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fi "up there the other night who rolled . 'will prove popular meeting places, X THE DAILY BRITISH 'WHIG --| SPORTING D0 YOU BOWL OR | ory comawe J; RUTH GETS PRESENT ARE YOU BEHIND? |- IN URBAN SHOCKER Some team must go down in the : : i City League race mighty oon. Irish- : Balls and Pins Have Taken | men Live wires and Circle-8ix con- | Should Boost Average With Oomservative Kingston tinue to hold their positions at the That Worry Taken by Storm. top and one or two of them must Away. § y . give way soon, Te ------------ Friday evening will likely send one team down a little when Irish- men and Circle-8ix meet in the open- ing tilt of the City League double- header at eight o'clock sharp. They are both lively and carry good play- ers. They have shown class in their By BILLY EVANS. + It's going to be a merry Christmas for Babe Ruth and even MNappier New Year. The trading of Pitcher Shocker by the St. Louis Browns to the New kees is in the nature of a games to date and are keen to stay Yor Yanks Babe, 'them like a veteran;" "Who won the at the top. "Pete" Devlin will be Turk' yes » AH these . lly har- E yatisrday 1" usa ---- fguring against his former Irish --_-- Ru toro ot the common things to Near on Kingston |, op nl, "yn" 0 to the clos it was Urban Fathers and sons, sisters and bro- thers, husbands and, wives--they all bowl nowadays. The great indoor. game has taken Kingston by storm, "I made 163 the first time I roil- od;" "Gee, there was a little dame Street cars. Every person talks bowl-| 0 "i second game Granites ana | 882800 ing and nearly all have had a try at R.CA. will do the tussling. Gran- ocker. . : » i t least 20 "since tho Collegs Inu _ Bowitag | 108 BAT NET a2 luck so far with | THe Bebe oueht to bat at lesst 20 {liness and injuries to players but. Of 'cont the Babe got Academy started a short time ago its it is a lopg season and they hope ® menace. course go alleys have been on the hum all the to come 538 Mevaon the front later bie D050 bits o0f Shdeker, story now Ame. The girls meet in their ows. on, R.C.A. will fleld a better team were 'slways inst Bigs. ig opel fog Jovagy room with than in the last match and should Shocker is one of the few Ameri- am en Tay like the improve their showing greatly. can League pitchers who delighted ~ game immensely. : ' i Picking to Rus. Nowing Daeg ® m more than to be orde Ba oh a te STAGGERING BLOW. pass the Bambino. to every age, so, well mixed (with ; » « s . skill, chance sad muscular exercise, | Queen's Hockey Shocker is just the type of pitcher of Reynolds, iy Jonsral favorite WAE| with their. 'hopes Migh for the that Dothers Ruth most. Ms. 1 . will emain one, coming senior intercollegiate series, smart. In addition, no major lea The Frontenac Bowling and Re- , key oi have re-, sue pitcher mixes up his assortment creation Alleys will shortly be open- the Queen's hockey squad His change of pace ls per with elev. aces ceived a hard jolt in the sudden fll- Detter, at at-aliefe 424 both pl ness and operation of Roy Reynolds | feet. {and the City League, has for the 971% 4 It you never bowled, try 8 X time being lost a good' refereeing{ Duffy Lewis, former big league you used to bowl years ago, get bac! prospect. In the gathe he handled star, who will manage the Portland in the game. It will do Joy Sood, on Monday evening Roy showed club of the Pacific Coast League next If you are a lawn bowler, on ond marked ability as an arbiter and season, can appreciate a joke: "the alleys just as Jancis ing. Ay controlled the teams beautifully. He During the recent meeting of the What's the use telling them was in good spirits and was In con- majors in New York I had a long they are all bowling anyway. versation with a Whig man just be- chat with Lewis. I mentioned the fore the match. | fact that Billy Byron, a mighty Sou Reynolds earned his place in umpire, was to be back in the Coas ToL, DEPARTMENTS. | rugby history as a great middle wing League next season, Johnny Jones, former kivn| With Queen's seniors and as a hockey = "That reminds me of a funny ex- 'shortstop, who cost the Broa ay player has starred on the defence for.perience I had with Bill, the first Club $50,000 and Pitcher "Rube"! o "0 Junior, intermediate and time I met him on the coast after Yarrison a year ago, has ig o> senior. He is a graduate in Science, leaving the majors. Bill's judgment used to the Rota he take a post-graduate course for a; On balls and strikes had met with degree. my approval. are getting another player from the | hiSher deg He picked up our club, Salt Lake, 'same outfit for a trial next season. . after a stormy session in Frisco. I ~ Ho 1s an outfielder named Cox, Who | WIFE BEATS BILIZIARDIST: thought it. would be wise to keep in will get & chance in right fleld, CUE IS EFFECTIVE WEAPON.' his good graces. "+ Jones was one of the most highly- . The first time I stepped to the . touted ball players ever to come| mwaward Ralph Greenleaf, profes-| plate, I remarked: "Well, Billy, from the coast, but he failed to live | sional pocket billiard champion, Was you're having a great season. You 'Up to advance notices in any depart-| granted a divorce from his wife, , haven't missed one on me yet." . ment of play. Beatrice Grednleaf, on the ground] The next ball pitched was six t of cruel and barbarous treatment. |inches over my head. Imagine my HOCKEY "|, Testimony given before the mas-' surprise when I heard Bill yell, JOOK ter, who recommended the divorce "trike." HARTY AREN. to the Common Pleas Court was to] Turning my head slightly, 1 said, a. the effect that the wife had\commit-| "Strike. Whatdaya meen?" numerous assaults on fer hus- f.9 9 ; band, some times striking Bim with | "You're the first guy tn fhis lea her fist and at, other times using a gue that ever said I hadn't missed billiard cue, with the It that his 'at least a dozen on him and I don't pps were bruised so as to serlous- intend to play any' favorites," ex- interfere with his following his plained Byron. ea as 8. best will 18 vow 3 se o> eral matches, Bill Byron is one of the game's springs the leaves of which have rusted but there is no danger of such an ovehrrence, uniess a car has bees left idle and exposed to dsmpness for a very long time. That spring leaves on accoun lubrication 'is very doubtful : for squeaking i Erie tsi i if i '| the joint meeting at Chicago was plenty of it is to be the chief condi FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Merry Christmas to everybody, with special regards to all other sport- ing scribes. A ; oo . * . i It 1s mighty easy to see, say the Toronto papers, why George Mo- Neamara and the 800 executive were eo keen on shooting the pro. hockey buyers away from "Flat" Walsh to Joe Ironstone, "Flat" is on an equal with an of them, ' 1 3 * * * Last year, with Obarlie Stewart in the nets for Hamilton and "Flat" Walsh in the same place for the S00, a Toronto man said between periods of the game: "Not much doing in hockey in Kingston for a long time, oh. ?" There wasn't very much doing tn Kingston, but Kingston was sure doing a lot elsewhere. ' : * * * The Big Four refuses to extend their interference rule/ One is almost tempted to say thet"the men at the head "of it are either behind the times in football stretegy or more arm-chair enthusiasts. The Inter- collegiate Union has demonstrated unanswerably the benefits to be derived from the three-yard interference all across the field. * * . The Interprovincial men also adopted a resolution against the wear- Ing of mud cleats. What terrible rot. Can a single instance be quoted Prizes Every Week For the Bowlers where mud cleats dia any damage, or where they did not make the game much more interesting and much better football 7 : » - . . Well, Intercollegiate should 'worry. 8o long as the other untons remain in the rut, just that much longer will the college teams be the class of the country as they have been for three years now without a doubt, Another City League double-header on Friday night, and a good one. Be sure to recover fiom Christmas in time to enjoy it. most colorful characters, HUGGINS COUNTS ON BEALL One year he and I worked a city |* TO BOLSTER HIS NG. series in Chicago. In the dressing New York, Dec, 24. --While Miller room before one of the games, I Huggins of the New York Americans saw that the first joint of one of his | realizes his pitching is slipping, he fingers was missing, isn't as worried as it might seem. I mentioned the fact, telling Bi Of his veterans, Jones, Pemnock it was the first time I had noticed it | and Hoyt, should be consistent win- during the many years I had known | ners. The veterans, Shawkey and him, Bush, are doubtful. "Funny about that finger," replied However, Huggins feels that in Byron. "I was In the National Lea- | Walter Beall he has just the man gue several years before John Mo- | needed to bolster np his staf. Graw observed fit, { Beall, a husky, right hander, se- "It was during a row with the cured from Rochester in the Inter Giants and I happened to be doing a | national, did great work during the little pointing, when McGraw, seeing | closing months of the season. His the finger, sarcastically remarked: | best effort was striking out 10 AtH- "No doubt you lost that joint pick- | lotic players in seven innings. ing somebody's pocket." For a mo- He is being banked on as a regu- ment Byron was silent. I was just | lar by the mite manager of the about to inquire what he had to say Yanks, : when to took up the yarn with: ---------------- "Wrong again, John, I wore that "Dunc" Gets Raza, finger down pointing you toward the Hamilton Spectator:--Dune. Mun- exit signs." ' ro failed to make the showing that ee, one would expect from a man who has received so much publicity of The fans out on the Pacific coast late. In fact at times during Satur- missed Byron during hi Jetrement day night's game he looked medio- trom fhe game, will 'welcome cre, about the best thing he did be- him back even though they do mot ing to make free use of his weight. always agree with him, For some reason or other, the crowd X had it in for Dunc. from the start, ' Jyt-oy | and while he may have done two or ; I three things which were not accord- | THE NUT ORACKER ing to Hoyle, some of the hisses ahd Si 4 boos he received were undeserved. By Jos Williams - From amateur to professional com- + | PRY is no mean jump, even If he was one of the stars which won the The Cleveland rabbl who doesn't world's amateur championship in, want his son to be a box fighter be- { France. Munro is not going to be cause It isn't a business, evidently any great star in salaried circles, never heard of Tex Rickard. and on his form here Saturday night, a it 1s hard to understand why Cecil Well, it certainly was fine how the | Hart was so anxious to secure him. baseball magnates rolled up their Dinsmore was one of the best men sleeves and went right to the bottom | on the Montreal «team, and with a of the Dolan-O'Connell scandal.... |Iittle experience in pro. ranks, It certainly was! should have no trouble in making The same model as used by the world champions in France, and they are another member of the : sini AUTOMOBILE Family and every one knows they are the best Skate made. DONT WAIT | but get your Hockey Boots and Skates now as we have your size and can match your pocket book. Treadgold Sporting Goods Co | 88 Princess St., Kingston. MAY WE Suggest you give Radio to the Radio Fan for Christmas. 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