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When you buy EDDY'S MATCHES, --~ you receive a generously filled box of : SURE, SAFE lights. : ie Ask for Eddy's "Silent Parlor" Matches. inthe Wo base that there was trouble in filling! from Cclifornia, and a 'BEITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, DOTORER 21, 10 -- -- i -- _ 0 : ) {ARN ey v gh y . 4+ AMERICANS TO COMPETE | BASEBALL BRIEFS frre to Make the Trip to the > Rv Ne Phillippines. . Sie When the tennis championship. of fhe Orient is played at the Manila Tennis Club in January, team of two League at its win- {players from the Atlantic seaboard consider several | will be entered in the lists against | es in the rules, For one thing |the formifable rivals from the Far the owners want to] Rast and perhaps some from Cali- v th® foul strike rule, so that | fornia George A. H. Church, ol second foul. will] Tenafly, N.J, one of the most success- They think it will jy) players during the past season, add to action igre and Harold A. Throckmorton, of r of increasing the glizaheth, holder of the national n the! junior championship as well as the New Jersey State title, are the two i who wil: try conclusions in the tournament in the Phillippines. The record, for fungo hitting, made by| men will leave for the east about Pete Schneider, at the Cincinnati! November 23rd, and will sail. from Club's field meet on October 1st, tWo, Vancouver" on. the Canadian Pacific other records were tied.» Max Carey | steamship Empress of, Russia on No- tied Hans Lobert's record of 13 4-5! yember 30th. ey will go to the' seconds circling the bases and Heinte | phillipines by, way of Japan;'but will Groh equalted the bunt and run to! do no playing in -the land of Nippon' first mark 'of three and one-fifth sec gn the way out. On the return trip, onds, claimed by several players. however, they will probably compete The best long distance throw was jn the first tournament for the cham- made by Jimmie Smith, who flung | pionship of Japan and will also prob- the ball 368 feet and eight inches, ably play in the tournament at Hone- far short of the record. ljulu Such a trip marks an innovation eastern players. No one from Atlanti¢ seaboard has uver made In addition to Charlie Ebbert's res- e National meeting will club either not be & help batt game s mat legal distance for fair territory i outficld also will be considered, or In addition to a new major league Records show that second base has tor been the position major league mana-| (he gers have worried over most of the| ihe long trip to the Phillippines for past season and there have been more | the sake of playing in the Far East shifts there than at any other PO-| championship. The only representa- sition. * A year or so ago it was first] tjves in the past have been drawn | number of | satisfactorily, and before that it was| non from the Golaen Gate have tak- behind the bat Possibly next year| on part in the event. In 1913, Wm. 4 the managers will be fretting about | M. Johnston, the national singles third basemen, . It looks that way champion of a year ago, was the win- now. ner of the championship of the { Orient, and last year two of the Cali- Boston has 20 major league base-| gornians competed, Clarence J. Grif- ball champions to its credit. Four|g, and Ward Dawson. Both of these National Association('72 to 75, in-| men 'fell before the superior play of clusive), nine National League ("77,1 the Nipponese, Ichiya Kumagae. "78, 83, '91, "92, 93, "07, "98, 1914), Kyumagae is Therefore, the present five American League (1903, 1904,| i110 holder and it is practically cer- 1912, 1915, 1916), one Brotherhood tain that he will defend his title League. (1890) and one. American | gzguingt the pilgrims from the east, Association (1891). Chicago comes . z rext with 13, three in the American! League and ten in the National. | | Second Meeting Will Open on October: | Twenty-eighth. i At a meeting of the directors of | | the Western Racing Association, who | ~ READY AT DEVONSHIRE. HE WOULDN'T FIGHT. Before Such a Small Rugby Orowd ' at Ottawa, Aocording '0 Malcolm Brice, of Ot-| a tawa, the ®207th Battalion Rugby| 211 arrangements for the holding of team's flying wing is not only a} ihe xo, a ing, which Sjens on pretty fair kind of boxer, but also a | Sr urday, cher 28, ere samplet- good deal of a Wag. : {ed at the Montreal offices yesterday. | He was just good enough to wih | Sieve wil} bo me tu Shanges hn the heavyweight championship of the He > pd or bo ee mg grant | British army and navy recently and | US Brown, who is acting as man- . ager, was on a visit to Montreal to | he ured He urn) attend the meeting, and stated that ame at Lansdowne Patk, "Mike" there would be a better class of of Qiéen's grew peeved at horses at Devonshiré Park than at Smith, and wanted to engage him in ny of we independeyt tracks in a battle. Joe looked up at the hand- Sos at season, . ' Applications tul of people in the stand and said: | have been received fram several own- "Go to blazes. I mever fought be- | oe now oe ng "la tor stabling, fore such a small house in my life." | ey Stating. that will ship to i 8 h { Windsor the end of thé month, This, | with the number now at Windsor, | 16 in the! will furnish plenty of excellent racing material to select fields from. The | plant has been completely finished and is the equal of either of the other | eoures Winduor, The mutual} University 0. In all twenty-seven | plant wi increased in size, which | touchdowns were made, or practically | Ni! afer Brean. Beevmmadation { one touchdown: every two-and-a-half | TE public, 8 k has been | 2 uted among thé horsemen and minutes of the game. : | shows no purse of a less value than! { $600, while the handicaps have an 'added value of $700 and $800. 15¢. each, 2 for 30c. or $1.75 the dozen. The football season of 19 United States will be memorable in at least one respect; it has seen a re- cord score, viz, Oklohoma Central Normal 182, Oklohoma Methodist GRIFFIS TO RETIRE, Hockey Star Decides to Hang Up His Skates. . Si Griffis, the veteran hockey star {of the Vancouver Millionaires, may be seen in the Vancouver line-up this | year when they take the ice against i the other three teams in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. Business has been so rushing with him this {year that he finds it nearly impos- sible to spare any time to delight the hockey followers with his wild | and heroic rushes down the ice, as! {he has done since . the Vancouver 'club has been organized. Most of | the neouver victories last year | were didectly dud to the work of the veteran p . and the Seattle peo- ple will remember how, on J#nuary 5 A : ~ : - { last, "Si" got out of a sick bed, came on the ice and played a stellar gam *, «0 scoring the deciding goal following {one of his great rushes down the ice s {thirty seconds before the final { whistle. ' i " i Veteran " COLBORNE "' Admitted the Best Quality and Best: tting in Canada. Anyone who thinks he is apt to yield to a desire to whistle or sing | "Tessie" in Brooklyn should first leave instructions where to ship his remains, WAR CLOUDS HOVER Proposed Transfer of Fran- Rumors were revived in New York yesterday that the American League franchise transferred to Brooklyn, the Senators using the Dodgers' field The owners club are said gusted with the poor patrcnage there and want to shift to sbme other city, preferably Brooklyn, befeye season begins. The rumors have ¢ropped up sev- eral times, but always were denied. If it happens it may mean the ing of amicable relations between the | two big leagues The Hot Stove League is early on the job again, and is renewing the legend that Toronto will be in the! American League next sumably in place of Washington. To- i OURMILOCIGARS ! |eclipse all others of equal cost and' { |'even some that are sold for consider ? $ i ably more than our price. Made of the best long filler tobacco by skill- ed cigar makers, it is a cigar that could easily be sold for a nickel more and still be considered good smoke value. A trial today will make it your choice tomorrow. The G. A. McGowan Cigar Manufacturing Co. ingston. Kingston's ELECTRIC Store Cheaper Electricity will be yours very soon. Rates will be lowered. OVER BIG LEAGUES chises May Precipitate in Washington would be of the to have Washington become dis- thé 1917 reak- Get your homes wired now and en- Joy all the comforts of light, heat and power in the home. Estimates Cheerfully Given. Just Hot Stove Yarn, season, pre- ronto has a very fair season in a bad i year, and the fans are pretty well | waked up. keep them alive during the winter | months. It would cost a pretty penny | to make the shift, many obstacles out of The story may serve te ! H. W. Newman Electric Co. 79 Princess St. with all of the the road.-- : Phone 441 oe » Buffalo News. CARRIGAN TO BE BANKER. In a Real Bank, and Not a Card | Bill Carrigan who lately piloted { the Red Sox to two successive world's i cRampionships, will become a bank- | er. Game, { OUR STOCK THAT WE WERE EXPECT- 'ING HAS ARRIVED Not only that, but Bill is going to lead the financial league and be! one of the moguls. with a few other stockholders of the First National bank of Auburn, Car- rigan will assume control of the bank and be elected a director at the meet- ing next Monday. 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