v This interesting prize tells the story. Treadgold $ Kingston's EL 1 ( i porting Goods Go. i | | States, the World of Sport | | BASEBALL BRIEF. The Chinese baseball team, which has closed its tour of the United made a great record. are credited with winning 37 out of | 59 games with college nines, and 61 victories in 119 battles with leadilig independent teams. Tris Speaker's last hit of the sea- son was a two-bagger in the ninth inning of the final game, and it boosted his batting average to .390 The unofficial records show Speaker | went to bat 544 times and cracked $3,000 is the cash prize offered for a new word. | offer is made by the manufacturers ' © of the famous EVER-READY Flashlights. 5 I We are local distributors for the $3,000 cash offer. Come in and get a contest blank. t i Phone 529 | out 212 hits. "Billy" Sullivan, for many Sox, and now a coach troit 'Tigers, is mentioned as the next manager of the Salt Lake City | team of the Pacific Coast League. Jumping from a Class C league to the majors and hitting above the 250 mark all season, most of the time around .275, is quite an achieve- ment for any young ball player. Al Walters, of the New York Yankees, can claim this distinction. Not alone has he hit oftem, but he has hit hard as well. He made ten doubles and three triples, and. he took part in about sixty games. The failure of the St. Louis Browns to finish in the first division | of the American League cost the fans { of | + ECTRIC Store| Cheaper Electricity will be yours very soon. Rates | will be lowered. Get your homes wired now and en- joy all the comforts of light, heat and power in the home. | LN the Mound City many bets that had been wagered that the Browns would be in the first four at the end of the season. . They were fifth, only a few points behind New York, who by their ability to take the last game of the season, entered the charmed circle and shoved thé Browns down. SHOOKER EXPECTED To Be a Steady Winner 'With the "Yankees Next Season. William F. Donovan, the Moses who led the Yankees out of the wil- derness of the second division last | season, will again lead the Ruppert Estimates Cheerfully Given. 79 Princess St. | ANNOUNCEMENT ! : AST Bitvé decided (0 tacuts Jy Bresons mow } monument that I have in stock. CIs would be Cor. the early spring of 1917, I am to make reductions on any your intention of purchasing it to your advantage to buy mow. J. E. Mullen, | . Granite and Marble Works | Princess and Clergy Sts., Kingston. | Phone 1417, | Hpecial Lines have been added to our i. $ 20. TEA TABLES AND PATHE~The most remarkable musical instrument in the world. Ask for R. J. REID, Leading Undertaker :: Phone 577 Wagner's Unique Record. "Honus Wagner is unique In base- ball in several ways besides being the only man who ever batted for 380 in seventeen 'successive years, and, never being a holdout, he has 'worked for only one man in his fwenty seasons ig major league base- » He went "to, work for Barney JEFF MEANT "YET" NOT "STILL." 00, $30.00 and up. fall stock. Three-plece suites, $18.00, | PARLOR TABLES Dreyfuss in Louisville in 1897, afd he is still drawing his pay from the same man in Pittsburg in 1916. No other active player has worked for one man anywhere near the same number of years. Torry Turner went to Cleveland in 1904 and has been steady on that job, and Lajoie was with Charley Somers in Cleveland trom 1902 to 19165. il ' and Huston entry into the American | Leagué campaign of 1917. | T. L. Huston, half owner of the club, Captain announced last night that Col. Rup- pert and he have re-engaged Smiling Bill to run the club for his third season, . Most baseball experts are convin- ced that Donovan will have his big chance in 1917. The team has a set of young pitchers who seem capable of big things. ' Cullop and Mogridge, both of whom sustained injuries last season, are left-handers who should rank with the best. Alexan- der and Johnston were the only pit- chers who excelled. Bob Shawkey last season, while 'Donovan has a paid of kid spitballers who, with last year's experience, should be steady winners, They are Allen Russell and Urban Shocker. RECONSIDERS DECISION, "Mdoney" Gibson Decides Not to Re- tire From Baseball. Catcher <Ceorge Gibson, former | Pirate star, has evidently reconsider= ed his determination to quit buse- ball. He was in Pittsburg last week on business and to friends he said he would be back in the game next sea- son. He is now the property of the New York Club, and if he plays will have to arrange with that organiza- tion. Following his refusal to abide by the terms of his release to the Gianis last September, Gibby vowed that he was through with the pastime, and would never appear again. Later he was placed on the Giants' ineligible list. However, If he wants to come back the New York officials can easly arrange to have him re- instated. It wasn't expected 'that the big catcher would call on President Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg Club; nor did he. Mr. Dreyfuss said he knew nothing of his former star's visit here, of Suds Tommy Burns in Portland, Tommy Burns, former heavyweight champion of the world, has decided to settle down for a while and ! picked Portland as his stopping place] where he has organized a body known as the Byoadway Boxing Club. Tommy is pregident and intends to referee the in bout in each of the two smokers which he expects to put on each month, re 28 They years | star backstop of the Chicago White for the De- | GIANTS' LONG TOUR. Scmething New in Spring Exhibition i Somethide new in exhibition tours | was anngunced by the management | of the Xew York National League Baseb#ll Club. After the close of | their /spring training season in the i south the New York and Detroit { Clubs will travel through several | southern cities for a week or more { playing a game each day. The tour | will start at Dallas, Texas, about { April 1-and énd at aKnsas City. The two teams will travel in a special train. . Manager MeGraw of New | York said that he regarded such a | tour as better praetice for both clubs | than playing minor league teams in | the south. / "w Kolehmainen is Through. i Hannes Kolehmainen, who was the hero of the last Olympic games in Sweden, is said to be all through | as a champion in the American long- | distance runnings. The Flying Finn was only a shell of his former 'self | in {le national five-mile event this | year. AA | . HOCKEY NOTES. The Smith's Falls Hockey Club bas organized and written asking for ad- mission to join the O.H.A. The secretary of the Smith's Falls club has written to 'Carletopy Place, Mer- rickville, Perth, Brockville and Kemptville in an effort to form a group in that section of the province. There will be no- seniar hockey in Alberta this winter, as decided last Lol, WE BACK UP OUR : CIGARS with a guarantee that nowhere else can you obtain so much real smoke joy for so little money. If yom judge a cigar by'its price the Peel cigar wil not appeal to you. But it you judge by flavor, aroma, smooth-~ ness and mellowness, then you'll most surely make the Sir Robert Peel, the cigar that made the Jc famous your favorite smoke after the first trial. p is the intention to give him a thor- ough trial and see what he is capable GIFTS INSTEAD OF MONEY: November. They will also be oblig- ed to do away with the intermediate series, due to loss of players+through enlistment, The junior division will be run, however, and an effort made to induce the younger fellows to take up the game. Claude Wilson will be given a Ahance to edrn the position of regular *goaler on the Toronto N.H.A. team this winter. This fellow 'has been spare man for two years, and has never really been given a chance, It For Members of NL.U. Champions 'Who Did Not Accept Pay. When the National A.A A, holds its next annual meeting within the next | two weeks gifts will be made to all those lacrosse players who did not take any pay for their services, ~ These include: Brossard, Dandur- and, Doutre, Lapensee, Dr. Lacha- pelle, Lamoureux, Bellerose and Monette, According to Raoul Dumounchel, chairman of the Lacrosse Committee, yar, and he points out how all the other clubs made big money from their matches with the Nationals. 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