12 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG SATURDAY OCTOBER 6, 1923 LATEST LOCAL PETERBORO WINNERS OF EASTERN HONORS Boat Brockville 15-11--wiil © Meet Welland in Inter- mediate 0.B.A.A. Final. (By Staff Reporter.) The Peterboro C.G.E. team won the right to represent Eastern On. tario against Welland, winners of the Western series, in the final round of the intermediate O.B.A.A play- offs by virtue of a decisive win over Brockville at Napanee on Friday . &fiernoon by the score of 15 to 11. the 1922 ¢hampions played like vet- . rans and came out on top in a duel featured with grievous errors, hard- hitting and good and bad pitching * and which was finally halted in semi- darkness in the eighth inning. Peterboro won the toss and elect- ed to take the field, retiring Brock- ville without a Tun after the bases were loaded. Rose showed his call- bre in the pinch, retiring the last two batters by the strike-out route. Barrie, the first man up for Peter- boro, reached first on McLean's error; MoCarney walked; Dugan Was jcalled out when his batted ball struck him while hiking for first: Rose grounded to Reilly; Ross singl- ©d scoring Barrie and MoCarney; Me- Pherson singled, Jackson reached _ first on McLean's error, Ross and McPherson crossing the plate; Hall singled, but was later caught steal- ing In the 6th inning, three Peterboro men walked. a two-bagger by Ross and a triple by Jackson helping along the gopd work and forcing the re- tirement of Howson from the mound, Singleton doing the relief work. After another error hy McLean, and nme You not only read it, you sing it. SPORTING a base on balls, thé third out was fin- ally made by the third Brockville twirler, Brockville made a real bid for the honors in the 5th. Oakley walked but was caught going to second. Ranger to Barrie. Reilly reached first when Dugan muffed. Hunter ditto on Ranger's wild peg, and Taber was hit by a pitched ball, fill- ing the bases. Simon struck out, but Lane, the peppery Brockviile catcher, came through with a terrific drive for a homer, tallying four runs and plac- ing Brockville in the lead. Rose re- tired to short for a rest, Ranger was benched, and Frost went to the mound, and the rally was nipped without further damage. The winners clearly outplayed their rivals, the earned runs, out- side of all the misplays, being enough to win the struggle by a safe margin. The Brockville twirlers were not given a great deal of support, how- ever, and the highly touted sluggers from "down East" fale! to come through when hits meant rans. Les- perance starred for the losers, while Rose played brilliantly throughout The box score: ---- A Brockville. > w = Hunter, rt .... Taber, 2b Simon, of Lane, ¢ McLean, ss .... Whiting, p .... XHowson, p ... xxSingleton, p.. I.esperance, 3b , Oakley, If Reilly, 1b axxRyder . oo one OHMIC OHIO ~~ COPHOO mmm COCO HocoRwO ROH SHHOCcoOonomo oN 39 11 11a19 11 3 xHowson replaced Whiting in fifth. sixth. xxSingleton replaced Howson in xxxBatted for Reilly in eighth. Barrie out for interference in fifth; Dugan, out, hit by batted ball in first. 0 A..E Barrie, 2b .... McCarney, cf .. Dugan, 1b .... RoBe, P vs einnss xFrost, p + .... ROSS, € vy... McPherson, rf. . Jackson, 3b . Han 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 RO BO BO ke po 00 hd Ot DR mCooNOMOOMY | | or 12 xReplaced Ranger in the fifth. -- Summary. runs--DBrockville hits--Rose, Earned Peterboro 7; two-base Hunter; three-base hits--Ranger, Frost, Jackson; home run--Lans; sacrifice hit--Rose; stolen hases---- Rose (2), McCarney, Taber, Lesper- ance; double plays--McLean to 21 8; | AVTOMOBLE 1S NOW RIVAL OF BASEBALL People Go to the' Country In- | stead of to the Ball Grounds--Or Golf.' Minor league baseball, in practi- cally every section of the United | States, is in dire straits The season | ot 1923, which has been less profit. able in the majors, but which shows only normal slump in attendance due to lack of interest in the races and bad teams in some cities, has been one continyal story of poor at- tendance and heavy losses in the minors There are half a dozen leagues carrying on the finish with some difficulty and a number of clubs are hanging on hoping to sell players to the major leaglies to recoup the losses of the season. The reason for the failures and the lack of interest in minor base- Taber to Reilly, third; base on balls | ni ? --off Whiting. 4, off Howson 3, off | P2!! is a mystery to many baseball . - k t men Singleton 1; off Rose 7; struck ou tae | The Southern and the Coast Les. by Whiting 2, by Singleton 2, by Rose 10; hit by pitcher--Rose (Hun- | 86, both the big things in their ter and Taber); wild pitch--Rose, | SCUONS and near major quality, Whiting; passed balls--Rose (2), M@Ve done well enough. But base. Lane (2); left on bases--Brockville | Sali ney all over He country at 14, Peterboro 9; umbires----Howard, | 18 ont Bee games, even to of Ottawa, and Skitch, of Cobourg: | 5 a oo Pro contests, has decreased time of game--2.15. a point where conducting a min- by innings: Brockville 0230411011 | tain Icss, unless it can develop a Petorbore 5003160x--15 few players to sell at high prices. Game called in eighth on account| The majority of the minor league ot Jarno | owners and managers declare that | the big reason for the falling off in attendance and in the interest is the eutomobile. I talked recently with the owner of a club in one of the Willle Hoppe, world's champion balk line billiard champion, has | filed his entry papers for the Inter- | national 18.2 tournament to be held | at New York, Qct. 29th. in the middle west. The plant of | this club is a beautiful "THEM DAYS IS GONE FOREVER" Try it on your plane. Watch nightly for this big comic hit, LEARN THIS ON YOUR LUTE | than that of any major league club of twenty years ago, although the team is in class B. The merchants of the town subscribed to the sup- | port cf the club and carry it for the sake of the town. The club presi- dent said that even season ticket holders and pass holders did not at- tend games. "In our league," he said, trouble is double, automobiles and golf. "he wealthy citizens either E bef | "the drive out to the country club ana €olf, or out to the lake for Sunday. The merchants put up money to support the club, but even they will pot come to games. The town now hes one auto to every fomr and a { half inhabitants. The factory and store workers who used to support the team now load their families ana friends into the cars and ere off to | the lake or into the country from | Saturday to Monday--and busy working the rest of the week. Our two real paying days are emtirely | lost. I find conditions much the same in every sity in the country." Billy Niesen the well-knewn Chi- oago veteran leader of Independent | teams, who takes his club Into many of the. smaller cities of the central west, says: "I do not think interest in base- ball has declined. but it seems tn me that the majority of people have too many other amusements. The fe¥ows who used to attend games regularly new zo once a month and attend to their golf or thelr auto riding the rest of tka time. The situation is serious for the smaller leagzes, and the small towns which formerly supported independent teams and poured out to games when there was a good attraction are dead. "I think that the automobile 1s the big cause. The fel'ow who has a car not only prefers riding on Sunday, hut takes his neighbor with kim, which takes two or more awey from the games. I notiee that the crowds in one town will he largely composed of pecnle from nearby towns. A lot of them prefer riding twenty-five or thirty miles and at- tending a game somewhere else thaw to attend a game at home." The situation: indirectly affects the major leagues and the larger minors as the supply of young ball players appears to be diminishing steadily, and if the minor leagues do mot function the development of naw material to replace the worn. out veterans of the majors will ie cease. ee eemtt-- Elmer Bracher, former Rutgers college footbal! player, was killed Sunday at Rahway, N. J., when the car he was driving crashed into a truck that was standing on Lincoln highway. George . Richardson Scott was painfully injured. In the first of the profossional GENERAL REVIEWS MAY PUT HORNSBY ~~ | Manager Hickey, of Cardinals, Silent Since the Recent Rumpus. The latest sensation in the Na- tional League concerns a right hook deldvered by Rogers» Hornsby, dagainst the jaw of Branch Rickey, anager of the Cardinals. Of course, Rickey was not on the receiving end throughout the fistic or léague club is practically a cer- | Pitcher | | richest and mast prosperous towns |&is. one, better [in communication with Rickey a | battle, for reports have it that after Hornsby challenged with the first biow there was a wild exchange of hooks and uppercuts that only came to a finish when players in the cjub- house separated the two battlers. And the final result may be that Hornsby, admired for years by the Iuanager of the Cardinals, held up by Rickey as one of the most ideal players he has ever seen in his career, may be put on the auction block this winter. Imagine the scrambling to the pit to bid for Rogers Hornsby! What sweet words to John J. EWS ON AUCTION BLOCK McGraw and the Giants, For whenever anything is offered for sale, who in the league has a chance in competitive bidding against the Giants? Np one. If McGraw paid $100,000 for Hugh McQuillan of the Braves, how much in cash would be | put out for Hornsby? | During the middle of the 1921 féason the Giants, trying to regain their feet as a pennant contender, offered $250,000 for Hornsby, This was refused by Rickey and Presi- dent Samuel Breadon of the Cardin- It is reported that the Cubs were few hours after the news leaked qut announcing the row between Rickev and Hornsby. Charley Hollocher and others form the bait Bill Kilje- fer is ready to exchange for Horns- by. While the Cubs have not stirred the financial market to much of an extent, there are as many millions behind them as the Giants, A player of Hornsby's ability would balance the Cubs and make them a legitimate pennant contender for 1924. Killeter already has been given credit for rebuilding a snappy young ball club, Following the rumpus with Horns- by, Rickey has been silent. He has refused to say whether peace wil] ba declared or whether Hornsby wil be offered for trade. Reliable information says that Rickey's pride has heen hurt ana that he will accept a fair bargain offered for one of the greatest hit- tors the game has ever developed. Rickey is planning a big shake-up in his St. Louis organization. He intends to knock off the dead timber and develop youngsters. He re cently handed Catcher Eddie Ain- smith his unconditional release, Pitcher Ed Pfeffer, a belligerent, will be traded during the winter, TIMELY = COMMENTS KODAK HEADQUARTERS We have been appointed distributors for Kodak supplies for Kingston and district, Kodak As You Go Fresh stock of F ilms, Film Packs, Developing outfits and Albums. Your Films developed and printed, SERVICE--SERVICE. Treadgold Sporting Goods Co 88 PRINCESS ST. PHONE 529. Get the Habit: "For Records Try. Paper Treadgold's First." not because he is slipping but pe cause he objected to obeying rules put down by the Cardinal' man- ager. Milton Stock is also booked for trade. Johnny Lavan will mot return to the knotholers and other veterans are due to pass out. ---- THRILLING MOMENTS IN RUGBY. The Ottawa Journal carries the following: Those who saw the final game between Queen's and Argo- nauts at Toronto last year will neyer forget it. They will always recall that great stand of the Argos, lell by Conacher, who finally pressed ahead after being soundly beaten in the first half. The moment when the Argos, huddled on their side of cen- tre, tossed off' the chance of victory through a mental slip by Connie is well remembered. Dinsmore had just burst away for a 30 yard run, and two downs had gained nothing. The obvious way was to kick, but Dinsmore, Conacher, or somebody, on the Argos elected to try a run. lost out, and had to turn over the ball. 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