amide Smith at Hunter River

15. member of one of the Is- ) land‘s best known harness racing families. His father Cyril Smith Ind his brother Elmer Smith are .1” two highly rated drivers;

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Glarkie, only 21 years old, was the top driver during the recent- ly concluded Old Home Week meet. He scored 81 points to lead all rivals. He drives for Stanley May-how. *

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the writer had‘the pleasure of ﬁnding the races at Sackville ~ I Race-way. near Halifax} gay night. And with some. at thousand others. we saw v y tine nace rogram. ring the at can in com— . with Jack Cruikshank“. an- " oi the plant, we we *ed. . ...ou.gh the stables. shook ‘. t driver acquaintendes. care- and got a good idea of whole setqu. The owners

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2 improvements which 'ncludes

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i- lon capable of parking sev- . thousand cars. The metric V miles them the city of Hali- .= but that. dirﬂference doesn't ‘ seem very much in a car over

L h'good Md. 1 I 1\ ll WN ‘5 , his event'oi' tine night was a .000 Colonel Dan Free-For- 1 Same, which had six starters: f ht e of theme—Newport Chief—- ’ to be drawn tram the final (list The battle was between Moran that had set a track Voi2.06ashonttimepre- y. and Dave Grattan in the heat; with Frenchman win: It'll in 2.07 2-5. Frenchman is ' (Mal and driven by James Giv- Q. Wax. Dave Gnattan (D. W}. Jdley Lad (El-’Stm'ith)

8. _ . "fem. manager). other) band W Tm’tip. A tehdlordlfﬁ. In: 1 ,,second heat of the event 1 Lad. driven by El- mttunui. that battled with not; ten to the ﬁnishfwith I Dav rif'wimaing by a length.- Jet Van third. Frenchman I» L and Slick‘ér Tass fifth. i~w.‘7dllieif was drawn. The

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: lineman» 125. - . "Nit-unease , . ' Dive Grottan. owned by the L, :' “Hi. Stable. Halifax. and driv- ? “1 it! Doug Walsh. was the win- ". “er/Of the trophy with the best

WW'Walsﬁ'is considered one oi "‘9" ' ' capable reinsmen at .éDDwns.Hewasbornm .145. mm 31. 1933., so 1, yeargLact year he. .7107 starts, was 18 times .10.» times o second and 17 ' ‘vMﬂN-ﬂﬂ $2784. . 7 our winners on the orng has 1 and 4—Abne‘r Mc- » G [.1‘" ,Oampbeil) :.14. Just. ' ,. :3 Walshl 5.1. Betty French w I). 2.2. Leon Spahgier '7 "In 4-3. four' other star- lime 2.13 4-5 and 2.14 1-5; - McGraw owned by Dr. G. ec'. Elm, Charlottetown, Just 3". “"3 (Mined by the Cruikshank : “NBS. Halifax. : Races 2 and 6. .Wavchamp (D. '7 w‘bhll-l. Royal Onyx (J. Mac- “msorl- 2a Flaming why (L. . . erl 3~2. Wait For Me (More- _, EH”) 4-4. three other starters. .' Es 2.13 2.5 and 2.14 25, way. ' 9 owned by Gordon C. fwlwllank. Halifax Race 5 ' WI10!! Gal (L. Austinl 1. Dusty “We” (K. Kayel 2. Windsor 0 (G- Gaudetl 3. hive other rters winning owner. M i s s , “bl! Love. Halifax. Ram'- 8 . TWA: Hal IH. Walshl l RIIHHP't—r -n (C. Smit'hl 7. Helen Hows. him» 03er ft. (we nth?!” ‘ . time 2.1R Texas Hal mm- ” 115‘ Donald MarAIIlay. Pug— hash

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Races 3 and 7-mdberdale (C. W) 1-1'. Jo ale Giann- man. (G. Turner) >2, Rainbow Olegg (K. Pinkney) . two other starters. time 2.09 4-5 and 2._10 2-5: Rolbertdale owned by ﬂank 'T. Stanﬁeld, Tmro.

Race 5' won by Hoosier Henley (G. Nelson). Lee Bmoke (C. Con- nors) 2. six other starters. time 2.18; winning owner Donald Grace Antigonish. . Race 8. Billy Bud-

of_ long (H. Fletcher) 1. Doctor Ton-

ey (P. Pinkmey) 2. six other star- ters, time 2.19; winning owner S. B. Drake, Truro. t .L m épalces 1 and 4 there was ‘quite a duel at" sued between Laurel MonrktG.‘ Nelson) and Guy) (E. Haloyliwith the tanner mooning both dashes Guy‘I-llwveniloliy‘caetle (J; Gon- roy) 3-3 tIhre‘evonher starters. time 2.13 and 2.41 2.5: winning owner Donald Gra'Ice,Antigonish. ’ RACING FORM ' ’ While on 0dr recent trip to Hal— iax, we had the pleasure of halv- i a talk with Ken ga , homer race track manager

? golfers toured Point Grey course

»in the $47.

1 game in Charlottetown Sunday. In

' 1. all. Some of the local boys have . suggested that we help ourselves - to a repast of those pessimistic

' lottetonqn Legionaires. there were . two strikes on the Pontiacs. But

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in practice rounds Tuesday and said last week's par — shattering spree at Edmonton‘s Mayfair course isn't likely to be repeated Centennial OIpen which starts here Thursday.

Only homegrown pro Stan Leon- ard, who knows Point Grey like the back of his hand. predicted that an extras-(low score will be needed to take the top prize of $6.400. ' Leonmvl said it will take a 16» underepar 272 to win the Centen—

Canada's history. Others gave es- timates ranging up to 277.

“With the. weather the way it has been. ibis course is like a nacetrack." said Leonard. TGUGHER THAN MAYFAIR

But others agreed the ‘course hard by the Fraser River is much tougher than Mayfair, where Texas Wes Ellis took line Cana- dian Open with I 237, 13 under par.

Jay Hebert of Sanford. Tex.. who finished one stroke oBf the pace at Edmonton. said Point. Grey calls for “more premium"

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BY NORMAN MACDONALD

Summerside’i~ MacLellan’: Pon- ﬂacs won a pretty important

winning. the established two sig- One. that Roger M a c Lo 0 d. the Capital Ctiy‘s starry young southpaw, can be seamed by those Pontiacs otter

word we uttered last week. All we 881d. however, was thatwith Mac= Leod toeing the slag for Char=

no really up~and-at-’em ,club is ever licked with two strikes against them. They just up and knock that would-be third strike down the _ pitcher’s throat. Anyway. we think you can help a team more by giving them th. grim facts than by telling them how vondorful they are. If you throw too many bouquets, they begin to mistake‘all those ﬂowers for a youth. So they lie down and play dead. . ‘ ,

The other significant fact is that John Bethel. young as he is. can hold his own in junior com- pany otter all. We were always high on this kid’s ability but figured‘he might need a year or two of seasoning before he would be really effective against junior stickmen. While you’re at it. wai- ter. you.might as, well pass us those words toogBethel sham/ed everyone that he is no pushover in junior As time goes pn, we expect him to be as sensa- tional in that division as he was last year among the bantams.

. Now tht Bethel has graduated

Aussie Miler In East Time

BIROMMIA, Sweden (Mil—«Herb Elliot. Australian mile marvel. coasted to 3 3241.7 clocking for the 1,500 metres Monday in, an outing on a playground track in 1 Stockholm mm. The time was equivalent to a Mir-minute milep . I -' ‘ ‘ ‘ "

he set a fantastic mile record of

"ilhe world record for the instance, recently mm. to 8:381 made by Stanidlxaw Jung- 'wimtlh of Czechoslovakia in July, 1057.

It was «Elliott’s ﬁrst race since

3:545 at Dublin m weelns alto.

from Bantam ranks we seem to have another boy who is ready to take his place. Summerside ban- tams beat Charlottetown 6-0 at Summerside Saturday. and Don-

Charlottetown Little Leagues-s, on the other hand, are still shO'W- ing the superiority over our boys which they so clearly demonstrat- ed last year. So far. that is: We're still hoping the Summer-side All- St. rs will come up off the "floor as the Pontiacs did. Charlotte- town did all the damage in the first two innings. After that. our boys settled down and held the

Wc'e safe here as long as they did not expectorate in an um- pir '5 eye. (You couldn't legally interfere with an. umpire’s vision I: .ause he had to be able to tell a strike from a ball, you under stand). But throwing bats. gloves clay and‘ sarcastic innuendoes were all part of the game’s color apparently. We like it better when a player who gets out of hand gets the old heave-ho. Nice going, El. mer- ‘

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“The bunkers m really dot-lev- img.” he said. “And it always looks shorter than it. is on the fairways."

Joe Conrad. former British am- aiteur ch amnion, ventured: “There's going to be a lot of trouble on these fairways. You have to manoeuvre around thé traps. You have to hIt the ball straight to avoid the trees.

"It‘s going to take II 2'75 to win. This is a good course."

Dow Finsterward of Tequesta.

DCOY‘E.

Arnold Palmer. top pro money- winner this year, said: ."Oh. a 277 should do it -— make that 27 ."

Several at the topllnero were well satisfied with early practice rounds.

Jay Hebert'a brother Lionel mentioned a four-under-par 68 as he dropped a 12-foot putt for an eagle three on the 10th.

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Fla. refused to predict a winning

Ventiu‘i of San Francisco. third lending money money winner this season. sLhot a pleasing 67. Fifty of the 120-odd pros enta ered in. the Centennial team up with celebrities and local ama— eurs today for an lsihole cur-tain- raiser.

It will be mainly another prac- tice round for the pros. with the low scorer picking up $250.

There will be minor prize money for the top pro - amateur teams.

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who shared the fix-comma! leadllncdude 9'11: stare Johnny Mesa-l at Edmonton. also had a 68 Kenl mullet. Gordon Muftae and Buddy

Rogers. baseball notables Bobl Lemon. Ralph Kiner and Del; Webb. co - owner of New York Yankees; hockey players Andy Bathsgaie and Gordie Howe and former world welterweight chlam- pion Jim McLamin. '

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favorite yet.

Tigers’ Manager! Inks ’59 Controctl

General Manager John McHale announced Saturday

ager for the 1959 season. M-cHale said he. talked with

Norman before Saturday’s game

at Baltimore and settled with

next year. No contnact t~rms were disclosed.

Wed, August 27, 1958 The. Guardian Page 9

whether Norman would return. The Tigers skidded near the bot

DETROIT (AP) ~~Defmii Tigerl tom of the standings last month.

Norman took over from Jack

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is sold by a dozen or more news- stands and restaurants. also at ‘the’ race track. in Haliilax.

shown with records. breeding,

be saint-neon each program are shown with the amount they haire won in the previous mights’ rac- ing. and track news in. a, very splendid column. ' '

The issue we saw gave par- ticulars of the peirﬁormance of

Raceway when he took a new Menace record of ammo is

Went-ages 501‘ the top 20 (II-iv. ﬁlls are also given. with Jimmy Given 'NO- 1; 'in 30 starts, he was 8 times 11 times sec- ond and 3' times third. ' ' THREE DOUBLE . And ' here is the latest news mm W fffienld Dow Clowateor at W. He. writes as fol- lows: f‘Three double winners. one of which, took a new record, high- lighted the Must 21 meet at the Fredericton Raceway. Vici Hi Lee. owned by Walter Davis of Hoidton, Maine, and drivn by .Ace Harvey. swept both heats of the feature event in 209 Hi and .2.11, the latter heat being raced in a downpour ott‘rain. ' "A St. Stephen pacer. Ginny Foﬁbes. owned by JD. Men-an. was given a new record of 2.15 by Tommy Devlin in the opening dash of the eight-dash card. and she also captured the fifth heat. in 2.15 2-5. Abbe Brewer was the other double winner. taking the third and seventh dashes In 2.12- 1-5 and 2.14 4-5 for owner and driver Tom Etter of Moncton. “Candinal's Ace. recently 1m pcv‘ted from the United‘States by Max Chippin of Fredemcton. won the second heat for remsman Blair Andrew in 2.12 1-5. and Mighty Grand. owned. by Wal— ter Cluff of Woodstock and dri- ven by (‘lIfford Cluff.’ won the sixth dash 11.32.13 2-3. ALEXANDER. MEMORIAL The "Alexander Memorial Pace purse $2.000—the feature event of Exhibition Week at Saint John, '\‘.B.~—v«'ill he raced (here tonight. I Itations have been extended to

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ll'EGJUI‘I-all I Iimo: and Mame. and It is ex- ll‘t‘t‘ltlfl that this will be one o! the best contests m’ the year.

‘WThn rat‘s named in honor lot Cecn M. Alexander, former

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railing, and a comment is made their mbillides."1‘he top- _ midday-winning drivers that will

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race Ise’cnetai‘y and chairman of the ha-rnesswnaciﬁvg committee at Exhibition Park. to whom is at- tributed, the. rise of Goldbrook hack to its position in the Maintaining. Mr. Alexialmler’ Was one of the greats in Mari: time racing and he promoted the sport of harness racing at the old Moosapath tarck and at Sus- sex speedway. giving generously of time and spending a lot otmoneytobringingoodhm- ses so as to make the sport. more/interesting for spectators.

Those were the lean days, be- fore are advent of the port-mu- tucl.andittookelotofen~ and love at the aport to make it prominent. and it is to these qualities and his per- sonal. iriendly and attractive manner that a great deal of the prominence of the wont may can be attributed. .

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Among the great frames that Mr. Alexander brought to the Martti-mes, we will name a few: Betty S. 2.07, who set up track records. two of which still stand. And he. in partnerShin with oth- ers. raced such at pacens as All Grattain 2.06% (record taken at Charlottetownl: Barney Han= over 2.07; Billy Bondeur 2.09; and some 5 or more others.

The writer and Mn. Alexan— der were firm friends for many years. and he always brought his horses to our races when we were connected with the sport here; DOING WELL Racing on the Grand Circuit in the USA. is tougher usual. The fields are large and there seems to be a wealth of fast performers. Joe O'Brein is doing , quite well. and. in the HS. 0! lead- iin-g Grand Circuit driver up to

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1.59 2-5 and 2.03 16. Big Five

Trot, purse $5,000—Butch Han- lover (O'Brien) 5-1-1. times 2.01- 25. 2.02 4-5.Big Five Pace. purse $5.000»-Razzle Dazzle (O'Brien) 3. . 2. time 2.00 lﬁ'and 1.59 2-5. Three .Year-Old Pace, purse $2.000— lShadow Wave (O'Brienl 1. time $1.59 3-5. which is a new record

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