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BASEBALL STARS LEAVE FOR VIET NAM A group of baseball stars left San Francisco Inter- national Airport on Tues- day, headed to visit the U.S. troops in South Viet Nam, They will tour the American camps for about two weeks, Checked aboard by their Pan-Am_ steward. ess, for their fight, are left - to - right; Stan Musial, the stewardess, Joe Torres, Henry: "Hank"' Aaron, Har- mon Killebrew and Brooks Robinson. --AP Wirdhoto Gold Medal Boxer Returns To Help Injured Friend By DOUG MARTIN VANCOUVER (CP) -- Ha- rold Mann, a gold medal win- ner in the 1062 British Em- pire Games, returns to the ting Dec, 4 to help a8 criti. cally injured friend, Now 97 and a car sales. man in Prince George, B.C., Mann will be making his first start in 19 months when he fights middleweight Mike Tunney of Portland, Ore,, in a 10-round main event at Ta- coma, Wash, Mann will be fighting on the een that half the profits will be given to the family of Al Chabot who suffered a fractured ekull in a car accident Sept. 24. Chabot, 25, also from Prince George, is still unconscious in hospital in Vancouver where he was flown after the acci- dent. Doctors say there is Hitle chance of a complete rex covery, "T was thinking about com- ing back, but I never really had a reason until Al got hurt," said Mann, "When (promoter) Ruggles Larson telephoned me from Tacoma and asked me did I want to fight, I told him no, But then he said he'd give half the profits to Al and I said okay," Mann, undefeated in eight |. disliked the nomadic life of | pro boxing and returned to work in Prince George. ORGANIZED CLUB aes They co-operated in devel- oping a crack amateur club in Prince George and last year it ylelded Dick Findlay, Canadian i3%-pound champion and a competitor at the 1966 B.E, Games in Jamaica, Mann and Chabot--each has a wife and two young child. ren -- were constant compan.- fons on weekends and back in Prince George, Mann phones Vancouver al- most daily to check on Cha- bot's condition, "This has me so upset I can't work or anything, but I'm going to have to knuckle down and train now," said Mann, who was 10 pounds overweight, "T expect I'll be in good shape---my only problem may Se that Pim' a Witla enaty.!? nn, a calculating coun- ter-puncher who has never been off his feet in more than 100 amateur and pro bouts, has already made two suc- cessful comebacks. He won the Canadian light middie amateur title in 1961 after sitting out all of 1960, And he returned to pro boxing after two years idleness in June, 1965, to win a 10-round decision over light heavy- Huanlus, chairmen of Amateur Sports Federa- Commonwealth Games cites were unanimous approval at in awarding the games to Halifax. Dartmouth was the "basic phil- osophy of their creation," 'They are designed to stimu: late interest and participation nationally but also to breathe new life into areas which may be considered not quite living up to their potential," OTHERS BID Bids were received from Van- The games have an estimated budget of $1,500,000, with 55 per cent of the cost coming from provincial and municipal levels and the balance from federal rants, The Halifax - Dartmouth aroa has a population of 200,000 per. sons and the only major facility remaining to be built for the games is a 50-metre swimming pool, All other facilities are readily available, Hunnius said. DALHOUSIE HELPS Dalhousie University will act as a games "'village" where vis- iting athletes will be housed, The winter games at Quebec City follow a province-against- province format of competitions and the summer games will con- tinue the pattern. Compuisory @Véiis on the prs- gram are boxing, canoeing, cye- tain) A@aUEE seoteeee:, Some soccer, swimming, diving, ten: Nova Scotia Cities Accepted For Games MONTREAL (CP) -- A joint bid from Halifax and Dart- mouth, N.S., to play host to the first Canadian Summer Games in August, 1069, has been ap- proved, Jolt the National Games Committee and vice « president of the Cana- dian tion, made the announcement in Montreal today, The summer games are des- igned to complement the winter games, being held for the first time in Quebec City next Febru- ary, and to bridge the gap in the Olympic, Pan + American and cycle, The Maritimes given hath the eammittes and federa- tion levels, in all, 11 bids for the games were received, The prime consideration lifting, Optional sports are arch-~ ery, badminton, cricket, field hockey, horse shoe pitching, lawn bowling, motor cycling, parachute jum ping, soaring, -- polo, yachting and base« Other cities which either made bids or showed a strong' interest in pr, the games were: Quebec City, Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa and Sault Ste. Marie and Sud- bury, Ont. nis, track and field, and weight. aa Th DRAFTSMAN/DESIGNER This is an opportunity for steady reliable and knowledgeable men, with @ good background of drafting experience, to obtain permanent employment in our Engineering Department. As this is @ multi-plant organization the work is varied and " AR cy Interesting with on opportunity to Increase knowledge of machine design, process piping, heating, ventilating and building services. pro fights in an on-and-off career since 1962, said he will continue to box "if I feel good in Tacoma." couver and Winnipeg. Both are well equipped, with Vancouver the site of the 1954 British Em- pire Games and Winnipeg host- weight Frank (Snakebite) Niblett of Los Angeles. Thomson, Nagle Eastern Grid Fans Expect Close Score By THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian Football fans prob- ably won't be surprised if Sun- day's Eastern Football Confer. ence semi-final is decided by a 1-0 score, Montreal Alouettes, thir d- place finishers in the East this season, defeated the first-place Ottawa Rough Riders by exactly that score last Sunday, and it could happen again when sec- ond-place Hamilton Tiger-Cats And the Alouettes, who held the Ticats-to six pass comple. tions in 16 attempts in the last meeting between the two clubs, are out to muffle Hamilton quarterback Joe Zuger this weekend, "The key is stopping the pass," Montreal's assistant coach Ralph Goldston said Tues- day. 'They won't run us off the field," Hamilton allowed only 160 points against; 17 fewer than Ottawa, during the 14 regular. season games, although the Ti- cats finished four points behind the Rough Riders, Goldston figures his recon- structed offence will break through the Hamilton line, how: ever, He also accused the Ticats of playing "possum" in their 8-5 loss to Toronto Argonauts last Sunday, Hamilton, gained only -- host to Montreal this week- end, The winner of the sudden- death affair will play the Rough Riders in a two-game total-point series Noy, 13 and Nov, 20 to decide the eastern representa: tive in the Grey Cup game Nov. 26 in Vancouver, Sunday's contest, which will be carried on the full CBC net- work at 2 p.m. EST with Tor- onto, London, Ont., Barrie and Wingham blacked out, shapes wp as an even greater battle of defence than last weekend's game. The Ticats have been consid- 'red the top defensive unit in 'the East for nearly a decade, Montreal, which has. been building a defence during the last two years, showed the bene- fits Sunday by holding the 'highly + touted Ottawa offence ecoreless. Montreal North Bears Face East York Argos MONTREAL (CP)--It will be Montreal North Bears against|Bears had East York Argonauts in the/technically" Eastern Canadian Senior Foot-/Geary bdefore Dall playoff in Toronto Satur-| game, ~. iain a inal "The protest as far as the mith, convener Quebec conference, said Tues-| uebec Senior League and the day that a protest by St, Lam-|QRFU are concerned can not dert Saints, whom the Bears| be officially recognized because beat 15-7 Sunday to advance | Bob Geary's official release by a Ontario, has been dis-/Chateauguay Ramblers is rec: The Saints complained that| Osnized and in order." agp pro guard bg Pf lng anid that pong Ay Kod who saw service w 'ontreal| bec conference nor the Alouettes, had been declared in-| recognize verbal 'agreements eligible by a previous verbal/ made between the management agreement between three senior) of various clubs in the confer- clubs, ence, "That was the same team they used in their last game against Ottawa, and I didn't see any second stringers in there," he said, QUARTERBACKS EQUAL "T think both teams are on a par when it comes to quarter- backs, Neither Joe Zuger or Frank Cosentino has impressed However, Smith said that the been "legally and cleared to use last Sunday's JACK DENNETT «../8 another reason why most peopie listen to 128 yards. ' me this season and I think Bernie Faloney and George Bork can do just as good a job for us," 'The Tiger-Cats have an ad- vantage at offensive ends with Hal Patterson and Dave Viti over our Mike Gibbons and Ken Galloway, but we have better offensive linemen, "Larry Jordan and Pierre Desjardins are ahead of Ellison Kelly and Bronko Nagurski at the tackle positions, And Tony Pajaczkowski is a superior guard to Bill Danychuk, Hamil- ton's Chick Walton has the edge over our other guard Ray Ly- chak and I'd take Chet Miksza at centre over our Gene Cep- petelli on the strength of experi: ence," Defensively Goldston rates John Baker over Hamilton's Joe Eilers and Montreal's George Kinney on a par with Billy Ray Locklin, Tackles Roger Ander- son and Roger Lalonde are bet- ter than Hamilton's Angelo Mosca and Marty Martinello, al- though John Barrow is a plus for the Ticats, he said, Lead Tourney SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) Australia's top golfers, Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle, battled through high winds and blowing sand to share the first round lead in the 72-hole professional golf tournament today. Thomson, who said later the first round should have been postponed because of the bad weather, and Nagle went around the Australian Club course in 74, two over par, in the $8,000 Australian ($9,680) tournament, They lead Bob Stanton, also of Australia, by one stroke, Wind gusts of 40 miles an hour knocked the players off balance and blew sand in their faces, Late starter, including Nagle, also had to endure freezing rain squalls, Stars like American Arnold Palmer and South African Gary Player struggled against the conditions, Palmer took 78, six over par, and Player 80, Palmer sald he could not re- member playing in worse condi- tions, "'My eyes feel as if they have. been sand blasted" added the American, who last week won fhe Australian Open. Mann has also arranged an amateur benefit show in Prince George Nov, 26 for Chabot. The two were inseparable through amateur boxing ca- reers that took them to inter- national games and later as promising young professionals at San Jose, Calif, They were the pride of Prince George, a rough-hewn lumber city in the British Columbia interior, during the late 1950s and early 1060s, Mann took the 156-pound B.E. Games title at Perth, Australia, in 1962 and won Canadian titles in 1958, 1961 and 1962, Chabot, who repre- sented Canada in the 1959 Pan - American Games at Chicago, won Canadian ban- eawren titles in 1959 and The pair moved to San Jose in 1962 to turn pro under Sid Flaherty, who took middle. weight Bobo Olson, light middie Denny Moyer and ju- nior lightweight Flash Blorde to world titles, Mann won seven straight as a middleweight and Chabot 10 in a row as a featherweight, and each was selected as prospect of the month by Ring magazine, But both sald they Hornets Blank Springfield 5-0 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pitts- burgh Hornets wanted to make their final American Hockey League season a memorable one and so far they're doing it. The Hornets, who will be re- placed by a National Hockey League club next year, blanked Springfield Indians 5-0 Wednes- day night to mar the last remaining unbeaten record in ing the Pan - next summer, "These areas, we know, are going at peak capacity in real- izing their potential, so, in a manner of speaking, we don't have to worry about stimulating them," "Conversely, the Maritimes are considered trailing, but harbor- ing a vast potential in both ath- letic and executive ranks and' we feel the three - year period ae games will see it util- ized." the statement said. American Games The successful applicants will experience, Apply in writing to: the AHL, | Pittsburgh, which has a 5-2-1 |mark, holds a three-point edge over defending Calder Cup champion Rochester Americans in the league's Western Divi- sion. The Hornets' victory was fash- joned on fine goaltending by Don Caley, who had yielded nine goals in 2 1-3 games. The shutout was the first by Pittsburgh this year, Ray Cullen had two goals and an assist to pace Pittsburgh of- fensively, Don McKenney, Terry Gray and Ted Taylor scored the other goals, The Pittsburgh -- Springfield game was the only one in the AHL Wednesday night. No games are scheduled tonight. | REMEMBER WHEN . ..? By THE CANADIAN PRESS Craig Breedlove of the United States set the cur- rent world landspeed rec- ord of 555 m.p.h, one year ago today--in 1965--Iin his Spirit of America car at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, beating by 19 m.p.h, Art Arfons' speed of 1964, Breed- love's car almost took to the air in practice two weeks before the run, The only part of the polar bear that is not creamy white s the tip of his nose. \ main plant at Lindsay, Ontario, Excellent company subsidized benefit plans coverage with starting sclary commensurate with be offered employment in our Personnel Kage , Union Carbide Canade Limited Plastic Products 150 Colborne St. E. 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