Yankees Option Charlie Keller Io Newark

NEW YORK, May 1B —(AP) - New York Yankees today announc- Od they had optioned outfielder Charley Keller, 32, to Newark, where he will try to play htimseif but to shape and also assist in coaching the Bears.

Also pared from the roster in older to conform to the Zia-player limit were catcher Ralph I-Iouk, in- ‘ielder Mickey Witek and pitcher

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I-Iouk was optioned to Kansas

City, Witek Wag released outright to Newark, and Hiller was re- leased outright to Kansas City. The release of the quartet means that Joe DiMaggio will be kept on the motive iiat. '11“: assignment of Keller to Newark was not unexpected, as the formea home-run threat has been hobbled by a hip injury since open- ing day.

Thus Keller, who with Joe Di- Maggio and Tummy Henrich com- prised one of the greatest cut- fields of modern times, appears to have reached the twilight of his big-league career.

Finland Prepares For Olympic Games

By Austin Bealmcar

Nmw YORK. May 18 —<AP) -- Finland is making erect Stride! in its preparation for the next Olympic Games, scheduled at Hel- llnkl in 1952. J. Sigfrid Edstrom said today.

m an interview after arriving from his native Sweden the presi- eJent. of the International Olympic Committee also disclosed that:

1. The 1956 games at Melbourne will be held in October, which is springtime in Australia but the height of the football season ir‘ "North America.

2. The move to send the 1950 games to the southern Hemis- phere for the first time was start- ed at the committee's meeting hat year in connection with the "London games.

3. Edetrom may continue to serve as 1.0.0. president if re- quested io do so by the member- stlp, even though he will be 80 years old next year and had an- usounced plans to retire after the 51050 committee meeting in Copen- "hagen.

"1 was in Finland recently to ffflspect things in Helsinki with ‘Otto Mayer, chancellor of the I. O. C.." said Edsirorn. "We found everything in perfect shape.

f "For the first time. the entire program will be held inside the dill”

Edstrom said he expected '10 iooimtrles to compete at Helsinki, tempered to 60 in London. This m: based. he said. on the sup- pinttion that Germany, Japan and Russia. would be ready to aolulpne in i952. along with sev- pui new states created since the in.

lleko Lu Moms Wins

" IYIIIAOUBIE. N.Y., May 18 - WAIP) —~Ieke 1e Motto of New York, beading for s shot at the middle- weight crown. knocked out Joey De from of Syracuse tonight in 2:41 of I10 eighth round of a. scheduled 10- Mund bout. La. Motto weighed 162; D9 Jblin 159 1-2.

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‘World Champion Indians In Seventh Place After 6-0 Defeat By

Yankees

(By The Canadian Press)

The world champion Cleveland Indians were dumped back into seventh place in the American Lea- gue pennant chase yesterday (Wed- nesday) when they were blanked 6-0 by the New York Yankees for their fifth straight defeat.

Boston Red Box clubbed their way to a 7-4 victory over Chicago White Sox to gain their second straight decision over the Chicago crews.

A crowd of 28.606 saw the Yankees club Bobby Feller for 12 of their i3 hits in the seven innings he worked to hang the season's third defeat upon Cleveland's ace right- hander.

Al Roserfls second-inning single and Larry Doby's fifth-inning double were the only hits the slumping Tribe managed cit Vic Raschi. who hung up his filth victory against one defeat. It was the Indians’ fifth shutout loss in their last eight games.

Rcsen was playing third base in place of Ken Keltner, who was sidelined by a heavy cold.

Feller retired the first two men to face him, but fell behind quick- ly when Gene Woodling doubled and rode home ahead of Henrlchs first home run of the game and sixth of the season.

The Yankees added three more in the sixth on singles by Bobby Brown and Dick Hryhoaki, a. two- run double by Cliff Marpes, and Gerry Coleman's bunt single.

Bob Doerr cloutied a two-run hcimer in the first inning for the Bosicnians and slugger Ted Wil- liams followed suit in the third in- ning.

Then the Red Box picked up single tallies in the fourth and sixth to provide right-hander El- lis Kinder with his third victory of the season.

Gus Zernial, husky Chicago rook- ie outfielder, drove home all the losers’ runs. He lined a truce-run hqmcr into the screen in left field in the fifth and whacked a 400- foot double to centre to send in the final Chicago score in the ninth.

The loss was the first suffered by Pieretti, slight rlght-hander who has won two games for Jack On- slow‘s hustling White 50x.

Detroit mustered only one hit odfl’ four Washington pitchers but the Senators required a three-rim eighth-inning homer by beefy Ed- die Robinson to defeat the ‘risers 6-3. Detroit's long hit. Aaron Rob- inson's single in the fourth, didn't figure in Detroit's worm!-

Washing-ton entered the eighth inning trailing 3-2 before Robin- son lifted his seventh home run of the season over the right-field fence with tiwo aboard. Marvin Grissom, who had reabliwed Tiifi Gray on the mound. was the vic- tirn oif Robinson's blast but Gray was charged with the defeat.

st. Louis Browns won a battle of home runs in ending Philadel- phia Athletics‘ four-game winning streak with an a-a victory. Stan Spence, Roy Slevers and Sher-man Iollar hilt homers for the Browns wihile Eddie Joost and Mike Guer- ra connected with circuit blows for the A's.

Baseball'_s_Big Six

( Associated Press) G AB

R H Pct Zernlal, White Sox 27 111 2O 42 .878 Schoendlenat Cardinals .. 20 83 U 31 373 Marshall, Giants. .. 26 75 25 28 .373 Goldsberry, White Sox 23 81 20 30 .870 Mitchell. Indians ...... .. 18 74 9 27 .865 Kazak, ' Cardinals 23 81 9 29 .358 Home runs: National, Mize.

Giants 8; American, Stephens, Red Sox 9.

Runs batted in: National, Cam- paneila, Dodgers 25; American, Williams, Red Sox 31.

BOSION. May l8 -(AP) —Bos- ton Red Box cut their roster to the required 25-man limit today by right-handed pitchers and John

of the on 24-hour

Robinson to Louisville American Association option.

Vic's Jnlor lall Practice

All junior Vic ball players are requested to be on hand at the Memorial Field Diamond tonight at 6.80 p. m.

‘sonnet interested" 1n Recruirisgbtlleor

‘i County Intermediate “B"

that baseball representatives frcm 'I‘ig- nish, Albertcn. Olieary, Summer-

It was learned yesterday

side, Grand River, Wellington, Kensingtom, Lcnnox Island, Kin- kora and Borden will attend the annual meeting of the Prince Baseball League which will be held in the Summerside Armcuries on Friday night, to select a new slate of of- ficers and map out their policies for the forthcoming baseball sea- son as well as suhnlt their annual reports on last year's activities. ‘Iihe meeting will be presided over by the League president, Mr. Walter Bernard of Tlgnish. Mr. James Hogan of the Department cf Physical Fitness (Svummerside Branch) is also ‘expected to be in attendance at the meeting. O O

The work in the development oi a baseballl diamond at Spring Park field, which had been discontinued some ten days ago due to the fact that the ground was too soft to pennit heavy machines to carry out a proper job of levelling of the field, was re-commenced this week and is nearing completion. The field should be in first class shape soon for the various summer schedules which will be played there.

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The diamond. which is being put into shape through the efforts of the Department of Physical Fit- ness, will be for the use of the minor ball leagues suchas Juvenile, midgets and bantam, and will be a major factor in releasing the pressure on tihe mam ball diamonds at Victoria Park for the junior and senior leagues without interfering with the activities of the younger baseball groups. .

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Although the Charlottetown Aibegweits and the Surrmerside Curran and Br lg g s base- ball squads were scheduled to test their pro-season form against one another in ain exhilbiticn con- test at the Western Capital yester- da/y old man weather had other ideas and sent down a drizzling rain during the day which added sufficiently to the already none too dry ground to cause its postpone- ment to a later date.

Not so long ago this column ran some interesting comments about Sam Langford, the great Canadian- born boxer, which was supplied by Mr. James Pendergast of Kensing- ton, and now our good friend from the West has come along again with some interesting items con- cerning the career oi’ the great distance runner ‘Torn Lonlboat.

A letter received from him re- cently says: "A short. time ago one of the Upper Canadian sport scribes held forth eloquently on the prowess of the great distance runner Tom Longboat, the Onondaga. Indian. He did not even mention the pro- minent part our own Maritime trainer of marathon runners Thomas 'I‘renhoim of Amherst, N. S., had in making Longboat one of the greatest runners of all time.

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"Trcnholm took Longboat to Europe, where he campaigned him against the best Europe could put up and beat them all. which was no easy job, as Longboat was in- clined to be “a law unto himself." He had to be continually watched to keep him away from the flesh- pots of Egypt, offered .by many admirers of t_he Indian.

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"His hardest contests were in Scotland and Italy. There was a near World-beater in Italy, the name slips my memory at the moment, it may have been Dorando. But anyhow, Trenholm’: protege beat them all. Trenholm had been the middleweight boxing champion of the Mariiimes for years and was a training disciplin- arian. He is well known in P. E. 1., having been in the C.N.R., De- tective Service for many years. He is at present retired and living in

Amherst, N. S."

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Dick Irvin

MONTRLELAL, May 18 -—(CP) — Dick Irvin, lean, silver-haired coach who in 2O tries piloted Nat- ional Hockey League teams into 19 playoffs. has signed with Montreal Canadians for a two-year term.

Announcement of Irvin's rel-urn. for what will be his 10th and 11th seasons with Canadians, was made today by general manager Frank Belke

During his coaching career Irvin has come up with three Stanley Cup winners of the world champ- ionship

He made his debut as a coach with the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1929-30 season, piloting the club with which he had been an active player.

Two seasons later he went to

THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

(Two-Year Contract As Pilot 0f Canadians,

debut there with a siaafqfcflup winner in 1031-32. He came to Canadians in the 1940-41 season

and won successive Stanley Cup titles in 1943-44 arid 1945-46. The following season the club

went to pieces and Irvin ended the season with a fifth-place aggreg- ation, out of the playoffs.

lie made no bones aibout his dis- appointment and when he went for the summer to his home in Regina there were vague reports he wish- ed to retire.

But he came beck again last ses- son, with a one-year contract, and piloted much the same club into third place, The rugged playoff with Detroit Red Wings, NHL. title-winners, went to seven games before Canadiens bowed out.

'I‘oronto Maple Leafs, making his

Selke was highly pleased with re- eel-pt of Irvin's signed contract.

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HALIFAX, May 18 —- (CP) Halifax Conn-Martel, defending champions, remained in the lead tonight at the completion of the third day's play in the annual Nova Scotia-Prince Edward Island bowl- ing tournament.

Another Halifax squad, Impcrlals. had 28 points, just two less than Conn-Martel to hold down second spot In third position were New Waterford All Stars and Dartmouth. each with 24 points.

Ducky Vincent of Dartmouth tolled a 142 to take high singles honors during the day and his team also ran up a 1640 for high team score Yarmouth. with a 561. held clown the high single string. D. Conn of Imperlals rolled 866 i0? high three string honors.

The tournament continues until

Friday. ,. Standings:

Team Won Lost Halifax Conn-Martel 30 6 Halifax Imperiais 28 ' 8 New Waterford Stars 24 12 Dartmouth 24 12 Yarmouth 23 i3 Charlottetown 21 14x Truro 20 16 New Glasgow 20 16 Springhill _ 16 20x Sydney 13 23 Resolute 1C 24 New Waterford Royals 11 26 Bedford O 30 Halifax Police 32

4 X -— Tie game to be rolled

HALIFAX, May 18—(CP)—Scorca of matches played today in the N.S.-P.E.I. bowling tournament.

off.

Halifax Conn-Mariell Truro

1555 1535

Halifax Imperial: .... .. New Waterford Stars

1551 1508

Halifax Conn-Martel

Hold Lead

i Baseball Standings

American League

New York

Detroit _ . Philadelphia .. . Washington 15 14 .517 Chicago '14 .500 Boston . 13 .480 Cleveland 12 .455 St. Louis 2O .310 Games Thursday: Cleveland at

New York; Chicago at Boston; De- troit at Washington; only games.

National League

Boston 16 11 .593 New York 16 11 .59 Cincinnati 15 12 .556 Brooklyn . 14 13 .510 Philadelphia . 13 15 .464 Pittsburgh 13 15 .464 St. Louis 14 .417 Chicago .. 16 .385

Games Wednesday: Brooklyn at St. Louis (N); New York at Cin- cinnati; Boston at Pittsburgh; Philadelphia at Chicago.

firms-national League

Jersey City 9 .640 Montreal 9 .571 Rochester 12 .556 Buffalo . 10 .545 Toronto 14 .500 Newark .. 12 A55 Baltimore 16 .385 Syracuse . 9 16 .360

Games Thursday: Montreal at

Toronto (N); Buffalo at Rochester (N); Baltimore at Syracuse (N); Jersey City at Newark (N).

New Glasgo 1589i Halifax Police 1449 Sydney 14911

New Waterford Royall 1432 ‘

1457 1393

Halifax Conn-Martell . Yarmouth

Halifax Police 1330 Sprlnghill 1378 Charlottetown 1534 Bedford 1418

l New Glasgow 1452 Dartmouth 1566 Halifax Imperiala . 1512 Truro 1494 Resolute A. A. ............. .. 1489 New Waterford Stars 1487 Bedford 1372 SydneY 1355 Dartmouth 1426 Sprlnlhlll 1409 Resolute A. A. 14% Charlottetown 150i. Yam-mouth 1473 New Waterford Royall 1404 New Waterford Royall 1450 Halifax Imperial: 1580 Sydney 1564 Dartmouth 1840

New Waterford Stars Truro

1515 1372

Halifax Conn-Martel 1m Resolute A. A. ..-.c ._ 1m Philadelphia no no ole-a I 1

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Baseball Linescores

(By The Canadian Press)

AMERICAN Cleveland 000 000 000-0 2 l New York 200 0O! 102-6 18 1

Feller, Pa/pish (B) and Hogan;

Raschi and Berra. Ohlcllo 000 O30 001-4 11 O Baton 802 101 OOx-‘l 10 O

Pierettl. Shoun (3). Burkont (6) 11:: Wheeler; ftinder and ‘Teh- et ..

St. Louis 001 104 020-8 l3 I flsiladelphln 012 200 010-8 11 0

Fflnnifi. Fer-rick (5) and holler; Shankl. McCahan (1) Harris (it) and Guerra.

Detroit 100 O00 ZOO-O l I WlehinIi-on 100 000 lh-l O I

Gray. Grlssoara (l) mat (l) and yinson;

locum O40 on 000- O fl I Cincinnati COO II Ill-ll l‘! O

Cain, Home (4). Putin: (I). Barrett (it) and Mist; Batten:- berger. Who-meter (i) Bukhert (5), Psnovich (B). mutt (i) and Mueller.

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MAY 19, 1949

loe Pyle Wins lO-liound Decision

SAINT JOHN, N. B., May 18-(010-400 Pyle, of Mont.- reol and New Waterford, N. 8. won l unanimous lib-round de- clllou over Al Couture, Port- land, Me., In the main event of a boxing card here tonight.

Pyle, weighing 152, stalked his vlotllu for 10 rounds and piled up n wide margin in points without coming close to anything like a knockout. Cou- ture, I58, had no obvious trouble in halting of! the belt punches the Negro could throw.

Ask Beurcuts To Reconsider Decision

TRURO, N. S., May 18 - (CP) - Truro Bearcats will be asked to reconsider their withdrawal notice, it was decided at a meeting of the Central Senior Baseball League to- night.

The club announced earlier it would not enter the loop this season because of financial difficulties.

Delegates from Springhill, West- ville and Steilarton who attended the meeting said they felt it would be almost impossible to operate without Truro.

The league executive will meet again Friday.

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Annual K. of C. Bowling Banquet last Evening

The annual Knights of Columbus bowlers banquet was held 1n m; Whelan Memorial Hall last evening Wit-h B large attendance of mem- bers, their wives and lady friends. The chairman of the Lecturers Committee, Wilfred Smith, pre- sided.

Among the guests present were His Honor Lieutenant Governor J. A. Bernard and Mrs. Bernard, Seated at. the head table with the chairman and His Honor the Lieut- enant Governor and Mrs. Bernard were Daniel McCormaok. chairman of K, of C. bowlers. Rev. Dr. Patrick McMahon and Rev. Father Fisher

The banquet opened with 0 Cflhldfl. and grace was said by Rev. Dr. ‘McMahon.

The guest speaker for the even- ing was Rev. Daniel Fisher, C. $5.11., who was introduced by Rev. Patrick Mciivfahon. Father Fisher in his opening remarks said that he was very glad to be in attendance! at the Knights of Columbus banq- uet, He spoke on the knowledge of faith. and said that the Knights of Columbus were always doing great work tin study cluibs for the youth of today. In the course of his talk. Father Fisher made reference to the great University of Saint Dun- stun’: which produces such brilli- ant and outstanding men in all walks of life.

Mr. Prank MaoMiilan moved a hearty vote of thanks to the guest speaker for his inspiring address. The chairman said that K. of C. bowlers season was a great success, while Mr. Dan MacCormack thanked all who bowled during the season and who oo-operaied in any way.

Grand Knight of the Charlotte- town Councli, Col. Leo F. MacDon- ald. thanked. on behalf ‘of the Council the LadiesAuxiiiary of tho Benevolent Irish Society for their very beautiful banquet and also spoke words of praise to the orchestra and the chairman of bowlers, Dan MacCoirmack.

His I-ion. Lt. Governor Bernard nprosaizd his pleasure at being present at the closing of- the Knights of Columbus season of bowling, and complimented the chairman of bowlers and the com- mittee in charge of arranging the banquet, and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Benevolent Irish Society.

The music for the evening was

his string and reed band.

The following were tho trophy and prize winners: .

The Doulan Trophy -- Canadians bowling teem, captained by H. A. Power, composed of Messrs. Prank Gallant, Stephen ‘Iirainor Rev. Father Roach, Welter Murray, Dibk Purcell, Raid McKenzie, W. C. Bnwdere.

Past State Deputy J. Alfred Dom mph, fad Grand mum arm - The “Blinl Shots,” made up of A. MacDonald (Capt). Pm: hi. n. Callethon. wsmr curl-to. Leo Doyle. Jack Butler.