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elea, who bought ,,,,,,,L°.',.i.'iitig Smith himself

‘he lved d cheque for 333-04755 recs-t the treasurer of the society. m tldition to the gift to Tommy I" “ he gave Harry Whitney. who Bprtydevclopcd the horse. $1.009 Howard Knowlton the care- mkt-r, another $500 It w“ dflge ms, time that a horse owne y Californian ever won the ‘lam- gwtgnian and Mrs. Smith, who flcw from the \vest coast. was 11150 tiiprc to see the victory. They have \'.~‘.tiilS of their new _buy Will my, i more stakes Wllh

smith of

null)’ in the sulky and possibly fiilliigxing the $50,000 trotting

, nshi at Hollwood next iliiilylPpllflzCldfilytfilly, it was the fast- est thrcc heat Hambletonian race. 'l“ac limos of 2.03, 1M 1-6 and l.- Ol 1-4. were also considered ex- ct-llt-llt as the track \vas not in rts b,- condition, there having been coiisidcrable rain the previous day. 15,015 people was a record attend- alltt" {or this classic.

Earle Rowe, who entered and drove his three-year-old colt Van R. Riddell in the Hambletonian at Goshen, is well known to many liiarltimers—several horses uwncd by lilm having raced in the colorw oi Frank Adams, Halifax. lift". Riwc is a very enthusiastic horse- niziii and a mcmhcr of parliament.

Kaela, the six-year-old trotter that won the $60,000 Santa Anita trotting championship and a S10.- 000 ltfzlywood trotting derby, w s sold u few clays ago by owners Cur Hliiclicll and Frank Bowler at private sale for a reported price oi 530,000. It will be remembered that driver Hatchell and his c0- cc-owncr were suspended unti-l January. 1st, i947. The purchaser oi the mare is C. B. Jordan of Ctilllmbia, S. C. It is expected that Mr. Jordan may buy the remaind- er of the stable which was lo go

iintlcr the hammer on Monday list.

_()_ Whcn Doctor Spcncer with l-llrry Fitzpatrick in the sulky

Sitjlilfld in 1.59 1-2 at Goshen, Will Kane prcscntcd Fitzpatrick with a cheque for $200 for being the first horse to make the ncw course uiitlvr two minutes.

Inst week we mentioned that. liiccitligne track shortened consid- t-tlibly in order to bring it to regu- lation half-mile length since the records of Patrick Direct 2.07 1-4 raring in 1904. and I-Ieatherbell 20R 1-4 trotting in i938. had been made, We are in receipt of a let- tcr from George McIntyre. the proprietor, stating that J. E. Rear- llnti, C. E.. provincial engineer. measured the track on August 8th, 1938 and certified to be 2,641.2 feet and that last year it was surveyed h)‘ A. Sllliican, land surveyor, ar.d

the measurements read 2.644 feet,

which would make it eight feet ovcr one mile. So there has been no change in its dimension-s.

E. ImRol Willis of Westfleld. N. B. who has been a visitor for over half a century to the races at Charlottetown, is we are pleased to say back with us again anti in his seat every afternoon in the grand stand. Mr. Willis in his day owned the best trotters and pacers in the Maritime: including Spec- ial Blend 2.1’! 1-4. a son of the Prince Edward Island sire llack Pilot 2.30. Stpeclal Blend was the lt-itiing race winner in 1893 and set up a track record at Charlotte- tc/wn of.2.19 1-4. He also lowered the records of many other Mari- time tracks.

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George McDonald cl’ Seflfs R09‘ but-k 8a Company, Boston, Mass. who returned from overseas last. spring where he had been on ser- vice for several years with the American army, is taking ill Old llome Wcck acid visiting his moth- cr and sister

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Dr. F. W. Clllhziiulllléi‘. former- ly of Tlgniah, now a leading dent- lst of Boston, and Alien J. Wilson. were in the part with His H0001‘ LicuL-Govcrnor . R. Bernard. 1h-

tvrcsting on-lookcrs cvcry after- noon at the races.

All the Marlti-nles were fully represented by horsemen who

journeyed from various parts‘ of Neva Scotia and New Brunswick. Sonic of them unfortunately co-uid not bring their horses for vari-

_ publitc will make a beaten path to 1 his d

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colts took lace in the show ring at the Exhibition grounds yester-' day morning. Auctioneer W. 1-1.1 Beaten disposed of ‘the following.‘ To Jacob Vickers, North Sydney,i the 3-year-old standard anti reg-i istered mare, Verna L. Grattan from the Col. J. P. Hooper Stable. George Turner of Dartmouth, N.

8., bought a two-year-old from Mrs. Joe O'Brien. Rollie \'i"\cd, Southport. was the purchaser of Lee McKillop, 2.09. Wilfred Praught, Cherry Valley bought Lady Rose, 2.13. Tom Watson, Halifax, bought Brown Bomicr

and Ross Marshall was the pur- chaser of Melbourne Magic from

Bob Brown of Woodstock, N‘, B.‘ Don Clarey, Glace Bay, bought. Glamour Boy from the O'Brien

Stable and Arthur Jay, Boz-Ilcn bought Playgirl. A bike and some rigging was sold to Don McAuluy. Arthur Jay, Borden, also bought Snowball from A. B. Cutcliffe. All in all the sale can be considered quite satisfactory.

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been done every year and this year is no eloreptlon I vats anxl0u< to find out at first hand lust what was going on down Fortune way at night. Its an easy matter to sit in an easy chair before '1 cheery fire and maize such a patrol in ones mind. The actual carrying out of the patrol is a chore of an- other c0lour., _

Saturday night shoppers were thronging the city's streets as headed the car toward Fortune, somewhat reluctantly 1'1. admit, for my anticipated rendevous with the poachers. My mind was made up as to what I would do ‘f I hap- pened to make connections . re- port them to tile proper authori- ‘ties.

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as:

I considered it advisable for the, success of my trip to walk the last, half mile, after hiding the car in; o secluded spot, and all almost full moon was riding zloove the spruces as I fill-XII! myself com~ fol-table in a. thick clump of spruce that commanded a valutage point. My troubles were not long in. com- ing. Mosquitoes, despite the slight breeze, began making soci-al calLs, not in swarms out just enough to keep my vigil from getting mom:- onous.

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The Grove Pine Pool is reached by a narrow dirt road and is sit- uated on ll slow flowing br-ick that winds its serpent-like way through a deep silumii. Its a lonely spot a mile or more from any human hob itation. Even ll: dayligh‘. it ln-l- plcsses one with its remoteness but at the Witching hour of mid- night. when ihe old lady on the broornstick ls supposed t0 ride the skies, it borders on the wet-m. Strange noises and rustlings came to me out of time night for the night is the time when many lf the creatures of the wild start to move.

O l O

Time dragged slowly by. I began to develop kinks in different parts of my anatomy and started to think of the ivarm bed I could have been eniovlng instead of un- dergoing misery in a mosquito-ini- fested swamp, At o. quarter to onc the lights of ll 08/1 or truck lighted the night sky from the westward. Maybe some action would start. Anything at all was better than waiting. ‘The tvtin lights finally topped the nill and cut a bright swath between the close packed spruce that -ined the road The‘ truck slowed at the bridge bu: didn't stop and rumbled up thc grade toward thetf-lcad of Fortune

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I dozed after that. Fillallv the low whine of a high powered olr

Dfobaby be the next to crash the The sale of harness horses andispons lunengm by winning one

Harry Todd, a big shaggy hair- ed b0 from Dallas, Texas, will

of the PGA ments.

Harry has neexl on the verge of doing it for some time now and I've had lt in nilnd to call your attention to the way he has been playing, but somehow have been sidetracked until .iow. But it is better late than never and I'd like to get my opinion of Todd as a golfer on the record.

He's a cinch to be a consistent- winner on the circuit orce he crashes through. When lie does he will be a. rival of Frankie Straniahan for the attention of the feminine grlllerites because he looks like Joseph Oottern 01' the movies, but i-he girls hsid b00- ter concentrate on from. for Harry is a family man.

Twenty-nine vears lid, he's married and the father of four boys. Harry Jr., ‘i; Ray 3: Dick 3: and’ Tom 1 With a family that size to support, one would hesitate to fldVlSg Harry to keep at it fir-less he had a. real golf game, but he has the game to cairn enough to support tlis fami-

sponsored tourna-

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11115411. Todd has only been playing for money for a little over two years. but says he 11:5 won more than his expenses. That's quite a leat. It was sev- cral years before I won emugli to pay my expenses.

Todd tulrned professional irl the Dallas Open of 1944. but he'll rather not talk about ‘llS debut before the nome folks. He did rather poorly in that tournament, but he has lone all right sinze.

Harry made his best showing in the Pensamltr Fla, (lpen 1m the winter toiii- where he finished fifth but he was one of the early leaders of the recent Pllilld€lplllil and Montreal tournaments. One 0f 111956 days he'll cease being Silfllflsed at finding nlnlsclf out in front and hold onto an early 189d t0 win hi; first tournament victory. Just as Kenn-iii Kilim- held on to wln the

Masters’ a’. Autflisia last EDflng.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Silve-

CONNECTED WITH

{IMELY NOTES ON TOPICS _

r Fox Farming

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Lampsoll. Fraser dz Huth, New York, are holding an auction sale 0f various furs on August 14th. Among the collection is 10,000 wild mink. 14,500 mink from the Silver Moon Ranch. 126.000 muakrat 3.-

2.000 blue fox and 3.500 chinchilla. As mentioned in these notes some time ago great efforts have been made to popularize chinchilla and to sell the breeding stock and gullible parties are picking up quite a large number of patrs. This sale should determine whether chin- chilla has any intrinsic value that will warrant breeding stock being sold at the fabulous prices breed- ers ask for them.

On Monday, August 10th, there will be 1.800 new color phase fox and 6.000 silver fox including the Sliver M00n collection. The Silver Moon Ranch is one of the most prominent of Lhe western United States ranches. breeding all types of foxes and mink. It is very clev- erly managed. has a. spelndld pro- perty, fine breeding stock a-nd its pelts have been among the top priced collections in the U. S. A.

The blue fox, consisting of 2,000 are described as a good collection. mostly of Norwegian and Swedish origin. They have obtained quite a market in the United States be- cause of the peculiar blue cast vwhlch the rather short fur has.

A Representative. John W. Bums of Wisconsin has introduced a bill into the Congress of the United states recently to sharply curtail the importation of fox and mink skins into that country. It would provide that the total import of mink and fox skins during any import year may not exceed l5 per cent of the domestic pelt pro- duction during the preceding year and would take effect ori- July lst,

try, particularly the farming of sliver fox and mink. has made rapid strides since the early twen- ties. Flor instance in 1923 six thou- sand silver fox pelts were put on the market. In i940 this number had grown to 261.000. A similar up- swing in production is noted in the sale of mink pelts. Today there are approximately 9.000 fur farms of all tYPEs scattered through 38 state-s with an estimated invest- merit of $130,000,000. Products sold from these farms this year

an_ amateur Todd won the sectional amateur inenis around Dallas. the Texas stale "fie. '.‘1e Western Amateur 0136b Championship, at, Fort Worth. After it semester 9,; Southern Methodist University. lie tried selling insurance and then worked as zl mechanic at the North American Avia-tion Corn- Dfinys plant between Fort. Worth and Dallas.

Todds development in profes. sional golf was slowed down ‘m. the fact that he was lcttlrr; to?) many people tell him flow 91¢ 5110111111 play ‘lie some. Now that he has gone back lo his 0am siytg 0T 111111’. and quit trying to hit the ball like someone else, he is play. ing well again.

Hurry gets plenty of 01f the greens, has flflme. anti putts well. lie joined the tournament circuit at San An. tonio last spring and i5 playing 115 W11 as he ever did in his life. Each week he is acquiring more and more sensor-mg and one o; these iveeks will tie all dgipgrt. menis of his gnnqg‘ together‘

When he docs he is going q, win his first murnalnent. Don't say that I dldnt tell you about him. Remember the name. ‘road Harry Tbdd of Dallas. '»

Waicott Wins In Third

all

distance

NEW YORK, Aug. 18—-(AP)— Jersey Joe Walcott of Camden, N. J., knocked out Tommy Gallic: of Port Tampa, Fla., in 1 minute and 21 seconds of the third round of the scheduled IO-round main event

came to my tZB/l’ in that stage mid- way between wakefulness and. sleep. Then came a buzz zip right in my earholc. The high powered car had turned into o. tri motored Fortune mosquito with a proboscis! a foot long.

I O I had barely settled myself wbcn a deep rustling in the reeds and] rasses to my loft and the soft, LUCK of a foo‘. being raised from the mud told me plalner th-t-ll yvonzls that it was a fairly weighty‘ nnimal that was headed ny way.

of s boxing show at Madison Square Garden tonight. ' Walcott weighed 191 3-4 and Gomez 182' 1-2. A solid, straight right to the jaw was the finisher. Gomez

dropped as if hit by an axe, puller! liimsclf greslrlly and blank-eyed to his feet at the end of nine, llnd stood so helplessly as Walcott ad.

vnriced upon him that l'(‘li'i"‘i‘ Ffllilklé Fullam awarded tile fight to the Jersey battles by c

kayo. A crowd of 11,657 paid MING to

see the show Tito winner of tonight's bout

oils causes, such as George B. G-its runny undo; Such cimu-nsmncps was expected to be next in lln-g for

0f Moncton. His McKlyo Cash 202 is tciiiporarily on the shcif.

Next week there will be races at New Glasgow, Union Track. 0n Wednesday the 21st. and at 3i"? Acres. New Glasgow. on the 24th, and also at St. Stephen on the 21st. 530d, 83rd. The following week the Neva Scotia Exhibition races will 11B held at Truro the 11th. 28th and 29th. ctou‘: new track will mu with races the 2nd. 3rd 11nd

_()_ Several horses changed hands 5""!!! tho traces here, one of the most important sales was the three

£2" old fi-lly Nelda A. Volo by 1 ntector, 2.10 1-4 ~by Protector ~59 1-2 dam Volo Ra 2.06 b

Vulomlte 2.03 1-2, ths mare was riled by Leonard Barrleau, Tcndlsvllle, N. B, and trained by - 0. Collette. Mr. Bars-lean has

tavern colts and fillies two of a $1M full sisters to Nelda A. 7010 “ht these youngsters are by Pro- MS N‘ 2.10 1-4 and the former star s‘ ‘the Sullivan and Mahlnney yuznllklfederal I01 3-4 both these no ans are owned by Mr. 31r-

rnu and he has the outstsnd-n

V5011 mares-bash Guy 2.04 - , nndnJlhv 2.00. Elsie Louise 2.11 "on ean Tl-usx 2.00 1-4. Mr. Bar- he ‘i: mentioned to the writer that n waved irl a rather out of the way vary» and hence did 1100' receive ‘vhichmnny visits from hot-semen roedmmlght be a handicap in his Mm d! opal-strolls, we reminded h mllb the INlt thinker

POW‘

civilization if he built s but"

Y onds he was on the opposite bank

it was a. bear thilt popped into myl mind u the maker of the noise I a few uncomfortable morn-i ents till in n. slight pause in the onward journey I beard Llle sound of dabbling ‘n the brook and it. was clear as a. bell in a Jiffy as to the species it animal wus Infill‘: daring along the bmdt . a rac- coon. O O O I A ‘Coon’ is verv careful to wash its food before eating ' swung, the flashlight in his direction llndi he dropped the frog he ms dab- bling 1n the brook and tavouredi me with s. haughty stare. I gazedi buck at a wise. pointed face. then| old rinf tail as dignified M 005w sible sowly .owered himself into‘ the brook. In tt matter of sec- and without a baolliward slRr-Ii‘ vanished into ‘the trisht. '

r felt that 1 had had enoush excitement for the his!" W"! IMP‘ ping s. set. of combination over- bsl urt-ler mv heed RM ihmwi,

9Q. we: break- oft III

rmsq fol: angles-s ois-embsl-klns from l our our the b11118!‘

Th rs l timlttf‘ ‘ ‘wrucyluz. Am o'clock. I m“. my presume known and the patrol was over. I felt llw morn etfter tho nichi 501°"!- d", “any y; you can have ymlr ct rl ht patrols as fur as Im WW corned snd that goes for the nine

inoiisetrsp then llll nolgllbol- tact-you don't

warden mo. Oh, its s IP01" 11° x

I decidisq game

a shot at the heavyweight cro.vn. and the elated Walcott in his dresslrls room after the fight sat-d he would welcome the chance to meet Joe Louis.

Suckers To Meet All-

‘Star Squad

Sunday evening the Bobby Sock- ers will talc; on an All Star team and on Monday evening the Cun- dall Kids and Misfits meet in the

of tho sum-finals.

won one and this

upon to furntm the

bull of the season. Both minis

are quite able to furnish sparkling

plsyl. so that the has who wit-

ness Monday's game will not ‘so disappointed.

Eldl

, Kqii. England —(OPI Grwre Tanner was fined ' ' 000) and cosh for

ponds ‘b’ “mo:

LIIMOL. .4511)... An on? w; who Rom OBXPOI. . with“ dived fret from n port-hols“ ‘l1 the

1 Quee. Eflisobeth mm Anal-drowning 0P0 - .. .

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tourna-ltndustry, he said,

I1 fiir short‘

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will total approximately 25.000. Tile now facing n. crisis. Huge stocks of pelts are piling up in foreign markets. The production of fur bearing animals overseas is increasing; foreign ex- porters are eyeing hungrily the great American market denied to them during the war bv lack of shipping facilities.

Within the next few years we can expect to see United States made the dumping ground for a vast quantity of war-accumulated furs. This can only lead to the rutnation of the American fur farmers market-unless we pre- serve a portion of that market for domestic pelts. If Mr. Burns’ bill should he approved by Con- gress and Senate of the United States it would mean that the total number of silver fox pelts allowed into the United States for i947 would be between 25.000 and 30.000 instead of sorne 75.000. It is hardly likelv that Congress will take a step so drastic so we do not think We need worry unclulv aibout the matter.

llugefiiirtiwll At Race Meet

A crowd even bigger than the record-breaking attendance which sat composedly through Wednes- day aftcrnoonks intermittent rain showers, hasked in yesterday's bright sunshine to witness rlcrse racing and-between the heats- acts of vaudeville of the highrst quality.

Probably yesterday was the busiest day the Midway has yet enjoyed as people~thousands of them—made their way from one booth or other place of amuse- ment to another.

All judging of livestock completed yesterday. Today the final tlay of the Exhibition, will conclude what has possibly been from all points of vl~ew the .nosi successful of all Old Home Wxiks in Charlottetown. °

liaison Will llave Plenty Competition

WBS

By GORDON G. MIcNAB

PORTLAND. 0re.. Aux. 16 —<AP> _. Byron Nelson's ailing back will be loaded down with the weight of four major open tournamentgham-

ions when hi: defends his United

fates rufeasional golfers associa- tion tltlb here ext week.

Most of the her big names, too. will be trying for 63 qualifying I berths as the 120-man field whlttles

itself down Monday and Tuesday. -'l‘olrdo‘s Lord Byron will rest his étclting slicroilgic ttlgough ‘lbhtnfilel-lfltli; n p s s up As def

ly.

I plan, he automatically qua lfias.

i when the reuuro will come from is snvogyb guess, b_ut these four no ll ely candldptes: Sam Snead. tbs Virginia sllunmer, win- ner of one British open; Lloyd Man- grum, Chicago. holder of the Unit- ed States n; Ben Hogan. Her-

‘shey, Pa, anadilln P.G.A. open

champ and George Fazlo, Los An-