We were delighted to have a picture post card from Mrs. HOOP- er Horne. now vacationing in St. Petersburg. Florida. with this message:-"Thought you would be interested in this scene with people watching the greyhound racing at Debby Lane here. The temperature rtins from 05 to 96 with glorious iireezes. They have all kinds of races, horses and dogs.”--Tliaiiks. Mrs. Home. for your very kind remembrance.

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George MacDonald of Boston. has very kindly sent us the latest results from Yonkers Raceway. In the 2.10 pace. purse 'saooo, Colonel Dan tRyau) was second to La Tosca in 2.07 3-5, and Earle Avery won a 32.500 pace with Major Hal iiom a very last field in 2.05. which was the fastest mile of the week. The 2.08 pace. purse 82.000 was won by Scotty H. by Scotland, whose dam was the famous race mare Eula H. that .set the Char- lottetown track record ut 2.08 in 1931. She was owned by S. A.

Wathen and Son who were the breeders of Scotty l-l.. Volo H.. Dale H, and others: all out of Eula H. and they were certainly

horses that raced well. as Dale H. has won on numerous occasions in the past year and Scotty H. has also been zirst to the wire quite a number of times. one thing we have remarked and it is that a hors.- bought out of the stable of S. A. Watlten and Son can be depended upon to race well for years. 0 0

Starter Steve Phillips and "son Charlie started a total of 6.865 horses this season at Roosevelt Raceway in 8'70 races. There were 441 individual trotters anti 609 ;:ace.rs and one horse that started at both gaits-A total of 203 bar- ses lowered their records at Roose- celt and six world records went in- 10 the box. The horse with the most starts was Buster Volo with 22 and Hi-Lo's Sister. driven by Canadian Cltnt Hcidgins. was the biggest dash winner with seven to her credit.

Frank 15;-"xiii is a driver whd' is ea:d to be without. an enemy. He is always cotirtxvous. helpful and ready to give advice to any of the younger drivers who consult him. so it is not to he wondered at that he is lxin: congratulated on all sides for his success this sea. on. He admits getting a great kick out of breaking records and this year he had two big thrills when he drove Good Time and Sampson Hanover to world marks. Good Time turned in the" fastest mile ever raced on .1 mile track 1.57 4-5 -and the latter. a four-year-old, became the first standard Bred to beat 2.00 in a race on a. half- mile ovzfl. with 1.59 3-5. Ervln had trained both of these from colt- hood. He drives for six owners in- cluding the Plesidcnt. of'Yonkers Raceway - William Cane, Good Time's owner.

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cult he competed at small tracks in the mid-west :or years where he secured a reputation that brought him his present position. He is 47 years old and both his father and grandfather raced and drove harness horses. the grand- father for 46 years. Ervin remain- ed with his father for five years and then went on his own. In 1926 he was badly injured and did not race again until.l9?Jl. It was in 1947 that he took over C: Is I yearling and the next 'sum- .. A ..- lrliing second in two hen?- IB49 he won the Little Brown Jug top stake for thrce-year-old Pacers worth 353,000. Now a five- year-old his Winnings have climb. d to 3190.500 and on November leth and December 1st he will rare in big stakes at Hollywood Park, California. where he arrived by air latc last week.

The success of Sampson Han- over. owned by K. D. Owen of Texas. is a great tribute to Ervin's training and judgment. He was heavily staked as a. two-year-old trotter but was not of the top grade so he did not race him. The next year be converted him to the pace but did not start him as he wanted to thoroughly edu- cute him and condition him before he turned for the word. At Lex- ington he took a record of 1.50 3-5 against time and this year he has set up world's records as men. tloned before.

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Seven years ago Louis M. Mig- gett bought the pacer Lingo Direct for (1.700 and since that time he has won 300.000 with Lingo and has become so thoroughly horse conscious that he has added Bus- ter Volo. Nancy K.. Roy 0. Black- stone. June's Pride and Lasallc to his string. That's the way the ho?" bus Beta you if youi don't watch outl

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llrnlo McTugue and Johnny Con- roy were with the writer at Duf- forin Park in the fall and winter of 1014 and W". lcmember Nat my quite we1l.l Nat no the kind

to. After attaining the height: by winning the Humble- the Kentucky Futurity And other N8 g:,lI in: tho

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Charles Bay, for years before he started with the ti-otters and pac- era.

O C 0 About four years ago when Roosevelt Raceway opened Net was or. hand with a stable and he has been there or at Yonkers ever since. Today at 72 he is one of the oldest active drivers but has no thoughts of retiring. He has not been to a doctor in fifty years and feels perfectly lit. It was weight more than anything else that took him away from the run- ners. He had won the American Grand National Steeplechase in 1902-34 and 1906, but avoirdupois catching up with him five years later he shifted to the sulky sport. so that gives him forty years experience. 0 O O This season his stable consisted of six. Dominion Prince, Domin- ion's Boy, Buck Up. Truth and Sergeant York. Last June. Royal llzlood. the three-year-old trotting !daughter of Billy Direct 155, 'worid's champion pacer. and Cal- .umet Evelyn. world's champion double-gaited performer, w e n t lsour on her driver, who was a very competent man, and was turned over to Nat. Nat got in her good graces and she did ev- .erything right for him, winning lihree out of her live races before being retired recently. l 0 O U Yonker Trotting News has the following:-Paul Vinyard considers himself very lucky to escape un- hurt in two serious spills in his 36 -years as a driver-trainer. In one he was dragged forty feet. In the Iother a horse's hoof missed hzs head by an inch. The 58-year-old veteran is. however. undaunted. 'He is in the sport for keeps. In lieu he was thrown from the sulky 'on the first turn. He held onto 'the reins. dragged along the lgiound forty feet and somehow lmanaged to book an elbow over lthe seat and pull himself into it. I

He finished the race but does not remember where. The other accl- dcnt occurred in 1938 in a race with Sep Palin. Henry Thomas ,and Harry Pownall. In jockeyint: for a position on the turn be rtumbled out. Pownall was just behind and steered clear of the prostrate Vinyard who could have touched the horse's foot with the flick of an eyelash.. O O

The writer's experience in accl- dents eclipses that of Paul Vin- yard. In 1932 I was driving Gold- en. was at the pole when the word Go was given but was jammed against the fence by a horse on the outside and Johnny Conroy"; horse coming behind struck the arch of the aulky. crashing it My right foot was caught in the stir- rup and I was dragged 310"! C0 the first turn before my shoe be- came released. But for Tyndall Semple's quick action, who was trailing. I would have been a As it was his horse's hoof struck my leg and bruised it very severely. Good friend Well Mc- lleill and others picked me up and Monty Gerow bandaged me so that I contlnued'driving. putting all the weight on the other foot during the meet. I must not forget Emmett Gallant. Who TE' commended scraped potatoes and salt As the best remedy to take down the swelling and it was real- ly good. A few years afterwards I was X-rayecl at the hospital and Dr. Houston sl.owed me where mil leg had been broken in that Acci- dent but by careful bandaging I had managed it keep on the 80-

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Bernard Kearney. who is Gen- eral Manager of the Hollywood track. where horses are raclni! daily now. announces the 1952 dates for Santa Anita track. Ar- cadla. California, March 14 toMay 10-Forty afta-noons on a mile Itiaok. No doubt the horses that are racing in California will con- tinue there until the Spring meet- ing.

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A 14-year-old boy. Philip Mill- burn, Jr.. of West De Pere, Wis. recently lowereti the track record for two-year-old paccra at Elk - horn, Wis.. to 2.11 with Phil Bob. that he broke. trained and drove. The previous record had been 2.11 3-5. He is the youngest driver on record to accomplish such A feat. ..Elve French thoroughbred mares were shipped recently by Pan Am- erican World Airways. first from Paris to Miami -and then to their new home in Boo Palo. BT31"- They had been purchased for 833.- 000.

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A new world's record for 1 1-16 miles was not up at 1-foilyW00d track. California. Saturday, Oct. 27th when Prince Jay, five-yell” old pacer owned by S. A. Camp. Shutter, CAL. won in 2.07 2-5 Joe O'Brien was second to him with Mighty sun. Joe followed that up by winning that day with Dinner Date in 2.07 1-5. Merry DI! 111 204 2-5 Ind Red O'Brien in ?2 3-5. The previous afternoon oe had won with Fan Dancer in 2.06 2-5. I

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A Quebec City summary shows Peach Butter 2.08 3-5 winning all three heats of the Free for All, puru 01.000. The fleld,hAd such 3 pocera u Lusty Louis 2-2-2.

ptoin Cuh 3-4-4. Clover Volo 4-5-3. Scott Spencer 5-8-I. Toxin Hanover d-d-5; Mary Hanna d Cyril Hanover allo Itlrted. 'l'lm,. 2.10 2-5. 2.00 2-5. IN. It VII a slow day and slow track and the time in the third mile Iraq sully equal to butter than 2.00 under favorable conditions. On the some Iftot-noon Star Boy, driven Lode Pnught. won the flat but of the two-mils trot in us and Dlculcna took the second heat in ....................................

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THE GUARDIAN . CHARLOTTETOWN

Abbies Play St. John Today In Football Final

The Charlottetown Abbie: will meet the Saint John Mariners here this afternoon in the second game of the New Brunswick- Prlnce Edward Island rugby play-offs for. the right to advance in McCurdy Cup competition. The Mariners and Abbies batt- led to a scoreless draw in Saint John last Saturday in the first game. The series Is a home and

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home total points Affair. Abbles. with A heavy scrum. carry 'a weight. advantage info

the game but the Mariners are said to be A fast aggressive team with a lineup that is compara- tively young in years.

The local team will be minus three men who are out with slight injuries. but they will be well stuffed. The injured players

nre I-Trunk Strain with a bed knee. Jim Flanaghun with an injured shoulder and Charlie

Bullem. None of the lnjuriel are serious.

For the Abbies this will be the chance they have worked for since early in the fall. They have been holding regular morning workouts for over the past mbnth and very often light evening ex- ercises as well.

Last night coach Gordon Ben- nett folt confident that his boys would take the Mariners offer a hard battle. He stated that the Mariners had 8 nice working scrum but that the Abblel had too much weigh for them.

A. J. Mat-Adam will referee the game which will get underway at Memorial Field at three o'clock.

Art Perry will be playing in his old post at fullback today and Johnny Bradley will looking after the picking quart- eris duties. George Scantlebury who usuully in picking quarter will be out on the three quarter line. '

Following is the Abbie: lineup:

Fullback. Art. Perry: three quarters. "Red" Howutt. Scantle- hury. Glover. Coylc; halves. Blanchard. Bradley: forwards. DPVll'lL'. Rodgers. Wilson, Ready. Dark. Lcdwell: subs. W. LePnge. C. Gillis, R. Campbell. J. Hen- nessey.

St. Mary's In Player Deals

HALIFAX. Nov. 9 - (cm. - Halifax St. Marys of the Maritime Major Hockey League have releas- ed two players and will welcome a new defenceman by Sunday. club president Vic Oland announced to- night.

The two players released are wingers Stan Viarecki and Conny Poltras.

With an overabundance of left wingers in camp. coach Wllf Field was forced to part with some to make room for newcomers who have joined the cilia. When New Haven of the Eastern United States Amateur League asked for players Poltras and Wareckl were released to that club.

Mr. Oland said he was still not satisfied. "I feel we have plugged some gaps". he said, "but other rc- placements are needed and are be- ing sought. Over the week-end. we will have defenceman Bob Dralnville in Halifax And by Sun- day. I will have word on forwards Ken Maclfenzie and Bill Shill."

Maine Bowlers Retain Title

HALIFAX. Nov. B-(CF)-'I'he strong Houlton. Me.. bowling team faltercd slightly today then came back to win their third straight Maritime-Eastern Maine bowling title. finishing the three-day meet with 31 points.

Houlton won the title in -the Afternoon round when they took three points from Hallhx Conn- Mortei. In the morning they dropped three to Moncton and with the Mnrtolmen defeating their city rivals. linvperlnla. for four. it left the decision up to the afternoon session.

The title was decided on the mar '11 of 3 pin-0 stubborn pin that moved off the spot. rocked And did everything but full. That tpin would have given Wilbert -Mlrkl A spare in his last box and enough pins with the extra ball to take that accent! otriag. But Houlton pulled it out by three pins and had the title wrapped

up.

The Houlton team wu compos- ed of Larry Reece, Roy Neal, Denny Polkey, Tod Mocfntyn. Billy Dewitt. Put Putnam and Lony Getcholl.

The Maritime-Maine Bowling Auoclctlon held a meeting cutter and elected Al Trlcey of Freder- icton president. succeeding Austin Stoobes of Halifax. The meet will be bold in Fredericton.

Jim Councilor on Two Woolu

NEW roux. Nov. 3 -(AP) -

3,, Jim Connchen New York lunura

forwprd. will be out of the lineup it least two week: with I frac- tured kneocqp, X-rays allowed to- day. Ho suffered it last Saturday

anlnat Toronto.

Princess Elizabeth And her husband Prince Philip thoroughly enjoyed the period of hockey be- tween tho Islander: and the Hawks last night judging by the comment! of those who nurround- ed the royal couple and also by the expressions they showed on various pluyl.

The Duke Appeared to take I lively interest in the game and to understand what it was All about. He clapped heartily when "Red" Favero scored for the II- landers and the Princess joined with him.

Mrs. Leo Lamoureux. wife of the Islander. coach sat next the Princess And she ltnted that the royal couple followed the game very closely. She stated that the Princess showed A keen interest in the players and lnqulrled where quite A number of them came from.

She was particularly interested in clearing up the playing status of Marcel Clement: who was traded to the Hawk: yesterday. Clements. was the first player to whom she talked when the en- tered the Forum and she asked him if he had ever played here before. Marcel replied that he had played with the Islanders for the past year but was sold to the Hawks Thursday.

Another question that the Princess wanted to get. straight- ened up concerned the length of penalties. Her husband took A hand in helping her and they both smiled with delight as Johnny Dutchak returned to the ice after serving his only penalty of the game.

The Prince appeared to enjoy the bumping and broke into a smile when Dutchak went after Scholes early In the game. Laurie May and Bill Wlnemaster dump- ed Conny Bonhomme in front of the Royal seats and the Prince got A big kick out of it. The

Princess, however. turned her head. The Islanders put on several

power plays which delighted the Royal couple and they watched intently while the Islanders swarmed around the Hawks net.

During the period the Prince remarked that the players boun- ced around like rubber balls. He also remarked that it was a won- der that some of the players did not get their skulls fractured or their backs broken.

The Princes: intimated during the game to Mrs. Lamoureux that site II A fan of Maurice "Rocket" Richard. She stated that the game she and Prince Philip saw between the Canadlens And Ranger: was kind of dull and

that she would have liked to have seen the game in which Richard knocked out A player.

Kent StoreT1'o Join New losgow

SYDNEY. N. 8.. Nov. 9 -tCP)- Kent Storey. who performed in me Cine Breton Major League last season. will join New Gles. gow of the Antigonlsh-'Pictou- Coichester Senior 3 circuit this year. it was announced today.

Mciiurdy Cup Play Today .

HALIFAX. Nov. 9 -(GP) .. Wanderers And Truro Bearcats clash here tomorrow in a sudden death semi-final in Mcourdy play

The winner will go against the victor in the saint John Mariner- ciiu-iottewwn Abbie: series which winds up in Charlottetown tomor- row.

Wanderers and Truro originally were scheduled to play i. two. game, total-point series but this plan was scrapped when no of- flciol holiday was woclalmcd for Monday.

Hamilton Juniors Vlln Football Title

HAmtmoN. Nov. 0 -099)- Hamilton Tiger-Cats captured the Bum-n Canada junior football title tonight by shollocklng Mont- real Notre Dame Do Once Maple Leafs 11-0 in I sudden-death game. Tiger-Cato will meet either Edmonton 'or Saskatoon for the Canadian crown. .

Y.,M. O. A. A BOWLING

Wednesday Afternoon India Uh! Ihlnlo. ' Tenn 1

, DI. 4 points: foam 6.

rm. 1 point. High single: Mn. Hooper. tn.

Huh throo: Mu. Hooper cao.

rum 1. ins. iv, petals; team 3. tall. Iv, polnta. . High cinplc: Mi-I. Clarke 215;

high then: In. Taylor,

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KAPUBKASING. Ont.- (C?)- Mrs.,John rcrrior will be the first woman in Kopuckulnfc history to run for city council when municipal elections are held In December. A lcctum on child psychology. the to the lie of John Fcrrlor. maintenance en- gineer. and mother of two child-' ron.

Royal Couple Enjoyed 20 Minutes Hockey At Forum Last Night

:...Mj.: .. .. Richard knocked out 13:11 Juzdu of the Leaf: in. in wild game which was featured by A 10 min- uto brawl.

At the end of the period commented that the time had gone very quickly. Mrl. Lamour- eux stated that she was very easy -to talk to and could make A person feel quite at case.

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the ice to the place the Royal couple were sitting was spread out Iefore they arrived. The

coaches. heads and player: of the two teams lined up on 01)- posite sldes and the Royal couple with Princess Elizabeth ahead, walked between them. chatting along the way.

After meeting Forum Man- ager Bill Brown thny next met Judge J. Elliott Hudson, Presi-

dent of the M.M.H.L. and Dr. F. C. Dougan. President of the Is- landers Club. The Prince stop- ped to talk with George Mc- Lagnn while the Princess pro- ceeded down to stop and chat with Clements.

The Princess next stopped to talk to Roy Marshall of the Hawks and also "Hub" Beaudry while the Prince was talking to Larry Travis, Willie Marshall and Don Lockhnrt. They both shook hands with the captains "Bucko" Trainer and Morey Hamilton, the coachea Leo Lunioureux and Johnny Horeck and the referees.

On the way out they again spoke to the team captains and coaches and to all the players as they passed down the line. Kilby of Moncton was slightly out on the side of the face and the Prince stopped and snld A few words to him.

As they walked down the car- pet the 17th Rerce Bond played "Auld Lang Sync" and the crowd roared their approval of the Royal couple. As they got to

the door Prince Philip waved his scorecard above his head in farewell.

The Royal couple were accom-

panied by His Honor Lieutenant Governor T. W. L. Prowse (ind Mrs. Prowse: Premier J. Walter Jones and Mrs. Jones and acting Mayor J. D. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart along with A number of other people.

Active Curling Season Plans Are Discussed