THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 5) THDRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 197s LATEST LOCAL TRICOLOR SQA GROWING RAPIDLY Twenty Out Yesterday--Next Week's Crowd Should be Around Seventy-five. Each day the Queen's rugby squad enlarges and yesterday twenty men took the field for (ie afternoon prac- Use. Queens conditione are some- what different to those obtaining elsewhere ae the university is not so well fixed financially nor so well sup- plied with students as its competitors In Toronto and Montreal. This creates a situation where a minimum ' ean be in to college to start the first week's practise and to the vast ma- Jority of the Queen's studerts--who are putting themselves through-- the last two weeks of the vacation Mme mean quite a lot financially. It is therefore not antieipating too much to say that the full rugby SPORTING squad will number around seventy- five when the students return in large numbers and the senior team "Chicks" Mundell makeg the back- field grade this year and he seems to be aiming in that direction. If Fis should have a working crew of about | position in the line can be filled he thirty. ' Yesterday the newcomers were Nickle, the local player, who has now worn the uniform for two years: Keynolds and Delehay, who were on hand yesterday but not in uniform; Grondin, who was moved to the sen- for squad near the end of last season; Jan McLaughlin, wellknown in snc- cer and tennis cifcles at the college; Hunter, the centre of the basketball five and Gillespie, a recruit who has worked out with Ottawa senior teams Grondin is somewhat overweight and has been put under reducing ob- servation along with Coach Hughes. Last night Baldwin, a player from St. Thomas, arrived in the city ard Is expected out this afternoon. Little can be found out about him yet but it 1s said he has worked around the backfield and at quarter. Intercollegiate fans in other cities may see somfething worth while if Nam, GOODFYEAR ALL-"-WEATHER AND WINGFOOT The sign of dealers who believe in the BET: TX? GOOD YEAR | | | TuBks | Selected Dealer tipes they sell Goodyear means Good Weas » See Us For Goodyear Tires VANLUVEN BROS. 84-38 PRINCESS STREET WE STOCK ALL SIZES The Central Garage Limited BROCK AND MONTREAL STREETS oy whl make a great acquisition to the rear-guard. With R.M.C. he war one of their greatest plunging and run- ning rear-guards and if worked re- gularly in that position he will ans- wer the absent-Harding question fully and then some. "Art" Lewis arrived yesterday afternoon and is another who should be on hand for practise today. Yesterday the secret practise ByS- tem started amd all spectators wors | barred with the exception of officials | and press. After kicking and wing practise and a few formations Coach Hughes flopped the squad on the ground and gave them a gruelling course of setting up \xercises. There will be no lack of condition in that crowd this year. Sate 4 A Whig subscriber in New York City writes over the name of "Wil- Ham" commenting upon the enforce- ment of Frohibition in United States. He says that private stills are num- erous but excursions to the province of Quebec are still more numerous The following clipping was enclosed: Mr. Upshaw believes that liquor "destroys all patriotism and all sense of party lovalty." In support of this theory he quoted this letter f n somebody in Plattsburg: y You have the right theory on phe- hibition. Here .is an additton for you-- Four and twenty Yankees Feeling mighty dry Took a trip to Canada And bought a case of rye. When the care was opened The Yanks began to sing-- "To %ell with the Presidenti God Save the King!" WILTON-SYDENHAM, Girls Have Hard Time Deciding Which is Better Team, The final game of the Frontenac County Girls' Soft-ball league is to be played at Wilten on Saturday afternoon next between Sydenham and Wilton. In the previbus final games Sydenham won at Wilton and on Friday last the Wilton girls in- vaded Sydenham and won out 10-3. Both teams scored three runs in the first inning and after that Sydenham got but two. Referees were Harold Farquharson and Rev. A. L. Black- Jock. A toss was taken as for the loca- tion of the final game and Wilton won it. Umpires for that game are Fletcher Young and Ernest Young ot Bath. ------ In the major baseball leagues, no regular player has ever gone through the season. without making an error. McInnis has the record percentage, .999, : ! Of 26 states in which boxing 1s al- lowed under commission rule, 21 are allied with the National Boxing clation, Ny You not only read It, you sing It. comic hit. "THEM DAYSIS GONE FOREVER" Try it on your plane. Watch' nightly for this big | ' ! "ASSASSINATE THIS ON YOUR ACCORDEON." | THIS IS AWFUL | | GENERAL REVIEWS > | FROM THE OUTSIDE Look | The Queen's practises are in full swing and already the advantages of holding them behind closed doors jare apparent. There will, of course, be | a great many disappointed in no being allowed to watch the players | working out, but when they consider that it is for the good of the team | 'nearly all will be satistiod. Gillespie, the boy who arrived from Ottawa on Wednesday, is con- sidered one of the best basketball forwards in the capital city and should ald Queen's in going after that cage championship they have been seeking 80 eagerly. -- The girls in the Frontenac Soft-ball league are having a hard time de- ciding thelr championship series. Saturday's game is do-or-did\ for both Wilton and Sydenham. \ ---- We have heard no more about the soccer. When do things start? Just ten days now until Limestones and R. M. C. take the fleld in the first of the city league games. Both teams have been working hard. Queen's statium fleld should sta heavy showers of Tuesday evening K d up well under wet weather, @ no effect on it. The | Both the Billy Hughes men up at Queen's believe in the utmost in| condition. Trainer Hughes watches them inside and Coach Hughes | gives them stiff setting-up exercises on the fleld. 84,900 Paid $1,177,404 To 8ee Title Struggle | ---- | At New York, not counting sev- | eral hundred opportunists, who | "arashed the gate" wearing counter- | feit red ushers Caps, an automobile load of which, it was disclosed, was sold in short order at $1 a cap out- side'the Polo grounds, Friday night, 84,999 persons witnessed the world's heavyweight title battle between Jack Dempsey and Luis Firpo. This is the official computation and includes working and courtesy press attendance, politica] "dead heads," policemen, firemen and em- ployees. The paid admissions num- bered 78,011 and brought in a total of $1,177,404.80. The government tax of, ten per cent. amounted to $117,740.49. The five per cent New York state tax totalled $53,518.40. The net receipts after there deduc- tions, reached $1,070,368. It was by far the largest sum of money ever paid to witness a boxing contest in this state, and the crowd also broke the record for a Ting ex- hibition in the state. The box office figures, not includ- ing tax, follows: . 3,441 at $3: $10,323; 13,613 at $6: $73,065; 21,817 at $10: $2117,- 170. 16,652 at $16: $248,280; at $20: $76,680; 17,754 at $443,850. Total $1,070,368, MISS DORIS B. HART, A British swimming champion, who has broken the world's back stroke record. Her time was 1 min. 35 sec. for 100 metres. | 3 Robert Cunningham, professional of the Cataraqui Golf Chub, has kind- ly offered first, second and third prizes for a medal competition with handicaps amongst the lady players. Games are to be played on Wed- nesday next, either in the morning or afternoon and partners will be drawn in two classes, Class A and Class B, the latter containing thirty-six handi- | LADIES' GOLF po 3,834 $25: R.M.C. WORKING. Iiat Light on Their Chances Not NEWS | | TIMELY COMMENTS Auctioneer Anctpner! itoneer! We comauct sales Kingston and Frontenac County. EW Jackson& Son 108 Clergy Street. Forty-nine years' experience with the best players make their name a by-word with anyone that knows anything about Sport. Football Togs of every kind to help your boy protect himself and be a winner, LET HIM GO and get in the game with the other boys--it breeds good fel lowship, and will make a man of him, SPORT, A BUILDER OF YOUR BOY, so he can ride through his work and be better for it. Sole distributor for this district. Treadgold Sporting Goods Co 88 PRINCESS ST. PHONE 529, Get the Habit: "For Records Try Treadgold's First." FRONTENAC sie 200 Known Yet. The R.M.C. rugby squad is hard at work as usual and has been for some time but on account of the distance to the college local scribes have not been enabled to get much "dope" on the red and white. It is safe to say that they will turn out a well-con- ditioned fighting team as théy alwags do. None of the fans ever fear mat the cadets will send out a team that will mot put up a stiff argument. Meanwhile Limestones, while not equipped as well as their first op- ponents in that their hours and play- €rs are only chance matters, are plugging along faithfully and should round out a good squad. If work of Major Lawson and his faithful band count for anything they'dl have the goods, Hos ---- The bunt hit in baseball was fn- vented by Vickey Pearce of the At- lantics, of Brookiyn, in 1866. He also invented the fair four hit in 1871. Baseball has been rejected as an official eport by the French comm it- tee"in charge of the next Olympic games, to be held in Paris in 1924. Former Argentine residents mm this country are offering a prize of $5600 to South American sculptors for a life-size statue of Luis Firpo. Mexico is adopting boxing as a Monday next and the draw 1 be posted at the club-house on Thesday and published {in the newspapers without further nogice from the handicap committee. ZEV AND MY OWN OFFERED $50,000 FOR MATCH RACE A purse of $50,000 for a race be- tween the Rancocas stable's Zev, con- sidered 'the champion 3-year-old of the 1924 season, and the Salubia stable's My Own, unbeaten as a 3- year-old, has been offered by the Maryland State Fair Corporation. This was announced at the Aqueduct race course by Lucius A. Cassidy, re- sident manager of the course at Laurel, Md.. where it is proposed that the race should be held on Co- lumbus Day, October 12th, the dis- tance to be a mile and a half, which will be the same as that of the inter- national race on October 20th, ---- Farewell for Batstone. Sid Hueston of the St. Andrew's Baseball Club, Toronto, entertained Harry Batstone, Queen's football star, at luncheon on Tuesday night. A. W. Steele, Secretary of the On- tario branch of the A. A. U. of C., was present and gave some valuable advice relative to training methods. He stated that DPatstone's speed as & ground gainer has made him one cap players. Entries are to i by 1 Tyre MEAD OFFICES & FACTORIES. TORONTO ' RZ i: on oy ao ov EPR AL FTE nL of the star player of the country. In | national sport. his day Mr. Steele was somewhat of a eprinter and when occassion de- mands it he can'still cover territory in a hurry. > r= {= Carpentier Heard From: Tex Rickard, promoter of the Dempsey-Firpo championship fight at the Polo Grounds, announced that he had received a cablegram from Georges Carpentier, French heavy- weight star. whq was downed by Dempsey in 1921, expressing a desire to meet Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul fighter, in a 15-round bout at Madi- son Square Garden. » Rickard said he would be glad to make arrangements for such a fight if the: men could be brought to an agreement on terms. Siki to Meet Godfrey. Belting Sti, 51s Seuegaicss bor. er, signed to meet George b the negro fighter, in Philadelphia, -~ a © RS ge Jr TN rey