To THURSDAY, SEPTEMEER 18, 1919, PAGE TEN Don't Grope In The Dark | 25 Per Cent Off This Week The light thet 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 ALL YEAR ROUND Massey Bicycle $55 for $42.00. BETTS ois HOY @ -- MASSEY 25% off all Baseball Goods, Bicy Treadgold Sporting Goods Company An a cle Lamps A os A. pi stage In the World of Sport THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Sa 1 ! | | | } ALTROGK'S ANTICS | .AMUSE WHOLE LEAGUE And between innings Vea { ------ i | Washington Club's Comedian| Provides Laughs for Fans Over American Circuit. } : - Nick ARrock never appeared to better advantage on the coachir lines than during the late Washing- Ing in the Detroit News. Especially refreshing were his drulleries when the big lead of the Tigers made sci- entific coaching unnecessary. Nick seemed irrepressiif.« His grotesque antics had the crowd roiling jn mirth through every inning. On the face of things is appeared the gnarled vet- eran must never have a thought aside from his inimitable buffoon- ery. . . * Bat desphie "these "appedrancss. Nick takes baseball most seriously. In fact, off the ball field it is very difficult to induce him to discuss any save the technical phases of the game. He particularly loath to talk about clowning. And he insists he a comedian merely through accident. His debut as a professional fun- maker resulted from a mpnstrous bluff, he explained before: leaving Detroit. is the is Starts In 1912. "I never weat in much for this balmy stuff when 1 was pitching regularly," said Nick "In Chicago {I had a gang of about 2,000 hoys from the stock yards who used to sit behind third base and do whatever I told them to I had a Jot of fun with those lads, but that was purely incidental to my serious work in the box I started this other line "of work after I had gone to the Wash- ington club in 1912, for the second time. "I joined the club in and the day I r Cleveland, look like babies. 'Through five inn- ings he had held thém to one. hit, and Cleveland was out ahead with three runs. Clark Griffith was sitting beside me on our bench. don't know why I hired you, you big Jinx.' "I didn't have any comeback, but jut as 4 stall, T boasted I could step out and break up the ball game. > He took me up and ordered me to. thé coaching lines. Makes A League Laugh. 5 "I started for third base without'a thought in my head. I felt I had made an ass of myself. And then suddenly I remembered a moving picture I had seen a couple of nights previously in which Johnny Kilbane, the Boxer, 'was showing doing some clever shadow boxing. 7 decided to burlesque this boxing exhibition. And I went out there on third base and i did so in the most ridiculous manner possible. 'The fans ate it up and so did the Cleveland players. Vean Gregg was so interested that he unconsciously Made of the finest Havusa Tobacco. YES, WE A LL HAVE A LITTLE TROUBLE W Uniform in Quality for 20 Years. 2d Oc Union Made London, Canada KOI NN x ITH THE CENSOR. ton series here, says John C. Mann- | ported Vean Gregg | for the Indians was making our team! He said 'I| eased up and we grabbed four runs. nn Ca { me with tears dn his eves me to repeat the burlesqu it was worth four runs ar | ter that I drifted fatp the c¢ | stuff until it became a regular of my work." { Altrock has made the American {League laugh: with his coaching {stunts and his practies work before | ball games. American League city, part TY COBB CLINCHES THE BATTING CROWN Detroit Player Leads League With Average of .381 Rousch Tops National. Ty Cobb, whose appearancs at the plate is about us weleofme to oppos- ing pitchers as the league of nations is to the Senate foreign committee, thas practically clinched the batting crown bf the American League again this vear, Gaining ten points last week, Cobb is rated at .381, according to the latest averages, and stands some thir- rival slugger, the hope of the White Sox fans. [With only two weeks to 80, Cobb Ahould have no trouble in holding Kis lead. Babe Ruth, with ninety-five, leads in runs, twenty-six of which were hbme runs. Rousch, of the Reds, maintains not as yet clinched his honors. He is hitting .219 and is being pressed for the hitting honors by Groh, a fellow player, and Hornsby, of the Car- dinals. Eddie Cicotte, of the White Sox and Slim Sallee, of the Reds, the two pite 8 who are likely to clash in the opening game of the world's se- ries; are leading pitchérs to date. Cincinnati Baseball Club Accused of Profiteering. ¢ The prosecuting attorney. of Cin- cinnati hag been asked by fans to pro- ceed against the owners of the Reds | for alleged profiteering if arranging prices for reserved seats -at the world's series games in that city One of the protesting fans has writ- ten this letter to the authorities: "It. 1s evident that profiteering is now going on in the advance sale of tickets, The pricés are 400 per cent. higher than those charged for the' regular games. "The {dea in the plan of drawing lots ought to be the subject of a grand jury investigation I regard it 'as a prohibitive .scheme for the man of ordinary means. The fans are Weing "gouged" by profiteers of the Cincinnati Club. "This matter has not been han- dled by the National Commission, but by the Cincinnati Club." ------------------ WHITE SOX KEEP UP PACE. With the Reds and the White Sox close to "sure things" as the season's pennants winners, dopesters are watching the work of the two teams in the final stretch to get a line on the world's prospects. If the work of the twa leaders the past week is to be taken as an indi- cation the cash of the doubtful ones will lean toward the' White Sox. Maybe Moran is easing up his boys in the stretch, perhaps the absence of Heinle Groh has upset the club. But the Reds slumped badly last week. Their batting was way off form with the poorest stick work of the league, Out of the seven games they won only four. § On the other hand, Gleason kept up his whirlwind pace. In six games the White Sox won five. The club was third in team |hitting for the week and was brilliant in the field, only one error. Their work for the week was not only the best in the American League, but outshone any- thing in the older organization. een rsa TO REVIVE UNION. Thy Quebec Rugby Football Union, quiescent during the war, will be re. vived on Saturday next at the M. A. A. A, Montreal, when a meeting will be held. There will be an intermediate and junior section, The intermediate will consist of Montreal, Ottawa and Brockville, and the junior section will consist of Montreal, McGill, Westmount, Shamrock and St. Lam- bert. » 3 -- If a man is able to collect his thoughts he can pull through without borrowing trouble. You will find your tolls heavy on the devil's highway. 7 He is a favorite in every | | deanx canal, recalls the fate of many relations | ty points ahead of Joe Jackson, his | his lead in the National, but he has | loo LRer. | DIO OLEI LOT IILIIDE TEED Fame of the Racehorses, Like That of Mankind, Often Ends in Tragedy a HE news that Wool.Winder, who won the St. Leger a dozen years ago, is to-day pulling a barge on a Bor- racehorse whose tragedy or another famous career has ended in eclipse, says Answers. St. Claude, winner of the Grand Steeplechase at Auteuil in 1880. ended his days at the Pasteur stables, where he was used for the [Production cf serum: and George Frederick, after winning the Derby, i proved a hopeless failure at the stud, | lost his sight, and spent his closing years on a Canadian farm. | Silvio, winner of the "Blue Ri- tand" in 1877, had the misfortune | to break a leg in his sixteenth year, | and a merciful bullet put him out i his misery; and -Klarikoff, for whom Lord Vincent paid £5,000, in the conviction that he would win the Derby, was returning to his training | quarters at Malton when a spark- | from the engine set fire to his box, | and he was burned to death. Blue Gown, hero of the 1888 Der- by, after changing hands for £6,000, . was sold for £4,000 to an American owner, and was started on his voyage across the Atlantic. But he never reached the other side, for he died [ in mid-ocean--a fate which also over- | took Kingeraft, winner of the Derby two years later, Fitzroy, for a half-share in whom Sir Frederick Johnstone paid £4,000, broke down so 'badly in a race at Newmarket that he had to be de- stroyed; and the great Donovan after winning the enormous sum of £55,- 163 in stakes for the Duke of Ports land; injured himself so seriously, | by dashing into a tree while running { loose in his paddock, that Mr. H. Moore ordered his degtruction. Ambush 1I., who won the Grand National for the Prince of Wales in 1900, dropped dead after galloping exercise at the Curragh; and Victor Wild, after a career of upexampled popularity, was attacked by paralysis, which compelled his owner to put an end to his suffeerings. But while some race horses thus reach the pinnacle of efuine fame, only to end in tragedy and- disgrace, there are many others who rise | from obscurity to brilliant careers, and close their days with an honor- able and honored old age. Godolphin, ancestor of the famous Eclipse, spent his early years between the shafts of a Patis watercart; and Flying Childers, the finest horse of his century in the opinion of many, was rescued to fame from the shafts of a country mail-cart, in which he had been doing useful, if obscure, | work for years. Chandler, hero of the Grand Na- | tional of 1848, was bought from the | stable of a small farmer, who was glad to get rid of the "ugly brute" | for a few potnds; and Salamander, | | winner in 1865, was discovered in ' a wreched condition in an Irish hovel." i Deadlock, 'dam of the famous Is- inglass, was taken by Capt. Machell from the shafts of a farmer's gig, in exchange for a cart-colt; and Thros- tle, who defeated Ladas so sensation- ally in the St. Leger, was born with a thick film over his eyes; and, after being refused as a free gift by a | friend of his owner, Lord Arlington, was ordered to be shot, a sentence which happily was net carried out. Teddington, who was destined to win the Derby, was picked up as a three months' foal in a village blacksmith's stable; and Queen of the Roses, before coming into the hands of the Duke of Beaufort, was exchanged in her early years-- once for a bag of corn, and again for a riek of hay. Salamander, who put £30,000 in | Mr. Studd"s pocket by winning the | Grand National, was hawked about to ome country fair after another, until at last a purchaser was willing to risk £35 on him; and The Widow, who romped awsy with the Cambridgeshire, and won £40,000 in bets for her owner, Mr. Leigh, was so little thought of by her first owner that he made a present o i when he succeeded in e for a £10-note, xchanging or Capt. George B. Little was chosen as the U.F.0. candidate for East York. SU, HS A A AM ttt oe . ee . I Er TIT TTTTIIIL COUPE Electric Starting and Lighting More money. could not produce a better piece of carriage work than the Ford Coupe The reason it stands so high amongy the world's closed cars is not only that it is won- derfully serviceable, but that it is so strong- -ly-and-durably built. ~ = dire eat All Ford Closed Models are now equipped with Electric Starting and Lighting Sys- tems. VanLuven Bros. 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