‘Rowss i Wins AIZI-Round. Decision Over Wadsworth

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HALIFAX. A118. 10 — (OP) — George (Rockablfi) Ross of West 3w, N.S., tonight staked undis- puted claim to the middleweight boxing championship of Canada by gaining an unanimous 12- round decision over Len Wads- worth of Hamilton, Ont. ‘

Wadsworth checked in at just mic-half a pound below the mid- dleweight limit of 150 and Ross weighed 152 1-2. The new champ. at 24, is nine years the junior of Wadsworth.

It. was a ding-dong battle all the way although the nutccme was never in serious dc-ubt.

As the crowd-pleaser in points it was closer than the battle in Glace Bay, last May when Ross first defeated the Hamilton fighter. That bout was not recog- nixed by the Canadian Boxing Federation.

As-a result of gruelling in- fighting and persistent bolo punch_ ing, both fighters were marked about the face and bleeding free- t-y at the final bell.

In the six-round semi-final Blayne Hayden oi Spriughili. N s 137. outclassed Fern Lacliapelic. Hamilton, On‘... 136. for a m:- aiiimous decision. Lachupelle was on the defensive most cf the time and Hayden did the punching. A flurry of lefts and rights opened a nit over Lncbapelieks ieit eye ‘n the follrth and he went down for a nine count.

Joe O'Brien Third In Beers Stake

GOSl-IEN. N.Y.. Aug. 10 -(AP) —White Mountain Boy. roan colt from the stable of E. P. Cray of Bellows Falls, Vt., and a rank out- sider, Miss Tilly. owned by C. Phellis. Greenwich. Conn, took down the top prizes today as the Grand Circuit opened a four-day stand at Good Time Park.

White Mountain Boy stepped the fastest time of the year for a two-yeazuold pacer to win tihe 14th racing of the Geers Stake. valued at H2545. Miss Tilly won the 21st

To Take Dominion Crown.

Olympic A Standing

OLYMPIC STADIUM. Wembiey, Aug. 10-(CP)—Unofficial stand- ing by countries participating in the 14th Olympics. after final competition in 90 events:

United States ........ .... Sweden ..

France

Italy

Hungary

Britain

Turkey

Denmark .. Netherlands . Australia

Yugoslavia Mexico Uruguay . Panama. Korea '.. Iran South Africa. Poland I-razil Ceylon . Trinidad Portugal .

nts cn a basis of 10 for first place ai-d 5. 4. 3 2 and 1 for the next five places; but some events, such as wrestling. are scored only far the first three places on a 10-5-4 basis.)

renewal of the Arthur S. Thomp- kins memorial two-year-old trot, worth $5.000.

Joe O'Brien of New Glasgow. N. S. and Alberton. P.E.I.. placed third in the Geers Stake for Wo- year-olds piloting Good Time. Otis‘

Hanover was second.

Ifree-For-All Trot Feature Event On 1 Racing Card Today

i . Featured by the Hughes Drug Co. Iree-For-All Trot with eight entries Old Home Week racing programme enters its second day this afternoon and the record crowd of fans that are expected to throng

the course should witness racing place yesterday.

of even s. higher order than took

Three other classes include Prowse Bros. 2:25 Trot;

Carney Bros. 2:2‘! Pace and DeBlois Bros. 2:25 Pace.

In the 2:25 Trot there are six entries. in the 2:27 Pace eight entries and in the 2:25 Pace seven entries. Each event should produce the heenest competition with a battle from wire to wire.

In the I-‘ree-I-‘or-All Trot are such horses as Kelly's Nightmare, Iset Train. Lee Brewer. Nell Kalmuck, The Baron, Marjorie Hanover, In McKillop and Basil Hanover. There should be some real stretch duela with plenty of excitement for the Wednesday holiday crowd.

Entries for the racing card tonight appears sl-‘where in this ls-

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SPEWELL GUY, by !.E.W., Village Green.

BROWSE BROS. 2:15 TROT

PURSE $600.00 owned and driven by Esrl Buell,

LUCKY PAL, by Beiline scott, owned by G. Brookins, Kendngton.

driven by Earl Semple.

BUDDY BUDLONG. by Calumet Budlong, owned and driven by

Harold Stead. Brackley.

BILLY AUBREY. by CoL Aubrey, owned and driven by Cyril Qmlth, \

llunter River.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. by Calumet Budlong, Lloyd O'Brien, Agent,

and driven by Lloyd O'Brien.

. DIXIE BELL B.. bv Calumet Budlnng, Harley Harrison. Agent, and

driven by Harley Harrison.

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CORNEY BROS. 2:27 PACE ill! Div.)

PURSE $500.00

l. IRIS ABBE. by Admiral Grattsn, owned and driven by C. E. Eng-

lish. Pictnu. 2.

MAUDINE BUDLONG, yby Calumet Budiong, owned by Alex Ag-

new. driven by D. Agnew, Charlottetown.

B. Kelly. Souihport. l.

HAPPY VERNON. by Calumet Peter. owned and driven by Lorne

MISS COMMANDO. by Calumet Budlong. owned by Dr. Predon

Mnlniyre. Montague. and driven by A. Lorie.

Sheen, Summerside.

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ies Willis. Covehead. .' lips, 0'Leary, P. E. I. No. ‘l

lnttetown, driven by E. Shaw. Shedisr. lottefown. driven by W. Lewis.

Southport. driven by I. Baxter.

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Coulee, driven by A. Bnrbine. Io. I

HUGHES DRUG CO. FREE-FOR-ALL T301‘

DEBLOIS BROS. hi! PACE

DONNA CLEGG. by Abner T. Clegg, owned and driven by G. B. MARLENT-l C.. by Abner T. Clear. owned by B. C. Crulckshsnks, Halifax. and driven by J. MacMillan.

. LADY WORTIIY 2ND, by Abbe Worthy, owned and driven by Char-

SH_Y ANN 2ND. by Abbe Worthy. owned and driven by A. I, h“.

PURSE I800

LEI.’ McKILLOP. by Peter McKillop. owned by D. Gumwell, St. John's, Nfid, driven by A. Allen.

KELLTS NIGHTMARE, bv Calumet. owned by Dr. G. Bishop, (fin. FAST TRAIN, by Guy Day. owned and driven by B. II. Irving. LEE BREWER. by Lee Harvester. owned by Million C. Bell, Char- BASIL HANOVER. by Guy McKinney, owned by Dr. Lamont, dyd. nay Mines, driven by M. Jabaiee. '

NILL KALMUCK, by Kalmuck. owned and driven by Willard Rally. THE BARON. by Protector, owned by Jansen Given, Bailfsx, nsfl

snuuonrr: HANOVER. by Cahmset Chuck. miss by Onrlaan

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l. PROFESSOR CLEGO. by Abner T. Class. owned by ll. D. and T. l. Banlrinson, Middleton. driven by "T. l. Hanhlnson.

l. BALE B.. by Calumet Budiong,

and driven by C. O'Brien.

owned by Geo. Iltbll. fiutley,

VALLEY LONG, by Calumet Bndlong, owned by I. Annaar, In.

tegae, driven by A. Lorie.

QUICK LICK. by Simcoe Harvester, owned by I. Ijgfljgdj, gm. meralde, driven by Len O'Hara. BOWDEN "SQUARE. by Blrt Abbe, owned by ltpley Chery, g".

nay. driven by P. Hickey.

I. MAC WATSON, by Wllfin Peta, owned and driven by

Kenna. Charlottetown.

‘I. IOHIO. by Ill Dale. owned by Daniel Pariah. Hilton. driven by

Jae. Ar

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‘ing. The Free For

The Old Home Week program got away to a flying start yester- day afternoon and before the last event is raced on Friday night the dyed in the wool race followers should witness a program that is expected to exceed the many fine ones that have been held in other years.

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Officially opened by Viscount Alexander the gay. colorful holi. day crowd enjoyed every minute of yesterday's show. The racing was all that could be desired; the weather after a shower of rain had threatened to mar proceedings at noon was all that could be desired and the big opening day crowd stayed through to the final act.

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An even better program is on tap for today ieatured by an ai- ternoon and night programs that will see the cream of the Mari. time trotters and pacer; perform. All Trot with eight entries is the feature event but the remainder will also pro- vide the fans with sensational duels of speed.

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Yesterday's racing saw the 5mm"! gate used for the first time in the province in a day meet- ing and it met with the general approval of the fans. Scoring was at a minimum with the four classes and the big vaudeville program being completed shortly after six o'clock.

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31.155811 Abbott sending the fields away from the gate made a splen- did job while Dr. 111C. Dc-ugan‘: vivid description of the 12 heats added greatly to the program. 1n fact all the officials concerned came through with splendid per- forrnances with the program be. ing run off in s. smooth. efficient manner, augurlng well for t-he re- mainder of the big program.

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Stan Musial and Ted Williams are both feeling the strain of bat- tling to finish over the .400 mark in batting in their respective leagues. Both have outdistanced their closest pursuers in the race for the crowns. and at the mom- ent tihe only remaining interest is in the ability oi each to get back to the magic .400 figure.

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Both sluggers slipped below the .400 mark more than two weeks ago. The going beccmes more dif- ficult each day they are under that figure, because it is difficult to pick up points....l't is the same as the .500 level in a team's winning percentage. That is the mark man- agers like Billy Snuthworth and Joe McCarthy regard as the key to success.

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"Your team is never in danger until ‘it falls below .500." McCarthy says. "And once it does, then you know it is in danger."

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Veteran observers remember s game in mld.May when McCarthy was piloting the Yankees.. .Marius Russo had been scheduled to pitch for bhe Yankees, but McCarthy in- stead sent Red Ruffing to the mound with only two days of rest. When asked about it later. Mc- Carthy replied:

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"If we had lost that game we would have been right at the .500 mark. That would have meant we would have had to win our next game. This way. we won; and n0W have a two-game cushion. If we win our next flame. we will bein a strong position instead of fight- ing off a slump that could be disastrous."

What Oanada Did At Olympics "

(Canadian Press)

Yachting-

Paul McLaughlin, Toronto. sec- ond in firefly class yacht race.

Fencing-

Canadian team-Roland Asse- iin. Alf Horn, Robert Desjsrais. Georges Pouliot-defeated 13-1 in first round team sabre competi- tlon.

Weightlifting-

John Stuart. Verdun, Que, fifth in lightweight.

Yachting-

Bill Gooderharn and Gerry Pais- head, Toronto. finished 10th ‘a star-class yacht race flying pro- test flag.

John Robertson and Dick Toen- send. Hamilton. Ont. 14th in swallow class race.

Boxing-

Eddie l-Iaddad. Winnipeg, won decision over E. I. Gray. Ceylon, in lightweight class (advances to third round).

Armand Bavoie. Montreal, won dicision over 55C. Colon. Puerio Rico. in flyweight class. (Ad- vances to third round). -

Weight Lifting-

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Aeddie Gratton, Montreal, fifth in middleweight. Joe Solar, Toronto. 10th in some

ins coazzoiam.

(By Alan Donnelly)

CONNAUGHT RIFLE RANGES. South March. Ont... Aug. 10-(6?) “Seven skillful marksmen today tied for first place in two import- ant matches-the Bankers‘ and the Macdougall in the second day of the six-day Dominion of Can- ada Rifle Association meet here

Close to a perfect score on t..- 500 and ZOO-yard Macdougall ranges were Maj. J. W. l-Iouijcn of Winnipeg, Sgt. W. S. Garland of Debert. N. S.. and Maj. A. l" Gormley of Charlottetown. P. 2.‘. 1.. each posting OO-scores.

Many of the Macdougall petitors finished shooting in sflthtrins dllsk- and marksme: had to set their skill against shifting winds and flying cloud shadows.

‘A quartet of snipers shared first place honors in the shooting for the Patterson Cup. awarded in the Bankers’ match.

Elimination shoot-offs for ooth the Patterson cup and, the Mac- dougail challenge cup will be held Wednesday.

The four who will shoot off the ‘Patterson cup tie and their scores ior 300 and 600 yards are: Inspec- tor J. E. Young. Victoria, B. c‘. 47-48: Cpl. B. P. Brcckbanlt. Bflmlli-On- $47: Mai. D. T. B-iixe, Willowdale, Ont. 4-9-46, and Pte. P. E. Gutnicn. Winnipeg, 49-4.1

Lt. G. F‘ Rogers. s. membeg m the strong contingent from Char- iottetown. P.E.I., won the Con. naught match silverware in ar. elimination shoot-off.

l-Ie outlasted seven others whn tied with perfect scores in the 5J0 yard Connaught on Monday. hail... merlng home five shots for ‘:3 of a possible 25. and then strin;.i.g three successive bull's-eyes. Maj. F J. Goodhouse of Ottawa rap‘. with him until the last shot ir the sudden-death match, cne point on his 28th shot,

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Baseball Results

NATIONAL

New York 8: Boston 5, Chicago l: Pittsburgh 5. Philadelphia 2; Brooklyn 5

AMERICAN

Chicago i; St Louis 3. Washington B: Philadelphia 2. ‘Washington 2; Philadelphia 11. Cleveland 3; Detroit 7. - Boston 9; New York 6.

INTERNATIONAL

Newark 3; Buffalo ‘i. Baltimore 5; Rochester d Syracuse 4: Toronto 7. 361581’ City 5; Montreal 8.

Baseball Standings

NATIONAL

Boston Brooklyn St. Louis .. Pittsburgh Philadelphia Cincinnati Chicago

Cleveland Philadelphia Boston New York Detroit Washington b‘. Louis .. Chicago

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INTERNATIONAL Montreal _ '13 Newark .

Rochester

Buffalo

Syracuse

Toronto .

Jersey City

Baltimore

Pud Barter Wins Golf Tournament

NEW GLASGOW. N. 5.. Aug. 1o —(CP)-Pud Carter of Dartmouth Brightwood shot a two-ovenpar 70 today to win the two-day Marl- time invitation golf wurmmgnyag Abercromble‘ links near here. Yes- terday he had n 79. giving him s totsl of 149.

Rex Joudrer. also of Brightwood. was second with s. 151 total in the field of so Maritime shotmakers. Three strokes behind was Bruce Stinson of New Glasgow.

Nil! Roll. who copped the blari- tI-ne sins‘ annulment at Am. hex-st. NS. last week. hsd bad rounds on both days and was no- where near the top of the heap.

_ with an office-equipment firm.

CHARLOTTETOWN

Island Marksinen. "Do Well At D.C.R.A. Meet -

mmnei iilarksmen Did Yesterday

OTTAWA. Aug. lit-Special) —What Prince Edward Island nurksmen did today at Do- minion of Canada Rifle Assoc- iation meet: Lt. G. J. Bogers wins shoot-off for cup in Con- naught Match; Major A. Pp Gormley scores 99 out of a possible 100 in MacDougnll; Tpr. Alvin MacDonald places 18th in Bankers Match, scor- ing 93 out of 100; Major A. F. Gormlcy and Capt. J. Coles lead Island team at end of second day shooting with 280 points each; Tpr. Alvin bisc- Donald third with 2T9.

Canadian Breaks Olympic Record

LONDON, Aug. 10 —(CP)-— The glamor of the track and field spectacle is gone but 'the 194B Olympic Games rolled merrily on their way today with something happening every minute.

A Canadian broke an Olympic record in weightlifting and wound up fifth.

Fmirteen protests came out of five yachting races oii’ Torquay. Devonshlre. and when most of the tangle was straightened out to- night Paul McLaughlin's firefly was in first place in the point standing with two races to go.

The star entry of Bill Gooderhani of Toronto placed 10th today. but. the flurry of protests resulted in his entry taking eighth place.

‘The swallow entry of John Rob- ertson of Hamilton. Ont... was a poor 14th today and he lost third place in the ranking to Sweden.

A British protest against Sweden

in the Firefly race was at first rejected because the correct protest flag was not flown. Then the com- mittee reversed itself. heard the protest and allowed it-a claim that the Swede failed to ke out of the way when overtaking. Back into the headlines today popped the United States’ protest over disqualification of its team in the 400-mctre relay race at Olympic Stadium last. Saturday. The appeal jury allowed the pro. test and said motion pictures show- ed_no irregularity in the baton change-over.

S0 the United States gets filst place and the gold medals. Britain was moved back to second-now without a victory in track and field. Canada slid back to fifth position.

The lone Canadian to crack an Olympic record 0l' come anywhere near doing it is John Stuart of Verdun. Que., 29-year-old employee

Stuart, who weighs only 148 pounds himself. lifted 33 1-4 pounds in what is technically known among welghtilftets as the press. It calls for a slow hoist. of the barbell: high above the head.

Stuart beat the old Olympic rec- ord of 231 1-4 pounds. But he had to take fifth place because a couple of Egyptian strong men and Britain's weightlifting captain did better in either the snatch or jerk lifts or both.

Demon Hanover Draws Good Spot In iiamhletonian

(By John Chandler) . N. Y., Aug. lO-(AP> —'I'he luck of the draw put Deni- on Hanover in the fourth post position-favorable spot-for w! Hambletonlan classic at 00.0 Time Track tomorrow and en- hanced the colt's status as the choice over 10 other of the finest trotters in the United States. ‘ The crack standard-bred: wi-l shoot for a gross Purse of 859-911. third largest in the history of 01.0 event. The winner is to get b5 per cent oi 832,500. A record crowd of around l0.- (00 is expected to jam the stands.

Remember Tilien

Toronto Argonauts. picture team of the Canadian sridiron. blot-M a war casualty seven years ago to. day. withdrawing from the Eastern Rugby Football Uulno for the due ation of the war. The withdrawal

senior grid team for the first time not: years. ’ .

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AUGUST 11.’ 1948

Sport Echoes Frcn . Prince Bounty

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Baseball League: AB B I Pot. .400

Powell, Red 50x24 d MacMurdo. Lesion 8'1 11 Anderson. R.C.A.F. B1 ‘I MacKay, Kinsmen 3O 11 Grant, Red Sox 0

The top of the standing in the Summerside Baseball Le ssue changes hands almost every other day. The Legion is out in front again. having l5 points; the RC. A. F. are right behind with 14 points, but the Red Sox are two points behind the Airmen with 12 points, and the Kinsmen bring up the rear with 11 points.

Herc is s. peculiar point in baseball rules that it is diflicult to get people to believe. A bats- man has three strikes called on him and not knowing that the ball got away from the oaitcher. walks to the bench and sits down. Then his coach calls to his at- tention the fact that the catcher did not catch the third strike so the runner gets off the bench and runs to first, getting there ahead of the ball. He is safe. Believe it or not, unless there is something put in the rule book recently. the man is safe. We learned that. the hard way. We were coaching a team some years ago and one of the opposing batters missed the third strike. our catcher drop- ping the ball. The batter did not

that there was no bench for him to sit on. but he went over among the rest of his teammates. Then discovering that the ball had got away from our catcher he ran to first base. The umpire called him out. The coach of the other team insisted he was safe. We gave the coach a couple of horse laughs and-began to show him how rid- iculous that was. We didn't get very far. The coach pulled a. rule book out of his pocket and stuck it under our nose. An interpret- ation under one of the rules stat- ed that a batter could sit on the bench and still run to first and be safe just as the coach had said. There being no hole to fall into we had to stand there with a sickly grin and take it.

We mentioned that interpretat- ion recently ln Summerside and met. with the same response that we had given to the opposing coach years ago. The rub this time is that no such interpretat- ion is in our rule book now. so we can't confound the scoffers as that coach confounded us. In- terpretations are not. rules and they naturally differ with the man who makes them. They are just attempts to make the rules clearer and one editor will explain one rule while another explains an- other. We have one way of hand- ling the situation. however. Arid that is by asking the disbelievers to quota one section in the rule book that says s. runner can't sit on the bench and still be safe at first. we pause for section ident- iflcation.

While on the subject we'd like to point out that our umpires sometimes say,"You‘rc out." in- stead of "three strikes" when the catcher drops the ball. This is hardly fsir to the batter whose back is turned and who cannot be expected to know if the catch- er misses the ball or not. After all, when an umpire says a batter is out you can scarcely blame the batter for taking the umpires word for it and not trying to reach first ahead of the bail.

During Friday's game here. one of the pitchers was taking con-

"sidersblv time to get his pitch