| Success of a three -team league' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Tuesday, April 13, 1926. { "SPORTING = NEWS SPORTING NOTES: AND COMMENT STAN HARRIS FIGURES JOE BUSH TO STAR The executive of the Kingston Senior Baseball Club has been called | F an urgent meeting on Wednes ay night to consider what is to be one. about the coming season. There is a difference of opinion as to the The whole matter will be threshed out thoroughly and definite word as to what will happen will be annouficed The members of the Queen's Bowling Club will be getting together for their annual meeting before the month is out and it will not be long | The lawn up at Queen's will be a pretty busy place for the next few months. before they swing into action. ~The Mercantile Baseball League, which takes in the junior baseball teams, will meet this week to make more definite plans for the season. The officers of the league are bent on making this season even more suc- "cessful than last and . high calibre, Bope to provide the ball fans with some baseball of i There seems to b6 a great difference of opinion as to whether there Would be success In running the Central Ontario League with three teams. i" Some are opposed to it and declare that it would be a financial failure for the three clubs, and the interest besides would be gone after the first eouple of games. There are, on the other hand, those who insist that it would be a ot Success. So there you are, » P-- Pia LEAGUERS go ; UNDER WAY TO-DAY . Dampalgn 'Scheduled to Open Up In Eight Cities--Specu~ lation on the Race. New York, April 13.----National and Amerfean League baseball teams, fired with new ambitions, ac- cording to optimistic reports from managers, opened the annual cam- palgns in eight cities on Tuesday. Favored in the American League are 'hiladelphia, New York and Wash- mn. The Senators and Athletics will start with about the same line- "ups carried last season, except that the. Philadelphians have, Hauser k at first base after suffering a ken leg. New York, with only Dugan of last year's infield still in action, have indicated by many lusty home-run blows that their batting pitcher plenty 'of They won twelve straight mes from Brooklyn on the train- ing trip. In the National League the New ork Giants, Pittsburg Pirates and although an unexpected er may develop in one of the other clubs, The Giants have found real centre-fielder in Al Tyson, the it 'time that this position has sat- jad Manager McGraw in years. A nt showing in training games "given the Cardinals, managed " Pittsburg Pirates Now Look Like Repeaters ~ by Rogers Horusby, a large amount of prestige. The Pirates will be unable to take the fleld with all regulars in action, A factor which may give the world champions a poor start. Captain Max Carey is out of the game, fol- lowing an attack of influenza, and Eddie Moore second baseman, prob- ebly will be limping when the sed- son starts, his place to be filled by Hal Ryne, from the Pacific Coast., Another Record Up. Chicago, April 13.--Charles Hoff, Norwegian star, again has demon- strated his. ability to break the world's pole vault record, apparent- ly at will. He cleared the bar here at 13 feet 8 1-4 inches, adding three- A A A i RE ), KIDNEY ~ Joe Bush Tampa, Fla., April 13.--*"Bullet Joe" Bush of the Washington Sena- tors is here depicted getting his trusty right flinger into shape at the training camp of the American Lea- gue champions. Bush, a veteran of many seasons, RG in Action, was acquired from the Browns dur- ing the winter and is being counted strongly upom by Manager Harris in the coming campaign. Harris fig- ures Bush will win at least 15 games, possibly 20, which, natural- ly, would aid the Nats' cause to an appreciable extent. quarters of an inch to his previous high mark. It was the - seventh time he had broken the record for a total of more than eight inches in his indoor track season, mow con- cluded. 5 BY VID LARSEN, Paso Robles, Calif., April 13.-- 's to" win the National League ant this year? "Well, what are the other clubs 5) 3 1 pr And thus Bill McKechnie, canny n er of the champion Pittsburgh tes, answered a question with question, Still, it must be admitted, he ans- 'the question because, unless er pennant-chasers of the Na- League' have improved con- ably, Pittsburgh looks to re- . However, the Pirates fared p too well in their spring train- . The condition of the club is matter of much 8ncern. 'McKecknie's '1926 team is the am with which he won the world's plonship and, while it is true hat three of his champions are not iw fi good condition, it is eiso that out here on the coast Mc- chnie has grabbed the two out- -------- Ee -------- -- Ee standing players the minor leagues have developed in a couple of years ~Hal Rhyne, infielder, and Paul Waner, outfielder, both . purchased from San Francisco. Rhyne and Waner not only have added a lot of money to the box of- fice receipts of the training games, but they have shown such class that McKechnie isn't losing sleep over the temporary indispositions of Max Carey and Pie Traynor, who may not be able to start the season. * Carey fs recovering very slowly from an operation and Traynor wrenched his leg badly early in training. "They'll be all right," smiles Mc- Kechnie. "What are the other teams doing?" Pittsburgh probably will start the season with Rhyne on third, Wright at short, Rawlings at second and Grantham on first. Of course Rhyne is not "Pie" Traynor but his work in the fleld and at bat is impressive and thus . z far he has held his own with the three other members of the infield quartetfe, .7 In the outfield, Paul Waner, a little shy, of course, has been chas- ing the fliey. And at the bat he has been walloping the ball in the same style that made him the best hitter of the Coast League last year. Cuyler is going great guns. Bigbee has been subbing for Barnhardt, who was rather badly hurt by a fall early in the training sgdson, McKechnie's pitchers are in flne shape. Vic Aldridge never looked better; Lee Meadows spent the win- ter in Florida and is as frisky as a two-year-old; Ray Kremer has, if anything, found more speed; Yde, Babe Adams and Johnny. Morrison are burning them over. For catchers McKechnle stil] has Earl Smith, .Grooch and Spencer, Punch---speed---pitching---class. Yes, folks, what are the other teams doing? 1 ATHLETIC COMMISSION IS FUNCTIONING WELL Will Send Winners of Toronto Meet to the Champion= ships at Meaiil. Toronto, April 13.--The- Ontario J Athletic Commission has decided to send at its expense the following winners of the athletic champion- ships at. the fall meet here to the national school championships at McGill University on May 29th. Shanacy, Midland, high jump and broad jump; St. Clair Davidson, Listowel, middle distances; Finlay- son, Midland and St. Andrew's Col- lege, 'sprints; Skeffington, Toronto, sprints; Agnew, Winchester, hurdles and jumps; Broderick, Midland, shot; McArthur, Windsor, pole vault. This team has been placed in the hands of the Commission coach, Walter Knox, and each must satisfy him as to his ability and willingness to train for the games. - Mr. Knox will approve these boys after seeing them at work, or substitute ot%ers if he thinks that action will serve the purposes of the team better. Hamilton Collegiate are sending a relay team to these games, and they too, will compete in individual events, so that Ontario will be re- presented by a formidable feam-- and, after all, this is the place to look for material for the next Olym- pic games. Incidentally Hamilton Board of Education is flhancing its own team. The Commission also granted $100 toward tha fund for the send- ing of the Hamilton Collegiate team to the relay carnival at Philadelphia. weeruL ove wins | BY JOHN G. ANDERSON, We had a thought the other day, which has to do not only with local i the East and West agreement, Which TIMELY NOT SIGNING PLAYERS. EE ------ Port Arthur, April 13.--""We are Bot signing any players. Such a course would be impossible under we acknowledge as effective," said "Connie" Smythe, late University of Toronto coach, who, with. Colonel Hammond of New York was here over Sunday. 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