- PAGE F OURTEEN THE DAILY' BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, , 1918. -- HOW MANY RIDERS "WISH THEY HAD BOUGHT A Massey Bicycle Other dealers keep on saying that their wheels are made like a Massey, and they sell them for $5.00 less sometimes in order to get you to buy them. BUY THE REAL MASSEY. Because you get the best that can be put into a bicycle; and what is a few dollars when you are paying for an article that will last for yeas. Massey Bicycles Twenty years old are still runing around our city, and still good for years. WE ARE SOLE AGENTS. TREADGOLD SPORTING GOODS CO. "The Home of the Brunswick." Phone 529 Kingston | selves, 5c Poet Cigar 5c Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. S. OBERNDORFF ER, Maker, Kingston. MONUMENTS! zs of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble, e McCallum Granite pany, Ltd. 89T Princess Street. Teleplgne 1931 ~------ Golf wy In Montreal, 'real Golf Club, beginning Monday, "At a meeting of the Canadian Sen- Sept. 16th, The tournament will be fora Golfers' Association held in To- | continued on Sept. 17th and 18th,and ronto, it was decided to hold the first | many American players are expected SN In the World of Sport o BOXING AND SWIMMING REVIVED BY THE WAR Training - For War Will Pro- duce. More Material in These Sports. : are jeve two sports whose devo- are destined for a won- vival after the war. These » boxing and swimming. Hundreds of thousands of young at the training camps are being Hi in the art of boxing by Iprofessional experts engaged by the {government Men who, circumstances, on glove, re {men under ordin- never might have to this {rugged sport with the likelihood that they will keep it up after they return : their put a have taken civilian pursuits No lesk an authority Ritchie, formerly pion of the warld, at than Willie lightweight cham- who is boxing in- Camp Lewis, near Ta- jeoma, ., States that he has had under direction scores of men whe apparently have the making of {finished fighters These profession- Is are among those who believe that is ended therewill be r and much better crop structor Ww LE ring talent (onngsters never have worn 1 consequently had no bad 3, are being mentioned good boxers from cantonment where g tournaments are bhe- iodically. That many H be heard from in the fu- 1 yredicted. to who as le ouspicuouy practically regular hox jing held {of thes ture fre | With made compulsory among land marihfes, "this - brane h {also is unearthing scores {ters who show a latent ispeed in getting through the Mare Island navy ¢, hundreds of young men from inland towns and cities, who never have disported in anything more ca- pacious than a bath tub, rapidly are learning how to swim and becoming enthusiastic over the sport A tank 150 feet long and wide has been constructed at Mare Island and a sergeant of marines, himself an expert swimmer, has charge the instruction of the men. This instructor states that it is surprising how quickly the great majority of men learn to take care of themselves in the water. One' or two lescons suffice to teach many of the learner how to float and io pro- pel themselves with the simpler strikes. The the interests in and swimming rapidly is increasing is evidenced by the fact that tourna- ments and meets are receiving an-in- creasing number of entries from the army and navy. And many of these are men who never have been heard (of before and are taking their first fling at competition. the swim being the sailor of sport of youngs- talent and the water. yard, near 50 feet of both boxing Making Paseball Bats In France, There is a baseball bat shortage in France and our boys "over there" have nobody to blame but them- The trouble is that they have developed such Benny Kauff wallops that the bats are splintered faster than they can be shipped from Am- veterans' tourney at the Royal Mont- | to compete. A na li BRINGING UP FATHER 3 This famous old city, the centre of many le se ear 0 Ertl Sr shnmmoehs shom has been send- but the erica. The Y.M.C.A. ing them over by the thousands, the demand is far greater than supply. A bat shortage is a serians thing, for the fighting man, back foom the trenches for a breathing spell, finds nothing so restful as a good, last game of ball, To solve the problem the Y.M.C.A. has erected a factory in France and is turning out a bat which, while not as good as the "made in America" brand, is heip- ing to fill the bill. The difficulty has been to get the proper kind of wood, but the head of the factory 'is ex- perimenting with various varieties and expects to find the right thing. BREEDERS AID TO WIN WAR Horse Owner Declares Thorovgh- breds Essential for War Work. One would suppose that a man who had just paid $30,000 for a two- year-old gelding which hike a coming threeyear-old preposition of the first class, regard with dis- favor the closing to geldings of such valuable and important racgs the Kentucky and Latoma Derby the Preakness, Lawrence Realization, Withers, and Belmont stakes and the Suburban Handica a Commander J. 1 of Mont real, wealthy sp wis sman, who has spent several hundred thousand dol lars in Great Britain in the course of the last three years for first thoroughbred stock, paid $30,000 other day Jilly Kelly, the ash and United States Hotel Stakes t oud the. smartest two-year-old in the country Billy Kelly, everybody knows, a gelding Nevertheless," Commander 1s glad that these races have been closed co horses of this kind, which are use- jess for any other purpose than rac- and hopes that' geldings will be HY ared from all other stakes of value "Racing upon which thorou ghbred tion depends is longer a sport." Commander said 'It has bgeome ine this country, as it been'in Europe for a century, a necessary adjunct to national defence. The great war has convinced the mili- locks wi Ross, or tour rate the for ps I is Ross prod no mer Ross tary men of the English-speaking na- tions that thoroughbred blood is as essential in the mil'tary horse as good ne in ordnance and ar- tillery l car experience in Europe have proven that no horse wi thout' thoroughbred blood in his ve is capable of rendering efficient ve to armies under the hardsh and grind of war as it is made nowa days. 'Horses have millions in Europe siti barbarously = attacked Belgium a Fr : Ihesc horses must be re placed Ihe United States and Can ada must aid in this enterprise. And to our part this side the Atlantic we must produce thorough- bred stallions by thousands for the work getting half-hreeds for mihi tary We will never get stal lio mbeérs required if the indiscriminate practice of gelding thoroughbred stallions is tolerated The only way to discourage this prac- tice 1s to make the gelding worthless The only way to make the gelding worthless to exclude him from races of valve," en --~. steel 1s ips heen destroyed by the the Germai do on of of service Ss mole Mm 18 SIGN BOARD: NOW MARKS BATTERED YPRES sow 0 reduced 5 int hut i i gecsmy. 1 mak A MARKED CHANGE IN THE FOE poLiCY Some Revolution May Be in Progress in the German Military Plans. London, Aug. 156. change is taking place military policy, says ' the military eritic of the Times. He believes that during'the allied victories of the last month "German strategy was clearly in a transitory stage from the. ideas vith which Ludendorff began the March offensive to ideas whose na- ture is not_yet revealed and which can only I ait ctured. "The successful Allied raids on -A marked in German the Italian front," he continues, "are an exaniple of the way those conjec- tures are being tested. Are the Ge ans strengthening the Italian front with the view to an autumn of- fensive, or is there a backward move- ment on the Italian front, and what is its explanation? Doubtless these raids have enabled the Allied staff to answer these and other ques- tions. : 9 "Undoubtedly some revolution is in progress jn Gegman military pol- fey to which we do not as yet have the key." Famous Bonehead Plays. Famous honehead plays have oc-! cupied the hilarious moments baseball from the time the game wys in its infancy. Their recounting is| fan .and Probably to the oldtime ball player. there never was a world's series with such a predominance of idiotic manoeuvres the last one when the White Sox and the Giants as of | a source of much joy to the old time! ef oN Ef TE Ma6 Ld U7 BN eo lin ering a seemed to vie with each other in ma- king them, but there have freak plays without number in other | games. { For instance, Nemo of the Cleveland ¢lub. Chapman was on third base, with Liebold on se- cond and Chapman started for home, where he was premptly headed off tand started back for third. In the ensuing mix-up, Leibold relates, the player were so manoeuvred that when the action stoped Leibold was roosting on first and Chapman on second, a peg back from where each had started. That, of course, could not happen now, with the rules as | they are. | Leibold tells | v Get the Ty Cobb Idea, yA obb this summer, got u i he worst batting slumps his career, oad sporting editors | heen declaring that Father Time! had started to count him out. _Most folks thought the same I'y did not, and he has been. hitting the old pill from here to yonder. He refuses to be counted out. going io one of te Canada ( obb idea, Every food, and ane cause There's a war winning job almost, if not right up to your door, Get to it now There's a farmer waiting { sour help. ne to. show the Ty d be up there at the fin- man can get in this by producing food. saving working unselfishly for saving mones, or been | Why Pay 10c for Outside Brands When You Can Get MILO 3 for 25c¢ Stand by Your Local Manufacturer. 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