CITY SCHOOL

games in II best of three series. Here are the team members: FRONT ROW - left to right - Billy MacMillan, Steve Connolly,

Blrchwood Highschool recent- ly captured the City School Bas- ketball Crown by defeating Queen Charlotte High in straight

Tourney Gets Off To Soggy Start

FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP) —- The $20,000 Coloui-al National In- vitation Golf Tournarnen-t gets off to a wet and soggy start today with 46 professionals including

Stan Leonard of Vancouver and Lachute, Que., and'two amateurs in the field. « , It has been raining for a week but Colonial 0lf(filCliaJ]'S said they plan to go -ahead» unless virtual flood oondi-tiocns exist at teeoff time.

-Leonard, who won--the $40,000 tournament of champions last

SPORTS FRONT

By BIUS‘ CALI-IAGHAN‘

Preparations are going ahead for the big Maritime basket- ball tournament at Queen Charlotte High School gym this Saturday May 3. »

Senior ‘C’ champions of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island will participate in the single round-robin affair which wfll yield a three-province titlist. Cape Breton All Stars are the N. ‘S. champs, Centerville Legionaires are the repre- sentatives for N. B. and Walter LePage’s Trotters are Prince Ed- ward Island’: ‘C’ champions.

Both the All Stars an Legiona-ires were delighted to make the trip to the Island capita to compete in the championship play. Both are strong squads and are determined to bring the crown to their respective province. _ *

Trotters have shown plenty of class all season and should be about their peak when All Stars and Legionaires land here for Saturday’s tilts. The locals are leaving nothing, undone to assure the success of this Saturday’s program and it certainly should be a basketball get-together long remembered.

Mayor Johnstone of Charlottetown will toss out the first ball and the tournament will be officially underway; "Games are slated for 1.30, 4 and 8. The visitors will be guests-ofthe Rollaway at the regular Saturday night dance following the final encounter. ’

Playing coach_LePage is to be complimented on his effort in bringing this tournament to Charlottetown. Basketball fans should show their apperciation by turning out in large numbers for this hoop jamboree.‘ ' ,

See you Saturday at.Queen Charlotte High School gym.

Yes, we saw our mistake about Mel Ott but not till it‘_was in print. '

It was Bill Terry that wisecracked about the Dodgers not Mel Ott. We had a few phone calls to remind us of our error.

Thanks a lot. We appreciate the calls.‘

’ . I at it #

Former commissioner of baseball Governor A. B. ‘Happy’ Chandler of Kentucky is sounding off once again, but it’s nothing new for ‘Happy’.

Chandler who held basebal1’s’ top post from 1945 to .1951 maintains the office that he once heldvhas been abolished and in- stead major league owners have put in “stooge” that will do their bidding at any time they wish. He continues by adding that the death of the minor leagues was brought about by the actions of the majors. I - .

‘Happy’ puts. it in strong..terms when he says “because of the selfishness and greed of the major league club owners acting through a puppet commissioner, baseball has forfeited the right to be dealt with as a sport instead of as a business.”

Well it sounds like a lot of sour grapes as far as Chandler is concerned? He would still be ball’s top guy if he had his way but the club owners saw fit to install Fond Frick who resigned as president of the National League before taking over as commission-

CAM-PIONS

Ronnie MacDoug-all. Tommy King, Allan MacDonald. BACK ROWv- left to right -‘Paul Mur-

phy, Ray Malone, Father Clar-

Thur., May 1. 1958

Page 8 The Guardian’

White Sox Buy Young Pitcher

From Phillies

BALTIMORE (AP)-Tom Qual- ters, a $40,000 bonus recipient in 1953, was bought Wednesday from Philadelphia by Chicago White

_' -1 Sex for the waiver price of $20.-

ence Roche (coach) Colin Mac-

Millan, Emmet Beagan and. Frank Callaghan. Not present when -the picture was taken was Wayne MacDonald.

Sunday at Las Vegas, Nev., and hauled down the biggest prize money ever won by a golfing ICanad\1n-$10,000 - will be up against virtually the same field he has met all year.

BASEBALL ROUNDUP

By THE CANADIAN PRESS American League . Kansas Cy 025 200 002-11 11 0 Boston 010 100 002- 4 8 3 Garver and House, Chiti (3); Brewer, Schroll (3) Porterfield (6) Susce (9) and White. L- Brewer. HRs:_ KcY—Cerv 2 (6); Bos--W«i11ia-ms (3). Detroit 110 002 3330-10 14 0 New York 001000 000- 1 7 2 -Lary and Wilson; Ford, Ditmar (8) Grim (9) and Berra. L-Ford. Chicago 010 000 001- 2 6 0 Baltivmore 0()0 210 00_x- 3 7 3 Wynn, Staley (7) and Lollar: Harshman, Paplpas, (6), Zuverink ( 7) and Tniandos. W-Harsh-man;

L-Wynn. Cleve 100 000' 100—2 5 0 Wash 000 101 001-3 9 1

Score, Moss-i (9) and Nixon; Ramos, Clevenger (9) and Court- -ney. W-Clevenger, L-Score.

‘ National League ' Milwaukee 001 000 001- 2 5 .1. Chicago 004 002 20x- 8 7- 2

Buhl, Jay (5) Willey (7) Robin-

son (8) and Rice; Brosnan and S. Taylor. L-—Buhl. HRs: Chi- Banks 2 (5). S. Taylor (1) Walls (8). . Phila. ()00 000 010- 1 6 1 San Fr. 020 006 20x-10 12 0 Roberts, Miller 16) Gray (8) and L o p a t a; Antonelli and Schmidt. L-Roberts. HRs: SF- Schmidt (2), Cepeda (4), Daven- port (1), Spencer (4). St. Louis 200 000 002 0-4 7 1 Cinci , 300 010 000 1-5 9 1 L. McDaniel, Martin (7) and Katt; Nuxhall, Acker (1) Jeffcoat (10) and Bailey. W-Jeftlcoat. L- Martin. HRS: (2). St. I-Green (3). International League Havana 020 000 010- V3 8 2 Toronto 010 000 50x— 6 6 2 Smith, Arias (7) Sanchez‘ (7) and Izquierdo; Minarc-in and St. Claire. L-Smith. Miami 010 000 110- 3 6 0 Montreal 001 000 003- 4 4 1 Harris, C-ristante (8) and Teed;

er. Frick has enjoyed the respect of all since he became boss man something that Chandler might have quite a time saying.

Baseball‘ was not happy with ‘Happy’ and we think he’d be better advised to stick to his Kentucky post and leave Frick mind the baseball business. ’ . '

He’s doing a pretty fair job.

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Sportswriters are after Walter O’Malley president of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club.

Some of their remarks have bordered on the humourous and one wag outdid himself when he typed the following: “And here, by the way, is a thought for Walter (Gimme) 0’Malley. If 25 per- slst in fainting whenever the thermometer does hit 95 or 100. maybe he can put hat hi hand again, get the government to declare the Coliseum a disaster area and get Red Cross help. It won't cost him anything, and such an angle he has always liked.

“Anything for nothing - “that’s baseball’s basic idea today and particularly O’Ma1ley’s.” I

The Brooklyn boss should get his Irish up after he devours those comments. '

Those are fightin’ words.

It die It at it

Milwaukee’s champion Braves received their official world series rings from Ford Frick, baseball commissioner before last Saturday’s game at Milwaukee with Philadelphia Phillies.

Warren Spahn and Henry Aaron were also given special awards. Spahn received the Cy Young memorial plaque as the outstanding pitcher of 1957. Aaron got the trophy for being the league’s most valuable player of last season.

The Phillies were far more co-operative than the Pirates were on opening day when pennant-raising ceremonies were held. The Bucs beat the champs that day in 14 innings but the Phils were much more considerate. They bowed to the Braves 4-2.

It would have been a shame to spoil both celebrations.

Virgil Aklns, St. Louis and Vince Martinez will battle it out in ibilew York on June 6th, with the world’sr welterweight title on the

ne.

Akins and Martinez are the finalists in an elimination tourna- ment staged to determine a champion after Carmen Basilio abdi- cated upon winning the ‘middleweight crown.

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_l.f Milwaukee Braves didn’t send Cincinnati Redlegs a share of their world series money last fall then we think they are a mighty ungrateful lot. _ c1ubIl::al'.!l]1:‘(: 2)21trr(I):e’t;t.ings between the clubs inl195"’ the Milwaukee tfhanks than Cincinggtionfohg l(;(I:‘(::I£\iI§e]_s0n\SI;in:i,Ii1,g? iiedelfliltidggl oiererilgilig Se"I?1e:;‘d Settling a chance to edge New York Yankees in the world WelltheReds t td ‘ ~ ~ . , R - 9f continuing as ‘cOSu:_1l‘n:' fggttfig :55 lflntllttljgéiVl'l:(L.1erl10f_1l2l:el’ltlOIltS mg they not only beat the world champions but the bi’ lksd rthee - behind Bob Purkey’s six-hit pitching And to add .y_ ‘ta-nt e . .‘’m it was world series hero Lew Burdette that they tlgililémedo mlury Braves won the second '_ f :1 "'7 . ,., g T """ " ‘ _ had shown that they don't llg1€(§‘l‘Ce1 Lo pi§yt.‘:1g§’;f'fi,”,s5§,t,,,‘:‘f,,t, the Redfi ‘ ~ Redleg manager Birdie Tebbetts put it this (Jay aftevjntliat open- ing victory. “Over the full season this game won’t make much difference but its good for our club to go out and win a well. pitched game from the Braves. But Milwaukee will always be tough to beat. They can still show us a big pitcher every day One nice thing, though. We- only need ‘to win‘ three more from g’{.ial\$’;ll,l’l(ee and we’ve done as well as last year After that it’s all ‘A big question is whether Milwaukee can repeat as National League champions without the continued cooperation of Cincinnati. We don’t think so. But then they may find some other “cousin”.

Greene, Mossor (9), McCall (9) and B-ucha. W—-Crist-ante; L- Green. HR: Mli-Greene; *lVItl- Parris. ‘: - Rochester 000 001 120-4 5 2 Richmond 011 000 000-2 7 1

Ricketts, McClain (3) and

Grandcolas; J and Oldis. W-McClain. _

Buffalo 000 002 001-3 10 1 Columbus 000 010 30X-4 10 1

Coleman, Kume (3) and Noble; Narranjo. O’Donnel (9). Arroyo (9) and Rand. W-Nar-ranjo, L- Coleman. T

HISTORIC RIVER-

The Ga-tineau River, a tribu- tary of the Ottawa River, is named after Nicolas Gatinearu, 17th-century f-ur trader.

Cinci-Robinson 2 »

STANDINGS

International League W L Pct. GBL

Montreal 12 ,3 .800 - Rochester 11 3 .786, lb Columbus 7 6 .538 4 Havana . 7- . 8 .467 5 Toronto 6 7 .462 5 Richmond 5 8 .385 6 Miami 5 10 .333 7 Buffalo ' 3 11 .214 8% American League

W L Pct. GBL New York 9 4 .692 - Kansas City 8 4 .667 ‘It Washington 7 4 .636 1 Detroit 8 7 .533 2 Cleveland 7 7 .500 21/5 Balti-more ‘ 5 6 .455 3 Boston 4 10 .286 5% Chicago 3 9 ,.25o 5%

CUNARD PAYS DAMAGES

TOKYO (Reuters)-The Cunard line will pay 13,000,000 yen (about $36,000) ctmpensation to Japan for damage caused when its 34:.183-ton ,lI‘1.xuny‘ liner Caronia struck a lighthouse in Yokohama port two weeks. ago, the owners’ agents -said Monday.

0()0. Qualters is a 23-year-old right- handed pitcher. He will report to the White Sox here today.

Jim McDonald. also a right- handed pitcher, will be sent to Indianapolis to make room for Qualters.

Player Retires From Football

DETROIT (AP)—Leon Hart re- tired Wednesday from profes- sional football as an active player after seven seasons with Detroit Lions.

The Detroit Football Company made the announcement and said

. the former Notre Dame great will

join the Lions’ broadcasting team as an announcer.

Former Champ Hospitalized

NEW YORK (AP)—Ben Jeby, world middleweight boxing cham- pion in 1932 and 1933, underwent major surgery successfully Wed- nesday. He is 51. '

Dutch Prince ‘To Visit Canada

0’l'I'-AW=A (CIP)-«Prince Bern- hard of The Netherlands arrives here Saturday to open a -nine-day visit to Canada.

He is flying direct from the Netherlands to Montreal’s Dorval Ainport and after a brief stop there will be flown to Ottawa by RSCAF aircraft, scheduled to at- rive here at 9 a.m. EDT (10 a.-m. ADT). - '

In the capital he will attend a series of dinners and receptions and place a wreath Sunday at the National War Memorial.

He will visit Montreal Monday, tour the St. Lawrence seaw-ay Tuesday and late that day pro- ceed to Toronto, where he will visit aircraft pl-ants. O-n Thurs- day,’ May 8, he will present wings to six NATO student pilots of the Royal Netherlands Air- force, at Gimli, Man., and fly the same day to Vancouver."

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By THE CANADIAN PRESS

San Francisco Giants regained first place in the National League Wednesday with a 10-1 victory over Phil-adelaphia Phililes under the strong arm of Johnny An- tonelli.

Antonelli tossed a s-ix-hitter and his mates backed him with four homers, good for nine nuns.

At Chicago, the Cubs used four homers to sweep to an 8-4 tri- umph over Milwaukee Braves as Bob Buhl absorbed his first de- feat after three victories.

Two night games were sched- uled, with St. Louis at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh at Los Angeles.

In the American League, De- troit Tigers bared their teeth and ripped into New York Yankees, right in Yankee Stadium. The fi- nal score was 10-1 for the Tigers.

It was the first loss for the Yanks in the Stadium this year. JOINS SELECT GROUP

Up at Boston Wednesday, Ted Williams joined nine other fa- mous major leaguers when he hit his l,000th extra base hit, a home run in a losing cause, as Kansas City Athletics took the Red Sox into camp 11-4.

Two night games were carded in the American League, Chicago at Baltimore and Cleveland at Washington. '

Three rookies and a veteran clouted the Frisco homers. Bob Schmidt, Orlando Cepeda and Jim Davenport were the youngs- ters, with veteran Daryl Spencer coming through for the oldsters.

For Anton-elli, it was his second win. Robin Roberts, seeking his 191st victory to beat the team record; he holds with Grover Cleveland Alexander, lasted 5 2-3 innings. .

Ernie Banks hit two homers for the Cubs, with the others going to ex-Brave Sammy Taylor and Lee Walls. » TAKES THE LEAD

It was the season's eighth for Walls, pushing him one ahead of Hank Sauer of San Francisco for the National League lead.

The home run was the big show in Boston too. _

Bob Cerv clouted twof-or Kan- sas City along with Williams’ clout for the Sox.

Ned Garver got the win, his third without a loss.

Whitey Ford was the victim of the Detorit outburst at the Sta- dium. He allowed 12 of their 14 hits. Al Kaline doubled twice and added a single as everybody in

the lineup except Reno Bertoia of Windsor, 0nt., collected at least

Bowdry Gains Unanimous‘ Decision Over Hinnant

CHICAGO (AP) — Young Jesse. Bowdry, fast -' punching sharp- shooter from (St. Louis, Wednes- day night gained a unanimous 10- round decision over veteran Clar- ence Hinnant in a light heavy-

weight bou-t in Chicago Stadium.

For a "pair of fighters with good knockout records, the bout pro- vided little proof of their KO pow- ers. Bowdry, making his national TV debut after registering 18 kay-

Flood Waters“Pour Into Lovver Valley Of St. John River

'By GEORGE NcNEVIN Canadian Press Staff Writer

SAINT JOHN, N.B. * <cP)—!

The spring floods that in-undated many areas of the Upper St. John River Valley last week poured into Kings and-Saint John Counties Wednesday flooding low- lying areas on the Kennpbecasis and Nerepis Rivers and othe: tributaries of the St. John.

Boosting the.floIw.of water from upriver was a 4.48 inch rainfall from 6 pm. Nlondayfto 9 pm. "Tuesday. The heaviest fall occur- red from 3 pm. to 9 p..m. Tues- day wlzen 1.48 inches fell. At 11 pm. Tuesday. wind gusts up to 62 miles an hour were reported.

A .52-foot gap was torn in _a road-dyke on a 35-acre marshland reclamation project at nearby Emerson’s Creek flooding the highway and making it vimrpass- able. The dyke gate itseh‘ held firm although the wall a'few feet from it broke and was swept away.

Two bridges in the Saint John

area were reported under water‘

forcing motorists into long de-

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‘tours. At nearby Garnett Town, the west branch of the Black River backed up flooding the ’highway. ' LAKE OVERFLOWS BANKS Spruce Lake, which provides '..Vest Saint John's industrial and lomestic water supply, was re- Iorted overflowing its banks. It vas the first time the lake had been reported at normal or above normal height since April, 1955. It has caused civic 'o:tlficials con- .~:»(ernation during hot rummers Vwlien its levels were I.:.1inously low. , L Along the lower St. John and iliennebecasis Rivers many sum- ; mer homes were flooded but no

Iyear-round homes were reported

damaged by the water. The base- ‘;ment of B and B Woodworkers Limited at nearby South Bay was flooded and heavy machin- lery was lifted from the floor in an effort to save it from dam- , age. _ I The provincial measuring sta- ltion said Wednesday the Lower (St. John River had increased ,five points from Tuesday to 14.6 ffeet above summer low. It was the ‘highest reading in the area in 20 years. RECEDE AFTER HIGH TIDES

The station superintendent said the flooding on the Lower St. John would not likely recede un- til after the full moon May 3, when Ba-y of Fundy tides, back- ing up river waters, will be at their highest.

Meanwhile, in the Fredericton area, the river level continued to recede. The water was down to 20.1 above summer low from 20.9 feet the previous day. At its peak last Friday it measured 24.95.

Parts of the Trans - Canada

were still under water but most roads were passable. Flood-lit- tered debris presented a prob- lem on some highways. Traf- fic was moving unobstructed on Highway 2 across Oromocto flats to Saint John.

Short Circuit

Blamed For Fire

OTTAWA (OP) _. A short cir- cuit was blamed Wednesday for a spectac-ular $130,000 fire that destroyed a big coal storage (building Tuesday on Catherine Street.

Remains of 1,500 tons of coal

\ shred in the structure’rs bins still

srnouldered Wednesday. John J. Heney, president of John Heney and Son Ln1.1_Ited, owners‘, made

the estimate of fire loss.

Highway south of Fredericton,

oes in 21 victories, had his Wash- ington, D.C. opponent wobbly only once. In the eighth round the 20-year-old St. Louis battler landed a good left hook and a right that sent Hinnant back against the ropes. Bowdry rained three chopping rights on his face, but Hinnant - who has been knocked out three times -"took the punches and worked out of the daze to finish strongly. Bowdry’s sharp left jab was a fine weapon, and although he hit I-linnan-I; consistently with his right nothing seemed to happen. However, there was no question about the outcome. The circling, quick punching Bowdry had a big edge on all three official cards. Judge Bill Doty scored it 50-43 under the five point must system. Judge Lou Capparelli had it 48-42 and referee Walter Bnightmorc 49-41. The AP card favored Bowdry 48-42.

‘Bo-wdry weighed 172 pounds and Hmn-ant 174.

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Frank Lary, twice a loser, broke into the winning column with a seven lllttel‘, to snap the

Yankees’ six-game home winning Lo Becquer.

streak. .

BALTIMORE (AP) Balti- more Orioles beat pitcher Early Wynn for the first time in 15 starts against them Wednesday night to score a 3-2 triumph over Chicago White Sox. _

Wynn’s only previous loss to the Orioles in the past four sea- sons. all with Cleveland, was in relief in September of 1954. He was lifted for a pinch-hitter Wed- nesday night after six innings with the score 3-1 against hlm to take his second loss in three decisions for Chicago. _

Jack Harsh-man, former White Sox pitcher s t a rt i n- g for the Orioles, also left in the sixth inn- ing with a 2-1 lead and received credit for his third victory With- out defeat.

The White Sox, struggling to avert their 9th loss in 12 games, threw ‘a scare into the final Oriole pitcher, George Zuverink. They scored in the ninth on Jim Rivera's double and pinch-hi-tter Tito Francona’s single. But third baseman Brooks Robinson made the fiin-al out on a falling back- ward catch of Walt Dropo’s tow-

ening fly far down the left field,

line.

CINCINNATI (AP) - Frank Robinson’s second home run of the game gave Cincinnati Redlegs a 5-4 victory over St. Louis Card- inals in the 10th inning here Wed- nesday night. He w-as the first man up in the bottom of the tenth. The Cards had scored twice in the ninth to tie the score. ~

Robinson had to share honors, however, with pitchers Tom Acker and Hal Jeff-coat. ’