1924 Tobbaco Products Corporation of Canada Canadian Sports Champions C140 Checklist?

[rhettyeakley]

Carl, the C140 set has been a side project of mine for some time as the cards are very tough to find and I pick them up whenever I have the chance. They were produced at about the same time as the more common V122 Willard's Sports Champions and the V31 Dominion Chocolate sets... it must have been a popular theme in Canada at the time.

Anyways, the C140 set is very hard to find and many of the same subjects in those aforementioned sets.

I currently own the following cards (which are about 5-10 years worth of accumulating)

Subject/Sport/Equipemnt (all Wright & Ditson) ad on back...

Cyril Coaffee (sprinter) -W&D Tennis Racquet ad
Laurie Cohen (track/field) -W&D Golf Ball
Philip Granville (10,000 meter walker) -W&D Baseman's Mitt
T. P. McKay (distance runner) -W&D Catcher's Mitt
Gladys Robinson (speed skating) -W&D Cather's Mask
R. Smyth (mile walker) -W&D Soccer Football
T. R. Walker (swimmer) -W&D Catcher's Body Protector
George Young (swimmer) -W&D Fielders Glove

According to the WTI this is a set of 45 athletes. They are listed on page 259 of the WTI World Index Part II (Cartophilic Reference Book No. 26) but are not listed along with their respective sports.

I know "Pep" Leadley was a CFL guy (or the equivalent of the CFL as it existed then), most of the subjects are familiar names to the V122, V31-1 and V31-2 sets and I see no baseball subjects among the ones listed.

Knowing you are a football guy... I see no other cards in the C140 set of CFL (Rugby) players that were in the corresponding V31 or V122 sets. BTW do you know if the Alex Ponton (Canadian Football) card in V31 is the same person as "Ponton" (Crack Sprinter) in the V122 set?