runner-up spot and the Baltimore Orioles were in third place.

lit The Guardian. Charlottetown. Wed. Oct. 7. 1964J

SPORTS FRONT

By JIM Cl LLth

Series Opens Today

The World Series uill swing into action today and all

Lions are that it will be a real thriller. The Yankees e St. Louis Cardinals both finished up strong in order to lead their respective leagues lo the wire. The Yankees (same In) with 15 victories in their last I9 starts after stumbling through a mediocre season to e the American League home. The Yanks clinched the pennant on Fatuiday and then battled 13 innings with the. Cleveland Indians on Sunday before dropping a 2-1 decision. Chicago ‘Vhllt Sox cannred the

The Cardinals finally captured the National League flag after the Philadelphia Phillies went into a tail spin to create a hectic duel between the Phiilies. Card'nals and Cincinnati. The Phillies virtually collapsed with twu weeks left in the schedule. Philadelphia “as sporting a 6": same lead at that point and appeared to have eveiything sewrd up.

The New York Mets almost spelled disaster for the Card- !nals in their last three games of the season. The Mets took the first two tilts and the Cardinals needed a win in the last game in order to secure the flag. The Mets held a 3-2 lead until the fifth frame of the final game. but Johnny Kean's forces exploded in win the game 11-5. and bring the National League pennant to rest in St. Louis.

The Cardinals team is rated as a well balanced team by the National League followers. as they came on strong in i the final stages of the schedule. Thus the National League will be well represented against the Yankees who Will be out for revenge alter their humiliation at the hands of the loo Angeles Dodgers in last year's World Series

The Dodgers sent the Yanks to the showers last October; defeating them in four straight games to win the world champ-

WE were on the Philadelphia ship that sank. so we are not in a very good position to start predicting. but we think the Cardinals will come out on top in this [battle. after seven games. We feel the Yank's mound staff is not up to par and reports indicate that the Yankce‘s ace batsman. Mickey Mantle, isnt in top health. It shapes up as a terrific battle With me close

r in store. ‘amfie opening game of the world series will be brought

to you live from St. Louis over CFCY television this after-

noon at 2.45 pm. I

Ticl Bits From Here And There

There were twelve persons present for Monday night’s I hockev meeting at the Charlottetown Legion home. Sum- merside. Sandy‘s Royals. .loiiniiv's Flying iluwks alld,I$lll'L','S County were represented. Sandy‘s Royals and the Flying Hawks announced that they would defiiii‘tly be In, league is formed. Summerside and the Summer-side RCAF‘ station will endeavor to get their players together to see if there is sufficient interest to join an Island league. There will he a meeting at Civic Stadium tonight at 8 pm. All coaches. players. sponsors. referees and anyone inter- ested in this venture is invited to attend the meeting. The Royals and Hawks will send two delegates in the Sum- mehrside meeting who will have agreed beforehand to accept office on the executive. which it Is intended to vote in at this meeting.

. r lssloner Ford Frick approved the New York Yankees I‘qumw‘ replace injured Tony Kulheck with Mike Regan on hhe. list 0' plavcrs eligible. for The World Series. Kuheck Will sit on the, Yankee bench in civilian clothes bill will not be pcr~ mitted to see any action. The regular shortstop has been out of action for two weeks due to a jammed right wrist. Began is l rookie first baseman.

New York Yankees are an 9-9 choice over the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series and a .37 pick to fake Wednes- day's opener. says Las Vegas oddsmakers.

Cardinal backers must lay 8-5 for the series and 6.5 for the first game. e. o 9 mean a Yankee fan must bct $9 to win $5 on the series. The odds are 7-1 that New York will not

Iweop the series, 20-1 against :1 Cardinal sweep. ;

Wlhitey Ford of the New York Yankees was on the mound Tuesday. lobbi-nz some pitches in a tune up session for today's World Series opener “'lih the St. Louis Cardinals. Mickey Mantle was standing at the plate. giving Ford 3 target. Among

spectators around the cage was Stan Musial. the former St.

Louis great. As Ford continued to throw them up easily. Mus- lpitched m

iai a- arently saw his opportunity for a successful come- back. Suddenly he rushed inside the cage yelling: "He‘s great. Let me have. a bat. Let me have a bat.”

Aces with a turkey supper in the hool which was the biggest

' b k sc event of the year. ’ I ‘ I The team wishes to thank leach and everyone who made;

this supper such a great success l

l-‘anningbrook Aces trouncch At this event the boys presentl Johnston's River in a 17-4 Vic- .ed one of their players Mervtn fory on September 20th to win Phalen with a gift as he left for the Southern Queens Baseball a seminary, in Quebec recently. Championship for the second! The years pitching was han - year in succession. ’led by Roger Coffin and Angu'; } The Aces u ere the. champs lei. Rogerson. The other Aces iii-: the “m season and completed I eluded: John Rogerson, 1.1’ ; almost an excellent year, en; Hendricken, Charles Roget-semi cept for one defeat in the '64‘..Iohn MacDonald, Mervin Pha-l season ilen, Garry Phalen, Eldon no I

Fanningbrook Women‘s Insti- : gerson, Joe MacDonald. Warren tiite made their year's They

Rose, Allan Coffin and Brendon

work I Jay.

worthwhile. served the .

during a Canadian Football League interlocking game at Ottawa Tuesday night. Lan-

*Iuflmfim

Tony Kiibek appeared lost New World Series Tuesday, but Yankees remained 9-5 favorites over St. Louis Cardinals.

‘; Ford 0 p p o s e 5 another left- ’-’* ‘ Iiuutici'. 32$ . if a jhailecki. in today s opener.

{weeks due to a jammed right |wrist. probably will be replaced ion the list of series eligibles by iMike ' {Ford Frick Igii'e the Yanks permission for ty jthe substitution with the, assent '. ‘ of

'playing rascal who drew a

had lost four straight in Chi-l cago. '

start I veteran ’dates back to 19 ,iiAs 17-6 RECORD

. a 17-6 won - lost record for thei ,Yanks on their way to a fifth (straight American League pen-

nant. . He has been in more series,

than any other pitcher (11),; games and

scrimmage line by Ottawa Rough Riders Billy Joe Booth and Mike Blum. Lancaster is not expected to be ack for It. not of the

Ray Sadecki. left. of the St. Louis Cardinals and Whitey Ford, right. of the New York

Yankees are the probable opening pitchers in the World Series which starts Wednes-

Harmonica Man Ai Shori In Yanks' Series Opener

second Same ThurSdBY- Friday 009 - horsepower vehicle over

By JACK HAND LOUIS IAP)

Injured to i

the

the

ST.

York Yankees for

PROBABLE STARTING PITC'ERS

day in St. Louis.

lAri Arfons

(AP Wirephoto) S ets R e c or d

I BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS. lUtah (AP)—Art Arfons. whosei 434.02 miles per hour run Mon-:

day set a land speed record. plans to push his jet - powered Green Monster to a clocking

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between 450 and 480 miles per;

hour Wednesday.

' Thes Arfons said he will try to hit’ Sist.

500 mph. as he drives the 17.-

will be an Open day for travel; two one - mile runs on ti‘iese

. {and the series resume: in New ; western ,York Saturday.

salt flats. Averaging between 450 and 480 is his goal.

Both the Cardinals and Yanks he 531d,

(worked out at Busch Stadium

New York‘s cage)" Whitey-

- war - ultl

Ray

Kuhek. out of action for two

'2’

ommissioneh expected to?

Hogan. was

Cardinal Manager Johnny eane. Phil Linz, t‘ie harmonica-

$200 . fine from Manager Yogi Berra : for looting Mary Had a Little 8 Lamb on a bus after the Yanks.

TONY KUBEK

W1 play shortstop A sellout crowd of about 32.- was assured with tickets a ,33'year'01d ‘ and hotel rooms at a premium» _Serlei record: Mel Stottlemyre, Yankee! 90* Ironkie, will face Gibson in thei

.Iack Sull

This will be the 22nd Series for “ whose

I The pitcher - coach managedl

won more (10). In his last tine-i ‘ ' 'nched a, -, l . Cleve" Jack Sullivan and Ed Simon,' land 5-2. allowmg no hits 135‘ 7 1‘3 mnmgs- lGames in Rome in 1960. are in.‘

Sadeckl- on thefimfl hand: “I’l‘okyo to report how the Cana-i a youngsm‘ “1 his f‘FSl sales-l dian team does in the Olympicsl In fact, only shortstop Dick there Oct. 10.24. I Groat. outfielder Bob Skinner Their on . the _ 5pm coverage“ find FBIlejf PllChel'. R089? CFBIB‘ will supplement reports of As-l “lave 59”“ experience- .sociated Press and Reuters;

The $ I bonus lefty 8815 sports writers. bringing to Ca-l the starting call from Kea'nefnadian readers fast and de. because he had to use Bob Glb‘ tailed stories and summaries of} son in relief to nail down the‘ National League pennant in program, i

Sunday‘s finale. i . . s . Sullivan, C a n a d l a n Press, The weather man pmdmed‘ sports editor since 1948, will be'

sunny and pleasant weather; . - . . ,

. attendin his ninti-i Olym ics, Wednesday. With temperaturesfive swim” "mes Ind gout of 65 to 70 for St. Louis' first‘ winter 1

series since 1946. when Enos . ‘ ‘ Slaughter raced home with the “‘5 summer “Velfi'hzefigg;

. . - at London in 1948 a winning run in the seventh been at .1] game. since_nel_f i sinki in 1952. Melbourne in 1956] (and Rome in 1960. He coveredf lwinter Olympics at St. Moritz» in 1948, Oslo in 1952. Squaw] .g IValley. Calif., in 1960 and Inns-‘ K: lbruck earlier this year. I f In addition he was at Britishi inmpire Games in Vancouver in: i 1954. Cardiff in 1958 and Perth.; . AAustralia, in 1962 and at the? Pan-American Games at Chi-3 lcago in 1959. ‘ Sullivan. 49. was born in Tor-y ionto and joined CP 34 earn . ‘ ago. in addition to Toronto sci-v.3 lice. he has worked for CI’ in: ,’Vancouver. Edmonton. New. (York and London as well as; Toronto,

of CP's Olympics news desk at: pire Games desk two years.‘

later. i The large Associated Press

1 Tuesday. 1

Jim Crowdis president of the recently-form- ed Metro Sports Promotions. an. nounced Tuesday he had signed Les Sprague of Dartmouth and Jack Clements of Montreal for a Io-round non-title fight Oct. 20.

ior welterweight champion. an" adian welterweight listings. in ‘ game while Johnny Pesky hesl-i‘

‘Kubek's place just as he had tated Wm the ban ldown the stretch.

,by

Sprague Meets

Jack Clements

DARTMOUTH, N.S. (CP) ~ of Dartmouth,

The 38-year-old garage owner runners ma 0 from Akron, Ohio. was timed at? thigh. The cyclists could have 479 and 398 miles per hour Mon? a dangerous

day for the 434.02 average and the record. His brother, Walt. on Friday set the previous mark with a 413.20 miles per hour timing.

“If everything is pointed to- thgesd

ward normal, we'll make two runs about 8 a.m.." Arfons said. “We checked everything on and the car and conditions were ' "

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here Sprague is the Canadian jun- Clements is ranked third in Can-

A spokesman for Metro Pro-

motions said the organization would try to arrange a boxing match every two weeks during the winter months, He said box- ing is suffering in the Maritimes because of the lack of good fight cards.

ivan

Covering Games

team of reporters and photo:-

headed by Ted Smits. genera sports editor who has covered

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Black Hawks Top Rangers

K'ITCI-IENER. Ont. (CP)

Chicago Black Hawks defeated New York Rangers 4-2 here Tuesday night in a National Hockey League exhibition game. The loss was the Rangers fifth in eight exhibition games. They had an edge in play. but poor passing and inaccurate s'iooting hurt them.

Fred Stanfield. Doug Mohns. Al McNeil and Bobby Hull scored for the Hawks.

Phil Goyette and 'iod Gilbert tallied for New York.

in l' e ‘ who c ove red the Olympic . rapiiers at the Tokyo games is . . l

the last Six summer Olympics.g

Tokyo bureau staff under Ro - ert Eunson has been bolstered by men from the United States and elsewhere.

Reuters’ reporting team is led Vernon Morgan. its sports editor, veteran of many Olym-

track competitor at the games.

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:piing blow in the first quarter 1,. additinn m covering the ‘ when quarterback Ron Lancas- 1960 Olympics. he was in charge 1 ier. former understudy to 01-

Riders Down Saskatchewan

OTTAWA (CP) -— Ottawa Rough Riders turned on the power in the fourth quarter Tuesday night and ran away from Saaskatchewan Roughrid- ers 27-3 in a Canadian Football League interlocking game be- fore 19.710 thrilled spectators.

The wn moved Ottawa into first place alone in the Eastern

Conference, two points ahead of Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Saskatchewan remained in

third place in the Western Con- ference. two points behind Cal- gary Stampeders and three be- hind . ion .

Saskatchewan suffered a crip-

tawa's Russ Jackson. received

New York in 1956 and the Em. is possible rlb separation which

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tackled by Billie Joe Boot while retrieving his own tumble.

Yankees Favored In Series

St. LOUIS (AP) _New York gtion in Fredericton, told the Ca-

Yankees today stand in their usual role the favorite

the many events on the Olympicgpics assignments and once 3 against st, Louis Cardinals m

baseball's World Series.

A sellout crowd of 32.000 will the on ha the Yankees send veteran lefthanded ace Whitey Ford, 17-6, against young southpaw Ray Sadecki. 2o11. I

Sunny and pleasant weatliei is forecast temperature. ranging between (is and 70 de- grees. Game time is 1 pm. CDT. All games me being car- ried on radio and television by the CBC.

The Yankees, who have won a) of the 28 series in which they have played. are favored to win the opener and to win the series. The C ardi n als have played in 10 series. They have met New York four times. win- ning two. losing two.

The second contest will be in St. Louis Thursday before the teams move to New York for three games Saturday. Sunday and. if necessary. Monday. The last two games. if they are needed, will be played in St. Louis Oct 12-15.

The Yankees will be without shortstop Tony Kubek. who has a Jammed wrist.

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“Mantle Says He FeelsFine

Ancl Expects To Play Well

after a closed - door meeting. trotted onto the field for their first workout in preparation for Wednesday's Series opener against the St. Louis Cardinals.

“You have to remember one thing. though,” said Mantle by way of qualifying his physical situation. “I felt good last year

‘ ST. LOUIS (AP) —— Mickeyl Mantle sat in the New York Yankees’ dressing room at Busch Stadium, windin a leeniingly endless roll of tape’

around his battered legs while spinning a tale of his physical fitness for the World Series.

"I feel great: real good." said the Yankees' $100,000 . a - year and didn't do much. But ’ centre fielder about an hour; played well up to the Series this a r the A meric a n Leaguei time and things could be differ- champion! had arrived in Stlent."

Louis. .1 Mantle. who Is tied with Babe

The Yankees had headed Ruth for the Series homer rec- straig'it for the ball park, andl ord with 15. collected two Iilts

Dogs And Girls '

Present Problem

By WILL GRIMSLEY lishments. smiling and gig- TOKYO (AP) -— Japanese gling. Olympic official are com This could cause more than

accidents. the officials say. It may provoke outright de- sertions. The marathonerl and cyclists may never finish tiiieir races.

A team of dogcatchers has been dispatched to the race areas. The health department is trying to police the nudity hazard.

corned about two major haz- ards to the games: Barking dogs and semi-nude girls. They announced with sol- emn faces Tuesday they are taf’ng firm steps to get rid o b

The 'noisy hounds and the scantily clad musume - san— the local term for dames—dot

the routes of the marathon Olympic distractions are not runners and the road cyclists. confined to th Japanese e. the organizers in- countryside, - are definite distractions. SERIOUS IN CABARETS

The dogs run out and yap at the logging cross-country runners and the bicycle rac- ers.

The most serious ones may be found i the brightly lighted, bustling cabaret: on the ginza.

Here pretty Japanese girls. many of them tall and leggy like the comic-strip Dragon Lady come to life. stand be- hind a latice curtain and send provocative messages with Irlt’II' eyes toward customers drinking at the bar

Unlike the B-girls operat- ing in some American sa- loons, they aren't permitted

They can kick at the dogs. but lose valuable time. The se a chunk of

spill. GIRLS A HAZARD Even more hazardous are the girls. operators of the 167 establishments that thrive in the bustling city. pite .laws imposed for

uration f the games. to solicit companionship. They these comely daughters of can only stand and smile Nipon. wearing considerably fetchineg until a male cus-

iess than the bikini seen on the beaches of the Riviera. stand in front of their estab‘

tomer. like picking out a can of beans in a ‘ permarket. makes his choice.

lAvery Brunclage

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*Wins Election

Brundage. a Chicago hotel man who has devoted his life -to amateur athletics. was first elected in 1952 to an eight-year term and re-elected for four years in 1. .

been expected to step

’I‘OKYO (API—Ayery Brun- age. the controversial Amer- ican advocate of amateurism, was reelected today to a third rm as ‘iead of the Interna- tional Olympic committee. He will serve four years.

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, Slates Findings

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aside this time for the Marquis of Exter of England. a former Olympic champion and long re- garded as Brundage's succes- or.

The two men were candidates for the office this year. Sixty- eig'it mailed votes were cast. The deadline for voting was Sept. 3 although the ballot box was sealed and not opened until the IOC meeting today.

A spokesman for the organ- ization said the IOC members had instructed the election com- mittee to scrutinize the ballots and come up with a single can- didate for the full committee.

The spokesman said candi- date was Brundage. who was supported by the Marquis

r and unanimously

Wildlife Expert

In

TORONTO (CF—A winilil. expert said Tuesday that a new pesticide. tested‘in New Bruns- wick during the summer as a possible replacement for DDT. may be less harmful to fish but more deadly to birds in areas sprayed.

Bruce S. Wright, director of the Northeastern Wildlife Sta-

nadian Institute of Forestiy's annual meeting that the effect of phosphamidon on birds was drastic although no official fig- ures are yet available.

The Canadian wildlife service chewy ts 11 d-

in 15 at bats last year as the Yankees lost four straight 3) Los Angeles Dodgers. He hit one homer.

1111‘ IN PRACTICE

He also hit one in practice Tuesday. Batting right-handed against Bill. Stafford. he

e smacked a high liner 10 to 15

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the 379 - foot marker d

p over in centre fiel .

Joe Pepitone. the Yankees' left-handed hitting first base- man who will get the advantage of Busch Stadium‘s 310 - fool right field line. flit three balls

on the roof and one off the high ri lit. -

screen in

Roger Maris. who also bats-

left. hit two off the screen and one on top of the roof while switch-hitting Tom Tres one into the centre field or; and one to left.