TODAY WE CONCLUDE our review of the Island’s sports’ tivity for the year 1959. 2

Westerday we took a look at baseball, hockey, golf and i jour sports which enjoyed @ fair share of success here ing the past twelye months. ' dai Today we start off with curling, at game that has increased mendously in popularity these past few. years. The

ms participating in this winter pastime was a aew

f and the season now in full swing sees an even larger num- having a whale of a good time for themselves. Jiggs MacDonald's rink won the right to represent the at the MacDonald Brier but only after a terrific th Myron Bell’s quartet. The MacDonald foursome managed *hree victories in competition with rinks from ether provinces. . Bob LeCiair’s Prince of Wales College rink won the pro-

; lads from Montague. At the Dominion competition staged in faigary, the Weishmen put on a great display winning sixe of the « | games they played. -

4 Mary MacLennan’s Charlottetown. rink captured the pre ‘ i ladies’ championship and At MacDonald’s Montague four- ome retained stheir Legion crown and represented the province

3 this particular competitiof.- ° Clubs in Charlottetown, Summerside, Alberton-and Montague

"yard to even greater things in the months ahead.

BASKETBALL ONCE AGAIN proved a popular pastime and p Island League operated on a five team basis.

-LePage's Trotters finished on top in the standings but lost p.crown to RCAF Sultans in the playdowns. This fall a City. . was formed in Charlottetown with Trotters splitting into teams, LePage’s and Junior Basilica Youth Club. Kague entrants are Prince of Wales, Saint Dunstan’s Seconds rlottelown YMCA. The Welshmen were on top me took its Christmas recess.

»High School students got plenty of\¢ime. at the x very promising looking hoopsters were spotted among

“FOOTBALL had a fine time of it in the fall of 1968. * Saint Dunstan’s University engaged in competition with ‘ersity of New Brunswick, Mount Allison Acadia Universi “aint Mary's. The Red and White’s only triumph came xp of Acadia. However the Saints had only one

that was when they lost to the powerful UNB Shey gave S2int Mary’s a real scare in ifax and were out 7-0 by the Mounties at Sackville. * sSaint Dunstan's team officials were well. pleased with the whowing of their scholars. _ Saint Dunstan’s Junior Varsity- and Prince of Wales staged te wo series for the provincial intermediate crown. Saints fin-

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¥y won the best-of-five series three games to one but only » greatest kind of a struggle. ‘Mac’ MacDonald instilled real crap into the city coliegians and they improved each time out. ' Shey managed one win and it was thé first time Father Led- ‘*“ell’s Junior Varsily had ever lost a Canadian football tussle. Both Welshmen and Junior Saints showed mainland teams good they really were. The Prince of Wales squad crushed Elizabeth High of Halifax and Saints walloped Mount ox Junior Varsity twice with the greatest of ease. :

- ‘TRACK AND FIELD locally wasn’t a thriving business. _. However successful meets weré staged at Summerside in con- with Lobster Carnival Week and at Memorial Field

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Tharlotte students agdin captur top--henors.....

‘Alfred Gream of Summerside set_a_new-Maritime record at_ ‘te nd Ga at Antigonish clearing the bar at 13 f.

THE RIFLEMEN had their usual good time of ft and the fe at Squaw Point was a busy spot from early in the spring- The Inter-Maritime meet was staged this year at Bedford, 'S. with the Nova Scotians copping the ¢ ,

we, The annual Prince Edward Island Rifle-Meet was staged at Hs Point in late July and as always attracted a large number # contestants. Several persons from outside the province joined f ycal riflemen in this annual competition.

* | Local gunners participated in the DRA shoot at Ottawa in ‘sid-August and weekly shoots at the local range were in opera- ton throughout the summer. . = . Sgt. Mike Susick, RCAF. Station, Summerside was at the “usely Shoot and the loca! airman gave a fine-accoynt of him- self, winning one of the major. awards.

TENNIS, BOWLING, YACHTING all had their share of fol- wers throughout the year. Fishing and hunting gave many -hours 'f pleasure to thousartids of citizens. Some of these gunners and “ngiers had. more success than others but all had pleasure in ‘Dundance. :

| Trap and skeet shooting continued te attract &%s share of

“nthusiasts and club members are optimistie of much better

‘aings tocome. _—.

- . Horse racing was again one of this province’s major ‘attrac-

3 during the summer. We will make no attempt te review

his: grea pastime because everything one needs to know about year’s happenings are to be found in the racing review pub-

shed yesterday. ‘

It has been a most enjoyable twelve months and we have

pes of even better things ahead in 1960. ;

©, We sincerely thank all who made our work easier by their

co-operation. It has been a pleasure and privilege te work

"atm the Island’s sports folks. .

[ro ONE AND ALL——A VERY HAPPY 1960. * HUNTERS CORNER » Columnist Looks Back

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'As I type this column the Old | sunshine with the groupd bare ar of 1959 is poised on the/and frozen. It was a real rabbit Pink of the realm of past mem-| day and I bundled Lucy and Gip- ies and cherubic 1960 is stand-| per. into the car and headed a- ig by ready. to take over. What| cross the river beating the bridge '60 holds is purely 2 matter of | closing by a half hour. I had lots 5 ure. On the whole I/have|of grub and was» all set for a > fault fo find with 1959-al-jfull days outing. It may seem Sough I never baggéd less game | strange-to be taking two Short- ‘en I did in. the past year. Four|haired Pointers, top Hun and seks (two blacks, one Ring-neck-| pheasant dogs, out after rab- duck and one Green-wing) bits. I figured as far as keeping sl.) Two Huns, one Ruffed|dogs for Huns and pheasants Iguse, one Wilson’s Snipe and only is purely a waste of labour ' rabbits. My také of game will and money and we, in all pro- % eut its numbers down very) ability, face a cut in the up- seh with respect to last hunt-j land game bird season in 1960. iS season. I hunted at every op-| Lucy, a daughter of Sambo and Stunity. but one holiday was) Gipsy, has had training on coon out. I enjoyed my excur-| and rabbits under another owner afield after Huns and} but is now back home again. nts although I had little in For the first.hour out the game pockets to show for) Swamps and alder grown fi sm. Good hunting companions} Were draped in hoar frost for memorable hunting ex-| bright sum soon dispelled jons even if the take is lim- | tracings of Jack Frost. It bd to a few birds.or else none | leisurely hunt. I had nothing all, jticular to do and all day ® watched the dawn of the op-| it in. = ditterent ling day break with the shrill|), egheed a ic ; had hi D of Wilson's snipe, an al-| nie cathe ays. — unbroken. chorus, as the grown a stand of Spruce, juniper, sw:

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Montreal, Bell- —. é 3 ¥ . — was in the penalty box.|veau (Bonin, —Geoffrion) 11:28.| -, 8° Penguins tied the game up : puto Maple Leafs, who failed in| Pulford grabbed « loose puck and |Penalties: Edmundson 2:32, Eh-|%1, ‘he 6:03 mark and the score ‘4 r bid to take over second went in alone on Plante, slipping!man, Backstrom 5:22, Horton|"°™2ined knotted till the 12:21) Place in the , National: Hockey/ the puck in the open cormer. |10:45, Langlois 14:55, Pulford ™2"* When Whitlock dented the | The vichae, Caieitleae! The tie lasted less than two|16:00, Talbot 16:22, Hampson|\i"¢S for what proved to be| 7 their last six fifth in| minutes. Richard fired what | 19-25. Seay PSOM | the winning goal, adding another jeague leaders 12 polate ahead or| 10%Ked like « harmless long shot| Secon period: 2. Toronto, Pul-|"™S7Ker 25 seconds later. ¥ ’ second-place Detroit Red Wings | 2102 the ice and the puck eluded |ford (Stewart) 1:05; 3. 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