t. 20 rah OTTAWA JOURNAL THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1940. Vancouver Gagers Win First Game of .Canadian Finals sr Figure Prominently in Swimming Meet Maple Leafs Triumph, 33-26 ; Another Honey Cloud Wins 4th Stake Over Montreal Y.M.H.A. Angle In Rags-to-Riches Showing —By JACK MAUNDER Former Selling Plater Heads Dixie Handicap Deadly Shooting of Western Challengers CAN-AM baseball gets away to- Plays Important Role—Captain Joe Ross Stars day on four fronts with Sen- As Pimlico Prepares for Preokness ators, who are ours when they're not Ogdensburg's, at Oswego. The Hy Lit K MITCHELL. Kossy, tall centre, bagged five on BALTIMORE, Md , May 8.—iW worth and Belair stud's Isolator rest of the opening day program —Honey Cloud, a former selling was making a belated bid. MONTREAL, May 8. — tCP) — three free shots and a basket. includes two first starts. "Knotty" plater that's just as game as horses But they couldn't make Honey Tast-breaking plays. capped by Other Y.M.H.A. scorers were Joe Lee's new Auburn nine is at Rome. come, capped his rags-to-riches Cloud call it quits and he lasted dead:y sniping around the basket, Waxman, with three points and the Oneonta newcomers are at career today with a hard-earned just long enough to stave off his Bernie Ziff and Dickie Ditkofsky gate Vancouver Maple Leafs a Utica. victory in the $20,000 added challengers. Filisteo, second by with two each. Dixie Handicap at Pimlico. a nose, beat out Aethelwold by 33-26 victory over Montreal Y.M. Smaller but a little faster. Senators were stripped to The six-year-old chestnut geld- the same margin. Isolator was H.A. tonight in the first game of Y.M.H.A. sprang into an early lead ing owned by Mrs. A. J. Abel and another two lengths back in a test-of-fiti a series for the Do- and held it for almost seven min- fighting trim yesterday by releases and options. By the trained by her husband. Whitey fourth place. minion senior basketball title. utes. Then Henderson sank a free Abel. barely stuck his nose out in It was Honey Cloud's fourth throw that put Vancouver ahead Ume they are hosts to Oneonta The w et ern champions, on a week tomorrow, "Cy" front to beat H. C. Hatch's Filisteo stake victory since Maryland's the average almost two inches 7-6. and Montreal never again held in a photo finish for the winner's Spring season opened, the one- the lead. Young, the new pilot, should taller than their opponents, know what he's got. purse of $18,250. time plater won the Rowe Mem- wade good use of their extra The game remained close, how- Honey Cloud led all the way orial and Southern Marylane height around the baskets. 1 ever, until about the 15-minute over the mile and three-sixteenths handicaps at Bowie and the Git- They piled up a 19-11 lead mark of the first session. Then, After appearances today and to- route but needed all his courage tings at Pimlico. He was beaten at half-time, and fought off after Waxman made good on a free morrow at Oswego. Senators play and all his power to repel the in the Philadelphia handicap at a Y.l.H-A rally in the final shot to tie the count at 11-11, the three games with the Amsterdam challenges of the other stout run- Havre De Grace by Masked Gen- period k keep all but a point Leafs opened a wide gap for the champions. Two more with Os- ners in the field of seven. eral, an also ran today. wego at Ogdensburg and one with of their advantage at the end first time. At the half-way mark With Henri Mora giving him. a The 36th running- of the Dixie Oneonta at the same place com- et the game. they led by eight points. rousing good ride, the son of High was the curtain-raiser for the pletes the tune-up for Lansdowne Cloud-Honey Pot ran the distance Maryland Jockey Club's "four The.r shooting apparently off Losers Crowd Leafs. Park. A good home start would in 1.58 3-5, only two seconds golden days" of racing, to be cli- throughout, the eastern titlists Soon after the rest penod, Hoc- mean much. kenstein netted a basket and two slower than Seabiscuit's track maxed with the Golden Jubilee nonetheless came within one point record. He paid $15.20 for 52. running of the Preakness stakes of tying the score in their second- successive free shots that cut Van- Jerry LaGrave, well-known The pack was close on Honey on Saturday. half rally Paced by Joe Rich- couver's lead to five points. Then, former Ottawa athlete, has Cloud's heels throughout the race. Three colts eligible for the $50.- man, stocky forward who bagged after Henderson bagged a field left Kirkland Lake for an air but the real test came in the home- 000 added classic ran in support- eight points in all, Y.M.H.A. cut goal for the Leafs, Richman engineer's job at Toronto's stretch. mg races on the program today 'Vancouver's lead to 22-21 with gave Y.M.H.A. two field goals and Above are pictured a croup of the younger members who helped the Paramount Swimming Club dominate the field in the Ottawa and District Swimming championships at the Plant Bath, Saturday. Melton airport. He left a All the way down that long and all were beaten, with the re- about 10 minutes to go, but the Kossy scored a free throw, leaving From left to right, they are: Wendy Hughson, Joan Milks, Marjorie McCaffrey. Betty Styran. Patsy tine record up North as a dash for home, Filisteo and W. L. sult that the possible starting Leafs opened up again. Montreal within a single point of Greene and Nora Cole. hockey and baseball official. Brann's Aethelwold were pressing field for the Preakness has been tying the score. Honey Cloud for all they were reduced to about 10 horses. Res Outstanding. Ross carne into the game at this Centre Joe Ross, captain and point, however, and Vancouver re- Montreal sources report there acting manager of the Leafs, was . gained command. has been no formal application Japanese Star Beats Longson Volants on the sidelines during Montreal's , A crowd of about 1.200 attend- from Hull for a Q.S.H.L, Eight-Team League Possible Sailors, Tech franchise, as yet. There n as some rally sad yhen he carne on Van- ; ed the match. Second game of the ' couver forged ahead again. Ross series w•W be played here tomor- Bob Wagner New Mat Villain talk earlier. The Q.S.H.L. will made :t 24-21 on his return and row night and a third game Set- consider applications and other For Mercantile Softball the Rann Matthison bagged a t urday. Others, it needed, will be business Friday in an afternoon field goal to make the margin played Monday and Tuesday. In Cage Finals Coast Grappler 'Turns It On' Against meeting which winds up the sea- earrlbrtable once more. The box score: son. Sailors' Application Accepted, Three New Art Willoughby and Jim Bards- Vancouver. Morrisburg Sailors and Tech Sexton—Two Fans Fight at Ringside Amateur baseball is having it- Teams Seek Berths—Four Holdovers ley, !sigh stores for the Leafs, put p pF Under-Grads made the finals in FG FT FTM self a time. The St. Lawrence the gas ea ice during the final 8 0 their divisions of the Spring With another brilliant perform- board, Wagner was attempting to Bardsley, f 3 0 0 League annual meeting pro- An eight-team league is possible The election of officers resulted minutes Willoughby, who netted ' g o basketball tournament at the hog-tie his rival in the ring ropes Willoughby, f 3 3 2 ance, Dr. Oki Shekina, Japan's nounced the E.O.B.A. deadline for in the follow mg being elected: rise points altogether, notched a 4 o Y.M.C.A. last night and qualified where he formed a wide-open tar- this Summer, it was learned at Ross, c ... 1 2 4 contribution to professional heavy- declaring a winner as impossible Honorary presidents. H. C. Mc- two-point basket with about five' to meet the victors in tonight's get for a rousing attack consisting the annual meeting of the Ottawa Matthison, g . 2 0 0 4 1 weight wrestling ranks, conquer- to meet. In the city the outcome Carthy and E. F. Copping: honor- tasiae1n to go and Bardsley sank Henderson, f . 2 1 0 5 3 brackets. of left hooks to the chin, elbow Mercantile Softball League last ed "Wild Bill" Longson in the depends on an Allard-Nolan meet- ary vice-presidents, J. J. Lunn. two mere in succession to give the Watson, f ... 1 0 1 2 1 Sailors trimmed Glebe Grads by smashes, kidney punches and just main event of last night's wrest- ing tonight and a city session Fri- night at the Y.M.C.A. Repre- W. H. McIntyre, Fire Chief Leafs a safe margin. Beaton, f .... l 0 0 2 2 60-32 and will take on the winner about everything short of mayhem. ling show at the Auditorium be- The fans carne looking for an ex- day. sentatives were on hand from four ()Kelly, Charles Hickman, H.