r‘ ill? ll; rrgl S PORTS FRONT By JIM CULLEN Reds Gaining Fast THE CINCINNATI Reds are rnpl Reds and the National League leading Philadelphia Reds are trailing by two games. at the time ieu 'hillies, The us dly closing the gap be- ve two games in hand over .umn went press. as. 3e. Philadelphia sqm. It's not quite two weeks ago that the a! ng conflortably on s 7% game cushion ill to ill down The high flying Bhils then went into a slump a-nd Cincin- nail.ea latio gue flag wl come ’lliladelphia_ Phildelphia has eight egular schedule. They will tan .t home and host the Beds for a doubleheader for ames. have ten games left with five at home and n the road. ey will host the Pirates for three and the Phillies in a twinbill on home ground. On the road against the New York Mets for five lost the Philadelphia squad The Reds five 0 meet they will be pitted tests mg themselves heard an the Reds are breath- ‘cti that the as: are to rest in Cincinnati and not St. Louis will three g . v The Cardinals are still in the thick of things and are trail- ng the leaders 3% games. T he St. Louis boys have nine games left, At home they will play three with the Mets and hree with Phlls and ‘or three on foreign territory it will be the Pirates es. The Cincinnati club looks to be hi the best of shape at this age of the race. but we are callingéhe Phils to pull out. of wi lheir tail-spin and lead the way to The Yankees are four g arms ink to be sitting pretty in the Amoncan posite, to what it was sicture has changed, directl re. up on Baltimore Orioles and ' 9 race_ The two weeks Y . ago when the Yanks were fighting for their lives and the Phillies looked to have the National League flag In the bag. Abbie: Playing Sunday THE ‘u‘actic'ing faithfullynfor he Nova Scotla CHARLOTTETOWN Intermediate Abbles have been at a best of three series to decide the NS-P E. _ champion- . e second (and third if necessary) will be played in Antigonish next Sunday. The Abbies will hold I final workout this afternoon 1 run. in preparation for Sunday’s tlt. The Charlottetown team has a well balanced ball an at club and coach D ac- Cormack told us last night “If we get the fans there we will play ball and I feel t his Information on the visit but that he acct. M wit a ”, hey 'wm come up vingrzenni was rather limited. had seen a couple of their box scores and all that if the boys are on that rmack said that indications are that the Nova Scotis lads will field a hard hitting club. The Abbies’s coach dist 'Lefiy‘ Dunn will get star hurler ' l backed by worth in the ersi series, as he baffled the 7 with his blinding speed. ' wes$§l§rfn hurler, Donnie ‘Funneli Madeean will also be on the MacCormack mound staff. 'F‘unnell' is rated one of till: best ball plavels on the club by Danny sa “‘he is a valuable utility man who can itian on the club when he is call League officials (for the game informed _ . will open to anyone Wlslllng to take the gate by the can be rm . handle almost any P00" us last night that their cars on to the playing field to watch Sunday‘s action. The winner of s semen New Brunswick in the go against . Maritime Intermediate final. If you can find time to drop out to Memorial Field Sunday oouwefeeithatyouwillbe well rewarded for your efforts with a top notch baseball struggle. Tid Bits From Here and There FRANK 'KING' Clancy, In... «Mm - - Leafs mo Maple a professional . .e . Olympic team this year. Said Leafs for an exhibition tour of 'his son Terry, 21. to left-winger on Canada's whiter . PTO . tall-m club Rochester his team in the American Hockey Ieagu ‘was something I had t; get wumwo playerl’llreturntosch seasons :my progress as a pro hockey -take a pre-med course_ 1 Montreal Canadian to pl gheec Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey L t general mans Hockey League. has contract T rrv was a decision. He wanted to give lea ' m - d I.le am not satisfied With 001 and that left-winger gue The Island hockey meeting which was scheduled for Tues-~ day night, September 29th, If obe anv way to the ~formstloli invited to attend : me 55 hesiepped c ntra’ted o jabs ‘ with Ollie Wilson ‘ workout a has been moved ahead to Mon- Cliarlottctown Legion . am or contributing of an Island league is he . vvwei champion. Cassius Clay span-ed (for the first a ' gm up in. drills for his November 16th Smny Liston in Boston and left ubpcrcuts. went two rounds each and brother t 233 pounds and came . The champion con- Rudy Clay. Clay started the out at 224. lhree Double Winners lnCh'town Racing Card Three were three double dash Mr. Curr combined for s w of It.” on the first double on on iii 5‘ r r iifigigf sir Racmg action resumes tonight at the CD? at 7:45. 1 AND I Paula Clegg (S. Stead) Bob's Girl (H. Stead Shadydsle Merit (111)). Frankie's Chief (c. 'o'nrlem o 7 Lucky Lark (J. (Arsenault) 7 I I 0 15-2, 2:16- . Pays—4.10. 2.60. 2.10; 8.70 2.”; 2.10. 2.”. 2.”. m; 3.30. m; 2.50. A”! 2 AND I Miss Flamingo (A. Carr) Hettlc's Boy (C. Blrt) Dot's (L. Hennessey) Vernon River Gal (S. White) Way Mon ( L Walsh) lease Volo (J. Arsenault) (5D M General (E. Bernard) 7 0 Times—3:142. 2:16-1 Pays—4.10. 33). 2.70: 7.3). 3.“) 8.10; m. 2.00, 2.11): Oil), 2.10. DAM I AND 7 AM Mike (S. White) 1 Evelyn's Ardent (L. Hennesseyl 2 2 ,) isner) II 25 33 43 54 San Francisco Giants ser- ond baseman Jose Pagan ges- tures as Ernie Banks (14) of Chicago Cubs is called out at SANDWICH, England (CP) —l Carol Sorenson. a 21-year-old: United States college student: eliminated a three-hole deficit.‘ in the home stretch Friday fol lbeat England‘s Bridget Jackson and collar the riiish women’s amateur championship. 1 up in 37 holes. Miss Jackson. a member of Britain’s Curtis Cup team. tired noticeably after going 3 up olil the 28th hole of the 36-hole final hole over the 6.017 - yard Prince's Course. Miss Sorenson is only thel fifth us. golfer to win the! tournament since it started in| 1893. The last was Barbara Mc-l Intire in 1960. Miss McIntire. the current US. champion, was knocked out early here by Catherine La- coste of France. After the 28th hole. Miss So-1 renson ook three of the next four to tie the match. Then. after missing a chance to win on the 36th, she took the extra hole and the match with a birdie four. AN ABOUT-FACE I SAY H ' our TH second base by umpire Bill Williams in fourth inning of game yesterday. Banks hit a grounder through third and win it on the second extra hole. In Friday's final against Miss Sorenson. t'le pattern was re- versed for the English star. Both players muffed cthces to win on the 36th hole. Miss Sorenson hit the edge of th green and her ball rolled down into a little gully, while Miss Jackson slapped her second well on to the green. Miss Sorcnson wedged up too boldly and was 18 I FAR but was out trying to get to sec- baseman for an error. ond base. (AP Wirephoto) Carol Sorenson Cap’rures Amateur Golf Ch'ship Miss Sorenson's victory avenged a loss to Miss Jackson in the Curtis Cup matches at Porthcawl, Wales two weeks ago. The US. defeated Britain in the biennial competition. The performance of Miss Gou- e let. a 28-year-old civil servant trom Regina, was the best by a Canadian in the tournament since Marlene Stewart of Font- hlll. Ont. won it in 1953 at the age of 19. Minor Teams Will Canvas MONTAGUE —- The Monta- gue minor baseball teams who be around on their annual cam- paign for funds today. E acn year the lads get into uniform and solicit support from business people of the town and from anyone who may be inter- ested in helping to support this youth program. The manage- ment spend many hours in helping these young lads. b ut it still requires a considerable amount of money for supplies __‘ men and the community and they will appreciate anything that comes their way today. learns Split Clip Play WILL GRIMSLEY CLEVELAND (AP)—-A fight- ing Chuck McKinley got the United States off to a winging start but the machine-like Roy Emerson crushed Dennis Ral- ston in 63 minutes. 6-3. 8-1. 0-2. Friday for an opening day 1-1 split in the Davis Cup tennis challenge roun Before Emerson unloaded his mighty guns on a dazed Ral- ston. McKinley. America’s top- ranked player from San tonio, ’l‘ex.. turned back a ner- vous Fred Stolle 6-1. 9-7. 4-0, 6-2. The day's development prob- ably means the next year's resi- dence of the big tennis trophy will be determined by today's doubles match sending McKin- ley and Ralsion against Emer- son ond Stolle. The Americans. with an expe- Six Teams Will Be Active layThisWeekend Winnipeg will also be the loey to is our objective." says coach 3! THE CANADIAN PRESS The chips will be down and the wheel spinning this web end as six teams take the field in Western football action. All six will be gambling heav- ily and the stakes will be high. Hamilton Tiger-Cats take on Edmonton Eskimos go after Saskatchewan Roughrid- ers in Regina. Sunday it's Toronto Argonauts against Winnipeg Blue Bomb- ers. Lions haven’t beaten Hamil- ton since a 1962 eidilibition game and B.C. coach Dave Skrien says they are “anxious to play" the Eastern champs. “ s feel it's a big challenge and we want it." Tiger-Cats toppled 8.0. 21-10 in the Guy Cup championship. last November and took them 3-0 in an exhibition game this year. “The fact that this is the third game in a week cuts down our preparation. but because 0 coaching staff has been together we can get the job done with less preparation than we could have last year or the year be- fore." said Skrlen. GROUND GAME Hamilton coach Ralph Sazlo has had quarterback Bernie Fa- loney concentrating on - ground game. “You can't depend on long bomb to keep saving you. You have tonbe able to run tile 1 as we egl'na. (die Eskimos will be fighting to keep their playoff hopes alive and the Rougbriders will be looking at first place in the West. “If we beat Edmonton. then maybe we can sit down and as- sess our first-place chances." says coach Bob Shaw. “ n the basis of what those Lions did to Calgary Tuesday, it's hard to be too optimistic." (Lions used ball-control to take the surging. Calgary Stamped- ers 12-7.) Of the Lions, Shaw says: rienced team, are favored in the tandem match because the Australians have never played together before this year. feet past the flag but Miss Jack- son left her first putt four feet 5 art. The American girl missed her long putt by about two iuc'les and was struck with a ' ey five. Then Miss Jackson missed her short one and they went on to sudden-death play. TWO PUTTS FOR BmDIE 0n the extra hole the blonde Miss Sorenson pulled off a fine second shot that left her nine feet from the pin on the 437- yard hole. She got down in two putts for her birdie. Miss Jack- son over-silo her second. chipped 14 feet and back to missed that putt to take a five. By losing when she appeared to have victory in her grasp. Miss Jackson found herself in the shoes of Joanne Goulet. the Canadian woman whom she de- feated in a thrilling semi-final match Thursday. Miss Goulet had looked like a sure winner when she was 2 up with only five holes left in their Reds Defeat New York 3-0 NE YORK (AP) — Jim Maloney allowed only one hit. 18-hole match but Miss Jackson won the hearts of the gallery by fighting back to tie the match a second inning single by Joe Christopher. and ' the surging Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 victory over the New York Countess Alice (R. MacKenzie 2 1 Jolly Abb (E. Bernard) 3 4 Lucky Goose (L. MacNeill) 4 3 l 5 5 6 D 3. Pays—7.60. 4.00. 2.10' . 5.30. 2.10; 2.10; 11.“). 2.60: 2.30. Meta Friday night in the first game of a doubleheader. The victory, Cincinnati's fifth lstraight and eigfit in the last nine games, pulled the Reds to within 2% games of first place ‘Philadelphla in the National { ague pennant race. The Phil- (lies played a night game BASEBALL SCORES By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Chic 0 000 010—1 Perry (12-10) and Haller; Buhl (13-14) McDaniel (9) and Berte . Louis 300 0 .Plttsbllrgli 000 100 110— 3 8 1 Richardson (4-2) Taylor (6) Schultz l8) and McCarver; Cardwell (1-1) Blass (1) Face (ll) and May. McFarlane (8). American League 000 001001— 2 40 Detroit 002 001 00x— 3 80 Wilson (ll-12) Radatz (9) and Nixon; Wickersham (19-12) and Boston Freehan. HRs: Det — Demeter (21). New York 000 200 211— a 14 2 Washington 030 110 000— 5 11 2 Benton, Williams ( 5) Mikkel- sen (7) Reniff (6-3) Howard: arum, Kline (7) Han- nan (4-7) (9) K-reutzer (9) and Brumley. 3: NY — Pepitone (26) Maris 2 ‘ (26). Wash—Na- rum (1). Baltimore 140 310 001—10 17 0 Cleveland 100 030 002- 6 11 z Bunker ((18-5) Haddix (6) and Lao; Stavnge (7-13) John (2) Abernarthy (3) Walker (6) Bell (8) and Romano. HRS: Balt— Powell (36). Cleve —- Francona (8) Brim Jackson (1 bows in sngui‘l aft land er missing putt in the 0th holsbniouhereh-oo against Milwaukee. Aws cosr rHls MISS A nus? winning lie British Women‘s um Golf commune against Carol Sol-enroll at Sandwich. England . - ll. Schaffer (9) HRS: (12).. M0— 5 4 Today’s Sportl Monrton High School football team will be in Summerside to- day to battle with the Summer- side High School gridiron crew in an exhibition game. The tilt is scheduled for Queen Eliza- beth Park and will get under- way a-t 1.45 pm. Fisher, Pineau. Win Bonspiel Bill Fisher and Hamid eau captured the openlng diluffleboard bonspiel which was staged at the Charlotte- town Sportsman's last Wednesday night. The Sports man's Club under the direction of Lorne Perry will these shuffleboard bonspiels every Wednesday night. competition in open to alw of the club members and anyone interested in finding out about it should contact Mr. Perry PROBABLE PITCH‘ERS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Probable pitchers for today‘s major league games, won aid lost records in parentheses: American League New York. Stottlemeyer ((3-2) at Washington, Daniels (8-10). Baltimore, Pappas (15-6) at Cleveland. Tiant (9-3). Chicago, Peters (19-8) at Kan- sas City. Meyer (2-7). Boston. Connelly (3-11) at De- nt (13 - 11) at Los Angcles. Kelso (0—0). (N). Na League Milwaukee, Lemaster (16-11) at Philadelphia, Mahaffey (12—9) or Bennett (12.13). ; St. Louis, Simmons ((16-9) at Pittsburgh, Vesie (18-11). San Francisco, Estelle at Chicago. Koonce (1-0). Only games scheduled. I I I I I I I. for in complete q I line of see I B O L E N S I ' Lawn and Garden ' where we can beat them con- sistently.“ were trounced 56-8 but coach ,1 B.C. But we got 16 first downs aglainst Lions and Stampeders on y .. monion: I that can handle Ottawa 20-1." KEY TO PLAYOFF “I t‘iink we’re capable of knocking them over with what we have now, but we want to keep improving to the point In their last meeting. Esks Neill Armstrong says: “ e're improving, though our ast game didn‘t show it against ad . Shaw isn't counting out Ed-. “I have to respect any team' For the Esks. victory tonight "is tie/key" to playoff hopes. says Armstrong Sunday‘s afternoon game in m. we rounds was between Georgeto the header in Island the last meeting between these Blue Bombers' hopes. A loss—it would be their ninth in a row—would eliminate Wir- nipeg. It would be (tie coup-de-grsca to a season at has seen Bombers suffer serious injury to 17 players, including elimina- tion in the season of safety Dick Thornton and end Farrell Funston. It's no less a crucial contest for Argos. "As of right now. third place Ball Action Is The proceedings in the King's County Baseball League are sometimes hard to follow. Ser- ' ‘A" in the elimination wn and Morell. with the Eagles winning the first game three weeks ago. and Morell the se- cond game. two weeks ago. We understh that they were to have met last Sunday, but. in- stead, the Eagles went to Tig- nigh where they split a double Rural Interme- diate finols. Where went the third game? Was it played? Or what happen- ed? Series "B" was almost as hard to follow. Mt. Stewart ap- parently won the first game be- cause they won the second game 5-4 in extra innings to win the series in straight games and advance to the league semi- finals. What the score of first game was, we have idea. Series ‘C" we know about Peakee Bombers won handily over the league's new entry from Vernon River in two straight games. Both games were lop-sided. but the second was 'a thriller for seven innings with the score being tied three- tiiree before Bombers erupt» ed for eleven big runs to sew up the game and a berth in the se- mi-finals against Mt. Stewart. This series. which is a best of three gets underway this Sun- day. Both teams will probably go with their aces. Art Coffin for the Huskies and playing coach Freddie Handrahan of the Bombers. This should be s good series as he Bombers were the most improved club over the last half of the schedule. All (i no two clubs was an eleven inning thriller with the Bombels eklng out a three to two victory. Montague All Stars won the Island Midget title for the first time by defeating the defending Nobby erkowskl. He‘s counting on Jackie Parker going all the way at but all 3 goes wrong, he’ll go to Karl Sweetan, a 21-year-old rookie. “We have confidence in Sweetali and we think he’s a good one. But right now we can’t afford to experiment. We have to win football games and it‘s too big a risk to entrust to a kid." w Confusing; ‘ Football Starting To Move three gamestoonelnngoodser- ies. Montague were pared by the booming bats of Steve Clarksoil and Wallle Callahan. boys also played well defensively. Steve in center-field and Wallle behind the plate. To’all the play- ers and their coach Donnie le- Clair, congratulations. ast week's collunn was a little more expansive about the Midgets, and also dealt with the newly organized KC GirLs Softball League. Unfortunately, most of the column was dated. and was late in being sent in. and had it beeen printed. would have been outdated. Sorry kids. and girls, we’ll get to you next eek. Football is gradually moving into the sport limelight in this County. We have two teams. Montague and Souris Regionals. the The former is entered in Senior ‘A" and the latter are in ‘B’. For Montague. it's only their so- cond year in the game, but. they have taken a big step moving up to the top bracket. in this group they'll be competing against Summerside High and St. Dunstans. PWC will also ‘14 in the league. but on an exhibi- tion basis only. Souris, also in their s e c 0 ll d year defending ‘B" champs and are remaining in that group for another year. The other teams enter from Alberton. Tignish and O'Icary and Kinkora. Both eastern teams will probably warm up with exhibition games against each other. We would like to suggest. since Montague and Souris are in different classification for this yea r only. and wi meeting in the future. that. they play off unofficially, for the County title each year. To add a little color to this playoff. it might be nice if some sports- minded person or business put 0 w champions. 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