Teddy Pony loop opener sees champs foiled If last night’s Pony Baseball League opener at ust year’s cellar - dwelling Moose shutout the 1961 champion Gyros 2-0, is any in- dication of fortheoming action, then fans are in for a season of topnotch baseball. Roosevelt Park, in which | Moose southpaw Ted Thomp- son held the high-riding Gyros to three hits in racking up the win. The thrill-packed game saw almost flawless fielding by both teams and with any breaks at all, Gyros could easily have end- ed up on top. Gyro chucker Wayne Haldane was even stingier in the hit de- Canuck bids termed good’ VANCOUVER (. -—- How much ie very, very egopd? The Pacific National. Exhibi- tlon received four bids for the. Western Haockcy League Vancou- ver Canucks and hockey commit-_ tec chairman Tom Steeves an-; nounced Wednesday three of them are “very, very good.” But he did not say how much they were for nor how close they : were to the $150,000 minimum , price set’ by the PNE for the money - losing club that, finished ; in the WHL cellar last season. =! The committee postponed mak- ingy.a recommenddftion to the; board of directors pending clari- | fication of the offers. An extra-- ordinary meeting .of the board: will.be, held Tuesday to hear the. committee's recommendation. | The bidders have been asked to: submit, written clarifications by Friday and the three main ones. fave “agreed to do so. The PNE will seek approval of: the sale at the annual WHI; mecting at San Francisco May! 20. or ee ee ee PRSC meeting set for. tonight There will be a general mect- i ‘ ing of the Prince Rupert Swim: Kinney, 176%. Beckley. W. Va.,; between Calgary Stampeders Club at 8 o'clock tonight at the! outpointed Ernie Knox, 180, Bal- 1 Civic Centre. WHAT'S TH ELECTION MOOD. ACROSS Che sos ‘then stepped up and smashed a | ,tion to Teddy) paced all batters. ‘with two of the three hits the! counted for the other one, while | Philips and Allen Moore both ' had singles for the Moose. Linescore: RHE, Moose 002 000 0—2 2 2! Gyro 000 000 0O—0 3 4: ‘auditorium, ‘gary, hoassess the tiaod of the nation front gost lo cous, and to give REPORT ON BUSINESS readers it concise running commentary on the progress of the election, expert Globe & Mail reporters are covering every ficetol the campaign, A top political reporter has been assigned to caver the campaign of cach party leader, Other Globe & Mail reporters are tity el- ling the country fo send in first-hand reports of all the most lively and toportint developments, Keep Iwi cleeton events by reading “REPORT ON THE ELECTION” In lobe and Mail Report on Business EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Thompso : iia partment as he allowed che Moose boys only two hits. Moose collected both their run in the third inning. Pitcher Thompson landed on first base as Ernie Baines erred on_ his; ground ball. Thompson went to} second on a passed ball. Bill | Pottle also reached first on an- other Baines error and Thomp- son crossed the plate at the same time. Centre fielder Reg Phillips single to centre to score Pottle with the final run. For the rest of the game, it was a pitcher's duel. | Winning pitcher Thompson | struck out seven Gyros while is- suing only one free pass. Loser ! Haldane put down 10 Moose via: the strikeout route and allowed: two walks. “Big Al’ Thompson (no rela- | Gyros got. Sven Rasmussen ac-, Batteries: Thompson and Pa-; olinelli; Haldane and Elchuck.: blanks Gyros Banquet Saturday The Minor League Basketball: banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Annunciation! IN FOOTBALL Movies will be shown and all! players are asked to attend. Vienna (®@ — Laszlo Papp. Hun- stopped Christ Christen- sen, Denmark, (7). (Papp won European middleweight cham- pionship.) Fairless Hilks, P a. @—Bob Mc- | bimore. 10) ;and of trying to get the ; George McMahon, | president peder football club, said Tues- day night his duel role has placed him in a “ticklish” spot ‘in the hassle that developed when Calgary claimed veteran ‘Rollie Miles from Edmonton in ithe draft. | MeMahon said the decision -must be made by commissioner ‘Halter. The dispute revolved around the interpretation of the dratt “ground rules adopted last) Feb- /uary in Vancouver at the WEFC's Pennual meeting. Joe Ryan, Eskimo gencral -hianager, unhappy with the (claim by Calgary and the fact ‘that the dispute had been made ipublic, sald an error in the af- ‘fieclal minutes of the WIC's an- nual meeting underscored the Thassle. , SEXPLAINS HASSLE ; He gave this account of what -had happened: | The plan provided that a team }dinishing 10 or more points be- t -Wiremen score - third straight victory Meetriclans chalked up thei third stradght viebory Jast night at Alvoma Park with w ls-0 win over Kinsmen, The powerful wiremen elib blasted Kinsmen starter Bill Dargle for 1) his In two Inn- Ings, Reefer George Greer held Wheetrielans to four hits Ino the remaining ladnurs. Don Abercrombie hurted tive Innings for the wiremen arid uve up only six: hits before helng replieed hy Mickey Mon- texano who freed five batters In the sixth and allawed only one Dit. Roy Morrison fed the wire. menial the plate with three dite In four trips while team mate Dive Crawley tabhed on single and wo doublo dn theee trips. Dave Proctor, Greer und a. Pa- Olive paeed Kinsmen with two hits oneh tn four trips. The game was marred by ou AHeht drivwe whieh made tleld- ny dfAeult, Both tanms tated four errors, of the WFC and of the Stam-. ‘hind another eld could) draft Sup to two unprotected) Cana- dans from othe higher placed | elu, However, no team would [he required to pive up more than |two players and they could pro-- fLeet V2 Canadians from the draft, Halter lands job of settling dispute CALGARY (CP) — The job of settling a dispute “TOTEM FOR PLANTE token of appreciation was pre- sented to Montreal Canadiens LoOaie Jacques Plante when he appeared at a father-son night in Vancouver. Presenting the souvenir totem pole is Ronnie Mechan, 12 - year - old bantam Scague centre from Vancouver. — CP Photo Brings Results ‘batted only 265 last year in his ‘homer, his 10th, as the Giants /up. The triumph kept San Fran- ‘jon Reds took over third place, - Sixth straight victory. Al McBean -and Diomedes Olivo ' for . kee Braves and New York Mets “beat Chicago Cubs 6-5 in 11 inn- + Fe 8 eee Musial ties record in losing; Kuenn connects with winner Stan Musial got the one for the books. that counted. And that’s the story of another victory for the sizzlin By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS But Harvey Kuenn got the ond g San Fran- cisco Giants, who continued their headlong rush over all National League opposi- tion Wednesday by whipping St. Louis Cardinals 7-2 for their 17th victory in 2G LaMes. ; While the Cards were drop- ping into fourth place: with, their ninth defeat in 12 games, Musial snapped a 0-for-15 slump | with a single in the sixth inn- ing for the elusive hit that tied; ree in his him with Honus Wagner for the. ents. The sturdy New Englan- der was touched for an unearned ‘run by the White Sox ‘first inning but checked most hits in National history—3,430. The 41-year-old left-handed swinger had previously set two league carecr records this sea- son—runs scored and games played—-and now holds or shares 40 NL recoruis and 13 major league marks. KUENN WINS [Tt Kuenn’'s key hit won the Giants. The former can League hating League it for Amcri- king, who first season with San Francisco upped his average to a league- Jeading .360 with the single that drove in Ed Bailey with the tie-! breaking run in the seventh. | Orlando Cepeda then applied! the crusher with a three-run erupted for five runs to wrap it cisco'’s lead at four games over the second-place Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their seventh in cight games, 5-2 over Houston | Colts. | REDS IN TUIRD PLACE Cincinnati’s defending champ- 614 games back. by nipping Phil- adelphia Phillies 6-5 for their combined a five-hitter in Pittsburgh Pirates’ 6-0 shutout of Milwau- ings. | cooled’ off Chicago White Sox |dangerous Al Smith for the final ROOKIE COOLS SOX In the helter-skelter scramble | of the American League race _ Dave Stenhouse, 28, of last-place Ad . . . ' Washington vertising in The Daily New: ‘impressively again ‘night Senators, scored Wednesday with a four-hitter that and ldmonton Eskimos: Western Football Confer-. 4 ‘ence’s new player equalization draft back on level | ‘ground has been thrown into the lap of commissioner ! /G. Sydney Halter of the Canadian Football League. Herb Capozzi, general manager | of B.C. Lions, agreed with Ryan | and charged the Stampeders | were conducting a deliberate © campaign to wreck the equaliza- - tien plan. PCL race tightens By The Associated Press “A otmneve of big innings in all four games Wednesday night. helped tighten the Pacific Coast | League baseball race. San Diego Padres led the par- ade, sphuretig for three rans in the first inning, five in the third and five in the fifth oon bheir way toa 4-4 trouncing of the Salt) Lake City Bees, Seattle Rainiers seared all! heir runs in three innings — to beat Spokane Indians 6-3) and edge to within 2ty games of the Iraene- leading Bees, In the other pames, Vanecou- ver Monies stopped a late Tha Wii vally at five runs ta win 7 S8 and Tacoma Cimnts trouie- ed Portland Beavers 6-1. The nleht moved San Dice Into a fourth-place the with Ma- Wail, Taeoma is another game back, and Vaneouver twe, Mounties and the Islanders went through five seoreless done PIOPIIEITEAOLOLODEEEBOOCECEEPEE Standings W ot Pet. Git Hall Lake City 98 I TH = Heaettle 9 10 HHH 2% Portland Mod4 HOO 7 Hawi ih ee i) 4104 0 San Dlepo Woh Ado Tacoma MoM Aan _Virneouver 1to647 my tthe | PPOPIROSLIOTLVIOAOOELODPUIEVOCUERS nes before Vaneauver broke loose. In the sixth, plneh-hitter ; Anne! Seull shagled dn one run Wn pileher Jaekie Collum tive Hnore. And In the seventh, doe Taylor ound dose Valdivielso JKnoeked bome tind as the seare Web bea Tea, I : i OTshunders enmie hack with five ‘iow Vancouver lo enbeb a pliane for the madntlaned, At Poeomn the Chante reeves ered Che power that nmiuude them Jenpie chiumptons last year, They pleked up 16 hits, and put together ve ot thele aby ors In the last two dontngs to dewn the Beavers, BELLASEO THRU UPOTED ARNSTS to see the movie A é cnr has i" Jee " arn) in DEPTH DIMENSION and (1ECIRO-WAGIC SOUND Also “JET STORM" mins ood homer, bwe slneies, three owilks and oa flolderts iehoter, bub the pame had te be called after seven innings te] TODAY to SATURDAY — 7 - 8:23 p.m. FREE! Get your Magic Mystic Mask NIE ARIA R CHAMPION ANRACTION -USIRIBUIFD KY HARRIE BRA AIAVIOR ROTWAN PRODUCTION: rturud and coed by SUMAN RO IMAN thrill of thrills !11 a re ee We ua ) SAUCE POURS = 3 U MOU PLATIAL THEATRE of Ken McBride, Jack Spring and Ryne Duren. ° Stenhouse was a minor leaguer of commendable if not spectac+ ular success for seven season§ as a farmhand for Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds before the Reds dealt him to Washington this past winter. After four relief appearances manager Mickey Vernon started him May 6 against the Yankees and he was credited with the 4-2 victory after a yield of three hits over seven innings. Next was a complete-game_ six-hitter over. Baltimore, 12-1. After 31 inn- ings, he shows an earned run Washington has won. only seven games and the unbeaten Stenhouse has accounted — for Starting assign- in the them the rest of the way and finished with a flourish, fanning the out with the bases loaded. TRIBE PROTECTS LEAD Meanwhile, Cleveland Indians protected their league lead by overcoming Kansas City Athiet- ics 10-9 on John Romano's two- )#Verage of 0.87, run homer with two out in the; The White Sox scored first bottom of the ninth. New York | Wednesday night on Jim King's Yankees and Minnesota TWINS io dann ‘tly aa Luls Apar- staved a halfer i i SOS dec and a sacrifice stayed a half-game behind with ‘fly. But the Senators pulled even victories, the Yankees rallying /in their half of the first and for a 9-8 decision over Boston |Pinned the loss on Early Wynn, Red Sox and the Twins clubbing |£01n8 for victory No. 295, with i ie Detroit Tigers 8-4. Los Angeles more puns in ‘erased on an Angels stopped Baltimore Ori- | error and King singled in the oles 3-1 behind the neat pitching ‘other. o Wrunce Wuypert Oartyp N2ews tro. Thursday, May 17, 1962 Thurs., Fri., Sat.. Gates 9:15 Show 10 p.m. _ Added Feature => HURRY! HURRY! 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