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10 \ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, vz». LATEST LOCAL AMNG AT PRESTICE INSTEAD OF VETO French Committee Not Hope=~ ful of Carrying Off Many Olympic Events. The French Olympic committee, directors of sporting federations, clubs and close followers of athletics in France in general are bending every effort toward making a credit- able showing at the 1924 Olympic Games but are under no misappre- " hension as to the prospects of French athletes winning the games while | Bot unduly pessimistic they readily | admit that France will not finish | first, but find solace in the thought | the that the Olympic Games _ Breatest manifestation of are, iaterna- tional sports in existence and that | the vanquished do not ne emerge' from" them with a Prestige. "While we would loss of much among the also Reichel, general French committee, "we great benefit will be derived athletics in France by the mere pres ence * and participation in all branches of sport of the 4,000 or 8,000 athletes--the 'best in lines of endeavor in "There is one thing, however, 'we may win and that is the knowledgement of all interested that rans," sald secretary of feel that their 52 that ac the 1924 Olympic Games were the | best organized since their revival. This we will try to do." In the winter sports which are to be held at Chamonix from January | 20th to February 5th, the _opinion | was general that France would only place behind the Canadians, dinavians and Americans, in hockey, skiing, bobsleight und curling. They are outclassed in speed skating and only hold out the hopes of getting points in the figure skating where Mademoiselle Yvonne Bourgeois, Scan who incidentally is one of France's | upper 10 rackets in women tennis, has more than an even chance of winning. French rugby experts were sang- uine that the team representing France in this event had chance of winning, especially . if essarily | rather win the Olympic games than finish | Frantz | the | for | | name, countries. | a good | SPORTING Britain maintains her present decision of not being represented. { In association football every one { admitted that France stood no show, { J amiite stands {-and the French team has been regu- | larly" defeated by the Belgians and | { Czechs, while the teams representing | Itdly, the Scandinavian countries | | aud Spain have won more matches | i from France than they have lost to | [them in the international clashes of | | the past few years | With the advent of polo in June, | teams from the United States, Eng- | | | Great alone in land and even South Americans are as likely finalists as combination which of the foregoing in regarded here France has no can place any danger. In track and field events, the wiwinning of which was conceded by all to be the real aim of all coun- entering the Olympic Games, expe total up tries | France is not ted to niany points AGAIN ? - Persistent rumors about Belle ville are to the effect that Jack Wil Indian pitcher, who made his | and incidentally much base- ball history for this city, with the Grand Trunk team here, has jumped | to the pro. ranks and has signed with Knotty Lee for Toronto Leafs. | Another rumor is that he has even | joined a- higher class team than the | Leafe, although it is impossible to. | make sure of either rumor here. iams, If Jack has scratched his John | Henry across the bottom of a pro. | contract, it will mean a sorry Bow | | for Belleville baseball, and yet it Is | the wiry | the grade generally believed that | 1 | | and that | | | Verona youth can mak with plenty of coaching, is saving something scouts not make grabbing off amateurs who they fear not make good in money class Jack is at his former home, Verona, it is believed Pro. ball do a practice of will the | Bryan Downey, Cleveland middile- { weight boxer, announces his retire- ment from the ring. His recent set- back at the hands of Harry Greb de- cided Downey to quit the ring. He plans to remain in Cleveland and | will probably engage in business. en | | | | l | | | ar CHRISTMAS 1923 USEFUL GIFTS ONLY KODAKS, SKATES, HOCKEY BOOTS, PHONOGRAPHS No cheap trash this Christmas, but gifts the Boys and Girls will use. Treadgold Spor 88 PRINCESS ST. | and was hit but Dygert lasted only |! who hit Cross { replaced him. | 3 ing Goods Co PHONE 529. this sport { ice again If Canadiens happen to get * stuck " during the season, | professional baseball team, | in Chicago, we'd say that the majors and minors in big baseball will do, | Athletics and Detroit at old Colum-!{ | bla Park in Philadelphia which de {cided the American League cham- | at the end of the sixth and looked | ther play. | The piay that caused the game to GENERAL REVIEWS FROM THE OUTSDELOOKING IN. | Down in Ottawa the senior amateurs practice with the senior pros. { That's something we'd rather watch than a regular fixture in either class, pomp | ....News now comes Lo us that McGill will take up rowing seriously. University of Toronto has already done so. Perhaps the day is not so far! distant when we will see * eights "* and * fours wearing Queen's Univer- | sity colors, on the harbor or the # Lawrence. Intercollegiate sport is bound to break into many new fields as the | universities expand and Canada's three largest institutions of that kind} have every facility for rowing. McGill is close to the St. Lawrence, | Toronto has Lake Ontario and small rivers, and Qucen's has the lake, the St. Lawrence, the Rideau. | ! Something interesting should crop up at the meeting of the Iter] provincial Rugby Union to-morrow. It is likely that both Ottawa anf M.AAA. will strive for some changes in the interference rules. i | Still The Most For The Money TIMELY ! COMMENTS Didier Pitre, the veteran of professional hockey ranks in Canaday has retired at last. But few of us will be surprised if he is found on tha comers singles for the fourth suc | cesslve year. In addition, Tilden vanquished in the Davis Cup chal- The Toronto-papers do not seem to be overly sweet on the Toronto | lenge round James O. Anderson, the There has been a little too much attention ' Australian ace, who, in the opening ntol > to money and not enough to baseball in the camp of the Leafs, it would Te Dad detenied Lovusion ting ) a 8 , ' Lh I seem. list of 17 nations, a record entry proved one of the most interesting Last night's meeting of the local O.H.A. division to draw up schedules ' in the history of the trophy, wind- should bring forth something interesting. 14th Regiment may take up ing up with a sensational title round the skates and sticks again this year. | in which the United States defeatsi | Australia after a hard battle, four Judging from the reports that are coming from tho big conferences | Matches to one. Firpo Also Busy. At Buenos Aires, Luis Firpo, the heavyweight boxer, referring to a report that James J. Jeffries, former world heavyweight champion, had accepted an offer of $75,000 to train him for his next bout, declared that ford?" 'O'Loughlin asked Connolly. | he knew nothing of any such ar- "He did," answered Connolly. rangement. Firpo added™hat Hugh O'Loughlin ran back to the bench | Gartland, of New York, and Billy and declared Davis out. The deci-| McCarney were attending to his sion touched off a mine. The Mack- | business affairs in the United States t men were in a frenzy, O'Loughlin | and it was possible they might have ran back to Connolly at second base, | conferred with Jeffries regarding | and asked him the same question | training. He said, however. the The late Bill Donovan always said | over again, | sum mentioned was excessive. that he never remembered the game | "Didn't I tell you once that he Firpo declared that he could not In which he was the wildest but that | did?" shot back Connolly. accept the challenge for a bout with he always would remember the wild- | By this time players of both teams | Quintin Romero-Rojes, the Chinese est game in which he played, if! were rushing at each other and fists | heavyweight, as he would return in "wild" means weird. and arms were flying Monte Cross, of | a short time to the United States. Donovan referred to that memor-! the Athletics, started a swing at a : able 17-inning game between the | Detroit player. Donovan, who was| The burning question of the hour n the thick of the fight, knocked 4s "Who will get up and stait the down Cross with a right. fire?" something different next spring. It has mostly consisted of talk up to the present. , A A AA Acer A Amen os rennin | DONOVAN SAID THIS HIS "WILDEST" GAME Seventeen Innings of Pitching, Freak Plays and Free- for=-All Fights. | and conferred with Tom, Connolly, the umpire on the bases. "Did, thit cop interfere with Craw- Dempsey Getting Busy. Jack Dempsey will arrive in New York today to join hls manager, Jack Kearns. More than likely the champion is already signed for a | series of bouts next summer to be conducted by Tex Rickard. Luis Firpo will be tossed in once more with the boss of the heavyweight brigade, and then if the politicians O.K. it, a bout between Harry Wills and the champion might be arrang- ed Right now the folks who have the say are fearful lest a match with Wills and Dempsey engender critic- ism that would result in a repeal of the New York State boxing law, and the promoters are evading the mix- ed match idea for the-time being. Jim Coffroth, the Westérn pro- moter, might be able to stage a bout between Wills and Dempsey for his Tia Juana racecourse. That is, Jim might if Kearns will eut his price somewhat. Another candidate who may get another chance at Demp- sey next summer is Tommy Gibbons, who went 15 rounds with the cham- pion in Selby, Montana. Gibbons de- serves some consideration; he stayed longer with Dempsey than any of the others.--Globe. Neighbors are people who cook cabbage with the windows open when you are going to have com- pany. Neighbor women are people with their hair in papers wht come over [to borrow a cup of sugar. The knockdown was the climax' of the quarrel and the umpires were fooking at Donovan although they that lasted for several seasons. 'were not sure it was he who hit Donovan and Dygert started pit-! Cross. At that moment Claude ching, Donotan was wi. at the start | Rossman announéed that it was h- and Rosman was banished from the game, Donovan staying to pitch through the 17 in- The Athletics were leading 7 to 1 | nings when darkness prevented fur- pionship, virtually, in 1907. The game caused a controversy two innings before Rube Waddell unbeatable, but in the seventh a wuy- | ony Joie gover rts Re Tain) MLLE. LENCLEN AND | BILL TILDEN STARS other in the eighth and when the ninth started the score was 8 to 6. French Woman Holds Five World Titles, According In the ninth a man reached first and Ty Cobb smashed one of Rube to 1923 Records. Waddell's pitches over the rightfield fence for a -home run and tied the score. Donovan often said he never saw Waddell leave the box. "I was watching Cobb's hit go over the fence," he said later. 'The* next time I looked Eddie Plank was pitch ing." Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, and Wil- liam T. Tilden, II, stand at the top of women's and men's tennis ranks for 1293, compilation of the sea- son's championship records reveals. The French star holds or shares in five world's titles while Tilden has four American national champion- ships to his credit, though he also proved his superiority over the hold- ers of so-called world's crowns. Lenglen swept turougn all oppo sition abroad, including en invading American party headed by Mrs. Mol- la Mallory. Her only rival for hon- ors appears to be Helen Wills, the youthful California, who dethroned Mrs. Mallory as American titleholder after the latter's seven-year reign at the top. But as the Western girl's accomplishments were confined to this country, no real measure of comparison is possible. Crities point Plank, always a nemesis for De- troit stopped further' scoring and the game went overtime. In the eleventh Detroit scored a run and the game seemed "in."' Then the Athletics went to bat. Two were dut and a man on second. The next batsman hit an easy fly to left field. A telegraph operator, set to "save" every second for his newspaper, flashed the word that 'so-and-so flied to Jones, ending the game." But Jones muffed the ball, the run scored, and the game again was tied. reach fever pitch came in the twelfth inning. Harry Davis, of the Athle- ties, hit a low ball toward the crowd in right centre. 'The ball hit Craw- { he lost sight of the ball. out, however, that Miss Wills tri- umphed over members of the invad- ing English 'women's team, as well as over. Mrs. Mallory quite as de- cisively as Mlie. Lengien had 'done abroad. ¥ Tilden's pre-eminent place is un- questioned. "Big Bill" conquered decisively' William M. Johnston, his California rival, who had won the world's hard and turf court titles abroad, and won the national all-« ford's glove and hounded out and free. The hit would have decided the game in favor of the Athletics but Crawford rushed madly toward the infield, claiming interference. Crawford insisted that a policeman befuddled by the ball coming at him, tried to get out of its way and ran in front of Crawferd, Crawford sald Crawford made hic plea fo nl O'Loughlin. O'Loughlin ran out For@hris imag we = Special Gift Package Ten Pack Fen Strollers ca 3 ITH ' Yi ns 433 a 7, ------ vv EA [RS Le Rg. - 543 st, Bo tld FOR QUITTING IN BOUT BOXER 18 HEAVILY FINED At Milan the Italian Boxing Fed- eration announced its punishment of Meriano Barbares! for the bad show- Ing he made in his recent bout with Erminio Spalla for the Italian heavyweight title In which Bary baresi was charged with having shown the white feather and quit in the fifth round after Spalla had in- flicted considerable punishment on him. By the decision of the federation, five thousand lire are to be deduct ed from the twenty thousand lire which constituted Barbaresi's por- tion of the gate receipts, and in ad dition Barbaresi will not be per- mitted to participate in'any fights for a period of three months. 4 It 'was voted by the federation to turn over to Spalla forty-five thous- and lire as his portion of the gate receipts. | a an FRENCH TENNIS STAR CRAVES EXCITEMENT Allain J. Gerbault, French tenn star, who crossed the Atlantic in} 142 days last summer in a 30-foot sailboat, sailed home on Wednees- day to be decorated by the Legion of Honor. Gerbault plans to return to the United States. in Febru#ry and rig up his small craft for a treasure- hunting cruise in the South Sea Is- lands of the Pacific. He will make this voyage alone, and expects it to last three years. oT ~ry ) GALLAGHER AND SHEAN--(Sing the words to the tung of Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean) Sa carn J EY Nese urea ¥ 3 - WR v nsf helt et eaten . 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