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V 9 W even the Prince 3 ilaaeiea the two-game, total . eerie: 21-15. and the right to meet ; Surnmeralde Academy in the Pro. r-vincial finals. P. 5. s. won the ser- ies opener 10-7 Tuesday night.

Prince street took a 3-2 lead in the first frame and went on to out- score their rivals 8-6 in the second canto. The game was well played ' throughout. with the Rochford . Square team, most of whom are ',- playing their first year of basket- ,ball. providing stiff opposition. De- ? cidlng factor for Prince Street was .the effective checking of starry ;Claudette McMillan, Mary Worthy and Elaine Murphy. McMillan, a ;.star of city girls basketball for the .pa.st few years, was held to six dnarkers in the two games. In spite of this she turned in outstand-

ing performances in the two en- -”counters and was a threat at all ; times. slight Edie Smith topped the point-getting with seven markers and was outstanding for Prince Street. Dawn Messer turned in is good performance netting four. Worthy and Murphy played effect- dve defensive ball.

Claudette McMillan got four for Rochliord Square and played a fast, dribbling game all the way. Gal- lant and Quinn dunked two each.

Line-ups:

P.S.S. - Smith 7. Messer 4, Murphy. Worthy, Piclrarcl, Wran. Perry. Vllhitlock.

R..S.S. - McMillan 4. Gallant 2. Reeves, Quinn, McMe.nus, Watson, Leclair, Duffy.

Hockey Tonighl

Amateur hockey playoffs ionight (Thursday): A'ennder Cup Semi-Finale: Sydney vs. Valleyfield at Mont- real; best-of-seven series tied 2-2. Allan Cap

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Final: Fort Frances at Owen Sound; p 'iret game of best-of-seven series. Memorial Cup Eastern Canada Final: g Barrie at Quebec; Barrie leads best-of-seven series 8-2.

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Regina Pals Even Series With Winnipeg

WINNIPBG. April 25 --(CP) -- hiddle Litzenbergefa goal at 1:67 in overtime tonight gave Regina Pan 3 4-3 victory over Winnipeg Monarchs and evened their Welt- ern junior hockey final series at three games apiece, with one game tied. El-ghth game is here Saturday night.

Nick Mickoslli Nas Operoiion

NEW YORK. April 25-(CP)- Nick Mlokoski, New York Rang- ersl left-winger, today underwent an operation to correct a recur- rent dislocation in his right shoul- der. '

Twice in the last two years the Winnipeg-born hockey player has been sidelined by the injury. Ranger officials said it is hoped today's operation will prevent further trouble. Mickoki was re- ported in good condition.

The Rangers also announced that Edgar Laprade. star centre who missed the last part of the season with a broken leg bone. is expected to be back in action next season. Edgar sent X-rays from his home in Port Arthur, Ont, which were examined by doctors today who said he will be recov- ered sufficiently to start next season.

Pitcher To File Demeges Suit

NEW YORK. April 3- (AP)- Jim Pren-dergast. Syracuse pitch- er traded to Beaumont of the Texas League but who did not re- port, said today he would file suit for sl60,0()0 damages against the Syracuse club in a challenge of baseball": controversial reserve clause.

Prendcrgast has retained Fred- eric Johnson. counsel for Danny Gardella in a similar suit against organized baseball, to take action for him.

Johnson said he will charge that the reserve clause is monopolistic and violates anti-tmsi laws.

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At the present rate pre-season work and preparation is progres- sing at the various local sporting centres it won't be long now be- fore bascball, golf and tennis enthusiasts will be getting their activities rolling for the summer season. Taking a short trip nround the respective centres yesterday afternoon one found workmen busily engaged in sprucing up and making the no- ccssary repairs, etc. to their club facilities and grounds in prepar- ations for their official openings. U 0 O 0

Work was commenced yester- day at Memorial Field to give the ball diamond its first treatment of the season, and today atten- tion will be given to the cinder track and the many other de- tails required to put the field in tip-top shape for the many events that will be taking place there during the next few months. Un- der the direction of Art Perry the infield was being given in thorough raking to rid it of stones and to prepare the surface for rolling. Many other details will also be taken care of in the next week or so.

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The players dugouts are to be given what necessary repairs are needed. and along with the east- end bleachers. will all be painted and readied for use. For so early in the season, the grounds are in excellent condition to facilitate the work being carried out for an early opening. Talking to officials at the grounds yesterday, they did have one request to make. as regards speeding the work along. They would ask all ball players to please refrain from using the diamond for practice during the next week or so. un- til the diamond has been properly rolled and made ready for use. This request also applies to youngsters playing around with their bicycles or engaged in play- ing scrub-ball etc. The Old Dia- mond near the main waterfront at Victoria Park is available to all who wish to hold practice sessions while the Memorial Field diamond is being put in shape.

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Preparations at the Charlotte- town Golf Club's Bel-vedere course have been underway now for the past couple of weeks and marked progress is being made in the readying of the greens and fair- ways far the official opening. Most of the work at present is being concentrated on the greens which are all being given a top- dresslng of clay, that when corn- pleted. will put them in A-I shape. There, too, the early sea- son is making the work much eas- ier this year ihan in previous ones and the course is expected to be well ahead of schedule in its op- ening this year..

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Giants And Athletics Continue Downward Path

New York Giants and Phil- adelphia Athletics, current Patsies of the majors, dropped their sev- enth and six straight games re- spectively in Wednesday's cur- tailed baseball activities.

The Giants collected eight hits to only five Philadelphia Phil: but were beaten 2-1 in a National League game at Philadelphia. as they left runners stranded on the

bases all day. In addition. they coaxed six passes off Ken Heintzelrnan. the winner. while

laser Larry Jansen did not allow a walk.

The Phlls made use of all but one of their safeties, scoring in the second and fourth.

The Athletics were shut out again by New York Yankees 4-0.

A dozen Athletics reached base ngnlnsl: Frank Shea but 10 were left stranded as they failed pt: score for the second straight day. Two double plays erased the

other Philadelphia runners in the American League game at New York. Alex Kellner yielded only seven hits. Billy Johnson got two of them-a single and double- drove in a run and scored an- other.

Chicago White Sox divided on American League doubleheader with St. Louis Brown: in Chi- cago. taklng the opener &6 and dropping the nlghtcap 7-4. The second game was played under the lights from the second inn-

ing on. The defeat in the second tilt was the first suffered by the

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Browns in 13 meetings this year. They whipped the St. Louis team

nine straight in spring exhibi- tlons.

A home run in the ninth by Ray Coleman gave the Browns

their victory in the afterpiece.

Ring Reminiscences

- Fights and Fighters - (By JAMES rennsnoasrn

Shortly after the bout with Bates I returned to Dawson by steam- boat. The trip back took ten days. It had taken only four days to go down to Fairbanks. The boat had a never-slackening pull against an average seven mile an hour cur- rent! was able to get about a hun- dred mllcs every twenty-four hours. it was about mid-July and day- light was continuous. The trip was a bit monotonous, but the food was good. The round trip ticket was fairly high--Sl35.00-but table fate was included. Judge M.cAulay of Dawson and his wife were a- board. They were affable, and the judge, being originally from one of the Irish settlements of the Niag- ara peninsula in Ontario. was a great story teller.

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I stayed in Dawson about two weeks and then left for Seattle via Whitehorse and skagway. I took the few hundred dollars I had Dre- vloualy deposited in the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Robert W. Service was then paying teller (in 1908). I was a bit uncertain about the number of hundred dollar bills I was to receive. He was amused. and made some joking remark- although he was of is reticent, backward disposition at that time. On the trip up river I was aur- prieed to see crops of apparently ripe wheat or barley on some small islands in the river. The almost continuous warm sunshine forces a crop very fast.

I saw a very fine field of pota- toes on 1-1aich's Island, two miles above Dawson. It looked to be about" five acres. It was owned by a Mr. Holland, who sold his crop

ing on It iihe Charlottetown Ten- nis Cluib courts at Victoria Park since the first of the week, and the work there is also progress- ing well. In addition to the l'BklllS and levelling of the six courts for rolling. work is also being carried on in the repairing of fences. spectators! benches, etc.. and the painting and odd finishing jobs in connection with the new club- house ia expected to be carried out shortly. The readying of the Knights of Columbus eouris at Victoria Park was also being car- ried out during yesterday in pre- paration for an early opening.

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at seven cents per lb. (all commod- ities were sold by the pound, or 100 pounds). Oats and hay were each sl00.00 a.i.on. I think it works out in about the same proportion as the price of oats and hay here. Mr. Holland's crop that year re- alized s4500.00, which was close to the price he paid for the island.

This Mr. Holland was from some part of the Eastern Townships in Quebec, He was a direct descendant of Major Holland who made the first survey of Prince Edward Is- land-I think it still had the French name Isle Ste. Jean at that time. And by the way. it may be news to lnost,of our people to be informed that this Province (P. E. I.) was the first British Province of all North America to be sur- veyed.

The Spaniards and French may have made previous surveys. No doubt it was selected on nt of its agricultural possibilities. N. 3., N. 13., Maine, Vermont. New Hampshire, and the other colonies right down to Carolina. were rocky and inhospitable looking compared with this colony.

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Mr. Holland showed me the let- ter to his ancestor Major Holland, from the Governor of the colony of New Hampshire. authorizing him to make a survey of this col- ony. It was written on parchment, in a beautiful Bpencerlan style of hand writing, which would bedone with a quill pen. It was worded in the moat courteous language. He kept it in a. large trunk with other souvenir possessions and prized it highly. If it could have been ac- quired it would have been quite an object of interest in the archives of this Province. E

Mr, Holland met his death by drowning in the Yukon the next summer. He used to drive from his island with a. horse in an ex- press wagon to the road near the bank of the river. The road was a. sort of higher causeway across a slough (pronounced slew). During the short interval of time he was at the island the water had risen and contrary to other years was running fast in the slough with the result that the horse and carriage and himself were carried into deep water and he lost his life.

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I came "outside" then to Seattle. where my brother worked. stayed a week or ten days. and then left for P. E. Island via Boston. Called at the old Field's Corner car station. Supt. Wilkins told me I was just the man they wanted to see. A ten thousand dollar iidamage" case against the Boston Elevated had been adjourned and pending for the two and a half years that l was away. I came home to P.E.l. then and next month went back to Boston to testify. I had "touched" a brewery team at Roxbury cross- ing while driving a car. There was

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B.I.S. ANNUAL MEETING

The Postponed Annual Meeting of the BENEVOLENT IRISH SOCIETY will be held in WEI-JLAN HALL TUESDAY, MAY lat, AT 7 P. M.

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Baseball iiandings

NATIONAL St. Louis , 4 2-667 Philadelphia 5 3-525 Brooklyn .5 3-ms Boston . 6 .600 Chicago . 4 3-.571 1-2 Pittsburgh 4 3-571 l-2 Cincinnati . 2 6-250 3 New York 2 3-.1104 American League

Cleveland . . . . . . . . . .857 Washington .

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Montreal 3 l .750

Baltimore 4 2 .667

Toronto 2 2 .500

Buffalo 3 3 .500

Rochester 1 2 .333

Springfield 1 4 .200

Ottawa 1 4 .200

...:a..aa..ma..... no damage to either car or team. but there was a shyster lawyer on the car, and he persuaded the persuaded the teamster to enter the big suit for damages. The lawyer tried to beiuddle me. but the judge made it easy for me. and the big case was finished. Junk men and brewery teamsters made it quite a "racket" in those times to get hit by an electric car and then sue the company for dam- ages. 0 O 0

Billy Hamilton, then sport writer on the Boston Traveller. who man- aged my little boxing affairs. ar- ranged with Sam Langford's man- ager. Joe Woodman. for me to go down to Northboro and box daily with Sam. The proprietor of the training camp was Harry Oath. In company with Sam was George Byers, originally from Charlotte- town, and another colored boy named Bloto or Fioto (or some such name). He was a rubber and general utility man. Iain was training for a bout with Philadel- phia Jack O'Brien. There wasn't at that time many big purses for boxing. except for a world's cham- plonship bout. but there were 51.- 000.00 "houses" in New York City for "catchwelght" bouts. It was coming on fast. s

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Sam was rated as one of the best. He was a. faithful trainer. put in a lot of hard work. He went for a fast walk and run first thing Nfter breakfast, which 'as at 7 o'clock, then a shower bilth. Then a rest till noonday meal. Af- ter lunch six or seven rounds of boxing. then rope skipping and medicine" ball throwing. and punching the light bag. I don't remember any heavy bag in the training quarters. Sam was short in stature. I think his height was 5 feet, 7);. inches. He was very broad across the shoulders. nearly as broad as Tom sharlrey the sail- or. I asked him one day how he got such shoulder muscles. He told me he had been chopping boss in the Maine lumber woods for seven years. That was enough said. I think there is no kind of work can beat axe work for physical development and Judgment of dist- arice.

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Sam was a bit backward and stand-offlah at first. but soon got friendly and confidential. Ha ap- peared to take a. hereditary pride in the commercialized business of boxing. He was born and brought up in Weymouth, N. 5.. and had a clannish liking for all "Down Easters". He took I. quiet pride in telling me about his father beating a. P. E. 1. man called Mcoarthy in the Miramichi logging woods in a camp championship bare knuckle fight. l figured that it could have been one of the Mccarthy men of Lot 7. who were local champio

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LONDON. April 25 -(Reuters) -If they built a atldlum to hold 1.000.000 spectators they'd have no trouble filling it at least once during Britain's sports year-for the final of the English soccer cup.

For every one of the 100.000 who'll Jam Wembley stadium Sat- urday to see Newcastle United meet Blackpool in the most glam- orlzed game of the soccer season, at least 10 more fans would glad- ly give eye teeth to get inside.

They might not see a great game; many cup finals of the past have been disappointing as ex- hibltlona of soccer. But they'd see the club of two fighting football clubs who have emerged the only un-beaten outfits of the 673 amat- cur and professional squads that get foot on the Wernbley trail last all.

This year's contest ” , up as a one-sided display with Black- pool figuring as hot form favor- ites to whip the Goaltown team easily.

Since the Lancashire lads won their cup semi-final last month they have racked up seven wins in 10 starts in league contests while over the some period New- castle has won only once in 11 games. Newcastle's once-potent forward line has failed to score a single goal in its last five home games.

But bookies. remembering other cup Sinai upsets, are cagily laying odds ranging only as high as 5 to 4 against Newcastle to trim the tangerine-and-white-clad team from Blackpool.

Blackpool are more colorful of the two squads with their demon forward combination of centre Stan Mortensen and right wing Stanley (Wizard of Dribble) Mot- thews. perhaps the greatest ball- conirol player soccer has ever pro- duced.