Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-03-07
M POOLING WHEN
TRAININGS ON HAND
roNoPAH'S BASKETBALL GIRLS
MUST FOREGO CANDY AND
OTHER lNDiGESTl6lES

What ii means in hard work, and
sacrifice to train champion team was
explained to a Bonanza representa-
tive by Mr.. Cross, coach of the girls
team at the high school.
Mr.. Cross learned athletics, and
how to coach the different branches,
in the state normal school at valley,
North Dakota. His first lessons In
shooting baskets, booting the pigskin.
and Grabbing the referee came along
with his multiplication table. From
then until the time he sat up nights
digging out the binary roots OF tran
scendental equation, he was learn
ing good clean athletics. and how
to teach them to others.
Mr.. Cross makes absolute training,
the goal and purpose Of allathletic en-
deavor. His proposition is simple
and needs no proof. Athletics are
I important only to quicken the eye and
the muscle, to make the body respon'
sive to the will, and the surest means
of bringing about this condition Is
to make the athlete conform strictly
to a code of rules--fair by absolute
| The girl who trains for the high
school basketball team, must sacrifice
her great joy in all such dainties as
candy, pie, French pastry, charlotte
russo, and plum pudding. She mus
not unduly excite herself with coffee
| and late hours, and the dance are ia
| boo. Each day she must attend prac
tice, an hour of speedy earnest play
and each morning at o'clock thu
whole squad meets at the school TO
short jaunt of three to four mile
in the open Everything. even beaut,
sleep, set aside for the one grea
cause-team work.
Through constant succession O
, why's? how's and when's? Mr. eros
has persisted in his program, solvin
petty problems that seemed mutiny Il
; in a masterful manner, until nov
with a champion team in his charge
he needs no answer to the chanc
why, how or when.
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t off being given the preference whe
work starts.
: At Redlich on the line of the T.
nopah G. Goldfield railway some ver
: rich tungsten float has been foun
: occasionally in large boulders, a
, though the source of the float has n,
r yet been located. The sand itself
v so impregnated with particles of tun
4 stem that the owners of the location
n who are local people, are planning
:, placer their ground this season, pc
\ sibly using water from the Cand
t laria pipe line
e Everybody in the region seems hig
IA ly optimistic. Prospectors are o,
fitting and claim owners are plannil
:. active developments. The indication
/ are that this summer the ellis al
e other ranges in the vicinity of Sod
/ vile and Nina will be swarming wi
II treasure seekers and the output
+ precious and useful metals will be h
greatest in the history OF that regio
Other districts in the vicinity a
! also showing signs of activity.
Basalt j. J. Trimble is operating
property that is producing ore 9
5 ing better than $50 to the ton
! carries gold, silver and lead. Sever
n miners are employed. At Mariet
= there are several outfits at work al
a have considerable ore out, which tn
! cannot move until the snow disa
l. pears. Douglas is steadily goil
J ahead. The Belleville tailings are |
!, ing successfully worked on a lar
L scale. In fact. the entire region I
) butary to Sodaville and Nina is {
: veloping into an important miner
empire and the county in which II
u situated is indeed well named.