By GAYLE pw YORK —One hi e ability ictories in ve It is doubtful th { runners. nave ob Assoaci-~ weau Gh oO thls , and arawh up igut te Louis Car- Indians Dig the eable edge val 1 pull- and tne em elves t 7 est I hrillers ; ig that .. i Hu t at Oi now nore lose National, ym that he 146 n é wan au inter- top foun are League lown, \|-starred to buy nor @if- It ls Chi hrilling C {) behinc with G yy Lubor Day trophy football playoff. f 0 lead at tne t Boui- nith Motors Boulter Bishop Tait dtord R CYO » than Eckert theiy Car half Sing cen-| Meyer. .was{ his most good entre held the with ind feed lo advantage ted the play Nuy- | last latter though Phil- ! esourceful Oai MG goal ice th ne a n oal times j two very| quarters Mohan and| und of his own| nd Eby were} ‘Tenders with | Op again} ind game. | elfective with 1 neat tack- r the in-| Lien did right on the with three econd bye pbe- effort White- ball beautifully, | ising Ught off as man b 2) Cleve; RTS ROUND. 2TIET TALBOT UP illmark of a pennant-win- to stand firm in the clute games where a single run lat any team ever reached ies without having won a husky major- a bit Stauncher in that respect than the runner-up Philadelphia Athletics in the American. The won-and lost count in the National League as this was writ- ten went: St. Louis 28-15; Breok- lyn 22-12; New York 15-11; Phija- deiphia 18-18; Chicago 16-18: Boston 16-19 Cincinnati 14-21; and Pittsburgh 10-25. In the American it was: Cleve- land 22-14; Philadelphia 22-15. New York 18-13; Washington 23- 19, St. Louis 21-17; Boston 16-15; Chicago 12-22; and Detroit 12-31. “ V in American League Sox have failed to repeat their stirring race of last season, nor why Philadelphia and Washing- ton are up there making ges- tures at the American League fayorites The Cardinals’ great reeerd must be set down as quite a trib- ute to Stanky’s ability to juggle what was, up to recently, a very shaky pitching staff A! Lopez of the Indians also has not been backward about throwing his starting aces in there to hold a lead in the late innings If Boston Red Sox had been able to mateh the Indians in one-run wins the American League race really would be omeback 1 in a stirring finish Mon- eneral Motors in the first Murray whs fair with one fine corner kick that Marron did well to clear with his first. Bowman worked hard and was always a threat. Pat Wilson did better in the second half and would have | had Bedford not in- and ballooned the ball j ha a tervened high over the bar. Bedford tried ad but was not very success- ful Jack Wilson was referee. His work was easy as both teams layed clean football Greco Regains Welter Title MONTREAL Johnny Greco of Montreal Tuesday night re- yained the Canadian welter welght boxing title defeating Armand. Savoie of Montrea] by unanimous decision in a 12- round pout at the Forum heré Savoie took the tithe from Greco, champion since 1941, in a fight here some seven weeks ago. Greco weighed 147, Savoie 139 MAXIM SUSPENDED FOR NOT MEETING RANDY TURPIN NHW. YORK CP) York State Athletic Commission Tuesday suspended light-heavy- weight champion Joey Maxim until he has defended his title against Britain's Randy Turpin in London Manager Jack Kearns was sus- pended along with Maxim fer refusing to defend the crown in September under the promotion of England's Jack Solomons, Remember When | Marvin Nelson, “Iowa Flash” | from Fort Dodge, splashed through choppy Lake Ontario waters 22 years ago today to win the 15-mile Canadian National Exhibition marathon swim in record-breaking hours, 43 minutes, 36 1/5 seconds. He also won the 1933 and 1934 Toronto swims, FOOTBALL GAMES General Motors play and on Fri- day the CYO and the Battery | are scheduled to meet eCstone BUSTS & a oe HEAVY TRUC ; Tribe Hot h Indians continued | gaaes The New |, time of seven.) | ee | On Heels Yanks NEW YORK €) — Cleveland on the heels of New York Yankees in the torrid American League race by downing Philadelphia Ath-| leties 6-8 in 11 innings last night, | while Yankees trimmed 8t. Lanis| Browns by the same seore. Ind- jans are Only one game the league-leading Yankees. Barney MeCasky’s pinech-hit triple was the payoff blow in the three-run llth inning rally that wrapped up the game for Cleve-! land. Joe Collins clouted a two-out, three run homer off Satchel Paige in the ninth inning to give New York their victory over the Browns, Phil Rizzutp was on second and Mickey Mantle, who had been walked by Paige, was on first when Collins hit his de-| ciding four-bagger, | Yanks had tied the score 3-2 in| the last of the eighth when Yozi| Berra walked and Gene Wood- ling followed with a home run. ———— FACTS By J. 8. WLSOW The foothall executive hela a\ meeting last week and drew up| the final sehedule for the seasen. | The three teams will play a! round egeh and the winner of | the series wili play in the final on Laber Day. The second-place team will meet Aiyansh Saturday night this week with the winner) aS the other finalist on Labor Day. i This set-wa promises a good | finish and also gives a native | team a chance to show its wares. | In past seasons the games’ against the native teams have been keenly contested and pro- vided good football in most eases. The Aiyansh team has an enyvi- able vecord of playing fast, clever and clean football. Saturday night’s game should be well) worth seeing Another failure is no referees have been assigned to the games Luckily Spiro Gurvich filled in very satisfactorily and on Mon- day Jack Wilson did the job. But the teams can not always count on such ex-players being avail- able and willing. And without a whistle, refereeing is not possible A sudden situation requires in- stant checking and a whistle is necessary, ii speaxs well tor the sportsmanship ef the-teams that mo awkward situations have arisen F.owever in another situation the Feotball Asseciation has not done so well. For the past three, the grounds have not een marked. This is not fair to the players, the referee or the spectators, Surely by some ar- rangement a plan can be made to have the lines properly mark- ed BASEBALL SCORES National Brooklyn 4, St. Louis 3 New York 14, Pittsburgh 7 Boston 2, Cincinnati 0 Philadelphia 2, Chicago 3 innings). American St. Louis 3, New York 6 Cleveland 6, Philadlephia 3 Chicago 0, Washington 1 Detroit 3, Boston 11, Western International Yakima 6, Lewiston 6 Spokane .6, Wenatchee 7 “PBalem ty Vanco ; Tri-City 8 VictoMa 9 Pacific Coast Sacramento 3, Portland 1 Los Angeles 6, Hollywood § Oakland 2, San Francisco 5 San Diego 3-6, Seattle 4-9. (ll By PEBCY GHENT With the nesting season over and the nestlings well able tw take care of themseives, the bird migration sguthward starts with fafly autumn. From massive -hawks to tiny) hummingbirds, species after spe- | breeding grounds for winter wl sidence in Central and South | America. | The exodus of birds in their millions from Canada is far tacular than their spring mi- | gration northward. One of Ca»- ada’s best-known wild life autia- orities, Dr. W. W. H. Gunn, made a special visit to Point Pelee on Lake Erie last May to study the incoming wave. What he saw and reportec was dramatic—in his own word: ‘Bir ds Fly South in Autumn, But Exodus Less Spectacular Than Spring Migration the spring influx was “th grandiather of all waves,” anc he has seen many of them His estimate of song birds seen an 2 single day then was no less thay 50,000. Says Dr. Gunn: “I have a picture of driving hack of cies wil] leaye their Canadian |#long the road near the end of the point, watching an unending stream of sparrows and thrushe rising from each side of the road and settling back again a little farther from the road margin. |more gradual and far less spec-|The general pattern of this ac- tion. was strikingly like the bow- wave of a fast-moving ship.” On two days in May, 150 spe- cies of birds were seen. It was estimated there were at least 100,000 white-throated sparrows -the “sweet, sweet, Canada, Canada” singers, and as many white-crowned sparrows English Olympic Failure By ALAN Canadian Press LONDON.—The great debate continues, Long , ‘Still Angrily Debated HARVEY Staff Writer after the doysing ef the Olympic flame at Helsinki, interested parties are still angrily divided over the’ failure of British athletes. Tn newspaper columns, in pub- lic speeches and in arguments at the local pyb, sports-minded people ape discussing—sometimes with considerable warmth—why what was thought to have been | a strong British team returned with only one gold medal. The topic is such a lively one on Fleet Street that even Beach- | comber, the celebrated Daily, Express columnist, felt impelled | to deal with it in his usual sar- donie style Suppose, comber, that Beach- losing shuddered instead of gracefully, in what has become | Athletic Association said many | almost a British tradition, the | Old Country representatives had embarrassed everybody by win-| breaking six Olympic el } 16 | ning? “Anybody who takes sport seriously enough, we are told, | can Win cups and medals,” wrote , sportsmanship.” Then people would say: “There | sports columnists who say that | unless the country pulls up its | socks it never will get far at the Qlympics The feuding grew bitter in sOme quarters. Jack Crump, British team manager, blamed “certain sections of the press for leading the public to expect too much. Philip Noel-Baker, a former government minister and commandant of the British team, | deplored ‘cynical ment by critics. Other officials of the Amateur disparage- British athletes put up better performances than ever before, and reaching the tinals in events. The sports writers replied vig- orously. day Pictorial: “Crump .,. unmasks the press | Thrushes of various species, and colorful warblers by the thousand, were assembled on the | point, a single route of entry to Canada. From there they would wing their way over the northern breeding grounds. Now the return journey to the south is commencing-——the sec- ond annual miracle of migra- tion, the wonder of which grows with deeper observation and study. ; CAGY COYOTE Citizens of Banff and the mountains of the Rockies are so accustomed to seeing black | bears, elk, red deer and an oc-/ casional moose taking in the In effect, they alleged | Beachcomber. “True spertsman- | @ “knocking” campaign by the ship is the art of losing with |officials. Bernard McElwaine of | dignity, they say. Had we won, 1) Saint John, N.B., a Canadian) suppose our athletes would have|Who made good on Fleet Street, been abused for not showing true| Wrote in his column in the Sun- | town sites that they occasion | | litthe comment. Eyen a grizzly jbear with her cub wandering ,ajong an outlying street ralses | | only mild interest, But even Banff folk were sur- | prised this summer at the sight | | of a coyote, squatting by the roadside just of-of town and on! |a regular “stand,” awaiting mo- | torists who hand out such deli- cacies aS chocolate bars, cakes | ;and candy. A coyote among the | }animal menidcants is something | new, even in Banff. ODD SUPERSTITION Superstitious maidens of Sicily eep with a shoe under their pillow in the belief that it will |help them to find a husband. | | j CANADA FINEST CiGARETTE [ ») they go, winning all those cups| 4S the villains responsibje for our and medals, just like any foreign | disappointing Helsinki showing. cad, instead of biting their lips|That makes Crump the world’s in or out of fic- and losing.” OFFICIALS ON DEFENSIVE Other commentators are large- | lly split into two warring groups -oificials who say the British team's performances weren't really so bad as al] that, and worst detective- tion. It was an inside job.” During the war McElwaine was a Canadian infantry officer on loan to the British army. He de- cided to stay in Britain and worked his way up to columnist on the “Pic.” Five inter-city, 37-passenger buses for sale, presently in operation. Real Values. can be arranned. 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