eh ng Boys--Boys Electrical-Mechanical-Constructional Ask your boy what he wants and he will say Meccano, Why! models he'can make easily. You can buy imitations of Meccano at other stores, but they are made by people who are fight- ing our country or are too proud to fight. Get the best--made in England, as a great many Meccano parts are patented and you only get imitations with other kinds. Treadgold Sporting Goods So. Princess Phone 529 Ladies Stylish Shoes In the Frank W. Slater _ Strider Shoe. In patent, gun metnl, with kid or cloth top, they are bhullt over perfect-Atting Iaatx and have very attractive heels. $4.00 and $4.50. ! 8 PLAYERS' DEMANDS A THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916. WERE REJECTED National Association Voted to] Lay Fult2's Communica- . tion on the Table. { Four i Players' tions of effect, ithe sional demands of * the Baseball Fraternity, involving rela- players and clubs were, in rejected. at New Orleans by Baseball Leagues, when mously to lay them on the table The demands included elimination of contract clauses empowering clubs to suspend without pay after a cer- National Association of Profes-| the delegates in convention voted unani-| | CANADIANS AT RUGBY. Dominion Overseas Men Make a Hit With London Supporters. | London Sportsman: The Canadian Rugby Football Club, who expect to run two teams regularly all through | the football season, look like being | almost as good friends to the Pub- lic Schools as the Artists were. They | played their opening trial game at {the Old Deer Park, Richmond, on | Saturday, as the guests of Rosslyn Park. There are still many schools who are short of matches, and the Cana- | dians, whose team is completed al- most entirely of mén who have been wounded or "gassed," a large per- centage of them public school boys tain disability period of players in-| themselves, are anxious to visit the Because it cultivates his mind; educates him to jured in club practice, amendment 'of | { the National Board's rules to permit hon. build and do things himself. These are a few of the | ,1onditionaits released players | @xpenses to spring training camps to | ! minor leaguers when reporting from | !home and revisions of the board's procedure | STILL AT JOHN McGRAW, New York Giant Manager Causes | Much Baseball Discussion. St. Louis Sporting News, which is | generally accepted as being the | ntouthpiece of Ban Johnson, wants to know why John McGraw hasn't been ! hauled over 'the coals for his "break" during that game which gave Brook- lvnh the National League pennant. | Editorially speaking, Sporting News | says: '"'Presiaent John K. Tener, of | the Nationa' League, suggested "to | President Byron Bancroft Johnson, lof the American League, a couple of weeks ago that B. B. had plenty to look after in the case of Joe Lannin and that he would do it, then John K. "himself would look after John J. MoGraw 'in the National League's | own way." Mr. Tener's attention is called to the newspaper reports de-| tailing how Joe Lannin has been looked after. Mr. Lannin has de-| parted as an American League club owner, and they do say that his de- parture was chiefly due to a remark made in a fit of excitement that Ban John's other clubs were framing it up to beat him out of a pennant. Ei John McGraw hasn't apolo-| gized or retracted. Whose doorstep' will be looked afjer next, Mr. Ten-| er?" In view of the fact that John-| son denied having forced Lannin to sell out, where does Sporting News get on? "Dad" Stewart's Broken Leg. A letter has been received in the city from "Dad" Stewart, former| Canadian League ball player, who is a member of the 2nd Canadian Pion- eers, stating that he has been in the hospital for a month with a broken lex. "Dad" also tells how the bat- talion grieved at the loss of Pte. Peter McDonald, who was killed in action. "He was the life of the whole camp, his Irish wit helping the boys to for- get good old Canada, especially when they felt lonesome," says the letter. On the day Pete was hit "Dad" says he was full of the old life and went into the fray kidding his pals as usual. He lived two days after be- ing wounded. Playing the Bigger Game. Word comes from the other side to the effect that Miss Vera Ramsay, the Boston" district champiofi. who went back to England early in the summer, has passed the first aid, stretcher bearing, driving and me- chanician * tests required of those who wish to drive Red Cross motor ambulances in France. New York's Big Six-Day Race. New York's annual six-day race will begin on Dec. 17th at Madison Square Garden, and will continue un- il the evening of Dec. 23rd. [Rv kraft ; 2 OOKE \COLLARS to} |gign immediately, allowing travelling | in hearing players' claims, | | dash and a fine pair of hands, and is | ston hails from British schools. This is a great chance for secretaries of schools, who should write to Sergt. Byatt or Corp. Johnston, Canadian P.O., Millbank street, Westminster. Byatt is an Old Merchant Taylor, who played half- back for the African Banks, knows the game well, and has plenty of now recovering from "gas." John- Columbia, andy apart from two bullets which went clear through him, stopped 26 pieces of shrapnel. Incidentally, he cleared § feet 103% inches in the high jump, but this was before he received the attention of the Huns. Now he plays forward. The colors of the side are cardinal red jersey with the maple leaf on the left breast, while knickers and blue stocking with red and white tops, and, though at present the "boys" haves omething to learn about the R. F. U. rules, they gave evidence on Saturday that they know how 'to play the game." All through the game there was not the slightest sign of objectable play, and, even that most Shakespearian referee, F. H. Tyas, never pulled them up, except for an unwitting offside or a 'chuck for- ward," especially from the line out, wrich is part and parcel of the Ca- nadian game. ' WILL BE SOMETHING DOING. Giant Manager Ready to Back Up His Actions. Joe Villa, writing in the New York Evening Sun, says: When the board of directors of the National League takes up the [In 'the World of Sport | SEEK APPROVAL New World's Records. Eight world's records and three records equalling world's marks will be presented for adoption - by the Amateur Athletic Union at its an- nual convention to be held at the Hotel Astor Monday. These records are listed in the applications for new standards which have been filed with F_J. V. Delaney, Chairman of the Record Committee of the A.A.U. and made public yes- terday. Three of the new world's records claimed are in track and field events and the remafning five are in swim- ming. The new world's marks all of which will probably be adopted are 47 2-5 seconds for the 440-yard run by. James E. Meredith at the inter- collegiate championships last spring; 1 minute 52 1-5 seconds for 880- yard run by James E. Meredith at the Pennsylvania-Cornell dual meet last spring, 'and 14 3-5 seconds for the 120-yard high hurdles by Robert Simpson of the University of Mis- souri at the intercollegiate confer- ence meet at Evanston, Ill The new world's swimming marks are at the 150 and 220 yard and 200 and 500 metre distances, by Her- bert Vollmer, of the New York A. C., and at 1,000 yards by Luly Langer, The world's records equalled were the two-mile and four-mile relay marks made respectively by Yale and Cornell 'at the University of Pennsylvania carnival last spring. For Eight Athletic TURNS DOWN FOOTBALL Do Not Like the Game as Played by The Soldiers. - Alleging that it had entered the intermediate O. R. F. U. series be- lieving that ther 'games would be for sportsmen and gentlemen" and find- ing that "such is not the case" Wes- tern University withdrew from the London district series on the eve of its game with the fast fourteen of the 118th /Battalion, Western University played the 149¢h. the third team in this dis- trict dtermediate series, last Satur- day afternoon, and allege that the Varsity boys were used so roughly that they do net propose to permit them to be again subjected to the chance "of such treatment. Last Giants' memorable game at Ebbets Saturday Western and 149th played Field in which the New York team a tie game, 12-12, in which a good was charged with indifference, the deal of the keenest rivalry was dis- Send Your Relatives and Friends-at the Front; or- For Christmas, Their Favorite Brand. -. 1 Put Up In Boxes 10, 25, 50. For Sale at All Tobacconists and Druggists. y J CHOCOLATY THAT ARE DIFFERENT | the game of Oct. chief witness will be Manager John J. McGraw. The leader of the Giants has deferred his vacation trip in order to appear at the inquiry, which will be conducted in this city on Dec. 11th. MeGraw is prepared to give excellent reasons why he left the bench on Oct. 3rd, declaring that some of the Giants had disobeyed his orders. He will make it clear that, in his opinion, his players were not actuated by dishonest motives, but simply refused to play the game up to the required standard. McGraw, according to his closest friends, will offer in evidence a bundle qf letters and telegrams received by him for a week or ten days before the final series with the Brooklyms, in which -it was pointed out that unless the Giants won four straight games the honesty of the sport would bé. placed in jeopardy. - McGraw will testify that before 3rd he addressed the Giants in the clubroom at Ebbets Field and urged them to play their best. He offered to give each mem- ber of the team a suit of clothes and an overcoat, together with a cash bonus, if the Giants finished in third position, It is said that McGraw will show that $5,000 or more would have heen distributed among his men if they had beaten out the Boston Braves. In other words, McGraw Is ready to cenvince the directors that he did his best to make the Giants play winning ball against the Brook- yns, - - 3 NO CHAMPIONSHIPS, War. There will be no Canadian speed skating championships: held this winter as a result of the-Amateur Skating Association of Canada, held at the AAA. club house, Montreal. The meeting decided that owing to the greatly diminished number of skaters because- of the war they would not hold any championship events until after the termination of the war. Local meets will, of course, be sanctioned, with events for cer- tain distances, Markham will haye a new hockey rink this winter, and it is expected to bé one of the best in the district, 23 For Speed Skaters Until After the, played. Referee Vic Smith had a tough job handling the game, and it is stated that he has declined to | officiate again in any game played by 'the 149th. Western University ! regret not being able to play the 118th, and make no allegation against this team--which lost by a | 3-0 score to the 149th a fortnight ago. GIANTS' PROFITABLE YEAR. Made More Money Than "Any Other Major League Club. Conservative baseball men believe that the Giants made more money than any other -major league club this year. The profits of the stock- holders who pay the Giants' salaries are estimated at about $300,000. It is said that the New York Club was on velvet--that is to say, enough money had been taken in to pay all expenses for the season--on July, and that the profits exceeded $100, 000 when the Giants began their record-breaking run of twenty-six straight victories. Duripg that sen- sational streak, which took place at the Polo Grounds, the club's profits reached $200,000 additional, it is be- lieved, so that the stockholders en- joyed their most prosperous year. The expenses of the Giants were enormous. More. than $100,000 was paid out for new players, the salary list amounted to $120,000, it is said, while. rent, taxes. travelling bills, advertising and other items consum- ed $80,000 more. The total expenses and profits resulted from more than 1,000,000 paid admissions. YALE-HARVARD GAME Attracts a Crowd of 77,000 Football Fans. The greatest crowd that ever gath- ered in #n enclosure to witness any sporting event in this country with-be on hand for the Yale and Harvard game in the Yale Bowl, November 25th. Approximately 77,000 persons will watch the Crimson and the Blue struggle for supremacy, and that the number will not be greater is due to lack of area on which to construct extra seats. High-water mark was reached in attendance fighres in this Tos anol Ee 1 ~, s, CHAMPION RUNNER: 1} OFaTHE NUTLUNIVER- SITY OFLBRALIL - MRSIJIGGS | GUESS ILL HAVE TO BE GOING + 1 WAIT ANY Phone 441. country when 70,000 spectatorf saw Yale and Harvard play in the Bowl two years ago. The demand for tickets this year go far exceeded. the normal capaeity at the Bowl, some 60,000, that more than 16,000 extra seats were erected, It was decided to limit the applica- tions of non-graduates of the uni- versity to two tickets each, and the same rule was applied to the gradue- ates of the professional schgol of the university. * Will Get Roasted. In adopting the new rule regard- ing the throwing of the stick, in which the referee is now called ypon to award a goal, the N. H. A. officials will be sure to come in for some roast. Sng 'this winter, especially as only one man will handle the games. Of course, it is a hard thing to over- come this throwing of the stick, and if the new rule leads to trouble; the N.H.A. will probably adopt another one before the season is over. Rules are easy to make, and the N. H. A. magnates are the busy little makers. A Third Major League. Joe Vila, in the New York Sun, says that organized baseball's inten- tion to establish a third major league Kingston's Electric Store -- Our -- Nitrogen & Tungsten Lamps Are the best. We have an immense stock of these. H.W.Newman Electric Co. 79 Princess St. DT a tal . STRAND ob HT COLLAR Same style, 214 back ' BROCK 2 for 30c Quarter Sizes more, Newark, Indianapolis, < Mil- waukee, Toledo and Louisville, is in- spired, according to a trustworthy baseball authority, by fear of another invasion by an outlaw organization backbd by H. F. Sinclair, the multi millionaire oil man, and others of to embrace Toronto, Buffalo, Balti- enormous wealth. By GEORGE McMANUS