FEBRUARY 26-2214.

AFTERNOON AND NIGHT

‘A DAY

TO- DAY

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OF ENJOYABLE SKATING YOUR BIG DAY

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- ' ' ' er-Maritime lce rac- 1},°,,,‘,’,“...‘§‘i..t., the worst storm me season hnd caused post- em9n1 Wednesdays and

mrarsdayg races until yesterday noon, over sixty members of

lmrflplifax and Dartmouth Driv- Clllb5 clinic over to lend their pm fllld welcome presence to n. The officials of the

‘lying Club, sponsors 0!

. ., .11 ~un smoothly and Wagelrlilrelrllfil lthe history vi’ the Mil in the Maritimes was there Fpetter class of horses brought together for an ic: raclnl m9“-

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111 Wliu is a partial list of mggilsehtgegflillg. . . . Fred Laney. we Tumor, Don Turner, Gco- . Dartmouth. Jack Scott. RI‘. 11115511 gyrll Dauphinee, H. Mac- .. ‘iu. Griffin, Home. p1.’ walker, Sam We er. Ch"- ' Walker, Barney Emmy. Phil olsky. Tom Watson. Frank Pep- . Jack Mclnnis. Gordon Mitch- ,'acorge Sharks O. V. Kennedy 1y clldinore. t scallion. Pat Layers, . , a Andrew. Jr.. lllvlthe. Harry Goodman. Wal- .. Johnston, Ro Kidney, Harold 110p, Al Hodgns. Bill Savoy. ‘ Flynn. Claude OT-Iearn, Bill crlllclislianxs, I. R. Rilpley. Will “sq-once, George C arke, H. wdsde, all from Halifax. and will jardine. Chathflm- _ -_0-_. fired J. E. Wright. Secretary of t. Prince Edward Island Harn- Racing Club, Sunlmersid». P. l. 1., reminds all owners of youth- . ‘trotters and papers that the lid payment of the 1044 two. es and iour-year-old Futurity takes will be due March lst and mist bc sent to him. Otherwise U15 may cannot be accepted. The mar tiling to do in I. case of this is to do it now-memory is iilctrtain iind those possessing Ill eligible candidate should not ne- llalt the matter j0__-

Elmer Ferguson. Sports Editor tliile Montreal Daily Herald. riots voice is heard every Satur- iiy EVEIIIILZ giving the three star idection on the hockey program litllil Toronto. has the following hills column. ..“Ernie McKenzie. dull tlf sport in Pictou. NS. is in itrll ior oiie oi his periodical vis- its and smouldering slightly be- nllse Kiiigstoil instead of Halifax ns ciloscll as the l site for the llttkcy Hall of Fame. Ernie's son lby. overseas. recently was beat- m by a whisker in the 220 yards tleilt ill 1'1 3-5. which is stepping. lie will overhaul any Nazi- Bsltept Rommeli-going at that t:

‘o? lliloh C. Lasbury. one of the prominent New Eliglanders in the illness horse sport oi 25 years Ill. passed away on February llth ll Hartford. Conn. As a young llll lic took up tobacco growing W llirfliilzh time enlarged his op- eritions until he had a 500 acre llliniatioll in Connecticut, with as iiany as ‘.100 acres under crop Elly and lit: became one of the ling packers of cigar leaf in ill western states. He. owned and Med a great many horses. the mast notable of which was Furl l1». 2.01 1-2. a magnificent grey Mist that was “one of the top- ittcllers of the Grand Circuit ior “lily yours. Bo *0‘- me idea of his quality may ‘Pilstheljed from the fact that he “l 99 limes) first or second and will’ Plkht times back of fourth "My ill 129 starts. His total win- lliizs were over $40,000. Other fast ""1" Cfllllpflisners owned by Mr. bllrl’ were Ethel Chimes. 3.01- Battle King 2091-4 and Ardell 12- i0 (lllotc a few i“? “Tilt; ilt-o-ycar-old son of a mill} clllinlpion. Rick. by Billy irc. 1.5a. out of Del Frisco 3. (lied at the ho e of his , Frankfort ... T o youfigster gave 0f being avatar perform- thc loss to the" turf is great.

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(Fix milk‘ Luccllle. N'.Y., is annually 1m “l?” 0i programs of ice rac- m lit draw large numbers of ‘ climfi- At a recent race meet. u s ‘if! A Pace was won by An- lm Mn straight heats. best time mm“ - lass B Pace by m“); C. Grattan, best time my G and the Class C. by Wor- rattan. best time 1.10.

c‘ _ _..Q_ 1 “Milli? brick in retrospect "lcmilryls pages the writ- ,“ acgénbcrs when as a boy I mnm 600d an afternoon off to ior ire b“ ‘P0 races on the Har- emu‘ l’ ‘llygfigploycr, the litslte m", ‘- - o o ie "renzhlllllt I rc

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9 was a ‘Maui M “$3219?!

“"80 concourse of the races were milc

Liter m, “Tilt (o1- jcnurmmd 191i, a great czursc (t7 "will; came in and _ ts as shortened to ha". ' favorite soot was off

: dista.‘ s when "f W" shortened up to

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quarter miles. the same as they were racing at Mars Hills. Maine. One of the reasons for cutting down the distance was that it was found too difficult to keep 111111. mile tracks open while quarter miles could be cleared with loll- parative ease __oi

One of the most peculiar race meets was held Just at the head of the railway wharf only a. few d s prior to "ie disappearance oi the ice. People standing on the wharf watching tho sport expected the participants to disappear at any minute and many holes were actually punched through the ice. TLe horses raced in lanes and p0- sltions were drawn for each heat because some lanes were so full holes it. was considered the only fair way of overcoming that dif- ficulty. There was lots oi excite- ment and I believe Devilish Dor- othy, owned by the late Dr. J.T. Jenkins, proved the ultimate win- ner.

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Another time a race was being held the latter part of the season and one oi the out of town ent- rants who was moving a house over the ice, left it to take part in the race. On his return the house had disappeared. It is a fact, truth is stranger than fiction! The above little incidents are Just to show the youn men of today that they have no ing on the old- timers when it comes to enthus- iasm for the sport. Yes, a lot of kick has been gotten out of ice racing and it has helped immeas- urably to drive away the dullness which winter wraps around us.

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In three stalls at Orlando. Flor- ida. is exactly $46,000. worth racing material. In the first is King's Counsel 2.00 for which E. J. Baker paid $20,000. last sum- mer. Next tn him is the two-year- old col‘- Algiers by Volomite, which drew $15,000 as a yearling at Wal- nut Hall Farm sale last. fall. In the next stall is the two-year-old pac- ing filly Mighty Lady, for which Baker paid $10,000 at the same sale. Unfortunately both colts ran to "flu" or similar illness which set them back a bit. but now they are getting along just fine.

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Henry H. Knight, the man who bred Greyho nd 1.55 i-4 and mnny of the reatest trottiers and pacers in the land and still breeds trotters and pacers, set a world's record recently by buying the largest single purchase of thor- oughbred horses in the world. Mr. Knight purchased the entire thor- oughbred holdlngs of the late Em- erson F. Woodward of Valdina Farms in Texas, one of the world's largest thoroughbred states. There were 149 in the group and the amount of money involved will run close to half a million dollars. It. is stated that Mr. Knight may purchase another farm at Lexington where he will bring the best oi the thorough- breds. He already has Almahurst. which is managed by Marvin Childs. the man who piloted Hal Bov 2.00 l-Z to victory on so many

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Harness horse papers in the United States as far west as Indi- anapolis carry a complete report of the Charlottetown. P. E. I. ice races, so the news goes far afield.

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Mcdicos oiiicr than our good friend Dr. R. P. Seaman find rec- reation from the great strain which operating involves. by hav- ing horses as a hobby. At Roches- ter. Minnesnta. Dr. H. I. Lillie- widely known specialist at the Mayo Clinic. has four head of the best bred trotters and pacers in the United States. These he helps train and exercise whenever op- portiinity from his strenuous work permits.

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"But the best laid pin-list)! mice and mcil gang aft agley Whw file Storm King takes a hand and it certainly was a real storm that blocked streets and roads and cov- cred the ice lanes which the hor- ses were to race over. However. through the kind offices of the government and city. snow plows were put to work early Friday morning and by noon liad the course ship shape and ready 1°? the meet. An account oi the races appears elsewhere on this page.

Remember When

(By The Canadian Press) Harry Greb. three-year killg of the middleweight: was drilirfilii-‘d is years ago tonight by Tiler Flow- ers of Atlantic in o i2-round bolit at New York's Madison Square Garden. Flowers. who became the first negro to hold the division title lost to Mickey Walker the same your and died shortly afterwards.

Ii. ll. l.. Schedule

There are four National Hockey League mes scheduled for th week en . wo tonight Ind W" °" sundily night. Playing tonight l" Boston at Canadiens and Chicago

at. Toronto. On Sunday night Ca- nadians play at Detroit and Rim- llers at Ohicll0.

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THE GvARPlélN

aPO-RTING NEWS

[gland Horses Win Both ' Over 200 In Attendance

l Maritime Championship ‘Events In Meet Yesterday

The inter-maritime ice racln lihmltlllllllshlps 411d supporting pro! gram which had been the talk of Maritime horsemen fur the pas-t. month or more was concluded yes. WPd-ily evening. Yes. the shades of‘ lllifht were tolling when the tired bunch of horsemen and officials. who had been at it from l o'clock _ in the afternoon finally called it a day. finishing nt 7-30 p.m. Original. ‘ly planned for Wednesday and ihursday afternoons the wnoie pio- ilrarii. arranged by the Victoria DFll/IIIR Gill-ll, 710d to be compressed into 0m bill AIIEBL, as horsemen from Dartmouth and Halifax wish- ed to return to their business for Monday.

If. W35 fl Zféltt crowd of people that gathered iiloiig the well-bank- ed confines of tile sti'ip_ of clear track lard out on harbor ice off Cut Street. borne estimates placed the number cf petiole who actually viewed the races at one time or ano- tlicr dtmng the afternoon alt be- tween 1.50.) and 2.000.

In the excitement of the finishes, when horses were battling head to head and d.I'1V9l'c'._Wli.Il arms up- raised were shouting 11nd teaming for very life. it took the joint ef- forts of officials and Mounties to

keep a clear path for the contending- stee It was an afternoon tha ill be long remembered. The air.

flurrles for two days and iookedl ominous in the morning. cleared up shortly after I p.m. and the sun shone in all has glory. lhOBxht of for making‘ the meet a success had been wor the VICDOIIB. Club but, due to file sticky trick. i1 problem confronted1 them that of f of shoes by held up the cham- pibnshlp pace on two occasions when Rainey (i, Henley. well

shoe and later a hind shoe. In the other events there were casualties of a nature and busted tires and broken hflIIlESS and all the thins! that so with the excitement of a. me t.

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vhegi these things are brtush- an ac only is "- of it will reman for all time as a most memorable sczies of contests in which the almost over- looked-two months ago-Peter Budlong, bought for o. amateur, treated for lameness by him and given idle kindest possible care. emerged as a championship ice pacer of the ftiaritlmes. Due ere. dit mist also be given to his driver,

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two championshi

to dispose of and when the smo e of battle had cleared away it was found that the trotting champion- ship had come also to the Garden‘ of the Gulf with I-Inl Britton. the ex-new Glasgow and ex-New Brun- swick trotter whining. yet sharing part of the iaurcls with Pull Moon.

Hal Brlttons owner is Lee Chag- pell and the driver again was I e Moreside.

Class A Pace

In the class A pace Aubrey Dillon. ed and driven by Don Turner of Dartmouth nad too much step for the others Competition come from the Halifax-owned F-lo Direct who finished 2 2 at Dillon's wheel. Island entries, Nell Cochatodale and Jane Harvester raced well.

Class B Paco

‘This was s slLlDflSe race in that the winner Singin’ Sam was so lightly regarded that he changed hands yesterday. Wcll McNeill be- ing the purchaser. Claude O'Brien. who was one of the first to get the key to this erratic pacer, was put up behind him and rafter losing the first heat w Major Bowes and Miss America he was out ahead in gcod style the next. two and won the race. Major Bowcs won the first heat in close finish from Miss Am- erica. Walter Brown. the Dart- mouth entry was 4 4 4.

Claus C Trot

The class C trot was a good race with four emrics. Jaunitn Axwor- thy. recently pumhased by Vernon Proude from ‘l-‘red Turner had too- much step for the others. although Plaiydale pushed closely. The time in both heats was 3i seconds.

Close to 1200 ocopltl vrere tcndance nt the Queen Square School Ice Sports held at the tForum last llifintfllid each and ever-y one of the big crowd came ‘away thoroughly satisfied with the skating performances plit on by the pupils from the S-ycnr-olds up to the open events Again manly of the performers showed plenty ska- ting ability, with the majority of the finishes being of the blanket

variety. 1 Lloyd Martin, smooth 15-year- ,old s afcr captured Illa. D0‘. F. C. Dougan Trophy. for the best oil- round skater competition when he chalked up 26 points n ht's program o add just that much more suc- cess io the evening Queen Square upils saw their favorites .fhe Q S. . hockey team, skate to a 6-2 vic- tory over the Keiisingwn team in the animal feature of the fliorta. _ Queen Square took a 2- lead in ltlie first period; increased it to 5-0 by the cnd of iile second; and af- ter adding a goal in the early part of the third for their sixth score of the night were set bnck on their heels n tho latter stages as Ken- slngton hittin their stride pumped ‘in wo goals game. C. Dowling led the Queen Square tack as he performed the hat trick by s ng the

iaimml puck into the draperies three times duriru the

ame viii-h W shepherd getting gm and L. Martin opening the sc in the first period. Moly- neaux although not scoring assists on five uf his teams goals for a standout performance

Kelly and Woodsidc were the lumen for the visiting Kensing-

ma!‘ “on team. kllbllowing we the resuits of the a even : a Balance: N. Wilson anJ 1i. tin; I B. MwDonaH and I.

I Mar- Mm-

which horses and drivers

‘(irrheat battle ltnd fast time resul e Cluistie Budlong. owned by James Shaw of Cardigan and driven by James Arbing was the winner. Nan- cy Budio

liad to be drawn. Virginia Kalmuck, with snow i made up the Pcmiiiiidci: of the field

Every arrangement that could be events two firsts took the race. ed out by i meet deserve the greatest credit for

ROD] “BX; timers. Stan Mathesori.

tholuzht of as a winner, lost a front (1.11: course and announcer,

Tile Well McNeill. Charlottetown.

Tracey Hanover (J, semi)

feen Competition Features

Q. S. S. Annual Ice Sports

in at- Millltn; 3. M. Martin and B. Hen- 1 ncssey.

during the M

fore the end of the forwards

drW Woodlngton

Trotting U‘ pionship

Great interest was taken in this race because of the presence of Al- Vlll Gil)’. a trottcr with a lot of re- putation frcm Maine that had been

rought t/o Dartmouth some months agO. Then again many pinned their faith to Full Moon, that Over a a gllber surface was timed in bet- ter than 30 seconds. Sticky track may have been n handicap but any- how Full Moon won the first heat lil 31 seconds iind forced Hal Brit- ton to trot the next three heats at an average of 301d seconds. The old warrior, Heather-belle. answering to 1'1 years. and campaigned since a WN-year-oid out up a. great battle and Alvin Guy also raced well

Class B ’t‘rot and Pace

This was the final event on the program and despite the long wait had to endure to take pnri. they put u J1

besutiflillrl-aaited trcticr.

r18, Les) Praughfs good seer was a close second the first eat but met with an accident and Bud the Tramp and Mr. Tilley and all wont rt very creditable race. In the championship trot and pace the rule was that a horse had to win three heats. In the other

The officials who handled the

the way it was conducted and for thew strict attention to their duties. They were: starter, R. Ab- bott: Judges. H. Murphy, Cleve neon. Gordon Mitchell, If

ton Bell. Dr. RC. Dougan. clerk of W. H. awn

SUMMARY

Championship Par-q

Peter Etxlio (I, Moreside) I R0, al Jim ( . Kelly) 3 Ra ey G. Henley (Pat Lav )

4 San Ton (G. Turner) 2 Time: 30%, 30%.», 31.

The inn h is ed b Ed. ooln.‘.l‘l‘olf.fllli.iteio°w‘lif‘ '

Class A Pace

Aubrey Dillon (D. Turner) 1

Flo Direct (Walker) z

Nell Coohatndale (S. Walker) 3

Jane Harvester (C. O'Brien) 4 Time: 3i. 3'3.

The winning horse is owned by Don Turner of Dartmouth.

Class B Pace

Si in’ Sam (C. O'Brien) Ma m" Bowes (I. Moreside) America. (P. Lovers) Walter Brown (G. 'I‘u.rner) Time: 32. 32. 311i.

3 1 l 3 2 2 4 4 winning horse is owned by

Class C Trot

Jaunita. Axwortliy (V. Pmude) l!)

l Playdale (W. Kell 2 3 4 4 3

Nancy Edwards (O. Jardine) E2

The winning horse is Vernon Proude. Brackley.

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Trotting Championship

Hal Britton (I. Moresitle) 2 1 Full Moon (W. Kelly) 1 Heatherbelle (Kidney) 3 Alvin Guy (Tuner) 4 Time: 3i. 31, 3015. 30.

Thi- winiling horse is owned by Lee Chappeil. Covelicad.

Class B Trot and Pace

Christie Budlong (J. Ai-blng) Virginia Kalniuck (B. Younke

Bud the Tramp (C. O'Brien)

Mi‘. Tilley (L. Kelly)

Nancy Budlong (L. Prnught), 1 d Time: 31 3i".-

The winning horse is owned by James Show of Cardigan

1 1 2 2 3 4 4 3

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1 2 3 4 I‘.

Under 9 years: l. J. Morgan; 2. D. Super: . . L aphie.

Accuracy Race: i. M. MacKenzie; 3. A. Zakein; 3. H Doyle.

0 years old: i. D. Doyle; 2. W. Dunn; 3. R. Hcniiessey.

l0 years old: 1. C. Ready; 3. R. Costello; 3. J. Hayes.

Relay Race: Won by Grade X.

Potato Race: l. L. Martin; 2. B. lviacDonald: 3. Bennett MacDon- a Quarter Mile Open: 1. L. Mari-in;

2. H. ‘nlainor; s. l). MacDonald. - 1 J. Shepherd; 3. L. Kay

s. . L Henncssey- I. ; 3. T Harper. ' 13 years old: 1. B. MacDonald :2. B. McNecly. 3. L. Shepherd. nBacéwagitfu Rhine: lilldhTrrizmor; 2. en ac la . . a . Mlttycaiés tfldérl. rtnzakeml I. M. a n: . . iv i i5 years olti: lful... Martin; I. H. ‘Prainor; 3, D MacDonald. '

Hockey Idneuos: -

Q 8.8. Goal. Haushey; defence, Martin. Wilson. McNeil]. L. White; . Dow ng. Shepherd Mo esux Coyle. McKenzie, H. Tm‘ or. . McKenzie Remington: Goal. K . defence. , side,_,,, 8am le: forwar , Kelly, Ran kenne y, McQuaid. Mobeasl. Saunders. A. McLean, C.

McMahon A: ood

Referee: Walter Lswlor. SUMMAIN I'll-st Period

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Horsemen ’s

Greetings from Mayor John E Lloyd of Halifax to Island Horse- men were read by Mr. Mitchell of Halifax at the big Horsemen: ban- quet at the Charlottetown Hotel last night held in conjunction with the inter-Maritime ice race meet- lllg wiileii was held yesterday a!- ternoon over the speedway off Victoria Ptsrk.

His Worship Mayor Lloyd sent his best wishes expressing the hope that the meet would be an out- standing sucwss. The message was greeted with rounds of applause and showed plainly the good fell- owship that exists between mcm- bers of the Halifax and Dartmouth Clubs and the Victoria and Brack- ley Point Clubg of the Island,

As on past occasions last night's get - togethrn- was another huge succes as well over 200 horse lov- ers sat down around the festive board and witnessed the presenta- tions of silver trays to the own- ers of the two championship hor- ses, Peter Budlong. pacing king and Hal Britten king of the trctt- ers during the meeting. Ed Downe