. PAGE F OURTEEN ---- fr 0 | Skates Br head Te Hockey and Fancy Pleasure and Waltz $06.00--Auto Tube are electrically welded together 'and are strongest tube skate made, . " ,$5.00--This Beautiful Pleasure Skate is designed by the best skater in the world. Auto in C--=The lightest Skate in the world, made with the * famous aluminum tops. $7.50--This is the finest Skate made for; fancy or figure skate, Has the saw tooth notches in the toe, These are our best Skates. Then we have the Ladies' . Auto at $4, the Ladies' Pleasure at $3 and the Yukon at $1.90, are good Skates for those who do not have the desires of the better models. * ¢ ( Hockey Shoes We have the findst assortment of Hockey and Skating Shoes between ; Toronto and Montreal. We put Shoés on Skates - 3 Free When you buy your outfit from us. TREADGOLD SPORTING GOODS co. ony 88 Princess Street Phone 529 "Home of the Brunswick." 60000 TOOK IT BACK wifey--Whenever | kiss you, you askime if it's a new dress | want. You are unfair. * Hubby---Well, perhaps | am. Aft er all, it may be only a hat. NOT A RAPID PROCEDURE It took ages to accumulate those vast coal deposits. Yes; and it looks as if the process. of get 4 ting the coal out were coming to 7 be correspond- A COMPELLING LIKENESS Patron--Does that portrait really resemble m wife? Artist--fe £2, | tulle it'll cost you ~alimony to get rid of IAA Pm A Sporting Notes || Numerous ball players have tak- en the stand that their contracts were automatically cancelled by the faflure of their teams to play out the schedule last season and pay them the usual six months' 'salary On the other hand, the sixteen clubs are preparing to enforce again the reserve clause to hold their players for next year, and have ' Sent out notices for claim of services to all mén on their reserve lists in ac- cordande with baseball law. . Ty Cobb, upon his return from France a few days ago, raised the question of free agent. He assert- ed that the Detroit club po longer held a claim op. him and that he was free to deal with the highest bidder for his services. However, Cobb will find it difficult to "deal with any club owner. The same is true of other players. Because of the position he occupies in baseball as a drawing card Cobb may be able to force terms to suit his demands, but lesser lights will be less for. tunate. I HY Noman nd Hit LLL STON From what is heard, the new oIf- side area of forty feet in centre-ice that is in vogue in the N.H.L. this season is not a good chamge, The distance is not lange enough, If the N.HL. clubs are endeavoring to nild a game that is attractive to the fans---and they claim they are trying to do this--then they Rad better adopt the style. ------------------------ Advance In Golf Sticks. : J. 'He Taylor, the famous English golfer, and several times open cham- pion, says that the purchase in the future of 'cluby and balls is going to bes difficulty] * He tried to buy 500 biggest firms \n Scotland could not look at the order. A finished hickory shaft--without the head or anything else--used to cost from 12 to 12 ts. It is now nearly $2, which is any article. FM. Tl Teen 3. and|of interest, that Willie Park, the "Montreal's Ten Strike. Golfers will hear with a great deal O.H.A. offsidey. clubs early this month. Two of the' easily a record increase in price for! spectively, high average amateur and | is professional trapshooters tor 1918.41 6,855 br: out of 6,845, for. an av Homer Clark, of Alton, Iil., celebrated 'golf architect and player! rh, re next season to Canada, hav- ng aceording to the official figures of the | sion Interstate Assc.iation. Troeh = hit{ Clu 722, while Clark shatterad | ally o 3.228 uy "$13,370, giving him an Fas hi \ [Vargo proses tor the season. links. ed the position of profes-. at thesMount Bruno Coan the very prominent new clu MORE IMPORTANT MATTER She--Is. my expression all right? 'Hew=Yes. | don't know how you expect me to snap this when you look so kissable" Your daugh- ter, sir, has re- ferred me to you. Well? nt 1 have RNG | dunhg. She hasn't given me any Ingtriictions young man. i, J THE DARK "2 Y MAKING LIGHT OF IT Stranger--You seem to take rid. ing in these overcrowded cars very good naturedly. Straphanger--Oh yes. as a standing joke. , nt We treat it a tt Hen'ey Regatta Plans. Nye honorary secretary of 'the mes Amateur Rowing Conncil, h includes representatives of all i leading rowing clubs and regattas on -the Thames, has called a meet- ing early in the new year, to discuss the question of rowing and regattas for the coming season. It is ex- pected that the stewards of Henley 4th. Royal Regattas will make an early move with an announcement as to the future of that historical event, so that the way may be left clear for the arrangement of an attractive pro- gramme of regattas for next summer. In the meantime, tHE Marlow regatta 1 omiitice are anxious to arrange for gatta next year, at which it is posed to provide racing for public act fours. Wouldn't Risk Cash, ' According to » writer in the Lon-{' don Times, thousands of the people of Berlin 'and its suburbs visited the Karishorst race tourse on Sunday, November 10th---the day after e soldiers and police had submitted to. the workmen who were on strike, to whom the Socialist Liebknecht had delivered an oration from the ex- kaiser's balcony at the castle, and the day before the armistice--and the on'y reason why there was no racing was because there could be no bet- ting, owing to the managers of the totalizator having refused to drive through Berlin in charge of $250,000 in cash. \FRANK NIGHBOR | » A ------------------ Montreal, which will be form- e coming year. 'a wonderful career on BRINGING uP FATHER BEEN ni Gv det {changes in t JUST SO She--What do you think will hap- pen after peace is declared? He--A' lot of the fellows who mart' ried to avoid the draft will learn what war really is. ~ - HIS AIM IN LIFE So your boy is in the 'medical >. corps. Yes, and - he writes home that he has just one 'ambition. What is. that? He wants to 7 conduct a post exami. 'nation on the Kaiser, WE HAVE A° COMPLETE RANGE OF FIT REFORM WINTER OVERCOATS PRICES ARE REASONABLE. INSPEC- ' TION INVIT ED Crawford Walsh Tailors DONE TO A TURN Tickertape--How much are you out on your war stocks. Stockson-Bonds--HMHow much am |} out? Why, I'm all in, IAA NEESER, BETTING ON DERBY. The Panther and Stefan the Great { are Favorites. Racing in England will be resumed next season on a pre-war footing. The historic Derby once more will be run at Epsom Downs during the meeting | that is scheduled to begin on June Betting in the future books on the Derby already is in progress, with two colts high in favor. These are Sir A. Black's The Panther and Robinson & Clark's Stefan the Great. Both are at 5 to 1 in the betting. The racing season will March 24th, and all the big stakes that were suspended during the war will be resumed. ---------------------- Still Talking About It, . A series of games in Europe afer the close of the baseball season here next fall is planned for the pennant winners in the National and Ameri- can Leagues, 2 While plans so far are tentative, President B. B. Johnson, of the Am- erican League, has had the project under consideration for some time, and delegated Bill Lange, star Na- tional League player twenty yeas ago, who is in France 'engaged in Y.M.C.A. work, to looki over the field and report on the feasibility of taking the two major league teams across' the Atlantic, -------- ---- 5 ». Carpentier May Meet Gibbous. Two offers are now under consid- eration by Eddie Kane, manager of Mike Gibbons, star of American middfeweights, for a meeting be-| tween the famous American and Europe's most renowned boxer, | George Carpentier. There is little | doubt that such a match can be | made. The only question arising! in the minds of the boxers is the] amount of cash that will be offered for their efforts. . Kane, just return- ed from England and Frande, did not state what sums had been offered. but declared he was giving each offer careful consideration,"and intimatéd | that one will be accepted. Ts Too Nurdow. The new off-side 'cesitre~dice_ area did not; p any remarkable lay Sxoont to elimi- nate dumereus' The go-as- you please area is ne narrow fos the introduction of the trick plays which characterize western hockey in this respect. . 'Put another ten feet on each side of the area and it would. make a lot of difference,' said the veteran playerrattes, Art" Ross, of, Montreal. © "The lines "wre too far fromi the goal nets now to make much difference in the play, except at they eliminate a good deal of » "whistl tleblowing. begin on} EY AAD NAVY JU TOBACCO And enjoy +s Ll) Flavor : J AT 'YOURS FOR BETTER AND BIGGER Resolved! That the Slogan of Boyd's Garage For the Year 1919, Is: Service | rvice that is made up 'of courteous treatment; fair and square dealing in all transactions; prompt attention given to the smallest repairs. A trial convinces. . SERVICE ! George Boyd. 129 Brock Street