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‘ war on Wilt Chamber- He's become a much beiter

} 6 feet 10 center for Bes- § defending National Basket- Association champions

d on blocking shots and bing rebounds as an all- an for defence .- minded Francisco had trouble sink- free throws and hitting shots h. more than 10 feet away

he reported to the Celtics

OLD JOKE

n Boston piayers assemblea a "meeting prior to their first oti: last month Russell, a " humorist, announced:

Okay guys, I'm a scorer now, pn’t expect to get the ball « . I’m gonna start firing.” was a rehash of an old Rus- joke. But this time he wasn't ine a

jussell has averaged 24.3 points the Celtics have jumped off

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eltics Bill Russel Declares Var On Wilt Chamberlain

iil} co a 40-record in the NBA. Hesja year of seasoning with th.

still maintaining a near 3 -‘re bound-per-contest mark, too. Last scason Russell averaged 16.7 seagp and hit at a 15.5 clip ‘a the playoffs. ~ Chamberlain the 7 feet 2 giant

who comes to the Warriors after|ball’s No. 1 big man.

Cookie Gilchrist Cops First Title

TORONTO (CP) — Cookie Gil christ, who has played in every} pro football league in Canada with some distinction, is the Big Four scoring champion for 1959. /The 24 - year -. old American, traded to Toronto Argonauts early this year by Saskatchewan Rough- riders, wrapped up the title as the B.g Four’s 14 - game schedule ended Saturday.

It was the first time the six- foot-three Negro from Tarentum, Pa., had won a scoring cham- pionship after stints with Sarnia and Kitchener- in the Ontario Rugby Football Union, Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Big Four and Saskatchewan of the Western {n-|

terprovincial Union.

NINE-POINT BULGE Statistics. compiled by The Ca-

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‘|}points each. Five others follow

Harlem Globe Trotters, has a four-inch height advantage and 4 reputation as a much superic? shooter.

But perhaps he has not nted on Russell's burning de to maintain his status as baske-

nadian Press show the’ 24-year- cld backfielder wiih the last-place Argos with 75 points on five touch- downs, 16 converts, nine field goals and two singles. He ended with a nine - point bulge over Oitawa Rough Riders’ Dave The ‘en who had 66 points on 11 touch- downs.

Ron Howell of the Tiger-Cats was third with 60 points, six more than team-mate Gerry McDoug- sll. Bobby Simpson. of Ottawa was fifth with 48 points and Gary Schreider, also of Ottawa, fol- iewed with 43.

John Wydareny of the Univer sity of Western Ontario Mustangs and Bill Mitchell, also of the Mus- tangs, hold the lead in the senior, intercollegiate union with 13

with 12 points each.

SPORTS FRONT

By PIUS CALLAGHAN |

eaINT DUNSTAN’S football teams had a pretty fair week- we “Here in Charlottetown the Junior Varsity moved a step closer their title in the best-of-five series with Prince of Wales squad pounding out a 32-14 victory over the Welshmen. That triumph Father Lewell's boys a big 20 lead in the series for the med crown. _ Peaiets’ conquest was not unexpected. They had twice n the city scholars this season, once in the series and once ‘exhibition tussle. They were favorites to do it again Satur- y."However, they didn’t get the job done without a real struggie their less experienced opponents gave the affair all they uid muster. Saint Dunstan’s should close out this battle in next meeting but they don’t take matters in a walk. These boys coached by RCMP’s ‘Mac’ MacDonald are a stub- m gang and they refuse to give in easily. They surely made tilt Saturday an interesting affair and the fans who witnessed show proclaimed it a top notch. ball game. : Junior Varsity and the Welshmen have surely supplied good Hhall entertainment. With the Saints Varsity having only two me games this season, the Welshmen,‘and the Juniors saw eaert for more local football action and they took quick mea- the same. They’ve given a good show and coaches

Jackson, O’Quinn Capture Titles

TORONTO (CP)—Quarterback | .Russ Jackson of Ottawa Rough} ‘Riders has won the Big Four Football Union's passing title and end Red O’Quinn of Montreal Alouettes the pass championship.

Fullback Dave Thelen of the Rough Riders captured the rush-

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ing crown to give Ottawa the top honors in two of, the- major in- dividual statistics division. The scoring championship went to Cookie Gilchrist of Toronto Argo- nauts with 75 points.

Official statistics released Mon-' -—|day show Jackson had an 11.3 yards average gain on 45 — pletions in 89 pass attempts. had a completion percentage ‘a 06, threw seven touchdown Ppasses‘and gained a total of 1,009 yards in the air.

Tom Dublinski of Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who only played in a

‘| few, games, registered the second

best average gain—96 vards on!

ball-sha chocolate cake and gingerbread men to Win- nipeg sports newadcaster Jack

“GOOD LUCK TOKEN Blue Bomber supporter Mrs. D..A. Boulden sent this foot-

| Wells as a good luck-token for

| the Western Interprovincial | Football Union team, de- fending Grey Cup champions.

EDMONTON (CP) — Winnipeg Blue Bombers are not mentioned around the Edmonton Eskimo

training camp. The Esks, going into the sec- ond game of a two-game total

point series with the British Col umbia Lions Wednesday night, are taking it strictly one game at ja time.

For the players and the train- fug staff there is only one other team in the Western Interprovin- -- Football Union right now—

Cc.

Edmonton will go into the sec ond game carrying a 12point bulge from the 20-8 beating they gave Lions in Vancouver Satur Gay night.

lf Eskimos win, and the odds are in their favor, then they’li start thinking about their meet- | ang with Wisnives in the best-of-

sn alae ar ATE - Eskies Don't Mention Bombers Around Camp.

three final starting Nov. 11. Sec end game is scheduled for Nov. 14, with the third game, if neces- sary, on Nov. 18.

The club held a light workou Sunday on their return from the

talk under coach Eagle Keys ana viewed films of the B.C. team an action. a

Another practice session was held Monday.

LASHUK OUT The big question around th:

.|Edmonton camp was the condi-

tion of big Mike Lashuk, talented corner linebacker and sometime fullback who was injured Satur- day.

Lashuk suffered a mild concur sion during the ‘first half of the game but his condition wasnt

known until half time in the

Pacific coast, attended a chala-|:

dressing room,: it was reported Fe .couldn’t. remember having psayed out the half.

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Alberta farm boy who turned ‘n - a sparkling performance in Van- couver Saturday. +

His biggest play of the day, in

passes and rolling up yards like a veteran, came when he scooted across the goal line with tne clinching touchdown early in the ‘fourth quarter.

NEW YORK (AP) — The 76th national horse show begins an eight-day run in Madison Square Garden today with no fewer than 108 separate events, but as usual most of the interest will focus or the international jumping.

During the posi-war years, the United States teams usually took a back seat to the slick Euro ‘peans and Mexicans. But start- ing four years ago, the Yanks be gan making inroads on the inv ad ers until this year they find them selves the favorites.

The West Germans will not be on-hand because they decided not to make the North American cir- cuit. They have perhaps the best jumpers in the world and in 58

: Mrs. Boulden made a com-, H Pp plete football roster of the Te oop ractice gingerbread men _ and iced , each with the proper playi | S hed | ¢ oe proper playing §§ QC U e

: Maple Leafs Conn Smythe Is Greatest Of Showmen

Basketball practice has been called for Lepage’s Trotters this levening at 6.30 at High School gymnasium.

Trotters’ ‘management ticularly interested in the turnout |

piaverTs a i fans.

t bit if they do, it will not come in easy fashion. The Welshmen haven't yet = up on this best-of-five series.

OVER AT HALIFAX, the Saints’ Varsity team came through

th a great surprise by forcing the powerful Saint Mary’s to

limit before finally bowing 39-31.

The Red and White supporters were just a wee bit’. scared®

hear the score of that game Saturday. Saint Mary's had beaten

punt Allison earlier this season and were easy conquerors

pr Acadia recently. The experts had the Saints from the Island opponents for the Santamarians.

But you never know about these college teams. Just when yqu a one of them hasn't a chance, up* they come

Y performance. ‘And that’s what the Red and White did last Saturday.

SAINT DUNSTAN’S didn’t come through with a win over the

lalifaxcollegians but nobody expected them to perform such a

The general belief was that they would take a bad trouncing the Haligonians in the Nova Scotia capital.

” But those who clung to that belief were dead wrong and were ¢ |.

figuring on the fighting spirit of the local Saints. They battled = inch of the way and were just nosed out in ¢hat final quar- “Saint Dunstan’s has one game left to play. and that one is coming Saturday at Sackville against “the mighty Mounties. again the Red and White will be decided underdogs but won’t worry them one bit. They'll undoubtedly come through h another game effort and cause the Sackville students their of trouble. ~ ¥t’s not customary to extend congratulations on defeat but think A. J. MeAdam’s crew deserve plenty of plaudits for at effort last Saturday. Nice going. Sainte.

WE CERTAINLY have no cause ie boasting on our Nation-

‘Hockey League calls this past weekend.

We called Bruins and Leafs to split and got away with that ne but after that our predictions were most inaccurate. Can- diens let us down on two.occasions. We liked them to beat those | pesky Red Wings Saturday but the best they could do was a 2-2 He. Then Sunday we saw Rangers beating the Montrealers at New York but Watson's crew fell 3-1 victims. Over at Detroit, we went with the law of averages and had Biack Hawks beating the Red. Wings. But it didn’t turn out way and the Abelmen won it 2-1. There's certainly. no cause for boasting about those predic- ions.

THESE-DETROIT RED WINGS cominue their amazing feats

"the exnerts stare with opén ‘mouths.

Sid Abel’s outfit has played 11 contests to date and lost only wo of them. Both of these were by 2-1. scores to Canadiens and Bruins. They picked up six victories along thé way and managed hree ties for a total of 15 points out of a possible 22.

When this season got underway, those persons who are sup- posed to be able to evaluate hockey talent had little or no regard

aged 8.9 yards with a completion mark of 139 on 247 attempts. He finished with a completion per-. centage of 563 and gained 2.187 yards. His 15 touchdown passes were ‘five more-than thrown by Sam_ Ettheverry of ee: |

But he has a long way to go to match the master of. them all, Toronto's Conn Smythe.

Rudy introduced a_ fami liar | theme into NHL gossip last week} when he said in Toronto that! weight is the dig g g probi em with his

Connaug

By ROY LABERGE ‘Canadian Press Staff Writef HULL, Que. ‘CP)—A total of

$6,158,720 ‘passed through the) Dari- -mutuels at Connaught Park |

Raceway this year,-owner [. P.| ( ‘ommy) Gorman said as he closed the books on the hest season in the track's 46-year history.

The 1959 season, which opened last May and ‘ closed Saturday night, has amply justified Gor-, man’s faith that interest in har- ness racing woula. put new life! into the old track a mile west of here.

* #le introduced the trotters and) ‘and his sons, Joe and Frank, took | | over |where only thoroughbreds - had

Betting totalled only $400,000 poevieny 0.

Betting | for the first harness season. a as

Monday |}

racers in 1954, a year after he | ™more in’ of\ passes.

ownership of Connaught}

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ht Track

Has Big Season

year’s figure, the previous rec- ord, was $4,954,079.

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| OPENED IN 1913

The duke of Connaught officr ally opened the track in 1913.

included entries ‘rom as far west 2s Nipawin,- Sask.. and as far suuth as North Carolina.

Of the pari-mutuel take, rer cent went to the Quebec gov- ernment, about 10 per cent to the! track for purses and operating expenses and the rest, $5,242,605, back to ihe bettors over the 81 nights’ Was about 160,000 with thousands Purses tota:- |led $258,607,

Neil Curran of “Smiths Falls, Ont., was this year’s top driver and Cecil Stone of Petrolia, Ont.

sate hose three horses grossed close

tc $15,000, was top money winner among fhe owners.

P.E.I. Rifl

The latest communication re-

or the Detroit Red Wings chances for the 1959-60 season. In fact here were very few-who could picture the Wings improving on pir last place standing of: last season. These expeets may yet be proved correct but at the present time, the Detroiters are plavine great hockey. Terry Sawchuk continues to sizzle In the Wings’ net and has scored on only 15 times in 11 games. That's pretty fair net- minding and has Terry far in front'of the nearest rival Johnny Bower, of the Toronto Maple Leafs. At that Bower has stopred in one game less than Sawchuk.

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THE RED WINGS have relied on defensive tactics to keep them way up in the league standings. Their goal production in the 11 games is a mere 25 goals, the second lowest in the loop. Only the cellhr dwellers, Chicago Blacks Hawks, with a paltry 16, are lower than that:

/ Despite this apparent lack of olfenaive power. Sid Abel has his crew in second place, just four points back of the front-runn- {ng Montreal Canadiens. And if the Red Wings could win the two mes they have in hand on the Blakemen, they would be in a t-footed tie with the Stanley Cup champions.

THE RECENT FEAT of the Georvetown Eagles in winning an Island baseball! crown caused a reader to drop us a line re- minding us that a Georgetown team had done this once before. It was a few years after the first world war and the bdys from Kines beat a Summerside team 7-4 at Summerside. Yorston and McConnell were the battery for the winners acc ording to our in-

formant, who believes ‘Thunder’ Doyle: was the. Summerside a: We certainly have no lection of that. game ‘we aré not old as we look) but we’ on‘ the information for some of

One thing we do remember, however, is the late ‘Thunder’ hurling for Summerside teams.and a right smart hurler

| ceived ,by the secretary of the|

P. E. I. Provineial.,Rifle Associa- tion, Pere. Landrigan, will be | greeted with a mixed feeling 'of doubt and pleasure among the membership.. The letter deals wih the anticipated change over of weapens from the NO. 4 Long- branch .303 to the army's new FN rifle for competitive shoot- ing.

Following—the receipt of _in- structions _ from Depot in Halifax, N. S. that the Island association was to return all No. 4 rifles to that depot, a request was sent by the sec+

pons had been given their an- nual inspection and overhaw in! Halifax, they be, re-issued for use next summer.

A reply has been received in ithe past few days to—the~effect that the No..4 rifles would not | be available for issue for future use. The O..C. of the depot is hdépeful ‘that a sufficient num- ber of the new: FN rifles: will be made available fo the associa- tion by the time the 1960 sea- son opens next May.

the Ordnance | | distinct dislike for it.

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jance considers ft to be quite accurate up to ranges of 600, be- yond that and up to 900 yards its accuracy is considered: to be fair. The rifle is fitted with a 20 round magazine, and can be fired as an automatic or single Shot:

During the past two Dominion rifle meets in Ottawa a few of the Island marksmen have tried the new rifle out, some have expressed a liking for the weapon and others have developed a Some even going as far as to declare they will be inclined to .give up the sport and spend fhéir leisure hours golfing or fishing.

Before any final decisions ,are made the_members . hope that a meeting will be called in the near future so that the fooling | of all can be obtained.

Should the association accept | the change it will in-all. probabil- ity mean that the le sum- mer’s program will have te be revised. Until the manufactur- ers of accessories have come up with a new type of micrometer rear sight the rifle will have to be used under partial service|

The new weapon which weighs in the vicinity. of eight to nine|

conditions Wing the battle sight,

but the sling. will be able to he

} pounds, fires a .762mm calibre utilized for steadying purposes | And, brother, thet wasn't yooterdsy rimless cartridge. Army Orda! as with the ald No. 4 rifle, . . 4 a ' ah

The 350 horses here this year}

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racing. Paid attendance

he had been giving them Rudy had a mischievous glint}

lin his eye when he said that /something had to be done about! ithe’ Hawks because thev* were making the experts ‘ook bad Forecasters had colled Chicago to finish second this season = and there were the Hawks with only one victory in nine starts.

TAKE TO STEAM?

“I might even lock them up Jin a steam bath and throw away the-key,”” Rudy said.

Rudy might do that and manv other stunts but the Hawks’| weight problem isn’t hkely-to get!

the publicity. milage Smvthe re-| ceived 10 years. ago when he started the famous “battle of the}

bulge’’ with hockey's fabulous fat} man, Goalkeeper Turk Broda of the Leafs. Turk was 35 and an unfashionable 197 pounds at the time and Leafs were yoing no- where.

They had won the Stanley Cup the previous season, 1948-49 They| '

had just lost ‘five. and tied one and Broda had been far from the} spry performer who was the| backbone of Leafs’ three straight Cup triumphs.

Broda was ordered to trim off} seven pounds in three days or) tose his job. Smythe. who had a} Leouple of - goalkeepers in the} wings ready to take over, did it} to the accompaniment of front» page headlines in Toronto.

Diet experts were catied in -by newspapers to advise roly - poly Broda.

PLENTY OF PUBLICITY

Day by day the newspapers’ kept up a running account of Broda’s battle. -Finalty, with only} hours remaining’ before a Satur-} day night game against New York Rangers, Broda made it.

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walked off with the le share vi the championships:

MEXICAN HERO MISSING

Nor will Gen. Humberte Mariles, a lohg - time favorite put in an appearance. Gen. Mariles, for many years he greatest horseman alive, has

been feuding with the Mexican cefence- department, and has seen replaced aS captain of the team. :

The U.S. riders. who have maue tremendous strides since the °56 CGlympics, .are7Bili ‘Steinkraus of Westport, Cohn., Hugh Wiley of Towson, Md.; Frank Chapot of Wallpack, N.J., and George Mor ris of New Canaan, Conn.

Argentina. with Pedro Ma yorga as the ace of the team, probably will give Steinkraus and

Dave Hilton Retains Title

QUEBEC ‘CP) — Dave Hilton

Manager Walter Lepage, ex- of Quebec City Monday night re- tends an invitation to any player ‘a@ned his Canadian feather- interested to turn out this even- - weight title by a technical knock-

ing for this initial practice. The Out at 2:33 of the first round on is par-| Buddy Daye of Halifax. .

Daye went down six times be-

U.S. Riders Are Favorites | In National Horse Show

the most competition. Brazu aiso is strong having finished second in the Pan - American Games. Canada boasts Tom Gay- ford, who won the individual championship last year. Mexic», with a new team, is something of an unknown quantity.

Devison Wins... ‘Bantam Title

* QUEBEC (CP)—Johnny son, of Glace Bay, N.S. Monday night took the vacant Canadian bantamweight title with a spiit decision over Marcel Gendron -of

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Gendron and Devison fought over 12 rounds for the title va- cated by the retirement of Pat Supple of Montreal.

The fight was the first of two championship bouts held on the same card.

CHICAGO (‘AP)—The Chicago White Sox Monday traded first Yaseman Ron Jackson to the Boston Red Sox for southpaw citcher- Frank Baumann, %, whose major league record is

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» deteving of | of hearty thanks from the focal foot: 134 completions in 56 attempts for. By 7A€K SULLIVAN 7tast-ptare Chicago Brack Hawks-{"—~Broda__ arts down _t | Time is 6.30 and __|940 yards and a completion per- ‘and mortr umds'** the* Toront ly Star Bi ‘ood Hi Sajnt Dunstan’s needs another win over Prince of Wales be- -|centaze of .607. ship tae | Rudy Pilous is an. acknowl- fied” when he realized “that his | code ; ootach Nentueee eek corteet ar oe ne they grab the title. They should get that victory the next time Bernie Faloney of Hamilton, edged showman in the National players got fat on what: he termed’ - miesedc i the top passer last.year,.aver-Hockey League coaching ranks. the “gentle, humane treatment’’ ‘

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