Favorites Beaten Great Racing Card

~At Montague Track

Favorites fell like ten-pins att the Montague harness racing meet-i ing yesterday afternoon as a3 crowd estimated at over ‘.2500 saw! sensational duels of speed in each and every one of the 17 heats on the program; saw horses take new win race records and as a climax to practically every heat witnessed six and seven horses battle it out over the entire mile so closely packed that a blanket could have covered them all.

Prince Budlong. Rosalie Hooper. Lucky Number. New Look. Valley Long and Ahmgxvcit !\lil:i(i'v were the \\':.Iil1Cl‘.*;. with Liiekv Xiiiiibei‘ and New Look coming through with the only st! ight heat vic- tories of the aft noon, the latter pacing of? with the No Ti event. winning the second elimination mile and then rep-satin: the per- formance in the iiii-il

Rosalie Hoop -_ paciiii a storm. lowered her record to 1.13 1 i in the first heat of No. i’ Classified and then fufllittr ‘ioa-cretl it a fiili~ second a‘. sh. priced aww with the second mile: Ola Budlon: added to llh‘ w record hoitiers when she (‘a the liiial mile of the saiiic event in 213 2-3 as she outpaced the “inner of the two previous l". .

New Look. L. ' i: his best. per- foiunance to (lftiP atided to the st

- ~d holders by pacin n! the No. 5 event while Valley Long in lowered

in 2:1fi,'.‘-5. the last heat of the day his mark to 2.1"».

again the officials came with capable performan- ces, Russell Alobozt doing a fine job as starter while presiding judge F. R. MeLaines description of the heats aided the fans creat- ly in followiii: the stirrin‘! (111015 that were takiiic plice on almost every part of the track

No. l Classified

Billy McVey, a favorite with the bettors, made every post a winning one as lie paced all‘ with the first heat, beating off chal-' lenges of Quick Lick and Molly Bars in the first three-quarters of the mile and then Prince Bud- lung's closing stretch drive, but it was a different story in the next two.

Prince Budiong, making his first ltart since an injury suffered in. 1947, showed he has retained his top form when he outpaced the favorite in the next two miles to head the summary, coming within two seconds of his mark the sec- ond trip and then within one sec- ond in the third and final heat. Quick Lick also moved up in tho third heat beating Billy McVey to the wire. But while the battle was mainly between Billy, Prince and Quick Lick. the duels for the remaining positions were very, yery close.

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‘favorites still continued to fall la Rosalie Hooper. showing ex- ceptional fcirm, paced oil with the first two heals and race before being headed by Ola Budlong in the final mile. The field of seven were packed like sardines as they hit the three-quarter pole the first mils and as they came under the wire five were strung out in a line across the track A photo ,wss necessary to decide matters Ind. 1t showed Rosalie in front with Kelly's Nightmare just a ltep behind, Ola Budlong, Babe Britten and Lela Budlong in that order, with Wait NSee and Lus- fleia sixth and seventh.

Rosalie, trailing until they hit the top of the stretch in the sand- wich heat, pulled out with anoth- er burst of speed to win handily in the stretch drive but it was very, very close for the next three positions with Ola Budlnng get- ting the nod over the Nightmare

and Lustlcia. 01a made the grade in the third heat. She went away on top to make every post n winning one. having too ‘much pace left for Rosalie as slie challenged in the stretch.

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No. 3 Classified

Willard 'el!y won his second straight race with Lucky Number in a weck when he won all three heats of the third event on the card. Six starters came to the wire and right to the top of the stretch the six of them raced in a tightly packed hunch. Hitting the stretch it was anybodys race, but Lucky came terrifically fast in the last fifty yards to get his head in front at the wire.

The second and third miles pro- duced two more stifi battles as Lucky Number came from behind in both cases to oiitfoot the pack in the stretch. After the lead had, changed several times in the firstl three quarters of the second mile- Bee Budlong took over at. thei stretch but Lucky came fast in the last twenty yards to win by a

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neck; in the final Bee. in fifth position, put on a terrific burst of speed going up the backstretch the second trip around to pace to the front, but halfway down the stretch Lucky Number again cor- railed her to win by a length and complete his straight heat victory.

No. 4 Classified

Valley Long was the surprise package in this event, for after finishing sixth and eighth in the first. two miles he came on to win the third heat, send the race into an extra mile and then capture the fourth and deciding heat in handy fashion from Buddy Bud- long and Romeo, the other two heat winners.

As had been the case in the pre- vious races the fans saw more thrill-packed duels in each heat of the event. Positions were changing rapidly all during the mile until Romeo, pacing steadily all the way and driven by "Jiggy" Arbing, came through in the stretch to cop the heat in a close finish with Bonnie Dale and Buddy Bucllong. a 91min bg- ing necessary to split the second and third horses.

Buddy Budlong paced into the picture in the second mile when he won a thrilling battle with Bonnie Dale, a photo showinghim with a nose to the good as they flashed under the wire; and mat- ters were further complicated as Valley Long came terrifically fast on the outside in the stretch to steal the heat right from Bonnie Dale at the wire. In the final mile there was no catching Valley as he led from wire to wire with Buddy second and Romeo third.

No. 5 Classified

The class was raced in elimina- tion heats when eleven horses an- swered the bell. In the first elim- ination mile, after the field of sir; had hammered away at each other New Look came tearing from behind at the three quarters to

‘win the heat by a length over

Calumet Onward and Maudine Budiong after the latter had led most of the way. Hilda Mac was fourth to complete the four elig- ible for the final mile.

In the second elimination mile it was Feather Duster who led the field home with Buck P. C. Grattan, Brendon‘: Boy and Donna Clegg completing the first four finishers.

Donna Clegg took the field away for the final test but relinquished the lead to Feather Duster at the upper turn the first trip around. Positions remained unchanged un- til they hit up the backstretch the second time with Jimmy McGreg- or, driver-owner of New Look. taking his horse out and with a splendid display of reinsmanship getting him to the front at the three quarter pole and then out- paced his challengers in the dash to the wire.

Dash Race

Abegweit Milady was the win- ner of the dash event. Trailing New Money in the early part of the mile she took over the lead on the backstretch the first trip around as the leader went to a break and from there on made every post a winning one. Direct Volo came very fast the latter part of the mile to place second; Random Harvest. was third with New Money a good fourth after making three skips during the heat.

Summary:—

No. 1 Classified

Prince Budlong (Cudmore)... Billy McVey (Craig)... Quick Lick (O'Meara) Jerry Lee Volo Molly Bars (McDonald). Miss Knox (Arbing)

Eva Worthy (McIntyre)...

Time: 2.13; 2.13; 2.12.

Winning horse owned by Harold Cudmore, Brackley.

No. 2 Classified Rosalie Hooper (Craig) .. Ola Budiong (McDonald) Kelly's Nightmare (Shaw) Lela Budlong (C01lins).. Lusticia (Tierney) Wait N‘See (O‘Meara).. . Babe Brltton (Thompson)...

Time: 2.13 l-5; 2.12 1-5; 2132-5.

Winning horse owned by Lt.- Col. J. P. Hooper, Charlottetown.

No. Ii Classified

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Lucky Number (Kelly) ...... ..l 1 1 Bee Budlong (Hennessey) ..... ..4 2 2 Shy Ann 2nd (Phillips). 2 3 5 Marjorie Budlong (Rankine) 3 4 3 .lust Flicka (Cudmore) 5 5 4 Reuben Lee (Bernard) 6 6

. 6 Time: 2.18 4-5; 2.17; 2.16 3-5. Winning horse owned by Wil- lard Kelly. Southport. No. 4 Classified Valley Long (Lowrie) Buddy Biidlong (Stead) Romeo (Arbing) Bonnie Dale (Kelly) Shirley H. Temple (Hooper k Craig) .

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THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

JULY 7, 1949

Predicting earlier in the week in

this column that the Wednesday racing card at the Montague track had all the possibilities of being an outstanding meet. we were cer- tainly close to the head of the lllill as some 2.500 ardent racing fans throngecl the stands and grounds to See sortie really thrilling races staged there bv Manager George McIntyre.

. - u . Performing under ideal weather and track conditions, the horses seemed to sense the keen atmos- phere and enthusiasm of the crowd to give everything they had, pro- ducing some real blanket finishes which kept the crowd continually on its feet cheering for their fav- ourite to come in, and if he didn't they had to admit that it was a, good race anyivay. ‘

. . o . 1n addition to giving the fans, the kind of close competitive rac-t 111B they like to see. the horses and drivers were also taking advantage of the ideal conditions to further their mark and more than one dri- ver piloted his trotter or pacer around the oval to clip seconds‘ off their records. a o o -

Recoveries from their last Sun- day fiasco, when they took a 16-6 drubbing from the Curran and Briggs nine, tiie Charlottetown Abegweits came back with a bang last evening to turn 1n a smart perfonnance when they defeated the Summerslde R.CA.F. aggrega- tion by a 7-5 count in a regular Island Baseball League fixture staged at Memorial Field.

- o 0 - The game was loosely played 1n spots. but this was overshadowed by some really snappy fielding and powerful hitting by both clubs. uiith a total of 20 hits rung up through- out the encounter, tlie locals gar- nering the lion‘! share with l2. In ths fielding department, Buck Whltlock of Abbies and Doc Lyon of the Airmen, pulled the mos: spectacular plays of the game.

a o . - Whitlock, although having two errors chalked against him, figured

in 10 other plays while Lyon made five nice catches in centre field. Vern Larter and Joey LeClair of Abbies. wielding their clitbs for three for four each. were the leitd- l iiig hitters, the former pounding,‘ out the only triple of the game lril the seventh to bring home two

men and put the game on ice fut

the local squad.

- o - . This being the horse racing sea- son, the following article whii-li_ originated 1n Winnipeg, although carrying a slizht beef, might be nf timely interest to horsemen gen- erally.

Western horse owners are re- ported having difficulty in ob- taining good accommodation for their horses in Eastern stables. The problem seemingly has been the same for years. John (Winni- peg Free Press) Slfton scores Eastern officials for treatment which. he says, over the years “has been anything but good". - a o a

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Ha reports that Dan Kennedy's Oak Tree stud farm had difficulty getting stable room at Fort Erie, Ont, and other points on the Eastern Racing Circuit this sum- nier. Kennedy has s stable of five two-year-olds, one four-year-olcl mare of good allowance class and s. six-year-old handicap horse. . o -

“What with the two-yesr-olds developing iind the two older horses coming into form. the sta- bio is a good one for the Eastern Circuit because all the horses will fit the good class Vi! race which

Bob Canuck (O'Mcarzi) 5 4 0 Nellie Worthy (Drake) 6 5 Lady Worthy 2nd (Willis).8 7 8 Time: 2.15 3-5; 2.17; 2.17; 2.15. Winning horse owned by Low-l ery B; Annear, Montague. I No 5 Classified (Elimination) New Look (McGrcgor) Feather Duster (Willis) Calumet Onward (Stead) . . Buck P. C. Grattan (Lowrle) Brandon's Boy (O'Brien)... .. Maudene Budlong (Agnew)... Hilda Mac (Bernard) .. Donna Clegg (Sheen) . Random Harvest (L.O'Brien)

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Direct Volo (Wisener) .... .. - New Mone (McGulgan)...... 0 - - Time: 2.1 1-5; 2.17 4-5: 2.16 2-5.

Winning horse owned by James

MacGregor, Charlottetown. Dash Race

Abegweit Milady (Smith) Direct Volo (Wisener).......... Random Harvest (O'Brien). New Money (McGuigan)......

Time: 2.21 3-5.

Winning horse owned by Cyril Smith, Hunter River.

Wins N.S. Golf Title

TRURO. NS, July 6 - (C?) -- Barbara Trltes of Brldgewater Golf Club today captured the Nova Scotia ladies‘ golf championship, firing a final round gross of 178.

Dorothy Holmes of ‘Truro was second with 188.

Mrs. A31‘. Campbell, Truro. and Mrs. ER. McNeil, Dartmouth Brtshtwood. tied for tow-it net

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5'1‘. ANDREWS. N.B.. July (OP) - Archie Skinner, veterap professional of the host Algonquin Club. and Walter Reed Jr., Fort Fairfleld, Mia, amateur, became New Brunswick-Prince Edward ls- land golf champions for the third time as the 16th annual 54-lioie N.B.-P.E.1. tournament ended here today.

Skinner added a par 71 to his first two rounds of 68-70 for a fiiial total of 209, 1B strokes less than that of Oliver (Boots) Baird, the runner-up from NS, to win the pro crowns.

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iSkinner And Reed Win (N. B. - P. Ei I. Golf Titles

lites. led from opening day and “were seriously threatened or over-

Neiv Glasgow,‘

‘ Reed "silppbd badly from his first! iililslioltlllioliindiiflwltgts fig“, 7km‘ for 1lll1‘(| in the amateur division

. u 1a‘, still left him five strokes in front. of John Steele of Riverside, Ne.‘ who finished second, and cave him‘ a second to Skinner iii the open‘

dlVlf-lflll. ‘Both Skinner and Reed, estab- lished as pre-tournament favor-

taken.

Skinner's total is an all-time low for the tournament in the pro and “Den ranks. He succeeds Kas Zab- owski of Halifax as pro titleholder.

Reed, a war veteran like Skinner, equalled the amateur record set by Cecil Duwling of Charlottetown in winning the amateur and open titles last War.

Competing as a pro this year, Dawling rallied after a bad start to finish fourth with 161-76—237, six strokes back of Ray (Silver) Marshall of New Glasgow, N. S., Quebec Aces star forward.

Former National Hockey League liar, Pete Kelly of Fredericton tied

with T. K. (Tommy) Stewart of St. Andrew's, N. B. Both had l52-75— 227.

Next in line were two Charlotte- town golfers-Bill Beer with 149- 79-4128 and Maurice (Mouse) Dow- ling. Sydney, N, S. hockey player with 15636-32.

Results Of Mainland Harness Races Yesterday

(By The Canadian Press) MONCTON, N. B, July 6—Four heats of match racing have failed

‘ to settle the question of suprem-

acy between the liarness racing speedsters McKlyo Cash and Scott. Spencer.

'l‘onight at Moncton Raceway the horses split two heats, the Cash horse, owned by George Gay of Moncton, taking the first. and the Spencer specdster from the Hirsch Stables of Sydney, N. S., winning the second.

They stepped the first mile in 2.08 and the second in .07 2-5.

A previous two-heat race two

weeks ago also ended in each horse winning a heat. The match race liightlighted a

twilight program at the Raceway which saw four other events run ofT. all of them two-heat affairs. The summary: 2.20-2.30 Class San Ton (Brown) .. . Blanche Harvester (Arseneau) Al Bologna (Ramsay) Major Boy (Cormier) Times: 2.19 1-5: 2.19. 2.25-2.27 Trot And Pace Gray Ora‘ (Irving) .. . Try On (Beers d: Richard). Mike Volo (Clarke) Billy Bishop (Miller) . Omar Lee (Akerltgv) Miss Donna Mac (Letcher) Times: 2.14 2-5; 2.14. 2.18-2.21 Trot And Pac Follow Us (Wilbur) 1 Riley 1st (Hirsch) Bob Dale (Cormier) Carnation Lady (Johnson 8c Douglas) . Times: 2.14; 2.14 4-5. Free-For-All Jean Henley (Miller) All American Cinzanno (Keiver) .. Lew McKinney (Gay) .. Times: 2.13; 2.11.

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AT TRURO TRURO. N. S., July 0 —- Driver Dori Turner of Dartmouth, N. S.,

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was injured tonight in a pileup of four horses during a harness rac- ing card at Truro Raceway.

Despite the four-cornered spill. the remaining three entries con- tinued the race, Lee Budlong holding an early lead to take the event.

There were six one-mile classes and all were close. First Race. 9/16 Mile. Purse $2 Christopher Stout (Given). 1 Peter At Court (McDonald) Ace Fingo (J. MacDonald)

. 3 Seven Up Direct, Dorothy Won't Tell, Kerwin Hanover. Josedale

Victory Miss, Mac Fingo also started.

Time: 1.13 3-5. Second Race. 9/10 Mlle. Purse $2.00 Lee Budlong (R. McDonald). l Merle Direct (T.' Walker)... .. Maxine Dudds (Turner).... .. 3

C. Harry Budlong, Don Fingo, Speed Hanover, Hastelong, Bump- er Joe also started.

Time: 1.16.

Third Race. 9/16 Mlle. Purse $200 Dr. L. B. Walker) ..l Fred Hamer (Allan)...

2 .. 3 Previous, Baldritz, Billy P. C: Parker, Colleen Adam also start- ed. Time:

1.12 3-5.

‘ Fourth Race, 9/16 Mlle. Purse $200 .. 1

Jacob Withrow (Carroll) Judd (S. Walker) .. .. 2 Joscdale Clipper (C y).. .. 3

Cyclonic, Jerry Grattan also started.

Time: 1.11 2-5.

Fifth Race. 1 Mlle. Purse $200 Seven Up Direct (Walker) . .. .. 1 Joedale Victory Miss (S. Walker) 2 Christopher Stout (G1ven)........... 3

Kerwin Hanover. Dorothy Won't Tell, Ace Fingo, Peter At Court, Mac Fingo also started.

Time: 2.15.

Sixth Race. l Mlle, Purse $200 Lee Budlong (H. MacDonald) 1 Haste Along (Daniels). Don Flngo

Time: 2.22.

Horseshoe Club

At the end of the second day's play in the Brighton Horseshoe Club singles tournament, Ambrose Doyle was still leading the field

is plentiful 1n the East," Sifton Writes. He says that when West- erners shlp to Toronto for the fall meetings they arc usually stabled at Long Branch, a good distance away from the other three tracks in the City and well out of Central Toronto.

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"Long Branch." he. says. "is re- garcled as the last choice for stab- ling in Toronto." He adds, how- ever, that there are exceptions. "When RJ. Speers (prominent Western breeder) ships to Toronto they are not going to give him the shuffle. That would be bad busin- ess. It seems funny that the many racing’ 1n East- ern Canada should receive stab- liiig preference over a visiting Western Canada stable with good, fit horses."

with a total of five wins in five games played for ten pointswhile Earl Goss, George Schleyer, J. Buote and James Davey were all tied for second place with four points each.

Doyle is also well in the lead in the ringer competitions with the large total of 78 to his credit, while Schleyer is in second place with 47 and Earl Goss third with 38.

The competitions were very keen during yesterday's play and a large crowd was on hand to wit- ness the boys in action. Play will be resumed again tonight.

The following are the standings to date:——