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we had a letter from Dr. Dave MacKcnzie dated Azusa, Califor- nia. the other day....”Lorrly weather here. Attended the hur- iicss racing at Santa Anita yester- day. Good racing with close nu- islies. We leave here today for Montreal for a two weeks visit wiili Dr. D. W. Jiinlor and lxlis. at .1 Grove Park. Wcstniount. mm on to P E. I." Dr. Dave flllll airs. 1iatKenzie's many friends llfif' will be delighted in wt-lcoine tilt-iii mrk While retired iroin p"ii-- Iirr. Dr. Dave has one of the . est rniable reputations as a sui-.;iun in Canada, and in his spec-tally is iiiisurpasscd anywhere.

A. D. Napke, genial seeretai',i' of the Chatham, N.B. race it . has forwarded us the followingl i. of nominators for the 31.000 lUl'.'i'l- nui-hi 230 class pace stake, which will bc raced at Cliathuni. July lst. It will be noted that they u:e L. in number and come from ia- rious parts of the Maritime Pio- lill('('SI

A. if. Carver. Vernon River. 1'. iii, Edwarti Cele. Hunter ltiiir, l'.I2 I. A. B. Cutclifle. Ch-.irloiti-- imiii. P.E.I.; A.B. Cuicliffc. Char-

Loitetown, P. E. I : F. C. Coates, Amherst, N. S.; Charles J. Craii, Hillllil-V. N. C L. Dauphiizce,

llalifax. N.S.. Williain Flemininz, liltillielu N..B.; George Guergis. suininerslde, P.E.I.; George Iri- inc. Rexton, N. B.; F. Kennedy, riuro. N. S.; Herb Killam, Sus. sex, N.B.; W.P. MacArthur. Shed. iac. N. castle. N. 13.: N. A. Rcnton, Mime- inn. N. B.: Strang and Monaglian, Clxarlottetown, P. E. 1.; J. S. Watt. (935130. P. Q.: John J. Watson, Parkton, N.B.; Wilfred Walkci. Halifax. N. S.: Vernon Polcv, C-ampbellto,n N. 8.; A. D. Napke, iiowcastle, N. 8.

Last. year this event was won by Joe Eves. owned by James S. Watt. Gaspe, Que. and driven by Wib Jardine, with 1-1-2, Surpizse Lady. owned by James s. Watt and driven by Edgar Shirley. was 3-3-1: Mr. McGee (Dewitt; six .other starters; time 2.2.. .', " 25:. 2.22. The management of the Chatham track deserves great credit for promoting this big stake war after year and carrying it hrough together with nrcnmp-.u .- mg races so successfully. Year aco Chatham was C0llSlClDlT'(l the fastest. track in the Maritime Pm. VIHCES HINT for S9i'f'l'al )'Pal'S hrifl the Maritiine trotting record of

'.!.10. set up there by The Expo.sri'.J

owned by H. C. Jeweit of Fl'P(liT. iclon. N. B.

We are glad to have the follow- ng from our good friend James 5.. Head of Truro. one of the kccnest observers in harness hut" .'-cs in the Maritime Provinces. ii man who has seen all the gtieii ones for the past. fifty or mori- .icars..."l am glad Joe O'Brien is continuing to be sn siiceetssfiil. There is no doubt. but that he is one of the very best drivers in America. Gillespie has been so successful in getting so many entries for Illi' i-oil. stakes. The fact that. Home Week has offered classes for them and Triiro Raceway will make it worth while for owr- rrs to train and race their rolls 1 llls'F. to read about. the racps m We ""18 890 in Down the Hark Stretch. I have seen many of them. Regarding the mare. Km. rina from Saint John. I saw her race in Amherst. It was away back when Parkside, owned by the late W. A. Brennan of Summerside. Illd Stranger raced in Amlii-,i-st Fred Cameron was there with it 33y mare by Parksidc. owned by the late Charles Chandler. It was tough racing in those days-soiiie- times all afternoon until dark and they would finish the next. day. I was out to the Triiro track oi. Slmdlill and it has dried i.p splendidly and horses are working over lt."...Tlianks, friend Jiin. it 5 MVVHYS 800d to hear from you

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The Charlottetown Driving Pail: '.1t.-c inaiiagcnient are pianniiig 1'0? tic biggest season's rziciiig of all line. as will be noted by their 'ii'0gl'aln issued with early Cl0Sll'lf" 'lllfl stakc events. We undcrst- nd that night racing will be on Mi- 'iay and Saturday and in addition in the stake races early closing: illlllft will be the iisiiiil ii.isli -veiils. so that all'ii-om-rs ..;,.i iiacers will have in chance in show their mettle. With the splendid accommodation. the jogging till- tisr track in the centre and fill: wcrllent. half mile strip. horsts trained there slit-iiild he take the word in fine shape :or the opening night of June 28th

At present the following horses are at the track: Len 0”Meati.'s Stablc-Miss Knox 2.09”... Dean Swift 2.10, Suffolk Chief 2, owned by Cmdr. C. H. Buntaln; Essa 2.l23li. New Forest 2, 2.33?.'.. tnow three). Bell Hop 2. and the two- ycgr-old trottier Robert Lee. owned lay.-Mrs. James Poulton: ilic Ll1l'Bf:- year-old pacer Betty Play. owned od by 0. H. Sutherland. Sydney. and Quick Lick 2.10-?r'., owned by John Mncncan. soul-is. and Lens Pal, owned by George Gregory. Anointing trainer 0'Meai-n are Ed Downo and "Doc" Lawlor. Austin Tierney stable-the three-ycar-old pacer Wayne Budlong. owned ly Ray Keenan: the two-year-old pacer Roy Harvester, owned by Boy Gone: and the four-year-old pacer Robin Clegg, owned by Hugh Simpson. Jr. Eric Moi-eslde stable ,dm.......m.m.....,m..g

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V-the ll'i)ll('l' T-.iriiiii :3.iti'-., oivne.l lb). Major '1'. B. Rogers; the pacer Worthy Erininc ;'.0ll-;.. owned by Myion hell: the piicer Holly Hor- ivcster. owned by Bert. Straiig; a two-yeiir-old by Pagliucci and a illiree-.veai'-old by Kalmuck. oun-

iril by Eric. 1)r. R. I-'. Se-atnan iSt:ilili- the twti-year-old troll.-:r .iu.:i A Sqiiirc. the ftiiir-yeal'-uld it-oiiri u'nyiiiai'k. the iiaciiigiiiaire villlfil h':iiitli'ii llllfl the Iirooti niairc ljqhgi 3;-Hy 2,101. They are being Iiiiuicti by llcic .N1cKi-nu. Tile 'H(ii':ici' Willis Siiiblc--Argzot Poi - Ker 1.117. .l.S .l, '.'lli... Bud Cil- chatti: the lliice-ycai'-old lrottcr iBig Boy and a three-ycai'-old

lirotttir by llagliiicci. They are in lehurge of traiiit-r lion-.irri liIcK'.',i'. lDui'iup 10.31 the Cliarlutir,:nvn Driviiii: Part; lriicl-: i'c'.itui'ed ..'lri dashes and ii total of 1,027 horses faced the Stiiriiiip, Gate in these cveiits. lllildi' up as follows: 138 .p, I. owned horses. 45 lslcnd iowncd coils and 41 horses from othir parts of the Maritimcs. iiiinkiiiv. il l0l'ill oi 2.111 horses. ”l1his ioiistiiiitcs 2.07 per cent. "JI the horses sliiriiiig under the U S. 'l'. A.

issue of the Canad- ltlll lierse and 'l'horouglibred ii fciziiire article entitled. Make Way for Lee Harvester, a sire of Quality. Al. 33 he is the daddy of Canada's top Standard Breds. Lee H'ill'YCSlCl' was foaled at the farm of J. 0. McAllister, 1.exington,Ky., in the spring of 1919 and was sired by the then world's cham- pion trotler Lee Axworthy 1621'... His d-.iiii. Williiia H. was by The Harvester 2.01. ioviner world's champion troti.in;: stallion that was purchased by C.K.G. Billings for Sf2l.000. Lee Harvester was placed in the hands of Clllllllrl .Dcan for early training and iii ihis thi-cc-year-oltl form took a irecord of ;!.16'.. Injuries prevented him from lowcriiig this record and he was sent to the auction and became the property of P. Vandelac of Montreal, Que. A couple of years later he was sold to F. Stewart Scott, owner of the Maiichcster Stock Farms. Gait Ont. There he sired a total of 182 ii-otters and 95 pacers.

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.' Onr ti-otter. Lee lvliinover. look a rccorri of 2.00 and two took re- gcnids nl 205. while three of lll5 jp.tci'rs took l'Pf'tll'flS of 2.05 or net- Icr. Not only that but his sons and diiiicliicrs have produced 23

troltcrs and 48 ii:it'ei's in the iisi.i

The best known of his get in the Rliirilinirs is that flulstlllldlllil ,llTlil.”I' l.cc Brciier 2.(itl:,,tliat was co-hoi(lci' at one time of the Charlottcinun track trotting rc- 'coi'd which was then 2.071;. A 'few years ago Lee Brewer. el- ithnugh well along in years. made :1 retuiii to the race ovals and Tsliimtil all his old time. spe.-d. islllilfllllllts he uoultl hn many ilengths in irniit of his opposition iliut. wnitld then tit-cidt-. to let up. lT'lC ccitiiinly caught the fancy of the crowd and will not soon be

I am also glad that Bl” .-0l.,lm.n,n. A. pl.(.s(.m he holds the Saints are liuiltiing for the Mori- Montreal

Wr air wont to ililnk of ihc llalians as being very. very poor. abut evidently there is some money iiloating around as last Maicn -30th was heralded as one of the lereatesi race days ever in Italy. :Thc big event was the Interra- S tional . "Preinio Lolieria Naziomile"

tfor a purse of 15 million hie, icqual to about 325,000 in Anteri- caii money. It was the richt:s'i'

purse ever to he raced f'or over an Italian course. There were three elimination heats each with a rpurse of one and one-half inillicn lll'P and the three first horses in each eliinination race were .0 islail in the deciding race on the isnnic day for ii purse of seven 'lIlllllOll lite, and there were t.'.n iconsolatioii races the same day with purses of two million lire. Tile dccidliig heat was one of tile fiislesl. races ever held nrer all iltziliiin half mile track and the lwiiincr wiis Birbonc. who reduced ihis rt-eorti to 2.06-'.-. for a distance '01 1."i'tl0 inetrcs 1('qlli'il to about lotto niilc-. Birboiic is now one oi lihr fnslesi lsnliiiii bred trotters. illis sire was fiireriio 4. 205'.-.. a lElll'()lW:lIl in-rd champion four iyt-or-old son of The l.:iIll'el Hall .2n2'., it-nmrtril lrnin tlw.L'niietl 'Sintt-s yo-ni-s ago. lnverno's dam its Caliiniri. Clancy 2. 2.091;. also .o.xpoi-tcd from the United States.

by Clyde ilic Gr: :1 12.01.-;, :1 linrsi: that raced well in the U. S. year: ago. Birbonc's winning of this stake makcii him lop money win- ning Itallmi bred trottcr with earnings of about s56,000 in Air.- erlcan money.

Cnstleton Farm, like other great breeding farms in the United States. employ soil chemists at regular interval.-i to test their pas- tures and other soils and report what deficiencies there are iirid the possibility of coping with them. A recent soil test. revealed it ran from "high to very high" in available phosphorus; "medium to high" in available potassium: and that the acid content ranged from ino acid to moderate." The Ler- ington. Ky. nursery had a com- plete soil analysis in every field and from several locations. Penn manager Francis McKlnzle is new in the process of adding Ammoii- ium Nitrate fertiliser to the toil. All fields that scored "medium" in potash content will have 200 pounds of muriate potash added per here. All fields that turned in a "moderate" degree of acidity are belng spread with two tone of lime.

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LITTLE SPORTI

QUEBEC. April 25-(CF)-Queh liee Aces "just gotta get up off the floor" and win the Alexander Trophy. Coach Punch lmlach said ioniglii.

Saint .loliii Beavers. Maritime Major Hockey League champions, slapped Aces down Thursday night with a 6-0 victory, their first in four starts against Que- bec. The win was "well deserved" by the Easterners, said lmlach.

Aces have to wake up Satur- day night and "show their stuff". After a bad start Thursday- Beavers took a 3-0 lead in the first period-Aces didn't play like the Quebec Senior League cham-

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kids. unable to get ll proper chance to develop their hoe- key talent duc to the lack of ti rink in their town, are being given every opportunity to learn their baseball. Last summer Summersicl: started something worthwhile when

they brought in "Chick" wizclaniliions that they are. he said. from Boston to teach the yourii:z- Pl-1.vigruz CONN -l0hnnY 0'FlYlll- szcrs the iuiidameiitol points of PFLV did!” hill"? much 10 503'

me game. Tm mom 0; mo Du... about the win. "We'll play them

cling is in the eating and when it '3'” M ”, ”'l"'i" ,

came time to take part in the Is-. H" 5.3” Healers f'”,3"y Ni” '

land playdowm the summemueibreak in the final series for the

teams in the pee-wee midget and '"”."'y' They Wm "Md A0 be on

bantam classes walked away with umr '0” Smurdny beC"."5"' Ac”

me Hues. lneed only one more victory to twrap up the best-of-seven fixture.

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. ,, , lmlach was unabashed. "One v3Q?i?-- 37.1”. ci'-5.Z'23".f.iL””.5...-..'?.?3.!Mitt amt" "M the W”- ed to bring in Johnny Carroll. a!'w;3'(',m.(,,.S top-notch outfielder from Duke Un- iskmim, smDo.h,pnssmK bunch. iversity. With the ciriphasts bclliifr-Thm. 'p,.oV.,d it in 1;", Hrs: placed on Little League ba.scbail.Ip(.,i,,'d -1-hm.sdM.' '1-hm set our "115 m0V0 Will 328111 Pay 0” m""1'lhoys back on their heels and we scme dividends. These kids, ivhoimiipd to recover," one Ace broke are free from morning to night in his skates. another had an M- the summer months. will learn howllru-k of recurrent he.-ii-i palpita- to make the doiibic ploy. slide intuitions and the team was so shaken bases field ground balls. play the by the Saint John splurge that outfield and know how to do it cor-lthe game was lost right then. rectly. Not only will they win thcl Two QHCDECCFS may be 0"! Of

Island titles but they will be iiieisnturdnrs came. Marcel Bonin

remain a good. fusi-

most likely to go up the basciiziii suffered a shoulder inlury and ladder. ,Armanti Guudretiult came out o o - iwiih an illness. It will not be

l We would like to see the kids iniklww" um” hem” ”i'""9""” if

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

Acesi. Coach Admits Beavers Deserved Win

lleTvin'iiFCTulT” Takes lead In Hoop Series

The Charlottetown Ncwinaii Club defeated the Basilica Youth Club basketball team 52-42 Wednesday night in the second game or a round robin series between the i3. Y.C., Newman Club, and Queen Square School.

Lorne McGuigan and Joe Revell led the Newman Club attack with 19 and 1'! points respectively. Ber- nie MacDonald was high scorer for the losers with l6 points.

The Newman Club led 2l-20 at the end of the first half.

Summary:-

Newman Club: Macculgan 19, Revell 17. Connors 4. R. MacDon- ald 8. Knys 4, Reid 0. Total 52.

B. Y.C.: G. Burgc 6. Beagan i, McDonald 16, Ready 10, McClus- kcy 6. Total 42.

In the first game of the series the Newman Club defeated Q. S. 8. 43-28. Revcll was high scorer for the winners with 15 points while George MacGulgnn led the school team with 16.

Summni'y:-

Newman Club: Revell 15. Mac- Guigan 14, MacDonald B, Kays 4, Connors 0, Reid 0, Kelly 2. Total 43

'Q.s.s.: MacDonald 2, Kelly 0, MacQuai'rlc 2. MacGuigaii 16, Gil- lis 6. Smith 0, Hughes 2. Carroll 0. Total 28.

u I Biltmnres Win GUELPII. Oiit.. April Xi --(CPI

-Guelph Biltniores .svi1iir.tped Re- glna Pats ii-2 tonight in the first game oi their best-of-seven series for the Memorial Clip. emblematic

of the Canadian junior hockey championship.

town Islanders. Mr. Oiand said:

”Empluit.ieally not. Before Field left he decided he was not inter- ested in anybody in the Big Six other than some of our own play- ers. However. a number of play- ers with other clubs have been in touch with Field. offering their

Trout streams. brimming from bank to bank with swift water, are foaming seaward and giving anglers who prefer stream fishing considerable trouble in controlling their offerings of Garden I-tackles. One may know where the snug under bank liideouts of the trout are but guiding one's bait into such dr.-inched nooks is another matter. Unless one is equipped with a weighty sinker the blob of worms will surface many feet downstrea'm.

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The majority of good catches this past week have come from dams where the water is held reasonably stationary. Encouraging reports are coming in regarding the "by pass" dams constructed by the Department of Industry and Natural Resources this past few years. Even dams built last sum- mer iire producing sea trout up to two pounds in weight. Instead of being held up in the holes below the splllway, as in the case of the

services. It could be .some of these players will joi "

i of things the City kids are going to

AMEIIIC-AN LEAGUE A Chicago .: impart his knowledge. is needed on 51. NATIONAL LEAGUE definite about nr-.xt year's hockey liilt, Wilks (9) and Garagiola. itrail looking for tzilcitl iiiitl rc- well.

Echmqouemwn got some of .m51tlieylll don the uniform Saturday. lcoaching. This year. by the looks ' GTE get the best baseball break tlicw ever got. through the orgaiiizatinr. . 4 lot a minor ieoziie. They will liiivcg C1 .cvery opportunity to play ball and: . v.hen they are out there they niay:C'l 'l d W 3 '1' as well bc learning the eorre:.'.i Memo pm W Kmmedv way, someone with fl sound know-1'9, and'Lo"ar. wyfm aim Hes”; ledge of the panic and the time to ' ' ' Louis . 000 330 000mG 12 2 Titlsburgh . 000 001 030-4 8 O i ' ' ' . Staley. Brazle (8! and Rice. 1 The first siiitenieiil of llll)'illll1,'I3Mul1'. Wang (5), Kline (6), Wang plans conic front Col. Vie Olnnil Cincinnati 20000000!-3 5 0 of the liiilifiix Saiiits last night. Chicago . 00103030:-7 9 l .Aci-ording to ('ol. Oliind tho Blackwell. Jordan (7), Byerly iS.'iints arr iiliwitiy on the Iiut-koy 1'7) and Seminick; Kelly and Al- gardlcss of what leiiguc ihcy are INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE is pretty pliiin that the Syracuse 100 100 000 03-5 8 .'l . 001 000 001 Mm! 9 1 . 111 innings:

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1 H . - ,. . . . t . pt g'iime cliniupinnsliip. 5.22:: - - - - i nonom-tween 'drivcn liv I-Iininett Bernard aiidl Ammli ill" ill”-”"'5 ”:'-''"'il '0" (U' imd Dmschen Mcxmdu" l'(llS0'lllfl-ll'0llllllZ record of V2.13-"Jinexl year is .1 Clinrlutititown lmii. HUS)”-'5 U9). Mm-'4 (11) NW C .- v ' -, 3' 1947' d-"M lOrin Carver who piayeii with the Th0mD50"- ””S0'g:E- S11:-:rliisiKll;cll(.)U Hunlllalifax Juniors for the past two Bllmllfl 000 000060-3 3 I ' C iycars. Carver was one of the best OHIWI 000 399 H0-4 10 3

Birrcr. Marlowe 18). Jordan tit-. and Cicsielskl: Hrabscak. Murray tilt: Swingle tin and Folios. 3 Springfield 100 001 500-7 10 4 Rochester 002 121 000.-6 16 4

Ihde, Simpson, Jacobs. Dobernic and Burbrink; Tiefenauer, Crim-g lam, Swartz. Faszhold, Lewaoow-1' ski and Bucha. I Baltimore ....l02 010000-4 I 0

.- . Toronto ....'llO 020 001-5 9 0 . I l S::C:r3"rO,:":n'f".::.:,:::: Mme hr” Starr, Donnelly (9) and Oswald; t . . . . Fahr and Anderson.

The Sninls may Iiaw iroiihle ' find teams to keep pace with 0 them if they ii.-we ti ieiim of m:i- o 0 Major Calibre Hockey Team

jor league t-iilihrt-. llowt-vor, (Tol. Oland's statement should set ilic wheels in inoiion and stir the HALIFAX, Apr. 25-(CF)-Hnlb fax St. Mary' are planning for a'-1 major calibre ockey team next

forw.-irils the junior Saints when they carried the Maritime colors into the Eastern Canadian playdowns lliis'spring. Another Cliarloli:-town player whom the Saints are trying to secure is Lorne llcnnesscy o line-mate of Carver's and n eapiiblc performer. Boili llt-nnessey iind Carver would probably enter (iol. ()l:ind's

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other centres into some sort of action. We believe the Saints would like to see the Islanders in II league wiili them In view of the gate nilraction the lslnaders have proved rliiring the past two years. The Islanders return to big iirnc hockey was quite a boost

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lo the game in llalifnx. ii man season even though the future of connected with the hockey pIe- the Alexander Cup series isn't turn in the Nova Scoliii cnpiial known.

"Look at it this way." -3,, sident Victor oiiind .1-2, we operated an Allan Cup l" oitr salaries for players wo down about one third." A '

"But. that would be the saving. Transportation. equlpm . and all the other expenses of run him: it hockey club would be 5 same."

when Coach Wilt Field Halifax I few days ago he wgg told to scout for major series players.

"I don't know if the league will

told its srvr-ral weeks ago.

New Yorkjiglils

NEW YORK. April '25 - iAPl- BOl)b)' Dylier. making his first start ilnce his split-decision title loss to welicr champion Kid Gav- ilan, gate Ted Murray a sound whipping tonight at St, Nicholas Arena to win a unanimous 10- round decision. Dykes weighed 15.1

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1-2. Murray :47.

Warming slowly to his task. Dykes first outboxed Murray and then sliced him up. felntlng Mur- ray into wild swings. lie stabbed the New York Negro'I left eye shut. Blood streamed from Mur- ray's nose and mouth from the