The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thurs. June”, 1984. 15

By

SPORTS FRONT

NICK FILLMURE

America’s

MORE THAN 550 e have bran l'ecelvedufou‘

Top Meet

limes. including 15 defendlin champions. the 7Sth An 8

nual National U.S. Amateur

Union track ano ueld championsbims at Rutgers University

Stadium this

w kend. This meet is usually United

compared favourably with the Olympic Game. field. competitions. — After all, even though the Soviet

n I can be track Union

StateO' best and one

has Improved greatly in track and field in recent years. U

states is still top do The top six in previously qualified competitors ltion or foreign athletes wil U.S. Oi ' In addi

g. Satunday's AAU champion from service

ed

meanot inclining or ege‘cmrmet-. se to the Island. July 3 - 4.

tion. the first two men in each event will be. picked

for the United States dual-meet team which will compete in

Los Angeles, July 25 Among ampions w titles Sa

huday are Heniy Carr. (tie) 200 meters: Hayes Jones. 110 meters

jump: Ralph Boston; broad jump: Dave Davis. an

owner; Kent Floerke. hop. decathlon. The defenden are by

no Theentryhasboenfarhe like

are ac . n m met the qualifying time of :21.

crowded event. The smallest 16 registered.

For the meet. Ru track at a cost of 75

Summerside Not Interested

Till". ANNOUNCEMENT from Summerside Tuesday night. that

the Town League isn't interested in playing senior baseball out- . . put .

Charlottetown hopes to organize an Island Centennial Section.

Gide their own area and

W- lt’s too bad for a town like Summerside that there isn't one

business concern interested in All-Star team from the Town

exhibition games with other centres. Tal ' "

til Charlie Ryan

W1 . out tihat the Charlottetown Legion will still at the Kin

City team and play gs would probably all be exhibiti There is a good possibility mittcc will be approached by

l the lights could be turn

games. One senior game a week to think and there's no trouble drawing

be Summerside ‘ ‘t necessary for a successful series. Things look pretty good without them.

Off The Cuff

vans HANDRAIIAN saw his first work of uie'seasm with International league Monday night ’

LSD

sports columnist. as gues wood athletes with more nu , era's HALL won't be putting on the kind of peculiar that entry fees weekend's Maritime tourney at

slo—The hitch-The top pro can win $11K). but amateur can grail) is a little bit of glory and some money for Cfarlottetown LEGION JUVENILES make their season tomorrow night at. Memorial Field when the Eastern Oenennial Juniors. G ' '

expenses . . . . .. first start of the they tangle with

45 . One of Halifax's

6: p.m. . . . will head for the Boston area next mont

.as. against the Soviet Union

on encounters. that the island Centennial Com-

ed on at Memorial Field for night

1 speaker. It was quite a night for Birch‘ than 100 trophies and prizes being hand- a rumor that Chicago Black Hawks GLEN

are ed to defend their

Bob Hays. 100 meters; Paul Drayton and Dy'i'ol Bin-leach. 1.500 :

bu ; Gene Johnson. high

shot-put; A] Hall.

. and C.K Yang,

means the favorites in all cases. avier than expects! 0.

and all fields for exampl sprinters have zforthezai) Thislsthemos entry is in the discus with

tgel's has installed an English-made cinder l. .000.

e on 88

sport enough to take over an League to play at least a few

yesterdav however. we found

tempt. to form a County AllStm- squad. Games

the two interested groups to see

arlottctown would go we crowds in Kings. Island

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pads this fall 5 s for amateurs and pros for this Belvedere are both the same, the most any

ame time is top :ltwemle squads. the Orioles. on a seven

game ition stint. They are coached by Halifax hockey player and form-

er pitcher HAP HANSON.

Maritime Open ‘ Draw Released

Twenty-four professionals and 7 amateurs have registered for the Maritime Open golf tourna< meat that gets underway at (he Belvedere Golf and Winter Club this Saturday.

The 54-hole tournament opens Saturday morning at the Char- lottetown course and will con-

fourth and $100 for fifth. Twenty-nine clubs will he represented from the provinces of Nova Scotla. New Brunswick. Newfoundland. Quebec. RIM. and the states of New Hamp- shire and Maine. Gordon Leslie. Saint John. is the defending meet champion. .He will be attempting to retain his title. SATURDAY DRAW 9:!) a.m.' — Jim Crawford (Ash). Keith Carmichael (B). If. Webber (Dig). 9-37 am —- Kelly Burnett Merlin MacKensie (Met).

(Ash). Doug Lewis

9:44 a.m. erry Burns (Shel). Don Myles jr. (West). Ron Boylcs (B).

9:51 s.m. ~ R. Coffey (Ab). Ray Bungle (Lin). Otto Fur- ehack (Sum).

9:51! am. — Hank Davis (Lu) Doug Saunders (B). Bob ver (Ash).

10:06 am. ~~ Dick Dion (find). 11. W. Isner (111cm. W. J. Mac- Call (Br).

10:12 am. ~— Cecil bowling (B). Bill Bishop (Riv). Hank Seifred (Sum).

10:19 am. —- Allan Fletcher (Mont). Lorne' Jenncx Chas Brace (Ash).

10:! am. —- George Gllmur- ray (Lin). Gerald Burgoyne (Bl. Ted Reevy (Riv).

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10:83 a.m._ —— Pete Kelly (Fred). R. Girvan (Mct). Dr Duncan Rice (3.11.). ‘

10:40 am. Joe Kenny (Mir). Don (Jlggn hiqu (3). Edward Ridden (A1).

10:17 am -— Ron'uClair

(W). Brian Lewis (Met). Doug MacAfee (Sal.

10::54 a.m. »~- Jimmie Walker (Met). Jack keen (Oak). lodge Bartlett ( ).

a.m. - Jim Maxwell 'CMs). Grant Dickimn (Riv). W. A. MacRae (B).

11'00 a.m. — John Munroe Prank . Maclnnls (B).

(.‘llris Sewer IA 11:23 up. —. Doug Builders

evening. .

(B). D

(Sea). Ns

{Bill Crothers. failed by a yard

dan. slim speed- Dubiin. Ireland. flashes (terms the finish line with arms waving to win the

Tom O‘Rior ater from

TO WINNlER'S CIRCLE

5.000—metre event of the St. Toronto's Bruce Kidd placed I Jean Baptiste Day internation- al track meet

in Montreal.

3:4

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. lPirate right-hander even

'Friend Downs Melts 3-1; lEaneS ILA. Romp Over Braves Deleal

1 By THE CANADIAN PRESS l Bob Friend. the best fall the New York Meis have. heat lCascy Stengel's last—place team lfor the 12th straight time Wed-

_ 'nesday with ninth-inning relief

help from Al McBean as Pitts-

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[burgh hung up a 3-1 victory.

In Milwaukee, the Los An- ‘gelcs Dodgers went on a 19-bit

. ! hinge and buried the Milwaukee

lBraves 15-4. Home runs

doubles and added up to 32 total .1

bases.

in York. veteran ed his [season record at 6-6 with his ;fourth victory over the Mets

year. Friend allowed

New the

;on ba :the eight. After Joe .hi‘s shutout bid with his eighth home run of the year in (the ninth and Jesse Gonder [lowed with his lhli'd iFriend gave way to Motion.

l Shop Defeats Regiment,

Lefty Dunn. Bike Shop mound

l Lennie Ellsworth. who spark-

. . bl’ f“ , Frank Howard and John Rose-1‘ .

10 hits and the Meta had a runncrll se in every inning except 3';

1!

Christopher broke I I

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fnl-. single..

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(a: third in the rm, (0? Wire. led on the mound for the losers. I

photo)

Kidd, Crothers Beaten

MONTREAL (CP) -— Tom O'Riordan. slender little 140- pounder from Dublin. kept in front of France's Jean r‘ayolle for cat the entire distance Wednesday to win the 5.000- metre run at the St. Jean Bap- tiste Day invitation track meet.

Bruce Kidd of Toronto. Can- ada's ace distance man. was well back in third place. pull- ing ahead of John Anderson of England on the last lap of the 12-lap-pl-us race of slightly more than three miles.

Another Canadian champion.

t

to overhaul George Kerr of ~ Jamaica in (the BOO-metre run. in which John Boulter of Eng- land faltered in the last 300 yards when Crothers put on a

sprint.

Two distance walkers from the U.S. Military Ac at West Point, N.Y.. placed first and third in the gruelling 20- kilometrc walk. '

Ronald Zion.

U.S. champion

own way. yards ahead of Henri Delel'ue of France. Cadet Altos Szekely of West Point was '

WEATHER. WAS HOT

walker at the 20-lrilometre dis

none, had things virtually his finishing about 400

The meet, preceded by school-

boy relays. was held under a steaming sun. with the temper- ature in the high 80s

, . I a the 5,000 was a comparatively Ker t ‘i

slow 14:07. Crothel's in the 800 in 1:48. the Toronto runner timed in 1:48.11. Boulter’s time was l:48.5.

O'Riordan's winning. time in

rnosedou

Zimn's winning time in the

cGill Stadium.

WILLIAMSON WAS 51'“

Chris Williamson of Freder-

iclon. N.B.. competing for Tor-

ltAl). Maurice Dowling (Mct).‘ .“Butch” O'Hearn (Br).

I 11:29 a.m. -—— Don Sinclair 1(Riv). Rex Jnudrey (Ash), Art MacKenzie (B).

11:36 —— —-Archle Skin-

spom ECHOES

By Norman Macdonald

Summerside Bureau

of The Guardian

In St. Jean Track Meet

lonto's East York Club. fifth; Norbert Sander of New

Scotland scvcntll.

Dead Heat

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SUMMERSH)“ —— The town track was the sccne of an action packed eight race card last

10“ Walk W35 1139-25- The night that saw as the most im- e-lght Starters made till/0131’s 0f pressive. a dead heat run inl the track at M - then took to streets north and west 0' "19 stadium L953 U15“ Perry of Summerside. driven by a lap on the track ended the walk.

the exactor, the eighth dash. Sir Smart. owned by Andrew

Basil Whalcn and Lady Mark. owned by Wilfred Walfield of Summerside and rained by Gor-

a.m. ner (Fred). Derrill Leonard (Ash). Gordie Leslie (Riv).

11:43 am. I - James C. Veno 1V). Bill Beer (3). Cliff Low- ’ery (Lin).

11:50 am. —— Doug Sullivan (G.B.). Jack Bryant (Ash). J. K. Manuel (Riv).

11:57 am. —— Gerard McGili- vray (Sea). Terry Fraser (Mei). Don V. MacDonald (B). Bernie Dunning (Sum).

Al Biondi (Au),

(Wind). Byron Eric Anderson

12:04 p.m. —- John Timothy Stoyles (Met). (Riv).

LEGEND AB—Abercrombie : gonquin. NB. N.S.: Ash—Ashburn. Halifax. N.S.; Au—Augusta. Ma e, U.S.A.; B—Bclvedere. Charlotte- town: Bil—Bally Bally. St. John's. Nfld: BR—Brlghtwood. artmouth. NS; Ghee—Chester. N.S.: Dig—Dlgby. N.S.: Fred- Fredericton. NB; G an Brae. Bathursl. N.B.: 66—— Green Gables. Cavendish. P.E.I.: Bud—Hudson. New Hampshire. U.S.A.: Kent— Kentville. N.s.; Lin—Llano. Sydney. N.S.: Lu—Lunenburg. N.S.; Mct—Moncton. N.B.: Mir ——Miramiehi. NB; Mont—Mont- k—Oakfield. Hall-

real. P.Q.; 0a fax. N.S.; Riv—Riverside-St. John. NB: Sea—Seaview. North

Sydney; Shel-Shelburne. N.s.: Sum4ummerside. P.E.I.; Sussex. N.B.: West—Westfield. St. John. NB: Wind—Windsor.

- W-'-Wcstview. Augusta.

Maine.

All-Stars Whip Barry’s lions, 9-0

National Park All-Stars whip- ped Barry's Lions 00 in City Softball League last night behind the three hit .pitching of John Hughes.

liughes went the distance. his first start of the season, and struck out eight and walked one. lie was a big gun at the plate as well. rapping two homers in

four appearances. Barry Turner (1-1) took the loss. going the distance and

giving up 11 hits. He struck out three and walked none.

Joe Caswell was top batsman for the All-Stars. collecting a

tanner; , triple and ngie is ..four appearances.

A Poorer Game

Well. we can‘t go into rap: tures over every game We see at Queen Elizabeth Park. our readers will suspect we're spreading the old butter and refuse to believe anything we say. Now is as good a time as

or ed some good Queen Elizabeth Park. was ser-

5

day evening. made real bogs of themselves.

the woolly west. Louis Poirler. who has pitch- ball games at

g it up with caviar Tues tie

any to tell the unvarnished McCarthy hit two singles. a truth and say hat the game double. and a triple in four ap- rran and Briggs won pearances. Now ky hit a per-

which from the Pontiacs by the score of 19-6 was the kind of game which keeps ball fans home playing parcheesi or glued to their television sets.

must have been an overgrown Mexican jumping bean because it kept popping out of field- ers' gloves with a regularity that was hard to believe and harder to watch. Throws to home plate were as wild as

S’side Not

We were frankly disappointed to hear that Summerside was not willing to outer an Island League this year. The promot- ers know their problems much better than we do. and doubt- less they made the right deci- sion. but in this year when base-

fect 3 for 3. Incidentally he also pitched a fine game. only two of. the six runs scored against him being came

The “take” from the hat was good. much better than the usual amount last year, but If the boys dish too much of that kind of ball up to the fans. the best way to make money will be to let the fool into the lids free and charge them to get out.

Entering

it is .. question of catering to the fans to the players, what can you do? 01 courlo. we must remember that pleasing the fans will bene- fit the players in the long

run. We Were hoping that the io-

31 is showing an up curve on cal program and the Island pro.

graph board. such a league gram could both giving both the players and the fans an even break. 1“

would have caught the fancy of the fans. we feel sure. an w would naturally have seen better brand of ball than we see in the Summerside circuit. We can undo .. pro-

motors

the best for all the boys who are playln. for boys scan ave more enthus- lasm than they have shown

custodo

a is five of the Summerside league could pick an AlLStar team. bosedon their performance dur- ing the week have someth t. and it might inspire them to work harder to make that All- Star team. Well. as we said in

carried on.

or each land league game the execu-

. e boys would ing to shoot

. the promoters matter out pretty sorougtily. and there must be lsadvantagos which' over-rule

lie beginning inched the

for some years. A lot of t youngsters getting a

chance to play. and we've t been arguing for this a long it time so can’t very well start t

arguing against it now. Whe Welcome

A word of "me Dec LoFugey who has

em

Dick I. m 0' “to

over the minor mall pro- in.

aneceilfnl season. Dee has very’definite— Studio of the Prince Coun- ty sold himself to the beads ty Soft gue: of this department. and ov- WON LOST «you is satilfied that a Coastal Movers , s 2 capable and conscientious RCA!" ' s .1 fellow Is at the. helm. lie Enman Drug f» i will have more helpers than lumen Pklnibing 0 10 '

Back, Dee

lie obvious advantages of such league. Too had.

ever before. and we feel confident that the minor (hogs-am will have its most

_.sparked a three-run Milwaukee . uprising. With a bulging lead. (Drysdale went out for a pinch hitter in the eighth and Ron :Perranoski gave up a run in the nint . 1 Manager Bobby Bragan of the

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Morell

GEORGETOWN — Extending their undefeated string to five games. Georgetown Eagles de‘

- . feated Morel] 4-2 at Georgetown ggavfnsogggadffdfigslypflfiihfrfiaglto keep their stranglehold on one. Bob 'l‘icfenaller, held the ‘1’“ place m "‘9 “"35 County

,E‘Dodgers scoreless. They got' 9353.”?-

‘ three runs off Tony Cloninger.. All” Macpm’e “anal 0“ the knocking him out In the lim‘mmmd . Georgetown and inning; five off Wade Blasin- “'35 relieved by Buddy Mac- ~. amp; six on Federico (Chi. (fullnugh in the fifth

:‘ChiI Olivo. who had just beent'l'l‘” “Unwed I‘ll" hll-‘i Walk?

»' 1 callcd up from Toronto. and one ‘ “iron and struck out 10.

t it

off Billy Hneft. . Mike Kelly started for Morell I. : Maury Wills paced the blg-‘and save upln favor nf urphy ‘ .Eest Dodger offensive of the in the sixth. Their combined

year. He collected four singles efforts allowed four hits. one and a walk for a perfect day walk and they struck out. 8. . scored three runs, drove When MacCllliough look over

lam in one. and stole his Mih andl’u' Georgetown there Were two . . . .l‘ 25th base of the season. ‘_ en on base with no one out. .149 allowed only one run an “03 FRIEND l l struck out nine men in the re- A double error by shortstop “Que 'Pens lmainder of the game. Dick Schoflcld plilmen on first: A M . Umnlre was Seymour Mc‘ and third before Ml-Rcan fi- I lInlllS. nally got the last two outs. ' - ‘ 7 “” Willie Stargell drove in two

of the Pirate runs with a Single MONTAGUE in the first inning and a for“ and schedule for theThMontfiiagle

play in the third .M- . Don Drysdalc brcczcd to his hotlsranfiiflztig aifiafimueuwhavel

victory of the season in r- ' .v . .. .. [mm 1 Warn? (‘amibeil Mll\\riul(€(. He has .srnrcd on C. r. Sullivan p and SS: lscott

only in the fourth inning. whcnlnen‘ m; Tommy MacDonald .

On Saturday l PITCHERS

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Probable pitchers for today's major league games. won and lost in parentheses: American League

.ace.t pitched his second on- 4’ dm‘ble by Eddie mathews 2nd- Stanlev Beck 3rd: Ed Mc l New York Bouion (5-6) at isecu ive standout game in the‘ Au], . d H . .‘ ' ' _ .- .. ; Wm. Clair -Baltlmore. Barber l1M) IN)

.Charlottetown Senior Baseball llf- Du a 'p I ' '

. _ . . ane Melllsh. cf: 1) . l Cleveland. Kr i -k 17.2 t 1:932:19 ’l‘aslvnltzhl. :cfcatlni: the gi‘lou'. rf: Gerard Fraser. grill: Minnesota. Graull ITS-4| ) a f. .. .’ cglmcnt --0 Will) a) le'Kflenlan. na \vid Caldwell : Kansas City. Pena (7-6) at , “winner. 1 Mars. Jackie MacPhee and ' ‘

Bil-lion Angels-s. Newman (5-2). (N)

By THE A. SOCIATED PRESS lie Sullivan.

‘ National Le e 1 Team 2—— P. Smith, c: L -~ Only ames SChedul .

.was beaten by two unearned l pmsburgh 101000100. 3 3,, I Connolly. p and ss: Billie i Emeflca“ half:

:luns. ' l w york 000mm 001.. 1 mo ston. lst; Ivan Smith, 2nd: .lolln Pill-“humil- Glhbm‘ '4'2) all Dunn struck out eight and: Friend .55.“. MPH”... (9,. and .lnman. 3rd; (.‘arl Campbell. 53 ‘ New Y‘Wk- “5h” "3",”

“3mm “"9, “1"va Ellsworth Bilrgms; (‘iucn (3.9 Huntpl‘ (a. and p; lvor Rourke. If; DaVltl H"”~“°"- Rm?" '7‘7“ 3‘ 3‘-

strlick out eight and gave up‘ and anndpr. HR; Ny_chns. Bryand. cf; Geo. O'Shea. “- ;Iioliis. Gibson (6-4)

three free passes. Hoth .3). .Mam'n Fraser, Dougie Hughes' Los Angeles. Koufax (10-4) at The beat any of the winnersiLos Angel”. 340120500_15190 iDougie MacLean. Managers" an Francisco. Herbel (4-3),

{mm d“ at "‘9 p'ale 323")“ Milwaul‘ee. 000 2100 001— 4 70 chO. Inman and Sandy Blcck ’ l (N‘ -

l-llswnrth was 1-for-4. l). (iillis. uncde [m _ g, ppm-aan ' Tcanl 3 1‘. Tumor. Kcntly only Ramos “hed'lmd'

Rill Dams and Dulln cacti col‘ ‘ (on 3...; “WNW... Twybmg t7); lBI'lelnri. p and as; Don King, -

lccted a Single. ' gcr (5.7) Blasmgame (l). 15‘: J01“) K103- zndi 331‘”

The Regiment‘s

lsingle, Forbes Kennedy was 1-

coacll Harry Callaghan had one

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jSingle ‘Shop

Reg.

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v Practice Set For Friday

». An Islandcrs Track and l-‘icld

Club was formed at short lmceting in Charlottetown last lilighl. and president Dave Bos- ' well called for an opening prac- tice to be held at Memorial ; Field. Friday 6.51 p.m.

. . l I All athletes Within the char -' “em .4, to ‘ .. .