The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 17

SPORTS SCENE THE GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1968 17 New look for tennis de Gaspe Beaubien candidate for baseball administrative job Says JPat Mickey Jj II of a power struggle. Charles Bronfman termed it "simply not true." Snyder, vice-chairman of the city's executive committee, was disappointed that the backers of the franchise failed to move quickly to take on an administrative post with the team and also didn't invite him to Monday's meeting. Bronfman, vice-chairman of the team's board, expressed sorrow over Snyder's statements and denied that there was a power struggle or that the city fathers had been snubbed after securing the National League franchise for Montreal. "We didn't have him at the meeting because the subjects he's concerned with were not under discussion," Bronfman said. "We all appreciate what Gerry has done so far he's been tremendous but we had many other matters that must be settled first." The Seagram's president BY TED BLACKMAN said a vast amount of work and discussion is needed in the financial and legal departments.

"Sure we know we need baseball men and we need them as soon as possible, but you just don't deal lightly with a proposition involving $12,500,000 plus eight per cent exchange." Bronfman and J. Louis Levesque, chairman of the board, met with Mayor Jean Drapeau last night in hopes of initiating legislation and negotiation that will guarantee a stadium. Nothing else will be decided until this prerequisite has been established. "We've got to find out if we can make a decent arrangement that will be valuable to the city, the people of the city and everyone involved with the ball club. This comes first it's a tremendous amount of work, believe me.

"We don't want a slipshod operation. We want everything Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien, former director of operations at Expo, heads the list of candidates owners of the new baseball team will approach for the club's top administrative job. Gerry Snyder still has not been ruled out despite his announced dis-association with the team. The club is seeking a guarantee of stadium facilities and hopes to work out a satisfactory incorporation charter before hiring personnel and already has a list of a dozen baseball men "some of them will pleasantly surprise you," one of the directors told The Gazette last night. De Gaspe Beaubien, now with Power Corporation is said to be one of the candidates for the presidency.

Although Snyder was still listed as a potential employee of the club, he almost burned his bridge to baseball yesterday with a sharply worded statement containing charges set up righL Even John McHale understood this and he's a baseball man. As soon as these matters are settled, the whole board of directors will step out of the picture and let the baseball men take over." Snyder, a salaried city employee, attended last week's baseball draft on behalf of the ball club because they had no one else to send and said the backers didn't bother to call him on his return. "That's just not true," Bronfman said. "We've all been in touch with him." He also denied there was a power struggle within the group, which includes Bronfman, Levesque, Marc Bour-gie, Lome Webster, Sidney Maislin, Johnny Newman and Robert Irsay. "There's nothing of the kind," he insisted.

Snyder said last week he was ready to leave politics in favor of a non-baseball post with the club at the administrative level. At the time, Levesque convinced his partners that it would be damaging to the team's image if Snyder was hired because Canada has already made its exit from this year's Davis Cup competition but the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association is already planning to gamble on a 1968 team which resembles a miniature United Nations. "It's possible that there won't be a single Canadian on the team," admits CLTA president Pierre Dessaulles. "It won't make any difference if they win, but there will be plenty of screaming if they lose." Dessaulles's description is a slight exaggeration but the CLTA's search for players resembles the Canadian Football League's hunt for the dual citizens of a decade past. 1 The tentative roster includes two Florida-trained youngsters Mike Belkin and Frank Tutvin.

Australian-born, U.S. educated John Sharpe is another hopeful along with Andre Tielmans, a young man who learned the game in Canada but matured as a top-tenner in Belgium. The most Canadian member of the team cculd well be Keith Carpenter. The well-known Montrealer however still travels on a British passport and does not seem to be in a hurry to secure Canadian citizenship. Sharpe The Key The key to the "new look" is Sharpe.

A ranking junior player in Australia, Sharpe came to the United States to attend Pan-American College in Texas on an athletic scholarship. He came to Canada three years ago, worked as an advertising copywriter in Toronto and is currently studying to be a stock-broker. "John becomes eligible, to play for Canada this fall," explained Dessaulles. "He could help us because he's very solid and he has the maturity to back-up Belkin and give him confidence. is in the same class.

He's a more younger players develop." Sharpe is still undecided as to whether he wants to be a part of the program. He has been away from the international scene for three years and he.is currently concentrating on a stock course which will qualify him to sell stocks for Nes-bitt, Thompson. "I'll be a licensed salesman in the fall," explains Sharpe. "I'll decide on my future in tennis then. I take things one day at a Who knows, there might not be a Canada next year." Stop-Gap Measure But the team with the international flavor is only a stop-gap proposition for the CLTA.

The Association is looking forward to the day when junior players can rise through the ranks to play Davis Cup. "We need many things," says Dessaulles. "We need better indoor facilities. We need a winning team which will give youngsters something to aim for. Most of all, we need money." Tennis used to be a socially approved sport which attracted the monied classes.

Now the emphasis is on middle-class participation and family clubs. Tennis is forced to compete with other sports for the annual grants from the National Fitness Council. This year, the CLTA received a grant for a Canadian closed event and Pepsi-Cola doled out some cash for junior events. This is only a beginning. "We need more money for our 18-21 group," says Dessaulles.

"We need more money for our players to travel and improve their game. Now, our your players are dropping out, when they reach 19 or 20 because there's nowhere to And Canada has to look elsewhere for DE GASPE BEAUBIEN cynics would suspect a prearranged deal. On the other side of the story, Snyder (and some baseball people) are concerned that Montreal is losing valuable time in setting up a scouting and farm system under a qualified general manager. The other three expansion teams that will begin play next April already are well-organized. San Diego, Kansas City and Seattle anticipated their franchises.

That Montreal's sponsors were truly surprised at being" included is now quite clear. wMmmsmmmsmmmimmm A- 'smy-mmm $. i III. mature player and he can help our its Davis Cup players. 8 1 Rod 0Bd Gun by OAAK KUHTE1 FISHY FANTASY OF LAC ROBERGE If two such men as Gaston Lemay, Director of Quebec Wildlife Management Service for the St.

Maurice District and Albert Courtemanche, incumbent of the same position for the Montreal District, were not involved as sponsors for what I'm about to tell you I just wouldn't believe it. As a matter of fact those hard-working and dedicated scientists themselves had a hard time believing it themselves. This ds indicated when the joint report of these two down to earth scientists opens with: "Believe it or You have to be kept in night. Godbout was seeded second in the event while Bell was unseeded. MANOIR FINALISTS: Francois God-bout (left) defeated Tom Bell 6-1, 6-3 to win the Le Manoir Invitational last Cards down Braves maskinonge has been discovered with a traceable history of nearly 100 years during which they have been masquerading as northern pike under the noses of ordinary anglers, game wardens, club operators and biologists.

The secret of Sainta Tito The scene of this extraordi-. nary discovery is the Parish of St. Jacques des Piles east of the St. Maurice beside thp road which goes from St. Tits to St.

Roch de Mecinac, Laviolette County. The story goes that on Friday, May 31, Biologist Lemay communicated to Biologist Courtemanche the intelligence that a population of maskinonge had been discovered the existence of which has, until then, remained unknown to either anglers or biologists. Mr. Lemay's team of biologists and technicians had making a piscatorial inventory of the waters of the St. Tite region.

The night before the date mentioned and the night before that, these workers had taken from Lac Roberge some fifty specimens of fish which "refushed to allow themselves to be catalogued as northern pike," a species fur which Lac Roberge had long been famous. suspense a bit on this one for it is of the stuff that dreams and imaginings are made of. The bald and abrupt statement of what it is all about might shock you into a mental tizzy. Besides I don't find it possible to tell you about it without rambling around a bit. You are aware of course, as I've often told you, that "the damnedest thing happen in anything to do with fishing." And this is about the damnedest of them all.

"Lost Population" of Muskies You've read, of course, stories true and false, of lost populations of human beings tucked away on some island or some mountain fastness, beyond the ken of other people whose lives and living passed them by. Well this tale concerns a tribe of maskinonge, the genesis of which may date back to the post-glacial Champlain Sea which, about 8,000 years ago, filled the vast valley of the St. Lawrence to mountain ranges east and west. It will serve no purpose at this time to speak at length of this great freshwater fish. The maskinonge has a literature of his own and certainly anyone who has ever caught one needs no introduction.

To be as brief as I can, such a population of THE HEAT'S ON AND IT'S CERTAINLY ON AT BARNABE MOTORS WHERE WE MUST CLEAR THE FOLLOWING STOCK IMMEDIATELY! 0 UNRIVALED DEALS 0 E-Z CM AC TERMS TAKE YOUr PICK HOW, THE CHOICE WAS NEVER BETTER CHEVROLETS 1 7 Caprice, 2- and 4-door models 27 Impala Customs 39 Impala, 2- and 4-door hardrops 26 Belair, 2- and 4-door (6's and V-8's) 41 Biscayne, 2- and 4-door (6's and V-8's) 9 Station wagons (Belair, Biscayne, Caprice) OLDSMOBILES 4 Cutlass Supreme, 2- and 4-door hardrops 7 Cutlass 2- and 4-door hardtops and sedans 2 Cutlass convertibles 1 1 Delmont 88 hardtops and sedans 6 Delta 88 and Delta Custom 3 98 Luxury sedan and Holiday sedan 7 Chevelle, 2- and 4-door 5 Chevy II, 2- and 4-door 14 Camaro hardtops and convertibles Bertalna (4-5). HRs Baltimore, Buford (3), B. Robinson (5). NEW YORK -(AP)- Russ Synder knocked in five runs with a grand-slam homer and sacrifice fly last night, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 9-5 victory over the New York Yankees. Chicago 005 030 0019 13 0 New York 000 032 0005 7 1 Horlen, McMahon (6), Wood (8) and Josephson; Talbot, Monbouquette (3), Bouton (6), Verbanlc (8) and Gibbs.

Horlen (5-4). Talbot (0-8). HRs Chicago, Snyder C); New York, Tresh (3), Mantle (8). Identification urgent But of maskinonge indigi-nous to the locality no talk had ever been heard. Were these fish chain pickerel or one of the other species representative of the pike family? What the hell? Exact identification became imperative in view of the fact that the maskinonge is given' protection not accorded his lesser cousin, the northern pike.

As a matter of fact the muskie season in Quebec opens this year only on June 14 which is Friday, day-after tomorrow. You are entitled to two of these fish daily and they must be at least 28 inches long. They were the real thing Brought to Montreal for the checking of identification all the "pike" taken from Lac Roberge were found to be authentic maskinonge. They were of an average weight of 3-4 pounds. The largest weighed 13 pounds.

Needless to say everybody was surprised, biologists and technicians included. In one bound Lac Roberge had taken the place of Lac Maskinonge at St. Gabriel-de-Brandon, which, up to then had been the utmost northeastern point in North American where maskinonge were to be found in indigenous state. Private lake tor 65 years Lac Roberge, situated in ranges 11 and 111 of the parish of St. Jacques des Piles, was under private lease from 1902 to 1967, 65 years to save you the trouble of subtracting.

Leased for the first time in 1902 to Dr. E. Lacoursiere, of Saint-Tite, it was transferred on June 11, 1944, to the Club Laviolette. On April 28, 1967, the only private club in the province of Quebec with a magnificent maskinonge lake allowed Lac Roberge to revert to the public domciine. They gave up.

On several occasions they had tried to eliminate from the lake the "northern pike" by which it was so encumbered Little did they know. '( bet on the "carpont" Time will tell whether the rapacious Quebec variety, of bracconnier and carpon can succeed in eliminating this 'trash" fish from Lac Roberge where the Club Laviolette failed. I'll bet they can and will. Right now I'd wager there'll be spearers continuing to eliminate the muskies from Lac Maskinonge and the Maskinonge River up at St. Gabriel.

And if you think this ends this Ballad of Lac Roberge, you're wrong. There'll be more and some of it just as unbelievable. Late baseball Night 6am New York 000 000 000 11 5 0 Los Angeles 000 000 000 00 4 0 (10 Innings) Seaver and Grote Sutton and Mailer. Seaver, (4-5). Sutton, (3-6).

following a dispute with management. Houston 050 000 0005 6 0 Philadelphia 100 000 000-1 7 1 Dierker and Bateman; Wise, Wagner, (2), James (4), Farrell (e), Hall (9) and Dalrymple. Dierker (6-8). L-Wlse (4-4). HR Philadelphia, Allen (8).

DETROIT AP)- Catcher Jim Price drove in two runs and scored a third on pitcher Pat Dobson's hit as the Detroit Tigers defeated Minnesota 3-1 yesterday in the first game of a twi-night double-header. Dobson, 2-0, gave up five hits and struck out 10 before giving way to Daryl Patterson with two out in the eighth inning after Tony Oliva hit his eighth home run and Bob Allison walked. Minnesota 000 000 010-1 6 1 Detroit 020 010 OOx 3 5 0 Chance, Miller (7), Roland (8) and Look; Dobson, Patterson (8) and Price. Dobson (2-0). Chance (4-8).

HR Minnesota, Ollva (8). (AP) -Chuck Dobson pitched an abbreviated five-hitter last night, leading the Oakland Athletics past Cleveland 2-0 in a game halted by rain in the sixth inning. Oakland 010 001-2 4 1 Cleveland .000 000-O 5 1 16 Innings, rain) Dobson and Duncan; lebert and Azcue. Dobson (3-6). Slebert (6-5).

HR Oakland, Donaldson (1). Washington" (AP) Don Buford homered on the game's first pitch and Brooks Robinson added a two -run homer in the fifth inning, sending the Baltimore Orioles to an 8-4 victory over the Washington Senators last night. It was the Orioles ninth straight victory over the Senators. Baltimore 140 070 0018 10 0 Washington 000 300 1004 0 Brabender, Nelson (5), Drabowsky (7) and Etchebarram Bertalna, Bos-man (2), Moor (4), Ortega (6), Baldwin (8) and Bryen. W-Nelson (1-0).

ATLANTA (AP) Bob Gibson ended a personal jinx against Atlanta with a five-hitter as the St. Louis Cardinals extended their spell over the Braves with a 6-0 rout last night. Gibson, raising his record to "6-5 with his second consecutive shutout, beat the Braves for the first time in two years. He struck out four, walked two, hit one and allowed only one runner past first base as the Cardinals pulled off four doubleplays. The Cardinals scored five runs in the first three innings, knocking out Dick Kel-ley, 2-4, en route to their 13th victory in 15 games and 10th straight over Atlanta.

St. Louis 203 000 0106 10 0 Atlanta 000 000 0000 5 2 Gibson and McCarver; Kelley, Up-shew (3), Reed (9) and Torre. Gibson (6-5). L-Kelley (2-4). CHICAGO (AP) Tony Perez whacked a two-run homer and drove in two other runs yesterday in pacing the Cincinnati Reds to a 9-7 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

Cincinnati 023 102 0109 18 1 Chicago 100 303 0007 10 2 Culver, McCool (4), Abernalhp (6) and Bench; Niekro, Lamabe (2), Hartensteln (3), Hernandez (5), Nve (7), Regan (9) and Hundley. McCool (2-3). L-Nlekro (5-5). Home Runs Cincinnati, Perez (7), May (6). PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Rusty Staub's two-run double climaxed a five-run second inning uprising that swept the Houston Astros to a 5-1 victory over Philadelphia last night, extending the Phillies losing streak to five games.

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Chicago 5, New York 2. Baltimore 4, Washington 1. Only games scheduled. TUESDAY'S GAMES Detroit 3, Minnesota 1 (first). Oakland 2, Cleveland 0.

Baltimore 8, Washington 4. Chicago 9, New York 5. California at Boston, 2 rain). WEDNESDAY'S GAMES Minnesota (Kaat 3-2) at Detroit (Lollch 4-3), night. Oakland (Odom 5-4) at Cleveland (Hargan 4-5), night.

Baltimore (Phoebus 5-5) at Washington (Hanna 1-0), night. Chicago (Peters 3-6) at New York (Pe'erson 4-2), night. California (Brunet 5-6 and Murphy 0-0) at Boston (Culp 2-2 and Santiago 7-3), twl'-nlght. NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. GBL St.

Louis 35 23 .603 San Francisco 31 26 .544 Wi Los Angeles 32 27 .542 3Vj Atlanta 29 27 .518 5 Cincinnati 28 27 .509 5Vi Philadelphia 25 26 .490 Chicago 27 29 .482 7 New York 25 29 .463 8 Houston 23 32 .418 10 Pittsburgh 21 30 .412 10 MONDAY'S GAMES Chicago 4, Cincinnati 3. San Francisco 8, Pittsburgh 0. St. Louis 4, Atlanta 3. New York 1, Los Angeles 0.

Only games scheduled. TUESDAY'S GAMES Cincinnati Chicago 7. St. Louis 6, Atlanta 0. Pittsburgh (Slsk 2-1) at San Francisco (Sadeckl 6-7), night.

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