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"humans . he mgr ey B. "lfiffi-tioi-d ‘in z, oo 1-2 and the n1 Britton q) a. new record .09 3.4 at 01d Home Week races "l" 5t, has four irood cum-

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d Chi n track opene s fiffifiimzinc of Alpril-the ear- roi- many sbasons. Billy Ke es S five head training there wf-h l“... AdnmS' Watchhn (a) 2.1a i-z Flladgn, m. most, attention. st. {mo ‘buns an Old Home Week ‘if’... 13-10-20 with two or three {raging with $300. purses for 1250M“... classes. President I'D. “Graham who is a t the mane.- ’~ hopes to have q tee. number ofhorses front Nova Scotia andl “m; Edward Island race there. |

orln Jiirdine who spent the win- w in Kcnsington, P.ELI, is now in my, sydllCy in charge of 'he pm Holmes racing stable, con- uiim or Betty Lee 2.14. 1-4. eligible w“; 2,37 pace, Sister Martha. and m”. Henley, that are said to be Rood pyugpcctg for the slow classes. M, made his best bid to fame the “w, he campaigned Betty B. 2.07. m Wm almost every race she gutted in that, season. AmOHI oth- mhe drove particularly well were Km; spruce 2.08 1-2 and Bellini gout 2.09 l-Z-

J00 Hood has settled down at mm irsclt with the Charles Waik- grstflblb of Halifax, whiich includes Buck Hanover 2.05 1-2. absolute‘ round and looking good fur his clsss mi; year, Moonglow 2.12 1-2 and Flo Dirt-cot 2.12 1-4, boiih of which sliilled the season without a record mt year and acquired the above wit, also a three-yeer-old, Queen spruce by King Spruce 2-08 1-2. He igessisted in the training and care- illilllg by Harry Bailey‘, who pr:- pued liusli the season he took his record of 2.10. Reports are that the Walker horses are looking particu- larly well and are receivih double- headers three times a wee . Queen spruce is oui of the some dam as Flo Ditectsultth the Great. The iiiiiglitcr oi King Spruce shows sll the qualities of good breeding, hes excellent manners and is highly thought of.

The Truro track is sail to be in goadshnpe. Johnny Gonroy and other iruinors urc -1111; no time gctthg rcntly for inc opening bell June 25th nt Bridgewatnr. Johnny Conroy lrs San Ton, 2.0% commun- ity oiinr-d, J. A. Keri: Hillside Srott i-il 2.11 3-4, the three-year- o‘d trotting filly Harley T. by Lee liaricuer 2.16 1-2 out of Tease 1E9 l-B. Silo is owned by Dr.

11.0.1. it's MacLenn, New Rich- ll Qilvbirr. also the owner of L Hanover 1.59 l-2 in Frank 1 "s sinhlo, East Royalty. There l in tlio Conroy stable u year-

lnz tinmcsnkc-Jolinny gConroy - i1ilibrolhor to Hillside Scott, and Shirce Harvester 2.04 l-4 is a mem- bit oi lllc stable who will not be med but kept for breeding put‘- Wes.

Robert Baxter, well known lum- beminn of Triiro, is the owner of Biifill Joe 2.12 l-4, and Ibis brother Hal Baxter lS giving him his work. Also a green trotter by "Mont Joli ....Fl'niik Kennedy has a. two-year- old trotting filly Alta K. by Calu- met Bilfll0llg 2.02 3-4. dam Gare, ihstlhe is getting ready fbr the fu- tithes.

A Charlottetown horseman who iecetiily saw Alfred Lowries two- till-old ilily. by Abbe Worthy, work oiii over Montague track, says that iii his opinion this daughter of Qrtllt Village Belle 2.18 1-4 looks like the winner of the tvm-year-old iiiiuriiy this season. He also sew George bloc t 3) 2.17 in action and Ilyr that he has grown and filled out to s magnificent lodkin horse lilfl slowed plenty of spec , He is 221x201 by ex-Mnyor George Mom-

0n this P1126 will be found an ad by Howard Wood, Rollo Buy, offer- all! the SlRlllOII sumpgon 115,1 3,01. i4 for silo. He was sired by one ° ‘hf treats-st plicers that ever ‘rent doii'ti_the Grand Circuit- olpoloon Direct 1.50 l-2—also the ‘g’ “l Billy Direct 1.55 world's smlmoloirpacci- over mile and half. lriicizs. Sampson Hal in

m Pl-ltnr-olrl form won some of 01:6 llltvst stakes on the Grand m“? llllll Diiced to his record of m -4. blurry will remember the m; lit lllll up in the Free for .411 m T01! (‘into 2.00 3-4 and Guy the m1?" 2oz 1-4 h£_(7hB.l'10fl'A70Wfl h '34- “filly of his colts are show- ‘Klllllllllu- or speed and are oth- “i” 8°00. useful horses.

‘Jlllillln Hervey writes a most inter- " E Wily of The Eel 2.02 1-4 in swHnrnoss Horse for May 7th ‘or-f K101111115 us to give only n bv (flilmgfilflly- “The Eel was sired Gambq? ollcr 2.22 1-4. a son of m smcln Wllk0S_ that had attain- m rial, lmpc uoon the track. He M, orb-iii Jill-he Spring of 1902

w Bole Bidwcii. whose grand- Honlllf lllfio by Gambetta Wilkes, “m? n?!’ George Wilkes. He wit; s, v M {or of a tlilniz but exquisite- Gibséhllfiinl nnd his owner John u," k lyllvht him too smell to hetmk ‘i’ filly account. However, m a ")0 eye of Joel Braqge who m,“ slable at Deer-field, Rmih It he bought him as a snrinuliof 0i‘ $50. ThBt W35 thy m“ i003. The same fail 1". W.

"ll- ll farmer of Tavfstook,

FOR SALE 0R TRADE.

wiesoiv HAL 2.02 3-4 TED RACE HORSE I AND SIRE ‘l flblendld conditio - His “"8 lake ihe eye, are zseful hi“! gpggd! Priced reasonable HOWARD WOOD,

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Ontario, saw the colt and liked m-n so well that he bought, h; f. ' Bragge for $190, m ‘om

He was at fir t 1i d and registered usndec: ttlaiotsllqlgefwfi 1906 as a four-year-old he Ives trained and showed a lot of step It "l! D906. He was turned ovcr to Dim Mclilwen of mndon, Qnt; to train, who had then quite a repu- tation as a reitismun over Ontario tracks. After working him for five weeks McEwen told Entrican that he W85 tho making of a stake horse.

In iiie Spring of 190': he sent him back to McEwen who trained him It 110F140“. Ont. where his speed mad him the balk of everybody that saw or heard of him, In Sep- tember McEwen took him to Syra- cuse, N. Y., where the Grand Ci."- cuit meeting and New York state

with the last quarter in 28 l-4 sec- onds. This story circulated freely and scouts and speed merchants were on the trail of the Canadian pacer from all directions. Entrlcun refused to put a price on the horse and would not verify the report us to the workout trial.

The reason for this was apparent not long afterwards when a big ice meet was held st Toronto in Feb- rusry 1908 and the little grey horse under- the name of The Eel was entered in a $1.000 stake for 2-35 class horses. He romped away with it from s. field of seven others ‘D19 next day he was started back in Free for All and won it. just as easily, beating a field of six. i111 with fast records, among them be- ing Nervolo 2.04 1-4 (the sire of Roy Volo 2.0a 1-4.) This double lkijllng’ was reported to have been s big one, The Eel netting o ‘Dill of money.’

Following this auspicious debili- The Eel was laid away and exten- sively staked for the 5918011 01 1903 in all the rich events for slow class pacer-e along the Grand Circuit. His first start was made at Terra Haute on July 16th at one of the b01959 meetings ever held over the fam- ous four-cornered track. One oi the events Tire Eel wits entered in w” a, $3,000 purse i0!‘ 2.25 P30973- There was another extraordinary pacer being carefully 0100mm m‘ tho some event-Minor Heir. He was being trained at Charlie Deémcsf truck M», Palatine. 111.. lust "llthllt Chicago, and many cillnslQered ‘i he was the coming world s champ; ion pacer, only inferior to the are?‘ Den Patch 1.55 1-4. Theft! We‘ many, however, who Pllllli-‘d the’ faith to The Eel as he had bee: training in sensational manner Mlt was considered by them 1'9 91°“ ' est, green pacer that ever wore har- ness, The duel between these two marvelous horses provided an af- ternoon so replete with thrills that many horsemen were almost ex- hausted by the ergitement. There was a large deleiIfll-lvrl from can‘ ads that came with pockets laulglnsti with money to back The Eel. bill Minor mu also had a hi: and 1°59 following of Americans.

g h ts tire rivals gm ‘is; (uxiirtireygdenigd exlllblllvllt took them both, the first in 2.01 and the second in 2.01- 1-2, and in the second was actually pulled up 5t the finish. The Eel carried him as far and osfast Mlle could in each but at the finisher‘- was forced to surrender. It ill?!‘ looked as though it was nil 0305 bu; the shouting, but in tho l-llll‘

had been neitherjo 1011B n0‘ 5° strong as The Eels. mode an early break, began cross-firing. made an- other later on and barely missed the flag as The Eel won in o 19F! from Gordon Prince Junior in 2.0a- 1-2.

The fourth heat, wasp repetition, ‘I119 Eel romping home in 2.08.1t was now seemingly apparent. that Minor Heir was done, his first two heats having ‘cooked his goose’ and filial victory was a. mere formality for Tue Eel, whose backers were iii for enough American coin to need help in carrying it home. The scene ut the stables was drluuatic. Around the stall of The Eel iubllntlon reigned supreme. At the nearby Dean stables where Minor Heir wins being cared for sober fnccs and tense nerves were in evidence. Deml insisted. however, that his horse was not done and if he could keep him pacing he would yet win. Ed Geers, who had carefully watched the first two heats, did scmethinj! m never did before-went to Dean s stable and asked to see Minor Heir. saying, ‘That is the grflll-Bfifi Dllfel‘ 1 eygf saw, Doggone it, there 11618,!‘ was anything like himl" Dean o0!!- sulted with 1m and it was decided m change Minor Heirs shoe! 1n l" effort. to balance him for the final heat. This was done and Dean cnrllt forth with jaws set and the deter- mination to ‘do or die:

If the first, turn could be safe- ly rounded he declared iiiat his horse would not break. The anxiety as they got off and dashed into it was painful in its intensity 81110112 the backers of Minor Heir, but the weight was lifted from their breasts when the stallion circled it straight and true and Dean, driving careful- ly, waited until well into the Stretch before culling u n him. Where he had been In d1 ficulties before 11c paced like an express train and came thundering home. druwln o- wsy from ‘the tring Eel with n MoEwen. who saw s. fortune 8UP- ginfiathrough his grasp. calling on

is orsdin a. frantic manner. The nest was in 2.07. the fastest fifth heat ever paced",

(To be continued)

queen's rump REAACIIES $201,305 ,

MONTREAL. May lti-(CPl-Of- flcisls of the Queen's Canadian

Fund for Air Raid Victims an- nounced toni ht that contributions to the fund ave reached $201,305. The previously announced total wu 9192.553.

. DETERMINATION

He only is o. well-nude msn who bu s mod determination; -Bn€rS0n

heat; Minor Heir. Whose Dfellfllllllml , ‘ Detroit

fair were on, for atryout. Secrecy, (1 McDungld was maintained as to the trials t-he l A, Mcclgskey horse had gone but, it leaked out,’ G. stewart that he had paced ii mile in 2.04 1-4 l E. Robin.

R. Bradley S18 201 237 207 275 192 150 193 149 210 233 171 203 226 168 Totai-iillB. Old Timers:- T. Creiglian 2B2 2'73 149 J. A. Bentley 168 222 174 J. Hughes 195 190 214 V. Coyle 155 206 200 Rev. Dr. McMahon 208 248 257 Total-MEI. High single R. Bradley 318». High three R. Bradley 756. Five Aces-z points. Old Timers-Ii points. CIPTOWN ALLEYS Mixed League Finals Tanks:- J. McAleer 227 231 too K. Blackett 175 151 152 ‘G. Doyle 272 247 161 J. McCnbe 186 153 232 B. Dooley 234 199 211 Mrs. J. MucAleer 127 120 200 Total-3578. ‘ Cubs:- J. Poulton 203 231 219 M. Burke 160 292 243 E. Callaghan 244 230 239 F. Tulle 154 229 201 C. Artz 175 l51 152 M. Stull 162 199 133 Total-Mill

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BOWLING RESULTS

HOLY NAME BOWLING

Big Four League Semi-Finals

Last night on the Holy Name Alleys the Old Timers made a won- derful come-back in the last two strings to eliminate the Five Aces three points to two and o into the finals against the Al Stars for the championship. The first game in the finals will be played Monday night st 9 dclock.

Five Aces:-

Ladies high single M. Burke 292. Ladies high three M. Burke 695. Gents high single J. McAleer 300 Gents high three J. McAlcer 768. Points: cubs 3; Tanks 3. Standing: Cubs 13%; Tanks 10%.

Carter it Co:- N. J. Cioii’ 256 220 244 L. Nelson 178 153 167 E. Downe 134 134 243 B. Warren 144 183 254 D. Purcell 274 257 278 Total-Sim Central Barbers:- R. MacDonald 134 194 112 L. Phillips 181 149 207 R. MttcDougull 164 105 204 J. Dykens 171 166 122 D. McGee 144 166 177 Total-2398,

High single D. Purcell 274. High three D. Purcell 809.

Baseball Results , l AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘

000 005 000-5 7 0' 211 000 002-6 9 1 Lee and Trash; Brcuer. Murphy and Rosar, Dickey.

Cleveland 000 I11 240-9 l4 0

Boston 000 100 020-9 7 0 Brtsxby and Dcsauteis: Harris, Judd. H. Ncwsome and Pytlak.

110 102 000-5 10 1

Philadelphia 010 210 000-4 9 0 Rowe, Trout and Sullivan; Beck- nian, Ferrlck and Haves.

Si. Lnuls 011 400 000-6 12 0, Washington 013 000 102-7 18 0i Aukcr and Grace; Leonard. Car-|

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rnsquel, Anderson and Early. NATIONAL LEAGUE

010 010 020-4 8 0 i 000 001 100-2 9 2 lmhrmnn, l-Iiibbcll and Dunning; Lee and McCullough

000 000 000-0 5 0 201 000 101-4 9 2 and Berres,

New York

Boston St. Louis Poscrlol. Sullivan

bfnsi: Gumbert and Mancuso. Brooklyn 001 000 100 00-2 7 2 Pittsburgh 010 000 010 01-8 7 0

Hiizbe, Brown and Owen; Lan- nlriiz, Bolwmon and Baker, Davie i Lopez

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Baltimore st Jersey City, post- poned, threatening weather.

Toronto .000 002 030-6 9 1

Buffalo 030 006 001-0 0 0 Lanfranconi. Vance. McLaughlin and Kllmczak Williams; Trucks and Parsons.

Montreal 100 208 010-12 15 8

Rochester 100 200 012-6 6 2 Head and Pranks; C. Dovle, Sur- kont, R, Doyle and Mueller.

Newark 000 005 000-5 9 I

Syracuse I80 010 00x-8 l0 0 Byrne, Davis. Moran, Gettel end gem-i; Hinckle, Nelson snd Bot- ar n .

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Indians take 9-3 victory From Boston‘

NEW YORK, May l6—(AP)-

Cleveland Indians took their second straight game from Sox 9-8 at Boston today, getting 14 hits while Jim Bagby held his former Boston teammates to seven. three o! them by Manager Joe Cronin, . Gerald Walker led the Indian at- tack on three Boston pitchers with a single, a double and n home run, while Clarence Campbell contrib- uted chree singles to th¢ cause.

The Indians hit for a total of 20 bases, while the Six hit for eight, with six of them singles.

Substitute outfielder Pat Mul- lln's inside home run at Philadel- phia_ Shibe Park's first in several years. carried Detroit Tigers to o. 5-4 triumph over the Athletics. It was the Tiger's second victory in a ryw over the A .

At New York. Manager Joe Mc- Carthy shook up the lineup of his Yankee, benching his rookie sec- ond buse combination of Phil Riz- zuto and Gerry yriddy, and the move inspired the bombers to break a five-game losing streak with s 8-5 league victory over Chicago White Sox.

‘Ins Senators staged u two-run ninth-inning rally at Washington to come from behind and edge out St. Louis Browns 7-6. The victory gave the Nate an even break in thc_ current league series.

Big Six

(By The Associated Press)

Batting (three leaders 1n each league)- I Player, Club G AB R II Pct i CRONIN, l

Red Sox 22 79 18 32 .405; TRAVIS, g

Senhtor; 25 103 22 41 .398 i VAUGHAN.

Pirates 20 79 15 81 .392 SEIBERT,

thletics 26 100 l5 39 .879 SLAUGHTER, '

Cardinals 26 107 21 40 .374 JURGES.

Giants 26 92 l2 34 370

HOME RUNS

American League-Johnson. Ath- letes, 7: National Liesgue-Ott, Giants. 8.

RUNS BATTED IN American League-Keller. Yank- ees 30; Natirnal Leanne-Nicholson.

One pitch enough For Pittsburgh

NEW YORK, May lo-(AE- Mace Brown. whom Brooklyn bought a cou le of weeks ago from the Pirates. aced his old team- mates st Pittsbur l1 today Just 1on8 enough to ma e one p.lch—i1. was a home 11m ball for Elble Fletcher, first man up in the 11th inning-and Pirates snapped the Seven-same wining streak of the Dodgers 3-2.

Kirby Higbe hurled the first 10 innings for the National League leaders and in the first six gave up only two hits. These were a triple by Arky Vaughan and a. single by Fletcher coupled for a Pirate run in the second.

Pittsburgh's other run, tying the score in the eighth. tame on an er- l'°l‘ by 9019b Cllmilli. a sacrifice and a. double by little Lee Handley

Al Chicago. New York Giants made their hits count to nose out gtébs for the second straight day

Bill Lohrman and Bill Lee waged a tight pitching duel through the earl innings, but the Giants knit Witt 01' two runs in the egihth in- ning on a. single by Hank Dunning, an error. a fly, a walk and Johnny Ruckeris single.

Hlifry Gumbert. late of New York Giants. made an auspicious pitching start with the Cardinals at St. Iouis, by shutting out Boston 4-0 on six hits.

Despite his fine performance the lanky hurler had to share honor: with second baseman Frank Crespz. In handling 15 chancei flawlessly Crespi came within one of tying the modem National League record.

Montgomery Cutpoints Lew Jenkins

NEW YORK, May 16—<APi-Boo Montgomery took Lew Jenk.ns' fa- mous "Sunday punch" for a couple of rounds tonight without flndng it too tough to sample, and then came on to outpoint the world lightweight champion in l0 rounds in Madison Square Garden Mont- izémmery weighed 136 1-2; Jenkins

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Before a roaring, well-p eased crowd, the "Philadelphia Henry Armstrong" laughed off the sklnnv Texans ripping rightlumd shots in the early going, fought a crrwd- trig, slugging fight all the way and won going away in the non -i.1iiE

. wilLway out of his league tonight.

Of individual Bowling honors

DARTMOUTH, NA, May 18- iCf-U-Wilbert Martel, veteran Hal- ifax trundler, captured individual honors at the, Msritzme-Maine: Bowling Championships, according; to the official list of averages re- g leased tonight, The Dartmouth ti-l ilists successfully defended their

title in the matches which ended ' last night. I

Many-time winner, Martel last, topped the list l9 In 27 strings played, he missed the bowlers three string "par”—300-,

but once and marked up an aver- 880 string or 107.9.

W. Peterson of Fredericton 1940 champion, finished second with 107, with his brother, H. Peterson and Rudy Rudolph of lmperials right cn his heels with 106.5. Twenty-three competitors roiled an average of over 100.

Craboski signs With Quebec

KIRKLAND _ Ont., May 16 —(CP)-Jo Jo Graboski, playing coach of Glace Bay Miners in the- Cape Breton Senior Hockey league last winter. said today he would play for Quebec Royal Rifles of the Quebec Senior Hockey League next season.

Grdbriski played with Kirkland Lake Blue Devils when they won the Allan Cup in the 1939-40 sea- son. He said he plans to leave for Quebec City in s few days.

Week-end games In softball league .

Weekend games in the Juvenile softball league: At IAS-East End Hawks vs New Dome Hawks. At ZAS-Sporting Club Vics. Vl-

Bombers.

The 25-year-old negro sliced {mus nose in the fourth round, cut his eyey in the fifth, gushed his left ear in the sixth and floored him in the ninth on the way to winning his unanimous decision.