Geraldl . Island League Batting

Channel Swimming May Get Off To Early Stan

DOVER, England. June 12 (Reuters)-The annual onslaught on the,English Channel threatens to get off to an early start this year. Aspiring swimmers already are in training for their chance to

Rlghtilelder Gerald Dalton of the Curran and Briggs Junlou with a neat .571 batting average leads the Island Baseball League in batting according to unofficial figures compiled here last night.

Runner-up to Dalton is Mari- time Central Airways third base- man Glen Matheson who has pounded out six hits in 12 trips for a batting average of an even

.500. Matheson leads the leaguel

in hits with six. y

The following averages include -all batters who have had at least five official at bats and who have obtalned at least one hit:

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conquer the 22-mile stretch of water An 3 u get separating England and France. 'Gg Dalton. cgm .... H 1 2 4 .571 Since Capt. Matthew Webb lJI'0V- G. Matheson. MCA .. 12 2 6 .500 ed it could he done in 1875 each whelan, C&B . 12 6 5 .41? summer has brought a new Cl'0D of Ryan. IA ...... .. 10 1 4 .400 hopefuls. V , MacNeill. MCA 5 2 2 .400 Nearly 450 attempts have been Plnealt JA 5 2 2 -400 made and the number of swimmers 0- Grady. C5513 5 0 2 who have succeeded in recent years Walkeh 0&3 - 3 2 3 -3"” has dimmed some of the glamor of guweur eggs 1; 2 3 5'" ”””' IA 9 1 3 "ar- In 1950 the London Daily Mail, C Grads, c&'B" 13 3 4 30; saved th e sitiialioiip by turning Macmba. JA g g 13 1 g '30” the spotlight on channel rac- P. schmmnm c&B 3 1 2 .250 ing instead of solo crossings W. Hennessey, IA 3 0 2 .250 its a race offered a 21.000 prize. L. gchurmany 0&3 5 1 '1 .1553 This year the Daily Mail an- pl-yer, IA , 6 0 1 .1631 nounced that the race will not. be P. Kennedy. JA 6 0 1 .166; held, figuring that the Helsinki D. MacLean. JA. 6 1 1 .166; Olympic Czaimes-wmild dampen in- Delaney, C&B 12 4 2 .1661 tel-csi. l-lowatt, IA . . 7 1 1 .144: Nevcrtlicless, Burly Sam Rockeit, C0)'lE.g -M V -- - 3 0 1 -125 czar of the Channel trainers and Macxmmm MC " R 1 1 'l25l cnacli of a Folkestone swimming C3l"l5v 1.5 md.1tl Algal pool. expects a good season; He L9ge”d' m”'h"”me me '

already has two Channel aspiraiitsl in training. l

They are a 24-year-old G-astonla.' N. C.. fireman. Robert. Paysour. ancll Elna Andersen. I Danish mlss who last year became the first woman to swim the Channel from England to France.

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(By The Associated Press) Leading batsmen (based on 100

Forence Chadwick, 32. of San 411- DBWAIZHERICAN LEAGUE Diego. Cal., stenographer. also is , s , expected to arrive soon. Miss Chad- Dglafayggf u"b l' A3 R " PM wick is the only woman to have ' rivum the Channel in each direc-pxgfsmn 1 ' 618! 35 61 337' lion.-Last month she announcerll Bgston 49190 22 62 -326 me is considering an attempt tolaosen mm W”? W315 ”0"'5i0P- , Cleveland so 137 as 61 .326 An aspirant needs ironi s70Ovto.Rob1nson' 53.000 to make at nttennt. Malorl Chicago ...... .. 53 202 27 63 317 expenses are a two-month hoteltsoodman, bill. a tup to accompany a swim-I Boston ...... .. 2130 33 41 .315 mer. If a professional trainor lsl NATIONAL LEAGUE hired. the bill may go up another-'Sauer. 51,000. lhicago . . . 52 203 30 '10 .345 .. Adcock. Cincinnati .. 32102 20 35 .343 . Robinson. Baseball Standings Brooklyn .. 43,157 as 53 .333 Lockman. -----W New York 48194 45 64 .330 (By The Canadian Press) Musial.

NATIONAL Llgggrlg St. Louis . 53 185 30 60 .324 Brooklyn . 14 ,-714.. Home runs: American. Rosen. New York 17 .646. 31'. Cleveland 11: National. Sauer. Chicago .. 19 .627- 4 S Chicago 18.

St. Louis 26 .509-10 Runs batted in: American. Ros- Ciricinllatl 27 ,471.13 en. Cleveland and Dropo. Detroit Boston , . 29 JOPIS 36; National, Sauer. Chicago 51). gntitlabdelplliia .. 29 .396-15!.

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New York .. . 20 18 .6 - i 30mm H H 31 21 QAPETOWN-(CP)-A newly Cleveland ,, ,, 31 22 .535. fonned primary school atiiletic Chicago,.. , , 27 25 .519- 4 association in Natal will drop the Washington . . 24 24 .500. 5 practice of awarding a cup to the Philadelphia .. 21 24 .4s7- 6'-3 winner-t Wlnnlns tmiohles will be St. Louis 23 30 334- Big original paintings by well-known Detroit . . 15 36 .294-159'. South African artists.

ball League as far as batting aver- ages are concerned. Dalton got his big start in the first game of the season when he banged out four hits in five trips almlIl5- M13-A U is not likely that Dalton will con- tinue his .571 pace ton tom! and as a matter of fact he will have to keep humping if he wishes to keep ahead of the rest of the pack. Glen Matheson is right on his heels with .500 and ”Buck" Whitlock. always a dangerous hitter in not too far down .333. In considering the bat- ting averages printed in today's sports colums it should be re- membered that both Holman's In- termediates and the R.C.A.F. had played only one league-game be- fore the figures were compiled and had no players with at least five official at bats.

Another young Sumnierslde play- er well up in the batting race is Johnny Wheian. Until the start of this season Whelan nd Dalton were not known to us as big stars on the 0&8 team and we must sav that we are pleased to see them so well along in the batting race. Even if they do taper off from their early season showing they have a right to feel proud of the part. they have played in putting Curran and Briggs into an early lead in the Island Baseball race.

0 O 0 When the Junior Ahbies ivriva bal- ling against "Lefty" Macaleer

here on Tuesday evening, the night of MacLean's no-hit. game. there was only one right handed bat- ter facing Leity. He was "Cuker" Pineau.. a young fellow who has come a long way since he started to play baseball last year. After I slow start last semen ”Cuker" de- veloped into a pretty fair third baseman and a batter. This year he is showing signs of becoming quite a good player. His perfor- mance the other evening levft little to desire. He played the hot car- ner perfectly. got; two hits and kept his teammates on their toes with

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plMorgan. Turns In 3-hit - L Performance As Yankees .

Shut Out F Detroit 3-0

l By The Associated Press Tommy Morgan turned in I three-hit shutout yesterday as the pace-setting New York Yankees ;roncluded a prosperous home stand ihy defeating the Detroit Tigers.

3-0.

"The victory was (he Yanks' sixth straiizlit and their 12th in 15 games since arriving home from their first tour of the west.

,i Boston and Cleveland remained lhard on the heels of the Bombers. The runner-up Red Sox .doivned St. Louis Browns. 7-5. and the third-place Indians whipped the Washington senators, 7-4. The Red Sox trailed by 13 percentage points and the Indians are a half game out. The Senators dropped from fourth to fifth place. The Chicago white Sox beat Philadel- phia. 10-4 to move into the last money spot. '

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One group which has been favor- ed by the weather this week is the softball players. All games in the City Softball League have been played to date and' judging by the first indications the Sunahire Island Dairy nine look like the team to beat. The ball. probablv is not of the highest calibre. but it has been interesting and good sport for those playing. Thrre are still several small matters to be iron- ed out in the league and for this purpose a meeting of all represen- tatives will -be held in the Holy Name Hall tonight at eight o'clock

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We had a letter last night from L. F. Hutinson of Moncton advis- ing us that a mile swim is being held in connectlon- with- the She- diac Lobster Festival on Saturday. July 12. There are four classes, for senior men and ladies and -junior boys and girls with trophies be- ing donated for the winner in each case. Swimmers from across the Maritlmes will be welcomed to the meet and may enter by writing to Mr. 1-lutcherson in Moncton.

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Baseball Results '

(By The Canadian Press) AMERICAN LEAGUE

Cleveland 006010 000-7 11 1 Washington .. 000 100 030-4 10 I Feller and Began: Shea. John- son (3) Haynes (5) Masteraon (8). ,Ferrick (9) and Cvrasao. St. Louis 000 100 040-5 12 8 Boston .. 102 200 llx-'l 10 3 Plllette, Madison (7) Mahoney (8) and Courtney. Moss (4); Hudson. Delock (9) and White. Detroit . 000 000 000-0 3 1 New York . 101 000 101-3 11 l Wight. Trucks (.7) White (8) and Ginsberg; Morgan and Berra. Chicago 030 004 300-10 14 3 Philadelphia 000 400 000-- 4 ll 1 Grissom, Stobbs (5) and Lollar; Kellner. Fowler (6) Scheib ('1), and Tipton.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Philadelphia 000 100 000-! I 0 Chicago .. 100 001 10x-3 ll 0 Roberts. Konstanty (8) and Bur-

gess; Hacker and Atwell. Boston 000 362 000-11 13 2 Pittsburgh 020 000 000-2 4 1

Johnson. Burdette (2) and Bur- ris; Muir. Main (4) Munger (5) Lapalme (6) and Garagiola.

Brooklyn I02 110 002- 0 1'1 1

St. Louis . 410 B03 111- 5 ll 5 Roe, Black (1) Labine (2) King (4) Podblelan (6) Schmitz ('1) and Campanella: Staley. Crim- tan (3) Werle (5) and D. Rice. New York at Cincinnati pout- poned.

INTERNATIONAL i First Game

Rochester . 000 002 0-2 I 2 Ottawa . 101 500 x-'1 ll 0

Faamlz. Bokelmann (5) 1-lIben- lche (e) and Bucha: Gohl and Watlington.

second Game

Rochester .. .. 000 000 000-0 0 Ottawa . 210100 000-4 I

Collum and Bucha. Kuhn (0 Hlcano Ind Watllngton. ...syrIeiiIe, . 000 001 no-s I 3 Springfield 000 000 000-0 2 0

Landeek Ind Plumbo; Simpson (0) Jacobs (0) and Chltl. Buffalo ...... .. 011 000 000-0 0 8 Baltimore 000004011-4 ll 2

Llttlefleld. Jordln (0) Poole (0) and Moi-darrkl: Atkins. Trlnkle (0) Sloat. ('1) and Lekeman, Taba- clieck (7).

Exhibition Game

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Andy's Aces gained In upset. victory over the Alrwomen It the Recreation centre softball diam-

mound for the wm,h an the motor of Andre Ael.

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In the National lheague, the St. Louis Cardinals hammered the leagueg-leading Brooklyn Dodgers. 1.5-10: Boston trounced Pittsburgh. 11-2. as Paul Burris drove in six runs; and Chicago tamed Phila- delphia. 3-i. behind warren Hack- er's five-hitter. The runner-up New York Giants and Cincinnati were rained out. -

Morgan in going the distance for the first time, walked three and fanned two. The young righthand- cr also trippled and scored the Yanks second run. Hank Bauer. who opened the game with a hom- er. drove Morgan home with fluke double.

Sid Hudson. obtained by the Red Sox from Washington two days ago. received credit. for Bos- ton's victory over the Browns. Bos- ton collected ten hits to st. Louis 12 but the Red Sox blows included a home run by Hoot Evers and two doubles by Billy Goodman.

Bobby Feller coasted in his sixth straight victory for the Indians. Cleveland pounced on Spec Shea for six runs in the third inning with Pete Reiser featuring the up- rising with a thre-run, pinch,-hit. homer.

Chicago Carrasquel paced the White Sox to victory of the A's. driving in five runs on a pair of triples and two singles.

The Cards hammered out 18 hits and the Dodgers 17 in the slugfest at. St. Louis. Solly Hemus. Dick sisler and Del Rice led the Card- inal attack with three blaws each Gil Hodges hit two homers for

JUNE i135. 1952

Aranio-liing , . . Bout Tonight F

Georgie lightweight with speed.

13, has won 80 fights in a. row.

8 5 Expect Warrington

lTo Defend Title

weight boxing champion.

Johii early in July. Promoter otty

tioii for a championship bout.

sidered the logical the light heavyweight

to terms shortly for the

Brooklyn.

Dairymen Ea”

The Sunshine island Dairy and the North End Bowery Bombers were the victors in last night's City Softball League games which

were played on the Knights of Columbus and Upper Queen St. diamonds.

The Suifshlne Island Dairy de- feated the Basilica Youth Club 20-3 in a game on the K of C. dlas. mond. The North End Bombers trampled the Guardian Angels 20- 16 in a free hitting game.

Cliff Jackson led the dairymenls attack on the B.Y.C. by collecting four hits in five trips, Jackson came up with a homer. two triples and a double.

Charlie Ballem pitched the milk men to their second straight lea- zue win. He surrendered only four hits and retired in the last inning in favor of his brother Cedric who came in to strike out the last two batters.

The fielding gem of the game was Willie Dunn's shoestring catcht

Smyllie In Hospital

rTORONTO, June 12 -- (CP)- Conn Smythe. managing director of Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club underwent a minor oper- ation today.

His condition was reported as "good" but he will remain in hospital for a month.

BEVIN MEMORIAL

IDNDON-(GP)-The Transport and General Workers Union. larg- est union in the world outside of Russia, will establish a memorial scholarship in honor of Ernest Bevin, who was the union's first general eecretray. Bevin was Brit- ain's foreign secretary from 1945 until his death last year.

ATTENTION

be named.

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distance.

Bombers

Win Softball Games

an All Coady in the sixth inning. big fourth and fifth innings to defeat

The Bombers put together the Angels. Highlight of the Bom-

for seven runs.

the Angels

to end the game.

Lineups

cf. 0. Ballem p. B.Y.C.-Weatherble II, D.

Led-well if, Kelly 3b. Bombers-M. Murnaghan.

H. Hendaghan. J. Hughes. Angels-C. Ward 1!. In, Mlireaide

Sb. D. Burge if, M. Carmichael ct.

M. Longaphle lb, H. Poulton 2b. J.

NEW YORK. June 12 --(AP) - Araulo, a 21-year-old punching power and a yen for a. title shot, moves into fast company tomorrow night ,when he takes on Toronto's L'Il Arthur King. a ranking I35- pounder. in Madison Square Gar- den. A smash hit in his first Ip- pearanco here .and on the televis- ion network. the Provldence. 11.! lighter has been made a. surpris- ingly heavy 2 1-2 to 1 favorite over

chief breadwinner of a family of

SAINT JOHN. N. 3.. June 12 - (CP)”"i'iger Warrington of Kent- ville, N. S.. Canadian light-heavy- is ex- pected to defend his .title in Saint

Stevenson said tonight he had reached a financial agreement with the veteran Nova Scotia. boxer and now is seeking in Canadian Boxing Federation sanc-

Eddie Zaatra of Winnipeg is con- contender for title, and Stevenson expects him to come bout which would be over the 12-round

the indefinite g Brownie Manager Marty Merton. Marion, whose d in the team's

I wire from ton Red

veech test. Joe Demaestrl

at shortstop. The suspension was ordered be

The two

Umpire Hank Sauer. Marion t ”

th bl, 25- - ld c add be"-" ve:erl:n.e year 0 I an an "I did not," he told baseball The New England younguan writers. "bump him (McGowan).

He tried to walk through me. with

talk to you.' He can walk

me." Marlon

by.

Better Halves Defeat George's Gals 12-10 B

Smith fairly hard. ves. hit I home run. ing gem of the

high one back. of third base. Line-ups:

name was In- starting lineup. was ordered suspended by American League preeldent will, I-Iarrldge to Veeeh Just before today's game with Boe-

Sox. immediately said (the game would be played under pro-

replaced Marlon

cause of I run-in Marion had last night with Umpire Bill McGowan. bumped as Marion argued with McGowan after the latter called Demaestrl out at third in the eighth inning. over-ruling

the suspension. on his third day as manager of, the club. "the biggest disgrace in base-

"T e only time I was in contact lm was when he told me to get out of his way. I said (I'm not getting out of your way. 1' want to around me if he wants to but not through

was named manager Tuesday, replacing Rogers Home-

The R. C. A. F. Better Halves won their second game in as many nights to take top position in the Summer i'de Ladiea' Softball Lea- gue by kalaornining George Guer- gls Gals by the acorei of 12-0. Major, speedball artist. held thr- Gorgeous Gala in check all eve- ning. while the PMQ'I hit Carmen Mason. star d sacker of the Better Hal- The field- evenlng was I spectacular catch by Pauline Mc- Arthur of the Gala, who stabbed a

George's Gals: Dot Gallant c, Pauline McAi-thur 3b, Joan Comp- ton as, Joyce MacDonald cf. Wan- da Chappell 2b. Aleah Deslwochea lf. Carmen smith p, Jane Pett 1b,

Rhoda Baker rf. R.

Bill Veeck To Protest S Marty: Marion Suspension

BDGION. June 12 -(AP) -Bill Veech. Bt.'I..oulI Browns president. said today he would protest to Baseball Commlaeioner lllord Erick suspension of

loving Cup To Veecli Causes Some Crossfire

51'. 140015. June 12 -(AP)- The Mina cup 3111 Veeck got. fol firing Rogers Barnaby Ia mu-nae. of the St. mull Browns engen. dered some crossfire today.

The outspoken 1-Iomsby aid: ll. was almost positive Brownie amel- Veeck had the trophy with him at the showdown conference with the Rajah in a Boston'hotel room Tue. sday.

The trophy was presented to Veeck in I ceremony that night. by Brownie players. Inscribed on the 24-inch loving cup was:

"To Bill Veeck for the greatest Dilly since the. emancipation pro. clamation.,June 10. 1062. From the players of the St Douie Browns." Today veteran sports editor; .1. Roy Stockton of the St. Loulg Post-Dispatch took Veeck and hl, travelling secretary. Bill Dllrhev, to task. ' "That was not the spontaneous humor of I, bunch of ball players," he wrote in his daily column. "11 was the humor of Bill Durney who knew it would please his boss. "Nor was the trophy purchased by contributions from I group or ball palyers. . .It was a club pro- ject and Bill Veeck and Bill Dur- ney should be profoundly ashamed of themselves by now." , Stockton said veeck and Durney were entirely out of order "when they participated in the public humiliation of Hornsby. a. great baseball figure in his own right, . member of the Hall of Fame and a name that will live long after at. of Bill Veecks stunts and Bill Durney's sophomoric jokes have been forgotten."

In Boston veeck at first lauglira when told 1-lornaby said he thought Veeck had brought the trophy with him to'Boston--before the firing. "Only Hornaby would think at something like that." Veeck scof- fed. ,

Dminey insisted he aranged the purchase of the trophy for "about 15 at the players." he said pitcher Ned Gar-ver a m-game winner last season but having his troubles thii year. was among them.

Alden Belcher of the Banger Company which supplied the tro- phy. was quoted as saying Durney arranged for the trophy and the players paid for it.

hers attack was two homers good

Mike Connolly went all the way for the Bombers to get his first win of the year. Neil Young started for and ,.vras.. relalmmeilg , by Hary Poulton in 'i the-fourth. Dick Doyle came in during the seventh