SPO LATEST | LOCAL | JUNIORS 10 BATTLE IN TORONTO TO-NIGHT CONCERNING REGH OF KINGS OF RING THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG TING | FROM THE QUTSIDE--LOOKING IN | | Hockey Hopes of Kingston Johnson Lasted Six Years-- | Travel With Little Band That Left To-day. The Circle-Six junior O.H.A. team will come under the full glare of the notice of the hockey publié tonight when they trot forth on the Ice at Arena Gardens, Toronto, to battle with Owen Sound in a sudden death game, the winners of which will go into the finals with the winners of the Hamilton-Kitchener serics. It 1s not exactly a "soft" job to 'play two gruelling games away from home, one on Monday and one on Wednesday, and then be forceq to travel one hundred and sixty-two miles to meet the team that is pick- ed as the eventual winner in a sud- den death game on Friday night. The youngsters are bruised and tireq and have not been given the chance they merit--but with that cheerfulness which has characterized them all through the season, they are taking it smiling and are determined to make the Owen Sound some this evening. The "Sounders" have been in To- ronto for two days and have heen practising on the Arena, with the additional advantage of having play- ed several games there They are reported to be a formidable outfit and were selected months ago, to capture the title. However, that is not bothering Jack Powell's kids. They were told hy many would-be authorities that they would never get past their own group, that Belleville, would trim them up, that Peterboro would walk over them---and they went out and eliminated all that they have met so far. They qo not promise to elimin- ate Owen Sound, but are certainly going to show a few tricks of their own when they get into Kingston teams have been under- estimated before now and all local people are pulling for a victory for the youngsters. That would be a wonderful thing for hockey in Kingston, which the Circle-8ix team has so well aided al- ready. The archer fish frequently swims backward as well as forward for a considerable distance. Its. eyes are of such construetion .that it can turn them so as to see everything that goes on behind it. ESTABLISHED 1871. HANLEY'S AGENCY FOR ALL OCEAN STEAMSHIP LINES Special attention given your family or friends going to or returning from the Old Country. y Passports arranged. For full particulars apply or write J. P. HANLEY, C.P. & T.A., C. N. Ry Office: Canadian National Railway Station, corner Johnson and Ontario Streets, Kingston, Ont. Open day and night. Phones 99 and 1433. a ------------------" uscles? crew step | already. , action. | Jeffries Retired--Demp- | sey May Make Record. To-morrow afternoon the R.M.C. intermediates meet Osgoode Hall at Toronto Arena in the finals of the intermediate Intercollegiate hockey series. Good luck, cadets, Circle-Six run across their biggest battle yet when they meet Owen | 1s Jack Démpsey's reign 'as heavy: | gound tn a sudden-death game in Toronto this evening. The Mail and weight boxing champion of the world going to set a record for length? Nobody can answer that question with certainty, but as matters shape | { over Belleville, and then eliminated the junior Petes. And Peterboro fans up at the present time there is an excellent chance for Jack to eclipse his predecessors in this respect un- less he makes good on his threat to retire after this season, writes Wilbur Wood in the New York Her- ald, If Dempsey manages to hold on for a couple of years more he will have bettered the record of Jack' Johnson, v@'n retained the crown for six years, three months and a few days. Dempsey snatcheq the purple robes from Jess Willard on July 4th, 1919. That means that on July 4th of this year he will have reigned for five years unless the unexpected hap- pens and someone dethrones him be- fore that date. Leaving out of consideration. the bare knuckle days and confining this little discussion to the period since gloves were put on the hands of the gladlators we find that Johnson held the honors longer than anyone else. Jim Jeffries might have been cham- pion for a longer period than any of | the moderns had he not retired in 1905, after looking over the field of | contenders and deciding there was | nobody in sight to make it worth his | while to continue in his profession. | When Jeff gave up the gloves he had Foeen on top for six years or a wee | bit longer. Beginning with Jim Corbett, who took the title from Sullivan on Feb- | ruafy Tth, 1892, there have been | seven heavyweight champions, not | counting Marvin Hart, on whom Jef- fries bestowed his title, Bob Fitz- | simmons followed Corbet anq then | came Jeffries, Burns, Johnson, Wil- lard and Dempsey. The average for the reign of the six champions preceding Dempsey has been four years and a half. Cor- bett maintained his position for a little less than five years. Fitz was champion for a little more than two. Jeffries, as already set forth, retired after ruling for six years. Burns held on for almost three years, and then came Johnson, for a few months over six years. Willard was at the top for a little more than four years, It is difficult to conceive of any of the present performers in the heavyweight ranks dethroning Dempsey. Jack stands. out over his contemporaries as holdly as did Jef- fries in his day. Jeff finally retired but we have our doubts about Demp- sey doing any such thing. Jack will not be 29 years until June 24th. He still is young In body and spirit as well as in years. He ought to be good for four or five years more. It Is interesting to note at what ages the previous heavyweight cham- pions relinquish their laurels. Sul- livan was 34 when Corbett beat him, Corbett lost out to Fitzsimmons at the age of 31. Ruby Robert was 37 when Jeffries took the championship from him. Jeffries quit the game at 30 but he certainly would have lasted for three or four years longer if he had so de- sired and had kept himself in shape. Tommy Burns, who never was much as a title holder, was deprived of the crown by Johnson when Tommy was 26. Johnson lost the honors to Wil- liard at 37 'and Jess at 36 when Dempsey pounded him into submis- sion. By a little elementary addition ang division it is found that the average age at which the title passed from the predecessors of Dempsey | was 33. Allowing that Jack holds {on long enough to equal this average he would not be unseated until the | summer of 1928, which would mean 'a reign of nine years, almost three years longer than any of the others. Dempsey already is plentifully supplied with this world's goods and could hang up his gloves right now j With a millionaire's financial rating. But in spite of anything the cham- pion may have said about giving up the sport or rather the business--at the end of the coming outdoor sea- son, he is not. going to find this a simple matter. Dempsey received $475,000 in cash for his 3 minutes and 57 sec- onds of work fu the ring with Luis Angel Firpo last September, and as long as he can drag down such huge gobs for his bit it is ten to one that he will stick. Jack Kearns, Demp- sey's manager, who piloted the cham- pion to the top, is going to use ail his persuasiveness to block any at- tempts to retire on the champion's part. You can lay to that, Kearns has no desire to see the active mem- ber of the partnership step out of the business. | | | | | | ¥irpo and Herry Wills, the pseu- |. | heavyweightfi, to defeat Luis Firpo at Buenos: Aires to-night. Empire says of the local team: 'But the Owen Sound lads may run into a huge surprise when they meet the Kingston youngsters, who must be They survived a triple tie in their group, toppled ahove the average. think they\have a fine junior team." Erminio Spalla, Itallan The signor Signor Mussolini has practically ordered will find that his opMions or grders are of little consequence In heavy- welght boxing circles. President James Kane is getting uneasy tNese days concerning his City Baseball League. The early thaw is loosening up the kinks of the president's baseball lore which has been snowed under for a few months and a move towards re-organization may be expected any time now. Any support that may be given to the Cirdle-Six junior O.H.A. team by hockey enthusiasts or other interested citizens will certainly be going to a deserving cause. The youngsters have played well through a par- ticularly hard season without complaint or selfishness of any kind, and it would be a pity if further®attempts toward the championship were checked because of lack of funds. The Russian ice skating champion, Melnikov, is looked upon as one of the speediest in the game. He has been timed in 46 seconds for thé 500 metres distance AA AA A AA AAA A AAPA AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA Aa dostevedore, are the only heavy-|tired in the evenings after playing weights around right now who figure | that Boston outfield, because the old to have a chance of knocking Demp- | boy is slowing up and it won't be sey off his perch. The Wilg Bull of many seasons before old Casey will the Pampas came perilously near do- | be playing centrefield in a bowling ing that very thing last September. [alley and relaying those big gutta- Sooner or later Luls will try again. percha grapefruit. But he 4s not likely to succeed, in "It ain't right to bubld an outfield the opinion of most of those persons | that big, because three men have to best qualified to judge. cover more front'than the A.E.F. did SEY STEEL IS | cman on NOT DOWNHEARTED the other two inflelders will be so He Writes Humorous Letters far away from me that I will think I am playing on a team of Singer's to George Kelly Talking Things Over. midgets, "Well, I am glad -that I still own that string of Stengel taxicabs it. ¢ Kansas City, because when you have taxicabs working for you that's when Sarasota, March 7.--George Kelly has just grabbed a letter from Casey Stengel. Casey shovelled the win- ter away in Kansas City, and is get- you don't have the Indians trapping wolves right in your vestibule. I will ting all set to play the Braves out- fleld this summer. He writes: be training with the Braves down in St. Petersburg, which is only- thirty miles from Sarasota, so I will jog over and see you every day, because thirty miles is only a spring to a guy who has to play the Boston outfield. Dear George,--Well, old Casey is on his way to Beston, but I'm glad I didn't get sold to a town Where they, still ride bicycles. Guest that is the needles for you, ain't it? 1 knock off two home runs in the "I still have a lot of perfect base- series and get pushed up to Boston. ball in me, and plenty of pepper. And old Casey would bat five hun- I guess if it hag been three home runs, I would be in Montreal. dred, Jf it wasn't for all those diving and leaping outfielders featuring themselves on gld Casey's line drives, There is one thing I can do, and that is to ppt the lumber on that leather. "Yes, sir, George, when old Casey "It looks as if Casey will be plenty | is packed up and gone they will look . Stadium outside Paris, where competitors from all over Ahe world will dispute the Olympic titles this spring. It is said about 60,000 persons' can be seated in the stands, GENERAL REVIEWS up his record and fiid that he was a big lumber and leather merchant from Kansas City. They may pick the feathers off the old eagle, but they can't rob him of his eye, "If 1 ever get close enough to the other Boston outfielders I will tell them you were asking about them. But it looks like old. Casey will be playing right hermit in Brakes Park voices. in Brooklyn as long as I have is glad to miss the voices. lyn, Pittsburgh, Philadelpy'a, New York and Boston. I have never play- I will probably make those teams if my fountain pen holds out. "Well, good-bye, George, I am sorry and glad to leave the Giants. I sure hope Shinners gets better and has a good year. I'm sorry to Jeave the Giants because we got along fine. But I am 'glad because we won two world series and got watches, rings, fobs, necktie'pins, and the only thing left to give us if we won again was ear-rings. Anq Casey would look fine walking around with ear-rings bobbing out of those big salls of his. "Hope your uncle and family are well and happy. By the way, 1 bought some great neckties in South Bend. . WALTER JOHNSON Speed king of the Washingtqn Sena- tors, may quit the majors and lrchase a club in the Pacific Coast League, yy The Whig this evening will give a complete scoring service on the Owen Sound-Circle-8ix game in Bulletin Service all season far from human faces and | Well, anybody who played ! And as for | the faces, well, I have played Brook- ed on the Cards, Cubs and Reds, but | XFoay, MARCH 7, 1934. The Most For The Money TIMELY COMMENTS OLD our pure Wool Rides or everyday TO-D Toronto. It is tmposeidblerto write | 88 PRINCESS ST. 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