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Some significant events & milestones in New Brunswick sports history:
1931 Gordon Perry is named Most Valuable Player in the Canadian Football
League, and wins the Grey Cup as a member of the Montreal Winged Wheelers.
1932 Willie Logan becomes the first New Brunswick athlete to win an Olympic
medal when he captures two bronze medals in speed skating at the Winter
Olympics in Lake Placid, N. Y.
1933 the Moncton Hawks win the Allan Cup as the best amateur hockey team in
Canada. They are the first Maritime team to win the title, and they repeat as
champions in 1934.
1934 the Boston Braves of the National Baseball League play an exhibition game
against the St. Stephen "Kiwanis" in St. Stephen and 2,500 fans attend the
game.
1937 the "Big Hill", the longest ski jump east of the Laurentians opens in New
Denmark.
1938 Gordie Drillon wins the National Hockey League scoring championship, the
Lady Byng Trophy as the most gentlemanly player, and is named to the All-Star
team. He is the only Maritimer and the last member of the Toronto Maple Leafs
to win the scoring title.
1939 the Canadian Open Golf Championship is held at the Riverside Country Club
in Rothesay, the only time this event has been held east of Montreal.
1939 the St. Stephen baseball team wins the last of nine consecutive New
Brunswick senior championships, completing a decade of dominance in the sport
at the provincial and Maritime levels.
1946 Vincent "Manny" McIntyre becomes the first black Canadian to sign a
professional baseball contract (with the Sherbrooke Canadians), one year before
Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in major league baseball.
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