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“Chaucer Elliott” the Sportsman• The death of Chaucer ISHiott. at t Kingston, removed one of the cleverest sports, and best sportsmen in Canada, says the Toronto Telegram,. He was a real “good fellow” in the best sense or that word. ..straight, square and on the level. In. his ’ twenty years of « activity Ln baseball, rugby and hoc- j key, he made a host of l'rlends, and it it* -almost safo to say lie neyf»r baaan enemy Inside or. outside the sporting 'world,* * *Knowing him intimately, in. and out of sports in his long and. successful career the only 'thing that stands out is that he was a man In all that that implies. “Chaucer” was clean ' in his play and always up and above hoard. He.was just as clean in his life. His death is mourned .today wherever he was known, and that was from coastto coast m this country.* * _j»■Edwin Elliott In all’his undertakings in sport was a-close observer, a quick thinker, and a thorough student, or hookey, he made it his duty to go Into the heart of.the sport, stu.d3 at close hand and the result was. that he was an • authority. on the threebranches he engaged in.* * »So much • was his opinion valued that even in lacrosse and basketball he was considered sufficiently expert to coach the great Montreal A-A. teams and they were winners under him, too. He never allowed a single detail to escape his observation, and at a glance could size uo the strength and weakness of his own or’an opposing team.*. * *iStartlng with a apltsndUl physique as a student at Queen’s University, where he spent two years in arts and four In medicine, he quickly pushed hts wav to the front Ln rugby and in hockey. He led the team to a rugby championship as captain, and onleaving brought the Granites throughto a Canadian championship.'* * *jks a rugby coach he was eminently successful with Argonauts, -Montreal and Hamilton, bringing the two latter through to championships in turn. He bored riaht into the game, seized upon, the heart of at and had the faculty of instilling hts intimate knowledge into his''men. Chaucer was a ‘born leader;* * •As a hockey referee he had no superior in the O.HA. or tne professionalbody, and at the-time he was in charge of the latter Jt 'was a pretty difficult organisation to handle. His last hoc-Icov game .was his final appearance in. sport, though even when surely-afflicted he- managed to see the -contests ax Kingston and followed all the lines -closely.* - * *■Baseball was his first game. Learning' it on lire sand lots of Kingston he worked his way up as he always did, to a leadership. He knew the game down, to the ground and placed it quite as well as he had done rugoy and hockey. Hts last venture there was in the ownership and manager-ship o£ the St. Thomas Canadianleague club.I * + •■Chaucer's death is sincerely gTetted throughout tho_ lengthremindThebreadth of sporting, Canada country has losi as good and clean an athlete, as It ever owned and a man every Inch of him.BASEBALL NOTES.It is said that. Buddy Ryan has thecall for the* contrefleld position with the Cleveland Naps. ■ •* Young Orr». who 4s. out for the in-, field position with Connie Macks; athletics, Is playing a wonderful game in the practices of the former world's
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Sat, Mar 22, 1913
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