Gunder Heegg, the vaunted Swed- 15h runner, is supposed to be in the United States for goodwill rea- sons, as much as anything else but if that is so, he hasn't made a very good stark.

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First-day interviews revealed that he didn't like New York city, that he didn't like the heat, that he pre- ferred a vacant lot to Columbia University's fine track. In addition, he managed to get in two advance alibis on top of the one already given a gmd play in the papers, viz: sea legs that have set him back so far that he claims he'll need seven weeks’ conditioning to return to top shure- _ _ _

The new alibis are: (l) "I am past my peak. After all. I am 24." (2) He prefers the shorter middle distance to the long-er ones.

As to alibi No. 1 this is the first

time we've ever heard of anybody‘

but the winner of a baby contest being past his peak at 24; as to ali- bi No. 2, can it be that I-Iaegg is already aware of the fact that Gil Dodds is not nearly as formidable an opponent as the great Greg Rice? Incidentally, Rice will never see 34 again, but we haven't heard him singing any laments yet.

Haegg also rays he "will be s sportsman" and compete in at least one race at the National A.A.U. meet. In fact. he is "determined" he will do this.

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Inasmuch as it was this partic- lder meet that was the No. I con-

deration in getting him to the

tates, and in view of the fact that he had already signified his inten- tion of taking part in it, keeping To greement should be no great e rain on his sportsmanship.

A; kg‘ being "determined" to take part. at was determined for him est week when the A.A.U.'s Mr. Ion-is spoke right out and said the Swede had better be there on this articular occasion, or it wouldn't any use showing up on subse- lnnt occasions. He'd find himself der suspension.‘

That Heegg h s great runner and a real champion we have no doubt. a men knocks off victories records as steadily as he has

one during the past couple of _ it's no lonlzer a coincidence

a fluke. t

However. in times like these when anything in the way of genuine in- ternational sportsmanship is to be cultivated. we do think he could have made a more diplomatic en- trance onto tire ‘Amfrican scene.

*0 Detroit Tigers. regardless oi surprisingly high standing at moment. are having their ups downs. as witness their three ht losses at Washington over recent week-end. but providing retain the present personnel entirety they _should have ore ups than downs from here in. he reason? Rudy York. The big disn seems to be definitely on the way now. During the past two weeks he has put more than 50 points on his batting average, but what's more important. he has slammed a couple of home-runs to left-field at Griffith stadium, in dicating that he is pulling his shots as of old. If he is. then the Tigers’ biggest problem will be solved. They've been getting their hits- they're second in the league in teem betting-but they haven't been getting around. only littl:- Jimmy Bloodworth coming through with first-class proficiency when men have been on base. They need e. regular long-distance walloper to back up their ‘fin: pitching.

True while York is climb! , Pinky Higgins‘ average is falling off. but even a Greenberg-over-York stalwart like yours truly will admit that Rudy, at his best is a much more valuable man than Pinky. The records prove that.

Sport Shorts From Britain

By Louis V. Hunter Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON. June l3 — i0?)

When they're not in the air beating up targets in France or shepherd- iIl-s convoys through the English Channel, many pilots of the Canad- ian Fighter" Wing likely as not can be found on tcnnis coluls around their station in southern England. The sport has became apopular pas- time or them...

_ At one of their stations they have t-ne use of three courts. one red Cllly and two ashphalt...in a burst oi hot weather balls and raoquets Were brought out and some of the ‘bill's showed some good early season form. ..

Two of the wings intelligence off- icers were the first out, F0. Joe

Lyle of the Cit of Oshawa Squad- ron and P0. lvlklnty Berger oi the Wolf Squadron. . Berger formerly worked as a newspaper reporter in Quebec City. . Lyle worked in the C.P.R.. Hotels ill western Canada, Particularly Banff...

There is keen rivalry in the sir Blld on the ground between Fit. Lts. Hugh Godefroy and Deane MacDonald, two Toronto flight commanders in the Wolf Squadron ---In the air MacDonald has the @486 - - he has destroyed five en- "lmy aircraft against Godefroyb 1°"? - -But on the ground. when the Mir fake a little time out for tennis, Gfldeiroy may have a slight edge, ‘Med by a carmonball serve .'I‘wo other Toronto pilots who have been turning out are FEOJs R. D. (Dag- Wwdl Philip (2177 Stralhmore Blvd) "Id Jock Rae (760 Soadiua Ave.)

30th fly in the Oshawa Sound- "Qll Under Sqdn. Ldr. R. W. (Buckl ‘git-mm. one. of North Batileford.

PO- D. .1. (Blllll Bullock. one of ‘he biggest pilots in the Red Indian Bflundron. has been turnlnr out for a set or iwo with the squadron ad- luifllli. F0. Claude Angus of Mar-

THE UHARIDTTIFPUWN

GUARDIAN

NEW YORK. June 13 — (AP) ._. In as welni a doubleheader as the fans had witnessed all season, Pitts. bllllth Pirates today jerked out of a ‘liiglglnll’ lei-hurry to win the opener,

' . ln B. Wild hitting spreg and then held the Cardinals to a l2. inning. 4-4 tie in thenightcap. call. e12“ o: account 0f darkness at 5t,

In the two games, which consumed five hours and 5i minutes; there were 52 hits. including ll doubles, W0 illlllrs and one home run. Of the total the Cards collected 2’! hits, eight doubles and two triples.

Brooklyn Dflduers hecl Io battle i» lwsu from dropping a double- header to Boston Braves, but man. aEtd (I10 snare taefl-Z victory in the secon lzam i 1 m 44' in Brooilayn. r cs rig e opener,

New York Giants Whipped Phi].

sllelluhlo Phillies a-z behind Hubb- elruseven-hit hurling in the first

From New York

NEW YORK, June l3 -_(AP)— The Athletics Wok both ends cf a doubleheader from the first-place New York Yankees today before a crowd of 32,117 in Philadelphia.

Arr old fashioned squeeze bunt by Jojo White that caught the Yaukee infield napping in the eighth inning with three on and two out gave the A's the opener, 6-3. Timely hitting by outfielder 30- year-old Jim ‘ryack, up from Little Rock of the southern sssociaton, coupled with effective pitching by

In Boston, after watching four of his battery mates get a 16-5 pounding from Washington Sen- ators, Tex Hughsorl hurled a four- hitter against them to give the Red Box a 7-0 shutout in the nighfcap, which was held up for more than an hour by weather.

The Senators pounded a R.ed Sox pitching quarter for a total of 18 hits in the opening game. during which they were given l3 bases on balls, including ll by Lefty Ken Chase. who pitched the last fOlll‘

shall, Sask. . . Bullock is from Mont-

real. The well-known Halifax athlete, . Ldr. Bud Malloy, D.F.C., vis- ited the wing to renew friendships find played a, few sets with the for- mer McGill athlete and. football player, Flt. Li. Cam McArthur, now M.0. of the Oshawa outfit.

One of the 3w leading profession- al boxers who have earned the right to wear the half-wing of an air gunner in the RAF. is Stafford Berton, middleweight champion of Jamaica. I-le has just completed his air gunners operational train- ing and hopes soon to be taking part in raids against the Axis... Twenty-year-old son of a Jamaica newspaper editor. he completed the first part of his training in Canada.

Daisy Ferguson of Belfast. Irish woman golf champion of 1935 and an international lacrosse player, now is a junior commander in the ATS. in charge of vehicle reception station in northwest England .

LUCKY ROOKIE RIDERS

Two apprentice riders, Bobby Beevw and Chalmer Basham, rom- ped off with jockey hcnors at the l9 day Churchill Downs meeting. Reeves rode 27 winners and Bash- am piloted 18.

Basebafl Results

SUNDAYS GAMES NATIONAL

Pittsburgh l0; St. Louis S. Pittsburgh 4; St. Louis 4. Boston 4; Brooklyn 3. Boston 2; Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia 2; New York 6. Philadelphia 6; Now York ZI. Cincinnati i0; Chicago 6. Cincinnati 1; Chicago 4.

AMERICAN

New York 3; Philadelphia b. New York ‘i; Philadelphia 3. Washington l6; Boston 5. Washington 03 Boston '1. Chicago 4; Detroit 6. Chicago 2: Detroit 3.

St. Louis 3; Cleveland 1.

St. Louis l; Cleveland 2.

. INTERNATIONAL

Toronto O: Newark 6. Toronto 5; Newark 1. Montreal i0; Baltimore O. Montreal 6; Baltimore 7. Syracuse l: Rochester 8. Syracuse l; Rochester 3. Buffalo 4: Jersey Cltv 3. Buffalo 3: Jersey City 0. NATIONAL

Philadelphia 8: New York 7. Philadelphia 4. New York S. Cincinnati 8; Chicago 5. Pittsburgh 0; St. Louis l. Boston 2; Brooklyn l.

AMERICAN

Washington i; Boston 0. Chicago 3; Detroit 5.

New York l4; Philadelphia 5. St. Louis 7; Cleveland 6.

INTERNATIONAL

Montreal 4; Jersey City 2, Montreal 2; Jersey City 5. ‘Toronto 8; Newark '7. Toronto 4: Newark 5. Syracuse 3. Rochester 4. Buffalo B; Baltimore 1B

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pedusa. 80 miles south of Pantell- eria. and the second Island to give in to an unparalleled aerial and naval bombardment without a single allied soldier being out ashore, were given in these words: "Immediately after the surrender of Pantellerlo. strong forces of.

Athletics Take Doubleheader

Roger Wolff, won the nightcap, 3-2. 3 1

game of a doubleheader, but lost the second 6-3 as the Phillies rallied firs" four runs in the ninth inning

At Chicago, after humbling Chic- ago Cubs 10-6 on a 20-bit attack in the first game of a doubleheader before 28,557. Cincinnati Reds could get only seven blows fro-m Big Bill Lee and lost the after iece. 4-1.

Saturday. St. Lous Cardinals squeezed across a lone sixth-inning run to defeat Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0. Brooklyn Dodgers dropped a close derélsaiofi. with Boston nosing them ou - .

Cincinnati Reds climbed close to second place by defeating Chicago 8-5. taking two extra innings to do it. Philadelphia took a big jump in their sixth place duel with New York Giants, sweeping both halves of s. doubleheader 3-2 and 4-3 to go two games ahead of the Giants.

Yankees

innings. Detroit Tigers seized sole p055- esslcn of third place today by tak-

at home from Chicago White Sox, 6-4 and 3-2, before 28,19‘! spectators second largest 1943 crowd at Briggs stadium,

At Cleveland. battling on the brink of the league cellar, Cleve- land Indians rallied in the 10th inning to take the nightcap of a doubleheader against St. Louis Browns 2-! after losing the opener

Saturday New York Yankees. looking like the power-house Yanks of old. slammed out l8 hits off three Philadelphia pitchers to zr-lln

a 14-5 decision, Washington Sen- ators blanked Boston 1-0 in a pitcher's duel.

Detroit Tigers made five hits good for as many runs for a 5-3

victorv over the third-place Chic- ago White Scx. Cleveland Indians went down 7-6 before Philadelphia in ll innings.

medium and fighter bom-‘bers of the northwest Alricall illl‘ forces carried out attacks oll Lampedusa. Four cruisers and six destroyers. including a Greek dcs-royer, bomb- arded the island twice during lhe lught of June 11-12 and at freqllent intervals throughout Enemy batteries were in action. but ceased fire on being engaged. "Following a heavy air attack. shortly after 1730 hours <5:30 P.M.) white flags were seen flying on the island and at about 7 o'clock the naval commander sent an officer ashore to negotiate the surrender." Allied naval forces diverted from

ing both ends of a double-header"

yesterday. d

Pantclleria to (he bombardment of Lampcdusa Friday and yesterday‘ were identified officially today as the British cruisers Aurora, Orion. Penelope and Newfoundland, lhc destroyers Laforeyg Loyal. Lookout. Trcbrldlze and Nubian and he Greek destroyer Queen Olga. They were ccmnlandcd by Rear Admiral CJ-LJ. Harcourt.

When Lamcedusa capitulaied. the destroyer Nubian sailed on to Llllosa and accepted its surrender. The 140 man garrison at Llnosa was vlriuzlllv equal in size Io lhe Nublnlfs crew.

'l"l"le capture of Lluosa was fold

in these words: "A destroyer was off the island of Linosa earlv 'hLs morning. White flags were flving

and the surrender was accepted." Surprise Defenders The assult on Sicily was led off

by heavy bombers which surprised 76 aircraft parked on Cnstelvetrauo

airfield and dispersal areas in southwestern Sicily, Slight and inaccurate anti-air-

craft hardly bothered the bombers and no enemy fighters were en- countered at all. Numerous fires and explosions were left among the enemy planes.

The bombers also found about 72 enemy aircraft on Bocca Di Falco field near Palermo. Fire and black smoke visible for 25 miles poured from the airdrome and a building. and photographs showed many of tlée grounded planes were destroy- e .

Medium bombers raided the third targcl. Milo airfield near Tranani,

SPORTING NEWS

Pirates Break Slump To

_ Armstrong Wm And Tie Cardinals

0n Shelf For 2 Months

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NEW YORK, June 13 - (AP)- The gashed mouth Henry Arm- strong was handed in squeaking through to a IO-rorurua decision over Sammy Angott put Hammerin Hank on lhe shelf today for two months, thereby causing a major upheaval in the summer lightweight larruping here and on the Pacific Coast.

Before dropping In on promoter Mike Jacobs to pick up his pay- check of about $15,200 for Friday night's work - - Sammy collected in the neighborhood of $12,900 - - Henry kept a date with his physic- ian. The doctor had to cut away considerable scar tissue from inside the buzzsawfls lip and take nine stiches in the wound.

Through his bandaged mouth. Henry explained that his fights in Hollywood with Willie Joyce June R and in Portland. Ore.. with Jimmy Garrison, Jilly l3, would have to be set, back until he is able to work ag- ain. At the same time, a scheduled scrap between Armstrong and li ht- weight champ (New York vers on) Bob Montgomery had to be taken off the slate, at least temporarily.

Instead, Angott probably will be matched with the winner of the June 26 scramble between Morit- gomery and Private Johnny Greco cf Montreal. which will be the first major afternoon brawl in these part5 in 18 years.

Norman Button Enlists With Navy

CALGARY. June I2 — ICP) Norman Dulloll, a third son of Mer- vyn (Rodi Duuon, Managing Dir- ector of the National Hockey League has joined the Canadian Navy. He enlisted this week and started train- ing immediately.

The famed Calgary red head's two cider sons served with the RC. A.F. Joe Dutton made 15 bomber flights over Germany but failed to return from llle 16th. Alex Dutton was reported missing last spring while the National League playoffs were under \ platform surrounded bv a littl knot of nondescript Italian soldiers, sailors and marines.

“Are you the Governor?" the Lieutenant asked.

In badly broken English the gray- hearded man replied, “No, Segun-

o." . “Do you want to surrender?" the Lieutenant asked.

“Si. si si." replied the Italian vehemently. "We take you to Gov- ernor 15 minutes distance."

"You jolly well will not," said the Lieutenant. “He's the one who wants to surrender so lct him come here or I am prepared to accept an unconditional surrender from you. If you do not accept the at- tack will be resumed."

The Italian shrugged and pluck- cd his long curly beard like all old lcstanlont prophet and rejoined, "very well. I no choice-Governor's Enclish noor anyhow.“

The Lieutenant signalled the de- stroyer and went out to bring the landing craft inside. The Italian gestured with his hand and the troops, grimy, weary men in dirty urccn uniforms began clamberlng from tllr-lr battered but still effec- tivc shore fortifications. dragging

the gulls they had traincci on us during the parley. Through the rubblcd ruins of the town they marched to assemble on the open square before a 20foot cross a memorial to the first Great War.

POPE IGYFEXLS zllcontinuiedr ifrfiageifbnel: T

(jigcipling and calm, thus contri- buting invaluable support to tile tranquillity and support of l in tile social family." v

Turning to the war. Pope Plus said:-

“The sums of mfmey Wllllill llle charity of the faithful puts at ollr disposal are not set apart for nor do they go to sustain the war but to drv illo Iears of thewldows and orphans. to console families anxious and narrowing for their dear ones away or missing. to succor the sui- fering of the poor and needy. .

Insidious Campaign

dronpilllz bombs among hangars and administration buildings. Es- cortinlz fichfers saw several enemv fighters but there was no combat.~

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mand be made for unconditional and immediate surrender 0n pnill of a prompt resumption of-thc bomb- ing and bombardments. l-Ie also in- strucied the boat in withdraw if the Italians showed any fight and in any case to ulithdraul before 9 pm. lest Allied bombers. due at that hourlfailed to get the cancellation a

gn .

Several ships, including the cruiser Penelope, departed on oth- er missions before our boat went in with n sheet from the bed of the Captain. Lt-Cmdr. A. George For- man. made into a white flag and hoisted at the masthead of ollr de- stroyer. Another sheet doubled. was nut on a pole for the use of the boat.

The destroyer ihcn sped directly to the harbor mouth and lowered the launch.

The boat was manned by eight lluliov seamen commanded by I ieut. Corbett. 26. Peter Beach. i8. of Maidenhead. handled the tiller while I and a British nl-my movir- photogrartler went as passengers.

A white flag fluttered from .1 crude staff on the point beside the breakwater.

An Italian boat. its battle flag swaying idly at half mast, rowed bv two seamen and containing n snap pv Italian marine officer and naval officer. both armed with pistols came alongside the launch.

B arley

The marine called. "Inllgw pkiagp" nrvl led tho ulay through the boom rlo-"mces. Corbett hopped nimblv nfllnrc and smartly returned liv- Silllilfi Illvfll b!’ i! gray bearded.

patriarch. He stood on e. lending.

"We are conscious of illc falsity of what the ellrlnies of God are insidlously circulating in order to disturb the workers and the poo-lie. and from the hardships of the llfe they endure draw an argument

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\ against faith and religion which 1n- deod is the sole ccmloz-l and llope which Upholds man upon earth ill the hour of sorrow and misfort- une.

"The church does not fear the llkht of truth When the cir-

cumst-anoes of the times and human‘

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more than midday light the lty of such accusation. .

(On May 25 the Nzlzicolltrolled Paris radio broadcast a talk by a Dr. Friedrich which accused the Catholic church of “a crushing re- sponsibility in unleashing the pre- sent war." Friedrich charged the Vatican Wltll hostility to Hitler since i933 alld encouraging German Catholics in an opcu fight against the Nazis. "Thus the war was de- clared," he said. "A sly warfare on the part of Rome and an unshak- able firmness of purpose on the par! of Germany."

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