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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1020. ~ Your After Christmas Problems { ) Come in to-day and let us show models. Nothing better New Year's! Probably you-have been THE | In the BRITISH Fr World WHIG. of Sport GREATEST GOLF YEAR DUE TO ENGLISHMEN | | | given money for Christ-| Quartet of Visiting Stars Liv- | mas, and are deciding what to buy. Let Us Help You! Why not' purchase a Phonograph? You'll feel pleased if you do. We have a full and complete assortment of the better makes of Phonographs-- McYAGAN COLUMBIA BRUNSWICK When you purchase one of these instruments, you are sure of getting only the best--not a mere "machine," which mere- ly plays the records. you our many than a Phonograph for We have a big stock of Records. Let us show you real service. Store open evenings till 8 p.m. - TREADGOLD SPORTING OOD 88 PRINCESS STREET S CQ. : Telephone 529. "THE PLACE TO GET THAT RECORD" Buys any $2.00, $ The Phone 1372;. $1.50 this week. 2.50 or $3.00 Tie Club '112 Princess St. * French agriculture specialists have out-Burbanked the California wiz- ard, exhibiting at the Paris Fruit [ and Vegetables Exhibition a 130 1b. . tucamber sufficient to make a salad , for 1,000 dinners, a pear as large - ~~ and heavy as a 13 lb. baby, and a grapefruit of such proportions that two men were required to lift it, Too many people in this world are not happy unless they are bubbling over with unhappiness. > | ened Up American Championships. Francis Ouimet writes of the year 1920 which he says stands forth as | the greatest season American golf has ever known, both on account of | the quality of golf displayed and the | number of first-class players who | competed for the first time in the | numerous tournaments thruout the | He goes on: Tho I cannot | &le event of major import- | ance which was won by any of these | novices, there were many of them who came into national prominence just the same. First honors in- variably fell to the vetrans. The feature events, the two nat- lonal championships, were unusually | Interesting, owing to the fact that Vardon and Ray were on hand for ithe open and Cyril Tolley, British | amateur champion; Armour, Wether ed and Lord Hope, a quartet repre- senting the cream of English ama- teurs, strove to duplicate Hilton's victory of 1911 in the amateur, While we considered a victory by Vardon or Ray extremely likely in our open there were men like Hagen, Hutchinson and Barnes and many | others almost as good who were look- ed upon as having a slightly better chance than either of the Britons. In short the Englishmen were not | taken seriously enough tho the odds were against their winning. For Some reason or other the favorites had a bad time of it all | year, as they nost always do, and the open was no exception. It was Ray who breez- ed home a victor by a single stroke over his countryman, Verdon, as well 2s over Jock = Hutchingson, Jack Burke and Leo Deigel. Vardon really had the title sewed up. It is an old story how badly he faltered on the last few holes. He had nothing ex- traordinary to accomplish then to win; in fact, a victory by him was far easier than for the other feaders. But then a man over fifty has not the vitality of younger men and this natural deficiency prevented him from bearing up under the strain. His fall was [ff no sense due to a blow up. Most criticy have overlooked Jock Hutchinson. \His was the real show- ing of the me-bred pres. Under the regular scheme of holding the open in the past, Jock won the event hands down. But it seems as if the open is played under different met- hods each year. At Brae Burm in 1019 a ualifying round was held. and a certain number eliminated after the first two rounds. Those remain- ing continued for another 36 holes, 80 that the man who led at the end of the 72 was champion. Had that system bean in vogue this last season Jock would have crushed the field. I do not recall just what his score was" for that distance, but his first and third rounds were record-break- ing 69s. It was Jock's final round which proved his undoing, inasmuch as he finished but a strcke behind Ray. year happened in our amateur when England's four leading players, with- out 'exception failed to qualify. This proved one thing for certain, and that is the abundance of strength we possess. There are those whe flay our scheme o Jjqualifying rounds, but thers is appaPently no other way to handle big events. In respect to the | Britons, hut one, Tom Armour, show- ed a game strong enough to compare with former English golfers like The biggest golfing surprise of the | green when one down on the final hole. He eventually won on the 41st. hole in what goes down as the longest match of this event. It was my lot to play him in the finals, and-I never even looked a winner. If Evans cannot putt, then no golfer can. RACING IN MARYLAND -- Yielded More Than Half Million for the State. The particularly active Maryland state. racing commission has sent a bill for 15 per cent. of each race! 'ack net earnings. during the season of 1920. These earnings are said to be in the neighborhood of $575,000 and the amount of the bills some $131,- 000. » In addition to the 15 per cent. tax, the tracks pay to the state a fee of $6,000 for each day of racing at each There were 69 days of rac- fag in the fall season, the period covered by the reports of the com- ission. ™ The total amount received by the state from these dally fees is $414,- 000, which, plus the 15 per cent. tax, makes a total of $545,000 by which the four one-mile tracks are to in- crease the state's revenues for the 69 days of racing. Norman Michell, of Port Arthur, was drawing gasoline from a drum in his garage, with a lighted lamp close at hand. The natural explo- sion burned the garage, and with it Mitchell, whereupon a coroners jury found "death by accid-nt." -An intinerant peddler fined $2 in Escex Market, New York, police court, paid up with a $10 note, re- ceiving $8 change. He was far away wken the discovery was made that the bill was a cleverly "raised" dol- lar not. Be sure you are wrong before you go back and sit down, ------------ BOTH DISAPPOINTED He: | expected you'd stand under the mistictoe when | called. he: And | expected you'd have n armful of Christmas presents, FROZEN WITH FEAR "Are yoli cool in the presence of danger?" "Yes; ice cold." Hilton, Ball, Graham and Maxwell. Evans bad a narrow eseape in his match with Reggie Lewis and his! victory came unexpectedly. For years Evafls. has been checked con- | tinually by inability to putt at criti- | cal stages, Against Lewis he holed by all odds the finest putt I ever Saw sunk at a critical stage of a critical mateh when he ran down a twenty-footer on a slippery side-hill 1 PRECISE She: Do you knew Tennyson, the poet? y He: She: Can't say | de. What! You've never read - his immortal verse? He: That isn't whit you asked. Yea, I've read his verse, ° * & er 1 \ NOW ON TME BILL OF FARE "Years ago at Atlantle Gity | saw a man-eating shark." "That's nothing; you can see that in aimost any restaurant today!" -- " "Man wants but litte here helow-- and woman watts the rest." Princess Street. 'Phone 785 i WE TAKE X-RAY PICTURES of troublesome teeth. moform Gas administered for ex. ~ traction, Safe and painless OFFICE HOURS: 9.6, Makers of Hollow Damp- of Cement Blocks, Bricks, Lintles, and Drain Tile, Grave Vaults. Cement work. ~ Factory: cor. of Charles and ow Patrick Streets, Mgr.: H. F. NORMAN Phone 730w. OLD COUNTRY SOCCER | RESULTS AT CHRISTMAS | On Christmas Day Association League football in England pro- | duced fewer curious results than | usually seen in holiday play, | About one-third of the matches | were drawn, and. eight home teams | were beaten in the English divisions | and five in the Scottish. Only 'oge of these was In the first division, when Arsenal, who have played a | very in and out game, unexpectedly | defeated Everton by four to two, the | result bringing the winners just | above their London rivals, Totten- ham, in the league table. Arsenal now have 23 points against Totten- ham's 23, | Three "games were not played | in Saturday afternoon's scheduled | matches. They were : Aston Villa v. | and away winners in the second division | and the victory strengghened the | former's already good lead in the list, Queen's Park Rangers, Crystal Palace, Swansea, Swindon "and | Northampton each succeeded on! thelr opponent's ground, the last | named vanquishing Gillingham by five to two* This was not the bigh- | est score of the day, Bolton, Burnley | and Nottingham Fo g six goals, and we Except that Bolto castle in the thi he second division, + gue results lists undergo no | very important changes as the con- | i of Saturday's play. Re- | sults ; { | First Division. Blackburn R. 2 Preston NE, 2.1 Bolton W, §, Sunderland 2. Bradford City 2, Derby C. Barnsley 6, Sheffield U. o, Chelsea 1, Liverpool 1, Everton 2, Arsenal 4. Manchester C. 4, West Bromwich | Albion 0, Middlesboro Newcastle U, . Oldham 4, 1, 2, | | | | 2, Hudderstield 0. 1, Tottenham H. 1.¢ Bradford 0, Second Division. Blackpool 1, Barnsley 0, Bury 1, South Shields 0. Clapton Orient 1, Hull City 1. Coventry City 2, Cardiff City 4, Leicester City 8, Stoke 1. Nottingham F. 6, Rotherham 1. Port Vale 0, Bristol City 2, Sheftield Wednesday ~ 1, County 1. | West Ham vy. 1, Birmingham 1. | -------- Third Division. Brentford 0, Queen's Park R., Brighton-Have 0, Crystal, P. 2. Bristol R, 1, Swansea Town 2. * Gillingham 2, Northampton b, Grimsby T. 1, Norwich, City 1. Luton T. 1, Southampton 1. Millwall A. 0, Merthyr* Town, 0, Newport City 1, South End U., 1. Plymouth A. 0, Exeter City 0. Reading 2, Swindon Town 3, Watford 3, Portsmouth 3, Scottish League, Aberdeen 0, Partick Thistle 3. Alrdrieonians 3, Morton 2, Clyde 1, Rangers 3. Clydebank 2, Hibernians 2, Dundee 4, Hamilton A, 0, Hearts 6, Dumbarton 2 Kilmarnock 2, Falkirk 0. Motherwell 6, Ayr United Raith Rovers 2, Albion R. 4, St. Mirren 0, Celtic 2. Third Lanark 1, Quéen's Park 2. Notts | 2. Rugby Union, Ango-Seottish 14, Rest 24. Edinburgh Academicals 23, Lon- don Scottish 5. ; Swansea 23, Wdlsonians 0, . Neath 6, London Welsh 3. Bx ---- OFFER TO AMATEURS, ° 8®% Patricks Realize Necessity for New Players, The Toronto Globe's sporting edi- tor says: With Ottawa due to play their first game of the season here on Wednes- day night, the st. Patrick's club management is making special efforts to secure one or two amateur stars. On Saturday an offer Was made to McLeod, the former Collingwood de- fence player, who was refused an O.H.A. certificate to play for Wel- land, but McLeod, far from enter- taining any idea of turning profes sional, believes that he will be able to convince the O.H.A. that a mistake was made when he was "barred." St. Pats realize that they must se- Cure another defence player and are Dow angling for one. Against Can- adiens, Randall and Camerow did good work, but it cannot be expected that these twd players will be able to take part in every game and play the full sixty minutes. Canadiens and St. Patricks are anxious to secure tha services of Lionel Conacher, but the latter is averse to turning professional. He Lis anxious to play football, lacrosse and baseball, and to do so must re- main an amateur. Conacher has youth, ambition ana weight in his favor, and there is little doubt, but 1 that he would star in the N.H L. Suggestions For Xmas IN CHILDREWS FURNITURE The following goods were purchases at pre-war prices ~they positively would Cost us to-day wholesale what we are selling them for Doll Carriages, wood bod- lox. ..... $3.30, Doll Carriages, Rdttan bodies--ga.30, 97.50, $H.00, se50 each--according to sige. Glido Planes ....g31.50 each Rocking Horses--$2.00 and 2.50 eadh. Jolly Jitnéys--g1.73 snd $2.25 each. > 2 1S Arm Reogke, d red, split seat-- High Clairs--83.25 to $15. Combination High Chairs, on w heelg Children's Desks with Chairs $7.00 to $15.00 Bassinets . +++ 87.00 to $15.00 Wove Wire Strong Toddle Bikes erneed, \ 230, 232 ana 234 PRINCESS STREET. he largest stock in the City te choose from, Telephone 577w. * This is a genuine going-out-of-business sale--everything must be got rid of, : » You had better get a pair while your size is here. These goods are not old style -- nearly all of last summer goods. H. JENNINGS KING STREET ; > EE KING GEORGE S| » - And You'll Enjoy its LINGERING FLAVOR That's what they all say. BY GEORGE McMANUS ¥