PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1918. 14, Now and Save Money TN Ol 2s pat "Better to pay the price of a good bicycle than the penalty of a poor 3 ; . one IE will pay fo get your bicycle now instead of waiting until next Spring. It is almost cer fain that prices will have to be ad vanced considerably next season, If may even be hard to get a biaylq at any price, Better secure one now and enjoy thé use of it all Summer and Fall y as walking] RCC. Every other dealer tells you he has something "just as good as a Massey." Why? Because they all copy the Massey. GET THE REAL THING -- IT PAYS. TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Comp'y 88 Princess St, - - Kingston tor 5c Poet Cigar Sc Look nme rs mt TRY for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. of Scoteh and Americnn Granites, Vermont Marble, ~The McCallum | BOT Princess Street. Granite Company, Ltd. phone 1831 pe [ONUMENTS ! World of Sport Qnvder having gone into Mike Gonzales is doing the brunt of the catching for the Cardinals, He receives occasional assistance from Johnny Brock. the a » Reds have made more double than any other National outfit. The Robins have least number of two play plays League made the killings. Connie Mack, who predicted a short time ago that the Browns would win the American League pennant, now favors the Indians' chance to cop. Lefty Shendel, the seldom makes a hit, does they are home Cards' pitcher, but when he runs. Foss Young is one of the few players in the National League to- day who ean hit to any field. Most of the others are strictly "one field hitters." : GOLF PLAYER BEAT BASEBALL THROWER A Unique Game Played Over a Toronto Course to Settle Dispute Two members of the Ontario Clb played a novel game at Scar- horo Golf Club, Toronto, recently, to settle a dispute arising out of a de- cision on baseball and golf. One member undertook to play the full round of 18 holes by throwing a baseball, while the other member played regular golf. By the condi- tions the baseball thrower was com- pelled to use a golf ball on the greens and hole-out as in a regular game of golf. The game was com- pleted in about the same time as required to play an ordinary game of golf, and the baseball player complained of no ill-effects from his throws, which averaged 75 yards, some going as far as 10Q yards. The match was won by the golf player with a score of 96 to his opponent's 107. The game aroused a lot of interest, as it was considered by some an impossible f to throw a baseball around © gol? course in the manner in which it was done. Cancel Speed Raves. Owing to uncertainty of securing enough entries for the races for the Thousand Island Challenge Cup, em- blenmtic of the motorboat cham- plonship of the St. Lawrence River, it has been decided with the per- mitssion of the American Power Boat Association to cancel races for this season. The dates fixed were the 14th, 15th and 16th. Lore Bader and Frank Truesdale, both former International leaguers, have been released by tlie Red Sox. BIG SALARIES ARE THING OF THE PAST Connie Mack Says $5,000 Is Enough For Any Major . League Star. Connie Mack believes the srort season will benefit baseball. "Jt will give the managers and club owners an opportunity to get together and forgaulate rules and agreements that will put the game on a better basis," says Mack. "It will also put the star players back to the level-of the otner players on the teams. "The day of big salaries is doom- ed, and it is likely that before the game is resumed there will be an ironclad agreement among the mag- nates not to pay even the bigzest star in the game more than $5,000 a year. "No ball player who ever lived is worth more than that =ancunt for a season's work. Inflate | salar- jes have done more to hurt Lhe game than anything else. There is po other work in the world where a man receives greater compensation for less effort than he dies in base bal, but thé end has come. "I have contended for years that $5,000 for six months' play should be top money, and this proposition will be put up to the clubs when the next meeting of the league is held. The rule can be easily made to hold so that there will be no secret agreements with players whereby they will receive bonuses. "Fach club can be made to put up a bond which will be forfeited if it is discivered that its paying a player more | than the amount agreed upon. -- "Of course, there will be a yell from some of the present-day stars, but you can gamble that they will get in line and sign up when they see that the club owners mean busi- ness." . Hawaiian Swimmers Not Guilty. The members of the Hawaiian swimming team, now touring the Un- ited States, were absolved of charges falsifying and increasing their ex- pense accounts, at a special enquiry by Amateur Athletic Union officials held in New York. The members of the team, including Duke P. Kahana- moku, Harold Kruger, Clarence Lane and Manager Owen Merrick, appeared befo.e a special investigation com- mittee consisting of F. W. Rubien, secretary-treasurer of the A.A.U., and 0. Obertubbesing and F. A. Niles, members of the board of governors. Complete expense accounts were examined and all questions answered to the satisfaction of the committee. After the meeting Mr. Rubien said the Hawaijans had in no way violated the A.A.U. rules; and that, on the other hand, their trip and exhibitions had been the means of arousing great interest in swimming throughout the country. Christy Mathewson 18 going over- seas at the end of the baseball sea- son as a member of the chdmical welfare service. CROSSING THE GREASY POLE - IN THE OBSTACLE RACE % Eads nnd Dominion of Canada Sports Day on the western front, attended 'b u larger crowd than was ever seen at a similar event at home.--Official photograph taken on the British western front in France, : In | WONDERFUL PLAYER RETIRES IN DISGRACE hase Suspended by Cincinnati Reds, Who Think He Was "Laying Down." Hal Chase, the greatest first base- man of all time, has probably play- ed his last game of major league baseball. Convinced that Chase was not giving his best services to the club, Manager Christy ' Mathewson last Thursday suspended Prince Hal for an indefinite period and saw that he was provided with trans- srtation back to Cincinnati. It is understood that the temperament tar will never again be permitted > wear the Reds' uniform, and his reputation is such that few, if any, other clubs would offer him a con- tract. . Matty's grievance against Chase was a long time brewing. The Red leader, always an honest and con- scientious worker himself, could not bring himself to believe that any player would deliberately "lie down" on his club. He invariably found excuses fbr Chase's many shortcomings, and many of the criticisms which have been hurled at fim this year were inspired by his refusal to deal more harshly with his erratic first baseman. He bore patiently with Chase long al- ter many another manager would have quit in disgust, and only re- cently became convinced that he object of his charity 'was not worthy of it. (Chase started out last season as though he intended to equal or sur- pass his 1918 record of .339 with the bat, Along about mid-season, however, he blew the wound up with a batting average of only .277. He has done better than that this year the latest averages show him flirting with the .290 mark--but his hits have not been timely and have had but little value in a run-scoring sense. Barly in the season he de- veloped a most aggravating habit of hitting freely with two out and the hases empty, and popping to the infield whenever a safe blow could drive one or more runners over the plate. He did this so often that Matty finally came to the conclusion that he wasn't trying. 'The lackadaisical fashion in which Chase has lately been fielding his position was an- other serious count against him. Wihen Chase wants to be he can be the niost sensational first baseman that ever pulled a high one out of the clouds or dug a low one from under the bag. He has the most wonderful hands in baseball, the shiftiest pair of legs and feet that ever graced a diamond, and does by instinct the things that no other baseman of the present generation has ever even dreamed of doing. But he either couldn't or wouldn't play that sort of ball for Matty, and so Big Six has sent him home In dis- grace. Serbians Looking Ahead. A commission from the Royal Ser- bian Stud has visited France and pur- chased from Baron Edouard de Rothschild seventeen horses, com- prising brood-mares in foal or other- wise and horses in: training. They will be sent in the meantime to Sa- loniki, and later removed to the Roy- al Stud in Serbia. (Big league critics, who appear to know a lot more about Hal Chase's latest trouble than has been given to the press, say that the veteran's big league days are just about end- ed. Even his fellow-players are said to be glad that he has been indefin- itely suspended by Matty. Lee Magee is also in wrong with "Big Six" and he may get the same treatment. Ernie Shore, former pitcher for { Boston Red Sox, is making good in the U.S. naval service. He passed hig recent exams. with such honors that he has been chosen as one of five to take a special course at the naval academy at Annapolis. A comfortable woman is one who l Perfect for the Pipe delicious, handy, economical, keeping its rich moisture and fragrance unimpaired for any length of time, and burning slowly but freely-- these are the qualities which you will find in 2 The Perfect Plag Smoking Tobacco Slice a pipeful, fresh from the plug, just when you want it, and you will Try it. ¢ fill your pipe not too tight, light up enjoy a smoke of real satisfaction, The Rock City Tobaccs Co., Limited, Quebec, Que. ey T pendability of performance. bility. Phone 201 THE REO MOTOR CARS "The Gold Standard of Values." 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