championship rink for Quebec ﬂﬁg year is a team from the

1111-: PROVINCIAL Schoolboy Town of Mount

_ Royal. This rink is coached by Bob Haw. 1935- f°1'me!‘ Skip of Regina Cen-

-‘SASKATCHEWAN, which has “won the Dominion Sqhoolboy

Championships ‘seven out

tral Collegiate, the Dominion kins, coach; Peter Nichol, mate; Schoolboy Champions in 1956. Fred Fowler, skip; D. H. Dren- From left to right, Bob Haw- nan, of the Pepsi Cola Company-

of a team from Maple Creek. the this rink from left to right

are

nine years, is represented by Provincial winners. Members of Fred Hansen, skip; Elwood Saw-

Douglas Hagerman, second and, Douglas Lloyd, lead.

by, mate; Kurt Berndtsson, sec- ond and Jim Opsal, lead.

Hunters" Corner

(Continued from page 6) of districts to see what already li has happened—thousand.s of ac- Itlrgs littered with fallen trees, H mammoth brush giles and uproot- I ed stumps dotted here and there ,; skyward in mute prptest—acres .«{where only a few short years I ago an expanse of green spruce

stood banked against a winter skyline or refllected the rays of a summer sun. The Saddest thought of all—it will stay that way beyond the life of our pre- sent generation as a monument to man’s lack of foresight. Na- ture will reproduce tree growth if left on her own but not under those conditions without the aid of man.

REGULATIONS

Regulations under “The Forest- ry Act” effective from Septem- ber 10th, 1951. were instituted as a safe—guard against such a state of affairs occurring. These Reg- ulations are embodied as follows:

1. No persons shall cut more than two acres of forest land or more than twenty cords of pulp- wood or pit props in any calen- dar year without first having ob- tained a permit from the Mini-

ster.

2. Persons requiring a. permit to cut more than two acres of forest land in any calendar year must file an application with the Forestry Division, Department of Agriculture stating;- (a) The area proposed to cut: (b) Total area of woodland.

3. Permits granted shall be in

_a form approved by the Minis-

ter.

4. The Minister may require the person or persons to whom a permit is issued to cut only trees of classes and types which the Minister may define.

5. Any person buying or ship- ping pulpwood or pit props in the province must obtain a lie’-' ense fnom the Department and pay therefore a fee of Five Dol- lars ($5.00).

6. These Regulations are ef-

Back Strech I

(Continued from page 6) Wright was asked to put a price on when he was a two-year-old colt in an Illinois pasture. The price named was $150, but there were no takers.

That falll Peter Manning, the colt referred to, was broken to harness and put in training in the spring of 1919. He started in two or three small races and took a record of 2.17 1-4 at the Wisconsin State Fair. He had been staked at Lexington, where the best in the world gather for the fall race meetings. There he broke the world’s trotting re- cord for three-year-old geldings with a mile in 2.06 1-2 and was sold for a long price - $21,000 to Irvin Gleason of Williamsport,

fective from September 10th, 1951. NOT ENFORCEZ)

As noted by the above the Re- gulations governing the cutting of pulp wood or pit props per- taining to P.E.I. leave little to be desired. They may be clas- sed as effective as it is possible to make them. There was just one flaw—they were not enforc- ed. There is only one safe way of harvesting our forest crop- selective cutting under the super- vision of trained Foresters fol- lowed by a system of _re-plan- ting. In the Scandinavian coun- tries two trees must be planted for every one cut. I know far- mers who have’ woodlots not ex- ceeding thirty acres who have practiced selective cutting for over twenty yearsand they are in better shape and more pro- ductive then -they were at the -beginning. Only mature trees are cut for lumber. If their felling endangers promising second grow 1211' they are by-passed. PROPER HARVESTING For firewood windfalls are first trimmed up and the refuse burn- ed. Trees showing signs of de- ca_y are weeded out and bushy, rmshapen spruce or fir that shuts off the sun from more promising young growth are harvested. Ev- ery season produces another win- ters firewood from culls and the stand grows in value with each passing year. Other woodlot own- ers out a strip clean ‘every win- ter and Its surprising how quick- ly ten or twenty acres vanish and its 3 10112 Wait before the sec- ond crop is ready for harvest.

The power saw is blamed in some .quarters for the current Slump 111 Pulp and lumber pric- es. When the buck saw run by man power was the instrument for cutting pulp wood and lum- ber the demand exceeded the §l1Pp1y and prices were stable and In ‘a more lucrative range brack. et. A good lumberman earned top wages. The advent of the Power saw put good men out of W°1'k but that’s ".e price one must pay for living in a mech- an_1°-91 8-Se. Our woodlands are a ‘Priceless heritage that must be guarded jealously. If not the ex- istence of future generations could be endangered.

Penn. and he joined the stable of Thomas W. Murphy. WAS ILL The following year, Murphy

was ill with stomach ulcers and could not drive, and Peter Man- ning was out of condition, and consequently not raced until late in July. He made a poor show- ing and in a later race was dis- tanced; however, he had been staked in the famous Transyl- vania at Lexington. It was to be raced in October.

Critics were numerous then, as they are today, and all kinds of reasons were given for the poor showing of what was considered a promising trotter. The consensus of opinion was that he was an “in-and-out" horse that could only win when he got the breaks. Walter Cox, who was substitute for Murphy as driver, was reported to have no confidence in him as a win-

and asked to have another dri- ver put up behind Peter. OWNER CONFIDENT

Owner Ivin Gleason did not share the opinions of the detrac- tors of the Peter horse_ and selected Harry Stokes to drive. Harry ‘had never been in the sullcy behind Deter Manning that October afternoon in 1920, but he was given some confidence in the horse by owner Gleason’: emphatic state- ment: “My hoss is‘: good boss, and he’s going to win this~race.” Peter Manning was not the kind of a horse that would impress you with his beauty of style of trotting, but he had a smooth, frictioniless action that seemed effortless, and was very decep- tive to the eye of the onlooker.

To judge his speed, you had to have .a stopwatch. For that reason, the_ bettors were mighty shy of putting their money on Peter. In the race that followed, the favorite was “Nedda” that had gone through the entire season without the loss of a race There were nine entries, and in‘ that old system of rac- ing, a lot of scoring. STUMBLED

Shortly after the word “‘go" was given, Nedda stumbled and lost so much ground that she finished well back in the field. Peter Manning won the heat. In the second heat, Nedda did not stumble and the race was between Nedda and Peter Man- ning; three times in that heat Nedda looked as though she would pass Peter Manning, but Stokes handled him so well that he was first to the wire, and he also won the third and fast- est heat in 2.02 1-2, which ‘broke Mabel Trask’s record for the fastest three consecutive heats trottted in a race.

Credit for Peter Manning's performance must go to Tommy Murphy, who, though too ill to drive. superintended his train- ing, shoeing, and brought him to racing peak at Lexington. It was Murphy who, in the next two seasons, astonished the harness racing world by driv- ing Pete: Manning to a new world’s trotting record of 1.- 57 1-2. The following year, he set the mark at 1.56 3-4. which

ner. Cox believed what he said,-

Saturday, Feb. 15, 1958 The Guardian Page 7

remained unequalled by am’ horse in harness racing for 15 years. The present world’s mark of 1.55 1-4 was made by Grey- hound, driven by Sep Palin, at Lexington. Ky.. in 1938. VARIED STRIDE

A prominent authority writing about Peter Manning, stated that when he took the above record at Lexington. his extreme stride was 20 feet, 6 1-2 inches. He had previously measured Peter's strides at Columbus, Ohio, when he trotted in 1.59, and he believ- ed the difference in the length of the stride, which was 11 1-2 inches. was due to the fact that the Columbus track was very hard, practically a “glaze” and the sharp harrows merely scratched it. There is something to learn from the above observa- tion, and it no doubt accounts for the varying performances of the trotteers and pacers raced over different tracks.

Hugh Ross, the man who did the shoeing and also all thers in the Murphy stable, sai that Peter had wonderfully good feet and was shod with the plainest possible footwear. The shoes he were were a plain six and one-half ounce bar shoe in front with two side clips; behind, he wore a four-and one-half ounce square-toe-cl swedged shoe with trails and turned up heel calks. His toes in front were three and three-quarter inches and the angle was 47 degrees; his hino toes were three and one-half inches, and the angle 52 de- grees. A very light rim pad was used under the front feet on hard tracks. Peter Manning did not wear a boat of any sort, and never wore toe-weights.

In referring to this feature, Murphy said: "I have spent a lot of time in studying the gait of this horse, and it was not until I got him balanced to suit me that I took a chance of doing away with all front leg protection. I did wear hind shin boots on him_ but believe I could have been safe in taking them off."

Thomas W. Murphy is still

Leonard Buck. a multi-million am, who takes great pleasure out of seeing his horses trained and raced. At the HaI‘l‘lSbll1'3 sale, he paid the highest price- $50,ooo . for a yearling that was selected by Mr. Murphy- STOUT PROGENY

Sons and daughters of the great pacing sire Adios establish- ed two new national money-winn- ing records in 1957. the US- trot- ting association has announced. Adios’ progeny earned $1.166.030 last year, topping the f°1'm°l' record of $1,115‘953 set by “ID same sire in 1956. _Two and three-year-olds by Adl0S banked $576,058 against $506,000 9811150 by his get the year before.

The 18-year-old son of Halo Dale made it a clean sweep on the “Triple Crown” for sire! by sending out winners of 464 races. A year ago Adios finish- ed second in that category. Adlol is owned by Meadowlands Farm. Hanover Shoe Farms, and Hempt Farms, and stands It Meadow Lands, Pennsylvania. In each of the money-winning categories, Adios was credited with almost twice as much as the runner-up horse. Knight Dream finished second on the overall list with $605,766. while Hoot Mon was second in the two and three-year-old category with $294,876. Knight Dream and Hoot Mon stand at Hanover Shoe Farms, Hanover, Pennsy- lvania. Adios sires pacers and Hoot Mon trotters.

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