* FOOTBALLERS PREPARE FOR SATURDAY'S FRAY Queen's Squads Hard at ork -- R.M,C. Working Steadily--How They Look. "wun several important battles coming nto prominence on Saturday : 'mext the football players of Ontario are all hard at work. Last Saturday's few games only fired off the open: jug' guns and provided a few minor ~ gRirmishes but this Saturday the 'war will be on in éarnest. Kingstonians will be mostly inter- ested in the doubleheader here at the George Richardson: Memorial Stadium, © The first game is a sen- jor fixture betwee, Raimy "Beach and the Queen's senior champions. » What that will bring forth few are prepared lo say. The .geceral opin- .fon is that the Queen's team will win as it most certainly should, but the margin of victory is not as yet apparent. Hamilton Tigers trimmed . the Beachers 44-6 in the opening ' game and Queen's might therefore be expec.ed to do even better than that but ohe must remember that TRAVIS JACKSON with Giants in the present ¥ Nt DDO ay = Y ™ Ed [HE DATLY BRITISH WHIG SPORT since that .time the Beachers have been 'able to correct several faults and have also engaged in a regular league game in which they were victorious andl thus gained a lot more confidence than they might otherwise have had. It should serve at lea#t 'as a comparison between the intercollegiate and the O.R.F. U. sebior teams of this season. We any comparison last season. The real battle of the local Satur- day bill will be the first meeting of the Queen's and R.M.C. intermed- iates in thelr annual series. Coach Hugh ys that this year he Is go- ing t ve an intermediate team in both games--not a half-senlor team in the first game and a disorganized handful of players in the second. The intbrmediates will be carefully drilled and will be expected to give a good account of themselves in both | games. R.M.C. will start favorites for Sat- urday afetrnoon's 'game. The cadets have been working together two or three weeks, will be in first class condition and will have several small advantages as well as their repu# tation as the intermediate champions of the Dominion. On the other hand, they have suffered more serious losses than any champion team of last season and have had extensive rebullding to do. Limestones go to Brockville for an exhibition game with the Q.R.F.U. team of that place. Brockville and Grand Trunks put up some games last season and tough ¢ompany. The ¢ity team will in all probability arrange an exhibition game with the Gananoque Q.R.F.U. team in a short time. RUGBY NOTES. { £. : w . Yesterday afternoon two likely looking teams showed up when Coach Hughes put the Queen's sen- iors and intermediates through their paces against one another. It was some tussle. Airth, Adams, Muirhead, Grondin, Batstone and Gib, McKelvey are all cn the injured list but are improving rapidly. Trainer Billie Hughes has lots Yo do these days but enjoyed hie tussle with King Boohoo immensely. "Billie" believes in kindness all the time but says that bears, like chil- ¢éren, must "be made to mind" oc- casionally. One of the Best contests of the year should result when R.M.C. and Queen's seconds play on Saturday. The Queen's squad will be a squad all by itself this year and will get a lot more attention than it has for some time. One of Queen's greatest points last year was the tackling of the out- side wing division, Only Bud Thomas is left and the new boys will need to step lively. Snyder, Somerville and Pequeghat on the Varsity back division are no bunch to be sneezéd at. But they will need a lot better protection than they had last year. " Both Snyder and Somerville cualify as - good kickers of field goals. Better polish up the oid toe "Pep." You'll probably nee: it sev eral times this season. -- y Gardner, a regular with' M.A.AA. last year, is subbing this season. Major Greenwood plays for results not for the grandstand---and if given any support he gets those results. * are sorry to say that there wasn'v] nice | the Lime- _| stones will be travelling in preity I" Ee Es RE RE ~ |! SILER BYE THOUILE in World's Series. " WALTER JOHNSON Played with Washington eighteen years before getting He started his second game of the pres- ent series Wednesday. What are angle plays in football? 'When the player carrying the ball stdrts as on an end run or long slant and suddenly cuts sharply in or out, it is referred to as an angle play. Please explain the term shift for- mation? Usually after a team lines up, by 8 series of shifts, whereby the men change their positions, they arrive at the formation desired and get the play away before their opponents can get firmly set to meet it. 'The ghift play is in the nature of a surprisé attack and much of its success depends on the speed with which it is executed. SENIORS AND INTERMEDIATES BATTLED IN GRUDGE CONTEST . It is top bad, but only too true, that some of the best stuff put up by the Queen's teams is done behind closed doors at the practises. On Tuesday the first little contest be- tween seniors "and Intermediates took place. It did not last very long but in that short time the inter- mediates scored more points than the seniors. Then they made the mis- take of reminding the seniors about tc : Last night the squads came out to battle and Coach Hughes (we sus- pect he engineered the whole thing anyway) added a little fuel to the fire and then sent the squads info a real game. The seniors. put all they had into the battle and the In- termediatés fought stubbornly--but it was not the usually joyous end- ing where the hard-working seconds triumphed over the arrogant senfors. On thé contrary, the seniors walked over the second team. They Ssored a good many points, in which were a cousle of trys, but they knew they hac been in a match just the same and as the battle advanced the inter- roediates Beemed to improve greatly. It was a good workout for both ssuads. : Brophy, the latest addition to the ranks, showed up well with the in- termediate team, breaking once for a fun of thirty-five yards. HIS STYLE. St. Louis, ' Oct. 9.---Aithough | sciation, the fexploded phenom Paul : Strand and Pitcher Rollie Naylor be- ing handed over by Mack. Mack figured Strand, whe batted over .400 in the Coast League in 1923, would make his club, Strand failed to deliver, was a rank failure at the bat. His blowup greatly handicapped the Mackmen, ' Lamar after joining the Athletics supplied the very punch that was ex- pected of Strand. The club started {immediately winning and during the past two months of the American League race played ds good ball as any team in the league. "Look out for 1925," says Mack. "Had Lamar startéd the 'season with us we would have surely finished In the first division." ; GET TICKETS EARLY IS WARNING TO FANS Queen's Athletic Board Reports That Roserved Seats For All Games Are Going Fast. "Tell the readers of your paper that those desiring reserved seats in the dovered stands for any of the scheduled eenior games this year had bétter take quick action as they are going very fast," is what the secretary of Queen's Ath- letic Board told a Whig represenia- tive yesterday. Because of the fact that they can buy tickets for all the games right now hundreds of fans have availed themselves of the op- portunity and the good seats are fast disappearing from the eale board. The wise fan ds the fellow who has already secured his tickets for the whole segles of games. Shortstop Worries Cobb, * Ty Cobb has already started to| worry about shortstop for 1925. Rig- ney didn't have a very good season this year and is complaining of a hip injury that has handicapped his major league career. en, : oi i 1 i aii Se 1 -| wing' they didn't send for FOOTBALL RULES' ~ BY JOE WILLIAMS. Coaches, players and trost-bitten bystanders are assembling in mob formations for annual unscrambling of world's most bewildering cross- word puzzle--the football rules. Tackle and tumble regulations consist mainly of hand-turned am- biquities andicustom-tailored contra- "| dictions, with a liberal sprinkling of misleading inconsistencies. Great minds with fully developed ego, capable of explaining iogic of the Loeb-Leopold verdict, get no place fast trying to unravel the grid- fron grammar. They find it clearer than an allen- { 1st's analysis and easier to under- stand than devoted wifey who feeds husband arsenic pastry because she loves him. i Many of the maim and murder sport rules mean nothing, and most of them mean less, depending on the political beliefs of the interpre- ter and whether or not the situation really calls for a three-card draw. An on-side kick, for instance, is not an on-side kick when the goal posts are decorated in weeping wis- taria 'but, on the other hand, a vic- tory for Fulton over Firpo might change the comiplexion ot things al- together, ee On shift plays the men must come to temporary halt, break at com- mand of referee, keep one foot on floor 'in executing mass shots and never talk back to an Arkansas pan- ther. -- ~~ In days before interference the slug and slaughter game was not all cluttered up with amendments; in- junctions and self-lubricating pro- tocols. When a halfback -hit an onside a rule book, they sent for an ambulance. Old-fashioned form of homicide may have been harder on gladiators but it was easier on spec- tators, who demanded their touch- OUT OUR WAY TA eR er LLL Er LITT Trae Tr FAP. ESeUREIERYE YER - -e athletic ! fair account. F ootball Togs - Are you ready for the football field ? We "have Balls, Shoes, Clothing. : Queen's Queen's Queen's The big yell will soon be heard, so let your boy have a tryout and he may catch a place. | r \ Give him equipment and he can give a Treadgold Sporting Goods Co 88 Princess St., Kingston. Spalding's Store. Phone 529. downs raw. sudden and without legal complications. KINGSTON TENNIS CLUB. In the semifinals of thé champion ship competition for the W. P. Cu- sick trophy . Douglas Chown has eliminated Albert Stroud. W.P. Cu- sick and H., McKenzie have a sem} final match to: play and the winner will go into the finals with D. Cnown and J. C. Reynolds, One of the players will, of course, get a bye. Amateur Baseball, ~ RHE 5 6 2 8 Oslers. Galt.. «ove ous salon ow iowien vel «12 Yesterday's Soccer, In a Kingston and District: Poot- ball Association match iat the cricket field Wednesday afternoon R.C.A. defeated R.M.C. | Riding School 6 to 1. Guy and Norwood were prominent for the artillery with Capt. Finney and Sgt. Major Bettes starring for .the Riding School. Capt. Lee proved the best referee who has yet officiated in one of the K. and D. games. Having won his tenth pennant, John MeGraw is casting out lines for next year. Not satisfied with bis outfield, he seeks to get Ed Roush of the Reds in a trade. By Williame