$90.00. $165.00 | The Brunswick The finest phonograph evér in Kingston for 3 the least money. Looks Better ~ Plays ean ve Better Costs Less It is worth a look and a hear before you buy. We will gladly let you hear this wonderful machine. - ve TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co., 88 Princess St. " ~ Phone 529 - THE DAILY BRITISH il MUST BE SOLDIER x TO GET MATCHES England Is Not Concerned With Civilians--Ertle-Wilde Offer Rejected. Although interest in boxing in the United . States at the present time is centered in the heavyweights as a result of Jess ®Mllard's recent pub- leity campaign, it is well known that ll! several. bantam weights are not only il! anxious to cross the Atlantic ll to engage Jimmy Wilde, fly-weight champion, put that their ocean the world's managers are seeking to make a match. However, there appears to il be but little chance, if any, of an ll! American boxer getting a crack at the little Englishman unless the Ameri- can goes over as a soldier. In. this connection it is interesting li to read what an English writer, who gigng himself as "Straight Left" has to say: "Already a couple of American fly- weights have come over tq this i! pounds, il pathetically considered, 'but' the com- paigns, and doesn't country to try their skifl against Jim- my Wilde, but although each has returned home a beaten boy, there are still others over there who want to try to lower the colors of the world's champion "Not many days ago we were asks ed to put before the Manager and Committee of the National Sporting Club a suggestion that Johnny Eytle, who at one time claimed the world's bantam-weight title should come to this country and box Wilde at 116 The proposition -was sym- mittee were of opinion that to bring a man across the Atlantic merely for the pur of a boxing contest, how- ever Thteresting it might be from a ll| sporting point of 'view, would. be to | commit an offegce against good taste while the great war is on. If Ertle |! were coming over as a soldier of the United States that would make a dif- ll terence, and, providing that Wilde lll were willing, there might be some- i thing doing. "Phe reply by the committee is ll now on its way to the States." The reply in question turns down i Ertle's offer. Crawford Blames Cobb. Sam Crawford, Detroit's veteran outfielder, who was allowed to go ih at the end of last season, is displeas- ed with the treatment accorded him. He believes that he is capable of going through a few more cant relish the idea In a recent inter- ined that it was Ty of being dropped. viaw he comp Cobb's fault. | is the real manager of the Tigers. a i ~~ c. Poet TRY % 5% - Cigar 5c. Lobk for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. - S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. 10381. *) McGraw again, notification" he is on the reserve 11st of the Giants for the season of 1918, and that a conuraet will be fonwarded to him in a few days. This meafis that London's star baseball player will be back with Last season "Moon- ey" worked pitchers and catchers, and will probably do the same thing this summer. 8 2 Marty O'Toole, former major league pitcher, is wintering in Oma- 'ha, where he is ing salesman. engaged as a cloth- shows a shows Pa he. third photo is typical of the vandalism fo ring ram or a sledge the vandals smashed this circulating pump casing. It was repaired : hip is in active service to-day. 3 a Sam insists that Cobb' WOULD 'KNOCK KAISER OUT Before He Meets the Big Champion, cs Jess Willaed. Georges' Carpentier, French heavyweight pugilist, is too busy at his job of fighting the Kaiser to heed any "challenges" by Jess Will ard, world's heavyweight champion, for as small a thing as a mere fight in the squared circle. "Just as soon as the Kaiser is knocked out," the' famous French fighter told the United Press, "I'm willing to take up Willard's chal- lenge. Until that time, I'm going to be too busy fighting him to enter- tain any other ideas gbout fighting." Carpentier is now a pilot aviator in the French Flying Corps. He is in Paris on a brief perdfed of leave from the front. eth As the French See It, Buseball having | been introduced in France by our soldiers, sailors, and ambulance men; the French sporting writers are making gallant attempts to explain the game to their readers. Following is au ex- cerpt from a. French sporting jour- nal: "The theque is the ancient gawhe of ball to the field modified and re- gulated. One can play to ten, but to well play the #ifeque it is neces- sary to be eighteen players. The dimensions of 'the ground is ilfimit- able, all the same she ought mot to have less than 300 square melers. sidé can have.from five to ten met- ers. The bases are Indicated * by blocks of wood. The first chamber (home plate) or base is ordinarily a square of two meters of side. The post of emplagement of the lancer (pitcher) ought to find itself at four meters from the (rst base. The lancer ought mot to eject the ball, but lance her in such fashion that ghe arrives between the shoulder and the knee of the beater (batter). The role of beater is of to beat the bail --as soon as she is served--in the direction which he desires (but all 'the same before his field) and far enough for to permit him of to run at least just to the second base and thus soon again just'to-the base of return. 'The play of the opposed field is to sefid back the ball the most. rapidly pessible to prevent the beater from to make his run around." Garnet ('Midge') Craven, former manager of the St. Thomas team in the Canadian Baseball League, is at- tached to an Army Medical Corps with the United 'States navy at Viadivostock, Russia. Clark Griffith has already sent over 200 séts of bats, bdlls, gloves and masks to the soldiers, all purchased -flirough the fund he is raising for GERMAN VESSELS DAMAGED BY of the photos shows the Vaterland starting broken cylinder liner on the U. 8. 8. Agamenon, formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm IL The how the liner was split and the beginning of the process of repair through weld- und on all of the German ships. With a bat- welding process, and the s this purpose. WELL = SEE THE BREWER We MONT GET ANY MORE COAL » | N. One traces a polygon, pf which each GREWS 'REPAIRED FOR AMERICA'S. USE. on one of her latest trips. Another photo WHIG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1918. oor Steve O'Neill, the Cleveland' star catcher, is running a rivet-cutting machine in the Keyser Valley shops of the Lackawanna Railroad this winter. FA William Doyle, who discovered Marvin Goodwin and several other star pitchers for the Brewers last season, has beén signed as scout.by the Philadelphia National League Club: x ~ H. S. Elliott, first baseman, who was purchased by the Detroit Tigers from the St. Paul Club of the Am- erican Association; has enlisted in the aviation service. Rube Ferns, once conténder for the welterweight boxing crown, is reported to he a walking delegate for the American Federation of Labor. Earl Yingling, the pitcher, who was -out of the game fast season because of suspension, has been reinstated and will Je al- lowed to pitch next seasol. {Fred Toney, the Cincinnatj pitch- er, who was recently arrested for evading the military draft in thé United States, has been placed in class '1 by a Nashville exemption board. ipa Gibson's Great Record. One major league baseball record that is' expected to stand for a long, long time is held by George Gibson, the veteran catcher, who is on the payroll of the New: York National League Club. In 1908 whén Pitts- burgh won the Nationab+ League championship Gibson caught 140 consecutive games for the Pirates. The minor league record for catch- ing the mest consecutive games is 155 and has stood ever since 1888, when it was established by: Henry Cote, of the Grand Rapids team of the Interstate League. g { Golf Spirit in War Game. Former President William How- ard Taft paid a tribute to golf in a New Year greeting. He said: "A man who plays golf and en- joys it must have a love for freedom and a spirit of independence. Such personal traits prompt one to play the game to the end. "4 "That is what we must do in this war. We must fight it through to victory and win the game at the eightéenth hole, if it be necessary to play it through." Amn Washington ee -------------- ti - Sot . LABATT IS MAKING A SPECIAL Ale and Porter 'FOR FAMILY USE - Made from Malt and Hops, exactly like the Old Reliable Ale & Porter, only lowér 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. 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