PAGE TWENTY A gift for all the family for all the year around No matter how much money you're going to spend for Christ- 'mas some should go for music to make your Christmas brighter. A Bl Columbia Grafonola is the gift that will be the great- est source of pleasure both on Christmas morn and all through the year. Prices from $15 up--on special Christmas terms ____THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916. In the World of Sport | wockey woris. | The Ottawa Club want to change their first game at home with Can- | adiens from Saturday to the follow- | ing Monday, which is New Year's | night, Elmer Johnston, president of the Eastern Ontario Hockey League, has received a request from the com- manding officer of the 240th (Ren- frew) Battalion, asking for permis- sion to enter a team. The proposi- tion will likely be considered favor- ably. President L. N. Bate of the Ottawa Hockey Club has received a card from Gunner Harry Broadbent writ- ten two weeks ago from behind the! British lines on the Somme. "Punch" penned that he was well, so he evi- dently survived the latest advance in the big drive. A.--and they are many---Jack Marks team, "has it on" them all. Marks is about to commence his twenty- third year in the game. Montreal Gazette--That McGill University will be strongly represen- ted in the.' Montreal City Hockey League this season and will be fac- tors in the race for the champion- ship was assured at the first prac- tice of the students last night. There | were thirty-two men in uniform, { they being worked in relays. There |are many newcomers to the ranks of tha MeGjill club this winter, in- | cluding a number from Ottawa, four | from the college and one from the | Aberdeens, one from Sudbury and | two from the local Victoria club of | last winter. The Ottawa Free Press says there is no good numbering players in the N.H.A. unless the spectators have a chance to learn their names prompt- ly. The paper suggests that the names and numbers of the two teams | be posted on a big electric board and displayed where all could see it. This «' is a good suggestion. If you have a Grafonola or wish you had, and have some other machine. Columbia Records will make your a holidays better and brighter be- cause they are the finest in quality and tone. Ireadgold Sporting Goods Co. a Phone 529 re IES OLE RR. Save the Babies FOR THE EMPIRE'S SAKE | USE ONLY PASTEURIZED MILK Our Milk is Thoroughly Pasteurized and sold in Sealed Bottles. Phone 845 That Diamond | PEARL, CAMEO OR SIGNET RING you were speaking about, select now from F. W. COATES Jeweler. 158 Princess St. Phone 445 : : Price's | 952 were smashed. A Pittsburgh despatch says: The Winter Garden hockey team, com- posed entirely of girls, had a preli- { minary meeting last evening to form plans for their coming games. Pitts- burg girls are. quite as clever as their male rivals at the skating game and expect to spring a surprise when they branch out into hockey. Prac- tice sessions start this week at the Winter Garden and quite a nmber of | girls have applied for positions op 'tho team, | WOMAN SHOOTER | MAKES GREAT RECORD 4 Mrs. Topperwein Hits 1,952 i Out of Thousand Flying * Targets. All records for continuous trap- shooting" were broken recently in the grounds of the Montgomery Gun {Club,in Montgomery, Pa., and the remarkable' feature of the perfor- mance is that it was a woman who | went through the strai 'breaking a large percentage of 2,000 targets in the space of five hours and twenty | minutes. Mrs, Ad. Topperwein, a | professional shooter, who a few years {ago broke 961 targets out of 1,000 {in a little more than four hours, es- |sayed this latest task, which for skill i and endurance is far and away ahead of anything accomplished by a man. | Advertised in an attempt to shoot |at 1,000 or more, she continued het self<dmposed task until 2,000 target: {had been released, and of these 1. The first authenticated record fot M ADE IN CANADA COLLARS IS CENTS EacH TOOKE BROS. LIMITED MONTREAL Of ail the old-timers in the NH. | the Toronto player on the Quebec' long scores at the traps made in ons day was in a match between John W. Garrett and Joe Rohrer at Coloras !do Springs, in which Garrett made the fine score of 967 out of 1,000, A few years later Fred Stone, the ac- tor, and Alex. Mermond shot a 1, { 000-target race at St. Louis and Mer- { mond won, with a score not'as good as Garrett's. Mrs. Topperwein's performance was remarkable in nrany ways. She used only one gun, and went through the long strain with ease and without rest, except the time required to cool off the gun. The only inconvenience suffered was a badly blistered hand, caused by a hot gun-barrel. The ac- tual time occupied in this colossal shoot was three hours and fifteen minutes, the remainder. of the time being taken up in cooling the gun \| and unpacking targets. One autoinatic trap was used, and the targets were thrown the regu- | lation distance. The score was shot in strings of twenty-five from five positions, similar in manner to the method of conducting tournament competitions, | A NOTED RUNNER HOME FROM THE WAR peg, But Has Son on the Job. Pte. John D. Marsh, 2nd Division- al Ammunition Park, former star long distance runner, is back in Win- nipeg from the war aftér doing eighteen months' work with the potor transports. In France, He has been invalided home, suffering from shell shock, but will return to action in six months' time if he is fit. Despite John's age of 43 years, he had a busy time of it conveying ammunition to. the men in the tren- ches, and tells some stirring tales; he has travelled so often between Somme and St. Eloi that he knows the ground thoroughly. Pte. Marsh is loud in his praise of thé treatment received by the Winni- peg soldiers from the Returned Soldiers' Association, and claims that the local crganization is better than any he had dealings with, "Quebee Returned Soldiers officials were fine, but the Winnipeg people were simply splendid," said Marsh, John is wed known to Winnipeg- gers, and to sportsmen in many other parts of the world, because of his uccesses in contesting Marathon ba other Jong distance races, six to ten years 'ago. He did considerable running in the old country, but quit the game for a time, settling at St. Norbert, Man. He sprang into prom- inence by winning a local 20-mile race, and after this victory was soon sought by the promoters of Marathon events, which were very pepular in New York and other eastern cities | yfor a time. Marsh raced against such famous runners as Dorando, Stevens, Longboat, Shrubb, Appleby | and others. One of Marsh's most notable gor formances on the track was in a, twelve-mile race with Alfred Schrubb | at Vancouver. They started on an | {even basis, and John won out, cover-| ing the distance in 1 hour, and 2 minutes and forty seconds. This was a favorite distance with Schribb, and | the famous English runner was ex- | pected to triumph, | Marsh's last race was in 1910, when he beat Paul Acoose, noted In- dian runner, in a twelve-mile con- | test at Broadview, John D. has a son 17 years old, | who, he thinks will give a good ac-! count of himself on the track if he returns safely from the war. Young Marsh left Winnipeg with the 43rd | Battalion. GOVERNMENT MAY PREVENT, Race Track Promoters Grabbing Up | Old Charters. It is said that the government may take steps this winter that will pre- vent race track promoters from grab- bing up old charters and building tracks in évery nook and corner of | the province. The game is being gradually killed in Maryland by 0 | many tracks being built, and it is felt that it will die a natural death in Canada if certain: Yankee promo- ters are allowed to run about hand- cuffed. According to a local turf- man, an act will be passed in each Province, and it is not Hkely that provision will be made for any more in Ontario, for with eight tracks ting here now In the "interests the thoroughbréd" will be well looked after. - It is about time that John D. Marsh Back in mie some move was made, | A Swedish Lady Skating Instructor MORAN AND SMITH WILL MEET AGAIN No Progress in the Propsed Carpentier-Willard- Darcy Affair. Frank Moran and "Gunboat" Smith will meet in the Claremont Sporting Club in Brooklyn on Decem- ber 18th. The match has stirred up a good deal of interest in this section although it is far from being a titu- lar contest. The bout will mark Moran's first appedrance in the ring since his memorable disastrous engagement with Jack Dillon at SH Park several months ago. 'Moran has been working hard, and he is said to be out to win the champion- ship. He proposes to show his ad- | mirers that he has the "come-back" stuff in him. Moran lost to Willard and Jack Johnson, and when a few months ago he lost to Dillon, so miserable was his showing that it was though his pugilistic career was ended. THE DUKE ENGAGES, For His Family, His Excellency the Duke of Devon- shire is evidently going to emulate the examples of his predecessors and prove an enthusiastic supporter of the Canadian outdoor sports. He has already signified his intention of at- tending some of the local games in the National Hockey Association this winter, and at the annual meeting of the Rideau Skating Club at Ottawa, it was~announced that a professional Swedish lady instructor had been en- gaged. She will come to Ottawa about 4 Send Your Relatives and Friends at the Front, or Aor Christmas, Their Favorite Brand. - Milo Put Up In Boxes 10, 25, 50. For Sale at All Tobacconists and Druggists. rr Kingston' S Electric Store Christmas Siegoutions, Electric Irons, $3.50; Electric Toasters, $4.00; Beautiful Table Lamps, $6.50. These 'make the most useful Christmas presents. H.W.Newman Electric Co. Phone 441 79 Princess St. pes BLAKEMORE STUDIO 180 Wellington St. Over Royal Bank. Am Now Equipped to take your Baby's Photo for Xmas. EERE So --~---- Dec, 15° and divide "her time betw een the Rideau and Government House Skating Clubs. Among her pupils will be the Duke of Devonshire, as well as his daughters, the Ladies McGill University is the only Can- adian team on Harvard's heavy sche- dule this season. In former years the schedule has included University of Toronto and Queen's University, Cavendish, Ice is already being made | MeGill will play the Crimson in Bos at the Government House rink. ton on February 10, because it --from C Its the "safest" gift you can select, for every man shaves, and knows that in the Gillette you are giving him the best equipment that money can buy. His. appreciation will be SURE and LASTING. Christmas Gillette displays will be in the windows of all the hustling Gillette Dealers--Drug, Jewelry, Hardware and Men's Wear Stores--in a dozen styles or more--priced from $5 to $25. and over again--is A frac unequalled service ristmas to Christmas--over MR.JIGGS WiLL. | TAKE YOU A STROLL OF INE | WONDER ~- DO PEOPLE FALL DOWN THIS CLIFF?