Mets Shut Out Cubs 2-0; V. Cards Take Over Top Spot
8 THE ASSOCIATED PREflikee Braves. allowed only three‘tie it. the last after Wilhelm;
V
‘Veteran Carl Willey's three- scattered pitching and rookie Ron five and walked Hunt's first major league home ‘standout performance. Backed balls got past the catcher.
a thy three doubleplays. he faced Roger Maris of the Yankees
hit run brought New York Mets
singles. struck out
his
2.0 victory over Chicago’s Cubs-{only 23 batters Wednesday, the Mets' first road I
victory of the season and their .Cardinals took undisputed pos--Mickey Mantle remained side- .session of first place in the lined with a rib muscle tear.
fifth in the last six games. Willey. formerly with Milwau.
Bout Slated For June 27
LAS VEGAS (Apt—The re- match between world heavy- weight champion Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson will he fought at the Convention Centre here June 2?. officials said Wednesday.
Liston won the championship. from Patterson at Chicago last Sept. 25 by a knockout in twa minutes, six seconds of the first round.
Al Bolan. vice-president of Championship Sports. Inc.,
which is promoting the re- match. said each fighter will get 30 per cent of the gate reccpits and 30 per cent of the proceeds from nation wide closed circuit theatre televi- sion.
Liston now is in training at Lowry Air Force Base. Denver, Colo. Patterson is at Highland Mills. N.Y. They are expected to come here to wind up train- ing a month before the fight.
The rematch was originally set for Miami Beach April 4 but Liston contended he had hurt his knee swinging a golf club while posing for a photographer and the bout was delayed.
In other day games. St. Louis
National League with a e over San Francisco Giants. Chicago New York Yankees 6-4
4-3. lS-inning triumph over Los Angeles Angels.
Night games were scheduled for Kansas City at Baltimore. Boston at Cleveland and Minne- sota at Washington in the Amer- ican League. and Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. Milwaukee at Houston and Cincinnati at Los Angeles in the National League.
Willey scored his first victory as a Met and Hunt, a 21-year- old second baseman. hit his homer off Bob Buhl in the fifth inning.
EARNS THIRD WIN
St. Louis rammed in all its runs in the sixth inning and brought lefty Curt Simmons his third straight victory. Simona went the distance. although al- lowing nine hits. five of them do es.
'I‘he Cards got all their runs off Billy Pierce in the sixth on three singles. a walk. a sacri- fice and Dick Groat‘s two-run double.
Hoyt Wlhelm allowed only one hit in 3 1-3 innings of relief and Mike Hershbcrger singled in two runs in h 12th in leading the‘White Sox over the crippled Yankees. The Yankees scored two runs in the ninth to
White Sox beat in 12 innings and Al Kaline's home L05 run brought Detroit Tigers a runs in the 12th, Th
had relieved Juan Pizarro and one of his fluttering knuckle-V
pulled out a
up lame after running single in the second.
aline. who got even in ltwo-run
the Tigers
the seventh with a double. won it with his homer in the 15th. Detroit and Angeles matched singleH e game was played in 47-degree cold before a crowd of only 1.575.
Karras Faces 1 ‘ Similar Fate l
: As Wrestler l MUSKEGON. Mich. (AP) — l lex Karras. star Detroit Lions tackle under suspension from the National Football League. lnow faces the possibility 01‘ a 'similar fate in his wrestling ca- ; l
reer. 4 Michigan boxing commis- isioner David Gudelsky said
‘Wednesday there will be fines for suspensions for both Karma- and wrestler Richard Afflis as a iresult of a bar room brawl they , were involved in early Tuesday ;in Detroit.
! Afflis, 34, who as Dick the Bruiser wrestles Karras Satur- 1day night in Detroit. lost a fall. Jto eight policemen in the bar and had five stitches taken in a head cut he said was caused ,when someone hit him with a jpool cue. ‘
who fiuatdimt
SECOND. SECTION
Charlottetown.
Thurs. April 25, 1963.
SCORES STUNNING UPSET
‘ Vancouver's Tom Dinsley
SPORTS FRONT
By ems CALLAGHAN
Wins First Gold Medal
SAO PAULO. Brazil (CF-AP) commercial student from the:
of Vancou- Toronto suburb of West var-cracked the United States surprised even herself by czm- monopoly on aquatic champion- ing from behind to take the sec- ships at the Pan — American ond-place silver medal in the Games Wednesday with a stun- women's three - metre swind-
Diver Tom Dinsley
Hill
ning. upset victory in the men's board divins-
three-metre springboard diving. His victory gave Canada its bronze medal for third place."
first gold medal and with two,said the 19-year-old
silvers—in women's diving . and l champion.
team pistol shooting—added to] first major international compe-
ronze med. l tition.
Can-
two silver and two als won earlier. it moved
the U.S. standings.
in unofficial
“1 had only hoped to win the
competin
She finished
Gary McMahon of Dartmouth. At that time. the U.S. had 12 NS. a physicist who won the
Canadian in her
second behind ada into second place behind Barbara Ellen-McAlister of the medal .
gold medals, eight silvers and‘silver medal in individual free. v
. seven bronze.
counting senior at the Univer- sity of Indiana. came from be- hi
divers who led after Tuesday's compulsory dives. SURPRISE SELF
Tiny Judy Stewart. fill-pound
Gudelsky said he hoped to as- semble the state athletic com
mission, also on Monday. to dis
:pistol shooting Tuesday. led the Dinsley. a 22 - year - old ac. Canadian pistol team to a sec-
‘ond - place fnish Wednesday. .The US. won the gold medal,
with a spectacular per.fwilh Chpt. Franklin Green—the- formance in Wednesday's opgindividual gold medallist—lead- tional dives to defeat two U.S. : ins his team to victory ‘wnh
2,170 points to the Canadians' i2.146. Brazil was third with
Mike Doig of Brandon. Man.. Bille Hare of Ottawa and Fer- nand Lapointe of Quebec City were listed as other members of the Canadian team.
Afflis's Jury trial on assault‘cuss the status of Karras and STAYS AHEAD
and battery comes up Monday.
Afflls.
Dinsley, with his second dive
TOM DINSLEY
-chncsday, pulled ahead of the ‘ .8. pair of Dick Gilbert. 19. and Ken Sitzhergcr. 18. And he stayed there. leaving Gilbert. the leader after the compulsory
program. to take the silver- ‘medal and Sitzberger the bronze.
“Tears came to my eyes
when they played the Canadian anthem as g gold medal," said Dinsley. “It was wonderful to hear that tune." Dinsley also is entered in to- day's platform diving. but he said he feels his chances are slim because of limited diance to practice off platforms in- doors ln Canada. He was over- whelmed. however, with he springboard win. 3
. » ..»..
., -. firm. JUDY STEWART
Miss Stewart. in third place, too, after Tuesday's compulsory program. carried through all her dives Wednesday with bet- ter-‘than-average success. Her consistency paid off when Patsy Willard of the U.S., the first-
day leader, faltered on her third dive. Meanwhile. t h e argument
over whether Cuba's baseball team is tinged with profession- ism — begun after uba whipped the U.S. 13-1 in the opening game—died down Wed- nesday as Mexico upset the Cu-
f1
bans 5-3. The U.S. scored its third win with a 13-3 victory over Brazil.
By Norman
SPORT ECHOES'
Macdonald
Summer-side Bureau of The Guardian
e Borden Nationals won the Island Intermediate “C” hockey title. the only tea to west Prince County line to perform this feat, as far as our k nowledge extends. so we've decided to devote this column entirely to them. first of all- Take Bill and Gabriel Keough, Give each a stick and watch
him go: For seasoning just add Ralph
On ice he‘s always in a hurry. A pinch of Donnie Bell. and next n
o This . e For d
dish. Gerard and Roger
xton:
all these fellows glory shar- 9
With leading scorer Willard L ar ;
Stir well with other teams till
on ; No sponn. Just use Garth Roger- son.
We conclude with some thumb- flail sketches of the Forward —- . ls captain of the Nationals. His h o c k e y career started In Borden with the Minor league. He w a a with Crapaud Bantams in 1954 and spent last season with Middleton Bombers. Gerard Sexton. assistant c a p t a l 1!. played minor hockey in Bor- den and went on to play 1 Carleton Combines. Also play- ed for a while in Moncton. El- ton Mclnnfs played minor hoc- key ln Borden. and then for Middleton Bombers. Gabriel Keough played for Cape Tra- verse Rovers last season; has high potential for h o c k s y career.
Gerard R o b e r t s appeared briefly in Island Senior hockey; was with Middleton Bombers last. year: Donnie Bell s p e n t last season with Bedeque. Ralph; ‘ - —
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Championship Team Recipe .
Now take MacDonald. he's a mountie
Who starred before he reached Prince County; '
There on defence he takes his
v
A touch of Roberts. dash of Dar-. rach. j
On ice they shine like a tlara. ? The. Borden Nationals' will to
wm is Helped by that boy. Elton Mc- Innis
The victory cake is done- gee whilliker!
We almost left out Hazen Sillik- rl
e . And Len McMurrer's in the nets,‘ So Borden need have no regrets. Just add a jigger of champagne. The whole. whipped up by coach
Bill Crane:
Now that concoction is a pip. A Borden National champion-
ship. .
Thumb-Nail Sketch l
Murray was coach and captain of Carleton Combines last year. Brian De r rac h had his first year of Intermediate "C" hoc- key as did Roger Sexton. !
Defencemen— Bill Keough started his career with Borden Minor Hockey League and last season was with Carleton Combines. Garth Rogerson played hockey with Crapaud and Cape Traverse before coming to Borden. Hazen Sil- llker spent last season with l O‘Leary Larks. W.J.R. Mac- Donald started hls career in 1 Park League, Windsor. Ontar- " lo. Played for Stanford Colle- giate High School. On the Is- , land played with M ontague. RCMP. Winsloe, Hampshire. . He played for Primroees in the Island Senior League. Al- berton. and Charlottetown Maroons In the Social League.
Garth Bradshaw—- also a Na- tional goal tender with Bcdcque "C" champions. and came to Borden as No. 1 goaler until his transfer to the Bank of Nova Scotia in Sussex.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations. Borden Na- tionals. You showed Ins Prince County fans the way. and we wish for you more success In the years to some. C o a c h Crane says he and the whole town of Borden are very proud of , on all.
Maury Wills Yet To Steal
2 Base This Year
LOS ANGELES (Apt—Little Maury Wills. who stole a record-shattering 104 bases last season. has yet to steal his first one this year.
Las year's most valuahlc player in the National League is not getting panicky. nor is be offering any alibis. ut he did say Wednesday
a sprained when Los
1 the original 47
‘ Howell
Punch And Keon
IT’S no mystery by now that George 'Punch' Imlach is
high on
this boy. Dave Keon. Imlach has indicated that
he
thinks Dave is the best in the business and Punch isn't given
to passing out was able to ‘tains that‘s why he keeps
too many bouquets.
Despite the fact that Keon is used as a penalty score 28 times in the regular insisting that he is the best in the
ldllerv .he season. Punch main
business today. lmlach goes further and flatly states that. D3: in
could easily go over 35 each penalty-killing role
year if he was not us
And this seems. like a sensible. statement. if Kenn can come
through with :3 while killing off mostly all it's only reasonable to assume that he going over the 35 mark if he were otherwise employed.
Leafs' penalties, wold have little trouble
It's been a long time since a player the age of Dave Kenn has attracted so much attention from the men who get the sport pages together. Kenn has surely provided them with great copy and Punch has helped a whole lot with his state- ments landing Dave for his abilities.
Clancy, The Prophet
FRANK ‘King' Clancy proved a much better prophet than the author of Sports Front. 1n mid-February we (onceded first place to Chicago Black Hawks but Clancy kept on mSisting
that his Lea-f5 We figur _ that. However. despi
were going to head the pack on closing King was just being overly loyal and let it Leafs' fine stretch drive. we would have
t.
m go at
been right if the Hawks had not completely collapsed. Natural-
ly we were happy Clancy was tight and we
were wrong.
Of course, in playoffs Clancy called it right. We did, too.
as was the case
with the Leaf supporters. But the night of the
fourth game in Detroit. Clancy was interviewed after the first
[session with Detroit leading 1-0.
He assured his viewers then
'that Toronto would come back and win that one and close out the series two nights later in the Queen City.
Truthfully, we wouldn't have been that brave on that part- icular occasion but Clancy was and he got away With it.
The Le a made him look mighty good
It’s Fun There
lT must be great fun running a race track in those big
cities
We were at Richilieu a couple of weeks ago and there must have been about 10.000 folks watching the ten races. We didn't
keep track of the amount wagered but it must have been ar
the $400,000 mark. e see where folks in
ters and pacers. At eenw
8000 persons set a sesaon's betting record of
Toronto are, c ,
mind
really taking to the trot- euay the other night. over $377,332. That was
nearly $10000 more than the biggest previous night in 1963.
There surely is no financial worry staging races in parts. If the tracks in the Maritimes could get a bit of
these this
interest going. then the headaches would be all removod. How- ever, it's quite a chore making ends meet down this way and in a great many cases, they just don’t. meet. If folks in Montreal andI Toronto are turning out andbet- e
ting In this manner
weather improves. We envy these guys.
Planning
T LaHer season
the
lainid League dropped from ‘ ' and won to
in the season, you can readily imagine what great times are in store for promoters when the
Already
HE local hockey season may be ended but. Norm 'Hawk' and his Irving F'lyers are already planning for next
The Flyers were ready to go intermediate ‘A' this season for Maritime competition but changed their minds when the 1s-
senior race. e Flyers went
ew Brunswick-Prince Edward Island crown.
They couldn‘t entice Pictou to play in the Maritime finals and. since the ‘B' bracket is only conducted by the MAHA on a prov-
incial
season in 1968.454. We. hear
scale, the season ended there and th . However. ‘Hawk' and his boys intend to have a much busier that they are toying with the idea
en
‘of getting into an Island league if they are found acceptable to those already holding franchises. We believe the Flyers would And Heal-1y always gels his may cause all other teams plenty of trouble and they'd probably
be and attnactlons at the
gate e may see much more of the Flyers next season..
Map Reference
Tricks Drivers
By BRUCE LEVETT
PORT ARTHUR. Ont. (Cpl-— A tricky map reference Wed- nesday shuffled some of the front-runners in the 4.000-mile Cross-Canada rally.
Bill Silvers and Lloyd Howell of Toronto fell from a fourth- place to 12th spot‘ after gomg astray at Eagle Creek just east of Dryden. Ont.. early Wednes- day. Their Falcon Sprint picked up 14 penalty points before they made it. to control here. The Chevy 11 of Clay Gibbs and Dick Doyeu
iof Milwaukee remained in the
lead.
The field of 43 cars. cut from y mechanical troubles and mud. left Winnipeg before dawn for Sault . Marie. Ont.. the next overnight top.
John Wilson and George son. Falcon team ma of and Silvera. came through here without penalty.
“The been wrong." Wilson said. "The
'route instructions were right."
Officials and some drivers were. hoping the second leg of he rally would be tougher than the first.
Only three cars dropped out of the Vancouver Calgary stretch. none failed to make the Calgary-Regina run and only one didn‘t check in at Winni- peg Tuesday.
A total of 16 cars made in run to Winnipeg without incur-
ring penalty pmnls and some organirers h o p e d for bad weather to separate the men from the boys.
The latest drop-mil came
Tuesday in the muddy Riding
Angeles Dodgers opcncd scason Zplay at Chicago.
“And l am having a lilllc trouble getting a good start and pivoting." the Dodger shortstop
. a You won't hear it from Wills.
but other hall players can offer part of an explanation.
Dodger Stadium‘s ncw infield is softer and much slower than last year. where Wills copped til of his bases.
The stadium. and the new crushed rock infield. are the pride and joy of Walter O'Mal- Icy. the Dodger owner and boss.
There are other factors. how- ever. why ' s has no stolen .bases as against the four he had at this same date in 1962
For one, he missed six games after a collision with Chicago;
he lg still cautious about Dick Bartil at home plate whenK ankle is ‘
ltheanklswah hurt-
Mountain National Park when the supercharged Corvair of Victoria's David Cooper and Bob Low ran into mechanical difficulties. They were ast seen being towed westward and reports said they had a broken piston.
Mud in the park area caused concern among drivers. Alice Ferguson of Toronto. Stude- baker driver, said "we came lhl‘.211‘2ll with our '9 "id waggling like a ballet dancer."
Mike Kerry of Montreal. co- driving with Belgium's Oliver Gendebein, summed up the muddy stretch: “It wasn't bad enough. We had hoped to pick up some time over others."
Mer- es
map appears to have.
m... M... Roger Maris Lame Again
NEW YORK (AP! —— New York Yankees' Roger Maris pulled up lame again in the
second inning of Wednesday's game with Chicago White Sox and left the game. ‘
The Yankees right fielder apparcntiy suffered a re-injury of the hamstring muscle in his le.l log. first hurt in spring training April 1. He. missed the first two weeks of the season. returning to the lineup April 19.
Mickey Mantle. the other member of New York's potent M-and-M combination. also has been out of action as the result of a groin muscle injury March 10. He is reported ready to return to the lineup.
Wins two out in the second. Maris sent a slow roller down the third base. line and beat it out to first base. He was re- placed on bass bx Jae! land.