To LTR SR ARES) SAGE TWELVE ~~ RE ARR FT TTT 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 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 If you have a Grafonola or wish you had, and have some other machine. Columbia Records will make your holidays better and brighter be- cause they are the finest in quality and tone. Treadgold Sporting Goods Co. 88 Pri : a ' rincess : tH Phone 529 0 a a a + . . " * Christmas * Suggestions in Furniture Card Tables (oak and Mahogany), Parlor Ta- bles, Library Tables, Tea Tables, Tea Curates, Dolls Beds, Dolls Carriages, Music Cabinets, Par- lor Cabinets, Shaving Cabinets, Children's Cribs, Jardiniere Stands, Chesterfields, Davenports, La- dies' Writing Tables, Writing Desks, Chairs to | match; Baby Walkers, Baby High Chairs, Rockers, | Kiddie Coops, Sanitary Couches. The above are in all finishes and designs. The lard®st and best stock in the city to choose from. Robt. J. Reid, i 5 | 4! TURF GOSSIP | The King of Spain intends to have some horses in training at Maisons- | Lafitte, France, He may send some | to Englapd next year. | 1 | | | | 1 | Thomas "Chicago" O'Brien has some promising yearlings which he expects to race next year. O'Brien will spend the winter months in New York. Lieut. Stanley. Wootton, the noted English jockey, who won a commis- sion and the Military Cross, with the 17th Royal Fusiliers, has been trans- ferred to a cavalry regiment, Jockeys last a long time in Aus- tralia. When R. Lewis won the Caulfield Cup at Sydney last month it was his seventeenth year of riding in that race and his first win of the cup. He first rode in the Cup race on the Heroine in 1895, twenty-one years ago, W. Knapp, the veteran jockey, who has been on the ground for over! two years, is keeping in good con- dition with the hope of being rein- stated by the Canadian Racing As- sociations, before whom he recently had a hearing. Knapp can still ride at 110 pounds and is breaking and exercising horses daily on the New ! York winter training camps, r ~ FIFTY Of American League Were Fined by Commission. Fines by the wholesale were im- posed by the National Baseball Com- who have taken part in various ex- hibition games following the close of the season of 1916. Fifty-one players from thirteen of the sixteen major league teams were fined amounts ranging from $25 to $100, However, the commission was lenient to an extent and suspended the fines on thirty-eight players, al- lowing only thirteen fines to stand. The men who mult pay are Hen- ricksen, Janvrin, Shorten, Hoblitzell, Lewis, McNally, Scott, Cady, Ruth and Barry of the world's champion Boston American League; Cobb and Young of the Detroit Americans, and Davis of the Philadelphia Awmeri- cgns. All of these were fined $100, except Cobb, who must pay $50. The fines on the Boston Americans came as a result of a game played at New Haven, Conn., in violation of .the rule against members of the world's champions playing in games after the close of the season. Barry did not play, but managéd the team that did play. Davis was fined as the manager of a team which played in various east- ern cities, but the fines of the re- mainder of the team were suspended, because it was brought out in the testimony that Davis had assured his team-mates that he had the word of President Johnson of the American League that there would be no of- I fical subjection to the team playing. mission on major league ball ous ox | GOAL WAS KICKED From the Field From the 65-Yard Mark. The longest drop kick for a goal from the field in the 1916 or any other season was that of Capt. George Gipp of the Notre Dame freshmen against the Western Nor- | mal Collegiate at Kalamazoo, Gipp booted a goal from his own 35-yard tine for 65 yards. Gipp had previ- {ously missed by inches from 48 | yards. \ ne Last season Mark Payne of Dako- | ta Wesleyan held the record with 63 | yards, O'Dea's 62-yard boot is the i longest drop kick on record among | the bigger colleges. He made the | goal for Wisconsin against Northwes- { tern eighteen years ago. Haxall of | Princeton ked a goal from place- ment for 65 yards against Yale in | 1882, a Poor Crop Last Season. The baseball scouts of the big {league clubs, who have completed { their annual reports for the year, are | almost unanimous in declaring that | the gemeral run of material in: the bush leagues last season was below the calibre of previous years, and that few players were uncovered who {showed promise of making good in {the major leagues without a long drawn-out polishing process by work- ing up through the various minor BARNSTORMERS | 'DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1916. RUTH BEST TWIRLER OF 1916 SEASON Red Sox Pitcher Gives Only 1.75 Runs Per Game-- Cicotte Second. "Babe" Wuih of the Boston Red Sox led the American League pitch- ers last season, according to the of- ficial averages which were made pub- lic by President Ban Johnson yes- terday, The pitchers are rated on the same basis as the National League twirlers not on games won and lost, but on the number of earned runs per game Ruth allowed only 1.75 runs per game and W® took part on forty- four games, Eddie Ciotte of Chicago was sec- ond, allowing 1.78 runs per game. Walter Johnson of Washington was third. He allowed 1.89 runs per game, Davenport of St. Louis was the hardest worked pitcher, taking part in fifty-nine games. Reb Russell of Chicago was next, with fifty-six, and Bob Shawkey of the Yankees pitched in fifty-three games. Walter John- son, however, p'tched the greatest number of innings, 371. | He also led the league in strike- outs, with 228 to his credit. Myers of the Athletics was the most liberal of the twirlers, and kave 168 bases on balls. Joe Bush of the Athletics t was the wildest with 15 wild heaves. Tn the World of Sport| | wookey wores. | bal The 228th Battalion has more hoe- key teams than any organization in the country. It will play in the pro- fessional league, and also compete in the senior and junior series of the O.H.A. Donald Smith, Gordon Roberts, Walter Smaill and "Brownie" Baker will not be with the Montreal Wan- derers this season. Smith is over. seas, Roberts at the coast, while Smaill is living in Winnipeg. It is rumored that "Jimmy" Dis- sette, the St. Michael's point player, will be back in the game this winter. Dissette was one of the best de- fence men that ever appeared in the O.H.A. and it would be little trouble for him to get back in shape, The senior O.H.A, series will con- tain ten clubs instead of eight last year, but two of them are strictly mililtary organizations whose play- ers figured up around North Bay and the Soo last winter, In Kingston Queen's replace the Frontenacs, while Sarmia intermediates will take a crack at the blue-ribbon event and Preston will also be in, "Hobey"" Baker will play in the exhibition games with the St. Nich- ! Dauss of Detroit did the most dam- "age to his opponents by hitting six- teen players, 9 .05 earned runs per ers, permitting among the game. He stood ninth league pitchers. enth, and he took part in more ' games than .any other of Donovan's | boxmen. Mogridge was rated twelth in the list, DIRECT FORWARD PASS FALLS INTO DISFAVOR | Eastern Mentors Seem to Think Play Is Dangerous Method of Attack. | U.S. rugby coaches throughout the east seem to be coming gradually to a belief that the use of the direct pass in certain phases of play is a dangerous method of attack, danger- ous to the attacking team When the rule was. introduced which permitted the use of the direct pass coaches were quick to develop play with the quarter free {rom handling the ball and a great variety of moves were manufactured. A few were sound. Many were radically wrong, and the team using them suf- fered. Each year some of these plays have been dropped and others, with the quarter handling the ball, substituted. The direct pass naturally adds speed to the attack at its start, but it | opens the way for bad fumbles and | puts too much responsibility upon the centre, Those direet passes which carry no risk are ones well protected from fumbles. DETROIT WANTS RICE. Toronto Rowing Coach Has Been Given a Tempting Offer. James C. Rice, coach of the Col- umbus University crews, has been jasked to take charge of the training of the Detroit oarsmen in a new and as yet unnamed club. Coach Rice re- cently received a letter from Mr. Jackson, who is behind the new club, soliciting advice as to the parapher- nalia necessary for a modern rowing club, and suggesting that Rice make lknown his terms for coaching the new rowing athletes. The Detroit promoters want Rice during the part of the year when he is not ocoupied with the training of the Varsity and freshman crews at Columbia. Getting Wise in New York. A New York Paper says: Now that the football season is positively over, where are the merry wrestlers who were going so strong at this time last year? The annual quarrel of the National League be- gins here next week, and the six-day bicycle race the following week, but we miss the grapplers. Have they gone to work? Portland Agress. The Portland Club will grant Ed- die Oatman permission to play with the 228th Battalion. They might as well, unless they want another war in hockey circles. Oatman is going to play with the soldiers, whether leagues. Portland gives permission or not. Nick Cullop led the Yankee piteh- | Shawkey was elev- | olas team of New York, this winter, but owing to the residence rule, | which may be a stumbling block, he | may be nae to play in the league | fixtureg, | Both Manager Savage, of the Port- land Clgb, and Frank Patrick, presi- dent of the Pacific Coast Leagué, have withdrawn their objection to | Eddie Oatman playing in the 228th | Battalion, and there will be no trou- | ble as expected. | - i The Crescent Athletic Club hoc- | key team will play their games at {the new Brooklyn Ice Palace this ! winter, p | According to a Boston exchange ! Arthur Batholomew, "who played a ! wing position for the Toronto Row- ling Club team two years ago," is a 'candidate for the Boston Arena team. "Pud'" Hamilton, formerly of Kingston, who coached the Montreal Rugby team several years ago, is of the opinion that eGorge Kennedy, of the Canadiens, has picked up a prom- ising player in Couture, of the "Soo." { Hamilton is at present residing in | the "Soo." A Galt special says that Walter R. Knox, the all-round athletic cham- pion of internationa} reputation, who trained the Canadiin Olympic team at Stockholm, is coming to that city to train the 122nd Battalion hockey team, which will play in the inter- mediate O.H.A, series. The team is said to be an exceptionally strong one, Montreal Herald:--Nick Bawlf, former Wanderer player writes to an Ottawa friend: '"Tell Shag I signed a big Irishman from Cork for him. He punts 70 yards and can bore a hole through a brick wall. Ireland is a fine place. Just like Canada." Winnipeg Telegram--In electing W. B. ("Bill') Noble President of the 'Manitoba Amateur Hockey Asso- ciation to succeed Dr. W. F. Taylor, the hockeyists made no mistake. Noble has been connected with hock- ey both as a star player and an able official for years, and should be a very useful leader. WANT AMERICAN JOCKEYS. ------ Germany Will Lift Bar That Has - Kept Foreign Riders Out. From Austria and Hungary comes word that next year the bar against foreign jockeys that has prevailed during the past season, is to be lift- ed. Only Austrian, Hungarian German jockeys were given 1 S to ride this year, and at times joc- keys of any kind, has been so great that the racing promoters fell it will be pecessary to admit neutral riders hereafter. In the past American jockeys have been the principal outsiders. In general' they have been so far su- perior to native riders that the ten- dency was to jump 'wages in order to attract them. Native riders na- turally # ted on getting more money al on barring the Ameri- cans. The latter was adopted as the easier way cut of the dilemma, Send Your Relatives and Friends at the For Christmas, Their Favorite Brand. 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