- ; +f THE: SPORT REVIEW - This is the canning season with the housewife and the baseball owner, says the Toronto Star, = i racing of 2-year-olds before April 1, a j PACES 9-1 | en YEAR: 82 NO. 216 RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE "ON BOTH WINGS Blunts German Advance---Von Hindenburg, With _ Million Men, Being Held Up Along Dvina River in Effort to Drive on fo Riga. London, Sept. 16.--The most furi- The most surprising news of the ous fighting of the war js being wag- day is the fact that the Germans ed in the Baltic provinces of Rus- have lost their grip on the Petrograd sia, according to all news reaching Railway, which they succeeded in here, and the result of the gigantie cutting at Novo Svientsiany by a cav- series of battie, which might be said alry raid several days ago. to make one huge and' long continu Farther towards Dvinsk, whera ed engagemnt, stil] is in doubt the line passes through a lake re- With forces estimated at more gion, Berlin reports that German than 1,000,000 men Von Hinden-! cavalry is nearing the tracks, hav- burg is exerting every effort to take|ing driven off a Russian cavalry de- Vilna, Dvinsk and Riga and gain|tachment at Sokoli. control of the Dvina River and the Pétrograd Railroad. ra Russ Attacks In Force. The general situation in the east.| According to advices reaching here however, in the minds of military) the half million Austro-Germans ip critics, bears out Lord Kitchener's! Eastern Galicia, Volhynia and along words before the House of Lords 10-/ the Bessarbian frontier are being day that the German offensive has kept busy meeting strong Russian at- been blunted and has lost a great tacks. part of the momentum which carried | is in this region that the Russians the Kaiser's armies far into Russia.| have taken 40,000 prisoners and a Not only in the north but also on the| yumber of guns within the last two southern wing are the Russians in many cases the aggressors. Berlin Claims Smali. The latest official advices . from Berlin state that Von Hindenburg, with great masses of troops, is at- tacking the bridgehead positions be- fore Dvinsk. A crossing of the river at this point would enable him to occupy Dvinsk and virtually seal the fate of Riga. The Russians, howev- er, with great stores of ammunition, are battling desperately and suecess- fully against the German rumbers and the German héavy guns, and Petrograd expresses confidence that Gen. Ruszky will be able to main- tain his positions. Farther along the river at Jacob- stadt, Friederichstadt and Linden the Germans are fighting furiously to effect a passage, but can make no progress. "Bob" Dibble, Canadian and Am- erican amateur champion sculler, en- listed on Wednesday for overseas service. -- Toronto will have two teams rep- resented in the N. H. A. Canadians, Wanderers, Ottawa and Quebec have signified their intention of resuming. | : 4 Hamilton Herald: Sam Monson shares the opinion of Manager Har- vey that the Tigers will be the team to beat for the Big Four champion- ship. Bombardier Wells, the English heavyweight pugilist, now serving in the British Army, has been promoted to Sergeant-Major of the 20th Welsh Regiment. ! All the N. H. A. clubs will be obliged to reduce salaries to make both ends meet and rather than sus- pend, the players will no doubt con sent to the cuts. { -- This week will bring the baseball season to a close in Ottawa with clashes bétween the champion Sena- tors and the Havana Red Sox who played in Kingston. New York Americans have pur- chased fourteen men from lower leagues for trial this fall and next spring. scouting department, 'The Manitoba Rugby season opens on Septem 25th at Winnipeg with an intermediaté game. The juniors and seniors start October 2nd. Play- ers are already practising. Connie Mack is having his troubles trying to learn what fans want: They wouldn't patronize the best team in , thie world, so he gave them the worst; "Joe" Kelley is head of the ! weeks, Only in the centre do the Germans appear to be making consistent pro- !gress,. On an average they are re- ported to be only 33 miles from the Vilna-Rovno Railway, their objec: | tive. Military experts in Petrograd are aot as enthusiastic as their brethren here, however, regarding the possi- bility of a general Russian advance, which will wreck the German plans for the winter and force the Ber- lin general staff to Keep the millions now in the east engaged in a danger- ous winteg, campaign in trackless Russia. Some Russian critics admit that it is not likely the Russians will be able to prevent the Germans from securing the Vilna-Rovno Railway and Dvi lines, but predict that for whatever success they attain they will be forced to pay a heavy toll in {men and time. i for some time, is located in Hamil ton, and will help coach the Hamil- ton Rowing Club. PE Fa The college football authorities are prepared to ahead and play Rug- by this fall as to keep the boys in condition for active service at the front when'the time comes for those who elect to go. At the winding up of the Inter- national League this week, Fred Her- bert, of Toronto, will go straight to the New York Giants and will par- ticipate in several games before the close of the National League sea- | son. There will not be any changes In the rules of the various rugby leagues this year. Owing to the war, President Hewitt, of she C. R. F. U, and his rules committee, gave the proposed amendments a twelve months' heist. : -- Fred. Clarke, who has d as manager of the Pittsburg Pirates, and who will retire to his Kansas farm at the close of the season, was in baseball twenty-three years. Only four men--McGraw, Jennings, Rob- inson and Grifith--who were in the majors when Clarke broke in--are still in active big league service. ---- " Of. last year's Dominion Rugby] | championship team, Toronto Argo- i pauts have lost four of 'the regulars: { Lieut. "Jack™ Allen, at Kingston; { Pte. Colin Simpson, at Kingston; Pte. | George Bickle, at N ra; and | George Motley, who is in England taking a commission with an Impe- rial regiment. Quinn Butterfield, of the Preston | intermediate hockey team, has join- ed the Tlst Battalion. Butterfield is well known all over western . nta- rio, ind is looked upon as bne of the best rovers playing the game to-day. | While a resident of Preston he turn- | ed down tempting offers to turn pro- fessional. Ottawa Citizen: The Queen's deels- lon to operate 4 senior team means 'that the Intercollegiate will be intact Daily KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1918 now at the Canadian comcentratiog camp at Shornc}jffe, while Allgn Wil- son is on the firing line in France. The Capitals, and Toronto North! End Rugby Club, decided last night to! enter five teams in\the city series, | despite: the enlistmeht of 126 mem- bers since last year for overseas sor- viee. Capitals have a strong hold in the suburbs and believe that Rug- | by should go on as a training for fu-| ture soldiers. | What is claimed to be a new Ame- rican endurance swimming record was established Monday by C. Toth, | Boston who was in the water fifteen hours and forty-seven minutes while swimming from Charlestown Bridge! to Boston Light and back. The dis- | tance is estimated at twenty-four miles, 2 "Alec" McFarlane, the big wing man of the Toronto Argonauts for the past two seasons, will be "with the Tigers. - With McFarlane on the line, the Bengals will have one of the strong- est fourteems that has ever repres- ented the yellow and black. His line-plunging ability and strong de- fensive work will be a gréat help. President Trenholme of the Quebec Football Union, is personally in fa- vor of calling off the regular series this fall, but the course that will be followed will depend entirely on the mm SCERMAN v . B BRITAIN MAKES Sw titish Whig SR A-- - THE DOCTOR'S WORK, Strange Effect of Ether On a Colored Patient. . Chicago Sept. 17.--Dr. J.W. King, ber of his colleagues at a meeting how he turned a negress' skin white | as the reswit of an accident. He | treated a colored woman for lum- ; | of Bradford, Pa., recently told a num- Great Efforts to Cope Wit SLOW PROGRESS BY GERMANS IN Pernan aN ? Mira +a arw 1 : Toei THE REPLY OF BALFOUR TO CRITICS OF THE BRITISH AERIAL SERVICE. {"Job™ Came As a Surprise~First Lord of the Admiralty Had No Idea Of This Duty Falling Lot. T London, Sept. 16.--The adequacy | of the air service was the subject of | some criticisms in the House of Com-! mons. "Arthur J. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiraity, admitted that the provisions which had been comsider-| ed sufficient at the beginning of the war had to be materially developed. He said, however, that the service was now. being supplemented far more rapidly than was the danger it was organized to meet. There had been a great strai Balfour continued, on the supp Mr. To His * y of | bago by freezing one leg from the hip | down to the ankle with etlier. "After a week or so," said Dr. King, "she returned to mypofice and said: 7 . ** 'Doetor, the lumbago is gone, but I think I shall have to prosecute you for maltreatment. "You've done more than you said you would.' "The leg I had treated was per- fectly white, and is so to this day." Some of the doctors present agreed that ether freezing has been known to remove the pigments ip the skin, but they say Dr. King's case is un- usual. ~. Lusitania Memorials. London, Sept. 17.--Miss Mary Booth, a"relative of the principals of the Booth Line steamers, has suc- ceeded in collecting funds to pgovide 1,196 motor ambulances, now being used at the front, as a memorial of the Lusitania disaster. She is now collecting funds for a hespital for paralyzed and otherwise permanent- ly injured soldiers as a further me- morial of the same event. -- RIGA REGION. 3 SOLDIERS ABOARD TAKEN PRISONERS] Fellin, RIGA T PETROGRAD| ISO MILES > Gl = #0 Oppekailn ra] °o | 10 PETROGRAD TROM DVINSK 320 MILES ~~ Mel Korovinsk Scae or Muss 0 Ww 2 op 4 stand taken by the clubs composing the union... These are: Mcutreal, Westmount, Shamrocks, Oftawa IL, Gananogue and Brockville, Letters asking for the feeling of the respective clubs in the matier have been sen* cut. It looks as if the Detreit Tigers had shot their bolt. Defeats have been coming to the "Jennings" crew pretty regularly of late, and unless a miracle happens, the Detroit aggrega- "of the running as far as the pennant and the world's series money is concerned. The addition of supposed pitching strength a coup- le of weeks ago, which it was believ- ed made the Tigers real contenders with the Red Sox, has not panned out. : the easternmost end of their eastern line. is that of August 22nd. The line to the ri Riga and its key Friedrichstadt are untake . "vr ~-- anti-air craft guns. The develop ment of an aerial offensive had not been forseen before this war, buf the naval air service was now of great a mension. "I cannot see," Mr. Balfcur said, "that there will be © 'discontinuance of the attacks on Loddon, but will suggest that such me ir cout Map from Eondon Sphere emphasizes the slow progress made by the Germans at |" The line at the end of the shaded portion ght is the battlefront on September 13th. n, as are Dvinsk and Vilna. #. cn bm TISM IN" FRENCH LETTER Address of a French Colonel to His Men-- "France Will Consent to No Peace Till mst Ad Ruin Are | Avenged. The following is taken from a let- ter published in a French paper: When the men of his regiment to whom leave had been granted were about to start for the rear, Colonel X=, of the Regiment of Dra- goons, addressed them in the orders of the day, as follows: "Their colonel would remind the men who are about to visit their homes, of their duty. Though ab- sent from the front, their mission remained the same. At home, as in the ranks, that mission is to hold high the banner of France, to sustain the heart of France, her confidence in the future, her certainty of final triumph, andy lastly, to intensify the hatred of their neighbors towards an enemy odious and unworthy of pity. "Led by a madman to the conquest of Eurgpe, the German armies, es- caping from the battle of the Marne, have burned and laid waste a part of France for the insane pleasure of de- ']stroying marvels of art whose splen- dor their brutish minds could not appreciate. Their vile soldiers have crucified children, made necklaces of the hands of young girls, cut off the breasts of women, tortured aged men, dismembered the wounded, burned their prisoners! These abominations, planned and ordered by the Emperor as an organized pre- lude to the. dismemberment of France, have been universally ap- plauded by all classes of . Society AMONg our enemies. The German People are, therefore, responsible, to the very last member thereof, for this wanton destruction and for crimes | to which history affords no parallel! These Atrocious Howes. ~. "Men of my beloved regiment, who have endured through these atrocious hours, who, one evening near Mac Saw burn the ancient Cathddral &t Rheims, who each day see perish the historic town of Arras, do aot for- get! Stir up the fines of yo red! Sustain this hatred in the hearts of your friends and neigh- bors! Let your war ery be 'to Abe end! No guarter!* % "Have often in mind the picture represen the Kaiser as 'Emperor of the World' and Eitel, his second son, as "King of France!' It is not a fanciful one! There are no limits to folly snd, given the power, it will attempt any crime! *" when you reach home, you will ind some anxious minds troubled by these pessimistic rumors which are spread by traitors and lis- temed to only too eagerly by those egotists who desire to return as soon as possible to their pleasures or their gains. Perhaps at your own fire side you will detect a weariness of waiting! Perhaps. some one will say to you, 'Has enough blood not been shed? Why continue a never-end- ing war? Cannot peace be made with the enemy? FF "vengance until to earth, exter- your hat} | quisitions. The blood poured forth by so many of the brave who have fallen crying, 'I die for France!' has been shed to make certain the glory of our native land. By that su- blime ery they did not mean, 'I die to assure my family a halting and factitious peace," but 'I die that France may once more he France the beautiful, the great nation, the most lovely land! That she may regain her enviable place in the world!' "At this time, when is being exert- ed the immense effort required by { this historic restoration, there cannot | be. among the valient people of | France, a single heart so cowardly | 8s to wish to stop on the way, to lose | the result of sacrifices already made, | to begrudge his gold or the lives of | nis dear ones, when so many heroes, | who now lie wrapped in glory, have | already paid so fully their share to- ward making our country 'glorious. . . They Must Hold. "They must hold fast until the en- emy is completely crushed. There j are only the two roads to take, Vie- | tory or Slavery! Which will they | choose? | "Ever-brave soldiers, revive these { fainting hearts with the bracing air | of the battle front, with that breeze | which stirs the silken folds of the tri-color! which is vitalized by the { breath . of battle, - the contempt of | death, the joy of victory, the love of country! | "A hasty, temporary peace means, | shame, the passive acceptance of In- | sult, ruin consented to, blood spilt in | vain, another war in less than two { years, death approaching without | hope of resurrection! May your mo- thers, your wives, your sisters and your sweethearts, while plying the needle during the long evenings of walting, say at each stitch, 'It is for a lasting peace! Let us accept, for the sake of- France, \ Se. Dew sac- y you, feturs to your homes singing this verse of Deroulede's: "ora! Pay no teed to him who 2 sf For death is nothing! Hail into the tomb! When from it springs ur coun glorified! 1 wr id Forward!" MILLIONS MORE FOR FARMERS. ---------- Crop Estimated to Be Worth Twenty. Aggiculture, the the history Confound Verse Goes. Toronte, Sept. 3} <sTne Anglican es -are taken, | Gemersl Synod, minated, iy his historic a burned, his fae- tories destroyed, his fields laid waste and his treasury emptigd by war re- Jerse od the Natiosal An in its ym le rm The Source Nothing helps more to 'on human endurance than and they won't patronize that. Pilot Hugh Jenhings of: the ter- rible Detroit Tigers has changed his atting order. Cobb-Crawford- each trio is swite! about, Veach |team. now batting ahead of Wahoo Sam. | The New York 'Hotkey Club has passed a resolution prohibiting the again. Coach Frank nessy gues to Montreal next charge ¢f the M " to become effective in 1917. - Al racing associations in America are asked to support them. The New York Giants are loyal to]. McCraw. After he said they were the punkiest gang he ever The executive of the London Uni: applied for | to hat let Lavénder hold t managed, | versity has nt" hitless, so the boss would ot lose his . utstion as a et, ndorsed of , prop Queen's and Toronto, which means * Harrison, a heavyweight, who | tast London will be admitted. - plajed with Calgary last year, will ----- . turn out with the Hamilton Tigers, The Ottawas have lost. Harry and will likely catch a place in the Broadbent, their best scoring for scrimmage. Ross has an- 'ward, and Leth Grabam, nounced that he will play with the Toronto Globe: No-decision boxing is a thoroughly unsatisfactory propo- sition. This is from the Hamilton Rowing Club. 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