hi LL ---e§n. a... -- ee ee ee ~ SPORTIN G 0 Warriors Are Confl- dent They Will Return Home With the College Title. Queen's rugby squad left at moon tor Toronto where on Saturday they the Varsity stadium in a tus- with the Blue and White that 3 to be the most thrilling Tugby engdgement of the year. The ) held their final workout in pn. for the game on Thurs ¥ afternoon at the Richardson Stadium and the majority of the la) were on hand. "Red" Mec- y "Gib" McKelvey, "Bua" h and other elections workers re not on hand when the players lett for the stadium but the rest of ihe men were there and put m » 'good afternoon's work. Last night a chalk talk was given the players by the Athletic Direc- * and details of various plays were [ked over. The men were impress- with the Importance of the strug- that is to come on and while they ve' confidence of defeating tne Blue and White, feel that they will ve their work cut out for them. Little fs being said by the Tricolor- warriors but they are mighty ser- bout this game. They are very is to make it four ' stralgue and it is expected that they ll be able to come through, The 3 here have every confidence In boys to return home with a vie- and the Intercollegiate title for fourth straight time. As far as the team that will start against the Blue and White, it is d that Britton will be at fly- 'wing with Chantler, McKelvey 'Batstone starting on the half Baldwin will be at quarter with is starting as per usual at snap. head and Adams will handle in- wing positions with "Red" Mc- ivey and Brown doing middle duty. Thomas and Walker will at outside wing., The reserve will be composed.of Howard, , Leadley, Vo orrie, Mec- on, Wright and Skelton, TEAM READY FOR OTTAWA GAME ir Red and White Team Will Face Battling Senators. ; , Que, Oct. 30.--Just much condition players can lose three days off training was fully it: Wednesday at the Mc- Stadium, when Coach Shau- sy had the Red and White out for their first drill since "hard tussie at Kingston last . Three trips around the "took all the wind the players i then they were sent through 2 light signal drill to complete out. Yesterday they were two hours of scrimmaging to them for the exhibition t Ottawa against the Senators : , and the team, well rested | last Saturday's game, will be F for a stiff battle with the Big leaders. | ly intends to send his into the fray, with the ex- m of Hammie Boucher, who is 'bruised after his terrific display ie cutting last week. On the 8 it fs likely he will use Bill McGill is going into the Ot- in earnest, they are also manifesting keen interest in the Queen's-Varsity tussle to be staged the same dayyat Toronto. McGill men who witnessed the first meeting bétween the two university teams at FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Kingston at 'the start of the when Queen's came from behind to win in the last quartér with a lucky touchdown anticipated a stiff ana even battle between the Tricolor and Blue and White, LOU MARSH HARD ON THE TRICOLOR Nothing Very Complimentary in What He Says of Local Gridders. "The team is coming along satis- factorily." 3 That is the best news of Varsity practices you can pry out of Varsity rugby officials. On the eve of the biggest game of the year from an Intercollegiate standpoint--the game with Queen's Saturday---the Varsity squad is still under cover, and nothing is leaking out. Is it the moral effect the Varsity moguls are seeking? Or have they developed something really new in Canadian football which they are going to spring upon the public--and Queen's? The mysterious visit of "Yank" Bjorkman, famous Dartmouth line- man and captain, and his presence at Varsity practices the week following | the game between Varsity and Queen's at Kingston, has the football public keyed up to the last notch. What did Bjorkman teach Varsity players? Of course it was interference--but what interference could . Bjorkman give Varsity which Frank Shaugh- nessy could not give McGill? Shag is an old U.S. college coach, and he should know. all the tricks of U.S. interference which can be graft- ed upon the Canadian game, which legislates against all interference ex- cept in .a thrée-yard zone in front of and parallel across the fleld with the line of scrimmage. Of course this Bjorkman comes of a more modern school of U.S. foot- ball than Shag. Maybe he has some new ideas. The excited rugby populace i§ on its toes and it will be looking for something radically at variance with the usual interference plays of Cana- dian senior teams from Varsity be- cause of Bjorkman's visit. Will they get it? That is the problem. Any New Interference? That the Dartmouth man has taught the Varsity players some- thing which is considered of real value is evidenced by the fact that the rugby officials around the big college are eagerly awaiting his promised re-appearance this week to complete the work that he started two weeks ago. When it comes down to aces, what Bjorkman is teaching Varsity play- ers is probably individual stuff rath- er than team movements. 'The Cana- dian regulations regarding interfer- ence do not permit of the multiplic- ity of interference plays which have been developed across the line, where interference goes in any part of the fleld. What Bjorkman is im- parting to Varsity line men is prob- ably the latest U.S, ideas of taking an opponent out of the play on end runs or opening holes for the line plungers, with. possibly a new wrinkle or two in line shifts and the » NOV. 2nd, 1925 George Richardson Memorial Stadium .C. Il vs. QUEEN'S Ill * 1.15 p.m, Cc. I vs. . Queen's II It is now possible to predict with reasonable accursey the size of the crowd that will see the Queen's-Toronto game at the University of Toronto Stadium on Saturday. According to the figures on record at the office of the Athletic Directorate, the largest crowd that ever saw a game in the enlarged fleld was that at the Queen's-Hamilton national semi-final game last season, when 16,735 paid admissions were registered. Queen's won by"d1l to 1, and although the national final between the Tricolor and Balmy Beach was a much better game, won by Queen's by 11 to 3 after a very stubborn fight, the attendance was much smaller. Weather condi- tions may affect the size of the crowd on Saturday, but the demand for tickets indicate that there will be "capacity business." The University of Toronto authorities will provide, by means of benches, etc., for a crowd of 17,135, which includes, of course, standing room. At the Queen's- Hamilton game 687 'S.R.0." tickets were sold, while on Saturday "standees" to the number of 839 will be accommodated. Word reached town from Kingston to the effect that all of 2,600 tickets sent to Queen's were sold. The local supply was, \ ronto Globe. . RN... Attention of rugby enthusiasts in Ontario is about equally divided between the Queen's-Varsity match scheduled for Varsity Stadium Satur- day, and the Ottawa-Tiger tussle in Hamilton the following Saturday. There are many Queen's supporters in the capital. Few important games are played in Kingston without scores of Ottawa fans being present, but just mow about everyone hereabouts is keyed up over Ottawas' chances of winning the Big Four championship, and few there are who would not like to see the locals play Tigers on Saturday instead of a week later, as the Senators are sow at full strength and at the top of their form. The task of Coach Dave McCann is to keep the boys on edge until Saturday, November 7th, and if he is successful, Hamilton fans will see the best team in Red, White and Black colors they have looked upon in some years. --Ottawa Journal. In spite of the fact that Varsity gave Queen's such a pretty argument down in Kingston and that the game is being played on Varsity's home. ground, the Queen's Parkers will not go into Saturday's game favorites as far as the wagering public is concerned. Those who saw the game in Kings- ton figure that unless Queen's can_perform back to their best form of last vear or the year before that Varsity will emerge on top, but the cold- blooded betting fraternity cannot figure how a team with such outstanding and experienced stars as Leadley, Thomas, Batstone, Walker, McKelvey, Baldwin and Mundell can be downed by a team which possesses only two men which have yet reached rugby stardom--Synder and Weber. Still youth must be served in rugby as in all other active sports. There may be a lot of stars on the Varsity team when the sun goes down on Satur- day night.--Toronto Star. McGill may be out of the college championship with a double defeat by Qtieen's, but the Shagmen are on their toes to beat Varsity out for second place, so if Varsity downs Queen's here Saturday they will ind McGill has to be taken, seriously both in Montreal and here. McGill will lose four regulars through graduation, Philpott, Manson, Boucher and Wright.--To- ronto Star. -------- loafing around and bothering play- ers who are getting ready for the games," remarked one of Varsity's|g coaches up at the Stadium the other day, "We haven't anything much to conceal but we do not want to be | bothered with a lot of students along the side lines. The players and the coaches get along a whole lot better without these grpnd stand and side massing of strength at threatened points. ¥ Queen's Worried. One thing which does stand out to those who are studying the situation is that the Queen's team is genuinely afrald of Varsity. The belated squawk from Kingston about the rough play of Varsity players in the line crities. of course, exhausted long ago.--To- Union is to be congratulatéd. Cas- sels, one of the cleanest sportsmen who ever dug cleats into a gridiron will make good in this new role. He enjoys the confidence and respect of the Big Four teams, and he should be just as successful as a governor as he was as a player and a coach. Cassels broke in with the Univer- sity of Torontd seniors in 1913, when he was still a youngster, but from the first he way rated as ome of the most brilliant middle wings in senior ranks. In the memorable Iutercol- legiate Union final game here in 1914 Cassels' great plunge when the game seemed lost turned McGill hack and won the championship for the Blue and white. Then Cassels went across the ; sea intp the grimmer game of war, and agairdistinguish- ed himself. In 1919 he rejoined the Argos and starred at middle wing. The following season he coached the University of Toronto seniors to the Dominion championship, and at the same time played middle wing for the Argonauts, champions of the Big Four. .He is now 8 successful Jiwyor, and, owing to pressure of business, has retired from executive office in sport, but he as usual commands the respect of all who know him. The Intergrovincial Union has made a wise selection. There will be clean play in the Big Four or Cassels will be one of those who will know the reason why, -------------- Shawkey's Good Shot. Millers-on-the-Tobique, N.B., Oct. 80.--~Bob Shawkey, veteran pitcher of the New York Yankees, has shot one of the biggest bull moose killed in New Brunswick this year. Bhaw- key, who is "the biggest ex- pedition of major Joagus stars who ever hunted moose in Canada, shot this moose the first day the party were in the woods at Nepisiquit Lakes according to another party of hunters who arrived here from Guide Charlie Cremin's hunting territory yesterday. Shawkey's moose had antlers keeps its edg which spread 56 inches and carried 28 points. It was a better specimen of moose than Shawkey killed when he was huating on the Tobique last year. Babe Ruth did not kill any game on the first day. e indefin- hely "Shat | is why it is your Piao The only safety razor that its own blade is the Valet Auto StropRazor $s, up to $25; other models at lower Microphone Records The finest Phonograph Records made from a Radio Microphone, INTRODUCTION PRICE game down there is an indication of the dare the canvas jacketed Blues threw into the handpicked Queen's squad. The whine in the despatch from Kingston to The Star is the first Varsity has heard about rough play. Varsity players came through that game unscthed--or rather without any injuries of consequence and it was remarked, on all sides, that Varsity players had condition on Queen's in that game, for, while Tri- color players festooned the sward at every delay in the second half, the Varsity players were always on their feet and rarin' to go. Not one laid down for a rest. .The fact that Referee Isbister of Hamilton checked Queen's up on il- legal plays behind the line is worry- ing Coach Billy Hughes and his men into a lather. They have had to dig up a new set of plays and new sig- nals. That will bother them here Saturday. Down at Queen's rugby is being taken mighty seriously just now. The players are housed together and they eat at a "training table." They are up at six o'clock and they hive | a road grind and a signal practice be- fore breakfast. In the aftetnoon they are hard at it from three o'clock to dark. Rugby comes mighty close a biisiness down around Up at Varsity things - are vastly different. Varsity has not had a. morning "skull" practice since the week off the Queen's game. | 'We are taking rugby a bit seriously up here these days but | still we have not let it become a busi- ness, It is just a sport with us yet. |' These boys who are on the football squads come here to study. Rugby is just a side line in which they are, having a lot of fun, We have a good crowd of chaps out and there isn't a speck of jealousy. We have twenty men on the first squad and not one of them will know for certain wheth- | er he will start out with the first line-up or not on Saturday--and what is more, I am satisfied that not one cares particularly. They are not over confident of the result Sat- | urday and on the contrary they are not a bit apprehensive. The game at Kingston gave them a great deal of hope but they are not underestimat- ing Queen's. We know, and they know, that the Queen's team we face 'here on Saturday will be a more dan- gerous team than the one we faced at Kingston, but if they have im- | proved from that game it is reason- able to suppose that we have. At any rate I will say this, Varsity will play far better football here Satur- aay than they did at Kingston, Oct. lh, LONDON IS READY, Western Outarlo Clty Takss Hs Hoo key Seriously These Days. London, Ont., Oct, 30.~--A. meron | of the Hockey Committee of the The Varsity: squad works. once a "and their prac | when 50c --ONLY A FEW OUT-- ~ Treadgold SPORTING GOODS CO; Phone 529. Ra ------., lk LL Ai NAA PAA -- a ------ DELL'S FOR THE BEST OVERCOAT VALUES AT $18.00 to $38.00 iii,