its perhaps just as well we see

u little as we do of tire far reaching effects predation has on our wildlife. its an around the :lock loss that continues day and gight. week after week. year aft- er year. A moth.-r black duck is lifted from her n-.-st by a prowl- Hg fox or raccoon; a hen ruffed grouse dusting on'an ant hill dur- ng a brief respite from incubat- ing her eggs is caught by a Gos- hawk that skims through the trees with the speed of light and a pot- entllll covey Di lN!Ii1V95'- Hi” shouid have grown to thunder frgm hard' ood, cut-overs. dies in the embryo stage. I

A few weeks ago I Wiiiiesiied the release of 16 wild turkcy's in the Bellevue district of southern Kings. . .10 hens and ti Toms. The big gobbler. were massive. beaut- iful birds...a prize to live in s hunter's dreams. On Wednesday afternoon of this week I visited Rt-llcvue and -48ll(Ed.ll1e edge of nnodlots for some sign on how the birds were faring. Not far from the point of liberation. where s ploughed field borders a strip of woodland between it and the dam. I came upon s handful of turkey feathers. There were not enough to cause concern unless one had an eye trained for signs of predation.

A closer scrutiny disclosed faint signs of a struggle on the hard packed red clay. The rest was easy. The odd feather clinging to spruce bows showed that a heavy body had been dragged through a tangled thicket of second growth spruce. Deeper la the woods! cams upon the back bone and wings of one of the gobblers... nothing much left except feathers. 50 yards farther on a second kill was found practically duplicating the first. In this instance the smallish breast bong and wing tips showed it was one of the hen turkey's had met her fate. . .the gentleman with the pointed face and black stocklnged legs had met her in the gloaming and she didn't find out. what big teeth he had till it was too late.

I was looking for Just some such sign otherwise I would 11IV8 passed by Without PEYHIE much attention.-Incidentally the foot- prints of a man showed where someone had walked this field sdgs a day or so previous. In- qittry disclosed the sponsor and his father had visited the site on Monday. It. was the elder of the pair who had walked the field edge without noting anything amiss. The turkey's have appar- ently left the scenes of their re- lease for they have been report- ed observed in districts several miles distant. Losses from predat- ors is bound to occur with the re- lease of pen reared birds. Let us hope enough survive to propagate their kind.

Winged or four legged predators are bad enough but homo sap- lens. mere man. has them all hacked off the map. If he is not luinting himself he is allowing his hunting dog to roam at will through the fields and woodlots. There are many men who would not dream of shooting game. or game birds. in the spring or sum- mer yet will allow their hunting dog to kill to their hearts content and watch their eat fetch home young rabbits. grouse. woodcock. pheasants or what have you with- out taking any steps to halt such activities. The cat. or dog either for ' at matter. are not. to blame. They are merely following their natural instincts. The owner of a cat. if it is considered a house- hold pet. can put a crimp in her predatory activities by placing a small hell on a strap around her nook. in my days on the form I kept our cat in a vacant fox pen during the spring and summer months. Incidentally this office is deluged with complaints about hunting dogs howling both day and night in woodlots. The biggest rash of such complaints in years. i know a m I vcr of farmers who have a shotgun handy and are not afraid to use it so if your hunt- lug dog fails to return home some day don't blame anyone else but yourselves. .

A record spring night of wild- gccse have winged their way northward this spring. Reports seeping in from all three counties also Indicates that spring shoot- ing of geese and hrant hit an all time record. Some of the infor- mation. at least any that is real- ly worth while. has been given in confidence and perforce must be treated in good faith. I never be tray a confidence in such mat- ters. For instance: I have receiv- ed information that so and so walked to his car and put a hack load of geese. . .two or three... in the trunk. My informant does not want his name used. If he weighed 200 pounds and could liclr his weight in wildcsts he'd give evidence to that effect. sad to re- late he doesn't wegih anything near that and he is not a figbtin' man. Incidentally this gunner was interviewed: "I'm not talking" was his comment. 'l'm willing to pay fifty dollars sittrs to find out who informed on me". And that was that.

in somber instance a person walked into s certain kitchen on s Sunday morning a few weeks ago and an occupant remarked: "its a good Job you're not Jenk- ins. . .1 have two geese rosstln in the oven". Yes. 1 can sme them". was the reply. Here is a lentle reminder spring goose shooters: Don't get the idea into your heads thlto I name officer. or Peace officer. cannot enter and search a premises without a Search Warrant. The Migratory Convention Act furnishes o-

C.R.U. Sells TV Rights To Grey Cup

HMONTREAL tCP-The Cana- dian Rugby Union has sold tele- vision, radio and film program rights for the 1050 Grey Cup foot- ball final for more than 8150.000 it was learned Thursday.

Estimate of the figure was ob- tained fniluwinr: announce ;s in Montreal and Toronto of the names of the companies which purchased the program rights.

in Montreal, Senator l-lariland dc-M. Molson. president of M01- son's Brewery. announc ' that it has obtained the rights to teiovise the annual classic which will be played in roronto Nov. 24.

However, the brewery could sponsor the telecast only in Que- bec bccause of regulations govern- ing brewcry advertising.

in Toronto. it was announced that General Motors would act as sponsor in all provinces except Quebec.

it was estimated that last year's telecast was seen by 4.000.000 as Edmonton Eskimosdefeated Mon-

treal Alouettes for the Canadian D

championship.

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Queen Rodney is one of the beat bred fillies ever brought to Can- ada and we might mention that her great-grandam Margaret Pan- rlsh 4. 2.06174 is the dam of two in 2.00. grandam of ii in 2.00. etc.. etc. Queen Rodney was entered by her breeders in over 8150.000 worth of stakes.

The 1956 racing season in the Marltimes opened with a bang Monday afternoon with programs at Sackville Downs, Sydney and Truro. N.S. At Sackville Downs secretary. Ken MacDougall re- ports: "We had a good opener. nice crowd of 2.500. Pari-mutuel handle around 815.000. Weather I little chilly but clear and bright.' Here are the winners: Races 1 dz -1 Mist-liief Clare IS. Walker) 1-2 Connally IB. Jonesi 2-l. Billy P. C. Parker i0'Brieni 3-3. Time. 1.06. 1.05 US.

The winning owners are. Mis- chief Clare. Charles Walker. Low- er Sackvillc: Connally. C. L. Dauphinec. Halifax. Races 2 and 6. Rusty Millcr. owned and driv- on by Harold Cleveland. 1-1. Pep- per Shaker (N. Campbell) 2-5. Bobby Hunter (Phillips) 3-2. Time. 1.07. 107. Races 3 and 7. Sport Voln IR 0lBrieni 1-1. Dusty Vel- xetecr tiilortoni 2-4. Robin Clegg (N. Campliclli ll-2. Time. 1.06 NS. 1.07. Races 5 and ti. Mahlon Han- over. owned and driven by L. 0'-

Brlen. l-l. Kellar Hanover IC. Hectnri 2-4. Lusty's Queen (H. Walshi -l-2. Time. 1.08, 1.07 375

Al Truro the season's opening was witnessed by a large crowd of racing enthusiasts. The after- noon was a pleasant one and the card was greatly enjoyed by the large number of spectators pres- cnt.

Donnie Turner of Dartmouth won six of the ten-dash card - quite a record to start the season with . . . . Races 1 and 4. Easter Marie. owned and driven by Don Turner. l-l. Ncwfic Girl (K. Pinkneyi 2-2. Maryland 1-Zilecn i('. Mat-Leodi 4-3. Big Boy IHale,vi 3-6. Time. 1.00 2.5. 1.08 1'5. Races 2 and 7. Sally Joe. owned and driven by Harley Harrison. l-l. Judy Bud- long (Haley) 2-3. Iagoo iPlnkney) ii-2. Time. 1.07 3 5. 1.07 1 5. Races .'l and ii. Josedale Ciansman, own- cd and driven by Don Turner. 1-1, Bud Henley iG. Turner) 2-4. Dr. Brodie tDanIelsi 3-2. Time. 1.04. 1.05 A the former time the fast- est paccd in the Maritime: this season. Races 5 and 9. Fnrscud. owned and driven by Don Turner. l-l. Nihble Sun illurrlsonl 2-2. Time. 106 M5. 1.06. Races 6 and 10. Popper Roy. owned and driv- cn by George Turner. 1-2. Billy's Pride. owned by R. 11. Williams. Truro and driven by Ed. Haley.

for a duck dinner he didn't get a i-haui-c in out A hunter said to me recently: "its a mean thing to go into n ni;in's house and look in his deep fre91.c...wby don't you try and catch him in the act

or with the goose in this car" 1 hclicve in fighting fire with fire. 1 take a very dim view of

anyone shooting geese or ducks in the spring when they are ready to reproduce their kind. its not only contrary to man made laws but also to the law of Nature.

This ' it of rodeo roughriding occurred at Roosevelt raceway, New York. recently. after this

'ade to the post for the lll'Sl. race when pacer Dick Adios dump-

2-1. Time. 1.06 H5, 1.06 275.

From the above summaries and the speed shown Truro must have a lot of classy horses to be able to turn on so many fast halves so early in the season. our thanks to our veteran harness horseman friend John L. Read for a mark- ed copy of score card and uthcr particulars regarding the above races. Mr. Road commented on the good performances of trotters, of which they have more

than the usual number at tho Raceway.- At Sydney Raceway. liiniulny

afternoon Mike Chlasson was top reinsman. starting the season with a ban by winning four races. two with ioretta Lee and two with Bonnymiie. the latter stepping the fastest half of the meet -1.04. 2-5 . . . . Races 1 and 4. Classified Trot. Loretta Lee (M. Cliiasson) 1-1. Rajah Hanover 2-2. five other starters. Time. 1.08. 1.08. Loretta Lee is owned by Miss Mary Roach. New Waterford.

Races 1A and 4A. Special Match Race, Bonnymite (M. Chiassoni 1-1. Colonel Hansford 2-2. Time. 1.04 275. 1.05 2l5. Bonnymite is owned by MacKinnon and Roach. New Waterford. Races 2 and 6. Grey Eagle (.1. MacDonald! 1-5. Mitchell tE. Frost) 3-1. Time. 1.07. 1.05 .175. Grey Eagle is own- ed by the Iron Club. Sydney. Mitchell by F ra n k Wliidyka. Whitney Pier. Races I and 7. Gary D. owned and driven by Don Rankin. 1-2. Reed's Cardinal. own- ed by Connor and Schwartz. New

Waterford. and d r l v e n by J Schwartz. Race 5. Alfredo Hal iW. Lewis! 1. Bobby Senator 2

Time. 1.11. Alfreda Hal is owned by Allie Lewis. Glace Boy.

George MacDonald has handed us a page from Trotting and Pac- ing. 1597. giving the sunimarics at the Baltimore. Maryland, Driv- ing Park. Sept. 21-2.32 Class.

.19 U4; 2.40 class. purse 3500. 18 starters. best time. 2.20 U4; 2.30 class, purse S500. 14 starters. best time 2.2.1 V2. Harness racing was certainly tough business in those days and no doubt there were a lot of spills. broken sulkies and injured drivers.

VETERAN DRIVER

The many friends of Johnny lilcCi-ihe. Iona. will be interested to learn that be celebrated his cightieth birthday last Sunday. Johnnie was one of the top driv- era racing from 1900 until well along in 1920's. He could balance. train and drive a horse with tho best in the Province. one of his favorites being Orwell Belle 2.19- U2.

We welcome a letter from our friend Doug. R. Neal. managcr Saint John Exhibition Raceway. in which he states that as soon as the weatherman brightcns things up the track will be in good shape after the big renovating program that has been going on for sump time. "At a meeting of our harness raring committee Ford Joncs was appointed to stic- cced the late Cecil M. Alexander as rat-c secretary and classifier. Ford is no stranger to the race folk and the horsemen of that area having served as an official since

1952. first in the capacity of as- sociate judge. then as starter and

the.

gurse 3500, in starters. best time 215 15

on oriiooso izoueusioino

led his driver. Del Miller by whirl- ling around and rearing up. After ids-positing Miller on the Roosevelt strip. l)lt'l( Adios started hightail- inz it around the oval in wild horse fashion, with Marshall Herb Son-

Ion several occasions as presiding .jiiiige. He has a likeable person- iality and a very quite manner ,uluch sinnild enable him to cope lwitli all the chores that confront : him. In succeeding Cecil Alexander Ihe has quite a reputation to live up to because Cecil as one of the lincst classifiers one could find atl)illlL'l'9. Also of interest to the horsemen is the fact that we have changed out distribution of purse monies to 40 percent. 25 percent. 17 percent, 10 percent and 3 per- cent. hating previously operated . on a 40 pf'l'('('lli. 30 percent. 15 per- i-cui. 10 percent and 5 percent

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”We are still continuing to move oui- old stablcs to their new lo cation and with 94 horses stabled hcrc and auothcr is awaiting stalls we have our lizintls zilled in trying to allocate stalls. The horsemen have been very sympathetic and cooperative notwithstanding the inconveniences thcy have been put to due to the fact they are shifting stalls. tack anti ft-ed rooms fre- quciitly. Our racing committee ll working out plans for some fcrm of insurance cmcruge for drivers and trainers but at the present time we have not reached a de- cision as to what type of coverage will be provided." Thanks. Doug, for your letter and we are looking forward to your opening programs with great interest.

Elsewhere in this issue will be found an ad for the 7-year-old pacer Ruddy O'Connor. by Calu met Rudlong 2.02-ls, dam 1-lettie Frisco by Fri.-"tn Dale 4. 2.00. dam licttie V, 3. 20613. We looked up a summary of Burldyis for .luly 22. 1953 at Summerside. where he was 1-1, Sleepy Sam 2-2. Propane 3-fl. Carl Aubrey 4-4. Ann's Pride 5-7, three other starters. Time. 2.19 2-5, 2.16 4-5. Buddy also won at Charlottetown on August 4th of the same year. taking a record of

We were pleased to have a visit from Wilfred Furness of Vernon Bridge and to find him looking as active as usual. He told us that be had turnips planted about three weeks ago that were up in straight rows and quite sturdy looking. He is also interested in horses being the owner of Midnight lilclndy by Calumet Rudlong. dam Ncll Coch- atndale. also the dam of the tam- ous race mare Nell Kalmuck 2.00 1 - 5. Midnight Mclody is now in foal to True Hal 2.06. Wil frcd is also very pleased with a foal by True Hal out of Radiant Morn by Paglia:-ci 2.00, born about ihrcc wecks aizn We had not sled up our friend Wilfred although we have known him for a long time. Our mistake was,in believing that he was not interesicd in race horscs. but tho above will show tight we missed the mark by a long s of.

A great friend of this column writes us that Murray Kay. who with Ellis Gilmnur conducted the Saratogn Spring Horse Sale each year. died at Souihington. Conn. last Friday. He followed his pal Ellis Gilmizur by loss than two months. Both had heart attacks about two years ago. Murray Kay was ell known to many horsenen in the Maritimes. lle occupicd the

position of auctioneer at Harris-

Waich For The Big News MONDAY! i

derlcker in hot pursuit. Sonderick- er finally nabbed the driverless horse. Judges scratched him. fig- uring the effort uas too much for him to race less than 10 minutes later.

burg each year relieving George Swinebroad. He was a good am. ateur driver and alw ays a horse owner. The last good nurse 1.; developed was Paula Scott 2.10 1-5 that he sold to Woolworth Brothers of Maine. The above unusual sad happening will be deeply regretted by friends of both those men re- siding in the lilaritimcs and we we 111 also like to pay our little tr ute to them for courtesies shown on several occasions.

From Edit in Kolii-r's Hoof Prints we note that stables are moving into Foxlnii-u. Arrnals the past week included the caiuiiiiates of Chris O'Donnell. llonard Britt. Billy Hood and Ted Landry. One of the popular Foxboro teamsters, 25 year-old Jimmy l.ai-cute. has his stable owned by l.ucicu l)u;1re of Sherbrooke. Que.. in liigh form on the Maryland circuii....li-niny displayed a shifty 3-)'Cal'-Olfl Da- cing candidate in Snow Flak:-, a daughter of the Mighty Adios She was a winner early in the week in 2.09 2-5. He also had a 2.06 ride with the rugged 5-year-old pacer Sandy Rosecroft - - Famous Han- over turned in one of the work's top trotting efforts with a mile in 2.04 3-5 at Rosecroft to land a 34.000 stake.

And here's Ronnie MacDonald

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SPORT ECHOES

Baseball Meeting Held At Summerside On Thursday

Anotiier meeting of the Bass-balli evi-uly iiiaii-imi .,,, paper what Association of Summerside was nill happen when they start 1055. held Thursday night in the C.J.R.t inf: the apple around is another W. studios. The business of pre- question,

senting the "quartet Cavalcade" was discussed, and it begins to look now as if there will be enough

entries in this competition to make gl'vi':llfWl lack. Paul s..im,-mam Do"

it a real successful venture. Char- lottetown, Summerside and the R. C.A.F. station are now represented. and it is still hoped that we will be able to induce some other can- tres to join the Cavalcade before the deadline, May 31

Elmer Mailicson has securi-ti a. man's burden are Eddie Boates SDOHSOF for his team. Tile team Yani-e Harris, Garth Harris. l)ou-'

will be under the wing of A. E. Mac-Lennan Motors. and will be called the "Pontiac-s.'-' The boys are getting a new sci of uiiiforins and will certainly look smart (finite opening day. The other two ii-am managers. Joe Bernard and Laysli Sohurman. are still they will be able to secure spun s(Il'S before the season gets under way.

The three teams SL't'lll uune

writing from Blue Bonnets Race- way. Montreal. "Rziciiig is big bear. Willi almost winter itch- ther thcy still turn out ex cry nuglit. Betting to date is over 3123.000 per night. Last Saturday they rang up

' the date set is June 16.

p olds showing up well. going I

s193.000 on the inutuels. and uizhi

improved weather later on they should go oxcr the t200.t)0tl mark per night. Purses have been rm-cd twice since the opening. Fin” the B Class it is 5900 and 31.500 in the Invitation pace. Most of the fast

been raced better than 2.10. the caretakers at present. I have most

record horses have not made I.

start yet. A number of heats have been raced better than 2.10. the

best 2.08. I have raced only two .1 hopclie can improve on hima; of my stable to date. was twice he is first and twice second with Jim's ' l(almuck's Last. owned by C. I-I.

Excellency 2.10, owned by R.J Loguo. Sydney. and was third with Judge High last. Sunday in 2.08 his first time out. There are a couple of 2-year-olds and 3-year-

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i-Each club has a solid core of veteran hall players with a lot of H)llllgx'l('l'.a added. veg. eruii pitt-hers seem to be the

Sininioiis. and Dec Lefurgy, who did the I)iilk of the pitching with Joe Bernard in the last few .iFai'.-' hate all left for other pas- iiirt--. atid (iariaud llarris. who has lJttt'll i'uiixxflcrr'd the bed nf ilic .lllU"L'.NlEi'5 is also absent front the iuun. Left to carry the inotind-

HIP Aisi-iiaiill and maybe one or Inn ll1tll'('. all with little on-niglti Milt-i'iciit-o in tocing the slab, but llroniisiug material just the .-ante.

it is expected we will have either a baseball or a softball game with sailors of the Algonquin which is making a fourday stay at Suin- inc-rside the middle of June. The kind of game will depend on nhat; type of team is on the ship, and

Heath Waples is here iillll a stable of 22 horses. l-'rank t'liurt-it 22. .llr. Turcott 17. all mined by Mr. 'l'iircott. Hon. Earl llnwe has a good stable of six and they look to be the best conditioned stable at the track. There are many horses from across the line. nio.-it of them in top shape. There are a nunibcr of boys from P.E. island carctaking and doing all -right, Some stables are short of good