CAGE TEN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Don't Grope In The Dark In the World of.Spor By, flac Get an 'Eveready Daylo' ' Flashlight '25 Per Cent Off This Week WILLARD THE LAST OF THE WHITE HOPE HEAVYWEIGHT PUGS] See nt | With the defeat of Jess' Willara | there passed into pugilistic oblivion the last of the cluster of American boxers known as the white hopes. These heavyweights sprang into ex- istence as the result of a general de- mand on the part of boxing enthus- iasts for the development of a whike boxer capable of dethroning Jack Johnson. This desire on the part of devotees of the squared circle were not due to racial hostility, but solely because the personal conduct of the champion had brought boxing into disrepute. Of all the aspirants for the heavy- weight crown, only three managed to gef thatches with the Negro. Thess were Frank Moran and Jim Flynn, who failed to make any impression op the champion, and Willard, who won the title. Carl Morris was the original white hope, and had he obtained a match with Johnson, he would, through his rough, foul methods, have made It very unpleasant for the titleholder. But Morris never got a match with the Negro and lived to be obliterated by Dempsey. The late Jim Stewart of Brooklyn was for a time encouraged to think he might wrest the title from John- son, but his crystalline jaw prevented a realization of the hope. Al Palzer, who 'had a punch, but {| was guiltless of boxing science, flash- | éd brightly as a prospective oppon- | ent of Johnson, but flickered and fad- ed early in the game. The most promising of all was Lu- ther McCarthy, who, had he lived, | t might have given Johnson a strong battle. McCarthy was rugged, scien tific and a good hitter. Bat his chance went glimmering because of h ness for rough riding. He per é ls f © rb & {8 4& ALL YEAR days previous to his bout with Arthur ROUND Pelkey and injured the spinal cord in his neck so that the first blow he re- ceived from his opponent resulted in « his collapse and eventual death, The light that says _ "There it is!" FALSE STEP © here, or a wrong turn there, is made impossible even on the blackest of nights, by an Eveready DAYLO: It points the way --Surely and Safely. Don't ask for a flashlight --get an Eveready DAYLO EE C ARPE NTIE R VS, BEC KE Tr British Promote r Claims That He Has Matched Pair, Reports that Jack Dempsey had al- ready signed to meet the French heavywelght king, "George Carpen- tier, got a rise in Lordow, from Pro- moter Cochran, who put on the re- 'cent Beckett- McGoorty fight. Cochran claims he has the French fighter"s name to a contract for a Battle with Beckett, the Britis h cham- pion, on tWo months" notice. 30 said that Manager Descamps had post ed a thousand pounds forfeit ana made himself liable to heavy damage i his French scrapper met Dempsey before Beckett. A letter from J that he was serio offer to fight ih London, Cochran sald. He quoted Kearns as saying: "1 repeat that Dempsey is willing to fight the winner of the Carpentier- Beckett fight. Massey Bicycle "$55 for $42.00. k Kearns stated ¥ considering the Georges Carpentier, heavyweight champion of Europe, will probabiy come to the United States late next December or early in Jaruary. The authority for this statement rests in a letter from Lieut. Ben. I. Steinel, ots was in charge of the boxing pro- gramme of the A.E.F., and who was match-maker for bouts promoted by the Y.M.C.A. for the entertainment of the Yanks in France. Zs MASSEY 25% off all Baseball Goods, Bieyele Lamps Ireadgold Sporting Goods Company Merit has won for the B Bachelor cigar its en= viable position. Merit continues to hold that position--and will continue. =) London, GOLF OF LOWLY ORIGIN. And the Popular Game Did Not Have] Its Beginnings in Seotiand. If tennis which me ga later regarded had most plebs ginnmings, says the National phic Magazine. Contrary to a wide- spread belief, it seems not to have originated in Scotland, but in North- ern Europe. Apparently it was first played on ice, helng one of the win- ter sports adapted to the physical geography of the low sgountries. Even in the north, though, it evolv- ed to a terra firma stage, as indi- cated by a sketch in a book illum- inated at Bruges, which shows three players each with a ball and one club playing on turf. By the fifteenth century golf had attained such vogue in Sgptland that it threatened the cherishéd archery, and it is classed with "futeball and other ~anprofityfle sports" by James IV. That monarch, to have disregarded his own edict, as | did enough other Scot¢chmen to keep the game alive. Like tennis, golf was played by both sexes, Critics of Mary Stuart cited in evidence that her husband's fate weighed so lightly upon her] heart that she was seen playing the game in the fields near Seton. To the Romans also is ascribed a game that suggests modern golf. It was played with z feather stuffed however, seems Geogra- | ball and called paganica, bécaude the common people played it-- another evidence of the game's lowly origin | Encouraging Basing. : "The Game Chicken," a special wri | er on boxing in Athletic News of | England, says: by encouraging youngsters in the poorer schools to take up box- ing as part of their moral aduecation, are ing the foundation-stones for profe 8 m. Well, what if they are i 1g such an object? After all, it is doing really yeoman service for the sport. Compare the profes- 8i sionals of today with the close-crop- ed, bullet-headed fighter of a couple of decades ago. Billy Wells is a pro- duct of a boys' club near Ratcliff ghway, and no matter his merits as a fighter, he has undoubtedly helped considerably to elevate pro- fessional boxing." Matt Wells came an in¥titute where every lad is com- pelled to wear a collar and tie." Lacrosse Comes Back. Lacrosse, Canada's grand old na- sport, 18 fast coming back In- to 3 own, During the years the t raged in Europe the un- g often pausei to. remark, e is dead." They overlooked the fact that the healthy young Canucks who play the most active and interesting of all games were the first to enlist for ov- erseas. They have come back, or some of them have, and so has ¢he game. It played itd part in training ithe youth of the Dominion for the sterner du- ties of the battle field and in saving civilization from Hun brutality, And it is even now playing a large part in the work of regonstruction. For heal- thy exercise, with its relaxation and associations, is the antidote for all forms of Bolshevism. ~-- #1 onal | ous condition. There were five stal- | wen "Now it is lish,) about forty two and three-vear- argued that the Amateur Boxing As- | olds, sociation, | from the Gardon Club in Spitalffelds, lc "hidago Americans, declared his op- W"GILL'S FIRST BIG - TRACK MEET ! » AFTER THE WAR The Montreal Star says: will be the scene of the first I[nter- collegiate Athletic meet held since the cessation of activities owing to the war. The championship events on track and field will be held on the McGill stadium on Saturday, Oot. 18. Some of the most promising talent ever seen 'will take part in the meet. Reports from all of the colleges are to the effect that candidates for the track teams are more numerous than ever before. Many of Montreal the prominent college stars have been participating in track and field meets under the colors of other athletic associations during the summer mohths and somé of the former intercollegiate records have already been broken by them fn their trial runs. Teams from To- ronto, Queen's, and yal Military College will come to MeGill for the meet, Kaiser's Stud Well Cared For. Paris "Sport" gives an interview ith a French officer who -was a pri- ner of war in Germany when the arm'stice was announced. He was interned at Jorgan, about three miles away from the famous Royal Prus- an Graditz St; .. Me was allowed to inspect the Covernment stud, where he saw that things were in a prosper- lions, among them Ard Patrick and | two French horses, Nuage and Bin-' fou .The latter his since died. The progeny of Nuage are doing in Germany. There are about twenty-five brood mares (mostly Eng and twenty yearlings. All the stock is in fine condition, and it is rident that they were well looked after during the 'war, and lacked no- thing. The Germaps believe Re buy- ing their stallions.in France land the mares NodfEngland, However, they will have some diffieuwlty in future in securing good bleod---from-either country. OPPOSED TO NINE GAMES. Owner Gives Reasons-- White Sox See Reds Play. Charles A. Comisky Chicago owner of the position to the proposal of. the Na- tional Baseball Commission that the] world's series be increased from seven to nine games, He says that he can} 866 no reason for turning from the custom of playing a series of seven games to decide the world's cham- pionship. TUESDAY, SEPTEMIRER 18, 191m Go Carts and Baby Carriages High Large stock and low pii Chairs, Kiddie Koops and Cribs, R. J. 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