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Had s. nice letter the other even- ing from lvllayor H. ‘M. Sweeney of Bridgewater, N.S., stating that Sallie D. Scott 2.03, which he was negotiating for at the time of the Nova Scotia Exhibition last fall, hurt her front ankle and has been sold to Lou MacMarrah of Indian- apolis for breeding purposes. Eignal Senator 2.08 1-4 is in grand shape after his very successful rac- 1118 001111301811. and Dudy Patch, the sensational green pacer pur- chased in Ontario after a. trial trip in 2.11, has become quite ac- customed to his new surroundings and with education in the hopples this winter is expected to be an- other Signal Senator. Guy Mea- dows completes the stable. He is on unmarked pacer that will be us- ed on the ice this winter and on the track next season. The letter also stated the new track will be ready for the Bridgewater Exhibi- tion of 1937.

NEWS from surrounding districts is that Gniety McGregor 2.07 1-4, raced here a few seasons back by "Red" Ilrrnafin, has a nice foal at foot by Pox Volo 2.07. horses are owned in and viciniiy and these are being jogged on the roads so as to get ready for ice racing which has taken quite a hold in Dartmouth. August Queen 2.15 1-4, winner of ens of the pacing events at Char-

‘ lottetown Exhibition, has been sold

and there is talk of several new trotters and pscers being brought in to race next season.

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B111 Cummings is at Upper Stswiacko. NS. home of Hedley T. Fulton, where he is wintering High Toby 2.11 1-4 and three others for Mr. Fulton and Star G. 2.00 for Barry Br

een. .

Indianapolis 2.09 2-5, the great New Zealand pacer, won for the third consecutive ‘year the New Zealand cup handicap over a dis- tsnce of two miles, the victory carrying a prize of $10,000 and a sold cup costing $500. Second money was $2,000, third 81,500 and ifourth $1,000. Indianapolis is sired by the American pacer Wrack 2,02 3-4, formerly campaigned by Charlie Valentine and Dick Mc- Mahon on the GrsndCircuit. The sire of Wrack was Peter the Great 2.07 1-4. '

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filth-teen pacers took part in the cup handicap which proved very exciting, as Indianapolis, laboring tinder-the heaviest of handicaps worked his way gradually towards the front then was forced to go wide rounding the last turn, but by a terrific burst of speed in the stretch he won with a length to spare.

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All trotting and pacing races in New Zenland are over a grass tracks and the opinion is held by New Zcnlunclers that if Indian- apolis could be raced over fast United States tracks he would set up or equal the world's record held by Dan Patch-1.55 1-4.

L. G. Duffy writing in The Har- ness Horse. says: “As the writer sees it hor.\s win races, ’tls true, but drivers win races, and years spent in watching countless races in order to report them as vividly as possible forces the conclusion that skill on the part of a driver is a safer thing to pin to in a close rnce than the superiority of one horse over another."

Looked after with loving care such as few equines ever receive. is the thirty year old Emily Ellen. whose achievements as s. brood mnre have made Csstleton Farm in Kentucky renowned through the trotting world. Only one other matron in history who has achiev- cd anything like the same success in the breeding ranks has lived longer or so long. That was Beauti- ful Bells 2.29 1-3, dubbed in her heyday "the Empress of brood mares." she lived to be thirty-two Curiously enough Emily Ellen is out of a mare by Bow Bells 2.20 1-4 son of Beautiful Bells. Her sire was the short-lived but sensa-

- course Spencer, Lea

Look ha: built up his stud and the record which it has compiled. Her blood may be said to have made Castleton what it is today, and there today are standing two of her three sons named above, as well as the two minute performer sired by one of them- Spencer 1.50 3-4.

Our readers may be interested to learn about Guy Csstleton who has carved a niche in the Hall of Fame with very little opportunity. Until the advent of Margaret Castietou (8) 1.50 2-4, he was practically unknown to the public. He had been a very fast natural trotter and would have been the tenth in the 2.10 list for Emily Ellen but for an accident which be- fell him compelling his retirement with s mere 2.10 record.

He was given little opportunity as a sire, breeders preferring of Tide and Day Star. Two years ago he appeared in the great tabla of standard sires with s. two-year-old that took a record of 2.20 1-4. In 1985 he st- tmcted the attention of close ob- servers because he sent out two 2.10 two-year-old trotters which was really remarkable considering ha had almost nothing old enough to train. Still amid the large ac- hievements of many other noted sires it received little mention, but today Guy Castleton is in the limelight. Ha has brought to Cas- tleton Farm and to his dam Emily Eleen, now s. greater fame. How he was accorded the opportunity to bring this about goes back to some years ago when Mr. Look sent Emily Ellen over to Walnut Hall Farm and bred her to Guy Ax- worthy, getting Guy Csstletou.

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In 1082 Dr. Edwards, owner of Walnut Hall Pbrm, it would be courtesy on his part to patronize Mr. look, and he sent over one of his most illustrious matrons, Margaret Parrish (4) 2.00 1-4 to be bred to Guy Castle- ton. The result is Margaret Castle- ton, that driven by his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Nichols, took s. record as a three-yesr-old at Lexington, 0n the trot of 1.59 9-4, which is the fastest mils ever stepped by a trotter driven by a lady. 4

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Ilooking forward to next season it is the confident belief of many that Margaret Castleton will trot a mile faster than ever any trotting mare has gone. ‘Phat means that she must beat the 1.58 1-4 of Nedda now in the brood mare ranks at Walnut Hall Penn.

There is something peculiarly in- teresting in delving into the breed- ing of fast horses. Something pathetic, too, because as one looks back as I can to some twenty-five years ago when I first became in- terested in harness horses, and the Bingen tribe and their doings was on every horsemanb lips, I can see what a terrible mistake was made in allowing that blood to be cast into the discard. Because Walter Cox said so and others backed him up, the Bingens were called "soft" and the hue and cry went out against them. The crowd jumped on the band wagon and shouted in unison for the Axworthys and Peter the Greats. The Bingens were not "soft." The greatest re- presentative of the breed, the champion trotter Uhlan 1,58, has left behind him a record of con- tests won and performances against time that evokes the ad- miration of even the most anti- _Bingen horseman. The trouble with Bingens was they had too much natural speed, and like the Grattan tribe in Ontario, it. was so easy to tum on the gas that trainers used it before sufficient slow miles had been given to en- able them to carry their speed. The Bingen blood today is extant prin- cipally through Bingen Silk 2.06 1-4 and sources such as the descend- snts of Emily Ellen. Its value is becoming more appreciated as the quantity available is diminishing.

-__._ Edwin T. Keller, who is a verit- sble mine of information on mat-

tional speed string son of Bingen 2.00 1-4—-Todd 2.14 3-4.

Statistics show that Emily Ellen has nine trotters and one pacer in the 2.10 list. Three of her sons have sired two minute speed as fol- lows: Leo Tide (4) 2.05, sire of Spencer (3) 1.59 3-4 (one of the truly great sires of 1986) Day Star (3) 2.05, sire of Star Etcwah, 1.59 3-4, and Guy Castleton (2) 2.19, sire of Margaret Csstleton (ll) 1.59 3-4. .

Emily Ellen has been and is tbs corner stone upon which Mr.

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Four year old Boy llllllll oirtofsmrectflsldamlnd by a good Ion of Gil! A:- worthy; . a good made one: sound and kind in every III; trained in 2.15 but never H-raeed: eligible to 2.30 sill; ‘half-brother to Silver Ivllllr 2.00 II. M. '1'.

H. M. SWEENEY.

ters pertaining to horses, has a leading article in the Horseman and Fair World this week entitled "llhs Undefeated 2.10 Trotters", and gives a list of fifteen trotters who have entered the 2.10 list and went through s full season's carn- palgning without a single defeat, and raced ten or more times. Two. only, have won thirteen races — T117111’ V010 (3) 2.09 8-4 in her campaign of 1025, and Asora Ax- worthy in 1015. Pour have won twelve victories in s. season with- out tasting defeat and they are the Canadian trottcr Leo Hanover 1.01, that raced over half-nulls and mile tracks in 109d, and took a re- cord of 2.01 in the furious Walnut Hall cup stake at Lexington. Ho was bred ' at Manchester Stock Farm, Gait, Ont.

Another is Bill Sharon 2.04 1-4 whose oampfllfl B! 199° V1100 h. mat and defeated trotters and pac- ers all over the Maritimss, sot up a new track trotting record of 2.11 1-4 st Charlottetown, defeated m; best of the free-for-ali pacors at Woodstock and Fredericton. and late in December was so'd f0 Thomas W. Numb)’ for 825.000-

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4-2 Defeat

_.___ CHICAGO. Jan. 1—(CP)—Msin- 0 BOflI-getting offensive last game, Chicago Black Hawks scored their second

taining started in their

straight victory tonight by defeat- mg Detroit Red Wings 4-2. It was the first time this season the lowly Hawks won two successive games. It was a thrill-packed battle be- 3010 4.000 fans. The Hawks, who Tuesday night routed the Montreal Canadiens 5-1 scored two goals in the opening period and two in the final, furiously fought period to win their fourth game in 19 51mg, EUP

Detroit 3111"” Goal

$5“ Karakas Defence

Roulston weibe

McDonald some", Centre

B0117 Laroehellc Wings

Lewis Gottselig

Allflfi Brydgon

Detroit subs: Bowman. Goodfel-

low, H. Kilrea, W. Kllres, Howe,

Sorrell, P. Kelly, Pettinger, 12:11p- eteau, MacKie.

Chicago subs: Burke, Levlnsky, March, Cook, Thompson, Blair, R. Kelly, Palangio, Trudel.

Officials-Stewart and Smith.

First Period

Ifilllgceeo. Thompson (Selbert)

2-Chicago, Pslangio 8 30

Pcnalties-Roulston.

Second Pcrlod Bearings-none. Penalties-Burke, H. Kilrea, Bow-

man. Third Period 4-Chicsgo, Gottselig (Larochelis Brydson) 9.25. . 5-01110880. Brydson (SeibertI-a- rochelle) 17.5. Penalties-none.

(Wiebe)

Nemis Kayoes‘ B0 b by" O rr

GLACE BAY, NS. Jan. 1—(CP) -v-.lohnny Nemls of New Waterford NS, former Maritime welterweight boxing champion, today scored a technical knockout over Bobby Orr of Joggins, N.S., in the fifth round of a. scheduled ill-round fight. The bout was announced as for the Maritime welterweight title.

Orr weighed 147 and Nemls was one-half pound heavier.

no defeats in a single season is that

great trotter Ima Jay 2.04 1-4, by Jay McGregor, that swept through

- the Grand Circuit like a meteor

in 1915.

It seems s far cry to Ima Jay 2.04 1-4 and her career on the Grand Circuit in 1015, to the per- formance of Guy Kalmuck, two- year-old colt owned by George Lewis, Royalty, who on October 7th at Charlottetown, trotted a mile in

2.22 1-4, which is the record for Maritime bred two-year-olds. Ima Jay s few years after her Grand Circuit career ended, was bred to

Guy Axworthy 2.08 3-4.

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Ima Guy was the result and she passed to the ownership of Dr. F. W. Chris- topher of Boston, who sent her down to Willard Kelly, Southport, to train Subsequently Ima Guy was mated to Kalmuck 2.15 1-2 and produced Guy Kalmuck; so you see that Guy Kalmuck has as his granddam one of the great trot- ters of the Grand Circuit.

Bill Sharon was dubbed by the Yankees "the bull of the woods”. because the grooms could not get along with him and Murphy him- self was afraid of him. The writer well remembers visiting his stall when he was making his campaign

in 1920. One of the Carroll boys

was groom, and the one and only

Peter Carroll was trainer and driv-

er. They started to put the har-

ness on Bill and he got a. bitsunmtwelght boxing champlpnship today ruly, so Peter let out a couple of

war whoops that subdued him verv

quickly. Peter had a way with

that kind of a horse that was sure

medicine, and if Tommy Murphy had hired Peter to act as care-

taker and get him ready for Tommy to sit on the sulky when

the race was being called, it would have been a different story, and Bill Sharen would have trotted in two minutes instead of 2.04 1-4. Of

course Bill realy did go faster than that, because in his greatest race

under Murphy's direction he forc- ed Peter the Brewer to a record of 2.02 1-4, losing only by a whisker.

His disposition became so bad that Murphy sold him for a mere song and his patron charged up some twenty-three-or-four-thous- and dollars deficit to experience. You will remember that after- wards Bill Sharon was purchased by the late Dr. McAllister and placed in the hands of Fred Cam- eron, with whom he won quite l number of races throlllh m0 ulfl‘ times. Ha met with defeat at Charlottetown, Fred Medium tek- ing his measu u in 2.11 1-2, 2.12, 2.18 1-4. Bill won the third heat and turned the tables on Fred Medium the next week at Halifax. He dropped dead while being pre- pared for the next season's cam-

Black-Hawks g8

Jan. 1—(CP)--Can- adlan tennis isn't in cold storage these days. It's not quite as, dead as it appears to be on the surface. though among the top- ranking players are few indeed of the old favorites.

The 1936 season was marked by steady progress on the part of younger players and a complete lack of bickering that went hand- in-hand with the annual Davis Cup venture. Canada didn't challenge for the Davis Cup, thereupon saving money and wear and tear on various tempers.

"The Canading championships at Vancouver presented a fine tennis spectacle, but were hardly a tourna- ment for the home-brews. Call- fomia ran riot. When it was all over Jean Milne of Vancouver was the only Canadian. to figure in a major title. She won the women's doubles, paired with Mrs. Ray Gross Berkley, Calif.

In fact it was o. fine occasion for the slim Vancouverltc, for she was singles runner-up as well, assuring herself of top place among Can- adian women for 1936. Doug Cam- eron, Vancouver, found himself ele- vatcd among thebest Canadian net- men, as be was the last Canuek to fade from the draw, beaten by Champion Jack Tidball of Dos Angeles after having put out East- ern Canada's strongest threat, Ross

round.

Other Canadians were lost sight of early. Some basis for compari- son was found, however, as Grant McLean Toronto, beat Colin Milne, ‘Vancouver-f Roland Iongtin. Mont- real, beat Ron Sidawsy and Wilson eliminated Verley. Jack Brawn. British Columbia's head man in 1935, took one decision from Cam- eron and then went out of compet- ition for the season with an ankle injury, fmthler‘ complicatng matters.

Rangers-Ame Arouses

t Wallace Sets t New Mark In 11.1 a ra th o r1

HAMILTON, Ont., Jan. 1——(CP) __Qygdug,flng to top position after finishing second last year. M11000 Wallace, Accurate A.C.. T010000. ‘won the annual New Year's DB? 10-mi1e race from Hamilton to Dundas and return today. Hebwit- ched places with last year's win- ner, Walter Hornby, of the Hamil- ton Olympic club in one of the greatest duels the race has seen in its 20-year history.

Wallace led a. field of 14 in 53.50. bettering the time of 54.20 2-5 set by Hornby in winning last year.

"White" Sheridan, Hamilton Ol- ympic Club youngster, ran a spar- kling third, racing home in front of the veteran British Empire Games marathon champion of 1034 Harold Webster, his club-mille-

Wallace and Hornby made the even\ a two-man race. They set a withering pace, 100 yards in front of Sheridan and Webster. The lead alternated many times as they led over the 10-mile route.

Freddie Steele Retains Title

MILWAUKEE. Jan. 1 — Freddie Steele of Tacoma, Wash, success- fully defended his world middle-

by decisively outpointln! 9011"“ Jones, veteran Akron, 0., negro 1n a 10 round title bout before 5.500 t t0 S.

spgczlef making his first title de- fence, since winnins "10 0'0"" from Eddie (Babe) Rlsko last sum- mer, won with room to spare. He scored the only knockdown of the bong, dropping the negro chal eager for a count of three with a short right to the Jaw in the seventh round, and forced the fight-IRE 10°55 of the n11)‘-

Steele weighed 157 pounds, Jones 153.

Aussies Baffled By Eng. Bowlers

MELBOURNE. Australia. Jun 1-- Anguilla dlsdppoilltcd a PCUO.‘ .1 holi- day crowd of 78,630 today by BOOI- t ing only 81 runs for six wickets in l. the first day's pay o! the W"! cricm test match realm Enshnd- Rltting all day the Antipfldfifllll w"; buried by the clever attack of limgfsndis slow bowlers. the Y0- vamped team showing no more run- getting ability than the eleven that went down to overwhelming defeat in the first two tests at Brisbane and Sydney. victory for Enslsnd m the present encounter wruid Rive

psign. ~ lb 5.11.0.6’! ‘I ""

{he Moms;- counlry the series and .' world cricket honor!-

Wilson of Toronto, in the fifth .

‘ ed a second-round technical knock-

SPORT W

Youngsters To The Fore ‘In Can. Tennis Circles; Tried Favorites Missing

Wilson, with s brilliant string of tournament successes, registered the best achievement east of the Rockies. his main loss being to Longfln in the Quebec semi-finals. He held victories’ over other main figures in the mst, with the exception of Billy Murray of Montreal. whose overseas activities kept him out of the majority of the tourneys.

The new year looms as a "stay-

‘at-home" season, and might go a long way towards unravelling the confused Canadian situation. Over ,seas play has resulted in Murray land Iaird Watt being unrasiked two years running, which naturally does not create general satisfaction. Next summer they will likely stay in Canada and play the major circuits.

Murray's early-season activities at Bermuda. soared his stock sky- wards. But the season as a whole ‘failed to reveal his worth as com- ‘pared to other Canadians though he had s victory over veteran Mar- cel Rainvelle while he scored over McLean of Toronto, in an interpre- vincial maltch.

Wren the 1937 campaign swings around, Rainville will likely be the only remnant o.’ the old brigade still in action. Toronto's leading stars of other years, Walter Martin and Gilbert Nunns. have definitely re- tired from tournament play.

Two promising young players. Lewis Duff of Montreal and Gordon Robinson of Niagara Falls, have an advantageover their-rivals. Duff a. freshman at University of Miami. is bringing along his game during the winter months and Robinson also is keeping in sharps at Univer- sity of North Carolina. .

When they get back for the sum- mer season, they will face such bril- liant youngsters as George Robinson Roger Durivsge of Montreal and Bruce Hail of ‘Dori-onto.

rk Encounter

Gotham Fans; Shields ’ Penalty Is Puzzler

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NEW YORK, Dec. 30 - (AP) — Manhattan's hockey minded citiz- enry was in a. dither tonight over the rousing National Hockey Les- gue “civii war" between Gothams

' home clubs Rangers and, Ameri- cans.

Plenty of goals, fist-lo 008580- , ments, continual lesser fuedinz.

wide open hockey throughout and almost continuous penalty box oc- cupancy kept the crowd of more than 5.000 in a constant uproar last night.

Rangers won 5-1 by blasting four goals into the American net dur- ing the last period but it was the hectic second frame that had the fans, players and officials talking among themselves and to themsel- » ves.

Most argument centred about what type of penalty given Allan Shields, husky Amerlr bsckliner.