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He scored his 500th career goal on January 17, 2003, against Carolina's Kevin Weekes.
He scored his first career NHL goal on October 6, 2005, against New York Rangers goalie Kevin Weekes during an away game at Madison Square Garden.
Frank Worrell scored a double century, and Everton Weekes a century, in his debut match.
Fingleton's feats was later equalled by Alan Melville, ( whose four centuries were scored on either side of World War II ) and surpassed by the West Indian, Everton Weekes in 1948 – 49.
: as Ramadhin, Weekes and Frank Worrell all scored ...
Weekes scored 88 and 117 retired and was selected for the tour, making his first-class debut on 24 February 1945, aged 19 years, 364 days, for Barbados against Trinidad and Tobago at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain.
Weekes scored his maiden first-class half century in his next match, making 53 as an opener against Trinidad in March 1945 ( where he also bowled for the first time in a first class match, conceding 15 runs in four wicketless overs ).
After being dropped on 0, Weekes scored 141, his maiden Test century and was subsequently chosen for the West Indies tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon.
In his next Test, the First against India, at Delhi, in November 1948 ( the first by West Indies in India ), Weekes scored 128, followed by 194 in the Second Test in Bombay and 162 and 101 in the Third Test in Calcutta.
The next season saw no Test cricket played by West Indies but Weekes scored 236 * against British Guiana at Bridgetown, averaged 219. 50 for the season and raised his career first-class average to 72. 64.
By the end of the series, Weekes had scored 1, 410 Test runs at 74. 21 and had enhanced his reputation as one of the finest slip fielders in world cricket, taking 11 catches in the series.
Weekes had a Test batting average of nearly 97. 92 in innings immediately after those in which he scored a hundred, the second highest ( after Vijay Hazare ) for those who had scored five Test centuries.
He returned to Trinidad and Tobago in 1952, and stood as a Test umpire in the 4th Test between West Indies and England at Port of Spain in March 1953, a high-scoring draw in which West Indies scored an imposing 681 for 8 declared, with the 3 " W " s ( Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott ) all scoring centuries in West Indies ' first innings, and Peter May and Denis Compton doing the same in England's 537 in reply.
He took only one wicket but brilliantly ran out Everton Weekes who had scored hundreds in his five previous innings, and had reached 90 here.

Weekes and runs
By the end of the series, which also included a century against Ceylon, at that time a non-Test cricketing nation, and a half century against Pakistan in a match not classed as a Test match, Weekes had a Test batting average of 82. 46 and had passed 1, 000 Test runs in his twelfth innings, one fewer than Donald Bradman.
In 1950 West Indies toured England and Weekes continued his excellent form, scoring 338 runs at 56. 33 and playing a significant part in the West Indies 3-1 victory in the Test series, as well as 2310 first-class runs at 79. 65 ( including five double centuries, a record for a West Indian tour of England ).
In the First Test at Sabina Park, Kingston, with Australia requiring just 20 runs in their second innings to win the Test, Weekes opened the bowling and had Arthur Morris caught by Glendon Gibbs.
During the tour Weekes became only the fourth West Indian to pass 10, 000 first-class runs.
Weekes was the first West Indian to pass 3, 000 Test runs, in 31 Test matches, and the first to score 4, 000 Test runs, in 42 Tests.
In all, Weekes played seven seasons in the Lancashire League between 1949 and 1958, passing 1000 runs in each.
Weekes passed 12, 000 first-class runs in his final innings, becoming only the third West Indian, after Worrell and Roy Marshall, to do so.

Weekes and for
Weekes remained tough, but the offense was suspect ; center Josef Vasicek led the team with a mere 19 goals and 26 assists for 45 points.
Wes Hall and Frank Mason were competing for a single place in the touring party, and Sobers and Everton Weekes decided they " would take on Mason and knock him out of the firing line to try and get our fellow Bajan ( countryman ) Wes in the team.
Dallon Weekes, bassist / keys for multi-platinum rock band Panic!
He was omitted from team for both the Second and Third Test but then recalled for the Fourth Test at Queen's Park Oval which was drawn ; Trueman again struggled and had a return of 1 – 131 in the first innings as West Indies amassed 681 – 8 declared, all of the famous " Three Ws " scoring centuries: Everton Weekes 206, Frank Worrell 167 and Clyde Walcott 124.
He was sent with Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes and a first-round selection in the 2000 draft ( Nathan Smith ) in exchange for Pavel Bure, Bret Hedican, Brad Ference and a third-round selection in the 2000 draft ( Robert Fried ).
Bure held out well into the 1998 – 99 season until he was traded on January 17, 1999, to the Florida Panthers, with Bret Hedican, Brad Ference, and Vancouver's third-round choice in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft ( Robert Fried ) for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes, and Florida's first-round choice in the 2000 draft ( Nathan Smith ).
Byers Hall, designed by Hiss and Weekes and built in 1903, served as a center for social and religious life.
* Chamber music: Quintet for clarinet and strings ; Suites, studies and pieces for violin and piano ( Augener, Weekes, Williams and Ashdown ); Variations for 2 pianos ( Augener ); pianoforte pieces ( Augener ; Williams ; Leonard ; Lucas ; Hatzfield ; Ashdown ; Boosey ; Bosworth ; Weekes ).
Claire Weekes described her own battle with nervous illness in her final book where she explained how she began suffering when she was 26 years old as she was misdiagnosed with TB for which she became introverted and worried.
" He described Claire Weekes as looking at him in shock, for which she responded " Save your sympathy for someone else.
Weekes ' work provided the basis an understanding of reptile placentation that lasted for nearly 50 years.
Gagner, along with Ed Jovanovski, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes and Florida's 1st round choice ( Nathan Smith ) in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft were dealt to Vancouver in exchange for superstar Pavel Bure, Bret Hedican, Brad Ference and Vancouver's 3rd round choice ( Robert Fried ) 2000 NHL Entry Draft.
Hedican established himself in the Canucks blueline and after five seasons was later traded to the Florida Panthers by Vancouver with Pavel Bure, Brad Ference and Vancouver's 3rd round choice ( Robert Fried ) in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes and Florida's first round choice ( Nathan Smith ) in the 2000 Entry Draft, on January 17, 1999.
As a boy Weekes assisted the groundsmen at Kensington Oval and often acted as a substitute fielder in exchange for free entry to the cricket, giving himself the opportunity to watch leading international cricketers at close range.
At age 13, Weekes began playing for Westshire Cricket Club in the Barbados Cricket League ( BCL ).
In 1943, Weekes enlisted in the Barbados Regiment, and served as a Lance-Corporal until his discharge in 1947 and while he never saw active service, the fact he was in the military meant he was eligible to play cricket for Garrison Sports Club in the higher standard Barbados Cricket Association in addition to Westshire in the BCL.

Weekes and Bacup
In 1949 Weekes accepted an offer of £ 500 to play as the professional for Bacup in the Lancashire League.
When he first arrived in Bacup, Weekes was greatly affected by the cold and took to wearing an army great coat everywhere, to the extent it became part of his League image.
Weekes also had success with the ball, taking at least fifty wickets in all but one season at Bacup, including 80 wickets in 1956.

Weekes and at
* Henry Weekes, RA, Victorian era sculptor – worked at No. 2, lived at No. 96, Eccleston Street
CSM Weekes was standing over them like a guardian, screaming at some of his men to cover the further end of the path and a small crest.
In the 1970s Dr. Weekes was a regular guest on the British national TV programme Pebble Mill at One, which introduced people to her techniques.
A bust at the Asiatic Society was to be made by Francis Chantrey but was finished by Henry Weekes.
In his first two first-class seasons Weekes was only a moderate success with the bat, averaging 16. 62 by the end of the 1945 / 46 season but began to find form in 1946 / 47, when, batting at number four, his maiden first-class century, 126 against British Guiana at Bourda, Georgetown, and averaged 67. 57 for the season.
The Worrell, Weekes and Walcott Stand at Kensington Oval is named in honour of the Three Ws.
After their retirement from cricket, the three remained close and, following the death of Worrell in 1967, Weekes acted as one of the pallbearers at his funeral.
Weekes made his Test debut for the West Indies against England at Kensington Oval on 21 January 1948, aged 22 years and 329 days.
Batting at number three, Weekes made 35 and 25 as the match ended in a draw.
Weekes then made 90 in the Fourth Test in Madras, being controversially run out and 56 and 48 in the Fifth Test at Bombay.
Leading cricket commentator Alan McGilvray later wrote " I remain convinced to this day the bumpers hurled at Weekes had a definite influence on charging up West Indian competitiveness in future series.

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