THURSDAY, MARCH 18, NEW THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG SPORTING ["# HICKEY 1S POPULAR \, - ~~ WITH WEST POINTERS :::.. SE Se Soach Marchand's Squad Had losses were Successful Season and Hou uf the game here Reinet Created Good Impression, : oh {under the handicap of much cc | air than they are accustomed without very mugh skating practis the team showed fine hockey. Ray Marchand, who is now at his home here, says that his treatment at West Point and the facilities for training the boys, could not haw. been better. He speaks in the high- | est terms of all the branches of train: | ing at the big institution and said that he expects in of a| few more years, to see annual | R.M.C. vs, U.8.M.A. hockey match | considered as important a feature in | the sporting life as West Point as the Army-Navy contests in football, | baseball, basketball, etc. The Army. | Navy basketball match _this year | drew a crowd of 4,500 people, which may give an idea of the of the | popularity of sports. At the present time a gfant foot- ball stadium is under construction at - GENERAL -- REVIEWS TIMELY COMMENTS i ties for practise in every point but] e "URL RUSS FROM THE. OUTSIDE~-LOOKING IN A squad ry turned out for hockey and dur played games nartly partly of about ten * Another of the last stray bits of hockey will be completed when the Verona and Sunbury juniors settle the junior title of the County League at the Holt Rink, R.M.C., this evening. all close wi w that, wor United States tennis will be crippled at the Olympic games when "| Tilden, Johnson and Richards will be absent. The interference of the i governing bodies in the private business of the players has created havoc in American tennis ranks. : to and Ice hockey has become one of the firmly established sports of the Un- ited States Military Academy a West Point and this season in par- ticular Coach Ray 'Marchand, of this city, had great success with the cadets down there. Nearly every sport imaginable is played by the cadets at the big in- stitution. There are some fourteen hundred of the boys, recruited from all parts of the United States\ ana they have some great athletes atong them. Baseball, association and rugb: football, lacrosse, rowing, swim ming, hand polo, water polo, tennis, golf, ice hockey, boxing, wrestling, fencing, basketball, and other ranches, are all followed up under the direction of expert coaches. A graduate coach of- U.S. M. A, OUR HOCKEYISTS. Our hockeyists, seen by foreign eyes, Must seem a selfish lot of guys For, without any sacrifice, ie course They capture everything on ice. the No matter where these babies go They always give a first class show. No matter {n what arena These athletes from Old Canada. No womder brother wins from brother! They have no rivals like each other, The greatest athletes in the world Dwell 'neath the greatest flag unfurled ! is * ----Montreal Star, with apologies to W. F. Kirk, of the New York Journal. the nominal head of cach sport ana under him any professional coaches employed give thelr instruction. On account of the nature of the climate, which allows little oppor- tunity for ice unless in a covered rink, hockey has been under diff! culties, but with gymnasium .facili- -------- i 2CSaRBAR LY SNHDERR 4 ALIA WE ARE NOW BOQKING ORDERS FOR WINTER Automobile Painting SELECT FINISHING FROST'S AUTOMOBILE PAINTING 200-505 QUEEN STREET. | , Season. | is a full one. The | Union College, | man, is a star lacrosse player | McNary, the sensational goal-keep- West Point and it is expected that, it will be ready for use in the coming| sport and the season is usually open ed by at exhibition game with Baseball is a very popular | in Ottawa at basketball. make a good showing. either the New York Yankees or the | New York Giants, The day of the West Point cade' sports set for hours from 3.30 until about 5.45 and competitions with visiting teams are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays at which great evenings for the staff and on Satur- days for the cadets. The life of the recruit is not an easy one, He is compelled to do all kinds of manual labor and is con- fined to the limits of the academy for the first two years of his course. Ho serves the senior cadets at meals, runs the errands, and does other "fatigues." Among the teams met by the West Point hockey team this year were: Princeton, Bates, Williams, Univer sity of Pennsylvania, Royal Military College of Canada, Boston A. C., Massachusetts Agricultural College, Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology. Westphalinger, the big defence man of the hockey feam, is one ok the leading football players of the Army squad. Marinelli, the centre and er, will this season be in the nest for the lacrosse team. Caywood, the captain of the hockey team is a member of the baseball nine. The cadets take a great Interest in THE AUTOMOTIVE CYLINDER GRINDING SERVICE Try us for service and you'll be agreeably surprised at the speedy accurate service and reasonable price. Automotive Grinders Limited 225 Wellington Street Auto Tops and Seats Recovered Side Curtains, All Kinds of Bevelled Glass Lights R. SINCLAIR 360 BARRIE STREET 'PHONE 1684. SPECIAL PRICES On all Odd Dressers, Dressing Tables, Chiffonieres--10 to 209%, off. Robt. J. Reid ) | as Ambulance Phone 577. aside | crowds | i attend. Dances are held on Friday Central Y.M.C.A., Toronto, will send the senior team to Kingston for Saturday night to meet the Queen's seniors in an exhibition tilt. They K.C.I. girls will meet the giris of Ottawa Collegiate next Saturday The conquerors of McGill and Queen's should | are reported to Be equally as good as West End "Y," the team defeated by the Tricolor here by one basket. 2 poor. hockey and the players themselves are fascinated with the game. It 1s a coming thing at West Point, Coach Marchand believes, and when he re- turns next year he expects to round out ome: of the finest amateur squads across the border. HOOSIER RACE IS A LURE T0 HILL In Spite of . Accidents Little Benny" Returns to Speed- way Undaunted. Indianapolis, March 13.--Bennie Hill, diminutive scion of speed, is the second driver to be announced as a competitor {in the international 500-mile race to be held at the In- dianapolis Motor Speedway, May 30th. ' Hill's entry in a Miller Special has been accepted and it is simul- taneously announced that Hill will be up on car No. 3, being the third entry in the coming classic. "Little Bennie," as he tionately known wherever present day speed creations are discussed, drove In last year's 500-mile race which was won by Tommy Milton, in an H. C. 8. Special, but he was forced out bright and early with engine trouble. Hill examples of fearlessness in auto- mobile racing. He was not prom- inently considered as a dangerous competitor until after he suffered a sensational spill in a race--an ex- perience that would have sent many a driver to the grand stand for the remainder of his days. It was during a short "exhibition 'event at Indianapolis when 'Hill at the wheel of one of Louls Chevro- let's Frontenacs speeded too rapld- ly round the first dangerous turn on the Hoosier course, hurdled the safety retaining wall without touch- ing, rode 756 feet through space in the runway and landed a prisoner be- neath the overturned car, his body cut and slashed and his bones, brok- en. ' His mechanic, Henry Frank, es- caped without a mark, thrown clear of the wreckage as the car landed. For weeks Hill remaimed immov- able in a hospital, maintaining an optimistic and cheerful outlook that has endeared him to all race goers. Despite his announced ambition to return to the track as soon as he was discharged from the hospital, his close friends admitted at the time that he wduld never be jable to race 3 is affec- | is one of the outstanding | { @a host of other stars of thirty-five Frank O'Rourke, mainstay and shortstop of the Toronto International League team, has again signed a contract with the Leafs. few real baseball players used to bolster it, this team would indeed look A A AA A ert MAA At Pe tA MAA et Baran again--that his nerve would be shat. tered. But true to his promise, Hill did go back to the speedway shortly after his release from the hospital and started a sensational winning streak that put him at the top of the heap of better American drivers. Within two years he has develop- ed into one of the most successful | pilots, exhibiting more skill on the track than he ever showed before his | terrifying accidént. He won the closing event in the 1923 championship season by win- ning the 250-mile event at the Bev- erly Hills track, Los Angeles. ALL ATHLETICS TEND T0 LENGTHEN LIVES Such Is Finding of Harvard's Director of Physical Education. It has been quite a common belich that competitive athletics tend to shorten life. Those who have in- dulged in strenuous sports of other da¥s have been disinclined to believe this. They have seen many of their former companions on the field and track pass away by adventitious causes which apparently had no con- nection with athletic conditions. They sce Walter Camp, Hector Cowan and and forty years ago still in the prime of physical -condifion and wonder whether the longevity question is an insoluble mystery, writes Luther E. Price in the New York Herald. Now comes along Willlam H. Geer, directpr of physical education at Harvard, with a statistical analysis of the problem, in which he contro- verts the popular belief. His in- vestigation covers the records of the men who have.participated majir sports at Harvard in the last fifty years. He does not contend that his analysis is conclusive, but that it raises a strong tend to prolong life. Geer Is convinced that, as the re sult of this preliminary study, an in- vestigation on a somewhat larger scale should be undertaken. He points out, however, that all studies of this character must ignore the one factor that is probably most important in any comsideration of longevity, that is, heredity. At any rate in the long rum, ath- letes and non-athletes are in the same boat as regards the chances of good heredity, and the only thing to be said Je that for the sake of Without the 10 for 18$ 20 » 35 and in tins of comparison the handicap is about equal. At the present time there is a medical and scientific supervision over college athletics that did not | obtain a generation ago. Every de- tail is studied carefully and the only substantial criticism to the selective | process of to-day is that the ambi- tious coach is apt to put his own in- terests sometimes above that of the | athlete, As long as the spirit of making mere victory the whole object ex- ists, the financial and physical ills of sports will continue. The pen- dulum seems to be swinging to a stricter regulation and the reforms are headed toward a common sense, mutual interest basis. College athletics to-day are sound fundamentally, the proselyting higher cultural standard. words, there has been a sports. "The following study of a group of 528 Harvard athletes gives the average expectation of life as well | as the ratio of actual to expected deaths for the men in this group. The data for the research was found in 'The 'H' Book of Harvard Ath- letics' and the 'Harvard University Quinguiennial Catalogue of Officers and Graduates." The study is con- fined to 'H' men and includes com- petitions In rowing, football, base- ball and tracks," says Geer. "The group contains the member- ' ship of teams from the time of the first intercollegiate competitions to the year 1900. This gave a period of forty-eight years for crew, thirty- four for baseball, twenty-six for foot- ball and twenty years for track. The mortality of the 528 athletes includ- ed in this study was traced from the! time of the first competition to the! year 1920. The men who were alive by | graduates is becoming more restrict. | ed in the case of the older univer-| sities at least, the system of intra-| collegiate athletics is developing and | the student bodies are reaching a! In other | steady | growth of intelligence in the field of ; More Sold | than all other brands combined 50 and 100 in 1920 had all been 'exposed' for a period of at least twenty years after their college competition. It would seem safe to assume therefore that any after effects of competition would appear in that period. "A study was made also to find the ratio of actual deaths among the oarsmen to the expected deaths by the American experience tables. the group of 159 men there were sixty-seven deaths, while the number of expected deaths as computed by | the American table was 96.52, giv- ing a ratio of actual to expected ------ deaths of 69 per cent. "A calculation made by J. K. Gore in 1905 gave a ratio of actual to ex- pected deaths for Harvard oarsmen of 86 per cent. The difference is probably due to the fact that the present study includes mortality data for a somewhat later period than that of the other investigation. In In | the group of English oarsmen stud- ied by Morgan of actual to expected deaths by the American tables was 64 per cent. Hunter and Gaines found a ratio of 41 per cent. in the study of Yale oarsmen." duced price. 88 PRUNCESS ST. 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