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'. Brent Hovmt. St. Avards. bred two trotters that performed quite ,well last year. Cumberland Scott took I record of 2.21 and Play. 110118. a four-year-old was 7-2-2 in the 2.28 class at Tonbridge, Vt.. Sept. 19. In another race he was second to Neil Clegg. another 15. land product racing in the USA.

J. E. Wahlngton of Spryfieid, N. 5.. is the new owner of the pacing mare Barbara Hal by aampson Hal 2.02 3-4. She has improved very much since com- ing into his stable and he is hav- In: her prepped for this years caclng. We trust he will have ;good success.

-, Billy Kalmuck by Kalmuck 2.15 1-2. dam Ladybird by Col- pnel Aubrey 2.10 1-4. has been sold by Lee Howard. Cornwall, to Games C. Ryan. Springhill. N. 5.. for a tidy sum. Billy was on the sidelines last year. the result of I wire cut that injured I nerve in his foot. He was x-rayed at the '.P. E. 1. Hospital. the trouble lo- cated and a successful operation performed by Dr. George Bishop. 1t resulted in a perfect cure. Billy has been one of the most popular trotters raced over Island ovals and we will miss him. His record of 2:13 1-5 was taken at Parkview, Sept. 6. 1948. He won the first heat in 2.14 1-5 and Billy Aubrev won the third in 2.15. Mr. How- ard has two good prospects-one n three-yeur-old by Playdale 2.04 1-4. out of the some dam as Billy, and the other a yearling bv Pagalacci 2.09 1-4, Dam Margaret Frisco.

Pfc. James D. Sutherland, now with headquarters battery 169th Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Camp Pick- ett. Virginia, writes us that he is still very interested in Down The Back Stretch and enclosed news of happenings at Hanover Shoe Farms which is not too far away from his present station.- There were 20 new foals horn last week at Hanover Farms. Two are by Bill Gallon. sire of Breweris Gallon 2.00 4-5, now in Joe Oi- Brien's Stable. also four others at. Yonkers Raceway. Our friend also sends some other items. Here is one. "Who sald' horses can': talk? An owner's statement in a catalogue for last week's auction at Snratoga standard bred auction read as follows: 'This filly is just as nice as any yearling you will see on the big farms. She has size and shape and quality. 1 don't have to talk about her as she will speak for herself." last report the buyer was listening for her first word.

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A lot of horsemen have enjoyed looking over Roy Bevan's new purchase the three-year-old irotter Pet Hanover, now nicely ensconced in a warm stall at the Exhibition Grounds. She is a real beaut and we hope will live up to the expectations of her breeder and new owner. Roy and his friends enjoyed the opening night at Yonkers Monday. April 16th. George Buntain. who was present. said that the weather was really cold but quite comfortable in the heated stands. There was several inches of mud on the track but that didn't stop the racing a hitr even though horses and drivers were covered with it. The most startling performance of the night was the winning of the S5.- ooo inaugural pace by Wayzoff. four-year-old son of Royal Na- poleon and Jane Azoff 1.59 1-2. He was fifth horse at the last eighth and came through the mud flying to win 52,250. 16,751 spectators gave driver Clark a great hand. Wayzoff is staked in 5105.000 worth of early closers.

Stanley Dancer. the 24-year- Attention Horsemen!

Get your horses ready for half mile dashes at Park- view Raceway, May 24. if not fine it will be held June 4. Good purses. Have elig- ibility papers ready. U. S. T. A. rules to govern.

A. P. Gallant, President A. M. Gallant, Secretary

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GINGER (71714) ' . (P 220911;) By the Super Sire "Volomite" 220314

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Mares met by appointment

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...........mmm.........m........m................. N 0 T I C E The Annual Meeting of the Charlottetown Curl- ing Club will be held in the Club rooms at 8 p.m. MONDAY, APRIL 30th. The Eye Laws will be amend- ed. A mu mmameioc llllnsmbers is requested. .

' 1. ll. BIIIDIN. Secretory.

old New Jersey driver that featured in the early last year and who continued to live up to his reputation. has started off this season with a bang. In the second night's racing at Yonkers he won five of the eight races on the program. heali- ing the trotting field with Shoot- ing Star in 2.08 4-5 and the fast pacers with Tokyo Express in 2.07 2-5 for the fastest heats of the season for the respective gaits.

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Jimmy Boutillier. whose cam- paigns in the Maritimes have not been forgotten, particularly the one with the pony pacer John A. Hal 2.03 1-2, is being engaged this season to handle the stable of George's Garage. Waterloo, P.Q. Last year Jimmy trained Cyril Hanover 2.05. Stan Hanover 2.10. Lady Rotun 2.11. This year he will have Josedale Scotland 2.08, Kenm- 0'Grady. Senator Lee. Josedale Leader and a high-class pacer eligible to any class. Jimmy is a near neighbor to Louis Praught, who was so well up among the Province of Quebec drivers last season.

Friends and admirers of Tom Berry. top 2-minute trotting dri- ver. will be glad to know that he is up and around again looking after the shoeing of his horses and expects to be sitting in the sulky next week. Tommy never realized he had so many friends and admirers until the letters poured in to the hospital.

Imperial Hanover, that sold for 572,000 in the fall of 1949 at the Harrisburg sale as a yearling and failed to make the grade in his two-year-old form, promises to make up for his deficiencies this year. lie has been a member of the Tommy Berry stable since last fall and .1 week ago worked a mile in 2.13. last half in 1.03 and last quarter in 30 1-2 seconds, on the trot.

We notice among the arrivals at the Lexington, Ky. track the three-year-old Echo Way by Kings Counsel 1.59. dam Jane Azoff 1.59 1-4. If he lives up to his speed inheritance he will certain- ly beat two minutes. May be that our old friend Jane, that Willard Kelly drove to victory quite often over Maritime tracks, will prove a real success as a brood mare.

A wire to the writer from Don R. Mlliar. vice-president of U.S.T. A.. conveyed the sad news that director Cliff Thro had passed away at his home in Mankaio. Minn. At every meeting of (LS. 'I'.A. that I have attended for many years Cliff and I managed to have a. good talk and quite often the subject turned on the campaigns made by the trotter Harry T. 2.16',& in the mid-west during 1916-18. He was in the stable of the master reinsman George Loomis, whd' also drove horses for Mr. Thro. So George Handrahan of Charlotte- town, owner of Harry T.. and Mr. Thro became firm friends and al- though many years passed by he never forgot that friendship.

We have received the 1951 Cape Breton Turf Club Sports Centre Race Track initial program for races at Sydney. NS. The curtain- raiser will be the afternoon of May 24 with distances of 9-16 of a mile and classes for all horses ready to go at that date. The next racing session will be at Northside Downs track. North Sydney. afternoon racing on June 4, King's birthday. Regular night racing program will open 1 esday, June 12 and will continue every Tuesday and Friday night with eight. classified dashes each night. Dominion Day, July 2. there will be A free-for-all pace, two dashes 5350 a dash; a free-for- all trot. two dashes 8250 a dash; and six other classified races.

Bernard Kearney. general man- ager Western Harness Racing As- sociation, which will conduct its 1951 race meeting at Hollywood Park, Calif., Oct. 5 through to Dec. 1, announces an imposing list of nominations. 043 trotters and pacers have entered in 22 feature races for approximately 0600.000 added money to entrance fees. All the aged horses which competed in the two 350.000 Golden West trot. and pace sad the greatest array of three-year-olds ever brought. to- gether will make this harness meet tops of anything ever put on be- fore in the harness horse world.

Portlight (9) 2.1015 by Volomite (3) 2.0314, the handsome grey stal- lion that W.G. Stewart, New Ola.- gow, N.S., bought at the Harris- burg sale several years ago and brought home and afterwards sold. is new highly retarded I: I live- f-lis home place in Baltimore. Md where he stands for a fee of 0200. W. G. certainly had some great. race horses and we all hope that he will be back in the sport again Is he was I very popular owner whose horses consistently made the headlines.

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Congratulations tended to Earl Nicholson and his

u-ggresslve young band of hoop- sters. Prince of Wales College vvelshmen. who copped off the Island Physical Fitness Basketball championship and trophy over Saint Du.nsta.n's University on Thursday. Their final 52-40 vict- ory over a stout.-hearted, battling band of Saints hoopsters put-an and of one of the most exciting and closely contested three-game finals series in the history of the Island senior hoop league. . - .

Displaying brilliant basketball. the two student squads battled tooth and nail all the way to push the series right to its three-game limit, with uncertainty reigning supreme as to who would be the flnal winner right down to the closing minutes of the final con- test. Despite the fact that Welsh- men took the series opener by a fairly wide margin of 61-45. Father McGuigan's red and white shirted warriors roared back In the second game to clip the City collegians 4841 in a torrid. changing battle that produced one of the finest matches witnessed over a local basketball court in a good many years. I 0

Saints victory sent the series into a third and deciding game on Thursday. and once again the hundreds of fans who sat. in on the contest were treated to an ex-

cellent display of hoop action that was a fitting climax to a stellar hoop series. The Welsh emerged the victors. but there

was no loss of glory for the Uni- versity boys either. They put up a stirliug battle all the way. and it was only that little extra fin- esse and power by the red. white and blue boys that spelled the dif- ference between victory and de- feat. Both clubs are deserving of the praise and thanks of the hoop

public for their fine display of smart. clean ball and exciting action that was a pleasure to watch. .

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It was. of course, a. happy coach and P. W. C. team that. walked off the floor on Thursday night. They came up with a feat that no previous hoop team under the P.,W. C. colors have done before. at least not in recent years-win an Island senior title-and for a group of boys who in age average 17 years. it is really something to be proud about. But it didn't. over- shadow their deep respect for their great opponents, the Saints. In true amateur sportlnlg tradit- ion. the management and players of both teams gathered together later in the evening at a joint banquet as a concluding feature to a highly successful season. 0 O 0

The Maritimes only contender for Alexander Cup honors. Sydney Millionaires, will really have their backs to the wall at Montreal Forum Sunday night when they once again cross sticks with Val- leyfield Braves in the sixth game of their best. of seven series for the right to meet Toronto st. Mike's Monarchs in the finals for the Canadian Major Series hockey title. For the first time since the opening game at Sydney on Wed- nesday. April 18th.. the Million- aires have been the underdogs in the series with the Braves. C O C

Losing that opening game by a 3-2 count. Sydney struck back hard the following night to reverse the procedure and take the game 3-2 to deadlock the series and went one better on Saturday to once sgain nip Braves 3-2 to send them to Montreal the leaders by one game. The fourth game of the series and the first over Montreal ice was a disastrous one for the Millionaires. or at least the first period was. Seven goals by Val- leyfleld in the first frame made the Millionaires look like a bunch of second-raters before I large crowd of 1-lab fans, but it was a different story in the second and third periods.

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Outplaying the opposition in the two remaining periods. Sydney made I terrific comeback to pound home four goals in the sec- ond and split two for two with Braves in the closing session to turn what looked like I complete drubbing into a 9-6 victory for the Brsves. Sydney's spirited come- back under .such u...-uunountable odds during ihst game earned them the respect of both Montreal and Maritime hockey fans.

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It apparently had I lifting ef- fect to the whole Sydney club. and made the Braves hold much more respect for their opposition b- csuse both teams were back to their close scoring battles again in the fifth some at Montreal on Thursday night. For the fourth time in five games the score end- sd 3-2. But it was the Valley- fiald pucksten that were on the long and of the soaring and I crucial time for the Braves to no hack into the norm leadership snln. They now hold a 3-2 same edge going into the sixth game on Sunday. which could be the wfndup to the series if the Que- bec puchtcrs win. So Sydney

THE GUARDIAN, CHARi.OT'l'hl0WN

Major Renovations At

Forum Now

Mdjor renovations have already started at the Charlottetown libr- um. that when completed will al- low the Provinces only artificial skating and hockey rink to accom- modate a total of 3.500 spectators. made up of a. seating capacity of 3,000 and standing room for 500. The project will also include a complete new color scheme that will increase the present illumin- ating facilities an estimated '15 per cent. a new restaurant and ladies rest room, additional men's lavatory facilities, exits, etc.. a new time clock and scoring unit combined and additional entran-

AICS.

The filial plan was given the "go ahead" signal by Forum dir- eztors earlier this week and has also received the full approval by the Fire Marshal and the Fire Underwriters.

Bigger Seating Capacity

Will Accommodate 3,500

The seating capacity will be in-

Underway;

creased by extending dorm to the boards with three more rows of seats from the present front row seats on both sides of the rink. one additional row at the North End and one extra row in the South End balcony. The present from of the balcony will be ex- tended another 18 niches, and all seats will be graded to allow per- fect vision from all points.

The top row all around the rink will be torn out and will be turned into a companionway and stand- ing room facilities guarded by an iron rail. Forum Manager Bill Brown stated yesterday that the seating capacity will also be in- creased by cutttng down the area of the existing seating plan. Mr. Brown said that the present in- dlVldJll3l seat is some 22 inches in width. and all will be reduced to I uniform 18 inches, which will in- crease the present seating plan by between three and four hundred

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TORONTO, April 27 -(CF) - Hockey playoff activity shifted to committee rooms today as dis- putes flared up in both junlorzmd senior hockey over the location of playoff games.

The action kept Canadian Amat- eur Hockey Association officials as busy as a goalkeeper with two teammates in the penalty box.

Hottest issue is the locale of the seventh and final game in the Eastern Canada playoffs for jun- ior hockey's Memorial Cup.

George Dudley of Midland. C. A. H. A. secretary-manager, who earl- ier announced that the last game of the Barrie Flyers-Quebec Cita- delles game would be played Saturday night in Toronto. reject- ed a request by Barrie that the

game be postponed for further discussion. ' Dudley said Barrie must play

Saturday in Toronto or forfeit the series. in which each club now has won three games.

Barrie coach 1-lap Emms. on his arrival home from Quebec, prompt- ly countered with a. new proposal that the series be extended from -best-of-seven to best-of-nine. with the seventh game in Barrie Sat- urday. the eighth in Montreal and the ninth, if necessary, in Tor- onto.

The second question thrown at Dudley didn't seem quite so con- tentious. Ii: involved the seven- game Allan Cup final series be- tween two Ontario senior teams - Fort Frances Canadians and Owen Sound Mercurys.

Bud Jarvis, Fort Frances coach whose team lost the first game 4-3 last night in Owen Sound. asked that at least two of the sev- en games be moved out of Owen Sound. C. A. H. A. vice-president W. B. George had announced that all names would be played in Owen Sound.

No decision has been made on ihe Fort Frances request.

The Allan Cup finals raised a secondary issue in Owen Sound itself. when three members of the city's arena commission handed in

their resignation: in protest against the commission's decision to give the home team 50 per

cent of its out of gate receipts.

The Barrie-Quebec series, plagued with disputes from the start. appeared settled early to- day W110? Dudley announced from Midland hot the C. A. H. A. exe- cutive had voted 12-11 that the final game should be in Toronto Saturday. The poll was taken by telegraph and telephone across Canada.

Then Jack Roxburgh. president of the Ontario Hockey Association returning with the Ban-lg team from Quebec. telephoned Dudley that the Flyers didn't want to de- fault the series but wanted the final gamg postponed.

Dudley's reply: Play the game Is ordered or forfeit the series.

The winner will play the West. ern Canada junior champions-to he decided Saturday night in Winnipeg between Regina pats and Winnipeg Monarchs. Their best-of-seven series is tied at three games esch.

Baseball iiandings

American Lennie

Washington ....... 7 1 .875 Cleveland 6 1 .357

5 3 .625

8 4 .600

5 4 .556

2 4 .333 St. Louis .......... 2 7 .222 Philadelphia ...... 1 10 .091

National League

St. Louis .......... 3 2 .714 Boston ...... 8 4 .667 Philadelphia 6 4 .600 Brooklyn 6 4 .600 Chicago . 4 4' .500 Cincinnati SI 0 ' .333 New York 0 .187 really have their backs to the wall. but Maritime:-I everywhere.

will be rooting for the Moneymen to come through on Sunday and throw the series into its final can- test. If they can do that it can still be anybody! series.

Hockey Disputes Keep C.A.H.A. Officials Busy

Baseball llesulis

(By The Associated Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE

St. Louis ......000 100 011-3 5 2 Chicago . 000 000 000-0 6 l Staley and Rice: Schultz. Hack- er (9) and Walker. Brooklyn 032 131 010 -ll 10 ! Philadelphia 030 001 002- 5 10 1 Hatten, Erskine (9) and Ed- wards: Church. Cristanite (4), Brltiin (G), Candini (8) and Sem- inick.

Boston .010 005 010-'l.10 0

New York 000 120 000-3 5 1 Spbfnn and Cooper; l-learn.

Jones (61. Iiosio (8), Getiel (8)

and Noble.

Cincinnati 220 002 001- 'l 9 1

Pittsburgh 012 0:0 000- 5 11 0

Blackwell. Fox (7) and Schefflug; Dickson. Walsh (2) Muir (4) Werle (7) Queen (9! and Mccullough, Fitzgerald (7).

AMERICAN LEAGUE

New York 100 002 000-3 9 2

Boston 002 020 00x-4 10 1 Raschl. Ferrick (8) and Berra:

Parnell and Guerra.

Philadelphia .. 100 000 000- 1 5 3

Washington .. 110 030 10x- 6 10 0

The lmle doe deer. the one whose whereabouts. and actions were reported at intervals in the local Press during the winter. is dead. At the edge of a swamp in we Enmore district of WestPl-Inca she laid down and died after suf- fering gunshot wounds that event- ually proved fatal. The little deer was quite a pet. For a consider- able period during February and March she made her headquarters on St. Peter's Island where she fcd convtentedly in a grassy swalc where cranberries lay ripe and red, ready for. the taking.