Dundas PGA Tour golfer Mackenzie Hughes and former Major League Baseball player Charles Collins are among the third class of inductees into the Dundas Sports Wall of Fame, announced this week.

The group includes Earl Begg, a Basketball Ontario Hall of Famer who coached the Mohawk College Women’s Basketball team for 20 years; marksman Dr. Thomas Bertram and Frances Manias, a national and international bodybuilding and powerlifting champion.

The group will officially be inducted during April’s Allan Cup Canadian hockey championship at J.L. Grightmire Arena, joining two previous groups and bringing the Dundas Sports Wall of Fame to 15 total members.

Hughes is a two-time Canadian Amateur golf champion, winning back-to-back national titles in 2011 and 2012. Following wins on the PGA Tour Canada and Web.com tour, he earned his PGA card and won the 2017 RSM Classic. The Highland Secondary School graduate and Dundas Golf and Curling Club member finished in the top 125 in the tour’s FedEx Cup rankings in 2019 to retain his PGA eligibility.

Collins had a full and varied life, despite dying at the young age of 57 in 1914. Nicknamed “Chub,” he was son of Bernard Collins, who built and operated the famous Collins Hotel.

Collins played shortstop for the Dundas Standards, then advanced to the major leagues in 1884 with Buffalo and Indianapolis playing 83 games that season, moving to Detroit for 14 games in 1885. That same year, Collins joined the Hamilton Clippers as the team won the Canadian League. Collins played and managed several more minor league seasons in Hamilton, Rochester and Omaha, and led the Clippers to a championship in 1898. He also later worked as an umpire.

Collins also won the Ontario Tankard provincial curling championship in 1903 and was a Dundas town councillor, then mayor for two terms in 1901 and 1902.

Dr. Thomas Bertram also had a variety of interests. In addition to being a medical doctor, he was also an avid curler — serving as lead on the provincial championship team skipped by Collins, and helped form the first Dundas lawn bowling club.

But Bertram was best known for his shooting. An expert marksman, he travelled to the United Kingdom and won several prestigious competitions in 1899.

Earl Begg holds the Mohawk College coaching record with 336 basketball wins, and led the Mountaineers to Ontario titles six times between 1981 and 1991. Begg’s teams earned bronze at the 1985 and 1990 National Championships. Begg was named Ontario coach of the year in 1987, 1990 and 1991 — and named Canadian College coach of the year in 1987.

Frances Manias was a five-time Canadian champion bodybuilder, representing her country in the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships seven times. Manias has since moved on to powerlifting, where she has also earned several national and international titles. She is also a successful fitness trainer and powerlifting coach, passing on her experience and expertise to several women, who have also earned championship titles, through her Dundas Valley Power team and Iron Sisters organization. Manias has a background playing basketball and in college sports coaching and administration.