514:-'w?:.,.

i 4 . i l

.. 4 .-W. ,..;q,;.

5 The Charlottetown Guardian. Tnssdllf.

Msy 29, 1956

IN THIS CORNER The Local Baseball Scene

With the harness racing season ready to get underway on June lo. the Charlottetown softlizill lc:ii.:iu- swinging into action on June -tih. the city has ball lcagiie l)li('ilE.il'il'ig for a good season and golf. tennis and rifle shooting already started the full summer's SP""5 D1'0i;F8m will soon be in full swing.

Bad weather Ililh he-1-ii ;i lIlI1- l

derancc for just about all so- called summer sports tlllli la? Ind as a result the softball and baseball players having ben having a difficult time rounding tlicmslvcs into shape. The soft-

balicrs have had a few outings i

-but witii the opening date. Ii-as than a week away the practice sessions have been far fewer than the teoms' boss men would like.

The baseball men were a little later than the soitballers in get- ting their league whipped into shape. but over the weekend Char- lie Ryan. Tom MacFarlane and Fiddler MacDonald and Forhie Kennedy got together at the arm- mouries and chose teams for a 3- tcam city league. The players. who are mostly veterans of last year's fray with I fair sprinkling of newcomers. have been divided up into what looks like three even- ly matched squads.

The teams were chosen only from the names of the players who have signified their inten- tion to play baseball this year and, of course. anyone whose name is not included in the line- ups can still get to play by con- tacting Tom MacF'arlane. Fid- dler Mncnonald or Charlie Ry- In. and he will be placed on one of the tesms. g

The lineups of the three tearns so far read like this: Siars- Don- nie LeClalr. Vern llandrahan. Don Simmonds. Don MacDonald, Kip Ready. Lorne Hennessey, Joe Le- Clair. Jack Cairns. Brian Mac- Callum, Bill Morrell. Cliff Gillie. Flyers-Joe Coyle. Merlin Devine. Donnie Macbean. Earl MacKin- non, R. Hughes. Jack (Spy) Ready. Jack Kane, Cuker Pincnu. Lorne MacGuigan, Jack Burke. Moo Goodwin. Joe Pincuu and two lads whose first names we don't know Silvers and MacLoan. Dod- gers-Forbic Kennedy. Charlie Ryan. Johnny Squarebriggs. lion nie Stanley. Ralph Pincau. frv MacKinnnn. Brian Lewis. Bock Whitiock. Bobby Lund and both of the local baseball-playing Ken Macbonalcls.

While we. like many local plnyors we Ive been talking to don.t whoil approve of the method of organizing the city losgne. we do feel that we should go Ilong with it. It is most rer- Ilnly the best method of assur- ing a well bllnncod league. some players are slightly irked It being told which teams they are to play with yet if the pin!- erswerstobsonton sn open lnsrkct it might wreck the ion- nle before it even got started. It is I natural impulse to want to win sad to want to be on the winning team and obvious don- gcr of Illowiug the isyers to pick their own spots I that too nssny of the best players may best! for the same spot. Thi would result in one or two strong tesms or one or two weak teams leaving the league iii an bndb unbsisnced condition.

No one will argue the fact that good balance is probably the most uppcaliiig quality a lceiguc can have Anyone ivlio closely followed the lslnnti linckcy Lcngue last winter will agree to that. The "lose cunipeition was one of the factors in the unbelievable success oi that league.

li niil take inure iii:m just good baseball. though. to draw the fans back to Memorial Field. Last Year's league was about as close as a league can get. The teams were well played, with plenty of long hull hitting. anti the guiiic tiizii iizis ile- ridtrti before the last out in the ninth was the exception rather than the rule. Yet invariably

there were more bail play!-rs present than fans. The final ve- rics bctwccn t.llt' FI.Vi-rs and Dodgers was as thrilling as any since the great junior series be- tween the Kinsmen and RECCE 3 years ago in 1948. Among baseball men in Charlottetown that Kinsnieri-RECCE playoff. that was slated as the hcst-ol- live but went 6 games before the army btiyii won the title on error in the ninth inning. is still referred to Is The Junior Series.

Psul Jay. who as the outstand- ,ing star of the i”l)crs-Dniigcrs 'series of last year is lllit)'lll1! .nmc hascball up in Ontario and from a report in the Pembroke Observer is performing just as well up that way as he did here. Paul buried and won both ends of a double- header to give the Dodgers the city league crown last summer. M- thnugli he is best on the mound Paul can perform as well as any body in the infield. in a recent game of the North Fienfrew League Paul played five innings at second and finished out the game at short for the Deep River Rockets. His team lost the game but it wasn't Paul's fault. In four trips to the plate he slammed out a double and two singles. On the other try he grounded out.

Al Sheelisif has this to Ily sboul hiin”lf Jay can hurl the ball as well as he can hit it. the Rockets should improve and provide stiff competition for the rest oi the iosguc in 1956."

Supple Cops lBoxing Title By Knockout

Oill-ZBPJC I('Pl-Pal Supple. I stocky little Mnnrealer who tosses .li-other from all angles. knocked out Gill Gerkie of London. 0nt.. lllondny night to win the vacated Canadian bantamwclght boxing crown. Supple put Geekle sway It 1:3 .of the ninth round sfter flooring l him for nine counts on three occa- isions-in the fourth round. the hcightli and in the ninth just before lthe end of the fight. y Suppl: tipped the scales at 115, one-quarter pound heavier thIII Geskio

g l The tiitle had been vacated by

ilfcrnando Gagnnn of Quebec City who now makes his home in Moni-

l real. Gsgnon held the title for 10 years.

NEW YORK iAPl -- Whitey Ford sp T five Boston singles to hang up his seventh victory against s lone dcfes as New York Yankees madei he most of four hits off Frank Sullivan to beat the Red Sox 2-0.

It was the elgh straight com. plete game for t stubby New York southpaw. who lowered his lczigiic-lcatling earned run average to fill with his second -shutout of the season.

Sullivan gave the hard - hitting Yanks a tough time but couldn't l(P('iI their four hits spaced. New York giit tiio singles in the first linuiiig - by Gil Mcboiigaid and

Billy Marlin " and scored a run you Yogi Berrs's infield out. The other run came in the fourth. with the help of two errors by shortstop Don Budclin sandwiched between ..-inglcs by Mickey Mantle and Joe (' 'illnS

('l.Ei'E1.AND (AP! sieve Gromek threw a six-hitter at the Cleveland Indians Monday night to give Detroit Tigers in 3-1 victory over the Tribe. "toy Boone hit a home run off loser Herb Score in

the sixth inning.

Three Playcits vi ho spent many seasons in Clevclaiiii uniform wre key men in the triumph Gromek. Boone and Bob Krnnctlv. whose idouble drove in the must Tiger run.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Ford Hurls 7th Victory; Tigers Down

six. and has

Score. in losing. struck out getting Gromck three mics Jack Phillips twice. lie now 73 strikeouts Ill 67 iniuugs.

Cleveland bunclicti half its off Gromek in the first imumz scored I run before a batter was retired. Jim Busby tripled. and Bob Avila and Al Smith followed with singles.

HAL1-1M()Rp; (API - Pitcher Mike tt'0l'lll0l('S. who canic on in the seventh inning to stem is rising tide of Washington runs. doubled in the last of the itltli niiti scord on Chuck l)icriiig's single to give Baltimore Orioles a 6-5 victory over the Senator" !iinnda.V night-

Diering” single caromctl off the glove of Washington thu'd-base- man Eddie Yost. breakinil a 5-5

hits and

B"

Foriilcles. niukiiii: his first am- iicnrunce in a lliilliintirc uniform after helflll lradcrl by ('l"i'i'F"s". Wlute So); last il"uii'silav. iiIine'llPtI the tying run to Waslunzinn In the seventh.

Coming in the rclici of fir-urge Zuverink. tlurd Balliniorc niit-lu-r, with one ztnay nini tun .'ibo.'ird. Forniclcs gave Clint iiutirtiicv iln iritntional pass and ilicn walked Jim Lemon to force in a run

Connie Johnson. also nlnaiiictl in the Chicago trarlc. '-In-icrl for the Orioles but gave ugly to Dim For-l

-y..C.

tTlPS ON GOLFING

TO GIVE FULL treatment to a baseball or golf ball both hands must be behind the bat and club

By ALEX MORRISON Central Press Canadian Golf Coluiniust

The evolution of a learner in golf can be covered by the three major factors in the flight. of the ball. One. loft; two. direction, three. distance.

The learner's first problcin is to get the ball off tiic izrnund. Then he has to minimize its tendencies to sail nil in the wrong direction. While he has been struggling with those phases

things that lll'l'tv(”iii

ELEPHANTS COMING

which

TO CHARLOTTET OWN IN JULY

'i'hrsslisriIsoflisrmse.IndlsnsndAfricsnelsphsnts wtllpufolmnttlntdgtliswe-ring

will give matinee snd even ng DosiinlonDsy.Ju1y2rid. Thehigshow

- Wjlicltyltliid

. longing for his first pair of long

. cannot be had without pi-opcrl.V

tlsni Bros. Circus, rformsnccs on isrger than the

both mind and heart have been set on getting distance. Hc suf- fers Illp torlni-cs of 11 youth

trousers or first smoke. Distifhco. at some time. is the; 1

top nl-session with all gnlfei's.. Despite this they do counflcss the result

they long for. Striking force with the cluhlicad as well as acciu'at-y

Ittenrling to two basic thing.-i.

, One. having hnth hnnd.-i work in harmony. 1

Two. having the

WHIP FOR DODGERS

Baseball, Golf Are Similar

as tlcinotistraicd by baseball's Jim Gludd and golf's longcst hitter. George Bayer. its part of good form. ton.

harmony with the hands.

Both of those swing funda- vuciiials are well dcnumsti'ated in the accompanying photos of the hitting positions for baseball and golf. Note in these positions that the hands set on but and club at the same angles. Also that the swingers hips are shift- ing to the left as the hall is being struck. This indicates liiirmony in the movements of the hands as well as of the body,

Consider the hand position as iicing with both hands behind the club. Relatively few golfers use this lineup.

Fewer Kllll have lll("li' hips mtivliig to the left in liarmnny

iwith the hands through the bot-

tom of the downswing.

There is no valid reason foi the positions they use as substi- lilit"F Thin proper positions are most practical from cvcry tingle. though they may not feel proper when you first tackle tlicm.

Practice will convert you. Then you'll never revert to the old llliL'llD that robs you of both Ic-

bndy work Illl('lll'liQV and distance.

- - By Alan Mayor

t”'””DRY.S'DALE'. of tmaolavw, xi?- YEAR-OLD Room: 26.4 rm ypsn WWO sxlozxzp PZAVA Aura: PAPVIM ryg DoDaEt?5' ramp: - rgxzzuos x,-I rift-7;? Ppzsawg 700.

x . sea :0 Anlavmrssmu 6-NW, uwula wt: M119 twp; txnsr 44.19: (54614! MR7; Jorzasrxrxs on no 1 M M1725. HOWEVER.

.415 car film? or 570:5 up Ar 5-: IVITII A 5'DFAlM srru at Rsmuvps fsafu or (W514 Buciovrzl - K m: Ftumluzvcl 110105 IIFZ I. 00 war

Indians 3-i

Fricli Hopes To

rareise who left in favor of Zuver- ink. Bob Chakales. third Senators' hurier. wss charged with the loss.

STANDINGS

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

National League

W L Pc. GBL Milwaukee 17 9 .654 m St Louis 22 14 .611 -- Pi fshurgh I0 13 .594 1 Cincinnati 18 15 .5-15 2V2 Brooklyn 17 15 .531 It cw York i4 i9 .424 tilrj Philadelphia '11 21 .344 9 Cliicagn 9 21 .300 10

Stop Decline In Minor Leagues

ATLANTA (AP) - Ford Friclt. commissioner of baseball. prcsscti strong hope Monday that the major league owners now at re'idy to lake effectiv esto tpse ready to take effective seps to halt the decline of minor league baseball. . in a press conlerence liEl'e. 1”:-ickl said he was ”astoiiisheri" at the; reversal of thinking in the ina,lnris1 few years.

NOW. he said. there seems to he a general determination to do something. He cited the appoint- ment of a committee at a meeting of major officials in 1):-trnit lastl lick and said he had high hopes that by the December meeting this group will have evolved a "logical. fair and workable" pro- gram.

Frlck felt the lllt).sl important recommendations pt-nIi:ihl.v Wmllrll l1('t0 allow the niuinrs in Klcll more; players on their niiliantl in exer-I else for greater control over the: player contracts.

ex- ,

League

PITTSBURGH tAPlO!'abulous Dale Long. slugging Pittsburgh Pirate first baseman. smashed his eighth home run in as many con- secutive games against Brooklyn Dodgers Monday night to estsblish I major league rcord.

Longls blow. which came in the fourth inning. broke. his own mark of seven which he set against Philadcphia Phillies Saturday. Long smashed the pitch--his i-ith homer-into the rillht field stands in lead off the inning. He got it off Cari Erskine. I

One of the biggest night crowds in years at Forbes Ficld-be- lieved to be over 30.w04hcerd for minutes after Long's homer.

lielecls Proposal E To Ban Playing 1 Against Negroes

BA'l'()N ROUGE (AP) --Lnuls- Jana State University by a tie vats. Monday rcjcctcd for the-third time a proposal to prohibit its athletic team from playing against Neg- rocs.

Thc rcsoliititin would have re- quired ”tlint no athletic contest be schcrinli-ri or pEl'n'lliled between athletic icamii of the university and other universities or ollcges or state institutions where mem- horn of the Negro race partic- ilmlc "

SOFTBAL

' PRACTICES TONIGHT B. l. S. on tho Old Diamond at ti p. ni. B. Y. (T. on Knights dinmonj at 8.15 p. m.

BELTS am I HOMER -

Dale Long Seis

BASEBALL RESULTS

By THE CANADIAN PBEII Nstionsi League Cincinnsti 001 000 000- 1 8- 1 Chicago 0000,40 09xr'4 5 0 Nuxhsil. Fowler ts! Jeffcost 161 Lapaime (Ii Ind nurse: huh and Chill. L--Nuxhsli. Milwsukes 331 000 120-10 ii 0 St. Louis 001 100 D01- 3 12 Stealer. Conley W and crap- dall: Wehmeicr. Surkont (2). MCK- W1 .5.' Kinder 19) and semi. W-Conley. L-Wehmelar. Hits: Mil-Thomson. Crsndsil. Bib- Boycr. Brandt. Brooklyn 200000000-2 1 I Pittsburgh 010110 00x- 3 O 0 Erskine. Labine tilt Ind Cum- panellii: Friend and Folles: l..- El'll(li1C. Hlls: Bkii-Snider: Pgh

-Long. - Nw York 000 l00 0i0- 2 ll 1 Philadelphia 100 022 00x-- 6 9 I Wotliinglon. Gomez (6) Gris- smn fill and Kat; Haddix. Rob- orig lBl and Lopata. W-Haddix; L-Worthington. HR: NY-Kstt. International League Havana 000 100 011- 8 I I Miami 000 007 00x-'- 7 ll 0 Brat-lin, Ainor ifll. Sanchez (7) and llotorer. Sierra (71; Cadwell

and Niarhns. filonreal 000 200 i03-- 6 0 0 Rochester 000 000 000- 0 A 0

Harris and Running: Russell. Geiger (Bl and hand.

Toronto 02 000 100- 3 10 1 iBllllalll 010 200 001-- 4 1i 1 D. Jnliiisoii. Hctkl 141. Jacobs

17!. Miller (81. Derucki is) and Sawalski; Donovan and Tompkin- SO71

fiiriiinond 000 001 001- 2 ll 1 Columbus 001 ill Oflxe 4 8 0 Pits. Ci-reghino (71 and

Tiiacker; Duscr and Noble." American League

Boston 000 000 000-- 0 I 3 New York 100 100 00x- 2 4 O

Sullivan and White Ford and Bcrra l)t'ii'nii 000 ilfll ll()0..3 3 9 (llcicluiid 100 000000- 1 6 0

(il'illil('l( and Wilson Score. Nap. lcski iii) and ilegan, Na;-non till. L-Score. HR: De:-Boone. Washington 000 002 300 0- 5 10 I Baltimore 200 102 000 1- 6 10 1 I10 iniiinsl

vric-sir-r. Clevcnger rm chakam Hi and Courtney: Johnson. For. rarese (6: Zuvt-rink 18) Fornielcs 7i and Smith. W-Fornleies; I,- Fhnkalcs.

Record

Earlier in the clay Long. who went into the game with ii .419 bit. ting average. signed a new con- tract giving him I 52.500 rain. General manager Joe Brown of the Pirstes tors up the old con- tract-calilng for 314.000 annually -after Long hit his seventh homer in as many games.

A Nlihl klllil wt Sucittl

Sc.i'1ii'i ly

&o'(-1).;-a STICK DEODOR ANT

No more - runny liquid nstirky cream E

.s...

1 man Dsls Long of Pittsburgh con-

PITTBBURGH fAl"l-First buo-

tinuod his Itmost incredible home run hitting Monday night by blast ing his eighth homer in Is many games to set I mslorlesgue rec- ord Is the third-place Pirates but-tths Brooklyn Dodgers 3-2. Bobby Friend. the Pirstes' ncs righihsnder. gsvc up only two hits in winning his eighth game against two defeats-the best victory totsl in the rnsjors. i The Dodger runs were scored on s tiemsndous home run by Duke Snider in the second inning. Junior Gilliam was on base as the result of a base on halls-one of six allowed by Friend.

After Snider's homer in the opening inning. the only other hit off Friend was in the third when Gilliam singled.

llrlend was never in serious trouble after Snider's blast as he chsiked up his third victory over the skidding Dodgers. About the only solace for the world cham- plons was that it was the lath straight game in which Snider has hit ssfeiy.

PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Harvey Haddox effectively scattered 101 hits Monday night as Philadelphia Phlllics defeated New York Giants 5-2. Robin Roberts went in as ' insurance in the eighth inning and g hfpt the Giants becslmeci with om- t.

it was the first victory for Had-y dix since coming to the Phiilics in a trade from St. Louis two,

PROBABLE PITCHERS

NEW YORK min - Prohzihlel pitchers for t'0d.'I,V's major lcmzuc names Iwnn-lost rccnrds in purcn tliesesl: ,

National League l

Bi'ookl,vii at Pittsburg-Ncw- combs 16-3) vs Kline til-21.

Cincinnati at Chicago-Lawrence (5-0) vs Joncs ii-Ill. (Only games scheduledl. 2 i

American League 1

Chicago at Kansas City-Pollet (1-1) vs Kretlow (241. l

Boston at New York-Nixon f0-2h y

vs Larscnn 130) Washington at Ballimpresstcw-x

NATIONAI. LEAGUE

Pirates Nip Dodgers 3-2; Haddix Tosses PhiIs' Win

weeks is 0. its struck out seven before w ling in the eighth when Roberts made his first relief- sppearsncs of the season.

Willie Msys finally mapped out of his-batting slump for the losers. The great centrsfielder cloutsd two doubles in four trips to the plate besides being involved in the game's fielding showpiece. In the fifth. Mays was on third when Bill White arched I short fly to Ash- burn. Ritchie took the ball on the dead run and threw s strike to Stan Lopsts. the burly Phililss catcher.

Mays burgcd into the 230-pound receiver and jolted him into s back-flip. But Lopats held the bsll for s hat-lifting double play.

CHICAGO (AP)-Chicago Cubs blended Bob ll.ush's three-hit pitch- ing with a four-run fifth inning to defeat Cincinnati 4-1 before I ivlndlilowii crowd of 1.202 Monday. Shortstop Roy McMillan. who got two of the Cincinnati nits. tripled in the third sud scored on losing pitcher Joe Nuxhs1l's soc- rlfice fly.

A walk to rush opened the fifth. Eddie Mlksls hunted and was safe

followed his soother hunt for single to told the bases. Ernie, Banks doubled. scoring Rush and Miksis. Bsker soorbd on wan Moryifs sin is. I liner off Nun. hsil's Cllovs.

Nuxlisll then was replaced by Art Fowler. Bsnlts scored win. Irvin hit s sscrifics fly to deep centre.

ST. LOUIS AP)-Wiist was sup-

ssd to be I bsttlo for first plac. ii the Nstlonsl Losgus turned into I quick rout Monday night u 1)., Milwaukee Bravos defeated the st. Louis Csrdinsls. 10-6. The Brave; had been leading by pQl'Cent5r;gi3 but lrllllnl by one in tho Ilmgg. behind department.

Gene Conley. r anti retur to sctlve duty vvilli tlig Bi-.::: earned the victory in long.le,,,; relief. He pitched the final nx innings and sliowed the Cards oiilv one run. on eight hits. The Bran-E wasted no time wiping out um

.. gums-behind deficit. Ind im. proving their pcrcentsge iesd while st it. They scored three runs in each of the first two innings. Mil. wIukse's total attack was 14 hits. including home runs by Bob Thom.

on Nuxhail's fumble. Gone Baker

son snd Dsl Crsndsll.

Irt I2-iv vs Palics (2-5). y

WRITE 'l'0'

CIRCUS oaoov -. Kinsmen ci.us BOX 452. CIIARLOTTETOWN

KIDS