nt ve sin il St COLUMBIA Grafonolas! Are now con- sidered standard of the world. We sell you these beautiful machines on Easy Terms Wonderful tone, good finish and moderate price, We will sell six of these ma- chines, such as the bottom cut for Just six--will you get one ? TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co, 88 PRINCESS STREET, * PHONE 529, LRYX 5c. Poet Cigar 5c. In The CHAMPION SPENCER SEEKS LEAVE TO BOX. ENTERED IN GRIND Would Compete in Tourney. The Toronto Champion will Eugene Brosseau, the French- Start in Six Day Race at Canadian amateur boxes of Mont« : real, is awaiting word from the Do- New. York. minion Government for permission to visit San Francisco to box there Arthur Spencer, of Toronto, the Te national cycling champion, who re- a the alt Smelifal athletic {ourva. lieved Frank Kramer of the laurels | ot 0 n held by the latter seventeen 'years, . will be a starter in the six day race |, It is aot Sxpeeted that thers will at Madison Square Garden, New [°° anv culty in obtaining the York, the week of December 2nd. [Permit. Brosseau will be the repre- Promoter William E. Wellman made oniative of sme dy Cauadisp gran a special trip to Boston in order to Amateur es ne i oy hed sign the title holder, and he returned States who will take part in the to New York with Spencer's signa- tournament P ture to a contract. The champion is at present car- 1 y PEPER EERE P PPP P PRI E REP ing for his brother Willie, also of : Toronto, who is paired 'with Bob Sp y Spears in the six day race (ten hours BASEBALL EQUIPMENT * > > a day) at the Boston Arena. Arthur : FOR THE FRENCH. + * Canadian Welterweight Champion finds sufficient time in the morn- ---- ings to get into condition by reeling It ig officially announced that off many miles on the road. in future the French regiments Frank Kramar, who will formu-|% Will have in their equipment an late the rules for the coming grind | * Association football. While in the historic Garden, is expected to | # hardly known in France, and give his successor important point. | + played only by a few devotees, ers on the art of six day riding. | 4 there is not a town te-day which Kramar, always a sportsman first,|% does not possess one or more bears no hard feelings for the lad | + elevens, and the game is played who dethroned him. The ex-cham.|+ all over the front by the French pion, as a matter of fact: has often | % almost & much as by the Eng- asserted that Arthur Spencer will |% lish.' develop into the greatest rider in |% the history of the game. . Just after he had returned his signed contract to Weliman, Spencer N.H.A. Not to Operate. told the promoter that he intended to | The National Hockey Association ride back to New York astride his | Will not operate this winter, but the bicycle just to harden up for the |N.H.A. will coftinue as an incor- Garden grind. The distance is ap- piiated body aad will hoi fie agua htnataiv 28 meeting next season. s was de- prostuiey 259 Riles, cided upon at the adjourned annual meeting held in Montreal. The five The Sand Lot League. clubs affiliated with the N.H.A. last By F. E. Morrisey. season were represented. The meet- The Sand-lot League has started ing was presided over by Secretary On its long unscheduled way, Frank Calder in the absence of Pre- They measured off their diamond sident Frank Robinson. There was On my vacant lot to-day. no change in the Toronto club situa- But they didn't ask me for a lease tion, and that club still remains the Or proinise me to pay, property of Eddie Livingstone, whose They simply took possession representative, J. F. Boland, inform- And started in to play ed the meeting that if the associa- . fon Oporats te Torey Ou a ' , tended to remain as a member, wit w in a rh Jogi shoning equal rights with the other ciubd. © batter takes his stand, Quebec also was anxious to come in His teammates are the rooters the running, as were the two local And no mayor is on hand clubs and Ottawa, if the N. H. A. To toss the first ball of the season | were going to operate this winter. To the music of the band But no-one seems to miss him, In faet, his wasn't planned. » No official blue clad umpire Sporting Notes In steamboat-siren tones, PRIOR PPE S IPP Pee FLETCHER AND HERZOG REPEATED LOSERS Joined Marquard, Merkle and Meyers in Class Which Dropped Four Times. According to an exchange, Arthur Fletcher and Charlesy Heroz are added members to the unique or- ganization of the Order of the Four Werld's Series Losers, organized a year ago by Rube Margquard, Chief Meyers and Fred Merkle. These 'ast three players all played on the Giant losers of 1911, 1912 and 1913 AS CHARLIE SAYS: What is there behind an ARA- BELA cigar? Nothing--except con- tentment. (The 4-for-a-quarter cigar). Scales & Roberts Limited, Toronto. and the Dodger losers of 1916. They were the first players who had ap- peared in four world's Series with- out getting in on a single winners' pot. Fletcher and Herzog joined their former comrades in this class this fall. Strangely enough, Arthur is the only Giant who shared in the world's series of 1911 who has re. mained continuously in MeGraw's service. George Burns reported to the Giants that fall and Tesreau was farmed out during 1911, but neither player was in on the series. Herzog spent two years and a half in Cin- cinnati after the 1913 world's-series. However, Marquard, Mayers, Merkle, Fletcher and Herzog have a little consolatiod. Their membership in the Four World's. Series Losers' Club netted them sums in the neigh- borhood of $10,000, | 8 OTTAWA'S BALL -AMBITIONS Suggested that it be Included in New International. An Ottawa despatch says: The announcement of the forma- tion of the new Union Baseball Kingston's Electric Store! Our gas mantles are made by the Wels- bach Co., Toronto. Price 15¢, 20c and 25¢. Are good value. Gas globes and chimneys, 15 cents and up. Gas brackets and burn- ers. Full stock. H.W. Newman Electric Co., 167 Princess Street. League, consisting of teams from the International League and American Association, has aroused considerable interest here by reason of the fact that Ottawa will likely be included in the proposed mew International, It.in a foregone conclusion that the cities eliminated by the organization of Toronto, Buffalo, Newark, Baliti- more, into a circuit with four of the American Association teams will be followed by the launching of a Class A league. Already New York reports are to the effect that Ottawa will be linked up with Montreal, Albany, Syracuse, Providence and other cities in the reconstructed International. Hopes, in fact, are held out that play will be resumed in Ottawa next sum- mer. That- the capital is a great little baseball burg was shown in 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915, when the Ot- t Announces that the batteries Are Holliday and Jones. Receipts at the fight at New Or- No mighty grandstand roars applause | leans last week between Hermann Or when defeated groans and Burns established a record. And instead of baks for bases There was $13,176.20 in the "gate." There is just a pile of stones. _-- ; . Elmer Ponder, the young pitcher No peanut vendors wend their way | secured by the Pirates from Birm- Throughout a mighty throng, ingham, lgoks lke a "find" and To anney all fervent fandom ought to help out considerably next . With their mercenary song. year. He shut the Giants out with And thé game starts almost anytime| two hits in Pittsburg in September. And lasts the whole day long, : -- The Sand-lot Leaguers may lack| While Sam Lichtenhein was en- class deavoring to displace Toronto from strong. appear to have been busy erasing Montreal from the Union Baseball Still with all these major side-| map. Hghts RN A-missing from their play, Erb, the crack defence player of They put the same vim in it Kitchener, and Carson, of Sarnia, are As the regulars do for pay. two junior O.H.A. players now locat- And when the racket peeves ed in Toronto, and they are good neighbors enough for any team; I jolly them and say, -- "The Ty Cobb's of to-morrow Johnny Tobin, last season with the Are Sand-lot stars to-day." Browns, is one of the stars of the Pacific Coast League. Over a stretch of 167 games he has batted at a .324 EXPECT TO COME EAST. clip. Patrick Circuit Champions Count on Slackers among athletes are rare. Games for Stanley Cup, "| That's another good boost for sport Pacific Coast League hockey | and its. continuance in "war time, teams will get away on December | Keep the mill grinding out loyal Tth in their annual championship | Young men who will be fit, if they Tace. The first half of the season [are called. fhe wil] close on January 19th. The Sle 3 second half will start on January What is believed to be the club 22nd, with the final game scheduled. fielding 'record for the season. was for March 6th. By 'closfliig on the | made by the Lincoln team of the latter date the - western champions | Western League, which went 57 con- will be able to make the jump east | gecutive innings without an error and play with the N.H.A. winners over a stretch of games jn August, I , --._._...,.:] se. Is for the Stanley Cup by the middie of March. The Swedish Amateur Athletic As- sociation bas officially accepted John Oshawa Hockey Player Killed. Zander"s new world record of 3,54.7 Gunner Norman 8. McCrimmon,) for the 1,500-metre run. The old who was well known and popular in | record of 3.55.8 was made by the Oshawa and Bowmanville hockey | American runner, Kiviat, in the pre- circles, and who played on the Co. | Mminaries of the Stockholm Olympic bourg Heavy Battery team last wint- | games in 1912. Zander's splendid er in the Military League, has been performance is the more remarkable killed at the fromt in France, His | from the fact that he ran the entire mother resides at Oshawa, distance alone. BoM WAN 8 mae Ba. 8 YOULL NOT ET out TONIGHT IVE cor . DET OUTSIDE TO WATCH Pom wat ----] I'M TIRED OF For THE LOVE I'VE. €OT MY FIDDLE iy . i TT E « OF pA oS VHAT f Foon mE wii: ¢ QET-MY MAT .4 MOST a0! = But thelr staying powers are! the N.H.A. the Queen City magnates] won the pennant in the Cana- dian League. Until 1915, when war- time interference and a lopsided pennant race interfered the Ottawa Club made big money, It was favor- MAYBE BUYING MATCHES Nevéy Struck You As Being An Important Job. Butltls. It is important that you buy mone but EDDY'S CHEMICALLY SELF-EXTINGUISHING "SILENT 500's" The matches with "no after glow." positively ensures the match becoming dead wood once it has been lighted and blown out. ook for the words "Chemically Self-Extinguishing" : " om ed by Sunday baseball on the Hull side of the river, and games over " there never failed to draw big crowds. Frank Shaughnessy man- aged the team in 1913, 1914 and (= 1915, and among the players he de-|== veloped was Urban Shocker, now of |== the New York Americans. Baseball |== became immensely popular in Otta- |= wa, and visiting teams always did B® well financially on their trips to the {== capital. = It is believed, however, that it would be better to include Hamilton and London in the proposed new In- ternational League, and to leave out |= some of the American clubs. Ham- = ilton and London are both splendid baseball towns, as they, too, demon-~ strated in their former days in the Canadian League, One Ottawa man, -- discussing the important baseball |= shakeup, to-night, said he believed E the most successful league would be = one consisting of Montreal, Ottawa, |= Hamilton, London, Rochester, Syra-|== cuse, Albany and Springfield. = This would 'give it a distinctly in- | == ternational coloring and would mini- |== mize travelling expenses. = It is doubtful if the resumption of |= play in the capital would be advis-|E= able until after the war, but if the International magnates wish_to in- troduce the capital in their new cir- of the Ottawa Baseball Club ready to co-operate enthusiastically. [ Picton Curling Club. 2 At a well-attended 'méeting of the Picton Curling Club the financial re. port showed the finances to be in better condition than ever before. A large membership is assured for the coming season, which is expected to | be the best yet. Officers were elect- ed as follows: Directors--J. H. Hubbs, presi- dent; G. M. Farrington, vice-presi- dent; S. G. Smith, secretary-trea- surer; R. G. K. Hepburn, H. W, = mB cuit they will probably find owners E Bedeil. OORT New Styles in Wom- en's Street Shoes At this time of year you need a pair of serviceable street shoes. . We would like to show you our line of black and tan calf leathers with leather or Neolin soles and medium heels, "Just the shoe you need for cold, wet weather. Prices range from $7.00 to $10.00. J.H Sutherland & Bro. I MUST Bg L GETTING aLpD ! CAN HARDLY CARRY THIS BACK To MY Lhd QUE FOR YOURFIDOLE - TS TH R