PAGE TWELVE . A -------- Open Get This Handsome Set of For Your Boy This Christmas It's the substantial and complete Erector Set No. 4, in hardwood cabinet. : Contains a fine electric Motor, long and short Grr Angle Irons, Nuts and Bolts, Pulleys and Shafting Pinions, Gears, Wheels and many other parts. 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 Erector through- out the entire year, you will have the satisfac-- tion 'of knowing that the constructive side of his nature is being developed by the call that oh 3 Erector makes on his imagination, ungenuity, ambition and skill By getting Erector for your boy, you also will be making it POSTE for hisa to get free membership in the great Gilbert Ine stitute of Engineering. : Stop in today, see Erector and get leaflet telling all about or Tay Engineering FOR BoYs RN ITS GREAT PUN. ITS REAL 3 0 WIRELESS SETS FOR BOYS 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 Street "Home of the Brunswick." Phone 529 re In TNE ---------- Battery Plates Guaranteed not to buckle, short eircuit, or drop their active material. They are too strong for that. The Diagenal! "Dia- mond" Braces strengthen them in every direction against ev- ery possible strain. Plate Separators. ade of hard wood, quarter-sawed which insures perfect insulation and perfect conductivity. Guaranteed to last as long as the plates, 3 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, ~ FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1918. INTERCOLLEGIATE HOCKEY. { ragormal Games Suggested For Char. } ituble Purposes. The Toronto Globe says: Although | discussion of the matter by the Uni- | versity of: Toronto athletic director- jate has been purely informed to date, { there is now good reason to believe {that the Intercollegiate Hockey Un- {ion will resume operations this sea- son It will be recalled that McGill and Queen's were ready to resume brn but that the University of To- {ronto decided that the time was not opportune and the proposal came to {naught. | In the event of the present negotia- {tions terminating satisfactorily, | there will be games between the vari- {ous universities somewhat after the {manner of the "informal" football {played by the large American uni- | versities during the war. It may be {that only one game will be arranged. The competition will not be recog- nized as "intercollegiate," but will be | played merely as an exhibition fix- [ture, the net proceeds to be devot- {ed to some patriotic or charitable |rause. | Why Minors Failed, President Navin of the Detroit { club advances a sound reason for | the failure of all the minor leagues | last season. Prior to the launching | of the defunct Federal league, Mr. { Navin says that the minors received {an average of $250,000 a year from | the mdjors for playing a talent. The | war with the Feds \risulted in "a | gradual retrenchment, from whien | the majors had not recovered when {the great world conflict began to be {felt in this country. In view of the | majors' agreement to pay more than { $500,000 for the elimination of the | Feds, the minors found it hard to | exist with their chief source of re- | venue reduced to a minimum, } | Penn Revives Sport. | The Athlétic Council of the Uni- | versity of Pennsylvania announced | that it will revive all sports with the | beginning of the new term on Jan- | uary 6th and, as far as possible, | Place them on a normal basis, | The relay Paces, a nationl ath- letic annual fixture, will be held on April 24th and 25th, BIG RACE TRACK DEAL Syndicate of Breeders to Secure Control in Kentucky. The organization of Kentucky breeders, which has been negotiating for the purchase of the four race tracks in Kentucky has completed the deal. Over seven millions of dol- lars will be paid for the properties. The syndicate is headed by Johnson Stud, and E. F, Simms, a prominent oil magnate, This deal means that the famous i Churchill Downs course will be closed to racing. The Kentucky Derby, the most noted turk classic in America, will be transferred to Douglas Park, THINK IT GOOD MOVE. Change of Three Points For Fluke Try Commented on Favorably, Hamilton Spectator--The "fluke" try will count for but three pi i O.R.F.U. games of the future] At the annual meeting of the unin on Secured as the result of a fumpfle be- hind the line will count f but three points, and the change is not liable to cause any great regret. Of- tawa representatives tried several times to have a similar rule in the Intérprovincial code, but without Success, but it is likely that other unions will follow the step of the Ontario body. The late Jack Ryan Was a strong advocate of the change being made in the Interprovincial, etme etn fue ovtia---- A Real Good Idea. Toronto Telegram. There's a professional at a certain golf club who has a way of making every ball he sells to club members. When a caddie or workman finds one of these he turns it in to the "iPro," gets ten cents for it, where- upon the "pro,' collects fifteen cents from the member, who gets his ball back, During the past season 4,200 balls were turned in. On the as- sumption that the member losing the rubber core would bave bought another, and valuing the sphere at fifty cents, club members have been saved $1,470. Caddies made $420 out of the arrangément and the pro fessional $210, cee e---- Caban Cables Bar Tips. Turf followers who are wintering here have been unable to obtain information by cable from Cuba since the opening of Oriental Park Wo weeks ago. It is said that the cable companies in Havana have refused to transmit messages con- veying the name of horses to be backed or terms of wagers to be placed with handbook operators. The entries and results of the races at the Cuban track are allow= ed to come through for publication In the newspapers, but private turf information is under the ban, As & result turf men in this country who have sent their stables to Ori- ental Park 'are compelled in many N. Camden, owner of the Hartland | cases to allow their horses to run unbacked, -- Show Girls with Chas. F, Yale's musieal comedy, "The Hone House, Saturday, Dec, 28th, matinee and ni AA A si sii IL. ppm ra + Internilfional Soccer, International soccer will be re- sumed in the New Year, the English Football Association having sanc- tioned representative games against Scotland, Ireland and Wales, while in September the games in the three principal league competitions will be played as in the pre-war days, with the one exception that a shilling (25 cents) will be charged to all league games instead of six pence (12 cents) which is the first departure from the ordinary charge for about thirty years, EE ---------- The Derby In June. The British Government has sanc- tioned the revival of racing 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 been arrang- ed for Goodwood, Doncaster and As- cot. The season will open with the Lincolnshire Handicap on March 24th Saturday it was decided that try | McGILL AFTER "SHAG." In the World of Sport | Lieut. Shaughnessy Offered Position of Rugby Coach. Following up their efforts of last fall to revive rugby at the various universities, the McGill club man agement wrote to Lieut. Frank Shaughnessy Saturday, asking him ir he would aceept the position of coach for next autumn. The revival of rugby football last autumn WAS brought to a sudden ending by the influenza epidemic. The fact that McGill is negotiating with Shaughnessy in an indication that all the colleges intend returning to sport. The athletic association of Toronto University, in recent state- ments, announced that it would be ready to re-enter sport next year, R.M.C. is anxious for a revival, and Queen's will also join in, ttn en The Press and Baseball, They say the influence of the | press iin baseball 4s not so great as | the newspaper men themselves ini- agine. Let us see. Ban Johuson Was a newspaper reporter before he became a baseball leader. John Heydler was first 4 newspaper prints er and then a reporter before he be- came a baseball leader. And Au- gust Herrmann, who makes up the trimvirate that controls major league baseball ~3¥as just a plain | printer's dew! and then a printer, then a mewspiper man before he landed as a ball leader. (Cheer up, yet scribes, there is yet some influ- ence in the jgame for your profes- Bion. i Hard to Believe, Two old ladies were wandering about on a golf course "I think they must be playing same sort of & game here," one of them said. "This is the fourth ball I've picked up." Then four Very. angry people rushed up and confirmed her sus- Liclon, These are op a par with er sot A te Pa the old ladies who heard a man tell a friend he had gone round ii | local course in "81." { "1 don't think \ Mr. Jones always | speaks the truth," said one of them | severely "You heard him say he had gone round the course in 'S1. Why that's absurd. He could scarcely walk 'across the nursery floor at that time." Sr cr ymoon Limited" at Grand Opera thorities in America, announces that he will be unable to accept the in- vitation to again referee in the Na- tional Hockey League. RS OVERCOATS WE HAVE A COMPLETE RANGE OF FIT REFORM WINTER OVERCOATS CrawfordeWalsh Tailors ANAN with a Wellington Pipe is in luck. He draws clean, dry smoke--and noth. ing else. The well catches all moisture and stray tobacco. And the WD C triangle trade-mark means honest French briar, ex- pertly seasoned and fitted. Make this your lucky day. Get a Wellington. All shapes, all sizes, at all good dealers--§1, 00 and up. WM. DEMUTH & CO. WE BUY AND SELL WAR LOAN ISSUES Bongard Ryerson & Co. . 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