BOXING YEAR BROUGHT FEW RING SENSATIONS Only World's Title to Change 'Hands Did 8o Without a : Battle. ~ * New York, Dec. 29.--Desplte a fecord-breaking amount of astivity, marked by no little color, the 1924 boxing campaign passes into history with few domitant developments or . pemsational results. ' any high spot compar- able with the memorable Dempsey- Firpo battle of 1923, the seascn 'was noteworthy chiefly for a final and unsuccessful invasion of Ameri- oa by Georges Carpentier, the down- fall of Luis Angel Firpo from the ranks of heavyweight title contend- ers, and the passing of two veteran _ champions, Another important de- velo, was approval of a new - law tting 12-round bouts in California in 1926 and forecasting 8 big ring revival on the coast. 'Only one world's title change took place in the ring'and that occurred shen Abe Attel Goldstein dethron- of Joe Lynch as bantamweight title- holder in a colorless 15-round bout at Madison Square Garden that set a lores Shamplon upon the 118-| pound: th The rs Break in the ranks of came 'when Johndy Dun- Harry Wills, giant negro, in a bout at Boyle's Thirty Acres, and then suffered a crowning setback when he was defeated by Charley Weinert, who had been an easy victim for the "Wild Bull" in 1923. These defeats were looked upon as eliminating Firpo from the front rank of Dempsey's challengers, but the Argentinian may attempt an- other comeback. Wills stood out again at the end of the season as the chief heavy- weight contender but his victory over Firpo failed to increase the negro's prestige and the prospect that he will gain a long-sought match with Dempsey still is the ring's principal uncertainty. Jack Renault, hard-hitting Cana- dian, has been regarded as a formi- dable Dempsey rival, but recently his stock slumped when he unex- pectedly met defeat in Boston at the hands of Quintin Romero, Chilean, who had failed to impress in any of his 'previous bouts. The year failed to uncover much 'promising néw material in any divi- sion. The few exceptions Were chiefly in the featherweight ranks, where Dundee's retirement stimu- lated activity, while Sid Terris, flashy New Yorker, developed nto a formidable lightweight contender. Paul Berlenbach, Jimmy Slattery atid" Stribling added color and In- terest to light heavy ranks. Foreign talent continued to In- vade American rings but met with scant success. Discarding Firpo .| and Romero, South America's chief forfeited without a struggle the featherweight title he had won the before from Eugene Criqui, French fighter. Dundee re- "| linquished the title, which he had aot once defended, because of his further to make the 126- pound limit, and the New York State Athletic Commission has launched an elimination tourna- ment, the survivor of which will be 2 by that body as the new feather champion. It seems likely that the result of this procedure thus shattering, pusilistic precedent and upsetting the old theory that # champion can lose his crown only the ring, Dundee was shorn completely of titles when he lost to Kid Balli- wan, the junior lightweight, or 130- pound championship, a division, s Which is not generally 5. Bea ht with prospects of sn oan: of title metivity, far short of, expecta~ threat was Luis Vicentini, haFd- hitting Chilean lightweight,who per- formed impressively at times but in recent months met defeat against Jack Bernstein and Terris. Panama sent a formidable feather contender in Jose Lombardo. . Besides Carpentier, France had another entry in Charley Ledoux, veteran bantamweight, but neither was' sutcessful. Carpentier lost spectacular fights to Gene Tunney, American light heavyweight cham- pion and Tom Gibbons, Ledoux was beathn decisively by Goldstein. Erminio Spalla, the European heavyweight, came to the United States after being knocked out in the Argentine by Firpo but was de- feated by Tunney. Gibbons crossed to England for an international bout in which he knocked out Jack Bloomfield. . Generous To Sisler. There are some St. Louis scribes who contend that 'it the official scorer had beer as generous with Rogers Hornsby as he was with George Sisler, the Cardinal star would have hit close to .500. Sen. timent for Sisler swayed many "a base hit In his favor. O'Neill Gets Break. Steve O'Neill is well pleased at going from a near tailender to an almost pennant winner. Steve was recently sold by 'the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. He has already started to get in shape to prove he isn't through as a cat- cher. I EaESSISISIT-- EE ' FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN The City League has a couple of problems on its hands right now which will take some solving. The first of these is to decide whether or not Player "Don" Nickle is eligible to compete for Irishmen. Nickle is a student at Boston, home for the holidays. His home is in Kingston, but be 'was not here for some time prior to Dec. 15th. What's the answer ? he ofber oue is to keep he Circle-Six club in the league. These youngsters add a speed and dash to hardly be lost without a fight. They City League hockey which can vant cleaner hockey or none at all. It's up to the executive to do something to keep them in. . » Come on, you hockey players, get out to the Kingston intermediate team practices this week. You are needed there. First game is Friday night and not a position has been definitely assigned. . . Two years ago the City BURA 10) Suspmien « Jiayor. yeas season the City Hockey League suspended a player. 'The effect produced was remarkable and very satisfying. The suspension touch must be brought into tse mighty quickly this season if things do not improve. "Smut" Veale has been in town spending the holidays with his par. ents. He has some mighty interesting news on sport in general, but there is one thing he 1s sure of--no more chewing gum for him on a playing field, Protest Entered | The Circlesix City League tlub hag entered a protest regarding player "Don" Nickle on the game with the Irishmen, played on Friday night last. The "Sixers" claim that Nickle is. attending the Boston Tech., was not in the city prior to Dec, 15th, and does not qualify as us City League player. Nickle filled the hole caused by "Tommy" Angrove's absence, and gave the Circlesix crew a lot of trouble. If their assertions are true, the decision of-the League will be interesting. Another Result, It is on good authority, that the Circlesix 'club will dfop out of the City League as a result of last Fri- day's game. "We consider ourselves as good a team as is entered," said a mem- ber of their club," but when we send out boys of junior age and with marked ability, to give the fans good hockey, and have them sent back to us maimed and injured badly, we think it time to pull out ofa ia which will allow such a thing." The decision of the club will probably be made known when they enter their protest at the special meeting to be called for that pur posey -- » Meanwhile the battles will com- tinue, This evening at the Arena, there will be two classy The two league leaders, Irishmen and Live Wires, will be the con- tenders in one .game--and it will be a hummer--and Regiovolis Club £ and R.C.A. will meet In thé second. That first game should be worth a dollar to any hockey fan dut all the league asks for both is twenty- five cents. OOBB LEFT OUT When Detroit Players Pick the Best Manager. This is the unkindest cut of all Detroit players, asked to pick an All-American baseball team, en- tirely overlooked Tyrus Raymond Cobb in the role of manager. Tris Speaker was the first choice of the Tyger players as the best manager in the American League. He scored on personality, baseball ability and knowledge of the game. Stanley - Harris, leader of the 'world champion Washington club, ran a good second to Speaker. ) Connie Mack received one vote, which was ome more than the De- troit athletes slipped the flery man- ager of the Tygers. The vote of the players is a direct slap at the managerial strategy of the great Cobb and isn't going to make a hit with him. "Heinles" Play Ball, New York, Dec. 29.--The failure of the major league tourists to go big in Europe brings out the fact that Japan is one of the few coun- tries that has enthused pver Ame- rica's national game, + Jim- Johustone,, former National League umpire, who has just re- turned from a trip abroad, says a mistake was made by the tourists in not visiting Germany. Johnstone says that of all the European countries he toured, Ger- many was the only ome in which the kids were actually playing the game. In the other countries where base- ball was played former Americans and Canadians were the performers, .men to the NUCH MORE PRACTICE Players Not Attending Sufficl-|| ently to Business--Danger of Shortage for. Opener. Brockville comes here for an in- termediate O.H.A. fixture on Friday evening and so far there is not a person in town who can outline the team that will repesent King- ston. That was why the executive of the Kingston "Combines" got to- gether on Saturday for a meeting which brought forth a whole lot of discussion sad promised energetic subsequent action. President T. A. Kidd was in the chair. When the ent -situation was discussed, it wad found that the players were not turning out as had been expected. There are several reasons. Christmas holidays have taken away Queen's and R.M.C. men, ag will the coming Queen's hockey 'tour, The City League has kept some of the players so busy they have not felt like practise. The coach has been so occupied with other tasks that he has only ap- peared a few times, and had it not been for Prof. Gelley, of RMC,, the few who did turm out weuld havg had no coaching but their own. To offset all this, the names of two or three players of each city league team will be handed to the respective managers who will. in turn, be asked to accompany their intermediate O.H.A. practises gnd encourage them Iv evel} way to take part. The league has done its part in lifting the ban on O.H.A. men, and nothing more can be expected from it as a league, but _individually, the players and managers can render a great deal of aid. "Yi was anndunced at the meeting that all players of the Kingston team would be insured agaiust ili- ness or accident. Practises for the team will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6 until 7, and on Thursday morning at an hour to be announced later, Panet and Pugh, of R.C.A.; Mil ian, Lanos, Tobin, Spoor, of "Irish- men; Purdy and Holman, of Gran- The New ¥) Olympia The same-model as used by the world champions in France, and they are another member of the AUTOMOBILE ™ Family and every one knows they are the best Skate made. DON'T WAIT | but get your Hockey Boots and Skates now as we have your size and can match your pocket. Nook. Treadgold Sporting Goods Co 88 Princess St., Kingston. ites; Lawlor, Gibson, Smith, Watts, of Live Wires; and Devlin, of Circle- six, are players available from City L.eagie teams. Prof. Gelley announced that some good men could come from R.M.C,, among them the speedy Bill - Har- graft, snappy forward man. Coach Hughes will be on the job again today, it is expected, and will start out again with the team on Tuesday. James T. Sutherland, at the meet ing, gave an emphatic and splendid address on "Clean Sport," which, although not making any direct re- ferences, gave the teams in the city league in two or three of this sea r Mayor Hiltz "In justice to bette lines." . GASOLINES REFINED HERE PRAISED BY THE MAYOR to-day issued the following statement Canadian ofl refin- ers, it should be stated that a later and more complete under the supervision of the medical health department shows that gaso- lines Jotually refined in Canada are than the samples we collected, both in the United States and here, of American manufactured gaso- 'analysis, made son's games a setting out which would have done them good had all the players been present.' | Friday night is the, first big game. Everybody out and down » hard work. Only Shortstop Doubtful, Connie Mack is sald to be satis fied with every position on his team but ghortstop. Galloway, Who pro- mised so a couple of years back, Was GoWSd OWE 10 1 WE lipeEs Bobby Veach cost the B cost the Boston Red Sox close to $20,000 just one year ago. Now he is being offered at the waiver price, | if