THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1917. en PAGE TWENTY -- INDIANS WIN ! NN . . Dozens of People Have Now Tried and Tested INDIAN BICYCLES and they pronounce them the best ever. Made by a strong reliable company with a strong guarantee that will stand the test. COUNT THE INDIANS ON THE ROADS There must be satisfied people. The good old Indian motorcycle still leads. Other people tell you that you can get something just as good. YOU GET THE ORIGINAL This is the week to buy. Bicycles will be higher when our present stock is sold. TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co., 88 Princess St., Kingston. Telephone 529 HAMILTON NOT READY | FOR- INTERNATIONAL | - i Would Welcome Chance to | ! Supplant Toronto, But Not | During War. i 4 s---- r The guessers are at work again, {says the Ham lton Times. Hamfiton is slated for the International | League. It makes good reading to have this city in line for the Barrow League, but the Ambitious City is {far away from such a jump. In the | first place, Toronto is by no. means {in the American League vet, and] | even if the Queen City did manage! to secure the Washington {ranch 'se, | | Hamilton would not be favored with | the vacant the Interna- | tional. { Hamilton is in no position to] stand International league baseball | jdugng war times. The battle be-| | tween the Hun and Allies is what | wrecked the Canadian League. Hamiltonians will welcome a re- i¥val of this International League { chatter when the war is over. Any | {city that could boast of an average | | attendance of 1,153 for half a sea-| son with a club far down in the! | race is sure to. prove a paring pro-! position in normal times | berth in GOWDY QUITS BRAVES. Is the First Ball Player to Join U.S, 1 Army as a Private, | "Hank" Gowdy, Boston National | | catcher, and hero of the 1914 world | series, vesterday gained the distine- tion of being the frst ball player to relinquish voluntarily the luxurious [life of a biz league ball player to |earry a gun srivate in the army. | Gawdy yesterday left for his home at Columbus, O)io, to enlist in the | { Ohio National Guard. The catcher will report for military duty July 15th, play.nz ball up to that date His team mates were infected with | the military fever by his decisive {step and a day off, and Stallings | fears others will follow suit. as | f CANADIAN BALL TEAM | I | Beats an American Nine in Game in} { England The American doctors and nurse: | who comprise the United States am-! | bulance unit en route to France were | royally entertained in England this week. nN One of the star attractions for they. visitors was a baseball game on the estate a Eliveden of Waldorf Astor, | M.P,, at which the American doctors suffered a defeat at the hands of the more skiiled Canadians ended at the close of the sixth in- ning, when the Canadians had piled up fourteen runs. The Canadians | gave the game a touch of the real thing in baseball by wearing regula- tion uniforms. | 1 | Baseball to Continue. "Will the war stop baseball next] year?" a New York reporter asked | cf Ban Johnson yesterday. "We shall have to wait develop- | ments," replied the American League | president, "but I think baseball will] go on. The chances are that there! will be no break in the yearly cam-| paigns of our big leagues. Patron- age during the past few weeks has been far greater than we expected. TRY 5c. Poet Cigar 5c. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. % Uf the weather continues good all the! clubs will prosper. ' i Will Resume Athletics. | Brown University will continue all forms of athletics when the fall term opens, according to an announcement | made this week. Though the Var-| sity teams have been sadly depleted! through enlistment, it is expected that there will be sufficient new ma- terial to make a creditable showing. | | XV oN | 20 | S STAIN) OWS > NNN IN ft ASA I A HN a A EN HA @ MONUMENTS Importers of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. The McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. 807 Princess Street. Telephone 1931 A AA AAA AA AAA ati BRINGING UP FATHER ee ee AA | { COLLAR 20¢ each, 3 for 30. | } | TOOKE BROS. LIMITED Makers Montreal ~ se | regularly | been proven | though a wiser step on tie part of | couniry are in ng small measure to | | had | tave been taken to-day. | completion of arrangements Tor two ha | ton, The Bae | Ted Lewis, | Jackson are scheduled to appear in | | been knocked out in his career. | $6,000 Position to Enlist as a Pri. HONUS WAGNER SIGNS NOT FOLLOWANG EXAMPLE WITH THE PIRATES OF OTHER COUNTRIES REGARD- | Veteran Infielder is Slated to ING HORSE RACING. Play First Base for Pitts- | burg Club. France, England, Austria and Ger- | many Hold Meets--Jockey Club | Mean Biomed X t 3 po y uh | John Henry (Honus) Wagner, star | meq or n on Racing. { shortstop, who failed to report to the In stopping rac ng until after the | Pittsburg Nationals at the beginning | war.-the Canadian Government. has' of the season, after 20 years as a| not 7ollowed the example of other player in the National League has | countries participating in the great. now signed a contract with President | war. Race meetings have been held | Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburg | in Germany and Austria, | club. } and the sport of kiigs- was recently | No statement was made as to the | revived in France, the military salary Wagner will receive under authorities realizing that w thout | the new contract. For the past two! racing the thoroughbred. industry | years, it is said, he has been receiv-| would gradually wane, and it has|ing a salary of $10,000, and time and again that | cording to some reports, it was be- | the thoroughbred is the best horse | cause of a reduction that the veter-| for the army. Even in England the | an shortstop failed to report this] S. Roughton, He | V mm-- a. -- We Live ] But Once Let Us Partake of Earth's Good Things by Smoking. Milo Cigar Made in Kingston by GEO. A. McGOWAN CO. . Accident and Health Insurance. Cemplete Disability Policy pays weekly indemnity as long live and suffer Disability, 60 Brock St., as yom Phone 610. Government has sanctioned meet-!spring. After igni | 2- |e A signing a coatract| ings this year that were not held | Wagner sent the following telegram | since the war started. It looks as to August Herrmann, chairman of! 2 | the National Baseball Commission: | the Government weuld have been to | "Finding the call of baseball too | take over the mile tracks and €On- | strong to resist, I desire to continue, duét meetings, allowing the share- | to play the game I love and to which | holders of the various clubs ten per | owe an | possess, and I hereby | cent. on their investment, and 'using I petition the National Commission to the profits for various military pur- | grant my request for reinstatement poses. | So that I may play with my cid club {| to-morrow." Jockey Clubs Blamed. | The jockev clubs throughout the | HIGHLANDER MAGNATE | { biame for the ban on racing, says! | tie Hamilton Spectator. At the [Joins the U. time the Miller Bill was brought up| at Ottawa, representatives of the! 8S. Engineers For Ser- | vice Overseas. | ( : Capt. T. L. Huston, part owner of| various clubs made a strong plea for 'he New York Americans, and one of! the co mm | Kingston's Electric Store We are experts in home lighting. Gat you home wired now and enjoy all oy orts of electric power and light. sk us. i. W. NEWMAN ELECTRIC CO the continuing cf racing. point ng |+he most popular magnates in base-| out what the thoroughbred meant to | yall, probably saw his team play Tues-| the army, and how it was absolute- jay for the last time until the war Is ly necessary to have betting in order |over. | to have racing. Since the outbreak | Capt. Huston Yeft for Detroit to 79 Princess St. of the war the jockey clubs have | join a regiment of engineers which! done practically nothing to ~help | will go to France in the near future. | secure horses for the armv. It was He gained much experience in| an opportunity. to practice what |"uilding railroads and bridges in| they preached a few years ago, and | Cuba during the Spanish-American| they dome so it is mot likely | war, and he will devote his time to| that such a dsastic measure would *his line of work at the front The| | 'aptain's only son is at Plattsburg| | Camp, having severed his connection| | with the Royal Bank of Canada at Coronto to take a course of military | training. LEWIS MEETS BRITTON. dritisher and American Welter. weight to Clash Again. Announcement is made at the St. Nicholas AC., New York, of the Gilmore Quits Ring. i Freddie Gilmore, who was Les| Darcy's closest companion from the | | time Darcy landed in New York to! the day he died, has quit the fight] | game, Freddie asserts Darcy di as much of a broken heart as of the complications to which the physicians | | attributed his demise. Gilmore | | holds the harrying of his friend was | instigated by men prominent in the | boxing game, and the tactics employ- i ed have sickened him of the sport. ten-round bguts to be held" at that club with'n the next two wee'ts: The first with be staged next Thursday night, and will bring together in a return bout Jack Brit- the welterweight champion, and the English boxer. One week later Johnny Dundee, the Ifalian lightweight, and Willie promising a return bout. It was Jackson who | Honors For Pete Fiett. recently knocked out Dundee for Pete Flot. forrier o he first t' me that the Italian has : er centre half and ae | captain of the Argonaut Football {team in the interprovincial - Union, | latterly Flight Sub-Lieut. Flett, of | the Royal Naval Air Service, has been awarded the Distinguished Con- duct Medal for conspicuous gallantry! vate. during an air rajd. Flett was one of | Louis Steffens, assistant traffic) the British @dmen who raided] manager for a Detroit. firfit of auto | Friesburg and did great damage to manufacturers, and 'who draws a'enemy works there, salary of $6,000 a yedr, walked ato | the Detroit Armory and asked to be enlisted as a private, He said he helieved in starting at the bottom. He passed the phys cal examination and was signed at once. " Mr. Steffens has a reputation as a hockey player, having been a mem- ber of Canadian teams before going to Detroit. HOCKEY PLAYER QUITS Harvard Overtook Blue. There is very little chance of foot- ball being resumed at Harvard this year, say latest advices from Cam- bridge, Though the schedule, as ar- ranged, is still intact, it may be necessary to cancel it altogether Eddie Casey ig the only member of last year's team who is not in khaki, He enlisted, but was turned down at Plattsburg. Baseball Barred to Aliens. Alien enemies can't go to baseball games in San Francisco after June 9th without a special permit from the Government. The baseball park fs within a half-mile radius of the| National Guard Armory, which is a barred zone for Germans. President Ban Johnson, of the American League says that the Washington club is losing money, | But 'he refused to confirm the re- | poTt that the American League j dace abandon the national eapi- tal. Breoklyn will have a 1'ght har- ness race meet at the Parkway half- mile track in that city in July. It] will last three days. ! American Amateur Trapshooters' Association has 1,300 odd branch organizations throughout this coun- try. Champion Benny Leonard easily de- feated Joe Welsh, of Philadelphia, at the latter city in a six-round bout. ~r Third" Masson Killed. Lieut. Robert Geoffrey Masson, R. F.C, of Ottawa, a former St. An- drew's College athlete, is now re- ported killed in action. He was pre- viously reported missing. This makes the second member of the Masson family to give up his young life in defence of the Emp re, "Don- nie," the former MeGill University hockey and football star, having made the sacrifice last month. Grey, the third and only surviving member of the family, is now doing aviation work in France. "Mac" Sheldon Enlists, "Mac" Sheldon, of Chatham, graduate ¢ the Royal College o! Dental Surgeons, and memuer 01 che world champon Dental hockey team, and who was the prime factor in' the lifting of the Allan Cup, play- ing a prominent part in the defeat of the Victorias of Winnipeg, has enlisted in the Canadian Army Den- tal Corps with the rank of lieuten- ant. HH en A AA te AA AAA PAA Pt ts Free and Easy Men: You'll discover real com- fort in this free and easy fitting W.G. & R. summer underwear. The Rein- Jorced Webbing, inserted across the back, gives the garment exceptional elasticity, and provides for perfect freedom of bodily movement. No binding or straining any- where! 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