r EC (CP) Jamel J. Parker .,(QTl:)lii:nto is rated leading con- tender for the Canadian heavy- Wepm myxlng title, made vacant by The retirement of Earl Walls of Toronto last year-

pa,-kei-'5 top spotting, followed by Vern Escoe. another Toronto ,,;.,mcr, was announced Wednesday hv Gene Letourneau. National Com-

rating committee of the Canadian Boxing

Here is the rating for all divi-

sions: Light - heavyweights

' James J.

Hgavyweights: (title vacant): i. Parker. Toronto; 2. vem Escoe. Toronto; 3. Billy Wal- lace, Vancouver: 4. Billy Carter. Vancouver: 5. Billy Smith, Cal- gary: ti. Big Boy Peterson. Char- lottetown; 7. Baby Saunders, Win- mpeg; 8. Jerry Buchanan. Mon- mgsl; 9. Dave Roy. Vancouver; 10. Cecil Gray, Springhill N.S. Light - heavyweights: Champion, Yvon Dureile, Bale Ste. Anne, N.B.

Lawrence. Fredericton. Mcclualty, Dartmouth. N. S.: 2. Gary Simon, New Glasgow, N.S.; 3. Bert Emery. Sherbrooke. Que.; "lissloner and chairman of the S.: 5. Gus Rublcinnl, Montreal;

ti . 5- Fm" W Harry Ponlton. Charlottetown: ii. Elmer liaskili, Toronto: 9. Rocky Dufour. Chlcoutimi. Young McDougall. Sydney, N. S.

1. Gordon Wallace. Brantford; 2. -Doug Harper. Calgary; 3. "Duck" 'l'i-ainor, Charlottetown; 4. Frank Bola. Montreal; 5. Traver Brooks. Calgary; 6. Gus Bruno. Quebec.

Middieweights: Champion. Louis I. Cobey

Gerry Fraser. Bridgewater. Elol Dureile, Fredericton; 7.

Q ue.: 10.

Welterweights: Champion. Tony

Percy, Drummondville. Que. 1. Johnny Salked, Calgary; 2. Marottl. Edmonton: 3. Jimmy No- lan, Calgary: 4. Earl McDonald. Sydney; ronto;

monton; Glasgow, N. S.: 8. Bobby Moore. Sydney; 9. Keith Paris. New Glas- gow. N. S.: 10. Gordon Kiley, Syd-

5. Allan McFater. To- 6. Buddy McDonald. Ed- 7. Percy Paris. New

Talbert Proposes Spring Training For Tennis Stars

NEW YORK (AP)-Bill Talbert. slated to be renamed captain of the us. Davis CuP team this week. Tuesday proposed a month is ”iipring training" for America's depleted tennis forces.

lohnny Podres Now A Sailor

.NEw- YORK (AP) . , Podres, the young miners son wiiopitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to their first world series champ lonshlp last fall. became just an- other oi Uncle Sam's sailor boys Monday.

Once declai'ed unfit because of it back ailment. the 23-year-old letihander passed his induc- tion physical examination at New York's armed services building and immediately was assigned to the" Bainbridge. Md., naval center for basic training.

Johnny, in fine spirits. said he would spend the night at the bar- racks at Brooklyn navy yard and probably report to Bainbridge to-

Johnny

day.

”l've got to spend my time in service the same as anybody else." the stocky. blond youth from Wilherbee. N.Y., said.

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"We should have something like in Florida."

"But t h e r e are problems.

Sammy Ginmmalva is in college al the University of Texas. Barr) McKay, another fine prospect, is at the University I-lam Richardson is home from

of Michigan

England but he is contemplating

marriage.

"i think it's just too much to throw these kids together a wceli. before an important match and say, 'okziy, you're it.' It's bad for the esprit dc corps."

Talbert has been Davis Cup cap tain the last three years. Tht squad scored a surprise victory in l954, but recently there have been reports that Talbert might be re- placed. An informal Poll of thi- tennis brass. however, indicates Talbert's job is safe.

The administrative committee of the US Lawn Tennis Association meets tonight to discuss dates for

the national championships, Davis

Cup matters and other business. on Thursday the Davis Cull 56189 tion committee meets.

Others reported in the captaincy picture are Vic Seixas, who led the team in 1952: Ted Schroeder Wilmer Allison. Don OiNeill and Cliff Suitcr. O'Neill and Sutter are

said to be unavailable becausolof

business.

, . Still Wondering Elston Howard of the New York wind up in the American League Yankees contemplates a fieidcr's ”'9"li”""5 l”l””l”"

the outfield or behind the plate. lloward, a star

glwe am 5 catcher.” mm in the with Toronto Maple Louis a few Yanks' St. Petersburg. Fla., train- years "gag is adept at bum posit. lng camp. He wonders where he'll inns. .

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riey Mines. N. S.: 11. Day Odo. Pic- tou. N. S. Lightweight: Champion. Richard Howard. Halifax; 1. George Dunn, Edmonton; 2. Jackie Hayden, Westvillc. N. S.: 8. Armand Sa- voie, Montreal; 3. Sammy Fortuno. Montreal: 5, Ken McFee. Vancou- ver; 5. Destor Dornor, Montreal; 7. Bryan Kelly. Niagara Falls. 0nt.; 8. Emile Flamond, Calgary; 9. Mild Blizzard. Tracy. N. B. Feather-weights: Champion. Gaby Paliotti, Montreal. 1. Len Walters. Vancouver; 2. Rocco Jones, Hall- fax; 3. Buddy Dave. Halifax: 4. Tommy Corrlck, T0l'0ni0: 5- Til LeBlanc. Moncton: ti. Benny Ran- f

Distance Champ Preparing For Boston Marathon

BOSTON (APT-George Hillier. Canadian long-distance champion runner. is putting in long hours these days preparing for the 309- ton marathon next month.

A sophomore at the Boston Unl- vcrsity School of Education. the 26-year-old athlete from St. John's. Nfld., finished 19th in the 26-mile. 385-yard race here last year. In August he won the Canadian mar- athon title. He's hoping to finish in the first 10 in the run from suburban Hopkinton to Boston: Back Bay April 19.

For six years Hillier has worked diligently and in 1954 placed fifth in the British Empire Games marathon at Vancouver.

Two former Boston U. runners -Johnnv Kelley and George Terry -are llillier's friendly competitors on the long workouts which include runs twice a day along the Charles river and races on a cinder trrac two or three times a week.

Rifle Scores

Fnllmviiig are scores fired at the armouries by the Charlotte- town Small Bore Rifle Club. In- striictions on shooting will be giv- on weekly.

CLASS I R. E. Jenkins... Bob Barwise .. .. Allison Mutch.. .. Earl Burke . A. F. Gormley .. .l. Rogers . ,. G. G. lilachennan... 'ied Smith . . P. J. Landrigan. CLASS I JUNIOR Ralph Kennedy. . . . . . . . . .. Wendell MacLean., Peter MauNctt . Garth MacLcnnan. . CLASS ll -

Eric Wilson. .

Alf MacDonald . . Leonard MacDonald .. . . Waller Carver Gordon iliitcheson... A, J. Cliiucy... ... Mcl liornc . ..89 Clive Stewart... llad lugs

Fred Younker...

CLASS III Milt Carver... .. All Wcathcrhle... . . Barb Jcnkins Chas Frizzcll. Winston Smith... Tcrry Knurlson . -.. Drive Wood .. ... . Bill Rogerson... CLASS IV

Gerald Smith

Dave Smith . . Ernest Maccnbe... Emmie Jenkins... Ii. 0. Judson... Dave Currie... Ivan Hill . Gerald Buckley... Bill M('Bl'ldE...

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ton. N. B.; Don Grinton, Brant- ford, 0nt.; 9. Bobby Laffin. Syd- ney.

Bantamwelghts: Champion. Fer- nando Gagnon. Quebec. 1. Pat Supple. Montreal: 2. Gerry Simp- son. Montreal; 3. Johnny David- son. Glace Bay; N. 5.; Gil Geekie. London: 5. Bobby Bacon. Edmonton; 6. Clarence Coucette. New Glasgow, N. S.

Federation Orders Tony Percy To Defend His Title

QUEBEC (CF)-The Canadian Box-inr Federation rating commit- tee has ordered welterweight champion Tony Percy of Drum- mondville. Que.. to defend his title within 30 days, Gene Letourneau. rating committee chairman. an- nounced Tuesday.

Percy's contenders may either be Al farotti of Edmonton, or Johnny "alked of Calgary. Arthur King of Toronto is also listed by the committee as a logical con- tender for the title if he is active this year.

The federation rating committee announced it will declare va- cant titles to the lightweight and featherweight championships un- less their holders defend them soon.

Richard Howard of Halifax will have to fight either George Dunn of Edmonton or Jackie Hayden of Westville, N.S., if he wants to keep his lightweight title which he has not defended in 14 months.

PALIQTTI UNDER GUN Featherweight champion Gaby Paliotti of Montreal was given no specific time limit within which to fight but the committee said it will declare the title vacant unless he meets Len Walters of Vancouver. The committee placed Pat Sup- ple of Montreal as the No. 1 con- tender to the hantamweiglit title now held by Fernando Gagnon of Quebec City.

The heavyweight title was de- clared vacant. James J. Parker of Toronto and Barrie. 0nt.. is rated top contender. Vern Escoe of Tor- onto is second.

In the lightweight division. Yvon Durelle of Bale Ste. Anne, N.B.. is champion. Gordon Wallace of Brantford. Out, is rated No. 1 con- tender and Doug Harper of Cal- gary No. 2.

Louis Lawrence of Fredericton. now in Vancouver, is champion of the middleweight division with Cu- bey McCliisky of Dartmouth rated No. lcontender. Gary Simon of New Glasgow is second.

The flyweight title was also de- clared vacant and no contenders are listed. The national commis- sioner said there are no fighters of importance in this division.

By CHARLES MAHER

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz, (AP)-Tito Franco it wasn't even on the roster when the Baltimore Orioles checked in her for spring training, but he hasn't had much trouble getting his name in print since then.

Tile 22-year-old outfielder from New Brighton. Pa., had eight home runs-including five in intrasquad 8317195-K0iI18 into Wednesday's meeting with the Cleveland in- dians. He also had a promising .353 batting average for the young exhibition season and was one of the few consistent sluggers in I Baltimore llneup.that so far has been something -hort of devastat-

Tito. whose real name is John and whose nickname just hap- pened. has also done some fine defensive work for the Orioles this

Emde Francis In Flannels

WINNIPEG tCPi - Emile Francis played the last second of Tuesday night's Western Hockey League game in his underwear.

The Saskatoon Quaker goalie thought the game was over when Winnipeg Warriors' Skip Burchell scored his last-second goal and left the ice.

Officials argued the goal while the teams left the ice and then decided that another faceoff was necessary to finish the game. Only two Quakers and six Warriors were on the ice at the time. Francis was hauled out of the dressing room. wearing only his under- wear and pads.

Warriors won the first game of the hesi-of-five Prairie divi- sion semi-finals ti-i.

Rifle Scores

The following were the scores at the Parkdale Rifle range on March 19

Danny McAskill 96; Uiley Blrt 94: Arthur Brown 93; Mel Home 93: Merril Smith 91; Cecil Watts 90; .i. Thompson 87: N. H. Shaw 86; M. Ling 85; S. MacDonald 84; T. Knox 83; G. Proude 82; 0. Dol- lar H2: Doug Moore 81; Al West ill; Helen Vessey 80; Bonnell Ling 80; Arthur Trewin N; Price Thom son 80; H. Prowse 80; C. Thomp- son 80; Brenda MacKay 80: Judy Biri 80: Fred Walton 80; Marelyn Rice I10; Bill Webster 80; Irene Webster 80: Pearl Rice 30: Ted

Beer 805 Art Seamen ill: Robert Seamen 80; Norman Sherran 80.

ners the wisdom of caution.

STARTED AT FIRST

on s mimeographed supplemen- tary roster the Orioles released af- ter their arrivai here, Francona

was listed as a "rangy. heavy hit-

ting flr-' baseman." So far hefs played nothing but

the outfield. but position listings

ordinarily don't have,much, per- manence when you're working for Paul Richards, the manager who moves his men around like a frantic checker player.

Tito did play first base at Aber--

deen, S. D., during his second year in organized ball. But he was an ouifield..' during his first year, at York. Pa., and during the two sea- sons he played later in the army at Ft. Benning. Ga.

He hit .325 with Aberdeen in i953,

and drove in 79 runs. lie had two good seaso..s in the service, then played last winter in Colombia, South America. He led the Winter League there in home. runs, hit- ting 17 in a 60-game season.

Runs 220 Yards In Record Time

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP)-S Trinidad's Mike Agostini, Eresno State College sophomore, ran the 220-yard dash Saturday in 20.1 sec- onds and meet officials said they would submit the time for a world record.

The existing mark is 202 set by Southern California's Mel Patton in 1949.

Five watches timed the race. Meet officials said three watches caught him at 20.1 and the other two were even faster. There was no wind. Agostini. former British Empire Games sprint champion. finished five yards in front of Jim Lea. farmer 440 ace. in the straight-away race.

Agostini also won the 100 yard dash in 9.4.

Remember When

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lionel Conacher played his last NHL game 19 years ago tonight as n defenceman for Montreal Maroons, who beat Detroit 5-1. Later a member of parliament. the man who was voted Canada's greatest athlete of the half-century collapsed and died during a soft- ball game hetween members of parliament and the press gallery

at Ottawa in 1954, at age 52.

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,Plays Hookey To Ride Race Horse

ilitli-P-"X-9 lCIIL'. 'ileiitersl-Thir- teen-yearolri ltnhin Langley was in hot uiitcr uith school officials llediie-SfiH.V Iiccatise he played h00k9y from school to ride in an important liorsc race

Rniun. lii'iiziin's youngest sue. ecssful jockey. rode a 66-to-1 out. sider. Arts in-an-3. in the Lin. ctiliisliire lluiulit-an The horse fin- ished near the tail end or the nerd but rat-erzoi-rs r'ti.!l't't'll it was a good perforniance ill a lHfPPl' that be- gan when lilililil nus only 11.

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i "ll repcuti-(I, it could have I serious i-for-i on his education," lan official s.-nil ”it looks to me a bad thing "

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After four games the series is all tied up at 2-2. Parkdale won the opener and the B. Y. C. evened it up in the second con- test. B. Y. C. went one game up in the third outing but the Fly- ers scored an unexpected 4-i vic- tory in the fourth to knot the count at 2-2.

Parkdale are down to two de- fensemen as a result of the sus- pension handed to defenseman Ralph Josey following a fracas during and after Monday's play- off game with Pictou and the B. Y C. will be heading into the fray without star defense - forward Jack (Spy) Ready and rightwinger Harry Simmonds and possibly without goaltender Don Simmonds.

The only note for optimism in the Parkdale camp is the return of Allan (Junior) MacLeod. who missed the last two of Parkdale's clashes with the youth club. Mac- 'l'tiR0.N"rn icpihcmef Just!" Leod was back in uniform onpl. C .llcRiier of the Supreme Monday and lllalled 3 SW31 gaiuc Coi-iri of Ontario said Tuna; on defense. But with Josey out United States professional football the Flyers have only ND RP-'1Iil' coiitracts remind him of 19th-cent- and MacLeod to tend the hlil0llnPJllF:l: sl.avci',V'. chores. , it is iliepelement of trading in

It is reported from youth iillllllhulnfill services that is bothering sources that big Des Burge will m9-- Said. return to (he lineup to help ,,u! Chief Justice Nit-Ruer made the Frank Slieplicrd, Stu Machure comment OIITUTE 3 he-31'1"! 0' I and Frank Smith with the (lcfcn- 5103909 b”'3('hl0is('0n”'3C'3 lcl-l0" give work. Des played only 3 against quarterback Tom Tublln- couple of games early in the sca- M Tommo A.rg9"a"t" Delm" So" before he had to mm bewllinns of the National Football cause of illness and if he gets 9:2” artlzfe. that D"bu”5:l W? back on the blades tonight it will Si" 9:1 c9l:h'f:;l,t0 them W 9" ' put coach Wally Shepherd's wor- t gi;':wl;: r f”f?5- ! 8 t. I ried mind a little more at ease. D hlimkhe1g?;”gm?trac:ec :0?!”

The winner of tonight's gamethlgt iayg”. gervfces ma Sb: "S will go against St. Dunstawslglgneg m'mher temmyln

on this coming Tuesday. The Saints won their way to the fin.) mimd by whipping Montague Primroscs three games to one In scmi-final series ”B".

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