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The brothers Tom and George Rogers left yesterday for Lexing- ton, Kentucky, where they will visit the stock farms. attend the auctions and witness some of the greatest racing ever seen in the history of the sport. Both young men take a lively interest in har- ness raving and are very popular. George excels as a rlfleman and was the winner of one of the prin- cipal matches at the D.C.R.A. shoot at Ottawa in August, The Lexington race program started last Wednesday September 29th with races held Thursday, Friday and today. 1t will continue next week concluding on Saturday, Oct- ober 9th. Lexington track is one of the best cared for and is said to be the fastest mile track in the world. N0 doubt a number of two- lninule miles will be trotted or paced there.
Tattersalls sale of Two Gaits Farm yearlings will be held Octo- ber 4th with Galrlesway Farms yearlings sold October 5th and Walnut Hall Farm yearling-s at the Farm October 6th. Our friends Tom and George will certainly witness some interesting bidding when the “big shots" start to loos- en their bankroils. The top price for a yearling was $37,500 which Mrs, Frances Dodge Johnson paid for Victory Song three years ago.
Dr. George Bishop, who has re-. paired several trotters and pacers, that looked to be ready for the d1s- l‘ card. has pufchased the well known' free for all pater Josedale Hoosier 2.07, by Grattan McKinney. The Hoosier stallion is standard bred and registered and combines the blood of Grattan Royal and Mc- Kinney, two of the best racing strains extant. While his record is 2.01 he was timed separately in better than 2.08 over the New Glasgow, NS. track. He met with arr-accident udille racing this sea- son but the Doctor hopes he can make hlm sound again and if so he should be able to hold his own wlilih the best free-for-allers in the Mariiimes.
We had a telegram from our friend John Scott yesterday stat-‘ ing that he is putting on race mcets at Lower Sackville track near Halifax, next Wednesday, Ociubci- 7th and Thanksgiving Day,
Kelly holding the ribbons, with — "Harness driver - Ace reinsman Willard Kelly (49) of Southport, P.E.l., has been driving trotters and pacers for 35 years." We are glad to see the gentlemaniy and very likeable Willard receiving na- tional recognition such as The Standard gives. There are also other pictures taken at Old Home Week of horses being hooked to sulky, our friend Emmett Gallant shoeing one, and a cut of part of the pari-mutuel.
Last Monday evening at Fox- boro, Mass, Vella la Vella, owned by Willard MacDonald, Summer- side, and driven by Heber Sween- ey, won the 2.19 pace heading Sen- ator Pointer, Janette Dale and four others — time, 2.09 1-5. Dan- nie Steele won third in the 2.24 Trot with Pro-Duck, ten starters. The Quebec owned horse Bohem- ian King won the 2.22 Pace from eight others in 2.11.
Bill Herbert of London, Ontario, is considered one of the luckiest horsemen in that. great province. For years he has been breeding and developing good colts and last year had two, Jay Herbert, that took a record of 2.14 1/5 as a two- year-old, and Ora G. Herbert. This year he gave them a careful Spring preparation and in July won a stake race at Strathroy With Jay Herbert in 2.08 2-5. It was such an astonishing mile that an American buyer offered $15,000 for the colt. and it was accepted, Then Mr. Herbert devoted most of his at- tention to Ora G. Herbert and at the London, Ont. Western Fair September 14th won the threeyear old futurity pace in straight heats, time, 2.08, 2.0’! 2/5, 2.06 1/5, the latter being the best colt mark ever set up on the track and bet- tering the futurity record of 2.07 set. by Bob Lee at Strathroy in 1939. But that is not all -— three days afterwards in an exhibition mile he set a new mark for three- year-old pacers of 2.05 and also a new half-mile mark oi 59 l/5. The mile was paced all alone and the 2.05 equalled the track record set in 1938 by Tom Grattan. The half-mile bettered was that of
‘Grattan Bars — 59%, which had
stood for many years, On the same afternoon the three-year-old pacer Sam Hy won the Free For All Pace with a summary of 1-1-5, de-
Olrcber 11th. Invitations have been sent out to many horsemen to al- tend. We trust this fall meeting‘ will draw a large attendance and‘ be one of the best of the season] Horsemen of Halifax have put a‘, in; of money into the track and tlcscrvc every encouragement. l
We wish to thank Leo C. lVLz-l
_ namara, proprietor of Two Gaitsi
Farm, Indianapolis, Indiana, for‘; catalogue of gacarlings which will be sold ln Lexington Monday eve-' rung. One of the greatest tw'o-, year-old pacers this year is Good Timc, owned by W.H. Kane of‘ Gnsheil, N.Y, that WfIS bred at Two! Gnits Farm and sold as a yearlingi last fall. He is only one of many that have raced vcry successfully this and other seasons.
W) have also been remembered by CF. Gaines, proprietor of Gainesway Farm with a catalogue of his ycarllngs that will be sold at Lexington Tuesday evening, October 5th. They are the get of Peter Astra 2.0115, Volation 4. 2.00“; and other sires. In both Two Gzlits and Gaincsway catalogues are magnificent specimens that will make a lot of money for and give fame to many owners. These. farms certainly know how to feedl and develop youngsters, that is have yearllngs look like four- year-olds.
Our Montreal correspondent writes: “Last weekend was a grand one for horse racing alld a? large crowd saw great racing at Richelieu Park. The $1,000 Free- For-All Trot was the stellar at- traction and to the surprise of a grtat many, Gentleman Jim 2.02% driven by the veteran Raoul Pot- vfn. was a straight heat winner with Projectile 2-2-2 and Provid- ent_ 3-3-3, Provident is the holder of the track record at Three Riv- ers of 2.05 2-5 and has been the winner of most of the Free For All trots in Que-bee this season. Mr. L. Bergeron, driver of Prov- ident, said Gentleman Jim is the horse he fears most when your old friend Mr. Potvin Ls in the sulky, as he uses his head and goes the short mile, Provident is a most awkward looking trotter as he throws his feet around in all dir- actions, but. he certainly gets there. Last year he started in eighteen races and had thirteen . winning brackets. He is a son of spericer 1581i." Thanks, Harry, and please congratulate my old friend Raoul.
The cover of the roto-gravure section of the Montreal standard has an excellent picture oi Willard
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{eating a high class field which included the Santa Anita $50,000 pace stake winner, Blue Again 2.02%, whose summary was 5-4-1 — time, 2.07 2-5, 2.07, 2.09 4-5,
Incidentally. Ora G. Herbert stepped his first eighth in 14 l-5
seconds and his first quarter in
2e 2/5, his half in 59 1/5 and his- three-quarters in 1.31 4/5 with the mile in 2.05, Had he been a little better rated it is believed he would have paced the mile in 2.04 or bet- ber. This is certainly a great year for three-ycar-olds in Ontario. Ora G. Herbert is sired by Ora Gr ttan 2nd, by Ora Grattan, by Gr. tan Royal 2.0611», one of the greatest sires of fast pacers the world has ever known, Sam Hy was sired by Bob Lee 43) 2.07. the futurity winner referred to above.
After a number of disappointing delays due to the weather David Nelma held his four stake races at Blue Acres track, New Glasgow, N.S, last Wednesday afternoon. The No. i stake was won by Babe Britton (Baxter) in straight heats, with the trotter Brewer's Gallon llielly) 2-2-2, Donna Clegg (Sheen) 5-3-4. three others starters, best time 2.13 2/5 —- a new record for Babe Britten, owned by George Thompson, Summerside, The No. 2 stake for 2.25 class eliglbles was won by Bowden Square (Hickey) with 1-3-1, Lustlcia (Tierney) 3-1-2, Valley Long (Lowery) 5-2-3. three other starters, best time 2.16. The winner is owned by Stan Cleary of North Sydney, The No. 3 stake for three-year-olds was won in straight heats by Rosalie Hooper, owned and driven by Col. J.P. Hooper, Reta‘s Trinket (Low- ery) 2-2-2, Gingerbread Man (Inw- lng) 3-3-3, best time 2.21. The No. 4 stake for four-year-olds was wcm in straight heats by Johnny Kal- muck, owned and driven by Wal- ter Kelly, Billy MoVay (Craig) 2-2-2, Ola Budlong (MacDonald) 3-3-4. two other starters, best time 2.13 - a new record for Johnny Kalmuck.
Enough race meets have been held this season to give us an op- portunity to evalue the new starting system known briefly as "The Gate." Flor our part we like It and wish it had been In oper- ation many years ago. We have taken part in heats where there were eighteen scores and we were driving s puller, Often before the race started our arms were pract- ically dead and that was true of other drivers also and the condi- tion of the horses must have been terrible. 1 have before me a race program where two Island horses started in three races at. one meet- ing, one of them pacing eleven heats. If you multiply each heat by an average of five scores you have 55 scores, most of them over 1/16th of a mile. With the Gate the horses get away the first. score, saving themselves and their driv- ers. It will mean that. they will race much longer and trot or pace faster after they get accustomed to the new form of starting, We
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The Reece Juniors and Halifax Nationals will play a doubleheader at Antigcnish Sunday afternoon in an effort to declare the Nova Sco- tia-Prince Edward island junior baseball champions.
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The winner of the series will play the New Brunswick champ- ions Dieppe or Saint John juniors. Should the Island and Nova Sco- tia champions split the twin bill further negotiations will be enter- ed into to decide the issue.
I O O The above word. received from] Charlie Ryan, Reece mentor, means ,' that the resumption of the City League playoffs scheduled for the Weekend will have to be further
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O I l While the Reece invade Nova’ Scotia the Summerside All-Stars‘ will be carrying Island hopes for.‘ the intermediate baseball title into‘ the New Brunswick centre of» Chatham where the second game of the best two out of three ser- ies will also be played Sunday. The; All-Stars are confident they will make it two straight, but if a third game is necessary it will be‘ played at the same locale on Mon- i day,
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The race for the American League pennant is still in doubt. The defeat suffered by the Cleve- land Indians yesterday has served to keep alive the hopes of the Yankees and Red Sox who meet in a crucial two game series over the weekend. The Tribe lead had been cut to one game and they still have two to go with Detroit Tigers.
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The Tribe isn't home as yct, but the World Series fever has grip- ped Cleveland. President Bill Veeck estimates that his office has received 1.000.000 requests for tick- ets. Only elght hours after thr Tribe began accepting requests by mall, the Indians‘ front office was
ing an estimated 85,000 letters.
- a - Because of the vast number of requests for the approximately 198,000 reserved seats available for three world series games, Veeck announced a change in ticket pol- icy. He cug ticket requests to two ducats to each person for a single game and said he may decide to reserve the bleachers.
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On the other side of the tracks. the Boston Braves sold their entire allotment of 3.000 bleacher seats for the first. two world ser- ies games in 14 minutes and left 4.000 disappointed fans standing in the street when the ticket windows closed,
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Only 1,500 of the 5,500 persons who stormed Braves field were able to buy a pair of tickets at, $1 each. Nearly a third of the lucky ones camped in front of the 10 ticket windows all night. Some ar- rived as early as 1 p.m. yesterday.
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BOSTON, Oct. 1- (AP)--Re- prieved by Cleveland's loss to De- troit, Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees fanned new pennant hopes today as they rested for a final week-end series that could determine the American League champion.
The Sox and Yankees have a chance as they trail the Tribe by only one game. Each of the three teams has two more to play in a race that ls sure to go down to Sunday, the final day of the sea- son, before It is settled. Two more Cleveland victories would wrap It
up.
The Yanks and Red Sox, tied for second place, wrestle at Fenway Park tomorrow and Sunday while Cleveland has two more home dates with that tough Detroit club. A sweep for either the Yanks or Sox and a split for Cleveland would result in a final two-way tie. Two more defeats for Cleveland, and a split of the New York-Bos- ton set would produce a triple lie. Both the second-place clubs are banking on Hal Newhouser to beat the Indians in one of the re-
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CLEVELAND, Sept. 30—(AP)— Bill Vccck, president of Cleveland Indians, today denied a report that he would sell out to Hank Green- berg, former home run king and currently vice-president and sec- ond largest. stockholder of the Tribe.
‘ Manager Joe McCarthy spent the day in his hotel room, listening to Jhe radio reports.
After it was all over he could only repeat what he had laid be- fore, "this baseball business never Ia over until the last. man ll out. It still will be Jack Kramer for us tomorrow.
In New York, manager Bucky Harris of the Idle Yankees paused
en route to Boston to‘ say, "we're
going up to Boston to win those ball games. What more can I say. It will be Tommy Byrne tomorrow. I want to sleep on it. before nam- lnl! my Sunday pitcher."
Kramer, the" handsome right- hander who handcuffed the Yan- kees Saturday with a seven-hitter, will be shooting for victory no. 18.
He has beaten the Yankees four times this year.
Kramer's foe in the opener of this series will be Byrne, the wild lefthander who pitched so bril- liantly Sunday in taming the Red 50x.
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Dodgers Drop To Third Place In National League
(By The Canadian Press) Vern Bickford, rookie rlghthand- er of the pennant-winning Boston Braves. throttled Brooklyn, 3-1. Friday to drop the Dodgers into third place in the National League standings.
Bickford yielded seven hits three more than the Braves were able to get off Hank Behrman and Ralph Brallca —‘— but he was tight in the clutches, It was his 11th irillmph- of the campaign. Pittsburgh unloaded four 0f its six hits off rookie Walter Cress af- tcr two were out in the ninth inn- in; and defeated Cincinnati, 2-1. Cross looked to be a cinch to win his first major league game after the first two men were re- tired in the final frame.
Then Ralph Kiner and Dixie Walker singled, Romanus Basgalbs bourlder to short suddenly bounced high into the outfield and one runner counted. Frank Gustlne rapped safely. scoring Vic Lom- bardi, who was running for Walk-
Tiny Bouham started for Pitts- burgh but Kirby Higbe, who fin- ished, was the winning pitcher.
Fair Attendance At Sunny Acres Meet Wednesday
A fair crowd of spectators was on hand for the Wednesday after- noon race at Sunny Acres track. The weather was ideal for this season of the year and good rac- ing was witnessed in all four classes.
In the third heat of the Glass A Trot and Pace Hal Britten set a new track record o! 2,20, the fastest heat of the day.
Results follow:
Sumfnlry Class A
Hal Britten
Reuben Leo
Royal Tell
Speedwell Guy
Time: 2.22, 2.21. 2.20.
Class B Lucky Guy Question Mark Peggy Witt. . Time: 2.29 3-5. 2.27 1-5, Class O King Selina Filly Kalmuck Bill! Scott. .. Time: 2.37, 238. Class D Neil Budlong Billy Clegg Alice Hal .. Dot Budlong Dolly '3. .. bar. Time: 2.8’! 2-5, 2J8, 2.90 3-5,
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The eve of the Hun shooting season sees an army of gunners making last minute preparations for the big event. At. present the purchasing of licenses is the chief concern of visiting sportsmen. There has been an almost steady stream of applicants. So far few American sportsmen are availing themselves of the special four day license for 810.00 but are purchas- ing the season license at the $35.00 rate. One party of eight plunked down two hundred and eighty smackers as un-concernedly as if they were buying eight 10c cigars.
31168111: from appearances at presen-t a record number of upland galme hunters are all set to take the field against the wily Hun. New resident hunters have been bitten by the hunting bug and to date the number of non-resident gun- ners so far this season outnumber last‘ seasons quota 3 to 1. The Huns are there if you can find them. Not possibly in the numbers en- countered last year but enough to make sporty hunting if one is lucky in his contacts. Gunners who hunt without the services of a hunting dog are going to find themselves seriously handicapped particularly early in the season. After late Octobers sharp frosts thins out. vegetation hunting will improve for this type of Nimrod.
There appears to be some con- fusion over whether the four day special license runs for four con- secutive days or tour hunting days Your license runs out in four days whether you fire a shot or not. There is only one concession: Sun- day being prohibited to shooting is not included in the four-day period. For instance: A four-day hunting license purchased on Fri- day, or dated Friday, October 1st is good until Tuesday evening October 5th. A four-day license dated on a Monday, however. is good only until the Thursday evening following.
Sportsmen were favoured with ideal weaNler on the opening day of the Hungarian partridge season yesterday. It was a grand day to be outdoors even if it was pretty hot in the afternoon. Scenting conditions were poor in the early morning. Da-mpness and a lack of wind pinned the scent down to a very confined area. In some In- stances the Setter or Pointer was right. on top of a. covey before he. or she. was aware of it. Some dog owners couldn't. understand why
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Wins Split Decision Over , Jenkins; Steele Loses Crown To Lund
"ll; Boy" Peterson regained the Island heivyvvelghtl boxing title lust night when he scored a close decision victory over therelgnlng
champ "Jinx"
kins In a ten round title bout It the Forum. Over a
lhouland fans were In ‘teudanco and mingled voices of disapproval were heard when the judges decisions were announced. Judge J. B. Cameron out his vote In favour of Jenkins with Judge Ralph Cameron and Referee Danny McCormick favouring Peterson.
In the second title bout of the evening "Tiger" Steele relinquished
the featherweight crown to Bud Lund In anoth all the way and the buys displayed excep-~
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close decision fight.
tlonally fine finger-aft In the ten-round match.
The preliminary matches featur- ed s. six rounder with Lloyd Cars of Charlottetown scoring u. decis- ive victory over Vince Needles of Saint John, and a. four round flstic contest. which saw “Curly" Adams win a decision over "Pep- per" Longaphie both of Charlotte- town. In the 60 pound curtain raiser, "Tony zale" and “Marcel Gordan", two young local mlfi sllngers. fought to a decision in a. wide open three-round bout.
The heavyweight bout. was thriller all the way with the crowd roaring their approval as the two rivals battled in the close- ly fought rounds. Jenkins. a total point favorite, with two no-count knock-downs to his credit. 0X1! "I the sixth round and the other in the eighth had a total of 143 points to Peterson's 140 1-2. However. Peterson scored the victory Wm‘- a two to one judges‘ decision.
"Bud” Lund and ‘"1180? 3W5?" went the distance in a well-fought featherweight scrap with both fight/ere displaying crowd-pleasing boxing and footwork ability. There were- no knockdowris in this D0111’- but Lund scored a unanimous vic- tory, gaining the decision from both the judges and the referee However. the total points of tho combined judging only save b11114 a margin of 5 1-2, Lund scorin! 145 to the "Tiger's" 139 1-2. Prior to this bout “Beau Jack" issued a challenge to the winner which will likely be staged in the near fu- tux-e.
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of which was the silt-round clash between Lloyd Carr and Vince Needles. Carr had no trouble throughout the bout and scored a unanimous decision. pushing the fight. all the way. '
The following were the official! at last night's card:
Judges: J. E. Cameron, qtslph Cameron; Timer: George Hooper: Counting for the knock-downs: Dr. R. F. Seaman: Referees: Pre- liminary bouts. Hickey Nlckerson; Main Bouts. Danny McCoi-mack; Announcer: W. H. Benton.
Baseball Results
AIWERICAN
Detroit 5; Cleveland 3.
St. Louis 4; Chicago 0.
St. Louis 2; Chicago 3. (Only games scheduled).
NATIONAL
Boston 3; Brooklyn 1.
Pittsburgh 2; Cincinnati L
Chicago 4: St. Louis 6. (Only games scheduled.
MONTREAL. Sept. 30- (CP)- Sweeney Schriner and Murray Armstrong, on voluntary retired lists of their respective protes- sional hockey clubs, will have "to seek reinstatement as amateurs before they can accept berths they are reported seeking with Regina Caps of the Western Canada Hockey League, National Hockey
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