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Telephone 529 In the World of Sport * BASEBALL BRIEFS | ad Sox r jortstop position Des League eas to the Western llamore teher the has been sigred as Ligut team, of he famous n purchased by from the Brooklyn . will play first base who recently Rich ed r Billy'™ Smith, of | Umpire Tannehill pats ulties In Richmond yes Crutchfield dis charge Justice ault . Crutchfield TORONTO 1S HAMPERED Tape In Its strengthen. UT uestgonably the Toronto teal as at ren: constituted, will" nc sensation in the$lnterna- let alone in the with the the management at fact, and is bend hen the By ted Efforts to create any tional League post-season tilt AssDeiation, but fully awake to t ing effort to race every strengt Ball players sugh-as--w 1 not to be picked up a nt's notice The execuline of baseball is jintyicate, yugh prescribed channels be accelerated mo- business ring thr 0h \ t cannot President McCaffrey and Man ager doing all in tl 3 power to add strength to the To- ronto team wherever it is needed Two right-handed pitchers will short ly join the Lt but their names, for obvious reasons, cannot be divul ged at present. The infield, outfield and catching league tl corps will be bolstered at once Pitcher Zabel, secured from the Chicago Nationals, phone will in the Leaf | President McCaffrey explains that one why Toronto finds morg {or less d fliculty in getting players from major Leafs are not "tied up" to any club, most of ;the other interna- teams have working major league out- | fit Toronto's experience has been that free lance club, with no league responsibilijies is the better off. l.ajoie are J afs, reason | whereas tional League agreements with NQ SUNDAY GOLF At the Stratford Club Until After the 1 War. by the atford Country Club share- | holders until after the war the decision reached at a special | meeting called pursuant to a requisi- {take up the question. Two years ago the directors put ia ban on Sunday golfing, and last year the shareholders defeated the motion to permit playing on Sunday {This time a resolution was introduc ed to rescind all motion barring TRY 5c. Poet Cigar 5c. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Each Cigar. S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. | Sunday golf, but,an amendent to the effect that this motion be not put-and that the matter be deferred until af- | ter the war was carried by 57 to 53 | Intense' interest was manifested in the meeting and when the Chairman announced the result of the ballot {the whole company rose and sang * God Save the King." Eddie Fitzpatrick Suspended. For disgusting behavior, Eddie Fitzpatrick, of the Boten Braves, and a former Leaf, was given a five-day (suspension and a $50 fine. The row- 807 Princess Street. MONUMENTS Importers of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. The McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. Telephone 19:31 dyism happened at New York on Sat- urday, and the Gotham critics say that Fitz should have got six months Tennis Player Enlists. C. J. Griffin, who with William M. Johnston. holds ~ the National double tennis championship, was sworn in #t the Pittsburg officers' reserve training camp. He is the first American champion in any line of amateur sport to formally enlist | grieved at the "last word" from the fof Jim | for war service, Detroit Manager Had Been Unable to Moines | | former Cleveland | J compror bone- | the | {and evidently he {the against) is a very | American { 'nd of | formalities have to be done | The flinging | via long distance | at Newark. | league clubs is that thg| big | Sundga golf will not be considered | That was | i tion by a number of shareholders to JENNINGS NEEDS VITT. | | Plug Hole at Third Base. only major refuses to Vitt is the Detroit third basem and Hugh is vainly trying to fill his Bobby Jones, who played wi lub of. the Pacific the leading can in/\gpite of the fact that in 1916 games in 1916) Oscar Vitt is the eague who still gn a Francisco last year, 1s he San he batte his stick work so far has been a dis appoindment Vitt. is in California, prepared to remain idle all } He has demanded a substantial in- crease in salary and has refused to The fact that his bat- 1g average last seasou was 6 in 153 games is one of the rea-| President Navin has re- make concessions. Vitt, is one of, the third American League, knows it. He says| that the Tigers will have no chance] | to win the penant lineup, - and agrees with him A "LOBD " ORGANIZED Bill to Restrict Racing. It is. $inderstood thdt horse racing in Canada will ought up for consideration in Dominion Phrligment on Thurs and vigofous "Lob? has ganized, it is understood to least in the present, as would season sons why fused to | however, best basemen in the Jennings --ee | Against the Horse the bill to he | day ) | A big been © combat its passage. al shape in which it real opponents of racing restrict all the tra com to fourteen days' rat ng and fourteen days wtumn It s also intimated [some of the tracks may be closed up the chart under run do not comply In al \ \ is at betause they are details Schaller's Record. + Schaller, left fielder of Baseball Club of league, holds the francisco the Pacific Coast | world's record for having taken part in consecutive baseball games He took his first layoff after having played in 642 contests Mag record for consecutive games be- gan with the opening of the season This season he has played but as he has been form in his lof 1914 . in 16 games howing bad needed a rest According to .base- | ball statisticians, George Burns, of the Giants, who, like Schaller, is also a left tidiger, holds the major league record f consecutive games. He his not miss since the opening of 1915, and on | Saturday brought his total up to | games . Tom Griffith, of Cincinnati, holds the [old mark, with 315 games during {1915 and 1916. |start the season which this year, [brought an end to his long run and | | gave Burns the opportunity to take command. The Big League Pilots. The average age of the sixteen pilots ¢ big league clubs is about forty-two years. Connie Mack, who is fifty-four, is the patriarch of pilots, while Jack Barry, who will be thirty this week, is the "baby." Eight of 'em are between forty and | fifty, six are in their thirties, and two are past the half-century mark Six of them are natives of Massa- chusetts-- Mitchell, Donovan, Mgran, Callahan, Mack, and Robinson. Four | hail originally from Pennsylvania Jennings, Mathewson, Jones, } Foil | from a different State--Stalling | from Georgia, Griffith from Missouri | McGraw from New York, Rowiand | from Wisconsin, Barry from Con | necticut, «nd Huggins from Ohio, Griffith is the only big league leader born west of the Miss ssippi, tae { "Old Fox' having made his debut «t Nevada, in scuth-western Missouri. "Monte" Clarkson Killed : Word was received Monday that «"Monte' Clarkson had been killed at the front. 'Monte' was one of the most popular boys that ever attended Toronto Varsity, and during his term | there made the Varsity first Rugby | team, his position, like that of his | elder brothers, being outside wing. | While small of stature, "Monte" | more than made up for it in aggress- |'iveness and gameness, and was one |of the most deadly tackles on the | team. {rhe went, and more than one will be front. only] t which | with the Pederal} the | hitting | | Manager Wolverton decided that he | »d a single league game | 318 So far as the records show, | He was unable 10] and | The remaining 8 x. each come | He was a favorite everywhere | WOULD CURTAIL RACING | TO SAVE OAT SUPPLY A Suggestion Made the British Director of Food Economy. of ing has been con the supporters hor ra England, maintaining that it the preservation of the all-ir industry, of wh was ne horse breeding they declared racing to be an inc putable branch rector of of the London Daily Mail, who was a woll-known Face horse owner before war, gave the Associated Press the following statement'in answer (0 the above claim: " "Most people agree that the horse- breeding industry in which we are pre-eminent must be mantained. But to insure this it is only necessary to unless he is inlaHow oats for brood mares, for hor-| readily | ses at | lings farms and for year- These classes are not affected by racing, *w hich is only essent in| a year such as this for the twenty or thirty first-class three-year-olds, so that their degree of value as prospec- tive stallions and mares may be da- cided. . "This would be achieved if the five classic races only--or substitutes for 1 classie were run at Newmarket Thus the 4,000 horses now in training would be cut down at once to about thirty or forty horses, saving in real value in the circumstances Brood the thi or 1 which might bedyntered for these five races ought to be strictly rationed and the other horses should either be turned lout to grass or killed. ! 'In view of the fact that our stock the present rate of con- sumption, may be completely ex hausted by middle of June, it | would appear fo me that the course 1 | suggest is urgently advisable "May 1 add that J have not raced a and that 1 do not in-; breeding the five races and he forty horses ol oats at | fhe { horse this vear tend to do so." MATHESON JOINS COLORS, last Thursday, | |W cll-known MeGill Rugby Player | Lieutenant in Battery. "Buster" Matheson, the last of the} «hampion McGill rugby tae! season of 1912, has followed the ex ample of the other players and has offered his services and has been ac t cepted for overseas. Buster' Mathe-| {son was looked on at one time as one {of (the best inside wings playing in the Iutercollegiate Union, and was| { largely responsible for the victory of McGill over Toronto in the play-off) match at Ottawa during November, | 1912 His line plunging made him conspicuous in the zame "Buster Matheson has qualified] for the rank of lieutenant and will go| overseas with the McGill Siege Artil-| i lery draft of one hundred and fifty| men, seventy of that number having already passed the medical examina- | tion This draft is under the com-| { mand of Capt. Sir Stopford Brunton, | while another well-known officer is | Lieut. Anglin *Buster" Matheson | played rugby with McGill during the| season of 4911 and 1912, and gradu- fated in 1913, when he retired from fan active part in athletics, although] | he was one of the advisers of the club. This draft is purely for McGill| | men and recruits are being secured| every afternoor club of | - | GIANTS STRONG HITTERS, { Nat onal wue Clubs in| Team: Batting. McGraw's men are leading both the Yankees and Robins by a big margin in team batting. According | to the figures, the Giants' hit for | 205 in the (irst five games; the Robins for .240 and the Yanks for L209. Roger Peckinpaugh is leading the Yankees with a percentage of 375 and Lavan Fabrique, with a percent- age of .500. Pipp is second among ! the Yankees, with .353. Wally made | six™hits in the {first five games; two | singléx, two doubles and two triples | Praise For Shocker. | The New Y&rk Sun critic, Joe Vila, | says that if Urban Shocker can mas- | ter control he should win many games this season. The former Can- adian Leaguer drew heaps of praise from the-Gotham writers for his} performance against iriffmen | on Wednesday Ss dd | the Manager Mathews: 0, of the Cincin-| nati Reds, has obta! gg the services Thorpe, of the New York iGiants a at BRINGING UP FATHER ~~ »r 3 i 1] 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. A ---- Kennedy Jones. 4] food economy and founds Kingston's Electric Store --_----ee ee Motor Boat and Automobile Supplies a Specialty. Automobile Lamps, Spark Plugs, Spark Plug Testers, Hydrometers, and Electric Vulcanizing Outfit. H.W. NEWMAN ELECTRIC CO 79 Princess St. Phone 441 N 2 THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF CANADA S. ROUGHTON, Agent. 60 Brock St., Kingston. Phone 610 rr ws AA oR -- CHEMICALLY SELF-EXTINGUISHING What 'do these words mean to you? f They mean greater safety in the Home -- Surely something that interests you keenly! 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