PAGE SIXTEEN | 45.00 We have a few Massey High Grade ' Bicycles left at this price. Why Not Get yours now before they go higher. Near- ly everything has gone up in price ° more than the good old Bicycle , / The indispensable article thet saves your time, your shoe leather and your pocket book. Come in Today TREADGOLD SPORTING GOODS. CO. - 88 Princess St. Phone 529 "The Home of the Brunswick" A FRR THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918. In The World Of Sport Sporting Notes Donovan, of Syracuse, securing Amby M r Leal second base- t Amby v play independent season. - - - ¥ Joe Dugan, of 'the Athletics, hag] established himself fielders of he already thas as one the best Johnson circuit of the Mack has three fast men in his! outfield. Kopp and Jamieson are] particularly fast and Walker can cover plenty of ground, Connie Mack seems (o have picked | up a sure enough star in Scott Perry He has pitched some fine ball for the Mackmen this spring Manager elder Jones, of the Browns, eatly disappointed in his pitching staff. Gallia Lowder milk and Davenport are all being hit hard. 1s has | following of tw Word, In tof Oddielons, A= Wot The odft- Marti sacretany, ks. 1 FA an; expected tha wil be | gainst the O'- the firgt exhibition played on May 24th eill B.BIC., Toronto. ome Hkelihood tnat : } Conley of the Cin- Re vill: not 12port to the He is a Texan and wants tol to the Lone ar State in his being released by | Te appears to be un- ipprehension that To-| two blo¢ks from The Toronto club Blackburne to about the cli- the Pitcher cinnati Leafs, get bacl the event Mathewson. der the mis ronto is only Arctic circle asked "Lena'" something to the boy matic conditions in this part of continent af { 3 the first "pro" ball} has heen announced, and it is| that he was with Torento in| When Urban Shocker was | New York, Cliff Markle was to fill the gap. Markle was the "buddies" to answer! and his death in France is 1. The Toronto club will now be ¢ tied to fly a service fla alongside the Union Jack and Sta and Stripes on the Island flag pole. | TA The death of player found 1916 old sont here the fi the cal ROW re to of tmporters of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. MONUMENTS! || The McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. #907 Princess Street. Telephone 1982 TRY ¢. Poet Cigar Sc. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. ria hahha hk. ara A idaho ted it. { proved that an {ditions of th The Edison Tone Test Answers Your Question "What instrument shall | buy?' That's been your question. And the Edi- son tone test has answer- The tone test has instru- ment has been finally 'liween Washington a jin 18 innnings over { Philadelphia won, 4 to 1. | not been in the majors a year, but! jand was won by the Dodgers, 6 to 5. j fare is served by the | curtailment, jof racine | ers, and neverssince the Pirst winner { of wealth, mfinence and prominence i limost | ing the war { vided, * | fielder Rousch stumbled as he tried 1 O'Day allowed a double play and re- | ed and base rutiners given the priv- { ilege of starting the moment the ball {be transacted on six days i week ha | missioners to rescind the prohibitory { law with regard to Sunday baseball. | The first Sunday game will be plays | ed 'In the cipital | The American League now has five LONGEST GAME SINCE 1913. | ! Washington-Chicago Battle Wednes- } day Longest 1-0 Game, The eighteen innings played be-| 1d the White was the longest ex- | pulled off in the Am- { {a to be assumed from an article' ondon Golfing that Harry Var- x times British open champion, | ad a close eall from death y of a German bomb, . Sox Wednesday, tra inning affair erican League since September 1913. On that date Washington won 'hiladelphia, by ja b to 4 score. Washington also won { Yesterday, 1 to 0. The longest game (ever played in the American League! {took place September 1st, 1906. It Athletics | 24 innings: The long) est game in the National League was | played In 1917 between Brooklyn and Pittsburg, It went 22 innings; was played between the and Boston, and went : ---------------------- Canada and Horse Racing. Franels Nelson writes: Nowhere in the United States does tae jdba prevail among Ihsughtful and im- formed men that the county's wel- suppression, or At no time in the history of the turf in Am- erica hiave the purses offers formed such: # liberal and generous en- couTagement to breeders and own- of the Epsom Derby was impouted to America for the improvement of the breed has 'thers been so many nen rective communities active- horsey, The spirit-or S { ers of ase to-day the 'soun was accurately repre sented 13 entha m of thinty thicusand weoples trom all parts of the country patronizing the 'test of speed and stamina and emdoving the spectacular tria Canada fs the only country in all whe world whose rtesmen have come (fo the conclusicn that (he cessation of rage Ing was a desirable condition dur- il A Correct Decision, The decision of President Ty ner, of the National League.in over riling | Umpire Hank O'Day, who refused to} allow a runner.to score from third while an outfielder was juggling the ball, was absolutely correct, and ae- cording to the rules made and pro- The fagts are as follows: Out- for a long fly, but eventually caught the ball while lying on the ground. Niehoff, on third,sleft his base while the ball was still inthe air after hit- ting Rousch'zs glove, and Umpire fused to permit WNiehoff"s run To count. The umpire was in error in refusing to allow Niehoff to scoie. Years ago the outfielders used to jug- gle the ball in all ihe way from the deep outer gardens to hold the run ners on the bakes, refusing to make the catch until they got inside the diamond. The rule was then chang- hiit the fielder's glove. -------------------- Washington Has Sunday Baseball, The tremendous =nerease in the population of Washington Aas a re- sult of the war and the enormous volume of war business which musi of the aused the Board of Com- on Sunday next. towns, viz.: Washington, Detroit, Chicago apd St inday Nleveland, ouis, oo Unless there is a rapid Teturn to normal conditions after the war, at- tended by another prohibitory meas- | ure governing Sunday games in Washington, there is very litte! chance that the Senator franchise! will be brought to Toronto, as has been frequently proposed of late. In any event, the Washington club will not become ihe Toronto club for a number of seasons. The American League will not consent to thé re: moval of a franchise of\the present value of that at Washington, Winning Bee May fease Don't get all excitied dver the huge lead the Giants have gained in the Natienal League race, because 'there's a reason." And that #s the Giant opposition during the first thres weeks of the campaign The Dodgers haven't shown up as well as might a elassy semi:pro. team; the Braves have played weird baseball, and the Phillies are only 50-80. And these teams constituted the Giant opposition through April and early in May, Is it any wonder that the New Mollowing SUN-BAKED GOLF COURSE Make 500-Yard Drive Easy Matter Ini California, { I to the dry! sun-bake 3 ern (ea where a coyote h i nothing on a golf ball in the matter] of legs, smile at the eastern accounts of long drives. The difference be-| tween these sections in tee distances] show the difficulty of establishing? world's records in driving. i Mike Brady, the Massachusetts open| champion, after a winter at Brent- wood, near Los Angeles, laughs when! they talk of record drives down in] Boston, where he now is. Drives in| Southern California are not measured | by 300 or 400 yards, hut by the 500. Edward Martin, the California profes-| sional, drove last winter to the edge; of the green bn a hole measuring 560 yards, Brady had a putt for two on the| eleventh hole at Brer twood, the hole, measuring 470 .He overdrove| ards, as did his] assistant. Pew professionals can out- drive Brady when he is meeting the ball right, but in the early days of his} stay in California he was outdistanc-| ed frequentiy. i He was driving a high ball, with a long carry, so that his ball often land- ed yards and vards ahead of an op- ponent. But a half-topped drive would run interminably on the hard ground and inish ahead of his much better| played tee shot, ' BACK TO THE FARM. Champion Willard Feels the Loss of Friends, Jess Willard, world's héavywelight champion pugilist, has given up his Chicago home The champion left by motor for his arm near Lawrence, Kansas, where he said he Intends to spend the rest of his life, "The public does not want to see + defend the championship during * the champion declared he- * departed. "The Fred Ful ton match is off and there nay never be another. I am making no definite] statement about retiring, hut that! seems the probable outcome of the| i ! | i present situation." Hard to Get Jockeys The question or securing jockeys for the. various eligibles in the King's Plate at Toronto is a trouble- some one for the different owners.| With racing.in full swing here in for- mer years there. was no dearth off riding material with there being an odd case of importation such as Frankie Robinson last year by the Seagram Stable, although Frankie, the fall previous, had been engaged to ride in the Plate, but hig sale to H P. Whitney 'found him absent from the Canadian circuit. Conditions are changed for this year's Plate and the jockeys are well aware of the fact, the rosult being that some of them are asking between $700 and $800 if they come here and ride the winner, Cobourg Bowlers Elect Officers At the adjourned annual meeting the Cobourg Bowling Club the officers were elected: -- President, Mr. Wo 1; Sportrom:; Vice-President, Mr, -W. H. Hopper; Secretary, Mr. W. Delong; Treasur- er, Mr. Harry Roberts. Games com- mittee---The officers. Greens Come mittee--Messrs. D. Exart, J. David- son, W. DeLong, F. Richardson, and Hugh McCullough. The club is looking forward to a succéssinl season. ------------------ US. Athletes nn Casualties, The war is coming home to the United States sporting public. The death of one Chicago athlete and the wounding of a Western Conference track captain in France are reported, Lieut. Carl Rosequist, captain in three sports at Lombard College, Galesburg, Il, died of wounds. Lieut. Carleton Wallace, Wisconsin distance runner, now of the Marine Corps, was wounded in Miler. April of 29th, Chicago athletes haye respond- ed freely to the call to arms. Thinks Shannon a Star, Connie Mack believes that he has picked up another Eddie Collins in Morris Shannon, who is playing sec- ond hase in sensational style for the Athletics, Shannon has not yet shown high class batting skill, but Mack de- clares that he will steadily improve. He was with Baltimore Jast year, Larry Doyle in Hespital. Larry Doyle, captain and second baseman of the Giants, who has not been with the team for a number of days, was admitted to the New York Yorkers "'blew'* themselves to a fine winning streak? A different story, perhaps, will ap- perfected . which re creates the singer's voice so faithfully that the hu- man ear can not dis tinguish between the ren- iti we artist and that of The New "The Phonograph with a Sout player was listed Call at our store and learn what pear in the "Standing of Clubs" ecl- umn after the Giants grapole a few times with the strong clubs in the western end of the elrenit Markle Among Missi Cliff Markle, the former Toronto pitcher, Is the first professional ball player to have "gone west," Hugh 8. Fullerton, ~ baseball eritic on the New York orld, being the au- jiority for the statement that this the missing among tl General Pershing's casualties on Hom and there has been no furth- is meant by the phrase Music Post-graduate Hospital and operated upon. His condition is reported as favorable, ' ied ans Bill Lamar works out daily wih the Yankees, but hie still Is troubled with the injury to his baek muscles sustained during the training season at Macon. 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