THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 102% 10 ; THE DAI "z.| SPORTING DISTRICT CHANPIONSEI BS Pe. orcivnc Irishmen and Verona to Decide | that the take-off and slides tor ski- Which Has 'the Better | Jumping, the bob igh chute and y | the stands and dressing rooms at the Team This Season. | skating rink are all permanent and rin i in the future are expected to increase When Belleville and Irishmen | the prestige of Chamonix as a winter played at the Holt Rink on Friday | resort. evening last it was thought to be |' -------------- the final hockey match of the sea- [S$ ¢ S++ + C+ ++ 2h $3 son. Now another one is billed. |(® Irishmen and Verona are to meet for | + the championship of the district at|+# the R.M.C. rink tomorrow night. * Some of the county followers think | + their title winner, Verona, is a pretty + snappy outfit. The Kingston sup- porters of the bay of Quinte League champions, the Irishmen, maintain that they have the class of the minor leagues. So the game has been ar- ranged and they are going to settle the matter. Last year the same teams met at | the. Jock Harty Arena of blessed | memory and the Irish were triumph- | ant, However, Verona, with much more experience, and playing on a rink that fs more in their line, may put something over on the wearers | of the green. The ice will not be of | midseason quality and the slower pace will favor the county leaguers. | ® Despite the lateness of the season | + the interest In the match is surpris- | LY BRITISH WHIG TIMELY COMMENTS | GENERAL' REVIEWS city of Chamonix subscribed 2,000,- ¢ 000 francs, the French government | TS 5 | FROM THE OUTSIDE--LOOKING IN 1 Department | f the Haute Savoie Two star goal-keepers from Kingston, a star centre man from Kings- ton, a 'star wing man from Sydenham, and a former Queen's man as a substitute of merit---all this in the greatest senior hockey fixture of the Season, seems to say that the little old Limestone City is still on the hockey map with a vengeance. PERHAPS the Strollers "Clues" this week will enable you to do some trading to advantage. You may have two pictures of one star. Your friend may have two pictures of another. You both get further ahead by "swopping." Down 'here most of us hesitate to put Dr. Charlie Stewart, good as he is, in a higher class than "Jim' Walsh. "Flat" may not be so smooth in his clearing and general behavior in the goal, but his results show that he is a sensational worker and he has been the hero of many battles in which he fought the opposition with only two and three players of his own team on the ice. JACK NEWTON ACTS AS VARSITY COACH Jack Newton, one of the brainiest half-backs that ever played Rugby, and developer of splendid material in the last few years at Sarnia, has con- sented to act as honorary coach of the Varsity Rugby team next year. Jack knows Rugby from a to z, and unless all signs fail should meet with good success with the Varsity senior inter- collegiate team. Dr. Murray will act as honorary coach of the Varsity senior O. R. F. U. team. As soon as wehther permits work will commence on the new Varsity concrete stands on the east side of the playing field. When. these are completed there will be seating accommodation at the stadium tor over 14,000. They have a fellow on the Hamilton squad called "Happy" Day. It's a mighty good thing they have no player named Knight They would most certainly have named him "Holy." Today's "clues" are of two prominent movie stars, whose pictures will appear in the final contest sheet in this paper. One can hardly believe that Luis Firpo intends to retire from the prize ring at this stage, as he is reported to have claimed. But, on the | Save and Trade other hand, the senor has done so many strange, things that it would | > not be a great surprise. We have a sneaking hunch that Jack Dempsey | Strollers Pictares will not be at all displeased if it turns out to be true. Despite the roars of the Dempsey press agents the same Firpo is a big menace to the title-holder. Doswell"s Ecliptic second; and Fos- ter, a famous four miler, third. The Dinner, Party Stakes, as it was then called, was worth $18,600 to It was announced last night that Harry Batstone, star half- back of the Queen's Dominion Championship football team Rr TTT To-morrow we have the great old mix-up--one of the season's classics --the little world series between Irishmen and Verona for the champion- ship of the district. No matter wi the result may be, the fans will make a lot of noise about it. Either large .or small I> pictures will be ac- ingly keen, not only in the city, but | cepted. among county fans. There should + be a good turnout over there to-|@ 5 morrow night and a battle royal for ¢ $$$ $2 + FPF +P 2+ + the honors of the game. } | Joe Smith, Kingston's favorite ar- biter, will have the honor of referee. ing this game which will ring down the curtain on the hockey season of 1923-24. » * -* »> J +» > * * + * * + + 2 * * * * * * Ww * + +* -* -| * * Remember the Complete Contest Ad. appears in this paper April 25th | FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT AFTER END OF BOUT the winner, as compared with a pros- pective value of the mew Dixie, ! | should twelve or fifteen of the 118 ! entries 80 to the post, of over $23,- | Many Objected to Referee's CHAMONIX WINTER GAMES, | COST 12 TIMES $ 000, with $5,000 to the second, $2,- 000 to the third, and $1,000 to the fourth, prizes well worth striving for even in these fabulous days. The Maryland Jockey Club Decision in Contest at Paris | --Women Trampled. Paris, March 20.--A near-riot de- and one of the best amateur | third-sackers in Ontario base- | ball, will be with the Kingston | team again this year and will | $TR THE CIGARET TI WITH _THE ORIGINAL FLAVOR Tux Tosacco Propucrs Corronarron or Caxana, Loaves, Ham row, Owr. Paris, March 2.--The winter | sports competitions held recently at| Chamonix as part of the Olympic Games proved a success in every re- spect with the exception of the finan- clal returns. An outlay of 3,000,000 francs brought in gate receipts of only 260,000 francs. The excessive number of free tickéts was respon- sible for this as the attendance was never below 3,000 a day. Notwithstanding the financial loss ' there was no disappointment because the Olympic authorities expected it. Of the fund for the winter games the thought so highly of the winners ot the old Dixie stakes that it inscribed their names on the panels of the Pimlico grand stand, the list ¢om- prising, in addition to Preakness, Harry Bassett, which "walked over' Hubbard, Tom Ochiltree, Tom Bowl- ing, Vandalite, the only filly on the roster, Vigil, not the Salmon colt of this name, Duke of Magenta, Mon- itor, Grenada, Monarch, Geo. Ken- ney, Loftin, East Lynn, The Bard, Hanover and Taragon. . ---------- It is almost always the fault the lover not to know when he no longer loved. veloped Tuesday at a boxing show over the decision of the referee at the finish of a fifteen-round bout between Fred. Bretonnel and Paul 'Fritsch, lightweights. Previously Ted "Kid" Lewis had won the main bout of fifteen rounds on points from Francis Charles. 'Lewis displayed but a shadow of his oldtime welterweight form. Bretonnel and Fritsch feught like wild cats throughout the entire fif- teen rounds, and both were on the verge of a knockout at the finish. Bretonnel had a slight advantage in -~ Y\y seven rounds, while Fritsch led in seven, The other round was about ANTI we Immediately after the referee ren- KIDNEY "§ dered his decision, which the fol- PILLS = be employed by the Canadian! Locomotive . Company during | the summer. The fans will certainly rejoice to hear that | 'Harry Lee" and his trusty bat will be on the job again this summer. Pam. nr cm ANNOUNCEMNET BY FIRPO SURPRISING Belief That Financlal Induce« ment Would Influence Fighter to Change Mind. 'With some men life is nothing but a long hog path leading to the vem- etery. of A man may be more cunning than is | another, but not more cunning than i all others. New York, March 20.--Luis Angel Firpo's announcement that he would retire from the ring after fighting Al Reich, of the United States, at Buenos Aires next month, came as something of a bombshell in pugilis- tic circles, where its effect on the year's pugilistic programme was the chiet topie. In some quarters there was scep- ticism over Firpo's assertion and a belief that sufficient inducements would influence the giant Argentine to change his mind, Willlam McCarney, Firpo's United States representative, who arranged an extended exhibition and fighting | tour of the United States and Canada during the summer, had received no direct word from Firpo and was holding his programme in abeyance until receipt of advice from- the South American. Tex Rickard, under whose guid- ance the colorful South American climbed spectacularly in six months from obscurity to a record-breaking title fight with Jack Dempsey, was in Washington and his associates would make no comment. Rickard, it was believed, had obtained Dempsey's | consent to a return match with Firpo ! next September here, but cadre ..- ports said the Argentine rejected Rickard's latest fight bid, a $500,000 offer for bouts with Harry Wills and Dempsey. Should Firpo carry out his announced intention, however, Latin color to the fistic programme would not be lacking. Erminio | Spalla, Italtan holder of the Europ- | lowers of Fritsch considered was against their man, some of the spec- tators began bombarding the referee. The police intervened and attempt- ed to arrest the disturbers. A free- for-all fight developed, and in the crush of panic-striken spectators, hotwere trying to reach the exits, many women were trampled. Several " persons were arrested. Some of the spectators, who are close followers of the boxing game, expressed the opinion that the dis- turbance would go a long way to- wards killing the sport in France. 087 ue PLY TABLED 1871. HANLEY'S AGENGY FOR ALL OCEAN STEAMSHIP LINES Special attention given your family oi friends going to or returning from the Old Country. Passports arranged. For full puiticulare apply er write J. P. HANLEY, C.P. & T.A., C. N. R'y Office: Canadian National Railway Station, corner Johnson and Ontario Streets, Kingston, Ont. Open L804 night. Fhones 99 and 14383. WELLER RLS SAILINGS FROM ST. JOHN To Liverpool Mar. 21|Apr. 18 Mar. ape, a8 ... DIXIE HANDICAP DATE. / Historic Event Will Be Ran on Sat- urday, May 3rd. Baltimore, March 20.--The Dixle Handicap for three-year-olds and up- ward, with $25,000 added, at one mile and three-sixteenths, will be run on Saturday, May 3rd, at Pimli- co, and will be next to the Preak- ness, scheduled for Monday, May 12th, the leading event on the flat on the Maryland Jockey Club's spring meeting from May 1st to 13th. ~ The Dixie ig a revival in name of the classic fixture originally called the Dinner Party Stakes, that feat- ured the opening meeting at Pimlico in 1870, and was won by M. H. San- ford"s Preakness, ridden by "Billy" Sen Treadgold Spor 86 PRINCESS ST. WE SERVE GOOD MEALS Good meals served to your liking. EVENING PARTIES given first class attention. THE VICTORIA CAFE a 854 King Street. Sing Lee and Gan Lee, Props. Telephone 76%. ng PHONE 529. Somebody page Jack Dempsey, for here is a man with battle in his eye and yearning for the heavyweight championship. His name is Leo Gates, and he is a full-blooded Mo- ean heavyweight title, who was hawk Indian, standing six feet. two inches knocked out in 14 rounds by Firpo | Kingston Battery Service W. MILNE, PROPRIETOR. ALL MAKES OF STORAGE BATTERIES, STARTING ' MO- TORS, GENERATORS AND MAGNETOS REPAIRED AION ory i OUR PRICE FOR CHARGING BATTERIES .......... 75c. March 37, Empress of Britain SUMMER SAILINGS PHONE 1925J. 118 BROCK ST. FOR SALE New Brick Bungalow--6 rooms, 3 bed: rooms, electric lights, nice fixtures, gas, 3 piece enamel bath, furnace, oak floors, wall plugs, good cellar, private driveway. MI $5000 _M. B. TRUMPOUR _--- 'May 7 4 'Empress of Scotland Bey ai3uns da Er Ld Vranee Phone 704 or 15421, - 270 PRINCESS STREET -------------- " ons of Toronto Indus trial Association League, who went gh the season without a defeat, winning the C.C:M. . and S. trophies. Left to Back row,H. Bidwell,C. Goldsmith SV. MeAllister (cap- K. and S. Tire hockey J tain), G. H. Kitchen, C. . Centre: pe Davies, secretary; B. Sharpe JA Gilhooley, president; G." recently, asd Quintin Romero Rojas, Gacden against Fioyd Johnson, of Chilean heavyweight, have ; Iowa. People who talk the most gemer-- sily attract the least attention, ¢ ite, .C. Heyd, E. 'W, Holme, manager; A. Mn, W. J. Dialesandro, honorary | mascot, and C.GM, trophy, Roy hy ; Soh