PAGE TWELVE. | THE SPORT REVIEW Eschen the Jersey City outfielder, | Who was with the Yankees a coupl:| of seasons ago, has been uncondi | tionally released by Manager George Wiltse, 3 "Billy" Bell who figiired with the! Ottawa N. H. A. team this past win- | ter, and has left with the Canadian Overseas Construction Corps. * | + | | | Sam Langford, the Boston heavy- weight, outpoirted Battling 'Jim Johnson, of Gaiveston, Texas, in| eight rounds of a ten-round bout inf New York. Capt. Wyndham Halswelle, the well-known British runner, was kill-| ed while fighting at the front ont March 31st, Captain Halswelle broke the quarter-mile record at the Olym- | pic games in London in 190% in an { exciting contest. He also held other | athletic records. United States - District Judge David P. Dyer, interrupted the ar-| guments of attorneys during a Fed eral court suit Monday afternoon in St. Louis, Mo; to -announce from | the bench the result of the heavy | weight fight, His honor had Yet a' new hat with W. W. Nall, cleric of the court. The judge was. on the wrong end of the gamble Jamés Huteh, trainer of the Buf falo' Internationals last year, will accompany (Derby Day) "Bill" Cly- | mer to Toronto, as the 1915 trainer of the Canadians. He has a reputa-| tion as a track, football and basket- hull coach. "Joe" Pape, shortstop of the New Haven, Conn., team, has been sold to the Toronto club of the Internation al League. Since witnessing an exhibition game played by the Brooklyn Dod- gers at Daytona, Fla, last month, John D. Rockefeller has become an ardent baseball fan. This week he gave the use of three acres of his land at Pocanfico Hills to the Po- rantico Hills A. C., and he will afd it In huilding a diamond and grand stand. Manager Kerrigan expects to have a speedy team in the field and later in the season hopes that Mr. Rockefeller will come out and root for it. | __-- Umpires for opening games in tha' Federal League next Saturday were assigned yesterday by President Gil- more: Howell and Finnerman wera assigned to Chicago; Brennan and Shannon to Kansas City; MeCor- mick and Westervelt to Baltimore and Johnstone and Fife to Brooklyn. -- | Outfielder Artie Hofman, formerly of the Pirates, has quit the Brooklyn ! feds in a huff because lic was fined for smoking a cigarette. "Kid" Williams, the bantamweight champion, was knocked down twice and took the count for seven and nine in the second round of a six- round bout with "Joe" Lavigne, bet- ter known as "Leuvisiana," of Phila: delphia, there last night. The loser appeared over-anxious and miss od | both attempts to fand finishing blows. "Louisiana" made the better showing in "all but the first round. The champion appeared groggy at the close. ¥ When newspaper reporters telephon- ed "Jack" Johnson's hore in Uhi- "ago yesterday, giving the result of the heavyweight championship fight in Havana, Mrs. Tiny Johnson, the | former champions aged mother, refus- el to believe the nvws. "It can't be true," she kept re- peating. "My son licked, knocked out ? No siree."" 'I'o confirm the re port she had a member of her house hold cable her son at Havana as fol- lows : 'What about the fight * Was it a knockout ? Who won ? Send pews at once." Before a reply was, received, some. one, evidently desiring to play a joke on the family, telephoned the news of a Johnson victory, which was met with cheers. | The recent sale of Directum | the pacing champion for a sum said to be close to $45,000, brings to mind the remarkable gain in speed made by the side-action racer in re- | cont years. A study of records from 1866 to 19156 shows that in this period of forty-nine years the mile record made either in competition or against time has been reduced from 2.21 1:2 to 1.55, a gain_of, 26 + 1-2 seconds. Directum I. holds the the record of 1.58 made in a race | at Columbus, Ohio, on September | 40th, 1914, and Dan the | against-time record to 1.55, a gain of 26 1-2 seconds, made on Septem-! ber 8th, 1906. J. W. Schorr, who headed 'the list of winning owners in this country Inst year, has changed his mind about tetiring from the qurf, and declar s he will raco half his string of thirty thoroughbreds this season over the Canadian tracks. The United States turfmen who 'intend racing in Uan- ada have received assurances the officials thut their horses run risk of being commandeered for argy, a fear of which resulted in number of horsemen ~tnyagements in year. Many of daty line this season. G. H. Bedwell iy also ng i . Canada, as will arcy Payne Whitney, Amos Tu s and many other Américan ry n canceling their Dominion = last There will bu nearly five months of racing this year in the west, accord i Present plans. With the ap- t of the Nevada Racing Com- hh Governor Boyle, mission be represented north of t - meeting. The rules of the Kentucky State Racing Commission were adopt ed in the main, and racing will be governed in. Nevada along the same lines as in the Blue Grass country Iwo-year-olds will not. be permitted | to race until after May ist. " MURDEROUS SHRAPNEL. One of the Most Deadly Agents Usec In Modern Warfare. Shrapnel receives its name from Gen. H. Shrapnel, who invented the shell during the Peninsular war. This ingenious = artillerist conceived the idea of filling a hollow shell with small metallic odds and ends and pro viding it with an explosive charge When the latter was detonated natur ally the contents were scattered in all directions. The shrapnel, however, has under gone considerable improvement in re cent years, its ceadliness and destruc tivenkss having been accentuated te a remarkable degree. Its design ls somew Lat Varied, for while under cer tain conditions all requirements are fulfilled by the shell striking the ground and exploding under contact at others ft is necessary to cause the shell 'to explode while in midair and at a predetermined range. . The modern shrapnel shell is s steel cylinder, which is packed with buHets and carries the explosive charge. The shell is capped with either a percussion or time fuse The former explodes when it comes into contact' with a solid object and is used extensively against approach- ing infantry, while the latter, the time fuse, can be set to burst prac tically at any range and is essentially useful for attacking entrenched in Tantry. Well-timed shrapnel is capable of inflicting far greater injuries upon €ntrenched troops than any other mis- sile, and at the same time is mosi unnerving. A third variety of shrap- pel in common use is that employed | against approaching cavalry. The murderous effect of shrapnel is enhanced by the fact that not only are the bullets contained in the shell driven with terrific force in the de sired direction, but the steel case it- self is broken into small pieces by the bursting charge. While the bullets inflict clean, circular injuries, the Jagged pieces of metal of the pulver- ized case tear gaping wounds. At the same time it is capable of wreak- ing widespread destruction on build ings because the shell explodes with great fury. Paid Ris Debt. When Joseph Chamberlain entered the House of Commons he was any. lous to try his oratorical powers. A certain leading politician who was piloting a bill through the House was approached -by one of Mr. Chamber: lain's friends, who said: "Chamberlain would like to speak on the bill, Can you give him a chance?" "Well, you know, 1 think it would not do. He's a new member, and no- body knows what the dickens he might say." Time went on. Chamberlain galned ground ~-- became a power in Parlia- ment. The leading politician, on the contrary, had made a series of blun- ders which had impetilled his posi- tion. An election was imminent. For- getting his previous record, he thought that if he could get Mr. Chamberlain to speak for him he would strengthen bis position. He therefore applied to the right honor. able gentleman. The latter calmly surveyed him through his eyeglass and said: "Well, you know, I think it would not do. | am a new member; and nobody knows what the dickens i might say." A -------------------- The Road to Ruin, A party of motorists touring from Cornwall lost their way one night while proceeding to St. Mawes, and eventually found themselves strand- ed with a burst tyre on one of the hilijest, roughest, narrowest, and most winding roads that even Corn- wall produces. While the spare wheel was being fixed the rain came down in torrents, and language suit- able to the occasion was used. Just then a farmer happened to come along. "Can you teil us where we are?" asked the motorist, calming himself with an effort. "We have missed our way." : "You are on the road to Ruan," suid the farmer, innocently. "It's a mile off," "Oh, I see!" exclaimed the per- spiring motorist. "On the road to ruly, am I? Well," he continued, as the humor of the situation dawned on him, "I may be, and it may lead to destruction--but I always thought it was'a sight broader and easier go- ing than this." It Pleased Fisher. A new Jacky Fisher story is hidden away in a country newspaper's report of an address by a Salvation Army officer. The First Sea Lord inquired At the offices of a London distress committee for information as to what Was. S up the wives of sailors and soldiers. He was told that the Sarvition Army bad under- taken to do at was necessary in that direction. "We kave set apart for it," he was told, "twenty women He slapped' his thigh 8 on, Jaughed hea and exclaimed: "Splen. the best 1 have beard of yet. tell the King about it." That 1 | i" Lieut.-Col. Lacey I 2s the St. John Ambulance Asso the Railroad Y. M, C. A. and Shaughnessy, President of the to appoint an officer to co-operate § zations. amongst the employees of the the title of General Welfare Agent. heretofore General Superintendent of Joined the service in 1882 has been ce among appointed to that office, Lieutenant-Colonel Lacey R. Abingdon, Berkshire, England. John Canadian He entered the rai and served his time as a premium apprentice to the way of England at Swindon Works for five R. Johnson N view of the benefits derived from certain voluntary agencies, such ciation, the Safety First movement, Athletic Associations, Sir Thomas Pacific Railway, has decided he development of such organi Canadian Pacific Railway with Lieut.-Colonel Lacey R. Johnson, Angus Shops District, who since he actively identified with the general the railroad employees, has been nt son was born on June 22nd, 1855, at Iway service in 1870 Great Western Rall- years. Later on he went to India and for three years wasddraftsman and foreman of the machine and erecting shops of the Scinde Punjaub & Delhi Railway. In the year 1882 Lieut.-Colonel Lacey Johnson came to Canada and very soon he became General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway shops at Carleton Junction, Ont., which position he occupied fort tant Master Mechanic of the Eastern hree years. He was then appointed Assis Division and in May, 1886, to Sept., (1901, he was Master Mechanic of the Pacific Division and' Supervising En. |gineer of the Pacific fleet steamships. Buperintendent of Motive Power at M He was then lontreal, a posit appointed Assistant fon he occupied for 11 years, and on July 1, 1912, he became General Superintendent of the Angus Shops at Montreal. er tt ed A tes Am SAA Ar am Bird's Milk. "I fed him with bird's milk." This curious expression was used by the old Sultan of Turkey, while a pris- oner on his way to Saloniki, with reference to his brother Mohammed, his predecessor on the throne. Abdul Hamid was lamenting his own fate and telling his captors how little he deserved it and how kind he had been to his brother, "I fed him with bird's milk," he said, as if that were the greatest kindness he could show. What is bird's milk? Not the Turk- ish equivalent of the milk of human kindness, but a European brand of condensed milk bearing on the can a picture of a bird on a nest. Table Oilcloth Has Many - Uses. Table ollcloth can be utilized for other purposes than its name indi- cates. It can be placed on kitchen and bathroom walls when smooth by adding a little glue to the paste. It also makes good lining for a market basket, which can be used for laun- dry and other purposes, as it is easily | kept cledn. It can be substituted for artists' canvas, tacking it securely to a frame. If the wrong side is used it should first be primed with a coat | of paint, and if the finished side is used treat first with turpentine. Study It Out. Here is a highly interesting para- | dox, which may amuse or bewilder, | as the case may be. It is supposed to have been invented by Socrates: | A. says that all Athenians are liars. | A. Is an Athenian and therefore Har. Therefore his statement the statement that liars is true. Therefore he and his statement false, and --------------initimionn . His Mission. "I understand that 80 on. "Oh, no; nothing like that." Li a a ki " "She and I settled all that. What ve for is find out what of the house you are going to Copper and Electricity, electrical conductivity of cop- depends upon the total amount sei Miller Huggins, of the St, tionals, announced that he od a telegram from "Bob" that! all Athenians are liars is mot true, | and consequently all Athenians tell! Pretty, attractive, Toronto ~truth.----A&. is an Athenfan and! hence tells the truth, wherefore his all Athenians are t is a lar, He wrote regularly from Salisbury | the fromt. you have calléd to ask for my daughter's band?" | over to us when we are mar- Varsity Students and the War, So far one hundred and eighty-six students at the University of Toron- to who have already enlisted have been granted their year~that is, marked as having passed .the exam- inations they would have beea trying this coming April. Eightysaix of these are with the first contimgent and are now somewhere in the fight. ing 'zone. One thousand eight hun. dred students zre enrolled in the Varsity Officers' Training Corps and are drilling and attending military lectures. Each day sees another batch of men appiying at the regis. trar's office for permission to go to the front. With the clostog of tne term in April and with the opening of a training camp outside the city exclusively for Varsity men, the number of students actually going to the front will be, according to the word of a man intimately identified with the military movement at Var- siiy, not two hundred, as it now is, but six hundred, which is one-fifth of the male attendance at Varsity, It is planned to open a training camp 'exclusively for Varsity men af- ter the close of the year, in May. It will be somewhere outside Toronto, possibly at Long Brafch or Niagara. It will be conducted by the Officers' Training Corps under Col: Lang. As many as want to go to the front can then go, and, considering the need in the Imperial army of men not only trained 'as officers, but as engineers, | mo doubt see her Lists Gave It Away. Bird, 22 years old, said good-bye to her 8 heart, who went away fn khahi with the first contingent. i . She Then | ews came that his regiment was at She began to watch the newspapers with almost painful inter- regulary, 1nd been calling to see her regularly for over two years. One day With it the "next of kin," his name with "Mrs. of it. ' | | the scientific lines of the golf bunk- recently she saw his name | SAVER HIS REPUTATION. Curious Experience of a White Man In Centfal Africa, The arrival of a strange white man in apy of the villages in central Africa is quite an exciting event, Speaking of his personal experiences in this respect in his book, Among the Primitive Bakongo," Mr. Joba H. Weeks says: "Every one passed remarks on my personal appearance and selected my Physical peculiarities for special at- tention. There were allusions to my youthful appearance, to my neck and nose and absence of a beard. Of course I was unable to understand them, but my colleagues were only too delighted to give a very literal translation of the observations none too quietly passed by the facetipus onlookers. . The town was agog with excite 'ment. There was bartering for food, the haggling about the price of the cassava, the plantain, or the peanuts offered for sale and the worth of the trade goods offered in exchange; the interchange of news, but the great. est of all interest to the local natives centered in the white man. The in- habitants of the village formed .a semicircle round his newly borrowed hut and watched his every move- ment. He strips off his jacket, turns down thie collar round his neck and rolls up his shirt sleeves preparatory to a wash, and there are audible re marks about the whiteness of his skin. They eye him critically at his toilet. * 'What is that stuff he is rubbing on his hands?' asks one ignoramus. " 'That,' replies a much traveled man, 'is what they call soap. See what a lather it makes.' And there i8 much amused contempt in his tones as he gives the bit of informa- tion to the untraveled folk in his village. "The ablutions are finished, and the white man is now drying him- self, and while two or three specta- tors are passing remarks on the us ing of so good a cloth--towel--for such a purpose a woman on the out-~ skirts of the crowd asks: " 'Is that all be is going to wash? Why, we wash all over!' 3 "And there is disdain mingled with disappointment as she puts the question and a suggestion that the white man is not as clean as be might be. The white man's boy does not like the query in the tone, and as his honor is bound up with his master's he informs the crowd gea- erally that his master bathes regular. ly in his own town. The woman is answered and the public receives an interesting bit of information, which by and by is distributed among the neighboring villages. The white man's reputation for cleanliness is saved." Ignorant of War. There are still places which have not heard of the world war after nearly seven months of conflict. The secretary of the Postmaster-General, in a casual report, mentions the fact that Tristan da Cunha, a group of British islands in the South Atlantic, has not received a mail since the out- break of the war. These islands are entirely depen- dent upon chance communication from South Africa, 1,600 miles away. Often the inhabitants are a year or more without communication from the outside world. The population is only about eighty in number, mainly descendants of shipwrecked sailors, and all English, Another place that has not heard of the war is Yquiths, ir eastern Peru. Its letters are taken by Brit ish mail steamers up the Amazon to Manaos, and thence across South America. Yquitos is only a few hun- dred miles from Lima, the Pacific capital of Peru, but the vall of the Andes is an almost impassable bar- rier. ---------------- A Banknote Tragedy. In the days when to steal or forge a banknote in England was a crime punishable by death the histories of many notes were tragic in the ex- treme. The circumstances of one memorable case are peculiarly sad. A young man called Howland was ac- cused by his uncle, a merchant in the city, of stealing a £50 note from the writing table in his study. Although it was not proved that the note bad ever been in his possession or that it had ever been cashed, the circum- stances were considered suspicious enough to justify comviction, and the young man, who was popular and of irreproachable character, was sentenc- ed to death. 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