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---- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG," SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918. A ------ CLOSED Saturday & Monday You will have to have some good Records for Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Get Them FRIDAY Drive away the thoughts of coal and coal deliveries. Columbia re€ords are good, and if you have a machine with a Universal Tone Arm we have Brunswick and Lyric Records that will surprise you, as they are the last word on record. If you have not a machine you will soon be in a class by yourself. You can have one FREE for a month. All you have to do is to buy six or twelve records and we will supply you with a ma- chine to try. Then you can pay for same at $5.00, $8.00 or $10.00 per month. TREADGOLD ¢ SPORTING GOODS CO. In The World Of _ Sport DEALERS PLAN TO | RAID GAME LAWS) Sportsmien in the United t= tes Exercised Over Con- certed Effort. While nothing has developed to in- dicate any similar situation in Ontar- io, w hose Legislature is to open next Tuesday, sportsmen interested mn game protection in the United States| are combatting what they declare to be ian organized effort in various| State Legislatures io introduce bills} which for the period of the war] would suspend protective fish and game laws E. A. Quaries, Second Vice-Presi | dent of the American Game Protec t-1 ive Association, gives out an an-| nounicement in New York that alll sportsmen must rally together if they| are to help the market hunters « "A propaganda, engineere {hose who hope to profit by | Mr, Quaries, "has been in existence in this country for some time now, designed to open the game covers of | the nation to the market hunter un-| der the plea that the war necessi-i tatesyletting down the bars on game to replenish the food supply.' | "While some respectable people; _have been duped into espousing this movement, it derives its major im-| petus from the commercial dealers in game, allied with many large ho- tels in the country, who long for a return of the good old days when they could cater to the appetite of the epicure with wild game furnish ed them by dealers who maintained an army of shooters from/ coast to coast, i "American game tottered on the brink of extinction when sportsmen and other lovers of wild life arose in their organized might and demanded ~and secured the passage of the laws forbidding its sale. A full divorce between game and commetcialicm was affected by this legislation, then and there for all time was be-| lieved. "We do not. think any consider-| able portion of the press will be | taken in by the pleas of these gentry and there is on the other hand evid- ence that many of the most {nflu- ential daily papers are fully alive to the situation. | "They might mention that one of| the first actions of the French Gov-| ernment after the declaration of war was to make game conservation more stringent, with the result that it was possible during the past year. to per- mit the taking of a considerable toll of certain species. The thrifty French do not believe in Filling the goose that lays the golden egg so long as the ® eg3 will suffice will suffice." it TALK OF A PLOT nant Out of the west comes a story to the effect that the managers of the St. Louis, Pittsburg and Chicago clubs have agreed "informally" to do their darndest to check any pennant | drive which the Giants may launch | during the coming season 'by the Blmiple éxpedient «of sending only their best pitchers against the pres ént champions. The alleged plot as outlined by the wice man who either! | discBvered it or invented it goes, ;something like this: | 'Alexander and Vaughn of the il held back and IRY 9c. Poet Cigar Sc. Look Yor Silk Thwead on Tip of Each Cigar > OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingéton, a mmm MONUMENTS importers of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. . $97 Princess Street. Telephone 1933 Cubs; Ames and Meadows of thei Cards; Cooper-and Miller of the Pi- rates, are to be sent into action| jagainst McGraw's men as often as {they can. be used, rubbed down,]| | freshened and sent in again. "Second string pitchers can be! used against "other teams, but whenever the Giants ap- pear on these three arenas they are! to be handed the hottest opporition | i that can be put forward. It will be noted that Christy Mathewson is nbt included among the plotters, but the perpetrator oi the story relates that Matty is to. be invited to align himself with his colleagues in the west. No Drastic Action, : The latest information received from Maryland indicates there may: be some changes in thé racing situa- tion "as regards taxation, and the number of days permitted for racing, but that drastic legislation seems unlikely. Al Mamaux is still in his form, He bas kicked over the traces already, Brooklyn has chopped his salary from. $3,300 to-$2,800 and the former Pirate can't see it Mamaux's 1917 records hardly qualifies him i{o name his own figures. He's lucky ; to have a job. z and every Monday, iday nights : Heat the Giants Out of The Pen- |: NO MONDAY HOCKEY Leagues Arce To Obey Both Spirit and Letter of the Law, The reg the troller I likely of hock rinks on Monday as they come within the clause which prohibits any public amusement. on ithe days in questibn, The clause' reads as wollows: *7. Theatres, ges, bowling alleys, billiard halls, and all other places of public 1sement shall remain closed on each! ulation of Fuel Con- ruary 18, 1918, and extending to! March 25, inclusive, provid- ed, however, that entertainments or! specigl Sunetio ms -which have been! advertised on or before February 1, 1918, to the extent that the tickets havé been sold or invitations issued, either public or written, or which fiave heen otherwise through printed, public be held gs arranged." Except in the case of the Toronto and Hamilton Arenas, whigh have ar- tificialk ice, are unheated, for skating purposes, wording of the arder ! pelled to close. The new order will not go into ef-| fect until February 18th, so that so far as the Ontario Hockey Associa- tion and the Canadian Amateur Hoe- key Association is concerned, no games of any kind will be scheduled on Mondays while the order is in ef- fect, thus living up to the spirit well as the letter the law games at pre will to conflict with The National three Monday second schedule, notice, may but under will be com- as of be changed so the order. Hockey League has night fixtures in its and Manager Quer- rie of the Toronto team, wired to President Calder, of the N.H.L., gesting that these games be on 'Enesday nights and _the games on Thursday nighifs will enable the schedule tg be ed as ranged with three g: wee being shifted avoid nights next This play- mes y 30 to Monday For Navy Hard Blow retary of Players. Sec Daniels he issued an order to the reserve div-} islons of the Navy to refuse summer furloughs to professional baseoval plavers among the enlisted men, Congressman James A, Gallivan recently presented a request to Sec- retary Daniels to allow "Jack" Baxry manager of the Boston American Baseball Club, and other Red Sox players who have enlisted in .the Maval Reserve, to play ball this sum- mer on the grounds that President Wilson advocated the encourage- ment of athletics during the war. Miller Huggins and is still in quest of If Huggins communicates with a few of his outfielders concerning ir hitting ability, he'll be sur ed, to learn that .he has eight sweet hitters. All outfielders of the Yanks are good hitters, but most of them are out of luck then the sea- son starts ------.. in New York a hard hitter. is A tA NA mr Packed in Foil Never Dry Always Fresh P URITY is a quality you should insist on in the cigarette you are go- ing to stick to for your steady smoke. That's why so many men now smoke Craven "A." It's a healthier smoke. 8 Bose of Ten - 100. Fifty « be. Hundred « $1.00 S118 1917] , 3 { outfielder | | compel the closing | nights, | moving picture hou-! am-| Monday beginning on Feb-|* advertised | all other rinks in Canada using natural ice only! the! Any | ent scheduled for Mon-| , al not | sSug-! played | a LICHTENHEIN TO SELL HIS CLUB AND PLAYERS | The Latter Are re Being Disposed of And the Club is on the ~ Market. With only a scant prospect of Internationa? League operating this { season, the players belonging to the i Montreal Club aré being sold as rap- i idly as possible, it was announced by President Sam Lichténhein to-day. { Harry Damrau, an infielder, has been disposed of to the Mobile Club Southern Assgeiation, the local completed yesterday afternoon Smith, an outfielder who was {near the top among the hitters, is likely to be sold to the New York Americans, who have made an offer | for him. A Texas League club is al- so seeking the big Yellow. idie Zimmerman is endeavoring to buy his release, so that he can he- come the Manager of a Kentucky League team, Holden is being sought by one or two major league + club 1d will be sold, Other leagues players owned by the club include Howley, Madden, Hersche, Fuller- ton, Dowd, Moran, Cat r, Slattery, and Purtell, and all these will be dis- | posed of as rapidly as possible. President Lichtenbein says he is willing to sell the club for a reason- able figure. It rumored that a syndicate headed by a Montreal the- atrical man was ready to buy the club, and it was said to-day that this; syndicate would have a represent- ative at the International League meeting in New York next week to talk the matter over with other lea- ue managers 2 ' | the » is 8 16 Spithall Fast Losing Favor. i - The step taken by the American jation to eliminate by the Amer- | ican association to blaze a path of re-| form in baseball. The aims of Gov-| ernor John K. Tener, président of | the National league; Ban Johnson, president of the American league, ! | and other leaders in the game may vet be arrived at in governing piteh- | | ers. 2 Governor Tener first to take a stand | of the spitball x 1 himself, | | he held that it not only was an un-| | necessary subterfuge, but was insan-| itary and disgusting to many spect ators. Ban Johuson has relieved himself of practically the same sent iments. There are, in fact, only few magnates who really believe | the delivery should be allowed. American assoeiatton pitchers will be watched with interest during the coming season. American assoc- lation batting reeords alse will come in for close scrutiny, for it is the con- tention of foes of the spitball that the delivery interferes with free bat- ting, something a fan wants to see | when he pays for entrance to a ball! game. of t the was one a ix the | | | ! i use | i a A Strange Tribute, At the Grand Opera House, ton, where three 10-round fights the other night, a boisterous mob was present. They howled and cat- called all through the first bout. The second was hall way through when an. announcer requested that the minute interval between two of the rounds be spent in standing with heads uncovéred in memory of John L. Sullivan.. The round ended with the house in bedlam, but "Wwhén the bell rangf it quitened. Not a sound was heard from the audience 'as the men. stood. Only, | the swish, swish, of a towel in the! | hands of a second, and its steady [erack as it fanned at tHe panting! {form of a youthful fighter, broke | | @ silehice that was profound. And | { when the minute was over, .the crow: forgetting," began on the noise right where it had left off, Bos- Forty- five-Year 01 d Ehhmpion, A 45-year-old sprinter, Tom Bran | don of Edinburgh, trainer of St. Ber. | nard's fogtball club, won the famona : i Lidinburgh 'Powderhall 100 yards handicap. He had a long mark. H i Malcolm, ot Beith, won the 15-mile. | marathon from the "seven minate! mark, with D. Lowrie of Bolness sec- Lond, and Geo. MeCrae of Banknock | last year's winner and the scratch man, thi This is the marathon sis Holm mer, of Halifax, won two years in succession. MeCrae beat the-late Pte. Ted Wood and Pte. Top | Longboat of the Sportsmen's Battal: | {lon in this race a year ago. If they! | had been they would have pad MeCrae. Ten thousand 1 the events. on Sod Wilbur Mulligan, the Bard co] of the Pastime Baseball | Club, left with a battery deatt for | ine east yesterday on his "way over-! 68s. It's a Wizard in a Blizzard 7 An exclusive inside band to bes found only in EASTERN BRAND CAPS Zor DAD and nis LAD SOLD AT ALL GOOD SHOPS $ AA A ANN A SN. Every reader of this >® paper may secu Pee itfrom your dealer or from us. ® Outfit consists of one Durham Duplex Domino Razor with white Ameri. can Ivory handle safety i stropping attach. ment and © Durham Du. plex Blades, pa Biaeked § "a . CURING THE LIFE or THIS ADM BFIREMENT DURHAM DUPLEX | RAZOR Co. Lid., 43 Victoria, 5t., TORONTO, ONT.. CANADA. 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