October 15, 2012

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Angela Nixon!

125 years ago
1887

Football
ORFU
Hamilton 14 @ London 6
Ottawa 10 @ Kingston 1
Queen’s College 8 @ University of Toronto 10 (OT)

Baseball
World Series Game 6
Detroit Wolverines 9 St. Louis Browns 0 @ New York (Detroit led 15-game series 4-2)

Winning pitcher Charlie Getzien settled for a 3-hitter after carrying a no-hitter into the 9th inning. Charlie Ganzel led the Detroit attack with 4 hits.

120 years ago
1892

Football
ORFU
Round 1
Osgoode Hall 51 Trinity College 1 (1st game of 2-game total points series)
Hamilton @ Stratford (Hamilton won by default)
Toronto 12 @ University of Toronto 5 (Toronto won 2-game total points series 31-13)
Queen’s University 3 @ Royal Military College 5 (Queen’s won 2-game total points series 12-11)
Petrolia @ London (postponed, rain—Petrolia defaulted 2-game total points series)

Baseball
Charles "Bumpus" Jones, making his major league debut, pitched a no-hitter for the Cincinnati Reds as they defeated the Pittsburg Pirates 7-1 at League Park in Cincinnati.

Jack Stivetts pitched a 5-inning ho-hitter as the Boston Beaneaters blanked the Washington Senators 4-0 in the second game of a doubleheader.

100 years ago
1912

Defense
SMS Friedrich der Grosse was commissioned as the second vessel of the Kaiser class of battleships of the German Imperial Navy.

Baseball
World Series
New York Giants 11 @ Boston Red Sox 4 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3-1)

The Giants scored 6 runs off Smoky Joe Wood in the 1st inning as they beat the Red Sox before 32,694 fans at Fenway Park to even the series. The poor performance of Mr. Wood and sloppy play by the Red Sox led to speculation that the Boston players had bet on the Giants and thrown the game out of anger at being cut out of the receipts from the second game of the series and owner Jimmy McAleer's insistence in starting Buck O'Brien instead of Mr. Wood in game 6. Jeff Tesreau pitched a complete game to get his first win of the series after 2 losses. In the top of the 9th inning, Boston center fielder Tris Speaker became the only outfielder in World Series history to make an unassisted double play.

80 years ago
1932

Football
CRU
IRFU
Toronto (0-2) 3 @ Montreal (2-0) 11
Ottawa (0-2) 3 @ Hamilton (2-0) 25

ORFU
Toronto 11 St. Michael's College 6
Hamilton 6 @ Sarnia 30

ARU
Edmonton (1-3) 0 @ Calgary 12

Canadian university
McGill 6 @ Toronto 15
Queen's 5 @ Western Ontario 6

60 years ago
1952

On the radio
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, on BBC Home Service
Tonight’s episode: The Naval Treaty

This broadcast, which appeared on the Children’s Hour, was the first episode to feature the team of Messrs. Hobbs and Shelley. They did 76 Sherlock Holmes broadcasts together, the last in 1969.

I Was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews
Tonight’s episode: The Party Got Rough

On television tonight
The Unexpected, hosted by Herbert Marshall, on NBC
Tonight's episode: High Adventure, starring Gordon Gebert and Paula Raymond



50 years ago
1962

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (7-5-1) 21 @ Hamilton (6-4-1) 67

Making his first start as a CFL quarterback, rookie Joe Zuger set a CFL single-game record with 8 touchdown passes as the Tiger-Cats routed the Roughriders before about 21,000 fans at Civic Stadium. Hal Patterson and Garney Henley each caught 3 of Mr. Zuger's scoring passes, with Tim Reid and Dick Easterly catching 1 each. Messrs. Henley and Easterly also caught a touchdown pass each from backup quarterback Frank Cosentino. Don Sutherin was successful on 7 of 10 convert attempts. Saskatchewan quarterback Bob Ptacek threw 3 touchdown passes, to Ray Purdin, Jack Gotta, and Dale West. The TD pass to Mr. Purdin covered 104 yards.

Baseball
World Series
New York Yankees 2 @ San Francisco Giants 5 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3)

Billy Pierce pitched a 3-hitter to win the pitchers' duel over Whitey Ford before 43,948 fans at Candlestick Park. Orlando Cepeda hat 3 hits and drove in 2 runs for the Giants, who scored 3 runs in the 4th inning and 2 in the 5th. Roger Maris hit a home run for the Yankees in the 5th.





40 years ago
1972

On television tonight
Rod Serling's Night Gallery, on NBC
Tonight's episode: Fright Night, starring Stuart Whitman and Barbara Anderson

Football
CFL
Saskatchewan (7-6) 25 @ Winnipeg (9-4) 28
Toronto (3-9) 33 @ Calgary (4-9) 27

Don Jonas completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to Jim Thorpe with 33 seconds remaining in the game to give the Blue Bombers their win over the Roughriders before a capacity crowd of 25,210 at Winnipeg Stadium. Mr. Jonas had earlier completed touchdown passes of 36 yards to Paul Williams and 5 yards to Bob LaRose, in addition to kicking 3 converts and 2 field goals. Saskatchewan quarterback Ron Lancaster threw touchdown passes to Gord Barwell and Bob Pearce and handed off to George Reed for another TD.

The Stampeders lost 4 fumbles and gave up 2 interceptions as they lost to the Argonauts before 18,201 fans at McMahon Stadium. Toronto quarterback Joe Theismann completed 22 of 29 passes and threw touchdown passes to Bill Symons, Mike Eben, and Tony Moro. Mr. Symons also rushed for a touchdown. Calgary quarterback Jim Lindsey completed 18 of 35 passes for 251 yards, including a touchdown to Rudy Linterman. Mr. Lindsey also rushed for a touchdown while sharing the quarterbacking with Jerry Keeling, who completed 5 of 8 passes for 95 yards, including a 45-yard touchdown to Herm Harrison. Mr. Linterman caught 7 passes for 108 yards, while teammate Jesse Mims led all rushers with 67 yards. It was the first CFL game for Stampeder running back Billy Taylor, who fumbled twice.

Baseball
World Series
Oakland Athletics 2 @ Cincinnati Reds 1 (Oakland led best-of-seven series 2-0)

Joe Rudi hit a home run and made a game-saving catch in the 9th inning to lead the Athletics past the Reds before 53,224 fans at Riverfront Stadium. Winning pitcher Catfish Hunter singled home George Hendrick with the game's first run in the top of the 2nd inning, and Mr. Rudi homered in the 3rd. In the bottom of the 9th, Tony Perez led off with a single, and then Denis Menke hit a tremendous line drive that Mr. Rudi caught against the wall for the first out. First baseman Mike Hegan then speared a sharp grounder from Cesar Geronimo and beat him to the bag for the second out, with Mr. Perez stopping at second base. Pinc hitter Hal McRae then singled home Mr. Perez, and Rollie Fingers relieved Mr. Hunter. Pinch hitter Julian Javier popped out to Mr. Hegan in foul territory, and the game was over. Brooklyn Dodgers' great Jackie Robinson was honoured in a pre-game ceremony, as 1972 marked the 25th anniversary of Mr. Robinson becoming the first Negro player in the major leagues in the 20th century. Mr. Robinson spoke and expressed his desire for a Negro manager in the major leagues.







30 years ago
1982

Edmontonia
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed officially opened the Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre on the University of Alberta campus.

War
Iraq claimed that 156 Iranians had been killed in air raids; Iran claimed to have shot down one of the planes.

Baseball
World Series
St. Louis Cardinals 6 @ Milwaukee Brewers 2 (St. Louis led best-of-seven series 2-1)

Willie McGee hit a 3-run home run off Pete Vuckovich in the 5th inning and added a solo homer in the 7th inning as the Cardinals beat the Brewers before 56,556 fans at County Stadium in the first World Series game to be played at County Stadium since 1958. Joaquin Andujar pitched 6 1/3 innings to get the win over Pete Vuckovich, who went 8 2/3 innings.



25 years ago
1987

World events
Sir Penaia Ganilau resigned as Governor-General of Fiji at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Vancouver, saying there was nothing he could do to prevent Fiji from becoming a republic following the September 28 military coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, which had abolished the monarchy. A republic had been proclaimed on October 7.

Diplomacy
The U.S.S.R. announced that it was paying all its debts to the United Nations, including U.S. $197 million owed for peacekeeping operations. These bills dated from 1973; the Soviet Union had just paid $28 million to bring it up to date on its regular contributions.

War
The American-owned tanker Sungari, flying the Liberian flag, was struck by an Iranian missile in Kuwaiti waters.

Law
The majority report of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee claimed that Judge Robert Bork, President Ronald Reagan’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, was unfit for the Court because he was insensitive to individual rights and liberties.

Labour
The National Football League Players Association ended its 24-day strike without achieving its objectives. Negotiation committees had reached agreement on eight minor issues but not on free agency—the players’ biggest demand—which would permit them to move from one club to another when their contracts expired. Owners had hired replacement players during the strike, and the strike was weakened when players began to return to their teams. The union filed an antitrust suit against the league.

10 years ago
2002

Scandal
Sam Waksal, former chief executive at ImClone, pled guilty to six charges of insider trading. Prosecutors were probing whether home styling tycoon Marth Stewart had sold $230,000 worth of ImClone shares based on information from Mr. Waksal.