| DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1918. ° ts eh a The Final around the exhibit to pick and choose, will play them better than the machine they were originally made for. : Why ? Because it is made by the old wood work- ing institutions in this country who have been making cabinets for leading phono- graph makers for years. They pick out the best ideas from all these different machines and place them in one. FINAL PHONOGRAPH Is this not what me into our store and see an For you. wonderful machine. TREADGOLD GOODS CO. SPORTING Phone 529 Phonograph . With the Ultona Sound Box Plays Any Re- cord Made Better. At the Toronto Exhibition crowds stood of Brunswick Phono- graphs and were absolutely astonished at the clearness and naturalness of the Bruns- wick with the Ultona Sound Box, playing Brunswick, Edison, Pathe, Victor and Col- umbia records with changing to any differ- ent parts or pieces. This makes THE LAST WORD | In phonographs as you have all the re- cords of all manufacturers at your disposal In the World of Sport BALL PLAYING IN FRANCE A GAME RECENTLY STAGED UNDER DIFFICULTIES. and your Brunswick' I want. hear this Kingston TRY 3c Poet Cigar 5¢ # JO " Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Olgar. B \_ .§ S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston, [MONUMENTS ! 897 Princess ---- re How War Affects Athletics. How seriously the war has cut its way into the athletic activities is well illustrated by the fact that, of the foot- ball eleven which represented the Uni- versity of Illinois last fall, only one veteran remains to begin the 1918 cam- paign, The ¢ sole survivor of the 1917 McCallum. Granite Company, Ltd. Street. * Telephone 1 - eleven is Ingwersen, who played cen- tre. He is still under 21 and will probably not be called in the draft un- til after the football season. All the other players are in the service. Forty wounded Yankee soldiers, who returned from France on Mon< day, saw the fifth game of the World's Series at Boston. BRINGING UP FATHER . - The Soldiers Behind the Line Had No Equipment, But Made It--It Was "Some Ball." The greatest game of ball ever played in the world recently was "pulled off'" at one of the American base ports in France. So far as the degree of mechanical perfection ex- aibited by the participants was con- a it probably was one of tha worst games. The fans whose ap- petite is whetted to a feather edge 1 by world's series combats might { have found it more amusing than } impressive, but nevertheless it was a great contest. Also it pointed the | fact that when an American soldier wants to play baseball he is going | to play it, in spite of Hades and {high water. Sixty thousand men were in this port the day the game was played, an unusual number and one that compietely swamped the existing {athletic facilities. The Y. M. C. A. which furnishes most of the base- {ball paraphernalia in France, dug up every last bat, ball and glove that could be found, including soms {gloves that Donie would have [corned and Donie, you know, uses a glove until there 15 nothing left but the strap, and then rescuos another that somebody else {s about to throw on the ash heap. The soldiers weren't even half satisfied after the red Triangle huts {had been stripped of everything [that could be used in a ball game. Those that hadn't been ludky enough to get in on the distribution decided that the small matter of having no equipment wasn't going to stop them. If nobody would lend them any-~there was none to be bought ~--they would make some. They id. even It Was "Some ay The ball was a fearful and won- derful thing, absolutely guiltless of any infringement of the Spalding and Reach patents. A round stone, picked up on the beach, formed 'its core. Around this unyielding miss- fle were wrapped some rags, and over this tire tape. Surrounding all this was a piece of canvas, roughly stitched. It 'was the hardest and the "deadest" ball ever used in com- petition. A giant could not have hit over 100 feet with a telegraph polls, and it took 'a good lick to ° drive it even as far as the pitcher Still it was a ball The heroes who volunteered to act as catchers in this strange con- test refused to face the camouflang- ed boulder without some protection, and they made themgeives a glove. A couple of old flannel shirts serv- ed as the foundation for this pro- tector, - Somebody cut up an old shoe to provide leather for the face of the glove, and this was sewn on by the same genius that had achiev- ed the canvas cover for the ball The strange contrivance had no fingers but was held in place by binding it on the hands with twine. Nobody but the catcher boasted a glove. The infielders and outfield- ers used their bare hands, and the first baseman, who had to handle swift throws without eprotection, will never be the same again. Their "dukes" mow = resemble Chicago hams. | For pats these ingenious soldiers cut down some saplings and sawed them into the desired lengths, shap- ing the 'handles with jackknives. Every time the ball iwas hit with one of these green sticks the wood flew in showers all over the in- field and the sap deluged the field- ers. ' ---- Not So Fastidious. There was one ex-leaguer in this queer game, a fellow that used to be fastidious about his bats. He had to 'have them made to order to his own particular model from the best seasoned wood. [Every time he got into a hitting slump he would 'write a letter to the bat faetory and com- plained about the inferior materials and design of the sticks being fur- nished him. : His admirers in the bleachers would hive had some trouble in recognizing him as the young man that picked up the first sapling that came handy and threw out his chest when hd succeeded in hitting the ball all the way to the shortstop. For all the handicaps in the way of material it was an exciting bat- tle and the men seemed to have just as much fun playing it as though they had 'been provided 'with the best possible implements. They yelled, roasted the umpire and ar- gued among themselves, just as they used to do at home when things were more convenient. And after it was all over the losers asserted that the winners were "lucky stiffs." The YMC.A. is doing its best to make it unnecessary for American soldiers to demonstrate that one can play baseball with nothing but en- thusiasm as a starter, but the army in France is growing so fast that sometimes the facilities at the Red Triangle's disposal mre overtaxed. Some time ago arrangements were made with a French factory to turn out bats of ia very satisfactory quality for the Y, and recently good gloves have been made in another place here. [So far the wafforts of PROMINENT IN THE WORLD SERIES mitt have not been a glittering sue- cess, but they are persistent, these the French to imitate the catcher's Frenchmen, and some day they hope to make gloves that Ray Schalk would be proud to call his own. TY COBB RETIRES SE -- From thé Baseball Game--Greatest Player Game Produced. Ty 'Cobb has said good-by. The famous Georgian has played his last game. He has announced his retirement with the close of the baseball season, and has been com- missioned as a captain in the Chemical Welfare Service of the Un- ited States army. ICobb is unquestionably the great- est ball player that ever trod the diamond. Even the most prejudice- ed old timer will admit that much. The fiery Tiger retires with the championship. After fourteen sea- sons Ty still leads. His last batting figures showed. that he was still hitting as of yore with a mark around .380. Ty excelled in every branch of {he game and leaves records that will probably never be broken. His great diamond deeds have long since become a matter of course, and he hag basked so long in the bright rays of publicity that it seems im- possible to add anything yet unsaid of this wonderful player. Here are a few of the perform- ances of the dashing Detroiter: He led the American League in batting on eleven different occa- sions, nine' seasons in succession. He hit over .400 twice--in 1911 he batted .420 and made 248 - hfts, scored 147 rune, and stole 83 bases. Ty cracked out over 200 hits in seven different seasons. He has scored over 100 runs in seven dif- ferent seasons. Cobb led the Yeague in singleg five times: two-baggers four times; three-baggers, four times; home runs, onee; stolen bas- es, six times. Here is Cobb's complete batting record for his entire career of four- teen years: Grand Av. .372 G. 1,797 AB. R. 1,315 H. 2,508 SiB. 770 726 A RED CROSS DRIVE. Canadian Golferf Plan This Thanksgiving Day. Monday, Oct. 14th, has been set apart by the Dominion Government as a general day of thanksgiving, and the directors of the Royal Can- adian Golf. Association think that this affords a most opportune and appropriate occasion for the golfers of Canada to show their thanks for a bountiful 'harvest and material blessings without number and for the greatly improved war conditions generally by observing this national Thanksgiving heliday on the links by a great "drive" in afd of the Red Cross. They. have therefore decided to ask every golf elub in Canada affili- ated with the RIC.G.A, to devote Monday, October 14th .to patriotic events, For Hoppe's Cue Held Essential, The appeal of William Hoppe, balk- line billiard champion against being placed in Class 1A of the draft under the "work or fight" rule, was upheld by the District Board of New York. Hoppe will soon start on an exhibi- tion tour for the benefit of the Red ross, Kahanamoku has been placed In class one by his draft board. "Duke" will probably be used as a sub-chaser, and thus "an- other ship is added to the U. 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At Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Sun * Anorew Wi Briar, from the stable of Willis Sharpe Kilmer, of Binghamton, rac- ed against time on Wednesday, mak- WiLsons "The National Smoke" : | ragrant aroma of clear Havana leaf-- the uniform quality that comes of careful se~ lies the superiority of the ToRowT> & ing the mile in 1.34 and slipping two-fifths of a second off the track record. "he time was only four- fifths of a second slower than the world's record made by Caiman in England in 1900. The race was sanctioned by the Jockey Club and timed by that body. o il By GEORGE McMANUS, NO - MY WIFE ASKED oy ) ME IF | STILL.LOVED , HER AN 1.DION'Y as Aa A AM PT ei 5 ANSWER: QUICK