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¥2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, July 18, 1963 Pro Baseball Future Is Still Uncertain oy JACK BRAUCKMANN VANCOUVER (CP)--"If we by this year, we're in good ,' says Lew Matlin, league baseball's execu- the year in 1963 and now manager of Vancouver of the Pacific Coast P Mounties ase one of only two professional baseball teams left in Canada. The other is to Maple Leafs of the In- tional League: Both are having survival problems. Once one of the best-drawing in 'minor ball, Vancouver dropped at the 'close of the | Dsoag because of flagging , a growing debt and of a working agreement a major league club. "The Mounties were welcomed back to the PCL this year with financial problems re- , attendance prospects brighter and a working agree- ment with Kansas City Athlet- of the American League. time around? 'We have to get the fans into the ball park as a regular habit and not lose money in the at- tempt,"' says Matlin. To do this, the Mounties launched a pre-season ticket sale program which brought in 1000. INTERESTING TEAM "Then we got a fine manager, Haywood Sullivan, and Kansas City sent us an interesting ball team. When the Athletics took Sully up to run the big team they replaced him with another sound manager, Bob Hofmann. "The picture thus far is good. We want to keep Triple-A ball in Vancouver, If we get by this year, we're in good shape." When the team was retired from baseball, it had no play- ers of its own and was $75,000 in debt. During the two idle years, team officials dug into their own pockets to reduce much of the debt. As this season has pro- gressed, so have attendance fig- ures, Early-season games drew crowds of about 1,000, But June came in hot and the Mounties drew twice as many. Nearly 3,- 000 watched each game of the Hawaii-Vancouver series at the end of June. Jim Kearney, columnist for The Sun, is skeptical. "Baseball has never changed the it the s with the times but the public aon A sprpalalaa ee th has changed. Minor league baseball, as presently constituted, is long gone as an economic entity." Clancy Loranger, columnist for The Province, agrees base- ball has lost much of its appeal as entertainment-recreation in this area. 'It's a different type league now. The PCL where many league veterans used to play out the twilight of of was) their careers, Today, almost all the players are young--the PCL the maiors. The league is more exciting because of the youth, but has far less finesse." TOUGH COMPETITION They agree that baseball has much competition from partici- pant sports in this area. "We have easy access \ fresh and salt'- water fishing, boating, swimming and nearly year - round golf," Loranger says. Says Kearney: "We also have football begin- ning in the middle of the base- ball season--and with a champ- ionship team at that." Kearney says Triple-A ball) needs about 200,000 attendance to break even over a season. "That means the Mounties have to draw an average 3,000 fans to each home game. don't think this is the way- to run minor league ball... . "If Triple-A ball is to suc- ceed, the major leagues are go- ging to have to carry the entire burden. After all, minoleague baseball exists only to supply the majors with talent." "We've already hit the bot- tom," says Loranger. "I think interest will pick up from here, but in any event the big league jclubs are going to have to handle a bigger share of the [cost of running the minors." Matlin is hopeful. is almost totally an outlet for). Don Arthurs Leads J 4 a s Senior 'A' Scoring TORONTO (CP) -- Defending: scoring champion Don Arthurs of Brampton collected 10 points|; last week to move into first place jn the Ontario Lacrosse Association Senior A scoring race. Arthurs has 69 points, includ- ing 34 goals and 35 assists. Captain Glen Lotton, of the Jeague - leading Brooklin Mer- ° 7 OLA 'Brass' Suspends 5, Fines One In Crack-Down TORONTO F Sey av ho indef- inite ere out Tuesday by "aie Naish, president of the Ontario La- crosse Association, in a crack- down to curb rough play. Doug Smith, veteran defence- man of St. Catharines Athlet- ics, and Cy McNeil of Port Credit Sailors received the sit chants dropped to second. place,| six points behind Arthurs, with 31 goals and 32 assists. Cy Coombs of Peterborough Petes maintained his hold on third place with 55 points off 29 goals and 26 assists. Team- mate Larry Ferguson has 34 goals and 18 assists for 52 points, good enough for fourth spot. Rookie Brian Keegan of last- Smith got his for throwing his stick at a-referee Saturday in a senior A game in Brooklin, while McNeil. got his for fight- ing during a senior A game. Three five-game _ suspensions were levied, two of them to St. Catharines' Gary Hind and Jim Hinkson of Brooklin for stick swinging. Ken Howard, a_ junior Bi player with Whitby, was also) place Port Credit Sailors has scored 22 goals and 27 assists. The 49 points give him fifth spot in the race. OLA Senior A Brooklin Peterbor'gh Brampton St. Catharines Huntsville Port Credit OLA Junior A WLT F APt 1 0317 117 28 0 234 177 26 57 207 16 52 176.10 Oshawa Mimico Hastings Etobicoke Brampton Long Branch St. Catharines Toronto T'ship | Dowhaliue Ukrainia Scores Soccer Victory Ukrainia downed Local 222 4-1 Tuesday night, in Oshawa Soccer League play at Kinsmen Civie Memorial Stadium. A pair of two-goal efforts ac- counted for the Ukrainia scor- ing, with J. Burchowycz and P. doing the honors. Anari Salvatore netted Local's only goal. Next games are scheduled for the Kinsmen Stadium _ this Thursday, when Italia is match- ed against Polonia. The Second Division contest gets underway} at 7.00 p.m., while Division game follows Guelph p.m. cakes ! BILL LING Your Mills Man AIM TO PICKUP A PACKAGE FOR YOUR FAMILY! The point of this approach is, simply, we are tickled pleased with the response to our recent fresh new stock of Brand New 1965.Pontiacs! They've been "selling like hot- .,. and mainly due to your tremendous faith in both Pontiac and The Cliff Mills Motors sales Integrity. We just wanted to make a special point of saying "Thank new Pontiacs are ection. now on our Used Car Lot... the First} at 8.00) given a five-game suspension) difor using abusive language and verbally threatening the ref- eree. MANAGER FIRED Jack Armour, manager of the Hastings Legionnaires in the junior A series, was fined $50 for using abusive language and refusing to leave the officials' room after a game Saturday in Hastings. Naish also announced that Cornwall, Hull, Que., and Ot- tawa have been incorporated into a partial interlocking schedule with the Ontario se- nior B series including Fergus, Orangeville, Ohsweken and \Streetsville. The three clubs withdrew na the Quebec Senior La- crosse series when the league refused to recognize a Cana- dian Lacrosse Association rul- ing last week. Scugogs Take Lacrosse Win Five goals by Rowe Barrett sparked Scugog to an 8-7 win over Bosco Realtors, in Junior- STEWART SIGNS OTTAWA (CP) -- Veteran halfback Ron Stewart signed a contract for his eighth season with Ottawa Rough Riders, the}. Eastern F 00t ball Conference} club announced, Juvenile action at the Oshawa Children's Arena Tuesday night. Don Woernke, John Jebasten and Denshaw counted singles for the winners. Bosco's 5-5 after two frames and scored four unanswered goals in the final stanza. were Jim Campbell] with three, Doug Pascoe with} two, and Jim Shrigley and Art| Kimmel with one apiece. Bosco's led by period scores of 2-1 and 5-3, but Scugog came to life in the final frame to snatch the victory. The winning goal was netted by Johnston} with only a minute left to play. In another Junior - Juvenile tilt, Tom Cullen's. downed Gus Brown by a score of 9-5. Roy Fisher scored four times for Cullen's, with a pair of goals coming from Bob Goulding. Bill Hastie, Joe Tullocl. and Carlos Fielix, R. Moak and B. Drew scored twice each for the los- ers, while K. Johnson netted one. Cullen's led 5-2 after one period, allowed Brown to tle Mt Wagering Privileges --EXCITING-- e ALEXANDRA * PARK SPONSORED BY OSHAWA HARNESS HORSE DRIVING CLUB POST TIME 5:45 P.M. REMEMBER WHEN... By THE CANADIAN PRESS A. Egorov of the U.S.5.R. set the world's record 'for the two hours' walk at 16 are selling at... RIDICULOUS 2 PRICES 4 Furniture and Appliance 723-3343 491 Ritson S. OPEN FRIDAY TO 9 P.M, . and here, NOW, is a selection of some of Really Outstanding "Goodwill" Used Cars For Exceptional Value RIGHT NOW See Your Mills Man! Your Mills Man can offer you probably the best deal he's been able to offer all year. The reason ? 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