LOCAL WORLD HOCKEY § TRDER WAY TONIGHT West Is Hockey Mad and Ex- pect to Grab Stanley Cup Honors, » Victoria, B.C., March 21. --Bvery arrangement has been completed for the opening game of the world's hoo- key here tonight. The Canadiens arrived in town on Friday morning. The game will not start until nine * o'clock. The Cougars, following their strenuous campaign through four play-off games, are taking a rest. Interest in the series here is at fever heat, and every game will be witnessed by packed housed. Vie- toria has not seen & world's series since 1913, when the old Quebes Club was here to oppose Lester Patrick's charges, Montreal, March 21.---Canadien » rs in Montreal are speculat- 'on the outcome of the Stanley Oup series and, while tney hive un- He ed faith in the N.H.L. cham~ and believe they will success- defend the cup won last year in the finals from Calgary, yet there 48 an element of uncertainty which giving them cause for a little ap- prehension. BEastern hockey fans have not had th of a line on Lester Patrick's Vv Cougars, the western cham- winter and if Victoria can nose out the Tigers they can be counted on AS & team to put up a stiff battle. - The coast titleholders this season © Dave been greatly strengthened by © the addition of the pick of the old ~ Seattle club, disbanded last year. In ickson, Hart and Walker they have a fast, hard-shooting trio of forwards, who are well packed up on the substitute bench by such players #8 Foyston, Halderson and Meeking, and this combination, matched against the famous Morenz-Joliat- B Boucher line, should force a 'open battle. Any difference will be on the defence, where the appear supbrior, Sprague and Contu seeming a pair than the Loughlin- a duo, and the western for- 8 are liable to find the eastern a hard proposition to score t Canadiens will be handicap- 8d In playing away from home. The : t champions arrived in Van- morning and work: at the Vancouver Arena in the pon prior to taking the even- If boat across the gulf tp Victoria. { And it is here Nature may play tricks ith the titleholders. The eastern- I's are not particularly as group of ¢ and in March the short 80- run from Vancouver to the is- ¢ity can be a choppy and far BR comfortable journey, especially 'March winds kick up a fuss the waves sweep up the Gulf of gia from Puget Sound. An un- nt. journey may nave dire ef- the team will only have one recuperate from a possible in- jposition. The rink should make 8 difference to the easterners, , as the Victoria artificial ice about the same size as to ac- and playing surface as home ice, the Mount A "| the rte eee eer A ------------------------------ SPORT QOWDY BAFFLED ATHLETICS WITH THESE SIGNALS ANY UNEVEN TOTAL A CURVE BALL By AL DEMARER (Former Pitcher, N.Y. Giants) Probably the first set of "combi- nation" signs ever used by a catcher, were those shown below, originated By George ings, Pat Moran, Johnny Evers and Haak Gowdy for the 1914 world (series to cross the Athletic base runners who were tip- ping catchers' signs to the hitter from second base. The catcher gave three sighs in succession: the pitcher simply added up the total number of ingers shown. Even totals were fast balls and odd od totals curve balls. The same num- ber of fingers shown three times meant 8 waste ball. There were variations of this sign, one of these being that the middle sign alone counted, the first and third being ignored by the pitcher. ' IMPORTANT MEETING. On Monday to Deal With Cdse of Allen, Sarnia Player. London, Ont., March 21.--An ex- ecutive meeting of the Ontario Base- ball Amgteur Association will be held on Monday, March 23rd, in To- ronto, for the purpose of dealing with the reinstatement of "Smoky" Joe Allen, the Sarnia hurler, who has been suspended for pitching a Sun- day game in Port Huron last fall. Dolly Gray of Sarnia and George 8. Martin of London, the committee which has been appointed by the Southern Ontario Baseball League to apply for Allen's reinstatement, will appear before the Executive Com- mittee. An affidavit from Allen, which contains all particulars of the case, has been forwarded to President Me- Tariass of the 0.B.A.A, out- district 1 will with the Southern On- tario Ls "providing Allen is per- mitted lay, while in the event of stapension standing, Sarnia will compete In the Kent County League Chatham, Blenheim and Dres- OUT OUR WAY \ ING | TAAMENTE WE'D LINE TO LIVE OVER-. OUR DANDN OL NEIGHBORS. & -- THE DAILY BRITISH i WHIC & Billy Evans Says Change in World Series Cut. Baseball's advisory board has de- creed that the first four teams shall share in the receipts of' the world series. Hmited to the pennant winner, the runnerup and the team finishing third. The decision to let the fourth- place team share in the money is a 800d one for perhaps everybody ex- cept the umpires. Letting teams other than the pen- nant winners share In the world series gate has been a great help to the game, but ft has greatly increas- ed the duties and 'responsibilities df the umpire, RE With four teams sharing in the world series recgipts the race will be a battle from start to finish, without the slightest letup. RR I] ' New System Has Affected Play. In the old days, when only the two championship teams got a cut, the last five or six weeks of the season would often be soft picking. If a team by the first of Septem- ber had a lead of five games or more the race was usually considered as all over but the shouting. The teams that appeared to be out of the running invariably did a lot of experimenting with recruits. This had its good features, for it enabled managers to get a line on the new material and often made it possible for them to scratch off the list players they would otherwise have been compelled to take south Previously the melon had been| Former New York Giant pitcher, now a sport cartoonist, whose arti- cles in the Whig and other papers are attracting wide attention. - a fourth-place club will be about $500. That is a nice piece of change to pick up at the finish with a long winter just ahead. r salary as far as the series is con- cerned. 3 : re 7 A majority of the players now can see the dollar mark on every ball that is hit during the last six weeks of ihe season. Every close decision carries with it the possibility of put- ting sonie team out of the running. Broan Teams Now Battle to Finish. and no race is over until the final game is played. With four teams in the prize money, interest is certain to be in- creased. It will méan something to finish in the first division. Nothing stimulates interest or efi- ciency more than increased compen- sation. With the world sdries gate around the million-dollar mark, players of all teams are certain to get a fat cut, / For the umpire it means just that much more trouble. Instead of hav- ing the share-all system makes for strife for /the officials to the very end, - I Umpires, however, become case hardened to trouble and probably are willing to carry the increased burden for a plan that nas so greatly [li benefited the game. 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