Baseball Teams Have Shiny New Look As Season Opens Tomorrow
By Jack Hand
NEW YORK April 13 - (AP)- Good old ' shakewell gives baseball a shiny new look for '52 with a 40 per cent tumcver in .he opening-day line-ups.
Tuesday's '.., boxscore. will be minus such funnier names as Joe DiMaggio, Sam Chapman, Lou Boudieau, Bobby Doerr and Hal Newhouser. In their places you'll find the likes of Ed Mathews, Dick Hall, Bobby Del Greco, Jim Rivera and Leo Thomas. Only 88 of last year's 144 starters will be in the same line-ups.
The most drastic shake-ups were in the houses of St. Louis Browns, Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Braves. The Rogers Hornsby- Bill Veeck team at St. Louis swept out most of the old furniture thatl cluttered up the cellar. Branch! Rickey's latest crop of rookie won- ders is about to take over the: iirates. Youth-minded Tommy Holmes has moved most of the Milwaukee Little World Series champions into Braves Field.
The "experts" pick Cleveland und Brooklyn as the world series opponents in tight finishes with New York Yankees and Giants. Most of them expect a two-club race in each league. There is a scattering of support for Detroit, Chicago and Boston in the Amer- ican and St. Louis, Philadelphia
.and Boston in the National. One
writer picked the revamped Brown- ies to win it all. Struggling with Lineups
An umber of injuries left the managers still struggling with their line-ups in the final exhibition games. Monte Irvin's broken ankle forced manager Leo Durocher to make over his Giant outfield, buying Bob Elliott from Boston and moving Hank Thomp- son to centre field to replace army- bound Willie Mays. When Detroit lost Hoot Ever: for a month with a broken thumb, manager Red Rolfe had to two-platoon his out- field in left and centre.
The armed s6'rvices snatched Don Newcombe from Brooklyn, Lloyd Merriman from Cincinnati and others. Ted Williams of the Red Sox and Gerry Coleman of the Yanks are due to report to the Marines May 2.
With a break from the weather- man. the majors should draw some 250,000 for each eight openers. rhere will be no special preview opener at Washington or Cincin- nati this season.
Here is the opening day pro- gram with game time (EST).
American League
Boston at Washington 2 P.M.
New York at Philadelphia 2 P.M.
Cleveland at Chicago 2:30 P.M.
St. Louis at Detroit 2:30 P.M.
National League
Philadelphia at New York 1:30
P M.
Brooklyn at Boston 2200 P.M.
Pittsburgh at St. Louis might) 0:30 P.M.
Chicago at Cincinnati 2200 P.M.
Three "new" managers will be making their debuts and two more --Holmes at Boston and Phil Cav- ni tta with Chicago Cubs-will be If rting their first full seasons. of the "new" managers. Boudreau at Boston and Hornsby at St. Louis are just moving to new fields. Eddie Stanky, St. Louis Cardinal skipper, will be starting on s new career as playing-mam ngcr.
Saint John Team Wins Hoop Series
'.rua.E:c nrvsias. Que.. April 13 -(OP)-Saint John Atlantics last night eliminated Shawinlgan Falls Tech in the second game of a two- game total-point Eastern Canada intermediate basketball semi-finn series, downing the Terlfs 63-56 and taking the series 131-W1.
Saint John won the first game Friday 88-51. They now inert the Ontario winner in the finals
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Local Gdup Would Affiliaie With A. A. ll. of C.
A group of sportsmen from this Province have applied to the Am- ateur Athletic Union of Canada. for permission to affiliate with the A.- A. U. of C. in order to protect any athletes of Olympic calibre in the Province, it was learned last night from Brigadier W. W. Reid, Dir- ector of Physical Fitnem. .
This group has tentatively organ-
ized ill the hope that they will be accepted. In addition to applying to the President of the A. A. U. of C. they have also sent a wire and letter to the chairman of the Brit- ish Empire Game committee. This latter wire and letter has been ap- proved and sent on to the A A. U of 0. Until last year Prince Edward Island athletes were members of the Maritime Amateur Athletic Union but at a meeting last summer in Antigonish this Union was dis- banded. This meeting was held on the day of the Highland Games in Antlgonish and only a handful of members were present.
Maritime athletes are now unable to obtnin amateur cards to partw- ipate Olympic trials as the result oi the disbahding of the M. f..A.U. fill action which was taken without the approval of Island members.
"If the Island application for af- filiation is granted and if athletes from other provinces wish to Join ihe Island board they will be free to do so," stated Brigadier Reid.
Hockey llesulls
isartvnnsri National League Detroit 2 Montreal 1.
ies 2-0).
Pacific Coast Leas"? Victoria 4 Saskatoon 3.
(First game of
final). MEMORIAL CUP Western Canada Finals Regina 1. Fort. William 2. (Fort William leads best-of-sew on series 2-1). ALLAN CUP Western Canada Finals Fort Frances 2, Edmonton 4. (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1. one game tied). Intermediate Playoffs (At Brandon) Caumore 1 Dauphin 4. , (Dauphin leads best-oi-seven series 2-1). Manitoba Juvenile playoffs St. Boniface 3 Flln Flori 5. (Flin Plon lends best-of-l-liree series 1-0).
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Memorial (Tup- Eastern Cunudu Finals
Montreal 2. Guelph 7 (Guelph lc.-ids licsi-of-sew-n scr- lcs 3-1)
National League
Montreal 0. Detroit .1
Detroit lends hcsi-of-seven final playoff 3-(l.
Eastern Hockey l.q-ague
Johnsiown 5, New Haven fl (Johnslown wins hosi-of-seven series 4-1)
American League - Pittsburgh 1. Proviileiwe 5 (Pittsburgh lends hr-st-ofsevcu
final playoff 2-l)
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PAGE SIX
Ex-heavyweight
champion Joe Louis, who several years ago was
probably the greatest fighting machine the world ever knew. may appear here in an exhibition bout during the lntler part of May, it was learned last night from) Forum Manager Bill Brown. Ar-I rangements with Louis, who will be' touring the Maritimcs around that time. have all but been completed. In is thought that he will bring along his own opponent. 1 . . . , The Joe Louis. who will fighll here will be far removed from thei peak form of the Joe Louis who pulverized opponents with his fist; a decade ago but nevertheless hr: will still be capable of giving it f.'00d show. A year ago Louis wasl
Ito work his way up the ladder for ianother shot at the heavyweight zcrown but the road eridrd when he (was knocked out in the eight round by Rocky Marciano. Evcn liyet. however, Joe would still miiic' Inmong the best h:nv,x'Weighls in the world.
l a s : Speaking of Louis reminds us. of an article we read several months 7ago. It was wriirtcn shortly after llLouis had lost to Marciano and it ,was captioned something like j"l.ouls Wins Ills Greatest Fight." iAs might be expected it wasn't ;about one of his victories in the
y,e5.-o(.geven:ring but rather his efforts to pay led the Ch3rl0"v9WWn 3hll'PSh00t-
back the huge sums of taxes which -he owed to the United States Gov- crnmeni.
C O I
The writer revieuxd the history of Joe's life. He rccalled the grcir victories which were his and also the way in which he lavis-lied gifts upon his friends. the poor and anybody who wanted a lift. He told of the poor investments which friends had made for him and how Joe lost his money. He also wrote about the time Louis spent in the Army and how when he came out he found himself a poor man. Finally he came to the point where Joe discovered he owed a quaria: of a million dollars to the government.
I O C
This was the reason. stated the noted sports authority why Joe kept on fighting. He wanted to pay back those taxes and the only honest way he knew how was by fighting. In order to square him- self with the government. he took the risk of blindness, punchincss and mental derangcment by meet- ing fighters who wouldn't last a round with him ten years before. Joe. stated the writer, was teach- ing a lesson to an American pub- he who were hearing of little but corrupt and dishonest officials who were practising wholesale swindling.
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Local fight fans may be in foi" a fairly busy summer. Harry Poulion. the clever welterweight from Charlottetown. has returned home from Toronto where he fought throughout the winter. llarry worited out with Fritzie Prudcn. Alan liicvlilaicr and How-
on the comeback trail attemptingllx
The powerful Sydney Y. M. c. A. basketball team won the Maritime Y. M. C. A. basketball champion- ship Saturday afternoon by de- feating teams from Charlottetown- and Saint John in a tournament at the local Y.
Sydney won three games in win- ning the crown. They defeated Charlottetown in the opener by a 75-34 score and later walloped Saint John twice. Saint John won one game and lost two while Charlottetown lost both of their contests.
Saint John defeated Charlotte- town 66-50 in the second game of the afternoon and eliminated th-. local team from any hope of win- ning the i-liamplonsh-ip. In the two
Sydney and Saint John the former won the round 181-90.
Sydney, led by big Ruddy Pace. won the first game 84-36. They took the nlzht-cap by a 91-54 score. Following the games the Mari- time championship trophy was presented to the Sydney team by Mr. Fred GlH'l'lll)lE. General Secret- ary of the Charlottetown Y. M. C
Rudy Pace. former St. F. X. star. led the polntgetters with 56 for the afternoon. Jim Goodwin of Saint John was runner-up with 54. and Jim Monaghan of Sydney came in for third place honors with 50.
Goodwin had the highest total for a single game when he scored 32 points in the Saint John-Char- lottetown contest. Pace scored 28 points against Saint John in the first of their two-game series. other high point-getters were Harold Stockhouse of saint John with 40 and Gordon Cluett of Sydney with 3?. Donnie Macbean
era with 25 points followed by George Scantlebury with 18.
A banquet was tendered the three teams at the Y. and a wel- come extended the visitors. The banquet was presided over by Ivan Robinson. Boys" work Sec- retary and it featured Fred Gam- ble ns guest speaker.
Other speakers were Bob Neal, coach of the Saint John team: Pat Patterson. director of the Sydney team, and Earl Nicholson, coach of the local team. Mr. Robinson also spoke briefly thanking those who had assisted in making the meet a success.
The games were refereed by Jack Rearclon, Bob Mooney, Tom sonn- tlebury and Bill O'Neill. The time- keepcr was Neil Young.
Sollowlng are the line-ups and scores of the four games:
First Game-
Sydney: Cluett 8: Morrison '1; Pace 13; Rutherford 7: l-fender.
ard Leslie and had an opportunity to go to the Patterson, New Jer- SGY training camp for the summer. He expects to work in a few bouts in the Maritimes during the corn- ini: months. 0 O O Asked about the highly rated Mcl-later Harry replied that the boy was strong but not as good as he had been built up to be. He thought that Dick "Kid" Howard of Halifax could lick Mel-Eater in about four rounds as McFater was a good puncher but not much of a boxer. Poulton should have about as good an idea as anyone regarding the relative merits of the two men as he has fought against one and worked out with 'he other. C O 0
Two young athletes from the City. brothers Don and David Mac- Leod. have been asked to attend the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey school next fall. The boys were spotted by Joe Delmonte oi the Glace Bay Miners on the night of the Prince street School Sports last winter and Delmonte informed Bob Davidson of their ability. David- son, head scout for the Leafs, sent the two boys a letter inviting them to the school.
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Both boys play with the midget Abbies who will meet the Halifax sea Gulls tonight in a sudden- death game for the Maritime title in Halifax. The team will leave here this morning by ear and they represent the Island's last hope for winning a Maritime hockey cham- pionship. The local team played a lot of its hockey in the minor league which was operated by the Physical Fitness Dtlpsrtment throughout the winter.
Quebec Aces lead Q.S.il.L Series. 4-3
QUEBEC. April 1!-(CP)-Qua bed Aces today defeated Chloout- lmi Baguneens 5-1 in the seventh game of their best-of-nine series for the Quebec Bsnlw Hockey League championship before a crgmd of 12,'lD fans.
way from the title and the fight to meat saint ””'.iL" "M 'r.,""'.l& '”..'.fl'..ii"i; n r . I
a
played in Tuesday night and the ninth. if neces- sary. has Wadneahy.
Dalziel 3: LePage 2.-Total 50. Third Game-
6; Darrow 4; 4.-T t l 84. game total points play-off between P1 0 a
Pace 15: son 9; Darrow 2: Ford 18; Mon- aghan 20.-Total 97. Robinson 2; . Pottle 3: G. Pottle 11; B. Hopkins 3; D. Hopkins 1; house 11: O'Brien 7; Goodwin 14. -Total 54.
Tolteiiliam llcfspurs slightly behind Arsenal on a goal average.
place in Division Queen's Park Rangers field Wednesday tied with Swansea 1-1 to drop one point behind the leader. Notis Forest look romp over llull to two points of Sheffield.
THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN
Sydney Team Winner Of Maritime Y Hoop Title
son 9: Darrow 6: Ford 4; O'Neil ll: Monaghan 10.-Total 75.
Charlottetown: G. Scan
Saint John: A. Pottle
Charlottetown:
tlebury
5; Howatt 2; MacFayden 2: Mac- Lean 8; Ballem 2: Nicholson 2; Dalzlel 4: Goodwin 0; Taylor 5; LePage 4.-Total 34. Second Game-
1; o.
Pottle 3: B. Hopkins 2: D. Hop- kins 0; B. Neal 0: Stockhouse 22; O'Brien 6: Goodwin 82.-Total 66. Bcantlebury 13: Howatt '1; MacFayden 5; Lean 17: Ballem 0; Nicholson 0: Goodwin 0; Taylor 3;
Mac-
Bydney: Cluett 16; Morrison 12;
Saint John:
A. Pottle G; Pottle 6: B. Hopkins 0: D. Hop- kins 2: B. Neal 0; Stockhouse 'l: O'Brien 7: Goodwin 8.-Total 36. Fourth Game-
Pace 28; Rutherford 0; Henderson lFoi'd 4; Monaghau
0.
Sydney: Cluett 13; Morrison 10;
Rutherford 4;
Saint John: Neal 2;
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Brilish Soccer
LONDON. April 13 -(Reuters)
-- Manchester United took sole possession of first Division 1 of the Emglish Soccer League Saturday. Liverpool 4-0.
OVET
place in whltewashing
Arsenal. tied until Saiuray for
first place with Portsmouth Manchester. lost an away
to Bolton Wanderers 2-1.
The "Gunners" still have a game in hand. but with only five games to play, supporters to wonder whether they'll pull off the big double-league champion and the Football Association Cup. also lost away. to. :1-1 to drop
Portsimou th
Manchester now has
with four games to play. A and Portsmouth the former with five games to play, Portsmouth three.
Birmingham took over
1-0.
come
and game
are beginning
50 points.
rsenal
have 48 points.
first
If. nosing out
Shef-
I. 4-?) within
Plymouth Argyle extended their
with a 2-2 tie
lead over the field in Division F11 (southern) Brighton and Hove Albion. extra point drew Brighton up to a second-place lie with Reading, still seven points behind the lead-
With The
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APRIL 14, 1952
lo Standardize Softball llules
LONDON. Ont., April 1:! --(OP) --The Canadian Softball Associat- ion declded at its third annual meeting here Saturday to form a committee for standardizing soft- ball rults in Canada.
Lloyd Algulre of St. Catharines Ont., was named chairman of the rules committee. He will work with John Brewe of London, M. E. Cottle, Montreal and Andy Ander- son. Regina.
e C. S. A. also named its of- ficer for the 1952 season. Vern Mlcilwrnith, of Guelph, was named honorary president. Ken Yost. Winnipeg. is past president; Dour Smith. Toronto president; Claire
H01lil1zswor(h. Edmonton. first vice-prcsident; Raymond Wray, ontreal, second vice- president:
. C. Anderson. Regina, third vice- presldcn-t and Frank Peaver. llam- llton. secretary-treasurerf
The meeting officially recognized Edmonton Burdens as the 1951 Canadian women's softball champ- ions, and Toronto Peoplcs as the 1951 men's champions.
ExhibilioiLBoseball
At Boston: Boston (N) 112 a Boston (A) 12 16 l
Bickford, Johnson (5), Chipman (7) and Cooper, St. Claire (5); Brodowski. Henry (4), Dclocli (8) and White. At Washington: Pittsburgh (N) .. .. Washington (A) . . 2 'i l Dickson, Pollett (4). Willis ('1) and McCullough; Hudson, Mor- rero (4), Moreno ('7) and Gras-
so. At Brooklyn: '. New York (A) . . . . . . .. l 4 0 Brooklyn (N) . 4 7 l Reynolds, Miller (6), and Sil- vera: Wade, Schmitz ('7) and Campanclla, Walker (6). At Evansville. Ind.: - New York (N) , 214 o Cleveland (A) .. 3 1 2
l-learn, Kennedy (6) and West- rum, Noble (9): Lemon, Brissie (8) and Tebbctts.
At Philadelphia:
Philadelphia. (Ni .. , 6 ill 0 Philadelphia (A) .. 0 6 1 Fox. Hansen (7) and Lopata, Burgess (1): zoldak, Scheib
(4) and Astroth.
ers. In Division III (northmrn), Lin- coin Drew with Stockport 1-1 to retain the leadership with 61 points. Grimsby nosed out Brad- ford 2-1 to gain a point on Lin- coln with 56 points. In third place is Stockport with 54.
Scottish Lcague Division (I lead- ers-Hibemian, Rnn-mrs and East Fife--did not play today. so siandln-gs are unchanged. Clyde, division 8 leaders. were idle and the runers-up, Ffalklrk, lost to Cowdienbeaih 5-1.
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By JACK SULLIVAN DETROIT. April 13 - (OP) - The powerhouse Detroit Red Wings, galloping at a goal-a-period pace. ”',, ' Canadians 3-0 here tonight to take their third straight victory in the best-oh seven Stanley Cup finals. They did it with a finesse that tickled the 14,018 Easter night fans.
It was their second victory of the week-end - they defeated Canad- iens 2-1 at Montreal Saturday - and the stage now is set for the wings to wrap it up in the fourth game here Tuesday.
Gordie Howe, the National Hoc- key ,f..eague's leading scorer who hadn't clicked in six previous games. broke out for s two-goal produc- tion etfort that broke the back of the hard-pressed Oanadiens. He scored in the first and third period: and llne-mate Ted Lindsay notch- ed the other, a 65-foot fluke shot that H tonished everybody in the arena, including the 26-year-old left-winger.
Lindsay's goal, a high blooper from outside.the Montreal blue-- line that bounced in front of goal- keeper Gerry"McNell and took a crazy hop high into the nets. ap- peared to take the heart out of the Canadians. They tried hard, partic- ularly in the last minute of the second period, but couldn't get past Terry Sawchuk, Vezina Trophy winner. '
l-!owe's second goal. at 6:54 of the final session, settled the issue. The Wings, riding easily on their three-goal lead, took it almost cas- ually from therein and contented themselves with checking the des- perate Canadlens who had a tough time trying to dent the Detroit de- fence.
Canadiens were without two reg- ulars - defenceman Uollard St. Laurent who suffered a scraped eyeball in Saturday night's game, and Billy Reay who hurt his right knee. Stan Long, up from Buffalo, a Montreal farm club in the Am- ericn Hockey League. took over for st. Laurent and Paul Masnick fill- ed Reay's spot on the forward wail.
SUMMARY First Period 1-Detroit Howe
(Stasiuk) . . . . . 4:31
Penalties: Harvey 3:09, Prono-
vost 15:12, Moore 16:35, Les-
wick 16:35, Olmstead 18:20.
Second Period 2-Detroit, Lindsay
(Howe) . 9:13
Penalties: Lach 1:59, Moore
6:16. Pavclich 6:16, Bouchard
10:42, Mazur 17:20. Howe 17:20.
Third Period 3-Detroit. Howe
(Pavelich)
. . 6 1 54 Penalties: None.
NEW YORK. April 13 -(AP) - The favored Blue Man came from far behind to catch the leaders in the stretch and pull away to vict- ory in the 328030 Experimental llandicap No. 2 Saturday at Jam- aica before R chilled crowd of 44.910. Myhclyn Siab1e's Master Fiddle was second, with Sky Ship third in the field of 12 chree-year- olds.
WINNFPEG. April 1!! --(OP) - Windsor A.K.O.'s took a one-game
at A not spoarsmu .
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lead in the Canadian junior men's basketball finals Saturday night
-Wings Shut Out Canadiens 3- Straight Playoff Win
0 For (3rd:
llabs llofsnceinan out For Series
MONTREAL, April 13.-(cp,g Doilard St. Laurent, Montreal (lg. fenceman injured in last nighn Stanley Cup tilt between Can. adiens and Detroit Red wings will be out for the balance of un; series, it was announced tonight,
The rookie Montreal defence. man suffered a bruised eye when struck by Gordie Howe's stick,
Dr. D. W. McDonald, an (we specialist, said: "His eyes nocd rest and both are bandaged. The bandages will not be removed fur a week or 10. dnys."
Veteran Skating Champ Does Dance With Barbara Ann
INDIANAPOLIS, April 12 -(AP, - Earle (Skater) Reynolds, sq, world speed-skating match cham- pion 50 years ago, today put on his skates for the first time in 21 years and did an ice dance wlih Ottawa's Barbara Ann Scott.
The occasion was Skaters visit with his granddaughter, Pamela Lemaire, a member of the cast of Miss Scott's Hollywood Ice Revue, The show was holding a practice session.
The problem wasn't to keep Reynolds from falling down but to persuade him that a half-hour of skating was enough. After :1 preliminary warm-up with both girls holding his arms, ”Slmter" showed Miss Scott how he and his wife, the late Nclllc Donegan of Australia, skated in Flo Ziegfeld show of 1907-11.
Reynolds' tests as a speed skat- er included an 8.8-second 100-yard dash at Detroit in 1898. It isn't in the books because he had a helping wind. The standing Un- ited States record is 9.4 seconds by Charles Jewsiraw at Lake Placid in 1923.
Reynolds set the National A. A. U. record of 1:143 for the half- mile in 1897 and it has been lower- ed only six-tenths of a second in the last 65 years.
by edging lvinnipcg Light in- fantry (1'l-60. Windsor leads the best-of-five series 2-1. The fourth game will be played here Monday night.
ALBANY. Ca1lf., April 13 -(AP) -Lights Up Saturday outlasied the favorite. Phil D., to win (he 525.000-added Golden Gate mm at Golden Gate Fields by three- quarters of a length. A.ci'owd of 20,166 saw veteran Ralph" News of Arcadia. Callf.. outride ' Ray York of San Diczzn for the second time in two weeks.
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