eR Bs de ee et Me Re ew Bt Tt Te eT ata ty - ete tt he ew me ew Bet eet ge Mag et ’ _. Predict Strange _ . National Pennant ri By ED WILKS. ye Associated Free Sports Writer . vt ws With less than eight weeks remaining, that brist- 7 ling. National League pennant. race may have a ‘+. gtvange wind-up. The honored home advantage may 4." prove-to be life Jonah and the whale—it ain’t neces- ' sarily so. co “3. St. Louis, in, first: place by a half.game, has more games. re- maining on the road (29) than at home (22), But the Cards are tops in the league with a 30-18 Ending eee Vw’ ee ees d vee hanes * 7 woe ewe eee Hen we oe ee eM ee eV wew t Race road mark for a 625 percentage. Second-place Milwaukee has 25 left at home, 25 left on the road but it shouldn’t matter either way. The Braves are ex- actly the same at home (31-21) as away. Brooklyn’s third-place Dodgers are best at home with a 31-20 record and play 26 of their remaining 50 at Ebbets Field. But that home bulge is padded with a 16-4 record against the tailenders and the remaining 26 games in Ebbets are split evenly among contenders and _ the three-team second division. The Dodgers added to their “set fat” trick against the Little Three with a 5-2 victory over New York Giants Monday night in the only league game sched- uled. Mike Garcia is a happy man today and small wonder. The big Cleveland Indians’ righthander beat New York Yankees Monday 7-2 with a nine~-hitter—the first time has has been able to beat the world champions since Aug. 3, 1955. - In the only game scheduled in the American. League, Garcia walked six but left 11 men stranded in breaking a Yankee win string at eight. : NATIONAL LEAGUE . wilh Pet. GBL St. Louis ...... 62 41 602 — Milwaukee ...... 62 42 596 Yo Brooklyn ...... GO 44 ? 577 = 2 Cincinnatl ...... 58 46 568 4! Philadelphin 57 48 543 #6 New York ....... 45 61 425 181 ‘ Cniecago ........ 36 66 353 25, Pittsburgh ...... 36 68 346 26! ee ee woe ee, er wwe 6 ee eee ee wt - 44) « pressure, ‘raat “ON alate “READY FOR BIG SWIM—Swimer Greta Ander:on ‘of Long Beach, Calif., gets a physical exam- ination before the big 15-mile centennial swim across Owen Sound bay on Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay, She was considered the favorite among eight women entered. Cliff Lumsdon of: Toronto, one of the male favorites, looks on as Dr. Douglas. Dyer of Owen Sound | tests her blood (CP Photo) Mounties Hammer 10 Hits To Drive Solons Down 7-1 ~ |day but he ee ee Lumsdon Sound — W, mn _ By MEL SUFRIN Canadian Press Staff Writer OWEN SOUND, Ont. (CP) — Cliff Lumsdon, tireless 26-year-old Tor- onto swimmer, won the 15-mile Owen Sound _ in- ternational swim Satur-' showed far more excitement watch- ing the tense battle for second place than in tak- ing the $5,000 first prize. Twenty minutes after Lums- don stepped from the waters of Owen Sound = harbor, having completed the course in a sur- prisingly fast six hours and 25 minutes, he heard an announce- ment that Greta Andersen, 28- year-old Danish-born swimmer from Long Beach, Calif., was making a courageous bid to overtake Tom Park, 33-year-old veteran. from Bellflower, Calif. “I've got.to see this,” said Lumsdon as he hurried out to watch the finish. He saw Miss Andersen, trailing Park by about 15 yards with 50 yards to go, put on a dazzling sprint to pass Park | in the last 10 yards and capture the second spot by“about 30 sec- onds; . SPEED. AMAZED CROWD Miss Andersen is the Olympic Frinee Rupcit Dally News ; Tuesday, August 6, 1095/7 : Soccer Interest Growing By DAVID QUINTON Canadian Press Staff Writer VANCOUVER ~The” future of soccer on the North American continent Hes in international play on the Pacifie Coast, claims 4 Yancouver soccer official. Bob Kelly, registrar of the British Columbia Football Asso- ciation, helieves there will never be a strong national competition between western and eastern Canadian teams, . “In B.C. we can play: soceer throughout the year, but-In the east It’s strictly a summer sport. And then it’s mostly too hot for comfort,” he sald. “Caillfornig coHegfes are en- couraging soccer on the camp- us and it seems likely that the sport will become more robust in North America by continual competition between American and Canadian teams,” he said. Soccer, played in B.C. now by 3,000 registered players, is on the upsurge. , Remember w hen wy The Canadian Press Hank Cieman, lanky Toronto walker, cracked George Gouid- Ing’s 1910 Canadian mark for the two-mile walk at Toronto 26 years ago. C.emnon. covered the distanee in the Ontario. track championships in 13:54.4, con:- pared with Goulding's 14:07.4. evorercoriae FR ODLE OP CE PD evrravreire? 100-metre freestyle champion ( Fi IS, and it’s no secret that she can | lpia Cores. swim a fast pace. But her burst | By The Canadian Press the Angels 6-2. of speed, happening as it did af- , Close Golf . ° ‘ San Diego at Portland meet-|ter she had been swimming for | . Vancouver Mounties hammered two Sacramento] ing was postponed because offmore than six hours, evoked ; ; . ‘ : . © ote t | rain. - gasps Of amazement from the | tor Western Canadian ontrenss pitchers for 10 hits and a 7-1 victory Monday night in; * Ww L_ Pct. GBL| crowd. Me r ; S ope : : 2 ., 3 francis 598 . Sate ‘ in the Canadian Ladies’ Close! Pacific Coast League baseball before 5,038 fans. Janeane ee ae AT ee, utes eee. finished 20 min- golf championship which wound| The Mounties opened up onj~~ — ; Tollywood ...... b6 63 585 8 fresh at the end "as she had . up here Saturday: Roger Bowman in the first in-| when Joe Frazier hit his 12th San Diego veteee 6 oo 582 ay lat the start and refused to be Jo-Ann -Percy, Brandon, 188-| ning to score three runs on four! homer of the s¢-1son. Los Angeles ... 5} Gl 492 15 rowed ashore preferring to My topic for today is the 87-275; Mona Morup, Calgary,| hits. Bowman stopped the! at Hollywood, the Stars’! Potiand 4474 373 26%] swim instead. | . humber one topic about the 187-95—282; Mrs. F. R. Glass,; Mounties until the sixth inning,!George Vico pinch hit a double ; Sacramento 44076867 87.1") Park ; q * topic c Prince Albert, 194-96--290: Hea. with none out in the ninth in-! - . . n contrast, Par was near, village green (hese fine days . ther Lawrence Clear Lake. Man ning, but the Stars couldn't ° collapse at the end. He was car-; and that is “what's with all ‘ nee, Vicar ake, ” ning, ne | ‘ ried on a stretcher to the medi-; this talk about the Rhythm roy or 208; Rac Milligan, Cal Golf Pros | Spener seattle won the sees | Roughriders, cal tent, He was suffering great! Pals—just what are they or who , . : : as oe . pain In Nis legs and was moan-! are they. Betty Stanhope, Edmonton, At San Francisco, young Bill : ne ° a 161-83_244: Mary Gay, Cal. Get Set Prout fanned 10 Los Anseles , ne 3s pe OF under blankets in The Rhythm Pals) my dear gary, 168-80—248; Mrs.. J. H. Angels for San Francisco to beat ouettes . hone wen, Aiter about half} people.were referred to by the Todd, Victoria, 169-84—253: Maryette Thornton, Edmonton, 193-98—291; Pat Kigegins, York_ ton, Sask., 192-98—290; Mrs. G. Balmos, Regina,:201-no score. AE inl \ Marlene. ' Top Star In Golf MONTREAL (CP)— Marlene Stewart Streit, Canada’s No. 1 woman golfer, starts out today in defence of her Canadian Lad- ies’ Open amateur title against 31 challengers. Entry of more than 100 was shaken down Monday in a’ tough qualifying round to 27 Canadian girls and four Amer- icans—-plus the poker-faced lit- tie champion from Fonthill, Ont. —for the perilous, swift elimin- ation match play competition, CHICAGO (#i—Virtually all of| the top name golf pros were | girding themselves today forthe start of the game’s richest event —the $101,200) "‘world” champ- ionship.” " * ee Gene Littler’s course record- matching 63 Mppnday all but overshadowed the fact that Roberto Vicenzo won the all- American title. . Vicenzo’s final 70 gave the hefty Argentine a 72-hole tally of 273-—-15 under par—and the $3,5Q0 first prize, Sam Snead was third with 273. Stan Leonard of Lachute, Que.., and Vancouver, shot a 69 and finished in an eighth-place tie with 171-70-74-69-—-284, earning $775. LONGEST RANGE The Andes Mountains, stretching 4,400 miles. of the Fouth American continent are the longest mountain chain in the world, Crenae ry A“ For the "Head" o om Mother: 6. eu \" one-way 0 For the round Juntor: and under IF YoU WANT ACTION! USE A WANT AD : in the PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS op eran © Betweon Faviern Canada Windsor, Sarnia and East) o United Statas. United States 0 Leaving Mondays, Tuesdays, @ Slop-over privileges @ 300 Ihe Bag Complete emy CP, or CANADIAN a EE Ee hate baa v — fs - og og oo gn ok tk ot ek mm oe ed One-Way adult Fare ” r For the round trip, aD RRC NO gre | under 22 years of age, aetna tiles V2 One-Way Fare For the round trip for children of § NOUR Es i IRA I cece es a OL I and West). Between Canada and Mid Between Wastern Conudu and Eastern Sev i Information fram _ NMED mar sore | GO EAS v! 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The advance sale of tickets for Eskimos scored a 14-11 victory} the game has been rolling along over British Columbia Lions! merrily since coach Frank Fil- Monday night for their second i chock of the Riders stated about victory in the three-game ex- 10 days ago that “easterners play hibition football series, but was a touch-and-go battle the way. all There was no. scoring. in the! Edmonton, it: dumb football.” He added that any of three clubs in the WIFU last year— Saskatchewan. or first quarter and the two west~ Winnipeg—could have beaten the cn Interprovineial Union clubs each scored con- verted touchdowns in the sec- ond quarter, . In the third quarter picked up a field goal single for an 11-7 lead. Fullback Normie Kwong dash- td the, hopes of Lions’ rooters among the 14,019 fans who saw the contest In clear summer weather. . ‘In the: fourth — quarter — the chunky: battering: ram. made Lions and a the. last plunge’ of nine. yards whe _ BO posts without the ypormal “handican of three or four Lion tacklers., Re ee ere cae Rt = me Mee Fes Crt ee Last Night's Fights Dallas (#---Zara Folley, 109, Phoenix, stopped *dgardo Ro- mero, 240, Argentina, 6, New York (# — Danny Russo, 148, Brooklyn, outpolnted Eddie Lynch, 151, New York, 8 New Orleans (W—Herble Rad- riguez, 163, New Orleans, stop- ped Caobey McCluskeh, 162%, Halifax, 6. Footba!]! Alouettes for the Grey Cup. Montreal football fans are ap- parently anxious to see jf the WIFU has such an edge on the Big Four and just how good the Roughriders are. On yMper and on their record in thelr only ex- hibition game so far this year they look plenty good. NO INJURY PROBLEMS Filehock has been putting his team through workouts at the Macdonald. College grounds at nearby.’ “Ste, Anne-de-Bellevue ahd reported no serious Injuries for the, game, 7.’ ing “In thelr only exhibition ‘con- test this year the Riders hum- bled Toronto Argonauts 30-09 In a rough brttle that erupted Into Q fourth-quarter brawl. The Als also have an impres- sive exhibition record, having smothered Kitchener - Waterloo Dutchmen and Calgary Stam. eders in pre-season matches, Injuries are stl plaguing the Big Four champions, however, with Johnny Mujors, Ken Owen, Johnny Blacher and Tommy Morn all) Vsted as doubtful starters. —_ Key ‘tay atti ben, N Whatever yeu're saving fer~-betier save af The BANK ef NOVA SCOTIA! an hour was he able to sit up. TO TRY CHANNEL Miss Andersen, who plans to visit her native Denmark and then try to swim the English Channel both ways, earned $3,- 500 for her efforts, $2,000 for be- ing the first woman to finish M.C, on the CBC Summertime Show from Stanley Park just recently as Canada's fastest rising group of talented enter- tainers and that is just about what they are. . Aside from the Local Boy Makes Good aspect of the com- and $1,500 for placing second among. all swimmers, Park, who had raced head and head with Lumsdon aver the first nine miles before fading against the steady stroking of the powerful Toronto swimmer, recelved $750. , John Lacoursiere, 21, of Mon- treal, the early leader was over. taken by Park and Lumsdon around the seven-mile mark and was also passed by Miss Ander- sen, finishing fourth, 10 min- utes behind Greta to win $500. 12 OR 30 FINISH Thirty swimmers started but only 12, lve of them girls, fin- ished. Second among the wom- en, and ninth generally, was Murle) Ferguson of Toronto who won $1,000. She was followed. by Lies Put Jamnicky, 29-year-old. Duteh girl from Montreal, $500: l7-year-old Doreen Georve of Toronto, $100, and Aloma Keen, 15-year-old Montreal girl and the youngest swimmer jn ‘the race, $50. “ Aloma pleaded time and time agin with her conch to take her out. But she had told him be- fore the race to ipnore such pleadings and he did Just that. The race was onminally to have been three Japs around a fiveemfe triangular conse fn the outer Harbor where the tem- perature of the water was about 65 degrees. Bul officials, fear- ing show, we are to see the self same fads who are now on ‘Trans Canada hookups with the CBC, are on CBC TV weekly and are featured daily on CKWX at Vancouver, a station which Shortly will be heard all over western Canada since its power will be a. cool fifty thousand watts come August 15(h. When FE mention local boy makes good Fof course speak of Jack Jensen who grew up with miny of us and behind some of us and whe was an unknown mimie at Wilf Carter as fae back as 1942 when he left us to seck fame and fortune. Today Mr. Jensen has that air that makes a professional stand owt in a crowd and he is looking forward to seeing many ‘of you that went to school with him and for: that vmatter many of you that didn't go to school at aul i. The RUVTUIM PALS are a eversidile lotoand will. prove that point by the style of their show, Phey have reeently ape peared on the Lawrence Wells show--TV from Wollywaod — Which we were unable to pict up duce te technfeal abffieundties —Frank Wowiard please copy, Dhad the pleasure of attend- Ing a coupte of REWTHM PALS Shows recently at CKWKN where the dnily show calls for a vepe Ine the wind would mnake the water there too rough, decided that after one tour of the five. mile course, the remainder of the race would be sround a one. mile course Inside the bay where the water was calmer nithangh hoveral degrees colder, Muyor Willan) Forsyth — of Owen Bound sald the $12,000 kWwim witnessed by aa many as 4,000 persons ab one tine, was so aiceeBArU that it would pro- bably be held next year agato and might became an annual event, tee Om Og ce ae Te same Dead ESR tgM erent Le dtTEET 8 agp fotos ome gw oma Vow is the Tine To Check Your PRINTING NEEDS DIBB crlotre that defies imagina- ion, From Roel 'n Roll to spire Halsall in the 4h minute pro- Brim presents no ahstacle to (his fine: group and each day of course variety is the password, The RUM PALS will ar rive In Prince Rupert on CVA nt hoon ov therenhouts: There. day next and will entertain at Miller Bay Hospltal Chiat alters Hoon ahs pan. Teds hoped that (hoy will precent themselves at One ar mniore af the local reaard bars at (80 pan. on Felday and Raturday to nutarraph seme of Chele records and meat a few mf (heir tans, More partloutars On (hele itinerary lader tn dhe Wwaek, , Ko there you have it and by the way Jack Jenin drives a Chrysler Produes whieh puts Who duat a litle above (he ard. Inary ontertainer, Tonite on aur tnent 20 wat fer you will hive wo speatod sale Wie to Prinen Ripert iy tie WUIVTVIN VALS ontorting at WAN ad rnd Fie Ane Jovahlo minutes, Tone tn wan't vou. ' To (he meanthne UM he at Rupert Motors, Aut Murvay a Printing Company wreverees COTIIISEOEITEEECOIOC TUE