THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG LATEST LocaL SPORTING [== KINGSTON CLUB HELD ANNUAL Noble Steacy Prevailed Upon to Accept Presidency for Another Term. min em. A largely attended and enthusias- tic meeting of the Kingston Central Ontario Baseball Club was held in the Board of Trade rooms.on Thurs- ay night, the chief item of business being the election of officers. The meeting was opened at 8.30 o'clock and it took just exactly one hour and & half to persuade Mr. Noble Steacy to again accept the presidency of the club for next season. Mr. Steacy objected right through but after be- Jog impressed that it was to the best interests of the club that he retain office for at least another year, he finally yielded. The officers elected for the season Were as follows: ! Honarary patrons--EIme Davis, W. Rupert Davies, W. R. Givens, J. F. Sowards, J. 8. McDonell, His Wor- ship the Mayor, Hon. W. F. Nickle, Hon. A. E. Ross. President--B. Noble Steacy. Vice-president--J. B. McGall, Secretary--Clair A. Devlin, Executive--H. C. Nickle," C. C. Folger, Harry Guy, Alexander Fow- ler, W. J. Arniel, Thomas Carson. Manager---Joseph Daley. Assistant manager--Bert Booth. The meeting discussed the recom- mended wuspension of President " Bteacy and Manager Daley from the O.B.A.A. and it was decided that it Was a matter for the C.0.B.L. to take up at their annual meeting on the 9th of the month. Mr. William Kennedy and Mr. Jos- eph Daley were appointed represen- tatives to the annual meeting of the Central Ontario Baseball League to be held at Belleville next week. It was pointed out at the meeting that the prospects for a strong ball team next summer are exceedingly bright and it was expected that the 'team would be intact from last sea- 'son with a couple .of good additions for the 1926 season. Badminton Players ; Thrilled Big Crowd _ Halifax, N.S,, Dec, 4.--The all star English Badminton team now touring Canada in the interest of the game, triumphed over a sertette of Halifax players in the Armories here, Ahe visitors winning by generous margins in every set except the sec- ond between Major Grant and J. F. Devlin. Grant, the outstanding local performer, had the distinction of wrestling a 15-13 victory from the glish champion in the sBeond of ie three encounters, The other x sets went jo Devlin scores, About 300 spectators witnessed the games, In connection with the visit of the English International badminton team next Monday, the following is An extract from a telegram received to-day by the secretary of the King- ston Garrison Badminton Club from . the Halifax Badminton Club: . "Visitors gave wonderful exhibi- tion, their team work These players should be veryone." A------ by 15-10 seen by faultless. QUEEN'S SQUAD Coach W. P. Hughes Had Large Number Out for First Prac- tice--Much New Material. Coach W. P. Hughes returned to Kingston from Montreal Wednesday night and for the first time this sea- son had his Tricolor candidates for places on the senior and Intermediate teams out for their first workout at the Arena from 5 to 6 o'clock last evening. Coach Hughes had a squad of about twenty players on hand but several of last year's regulars were absent but these will be out at this evening's practice. A number of freshmen were In- cluded in the list of candidates last evening but it is ¥8t tod early to judge what any of them can do. "Dunc" Boucher, Pelton, "Red" Legon, "Buster" Whytock, Grimes, Carl Voss, Benny Morris, Matheson, Moore and Tobin were among those [at the workout and they went | through the drill without a stop. | Coach Hughes Is taking nothing for granted and is not counting on {any new material yet. Some of the | new men are world beaters an paper f but the "paper squad" will have to show the stuff and deliver before they can make the wily Queen's men- tor believe that they have anything. Queen's has suffered badly from counting .on "paper" players and everybody will have to display the real thing from now on. Reputations do not count for anything with W. P. Hughes. The players last evening were given limbering up work more than anything else and, being the first time out for the majority of them, they were glad' when the hour was up. They will soon get back into condition, however, and then the real workouts will be under way. SAYS W. P. HUGHES HAS . THE ONLY SOLUTION Toronto Telegram Commends Suggestion of Queen's Coach as Best Offered. "There sould be a standard set of Rugby rules for the Dominion." Such was the remark of Coach "Billy" Hughes of the Queen's team yesterday, - And "Billy" covered a lot of ground in those few words. People are talking about this change and that change being necessary in the rules. And there are advocates who would not tinker with the rules at all but, would let them run the gamit of criticism, believing in time that they would become popular. But there are few who have paid atten- tion to the one most vital point just at present. That is the playing of one code' entirely. The Intercollegiate 1s the only body not working in harmony with the other unions on tie matter. "of rules. Not a few years back the Intercollegiate did come in, but de- cided evidently that they would do their own rule making, and since {hat time have. They have only one or two rules that are different to the C.R.U. code, but still they are dit- ferent. With "Billy" Hughes favor ing the adoption of one code and Varsity always in favor of it, the idea a Before you shave; strop A few strokes to and fro and you have a new keen edge for each shave. Saves constant blade ex- pense, Auto StropRazor : other models at Shop Early For Christmas HOLD WORKOUT FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN "Liz" 'Walker of gridiron fame has been appointed to assist Jack Powell fn looking after the Kingston intermediate O.H.A. hockey team. "Senator" will tbe pretty well taken up with the Queen's senior team about the time that the intermediates are working out, but between A small deposit will hold until required. I your purchase | Everything new in Men's workout. quite so strenuous last evening. ~~ The news of re-election of Mr. baseball fans this morning. ton team next season. for the first a full attendance is required. may be brought about before next season.--Toronto Telegram. MEETS WEDNESDAY. Central Ontario League to Hold An- nual Meeting at Belleville. Oshawa, Dec. 4. -- President Charles M. Anderson, of Oshawa, has issued a call for the semi-annual meeting of the Central Ontario Ama- teur Baseball League to be held in Belleville on Wednesday afternoon, cember 9th, at 1.30 when the pre- sident and secretary-treasurer re- ports on past season will be handed in. The Johnston Cup, emblematic himself and "Liz" the Kingston squad will be well looked after. is popular with the boys and will get along well with them. at that there was a good-sized crowd in attendance. of the league championship, which has been held by Belleville for the | two previous seasons will be .pre-| sented to the Kingston Ponies as | winnefs in 1925 and the question as to the suspension of the officers of the Kingston club at the semi-annual meeting of the Ontario Baseball Amateur Association will be discuss- ed. Also the newspapers reports as to the Oshawa club withdrawing to enter a Toronto city league. b~- The Kingston club, as champions of the C.0.A.B.L. will also be requir- ed by the executive to furnish a fin- ancial statement of their season's ac- tivities, according to paragraph six of by-law No. IV. of the Ontario Baseball Amateur Association, which reads: "A financial statement by each affiliated association or league must be secured from the champion- ship club of that association or lea- gue to file /with the secretary of the Ontario Apsociation not later than March 1st, following year.", The last item on the programme for the meeting will be the election of officers. Just Six Left. By the victory of the Sarnia inter- mediate O.R.F.U. champions Wed- nesday over St. Michael's, there are but six teams left in the running for the various C.R.U. titles, Ottawa and Winnipeg Tammany Tigers in the senior, Sarnia and Montreal Cana- dian Nationals in the intermediate, and Montreal A.A:A. and Toronto Argonauts in the junior. These three games will be played on Saturday, the senior tilt being in Ottawa, the intermediate at Varsity Stadium and the junior engagement at Montreal. In addition the Sarnia Collegiate and U.T.S. teams will meet in a sudden death grapple in London for the O.R.F.U. Interscholastic title. As nothing official has been heard from "Liz" 4, The Kingston squad was out again Thursday evening for another The number that turned out was not q uite so large, but even The drill was not The idea of the Kiwanis Club to stage a carnival is an excellent one and should they bring on some fancy and speed skaters, as was sug- gested, they should go over big as an attraction. B. Noble Steacy as president of the Kingston C.0.B.L. club was received with general satisfaction by the local Mr. Steacy is the right man to head the club. Mr. J. B. McGall's selection as vice-president was a happy choice also. Bert Booth will assist Manager Joe Daley in looking after the Kings- Bert has had considerable experience in baseball, having managed the Oshawa team and been closely connected with the game here. He should mak a good assistant to Manager Daley. The junior players of the city should get out on" Saturday evening "orkout for them at the Arena. squad to b. on hand from R.M.C., Queen's and Kingston. Coach Gelley expects a large The City Hockey League meets to-night at 7.30 o'clock in the Board of Trade rooms, and, as there are several im portant matters to deal with, Entries for the season close to-night. IS PRO. HOCKEY THE REAL THING? | Stars Taken From O.H.A. Teams Are the Outstanding Players of the Big League. When the "Soo" hockey team played off with the Ottawa Sons of Ireland in Ottawa during the Allan Cup elimination series of 1923-24, Philip McCann of the Ottawa Citizen undertook to inform the public that there was an unsurmountable differ- ence between the "class" of hockey played by the professional and the best amateur teams, which difference he claimed was all in favor of the "pro" aggregations, . The large number of Kingston- fans who attended the Ottawa-Mont- real professional hotkey game in Ot- tawa last Saturday night had an op- portunity of judging for themselves the merits of the "pro" game and from their remarks, very few of them would care to swap the speedy O.H.A. brand of hockey, for the '"conglomoration of rules and fce- areas' that goes under the name of professional hockey to-day, At the time Mr. McCann's article appeared Capt. J. T. Sutherland came to the defence of the amateurs and stated that many followers of the great Canadian winter sport were of the opinion that amateur hockey as played in the O.H.A. was of a much superior type to that played by the "pros." He informed Mr. Me- Cann that the O.H.A. had sufficent players of high class calibre to stock the N.H.L. for years to come, Mr. McCann replied that* such a state- ment was ridiculous, but in the light of recent developments in profes- sional hockey circles, it would appear that Capt. Sutherland had a better insight into hockey affairs than the Ottawa writer. In order to substantiate the King- ston. man's contention a partial 'list of young amateurs who have accept- ed "pro" contracts and who have made good with a.vengerce, since. Mr. McCann's article appeared, is submitted; Carson Cooper, Dr. Chas, Stewart 'Jimfie Herberts, "Hooley" Smith, "Happy" Day, Redding, Dunc. Munro, "Toots" Holoway, Cain, Dinsmore, Albert McCaffery, Sibert, Kitchen, Lowery, Horne, Connell, Kilrea, Connacher, Drury, Wolters, the Regina Pats, the Western Can- ada junior champions, regarding Breckenborough. Belletulle, Neville, Mitchell, Lacroix and many others. their proposed trip east to meet the winner of the Montreal-Argonaut game, the Canadian season will prob- , | ably close this week, A Good Idea, The University of Toronto team will make but one, intercollegiats trip to Montreal this year. At Toronto's suggestion the intercollegiate sche- dule was so arranged that the Blue and White were drawn to play Mec- Gill on a Saturday night, with a game against the University of Mont- real on the following Monday. The néw schedule will prove a great time. saver to the players, will allow the games to be completed a week earlier than would oflierwise have been the 'tase, and should prove as well a fin- ancial benelt. Fi i AS Sea When the above list is considered one wonders just what the profes- sional teams would look like to-day without the addition of this small army of recruits from the amateur ranks. The "Soo" team, Varsity team and' nearly every good amateur O.H.A. team that visited Pittsburg during the past, experienced little difficulty in defeating the Pittsburg ama team, which this winter went over in a body to the N.H.L. the new-comers up to the present has been nothing short of Produced Perfectly Under Perfect Conditions Made ix the modern, sanitary way; condition. packed to retain proper It will be remembered that at the annual meeting of the Kingston Hoc- key Club last Monday, it was decid- ed to amalgamate the juniors as well as the intermediates ind when the junior squad shows up for the first practice on Saturday evening, there will be representatives from R.M.C,, Queen's and the eity.. There are ind players to choose from the ircle-Six out of their last year's team. That {is all that are left. Queen's will have several candidates out while the number to come over from the College is yet unknown, With the juniors amalgamated this year, a strong team should re- present Kingston in the O.H.A. series this season. There is great interest being shown in the juniors and they will recelve much better backing as an amalgamated team than they did before individually. - Boys under twenty before the first of January, who intend to play jun- for O.H.A. this season are urged to attend the first practice on Saturday evening. There will be no picking done until a day or two before the first junior game and every candi- date for a position on the junfor squad will be given every opportun- ity to display his wares, Coach Gel- ley will start the boys off on easy stages and gradually increase the pace until they are going at game speed. It is up to the players them- selves to make a 'strong junior team and it is to be hoped that they will show the interest that they should and turn out to practice faithfully, (See Also Opposite Page) ------------------ A memorial to Mustapha . Kemal Pasha, now being erected in Con- staninople, statue in Turkey. will be the first public a SAA ed Se pin nnl) The number of foreign visitors to] all expectations and surpassed the Berlin during the summer exceeded | records of pre-war summers. Sa" -- BIG-FIRE SALE BARGAINS ~ Treadgold . SPORTING GOODS CO., = "Phone 529. 88 Princess Street - - -. 325-0VERCOATS-325) MUST GO! AT UNPARALLELED PRICES Commencing Thr., Dec. 3 and Ending Sat, Dec. 19 AT TWEDDELL'S OWING to the EXTREMELY MILD vember, we find ourselves with TOO WEATHER during No- MANY OVERCOATS and they must ALL GO DURING « Overcoats Reg $25.00--Sale 30.00 " «@ $17.50 21. Price é¢