Virgil Trucks Pitches His Second No-Hit,Q , NO-Run Game Of Season

Former President Of N. Y. Yankees Visiting lisper

JASPER PARK LODGE. Alta.. Aug. 25 - Fresh from selling 5105.000 worth of his yearlliigs at Saratoga. Larry S. McPhail, for- mer president of the New York Yankees. arrived here yesterday convinced that the Yanks would again sweep everything before them.

Mr. McPhail. accompanied by his wife. arrived at Jasper Park Lodge for a brief visit before con- tinuing to Vancouver where they will sail aboard the C.N.S. liner rPrince George" for Skagway, Alaska.

Mr. McPhail was convinced the Yanks this year again will go Lhrough to take the World Series. "The Yanks are tought to beat when the chips are down.” he claimed. adding ”There's something about a Yankee uniform that makes a player just a little better than the others." He didn't think the recent splurge of tile Indians would bother

Cleveland the New

NEW YORK. Aug. 25 '- (AP)- A reversed decision by the official scorer helped erratic Virgil Trucks pitch his second no-hit. no-run game of the season today as the last place Detroit Tigers nosed out New York Yankees, American Lea- gue leaders. 1-0.

The husky, 33-year-old Tiger fastballer thus became the third major leaguer to hurl two no-hit- ters in the same season. The lright-hander hurled the first no- httter of his career May 15 when he handcuffed Washington by the same 1-0 score.

The change by the official scor- er made this a unique masterpiece in diamond history. .

Phil Rizzuto of the Yankees hit a bounding ball to shortstop Johnny Pesky in the third inning. Pesky appealed to field it clean- ly. but juggled the ball while pull- ing it from his mitt to make the throw. When he did get the peg off. it bounced late and low to first base.

Official scorer. John Dreblnger. veteran reporter of the New York Times, ruled it an error and then. after a moment's reflection, de- cided that the ball had stuck in line webbing of Pesky's glove and changed it to a hit.

Argued For Error Other occupants oi the press

York squad.

With his interest now devouted to raising horses and cattle at his farm in Bel Air. Maryland. Mr. McPhail recently sold 27 yearlings at. Saratoga. N.Y. for more than s1fl5.000 and he is currently work- ing on the rebuilding of Bowie Park. inidvray between Baltimore and Washington. at a cost of 52.- 000000. It is expected to be open- ed on November 17.

Local Fighter Loses At Sydney

SYDNEY. N.S., Aug. 25-iCPl -Al Clamp of Sydney tonight knocked out George "Big Boy” Peterson of Charlottetown in the third round of a six-round fea- ture bout at a boxing show here.

It was the second straight K.O. for Clamp, who put, away Norman Forbes of Dominion. N5. in' one

round in his last fight. Brion- that he gained an upset triumph lover Mitch Krswri.-i, Marlliljjr

light-heavyweight champion.

PlanWAllaitU(uli Calibre Hockey

MONCTON, N. 3.. Aug. '25-(CF) Top-halibre hockey in New Bruns- wick will be of Allan Cup variety if plans laid at a meeting of hockey moguls here during the week-end materialize. g

Three clubs-Fredericton. Saint John and Moncton-were represent- ed at the meeting and their spokesmen visual.7.t-d a lcazue enm- prlsed of their own teams and clubs from north shore towns of New Brunswin; anil possibly and Sprlnghlll in Nova Scotia.

Samt John and Monctoii had entries in the Maritime Major I-loekev Leaelie stfasoii. Earlier spokesmen had announced that both rliihs would enter Allan Cup competition during the coming SPRSUIT.

Fredericton has been anxious for the past two years to enter A lea- gue with other New Brunswick

cities in Allan Cup competition aiidl

hold-overs Dom last season's in-

termediatn team will give them a ei'pool Larrupers 5-2 Monday to

.st.ron;: start in the new circuit. Further plans for the new league

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box argued that it should have -,been an error. Dreblnger held firm ifor a while but. by the fifth in- lning. began to feel that there must 'be a reasonable doubt because of the insistence of other writers. Drebinger was willing to con- sult Pesky on the matter. Pesky in-as phoned in the dugout. before fthe seventh inning and readily ltook the blame. ' "I had the ball and it squirted loose from my glove as I reached

to take it out,” he said. ”I messed up the play.”

Drcbinger then announced the reversal.

At that moment the Tigers were

putting together a double by Walt iDropo and a single by Steve. Souchock for the only run off Bill jMiller, rookie left-hander. ' Trucks then began to press for his iio-hitter. Yogi Berra. Gene lwoodling and Loren Babe went down in order in the seventh.

In the eighth heistarted off by fanning Billy Martin. Casey Sten- gel then ordered two pinch-hitters in bat. Johnny Mize fouled out anti Irv Norm flied 'ont.

The Stadluni was a bedlam as the Yanks came to bat in the 'ninth. Mickey Mantle led off and. trying for a homer, fanned for

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, Trucks' eighth strike-out.

Joe Collins then lined in long ball to centre and. for a moment. ,it seeined to be out of reach. Bill ,Johnny Groth raced over and took the ball at head-height. -

Hank Bauer. the final batter. crashed a hard grounder but it lwent right to All Federoff, rookie second baseman. on one bounce. He threw to first and the game ,was over.

l After the game. Trucks admit- lied he was happily surprised at jthe icoring change.

1 "I didn't think it was a hit when it happened." he said, ”hut lwho am I to criticize? I just lwent out and pitched as though they had made a hit. The hit was p there on the scoreboard over ,the bleachers.

1 "But when the change was made. 11 wanted to go all the lay."

1 The only other no- itter this year in the majors was turned in by, Brooklyn's Carl Erskine against Chicago Cubs on June 19

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The presence of Clare G..Hoose. Cleveland Indians scout ,at Sun- day afternoon's baseball games here indicates that the Major League clubs have their eyes on the Maritimes looking for young prospects. The glnterest in Mari- time baseball players of late years possibly stems from the fact that a couple of young New Brunswick pitchers are making Quite a name for themselves in minor league ball in the States. One of these pitchers is Billy Harris in the Brooklyn Dodgers chain and the other is a young lefthander from Saint John who was signed by Hoose in the Cleveland chain two years ago. a o C Harris won his 20th gdme in the Class B. Miami League more than a week ago and in doing it he came within one out of a no- hittei'. He had two men out in the ninth when an opposing bat- ter hit one of the young New Brunswick pitcher's slants to the outfield. The outfielder got his glove on the ball but could not handle it. There was quite an argument in the Miami papers over whether or not it should have been called an error or a hit. How- ever. the official scorer ruled it a hit so Harris had to settle for a one-hitter. At that time his re- cord was 20-4 and he had a fan- tastically low earned run average. a 0 .

The young Saint John pitcher signed by House, whose name we can not recall. irikedthis name to a pro contract about the same time that Billy Joe Davison sigh- ed with the Indians. Davison, it will be remembered signed for 5100.000 and had numerous photo- graphs taken in the dugout alongside Bob Feller and the oth- er members of the famed Cleve- land mound staff. The U.S. pres; hailed Davison as aiiotht-r'1i:tt handed Feller.

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Eventually hoth Davisnn and the iyoung Saint John hurler landed in lthe same Class C league in the mid-western States. Davison found the going very tough but the Saint John boy. according to the qlatest word. has a good '7-2 record. Hank Greenburg, head of the Cleveland organization, estimated that the New Brunswick hurler would have received I. bonus of about 540.000 to s5o,ooo had he lived in some centre like New York oi' Pennsylvania where scouts are constantly look- ing for ball players. c ' ' I

So under the circumstances it is not surprising that the scouts like to make the occasional trip here. Hoose, as scouts usually do, arrived here almost unknown and saw what he wanted before he made it known what his business was. As I matter of fact he saw a lot before the Junior ball game started. While the juniors were having batting practise Hoose was an interested but remote observer.

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Donnie Simmons picked It good day to pitch one of his clfrlctive games. Hoose commented favor- ably about Donnle's work and thought that the young Summer- side boy had some possibilities. He was disappointed because he did not see Donnie Macl..ean in action. He'had heard about MacLean's ability and knew about the boys size and make-up but wanted to see for himself just how good MacLean .3. .

0 o . It were unfortunate that House. should have seen the poorest ball ;game of the season. Quite I bit of it could be blamed on the weather and the rest. to the Ab- bies poor start in the first inning. Aside from the weather. however, one of the first things that House ,noticed was the presence of un-uni- formed people in the dugouts and lthls violation of the rules was one of the thlngd he spoke about in an interview following the game. . . .

Another thing which I-loose spoke about was the lack of unl- forms for the umpires and base judges. While such neglects have gone unspoken about by most of us because we have become accus- tomed to them they are the first things which catch the eye of those who make their careers in- baseball and they are Just about the quickest way a scout such as Hoose has of sizing up a league.

Suburban league Trophy Won By Tignish "Shore

Tn.l.hc last. game of the finals of the West Prince Suburban, Base- ball League, played on the Tlgnlsh diamond Sunday. August 24th. Who Tlgntsh High school. winner of last you": trophy. were defeated by Tlgnln Shore by I score of 0-0 thereby winning the Illvlr cup donated by Mr. W. D. summer. president and founder ol the loo- gus. Thus two tuna have played excellent bollallunon anghy the

Horse raclngWfans should see a good meet tonight when many of the best pacers and trotters stabled

1 at the Exhibition barns lineup be-

hind the starting gate at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

Highlights in tonight's meet will be the free-for-all with such fav- orites as Prince Budlong. Argot Pointer. Babe Britton, Miss Knox.

Josedale Clipper. A. G. Scott. Johnny Kalmuck and Neil Bud- long.

In addition there will be three other good classes with each class racing two dashes.

SavoiT Defends Crown Tonight .

MONTREAL. Aug. 25 - (CF)- Armand Savoie. Canadlaii light- weight and welterweight cham- pion. places his welter crown on the line tomorrow night when he meets Johnny Greco in a 12-round main event. '

Savoie recently captured the welter title from Greco on a dis- puted split declslon. He rates a 6-5 decision in the all-Montreal title battle.

Victoria Golfer Scoresi Upset

WESBT VANCOUVER. Aug. 25 -(OP) - Stocky Vic Painter of Victoria drove through the rain and cold today to score one of the major upsets in the first 18-hole round in the Canadian amateur golf championship.

Painter numbed Pete Bogan of Montebello, Calif., U.S. public links champion. 3 and 1. closing out the match on the 17th by sinking a 50-foot putt.

Max Tenninglteit of Culver City. Colif.. edged Joe Gagliardi. ruli- ner-up in the U.S. amateur last year, 2 and 1. Joe said afterwards ltht Tennlngkeit really finished him off on the short llth, when he canned a 40-foot putt. for I birdie two.

Third big upset was the 1 up .defeat suffered by Dick Yost of lPortland. 0re.. at the hands of IFrank Harrison of Glendale. Calif. Harrison won on the 434-yard 15th with a one-over-par five. Ycstls second shot dropped in a trap near the green. It was in casual water and when Yost picked up and dropped. he let the ball fall ,near the edge of the trap. With to bad lie, he drove over the green and took three more strokes to lget down.

There were 10 defaults on the first day of the week-long tourna- mcnt over the 6.804-yard, par-12 Capilanc Course perched on the slopes of Hollyburn Mountain.

Willlngdon Cup players Bob Gray of Winnipeg and Jerry Kes- selrlng ofixltchener. Ont.. were easy winners. Gray smashed John Wilson of Vancouver 6 and 5 and iKesselring knocked off R. E. Hib- bertson of Victoria by the same score.

Most lopsided win was posted -by veteran Eddie Draper of seat- ltle, who over-ran Hllles Pickens of Montreal 8 and 8.

came victots speaks highly of the Tignish High School lads.

This league which has been in operation for the last five years is made up of Tlghish High School and the school districts of Tignish Shore. St. Roch, St. Louis. Skin- ncrs Pond and Miminegash. During the last two years fourteen of the players developed such marked ability that they were taken our by the senior Prince County Inter- mediate "B" League.

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Good Harness Meet In Prospect Here Tonight

L. Y. C. Eliminates Angels From Softball Series

The Llguorian Youth Club came up with six runs in the top of the seventh inning yesterday eve- ning to defeat the Guardian An- gels ll-l0 and win their way to the semi-finals of the City Soft-

ball League. Bert Lannan's two run lion-ier was the winning blow. Lannan

socked his four-bugger with Will shephard on base to put the L. Y.C. ahead 11-9. The. Angels got one run back in their half of the seventh.

The L.Y.C. bounced back from 0. 9-3 defict to win the game. They picked up single runs in the fifth and sixth to set the stage for their seventh inning rally.

Jimmy Gauthier went all the way for the L.Y.C. He gave up 10 hits, struck out three and walk- ed seven.

Ray Stull, on the hill for the Angels. gave up 1-1. hits. He struck out four and walked two.

Cecil Ward of the Angels made the best fielding play when he hauled down a high fly after a long run. Manny Keys of the A71- gels and Allan MacDonald of -the L.Y.C. also turned in good games.

Bert Lannan led all batters with three hits. Gene Ward, Cecil Ward. Harry Poulton and Ray Stull pick- ed up two hits each for the Guar- dian while Wilt Shephard, Jack I-Ienncssey. Jimmy Gauthier and Allan MacDonald got two hits for the L.Y.C.

The game was handled by Har- old 1-lennessey with Verne Blan- chard on frst and George Sch- leyer on third.

Lineups:

L.Y.C.-J. Bradley if. A. Shep- hard lb. W. Sliephard ab, B. Lan- nan 211. F. Shephard rf. J. Hen- nessey c. J. Gauthier p. M. Peters s. A. MacDonald cf.

Guardian - G. Ward c. C. Ward rf, D. Burge if. H. Poulton 2b. M.

Longapliie lb. R. Stull p, M. ar- mlchael cf. 13. Acorn ss..M. ays 3b. 15. Ward rf, J. Soztak ph. Llnescores: L.Y.C. 303 0116-11 Angels . . . . . . . 330 300 1-10

Toronto Man Wins Marathon Swim

TORONTO, Aug. 25 - (UP) - Cliff Lumsden, 21. of Toronto Fri- day took the 55,000 first prize in the Canadian National Exhibition 59.500 ltl-mile marathon swim.

This was the third win for the husky champion. Lumsden took the event previously in 1940 and 1950 His time was four hours, 24 min- utes and 6'10 seconds.

Forbes Norris, .Jr.. 24. of Win- chester. Masg, finished second.

Norris) a sentimental favorite, was crippled as a child by poltomy- elltis and took up swimming as -i therapy treatment. He finished three minutes behind Lumsden to win 82.250 prize money.

Third prize of 8750 went to Steve Wozniak. 36-year-old Buffalo. N.Y.. truck driver. Tommy Park of Hamilton finished fourth to col- fecc 1500.

Game Tonight

The Liguorisn Youth Club and the Bowery Bombers will meet this evening at 5.45 in the first game of their semi-final series in the City Softball League. The game will be played on the Old Diamond. On the Parkdale Diamond the ' hine Island Dairy will meet Harold Hen- nessey's All Btars in an exhibition

game starting at 5.45.

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, Night Racing Tonight, August 26th-

STARTING TIME 7.50

N0. 1 CLASSIFIED - 2 DASIIES A'l' 0200.00 A. G. Scott. Prince Bodldng, Argot Pointer, Johnny Ihlrnuek, Jossdale

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N0. 2 CLASSIFIED - I DASHEB AT 0125.00 AND 0100.00 Jlmnlio A., Jennie Kslmuak. Frisco the Grant, lbrlly Dodloag.

Helen Harvester.

N0. 0 CLASSIFIED - I DASIIIS AT 0100.00 AND 0100.00

nnrarniid Dill. Miss Hsyfalr. Capt. Missouri. Kitty Mnxay, Bonnie Frisco can. Pink. Belle ludleng, Ksppoob Playgirl. .

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Baseball Results

By The Canadian Press National League First (day game)

Brooklyn . . . 010 000 200-5 6 v St. 'Louls ,. 100 000 000-1 2 4 Rutherford and Walker. Cam-

pariella ('1); staley and D. Rice. Second

Brooklyn 020 000 115-9 12 0 St. Louis . . 000 220 100-5 12 0 Loes, Wade, (5). Moore ('1).

Black (9) and Campanella; Had- dcx, Yuhlis (2). Brazle (9) and D. Rice. Philadelphia Chicago

(10 innings)

Ridzik, Hansen 39) and Burgess; Lown and Atwell. New York .... .. 000 000 000- 0 8 0 Cincinnati .. 000 120 00x- 8 8 0

Jansen, Koslo (5). Kennedy (H) and Westrum; Raltensbergcr and Seminick.

000 003 000 3-6 10 2 010 001 100 0-3 10 1

American League '

Detroit. . 000 000 100-1 5 2

New York . . 000 000 000-0 0 0 Trucks and Batts; Miller and

Berra.

Cleveland . 030 000 004- 7 11 I

Washington 000 001 001- 3 I 1

Lemon and Tipton; Marrero and Gi-asso.

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE First

.....000ll0l-3'1 0 Buffalo 010 001 0- 2 3. 1 Mills. Podres (7), Hughes (71 and Thompson; .Foytack and Claw sfelskl.

Montreal '

Second Montreal 022 021 031-11 18 2 Buffalo 000 000 200- 2 S 0

Alexander and Thompson; Bor- owy, Poole (Ill, Costello (6). Yu- liaii (8) and Erautt.

Toronto . 040 000 200- 6 9 3 Syracuse 010 110 80x-ll 8 I

Lombardi. Ovcrmire (5), Shore (7), Hudson (7). Hetki (7), Fisher (8) and Keller; Egan, Griffore (B) and O'Neal.

Baltimore 100 on we ooi-' 4 is 1 Springfield

010 110 000 002- 510 3

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Proleoilole Pitchers

NEW YORK. Aug. 25 -(AP)- Probable pitchers for tomorrow's major league games:

American League

St. Louis at New York (night)- Cnln (9-1) vs Sain (9-6i.

Cleveland at Philadelphia (nilzhtl-Garcia (16-3) or Feller (9-12! vs Shantz (22-4).

Detroit at Boston (night)- Houtteman (6-1'7) vs Hudson (9-9),

Chicago at Washington might) Pierce (13-3) vs Porterfield (10-12)