Bond worked a beautiful plece THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG = LATEST LOCAL RM.C. CADETS WIN INTERMEDIATE ROUND Queen's Took Wednesday's Game 4-3, But Could Not Overcome Lead. Queen's deserved the!/4-3 victory they secured from R. M. C. in the intermediate intercollegiate fixturs at the Jock Harty Arena last night. It was a close battle and a fast ona 'and some of the best hockey of the season was brought out and display- ed for, the fair crowd of fans who were on hand. On the round, R. M. C. won the group title 15 goals to 8 and will meet the westerd group winners. Last night's game was a much bet- ter indication of the relative strengih of the two teams than the first one, though on the whole the cadets are better result producers. Queen's bolstered up with "Gib" McKelvey and he played defence beside his brother John, making a mighty formidable barrier for the R.'M. C. forward line. On the R. M. C. defence were found Hamilton and Saunders, and Smith and Donnelly, of the juniors, bolstered the forward liné. The play started fast and remained that way and in the period it was travelling at an even more furious rate $han in the first. . . The Carr-Haris pair, and Hami!- ton deserve great credit for their showing with R. M. C. but Rogars 'looked like the real star for tha Red and White. Bond, Johnston and Jack McKelvey were in the limeligat for Queen's. Bond was all over the ice and in the third period it was a serious of Queen's rushes, a serfes of. pastes to Pond, and a ser- fes of nice saves by Rorers as Bon slammed the rubber at him. Grimes tallied the first and put Queen's on the road to 'victory. The second was secured by the cadets when McLeod passed out from the corner and the goal bounced off gome per=on or other into the net. Queen's claimed it was carried in but the moal judge said it was a geore. George Stewart, veteran hockeviet. was out "doing his stuff" in the middle of the period and beat Rogers with a nice shot, ending the first period 2-1. In the second period Grimes and of play to make the score 3-1 but the * fwo Carr-Harris brothers, with their constant menace to. Mundell, wiggled trough the defence and made it 3-2. So it stayed till the end of the "period. In the last period each secured one anore goal. The first was a Bond to 'Johnston play. Bond shot and Rog- ers failed to clear quickly enough, with the result that Johnston slap- ped the rubber over the line. For the 5 cadets, a flying puck was picked up ARmEREmwEEmERONY BASKETBALL { COLD DAYS 'Ladies' Intercollegiate T t QUEEN'S GYMNASIUM FEB. 21st--7.15 P.M. K.C.L vs. QUEEN'S 8.00 PM. McGILL vs. VARSITY 9.00 P.M. : Dancing. A FEB, 22-8 P.M. QUEEN'S vs VARSITY FEB. 282.15 P.M. QUEEN'S vs. McGILL ADMISSION .... B0c. EACH GAME Tickets for whole group ..... $1.00 ' . Pe "You will be warm if you get one of our pure Wool RTI in a lucky position by R. M. Carr- Harris and he drew Mundell out and | scored. Queen's had the better of the argu- anent on the night's play. Thelr shots on the nets out-numbered those of R. M. C. 2-1, The play was clean | and the penalties handed out but | minor ones. These were drawn by | "Gib" McKelvey, Stewart and John | McKelvey. Referee Joe Smith kept | the game entirely under his control and saw that no hostilities, such as those in last week's game, were al- lowed to grow. Bond and McLeod, marking each other on the wing, | looked dangerous for a while, but | finally seemed to come to some agreement and behaved themselves. R.M.C.--Goal, Rogers; defences, Sau: "ers and Hamilton; centre, Carr-Harris, B. G.; wings, Carr- Harris, R. M. and McLeod; subs, D nnelly and Smith. Queen's--Goal, Mundell; defence, J. M¢éKelvey, G. McKelvey: centro, Grimes; wings, Bond and Johnston; subs., Stewart and Young. Referee--Joe Smith. MAY WAS A WORRY T0 BRANCH RICKEY While With Cardinals Jake Lacked Both Control and Confidence. Several years ago, as late as 1921, in fact, whefi Jakie May was a mem- ber of the Cardinal pitching staff, he was one of the trials of Branch Rickey's life. As a hurler the little left hander was anything but an asset. He was decidedly a liability. While he was with the Cardinals the fans and Rickey were in for a warm afternoon any time May worked. For Jake has two failings--Ilack of control and confidence. But now this same Jakie May is to get another chance in thé big tent. He has been purchased by the Cincinnati Reds from the Vernon club of the Coast league for a price said to be $30,000 in cash and two players, Pitcher Keck and Inflelder Kimmick. Last winter, it will bé re. membered, the Yankees bid $75,000 for the left hander, but were un- able to obtain him. Since he went to the Pacific Coast league May has had two sensational seagons. He was rated as the best left hander in the circuit and major leaguers bid high for his services. Rikcey had many experiences with May. He carried him for sev- eral campaigns, in the hope that eventually he would amount to something. May always had plenty of curves, but control and confidence were lacking. Of all of Rickey's experiences, however, none compared with the final one, which came while the team was playing the Phillles at Philadel- phia. The Cardinal manager classed this "as the worst 10 minutes he ever went through in his life." Many of the gray hairs mow in Rickey's thatch were due to May's exhibition of how baseball "should not be pitch- ed" on the afternoon in question. Rickey's last experience with May was due to a new scheme by which he hoped to finally make a pitcher out of the left hander. After trying everything he hit upon a plan where- by Jakie was to be made to belleve that some other hurler was to work. He figured that if handled this way the southpaw would not have his usual case of "nerves." The scheme worked wonderfully--until Jakie found out the truth----that he, and not some other pitcher, was due to labor. Jess Haines and Joe Sugden play- ed prominent parts in the scheme. Haines, though he had only one day rest, warmed up, while Sugden took May aside and asked him to take a workout. May, figuring that Haines was to pitch, had perfect control in ~~ | FROM TRE OUTSIDE-LOOKING IN. - s Circle-8ix and Belleville juniors the Jock Harty Arena for the final game of be a snappy engagement. Of all the '"'open" winters in our memory, this one has been about | the most severe. Next time the prophets declare a "closed" winter we are going south with the birds. We are often hearing stories about fellows who play ball minus an |arm, or minus a foot or a finger; and of boxers minus a hand; of piano { players minus arms; but frequently we can go that one better and seen them playing baseball, football and hockey minus heads--or so it would seem. One thing that must be decided as to whether the old-timers are right or wrong when they say: "We don't get the hockey nowadays that we used to. Looking back over thé junior O. Queen's defense and Circle-8ix forward were joined together they would make one sweet little junior team---which is merely saying that the original Circle-8ix outfit was pretty well rounded out. in the local group the R.M.C. team is now in line to go after the title. will take a lot of beating and the fans will be cheering for them all the By virtue of its victory time. cm te A nr An that workout in the "bull pen." But the scheme didn't work. May heard the announcer say that he was to pitch and right there Jakie was through. 'The old nervousness which Rickey had hoped would dis- appear was back. His first pitch hit the grand stand. The next was low. The catcher had to jump for the third. Another and the batter walked. That brought up the second bat- ter. The first one was called a ball. The next nne was a wild pitch, and the next pair were wide so the bat- ter walked. But Rickey still had hopes. Cy Williams, a left handed batter, was coming next. But Cy was not easy. The first offering almost took off Cy's chin. May started looking to the bench for some sign that his duties for the day were over. But no sign. Up floated another wide one and Rickey began to weaken, By this time May had served an- other one. Rickey was not looking when he threw the next one, but heard a crash, and when he peered at the'diamond he saw Willlams on the ground. Athletes rushes to Williams: He was given first ald. The pitch, it was found, had hit Williams in the calf of the leg. So the Phils had the bases full with none out. May had pitched 12 times and each offering had been wide. y May took his place on the hill and looked at the bench. Rickey made a slight motion with his finger. That was enough, May placed the ball on the rubber and dashed for the bench, Marvin Goodwin replacing him. In a short time the pitcher was missed. No one knew where he had gone, Finally it was discovered that he had crawled along the rafters and made his way to the clubhouse. Thus ended May's stay with the Cardinals. Now he come back to the majors with Cincinnati. Maybe two years in the Coast league have done wonders with him. But one man--Rickey-- will have to be shown before he is convinced. O0'DOUL NOW SHIPPED TO PACIFIC COAST LOOP Frank ("Lefty") O'Doul has been shipped back to the Pacific Coast league by the Boston Red Sox, who got him from the Yankees, where he was a failure. O'Doul was a star in the Coast league a few seasons ago, winning 25 games in 1921, the year the Yan- kees decided to fake him out of the class AA's. In 1922 O'Doul was not even started in a game by the Yankees, as far as the records show. When he was sent along to the Red Sox, it was believed that he would get into enough games to enable him to hit his stride. But he failed, And now he returns to the league in high he once starred. ' 'Doul's failure in 1922 was charged by his friends to lack of opportunities. Miller Hugging had so many winning right handers on GENERAL REVIEWS * will meet again to-morrow night at their play-off series. It should pretty soon is the burning question Those were the days." H.A. season it would appear that if Intercollegiate The cadets intermediate BASEBALL FANS WATCH FOR SIGNS OF SLOWING But Ty Cobb Goes on His Way Without Signs of Wear. Detroit, Feb. 20.--Ty Cobb, man- ager of the Detroit Tigers, has been attracting the attention of baseball fans since his second year in the Am- erican League. That was back in 1906. He joined the Tigers the year before much the same as any recruit breaks into the big leagues, but it did not take the Georgla Peach long to demonstrate that he was quite dif- ferent from the ordinary rooky. During the 1905 season Cobb fail- ed to hit in the .300 class. Since then he has not failed to hit in the select circle of batters, Next spring the Tiger leader will begin his 20th season with the Detroit team and he is attracting nearly as much atten- tion as he did when he was earning his reputation as the greatest all- tbund player in the game. However, the attention he now is attracting is a little different. Baseball fans have become accustomed to Cobb batting -300, but now they are asking: "Is Cobb slowing up?" "Will Cobb bat -300 next season?" "Will next sea- son be Cobb's last as an active play- ert" To the first question the answer is "Yes," without qualification. Base- ball players in the major leagues are regarded as old at 35, Few of them ever attain the age of 40 in the big | show, Cobb in beiween those two | figures hence there is no doubt that | he has slowed up considerably from | the years when it wag regarded an | ordinary feat for him to steal not | only second, but third base. There is no reason why Cobb should not bat .300 next season. He has done it for 18 consecutive sea- sons and by doing it last year estab- lished himself as the only player in the history of the major leagues wao has hit for .300 or better fop-18 years in a row. The late Captain A. C. Anson did it 20 years, but there was a break of two years in each of which he tell below . 300. Whether the next campaign will be Cobb's last as an active player is up to Cobb himself. 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Others never quite get started to- wards success, at all. 0'Doul belongs to the latter class. His friends will tell you: "On, he'd win 20 games a year in any league, it he didn't fool around so much." them ever tells him « =--Editors and Reporters; news of all kinds; sporting news; accldents, wed- dings, deaths, funerals and anything of interest gladly received. 2612 (Editorial Rooms) 2613 (Social) 2614 (Job Department) 243 Over 25 Years 033, The 1924 championship tourna-' ment of the American Trapshooting | Association will mark the silver jubi- | lee of that organization. ' SWEATERS OR JERSEYS Good every day -- Hockey, Sleigh TO-DAY ~Editor of Woman's Page; social news and women's, activities of | all kinds; special attention to actiyities of women's clubs and ~--Fine Job Printing; business cards; counter letter heads and sonal stationery; zines printed; dance cvent printing given tention. 'But -none of not to fool around,