Daily British Whig (1850), 19 May 1917, p. 16

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PAGE TWEN Do not let the grass grow under your feet | Is your Lawn Mower in proper shape to cut grass ? : : WE HAVE EXPERTS who can put your Mower in shape, who can make it cut but not stones or chips. grass, We will call for your Mower and de- liver same FREE. TRY US ONCE and we will have you - for a steady customer. TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co, 88 Princess St., Kingston." Telephone 529 | & | Babe Ruth didn't win his eighth straight. He was rescued by Dutch Lecnard in time for a Red Sox v« tory. Walter Joanson won his game tivs | week, presumably because the Sena- tors made eleven runs instead of the customary none. i Every time they pass a Toronto batter the next man comes througl with a hit. That has happened fcur | times so far at the Island. Owner Weeg'uman of the Cubs is still offering that insignificant sum of $100,000 for new players, bug, ¢f ccarse, they've got to Gave the pools, Now, step up. gentlemen, and let's see what ycu're made of. | Old Jake Daubert is still Heoplig | up hs heartbreaking tricks on his opponents. He has'spolled a bt of safeties since the season began, and | turnéd what looked 'ike certain! threo baggers into hits that barely | got the hitter to first. It will do well for the other clubs as well as the fang to keep teir eyes on Brooklyn. Cheney has been doing wonderful work in the box, and 'when his side partners improve a trifle, look out for the Dodgers. They may | not win the pennant, but they'! sire- ly give the winners a mighty hard race. | Pitcher Chappell, who was wil Manager Smith of Richmond on the' Atlanta team, and who was latterly | a Federal Leaguer, will jon . the Virgians at Montreal. The Friday game at the Toronto Island Stadium was cancelled on ae- count of the death of Mrs. Lawrence ' Solwran. played with Newark on Saturday. Blackburne has been playing for the past week with a very lame arm and shoulder, but the peppery third- baseman has been contributing his full share fo the Leafs' successes nevertheless. Charlie Querrie says geveral stars who drew down $100 per week for playing lacrosse in the Big Four two years ¥go, have consented to turn out gratis to help swell the Red Cress funds at Toronto, The question of a fight between Johnny Kilbane and Frankie Flem- ing is pow up to the latter. Kilbane has signed and George Kennedy is trying to get Fleming into it. William Martin, who has been ap | pointed patrol judge by the Canadian acing Association, was formerly a well known rider on the cifenit. - He TRY 5c. Poet Cigar 5c. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, 'Kingston. 2 taken over the training of George W. Beardmore's thoroughbred string. Half mile racing season opens at Montreal Saturday, with Delorimier Park shoving its gates open. An up- to-date Pari-Mutuel plant is how be-- ing installed. Several New York writers declare that in repealing the Krawley BilF Governor Whitman killed boxing and paved the way for a return of the crooks who formerly held sway in Gotham. They assert that the Frex- ley Bill would have been a success had Governor Whitman chosen eap- able men, instead of his political fav- orites, as state commissioners. Rod. McKenzie, the well known Canadian herseman, may be presi- dent; of the new jockey club at To- ronto, He has been invited to take charge" of the organization of 'the association. \ Ten hundred horsés are quartered at Delorimier Park fcr the opening of the ipring meeting there Saturday. Evidently there will be no shortage of bangtails on the merry-go-rounds. Guess who has thrown in his lot with the Vancouver lacrosse team in the patriotic. series against New : nster? No, not Bones Allen nor Harry Grifiith. None other than Fred Taylor, former Ottawa Hockey Club star. He will play on their me. 3 Sidney Hatch, the Yamous Chicago Marathonvrannar is laid up with a cracked rib and will not be back on 'the road for some time. He | : A double header will be ---- RED Formerly pilot of CUBS AND CARDINALS Make an Umexpected Show in the Nationa! League. Fighting spirit and smart baseba"l are respcngible for the fact that 'the Cardinals to-day are holding a first- divisor rocst in the National League, and for the equally start'ing appear- ice of the Cuba in f rst place. In stite -of the fact that efforts of the 8t. Lois and Chisago bidders for the Tener pennant this year has been looked cn mainly as fas es cf early seascn f4rmi, these two clubs have come east and are crushing what has been gene:l"'y rated the sirong- est this seethon has to offer. It was the eighth straight victory that lifted the Cubs ints the lezd- off niche, sand it was the se~and con: secutive ten inp ng triwmps over the Giants tat' jammed the MeQraw starsTout OF first place. The Cardinals Always hive Leen note" for! their "ability to Tight the Giants off their feet, brit the Cubs, McGraw"s deadly rivals of od, are yet ty visit New York. Having met and conquered the champion Dodg- ers, and then having plastered Geo. Stalling's 'Braves with overwhelming deféits, the Cube are due to make it 'interesting for the New Yorkers, They are scieduled for a fit with the fast travelling Phillies before they visit New York. An Old Baseball Story, That the basebail efitice®f twenty years ago were just as bad guesseis As some of the present day cmes is noted. from a paragraph that appear ed about a score of years ago. It read as flows: "Mie Philadelphia writers are of the opinion 'Nat Man ager Billy Nash cf the Qualkers had picked up a jewel in Outlic der Phil Lajole, the first baseman secared from the Fall River «ub in the sanie deal. ©5 capable a leader as Frank Seles, of Piston, fosked over Lajole before Nash got aim and turned k m+ down because he didn't shape up to the standard of a major }eague bats- man, Just Lajole if hitting pretty well, but wait until the piteh- ers discover his weakness." This ago were a trifle out, and it might be added that mot a faw ambitious pitchers in the Internat onal ate still having their tocables trying to find Larry's weakness with the witow. There is considerable ili-feeling between the rival Low's clubs. ae Browns asked waivers on two players LR roy asks azo inorder to' send v to the 1 league, but the Cartinale Amel i There: fore the membeis of the two teams in training and sustained the injury. ONE are nut eyeing each wther ina parti seein h dale od the Canadian Leafs. of the Chicago Cubs, who are leading the National League Pr ---- A an shows that the boys of many years | and now manager ~-- CUBANS MAKE OFFER TO TORONTO COACH Joe Wright, ex-Argo Captain, is Wanted by Havana Scullers. It is mere than HMkely that Joe Wright, the famous Toronto Argon- aut oarsman and coach, wil go to Cuba to teach the Havana Rowing Club candidate how to hand'e the oars. The Havana Boat Club, after send nz a request to Penns lvania University, where Wright is now en- gaged, made him an offer to go to Cuba for the summer months, The Havana carsmen plan big things in the future, and they want to start with the latest 1owing methods, Af- ter looking over all the cogches they decided that the man they desired was the veteran from Toronto. who Is coaching at old Penn. The Hav- ami Boat Club, through Commodore J. C. Washington, cabled to Pennsyl- vaunia and received the r consent, -- tn ------ { ¥ May Transfer Toronto Cub. It is stated on grod authority that the Toronto Hockey Club's franchise in the"Natisnal Association may be transferred to Mcntreal umf opeérat- ed by the National Amatear Aaletié Ascotiation, President A. L. Caron confirmed yesterday . the anmounce- ment tat there had been negotia- tions between himgslf and Edd e Liv- ingstone, but deciined t5> go #ito the rarticulacs further, - The ccnsent of other clubs would, of course, be necessary for the operator of A third Monte I club in the N.H.A. Omar Khayyam 'Will Be Sold. Omar Khayyam, winner of the Kentuck Derby last Saturday and one of the world's foremost three: year olds, will be sold at auction at Bement Park in June. C. K.'G. Billings and Frederick Jchnson, the owners, will dispose of a string of other noted runn ng horses, although the sa'e dees not mean; it was sfat- ed, that either man plans to retire from the turf. = Should Be in Trench. "The man who can play baseball ought to be in a trench or in a fur row," said Governor Bickett in an address issued to the people of North Carolina, urging that baseball leag- ®eés be disbanded, aud the people of towns and cities to use idle hours And idle men in making food for themselves. "At the annual tied day of the Western University. at London the Mel Brook Shield was won b} G. A. P. Brickenden, an art student. We Live But Once Let Us Partake of Earth's Good Things by Milo Cigar Made in Kingston by GEO. A. McGOWAN CO. ee THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF CANADA : S. ROUGHTON, Agent. 60 Brock St., Kingston. Phone 610 - 4 : of Kingston's Electric Store We are experts in home lighting. 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