PAGE TWELVE Hammocks Hammocks At Old Prices « 47 yy ' yaa 7 y { v We are selling hammocks that cost more now than the prices we are letting them go at. HOT WEATHER is coming sure and when it does come it will be hot. So get ready today. ° First come get best choice. Don't for- get us when you want Fishing Tackle We have the baits that catch the 7 orl { ing Title. |AT THE GAME ON CRICKET| Jess Willard, one-time cowpunch- FIELD ON SATURDAY, jer according to tradition and present world's . heavyweight champion and And This Kept the=Score Down-- Circus owner, may also be billed now ' : _ . 3 as Willard the capitalist. At least, The C.L.C. Won Out by Six | Jess has climbed into the circles of Five--Red Sox Were Junior Win- Syudidcrats if the statement of Tom ners, | Jones, late pugilistic chaperone to In the hot, sultry weather of Sat- [the Pottawatomie mastodon, is to be urday afternoon an interesting game | accepted. Of course, severance of of baseball was g.ven to a somewhat | connections. with Willard and con- apathetic erowd of spectators. JG. | templated legal action for financial L. C. won from Athletics by 7 to 6, | redress may play its part in Jones and it was a nip and tuck struggle | statement, hroughout. Del. Cherry, in the box However, Tom blew into Chicago, for C.L.C's., handed out some gooa | and in passing the time of day de hurling, and was pretty well sup- | posed as follows "Willard is worth ported. Stuart Toland started the | between $500,000 and $600,000 to- ball rolling in the first innings, day. Of that amount, about when he nailed a run for the Ath-j000 is stored away in cold cash on letics. There was nothing more un- | deposit in Chicago banks. One bank til the fift®, when Spoor notched up |on the loop carries $90,000 in Wil- a second point for C.L.C. 'Toland |lard's name and another has $60, Daley and Swaine each tallied one, 000. There still is a third neighbor- the latter two on a single of Stokes. | hood bank near where Jess lives that In the next Walsh passed over for carries a healthy check account. All Ll another. when Teddy Saunders, who | of this has beén salted away since had just replaced Derry in the box, | Jess slapped the pugilistic crown made a bad throw to the catchey In| from the ebony dome of Jack John- 'the seventh S. Toland copped an-|son down in Havana on April 5, other, but the engine makers beat |1915. him to it when Swaine stole home "Things have been breaking pret- and was followed by Cherry. The|ty soft for Willard since he won the teams: the crown. When he took an inven- C.L.C.-- Stewart, Mitton, s.s.; | tory after the Havana battle his fin- Walsh, 1b.; C. Toland, 2b.; Daley, |ancial sheet showed a deficit of $10,- 1.f.; Swaine, c.f.; Cherry, r.f. and! 175 But pickings were very fat p.; Dorey, p.; Wilson, r.f {and juicy with "the circus. Some Athletics--S. Toland, 2b.; Spoor, | weeks Willard's? percentage ran' as 3b.; Spencer, 1.f.; Saunders, 1b. and | high as $8,000. Sums slightly be- p.; Cotman, ¢.; Cummings, ¢ t.: | low that were ordinary. And al- | Thompson, Callaghan, p. and | ways the amount totalled up hand- | 1b.; Hughes, 1 | somely. In addition to the actual { Umpire--George Sullivan. { money which Willard has on deposit, | The score by innings: | he owns a farm of 3.000 acres, an- | otther of 600 in Michigan, four bun- to 3b; 8.8.0 r R. H. E. 000031200--6 7 C.L.C z 100010111--5 8 2 Athletics in Rogers park, Chicago." If Jones' statements are true, Wil- | lard has gathered in an average of better than $5,000 a week since winning the title, Red Sox vs. C.L.C. In the junior game Red Sox won from C.L.C. by 11 to 7. THE SECRET FIGHT Between Jeffries and Langford Be- fore Johnson Battle. | Baseball Brief Did you ever hear the story of the re $ secret fight between Jim Jeffries and Sam Langford, back in 1910, a few | Frank Chance has retired as man- days before the former heavyweight| ager of the Los Angeles club of the champion met Jack Johnson and lost| pacific Coast League He gave as his title? The story went the rounds | his reason for retiring the fact that a few years ago, and .was to the effect | the public would rather see a play-; that Jeffries' trainers, in order to) ing manager. Il1l-health is also see just what the prospects were for said to have something to do with it. 'WAS SOME 600D HURLING! WILLARD'S, BIG BANK ROLL. | Averaged $3,000 Week Since Gain- The Eight Clubs Have Lost! $425,-F | galows in Los Angelos and his home' $25,000 Since Season | Opened. The war has forced- the Three-I| League, one of the oldest minor leagues of the country to close its| parks. The organization suspended | its season Sunday. " { The eight clubs have lost approxi-| mately $25,000 since the start of the! season eight weeks ago. | Although the league faced unpre] cedented weather conditions early in| the season President Tearney said| subscriptions to the Liberty Loan and | the Red Cross and the general lack | o finterest in the game owing to the! war, oontributed largely to the] league's failure. : | "I have found baseball has no bus-| iness trying to survive in the smaller | cities with the country at war," Pres- ident Tearney said. "The people have lost interest in baseball in the smaller cities, where the war spirit is becoming more intense." The closing of the Three-I makes | the fourth league te suspend sin~« | the opeping of the season two months ago. The Virginia League was the first to fall. than six weeks of operation. Northern League gave up thé other day because of heavy financial loss- es. . Several other leagues are re- poftéd to be near collapse. | Under the ruling of the National A lation of Professional Leagues the Three-1 League will retain players and territorial rights The Three-I League has been in| operaton for seventeen years. It is| composed of the following cities: | Peoria, Rock Island, Moline, Rock-| ford, Quincy, Alton, Bloomington and Hanmibal, Mo. MUST NOT OVERDO IT. Kentucky Racing Association Does Not Want Any More Tracks. The Kentucky Racing Commission has allotted fall racing dates in Ken-| tucky and adopted a resolution in which it gave a broad hint to pro-| moters of a new race track at Rose-| dale, Ky., that the construction of additional racing plants in Ken-| tucky would be detrimental to the} best interests of the breeding indus- try and the sport of racing. | Then the North | Carolina League suspended after less | The | "*| Leading Undertaker EE -- ------ We Live But Once Let Us Partake of Earth's Good Things by Smoking. 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SAFETY FIRST AND ALWAYS -- USE Big Fish their protege, arranged a bout with | Sam Langford. Only a few chosen friends were present during the! en- counter, and what they saw didn't give them much encouragement for the impending battle with Jack Johnson. Langford was altogether | too much for Jeffries who displayed | John Conley, of the Dallas club of the Texas League, and formerly with the Baltimorg Feds., has pitched eighteen consecutive victories. His | last effort was a no-hit, no-run affair, indicates that the Government real- Uncle Sam Will Profit. The Toronto Star says: The decis- ion of the British War Cabinet to al- EDDY"S SILENT 500s low 40 days of racing in England this summer despite war conditions, |izes that it owes that much to the horse-breeding industry of the coun- TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co., 2 The Big Red Front. 88 Princess St. Kingston Emm but little of his old-time form. In| Nig AS famous in baseball as the third round Langford twice: Stas tatCher for the old Cleveland floored him, and soon after the! Naps for-many years, has enlisted in fourth round got under way Jeffries | the United States marine. It will be went down for the count. A great! Necessary for Clarke to undergo a many people later who heard "the ' Minor operation before he can be story believed that it was this beat- | accepted: ing at the hands of Langford that - put Jeffries out of the running for | Roland (Cuke) Barrows, outfield- his bout with Johmson, which took er in the New England, Internation- place a few days later. Jim Barry, al and American leagues the past the Chicago heavyweight swore that ten years or more, has been given Joe Woodman, Langford's manager, | his release from the Portland East- told him the story as being absol- | tern League team. Moers, recent- utely true, The account was kept | IV signed from the International secret for a long time, and when it team of Richmond, is to be releas- was made public a great many people | ©d also. talk among fight fans, and is inter-| (Ne Phillies have held their own so -- TRY 5c. Poet Cigar 5c. S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. | far with the best in the National esting, whether it is true or not. | League. If the Phils don't hit a lick it's still more job for their op- ponents to gel by Moran's pitching | staff. Father! | "W" n Papa was a little boy," | mother often tells, | '""He never tore holes in his pants. | Nor filled the house with yells." Hughie Jennings has decided that| {it's time for him to get on the coach- | | ing lines and put some extra pep into | his Tigers. He has really accom- | | plished something, too, for since he has resumed coaching the Tigers| have delivered a better brand of ball. But Papa must have changed a lot Since he has grown so big; I've seen him at the ball game dance A highland fling and jig. When our pitcher strikes them out -- Or our side makes a run | Catcher Wally Schang, of the Ath- He screams and yells and waves his| letics, finally yielded to the demands arms | of his team mates and shaved off And just has lots of fun. | his moustache. The other players | said the hirsute adornment was a jinx. It may have been all of that,! If Ma thinks Pa is dignified "MONUMENTS Importers of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. The McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. 897 Princess Street. Telephone 1081 And never bawls or screams She'll find that at the ball game Father is not what he seems. but just the same the White Sox] | made a clean sweep of the series af- {ter Wally shaved. An it was the| | second sweep of the season. Frank Kramer broke the world's! 8 re Seasy record for a half-mile at Newark, riding the distance in 53 seconds, and clipping one-fifth of a second off the old mark made by A¥Mred Gren- da on August 25th, 1915. Eddie Grant, formerly with the| Phillies and New Ygrk Giants, has; enlisted in the United States army. | The old third baseman is trying hard to hit for a commission at the Plattsburg training camp. "THE FOOD WAS ALRIGHT BUT JEFF DIDN'T HAVE THE TOOLS TO GO WITHIT. . :: continues. try. War conditions in Canada are| not on a par with those in the old land, yet the Government has per- emptorily shut off racing until the end of the war The decision will mean that the horse-racing until the end of the war. The decision will mean that the horsemen will go to] the States to race and Uncle Sam| will profit by the prohibition here. | Walker is Making Good. When Joseph J. Lannin, former owner of the Red Sox, sold Speaker to the Clevelands for $50,000, he purchased Clarence Walker from the Browns to fill the place of the fa- mous centre fielder. At first Bos- ton fans were inclined to regard Walker with disfavor. He lacked ex- perience and batting ability. Garri- gan did not play him regularly, al- ternating Shorten in the middle garden. But Walker has developed rapidly since last year. He is the heaviest hitter on the Boston team and is fielding wonderfully. Inei- dentally he is the greatest long dis- tance thrower in the big leagues, Pirates' New Manager. Acting Manager Hans Wagner of the Pittsburg Pirates, positively re- fused to continue longer in that ca- pacity, and Hugo Bezdek, Supervisor of Physical Instruction at the Uni- versity of Oregon ,was appointed manager for the rest of the year. 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