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FeatureOROpeningOE Winter Racing Cards

May Todd. O. Albei-t Budlong aiid Mollie Dale were the win- ners yesterday afternoon as the Victoria Driving Club opened their winter's racing program at the Victoria Park Speedway. Despite the soft condition or the track finishes were exceptionally ch58 iii the majority of the nine heat; HlCEd with Class A Paco being cw- ccptionally keenly contested, C. Albert Budlong winning tho nod with a 2. 2, 1 summary after Mur-

iel Henley and Romeo had spilt 1Jie first two heats. Next Saturday iiiternoun ilie

second meeting of the season villi be held and owners are asked in have their entries in hand by Thursday evening.

In the Class A Trot, first race called. May Todd owned by Rau- hinc MacLainc nnd driven by flus- tiii Tierney had .a bit too much speed for the other three entrants. in the first heat she staved off the closing drive of Bud Kalmucl: to win by half a length; in the sec- ond trip she led all the way with Archie Lee providing the competi- tion whllc in the third heat in a nip and tuck finish the winner nosed out Guy Harvester by a head in the best finish of the day.

in Class A Pace Muriel f-lciiitgi took over the lead from a ciosvly packed field at the lialf\vay' mark to win by a length over C. Albcrt Bucllong. In the second dash w» eran reinsma-n “Jiggy" Arising pil- oted Romeo home in front oi C. Albert in another nerve tingling iiiiish with Muriel dropping hack (o fourth and Lady Worthy second,

but C. Albert came into his own in ‘

the third dash leading all the way to win comfortably over the other

three entries and also by his host win to head the summary.

Mollie Dale had too much trut- ting ability for Johnny Kalniuil: and Fred Direct in Class B ‘Trot and Pace as she raced of! with the first two heats but it was a different story in the third .i.. Fred Direct went into an early lead and was never headed. hiollic Dale won the battle for second place in s. close finish with Johnny Kalmuck. .

SUMMARY Class A Trot

May Todd (Tierney) Archie Lee (Wood) Guy Harvester (Arbing) . Bud Kalmuck (OBrien)

Winning liorso uwiicd by klne MuLaiiie, City.

_ Clue A ‘Pace C. Albert Budicng (L. Kelly) Muriel Henley (Wood) _ _

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Romeo (Arbing) .. .. _ Lady Worthy 2nd (Willis)

Winning horse owned by Kelly, Soutliport.

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Class B Trot and Paco

Mollie Dale (W. Kelly) l Fred Direct (Cutcllffe) I Johnny Kalmuck (Walter Kelly) .. Winning horse owned by lard Kelly- Southport. Officials: Starter: Russ Abbott. Judges: H. Murphy, H. stead, H. Cudmoro. Announcer: A. B. Cutcliffe.

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Canadofs Olympic Team Will Leave N . Y. Friday

(By ll. Dent Hodgson) OTTAWA. Jan", 'I—(CP)-_Prin\- on: foreign ‘ice against all comers. Canada's Olympic hockey team. the R. C. A.

I .0‘. rllycrs, bashed in scisd-oflglog";

lniiiglil.

But wbetlicr or not the Fiyci-s return to Canada next April with ihe plympio gravy, Canadians’ can (hank two intermediate" teams iii Ottawa and Toronto for donating (he niiitcrinl to build a splriiacl, potentially-classy team which e\~ ports here say will do credit to t.ic Dominion.

The two teams-New Edinburgh: of the Ottawa City League and Barker's Biscuits of Toronto's Var- sity major series. sacrificed prou- rtble victory in tlicir respective ~ir- cults to assure the Olympic club of a solid outfit.

And although ihe scrambled egg department oi’ the Air FOYCQ had hoped to make it an ull-TLCAJ“. aggregation. thc brass at lies-i- riuartcrs ls gleaming uith ~i~ius and admiration at tho way Bui-glis and Barkers came through in tne pinch.

About a fortnight ago, ivncn Flvers played McGlll Rcdmcn ln a blaze of publicity and wcnt iluzi ii to defeat, the Canadian Amalizui- Hockey Association stepped iii and agreed with R.C.A.F. officiuls that Canada had a crisis on its hands The late Norman Dawe of Mout- rczil, vice president of ilic C. A. h. A.. gave the Service credit for ins r-lforl; but all agrccd the ‘cam should be bolstcrcd. The hunt (or frcsli blood started.

With little time to lose, the ("ly- rrs took over the bcst front line of Ottawa New Edinburgh: urid \-\\o other of the team's licst piny- crs. Burglis. riding high at ill‘! time, haven't won a game sli-icc and have dropped to a first-place lie in the City League.

Thcsc players are tlio prcscnt no. l forivard lino on tlic Oly-miiic team, Ab. Renaud. 27, 'l‘cd Hm herd, 2i, and Pat Sclirocicr, 26. all of Ottawa, plus centre Pole Liotchnitz, M. and defenceiiian Frank Dunster. 26, who was join- ing tho Air Force anyway

Barker's contributed Wally H.11- dcr. an NJLL. prospect who rc- mained amateur (or business roas- ons.

The Flvers will leave here u.- morroiv for New York, stilling an ilic Queen Eilizabcth Friday.

ooou HUNTING Iamnsx~<cr>i _ About I300

. residents o! Nova Scotin look to

, the woods during

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ilic lust opcii liuiiiing season on dccr uiid prcscni indications are that they Bagged more than 26,000 deer killed iii

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IIOONEY IINOEIIWAY IN A KEEN CONTEST

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Ssiditlfloniague

Will Entertain Visiting Ouricrsg

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In connection with the Second Confederation Bonspiel to be held in Charlottetown the wcck of Feb- ruary Stli, it has boon announced that on Thursday of that week ar- rangements have been male with summer-side and Montague Curling Clubs (o entertain a. ncm-ber ofihe visiting rinks on Thursday. Febru- ary 12th. A noon luncheon will b: served the visitors aud they will return lo Charlottetown in time for the Boiisplel banquet. ,

The presentation of trophies and prizes will lake place at the con- clusion of ilic play Friday night. ‘This will tzikc placi‘ about mid- night at the Charlottetown Hotel.

Team A Takes Over League Lead

With a. decisive 5-1 win over the lucklcss collar-dwelling Team C. ‘Ycmi A yrstci-duy ‘afternoon took ovcr ihe top rung in the Q.S.S. llockcy League.

The play started fast with Team A carrying tilic play into their op- ponents territory and drawing first blood, with Stull scoring. But the losers tied it up as Rcd Chev- crle banged homo Randy's shot. Fi-ccn that point on saw ihe win- ners swarm around C's nets and notchlng three more goals.

Tn the second period they added another goal find bolh teams bat- ilcd through n scoreless iihiinl per- lod.

The losers trlrd hard. vrnany times but their passing plays did not click. The game was hard fought with both goalies making spectacular saves.

Tlic goal gctters for the winners wcrc S. Stull, C. Cheveric. B. Can- non. C. Glliis and A. Molwod. (liz- losers lone tally was scored by fled Cheverie.

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First Period -

A, Siull.

C, R. Ohcverle (Ready) A, Cannon

A. Giliis (Besgsm)

A, C. Cihevcrie (Cannon

i-'l‘eam 2_Tcam 3-Tenm1 ‘i-Jfeqn 5--Teum Second Period A. Miichcod (Glllls) Third Period Scoring-None.

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The start 0f what is expected to be just as good a. City Hockey League campaign as has been alt- nessed here in recent seasons is slated for the Forum tonight when Prince of Wales Welshman and Summerside All Stars pry the lid off this season's activities and wu- sensus of opinion among the fans ls that the game should produce some hard battling throughout all three periods.

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On the eve or the opening game one finds a much brighter picture than ivas the casc a month ago. At that time due to player short- age and the efforts to weld to- gether three teams from the City it was felt and rightly so that tnc Saints would be altogether tw strong for the other teams that would be competing.

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How true was that prediction was seen when saints slapped a convincing defeat on the Navy in a pie-season game. But maitcrs, which came to a head a few iluys ago and saw the Legion withdraw changed the entire complexion of -things. Navy and Prince of Wales both picked up players that strengthened them considerably and now it appears that the lca- swe- ivill division ‘ "into: s‘ rsyiifdass fighLsILJbe ~way. ‘“” ’ '

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Getting back to tonight's en- counter Coach Johnny Square- briggs o! tho Wclslimcu yesterday “as confident of his charges ;i*.'- in; a wlioic lot better account of "themselves than in their previous exhibition appearance. Since that time the squad llBVE_§0llC through. some pretty stiff drills and grad- ually the thrce sets of l0f".\'ill'(l lines have been working lulu smooth units packing, plenty of skating powcr and scoring punch. That should cause plenty ivorry to opposing goalmiririers.

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Additiun of Ivo Cudmore. :x-

pcrienced and smart goifie of ilic

Legion for several seasons has add- ed a. lot of strength to the sciuarii from the blueline in. Squarebriggs has a quartet of husky defencemcn who should DTOYICIC Cudmore witn plenty of protection and given iiial. the era-Legion goalie will prove a zlccicled shot in the arn-i to 1...: Welshmcirs chances. + 1' 4-

Littlc of ii clciiiiitc nature is ll<ll0\\'ll of llic Sumnierslcio icsni. vilfylll‘; iivrounls have bccu ‘iicaixl but in the main it is said that the team is far stronger than the one that appeared here last season and have been showing plenty of fine form in practice sessions. But io- nlglit u ill tell ilic tale. Our bet i: that Sumincrsidc will prove plcnty tough and should iliat be proveii out hockey fans who have been patiently awaiting the opening of the league should receive plenty of siirrlnz hockey action and drama bcfurc the season ciosis and iiciv champions liiivc been CFOWHCCI- .

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The Abegweifs after a number of years absence from the hockey picture will iilso get back into ihe swing this coming season. COlil- cident with the reorganization of the Club a couple of months ago a band of hockeylsts that will w-sar Abegwcit livery iii intermediate circles went through a practice session at St. Dunsinns rink thc

I ATTENTION

CIA BAOETS

Drill nights villi begin 1p, n. FRIOAY JANUARY 9

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Red Wings Defeat liangers 6-0 For Top Spot In NJ-LL.

DETROIT. Jan. '1 -- (AP) Detroit Red Wings rode a five- game winning streak into first place in ihe National Hockey League here tonight by irollnclng the third place New York Rangers, 6-0, before 12.556 cash customers.

Harry Luniley, Detroit's 31-year- old goal-tender, turned back 20 Ranger shots to record hi: fourth shutout victory of the yes: and climb into a tie with Turk Biods of Toronto for the league loader- ship among the net-minders. Each now has yielded '13 goals in 31 games.

Rookies hammered in four of the Red Wlings’ six goals u the i-ed- hot Wings extended their current streak to 12 games with only one loss.

Don Morrison rapped in scores in the second period.

Jim McFadden, Detroit's nom- inee for the rookie of the year prize, plunked a high shot into the upper right hand corner late in the game after freshman Marty

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Pavelich had slapped in an eight-

Crescents Hand 4-1 Defeat To Beavers

SAINT JOl-iIN, N. 3., .Jari. '1- (CP) -ffa.lifax Crescents again showed they have the Indian sign on Saint John Beavers by inflict- ing a, decisive 4-1 trimming to- night and halting s. recent Beaver rally in the Maritime senior Hoc- key League.

The result left Saint John sLx points kbehlnd Crescents, who ate scparaired"'by" ‘the same ‘iiiargii. from second-place MoncloriJ-{awks \vhlle Truro Bearcats enjoy a slim two-points in the Big Four loop.

Two goals in the first period and another brace lii the second comprised the Haiigonizin scoring agsinst the listless Beavers. who lacked the pep and deadly pie- cision shown in recent victories over Bearcais and Hawks.

Crescents had the better of play in all three periods and left no doubt they had fully earned the wlii.

Summary.

First Furled h-Ifalifax. Young

- 5:18. L-Halifax. sullivau (Gray. Red- mond) 18:44.

Penalties: None.

Second Period Ii-lialiizix. Gaudet 7:03. ‘iv-Halifax. Gray (Sullivan)

12.00.

Penalties: Gauclet Young, Lay (major).

Third Period 5~Saint John, Myke

onick) 3:51.

Penalties: None.

other iilght and althougi the turn-

out was small due to unavoidauln reasons. there were enough pre- sent for fans to realize that once tho team gets down to serious business they will prove strong threats for Maritime honors. -l~ l- -l- +

ft is gratifying indeed in scc Llic Abegwcits back iiito the hockey picture once more. Memories oi‘. former great "Abegiveit teams when they were ruling the Maritime ho.‘- kcy roost back in the early 21s, days of the Campbells. Pi-owscs, Morgan, Moore, Kelly. Gordon. Rodd, Williams. McEachcrn and others whose names slip us for the present. are vividly recalled. Their feats are legendary but they too like the present band started from a small beginning.

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That will be the case of- the present team. Those behind the move have no lofty ambitions. They realize it is going to be so uphill climb before the ADCBWCiLS will again be clamoring for senior recognition but this team will give it a start. Then the school lea- gues, the minor leagues now in full swing under the guidance it the Department o! Physical Pit- ncss will contribute their share of future stars and it shouldn't be too many seasons before the program will begin i0 show results.

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Thc winter's ice racing program got underway yesterday afternoxi and judging by ihe competition offered in ihe three classes follow-

(MacGregor J

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ers of the trotters and pacer: in the winter's program are in for a hang-up season. As was expected ilue to the mild weather and heavy snow the track was soft yesterday ‘wit officials of the Victoria Driv- lug Club, sponsors of the events. intend getting lo work on it with- out delay and in the matter of a week or so expect in have a lightning fast piece of ice for the norm to match speed over.

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footer.

Pele Horeck, deflecting Tod Undsays shot home, and defence- man Bill Quackenbush. scoring on a. 30-foot screen shot, got the oth- er two Detroit goals. .

Detroit's continuing surge lift- ed the Red Wings a point past idle Toronto into the League lead,

First Period l-Detrolt, Quackenburh (Howe, Abel) i166 Penalties; Rein. Colville, Ho:- eck. Second Period.

2—Detroii, D. Morrison (R. Mor- rison, Conalcher) 8:12 3-—Detroit. D. Morrison (Conscher)

10.12 4—Detrolt, Horeck (Abel, Lind- say) 19:42 Penalties: Howe. Guldolin, Gard- ner, Leswick. 'l‘hird Period 5—Detroit. Psvelicli Stewart) 41G 6—Detr~oit. McFadden Horeck) 10:51 Penalty — Warwick.

(McFadden, (Guidolin,

Small Bore Rifle Shooting Oiuh

It is the intention of the mem- bers of thisClub to organize for ihe season at ashort. meeting io be licld ‘Thursday evening at ihe Armories at eight o‘c|ock.'

Similar ‘to last year; this shcoilnfl will be open to civilians or those not connected with Army or Cadet Clubs, and will be known aslhe, 17th Rccce Civilian Small Bore‘ Riflc Shooting Cllib. .

Officers will be appointed and: definite plans will be arranged. for 1948. Interested shooters are invited to attend.

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Signs With Cincinnati

CINCINNATI. n}. '1 - (AP)——

l ‘Long, lean Ewell Blackwell. whose. lwliiplikc urm madc him the best. I

right-handed pitcher iii bascbrilll last year, ioday signed a contract with Cincinnati Reds for 194.8.

ileum of the contract were not announced by warren Gliel. l1"!!- ident of the Reds. but it was ap- parent from a statement lic made iliat Blackivcll bad been given a substantial boost in ilall- CH5)"- naii sporis (irriters guessed the salary would be bcbwaecn $MOOO and $25000.

Blackwell in i941 ‘won l6 gamer in a row. pitched a no-liltier and came brick a, fcw days later lo 39b within two putouts of another when Brooklyn bats exploded for two safeties.

lie ended ihe year a tired pitch- er but with a record of 22 games won and eight lost. l-le led all, moumismen in strikeouts with

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Satisfied With Probe Oi U. S. Norse Racing

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 —(AP)~Oi1 Jan. 13 it will be just two years since the United States horse racing industry. suffering from a bad cue of the jitters, hired Spencer Drey- ton away frrm lihe I-‘cdciai Bu-rcau of Investigation nnd commanded him to give the sport of kings a thorough scrubbing.

Today ihe ex-slcuih is entitled to look back upon 24 (months of solid achievement. and to contemplate s coming season in which the in- tegrity of racing will be less open to question than ever before in its history.

tinder Drayton’; driving insist- ence. more than 25.000 fingerprints of racing folk now are on file in his office hers J-fe figures he has only about 10.000 more to go. A ioial of 7.000 thorough-brads had identifying numbers tattooed on their lips last year. and Drayton expects to cun- piete the job in 1948.

"The fingerprints, are a great deterrent to the criminal element,"

‘IIICTQRIA RINK

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ST. FATS

Sluup Saturday Night

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$'$i(is Bowling

Results of Ladies Bowling Lea- tua played on Monday night at Capitol Bowling Alleys, Summer- s e.

H1811 single I. Peters 294. 2nd high single E. McDonald 245, High three E. Landry 612. 2nd high three J. Bernard 604.

Jolly Flve:— M. Gallant L. hiclienna.

Meiindsfsz- Todd . .. MacMurdo Cudmors Simmons . MscMurdo ..... ‘Intel-MM All Stars:- Peters Gallant . . Landry . Wood Peters . . Total-Mill. Maple Leafs:- Ivy L. J. Ramsay .. L. Schurman '1". Prallkht . E. Deighen Total—130l. ' Zerdsz- Simmons Sharpe . Woodside Efliniflfl I-fogg . . Toinl~2fl0t Strikers:- M. Diwvar L. McQuaid . C. Mcdonald F. Beck K. Mclver Tolal~l908. Lucky "Fire:- Rodd .. McNclll .. Botts Easier Compton 'I‘ol.al ~‘_‘il'l"l. Fizz Kids:- ills-Arthur Wyman . Todd . Rankin Rogers 'l‘otnl ~ i943. Busy Been- E. Pineau M. Arsenault .. B. Plneau C. Pineau Low Score Total-JON. llolmanfiu- E. Richard . l. Wedge . L. MacDonald K. Sutton E. MacDonald Tptal-QKKIO. Mary Arin Girls:- A. MacDonald .. .1 B. Melllsh L. Perry . .. I. Rogers E. Wnlfleld . moral-lain. i Dodgers:- Vi Bishop Y. Ahern E. Palmer E. Douglas l... Hall Total 42240. Mosquitoes: B. Daley .. . P. Williams . n. Hughes B. Rogers . Low Score Total-lbw. Beavers:- I. McDougall W. Somers J. McFayden . M. lVfcNeiil .. .. A. Tompkins Toial—2019.

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he said. “Infcrmaiion of criminal records auppltcd by us has enabled oumeirs of stables to weed out many uiidesirablcs. Also, ii a man urlih a record knows he will b6 fingerprint- cd he is not likely to look for a job in racing.

"The tattooing, of course. makes u, impossible to switch fclenlltlcs of horses. In addition to enforcing ihcsc two measures, we will make it a policy to continue to run down every i-uimor of misdoing (hat reaches our office. That, I believe. is about the greatest thing we can

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LOUIS vs . VIILOOTT

FIGHT PICTURES

Mon. ~ Tues. -- 8 PM.

Open City

I'P.W.C . d: Summer-side