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| : PAGE SIXTEEN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1917. ssn Everybody ought to ride a bicycle this spring. It's healthy, it's handy, and this is the year to save money. It has been proved that it is cheaper to ride a bicycle than ride in the street cars. Now is the Time To pick out your favorite Massey bicycle or the new Indian. How is your old wheel. Can we put it in good repair for you? We have tires, rims; 'saddles and everything you might need for your old wheel. Or we will trade you for a new one. ly TREADGOLD Sporting Goods Co., 88 Princess St., Kingston. Telephone 529 . | | BASEBALL BRIEFS i 1 Harry Lauder race wm this year, nal 'League se, { Conditional release of Catcher Ray McKee Frar ed by President Na {McKee h been a itroit's backstop years to San ers, De- three n of the Tig member of staff for "Marty' who was with {the Toronto team in the Canadian League several years ago, is intrain- ling with the Buffalo club Killilea broke his leg while a members of the Toronto team { At Memphis, Tenn, the Red Sox and the Dodgers wore numbers on {their sleeves for purposes of identifi- {cation in their game. The system wihill probably be continued through- out the tour of the teams, fom Jobby' Vaughn, former Leaf in- tielder, and now a member of the Los Angeles team of the Pacific | Coast League is a holdout." Mana- lger Frank, Chance has ordered { Vaughn to report at once If he | CANADIAN HARNESS RACES OPEN IN JUNE Circuit Dates--Each Club to Give Four Stake Races of $1,000. | The Canadian cirenit dates for harness horses races were decided on at a meeting in St, Thomas to begin In that city on June'12th and contin- uing until July 20th at Hillcrest Park, All races will be concluded under the rules of thé Canadian Na- tional Trotting Association, Each club is to give four stakes of $1,000 as follows: 2.30 pacers, 2.12 pacers, 2.40 trotters and 2.17 trot- ters, The balance of the programme will be made up of $400 purses. This will | bring the total amount hung up on { this circuit to $45,000. { The following are the dates: | St. Thomas--June 13 to 15, | Aylmer--June 19 to 22. { Tillsonburg--June 26 to 9 29. | Woodstock--July 2 to 6, | Dufferin Park--July 11 to 12. Hillcrest Park--July 18 to 20. i | Horse Breeding Industry in Canada | is on the Increase. | A Detroit paper says: Where will ithe winner of this years frontier han- { dicap come from, the blue grass val- leys of Kentucky or the comparative- ly new breeding-establishments of the Dominion of Canada? Less than five years ago the ques- tion put here would have created prompt laughter and the reply. "Ken- tucky, of course." In the present era, however, Canada has its estah- lished breeding centres, and while the country isn't so prolific of thorough- bred horses as is the Blue Grass State, its produce is forging to the front after a fashion that is destined, with development to keep pace of the last three years, to vie with its famous rival for évery turf classic on the continent, "TRY 5c. Poet Cigar 5c. Look for Silk Thread on Tip of Bach Cigar. S. OBERNDORFFER, Maker, Kingston. TY. COBB ON THE JOB, Fly-chaser Has Reportgd to Detroit Tigers. Tyrus Raymond Cobb has reported, The outfielding star, who blew in Thursday, says that he is ready for action, though he denies that he has done any work. There had been a report that he was practising with \Washington, which team is doing its training in Augusta, Cobb's hom: town, but Ty says that this is not so. Cobb is a few pounds overweight, but will be ril of the superfluous fiesh lin a short time. The Georgia lad appears to be confident that he wil repeat in. 1917 his batting and base- running successes of previous s:a- sons. If he does as well as last sea- son he probably will win out. Great Ted Meredith, the famous runner, has joined the Aviation corps of the MONUMENTS Importers of Scotch and American Granites, Vermont Marble. The McCallum Granite Company, Ltd. 397 Princess Street. Telephone 1981 - United States. If he can fly as fast as he can run he should be a wonder, Frapk Patrick will insert a new rule in the Pacific Coast Hockey Lea- gue regulations, allowing the players to kick the puck. ' A quarrel can be repaired, but it should be: rgmembered that 99 BRINGING UP FATHER " ! patches out of every 100 show. 15CO 18 announc- | fails to do so, suspension will follow. | JOHN J. McGRAW'S CLIMB the Baseball Ladder of Since 1890, John J. MeGraw's climb up the | baseball ladder of fame is an inter-| esting story. The manager of the , New York Giants was born at Trux- | ton, N.Y, forty-two years ago. Ha! | attended Bonaventure School at Alle- | gheny, Penn. and proved the best in-| fielder on the school nine, His work {attracted the attention of B. F.| | Kenny, who offered him a position | { with the Olean team of the Iron and | | Ore League, which is now the West. (ern New York and Pennsylvania or- ganization... This was in 1890, when | MeGraw was only sixteen years old, {and his first basebal salary was $60 {a month. He was placed at third | base. McGraw went to the Cedar | Rapids club two years later, and in | 1893 he was given a trial with the | Baltimore club. He was a member lof the team that won many cham- | plonships during the next six years. { His first trials as a manager were in 11899, when most of the Baltimore | players were sold to Brooklyn, and | McGraw was left in charge of the i players who remained. He directed | the team until 1900, when the Na- { tional League reduced the circuit to | eight dropping Baltimore, | Louisville, Cleve- land. MeGraw and Wilbert were then traded to St. Louis. In 1902 McGraw came east with Ban Johnson, with whom he helped or- ganize the American League. Balti- more was admitted into the new lea- | gue, but McGraw, fearing for its ulti- | mate success, received his release and | signed with New York Giants. In moving to the Giants McGraw brought along Cy Seymour, Jack Cronin, Joe McGinnity, and Roger 'Bresnahan, to build up a team that was in last place. When MeGraw took charge, Christy Mathewson was playing first base, but MeGraw*had the fadeway star back on the piteh- ing mound the next day. During his stay with the Giants McGraw cap- tured five National League cham- pionship flags, three coming in a row in 1911, 1912 and 1913, This feat equalled the records that had been established by such world famous players as Pop Anson (Chicago), Frank Selee (Boston), Frank Chance (Chicago), Ned Hanlon (Baltimore), and Fred Clarke (Pittsburg.) Under McGraw the Giants partic!- pated in four world series; but their only successful effort was in 1905, when the Philadelphia Athletics were downed, ' principally through the three winning games pitched by Mathewson. When John T, Bush, president of the New York Giants, died in 1912, McGraw was named as a probable successor. In 1913 the New York Club considered MeGraw such a valuable asset that it obtained a $100,000 accident policy on him for one year, Up Fame | | teams, Washington and Robinson Cleveland May Get Bouts, With New York States closed to boxing after January, 1918; Cleve- land expects to secure many of the bouts formerly held in Gotham. Cleveland hasn't been open to the glovemen very long, and its promo- ifs fave had little chance to get in- to the spetilght. One Clevelander, Matt Hinkel, rich outside the boxing game, is doing big things on a boxing scale, and will gain a high place in the annals of the sport. Hinkel pro- moted the Kilbane-Chaney fight at Cedar Point, Ohio, and is planning a series of high-grade mills for the im- mediate future, New Swimming Record. A world's record for the 220-yard swim in a 25-yard tank--2.22 1-5--- wag made at New York by Norman Rois of the Olympic Club of San Francisco in winning the National Amateur Athletic Union champion- ship at that distance, / NNN, =) FANS "TOOKE COLLARS 15 CENTS Lach In the World of Sport| YN 1 SPORTING NOTES. Herb. Gillis, by rolling 1,874 in the All-events at Grand Rapils, won $100. This gives him $131 in prize mnoey, and makes him by far the largest in- | {dividual Toronto winner at the tour- ney. The stewards of the English Jockey Club have decided that the subsutute for the famous Epsom Derby, the blue ribbon event of the English flat racing season, will be run at the first extra meeting arranged at Newmar- ket on May 30 and the Oaks on June 1. i The annual Amateur Athletic | Union of the United States boxing championship will be staged in the! Mechanics' Building, Boston, on | April 2nd and 3rd It is likely that | some Toronto boxers will take part. | f-- | The lacrosse revival planned for | Toronto is purely patriotic "and | philanthropic. The players will give | their services gratis and the reéeipts will go to the patriotic funds Grouchy Gus says: Some boxing champions are popular, and others couldn't attract a spoonful of spec- tators except that the fans don't want to miss seeing them knocked out. ! Queensberry rules make it illegal fox a boxer to hit below the belt, yet most of the promoters and fans| carry their kale in their trousers pockets, PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY. As Boxing in New York State is Un. certain. That New York boxing promoters are preparing for any emergency, since the situation which surrounds the sport in that state is so uncertain, is becoming quite apparent. Applica- cation blanks for .membership in. the | various "clubs" are now being dis- tributed to the spectators at boxing | entertainments, says the Toronto Globe. This indicates that in the évent of Governor Whitman having his way in repealing the present box- ing law the sport will be conducted under the time-worn subtérfuge "private" boxing clubs. Tvery spec- tator and contestant must join the club. The "members" are assessel "two bits" at the box office and given a membership card good for the re- mainder of the season. The car en- titles the holder to spend his' money for ni ge of admission, In intro- | oc ducing the battlers the announcer or) referee rids himself of something like | this: "Fellow ¢lub members--I take | great pleasure in introducing for your | entertainment this evening Micky | O'Grogan, of Portland, Ore., in "this | corner, and Slowfoot Johnson, of At. | lanta, Ga. in the opposite corner. These gentlemen are both members | of this club. The contest will go ten rounds or less. Our fellow members in the audience are asked to refrain from unseemly methods oi applause, confining themselves to----" At this point in the customary oration it is usnally interrupted by the cries of the | gallery gods for more action and less | talk, It's a great game. ! FISH HAVE HOLIDAY Bank is Unmolested by Trawlers During War. Fish in the North Sea are having the time of their lives just now. It is too dangerous to trawl for them, so they are ):At in peace. - For sev- eral years before the war broke out, even since the advent of the steam trawler, they have been harried and chevied towards the verge of extine- tion, It might be thought that this was) impossible, considering the size of the North Sea. And so it would be, perhaps, if the trawlers worked even- ly all over its area. But they do not. They all crowd together on the fam- ous fishing ground known as the Dogger Bank, whence in peace time comes the bulk of our sea fish, The Dogger is a flat sandbank in the middle of the North Sea. If it were 50 or 60 feet higher it would be a huge flat island, stretching from point &Bout forty miles apposite Flamborough Head to within a few miles of Jutland , It constitutes an ideal breeding-ground for flat-fish-- soles, plaice and the like. And there they are now, increas- ing and multiplying by hundreds of millions, undisturbed save by the: ex- plosion of an occasional stray mine, or the passing above them now and Dogger TOOKE BROS. LIMITED MAKERS MONTREAL again of a swift-moyving submarine. --Tit-Bits, ------. garden last year?" Mr. Croaslots, about our sweet corn and tomatoes | we were raising that our vegetable Get Back of a Milo Start the New Year right by smoking MILO Cigars. You will enjoy every one. Made in Kingston. G. A. 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Supplies Cut Off. man took offence and didn't come "How did you come out with your |around for nearly two weeks." Washington Star. The British bar has declined to consider a proposal to admit women to the legal profession. "It got us into trouble," replied "1 bragged 80 much By GEORGE McMANUS 1H] IS THE BO%S