Daily British Whig (1850), 6 Aug 1919, p. 9

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4 a wabTHTaY AUGUST 6, 1919. Sd Bus a. THE DAILY BRITISH wHIC {BICYCLES $10. 00 off every Bicycle in our Yer Everything else in proportion All 'must go. Come to-day. £0 E of ' 88 Pririosss Stredt . "Home of the Brunswick Phone 529 World of Sport THE RECORD OF GARL MAYS THE DISPUTED PLAYER IS AN-UN- DEREAND PITCHER a, ne Refused #6 Pitch FoF the Bidtéin Roatonidne 18 4 Nadve of Lous vile, Kentucky: Carl 's, concerning 'whet Share has Yeon muth rum Jutsly, 18 4 right-handsd piteher with a peecu- Har delivery. He is thé leading éur- vivor of the tast disappearing race of underhandéd hurlers. The only dther #Xponent of that style in the big 1ed-| | gies is Beskine Mayer; of the Pirates, Joe MeGingity; Jack Warhep, of the Yankees, alte [| used that style of putting them over. Mays cams to the Red Sox from Pro- viderice at the close of the 1915 sea- on dhde until this year was one of the club's best pitchers. But oh July 13 thé underhanded one quit thé Red Sox in Chicago and announced that he woul not thtow another ball for the Boston team. He said that he had peen pitching gredt ball, but that the gino was so badly disorganized that efforts usually went for naght. He won only tive out of sixteen ga: for the Red Sox this season, M demétfid ta bé traded brought from the othér Boston players a threat to #0 on stiike in the event his demand wai met. Jt remains to be seen how fie Red Sox Will receivé the trade Ww. Mays was born in Louisville twen- ty-bight years ago dnd started his baseball career 1h 1911 with semi- Professional ¢hibs in Utah. The next Season sdw him With Boise in thé Western Tri-Staté League. he he Went Portland, If 1914 he land- Providence; "which had 'a an agreement with the. Red ox, and tifhed him over to the Bos- fon, team in 1916. Mays énjoyéd hid eason in 1917; in Which he won ed two games, and Tost nine, with #n average of only 1.75 ruhs for a giifie. In five seasons. with Boston Miys 'won sixty-nine games and lost fifty-two. The Atliletics have been his jjecial miedt; for he hds béaten them fotiFtesh. timed In sixtébn attempts. The genera] supposition Is that hé found the Yankees easier than any other club, but that is very far from ict. He beat thé Yankees only eight ice 4 and they beat Him nine times: Shirts of nineteen on s pers and jis rtéen out of Henty X fiom Cleveland. The Whité §& have been hard nuts for t6 ch Fificé ne nas won only Toit bf fpsit one against them. Fein "omear aT grronTy croRTUNITY A HA, Youre A VERS EF T are ohce more BEtive on the ing trom spoor. to spoor ugh the bush in pursuit of prom: fooking ivory. rors fas never been a time when lent wor: g: Je game ggg with J bens fis who dre still good, pin days when 'thle sootits of Fe of the er : Sn 8, Adams 1 pH, while 5 such bh, Speaker and Johnson in on to thé of the | The war oH slaughtered : TE --- & league elubs.- base- +H§ minor fo Ton vote a now St dev oi fine of the Sixteen: major oiTy Toa Bes of the Giants, andi py, Thence | bams in the Nitio nd Ametiéan ani Eh ER ib sad forty pe i to oh i uid be dad be ine 5 "nine : und these parts; layert taking past if thé yeas WILL GET S3yA%5 DEA AT TORONTO EXHIBITION Competent Horsemen Will ~ kook After the Races This Year. There will be no quéstion about the Canadian Natlondl Exhibition races at Toronto Beltig properly com- ducted this year dnd it 18 a sire thing that horsemisn from points du §idé of Toronto will receive fal tréatment in every way. 0. B. Sheppard, President of the Canadian Natiohal Trot®ag and Pac us Harness Horse Association, has been seletted as presiding judge with Dr. W. H. Riddell, Orangeville; D. 8. Gillies, Hamilton, and Jolin Carew, M.P.P., Lindshy, as associate judges. Mr. Sheppard ithe highest auth: prity in Canada on harness-lorse rac- ing, and is a keen observer; prosses- sing the soundest of judgment. He is a close "student of thé Standard. bred "and one of the ornaments éon- nectéd with thie braneh of sport. In years past he has acted possessing thé soundest of judgment at several of the Grand Gircuit meetings wil re his superior knowledge of racing been fully appreciated. ¢ John J. Burns, Toronto, was a PAGE NINE ARTISTIC MEMORIALS Manufactured in Kingston by The MeCALLUM GRANITE . CO, 1 LTD. v Phone 1031, Kiigiton, Oat - pointed starting judge, Which fs suf- ficient guarantee that this end of the work will be properly done, THEY NEEDED PERUNA Jess Willard, the night be- foré hie clashéd with Dempsey, jumped out of bed, wetit down stairs aid turned off the gas that was heating the hot water boiler, He was afraid the house would burd fown. Jim Jeffries, the night before he fought Johnson, walked the floor all night long. He Wasn't afraid of physiéal punishment, for no gamer champion ever held the title. He wis just ner- yous: Behny Leonard, when H& én- tered the ring to battle four rounds with Willig Ritchie in San Francisco, said his legs fe: fused to work right for the first three roufids. Terry McGovern, When hé fought Young Corbett the 8é- cond time, was more worried over what names the Dénverite would call him than he wis of Corbétt's punches. Fe SPLIT OF The National Comission Tp ah- nounced that thé club menibérs of both the Nationabgud Amgricdn Liea- gues had voted favorably on & new plan for distribution of the players' share of the World SF whereby the players of the fi res teams in each league Will p pate ih the division of the mondy, = obi Br cent, oh the Werld soriés {pts for the first four games will go {ito a pool, Which may be dug: mented by any per cent. of the play: erd' sharé of any inter-city games played between tie team finishing Second and third in both [Bagues. Se venty-ive. per tent. of this pool will 6 to thé teanis participating in the ofld series; sixty per. cent. of {his to the. winder, and forty per cent. to the loBer. The remaining. twenty-five per cent. of the pool will be apportionéd between the second and third teams in each major ledge, sixty per cent. thereof to go the players ol the s finishing third: ty per cent ot the the sive share of the receipts post-season ines between the sécend Pana third Ba -- 8 under contract to the on with which they play on August 31, previous to the series. ti iat Ah skvilte Rom Anat ¢ Brock e A fartious tigiretté of acknowledged superiority ~CRAVEN "A" #abes 4 real smiok satisfying and none better at any price. Go Carts and Baby Carriages Large stock and low prices-- High Chairs, Kiddie Koops and Cribs. R. J. Reid LEADING UNDERTAKER PHONE 577 "Star ruit 9 Store It you want te have a good time on Blenies Sb na Gandy from figin vg tar he TH 68 Princess Street. 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