.i n r.i PA07 POTTO HOOP TRIP IS CALLED Universities of Washington and Columbia Arc Not to Meet ' Afttr All SEATTLE, Mafh 12 It was ; definitely decided yesterday thai I University of Washington will not ) after ' ill. meet Columbia University in Chicago in a series of games at Chicago for the national collegiate baskets ii championship. This became evident yesterday on receipt of a wire from Columbia stating that heads of that college disapproved of the engagement. Hec Edmundson and his local , coOegiates are keenly disappoin- j ted at not being able to make the 1 "trip. , Work-Out Held Up By Rain in Miss Lilly Silberg. beauty queen of Esthonlan republic, which for therflrst time participates In In-temaUonal competition and will sand her as "Miss Esthonla to represent her country at Paris WHIST March It-Dry Dock vs. I.O.O.F. Six Musketeers vs. Lief Erikson. Moose vs. Canadian Legion. Grotto vs. Wanderers. Grotto Itamb vs. Seal Cove. .l. j i Rogers Hornsby. new manager and second baseman o.f Chicago Cubs, using rod and reel at Catallna Island California Town WILL MEET WOODLAND. Cal., March 12-Yor the first time since they opened their spring training camp here on Monday of last week, the Seattle Indians, Pacific Coast League baseball team, were unable to en gage in outdoor work-outs yesterday on account of a drenching rain. The Indians are trying out quite a flock of rookies this spring. Already two aspirants for the team have been given their walking tickets. CHAMPION Joe Malcewicz to Grapple in Seattle Tonight With Ed. "Don" ' George SEATTLE, March 12 Joe Malcewicz meets Ed. "Don" George, heavyweight wrestling champion, here tbnlght in an eight round bout or to the best two falls out of three. Malcewicz has been cut ting a big swathe around the Pacific Coast recently and Is expected to give the champion a real C. P. Balagno E) 23 5608 A. Muiray CL .22 5352 G. P. Tinker CL. 21 4950 Don Brown E) 13 3018 P. Zieman (CL .19 4388 J. Smith 1K1 . 14 3194 G. Waugh (Ol 22 4991 C. Baptie CL 17 3854 G. Howe iG 23 5155 M. McLachlan (O) 22 493S M. E. Young iE) ..22 4915 W. Willlscroft (Et .15 3328 M. Andrews (CD 23 5083 J. May 0) 8 1787 J. Andrews G 21 4583 A. Macdonald (CD 7 1499 W. Mitchell El ...23 4875 F. II. Stephens B) .. 5 1026 CX. Youngman (CD 4 814 T. Clounh (O) 3 599 W. Murray (E) 7 1342 F. Bray (E) 4 744 j. Scott cl) i m John Bulger GJ ... 1 1&9 JACK DEMPSEY WAS REFEREE OF 244 243 LOS ANGELES, March 12-Jack Dempsey, former world's heavy HENNESSY Three Star BRANDY The Safest Spirit in all Emergencies HIS This advertisement is not published or displayed by lha Liquor I Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. Eskimos Meet Buckaroos In Hockey Match SEATTLE, March 12 The Seattle Eskimos are off to Portland where they will meet the Buckaroos tonight in a Pacific Coast Hockey League fLxture. Lloyd Turner. Eskimos manager, ill lately, was sufficiently recovered to be able to go along. Hank Dyke will play the game tonight in place of the suspended Bobby Connors wbose case has not battle. Oeorge is-on a tour of the3"?, been MltMtly settled upon coast and is having bouts almost ! follow,ng the W1 to President I Frank PatrIck agalnst hls ban ot nightly this week in various cities. j Connors for the balance of the Billiard Averages season. j SPORT CHAT 236' 232 Greenville native basketball team 230 : Is In town to compete with the lo-22 cals, who have not engaged in 227 league play this year. Basketball 227 practices nave been held with the 224 following players Invited to turn 224 out: Alex Mitchell. Tom Kelsey 221 1 Dido Ourvich, Ernie Ratchford. 222 j Eddie Smith. WH1 Lamble. Bll' 221 J Mitchell, Splro Ourvich and Oeo. 221 Mitchell. Players in addition to 217 1 these will also be welcomed ' anJ 214 j may be needed. The first game 2J2 will be played tht evening. 205 2 The English nation, which add-ed the word "sport" to most Euro, j pean languages, has no collection 5 0f "Porting pictures. This crltl-JJ jestm was recently passed by a 163 royal commission concerned with museums and art galleries. Something In the way of atonement was provided the other day when THURSDAY'S FIGHT: Lord Lonsdale opened at Lord and Lady Allendale's house at Plead 11 iy, London, an exhibition of sport ing pictures. Stubbs "Rubbing weight champion, refereed Uzcu-j"use, Newmarket." lent by the dun-Kennedy fight here Monday j Jockey Club, is the finest piece of . painting in the three rooms. Hl ' portrait of the third Duke of Port land on a white horse and the powerful study of the fourth Viscount JOMway's beagles also de- ! serves attention. t Ben Marshairsjockey and Iraln-. er, shows this artist at the height of his powers, and he Is represented by another fine pleee of paint ing of a grey horse and dog. lent by Lord Jersey. F. C. Turner's picture of the Bechet from whom the famous brook akea its name because be fell, irt toNlfsso often, and , , i Johrr Wootton"s.,"The Darlcy Ara-Wan." sire itf'So, ttjany English racehorses, are also good. BILLIARD SCHEDULE Mar. 13 Elks vs. Grotto. Mar. 17 Orotto vs. Legion. Mar. 20 Elks vs. Legion. Mar. 24 Elks vs. Orotto. Mar. 27 Grotto vs Legion. According to the last Labor Oa zette, a Dominion government j publication, which has just come, to hand, the retail prices of sta-1 pie fpods, groceries, fuel, etc., in' Prince Rupert are higher than In. the great majority of places in Ca-I nada. - In the category of meats, sirloin . steak; price may be taken as am example. The price of sirloin steak In Prince Rupert is placed at 40c per pound. There is only one other place in Caanda where the price of 'sirloin steak is higher, that Is Halifax. In that city, further removed from the cattle raising district chan any other in Canada, the price of sirolln s-eak is 40.3c. per pound. In other kinds of meats Prince Rupert maintains this high average. The price of fresh leg of roast pork for instance is 37.5c. per pound in Prince Rupert. Nelson and Trail, at 33.5c, per pound, have the next hlghesprlces lKlhe Dominion fori this ( commodity. Even lh the fish lines, Prince Rupert prices are high in comparison with those In other Canadian cities although it is lower than in many. The price of salt cod In Prince Rupert Is placed at 20c. per pound. Calgary, 27 2c, had the highest price for this variety of fish. In Sydney, Nova Scotia, the price is 16.7c. The price of frh eggs here in January was 67.9c per dozen, the highest price in Canada except for St. John, New Brunswick, where it was 73.8c. The price of creamery butter here wis .43.7c, - Victoria, with price of 43.9c, alone being higher. The price of bread in January was the highest. In Prince Rupert of any eft in Canada at 9.1c. per loaf. Since then there has been a cut to three laoves for 25c The Prinjft Rupert price of potatoes, $2,129 per 90 pounds, was the highest of any city in Canada. Nelson being next with $2,025. Some of the prairie cities, far removed from the refineries, had somewhat Higher prlees. for sugat than Prine-' Rupert's 6.7c. per pound. Only one city in Canada Cobalt at $13 a. an-rhad a higher price than the $12 for coal in Prince Rupert. Rents for" modern houses In frince Rupert, averaging $30 to $40 per month, were exceeded In a few cities but very few. The average for British Columbia was $26.-70. CARNERA IS NO WONDER Jack Dempsey Pays His Respects To Giant Italian LOS ANGELES. March 12-Jaek Dempsey former world's heavyweight champion, issued a statement yesterday In which he declared that Prlmo Camera, the llant Italian, Is not a hard hitter and "Utile more than a second-rate fighter." Dempsey declares that Jlmmv Maloney and George Godfrey are the only heavyweights of any account whom Camera has met and that he did not make a great impression upon either of them. Old Grand Trunk Pacific Freight. Agreement Again The Victoria Colonist, in an article recently, asserted that British Columbia will be Able to en force an old. .agreement by which the Grand. Trunk Pacific Hallway was tp route all its freight-' to .Jfanr couver from Prince 'George overi the provincial government line. It Is not considered, however, that this freight agreement could be enforced to any advantage. v rflW" W montM. nalblat ktiMA ..ill I i,i 'Soolk-Slt. Tk Sftl tppllutlaa 44 )Uk ul Mia. Pilot cui." THE DAILY NEWS Thm March HIGH COST OF LIVING Official Government Document One of Most Expensive i" 1 1 ' ---ziz-rT"S I District News I Rev. Father J. Laporoux, the new priest of Sacred Heart Raman Ca George district, passed away in the city hospital on Wednesday evening following an illness cf several months. A native of Milton Vova Scotia, the late Mr Freeman came to this district tn 1909 and was employed on the railway during construction days. The funeral took place yesterday under the. auspices of the Canadian Legion of which deceased, having served ov erseas in the Great War was member. The Canadian National Recreation Association here has elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: president. W. Morsh: vice-president. E. Ireland; secretary C O. Barrett; treasurer, G. Roberts. Chairman of various committees have also been named. Local Boy Scouts and Oirl Ouldea celebrated the birthday of the Boy Scout founder. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, by assembling in the Canadian Legion Hall and listening to lectures on the founding . , mm 1 , , 1 , . 01 me movement. i. ti. wwenaen i president of the loocal Boy Scouts was In the chair and speakers were Rev. T. V. L'Ratrange. Rev. P. Connal and Judge H. E; A. Robertson. The telephone service east of Prince Oeorge, for which the local Board of Trade has been agitating for a number of years, has been made available as far as Dome Creek. CALGARY WINNER I CALGARY. March 12-Calgary Canadlens defeated Ex-King George's of Vaneouver, Junior hockey champions of British Columbia, last night by a score of one to nil On the two game round of the Memorial Cup playdowns. Calgarv won 0 to 2. the rescue of the late Capt. E. J. A. Burke, is pursuing in the British Columbia Court of Appeals an action against the city of Vancouver In which the lost aviator and his wife claimed damages from the city for damage done on Februar-17 when a bunt water main flooded the basement of their house at 1538 Beach Street. The original action was dismissed by Justice W A. Macdonald in Supreme Court. Renahan Indicated before he left on the ill-fa ted flight that it was his lnten-j turn to appeal ' but he " never re- tholic Church, received a h-artv!. , . ...7 u.. , .. J .l. '! we come upor 'entering on his new , ctfdln Court of Appeal, duties here. Following the church undfr the drcuattances. granted service, members of the con.re-1 RetMhmn a ,nrm1 extelulion Ration frem"d., of time in which to enter her ao- address of welcome after which Mrs. H. F. A. Robertson introduoed those present to the priest peal. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY Frank Freeman, one of the be', known pioneers of the Prince WANTED Linotype man for week or two. Apply Daily News. Lots of personality here These girls, winners of personality con'fst spouse ,, arrived recently in New Yirk Left to right Elena Melgosa. 8pain Susie Scuuiv h Teppaz, Paris: Saruh Boudart Belgium, and Marcella Lablelle. Marseille; turne France. They are on their way to Hollywood. Calif., to make screen drbv PRINCE GEORGE The local city council on Monday night of last week rejected a proposal of Aid. F. D. Taylor that the aldermen waive their indemnities for the coming year. The usual Indemnity bylaw was passed, providing for the payment to the mayor of $65 and $15 to each aW derman. Good progress has been made with relief work carried on here during the winter. Improvements to First Avenue have been completed, giving the farmers direct access to the city except during the usual short season of high water in the summer. Renahans In Appeaj Case Widow of Flyer, Who Perished Near Here, Pursues Action Against City of Vancouver Mrs. Robin Renahan, -widow of the Alaska-Washington Airways aviator, who lost his life last fall Chief of Stoney while attempting to fly north to Stoney Creek years. He is his son BELLA COOLA fng to the very tn scarcity of snow LumbfCo Wf seen tmaole to T L. TV iiiium i.uiru vFrr interior Tr For 45 Yean QUE8NEL. Mann .? r. wwuvj vss 1. 1 r .i (i i uk i. r.' sp; near Vynderhoof . tnb. : sure i ( Bella Coola Mill Has Hard Timet fl Ii 1 supply of logs for ; However, trucks uk and It Is hoped. t h ' wlH be hauled t a demand. The regular we the Rotary Club Cafe today w.i W. Taylor, given n. ; Ma lk In C Ltd v. : played piano s-:- fMin UMt4 ' Wr wm tw MrfftM- 7 loiprrtoni 8 ( u and is on Silver Spring Brewery Announce their genuine Stock Aw now fully matured sale at an Government Liquor Store This k u of the fdrwui Bum type of ex. ' flavor iul qtuhty w,u k uiih a fine hop aiotni . t Th$ advertisement u not pubhilioj by the Lwui Central uoaru or py u Uovenvixnt f unusi iiun"