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(10 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Tues., Oct. 27, 1958,

SPORTS FRONT

By PIUS CALLAGHAN

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MONTREAL CANADIENS are back in a position which seems much more suitable to them. They are leading the Na- tional hockey League aiier watching the Detroit Red Wings set the pace since the opening night. :

Caraciens handed the Abelmen their first defeat of the young season Sunday nig.t in De.roit but it was ceriain.y not the. kind of a victory tiat would. give you the idea that the Red Wings were ready to foid. Their great goaltender, Terry Saw- chux, coninued his impressive showing desp:te the loss. Terry stepped 30 of ihe 32 dises fired his way as the Wings were edged 2-1 by the Stanley Cup champions.

THE CANADIENS own a two-point margin over the second place Wings but just stating that doesn’t tell the true picture. The Detroit club has played only seven games and the Montreal team has been in nine con‘ests. If you took things on a percentage besis, the Red Wings would be the leaders .786 to .722. Tonight the Canadiens will have played three moré games than the Wings after they visit the Black Hawks in Chicago. The Hawks are dis- appointing al! their followers who were picking them to be no worse than second in this season's race, Right now the men of Rudy Pilous are floundering in the league basement with one win and one tie in eight starts.

The Chicago club has a better hockey team than the stand- ings show. They proved that last spring’ in the Stan'ey Cup semi- finals. They are certain to come up with much better displays than they have exhibited thus far in 1959 and we are looking for the change to take place tonight.

We had one of our better weekends as far as predicting is con- cerned. That fellow Bartlett of the mangers spoiled a perfect score for us when he beat Johnny Bower in the third period Sat- urday night in Toronto. We had called for a Leaf victory and that 1-1 tie ruined an otherwise good prophecy, This column had Can- adiens winning a pair and Rangers beating the Hawks at Madison Square Gardes.

So we have a few good calls“to our credit and if we make

the Hawks wil! start rolling at the expense of the Canadiens and that they will jump into a tie with Rangers by trouncing the B’ake men.

THE CANADIENS surely have a rough schedule this week as they follow up tonight’s tussle with a game at Maple Leafs Gar- dens Wednesday night.

That should be a great battle and if the Leafs are going to beat the Montrealers anytime this season, tomorrow should be the time. It will be the fourth game in five nights for the Canucks. On the other hand the Leafs have rested since Saturday and id be at their peak for the invaders. Toronto has nine points of a possible 14 and are therefore playing at a .643 clip. They that win Wednesday night at home to creep up in-the-stand— . Two points in this one would give them 11 and get them in with Detroit Red Wings who visit at New York. Of course tie would about only if the Rangers were able to hand the Wings their second straight setback.

And that’s exactly what we are expecting to happen.

TORONTO ARGONAULTS are on the brink of elimination in the Big Four.

They trail Montreal Alouettes by two big points with only one game left in the regular schedule for each club. In order to fin- ish in a'tie with the Alouettes the Argonauts must trounce Ottawa Rough Riders this Saturday at Toronto while Hamilton Tiger-Cats wallop the Montrealers at Molson Stadium:

On past performancés. the Alouettes have no license to beat the defending Big Four champions. That should be the least of the Toronto club’s worries, But the part that will prove the most difficult is disposing of Ottawa who in these past few weeks has been the hottest football club in Canada. __

However, while there's life there's hope and these Argonauts are doing plenty of hoping these days. Perhaps they will yet get into the playoff picture but we have the feeling they are not going to make it.

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LOS ANGELES DODGERS’ manager Walter Alston has @ real buddy on Prince Edward Isiand and that’s Rollie Diamond‘ who guided Georgetown Eagles to the Island intermediate base- bail championship. St

When Rollie took over the manager’s post for the Eagles, th boys from the county capital were not exactly going at any great speed. But they squeezed into playoffs, downed Saint Peter’s Ro- vers and Peakes Bombers to win the county crown and then edged Tignish Aces for the provincial championship, =

Rollie is a keen student,of the game and he’s a real live wire around a baseball diamond. He thinks in terms of winning ad he 2 to have the faculty of impartig that confidence to his

ayers.

Sure Walter Alston came a long way with his Los Angeles Dodgers but Rollie Diamond really duplicated his feat in Island baseball circles.

To Rollie and his Eagles we extend hearty congratulations.

ONCE AGAIN the hockey season is almost with us here on the Island and as yet we haven't been able to learn anything con- crete concerning what is proposed for the 1959-60 season. There are rumors galore but every time we try to nail one down, we are told there ts nothing definite about anything.

However, something will come into being very shortly. Just what kind of a hockey menu will be presented to the local hockey public is the big question. It had better be appetizing or the folks won't turn out. They'll go if the competition is top notch because that fact was proved beyond all odubt in last sean’s playoff be- tween Summerside and Charlottetown.

One thing that must be avoided is this nonsense of ‘outlaw’ hockey. That was tried before and nobody including the ring managements had any protection. We are confident that the wiser heads will not allow this to happen again. ss

The latest rumor reaching this desk is that a five team loop

be organized with Charlottetoyn and Summerside each icing © squads. The fifth team would bé Saint Dunstan's with the Red and White operating on a part-time basis.

But as we stated before this is merely rumor and we just have to mark time and wait for something concrete to develop.

That certainly should be soon.

Ch’'Town Woman Awaits Big Race

Kitty Orford, wife of Unem-,Speech is an 8-1 favorite. Joint ployment Insurance Commission | second favorites are McQuario employee, (lifford Orford, has | and Sanctum with odds of 10 her fingers crossed as she awaits'to 1. Rocky Royale is quoted at the 117th running of the Cam-~' 100 to 8.

bridgeshire Handicap Wednesday| First reports listed Falls of tipping the balance strongly in| We repeat that this controversy | Shin at 33 to 1 but later des-.

of this week. Mrs. Orford was notified last ; Patches failed to list the horse Friday that she drew a horse, Fall of Shin, in the Irish Sweek- stakes and right now the big ques’ion is whether the horse will c go to the post in this great rae- Odds were not quoted indicated, ‘ng classic. it was unlikely that he would take The Charlottetown woman is| Part in the great race classic. certainly to be rieher for hav- | Meanwhile Mrs. Orford is an- ing drawn a horse but the wind- | xiously awaiting the final word. fall would be greater if Falls If her horse goes to the Post she'll of Shin is among the starters. be overjoyed but she’s mighty

Latest reports are that Faultless happy with her share of good ———,——| fortune thus far. She figures she

Injured Fighter hes. been downright Dies In Hospital xt | \Mrs. Orford resides at 80 Kent.

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) | she Walt Ingram, California boxer | pen who was injured in a fight against world bantamweight

champion Jose Becerra of vex | Rangers Acquire ico Saturday night. died today "A Defenceman

a Guadalajara hospital. In Los Angeles Becerra. ipset ever the ring death, bowed out} NEW YORK (AP)—New York of a scheduled i0-round fight in| Rangers: Monday acquired a new Los Angeles Memorial Sports; dcfenceman in a three-for-one Na- Arena Nov. 19 tional Hockey League trade with Matchmaker George Parnassus Tronto Maple Leafs. Noel Price, 23, comes to New from the Becerra camp in Guad-|York in exchange for centre alajara saying the little Mexican [iank Ciesla, 25, who did not sign champion was too broken up over | with the Rangers this season. The the death of Ingram _. |Leafs_also get the rights to Bill Ingram died following braim Kennedy, 22, of Whitby Dunlops

surgery. He was injured in a non-|cf the Ontario Hockey Associa-|

the odd bad one, we won't feel down-hearted. Tonicht we believe. .

University of British Columbia Thunderettes’ Jil Symons, grap- pling ball from Shelagn Farrell } and Shirley Topley of Richmond

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-CALLS FOR INTER-LEAGUE DEAL

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American League Plans Expansion To 10 Teams

NEW YORK (AP)—The Ameri- can League's expansion program calls for an inter-league deal that would put New York back in the National League in exchange for one of its present franchises. The _Associated Press learned this Monday from an authoritative source.

Under this revolutionary plan, |

the American League would ex-

‘ pand to 10 teams, possibly next

year. Two new franchises, Min- neapolis and New York, would be added. The new franchise in New York, already American League territory, then would be offered to the National League in ex- change, for either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.

| The big prablem, of course, would be to get the status que minded National League to. ac cept this proposition, That doesn't seem likely.

The American League's expan- sion plans were confirmed by league president Joe Cronin, Mon- lday. After meeting with commis 'sioner Ford Frick and National i|Léague president Warren Giles,

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{Cronin issued the following an- but would retain the Washington

nouncement:

“The fact finding committee of the American League met with commissioner Frick and Warren Giles today at the commissioner | office and informed them that the, American League planned ex- pansion in the future.”

Cronin did not mention when the league expected to expand, | how many teams would be in| volved or what cities might have new franchises.

Only six affirmative votes are needed in the American for ex- pansion. It would take a unant moys vote for expansion in the National. Giles said there was ab solutely no sentiment for expan sion in the National at its meet- ing in May.

Only four AL clubs curreatly favor the inter-league exchange Hea—Chicago, Detreit. Cleveland atd Washington, the informant said.

Should this proposition become « fact, the American League vould permit the Washingtos Senators.to move to Minneapolis,

SPORT

BY NORMAN

ECHOES

MACDONALD

Georgetown’s 11-3 victory over,

Tignish in the rubber game at Charlotteown Sunday gave the Kings County boys the rural «baseball’ championship, and com- pleted «a sweep of honors for Prince Edward Island’s smell- est county. Previously ‘Morell had won the Maritime bantam championship, Mount, Stewart- |More’), the Island junior champ- jionship, and Mount Stewart, the intermediate Kings County ball tossers!

We had a letter from Dominic “Sport”? MacDonald, a promin- jent Island sports figure who now lives in Montreal. ‘‘Sport’’ who had known the late Mark De. laney -very well, expressed his regrets at Mark’s passing, and

added his tribute to Mark’s mem- |

ory in a brief character sketca

of his old friend, assessing ~ his |

strengths and weakness, and Mark’s likable traits

endeared -the former

favor of which

that Mrs. Orford is pinning her|hockey star to a lot of people.|and we, a supporter of Howe hopes on. While there was no/We certainly enjoyed hearing from away back when, will con. definite staterient that the horse|from “Sport” who has some of cede that Gordie may not be would not start, the fact the |the pen-mazie which makes let- the equal of the Rocket. We do

jters interesting. »

|OLD HERO

The time has come for us to igo to bat for our old hockey hero, Gordie "Howe. The obd lecontroversy as to who is the | betier hockey player, Richard or | Howe, is one which will go on

fortunate as long as “hot stove’? discus-|ber into the open cage passed and she’ll do no growling if her sions flourish in our tand. Be- jit to Howe. We don’t know what horse doesn’t get into the big/cause of the Rocket’s fabulous difficult angle Fonteyne might

total of goals in a career which is by no means ended yet, we

|supporters than does Howe,

——-——/thouzh we are continually be-|ed the credit. But the argument

ing surprised by some expert who has seen the two over the years, and who picks Howe on the ground of all-round ability, 'of which goal-scoring is only one idepartment, albeit a pretty im- portant one. The Rocket, of ‘course, has also’ many staunch |supporters. We were stringing a- ‘long with Howe until the spring lof 1958 when Richard's “Frank | Merriwell”’ finish shook us pretty badly, and we've been more or jless on the fence since that | time.

It must be realized, however,

these two great players took

part must be based largely on scoring records, and what we have read of other people's opin- ions. Our final judgement is per- haps more likely to be prejudic- ,ed than the ‘judgement of sports | followers who have seen the rivals many times in action. We wouldn’t. consider. the publish- ‘ed opinions of Jack Adams or Frank Selke, for example, worth two straws because of the posi- tions they hold, but opinions of sports leaders not connected with either the Red Wings or |Canadiens should be given some consideration. Foster Hewitt would have to be considered in ;the neutral group. unless some- thing is known about him that would list him as a prejudiced observer.

WILL GO ON q will go on indefinitely without a very clear verdict emegring,

jtake exception, howeVer, when jthere_ is any implication that Howe is not a fine example of good sportsmanship. When Det- riot scored two goals against Boston recently with Simmons out of the net, ‘an unusual oe- ;currence). It seems that Font- eyne instead of shooting the rub-

\have been up against, but if the angle was reasonably good, |

is the mother of four child-|should judge that he”has more/then certainly Fonteyne should |

jhave sco he goal and receiv- |

that Howe, as a gesture of sport | smanship, should have passed | | the puck back to Fonteyne bord- | jers on the ridiculous. After all, jthere were six Bruins on the jice, and we suppose it can be | taken for granted they were not |signing autographs along the jboards. Was Howe supposed to | play. ping pong with Fonteyne , until” the play was broken up | and the goals lost? No matter} how foolish Boston was to leave their goalie out of the net, it is | the business of the opposing te

}to score as many goals as pos-

title fight and a doctdr said he tion senior A series, and an un-|that the ‘apinions of any of us sible, and Howe did exactly what died of a heart attack following named third player who will be|Maritimers who have seen com-,any other player would have

delivered next spring.

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| Stamps Rehire Ciis Douglas

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was rehired Monday

coach for one year of Calgary Stampeders of the Western Inter-, With 774 yards in 148 carries. provincial Fpotbail Union. 4 Stampeders finished the season| som maintained his passing lead with eight wins in 16 games and with the longest average gain. He _Host out to British Columbia Lions has completed 42 of 83 attempts for the third and last playoff spot.

Miteff, Hunter Sign For Match

— Match- for a seventh round TKO, Sept. ; Monday | 25 at Syracuse. Last Friday night franchise and put another team snnounced a Nove 27 rematch at Hunter stopped Tony Anthony in Madison Square Garden pvetween; the seventh round at the Garden

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ated Press also revealed Monday despite | that Musial’s career average suf-

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major league lifetime bat-| highest average in the Naticnai i League. The St. Louis Cards’ star

injuries and illness, hit only .254)hit .355 and boosted his career in 1959. average seven points to .323. Ku-

Thelen Can Set ~ Rushing Record

TORONTO ‘(CP)—Dave Thelen the highest percentage of com- of the second - place Ottawa jpletions at .607, having com- Rough Rit@rs can set a Big Four | pleted 34 of 56 tosses. Football League;.xushing record; In yards gained passing, Alou- next Saturday, even if he gains eties’ Sam (The Rifle) Etche only two yeards. verry holds the lead with 3,006 The husky 23-year-old half has| yards on 222 completions of 382 piled. up 1,247 yards rushing along | attempts. Hamilton’s Bernie Fa- the ground. This is one yard short loney is second with 2,130 yards of the record set by Pat Abbruzzi,| but is tops in touchdown passes formerly with Montreal Alouettes with 13. in 1955, when the Big Four sched-| Red O’Quinn of Montreal, ule called for 12 games. The! Etcheverry’s favorite target, schedule now is 14 games. ‘leads pass receivers with 49 of Big Four statistics released 62 thrown his way for 644 yards. Monday show Thelen gained 146 Dick Shatto is second with 39 of yards in 24 carries in Saturday's 43 passes for 477 yards. 184 drubbing of the last-place | 23 Toronto Argonauts. This gives | him a 299-yard edge over Ham- | ilton Tiger-Cats’ Gerry McDoug- | all who has 948 yards in 212 at-; tempts. Thelen has carried 209 times.

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Williams, Musial Maintain ajor Loop Batting Lead

ena raised his lifetime mark six poinis to .314 after ba:ting .333.

SHOWS BIGGEST GAIN

Joe Cunningham of the Cards showed the biggest gain in both leagues. His lifetime average jumped 14 points to .317, tying him for third in the National Lea- gue list. He batied .345 this past year.

Sixteen players, eight in each league, boast .300 or better life- time marks. The [leaders - are based on a minimum of 300 games.

Williams, who began his big league career in 1939, has won six batting titles. The 4l-year-old “splendid splinter’’ missed five seasons due to military service.

Ted ranks fifth among the all- time modern batting leaders. The only players, with at least 10 seasons in the majors, to compile higher lifetime averages were Ty Cobb 367, Rogers Hornsby 958, Jae Jackson .356 and Lefty O'Doul .349.

Musial, who will be 39 next |month, is a_seven-hit batting ;champ. Joining the. cards as a jregular in 1942, Stan The Man {just completed his 17th full sea- | son. He was in service in 1945.

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