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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG WEDNESDAY ~ LATEST LOCAL SPORTING GENERAL REVIEWS PORT NAP HOTS The stoker up there on the sun must be using some of that 1923 + ¢oal but we hope he doesn't pay the Price for it that we do. Ottawa writer refers to the Car- Pentier-Nilles approaching battle as an example of the art of French pas try. Considering the manner in which Messrs. Dempsey and Kearns have field up the public during their pugi- lstic careers, it will go hard with the whole world, now that they have 3 entered the coal business. The boxer who hits the pace is sure to get a return wallop that will knock him for the count.--Ottawa Journal. Funny how the public just eats up these pre-season predictions of the big league baseball managers. Here are some of the 1923 var- fety; all of the National League: MeGraw, New York--Giants to win; Killefer, Chicago--Cubs to finish in first division; Moran, Cincinnati-- Reds t0 win pennant, or finish sec- ond; Robinson, Brooklyn--first di- vision; Rickey, St. Louis--Cardinals strong contender; Mitchell, Roston =~Not last; McKechnie, Pittsburg-- Contenders for title; Fletcher, Phila- delphia--Hopes to get out of cellar. Manager Moran of Cincinnati says that Donohue is one of the bast pit- chers baseball has yet produced. = Rival outfielders of this season, and nearly all of them claiming to De the best; Detroit--Cobb, Veach, Hellmann; Pittsburg--QCarey, Big- ee and Russell; Cincinnati--Dun- oan, Roudn and Burns; New York Glasnts-- Young, O'Connell and Meu- _ #el; New York Yankees--Ruth, Meu- sol and Miller; St. Louis Brown-- 'Tobin, Willams and Jacobson. WHY? Try to make yourself a new Hat out of materials that are as common AS postage stamps. You spend from $3.0 35. spend hours in the making of it and what have you got when it hed? Something your friends at a bleck away. __ No doubt you have a Hat you used like but are tired of the shape. ] us reblock it up-to-date. You il have & Hat when it is finished. won't cost more than $1.50 and 1 The Kingston Hat Cleaners 8 Princess 5t. Phone 1488. '{ PETER MANNING { | IS TOO FAST 3 { When the Windsor Driving Club (offered a purse of $5,000 for a free- for-all it "started something." The race has resulted in Thomas W. Mur- rhy 'entering the fayous Peter Man- ning, 1.56 3-4, and tbe fastest horse of all the harness brigade, will also be eent out for other liberal purses during the coming season. John L. Dodge, owner of Perl- scope, 2.03 1-4, has written a letter to The American Horse Breader, pro- testing against allowing Peter to en- ter free-for-all events. Mr. Dodge mys the long-eared gelding out- classes Peter the Brewer, 2.02 1-2; The Great Volo, 2.03 1-4; and all the rest of the fast brigade by four to six seconds to the mile. Peri- soope"s owner thinks that Peter the Great will spoil any race in which he starts by going away from the field. Cleveland has barred him and Nedda, 1.58 1-4, without naming them, by offering fts purse of $10,- 000 "for trotters who have never acquired a record of any kind better than 2.00." p "THEM DAYS IS GONE FOREVER" You not only read it, you sing It. Try it on your piano. Watch nightly for this big ocomio hit, MRR GREET THIS ON YOUR GUITAR. 3 ee * BATTLES AHEAD. Johnny Dundee v. Eugene Criqui, 15 rounds, New York Oity, June 2nd. Jimmy Wilde v. Pancho Villa, 15 rounds, New York City, June 16th. Georges Carpentier v. Joe Beckett, 2¢0 rounds, London, .England, June 14th. Joe Beckett v. Dick Smith, 20 rounds, London, England, May 14th. Benny Leonard, v. Sailor Freid- man, 15 rounds, New York City, July 2. Luis Finpo V. Jack McAuliffe, 15 rounds, Now York Qaty, May 12th. Bud Logan v. Cowboy Padgett, 10 rounds, Atchison, Kans., April 20th. Joe Lynch v. Témmy Ryan, 10 rounds, Pittsburg, Pa., April '16th. Frankie Genaro v. Bobby Wol- gast, 8 rounds, Philadelphia, Pa., April 16ta. ¢ Battling Mack v. Kid Williams, 8 rounds, Philadelphia, Pa., April 16th. Midget Smith v. Patsy Wallace, 8 rounds, Philadelphia, Pa., April 16th. Pal Moran v. Lew Tendler, 3 rounds, Philadelphia, Pa., May 16th. Frankie Jerome v. Jack (Kid) Wolfe, 12 rounds, Harlem, New York City, April 21st. ------ MAY TURN PROFESSIONAL. Charles Gorman, Speed Skater, Like- ly to Play Pro. Ball. A despatoh from St. John, N.B., says: Charife Gorman, Canada's ema- teur skating ace, may turn profes- sional, it was learned today. local skater probably will take the plunge this summer when he appears in the line-up of the St. John's pro- fessional baseball team. His de- parture from the amateur ranks will mean that next winter Canada wi Lave no strong contender to send after the three big titles, namely, Canadian, United States and Inter- national. Gorman admitted that he had at- tended the recemt organization meet- ing of the St. John's and, although he had not actually signed up, he was seriously considering playing professional ball this summer. Ha pointed out that he was unegploy- ol at present and he had about de- cided that he had better take ad- vantage of the opportunity to earn some money. When skating was mentioned Gor- man sald that his plans did not ex- tend so far as next season, but in- timated that if he forfeited his ama- teur standing this summer he might 'make the circuit with the profession- al skaters next winter. The Canadian ster is the present world's record holder for the quar- ter-mile, which he ekated in Monc- 'ton this winter in 37 1-5. He was runner-up this year to ObarMe Jow- traw, the resent International cham- pion, in the Adirondack Gold Cup provincial champion. It is possible that something may turn up before the baseball season comes that will enable Gorman to Stay with the simon pures. The handsomest flower is not al- ways the sweetest. The. series, and he is both maritime and | THE STOCK MY FATHER BOUGHT LAST YEAR A - L a xT < T oo I I go00¢ce BUT SAY YOu LOVE Mc, HERMAN DEAR --~ mms REGULAR FORECASTS ARE HANDED AROUND Baseball Leaders Tell the Same Old Story Every Year. m---- > Major league baseball started its regular schedules for the 1923 sea- son yesterday and previous to Tie opening the leaders in both leagues gave out their usual brilliant fore- casts. Here thoy are: Five clubs in the American Lea- Sue have pennant possibilities, ac- jeording to President Ban Johnson, Detroit, Oleveland and Chicago will enter the race better equipped than last year, while New York, because ot its pitching staff, must be regard- ed as a dangerous contender. The illness of George Sisler may keep the Browns out of the race 'at the start. President Johnson figures Connie Mack's Athletics may furnish some {surprises and Washington's corps of {young pitchers may prove sensa- tional, <> va ~ | John A. Heydler, president of the National League, says the teams in this circuit never were in better con- Gttion to start the diamond race than they are at the present time. He re- fused to predict possible pennant contenders, but referred to the re- Sy KIDNEY © In : "Miller Huggins Thinks turn of 'Matty' to the baseball game at the head of the Boston clab as the most '"'welcome" news of the win- ter. Kenesaw M. Landis, baseball com-. missioner, apparently has no favor- ites in the 1923 major league race, but in a statement today he said that he looked for a 'great year for the fans." The training season has pro- duced highly satisfactory results in his opinion, and the race in either eague should be interesting. CAN'T DO IT. Babe Ruth Could Never Touch Record Again. Miller Huggins doesn't think Babe Ruth will break his home Tun record of 59 during the coming season. While nothing would please him more, he don't look for his demon slugger to shatter the record. "I don't expect any player during my time to better Ruth's mark of 59 home rups. That means better than a home run every third day. It is the task of a superman. Play- ers of the Ruth type only happen once in a decade. Ruth was at the peak of his game in 1921, When a player "begins to go the other way, seldom does hp again reach the peak. Ruth should a lot of home runs during the mer, but I don't look for him to better 59." All of which seems like some very wise deductions on the part of the Yankees' manager. -------- Location--One Hundred Sixty- first street and River avenue. Cost--$2,500,000. Total seating capacity--70,000. Seats, lower tier--25,000. Seats, mezzanine--10,000. Scats, upper tiar--10,000. Seats, bleachers--25,000. Time of construction--11 months. Materials, grandstand--Steel and concrete, Material, bleachers--Wood. ------ He who never relapses sportiveness is a ' ON YANKEE STADIUM |. LOCAL SOCCER Games Drafted For First Round For Whig Trophy--Another Team in. Local soccer took a fresh lease of life with a meeting held jast night in the Whig office of the Kingston and District Football Association. Presi- dent J. A. Ferris was in the chair and, on account of the necessity for getting things away at once the first round for the Whig Trophy was drafted and the season proper given a flying start. A new entry came in, the 4th Hus- sars having a representative at the meeting to place their team in the running and this evened up the count, as no team was entered for Kingston Oity. The drawing for .the first round went as follows: April 28--R.M.C. Staff vs. R.C.A. Queen's vs. R.M.C. Cadets (4th Hussars a bye.) STARTS AGAIN EWS | THEY ARE HERE SPALDING'S [] TIMELY COMMENT1S The official Baseballs, Baseball Gloves, Mitts and everything for Baseball. GIANTS--BRAVES--BROWNS won't use anything but Spaldings, and as they do not cost any more than the imita- tions, why would you not use them ? Sole Agents for Kingston and surrounding country. Treadgold Sport +88 PRINCESS ST. ing Goods Co PHONE 529. Start The Baseball Season The RADIO WAY! Baseball scores every night of the after *| noon games--all through the summer. Now's the time to have a set installed in your home, or you can assemble it yourself in a short time. Always glad to give full information -- you know it's right if you get it from us. All mail cient service. prices--we save you money. orders prepaid. Prompt, effi- Qut-of-town folk, write for Dealer-Agents enquiries invited. CANADA RADIO STORES Phone 1207J. Radio 3AAY Eastern Ontario's Only Exclusively Radio Supply House | 2693 PRINCESS ST. Games to be played on the grounas of the first named club and the kick- fog to be at three o'clock sharp. An- other meeting of the association wild be 'held as soon as the first two games ere played. It looks like a good season for soc- {cer and the teams had better get sot for their players and epuipment as the first game is not two weeks away. |The 4th Hussars are the dark horses and it is rumored that they may turn out a nice team. OPEN FOR ANYTHING. Leonard's Manager Talks of Active Campaign For Light Champ. Billy Gibson, 'manager of Benny Leonard, the Mghtweight champion. declared Monday that Leonard this summer is going to chastise some of those lightweight challengers who have been sneering at and "'double- daring" Benny while he was pulling the theatre-addicts out of their chairs, as it were. Gibson said that the champion was even now in Lake- a wood, N.J., getting in some prelimin- ary dicks of preparation for a flock of bouts in the next six mdnthe. "One at a time, and the more the merrier," Gibson phrased it. "I ex- pect that Benny will be able to get some short work-outs 'in the sticks' before he gets right down to the task of knocking over the topMners. "Charley White is one man to whom Benny is anxious to deal out some good licks, and right after him there is that left<hander, Lew Tend- ler. And them all the rest of them 'We can accommodate will be taken on in turn." % Benny Leonard is bound he will win the world's welterweight title some day. He fought Jack Britton for it last summer at the Veledrome, and in Cleveland Monday the light- weight champion told sporting writ- ers that he intended to go after Mic- key Walker's title during the com- ing months, It is a good preacher who follows his own instructions. TEL areata ine ary AAA AE CAA ERE EEL Ew VIiD SERRE An BEES AE ERIE CONGRESS siz= SE ALIAS ARERR BE REE uy