A PAGE TWELVE eed 'Bicycle Week May 4th to 1 ith EVERY ONE RIDES THIS YEAR Save! Save! wl = ns a Save You Money. Time a Shoe Leather. "% z Re % Buy Your Bicycle This Week Before Prices Go Up. Massey Bicyc Are Best wR Bicycle: » TREADGOLD * SPORTING GOODS CO. 88 Princess St. Phone 529 ail . . Capt NY TY TRY. Sc. Poet Cigar Sc. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar, s OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston, ohio hed herharashaediididiariadhiihd w oY | MON UMENTS! {| Te NicCiliom Granite Company, Li. Granite Com any, Ltd. rr vg ry ~ iid While the dude may ve shy of Your, business methods tell strong- Cn The Word of Sr oo BANTAMS iS EXCEPTIONALLY Good , Ertle, le, Williams and Other 'Little Fellows Reach High Standard, The dieayyweight serappers just now---because Jess Willard is going tofcome out of his hole and fight-- are basking in the cheering rays of however, seems to have.oxerlvoked thie fadt that the litle fellowh--the bantams--are doing a lot of fight- ing, according to "Ringsider." "Bight now, exclusive of the cham- pion, Pete Herman, who is' in the navy, there are a bunch of sprightly dhantams who are active. Johnny Ertle, Kid Williams, the former eampion: Jack Wolfe of Cleveland, Pal Moore "of Memphis, Joe! Burn- am, the Chicago lad; George Thomp- sop from California, Joe Lynch of New York, and several others are dinging' away at the mitt game and keeping the bantam division ' well stitred up. Now, 'comes another make a bid for fame. He is Mike Divides) a swarthy little scrapper mn. Rgek Island, 1lf;, who gave the a er and shifty Pal Moors all the 'fight hi could handle ina" und striggle last week. or untlee blieves he is headed st aight for the title and his confi- dence .is not entirely cajion®s Dundes' is' cool little chap with alot bf 'cleverness 'to back him up. He! is" 4 "good "defensive : fighter and cary, hit hard enough to ke his punches' dangerous. When e de- velopes™a little more hitting power and offénsive ability We will make a tough tdissle for any man in the ban- tam-weight class, The Rock Island lad is young and ambitious. His name yet may adorn the top of the bantam-weight list but he has quite a field ahead of him. Under the management of "Peantis" Sheiberi, Dundee has set out te clean up the field and all Rock Island is back of him. bantam to Boxers and the Army. The Toronto Star says: If "tin" ears would keep men out of the Can- adian army like it does out of the American army, the Canucks would be minus many good fighting: men already on the firing line. When war broke out over 75 per cent. of the pro. and amateur boxers in Can- ada jumped at the chancesto ex- change' their boxing gloves.for bay- omets,~and get into 'a finish - fight where: everything goes, including brass «knuckles, and no one kicks abut the weight or texture of band- ages. "Lots of them had: cauliflower ears. but that didn't stop them like it did Pte.. G. A, Steffens--befter own. as Willie Ritchie--ex-light- weight champion. Ritchie, who has been' boxing instructor at Camp wis, Tacoma, has been discharged from .the army, but he will be kept on as boxing instructor. Meanwiiile Jack Britton and Ted Lewis fought tieir 'forty-leventh'" 10-round draw at' Seranton' last night, and Jess Willird has headed back to the cows and chickens of the alfalfa or what- ever he grows on that Kansas plot of "hie Putting ( Shop in Spots, "he re-examination of men in the Lipst draft called last fall is putting a orimp in sports of all sorts. Young men who were placed in category C, Diand E on the first examination last fall are being re-examined and this time physical defects which gave diem a lower classification last fall are being disregarded and the boys are being placed in category "A-2" with alarming frequency. Hall a dozen boys who played hockey last wiiter have been raised to class "A this geek, while the baseball aps are being raided right ' dnd The Majors Climb Down. ° The major baseball leagues' plin td play Sunday baseball at Harri- son, NJJ.. in the ternitony claimed by the Newark club of the Iuterna- tional League. is abandoned pending jeavors to have the National Com- fl reach "a 'working agreement yo the International League," it 'announced at 'National League hpadquariers. y . Another' Colles East. {Garnet Clover," the newly elected sogretury of the Winnipeg Amateur Lacrosse Assoclition, is now in To- ronvo.- He has joined the Tank Bat: tallon. Glover tried three times tn get inthe army, but was unsuccess- y fal until his last examination: Glover was one of the best junior players in the Wi The; Cincinnati fans are turning out. in lange numbers to see Matty's Reds in action. nnipeg League. moral man and sinner are some. times one, ' UP. FATHER! a he always has his appetite with | er thaw words whether you are honest a or not,' noy-saving man has learned | From the church point of view the Bundrod of them make a donl-| a «Gas trusts would be ungble to.de- elare dividends if people dun have money' to burn, in 2 Fhe" Stubs only the ac BREEDERS TO MAKE EFFORT. To Have Horse Racing Resymed in Canada. With a view te having racing re- vived in Capada, but on a limited scalo and with. certain restrictions, a deputation from Canadian Stand- ard-bred and: Thoroughbred Asso- clationd will shortly visit Ottawasmud walt upon the Cabinet. Wt is the members of, these 'two- associations Who were hit the hardest lagt fall whed racing was annuled. as they, being breeders, have now practically no open market to dispose of their stock, nor haye-they an om rtunily to try out their animals ton ate the culls in order to. "Upiorore | their breeding. . dnstead of being able to 9% this: the coming season, the thorough- breds have become a drug om their owners, as the latter have to feed and care for them still, without be- ing able to get any renmiinerdtion. Incidentally, these breeders are liv- ing in the only country in the world where racing, with betting priv= ileges, is barred. The horsemen. that win Sheet the Cabinet will ask that' raging be again revived under the same con- diitions that existed pribr [to Aug. 1 last year, with the exception that each track be only %lloived six days' racing for the runes! during the year and. that the' Government take over all the receipfs and allow al running expenses. % he receipts from the different tracks would amount té a consider- able item for the Donriniont = Gov- ernmient, who have never derived any 'revenue from racing, it being always the provinces. Had the proposed plan been - vogue two years ago, 'the -Govern- ment would have realfied a sum running well up over the hundred thousand mark, and this would help considerably in = these days when our 'tea is taxed. -~ Baseball At Brantford. Brantford will have a city ama- teur league this summer and will likely join forces with the Ontario Baseball. Commission, : which meets in Hamilion next Saturday. Alder- man Jack Kelly of Brantford, was selected president of the league, apd four teams will start put, Motor. Trucks, Brantfprd' Cordage, Veritys and Pratt & Letchworth. All the teams were tepresented: a league meeting last Right, when he was_decided. to. open the Season on the Safurday preceding May 24th, and to play. morning and afterfioon games on the holiday. Negotiations: are pending * for hole-and-home games lafer in the!' season with the Hamilton teams, and it is hoped that similar arrangements can be made with London, providéd the City League there affiliates with the O.A.BAA. ° er i Old-time Fighter Dead. George Lablanche, a - native of Montreal, an 'old-time fighter; is dead at Lawrence, Mass, Although Lablanche, 'known in 'sporting circles as "The Marine," weighed but 150 pounts when tirhis prime, lie met and defeated some of the best pugilisfs of Nis day. His most historic contest 'was forught in Sén Francisco in 1889, when he knocked out Jack Dempsey inca thirty-two-round battle, winning largely through his command of the "pivot" blow. This blow has since been barred. ~~ Oouldn't Convince "Em, Rube Marquard's plea for deferred draft classification on the ground that Blossom Seeley and their child are dependent upon him was denied and he was put in Class 2A. Mar- quard stated that his wife had not been following her profession of act- ress lately and, therefore, should be classed as dependent, but the draft board ruled otherwise, ipod Gus Williams, the former Leaf. is} playing lett field for this season, Lali Sam Crawford Somtimase io nit al at a great pace in the Pacific Coast League. f $e 4 including on | saa. I? 1S ONLY GOSSIP. Nothing in Story About Commission to Govern Racing After War. A despatch from Lexington, Ken- tucky, stating that racing ecirclés theré had been given to understand that} while there will be no resump- tionvof racing in Canada duning the war the tracks will open afterwards utider the supervision and regula- tign'of a racing commission is news to the Government. "op The attention of one of the Mini- sters-at Ottawa who would, know 'of anytling of the Wind was in the wind rectéd to the report. is cel'fiinly the first I have nes of it," he said. "And I think 1: d know if anything were even Sewitia * He added with ja touch: bf Arc m: "I doubg very much if the Gov ent has any time to cbn- sidbrgnow such guestions as to rac. ing er the war. There are some things a little more pressing to en- gage our consideration." The story Is evidently a case. "ot the wish being father to she:thbught. All winter it was Meiterated in der- tajn racing circles that the. trabks wi re-open sure this. year apd denigls at Ottawa tailed to ages pe r . Time, however, has doneyit. THe atest story. that there willbe no: HE nm while" the war lasts, t thitiit will re-open under Govegn- ment: supervision' afterwdnrds, ni y belpit in the sam OR 3 sw ¥SPAPENS TO Ft TO FIGHT MAINS The iNew Tasthall' Les 'League Will " i Not Ly Lack For Support. ? The newspapers of New York and New' Jersey are standing solidly be- hindithe New League in is fight for protéction from the National Com- mission. A New York paper, after reviewing at lengih several recent arbitrary decisions by the commis- sion,' including its incomprehensible attitude toward J. J McCaffrey's protest against the action -of~James C. McGill, of the Indianapolis club, in interfering with New League af- fairs, voices the senffiment of the sporting writers when he says: "Organized I's enunciation of the doctrine of divine right prov- es conclusively that a good house- cleaning in the National Commission would help baseball greatly... If H.Fagrell and his associites jiling 'to go. the length of "re- fon in a fight for their just riphts, they will not lack for nejvs- paper support. a © T LEAD MAJOR rrr 2 Giants Top National Batting oti Fielding Records. Tris Speaker has a comfortable lead In the race for the 1918 ;hat- ting honors of the American League. Averages released Monday show him blazing the trail with a mark of i626 for eleven games. Speaker also leads" the base-stealers with seven. Ty" Cobb, the 1917 batting cham- pion, does not appear in the aver- ages issued pwihg to illness, and. the Detroit club was idle several days, due to weather comditions. Members of the championship New York club are im possession of virtually all of the early season hon- ors in the National League, with Lew McCarty, the catcher, shofing the way to the batters with an aver- age of .500 for eight games. New York is leading in club-batting With an average of .320, and St. Louis in club fielding with 970. Would Meet a ; "Battling" Schroeder of ' Pitts- burg, on service at an American base chance to met Georges Carpentier, the French champion heavyweight erican expeditionary force thug far and is arranging bouts at the 'base hospital twice a month. juries to his head suffered recently in a fall da an airplane. During his mal Symmsiip Sehool in Joinville. ose Wie oa d has for meless championship LE) kis if Fhe iton. 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