if1 ii LB PA'JB TWO THE DAILY NEWS Thursday, May 9, 1929 03$ 5.;;:i:i Captain Campbell, the -j, attempt to breidt.SeKjrave's 1 oajecjive, ovr but Oejowtie pac i-i u his Bluebird racer he captured the world s.ipstl .ra-drds five-ne-Umd five-kilometre distances. With heroic efforts over .th$ rough course, at the Pan, near Cape, own. South Africa, Campbell steered his rsjiehine, at, an av-itfage apeei) of 212 miles an hour in the fire-mile dash, and also eclipsed, the woliF five-kilometre record with a sped of 211 mile's an hour. Above isa rear view of his peculiar machine, showing the stabilising fin and rear axle streanilini ng, while iot ,i picture of the darinfiirootorist.' -i , i. 1 Sport Chat t,,., iPlaytoir of Softball has been ..; commenced by the Canadian Na-., ..tional Railways Athletic Asso . ciation on a court which hag been .: established under the overhead to the station. Games now. qre'df .. a scrub nature but Aster , league" ...play will be connwiwd,, with1 ...,.thrfe teams from the general of-. fices, station and shppa and one .ii. i,frm the dry dock. ,., j .vi'o i 'The Vanderhoof Lawn Tennis CSttb i preparing for, a, bipy ea- ' ' son and last Saturday a-bee was mi... JieUl. to get the courts ftjhape for the year's play to chrome nee. j-The season membership , (fee has ...... been cut from $5 to $$.50.,pffc-; ers for 1929 have been elected as! ." 'follows: president, Mrs., Roy M. Taylor; vice-president, E, F. W.! Heath; secretary treasurer. R. C. 1 Price: executive, James H. Lacey, -rid Miss .Elsie sArd Mr.j T T tAh w hn kaa KaAn Y tram I A om 4 cJf Ihe club for several years, was ".'unable to accept the presidency vikhit year owing to the u,neer- tainty of his being in town dur ing the summer. Topley recently won a three r game basketball series frm ,;,,.lirns Lake, taking two of the three matches, Topley. tt jn;fiwt match 18-15 buA last the second 22-21. The third game r- r suited 18 to 11 for Topley. The 4. frames were keenly contested a.nd . . .ware witnessed by a large, crowd of fans. Speaking generally, the. &P3ft winter has seen .good .and ThTeresting basketball played juAoout the centre! interior and the hoop game 'has won a $4&e nurober of supparlj-s. oir': i .XGLANI) BRAT FRANCE '".PARIS. May 9: England 'feiated France four to one today ! Brooklyn 6 in an international football game.1 Cincinnati C s f T it I BRITISH MOTORIST BREAKS TWO WORLD d ' reili vil British driver, who went world's record of 231 miles an Former Toronto Player Pitches No-Hit Victory Giants vs. Pittsburg '! NEW YORK. May 9. Jfehcre are over lOOO C.C.M. Service Stations in Canada, carrying C.C.M. parts and giving C.C.M. Service . You cannot get this Service on imported bicycles. For C. SPEED RECORDS Mis&auri southpaw, practically a freshman in the mar -. ior lcaUc$f.althoiigh he is a regular and star, caused 'a ftiVorein1 Major league circles yesterday by pitching the Giants to a no-hit victory over Pittsburgh. It was the f irist no-hit performance in the majors since ted Lyons of the White Sox shut out Itoston in - xu- gust, 1926. : ;; ; Hubbell was formerly a pitcher forToronto in the-'International League. 1 Chicago rose to the head of the National League as . a reslilt'of beating Brooklyn, while the Cardinals disr ,. posetl of Boston. Waite Hoyt won his fourth straight, Lou Gehrig hit his seventh homer and the Yankees picked up their sixth successive victory as the Browns were sunk in ! St. Louis. BASEBALL SCORES National League Pittsburgh 0, New York 11. Chicago 4, Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 3, St Louis 10, Beston 2. American League , New York 8,- St. IhiIs 1. Philadelphia 5, Chicago 1. Bostoo 1, Cleveland 3. Washington 4, Detroit 5. XATIONALLEAGUE . . STANDINGS W L. Pet Boston 9 5 .G48 St. Louis 10 7 .588 Chicago . 10 7 .588 Pittsburgh 8 7 .088! Philadelphia 7 8 .467 de-1 New York 6 7 .-.v .4ft 10 75 11 .353 wissmm to the African desert , in an hour, did net aeqoqwdfrh hjja Carl Hubbell, the slender , AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L. Pet. New Yok 11 4 .783 Philadelphia 11 5 .688 St Lonis 11 7 .011 Detroit . . i 12 9 .571 Cleveland ........ 8 11 .421 Chicago .......... 7 U .880 Bote :r,'i.- 11 Washington 1 .... . 4 11 HIGH SCHOOLBOYS' REPAIR TENNIS COURT Some thirty High School boys volunteered to repair the High School tennis Kiurt which was very satixfartorily earned out at n .m.ll .1... .. I 1 u ...a.. iu.- ii.iui uuaru wsh informed bv Principal Ped- die at the meeting last nivht. C. M. Bicycles JUNIOR SOCCER ; PLAY RESUMED Jigh School. Beat Booth by Score of 6 to Nil Last Evening Before a large and enthusiastic . iwd of spectators, the Junior Football last efintng resumed the ,9:8-29 schedule when High School recordecl -another victory .ver Booth by 6, Jo nil. 1 The game wa,s well contested ail the way' through with Booth players showing the batter football but finding High School de-dence Very sur'e.bnd too strong and heavy for lham. The game was always interesting, Smurth-walte, Scott and Anderson led many dangerous raids with Smurthwaite the: most dangerous forward on the field. Wicks did i not. get so many chances. Scott's long drives were always a source 01 danger and Bacon tried hard. The High half tack line was uniformly good and played neat football. Pyle turned in one of his best games, tackling and kicking well. Stile was too good for the dpiQitt(n and Smith was rarely teeted in goal-though he was very lucky towards the Christiran in Booth goal made : . creditable choiring for his first fame and stopped many danger-us shots. Nelson was very erratic at the start and miskjeked mt. in the second half, did bet-er. Cross was good and kicked veil with either foot. Colussi was he best halfback on the field nd was a rare spoiler and worker. BMtlett ami Greer were good. 3ooth forward combined neatly with Walters and Wingham the )ick but thought they deserved roals they were ' unlucky. Cam-ron wa plucky and Murray and 'varsen improved as ,the game Vvent on. ' Scorers for High were: Smurthwaite 2, Scott 2, Bacon 1, and Nelson turned one shot past his own goalie to make the lotal 6 for High. me quality 61 play augurs well for the season, Borden and Booth meet on Saturday afternoon, at 2:30. Borden has two new players and is hqping to record its first win of; tfie series. 'iWk Cainpbell refereed and f. Paianlh and W. Johnson were linesmen. The standing of tfie teams so far is as follows: W. L. D. P. High 4 2 Booth 2 3 HJorden 0 3 SIXTEEN INNINGS TO WIN BASEBALL SEATTLE. May 9. Seattle was beaten 7 to 1 yesterday in a i'(V3t Iaaimim cum a airalnst Snn O - c n " " mjf Francisco. TTycbjnd beat HpRi' wol 1 to 0 ifr1 A, lCyoalng gametes trday. Taly ...t .;.;..... STEEPLECHASE The High Scnool SteeDlechane 1 which was Dostooned" from the month of March on .account of bad weather was rim on Anrll 11. the Red House winning for el.. . ... me iirsi, iTincipai l euuie re- ported at the school board meet- ine lust nisht McRAE BROS. Limited U. S. LEADING -FIELD TODAY GOLF GAMES Walter Hagen Came NVt to Louis Diegel With British l'layerm Close GULLANH. Scotland. May 9 Leo Diesel, United State professional champion. 14 the field today in 3G holes of the British open golf competition with a score of 140, adding 69 to the 71 score of yesterday. Welter Hngen, the present chnmpicn, scored a record-shattering C7 today to give him 112. Ate Mitchell and Percy Al-lira were British hopes with tctals of 141 and 145, respectively. SPORT CHAT '- ted candidates will bo held on The season's tennis play has al- jf ay 15. Weather permitting, the -eady commenced at Anyox crowning ceremony will be .hejd where there are many good play- on the afternoon of June 3. The rs. About twenty members of Jhjps company of 1LM.S. Col-the Anyox Tennis Club attended .0mbo will be given the oppor-the annual meeting which ..itunitrj toi.stage. ceremonial held recently and elected oiftcJ &H1 HnitH ''ft'Allfe- ,m of the rs tor tne year as ionows: presi - ent. Mr. Cavers: vice-president, Evans; secretary treasurer, Mr. Stevens: executive committee. Mrs. Eve. Mrs. Cutler. Mr. Lee nd Mr. Field. WHEAT PRICES BEATEN DOWN WINNIPEG, May 9. Predic- !ons from Liverpool of a Vast ''ood of Canadian and Argentine hfeat'and rumorfl from K'w York &t ihe reduced , grain . freight -tes & United States roads are to ' Ve effect immediately pounded wheat .prjcesi to a new low Uvel lay. Today's final wheat qUta - 'ons. which were much bUr hart the-low market vere.i M ay. 10 3-1; July. 112 1-2rifij.de tto- er. 113 3-4. I, Vm&l FREIGHT RATE TO HELP MOVEMENT yl OF MARITIME SPUDS ST. JOHN, N.B.. May 8. A 'Istress' freight rate for potatoes f $1,31 per 100 pounds from mar-time points to British Columbia is o be effective from May 10 to 'une 30. Huge stocks of potatoes tJJl are on hand in the mari- times. FILIPINOS SHOT LOS ANGELES. May 9: Two "Ilipluos were shot and one of -aem Kineu yesteraay when they scorted two white girls home. PROMINENT FIGURES IN SPORT Written Especially for the Dally News by the Sports Editor CHARLES ALBERT COMISKEY Who Rose From Baseball Player to Owner Charles Albert Comiskey, who was born in Chicago on August IS, 1&38, of Irish parentage and started out as a plumber's apprentice, is the only baseball player who rose from the ranks 10 soie ownersnip 01 a Major ancial possibilities of another League club. After having built major league beside the Nation-up the Chicago White Sox from .a! and became the chief factors the beginning of the American! in the expansion of the old Wes-League into an organization tern League into the Amreican Known the world over, Comiskey ' league. Comiskey then inaded caused a sensation when In 1920 Chicago, his birthplace, with the he wrecked his machine by dis-. White Sox. charging most of his star play-i In 1900 and 1901, the White ers on finding that the 1919 1 Sox won the American League world series had been thrown to: pennants sod in 1906 the world's the Cincinnati Beds aries from the Chicago Nation- After playing all his snare nU A irn In thnv wnn ilia time as a lad on the vacant lots, comiskey Jn 1870 joined the Mil "'UKB c,uo s tn'ru DasemAU.11919. Soon after his connection irom there he went to Elgin,: with the White Sox, Comiskeyl Illinois, as a pitcher, remaining became president and sole own-one year and winning every game, er of the club and hjs popularity! In 1878 he joined Dubuque In 'gave In a large following. Ini me ixonnwesiern League and re- malned there for four years be- fore going in 1881 to the St. Louis Browns of the American Association. In 1883 he was made HMiuagur ana won iour pennant and one world series. ZSSLW O . Comiskey took, charge jELKS' FLAG DAY ! ON JUNE THIRD 'IVcwnce'.Or-lLMiS." Colombo-l'ort In Will Be Added Attrac i " "ifon: For;rJcca5T6n;::: The Elks' Lodge, at a meeting last ..night, decided .to hold' Its innual Mag Day celebration on June 3, the King's Birthday. The !,mnual crowning of the May Queen will be held and the pres-cnc in port of H.M.S. Colombo at that time will be an added attraction. The Elks will work in conjunction with the local unit of the Itoyal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in making a very elaborate day of it. ! Principals of Borden Street, Booth Memorial and Annuncia-j tion Schools are being requested! to select their candidates for !May Queen by popular vote. The 'drawing from among the selec- , king's Birthday and Capt. C. C. Dobson V. C, D. S. O., commanding the Colombo, 'Is to be , In vited to irive the address on the I flag. The day's proceedings will open early in the afternoon with a parade of school children from down town to the Acropolis Hill grounds. There may also be a parade of the company of H.M.S. Colombo. The usual races for children will also be held during the afternoon before the crowning j of1 the Queen. 1 ! in the evening, there win De a monster dance in the Exhibition Hall as it will be the last night the warship will be here. The committee taking' 'charge of the celebration for lht BIks' 1 Lodge will consist ofm' E. WI1- , liscroft, W. D. Vance, Harvey Fraer, Dr. Joseph Gosse and Capt. W. P. Armour, assisted by oVher members 'ot tms' 'lodge. FELL INTO HOLD OF . . ;? !iSHIP;AiND ISfKILLED VANCOCVJt. . May a. Pre cipitated from the deck of M. S. Lycia into the vessels' hold when the derrick caught the hatch on which he was standing, James Russel, boatswain, received a fractured' skull, from which he died. He h a native of Scotland TALKIES AT KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN. May 9: Ketchl .karr new has talking pictures, the Liberty was the" house' that led the , way here' ' of the Players' Club In Chicago and In 1892 went to Cincinnati where he managed the Beds until 1995. Comiskey and Byron Bancroft Johnson, then engaged in, newspaper work, saw the fin- series from New Yoik (Jiants In 1917 and lost to' 'Cincinnati in 1910 he built a mammoth stadium for the White Sox. I In hi declining years, the "Old j R00W lias been accustomed to .make pilgrimages to a tract of Jand which be acquired years ago at Eagle Kiver, Wisconsin. j His homo Is, still In Chicago. STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co.) The following yuotatiojy. Weri ..Id and a.iked: "Urraiver, liOO, Nil. BayviejW,.3Vi, 4. Big Missouri, 1.42, 1.45. . . Cork Province, 12, 12'-.. T Cotton Belt, Nil, 53. Duthie 50, CO. George Copper, C.25, "7.00. Georgia Hlver, 29, 31. (iolconda,, JJ&0, 1.C3. Grandvtew, '40, 40'a. Independence. 9, 9j. Indian; Nil,' 5V4. Kootenay Florence, 15, Kootenay King, 42, 42' .. U & L., I Mohawk, 4, V. Morton Woolaey, 5M(, Z. Marmot Blver Gold, 5, 61... Marmot Metals, 3Vit, . National Silver, 1C, 1C .. Noble Fire, 55, CO. Oregon Copper, 47, 471'.. Pend Oreille, 5J25. 5.76. ' , Prtmier, L80, 1.85. Porter-Idaho, 50, 55. Beeves Macdonald, 1X0, 1X0 Rlifus-Argenta, 23, 24. Buth-Hope, 33Vj. 35. Sliver Crest, 7V4. 8. ,SIJyercup, 3CVt, Nil. ,;StlVerado. NB, C5. Silversmith, 14'i, Nil. SJocan' Bambler, 14, Nil. SunlOcn.20. 2.75. Termfnua, Nil. G. Topley Richfield, 27, 30. Wellington. 10, 12. Whitewater, Nil, 77. Woodbine. 6. 6Vi. Oils, Calgary Dallas, 2.50, NIL Great West, 70, Nil. Mercury, 1.55, Nil. Mill City, 9X0. Nil Regent. 79. Nil. Spooner. 3.C0 NH. Turner Valley,-:l .05, Nil. Sterling Pacific 2.75, Nil. Advance, 12.75, 14.00. A. P. Consolidated, 4.80, 4.8 J Calmont, 5X53X0. J)alhousJe, W5, O&0. DevenUriTfllCy, L'62. FabyonPete. 1, 11. Home, 22.50. 2X00. Illinois-Albert; Nil, 1 75. Mayland. 12.90, 18-25-JlcDoug.-Segur; Nil. 7 45. McLeod, 5.40, 5.50. New McDoug,Segur, Nil, 3.73 Vulcan, Nm'5,00. Hargal. NflM. Freehold, T.80, 1.85. United. NIL 17.60. Mid West, 1,20, 1.25. MU West, UO, 1.25. Eastern Stocks Sherritt-Gordon. 8.15, Nil. Noranda, 68.25, Nil. TORONTO STOCKS tCourtesy S. D. Johnston Co.) Falcon Bridge, 11.25. Hudson. Bay, 18.25. NIckeUASLOO. Man.-m I . JCora.nda, fiS, SuiJVurj-Basin, 8X0. Slierjitt-QDraon, 8.15. Teck Hughes, 9.16. Mayland, 12.C0. Mclntyre. 17.00. Newbec, 69. KING AND QUEEN WILL RETURN TO WINDSOR LONDON, May 9. It Is announced that the King and Queen will leave Bognor for Winds ir Wednesuay. This will enable King George to undertake his du ties in connection with the dl?o-lution of parliament and the forthcoming elections. Around the World With Sport Fans oir tht mi) The Aauatie Snorts Committee of the Canadian National Exhibition have recommended "That Allan Ross of the William Wrig- lev Comnanv. he rnnuested '0 award the Fourth Wrigley Marathon to the Canadian National Exhibition Association of Toronto, under similar conditions to those which obtained in the second and third marathons." Feeling that the Exhibition this year would be incomplete without the "big swim." the directors hav given the. recommendatlpa of the Aquatic Sports Committee their unanimous endorsation.