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Eus Bell Unsure Of Future Following Freak Accident

MILWAUKEE (AP) — You're

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34 years old, and fighting to hold your job. Suddenly, a freak accident and you're in hospital bed—wondering about your fu-

ture.

“It's a big disappointment and you just have to hope for the best," says Gus Bell, a vet- eran outfielder who supports a wife and seven children by play- in: the outfield for Milwaukee Braves.

“At my age, a serious~ knee injury is bad," Bell said Mon- day. “but I can’t afford to give up hope. Baseball has been good to me. I love the game. I ran only hope. I want to con- tinuc playing."

Bell. who has a .282 batting average and 206 homers in 13 National League seasons, wa relegated to a pinch-hitting role this spring while Braves mana- ger Bobby Bragan tested young prospects in the outfield.

On April 18, Bragan decided it was time to start Bell in left field. However, he had to ca rel his plans abruptly when Bell was injured in pre - game practice.

"I was helping Mack Jones get a piece of dirt out of his eye and had my back turned while Bobby hit fungo flies to the outfield," Bell recalled. "Venny Menke took off after a fly and crashed into me from behind. It was like a clip in foot- ball."

Bell attempted to shake off the injury bill. it didn't get bet- for. He underwent surgery on his left knee last Friday.

“The doctor says that he took out a cartilage and repaired a ligament which was torn away from the bone,” Bell said. “Now I'm in a cast up to my thigh for six to eight weeks_"

"It will be some time before I can play even after the cast is removed. It's going to take

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“I've had a broken foot, a leg

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om eting against more than 30 of the Island's top small— bore rifle shots, Al M u t c h 'of Charlottetown captured the pro- vincial championship, at the first prize meet held last Satur- day at the RCMP ranges. Mutch, shooting in the master class, \in the four events racked up an aggregate of 390 out of a possible 400, edging out Dave Johnston, in the expert class, by two points. Johnston's total was

In taking the championship, Mutch became the first winner of the RC Barwise‘trophy, In addition to this he also captured the MacLean and Son trophy.

Following are the leading marksmen, by classes, in the aggregate and the four indivi- dual matches:

R. C. BARWISE AGGREGATE aster

A1 Mutch Ralph Brown Fred Younker Expert Dave Johnston Bob Hamny Ron MacDonald Sharpshooter Ken Lynn Earl Norrie Leo Dowling Marksman Ab MacEwen Doug Bell Peter Petrle 348 MacLEAN AND SON MATCH Master

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Al Mutch 98 Ralph Brown 98

McMahon Picks Up Bronze Medal Mon.

SAO PAULO. Brazil (CF-AP) Gary McMahon of Dartmouth, N.S., gave Canada its seventh medal in shooting at the Pan- American Games Monday, win- ning the third - place bronze while the gold medallist, Capt. Thomas Smith of the U.S. Air Force, broke the world record in the individual centre fire pistol tournament.

mith, rom San Antonio, Tex., took the gold medal with a world record of 597 points and boosted the United States total of gold medals to 62.

anada, Brazil and Argentina were tied for a distant second place in golds with four each, but the Canadian team had the edge over the Brazilians and Argentinians in the unofficial over-all medal standing with a total of 35 medals.

Probable Pitchers

Probable pitchers for today's major league games (won-lost records in parenthesis):

American League

New York, Williams (1-0) at Los Angeles, McBride (1-2) N.

Baltimore, Barber (4-1) at Minnesota, Pascual (1-3).

Kansas City, Pena (3-0) at Detroit, Aguirre (3-1).

Cleveland, Bell (1-0) at Bos- ton, Morehoad (1-0).

(Only games scheduled). ‘

atlonal League

Los Angeles, Drysdale (2-2) at New York, Willey (1-1) N.

San Francisco, Pierce (1-2) or O‘Deli (2-0) at. Philadelphia, Mahaffey (2-3) N.

Houston, Nottcbart (3-0) at Pittsburgh, Cardwell (1-2) N.

Chicago, Ellsworth (2-2) .IL Cincinnati, Jay (0-4) N.

Milwaukee, Shaw (0-1) at St. Louis, Simmons (3-0) .

Stars Not Giveng Hurlors Trouble Yet This Season

NEW YORK (AP) —- Willie Mays, Stan Musial and Pete Funnels are among the more than a dozen big league base- ball stars who haven’t been giv- mg the pitchers much trouble in the early stages of the 1963 campaign.

Mays, Sa Francisco’s star outfielder, is batting .232 with 16 hits in 69 times at bat. The Cardinals' Musial, a seven-time National League leader. is

.237 with nine safeties in 3"- tries while Runnels, two—tune American League champion. to hitting .210 .for Houston Colts.

Meanwhile, Johnny Edwards of Cinctnnati and Wayne Causey of Kansas City. each of whom finished in the .2505 last year. are leading the way in the bat tins races. Edwards heads are National League with a 41 mark while Causey tops the American th .400.

Leon Wagner of Los (Angela. Angels-wallopel five home runs last Week ‘to take over tho American League lead with six. Hank Aaron of Milwaukee has the most homers in the National 1Elizue. seven. Aaron hit tour in last week's games,

Ken Boyer of St. Louis drovo I“ 12 runs and leads the NI- tionalLeaguo with 21. Bob Alli- lon is No. 1 in the American Wit 1'.

The U.S. sharpshooters. ra- pidly taking the three pistol- shooting categories in the games, have won all six indi- vidual and team gold medals while the Canadian marksmcn won three second-place silver and a bronze.

The U.S. military teams have won 10 of the 11 gold medals awarded so far in pistol, small- bore riﬂe and skeet shooting.

The centre fire pistol shoot—- which uses standard military or police weapons—led off a light day at the Games with other competition confined to volley- ball, basketball, boxing and the pentathlon.

The track and field resumes today. It remains the big show now that the swimmers and divers have finished their work. The Games wind up Sunday with the closing ceremony.

Today's action in track and

field starts with the decathlon events in the loo-metre dash. broad jump, shotput, high jump and the 400-metre run. William D. Gairdner of Thornhill, Ont., is entered in'the 10-event com- petition, considered the toughest in athletics. A Semi-finals are scheduled in the 400-metre hurdles, ZOO-metre and BOO-metre runs. and the 200- mctre for women. The only track final is the 3,000-metre steeplechase and there is no Canadian entered.

McMahon‘s shooting bronze Monday was his fourth pistol- shooting medal of the Games. He won a‘silver individually and another as a member of the free pistol shooting team and took a silver Sunday when Canada finished second in the centre fire team competition to

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In the Charlottetown Civilian Rifle Association team match. six four-man teams were enter- ed, with the event being taken by a Charlottetown squad, with a total of 1,526 points out of a possible 1,600.

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