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The many friends of Jim Pen- dergast, Kcnaington, will be pleas- cd to know that he is back home after spending several weeksin hos- pital in Moncton. However. he will have to remain quiet for a couple of months loneer so we cannot ex- pect to see our genial Jim out around until the middle of June at least. There are few indeed, who through life ve radiated as much giadness as lg Jlm". Years ago we counted one of our best holi- days taking part in his New Annan races. As a young man he was quite versatile in sport, being an ac- complished all round athlete ex- celling in boxing. with the champ- ionship of the Yukon once dang- ling among his souvenirs. and it may also be said thntiit took more zhan ordinary fortitude and cour- age to get to the Yukon in the days of long ago. On the athletic fields Jim is now represented by sons who are worthily carrying a air athletic traditions

One of the big sales vendues of every Spring is staged by the Snratoga Horse Sales Campany at Saratoga Race Track, New York. 'l'his year over me horses are cata- logued. some of them with fast re- ('Ol'd5 and others colt speed pro- spects, as the ad says.. Proven 1'-ace horses. green prospects, brood mares, ilirec-year-ulds. two-yer.r- nlds and yezirlings .....At ten o'cl':clr. Tuesday morning when Murray Kay banged his gavel and start- ed his spiel on number one to be nuctioned. as he looked out among 1119 large crowd attending he would no doubt notice curly Bevan. Ran- kin Mc1.aine, Willard Kelly ard Willard MacDonald all armed with catalogues and ready to make bids if the right type of race prospect showed up. We trust they will not come back empty handed. or rat.'i- or without buying something that has speed and can make competi- tion for the rest of us in the Gar- den of the Gulf. New horses al- ways create new excitement and help the racing game.

A fire at the Exeteir Park race track. Exetcr. Ontario, destroyed six horses. their harness. carts. sulkiss and other equipment, as well as a quanlty of hay and.feI:d. Among those that perished was Amber Grattan 2.08 2-5. that last year was the leading winner of heats or dashes in America with 40 to his credit out of 62 starts. .A Charlottetown horseman cor- responded with his owner, Thomas Yearley of Crediton, Ontario, with a. view to purchase, but the price was beyond his resources, Mr. Yearley considering that he had a two-minute pacer in Amber, that was eligible to the 2.17 class, and he planned staking him extensive- ly. Mir. Yearley also had mother pacer. Buddy Grattan, a four-year- old with a record of 216 as a

- three-year-old, and he was also lost

in the fire.

Years ago we met Mr. Yearley when on the hunt for a Gratt-in pacer. He was the man that ibrauaht out Roy Grattan 2.01 1-4, a big winner on the Grand Circuit for Torrimy Murphy and afterwards raced in Maine Free for Alls by the late Bill Cummings. Mr. Yearley also brought out Louie Grattzn 2.00. that was given her record and own many Grand Circuit races for Vic Flemming. Still another pacer Mr. Yearley gave his lessons to and sent on the road to fame was Oliver Grattan 2.00, that rac- ed in the Maritime: aftuwards. Everyone who knows Mr. Yearley will regret the very unfortunate loss that he and the other horse- men have had.

The controversy over who had ithe honor to first install a. plant for night racing in Canada stll. goes on. we have claimed the hon- or for Edgar Ml1ligan's plant at lNortham. Now the Canadian sportsman states that in its files they find that a nightgrace mcet fwas held in Ohatham, Ont.. in 0030 and another one in 1931 and nuote from their edition of Febru- ary 3rd. 1900... "Night harness horse racing is to have a tryout In Canada. W. C. Crummer of chat- liam. the hustling horseman of Western Ontario. is going to put this over. He hands out the an- nouncement thatln the lastweek of June he will stage a two night race meet in Chatham." In the edition of June lath, 1900, we read that "a two night meeting at chahasn was 0 successful event. The lighting

effects were good, the track was fast and the races keenly contest-ed W. C. Crurnmer is to be congratu- lated on the success he has made in giving Ontario the first night night race meet." This semis dc- finitely to establish Ontario's claim to be the first to establish night racing in Canada.

W. C. Drummer will be remem- berai for the fine contest he put up in the Free For All with Guy the Tramp at Charlottetown. August 24. 1934. Many will remem- ber that race which was to have taken place the previous afternoon but a downpour of rain made postponement necessary. Curlou-:ly enough when it was pouring rain at the Exhibition grounds half mile away at Victoria Park the S'lTl was out. The next afternoon was bright and sunny at the Exhibition grounds and the spectators there watching the thrilling Free For All could see the rain pouring down across the river. Toll Gate 2.00 3-4. owned and driven by 1-1. M. Swee- ney, Bi-idgewatcr. N. 5., won in three straight heats with Guy ti.-e Tramp 2-2-2, Sampson Hal 3-4--8. Hunter 1-ledgewood 6-3-4. Calumet Brownie 5-6-3. Darkey Grattan 4- 5-5. Time, 2.06 3-4. 2.05 3-4, 2061-2. The middle heat was a new track pacing record, afterwards lowered to 2.05 1-2 by Bud wenger in 1930

The night previous to the race ; fire broke out which destroyed some twenty stalls in a very short time. some horses were turned out loose and Guy the Tramp was one of them, but they were rounded up quickly and placed in stalls in the Riding Club area. People were as.- tonished when they arrived in the afternoon to see all the debris cleared away and a new fence some 200 feet in length fitted in betwecn the space previously occupied by the burnt stalls. We could get a move on then when necessary.

A recent letter from Joe O'Brien, Del Mar. California, gives us Egan Hanover 1.59 as his pick for the 350,000 Golden West Trot which will be raced at Santa Anita. Sat- urday, June 10th. and he picks Dr. Stanton 2.00 for the 550,000 Golden West Pace which will be raced there June 17th.

. Matt MacAda.m, Glace Bay, who developed Redwood Gratfon 212 2-5 and after a winning race last spring. stepping a half mile in 1.02 2-5, sold him to Harry Hirsth, Sydney, has what looks to be I very promising trotter by Bimcoe I-Iarvcster, dam by Great Scott. third dam by Colonel Aubrey. she is a mare with splendid size and appearance and although not hav- ing much track experience shows a. very smooth way of going and is well liked by everyone who has seen her. our best wishes to Matt and our hopes that he will bring out another real prospect this sea- son--this time a trotter.

Howard de Freitas. publicity wri- ter for saratoga Raceway. saratoga springs. N. Y.. has released a nice write up of Del Madravish. a scotch Canadian... Once again Mas'I'avlsh seems to have the mak- ings of a fonnidable public stable.

The 38-year-old owner, trainer and driver checked in at the Race- way only last week but fellow horsemen are already impressed by the conditions and calibre of the eight horses that he wintered at his home in Lachute, Que. Mac admits that his pupils gained be- tween 100 and 300 lbs. apiece dur- ing the winter, even though each was jogged seven or eight miles a day. They are fat but they're as hard as nails, comments the sandy- haired reinsman, who is the father of five children.

booming as the real cracks of the stable is the fiery little trotter Hasty Pete and the rugged pacing gelding Mamscot. Long regarded as a potential star Hasty Pete finally came into his own last fall at the spa and later at Roosevelt Rece- way where he earned his record of 2.07 3-5. He is heavily staked for the saratoga summer meet'ng June 19-August 26, and promises to be tough. Mamscot. a sensation as a green performer last year, paced in 2.05 3-5 at the Raceway fall meeting and the powerfully built five-year-old by Highland Scott may be shooting at the mark before the 1960 season is far Id-

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CHARLOTTETOWN

The Charlottetown Victoria cage- men certainly came up with an

impressive performance at the Prince of Wales College Auditorium floor last night. They not on'.v walked off with the Island Juv- enile Championship basketball honors over Summerside Juveniles but came up with the highest scoring game that has been chalk- ed up by a local tenin in any div- ision for a. good many years. The smooth working hoopsters. flipped home 47 field goals and 14 foul shots for a total of 108 points while limiting their opponents to 39 points. . . .

In fact, if one had time to check records. we would probably fin-l that they were breaking them all over the lot. Turning out with

eleven men on their roster, every.

man on the team garnered at least cne point, with sharpshooting Charlie 1-line netting 13 field goals and four free tosses for 30 indiv- idual points, while teammate Jari: McAndrew ran him a close second on scoring honors with a total of 26 points. The Howatt-couched local crew never had one man ion: out and only picked up a total of 14 personal fouls in all. 0 O 0

Although taking a bad trounclng. the Summerside boys were game right to the last. and gave it e'.'- erything they had at all times, and considering they only had a skel- eton crew of seven men to worn with, saw every man on their team but one, come up with Iscorlng points. with Bill Stewart and Ps.i.l Schurman heading the parade with 15 and L1 points respectively. They too, came up -with a cleanly play-2-cl performance, collecting only four more personal fouls than the loc- als, with only one man fouling out with the maximum five.

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There was no doubting the Vlcs superiority on the play. as the score shows. but they are a much more experienced team who play- ed all through a tough City Juv- enile League this season, while the Suznmerside boys. we understand, have no local court of their own and have to depend on the avail- ability of the R.C.A.F. station floor there. which limits their practice and playing time to a minimum.

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It has been.an outstanding per- formance that the Vics have turn- ed in this season. Competing in the five-team City Juvenile League, they topped out the regular sched- ule with only one loss in eight starts. sweeping through the semi- final and final series without a loss for the City title, the youngsters continued on info Provincial play to take the series in straight games for a total of 12 wins in 13 games played in scheduled competition. This column extends its congrat- uiationsto the Juvenile Vlcs hoop- sters and their coach Harold "Red" 1-lowatt for an enviable perform- ance thia season. In our opinion. a. team like that should be sent into Maritime Juvenile champion- ship play.

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Yes. We were the fortune-tellers who picked the Detroit Red Wings to take the Stanley Cup champ- ionship playoffs in five games at the most. And is our face red. What is more. if the Tommy Ivar.- coached wings don't come up with something more encouraging in their performance by tonight. than they have in the last two games against New York Rangers, it is going to be even redder.

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If we remember correctly. in picking Detroit at the time, then: was a clause somewhere in our prediction that the well-knov.n iiiahman, Clancy, might lower his boom. if we extended our neck too far. And right now that "-boom" has reached a point of descent that is anything but comfortable to that tender portion of our anatomy.

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Although we admit that our "crystal ball" seemed quite clear at the time of our forecast, it has DJ- come a bit cloudy since. and there seems to be one or two things T-he'll now that weren't there the first time. However, we picked them. and come rain or shine, we'll stick with them in the hope that they can still climb out of the "frying pan" without landing in the "fire."

Games Over The Vleeifnd

National :-

Satui-day-St. Louis at Chicago; New York at Brooklyn; Philadel-

hia at Boston; Cincinnati at

ttsburgh.

Sunday-SI. Louie at Chicago; New York at Brooklyn; Philadel- phia at Boston (2): Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.

American uague:-

Baturday-Boston It Philadel- phia; Chicago at Detroit; Cleve- land at St Leuip; Washington at New York.

Sunday-Chicago at Detroit; Cleveland at St. Louis (2): Boston at Philadelphia (2); Washington at New. xorln. -. .. T.

Juvenile Capture Provincial Hoop Title 0,

The ch--' ” t .. vio. torias captured the Provincial Juv- eni e Basketball tr pionshlp here its night when they swamped thr- summerside Juveniles under a score of 108-39 at the Prince of Wales College auditorium.

It was the final game of I. home and home, total point series. giv- ing the vics the round by a score of 150-83.

bed by the sharpshootlrig of '

Charlie Him and Jack McAndrow, who chalked up 30 points and 26 points respectively, the Vice came up with very smart passing, bill handling and shooting. that proved too much for the ever game and hard working Western. Capital cngemen.

Going into the game with an ill point" advantage as the result of their 42-24 victory at summerside in the series opener on Wednes- day, the Red I-lowatt-coached loc- als were never in trouble and out- shot and outplayed their oppon- ents to hold a 48:17 lead at the end of the first half. Coming back even stronger in the final session, they played the summerslde hoop- sters nearly dizzy at times to chall: up an even 60 points to 22 and rank up the biggest score to be witness- ed here in a number of years.

Despite the lopsided scoring. however, the visiting jivenilcs never stopped trying, and although sadly outclassed by the more ex- perienced Vics, were right in the game all the time. and came up with smart passing and shooting when they were able to shake off the aggressiveness of the Vic: cage- men.

Bill Stewart was the big point- getter for Summcrsida with a total of 15, while other leading scorer: in the game were Barry MacMil- lan and Ian McNevin of Vice with 14 and 10 respectively, while Paul Schurman of Sumimerside. account- ed for 11 points.

The game was cleanly played, with referees Earl Gross and Nor- man Anderson. who both turned in competent jobs with the whistles. only handing out a total of 32 per- sonal fouls, 18 to sunimerside and 14 to Vics. Only one man went out of the game with fouls. Olive McDonald of the visitors.

The following are the and summary:-

lineups

Victoria: , P6 P5 PF Pt: I. McNevin .. 4 2 0 10 B. Burgess .. 2 0 3 4 R. MacPherson 3 1 4 7 B. McAndrew .. 3 0 1 6 J. McAndrew 12 2 0 26 B, MacMillan 6 1 1 14 C. Hine 13 4 2 30 C. Kennedy 2 1 1 5 R. Hurry 1 1 1 3 D. MacLeod 1 0 0 2 D. Cameron 0 1 2 1 Total .. 47 14 14 108 S'Sldc. PG F! PF Pt: 8. Stewart 7 1 2 15 C. Ma.cDona .. 1 0 5 2 M. Schurman 2 3 2 7 B. Le-Furgey . .. 1 1 2 3 D. Blacquiere 0 0 G 0 P. Schurman 4 3 2 1'. T. Baglole . .. 0 1 1 1 Total ..15 0 18 89

officials - Referee: Earl Goss; Umpire: Norman Anderson; Tim- ers: Bill Leonard, Earl Nicholson.

Baseball Standings

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Cup Games Tonight

games tonight (Sat-

EAST:

Eastern Canada final -'l'oron- to Mnrlboros vs Bherbrooke saints at Montreal, Marlboros lead best of-seven series 3-0.

' WEST:

Western. Canada. final --Port Pi-ancea Canadians at Calgary Btampeders, Calgary leads beet- of-seven series 2-1.

Memorial cup games tonight (Bahrrdsy)

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EAST:

Eastern Canada final-Montreal Canadians vs Guelph Biltmores at Toronto, Mrntreal leads best- of-seven series 3-2.

WEST:

western Canada final - Port Arthur Bruins at Regina Pats. Regina leads best-of-seven series

3-1. Weill Jain lune AMHERST. N. 3., April 21-

(CP)-Am out will field a team in a Can al Maritime Senior B baseball circuit this union if such in league is organised. it was announced tonight. Other teams mentioned for the PNPOIOG loop are Summei-side. P.l:.!.. Charlotte- town. sprlngblll. N. 8.. and Back- vlllc and St. leech. N. I.

Sport Echoes From Prince county

Curran at Briggsbowling team. last year's champions, edged the challenging Cityzslickers in he first four games of the finals of the siunmerslde Community Bowl- ing League by the not too safe margin of 108 pins. (The results of the second four games will prob-

ably be seen in another section of '

this paper).'We give you the .ii- dividual scores with "expectancy" scores. based on their yearly aver- ages in brackets: Curran as Briggs -Austin Brooks-1045 (820), Ralph Edwards 733 (764), Geoige Guergis - 824 (808). Doug Hark- ness - 842 (780). Allie Harris - 810 (898). Total - 425-1 (4068). City slickers Earl Smith 813 (908). Harrison Ferguson - 355 (780), Keith Champion-758 ('llii'. Henry Gallant - 84-9 (8136), Leo Shields - 846 (776). Total - 4145' (4028).

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It may be'.-een that the c as 3 boys played 186 pins above their yearly form, while the City slick- ers played only 118 pins above their form. Austin Brooks easily led the two teams in "chips dovm" per- formance. getting 245 pins more than could be expected according to his yearly average. -

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This year's final is different from other years in that the two con- testing teams have the two indiv- idual scoring leaders, one on each team. Earl Smith, the leading scor- er. and his cohorts are going to have plenty of trouble to beat Allie Harris and his bowling mates for the league title.

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Marlboros Meel Sherbrooke Tonighl

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MONTREAL, April 21 - (CP)- Toronto Mariboros. a team with youth and zip. can wind up the eastern senior hockey final against Sherbrooke Saints in short order tomorrow night.

On the basis of the three previ- ous games. in which Marlies breesed through the hapless Sainis. the Toronto club can can- fine its worries to finances for the trip west and the Allan Cup final.

Marlboro: will be top-heavy favorites to polish ofif Saints in four straight. Saturday night's game is the first of the series to be staged in Montreal, and should the desperate Saints pull out a

win. the fifth will be played here'

Sunday afternoon.

The ticket demand at the Forum has been only fair so far. Mon- treal fans, hopeful that the Que- bec Senior Hockey League's entry would do much better. have been disappointed in Saints' miserable showing.

Dodgers Score 8-1 Viclory Over Giants

By The Canadian Preae

Roy Campanella's grand-slain home run paced a 14-bit Brooklyn attack as the National League champions opened their home sea- son Friday with an 8-1 trouncing of New York Giants.

The big Negro catcher cleared the bases in the third when he parked one of Dave Koslo'l pitches beyond the 390-foot mark in left centreficld.

A crowd of 24,033 witnessed the Ebbeis Field inaugural, in which every Dodger except pitcher Preacher Roe slammed at least one hit off three Giant flingen.

An eighth-inning thunderstorm broke off Boston Braves home opener in a 2-2 tie with Phil- adelphia Phlllies.

The downpour prevented the Braves from going to bat in their side of the eighth.

The Phlls bunched four of their seven hlla against Vern Blckford in the first inning for both of their tallies. But Boston, held to five safeties by lefty Ken Heintael- man, nicked him for singletons in the second and fifth innings.