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he 'hold on the fancy of followers in THEY LOVE IT! Harness Race Fans Are Laying It In' By ALEXANDER FARRELL Canadian Press - Staff Writer The average Canadian harness racing bettor will wager about $36 each time he goes to the| nearly every Islander owned trot- track this season. Attendance at meets in ldrge and small centres is expected to hit 2,500,000 with wagering esti- mated oy $90,000,000--about the Today many farmers still same as lgst year. breed their own horses and the a we big Montreal tracks |drivertrainer - owner dominates ne nnets an ichelieu --ithe Island racing scene much as will draw about half the total Ca- pefore. hasan oi endanee 2 handle Perhaps the Island's best Univ r re i .. [known racipg figure is Col. Dan The Same Wo Lacks we re MacKinnon of Charlottetown, a count for ab as nie - widely recognized authority on total of $4,500,000 in purses for, =O "ET NOK Canadian tracks. the sport. Col. MacKinnon, 83, all plans to drive his own horses BIG CITIES again this year and still writes a A cross-Canada survey by The racing column. long ho Press shows the sport,! Another Islander, Joe O'Brien racing has retained the country- fair atmosphere that surrounded practice meets developed. MANY FARM-BRED long pular in the Maritimes of Alberton, has been one of the but formerly confined to rural top driver-trainers in the United its birth. A few generations ago. ters and pacers and raced them! |SPORT SNAPSHOTS town's Old Home Week, harness States for many years. He comes breeding farm for'standard breds get anyone to admit it officially P.E.L. racingjat Newtoi-Robinson, Ont., and at but Los Angeles Dodgers appar- family and his father, Harry 66 still likes to take the odd Whirl ently plan to pull up their base- |ball stakes in Montreal at the Harness racing activity is be- end of this season. J { : Jace: : ] : 1, They lost a sum reported as|imminent came before the start against his neighbor's. Out of this's fficially and traditionally unlike Montreal and the Mari-|high as $200,000 on Montreal'siof the eurrent season amid a [triple - A International League/round of vague end. will last until the end of, In Toronto, where turf racing) Royals last year and stand toiby a private sy from "a notable O'Brien, around B80, still trains'around the ovals, horses. In the Maritimes the season, ing stepped up in Ontario which, opened on the Victoria Day week-|times, has no night meets. _|is popular, the trotters and pac- ds September at most tracks. ers are gradually b g up Dodgers May Drop Montreal Royals? By MARVEN MOSS Canadian Press Staff Writer season. MONTREAL (CP)--You won't| gate here. {lose a sizeable amount again this ful arrangement economically in- tolerable for the parent National League club is the dwindling THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturday, June 18, 1960 nw club the alwas viewed here as an effort tol a RACING MP 3 following. A 53 - day season will| The driver-trainer-owner is by open July 1 at Old Woodbine. no means confined to P.E.L J. W.| "At Leamington, near Windsor, | Baskin, 40, Member of Parlia-|races are scheduled each Satur- ment for the Ottawa Valley rid-iday and a number of one-day ing of Renfrew South, who has meets have been arranged for] been racing all his life, has en-|other western Ontario tracks. tered four horses at Hull . Ot-° tawa's Connaught Park and will CONNAUGHT MEET drive there himself all summer.| The Ottawa district has a sum-| Then there is the Hon. William|mer - long meet at Connaught Earl Rowe, Progressive Conser- Park in South Hull, Que., and vative MP for Dufferin-Simcoe harness racing will be featured) and a former cabinet minister, 2! fall fairs in various Ottawa | areas and county fairs in the cen- tral provinces, has taken a firm major centres of Quebec and On- tario. Harness racing has made per- haps its greatset progress in Montreal where racse are held Sunday afternoons, and evenings during the rest of the week. Each track is allotted 100 con- secutive racing days. Blue Bon- nets opened in mid-April and con- tinues to the end of July. Riche- lieu then takes over, finishing about the end of November However, no part of the coun- Be Rd vi oper. The blow, Ted's eighth of the ators in Nova Scotia. Prince Ed-[{S¢ason. clim axed a personal ward Island and New Brunswick | Skuggle by the batting perfec. are looking forward to their big-'tiohist G t H ; CLEVELAND (AP) -- Ted Wil- liamys, Boston's aging super-star, Friday achieved one of his most coveted personal ambitions when he cracked the 500th home run of his colorful major league base- [et career gest year. The tall, 41 year-old left- "EIGHT IN CIRCUIT handed hitting outfielder be- Contributing to their optimism comes only the fourth player in is the circuit that rotates top|!2doT league annals to hit 500 free - for - all horSes among the homers. He ranks behind Babe eight principal tracks--Charlotte- Ruth (714) of New York Yank- town and Summerside in P.E.I ces, Jimmy Fox (334) of the old Halifax, Truro and Sydney in| Philadelphia Athletics and Mel Nova Scotia, and Moncton, Saint|Oft (511) of New York Giants John and Fredericton in New|fame Brunswick | <The 500th homer has been one Whereas in Montreal almost all{of the greatest forces pushing horses are still American - bi :d,| Williams onward in a career on Maritime tracks Canadian-|started in 1939. It was on April bred horses hold their own'23 1939, that Williams hit his against U.S. imports first off Bud Thomas of the Phil- Prince Edward Island, known adelphia Athletics at Boston's as the Kentucky of Canada, is| Fenway Park a particularly rich producer of horses and, in proportion to pop- EYE STILL SHARP ulation, has no trouble showing Though his legs have lost speed its hooves to the rest of the and his body often is beset by country. aches, Williams still owns ,the In the island province, where sharpest eyes in baseball--capa- the racing season reaches its ble of reading the label of a rec- peak in August during Charlette-|ord 'spinning at 78 revolutions a "MUTUAL LIFE OF CANADA k exceeds now 3 three billion dsllors i nn TS Dads who know the whole story % get the life insurance with bigger returns Wouldn't you like to be many hundreds of dollars ahead -- when the need for family pro- tection has passed and your life insurance turns into cash or retirement income? 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Harness racing's popularity in the east is not matched in the erage' suggests. west, Largest program is the Williams would have stroked Manitoba Great Western circuit. | No. 500 some time ago if it had|rotating among Brandon and 10 not been for most of five years/ smaller centres until July 22. in military service plus other ab: Betting is done only at Brandon. sences whose causes ranged British Columbia has a seasor from a fractured elbow and bro- at Ladner, 14 miles south of Van ken collarbone to marital prob-|couver, with 14 meets at irregu lems and a painful slip off a'lar intervals through the sum- shower sandal. mer. oats bet A XDEC " Bay An application now Is ore as pected to reach the figure," sanitoba Utility Board to seas » Ss nec |. pi 3 + in Win- ment and accululating establish harness racing in years | © 4 500.- combined to hold his production Ripeg. 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After this year the Royals'| FIRST NEGRO option expires on 20,000-seat east-| 10 the early post-war Park and the| Royals drew as high as word is that the owners plan lolanC ESC 10 8 OIE convert to a more profitable|Point many enterprise, possibly a giant park-|the strong Brooklyn teams of ing lot or shopping eentre. early 1950s. Among them At least' three private groups|Jackie Robinson, the first Montreal franchise in the embryo|in the city have talked about| to in the major rg A Continental League. building a new sports centre with |ter a 1946 stint Bo What has made a once-bounti- BARGAIN PRICE large seating capacity a field| Royals. : , Word came that the Dodgers|that could serve other sports as! Attendance has slid were willing to sell to the syndi-|well as baseball. But no sod has|last season's low ebb of 136 cate the Montreal territorial been turned yet. an average of about rights with 12 plavers tossed in| A Montreal - based team first game. A tip-off that a breakaway was for the steal price of $150,000.iplayed in the IL in 1890 and the| Television is most often med When the syndicate's CL bid|association with 'the Dodgers|for the decline. Several U.S. tele. flopped, the deal faded with it.}goes back to the days when they vision statiens bring ma announcements|But the Los Angeles manoeuvre|were in Brooklyn. They negoti-\league games fo the Montreal dicat kil ated 2 agreement with'area, ps