PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1917. mS ---- ------------------y Ride | Ride--Ride Everybody ought to ride a bicycle this "spring. It's healthy, it's handy, and this is the year to save money. It has been proved that it is cheaper to ride a bicycle than ride in the street cars. 4 Now is the Time To pick out your favorite Massey bicycle or the new Indian. How is your old wheel. Can we put it in good repair for you? We have tires, rims, saddles and everything you might need for your old wheel. Or we will trade you for a new one. { 8! | [In the WHITMAN LOOMS - BOXING {IN NEW YORK [ 1 LES DARCY It Would Not Be Surprising if Every | Boxing Law in the United States] Was Wiped Off the Books. A New York paper says: Any {idea any one might have had that| | boxing wasn't on its last legs and] tottering unsteadily to its corner for the final round should be thoroughly | dissipated by Governor Whitman's | action in New York when he refused | | to permit Les Darcy. to anpear in| | public bouts, - i | Whether it will sweep into other | states and knock the game clear out {of the ring is something else and | remains for time to tell. | Whitman was'severely criticised in | many quarters when he took his [ stand againsy Darcy, while in other | spots he wag highly commended ! | Critics declared he should not have | shown discrimination against Darcy, | pointing out that Freddie Welsh, | Tom Cowler,-Ted Lewis and others | are allowed to box without interfer- tence. They are just as much at | fault as is Darey, for they are Eng- | lishmen, wheréas Darcy is an Aus- {tratian, and of Irish descent, | Whitman's action seems to { been taken because Darcy had i glegted his duty to.come to America some easy money. adhe } i | | { have ne- and get '| spectacle of a foreigner coming here and separating New Yorkers from their cash because they were easy | marks evidently didn't appeal to the Governor, The other English boxers { already were in this country when | war was declared. | Darcy made a frightful mistake | when he refused to talk business | with Mike Gibbons and | from the Middle West. Then, when | he listened to bad advice and sep- | arated Himself from Tim O'Sullivan he made another bad step. Each of these actions caused adverse com- {ment and the people began to kick. | Governor Whitman's attention nat- | urally was called to what was going on. He couldn't have helped seeing it if he read the newspapers, Darcy wasn't complimented by any means promoters in the things said about him. If Qovernor Whitman got the wrong | impression it's his own fault, | The money-grabbers among the | boxers are fast choking the wind out | of the goose that lays the golden egg. | It wouldn't be at all surprising if { every boxing law in the country was wiped off oe books within two or three years. - lg. CONNIE 1S CHAMPION Athletic Leader Heads the List of TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co.,. 88 Princess St., Kingston. Telephone 529 TRY c. Poet Cigar 5c. ~Y;00K ToF STK Thiead on Tip of Bach Cigar. 5 S. OBERNDORFFER; Maker, Kingston. "Blakemore Studio Kingston's Largest Photo Studio. All work guaranteed. 180 Wellington Street. Over Royal Bank Chambers JEFF MAY KNOW LITTLE ABOUT COMMAS AND PERIODS, BUT HE'S THERE ON DAS Most Successful Managers, Since the National League started, ~ forty-one years ago, the pennant winners in that cireuit have been bhandéed by seventeen managers. During the seventeen years of Am¢ erican League's life eight managers have developed championship teams, In the National League Selee, Anson, Hanlon and McGraw each won five pennants. Fred Clarke and Frank Chance each captured four, Harry Wright and Mutrie each triumphed twice, with 'single vietories for the late A. G. Spalding, Bancroft, Wat- kins, Morrill, George Wright, Mec- Gunnigle, Stallings, Moran and Rob- inson. Connie Mack not only leads the American League managers, but also holds the major league record, with six champion teams in Philadel- phia, Hugh Jennings has won three pennants, Jimmy Collins and Bill Carrigan two each, while Comiskey, Griffith, Jones and .Jake Stahl each 'has scored once. Prior to the forma- tion of th& National Lgague, Harry Wright managed four champion teams in Boston, in 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875, so that if those years are taken into consideration, his record equals that of the Athletics' famous leader, ' Passed Up Big Offer. Word comes from Pittsburgh that Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pir- atés recently offered $47,000 and several players for Roger Hornsby, the clever third baseman, and Snyder, the catcher, of the St. Louis Cardin- al' It sounds rather dreamy, but N.H.A. GAME DEGRADING, the exhibition 'many strange things are done in baseball. Anyway, Hornsby and Snyder are still with St. Louis. Of course someone had to spring it. Grantaind Rice suggests that the New York Giants will use Martin World of IS OTTAWA OPINION, vy SHUTTING OUT | "Contest All Seasan an Un=| & 1 dignified Scramble," Says the Journal. That those in charge of the N. H.| A. and its clubs have alienated public | confidence 4nd support there has] long since been no doubt, Conditions] decidedly unfavorable to the pro. cir-| cuit have been brought about in| eyery city in the league. The editor-| jal page of the Ottawa Journal car-; ries the following: i "The season for professional 'hoe-| key. in eastern Canada this winter} has ended in such a way as to ridi- | cule arguments which have been urg- | ed to justify continuance of the sport | during the war. The undignified | fiasco has disgusted not only those | who have patronized 'the game, but | the wider section of the public which | has held itself aloof for reasons | whieh are now abundantly vindica- | ted. - "professional sport in Canada, even apart from patriotic considera- tions, has received this winter a blow from the effects of which it may not | recover for years, A league race has | been staged before the public in the] course of which a team, admittedly | the best, has been denied the prize it hag earned on its merits. The con- | test all season has been an undigni- | fied scramble, featured by a sad lack ! of the elements of sportsmanship. | There has been rough play on the ice | and a continual run of scandals off it. "Hockey is Canada's national | game in the winter time, ! | a sport | which-in the past has done much to] deyelop robust qualities in the man-| hod of the nation. By no process of | reasoning ¢an it be established that | of the professicnal i game foisted on the pubile this win-| ter has been anything but degrading, | the more so since the only excuse for | keeping up the hockey business was | that it should be conducted in such | a way as to be above reproach. If the man in charge of the hockey business | are astute they will respect next | vear .the feelings of that section of the public which frowns upon such a public distraction during wartime, | a section they have succeeded this | vear in enlarging to startling propor- | tions." Archer on Specialized Throwing. "] have thrown to the bases sO | times, thousands upon thou- | sands of times, in games and practice, | that] can throw to the bags when am feeling fit almost with my eyes | shut. and be sure the ball will go| where 1 want it to. Constant prac-| tice has given me not only accuracy but great spééd. Put me in the pitch- er's box, however, and I am no good and I would be useless on a long throw from the outfield. For the matter of that, the pitcher would be 'ost behind the bat and his arm would be useless in" the outfield, and the cutfielder would be a3 bad off if he iried to play the battery positions. It is merely a matter of training your arm_to its own peculiar work. Once 3 ou are'accustomed 10 this work it fs unnatural and hard to: break | into another kind." - 1 Meester Antonio. 1 lova to see from da bleacher Thees game, what you call 'im, baseball. I lika to see theesa Meester Sallee; He's granda; so skinny an' tall. An' Signor Ty Cobb I enjoya," He giva da ball such a bump. Oh! I lova thees fame; hit an' catcha da same - But Meester, T hata da Ump. oF My Rosa, she likg Signor Matty. Altho she no lika hees team. She tell me hees eyes are like Italy's skies, But I-tela my Rosa she dream. And how she enjoya da Series! She, how you say, roota an' jump, An' Wagner da vet she enjoy like spaghett, But Meester, she hata da Ump. Worcester. Land Walsh. The statemegt is made by owners of the Worcester club, of the Eastern League, that they expect to engage Ed. Walsh, the former pitcher of the Chicago White Sox, as manager of the local team to succeed Billy Ham- ilton. Walsh is expected to take a financial interést in the club also. Walsh has been assured that a man of his standing connected with the rifles in their military drill. / SAY, MUTT, I'VE BEEN NOTICING Dont THIS GUY WHO DRaws US IS GE THANG CARELESS ABOUT HIS PUNCTUG TION LATELY, HE LEFT QUT A (oMMmA Ne sTERDAY . MY LIP 1g CRACKED! PuncruaTion! wat do YoU Kaiow ABouUT PUNCTUATION? You Don't KNOW A Coma FROM A SEMi-coLon Y MAKE ME LAUGH | | Removed' it for a moment from his Sport Basehall jn 1925. By Wilitam F. Kir rk : The baseball park was crowded on a lovely summer day With rooters young and full of life and rooters old and gray. This was no plain steel structure likey the stadiums of old; The bleachers were of silver and the stands were solid gold, The peanut venders moved about] with grandeur and disdain i Bedecked as Spanish pages in the} "days of Philip's reign. { The bat boy's silver spangles shone resplendent. in the sun; | Groundkeeper Murphy's raiment was | the best that could be spun. i press box in the grandstand, with its busy telephones, | Was built of purest marble, studded | thick with precious stones. people sat enraptured, mo one caring to go home, ting their eyes on splendor like the pomp of ancient Rome, The umpire, in a diadem of rubies and pearls, * b ppeenn The The Feas richly perfumed curls, And this is what he had to say Upon that lovely Summer day: '""Cobb has gone to Europe In his aeroplane; Wagner's down on Wall street Cornering all the grain, atty's loaning money - To Rockefeller's firm; McGraw has launched his navy To make the English squirm, Larry Doyle went with him | And both remarked to me, ] They might be back this winter As soon as Ireland's free. Don't blame the athletes, people! They're all too rich to play. et back your tenspot at the gate-- There'll be no game to-day!" M G WANT MORE RACING. | York State--Would Start in April, . A New York despatch says: While the racing dates allotted to the me- tropolitan tracks by the Jockey Club last Friday assure New York of 102 days of continuous racing, they did not meet with the approval of a ma~ jority of the racegoers, In fact, they were 'a disappointment to many. Hundreds eof patrons of the turf firmly believe that the sport is now popular enought to have the season begin earlier and last longer. They say there is no reason why meetings should not be held in April and the latter part of September. While there is no chance of having an earlier opening than May 18th, when the first bugle will sound at Jamaica, hope for autumn meetings at Jamaecia and Aqueduct, fo'lowing the Belmont Park session, which ends on Sept. 15th has not been abandoned. . . Many patrons were displeased, too, with the opening day being allotted to Jamaica. They declare that Bel- mont Park, the most beautiful course in the world, should be used to usher in the season's sport, In New NOW IT'S CALIFORNIA. Are Having a Difficult Time Arrang- ing a Bout for Darcy. ; California boxing®followers sat up and took notice when it was reported that Jimmie Goffroth, the Tia Juana promoter, would be asked to arrange a 20-round fight for Les Darcy. Coffroth latterly has devoted his whole attention to racing. When Jack Kearns reaches San Francisco he will confer with Coffroth regard- ing the matter. Governor Cantu, of Lower California, is said to be fav- orable. No Games For Ottawa. President Frank Patrick of the P. C. H. AT; has' anpounced "that Ot- tawa's request f exhibition games on the coast this spring would have to be passed up. Portland, Spokane, and Vancouver clubs have already disbanded, while Seattle will wind up the season with Canadiens next week in the annual world's series. Ottawa wanted to come out this way and show the folks how the game should. be played. . Patrick believes that "Cully" Wat- son will Be the star of the coming world's series. "He has just struck his stride now, after being out of the game for a long time, and I fully be- lieve that he will be the best player Get Back of a Milo Start the New Year right by smoking MILO Cigars. You will enjoy every one. : Made in Kingston. G. A. McGOWAN, . Manufacturer, Kingston. For Life Insurance S. ROUGHTON 60 Brock St., Kingston. Phone 610 CHEMICALLY SELF-EXTINGUISHING What do these words mean to you? +They mean greater safety in the Home -- Surely something that interests you keenly! Perhaps you have noticed these words and the notation "No fire left when blown out" on our new "Silent Parlor" match boxes. 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