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FETT * v aM LATEST LOCAL TARR en 5. TANG SOME OLYMPIC TROUBLES 'Many Athletes Indifferent to the 1924 International Contests. The passive interest that some of the prominent American athletes are taking in thé Olympic games in Paris next summer is beginning to cause the American commitiee com- cern. Difficulty in raising sufficient funds to finance the trip to Paris was considered the principal worry of the committee until evidence was found that many of the star sthletes are in need of some enthusiasm. The hockey players were the first to show symptoms of a lack of inter- est In the games. Several of the best players, who have been counted upon as the strength of the American hoe , key team, refused to accept after they bad-been appointed. The situation became so serious that officials of the hockey govern- ing body threatened to draft players and permgnently bar from competi tion 'those who refused to make the trip without first-class reasons. Pressure of private business has been advanced as a reason why Billy Johnson, California's star and one of the world's greatest tennis players, cannot go to Paris with the Ameri- O80 team, - Bill Tilden, the world's greatest tennis player, now says that he does not want to join the team, as he re- ards the Davis cup matches as more important, and he feels he would go stale after a lot of Buro- bean competition, Several star track and field athletes at Yale, Har- vard and Princeton were counted up- on not only as members of the team, but sure point winners. It is re- ported now that they will mot "go out" for the team. They consider meets with Oxford and Cambridge, which have become annual events, as of more importance to them than the Olympic games. America's best strength in the row- ing event will not be available be-| cause Yale and Harvard, and perhaps another prominent eastern university, will not enter their crews in the trial events. Yale and Harvard consider their annual regattas as of vastly more im- portance than the Olympic games. They would not even consider chang. {2% the date for thelr rice to make "more conveniently for the Olympic committee to stage its trials, § The feeling of many of the veteran track and field stars is represented in the attitude of Pat MeoDounald, the star weight man of several Olymptes: 'With the 56-pound event off the Brogmu : haitave I will stay out of oan' the sh 2 McDdn- 20 otput,! M It provides that Edouard Mascart of Pars, who won the Huropean featherweight title by de- 'feasting Hebrans on points, broke his hand fn the third round of the 1 -Hebrans in a blow 7 ; THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG TE ------------------------ SPORTING i unable to meet Cascart and defend his title. Mascart and Crigui are as one in declaring Hebrans' head 18 harder than that of any boxer they have ever met. Someone has explained this by the story that one. of: the most popular sports among lusty lads in Liege, Hebrans' home, is a game of trying to aplit an inch board by butting it with the head after a short run. Hebrans is declared to have been chamrgion of Liege at that gentle game before he took up bex- ing as a career. tedng THIS 1S BAD i The Hamilton Spectator says:-- "Ronnie" McPherson, Tiger's crip- pled flying wing star, may never play football again. Lately "Ronnje" has been experiencing trouble with his eyes, and yesterday the climax came when an eye specialist inform- ed the drop-kicking star that he would probably be forced to wear Blasses for the rest of his life. The specialist claims that "Ronnie" has & deflected vision, and specially built glasses provide the only rem- ody. There is a possibility that the former Varsity star will be able to play without the appliances for the duration of a' game, but it is regard- ed as extremely unlikely. HARRY WILLS TOO WILLING FOR RENAULY Leo Flynn would have dono very much better by Jack Renault it he had boen frank from the start about the purposes of the Canadian con- tender for the heavyweight cham- pionship. Thinking that Harry Wills would fight no 'good contender ana knowing that Luis Firpo was out of the ramge of hearing, Flynn an- nounced that he . would challenge Wills and Mirpo op behalf of Ren- ault after the Canadian had beaten Floyd Johnson. } Wills gummed up the deal by an- swering : "Come on!" Flynn thes declared that Ms boy needed some more experience and would not be ready for Wills or Finpo for another Year, Flynn hasn't much conscience when it comes to getting his charges in print. When he was trying to keep Bill Brennan in the high-purse class he made many hasty remarks about the gameness of Tommy Gibbons, He saig that Gibbons couldnt be dragged Toto the ring with Brennan, but forgot to mention that whem Tex Richard wanted to stage a Brennan-Gibbons match, he asked $30,000 for Brennan's end. Flynn has been strangely silens the Shelby fight. about Gibbons since What Might Have Been, It only tNat game could be . played once mora; I we could have another crack At the gredt big chance that flew our way We'd still have reps, and still have We'd do so much, leave much un- done Could we but meet that team again. The saddest words of tengue or pen Are just these four--it might have been. \ "JACK" STICKS. "Toronto Globe: Blandishments of various amateur and professional baseball clubs, including the Toron- to Leafs, have been wasted on Jolm Henry Willlams (the Indian south- paw twirler of the Belleville team. Williams has heen reported ing signed with Toronto, but the flinger could mot be located to ver- ify the rumor. Now, he turns up in Belleville, with the assurance that he will pitch for the Grand Trunks of that city. 'The Indian dropped out of sighttwo months ago, having gone to Verona, the home of his people for the duck-hunting season. Sear Ist fever broke out in the household, and he has beed under quarantine ever since hfs disappearance. THREE RACES FOR THE FRENCH CHAMPION This Year's Good Three-Year Old to Race in America Next Fall. Epinard, French thoroughbred champion, will race the pick of next year's American four-year-olds in three races next September and Oc- tober, two on Metropolitan tracks and one in Kentucky, M. Pierre Wer- theimer, owner of Epinard, reveal- ed to-day before sailing for Francs on the Berengaria. M. Wertheimer who has practical ly loted all details for the in- ternational series as a result of con- ferences during the past two weeks with American turfmen, said the first sweepstakes, at a mile, will be rn early in September at Belmont Park. The second race will be run at Aqueduct track between Sept. 15th and 18th, and the third at Le. tonia, Ky., the firet week in October. Turning from the discussion of tur? events, M. Wertheimer, who is a manufacturer of perfumes and air- planes, paid tribute to the "supreme beauty" of American girls. "There is but one type of French beauty," he asserted, 'but there are sixty-eight types of American beauty. Their final supremacy is in their variety. Furopean woman can 80 to school in the class room of the American boudoir." » 7 ? McGRAW ? ? Manager McGraw of the Giants was abroad during the major leagues conference, and consequently is the only baseballer in the United States who is not all talked out and still hoarse. He arrives in New York to- day, when the winter leaguers will get a new earful on the subject of the probable transfer. of Rogers Hornsby to New York. McGraw seems determined to bolster his all- star Nationa¥ League team at any ost. Just how long the gullible base- ball public will "stand for" the herd- ing of all the best baseball talent by the two New York teams is a ques- tion. Fourteen other teams get a lot of gate money 'in New York, however, and that is a consideration. What will the public say to a fourth consecutive world series In the met- ropolis? Nothing at all. They will just whoop it up the same aw ever and pay another million dollars at the box office.~--Globe. a ---------- i ---- ANOTHER HEART IS BROKEN BY YANKEE "SPORTSMANSHIP" Eugene Criqui's pugilistic career is ended. The abandonment of his titles of featherweight champion of France and Europe, owing to the in- juries he received in his. bout for charity against Hebrans on October 6th, is expected to be permanent. Crigui's hands, which he fractured on the Belgian champion's head, are not as badly broken as his heart over his failure to defeat Johnny Dun- dee in New York. Through his vie- tory over Kilbane, the Frenchman achieved an ambition of twelve long years, divided between the ring and the battlefront. * For sixty days his name was blazoned on the billboards as featherweight champion of the world, but Dutfides ended all this. as hav- rest. g NICKEL TOWN DESERTED; THREE SENIORS REMAIN Duncan and Langlois Explain _ How Sunbury Wolves Disbanded. Some followers of hockey wer in- clined to severely criticize the Sud- bury seniors for dropping out of the N.O.H.A. series, but they would change their opinion if they inter- viewed Bill Duncan and Charlie Langlois, former Sudbury regulars. They report that only three players of senior calibre, Ironstone, Langlois and Duncan; remain in the Nickel Town. Nearly all of last year's in- termediate players are not available, apd the club will have a difficult time placing a good intermediate team on the ice. Sam Rothschild, who broke his leg last summer, has not fully recovered." i Dunean will coach the Sudbury Juniors, and he says that they should be fairly strong. He has five capable performers as a nucleus, among them being Faught, a clever goalkeeper, Jack Duncan and Aurie. The last named played with Sf. Michael's col lege last year, and, notwithstanding reportsvto the contrary, Will not be with the local Irish again, Langlois and Duncan are not sure that they will play hockey again. 'They have been in harness for many years, and feol that it is about time they retired. / But it is Almost cer- tain that they will do their part if the Sudbury officials ask them to play. "Joey" Ironstone, one of the best goalkeepers in the sport, may be sought by professional clubs, ai though Duncan and Langlois did not commit themselves on this matter, If Forbes fails to show his former abil- ity, Hamilton éould do a lot worse than sign Ironstone, who is the best net guardian ever developed in the north, The Sudbury "loyalist," Duncan and Langlois, came down to see the Green brothers in action, and they kd (STeunbly Surprised at the orm shown by both, and "Shorty ¥Y both. Duncan for years on Hamilton and Green were teammates the 217th Battalion, Sudbury teams. OLD POPILAR NAMES IN ANERICAY LEAGUE Although the did not come into being until 1900 its clubs have some of the oldest jand best known nicknames in major league. baseball, 'The New York club is the only one that has definite- Iy changed from its original nick- name, When an American League fran< chise was granted to New York the elub bullt a baseball plant on Wash- ifugton Heights, one of the high sec- tions of the city, From the location of the grounds the ehib became known as the Highlanders. When the arrangement was made to play at the Polo Grounds, performing un- der Coogdn's Bluft, Highlanders be. came a misnomer. It occurred to a New York sporting editor that since the club was in the American League Yankees would be appropriate and Yankees they became. Cleveland baseball clubs 'have been known as Indians since the years. that™city was represented in the National Léague. The name was |. Unked with the Forest City tear, one of the finest to represent Cleve- land 'before the deys of erganibed baseball and which was reterred to as "the Indians from the Forest City." When Napoleon Lajoie be- came manager of the club the nick- name became the Naps, in his honor, but after his retirement name, Indians, was resumed. The St. Louis Americans derived their nickname, Browns, from the color of the stockings worn. -- American League [ 'request that he account for ex- ent capital cities ars known as the | J mmm Senators. The name was first ap- | : i plied tothe old Washington elub ot WE CAN SUPPLY THE FINEST \ KIND OF Bressed Qnebec Spruce ingAlinked with the idea that a Unit- ed States Senator was regarded as an Uniform grades--well milled--in Flooring, V. Joint, Rovoity Siding and Sheathing. important personage. The name was us have your inquiries. ALLAN LUMBER (0. entered the American League, but! VICTORIA STREET. = 'Phone 1042 in 1905. However, Senators appears the mofe popular name because to says Washington Nationalg for an | American League club is confusing to those not well informed on base- | ball. : The Detroit club back in the Na-' tional League was one of the first to wear striped stockings. Theirs had an orange colored stripe similar to; those worn by Princeton football and baseball players and hence the nick. name Tigers was applied. In recent years some writers have been spell- ing it "Tygers" in honer of Ty Cobb. The name Red Sox was given to the Boston Americans by John I Taylor when he. became president. He got the idea of shortening Red Stockings by which the'Boston Na- tionals were known many years ago. Connie Mack's team has always been called the Athletics, a name associated with professional base. ball in Philadelphia since the early days of the game. The team also is called the White Elephants because, it is said, Manager McGraw of the Giants characterized Philadelphia as a white elephant on the hands of the American League when Philadelphia was admitted to the league. When the team became sucee ul the name was frequently applied in a humor ous way and finally was adopted, the white elephant appearing as the club emblem oun the players' unj- forms. : . was officially changed to Nationals' CHRISTMAS 1923 USEFUL GIFTS ONLY PADDOUK KEPT BUSY ANSWERING QUESTIONS Charles Paddock, crack sprinter, will not be allowed to compete for a position on the 1924 Olympic team J i from the United States until he has KODAKS, SKATES, HOUKEY BOOTS, PHONOGRAPHS cleared himself of charges with the Amateur Athletic Union, it has been 0 No cheap trash this Christmas, but gifts the Boys and @ will use. : Treadgold Sporting Goods Committee. 88 PRINCESS ST. The issues involved in the contro- versy that hgs raged about Paddock for several months include charges he is alleged to have made against; the A.A.U. and athletes of that or ganigation in regard to their ama- teur standing 'allegations that Pad- dock himself had sacrificed his ama- teur standing in golig on a lecture tour; charges that he falled to reim- burse the Olympie committee for funds loaned to him in 1920, and' his alleged failure to comply with Pn ---- SPLENDID DS | of CHRISTMAS GREETING CARDS The British Whig Pabising Co. L $06-8-10 KING STREET, KINGSTON, Ont. W penses' furnished him in coming to New York from Los Angeles for an athletic meet. . The deeision means that Paddock also explain to the A.A.U. committee his participation hia AAU. sanction In the University of Paris Club meet and In exhibitions in Czecho-Slovakia. 1 AT WOLFE ISLAND. Wolfe Island, Dec. 24.--The many friends of Mrs. Charles Jerome, Cape Vincent, were sorry to learn of her death last week. The sympathy of the community goes to her family in their sad logs. James Russell has gone to Buffalo to visit his son, Wil. liam. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Duff, Cosgrove, a son. Harold Dengman, Detroit, has returned home for Christmas. The dredge has gone to €ollin's Bay to go into winter quarters, Dan- iol Dee has returned home after a successful season -sailing on the upper lakes. A concert and Christ- mas tree entertainment was held In McLaren's Hall on Baturday even- or badly cut finger of Migs 3 Potter, Columbia university ing by the public schools pupils. R. Mullin acted as chairman and Santa Claus. ism student, a year and a Miss Morrison presided st the r pitno. Miss Dean acted as director of the pupils. There was a good at. tendance, who witnessed the ad- vancements of the pupils, which was a credit to their teachers. Wins Her Whole Hand, New York, Dgs. 26.--Dr, Benja- mia F. Barnes, enterprising young | who Yonkers physician, who eared for the