THE DAILY PAGE TWENTY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1917. 4 [In the World of Sport| Supe .Sam Agnew, catcher for the, Bos ton Red Sox, is already in training at the Spa -veral other members of | the Bostic team are expected to re- pory in a few days, although the team is scheduled to report until | March Tti ee Lee George Stallings offered Firstbase- man Schmidt, who quit the Braves a few years ago, a big salary to return 'to' Boston this year, but Scumidt re- fused to return to the game "Rube" Marquard has signed 'with Brooklyn for next season. Generally he has a war of his own at this time of the year, but when holdouts be- came common he decided to get in line at once # If Bruce Hartford, leadinggshort- stop of the Western League akes good wita Chicago Whité Box next season, George Wedver will be ghifted to third base the Cleveland critics say that the most improved player on the Indian team last year was Wambganss. Lee Fhol is thinking of keeping him at short and shifting Chapman -elsewhere. "Wamby" wonld never have received a real chance had uot Chapman broke his leg. ' -- | President Frazee, of the Red Sox, {is adopting a new plan to get his 3 | players in line. He will invite the Re 1 wives of all players to Hot Springs * You buy five Records for $4.25 cash and you get the machine de- livered and pay for it when you are using it. This great offer is just for one week only, to enable everyone to, have a Columbia at home. 6,000 Records to choose from.. ; Blended {as his guests providing hubby signs | a contract at once No lesz than 715 five-man teams | have entered the seventh annual | tournament of the American Bowling | Congress which opens on March 3rd {at Grand Rapids, Mich. Of this large {| total Canada is represented by but three, and these will be from To- rontc It is reported that the Providence club has sold Outfielder Powell to | Cincinnati and that. the St. Louis | Cardinals are trying to make a deal | for Firstbaseman Ed. Onslow. i | "Capt. Edward B. Cassatt has com®¥ out in favor of barring the entry of : geldings for important stake fed | tures, thereby copying the rule regu- lating the Epsom Derby. | : | * After being twice delayed by in-' jelement weather, the horses belong- ing to Andrew Miller, which will race at Churchill Downs, have been ship- With Ae- cent on "If." . Baseball writers who aré frying minimize the effect that America possible entrance into the European war will have on bas will have to go slow, says 1 Philadelphia North 'American. . 1 has been a disposition on the part of certain figures in the two big leagues to say that hosilities will have no effect on 10, eball ere baseball, but in this case the wish is father to the thought For that matter, - the feelings of the major league owners will not be regarded by Uncle Sam in case of a conflict.) Neither can public opinion be op-1| posed. If the authorities think that a ball park will make a good drilling ground, you ean lay a big bet that Yery soon. It also must not be for-| gotten if there is a call for volun- teers, hundreds of ball players, in-| cluding the big league stars, will | come forward and enlist. The Span-| ish-American war is not a parallel, | for in site of some of the astonish ing feats of the American army and | navy, America had its opponents out- classed and never had a chance of | losing. Fighting the Central Powers of Europe is a tougher assignment | and will tax the stamina of the na-| tion to a far greater degree. In fight-! ing Germany, Amertca will need 100 men where it needed one in combat! ing Spain. At the present time very! ) little sport is being played in s of { the cotintries involved in the ar England is still making a brave at- tempt to keep its soccer engine jn motion, but 'the of players in the field is not what it was before the war, as many of the. best soccer stars enlisted. Soce about the only. professional sport played to any extent just now in England, although er is there is some horse racing. One writer who says horse racing still | flourishes in Germany and Ru ssia) j must have scme cxclusive f - { tion. If there is any | many the jockeys ar [age mark and the mo SECI Tribune. The giddy bhi nl Tork | service on the Somme and have no the Winter Le: o > find . hy n ' more than one or two leg It wid, iter League find space and take only a few months of such a|OPPOTLUNILY to air their views. Usu- conflict to show the 1 realities] MY the estions are typewritten of war, and nothing will suffer more! {than professional sport -- 1 I Clubs Are Fined For Failure Race course betting is leg in|! Australia, as in all other parts of the!" British Empire, but some of the! States of the Cecmmonwealth permit only the use of the "tote'"' or mutuel system. In New South Wales book- making and mufuéls are on equal t legal footing, but the Government! aims at the encouragement of the! the place will be a drilling ground | provement of the baseball rules, says vanced for a rule to penalize the side whose | pitcher FOR THE ALLAN CUP 0. H. A.r Saskatchewan ahd Thunder Bay Champions : BASEBALL' WiLL SUFFER | FOUR ARE ELIGIBLE '| | | [ SPORTING NOTES. ir U.S. Enters the War. Secretary W. A. Hew f the Cay- adian Amateur Hox ¥ Association stated sterday that the Allan Cup Eames for the amateur hockey am- pionshiip ef Canada will be held his Year at~ Winnipeg, as usual. 1 he champions of the Manitoba Hockey Association .will be the defending team, as the 61st Battalion team of Wnnipeg successfully, defended the trophy last year. « The challenging teams will be the champions of the Ontario Ho~ks y As- , the Saskatchewan Hockey ion, and the Thunder Bay Associaticn. The 41st Bat- talion team of Port Arthur are cham- pions of Thunder Bay, and have al- ready sent out their challenge through Secretary J. F. Hodder. They want to get early dates, as they ex- pect to go overseas shortly, The Sons of Ireland team of the Quebec City League also put in a challenge, but it was not considered, as the Quebec City League is not a member of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and has com- peted with clubs of questiona bith standing. Claude Robinsca of Winnipeg will have complete chargesof the cup games at" Winnipeg, both as the re presentative of the C.AH.A. and the | | G. A. McGOWAN, 4 Get Back of a Milo Start the New Year right by smoking MILO Cigars. You will enjoy every one. Made in Kingston. Manufacturer, Kingston. --_-- wn BS -- For Life Insurance S. ROUGHTON Fo 60 Brock St., Kingston. Phone 610 * ~e Felifu'y Furniture Sale S A------ 1 < Allan Cup trustees of which William Northey of Montreal is the secret i: SHOULD MAKE PROFESSIONAL Take the "Sporting Chance" for Good of the Game. This is the time of the year when the Nut, in his various forms, comes forth with suggestions for the im- | W. 0. McGeehan, in Everything reduced, buy now, save your money. We store your pur. chases until required, 23 Sample Brass Beds, all reduced. Special values in Iron Beds, at 8.50, $7.50; Way Sagless Springs, Felt Mattresses, White Enamel, Oak, Mahg., B. E, Maple, at special prices, . R.).REID, Leading Undertaker. 33 Chiffonieres, Phone 577 mm A gi, ~ er A sri in one side of the paper for the puar- wse of looking well in their uiti-|] mate destination--thes ash can. Al-| 'reda de Oro, the cue wizard, comes | orth with one that is worth looking | over. It will have considerable ! vacking from the fans. In fact, it] a suggestion that has been ad- before It is the proposal! intentionally passes a bat-| er. The rule would give the batter | he option of taking his base or re- ped to Louisville, | tucky Derby candidate {were in the lot. Juarez stable for at Hot Weir & App These | provided Ferris, Clark, McLemore § Higel, F. Stowe, A. Wallhousér Brothers, and Tom Parker Ticket, Stable, Quinlan & a Ken- :, and Roamer fusing to do so. Each time the legiti- mate fourth ball was called the base ru rs should move up one station The passage and enforcement of this rule would meet with universal favor latter method,- and one clause of i legislation enacted last. mcnth reads: { "If any racing club fails to use the been ' totalizer when so d.rected as afore-| C. | said it shall be liable to a penalty not| and would do mueh to improve the £.! exceeding £100 for every day on} game, Certainly tae intentional which such failure has occurred." |passing of a batter is inimical to the spirit of real sportsmanship. If pitchers are unwilling to take the sporting chance they should be made 8 have Springs: J. legate, 1. + -- C. McCafferty,' . William Cain) Sire of Hindoo a Plough Horsge Virgil, son of Vandal and grandson 88 Princess St., Kingston. TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co. Telephone 529 ne Paris Sports says: In Italy 'Sir Rholand" (Count Techeibler) headed the list of winning owners last year with a total of about £17,000. The two chief winning stallions (who were out by themselves) were Sig- norino, £14,260, and Galeazzo, over £13,000. 'of Glencoe, was not anfamiliar with a double shovel plow' thirty odd years | ago, before he was finajly put in the! stud to get the immortal Hindoo, he the sire of the celebrated Hanover s and the founder of the strongest line | t of American thoroughbreds the coun- try saw before Commando's time. t {cient plow horse. He could, in fact; v 3 hv . perform any domeftic task, not above |s Leafs Sell Player Layden, 'the welght of a 1,100 pound horse, Optfielder Eugene Layden has considerably better than could any|S been sold by the Toronto club to the, other farm horse of his in Kentucky. © Mobtle club of 'th® Southern Associ- | i ation, Layden was secured by To- | Same Old Ruies. ronto from the Highlanders last] After all the winter chatier con- | 7 TRY "a c. Poet Cigar 5c. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. || S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. ~ spring. He met with an accident to cerning the 'changes in the rules to his right<leg at the training camp increase the batting,' not a-single | and was suspended shortly after the | change was made. { opening ¢f the season, fast, young fellow, a left-handed bat-| well 'enough alone, and that is just|® ter and thrower, and should be suec-| what they did. The game as it is| © cessful in the Southern Association. A Ar | you hear people growling about the P [lack of hitting. In the good old sum-| | mer time, when they see the boys in |S { Fred Snodgrass announces hs { tirement from baseball to. go into th | business in California. Such business | perhaps, will be collecting dividends | {for his investments, Organized ball | TOOKE Speaker point is looked upon as a matter of good judgment, And Virgil was an amiable and effi-| caste realige that playing safe would de- good df tae game the professional The majority of | Major Layden is a wise baseball men believe in oi ithe Reds have probably had more! | played at present suits the fans, and led great managers, they have vet to | it is only during the off season that | Win their first pennant. with the Reds since 1900: Beckley, Bay Hoy, Cy Seymour, Donlin, Hug- {'action, the fans are well satisfied | { a x * | gins, Sebring, Overall, Phelps, Brid-| ity the performances. | well, Lobert, Paskert, Mitchell, Wei-| i : nodgea ! mer, Dubus, Hobitzel, Bescher,| i Tough. on 8 nse. | Froome, Covalegki, Burns, Benton] Te land Doak. assortment. : o suffer. The passing of a Cobb, a or a Baker in a critical but it is not real porysmanship, and it often deprives he fans of a chance to see some real melodrama. The amateur who would crisis would lose Amateurs in a his fellows. safe' with 'play troy the.spirit of the sport. For the hould be made to take the "sporting hance" by means of a ruling, if it s not in him otherwise. i > ; Some Jinx on Cincinnati. Cincinnati remains the wonder of league baseball. Although, tars in their line-up than any other lub in the league and have possess- Witness, || lease, taese players who have been! teinfeldt, Crawford, Amos Rusie,| These are only a few of! he stars, but it looks like a goodly | SRR | Both Boston shortstops are hold) With the normal indi- vidual, the neck slopes gradually inward from the base. = To give a perfect fit a collar must, therefore, taper slight- ly towards the top. That is one reason why we make W.G. & R. collars slightly smaller at the top than at the buttonhole length. 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All work guarasteed. ~ ! , on the Pirates In three who has been working in a muni-| 180 Well a ren , Over Royal Bank Chambers || TOOKE BROS. LIMITED | Years. The game 'su't what it used | tions plant dt Hamilton all winter, | Roney & Co. -- i : en ol. MARERS °» - MONTREAL | !0 be when Capt. Kidd sailed before | has forwarded his signed contract to " ' the sun-dried masts. ; the Boston Red Sox. ) , . : a» I E-------- -- TG Ra ps a ; > BRINGING UP FATHER 3 2 3 3 1 3 i 38 38 32 oT 8 3 By GEORGE McMANUS hs ~y =» + ILL GIVE YOU TEN DOLLARS YOURE NOT ¢01NG . "LL RAISE JIGGS- WHATS THE MATTER WITH THE LIGHTS- ANSWER ME- . WHERE ARE YoU? " YOU TEN -