88 Princess St. Hamm At Old Prices $9 Gl Aad TV cmm-- | "ny ¥. 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 ' Tackle "3 We have the baits that catch the ¥ Big Fish TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co. The Big Red Front. « "3 Kingston 4 THE BIG CHAMPION PUGILIST OF THE WORLD, He Writes to Prove That He Earned His Money With Willard, Who Has Broken His Contract. By Jack Curley. Regarding my association with Willard, I 'will go back to Jack Johnson's days when the big black fought Klondike Joe Choknski. George Gardner, Marvin Hart, Stan- ley Ketchel, Tommy Burns, Jim Jeffries, Jim Flynn, and «then Wil- lard. Here is my sum-up, and I've always held to this, therefore. my association with Willard or my pre- sent trouble has nothing to do with, it. All I said at the time of offer- ing. my excuse for matching Willard ith Johnson.was along this line: Klondike made Johnsof quit. Choynski knocked Johnson out. Gardner, when scik, went twenty rounds with Johnson. Hart beat him ( referee's sion). Ketchel, a him. Burns lost standing on his feet. Johnson beat Jeffries, but should have won in two rounds. Jeffries was a shell, Flynn lost standing "on his feet, was not knocked down nor in dis- tress, stopped through the overzeal- ousness of a captain of state police, who never before witnessed a ring 'match. I saw Johnson in a collapsed condition in his cottage at Las Vegas three hours after the mill. - MMherefore you can, see at a dist- ance I had mo high opinion of John- son, and when I saw Willard stall through ten rounds with Carl Morris in New York I made up my mind that either one could beat Johnson 4 if neither did any more than clinch with him. Of course, I"am not in the game as a philanthropist, and 1 proceeded to look up the figher to beat Johnson. 1 found Morris mak- ing money, tied up with managers, and not likely to take a chance of wasting any time to chase Johnson for a match. 1 found Willard broke to his last.cent. Jones, his manager, broke, both helpless financially and no ring work in sight. About the same time H. H, Frazee offered to finance me in anything that looked good to me, and 1 want to add right here I was down to a jot less than a million dollars. Fra- zee. introduced me to L. L. Webber, and to the two I detailed my opinion of Johnson and' my honest opinion that Willard could beat him. I told them that if I could get Johnson to agree to forty-five rounds with Wil- lard, and that .if Willar¢ would do nothing but play safe, clinch and keep on his feet; Fehnson would c¢ol- lapse botere, the 1iiflit. They believ- ne ahd agreed to finance the deci- middleweight, floored nothing, had no match in sight. Jones was working in Jeffries' safe. I got in touch with him and learned he had a contract with Jones call- ihg for Jones to receive 25 per cent. of his earnings, that he owed $1, 500 cash borrowed; and that he was flat broke. You mention the managers got 40 per cent. of Willard's money. Pretty soft money? Now let me cite to you what sonie of the heavyweight champions paid managers, John L., Sullivan paid Billy Mad- den, Al Smith and J. Dunn, each as he was handled by them in turn, 50 per cent, ~ James J. Corbett paid Billy Brady 50 per cent. Later, George Consi- ' a... RR 3 TRY "iw, 5c. Poet Cigar 5c. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Olgar. ; S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. - dine, 40 per cent. of his ring earn- ings, and equal half interest in his cafe buiness. Bob Fitzsimmons paid Martin Jul- fan 50 per cent. James J. Jeffries paid Billy De- , laney and Billy Brady 50 per cent. t Jack Johnson paid Sam Fitzpat- rick 40 per cent., and in the Jeffries fight paid George Little 30 per cent. ! Now we come down to the case of Willard. When Willard's name was first mentioned as a Johnson oppon- ent for a world's championship it was considered food for the comic pages. Four men agreed to split 40 per cent. and give him 60 per cent. . Webber and Frazeeare big men, not only financially, but each pos- sessed friends of influence in various parts of the world. They helped to " "Phe McCallum Granite un E : 3 BRINGING UP! FATHER "4 MONUMEN of Scotch and American Vermont Company, "Ltd. CERT win recruits to consider the propos- ed match seriously or, at least, semi- seriously. They dug into their pockets and financed the bout, with the result that not a few people call- ed on them or wrote them Jetters and tipped them off that Curley played them for suckers. - First it was $500 to bring Willard east, another $500 to keep himself and his family, $1,000 t6 send me to : amtare. ad a ph Ab ithis time Withel was Chritig Europe to see Johnson, $1,000 ad- vance to Johnson, to make him feel the offer was genuine, $1,000 more to get Johnson to South America, $1,000 to rush me to Cuba to induce Johnson to come to Mexico, and when the big black refused, throw over all the El Paso expense of printing, training, etc. Spend 11, 500 more to ship the Willard en- tourage to Cuba, more sums to re- start the fight in Cuba.and then the heavy expense of staging the mill, not to mention that during all this time the Johnson guarantee of $32,- 000 had to be met before he stepped into the ring. Now, do you think ,Webber and Frazee were entitled to 10 per cent. each of Willard's earnings for three years? And, remember, unless my prediction that Willard could win came true, all their expense was for- ever gone and their 10 per cent. not worth a cent. You say Willard set- tled with them for $67,000? Your figures are all wrong. He paid them $26,000. 1 I am. just trying to make Willaril live up to his contract with me till its expiration, Sept. 15th, 1917, He brake it arbitrarily. No explana- tion. Only one more word. The 10 per ceht. I received was not soft. And 4t best my 10 per cent. amountefl to about $10,000 a year; in three years $30,000. Just a good living, as youn know, in this business, for one must spend mbney and thus get resulls for Willard. And if I made $30,000 Willard earned $300,000, less 20 per cent., which Jones and I split. Not so bad for a man who was laying idle in Los Anegeles, a drug on the pugilistic market, until my backers gave me the chance to land him the Johnson match. And remember, I got to Europe via the submarine infested sea, just in time to prevent Billy Gibson, Lawrence and Benton from landing Johnson in an Langford match. In my opinion Langford would have beaten Jack at that time. McGRAW CASE OLOSES Evidence im Hands of Directors--N Date For Decision. . The hearing before the National League directors on the repudiation of newspapers interviews by Manager McGraw of the Giants was finished before John C. Toole at National League headquarters, New York, Dr. Frank J. Finley of Pittsburg, who wus present when MoGraw gave the alleged interview, testified for Man- ager MocGraw. He said he heard Mc- Graw tell Sid Mercer to 'go as far as he liked." saw Mercer hand the interview to M¢Graw to read over before he sent it. * Dr. Finley said that he heard McGraw say: "Life is mot worth while, worrying about little things " al Bi om, counsel for the Baseball fo, Amerion, asked to have give further testimony, but John M. Ward, at- torney for MoGraw, offered objection, and Mercer was not permitted to add to his former testimony. AM evi- dence is now in the hands of the directors, and they have set no date for returning their finding. wo 7 Sporting Notes The Detroit Tigers have closed a deal with the Springfield . Club by which Outfijelder Frank Walker will report to the Tigers at the close of the Central League season. Pitcher Ed. Lafitte, of the Doherty Silk Hose team of Paterson, N.J., has resigned to join the colors. La- fitte twirled for Rochester three years ago. . sly A new season's trotting mark of 2.05% was set hy Mabel Trask at Cleveland last when she made her first appearance of the year. : Bunny Hearne has now fifteen vie- TRAPSHOOTING SURVIVES THE CHANGING SEASONS Devotees of Scatter-Gun Sport Pay No Attention to Weather. s---- Seasonable sports come and go with their respective seasons, but the trap game goes on forever, and 365 days a year at that. When autumn rolls around foot- ball follows baseball into the discard, and tennis, golf, et al, reach the vanishing point close on the heels of football---yet trapshooting, being the "fittest" survives, this for the double reason that clay target shooting is no more hampered by weather con- ditions than is field shooting at. live birds. Time was when the country. club activities languished during the win- ter months and yacht clubs boarded up their clubhouses' until after the spring thaw; now, when snow or slush lies deep on the golt links the lure -of the traps draws erstwhile golfers to the club ground to enjoy the shooting game, while across the distant meadows come the popping reports of shotguns as yachtsmen blaze away at the flying saucers skimmniing above the frozen river. In short, trapshooting not only hold country club and yacht club memberships together during the cold days, but actually recruits ad- ditional strength from the numbers of outdoor devotees drawn to the clubs by the fascinatipn of the scat- ter-gun sport, een McGRAW AS CLUB BUILDER. Has Great Wealth Behind Him Back Up His Selections. A good dash of fortune, scrambled in with the real ability that is evi- dent, is as much responsible as any- thing else in the success of John Me- Graw. Touted a wonder as a base- ball manager, it is doubtful if Mec- to He also said that he Graw would be able to produce the same results that have characterized the efforts of several other big league managers if he didn't have the 'wealth 'of his backers to draw from, | leaving him free to choose at will from among hundreds of ball play- ers. ! a The cases of Eddie Rousch and Dick Rudolph are perhaps the most predominant. Rousch is near the top among National League batsmen. Rudolph is Boston's most effective pitcher and was one of the main reasons why the Braves were able | to. battle their way to a National League championship and a subse- quent 'world's championship. Both these men once were Giants, Rousch was kept mainly doing bench duty, while Rudolph scarcely got that far. Milton Stock 1s ' another example, Fred Merkle is a fair idea of a ball player discarded as a has been, and who is doing great work. There are many others. McGraw has cast them aside to make room for men he i thought would do better with the men making up his team. He has been successful in winning pennants and has .to-hig credit one world's championship, but if he would gather the stars he has slip from his grasp and form them into one team the chances. are he would have a machine that would be able to crush the present galaxy of stars with whieh he is trying to fref his way to a pennant. A little more than a year ago McGraw set out to gather in a sur- ened to make a runaway race of the National League pennant. Among these was Hans Lobert. Lobert didn't even finish the season, and is used now only as a pinch hitter. Me- is only a brief sketch of time since he went into a breach and won a game for the Giants by the brilliance of his fielding and hitting, It is one thing to have money be- build a championship team, - The entry for the Western Ontario Bowling Tourney is the smallest in years. The fact that the new sys- tem of play requires that all rinks entered must continue throughout the competition and participate in all of the qualifying games no doubt has had something to do with the small enfry. The United States military draft law took Massey, of the Grays, and 'Wyckoff of the Bisons yesterday, but although several of the Leafs and the Rebels are subject to the draft nothing has been heard. locally re- garding them, plus of stars with which' he threat- |! Graw considers him finished, yet it|g hind and still another to he able to |B - We Live But Once Let Us Partake of Earth's Good Things by Smoking. : Milo Cigar Made in Kingston by GEO. A. McGOWAN CO. a MONT HLY INCOME Surest. way of providing for your old age or your beneficiary «. Is the Monthly Income Policy of THE MUTUAL LIFE OF CANADA, S. Roughton, 60 Brock St., Phone 610. JULY and Rattan furniture. 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