F' T’ C l>_= % ;EP’;§_MBER 24'.}2f’7 . g . 'rua cnAai.o1"ri-:'rowN` guaitotan _ '-’-ACE SISWN »1'.T BUWI-ING aoxiuc _ ""‘~ -_fl - BUCKEY sAsKa'rBALL ' -..\ . i WR*-STUNG T oruan sroirr *_*-4'! _ . -_il Cubs Playoff Hopes Dwindle A5 Melton Gives Giants 8-/ Victory ln Thrilling Game NE\V YORK, Sept. 23-(AP)-Cliff Melton came to the rosette today to save an 8- me Giants. a victory that crus mga Cults’ mathematical chan y0|~k¢»i~5 in the National Bas race. The Ctihs_ battling in the .llanager Bill Terry to call in ing pitching corps, only to fall a run short of a tie with ninth. The tritimph sent the Giants back to their own Polo two men left on base in the Grounds with a 3 1-2 game ma games left to play. The Cubs. grime series with St. Louis Cardinals, have but 10 games remaining. Melton. hero of a six-hit, 6-0 nctoigr which squared the series for the Giants yestcrday,was call- ed in today with the bases loaded ln the nnith and one man out. glgly llerinaii had started the httal. a'e.~pri'.\te attempt to win with a tiotilile off Harry Gumbert, than of the Giant liurlers. Dick llartell tossed otit Frank Demarce. mcalahy- l~lartnett walked and qippei- Collnis beat out a single to hs), baseniau Johnny McCarthy. Thrilling Finale Manager Charley Grimm sent nick Statnback in to rttn for Hartnett and Clay Bryant to do the same for Collins. Terry hailed in Meltoii. and Grimm sent B iight-lttiiided hitter,Cai‘l Reynolds, in to bat for Phil Cavarretta. Rertiolds drilled a long ny to Llll ' Clitozztt and Hcrlnan scored, as l °|"lCl§ |`°tU"" 1° form by Refll 24.114 .sprmttot-s sat on the edges I Rllfflllg- their H09 1`iR`hU1Hl1d€l`- of their seats, Everything was over. liottr-ter. when Melton for-) cod Augie tittliui to ground to nel Ot' lor the final out. makings ol ini easy triumph tin- ttl the lotirtli when the Cubs I mn' in from' with °m~V 10 l° play' stan-tl a tlirec run rally to tie the fltrung "mug behind them “"9 me wore, The Lertgtie leaders dld it| C allo\‘ora:.iiii with ii four run 5 blast :it the sixth only to have the Cubs pattly close the gap with another three-run drive in their half. Althotitzli batted out of action. S ilttbbell was credited with his 1 list rictoiyv of the season. against Africa? Government final game of the Chicago aries. foul-'ht the league-leaders to the ast out. forced back on the part of Lefty Gomez, of injuries and illnesses that in- fected the big leagues this season, i to ci'ush all opposition The ttlaiiis appai'eiit1_v had the “Their defeat "°d“~V‘ C°“pl°d with ed here today by Mrs. Frederick NPV/5°' ttt$PORT \VORl.D f-\ -- - --. L_ 1 Y ___ ______ ______, __ _____ __ Y __ _____; _..._ -_ . . - =ii- ' "_“‘ “"- 7, thrill-packed triumph for hed out everything but (Thi. , ees of overhauling the Now ; eball League championship‘ every member of his start- rgin _over the Cubs, with 13 moving on to open a three- : eight defeats. Ctirt Davis was the loser. SECOND STRAIGHT SWEEP NEW YORK. Sept. 23 (AP) - New York Yankees completed their second striaght sweep of the American League pennant race here today and successfully re- tained their championship laurels. Although they dropped a 9-5. decision to St. Louis Browns, they definitely clinched their ninth Lcaugue crown beyond all mathematical doubt when the sec- ond-place Detroit Tigers were eliminated through a defeat at the hands of Bo»ton Red Sox Featuring. as usual, power, hit- ting. and aided by a fine come- thelr top flight. pitcher. and a the Yanks overcame the handicap ie Tigers’ lw», left them 12 games <0-rans of the loop, with the ellar-dwelling St. Louis Browns 4 l-2 games in the rear. The destroyer Zttlu was launch- turrock whose husband is a mln- ster without portfolio in the South YANKEES CLINCH AM RICAN LEA G' UE FLA C -ini T I -1.-lg 1-tri t. Croix Wins Second Straight Tir G;-trewayg 9-2 Maine Horse Triumphs In Free-for-all (By The Canadian Press) WOODSTOCK, N. B.. sept. 23- Ted Grant`s Dolly Azoff from Houlton, Me., won an exciting Free For All on the closing day of the Woodstock Driving Club`s fall meet. The winner had stout opposition from the other entries including Quaker Girl of Halifax. and all were hunched under the wire in each heat. Joe Hedgewood. owned at Ed- niundston, took the Classified Trot and Pace in straight heats. The 2.20 Trot and Pace went to Miss Uhleen Volo, of Woodstock, whose best. time was only slightly slower than the best time in the Free For All. The summary: Free-For-All Dolly Azoff, T. Grant, Hotti- ton, Me. tBai-nettt - -111 Quaker Girl, Clyde Burgess, Halifax tAllen) - - - 2 22 Peter Magnus. M. L. Wright, Perth, N. B. (Wright) _ 3 3 3 Peter Onward, George Ma- thieu. Campbellton, N. B. tMorrisonl -_ -_ - - _ Time: 2.09: 2.12 1-4: 2.11 2.20 Trot and Pace Miss Uhlcen Volo. E. B. Av- ery, Woodstock, N.B. (Av- ery) - - - - - - - 1 1 I Mr. Counter. Sheehan. Ban- gor. Me. tDonnelly) -- - 2 2 3 Calumet Dudds. Charles Al- len. Hartland, N. B. tP. Conroy) - - - - - -_ 3 3 2 Northern Doll, George Foss, Fort Fairfield. Me. tF‘oss) 4 4 4 Time: 2.11 1-4: 2.15; 2.10. Classfied Trot and Pace ?* Pa as Joe Hedgewood, H. K. York. Edniundston,N.B. tStonge\ 1 ll Duke McKlyo_ E. McNanee, Fort. Fairfield tShaw) _ 222 The Paramount, Perley Fields. Fort Fairfield (Avery) - 43 3 Waltie Dillon, F. Flannery, »-w i _nh A Fort Fairfield tFlanner_v) Time: 2.15; 2.13 1-2: 2.16 ACCEPT CHALLENGE We the Nationals do hereby accept the challenge of the Can- GLASGOW. Sept, 23 tCP Cable) adiens. the game to take place them Bgd T. R. MCQUARRIE over the week-end if convenient-w MB F13'-§El'. MEN! You’ve Waited for 1 This Man On FRIDAY and SATURDAY Next September 24th. and 25th. MR. E. M. DENNISON Stylist and Made-to-Measure expert of THE HOUSE OF STONE will be at OUR STORE with the complete Fall and Winter showing of this famous House- = Mr. Dennison is an authority on Made-to-Measure cloth- ing having spent many years in the business and will be only too glad to assist you in choosing the most suitable cloth and style for your Fall and Winter Suit or Over- coat. _ ' We guarantee satisfaction for quality, fit and price. KELLY & Mac INNIS -v\==r‘x=_.__._ _;T_:-:- ._ A ;f-: ',_::;r; Amerks Purchase Day & H » 516 FS ShillFrom TorontoLeafs E|""'"f'l€d BY Groieair MAGUIRE By Rover; Canadian Press Staff Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 23-New York Yankees announced the purchase of Clarence (Happy) Day and Jack' Shill from Toronto Maple Leafs tonight as governors of the National Hockey League gathered in Gotham for their semi-annual meeting. The amount that changed hands in the deal for the veteran Day, former de- fence stalwart and captain of the Leafs, and young Shill was not revealed. Neith- er was the identity of the men they will replace on the American lineup, nor those who will take their places at Tor- onto. real. died out. the colorf ance at Talk of the possible moving of one of - the Canadian metropolis’ two teams has The Maroon directorate re- cently announced that club would con- inue to operate in Montreal. Following _their success last season the possibility ul Canadiens might be trans- ferred was not considered. The commi_ttee’s report is expected to make suggestions for improving attend- Montreal games. The governors meeting will be con- DAY eerned chiefly with the schedule. It may receive the report of the committee of three that surveyed the professional hockey situation in Mont- 7 ' . _ lla, .ff f. ` ’ 3' " ;.'~. 1"." wi 1937-38 playing < A ._ _ Q.;/‘)_?;,, __ ; .¢ I _ rr, . Lv-i .__. .V I 1 ' ll ' my SHILL EQ] S o Lou A f t b a I I S-‘lla i‘?“”“““ we ghtwe g - _ pioli. scored a surprisingly decisivel F' I T d victory on points tonight over Pe- S O a dm Montanez of Puer RJ i toli Kayoes Marcel Thil _ l I ' | (By Alan Gould) |r|g tassoclateu Press sports Editor) Pono GROUNDS, New York, ve Lou Ambers,l mbers And Barney Ross Successfully Defend Apos Titles; Again displaying their super- iority Rovers last. night ad- vanced to the finals ui' the ls- lnnd softlmll playoffs against Borden Natioiials by winning tlit-ir second straight encounter from the Holy Redeemer Stars in the best-ul-three semi-finals series. The score of last night/s encounter was 22-4. Stars showed a big improve- ment in the field last night hui. the winners hitting in the pin- clles took ai 3-0 lead in the first. inning and from then right up to the eighth kept. adding to their total to coast. home to victory. Whitlock, Mc-Kinnon and Cairns were the big hitters of the Rovers this trio accounting for 10 hits between them with \\'hitlock being credited with four, one of them being a home run in the fourth with a mate aboard. Jay, Rovers left fielder accounted for the other four base wallop, his drive coming in the sixth. Hennessey and Kenny with a brace of hits each led the losers attack. BOX SCORE STARS Gallant, lb D. Trainol', lf Henliessey, ss Toontbs, p & 2b Kenny 2b & p Coyle, 3b Ciiar.dle1`, cf Monaghaii, rf G. Tralnor, c T. Chandler, lf Totals 37 ‘--Replaced D. Trail ~»w»»»»mww: §¢~oooOo~moox §m~o»~onowo~= qgomwwewwoomg §~cooowNw»oc> m»»oo~¢»o~cM ROVERS Jay. lf Whitlock. 2b IVlleNe1l, ss Mollins. p McKinnon. c mmwmm; Nr-AV-‘|§U‘= ¢.~:NO»¢-N: urn-»6>u\m'€ O oo~»¢> »-¢»-»-ol!! ht boxing tham 1 y to leo rt B drab 15 round match which had top bifllng on the “Carnival of downs for them. 1 Brunswick Qaseball Results AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit Boston Auker and Peacock. St. Louis New York Trotter and 1-lemsley; Ruffirig. .\/furphy and Dickey. Chicago Philadelphia Whitehead Smith and Brucker. The opening game of the Ia- Iand softball finals takes place this afternoon at 4.30 at the Park diamond with the City League champions, the Rovers, facing the challenge of the Burden Nationals. Nationals, out of the ,play- years are reputed to have a strong squad this season and many are of the opinion that Rovers will have their hands ftill if they are going to defeat The series is to be decided on a ln-st-of-three basis with the winners advancing to the Maritime playdowns. which me likely fn start within a week's time. probably against the NW Champions." val from start I crowd of 40,000 l0n. t Ambers came the past couple of Frances Marcel and piled up an une itoiam. El" °“ Pm'-S- only one round, 000100 002-3 1 0 000 1000 003-4 8 Ol York; Henry and ger with short about the head 010 003 230-9 11 l 120 200 000-5 9 2 most of the way 010 000 000-1 8 1 000 000 000-0 7 0 and Sewell; Ross customary close Many in the Krakatiskas and R. Ferrell. ion NATIONAL LEAGUE D The para attendant. was 32.000; New York 201 014 000-8 1" 0 Gross receipts wr-nt $232,644.25. in- Cliicago 000 303 001-'I 12 0 cluding state and federal taxes. Net., Schumacher Hubbell. Gumbert. receipts, $196,634.35. barely covered. .\le1ton and Dunning; Davis, the aggregate guarantees of $196,-i French Lee, Root and Hartnett.. 000 for the eight principals in Boston 000 101 000-2 8 0 the all-star show. Pittsburgh 000 000100-1 9 0 Harry Jeffra of Baltimore cap- Turner and Lopez Blanton, tured the world bantamweight title weaver ,md Todd from Sixto Escobar, litllc Puerto phuadagphia 004 000 023__9 12 1 Rico scrapper, in the final 15 round a 5 12 » ~ ` Cul:.[C,§1cl;ht£, Bnd0g),.;xc)2;3[; Dawg Ii`scobar's 117 1-4. got away to `a Moow and Lombarm Campbell big lead and ‘saved enough of his Brooklyn ssl 030 000__4 12 3 marg n, despite the clhampionis Sv Louis 210 om 40x_8 13 1 stronger finish, to take t e unan - Ltutrlier, Cantwell, Llnds and _ f grodowski . fNTER.\'.~\'l`l0NAl» LEAGUE ' tNigH. Game) 1 ,.,,,,AL ,,m0,.,, Dan Bulger Is ' EIWARK O O 1_5 -\.LTlMORFI-102000200--5 8 Fallon. Niggeling and Hersh- l trerger; Blvers and Crouse. Gray. Yesterdays Homers: Lazzeri, Bulger were shortened to 9 to 1 Yankees; Clift, Hemsley, Browns: L tonight as he maintained his place. Chapman, Red Sox; Padnett,Car- as favorite for the Cambridge- 135 Great G€0l°g'8 Stl'€0l2 oinais; ctmuiii, Phillies. one man. shire. The Leaders: DiMaggio. Yank-t A callover of odds at the Vic- ees, 44: Greenberg. Tigers, lift; torla Club reduced the odds on _ match J ef fra motis decision. |553 010100410-7 10 ...___ -Odds on sir Ambers outpolnted his rugged rl- cisi\'e triumph after Chicago`s Bar- ney Ross had been hard pressed to turn back the challenge of Ceferlno Garcia of the Philippines in defence of the world welterwelght title. in 15 slashing rounds. and Fred Apos- toli of San Francisco had gained a techncal knockout victory over penn middleweight champion, in the 10th rbund. ~ Ambers successfully spiked Mbn- tanez's heaviest punching guns. out- boxed the challenger consistently, HOIHG Rllh Standing LoNDoN. sept. za-toe cable; to finish wh:le a fans yelled for act- through with a de- Thil. the Euro- overwhelming mar- On the Associated Press score sheet, the lightweight king took 12 rounds. Montanez was cred‘.tecl with the 13th. Two. the, first and seventh, were rated even. t There were no knockdowns. Am-, bers, entirely too agile and elusivcl for Montanez to tag with his dread right hand. peppered the challen- hooks, cuffed him and body at close range, and protected himself effec- tively in the clinches. The challenger forced the fight but was either wild or tied up as he tried to do his -order work. crowd whistled and clapped for more action as done Cleveland 01° 001 00°-2 9 0 iigfgmiffii f`..'lfiili§` Jielfliifatioiil W“5l"l“¥“'" 030 001 000-3 8 for Montanez and a steady accumu- Hudlm F911" “nd Pymk' lat..ori of points for the busy cham- scallng 116 1 2 to Abe Baileys Dan Gehrig. Yankees. 36: York. 'l`l~c:~' Dan Btiigei; la” _\:ta:"< \'.'iiiicr o" ll; W, led lox, 33; Ott, Giants the cv¢nt, from 21-I, the previous =`_1€ t"'= W T at loddl , ' Smwa* SK@&h5|`7 L ¢)lCl)@>-IQ 5~om~ qooow m oem Cuelmore. 3b McNeviri, lb Mclnnis, rf Cairns, cf Totais O SUMMARY Eained runs Rovers 11. Stars 2; two base hit: Whitlock, McKinnon; tlirce base hit: Hennessey, Cairns; home run: Jay. Whitlock; sacrifice lit: McNe\‘in; hits off Toombs 6 in 1 1-3 inliings: off Kenny 9 in 6 2-3 initttigs; off Mollins 8 in 9 innings: base on balls: off Mol- llns 0; off Kenny 8. off T00mbS 21 left on base. Rovers 5; Stars 6. Umpire: At the plate Bill Lawlor! on the bases, Nels Whitlock and E. Goss. BY INNINGS Start! 009 3 Rovers 354 - 5 §§ §:> .T Bw Tony Manero ls Medalist At Belmont BELMONT, Mass., Sept. 23- tCPI --Tony Manero from Salem. Mass., 1936 United States Open Golf Chalnpion. birdlcd two ofthe last three holes of his second qttnliiytng round for a 60. two un- der par l.oda_\' to gain the $250 ‘ ' ' ‘ V ,‘ Ross rf medalist prim in the 512.000 Bel- “fl lm b""°‘ ”_“d M"I‘i;"" SMS? t Me(.‘ai'i'nl1 2b mont open match play golf tour- “mf l>H~,‘_¢.~a¢,,t\'>»S>¢»2¢»~7t»:; =oc¢,o¢~=C»-°O»-21 ;._.o:oC,c»-up-Q: *‘ '1 9.-,__.:»¢oz¢:-:ciao o;ic.~:¢,»-°._.OON¢0> so-a_>-aaa-»-av-Al Amirault cf D'Eon lf H. Horton ss D. Horton lb Veno rf Mclvor 3‘b Deveau c. Bain p Cosman 2b Veniot rf LeBlanc 1 0 Total 31 2 5 23 13 Veriiot replaced Veiio in sixth. LeBlanc batted for Melror in ninth R Moffatt out for stepping out left held. McCarroll scoring. D'Eon of batters bt picked it up. and relayed it to\ ' , ‘vfelvor on third as Cofievrotind- d‘.'l'ict:‘.tv in the fourth. Veno was out. short to first; Mclvor was out on strikes. and Deveau flied to 'centre Bain was almost as of- fective_ Mel.:tln's hit to short be- ing the only blow off him. Retired In Order Yarmouth went down in order in the nfth. but St. Croix gather- ed another braep of runs. McCar- roll beat out Halley 1-lortons throw for a hit. R. Moffatt was called out~ for interference. but Coffey tripled to deep left scoring McCarrol1. Boles nled to Antir- The last Yarmouth rtin came in the sixth. D`Eon beat ntit a hit to short but Halley Horton forced him at second. Doug Horton drove it hard smash down the right. held foul line. scoring Hal- ley but was out at the plate try- ing to stretch the blow into it home run. Ken Venfnt. batting for Veno, stopped one o’ Brow- nell's curves with his ribs. and was knocked otit. bitt was able to T. CROIX rad*->w¢_uiU' r:>oQc9,;.,J¢_,._- ._- moo .1:¢,.>¢,_-,ao Nt ._- U:¢Nlw3NN,...>- »- W*"oO¢=o>-ant* waocao.-c>»»* A. Moffatt lb Brownell p 4 Total 34 Bain ottt for infield f"y .<(‘0R|-I IH' l.\'I\'lN(lS "ai~inouth 100 001 tt()-2 St Croix 012 020 400-9 VWHAVE ONLY once oAii.Y latill who dropped the ball. and . |CofTey scored. Bain pulled him- » ‘ AND STAY lself together. and Boles was out ll lstealing. and Lowe fanned. All Day N o | i. A ia E s 1 0 I U v ‘V/T l ' A :- /I resume. Mclvor fanned for the ff was the last real Yarmott" A , . 1 Rolla Shaving Bowl-I1 .N threat. it weak effort ln romp-in , 6_95ANpUp imtn-bor sq Von to the assault St Croix latm- t dndm lata in me oeventai t y. E. 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