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Orono Weekly Times, 17 Jun 1954, p. 1

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1S1E Car SPR T S CI0LUI mN * ave you cver been close te rac horse that bad broken -e Ieg? If %-Ou have -ý eeÂ1 tbhe agony ili the eye.s of anl injured * b' hrse, yen are net 91kety to forget If, ever. And when this happen)s te three or tour heseml' sheer brutaiity. Naina hivear.ý One hiorse dropped dead, TIli>pec- others 'Suffered suehb injuries that the-y had taý be destroyied- Whenr lh e ra ce w'a S ovcr, 1mny Britons prtsed n e thin1k they wý-ere right The killing of fou'-r horses; iii une &ftern1oen isdeniel not Our idea of sport, Thie Grand National Ls suppsdt be, the greïtt test et equine courage an-d sti~n.But why mjake such a test> anyway? Everybody kosb o la h thorough-bred ia gallanit te the d1eath, $0 ýwhy carry oin wi-th WoCrs~-~ir~'denLI thslaughter, when notbing remnains teý be detrntnd oùquh to croas this thin bridgse except, ef course, the' sweepstake wlnnr5? Frwsnce. Thie deep-fre-eze put conb 'there is sOm1ethin9 -wrong with the conditions ot a r'ace nikes no-never-,nînd. Pierre hme in iclh only ffiie uiu et 29 sýtarters are able to finish. TEhe c*rcniindArctir evenirng Aiptree course has thirty 4obstacles. Onte shudders t<û see ________________ ü@ruraeous horses charging ut those obstacles, only te crash with broken egbrotken necks, broken baeks. foundering- i;i hielpless agony until miercifuilly dispatched. Thiîs ;s a chan-ginig world, Wei like, to thin-k ;,,'s a essU çï-~1 orld tlPan when there flourishied in Bri, an, le where suc-h vicielus "sports" as ulbatndog figh-tinig ai-d such.Stan ard re being relaxeci forhuan. hynt Vitr horsestmene([nt F oul r m iles 856 yards is û et an unreasenable dista;nc for air Alnre ce rs nee Vlt n c s aiy b s ot n d ¶ h4)rse 0f gedbreeding. But the obstacles sheid be leýwered, the ditches arwe.A fe hanges jin Che ,%intree layenjt cudmake it Ieshazardous, iess 0t a suic'-ide ore oot acr eetydvt i e~ýdcnieal space to the tnpf AlnLamport a)nd yroÇm *~~ lisoe ober Sauniders. Th eir by I~r ~erusnc/oCevet ous, 31Yone ~,T~rnf. aste tJ'y andýC have thle Queen City* selected aýs the site cl- theý DIS ILL RS JM JEONatralymost olsthiought 1 A~HE&TERG.ONTR~Ot1hat the boys wvere ai.ming, at the- O1lympics for- 19(30 or- 1964. sBuit now, ït, per that 'Ua whoe- lot 0f citil-jort 0"n- Y chiaded-huhàhr a chneto out-tumble Melbouynce,1 ~ Autraiafor the 1956 brawl, aýnd YIAIIU Hf ~4feh-ance tha te plUm wouldW PLÀI HORSUEN E,. .1fi xit ~ ~."etrna viilace"is "the IheŽT~edoi,"Onta4rio f arnn- ~shave beei-n caught nappin g. No pkotest has been VOI.Ccd egainst, no explanation, has be ,Offered for the cipping of the winigs ed freedoma, so deftly per- Iormed by the Ontario Goven- ment wheniifi enacted the new Mlilk Industroy Act in the waning, heursi of the IGst se-ssion od the- Legisiat-ure. Subject te Axtproial Trndied - Third basemanr George Keil hanqe; up hi4s Bosý-ton Red lux uniform a'fter a game with lhe, Yankee-s in New York, Kel; twvs informied afier the gamef 4- hehad beern trcided to the hkgoWhiîteSOx,

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