Canadiens drop bombshell by unloading rich talent MONTREAL CD Arc the nor of the Vczina Trophy as ailing Montreal Canadiens re building or looking frantically for a miracle Whatever the once powerful Canadiens have in mind they dropped a bombshell Tuesday at the National Hockey Leagues annual meeting by un unloading ¬ loading some rich talent In an unexpected seven player swap with New York Rangers the Canadiens gave up colorful Houston 000 000 0011 C 0 Miller 4 2 Perranoski 9 and Roseboro Drott 2 3 McMahon 8 and Campbell Milwaukee 000 000 0033 5 1 New York 100 000 1002 C 0 Hendley Raymond 4 3 i Piche 9 Shaw 9 and Ucckcr Torre 9 Willey 4 5 4 5 Cisco 9 Bearnarth 9 and Sherry American League W L Pef GBL Baltimore 31 20 603 New York 26 18 591 Hi Chicago 30 21 583 1 Kansas City 26 22 542 3i Minnesota 25 24 510 5 Boston 23 23 500 5Mi Los Angeles 25 28 472 7 Cleveland 20 25 444 8 Detroit 20 23 417 9tt Washington 18 35 340 14 Chicago 000 000 OOOO 3 1 Los Angeles 010 000 OOx 1 8 0 Peters 3 3 Wilhelm 8 and Car- the leagues top goalie winger Don Marshall and centre Phil Govcttc all established NHL stars In return they got only one veteran Ranger goalie Lome Gump Worslcy and three un proven youngsters wing wingers ¬ ers Dave Balon Leon Roche fort and Len Ronson The Canadiens are rebuild- ling said llante obviously Jacques llante sk timc win- pained at being traded but rcc 6jjf e r ennant Vh ICace By The Canadian Press National League W L Pet GBL San Francisco 31 20 608 St Louis 30 22 577 Hi Chicago 23 23 549 3 Los Angeles 28 23 549 3 Cincinnati 24 23 511 5 Pittsburgh 2t 21 500 51i Philadelphia 23 27 4G0 7i Milwaukee 23 27 460 Vh Houston 22 31 415 10 New York 20 33 377 12 Los Angeles 101 000 0002 6 0 Pacific Coast League Northern Division W L Pet GBL Tacoma 31 19 G20 Spokane 28 26 519 5 Seattle 23 23 500 G Hawaii 21 27 471 7li Portland 23 26 4G9 7i Southern Division Dallas 1t Wrth 30 23 566 San Diego 29 25 537 Hi Oklahoma City 24 26 480 4li Denver 25 28 172 5 Salt Lake City 16 30 348 101i San Diego 000 000 0000 3 1 Dallas Port Woith 010 000 03 4 5 0 Ellis RiDpelmeycr 8 and Saul Stange and Henry W Stangc 5 1 L Ellis 5 4 Denver 203 000 0103 7 2 Spokane 000 120 0014 12 1 Ribant and Roof Ortega Moellcr 1 Smith 8 Rowe 8 and Brumley Rowe 4 1 L Ribant 2 3 HR Spokane Ferrara Hawaii 110 004 000 G 8 2 Oklahoma City 000 010 0001 G 0 Sovde and White Golden Mixon 6 Jones 9 and Smith W Sovde 4 5 L Golden 1 3 HRs Hawaii Simpson Oklahoma City Heist Queens down Shell 11 5 Querns continued their win- reon Martin 8 Osinski 4 1 andlning ways in Senior Ladies E Sadowski Softball League action last night Minnesota 013 000 010 5 9 Oi with a convincing 11 5 victory Kansas City 000 000 0000 4 1 over Shell Interiors Perry 4 3 and Battey Rakow The game played at Con 6 3 Segui G Willis 8 Fischer and Edwards HRs Minn Battey 11 Allison 11 Boston 000 000 0000 5 1 Washington 000 001 00 1 6 0 Wilson 4 5 Radatz 8 and Nix Nixon ¬ on Cheney 5 6 and Retzer HR Wsh Lock 9 Detroit 202 000 0004 6 0 uieveianu uuu iw ou o xv c seventn Lolich Aeuirre 4 5 7 Sturdi- QueenS racked up a total of vant 7 and Triandos Latman 23 hUs off L chartrand while Walker 3 1 C Abernathy 8 and Dorcen Baaski gae up 19 in Azcue HRs Cle Adcock 6 fr uiMln rnntost - 1 1 1 i w -- S jjc ua uu x New York 010 000 0001 5 0 Baltimore 000 020 Olx 3 6 0 Terry 6 5 Hamilton 8 and Howard Barber 9 4 Ghall 9 and Brown HRs NYk Mantle 11 Bit Powell 9 Majors leaders By The Associated Press American League AB R II Pet Malzone Bos 170 Wagner LA 181 Causey KC 168 Kahne Det 181 17 58 341 28 61 337 21 55 327 33 59 32G Robinson Chi 173 28 56 324 Thins Allison Minnesota 38 Runs batted in Wagner and Allison 38 Hits Pearson Los Angeles 64 Doubles Versalles Minne Minnesota ¬ sota 16 Triples Hinton Washington 8 Home runs Allison 14 Stolen bases Apancio Balti Baltimore ¬ more 16 Pitching Stotk Baltimore 5 0 1000 Strikeouts Barber more 77 Haiti- National League AB R II Tct Covington Pha 134 23 47 35 Groat St L 214 30 73 341 White St L 210 39 69 329 rwla KF 194 35 63 325 Hover St L 197 21 63 320 Runs Flood St Louis 47 Runs batted in F Alou aan Francisco 40 Hits Groat 73 Doubles Cepeda 16 Triples Brovk and Williams Chicago Skinner Cincinnati and Flood 5 Home runs JL Aaron Mil Milwaukee ¬ waukee 16 Stolen bases Robinson Cin- itnnati 13 Pitching ODell San Fran Franco ¬ co l 889 StrSkeouts Drysdale Los An- geles 90 Trade statistics By The Canadian Press The seven plaver trade New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens engineered in Mont real Tuesday is the biggest Na Chicago Black Hawks Dec 17 1957 have so many plavers changed NHL uniforms at one time In that Red Wings Rlack Hawk trade Detroit sent for wards Bill Dineen Lome Fer Ferguson ¬ guson Billy Dea and Earl Rei bel to Chicago receiving for forwards ¬ wards Nick Mickoski Bob Bal ley Jack Mclntyre and llec La Lande The two biggest deals in quan tity in NHL history however involved nine players each time and Detroit figured in both On July 13 1950 the Wings traded goaltender Harry Lunv ley defencemen Jack Stewart and Al Dewsbury and forwarus Pete Babando and Don Morri Morrison ¬ son to Chicago The Hawks in turn gave up goalkeeper Jim Henry defenceman Bob Gold ham and forwards Metro Prys tai and Gaye Stewart The other pine player deal also involved a Detroit goalie Terry Sawchuk He was dealt along with forwards Marcel Bo nin Vic Stasiuk and Lome Davis to Boston Bruins for forwards Ed Sandford Real Chevrefhls and Norm Corcoran defenceman Warren Godfrey and goaltender Gilles Boisvert onciled that hell find a new ca career ¬ reer in New York RANGERS HELPED The Rangers helped them themselves ¬ selves at three different posi positions ¬ tions in this deal said veteran defenceman Doug Harvey a long time teammate of Plantes before joining the Rangers two seasons ago Im getting the best goal- tender in the business said a beaming George Red Sullivan rookie New York coach Why shouldn t I be pleased If I do my job right it wont be any different was Wor Worslcy ¬ slcy s reaction to the trade Both Plantc and Worslcy arc 34 Canadiens had tried to get goalie Glen Hall of Chicago Black Hawks but the deal fell through Canadiens kept silent about the deals which undoubtedly will precipitate more trading today when the NHLs intcr lcague draft is held to end the conference Chicago announced the acqui acquisition ¬ sition of Billy Reay as coach to replace fired Rudy Pilous Reay had been prominently mentioned as Pilous successor Im pleased with this chance Reay said Isnt it every coachs ambition to coach in the best league7 WAS TORONTO COACH Reay coached Buffalo Bisons the Chicago farm team to the American Hockey League championship this vear His plajing dajs in the NHL werej with Montreal and he had n brief stint as coach of the Tor 1 onto Maple Leafs I In another trade Chicago dealt defenceman Ron Ingram and goalie Roger Crozicr of St Louis in the Eastern Profes Professional ¬ sional League to Detroit Red Wings for an unnamed plaver In the NHL draft from the minor pros Detroit picked up four players Canadiens two and Boston Bruins New York and Chicago one each Most will be sent to NHL farm teams Canadiens also surrendered veteran defenceman Tom John Johnson ¬ son inactive for part of last season with a serious eye in injury ¬ jury Johnson was claimed by Boston Bruins for the waiver price of 20000 Later Bruins were In touch with Johnson who told them he was confident his eye had heated sufficiently to allow him to join the team this season PROTECT MOORE Canadiens had put left winger I Dickie Moore on the protected naught Field saw Queens come from behind to take a 6 5 lead Sl ailuuB vau after five innings In the sev seventh ¬ enth they exploded for five more counters to sew up the contest Pat Le Febvre and Edna Stitt were the big guns for Queens with a homer each Both came back to back in the fatal has announced his intention to retire from hockey The four Dlavcrs drafted bv Detroit were forward Norm Beaudin Hull Ottawa EPHL defenceman Ian Cushenan Buf Buffalo ¬ falo AHL centre Hank Ciesla Cleveland AHL and forward Adam Keller Baltimore AHL Montreal took forward Ralph Keller a brother of Adam Kel ler from Baltimore and for forward ¬ ward Don Blackburn from King Kingston ¬ ston of the EPHL New York acquired forward Gord Labossiere from Sudbury of the EPHL and Chicago plucked goalie Jack McCartan former US Olympic netminder from Los Angeles of the WHL Plantes trade was a corn- tional Hockey League swap in I pictc surprise more than five years anu u ranks with the biggest of all time The Canadiens gave up three seasoned men goaltender Jacques Plante and forwards Phil Goyette and Don Marshall in exchange for veteran net minder Lome Worsley and left singers Dave II a I o n Leon Rochefort and Len Ronson Not since an eight player deal between Detroit Red Wings and PROPER FOOTWORK The movement of yov fe ouiino K the golf swing determines to a very arear extent the way your entire body will react Therefore proper foot- work is a key to proper balance weight shift in the swing flMwl vi fir vV JH I fe2 V W W TORONTO -BORN LARRY GAINS JOB AS A London scrap collector doesnt leave him much time to reminisce about his heyday as one of Canadas greatest boxers Now 63 and nedrly broke Larrupin Larry went to England in 1923 and won the British Empire heavyweight crown Gains knocked out Max Schmeling in two rounds broke Jack Dcmpseys jaw in a sparring bdtft and defeated Italys Primo Camera CP photo Do you recall fighting gent LONDON CP Remember I drove two cars gambled ir Larry Gains If youre old enough you re- member Larrupin Larry a big good naturrd guy whose thudding fists beat a rags-to-riches refrain between the wars They called him the Gentle Gentlemanly ¬ manly Boxer He knocked out Max Schmeling in two rounds shattered Jack Dempseys nose in a sparring session and scored a sensational upset against Primo Camera Italys Ambling Alp A poor boy from Torontos Cabbagetown grandson of a cotton picking slave who fled across the border from the deep south he travelled box boxings ¬ ings bigtlme taking on the top ones on two continents He lived high Now ho is 63 and nearly In another unexpected move broke it was learned reliably that the nnD lho boxers Canada has produced Oldtimers rave about his standup scientific style his long reach his speed and ring craft He won the Empire heavyweight title and floored Solidier Jones of Toronto in five rounds for the Canadian crown RICHES TO RAGS Now from riches back to rags he works as a salvage collection merchant some- thing like a rag-and-bone man Gains left Canada in 1923 on a cattle boat and hit it rich in Britain France and Germany He defeated Fainting Phil Scott Schemling Jack Sharkey just missed a bout with Frances elegant Georges Car pentier In a golden decade the money poured in Gains a soft Riviera resorts Now he can hardly afford a cigar He was unbeaten in Canada In 18 fights he won 17 and drew against Mike McTigue Larry was the best boxer I ever saw savs ex manager Harry Levenc with awed af affection ¬ fection If he was around today hed be heavyweight champion Sonny Liston or no Sonny Liston Instead he lives in a modest house of red brick and yellow plaster near a suburban thor thoroughfare ¬ oughfare with the delectable name of Tooting Broadway DOESNT LOOK BACK Registered as bankrupt in 1937 he had six wartime years as a physical training instruc instructor ¬ tor and then drifted from job to job plaving the drums in an orchestra digging trenches driving a truck working as a railway ganger He remains indestructibly philosophical I never think about the old days he told a reporter Whats gone is gone see I havent got a souvenir no gloves nothing Will I go back to Canada Majbe if I win the football pools I used to lead a very hectic life see Majbe after all it wasnt such a good life Now when I want excitement I go to the local pub for a singsong Lawrence Larry Gains grew up on Sumach Street in Tor Torontos ¬ ontos east end He and a kid named Happy used to pretend they were Jack Johnson and touch for spongers poured it Sammy Langford and scrap out again He owned horses aAJL- fflLiV 1Mt m J F - 71111 VI T I aoaress bolt illustration l with my weight evenly distributed on 4 the Inside of w feet On the bocks wing my left heel rats t slightly at more of my weight shifts to the inside of my right foot lllus trotion2 On the downswing and follow through my weight return largely to my left foot and my right heel gradu gradually ¬ ally lifts m I Mpush off11 the Srwide of my right foot illustration 3 e wav S jM Ilk Heres fwttlnt l nutatoH I to nMs pamphlet end 10 end ttojnped whim onvtlopf to Arnold Maeer uwpaptr a little using oiu stocKuigs padded up inside BAD BUSINESSMAN He played baseball and hockey but his proundest mo moment ¬ ment was being the only col ored boy in the school bugle band He didnt touch a boxing glove until he was 20 That happened by accident when he was pressed into serv ince as a sparring partner His opponent Charlie Clay urged him to take up fighting a trainer named Herbie Bee con concentrated ¬ centrated on his straight left and Gains went places Once he was rated Canadas best boxer of all time after Jimmy McLarnin and Lang ford i didnt mind being after those guys he recalls Some of his money went bringing his parents over from Canada trying to cure eye trouble suffered by his German born vvfe Lisa They have two sons and two daughters three of them married Larrys last word is char characteristically ¬ acteristically modest I might have been a fair fighter see but I was a bad businessman Thats my life story Baseball stars By The Associated Press Batting Boog Powell Orioles hit two run homer that proved decisive in 3 1 victory over New- York Yankees as Baltimore re gained American League lead Pitching Dan Osinski An Angels ¬ gels allowed only three hits for first major league shutout blanking Chicago White Sox 1 0 Legion errors and a bril brilliant ¬ liant pitching performance by Pat Callaghan led Mc McDonald ¬ Donald Hotel Macs to a 6 2 victory at Spruce City Field last night The win moved Macs into sole possession of first place in the standings Callaghan was the com plete master as he halted Legions diivc with a neat three hitter and registered a total of 15 strikeouts high for the season over the nine innings It wasnt until the 14th batter came to the plate that Legion were able to solve the offerings of Callaghan With 13 straight batters re retired ¬ tired Charlie Kelly blasted a double off the left field wall for the first hit In racking up the 15 strikeouts Callaghan brought his seasons total to 24 At one time in the game he sent five straight bat batters ¬ ters down It wasnt until the eighth frame that Legion who up to that time were sharing first place with Macs were able to hit the scoreboard In the eighth they picked up the other two hits resulting in both their runs being scored In the meantime Roy Miller was likewise pitching one of his better games but eight costly errors and five hits all singles were all Macs needed to hit the score sheet Miller had trouble with his control walking eight batters to Calaghans two but he still gave a line performance in silencing the heavy hitting Macs crew STANDING P W 5 5 4 4 5 5 L Pts Macs 18 Legion 3 2 6 Merchants 4 2 2 4 Clear Lake 4 0 4 0 iErBaaal PAT CALLAGHAN brilliant Franchise moved SPOKANE Wash W Spo kanes Western Hockey League franchise moved to Denver Tuesday night the Spokesman Review said in a story by sports editor Harry Missildine The National Hockey Leagues Toronto Maple Leafs bought the Spokane Comets players franchise the works from principal owner Mel Smith Missildino said THE CITIZEN Wednesday June 5 1963 Callaghan whiffs 15 Legion batters LEN WALKER Sports Editor Associated Press It was Dragsvillc for Dodgers without Maury Wills But the fast cat has made the scene again and things are beginning to swing Wills the National Leagues most valuable plaver last sea season ¬ son with his record 104 stolen bases rejoined Dodgers Tues Tuesday ¬ day night after his latest bout with a bad foot and promptly sparked them out of a losing skid During Maurys most recent absence Dodgers had managed only three victories and had stumbled to seven losses in including ¬ cluding five in a row before he got back into the line up By winning Dodgers main maintained ¬ tained their third place tic with Chicagos charging Cubs who knocked off the front running San 1 rancisco Giants 6 1 Bob Buhl pitched Cubs to their eighth victory in the last 10 games with a fuc hitter while eight game winner Billy ODelli took his first loss Dodgers and Cubs now are three games behind Giants and Uj back of St Louis Cardinals In the only other league game played Milwaukee Braves netted three runs in the ninth inning with the help of reliever Galen Ciscos wildness and beat New York Mets 3 2 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh was rainbd out St Louis and Philadelphia were not scheduled Players named to Hall of Fame MONTREAL CP Three plavers and a referee were named to the Hockey Hall of Fame Tuesday They arc referee Bobby Hew itson of Toronto and players Eb bie Goodfellow of Ottawa Joe Primeau of Toronto and Earl Seibert of Kitchener Ont Hcwitson a Toronto sports writer who refcreed in the NHL in the 1930s was also once a member of Canadas Olympic lacrosse team Primeau is the only man to have coached championship teams in Memorial Allan and Stanley Cup competitions He Fighter of month NEW YORK OT Willie Pas trano who pulled one of box boxings ¬ ings most startling upsets Saturday when he took the world light heavyweight title from Harold Johnson is Ring Mag Magazines ¬ azines Fighter-ofthe-Month Pastrano 27 scored a split 15 round decision over Johnson at Las Vegas after entering the ring a prohibitive underdog Johnson was dropped to the familiar spot as No 1 contender a position he held for some time during Archie Moores long reign as light heavy king Only Canadian in the ratings is Montreal heavyweight Bob Cleroux who is ranked sixth THE COACHES OFf SEASON VANCOUVER cpt What does a football coach do during the off season The players will tell you he sits in his office reviewing stag films The general manager will tell you the coach burns the mid midnight ¬ night oil devising new ways to exceed the budget But the coach in this case Dave Skrien of B C Lions has a different story He had tq act with wisdom and compassion recently to ease the wounds of a young player smitten with a love not returned And he had to write reassur ing words to an import who had said he would not return to Canada as long as that anti American Diefenbaker is in power Mostly however head coach Skriens off season job is book keeping He spends hours breaking down game fdms and compiling a two inch thick book covering every conceivable phase of the Lions 1962 offen Phone LOgan 42441 Wills return helps Dodgers break streak Wills has been plagued this season by injury On opening day he jammed his left ankle sliding home and was idled a week Then calcium deposits on a toe of his left foot sent him to the sidelines May 22 and he was out until Tuesday night Maury the Mercurial got Dodgers on the scoreboard early when ho led off against Houstons Dick Drott with a walk raced to third on Jim Gilliams double and scamp scampered ¬ ered home on a wild pitch Then in the third Wills singled with one out stole second and came in on Ron Ialrlys single Bob Miller blanked Colts on four hits through eight innings but couldnt get through the ninth Carl Warwick chased Miller with a triple and scored on a force out Cubs rapped the previously unbeaten ODell for nine of their 10 hits and chased the southpaw in the sixth inning Mann and Chabot on win streak SAN FRANCISCO AP For- mer Canadian amateur cham pion Al Chabot 129Mi knocked out Bon Bon Quirte 128 of San Jose Calif in the third round of their scheduled 10 rounder Tuesday Chabot of Prince George I dropped Quiriz once in the atwuiiu ruunu uuu i lie 111 uiu third Quiriz fell down two other times and finally took the 10 count on his knees Harold Mann 163V also of Prince George outpointed Charlie Tolliver 167 Los An Angeles ¬ geles in a five rounder Miller the star A sensational pitching and batting performance by flashy Jim Miller led Braves to a 31 victory over White Sox in a West Little League game Tues day night The budding star ball player hurled a near perfect one hitter and slammed out three of his teams four hits to pave the way for the win Miller pounded out two singles and a double the games only played and coached at Toronto long ball in four trips to the I plate Losing pitcher Evenson was David Minor baseball In Pony League action last night Brian Moffats triple in the extra inning scored Gary Wood to -give Railroaders a 32 decision over Braves Bill Gook went the distance and allowed Braves but two hits in racking up the victory Terry Young who gave up eight hits was the loser In East Little League action Dodgers edged Yanks 7 C on just two hits Yanks picked up four but were unable to gain valuable runs Dave Skrien has different story sive game Thebook wjll inform you that Lions made 3060 yards rushing and 3431 yards passing on 1 105 plays from scrimmage They gained an average of 5 3 yards on running plays They ran outside to the left 58 times for 319 yards and 53 times to the right for 268 yards Willie Fleming made 221 yards in 24 carries on the coun- We want to know how many times theyll throw to the left and how many times to the right what play theyll use most from a particular forma formation ¬ tion We want to know their ten tendencies ¬ dencies For instance from one particular formation Winnipeg passed 22 times and didnt run nMn Vpnm anjth0i- fnrmntinn ter trap and Nub Reamer ran l counUr y j tQ use a 483 yards in 88 tries off tackle piayf There are highly classified words in the book such as which particular pass pattern works best against any particu lar opponent And there Is another book in the Lions office that of Jim Champion the defensive coach His research unsnarls the of offensive ¬ fensive patterns of opposing teams to give defensive captain Tom prown an idea of what to expect at all limes We usually base our figures on what a team has done in its last three games Champion says Before a game well com pile these tendencies Into a six- or seven page booklet which we issue to the defensive players When they get on the field this knowledge should tell them what to expect It doesnt always work but it was this type of planning that enabled the Lions defen sive squad to hold Winnipegs Leo Lewis to less than 80 yards rushing in three games last season Thats another statistic out of the QK seaon book