_PAGE . TWELVE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1918. < an PlayBall!| It's the old familiar cry, the cry that - _quickens the pulse and stirs the blood -- "Play Balll" Never before in the history of baseball has there been such a demand for the pas- time. Even the cricket- loving Englishman has deserted his game to "play ball." Anticipating the big demand that would be made for baseball supplies, we are able to announce a full line for your inspection. Perhaps you need a new catcher's mitt, glove; bat, ball, mask, etc, We have just the thing you are looking for ina Catcher's Mitt Made to handle the hottest ones that ever come over the plate. On the front, where the wear is hardest, is a piece of genuine buckskin. No danger of injured fingers with this mitt, for the edges have extra stiffening and there's a wrist pad too; heavily padded throughout and sewed to stay. Prices range from--- $1.00 to $12. Real Hickory Bats Say boys, they are regular "pill" busters; the kind you én lam out a homer with, without any danger of splitting or "feel- ing" your bat. We have them in rock elm or hickory. Prices range From 50c¢ to $2.00. Baseballs Galore 'We have them in every size and make; genuine horsehide covers, strongly sewn. The kind you can't bust with a few good wallops. They are the best on the market... Prices range From 10c to $1.50. 1, an Catcher's Mask We have some dandies. Made with extra heavy steel wire, and heavily padded. When you get one of these masks' on you are not 'afraid of the hottest one that ever crossed the plate. Prices range From $1.50 to $6.00. We have evervihing in the baseball line. Drop in and see . our stock of baseball supplies. It's the most complete in town, "a It's a dandy. » TREADGOLD 88 Princess St. = Kingston, Ont. + "The Home of the Brunswick." '|was not so fortunate. 5¢ Poet Cigar 5c Look for Sik Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. Te S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. Wy on rere pany, L td. Telephone 1931 [Th The World Of rm no GRE PLAYERS HAVE FAILED AS MANAGERS Chance, Evers and Tinker Among Cubs Whe Could Not Become. Leaders. The average baseball student of a decade ago, had he been asked to pick a manager from the great Cubs of that day probably would have picked one of the great infield stars ~--Evers, Tinker or Chance. It might have been. that he would have picked Johnny Kling, one of the greatest of all catchers, 'or Jimmie Sheckard, one of the brain- jest of outfielders. It is scarcely probable that he would have gone into the pitching box for his manager. And yet, of all that aggregation of greats the only one who appeals to have any success in a managerial berth is a pitcher. Not long ago Tinker felt that he wasn't getting what he should out of his Columbus club and he ealled on Mordecal . Brown, the former wonder of the three fingers, to take a hand as lemporary panager. The big Indiana miner did so well that he was given the job permany ently, and it now looks as though. Columbus would finish there or thereabouts. The managerial experience of the Old Cubs is an interesting sidelight. Chance, who piloted the Cubs to their four pennants in the National League, and two world champion- ships, was handed his championship ball club on a gold platter by Frank Selee, who spent four seasons build- ing it up. Chance could scarcely have done anything else but win with the club he had. But in other fields Chance sHis failure at New York was notorious. ~ ager, Strange though it may seem, this fiery, peppery, brainy player failed as -a manager of the Cubs in 1913, and has never tried piloting since. Joe Tinker failed both with Cubs and Reds and his succes president and mafager of the? lumbus club was not brilliant. Schekard wasn't a wonderful suc- cess with the Toledo club the year he managed there. If Brown makes good with Co- lumbus tthis year he will have been the first of the old regime to sue- ceed in a managerial role. -- 2 the Bench Stars' C e Soon. Those ball players who have been holding down bench jobs for so long that they have ceased to hope they might ever get a chance to prove their worthiness in continuous com- bat may have their chances, now that so many ball and bat artists are get- | ting ready to help whip the Hun, Nearly every baseball club has its pinch hitter or pinch fielder or just handy man loafing around the bench wasting space in hotels and trains and being just a good fellow. Lots of these men come to the major leagues, live their careers partial oblivion and drift back to t§e minors without having been given a real chance to show what they could do. New York clubs have been full of them. John McGraw is constantly being pointed out as a man who didn't know what he was dging when he let this or that man go for a song, only to see the released gent begin making himself famous, Marty Kavanagh is one of this kind of heroes. Jim Thorpe is an- other, Wally Pipp was one and so was Dick Rudolph, It looks very much as though Jim Thorpe is going to get a real chance now. The shortage of - outfielders among the Giants will give him a chance to become a regular, Any athlete who 'can do what Jim accom- plished in the American Association to-goodness big leaguer, so -'watéh Jim closely. Jack Barry's New Job. Jack Barry, former manager of the Boston Red Sdx, and his former team-mates, "Chick" Shorten and Ernle Shore, have given up. their berths at the Boston Navy Yard pre- paratory to entering the school for ensigns at Cambridge. The trio arg undergoing prelimin- ary training at the navy camp at Wakefield. Barry gave up his rat- ing as Chief Yeoman to take the new 'course, {BUT WHY SLeep WRITER OM A PARK BENCH NO! I BELIEVE RY MAN Evers tried one year as a man-| bas the stuff to become a real-honest-| Hard to Make Home Runs. "Several major leagye clubs are<Aind- ing it exceedingly difficult to make home runs this season Sherwood Magee made the first homer for Cin- cinnati in Saturday's double header agaifst the Cardinals. © Joe Gedeon is the only member of the St. Louis Browns who has hit for the circuit this season. Clark Griffith's Senators have made only two hits for the cir- enft, one by Judge and the other by Shanks. Brooklyn has only, three homers to its credit ,one each by Ol som, 'O'Mara and Hi Myers. The Chicago . White :Sox have made only three. The fields on which the clubs play their home games have an important part im making a team strong or weak in home run drives. It is much easier to get a home run at the Polo grounds or at the Phillies' park than it is at Ebbets field or Comiskey park. Few home runs are made at Washing- ton, where the fences are far away, or at Gleveland, where one fence is the closest in 'the major leagues but 45 feet high. Babe Ruth, both leagues in long clouting, is about the only player who is not helped to some extent by some particular fence or wall. -------- Watch Cobb Oyerhaul Leaders, After being counted out, as he is every spring, because he is getting too old and too heavy to beat out the close ones, Ty Cobb is swinging into the batting stride that carries him to the top before he lets up.' Ty has been unusually slow in starting this season 'and for that reason the dope- sters have had a longer time to tell of his shortcomings than usual. Last year Cobb got away badly, but hit his pace on Decoration day and ran through , 35 games, getting one or more hits a game, Cobb was over the .300 mark in the last averages and since those were compiled has been hitting well over 500. An interval of less than 40 points separates the Georgian from the leading batter, and the ones ahead are coming down almost s | 4s rapidly as Cobb is going up. With the season less than half over this "| margin is not a big one and if the Georgian continues his present pace he will be with Sisler and Burns in a short time. To Extend Racing Season. Racing will not come to an end' in New York State with the close of 'the Belmont Park meeting next fall. Both the Metropolitan Jockey Club !at Jamaica and the Queen's County Jockey Club at Aqueduct have ap- plied to the stewards of the Jockey Club for fall dates, and it is practi- cally assured that the season . will be éxtended, as was the case last year, with a joint meeting at Aque- duet, Belmont Park closes on September 14th and racegoers are hoping that the season will.carry on to October Sth. Omar Is Now Ready. Omar Khayyam, the champion horse' of 1917, is now being fitted for some of his stake engagements. He is being trained at Aqueduct court, and i§ credited with working six furlongs in 1.19 on Thursday af- ternoon. Omar is showing more of his old-time form and dash than he has done all season, Trainer Me- Naughton will have him ready to race within a short time, "Paid Oualy $50 For Alex. In the season of 1910 Grover Clevgland Alexander, the star pitcher of the Philadelphia Nationals, "was drafted from the Syracuse club of now leading | WILLARD IN OIL BUSINESS. Will Do No More Fighting While War is Raging. Fors Willard has stepped out of the squared' ring for the duration of the war," The champion is now a sub- urban resident of Lawrence, Kan. and. iss essaying a new career in the oil fields, Willard ha$ completed a déal that will associate him with F. C. Hoyt, Wichita banker and. oil man. He will become one of the active direc- tors of a $3,000000 company, sitting at the board table with Chester'l. Long, former United States senator. "1 havé been figuring on getting into the oil business for nearly three years," Willard said. "The fact is, | want to learn a business, for, looking into the future, the spectacle of an ex-champion opening a saloon or pur: sping a dwindling career on the stage has no attraction for me." Change in Giants' Outfield. For the first time in his career as a Giant outfielder, which stretches over six campaigns, George Burns is pa- trolling the middle garden. John McGraw's decision to post Burns in centre field in place of the departed Kauff comes as a surprise, as it was believed that Young would be shift ed to that territory and Wilholt and Thorpe used alternately in right. The fact that Burns has played the sun field ever since he has been a Tegular prompted McGraw to move him over "You've had your share of the sun field, George," he said, 'let one of those other fellows try it for a while." That this decision. was made by the Giant manager some time ago is evi- dent from his practice of frequently sending Thorpe to leit field to reliéve Burns in games either hopelessly lost or won beyond a doubt since the day when it became apparent that Kanff would not be spared to the club for any length of time. ee ee HAT'S the the reason <why secret of the Boyd Garage's great popularity. wise drivers bring their cars to Beyd's when it's they want a good job accomplished, and at right prices, Prompt service that IA a hundred per cent. efficient, is our slogan. A When you bring your car to Boyd's for repairs, no matter how small or how large, you are assured that it will receive a careful diag- nosis, and the trouble fixed by our expert automobile mechanics. 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"Hans" Wagner, former major league baseball "star, has enlisted with the Home Defence Police, of Al- leghany County, and was sworn in as an officer of law with' jurisdiction in hime home town, Carnegie, a -------------------- Dodgers Get a Pair. The sale™of Pitcher Dick Robertson to the Brooklyn Nationals and Out- fielder Edmondson to the Minneapo- lis club of the Southern ~association. the mobilization able seed supplies is Ts invited. MENT FALL WHEAT SEED Iv view of the partial failure'of the Fall wheat crop in this Province this year it will be neces- sary for farmers to make early arrangements for the supply of seed? which they will need for Fall Under these circumstances farmers who have on hand quantities of wheat suitable for Fall seeding are urged to conserve them for this purpose. If there is no demand locally, the information should be supplied to this Depart- ~ment, or to the Local Office of this Department: in your County, so that every effort may be made to have an equitable and satisfactory dis- The need for foodstuffs justifies a largeacreage of Fall wheat in this Province again this year, and the co-operation of the farmers in and distribution of the avail- ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL GEO. S.HENRY, Minister of Agriculture, Parliament Toronto, ding, : , {FT Don UT GET THE HenesY AND JUST WATCH ~ SOME ONE | TO PROVE IT I'M | GOING TO SLEEP IN, THE PARK WITH A WATEH IN My VEST POCKET . WHEN You've 66T A WARM BED IL Home ? 7; HERE : (WHO SAYS "TEMPTATION / BREEDS DisHonESTY: