8 The Guardian, Charlottetown. Fri. Oct. 2. 1904.

SPORTS FRONT

By JIM CULLEN

Sugarman Still Fighting

We read last week where Sugar Ray Robinson ekeed out a decision over Yoland Levesque of France and the fighter! were awarded for their efforts with numerous boos 'and cat- calla. The Sugarman considered by most experts as (the great,- est all around boxer. “pound for pound." is era. has been retiring and making comebacks almost annually

since 1952. inson began his professional boxing career in 1940 when he tangled with Joe Eclieverria in a four round pre- ' inary at Madison Square Garden on the Henry Armstrong- Fri-tzie Zivic welterweight card. The Siicarman scored a K0 in two rounds that night and was well on his way to be- coming one of the all time greats in (the fistic world Robinson entered the g on 20 occasions the following year and out of the 20 opponents he faced he seui 15 them down for the long count and the five that managed to go the distance with him. lost ten round decisions. Three of those who went the route with Robby were: Fritzio Zivic. Sammy Angott and Marty Servo. From 1043-51 Robinson went throuEh 91 consecutive ap- pearences without dropping a single one. In 19-16 he captured the welterweight championship of the world by defeating Tosh}:

La-Molta. Robinson stopped the 13th round of a gruelling battle In Chicago on February 14. 1951, Soon after this Robinson vacated the welterweight

tie.

In a surprising upset. Robinson lost his middleweight crown to England‘s Randy Turpin in July of 51 but regained if in September by halting the battling Englishman In the tenth. That second fight drew 61.370 who paid 3767.626 the largest all-time gate for a bout below the heavyweight class. Sugar received almost I250.000 at his end.

Robinson's first retirement from the ring was announced hi 1952 when he gave up his fistic career to become a novel- ling s-ong-and-dance man. He returned to the ring in 1955. how- ever. an fought his way back to the middleweight champ- ionship of the World wi-tfn a second round knock out over Carl (Boho) Olson.

Sugar successfully defended his title against Olson. but then lost a 15 round decision to Gene Fullmcr _in 1957. Later in the same year Robinson recaptured the title by hault- trio Fullmer in five rounds. In his next defence Robinson logt the championship by a split decision to sturdy Carmen Basilio. The following year Robinson confmi'nded the experts when he was awarded a 15 round split decision over Basilio to regain his championship.

The Suearman was guaranteed a half million dollars

for a third fight with Basilio. but he held out for more and

as a result the fight fell through. Robinson never again at himself a real bi fight night. 8This is part of theg boxing legend that belongs to a man who has been travelling around Europe for the past few years battling with ham—and-egxgers‘who couldn’t even lace on

s in his da . b0“Robinson is now known as a has been .in the States. A great fighter who doesn't know _when to quit. but in Europe he is wined and dined as an artist of the past, Robinson says he remains active because he loves to fight. But (i has always been a well known fact that Robinson has tremendous pride in himself and his form in the ring. Therefore seeing that he is not up to par one can only fas's‘ume that. it is financial reasons

» . a ' active in the is c wars. “$1??ngng sad for sport fans to watch a once great hero whose mind 'is willing but his flesh extremely weak. attempt- ing to find his lost skills and this makes us wonder why Sugar Ray Robinson continues to box.

Ticl Bits From Here And There

manager Johnny Pesky has

Boston Red Sox will announce . _ been fired and veteran coach Billy Herman hired as his {he- placement. at a press conference today. A source close to 3 club disclosed Thursday that Herman. one of the great secon basemen in National league history.. as been‘given ad contract. The salary will not be disclosed._1t is also un gr- ood Pesky will be offered a job in iihe organization In the e- velopihentIof young players. Whether he Will accept the p05; ition or shop around for a posuion in another system is no know.

Sporting News announced Thursday its selection of the rookie baseball pitcher and player of the year in both major leagues. Minnesota outfielder Tony Oliva and .Wally Blinker. Baltimore Orioles right-handermwergo they ITItISHLIEOjl‘: ’ I national sports newspap s i i. . $213325 £54125“ writers. Philadelphia Phillies third basemaili Richie Allen and Cincinnati 'Reds lefthander Billy Mch were the national league selections.

‘ terence Hamilton Tiger Gate of the Eastern Football Con have signed centre John Metres Jr.. son of the coach of mu; tversity of Western Ontario Mustangs and a graduate of a team. Detroit delayed any New York Yankee pennant-clinching celebration for at least ore days when they eated Yanks 4-2 Thursday in the first game of a doubleheader.

The

received tempting offers

Eastern United States . . Moncton Thursday night. The offer. made by general man- ager [an Gaudette. also includes a steady job in New Haven along with a hockey contract. Dotron scored 39 goals and had 38 assists with the Hawks in NSSH'L play last saoson. He missed a number of games to an ankle injury.

Oscar Gaudet. another member of (the Monctr-n Hawks. is trying out with the Bufflo Bisons of (the American Hockey league. The. 22-year-old forward has scored four goals and picked up five assists in five exhibition games With the Bison. top farm club of the National Hockey League‘s Chicago Black Haw . Buffalo coach. Phil Watson is expected to decode this weekend whether to retain the St. Johcph. NB player or place him with the St. Louis Braves of the. Centr . fessional Hockey league. Gautlet has been playing on a line with Ray Cullen and Jack Stanfield. Bufflo has a 4—1-1055 record in exhibition games.

Three Double Winners Seen At Ch’town Park

' . double dash .Luc Lark J. Arsenault) 4 3 There “ere "wee :UiicI‘ey AI (L. Neill) 6 5 Miss Ellis (W. Downe) 0 6 Times: 2:104. 2:104 Pays: 6.20. 8.90; 4.60; 4.10. 2.10; 2.10.

DASHES 2 AND 0 Abner C. (B. Craig) Poplar Eden (M. O'Brien) r0 Audrey's Pride

(E. Bernard) Captain Way (S. Stead) Vernon River Gal

(S. White) Diplomate Royal (E. Clow) Sky Prince

(3. MacPhail)

Times: 2:14.2. 2:15.4.

Dick and Garth‘s Best. Abner ’C.. and Poplar Eden raced to

on the p 'gram was paced by Garth's Best with Emmett Bernard ribbons in the final event on the eight dash race card. 1010 . mard teamed entry was clocked in 2.12:4.

- “ The first daily dmhle event ' which was held on (he first and

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'Lions' Lineman. Bill

FinedATo’raI Of$8

VANCOUVER (CF) -— Tackle .Bill Frank. 26. a mainstay of ‘the offensive line of the British Columbia Lions. was fined a total of $850 Thursday following an early morning fracas with police.

His linemate. tackle Lonnie Dennis. escaped with a sharp rap to the nose.

Frank. six — foot - five and weighing 260 pounds. spent sev- eral hours in jail before posting $200 bond. Later. he was fined $350 for impaired driving. A charge of assaulting a police- man was w t wn. s driver‘s licence was suspended for six months.

Canada has a four-man golf team entered in the to u rth world amateur team champ- ionship being played in Rome Oct. 7-10. The team played an

exhibition match in Toronto Wednesday before departing for Europe. From the left. Keith Alexander Calgary. former Canadian amateur

That was only the beginning of his troubles. Lions fined him an additional $500 and placed him on a strict curfew.

It was the second such inci- dent for the Lions in recent weeks. On Sept. 12. Dick Fouls —a former Toronto Argonauts player now with the defensive squad of the Western champion eam —- was charged with im- paired driving but pleaded not guilt

ALSO FINED

Fouts’ case has not been heard. but Lions fined him $250 for conduct detrimental to foot-

bail.

INTERNATIONAL ENTRY ‘

champion: Doug Silverberg. Calgary: veteran of interna- tional amateur competition; Nick Weslock. Burlington. Ont. current Canadian amateur

Police said they checked a car in the downtown area early Thursday when they noticed it. screeching back and forth.

Frank. the driver. at first de- clined to talk, then demanded: “Where's your warrant?"

Five passengers — two men and three women -— left the car and Frank was told It. was under arrest.

Frank 50.00

champion: and Gary Cowan.

Kitchener, former Canadian amateur champion. (CP Wtrephoto)

Fran-k. police said. resisted and they handcuffed him to . the steering wheel and callea‘ for reinforcements.

Dennis, identified by police as one of the passengers who had left. returned and tried to calm Frank. It was then he suffered a sharp rap to the nose. The club said later his nose was not

Orioles Manager Is Well Satisfied

BALTIMORE (AP) —- A two-

he has been given a substantial ('1

year c o n t r a c t providing for ‘ increase," MacPhail sai .

labout $5.000 more in salary a

1year is the reward Hank Bauer PRAISES BAUER

lreceived Thursday for making

{Baltimore Orioles pennant con- DUI "I the CIUb- He has hat“ American everybodyr Playing to the limit '0‘ ms ability When that ha.» rather than the rule in the fresh

. it has to be to the creditl

ltenders in

Leacu

“This is the best contract pens 1'I've had in v years

lMacPa’iil. "I'm Ve )didn‘t do

Oriole president.

I was entitled to." In his debut as Oriole mau-

ager this season. Bauer was paid just under $30,000. “I think Hank has done an

outstanding job this year. and

. . in 0 baseball." Bauer said after his never any question about hisl

.rehiring was announced by Lee contract being renewed. . Hitchcock wasllow pond margins during

because I thought I got what?

BULLETIN

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jim Coker filling in for injured catcher John Edwards. belted three hits. including a home

run. leading Cincinnati Reds to a 5-4 triumph over Pittsburgh Pirates T‘iursday night that moved the Reds to within one- alf game of National League- leading St. Louis Cardinals.

PROBABLE PITCHERS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Probable pitchers for today's :major league games. won and (lost records in parentheses: Ame can Leagu Cleveland. John (20) York. Ford (16-6). (N). Detroit. Sparma (5-5) at Bal-

e at New

ly games schedul .

agile New York. Jackson (10-10) at

. Louis. Gibson (18-11). (N). Philadelphia. Short (17-9) at Cincinnati. O‘Toole (17-7). (N)

Houston. Bruce (15-9) at Los Angeles. Richert (2-2). (N).

Chicago. Ellsworth (14-17) at San Francisco. Bolin (5-9) (N).

Pittsburgh. Wood (ii-1) and Butters (1-2) at Milwaukee. Cloninger (18-14) and Schneider (1-1) (Twi-N).

“Bank has gotten the most

the, manager. There was

After Billy

well satisfied, I fired as Oriole manager at the too much dickeringlend of the 1963 season Mac- Phail talked to several proa- I"

pective Hitchcock successors. He eventually gave the job to Bauer. his long - time friend and a former New York Yankee

outfielder.

Bauer. 42. played for the Kansas City Blues when Mac- hail wn.- generai'manager of the minor league team.

Later. Bauer played with the Yanks w’iile MacPhaiI served as either farm director or as- sistant general manager. And last year. Bauer was a coach under Hitchcock.

The Orioles alternated as league leaders with New York and Chicago for most of the season.

T his stri

STANDINGS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American League

aecond dashes was the largest Pays: 8.40. 3.90: 6.80: 7.50. we" Ym GEL part-mutual return of the night. 350; 3a). Chicago 94 M 3’95 2% “9 winning W” 0 AND 7 Baltimor. 95 65 . I 2 valadydale Me?“ m D- W Jolly Dick (H. Poulton) 11 Detroit as 75 '5'31 12% em up on the bike and Amer Jolly Abb (E. Bernard) 2 0 Lo, Am,“ ,0 79 j 1 .C» tamed by W CHIS- MI" Flamingo (A. Carr) 30 Clevelahd 73 31 491 19 The wimrins Mm True Lady Lou tMtnneaofa 7a 81 .491 10 $3.10. Other“ WNW” P”. (R. Anne-tin "on" 42 MM. 70 m _ 37% was In! - Lucky Goo-e ( - 5 8 Washington 02 90 am 35v. . 81W M '" P"- Mlu Cool Eye- (1. Pound) 61 Kansas City 57101 .301 m “BTW” m hou- r“ r ' c -_(A. MacDonald) 7 Echo md . Edd 0'! b m m m u’ Times: 2:123, 2214.8. (1., Neill) , 4 4 es. Pan: 0.”. 5”; 4.”: 0.3. Nimble Knight (S. Stand) 5 5 manna 1 AND I 8.00: l . Anthony (c. urphy) so We]. Merit (D. Wanner) name 4 AND I The Sheik (H. Pouiton) 70 1 1 Garth's Best (E. Bernard) 1 1 Times: 2:14, 2212.4. Terry's Hal (W. Dickie) 2 4 Lucky y (L. Taylor) 2 2 Pays: 6.10. 8.40: 5.00; 4-3). Babb Girl (I. Stood) II Judd I 7. Dane) 88 1.30:4-10.

BASEBALL

SCORES

American League

irst Detroit 000 010 003- 4 I 2 New York 000100100— 2 81

Wickersham. Gladding (7) Lo-

"more. Robert! (12.7). (N\_ lich (18-9) (8) and Freehon; Kansas City. O'Dono'iue (10- Slnltlmyre (941). Ramos (9) 13) and Odom (1-2) at Chicago. and Bower - Pizarro (18 - 0) and Peters Second (Twiqv). Detroit 010M0002— 5 00 Los Angeles. Newman (13-10) N" York 000110000- 2 01 at Minnesota Kaat (17-10). Mel-8h) (+5) and Freehan: ed Sheldon (5 - 2) Williams (6).

Stafford (9) and Howard. Cleveland 2 01

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Boston Siehert (H!) Bell (7) and Ro- _ mano: Connolly (4-11) Radatz (7) and Nixon. KC. 100000030 001— 5122 Minn. 001 030 000 000— 4 13 4 Penn. Wyatt (5). Bowsfield

(7). Stock (8). Drabowski (5-13) (11) and Duncan; Pascuai (15-12) and Battey. Zimmer- man (9), Henry (11). HR: K.C. —Stahl (3). Minn.~—Olivs (32). Was . 000000000— 0 12 Baltimore 00 to 00x— 2 80

Kreutner (5-7) Bronstad (6). Hannan (8) and Retner; Mc-

Nally (9-11) and Brown.

on! Loam

102 0.. (.0— 210 I 408 mm- 712 2

Wakefield (3-5). Locke (3). Hunter (8) and Taylor: master (17-11). Ticfensuer (7) agd Bailey. HR: Mil. —- Bailey ( )

Natl New York Milwaukee

mim- su .1 us— a 10 a San Fran. 014 010 “if- 2 2 0 Jones (5)

Zachary (0—1). Dierker (7) and Hoffman: Mar- ichai (21-8) and Ballet. HR: S.F.—-Ratlor (15). Pittsburgh mum»: 81 u

0” 101 101- Gibbon. Blue (50) (0). Silk

(7) Face (7) and May: Purkey. Nuxhall (9-0) (5). Ellis (3) and 1 Gin. - (L).

The trout fishing season clos- ed on September 30th and it will be a long wait until April 15th.( 1965. On the whole it was a pretty satisfactory season with respect to the number of trout present although they appeared, more choosey than usual. n fresh water dams and ponds the fellows appeared to go on ke at the beginning of Au- gust. If conditions were favor- able trout in the eight to ten inch bracket were the main ta- kers. Trout in the pound class and higher were the exception

water class. T‘ie water did not ’heat up like it usually does in July and August and thus the big fellows could cruise the shal- the night where food is more abun- dant than in the deeper sections. most seasons the water bor- dering the pond or dam ma gins gets pretty tepid and trout. particularly those in the heavy- weight class, shun the pond margins and remain in deeper water and around tfie borders of boiling springs.

Some hefty seafront were ta- ken this season but this type of trout fishing requires abundant patience and ow-how. Salt water trout are or were. behind schedule this year in moving up into our rivers and streams. The Fortune River in the 'Billie Ben’s' area was full of big sen trout last week in mbe (As one old timer remarked: "They are just putting in time until the water in the Big Brook

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f‘

cools off to the right tempera- e

ture”. A seasoned angler I have known for

in fact my statement in 'The Corner' (fiat trout caught in late September were too soft in texture and off flavour. He told me he caught trout a few days before Septem- ber's end that were firm and (flavourable and the roe. or eggs were almost normal size.

I said to him: “They must have been fresh run sea-trout" He laughed and admitted they were and that be caught them in the Morel] River. He knows the Morel] like a book for (as seldom. if ever. fishes am- where else. Several veteran trout fishermen have told me that they are In favour of closin trout fishing in fresh water on September 15th but allow angl- ing for sea trout off salt we r bars and tidal estuaries. They were in agreement that anallm! for fresh water trout the latter part of September should be pro- hibited. They argued that the extension of the trout fishing season to September from the mm was meant to apply to salt water angling only.

They also agreed that it was a known fact that a heavy per- centage of fresh 'water trout can for were not cooked and eaten but wen either thrown out or fed to cats. ‘One thing is a certainty: if they are not cleaned and the 'biock strip' removed from the back almost immediately after being taken from the water they would soft as putty. and about as palatable. when (tidied up on the table.

3' 2

On Sunday afternoon Just pas- udltalhedtoapsirofhnnten complained about the optdsndc of out-of-sepson duck shooting that had broken out tilh until (September) and gave me a ‘blast' on the snipe assoc opal- lng on October tot slim .‘it should an been In 1210. l to- minded them that the October

‘1 1930 and my last in the late fit-

from scallion Kings am. The: pin

sent outbreak of pro-season shooting for the. season on snipe is closed at the moment and it is still three days before it will be open. That really slowed them down to a wal

T'iis week 8.1. Rayner. Sum- merside. sto me on the street. He told me that last year his party of duck hunters, who always hunt together. esti- mated an approximate two thou- sand black ducks in their hunt- ing area. They figured this black duck population was approxi- mately about half the number of blacks normally present in their specific hunting area. Dur- ing September of this year they made t‘iree complete surveys of their hunting territory and esti- mate there is a scant two hun- dred and fifty black ducks in the section of West Prince under survey. He is convinced that our black ducks have about had the course. I know the area he referred to well. it seems it was just yesterday when I used atrol this sector. Its typical black duck terrain. As late as five years ago I estimated ap- proximrtely ten thousand black ducks in same area he now ' gurea a paltry two hundred an fifty. He expressed the opinion that a reduction in the daily bag limit of black ducks was a must. (I told him it could come next season .. it could be oto late at

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I chuckled to myself when I read "Sports Forum" in The Guardian under date of Sept- m r "Pisquid Gunner Speaks His Mind". Why should Pisquid gunner worry over the duck season opening on October 15th. If he is unaware of the poaching going on almost on his own doorstep he should go to sleep and wake up right. First hand information received by this Columnist indicates that the duck season at Plaquid Pond opened on tember 15th. A week received eye witness information that a man carrying a shotgun in one hand and three ducks in the other walked from the Pond to the highway in plain view and then strolled some dis- tance along the highway as non- c’ialantly as if it was October 15th. I made my first game law patrol to Piaquid Pond in July

ties and I can read the charac- ters I encountered like an open boo ber of them are

num still on the rounds.

Island Horses To Mondon

(Island stables will be well re-

sented oncton's Bruns- wick Downs on 8a 1 Mt. Charlottetown entry Bi Jay and Cadillac Gold Dust. from