244 and 296 fur 804; Edd Moody 193, 251 and 323 for 767; Bob Gallagher 258, 235 and 270 for 763 and Ron Jay 236, 225 and 277 for 738. The 7-point win moved the Hef'ering club from ninth posi- tion in the standing, up to third spot. The standings: Ron Jackson Shirts 24 pts. Galco Sheet Metal 20, Heffering's Imperials 18, Aimco Auto Parts 18, Wil- low Bowl 18, Bad Boy ances 17, '300 Club' 17, All Canadian Mutual Funds 17, Manhatten Trophies 15, El Ma- combo Tavern 14, Bill Thomp- son's 14, Aprile Lanes 10, Lans- ing Sunoco 9, Errington Paints 6. British Canadian Construc- tion 0 and Flemington Park 0. The Heffering opposition. for this week will be Willow Bowl and with these teams tied in the standing, it should be a most interesting series. Acadi Acadian Cleaners five - pin} club droppe@ a three-to-two de-| cision to Ace Bowling, in aj hard-fought series in the Toron-| Bowl, on Saturday. The first game was won in the last frame by Ace Bowl, when both anchor 'bowlers ran - into. trouble and Ace took it by the) narrowest of margins, 1178 to 1175. The loss of the first game seemed to shake the Acadian boys just a little while. Ace Bowling in comparison, were at their best in the second game, which again went to the Toronto squad, 1339 to 1197. Led by Dutch Lugtenburg, Bob Gallagher and Jim Cas- sells, the Acadian boys came came back to take the third game with a 1447 scor to 1185 for Ace. The decision on the fourth game was again reversed when CANADIANS LOSE INVERLEITH, Scotland (Reuters) -- Former pupils of Stewart's College defeated Tor- onto Balmy Beach Rugger Club 16-0 Monday as the Canadians finished their brief Scottish tour. The Scottish players scored two goals, a tr" and a penalty goal. The Toronto club leaves for Ireland today. JOINS COACHES PITTSBURGH (AP)--Mickey Vernon, former Washington manager, will replace Ron Northey on the Pirates' coach- Ace Bowling Top Cleaners Ace Bowl came through with 1462 to 1209 for Acadians. Dick Adams battled gamely in the final game, and his to City Major league at Willow|strong effort was a big factorjhas won so many trophies in when Acadians salvaged the fifth game, which again was a real squeaker, 1279 to 1263. Team totals for five games, Ace 6427, Acadians 6301. The Stan Jarvis Ins. club is now leading in the standing with 15 points, This club is going to be hard to stop, as they are at present hitting at a 1306 per game clip. Ace Bowling and L. J. Me- Guinness ar tied for second spot with 11 points apiece, fol- lowed by Acadian Cleaners 10, Knob Hill Bowl 9, Man. Life. Ins. 9, Aurora Bowl 8 and Al- bion Bowl 7, Lugtenburg was top man for Acadians on the day with 314, with 1179 for 44 frames includ- ing sound bowling in the clutch; Gallagher finished strong in the last three games to rack up a nice total of 1184 for 46; Ozzie Keeler 872 for 37; Ron Jay 696 for 31 and Gerry Bennett 190 for 13. Ed MacDonald starred for Ace Bowling with 1431 for his five games; Cec Ferby 1027 for 40 frames; -John Stones 1187 for 46 and Pete Granahan 1192 for 46, Saturday's action will be at Ace Bowl with. Aurora Bow] providing the opposition for Acadian Cleaners, ing staff for next season, Pitts- burgh manager Danny Mur- taugh said Monday. Murtaugh also said he was redéucing his coaching staff from six to four by releasing Virgil Trucks and Gene Baker. $21.10 to win. Pat Crowe, the young Elm-| vale, Ont., reinsman, was the| only driver to bring in two win-| ners, He clicked with Dickie B} | | looked in the betting, returned} BROWN'S LUMBER & SUPPLIES LTD. 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