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i gas PAGE TWELVE Tea SR TE, ----- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, SE Ret ERT MAY 28, 1918. -------- --- MET Sob ain $45.00 We have a few Massey High Grade Bicycles left at this price. In The World Of Sport | Sporting Notes Now they talk of holding the Willard4Fulton brawl on Labor Day. Well, it would be hard to pick a bet- ter day on which to work the dear old gullible public. Toronto Leafs are beginning to show some of their old time pep. They have several new players on the way, and will probably be fact- ors in the championship race. Why Not | Get yours now before they go higher. Near- ly everything has gone up in price more than the good old Bicycle 'The indispensable article that saves your i ~ time, your shoe leather and your Fd { Come in Today Frankie Bull, of Toronto, who {weighs 133 pounds, ringside, nas | issued a sweeping challenge. He of- ifers to fight any man in Canala at that weight. It was Chief Meyers' Day at Buf- fale Saturday, and Jacob Stein, former president of the Bisons, pre~ sented the catcher with a loving cup. Washington lost Earl Yingling in the draft on Saturday, and 'Manager Harper and in Johnson, Avers, Shaw. Catcher Bill Kelly, last year with the Toronto Leafs, has been secur- ed from the St. Louis Browns by the { Omaha club Bill joins Marty O"- i Toole, his former battery mate, the {pair having been sold some years ago to the Pittsburg club for the reputed price of $28,500. Eddie ICicotte, Benz and John Collins are the only players on the Chicago White Sox who are over the draft age, while Pitcher Schellen- bach is the only one under the draft age. To avoid! legal complications, an American League baseball game, scheduled to be played at Boston Sunday for the benefit of the Red Cross, was postponed until Monday. dt i8 expected that by the middle of this week that the fate of pro- fessional baseball, now in the hands of the U.S. Government, wil be known. President Ban Johnson, of the American League, is of the opinion that every baseball park in America should be closed up. Outfielder Merwin Kopp, the for- mer St. Thomas and Buffalo base- ball player, now with Connie Mack's Athletics, hase been ordered to re- port to his home draft board at To~ ledo, Ohio. A baseball was auctioned at Washington and $3,500 was realiz- READGOLD | SPORTING GOODS CO. 88 Princess St. Phone 529 "The Home of the Brunswick" NY NNN INN Ms TRY , : Hal Sc. Poet Cigar 5c. ook for Bik Thread on Tip of Each Olgar. | fi 8. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. } ddatsdadsdndiriubiinduinin, AAA Aare dh Aaah ed. It was autographed by Presi- dent Wilson, who attended the game. A 'collection for the Red Cross real- ized about $10,000, In a boxing carpival at Madison VIRGINIA oH Fat 1) LAY Griffith has now only four pitchers, Square Garden, New York, for the 'benefit of the Red Cross many well known boxers took part. The aue- tioning of cartoons and the Kaiser's cup totalled $19,000, and this with the box office receipts, brought the total up to $562,225. Joe Schultz, last year with the Leafs, is playing second base for Kansas City. | "CLOSE "EM UP." Bancroft B. Johnson, presi- dent of the American League, in discussing the new draft re- gulations, said: "I do not believe the Govern- men has an intention of wiping out baseball altogether, but if I had my way I would close every theatre, ball park and other places of recreation in the country and make the 'people realize that they are in the most terrible war in the history of the 'world." PREPPED eer PPOs SEPP EPP T RISE Tbr CLASSES IN BOXING Have Been 1 For the Col- umbia Students. Boxinig--the sport that best | teaches the embryo soldier how to use the bayonet---will 'be inaugur- ated at Columbia University, be- ginning with the nest college term. Benton, 28; BASEBALL IS NOT A USEFUL OCCUPATION Provost Marshal Crowder's Recent Mandate Requires Players to Work or Fight. The most recent official mandate of Provost;Marshal-General Crowder, stating that the new draft amend- ment will require professional base- ball players to engage in some "use- ful" occupation by july Ist or gO to war, will practically riddle the major leagues of first class talent if the new ruling becomes effective. From a desultory glance at the long roster of major league players only thirty-six are above the draft age, and, therefore, exempt from mili- tary service. Inspection' of the rec- ords reveals that if the Government intends to raid the major leagues un- der the "useful occupation or fight" draft amendment, 127 of the best players in both leagues will be lost to baseball, Some of the players affected under this rule, together with their respec- tive ages, are as follows: 3 ' ¢ Burns, 29: Walter ; Lew McCarty, 30; Bill Rariden, 30; Jos. Withoit, 28: Rube Pol. Perritt, 26; Ferd. Schupp, 26; Jeff Tesreau, 29. Yankees--Ping Bodie, 31; Hugh High, 28; Roger Peckinpaugh, 27: Wally Pipp, 25; Derrill Pratt, 28: Al Walters, 25; Ray Caldwell, 30; George Mogridge, 28 This announcement was made by Dr. E. Elliott of the physical aducational department of the university. Fred Dawson, lately of Union and Princeton, but now - coach of the! baseball, football and basketball squads at the Morningside Heights institution, will drill the students in the manly art of self-defence. Daw- son will have a number of lienten- ants to assist him in his work. The faculty at Columbia for a long time hay been consMering Athletics--George Burns, 25: For- est Cady, 30; Clarence Walker, 30; Vean Gregg, 31: Elmer Meyers, 24. Philadelphia--Dave Bancroft. 26; Eddie Burns, 31; Milt Sock, 26; Fred. Williams, 30; Erskine Mayer, 28: Mike Prendergast, 28; Eppa Rixey, May Not Affect Sport. Whether the new "work or fight" about boxing classes at the univer-| United States army draft regulation sity; but it was not until last week announced shall apply to professional that they reached a decision. [baseball players, and thereby prob- Boxing keeps both the body and ' mind aetive as well as teaching the soldier how to use the bayonet | quickly and accurately. It was for the latter reason that the Govern- ment assigned professional boxers to the various cantonments. ' Hardest Position to Play. Which is the hardest position to! play Pitcher? Shortstop? Third base? Nope. The bench is the: hardest position to play. Ask an baseball player. Although it is com- paratively easy to qualify for a bench warming job, there isn't any player in the game who would not rather be covering ground on the diamond than a soft seat on the bench. Playing the bench is a nerve-racking., humili- ating, demoralizing: job. Watching a rival cavort in your old position is nerve racking; the gaze of the fans is humiliating, and the combination of both demoralizing. A player is a bench-warmer either because he is -" ably put organized baseball out of business for the period of the war, will not be decided until the point is raised on appeal to the Provost-Mar- shal General's office after the regula- | tion becomes effective July 1st. The War Department was bom- barded with queries on 'the subject soon after the new regulation was made public. At 'first it was indi- cated that ball players certainly would be classed among those in non-use- ful occupations who must seek new jobs or go into the army. Provost: Marshal-General Crowder announced. however that there would be no de. cision until a case arose through offi- cial channels, and later the War De- partment issued this formal state- ment: : "No ruling as to whether baseball players or persons engaged in golf, tennis, or any sport, come under the regulations regarding idlers or non. essential pursuits, will be made until a specific case has been appealed to the Provost-Marshal-General's office." not good enough or because some one Se p r Ra : else is too good, or because he is not | Secretary Baker explained that the x5 good as he used 16 he, status of baseball players had been Doing nothing on™ the hench is: Uiscussed before the regulation was never half so hard as dbing some- | APProved, and it was agreed that the thing on the field. -f | auestion could not be disposed of un- til all the facts relating to the effect lupon the baseball 'business had been 'brought out through the hearing of Wilfrid Vian has put a price of @ Case appealed from a local board $200,000 on Omar Khayyam in' the' The Secretary did not profess to last two or three days. This devel. know how seriously application of the oped at Jamaica track this. week, rule to professional baseball players when Abe Hollow, who was acting Would affect the leagues. He did not for a well-known horseman, told of K"ow that a large majority of the Mr. Viau refusing $75,000 for the son !Major league players were of draft of Marco. The fact that $75,000 was | 2&¢ and were exempted only because offered and refused gives some idea ' of dependents, but, on the contrary, in what high esteem Omar Khayyam | Was under the impression that most is held for racing and breeding pur-16f them were outside the draft limits. poses, but nobody accepted Mr. | The paragraph of the new regula- Viau's price of $200,000 seriously, feel- {ion which may touch the ball players ing that he made it prohibitive know-|1® 2 sub-division of the enumeration ing that Mrs, Viau would not part:©f classes affected and says: "Pers with a horse that has become the pet fons, including ushers and other ath of the stables. tendants, engaged in and occupied in, and in connection with games, sports . Baseball at Cobourg. and amusements excepting actual per- In a game of basevall played at Cobourg, which strongly resemiled cricket, the Town won from the Military Hospital by a score of 26 to 25. In another game the Com- Asks $200,000 For Racer. or theatrical performances." Neihoff Joins the Giants. Bert Neihoff, infielder of the St. rades won from the Town, the score being 10 to 8. In the first game in the Intermediate League the Alpines of the Methodist church won from Louis National League Club, has be- come a member of the New York Na. tionals, according to a statement is. = : - 2 ; MONUMENTS! he of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. | The McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. B97 Princess Street. Telephone 198% onal--New York, .719 per cent; Chicago, 636; Cincinnati, .556; Pitts burgh, 3g tadelphia, 419; Bos-' ton, 400; J Cleveland, 529: Chicago, .500: Phila- delphia, 433; Washington, 424; De- trogt, 346, International -- Binghamton, 800 Louis, 375; Brooklyn, | per cent.; Newark, .647; Rochester, Co sued by Manager McGraw of the lat- ter club. Neihoff was obtained for a cash consideration, according to the The Nashville club of the Southern [A1"0uncement, and will join the team League will take the field this season od with only two players wio were with rn the club in 1917," The players are Cancel all Meets. Infielders Elam and Kaufman, the] The British Government has decid. former being manager of the club. [ed that after May 31st all horse rac- Charley Hitte, who has been train- ling must be confined to Newmarket er of the Cleveland club for the last 'owing to the increased strain on the the Presbyterian by a score of 10 to : / { 333; Buffalo, 471; Toronto, .467; Bal FOR SPRING five years, has severed his connection 'railways due to th The Jock American--Haston, 636 per cent.:|timore, 421; Syracuse, 3.13: Jersey 8. with the Indians is wi Che cl T He 1D she yar e Joe ey. New York, 563; St. Lous, .533;' City, .286. . CASCO-218 in. CLYDE-2% la: i} Wohin igus. and 3 with the Chi. 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