LEAVE END OF WEEK igby and Hockey Mentor at Queen's Has Had Great Success, Ooach W. P. Hughes will leave for is home in Montreal the end of 8° week to enjoy a well-earned 'holiday and prepare for the strenu- Dus rugby campaign that is ahead Queen's next fall. Coach Hughes concluded a very successful term sh Hughes' work needs no men- Bm and as a hockey coach he 'brought the university team within ing distance of the Intercol- te senior championship, some- ing that has not: been done for ,time 'around Queen's. season W. P. hopes to trot As strong an aggregation as there in the Intercollegiate Union and i some good prspects in mind. lle he 18 saying little about hoc- for next season, hs promises i's and the city the fastest hoc- in action here in years. Hughes will report back at i's about September 1st to pre- for the rugby squad. Trainer Hughes does not leave the 'ersity until the 1st of April. A REAL CHAMPION. besides being bly the best centre player in . National Hockey League, is a t person to have on the line-up | the Canadiens. The Stratford » Who left with the world's plons for the coast Sunday Ing, has been in hockey for eight and every ome of those years been on a champion squad some kind. When he first started ley his team won the Northern League junior title for three running, and then the senior he! title. After that, with ord juniors, he was on the championship team in the ! Hockey Association, and he year following they won the in- diate O.H.A. championship. 'hen last year he went to the diens, who won the world's pro- al title, after annexing the tional Hockey League crown, and yoar the Habitants with Morens sensational hockey won the League title again and are ¥ way west to defend their * Cup laurels. 'And being twenty-one years of age, he has hockey career ahead of him. can tell how many more cham- Ip outfits he will play with ? | pennant race is don, March 2Qp--Four London hockey players, it is said, will nateur hockey in New York Season, where arrangements are made to be represented in the States , Hockey Association, in a nar. The four ' players are: Jerry Lowry Starkings, Rene Fournfer and ® Bell is In Three left for Mont- i 3 will leave * Lowry is likely to join three players HORNSBY'S SWING FREE AND EASY; STANCE IS OPEN | FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Thanks to the work of George Mathewson, the Juvenile Hockey League added another successful season to its long 'list this year and much appreciation of the boys for that success is due to "Nipper." Here is one man who stands for junior sport, who likes to help the boys along and takes an Interest in their games. There is not another man in Kings- ton' to-day who has done as much for juvenile hockey in the city of Kingston as the same Géorge Mathewson. . He has been president of the League for many years and it is safe to say that if he were not there to take hold, that there would not be any juvenile league. More power to him and it is hoped that he will always continue to fake an active interest in the boys. Mayor Angrove states that if the Kingston Baseball Club in the Central Ontario League does not get busy, he is going to call a general meeting of citizens to talk over the situation and see what can be done. Gene Fraser, manager and captain of the Niagara Falls team, hay been marked for his fine sportsmanship, and that counts for a great deal. There are few enough of his kind in sport to-day and his sportsmanship actions in Niagara Falls sport. What effect the strike of the Hamilton "Hold-outs" tional Hockey League, of course, remains to be seen, have made him a secure place in the world of has on the Na- Some of the players are reported to haye sald that they are through with hockey as far as the Hamilton club is concerned. It these payers have black-listed Hamilton, they might just as well have included the National Hockey League, for if | the Hamilton club retains its franchise in the N.H.L. the players in ques- tion, if they were on any other club in. the league, would be about as wel- come in the Ambitious City Bs a skunk at | Citizen, EM A Eris ---------- En ------------_-- aad op)" By AL DEMAREE, Former Pitcher, N.Y. Giants. Rogers Hornsby, the great right- hander of the St. Louis Cardinals, leading slugger of the National League, lke all long distance hit- ters, is a combination shoulder and forearm hitter. He grips his bat at the extreme end; his stance at the plate is open; his swing at the ball, while hard, is free and easy. Hornsby led the National League hitters last year with an average of 423. In compiling this record Rogers had a remarkable batting spurt beginning August 20th and ending August 29th, in which period he played in fourteen games, went to bat fifty-one times and made thir- ty-four hits, including ten doubles, one triple and seven home runs for an average of .667. -------------- HAS YOUNG TEAM. \ John McGraw, However, Has Every Confidence. Saratoga, Fla, March 20.--John McGraw, veteran manager of the New York Giants, has concluded that the team he will lead into, the 1926 "a good young club." "My team is rounding to pretty falr shape," sald McGraw. "The best thing I can say about it at this time is that it has lots of reserve strength. I have some good looking youngsters, but just how good they are I am not yet ready to say. "My outfield is not working yet. Wilson has a charleyhorse, M : has just reported, George Kelly's father died recently and he has not turned up yet. : "As for the new men, I am not Billy Evans Says | 0 OB ett btinch BY BILLY EVANS. Back in 1908 Fred Merkle failed to touch second in a game with Chi- cago. Had he done so it would have won the game, instead it ended in a tie. The race for that year also ended in a tie. It was necessary to play over the game New York should have won. The Giants lost and with the defeat went the chance to play in the series. Here was the situation in that game: Score tie, last of ninth, two out, runners on first and third. Merkle was on first. The batsman singled, apparently scoring the winning run. Merkle, on first, went to within about 10 feet of second and then raced Tor the Giants' clubhouse. Evers, playing second for Chicago, prepared at this time to say that I] have a real outstanding player amet Shem. It is too early. Maun and ¥ both look better than last year. I believe Kent Greenfield will make & good pitcher and Frank Walker has done well in the practice games, A "We have a good ball club, I don't kow whnere we'll finish, but we'll give them a battle down the home stretch (of the pennant race." a garden party.--Ottawa finally got the ball and touched sec- ond base. Bince Merkie failed to do 80, It simply made a force play at second, retiring the side and erasing the winnifig run, as no run can seore on a force third out. Merkle, a brainy ball player, mere- Iy overlooked a slight technicality, failure to touch a base. It happens scores of times every year in the majors. Because his error caused the loss of the pennant, and with it thous- ands of dollars, it has gone down in history as a colossal bone. Merkle became an object of ridi- cule in the baseball world. A less courageous player would have quit, but Merkle lived it down. Now the so-called "bonehead" Merkle has been hired by no less a person than Miller Huggins to be his assistant at New York, a member of his board of strategy. A fitthig tri- bute to his ability, ULL im 7 7 el J BY J 0 WILLIAM Wiitie Ritola announces he. will not again compete against Paavo Nurmi dgain, thereby proving him- self to be a gentleman of rare in- telligence. There are 8,185 golf clubs in the States, at least three of which agree the greens commitee knows how to run things. We read that William Tilden is a man of settled habits....One of which appears to be the habit of leading the country's.tennis players every year. Cozy Dolan is still confident Lan- dis will reinstate him, ...Mr. Dolan is just the kind of bird we'd like to sell lightning rods to. Missouri boasts a basketball play- er who is eight feet tall... This proves there is more than one way te get up In the world. . Tiger Flowers, the colored fighter, is also. a naturalist. ...So listening [ 1177777 yours out now. street car. Come in to-day. to the birdies sing is no novelty to him. Senor Firpo was involved in an automobile wreck the other day, but unfortunately only the machine was busted. Joe Birmingham taught Bucky Harris how to slide.... What we'd like to know is who taught the Red Sox how to slide. Hardly any money is being bet on the Miami races.... When the real estate boys get through with you down there you have no money left. | 'The New York Giants are to have an official song next season....it probably will be entitled "In 'th Sweet Buy and Buy." : Johnny Dundee simply believed that 'when in France do as the French do, so he up and took French leave. ' Want Allan Oup Games. Montreal, March 20.--President EH. J. Finch and Secretary F. J. Mor. rissey of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association have left to attend the annual meeting of the Canadian Am- ateur Hockey Association at Winnj- peg. which will be held in conjune- tion with the Allan Cup champion ship games, opening March 23rd. . The main object of the Quebec men will be to convince the meeting that Montreal is the logical location for the Allan Cup games next season, and will base their argument on the fact that the largest crowd which ever attended the amateur ~~ The word all good riders think of when they think of Bicycles, THEY ARE HERE 1925 models are here and you can pick: » DON'T WAIT but come in and pay $2.00 cash and $2.00 | per week and you will have a wheel paid for : and never miss the money--then you can let the other fellow hang on the strap in the Treadgold Sporting 88 Princess St., Kingston. "Phone 529 hockey agara Falls game here. game saw' the would have us " . Newest thing in London. The bo toms are twenty-two fsches fa di- ameter. 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