‘a ulttle Leaguers WAT CRE Rpt ER ee (VS: Ae A ld iscular Airtorceman Brings - ist Gold Medal to Canada By W. R. WHEATLEY Canadian Press Stat! Writer VANCOUVER (CP)—Keevil Dailey, a sturdy airforeeman from Otta- Wa, gave Canada its first gold medal of the 1954 British Empire Games late couldn’t kecp Canada|. f Monday night but the-work of the muscular weightlifter vom sageing té fourth place in the point standings, A great wave of 29 points in swimming competitions—two firsts, a sec- ‘ond and’ a third—kept Australia at the lop of the unofficial ranking and a gol medal in wrestling kept the leadership safe from England's challinge, 7 (| fi South Africa’s wrestlers came e through with a mighty three- habt Batife ) Victory grand slam and boosted o We ss ad over Canada. For Front Spot | ! their country into third place ‘NINE GOLD MEDALS VANCOUVER (CP). Australia} In all, nine goid medals were and England éntered the fourth; von Monday, bringing the total day of Brilish Empire Games; to 20. Seventy-one more are on Competition today in a tight! the lino. batule for leadership in the un- England, leader when points official team standings. The, totted up Saturday, scored only Aussies, with 101 points, Were i one first—a late-night victory by seven up on the Britons, Rene Paul in the men’s individ- Both hold a big bulge of third. ual foils fencing competition. place New Zealand with 66! Canada supplied a runner-up! doints, Canada, in the show slotiin poth wrestling and weight- going into Monday's compatition, lifting. Ruby Leibovich of Mont. dropped to fourth with 62 pots.) ree} seored an upset in the ring England opened Monday's ac-| when he won a split decision tivities with 68 points, 21 more! over 45-vear-cld Richard Gar- than the Aussies but the Eneglish-| rard, lightweight champion of men lost their lead when the; Australia for 20 years. favored athletes from Down Un-| Tules Svivain of Quebec was der picked Up 54 points im swim- Second to Rodney Wilkes of Trin. Pree resting and fencing. iaad in the weightlifting feather. England was held to 26 points OM weight division Monday—17 in feneing, five in ee ; i wrestling and four in weight-| Karlier in the day little Ginnie lifting, Grant of Toronto Rave Canada a Oe Canada added 28 pomts ng Seeond place in the women’s 110- eo ae in; ay ty Africe inked po7, «| Sard freestyle swimming and vs weney AEC pleked up ot, (big George Park of Hamilton Standings hy countries msed'ninced fourth in the men’s 110. n’s 110.3 Canada’s Track Chances For Tuesday By The Canadian Progs best performances: 1950 by Marjorie Jackson-Nel son, Australia; Canada’s entries Diane Palmason, Montreal, 263 couver, 25.2, ; Men’s Discus—Games record tries: Roy Pella, Sudbury, Ont, i271 ft. 6 ins Svein Sigfusson Stan Raike, Toronto record, 91.7 seconds set in 1938 10-5-4-3-2-1 for first SIX pang FAMINE “by Cyril Holmes, England; Can- gees: Sou, Mace \. Nale eon Bae win Im ening HAS: ey Ho, ey Wnegland oo. a4 jended the championshin famine iyo, Vulean, Alta, 224: Bruce South Afriea ow... 65 [for Canada’s teams. The radar | sosinebett Vancouver 21.7: Don AMET oe, 662 | Fehnician with the RCAF was McFarlane, Harnilton ‘O18 Priedad ou... 93 UN front all the wav. He hefted Three Mite G oe ‘d Hew Zealand .......... 2% {275 pounds in both the two-hand 12:59.6 set in 1098 oC H aL Nigeria ou. $7 | Pess and two-hand snatch and thews New Zeal: ne Car a Northorn Rhodesia .... ‘17 | finished with a 330-ponnd clean entries: Harry Ke ved Toes Pakistan oc . 9 [nd ferk for a total of 880. Len to. 14:99 | Sel wn Jes y i, i Jamaica 7 {Kilgour of Trinidad placed see- |.) See. elwyn Jones. Ham- iton, 14:38: Doug Kyle, Vancou- ver, 14:90.1: Lyle Garbe, Cal- gary, 15:00.2, Men’s 880 yards final-—Games record, 1:51.2 set in 1938 by V. P, Root, New Zealand: Canada’s en- tries: Doug Clement, Vancouver, 1:53: Pill Parnell, Vancouver, 1:51.5; Rich Ferguson, Toronto, 1:65.3. Men's 440-yard hurdles— Wales oo. So veceeaeseeee 7 Unganda sg tesenescetiee Prilish Guiana .. Hone Kone Seotland end and Eneland’s Mel Barnett 5 | third, 4 With track and fiela comne- lition resuming again todav, the Australians look to Shirley Jack- s0n-Nelson and Hector Hoean {o vile up more points to add to their growing total in swimming. The spring swim events Mon- day went to Australian teen- agers, Jon Henricks, 18 won the ad By B MORRIS oo woe a Games record, 52.5 seconds se py ECG MORRIS | men’s snrint in record time, cap- | as set Afier a BOOK Gea * confusion j turing his seeond gold medal of io we py panean, wate. Cey- which ended in anvther Same! the games, Fifteen-year-old Lor- Ga ile aay “ton ae ~ Murray being played for practice at Al- raine Crapp battled it out with! (22U!s, Hamilton, 53, goma Park Iss night, Litlle| virginia Grant of Toronto to League coaches and ctficials got) t ake the women's 110—and also, - together to Straighten out thal cot a record. Ball-Shaggers tangle in the present. schedule. Henricks, winner in 56.6. led: After a thoroveh cheek of the| . a canna ce Find Foothall records ib was found that sie’ “e2MMates Cyrus Weld and Red TN oot a more games must be played to paren (0 the finish, His time ‘ . Fon ne tee ane SUM sesory gm AME NS O89 In a eat Saturday! Barr. shaopers at Sunday's fore the playoffs can start, jd also the old mark of 59.6, double-header baseball game at Roosevelt Park came up with one : . I 79, 1 . ‘ _ Games will be piayed as fol-! Lorraing had to better Subur day's record-preaking time, made | ball more than they expected, Revise Schedule lows: heen Aug. 3 North Stars vs Kinsmon, PY Virginia ina heat, to heat out: Looking for heme-run balls A 5 Gina val s Seq ithe Toron'o girl, Ginnie's 1308.3 | >>, " ane Wea Super Yalu yg el | wdted over the fence by Com- Kings, jMonday eyualled her own mark lmereials and G & A hitters, one Aur, Slars ys feq/ bul. Lorraine swam to the tile ball-shagger came up with a Kinas, In 1:05.86. The old record, made slightly weathor-beaten football. Aug. 7 Kinsmen ys North ; tour yenrs ago, was 1:09, The find is beleved to be the Slavs: Sea Kien ye Suter Valin! The women's 10-yard back~ property of the Port Edward Aug. & Super Vala yg North stroke Was ihe third event of the Paramounts, who are reported to Stars, day fo undergo recordasmashing, | have lost It while playin eariiey All eames up to Saturday wi} Jou Harrison of South Afvlea | this season, heel al. 7:00 pan, Times for the (led the qualifiers with 1:76.1, The! The ball was turned aver to Gaturilty. aud “Suliday. name Pld wiark was 1:186, Fone other | gf's cattaker at Roosevelt Park G North have not yet been devided. |” iqualiflers, Including Lenore Mish- TE (he weather eopergtoe the @r of Ocean Falls, B.C. bettered | Dlayotts will eet Underway on ithe former record, Sara Barber, Last Night's Fights Tuesday Auge, 10 at. 7:00 pm and 13-year-old Brantford pirl, failed Ry The Assoclated Proga ‘hold be completed by Satuy. jlo qualify, day, Aue. 14, —— e BROOKLYN—Floyd Patterson, » ly 109, Brooklyn, slopped Tommy Considerable a: tivily is re. ‘ ported amuse tha ladies whe ape Standings whipping Into shape to fake on Yt pet. any, Harrison, 17014, Los Angeles 1, the men tomorrow evening at Hollywood mat ta |p eT Moy Aleoma Park. Lite Tearters | Polywood on IT at at | NEW YORK-—Frankle Fernan- o wish to feb Into ees | Sat, lesa ce aN ala 1, dea 43", Tonolule outpointed Who wish to get inte the MAN | Oukhind oo, 00 A tay, Li He nclll iy J . AS UnIplres OF eeorekeopors ye! San Frade Sab 6a “KOO Han, late Minelll, 148, Thaly 10, u 1 5 t ‘ TPs asked ta report to the park in Bhentaote, an Moma fe it NUPTE, Mont, — Max Chris, full uniform at 6:39 pan, Wed Porthind voc... Ba Id 4g agi, 18% Toorle, Utah, stopped Gone ; Med tas Angele WoT 40h ze Brixen 180, Sandp aint, Idaho 7, ¢ ve CMe ee fourth day of tho EAE We NAT MESSED ATHLETES Carry Cannda'a hopes into the Vrltish Mnplre Cuines In Vanenver, They rapragent, ovory Koction Of the country, Toam's wnt form de seurlet, bhasey edeed by while, Canada's enty ‘ ‘t " * 8, ery of 1b menthord ta the Inrgest, fram among whe many Commounwonlth Counttles compoling, ' List of Canada’s entries Tues- day in British Empire Games track and field events and their Women’s 220- yard dash— Games record, 24,3 seconds set in Norma Higgs, North Bay, Ont. 26.1; Annabell: Murray, Okotoks, “Alta., 26.1: Gerry Beuster, Van- 158 ft. 34 in. set in 1950 by Ian Reed, Australia: Canada’s en- Winnipeg, 157 ft. 6 ins Ken Swal- well, New Westminster, B.C. 153 Men's 220-yard dash — Games DOUG weight weight-lifting events. amazed coach of one of | SPOR day, baseball for times, | The Little Leagues e1 ‘sion and now the Bahe ' ’ | United States, ’ ’ 13-14-15 year age group and ball, . SCOUT’S DELIGHT three National -baseball ‘¢ham)p- jonships and is-gunning for a fourth, Big league scouts can do noth- ing but drool over Andy Wasil, dr, for the next two years until he gets out of high school, Then it will be up to him and his 'who now is a shipping clerk, to decide whether he turns pro or goes to college. . The young phenom’s father, how 42, goes over each game in detail the next day, trying to work out the mistakes, “Once he Games, Hepburn wil] vie with other the Games’ teams said, There is a big, deep-chested | t pitchine boy of 15 in Stamford, Conn,,| $1t pitching. Who has pitched the town ty father, a former semi-pro pitcher ight-lifting champion shown In Commonwealth barbell a Here, ijoyed a tremendous expan- Ruth League formerly the Little Bigger League is spreading to all corners of the + erin en ee ee es ma, t Youngsters who’ outerow the. looked slow fielding a bunt off Little League class move on to the- mound,” Andy senior said, this organization for boys in the. “! told him to be ready always to _tield his position. He eatches on eventually, play school or college ; Wick.” , CAN HI, TOO | Young Andy bats cleanup and In a recent tournament game ‘for the Connecticut title, Wasil ‘hit a ball into the top of a tree falmert 490 feet ivay in right 'field. They say il was the long- rest bal! hit at che Stamford , Park shi? Jol.nny ize hit one ;over the t-ces when St. Louis ‘Cardinals came through for an| exhibition, | ‘The youngster is just one of hundreds playing in approxi- mately 600 Babe Ruth Leagues in 40 states and Canada. A na- tional sponsor picks up the tab for this non-profit tax-exempt organization. Gyros Trampl e Elks 19.) "As Kelly Hurls One-Hitter Gyros of the unofficial] Pony League celebrated being able to play a rained out game last night | by trampling the hapless Elks 19-1 at Roosevelt Park. For Gyros it was a enance to fatten up batting averages as two Elk pitchers gave up a total of 15 hits, For Elks, the rout saw vnly one man reach first bass vy virtue of adit. Wesley Kelly, the winning plt- cher had a no-rui-no-hitter go- ing into the fourth, but three walks and a balk saw him wreek his ho run pame, Eddie Eyford was Inoved around the bases te the plate, ee et eee eee ee eater Spotlight Swings lo Fraser Valley For BEG Rowing By PETER MURRAY VEDDER CROSSING, B.C, —The British Empire Games spotlight swings 48 miles up the Fraser valley from Vaneatuver today for the frst acon of the two-day rowlapg events, Four races-—hoats In the shigle Hella and fours will bo run off, | Bill Lambie, in the sixth, put 'the Hd on Kelly's no-hitter when ihe collected the one and only hit j chalked up for the Elks. Hew- j ever, Lamble was stranded when Kelly struck out two to retire the side, Kyford was the siarier for the Elks and went three innings giy- Ing up 14 hits for all 19 runs, Lamble ceme im (o relieve, saw one man get on with an error walked «nother and struek out the nest two te retire the side However In tho fifth he gave ur two hits but no Gyro runs seored Gyros batted through the orde) in the first and fourth, By fore faclng thirteen men ty the flrst six men in othe fourth before Lambie came In to fave anothe) five t.en; Gyros scored ning rung in the first, Uhree In the talrd and gey- en in che fourth, Elks rdded Ohe Gyro cause with three eyrors In the first inning, and two in the fourth, Standin st Wok Pet. Gn GTO cere 6 3 HO MOOK0 vaccine, a .6d6 i, BIRKS voces ! fy, 6 SateneeenEnt a yenee peRaE NEON Ox Major League ay to the kids seems to be en Joying boom also plays the outticld when he! - tserious challenger a few ay