PAGE TEN "Oh! What a _ Was Mary Here's a good old-fashioned ballad song that's making one of the biggest sentimental hits on record. Henry Burr sings the appealing words and beautiful melody with sincere and tender feeling. Coupled with "Waiting" (from 'Listen , Lester"), by Charles Harrison. @ A 2788---90c THE 'DAILY BRITISH WHIG World of Sport | | General Sport Cornell's mascot, a black bear cub, must have his claws croksed. Frank Moran, the Pittsburg heavy- weight, ds to try a come-bsek in a bout with Jack Geyer. Pop Geers' stable at Memphis has A new member in Geers, the yearling brother of Dundeétte, 2.10. The playing of Sunday football, games has been legalized in Provid- ence and other Rhode Island towns. So far this season Jos Ryan ap- pears to have the edge.on the all- | | ends of the Harvard football squad. The Vancouver baseball team with { Fielder Jones as backer will apply | for a Pacific Cosat League franchise. Training rules at Ohio State Uni- versity forbid the eating of ice cream by any member of the football squad. It is reported that two former the leading scorer of the east, having 93 points to his credit this season. Boxing is making a biz hit among the natives in the Philippines. Two of the Filipino scrappers performed treditable showing. Age doesn't seem to affect #psed of Farnk L. Kramer to any extent. The veteran bicyele racer has been winning his share of the purses ull season, It is said the Athletics will train in Texas next spring, Connie Mack being satisfied that the home train- ing in Philadephia last pring was a fliv, Kid Norfolk, the dusky demon, is 4s the "lightdheavywe:ght" cham- pion." Someone must have wished "that title on the Kid. In the two years John Ganzel has can Association. club, the outfit has Won a pennant and finished in se. cond place. in Australia recently and made al | known in some parts of the country | {been boss of the Kansas City Ameri. | | The Greater The Need ! { : i | i i | | | | REVISE RUGBY RULES ] ] ' f John M. Lyle Offers Good Suggestion | | kor Improvement. John M. Lyle, a football enthus- | | iast, wpités to the Toronto Star, mak- | {Ing suggestions for changes in Can- | adian football. It is geenrally con- | | ceded that the existing rules need re- } The greater the service Canada must pus, re-establish herself among the nations. money now. | (Bachelor Cigar space donated to have money to She needs that BY Buy Victory Bonds the 1919 Victory Loan). Walter Coffey. who was a popular | vigion and mast, it not all, the chan- | boxer around New York a few years| £% Proposed by the Toronto man 280, tried to Make a comeback in| Will commend themselves to players Australia recently, but he did nor| 22d followers of the game, Here is meet with any great measure of suc-| M'. Lyle's communication: i cess in his attempt. | On Saturday last the writer had | -- { the pleasure; or rather the pain, of | Professional league basketball will | SItting through the 'Varsity-McGill | be tried out ih and around Greater | [09tball match, and came away more | New York this winter. The league | than ever convinced that the time is | comprisés teams in New York, | Tipe for a revamping of the rules | Brooklyn, Paterson. Bridgeport, Pas- | Soverning rugby football in Canada. | saic, Ansonia and Jersey City. Whenever any suggestions are | y made advocating certain changes in| our game, there is a general chorus | from the football "authorities" of: | "Let the game alone; we do not want any innovations, especially any from | over the line, i | Is this attitude warranted? Are | | there not many glaring defects in| | our game that could be remedied and | the game greatly improved, espegial- | ly from the spectatdds' point of view? | The iacts are : at our neighbors | across the line have been steadily | improving. their game, while ours | has stood still for years. The Ameri- | can game as played today is a much | more open-and spectacular game to | { watch than Brany of our people will | STYLES, , admit. The huge gates and public | ' Montreal JI Q 0/2) 81 | { COUN I Harvard fodtball squad and wearing nt | the same shoes he wore when he Women Favor Boxing. ! interest are an evidence of this. ] Could we not adopt some of their | , " R. J. Reid LEADING UNDERTAKER American League clubs owners are dickering to buy the St. Louis Card- inals. Other Good Records The baseball "pat presented by "Babe Ruth to the Boston News- TELL ME" --Fox Trot A2783 boys' Club brought $150 at public BER HYIP auction. BREEZE" -- Fox Trot . . . ... .90 "Take Me Back to Canada" Burr R4013 Ruth's demand for a"$5,000 salary ! boost. "Hearts of the World" --Quartette . . . 90: Suk Erubiy. Te Amis su . Albert IRISH JIGS--- Accordion A917] nnn: aa dRISH REELS-- Accordion month, Best selection of Records Between Toronto and The high cost of home runs is conclusively shown by "Babe" res'ece 27s aa. It is said that Manager Kid Glea- ool son, of the White Sox, is making a Lloyd ig | SH1l hunt for pitchers. "His heay- part ot *Slers' poor work in the: recent big | series has prompted the Kid to get | busy. | "Biscuits" Zbyszko, the Polish grappler, would like to wrestle for { the championship, if he could-- find {out who is champion. -------------------- Don't Favor American Game. Toronto Star: Since Saturday's | -- McGill-"Varsity game there are | Even if they are wobbly on the many around 'Varsity whe favor {gridiron this season Cornells can {either the adoption of the American | still boast of producing the 'class' rules tn their entirely or the English in the running game. rugby code. Nobody seems to want a the Americanized version of the Can- Charley Brickley is coaching the |adian game as played by McGill EASY CHAIRS, RATTAN CHAIRS, ROUKERS--FUMED OAK FINISH--UPHOLSTERED IN TAPESTRY, LIBRARY TABLES, PERIOD DESIGNS ALL LATEST 9? | starred on the Crimsgn eleven, { London Sportsman: Boxing con- ){ \ . -- tests have hitherto been prohibited | rules to the great benefit of our | Captain Rodgers, of the University (at Acton Baths, but women council- | game and, if 80, which ones? ! of West Virginia football team, is lors moved and seconded the proposal To begin with, let us agree that | |to whieh the committee agreed, that} the Canadian football public are not {in fayor of the interference played 1 boxing should be permitted. l i ; te wean under American rules. ~ Recognition, > | 5 L On the, ground that the military | But why have 14 men on a side? | il rithorities encouraged football, Which | This makes 28 players and two offi- | , x wis considered part of the daily { cials, or a total of 30 men on a - r ® Sporting Goods Co. utine of army training, a West | small field. Would not 11 men a 88 Prin Kingston, Ont would seem obvious that a very strict. evident that If the foregoing changes He was a believer fn all sorts of of ice créam on it. Midlands, Eng., Pension Committee | side, or 22 players, make for a more the line type of thall and i y y ~ supported an appeal by a man dis-| open and spectacular game? Would | the game up? 9 open tion on ey wuulg der ® Sloat ---------------- | not the backs have more chance to Another change that would help | the backs more time to get away and Ike Dern, the clever Salt Lake | get away or get through instead of |in this direction would be the read- | also helps Ne tome 16 36 Sd City wrestler, is out to clean up the | being smothered in their tracks, as | option of the snap-back instead of little weak on the line, Bring Bach eastern grapplers and. elinch _ the | they are now nine times out of ten? | the béel-out. Under the present rules | the rule: it certainly would i the world's middleweight champion- i Watch a football crowd get on their | it, the quarterback is slow or fum-| game up, " P \ ship. | toes when there is a fine running at- bles the ball the whole play goes | Perhaps the worst feature of Ca- Ei EE a AN iret inesnoniinrt Good intentions can never compen- | tack under way---that i8 the test. | dead and nothing happens: The pub- | nadian football is the continual de- ERAENEARARNER RN ERR, NERENI; { sate for rude and gruff manners. Why net change this stupid bucking lic doesn't see the ball put into ac- lays, some short, some long, some it. hn -- ------ A AA te Arr AAPA a 2, oo --- a . i. * IF TS -- | ¥ enforcement of the rules for delays i . and the forcing of a team to substi- tute practically at onca, for any in- | ' ' jury or other cause whatsoever, | : N 5 would be a tremendous gain, at lenst i 5: } : . | from the spectators' point of view. i The forward pass is another play | 'that should be given a trial, It is often a most interesting and spectac- ular combination. Its adoption would were made in our rules we would | 8till preserve all the good features of { our Canadian game with the sdded | @dvantage of a much more Open and | spectacular game. ---------- MOST SUPERSTITIOUS BASEBALL PLAYER DEAT The recent death of Cy Seymour { at his home in the east removed the mascots and hoodoos, but mostly in hoodoos, and was forever in quest of the jinx-chasers whenever anything went wrong. . Once while with the Cincinnat/ Reds, Cy was in a batting slump and conceived the fantastic idea that hiv | bat was peeved at him, that there. fore it wouldn't hit. He took the bat to the dining-room | "Now," said he, "I've fed ft and | given it a drink and my bat should | not be mad at me any mere.'t Then | he went out and made two tw J | gers that afternoon, and was firmly | convinced that he had appeased the | angry swat-stick. | On another he led & mast meeting of Cincinnati Reds who vot. od that their stoe y PHONE 577 TRavE any HATS & CAPS ---- Set for trivial reasons, and some for ser. fous ones, that mar all our games. It also tend to open up our game. : In conclusion, ft would seem salf- mos. superstitious player that ever broke into baseball. that day and poured a drink of water over it, first putting two teaspoons kings were a hoo- doo and appointed Cy a committee of one to go down town in Boston and buy white ones for the team. ; "Muggsy" McGraw has always : | been accused of tampering with play. ° {) 98 on other National League teams When he wanted them for his Giants. Cy Bsymour's case was one of the Botable ones iu which "Muggsy" was suspected. W¥or Cy 'suddenly became discontented with his job on the Cin. cinnsti Reds. He had been I ing the league at dat, but aif of a ar his stickwork fell off in startiing i TEsnion. { hen came the oiier from McGraw to buy him. It was first refused. but Cy's betting got worse and worse tl Po Herrmann sold him to New ork. There he began to bat Ike his old self once more. . i Sold al all stoves catrig to the needs of men--85.00 coeryoher. : -------------------- . 1 Ee -- 4 - i TS A i i, pp nt a