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PAGE EIGH1 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928 BLUE DEVILS AND COLLEGIATE MEN PRACTISE FOR SATURDAY GAMES Do Or Die Spirit Supreme in Ranks of Blue Devils and Collegians in Their Last Full Dress Practice JACK BOND Sturdy outside winger for the Blue Devils, who turned in his best game of the season in Lon- don last Saturday and is ex- pected to repeat his sterling per- formance against the Gas House Gang here this week-end, Courtesy Mail and Empire EXPECT 15,000 TO SEE McGILL CLASH WITH VARSITY SRS, Montreal, Que., Nov. 7--Only fifty- five reserved tickets were left when the McGill athletic board offices clos- ed tonight and indications are now that slightly over 15,000 people will witness the McGill-Varsity Inter- collegiate rugby title struggle here on Saturday. Rush seats will go on sale just heiore game time. Meanwhile, the footballers are pre- paring with quict confidence for the coming of the Blue. There was an- other heavy scrimmage today and a third is on the books for tomorrow, but Friday will see practices com- pleted with a light signal drill. Fri- day is likely to be the last scrim- mage the McGill team will have this vear for unless Varsity wins Satur- day and forces a three-cornered tie, McGill footballers will hang their helmets on the peg for another year after the Thanksgiving Day encoun- ter with M.A AA. Dr. Flanagan was back with his team todav, shouting as lustily for cohesive tcam-work as if there were vot such things in the world as stomachs that at times rebel on their owners. Chic Church, whose knee was injured in the Queen's game, was out jogs round the track. Cap- tain Littlefield, Munroe and Young, however, are still nursing injuries that keep them off their feet. See the Explosion! SAT, 2.30 p.m. ALCXANDRA PARK General Motors BLUE DEVILS To Blow Up London GAS WOIKS GANG Rugby Game Tickets for EXPLOSION At JOHNSTON'S Clothing Store KARN'S Drug Store BURNS' Two Oshawa teams, with one ab- sorbing ambition in common, that of emerging victorious in their respec- tive contests on Saturday afternoon, worked out at Alexandra Park yes- terday afternoon and brought their activities to a close with a short and smart practice game. The two teams were General Motors Blue Devils and Oshawa Collegiate Institute and both teams have their 1928 future in the Intermediate O.RF.U. and the Intercollegiate union respectively at stake this week-end. tah The contest Saturday which is attracting the most widespread inter- est locally is the game here at Alex- andra Park between General Motors of Oshawa and the London Gas House Gang. Taking no chances on injuries, the Blue Devils made last night's workout their last strenuous one before the big gamed but the pep and action which the boys showed in this mid-week workout was indeed a treat to watch. For the remainder of the week, the Blue Devils will polish off some new Plays, practice a little more inter- erence possibly and nurse their de- sire for revenge on Saturday. Everything depends upon this one game in which the Blue Devils and the Gas House Gang take part. If the Blue Devils win, a third game is necessary and they will be given a new lease of life in the O.R.F.U. but if they again take the short end of the count from the Londoners, their death knell will be rung in the Intermediate race. General Motors don't particularly relish an obituary this early in their career and hence they are practising as they never have before to pull in a victory Sat- urday. Oshawa Collegiate Institute also has to do or die on Saturday. Their opposition is their ancient rivals, Peterboro and the scene of the con- flict is Port Hope, The reason for the game is that both teams com- pleted their league schedule tied with five wins and one loss while the win- ner of the contest continues in its search for new fields to conquer, which will first probably be Albert College of the Bay of Quinte League. Both teams were right on their toes last night and in their practice game together some brilliant rugby was uncorked. A fair sized crowd was on hand last night and everyone was impressed by the good showings of the two aggregations. Varsity Juniors Beaten by Queens In Final Series Kingston; Nov. 8.--Queen's jun- jors secured a 12-point lead in the first of the final games for the in- tercollegiate junior rughy title, when they defeated Varsity at the Richardson Stadium, this after- noon, by the score of 15 to 3, The return game will be played in Toronto on Saturday and judg- ing from Queen's showing today they should take down the junior college crown, The Tricolor were superior in most of the game today, and espec+ ially in the first two quarters, when they pushed the Blue and White all over the field. On top of this , the steady kicking of "Weenie" Day, who dropped over two fleld goals, left Varsity help- less before a relentless attack. In fact, about the only standouts for Varsity were Perkins and Smith, the former starring by two runs for forty yards each, and the other for his pretty field goal and general kicking, The teams: Queen's -- Flying wing, Kindle; halves, Adair, Day and Atchinson; quarter, Alexan- der; snap, Buell; insides, Hulse and Murray; middles, Hall and Kurt; outsides, Mellvoy and Mar- tin; subs, Steadman, Agnew, Ash- ley, Remus, Todd, Marion and Stanbury, arsity -- Flying wing, Bennett; halves, G, Smith, Pit iii pie] Robinson; quarter, Britnell; spap, Campbell; insides Jackson and Stringer; middles, Farwell and Cannon; outsides, Crocker and Gibh; subs, Heintzman, Nelson MacDonald, D. Smith, Reid, Perk- ins, Thompson and Buchanan, Referee H. L. Batstone Queen's; Umpire, C, D, Mun- dell, Queen's; headlinesman, Dr Ww. A. Campbell, Queen's, 2 RUGBY RESULTS The scores of rub, gy games played yesterday were as follows: re Senior O.RF.U, xBalmy Beach.14 Camp Borden .. x--Balmy Beach wins group. Intermediate Intercollegiate Loyola 15 St. Michael's .. Junior Intercollegiate 15 Varsity ...... : . Interscholastic O.R.F.U. Hamilton C.,.70 Grimsby ...... 3 Sie Junior W.0.5.5.A, i St. Thomas C.I. 12 Woodstock C.I. 6 Eastern Ini Queen's ' ast terscholastic il | Ottawa Univ...12 Brockville Coll. 1 : Exhibition Ridley College.18 Trinity College 5 London Cen.Jrs.22 Sarnia CL Jrs. 11 The St. Agnes Club of Toronto is staging a big show on Friday, November 9, the same night as Oshawa's big show, Sacks and Taylor, the two oui standing Toronto middle weights, are working on the Toronto card. rere, This arrangement made it diffi- cult to secure a boy of class to meet Jimmy Leonard, However, the management are pleased to announce that the hold- er of the Hamilton city champion- ship has been secured and will meet Leonard here Friday night. This will be the feature bout of the evening. The card is complete with 10 bang up bouts. This will make the show a real inter-provincial show. Sergeant Norman Walker will introduce the boxers to the fans. Be sure and get your program. Each program is numbered. Three numbers will be drawn and the lucky numbers will be presentea with a free ringside seat for th December show, Fans are advised not to leave the securing of seats too late. Mitch ell's Drug Store Mike's Place and Ratz Tobacco Store still have a few good seats on hand. The Ontario Regimental Ban will be in attendance to dispense music before and during the show A staff of ushers will be on the joo, in charge of Lieut, L. P. Bowd- er, Everything has been done to make this the best show ever put on in Oshawa. The ladies are coming in large numbers. The fair sex are always well to the front in supporting good clean sport, After the bouts Friday uight comes the big battle of the London Gas House Gang and the Oshawa Blue Devils on Saturday. What a feast! ther affair. Don't miss ei- Rush seats go on sale at the north-west door, Every seat in the house is a good seat, London Prepares For Rare Battle Hereon Saturday (From London Free Press) New plays were introduced by the London Intermediate O.R.F.U, rugby club at last evening's work- out, and a new code of signals will be used in the second game of the series with Oshawa General Motors, to be played at Oshawa on Saturday. Twenty players attend- ed the workout, and the members of the "Gas House Gang" are out to make it two straight from the "Blue Devils," thereby qualifying for the intermediate finals, Bill Wanless and Bert Ellyatt, two of the London régulars, wit- nessed the workout from the side- lines and were unable to take an active part, It is expected, how ever, that they will be ready for the crucial contest, The Londoners are not looking for an easy contest in Oshawa, and realize that it will be a battle from start to finish. If Wanless is able to take his place in the backfield, the "Gas House Gang' will be well fortified. Wanless and Bonk were the back division stars in the first game of the series when the 'Blue Devils' tasted defeat, A special coach will be added to the 9 o'clock C.N.R, train on Satur. day morning, and a number of spectators will accompany the team to Oshawa. The club rate is $7.75 and tickets are available at the downtown ticket office. Beachers Win From Airman, Enter Finals Camp Borden, Nov. 8.--Balmy Beach, Canadian champions will appear in the O.R.F.U. senior fi- nals for the fifth successive time, their entry into the championship circle following a win over Camp Borden on the Aviators' landing field here yesterday afternoon by a 14 to 5 score, but the Canoeists' steam roller, which bas crushed every twelve in Eastern Canada for the last two years, was forced to put on extra steam to get the vietory, being extended to the lim- it from the first to final whistle. The gallant band of Fliers, under the direction of Captain Dave Harding, gave a display of grit and determination which mixed with a little rugby made the powerful pack in purple exert every effort to get the victory. It was no pink tea affair, out on the open sand dunes of the aviation camp, every player giving all he bad in a hard, gripping exhibition of the Fall sport: , rm. - - Hockey's Tower of Babelt --By Jimmy Thompson Yes, sir, something must be done about this or the famous old Stan- ley Cup in about 1978 will put the modern skyscraper to shame. Since the cup changed hands last fall and went into-the possession of the New York Rangers in the dra- matic world's hockey series, an- other base has been added to the once squatty trophy presented by Lord Stanley in 1803, when he was governor-general of Canada. This famous and historic piece of silverware has literally travelled from coast to coast in both the United States and Canada. It has crossed the line three times into the States, at present heing held hy the Rangers on the Atlantic sea- board. In 1916 it was held by the Portland, Oregon, Club and in 1920 it was in possession of the Seattle Club. In Canada it has journeyed as far east as Quebec City, whose Bull- dogs held it in 1912-13, and it has travelled as far west as Vancouver and Victoria. In all these years of travel the winners of the trophy have scratch- ed their names on it, so that now it hears the names of the world's greatest puck chasers of all time. The result is the old silver bases have become so covered with in- :criptions that it has been neces- sary to add another base. So the eup. has now three added bases built in pyramid style. The battered, scratched and dented trophy is one of the most highly prizefl and colorful cups in 'the sporting world of to-day King St. Loses 10-5 to Centre in Rugby Tilt In the first game of the play- offs for the Oshawa Public School rughy-football championship, Centre street school defeated King street by a 10 to brilliant game played at Alex- andra Park last night, Centre street's 10 points were scored on touchdowns by Arnold MacLean and Belfry Deguere while King street's five points were scored on a touchdown by Art Stouven, The line ups were: King St.--Bob Cawker, Art Stouven inside; Morrison, inside; Aleck Brant, middle; Stan Woods, outside; Clifford Kelly, outside; Ken. Kemp, 'flying wing; Alf. Diggon, quarter back; Freeman Brown, half back; Milton Graham, half back; Harry Reynard, half back, Centre St.--Lorne Dalton, snap; Bruce Dalton, inside; Arnold Brunzslow, inside; Norman Mac- Inally, middle; Belfry Deguere, outside; Billie Richards, outside; Kenneth Frain, flying wing, Al- bert Barnes, quarter back; Arnold MacLean, half back; Harold Lesy, half back; Reg. Brent, half babk; Subs, Harry Hord, Walter Robin- son, Gordon Langton, Herman Keetch, Dorez Pierce, Clifford Johnson, Referee--J, Blow. Tilden is Banned From Tennis by World Federation New York, Nov, 8.--Big Bill Til- den now finds himself not only an exile from the courts of his own land, but literally a man without a country, so far as his right to play amateur tennis is concerned. By order of the International Lawn Tennis Federation the ban applied to the famous American star hy the United States Lawn Tennis Association in August has been extended to its 34 other mem- ber nations, and thus embraces the entire tennis-playing world. Official Bulletin This latest move in the Tilden case is revealed by the U.S.L.T.A. in the current issue of its National Bulletin, which says the interna- tional bodys has sent to all of the associations affiliated with it a copy of the resolution disqualify- ing Tilden, together with an order that, "conforming with our rulings you will kindly extend this action also to your association." A glance at the world-wide mem- bership roster of the International Federation quickly shows' that the only territory still available to Til- den for tournament competition comprises sue]; countries as Russia and Abyssinia. snap; William 5H score after a| 0.R. F. U. OFFICIALS President John DeGruchy has ap- pointed the. following officials to act in the various games scheduled for Saturday and Thanksgiving Day. All officails requested to confirm appointments with the secretary by wire, or phone Howard 4866 :-- are Senior Oct. 10--Kitchener e, Ross Craig; at umpire, Saturday, Sarnia; referc Bert Harper Intermediate Saturday, Oct. 10--Niagara Falls at Guelph; referee, Ab. Chilcott; umpire, Bob Armstrong. London at Oshawa; referce, Harold Bailey; umpire Alex Sinclair. Wallaceburg at Chatham; local officials. Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 12--Cha- tham at Wallaceburg; local officials, Sarnia at Petrolia; referce, Sweeney Davis; umpire Thos, Henderson, Junior Saturday, Nov. 10--Malvern Grads at Victorias (Hamilton) : referee, Ed- dic McLean; umpire, Bert Bradley, Kitchener at Brantford; referee, Sweeney Davis; umpire, Lauric Wal- lace. Hamilton Phantoms at Galt; referee, Thos. Henderson; umpire, Gus Ryder. Woodstock at Stratford; local officials, Junior Semi-finals Saturday, Nov, 10--Elizabeth Play- ground v. Argos; referee, Toots La- londe ; umpire, J. Hilley, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 12--St, Thomas at Galt; referee, Ab. Chil- cott; umpire, Toots Lalonde, Return game in St, Thomas on Nov. 17, v Interscholastic Semi-final .,.., Saturday, Nov, 10--Oshawa Colle- giate v. Peterboro Collegiate, on Trinity College grounds, Port Hope; referee, Jack Armstrong. JACK DEMPSEY NOW WORKING OUT ON GYM. BUT STILL DENYING ---- New Noy. 7--Once more there are signs and portents that widespread public demand will bring Jack Dempsey out of the fistic re- tirement and into the ring aga. Despite vigorous assertions by the one-time "Manassa Mauler" that his figthing days are over, day by day the evidence piles up that Dempsey soon will don the gloves and battle once more for the fame and wealth the ring has already given him. These constantly recurring reports of another Dempsey come-back ga- thered more credence among close followers of the ring when the for- mer heavyweight champion entered training a local gymnasium. Bag punching and calisthenics made up Dempsey's initial work-out. He now weights about 205 pounds, ten pounds above his. normal fighting weight. Direct qulstions as to whether this training program was the first step of another come-back campaign brought | forth from the smiling York, Dempsey only a denial, - {can feel them - PUNTS and TACKLES By the Dopester Ea The boys have a new name for their coach. They call him Simon Legree Pound. Yes--that's after yesterday, as for two solid hours he lashed them unfalteringly into a practise such as has been seldom seen. A full turn out of players was on hand and they responded nobly to his commands and gave every- thing they had in the last practise before the London game. * Yesterday's practise showed the boys up to the best advantage that has been noted this year. They had a snap and dash to their movements that heretofore has been missing. All the latent pep that has been in them but never shown came to the top yesterday and we feel sure that Saturday will see an even more plen- tiful show of Jhis_pep and power, The boys are in condition. This is fact not fable. They have all trained faithfully and look to be in the pink. Trainer Cox has done an excellent job on all the strains, sprains and bruises and right today we haven't a single cripple on the team. What's more we haven't anyone who is bothered with trick knees or ankles. The boys are fit and as Mr. Nicoll says, "That covers a multitude of sins." 0%. 8 Our late arrival, Mr. Winkelstein Gummow is rapidly coming into shape. His first appearance resem- bled that of our friend Lloyd Hamil- ton but after a couple of weeks of training we see he has lost his third chin and he tells us confidentially that he is sure he has ribs cause he once more. A few more weeks of strict training and I'd be afraid Wink would be wasted away to a shadow. $4 The boys are all going to the Box- ing show on Friday night to learn the manly art of self defence. Fred Hardman wanted them to come and be introduced to the fans but Al Moore said if he ever got into a ring. he'd be likely to clean the house so we thought we'd better keep the boys in their places. * We wish the boxers good luck and hope they have a real successful show. Maybe they'll come up and see our show too. But we don't call it boxing, it's rughy. * * Have you purchased your ticket yet? The girls are anxious to sell vou one so step right up and join the ancient order of rugby enthus- jasts by getting one of the paste boards at the nearest sales offce x x * The merchants have indeed sup- ported us beautifully in our effort to put across a strong advertising cam- paign and the boys thank them, through this column most' heartily. Remember the new time of start- ing--2.30 p.m. FIRST WOMAN TO REPRESENT NEW YORK IN CONGRESS New York, N.Y., Nov, 8. --Mrs.: Ruth Pratt. elected yesterday, will he the first woman representative from New York State to sit in Con- gress Bhe is a Republican a wi- dow and the mother of five child- ren. Mrs. Pratt was returned by the 17th ("Silk Stocking') Con- gressional District of New York City, . | SPORT SNAPSHOTS We saw Oshawa Collegiate Institute in action for the first time this year against General Motors Blue Devils in a twenty minute practice game at Alexandra Park last night, and one thing we don't mind stating right now is that we have a wholesome respect for this Collegiate team. They're like welterweights to heavyweights when they stack up against the Blue Devils but they managed to give Cliff Pound's aggregation quite a satisfactory workout last night. Both teams laid it in at quite a stiff clip and it was really : ar : as re: t little workout to behold. ! ya The little game opened with the Collegiate men kicking off. Stew Carver made a good job of it and the Blue Devils started play on their 35 yard line. The Blue Devils immediately made yards for nearly the length of the field but when they got seven yards out a Collegiate man got where he wasgt expected to be and a scramble was started for a loose ball which finally ended up with the Blue Devils in possession about thirty yards out. : From here they kicked out of bounds to give O.C.I. the ball. Then for a junior team, some remarkably pretty offensive plays were uncorked by these self-same Collegiate men and believe it or not, they made yards about five times in succesbion before the Blue Devils could unsolve the mystery of this different mode of attack. The Collegiate showed some remarkable interefence work and nearly all their gains were straight through the line, But their gains were soon checked and the Blue Devils gained possess sion whereupon another advance down the field took place. ie smart runs were made around the end and through the line by the Blue Devils and it wasn't long before Doc Rowden and then Scott Hubbell went through for touchdowns, After about ten minutes of this play "according to rules," the Blue Devils gave the Collegiate men the ball on the Collegiate's 25 yard line with instructions for the green, gold and red to give everything they had in trying to advance the ball, . ~~ For ten solid minutes the Collegiate team attacked the Blue Devils' de« fence and both teams profited thereby. The Collegiate got some much needed practice in sending their plays up against strenuous opposition while the Blue Devils found it well worth while in breaking up the Collegiate's interference and stopping the advance of the ball. Yardsticks and the usual necessity of making ten yards in three downs were disposed of in these last ten minutes of play but some smart work on the part of both teams was seen. And now we know why there is such a large crowd reported : arg a ever, Wednes®ay up at Alexandra Park. ? ¥ This is the only day in the week when the Blue Devils hold a daylight practice and it is also the only day they have a practice game with the Collegians, And these practice games are worth seeing, especially since there is no admission charged, which all accounts for the crowd of more than 100 fans who were looking on yesterday afternoon. On every side yesterday it was remarked that both teams looked ex- ceptionally good and that victories for both clans were never farther from peing impossibilities, Oshawa Collegiate plays a sudden death game for the group cham- pionship against Peterboro in Port Hope Saturday and indications point to one of the best Intercollegiate games ever seen in these parts, Everyone agrees that the Collegiate team has improved 789 . ince their last game with the Petes and there will be some mighty dis- appointed people in Oshawa if the locals don't come out victorious, a" reRd, As for " e Blue Devils, they will never look better than when they trot out on the field here Saturday, T'ey're full of pep and full of confidence and this is a hard combination to beat, Word from London has it that the Gas House Gang also is leaving no tone unturned to make their victory a possibility. They have changed their signals and are inaugurating new plays which indicates that they are ctually expecting something to happen here in the big game. The advance sale of tickets for the Ontario Regiment's Boxing show here tomorrow night continues to hespeak an excellent crowd. Preparations are now practically complete and one of the best shows ever seen here in Oshawa is expected, I Cork Tipped RED PE package Plain Ends BLUE package ----