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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918. HOW MANY Be THEY HAD BOUGHT Massey Bicycle Other dealers keep on saying that their wheels are made like a Massey, and they sell them for $5.00 less sometimes in order to get you to buy them. BUY THE REAL MASSEY. Because you get the best that can be put into a bicycle; and what is a few dollars when you are paying for an article that will last for years. Massey Bicycles Twenty years old are still runing around our city, and still good for years. WE ARE SOLE AGENTS. TREADGOLD SPORTING GOODS CO. "The Home of the Brunswick." Phone 529 Kingston : TRY 5¢ Poet Cigar 5c S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. - © AND THISISNQ JOKE EITHER on { LONDON MEAT CARD, | \ LET Mme GARE sniFr) © AW, JEFF, PLEASE! eae NOTHING DONG. T ATE FISK FOR Fou Ween | [BVT JERE, LisTEN! HAVE A HEART My MEAT CouPONS ARE All Gone AND You KNOW How © HATE E\in. COME ON, UNLOCK. THE Doo AND 1 ON THAT TURKEY. In the World of Sport THE PRESENT DAY BONERS PIKERS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE OLD TIMERS. ARE Cost J. J. Corbett $10,000 to Train Three Months--O'Brien Was Also a Good Spender. - The champion prize fighters of to- day are just pikers compared to the when it comes to gét- money into circula- old fellows i ting or putt tion Take recent battle for: the heavyweight championship between Dempsey and Fulton. Dempsey treated himself to a shave and Ful- ton to a hairout Neither went to {the trouble of getting some first { class boxer to help him in his train ing. 'When the old champions went into a battle it was for keeps, and they trained as though their very life de- | pended on the Why, t! money old-timers spent { trainers alone was more than Fultou | and Dempsey 1 the result the for would spend in a yea: | at the gait they are traveling now When Sullivan and Kilrain fought Kilrain brought Pony Moore and Charlie Mitchell all the way from | England to help him get ready, and on the same mission brought Mike Donovan from New York and Parson Davies from Chicago Suilivan in the same brought Billy Muldoon from York, Jimmy Wakely and Johnson from Brogklgn and Costello from Bu 0 Every of them helped hifi get ready were near him when the fight on These and trainerg battle New | Charlie | Mike | one and | was | training and arrangenients for alone cost Sully Kilrain a fortune Corbett without for training expenses | rg | entered a fight | small fortune never spending a Cost Corbett $10,000. And perhaps he reached the very top in that line when he had his | battle with Charlie Mitchell down in Florida. On that occasion Jim eimn- | ployed Prof. John Donaldson as a, heavyweight, Dan Creedon as al middleweight, Con McVey as a wrestler and Tommy Tracey as af lightweight Jim also put up a handball eourt that cost $2,500 and an, en Sir Henry Rawlinson ,who drove twenty-mle front, ¢ 3 3 boa Bw VSING UP YOUR THE F3H . Beweve Vally. fi fof it { delphia, a i not { or Corbett, { of money into circulation. {his own chances | gan, Ter J NIK WHY DIDN'T You USE Nf ~ Bs cRE TION LUKE T Bib | XN WHILE YoU ATE aEAt ; THREE Times A DAY po LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR, | L WRESTLED with 1K that line to 1 from 104 to ¥ ing quarters uined them roy- nearly thrée have eost him play with him 500 visitors at every day and enter He months, and at least $10,000 Then it cost Corbett $1,000 legal proceedings (to gel out Florida when the fight was over. But Billy Brady, Corbett's man- ager, discounted by hiring . a special train, maki a flying trip to New York, where he cleared over $25,000 in Madison Square Garden, while popular excitement over Cor- beti's defeat of Mitchell was at fever heat. Corbett's manager, too, was the first 10 take advantage of the pic- tures of a big fig and made a lot of motley out of that. His theairi- cal /#xperience, too, enabled him to bgok Corbett to advantage on the road. In with with road following his fight was '«redited the year Sullivan, Corbett clearing up $250,000 on the and squandering every dollar And Corbett made money even while he was training By doing unts in Madison Square Garden one day while preparing for an im portant fight, he cleared up $25.- 000 Think of that, you helvy- weight pikers of to-day O'Brien Used to Spend. Why, even.Ja ck O'Brien, of Phila- modern heavyweight, but big or prominent as Sullivan to put great wads 80 used Yoy heard of money being wag- ered on the Fulton<Dempsey aflair, but you saw litle of it. (But in the oklen days you saw the real money, and you saw the principals bet it. Sullivan, Corbett and O'Brien are only three of the old fighters who bet on themselves. O'Brien was one of the thriftiest of the heavyweights, but he always put up big money on O'Brien, 'whose real name is Ha- was a pugilist for money, not for glory He owns several houses in Philadelphia, some of them in the fashionable neighborhood of Rit- tenhouse Square He has been ad- mitted to the bar and: nas made a fortune through sheer industry as well with his fists. He made it, 100, 'taking on all hands when he was fighting and by betting his dollar on his chances of win- as by last ning Wonder if Fulton and Dempsey will ever bacome as rich as O'Bpien? Not in a thousand years if they go a LEADING BRITISH IN SOMME BATTLE Lak a the Germans seven miles over a § Ne, | * Moy cou ons | Bur ME Tle AND SAVED SixTEEeN | fo RAVE Some : FEAST Now! AR, YES, THE WINE 8 of | 1 beat. {A CoaPsiBLe HAT RACE OUGHT 0 Get ~-- along the now. GRIDIRON STARS IN THICK OF FIGHTING Major "Buster" Reid Wound- ed Fourth Time--Lieut. McFarlane's Expioit. gait they are going at Since the first day when Canadian troops became engaged' in the great war, Canada's gridiron enlisted in large numbers, have been distinguished themselves. While the ¢ir service appears to appeal to them more strongly than any other branch of the service, the knights of the moleskin have been prominent vherever they have served. Many have won mention in despatches and various decorations. . Word his reached his family in Canada that Major the former McGill University line- plunger, has been wounded a fourth time. Luckily, this last injury is a gunshot wound and is not severe. Lieut. Alex. McFarlane, who was a star with the Argonaut and Hamil- ton Tiger teams in the Imterprovin- cial Union, recently won the Mili- tary Cross. Particulars of the ex- ploit in which the won the decoration have been received at his home in Hamilton. The official announce- ment says that he was "in charge of four machine guns, and showed ex- ceptional courage in keeping the guns in operation, although under heavy shell fire. BACK TO AUSTRALIA. Lady Swimmers Did Not Against Americans. Miss Fannie Durack and Miss Nina Wylie, the Australian swim- ming champions, brought to a close their unfortunate visit to the Unit- ed States a few days ago and sailed Compete of the American girls over to defeat Since have been comments a- plenty on the poor treatment * the famous foreigners received 'in Cali- fornia, the critics assuming that it prevented their competing there. This is hardly the case. Miss Dur- | ack started by announcing 'that she would not register with the A.A.U., | as the rules require, unless the au- thorities took the trouble to seek her out, and when interested people later suggested her sending for cre- dentials by mail, she failed to do so. She also declined to take advantage of an invitation to visit the east at the expense of prowinent organiza- tions, and courtly refused a request to swim Miss Alga Dorfner, of Phila- delphia, during the latter's trip to the coast. Jt wiil be seen, there- fore, that the Australian. did not compete from choice, rather than he- cause she was prevented. speed of any they came then there SPORTS AT STAMFORD. Canadians Prepare for Empire Meet on September Tth. The 'big. athletic championship meet of the Canadian troops én Lii- tain was held last Wednesday at Stamford Bridge, London. HM was the more important because the winners will represent Canada in the great Empire gports on the same ground on September 7th, Some fine performances wera done and the men 'all round will be hard tp Sergt. J. H. Massey, (rom Witley Camp, was a notable trouble | winner, namely, the half, mile and | three miles, easily beating the Can- | adian championship record in each event, { Capt. E. B. Archibald was also | very suecessful, winning the ham- mer throw and pole vault and was third in the long jump and shot-put. Red's Downfall Season's Mystery. Downfall of the Cincinnati Reds is one of the biggest mysteries of the baseball Beason. Last April, as the teams lined up for the start of the National League pennant race, the | Reds stood out as one of the clubs ; that looked Sure of a first division { berth, and there were a few writers who went 80 far as to pick them as the pennant winners. But the Reds to-day are not even pennant con- tenders in the full meaning of the word, for they have permMted other clubs to build up big leads against their chances. Matty had a ball club at the slart Of the geason that looked like a sure winner. In Roush, Neale, Sherry and Lee Magee, Chase, Wingo, Groh, Blackburne, Griffith, Toney, Schnei- der, Régan and a few others the Old ing division, Master had the nucleus of what look-tioned her are all three noted for a stars, who! "Buster" Reid, for home without having tested the! while | YES. A COLLAPSE HAT RACK DOES Yo MEAT IN LONDON JT THE SAME AS THE REO MOTOR CARS "The Gold Standard of Values." The New Reo Light Four . 1 * (Five Passenger Touring Car). THE REO FOUR is recognized as the quality Four at a moderate price. ¢ . Truth to tell, there were few places where improvement could be made in this wonderful Four chassis. It has heen standard in practically its present form for eight seasons. 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Sizes 2, 21, 3, 3}, 4 and 7. All at one LL $2.49 price . .. Also one lot, about 40 pairs, mostly all sizes; $10.00 high laced $5 a5 » shoesfor . .... .... Come in and look at these shoes. wlrisid hard-driving club, especi- capacity for work. 'T the bats and in the pitch- hig pennant : for the hurlers men- Mant drivé at the stant ~--and the slump that followed ally wit ; a in 0 6s