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' Reece Juniors and i Kinsmen juniors open the local baseball season at thC Old dllmlllid 1|‘! Vick-fin Park tonight when the two finalists o: last year’! Junior M,” tangle in the first game of ‘his year's schedule. Th0 [IMO ' to produce a close.

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‘Eon. teeirns will present chang- "ad lineups ircm the one that fin- lshed out the schedule last sea- gon but both are sald'to be much ‘Home, both offensively and de- fensively. Despite numerous set- backs the two squads have shown marked improvement in recent ivcrkouts and are sloped-ed i4 dil- play mid-season ‘form in tonight's opener that will get underway at 1,30 sharp.

12' ' managers. Charlie Ryan and McNeill had no comment to .e upon the outcome but both will send their strongest lineup in a action in an endeavor ‘iogetaiwa toafastetartinthe campaign-

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~ Last evening at Crapaud rep- rcsentstlves from several centres met to talk over softball plans for the summer months. After a bit oi preliminary discussion, it was decided to organize the South "Queen's Softball League. Teams presently slated to make up the loop are Augustine Cove. Crapaud, Victoria. Canoe cove. Bonshaw and Albany.

1t was decided to postpone draw- ing up a schedule for a week in order to enable other communities to enter the League should they chose to do so; additional teams may enter the loop by applying to the secretary treasurer. _ The election of officers resulted as iollowsz-President, Dave Bos- wall, Victoria; Vice ‘President, Wen- dell MacFadyen. Augustine Cove: secretary Treasurer, Bill Weddell, Crspaud; Executive to consist of the officers and a representative from each team participating. A Ivtciai grounds committee oom-

gprisecl of Messrs. Ken Machaan,

Harry Ferguson. cico. Nicholson, Archie MacKlnnon, Cecil ‘ M“. Phail and Dan Cameron, was ap- liolnted to look after piayin lleids. etc. . 1 The Director of Physical liitness. Lt. Col. Bill Reid assisted in the organization meetingand assured‘ the representatives present of W"! possible co-operation from his department

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Wifli both boys tralnlfl j B the scrap fight fans, should witness an exciting boning card at the Sporting Club ‘on Tuesday night wheifJinx Jenkins attempts to lift the Island heavyweight boxing crown from “Big Boy" Peterson. the defending tltleholder.

A ten-round affair. the scrap is expected to produce more fireworks than has been witnessed in a local ring since the pair tangled last fail and opi ion aa to the outcome is pretty we divided among the boxing followers who have been following the activities of both fighters.

In addition to matching the two heavyweights promoterloey Mc- Donald is lining up several other evenly matched bouts. He already has Lloyd Carr and Tiger Steele signed for a e-round semi-final and is expected to announce the remainder of his card within. th next few days.

ilga Khan's A Filly. Wins Oak Stakes

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eacaped highway injury by two minutes, dodged near-tropical rain and hall storms along withthou- sands of other race-goers, and then aaw his filly Angeiola, a 20-1 longshot, beaten by lltrldngths in~ the 101th renewal of the rich Oaks Stakes today.

The Aga Khan's Masada. stamp- ed herself as the British filly of the year with a clean-cut victory over the largest field - 25 - to contest the 1 1-2 mile classic in 100 years. Ridden by the veteran Billy Nevett and trained by Frank

Maaaka, third favorite, paid at odds of 7-1.

The King. Queen, Princess Ilia-

abeth and other members of the royal finally watched the race from the Epsom grandstand. To the wlnnu- o! the race, re- stricted to three year old fillies won £10,879 ($42,715). The Inrench- bred Iblie II, at 53-1, waa third. Before the thrills‘ of the big race. came the ‘regal escape from the accident’ en route to the cosine. Violent winds, which were blowing all day. tore down a largetree and threw it across the path of the royal motorcade minutes berm the King. Queen and Princess Elizabeth were due to peas the spot. A private car just ahead _of the King's vehicle cradled into the tree but the (river waa, unhort.

The royal‘ vehicles detour-ed acocea muddy farm country to avoid the wreck. _At the trade, spectators‘ were greeted by inter- mittent but sharp rains.

Goblet, ridden by champion jockey Gordon Ric and Ariceter, cc-favoritea

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The lid will be pried oilxthe local baseball season tonight when the Junior League A, Reece and Kins- men pick up their rivalry from last season as they tangle in the first game of this year's scheduiexand according to fans who havebeeu following the practicessessions of both squads a closely played en- counter il in the oiling.

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Despite the loss of a couple of key players from last year's City championship squad this year's edition of the Kinsmen seems to have more balance and power than ill 194'! and already are serving notice that the other squads will have to show plenty of hustle if they are to dislodge them from the local title.

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Manager Ev McNeill who has had his charges working out on the Perk and Holy Redeem diam- onds is well satisfied with the manner in which his charges have come along. The boys‘have show- Bd I- Willlniness to train seriously and although a couple of them are well within the lite limit they have shown enough to warrant them setting in at the opening gun and with a couple of goings under their belts may prove hard to dislodge from the positions they have been flghtinfi fur.

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Reece followers can see nothing else but the squad dislodging the Kinsmen as Olty champions. There is little doubt but the Army team. handled by Charlie Ryan, will boast plenty of power at the plate in nruchl the same manner as last season while defensively they ap- pear stronger at practically every “' .. But despite all this they will have to play heads-up bell all

overcome the Kinsmen crew and just as a‘ reminder the Knights. the other team in the league may have lots to say in the outcome of the league before the season is too many days old. I I I I

Like the Kinsmen. Reece will al- so sport sorne new faces in their lineup when they take to the field tonight. Spots that were consider- ed weak last season have been illi- ed with players who received their baptism under fire last year and on top of that manager Ryan has been driving his players in every practice session in a. successful en- deavor to have them near the peak of their form for tonight's open

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Officials of the league have high hopes thatr- the league which gets underway tonight will be one of the most successful ever staged here. A . difficulties encountered in getting the league underway have now been removed and with the players allowing much higher -' , of interest hopes are high cf their inbitions being realized. However there is another import- ant matter and one that will have much bearing on the league's suc- ceaa.

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We speak o1 attendance. It is sad to relatenbut true nevertheless. that last year's league wasn't zleuly aa well attended as it might have been. As a result the clubs operating the teams were faced with financial difficulties all season long and that they kept gcim was a tribute to the interest they had in developing the young- sters that will in a. very short number of years provide the nuc- leus of either senior or intermedi- ata squads.

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This year the clubs are starting at scratch as far aa finances are concerned. and it would be a 11t- tim gesture if a large bilrnout were on hand tonllht M l" "i! youngsters in, action. Pane who attend will witness juat as smart a brand of ball as 1a dished out in higher age groups and by diwina down slightly when the collectors arrivewiilhelpioeaselreatirthe

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Detroit Tigers, behind the aix- hlt pitching of Lefty llakNew- houser, cut down New York Yank- ees 6-2 yesterday (Thursday) in an American League game that went ll innings.

The only other afternoon game saw St. Louis Browns playing the Red Box at Boston. Chicago at Philadelphia and Cleveland at Washington were rained out.

The Tigers sent Ed Lopat to the showers with a four-run blast in the 11th as Newhouser won his fourth straight game and his 11ft of the season. »

Two singles, two sacrifices.’ an- error by Lopat. a walk and Eddie Mayds double added up to four runs and a fifth loss for hefty Lopat.

The Yanks had a chance to win the last of the ninth after Joe DiMaggio walked and Steve Sou- chock fanned. Billy Johnson drop- ped. a. Texas League single to right

With the squeeze play apparently c-n. Nlsrhos did not offer at the pitch and Dllvfaggio was trapped between third and home.

after the Yanks picked up single scores of! Newhouser in the first and third. DiMaggio drove in the first with a fly ball and the second with a single to left.

Jack Kramer won his third game for Boston by pitching the sox to s 8-2 triumph over his old mates, the Browns.

Kramer might have had a shut- out except for Whitey Piatt. The Brownie leftfielder clouted hts third homer of the year in the seventh with one on.

The Sci? scored twice in the opening inning on Billy Good- man's double, a walk to Ted Wil- liams and Bobby Doerr's single. What proved to be the wlnninfl run was fashioned in the sixth inning on doubles by Birdie Teh- betts and Dom DiMaggio.

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The Ace McCloskey-"Ike" Stev- enson boxing scrap originally scheduled for the Forum on June 5th" has been postponed to a later datc it was unofficially learned yesterday. but our spokesman add- ed that the fight would take plsca probably within the next tcn days. Stevenson, a Boston battler, is the same mlttslinger who beat MoClos- key in three rounds in Boston about a year ago when cuts over both the Ace's eyds caused the bout to be halted.‘ '

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PAIR-MOUNT PARK, 11L, June -3 — (AP) — First Race-Trot. Clal H, $500,

Key West (O. l-lumphies) Atomic Maid (H. Parahall) Spencer Barnes (P. siier)

Time: 2.10 4-5.

Peter Wray. Jim, Main Lady. and Captain Pat also raced.

Second Race-Pace. Class G. $500.

corporal I-lal KR. Baldwin Minor Iirisco (O. Curtis) L-JIWIYQ Chief (H. Short)

Time: 2.06 2-5. _

Navy Hal, Airacobra, Prorogue and Ruth Ada-in also raced.

Third Race-Trot. Clall Ia Q5“.

Busicr Volo (D. Moore) vanity Hanover (F. m-vin) vanity Herbert (M. McDonald)

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Fourth lace-Pace. Event Ne. 9. 2'! Claaa (Non-winners $600). W509

Scotch Melody (H. Fitzpatrick) Patrick Hanover (H. Short) . Margaret Godfrey (T. Carlock)

_ Time: 2.0‘! 1-5.

Mr. Dale, Jimmy Highland, Grat- tan Axe, Worthy McKay, counsel, Atomic Mite and Choice Pilddin also raced. I

Boston S: Pittsburgh 5. Philadelphia i: Chicago 8. New York 4; Cincinnati 5. _ Brooklyn 1; St. Louis d.

Detroit e; New York 2. St. Louis 2: Boston 3.

Montreal d; Toronto 2. Rooiaester ll; Buffalo 2. Syracuse 14; Jersey City 0.

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Since the last “Echoefl revuibgy. lted. two games have been played in the Siummerside Baseball League. The Red Sux have blanked mo Kinsmen 4 to o. and the Legion whitewashed the R.Q.A.F. 6 to 0. Thus the picture becomeg mm 111d more like that of last year. The perennial rival; look as‘ if they "ilflht be iiehting it out ioi- top $23? as they did the past two

Gil Williams’ one-hitter gggingt thafiinamenhss cauaedalotel controversy among fans and flgy. era alike. Some folks think ell, southpaw should have been credit. 9d WIT-h B. XlO-hllitfil‘, and 115v; no; hesitated to tell u; so, pointedly 511d WBYIFOII-Sly. Our defence is this; In the fourth inning Layton Schur. man sent a g zipping some fifteen or so feet to the right o: the pitcher's box. and cu hustled after it but was only able to de. fiect its course and slow it up a little. and it continued on its way t0 Phflntilf. Red Sox second base- mm» Whose throw was too late to catch Schurman. Most of the dis. pu-tants are willing to admit that Phaneufs throw was too late to “itch Bohemian. so the argument will! centres on whether the KYWMQI‘ wuld have been stopped by the pitcher with ordinary effort or not. We, the official scorers. cor» sidered that Williams was badly off balance when he attempted to stop the flight of the ball. and so could not be charged with an error. The only otheralte ative was to give the batter a hit, which we did. We don't presume to declare that some scorer might not have seen it differently. ‘mere are always some border-line plays that may be ac r- ed either way. depending on t e scorers’ judgement. Three scorers were unanimous that a hit shuuld be given the batter in this instance. So a hit it was. The rights of three men usually have to be considered in scoring such a play. Whether t1 give the batsman a. hit. or the fielder an error. and_ of course the record of the pitcher is at stake too. The scoring rules say: "In case of doubt over this d of hit. e base hit should be scored and the fielder be exempted from the charge o! en error."

We hate to keep repeating it, but we think the Kinsmen Juniors need batting practice like flowers need the dew. They have maria a total of one hit, a very scratchy and disputed one as you will glean

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games they played this year. For that matter none of the tea-ms are hitting as they should. In six games played the teams have averaged about 4% hits per game of seven innings. The R. C. A. 11'. lead with an average of 6 hits, the Red Sex next with an average of 5. the Legion have 4. and the Kinsmen 3. We realize our pitchers are good. but we don't think they're that good.

The Silmmerside Journal sport department has come out flatly with the statement that we were in error when we atalqd President Herb Schumann's delivery that officially opened the 194B season was wide of the plate by two feet. Scorer Johnson of the Journal claims it was a perfect strike. There are facts about this case that we didn't intend tordivialge, but now that our honor is at stake we have no choice but to reveal all the details. The fact is, just as President Herb was about to deliver the ball,‘ a. tall. shaky-looking blonds was ascending the grand- etemd and because of this distract- ion our fellow scorer was not look- ing in the direction of" the plate at all when the first ball was thrown. We admit we heard m. Johnson exclaim "perfect"

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meeting last fall. a scrap that had an unsatisfactory ending as far aa both were concerned. this conilna’ battle should be about "tops", and if the fins don't witness two "fancy Dans" in action aa lar aa boxing is concerned they are car- tain to sea two mittalingere mix matters from gong to gong.

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Pirates aqueeeed Braves 5-3 yesterday (Thursday) in the National League with Elmer Singlon rescuing pitch- es Kirby Higbe in the ninth.

Philadelphia edged out Chicago 4-3 behind rookie Curt Simmons’ pitching. New York and Cincinn-igl and Brooklyn and st. Louis played night games. hgiigbe. What éeccliéed credit for

mirth 0 or Pittsburgh. allowed four hitgyand onerun in 918M 111111118!- but weakened and Wes replaced by Singlon with tee bases loaded and none out.

Jeff Heath opened Boston's hot ninth with a triple and Eorl ‘rorgeson immediately fdllowed with a double. Higbe issued two passes and Singleton took over. A single by Tommy Holmes scored Torge- son for Boston's third run, hem-e Singleton squashed the rally.

Bostohb initial run came in the eighth when Jinn Russell's single scored Holmes. whose double made it the 15th straight game in which he has hit safely.

Frankie Gustinc banded out a two-run homer in the fifth to open Pittsburgh's scoring. In the same inning Dixie Walker's double brought in Johnny Hopp. who had walked.

WESTVIIL-E, N.S., June s - (OP) - Westvllle Miners shut out Steiiarton AibicmsJ-o in a regular fixture of the Nova Sco- tl-a Central Senior Baseball League here tonight.

HALIFAX. June a — (CP) — Dartmouth Arrows. Mariitane sen- ior baseball champions drew a 1-1 tie in a Halifax District League match with Halifax shipyard! here tonight. More than 2,000 paid fans saw the game called at the end of nine innings ea fog blank- eted the field. '