Home-llun Happy Cincinnati In National League Top Spot

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

The home-run happy Cincinnati Rediegs gave up four round-t.rip- era Tuesday night. but their own

. hree were more potent and they Iowned Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7. .‘incinnafi‘s Ted Kluszewski and "ittsburgh‘s Toby Atweli and 'erry Lunch eaéh hit two succes- live homers.

The win. coupled with Brooklyn’! ‘-3 loss at St. Louis. pushed Cin- rinnali into the league lead by a ‘alf-game.

The Cardinal: had a crowd of 16.662. their biggest of the‘ season it Busch Stadium. hut elsewhere he majors we-i'en‘t as lucky.

who had never beaten his old team mates since he left the club in 1950, pitched the league-leading Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 vic- tory in the only American League’ game of the day. The other sched- uled 'encounters—Clevclar'td at Bos- ton. Detroit at Philadelphia and Baltimore at Washington — were rained out.

Rain also washed out one Na- tional League game between Phila- delphia and Chicago.

In the 13 games to (late, Cin- cinnati pitchers have yielded 26 homers while the Reds have smashed 15 four-baggers.

Big Klu hit his homers Tuesday night in the first and third innings

Dohn Johnson. a former Yankee

Aces Defeat Senators

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QUEBEC (CP) -—Quebec Aces. facing elimination, scored a 1-0 shut out victory over Ottawa Sen- ators Tuesday night to square their best of nine Quebec Hockey Loagiie firm] at four games apiccc. Tlir i’l(‘K:l('liili1 gziiiic will he played at Ottaivn toniglit.

ll'\\'lll Grossc got. the only mar- ker late in the opening frame on a play \\’ll.l1 rlcfenceman Rags Rag- lr A total of 5.138 fans saw (iinsse onigiiess goalie Ray Fred- erick, slipping the puck behind him after being passed in the clear in centre ice.

The game was slow-moving. Both clubs appeared tired. Jack (‘.1-lincan kicked out ill Shots in naming lii< shutout. while Fred- r)'](‘k turncil aside 21.

Coach Turk Brotla pulled Fred- erick with 30 seconds of game time remaining in favor of an- other fnrtvard 10 lT.V‘ 1° “C the ('I|lIlll anti furcc nvcrtinie. V _

Rcici'(-c f‘.eni';:es (‘irzivel distrib- uteri five of the eight minor pen- qlugs to the Senators.

Rochlord Square Win First Game Of School Finals

The Rocliford Square School bas- kctball team defeated Prince Street school 24-18 yesterday aftemoim in the first game of s t\_V0'B3_m9 total point series for the City Girls Interscholastic Basketball chamP' ionship.

The game has Played M ll“? 3 D. U (‘.ymiir.sliim and handled by Earl Nicholson and Donnie Mac-

LCSD. T. Gallant led the Rochiord Square girls by scorlns 89”“

points while team mates B. Ward and M. Cuinmiskcy each scored five. B. Gallant scored three points for the winners while P. Stanie)’ and D. MacMillan scored two.

For Prince Street Winnie Mae- Pherson was high scorer with sevdh points. Beryl Sliclfoon scored five. Maida Rogcrsoii four and J. Math- eson two.

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Baseball Results

American League Chicago 000 220 000-4 9 0 New York 000 020 001-3 7 1 Johnson. Sim (R). Consuegra (9), Dorisli (9) and Loliar; Ford. Mil- ler (6). Gorman (9) and Berra. W—.Iohnson; L4Ford. Hrs—Chl- cago: Minoso: New York: Collins. Cleveland at Boston. ppd. rain. Detroit at Philadelphia post- poned, rain one out in first in- ning)

Baltimore at Washington post- poned. rain

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National League

Philadelphia at Chicago, postponed,

wet grounds.

New York 000 001 0l0——2 9 3 Milwaukee 000 200 i)lx——(i 8 1 Jansen, Wilhelm (6). Corwin (8) and Westrum. Katt (6). St. Claire (8); Buhl. Jolly (8) and Crandall. W-Jnliy. L-Coi'\vin.

Pittsburgh 000 023 0:20»? 9 1 Cincinnati 302 012 ()0x—4i 7 1 Surkont. Yochmi (5) and Atwell, Valentine. Smith (8) and Bailey. W-Valentine, L-Surkont. 1-iRs: Cin- Kluszcwski (2) Greengrass; Pgh- Al.\vcll (2) Lynch I2\.

Brooklyn 100 011 000-3 R 1 St. Louis 000 230 20x——'I 10 1 Roe. Miiliken (6) and Campan- ella; Staley. Brazle (0) Miller (7) and Rice. W-Staley. L-Roe. lnternationab League Ottawa at Syracuse. postponed, rain Montreal at Buffalo (2). postponed. wet grounds. Rochester 000 000 101-2 9 1 Havana 000 002 3lx—d 9 1 Jordan, Knight (7), Jacobs (7) and Burbrink; Melton and Guerra.

Toronto 000 000 010-1 7 0

Richmond O00 O02 20x—4 8 0 I-Iolloman, Barnes (6). Sleater

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Hahn, Shaw (5) Crimian (7! and Howard; Fine. l-Iabenicht (D) and Tabachcck.

Hoop Finals May Open Tonight

The first game of the city Les- izue basketball finals between the Nomads and Sport. Lodge Trot- ters will probably be played at the S.D.U. Gymnasium this eye- ning at seven o'clock.

Canadian Girl To Defend Golf Title

WELLAND, Ont. (CP)—Mai-lene Stewart. 18 - year - old Canadian closed and British women's open golf champion. will defend the British title in this year's renewal of the open at Canton, Scarbor- ough, England, it was learned Tuesday.

Miss Stewart. whose home is at nearby I-‘onthill. will fly to Eng- land in time for the June 28-July 3 British open championship.

She‘ is now attending Rollins College. Florida.

Miss Stewart won the British event at Porthcawl, Wales. last year. defeating Philomena Garvey of Ireland in the final. She is the first Canadian ever to hold the

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with‘ one aboard. Jim Greengrass followed Ted with a’ cricuit clout in the first on starter Max Sur- kont, relieved by Tim‘Yochim in the fifth. _ '

Atwell‘s and Lunch’s big blows came in the sixth and eighth off winner !Corky Valentine. .

our apologies to Bob Mooney for

inadvertently omitting his name from tho picture of the St. Dun- stan‘s basketball team on Mon- day. The mistake was a rather frustrating one as Bob was very much in evidence not only in the picture but on the basketball court during the entiic season. Possibly the shortest guard in Maritime basketball he is also one of the best. A conipetitive. hard driving player with a vciy gpod two hand set shot. Mooney is one of the big reasons why me Saints have been so impressive in Intercollegiate competition during the past two seasons. . 0 .

To the Ph\SlCal Fitness Depart- ment must go credit. for the spon- soring oi the Iiiterscholastic and Juvenile basketball play-offs now underway in the City. We have heard several people closely con- nected with the various teams laud the Dep-irtmcnt for a great deal of improvement ‘in their players since the comp;-.it.ions were open- ed and they credit this improve- ment to the play-offs.

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There are Interscholastic play- offs for both boys and girls. At the moment the Prince Street and Rochford Square girLs are playing a two game. total points series to decide a City winner. Notre Dame and West Kent Schools were el- iminated. Prince Street and West Kent schools engaged in an inter scholastic tournament with Prince Street emergiiig victorious while St. Dunstsn's, Prince of Wales Col- lege and Prince street are cur-

rently playing in the Juvenile tournament.

0 . . Physical Fitness officials Bill

Reid and Art Perry along with Earl Nicholson, Director of Phys- ical Education in the City schools. are the men responsible for the play-offs. They have been given fine assistance by Donnie Mac- Leaii, George Scantlebury, Gus Dorais and Jack Reardon in an officiating capacity. The games have been largely attended by the younger fry and have served to prove that there is still it great deal of interest in basketball in local circles. O 0 »

The Basilica Youth Club will meet the Moncion C.Y.O. basket- ball team in an exhibition game at the Holy Name Hall on Satur- day night. The members of the B.Y.C. will he hosts to the Monc- ion Cluh over the week-end in the first get-together of the two clubs. Moncion will bring over boys and girls basketball teams as well as boys and girl‘ l70WliniZ trams and ii number of badminton players for what is expected to be an entertaining and competitive athletic meet.

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They are busy these days dis- mantling the Rotary Rink at Memorial Field. The rink served it useful purpose during the first two months of the year as it pro- vided the minor league hockey players in the City a chance to play organized hockey. l~lowt-\-er a two-weeks soft spell during the last. of F‘ebruiii;\' and first of March ended the season‘:: activities at the Park ezirlicr than had been anticipated.

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legion Cribbage . Toumanienl Al S'side Tonight

The grand climax of Canadian

_ Legion sponsored cribbage will take place at the Suinmerside Legion hall this afternoon and

night wiien eighteen teams from Kensington. Borden, Miscouche. Bloomfield, Summerside and 0'- llcuvy will coin;.cte in to: champ- ionship finals for Prince County. Play will commence at 3.30 p.m. and will continue till 6 pm. when a recess will be held for supper. After the winner is decided, a social evening will follow.

This final cribbage tournament has been the talk of cribbage play- ers in the various centres for months now and each centre will bring along fans and boosters to cheer their teams on to victory. Bill Lawson has been crtbbsge chairman during the winter and spring months here in Summerside and under his energetic leader- ship the project has been an un- qualified success. Bill is still at the helm and expects this final get-together will be the season's Crowning glory and that next season the whole island will be organized. and an Island champ- ion team declared.

Barons Will

Divide Pot

NEW YORK, (AP) —- Cleveland Barons, who went from thud place to wlii the American Hockey League's Calder Cup playoffs, will divide a pot of $14,919 for that performance.

Division of the player pool for the playoffs was made public Tues- day by the AHL. The total pool for 10 games was $41,443. an in- crease of $851; over last season. The players share in 50 per cent

of the net receipts of the first three games of the preliminary playoffs and of the first four

games of the finals. Thirty per cent of this is split among the first four teams on the basis of the regular season finish and the re- mainder according to their play- off performances.

Hershey Bears. beaten in the finals. receive $13261. They were second in the regular season. Buf- falo and Pittsburg, finishing first and fourth and losing in the pre- liminary playoffs, get 37.847 and $5,387 respectively.

Today's Basketball

Today at 5_0t) p.m. at SD.U. gym Rochford Square Girls play Prince Street. Girls in the second game of a home-and-home series. bask- ets to count, for the Island girls’ interscholastic title 'and the Phys- ical Fitness Trophy. Rociiford Square go into this game with a 8-point lead after ycsterday’s first game but these teams are evenly matched. play good basketball, so it is still anyone} series. Trans- portation for the teams to s.D.U. will leave W. G. Barbour] show- rooms at 430 sharp.

these two men spent long hours in the heart of the night flooding the would-be ice surface. Some of these nights undoubtedly seemed as cold as the nights described in Robert Service's gold rush poems. 0 0 0

They had the work of construct.- ing the rink and cleaning it off again aftrr the winter's storms. Its no easy task to run an open air rink in this country as every- one knows. To the Rotary Club whose financial assistance made till‘, rink possible. in tho Ahcgweit Club. to Brigadier Reid. Art Perry and the others who work- ed to make a rink ii reality for the kids we doff the chapeau.

CHURCH s’rR.17I'rON, England- rCP) -- The golf course in this

Shropshire town may be closed. The first four holes rise steadily to 1.400 feet. above sea level and club sec- retary I-larold Holmes says "there are so many flat courses that golf- ers won't come here now."

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Auto Racing

A Provincial Auto Racing Assoc- iation. was formed last night at the annual meeting of the P. E. 1. stock car drivers and owners in the Pro- vincial Exhibition annex.

The meeting was upwards of 60 race car men from acres the Province and they ex- lilbited an enthusiasm which auguixi of stock car racing this coming season.

Keith Bryenton of Urilon Road was elected president. of the newly formed Association. Ivan Kerry of Charlottetown was elected vice president and Kenneth Yeo of Charlottetown. secretary-treasurer.

:1-‘rank Morgan of Charlottetown and Lorne Doii-on of Mount Stew- art were elected directors. There two men along with the president. vice president and secretary-tresb urer will form it five man director- ate

The meeting discussed plans for the coming season. They plan to commence racing around June 1 and will race at least on Charlotte- town snd summerslde tracks and possibly other centres in the Prov- ince.

It is anticipated that the drivers will race at Charlottetown and Summerside on alternate Saturday nights.

Nearly a dozen cars are prepared to lineup at the starting line al- ready. it was revealed at lsst night's meeting. Another meeting will be held prior to the first race.

It was decided last night that racing cars should be in the pit at least half an hour before the first race commences and that the entries must be in the hands of the sccret.ary-treasurer two days beta,-5 the race.

The newly formed Association is called the Prince Edward Island Alli” _R3Cmil Association. The mem- bership fee is sioo. Thirty‘-three members joined the association last night.

llasebgall In Brief

American Leagug W L Pct. GBL

Chicago 8 4 _s37 _ Detroit is 4 _gm 1 Washington 6 4 .600 1 Philadelphia 5 5 .500 2 New York 5 6 .455 2',i Cleveland 4 6 _4o() 3 Boston 4 5 _40o 3 Baltimore 4 7 .364 3 ‘A Wednesday

Baltimore at Washington (N) Detroit at Philadelphia (N) Chicago at New York Cleveland at Boston

Thursday

Chicago at Baltimore

Detroit at Cleveland Washington at Philadelphia v New York at Boston

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Pittsburgh at St. FREAK

National League

\V L Pet. C-BL Cincinnati 8 5 .615 — Brooklyn 7 5 .583 1/. St. Louis 6 5 .545 1 New York 6 , 6 .500 1% Milwaukee 5 5 .500 ll’; Philadelphia 5 6 .455 2 Chicago 5 .444 2 Pittsburgh 5 9 .357 35-’;

Wednesday

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati

New York at Milwaukee Philadelphia at Chicago Brooklyn at St. Louis Thursday Brooklyn at Cincinnati Philadelphia at Milwaukee

Louis STORM

CHEDDLETON. England—(CP)—

During .9. freak April storm residents standing dry on one side of a street in this Staffordshire Village watch- ed snow falling on houses just 15

feet away.

Association

Probable Pitchers

NEW YORK (AP) — Probable pitchers for today's major league Kumes (won and lost. records in brackets):

National League

Pittsburgh at Cint:lnnat.i—Friend (0-1) vs Baczedski (1-1)

New York at Milwaukee—l-Iearn (0-1) vs Conley (0-0) or Burdette (1-1)

Philadelphia at Chicago—Rob- erts (1-2) vs Minner (1-0)

Brooklyn at St. Louis—Loes (1-0) vs Raschi (1-0)

American Lengue

Baltimore at Washington (night) Pilette (2-0) vs Shea (0-0)

Detroit at Philadelphia (night)- Garver (2-0) vs Trice (2-0)

Chicago at New York-Pierce (1-2) vs Lopat (2-0)

Cleveland at Boston—Wynn (1-2) vs Nixon (1-0)

Hasty -Road. Breaks Track Record Al Trial

LOUISVILLE. Ky. (AP)—Hasty Road jumped into top considera- tion for the 80th Kentucky Derby Tuesday as he outfought Deter- mine in a blistering head-and-head stretch duel to break the Churchill Downs track record in the $15,350 derby trial.

The dark brown son of Roman- Traffic Court. greatest money- winning two-year-old in history last year. but a bust to date in his three-year-old campaign. snap- ped out of it with convincing au- thority in this 17th derby trial. The crowd gasped and yelled as the time of 1:35 was announced. Two years ago Calumet'a Hill Gail broke the track clocking with a 1:35 2-5 scorcher. and became the derby favorite which he won with

e e. Ilaiiasty Road. who had failed to win in four previous starts this season. wore bllnkers and it must have been the remedy.’

AHL Approves Affiliation Plan

NEW YORK (AP)—The Ameri- can Hockey League's board of governors Tuesday ratified in prin- clpls an affiliation agree- ment among the four professional hockey leagues in , the United States and Canada.

The agreement. dealing princip- ally with player rights and includ- ing an inter-league draft arrange- ment. already has been approved by the National Hockey League. It will become effective when it is ratified by the Western and Quebec leagues.

-Like baseball‘: major - minor agreement. the hockey agreement covers such matters as the clubs‘ rights in regard to players. spon- sorship of amateur teams and sim- ilar matters.

The hockey draft provides that

player from the American for $15,000 and ‘the American draft from the two lower leagues for $7,500.

The AHL also set the date for its annual meeting as May 24-25 at Hershey. Pa.

LO —- (GP) -— The Nation- al Union of Teachers will offer £300 for it 80,000-word ‘history of

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Marquess -Of Oueensbury Dies

POLKBTONI. England. (A?)- The Marquess of Qucensberry. grandson of the man who gave his name to the modern rules of boxing. died Tuesday.

sportsman, stockbroker. soldier and author. he was 58.

The marques: was born Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas Ind be- came the 11th holder of the title in 1920.

In 1949 the mai-guess said of boxing: "It is in a very bad way . . My grandfather would be disgusted with it Rank commer- cialism has ruined the sport. Eng- lish boxing is not reviving. Boxers today are interested only in money and where money is high, the game is not always straight."

Deciding Game On Neutral Ice

PEN'1'IC'IlON. B. 0., (CP)—N'eu- tral ice at Vernon. B. C.. will be the site Wednesday of the eighth and deciding game of the western Canada Allan Cup final between Pentioton V's and wiruiipeg Ms- roons, it was announced Tuesday. Each team has won two games, and three games have been 4-4 ties. in what. was scheduled as a best-of-seven series.

Chicago Cubs No Surprise To New Manager

CHICAGO (AP)—_'I'he exploglvg. ness of the Chicago Cubs. who have hit 21 homers in their first nine games and have a staggering .325 team batting average. comes as no surprise to their new man- ager. Stan Hack.