10 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Fri. Sept. 21, 1962. r ‘ __..

SPORTS FRONT

By PIUS CALLAGIIAN

W . I . ‘* Let's Back The Midgets‘ r CHARLIE Ryan's classy Abbie Midgets. champions of Prince Edward Island baseball circles, go against mainland opposition this Sunday in their search for a Maritime baseball crown. _ Opponents of the Abbie: will be St. Stephen Firemen who, we are told. haven’): lost a ball game this season. Second and tldzd games in the best-of-three series will be played at St. Sffibhen Saturday, September 29.

-'= Abbies have shown plenty of class in all their performances. They in undoubtedly facing a tough foe in St. Stephen but we are coivinced Charlie's boys will give a good account of themselves.

,;"I'beir two top hurlers, Billy Weatherbie and Carl McQuaid.

- can he mighty tough on opposing batters and Charlie is hoping

“£99 plenty of tr _

It looks like. Ryan will go with McQuaid on Sunday at Memorial Field and then have Weatherbie and Carl for the two, ifmecessary, in St. Stephen. _

- Play Great Ball

"4 WE particularly like the brand of ball these youngsters serve up. They hustle every minute and they never know when they one beaten. They'll go into this game Sunday with the kind of confidence that's so necessary to win ball games. It‘s not that tn_l_ey are cocky. but just downright determined.

.. Naturally. the Abbies are hoping-for a big turnout of fans olr Sunday afternoon. It w be a long, expensive trip to the N§w Brunswick border town and a big gate Sunday will be neces- sqy to help with the cost of such an excursion.

Q There should be no counter‘-attractions. This Sunday after- noon Charlottetown sports should get solidly behind these midgets and pack the stands at Memorial Field.

_V Charlie tells us that cars will be allowed into, certain sections so as folks can watch in comfort from their vehicles. Persons will be on hand to supervise this parking.

. Bumper Crowd Neecl-ecl

WE CAN'T see any reason why the ball park shouldn't be javnzncd for this encounter. After all, these boys are provincial winners and are going in search of Maritime honors. They play a pieasing brand of ball and they're playing it in a ball park that

one of the nicest in the Maritimcs.

There's nothing that helps a team more than to see a packed audience looking on. When they take the field and the place is packed, they get the feeling that the home folks are solirliv behind them. That's the way things should be Sunday for these young Abbies.

So don't make amy other appoinhnencs for this coming Sum- day afternoon. Abbies will be playing host to St. Stephen Fire- men commencing at 2 o'clock.

'I‘he.St. Stephen boys will arrive will get moving right on the button Sn

see you there.

No Vicious Altitude

WORLD champion Floyd Patterson compl«arins’that he can't wmk up any ‘vicious attitude: against his opponent and challen- gar. Sonny Liston.

Flo maintains the only time he felt such 3- viciousrness against an opponent was in his second meeting with Ingem-or Jobamsson. Ingo's surprise win in that first meeting worked up this desire to demoli .

‘But Floyd will not predict the outcome of this fight on Tues- day night. He claims he never did make a prediction and he isn going to start now. He expects Liston to act as the agressor "because that is the way he has been in all his fights”. .

" Patterson insists he is in the pink of condition and prepared to‘go 15 rounds if necessavv but he adds “I don't think it will O go that far.” He merely says "I don't know" when told that this will be his toughest fight.

The reigning monarch of the boxing world doesn't believe that Liston will take him by surprise and he adds “I won't fvace him with any gambling chances."

.’ All of which still doesn't tell us very much as regards the champion.

And of course the challenger still continues to predict and there's nobody can prove him wrong exce Mr. Floyd Patter-; can next Tuesday night at Comiskey Park.

Will he do just that?

Mosca And Moss Seiile Troubles

MONTREAL (CP) — Red “If you don‘t like it. retorted Fisher in his sports column Moss," go upstairs. get mto Thursday in the Montreal Star your civvxes and go back to

Saturday night so things ndav. .

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relates a tiff between Angtlo Montreal. . _ l‘.'osca and coach Perry oss Mosca sat down quietly. . . of M on t r e al Alouettes. The Later, the screening

story was “brought back from was over, one of Moss’ aides the club's Western trip by sev- approached Mosca. eral people who had witnessed; "You're on waivers." he said. the exchange." ! “Thank you." hissed Mosca. Fisher says the incident oc-1 Later. Moss invited Mosca to curred at Regina during the {his room. where the two settled showing of pictures of the Als"ti1eir differences. From there losing game to the Saskatche- Mosca went to ‘Calgary with the

wan Roughriders. lteam and played an aroused ‘Fisher writes:

two young moundsmen cause the visiting New Brunswickeis oubie. ' "

These jubiliant Australians sailed into Newport harbor Tuesday afternoon after scor- ing the first victory for an

By WILL GRIMSLEY

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)-The United States defender Weath- erly ghosted through a gently rolling sea like a blue steel rapier Thursday to beat Aus- tralia’s Gretel and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven battle the America's Cup. the, world series of yachting. The canny American skipper, Emil Mosbac r, to k com- mand in the first five minutes,i ' hulledl challenger from Australia al thorough shellacking. Weatherlyl crossed the finish line about a. mile ahead of Gretel as the‘ race ended with seas almost. flat and winds of six miles an hour

Weatherly outfooted Gretel. goirg into the wind and walked away from her downwin fin- ishing the 24-mile course in 4) hours, 21 minutes, 16 seconds—l

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minutes, 40 seconds. -Gretel’s’ time was 4:29.56. ASK LAY DAY The Australians immediately exercised their prerogative _and raised the flag asking for a lay

America‘s Cup challenger since 1934. They had just beaten Weatherly. the American de- fender. in the second race of

day-—the third dayoff in as many races. This postpones un- til Saturday the fourth race be- tween these two sleek racing toys , millionaires. The brash challengers from Australia may have outsmarted themselves in their insistence on these delaying tactics. The rules permit either boat to ask for off day after each race. Most» observers felt ‘the Aus- sies should have raced Wednes- day while still riding the im- pctns of Tuesday's dramatic triumph and while winds on the Atlantic. were whipping up white-caps with gusts up to 22 miles an hour. But the visitors chose to amble even rougher conditions —origina1ly predicted for today -and lost. BECOMES DRIFTING MATCH. The third race’ started on

a whopping margin of eightlcaim waters with winds of 110. BEST -IN LIGIIT WIND

more than eight knots and. turned into a dull drifting match on the spinnaker runs as the winds dropped to a ghostly w ’sper.

The race, like the first also;

E first trout.

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SUMMERSIDE - Greenwood soccer team game from the local RCAF team in Summerside at the RCAF soccer field Wednesday afternoon .

The teams had fought on even -terms without a~scure resulting for 88 minutes and then tin visitors notched their lone count- ersstheresultofapenaity kick. By winning this game, the

. game.

-Angelo Mosca. playing an un- » ' familiar defensive end position,: appeared on the screen. The footage showed the man wrap- ' ‘ is arms around a Roughy [ 0 r er ball carrier. and then be- S e ing dragged along r another

'couple yards before bringing 9|

his man to his knees. 'ln t

fl‘ s no way to play foot- ball," barked Perry Moss.

f'What‘s that?" asked Mosca, leaping to his feet. “Let's see that thing again." The play was repeated on the screen.

‘GOT HIM’ “I.ook." said Mosca, "1 de-

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tin ball carrier. I got him, mot I?»

. ll! ' G ood boys the rigitmtvo compete in the Cana- "k Li tull‘ qimrimalt ace during , 3 S n . . LI e ston .... .. 0. ,. ._ .. A‘-°NP°“ ‘AP’ “ ’"" “"°" rmghentcd grgiliwoodwmtlz W’ ‘W ‘ “'°“' °"“‘» 'on°".,,: winner of zone 1.

van was be the moon.

out a 1-0 We

91‘ threaded my c utious way to

- refreshing to get off the beaten - track. at times and push

One evening this summer I wandered far afield over ground I hunted and trap over in my boyhood days. I followed a dim trail h a stand of black spruce that was, at one ‘m a farm road to the “back swamp country." I came to the| remains of what was once a: bridge across a creek. It wa years ago, a full flowing stream but has since shrunk to a third its former size. It was so many years sincel had tramped this: road it took me a few minutcsl

. to become adjusted to my sur-

roundings. I felt that this old bridge relic held some special event dating back into the far distant p a st. Like a flash

came back to me... it was under this b rid g e that I caught my

Brother Fred happened to mention that he.was going fish- ing back of “Murphy's" and I coaxed so hard to go he took me WI

length of alder on a piece of ord re which he attached a common pin bent in the shape’ of a hook.

and tied ina -

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pin he handed the homemade contraption to me. dropped the baited pin over the end of the bridge... th_e West end to be specific... and a six or seven inch trout grabbed it as soon as it hit the water. In my ‘minds 1 could see myself running

up up

might get ck I stayed too close to the bridge. Incidentally that was the only trout caught. Brother Fred lives in Edmonton, Alberta. and must mail him a copy of this Corner for old times’ sake. BEMINDED OF POEM

I was reminded of a line from

c of Longfellow's poems... "Maude Muller"... " _e young lmused beside the W

August moon bathed the al swales in a mellow light as I

where the car as parked. It's

t h a tempo of modern into the bee d for even a few hours... it’: more effective than

t o listen some in the wool duck hunters “paddlng"

. the black die ite

I'll lnq the bi I c.k due of the better known or ponds. Many black dock: on so and sin

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HUNTER'S CORN.ER

Columnist Visiis Scene. 01‘ His First Trout Catch

. en we arrived at‘ '5“ the bridge he broke off a short ,

After sticking a ‘warm on the ll‘

JUBILANIAUSSIES

the current eries. Skipper Jock Sturrock is in right cen- ter. wearing cap and dark glasses wi ‘ in

won the Weatherly, was wind- ward-leeward--six m'es into the wind and twice around. The even naoos—the Next is No. 4- are over a 24-mile triangular track with an eight mile wind- ward leg and two reaches of eight miles each.

Weatherly whipped around the first weather mark with a lead of 58 seconds or about. 200 yards and then turned the race into a complete rout on the sec- ond led-—a six-mile run with the wind.

She widened the le to around two miles—an official time edge of 23 minutes, 17 sec- onds—as Gretel frantically ex- perimented with spinnaker: to no avail. _

Apparently stuck in an unfav- orable wind system, the Aus-

tralian sloop just sat out there 3'

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the ocean and gasped for re

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WeatherIy's triumph may have been due partly to the finding of favorable wind sys- tems on the first of the two lee- w rd runs but principally it was a case of reasserting her-

If as the champion in light weather airs.

It was superiority in ghostly breezes which won her the American trials over three ri- yais this summer.

Gretel, on the other hand, is

regarded as a heavy-weather boat.

mouth. Second left wear- ing glasses k navigator Terry nd.

(AP Wirephoto)

U.S. Defender Weatherly Hands Gretel Shellacking

Again .the start was fascinat- ing, with Weatherly‘s Mos- bacher and Gretel’s 46-year-old veteran skipper, Jock Sturrock, stalking each other at the im- aginary line like two jungle beasts waiting to punch.

Seconds.before the final can- non Gretel_broke out a job and headed up the line toward the committee boat.

Weatherly, caught temporar- ily off guard, shot leeward to- ward the cup buoy side.

Gretel crossed the line some 40 seconds ahead of the U.S boat.

LOSES GROUND She lost ground on two tacks and in five minutes Weatherly

DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — Lehigh Hanover, bay colt owned by the Lehigh Stable of New Egypt. N.J., brok the tw minute barrier twice Thursday to capture the 17th annual $75.- 000 Little Brown Jug from the classiest group of three-yeah aid pacers in the event‘; his-

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Handled magnificently by 35- year-olo Stanley Dancer, the s y so A os - Lucine Hanover came Ifrom far back with two great stretch drives to nose out highly favored Coffee Break in the split -' division classic.

In the opening heat, Lchigh Hanover was third coming into the stretch and won it by a length and a quarter in 1:58 4-5, a fifth of a second off the

of 1:58 3-5 set in 1960 by Muncy Hanover.

Lel1.igl1 Hanover V Annual -Lift-le-Brown Jug

In the run - off but. after Gamecock had captured the second elimination. Lehlgh Han-

o - over romp.-d to a neck win over

Coffee . ak. STAGES GREAT RALLY

e and forced Dancer to almost pull his pacer to a halt. Le- high Hanover was fifth at the three - quarter mark. pulled up to fourt at the head of the stretch and then caught Coffee Break at the wire in

ay in the heat. but could not hold off the driving finish of Lehigh Hanover. The winner picked 1111 $27,564.34 for his con- quest as Dancer repeated 1961 victory with Henry T. Adios to take back-to-back ‘Jugs.

Coffee Break won 255.82, Gamecock $10,130.23, Buxton

Competition Is Planned

At a general meeting of th e executive of the Interscholastic

Hanover $7,879.07, Meadow Bat- tles ‘$6,753.48, Thor Hanover and Smart Money $2,251.16 each and Haughton Hanover and Meadow Newport $1,125.60 each. Johnny Simpson, only three- e winner of the Jug, drove Thor Hanover tofourth place in the first heat and won the sec-

ut ec eighth after 11 break and Thor rt .

.59 3-5. Coffee Break had led all the hi to w

[113 Hanover’: time of 2:01 3-5

Athletic Association and th e provincial physical educators h d recently in Central Queens Regional High School. it was de-

Midget Abbies

cided that the association would conduct provincial interscholas- tic eliminations during the fall term in the following’:-ictivitiest‘ football soccer. cross-country and girls‘ volleyball.

Schools of 300 enrollment or more were termed ‘A’ and less than 300 were classed as ‘B.’ The levels of competition are; senior high school (grade XII). junior high school (grade X) and 'elementary school (grade

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Deadline for football, soccer (girls and boys) registration is fixed for October 15. Girls‘ vol- elyball registration date is No- vember 15. Deadline for schools to signify their interest in

Sea Action Sun.

Charlottetown Midget Abbies. rated one of the best Midget ms to represent the Island in a number of years, play St. Stephens ,Filremen at Memorial

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Field Sunday afternoon in the mey

first game of a ser- ies for the N.B.-P.E.I. Midget baseball crown.

The local team will, be meet- ing a stiff opponent in the NJ}. representative however. The St. Stephen team has yet to be defeated this season.‘

The second and if nmessary third games will be played at’ St. Stephen next Saturday.

Game time Sunday is 1.30.

Irfes

never was

horse field. Four of six from the first ell.

mlrmtion heat and five of seven

Bille-

from the second came back for the big one. Ten e 13 en. trants had mic or better-ed

the two-minute-mark this year, making it the fastest field .in s ry. FIRST HEAT FAST In the first elimination beat all six matched or bettered two minutes and in the runoff Tho.-

the poorest. They hit the qilllls. ter poles : 3-5. : 4- , 1-30 4-5 and 1:59 3-5.

Dancer. one of the owners of Lnhigh Hanover,‘ llfi appeared in seven heats in e Lime Brown Jug and has won the last four. He had high praise for the winner and said:

“We lost a lot of ground when

.ecock broke and I was forced to pull up. But this horse is everything I've said he was, and he proved it today in that

ch drive. After that break ky to

are Don Williams of Jutland, N.J.; Mrs. Hilda Siiverstein of New Hope. Pa.; Irving Berk. er of New Milford, N.J., and Dancer and his wife.

In the runnoff heat back of» Lelngh Hanover and Coffee break, Meadow Battles was- third. Buxton Hanover fourth,- Ilanger Knight fifth. Smart- Money sixth and Meadow New-

ad

cross country competition is October 15. ‘

This year the‘cross country meet will be an open school meet without classification, and will be (1 not ‘later than the third weekend in November. The first five to finish will count,for points and the number of ent- ries can be unlimited.-

was in front in a safe leeward positlion. footing toward the ar .

Sturrock. caught in We- therly's wind cone. was forced

' to start a quick - tacking duel.

There were 22 tacks in 45 min- utes and, unlike Tuesday's race when Australian muscle~ proved enough to gain valuable yards in heavier seas. the Australian sloop failed to gain an inch.

Sturrock abandoned the tac- tics and the last part of the leg was a straight heat into the wind. .

Gretel held her own in the last half of the race but nevtr re- covered from her misfortune on the second leg.

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answer by personal observation. ._ “Yes, lots." is a stock in tradei reply. " ow many do you call: ‘Lots’... 500?” is a question that sets their thinking gears in mo- tion. Boiled down to its last ana- lysis the large number shrinks to a_ 15 or 50 bracket when there s h c u 1 d have been hundreds. They remind me of a youngster who ran into the house one night and ex claim e d excitaily: “Thefe are twenty cats fighting in our backyard". When pinned down to the cold hard facts he replied: "Well, there's our cat and another one."

ne morning this week in y « -partner and I made the rounds

a few former top opening morning black duck grounds. It was shortly after sunup when we viewed the bare’ expanse ‘of the Old Home Lake. The lily pad beds were as barren as the Sahara Desert nor were there any signs of “roosting" on its covered shoreline.

black rose from its ‘waters and turf bordered shoreline was deafen- g. and this morning there was not a duck or duck feather to be eeen,Thfs lake is .a spruce bordered gain where ducks lov- ed tb congregate and line its north side bank. or edge, black winurows. One afternoon. about 10 years ago, I hid along its shore and remained there

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along" its north side or in the water. The north border was the favourite “resting” pot as ‘the direct ray of the sun w

n . 1 reflected from the dense ‘stand

ofshort. barren type bin spruce that ringed this side. PLENTY -THE

I could have tossed a pebble among hundreds" of blacks on the bank in

cf

thousand’. or more. in the water directly in

front of me with a 1005

Pros Tourney Draw Announced

The pro's tourney which goes at the Charlottetown Golf Club this weekend has drawn one of the largest entries in _the his- tory of the tournament. The tournament, a two day affair, will get underway at 8.06 Satur- day morning.

‘The draw is as followu-

8.20 G. Carr. K. MacDonald, J. ' Daley. P. Clarke 8.27 G. Cudrnore. J. Arsenault,

J. Brown. J.

8.34 A. Wilson.“.G. Fichsud, I. Home, F. Cannon

8. ‘K. Ready. 'R.- Perry G. Vessey. B. McGee E

8.55 H: MacLeod,._ D. Douglas. N. Nicholson, M." Carmichael 9.02 L. It. B. 3:11. 9. Mac-