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¥ FACE TWELVE COLUMBIA GRAFONOLAS THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT This machine for $30.00, $5.00 per month. You buy 6 records. Grafonola $45.00--This beautiful maching in mahogany or oak. Buy 10 records and then $6 per month on machine. $70.00--This enclosed top and tone control lever in beau- titul mahogany, fumed or golden oak. Buy 12 records and you get machine delivered at once. Then you pay $10.00 per month. ALL MACHINES FREE FOR ONE MONTH ' Get yours picked out mow before we run short,' as we have all we will be able to get this year, TREADCOLD 88 Princéss Street Phone 529 . "Home of the Brunswick." WARRIOR Don't you think the war' be over soon, dear?" I'll be over there soon, an' then you can ex. pect to hear things happen fast. | makes a dandy shoe scraper. SOUND SECURITY Prospect--Are you quite sure it will be perfectly safe for me to invest in your company? Promoter -- Absolutely safe. Even the water in the stock has ! been filtered and sterilized. Stan Mauston, the good right wing Of the St. Patrick's hockey team, is expected to shine this season. Gordon Meeking was anxious to secure the services of Dennis Breen for his proposed Barrie O.H.O. sex- tette. However, the Haileybury player elected to remain here and play with St. Patrick's. Ernie Johnson, former Wanderer defence star, who was at Portland, will likely play for Vancouver in the Pacific Coast Hockey League. With Si Griffis and Frank Patrick out of the gama, the Millionaires will have a couple of vacancies, Toronto baseball fans are looking forward with great interest to the coming meeting of the American League. They expect next week to see Toronto elevated to the highest classification in baseball, Lieut. 'William O'Hara, whom "Mugsy" McGraw, of the New York Giants, once said was the best Qut- fielder in baseball, that is from the point of playing that position, and "Play Ball!" H. H. Frazee, president of the Boston American League Club, has announced that exhibition games had been arranged between the Red Sox and the New York League Club in the south during the spring train- Dg season next year. Mr. Frazee said he understood the Giants were wot to train in Marlin, Texas next season. The Red Sox, however, | jeancelled propositions to trail in California and Florida. --_-- lspa------------ Soa Robinson and iltshire's Garage An All-round Fighter, A London despatch states that Jem Driscoll, former English light- weight champion, has recovered from wognds received at the front and is contemplating coming to this country to take part in the bouts not as a hitter, is back with us again after lecturing in the United States for a year under the auspices of the United States . Aerial Administra- tion. | | Ban Johnson evidently has no |fear for any man, judging by his re- marks concerning John Heydier and Harry Frazee. Men only said that John and Harry knew less about baseball administration than any other 'men In baseball, Not a re- mark - that one would call compli- mentary, According to the N.H.L. g¢lubs, who 'were interested In the N.H.A. before they disbanded that organi- zation, theattempt of some of the club owners to get a meeting of the N.H.A,, wouldn't amount to any- thing, even if the disgruntled club owners did get the majority of votes. The suggestion that the annual * Bird--My but this old hajrbrush § NOT When you married me, you said you'd al ways be good to me, and yester. were with a =! blonde thing. Well, | didn't say | wouldn't be good to other girls, did 1? + FORTUNATE Hobo n these chilly morn. ings this reading glass of the pro fessor is fine. | HE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT " Professor of Physics--Archi- medes, the physicist, said "give me where to stand and 1 can move the world." Coed -- If he wanted someone to support him why didn't he marry a rich widow? TOO QUICK My husband doesn't think much of this air mail service. How's that? He sent a check to a man in Chicago and it got back .to his bank -before he had the money there to meet it, CAUTIOUS Mouse--I'd like to sample it but it may be one of those wireless traps. NO INDEED Suppose a pretty woman were to be cam. paigning and were to offer a kiss for a vote. Well? Could any Jury of human beings. blame a man for want. ing to be a re peater? I tr TWO MORE ARE COMING. Ottawa Expects Broadbent and Gras ham Home Soon. Word was received in Ottawa that two preminent local hockey stars who had been serving in France had returned to England, and could be expected home by the end of the year, These are "Punch" Broad- bent, MIC., a former wing man of the Ottawa Hockey Club, and "Leth" Graham, also a star wing of the Senators. Both have been over- seas for about three years. Broad- bent was slated for a commission when the anmistice came through. Announcement is also made that Bill Mooney, of the Royal Can- adians, will receive another trial with the Ottawa club. Sues Baseball Commission, Benjamin P. Moulton, president of the Rhode Island Exhibition Com: pany, operating the Providefice Baseball - Club, has brought suit against Ban Johnson and Garry Herrmann, as members of the Na- tional Commission, for the payment of $2,600 awarded to the Provid- ence club by the commission as pay- ment for Walter Mayer, sold to the Boston. American League club at th close of the 1917 season. Hyland Says He's Through. Harry Hyland, formerly of the Montreal Wanderers, and last sea- son with Ottawa, announces that'he had retired from hockey. Hyland now holds a position at the Can- adian Allis'Chalmers plant, Mont- real, and cannot devote any time to playing hockey. During his career with the Wanderers, hé played evey position with the exeeption of goal, and was one of the niost useful men on the club, PICARDY A NEW MODEL IN~ TO STOP BETTING EVIL. American Leagne is Determined [to Stamp Out Menace, The American League, as a whole, is planning, through Ban Johasen, to make a vigorous crusade against public betting in ball parks. Johm- son and his supporters are deter- mined to stamp out this growing evil, They intend to enforce the provisions of the league's constitu- tion and the rules of the national agreement no master who may be ard hit. 'A elub owner who wil- fully permits open gambling on his grounds can be expelled by a three- fourths' vote, and Johnson is pre- pared to' go the limit. Columbia Plans Hockey, Columbia will revive hockey after the university re-opens in January if it is found practicable to flood South Field. Levering Tyson, graduate manager of athletics, and Henry Les Norris, superintendent of buildings, had a conference yesterday at whieh it was decided that an attempt would be made to flood a part of the field for use as a hockey rink. Columbia has not : had a hockey team for several years because of the difficulty in obtaining a playing surface either outdoors or indoors. It is believed that it will be poss- ible to flood the field because since the \Army Training Corps used it, it has beemgpacked down and is now two inches or more lower than it formerly was. . le Crooked Horsemen. Three harness horsemen, Messrs. Richard and Belchard Squires, of Hartford, Conn, and F. E. Halli- day, of San Jose, Cal., have been ex- pelled from the National Trotting Association for alleged "ringing." The first pamed pair did a tidy bit of camouflaging at Windsor last season! when they dyed the mare Edna E., a jet black and raced I in a slow class, though she had mark of 2.09. Halliday's offence was not so barefaced. He raced the pacing mare, Emmaline H., un- der the name of Nettie H. He only changed the name, not the color of her hide. More Ladies" Hockey. It is likely that there will he a meeting shortly for thé organization OVERCO WE HAVE A COMPLETE RANGE OF FIT REFORM WINTER PRICES ARE REASONABLE INSPEC- CrawfordsWalsh OVERCOATS TION INVITED Tailors rman lel a TS GOOD TOBACCO Take a plug of fra-' grant Master Mason, cut a pipe-load of it, fill your pipeand lightitand enjoy the best, coolest, sweetest smoke of your life. Built to Last Mechanics, Farmers 'and others, whose work is heavy and hard on clothing, demand a garment that is specially made to meet their needs and built to last. Comfort, neatness and durability are found in . KITCHENS . . - "» Railroad Signal Kitchens overalls are strongly reinforced with double and triple stitching where wear comes hardest. The bib cones up high and fits snugly. The pockets have an extra band to make them strong and keep them from sagging, Made only by ° The Kitchen Overall & Shirt Co., '1 Brantford « Ontario Limited Racing at Tia Juana, Racegoers had been eross- ing into Mexico without the neces- TOOKE COLLARS" KE BROS unm for the benefit of war charities. Driscoll began fighting in 1901 and [meeting of the Canadian Amateur is now 38% years old. {Hockey Association should take ---- place where the Allan Clud, final is staged, is a good one. It vill bring . Baseball! lovers will receive with together - the representatives from| ° Don't expect your friends to do |cheers the announcement made by 'the various provinces and: they ean more for you than you are Willing 'the U.S. War Department. General "kill.two birds with one stone," so to. do for yourself. March seems to be a regular fan. to speak. ' i \ , Racing will be resumed at the Tia of a lady's hockey league, consisting! . « sar, assports, and many Germans, of the Renfrew and Ottawa teams |Juana track in Mexico, just across in a ha were able ny out of winter. ahd one or two others, representing {the California boundary Jine. 2s country. 'Tia Juana is patron TOO Adjacent towns in the Ottawa Val- lin February. James W Coffroth, {ized striotl i . . Coft s y by the California racin NONTREAL WINNIPEG ley. There has already been corres- [the promoter, is authority for the |element It Ar built by Cottroth TORONTO ANCOUVER pondence on the subject and it is announcement that the United [three years ago, and was enjoying NN Hkely that the league will be formed [States Government has raised the prosperity up to the time that the as planned, embargo which closed the track last ] =x gates were Ordered closed. JEFF 1S WHAT THE YCALL IN DEAR OLD LONDON A "GLACK." Tin | i IT'S LikE THis, : \ EB MUTT. 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