THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918. It's the substantial and complete Erector Set No. 4, in hardwood cabinet. Contains a fine electric Motor, long and short Girders, Angle Irons, Nuts and Bolts, Pulleys and Shafting Pinions, Gears, other parts, Wheels and many Also included is a beautifully illustrated Manual showing how to build all kinds of models of skyscrapers, bridges, machinery, fly- ing machines, farm implements, etc. While your boy plays with Ere stor out the entire year, you will have the through- satisfac tion of knowing that the constructive side of his natura is being developed by the po cto makes on his imagination, ingenuity, ambition and skill X you also will be making it possible for him to get free membership in the great Gilbert Ine By getting Erector for your boy, stitute of Engineering. Stop in today, see Erector and get or Toy E FOR BO : 75 GREAT FUN. IVS REAL ENOREERING, WIRELESS" SETS FOR BOYS § call that leaflet telling all about ngineering 3 NURSES' SETS FOR GIRLS PICK OUT YOUR BRUNSWICK OR COLUMBIA TO-DAY __PAY NEXT YEAR HOCKEY SHOES AND SKATES TREADGOLD SPORTING GOODS CO, 88 Princess Phone 529 «1! Street "Home of the Brunswick." | | For Something Refreshing Ask Foi" St. Lawrence Ale & Porter Ring Phone 645 For a Case. A. Tyo, 473 Princess Street bee san Wii Ad Wolgast, champion of the world, is competent to handle his $90,000 esiate. sanity was vouched for at Los An- ge es by two physicians, who have wreks past, former n examining him for itarium on the advice tard. i Kingston Ad Welgast Not Crazy. iightwetght His several The hearing brought out that Wolgast entered a Michigan of Jess RUGBY FOOTBALL IS |" FORTY-NINE YEARS OLD 1 | First Gridiron Match in Am- erica Played at Rutgers in Fall of 1869. en 'Rutgers College, of . New wick, N.J., celebrated its. one | ired 'and fiftieth anniversary | years ago, the place of honor given to the survivors of the I immortal Rutgers football team of {1869---the men who helped to de- {teat Princeton in the first intercol- i iate gridiron "match ever played vither in 'America or England. | This game was pylled off at New | Brunswick 49 years ago, November '8, 1869, and an interesting account {of the clash of the rival "25's" has been resurrected from the columns {of the [New Brunswick /Fredonian. The reporter who covered the firgt college football match wrote as fol- lows: { | "Our neighbor, Princeton, sent {ber chosen 24 stalwart men, and one (Goliath, to combat our 25 strip- jlings. There is not recorded in the history of the Olympic games a {more interesting and decisive match | played jin so short a time by such a {number of contestants as this game jwas. [Rutgers fled off by 'winning {the first inning amid the vociferous |cheering of the bystanders, "Princeton seemed to play a lit- {tle wild at the beginning, but the | big trade in | second inning they recovered them- [selves and came out victors, So it | continued, off and on, one gaining, {then another, until the ninth and tenth innings, when notwithstand {ing the Rutgers quickly and boldly | followed in successive victoriies, giv~ {ing them six runs to four of Prince: ton- thereby coming off conquer- jors, which was hailed with exultant shouts of applause by the admirers of 'Rutgers." | ------------------------ | "Jimmy" Archer Retires, | | "Jimmy" Archer, the Toronto boy, | once 'the Cubs' star catcher, has re- | tired from baseball He was a mem- { ber, of the Brooklyns, Pirates and | Cine ali Reds last season, and at times he displayed flashes of his old i skill, But Archer's permanently crip- pled right hand interferred with his! | throwing, sg that he was used only in| | emergencies. Archer might secure al position as coach, but he says that he prefers to £0 into business. Thus| |the national game loses one of the! greatest ball players that ever put |on a mask, Beat Famous Donaldson, Sergt, Chas. Kelly, one of George | Goulding's sprinting prodigies at Toronto Central Y.M.C.A., recently turned in a splendid victory over Jack Donaldson of South Africa, the! world's professional sprinting ! champion, Kelly was only a fair sprinter before going overseas, but has improved greatly, At a recent meet in France he ran third in the century, but in the 220 yard dash Kelly, outclassed the veteran Donald- Som in a rousing finish, To Curl For Gordon Medal. International curling for Gordon meda] between teams the United States and Canada wil be resumed this winter, according to an announcement made by the Boston Curling Club. The games will be held in Montreal. Boston Wiil be represented by teats from the Brookline Country Club, the Braeburn Country Club and the Boston Curling Club. the trom Smid Falls Curlers Prepare, Curling promisey to be as popular as ever this winter in Smith's Falls, and plans are 'in the making for a good winter's sport. The member- ship list is already about eighty, cluding a number of new men. The annual fee is ten dollars, which cov- ers everything, and it is expected that by the time the season. opens there will be a club of one hundred members, et we teresa It's Reasonable. | Sam Langford and Jeif Clarke, two heavyweights whose epidermis €8 are very brunette, have a habit of fighting each other every once in a while and either one or the other wins by a shade, according to the local writers. Clarke is called the 'Wighting Ghost." There is no rea- son, 'therefore, why he should not win by a shade. -------------- Sell Cobb? Well No. Every yeaf we hear something from" New York to the effect that Ty Cobb Is to 'go to the Yankees in a big deal. And every year ft is found that the report is awry. It has come forth again, but it's a safe wa ger that, as usual, it's only more talk. Prank Navin might just as doit close up his ball park as peddle] 00D. TI BIG LEAGUERS START ANEW. They Are Learning The Lesson of Reconstruction, The war-bes n instinet to re construct already s resulted in one base , and others of #qual magnitude are foreshadowed in the early future Recent 'developments ed to the slow steady being made toward a restoration normal conditions in the national sport, On all sides are to be obsery- ed the signs of transition from a war 10 a peace basis. Yet only the beginning has been made, and, in view of the greater problems that lie ahead, it is not s#rprising that almost everywhere there should be hesitation, With New York Nnericans show ing the way in the work of expan- sion, it is altogether probable other major league managers will also bolster clubs in amticipation of a prosperous campaign, 'Manager Hug- gins himself has one or two big deals in the pmaking, and there are likely to be kaledoscopic changes in the makeup of several other clubs in both leagues. Indeed, baseball men anticipate more trading activity this winter than has occurred in any per fod of between-season idleness in years, have testifi- of Pacific Oc. st Hockey, Ten home matches for each club are called for in the coming season's Pacific Coast Hockey Association schedule, with a play-off at the and of the season for the championshi and the right to play the eastern ners for the Stanley Cup. The init game of the season is staged for Se- attle on New Year's Day when Van- couver oppose Seattle. The schedule ends op March 10th, when Vietoria plays Vancouver Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle are the teams in the lea- gue, | | Motor Racing Game. Now that the war is over folks are wondering what Eddie Ricken- bacher, the champion American ace, will do. It is not very probable that he, will go back int" automobile racing, which was his forte before he went to the other side. It would be no surprise to see him 'the leader of aerial carnivals. Now that av tion has developed to such a degree | SON there have been more races through the air probably will be more popular than the automo- hile races of other days. PICARDY A NEW MODEL IN~ TOOKE COLLARS TO OKE BROS. unm MONTREAL winnirec & TORONTO progress | | i | | and loaded 'with equipment. | { rules in 1917 was $790,366; In the World of Sport 3 ENGLAND PREPARING FOR OLD-TIME YULE Entire Country Will Celebrate Christmas With Oid-Fash- ioned Enthusiasm. London, Dee. country is jpreparing old fashioned English Christmas tn five years, 'with more than old- fashioned enthusiasm, Nearly all the soldiers to Great Britain are flocking to 'their homes on a twelve days' leave; thousands more are crossing the Channel, while colon- ials and Americans are pouring in sightseeing London is the soldiers from every section, whole for first 24. ---The the or clearing house for muddy They fill all the incoming and outgoing trains, The shopping districts are throngell with greater masses of buyers than ever before have been known. The prices are higher than ever also, but! the shop shelves are being swept clean. Theatres and restaurants are doing a record%husi- ness, [No 'hotel rooms are vacant, and seaside and inland resorts are filling up with leity people, while the country people are coming into the agity ' The east coast resorts, which were deserted for mearly four years because they were in the first line of naval bombardment and air raids, are regaining their old time pros-~ perity. RACING SANCTIONED Derby to Be Run English # June 4, The British Government has o%- cially sanctioned the revival of racirg and the sport will be resumed on a large scale in 1919. The Derby will be run at Epsom Downs on June 4, and the big meetings have baeh ar- ranged for Goodwood, Doncaster «nd Ascot. . The season will open with the Lincolnshire Handicap on March 24, and three days later the Grand National steeplechase will he run at Liverpool, ------------------------ on Racing Values Increased. Despite the restricted number of meetings during the past racing sea runners for the various events than in 1 117, the figures Being 959 two-year-olds, 562 «three-year-olds, 296 four-year- olds and over. In 1917 the runners included 804 two-year-olds; 167 tiypee-year-olds; 296 four-year-olds and 300 five-year-olds and over. To- tal in 1918, 1917 1,900, an increase of 296. The amount of stake money von under Newmarket in 1918 $1,077,269, an of 260, increase Abe Met His Master, Al" Lippe, who used to manage Abe Attell, makes the assertion that Abe Was thie greatest little fighter that. ever lived Evidently he for- the bout that Abe had with Driscoll, the English feather, at the old National Sporting lub in Twenty-fourth street. That night Driscoll made Attwell, who was still champion, and in good cogdition, lobk like a novice ' -------- Master Mason is made from choice to- baccos, fully matured, mellowed | by fl and Barto pa ai the natural leaf. 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