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SPORTS FRONT

By NICK li‘lLLMORE

no Guardlan. Charlottetown. Wed. June 8. 1984. v. .‘_—

The Decathlon Chomp

WHEN GEOFFREY DY-‘ON physical fitness ddrectm for the Rural Canadian Legion, visited Summersi a couple of months 8...; he tcld us that the decalhlon was the greatest of all sporting

men'll‘lre decathlon consists of the 10 top track and field events. it includes sprints, distances and te major field events. "5 champ is the Rrpublic of China's CK. Yang. . Yang, who graduated from UCLA in i-‘eb ary With a do 99 in physical education. hopes to counti-ys first 31;. 1 ic acid medal winner. He finished second with 8.334 pomts 053131930 Olympics. Rater JC‘llllSOfl of the United States wm "1m 8392. Boih were UCLA students. “ Ya'ng w be I when he competes In "Tokyo in October. H.- would he the oldest to ‘win an Olympics decathlon. Bob Mathias. now 83. of the United States was the youngest. He was 17 when he won at London in 1948. He repeated his win

In 2952. ' 8k ,1 ear at Mt SAC. Sang scored 9.121 paints to bre

JI..}13,;,'sywor-ld record of alanine scored moo points at out.

siC‘in his first competition this year. He will do better in

the national meet later this mollh. -

Seeks Top Physical Condition u M IN GOOD condition.“ says 6 ft. 1 in.. 182 pound Yang. an dlplfi‘nds on individual. bill if human being keep condition I believe he compete in decathlon until 3) hard work. Moi: pgoplc when get. older not 1".‘1..o eire detcgglllrgqlllg; determination. he has desire. Be practices three hours in the afternoon six days a week. He works on four events a day. spending apprommqtely 30 minutes on each. He performs one of the four running events every day. He then works on one throwing and two jumping events: or two throwing and one lumping. .

YANG-'5 PROGRESS TABLE

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1956 1958 1960 1963 Melbourne Palmyra. Rome Walnut. NJ. Calif. 5‘ DAY alrlh‘iers ll.2_ 10.9 10.73, 10.7“ Broad Jump L.‘-7"il 2341“ 24-519 253-6‘4. shot Pill 37-‘1lb 41 43-8:‘//4 ‘dl-4lfi lllzh Jump 64% 6-4 6-2~lo 6-312 400 blcters 61.3 48.4 48.1 47.7 COND AY till-Meier u. 19 5.0 14.5 14.6 . Hllpilsuum a lll-‘33i 12-1-6 13oz, 135-6 ‘ Pilli‘ Vault "I‘ll 12 l-l-llxi Ila-101,: J. (Hill 189-10”: 208-7 223-.9‘2 Zoo-b 13m xicicrs 5:903 4.51.0 4:405 5:02.4 "Total Points 8.521 7.625 : 8,334 9.121

Yang held the world's indoor pole-vaulf record of 16-313 for one week during January. ‘53. He is also rated “World Class ill brilud jl‘rllp. ‘i-ig‘h hurdles. and javcliii lie is near world class in ihc high lump and in the 100 and 400 meters. His weaker E\l‘!l‘.< arc S'll'll pill and discus. _ v ‘ ‘

"Every person has llls' goal in lifc.“ says tang. ‘Mine gold medal. World record taken away from you. Not gold modal. lt yours forever."

Off The Cuff

JOHNNY PODRES. lust yrar one of [ms Ailizeles Dod-gchs' mnlmlilys. isn't with his teammates on their current swing of illc cosicrn NL ccheciulc. Troubled all season by an elbow injury Pores will undergo surgery if he cant pitch by the time they rclurn . 0.10 of the more outstanding performance: in Satur- dal‘s Queens County iral-k and ficld meet was. fume in by Qlll‘i'll Cnurlrdc‘s HEATHER MACLEAN. She picked up firsts in thc .lllliior lllflll jump and discus as wcl‘. as other sucr uses, ill pili'ln: Queen Cbarlotic to the county team championship . . . \l'illnipcn's SCOTTY HARPER. who was'wlth us in March for thc llricr. apparently is one of thc west 5 better known critics mi in.“ about any realm of sporls. Last week he jokingly told Toll JOHNSON to stick in hockey. bccaiise “1th his golfing ability hc'd ncvcr break 90. Johnson of course. goes out and fires all fill lhc licxt day. Scrtly, mm of the country's top curling \\l‘ll(‘l‘~' for close to 50 years. hasn't been seen at that particular course since ln“nny's Kingfishcrs'. last season Charlotte- ioiin's lnlormcdiatc “C” rcprncntativcs. have decided to jump firm the Commercial Leosuc in tho City softbal. league. The (‘itv lcacuc is a Senior "ll" loop. Tile Jump should be > lllt“ Kliléllshol‘i' and will l‘if-lil hnlnnco .ho number (if-teams in (‘Hl‘ll lf‘ilEllt’. 'l‘hcy'll still playoff in the intermediate clair- sll‘lcniion . \liniii‘snla's TONY OLIVA lS still pacing t c Amcz'lcrin Imiiziic with a 385% BA. CHUCK HllNTON. I incion is second wzth 330 DICK RADATZ‘lias 63 siriifouts.

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Special School Day Celebrated At York

The York area observed alhope: Stephen Ross. Covehead

special school day in honor of Rd: (‘cnlcnnial year and seven h schools took part in the days activity The schools were: Bracklcy Point. Harrington,

Cecil MacLauchlan. Stan-

ope. _ 9 yrs. Paul Jenkins. Brack- lcy: Wade MacLauchlan. Stan- hope, Lewis Marshall. Slan-

Bracklcy. Stanhope. West Cove- head. Covchcad Road and York. The following are the results of the snort activities which were stage I Flcvcn years 101" —— Lorne

and under (.lun- Lawson. Slau- hopc: Hooper Blair. Stanhope and Garrett Meillenkant. West forehead: Floyd Gray. Brack- lcv. and .lohn Malletl. York.

Twelvc years and over. Law- rclice Lacey. York. Ronnie Johnson. York; Norman Mac-

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lplle yrs. Allison Vessey. York: James Lacey. York: Floyd Gray. Brackley.

11 yrs_ lrwin Ellis. Stanhope; P'h i llip Cudmore. Brackley; Merrill McCabe. Stanhope

12 yrs. Torn Binns. Brackley; George Philips. Brackley: Ivan Hughes. Harrington and Roger MacLauchlan. Stanhope.

13 yrs. Fridder Horne. Brack- lcy: Cecil Mycrs. West Cove- heiid: Barry Cudmore. Brack-

No. not the boy behind the camera. but 19-year-old Wally Bunker of the Baltimore Or- ioles shown autographing a page from the team year- book. The California young-

. R. WHEATLEY I MONTREAL iCPl—Proposals; to revert to the old rule of con-l tinuing a minor penalty when‘ a goal is scored and to make spearing a mandatory major penalty will come before the

it opens its annual Both proposals are from tlie‘> Montreal Canadiens club. What. prompted them was not indi-l cated. Other proposals for the‘ rules committee likely will bel comparatively minor~ V Because of increasing 329m; das . this annual col-together off hockey men from all parts of ,Ccnada and the Unitcd Sf'ites. fwill be a four-day affair, Pre-E lvicllsly it lasted three days.: . In addilion to the NHL. mi-l nor pro lcnclics find the Callav idian Amalciir Hockey Associa- ltion will send rcnrrscnfafives ‘ and hold mectings of their own. i .n ar thcre or lln talk of prospective big deals or of the NHL‘s bid. intra- lcaciie drafi. at which the ma- jor league clubs can snail-l1 lin- protected players from one an-

} Boll Action Al Montague

Many of the players In the _ M o ni a a 1i c Baseball HOUM. League are writing final exam- inations this week and on Sat ‘ urday the provincial track meal will be staged at Charlottetown it was decided to cancel] the league games for this \veck. however. the schedule will re— sume beginnin: June 81h an run through until approximate- ly August 15th. with the play— offs in September.

This Saturday at the Monta- gue ball diamond there will be registration for all players be tween the age of eight and 12 years who desire to play ball this, year. The following boys are asked to be in attendance to give some assistance in this minor ball program: John Ball. Wayne MacDougall, Jack Mac Phec. Spence MacDonald. Wino- sor MacDougall. George lnman. Sandy Beck. Carl Fraser. Bill Sullivan. Clarence MacDonald. Steve Clarkson. Chuck Clark- son. Vern Campbell, Arthur Fraser. Bobby Brehaut. J Ohio

has been little:

ster. kept on the team roster because of baseball's fl ts t year player rule. was press- ed into service as a starting pitcher when injuries disabled two other Oriole pitching aces.

Proposals Are Being Made‘

club can protect 18 players.‘

plus two goalies. against lih

draft.

BITTERIN OPPOSED l The rule establishing

washout of a minor penalty‘

l effect at the start. of the l956-57l‘ season. At that time it was bill-l erly opposed by the Montreall club. which saw it as a move by other clubs to hogtie the; then awesome power - play of lCanadicns. in connection with ('anadlens‘ proposal about spearinz, ' - crelion now rcsls with the "I eree whether to call a minor or maior oeualty. The Mncf"°al- clilb would :1ch him no c'iice — he would have to call a major.

Some action may be taken on previous discussions aimed at forbiddin" the oonlie from ll"'fl- ing the puck against the back- boards or the of the [Pl Even now the goalie cannot fail on the mick outside his crease lbul can do anything defensively lwhile inside it.

I The NHL owners may con- sider holding the iiinior - ama- teur draft before-May l in fu-

lfilre since the Ontario Hockeyl

" ' . ‘. '. i . to . . lgiincgéi‘rr‘pegrlg “a; "1mm. Girl. Miss Woodstock. Free ("1; muomn‘g season. Chance. Banks Abby. Blake

’ There may also be a pro posal that junior-age players. ‘whclber nrofcssional or no lcxempt from the NHL's i llcacue draft. MAKE RINKS UNIFORM NHL President C l a r c n to Campbcll will introduce pro- posals to make all NHL rinks i uniform in that the two plnycrs'

‘Thrcr‘ clubs—Toronto, Chicaflo

.and Detroit—already have this‘

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' Campbell will also

Practice Changedj

The two teams scheduled to: practice at Memorial Field last | llhc Barry Lions from

n i g ht will practice tonight (three and fourl at 6.00 due to the fact that last night. acti-

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‘vity was rained out. The prac {tice for the Lions on

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has won four straight games in league play. A year ago this time he was still pitching high schoool ball. (AP Wire-

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accurately a succession of mi- f 6 nor penalties. :

Meetings next Monday include

ruics committee of all

National Hockey League whenlwhcn signal is scored against leagues and a relations com- meeting thp Shorthanded mam came in", mittec to deal with the CAHA.‘

Highlights of Tuesday's meet-. ings are the. inter-league draft” when the NHL can take play- ers from the Western Hockey League and the Central Profes- sicnal Hockey League. and the filing of NHL clllbs' protected

Island Horsemen ‘ Are Reminded 3

which will be entered: Miss Flamingo. Anthony‘sl

n cy. Progress Brand. Will Mahlon. Meadow General. Sta-‘ lag Hanover. Miss Kimble. Jim< my Gallon. True Lady Lou. Babs

Hanover. Farmers Pride. Frann kics Chicf. Millie Lee.

Baseball Game Is Cancelled l

Sl'llMERSIUE -~ The open~' inc came of illc Summcrsidc

The tilt will l .c playcd on Thursday night. ‘ will] the A. E. MacLennan Pon- . liar-s going acuinsl the Sum~3 mersidc chioilaircs. Game 1 time is set for 6:15 pm.

Softball Prociice .

Barry Moore the manager or b

in t h e ‘ Charlottetown softball league l in past years has called a prac- tiie Park-

tice for a team coachcd by Br. ‘ dale diamoan at 6.00 tonight. i

an Lewis. which was scheduled for the field tonight. has been cancelled.

Iliarcn. Brackley and Karen I cltS-l'SlEltnhope and K9" vesill)avid Misener, Stanhope: ” ' Edie. Readon, Covehead Rd.

BOYS 5 Bears. Paul Watts. York: ('h arles Stewart. Brackley:

Paul Clark. Brackley, Norma Ellis. Stsnhope: Caro-

? yrs. Aubrey Reardon‘ C..."L lyn ans. Brackley. Y *- head Rd; Brian Mccabe Stan; 7 yrs. Dorothy Vessey. F oi . hone: Leslie MacDonald,‘ York Nancy Msllctl. York. aye

Lawson. Stanhope 8 yrs. Lorraine

Janet Crockett,

MacDonald. York. 9 vrs

JlriBilly ‘Misener, Stan-

PROBABLE PITCHERS

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Probable pitchers for today‘s millor league games. won and S s in parentheses:

Sally M a y e.

Julie Ross. Covehend Rd. 10 yrs. Stanhope.

Anne Olianpell,

me on goo new ank' “"1 ‘5‘“ "t Mil" Warren Sianhope. ) .

ey Pt. 14 yrs. Edwin Birt. Cove-head:

6 yrs. Patty Simpson. York:

Yessey. York; York; Noreen

. . West Covehead: Marsha Swan, York: Maureen Horgan.

Eleanor Jewell. York: Shells Myers, West Cove.

ea . 11 yrs. Betty Crockett. York: York; Doreen

12 yrs. Wanda Warren. Stan-

nesota. Roland (2—2) (N

Chicago. Horien '2-2) at Cleveland. John l2-2i (Ni Washington. Narum 14-3) at Detroit. McLain (Ml (Ni

Baltimore. Roberts 43-2) at Kansas City. Segul (3-4) lN). MBoston. Connolly l 1-2) and “Zia-22d (3-3) M Lon Angeles. (22) {MN} l Newman

Notional helm CSt. Louis. Sadeclili (£4) at hicsgo. MI (5.2) Houston. Jolimon (IN) st

Naugorkhflaier (Ml nos . alonoy t3—5l at Milwaukee. laments in) iNi

neleoo 1“ Annie: Dryedale (Ht

hope: Marilyn Gray. Brackley; Theresa Doyle, West Covebesd. 13 yrs, Leno re Crockett.

York: Beverley Swan, York;

JoAnnc Deacon. West Cove. : ad.

14 yrs and over. 1. Linda Douglas. Stalliope 2. Susan

Walker, Buckley; '3. Linda And rews. '

PEKING iReutersl -. Thou.

main street Monday to give a traditional noisy and colorful welcome to President A'bdullsh A1 Sollal of the Yemen. Solis] arrived here earlier in the day on a state visit to Communist

ambit-loll; sunning in)

Ohio: which is expected to eight or nine day

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This Is the Amst Belmont Memorial Cup. It stall Sot- urdny with the running of the $125,000 Belmont at Aqueduct. It goes back to I” when it

AT STAE SRDAY '

was awarded to August Bel- mont for Fenian’s victory. Atop the cover II a silver fi- gure of Fenian. The bowl is the base representing Eclipse,

‘ for the team are welcome to l attend.

Any players wishing to try out

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Lewis. the Lincoln Locomotive.i

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Miniature Schnauzer! owned

Present Day Pro Sport ,lLacking‘Colorlul Names

By ED SIMON Canadian Press Staff Writer A large chunk of color left sports scene when The Boomer departed during the last few days.

Bernie lBoom Boomi lrion may not have been the L greatest right winger in hockey and Earl lEarthquakel V . in the end. wasn fullback on Calgary Stampeders‘ roster. But they were among the last of a van- ishing breed.

With their retirement, Elmer, lMoosel Vasko, Bronco Nagur- ski. Gump Worsvley and Leo ,

are about the last professionali athletes left in Canada with' really meaningful nicknames.

An ever - increasing orchestral of publicists works the year}

round trying to popularim foot-, fball and hockey. the country's: ‘ big-time sports. And the best they can do. after 3 Ion: look at H Lennard Kelly ‘and you have to} look closely these days) is to: color him Red.

HAVEN‘T CAUGHT ON

Here and there, lhcy've fried. Frank Mahovlich is the Big M St. Louis and Bobby Hull the Golden Jet. , iii

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mined a rich lode of glittering Teeder Kennedy. Sugar characters. from Newsy La- Henry and a host of others. londe. through Howie Morenz, Football was less rcth en' the Siraiford Streak. Battleship dowed, But Ottawa Rough Rid-'1 Lcduz- a Gagnon to Toe ers had Tony Golan. lhc Golden‘i Blake. Butch Bouchard. Mau- Boy. Hamilton worshipped rice lRocketl Richard and Brian Timmins. the Old Man. Geoffrion in the immediate of the Mountain. Suzarfoot And-‘ post. erson roamed thi- )lains as l. The Uiilted Nations was well Calgary Stampcdcr. ' l‘P')!‘€S€lll!‘(l with Turk Broda. Etcheverry fired passes Ching Johnson, Dutch Gainer,I Montreal Alollettes as The Riflef. Dutch Reibel, Yank Boyd and Bummer Stirlinz. Rocky Path} Scotty Bowman. saca. Huck Well-h. Susie Tur- Lionel iBig Trainl Conacher ner. Shanty lchcnzic and Uly hirihhalled ihi‘ouglh hockey. foot- lCrazylegsl Curtis were a few ball and practically every other of the others form of organized sports as? ay we've reached the op- Canada‘s Athlete of the Half posite extl't‘mc when a player‘s ' '. Cyclone Taylor howled name appears on the program 5“ through the West. the same way he signs his here was a nursery full of cheques —— just a name and a Babes—Dye. Sieberl and Pratt couple of initialc like i. D. Wil- ‘—and an assnrmicnt that in. liams or J. C. Tremblay chided Peanuts O'Flaberty. Dit‘ No wonder Hicy‘re crying for Clapper. Conner Welland. Hoo- color television. icy Smith Bingo Kampman. "" " " '

BASEBALL §

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‘BRONCO' lIORVATH

000 000 110— 2 5 l Chicago 000 302 00x— 5 10 2

neither label has rcal‘ly Simmons l6-4! Taylo r It'll.

stuck. And Willie the Wisp has. Shantz l8) and McCarvei‘; Jack

CHICAGO (AP) St.

Cardinals

Louis

Burdetie to the Chicano Cubs ‘for Glen Hobbie Tuesday in a‘ . swap of veteran riglht

Faowr NHL Annual Meet x

majors since 1951 and enjoyed.Kuhn,

his g waukee

Burdette twice won 20 games or Milwaukee

pro also topped the National League dcc‘l Black Jack Sicwnrl.

with 20 losses in l960

INDIANS NIP WHITE SOX CLEVELAND (APl McDowell. a bonus

baby re-

Thc starting ice of 510100 will hits Tuesday night. pitching a row and sixth in their last MCNertne-Vl MCDOW" ‘2-0‘ midi

:19 dllf’ abnd PaléablP-thfinulhe tGrievelf‘ind to a 3-2 victory over seven games. Romano. H-Rs: e — Wagner! mrses io e-race at e ‘iar-' e O icago White Sox. Williams. “Mn 1 , l12l. Alvis (5'. Brown i6l. . Inllf‘lown ‘dl‘l‘unfl Park 0" June . McDowell. the 21 - year ~ old connected forglhrce arms (1.3“tllig'sammore. 100 020 010— 4 80 Who [0 hank Acorn 0“ Thurs“ .lefi - hander the lndians paid at fourth, Schaffer‘s first homer of Kansas (my mmm‘ o 61

* day. June 4th. grcported $l00.000 for four years the season was good for two MCNauy “‘3’ and BMW“: The followmg are the horsesago. used a good curve and arilns in the sixth. Pena ‘6‘4' Samoago '9l and‘

ball, striking outl the. side in the first, secon and‘ outs was a one-game seas high in the majors

and Larry Brown hit consecu- tive homers. The first Cleveland; run also came on a homer asl .con Wagner hit his 12th. in‘ the third inning off loser John

Buzhardt Wagner now has hit Pcrrannski walked West V a homer in each of the last four1in2lon with the bases loaded in “Bill’- ga ..

mes CARDS TAKE (‘l‘BS

CHICAGO rArl — Billy Wll- Phillics edccd the Los Anceles Dorlfl‘rs 4-3 Tuesday night. Pcl-ranoski the third Dndzcr 1h? Milwaukee Braves 7-5 Tues- 1benches will be on one side and "m" “59"” '03:“? “normed l ing his 14th homel'- and hm’S‘ed pitcher. Eave up the run after I the Penalty bench on the other, . will): held last night was can- i his averace to .422 in a 5-2 vicar1e fame m ‘ ‘cv c ue to rain.

Iiams. the maiors' lending hat- ter. collected three hits‘ includ-

fory for the Chicago Cilhs ovcri

day.

Williams had a double. homer and single off southpaw Clll‘L‘ Simmons in his first three times at the plate. It save him

Island D-oos

reatest years with the Mil- cis. Johnny lBlack cml Gad.

s before the Car-.non. Spider 3

other at $20090 per snatch. A. can handle electronically and dinals acquired him a year ago. Patrick.

Toronto Maple Leafs held a

I . .powerful _Hobbie. 28. reached the ma- B

. JOI‘S in 1957. In 1959 and 1960 he'numher of Jacks,

the. the NHL rules committee. joint won 16 games each season. Helweren’t fortunate e

ailey. Kim: Clancy

l'fl‘fl"fl-__cfiflffiirns aNails! Larsen in and Grole; Stallard.

MaiorEague Baseball Action

jseven Sam handed nitchcrs. Ron Santo. Billy Cowan and Chicago

‘ccntly recalled from the minors. .Tim Sz-haffcr also homered in. Cleveland struck out 14 and scattered nine the victory. the Cubs' fourth in.t

A _ ‘ single to Simmons until the sev-l ‘ Only. Myrtle 1'), Miss Anne Mac- 2 5mm“ mnmi’sl The ‘4 smke‘ enlh. when the Cardinals scoredy to defeat the Rough)“ com 7’4 Ki 0" on successive