10 LATEST LOCAL LOCAL BASEBALL ARTISTS GATHER Cricket Field Well Populated | Saturday With Aspirants | For Pastime Honors. No better indication of the amount and class of baseball to be seen in| Kingston this summer could be had | than the turnout there was on Sat- | urday afternoon. Friday was the | first warm day we've had and the first day the cricket field was cleared of the winter's accumulation of dead | grass and rubbish and on Saturday 13 | Fltcher Ed. there could hardly be found five square feet of the big public play- | ground that was not populated. | Everything from the C.0.B.L. down to the Stove League was re- | Presented and the sky line was dot- | ted with the old familiar baseball | every few seconds. The Kingston | C.0.B.L. team was the first to put in an appearance and a good crowd of candidates turned up. From shortly after two o'clock until four-| thirty the Big Four squad worked | out on the main diamond and alter- | nated between practise and infield |? warming up. Some of those seen | Stepping to the plate for a crack at | the pill 'were: Jack Evans, Bert Daley, Joe Daley, Matt. Coyne, | Harold Nicholson, Herb. Teeple, A. | Rice, Harry McNeill, Bud Thomas, Jack Bond, Hunter, Ted. Gallagher, Del. Cherry, Squires and several others. 'When these vacated the diamond, the 4th Hussars moved in from the | Rill side and started their workout | for the senior city league series. | About half the candidates showed | up and put in a good practise. | Over on the small diamond other | teams were at work and several Mer- coantile stars were seen loosening up and getting the kinks out of their muscles in preparation for a. hard season. The ground fis not in very good | shape as yet and the diamonds need | ' levelling and sanding badly but this . Will no doubt be done shortly. There | { must have been two hundred fans | scattered about the grounds on Sat- | urday afternoon "looking them over" |. | { and passing comments of all sorts. | {A great many good ball players have { dropped out of the sky this year and + it sure looks like one fine season. | | | WILL BE CONVENIENT. : i Sleeper for Petes on Kingston Trip. | (Peterboro Examiner.) | The Peterboro Central League | team have solved the problem of | making the trip to Kingston at a | maximum of comfort to the players. | Kingston jaunt was figured as | imcomvenient because of the train connections, but the plan favored by | the Petes seems to fill the bill. It is! proposed to have a sleeper attached | .%0 the midnight C.P.R. train, which Wil be dropped at Sharbot Lake and taken into Kingston in the morning. similar arrangement will be adopt- od on the return journey, and thus the Petes will not be deprived of an 'opportunity to sleep, and they would be home early enough in the morn- © Ing after the game to enable them to 480 to work as usual. The Peterboro team is scheduled to make four trips 'to Kingston, and the proposed ar- _mpgement will make them among the most enjoyable of the season. "The Tweed Bowling Club has selected these officers for 1923: Hon. Pres.--J. E. Minns, Vice-pres.--Dr. Bowlby. © Pres--F. A. Bartlett, . Sec.<treas.--H. F. Corbett. Lawn Com.--C. H. Kerr, C. F. Fawcett, J. BE. Johnston, G. B. * Brown, J. F. Houston, G. Morton, E. | Jones, W. A. Donnelly. -------- . Nothing *'spooky" about Sir Conan Doyle's game of golf. He swings a mean club. [St have, Bathe and] | I Shampoo with one ap.-- Cuticura RRS Sh J TAXI FRONTENAC TAXI SERVICE 279 KING STREET | championships. {mound duty this year | Greer and an unknown, whose name | | will have a steady job at third: ~ SPORTING |HLLCRESTS CALLED AS TORONTO CHAMPS But the Loss of | Batstone and Scott Is a Big Gap to Fill. The Toronto Star Weekly says: Many fans are calling Hillerests to win the pennant. Manager Jolin Dwan hopes that the prediction] comes truce and that on August 11th, {the closing day of the league, his club will be safely anchored in Pen- | Hillcrests have all of last | year's players, with the exception of | Scott and third baseman, ; The former has re- | nantville. Harry Batstone. tired and the latter is remaining in Kingston, where he is attending! Queen's University. The loss of thesa two players has made a big hole in | the Hillcrest Club. Scott was looked | upon as the pitching ace of local emateur balMdom. His terrific speed Dwan has signed Pitcher Bill Creer, with Oakmounts, cham- pions of West Toronto Intermediate League 1921-22. Greer is just a youngster, and if he can step in and fill Scott's shoes the club will be a hard one to beat. If Greer makes good it is going to THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG GENERAL REVIEWS MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1028. | TIMELY , COMMENTS I "THEM DAYS IS GONE FOREVER" You not only read it, you sing it. Try it on your piano. Watch nightly for this big comic hit, THEY ARE HERE [em i ~ BY GOSH - BILL GOOF! - WiTH WHISKERS! =~ WHY earned him the name of *"'Cannon- | !'ball." Copyright by Unired Feature Syndicate | solve a big problem for Dwan, as it | will give him Lang for third base. | | He played third base last fall the city champions in the O.B.A.A Dwan won't divulge. If he is suc- cessful in signing this player ball- dom will receive a shcbk. If Greer and the unknown make good Lang not, Dwan will have to develop one from the other plavers. Bert Irwin and Joe Breen may be the pair to battle for the red light job. Harry { Batstone is going to be missed by | There are very | Hilicrests this year. few third basemen his equal in ama- teur ball. Batstone was a fast field- {er and a quick thitker and helped execute many a double play. PORT NAP HOTS It should not be long now before the dinghy section of the Kingston Yacht Club is sporting around the Larbor again. Yachting picked up in Kingston in the last year or so and should make | even greater strides during the pre- sent summer, The Kingston gol fers are also on the outlook for a banner year, and already the parade in the direction of the Front Road has started. Boohoo, the lady bruin who con- trols the fortunes of the Queen's teams, is feeling mighty lonely since the Jock Harty Arena has become deseited. Her ladyship likes com- panionship and fun and the pleasure of her own company is becoming rather monotonous. Anyway, the City League is bound to send a winner out for competition for the O.B.A.A. finals, in fact it will send two winners, one from the junior series and one from the inter- mediate, The K.A.B.A. must win their C.0.B.L. run before entering the On- tario finals, but they have the ma- terial to do that little stunt. And now that all the search for ; Srounds is on, the soccer men won- der where they come in, and where they will stage their contests. If tha Queen's authorities are generous with their lower campus. the prob- lem will be solved. "Sports ars booming all over the continent this spring and it 4s but an indication o¢ improving conditions in every line. There arte all sorts of questions ba- ing asked about the Printers this year but the season is yet too voung | to make any statements. The worthy Lang is slated for | along with | it | for | BELIGVE MY EYES! BRAVE THIS ON YOUR BUGLE. T CAN'T I USED TO SPEND A LOT OF 2 -- a-- -- are lying low. At any rate, Plumbers are going {into the Mercantile again with a big make their third bid for the cham- problem {front rank. for any aspirants to the | West Point looks to have about the niftiest lacrosse outfit to be found among the college teams this { year. Both the Yale and Harvard var- sity crews are working hard in pre- raration for their annual struggle next June. Johnny Wilson is ready to sign for a bout with Harry Greb provid- ed the Pittsburg boxer will make 160 pounds. At least one novelty in the big lea- gues' opening is found in the name of the Nationals' new umpire--Doll Derr. The Preakness stakes of $50,000 added, for 3-year-olds, at a mile and furlong, will be run at Pimlico, May 12th. Four Marathons, one each in De- troit, Boston, New York and Balti- more, afford plenty of action for the long-distance runners this spring. The "Five Hundred Rooters' Bri- gade" has been organized in Phiia- delphia to back the Athletics, while "Get Behind Matty" is the slogan in Roston. Geo. Gibson, a National Leaguer for many years, is now in the Am- erican League. The former catcher and late manager of the Pirates, is coaching Douie Bush's Senators. Jack Bentley, the Giants' new southpaw pitcher who packs a healthy wallop with the bat, will be given an opportunity to show his Prowess at pinch-hitting for the world's champions. BRINGING UP FATHER | | 1 } | | wielders of type and Printers' ink COACHING IS | | | | stock of bats and a determination to | rionship. Their nine will be a hard | DOUGH ON FANCY SHIRTS AND Ties = VITAL TO BALL | { Especially in M Major Leagues | Is Strategy Board Necessary | to Success of Clubs. | | Baseball, in the major leagues is becoming more and more complicat- ed. Ths brain department of the big league teams has developed to an | extent the public does not realize. { The days when any sub who was {loafing tcok the job of coaching on {the base lines have passed and now |coaching, especially at third base, has become one of the vital parts of | team work. The experts figure that a bad third | base coach will Jose more games for | a team in a season than a bad third | baseman would do, and in ths era | of complicated signaling, quickness | of eye, quickness of decision and per- A\ect knowledge of the game and the | stages are necessary. Some of the teams carry an en- tire board of strategy, and perhaps ! none has gone so far as the St. Louis Cardinals, with Rickay's daily black- board drills, and brain tests, analy- sis of plays and such work. A ---------- Early Casualty. Louis Fonsica, first baseman of tho | Cincinnati Nationals, suddenly col-, lapsed as he stood on firs: base and fell unconscious in the third inning of the game with Pittsburg lere | Saturday. Doctors were called and | it was ascertained that Fonsica had | dislocated his hip sliding in the s e- | ond inning. Fonsica was carried off | the field and Bressler went to first! base. Eugene Criqui has a large staff of trainers at his camp on Long Is- land. The featherweight champion of Europe intends to be "right" for his bout with Johnny Kilbane for the world's title. Floyd Johnson certainly shows speed in signing up for bouts In fact, he signed his moniker so fast that he Lad the New York, New Jer- MAA. Nn pi, sey and Massachusetts boxing com- > n:issions looking '"'bug-eyed." ' I HARDLY RECOGNIZED YOu BILL -- SAY, WAY THE 2% ~ DISGUISE ? - SPALDING'S The official Baseballs, Baseball Gloves, Mitts and everything for Baseball. GIANTS--BRAVES--BROWNS won't use anything but Spaldings, and as they do not cost any more than the imita- tions, why would you not use them ? Sole Agents for Kingston and surrounding country. Treadgold Sporting Goods Co 88 PRINCESS ST. PHONE 529. Sisler Ready Within Month. "I expect to see George Sisler back in the line-up within a month," Phit Ball, president of the St. Louis Browns, declared. "There has been altogether too much secrecy and mystery conmect- |ed with Sisler's ailment. Sisler is naturally sensitive and is not eeek- {ng publicity and for this reason he has declined to discuss the trouble from which he is suffering. "Unfortunately, this has led peo- ple to believe his condition was such. that he might not be able to play at all this year. This is far from core A Good Start. Jobm J. McGraw, vice-president of the New York National League Base- bal club, left this city last night with more money from the opening series with the Braves than the New | York club collected in all its games ) with Boston on Braves' field last | season, McGraw left here with four | victories out of five gamcs, 'quite as fw ell satisfied with his playing as wita jae financial profits. He said the | Boston club, under President Christy | Mathewson, was in for a good sea- son. --r---------- Little doubt that 'Jocko" Conlon | will prove a handy pastimer for the |rect." | Braves. In exhibition games the ex- Sisler's operation which was re- 1 cHarvand captain. played well inthe {cently postponed, will probably take iinfield and hit for .400. place this week, his physicians said. ENED. SAMENESS rt oN TIN NIN A A A NN A i tingy al packot S05 2 1b tin CUT PLUG [£ you roll your OWT. ask for DEDENS FINE GUT (Areen label) Al per ANVEG VES ONY 1009 YRAGRANY FINEST VIRGINIA CAO. 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