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Dr. F. C. Dougan, Mr. and Mrs.

ames Power, Roy Bevan and Herb

gfnpbell were passengers in Dr. Dougan‘: car early this week, their eventual destination being the Standard Bred Horse Sales at

arrisburg, Pa. Nov. 'Ith to 12th. ghay will stop off in Boston when the Doctor will visit Mrs. Dougan who has been a patient In hospital for some time, and also see aome night racing at Fox- boro track which concludes short- ly. The party will be in Harris- burg one or two days prior to the auction in order to look over horses that they might be inter- ested in purchasing.

Our congratulations to Harry Hirsch of Sydney, N.S.. on the

{breaking of the track record at

‘Iopsham, Maine. last week by Scott Spencer. He lowered it to 2.06 2-5. Wa understand Anti-

Aircraft was second. Scott Spen- cer is as we mentioned before, being handled by Harley Harri- son, who is making a real good job of it. Anti-Aircraft 2.03 1-2 is consigned to the Standard Bred Sales at Harrisburg. In the par- ticulars regarding him we note where he had stepped a mile in 2.03 1-2 at Roosevelt Raceway driven by Harry Short. That was previous to his coming to the Marltimes. Everyone realizes the great speed that Anti-Aircraft possesses but he is a little sio\v in the getaway and that is a bad fault on 'a half-mile track. \Ve believe that on a mile track he could have at certain times this season equalled his record.

Had a chat with Chester Pratt. St. Peters, whom we mentioned as having purchased the pacer Lily Belle 2.17 from Preston Buell. Charlottetown. He likes her very much and will give hera good win- ter and put her in condition forrac- ing next summer. Horsemen in the vicinity of St. Peters are great- ly encouraged by the fact that they have a track now to train over and the talk is that several others will bring in new speed.

Joa O'Brien made the head- lines in Calfornia with two good wins, piloting Brewer's Gallon to a new trotting record of 2.06 l-5 at Hollywood Park last week and the California trotting mare Vita Lee to a new track record last Tuesday. In winning with Vita

' Lee he lowered the old mark set

by Proximity of 2.15 for 1 1-16 miles to 2.11. Proximity is the world's greatest living money win- ning trotter and Vita Lee's time is anlaverage ‘of slightly over 2.03 for the mile, which is a worthy per- formance and both victories are an encouraging start for Joe in the big Grand Circuit meeting at In- glewood Park. Joe had still an- other on Wednesday with Alla’: Mite. We notice that horses he drives are heavily backed, show- ing the confidence the public place in his skill.

Brewer's Gallon, owned by B. C. Cruickshank, Halifax, has justi- fied the faith in him which B. C. showed in paying $3.500 for the colt two years ago. It will be re- membered that at our Old Home Week Brewer's Gallon (Campbell) won the Free For All Trot with 1-1-3. Nell Kalmuck (Kelly) 2-2-1, Eva Worthy (McIntyre) 4-3-2. three other starters. Time, 2.10 l-5. 2.14 4-5, 2.13 4-5. The 2.10 l-ll is his half mile track record and was a grand performance as the track was slow that day.

Foxiboro, Mass, track will close with a grand finale of racing on Halloween night, October 31st. Records have been falling like autumn leaves the past few weeks and the Bay State Raceway will be credited with a world's record in the 1950 Trotting and Pacing Guide. The race to be memorial- ized was the feature one on Octo- ber 14th, the l 3-4 mile won in $.56 3-5 by Muriel Hanover, driven by Dannie Steele of Boston, form- erly of Summerside, P.E.I. Horse- men will remember when Muriel Hanover was campaigned in the Maritime: as a pacer. Due credit must be given to Dannie for turn- fng her over to the trot and win- ning a great number of races with her. Another record posted at lay State Raceway is the 1 1-10 mile trotting which was held by‘ Buttercup and made on October 18, 1047-217 4-5. Last Saturday night Duke Void-owned by Lucien LeChappeile of Sorel, Que, in winning the 2.19 trot from a fast field stepped in 2.17. Other win- ners there recently were Dick Budlong. ownedby. Dr. J. A. Donahoe and driven by Earle Avery, and June Morning (Avery) that won in 2.10 l-5. Earle Avery is still the leading driver at Fox- boro. At the Metropolitan Driv-

ing Club's 42nd annual race ma- tinees which were held the Bay State Raceway one afternoon recently, the presiding judge for the big program was our friend Dr. F. W. Christopher of Boston, formerly of Alberton, P.E.I.

There have been quite a num- ber of visitors to Arthur MacDon- old's Purple Valley _Fjrm, Forest Hill, to see the new purchases, Calumet Muriel by Calumet Bud- long, dam, Moon Glow by Hal Dale, and the four-year-old Jerry Budlong by Calumet Budlong. These are owned jointly by Mr. MacDonald and Gordon Roberts of Cardigan, and neighbor friends feel that they have made good buys and that both will turn out good campaigners next season.

We had a great time last eve- ning looking over the a1most.1,- 000-page catalogue of the Stan- dard Bred Horse Sale Company. whose sale dates are Nov. 8-11 in- clusive, at Harrisburg, Pa. 1n- cluded in it are some of the fast- est horses that have performed on U.S.A. tracks the past and previous seasons. There are trot- ters and pacers that to read the descriptions would appear to be splendid buys. Once in a while an owner is pretty frank. For in- stance Dunbar Bostwick, owner of Chris Spencer. winner of the $50,- 000 trot at Roosevelt Raceway a few weeks ago, and many other greats. says in his statement re Gay Guy 4, 2.00, “that he is a grand looking young stallion and a great little race horse. He has a bad habit of trying to kick when scoring but really tends to business as soon as the barrier starts to move and can leave with the best." No doubt Gay Guy's kicking does not amount to very much as he ham-been a consistent winner, but it was nice of Mr. Bostwick to warn a prospective buyer to wear a kicking strap on Gay Guy.

Many pages are taken up with descriptions of the Hanover Shoe Farm yearlings, several of which will bring prices running to over $20,000. Harrisburg sale has been growing larger and larger every year and now it has become the greatest harness horse vendue in the history of the sport. Years ago before the old Madison Square Gar- dens, N.Y. was torn down, the Old Glory was the principal sale and there in November harness horsemen from Canada and the U. S. would meet, renew acquaint- ance and purchase. We particular- ly remember the sale of i913 which we attended. Henry Thomas rode the pony and showed the horses. He had been a stage coach driver in the days prior to the railroads in the west and was one of the most striking looking men we have ever seen. He actually seemed to be part of a horse he could ride so well, and he certainly could show oiif trotters and pacers to perfection. At that sale Captain Aubrey 2.07 l-4 was sold and the purchaser was John Richards of Bideford, P.E.l. We all know what a great contribution Captain Au- brey made to speed-producing in the Maritimes.

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Jess Schuff writing in The Horseman and Fair World has this . . . "Bud Mite became the first double winner of the Lexington meeting for owner-breeder C. C. Adelman, Mount Vernon, 0hio.l The colt raced well all season. He , is out of Miss Budlong 200, also owned by Mr. Adelman. She was by Calumet ‘Budlong 3, 2.02 3-4. often called ‘Calumet Bull Dog‘ and not a bad name for him for he was a game. tough colt."

One of the most remarkable comebacks in the history of racing was that of Guinea Gold 4, 1.59 1-5. whose winning mark was scored at the recent Lexington meeting. Last Spring after winnng a ma- tinee at Shelbyvllle, Indiana, he received a fracture that appeared certain to end his racing career, but a couple of months later he was racing at Fairmount. Illinois, where he defeated Alemite 1.58 4-5 in a stake race. In his first Lex- ington start he choked down and fell to the track pn the back stretch. He. was in the next heat to step the first quarter in 28 8-5 seconds but the fall had taken a lot out of him and he finished out of the money. in his next start he went to the quarter in 29 1-5, stepped the half in .50 3-5 and the mile in 1.59 l-5. He also won the next heat in 2.02 1-5. On the final day of the meeting he won the Free For All Pace and the Almahurst Trophy from a fast field, the first mile in 2.02 2-5. The next heat was won by Gene

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Rugby will highlight local sport- ing activities here today, in fact will be about the one and only sporting attraction which will be featured here over the week-end, when University of New Bruns- wick and Saint Dunstan's varsity squads meet in n highly important struggle in qucst of N.B.—P.E.l. intercollegiate rugby supremacy.

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It ‘viii be a do or die contest for these evenly matched, well bal- anced squads when they clash at the S.D.U_ playing field at three o'clock this afternoon" as both are desperately in need of the ex- tra points a win will gi\'e them, in order to stay in the running for top honors in the series.

I O O I

To throw a little more light on the subject, this is the situation that both teams face iodayw- Mount Allison are at. present lead- ing the series with four points and still have one game left to play; Saints are second with three points with today's encounter their final one. (unless there should be a tie for the leadership at the end of the regular sched- ule); U.N.B. have one point and two games to Play: if Saints win today they will be one point up on Mount A, but will have to de- pend on U.N.B. beating or tieing Mounties next Saturday in the fin- al clash of the series, in order to win the series or tie for first place with Mount A; if U.N.B. wlna today, Saints will be out. and U.N.B. in turn will have to win against Mount A. in order to come out on top for first place; u tie today and a win for U.N.B. next week can end the series in a three-way deadlock for first place, while a win or a tie for Mounties next week will put the series on ice for them if U.N.B. wins today.

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Seems like a complicated affair. doesn't it? But that is the situa- tion, and it can be readily under- atood why both squads will be hitting the field intent on a vic- tory in today's encounter.

O O O

While still on the subject of rugby, a large number of student supporters and fans were on hand yesterday afternoon at. the SD11. gridiron to see the Prince of yvaier. and second Saints aggregations put; on a really bang-up en_c_oun- ter in their intermediate intercol- iegiate series for the Provincial rugby title.

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It was the second clash of their best of three game series, urn dc- spite their 17-0 defeat at the hands of the Saints in the series opener two weeks ago, the Welshmen were an entirely dif- ferent looking band of rugbyists yesterday. when they forced the series into a third game by bit- tling their opponents every inch of the way. and then some. to a scoreless tie.

e - 0 In s rugged encounter, with time-outs coming frequently with temporary injuries, the Welshmen held the advantage on the over-

from their first meeting, and their scoring chances decidedly out- numbered those oi the Saints. But the latter, made ‘of strong stuff on the offensive, showed that they can be equally strong on the de- fensive, when they held firm on repeated scoring attempts by the Welshmen to throw them for a loss and take up the attack them- selves that nearly paid off a number of times. O O

It was an exciting and pleasing game to watch, as both teams came up with some very fast, tricky running and passing at- tltJl and featured some smart, timing as well as effective tack- ling, with some of the running at- tacks and kicking plays makln-r, some ceptionaliy long gains for the respective squads.

It certainly added zest to s. ser- ies that at the beginning looked like it. was going to be a lopsided, quickly settled affair. Now the pic- tm h“ chances to an entirely different view, and this writer's guess is that it is going to be 4| whale of a series before it's over,

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Battling tooth and nail to a scoreless tie over the S. D. U. gridiron yesterday afternoon, the island Intermediate Intercollegi- ate rugby championship series was forced into a third game be- tween Prince of Wales College and

the second team of Saint Dun- stan's University. 1t was a greatly improved

Welshman team that faced the Saints yesterday, who in the open- lng tilt of the series two weeks ago sent the P.W.C. boys down to a lopsided 17-0 defeat. They play- ed smart bail all the way, and in the second half in particular. held a definite advantage on the play and came within inches of scor- ing on a number of occasions. But the Saint Dunstan's boys were playing smart bail too, which made the event a really top-notch encounter that held plenty of thrills and spills as well as some snappy running attacks and ef- fective kickinz and tackling.

The Saints held the territory Dlay in the opening part of the first half up to about the 10-min- ute mark. with threequartcrman George Kelly pulling some really beautiful running gains on thc Saints backfield attacks in co- operation with teammates Johnny Cash and Joe Shreenan. which took them deep into P.W.C. ter- ritory. But the Welshmen started to get rolling too when the pres- sure was on, and, after gradually working their opponents back to centre field. broke out with one of the snappiest pieces of back- field work to be witnessed here for some time. when halfback Arnold MacCalium snapped the ball to his threequarter line to start off a,near 50-yard running attack that came within an ace of scoring. Red Howatt took the bail on the fly and after making considerable gain, relayed it along to Bennett MacDonald who did a nice carrying job. He final- ly passed it over to their speedy threeouarter wingman Jackie Brown, who made a smart final dash down the sideline only to be brought down by a hard Saints tackle just. off the touchline.

The Welshmen held the play deep in their opponents territory for the next l0 minutes and had two or three unsuccessful scoring attempts turned back by a stout S.D.U. defence, who finally work- ed the Welshmen back to their own zone with some effective run- hing and kicking attacks, but didn't get very decp, with the play waging back and forth be- tween the twenty-five-yard zones at a rapid pace. with the play at about centre field at the end of the half.

The Prince of Wales aggregation forced the play right to the Saint five-vard line from the opening kickoff in the finch-half, to hold the play there for a short time be- fore the Saints pushed them back tn centre field. But the Welshmen didn't stay there long, and were right back hammering away at their touchline again a few min- lites later. Where both teams wag- ed a terrific struggle until the 15- minute mark. the Welshmen bat- tiinlt to go over from close in but the Saints throwing them back stubbornly. until they pulled a clever running attack that took them out of danger and forced the play into the Weshmen's zone for the first time in the half. Some effective kicking by Red Howatt and fullback Darryl Car- mody, however, finally relieved the pressure the Saints put on to finally take the play back to Saints territory about the 20~minute mark. The scene soon shifted again, with the Saints clicking on a smart backfield attack that took them down to the P.W.C. 25-yard line. where threeouarters Kelly, Chev- erle and Cash followed it up with another smart passing play, whidh saw the latter get pulled down within inches of scoring. Although the Saints threatened for a while the play started to shift rapidly back and forth with the Saints fullback Mallett and Red Howatt and Carmody engaging in a regu. iar kicking duel for a while, which saw both teams malse some rapid gains, but despite the efforts neither could get in scoring range. with the play slightly inside P. W. C. territory when tha final whistle blew.

There were quite a number of penalty kicks, mostly on offside plays, the Welshmen being award- ed seven in the first half and four

Saints and P. W. ‘C. v Battle T0 Scoreless Tie In Rugby Game

Sport Echoes

From PFIJCG County

We have just heard that the mom- entous meeting held by thr local Srmmerside branch of the Legion to consider the advisability oi spearheading a drive to build a new

rink in sir-rnmeraide was adJoui-ned

for two weeks without anything of a decisive nature being decided upon. We don't know any of the particulars. but can understand that .t.he step the Legion boys are (‘Ontemplatlllg will naturally require a great deal of thought. The fact that they have made any sort of definite move in the direction of building a. rink here is very en- couraging. Should the rink finally be built the Legion can feel pride in the fact that while everybody else was talking, (about the only thing that remains cheap in Lhesc inflation -days). the Legionaires, men noted for their action rather thaln for their words. pitched in and did something about it. O O O

We feel confident bhat, should the Legion decide to take the plunge, the service clubs and the citizens as a whole, will back them to the lftrnit. We can't get. away from the fiact. that it would be humiliating if Summerside, o! whose record in many things we are all justly proud. had no hockey rink when virtually all towns of its size and many much smaller do have hockey and skating facilities for th€ir youth. The greatness of countries or cities or towns does no; lie in the amount of frozen assets salted away in their vaults. but rather in the extent of their services to citizens, young as well as old.

O O

Let's face it. Sumrnerside‘ today has less facilities for the promot- ion of athletic endeavour among its young people than most pro- gressive centres in the Maritimes. It has no closed-in hockey rink. Not entirely closed in, that is. It has no gymnasium. It has no building in which basketball can be played. Its boxing activities are carried on during the off-seoscn in a potato warehouse. due to the generosity of those sports-minded gentlemen who have made this arrangement pos- sibie. Yet it has some of the best young athletes in the Maritimes. as has been mrply demonstrated in baseball and hockey ‘over the years.

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We agree with n fellow sports- writer of the town that this new rink, if and when it is built, should be a community cenire for more sports and athletic exercises than hockey and skating. We believe it could provide for such things as basket-ball. badminton, gym facilit- ies, etc. It is not just the business of the Legion that this community sports oentrc be built. 1t is the businus of all Summerside citizens. Let us build it as a memorial to those men df Summe oid€ who gave their lives that the youth of Sum- merside and the rest of Canada might be free to enjoy the sports which are a part of their heritage.

LATER.

Since writing (this ooklnn, we have discovered that the lnfmsnnt- ion received by phone Thursday evening from the Legion rooms was incorrect. We hasten In make amends. It. seems the legion has taken very definite action, vol-hag $10,000 inwards the consttuollon of a new rink in Stunmerslde. Con- gratnlatlons, Sunnnereide Legkn. .