By THE CANADIAN PRESS

st. Louis .the team Brooklyn molt likes to invite to Ebbcts Field lost its 12th straight game on the Dodgers‘ home grounds Thursday. allowing Brooklyn to move into a. virtual tie for first place in the National League.

southpaw Johnny Padres ran his record to 4-0 as the Dpdgers thumped the Cardinals lo-3.

Brooklyn trails Philadelphia by eight percentage points pending the outcome of Tliursda_v nlght‘s game between the Phils and Cm- cinnati. Otiier night action calls for Milwaukee at Pittsburgh,‘ the New York Yankees at Detroit and Boston at Baltimore.

Thursday's loss dropped the Car- dinals out of the first division.

The New Ynrk Glallis moved into third place with a 6-3 verdict over Chicago. The Giants gave the Cubs I taste of their own home run medicine. belting five out of the park. Their first four hits off

Bubba Church were homers. ROBINSON STARS In the American League day

gimes Cleveland beat Washington 0-‘! in 11 innings and Philadelphia tripped i’ic Chicriun White Sox 3-2.

The Indians’ victory came when Al Rosen dniiblcd linme it run in the 11th alter igniting I Iix-run ninth inning rally with a home run. The triumph went to Hal New- hnuser in relief, his '.l0l5l. success in the American League and the first in his comeback after starring for Detroit.

The Athletics picked up their first victory in eight games on I two-run rally in the ninth against Virgil ’I‘rlicks. Gus Zernial, one- iima property of the White sox. singled home the tying run and scored the winning tally when Pete Suder doubled.

Dodgers Blank Oards 4-O; Roberts Pitches One-Hitter

pitching for I dozen hits includingi I single. double and triple byi Jackie Robinson. Leading 2 - 1. Brooklyn jumped on Gerry Btalcy and Mel Wright for five hits and six runs in the sixth. PHILADELPHIA (AP\ Robin Roberts. Philadelphia Phil- lieI ace righthander , gave up a lead-off homer to Bobby Adams in the first inning Thursday night and then mowed down the next 27 batters to face him as the Phils trounced Cincinnati Reds H-l. Roberts missed I perfect no-hit- for by just one pitch—»the fourth he offered to Adams his first time up. Roberts pitched two strikes to the Cincinnati infielder, then a ball

Adams lmii\ei'cd.

good against Roberts as he set them down in one-two-three order.

Yogi Berra ciouted a t\\o-run homer deep into the upper right field deck in the 10th inning Thursday night to give New York Yankees a 5-3 \'iCl0l‘_\' over the league-leading Detroit Tigers be- fore 50,9l5—lai';:est crowd of the major league season.

The squat Yankee L‘:Ilt‘lll’l“ im- ioaded against relief pitcher Ray Herbert. for his sixth home run,

tops in the American Leiigue. 1

Hank Bauer had opened the in- ning with I single and rode home as Berra sailed the ball into the seats about 400 feet awziy.

Tom Morgan went all the way for the Yankees, spacing 10 hits for his third victory against no loses. Ned Garver, who had lost 1). straight times to the Yahks, pitched the first nine innings but tired and gave uay to Herbert in the 10th.

Boston Red sox, plagued by weak hitting up to now, exploded an 11-

Thc Dodgers banged Cardinal

hit attack on Baltimore Orioles

Old Timers Set New Mar. Five Pin Bowling Record

The Old Timers sci ll new Mari- time five pin howling record at the Rollaway Alleys last night Is they racked up I match score of 4256 to defeat the Alert! five points to none.

Irving MacKinnon of Timers set. a Rnllaway Alley rec- ord with a high three of 1060. MacKinnon bowled games of 320, 378 and 382.

The Old Timers led the Alerts ten points to live in the City Lea- gue bowling play-offs

Following are the scores of last night's match:—

the Old

Old Timersi W. Shepherd 221 220 228- 669 I. MacKirmnn 320 378 .'i82—l080 V. Williams 238 30G 2l1—- 755 .1. MacDonald 269 309 299—- 8'11 0. Schleyer 297 no 35- 8'15 1346 1406 11115-4356 Aleriai Dr. 1.. Duffy ‘A35 282 231-— ‘M8 l"r. P. McMahon 2443 1'18 235—- 722 1". McTa.gue 286 251 257- 794 M. M.IoKcnziI 191 MB 199—— 636 D. MacDonald 300 D4 333- 98’! 1321 1313 1255-3889

Anniialhéeiiiig ls. Branch AAU

It was announced last evening bv w.w. Reid. president of the Idlsnd branch of tin Amllelll’ Athletic Union of Canada that the iinminl meeting of the Island branch will he held in the offices of the Physical Fitness Division, 133 Euston Street. City. HEX‘ Thursdsy. May 20th at 300 Pm- All clubs which affiliated with the branch are allowed to send offic- iIl delegates to this meeting on the basis of one for membership up to fifty and two for member- ship over fifty.

At this meeting reports of vari- ous officers and committees wiilbe heard. officers and committees ap- pointed for the current year and plans will he made to promote and foster branches of amateur sport under jiirisdirtinn of the Island branch, including baseball.

Tee Pees Within Single Game Of Memorial Cup 1

'rnRON'1'0 (CP\ —- Powerful St. Catharine T e e 1‘ e e a, polished around the net. whipped I ragged- looking band of Edmonton Oil Kings 4-1 Thursday night before I meagre 8,030 fans to move within I single glme of the Memorial Cup hockey championship. .

Brian Cullen. ’l‘eePeeI No. 1 pro- fessional prospect. scored three times for St. Cstharines. who need only to win here Saturday night to hire their first Canadian junior hockey title —- in four straight Ilfnel.

Hughic Barlow added thc other TecPee goI'i on I play with Brian Cullen II the St. Catharineii ma- chine made it look easy for I third Itralght time in the hesf.-of- Ievcn playoff.

Highly-touted Oil Kings scored the firat goal. RIy Klnuewich the trigger man, but I penalty to the nine ljdmonton player Ioon coat the margin.

Play was rugged and rough. Eleven pcrmltles. including ii 10- minute misconduct to I-lsnk Cicsll of ‘loops for talking back to the odncifls. were handed cut. oil xinu taking four.

uIiuuIuwt'Iurmis

. Baseball Results-

American League Philadelphia 000 010 002-~.'i 5 0 Chicago 100 0i0 000--2 l0 2 Martin. Burtschy (ill W. Shanlz; Trucks and Lollar. W-Burtschy. Washington

100 031 200 00-7 12 0 Cleveland

010 000 006 01-8 '1 2 McDcrmot|. Dixon 19) Schmit7. (90 and Tipton; Houiteman. Hoo- per (65 Mossl (7) Narleski (8) Newhouser (10) and Hegan. Nara- gon (101. W-Newhouser; L-Schmltz

HRS: Cle~Regalado. Roscn; Was- Busby.

Boston 006 001 200-0 11 1 Baltimore 000 000 100-1 6 3

Henry and White; Pillette, Fox

(3) Stuart (8) and Moss. L-Pil- lette.

New York 000 100 020 2-5 12 0 Detroit 030 000 000 0-3 10 0

Morgan and Berra; Garver. Her- bert (10) and House. L-Herbert. l~lRs: NY~Noren. Berra.

National League

Chicago 100 002 O00—3 O 0 New York 230 000 lOx—8 10 2 Church. Lown (2) Davis (5) Jeff- cont. (7! and Tappe: Jansen. Gris- som (7) and St. Claire. W-Jansen; L-Church. HRs: NY-Thompson. Ir- vin (2) Maya. St. Claire.

St. Louis 000 O01 O20——- 3 10 1 Brooklyn H0 006 02x~l() 12 0 Slalcy, Wright ifii Deal (7i and

Rice; Podres and Walker. L-

Staley.

Cincinnnti 100 000' 000-1 1 3

Philadelphia 021 050 00x-8 11 0 Valentine, Podbielan (5) Sav-

ransky (Bi and Bailey; Roberts

and Burgess. L-Valentine. HR:

Cin: Adams.

Milwaukee lO0 .100 000-4 9 2

Pittsburgh 100 001 000-2 8 0 Nichols Ind Swhite; Purkey,

Paife rm and Shepard. L-Purkcy. lncirnallonnl League

Montreal 000 001 000-1 I .1 Ottawa 010 400 00x--5 5 l Roebuck, Rutherford (41. Cox

(6) and Howell; Gohl and Walling- ton. L-Roebuck. Toronto 005 010 000-8 10 3 Rochester 100 030 001- 5 9 0 Blake and Howard. Griffen t.‘>i; Blaylrick, Rubert (35 Boyer (Si Crimian (5) Connelly (6: and 3.". brink. Syracuse It Havana postponed. rain.

Buffalo at Richmond poslpniied. rain.

oriofiiilfiiié - Player Mix-up

BALTIMORE. (AP) -— Outflelder Jim Fridiey of Baltimore Orioles was sent to Richmond of the In. tcrnstional League Wednesday nlkht to square IwIy a mix-up involving pitcher Mike Blymka.

The Orioles Wednesday announ- ced they had optioned rlghthsnd. er BlyI.kI Ind catcher Darrel John- son to Richmond. Later will Har- fldlte. American Lclluc president, said Biyzka couldn't be optioned without waivers from Ill major league club: because he is cred. ited with three years in the ma- Joni.

To let down to the 20 - man limit by midnight. Art Ehierts. Orioles generll manager, sent FY1610! to Richmond on I recall basis instead of Blyaks. Ehlers. meanwhile. will try to get wjlvgn on Blyxka.

Itscaiviia Lanm Ammo

MOSCOW. MP) -— Tana news agency announced the award of the Order of Lenin by the presidi- um of the Supreme soviet to Villa 1'. Istsis. chairman of the council of ministers of the fntvinn repub- lic. The occasion was his 50th birlidny. '

and the cuiint was 1 and 2 when‘-

After that the Reds could do no’ "

and trounced the Birds 9-! Thurs- day night before 12.564 fans.

Bill Henry lefthmded his way to his second victory in limiting Baltimore to six scattered safeties. The only extra-base bimv against him was Dick Kryhoski'I third- inning double. Kryhoski singled in pinch-hitter Bob Kennedy with the Birds’ lone run in the seventh.

Billy Goodman I n d Charley Maxwell led the Bosox assault with three hits apiece as the

revved-up Red Sox drove Duane Piliette and Howie Fox to cover before reliefcr Marlin Stuart fin- ished up by twirling two scoreless frames.

The Legion may turn out to be

the suiiprise package of the City Softball League. Legion represen- tatives Hamid Heiincssey and

Verne Blanchard were in fine fet- tle last night at the Softball Lea- gue meeting. They had good reas- on to be in such fine humor. 'The_v had just come from the Basilica Youth Club softball diamond and a. Legion practice. Working out with the Legion were Gus Gustav- cson and Elwood Ritchie. In ad- dition Joey Leclair is slated to join the club along with Junior MacLeod and possibly three or four other outstanding players,

can

Evidently the Legion have beat- en the other clubs to the punch in obtaining the services of Gustave- son and Ritchie, Big Gus is In outfielder and Ritchie an infielder. Doc Hennessey claims Gustaveson can peg the ball from the woods on the Knights Diamond direct in a line to flrst base. He says Gus can cover plenty ground in the 011”-'1' Sardens and powder that b1ll. Ritchie is reported to be I W-‘Tl’ fine infielder.

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There’: talk that the sun,-min; Dairy may not be Iblc to field . team. The Dairymcn_ league 195d- ers. in other years, are having trouble seciiring players. They had °‘"“”€d 011 I-4fl.VSll Scliurman for Calchlllll Chores but Laysh has trouble with his back and may not be able to play. Phil Jardine, hard “mink second baseman of last year's club, is interning in a Hall. fax nicdic.-ii hospital. If the Dairy- men don't field a club it is very likely that the Ballem brothers

will pitch for the Legion. Jack Henneuey of the Dairy 1.. .1” ‘meted for the Legion. It is also

reported that the Legion are at. lemplllig to interest Buck Whit. lock. ‘ O O 0

W115“ I lbort fan hears the ‘WM Georize Mikan lie automatic- Illy think: of basketball. For the past half-dozen years George Mik- n_n has been the leading profes- sional basketball player jn the United ‘States. He has played Wm, the Minneapolis Lakers for the Bast. six years and in that time the Lakers have won the Aniel-lean pi-ofessionai championship on five

occasions. Each time their big scorer has been Mikan. I 0 I

Strnncly enough Mikan wasn't always the star basketball player ""3" mm‘)! of us in this country thmigiit him to be. Mikan’: rise to stardom in one of the best human interest stories we have come ac. toss for some time. The only cm. ference between outstanding Iuc- cess and failure for Mikan was an ‘”"l"W‘ndlniZ basketball coach. There was a time in Mikan‘s car- eer when he was headed for ob- scurity_ and failure.

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Mikan is nearly seven feet tall. When he was 13 years old he was past the six foot, four inch mark. He was six feet tall when he was eleven and still wearing short pants. At that time his mother en- rolled him in a music school gnu Mikan took quite I heckllng from his neighborhood friends. When he won any laiireis in music or school all he heard was remarks about the big kid taking advantage or the little kids.

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He entered high school when he was 13 and tried out for football but couldn't find a uniform large i-nought to fit him. He went out for basketball and when the coach learned he was near-sighted he ordered Mikan to turn in his suit. He played for I year with one of the Catholic Youth Organizations teams and his coach arranged for him to visit Notre Dame. The Notre Dame coach looked him over but couldn't see him as I. prospect. "Your height is I fine Islet Ind you've got the spirit but you're

BOXING BOOTH . w5 CHALLENGE

above. .

The members of the Basilica Front row left to right: .104‘: Youili Club vnlleyiiiill team. win- Thistle, Alf Coady (coach), Jim ners of the Cii.\' League volley- Cosdy. ball (‘lli'Il'l1j1i0l1Slllp, ure pictured Back row: Wendell Murphy.

Ralph Pincau, Ray Mat~Closkey,‘

\Veiidell Gillis, Leo Doyle, De;

Burgc. The B.Y.C. will meet the Air Force for the Island title in a

home and home series next week. (Barter's l-‘ilm Lab.)

The 'Royal Canadian Mounted Police volleyball team, finalists in the City Volleyball League, are pictured above.

Front row. left to right: Bill

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Martin, Doug George (coach).

llolleylill cwagugc Finlsts

the league Itsndings and advanced

Back row: Joe Vetesi_ Art Mon- to the finals by eliminating the sebraaten, Gordie Coutts. Chuck B.Y.C. Second Team in the semi-

Walepr. The Mounties finished third in

finals. (Barter's Film Lab.)

hopelessly clumsy.‘ he told Mikan. . . .

The next fall he enrolled It De- Paul University where the basket- ball coach was Ray Meyer. At the first practice Mikan sprawled all over his size 16 feet. He tried to enlist in the Army and Navy during World War Two and was rejected on account of his abnor- mal height. During the war one of his former classmates was kill- ed in action. Mikan visited the young man's mother to pay his respects. A relatives of the deceas- ed glared It Mikan and muttered. "Our Mike was just I little fellow and yet he served." Sick with shame and humiliation I ran out of the house," relates Mikan.

I I I

Then one day when things look- ed blackcat MikIn's coach Ray Meyer took him out for I drive. As he drove Meyer spoke in a fath- erly sort of way "You know I've always figured you had the mak- ings of n. great basketball player but you'll never make it as long as you're thin-skinned. Why don't you get wise and stop feeling sorry for yourself? People don't think of you as a freak unless you make them think so. What does it get you to carry I chip on your should- er and act as if the whole world is your enemy? Can't you see that your height instead of being the handicap you seem to think it is. can be turned into I big advan- tage Ryoirre willing to work It it? If you'll only stop taking your- self I0 seriously and learn to be I good sport you'll be surprised at what you can do."

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Mikan took Meyer's advice. He prepared for basketball with the training routine of I boxer. He skipped rope. dirf road work. sha- dow-boxed and spent countless hours punching the ling. Mikan worked hard all through his col- lege years. At the end he won All- American honora and led DePIul to I National basketball chI _ion- ship. AI ho progressed in sport he

rmov “Mii.o~

Softball League Opening Postponed llntil May 25

The opening of the City Soft- ball League schedule was postpon- ed for one week on account of the cold and wet weather by the soft- ball leagus executive at a meeting last night in the City Hall.

The weather has prevented the teams from holding regular prac- tice sessions. Rather than start the league on only two or three practices the executive v0l.(‘d to postpone the opening until Tucs- dsy. May 25.

On that date the Sunshine Is- land Dairy will meet the Parkdale Lions; the Llguorian Youth Club will play the Basilica YouTh Club and the Bike shop will play can- ada Packers.

The matter of diamonds was discussed Ind it was decided to

also progressed in studies and

took a course in law. . . .

It was in law that he found one big advantage to his height. Peo- ple who see him don't forget him. one of his most lucrative cases came to him because a wealthy businessman was struck by his size when he saw him in I courtroom. Because of MikIn’s size the busi- nessman iitayed to watch. when that businessman later became in- volved in I 8100.000 damage suit he remembered Mikan and hired him as his attorney. Mikan says he was so anxious to prove he wasn't. I freak that he worked harder at becoming I top-notch basketball player and lawyer than he would have had he been born average- slud. "I'm still in there trying to grow up my physical stnturcr says Mikan. "I hope I never stop

growing."

get the diamonds into shape as quickly as possible.

Rather than hold practice ses- sions it was decided to play ex- hibition games until the league opens. These games will commence this evening. An exhibition sched- ule will be drawn up for next week by the league secretary.

A tentative schedule was sub- mitted by the lcague secretary last night and approved. The schedule will conclude on the week follow- ing Old Home Week. A total of 135 games will be played with each team taking to the diamond 2'! times.

MacKinnon Wins

“” Over O'Mal|ey

SYDNEY (CPi—Ernie MacKin-

non of Sydney dusted off his l'i\h straight ring victory here Wednes- day night by winning a seventh-

Soflball Games This Evening

evening at six o'clock

Legion vs. sunshine dale Diamond.

3. Y. C. vs. Diamond.

Keefe Drug Co. VI. City-Old Diamond.

On Sunday afternoon the Bike shop will play the Parkdale Lions on the Parkdale Diamond. The Recce will hold I practice at two o'clock on the Knights Diamond and Canada Packers will play on the Old Diamond.

City Bowling Team To Compete in NS.- P.E.|. Toumamenl

A seven man team of City bowl- ers named the Charlottetown All Stars, will compete in the Nova Scotia - Prince Edward Island

TORONTO. (GP) —- Lloyd Law- rence of Toronto, defeated by Paul Chizy of Winnipeg in I disputed decision at Montreal last year. turned the tables and gained I split decision over Chizy sl the Canadian amateur boxing chun- plonshlpa and the British Empire Games trials got under way here Thursday night.

Both boxers fought in the 156- pound class.

Eight province: Ira represented in the championships with I. total of '18 boxers. Newfoundland Ind New Brunswick are the only prov- inces not represented.

The trials will continue today and Saturday and the winners in each weight division will represent Canada It the B. E. games in Van- couver this summer.

In the 133-pound class Clayton Kenny of Ottawa was awarded I unanimous decision over Bill Ad- am: of Vancouver.

Hugh Lindsay of Toronto took I unanimous decision over Sam Hope of Niagara Falls in the 140- pound division and Willie Barboic of Toronto won I unanimous dc- coslon over Gard McDonald of Van- couver in another bout in the Min! section.

Dick Goulet of Montreal out- punched Lem Johnston of Victoria for I. unanimous decision in I. 110- pound clua bout. The fight was the fifth of the night and Goulct had little trouble picking up the win. Johnson gsmely fought back against the more-polished Goulet.