7 PAGE SIXTEEN Kingston Fair ! Week is the last time you will be ahle to buy a MASSEY Bicycle 0]. for.$45.00 "Prices have gone up $7.50 Sept. 1st. We have a few left and will sell them Fair Week at the old TREADGOLD SPORTING GOODS CO, Phone 529 "The Only Place You Can Buy a Massey" Cd 3 prices. Kingston > 5c Poet Cigar 5c Look for Bilk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. S. OBERNDORF FER, Maker, Kingston. MONUMENTS! of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble, The McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. Telephone 183) THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1918. I In the T World of Sport M'GAW IS ANGERED BY A FAKE REPORT Claims to Have Heard Nothing From Evers Arent French Invasion. - ' { A story calectlated to further dis- {eredit baseball has been published {lately to the effect t John Me Graw has received a cablegram or a letter from Johnny Ev i France, advising him jteam of n league pl i there' bec the Ame tdi to the trip received' a word directly or | this - country," said {McGraw to-day. ™1 do not know {how this fake originated, but I feel {that I mugt. deny it in justice to the | game. Baseball has received many {undeserved knocks from persons who either are thoughtless or moli- {eious. But the Evers story is the tlast straw." 4 | { from indirectly, | since he A Dead Issue, John J. McGraw will not take a { ball team to France. Johnny Evers | was anxious to have the Giant mar {ger go over with a team and kept | cabling for him to hurry MeGraw { tried hard to recruit a real team to { make the trip, | ses, but the players would not listen Some were afraid that the Govern- ment would not approve, and others realized that they are "in bad" with | the soldiers After sizing up the | situationin France, Evers cabled Me- | Graw not to come, at it would be bad | udgment to try the temper of the | soldiers ny { The bitterness of the soldiers guaranteeing expen-| .; WORLD SERIES MELON SLICED. Charities: and Teams in Leagues Shares. al Com War Both The Natic the world buted the whieh fh in the Leagues Under four clubs in each the money, instea winning players tal The Giants and club which finished in second 2 races, ten peor ar char d been deducted As there were about twenty players lon each club, they received a little over $300 eagh. The Cincinnati agg clubs received $4.17 ing in third place, a lana and Pittsbur : 53 for finishifig in Was for | the clubs ; i $s on the Bos- hicago Cu clubs & they Although tife ton Red Sox and ( L jected {to the pther any money at all until their full share of the Naticnal [Commis Way « r over n fore baseball gets under sw however, there may be ange The new conditions ongly advocated by former sident 'John [K. Tener of tional League, and, as he of {baseball tl gues nay to the wold condit of affairs Kilty players, after reducting ten per cent, for war charities ceived about $134 aach for their share of the serie The Kiants CAPABLANCA VICTOR OVER 23 OPPONENTS | The Cuban Chess Master Shows Marvelous Skill in Sim- ultaneous 'Matches. The first of ¢ taneous exhib +88 of the (¢ eigue of America famous Cuban Capablanca it the headquarter the National Tuberculosis tion, New York. Only twenty-three the expert, although the charge had made arrangements for fory boards. Aftr three hours of play Capablanca.bad finished his arduous task, with the result that he made a under the auspi- pondence Chess was given by the champion faced committee in players three simul-| Jose R., of | Associa | clean' sweep by beating all of his ad-! versaries, Alexander Still Invincible, From France comes the report that Grover Cleveland Alexander, pitcher extraordinary, is finding to serve up curves, fast ones and var- ious benders to the boys behind the lines, Alexander recently took part in a game between army and teams which went fifteen innings Many major league plidyers were in the line-up. Alexander pitched last four innings. time | navy | the | Otis Lambert, who | formerly hurled for Cleveland, start- | ed the game and went rounds Then Win Noyes, of the took his place on the mound worked five innings e army the game; 5 to 3. The fact that navy boys secured but one hi Alexander in four rounds wa chief topic of canversation. The riv: service teams were considered the §ix and won the Athletics, | TOBACCO and enio; fe! LL of Vi hd Nf SEA H be bought it may be & sign that he each a} Ju $0 for being second Doyle Fooled Evers, An anecdote of John Evers has him taking a fancy to Larry Doyle when the latter first reported to the Giants | get considerable amusement and and advising him thus: "J have play-| creation out of the games, ed the second bag quite a while; and a I think § am «ight when I tell you you can never make good with that overhand throw to first base, You've got to shoot it up underhand to get em by that step." Yet Doyle has re- tained his overhand threw all through his career and has thrown out as many men as the next No- body ever could get a ball to the plate quicker or equal him in the double play that consists of tagging a runner on the line and then nip- pihg the batter at first. | against the major league players { has a big bearing on /what mrust hap- | pen when the war is over Probably | no owner who understands the tem- { per of the troops would dare to try !keep any man on his team who dod- { ged fighting in any way. There is a | great deal of feeling against Cobb | Speaker and Mathewson, which is | rather unjust, because all are now in | the army, but it shows how the men | feel 5s v select these three and | Joe JacRpon probably because of their { prominence, and will not listen to | arguments. { This is going to make it difficult for any owner to get a classy team, even after peace comes and the world is restored to normal, best in France, Baseball continues to be the leading sport behind the lines and, although the equipment is rather meagre, the men manage Teaching French Baseball. Teaching 'French soldiers how play baseball, one of the tasks American Y. M, C. A. wgar secr ies in France, often leads ing incidents has just A cgriain two teams df pc play-ground ball the same time at the ball, sending ward the pitcher, face with his handg receiving the ball in his che straight covered | No Toronto Football, Football at the University of Tor- ' i stood tliere onto will be a dead letter this fall. Baseball Notes. What rugby played will be of an in- ' . A Our New F all Designs in Furniture Are Arriving Daily We iavite everybody whether they wish to purchase or not, as it keeps prospective buyers posted in the latest designs. R.J. Reid Horse Equipment PHONE 577 The Leading Undertaker; Motor and 230 PRINCESS STREET ir His face registered a surprise and (\ John Ganzel, .the pile: of Kansas reproach at the assault 2 batte instead of making for first straight to the pitcher, en him and apologized ter-faculty nature It is not likely that any Toronto Club will" hccept the tentative invitation of MeGill and Ottawa to join a three club league though it is possible that exhibition games may pe-arranged. City's pennant winaing team' in the American Association the past sea- son, has "sighed up". with Uncle Sam as a shipyard employee and manager of a Government baseball team... According to a report from Superior; Wis., Ganzel bas accepted When a fellow boasts that he can't] a position as pilot of tne Superior Jan oraced | An Aspi £1,000 'has ribed by the fans to boost the Woodstock Shipyard Club next season, and will | hockey team, and nothing but the work in 'the yards. O. H. A. championship will suffice iE over the Rockies ng Lot. been ------ Over SRDS( hasn't been offered enough. A 'Famous Pass HEN Bir George Simpson, in EK 1841 made his overland jeur- [** ney reumd the world, in the : interests of the Hudson's Bay Cem- pany. no region impressed him with ; its sublimity and wild grandeur more than the ridge of the Rockies between the prairies and the Upper Columbia Valley. The 'pass by which he crossed this ridge still bears his name and is used by a few of the more adventurous teurists, but still more by Alpime climbers with am- bitions to scale Mount Assiniboine, a pyramidal foonarch of nearly 12,000 feet high. ® The description of this pass across the Great Divide is con- tained in the jourmal written by Simpson. After crossing the Bow, following one of its tributaries which is evidently Healy Creek mear Banff to the southegst of Mount Brett, he says: "We were surrounded by peaks and crags on whose summits lay per. Li £ the G . : petual snow; and the only sounds' Line of the Great Divide Separating Albe i bia. which disturbed the solitude were the! P g ia %a4 Brivih, Columbia, crackling of prostrate branches under [the thermometer meanwhile striking | Rockies. The reuts is alse Weing used _ the tread of our horses, and the roar- as high as 71° in the shade. + | by the mere advemturens teurists who ing of the stream as it leaped down | "From the vicinity of perpetual desire to 80 camping and fishing on its rocky course, |snow, we estimated the elevation of [a week or fortaight's trip instead of "About seven hours of hard work the height of land to bes seven or taking their vacation in a more brought us to the height of land, the [eight thousand feet above the level leisurely way near the big hotels. One hinge as it were between the eastern (af the sea, while the surrounding | such party of teurisis made the trip and western waters. We breakfasted | peaks appeared to rise nearly half] last July, finding the pass very much 1 emer mmmeed tenant MATHIEUS 1 Pee LIVE RR OF. % Contls Colds, Ggippe, Bronchitis, hooping Cough, Asthma, Etc. MATHIEU'S SYRUP is a sovereign tonic combining the curative properties of TAR and the strengthening virtues of COD LIVER OIL. Tr 4 Colds, when neglected or badly treated give rise to consequences of sucha grave character that youshould not risk using inferior preparations. oF MATHIEU'S SYRUP is the only genuine remedy whose tes putation has caused to crop up many imitations of doubtful value. ° ON SALE EVERYWHERE on the level isthmus, which did not |that altitude above our heads. freer frem snow than they had been exceed fourteen paces in width, filling | "In addition to the physical mag: |led te believe from Sir Geerge Simp our kettles for this ome lenely meal |nificence of the scene I here met am {son's description. Imdeed, it was an 397 Princess Street. US. COLLEGES IN QUANDARY. Football Schedules Upset by Deci- sion of Several to Suspend. The cancellation of football schedules by Cornell ard Dartmouth will seriously affect the gridiven of a number of other collpges east and may have a far 3 ing effect at institutions 8 arrangement for the game are stig incomplete. The ' University of Pennsylvania, which has been winding up the sea- son with Cornell, is still undecided a8 to what action to take. Prince ton has completed a ten®itive sched: ule, but is In doubt regarding the ility of putting an eleven on the field. | . y od will be" ditiicult tor those col- BED heh did dimite, a a rn te fill the open dates yo late in the season. Among the more important t&m, .. The ® Globe. He "made L Ottawa Cojloge and at versity on the gridiron y rink and starred is in the CTebalt game, Royal Military College being campaign of 1913 he played every position on the Queen's team and In the 1913-14 hotkey season he had the distinction of playing every position on the Queen's team in one Queen's opponents on that occasion. Mr. Rodden has 0 played la- crosse and baseball dn various teams at once frem the crystal sources of lumexpected reminiscence of my own Alpine meadow. on whic . the Columbia and the Saskatchewan, | native hills in the siepe of a plan touad sweet and ample hee while these willing feeders of two |which appeared to t the very\pamnerama of the British umbia Opposite eceans, murmuring over their | heather of the Highlan¥4 of Scatland/ mountains was particulazly fine. A beds of moasy stones, as if te bid each [I carried away two specimens fTone boundary mark signifies the other a leng farewell, could hardly hewever, on a minute cempay Nine of the Great Divide between Al fall to attume our minds to the sub-/feund to differ frem the erta and British Celumbia, limity of the scene, staple of the brown heaths suf Jim Brewster, the cowboy king of "But between these kindred foun: land o' cakes." | thh Rockies. discoversd a few vears tains, the commen progeny of the! The Simpson Pass is now used age. the trunk of a tree on which Sir same snow wreaths, there was this chiefly by sportsmen, who find this a | GRerge Simpsen"s guide had left remarkable difference of temperature, [convenient way of reaching the won. | their mark. This section of the tree and has an intimate knowledge of all Canadian sport. ' He writes en- tertaingly on sport and its affairs. the source of the Columbia derful hunting £rounds of the Kogte | was cut eut se as to preserve it from showed 40°, while that of the Saskat- nay Valley from Banff, the chief oyt. | further decay and is new a treasured A Real Opportunity For Men Who Have Had Selling Experience Of Any Kind. Here is an individual line of work with immense oppor- tunities for the man who has character and ability to sell in the new rich field cf Life and Indemnity Insurance. You earn an income that is limited only by the energy and ability you put into your work. 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