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By ems OALLAGHAN

Irish Face Elimination

BIS fiamrocks face elimination this evening when

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The Parkdale Lions, led by Art Ballem, gave a great oc- oount of themselves before submitting to Mike Connolly's Park crew. The Lions had finished a poor fourth

' born the Lie-ro .1 date with

formamces.

However, it must

Salltothc

BUT a great many times such games are won on of breaks. Naturally the fellow making the bobble feels thing. We know this was the Shamroc

mighty rough about the whole use with this

e But these things happen and will continue to happen '

best of leagues. Very often crucial spot like Is. has b long. That is especially

At any rate. it's a u

oresoeveniymatedtliat farinedan t.

'1“ up% . me teams are playing great softball and the fans a-re show-

ing up each night in ever-increasing numbers.

tangle with e .eveu City Softball League semi-finals. t:lifl.rstonebuttbePisbonsbavere-

Irish and Pistons are concerned, it has been 0 ding-dong affair right from the start. Mike O'Brien has cer-

O'Brien has come out of semi--retirement to give his mates a big edge in this battle with V benoted that the last defeat of the Irish was a mighty tough one. The Irish had it in their grasp until n damaging error allowed two runners to cross the pie . It was onybody’s ball game but the good luck certainly didn't Irish Tuesday evening.

en a true in this case in question.

p series and the Pistons are the ones who will claim that it's all but over. These teams anything that happens will not be

in game ofo

one decision 11 in regular season

his Iwo brilliant pitching per-

ern Blanchard s gank.

Harry Jerome (left) of Van- couver and Bruce Kidd of To- ronto, shaking hands at the British Empire- Games trials In Toronto Saturday were sel-

TEAM MATES FOR Pear

ected to represent their coun- ,

try at the BE games in Perth, Australia. Jerome won the 220

yards today while Kidd took the three miles. Saturday, ’

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_ Kidd covered the six miles in i 28:09.4 — fastest in North A- merica — while Jerome blaz- ed across the 100 yards in 9.4. (C? PHOTO)

the player that miscues in o wer of drengtii all season

‘mrwhich team will make the fina_ls?_We will not predict but we say that either the Pistons or Irish should give a good ac-

coun of themselves against the Hughes and Bradleys from the

ark.

Tune ls Changed

WE 11?“ Said many nice things about the City Baseball Lea:-g.ie this season and we ment every word we typed.

There was much to praise in many of the games and the play- to give everything they had, all frames and the closeness of the battles kept things in a high

to seemed

state of excitement.

Now we change out tune after watching Tuesday's game be- tween Rovers and Stars. it was a lacklustre affair and the Rovers 0‘ ¢-‘ollrse. beaten 10-3 were the cause of most of the sad state of offal

8.

We can't just put our finger on what was wrong. other than the Rovers seemed minus any degree of pep. cly quiet when they were in the field and chatter was definitely a

minus quantity. Perhaps we are all wrong but

players are playing positions for which they are not suited. And at goes for pitchers too. We just can"t see this trying to make on infielder out of a player who shows no tendency to play the infield. We can't see this keeping on pitching a chap who is labor. ing al‘ the time he is on the mound. We can't see allowing pitch- El: tollsitay on the hill while the opposition bangs them all over

- c Some fellows just haven't the knack of tossing them from the mound, so why keep putting them in to be slaughtered. It's surely no disgrace not to be able to hold down a certain position. The best forward on a hockey team undoubtedly would make a rotten

goaltender. Shouldn't things be similar in

Harness

Hustle was a must Wliul

By STEWART MacLEOD . (CP) -—- Frank Gerhard. a slim, shy Austrian,l piston-legged his bicycle from ' Montreal to Hull Wednesday at an average speed of 24 miles an hour to win the ninth lap of the .

iplace finish Wednesday. Rus-

sia's Ale k s e i Petrov re-

mained in the lead. Petrov fin-

ished ahead of his nearest rival,

Austria's Adolf Christian Wed-

nesday. Gerhard, p e d d 1 1: cl the 122

Tour du St. Laurent by a split miles in 4:46:37, the same time

second.

The win, by a wheel's length over Russia's Victor Kapltonov, boosted Gei-hard's standing to fifth from 16th. Despite a six-

Pas clocked by Kapltonov. They

strained. side-by-side, for much

of the way. gradually pillingl

ahead of Russia's Gainan Sald- itcrnatlonal competiti .___‘ M

They were strang-

we have the idea that several

baseball? 1

Racing

Slated Tonight

Harness racing returns tonight to Charlottetown Driving Park1 where nine great looking dashes. are scheduled for the big crowd‘ expected.

Feature attraction will be dashes five and nine with Clarke smith taking his great pacer, Santiago, away on the rail. San- tiago grabbed himself a new tab of 2.08 in his last outing.

However, he has a rugged looking opposition to face to- night. Five other classy pacer»-

They are Henn- essey). Amos r o s t (Buddy Campbell). Dominion Byrd

' (Doug Hill) and Blue Sky Lark

(Emmet Bernard).

Dashes three and seven should be almost as exciting as the feature attraction. I-Iere patrons find Ray Grattan Up in th choice rail position. This pacer is looking better each time out and should be tough to head to- night. His competitors are Edge- wood Hal, Helen's Dream, Here Am I. Pert Darnley and Home- stretch Linda.

Each of the other five dashes should be chalked full of excite- ment and chances for big parl-

Q

. mutuel pays are good tonight.

The first daily double will be on’races one and two. with the quinella on da three.

First dash goes promptly at 8 o'clock. sun

Big Pays

S'side Program

SUMMERSIDE — Some of the best win and place pay‘s of the season were chalked up at I Summerside Raceway last night and some close, exciting finish- es were seen by a fairly large) c ro wd despite the inclement‘: weather. ;

Senator Don C owned by Paddy Land Farms, Kensington, won} the first dash of the D-2 pace‘ and paid $121.60. Princess Span-, gler ,owned by A. MacNeill. Summerside paid $44.00 to place in the first dash of the D-1 trot. huck H. also owned by Pad-‘ dy Lands Farms. paid $22.00 to( win in the second dash of the D-2 trot. and the exactor on that race, featuring uck B an Mr. Key, paid $57.60. The quln-4 ella paid $8.30 and the two daily‘, ‘doubles paid $44.00 and $23.00.,

Chuch I-I. set a new record of‘ 2.17 2-5 in winning the second dash of the D-2 trot. My Haven did not finish the first dash of the D-2 pace. The horse fell and the driver, Clarky Smith was knocked off the bike but was un- injured.

SUMMARIES:

D-3 PACE Gay Texas (M. Kennedy) Dr. Alex (C. Smith)

Lady Clegg (T. Turner) Miss McGee (L. Hennessey) 'ne)

Baseball

Action

Slated Tonight

This is the big night at Mem-

orial Field. It was supposed .to be lost nilht but wet Erounds forced a e

postpon ment. baseball doubleheader, with

tory. Abbies are hoping they'll attract a large number of local ball followers.-

It should be a night to remem- ber at Memorial Field The Lit- le Leoguers go at 7 o'clock and the Kins’: County All Stars and

Immediate

Abbles will fall with their act. ' Here are the lineups f

moin contest:- or an 0mfly All-stars: —'Oox. uoobcnald, Keefe. 'r1cineu, ' MOCIMYN. Crane. Cdfin, Gon- IIOIIY. . - , Brorley, Dunphs Maclntyre.

the c chores will be

Amen!-tilt. Ready. . Call . hon. W.,MocDonold, B. Gfllatlfi. M . liephad, D. MacDon- IU on. g:eK.i;fllll: Lewis. K. MacDon-

. Manager- coodi ls Buck Whftlock.

Iniured Driver

Wodnosdoy

driver. who finished

in this year‘: 500-mile I an: Moltortal classic of 1ndl- get; n We mflored o curred

fro . . rail. ‘flipped

nor . ’ Mighty Verna (F. Folland)

. sey) Echo Ridge Eddy (Geo. Call- back) 3

cat looped and lorgolqergfi-ml It feat. rammed into clfarloitetown darts over twice and willbefor9 Ionded upside down wlthi ru1im1guonuoor1m.'moio;.. ..

Jolllty Senorita (J. L. d)

U to a~l7fiuI.huk¢—-

Winning horse owned by Jam- es Harris. 0'Leary. Time 2.19.

C-PACE Real Gold (C. Smith) 1 1 Scottish Light (1.. Homes- 2 2

Cathy Girl (A. Burblne) 4 3 Elmer C. (Alan Smith) 5 5 Winning horse owned by 8.

Feature

Mayhew, Kinkora. Times 2.12 1-5; 2.10 1-5.

D-TROT AND PACE Princess Spangler (G. Robin-

so 1

Wing Victory (0. Morris- se

Gary Lee Clegg dy)

Winnie Jay Clegg (C. Stew- rt)

1 3 (M. Kenne- 2

Royal I-li Direct (C. Smith) 5 5 Thistle's Son (T. Mullin) 6 6

Princess Spangler owned by A. MacNeill, S'side; Wing Vic-

iAus’rrian Wins Ninth Lap Of Tour Du St. Laurent

khudzin, who led o closely-N packed group of 37. about 111 minutes behind the leaders. l

Forty - eight completed the trip under cloud-speckled skies. , The only one who failed to fin- ish was Tim Kelly of Santa Monica. Calif. The temperature was in the low 705.

ESEVEN LAPS LEI-‘T - Seven laps remain in the in- Oil.

ore than 1,000 spectators gathered around the finish line to see the see-saw battle work down the ir Gerhard made his final thru yards from the line. just shook his head. .

The pack of 37 who followed); were all given times of 4:57:83. ; Both Petrov and Christian. were 1 in the group.

At the end of nine laps. which ; have covered 598 miles. Petrov‘ leads with a time of 25:09: followed by Christian with 25:11: . tonov, who‘ moved up two notches as a re-2 suit of Wednesday's second- place finish, is third with 252-:

:34. .

st a few Kapltonov

56,

16

The Montreal - Hull race‘ left i c a m standings unchanged. ‘ They stand in this order: Rus-N sia, Austria, United States. Can-t ada, Switzerland, England. Tor- onto Abru z z i, Charlesbourg,

tory owned by Mrs. K. 1. Camp- bell, East Riverside, N. B. Times 2.12 2-5; 2.14 1-5.

D-2 TROT

lQU€., and California. 1

The 48 cyclists were to race‘ around a 25-mile closed circuit in nearby Ottawa's Rockciiffei Park Wednesday night before starting out for Cornwall, Ont... this morning. Then they work? their way back to Montreal and Quebec City for the tour's end Aug. 11.

Chuck H. (R. Kennedy) 3 1 Happy Gallon (G. Willis) 1 6 Mr. Key (E. Reeves) 2 2 I-larless Abb (L. Kelly) 6 3 Honey's R a s c cl (0. Morris- sey) 4 4 Pay Roll (A. Ford) 5 8 Way Mon (C. Smith) ll 5 7 7

James L. S. C.V. Smith)

huck H. owned by Paddy Land Farms, Kensington; Hap- py Gallon owned by R. S. Hum-

Senaior Don C. (J. Ber- na 1

Nora Annway (G. Callbeck) 2 1 Adrian Boy (C. V. Smith) 3 3 Corby (T. Mullin) 4 5 Lady Mark (G. Robinson) 7 4 Win Barnes (3. Rafferty) 5 0 S c o tt Densmore (R. MacAr-

thur)

- 6 7

My Haven (C. Smith) Dnf dr.

Senator Don C. owned by Pad-

dy Land Farms. Kenslngton;

Nora Annway owned by Geo. Callbeck. S'side.

Times 2.15 2.5- 2.17 1-5.

Note—The qilinella paid 88.30.

Piclou Driver

Bonfom-Midget Playoffs Open

SUMMERSIDE -- The Bantam -Midget baseball playoff tourna- ment ls under way in summer- slde with (force beans poflictpa

The two top tennis at the end of the tournament will play 1 of seven series for the R.

'1'. Holman trophy.

Thurs. Aug. 0. Giants vs Dod- gers; Fri. Aug. 10, Cardinals vs Dodgers; sot. Aug. 11, for rained out games); Mon. -Aug. 13. Giants vs Cardinals; ‘Tue. Aug. 14, Dodgers vs Gl-

ants.

lGolf Tourney

is Suspended

TRURO (CP) — Wilfred shes. veteran Plctou. N.S. relnsman. has been suspended for a per- iod of 15 days following on in- vestigation of

e,. at Truro Raceway on July 25.

Saliva tests made following the race showed some trace of drug. Cori Mackenzie, manager

Raceway, sold Wednes- day a slight trace of procaine was found. He sold chemical sn- alysis were unable to locate the

or source of the drug. but allowed there was not enough

present to Presid DougMocKcn- ate, in announcing the 1 from uly 27. to Aug-

ust 10.soidltwoolnlfne with rnlesaftheUnitodmotos'1'rot- (nobody

g Association govern of racing in Nova scotlo. _

harness race -

Midgets Beat Bantams 4-2

In the only Minor Baseball League game yesterday the Mid- get All Stars edged Bantam All- Stars «-2 in a well - played game. Harvey Trainor hurled a neat three-hitter for the victory while Alla-n Doucette fired a five-hitter in a losing cause.

Cyril Mocbonal leftfielder for thw Midgets, was the only batter to get two hits while Joe Gallant of the Midgets and Bob- by Wliitlock of th mused out doubles. ,

_Tb< other Bantam hits were‘ nicked by Wally Maclnnis and

' Leclair.

Barry, Llo:y'(é nciiard made four rlmning catches in left field for Bantams.

ii Poul Trainor, Ion Wave. George Curl- ey, Ron Cormidiael. Robert Ste- wart. like Fl .

Probable Pitchers

I! ‘I'll ASSOCIATED Hills

Probable pitchers for today’: major league games, won - lost records in parenthesis:

American Le e ' Baltimore ,(Brow‘n - 3) at New York (Ford 11-5) (N). Los Angeles (Grbo 0 -' 0) at (Fla 4 or Buz-

) .

Minnesota (Knot 12-9) at Kan- on City (Pfioter I-9)

Detroit ( 2-0) or Foy- tock 0 - 4) at Washington’ (Cheney 4-0) (N).

Cleveland (Perry 8-9) at Bos-

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CANADIAN PRESS

By THE The Eastern Football Confer- clued

ence heads into another season tonight—-possibly its most glit- tering year since Montreal Al- ouettes ruled supreme for three straight seasons in 1954-55-50. The defending champion Hamilton Tiger-Cats. with only a few changes in last year's squad, rate as solid favorites in spite of a dismal, pre - season exhibition record of t h r e e losses. It has not lured the other clubs — the Alouettes. Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders into any false hopes the Ticats will be easy to knock f

The Alouettes, h o w e v e 1',

could be the team to do it with

Tracadie Cops Opener

Tracadie Cross downed John- ston's River 11 - 8 in the first game of a semi-final round in the Southern Queen’: Baseball League last Sunday.

Gerry McCal1um.tossed f o r the w i n n e r s gathering seven strikeouts over the route. w Billy McFarlane tocd the slab for the losers.

Second sacker. Mervyn McNal- 1y, led the winners taking three singles and two free passes in five trips gathering three runs. Mike MacDonald took three sin- gles in five trips totalling two runs for the losers. I

Next Sunday Tracadie Cross‘ invades Johnston's River for the second game of the best-of-three semi-finals. Game time is two o'clock

Umpire for the game was Er- nie Trainor assisting him on bases were John Paul and Mike McKenna.

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the addition of o hlghly-publi- rookie quarterback. Sandy Stephens. to solve their quarter- back problem. The offence. was the big failing in their last-place finish in 1901. They had the best defensive club in the league but it was not enough to overcome their inability to move the ball.

The Argonauts and Rough Riders, with problems on both -offence and defence are not considered as strong contend- ers. But the Argos’ free-wheel- ing. quick-striking passing‘ ot- tack and the Rough Riders’ well - balanced offence. make both clubs dangerous.

MOSS PREDICTS

for the Alouetteo' who thinks his three-year rebuilding job now is rea to pay off. none of the coaches will make any predic- tions as to where their clubs will finish in their 14 - game sch es.

Moss is'expecrting big things from Stephens, who passed up Cleveland Browns of the Na- tional Football League to sign

Holman’: Crush Si. Eleanors SUMMERSIDE Holman’:

downed St. Eleanors by the score of 20-7 last evening in a

the 6

Social League softball play-off game to go ahead two games to nil in the best of five semi-finals.

for Barlow for the losers. Des Sher- ry also led his team's attack,

a three-ye no-cut contract with Montrea 1 820.000 a sea- oon. The All’ coach predicts his club will finish second at least and it wouldn't surprise him if they do bet-lg than th

The Tiger is. first

BASEBALL scores

at. - place

3! THE? American League

Baltimore 000 New York 100000101-- 3 51 Pappns (10-7) and Lsndritli. Lau (0); Stafford, Bridges (5-0) (9) and Howard. HR: Bait — lierzog (4). Second

Baltimore 000040o00—-4 :1 Fisher (5-5),

310 Donovan (15 - 5) Funk (6) Dalley (8) and Edwards; Con- ley (10-10) and Tillman. First

Los Angeles 000100040- 5 72 Chlcao 000000100- 1 72 Bowsfleld (7-5) Spring (8) and od - Pizarro (11-12) Joyce (8) and Carreon.

First Detroit 400200000- 681 Washington 111 000 020 - 5 11 2

Mossi, Kline (3 - 3) Fox (8) and Brown; Stenhouse (10 - 6) 1 Kutyna (1) Hamilton (5) Han-

getting, a perfect 6 for 6.. and only home run of the ball game. Jim Macl~‘arlane had 4 for 4. . and Leonard Maccausland 5 forf For the losers Gerald Thom-I"

as had 4 for 5. ‘

SPORTECHOES'

By Norman Mai-donald Summerside Bureau of The Guardian

A Unique Event

An event unique in the annals Prince Edward Island Sports took place at Queen Elizabeth Park in Summer- side on Tuesday €"°|1ifl8- W9 havc had a good many cele- brations for athletes who ac- hieved a Maritime champion- ship, but. to our knowledge. Alfred Groom is the firse Can- adian cliampion to be so hon- ored. We bclieve Alfred is the Prince Edward Islander to gain a berth on a Canadian team to take part in British Empire games.

It is a honor that did not fall to Alfred a pl-um lI‘(°.‘. or 1' wing of the Irish Sweepstakes. Long periods of tedious, pains- taking training made the honor possible. When we hear person who wins fame and glory

Was Also A Pole-Voulier

We don't think it is generally known_ that Vaughan Groom, Alfred's tlatilier, was also a pole- waulter in his youth. We listen- Bob Oiark a-nd Vaughan reminiscing at the airport Tucs- day evening about a junior track and field meet they attended together on the mainland. Bob was 13 or 14 at the time and Varu-ghan was about 16. Vaughan won the pole-vault at that meet with a jump of a little ovctr 10 feet. which was probably in those days a pretty respect- able vault.

Baseball fans be sure to at- tend the old-timer-Legion Jun- ior baseball game at Queen Elizabeth Park on Saturday at it p.m. Bring your own pea- nuts and cracker-lacks, and be

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me of are likely to see: Phaneuf crossing Granville St.. crawling under a couple of cars, and making a one- hand stab up on the verandali

A Few Possible Hozords

We can't guarantee that those plays wlu come off er- octly as advertised. There are a few possible boaonlo. such as arteriosclerosis. lnmbogo. fallen arches, and occupation. ol neurosis that might slow