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> PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918. ¥ Automobile |BRITISH ATHLETES' RANKS ARE THINNED on ! {Famous Performers in Various/ : Lines of Sporting En- deavor Give Lives. ywers of sport may gain some the enormous losses Great | Britain and her colonies sustained in | athletes during ihe war from the fol- 'lowing brief account of the death of 1@& man who ordinarily would have had obituary notices of & soiamn or | more The note was taken from a j daily sporting paper and was not longer for tie simple reason that { there were so many other deaths of | prominent athletes announced not only that day, but every day, that { the editors could do little more than {give a perfunctory mention even toa j world's champion. Here is the no- i tice: | "To the list of Rugby Internation jal who have fallen in the war must } | i | {idea of Hockey and Fancy Pleasure and Waltz be added Lieut. W. R Sutherland, of {the Seaforth Highlanders, the famous Harwick and Scottish three-quarter. He had the fine record of being | twelve times chosen to play for Scot- 'and in her international encounters between 1910 and 1913 HE was {in the Scottish team against England {in 1910-11-12-13, played against | Wales in 1910-12-13, and against Ire- {land fmr-1913 Three times he fig- {ured in the ranks of the Thistles | against France, and in 1913 played | against the South Africans in their | last tour » | And that Tube are electrically welded together and tube skate made. $6.00 Auto are strongest was all the space the In the World | igshave a pic PLAN MEET IN SWEDEN. Ath'etes From All Nations May Com- pete There in 1021. An invitation to the United States ked team of the leading athletes of the country journey to Sweden for the purpose of participat- ing in an elaborate international ath- leti¢ meet is expected within the near future. It became known that the Swedish athletic authorities are plan- ning the competition for 1921. The occasion will be the three hundredth anniversary of the city of Goteborg, which is the second largest city of Sweden. Carl Benson, former ama- teur wrestling champion, made this announcement upon his return to the United Itates after an extended so- jowrn in Sweden. According to Benson, no definite campaign has been adopted toward bringing about a realization of the proposed meet, but it is expected that preliminary plans for the meet will be adopted soon The games are to be part of a great celebration. It is Planned to erect a stadium compar- able to the one at Stockholm, whire the Olympic games of 1912 were held. Under the tentative plans all the leading athletes of the world will be invited to compete. Ernie Hjortberg, formerly well known as a local trainer of athletes, has been engaged to prepare the ath- letes of Goteborg, according to Ben- son. Hjortherg was until recently coach of Sweden's Olympic athletes. PRAISE FOR ENGLISH. Boxers Give Praise to Their Uv. 8. | English paper could give a man {about whom a book might well be | written, because of a crush of some- | what similar stories every day - $35.00This Beautiful Pleasure Skate is designed by the best Hosts of Recent Tourney, | That Englishmen are good sparts- men and fighters was the opinion of the army and navy boxers who ar- rived in New York from Londen, where they participated in the An- glo-Amerjcan service tournament, | ee JOE SHEAR skater in the world. Auto In C--The lightest Skate in the world, made with the famous aluminum tops. $7.50--This is the finest Skate made for fancy or figure skate. Has the saw tooth notches in the toe. 4 a These are our best Skales Then we have the Ladies' Auto at $4, the Ladies' Pleasure at £3 and the Yukon at $1.90, are good Skates for those who do not have the desires of the better models, Hockey Shoes finest assortment of Hockey and Skating Montreal. We put - Shoes on We have the Shoes between Toronto and Skates Free When you buy your outfit from us, ple, in one of the best fights that SPORTING : GOODS CO, was even fought in England, | 88 Princess Street i Phone 529 "Home of the Brunswick." Canada's . bantam champion, from who beat Jimmy 'Berry rounds, before 4,000 peo- Balls, Bats, Gloves. The American soldiers who will not return from France for several months are well supplied with base- ball paraphernalia. About a month ago the YIMIC/A. shipped from the U.S. 30.000 baseballs, 2,800 bats, 10,200 gloves of various kinds, 3,.- 131 mitts, 226 masks, 9561 chest protectors, about 100 sets of bases, 5,000 score cards, and is now being distributed to the various camps. Besides the baseball equ © the Y'M.C.A. sent over thyusands of basket balls, boxing - gloves ang medicine balls. {In the entire ship- ment there were thirty-four items, which cost about $173,334.61, -- t-- Rooter Regains sis Speech, The receipts at Irish Football League games this season have been the best during the war, and some of the clubs have made considerable money. One game hetween Linfield and Glentoran,at the latter's grounds, drew $3,815, which was a large sum for soccer at the prices charged in Ireland. y A. shell-shocked soldier who had heer dumb for six months, recovered his speech and let out a yell of delight when his friend Harris se a goal for Linfield against Relfa Itic, and so won the game by Itg0:' +" We Wish all our patrons a Happy New Year. AAA] ' Prone G4] 167 Princess Sr. KINGSTON LI - > The closer we get to our good deeds . the smaller they seem. Some men lose their hats at an el ection and some lose their heads, couragement Barrie was organized at. a meeting ! prominent | business men, called the Barri already has about 60 members. The club intends placing tea Junior and the O.H.A., terial to do so. Omar Khayyam in this country dur- ing the com he will France wilitch Mr. Vj Mr. Viau's s Belmont Park. now spendifz his New York, eran rawing sculling chan The only semblance of an excuse offered by the American boxers was that they were handicapped by the British rules, and that three short rounds did not give them "time to get started." Pal Moore, the Memphis bhantam- weight, who won over Jimmy Wilde, expects to meet the Eng'ish cham- pion in another bout Moore said he had been offered $10,000 and one- third of the motion picture receipts to fight Wilde again, by G MeDon- ald, promoter for a London club. ete eae Coast in Defiant Mood. 'Unless the National Hockey League rearranges its schedule to permit of the winning team being on the coast in time to meet the Pacific Coast Hockey Association champions in-the Stanley Cup series in the first game around March 17th, an appeal will be taken to the cup trustee, W.'M. Foran, and the easterners asked to comply with the conditions governing cup series' set forth in the agreement drafted and signed by the rival leagues three years ago," said President Frank Patrick of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, The agreement calls for the first Cp game to be played each spring not later than March 15th. The coast schedule calls for the final game on March 10th, and the play- off with then take place, and, if necessary, the winners will be ready to play the eastern champions on March 15th in the first game. The NJH.L. have games scheduled right up untd March 14th, and then will follow the play-off series. New Club For Barrie. A ney association for the of amateur sport en- in attended by This organization is e Athletic Club, and largely ms in the intermediate serios of and there is ample ma- i ls of Sport | THAT FIGHTING SPIRIT. | 1 | | Huge Bezdek Says it is the Bi Factor in Sport. : ! Hugs Bezdek, who won fame by bis work as manager of the Pitts- burg Pirates in the National League, and added laurels by his' coac hing of the Penn State eleven this au- tumn, believes that spirit is one of the biggest factors in either of those sports. "Give me a football or baseball team with the progier sort of Mghting spirit and a few flaws, and I will show you a winner," de- clared the stocky little chief of the Pirates "Fighting spirit is what wins more games on the diamond or the gridiron than long runs or long drives. It is the steady fight, fight, from: the drop of the hat that spells Success. I have made the Pirates a real fighting ball club and next si NL we're going to mygke a great battle for the pennant ' v gaest PRICES A RAY PLANS CAMPAIGN. Will Compete in Long Distance ¥ ng Races, In anticipation of the stellar dis- tance attractions to be held in the metropolitan district soon after the beginning of the New Year, Joie Ray, America's premier middie OVERCOA WE HAVE A COMPLETE RANGE OF FIT REFORM 'WINTER ~~ OVERCOATS RE REASONABLE INSPEC. TION INVITED orde -- Walsh ors : RE -------- distance runner, will prep himself in order to stand off the competi- tive efforts of the men who may be arrayed against him Ray will un- doubtedly be seen in all of the fut- ure evenis, which are to be decided hereabouts, the chief of which wih be the Millrose games, in Madison Square Garden, in March: the Mea- dow Brook sports, in Phileelphia, the week following, and the Na EMPRESS'S A -------- Amafeur Athletic s, whieh will game features, tient Both' Glenn Smith and Al > Caffery signed (certificates with Dentals and will remain witi; "Bui Box and his O.H.A. senior aspirants during the coming seasdn. ; i tionial championsh these gres top off Me- { (3) Captain Geo. 8. Webster, R.N.R, of the "Empress of Britain, (2) Arthur BE. Philp, Chief Engineer of the ** (3) Six inch gun crew standing by the gun on the Officer F. H, re, Whe gave the gunners the range. HE "Empress of Britate® which board, that T sailed from New Sole an Sun ed oe tories. Submarine d: ternoon th 15 cla t 1 = : of the Britian wor Mission, YMCA ay sky gas. Wissed the and Knights of Columbus workers, bow by three feet, and the other has aiready covered 173,130 miles 'Keep Omar mm America, Wilfrid Viau has decided to keep ing season, after which retired and sent to head a breeding farm an intends to establish. table is now locate at be to ------------ Lieut. Boh" Dibble, who is + "Jim" Rice, and that he would en- passed a dozen feet a dozen attacks were m, since the outbreak of hostilities, "Empress of Britain" during when she was taken over by theby U-boats British Government and has trans Captain George 8. Webster, RNR, | Ported 110,000 troops overseas. She|whe is the Present commander of the | took thousands of Australians and "Empress of Britain" has made 37 Britishers to Gallipoli, and was one trips across the Atlantic since the | of the transperts assigned to take outbreak of the war, When the "Em. | them away. The Sues Canal being [press of Britaie: reached New York | closed, she made a 16 months trip last Tuesday, she had aboard 2.450 eround the Cape of Good Hope including 400 sick and | troops for Germar. East Africa and , and she is returaing | also for M She made to Liverpool for more. When, this | eight trips with Canadian troops and | work of repatriating for the first seven months ef the war, finished, she will return to her home patrolled the South Atlantic as an ad. port, St. John, New Brunswick, 0. 8. the American next season pion: f there is a n:tional tia, JEFF IS EITHER SOME BAYONET FIGHTER OR Bur I'ma OWN Goel. THAT WAS SOME BLunDER Yeu MADE THe oTHeR DAY whew You FoRGeT YOUR BAYONET nen we MADE THAT BAYONET CHARGE. vo TMB, Jou T HAVE STARTED a STAMPEDE WHEN You Ran Baw FoR iT) Bavoner GAME: WAT OTHERS. DoT PLAY YOUR 1G NORANCE. THE DEA oF GOING INT A ET FIGHT withouT A LING You FoR yeuR WISE UP To THe Mmiralty cruiser. During the wae. the C. P. It was during ome of the trips ships have transported over a million @chess the Atlantic with 5,000 troops troops and passengers on war busi Nm a lan ~ - a Union | WAR R Empress of Britain," 'Empress Troops te Australis, 0 ade upon the g astern. At least!t rom the war, { The to Wi Canal in British Columbia, Engineer of the and Senior Chief cover four hantl 'expedition, the War, and the present officers call him "Pat Have ifted the Ban. Boxing, stopped. in Baltimore, Md, by the police for. the "period of the war," has been resumed. Evi- dently the Baltimore police have been reading the battle news and hava decided that things are about over 'over there," and that they might as well open up again it ECORD of Britain," at right Chief hess. Only elght woldiers were lost an, The mbes = verpool, will ta and then returm 5 ul across the Pacific ancouver east "Empress of Raia will gr vast Ancouver through the Panama ¥ith Canadian troops enlisted her regular routs Arthur Ed ard Philp, O.B.B. Chief th Bragrets of Briain" Ocean Services, Ul. 8. troops is|Ofcer of Wars, in South war. 9His fellow iin a es -e Dib 12°sAy, every TIME © went wip A BAYOMET (Fuss TD 6&T So many GREASERS THAT MY Bavoner WOULD GET BLUNT