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The Ottawa Citizen July 30, 1965 Page 15 Flayer selections down to wire WWooo the Riders, the feeling still persists that Clair may have to drop fullback Dave Thelen and that could be the biggest surprise of the cuts tonight Thelen could go Thelen is one of two players the other is Gene Gaines who can qualify as a 15th import (i.e. a club can name one five-year player as a non-import if it doesn't have the allowed complement of three 'American But the talk has indicated that Gaines will get the nod. Thelen, of course, may still be kept as an import if talks with Jim Dillard should fall through. Dillard is supposed to get together with general manager Red O'Quinn in an effort to determine whether he will sign a contract or play out his option as rumored in It could be a factor in Clair's decision. Dillard, at 220 pounds could play fullback if necessary, and apparently he wants to carry the ball more than he did in Calgary.

As for tonight's game, Clair intimated that he planned to use the new players as much as possible in order to help him make up his mind. "Sometimes a player shows real good signs in a he said "but then he'll look ordinary or even bad in the next one. That's what we want to give them all another chance There is also the possibility that the Riders could arrange another trade with some club in the CFL although unless it involved a Canadian for an American it might not remove Clair's problem. A final solution of course, is against Hamilton, and undoubtedly Trimble will be scanning the list of cuts both in Canada and the United States for help. "We've got a lot of green kids in our lineup" said Trimble, "but I figure they're going to come along.

It will just take time. The trouble is we've also got to make some kind of a showing this year." But Trimble also has some solid players and among the holdovers from 1964 are linebacker Jim Andriotti, guards Harold Cooley and Ted Elsby, tackle Bob Minnihane, fullback Nat "Crash" Craddock, halfback George Dixon, ends Al Irwin and John Baker and defensive half back Ed Learn, to mention a few. But the consensus is that the experience is too thinly spread over the Al-ouette squad. Meanwhile getting back to It won't exactly be the 'Ides of March" tonight for a number of the Ottawa Rough Riders but it could be a soft version of the old song "It's been Nice To Know When the Montreal Alouettes wind up the pre-season action at Lansdowne Park this evening it could be the final performance for at least eight of the current roster of 40 players. But that's looking on the gloomy side of the picture.

The pleasant part for the fans at least is that never before since coming to Canada has coach Frank Clair had such a tremendous crop of fine players. "It's a rough problem" said Clair yesterday after the Riders went through a stiff drill. "We've been juggling names ever since we came back from the West, putting them on the list, and then taking them off until we're all getting ulcers. There are a lot of fine boys but we can only keep 32." Montreal problem If it's a problem that Clair finds thorny, there is some suspicion that Jim Trimble would dearly love to have it. The Montreal coach has found very little trouble in cutting down, mostly because he doesn't have that much in the way of outstanding talent and his job has been relatively easy.

The theory was that the acquisition of Bernie Faloney would solve most if not all of Montreal's problems but it has turned out to be a little more complicated than that. The Als had to give up a lot to get Faloney and It has not been easy to fill the gaps. So far, the Larks have not exactly looked like contenders even for Eastern honors, although this is no real criterion. Perhaps Trimble has switched his battle plans and has contrived a slow start this year. Last year, the Als were almost out of sight before the first quarter of the season had been played, although they faded badly thereafter.

No receivers Montreal's biggest problem although this is a matter of conjecture is their lack of receivers for Faloney. The paucity of pass catchers was quite noticeable the other night I jjj '11; 1 'yy I Hi 1 i 'a 4 A i JACK KI1SSELLA Coaches' dilemma how to cut to 32? and WINDBREAKERS VALUES TO 19.95 WQ 'f a 4 jl i V. Clair i to place a player on the injured reserve list but he must have a reasonably serious injury and would be lost to the club for 30 days. Here is a list of the Rider roster of 40 players: Canadian! Tackles Moe hacine. Ted Collins, Sam Scotia.

Aiidy Shaw. Centres Jerry Salinger, Dave Specht. Guards Jim Cain, Merv Collins, Dave Still. Quarterback Russ Jackson. Flankers Whit Tucker, Bob McCarthy.

Linebackers Jim Conroy, Blum. Mike End Len Sparks. Backs Ron Stewart. I.arry DeGraw, Rick Joe Poirier. Black.

Dick Dupuis. Imports Tackles Bill Sitkierski, Bob Brown, Marshall Shirk. (iuaids John Pentecost. Don Estes. Ends Ted Watkins, Jay Roberts, Dave Bumgarner.

Defensive ends Billy Joe Booth, John Kenerson. Linebackers Ken Lehman. BUI Quinter. Defensive backs Bob Obillovich. BUI Cline.

Gene Gaines. Don Gilbert. Martv Rosen. Halfbacks. Bo Scott.

Jim Dillard, Dave Thelen. Thelen late TD Argos went mainly with McHan as quarterback, while Hamilton used Joe Zuger In the second half after going the first half with Frank Cosentino. One of the big features of play came on the opening kickoff when Argos' Sherman Lewis raced 61 yards. He later scampered 12 yards around the end for a major. Summary First quarter 1 Toronto, touchdown (Lewis) 3.05 2 Toronto, touchdown (Vollenweideri 13.32 Second quarter 3 Hamilton, single (Sutherin) 12.54 4 Hamilton, touchdown (Paige) .14.59 Third quarter 5 Hamilton, touchdown (Grant) 8.17 Fourth quarter Hamilton, safety touch (Mchan 8.41 7 Toronto, touchdown (Parker) 13.18 Baseball Really, it's mo3t unfortunate that, in, the interests of science, humor, and the state of a panting public, it was not possible to tape record yesterday afternoon's in camera discussion of personnel by the Ottawa football coaches.

Still, even with Agent 36-24-26 on vacation, some snatches of the frustrating session were captured for posterity, and they are passed along today to a somewhat frantic fandom. If nothing else, they underline cleariy why coaches are paid so handsomely. Under strain like this, they don't live too long. The meeting opens with Coach Frank Clair throwing his clip board violently at a large blackboard where the names of the 40 remaining Rough Rider players have been listed. The resulting tremors in the adjoining Coliseum cause Jack Clarke and staff to make a hasty evacuation, the theory being that some rat has finally chewed through the main supporting beam.

In the pregnant silence which follows his opening gambit, Clair retrieves his clip board, pours another cup of coffee, lights a cigarette with distaste, walks into his private cubicle for possible inspiration, and then rejoiiis his staff, declaring the meeting open for any intelligent solutions to the greatest crisis since a Canadian government found itself with a surplus. Any imy, always too many CLAIR: "All right, I give up. I've counted this list until I'm blue in the face and it still comes out to 20 Canadians rescues Argos with touchdown when Ted Page intercepted a Toronto pass. Trailing at the half by 12-7 Tiger Cats went ahead in the third, when quarterback Joe Zuger sparked a drive that led to a touchdown on a pass to Tommy Grant. Most of the thrills came in the last quarter when the Ti-Cats launched a strong drive from their 33 after an interception interference was called on Hamilton when Zuger tossed over the line to Grant and later, Hamilton waived an interference penalty to force Toronto to punt from behind their own line.

and 20 Americans. The magic number is 18 and 14, which will never add up to anything but 32, even the way I add. Egad, why couldn't it be just a question of cutting some newspaper guys. There's a couple I'd start with right off the bat, and no sweat at all." SMYTH: "I'd suggest we start with the guys we just HAVE to keep. That should make it a little bit easier." CLAIR: "I tried that, too.

But when I added up the names of the guys I felt we had to keep, it came out to 36, and there were a couple more I felt were borderline cases. That made it 38." BRANBY: "And to think there was a time a couple of years ago when we could have cut the squad to 24, and left eight spots open for late cuts from the NFL. We didn't know how lucky we were." CLAIR: "Cut out the philosophy. This is 1965. Anyway, a lot of this whole thing is your fault.

You recruited too many good players. I have to take back what I was thinking about you all winter. You didn't do as much skiing up here, or sunbathing in Florida, as I thought." 'Kr Frank Small croud Parker HAMILTON (CP) Jackie Parker took over as quarterback with less than two minutes remaining and came through with a touchdown run that gave Toronto Argonauts an 18-15 victory over Hamilton Tiger Cats in an Eastern Football Conference exhibition game here Thursday. Parker's major came after the Argos had counted twice in the first quarter on touchdowns by Sherman Lewis and Jim Vollendwieder, both unconverted. Tiger Cats rallied in the second quarter with a single from Don Sutherin off an attempted field goal and a Split with Mets Veteran By Murray Chass Associated Press sports writer Ted Abernathy doesn't know how he got to Chicago Cubs, but the Cubs will be happy to take a few more of him the same way.

The veteran relief pitcher made his 55th appearance, mostly in the majors, Thursday and picked up the victory as the Cubs edged New York Mets 2-1 in 12 innings and gained a split Linescores National League First game New York 240 013 94014 11 1 Chicago 000 900 000 0 4 1 Cisco and Canruraaro: Koonce. Hoeft (2), Hendley (6), Humphreys (8). McDanid (9) and Bailey. Cisco (3-. Koonce (7-9).

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Abernathy (2-1). Bearaarth (3-3). HR: Chi Santo (22). Philadelphia 000 020 0305 9 Pittsburgh 000 000 000 2 1 Culp and Corrales; Veale. McBean (8).

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He broke away cleanly to thread his way across the Hamilton line for the winning major. A disappointing crowd of about 9,000 saw both clubs use many players. tended their scoreless inning string over the Pirates to 23. Wes Covington doubled home two runs in the eighth inning while Pat Corrales singled and scored on Cookie Rojas fifth-inning single and doubled in a run in the eighth. Culp's 10 strikeouts plus 16 by three Pirate pitchers set a major league mark for total strikeouts by two teams in a nine-inning game.

Pittsburgh's Bob Veale fanned 14 in seven innings but was removed in the eighth. In the American League catcher-outfielder John Romano hit two homers to help Chicago White Sox to a 9-4 triumph over Cleveland Indians. Boston Red Sox downed Kansas City 64 and New York Yankees tamped Detroit Tigers 7-3. Baseball leaders By The Canadian Press American League Batting Yastnemski, Boston. .340.

Ttcenty minus five CLAIR: "All right, let's start with the imports on offence. We have Watkins, Roberts and Bumgarner at end. Then there's Estes and Pentecost at guard. Add Scott, Dillard, and Thelen as backs. That makes eight, and we can only have six.

You figure it." SMYTH: "You think picking the offence is tough? I'll trade you for the defensive line any time, and then help you with it. Look at the line we've got Booth, Siekierski, Shirk, Kenerson, and Brown, and I can only keep two, or maybe three at the most. Why couldn't these guys have picked parents in Canada?" BRANBY: "I've been looking at those defensive halfbacks so long I'm starting to think we better rent a computer. We've got to keep O'Billovich, Gaines, Cline, Gilbert, Lehman, Quinter, and maybe Rosen as well. That adds up to seven, and we can keep five.

Is there any chance we can hide a couple of guys on the executive7" CLAIR: "All right, cut out the comedy. The thing we have to is cut down to 15, including the choice of Gaines or Thelen as the five-year player we can declare as a non-import. Let's write down our own list and see how they How to scratch two CLAIR: "Let's try the Canadian list. At least it should be a lot simpler. We only have to decide what 18 out of 20 we'll keep.

I've got my list already made on that point" SMYTH: "Well, among the linemen, I think we've got to keep Selinger, Specht, both centres, Racine and Ted Collins at tackle, Shaw and Cain for guard or defensive end, Scoccia at middle guard, and maybe Still or Merv Collins as well That adds up to nine, but I'll be happy with eight." BRANBY: "I'd like to see Poirier, DeGraw, Conroy, Blum, and Black kept. I'd like to keep Dupuis, too. But my limit is five." CLAIR: "No matter how you write it down, Jackson, Stewart, Tucker, and McCarthy have to be kept. How many does that add up to? Eighteen, huh? Well, that's settled, at last Let's look at those imports again." BRANBY: "Why don't we try to arrange a deal with Montreal? All our extra imports for Jim Trimble's skateboard franchise?" (Ed. note: To avoid any case of mass hari-kari after tonight's game, the suggestion to the problem here is that Bum-garner, Thelen; Brown, Gilbert and Rosen will be the unfortunate victims, and among the Canadians, probably Merv Collins and Sparks.

The unknown factor is injury tonight On that basis, a lot of guys will be hoping they are carried off on a board.) of their doubleheader. The Mets won the opener 14-0. Abernathy became a Cub the day before this season started. He came from Cleveland Indians of the American League, but that's all he knows. "I still don't know if I was sold or traded," the 32-year-old hurler says.

The Cubs wasted no time in putting Abernathy to work. In fact, he didn't even have a chance to sit down in the bullpen. He relieved starter Larry Jackson in the first inning of the opening-day game with St. Louis Cardinals and pitched 1-3 hitless innings. Has a 1.96 average He has given up hits since, but he hasn't allowed many runs.

In his 55 appearances he has pitched 92 innings and has compiled a sparling 1. earned run average with a 2-1 record. In the only other National League game Thursday, Philadelphia Phillies whipped Pitts burgh Pirates 5-0. Abernathy relieved starter Bill Faul in the ninth inning of the second game after Johnny Lewis and Charley Smith singled. Gary Kolb's sacrifice fly tied the game 1-1, but Abernathy held the Mets to two hits the rest of the way and earned the victory when Ron Santo hit his 22nd homer off Lary Bear-narth in the 12th.

The Mets romped in the first game behind the four-hit pitching of Galen Cisco. Johnny Lewis rapped two homers, a single and a double while the Mets also received help from six Chicago errors. Ray Culp blanked the Pirates on two hits as the Phillies ex at glance American League Boston, Kansas City, 4. New York, Detroit, 3. Chicago.

Cleveland, 4. lOnly games scheduled). Standing pet. GBL Minnesota 63 37 .830 Baltimore 58 40 .592 4 Cleveland 57 41 .582 5 Detroit 55 42 .567 Vk Chicago 53 44 .546 8'a New York 50 53 .485 14V Los Angeles 46 .54 .460 17 Washington 43 58 .426 20' Boston 37 62 .374 25'i Kansas City 32 93 .337 28H Games today Cleveland at New York (N). Detroit at Chicago (Ni.

Baltimore at Minnesota (N). Washington at Kansas City (N. Boston at Los Angeles iN. National League New York. 14: Chicago.

0. Chicago. 2: New York. 1. Philadelphia.

3: Pittsburgh, (Only games scheduled). Standing Pet. GBL Los Angeles 43 Cincinnati 57 44 .564 2 Milwaukee 54 43 .557 3 San Francisco 53 43 .552 34 Philadelphia 52 48 .520 44 St. Louis 50 50 .500 84 Pittsburgh 51 52 .495 9 Chicago 49 55 .471 114 Houston 43 55 .439 144 New York 33 69 .324 24 Games today New York at Philadelphia (N). Chicago at Pittsburgh (N).

Houston at Cincinnati (Ni. '-San Francisco at Milwaukee (N). Los Angeles at St, Louis (N). International League International League All-stars. 8: Milwaukee, 2.

(Only game scheduled 1. Standing Pet. GBL Columbus 67 43 .609 Toronto 63 46 .578 34 AUanta 64 47 .577 34 Jacksonville 58 51 .532 84 Syracuse 54 52 .509 11 Rochester 50 59 AH 164 Toledo 48 59 .449 174 32 79 .288 354 nuns unva, Minnesota. 79. Runs batted In Killebrew.

Minnesota. 99. Hits Olivia. 125. Doubles Oliva.

28. Triples Campaneris, Kansas City, 19. Home runs Horton. Detroit and Killebrew. 22.

Stolen Bases Campaneris, St. Pitching Grant, Minnesota, 11-3. 786 Strlkeoutj McDowell. Cleveland, 190. National League Batting Clemente.

Pittsburgh. Runs Harper. Cincinnati. 87. Runs batted In Bank.

Chicago, 79. Hits Rose. Cincinnati. 131. Doubles Williams.

Chicago. 30. TrtplesCallisnn. Philadelphia. 12.

Home runs Mays, San Francisco, 23. Stolen bases Willi, Los Angeles. 71. Pitching Koufax. Lot Angeles.

17-4. .810. Strikeouts Koufax, 239..