Loca. CHICAGO CUBS ON THE UPWARD TREND Joe McCarthy, The Their New Boss, ~ Should Accomplish Mucly With Them. BY DAN THOMAS. - Avalon, Catalina Island, March 2b6.~--One new manager and a barrel of dough have injected new life into Pill Wrigley's gumchewing Chicago Cubs--the worst team in the Na- tional League last year. Joe McCarthy, who led Louisville 'to the championship of the Ameri- esn Association in 1925, is the new ! boss. The money was spent for new players. Among them are "Lefty" O'Doul, Joe Kelly, Charley Root, Clyde Beck and "Red" Shannon. Three managers couldn't drag the Cubs out of the cellar last season. Bill Killefer. "Rabbit" Maranville ard Johnny Evers tried and each in turn failed. But "Silent Joe" McCarthy, dubbed this because of his refusal to comment on his team, is expected to have better success. Hard daily workouts and exhibi- tion games with Pacific Coat League clubs have been the roads traveled by the Bruins during the spring training this season at their million- dollar camp. "Our pitching staff looks excep- tionally strong this year," declares Manager McCarthy, "though Grover © Alexander's injury will hurt for the first weeks of the chase, He's still the best moundsman in the league, Newever, and I look for him to turn in over 20 wins, providing he re- turng to top-notch shape. *Then there's Tony Kaufmann, 'who is always a dependable man in the box. Charley Root, sensational right-hander with the Los Angeles club last year, should come through for us, too. If 1 could pick up a couple of good southpaws my pitch- jug worries would be over." And with that speech---an ex- {remely long one for him---'Silent Joe" withdrew into his shell. Bill Piercy, Fred Blake, Jack Welsh and Clayton Touclistone are the others who have a chance to remain on Wrigley's payroll as hurlers. Gabby" Hartness, who has more pep than any other three men on the club combined, will do most of the 'work behind the plate. Hartnett is starting his fifth season with the Windy City outfit and he still has the enthusiasm of an 18-year-old 'rookie. There isn't another back- "stop in the 'league who can throw ¥ he can. Mike Gonzalles and Gilpin will relieve Hartnett. infleld will be pretty well ed by Charley Grimm at first, 2 Sparky" Adams on second, "Red" Shannon at short and Howard Freigau holding down third. Grimm, , Adams and Freigau are all Cub 'veterans. McCarthy pbrought Shan- 'mon with him-from Louisville, He 48 a vet of the majors, having play- #d under Connie Mack at Philadel- phia and with the Boston Red Sox. Almost an entire set of new faces fo) 1 cudun, the Spanish heavyweight box- SPORTING will appear in. the outfield. Joe Kelly, Floyd Scott, Hack Wilson, Cliff Heathcote, Art Jahn and How- ard Fitzgerald will bear the brunt of the work. Heathcote and Wil- son will be the only familiar fly- chasers to Cub fans, One. of the main differences that will be seen in the Bruins this year will be their change of spirit. If spirit was the only gualification necessary they would be right on top of the heap. But unforfunately it isn't, so McCarthy will be lucky ir gets the gang into the first division at all, oa REVIVE LACROSSE. Iirantford Enthusiasts Have Great Hopes for the Game. 3rantford, March 25.---Lacrosse 1926 in Brantford was given an excellent Inaugural when 'A. E, Lyon ard some other of the old-time la- crosse fans who have been trying to | bring back Canada's national sum- mer pastime in what once was its great centres entertained the mem- bers of the teams constituting the 1926 juvenile lacrosse league at dinner at the Belmont Hotel. Addresses in favor of restoration of the old game to the high plane in Csnadian sport which it once held were given by Major E. Sweet, who was president of the Brantford La- crosse Club when the club represen- tatives held the Minto Cup; A. E. Lyon, chief backer here, and J. Han- ley, Toronto, as well as other local sportsmen. : It is hoped through continuance of the juvenile league to eventually build up junior and intermediate teams which will again fittingly re- present this city, once the home of the Minto Cup and The Globe Shield. HELPFUL GOLF HINTS BY FRANCIS OUIMET. To my mind a golfing instructor should build up that which a pupil shows him and not tear it apart with a view toward trying to do some- thing which, because it is unnatural, is going to be hard to do. It is, of course, a splendid thing to imitate, but if the imitation is not anything like the real thing it is better not to imitate. Golf champions are champions be- cause they have watched others and have carefully developed a game they have found to be the best for them. There is always a bifgof in- dividuality about champions in all sports and probably more so in golf than other games. Not one of the tepnotchers swings the same as an- other, yet there is a similarity that comes to all if the foundation is be- ing built carefully. Chick Evans, Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen and Jess Sweetser play golf in entirely different ways. Would these athletes be the same drawing cards they are if they all performed in identically the same way? I think not. Bach one has his own peculari- ties which makes his work appeal to the spectator. TO HAVE ARENA. Peterboro, March 25.---That Pet- erboro will have an artificial ice arena for next season's play seems to be well assured after a meeting of the city council in committee. A piece of land owned bythe city for ppTk purposes will be leased to a gompany which undertakes to erect a rink with an ice surface of 190 by 85 or 90 feet and seating capacity for 4,000. There will be dre¥sing rooms for eight exits. Entrance will be gained from Hunter street bridge. Instructions were given for the drawing of a lease for 40 years, the first 20 years at one dollar a year and the rate to then be set by arbi- tration. The scheme is sponsored by Ald. Ackerman. CONGARS WIN OUT. Vancouver, B.C, March 24.-- Victoria Cougars earned the right to meet the National Hockey League champions in the finals for the Stan- ley Cup, emblematic of the world's championship, when they tied the Bdmonton Eskimos here last night in the second of the two-game series bY a 240.2 agate 434 wou the ound by toda. - ay oo 3 ------------ DRAKE'S HEART WEAK, Paris, March 24.--Paolino Uz-| er, knocked out Harry Drake, Eng- lish heavyweight, last night after {Se mingle 4d 18 Seconds 91 Tow ing. THE DAILY BRITISH-WHIG st WEST IS EVIDENTLY NO GENTLE PLACE The Referee Mitchell Hockey Game Incidents Recall Other Similar Ones. Writing in his Pick- and Shovel Columif-J.ou Marsh says: 'Harold Mitchell, the Toronto re- foree who got such a rough passage up in Fort Willlam on Saturday night, can~get plenty of sympathy from the Osler ball club players and officers. They played up in Port Arthur last summer, on their way back from Winnipeg, and they re- ported a flerce grilling at the hands of the fans and the local umpires. "Why," remarked Freddie Hamilton, manager of the Oslers, "we never got such 'a raw deal in our lives as we got up in Port Arthur, and Arthur and Fort William are as closely related as ham and eggs or pork and beans. They are all the same up that way. They want a 90- 10 break from the officials or they raise cain. That is what the local officials gave them when we were up there, and we were lucky to win the game, 5-4. It was so bad that at one time I seriously considered taking my team off the field. We couldn't get any of the close ones at all. Harold Mitchell probably gave the two hockey | teams a fair, square break on the ice, and called them as he saw them, and that did not suit the fans up there. They are certainly a rabid one-sided crowd of alleged sportsmen." That is certain- ly a pretty tough arraignment, but Hamilton evidently felt the treat- ment Oslers got up there rather keenly, for he went out of his way to make the statement. Mitchell got along well up and down the line in Q.H.A. games, and when he went down to Ottawa to handle a play-off in the Ottawa Valley series the Ot- tawa papers agreed that he was the best referee they had seen this sea- son. That is real praise for those Ottawa sport writers are a bit hard beiled. CRESCENT CLUB TO RUN. OWEN .SOUNDERS And Will Also Develop More Hockey Players for Future Years. Owen Sound, March 25.--The Crescent Athletic Club, the well- known young men's athletic organiz- ation in Owen Sound, has decided to sponsor junior hockgy in Owen Sound for next season. The organi- gation will receive the whole-hearted support of the fans in the city. Cres- cents plan not only to handle the junior O.H.A. entry next season, but will run three city league series for tke development of young players. Ar far as Secretary Arthur Kreutz. weiser, of the Crescents, is aware, all the members of the Junior Greys team of this year, with the exception of! Callighen, Randle and Gregg, who are over age, will be here to play the game for Owen Sound next season, HITS AND JABS By Joe Williams. One of the mice things about a vacation in winter is that you have all summer to rest up in. The main difference between sun- durned neck in February and a sun- burned neck in August is the cost. Be that a8 it may, it is no harder tc pose as a capitalist's son on the beach at Miami than it is on the beach at Long Island. The dinner coat is a remarkable device. ...It enables you to imagine you are getting $5.40 worth of food out of an average six bits meal. S-- A . A soup stain on an ordinary vest is just a soup stain; the same orna- ment on a dinner vest is social ostracism. about a winter vacation is that it roll. It is the prou Toast of our friend, Mr. O'Goofty, that usually manages to look quite silly without doing either. : . You realize the vacation is actu- ally 'ended when you find yourself corkscrew for a pencil sharpener. It Seems to us the chiet Fdrawnack . always lasts longer than the bank-}{ offéring to trade a slightly used| They have a great senss of humor GENERAL be NEWS | SPORTING NOTES AND COMMENT Canada. in their second tilt, thereby relieving of another game." help to hockey in Eastern Canada. Dominion, honors very bright. Great of Kingston. Reports of the game from Win A referee would have one sweet job the crowd any. players in the west. the rest of them. the goods. only one "Bill." Ruth, in appearance at least. There is a decided facial as well youngster and the Yankee star. To-night's game at Winnipeg may decide the junior championship of Kingston should be able to come through with another win If the Ontario champions win out, it will be a great | The 1925-26 sporting season has been very successful for Kingston. In baseball, Kingston won the championship of the C.0.B.L. and defeated | the famous Toronto Oslers in the Ontario semi-finals, through to another Intercollegiate championship and hockey team is standing pat with the chances of winning the coveted | Harold Mitchell somewhat for too much bell ringing. a referee goes out on the ice for if" not to call all the offences he sees. either team, and those who try it soon find out that they are not pleasing Mitchell's refereeing seems to displease the fans and Maybe he knows too much ®bout the game. The Kingston team is very fortunate in the line of rettef men. pherson, Molson or McDowell can hop on the ice any time and step with "Bud" turned in a great performance in Tuesday night's game and McDowell was also very much in' the picture. was not feeling any too good so he remained in the box, but in every game he has played with Kingston his wonderful back-checking and , stick- handling have played a prominent part, has not been called into the fray, but, if it is necessary, he can deliver But let's hope nothing happens to Taugher. BABE RUTH HAS DOUBLE IN ROOKIE SHANER OF RED 80X BABE RUTH, LEFT, AND "TOT" SHANER. il New Orleans, La.,, March 23.--If Outflelder Shaner makes good for |} the Boston Red Sox, the American League is to have a double for Babe: ll Shaner is six feet, two, weight 195 pounds, Just about Babe's weight when he made his American League debut as a pitcher. hits from the right side of the plate. ES MR. 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