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thin ay. speed any

500- -mile raee contenders.

taking a seat below the winner,

. He may pick up a cheque for

well” over $100,000, depending on
distribution of spscial prizes by :
accessory | and petroleum ‘prod-!
ucts companies. -
: Just. how much he won, the
baby-faced vetcran from Miami,
Fia., will not know until the din-
ner. But he does know he won
it the hard way in a dramatic
duel with Rodger Ward, last
year’s winner, who finished less
than 13: seconds behind.

‘The - Ward Rathmann rivalry
has become a classic: Early last
season, Ward chased Rathmann
to..a world’s record. speed of
170.262 ‘miles an “hour ‘on.. the
high- -banked ° ‘Daytona Interna-
tional Speedway.
ROARING’ FINISIL..

Ina st?-saw_ battle without
precedent: on. the Indianapolis
Metor Speedway, ... Rathmann
pulled ahead.Monday ‘about eight
miles from the end and. finished
ata record speed of 138.767 miles
an hour.’ Ward set the old mark
of 135: 857 last year.

‘Ward had to slacken. near the
race’s-..end. because of a right

front tire so badly worn he fear- charged from 28rd to fifth posi-

ed: it would burst..Rathmann had |
ébewed up his right rear tire ‘so |
badly that: Chick. Hirashima, his’
chief mechanic, said | it’ women

Cth ‘str aight |
ann to more |

   

when: they the

‘had.
hemselyes;: og

|
“to the. drama, Ward |

: and | ‘Rathinann made their last

pit. stop for fuel and tires at the:
same ‘time, on. the: “151st” ‘lap,|
three- ~quarters. of. the way. i

Ward went into: the pits lead-j.

ing by a few feet.and went out

With. ‘Rathmann:.charging at: his

vauh Lpipe... They swapped the lead

ive times: after. that, , with, Ward |

 

     

   

the turns.
“Fears that the. ‘blistering pace
would . end~ in” | tragedy: ‘were

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"Beats. out. Ward
by 13 seconds —

- aN DIANAPOLIS (AP)—Jim Rathmann moves to |
the head of the table at the annual victory dinner for

tonight after 10 years of

“heightened when veteran: Eddie
Russo wore out a tite and crash-
ed into the southeast retaining
wall in the only. bad accident of
the race. Russo, whose father
was killed in'a 1934 racing wreck
at Langhorne, Pa,, was, eritically
hurt... |

The worst accident ‘occurred in
-he’ infield, where scaffolding
collapsed on a temporary bleach-
ce erected: by fans, killing two
persons and injuring more than
70 others.

‘RECORD COLLAPSES

The first seven’ finishers
broke Ward's year-old record. It
was a series of bitter races, with
officials uncertain. Monday night

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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was fifth, |
Tommy Thompson of Boyertown, |
‘Pa.; sixth and rookie Loyd Ruby |
of Houston, Tex; seventh;
Rookie Jim ‘Hurtubise of Len-
nox, Calif:, who. shattered © the
track's qualifying records,

 

 

tion before a. .connecting rod
isnapped: in -his engine. with: 35.
“miles to B20.

Rathmann and: Ward: drove
custom racers built: by A. J. Wat-
son of Glendale, Calif:, who has
“constr ucted three of ‘the last five

 

Patterson trains...

. NEWTOWN, .Conn. (®. -—-Floyd
Patterson. sharpened: up «his left
hand punching: Monday in-an-
other drill for his June 20 title
, fight. with ..world heavyweight
champion Ingemar ‘Johansson. :

The challenger, instructed by

trainer’ Dan Florio to work on
his left; beat. a.-steady tatoo of
jabs against the faces of four
sparring: partners.
Patterson: also: belted: his: spar
mates with : left. ‘hooks; *

 

 

- Patter. son also ran: three miles!
in the morning and ‘did. six!

Se celon following
the boxing session.

 

Jerome hot

EUGENE, Ore. ( — Olympic
hopeful Harry Jerome of North
Vancouver ran the 100-yard dash
in. 9.4 seconds Monday-——for the
third time in three days. ae

Jerome, a freshman. -at‘ the
University of Oregon, also. took
the 220 at the Oregon AAU track
and field meet with a respectable
21.3 seconds. He was not seriously
threatened in cither event,

 

 

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803 - 3rd Ave. W.

 

 

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Paul Goldsmith of St.i
Clair Shores, Mich., or Don Bran- |

son. of Champaign, IL, finished :
third. 5:
Officially, Eddic Johnson of

Is it the 12 postponements that have Milw: aukee’ S Bre ives dragging in the:

National League race? Ot

Idleness because of rain, cold—;
and foy—has been’a renal snafu:
for Braves” pitching. But those.
Pirates haven't helped it either.

Pittsburgh beat the fourth!
place: Braves for the seventh time!
in nine meetings this seajon with!
an 8-3 romp-before rain cut their!
scheduled Memorial Day double-
header in half. That was enough,
however, to break. a first-place
tie with San Francisco, and. the
Pirates did it by beating Warren
Spahn (2-2) for the second time.

Last..season, when the Bucs
manager to-beat the Braves only
seven times all year, Spahn was
5-0 against them. .

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Baltimore ra 24° °4215 615 -
Cleveland .....- “14 .600
New. York (......00
Chicago deans

 

Detroit”
Kansas) City”

“San ‘Francisco dipped to sec-
ond place in a split with the Chi-
cago Cubs, winning 5-4 after a
2-1:-loss.. Cincinnati won the
opener at Philadelphia 5-4 in 10
innings; but the last-place Phil-
lies then ended their losing
string at seven with a 6-1 victory4
St. Louis clobbered Los Angeles
15-3. in the only night. game
scheduled, with Bill White ariv-
ing in six runs, -

AMERICAN LEAGUE \
_In spring training it was new
power and added pitching
strength that had the smart

‘Rain, cold, fog, Pi ittsburgh
puts crimp in Milwaukee’ 5 style

Sy ED WILKS
Associated Press Staff Writer

“ig it Pittsburg ght

: money: riding on Chicago's de-
‘fending champion White Sox in

the American’ League pennant:
race. Now June is just about to.
bust out all over and the Sox are:
iust about busts. .

Early Wynn has lost more. than |
he’s won.

the last, two weeks.

And in nine nightmarish days:

the champs have lost cight of 10,
skidding from first to fourth.
‘Cleveland’s. second-place In-.
dians swept a Memorial Day pair
at Chicago 4-1 and 9-4 and used
ex-White Sox guys—Bubba Phil-:

Latman—to do it. That plunked:

Chicago to fourth, 3% games be-j base while dropping their sixth

hind Baltimore.

 

Bob Shaw’s 4-4. Bii ly}
Pierce (3-2) has won just once in:

“LOW. Pet,

Pittsburgh 2. 26 14 — +.650 -
San ‘Francisco . 26 15 654 a
Cincinnati .. 22 19 537 41
iMitwankee ~ ..... -16.-15 (816 Bt
fies Angeles ....- 19 21 475 7:
St. Louis 18 2h 4620. TY:
Chicago 130021 382. 30
Philadelphia’ 13° 27 325 13

1 OPOPOESEO POOLED OPOCOLE LPR OLOEHS

lies, Johnny Romano and Barry;

 

 

their lead, but. still have a one-

game edge over Cleveland after

winning 7-5, then losing 12-3 to

Boston. . New York took third

_ place, . beating. Washington 3-2

‘after losing 2-1.. Kansas City

: belted Detroit 7-6°in 11 innings
and 8-2,.

POPCCR TPE DOPIEAPOEEOODEELOOETEEE
NATIONAL LEAGUE -
. aBI

The White Sox left 23 men on

‘in a row at home—where they
had won their first 10.

 

 

 

The Orioles lost a game of

 
   

“Wayne Haldane, 14-yeai
ed a wicked bat while chucking two. hit ball for six in-
nings to aid Renaults in walloping Canadian Legion | *
18-8 in B Division action at Roosevelt Park last night.

Haldane rapped out four sin-|:

gles off the combined offerings!
of Legion’s Harry. McIntyre and

,;Gary Greissel, and-scored four|: -

runs.

 

By DERE

to their first win in this
Softball League.

Old Empress moved from the
basement to third place by
handing Savoy Hotel a 17-13 loss.
Jim Crossan was charged with
the defeat though he was replac-
ed by Bert Johanson. halfway
through a disasterous first in-
ning which saw Old Empress
score 12 runs on two hits and
five errors,

Tho winners added single runs
in the second and third as well
ns two in the fifth. Savoy chip-
ped away at the lead throughout
the game but were able to collect

one Inning,

Snvoy pitchers gave up nine
hits and issued 14 free passes
during the game, Only two of
those hits' went for extra bases:
John Peng doubled in. the’ first

no more than three runs In any

“On the mound,

K ALLEN

“Alan Campbell threw a five-hitter and gave up
20 walks last hight as he pitched Old Empress Luckies
year’s edition of the Men's

in the Mfth.

from the plate.

LINESCORE:
Old Emp:
Savoy:

(1),

 

 

 

shop Masy has climbed. KO far
up the Little League kuddor’ thoy
no longer cnn be eon,

The grocers won: thelr atxth
stralght gnme Inst night, odging
North Star 12-10 at Algoma Park
ina thrilling come-from-hbehind
victory.

Down 6-3 nt the ond of the
fourth Joning, Shop Easy ox-~
ploded In tho fifth for four hits
and olght runs to virtually Insure
awin, North Star fought back
In the sixth inning, scoring four
rung on four hits, but thoy fell
fnehos short, :

he Bob-Pottle went all the way for

 

 

tho viotory, giving up:21 hte, one

1 vet

“eh wee

walk and. aLMking oul ig)
wad his third
against no lossos,

losers, giving up Jf hits,
walks and striking out four,

‘the batting to lond that depart.
ment while North
Janos was high with two for four,
down for hoth sidos,

Star took over,

 

right- -hander

Campbell iets 20 walk

but Luckies still win

Inning and Alan Camphell helped
win his game with a two-bagger

Johanson not only held the im- |
patient Luekies in the last elght
Innings, but also led the attack
We picked up
three of the five hits Campbell
allowed, two singles and a double.

T1211 020 001--17 0 10
202 OO! 832--13 5 16

Alan. Campbell and BOI Morri-
son; Jim Crossan, Bert Johan-
son (1) and Johanson, Crossan

Bol) Dybhavn pitehed for tho
two

Pottlo wont three for four in

Star's Bob

Tho’ game started out ata fast
paco with three up and three

In the second dining, North
Kcoring = threo
runs to Jond 3 a CGrocors tied the |.
game Jn tho third but bottlora
went aload . ageln in the fourth |°

ar ‘old Pony Leaguer, wield- :

 

Haldane ‘struck out seven and
walked six.

Renaults scored in every in-
ning. They got two runs in the
first, second, third, fifth and
sixth innings. Four runs crossed
the plate in the fourth and
seventh innings.

Legion tallied four runs In the

third,

Dave Pitre started for Renaults
but control trouble brought in
Haldane In the second inning
with none out. Pitre gave up one
hit while striking out one and
walking five,

Legion starter McIntyre was
tagged for three hits in his two-
inning stint, He struck ont two
and walked one. Relicfer Greais-
sel struck out eight and walked
seven while giving up four hits.

) . Sunday's game at Port Edward

  

berg
the, second, inning, gave up six
hits, walked two and struck out

second inning and three in the]

 

 

 

 

CLASSIC PITCHING POSE is
exhibited’ by Mayor P, J. Les-
ter Sunday as he rears back
to fire the first’ ball of the
1960 Prince Rupert and Dist-
rict’ Baseball League to local
baseball association president
Sparky Smith. Members of the
newly-formed Belmont squad
watch at right. Belmonts cap-
tured the first ganic from Es-
quires 12-11 in a game that
took 34 hours and saw five
pitchers used before a winner
was decided.

Stall photo by. ‘Ken Specht.

 

- Wahls win

Wuahls of tne Womens Softball
Leayue cast aside their role of
frilly femmes last night as they
smashed out 27 man-sized hits to
overpowcr Senior. High. School
24-17.

The high school girl ts held their
own. until the third inning when
they were behind 6-3..

However,
gent reached high school pitcher

Leona Colussi for 11 hits, includ- || ©

ing a home run by Selma Stand-
ring and a triple by Gladys King,
to pull into a,17-3 lead.’

Wahls continued their on-
slaught in the fourth. and fifth
innings as Standring.. blasted out
her. second-four- bagger : of. the

“game to put the boatbuilders, into

 

a.21- -13 lead. CEE
Winnings: «pitcher, Pi
who. replaced Millie

   

 

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one.

and Gailya Grimolfson. gave up
a total of 27 hits, walked three

Prince Rupert Daily News

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Tuesday; May, 31, 1960

~Aitention Little Leaguers!

All Little Leaguers take note Monday June

the 1960

that the schedule for the first
half of
changed.

has been

Here is the revised schedule.
Wednesday June 1, NS vs Kin.

_ Friday June 3, SE vs Elt.

Tuesday June

6, Elt. vs NS.
7, Kin. vs SE.

Wednesday June 8, NS vs SE,

Friday June 1

Team abbreviations are: North
Star-—NS; Kinsmen—Kin.; Shop

0,° ‘Kin. vs Elt.

Basy—SE; Electricians—Elt,

 

BING CROSBY
GRACE KELLY
WILLIAM HOLDEN

Grace Kelly!

Best
Actress!

Academy 3
Award, \

 
  
  
   
 

 

 

 

 

eames A,
AT TO

- WILLIA
GRACE

Todoy and Wednesday 7

 

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THE BRIDGES

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KELLY

FREDRIC MARCH '
MICKEY ROONEY

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High school ‘pitchers’ Colussi|

 

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in an * uproarious hit!

    
  
 
 

 

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a rocket. .a mI

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«MIRACLE OF THE HILLS”
“BLOOD AND STEEL" |

 

 

 

 

 

‘saw Esquire Juniors edge the
Empress Luckjes 14-12,

Ted Arney went all the way for
Bsquires as ho gave up nine hits
white striking out Mand walking
Sive,

Loser Takash! Saiki was rape!
‘ped for five hits as he walked
three and struck out one, ‘Jim
Blythe finished the game
‘Luckios, giving up four hite,

Blythe walked three and struck
Ollt, BX,

 

STANDINGS: Top batters were Doug Mullin

WL Pet. GBuProf Rsquires with a triple, double

Comnierelal 4 0 1000 - {and single, Pat Mahaira of Port
Snvoy 3.2 450 1) | Ndward :with two. triples and a}

Old Empross 1 8.280 3 a single, and Blythe with -a double
ONRA’ ‘3 4 = 200 and: two singles,

 

~ Shop Easy wins sixth straight —
to limb out of sight of pack —

It
straight win

tallying P more,
‘gouldn't stop the insplrod Shap

own tally In the alxth wos halted
whon right flelder, Albert, Odland
hit to Shoy Tinsy' A Myst baseman,
Gorry -Mintonko for the third
out,

Line Acore
Shon. EASY secre SR OF
Nor VW BGA cess rene 40 10 7

Standings :
ii W Wl Pot. GBL
“: Shop Why ..0 0 1,000 .

 

“Kinamon .,..3 3 600,
Noth Star ..2 86 400"! Be
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Marion Gibbs travel to work side by side.

He meditates business prospects. She con-
templates her reflection in the bus window
and thinks of a .new dress. Their needs,
interests and destinations may differ, but
one friendly fact relates them... each banks a
at The Canadian Bank of Commerce. |
J n his bank account Roger Martin’ 3 savings
grow with his ambition. Marion Gibbs’.
Personal Chequing Account makes settling =
her bills easy and economical. And, for both,» "1"!
the Bank of Commerce provides prompt .
and personal service ,.. service that makes
their banking a pleasure. woo

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