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Telephone 1931, "Down East they have an Inter-City Ladies' Hockey League. Ottawa and Montreal are in the league nd they have. three teaams, the Maisonneuves, Westerns and Alerts, with two more BRINGING UP FATHER applying for admission. The girls roughed it up so much last week at Montreal that four players have been suspended for unladylike conduct. They must have used hat pins or pulled hair. LH NH { TAKES TWELVE YEARS TO BUILD UP WINNER And Takes About Ten Minutes to Break Up the Com= bination. "It takes twelve years to i all club Charley omiskey built up build up a championship b That's the it out, as "he Comiskey ought ¢Q way and ( has figures know them It. takes about ten miinutes to break up a winning organization, if the nan who it make that qu William 1. Baker pulled the 7 datiow from under his block with the stroke a pen the day Baker a near champion ball club in the. Phillies a pennant- winner in 1915, and a runnér-up m 1916 and 1917. The chief reason Baker had a pen- nant-winner and contender was Gro- ver Cleveland Alexander, the greatest pitcher in baseball, and Bill Killgfer. one of the greatest catchers \lex- ander's ability to win more than thirty games a season and Kkillifer's OWNS can a deal i | ability to catch more games thane any other receiver in the National Le aguce ~--he lost the winning confidence the rest of his players, and without that his club should finish somewhere between sixth and eighth. of Theré's i.psychology in base- | ey There's a lot of psychology in base t The American Roller Polo League ball dence Imagine .if you will, the conti of a ball club going into the field with Alexander, in top form, in the box, and Killifer behind the bat Figures do not lie, and they that Alexander wins three gam out four he pitches. These ballplay- ers know that they have only one chance in four of losing with him, apd play up to the confidence that know- | ledge breeds, So aside from losing a pitcher who would add in the neighborhood of thirty victories to the club's season totals, Baker has taken away a con- fidence that would bring other tories. This fact is one axioms In 1914 Counie American League champions of a dozen stars Since then the letics have finished a poor last. The great Cub machine was broken into a pitiful selitg plater after win- ning a pennant The loss of one star, Bill Carrigan, ct the Red Sox a pennant And now Baker will have twelve years to build up what he tore. down in a few minutes of baseball's first half several of =~ his son. quit Fre kno was sinc be J gest Déc by row show | and Lawrence. es oul vic- | Mak stripped' his | Ath-| @ to has season to a good start. "Bill play "Dug" ed ome from France Rowing may of a capsized shell the duck? the real thing. country, There will vear. Washington have made an agreement Killer has now chang mind about not playing next sea- He has announced that he is e pleased at the prospect of ing under the management of i Mitchell, ae Drew, one: of the best wn skaters' im Montreal, reéturn- recently He wounded ajout a year ago and e then has been conyvalescing in England. at- Harvard next "informal," but in the spring event g will be ames Cox Brady. one of the big- owners of show- horses. in the sold his stock at New York 7 27th. "Cupid" Black's. Newport Middles football team was coached this fall Dr. Bull,- otherwise Billy Bull, Yale's most famous drop Kicker. be no intercollegiate ing out on the Paciflc coast next California, Stanford and have no regatta. inaugurated the indoor sport The league | embraces teams in Worcester, Provi- Cb rb ebb rb ebb ree +> * * * [+ IE LJ * rr [#1 [ &* | $+ | * {®t | [4% "stick mystery. | | ge dence, ladies' siderable rough play. discuss the situation, and four members who teok part in the game playing 4 ure, and warning. not given as to the extent of Taunton, Lowell, Brockton } "LADIES" ARE 'BARRED FOR ROUGH PLAY. Even the fair sex do not leave heir nastiness at home when hey indulge in - sport. In a hockey game at Mont- recently there was con- A meet- ng of the league was called to eal banished from the league in fut- one . got off with a The information is were in he rough play: Whether it was "tongue slashing" or slaslring" remains a : : | War Measure Apt to Be Con=- + hts Siig AUSTRALIA ADOPTS TEN-ROUND BOUTS tinued After Cessation of Hostilities. One more twenty-round stronghold has adopted the ten-round system of boxing bouts. Owing to the smaller attendance at the bouts, due to the war and -the consequent smaller wurses, the Aystralian promoters have cut down tffe bouts from twenty to ten rounds.' y According to Promoter Snowy Ba- ker, the innovation has proved to be a success and will be continued even after the war Jaker says the spec- tators are much better pleased with Fhe shorter bouts: as they make for nore action and less stalling. Sunday's Battle With Hun. Billy Sunday can draw upon the lingo of the iprize ring as 'well as that of the baseball diamond---as proved by his description of his re- cent battle in Atlanta with a German sympathizer. '"The man lad 'been up to the house and tried.to beal us us," the evangelist declared "He lunged at\me as 1 turned and I pok- ed my righ§ to his stomach just over the belt. hen he swung a haymak- er and it looked like a piledriver coming down over my head. I duck- ed and aimed a left hook at 'his jaw. This landed, but a little too high, and knocked my little finger oyt of joint. He shot one across and graz- ed the side of my face. Then I sent an uppercut to 'his chin and we clinched." To Play Canadian Teams. The Wanderers - Hockey Club of the 8t. Nicholas rink, New York Fe. LABATT IS MAKING A SPECIAL Ale and Porter FOR FAMILY USE Made from Malt and Hops, exactly like the Old Reliable Ale & Porter, only lower percentage of spirit. It is absolutely pure and superior to anything made in that line in Ontario, many prefer it to the old brands for summer and social drinking. > TRY IT. JAMES McPARLAND 79 Princess St. 1 door above Elliott Bros. Phone 274. N ; 'Every reader of this &® paper, 00, cart Pea it -- £$5.00 dealer or from us. URING THE LIFE OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT . Ltd., 43 Victoria, $t.. TORONTO, ONT., CANADA. City, have arranged four games with Canadian teams and 'they have a team that will take some beating. Moose (Heffernan, the former T.R. and A.A. and Victoria star; Roach, Mitchell and MoCarty, of last year's great Crescent. 'AC. team; Duke WeHlington, a sensational player from 'Western (Canada; Ernie. Du- fresne, Turk Smith and Lamy Cro- vat compose the team. Queen's Uni- versity play the (Wanderers Saturday night; ~ St. (Panick's of Toronto on Jan. 5th, Knights of Columbus of Montreal on Jan. 12th, and the Munitions Hockey Club of Ottawa on Jan. 19th. A number of Tdronto will take their charges to IClemens for the ice races to held starting January 28th, horsemen Mount be Ammons KRUPP WORKS AT ESSEN AFIRE--HOUSED 90,000 GUNMAKERS. The. plant at Essen, which tor- elgn adVices say is in flames, is the main establishment of the Krupps, the largest manufacturers in Ger- many .of arms and munitions, and employed about 30,000 men before the war. It has since been grestiy expanded. Facts relating to its présent size and the number of workmen are kept secret by the Ger- man government, It was reported unofficially in Oc- tober of last year that about 70,000 . persons, including several thousand women, were at work there and that 20,000 were to be added to the foree. Early this year there was a strike at the Krupp works. said to have been due to lack of food. Some 40,000 workers were said to have been involved, and the authorities were reported to have combatted it by sending many of the men to the front. 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