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Thursday night the final lime in the Rendezvous Trophy was 11011 by the Clifford (Jiggs) MacDon- aid team, defeating the Wendell Worth team 0 to 5.

The Rendezvous Trophy. and 4

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The Guardian. Saturday, January 15, 1955

prices was donated a few years ago by the owners of the Rtndezvoua Restaurant to be played for each

BACK STRETCH

We are glad to welcome to this column .1. Earle Pembertnn of Glare Ba)". N.S., who is very interested in sports or all kinds, including harness racing. . just received a copy Of "'1' K"" lucky Derby Pictorial, I very beautiful book which gives all thel details of the thoroughbreds from. Aristides in 1875 to Determine in' 1954. He has recommended to us a book written by one of the greatest sports writer: of all time, the late Grantland Rice. The title is. The Tumult and the Shouting. and Earle quotes a poem from it as follows:

"To Nell K. and to Detemtine. the Little Grey Horse I Had in the '54 Derby Winter Book.

No larger than Ii p0ny'l mate. I've watched you drive around the course,

Th? first lime ill” 1'" CV" 59” band, the founder of Rose-croft A heart much bigger than a horse. Farm and R0590-on Ra(-etgay. - Others b in trained are Uhleeni

Responding to the challenge still. Fmgo Mg g5. Bet”. F,.em.h 2,0.-,p B-V mck and neck by head "Id T5 and a number 'oi two and head ' . . .. .

. - V. . thiee- rat-olds For the Cleaiiiew 1" wliifemd you to the Mnmng Stablayof Winthrop, Maine, he has

Your heritage---a thoroughbred.

I only hope in pasture green You find deep peace along the

way

And I may add. in parting words.

I owe you for I lot of hay. -Grantland Rice.

James I. Read, noted harness horse auothority of Truro. N. 8., writes that he enjoyed our RI- view and that from all reports, 1954 harness racing has been ex- tra good and with the Maritime horses and those purchased from .'lE United States we may look forward to 1955 br-ing even better. "No doubt you are pleased to see that Mr 501 Camp'has taken two pages in the Christmas number of The 1-lodseman and Fair World and there is an excellent writeup of his many horses and the ach- ievements of his trainer and driv- er Joe O'Brieng"

Another correspondent from Masachusetts reading our Review notes: "There are more horses

racing now in the Maritimes but they don't seem to go as fast as when Joe O'Brien was down there and Bill Stewart had his horses. I shall always believe that Rhea .Vfae 2041, and Marjorie Hanover 211 were a great loss when they did not reach the brood mare ranks. Marjorie was an ideal race mare and Rhea had a. new driver nearly every race. Lady Hal 2ll':'t, that was raced last by. Cecil Alexander of Saint John, was by Sampson Hal 2.021; and he by Napoleon Direct l.5Dl&. There La very little of that blood in the Maritime: and Billy Direct 155 mares command good prices here. Oakhurst Queen 2.13M. that was raced in Charlottetown a- round 1937 or '38, is a successful brood mare in the USA. Your old friend Billy Hood is wintering at Harrintzton. Del. He had a real good one thisyear in Victory Mac 210. lam going to attend the Hrirv-cmcn's Banquet in Boston and will sre Dannie Steele there and have a good talk with him about the days of old.”

Somn 200 head are wintering at the Harrington fair grounds plant and adacent to the fair grounds Henry Clukey. the veteran Rock- laiic. Mr. trainer has the largest stable in training. Clukey, with 34 head. has just completed a new half-mile training track. and is aiming for the. opening at Mag- nolia Park on March 11. i

Horsemen will welcome a new; addition to their ranks in Eddie; Michael of Michael Bros, Char- lnllelnwn. He is the proud owner of Long John. a 4-year-old pacer b-- Calumet Burilong 202”... dam Ali-stra 212”; He is now in Cyril Smiths stable at Hunter Riverl This young chap is extremely welll bred both on thu slr0'a side and the cl4m'.:. Everyone knows 'itbnut Calumet Budlong being a 200 sic but few remember that Alestra M by Real Frisco 207'. and that her dim was Blonde Lady 3. 2,051.5 Ly The senator it, 2031.2. She was brought. here by the late Professor 6. A Rockford and with not too murh preparation took her record. She is the dam of such good pet- formcrs as Sandy Budlong 2.11 4 5. Buds Best 2.12 and others. Long John was bred by Bert. Younker. Winsloe.

Many of our horsemen will re- member that years ago one of the best of our visiting stables was that of Reed Bros.. Flort Fairficld, Maine. which Monte Gerow would bring down a week or two before Old Home Week and leaving would carry away a good percentagg of the ptirse money. Edwin Keller in Hoof Beats refers to the stable u follows: ''It was just 40 years ago the past week that -the Christmas number of the American Horse Breeder of Boston canted a feat- ured story on the success of the stable of P.N. Reed of Port Fair- field. Me. That season the Reed colon for tho fifth straight. yeu led the money winners of the Maine circuits. The ntabu had one of the top half-mile stars of the New England season. 'rh'oInas 3.104. winner of ii of his

DOWN THE

year as a club championship t trophy. In this competition the best curlers make up teams. This Ye" i1'1 teams were in the competition land Jiggs, with his team. I went 1 through without a loss to claim the

Clifford MacDonald Rink Takes Rendezvous Trophy

T. Mitten. G. MacKnilht. 3. Le- Clair.

Ice 3-Dr. W. MacDonald, J. Squarebrlgga, A. Likely, s. Willis vi J. .S MacDonald. Hal Spiliett, Har- per Macrlelli. R. Ewing.

Ice I-W. Worth, Ron Parker. A. A. MacLeod, A. MacDonald vs. L. Turner, D. Sedgewick. Paul O'- Rourke, B. Crosby.

Open Golf Meet Ar Montreal In Aug.

for years and for a time held the g track recent of 208 with Eula ”- son, Bill Robinson vs. J. J. Morris. had the come out of New England States He nu gthis year in Chuck Volo 2.00. bred I

the lovely calendar which they so;

with 18 horses in his stable and

his list in the w-iy I-Lillsota 2.00, that Mrs. W.E ler of Ovenhlll, Md, plll'Cl'lllsCd at the dispersal sale of her late hus-

gB0y it record of 2.10 3,5 at Bum-

l.0D Wlnlllllg paccr L0 l

and owned by them. Chut-k's total winnings are 5129.858 and he 1S now at Pinehurst, NC. with nth-f er members of the siable getting- ready for another shot at the tnpl money stakes of 1955. our con- gratulations to the Wathena and our best wishes for success again this year, and also our thanks for

kindly sent us. Also at Piiichuist is Emil? Aicry Top on

records is Mil-

more additions to come. of

Fiiet Mignon 2.07 and S13 2 and 3-year-olds, Top Brass 2.11 1.5.1 owned by Richard Jabalee, Northl

Ralph Del Moss.-,l Augusta, Me. Altogether there arel 220 trottcrs and pacer-s in active training at Pinehurst track with another 20 due to come in thisl month. Two shoeing shops are in. operation, one of them by Jacki Raymond and his sons. Billy and4 Harry. This is the 30th season that Jack has been shoeing horses at Pinehurst plant. Of course the largest stable at Pinehurst is con- ducted by Franklyn Safford. who years ago used to sport an armr- dupois of over 250 pounds. but has the past couple of years whittled it down to around 185 He is one, of the top reinsmen of the U.S.A.. l Russian athletes, Russian foot-l ball teams and Russian hockey- players are coming right into the limelight and Russian trotters are also making fast time over tracks in that country. so highly are they thought of that they are be- ing purchased by Norwegians and Swedes. The 5-year-old Tui-is: goes to Norway" and Nebasklon to Sweden. The former was priced at about 57.500 and the latter about 318.000. They are pure Orloffs, which is a strictly Rtissian breed. Many years ago that great trot.- ter Crest-cus 2.021. was sold to thr- Russian governmeni. for 550.000 and in 1913 Baden 2.0-i'.. the largest money winning trotter of the previous year was sold to Rus- sia for 325,000 The Russians are supposed to be inventors of trot- ting in a small with named Gas- hensk. Then around the beginning of the 19th century trotters be- came favorites with many horse- men in the Eastern United States and the breed developed rapidly.

1

In our mention of the latest addition to the Cyril Smith Stable: at Hunter River ue should liavej included a lovely 2-year-old colt. Helen's Dream by Jollity 2.051.. dam Charlotte B. 2, 209'. by Cold! Cash 1.5855. Owned by Mrs. Jamcsl P o u l to n, Charlottetown. This 1 youngster has perfect manners and Cyril is breaking him and believesl

he will be a real one. l

We were quite intrigued by a.' photo which appeared in this pa- per on Wednesday showing our. friend Ensor Bowness of Summer- side taking off to plunge in the cold waters of summerside Har- bor. Despite the better than ll'PEI- ing temperature he enjoyed a brief swim. To the friends who accom-l panied him to really see ll he would take the plunge Ensor re-t marked, ”lf Summer-side i-iaroor will not freeze over to race on then I'll swim in it". Eiisor iii a good spott in every way and 3 popular harness horse driver who has held the ribbons over some of the best racing performers in re- cent years and last July gave Ann's

merndc, and now he has the win- ter swimming championship, pos- sibly a Prince Edward Island roc- ord. ,

.. In otir Review of Harness Rac- ing for 1954 mentioning our driv- era away from home, we had the following: "in the list of 221 lead- ing money winning drivers in 1954 released by the United states (Continued on page 7)

Charles And Norltus Sign ForgFeb. I8 Bout

NEW YORK (AP) - Former heavyweight champion E z z a r d Charles and contender Charley

Norkux of Port Washington. N.Y., will clash in a 10-rounder at Mada iron Square Garden. Feb. 18. pro-

moter Jim Nnrrlit said Friday. The bout will be broadcast and telecast.

Charles. No. 3 contender behind

Nina Valdes and Don Cockell, hasn't fought since he was stopped in eight round: by champion

Rocky Marciano Sept. 16. Norkul. No. 10 contender. has won-three in a row. He beat Cesar 31100. stopped Charlie Powell in seven. and uutiwlnled Roland La Mona. the last on Dec. 1.

1880!! onion: ' The University of Ljubljana an by the

Vhl VII Yuco-in i mum

coveted prizes. Draw for today: 2 p.m. Ice 1-A. Macinnis, C. J.

W. Hyndman. Bondreault.

Former Boston Goalie Tries OuI' Wl'I'I'I Que. Aces

I-Iad Dr. Brown vs. S. Moore, 5. Beaton. Geo.

lBurden. R. Partridge.

Ice '.'--S. Moore. W. Goss. H. Dob-

LONDON. Ont. (CP)-The third annual 326.500 open golf champion- ship will be played at Montreal Summerlea course Aug. 25-28. it was announced Friday. Dates have, bceh approved by 11.5. and Cana- dian Professional Golfers Associa- tions.

Last year's tournament was played at Toronto Scarboro. where winner was Bud Holscher of Santa Monica. Calif., on the pro tourna- ment cirruit for the first time. Doug Ford won the first tourna- mcnl, at Montreal two years ago.

QUEBEC (CP)--Former EOSlO'1lBob

Bruins goalie Jack Gelineau, who from

announced his retirement hockey early this year, practised with Quebec Aces ot the Quebec Hockey League Thursday.

Aces general manager George Imlach said Geltneau has not tie- cided VlllPlllE'l" to sign with the Quebec club.

lnilach said he approached Ge- lineau W ed n esd a y after Accs' goalie Dave Gatherum was iti- jiired in the first period of a game with Montreal Royals. Aces' spare goalie, Jcan Marois, was sold re- cently to Providence Reds of the American Hockey League.

Gelineau now works in Quebec City.

Gellllfall played for Aces frorn

Sydney. pas. and Km; Adam 203 , 1951 to 15:54. in the 1949-50 season 2.5. owned by

he played four games for Boston and the next year won the Calder rookie award with Bruins.

Bob Feller Signs With Cleveland

('l.EVF2l.ANl') fAPl Pitcher Rob Feller. six times a 20-gamp wtnncr and the Iimericati League's

nltlmt player in point of sPrV1('P. Friday iigncd his 17th contra:-i with ('1:-yclanrl Indians. Hr told

reporters he signed for about the same amount he got last year. be- tween 530.000 and 335,000.

Last season he won 13 and lost three, with an earned-run average of 3,09.

,Hawks Score 4-3 Overtime Win

AMHERST. tCPI - V etc r an Freddy Weaver fired a screened shot in the final minute of overtime here Friday night to give Moncton Hawks a 4-3 win over Amherst Ramblers in an Atlantic Coast Sen- ior Hockey League game.

Shoal Results

M0n('lDll---Gnal, Pidsodny; de- AT lfcnre, McNeil, McLaughlin. Le-

FOUOWHIF ""9 me results 5' ” rel pine, Weaver. Michelin; forwards, 0""! Chllrlouemw" Rm” Cl””.1-loule. Lac:-nix, Bowness, Hirsch- 5h0”l- lfeld. Watts-rs, Thomson, Sinnelt, 8- (C:'01':dIll'3;J I n" g;lCanipeau, Watson.

. 1, ac en in . . . G. J. ROW” 97 g Istiwiuaru g I R E. Ilpnkins g 95 First. period: 1. Amlicrst, fain- Rm, Mcpmmyd H 94gdnn vlicucrc, "-l'l1PrI'lFnl- 1:29: 1. Robert pmmim 94 Amherst. D. hilt-y (White. Rog- W. Machsan 9411-rs) 8:25; fl. Amherst, balndon M”. G J. Rage” 94ltLeClerc) 1015:); 4. Moncton. E. Non-ie 94:1-Iirsclifeld ICampeau) 13:34. Pe,n- B' B, J(,m.., p4'altis-s: Saindon, lVlcNeil 11:27; P. J. Landrigan 93l'I'herrien 16:22; Lepine 19:45. 'Mm.y M,.cLenmm 93 second period: 5. Moncton. R. 0u11,0n V g 92 Thomson fBowness, McNeil) 12:00; M. Hum; g 91 6. Moncton.' C-ampeau iLepine) M gen”, 90 14:42. Penalties: Lepine 4:06; Reid Wanda MacMillan 89.10: : Watson 12:26: Savard 13:10: pau) Jgnklng. 39 Therrien 14:04; Thomson 17121; R. Kennedy an M:-Laiighlin 17:37. Garth MgcLenngn 88, Third period: Scoring none. Pen- A. MacRat-. 8'l1allies: McLaughlin 5:14; Thomson Jean Grant 85 6129- E. Higgins 84; Overtime period: 7. Moncton Ron Atkinson aoiw-aver tcampeaul 9:22. Penal- R. Higgins 80 ties: None. R. Hayes an Slnpii Mary Gamble 80 Pidsodny .. . 10 6 12 6-34 A. swan 8fl'Frigon 4 7 4 7-W

'mobile. AAU officials became alarmed immediately. and Dan Ferris. secretary-treasurer, wired

1 R.ngP,rS. lforwards, White, LeClert-, Therrieii,

Slill Simon Pure Amateur

LOS ANGELES. (AP)--Bob Rich- .ards. America's No. i pole vaul- lter. is still a simon pure amateur.

The Southern Pacific Association of the Amateur Athletic Union, after investigating Richardst ap- lpearance on a television program during which he received several igifts. came up with this ruling late 'today:

”The gifts that were presented idur.ng the This Is Your Life' pro- gram on the occasion of Rev. Ro- lbert RlChEl'dS' appearance on this show, were presented to the Church of the Brethern of Long Beach (of which he is pastor) in th-. in- terests of furthering its services to the members of its congrega- Lion and the community.

I "In the light of these circum- ,stances, it is the decision of the registration committee that the amateur status of Richards has not been jeopardized." I

The statement was issued by, Larry Houston. chairman of the, rules committee. .

Among the gifts handed to Rich-4 arcis at the conclusion of the TV

Iprogram last Wednesday night wasp Ea dummy set of keys to an auto-l

Houston to investigate at pncr.

Ramblers took it 3-1 lead in the first period on two goals by Paul Saindon and Dave Kiley but Nick lPidsodny closed the door for the lfinal two periods and overtime. Lineups: Amhersl-- Goal, Frigon; Blackburn, Parr.

defence, Reid;

Savard, D. Kiley. Saindon, Ken- nedy, Bernagnez, Schmidt.

Rules in Death Of

BOSTON, (AP)-Chief municipal court justice Elijah Adlow said Friday welfare of boxers "has been subordinated to the spectat- nrs' lust for brutality" in ruling there was no cause for criminal action in the recent ring death of one-time Olympic heavyweight- champion Ed sanders.

In it scathing inquest report the judge added that if there were no law making boxing legal "an as- sault entailing such canaeque would constitute murder."

He referred to sanders' death as no accident. saying:

"Bot i 1 examiners in- sisted that the objective of boxers is to deliver a knockout punch. In their opinion a knockout puncn means nothing more than to inflict a brain injury on the contestant.

"There is nothing accidental about it.

"It is a deliberate and purpose-

No Criminal Action

Boston Boxer

ful act which is not only ndoned and sanctioned but a tradition of the ring that is actually expected and demanded by the spectators." SAYS IIULES IGNORE!)

Sanders, a navy sailor. died Dec. 12. of a brain injury 1'! hours after he had been knocked out by Willie James in the 11th round of a lil- round match for the New lmgland heavyweight title

Judge Adlow sharply criticlud what he described as lack of pro- tective devieea and said rules were ignored when the men were mat- ched. -

He said regulations of the state boxing commission provide that matchmaker: shall not nah inat- ches where oneof the oontutsntl is outclassed.

"It would appear this particular rule was ignored in permitting this match.” he added.

BASKE

"Time 8:30"

5. D. U. GYM - SATURDAY. JAN. I5 SAINT DUNSTAWS IINIVIISITY

Vs. - SAINT JOHN ATLANTIC! ..

T BA LL :

the game between the

ion Capitals at the night. At right is coach fenceman. Steve Brklacich

Stars Of L

Above are three of the stars of Charlotte- town lslanders and the Frederic- Forum last and dc- who played most of the sixty minutes of the game last night, while he, along with Danny O'Connor gave

with their fine defensive

Palladino who returned month's absence last

appeared to be in as good as mid-

Whitlock Has Hal-Trick

Islanders Maintain Lead

With 3-2 Win Over Caps

The league-leading Charlotte- town Islanders, riding the crest of a three-game mid-season slump, cracked the ice, with two goals in the opening period at the Forum last evening and went on in defeat the Fredericton Capitals 3-2 in a very fast and rugged t-ncounLer before a fair crowd. The, Islanders playing only two regular defencemen. their sub-goalie and without the ser- vices of in of their high-scoring forwards, controlled the play for most of the game against the fast skating Mclnlosh gang.

The Islanders' high scoring cen- terman. Roy "Buck" Whitlock hanged in his 386th. 387th. and 388th goal as he collected all three Islanders markers. Equally as nut-standing as Buck's hat- trick perfonmance, was the ter- rifilr display of net-minding put on by lslandersl sub-goalie Frank Roper as he held the sharpshoot- ing Caps off the Scoring sheet to within less than five minutes of the game's and. Frank, who was playing only his second game of the season. turned aside a total of 26- shots. many of which were from very short range.

Referees Art Perry of Char- lottetown and Joe Hunter from Summerside had a very easy night of it as they awarded only four minor penalties in the three ses- sions. No goals were scored on the, penalties.

The win for the Islanders was a must if they were to hold the lead in the ACSHL. Before the game they held a slim two point margin over the Moncton Hawks.

Had the islanders lost with the Hawks collecting their win, It would have left the Hawks in

position. to take the lead in their contest against the Capitals in the Hub City Stadium tonight.

In the tussle at the Forum last evening, the Islanders skated out on the ice with the odds heavily against them and thrilled the fans as they took a one-goal lead with only 18 seconds gone in the game. Bob Gray CIITICII the puck into Caps zone and dropped it back for nny O'Connor at the blue-line. Danny let go a biasing slap shot from about 30 feet out. Plumber Craig in the Fredericton nets kicked out the shot, but Buck Whitlock' was "Johnny on the Spot" and promptly batted it back in the cage as defenccman Jackie I-Ieon stood in Craig's line of vision. : ,

The Islanders continued to lay on the pressure with Vip Palla- dino, who is back after a month's absence. hitting the goal post at 8:00 as Campbell and Carver swarmed over the Fredericton cage-man, At last, Bob Gray alip- ped a to Vip at cenur and the fast left-winger carried in over the Capa' line, got around the playing coach Jim Mclntoah and slid a goal-mouth pan to luck who again but Graig from the