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DAILY BRITISH WHIG SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1923! LATEST LOCAL SPORT GENERAL REVIEWS NEWS TIMELY | COMMENTS - LOCAL BASEBALL OPENING TO-DAY Kingston Seniors and Hussars Will Hold Forth This After noon in Exhibition. -- A This afternoon the local baseball #éason will be ushered in at the cric- ket fleld when the Kingston C.0.B.L, team, senior 0.B.A A. class, will meet the 4th Hussars of the Kingston City League, Intermediate O.B.A.A. class in an exhibition game, Both these teams have bese work- ing out steadily since the snow left the ground and some of tha Hussars Fad winter loosening up at the in- door baseball. Just how the teams Will shape up is not yet known. The Hussars should be fairly strong in fielding but are weak in the pitching end of the game and Curran may "Gave to bear the whole brunt of the game. Behind the bat for them will be Briteland, and Oscar Fenning may be down to the city in time to relieve Curran for a few innings. . There is also a possibility that Art Lewis may be in the box for the Mus. mars for a while, On first sack will be Gourdler, Nickle at second, Teeple at short and Jimmy Arniell at third, with Baker and Harry McNeill ready to take places in either infield or outfield. McCullough, Blomely, Watts and pos- "#ibly Matt Coyne will form up the outfleld for the Hussars, and the city 'leaguers will be resplendent in their uniforms. . For the Kingston seniors the line- b 18 harder to guess. There will bo ® Evans ond Rice behind the 8t, Gallagher on the mound with § some relief. Daley at first. Twigs or Walsh at second, Spoor or R at short and Harry Batstone third. For the outfield there will Cherry, Harold Nicholson, Squires nd possibly some others. The game should be a good ome id will draw a crowd of fans out 10 look over the opposing teams. Tt Will certainly be a good pre-season 'Workout for both teams. STILL THE GREATEST When Ty Cobb slid into home plate t Navin Field the other day he lost is cap and there were many obser- ns on the fact that Cobb has enough hair to put him in the bald class. Tris Speaker doffs his cap dur- series spectators will discover hair is gray. an d Speaker are advancing @r§ but day after day they are Hin outfielders of all time and the est two the American League has Ben in the last 15 seasons. Both ave slowed up a bit but both will ® to slow up a great deal more Ore they drop to par. Players of er type have a long to go when they do start going FORMER EQUINE CRIPPLE NOW A DERBY FAVORITE Prince K, a gift horse and once rated as a hopeless cripple, hag a good chance of winning America's most prized turf feature--the 19:3 Kentucky derby. Prince K once graced the elita stable of George D. Widener, mil- tlionaire sportsman of Philadelphia. But Prince K had very bad ankles and appeared a derelict on the ther- oughbred market. Louis Marshall, Kentucky turfinan and good friend of Widener, bapsen- ed to visit the Widener farm. Widener asked Marshall what bh. would give for the wel-bred Prince Marshall laughed. "Not a dime," he told Widener, "I wouldn't have him for a gift." "Tell you what you do," Widener said, "take the colt and give me $500 out of the first purse he wins-- If he ever wins a race." Thus again is exemplified the un- certainty of the thoroughbred breed- ing industry, for Prince K last year --his first on the turf--won ten races and $14,661, more than all Widener's horses won the past two years! Marshall punch-fired and blistered Prince K's ankles and the colt ts go- ing sound. He is working so well for the derby many believa he has a royal chance to win that big event. ---- ENGLISH STADIUM SEATS OVER 126,000 SPECTATORS centre field, two of the great- Arguments about Wembley Stad- plum, scene of the recent English soc- cer cup final, and a hubbub over a Poor crowd control are here settled. tors, which is almost twice the capa- city of the famous Greek stadium at Athens, and is considerably larger than either the Yale or Harvard bowls. This huge arena is literally a stadium in the Greek and Roman sense of the term, an oblong without corners The site was cut oat of a hillside on an old golf course. The turt is exceptionally fine, being suited not only for football but also for base- bill, cricket and lawn tennis. On first view it suggests a modern vis- ion of the Colosseum of Rome, with vistas of a cleaner sport activity than that ancient shambles afforded. The stadium is only 15 minutes from London. It will be the scene of American-British lawn tennds matches and, national cricket and football games. A large lake with- in the enclosure will be used for in- ternational swimming contests. GOING TO RETIRE. o 4 Johnny Kilbane Says Criqui and Dun- dee Pights Are His Last. Johmny Kilbane is planning to re- tire from the ring. This became known definitely when he issued a formal statement in which he de- clares that if he is successful in his bout with Eugene Criqui for the world's featherweight championship at the Polo Grounds on June 2nd, he will box Johnmy Dundee and then : {hang up his gloves for alt time. The 'jand who was statement also divulged the fact that Kilbane sarivusly was considering bis retirement when Matchmaker Tom O'Rourke entered into negotia- tions with him for a bout with Dun- dee, and subsequently for a bout with Criqui. Kilbane issued the statement in order to explain how he came to ac- cept the bout with Criqul. He first agreed to a matc® with Dundee fcr early in May. That was last Janu- ary, but he asserts that O'Rourke later notified him that Dundee re- fused to contract for a match at that time. It was them that the Crigul {mateh was proposed. In the same statement Kilbane took occasion {60 thank the license committee Association for granting tim a license to box in this state. ----------en Hard on Christy. Christy Matthewson, who was at Saranac Lake for many months un- dergoing treatment for tuberculosis pronounced cured, has had to return there. The duties of president of the Boston Braves prov- ed too great a strain on "Big Six," and it is doubtful it he will be able [to continue in that office, much as all lovers of baseball would like to have him there. ---- . There can be no friendship with- out confidence and no confidence without integrity. It accommodates 126,500 specta- | PORT NAP HOTS | | In a newspaper of another lown, we soe two little items nestling side ; by side and they may cause confusion {in the minds of some who do not know the solution. One of them {says that "Punch" Derry will be out with the Cobourg team for its first game on Saturday and the other that | Mr. Bert "Punch" Derry, formerly | of Kingston, has accepted a position ; in Detroit. However, Bert. is the younger brother of Norman, the | 'Cobourg Pitcher, and as for the | "I'unch"--well the whole family gets | that. i Commodore Judge Wills of the | Bay of Quinte Yacht Club is the pos- ! sessor of a new yacht which he has | rurchased from a Kingston party. | The yacht is the "Thistle"--now who | in Kingston other than Dr. Bruce i Taylor would have a yacht called the | "Thistle?" The craft will be a valu- | able addition to the Belleville fleet. Dancing is tame but when Loe. Harman, of Houston, Texas, roller- | [skated fifty hours to the champion- | ship of the world he was going some. 1 Toronto Strollers and Cobourg ara | planing an exhibition game at Co- | bourg this afternoon. | According to a report from Osha- | wa, Catcher Tyson, who left that Place to try out with a southern lea- gue team, has not returned to Osha- Wa as reported. Tyson has always land has the ability if he keeps at it. | The Napanee Golf Club has secur- | ed the services of H. Robinson as | professional for the coming season. | Mr. Robinson, a pupil of the well-| known Percy Barrett, late of Lamb- | ton and Western Clubs, won the 1928 tournament for pro.'s assistants and | comes to Napanee well recommend- | ed, During the season he will alter- nate between Napanee and Picton, spending half a month with each club. ---- Must have been a big surprise to Frank Moran when that University of Chicago laid him out for the count in the Montmartre cafe in Paris. Some person should take that fresh- man in hand and teach him scienti- fic boxing, for a clout is always valu- able--and if a boxer is to be a top- roteher it is necessary. The first local regular scheduled game will be that between Park Nine and Hillcrests on Monday night, starting the ball rolling in the jun- for section of the City Baseball Lea- gue. These boys have been practis- ing faithfully and should put up a rice performance in spite of the very early start that is being made. One day the home-town's sweM ball team wins and the next day their rotten ball team loses. That's the way of the sporting world --Ottawa Citizen. the last tour. .Oxford have not lost a match this year. Defeated Cam- bridge 18-3 on Mafch 1st, and on March 3rd won the championship of the south of England. On May 5th, at Manchester, we play Stockport, the northern champions, for the championship of England." ------ McGILL TO APPOINT AN ATHLETIC MANAGER MeGdll University will shortly ap- point to the committee of the Athle- tic Board of Control, which was re- cently formed to supervise all ath- detic activities, an athletic manager, to act as secretary and executive of- ficer. The post in question will be an entirely new one, so far as Me- Gill is concerned. The man appoint- ed will have all the athletic affairs of the university under his direct supervision and will be a regular staff member of the Department of Physical Education. As it is at present constituted, the Department of Physical Education is comprised of four main divisions. First, there is the School of Physical Education, where teachers of physi- cal education are given a two-year course; there is the department which looks after all the required jwork for the undergraduates of the |one first and second years in all faculties: the health service, through which the university keeps watch over the health of all undergraduates by means of medical examination, con- sultation and treatment, and the di- vision which concerns itself with all intramural and intercollegiate ath- letics. It is the last-named depart- ment which wag recently reorganiz- ---- BASEBALL BOOMS, Down in poet a Re. had an ambition to play pro. ball | °"™ in Montreal--Expect a Record | Season. Today there are more professional ballplayers in Montreal than there ever have been at any one time. President Joe Page of the Eastern Canada Baseball League is authority for the statement that between 60 and 80 men of the diamond are on band today tumning out with three teams of the Eastern circuit, Royals, Canadians ang Quebec, which are prattising in thig city before the Season's start. It looks as though there might bs a real revival in the game this sea- son. Dicky Sees a Queer-Looking Laundry Dicky kick ETy frown on er called him game to take laundry, "Its always that way," he com- plained. "Every time I &ot bugy 1 have to 5top and go to that crazy old laundry." "That reminds me of a funny sight I saw once," laughed a voice close to his ear. Dicky turned to fina Gocomeback, the travel elfin, stand. ing at his eide. the dirt with an an- is face when his moth- home from the ball the clothes to tne Spring has arrived eight different time in hepe it takes winter come again. * in Kingston 1923. Wo that long te | ---- ENGLISH LACROSSE TEAM. "Oh, hello there, Gocomeback!"* Dicky's face at once lost its frown. "Where was that?" "Way, in Madrid," comeback. "There Queerest laumiries yOu ever saw. they have the ---- Coming to Canada to Play a Series of Games. Frederick Neyland, president and captain of the Oxford university la- crosse team which wiil tour Canada next summer and will visit Hamilton, writes to say that his team will sail on July 13th and that the majority of the players are Canadians. The first match will be played at Quebec on July 24th and three or four matches will be played each week during August, the touring ending early' in September in Ontario. In his letter he says: "In conjunction with Prof. Cox, of Syracuse, I have been endeavor- ing to establish international 1a- Crosse events each year. I have ar- ranged eight games for Syracuse in England between June 4th and 19th. Next year we hope to be able to ar. range a tour for.a Canadian team in England x But, pshaw! 1 could stand here aj] day telling vou about them and sou"d forget all about it. So come along and You'll agree with me, I'm sure." Before Dicky could ask any questions at all, he found him- "Most of the team coming out will be from Oxford, as was the case with Tépled Qo- self standing on the bank of tn Manzanares river with G back Women were kneeling on the | bank sorubbing their clothes, while out in the very centre of the river bed, where the water had evel out, they had spread out the clothes to dry. "Some laundry," whispered Dicky "The one we take our wash to is bad enough, but goodness, this is funny." "Yes, just imagine your mother bringing, or better, imagine yourself trudging here every wash-day with the washing, ami your mother down on the ground trying to wash | i laughed Gocomeback. "I'm quite sure you'd want to move back rou America where they have buildins and people just for that work." Just then Dicky's attention was called to a goatherd, wrapped in his {mantle, stalking straight ahead, never casting an eye at the goats | that trotted on alone back of him. A woman got up from her wash- |ing, walked out to the herd and | milked one of the goats, then let it | go again, The herdsman never even saw it | and of course no one told him. | "That's the funniest thing I ever isaw," Dicky laughed. "Imagine any in our country doing that." | Dicky was so: busy watching the |the goats that he didn't see the |stone in the road, amd when {struck 1t with his toe, down he) | tumbled, and lke magic, Spain, with 'all its funny, interesting sights, van- |1shed, and Dicky once more found {himself out in his own backyard. "I'll tell you right now," he { laughed, "you'll never hear me com {Vaining about our laundry again, |Gocomeback, thanks, to you." Bidding the elfin good-bye, he ran {into the house and carried ithe clothes to the laundry for his moth- er, and as he hurried along, he just .coukin't ' help comparing the two laundries. v -------- Statuette of a Saint to Grace Automobiles -- May 5.--Every motor car h should have its Staruestie hristopher, the patron gaint Nr | Paris, hencefort of St. C BICYCLE $10 CASH AND $1.50 PER WEEK MASSEY BICYCLES are the best in the world. START NOW instead of paying street car fares. ¥ Twice as Xb Three times as Treadgold Spor! 88 PRINCESS ST. of sportsmen on the radior cap, says the Duchess D'Uzes, who has given her approval of a design which is be- ing turned out ere by the tens of thousands to be ready for Summer tourists. to pow le Shristopher was a Syrian martyr of the third century, renowed for his prodigious feats of strength. John Vincent Ison, charged with arson, at London, Ont., claims he started thirty«eight fires in that city. The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring. as walk AGES oe ing Goods Co PHONE 329. I Brockville Cheese Officers, ¥ Brockville, May 5.--At the first meeting of the season of the Brocke| ville Dairymen's Board of Trade the members elected the following office' ers for the ensuing year: President, N. R. Hilt, Jellyby; first vice-presi- dent, J. I. Smith, Frankville; second vice-president, John Tackaberry, ' Mallorytown; secretary-treasurer, Jo B. Wilson, Lansdowne. ---- Some think they are done when they are really only beginning, You not only read ity you si d.a (AN AAA b/ "THEM DAYS IS GONE FOREVER" your plano. Watch nightly for hit, ; this big Colima GROAN THIS IN THE GRANDSTAND. [Rd] 1 | - pall. & fi Ll ( AP IR ' omy,