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THE DALY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1918 In the World of Sport pA, = Y.M.C.A. SUNDAY LEAGUE | COBB AN OFFICER. WINS FLAG; PROFITS NOTHING K ; y ] 6 aq, Y GE \ IS SUCCESS IN PARIS |... . Gu Projecting Unit 2nd | Disastrous Career of Pres. Weegh- : Granted Commission, man of the Cubs in Baseball. 3 ; Three Games Played at Once Ty Cobb has made good his pledge By winning thé National! League in the Famous Bois De to enlist in fheNpavice of the Allies. | pennant, which means participation in TORACCO ome - tinie ago declared he was [the World's Series, the Chicago Cubs y sing Boulogne. Sor ] going to enter Uncle Sam's service. [have not provided 'Charles Weeghman War doesn't stop for baseball, | Fle has just been issued a commission | with much financial reward., Weegh- but, in spite of the large number of | by the War Department. » « man is the president of the Chicago topnotch players rushed to the fir- | From now on it is Captain Tyrus|club, but that lets him out. He is ing tine almost every day, the game | Raymond Cobbs He will serve inp said to. be a small minority stock: thrives as is nothing out of 'the or-| the Chemical Warfare Service, alholder. the club being entirely com dinary were happening. Just as' branch of the army that tends to the | trolled by Messrs. Wrigley, Armour soon, as units are ordered to lay important work of "feeding" poison- land other wealthy men. : down their bats and marched off to [ous gas to the enemy. It is expected{ Weeghman, it is understood. has the more serious game, new players |that Christy Mathewson, the leader]lost a great fortune in baseball. He are thrown in and fresh nines form- {of the Reds, will enter the same de- {went into the Federal League more ed to keep the Paris Association | partment than four years ago for the fun of the Baseball League running on Sehed- Cobb is expected to communicate [thing. Soon he found himself pro- | ule ' his acceptance of the commission to- viding many thousands of dollars to The Association League is a child imorrow.. Ty is of the draft age, and keep the Chicago feds alive. The of the YMCA. 'It includes thuty applied for a commission in the | winning of the Federal League pen- teams and has a schedule of fifteen | Chemical Warfare Service about two [nant in 1915 proved extremely bur. HOW MANY RIDERS games , for every Sunday up to the | months ago, fe passed both the |densome for Weeghman, yet he was middle of September. Eight games mental and physical examinations compelled to remain in the game in WISH are played at one time. If a boy has | with flying 'colors. spite of his losses. When the opportunity to buy the THEY ' bis troubles seeing Skerything i " three-ring circus, imagine the plight | Cubs was afforded. Weeghman inter- HAD of the hard-boiled fan trying to | HENRY ST. YVES ested Whigley. Armour and company, | drink in eight games for the price who put up $500,000 for the 'fran. | BOUGHT of one admission. chise and players Weeghman was | . At the Bois de Boulogne, one of! allowed to retain Joe Tinker as the | A the favorite playgrounds of Paris on Cubs' 'manager in 1916. which was | Sundays and holidays, are three dia- monds It is here that big crowds congregate and watch our bays bing the ball all over the lot. ,._. In the first month aad a half of the league's life fifty teams were or- ganized. So keen is the interest in | baseball that there is almost a This lightens the work % | waiting list lat Y. M. C. A. headquarters - im- SN 1 measurably. another disastrous season The en-| agement of Fred Mitchell last Year| ® 5 Wp ine point. Tollouged Lv) as the turning point, ftollowec yy the purchase of Alexander, Killifer| and Tvler, for $65000. Weeghman, | FR : . Vd? it is said. 'was partially blamed fore] ' % a 777 erin. aVor wes of Alexander, who was taken over | R 'rom the Phillies with no provision | for the army draft . JE cts. Archery A First Pastime, | There is but one sport in which the | ancients could excel the moderns, | and that is archery, oldest of all pas-| times, Of course, in the good old! GET SET FOR NEXT YEAR. Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Hamil- 1 3 ton, Brantford, London in League. y ; arms | i Other dealers keep on saying that their Major league magnates in the lon for Tan | THE REO MOTOR CARS wheels are made like a Massey, and they United vill be Ea at hy ing people, the bow and arrow were "The Gold Standard of Values." p -. . i empt w e ade to carry c Xs : ; ' ' A sell them for $5.00 less sometimes In order season unless Kaiser Bill's mad instruments of Jaz ap well 35 shorn, J to get you to buy them. « Jfi that time our Gunada ik aes be army of archers was doomed to ex-| without baseball, if present plans materialize BUY THE REAL MASSEY. Arrangements are already under way to have a six«lub league on tinction, T The record made several years a80 | h R R d A in France by Ingo Simon, who shot | € eo oa ster an arrow 459 yards 8 inches, while] considered remarkable by archers to-| Popular Car this sid f the border, with teams x | Because you get the best that can be put in Crt renl. Frorihinl Parte. Ham- ay, would have Rade Robin Hood] 3 : . 2 and his merry men laugh in derision. | No Reo model has gained ; rite 3 ; nto a bicycle; and what 18 a few dollars itor, Branton aug London, He : Ri I Ey or pee A a odel h sained greater popularity in the same : > . 4 Lo at's rival and well known in > | . - : ! 3 when you are paying for an article that will teams found the jump to Ottawa an | 'Montreal, who has distinguished Forest te lease Sxpers wit the lou| Dekigners have striven for years to devise a seating ar- 1 fi expensive one, but with Montreal himself at the front, and is re- | 2OW id have: shot! rangement for four passengers that would permit all passengers ast for years. on the eastern end also, the jump rted w have lost an arm in the Robin Hood was said to have shot] to ride between the axles. 3 : y n itable t is rance Air Service. y . | " Ind oi Ew MWihan i i Massey Bicycles Twenty Years old are ould prove More Jiof abl Lt The archery revival in America be- Ima, word, since everybody likes to ride in the front seat, till 3 d : . people behind it Montreal will gan in 1953, when the use of the | the aim was to place ail occupants as near that point as possible. still runing around our city, and still good prove as good a baseball city as Value Of Sport In War. long bow was taught at Kenyou Col-| ® pis Janyes the diivers mavements unimpeded by other oc- 8 3 3 3 i " C 8 a 8 Visio cles { sides. for years. there is In Canada, but in the past| The Toronto Star attributes the|lege, Ohio. After a time interest in| In seer tiaty an Coron ST et. this big, handsom the club there appeared to be in [success of American troops fighting in| the sport died out again, but it was| fordstor ay hl yr aaprivers Sak is big, handsome / wrong hands. Ottawa is ready for [France to their previous baseball] revived in 1877, with the organiza- | The fry Rehi8 EASE a driver 's usually the buyer. | 1 WE ARE SOLE AGENTS baseball, and there is no doubt | training, in an editorial which reads: | tion of a club in Oakland, Cal, . . | The w de ag ac commodates two comfortably--luxuriously . about the other cities mentioned. "Baseball being the national game|. The American Archery Association | and itis le Ror le 2 on wn, He Sua seat is opened up 8 a8 « abie 8 any Bk C8 nate, is of the opinion that there any doubt about the Americans show-| ment forty years ago. Come down to our showrooms and look it over. You'll be a Canadian league next|ing plenty of dash and courage in Simon's record, made in France a| like it. will ' i : / year. Ha is ready to do his bit, and | war. Not only do the players show | Year before the outbreak of the war, | Ey ny Will place a team in Brantford and | these qualities, but ahy eeuntry is all| was the longest since 1794. It was | . " Sees no. reason why it should not be | right that can. produce umpires whe | wade with a Turkish bow of buffalo | eorge Boy Tom Nelson, the Brantford mag- | of the United States, there never was| held its first championship tourna-| | as popular in the Telephone City as| will ge right ahead in defiance of two| horn and antelope sinew, over two it ever was, as Brantford has an|infuriated nines and e raging multi-| centuries ago. ~The longest distance 2 : . even larger population now than it | tude." " with a modern bow at the same meet ; SPORTING GOODS CO, had in peace times. These arguments are followed by| Was 236 yards. Phone 201 . 129 Brock Street J. J. MoCatfery, of the Toronto | the more familiar arguments that fa- In olden days in England partiei- "y Stub, says tat such » league will be miliarity with and devotion to sports| pation in the archery meets iaiory 3 " ormed, providing, of course, the | fosters initiativ ; Sundays and holidays was obligatory : he Home of the Brunswick. ax or Dent' jaw ja the thitad cool in hitiative and S0llity to Avop upon all servants and workmen, Yew -. States makes mpossible for the In the matter of devotio sports| bows were considered the best, but, a X Phone 529 Kingston §| new league to do business. - With | the paper says there is Tittle to Shoo owing to the scarcity of yew, only ¥ the big leagues and all the minors | hatween American and Canadian sol-| persons of some social standing were out of business across the border, | qiors. : permitted to own bows made of that! there should be no trouble in secur- Several Canadian newspapers re-| wood. According to authorities, the : > Ing players, 'even if the ranks of [ cantly have urged that every effort he | average range of a yew bow of those "aA Oc 0 the veterans had to be invaded, as made to encourage school boys to re-| days was from 320 to 400 yards. has been the case this year with | ain their interest in field sports, ; _| major league clubs. They point out that field sports de-| BOSTON TALKING BOYCOTT. s -- ~~ velop quick thinking, and that the re- i utsi e Y His Greatest Victory. sults in Europe have proved it. Threaten Not to Patronize World's s T Johnny Overton has won his great- German soldiers do not know what Series Because of Schedule. R Y est victorv--and run his last race.| either sport or sportsmanship is.| Boston fans do not like the idea of Nr?" a The clean-cut son of Tennessee, who, | Their physical training is almost ex. having the Red Sox play the first When You C Get a year ago last March, ran the fastest olusively along gymnastic lines, |three games of the World's Series in ' ® : ; : : indoor mile ever credited to a pair | which, while developing the muscles, | Chicago. They seem to think that ar C of human legs, gave his life for his | involves little or no mental effort. the owner of the Red Sox should have country while leading his men in a been consulted before the tossing of | ; race across No Man's Land near Cha- | ewer wn th in by Chai i of Nook for Silk Thread oa Tip of Each Otgar teau Thierry. He put all he had into Real Fighting Predominates. br Nanay, hairs Herrmann: of | » this race--his life; and won all there Les Darcy; the Australian fighter, Red Sox, therefore, lose two out of | is--the glory of God and man. was ostracised, and the result ended | hree in Chicago, Boston fans threaten | Lieut. Overton was the first great | in his death because he ran away to boycott the rest of the series at | American athlete to fall in Battle. | from his own country to evade war Fenway Park Johnny enlisted with the Marines on } service. His death was tragic, but This threat seems idle Boston af] the same day that the United States] the "slacker" was not welcome on ways has been one of the best base- | S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. declared war. He was an impetuons | this continent or anywhergrelse, hall cit he f ¢ th | thoroughbred--if there was anything Real fighting predominates over fom to The fans know Red Ses | doing he just had to be in it. glove fighting these days. Useful ser-| have provided them with excellent! As an athlete Overtbn was known | vice is the first demand. baseball all season, and are entitled to | MON y a a "front Junuer he always set ; There is pleaty of scope in produc-|ioyal support. The arrangement of . the pace, an eld it as long as his] tion and food conservation. the World's Series w inentl ir | 4 = ; 3 ® legs and lungs could stand it. It is The . farmers want able-bodied The on oF Charo ad Stand by Your Local Manufacturer. 7 safe to say that he fell while setting] helpers with the harvest. Lend a three games was simply a matter of The MeCally and American Granites, Vermont Marble, the pace across No Man's Land by | hand. Dig potatoes, lnck. There was no intention to | | um Granite Company, Ltd. the Marne. : SS ------ slight Boston fans ,who have ardently | 3=: = BOT Princess Street. "haa Overton was the greatest distance Percy Prune, one of our best little backed the American League for fif- gris Telephone runner that ever wore the blue of | sport erities, cannot understand why | teen years. Chicago intends to root "Safety First." Nica d Hond h a Yale. As a cross-country runner his | pugilists like to fight. The séasons | | ¥ SLC ATASUS. QIN ondums ave v ha aa . ght. for the Cubs, heart and soul, and there | Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight pu- { averted their threatened clagh - of . Too Much Yawn. 2 and effectiveness: Pursued be the re, fee -- eve Deen Seen in he col- | are Rumerous but the three foremost is no doubt that Boston will follow gilist, has joined the army of ship: | afms by agreement to withdraw all Ope of my pu is," says a Buf- flentless hunter, the panting gazelle | door mile Second of fort aie ar Ne Boscia eo . ; Re no matter what may happen to builders in the Philadelphia district.. | troops from their borders and wub- falo. teacher, "cou Hot understand sprang from cliff to cliff. At last she sixteen seconds, made at Philadelphia | ti ne th aot been. men-|the Red Sox at Comiskey Park. _ Dempsey signed a contract with the | mit their controversy to the United why I thought that following par S 8, e iladeiphia | tioned in the casualty lists and yet et -------------- Sun Shipbuilding Company at Ches- | States, could go no farther Before : her | last . : sir . ) 1 year, and the world's record forthe American pastime is a vision of Even it ; ¥a i the chasm, ; : ! n a woman is self-made | ter as a labor J as - ced one Jared 4 ie chasm, and behind her the! 1.000 yards, indoors, two minutes and! the great war just as much as was'she wants people to think she is | be fo entre As ond Jus Jah. il Fn es ron it irs a a : fourteen seconds, made in New Yofk, Barl Kitchener, : tailor-made. sections of. the country other. : prosperity breeds = an- - BE 4 44rAph from his position on 'A ; unting Adventure' lacked animation i BRINGING UP FATHER i a on 2 Ho Hot, Noon H 1 1] By GEORGE McMA NUS. y AND SHE SAID MEN HAVEN'T : I Soh REQITE | DID - SHinGeD AB . . 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