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SURPRISING SLUMP Braves are back home tonight for the first of a four-game ser- ies with St. Louis Cardinals, whose slump is every bit as sur- prising and sudden as Milwau- kee’s surge. The Redbirds lost their ninth in a row—their long- est’ skid since 1947-—with a 4-1 seb back at Chicago. The seventh place Cubs now are 9-7 over Cards—and have beaten Braves In seven of 13. Brooklyn stayed in third place, also 814 back and within one percentage point of St. Louis, as Dodgers twice blew leads and lost to Giants 9-4 in the only other game scheduled. Hank Aaron, the league bat leader, but with a poor .273 av- erage during the first nine games of Milwaukee’s. streak hammered across five runs with a pair of homers, pushing his major league’ lead “to. 34, as Braves swung for 12 hits. Eddie Mathews and. ex-Redleg Bob Hazle, an outfield replacement who has hit .586 with 10 RBI in the streak, also homered for Mil- wajikee. — oF WINS. HIS 13TH . Warren Spahn, who with Bob Buhl has won three in Braves’} streak, won his 13th . with . an eight-hitter, losing a shutout on an unearned run.in the second. That gave the Milwaukee staff a 2.40 earned run average for the 10 games with seven complete}. games, Chicago White Sox, known as the “go-go Sox” because of the speed and. daring tactics with which they run the bases, have slowed down a little in their bid for the American League pen- nant but they still get full mile- age from every hit. Thursday, Chicago hatters managed only seven singles against ‘Cleveland’s .Don Mossi but turned them into four runs. The four runs weren’t enough, however, as the Tribe scored five unearned runs in the sixth in- ning four of them on shortstop Chico Carrasquel’s grand-slam home run, for a 5-4 triumph. The victory ended a six-game losing streak for the sixth-place a * wn 17 1k An i IF YOU WANT ACTION! USE A WANT AD in the PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS Indians and dropped Chicago 514%, games behind | league-leading New York Yankees. Yanks defeated Boston 6-3 as Gil McDougald drove in fnree. runs, two with an eighth-inning homer while Ted Williams push- ed his batting average to .393 with a double and a single in three trips. Yanks’ Mickey Mantle, run- ner-up in the batting race, slip- ped to .380 as he struck out swinging twice and walked three times. In the only other game, Kan- sas City whipped Detroit ‘7-2. Cleveland’s victory was Mossi's ninth against seven losses. GEORGE DAWES AUCTIONEER Phone 6032 and 2952 such thoughts yards along the ground as they Matto oy ve wee woe CANADIANS LEAD LEAGUE—Canadian youngsters, _} RCAF personnel serving. with Canada’s NATO air division at- Metz, France, are leading a four-team baseball league of boys under 13.years of age. The other youngsters France Little American League are sons of United States per- sonnel. Winding up is Johnny Cassidy, son of WO J. C. Cassidy of Hamilton who pitched a no-hitter, WO Bill. Ward of Edmonton, pitching coach; outfielder Brian Campbell, son of Cpl. L. F. Campbell of Courtenay, BC., and Rick Vandecasteyen, who also pitched a no-hitter, son of Cpl. Leo Vandecasteyen of Ladysmith, B.C, sons of in the Eastern G& A Pos wer Upsets - Hotelmen By KEN SPECHT | Dally News Sports writer: a4 The stalwart pitching’ or ‘Bill Christianson and the able back- jing and hitting of his. teatn mates proved just tod. much for ‘ba hard fighting Hotelmen crew as they were swept fora 9-2 loss in a Prince Rupert and District baseball league playoff game, by Gordon and Anderson. | The win advances Gordon and _| Anderson into the finals against the winner of the Esquire-Ter-'! race series, scheduled for Sunday home on Giordano’ s grounder to first. ‘GWA let loose’ in the bottom | of the third as Christianson and: Smith each grounded out. and) a:double and .Syd Scherk a) single, Before the end of ‘the. inning G & A had piled up four runs. They consolidated their lead | in the sixth and seventh with five runs, including a booming double oft the left field fence by Others (left. to right): Rick is the (CP from National Defence) WALLOP BOMBERS 21-14 No Stopping Esk _. WINNIPEG (CP)—Anyone powerful running attacks that has carried Edmonton Eskimos to three straight Canadian titles might be slowing down can forget about it. The Eskimos dispelled: any, by rolling. 228 | marched to a 21-14 victory over Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Western Interprovincial Football | _ Thigsday Union ~ opener here night. They added another 107 yards through the air and picked ‘up 21 first downs in the game watched by 18,029 fans. 4 After giving Bombers a; slim 1-0 lead in the first quarter,. Ed- monton tied the score on jhe first play of the second and then added a converted touchdown before half time. After trailing 15-7 at three- quarter time, Bombers moved to within one point of Edmonton with six minutes left. An attempted short kick by Winnipeg following their - see- ond major. score backfired and Edmonton gained control of the ball at mid-field and marched to its third touchdown. Big Johnny Bright | ded Eski- who thought the B-H Perma- Wnty Gordon's McBride Street -coat rea ae Mein) Venus Yul Yorn WY oesenne ny © Easy fe apply _ brushes freely! © Controlled chalking stays whitel oh net discolored by smoke and umes! @ Roslte mildew! © Fconamical — becaues I-Coul does @real jobl Hardware Phone 3317 mos with two touchdowns and Jackie Parker added another. Joe Mobra booted two .converts and Bill Walker kicked a single. Quarterback Kenny, Ploen. “and halfback’ Gordie Rowland scored Bomber touchdowns. Buddy Leake converted one. Homebrew ‘Gerry Vincent, who averaged 44 yards on“ 13 kicks, scored 4 first- | quarter single. COMPLETES SIX PASSES | Don Getty, who called signals ‘or Edmonton, completed six of 15 passes for 107 yards. Ploen,, with assistance from’ Leake, was good on eight of 15 throws for | 138 yards. Headed by Leo Lewis, Bombers gained 112 yards along the ground and picked up 13 first: downs. i Vincent opened the scoring when Oscar Kruger was rouged by Dick Donlin on a 34-yard punt. Bil} count in the second on a boom-. ing 43-yard hoof. Edmonton went for 73 yards. and their first touchdown bhe- fore halftime. A third-down 20-yard pass from Getty to Parker set up Bright for h®& first touchdown and he went = over from the two as the pun sound- ed, Mobra missed the convert but Bombers were offside on the play and he made no mistake with his second chance, In the third qunrter, a 64-yard pass play from Ploen to Lewis left Winniper on Eskimos’ 21- ‘yard line, After Leake was dumped for an elght yard loss on the next play, Tenke passed to Ploen at the poal line for an un- converted touchdown, Don Hartwig and a Hotelmen error, for a 9-1 lead.” Determined not to give up be- fore the last piteh, Hotelmen managed to get two more runs across in the top of the eighth. However, their efforts were in vain as the game was called be- cause of darkness. . Highlights of the game were the three for three batting of Bill Christianson and his solid pitching performance. |. - In his eight-inning stint he gave up eight hits, ‘three: walks and struck out six... Losing pitcher. Cameron was tagged for 15 hits; allowed two walks and fanned four. Hotelmen .... 100 000 02x—3 8 4 G & A 004 003 2xx—9 13 1 One Hitter Does Job — For Wahls Two Walhs' pitchers, S. Stand- ring and E. Evans, limited Booth j} to one hit ‘to hurl their team to a 10-7 victory in a Prince Rupert women's softball league game Wednesday. Booth drew 14 ‘bases on balls the last three innings. Booth pitcher J. Mulhérn al- lowed 7 hits and two walks. Walhs 260 111 1-10 7 3) Booth 000 032 2— 7 1 13 | S. Standring, E, Evq@ns = and Currie; J, Miwhern and McKay. Walker evened the |” askimos took the kickoff and on the fourth play Bright raced from the Winnipeg 42 for 197 yards and lateralled to Parker ag he was hit. Parker went over without a hand on him. Mobra's vonvert was pood and Ysks lead 16-7, Is It a Record You Want? ELVIS PRESLEY Or N.Y, MUSICAL HITS We Have Tham All RUPERT RADIO & ELECTRIC ager Beer come from Carling’! ‘PHLOUNER LAGER Buen. "UNG QONENIAN LOguR Buen BU ted Ave, quinn Pk Rt pe OHA Oe ge Lh en in Prince ‘Rupert. . ‘ The game last night sawl. Hotelmen grab.an ‘early. lead" — from G.& A when McKay slid)’ ‘and three bases on ertors for: Uueir seven runs, all coming In. brewed in B. om sald in B. Co BI joyed everywhere in CANADA LAGK LABEL RED GAP vie the bese brews in the world VUE CLRUUERNGD OUEWTOIEE (9.6.) Liviven (formerly Voncovver Qrewerien L1¢.) OLD COUNTRY ALE > 40 eevaw sveur e’ ¥eince Rupert Doliy Wewa «-| Rademacher | riday, August, 16, 1957 FOLLOWS. famous father | —_ Pete . Conacher, 25-year-old son of Charlie Conacher, his signed a contract to play with the National Hockey League’ teant. Petc, whose father was ‘aA-member of Toronto Maple _Leats famed Kid Line, played iast season with Buffalo in thy: American Hockey League. In training camp this fall he will -be-tried..out on a line with centre Tod Sloan and right- winger Ron Stewart. (CP Photos 1S tars ‘Upset Mounties : Ben Wade, with an assist fr om |" Fred Waters, pitched the Holly- wood ‘stars toa 3-1 win over Vancouver. Thursday nigh Pacific: Coast League play. The win, Wade’s eighth, stop- ped the. Mounties in their pur- | suit of. front-running Sau Fran- elsco Seals who broke a mid- game tie and went on to post an easy 13-6. victory over Portian. “Homers by Earl Battey and Steve _Bilko drove in three runs in’ the: seventh inning as Los Angeles edged .past San Diexo 3-2, - ’ At Seattle, Duane Pillette lim- ited Sacramento to four hits as he pitched Seattle to a 2-0 shut- out win. 113934, in B. _ Title Bid Considered SEATTLE (w—-The Floyd Pat- terson camp indicated Thursday Pete Rademacher is not being taken lightly in his quest for the world heavyweight champion- ship although most boxing ex- perts agree the olympic. games titlist hasn’t a chance and the odds are ajmost anything you want to call them. Rademacher,’ who won the olympic games heavyweight medal last year, will make his professional debut when he steps into the ring against: Patterson Aug. 22. Patterson rates gen- erally as a 10-1 favorite a week before the enrzagement. Cus D'Amato, Pattersons’s manager, is one who says he re- fuses to regard Rademacher as an easy mark. Recalling that Patterson was an olympic games winner in 1952, D’Amato said he always felt that. Patterson. could have come out al that time and whip- ped Bobo Olson, who was one of the ranking pros. LAST NIGHT‘S FIGHTS By The Associnted Press Angeles—Ike Chestnut, Los 1127, New York, outpointed Eres- Parra, 127, Mexico City, 10. Fresno, Calif.-Rudy, Jordan, Los Angeles, ‘ outpointed 136%, Philip- to Tonmmy Romulo, pines, 10. Chatham, N.B.—Yvon Durelle, 175, Baie Ste. 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