BACK STRETCH

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sin sterday interfered with w?“ wbluld otherwise have been inn banner workout day of the ‘lawn, Upwards of 26 horses rang- ‘mg 1n speed from 2.04 1-4 to $011118" goers being prepped for futuritiea “mild have strutted their stuff had the track been fit. It was a great disappointment to many. For the week the best performance was a mile 1n 2.17 1-2 by Rcal Money 2.09 1-2. No fast miles were trotted but some fairly good halves and quarter; were stepped. (0-1 k me pacers Lady Hal 2.12 1-2 and Raymond Budiong 2.13, owned by Wellington McNeill, gave the fans qune a few thrills with quarters in '30 l~2 seconds and eighths stepped in from l4 l-2 to 15 seconds. These two have shown the most speed exhibited on the local track this season. __Q-i The Summerside program for July 1st will consist of four classes mg promoter MacDonald states that the entry list will be a very largo one which we are confident 15 correct. Entries close June 24th and a bang up day's raclns 0M1 be expected on the Dominica's birth- day.

01- we are pleased to have the fol-

‘ lowing letter from our good friend

Joseph. Knapke, general merchant, Newcastle, N.B., owner ‘of Volrida 2.08 and others. ,‘“1 not-iced in your Back Stretch the results oi the ‘Amherst races in which the three- yerir-old colt Mac Flngo won two heals with the fastest in 1.14. It occurred to me that you might be

mterested i“ klwwing about "h1s‘will hold their annual carnival and

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While technically a. three-year-old he is two years and eight months old and was the first foal of Calu- met Fingo 2.04 to start in a race. He was raised by Dr. Parks of Ox- ford and his dam is the trotting

-marc Dora Mac 2.16, by Captain .Aubrey 2.01 1-4, raced over Mari- ' time tracks for several years and _driven by Jimmie Sanderson. I think you will agree with me that liliis colt for such an age must have flashed sensational speed to pace a half mile so early in the season in 1.14 against aged horses. It indicates very strongly that Calumet Fingo 2.04 has the poss- ibilities of being a great sire.

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As a two and three-year-old he had extreme speed and showed ability to pace under 800d condit- 1011s in two minutes. His full broth- ei- True Abbe 2.08 1-4 by Truax 2.03 1-2 is only nine years old and has-six in the 2.10 list, one of these a ihree-year-old colt, paced lll 2.08 last season.

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Among the colts sired in the Maritimcs by Calumet Fingo are three out of Nancy Carroll 2.05 and ihree out of Brownie Girl. The two- year-old colt out of Nancy Carroll is called Colonel Dan and is owned by Glen Jenkins, who is all wrapped up in him and believes he ts a future champion.

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I believe the racing in the Mari- times will be greatly improved this year due horses imported that have already made reputations. We are looking, forward to Old Home Week and will see you then." .Thanks, Mr. Napke, for your valuable in- formation, and like yourself wie have the utmost confidence in Calumet Flngo as a sire. The breed- ers of America sustained a terrific io=s when they allowed his sire Trunk 2.03 1-2 to leave America for lizily. Two or ihree years after he uzzs sold ihey realized that loss when his colts and fillies started a winning streak that stamped him as a sensational sire,

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Our good friend J. G. Cavanagh of St. John, supplies us with the following items re doings in that vicinity. . . ."An old horseman

~with a. new horse in St. John is George T. Kane, Rockland Road. A lover of our four-legged friends for years he is back in the game with

' the handsome young trotter Billy C. Parker, a golden bay stallion by Parker, who is a full brother of Mae Spencer, dam of Spencer Svoit 1.57 3-4, world's champion trotting stallion.

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1i is quite a. ‘jump from real vsiaia and dogs to horses. but Mr. Kane made it and now has three ihluzs to worry about. I looked the lllvbly buy over today and would say that he would weigh between 000 and ‘100 lbs., has nice clean 1111108. a good disposition and is Rood gnited. Hc was imported to

sl- J01“ by E1001)’ Campbell "OYYRJIME 3°95 t‘) 5- 5- wal-he“ m‘! 5°“ second nohittcr four days after he

the stables of Preihs d: Campbell 0i’ lllnois. Pbaled in 1941 he is technically a three-year-old. It is Mr. Kane's intention to have him remain a stallion because his breed- in! is so good, his dam being Tennis 2.07 1-2 by Belwin 2.06 3-4 and his Kranddam is ’I'hrillworthy by Ax- worthy,

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In recent issues of the Guardian I have read with interest of the New Brunswick owned horse that made such a. good record on Am- erican tracks. I refer to Bill Sharen 2.04 1-2. The man that recommend- Ed the breeding that produced Bill fllaren is still living in St. John. He is John O'Neill, a follower of the harness horse lame all his life. iimdfll’ in Fredericton he was

trotting mare Nl-"Wsy w. 221 1-2 to owwn

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SUIIIIERSIIIE IIUBSE BABES

DOMINION DAY JULY 1st

Willard MacDonald Secretary

t‘) me numemus new~drchard Beach and for Gorham,

‘Aubrey 2.01 1-2, then owned by the Nova Beotia government and, locat- ed at Truro, N5.

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Arrangements were made by the late Tom Hayes and when the re- sulting foal arrived everyone near and far was interested in it. Mr. O'Neill caught his first glimpse when it was a few dsys old and you can imagine the interest with which he followed the racing of Bill Sharon over Maritime tracks, where he always won, and later on on the Grand Circuit, then through the Bay State Circuit and finally through the Maritime Circuit again.

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Mr. O'Neill was a formefi baker and member of the St. Joh police force and is now retired to merit a. well earned rest, but he is still interested in horses and has made several trips to Old Home Week races at Charlottetown." Thanks, Mr. Cavanagh. and we hope you and Mr. O'Neill and all our other St. John friends will be with us again this year.

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The 'I‘ruro Driving Association plans a big race meet for July 1st with entries closing July 23rd. Classes one Free for All Trot and Pace, purse $350, 2.14 ‘Irot and Pace, 2.18 Trot and Pace, 2.20 Trot and Pace, all $300. purses. Two scc- onds allowed trotters in mixed races, The track is under its old management with 1". O. McCurdy, Secretary,

z-Qi 1". D. J. Graham, Secretary of the St. Croix Driving Club, St.

Stephen, N.B., writes us that they

race meet the week of August 17th,, following Charlottetcwns Old Ho Week. Quite a number of horses are trained and owned in st. Steoh-l en and vicinity and at one time in April ten head were being prepped over the track. The latest arrival is Lawyer Grattan 2.08. owned by Roy Creamer. He took part in 18 races last season and had winning brackets in five. and is eligible to the 2.15 pace. Classes

be announced later on. i}:

A horse that is attracting a lot of attention at Gorliam, Maine, half-mile track is Ben Hur 2.02 3-4, owned by A. S. Pratt, Barrington, Mass. Formerly campaigned as a. pacer then tried out on the trot without success, a change in shoe- ing did the trick and he became almost overnight a steady, depend- able. fast trotter that went on from victory to victory until he fin- ally landed with a record of 2.02 3-4 in a winning event at the clos- ing Grand Circuit meetiniz of 1942 at Lexington, Kentucky. This year he 1.. staked extensively and pre- dictions are that he will join the two-minute list.

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Maine horsemen claim that it is their state that started Kentucky in the trotting horse business only to lose its prestige to the more climatically favored Blue Grass state. This season a new interest- has been generated in trainingl racing and breeding trotters and! pacers. The entry list for the Grand Circuit meeting at Old

Bangor and Skowhegan programs will be heavy. t-oi

Of 456 individual trotters and pacer; named in stakes over these tracks fully 75 percent are Maine owned and a large number Maine bred. Maine also boasts one of the largest, if not the largest harness racing stables of speed in the world, owned by the well known Sullivan brothers and Mawhlnney of Machais. They have between 25 and 30 trotters and paoers and 15 of these are staked generously. This big string of speed is split among two trainers. Those that follow the Grand Circuit will be in

er Vic Flemming, while the re- mainder will as last year be trained and raced by Franklyn Safford who won the United States Trotting As- sociation award as the United States leading race driver of 1942. M?

Our readers will remember some of the horses raced by the Machais, ‘horsemen last year such as the well known Dusty Hanover 1.50 1-4, that set a. new mark for pacing stallions the year previously. and Supreme Hal as the year's break- er oi’ the three-heat. record for three-year-old pacers on a half-

mile track. .io__ Among the Maine horsemen that‘ have been successful breeders of t race horses in recent years firsti

Wendell. Three of their home breds, Volo I-L, five years old. Mighty 11., three, and Scotty 1-1., two, are stak- ed ln all the worthwhile stakes in Maine and vicinity. All are sons of ' the famous Eula H. 2.06 3-4 that was raced with such signal suc- cess by Billy Keycs for years. Dale l-L 2.08, another of the Wathan breed, was sold last fall to Walter Hennessey of Charlottetown, P1311.

We note where Chestnut Bars 2.06 is the first entry in the Shaw- inigan Derby to be raced at Shaw- inignn Falls, Quebec, on July 18th. ‘Ihere are nine other entries. In the 2.28 Trot and Pace the slant ex- trotter Remus 2.04 1-4, now on the pace, is an entry with nine others.

-o-_ George Mar-oii of Montreal, its added mother fnee-for-aller to t_ e fountains campaigners by H 1 n e goo pacer Indy enley 2.0a 1-2. This mere is eligible t:

fonn-aaess was won in 2.08 3-4, to Hope Worthy Ice, Brady Han- over am five others.

for st. Stephen's big race meet will flel

the stable of the ex-Canadian train- boo“

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wuss, NI. Later on that year Brady Hefner 2m 1-4. Addie Ion- took resold . lover 2.011 -l, Edie 0. Grotto: 2 t, 8-4 and Ole!

THE ETOWN GUARDIAN

SPORTING saws

i Phillies In Ist Division Following 10-8 Victory

1M1 the second time the YMCA-Navy clash had to

ins week

be postponed when the playing field last night was unfit to play on due to the unseasonable weath- er. Just when 1t will take place is not definitely known but it will likely be Monday night as there is no game scheduled until Tues- day night neiit. ‘

118st night's game was beins eagerly looked forward too also. Navy giving the best display of any team to date in the league in their victory over the Army squad Thurs- day night were being installed the favorites t.o take the measure of the league leaders. but now that will all have ‘tosivalt.

And those who were installing the “Tars" as the better team had a lot of sound arguments to go by. No doubt about it that Navy team of Thursday night would have forced any team to the limit before bowing to them,‘

In fact followers of the game the past years reckoned their per- formance was _1ust as good as any they have witnessed since the ame was first played here. It was almost next to impossible to knock

on

ma; a ball through an airtight infield

while the outer-gardeners were 511811118 everything that came their way in high class fashion.

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’I'hen offensively the sailors were knocking the ball to all corners of the lot. Every blow they garnered off the Army hurler were solid smashes that travelled like bullets to open spots in all corners of the d. Army never really had a diance and they themselves, al- though playing wiih a - revamped lineup due to departure of several of their men from the City, tum- ed in an A-1 performance espec- ially in the latter half of the battle, turning in two fast double plays, the first twin killing of the season. in their defensive perform- ance. '

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They also showed two hurlers with plenty of ability. Both Ball- antyne and Gow possess tricky fast deliveries and gave promise of giv- ing any hitting they come up against plenty of competition. Y are regarfed as the hardest hitting team in the league but they will have their eyes peeled all the time if they are going to get solid smashes over the brand of hurling the Navy promises to throw against them.

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No-hitters are harder on and icam-mates than on pitchers, says Johnny Vander Meer, who should know. He gained baseball fame by hurling two such games in five days.

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Johnny was recalling those two consecutive no-hit, no-run victor- ies today, the fifth anniversary of the second game. .

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By pitching a no-hitter June 11, 1938, against Boston and on June 15 against Brooklyn at night, Van- der Meer, ilien o. 23-year-old Gin. cinnati freshman, set a major lea- gue record. Never before or since has a major league pitcher elbow- ed two no-hittcrs consecutively, or even in one season.

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Baseball immortality, even in the minds of the game's immortals, fades quickly and the husky blond left-hander had no idea it was five years ago he made the record

O I I "It's water over the dam," he grinned. Was he harassed by fears or doubts as the hitless innings stretched longer and longer o

“No, I wasn't. Personally, I think those games were harder on the fans or the boys on the bench than on me. You see, 1 figured I had the second no-hit game in inv lap and I figured ‘What the hark. if they do get a hit, \\".~~‘ " -'- about it?‘ And the answer, of course, v ‘nothing’, Bcsccs J. u... .. work off my nervousness by pitchlng._ The fans and the rest of the team just had to sit and‘ take‘ it.

"I know, because in Syracuse one season 1 sat on the bench and saw Whitney Moore going for his

pitched the first. They didn't get a. hit off him until the seventh. That was a scratch, just ticked off iliieufielderh glove. I thought I'd de. . . _

In his own second game "I re- member 1 didn't use a curve ball until the sixth inning. For the first five I used nothing but fast balls. then the last four I started throw- ing lofs of curves?‘

Johnny hurt his arm in 1940 and was off form for several months, but he did show a flash of his freshman brilliance in foss- ing a one-hitter against Philadel- phia the next season."

Against Mort Cooper, of the Car- dinals, he opened ihe Cincinnati home season this year with a two- hit shutout victory, then picked up another two-hitter several qnys

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park with a nine-run explosion, and went on w knock off the the bums 10-8 at Brooklyn.

This lifted the "phantastic Phils" into the National league's first division. since Pittsbumh 108l- also marked the fifth straight setback-the seventh eight starts-for the desperatc Dodgers,

and left them with just a slim one- game hold on second lace. the fvlnp

Cincinnati Reds go over Pittsburgh's uccaneers as they opened a four-game series at Pittsburgh by taking a, 1-0 decision in l4 innings behind superb hurl- ing by Ra Starr.

Lonnie rey‘s triple, his third hit of the afternoon an intentional pass to Iilstel Crabtree and Gee Walkerss run-scoring single broke up the game.

wictory.

Great Track, Field Show For Week-End

NEW YORK. June 18 —(AP) - Track and field's greatest show in many a year will be staged here ic- mormw and Sunday when the pick of American athletes plus Sweden's great Gunder Haegg come together

Senior championships.

The 21 junior events and three of the senior numbers—1,500 and 10,000-metre runs and LOOO-metre walk-will be decided tomorrow. The remaining 18 senior champion- ships will go on the block Sunday with l-laesk. world record holder at seven distances from 1,500 to 5,000 metres, making his American debut against Ensign Joseph Gregory Rice, the United States’ premier distance runnea and unbeaten in his last 65 starts.

Haegg and Rice will contest the issue over 5,000 with itie slim Swedish see favorite to take the crown worn by Gregor! the last five years.

Off comparative times, I-Iaegg figures to leave the little barrel- chested Notre Dame alumnus far behind. ‘but backers of Rice say he has never been tested outdoors.

Lance faster than 14:33.4. That was in 1940.

baseball

NATIONAL

Philadelphia l0; Brooklyn l. Cincinnati i; Pittsburgh 0. New York 6; Boston 8.

AMERICAN

Boston 3; New York 1. St. Louis '1; Detroit 4. Washington 4; Philadelphia I.

HTERNATIONAL

Buffalo 8; Newark 3. Rochester l0: Jersey City 0. Toronto '1; Baltimore 8.

CITY OF PARKS There are about 100 parks in Buc- nols Alres, largest city of Latin Am- er ca.

he was trying particularly to equal his 1938 record. "You never know," ‘he described that subtle baseball item called stuff, "One day you got it. the next day you‘ haven't."

Sweden's sensational Gunder Haegg, whose seven world records stamp him one of the greatest foot-runners of all time. lfldlcflwfl today that his eagerly awaited Am- erican campaign may climax his

career. e o o

tested fixture of the Knights of Columbus Softball league,

all the way with the Aces leading until the fifth inning. All Stars forged ahead but in the last half of the ninth had the bases loaded when they were which put two men out caused con- siderable argument.

end, will be between the Hitrights and the Royals.

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in the National A.A.U. Junior and 811m

Haegg‘s world record is 13:541.: W’ rmsiwhile Rice never has run the dis-

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_ . i . . glvahgimggiggggxggiéetgggfli» 1;,- All Stars $;:::.".'.i¥_t":; was 2- m "o;- wi P-ig- — gO-gfgb-ii-w-d tically llfiew the Dodgers cube?! the "Hlecwd" no erg) _ urge '

Defeat Aces

The All Stars defeated the Aces 18-15 last night in a closely con-

Tha game was close and exciting ‘Rien the the losers the decision

retired. But

The next game, over the week-

$500,000 In Benefit Program

Baseball wheeled out its big guns for an all-out war relief barrage to- day and "head gunner" Kenesaw Mountain Landis aimed them at a $500,000 target for the diamonds 3-day benefit program this summer

12111011311 National league Presid- ent Ford Prick, baseball's high oom- missioner outlined plans for the games first “united relief card and announced that he hopes the eight es each on June 30 and July 28 and the All Star game in Pldladel- phis. will produce that amount.

All receipts in both leagues for

those days will be dropped into the pot, from which the first $100,000 will go to the bat-and-ball fund and the rest tc various relief agencies, Yo be announced later. This year's set-up marks the first time baseball has plotted such an all-out united program. Last year, the relief games were scattered ar- ound both leagues on various days and with two all star teams prod- uced slightly more than $500,000.

P. W. C. WINS AND LOSSES

The newly-formed Prince of Wales College softball team played two games during the week. They de- feated a team from Queen Square School 22-12, coming from behind a 9-0 lead with late-inninlgn oat- i e

Zion W.M.S. Annual Meeting

Women's Missionary Socfety recently _ church the following slate of of ficers were elected:

McDougaB. 1'

ing were given: Annual 1T1) the secretary; finiiiiciiil l‘l‘]lLii'l Mrs. Alfred Afflcrk; si " report hy Miss financial report of t‘ . Band by Miss Laura. King.