i on hand for the prac- The boys were given some valu- 1] by Pr. R. P. Millan and ley and showed exception- form. Combination and re practised for over ites. Kingston should go gnior O.H.A. this season, the showing in Satur- McKelvey and Charlie 'made a very strong defence players tredted the rail- 'some fast and effective eKelvey is showing up last year and should be a star with the King- , Grey, Pennock and Bibby i one of the forward lines (bined for some pretty work ** Taugher appeared in turned in his usual brilliant . Gamble, McGowan ! were also among the out and they all showed good the candidates that were and others that could md the practice, a real fast be chosen to represent in the junior O.H.A. this It has been a number of this city has hadwo much "material to choose from and iredit is due to the City Hoe- je, which brought the play- the limelight in loeal hoc- he first game is with Brock- 'that city next Friday night players will get down to in this week's. practices. Golley fs well pleased' with and the showing the have made and he is con- turning out a junior O.H.A. season that will prove to representative of King- A -------- QGames To-day | at Tillsonburg. | at Parry Sound. urst at Bracebridge. m at Clinton. d at New Hamburg. Junior, at Belleville. at Cobourg. pe at Oshawa. Iborne at Grimsby. at Windsor, d at Mitchell. at Guelph. ket at Bradford. NB} Jan. 4---Large curlers mbled at Friday afterfioon and inadian team a good send- arty wishes for success in the major classes retired from ac- "SPORTING [-- tense of his title, both against Babe | Herman,the California challenger. | The first fight took place in Water- | bury and was calied a draw, "al-| though the majority of the critics thought that Herman had won. The second, staged recently in Tex Rickard's garden, was a terrible af- fair in which Kaplan won the de- cision. With the exception of Herman, there is not an outstanding feather- weight in the class. Fidel LaBarba, a product of the 1924 American Olympic team, won JUNIORS PLAY IN FIRST HALF FINALY: Regiopolis and Victoria-Boo- hoos Meet--Frontenac Regi- ment Meet Regiopolis Club. The junior City League finals for the first half of the schedule will be played tonight at the Harty Arena starting at 7.15 with the semi-final : I 4 in the senior section being played off | the fyweight championship when he between Regiopolis and the Fronte- defeated Frankie Genaro in Call- nac. Regiment, the winnet to meet fornia. the Live Wires on the 11th for the When Pancho Villa died, the com- first half championship. The games mission decided against a tourna- carded for tonight are well worth ment as there were 50 few challeng- going a long way to see and fans will | eS and Genaro, the American cham- | get a heap sight more than 25¢ pion, was unofficially accepted as the | worth of hockey put before them in challenger. these two contests which have all| The New York commission does the ear-marks of being full of pep not recognize LaBarba as the cham- and ginger from the first to the last pion because he did not win the de- gong. cision in a 16-round fight and is un- Manager McGrath of the Regi-|der age. opolis team contends that his team | Another fighter who developed has the big chance tonight that it|8reatly fn 1925 was Paul Berlen- has been waiting for, a crack at the bach, the mew world's light heavy- Victoria-Boohoos and the leader of | Weight champion. the Garnet and Gold brigade has| = Berlenbach pulled a big surprise been scouring around to get his best by defeating Mike McTigue on points players out for this important com- and taking a 45-round decision and test. He has had playess of real|the title, : \ classy ability on his list of players In defending his title, Berlenbach but has kept them under cover but recently outpointed Jack Delaney, he intends to float them out tonight | Who had knocked him out two years before the populace for their ap-|880 when he was just getting start- proval, he Vic.-Boohoos will be at | ed. full strefBth and have every hope Berlenbach 1s one of the few of keeping up their splendid record. champions who are willing to fight In the senior game, Frontenac and it would not come as a shock if Regiment must make a big comeback he réached the heavyweight title in to prove that they had an off night 3 fey years. when they were beaten recently by Boxing as a game improved great- the Live Wires by the decisive score ly in 1925 under the supervision of of 9-1. While they give every credit! tte New York Boxing Commission, to the Live Wires and are not slow guided ably by a shrewd chairman. to praise their good work, the Frou | James A. Farley. The commission tenac Regiment believe that if they | made some mistakes but it was right had the chance again to meet the |in the majority of cases. NLT: To iy TR AINING IN FLORID A FOR BIG LEAGUERS The Frontenac Regiment will find plenty of opposition tonight in the Reglopolis squad. Eleven Squads From the Big Show Will Do Preliminaries In the Real Estate State. The boys from the Armouries may step into a big snag when they take on the Reglopolis Club representa- tives and there is every reason to believe that Dicky Spoor and his gang will 'be stepping faster than usual tonight in an effort to put over a win and get into the playoffs for the first half honors ahead of the Regiment team. Both senior and junior game will be watched by a big crowd tonight for it will be the last hockey of the week until Friday when the Kingston intermediates ap- pear for the first time this season to] do battle against the much-respected foe from Brockville, BOXING GAME HAS GONE AWAY BACK Past Year Has Been More or Less Disastrous to the Pro= fessional Ring Artists. National League. Cubs--Catalina Island, Cal, Cardinals--S8an Antonio, Tex. Giants--Sarasota, Fla, Pirates--Paso Rob'ys, Cal. Robins--Clearwater, Fla. Braves--8t. Petersburg, Fla. Phillies--Bradentown, Fla.» Reds--Orlando, Fla. : | American League. White Sox--Shreveport, La. Senators--Tampa, Fla. Browns--Tarpon Springs, Fla. Tigers--Augusta, Fla. Indjans--Lakeland, Fla, Red Sox--New Orleans, La. Yankees--8t. Petersburg, Fla. Athletics--Fort Myers, Fla. When trainipg trip time arrives for the big leaguers, next February and March, some of them had better provide themselves with shoe horns. The tool may come in handy for the clubs that have camps in the state of Florida, where the real estaters are running wild and hundreds of thous- ands of visitors are even wilder try- ing to convert shoe strings into bank rolls. ' 'While the brand of competition and the class of the competitors in practically every American sport in- creased in 1925, professional boxing went back. Five of the best American fighters tivity and only two developed enough to be considered worthy successors. Jack Dempsey, the world's heavy- weight champion, spent the entire year out of the ring and kept repeat- ing his intention to accept the chal- lenga of Harry Wills. Benny Leonard retired as the lightweight champion, saying that he was obliged to comply with the wishes of his mother who didn't like the profession, Johnny Dundee retired as the featherweight champion, admitting that he could no longer make the weight. Pancho Villa, the little fyweight champion from the Philippines, died on an operating table in San Fran- cisco. Tom Gibbons, for years one of the will endeavor to crowd their way into the booming peninsular state. Some of them probably will find be- fore they leave that they weren't as welcome as in other years, when cer- tain cities found the tourist business dull and were overanxious to sign contracts letting the baseball folks in for a mere song. Now rooms and meals-can-be-sold for ten times what the diamond celebrities pay; but a contract is a contract, and none of the ball clubs geem willing to leave. Play May Suffer. There is good reason to believe that before the training jaunts come to a close in April more than us outstanding heavyweights, fell so far | Manager will be of the opinion t off form that he was knocked out|he might have done better elsewhere, for the first time in Bis career by| De Gene Tunney. . : Succeeding Leonard, Dundee and Villa, three great champions, were |® Jimmy Goodrich and Kansas in the lightweight class; Kid Kaplan |® in the featherweight division, and According to the present layout of. training sites, eleven big time squads' Smoketown. SPORTING 'NOTES AND COMMENT They say you can't keep a good man down, but Manager West of the Frontenac Regiment team says you can't keep a good team down either and his boys are going to be on the lookout for the Live Wires the next time the two come together. Of course, the Regiment must beat Reglopo- lis seniors to meet the Live Wires again in this half and to- night they will be putting every effort forth to down the Garnet and Gold. We must admit after all that Manager Stan. McQuaid had the right idea when he called his team the Live Wires. The first time the name was given to the team there was objection to it in some quarters, because it was not thought it was a suitable name, but it certainly fits the team well that sports that name. ¢ On all sides one hears favorable comment on the operation of the City Hockey League this year in general and the splendid work of Presi- dent Charles Hicks in particular. A local citizen remarked to-day that there was the best feeling among the teams and individual players this year, better than there had been in many years. The days of protests and discord in the City League have about passed out. The Kingston intermediates open up their season on Friday, when the Brockville team will be the guests of the evening at the Harty Arena. The squad will have a few stiff workouts this" week, but the team will not be chosen until the last minute. Two or three players who are on the hockey tour with Queen's are expected to hop back to Kingston in {time for F riday night's game instead of going to on Montreal, where the Intercollegiate hockey schedule opens up on Saturday night. Watch the Kingston junior O.H.A. team go. Unless that bunch of boys bring home the bacon on Friday night from their trip to Brockville, there wil be some greatly disappointed hockey fans in the city. The followers of the youngsters have every confidence in their ability of the local junior O.H.A. representatives to go a long way in their series this winter. The County Hockey League executive meets next Saturday afternoon and clubs that intend playing in this League this season and have not already registered should get busy and send in their applications for entry. According to the ruling passed at the annual meeting a short time ago, no entries will be received after this Saturday. Regiopolis and Victoria-Boohoos should provide the fans with some {thrilling work at the Arena in the first game of the double bill to-night in the City Hockey League. This is the final junior game in the first half and Vic-Boohoos will be at full strength to keep up their winning streak and take the honors without a loss, but the Regiopolites are bent on making an upset and feel that they have the necessary punch to come through and win. Coach Gelley is perfectly satisfied with the showing made by the R.M:C. team in their trip to New York recently. The hockey mentor of the cadets expects that his team will make an extra good showing this season. The cadets certainly did make a name for themselves in New 'York and put up a much Petter showing than local fans expected they would. In . connection with the Kingston Hockey Club, intermediate and junior sections, it is worthy of note that the managers of the teams, Mr. T. A. McGinnis and Dr. 'R. P. Millan, have shown great interest in their work and no small share'of the success of the club to date is due to 'their good work. Secretary E. J. Hartrick is a busy man these days looking after the registration of players for the local club, and before Friday night's games he will have most of that work cleared up, Mr. Hartrick is.a live wire as secretary of the local teams and he is a valuable man to the Kingstons. . The Kingston O.H.A. club has every reason to be grateful to the City Hockey League for the wonderful help given this year, and it is worth noting that the officials of the Kingston Club really do appre- ciate the help and co-operation of the Kingston League. - Material has been uncovered for the O.H.A. teams, junior and intermediate, that might never have been found at all had it not been for the City Hocky League teams which brought these players into prominence. The City League on its part, is glad to have been able to give the help that it did. the Pirates, who will cover almost 7,000 miles before getting back to The Cubs. will be sec- ond in this respect, but first in length of time consumed in training: They'll leave Chicago, Feb, 11th, and start work four days later. Most of the other squads won't have to get into action until a few days before March 1st. As Usual. - City Ed: Did you interview thu celebrity? : Reporter: Bure. C. E.: What did she say? Rep.: Nothing. v C. B:: I know, but how many columns of it.--Answers. HE'S LOST 3 oy City League Hockey HARTY ARENA Monday, Jan. 4th, 7.15 p.m. VICTORIA BOOHOOS vs. REGIOPOLIS (JUNIOR) F RONTENAC REGT. vs. (SENIOR) JUNIOR FINAL FIRST HALF, bp p ¥ > y Tl a] ws Pa ERTL NE the kd the Champions use - Skis, Toboggans We have a'fine assortment of SKIS AND TOBOGGANS NOW Get yours before we run out of sizes, SKI POLES, SKI HARNESS TREADGOLD SPORTING GOODS CO,, 88 PRINCESS STREET. 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