10 The Guardian, (film Well, May 1, 190!)

SPORTS FRONT

By PIUS CALLAGHAN

Here It Is Again

A recent article in a sports old subject concerning the domg

dovms and proclaiming the season

champion of the hockey world.

This argument raises fellows agree with the suggest about it. The ings and soon up at a later

E monetary rewards to players and clubs is to have the Stanley Cup playdowns discar

off to a dismal start can alway

later in the season. thereby gaining at least a playoff position.

Indeed. some clubs start to play their best hockey early in March and by playoff time they are just itching to tackle op pononts. Very often the team fini hing first in the season s play

i. ousted in the playoffs and the full-her takes the marbles.

We are convinced that all the lustre would go out of the National Hockey League setup if the.playdowns were thrown aside. Players would surely vote against any such move

cause it would be going against Fans, too. would not want to see

the playoffs fade away. These semifinals and finals are eagerly

looked forward to by all hockey

ance would surely ruin the game.

We are certain that attendances would fall off in regular league play when teams are playing that would have no chance of taking the league crown in regular season competition. But with playoffs coming after the regular schedule, all games carry

a real importance.

We Firmly

WE know how hard it is to write columns in the off-season. We believe that these ‘no playoffs' suggestions usually come at this time of year because writers a-re groping for something

to write about. we can hardly imagine that

their ramblings. We just attribute it to the scarcity of material

availa e.

Why anyone would want to throw away such hockey clas- Cu nm‘Er understand. We are convinced that the bottom would go

sios as tllose seen in Stanley

out. of NHL hockey if such a system was introduced.

However, we don't think there Things are going along quite

the salaries and make the whole

. s 0 public keep then the idea of no Stanley Cup suggestion stage.

And that’s as far as it should go.

Utter Nonsense

same magazine suggests that. this year’s Stanley Cup

TH final was a dismal affair. with

whatever for the Toronto Maple Leaf Now, much as we holler about

its head every now and then. A‘few ion and pound out a few articles owners pay no attention whatever to the mutter- the matter is forgotten until someone brings it date for want of something better to talk about.

smoothly and the owners are happy with the results. And these owners are the ones who pay

as cheque-signers want things as they are and the crowding the rinks in the fashion they have done,

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magazine has brought up the away with Stanley Cup play- 's first place finisher the

far too great ed. Teams that get 5 hope to improve theirplay

second, third or fourth place

their own bread and butter. the great hockey spectacles of

followers and their disappear-

Disagree

these writers are sincere in

p play is something we will ’5 much chance of any change. thing possible.

playoffs will never get by the

The St. Catharines Rowing Club senior eight. stroked by

' Neil Campbell. trains on its

home Henley course in prep-

SAO PAULO, Brazil (CF-AP) William Gairdner. round athlete from Thornhill. Ont.. turned in the fastest time in he 400-metre race to finish a close second in to point- standing after completion of the five first - day events in the gruelling decathlon at the Pan- American Games Tuesday.

Gairdner and a pair of Cana-

ydian half-milers who advanced ' to the BOO-metre final with easy

heat victories gave Canada a good chance to add to its medal total of 36 including four gold in diving. track and rowing.

a husky 311-.

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araiion for Saturday's match race against Germany’s fam- ed Ratzburg world champion crew at New York. The St,

AFTER FIRST DAY’S COMPETITION

Canuck Running Second In Gruelling Decathlon

Gairdncr, who holds the Ca- nadian dccathlon record of 6.307 points. scored a total of 3,912 points in the loo-metre dash, broad jump. shotpul. high jump land 400 metres to stay within less than 100 points of the fileader. Hcctor Thomas Marti-

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lncz of Venezuela, who had 3.982. Russell Hodge of the United States was third with 784

Gairdnci"s clocking of 11.0 seconds in the sprints was sec- ond best and he ranked sixth in the broad jump, third in the shotput, tied for fifth in the high jump and Won the 400

Detroit Red Wings no match

BASEBALL SCORES

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

s. the abilities of the Leafs

we can‘t for a minute see why the Wings didn't belong on the

same ice as Toronto. were hangin

Our memory on desperately until Dave Keon fired one into an

of that last game is that Leafs

g open net. Although Toronto dropped only one of the five games

played. our impression was that Detroit was in there every

of the way.

inch

it's true that Leafs had more depth than did the Red Wings but this didn’t keep the series from providing plenty of inter- est. A few years back the Leafs fell victims to Montreal Can- adiens in four straight, games and we didn’t hear too much

talk of any ‘overm After all. on the season’s pl

ay it was Detroit that enjoyed t six

an edge in games won. They beat Leafs seven times. los

and tied one. That didn’t belong on the same ice 8 How foolish can you get?

Dr. Iheriau Em

. John C. Theriault. well known Charlottetown psychia- trist has been named master of ceremonies for the St. Dun- can's University Athletic Boost- er Clu Sportsmen's Dinner. to be held Tuesday evening, May 7. at the Charlottetown Hotel

with the Nl-lL's Frank Mahov-‘

lich as guest speaker. D eriault. a native of

Nova Scotia. has been closelyl

identified with sports s inc coming to Charlottetown about 12‘. yea ' '

of the officers of the Is- land Senior Hockey League for t‘rc past two years. and he has been a minor league coach for several years.

Tickets for the $20 a-plale fun- ction are moving rapidly. and Frank MacDonald, president of the SDU Athletic Booster Club. reports that its success has al- ready been assured although there are still a number of tick- ets available.

The Big M. guest speaker for the Sportsmen‘s Dinner, w' ar- rive here Tuesday afternoon by air frcm Toronto and will leave the following afternon for Hali- fax for anther speaking on-

gagement. .

Last week, the star left wing- er with Toronto Maple Leafs led the voting for the 1963 NHL

Probable Pitchersl

By THE assocumn mass? Probable pitchers for today’s. major league baseb gameou Won-lot records in parenthesis. l National Lea a stton, Nottebart New York, Willey (1-1) Ion (1-2) (N).

Lot Angeles. Drysdalo (2-2) at Hliiadelphia. Lope: (1-0) or Brown (0-1) (N).

an anciaco, Pierce (1-2) or O'Dell (M) at Pittsburgh. Card- well (1-2) (N).

Chicago. Ellsworth (2-2) at St. Innis, Sadecki (2-0) (N).

whom. Burdetto (3-1) at Cincinnati, Jay (M) (N).

New York. Terry (3-1) at Angela. Glance (1-1) (N).

(3-0) at or Jack-

Loo)

induction

record would hard!y indicate that they

a 'Punch’ Imlach‘s crew.

It Named

ce-e For SDU Dinner

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wall-star team with 166 votes out of a possible 180 to lead Bobby jliull by a wide margin for th e <left wing berth. It was Frank's lsecond nomination to the all'

i star team

I Mahovllch has an established :reputation as an after- in speaker. and officials of SDUABC are confident that

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will impress in this. his first ‘visit to Prince Edward Island.

Special rates have been pro- vided for father-son combina- tions. and the dinner committee reports that a number of dads are taking their sons along see. Mar. and meet the million dollar star.

Contest Has New Dates

Ice conditions at North River Causeway have forced postpone-

ment of the trout fishing contest At San F r a n c i s c 0. Willie-

American League

{Baltimore 000 001 000- 1111 =Minnesota 110 100 05x - 8 14 0 1 Barber (4-2) Hall (7) Stock [(8) and Lau; Pascual (2-3) and lBattey.

Kansas City at Detroit ppd

ram Cleveland at Boston ppd. rain National League Los Angeles at New York ppd. in

ra San Francisco at Philadelphia

' p ,rain Houston at Pittsburgh ppd. cold l and wet grounds [Chicago at Cincinnati Milwaukee 000 4 1 St. Louis 00011000x- 2 40 Lemaster (0-1) Raymond (8) and Torre; Simmons (4-0) and Oliver. HRS: Mil—Bolling (1): St. L—Javier (2).

ppd. rain 000- l

defeat at Civic Auditorium

Workers three games to two in

Town League.

dropping the next two, an hind 10-2 at one stage of

eliminated them

0 nents that one. and

her match

U.S. Baseb

NEW YORK (AP) "110 hum.” says Mickey Mantle, removing a gold toothpick from his mouth_ "Time to go to work

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(3 fat and prosperous New York Yankee centrefielder pulls himself out of an over-stuffed chair, pushes an elevator but- ton. steps into a chauffeured limousine and whisks off to the ball park.

There. a battery of doormen leaps out, rolls a red carpet across the sidewalk and escorts

group of white-clothed minions prepare ‘m for the evening's performance.

Sum-Hi Takes Volleyball Ti’rle

SUMMERSIDE — The Sum- phy was presented to Ralph merside High School volleyball Crossman and Joey Gallant, co- team roared from the brink of. captains. by Russ Kelly, grand inl knight of the K. of C. organiza- Summerside last night and de- tion in Summe feated the Young C h r i s tian

the finals for the Summerside!

They rallied, and edged their.

then went on to sweep the rub-

metres with an excellent clock- ing of 48.8 seconds.

Today, the 110-metre hurdles. discus. pole vault. javelin and 1,500-metre race complete the decathlon.

Half-milers Don Bertoia of Rossland. BC, and Six Ohle- mann of Vancouver won in easy fashion in the 800 trials. Ber- tnia had the best clocking of any of the three heat winners—one minute, 51.6 seconds. Lieut. Er- nie Cunliffe of the U.S. Air

-Force took the first heat in .1:53.0 and Olllemann. who ob- ;viously was

running under . wraps. had 1.55.0. l BETTERS RECORD

] Vivian Brown. 21 - year - old on ed at Tennessee State. ‘ clipped three-tenths of a second .off the Games record for the Iwomen’s 200 metre dash, win- ? ning the Second heat in 23.8 see- I‘ onds.

. The United States won its 1. 65th gold medal in t e onl : track and field final of the day,

rside. The high school won 15-10, 12- . 5-15. 16-14. 15-2. Line-ups— Summerside High I School— Ralph Crossman. Bar

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The high school won the first Lidstone. Joey Gallant. Cal-man

game and then faded badly” Colwill. Ted Peters. Barry d be-'

t h e I game whose loss would have,I

Champion. Ronnie Ranahan and Harold Mitton. YCW — Aubrey MacDonald. l Gerry Bernard. Louis Poirier, ‘Alan Savidant. Windsor Arsen- i unlit. Joe McIntyre. Gerry Rich- ar

AIANAS wonk our '

Catharine: eight dominated North American rowing last year. From the bow, crew members are: Frank P i rider.

the 3.000 - metre steeplechase.

Jeff Fishback of Belmont,

Ca1if.. a rangy 21-year-old col-

lege student. won the steeple-

chase by about 15 yards in 079

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Bertoia's victory in the trials was hotly contested until the final 300 metres when the 23-year-old Canadian took com- plete charge and won by five

Ex-NlHL Player Dies Tuesday WINNIPEG (CP) — Everard

Lorne (Eddie) Carpenter. 72, former hockey player and

Dave Lienert. Tom Kendall, Clay Brown. Bob Brookso a. John Bentz, Daryl MacDonald. Campbell and cox Ken Baker.

800 of the gold medal in the

OF 14 FOOT DINGHY RACERS

, Is Rate

By JOE DUP

he replies:

rn in January but it was too cold then, so I waited untl sprtilng when the weather was r1 "

sailing and “I w

It's only a slight exaggera- tion, He started when he was six. d today, at 34, Bruce Robert William Kirby is the un- disputed king .in Canada of the international 14 . foot dinghy class racer.

Last, year he become the first grand - slam, ' our major competitions for 14-foot racers. The dinghy he sailed was one he designed himse , and it's evident that his racing talent is matched by his talent for designing.

Two of the winning Canadian boats in the 1961 world yacht- ing championship: at Toronto were of his design. And his de- signs have been used in Brit- ain and the United States as well as Canada.

Ottawa-born Kirby. a copy editor with the Montreal Star, is also editor of the Canadian Yachting News, ‘ tabloid. and a m mb Olympic committee of the Ca- nadian Yachting Association. HANDICAPPED IN FINN His specialty. the 14 - foot tdinghy, carries a two-man crew . I ut is not an Olym ic - class yards over Bill Dotson of thelboat' a fact that perpetually U.S. Ohlemann. 25. won as he disma 5 Km“, Th 1 h pleased by about four yardsI y " - e c-ass as ., . . ilong been established in North 0W3" Braz'ls Pam" Slque“a‘.America and Britain but the Araujo. film is the Olympic counterpart Cuba of the 14-footer. b.3535 Finns are ball tournament by heat”!!! the 14-foot dinghy but have a Mexico 7-3 after Brazil. made smaller sail. 108 square feet

virtually assured itself;

up of players entirely of Japa- compared with 170_ The Fm” to

nese ancestry. defeated the-carr onl one man.

United States 4-1 in 10 inningsl "Winch yOlympic years come

to douse faint U.S. hopes for thefalong' you get Canadian guys

crown. inning Olympic trials using on in

coach, died in hospital here Tuesday after a lengthy illness. He had cancer of the liver.

Carpenter moved to Winnipeg in 1943 from Port Arthur where he was best known as two-time coach of a Canadian senior hockey championship team.

In 1925 and 1926 he coached} Port Arthur senior teams to the Canadian championship.

He also played cover point. a; defensive position, for Seattlel Mets when they defeated Mont-- real Canadiens three gamcs to one in Seattle for the 1917 Stan- ley Cup championship.

A railroad engineer until he) retired 10 years ago. Carpcntei also served as alderman in Port Arthur, first being elected in 1 4

1.

Born in Hartford. Mich, Car- penter grew up in Lachute. Que. but began his senior hockey in 1907 in the lower Ottawa Valley.

He started playing profession-’ any in 1911 with Moncto-n and New Glasgow in the Maritimel League. He played with Seattle in 1916 and 1917 and Montreal Canadiens the following year when the National Hockey League was formed.

From Montreal he went to Quebec Bulldogs in 1919 and spent 1920 and 1921 with Hamil- ton Tigers, then also in

NHL. .

He is survived by his wife Glenna; a daughter, Mrs. Wil- liam W. Walker of Winnipeg. and a son, John L.. Calgary branch manager of the Great- West Life Assurance Company.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

malfore a rain-spattered gathering| of 4.198.

In W ater 13010. Callada the 145," says Kirby. “'Ilh dropped its fifth consecutive the Olympics. they race with game. bowing to Argentina 10-2 Finns against people who sail in a sixth-round game. The Ca- nothing but Finns the year nadian team has won one, its.round. It‘s a great handicap and Opener against Argentina. 5-4- ]the transition from 14-footers to jginns creates a great problem ecauso our orth American Campbell Makes lraccrs prefer the 145 as real . throughbreds of racing." Flrst Run Today I ruce was six. and his Jbrother David Jr. eight, when LAKE EYE];~ Australia (AP) .their father, the late David __Bmish speed ace DonaldIKirby Sr., recruited them to Campbell is to make his first make up his crew on a 24400 510“, speed test run his :sloop that beat all challengers racing car Bluebird today in his Em the Ottawa area for several attempt on the world land speed zyears- room-(L At 18 Bruce entered his first Project co - ordinator David (major event. the 1948 Olympic Wynne Morgan said the run ltriais at Montreal. He tied for would be at about 150 miles an 1first place in the single-hand .mue auxiliary ‘ (one-man) class with 28-year-old strip which has been cleared on :Paul McLaughlin of Toronto but the dry salt surface of Lake‘lt'fist in 8 “"10"- er~ BECAME REPORTER . IKAfterbéicnishing high schmg; I irby ame a reporter wi TurCOHe Re'ns 'the Ottawa Journal where he - - remained for seven years ex- Flve Wlnners lccpt for the one he took off to sail around the world wiiih a FORT ERIE. 0m- (CPI—Sen- group of Ottawa lads in the 73- sational Rczi TuL‘cotte Tuesday foot ocean-going ketch Memory. outdid the last Jockey remain' The trip ended on the French ing on Ontario tracks for him lRiviera when Bruce left to un- to outdo—ihimself. . Idol-take a free-lance writing as- For the first time in his .signment. This too. ended when brief. brilliant ridinl career. Ihe was taken to hospital for an the little Maritime jockey rode‘appendectomy. five winners and he did it with He moved to Montreal in the a flair——he had only five mounts (fan of 1955 to take a job with a on the Eight-race Program. be-lmagazine. That year he com- peted in his first Olympics. fin- .ishing eighth in the ' ass Many times last year the u. in Australia. He was also mar-

l triples and occasionally he rode 'Bw have two daughters' four winners but never before; had he been aboard for five trips to the winners’ enclosure. z it's a story often told thatl

Turcotte. who comes from al

Oil Kings Best Ever Says Coach

family of 11 children in Grand Falls. N

victories to become Canada's leading rider last season, It first time in two

EDMONTON (CP) — Buster

15-2. . The Knights of Columbus fro-l Referec— Gordon Montford.

:Cuban Editorial Blasts

all System

:life of two capitalistic American . baseball players—or so says‘ Fidel Castro's official mouth-I Ipiece in Havana. the newspaper :15 undo. "'In that capitalistic society," (said El .ii-ndo's leading cd'tor-

Brayshaw says his Edmonton 0‘ ‘ngs are the best he's taken to the Memorial Cup junior ho c k ey championship and the way fans are gcbbling up tickets it appears he has a lot of believers.

Brayshaw. making a third consecutive attempt to bring

Edmonton its first Canadian.

junior title, admits he’s been gr ’ the Oil Kings for three years to convert them to “the eastern style of play." ,

“This is the biggest club? over-all that l've taken to tne finals. it has more weight because I've found that our light clubs in past years have

ial. “baseball verted into a giant monopoly—a ‘multi - million - dollar business? which has transformed the sport? into a show."

The U.S. professional systemi snips promising figures from I amateur ranks e y have matured properly.

GOD-

we

him to the locker room. Another Havana paper said. and turns i Thursday MEM-

jthem into rich, sluggist aristo-l ‘crats. It adds: “But in a socialist society

such as ours. athletes play not to the healthy‘

scheduled for um comm gm". Mays. diamond cuff-links and}for money but r

day and Sunday. May 4 and 5.

The contest sponsored by The Queen's Coonty branch of The Prince Edward Island Fish and Gama Association will now be held on Saturday and S u a day, May 11 and 12.

The contest is divided Hires sections. The first is for the biggest trout, the sec- ond for the biggest tw and the third for the biggest catch, not to mood I) 1

into sec

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ruby stickpin sparkling. lingers over a large helping of pork chops, turnip greens and pic- kled watermelon rind. He looks at his watch. "Gosh." he says. “I fust be