the Central team which had become known as the ”Eagles”. However, it was not long before Southwest had enough players to form a team of their own and over the years developed a great many fine hockey players and as the years passed, Southwest became the focal point for hockey activity.

The Central team was to have its best years prior to and during the early war years when the action changed to the Summerside Hockey League. Competing in that league with the Central Lot 16 Eagles were Southwest, Sherbrooke, Linkletter Road, St. Eleanor’s and Summerside. This developed into a strong league and the Central team won the cup which was up for competition two yeas in a raw, 1938 and 1939.

As the years passed Jim MacGregor, who was older than the others on the team, phased himself out of active competition and gradually handed over direction of the team to others. New players joined the team at various times during this period which now included: Wilfred Farrell, Urban Farrell, David Lecky, Ken MacLean, Don MacLean, Les Gaudet, Ted Gaudet, Tommy Keefe, Ray Rayner in addition to most of the players already mentioned. There were other members of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Farrell’s family who played hockey — Raymond, Leonard, Ralph and a cousin Leo and it has been said that they had their own team but never really played as a team in league competition. Wilfred Farrell was an extremely fast skater and excelled in all sports including hockey but the war intervened in his hockey career as it did for many others.

Interest in hockey dropped during the war years and not many more hockey players were destined to be developed in the community of Central, however, interest picked up in the neighboring community of Southwest and in the late forties and fifties, they developed a great many excellent players under the guidance and encouragement of Erskine Forbes. During this period the team became known as the Lot 16 Rangers and in 1958 they won an Intermediate Island Championship which was a real achievement for a rural community.

lce'for practice and also for home games was always a problem and in the early 1950’s an open air rink was built in Central behind the Com- munity Hall but it only operated for four years'and was demolished. It was built on low ground which did not prove to be a suitable location also human behavior was changing to the point where it was impossible to get people to clear the snow off the ice surface.

Some of the names identified with that strong Ranger team were: lra Campbell, Gordon Campbell, Roger MacLean,xGlenford MacLean, Hazen Ramsay, Edgar MacNeill, George Campbell, Ernest Campbell, Keith Baglole, lra Strongman, Earl Strongman, Elmer Gorrill, Jack Gorrill, David Birch, Donald MacKendrick, Duncan MacKendrick and Wendell Yeo. John

Yeo was manager for a few years.

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