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- Fight! and Fighters -- (lly James Pendergut)

The trip up the coast to ang- way took about three days. The whole distance is like an inland waterway with the exception of the short runs over Queen Charlotte Sound and Dixon's Ismtrance - a slight roll from the Pacific is not- iceable - the rest of the trip is through land-locked water as calm as a mill pond. The steamer course on the "inside passage" to strag- way does not cross the full width of Queen Charlotte Sound. It cuts iiislilc most of the numerous is- lands along the coast.

I remember tht; we had a com- paratively rough half hour cross- ing Milibank Sound. Although (Tie water is calm, the course through iho tortuous canals and "passages" is treacherous. There is a heavy "tide rip" at Seymour Narrows. near the northern extremity of Vancouver Island. We saw the hulk

' of a wrecked steamer perched quite high on a submerged rock. On her starboard side was pained in large letters "DRINK G (K: W".

some devotee of total abstinence from spirituous liquor, in I. brag- gish mood, had painted imder the liquor sign the words, "I did". It would be all the more ironicai if the wreck was caused by the use of liquor. The ”tide rips" are irrachcrous. Sometimes steamers must. "lay in" for a time till the tide is favorable.

The three day trip to Skagway was quiet and uneventful. We "rhercliakos” (newcomers) were much amused by watching large schools of porpoises racing along quite. close to the boat. We thought at first they were whales. I can't remember whether or not we call- ed at Prince Rupert or whether it was in existence in 1906.

The Grand Trunk Pacific, of which it is the western terminal. was in the embryo planning stage -- Foley, Welch and Stewart, the great contractors had not yet got- ten their hooks on Sir Wilfrid Laiirior's government to pull for another transcontinental railroad. There must have been a Hudson Bay trading post there called Prince Rupert named after the German Prince, "Rupert on the Rhine", who iought on the Royallst side in the civil war when King Charles I was dethroned and beheaded by Crom- Well.

After the "Re.stora.tion" of the monarchy Charles 1'! gave some of his courtlers and favorites a char- ter. It. bore the enslgnia: -1 "To the Governor (Prince Rupert) and Company of Adventurers of Eng- land trading into Hudson's Bay."

The "Company" as it grew and developed was it potent factor in holding the immense Northern and Western portion of North America for the British Empire. The saga of the Hudson Bay Co. extends over a period of about three hun- di-ed years. anyone who no desires may obtain its history from the Carnegie libraries or other sources. It would he platltudinous ponder- nsify to inflict the story again on a dcfenceless public - in this writ- mg.

I spent some time in Prince Ru- pert in the summer of 1913 and 1914. There was the nucleus of a real city on the rough and rocky site. The coastal portion of the G.T.P. Ry. extended East along the valley of the Bkeena to New Hazeltnn - about 175 miles. The Eastern divisions of the great rail- ways were completed - through the Yellorwhead Pass and on as far as Fort Fraser, a distance of prob- ably not more than 150 miles from Hazclton. There was no "steel" laid between those places.

Bridges were being built and some were already completed. ready for the "laying of steel" (rails). One particular bridge - across the mouth of Mud Creek was 175 ft. high and about -11. of a mile long. Rlveters were perched in some kind of baskets along the side of the steel structure, near the top, catch- inst the red hot rivets in buckets when thrown from above, putting

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Those big contracting jobs were finished in a remarkable short space of time, due to the system of "sub-letting". The main contract- ors would sub-let the bridge build- ing to certain companies. The "cuts" and ”fills" would be sub- let to private companies which would again sub let each cut and fill to a gang of eight or ten men. The rock and gravel taken out of the ”cut" had to be dumped and the natural place was the "fill". Ordinary day laborers could band together and make good money with those small sub-let contracts.

The road bed was uncertain around New I-Iazelton on the ap- proach to the clay and gravel hills of the Buikiey river valley. There was a large ”mud slide” close to the railway station one morning after a heavy rain storm. The whole road bed for a distance of about 600 feet. slid away from the rails and left them suspended in the air. There was a heavy sag but they still held together. The plates and rivets must have been extra good to withstand such wcighi. New Hazelion was a primitive. raw look- ing place then. Tents and rough board shacks comprised the habit- atlons.

The small branch bank had been held up and robbed a few days previous by a fool desperadn but within a few minutes a Dosse of vigllantes started on his trail and soon overtook him. He elected to shoot it out with the posse and was soon liquidated - as a hor- rible example to all who might be so famous as i0 lliillk mm I-he'll were smart enough to beat the law.

A short distance from New Haz- elton there was an Indian Village called Hackelgate. I met. a little Belgian priest iherc whom I had known in Dawson. I stayed with him overnight. He had just come in from a fifty mlic horseback ride to the Baibine tribe Indian coun- try. He had shot a large bear on his way back and the bears skin was spread on the floor of the room in which I slept. The priest cer- talnly had R rough and primitive existence but he was resigned and cheerful and was ready and will- ing to undergo any hardship in order to minister to the spiritual and corporal needs of his flock.

The Indians on the lower part of the Skeena were christianlzed by the Anglican mislcnarles. An In- dian sang a verse of an English church hymn in his own language one day in a train from Prince Rupert for me. "Am" Ma Chu' (Happy Day), It was sung in the same air and rhythm as its Enc- lish counterpart. Can't, recall the name of the hymn now.

The Bulkley rushes through in very deep and narrow canyon at Hackelgate. It is 250 feet deep nd between 40 and 50 feet wide. The Indians did an engineering job there of which no white men would think. They put a bridge across the canyon made of wood fisre ropes. I never found out the method used in getting the rope across the chasm.

There was it wagon trail up the Bulkley valley, and the going was good. The river and land flatten- ed out although glaciers could be seen on the sides of mountains. Quite a number of young men from the Ottawa valley staked out farms and were doing well cheerful and optimistic. That code of eth- ics and technique is characteristic of the Western settlers. They al- ways hope for the best till calamity strikes. Then they hie for "past- ures green and fields afar."

"The ones who had been there some years said that the glaciers were getting smaller each year. it seemed to fit in with the opinions of some scientists and statisticians that the northern hemisphere is gradually getting warmer, although 81 degrees below zero at Snag Creek in the Yukon doesn't appear very torrid. There was a small number of l".E. Islanders in the railway construction in the Buikley valley.

There was a big McLean fellow. formerly of West River. We be- came very friendly - so friendly that I used to go to his cabin for little boxing sessions with him. He was good too. There was Ralph Benton from the West River dis- trict also. He gave me the first story I knew of the great exploits of the mythical logger. Paul Bun- yan and his enormous Blue Ox, which has almost supplanted the famous lath century "tall" fiction nl Baron Munchausen (Mun-kow- sen).

There was Guy Cameron. jewel- ler of Prince Rupert and his broth- er (I forget his name for the mo- ment) who was a veteran of the Boer War from Charlottetown: also nnrnet Inrkin of Richmond. We had many pleasant meetings. I

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Islanders right ,winger of last season who broine his elbow last winter has had some more rough luck. This time its a finger and Connie is in dan- ger of losing it. In a letter from Connie. who is now in the Sudbury General Hospital, we learned tha'. he injured his finger while at work on Friday. June 6 and the doctor has informed him that there is lit- tle home of saving it. The letter was written last Saturday and Connie expected that he would lose the finger in an operation Monday morning. The injury occurred when Connie caught his ring and fell off a mick, scraping the skin off his finger. .

Connie Bonhomme,

0 Connie expressed his sympathy over Johnny Duichak's death and wrote a vel'y nice tribute to John- ny. Here it is: "It sure was shock- ing news to hear of what happened to Johnny. 1 just couldn't believe it. He was such a nice guy and good hockey player. When he was on the ice and our line was out there it gave us more fight. Thails the kind of guy he was-full spirit and fight and always ready to help." Very true words and we might add very nicely put together by Connie.

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Speaking of his fall off the truck Connie states that he didn't IHJUFC his elbow and that thanks to Dr. Laldlaw it hasn't bothered him at all since the end of the hockey season. Connie wrote a few Words of praise for Dr. lLaidlaw and ends up by saying that he would like to have him around to look at his finger.-At the end of the letter he pages on his regards to all his friends in Charlottetown.

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And while on the topic of hockey players Bill Brown has recently re- neived a letter from dcfcnseman Larry Travis. who lives in Winni- pcx. Larry writes that he will be coming down to the City around the last of August in order to al.- tend Prlncc of Wales College next, year. He wishes to complete hisi pre-medical course next term and then enter medicine the following year. Bill also had a night letter from willie Marshall a few days ago in which Willie expressed hrs sympathy over Johnny Duichak's death.

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If and when Maritime Central Airways take to the diamond at Memorial Field this evening lh9.V will have ii re-shuffled lineup. We use the word if on ncrount of ihe unpredictable we.-iihorninn who apparently has been driven hay wire iw those atom bomb tests. At this writing the weather does not look too promising but probably by this evening things will be well cleared away. If not ii. will be another posipnncd game for ihe island Baseball Lea- gue and it will be the third in a row for the Intermediate Ab- bies.

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Slated to make his first appear-

ance on the mound here is Freddy Keillor. How good ihe former Sliearwater Navy liurler

is. we don't know. We saw him pitch an inning in Summerside two weeks ago and at that timc he did not show ion rnuc'h stuff. This evening he will act a good

fest when he steps up against the hard iilltlni! Intermediate Abbles. We venture to say the

Abbiea are as good a hitting team as there iii in the league and Keillor will have to show some pretty good stuff if he wishes to remain around any length of time. I I 0 M. C. A. will likely be plnylrii: without the services of first base- man Des Tralnor nndtiliey will miss the big fellow. in his place will be Kenny Wilson, who cer- tainly has the reach to make a first baseman. Wilson, though. has spent moiit of his time in the outer gardens and will he unaccustomed to the first barn slot. Joe Plneau. A brother of "Cuke" and Ralph Plnesu's will take Wilson's place in the out- field. . . g -

The Abbies will be at full strength for this contest and they will be out to get their first points of the season. It's no sec- ret that the Abbies and M. C. A. have little love for one another and one of the things that the Abbie management said about M. C. A. during their recent feud was "M. C. A. can't beat our In- termediates." The Abbi:-ii have three pitchers ready to start this evening in the persons of Ev. Reagan. Charlie Ryan and Merlin Maclfenzie. The latter has been sort of a question mark this spring on account of in more arm but as the result of several weeks hard work Merlin has worked himself into shape.

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L.Y.C. And Angels Win Softball League Games

The Liguorian Youth Club and the Guardian Angels broke into the win column in the City soft- ball League last night as they won their respective games on the Parkdale and the Knights of Columbus diamonds.

The L. Y. C. handed their neigh- bars the North End Bowery Bomb- ers a 11-7 setback while the An- gels toppled Bruce Stewart's by a 34-14 score.

As a result of last night's games the L. Y. C., Guardian Angels, B. C. Y. and the Bombers are in a four-way tie for second place with each team having won and lost a game. The Sunshine Island Dairy lead flue league with two wins and no losses.

The Llguorian Youth Club raced into a 6-1 lead in the second inn- ing of their game with the Bomb- ers and were never headed as Jimmy Gauthier hurled heads-up ball for the Holy Redeemer team.

The L. Y. C. added three runs in the third inning and five more in the fourth to wrap up the game. The Bombers came up with a six- run fifth inning but it was a case of having too little and being too late.

Ira Connolly socked a triple for the longest blow of the game. Mike Monaghanls grab of Al Shephard's line drive was the fielding gem of the game.

Big Merle Longaphie blasted out a homer. triple and double to lead the Guardian Angels to victory over Bruce Stewart's. Longaphies first inning homer with the bases loaded sent the Angels into a 4-0 lead and they were never headed.

Lefthander Dick Doyle made his

first start on the mound for the Angels and went all the way to give a top notch performance. Wright started for Bruce Stewart's and was replaced by Ernie Train- or. . Len Arsenault handled the L. Y. C.-Bombers game with R. Carroll working the bases. Eddy Kays was the umpire for the Angels- Bruce Stewart's contest while I. Connors and G. Burge were base Judges.

Line-ups:

L. Y. C.: A. Shepherd lb, T. Bradley if, J. Gauthier p, F. Strain 2b, W. Shephard (lb, M. Peters ss, .1. Henncasey c, F. shep- hard cf, A. MacDonald rf.

Bombers: M. Monaghan 21:, L.

Taylor c, D. Maccallum if, M. Connolly p, L. Costello lb, T. Dn- iron 3b, T. Doyle rf, I. Connolly as, J. Hughes cf. Gene Ward c, C. Ward if, D. Burge rf, M. Car- michael cf, M. Longapiiie lb, I-I. Poulton 2b, J. Szotak ss, M. Kays 3b. D. Doyle p, B. Acorn of.

Bruce Stewarts: W. Leclair 1b, V. Blanchard 2b, C. Tralnor if, B. Wright p, H. Hennessey 3b, T. Williams cf, E. Tralnor ss, 5. Mac- Donald c. R. MacEachern rf, S. Williams rf, Judson cf.

Llnescore:

L. Y. C. 06.1 521 0-17 Bombe . . . 010 060 0-- I Gauthier an J. Hennessey; M. Connolly and L. Taylor. Guardian .. . 457 581 4-34 Bruce Siewarts . .. 060 016 1-14

Doyle and Ward: Wright, Train- or (3), Wright (5) and MacDon- aid.

C A H A Clears Decks For Review Of Hockey

By JACK SULLIVAN

MINAKI, Ont... June 17 - (CF) -- The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association cleared the decks to- night for a wholesale review of practically every phase of the game affecting relations between the am- ateur and professional organizations and players under their jurisdic- tion. It is an unprecedented move' that could materially affect the future of hockey in Canada.

The C.A.H.A. took the initiative today by instructing its negotiating committee to meet the National Hockey League relations commit- tee in an effort to iron out prob- lems that have caused widespread dissatisfaction among some amat- eur clubs, players and some sections of the public.

Among them are the now-notor- lous form C and negotiation lists, payments to the C. A.H.A. for its registered players who turn pro. playing rules. the "under-handed” methods of some pro team scouts iii dealings with teen-aged amat- eurs and the influence of minor pro leagues such as the American and Pacific Coast circuits in the C. A. H. A.-N. H. L. agreement.

The agreement was signed first in 1936 and again in 1947 for a 10- year period and the C.A.H.A. feels that a friendly discussion with

the professional representatives could clear the air about many of these things.

No date has been set for the meeting but its likely it will he held later this summer. And C. A. H. A. officials will go to it with evidence of what sortie officials term "abuse" by the professional leagues submit- ted by association members from different parts of the country.

The meeting turned down a mo- tion introduced by Quebec that the association revert to its old icing- ihe-puck rule which allows an at- tacking player to shoot the puck from anywhere beyond the red line past the bluellne and charge in for it - a rule in conformity with the N. H. L. The player must carry the puck over the bluellne and this will be in effect in amateur hockey next season.

Quebec was given permission to follow the N.H. L. style in league games only and the Marltimes also received the go-ahead to use the N. H. L. rules if their Alexander Trophy series teams operate this year. .

Action on the rule is in direct contravention of the C. A. H. A.- N. H. L. agreement which states that --"'Ihe amateur organisations agree to adopt the playing rules of the N. H. 1..." It ponibly could re- suit in termination of the agree- ment by the N. H. L. and pave the way for open warfare between the plofealomiil and amateurs.

The full executive of the G.A.- B. A. later voted 12-8 in favor of a motion declaring that the C.A.H.A. is in favor of asking the pro leagues in abolish sponso snip of teams. Each N. H. L. club and ifs affiliated team in the minor pro leagues now is allowed to qaonsor two Junior "A" teams. l

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ASCOT. England. June I7--(AP) -- The date of the 1008 Derby was changed today to Saturday, June 6 instead of Wed- nesday. June I.

The change was made because of the coronation off Queen Illn- abeth which will be held Tull- dly. June 2. Coronation offioilh rad the Jockey club to shift the